skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean the foundations didn't go away, they just got more profound (advances in programming language design, distributed algorithms, formal methods etc.). Previously closed down layers just got open sourced (RISC-V, FPGAs). I estimate that 98% of all engineering efforts are always hidden beneath some facade that takes away its spotlight (through politics, committees, marketing etc.). I'm close to 15 years in and there are still programming languages, data structures or protocols I never heard of.

The world was never as complex as it is today, advancements were never that accelerated, and expectations on scalable software were never this high. Do you really buy the marketing fuzz that the work is "done" just because your software runs on hyperscaler #3 or in a k8s cluster? The amount of available open source projects steadily increases, those can (and should) be used to learn from and contribute something back. Free and open source software is used everywhere and whole businesses are built on some, yet Linux and all those other projects are just increasing in complexity. Sure, everybody wants to be the expert and yet nobody really is. Fact is, unfinished projects are everywhere and there's a lot of work to be done.

LLMs have the chance to make personal computing even more personal and should be treated as valuable assistents to learn with. LLMs won't ever be the desired oracles of some kind (yes, I don't buy that "AGI is near" crap), they'll rather be good personal sparing partners. APIs still break constantly and there are transient errors everywhere. I can imagine some small shops and personalized apps, yet people that aren't into tech won't magically get into it because of some progress in machine learning. If you're in it just for the money times might get challenging here and there (what isn't?), but if you're in it for the engineering times can look pretty bright, as long as we make good use of our ambitions. There are still some engineering efforts to take before a smartwatch can also act smart in isolation. Our tooling just took a leap ahead - go make use of it, that's it.
Not deleted- flagged by users. There are a bunch of HN users who are flagging nearly everything about DOGE, Musk, etc.
There are people here better positioned to answer than than I am. We've said "no" to customers who asked for this.
Care to say more than that?
This is a truly excellent post, thank you for sharing. I learned a lot and will take a few more reads to fully unpack it. Thanks for taking the time, I know articulating all of these ideas can be a heavy undertaking.
Regulatory thickets are moats for businesses that know how to use them. And some businesses encourage regulations because it's a financial advantage: e.g. H&RBLOCK. In New Zealand there's large companies that encourage excessive and pointless safety regulations, because they have the teams to work it and small businesses lack resources to fairly compete.
...which happens to the average site owner how often...?
What's the biggest thing your mind that makes Clojure not Lisp?
Turn off Fox News dude - you're severely lacking perspective of your own country. Everyone outside of the US media sphere(or rather spheres - there's two) laughs at your news media and how entrenched misinformation has become.
If you had a 16 kB memory card (a.k.a "Language Card") you could overlay the ROM memory with RAM, and load the Integer Basic ROM overe the AppleSoft Basic ROM.

AppleSoft did "everything" with floating-point variables, like loops indexing into arrays. It's amazing that programs ran at usable speeds on a 1 Mhz machine.
You could consider increasing protein consumption a bit. Other research indicates something like 1.1 g/kg is better. Of course quality matters too: people who are getting most of their protein from lower quality plant sources may need more in order to get enough of certain essential amino acids.

https://peterattiamd.com/lucvanloon/
I'm so glad this is making its way in to Go properly now, and sort of baffled that this wasn't treated as a priority sooner by Google, given that they're operating within FIPS environments.
Part of Project 2025 was to purge those who would not swear feality to the new GOP regime. That is especially true in intelligence agencies like CIA and FBI. They want as many of those who are loyal to democracy to quit/get fired as possible so they can be replaced with brown shirt like cronies.
Related reading, Andy Baio's article from 2008 digging into the contents of a hard drive from Infocom:

https://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_seque...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250130160319/https://www.wired...
Netflix is actually the lowest bitrate offering.

Netflix: 15-18 Mbps
Disney+: 25-30 Mbps
Amazon Prime Video: 15-18 Mbps
Apple TV+: 25-40 Mbps
HBO Max: 15-20 Mbps

This is from an LLM but it tallies with what I remember reading. Apple TV is by far the best, followed by Disney+.

Netflix unfortunately seem to use any improvement in compression encoding efficiency to reduce bitrates, rather than improve PQ at the same bitrate. It's definitely got worse over time. I also remember reading that for content they deem more compressible they use a lower bitrate.

I can sort of get that on the lower plans, but its frustrating they won't improve PQ (or at least keep it the same) for the (expensive) 4K plan.
If there is other channel for the community like discrod - I would ping that maintainer there.

But anyway just keep calm and wait. They can review other PRs and not respond to your PR without any negative intent.
I don't think that's what I'm describing.

That's about manually setting up agents, that run on a server, that seem to interact largely with the web (from the examples).

