skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conclusion:

> I don’t think Signal is perfect, by any means. […] But if you need a tool to communicate privately with your friends and family–even if your chats are boring, mundane, and totally legal–Signal is the best damn choice I can recommend.
Not quite. I'm talking about monochromacy, which includes achromatopsia, but casts a slightly wider net.

Anyway, my main point is that although I'm technically colour blind, unless you're using particularly muddy shades of red and green, or particularly small splashes of colour, it doesn't matter too much. The key goal is to avoid colour-dependent design, but not to be afraid of colour either.
I spend four to five hours coding per day and subscribe to every major LLM and Claude is still by far the best for me personally and my co workers.
There's lawsuits naturally as lawfare is a normal part of modern politics. All the laws necessary to do payouts for voluntary separation already exist, as long as it fits within the budgetary appropriations already set by Congress.
Ask HN: Safety systems on self replicating AIs
I've read the paper which was referred on some news lately, and it conviced me we already passed the warning red light.

I've been thinking about how OSs can be improved to prevent this from happening, by establishing some shutdown machine termination, and critical memory regions which no AI software can enter, for instance, but I would love to hear other people opinions (obviously this would be just one strategy among many). Even if you don't agree we are there, how would you stop them?
Less productivity seems like a worse path.
IMO that's not really a business model. That's a hope that you can come up with one by being at (or near) the front of the pack if one materializes.
Time estimation which continually gets updated and doesn't inform you about the drift of the original estimation and actual time, nor when it was actually used vs finish time.

There's some humor in the parallels with software development.
You're framing a very opinionated (and hotly contested) take "high protein, low fat, low carb" presented as universal truth as just "suggesting to eat well".
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To this pedantic point, If the average written intelligence of all humans alive and dead is > the max intelligence of all live humans who are also willing/positioned to do the same task at the same time and at the same place.

But yeah, I don't think LLMs (the current core architecture) can provide super intelligence. I think it needs a bit more than next token prediction architecturally speaking.
> We recommend Mullvad Browser if you are focused on strong privacy protections and anti-fingerprinting out of the box, Firefox for casual internet browsers looking for a good alternative to Google Chrome, and Brave if you need Chromium browser compatibility.

What about a WebKit based browser?

"Orion comes with state-of-the-art ad and tracker blocking enabled by default, unlike any other browser in existence... Beyond blocking all ads and trackers by default, Orion is also a zero telemetry browser. It protects you from websites on the web, and the browser itself never leaks your private information anywhere."

https://kagi.com/orion/
I'm hosting my own internal CA using Hashicorp Vault and some ansible + CI. The root CA is valid for 20 years, intermediate CA 10 years, client certs three months.

Initial setup is a handful of commands interacting with Vault's CLI, from there, with CI in place, client certs are renewed automatically. Services are restarted / reloaded as well. Works flawlessly.

I should maybe write a (small) blog explaining how it works.
Most of the things i had to fix came by order of the CEO directly. If the new colleagues will not learn within a due time frame, i am guessing their carreer might take a bump.

Personally i don't really mind at the moment. I get to do various work and it's been less stressful.
>embedded engineer

Important note: building the moat means you can one day be promoted to principal and make junior webdev money
I stand corrected.

5 is not "poor", but "good", with a wet runway or one with light snow or slush. [1]

[1] https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/initiatives/ta...
Ah got it, that's more sensible. So is anyone making money with these things yet?
Startup idea: a swag recycling service
> This discussion is sloppy and failing to define or be careful with ethics and how ethics is distinct from competition rules

Because I think what we are talking about here is not ethics. Do note that I haven't used that term at all. What I'm talking about is the participants shared sense of "what goes" and "what doesn't". What I'm talking about is norms. Norms of the activity. vanderZwan uses the word "ethics" in quotes, but from the context, and the quotes, I think it is clear that it's not about literal ethics.

> Anyway, there are no competitions where anything goes, they all have rules.

Of course. The observation is about what kind of things are okay according to the shared sense of the participants. In some activities this space is very narrow, in some it ends up much more expansive. In my observation it seems speedrunning has a more expansive notion of "a-okay rules" than what I have experienced in other activities. I find this interesting. You don't find this interesting.

It sounds like you want to litigate this and convince those who find this interesting that it is not interesting. That's a fool's errand.
"The Religion of Technology" by David F. Noble is a good historical summary of such ideology. The ideology has been around for a long time, the new phase with tech is just the latest iteration of it.

Totally recommend the read!
What's your opinion on the productivity boost open source libraries have brought to developers?

Did all of that free code reduce demand for developers? If not, why not?
ChatGPT is literally generating billions in revenue. Cursor is the fastest growing company of all time.

