skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because of articles like this that computing is an inconsistent mess. When you make a technical proposal in public like this, it's your responsibility to ask yourself "What would it look like if everyone did this?". If the answer is "a personal kind of hell", don't make the proposal.
This is an excellent concept - and it may be hard to realize but it would be worth integrating "cost of living" and "languges spoken" concerns, and then to be able to find one's perfect spot on the planet.
For what it's worth, Musk has said his goal is to eliminate all regulations[0] (and, one assumes, all federal agencies except DOGE, assuming it even counts) and then add each regulation back one at a time if they deem it necessary.

[0]https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-regulations-default...
Spending is one thing, but the UK just trains too few doctors [1], a consequence of Conservative policies and mismanagement. The Conservative efforts to centralize the NHS in London has also resulted in a system that doesn't scale and doesn't distribute resources efficiently.

[1] https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...
NP education is basically the Wild West. Much of it is practical training under a doctor, but unlike residency there is very little oversight and standardization.
There's lots of hidden gotchas to this. Uploading a screenshot and asking an LLM to transcribe one page is generally ok. Give it a table that spans pages, or a 60 page doc, and you're in dire straits.

I cofounded DocuPanda to handle this issue specifically. Call me biased, but I do believe it's the best solution out there.
In every industry there are creative people who make more than the average.

This is about policy for a group of nearly 600k people. If there were no 'racket' I think that most people who want to cut hair are capable of stylish and reliable - above the Great Clips standard.

"No regulation" could increase the labor pool a factor of 10x, given the propensity for these businesses to be 100% small $ transactions.

[Editted in response to your edit]
Every industry should have competition, but the national average for hair-cuts is near minimum wage. WTF are you smoking? Do you really believe if the minimum was gone there's a chance "fair pricing not controlled by syndicates" would be just above minimum wage? Is the govt minimum wage a "pricing controlled by syndicates"?
1000 hours is enough to grind out every activity in the original Destiny.

Destiny is designed to be as much a day job or more as cutting hair.
most of them do now. it's massively cheaper and faster than what they had available before.
I can't tell if these figures are inclusive of interstates and all local roads, or some subset, but my impression is these numbers (for use tax pay %) look too high. The right ballpark is around 50%.
> because everybody is using VSCode now

Are they though?
I don't have numbers right now to back this up but last I remember, people were leaving VS Code, not moving to it.
You can read it as alarmist, or you can read it as a rather sobering reflection on the current state of affairs. The world will not end, nothing will explode. What however I think will happen is that the next generation of engineers is going to judge us by our creations and learn from it.
And yet, as a kid, I was able to go to Sakura Square in Denver on weekends and see several blocks where everything was Japanese, including a mini mall, a grocery store, book stores, music stores, etc. It's been there for generations and even has plaques written back when Japanese used katakana instead of hiragana to conjugate verbs. Another area in the suburbs was mostly Cantonese for a few blocks. Somewhere around 10-15% of my classmates spoke Spanish at home. And Denver is over a thousand miles from either border and only had a population of one and a half million at the time!

America is a huge country, but don't underestimate its cultural or linguistic diversity. It's had large immigrant populations from far flung places around the world for a very long time, whereas most of Europe has only become like this in the past generation or two.

In any case, your comment is missing the point. However little you believe Americans understand about the world, we get more media, cultural influence and business influence from places outside of Europe. Half the cartoons I grew up watching were from Japan, my family had Japanese cars and video games, popular business books talked about Japan and a lot of people saw it as almost a futuristic place. Hong Kong exported quite a bit of its culture through movies in the 90s and early 2000, and in recent years, Korea has become a major cultural force as well, while China has become the the key market to understand in terms of business opportunities.
This building is so perfectly at the Dyatlov threshold it will never be demolished. So much money has been invested, a brutal court battle, PR disaster for the city government, but despite all that it’s so nearly close to be salvageable that we will keep seeing this same story for another 10 or 20 years before someone realizes it should have been demolished in the 2010s.
If you want the same kind of thing with no useful information, how about this report on the accuracy of a sign? https://soranews24.com/2024/06/27/is-this-7-eleven-sign-in-j...
I agree and you are talking to the choir here :)

Many of these have been an issue since I started programming many decades ago on minis. Seems as the hardware gets more powerful we find ways to stress out the hardware more and more. This making your list true to a greater extent year after year.

