skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've encountered and traded with people from outside the island, like Anstice Justin during contact attempts between the 80s and 2000s [0]. The direct contact attempts were halted in the 90s due to ethical/health concerns for the sentinelese though, so expeditions after that point were gift-giving missions to monitor and support friendly relations.

They became more hostile to expeditions after some fishermen were killed on the island and recovery teams attempted to use helicopters to rescue the bodies before the islanders could bury them.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-024-00213-5
There's a single alternative use case worth mentioning (two, actually): "Hey Siri, delete all my alarms" (as you can't multi select via the gui)

...and "Hey Siri, move my calendar event at 3pm tomorrow to 2pm Friday"

You have to be pretty deep in the weeds to consider doing these operations with any confidence via Siri, but hey! They mostly work! :-P
> How do you know she was harassed?

I don't. When I posted I was (mis?)reading between the lines, based on Vi Hart's new YouTube bio.

> Does anybody here have an insight?

Other commenters have some ideas, but there seems not to be much to go on. See awwaiid's comment, for example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983899
I've been a backend engineer for about 10 years, with my last job doing an aws lambda stack.

I started a job in manufacturing a few months ago and having to think that this has to work for the next 20 years has been a completely different challenge. I don't even trust npm to be able to survive that so web stuff has been been an extra challenge. I landed on lit web components and just bringing it in via a local CDN.
Tramp goes into the woods with nothing. Finds a rock and throws it at a rabbit. Finds some sticks and rubs them together to make a fire and cook the rabbit.

VSCode doesn't look around for rabbits, sticks, or rocks. It brings an RV with a fully stocked pantry and kitchen.
When you delete something, your instance sends Delete events to other instances. Well behaved instances respect this request, but you could have an instance that does not.
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stupid question: isn't starlink effectively beyond the reach of tiny countries' governments? why comply? they can't do a thing about satellites, physically can't touch them, and America owns the payment rails the company uses. why pretend that these countries have the ability or right to regulate this?
… but I’ve tried to break this habit before and it’s not working!
Lol! I made quite a bit of money through middle school and high school with this foolishness and hl servers. I was even able to pay a friend of mine in another part of the town, a cut if he allowed me to run some of my hotline servers on his new cable modem (since that was the first part of town to get them).
Also ran a server on a T1 at an office of another friends.

Another blast from the past regarding hotline, figuring out how to name your hotline servers so that they appeared at the TOP of the various tracker lists. (And those app/server sounds!)
From your linked comment: who never followed up when I challenge them.

That one seems really straightforward - people don't owe you receipts for their views or explanations for their motivations. The aspirational goal of the place is conversation, not interrogation.
Amen! I totally agree with Antirez
Medicare and Social Security are nothing without the people who change bedpans and people who pick fruits and vegetables and keep clean water and electricity flowing.
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> changing a core business process is a year political consensus, rearchitecture, and change management effort

You are thinking within the existing structures, those structures will evaporate. All along the software supply chain, processes will get upended, not just because of how technical assets will be created, but also how organizations themselves are structured and react and in turn how software is created and consumed.

This is as big as the invention of the corporation, the printing press and the industrial revolution.

I am not here to tutor people on this viewpoint or defend it, I offer it and everyone can do with it what they will.
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True. There’s no free lunch. Either developer pays it once and have happier users, or users pay it everyday and have inferior experience.

This is why I believe slow cooked software. Works better, easier on the system, and everyone is happier.
inferMLX: Simple Llama Model LLM Inference in macOS with MLX
A distilled, refactored, and packaged variant of the inference tool from the MLX project. It runs on macOS if you have Python with the key feature being able to easily manipulate inference.

For example, it lets you make DeepSeek Llama 8B 'think' for longer by suppressing its thought closing tokens, or you can limit its thinking process to a certain number of tokens in just a few lines of code. This helps the smaller model solve things it gets wrong out of the box.
LoC metrics instead of QoC.
> AI solving international math olympiad problems is not intelligence

But couldn't it be overfitting? LLMs are very good at deriving patterns, many of which humans simply can't tell apart from noise. With a few billion parameters and whatever black magic is going on inside CoT, it's not unreasonable to think even small amounts of fine-tuning combined with many epochs of training would be enough for it to conjure a compressed representation of that problem type.

