skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
procrastination is healthy and stops premature projects from getting copied and ruined.

as long as you finish, procrastination will improve quality and impact, value and added value.

nobody who is working on something procrastinates ad infinitum. it ONLY depends on HOW you procrastinate.

this is true for the arts as well as in any industry except when urgent.

if big companies would have procrastinated instead of their ridiculous release cycles, we would have stretched out time till the tipping point, sparked more industries and improved quality everywhere.
Jimmy Carter installed a Xerox Alto in the White House in 1978! https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Check-out-the-first-... Never mind the Xerox Star, or Apple shipping the Lisa in 1983 ...
I find it cute that the CIA is worried about his smartwatch getting "hacked", when they are openly collaborating and selling out to foreign actors. No hacking needed.
> "Maybe there are fewer social constraints late at night because you have fewer people around who are awake," Zeitzer said. That is especially true in places like the United States and the United Kingdom, where people tend to be more isolated in the evenings. In a Mediterranean culture, where nights are more gregarious, staying up might even be good for mental health.

This is the only note on cultural norms in the entire article. Yet I wonder, how you can look at sleeping patterns and mental health without also considering the broader societal norms, especially in a (typical Western?) society where rising with the sun is seen as a virtue.
Because of the law? In most western countries (including the UK), military personnel has reduced rights because of their status of having the monopoly of violence. For instance, the aren't allowed to unionize or go on strike.

I can't tell if the second part of your comment is trolling, or really not knowing the history of the UK before 10 years ago.
I agree with you that it's awful that a lot of young developers wouldn't be able to program without React.

I would like to add as someone would has no problems working without any library that the DOM is one of worst APIs ever invented by humankind and that "reactive programming" is a superior model to what we used to do before.

That being said:
- NextJS rolled back years of tooling improvements, it's much slower than Vite
- I just statically built a NextJS and a page that has no interactivity downloads 100KB of JS to do nothing with it
- Facebook decided to make a "compiler" for React instead of just not pointlessly re-rednering components by default
- Compared to Preact which is almost a drop in replacement, React is huge! This shows how little Facebook cares.
Not that I don't love LLMs and play with them and their potential but if we don't get proper mechanism that ensure quality and consistency then it's not really a substitute for what we have.

It's very easy to produce something that seemingly works but you can't attest to its quality. The problem is producing something resilient, that is easy to adapt and describes the domain of what you want to do.

If all these things are so great, them why do I still need to do so many things to integrate a bigtech cloud agent with popular tool? Why is it so costly or limited?

UX matters, validation matters, reliability matters, cost matters.

You can't simply wish for a problem not to happen. Someone owns the troubleshooting and the modification and they need to understand the system they're trying to modify.

Replacing scrapers with LLM is an easy and obvious thing, specially when you don't care about quality to a high degree. Other systems such as financial ones don't have that luxury.
Google saying “multiple websites have the fact so Gemini ran with it” is extraordinarily rich.

If ever there was a company which should know that “multiple websites” is not a good benchmark for accuracy, it’s Google.

This feels like a good parable for Google’s search these days. I’ve seen more wrong information from them than anyone lately. I wonder if they can course correct before it’s too late.
I'm sorry, what is incorrect? And the paper you linked appears to be about training, not inference? I wouldn't train a model in a user's session, instead I'd run the model. That's the cost that seems a blocker, all the models are already trained, I dont need to invest a dime in that.
If there's one thing I've done in the past decades is always try to at least have a basic understanding of a situation. Even if I have no fundamental knowledge, ask questions, read and educate yourself.

It may have other sources but I remember reading about Japanese management essentially saying "go see the problem".

If anyone younger reads this - be curious and challenge knowledge appropriately and you'll build an impressive log book of experience sometimes with minimal effort.
Yiest that could survive in volcanic geysers is a bit terrifying to think about.
> Most published commercial games were made by a single 14 to 20 year old in few months.

This isn't really true. Yes, some games were made hastily like that, like E.T. for Atari.

Just one cherry-picked example, The Legend of Zelda for NES was made in about 2 years with 9 people in the credits.

Some popular modern indie games with similar team sizes and development schedules include:

Valheim, which went from full time development in 2018 to early access release in 2021 with a team of two.

Stardew Valley's initial development (not an early access game) took four years with a single developer.

Rimworld took one year for an alpha build, and about 5 more years to full release with 2-3 developers.

Minecraft/Infiniminer took about 2 years to reach a release version, with Notch handing off development to Jeb and Mojang only growing to a larger development team post-Microsoft acquisition.
It's not clear to me that administering an entity with as many people and as much land as the United States could be done in a simple enough way that would satisfy these objections (not necessarily yours specifically, but this broad class). Though I certainly don't object to the notion that there's fat to trim and ways to make things less complicated.

