skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
restic + rclone to cloud storage for data I care about, the majority of the data can easily be replaced if needed.
Take it up with capitalism and with DARPA. If we could earn $700k doing cool science shit in white shirts and black ties for Uncle Sam like our grandfathers maybe we would.
Every country that you sell your product in expects taxes on those products to be collected. Every city, every state in the United States has its own tax situation and nexus that needs to be followed, applied, paid to.

The __actual__ tax situation for SaaS and similar is incredibly complicated and I suspect / feel that a lot of small SaaS businesses and/or creators are simply ignoring it.
That could very well still be a possibility here.
Honestly this is why I'm intrigued by Fedora Server, which at first I took to be some kind of sick joke, but now I see from using regular Fedora long enough that it's good to be in regular practice of handling upgrades. Like you said it keeps those muscles from atrophying.
I'm sure the reasoning behind this is that it just has to discourage, and therefore the capsaicin amount is low enough to do that, but also cheap enough to manufacture in tape format and sell at a markup.

What I'm more interested in is...does this actually work? Could you put this tape on things in your house that could actually be targets for rats? On random pantry items? On your siding?
.. what do these things have to do with each other?
This needs a name along the lines of The Red Ring of Death. What will we call it?
For now LLMs in coding are more like an LLM version of a GPS, not the GPS itself.

Like imagine you’d ask turn-by-turn directions from an LLM and then follow these directions ;). That’s how it feels when LLMs are used for coding.

Sometimes amazing, sometimes generated code is a swamp of technical debt. Still, a decade ago it was completely impossible. And the sky is the limit.
>You are repeating FUD. There is no soy in the final plastic.

Did the parent edit his comment? I don't see any mention about soy, only "tasty bits".
Ideally, framework code originates from some existing, working product, from which it was factored out because it happened to be useful.

Contrast this with frameworks that are created for the framework's own sake, hoping to attract its first application developers.
Snacks are great. I work better when I have a little something to munch on. Free food unlocks something in our silly little primate brains I think.

Also my office often has great snacks. We also have a barista and that alone is worth it.
Completely disagree. Civ seems like a great VR game. Controls easy to use on vr, top down makes sense in VR. Imo the biggest advantage to VR gaming is that its easy to play in bed or on a couch where a monitor would be tough to set up which works well with civ.
My number one issue are VLA parameters

int foo(int N, char buf[N]);

which I like to use because they improve warning messages, but they are not accepted in C++.
If I did not switch to chording with plover, I would try this out. I prefer chording now, but colemak was my layout of choice when I still typed a lot. Layers are more confusing for me than chords, and I find chords + phonetics to be more flexible in most cases.
They didn't say new cars.
It's super not great. Instead of having something like: "update blah set field->abc = '123'" you end up with "update blah set field = jsonb_set(field, 'abc', '123');".

Not the end of the world, but I have to look up the syntax every time I need to write a query.
Programmers are training their replacement.
The AI Enemy from Within
If the U.S. loses the AI race, it won't be because of China.
Chrome on an iPhone 13. The buttons at the top linking to different sections are a mess and the code is simply unreadable because of the indentation and the large characters.
The first version of Ardour was written on a 25Mhz 486 and could record 24 tracks of 24bit 48kHz audio without breaking a sweat.

It did have a SCSI drive, but in 1999 I did not consider that "exotic", having been using them on various Unix workstations for more than a decade before that.
It mainly seems to boil down to design choice and process technology.

They might be targeting a lower power density per squad mm than compared to amd or nvidia, focusing more on lower power levels.

Instruction set architecture and layout of the chips and PCB also factor into this as well.
Yes, the sounds of intense sleep apnea. Typically recording 4 or 5 people snoring overlaid into a harmony of sleep sound
I’m not sure what you’re trying to suggest here… the PSU is also connected to the wall with a C13 connector, and is able to supply 600W at 12VDC to the card.
The answer to that question is 42.

Why do you assume AGI is smarter than some human?
Is the image fidelity really good enough for that? I thought color e-ink had pretty limited bit-depth and gamut.
This is godawful slop written by someone who seems to have a cursory enthusiast's understanding of either of these topics.
You are restating my original comment. Unless you think the normal security clearance system is “just ask the President what he thinks”.

Actually, speaking of that one guy, there are very, very few convicted felons with documented mishandling of classified information who get a security clearance under normal circumstances.
In the Dune universe the AI's are banned.
The plot twist is that city leadership are the absentee landlords and "people actually living there" are a problem to be pushed aside. Why sustain any "local economy" when you have free money reliably incoming and begging to be taken?
Except in airgap environments where there is no CA available to check against.
From page 12:

https://www.judicialhellholes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01...

