skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's a huuuge amount of learning that happens through this period. Your brain is learning things like 3-dimensional space, temperatures exist and I don't like some of them, I-have-two-arms, things fall when dropped, I must engage my big toe to stay upright while walking, other people appear to have feelings, other people appear to believe that I appear to have feelings.

Many of those things are completely innate. Walking for example, while people use the word "learn" in casual speech, is something that is innate. I just don't think the original comment is well-grounded in what we know about infant's cognition. And in any case, a 2 year old definitely understands 3D space.
> at small scale they're equal, then at medium scale Postgres wins out and at larger scales MySQL starts to win again.

Nice insight!

I'd say because most apps wont reach mega scale, that on the small scale Postgres should win. Also having to deal with less quirks is really nice on small scale too!
Ok but 1) both are critical and 2) if it's been snowing and there's 33kt gusts idk how the runway stays snow/ice/moisture free.
Among many other things, one could start by doing less to discourage more devs from contributing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387924
It does have a forum which has great people with constructive discussions, but at the same time there are few users who level up the toxicity that even Michael Larabel can't manage it at all.

For example, the discussion/topic of the Nouveau dev who left the Linux had to be closed.
I think business model there pretty simple: to be in the front line when AI will go into the category of landscape-changing trillion dollar technologies. And investors keep pouring their billions exactly for that business model.

>This hype will burst sooner than later and will trigger yet another global recession.

It seems to small of bubble for global recession. I mean if it is a bubble at all, there is all the reasons to believe that the strategy will work with a significant probability.
Nice. I am a fellow "more than a decade" maintainer of an app, and it's been fun. Some questions come to mind.

- Do you have some sort of community around the app?

- Do you have a steady (or maybe dwindling) stream of feedback?

- Any power users?

- Have you tried to reinvent the app in any way? (My app is on the third "sequel" where each one gathered some renewed interest).

- What made you open source it? Do you feel like you're "letting it go" by open sourcing it? (I could imagine myself feeling this way).
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Being a maintainer is mostly about people and organizing (wrangling), and some much, much smaller percentage about code. This role is not a place for AI any time soon.
The difference is prevalence.

Kubernetes is a single (bad) Go project. Every piece of Java I ever see is AbstractFactoryProxyBean nonsense with annotations all over the show.

I don’t know of a Go project where I can’t start at main (for a given program) and work out how it works without a bunch of ecosystem context. I can’t think of a single Java program where I can.
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Most of my (new) colleagues are always very amazed and baffled when i tell them that investigations, intakes and inventory before starting projects take me huge amounts of time.

Most of my colleagues finish their intakes very quickly, finish projects early and most (not all) have a huge amount of time of aftersales and aftercare. They usually call this aftercare 'out of scope'.

My finished projects usually do not have any aftercare. They work, because i invested a lot of time in the beginning. I call this 'the actual scope'.

I've been fixing some of my colleagues projects recently. Some of these projects should have ended 18 months ago... Most take be about two weeks to fix.

They eventually will learn :)
When you need them right now for half a day, like the author you rent them, and eventually plan to buy them.

Obviously I am talking about the expensive gear.
Tells me they have spent their entire engineering time on engineering and zero on marketing fluff, which is good.
I'm a big fan of sprinkling in a little profanity just to pass the LLM bullshit check
> But I guess it's mostly a problem with the tooling not being there.

For me, it's the tooling plus AR glasses that have roughly the same form factor as my safety glasses. Having plans in front of me, ability to measure distance and angles to within a centimeter, etc. would be nice enhancements to my workflow. A "where did I leave that tool?" feature would be very frequently used.
Naive question from a bystander , but since DeepSeek is open source and is on par with o1-pro (is it?), shouldn't we expect that anybody with the computer power is capable to compete with o1-pro?
That's a mistake for "comparator", isn't it. You've allowed the AI to train you to use the wrong word through a shared delusion, haven't you.

Edit: if anybody knows otherwise, show me some evidence, don't just downvote. If these things are widely used, why are they impossible to find by searching? Why doesn't this electronics site know about them:

https://www.eeeguide.com/?s=cooperator

Why aren't they in any books when I did a full-text search on archive.org? Why doesn't Wikipedia know about them? Why aren't there threads about them on electronics forums?

I found them (through an image search) in exactly one place: educational training boards made in India by Jainco, like this one:

https://jaincolab.in/delta-modulation-and-demodulation

But this other one talks about a "ramp comparator" and then repeats the phrase but using "ramp cooperator" instead.

https://www.jaincolab.com/firing-circuit-using-ramp-comparat...