I would be interested in an existence proof of this: an entity of similar population and size with a budget that's simple in comparison.

My naive expectations are that more authoritarian countries will hide a lot of budgetary items and countries with coalition-style governments will have even messier budgets than the US. Looking into that would be interesting but it's not going to make it onto my Sunday morning short-list.

My opinion about this remains that if the governed are really interested, they need to put in the ground work to understand the material that's available. Some things just are complicated and require studying to understand.
The area I live in has utilities that service the small town population centers and a utility that services most of the outlying rural area. The rural operator is expensive, but not unaffordable.

Density including the towns is about 3.2 people per square km.
>Of course LLMs have ground truth.

It is my understanding that LLMs have no such thing, as empiric truth is weighted. For example, if Newton's laws are in conflict with another fact, the LLM will defer to the fact that it finds more probable in context. It will then require human resources to undo and unfold it's core error, else you receive bewildering and untrue remarks or outputs.
> Jobs are being eliminated within the IT function which are routine and mundane, such as reporting, clerical administration.

I've had a similar thought recently, that there is no demand for rote programmers. No employer is going to hand you a completed spec and tell you to code it up.

Software engineers and data scientists today must be innovative, understand the business they operate in, communicate with users, and work cross functionally. You’ve got to create something original and see it through without having to be told what to do at every step.
Yeah. An MLM basically just computes the mostly likely thing based on its training, and says that. If it has no knowledge of a thing, it still calculates the most likely thing, which is a hallucination since it can't possible calculate that effectively.

Regurgitating false statements is not a hallucination, it's bad training data.

It's the difference between being wrong and just making things up from nothing.
I think GP's definition of 'settle' that excludes 89 years of British Raj^ must certainly also exclude Australia, penal colony.

^which comprised many atrocities yes, but also expat rulers/officials, and building/development.
Public information, it relates to GDI regions handling code.

Maybe nowadays there is more to it.
Trump administration is stripping down the government and selling it to enemy nations and oligarchs so they can run their "Network-States." I don't think spying on an Apple Watch is exactly a priority here.
Launching it on an iPad was a mystery. I assumed it was suffering from the HN hug of death until I tried to swipe back.
>I can see an argument for the iPhone

I don't give them that either. It is nether the first nor most ubiquitous at the global scale. US maybe.
You got me curious and it sounds like this might be an episode of The Outer Limits. Perhaps it is not what you are remembering, though.

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/83389/movie-where...
Cheap maxims written by someone whose immediate response to your comment was just two words: "React developer?"

Since flagged, but it's also highly relevant here, since it shows this isn't someone who's interested in serious thoughts or discussion about the merits of his arguments, just hot takes and cheap shots. Whatever he may have done in the past, I see no reason why he should be taken seriously here.
Something somewhat similar: https://reclaim.ai/

It aggregates all your calendars in one place and does two things I found useful:

1. Functionality around calendar syncing - basically allows to merge and sync tasks between multiple calendar sources.

2. Habits - allows to allocate time boxes for different regular activities. It tries to fit the boxes between already scheduled events. Allows prioritization and adjusting the suggested blocks.

3. scheduling link for 1x1 or smth - never used, but may be convenient for business context
Kernel maintainers aren't doing anything to R4L folks except where their activities intersect with the upstream linux kernel. Your analogy isn't right.

R4L folks thought that preliminary R4L infrastructure being accepted upstream meant that all the changes they needed in the future would be accepted easily as well, and now that there are concerns from subsystem maintainers, a few R4L folks are playing the dramatic victim card.

From what I understand, market pressures are causing R4L folks to panic. If they can't get more R4L stuff upstream, people can't ship Rust drivers, and R4L development falls apart.

That's not kernel maintainers' problem, though. They have a job to do to, and it has nothing to do with Rust kernel drivers except as far as they're persuaded Rust drivers help the linux community overall and will be maintainable without unacceptably disrupting their tool-assisted workflows. Several of them have concluded, so far, that R4L PRs will unacceptably disrupt existing workflows.

That's where R4L has failed. They've failed to persuade subsystem maintainers that some added headaches/retooling/efficiency-loss is worth it to enable Rust drivers. Which drivers, and who wants to use them? Perhaps the potential downstream users of those drivers can talk with kernel devs, persuade them it's really valuable, and figure out a plan?
This is what a Thatcher Conservative utopia looks like, top to bottom public private partnerships.

The whole thing is an own goal.
Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian power systems successfully synchronised with Continental Europe - https://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/news-events-/news/estonian-...