Without an extensive audit, I'd be skeptical of OpenAI's claims, especially given how o1 is often wrong on much more trivial compositional questions.

What defines intelligence is generalization, the ability to learn new tasks from few examples, and while LLMs have made some significant progress here, they are still many orders below a child and arguably even many animals.
Was hoping [0] would have a flutter web version running. Now that would be cross platform.

[0]: https://getthedeck.com
I actually just talked to a guy who bought a new house with a huge barn attached, so he could park his huge motor caravan in it. So, the analogy isn't too far fetched, IMHO.

> On the other hand, we should not be ignoring efficiency for the end user solely in favor of efficiency for the developer.

Neither do I. But the economic incentives are stacked differently.
Same! Managing servers with multiple external hard drives/scsi IDs !
>The author estimates that electricity prices would be reduced by up to 33% (from $0.45 blended rate to $0.30), but PG&E’s profit margins are only 11%. That’s a good hint that this hypothetical is missing some important details

PG&E customers are paying very large amounts for the consequences of bad infrastructure causing wildfires and other legal costs which are being paid for with higher rates.

Example:

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/12/pge-a...
Default configuration IMO.

I actually really like the way git does it, where it reads each of these in order, last one wins.

- Default configuration compiled in

- Global configuration

- Per-user configuration

- Per-project configuration

You can opt-in to however much configuration complexity you need. Just cloning the occasional thing? Don't bother configuring, the global defaults are probably good enough. Simple commits and pushes? Make a user-level dotfile in your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to set some basic info. Complex per-project aliases? If you want that, go ahead and opt in.

Contrast that with programs that just dump their whole default config into my home dir on first run. Just filling up with nonsense, often no way to tell what I changed or didn’t.
Exactly. On the level the parent is describing, having options is a good thing, but the side-effect of this systemic problem is that it fragments our ability to write good software because the process is not about developing good software, its about to profit. Which enshitifies the endeavor, devaluing the quality of the end result.. Slowly, over time, this enshifitication is going to, or already is causing problems in our technological infrastructure and maybe other areas of society.
Containers still run on some form of Linux or Windows so not following your point.
What Elon and DOGE are doing is not just politics but very relevant technically, whether you think it's relevant or not. Tech used to be mostly separate from politics, which was wonderful, but unfortunately the self-proclaimed uber-engineer Elon decided he wanted to become MOTU, and so here we are.

If I flagged everything I thought was boring on HN, I'd be flagging over half the posts.

Everyone has a different subset of stuff they find interesting and care about, and can ignore the rest that they think is irrelevant/boring/crap. You don't need to flag stuff you don't find interesting, or "boring" or "crap" as you put it. You can just ignore it. So why flag it? Because it pushes a button you don't like?
I switched from VSC to IntelliJ. I installed plugins to make the keyboard shortcuts and the colour scheme match.

Other than that, you'll just have to accept that any first-party support from IntelliJ will require 1–3 plugins. 3 for Java, Docker, 3 plugins for React, npm, Prettier, SonarLint, Copilot, database, Gitlens, Maven — don't be surprised if a single project becomes usable only after 20+ plugins.
> That one bug happened one time does not mean that the promise is broken.

It's not been once. Don't you understand that is why things have gotten to this point? Are you aware of how the developers have been using Coccinelle in their workflows and how many subsystems support it? And are you aware that the Coccinelle for Rust implementation is constantly in a dire state? Have some empathy for the folks who have had their workflows broken and burdens increased because of it.

> Let's say that we both agree that Linus should be making clear statements here, and that lack of clarity is causing lots of problems.

