skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why isn't the charitable interpretation that the system works well, there is even correction built into it, since they backtrack when necessary?
> These clowns want $2500 goddamned american dollars for the privilege of reading their bloviations on this topic, which i absolutely will not pay.

You aren’t the target market for their “bloviations” - they are targeted at executives, and it isn’t like the executive pays this out of their own pocket, there is a budget and it comes out of the budget. Plus these reports generally aren’t aimed at technical people with significant pre-existing understanding of the field, their audience is more “I’m expected to make decisions about this topic but they didn’t cover it in my MBA”, or even “I need some convincing-sounding talking points to put in my slides for the board meeting, and if I cite an outside analyst they can’t argue with that”

Commonly with these reports a company buys a copy and then it can be freely shared within the company. Also $2,500 is likely just the list price and if you are a regular customer you’ll get a discount, or even find you’ve already paid for this report as part of some kind of subscription
Easy, he blames the carnage on someone else. Immigrants, the "left", trans people, and so on. Rinse and repeat.
That's not a scare quote. It's just a proposed subtext of the quote. Sarcastic, sure, but no a scare quote, which is a specific kind of thing. (from your linked wikipedia: "... around a word or phrase to signal that they are using it in an ironic, referential, or otherwise non-standard sense.")
still can't deal with sequences (or permutations)

https://chatgpt.com/share/67c0f064-7fdc-8002-b12a-b62188f507...

The Share doesn't say 4.5 but I assure you it is 4.5
A part like this is almost certainty made by a supplier to one of those companies, who does not benefit from government subsidies. Developing the part, tooling, factory, and personnel for an extremely high quality, low part count run is very expensive.
I really hope that one day they will open source Nox [1], it was my favorite childhood game after Sims. Nox was also a game created by the same studio that created Red Alert.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nox_(video_game)
Man I can't believe that fucking game is still alive and kicking. Tell me they're making good progress, sho_hn
If I could get sufficient remuneration from my time expended in any open-source software, I would. I would leap at the chance to devote my life to open source software.

Unfortunately, I live in a capitalistic hellhole where I am forced to be profitable to someone else in order to retain a place to live, obtain food to eat and clothing to wear, and pay the bills that are required to participate in society. And all of this hamster-treadmilling for mere pennies on every dollar of labour I produce leaves me with vanishingly little time or energy left over for anything that could benefit society or the community.

Honestly, we have more than sufficient wealth in our society to ensure that everyone is clothed, fed, and housed with plenty left over, but it is structured to ensure that almost all of that generated wealth goes to those who already have obscene amounts of wealth. And those people aren’t the ones contributing directly to open source projects -- because they cannot directly extract obscene amounts of wealth from it without making it closed-source.
Wow, time flies. Thanks!
Not sure I'd characterize NV3 as a "success". It probably made money, and kept the company above water. But they didn't have a genuinely "successful" product until the TNT shipped in 1998. At this stage, 3dfx completely owned the market, to the extent that lots of notionally "Direct3D" games wouldn't generally run on anything else. NVIDIA and ATI were playing "chase the game with driver updates" on every AAA launch trying to avoid being broken by default.

Which makes it, IMHO, a weird target to try to emulate. NV2 was a real product and sold some units, but it's otherwise more or less forgotten. Like, if you were deciding on a system from the early 70's to research/emulate, would you pick the Data General Nova or the PDP-11?
>Such as no job security, or severance packages, feast and famine cycles?

80% of my career before that was fixed term contracts anyway. "Job security" never really appealed as I didn't like working at one place for more than 2 years anyway.

>But on the other hand you got to be clear about the fact that it's a numbers game, where you lose some win some,

Honestly, there hasn't really been any lose. My first year I worked much less than when I had a full-time job, but earnt the same. After that, it just went up a lot.

> unless you can always aquire new work through your network, and can temper times of economical uncertainty (anyone that started only during the 2020's till today knows how fluctuating the market has been). I've had a couple multi-month downtimes when the markets where uncertain, 2020 first 6 months, 2022 during the EU energy crisis, and 2023 when companies where shedding the extra pandemic hires in drowes.

