skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voters are dumb but not that dumb.
And that's just enough to feel shitty about your direct environment.
Geometry of Prompting: Distinct Mechanisms of Task Adaptation in Language Models
> We can wish everyone were good at everything, or we can try to actually get things done.

False dichotomy. There's no reason we can't have both.

I want to be clear, there's no perfect code or a perfect understanding or any of that. But the complaint here about not knowing /enough/ fundamentals is valid. There is some threshold which we should recognize as a minimum. The disagreement is about where this threshold is, and no one is calling for perfection. But certainly there are plenty who want the threshold to not exist. Be that AI will replace coders or coding bootcamps get you big tech jobs. Zero to hero in a few months is bull.
How can anyone make a generalized statement about “the algorithm” when it is by definition personalized?

All YouTube cares about is keeping you on the platform as long as possible.
AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications
Congrats on your 16th repeat post, despite advice otherwise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43028319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023765

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994728

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965584

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936135

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42885380

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809686

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766907

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42745402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720522

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42664297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42636854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42636762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631265
[dupe] Some earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040828
And again, the article explicitly mentions that, with a picture of a similar book:

> I don’t know how this first proto-Gorton was designed – unfortunately, Taylor, Taylor & Hobson’s history seems sparse and despite personal travels to U.K. archives, I haven’t found anything interesting – but I know simple technical writing standards existed already, and likely influenced the appearance of the newfangled routing font.
More than that, let's say the following sequence of events happen:

1. This whole situation with Trump flouting every Congress-passed law under the sun becomes understood by the general public as what it is: a coup.

2. There is massive (and effective) backlash, in whatever form that may be.

3. Now the next administration wants 100% justice for everyone who aided and abetted in the coup, no exceptions whatsoever. Apple, Google, Oracle, and Akamai will be asked to pay the fines they owe even if it threatens their existence.

It is astounding that Apple is just fine with this kind of tail risk for... no gain at all? Apple stock should have nosedived after the decision to re-allow TikTok downloads. It makes them liable for something like $5k per download.
Slightly more interesting changelog:

https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.4.4

That being said, this is a pretty boring release. Save the upvotes for 8.5 when it comes? :)
Yes, we're making you all come into the office just to annoy you all and cause you hassle. It has nothing at all to do with the effects it had on productivity, and people being discovered running their own side busineses at the same time, or watching television and countless other issues they can get away with without others being able to see their screens
Ah, thus we have another solution to the case of Dirk Gently's mystery sofa [1].

[1] https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase
Well he certainly made a big fuss the first time around, but it didn't stop him from losing. I can't predict the future but I also struggle to imagine how the "third term" scenario would even go. Trump's reelection issue is persistently that his policy-making is so poor that it basically advertises the opposition as soon as the primary starts. The DNC just has to pull back their radical candidates and push an affable nobody like Joe Biden and collect their free win.

The GOP's support isn't guaranteed throughout this administration, and they know a successor needs to be found. Amending the constitutional term limit would be a source of bipartisan outcry, because neither party would survive it.
That really sounds like no one bothered profiling the code. Which I'd say is underengineered, not over.
> The Musk love vs hate that people foolishly adopt as their identity is the result of a power struggle between teams of elites.

Hated is a strong word, but I've always disliked Musk and have no interest in Tesla because his repeated comments about "full self driving" showed that he's a liar. Everything since then has just proven my skepticism.

I don't think "Musk hate" is an identity. "Musk love," on the other hand, may be. It seems totally irrational sometimes.
I found it really useful for debugging errors. Missing an argument in a graphics call was always an easy fix. As I could rerun my code immediately and get feedback.
I’d also use it for “give me a strawman document for …” and I’d then do the hard work by hand to fill it in. I never trusted text output but always worked over significantly.
One thing I really enjoyed doing: I had to listen to a three hour presentation on IT governance. I captured the audio, converted to text, and then had copilot or gpt summarize and put together an outline. The audio was really not organized and there was no way I’d make it thru three hrs of note taking. I still spent some time going over the summary and filled in my content.
I have a homeless friend who got an unfair parking ticket. I wrote up a short note and used a LLM to grind down the city’s parking enforcement to get the fee dismissed. So it’s good for responding to dumb organizational requests.
I see a lot of people passing off auto generated work and it so often shows. To me it signals they are not to serious about what they are doing.
I do find if I use it, I can quickly do things mindlessly and not fully understand what I did. I need to balance that as I like to do the work and stretch my brain and sometimes that does not happen.
right-wing pundits, conspiracy-minded journalists, crypto enthusiasts

Sounds like source of all evil is wrong

and even Democratic politicians

Sounds like the even the angels are corrupted...

