skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people replied with anecdotes, but recently Anthropic published analysis of claude.ai production traffic. As far as I can tell this is the single best currently existing source of "how people actually use LLMs". Everything else you can't be sure whether it is representative.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index
> The main appeal of H1B abuse is cost effectiveness

Yeah but the official purpose of H1B is for companies like to hire highly skilled workers which they can’t find in the US.

Not to hire the cheapest indentured junior devs.
See also: Meta's previous push into VR/AR/Metaverse. They spent a hundred billion to be at the front of the pack when that revolutionary world-changing paradigm-shift took off... which simply didn't happen.
It would probably be 1800W continuously but is pulsed and the duty cycle probably limits the power to 350W.
They're tightly linked in technical domains. My point is if you can't even afford to pay for these tools there is slim chance you have the ability to deploy one locally.
ORMs, in my experience, fail the hardest when DB admins and web devs butt heads in when and where to create models. It can be an extra hurdle for data flexibility, but it clarifies data architecture at the beginning. In our Django environment, the DB admins won and we added `MIGRATE = False`.
If you're paying $200/month for something I can do with open source software and $10/month of compute, why wouldn't I offer you the service for $100/month? And then someone offer it for $50?

Not everyone has to know about, understand, or use open source solutions for it to open the field.
The post mentions an ORM, but the docs don’t provide any examples of how it works. How does the Cot ORM compare to Diesel?
There are certainly places where I find Diesel falls short of, say, ActiveRecord (like traversing relationships via “includes”/“eager_load”/etc.). I’m not convinced that these shortcomings warrant a separate ORM as opposed to making contributions to Diesel, but I’m open to being wrong. Are there any particular shortcomings that motivated starting from scratch?
One thing I really like about Rust dev is the way ORM and API server concerns are separated. Will Cot’s server support using Diesel? Can it be used without the ORM package being involved at all?
Cool. Invest in it then. That way you get paid instead of saying "I told you so" to some screen name.
Fair enough, stressing out the ATC workforce at least seems plausible. I thought you were referring to some regulation changes which I was assuming haven't actually happened yet.
a big problem is that it prevents people from ever starting to work on the kernel

with a such a hostile pipeline, it's no surprise there aren't more kernel devs
Talking to people before building took me from failed projects to $9K in revenue
You’ve probably heard that you need to talk to your target audience before building, but I think you need to hear it again.

I’ve spent the last 11 months building projects with my brother, many of which failed, but one of them recently hit 4,900 users and $9,000 revenue in 6 months after launch.

My brother had previously built a business with his friends that was going well, but he wanted to try something new.

I was new to entrepreneurship.

For the first seven months of building together, our projects wouldn’t get any users or interest no matter how hard we tried marketing them.

We tried following so many different marketing guides but nothing worked.

It was only for the third project we realized we had to try something different this time.

So, we took the advice that everyone gives and I tried talking to people before building.

We found the subreddit of our target customers, did a simple post asking for feedback on our idea, and got positive responses.

This made building feel safer, and it gave us more confidence in our project.. what we didn’t expect though, was the OVERWHELMING response when launching.

Our MVP got 100 users in two weeks after launching. And I know that might not sound like a lot, but for us this was HUGE coming from months of getting no users at all.

When we went on to launch Buildpad on Product Hunt, we got 475 new users in 24h, and most exciting of all, we got our first paying customers after seven months of building.

This number would grow to 1,000+ users during the weeks post launch.

This was crazy to me.

Finally we had a product people were actually interested in.

AND they were paying for it.

I honestly think the success comes down to talking to people before building the product.

So, if there’s one thing to learn from our months of failures, it’s to talk to people before building your product.

I hope this can save someone from wasting months building a product that no one wants.
Because that's not what being goth is about which is good because it makes the author's metric one that isn't also a target. It's a somewhat well defined subculture that doesn't consider itself counterculture and so is more a fixed black obelisk than something positioned in opposition to the current state of the world.