I guess. I was super busy all through 2020. Since then I've actually wound back a bit to have more free time so maybe it has just worked out well.
Keeping everything HTTP makes testing a bit easier.
Is it really most? The other Larry (Ellison) has donated huge amounts to charity, and pledged even more.

https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=192
The Selfish Machine
I said "API gateway is a fancy term for a configurable reverse proxy often bought as a service" and both "load balancer" and "API gateway" are common configurations of "configurable reverse proxy", often bought as a service.
We'll see if there is more financial loss due to bad AI,
similar to self-driving fatalities. It's calculated risk.

We've seen companies held liable for AI chatbot statements and lawyers penalized for confabulated case law.
Yes you can use uintptr_t.

You just can’t cast a pointer to uintptr_t, then store that int into memory, then load it back, then cast it back to pointer, and then dereference that pointer.
I read this more as "we are releasing a model checkpoint that we didn't optimize yet because Anthropic cranked up the pressure"
I found Grok's reasoning pretty wack.

I asked it - "Draft a Minnesota Motion in Limine to exclude ..."

It then starts thinking ... User wants a Missouri Motion in Limine ....
If you have a good economy and popular president (often a byproduct of a good economy) and a highly-focused tech oligarchy that spends its ever-deepening pockets to map which races in each state elections need to be greased to get congress and two-thirds of the state legislatures in line, well then it may be possible.

Trump focusing on his base as well as his executive powergrab first instead of prioritizing the economy at the outset of his term I think is a strategic mistake with respect to his longterm goals (securing multi-term government domination). I don't quite get it, given all the high-risk associated with the consequences of losing the next election, unless of course, they somehow already found a foolproof way to hack all those elections.
That’s tricky- I’d say the modern CSU/CDU & Macron are closer in social policy to the Democrats but economically closer to the Republicans.

Looking at the CDU’s manifesto I think it’s overall more palatable to the Republicans. As the Democrats would likely never support corporate tax cuts or cannabis restrictions.

https://www.cdu.de/app/uploads/2025/01/wahlprogramm-cdu-csu-...
Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing
First time I've played any game through the end just because I wanted to see an ad! It's really well made, gotta confess I went the CLI route because I don't know how to design GUIs with moving parts. Also, I wanted to play my game with controls tailored for the keyboard layout (ASDFGHJ keys control the columns if using QWERTY).
I'm clearly in the wrong field.
I've been scolded on here that some folks may be on the spectrum and not understand the implications of these sentences.

I understand that, but I also understand that people who are willfully ignorant and overly pedantic will hide behind any excuse they can get. To be clear I'm not saying all folks on the autism spectrum are those things, just that some people will appropriate whatever title they need to feel vindicated.

I would be surprised if anyone read that headline and thought that it meant every single cancer.
This is why I configured my company's AWS application load balancer to disable HTTP2 when I first saw the linked post, and haven't changed that configuration since then. Unless we have definitive confirmation that all major load balancers have fixed these vulnerabilities, I'll keep HTTP2 disabled, unless I can figure out how to do HTTP2 between the LB and the backend.
Gondolas eyed for public transit in SugarLand, TX
...IN MICE
It's in the README
Check out Beyond All Reason if you aren't aware of it https://www.beyondallreason.info/
It was made apparent right after the IPO. Our team got a new VP in charge who changed the mantra from practitioner-first to enterprise-first. Soon after they then laid-off anyone not working on enterprise features. It was a sad death of a great company culture. Mitchell left around the same time which, IMO, speaks volumes.
To not deal with flaky people whose word is worthless and whose ethics are worth even less.
The section about renewables, raised as some kind of counterbalance to the constant firehose of complete bullshit coming from Trumpworld, is in fact misinformation itself.

I wish your average Republican alternative facts met the following bar:

> What is true is that solar panels have become very cheap to manufacture, such that a well-located utility-scale solar plant is cheaper to build than a fossil fuel plant that generates the same amount of electricity over the course of a year. This is a true fact with some genuine economic significance, and it explains why a country like China that doesn’t appear to care much about climate change is building a lot of renewable energy infrastructure.

But apparently there's an inference!

> But the inference progressives wanted to draw from this LCOE framework - that there were no economic downsides to trying to strangle fossil fuel extraction — is totally wrong.

And by inference he apparently means pathetic straw man he's invented.

"Strangle"? How violent.

But anyway, his point is that Democrats fooled themselves into making 100% renewable pledges, Biden couldn't deliver and so they deserved to lose.

Except, he doesn't link these pledges and when I Google it I find people forgetting 100% carbon free (i.e. including nuclear) by 2040.

