skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really interested in further engaging here unless you're willing to engage with the topic** in a manner more substantive than 'I personally feel this topic is fluff* / propaganda* / advertorial* / biased* / ideological* / hysteriaporn* / some other shallow dismissal / etc, and I don't want to discuss it'.

I don't expect that I'll change your feelings about the topic**, and I don't want to oblige you to keep replying in a post about a topic** which you personally don't like and personally don't want to discuss.

* – all of these are shallow dismissals from you here

** – how europeans feel about american tech lately
> "No Capacity for New Commitments State Faces Annual Multiyear Deficits of Around $20b" [1]

The budget of California is $320B. This is more than the _entire_ discretionary budget of the US.

> "Ric Grenell, a Trump ally serving as his envoy for special missions, said Friday that “there will be conditions” to any federal aid for the state.

Yeah, these are public statements. I expect that there's frantic back-room dealing right now to make sure that the relief funds are not attached to any conditions. Because in the long-term, that will benefit the states that have money.

> Why would you assume the Democrats would do that?

Because the Democrats who are unwilling to play ball will not get re-elected. I'm not talking about this electoral cycle, this will take a bit more time. For Republicans, it took about 8 years to get from the Tea Party to MAGAs.
That might not be practical/possible for early days but this does seem like a bridge to that natural next step that /u/dweekly is saying which would quickly phase out this Gibberlink protocol.
Where did I compare a heat engine to a heat pump? An oil boiler certainly is not a heat engine.
Just who do you think is going to catch up? Germany? China? Wishful thinking in the extreme if you think anyone is going to fill the void.
GDPR doesn't allow any of that garbage.
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but the website certainly doesn't call out to LLMs under the hood! Agreed, that would be a terrible idea. LLMs were just used to help write the code for the site, tweaked my post to clarify.
The title of this article seems out of touch with reality. This entire article is a thoughtless fluff-piece that reads more like an advertisement. It's not fit for HN.
The sheer amount of gas this plane must have carried in order to fulfil its mission…
Feral domestic cats have colonies. I don't think their nearest wild relatives do, but its at least conceivable that colony structure of cats living around human populations, off of leavings and rats, etc., that were attracted to human populations developed first, then domestication happened later.
Mag-Thor is interesting it actually has rather poor overall thermal characteristic compared to most metals since its melting point is only circa 650c pretty much the same as magnesium but it basically shrugs any heat upto 350-400c depending on the alloy so it doesn’t changes its dimensions or becomes susceptible to mechanical deformation (it’s basically as hard at 350c at it is at room temp).
So it’s useful but only for very specific applications unlike say titanium. And today we have super alloys like inconel which can hold back heat creep up to 650c and it’s annealing starts at almost 900c.
How does your mummy smell? If it's ancient Egyptian, woody, spicy and sweet
https://archive.ph/3P7tw
Why should I wait? If I can't access the site to make a buying decision, imagine if I had a technical issue or needed support? Am I supposed to wait every time?

No thanks.
This is distributed as just a jar, should you can invoke it from Clojure, if that is what you mean.
Unfortunately if you live in a nice area, they assume everyone has a Rolex collection or loads of jewellery just hanging around. If nothing else they'll take the keys to your cars.
> Which means if you actually edited those files, you might fill up your HD much more quickly than you expected.

I'm not sure if this is what you intended, but just to be sure: writing changes to a cloned file doesn't immediately duplicate the entire file again in order to write those changes — they're actually written out-of-line, and the identical blocks are only stored once. From [the docs](^1) posted in a sibling comment:

> Modifications to the data are written elsewhere, and both files continue to share the unmodified blocks. You can use this behavior, for example, to reduce storage space required for document revisions and copies. The figure below shows a file named “My file” and its copy “My file copy” that have two blocks in common and one block that varies between them. On file systems like HFS Plus, they’d each need three on-disk blocks, but on an Apple File System volume, the two common blocks are shared.