This lame HN trope of LLMs having no business model needs to die.
I get the same values and trend after a glass of wine or rye and ginger. I have an Apple Watch.
That's possible in general but not for this application; a chat interface to an LLM isn't very useful unless you can tell it whatever you want—including GDPR personal data—and then pick up the thread of conversation later.
Both of them are at their core a set of conventions to make a component usable at runtime without having to know its API aforetime.
It's too bad the lifetime of rustc is only about 3 months before breaking changes (new features, updates, etc) are introduced to the compiler and used by devs.
> Why is everything so political it makes no sense to not buy a well engineered product because you don’t agree with someone’s political views.

By providing more money and wealth to someone, you are also providing them with more power and influence. If you disagree with someone's political views and actions, why would you give them more power to implement things you disagree with?

As for "well engineered": [citation needed]

Both Consumer Reports and JD Power do not have Tesla anywhere near the top:

* https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/cars-driving/which-car-...

* https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2024-us-vehi...

* https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-vehi...
Absolutely - "Tree" is so much easier to file than the magic thing standing there before you.
Having been to nursing homes and assisted living facilities I think that's mainly due to drugs.
My son's pediatrician said no screens until he's 2 years old.
In what sense is the user's local time zone "contained within" the IP? The only way I know to get from an IP address (i.e. those four eight-bit integers separated by period signs) to a client-side timezone is first to use a Geo IP lookup table to obtain a physical location (usually, but not always correct), and then use a timezone database to look up the current political timezone in that location. Sure, some server setups will automate this for you so that the already-looked up information is contained within the request object that your chosen language/framework supplies. Is there something I've missed about those four eight-bit integers somehow directly encoding information that specifies the user's timezone, or did you mean something different?
You can see it in CGPGrey's long defunct Hello Internet podcast. He talked about aviation disasters often and name dropped hacker news a few times.
Remember it takes a decade to really know if something is good. Sometimes you can tell something is bad in a few hours, but sometimes what looks bad after few hours is actually a good thing. Sometimes things seem bad because they are different from what you are used to - few people have the guts to admit change is hard and so most (including you unless you are on guard!) will reject different as bad. Sometimes things really are bad, but they are the best of a bad set of compromises and so better cannot exist (though a different set of compromises can results in a different set of bad)

Remember, there are frameworks/languages/... that everyone complains about; and frameworks/languages/... that nobody uses.
GitHub Copilot and similar tools make good developers more productive. This alone is a genuine use case with some associated value. Is it enough to justify the valuations of OpenAI etc? Probably not by itself. But I expect other industries have similar productivity boosts where people learn to use the tools appropriately.

What’s the total business opportunity of making all knowledge workers 10% more productive (to pick a more modest goal than outright replacement)?
Teleworking, or robotics training? Using a workshop on the moon, for instance, to repair broken remote equipment.
He started both Tesla and SpaceX when he had "only" a few hundred million to his name and no more connections than would be expected of a Silicon Valley guy making payment software. And lots of brilliant guys, including John Carmack for instance, have tried their hand at aerospace - and failed. Jeff Bezos started Blue Origin before SpaceX was even founded, and it was literally only last month that they finally managed to get a rocket into orbit for the first time. There's a joke in the industry: 'How do you become a millionaire in the aerospace industry? Start out as a billionaire in the aerospace industry!'

And we live in a world of millions of millionaires, and thousands of billionaires. For that matter, even China is trying their hardest to replicate SpaceX tech given all the resources of the world's largest economy, and 1.4 billion people (meaning a proportionally larger chunk of intellectual outliers), and defacto authoritarian power to make it all happen. Yet they remain (in terms of rocket technology) behind SpaceX.
My son's pediatrician said no screens until he's 2 years old, and it's hard for me to watch something without him watching. I haven't given up books though.
Wasn't Tesla a political statement to begin with? They ended up being good cars with a different political statement, as a result the value proposition equation needs to be re-balanced by something like lower cost or better car.
I had to write a similar post[1] a few months ago because I was so tired of everybody I know telling me we're all gonna be without jobs and we're about to enter a new epoch. I'm so sick of the hype and that will be the real thing that dooms us all.

[1] https://blog.curtii.com/blog/posts/the-laypersons-guide-to-a...
- Very 'forced' expressions (back-pocket tests, 'The analysis is razor-sharp')

- The fact you're glazing AI so much means you probably uses it, it's like how it was with crypto bros during all the web3 stuff

- Lack of any substance, like, what does that post say? It regurgitates praises over the AI, but the only tangible feature you mention is the fact it can receive an URL as it's input
It's really cool, my only regret is that they didn't use the CRT. I know, I know, resolution and all that but still...