BTW, I like your WEB Site format a lot!
My programming languages course in college had a section on Miranda. That’s 25 years ago and I’ve forgotten almost all of it, and I am not a Haskell programmer. But those few weeks proved essential for me and has benefitted my C++ tremendously.
Almost no one using VS Code can use vim.
I was always under the assumption that application windows were all rendered as separate layers on the GPU and the artifacts on older Windowsen were related to pre-GPU UI rendering.

So rather than occupying main RAM they’re on the GPU RAM and main RAM just orchestrates.
"The Solar system" is a specific and unambiguous instance of a planetary system. It's not a generic term for all planetary systems.
A bit of incoherence between this

'We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels.'

and this

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

But generally speaking I grok it.
I get kinda pissed at any program that creates a visible directory.
> We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.

And sometimes the reverse problem is what is destroying software: being unwilling to push for rewrites of things when they desperately need one. I think we may have over indexed on "never rewrite" as an industry.

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

And I'm also seeing this the other way: engineers are beginning to destroy non software things, because they think they can blindly apply engineering principles to everything else.
The rewrite line is about "Let's rewrite this big system from X to Y", not about experimenting creating new variants.
When I was on Reddit I browsed the /r/DIY subreddit every once in a while. It was amazing to see all of the self-built decks, sheds, and unpermitted home modifications that were death traps.

I’m sure you did your homework and did everything by the book, but I’ve seen enough both online and in my experience with old houses (commonly modified without permit) to have an appreciation for licensing and permitting requirements.

A few years ago my friends’ landlord tried to rebuild the house’s deck until it got shut down by an inspector driving by. I thought it was outrageous until I walked over and saw what was being built, which was a laundry list of engineering and design failures. After that I was thankful that the inspector noticed and stepped in.

Licensing (and permitting) doesn’t exist for the ideal case where people practice perfectly without licensing. It exists for the average case, where people like to guess and improvise.

> End results, costs <30% of anything comparable offered commercially.

If you did the work yourself I’d expect similar savings. I think this is an example of DIY labor, not the cost of licensing.
I think that's actually pretty pragmatic. Sometimes the answer is to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes the answer is to keep improving the system that already works.

The problem, IMO, is globally applying either rule.
I think CJ (Continuous Judging) is already the well-established, default practice.
https://www.vectorstyler.com/
DC. Modern electronics make AC grids unnecessary.

48VDC inside homes would be enough for most applications except heating and it would be kid-safe.

240V for heating applications.
Depending on the valuation

And with that guy, make sure you get paid up front. He has an extremely long and well-documented history of abusing the system to not pay contractors, workers, counter-parties, etc...
Reminds me of https://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm

Arguing against 10x complexity & abstractions, with 1x coding :-)
A tale of several distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video]
That’s the utopia that I want to live in lol but in reality, I think GrapheneOS will pick up more users.
Do these businesses really even need to exist? They themselves are a racket. They're just overhead.

Why can't my wife just cut hair out of our kitchen? Here at least it's illegal. I have no doubt she would have steady repeat clientele ready to pay for a good haircut.

I firmly believe the value of something is what someone else is willing to pay, and that artificially inflating the price by limiting supply will always be immoral and monopolistic.
thanks for the link. will have a look at it. if you tokenize tiles and then feed those serially to an llm. i really wouldn't know why someone thinks that's a good idea. you lose all local spacial context not to mention global context if the scan is produced at a slight angle. it's a really stupid idea. of course, provided enough computational power one might brute force a solution that works somewhat well.
“Even are ads are private…”

I don’t think that’s possible. Modern advertisers require those sweet sweet metrics, which can never be truly anonymized, and in most cases attempts to anonymize are half-hearted at best.
I was looking for this article recently since it inspired my most recent script to POSSE to various websites [0]. Thanks for posting it again!

[0] https://github.com/MattSayar/post_to_socials
I built some native apps for macOS recently and a 10MB installer with a below 100MB footprint after running for months makes me wonder what would happen if all of my apps were truly native.
If I see the name cache I hope it is cache :)

So far that has not failed me yet, maybe some day I will get burned.
Palmyra Atoll looks beautiful. Smooth zoom animation on my Android mobile
All the statements in that post are trade offs. In all cases you are sacrificing something to gain something else. Therefore in a way you are always "destroying" something.

Sometimes it is valid to not reinvent the wheel. Sometimes wheel needs to be reinvented to learn. Both actions are done. Sometimes the decision was right. Sometimes not.

