skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pay anyone $39m/year and they'll come into the office too. This is just FUD to justifying offshoring
The keyboard layout becomes a bottleneck after you develop carpal tunnel syndrome and bad posture due to internal shoulder rotation
It's only fungible at the point of expenditure. Tax income is a dollar in hand that creates no liability; debt must be repaid with interest.

Not sure I get your second point- I am aware of what is meant by the trust fund; actually, I thought it was the only one- you enlightened me about Medicare's. (If you re-read my post, you will see my use of the plural "funds" in "trust funds" was referring to the money itself, not multiple funds).

Anyway, I see 12-years of reserves at current projections for the HI (Part A fund for Hospital services), while the SMI (Part B for Doctors and outpatient services) isn't even listed- this fund is the one that seems to be the dog. Wow. And it's not even close. Yowza.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum

I don't think it's fair to bring Medicaid into the discussion. There's no separate tax for it, and the vast majority of people don't receive it- it's a subsidy to the poor. If you'd like to discuss that I'd be happy to, but I'm more comfortable on fiscal realities than judging what amount to local humanitarian efforts; my opinions might not be well received because they are not particularly generous. Additionally, I think it is far outside the scope of my original point that people's taxes are much higher than they think.

I'll close on this note: I think it's important that people speak in specifics, especially in trying times. Both platitudes and demagoguery are damaging to the public discourse, as is information presented out of context and the substitution of opinion for fact.

I spoke out of my rear-end on Medicaid (you did kind of catch me out of left field), and I generally try not to do that. I did some more digging (unlike SSA, they are not very forthcoming), and I'll take my medicine.

Thanks for the eye opener. Take care.
> What about a library that doesn’t have any documentation or tutorials

This always sucks, but since it is something you have to deal with, the answer is "read the code." Hopefully the code has some test cases somewhere, and that is the best place to start. But if not, you unfortunately got to profile and trace the code yourself. It takes awhile, but you usually come out with a pretty good understanding (after A LOT of confusion) and can usually find some good things to fix.

How do you profile and trace it? A debugger is actually one of your best friends here. But this is also what things like cscope and tags (ctags) are for. I suggest becoming familiar with grep, find, sed, and awk as these will also greatly help. I strongly suggest also grabbing a pen and paper. You'll want to draw diagrams. It sucks, but it gets easier over time.

I'll also say that having to do this shitty task drills into you the importance of writing documentation, comments, and writing concise functions in your code. Only a psychopath could go through this trouble and think "fuck it, the next guy can do it too." Unfortunately there's lots of psychopaths lol. Remember, usually "the next guy" is you. You when you forget everything 6 months and 3 projects later. So document and comment while you trace. If your boss tells you not to worry, he's a psychopath too. Just wasting company money making it harder to onboard new employees. And in the worst/best case? Your documentation/commenting just makes the LLM better and more accurate. So there's really no good reason to not doc/comment other than excuses about moving fast. But remember, even though there's never time to do it right, there's always time to do it twice (when you fix what's wrong). And all this work reduces the tech debt and time everyone spends debugging. You have to invest in your work.
> It probably works well for already clear and well structured cobol.
It's a metaphor for how we pay for the evolving and deepening complexity of government, without any effort being put into processes that might help eliminate complexity -- because there's no real accountability for spending.

I think "DOGE" is conceptually a good idea, and if it were executed by a competent administration could lead to great outcomes, as was the case with the USDS.
It’s a beautiful thing that people are still keeping the homebrew PSP scene alive. PSP homebrew is what got me into programming and security in the first place.
The 3 with a flat top is a "banker's 3", an anti-forgery measure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3

Playing cards use this style of lettering. Not sure how far back that goes but I kind of doubt they all derive from Gorton's specific engraving machines.
So the idea is that LLM1 looks at the output of LLM0 and builds a new set of constraints, and then LLM0 has to try again, rinse and repeat? (LLM0 could be the same as LLM1, and I think it is in the article?)
Is this 'waste'?
Until the last election, it was not. These were considered "american values".
I have something similar.

https://github.com/jzombie/globcat.sh

Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.
Has your mind ever held a system so complex, it wouldn't fit in two million tokens? My hasn't.
Maybe it has to do with feature remaining. Maybe it's an upstream problem from a vendor dealing with the renaming. Either way it may or may not be DOGE specifically.
That reminds me when cloudflare launched their workers gpu product, it was specifically aimed at running models and the pricing was abstracted and based on model output. Did you look what they were doing when building gpu machines?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/
> never implied that NYSE was good

If they don't like NYSE then there isn't much conversation to be had here. Texas is just another exchange, which they already take issue with.