The Weyland logo on startup is a really nice touch.
Well yes, but not so large that it's completely prohibitive. People have been running the full models on computers going as low as $6000: https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

Of course this is for a personal instance, you'd need a much more expensive setup to handle concurrent users. And that's to run it, not train it.
AI Data Center with Up to 3 Gigawatts of Power Is Envisioned for South Korea
Start from here :

Stop using Google search and use an AI.
No more irrelevant results, no more ads. No more slop to wade through.

BTW I find Claude is great at making graphs and diagrams. If you pay ($20) you can hook it up to a local code base.
That is simply not true. There are many cultures which greatly restrict infants' ability to move (e.g. traditional rural communities in Northern China or the Ache in Paraguay) and the children in these communities still learn how to walk. Not only that, but the basic neural mechanisms that are used in walking are innately specified (central pattern generators), not learnt (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09594...). Now, there is a degree of "fine-tuning" that is learnt that makes the walking more fluent and precise, but the basic principles of walking are innate.

One only needs to see a foal walking less than an hour after birth to be convinced of this.

Part of the problem is that humans are born so premature that people confuse natural maturation with learning. Just as we don't learn puberty, we don't learn how to walk.
Finding tools requires an indoor positioning system which is somewhat different to vr headset.
I'd hate to be a writer on the MacGyver 2030 reboot.

Every action scene starts with, "MacGyver pulls a laptop from his backpack and..."
> Nice thick pair of eye protection, though.

I wonder. These aren’t built for protection and have a ton of components inside, so it seems plausible that an impact may instead break stuff on the inside with direct access to your eyes, making it worse.

And if passthrough lags at a crucial moment, bye bye body part.
I would love to see an analysis of whether airplanes are still the safest way to travel if windowed to the past 30 days.
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A fun project I started when I was reading "Wuthering Heights" for a local book club in Warsaw in a book store. Before attending the the meeting I wanted to have a mental model of the book's characters and how they are related. I chose austen cause brontë was reserved already for another side project. I only implemented github oauth to login 'cause I don't like to create login/sign up/reset passwords forms. At the end, I didn't attend the book club meeting. I decided to create the app.
Maybe in this case and now, most EV owners the to be liberal
This specifically reminded me of how many popular genre fiction writers point to Gene Wolfe as an inspiration and influence, while he still remains unknown to the fans of these popular writers' work.
Map Internals in Go 1.24
Here are some of my experiences:

* Figuring out where to start when learning new things (see also
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087685>)

One way I treat LLMs is as a "semantic search engine". I find that LLMs get
too many things wrong when I'm being specific, but they're pretty good at
pointing me in a general direction.

For example, I started learning about OS development and wanted to use Rust. I
used ChatGPT to generate a basic Rust UEFI project with some simple
bootloading code. It was broken, but it now gave me a foothold and I was able
to use other resources (e.g. OSDev wiki) to learn how to fix the broken bits.

* Avoiding reading the entire manual

It feels like a lot of software documentation isn't actually written for real
readers; instead being a somewhat arbitrary listing of a program's features.
When programs have this style of documentation, the worst case for figuring
out how to do a simple thing is reading the entire manual. (There are better
ways to write documentation, see e.g. <https://diataxis.fr/>)

One example is [gnuplot](http://www.gnuplot.info/). I wanted to learn how to
plot from the command line. I could have pieced together how to do it by
zipping around the
[gnuplot manual](http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_5.4/Gnuplot_5_4.pdf) and building
something up piecewise, but it was faster to instruct Claude directly. Once
Claude showed me how to do a particular thing (e.g. draw a scatter plot with
dots intstead of crosses) I then used the manual to find other similar
options.

* Learning a large codebase / API

Similar to the previous point. If I ask Claude to write a simple program using
a complex publicly-available API, it will probably write a broken program, but
it won't be *completely* bogus because it will be in the right "genre". It
will probably use some real modules, datatypes and functions in a realistic
way. These are often good leads for which code/documentation I should read.

I used this approach to write some programs that use the
[GHC API](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc). There are hundreds of
modules, and when I asked Claude how to do something with the GHC API it wrote
relevant (if incorrect) code, which helped me teach myself.

* Cross-language poetry translation

My partner is Chinese and sometimes we talk about Chinese poetry. I'm not very
fluent in Chinese so it's hard for me the grasp the beauty in these poems.
Unfortunately literal English translations aren't very good. We've had some
success with asking LLMs to translate Chinese poems in the style of various
famous English poets. The translation is generally semantically correct, while
having a more pleasing use of the English language than a direct translation.
Revenue or profit? WeWork at a time also did billions in revenue.
De facto corporate projects lose their attraction for new people, so it's no wonder that no new maintainer has stepped up.

Corporate projects are not true free software. Contributing means that you deal with the OSS inner circle and the more powerful corporate inner circle.