Seriously speaking, I'm always against putting labels on people because it usually is used to divide them to "those who you hate so you should not worry about them". Amplifying misinformation is also what I'm against so this sentence will always be obscured to me
Oh, that wasn’t comparative, just a note that Elon was promising fully self-driving cars for years, as I understood it, and hasn’t really delivered. I haven’t driven a car for years, but my understanding is that it’s very much still fancy driver assist: I’d have to be watching the whole time to check it isn’t about to kill me. Which is very impressive, sure, but isn’t what was promised.

My faith in Musk has dropped off in three phases, because I used to think he was awesome: “pedo guy” made me think he was an asshole, self-driving cars that don’t coming “next month” for years made me think I couldn’t trust what he says, and now the MAGA stuff makes me question his human decency.
Here’s one video above 1 hour and it works with Scribe https://www.appblit.com/scribe?v=FQUo2r-ow-k
TSMC Considers Running Intel's US Factories After Trump Team Request
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027150
I'm in my 40s. I prefer zoom meetings. I don't think mobile phone usage has all that much to do with it tbh. Some people just really seem to want other people to be in the room with them and at the same time are somewhat oblivious to the fact that we don't care or don't want to be there.
Is going to?

It already has. America has in three short weeks burned bridges with multiple countries that will not be rebuilt
Lift sofa upright, so i stands on one of the sides. If you look at it from above (like the animations), it’s now an L-shape (U-shape in the animations) with more space to move it around the corner.
One of the original Quake I implementations — as in authored by Carmack and Taylor themselves — used SVGAlib as a backend. I remember this because of having to configure my mouse to co-exist with GPM in some file in /etc for svgalib.

Nice breadcrumb: https://web.archive.org/web/19991008210746/http://webpages.m...
Absolutely, I didn’t want to give the impression any of this is good. I just wanted to correct the common misconception that issuing invalid EOs is, itself, a crime.
Put a CMS behind a well-configured CDN and it's essentially a static site generator. If you have cache invalidation figured out, you get all the speed and scalability benefits of a static site without ever having to regenerate your content.
If you're deliberately using that to prove Scala doesn't work for config than sure
I’ve recently started using Google Workspace to organize documents and do collaborative work. I still haven’t figured out much for organizing tasks beyond using Google Sheets tables feature. Is there a better way to organize (sometimes recurring) tasks with checklists, similar to what this article describes but using Google Workspace?
> 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.

Housing cost in popular areas/major cities is not solely an American problem. So a lot of the American-specific stories about why it's high - "zoning", "parking requirements", "NIMBY's" aren't fully satisfying.

Few places have solved it. Big successful cities often keep growing around the world which means constantly increasing demand which means an affordability trend that rarely goes in the right direction.

In a classically-efficient market, where those with the $$$ to do major development projects often substantially overlap with those who have major $$$ stake in prices staying high, few things are more necessary than housing so why wouldn't we expect the price to approach the max that individuals could bear?

Removing regulation isn't enough, IMO, since nobody with the money to make major investments in housing wants to rock the price boat too quickly or suddenly. You need proactive regulation on both pricing and public development efforts to undercut the current market.
If it's on its side, wouldn't it be a C? And how would that help get it around corners if, when viewed from above, all that matters is the footprint?
Others have pointed out DirectFB and SVGALib. Both very interesting. SVGALib was supported by a lot of commercial Linux game ports in the earlier days, whereas DirectFB was possibly one of the most serious alternatives to X11, although I think like most such projects it mainly found use in embedded devices (Coincidentally, Wayland seems to have finally unified some of the "embedded" and desktop use cases.)

These days SVGALib doesn't work and fbdev is deprecated. However, the "next-generation" Linux graphics stack can achieve a fairly similar goal using the DRM/KMS APIs, albeit it's definitely a lot more work if you just want a framebuffer. On the other hand, though, it's relatively straight-forward to get an EGL context and start doing hardware accelerated things. Maybe that takes some of the fun out of it, but I think it's pretty cool.
I think a consortium owning Intel Foundry would be less bad than TSMC. We need competition.
Ironic that orgs using everyone's content (fairly or not) stuffing AI down our throats are the ones aggressively against their users using AI on their services.
> If DOGE doesn’t provide enough benefits

But if it does, people involved will be the part of unique historical turnaround of a falling empire, and their names will be written in gold.
Due to this practice long predating me, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844 appearing next to this item, I misread it as "If you ever stacked gpus in gym class". I think that might also make an interesting sport to watch.
> You can teach an intern things, correct their mistakes, help them become better and your investment will lead to them performing better.

