skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rink: An open source unit-aware calculator
There are maintenance costs and then there is depreciation/amortization.
If you don't want to have any say in the work that you're doing, then sure don't judge based in impact. I'd rather have the responsibility and trust of letting me decide what to work on, rather than management tell me. The only way that works is that my judgement is good, I deliver impact, and I'm paid as such.
Waiting for the exclusive contract to end would also work. Unless they really weren't thinking ahead when they contracted this out, there must be a way to choose a different provider, but it may be a lengthy wait.
It would be unpatriotic for us to not be building autonomous murderbots for the government
I just wish installing one in North America was a bit easier. Need access to power (usually no outlets near the toilet) and water (requires some minor plumbing work).
“likely to be smarter”

If you are one of them, clearly not
completely agree on the fork side of things, just show its merits already or be done with it

i think it's going to fail because of rust as a language, not because the ideas in rust are bad but because there's infinite complications
It isn’t. I mean yeah gateway is what you described. But the functionality is also included in Jetbrains IDEs and doesn’t require any manual install on the server. It installs its own thing exactly like VSCode does.
Why it is important not to have children (2012)
You can register for a free account here and then they will give you the NNTP server and account password

https://www.eternal-september.org/

I did and checked some tech newsgroups I used to read 25 years ago. It was 99% political spam. Basically unusable.
What Is Cap: A Gentle Introduction to CUSD
Indeed, very annoying that the article never says what the actual number is.

From the NYT fact check version, which (based on the dates) seems to be the original source:[1]

Fact check: The claim that 500 million straws are used by Americans is an estimate above the ranges of more rigorous studies. Market research firms put the figure between 170 million and 390 million per day, or 63 billion to 142 billion straws per year.

One market research firm, Freedonia Group, determined that the nation used about 390 million straws a day last year. Another, Technomic, puts the number closer to 170 million, though that count excludes some types of straws.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-b... Mirror: https://archive.is/RAWUd
You have definitely covered noodling
How about you go study first, instead of just trying to crank out AI generated slop. Absolutely no point in helping you correct your articles when they should instead be left obviously bad, so that they can be flagged.
Freenet has a similar vibe.
I keep waiting for Amazon to admit defeat and partner with OpenIA or someone else to upgrade Alexa. That said, it also appears that the majority of folks just don't care about having a voice activated assistant. Most people just don't use their Alexa beyond "Play music" or "What's the weather today". I'm unsure if a smarter AI would help in any real way.
That is why I suggested to focus on the "for PC" part of Xbox Game Pass. (Microsoft's sometimes confusing way of naming things strikes again.)

Though, Xbox speech-to-text isn't awful, would be a wild way to play Zork. And also, the Xbox does support connecting any USB keyboard.
SoraNews24 (nee RocketNews24) has been like this since 2008, with basically no change in the article style, so yeah, it's a descendant of the 2000s Internet. Glad it's still going strong without changing.
Except at least sausages are enjoyable to consume, unlike today's software.. unfortunately, it fails on all fronts.
Yeah, but then we've moved to fast fashion, and we assuage our guilt by "donating" or "recycling" clothing. Of course, nobody that "donates" or "recycles" clothes has ever worn any such clothing themselves.

So sure, we get one more use out of that clothing, and then it gets put in a landfill or "donated" to west African countries that receive a year's supply of clothing every week.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58836618
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> meaning you can use hashes instead of relying on mtime like make does

Note that mtime still has the advantage of being faster than hashing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=recall+%22park+outside%22

These recalls from Ford, GM, and Kia are each millions of vehicles. And the number of these recalls is going up: https://turnto10.com/i-team/consumer-advocate/serious-park-o...

It's always been a significant risk; why do you think there are strict building code regs for the garage area of a home?
If you give a blind researcher this task, they might have trouble seeing the gorillas as well.

Also the prompt matters. To a human, literally everything they see and experience is "the prompt", so to speak. A constant barrage of inputs.

To the AI, it's just the prompt and the text it generates.
I love that gorilla test. Happens in my team all the time, that people start with the assumption that the data is “good” and then deep dive.

Is there a blog post that just focus on the gorilla test that I can share with my team? I’m not even interested in the LLM part
It's harder to learn the impact of your design decisions -- Seeing how software evolves to meet changing business goals and how the design choices made play out in the long run helped teach me a lot.

Coming up with a neat API that turns out to be difficult to modify in the future, or limiting in ways you didn't imagine would when writing it is a good learning experience.

