skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're providing a public service of sorts by demonstrating in real-time how certain people are so easily triggered, distracted and manipulated by minutiae. $6.3 million is nothing—not even a rounding error. But, throw "gay" in there and now it's the point.

It's like the entire existence of a swath of the population has become about ensuring gay people get no consideration and no trans person ever plays a women's sport. That's it. And, if it takes replacing democracy with fascism, well dammit, it's worth it.

There is no woke mind virus. But there's certainly an anti-woke mind virus.
Show HN: Guardian – A Lightweight Alternative to Failsafe
https://github.com/freakynit/guardian

A zero dependency, library to provide fault-tolerance mechanisms such as retries, circuit breakers, and fallback strategies.
If you liked this article, you might also like this one about a typeface which got tossed into the Thames river:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/blog/doves-type-thames-myste...

Does anyone else have cool font/typeface stories?
You never look on the same river because each time you look there's different water flowing.
The thing is - and I tried finding out without success - that it’s likely an off the shelf either Realtek or Broadcom WiFi chipset in the PSP that Sony probably omitted features on for stability reasons. Sounds like maybe these folks made it happen :) amazing to see
Why, what's the problem? My apps work fine, even old ones.
tl;dr: rewrite it in Rust
You need a Chinese number to sign up and facial verification to make payments, as far as I can tell.
I thought maybe I'd finally be able to through a Wendigoon video with this, since I'm generally interested in the things he talks about but can't stand some of his linguistic tics. Unfortunately looks like most of his videos are too long for this, which I guess is ironic considering the name.

TL;DP
I had a PSP and also loved it, but I don’t feel like it was that mind blowing. The tricks they pulled made it less impressive IMO. Most games felt like cheap pantomime versions of what you wanted them to be, you’d buy something and then go “oh, never mind”.

The homebrew scene was much more impressive than anything official, if you ask me.
The company in question has some hard choices to make about whether they want to keep operating in the UK. There is no principle here that companies have to be multinational giants; it might be better if they start operating locally.

I'm generally extremely free market, but there is a good argument to ban Facebook/Google/AWS/& friends for national security reasons. They are almost certainly tools of the US intelligence apparatus. Looking at basic questions of capability and incentive there must be some massive scandals brewing this century over their ability to interfere in foreign elections.
For there to be fraud that means they are bringing charges and the court will decide if it is fraud. Fraud has a very specific meaning. If it is waste then it's in the eye of the beholder thus nuanced. I doubt Elon and his script kiddies would even know how to find actual fraud.
Here's one blog post that doesn't need a trigger warning, unless you need to be warned about cutesy stuff.

see https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/05/05/three-interlud...

Many of the blog posts from aug 2013 and later are heartbreaking.
That's the next problem startups should avoid at all cost. Don't do heavily abstracted services, just put it all in a monolith which will make it faster and easier to iterate. Don't overthink it, just get the feature out of the door.

Chances are high that you won't get it right from the beginning, you can create these abstractions once you really understand the problem space with real world data.

When you get to that point I have another pro tip: Don't refactor, just rewrite it and put all your learnings into the v2.
Any reason why they seemingly had and easier time with IPv6? A simple lack of participants in the botnet, or are there some protocol-level tricks going on?
Is creativity in banking really that important? Creativity in banking gave us the housing bubble. And the dot-com bubble. And redlining.
Your attempts to personalize the debate don't work on me.
Well yeah, government efficiency is obviously a "great idea", but that is ridiculously simplistic. No one is paid for "great ideas" without any clue how to execute. Poorly implemented good ideas screw things up just as bad as bad ideas. Maybe worse. If it's a good idea, implemented poorly, you have a lot of cheerleaders worshipping the idea. But if it's a bad idea, at least you have people offering alternative ideas.
The same argument was made with regard to the consumer retail banking experience when ATMs were introduced in 1967!