So I surmise it's an error and not a real thing.
Yeah at some point it seems inevitable that if machines do all the work that creates real "value" and people have no comparable value, in a very practical sense we will all be slaves to machines
This got gears turning in my head. What if we could simulate a woodworking or metalworking shop in VR and people could do virtual projects? I think most people reading this will feel a visceral sense of disgust, but I think this idea is just early.
It's more that it's perfectly happy sending all 600w over a single wire if the resistance on the other wires is high enough. Since there's a single point of connection to the card and a single shunt, there's no way to do load balancing like when there used to be two or even three 8 pin cables.
The EU are far more likely to step up here than anyone else.
Look Americans just hate it when poor people get things for free. Despite the fact that the US economy can afford it- certainly better than the Japanese economy nowadays.

It is perversely CHEAPER to give someone a flat and 1000 eurodollars per month than to have them roam the street, using drugs and being a nuisance.
This is the wisdom that all first world countries have learned. Pay people money to shut the fuck up. The bread and games of the Romans.
> I'm not sure it would make a difference in maintainer bus factor

If they want to ship working hardware, it would help for sure.

> I'm unlikely to write drivers for hardware I don't even own.

Oh, I see. You're assuming the users will write the driver. See, the point of this proposal is that the vendors should write the drivers and kernel infrastructure.

You know what's harder than writing a driver? Writing a driver for hardware that you don't have documentation or chip/board vendor support for because you're some random person instead of their direct customer and potential revenue stream.
To add to your point, about a third of all forces in Afghanistan were non-American, and about a third of combat losses were as well. Thousands of Americans have their fathers and sons and brothers around only because someone from an allied nation took that unfortunate patrol into an ambush or made that unlucky step on a landmine instead of them.
Shout out to all the folks doing tireless work to maintain the kernel and its drivers, and the rest of the open ecosystem. You are all heroes.
Anybody can try Grok3 on Chatbot Arena (even if you are in Europe). Select Direct Chat and select the model early-grok-3. https://lmarena.ai/
What is the distance of the LED from the scalp? I want to approximate the amount of irradiance (mW/squared area).
Simple example of problem my team ran across.

The distance between "dairy creamer" and "non-dairy creamer" is too small. So an embedding for one will rank high for the other as well, even though they mean precisely opposite things. For example, the embedding for "dairy free creamer" will result in a low distance from both of the concepts such that you cannot really apply a reasonable threshold.
In my experience, biased authors are unintentionally reliable narrators. The reader can use that bias as an anchor for truth, to triangulate facts that might be less obvious in a neutral narrative. I would rather read two articles from biased opposing authors, than a single article from the middle. That’s why I read CNN and Fox instead of Reuters. And it’s the basis of sites like Ground News.

Of course, this only works as long as the reader is aware of the bias, so your comment is a valid warning in that respect.
I wonder why were they filming? Was there an early warning? Was it a sketchy landing in any case?

I mean aircraft are fascinating and people film them all the time but wouldn’t expect a pilot sitting in another one to casually film landings.

Maybe just an extremely lucky catch.
More than friendly.

It keeps the page structure, while translating the text, and maintaining the semantic context.

In short, it benefits SEO since the page is going to be indexed in multiples languages, attracting users from multiple regions.
"Rule: I shall use no technology other than the VR headset"

pulls out $4000 Shaper Origin mobile milling machine ...
Presumably the benchmarks? I'm also interested.
This severely underestimates the talent still required. Deepseek didn't come out just because it's cheaper, it came out because a very talented team figured out how to make it cheaper.
Companies need to adhere to GDPR in order to enter the European market, poeple have the right to request to delete their PII. It's a good law, actually this should be applied everywhere.
As an European, though, I'm scared: what if companies are actually testing if excluding us is so much of a problem for their business?
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Probably just quickie uploads to show something to friends, directly from the device on which they were recorded, with only a handful of views from their Whatsapp (or whatever) contacts. I have quite a few of these. Unlisted, in my case, but probably most people don't bother with that, and anyway the random algorithm would find them regardless whether they're listed.

I'm actually glad the mega-profit advertising machine that is Youtube still allows this kind of thing. Videos for a small audience that will likely never make them any money.
> I am not sure how correct this assumption is. S3 is supposed to cut power to everything but RAM, but for example Gigabyte Aorus motherboards are notorious for an NVMe SSD sleep bug that randomly prevents the system from properly sleeping or waking.