You can't do the same way you do with a human developer, but you can do a somewhat effective form of it through things like .cursorrules files and the like.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037668
A lot of these reasons also apply to Kotlin and Kotlin is arguably simpler than Scala, why not just use Kotlin? It is much more widely adopted than Scala.
One small culprit is the human tendency to think categorically and, as a consequence, to think metaphorically.

Abstractions and conceptual thinking can simplify reasoning if used responsibly, but more often this cognitive shortcut is abused to reach emotionally convenient conclusions.

Reasoning that contains the string "this is like" is usually suspect. This is a red flag that the individual has categorized the subject of analysis into an overly broad abstraction, and is now attempting to draw a spurious relation to some causally unrelated thing that allegedly belongs to the same category.

The difficulty is that this way of thinking is evolved and natural to us. This low-energy, cheap heuristic served us well in our simpler ancestral environments. It's maladaptive in the modern environment.

- https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-dangers-of-categorical-thinking

- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9343778-word-thinking-is-a-...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LQKk02pgmY
KDE Plasma had Activities that came close to this i think:

https://www.howtogeek.com/be-more-productive-in-linux-with-k...

Initially it seemed useful but it quickly felt like more of a chore. At work it's mostly just the same one IDE and one browser. For personal stuff I either used a different user account/different laptop and there was little benefit of activities for me after that.
This is good news

And finally non-political articles here lol
Uhh no I don't remember the jerky thing but I guess that was US only. We don't even have beef jerky in these parts (save for import stores)

But yeah it was a better time.
https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1ip7f87/the_ben...

Is pretty stoked
> I do not recall saying that Russia has seen 400 000+ casualties for each of the three years.

Thought you meant to say it was every year, my bad, I had no intention to misinterpret it.

> I do not recall saying that Russia has seen 400 000+ casualties for each of the three years. Quite the opposite: in the initial weeks of the invasion Russia made large gains with relatively tiny losses, estimated at low thousand a month. That progress has stalled and casualty rate has now grown tenfold to 48 670 dead and wounded for December 2024 (worst month of the entire invasion). January 2025 is narrowly behind with 48 240. The running total is estimated 850k+. The first year contributed 85k. The second year 300k. The third year 400k. Even if the pace of losses stops growing and remains where it currently is, Russia will lose another 12x48=576k this year.

> How is this not a disaster? I'd appreciate if you answered with a coherent paragraph instead of sniping every single sentence with a oneliner.

Not sure what your source is, but in general it's only the Russian Ministry of Defence that know the actual casualty numbers, but they aren't telling, other than that it speculation and depending who you ask you can get wildly different results.

Casualties include wounded and typically you have 4 wounded for each dead, which with your numbers would mean 170k deaths over 3 years, considering what they are up against this is to be expected, so in military terms I would not call this a disaster because if both sides are well equipped, it's just unavoidable. You can look at the Vietnam war for comparison.

Is it bad for society to lose this much of the male population? Of course it is, but one possible alternative scenario is that they get into an Israel - Gaza situation, which one can argue is even worse.

Do you think the US would have been willing to absorb similar levels of casualties if Mexico decided to join a military alliance with Russia or China?
Wow that brings back memories!
Ask HN: Would You Relocate to Finland?
I have secured a nice permanent tech job in the Finnish public sector. I like the country, but I have heard some concerning comments about the Finnish economy in a few HN threads.

Any Finns or foreigners living in Finland that are willing to share their opinion? I know it's hard to predict, but do you think the current economic difficulties are structural or just a temporary consequence of war?

Are you concerned by the geopolitical situation, with an aggressive neighbor possibly escalating sometime in the mid term?
That's unfortunate it's happening there as well (housing).

I hadn't thought about the sonic disturbance angle, I am all to familiar with the concept though as it applies to other instruments such as piano which fortunately I was able to get around with a digital piano and headphones.
Repeatedly refers to "Gaia ID" but never says what that is.
It's working fine, https://lemmynsfw.com/ (note: obviously very NSFW!)