>This soy-based insulated wiring was touted as being more "environmentally friendly" due to, inter alia, the biodegradable nature of the soy-based insulation as compared to traditional plastic insulation.

While it is no doubt possible to process biochemicals into petrochemical-equivalent synthetic polymers, it appears that at least one law firm doesn't believe that happened here. And they go on to claim that Honda had claimed they were using biodegradable insulation, which a traditional wire generally is not.
If everything must be political, would you mind explaining your support for venture capitalism that comes implicit in the act of commenting on Hacker News?
> Alternative app marketplaces are required to pay a Core Technology Fee for each install

> Apple charges apps a Core Technology Fee (CTF) for each install after their first one million installs, but the fees don't kick in right away for small developers.

Still ridiculous apple got away with this one. The entire point is to free users and developers from Apple's tyranny.
US industrial conglomerate Honeywell will split into three companies
I haven't ever looked into these Doom emulators, but at this point my impression is that Doom is some kind of natural and inevitable epiphenomenon that can be provoked in any computing environment with just a little prodding.

Like a rainbow from sunlight, Doom is always already there once you set up a few nand gates.
Yes it’s dangerous. That’s why the hiring bar is very high, and everyone spends their first 8 weeks in training bootcamp before being let loose in their real project team.
Sadly another great product getting killed by an acquisition.

Their commercial products were kind of overpriced anyway (or too targeted at big customers) but the activity (and quality) on Ionic open source has slowed down.
A genuine lol, for both the OP and for [0]
> But in reality pretty much anyone who enters software starts off cutting corners just to build things instead of working their way up from nand gates.

The article is right in a zoomed-in view (fundamental skills will be rare and essential), but in the big picture the critique in the comment is better (folks rarely start on nand gates). Programmers of the future will have less need to know code syntax the same way current programmers don't have to fuss with hardware-specific machine code.

The people who still do hardware-specific code, are they currently in demand? The marketplace is smaller, so results will vary and probably like the article suggests, be less satisfactory for the participant with the time-critical need or demand.
A company called TechEmpower used to run periodic web framework benchmarks and share out the results using nice dashboard. Not sure why they stopped doing these.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...

Edit: Adding a shoutout to the iFixIt teardowns that are also quite informative content:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown

Edit 2: Also Lumafield CT scans:

https://www.scanofthemonth.com/
Sounds like EU is the land of the free.
Black goo of doom?
5 ms is 1.7 meters at speed of sound. If that was the issue then any acoustic live band would fall apart.

Jitter is a much bigger problem.
I use a Mac Studio for Stable Diffusion, what's special about the Mac Mini that means it won't work?
I slowly come to creating vim scripts for all that. I already use `alt-,` for triggering the final comma on a line. Maybe with modern LLMs I just need to prompt a vimscript that detects where the line is (SQL condition, array item, json, etc) and use `alt-,` to do the right thing. Or something like "fixing" the whole block with `g,ap`. Because all this is irritating and no one does anything with it for decades.
That's fine and all but I'm not sure the nand-gate folks are out of a job either.
Follow the money, all the way down to Mother Earth; which boats are lifted most, and at what cost?
Sophistication doesn't imply any increase or decrease in "boringness".
Create a local root CA.
As soon as they build a tunnel under the Atlantic or make widely available solar-electric "steamers" that can cross it in less than a week with four-figure ticket prices, I'll be thrilled to take that option.

Ditto for a high-speed rail network throughout the continental US.

Until then, it's simply unhelpful to try to shame people for not opting out of employer-mandated travel or limiting their vacation days to a 300-mile radius (or insisting that they spend multiple of those days driving).
In some ways it is another reflection of the unix philosophy "worse is better". The CouchDB wire protocol is really complex because A) it starts with an almost full HTTP stack and is "REST-like", and B) prioritized multi-database synchronization and replication first and up front, which is incredibly powerful and useful, but makes compatible implementations a lot harder to write. MongoDB's wire protocol is simple, stupid, relatively efficient (binary encoding of JSON over plaintext JSON encodings), had a query language that specifically wasn't built on REST terms, and was so simple to implement that every database could do it (and have done it).

MongoDB's protocol has fewer features (RIP easy synchronization and replication) but worse is better and if the "core" feature of a database it its query language, then the best/worst query language won, the simple, dumb, easy to replicate one.
It powers the world’s best experimentation platform too. Which is their business superpower. Competitors can spend a year thinking about what to do. FB has already tried and measured all options and pivots to the optimal.

I have been very disappointed since moving from FB to Google at how much worse the data and measurement platform is here.
Both 'peter' as in the name and peter as in "saltpeter" likely have the same etymological origins meaning something like "rock" or "stone".
>You can't take your water bottle so now you have to buy another for 10x the price.