Overall as a whole we are creating things, more than we are destroying. I don't see the need to take a negative stance.
For developers the “Apple tax” is a forced tax slurping up a big portion of our income.
What about the Pitcairn Islands?
I assume you've tried eastern wisdom articulated by people like Alan Watts, Michael Signer, Tolle, etc?
Wouldn't it be equivalent to adjust / turn down the speaker volume on the phone?
It's possible to detect "curl | bash" server side. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34145799
Thanks for the comments and feedback! In my experience this kind of nasty-gram gets people to the table and lets them know you mean business.
Big battery packs are insane to put inside a house. I'm biased because I work for a utility scale storage company, but really, 2nd law of thermodynamics, people.

The more potential energy you pack into a volume, the higher the chance the energy will be released at a time not of your choosing and in a fashion that will make you sad. We put our product in industrial zoned places where the worst case scenario for a fire is pre-planned to not be catastrophic and so that no homes will be lost. Why put your house at risk? So you can cosplay as Henry David Thoreau and take some stance against your power utility?
Well, there is a ban on 3rd party apps using X. What surprises me is that Reddit is there?
It's great, but it can't be interrupted.

It would also be nice if it would show you all the steps beforehand, and then check each item as you progress. Sometimes it's good to actually prepare from a broader perspective.

And it could log into a file as a summary.

So much that could be improved, which is why the simplest solution might be the best.
No no, wake me up when they finally realize human proto sub species are biologically legitimate once you realize they are actually “Proto sub proto sub species”

The question is “what’s a useful distinction.” Where race/ethnicity is a useful distinction, such as in clinical research, it is used and regarded as such. When it’s not, such as who has a right to dignity or freedom, it’s not.
OK I stand corrected.

I bet the situation is quite complicated, and I now regret offering a one-sentence explanation.
You did and you're lying.
Does the president have the authority to grant immediate security clearances?
I believe the number needed is not millions but more like thousands or even hundreds depending on the size of the model you are distilling into.
There's an element of "Worse is Better" in this debate, as in many real-world systems debates. The original worse-is-better essay even predates the Linux vs Minix debate:

https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

Gabriel was right in 1989, and he's right today, though sometimes the deciding factor is performance (e.g. vs security) rather than implementation simplicity.
> The cruise companies hate it and prohibit it

The prohibition on all and sundry on using their own radio trancevers (yes, that includes satellite transceivers) is to prevent the risk of causing RF/electrical interference with the ships systems. The use of low power Wi-Fi and cellular phones is fine, but poorly set up directional VSAT terminals can play havoc with ships navigation and comms kit. This is historically the reason for banning their use without explicit permission in writing from the ships master.

Source: Marine engineer.
You forgot that in a recent referendum almost all the islanders voted to stay part of the UK.
These are all complaints specific to a particular attitude and kind of web software development that just happens to be most prevalent within a place like SV.

I think the situation (loosely, wasting time spinning your wheels by modernizing things that are actually fine the way they are and may be made worse by adopting "hot new thing") looks worse when you see it through that lens than it actually is throughout the industry as a whole. There are plenty of opportunities for modernization and doing some of the things described in this article that actually make some sense when applied to appropriate situations.

In other words, I totally understand the vibes of this post, it's one of the reasons I don't work in the parts of the industry where this attitude is most prevalent. I would never feel the push to write a post like it though because the poster is I think being a bit dramatic. At least that's the case looking at the industry from my (id argue broader) vantage point of being an expert in and working quite a bit with "legacy" companies and technologies that maybe could stand to have a new UI implemented and some tasteful modern conventions adopted at least as options for the end users.
> We are destroying software mistaking it for a purely engineering discipline.

This one packs a lot of wisdom.
Is there a paper supporting that position of yours? I would like to see a study highlighting that restaurants are unlikely to change in time.
The present president of Argentina is a Trump-testicle-gargler.
That would make me nervous if I were a Falklander.
Oh absolutely, I once saw research exploring how terrorist groups were using World of Warcraft emotes as their steganography and I show my students how to do simple least significant bit hiding when I teach them about image processing.