You would hope that you could probe the hardware to see if it really is in sleep or not, or that re-waking the hardware would not cause issue if it never went to sleep.

Also I would expect that you could send a sleep command to the PCIe device, then try to sleep the bus itself. The to wake you would bring back the bus and then wake the device.
Someone doesn't know what turnaround means.

Every refinery shuts down at least twice a year for a multi-week turnaround.

The minimum cost to stay operating isn't paying to keep the high cost vessels running, but to remove and sell them to a place that has that heavy crude locally.

The heavy oil processing is the larger maintenence cost that you think isn't happening.
How about OpenXPS or DjVu?
Have you tried asking the AI people to ship an AI that complies with EU law?
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"We're special. Hmm, okay that didn't work". Every Go feature.
I always had the suspicion that this has more to do with a lot of kernel hackers using Thinkpads, so they fix them up, rather than Lenovo doing a good job.
I was responding to an assertion that engineers making 6 figures could not afford apartments.

I validated that they certainly can, on their own, and in an expensive area (Palo Alto) too.

I then said that the dynamic is even better with a room mate.

From this you infer I spoke of all affordability?

Why?

Understand, making wild unsubstantiatable and exaggerative assertions about affordability can invalidate a discussion. Stating fact instead of hyperbole is more appropriate.

Hence my response.
If your business model depends on the Roberts’ court kneecapping AI, pivot.
Probably bad news for the vendors, though. I genuinely struggle to see how most of these LLM companies are going to monetize and profit off their efforts with LLMs already in commodity territory. Government contracts can only flow for so long?
> Everything is fudge, my god

Fudge is made with milk - am I missing a joke?
> Personally I would have bought the good drill BTW, it is expensive, but it is one of the most used tool

Yes, a good drill is a must-have for any home-owner. Anecdotally, I've owned a "prosumer grade" power drill ever since I bought my first apartment and I've used it a lot more than I originally anticipated. It's held up remarkably against a lot of use and abuse over a decade. Well, I've replaced the chuck and applied some epoxy to the plastic housing, but it still works. :)

Is it a good drill? I'd say that it's not great, but it's been good enough.

I've also bought some "consumer grade" tools and I would not recommend buying those even if you can buy it for cheaper than it costs to rent a proper tool. Sometimes, you get lucky with those tools, but most of the time, they are not worth the price of the box they come in. Often, the problem is that even though the tool doesn't exactly fall apart in your hands (this has happened to me), the precision of the result is just unworkable and you waste a bunch of time dealing with issues you otherwise wouldn't have.

Buy once, cry once. ;)
Leftism is the belief that society contains a system of oppression and that society's most pressing need is the dismantling of this system. For example, most Americans are opposed to racism IMHO, but being opposed to racism is not enough to qualify a person as a Leftist: the Leftist believes that dismantling the racist system almost always trumps other considerations whereas the non-racist non-Leftist tends to think that many thorny problems would remain in our society even if miraculously all racism, sexism, etc, were eliminated.

Ideology might be necessary for healthy human mental functioning. I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad for having a commitment to an ideology. But there is so much scorn of the rationalist community here in this comment section that rather than reply to every falsehood and every exaggeration, I thought it would be more effective to point out that a commitment to and identification with technological progress can rise to the level of an ideology.

I kind of wish I hadn't brought up ideology here: it would probably have sufficed for me to point out that many here on HN hope to strike it rich (and many who hope to make a career) in the AI boom and to point out why these many would see the rationalist community as an enemy.
I’m a big fan of Lynch’s Dune. Have you seen the Spicediver fan edit? That’s quite fun, too. (It was hanging out on YT for the longest time, but the Villeneuve Dune sort of muscled it off the platform.)
When regulations become sufficiently burueacrafied it's extremely easy to accidentally violate them doing completely normal things. As a really random example, in California when you operate a foodcart it's not enough to just keep your area and wares in sanitary condition, instead you need a dish washing bin of a minimum of exactly 'x' inches 10.5 IIRC.

A guy who was just ensuring he was preparing clean healthy food, keeping everything sanitary and all that might assume he was naturally obeying all regulations. But that assumption can cost one a big fat fine (leading to fun scenarios like a food cart vendor needing a compliance legal team), and given Musk's relationship with the EU - they'd love to crucify him him on any possible technicality they can find.
Which was debunked as being the same map you see everywhere else making bs claims about the south.