So I think the author has a good idea, that The Goth Index is a good proxy for how well a community will tolerate other ideas outside the norm.
The funny part was that none of his workers recognized the film, which was a blockbuster. A veritable "I must be getting old" moment.
Wait, what? The Manhattan project produced something--multiple somethings in fact. What has this "project" produced?
It is and it isn't. The conversations I'm referencing happened back when Obama was in office.

Every state does have some form of civil / involuntary commitment, though nothing like before the 80's.

Many drugs also come with unpleasant side effects, especially if someone steals them from you and you're stuck with withdrawals. I'm reminded of one person my friend was helping who hated taking his medicine, but if he didn't, he would inevitably become increasingly paranoid that vampires were out to get him. Helping the poor guy live anything close to a "normal" life was a constant challenge.
If you factor in the inflation and the worldwide trade crisis, trading dollars for shares that will lose 10% real value doesn't sound so bad.
That's the adaptation layer between Ethernet and IP.

Broadcast was renamed to "all nodes multicast". ARP was renamed to Neighbor Discovery.

Slight improvements: ND isn't broadcast, but multicast based on several bits of the IP address. This allows NICs to filter most of the irrelevant ones based on multicast MAC address. And subnet broadcast addresses were removed. There's only local broadcast to your own subnet and not to someone else's subnet, since IPv4 routers found that to be a bad idea and mostly started blocking it anyway.
In a world full of dangerously stupid people, Occam's Razor suggests another possible reason.

Sometimes it is projection, but sometimes it's just the sadass truth.

The deepest (and most common, looks to me) problem is that nothing makes a stupid person angrier than having their stupidity explained to them.

Stupidity is related to willful ignorance in that it is the result of not just not knowing better, but not wanting to learn how they can be better. it's like they're sleepwalking, but don't want to WAKE UP.

It is not at all uncommon.
What's your evidence for that ratio?
Not really. In practice, the vast majority of LED producers provide the Spectral Power Distribution in the datasheet.
There's no key system like that that could possibly work.

But you already are required to deposit your books (or other copyrighted works) with the British Library upon publication and many other countries do the same thing.

https://bookisbn.org.uk/legal-deposit/

The US should probably do the same thing, but the amount of American works that aren't covered by the British Library are probably minimal.
Good thing that isn't the idea.
Only if the Peter Principal is in effect. As a manager they would be uniquely positioned to scope and assess the prep work. With a bit of mentoring they might "get it" sooner, rather than "eventually".
I am glad to see this is still alive. Can anyone speak to the state of the community in 2025?
I just re-read the post twice and I couldn't find any of the points you mentioned (again, other than using URLs in the input):

- Informal Benchmarks: I'm sorry, what? He mentions 'It’s picking up on nuances—and even uncovering entirely new angles—that other models have overlooked' and 'identified an entirely new sphere of possibility that I hadn’t seen nor had any of the other top models'. Not only it is complete horseshit by itself, but it does not benchmark in any way or form against the mentioned competitors. It's the exact stuff I'd expect out of a LLM.

- Real-World Test Case: As mentioned above, complete horseshit.

- 2 Concrete Features: Yes, I mentioned URLs in the input. I didn't consider 'Integrated Search' (which I'm assuming is searching the web for up-to-date data) because AFAIK it's already more or less a staple in LLM stuff, and his only remarks about is is that it is 'solid but misses sometimes'.
I had assumed it was a reference to the highly polarizing and political author Ayn Rand—might be worth giving some thought to!
Right, that's usually described as "forwards compatibility", and yes, rust the language doesn't attempt to supply it. And yes, rustup is in fact a (the) solution for users. Distros increasingly package it because it is the recommended way to use the rust compiler (e.g. if you're on the latest ubuntu or any of its derivatives you can install it with apt instead of curl|sh).