Asynchronous remote transactions are commonplace today; this is all a smokescreen for over-leveraged commercial real estate interests held by major US financial institutions.
Thanks! I totally agree. I’m looking at ways to further tighten the pairing between Vim’s native tools and LLMs (like with :diff and :make/:copen to run the code, feed errors back to the LLM, then apply the fixes, etc). The catch is model variability—what works for Llama doesn’t always work with R1 because of formatting/behavior quirks, and vice versa. Finding a common ground for all models is proving tricky.
Lpcamm2 rollout has been disappointing. Especially given it's potential. Maybe it's good for repairability in ultralights, but where's the 96GB module?
Upgradability isn't really a factor when the upgrade path is only 32 or 64gb modules.

A Ryzen ai max 395 laptop with dual lpcamm2 boards, maxing out at 192gb of ddr5 7500, could have been a dream machine for a developer.
I love using LLMs to generate plantUML diagrams
Senior citizens get Medicare SSN, impoverished get Medicaid. The military contractors make money from the military. I pay for a private school because it's the only single-sex option.

Sure, I get transportation and infrastructure. So do a whole ton of countries. We are the wealthiest country in the world. If all the average person will get is transportation and infrastructure, it can be improved from what it currently is.
Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure
I’ll be using this, thank you!
Sure, I guess what frustrates me is that they're effectively saying that having Trump is office than having another Democrat, because of some abstract "long game" that they think will happen.

It's honestly pretty fucking dismissive of people who are affected by Trump's regressive policies. "It sucks that you got deported but maybe in fifteen years you'll thank me because we will have a proper progressive in office to fix problems that are really important but apparently impossible for us to actually enumerate with any kind of consistency".
Wipeout Pure was a absolutely mind blowing in 2004. Nothing on mobile platforms came close to it. It was indeed a portable playstation.
One that really gets me is "Big Government" - we are the government. What you mean is "Big Unaccountable Organization" - which can just as easily be Big Business or in some cases Big NGO/Nonprofit/Religion/etc.

I know that my comments do not address the original meaning of "Big Government", but over time "Big Government" has come to encompass anything the government does. Apparently including things that I depend on, but don't know about because they just silently work. Until someone turns them off.

Also, remember (or learn) that it was Carter, not Reagan that the bulk of the deregulation.

See Dan Davies - Unaccountability Machine

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The version of the narrative that we fight about is the stupidest version of that subject.

Gamer's Gate taught me this. From the outside, everyone looked like stupid assholes. I definitely have more empathy for one side vs the other, but each side's narrative is forced into the minimal version that carries the most moral weight. The great tragedy is that we use the moral narrative that appeals to US, not to THEM or even to BYSTANDERS.

See Jonathon Haidt - Righteous Mind

And Amanda Ripley - High Conflict

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I think the greatest qualities of humanity are curiosity, humility, patience and empathy.
To me, nonviolence is not about naivety or tolerance of evil or being unprepared, it's about maintaining the ability to learn about the world and the people in it.

Historically nonviolence has been one component of a diversity of strategies - nonviolence itself implies the possibility of violence.

The emotion of anger makes people feel right and righteous in themselves - no matter if they are helping or hurting overall. A person's anger does not know what side they are on. Anger makes the world much, much simpler.

Our current political environment does not allow for complex problems or complex understanding of other people's needs. You have to fit in my simple worldview. You have to be exactly as angry as I am at all the people I'm angry at.

No matter who you feel started this or who you blame, this is all happening inside each of us. We are all being exploited and treated like broken toys. The fight is making us all act and speak very, very stupidly.

So if you feel like you have to fight, and you already know who to fight and how to fight them - I am not trying to change that. I am NOT saying that "the other side" has a valid point of view or that the other side has some good people. I am saying that the other side is made of flawed people each with their own history.

I am asking you to find some time for curiosity, humility, patience, and empathy for the humans in the world.