The clusters are poor and poor health, but have no statistical significance to pollution levels.
I think they meant data protection. You can tell by how they said "data protection".
Well there's this https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/10f0x0n/z_fl... which I'm also affected by. I've ducktaped the backside to prevent my muscle memory from constantly folding it. Nearly two years old; not big deal for me, but still.
You know what they say: Fascists are good at keeping the training runs on time.
The "Whys" aren't strong.

#1 makes the point that once you use it in production you start needing production things, like backups and horizontal scaling, and those can get complicated, but for non-sqlite dbs you can use a managed solution to handle the complications for you. But (1) managed solutions for sqlite exist too, and, (2) anyway, successful projects soon out-grow the limitations of managed solutions, so that's a limited runway -- probably about the the same runways where unmanaged sqlite remains simple.

#2 points out "Migrations are not great in SQLite." Migrations aren't great in any db. I think easy migrations can be easier in some other dbs, but those weren't the problem. Tough migrations are essentially rooted to evolving understanding of business rules, which no dbms can make "great" to do.

#3 points out that decoupling storage from compute is a good idea. But with traditional client/server dbs, compute is soldered directly to storage, so that's a big win for sqlite. I know they aren't thinking about the db server server as compute, but they certainly should be -- it's compute in all the ways that hurt you and help you.

#4 points out that migrating away from sqlite is extra work. But that's not really an independent argument for not choosing sqlite since it presupposes sqlite was the wrong choice in the first place.

I have nothing against, say, postgres. But while sqlite on the server has some real drawbacks, it has some really nice properties too. Its simplicity and flexibility make it a strong default choice these days.

I would be wary of the current managed providers -- their edge bias tends to lead you to system designs that aren't great.
After all that effort, his washing machine waste is now sharing a single waste trap with his sink. That means that when his washing machine waste starts to get stale and smelly (they can get surprisingly bad) that gas will come straight back out of the sink plug hole.

Source: I have the same setup in my house and it sucks (and I'm not practical or motivated enough to fix it).
Ooh, I also did the compile-to-WASM side quest! There are some really fun optimizations one can do to make the emulation run faster.

It's orders of magnitude faster than my naive hand-written emulator.
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> I think most people reading this will feel a visceral sense of disgust

Not disgust at all. More like a sense of pointlesness. You can't sit on a stool made out of virtual wood in a virtual workshop. So what is the point of "making" it?

And if the point is to 3d model objects then why constrain yourself to the skeuomorphism of a virtual woodworking/metal working?
> correct (prescriptivist) usage

Oof, I know there's a bunch of linguists and grammarians who are going to mock you for that bracket.
It's not the robotic sound or the content. 4o has very easy tells that it wrote (rewrote) the content. It uses an insane amount of em dashes.
Google for Minneapolis Musk / Toronto Musk and the theory writes itself.
It never occured to me to link COM and J2EE RMI/EJB.
Repeating this again: Tesla would be more successful without Elon Musk … leading any longer.
I’d appreciate if you didn’t try to bring everyone down with you, just because you have personally given up.

This recent HN submission is relevant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083151
I count 14 (maybe 15?) people in that first protest photo.
The heavy crude processing is a maintenance cost sink.

Reverting to processing local oil is both cheaper equipment wise (removing the heavy crude vessels and selling them) and cheaper bc you don't pay to pipe oil with the viscosity of sludge across the continent.

Fed quotas are the reason for the current config, configuration, economics.
There's a reason most CEOs and billionaires try to stay out of the spotlight and try to influence things behind the scenes instead.

We'll see how things turn out for Musk in a few years.

At least Starlink, and hence Spacex, won't be affected too much, the service is too valuable for the US military, various industries (aviation, maritime) and also private customers as long as no credible alternative is in sight.
Yeah, the shift in acceptance is really interesting to see.

This documentary has always stood out to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_in_Public
Hey, not OP but I am interested in whatever data you have, I mess around with the temperature markets. Have gotten started with NYC, but am about to start with Chicago. E-mail in profile.
Six-foot-four-tran? (I’m sorry.)
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I like this idea. The machine shop can be quite intimidating. It could be a fun little experience to get people exposed to heavy equipment in a safe environment.
You’re a very poor user of LLMs if they’re not a net time saver for you.
After WW2 the Dutch government decided to replace the old currency with a new one. No crypto involved.

It was done to wipe out all the cash profits people had made during the war. If you couldn't explain the source of your money adequately it was POOF gone.
It was spectacularly successful.
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Once in college I had a girl stare at me for a while on a long distance bus (we were almost the only passengers in there). When I got home my mom told me her mom called her to ask if I was also on that bus - apparently we have spent a lot of time together as toddlers.