A decent portion of projects, especially bigger ones, will try to support stables going back a few versions, but at best they're just changing the timeline slightly. This is really intended to help packaging for distributions, not users. Users should just use a compiler at least as up-to-date as the software they are trying to build.
> Bypassing PT_DENY_ATTACH (Hard Mode)

There's also the harderer mode, which I did on macOS a while back - patch the kernel to make PT_DENY_ATTACH do nothing. Macs actually make it fairly easy to run a patched kernel, but I guess on iOS it'd be a lot more trouble (KTRR etc.)

Although XNU is technically open-source, I found it easier to apply my patch with a hexeditor rather than recompiling.
No... sigmoid10 was comparing with o1 (not o1-pro), which is accessible for $20/mo, not $200/mo. So, the "Elon factor" in your math is +$20/user/month (2x) for barely any difference in performance (a hard sell), not -$160/user/month, and while we have no clear answer to whether either of them are making a profit at that price, it would be surprising if OpenAI Plus users were not profitable, given the reasonable rate limits OpenAI imposes on o1 access, and the fact that most Plus users probably aren't maxing out their rate limits anyways. o1-pro requires vastly more compute than o1 for each query, and OpenAI was providing effectively unlimited access to o1-pro to Pro users, with users who want tons of queries gravitating to that subscription. The combination of those factors is certainly why Sam Altman claimed they weren't making money on Pro users.

lmarena has also become less and less useful over time for comparing frontier models as all frontier models are able to saturate the performance needed for the kind of casual questions typically asked there. For the harder questions, o1 (not even o1-pro) still appears to be tied for 1st place with several other models... which is yet another indication of just how saturated that benchmark is.
> The alternatives are to pay tradesmen, which will cost you, and you may not have one available right now.

The flipside is that they will probably already have the tools they need, or know exactly where to get them, and typically be able to solve the problem in 0-1 trips to stores. And then, when you're done, you don't need to store a bunch of tools and parts.

DIY makes sense if you either 1) enjoy it or 2) are in a position to need to spend your time to save money (and carefully evaluate tradeoffs about when it would cost you more money to DIY because a professional will have everything they need and you don't and won't need it again).
YouTube is an optimistic example.

The bandwidth costs made it deeply loss making for a long time despite having loads of engagement and ad revenue. However over time they became more cost efficient at sending video over the internet and became profitable.

This strategy obviously doesn't always work, with WeWork being the canonical example. But it's not guaranteed to fail either.
> Honestly, I feel the real lesson here is that, if you want accurate estimates, the job needs to be done end-to-end by someone who's done the exact same thing before - and because things change, "before" really means "recently".

I think I inadvertently addressed my attitude toward estimating software by forgetting estimation was even part of the topic. Heh… IMO the real lesson is that no one has ever done exactly the same thing before, otherwise you’re almost certainly paying too much for someone to do it again. In which case estimating is futile, until you’ve done sufficient work to approximate already doing the task under estimation. You can estimate when you’re reasonably close to completion, but the important skill is learning to recognize patterns… including the pattern that you’re facing unknown unknowns, and an unknown scope of same… and then to make the path to resolution more efficient.
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I'm pretty sure my old car's owner's manual specifically said that engine braking effect can be increased by downshifting the automatic gearbox to a lower gear in the manual mode. Current car's owner's manual says to release the accelerator when approaching red lights to "take advantage of engine braking" and since it's a hybrid, it also does regen.

There's also quite a few different ways to make an automatic gearbox, such as double-clutch gearboxes.
We've had rockets before

Yeah, but we didn't have reusable orbital rockets, and that's a distinction with a big difference.
I suffer from Misophonia and I wear my Bose QC45 10 hours+ a day - each day. Without them I could not function and they made life with Misophonia somewhat tolerable.
Ironically, chronic pain drove me the other direction.

Programming gave me "I forgot I have a body" levels of engagement with a problem. It was a way to actually find relief from pain. My addiction to programming was very useful in my development.