If they like NYSE, but not this, I'm interested to learn why. That's why I asked.
Possibly yes. But this is hard to know and I certainly don't. What I can say is that it would certainly be easier without SEO and that both things you listed tend to exacerbate SEO Hell. SO less so, but it'd be naive to think it is immune. Though not quite to the degree of Reddit. But LLMs tend to reflex the training, so...
well, Ukraine
How not to screw up onboarding
How about we secure Americans' communications against domestic surveillance demands
It's someone who was born on third base complaining that they have to run to home plate.
Sorry I was imprecise. I typically buy the cheapest one I can find with a power supply. Last year t630 were the sweet spot. They typically ship with 4 or 8… the windows models have higher spec. I picked up a couple of t730s too. I add third party memory and storage if needed.

You get a super capable, low power device in the price footprint of a raspberry pie.
not from fly.io, but my experience is that most data scientists will just prefer to lump it with the tools they know (pandas / R) on CPUs, rather than delving into things like rapids https://rapids.ai -- even if it makes things faster/cheaper.

I might have had a bad sample set so far. But the "doing statistics" bit seems to be the interesting thing for them. the tooling doesn't really factor into solutions/plans that often. and learning something new because "engineer say it shinier" doesn't really seem to motivate them much :/
The last Guardian story you may want to read: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-we...
Just remember than not a century ago the average family would bury half their kids.
Absolutely love the PSP - it was such a mind blowing piece of hardware at the time. The portables in my life were an iPod and a Game Boy Advance. Then a buddy of mine showed me the model he had just imported from Japan running Wipeout - it was hard to believe my eyes.

It truly felt like the future in a way very few pieces of tech have managed to pull off since. One of Sony’s peak accomplishments.
I agree with your moderation style generally, but

> Unless the regular users are bots, which seems unlikely

Why do you believe it’s unlikely? Are these regular users whose activity predates GPT3? Personally, since LLMs became commercially available I’ve just assumed that at least 50% of comments on the internet are bots.
> The IRS is the most bang for the buck government department. Every dollar spent there nets out many more, because they're chronically under-resourced to audit the whales who can trivially hide their tax obligations.

This is just a trope.

Auditing big whales is often not the most efficient use of resources because their taxes are a) much more complicated, and so more expensive to audit and b) more likely to have been done by a team of competent lawyers, so even though they're engaged in all kinds of shenanigans, the shenanigans are legal and there is no money to be had by auditing them.

Where the IRS can "turn a profit" is by auditing small and medium businesses, because they're more likely to have screwed up, and auditing them is cheap to the IRS. But this has a different problem. It isn't cheap to the taxpayer being audited; they pay an order of magnitude more to go through the audit than the IRS does. And then most of them are innocent, even though the IRS makes it back from the few that aren't. For obvious reasons the innocent ones hate this with the fire of a thousand suns, because nobody compensates them for their costs even though they did nothing wrong. But if you actually did compensate them for their costs then it wouldn't be net-positive for the IRS to do all those audits.
Just detect abuse. Don't worry about AI-ness, it doesn't matter. Real users may use AI to drive use cases.
what you missing is that it's not about literal Nazis

it's about seeing exactly the same kind of patterns and dynamics as during the rise of the 3rd riche

i.e. by every objective measurable metric the US is currently falling to autocracy and fascism

Will that be "literal Nazis" taking over the US, no most likely not. But might it become bad for most US citizens and the World in general to a really really bad point, then yes every thing is pointing in that direction.

If you then add in how much tension both the world economy and geopolitics is in (since years getting worse) it would be strange to assume we aren't at
sever risk of WW3 in some form (could be a cold war
or similar, too).

Look at how the US is currently trying to get right of a absurd high amount of people (nearly twice
as many as Jews where killed by Nazi Germany) most of
which do not have a home to go back to and probably
most of which other countries don't want to take in (in context of forced deportations, due to such people e.g.
being jobless as they had to leave their job behind).
And then look at how they started building/expanding Guantanamo and how the current head of state is constantly using dehumanizing language and look on how some of the people he puts in power have outed themself as being very inhuman and cruel in their world view. And then think how is this _not_ going to end in a catastrophe. Not necessary on the level of industrialized mass killing. But really there is no way this is going to end well.

By now the question isn't if people die, but how many digits.
The article gives business reasons in addition to the political entanglement.

People in CA were plenty upset at his Twitter takeover and trashing of employees.

It has been said that the laws of physics limit his wild excursions in product businesses, whereas the "social media" business is largely the wild west thanks to Section 230 carried to extremes, and the capitalist dream of "self regulation", which never works.