The tragedy of all anti-war movies is that they show us the horror and terror and destruction of war ... but 'this' is the fight we need to fight, this fight is needed, this fight is good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42261315
Apparently they get backdoors in as incompetently as they create efficiency.
I have mixed feelings about it. I would hope that the doctors keep up with the latest developments and would know the options available. But I also like the idea of patients having agency to advocate for themselves to do their research and talk to doctors and they can’t do that without knowing what they don’t know.

On the other hand, if it weren’t for marketing, could costs come down?

As you can tell, these are weak opinions weakly held instead of strong opinions weakly held
Well for better or worse we are a democracy, so salesmanship for the important ideas is absolutely critical
Lesson 3: Programming the Shooter Game in Squeak/Smalltalk
In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Theoden king expresses his grief to Gandalf, “one should not have to bury their children”. I was in college then, unmarried and didn’t appreciate the meaning of it or could appreciate his grief.

Now that I have kids of my own I can’t get myself to read the posts such as OPs. And if I end up reading it their grief stays when me for a long time. Exactly what they have written, all those years not spent, not lived, it’s just too much to handle for me.

I read somewhere that grief is unspent love. I only wish OP more courage and continued grace as the burden only gets heavier each day.
You normally need firmware support for WPA2.

Obviously the availability of firmware is strongly linked to the hardware, and since firmware isn't open source, adding a big feature like WPA2 if it isn't already there is very hard.

However, I believe there is also the option of capturing raw (encrypted) packets and doing all the encryption fully in software.
Good. The next step should be to get out of NATO and join BRICS :-)
Has your LLM ever known just the right next token that should come after 2 million other tokens? Mine hasn't.
Or switchable buffers, some could be dedicated to certain projects.
Can’t wait till futurama style streaming-into-my-brain is available
STILL too vague - _most_ of the federal budget goes to SS and medicare / medicaid. Potholes are almost exclusively a local-level thing, so calling them "american" taxes is a bit off, you'd be thinking more about state and municipal taxes at that point.

The impediment that sucks up ~40% of CPI is housing, and that is overwhelmingly constrained by really crappy zoning and building regulation at the local level. Not much the federal government can do against that without going full constitutional crisis or amendment.
I partially disagree. Maybe it depends what circles you run in but at least here on HN I’ve seen Aider mentioned more times than I can count. Is cursor more popular? Yeah…but the people here are talking about Aider. That’s how I learned about it.
The tax code is legislation and they're the government. Instead of trying to translate it from old COBOL spaghetti code, discard the existing code and implement a new system from the tax code.

And while you're having a bunch of lawyers go through the tax code in order to do this, have them recommend simplifications to make it easier, so that instead writing new complicated software, you write new simpler tax laws.
High Cohesion, Low Coupling
You are right in that the situation inherently isn't wildly different, and as long as there is a will to resist within the Ukrainian populous, Russia will not achieve their objectives in the long run.

But there is the aspect of potential over reliance on Western support by Ukraine, which if cut, the effects on the moral might even outweigh the effects on the defense capabilities, and both would be reduced given halt/pause of Western support
I don't think so? Isn't the point of the suplicant model introduced in wpa1 that you can upgrade security in software, so upgrading to wpa2 should be possible for most things that ran wpa1 and had a viable way to get software upgrades.
Not sure about San Francisco's City Hall, but Los Angeles City Hall seems to be devoid of law enforcement:
https://x.com/itariqshah1/status/1887997213688701371
I discussed all the points you ask about in my HN postings last month, but never in enough detail so you must ask me to specify and that's when people hire me.

As you can see from this comments thread, most people, especially programmers, lack the knowledge we computer scientist, parallel programmers and chip or hardware designers have.

>What is your process

Science. To measure is to know, my prof always said.

To answer your questions in detail, email me.

You first need to be specific. The problem is not how to turn Mac minis into a cluster, with or without custom hardware ( I do both) on code X or Y. Or how to optimize software or rewrite it from scratch (which its often cheaper).