Unless you know for a fact someone is using hidden communication its near impossible to discern in the wild.
Driving a bigger....more powerfull vehicle is a lot of things, and comes with the resposibility to be considerate and alert.
last week I was faced with braking on fresh snow, with glare ice, my choice was the quickly closing rearbumper of someone ahead, or the ditch, I aimed at the ditch, which the responding RCMP commented
"and you hit it" ha ha
truck stayed upright, and survived the ditching and subsequent recovery, with zero damage, in spite of ending up high sided on the frame.
my personal preference is vehicles, are do everything truckasauruses, I loath running empty and light, its stock
its cool, and fun, usefull, dependable, makes people look, easy to work on
but I get grief, because so many of these are exclusivly used a symbols rather than for work
my last truck got rear ended while stopped for traffic by a 1ton cube van, that was going full highway speed, lawsuits, and trouble is still falling out from that, but as I was in a w250
long wheelbase diesel(heavy, tough), I am more or less ok.....they cut him out of his truck....alive
.....but
so my point or question is, where do you draw the line? or how?
there is millions of tons of random stuff, going where it needs to go, right now, and forever, in "light trucks", and many millions of people in those trucks as well, getting stuff done, sometimes its a bloated show truck, othertimes its
just a working war waggon
cant realy tell them apart at 100 feet
Related:

A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684604 - Sep 2023 (21 comments)
They are always thinking about the children. Their (children's) data is very valuable. Plus today's children won't know, that a world without ads, can exist.
Sounds like Millenium Tower in SF

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/series/millennium-...
I'm all for calling out bad corporate behavior, but does that behavior really explain Meta's wild profitability? There's no end of people willing to behave at least as unethically as Meta for money. In a toy model of capitalism, these people enter the social media industry and drive down Meta's margins by offering better deals to its revenue sources (advertisers in this case). But the toy model doesn't seem to apply to Meta. Why?

I think the traditional explanation in terms of network effects remains the best one. It's hard to compete with Meta when all your friends are on their products. Zuckerberg understood this early on and went all-in on growth hacking to be the first to get huge. Probably all successful social media products did the same.
People I know already do these home-haircuts as a business. They dont make money because its deregulated and every so mildly illegal, mostly from tax evasion.
This turns a phrase on its head. All he does is hammer nails, so everything is a hammer of differing effectiveness.

There's a qualitative difference between earlier game playing programs and AlphaZero or MuZero.
'Backsliding': most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears
Never ceases to amaze me that glibertarians think they can do their thing on board a ship more than on land.
> Overall as a whole we are creating things, more than we are destroying. I don't see the need to take a negative stance.

Fair point: each one of us can think about the balance and understand if it's positive or negative. But an important exercise must be accomplished about this: totally removing AI from the complexity side.

Most of the results that neural networks gave us, given the hardware, could be recreated with a handful lines of code. It is evident every day that small teams can rewrite training / inference engines from scratch and so forth. So AI must be removed from the positive (if you believe it's positive, I do) output of the complexities of recent software.

So if you remove AI since it belongs to the other side, the "complicated software world" what gave us, exactly, in recent times?
Could they use this to get at X data to train LLMs?
While I highly respect antirez, I think this post is full of good sounding, short statements, that wouldn't hold in a discussion.

One example: Newbies shouldn't reinvent the wheel. I think they should use the tools, that are available and common in the given context. When they want to tinker, they should write their own compiler. But they shouldn't use that in production.

Another: Backward API compatibility is a business decision in most cases.

Also, I think it doesn't help to start every sentence with "We are destroying software". This sounds much more gloomy, than it really is.
LWN has a great impartial summary of what is occurring, including background on why the DMA subsystem is an important interface point for rust drivers: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1006805/be4cb766fd906623/

(This is a shared link to a subscriber-only LWN article, please consider a paid subscription to LWN if you liked it!)
What is the Dyatlov threshold?
Using virtual lists to render 10k notes at 60fps, on 1/6th CPU throttling
Edit: Sorry, the video URL was incorrect. I'll repost with the correct video soon. Sorry again!

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.
You are right; the advanced in DeepSeek-R1 used RL almost solely because of the chain-of-thought sequences they were generating and training it on.
What are you using for machine translation? I'm surprised anything could mistranslate 气功师 like that.
This is exactly what I did for my DIY solution, it's quite amazing how far you can get with some SMS parsing.

Initially I was still missing quite a lot of transactions, as there isn't a SMS for non-CC payments, but then I realized I could just grab the information from the 2FA confirmation, as it had all the important details.

I'm not so good on the frontend, so I'm still using redash to build charts, dashboards and alerts, but it's fine for keeping an overview.

Long-term I would still like to switch to parsing the statement PDF from the bank, especially since there's an option to receive them automatically at the end of the month, but I'm dragging my feet on that one, as parsing tables from PDF is surprisingly difficult. Even though the actual text is embedded in the PDF, getting it in the correct layout has proven impossible so far. Or maybe I'm just missing some piece of the puzzle?
I use both and also IntelliJ. Why are you trying to talk down to people based on the tools they use?
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