[^1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/file_sy...
Depending in Common Lisp – Using the CLOS dependent maintenance protocol (2022)
GDPR also makes this practically impossible:

a camera pointed straight at your face every working moment
profiling
use of AI
So misleading, nothing about actually finding clients.
Patagonia CEO: Trump Shouldn't Sell Our Public Lands
I believe what programmers actually want is clean dialect-free C with sidecar files.

It seems people pretty universally dislike type annotations and overly verbose comments, like Ruby's YARD or Java's Javadoc. Also, if your new language doesn't compile with a standard C compiler, kernel usage is probably DOA. That means you want to keep the source code pure C and store additional data in an additional file. That additional file would then contain stuff like pointer type annotations, object lifecycle and lifetime hints, compile-time eval hints, and stuff to make the macros type safe. Ideally, your tool can then use the C code and the sidecar file together to prove that the C code is bug-free and that pointers are handled correctly. That would make your language as safe as Rust to use.

The hardcore C kernel folks can then just look at the C code and be happy. And you and your users use a special IDE to modify the C code and the sidecar file simultaneously, which unlocks all the additional language features. But as soon as you hit save, the editor converts its internal representation back into plain C code. That means, technically, the sidecar file and your IDE are a fancy way of transpiling from whatever you come up with to pure C.
It's also the law in the EU.
Random thought: someone should drive to Chicago, get a parking ticket, and then make a FOIA request for all of their information contained in that database.

It won't be the whole database schema, but it would be a start.
One of the sources of this, which is now over, was the exponential increase in computing power. You could add complexity and your code would always run faster anyway, one of the popular benchmarks saw worse results on average than last year which never happened before. There are a lot of reasons for it some more speculative than others, and clearly computers will get faster in the future. But still.

No longer can software engineers arbitrarily add bloat and just get away with it.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/new-benchmark-shows...
Application compatibility mattered a lot back then. There was no Microsoft Word or Excel for IRIX and Google Docs / Google Sheets didn't exist, for example. Many of the prosumers wouldn't have been able to use it as a daily driver. I recall that Adobe ported Photoshop to IRIX at one point, but I think it was gone by '97.
>As a non-Parisian: the hard distinction between "metro" and "train" can be non-obvious

Do you know the difference between "train" and "subway", because "the metro" is just a subway, just like in NYC or commonly found elsewhere in almost any large city.
Engineering Manager Interview Preparation
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02551-2
Not to make this thread about the B-52, the thing has been operational long enough for 3 generations from one family to fly it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430802/David-Welsh...
> Each state would have to work within the constraints of its state level constitution for levying that tax.

Interstate compacts exist. For example, states can make an agreement that a company can receive grant funds only if it's incorporated in a state that spends a certain percentage of the budget on scientific research.

San-Francisco (in a ham-fisted way) tried to do something similar, by prohibiting city-sponsored contracts with companies in states that restrict abortion.
It was filed and granted without DigiCerts input, yes, but DigiCerts lawyer showed up within 24 hours but then did not do anything. See the courtlistener link: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68995396/alegeus-techno...

Timeline:

Jul 30, 2024 - ORDER granting 2 Ex Parte Motion for TRO. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that DigiCert is prohibited from revoking the security certificates for the Alegeus Websites for a period of seven (7) day

Jul 31, 2024 - NOTICE of Appearance by Jess M. Krannich on behalf of DigiCert

...