First find the problem. In this case the problem is find the lowest OPEX and Capex to do the stated compute load versus changing the compute load. Turns out in a simulation or a cruder spreadsheet calculation it becomes clear that the energy cost dominates of hardware choice, it trumps the cost of programming, the cost of off the shelf hardware and the difference if you add custom hardware. M4's are lower power, lower OPEX and lower CAPEX especially if you rewrite your (Nvidia GPU) software. The problem is the ignorance of the managers and their employee programmers.

You can repurpose the 2 x 10 Gbps USB-C, the 10 Gbps Ethernet and the three 32 Gbps PCIe ports or Thunderbolts but you have to use better drivers. You need to weigh if double the 960 Gbps 16 GB unified memory for 2 x $400 is faster than 2 Tbps memory at 1.23 times the cost versus 3 x 4 x 32 Gbps PCIe 4.0 versus 3 x 120 Gbps unidirectionally is better for this particular algorithm and wheat changes if you uses both the 10 CPU cores, 10 x 400 GPU corses and 16 Neural Engine cores (at 38 trillion 16 bit OPS) will work batter than just the CUDA cores. Ususally the answers is: rewrite the alogoritm and use an adaptive compiler and then a cluster of smaller 'sweet spot' off the shelf hardware will outperform the most fancy high end hardware if the network is balanced. This varies at runtime so you'll only know if you now how to code. As Akan Kay said and Steve Jobs quoted: if your serious about software you should do your own hardware. If you can't, then you can approach the hardware with commodity components if that turns out to be cheaper. I estimate for $42K labour I can save you a few hundred $k.
We're in a market where people paint fences for $200.

You're building fence painting robot and need someone to teach it how to paint fences by example.

You decide you won't pay the fence painters to teach the robot upfront.

Instead, painters will pay you $20 to even visit the factory.

Then, if a particular painter's fence painting is especially highly rated, you'll pay them a small royalty.

So you send your fence painting robot to compete with fence painters for $20 a fence, passing on a tiny slice of the $20 to the ones who helped teach it.

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We can consider the creation of fence robot and the competition with the existing market just another piece of the steady march of progress, but there's still obvious room to act with more integrity in this situation.

There was no established rate for what fair wages to teach the robot to paint were, and you can't pay $200 because you don't charge $200... but it's also probably not "-$22/month + 1% royalties".
I agree, but a lot of it was caused by the C# hype, and the FUD that Delphi was dead or dying, that got dragged up by every IT Manager, IT expert, forum, user group, etc I worked with at the time.

Unfortunately Delphi then tried to transition to dot net itself (remember Delphi 8.0!) and became a pile of crap for the next couple of versions. It got better, but by then it was too late and too steep a climb to attract new developers

I have one more big journey in Pascal to take, that is to re-write my Delphi winemaking system as open source when I retire, but at US$1350 for the Delphi professional license, I will be writing it in Lazarus.
Hijacking your comment to make a point, how complicated are we already getting? The point of "taxes are too high" is now "a specific tax is too high relative to the residual benefits mix after cutting out two huge benefits programs, if we hold the possibility of future transfers from outside the dedicated revenue streams out" which, again, already so much more complicated and still way less than necessary to actually get to the goal.

lots of taxes though yes
There were about 15000 causalities for USSR during 10 years in Afghanistan.
It was a very low intensity conflict in comparison.
Current RU-UA conflict has no similarities with the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979.
I see lots of folks here using LLMs in their codebases. Does that mean there isn’t much concern about sharing your app’s code with an LLM? Have people just gotten comfortable with this now? Or does it only matter for closed source or proprietary code bases ?
My daughter is in remission from leukemia and was in chemo from 3 to 5. If it was all-b then I wouldn’t worry much. Yes, you’ll have some dark thoughts along the way. I still do at times. But they’ll fade away as your son goes on to lead a pretty normal life. My daughter is 10 now with passions for MMA and horse riding which took a pause because a horse stomped on her toe this past summer pulling out a nail. Was an accident and we treated it like one.
Like others here, I dislike the content but find LI useful for finding new opportunities and staying in touch with former colleagues. One effective way for me to reduce irrelevant posts was to set the feed to display posts chronologically rather than by popularity. You barely see any click-baity posts before losing interest and moving on.
“So rather than having a physical server or even something like Amazon Web Services, they’re deploying using Cloudflare Pages which supports custom domains.”