I'm talking about not manually setting up anything -- I'm talking about an AI that simply observes the repetitive actions you're taking on your computer, infers patterns from them, and then offers to take over and finish the job.
> What makes your claim better than theirs?

Well, for starters it's not so absolute:

> it's doing nothing to help the disabled

It's obviously doing something for the disabled. Reserved disabled parking spots and wheelchair-accessible building entrances are requirements of the ADA. It seems reasonable to think it "improves people's lives". A whole bunch of contrary opinions are not necessarily reasons for disagreement as much as they are simply disagreement.
One definition is that if it has to be saved and restored by an interrupt handler, it's a register. :)
Better microwaves existed. Nobody wanted them. Technology Connections:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0
Walk away and forget about it, life's too short to get stressed about that sort of thing.
For most people they are not using 100% of capacity every day. In fact large numbers of laptops are primarily used plugged in and just move from desk to desk. In that scenario charging to 80% has no downside. The upside is that your battery may last longer. If you are keeping your laptop for longer than 2-3 years that might be worthwhile.
Most Chinese-built EVs use LFP. And China is the world's largest EV market, bigger than the rest of the world combined. So presumably, the majority of EVs shipping globally are using LFP batteries today.
I hope they keep up the good fight …
Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter
Using ChatGPT consumes a 500M bottle of water; so what?
This was sorely missing. This might get me to give it another shot in case they have finally un-fucked their suggestions which have just been getting worse ever which the release.
Did Mirascope exist before MCP? MCP was announced in November, 2024.
That can happen in Scala as well because of shared binaries, as is reported in this thread.
As a kid in Boy Scouts in Alaska, during the annual broomball tournament on the outdoor hockey rinks in winter, every kid would bring a can of soup as "admission".

One of the adults would have a massive pot setup on a gas burner, and we'd pour in all the random cans of soup to heat up together. Throughout the day you'd grab a styrofoam cup and ladle in some "suicide soup", then try go guess what mystery chunks you were eating.

Not perpetual but definitely "whatever you had" soup :)
Make Software Silly Again
i think they'll stop at the appropriate amount, they've been planning this for years and speaking publicly about it for just as long. they're extremely intelligent people who have been at the but-end of all of these agencies and have learned a lot of lessons that could correct or otherwise improve the agencies rather than just destroying them through whatever cartoonishly simple lens you're imagining
It's all solid advice but that exchange in #5 that the author found delightful, drives me bonkers. If you talk to the people on your team like that, you're not being helpful, you're being an a-hole. I realize its just making a point in the context of the article, but this industry seems to collect pedants, so it seems worth pointing out as an anti-pattern.
Presidential mandate
Recent and related:

News from Scroll 5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955356 - Feb 2025 (3 comments)
Have you never heard of a shopping caddy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_caddy

They're incredibly popular here, and yes, all supermarkets will have a lock stand near the checkout area so you can leave them there and easily reach for them as you're bagging your groceries. They're also foldable and/or small enough to fit in almost any closet.
RA.Aid: Develop Software Autonomously
He doesn't have clearance. They march into the offices, demand access, whoever is there says "no", then that person gets fired (placed "on leave") ten minutes later. Rinse and repeat.
What about Care Bears?

How do social studies instructors advise in regards to a helpful balance of SEL and other content?

Is prosocial content for children underrepresented in training corpora?
This implies that you can look back at a product with all its nuance and say "that was done right" or "that was done wrong". Most of the time it is ambiguous as far as if the chosen approach was the right one. You can't tell if you faced more hurdles and unseen challenges with the chosen path then if you had gone with a different approach, because it is impossible to predict unknown challenges.

If you are a leading engineer and you are able to deliver on time and within budget constraints, that would be called a success, but I doubt even the leader themself looks back at what was done and thinks it was all done correctly.
are you aware your posts are visible to paid users only? Why if it is intentional?
There's absolutely no data to back up the suggestion that sites regularly suffer from DDoS.

It's like talking about getting murdered - it happens, and there are statistics, but if you're literally expecting everyone to change their whole lives based on the fact that some people are murdered, with zero consideration for the where, why and how, you're doing it wrong.
Agree! Its a bridge too far for me as well, we hope to offer the ecosystem private alternatives.
Why do people in the responses to this post and elsewhere keep talking about going beyond statistical methods? How do they know there’s something else that isn’t at some level just statistical? That seems like a big assumption to me.
This is more related to the fact that computing systems are usually preemptive multitasking systems that are expected to operate very predictably even with stuff happening in the "background".