Baltic States join the European continental electricity grid after fully disconnecting from Russian and Belarussian networks - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...
Looking at the first few questions from the survey, this seems geared specifically to work-oriented book clubs. I.e., book clubs in a professional context. FWIW, I was hoping for/expecting one that was free of those associations. It might be worth spelling that out more explicitly on the landing page.
Montrealer here - The city has promised hundreds of things in the past decade and let's just say delivery has been scarce.

Take care of the city and its residents first - then move on to other subjects when things are done - if not, it remains in dreamland.
How much of this is really due to AI? I sense that layoffs generally are being spun as AI related rather than conceding that there's a downturn or that workers in a sector are not as valuable as they claim.
Ask HN: What interview questions to minimize risk of doomed startup?
I understand that most startups are doomed, but what questions do you ask to minimize the risk of doom? I suspect there are some questions for example that, if the company can’t answer, almost guarantees doom. Appreciate it!
PayPal Wants to Be Everywhere
I suggest,
before throwing around words like "obvious" and "crude approximation",
reading some Martin Heidegger, Hubert Dreyfus, or Joseph Weizenbaum.
Half-baked attempts at mechanistic and reductionist implementations of embodiment are a dime a dozen.
I am a bit confused because many things he criticise are opposite of each other. Such as adding complexity with new features and backward compatibility, or not inventing the wheel and using new tools.
Indeed I didn’t understand your first post that way. What you just wrote is much more clear. Perhaps the tech decision was also influenced by the fact that this highly visible function is also highly sensitive.
It wouldn't be surprising to find out Nvidia talks directly with game developers to give them hints as to how to optimize their games
> All of the server architected is “abstracted”. One of the things he complains about.

This is my personal bugbear, so I’ll admit I’m biased.

Infrastructure abstractions are both great and terrible. The great part is you can often produce your desired end product much more quickly. The terrible part is you’re no longer required to have the faintest idea of how it all works.

Hardware isn’t fun if it’s not working, I get that. One of my home servers hard-locked yesterday to the point that IPMI power commands didn’t work, and also somehow, the CPUs were overheating (fans stopped spinning is all I can assume). System logs following a hard reset via power cables yielded zero information, and it seems fine now. This is not enjoyable; I much rather would’ve spent that hour of my life finishing the game of Wingspan.

But at the same time, I know a fair amount about hardware and Linux administration, and that knowledge has been borne of breaking things (or having them break on me), then fixing them; of wondering, “can I automate X?”; etc.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to run their own servers, but at the very least, I think it’s an extremely valuable skill to know how to manage a service on a Linux server. Perhaps then, the meaning of abstractions like CPU requests vs. Limits will become clear, and disk full messages will cause one to not spam logs with everything under the sun.
You’re thinking of another city, very likely Teotihuacán. Tenochtitlán was built from scratch by the aztecs. (Either that or please give sources for your statement).
Ask HN: Has ChatGPT started using a lot of emojis for you too?
Or did it decide that I'm really into emojis because I recently used it a lot for an emoji-related thing?
Police don't make the laws, we enforce them. Currently if you are in an accident with a pedestrian, and you don't leave the scene, even if there is a fatality, there is nothing more than a summons issued, even if the pedestrian has right of way. NYC is a Democrat supermajority and has been for decades. They just made jaywalking legal, not that I've ever written a jaywalker in over 14 years.

Another NYC rule is that on police streets, where there is a precinct, it is self enforcement and the CO of the command has the final say.

Nothing stopping you from pressing the NYC City Council from changing the rules or the law.
Unfortunately most of the CPUC worked at PGE, the people that understand energy regulation are usually energy folks. And so the CPUC is typically quite understanding of PG&E’s pleas, they approved every single rate hike they’ve proposed. 5 times last year alone.
Fruit wines are tasty usually. But the hangover is on the next level.
Well to extend the analogy, I close my eyes when I'm listening to music. Even more so when I'm playing an instrument. And when I'm reading I can't be listening to music, at least not actively and nothing too interesting.

I think we move back and forth to improve our understanding. The other day I read an article about Handel's messiah. I then went and listened to it.

I recently found a family of tilings of the sphere by drawing pictures. To convince myself that the tilings really exist and I wasn't just tricking myself, I calculated the angles at the vertices (I used a computer for this). That in turn told me something about the relative size of the tiles. And so it goes.
The article mentions that it was provided by SciDev.net.

Looking there you find the original article, and it has the correction to the right temperature: https://www.scidev.net/global/supported-content/rwandan-scie...
This hits home. I am helping someone analyze medical research data. When I helped before a few years ago we spent a few weeks trying to clean the data, figure out how to run the basic analysis (linear regression, etc), only to arrive at "some" results that were never repeatable because we learned as we built.

I am doing it again now. I used Claude to import the data from CSV into a database, then asked it to help me normalize it, which output a txt file with a lot of interesting facts about the data. Next step I asked to write a "fix data" script that will fix all the issues I told it about.