Or seeing how long a system can survive growing usage -- Maybe a simple hack works better than anyone expected because you can just pay more for RAM/CPU each year rather than rebuild into a distributed fashion. Or the opposite, maybe there's some scaling factor or threshold you didn't know existed and system performance craters earlier than predicted.
It seems this post was embargoed for about a day. I had almost lost faith in Hackernews community for not recognizing the splendor of resurrecting Hotline. Glad to see this project get the admiration it deserves.
Recently we read about how DeepSeek reasoning models exhibited a "Aha! moment" when analyzing a complex problem, where they find a deeper pattern/insight that provides a breakthrough.

I feel we also need models to be able to have a " Wait, What?" moment
It's not just me who flags it. Politics is off topic and gets flagged, whether you think it's relevant or not. Reposting the same crap 100 times is not going to help. Why not discuss it elsewhere because it's clearly not wanted here.
Even beyond training I asked an llm to generate me an image of a corndog. It would only give me hot dogs until I described how a corndog is made.

Not the end of the world but it does seem like AI gets fixated, like people, and can’t see anything else.
Yes. There’s also Indy game 2, which is ok.
I've had a Nest camera in my living room for years just to keep an eye on our dogs while we're away from home. One of the dogs, a basset hound/border collie mix, often howls and makes "squeeing" noises while we're away. Nest (or Google now, I suppose) without fail thinks that this is actually a person talking in my living room and sends us notifications alerting us to this fact. If he moves around, Nest thinks it's a person moving in my living room.

It has no problem identifying our other two dogs as actual dogs who bark and move like dogs.
Obviously you need to place a fiducial mark on your cat.
The NFS issue that I had was that I was working for a math/stats department, and the profs made heavy use of LaTeX. Disks were tiny, and the fonts they required were huge. So we had fonts centrally available from an ULTRIX NFS server with a "lot" of disk space (for the time). When running xdvi on Linux, it would take minutes to render a page, with each character showing up one by one. I eventually figured out that xdvi was seeking around byte-by-byte in the font files. Since Linux didn't have any NFS caching, each new read for a few bytes ended up as a slow round-trip over 10Mbs ethernet. DEC ULTRIX (and FreeBSD) rendered the page in seconds, due to having working caching for NFS.
It’s honestly a huge tell that it was omitted
Yeah, 20 years ago when I started building websites I was still in my CS major. We didn't have these huge layers of libraries and frameworks. I wonder how much I would know now if I didn't have to just build everything myself. We would make all kinds of things and we did it all from scratch - upload files, log in, save stuff in databases using actual sql, entire ecommerce experiences, I would write the whole "front end" and "back end" by hand. And everything was really fast.
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Exactly! And as the boundaries between specializations like backend, frontend, embedded, and data science are going away, developers can express their creativity on an entirely new level. Generalists will thrive in the future!
you knew that there was a visual gag in there before asking it to.

if you didnt know it was there, and took a look at only the text output, the llm would not have found it to tell you its there
We are destroying software to build on top of it over and over again. What could we do instead?

When we build software, we answer three questions: "what?", "how?", and "why?". The answer to what becomes the data (and its structure). The answer to how is the functionality (and the UI/UX that exposes it). The answer to why is...more complicated.

The question why is answered in the process of design and implementation, by every decision in the development process. Each of these decisions becomes a wall of assumption: because it is the designer - not the end user - making that decision.

Very rarely can the end user move or replace walls of assumption. The only real alternative is for the user to alter the original source code such that it answers their why instead.

Collaboration is the ultimate goal. Not just collaboration between people: collaboration between answers. We often call this "compatibility" or "derivative work".

Copyright, at its very core, makes collaboration illegal by default. Want to make CUDA implementation for AMD cards? You must not collaborate with the existing NVIDIA implementation of CUDA, because NVIDIA has a copyright monopoly. You must start over instead. This is NVIDIA's moat.

Of course, even if copyright was not in the way, it would still be challenging to build compatibility without access to source code. It's important to note that NVIDIA's greatest incentive to keep their source code private is so they can leverage the incompatibility that fills their moat. Without the monopoly granted/demanded by copyright, NVIDIA would still have a moat of "proprietary trade secrets", including the source code of their CUDA implementation.

Free software answers this by keeping copyright and turning it the other direction. A copyleft license demands source code is shared so that collaboration is guaranteed to be available. This works exclusively for software that participates, and that is effectively its own wall.

I think we would be better off without copyright. The collaboration we can guarantee through copyleft is huge, but it is clearly outweighed by the oligopoly that rules our society: an oligopoly constructed of moats whose very foundations are the incompatibility that is legally preserved through copyright.
They are hostile to outsiders because they have no immunity to modern diseases and in the past, each time someone tried to contact them a lot of them died.
A 30 min drive would be 7 euro and 3 cent in minimum wage. Then you need a car and you have to fuel or charge it.