Aug 3, 2024 - DOCKET TEXT ORDER. 9 Joint Motion to Vacate 3 Order Granting Ex Parte Motion for TRO is GRANTED

Looking at that timeline, I can see why other CA forum members are asking "are you really taking this seriously?" The whole point is that such a restraining order was definitely a bad call by the judge and should absolutely have been contested immediately by any legal team that was interested in representing the security interests of the CA Browser Forum (which, ya know, members of the CA Browser Forum should do in such cases, hence why they're in the CA Browser forum). The fact that DigiCerts legal team did show up for that TRO and then did not act to try to defend their ability to secure their certs, is a bad thing. If you want to be a CA, you gotta be willing to defend your need to act in the name of security, and to defend that in a social, business, and legal context. The point of CAs in the world is not to make money, it is to provide security services. Responding with "hey, but my legal obligations in my country mean I can't always do that" is a valid explanation, but it also means that the rest of the CA Browser Forum should probably not trust you.
Is there a saner macro language out there, or is this due to the intrinsic complexity of macro languages?
Well companionship is a type of service too. Dogs that are emotional service animals do many compassionate things for their human owners to make them feel better.
That one, though, is because we are running into physical limits: if we want to build things out of atoms, we can't make features that are half an atom thick. Even above that scale, physical effects that used to be ignorable, like quantum tunneling, no longer are.

From the late 70s through about 2005, scaling semiconductor generations was easy. MOSFET scaling followed rules formulated by Dennard, which provided a fairly easy method of scaling semiconductor designs from one generation to the next, keeping power density roughly constant and continually improving performance. The problem is that by around 2005, if you did it that way, your gates were no longer switches, they were dimmers, and leakage power started to dominate, and that meant that chip architectures had to change radically to keep on scaling.

So, we can no longer just scale designs from one generation to the next, we have to come up with completely new approaches. That's much harder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
All G Achieves Self-Affirmed GRAS Status for Animal-Free Lactoferrin in US
Chicory is how we're able to run newly popular MCP servers on Android!

https://docs.mcp.run/blog/2024/12/27/running-tools-on-androi...
Can you please elaborate what do you mean more precisely? I am not sure I understand. If 5 bln tonnes is total CO2 emissions, how else would you calculate the contribution of petrol/diesel car industry?
Online chemistry poster conference continues to grow as it hits 10th anniversary
https://archive.ph/RipR6
>which is probably really unique

Wonder what the distribution is here, on average? I know certain file types tend to cluster in specific ranges.

>maybe it’s better to just compare byte by byte? You’ll have to read the whole file to generate the hash

Definitely, for comparing any two files. But, if you're searching for duplicates across the entire disk, then you're theoretically checking each file multiple times, and each file is checked against multiple times. So, hashing them on first pass could conceivably be more efficient.

>if you just compare the bytes there is no chance of hash collision

You could then compare hashes and, only in the exceedingly rare case of a collision, do a byte-by-byte comparison to rule out false positives.

But, if your first optimization (the file size comparison) really does dramatically reduce the search space, then you'd also dramatically cut down on the number of re-comparisons, meaning you may be better off not hashing after all.

You could probably run the file size check, then based on how many comparisons you'll have to do for each matched set, decide whether hashing or byte-by-byte is optimal.
Short answer -- already been done.

This (spoiler) visualization's going into my eventual post about the lawsuit: https://observablehq.com/d/026992341cc47ff0
I’ve been having issues parsing the LLM responses using Ollama and llama3.2, deepseek-r1:7b and mistral-small. I think the lack of structured output/schema is hurting it here
Ignoring everything the taxes pay for. The parts being the Federal Bureaucracy and all the services it provides.
Been freelancing full time for about 8 years. Linkedin and some experience in my field and not much else.
Thanks! I appreciate the kind reply—a nice change from how these things usually go. And I'm grateful to hear that you feel that way about HN. (What you say about how it changed your life is true in my case too, which is one reason why I'm doing this job.)

> I don't follow this, sorry.

Oh, I just meant that it sounds like you spotted something (the video in this case, I assume) that should not have been on an official YC launch page. I was being careful with my wording because I haven't looked at any of the details and haven't myself seen the video—I'm only going by the reactions that people are having to it.
Note what's on the frontpage of the homepage:

> LLMs break traditional software development

> Develop your Prompts and Agents in code or UI

...

So of course the blog post is an ad, peddling what they want potential customers to think.

