skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy gets it!

And even that 386 was hot stuff in 1992. I was in high school then and stuck with a 286 with 16-color graphics and like a 40mb hard drive or something. We got a 486 right around Christmas 1993 I think, which was a mind blowing upgrade at the time. 256 colors in DOS video games and Windows could display 16k colors. CD-ROMs that had little postage stamp videos and we got one of those CD-ROM encyclopedias.

We had like 286 class machines in most of the lab my senior year of High school in 1994 with amber displays and we learned Turbo Pascal on them. The school had a handful of 486s but they were setup to run exactly the same software as the 286s, no Windows for us. They must have waited till they replaced everything to start using Windows.

In spring 1995 I spent like $250 (or was it $500?) of my summer job earnings on 4MB RAM for our 486 to get Doom to run better. The upgrade struggle was real. That was a ton of money for me and my parents thought I was absolutely nuts but eventually gave in.

When I went to college I spent essentially my entire summer's earnings on my first laptop, it was close to $4k back then and it was not exactly great!
Christen's son emigrated to America several generations ago so that's when the name stuck for me.
They are so popular in Germany, you can sometimes even buy them in supermarkets.
Not regular expressions but regular automata. The project uses Finite State Transducers to build autonomous agents.
Funnily enough it works on Ubuntu but there seems to be no Fedora package.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with bluesky. What connection are you trying to draw?
Nope, zero subsidies.
check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974429 from few days ago.. the OP was re-advertising OAUth, but another idea might be, that new kind of interfaces are needed - application agentic interfaces - standing in middle between APP(Programming) (too detailed) and AHI(Human) screen/forms (too human targeted). IMO.
Mistral Gets Down to Business
Well, for what it's worth, I believe that this evolutionary pressure works as strongly, or even more so, against women who challenge men about the validity of their reasoning.
> When people delegate their brains to others, their own judgment naturally deteriorates and it makes them much easier to fool

A thought as old as thoughts about thoughts are, almost:

> For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.

The quote above is about books, from Plato's dialogue Phaedrus 14 (370-360 BCE). You by any chance feel the same about books as you feel about reusable JavaScript modules published on npm?
I'm always amused comparing the hot and sunny German way with the cold rainy cloudy Australian vision.

https://www.news.com.au/national/australias-nuclear-future-b...
Isn’t musk becoming a single point of failure risk?
>So let me get this straight- we are going to train AI models to perform screen recognition of some kind (so it can ascertain layout and detect the "important" ui elements), and additionally ask that AI to OCR all text on the screen so it has some hope of being able to follow some natural language instructions (OCR being a task which, as a HN thread a day or two ago pointed out, AI is exceedingly bad at), and then we're going to be able to tell this non-deterministic prediction engine what we want to do with our software, and it's just going to do it?

AI is amazing at OCR, we've had tesseract ocr for 40 years and if you read the fine manual it has essentially a 0% error rate per character.

OCR on VLMs is terrible.

For some reason consistent x-heights between 10 to 30 pixels with guaranteed mono-column layout is not something venture capitalists get excited about, and as a result I'm not the founder of a unicorn.
Duolingo Handbook
Full solar cladding, at least on some sides, would be interesting, but I guess panel costs aren't quite there yet.
My own kiddo, at the age of two or three, decided that -o was a productive suffix and started calling me and her mother "Daddo" and "Mommo".
Gosh this is hard. Excellent question. "Existential dread" was a cheap handwave. This is a random collection of thoughts.

First thing I should say is none of what I'm going to say matters if you are the world's most well-adjusted person. i.e. you have 0 inherent desire to do anything other than A) get a paycheck B) do what boss says.

The ex-Googlers I interviewed with put is as "you can't get anything done", which I took as a challenge. And succeeded. Then failed. But not because that's not what leadership wanted, it was the opposite, they had been asking for years: because I was low enough on the totem pole, and in engineering, in a way people could screw around and have 0 consequences.

Hyperbole: every single job I've worked at was better managed than what Google had become at the end, including food service ones. There's a professionalism-as-don't-speak-up authoritarianism in play.

Another handwave I've used to describe it is "humans are humans, everywhere.",

This was the first time I was with a group of really, really smart people. Ivy Leaguers, etc. I dropped out from the #116 ranked university.

I expected that meant the level of shitty behavior would be lower, but, it was higher. Much higher. There's much more training data accumulated in smart people. Making it easier to construct internal narratives for why somethings a bad idea, but, this was usually lazy and slotting into some stereotype. One lesson I learned quickly is there's a parable for every possible decision.

Another problem was you had a ton of people who were just Ivy Leaguers who said "ehhh I guess finance is more evil?", ended up in tech, and really could not fundamentally understand at all why you'd do anything, or talk about anything, or think about anything, other than what someone in authority explicitly said to do and documented and had 0 ambiguity at all. This actually played well with the authoritarianism I mentioned, despite "thriving in ambiguity" being a catchphrase used in perf a lot.