Clarity will be communicated by the result of this patch set.
Is there any alternative to raises that don't lower employee performance, like some kind of bonus scheme? Or do you find some unfortunate relation between money vs motivation?
I think we have seen there isn’t a huge incentive to be the firm exploring the cutting edge of this tech when you can save big by waiting for other firms to spend billions on dead ends and incrementally larger models which at any point can be distilled by a competitor for 1/10th the price of the final training run. I imagine we’ll start to see that model structure and weights are very easy targets of low grade corporate espionage. A company with Amazon’s resources should be able to catch up in under a year if they poach the right talent.
I don’t understand your point. I was just pointing out that Stallman is not one of the elites or speaks for them and as such the OP’s post didn’t make much sense.
There are cheap versions that don't require power and tap into existing plumbing. Obviously not the deluxe Toto experience but still worthy of consideration.
Sure, it's a good idea to have something like that just in case. But crashing is really not desirable and could cause all kinds of problems, even if you do have recovery mechanisms in place.

A crash in a web server could result in data loss, timeouts and performance issues on clients due to the response never coming back, crashes on poorly written clients, cascading failures in poorly written services, etc.

And for a client application, imagine if your web browser would just randomly crash sometimes. Do you think it would make it much better if the browser would detect the crash and relaunch itself? And what if it relaunches itself and then crashes again for the same reason?
We ask Google Home for many questions but it’s always “sent the result to your phone”. Things like historical facts, trivia, as we put our phones away during meals and when together as a family but still want to query the world.

I would love a way to ask recipes and have it look up in my NYT Cooking subscription and give me step by step.
These are just barely meaningful and dubiously accurate rants that are designed to make the author feel superior.

> We are destroying software by no longer caring about backward APIs compatibility.

Come on, who believes this shit? Plenty of people care about API backwards compatibility.

> We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.

So never rewrite something if it "works"? There are plenty of other good reasons to rewrite. You might as well say "We are destroying software by doing things that we shouldn't do!"

> We are destroying software claiming that code comments are useless.

No we aren't. The crazy "no comments" people are a fringe minority. Don't confuse "no comments" (clearly insane) with "code should be self-documenting" (clearly a good idea where possible).

Worthless list.
Well, it has dramatically improved, but breaking prejudices is hard, as far as I can see.

I understand that the flow isn’t similar to what people expect, but what it provides is vastly superior to many tools I have used.

IMHO, if people can justify the time spent for learning Vi or EMacs or any other tool, it can be also justified for Eclipse.

Either way, there are no hard feelings. I’m just a messenger.
symlink + mark it as hidden?
This reminds me of some old software (I've forgotten the name) that was essentially gamifying a keylogger. You would install it, and it counted your keystrokes/letters/mouse movement distance. It tallied it up and gave scoreboards. You could add friends to compare your numbers with each other. And finally, the cherry on top, you could install on multiple machines and have their totals all count for you.

I was a kid, and yes I 100% installed this on as many machines I had access to. Grandparents, etc. Probably tried to do it at school too (can't remember).

Now I wonder about the likelihood it was really just malware with a novel method of distribution.
That seems like a false narrative, which is strange because you could have just read the explanation from Jart a little further down in the thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35413289
Depends where you work and what on and who with.

Software engineering is far from a monoculture.

Maybe what I’ve seen change over the years is the strategy of “pull a bunch of component systems together and wire them up to make your system” used to be more of an enterprise strategy but is now common at smaller companies too. Batteries included frameworks are out, batteries included dependencies in a bunch of services and docker images are in.

It’s true many people don’t invent wheels enough. But there are a lot of developers out there now…
I’m trying to figure out the no alcohol thing. Is half a can of beer once or twice a week on weekend nights considered alcohol consumption?
AI exploits a gamebreaking bug in Trackmania [video]
Hah something poetically meta about this. The "puzzle" that wants to be solved is YOU!
quick search on "arsenic in water" yields endless
official governmental and other notices all over the world, so there does not apear to be a direct
asosiation between (recoverable) gold and arsenic
and that it is so prevelant that some humans have adapted and pass arsenic.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/centuries-poison-l...
In principle it's (imo) the same as Dendron [https://www.dendron.so/] but with its own runtime rather than a VSCode-runtime.