I don't doubt that we'll eventually come to a point where most code is written by AI, but that point is not at all where we are at right now, and for quite a while we'll need developers to drive the development process.
I mean...maybe. The title should be "Engineers are not needed for prompting LLMs"? Yes, LLMs can write code. But I don't think they are at the level yet to build and maintain complex and high-stakes systems with a few prompts.
PMs (generally) can't tell if AI wrote bad code.
Thanks.

At a quick glance, that book seems to align well with APoSD --- what aspects do you believe run counter to it?
I actually assume that this tech will almost immediately be used worse than in the video skit.

If anything, I think they're unaware or sugar-coating it, but not doing a great PR job of that for US audiences.
> Especially given how close we are to monetary collapse if we continue to borrow from the future at the rate we have the last 5 years.

Source for this claim?
Yes, I was able to figure out a secure way to control the browser with AI Agents at rtrvr.ai without using debugger permissions/tools so it is most definitely possible.

I meant by in production in the sense how you are advising your users to setup the local installation. Even if you launch browser use locally within a container but your restarting the user's Chrome in debug mode and controlling it with CDP from within the container, then the door is wide open to exploits and the container doesn't do anything?!
I understand that, but what I'm replying to says: "TBH ISPs that hand out /64's shouldn't be allowed to say that they support IPv6 because it's a completely non-standard — not as in "uncommon", but as in "violates the documented standards" - setup."
depends on your definition of touch.
Wouldn't we all love it if some other country(ies) would contribute? Unfortunately, neither Europe nor China will in any appreciable amount, despite whatever the propaganda systems are currently saying. The US is the only game in town, and will remain so.
Mystery illness has killed more than 50 people in Congo
this. i have a shiba inu. one of the most picky, stubborn breeds. he can be food-motivated but it depends on which treat i offer him. some have higher value to him than others. In addition, sometimes they won’t motivate him at all if there’s something else he deems worthy of his focus.
amazing. f1 score = 1
Ah, the issue is contextual flux in your Clood-Cline stack. Just quantum defrag the file vectors, reverse-polarize the delta stream, and inject a neural bypass. If that fails, reboot the universe. One-shot cloodfile guaranteed.

/i
(–)-Scabrolide B (Again)
https://archive.ph/q3ecO
The schema describes the database layout. The file layout (if you were going to call it that) in a modern RDBMS would describe how the RDBMS implemented a particular database layout as described by the schema.
Hi Hexator,

OP here. Thanks for the (harsh!) feedback, I'll take it in a growth mindset.

The post does genuinely reflect my experiences and I do believe what I said.How would you advise I change the post to make it better?

Which parts do you think are untrue?

Thanks!
> Interstate compacts exist.

Not without positive action by Congress they don't. (US Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 10.)
DARL is a web-based service that allows developers to generate various assets from their public GitHub repositories. Some examples of assets that you can create include blog posts, logos, landing pages, articles and readmes. If you need smth else, you can use the custom prompt feature. New users get $5 worth of free credits.
Jamie Dimon now regrets elements of his work from home rant
Here we get paid to get education. And student housing is affordable if you at least work somewhat on the side.

That's why we pay such a high tax. And do it with respect for raising the bar of possible equality.

On the other side of that. I believe young people is being treated with a safer hand than my own generation. The cultural aspect of this is imo about things has been too easy, almost sedating.
Yep, I haven't tried this particular project but that's my overall experience with similar projects as well. Smaller models that can be ran locally in compute-poor environments really need structured outputs and just prompting them to "you can ONLY return a python list of str, WITHOUT any other additional content" (a piece of prompt from this project) is nowhere sufficient for any resemblance of reliability.