Last thing I'll mention: there were two major decision points that ended up causes an exponential increase in issues:

#1 in...2018?...moving promotion review into the local team, instead of a panel of reviewers from throughout Google. Won't belabor the point too much, TL;DR: that's an excellent way to enable authoritarianism and adjacent issues, because no one can be good enough to just do an end-around.

#2 in late 2022, moving performance reviews from a variety of feedback from collaborators to your manager and whoever your manager bothered picking.

Anyone, if you've made it this far and are very curious, feel free to reach out to jp0hhhh@gmail for deeper conversation (replace the 0 with an o). I'm offering just to pay it forward, i.e. give what I didn't have before Google, someone with a direct sense of tradeoffs.
We use Probability. Find a prompt that has a large range aka codomain. If it arrived at the correct answer then that the only possibility here is reasoning because the codomain is so large it cannot arrive there by random chance.

Of course make sure the prompt is unique such that it's not in the data and it's not doing any sort of "pattern matching".

So like all science we prove it via probability. Observations match with theory to a statistical degree.
Brave of him to be posting that on Xitter.
I've been a salaried software engineer for a long time at this point.

JavaScript just clicked. A lot of more complicated things you need to understand for c and c++ are just handled for you.

To be fair I was technically using Unity Script, which has everything in a nice game engine sandbox. Want to move a cube, takes 1 line of code.

I am working with Typescript on my latest project. It definitely helps when dealing with more complex projects. My current project is basically a website built in React.

I still like Unity, but I don't trust the company so I'm looking for a new engine.
Very likely. I think I'm not the only guy who curiously ran the miner of this weird bitcoin that was mentioned in a forum, and lost the wallet due a HDD crash/reinstallation/etc. and lack of backups.

A few bitcoins didn't mean much then, they were little more than toys like monopoly money.
Anyone doing this in America?
That is just incorrect. There are / were a ton of subsidies: https://www.finanztip.de/photovoltaik/balkon-solaranlage/foe...
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970780
Fedora Linux 41 Server on a Motorola moto g play 2024 phone with Termux and QEMU
> I'm beginning to think that the best way to approach a problem is by either not being aware of or disregarding most of the similar efforts that came before. This makes me kind of sad, because the current world is so interconnected, that we rarely see such novelty with their tendency to "fall in the rut of thought" of those that came before. The internet is great, but it also homogenizes the world of thought, and that kind of sucks.

I think this is true only if there is a novel solution that is in a drastically different direction than similar efforts that came before. Most of the time when you ignore previous successful efforts, you end up resowing non-fertile ground.
I’m with you on all of this. It’s like all of the grownups left the building and the inmates are running the asylum.

Frikken clown world hijinks.
Is this grid tied? Are people tying these to batteries and then running their appliances off of them? Seems like too little power to properly backfeed the grid.
I'm sure this is just fan fiction, but you're saying some people think "DeepSeek has cracked something fundamental that we missed", and other people think they just stole everything? Any actual evidence one way or another?
Can I just say I loved reading the comments here. Some great suggestions!

> keyboard shortcuts for tmux, text editing, etc

tmux -> zellij has good discoverability of shortcuts. Since written in Rust, it can be installed with cargo

For vi, I don't have an alternative, the first thing I do on a machine without vi is get neovim, or vim, or vi. I mean, I don't know how good emacs is these days, and nano is limited but back when I started to use pico (which nano is a successor for) it had good discoverability.

My very first text UI editor was a DOS text editor called Q&A. All the F-keys were mentioned on the bottom. But once you know them, that information becomes redundant. Especially on a low resolution. So nowadays, given we hardly ever use 80x24 anymore, yet stuff looks good on high resolution (due to good DPI) it is only a minor sacrifice.
Somehow people are 100% ok with the right-wing ratfucking which has become typical.

But the current accusations are a completely different level.
Not really because you have to use the same algorithms during subsequent lookups. Imagine you add a bunch of items with insert algorithm A, then you cross some threshold and you insert some more items with Algorithm B. Then you delete (tombstone) a bunch of items. Now you look up an item, and the slot is filled, and you're stuck. You have to proceed your lookup with both algorithms to find what you're looking for (thereby giving up any performance benefits) because the current occupancy doesn't tell you anything about the occupancy at the time when the item you were looking for was inserted.
>With solar balconies, no such consent is required unless the facade is listed as of historic interest or there is a specific prohibition from the residents’ association or the local authority.

In Australia, there is no chance you'd get away with this since basically every strata bylaw document bans non typical balcony furnature and its a struggle to just get those fake plant wall coverings or even hanging your clothes out to dry.
Doing Nothing with Your Favorite People Is Good for You
> I think containers is the way to go. Maybe on top of VM (defense in depth-swiss-cheese is the only way to go imo).