If you really want or need reliable timers or miss those days for any reason, check out a Real Time OS.
There's always a lot of research that is "expected", but there's nothing wrong with that. The two most common reasons this happens are:

1. Well somebody has got to do the work and we can't all just go around assuming stuff, even if we're pretty confident. The confirmation helps and is beneficial to the community.
2. It's obvious post hoc and you have gaslit yourself into thinking that you already knew it because you kinda knew it at a high level and you only read the result at a high level too so you entirely miss all the actual details and all the context (especially since there is so much context that never makes it into a paper[0])
3. (bonus) It addresses the same thing that someone else addressed but from a different approach and the new approach can provide additional insight.

Either way, it is beneficial to the community. Sure, nothing is groundbreaking but that's how science is. 99% incremental steps. And hey, these days most ML papers are just an active demonstration of how well you can brute force search optimal hyperparameters (i.e. how much compute you can afford). I see far fewer sufficiently isolating variables and actually provide strong evidence of the things claimed as novel, not recognizing that benchmark results are far from sufficient. But I blame reviewers for that, but also see rant in [0]

[0] I think the hardest thing about beginning a PhD is that you're reading a bunch of papers going like "why the fuck are they doing this?" and the problem is that you don't have enough breadth or depth to get it. You don't understand the decades long conversation of how we got here and what problems were being addressed along the way. To be fair, a lot of this is never stated explicitly and so you annoyingly have to piece everything together by reading a few hundred papers. But also, good luck providing all that context within page limits and besides, papers are written for /peers/, by which I mean niche peers, not domain peers. Ain't nobody got time to write textbooks, because you're just trying to publish so you don't perish and you're already exhausted from all the grant writing, rebuttals, bureaucratic work, and all that fun jazz.
I think what is actually the problem is the software and hardware manufacturers.

Secure use of any device requires a correct specification. These should be available to device buyers and there should be legal requirements for them to be correct and complete.

Furthermore, such specifications should be required also for software-- precisely what it does and legal guarantees that it's correct.

This hasn't ever been more feasible, also considering that we Europeans are basically at war with the Russians, it seems reasonable to secure our devices.
They seem to be coloring entirely outside the lines here. Much like trump with his bulk exec order and see what sticks approach
Take a look at the other reply, which says it's actually not dispersion. My mistake!
Unless you can't interface directly with the underlying system, which turns out is... most apps
A breakdown in societal communication that causes a breakdown in material prosperity? That's hitting a little close to home these days...
I'm getting Napster vibes for some reason.
>Why do you think Netflix wants to buy it?

Because they previous had a lot of that content before those providers pulled it and created competing systems.
That's simply not true, they all worked within the law. Trump has broken the law many times over just the past two weeks by exceeding his authority and completely ignoring the laws passed by Congress. Birthright citizenship, USAID, Firing people he can't fire, ignoring contracts, sending goons to take over the payments system; it has been hard for the judicial system to keep him in Check since Congress obviously is capitulating and burying their heads in the sand.
Your hands have eyes, too: Engaging peripheral attention
I would say there is no advantage of using built-in Guile to call make's eval API over:

$(eval $(shell <arbitrary-command>))

where arbitrary-command could run ssh to a virtual machine, running a docker container loaded with Common Lisp ...

The Guile approach stays in one process, but that has no value in the context of make, which launches external programs as its principal paradigm.
I don't give my kids screen time limits
Re: Honesty and a "who hath done it" type exercise for LLM comparison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42927611
Because if the microwave can do it in 10-15 min, the toaster oven is going to take 40-60 min or worse.

Waiting 10-15 min to reheat something evenly is doable for me. I can make a side salad, toast some bread, empty the dishwasher or whatever while I wait.

Waiting 40-60+ min requires real advance planning, which is often just not feasible.

If you've ever used a toaster oven to warm up a frozen personal-size lasagna, sometimes it can take as long as an hour and a half.
Those companies (I'm having trouble finding any current ones, though there are few notable past examples that have been shot down in court) are doing DEI wrong.

The last two places I've worked (one a university) had DEI goals of hiring the most qualified person for the job, without regard to race, etc. The whole point was to stress the "without regard to" part.

We do collect data and try to correct imbalances by making sure our candidate pools have good coverage (i.e. they aren't discriminatory). But every offer we extend goes to the most qualified candidate, without regard to race, etc., to the very best of our ability.

It's also more comprehensive than just hiring and race.

For example, one goal is that a student in the National Guard with a side job gets the same shot as one unemployed living with their parents. What can you do to help facilitate that without reducing the impact of the program?

There's evidence that spatial reasoning is important for learning Computer Science. There's evidence that men and women can both develop spatial reasoning skills. There's evidence that men in general get more practice than women in this regard, potentially putting women at a disadvantage in the program. What can you do to help level that playing field without weakening the material?