In the unbridled worlds of social media and politics, the worst tendencies come out, such as racism [0] and unintended "move fast and break things" consequences, such as not knowing that that DOE cuts affect the nuclear stockpile [1]

[0] The Shadow of Apartheid South Africa in America. (FT)

https://archive.is/Y1Uz9

[1] Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-...
A credit card.
Absolutely — they add a ton of value. So did IBM… and companies migrated to NT solutions that were half baked because they were cheap.

When I can get the equivalent of a Mac Mini in a super cheap price point… you’re going to have opportunities to attack those stratospheric cloud margins.
That's Devin / replit agent

Not there yet but it is inevitable
I still think about "7 is so close to 6"!
I got banned from /r/toronto for saying that a guy with a sign (that someone else posted) was not really breaking any laws, IIRC it was something like "too much immigration" or whatever. Banned for 6 months for "hate speech", wtf.

What I did was simple, removed all my comments, removed all my submissions, deleted my account and haven't been back there nor do I plan to.
I didn't get that impression at all. The first paragraph includes the sentence:

> I want to use this post to explore these differences, to identify the benefits and limitations of both models, and to present my thinking on the future of Typst’s layout engine.

Which immediately made me think the author of the post was involved in Typst development.
That’s an interesting and thought provoking perspective. Thanks!
"running Tumblr’s back end on WordPress would allow for greater efficiencies, while not changing the interface and experience that Tumblr’s user base has grown to love"

That's a lot to assert without elaboration.
https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive/blob/b068eaf1e6cbe35d1... for reference, an example from a tpope plugin
Just Reagan era dismantling of American manufacturing
It largely depends on who you follow.

I also have a local chrome extension I made that automatically removes political tweets from my timeline, that + following people who talk about very specific things is enough to make my experience there largely positive.
> is this actually useful without a cartridge slot?

It has 2 of them actually. One standard one on the back and an internal one that I think doesn't use the standard connector that is intended for hardware expansion. Despite what the product page says, the internal slot is mapped to slot 2 and not slot 1 in the MSX mapping system, so it doesn't conflict with the external cartridge slot.

That said, most computers of this era including the MSX had a fair bit of software released on cassette tape as well. There were also disk drives and software released on disk as well.

Looking at some of the more famous games for the system: Metal Gear was released on cartridge, but Snatcher was released on floppy disk with an expansion cartridge that contained extra RAM and a sound chip. It seems this system has support for that expansion builtin though.
DSLs like Semgrep are one of my top use-cases for LLMs generally.

It used to be that tools like Semgrep and jq and Tree Sitter and zsh all required you to learn quite a bit of syntax before you could start using them productively.

Thanks to LLMs you can focus on learning what they can do for you without also having to learn the fiddly syntax.
A few main reasons:

- Quantum Hardware is tough scale up (not impossible) due to decoherence of quantum systems, you need quantum error correction.

- Finding an application that justifies it economically (against SOTA methods in classical part) is hard except for a few areas, (Cryptography, simulation of quantum systems that are not already solved by classical simulation methods)

- Hype seems to be working (see the stock prices of several quantum companies after the announcement of Willow chip, one of which had only the word quantum in its name despite not being QC hardware company) (which I dont approve of)
Interesting! Fingers crossed someone who's looking for your skillset finds your post.

What is your process to turn Mac minis into a cluster? Is there any special hardware involved? And you can get 100x tok/s vs others on comparable hardware, what do you do differently - hardware, software, something else?
Why does it need an Apple M-series chip? Any hope for it getting on an intel chip and using it with Linux?
What I wrote down below is a bit jumbled, but I felt like you describe something I hadn't realized yet. That maybe my brain has changed. And I needed to respond and think about your idea. I hope you are finding a way to deal with it.

This is resonates with me. My father died from cancer a year ago, the bit that survived two treatments was extremely fast moving. I had a business with him, and I spent a year trying to do as much of his job and mine to help him out. But he wanted to work, and I think it was good for him to have forward looking goals.

It feels like every day I am trying to figure out how to make my brain work the way it used to. And almost every day I am trying to decide if we had a bus factor of 1. Fortunately I have family support, and a part time job to keep me busy and bring a bit of money in.

I think about the emotional support and I think we did the best we could have. My dad was clear about listening to the doctors about his options. We spent some time reading about options and researching. But it was clear to all of the immediate family that we lacked the depth of knowledge needed. It was interesting to read about and learn about the techniques. And we were able to get advice from medical family friends. But his team was very good and thoughtful. We also thought the treatments were working. Until a later scan showed a small blip and before we could understand the options and decide he was in the hospital and terminal.