I was lucky in so many ways. My pain wasn't caused by the kinematics of my body, instead it was a heart condition, cancer, Celiac and Crohn's and I have managed to cure a nontrivial part of it over the years (heart surgery, diet change, immunosuppressants).

Ultimately i do not recommend the "cause yourself so much pain you seek refuge in flow state and become an expert" method. It results in a lot of maladaptive behaviors, damaged relationships and needing a lot of therapy (but also the money to pay for the therapy).
I do have memories of a nightmare from age 4-5, but it was a recurring nightmare.
The Toto soundtrack is an atrocious fit, completely bizarre choice given the tone.
Because 'dogfooding' has worked so well for other products...

If you don't get feedback from the people actually playing your game (or using your product), you will never get the improvement you need to help them.

You can have the most talented passionate people there are developing a product, but if it's not working for the people you want to sell it to, it's the wrong product.

Most tech products are terrible because those paying for them are not those that have to use them every day, or because they solve a corporate problem (compliance) and not a usability problem which is the actual need from the people on the shop floor.

Many big games/products are already built mostly on metrics, and that has proven to be a terrible way to work out what people 'want'. It's a great way to justify money decisions though, so it keeps happening (and games/products from big companies keep getting worse).
Actually sleeping on a softer mattress leads to more restful sleep for me. I used to sleep on a firm but my partner tries to get the softest mattress she can and I've found that it works a lot better for me than my old firm mattress did. The moveable bases, when adjusted correctly, also allow me to completely relax when I'm asleep and I rest a lot better under those conditions. I notice the difference now whenever I'm traveling because the hotel beds are usually rock hard. Mattress salespeople actually do know what they're talking about some of the time.
Exactly what I was going to say. Go travel through strange lands for 3 months and compare the feeling of the passage of time to 3 months doing your normal routine.
Show HN: EVMole for Analysing EVM Bytecode
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share the latest release of EVMole, a smart contract analysis tool for Ethereum (works directly with bytecode - verified contracts are not required).

In version 0.7.1, I've added an advanced Control Flow Graph Reconstruction feature that, even though benchmarks are still coming, already outperforms every existing solution in both accuracy and speed.

In addition to the new CFG capabilities, EVMole continues to offer function selector, argument, state mutability, and storage layout analysis.

Open-source libraries are available in Rust, Python, and JavaScript.

Online Demo: https://evmole.xyz
Source Code: https://github.com/cdump/evmole

I'm looking forward to your feedback and thoughts!
> Is it really as simple as "cheaper to produce"? Is it cheaper to replace?
> it seems this savings come at the expense of massive complexity

Less parts, less things to break, less things to install, less things to maintain. Etc. All good things when it comes to cost. You'd be surprised how that stuff adds up quickly.
Maybe having a theory of mind isn't the big deal we thought it was. People are so conditioned to expect such things only from biological lifeforms, where theory of mind comes packaged with many other abilities that robots currently lack, that we reflexively dismiss the robot.
I was replying to a comment saying that, replacing mechanical actuation by electrical actuation, in a car, is always a downgrade of the user experience.

The discussion was not about failure.
> So £64 for the lot - about US$ 80. If you're in tech, the value of the time you spend driving to the store will probably be higher than all the tools you'll buy while you're there.

Unless you are billing by the hour (ie in consulting), you are driving to the store during the time you would be parking your butt in the couch and viewing, reading or thinking about something that does not generate cash. At least that is what it is for me. If you literally lose money by driving to the store, your argument holds.

> And if you're thinking "Oh at those prices the tools will be low quality" I can assure you, they'll be good enough for this job.

Maybe they are, maybe they are not. I tinker with cars and motorcycles. Every single piece of my tools is Snap-On or something really comparable. If I use a cheap Chinese brand and round off a nut, that is really going to hurt. It will hurt more than what it hurt to buy a socket set for close to $200.