If you go for a VM, why involved containers at all? What additional security you get from layering containers on top of VMs, compared to just straight up use a VM without containers?
I'd have it too if it wasn't for these tall buildings around me.
These seem like no-brainers for shade with solar generation compared to a traditional awning.
There's an indirect subsidy via tax
Interesting read. I tend to check out when discourse lands on hormones and how they impact relationships and behaviors. Not because I don't think they are true. I just don't know that I have ever found one to be actionable.

That said, the "actionable" part of this is to not worry about it being something you aren't made to do. And that sounds very legit and something people should take to heart.

I'll also say that you are never fully prepared for it. Such that you shouldn't wait until you have everything ready in life for having kids. I suspect you can be so unprepared that you should give some pause. I just don't think you will ever be prepared.

Especially since you have no idea what your particular children will be like! Just talk to any family with many kids. Odds are very high that they will remark on how different their kids were. In ways that they likely did not expect. Certainly ways that they cannot explain.
In the USA, given that the vast majority of apartments don't have to pay energy bills, this means they don't have an economic incentive to upgrade appliances, provide adequate insulation during construction, or maintain air seals. My old apartment, constructed in 2002, had dual pane glass, but it had LONG lost its air seals (very cheap 15 year warranty windows). There is zero chance the apartment was going to upgrade the 4000 windows in their complex.

This loophole is a major source of energy waste, and there's not a great way around it unless apartments are forced to bundle bulk energy costs with rent, which has other undesirable side effects.
Yeah, we've used CAPTCHAs to great effect as gracefully-degraded service protection for unauthenticated form submissions. When we detect that a particular form is being spammed, we automatically flip on a feature flag for it to require CAPTCHAs to submit, and the flood immediately stops. Definitely saves our databases from being pummeled, and I haven't seen a scenario since we implemented it a few years ago where the CAPTCHA didn't help immediately.

Reminds me of the advice around the deadbolt on your house - it won't stop a determined attacker, but it will deter less-determined ones.
This comment would seem to address the point of that joke
Yes, for home customers, they are VAT-free.
I have it on my balcony.

Took me a few hours to research and a helping hand to get it installed.

It will pay for itself in 4 years.

No subsidies.

And my balcony has a tree shadow at lunch.

It's just easy to do (plug it into the socket) and done.

400 watt module.

Today I made only 400 watt. Not a lot. It's still enough.

The energy price per kWh is just relatively high. 30-40cent
The entire bulk of what you're saying is _also_ a process, and _also_ hasn't been obeyed. Obedience to the law is obeisance to the process.
Interesting, the Mill has a number of various startups as tenants now. I think Monster used to have it's main office there.
I've seen a PoW CAPTCHA https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha and at the time it did not make any sense to me. I would still get spam, just a tiny bit slower, and spammers would have to expend more resources for just my site, which would barely register on their bill.

I bet that requiring JS stops more spam than the PoW itself. Can anyone who tried it chime in?

Oh, I see, it's effective against 'someone [who] wants to hammer your site'. That is usually never the case with my sites. I do get a steady stream of spam, but it is quite gentle as to not trigger any WAFs. The load comes from LLMs scraping this everliving shit of my sites and fortunately they don't seem to bother with filling in forms...
Haha. “The developers thought of everything” (not really though)
https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090, for those of us without an account.
You basically plug them into your power outlet and feed back into the system, reducing your electricity bill.
This is the big pain point to be sure. Subtly wrong but mostly excellent results.
In node projects, having more dependencies is usually seen as an asset, not a liability.

Other than that, I don't think there's a difference. When I write node projects, I tend to minimize dependencies, but I've seen PR comments saying "you know you could just get a package to do that".
Ironic that for all the elite lineage captured here, the one that he ended up stuck with is a very plebeian surname of non-hispanic (Ligurian) origin.
The necessity of vast herds of large ungulates have long been recognized as a critical part of the North American ecosystem. Either bison or cattle will demonstrably work. Regions that have largely been abandoned by cattle ranchers, whether due to economics, environmental destruction, or regulation, have been ecologically devastated in the absence of wild bison to fill the ecosystem gap. Bootstrapping new herds of bison in these areas will transform them in a positive way. In the Mountain West, the introduction of free range cattle in areas that were previously off-limits has had a similar effect.

This is related to why eliminating beef agriculture in large parts of North America would have limited impact on ungulate methane emissions. Without replacing them with vast herds of bison, which similarly emit methane, the ecosystems die.
1.5 Million 400 watt modules ist Not nothing.

Yes they are grid tied.
As a multi-computer user, "Continuity"[1] is magical. Being able to drag my cursor over to my other computer, drop some files, etc, is really great.