The only solution to the riddle I can think of is that (like postal services) they can cleverly combine orders and rarely lose money on delivery. The fast delivery would have to be luck or perhaps the burger preserves poorly?

That the food is absolutely fantastic might also have something to do with it. If they can get food into your mouth repetition is almost guaranteed.
Dunno, pictures on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_in_the_park don't match that. I expect any plan that moves from a fancy architect's desk to real world to have convenient car access.
It unfortunately doesn't help in cases like this. Reproducible Builds gives you a trusted path from source to binary, but it doesn't help with backdoors in the source code/build instructions.

For that we'd need some sort of source code reviewing effort like https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev implements. I've started whatsrc.org to keep track of the source code inputs we're putting into our computers (that would benefit from reviews), but the conclusion is also somewhat "it's too much".
One reason to care about this is that random number generators are a very lucrative target to attack for security services. See for example ECDual https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/767.pdf or Linus Torvalds' answer about NSA approaching him about a backdoor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRYyWn7BEo
These all resonate deeply with me:

> We are destroying software with an absurd chain of dependencies, making everything bloated and fragile.

> We are destroying software by always thinking that the de-facto standard for XYZ is better than what we can do, tailored specifically for our use case.

> We are destroying software mistaking it for a purely engineering discipline.

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

> We are destroying software by always underestimating how hard it is to work with existing complex libraries VS creating our stuff.

This one begs the question: "What is 'fast'?". I mean, is it high-performance, or quickly-written? (I think either one is a problem, but "quickly-written" leads to bad software, and overly-optimized software can be quite hard to maintain and extend).

> We are destroying software trying to produce code as fast as possible, not as well designed as possible.
best Leetcoders generally add the least value business wise
Debugging Materialize with Materialize
I lost interest fairly quickly because the entire article seems to rely on a certain definition of "intelligent" that is not made clear in the beginning.
> but it can't be interrupted

I'm glad this is mentioned! This is why instead of a Bash script, I use a Makefile. Each step is a rule with a *.done name, that generates a .done file once it's done. I can interrupt it any time, modify the script to fix something, and `make` to resume.

But writing that Makefile is a PITA. Is there a better solution?
I'm with you on that. My hairline started receding when I was about 20 years old (for my dad it was even earlier), and at 27 I gave up after Rogaine, finasteride, dutasteride, etc. all failed, and started shaving it all off. That was more than 15 years ago, and I really haven't minded not having to ever pay for a haircut, or deal with washing or drying my hair (or paying for shampoo), or having a bad hair day, or just dealing with bed hair and cowlicks and everything in the morning. I'm lucky, though, that I have a pretty symmetrical, normal-shaped head with no weird lumps or anything.

But every now and then I do miss having hair. If this drug does bear fruit (er, hair), I suppose I could give it a go, but (assuming it works) still go back to shaving if I get tired of it. I guess it would just be nice to have the option!

(It's also a little funny/wild to me that most of my friends, as well as my wife, have never seen me with hair.)
I'd like to see a photo of said cat, for science of course :)
I also disagree, first off rand is working on simplifying it. Plus out of those dependencies it's hard to see something I'd rather do myself than trust other people with.

Windows-sys is necessary for w
Windows OS kernel, libc is similar thing for *Nix, cfg-if is necessary for specializing targets per OS, arch, or SIMD capabilities.

Biggest offender is honestly zerocopy-derive. Which pulls in most dependencies.
Any luck with getting this running on iOS 18.2.1 running Safari? I have tfe WebGPU feature flag turned on (Settings -> Safari -> Advanced) and I’ve tried a few other WebGPU demos successfully
So, if a post contains the 4-letter acronym DOGE the Elon hall monitors jump into action and flag it.

This is getting tedious, as are the arguments made to justify flagging the posts. "This has already been discussed." Fine. Start flagging AI posts then. "This has nothing to with tech." But it has everything to do with tech, and one of the most influential players in tech, and how hubris blinds techies into thinking that they have tech answers to all problems (a bit of Dunning-Kruger).

Here are the misconceptions behind the entire idea of DOGE:

* Government waste is assumed as a given. No citations needed.

* Government agencies should be run like a business (or worse, a startup). But government agencies are not businesses. They don't have investors. Their mission is not to make a profit. It is to provide a service and a social good, mandated by Congress. Ideological disagreement with that service or good does not make this waste. The idea that entities like the US Post Office operates at a "loss" is arrant nonsense. The value provided is in the service, without the overhead load of investors.

* "Government bureaucrats" (said with contempt and disdain). Right wing propaganda notwithstanding, these folk are the domain experts in running a government (see point above). The trend of the last decade or so has been to replace many of the lower levels with call centers and/or websites, to the frustration of millions of citizens who require these services.