Also, if you are approaching something the first time, low quality tools will get you bad experience that will resist, maybe prevent you from trying it again. I might be one of those weird ones, but for me, Buy once, cry once.
Off the cuff, I'd say at least half of my repair costs are the labor. Any chance you've seen figures on how much more expensive the parts are for newer cars?
> But you could also argue the airline industry is fairly concentrated.

That's great and everything, but I don't see what it has to do with what I wrote: even given infinite competition, the risk to the public from an improperly managed airline is great. If an airplane fell out of the sky onto my house, I'd be glad for them to go out of business, but that wouldn't fix my house or heal or revive the people inside the house.

There is simply no amount of competition that would change that dynamic. The concepts are orthogonal.

I don't work in the airline industry, but my father in law did. He was a large jet mechanic. He constantly told stories of airline managers pressuring mechanics (and inspectors) to sign off on returning airplanes to service that were not airworthy, at least by regulation. Some gizmo or another would be broken and it just wouldn't seem like it should be such a big deal. We need this plane back in the air. What's taking you so long?

Competition doesn't make those people go away. If anything, more competition would make those kinds of people more likely to be upset over a plane not generating revenue over what (to them) seems like a minor problem.

Regulation is what keeps those people in check. Today, the airline can't overrule the licensed mechanic or inspector. The licensed expert has to personally sign off that needed repairs are performed and performed correctly, not the idiot who just doesn't understand what the big deal is.
Another early book on the implications of AI is Samuel Butler's "Erewhon" (1872) satire which describes a society in which a complex machine uprising occurred and thereafter all complex mechanical/computational devices were banned in their society. This idea is later referenced in the well known 20th century "Dune" books as "The Butlerian Jihad".
You want to talk about the need to perpetuate fraudulent and conspiratorial science for profit, look no further than "Climate Change".
I rest my case!
It's a common feeling to think the people that came before you were somehow less smart and talented.

When my now grown kids were younger, I pulled the back off a cassette tape player. The belts and gears and cams and the like were completely alien to them...they'd grown up on slabs of glass.

The miniaturization to get analog stuff to drag tape across a tape head was legendary.
Your comment reminded me of the documentary "Three Identical
Strangers" [1], about identical triplets adopted by different families
during their first months of life who try to re-establish their
connection when they meet later by chance. It's a gripping story with
a shock ending. Somewhat relevant to this thread and I hope not too
much of a spoiler, it's suggested in the film that they may have been
affected by separation anxiety.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7664504/
I would say pick Axum or Actix, these are the go to right now with lower risk to be abandoned, But they aren't batteries included. Here is a list of blessed[0] libraries that might help you to choose the most popular ones in their respective category, but at the end depends on you to pick the one that has the biggest community.

My go to is Axum + sqlx most of the time.

[0] https://blessed.rs
>Cot was born out of frustration - the kind that every Rust developer feels when searching for a batteries-included, Django-like web framework

What about Django?
Go and Svelte as a hybrid SPA/MPA application
I'm pretty sure it doesn't contain the whole of human knowledge... I doubt grok knows my youtube password or my bank PIN
About the GDP of the US and Europe over the past 80 years so a few quadrillion dollars.
Basically the plot of Peter Watts' "Blindsight" (post-2000) scifi book series.
I do not share your fear & anxiety. What concrete danger do you imagine will happen as a result of xAI? Try to be as concrete as possible.

Also, dang, is there anything we can do to keep the comments on this submission tech-focused? Perhaps the Elon-bashing political digression can be split into its own thread?
If this is Elon post Ketamine, what drug can we give him to put him back in a negative frame of mind?
Leigh is fantastic, I would also recommend Shaila Catherine's book `The Jhanas: A Practical Guide to Deep Meditative States`
They do not keep them tied till they are 5 years old.
I'm wondering what wavelengths our monitors / phones have. I always thought of flux (the app) that it is reducing blue light. But keeping the red part may be just as important.

For anyone interested, here is a short vid on how to color your iphone screen red:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omuGVs7eP-A