[1] https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/
It’s important to think outside the box, and that’s easier when you’re not aware of the box, but we also stand on the shoulders of giants, and are doomed to repeat history if we don’t learn from it. As usual, things aren’t clear-cut.
> I still like Unity, but I don't trust the company so I'm looking for a new engine.

Then the obvious choice is arguably Godot, which supports a similar "script-based" model.
One reason is that none of those other formats are suitable for commercial printing as-is.
The article focuses heavily on the Yamnaya people and identifies them as the progenitors responsible for the initial Indo-European spread.

Are you suggesting:
A) the Yamnaya lived in present-day Iran and that this information was purposely left out
B) the studies findings about the Yamnaya are incorrect
C) the study should have mentioned Iran despite it not actually being historically relevant to the Yamnaya people
D) something else entirely?
I’ve been looking into doing this on my balcony in Spain. They sell “plug in” solar kits, but I’ve yet to determine if it’s actually legal here. I have a south facing balcony that’s about 1mx3m, so should be able to get about 400-600 watts of panels on the railing.

I actually came across this article in my research and it’s the only thing I’ve found saying it’s legal if it’s under 800w.
From what I’m gather it’s just a few solar panels and an inverter that feeds electricity into a socket, more or less.
My concern is what happens when there’s a power outage? I’d then be feeding power into a system that’s “denergized”. I know with real solar setups there’s an automatic cutoff when that happens to protect people working on the lines…all the kits i see here mention nothing about a cutoff system.
Putting Win2K on my parents’ tower, replacing Win98SE, absolutely transformed that machine. It instantly went from cranky nuisance to unstoppable workhorse. Software updates like that have become depressingly rare.
Since my goal is to see the failure of LLM technology, I think this is fantastic.
Force people to sell when retiring and cap share ownership. I’m not suggesting a blanket single approach to each and every out lying problem you may encounter but I am saying the general idea of employee ownership could work out better than risking everything on a potential VC success story.

When creating an employee owned company these are great things to consider when drafting the agreement but I didn’t read anything from your anecdotes that suggests it wouldn’t be a successful model.

My comment was never about the employee base package requiring investment from the hired employee. I was commenting on offering the base and an additional package for bringing on an investor employee.
Thank you. My thoughts exactly. Specifically the "you want me to trust mission-critical business logic to a Frankenstein mess of non-deterministic 'agents'?!"

The scariest part is, as this advances, the level of disasters we're likely to see will at best be bankrupt corporations, and at worst, people being hurt/killed (depending on how carelessly these tools are integrated into mission critical systems).
Reuters link: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/elon-musk-led-group-ma... (https://archive.ph/qFkQY)
I've rented 3 different apartments in the US. I always had to pay electricity myself. The water was included as part of the rent.
I wrote this in 2021:
Billionaires: Our Single Point of Failure
https://metastable.org/billionaires/
This has to be a meme. Costco is peak hypercapitalism lol.
Considering musks history, its also possible he doesn't actually want the deal and is doing it for other reasons.

While I think the purchase of Twitter was ultimately in his favor, he definitely had buyers remorse back then.
Google was a originally search company, but from what I can see their major success was figuring out how to run computer systems at reliably and at scale before anyone else. Everything else you see now - Ads, Maps, Android, Waymo, Youtube was a weed translated onto that infrastructure that went onto thrive. Yeah, there were many, many more weeds that didn't survive the transplant. But since they didn't cost Google much they don't matter.

Given what you see from Google now is dominated by the "everything else" (I doubt even losing search would be fatal), Google is a poster boy for growing a technology company by acquiring new products. Given the rumours about their ongoing cultural shift (I'm sure Intel was like Google at one stage), this may not continue. But for new Google is the exemplar for now to do this right.
I wish the article dove into this a little. Very interested in why the large herds are so important. Seems counter-intuitive, you know? Like they would consume lots of resources? Would be very interested in understanding the ecology better. Do you (or anyone) happen to have some resources on this?
If all it takes is a 10M valuation, sign me up! I mean, 10M sounds like a lot, but in terms of a remotely successful SaaS company (as opposed to a side project hoping for beer money), it's not that much. That's around 500 people paying $200/month, assuming a 10x multiplier of revenue to valuation. (or 5000 paying $20/month)

The problem is that there's no easy way to cash out with just a valuation and you need the $100k now to pay for whatever, not when the board says there can be a liquidity event (which may never even happen).
Do you really think Musk actually does anything of value?
Wouldn't the property owner have an incentive?
Sounds easy, but at this point everyone is trained to solve these captchas and implementing the questions is not a quick thing either on a bigger scale (Translations, cultural differences, bots easily bypassing them etc.). I've used captchas on my sites before because bots were just hammering the login form, checking checkboxes and causing me to rack up email sending bills.