AFAIK (because I do regularly) you can take a water bottle, you just have to fill it inside security which doesn't seem a great hardship.
This makes sense. I've mostly been successful doing these sorts of things as well and really appreciate the way it saves me some typing (even in cases where I only keep 40-80% of what it writes, this is still a huge savings).

It's when I try to give it a clear, logical specification for a full feature and expect it to write everything that's required to deliver that feature (or the entirety of slightly-more-than-non-trivial personal project) that it falls over.

I've experimented trying to get it to do this (for features or personal projects that require maybe 200-400 LOC) mostly just to see what the limitations of the tool are.

Interestingly, I hit a wall with GPT-4 on a ~300 LOC personal project that o3-mini-high was able to overcome. So, as you'd expect - the models are getting better. Pushing my use case only a little bit further with a few more enhancements, however, o3-mini-high similarly fell over in precisely the same ways as GPT-4, only a bit worse in the volume and severity of errors.

The improvement between GPT-4 and o3-mini-high felt nominally incremental (which I guess is what they're claiming it offers).

Just to say: having seen similar small bumps in capability over the last few years of model releases, I tend to agree with other posters that it feels like we'll need something revolutionary to deliver on a lot of the hype being sold at the moment. I don't think current LLM models / approaches are going to cut it.
Groundbreakingness is different from the type of novelty that's relevant to an LLM. The script I was trying to write yesterday wasn't groundbreaking at all: it just needed to pull some code from a remote repository, edit a specific file to add a hash, then run a command. But it had to do that _within our custom build system_, and there's few examples of that, so our coding assistant couldn't figure out how to do it.
Show HN: Colada for Claude
I actually enjoy Claude.ai's interface and artifacts implementation. I didn't want to lift and shift over to another LLM tool. So, to get past the daily limits, I decided to build a simple Chrome extension which continues conversations using your own Anthropic API key (or using our managed key).

In short:

- Get past Claude.ai conversation limits
- Bring your own Anthropic API key
- Optionally use our managed unlimited API key
- Preserve conversation context
- Bring project knowledge context into your extended convos
- Reference web search results anytime by asking "Search the web"

Let me know what you think. Open to any and all feedback.
A Florentine politician who owns an AirBnB is by definition not an absentee landlord.
"They've utilized EU regulations to prevent Apple from abusing its power that's why I'm going to bring in a completely unrelated bit of news from a country famously not in the EU"
> I thought (bigger die ^ bigger wires -> more current -> higher consumption).

I am not a semi expert but bigger die doesn't mean bigger wires if you are referring to cross-section, the wires would be thinner meaning less current. Power is consumed pushing and pulling electrons from the transistor gates which are all of the FET type, field effect transistor. The gate is a capacitor that needs to be charged to open the gate to allow current to flow through the transistor. discharging the gate closes it. That current draw then gets multiplied by a few billion gates so you can see where the load comes from.
When I was a kid I "wrote" (mostly copied from a programming magazine) a 4-bit CPU emulator on my TI-99/4a. Simple as it was, it was the light bulb coming on for me about how CPUs actually worked. I could then understand the assembly language books that had been impenetrable to me before. In college when I first started using "C", pointers made intuitive sense. It's a very valuable exercise.
Show HN: I built an AI coloring page generator
This webiste allows you to create black and white coloring page from text prompt. Generate, create collections, download your image and start coloring :)
> How can people trust a law if it can become null and void upon the next admin coming in?

The law is not null and void with the next admin. The law specifies the exec branch can determine who gets the grants and how much. So everyone is aware that a new admin may not give grants the same as the old admin.

> he determined in the contract that the money was guaranteed.

Then he was misled. There is no contract between the US and the grantee making a guarantee over a time period. Would you complain if a new Congress passed a new budget cutting this fund? Is that breaking a guarantee??

> making the contract he signed with the federal government basically worthless.

You are not signing a contract with the federal government! You are getting a grant. very big difference

> depend on in 4 years may or may not exist depending who wins the next election?

It's even worse than that! Congressional elections are every 2 years. Everyone who gets federal money knows that money is dependent on their patronage, which could change every 2 years. That is why there is so much money and power in politics! $4T is a lot of money to allocate, so of course a lot of money is going to spent determining who controls the purse.
Maybe. I was drawn in by the reproducable setup routine that can't break the existing system.

I didn't think too mich about how it is achieved.
For around 1800, I was able to get myself a Dell T5820 with 2x Dell 3090s. Can’t complain at all.
> There are ways to prevent a file lock when open a file in Windows but it not standard and rarely used by applications, even ones written by Microsoft.

mpv happily opens files while they are downloading, and they don't interfere each other.

> Windows even wired HID event processing in the OS to verify that the display manager is running. If the screen ever goes black during updates, just plug-in a keyboard and press a key to restart it.