I love <3 Dendron btw. Note-taking couldn't be any simpler AND vendor-agnostic.

Thanks for sharing SilverBullet.
I aliased ls to ls -A ages ago. While of course this doesn't solve any specific problems, it keeps one much more aware of what all's floating around in your home directory dotfiles.
Why is LeetCode a symptom of a lack of continuous certification or changing toolsets? I ask because LC is about neither of those things. I agree LC is a symptom of something but I think it’s something else. I also don’t think ad driven software has inflated salaries, there are many, many more software companies than ad based ones, it even only compromises at most half of FANG, which is hardly the only game in software. For defense and medical, these are places where software is not tertiary concerns.
Hardly makes a difference when the outcome is the same.

Also no one edits text files by hand, we use tools for that, tools that manipulate what is anyway a stream of bytes, whose meaning is given by whatever tool is used to manipulate such stream of bytes.
Hey guys!
I'm working on a note-taking app, Seen, and building it to be fast by default, even on low-end hardware. This is a little demonstration after a few hours of work (and AI prompting, not gonna lie), and I think it's really cool to be able to view tens of thousands of HTML elements without slowing down your computer at all.

The demo renders a masonry layout of all the notes (1000 copies of the same 10 notes, so 10,000 notes) and uses virtual list rendering. The performance is also throttled to 6x slowdown on an average consumer laptop. This is one of the many features I have planned for Seen and I'm really excited to see where this goes.

If you want to try it out for yourself, drop an email at the address on my bio!

Thanks.
This is for students, not professionals; youngster's ideas of "preferred tools" very easily take a backseat to university requirements.
No, their argument is sound. It’s just missing the point of utilities.

They’re saying that the cost of providing electricity to the cities, where everything is densely located and there are fewer trees and fewer overhead lines needing under grounding is lower so they should charge less to city consumers.

They imply that the bulk of the cost is delivering power to the richer consumers further out because there’s a lot of line miles that need under grounding. That’s probably accurate.

But utilities are restricted from pricing like that because you don’t want utilities triaging customers that are less profitable. The article here makes the argument that the far away and expensive customers are rich, therefore fuck ‘em. I’m not familiar with California but I doubt this is true across the board. There are surely notably rich communities far from the city but surely there are also poorer areas further from the city that are relatively cheaper because the commute is worse.
“The ball bearings are to be made of wood, because no one is going to read this work this far anyway.”
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four
Creality Space Pi Filament Dryer Plus: Review and Specs
LOLz! As someone who swaps caps with control on all machines as well as buying keyboards which lack caps for a control key, this site is truly horrifying!
We are all just shouting at avatars
> If you wait long enough a Rust competitor will gain traction.

Are you implying that a fork of the Linux kernel will win? I doubt it. The Linux kernel is over 30 years old and has resisted multiple attempts to fork. In all cases, it was the winner. What is different this time?
The tree canopy looks to be pretty thick to make out any settlements, at least for my eyes.
Don't forget Apple. They just forced an update on my laptop and now I have a text to image playground that it feels the need to keep telling me about.

All these years how did I live without a text to crappy image generator?
Hey, I'm the author of the blog article. I saw your comment and decided to write a detailed critical review of the dryer and write about the specifications. you can find it here: https://syntaxglow.com/2025/02/08/creality-space-pi-filament... or just look at my blog for the latest article :) I'm curious of what you think.
I’m not specifically familiar with PG&E but the whole point of a rare case with regulators is that they cannot set the price at whatever they want. They need regulatory approval of the rate.
Is there the capability to auto-sync the notes to a git repo? That's a key aspect of how I use Obsidian (using the obsidian-git community plugin); the plugin makes a git commit after a specified time has elapsed since the last text change, and pushes this to the remote repo. This ensures that multiple clients will not lose data due to conflicts, unlike more naive syncing.

Definitely something worth looking into, imo. Maybe a third-party script could do this.