If you're feeling adventurous, you can probably refactor the prompt functions in https://github.com/zilliztech/deep-searcher/blob/master/deep... to return additional metadata (required output structure) together with the prompt itself, update all `llm.chat()` calls throughout the codebase to account for this (probably changing the `chat` method API by adding an extra `format` argument and not just `messages`) and implement a custom Ollama-specific handler class that would pass this to the LLM runner. Or maybe task some of those new agentic coding tools to do this, since it looks like a mostly mechanical refactoring that doesn't require a lot of thinking past figuring out the new API contract.
hmm, maybe the client could include a same origin cache state bloom filter in the request.

although i suppose it's a solved problem these days.
Jamie Dimon's Viral RTO Rant Could Spell Trouble for JPMorgan
>The boards won't be in places you want to be (in particular: a lot of them are Facebook Groups) and you just have to suck it up. But if you enjoy participating in a community like HN, you can participate in politics, too, and message-board your way towards making things happen.

How do you figure out where to go?
I’ve been consulting for close to 7 years in robotics now, robotics being a niche field I guess it has been a bit easier for me to find clients. I never had a period without a client and never had to do cold outreach.

Here are some things I learned:
* You can usually charge way more per project basis instead of charging by the hour but it’s crazy difficult to get it right for R&D projects
* Most of my clients came to me through my blog
* 2 years ago UpWork was surprisingly good for finding projects, these days there is lots of AI stuff coming from freelancers when they apply and I’m not so sure anymore
* Discuss price as early as possible to not waste time

I wrote a series of blog posts on my journey in case anyone is interested (I’m quite sure you will find the above points there): https://msadowski.github.io/5-years-remote-robotics-consulti...

This year I might write another update to share a painful lesson on having all your eggs in one basket and not spending time on working your blog.
I'm not sure what data you're using to prove this but it seems like many of the largest brands in the US are still using sweatshop labor [1]. Many still have no idea of what's going on in Xinjiang [2]

1. https://yoursustainableguide.com/brands-that-use-sweatshops/
2. https://whatishappeninginxinjiang.com/brands-linked-to-xinji...
I’m SWE on a product and generally agree with this, at least for user-facing prompts. Once you’re walking an LLM thru OOXML it’s better done directly by ENG.

For tools, not clear how this works since as you adjust parameters and whatnot you’re also presumably changing the code downstream when you “execute the call”.

But probably both sides of this will be done by LLMs directly in the future. I rarely write or tune prompts by hand now.
Southwest Jet Near Collision in Chicago Midway
Rice paddies to resorts: declassified spy sat images reveal Bali transformation
Hi,

I totally agree that we're not at a point where AI can write most code. Though, I didn't ever say that. I just think its blurring the boundary between engineers and PMs with both taking on more of the others role.

Also, it shouldn't be surprising that the product we're building is aligned with what we believe about the world :)

R
How is resigning a way to serve that oath?
But on the other hand, in all database systems the schema is used to determine how the files are laid out. Although I suppose the same thing could be argued for any data that is stored in a file, excepting that a schema is metadata that determines the organisation of data so it's a bit of a special case.
They took your advice and changed it to "Mysterious illness".
slightly off topic: does anyone have the link to genetic arguments dogs descend from wolves, rather than dogs and wolves being both descended from a common proto-canine? i should be able to find such, the article alludes to such as a foregone conclusion, but no luck.
On HN, all humans, aka non AI bots, do understand the underlaying consequences and usually have a pertinent perspective on the technical cost of the web engines from the whatng cartel.

If you don't want to understand that, I cannot do much more.
The GoP hates "big tech" but at the first chance they get they put big tech in charge of everything.
> where the only way to get at the underlying data is to FOIA a database query

Was this ever attempted?

SELECT * FROM `information_schema`.`tables`;
I can't believe your site does not include the notorious SGI screwdriver, the mighty SGI #9980915

http://industrialarithmetic.blogspot.com/2011/04/sgis-finest...

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/fele3v...
This does not matter for total energy usage calculations unless you consider the environmental heat to be an input, but as far as the industry is concerned, it is free, which is why the COP for heat pumps is greater than 1.