Finally, I said "give me univariate analysis, output the results into CSV / PNG and then write a separate script to display everything in a jupyter notebook".

Weeks of work into about 2 hours...
Oh true, I think it was h264
We have some enthusiastic elimination going on from a Friedman fan in Argentina

>Furthermore, we have a deregulation ministry, where basically every day we eliminate between one and five regulations. (from https://youtu.be/8NLzc9kobDk?t=666)

so there's a real world experiment to see how it goes.
Could this contribute in any way to get passing play integrity on signed custom ROMs?
To get back to the point.

Just because UK law allows compelled disclosure doesn’t make it right—it makes it a bad law. It creates a self-incrimination loophole, shifting the burden of proof onto individuals instead of the state. Leading to erosion of due process and a presumption of guilt, forcing people to either comply or face punishment, even when no crime has been proven. Civil rights advocates have lambasted this law.

So I ask: Do you believe it to be balanced?

Using flawed laws to justify more erosion of privacy only deepens the problem.
Not always - https://www.godbolt.org/z/zYxeahf3T. And for any modern (as in, made in the last two decades) x86 processor the branchless version will be hilariously better if the condition is unpredictable (which is a thing the compiler can't know by itself, hence wanting to have an explicit way to request a conditional move instr) and the per-branch code takes less than like multiple dozens of cycles.
Unless you can provide some "citation", I don't think you are right. I do this every day now and it gets me 99 % there with very little debugging.
The main point is that the conditional didn't actually introduce a branch.

Showing the other generated version would only show that it's longer. It is not expected to have a branch either. So I don't think it would have added much value
Electric, Water, Sewer are modern necessities.

Our governments should provide these services to Citizens at no cost to them.

We already pay for the maintenance costs and infrastructure is already built out.

Charge the companies for the services, and give them to the populace.

But, but, but, that's socialism! Taxes are socialism. Take from the many, use that spending power to benefit the people.
UML runs only on Linux and only on x86, amd64 and powerpc. Which is a real shame, otherwise you could run a full Linux kernel on all these arm Android devices.
I keep telling everyone that the only reason I'm paid well to do "smart person stuff" is not because I'm smart, but because I've steadily watched everyone around me get more stupid over my life as a result of turning their brain switch off.

I agree a course like this needs to exist, as I've seen people rely on chatGPT for a lot of information. Just yesterday I demonstrated with some neighbors about how easily it could spew bullshit if you sinply ask it leading questions. A good example is "Why does the flu inpact men worse than women"/"Why foes the flu impact women worse than men". You'll get affirmative answers for both.
An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment
Waffle machines is way better. Love it. Thanks.
> What they're really asking, translated to "blunt and frank communication" mode is: "Why should we even care that you applied?"

I think you just made that up.

There can be plenty of things the interviewer could be fishing for. They may want to hear that the candidate really wants to work at this job (and have a "correct" reason - the company, the team, the nature of the job ....). They might want to hear about how it's similar to your previous jobs. It's quote possible they want a specific response, and it's either an intentional or untintentional gotcha.

The interviewer might just have heard it's a good question, and is filling in time, or faking being a good interviewer. They aren't "autistically" trying to get the best candidate, maybe then your interpretation is right and you want to say why you're a good candidate for the job.
I refuse to believe that anybody is managing Google's products.
This is a head-scratcher of a take. Have you actually done any in-depth work on data pipelines and analytics tooling? If so, what precisely do you see LLMs making easier?

I tried using enterprise chat gpt to write a query to load some json data into a data warehouse. I was impressed with how good a job it did, but it still required several rounds of refinement and hand-holding and the end result was almost, but not quite, correct. So I'm not coming at this from the perspective of hating LLMs a priori, but I am unimpressed with the hype and over-selling of its capabilities. In the end, it was no faster than writing the query myself, but it wasn't slower either, so I can see it being somewhat helpful in limited conditions.

Unless the technology makes another quantum leap improvement at the same time the price drops like a stone, I don't see LLMs coming anywhere close to your claim.

That said, I expect to see a huge amount of snake oil and enterprise dollars wastefully burned on executive pipe dreams of "here's a pile of data now magic me a better business!" in the next few years of LLM over-hyped nonsense. There's always a quick buck to make in duping clueless execs drooling over replacing pesky, annoying, "over-paid" tech people.
Makes sense, because what if a Chinese company becomes owner of Apple? In a free economy, very possible.
Why Heideggerian AI Failed
Blow's talk made me realize I'm not crazy when I get frustrated about basic things being incredibly difficult. Drawing a button to the screen when you want to build a software application has become so difficult that most people just use a progressive web app which is 100x slower than is possible. Are the best options for GUI applications in 2025 really Java Swing and Qt?