Lastly, coming out against DEI programs whose goal is to hire based solely on merit and not race or other factors... not a good look. So you might want to specify which kind of DEI you're really against.
Yep, coordinate grounding is key, we use Ai2's pixmo for a lot of that https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/pixmo-points

We had previously created https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentsea/wave-ui but that was superseded by pixmo as it contains over a million data points.
To become a dictator? This isn't in the presidential powers. Congress needs to pass a bill if they want to do this.
This sentiment is so incomplete as to be utterly useless outside of a very narrow scope.

Good engineers are right a lot very specifically within their technical competency.

Simply saying "good engineers are right a lot" has pretty clearly resulted in a large group of people who think that because they're right a lot about things within their field, that quality of 'being right a lot' extends to things outside of their field, and that is terribly wrong as often as not. The hubris and entitlement that I've seen engendered in people who take this creed too seriously is really something to behold. It's part of what directly leads to the 'techbro' stereotype.

No, Kyle, just because you're right a lot about all things relating to Rust does NOT mean you know a fucking thing about economics, healthcare, or whatever the hell else it is you espouse your strongly held opinion on.
> people do not have money to spend on car

Definitely depends on what segment you're looking at, but US car sales seem to be right back at pre-pandemic levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTALSA
Aren't that just design docs ;D
Sure, but the point is that you can't treat a zero page address like a register. There's a LDA, LDX, LDY, but no way to load directly to a zero page address. You have to load a real register, then store it in the ZP address.

Zero page isn't a bunch of registers because register operations by and large don't work on them directly.
A Decade of TILs
The Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia
Z80 was what I cut my teeth on. No idea if it's 'good', but it made sense and didn't particular weird at the time
Apparently one has already resigned after they found his eugenics and racism posts online.

> “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.

Very Fine People.
Qwen2.5-vl seems to be the best right now by our tests.

UI-TARS by bytedance also has a good amount of pretraining.

Molmo is also very good at coordinates.
Does it work if you use a different profile with -p?
Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki
I’ve been tinkering with Ricotta for about a year now and I'm happy to announce it’s ready to for others to use officially. Largely the time has been spent making the project a framework to spin up newer projects quickly which I can share details around if anyone is interested.

The app was born out of my frustration with Duolingo drilling me on words I knew. I moved on to creating custom Anki cards and found myself spending ages creating decks.

It’s free, uses spaced repetition under the hood, and focuses on helping you learn what you want to without a course structure.

I'd love to hear your thoughts or even feature requests: https://ricotta.affineur.io/
I suspect that LeetCode is a factor too. Even if the hiring standards haven't deteriorated, the fact that you can "study to the test" nowadays in ways you couldn't in 2012 selects for a different set of candidates.
The proposals were not the norms of the time. It is literally a rant against prevailing “bad” ideas of the time.

“Default Permit”, “Enumerating Badness”, “Penetrate and Patch”, “Educating Users” were the norms of the time and still, largely, are. And that is part of why “defense” is so grossly inadequate against common prevailing threat actors.

I prefer the norms of high security software which include, but do not consist exclusively of, most of the stated ideas.
Although auditing rules have been loosened up in various respects, ultimately whenever code within the FIPS module boundary changes a new validation and certification process is supposed to be kicked off and tracked. For Microsoft itself it's obviously more convenient to manage 1 module rather than 2. But more importantly, many Microsoft customers depend on Windows providing compliant and certified cryptographic modules; they don't have to worry about it, period, except to keep their Windows installations updated. With built-in Go modules, that now becomes the problem of every individual organization. It's nowhere near as bad as 5+ years ago, when auditors were more strict about only using certified binary modules, which meant you often faced a Sophie's Choice when it came to bug fixes. Today the bar is more that you're using a code base that has been certified (i.e. built some binary that was certified), and when bug fixes are made will quickly be re-certified (in the interim you'll get forbearance). But it's still a greater process and change management burden than when you're just consuming a certified system library from a vendor who takes 100% responsibility for keeping it in a certified state, and which can be updated independently, without having to rebuild all your software.

While rebuilding your fleet of Go apps may be trivial in a technical sense, organizing and tracking deployment across an enterprise is less trivial. Tracking that your nodes are all running updated versions of Windows isn't trivial, either, but much easier.

FIPS is a PITA largely because of the change management burden. But that's precisely one of the biggest gaps in enterprise security. Keeping most of your installations up-to-date is easy; it's the long tail of stragglers and misfits that is the most difficult part. In that light, quibbling about algorithms is almost like bike shedding, though it's difficult to overestimate how much bad crypto is out there (see, e.g., last year's Okta bcrypt issue that is making the rounds again on HN). When people complain about having to use ECDSA P-256 instead Ed25519[1], I want to roll my eyes.

[1] Ed25519 finally became FIPS compliant only last year, there aren't many (any?) certified implementations, and in any event P-256 is just much more widely supported, especially in niches like HSMs, etc.
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