The tl;dr is that the DOGE ppl don't have a clue. They are operating on false assumptions, and likely are running roughshod over the law. Bulls in a china shop fits here.
Approximately the same size of residential structure, a condo tower in Islamabad Pakistan collapsed in an earthquake in 2005. The earthquake didn't collapse any other condos in the same city, it wasn't an extremely severe one, the fault was with deficiencies in the structural engineering and construction.

https://www.google.com/search?q=margalla+towers+islamabad+co...
> You know well that after about 20 years of writing your own software, you get to a point where it's just infeasible to maintain your own projects

wat. The easiest software to maintain is your own. If someone has been coding for decades, and always writes code that devolves into un-maintainability... something is really off-track there.
Vibes. Mac culture in the 90s was reactionary and distinct from PC culture. Remember the “I’m a Mac – I’m a PC “ commercials? Those were downstream of the Mac user culture.
"Effects of a 60 Hz Magnetic Field Exposure Up to 3000 μT on Human Brain Activation as Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

2015

Alexandre Legros, Julien Modolo, Samantha Brown, John Roberston, Alex W Thomas

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26214312/
That's not quite what I'm saying.

First, I'm saying Musk's apparent interest in birth rates is best understood as a component of the neo-fascist, authoritarian project in which he's embedded himself, the likes of which we've seen many times throughout history, and is the kind of thing that often culminates in large scale atrocity.

Second, I'm saying for anyone who is truly interested in driving population growth, the last thing one would do is inhibit immigration. Instead, you'd open the floodgates.
Passman – A Stateless, Offline-First Password Manager (Proof of Concept)
Passman is a stateless, offline-first password manager that eliminates the risks of traditional vault-based solutions like LastPass, Bitwarden, and 1Password. Instead of storing passwords in a vault, Passman mathematically regenerates them on demand, making it impossible to steal what isn’t stored.

This is a proof-of-concept release, and minimal testing has been completed. The goal is to challenge conventional password management by proving that a zero-storage model can work. Looking for security researchers, developers, and privacy advocates to test, break, and improve it.
How Passman Works

You enter your master password and a website/app name.
Passman mathematically derives a password from these inputs.
The password is copied to your clipboard for immediate use.
The clipboard automatically clears after 60 seconds to prevent leaks.
Nothing is stored—no vaults, no sync, no cloud. Everything is derived in real-time.

Core Features

No vaults, no storage, no sync – Nothing to steal, nothing to hack.
Mathematically derived passwords – Always reproducible, never saved.
Auto-copy to clipboard – Prevents keyloggers without manual copying.
Clipboard auto-clear after 60 seconds – No lingering passwords.
Encrypted transformation rules – Securely export/import between devices.
Open-source and GPL-3 licensed – Anyone can verify or improve it.

GitHub: https://github.com/LambriniWorks/Passman
Install in seconds: git clone https://github.com/LambriniWorks/Passman.git && cd Passman

This is not a finished product. It is a proof-of-concept to demonstrate that password managers don’t need to store passwords at all. If there’s nothing to steal, there’s nothing to hack.

If you care about security, privacy, or cryptography, try it out and let me know what you think. Looking for feedback from anyone who can test it, break it, or suggest improvements.
I have a Tapo camera which from all the cats parading from my yard, only one black cat is recognized as a person. Not other cats. Not even other black cats. It makes you think.
I gave finasteride (and dutasteride) a try in my 20s. It didn't work, but I'm lucky that I didn't end up suffering any of those side effects you mention. I was definitely reckless in taking it without really considering the negative possibilities.
I spent 10 hrs this week upgrading our pandas/snowflake libs to latest bc there was apparently a critical vulnerability in the version we used (which we need to fix bc a security cert we need requires us to fix these). The latest versions are not major upgrades, but completely changed the types of params accepted. Enormous waste of time delivering 0 value to our business
To what end? Alexa is a huge financial failure that cost the company billions. This will only increase costs and not increase the ROI.
A good way of documenting processes for people that prefer to look at code than long PDfs
If this is the caliber of internet people are dealing with, I really hope some kind local techies are helping to set people up with uBlock Origin (ideally on Firefox), ClearURLs to skip unnecessary redirects (I'm assume GEO latencies here), and LocalCDN or DecentralEyes to avoid re-downloading the same libraries and assets over and over. Probably good to add something that defaults Youtube to 360p, and use Pihole for mobile/smart devices.

There are many addons, but I find these are the minimal "set it and forget it" set that makes the most difference.

Personally I would run uBO in at least Medium Mode[1], but I expect that's probably too much for most non-technical users.

Source: I suffered through metered satellite internet for many years.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock