skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: the PC.

The minicomputer revolution was meant to replace all the big iron in the basement with computers shared by teams. This lasted a decade until we got computers meant for one person and we've used that format of computation for nearly 50 years now.

Everyone is talking about how AI will replace people.

It won't.

AI without HI is useless. However, HI with AI is much better at handling all the bullshit office work that needs to get done—anyone who doesn't understand this is either an idiot, a troglodyte, or already has an expendable army of minions doing their work.

The surge in AI demand won't be top-down but bottom-up. That stupid office birthday wish card being passed around? I can Shakespeare the motherfucker. And that email to the big boss telling him the project is doomed and that he needs a compass to find his own ass? Let's ask R1.

>My boss is a moron who can't find his ass without a compass. His latest tech initiative will cost us millions and make the best staff leave. Write a professional letter that covers those points without being harsh.

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Subject: Request for Review of Upcoming [Tech Initiative]

Dear [Recipient Name/Team Name],

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share some thoughts regarding our upcoming [Tech Initiative Name], as I believe open dialogue will ensure its success while aligning with our team’s strengths and long-term goals.

While the initiative’s intent to innovate is commendable, I’ve observed several potential challenges that may impact its effectiveness:

Financial Impact: Based on preliminary analysis, the projected costs appear to be significantly higher than initially estimated. A detailed cost-benefit review or phased rollout might help mitigate financial risk while allowing us to test feasibility.

Team Retention Concerns: Many of our top performers have expressed reservations about the initiative’s current structure, particularly around [specific pain point, e.g., workflow disruption, lack of clarity]. Retaining their expertise will be critical to execution, and their insights could refine the plan to better address on-the-ground needs.

To ensure alignment with both our strategic objectives and team capacity, I respectfully suggest:

Conducting a collaborative risk assessment with department leads.

Piloting the initiative in a controlled environment to gather feedback.

Hosting a forum for staff to voice concerns/solutions pre-launch.

I’m confident that with adjustments, this project can achieve its goals while preserving morale and resources. Thank you for considering this perspective—I’m eager to support any steps toward a sustainable path forward.

Best regards,
> and put together sloppily made Chinese made parts

... and you can't even blame the Chinese.

I've worked a bit for companies having custom hardware manufactured in China. The factory will build exactly what you pay them for.

From sloppy stuff thrown into a box and shipped untested to clean work with reliable parts and a burn in test done before it leaves the factory. It's just that every additional step costs extra and the dignified western industrialists are trying to save money there...
I don't understand why people are so opposed to starting a bootstrapped consulting company. You can start as a single man shop and then hire people and expand.

I'm running a consultancy in a LCOL area. Last year we made 400k revenue, 150k profit and 40% growth. We already have verbal agreements for around 400k worth of sales for this year. We have the employees for 600k revenue and if we manage to bring in more sales we can grow the team to meet demand. 600k revenue would mean 250k profit for us.

I can easily see us growing the company to a few million revenue in the coming years. Making lots of profit while having the option of selling the company for a lot of money if a nice offer comes along. Sure it won't be making me a billionaire, but I can easily see myself building generational wealth here.

My country has public tax records for all companies over 250k revenue. The story is very often with product companies that they have burnt 2, 5, 10 million to achieve 2-3m ARR while still making a loss.
Indieweb lacks discoverability, a way to get random indie blog posts is exactly what the indiweb needs, great idea !
https://archive.md/aUOAv
Who's taking the baton?
John Oliver has episode trump 2.0 that shows video evidence of exactly this.
qBittorrent + VueTorrent is not perfect, but it's hard to find anything better. If you haven't tried it, take a look.

https://github.com/VueTorrent/VueTorrent
FediMeteo: Weather Forecasts, Directly on the Fediverse
I'm not disagreeing with what you are saying, but I think the issue at hand is very different than what you are arguing about and must be taken in context of the greater game design: past CIV 4, the game design got disconnected and ran ahead of the AI. I'd imagine that the AI in the later games is actually much more advanced, but it feels incredibly dumb. Truly catastrophically dumb, because the game mechanics were not made in mind with the capabilities of the AI, or the AI was not made smart enough to function with the game mechanics. I'd argue the latter is much more difficult to do (and here we agree), but it doesn't excuse the development team.

Take one of the most controversial features of CIV 5: one unit per tile. On the face of it, this is a great feature that opens up interesting tactical opportunities. Blockading, the importance of terrain, formations etc.

Unfortunately, whether due to unwillingness or lack of competence, the AI was completely befuddled by this. It'd make big armies, and then be fundamentally incapable of moving them. It would shuffle units one by one around endlessly and get stuck in the smallest of congestions.

This is not about whether an AI should play to win like a human or it should roleplay. I agree - and the majority of playerbase agrees - that the CIV AI should primarily roleplay. We all remember the frustrating double-crossing bastards during the early days of CIV 5.

This is not about the AI being complex or not. This is about making a game where the AI is competent, and this is not just the AI being some super smart intelligence in absolute terms. It is (mostly) about designing the game such that the AI can appear competent and pose a threat where the human player can feel like they are playing against an opponent that can test their skill, instead of just trying to beat some pre-determined math that is stacked against them.

CIV 4 was a game built in an era where computers were orders of magnitude less capable, and yet the AI in the game poses a much better and more competent appearing threat than in the current iterations. Not because it was more advanced, but because the game was built such that the AI didn't need to be that advanced. The AI still cheated of course, but it only needed a few simple heuristics and rules to build doomstacks that appeared "smart". A simple A* was enough for it to navigate this doomstack to your capital and make you sweat.

Now we have very complex tactical battles with positioning and formations, but this would require vastly more complex AI to do well. Unfortunately, the AI has not kept up, so we are left with opponents that appear dumb as bricks because they don't play the game the human plays. The AI simply spawns resources and armies into existence out of thin air in ever more blatant ways. The less the AI plays by the same rules the player has to, the less it feels like a story and more like a math puzzle.
For the world servers and supercomputers to run on Windows.... /s
This is a hilarious concept and would probably genuinely help. Nicely done!

I used to have a similar issue with hiding inside all the time (during Covid times, of course) and to motivate myself to go outside, I started an Instagram of tiny little plants growing in cracks in the pavement. I tried to add a new tiny plant every day or two, which meant that I had to wander further and further afield to find a suitable specimen. It wasn't perfect, but was quite motivating.
So what happens at runtime if errors are found?
Rust does ok at this but typically works better with some tooling to make register and bit flag manipulation look more like normal rust functions. chiptool and svd2rust do this for microcontroller code using all rust. The only asm needed is going to be the bootup to setup enough to run rust (or C)
Can't agree - I didn’t base my thoughts on that article. The idea came to me naturally while I was having lunch and realized I instinctively avoided using my phone. That moment made me reflect on the broader issue of being present in whatever we do. It led me to think about how addicted we’ve become to social media, including my own teenage kids, who often spend time just watching TikTok videos.

I’ve now read the article, and I see it touches on similar themes, but that’s expected - we’re discussing the same concepts from different angles. It’s a shared experience, because the issue is real and widely felt.
Why We Moved from SQLite to DuckDB: 5x Faster Queries, ~80% Less Storage
Can we change it to unblock only when I do 10 pushups? I would love to get that to my Nephew and Nieces phone
Well you're typically not thinking of a compilation step with Clojure.. so I found the original question a bit not-applicable

The goal isn't to introduce .. a compilation step? but to have the program blow up in the spot where there is an type mismatch. If you don't use a protocol you may not blow up, you may generate a nil, and you may blow up much further down the line (or not at all)

In the rare instances where dynamic types cause problems, they're virtually always something convoluted like that. The protocol design pattern describes the interface and protects you from hard to debug situations
So the Android work has been merged? Does this mean anything for Hu Jianwei's builds (of Emacs and Termux) at [1]? Having them in an obscure SourceForge repo seems less than optimal; getting Obtainium to understand the repo structure was not super fun...

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs...
Is there an Android version coming soon?

Also it would be better if you kept Instagram uninstalled... I see it installing on the screenshot!
Indeed, from their conclusions:

> They [VLMs] are generally more capable of "looking past the noise" of scan lines, creases, watermarks. Traditional models tend to outperform on high-density pages (textbooks, research papers) as well as common document formats like tax forms.

Which is a bit confusing? Did they test that or what? It doesn't seem that way from their limited dataset.
my neighborhood is very low on grass
will tree support be added?
I like them better and we have a lot more of them

sincerely,
Lorax
I thought it quantifies the probability that a certain word (their output) follows a given word sequence (their training corpus and the prompt)?
It should be noted that in this example we are comparing insufflation vs injection, which has a very different bioavailability and effect on the body.

I think for therapy with humans it is also given as a nasal spray.
Hi, I'm interested in scraping steam too. Do you have the scraper code available open source or one you recommend?
Maybe the next administration should keep up the tariffs (as Biden did to a degree). Cheap trade with China distorts the tech sector too. Jobs and Wozniak were the products of a system in which americans had to build products at home. Tim Cook is the product of a system where you can become a trillion company by hyper-optimizing foreign supply chains. Which is better?
It's not brain-compilability, it's getting used to what that specific compiler does with your code you brain-compile.

So, I have a model for my code in my brain, and this code also has a real-world behavior after it's compiled by your favorite toolchain. You do both enough times, and you'll have a feeling for both your code and the compiler's behavior for your code.

This feeling breaks when you change languages. I can brain-compile Go for example, but compiler adds other things like GC and null-pointer protection (carry local variables to heap if you're going to hit a null pointer exception after returning a function). Getting used to this takes time. Same for Rust.
Over here (austria), you are pretty free to leech as much as you want, but as soon as you actually start seeding at any capacity, people start paying very close attention.
It doesn’t matter how much they try to walk it back and not sound so criminally insane. Refer again to my second paragraph: The issue is, would the author ever think of writing this article for any other instance of saving lives? If not, then it’s a case of selective focus, the same problem in this submission.

I mean, why not just say the organ shortage is bad, without pointing the finger at the latest hip, hot button issue, out of all the possible life-savers?
Yes, even qBitorrent "destroys" your other connection at maximum speeds.
If you have to tell others that then perhaps some introspection for yourself might be helpful. Comes across more as denial than constructive commentary.

I do believe the benefit decreases the more senior or familiar the work is but there is still a noticeable benefit and I think it largely depends on the velocity and life cycle of the product. I think you get less benefit the slower the velocity or the more mature of a product. To deny it like in your post is simply being an intellectual minimalist.
> Sorry, but going 210+ km/h on any public road is absolutely idiotic on every level. Not only is it unsafe (no, there is no valid argument to suggest otherwise when mingling with traffic that is driving 130km/h slower or more than you on the same road), but it is also environmentally irresponsible.

You do know we're talking about the Autobahn, right? One of the safest, most well-maintained road networks in the world? It's fine that you prefer to drive slowly on such roads, but many people prefer to drive faster. It sounds like you are well suited for EVs.
Nice idea. I feel like we don't see as many fun/whimsical apps these days as we did 10-15 years ago.
Unfortunately, BEAM VM is very slow compared to multiple other languages including Go. It's great when starting out with a few developers, however, since Go and Rust are much more performant, it is possible to hire several more Go or Rust developers with the server cost savings instead of being tied to Elixir. There is always a trade off between easy to use and high performance.

But, yeah, if I was going to bootstrap a startup at the seed level, Elixir is the best choice for backend. If I'm spending $500K+ a year on infrastructure, I'll be looking at Go and Rust.
This is true for everything, but it's more obvious when you only have ~200 speakers.
Looking around I don't find any maintained projects for this purpose.
I had always assumed from the amount of attention that was paid to them that the tribe adjacent to my city numbered in the tens of thousands spread out across the greater area. I found out last year that the tribe's population is only around 400 members in total, with only around half of them living in their ancestral territory (which is now a suburb).
Why does it matter if the AI is "cheating"? There's nothing inherently virtuous about symmetric advantages, and Civ is already highly asymmetric in its fundamental design (map generation, spawn locations, faction bonuses). If you wish you had the option of facing a human-like opponent without inherent advantages, that's fair. But it's entirely unfounded to claim that giving an opponent advantages is somehow intrinsically illegitimate. It's a game, the nature of the challenge is an extraordinarily broad design space.
Yeah, this just seems like a great opportunity for a European startup scene. Even though plenty of bad things happened under Joe Biden - the relationship with the US was fine. Every morning you wake up to see crazy stuff Trump said and that really plants a seed.
I've brought my company's JavaEE 7 web application through NetBeans' upgrade life cycle, starting at NetBeans 8 I think. 10 or so years ago. NetBeans was great, when I first started, around version 8 or 9 - almost every "EE" feature worked. The years during transition to Jakarta were rough, most EE features lost.

However during this time I've learned a lot more about java as IDE "magic" was mostly gone. (Converting ant to gradle, better understanding of dependency management, jaxws wsdl generation, better understanding of the deployment and application container, probably more...)

I'll probably upgrade to 25 soon. Now-a-days there's never any problems when I upgrade, I guess because I'm no longer reliant on any IDE feature. At this point NetBeans is just a text editor with remote debugging capability. I enjoy it.
Clojure is like that, but because data structures are default immutable, and all of the standard library (and the vast majority of 3rd party libraries) are also default immutable, the stress level is much lower.

You can still get mutability and I do this on every project. But it's a very small percentage of the code, less that 1%, and also well-defined.

Something like FlowStorm [0] isn't really practical in anything but Clojure, and things like Clerk [1] are easy and very natural.

[0] https://www.flow-storm.org/
[1] https://clerk.vision/
>PS. there are many other treatments that doctors will give you before reaching for the big guns; those can be very effective too.

This part can sometimes be difficult if you are in crisis. There’s lots of other options like you mention but they tend to take longer to see an effect. Ketamine can be very immediate in that regard. I remember it being like a light switch and thinking “wow this is how others must feel!”. And just seeing, even once, that it is at least chemically possible for your own brain to work/think like that can be very inspiring and hopeful esp when it feels like it hadn’t been worked correctly for a long time (or ever)
I am very resourceful so I got around this by setting a 14 minute timer to outsmart the Ai.

"Your 40 minute timer starts now".
The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI
My new favourite is am seeing is clojure doesnt have enough syntactic sugar.

SMH.
Society Skills: The Normative-Harmful Alignment Chart
I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go [video]
Daikatana
Trying my hand at an autonomous AI coding "assistant", via https://mycoder.ai
Fucking hell indeed. I couldn't read the whole thing, only the first couple of pages.
Thanks man - glad you liked it!
On a smaller scale it reminds me of the original concept of Light Table, which let go of the abstraction of individual files in favor of editing your code in a tree like structure. It's a shame this concept seems to have died out, I'd be curious about alternatives to plain file based UX.
MongoDB Buys Voyage AI for $220M to Bolster AI Search
> They are not actually concerned with preventing child abuse.

Wasn't Starmer even part of the political forces trying to cover abuses up? To not "rock the boat" or something like that?

You don't need to marry Musk, but I think he was on point here. Their surveillance ambitions are clear as well, because negative press is of course unfortunate.
Not quite sure why he thought ketamine would be safer than LSD. Maybe because the local pharmacy carries it?
Perhaps the personal financial risk and working stress isn't as great as it might seem?

Imagine I'm a qualified plumber. I've got my own tools, vehicle, and insurance.

I can work as a subcontractor for a local plumbing business. They'll pay me $250 per day when they have work for me. I get no income when there's no demand, and I get no holidays or sick pay.

Or I can start my own plumbing business, and charge customers $100 per hour. Sure, I've got to pick up the marketing and giving quotes and sending out invoices - but if I can get the work coming in, I get a lot more money.
Appropriation bills don't go as far as they used to anymore as well...
> “…place the responsibility on others.”

It’s a pattern for action, not for making decisions. I’ve been trained and my job is well understood by managers and decision makers in my organization. Many situations arise which are in scope of my job, but are new or appear different but are not.

I use this technique every week. I don’t need to provide deep reasons. If what I’m doing or why I’m doing it is not already apparent to managers, then they have this opportunity to check in.

If I already know what I’m working on is unusual and needs explanations, then this pattern isn’t appropriate, and a detailed email followed by heads up phone call is my go to.
A small library which uses a fork of OpenSCAD which adds Python support: https://pythonscad.org/ to allow writing out DXF files and G-code and modeling how G-code will cut in 3D:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

Writing it in a TeX editor using a Literate Programming system developed in the course of working on it, the PDF should give both a good overview, and provide all the code.

It has greatly expanded/restored my math/geometry and has me looking forward to how to implement Bézier Curves and surfaces using similar math (since G-code and CGAL are fundamentally limited to lines and arcs and what can be easily made from such constructs).
> Two hours on autobahn driving 90-120km/h in city zones or just plain stuck in traffic because of construction is like 30% at best.

I just don't believe you. This would result in a real world range of 800km at highway speeds. Even the most expensive EVs like the Lucid Air would struggle to do this. Especially in cold weather, and especially at highway speeds. This makes me doubt your claim about doing a 7,000km road trip and never experiencing any of the issues I outline. I've never met an EV owner in my life who has never experienced at least some of those. You could have at least made your lie believable.
> children from generational wealth who play obscure sports from an early age to give them an edge in admissions

This sounds like a cut scene from Wes Anderson's 1998 film Rushmore. Can you name some of the sports? This sounds like fun. In my mind, the #1 prestige sport is rowing. It makes golf look like a sport for poor people. Also: Dressage (show jumping with horses). To be clear: I still respect people who are very good at rowing or dressage, but they are almost always from uber wealthy families.
Can see this being really useful especially as the underlying tech keeps getting better. What video models are you using under the hood?
Do you think engineering managers are doing a ton of technical work day-to-day? Because a "Chief Engineer" is a level (or two or three) above that. Of course the Chief Engineer isn't doing a ton of low-level technical works, that's not the job.
The least secure TOTP code possible
What was your exact prompt? I just asked Gemini the question and it gave me the information requested.
> There's a large (...) proportion of the population who...

That's sadly true in a lot of places. Throw in all the optimism vigilantes - who react badly to any suggestion that the police & justice systems aren't straight out of some "Happy Sunshine Good Guys" children's book - plus all the folks who are trivial to stampede with claims that the gov't somehow needs Yet Another Power (to fight pedophiles, terrorists, or whatever pushes their buttons), and the convenient de-emphasis of history in recent decades...

Yeah. Outside of those currently being beaten with the short & dirty end of the stick, freedom has very few supporters.
If you enable Autofill > Copy TOTP Automatically, when you use that keybind it'll copy the TOTP to your clipboard so that you can paste it in when prompted for it
First thing would not to vote for Starmer who probably was involved in covering up polically inconvenient child abuse.

Better start with that or few people will believe your intent.