Maybe they are blocking crawlers or something.
I passed the backend thing. Totally cheated though. lmao
How do these Nintendo handhelds work? i thought they use some kind of framebuffer for such great performance for the substandard quality hardware they use. Every generation of Nintendo chip is way behind Apple and Android systems yet they achieve remarkable performance.
The Joy of Nand2Tetris
Now the next step is for AI to filter out reviews written by AI.
Why can’t we let kids drive the school bus?
I feel a bit hurt. ;-)

I worked on a bunch of PSP titles, my personal favourite was Bloodlines - are you not entertained?
Guidance on Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Application and Workload Pillar
Cry. Bloodlines was something I worked on and was quite proud of. But you can't please everyone.
It’s not a false dichotomy at all. You only have so many hours in a day. At a startup, it’s very unlikely (certainly not impossible!) that your differentiation will come from very cheap system orchestration - your time is likely better spent on building your product.

Minimum knowledge is one thing; minimum time to apply it is another.
Core kubernetes (deployments, services etc..) is fairly easy to understand. lot of other stuff in the cncf ecosystem is immature. I don't think most people need to use all the operators, admission controllers, otel, service mesh though.

If you're running one team with all services trusting each other, you don't have problems solved by these things. Whenever you introduce a CNCF component outside core kubernetes, invest time in understanding it and why it does what it does. Nothing is "deploy and forget" and will need to be regularly checked and upgraded, and when issues come up you need some architecture-level of the component to troubleshoot because so many moving parts are there.

So if I can get away writing my own cronjob in 1000 lines rather than installing something from GitHub with a helm chart, I will go with the former option.

(Helm is crap though, but you often won't have much choice).
I've found this book, and Stepanov's previous work, to be among the most insightful ways of thinking about programming. But it's hard to distill, and we could wish for a much better language than C++ to express these ideas in.
Third party providers work through the APIs and thus do not have these issues. I use Kagi but there are many options out there for a price similar to the normal subscription, and plus you get a wider choice of models.
I just want to second this. Some of my close friends are PL people working on compilers. I was in HPC before coming to ML, having written a fair amount of CUDA kerenls, a lot of parallelism, and dealing with I/O.

While yes, I/O is often a computational bound, I'd be shy to really say that in a consumer space when we aren't installing flash buffers, performing in situ processing, or even pre-fetching. Hell, in many programs I barely even see any caching! TBH, most stuff can greatly benefit from asynchronous and/or parallel operations. Yeah, I/O is an issue, but I really would not call anything I/O bound until you've actually gotten into parallelism and optimizing code. And even not until you apply this to your I/O operations! There is just so much optimization that a compiler can never do, and so much optimization that a compiler won't do unless you're giving it tons of hints (all that "inline", "const", and stuff you see in C. Not to mention the hell that is template metaprogramming). Things you could never get out of a non-typed language like python, no matter how much of the backend is written in C.

That said, GPU programming is fucking hard. Godspeed you madman, and thank you for your service.
Same with my old man. He is a farmer in southern India. All the farms nearby are super identical with tall beetlenut trees. Im often confused where we are and which direction is the house, he is not. He has set over a 100 water gates across the farms and the instructions he gives is always east face or turn the gate north facing as an example.
Why make it easy for people to submit their tax return - when the government already has the bulk of that info since their employer, their banks, etc, already reported it - when INSTEAD you can let rich people hawk their paid products to get money from people for it instead? While still requiring more effort.

The corruption era is very simple: the government won't be allowed to directly provide a service that someone else could make $$$$ by being a middleman for.

It's somewhat ludicrous to have to "file taxes" in the computer era in the first place, but there's a large ideological resistance to both taxes and the government that in some of the more paranoid wings of the country that is well-exploited by the rent-seekers here.
We DID fall out of love, many months ago. Elon is a disgrace and I don't care if his cars fly. How can people ignore what he does.
> ultimatum

Yeah, I think there's a bigger issue with management here if this is how it was handled.
cloudflare looking for a new customer ?
Ignore what anyone says the intent or purpose is/was. Is anyone motivated to change the system?

For a more traditional phrasing: "actions speak louder than words."
If you have a system that's actually big or complex enough to warrant using Kubernetes, which, to be frank, isn't really that much considering the realities of production, the only thing more complex than Kubernetes is implementing the same concepts but half-assed.

I really wonder why this opinion is so commonly accepted by everyone. I get that not everything needs most Kubernetes features, but it's useful. The Linux kernel is a dreadfully complex beast full of winding subsystems and full of screaming demons all over. eBPF, namespaces, io_uring, cgroups, SE Linux, so much more, all interacting with eachother in sometimes surprising ways.

I suspect there is a decent likelihood that a lot of sysadmins have a more complete understanding of what's going on in Kubernetes than in Linux.
The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires
It's still around! Just under a new name/domain :)

https://deepcut.live/
Motivation for a New Oberon Version