So? Also, the distinction is moot.
Yes, every few years I press ok. They want me to do it every year but that just seems like a lot of work. So far they got everything right. I really want this for small businesses in real time. The payment processor already deals with most refunds. It would be nice to fill taxes with each purchase, payment or invoice automatically. Should automate the payments too! Give them the (approved) work schedule, let them provide a clock card machine. Pay the salary end of the shift.

Why should we have a party dragging out a transaction? Just complete it immediately and ideally in isolation.

Then they might as well also run the bank, the payment processor and the recruitment agency.

People here in NL are afraid to start a business not because they can't deliver the product or service or that they can't find customers, they are afraid of the tax office.
Direct File I think helped some. Deleted by Musk.
sorry for the delay, hope you end up seeing this reply.

so, specifically with “management hast decreed thou shalt do X”, there’s always quite a bit of politics stuff that can be played here.

- do they also want Y?

- out of X and Y, which one do they want more?

- if the engineering team are really resistant to Y, can we say we’ll do X first and see if they forget about Y by the time we’ve done X?

- what about Z? Z is kind of similar to X, but solves a specific customer’s problem alongside it. can we suggest Z instead?

- or are management too pissed if from last month when i spent half of it negotiating about S? do we just need to lump it with X?

- is engineering fed up with these requests? is morale tanking because of micromanaging from executives? or are people fine with it?

- is there some 80/20 hack solution we can put live in one sprint and then depreciate in 3 months time? are they going to notice this?

those are the sorts of questions i’d have around X being asked by management.

unless it’s a legal compliance thing, i generally doubt anyone in management requests anything because they use the product and want a solution to a problem.

so, they get a very strong filter applied to them.

like, $previousJob built a poor man’s clone of apache airflow in django. management were coming up with new feature ideas while we were literally in a meeting about replacing everything except the frontend with apache airflow or similar.

like, no, we won’t be adding event/time based triggers. airflow does that already! that’s the point of this meeting dammit!

the data science team on the other hand are basically dogfooding our imaginary product, so their filter is a bit lesss harsh. they actually have problems that need solving in the imaginary product.

so i usually “negotiate” less with them and focus more on understanding why they want what they want.

don’t let shit roll down on the team basically.

that help clarify things? probably not :/
Thanks for the memories: Mars Bar closed 10 years ago today (2021)
What I do is split up my work by context into different screen (or tmux, depending on mood when I set up the computer) sessions. I have a script that attaches one by name if it's present and otherwise creates one with the name in question after setting an environment variable that's therefore inherited by any shells spawned in that screen session. Various things in my bashrc then look at that environment variable to point things at a context specific config directory, including setting HISTFILE to a context specific history file and sourcing a context specific bashrc (in which I often cd to a relevant directory and may set some variables, functions, and aliases specific to the context).
I could have been a billionaire many separate times. I failed to notice the opportunity.

> There are plenty of “smart” people who aren’t rich.

Of course. And the biggest barriers to success are:

1. not getting educated in what you want to do

2. being risk averse

3. not willing to commit to the work needed

4. doing drugs and alcohol

5. believe your friends and acquaintances telling you you can't make it

This forum is part of ycombinator, an outfit looking for startups to fund. You're already in the right place at the right time.
Semiconductors are a magical thing, and I’ve always felt like their quick obsolescence is a bit sad.

It’s really lovely to see that we can keep making them useful and relevant.