I still feel like I'm moving through the motions of running our business, but not actually doing it. Or something, it is a frustrating feeling that I am trying to fix but maybe I can't. Or maybe it will take years.
Do you think that you can use those machines for confidential workflows for enterprise use? I'm currently struggling to balance running inference workloads on expensive AWS instances where I can trust that data remains private vs using more inexpensive platforms.
Apologies in advance for nitpicking a small detail.

In lesson 9, you say "The CEO of the Perplexity.ai search platform argues that AI has made blue links obsolete.

"But without sources you are driving blind."

Isn't the entire point of perplexity that it gives you the sources?
I think there's a fine distinction between the terms overhyped, and the reality of deceptive advertising, just as there is a fine distinction where 5% of the economy can impact 90% of the economy.

Most of the economy is entry level positions. You sieve these positions to get mid level talent. You sieve them again to get senior level talent.

What will naturally happen when a business sector that is a natural labor multiplier but only about 5% of the economy, multiplies that labor with the outcome being entry level positions are replaced.

5% affecting 90%. Will it take over completely, not at the time we talk about this. We know people age and die eventually.

What happens when there is no economic incentive because there are is no economic demand for entry level positions which would be needed to get the remaining 10% of mid and senior positions as an aggregate?

Its a sequential pipeline. No one going in, means no one coming out. The pool shrinks over time until it collapses. No AGI needed...

The mere expectation to business leadership that labor can be replaced by using AI, regardless of outcome because debt financing decouples these, ensures you've already integrated before you can see the problem, and by the time you see it there is nothing you can do to solve it. Its a classic cascade failure, like a dam breaking, or snow pack that becomes an avalanche.

In other words, these are the problems where lives are lost at least once, in order to find the co-factors that objectively show the cascade failures so you can react and adapt in time.
Actual title
"The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person"
You cannot see any way in which we run out of possible abstraction layers? I think in the past we have assumed that was natural language, but I think natural language is a pretty poor programming language. What people actually want when they say that, is for someone to read all the nuance out of their mind and codify it.

I don't think we actually have been abstracting new layers over the past day 5-10 years anyway. Most of what I see is moving sideways, not up the stack. Covering more breadth not height or depth, of abstractions.
Probably nspawn[0]. Think of it like chroot on steroids and not as heavy as docker. You can run these containers in an empirical mode, so modifications are not permanent. Like typical systemd you can also limit read/write access, networking, and anything else you want. This can even include things like limiting commands and all that. So you can make the program only able to run in its scope, only read, and only use a very limited command set.

Not the most secure thing, but you can move up to a VM, then probably want a network gaped second machine if you're seriously concerned but not enough to go offsite.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-nspawn
I made the mistake of reading this.

My son is in remission from cancer (Leukemia, in chemo from 3 to 6 years old, now 7).

It's going to be a rough night.
This is illegal
Trump could have put someone good on it, but he prefers loyalty over competence.
When I first switched to nushell as my daily driver, I spent a lot of time integrating fzf in various creative ways, which was a fine learning exercise I guess.

But once I realized that the auto complete was sensitive to my cwd, I've since been using my fzf bindings less and less.

I'm very happy I made the switch, for this and many other reasons.
Yes, the same applies to many niche syntaxes: Influx' flux language (I was able to Design my dream Grafana dashboards now!) or Auto Hot Key (AHK) for Windows automation are only two examples.
Empathy. Such a seemingly good idea. Maybe just a little ahead of its time.
But I thought it was a joke, or do people really choose their tech stack based on LLM support?
In my experience, it's not that silent law exists only in judges' heads, so much as that the judges decide where they want to end up and then reason backward to create a decisional path that leads to the desired conclusion. This is, of course, blatantly wrong and not how the judicial system ought to work. For this reason (among others) we have the appellate process. Problems compound when the appellate panel does the same thing.

Based on my experiences over years, both working in chambers and litigating, judges on a particular end of the spectrum tend to do this more than those on the other end.
>now we have a new user-agent available, "AI Agents", that somehow is unacceptable and should be blocked?

Giving deference or even exclusive access to certain service clients is as old as the commercial web. The article specifically cites security or other risk as the reason. Of course commercial media on the web today put conditions on the consumption of what they publish: ad-blocker nag screens, paywalls, etc. Usually that's just a commercial interest, but what about other conditions, like a disclaimer for medical or legal advice? AI Agents will cite your content without necessarily the context or due diligence you may be legally or ethically obligated to provide with that content.

Generally, I agree that it holds us back from what the 'Agent Experience' web will inevitably need to become, but there are valid reasons for the incumbent patterns that should be resolved in a mutually beneficial way.