Another reason is that people who produce real software are treated like garbage, especially if it is written in C. The "they trust me, dumb fucks" web developers rule over real software engineers.
I don't see any comments by FirmwareBurner at your link, much less ones "discouraging more devs from contributing".

Am I missing something?
I know it's presented as many things in the media - creating instability, scaring people - but in the end this is Politics - always is and always will be.

Don't be fooled by tech or money or allegiance - and it may take different form - it's all politics.
That's the first clear footage that I've seen (i.e. from an angle not obscured by smoke). To me it looks like the plane touched down with a slight tilt to the right, then the rear landing gear buckled (possibly -- those might be snow dunes obscuring the actual position of the runway) causing the right wing to hit the ground and break off. Then the plane continued to slide on its side for a second before tipping upside down.

Others are saying the plane hit the ground quite hard, I have no frame of reference to judge that.
Our company is not that big and has a very limited finite amount of people who have the right resources to fix these sort of things.
no. shit. sherlock.
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We built Agriquery, a simple online marketplace designed to help farmers and small producers sell their produce directly to consumers (and businesses). Think Etsy, but for food.
You would first need to make the difference between a user running an application, a service running an application, a server running an application, a remote "anything" running an application, an application running another application, an AI running an application, etc. Good luck with that!
Oh yeah fair enough, haha. I know little enough about DIY, then add in the fact that I get even less practice talking about it in English (not my native language), and mistakes like these are just waiting to happen.
I use em-dashes pretty often--it's a nice way to transition phrases...
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> It was mentioned during the launch that current datacenter requires up to 0.25 gigawatts of power. The datacenter they're currently building will require 1.25 (5x) (for reference, a nuclear powerplant might output about 1 gigawatt).

IIRC achieving full AGI requires precisely 1.21 jigawatts of power, since that's when the model begins to learn at a geometric rate. But I think I saw this figure mentioned in a really old TV documentary from the 1980s, it may or may not be fully accurate.
My point wasn't that it's difficult to not subscribe to Amazon Prime. That would be pretty easy, because all I would lose is a discount.

My point was that my intention is to subscribe to a discount on shopping, but a video streaming service comes along for the ride.
"We are in the midst of a group delusion — a consequence of an economy ruled by people that do not participate in labor of any kind outside of sending and receiving emails and going to lunches that last several hours — where the people with the money do not understand or care about human beings."

Regardless of the hostile tone of the article, this stuck out to me as an incredibly poignant description of the current tech/finance elites' mindset.

As most of us who have tried LLMs can attest, they are indeed stochastic parrots with no capacity for knowledge or understanding. This is best exemplified by their non-deterministic outputs, wherein they give different answers to the same question if asked enough times. This is not how a human brain works. Perhaps it is a small building block, but the systemic architecture required to reach brain level is currently not in sight based on what I'm seeing.
Here's what I don't get about TCS: I worked for a local Fortune 100 company, and 20 years ago they started outsourcing IT-related jobs to TCS (and a couple smaller staffing companies). Mostly in India and South America.

Then about 10 years ago, the company dedicated almost an entire building to TCS, and TCS starting hiring contractors locally, and perhaps moved H1B's here to work on-site?

What's the next step, start hiring off-shore again?
I came here to pretty much write the same comment. I also had my first Linux experiences via Ubuntu's CDs via post scheme. I grew up on a farm with poor network connectivity, so for a few releases in a row, I would apply to have them sent. I started using Linux at about 14 years old. By the time I was 17, I'd been offered an undergrad level job at an award winning software development agency. I don't think that would've happened if I hadn't become very interested in Linux at such a formative moment in my life.

Before I managed to get WiFi working (I had lots of trial and error with ndiswrapper), my very first triumph was getting a USB-powered "winmodem" to work with Damn Small Linux (which I got for free in a magazine). One of the websites I used seems to still be online: http://www.linmodems.org

While I am so thankful that compatibility and ease of use has dramatically improved since those heady days, I honestly think I wouldn't have gotten the career I have without that struggle and the curiosity FOSS provided that drove me to push through and learn something.
I've noticed https://clicktheredbutton.com quite a lot in my referrer analytics. I don't know if it's as featureful as StumbleUpon was (I never used it) but it seems to have some fun sites
I've heard from insiders that AWS Nova and Google Gemini - both incredibly cheap - are still charging more for inference than they spend on the server costs to run a query. Since those are among the cheapest models I expect this is true of OpenAI and Anthropic as well.

The subsidies are going to the training costs. I don't know if any model is running at a profit once training/research costs are included.
MichaelMJD is a retro computing Youtuber. A favorite of mine!

https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelMJD

Probably the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vXKvku6y5A
In other words, you’ve forgotten the class for the same reasons you’ve forgotten being an infant.