Funny you mention this, I just have managed to set up my laptop to listen audiobooks. It was such a pain. I somehow disabled the windows lock screen, made a script that calls "nircmd monitor off" every 5 seconds. And with mpv I can listen audio in total dark, and change volume and seek position on the touchpad with gestures. It works, but it is probably cheaper to get an mp4 player with volume and jump back buttons
There's a booth in a consignment shop in town that has a load of old high carbon steel Case scissors of different sizes. Resale shops may be the way to go.
Depending on how the airport is arranged you can find yourself doing a lot of walking or standing around in not quite stationary queues. If you can manage to find somewhere to sit down where it isn't too noisy, it's fine, but often that's harder than you'd think, and you find your concentration is just continually broken by something or other that's going on or that you need to pay attention to.

Budget airlines and priority boarding are a particular bugbear of mine here. Most people pay for priority boarding just for the extra bag it allows you to take into the cabin. You end up with two thirds of the flight made up of people who have priority boarding. That's great, but there's only so much space in the overhead lockers, so you have everyone queuing up way before boarding starts to avoid having their cabin back checked into the hold at the gate.

The whole process is just... endlessly tedious and wearisome. I'd genuinely rather board a much slower form of transport, like a train, coach, or ferry (or even drive under some circumstances) than deal with being treated like cattle at an airport. The whole experience of airports, and getting to and from them, sucks.
The future is too easy
>I thought (bigger die ^ bigger wires -> more current -> higher consumption).

All things being equal, a bigger die would result in more power consumption, but the factor you're not considering is the voltage/frequency curve. As you increase the frequency, you also need to up the voltage. However, as you increase voltage, there's diminishing returns to how much you can increase the frequency, so you end up massively increasing power consumption to get minor performance gains.
Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100
Jepsen (of database benchmark fame) does paid consulting work.
ultimately Facebook and Google are completely unimportant, if they disappeared tomorrow the world would keep going

however, I for one can't wait for unreliable garbage code in:

- engine management systems
- aircraft safety and navigation systems
- trains and railway signalling systems
- elevator control systems
- operating systems
- medical devices (pacemakers, drug dispensing devices, monitoring, radiography control, etc)
- payment systems
- stock exchanges

maybe AI generated code is the Great Filter?
You haven't answered those questions. Tesla's touchscreen displays maps, navigation, self-driving's model of the world around the car, reversing camera, distance to car in front, etc. Yes personally I prefer a physical control I can reach for without looking, but the physcial controls in my car cannot do as much as a touchscreen, cannot control as many systems as a modern car has. And that means something like a BMW iDrive running some weird custom OS in amongst the physical controls, and that was not a nice convenient system to use either.

Why write a couple of lines of code when you can just include an `is-odd` library? Hopefully one which type checks integers vs floats, and checks for overflows. I'm not stating that I could not write one if/else, I'm asking you to do more than sneer and actually justify why a computer loading a couple of lines of code from a file is the end of the world.

Why invest time and effort into making a good TV if people aren't going to buy it, because they are fine with the competitor's much cheaper Android OS on questionable hardware?

Why run and manage your project on a baremetal server, and deal with its power requirements and cooling and firmware patching and driver version compatibility and out-of-band management and hardware failures and physical security and supply chain lead times and needing to spec it for the right size up front and commit thousands of dollars to it immediately, if you can just rent Amazon DynamoDB and pay $10 to get going right now?

I could fill in the answers you are expecting, I have seen that pattern argued, and argued it myself, but it boils down to "I dislike laggy ad-filled Android TV so it shouldn't exist". And I do dislike it, but so what, I'm not world dictator. No company has taken over the market making a responsive Android-free TV, so how/why should they be made to make one, and with what justification?

> What more could I name?

Why go to a cobbler for custom fitted shoes when you could just buy sneakers from a store? (I assume you wear mass produced shoes?) Why go to a tailor when you could just buy clothes made off-shore for cheaper? (I assume you wear mass produced clothes?) Why learn to play a keyboard, guitar, drums and sing, when you could just listen to someone else's band? (I assume you listen to music?) Why spend months creating characters and scenarios and writing a novel when you could just read one someone else wrote? (I assume you have read books?) Why grow your own food when you could just buy lower quality industrially packaged food from a shop? (I assume you aren't a homesteader?) Why develop your own off-grid power system with the voltage and current and redundancy and storage you need when you could just buy from the mains? (I assume you use mains electricity?)

You could name every effort-saving, money-saving, time-saving, thing you use which was once done by hand with more effort, more cost, and less convenience.

And then state that the exact amount of price/convenience/time/effort you happened to grow up with, is the perfect amount (what a coincidence!) and change is bad.