Which is totally reasonable and still 15 years away.
So it's a trade-off between increased risk of cancer[0] and the consequences of type 1 diabetes? Doesn't sound like a fun trade-off but I don't know anything.

[0] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/i...
Something I always respected in Americans is their talent for making money from absolutely nothing, providing zero or negative value in the process of doing so. Obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but you have more than a fair share of these people.
Dan Ives
Excellent! No idea how this hasn't shown up on my radar before

Many thanks, kind stranger
Because Russia did undeniably open hostilities? They even admitted to this both times. The second admission being in the form of announcing a “special military operation” when the ceasefire was still active. We also have photographic evidence of them building forces on a border during a ceasefire and then invading. This is like responding to: “did Alexander the Great invade Egypt” by going on a diatribe about how much war there was in the ancient world and that the ptolemaic dynasty believed themselves the rightful rulers therefore who’s to say if they did invade or just take their rightful place. There is an objective record here: whether or not people want to try and hide it behind circuitous arguments is different. If we’re going down this road I can easily redefine any known historical event with hand-wavy nonsense that doesn’t actually have anything to do with the historical record of events just “vibes.”
Pricing, and, generally speaking, customer engagement were not their strength
Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?

159 points|jameslk|8 months ago|130 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739431

Ask HN: Is commoditization of AI finally going to burst the AI bubble/hype?

16 points|behnamoh|7 months ago|13 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41134422

Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?

14 points|roschdal|10 months ago|25 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40259289

Ask HN: Are we in an AI / ML bubble?

10 points|orbOfOrthanc|5 years ago|8 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737972
Is this even the same company that created Terraform? HashiCorp's trajectory has been baffling...
That’s not quite true… lots of small files still have the overhead of IPC in the browser
Pro Amazon Insider Tip: If you visit each of the four original URLs four times in a row, and then go to Amazon.com, all items are priced at $0.00!

Just kidding.
You’ve got to differentiate between a generalized cure for all cancers and a very specific cancer though.
Most 3dfx cards are already emulated. I'm just a crackhead. NV2 was not a real product, it was cancelled. You are talking about NV1
curious as to how you made that transition. seems like that'd be tough in today's job market.
> Nowadays it would never fly to name a variable "poo", you need to stay professional at all times.

I couldn't help but chuckle at your user name when reading this comment
Luckily, we don't get stuck behind someone using a check any more.
Good, there’s no reason to hold an asset with unaddressed critical security budget issues.

As block rewards get halved every 4 years, if the transaction fees remain low as it is today (due to ETFs, HODL, wrapped BTC, etc) the chain could get attacked.
Of course, don't expose to the public Internet.

Also don't expose plain text traffic to the internal corpnet where most attack originate from.
So Musk amplified an unsubstantiated tweet making accusations of “his main partner in 25 countries”, which not only made him “lose 7 billion dollars” but also “an investment of 22 billion dollars”? And this is the guy people are trying to convince us is some kind of business genius?
Nowadays you can even let the machine do the dirty work.

https://flatliner.herokuapp.com/
I don't know why they're stalling, I wonder if there still any revenues from the game or if it's IP issue.
Ignoring latency for a second, one of the tricks for boosting quality is to utilize consensus. One probability does not need to call the lesser model 30x as much to achieve these gains sorta of gains. Moreover you have to take the purported gains with a grain of salt. The models are probably trained on the evaluation sets they are benchmarked against.
Don't know about "nefarious", but cryptolibertarianism is extremely common on this forum. People throw out points like that all the time and then (as here) run to semantic arguments when challenged. But the point was the challenge, not the intent.

Is it possible I'm wrong about intent? Sure! But the Endangered Species Act remains a really important law and a seminal moment in US conservation policy. And the fact that no one seems to want to talk about it is... suspicious. So I think I'm probably right. Both about the poster above and you.

But more importantly, I'm right about conservation law, even though no one wants to discuss it.
I don't know if I fully agree. The input clearly shows the need for emotional support more than "how do I pass this test?" The answer by 4o is comical even if you know you're talking to a machine.

It reminds me of the advice to "not offer solutions when a woman talks about her problems, but just listen."
For the first few paragraphs I actually thought that the article is describing D language but apparently it's a new interpreted language namely PyFL.

It seems to me that to have the ability to create the powerful meta web framework like Ruby's RoR the programming language need to have the right Yin and Yang (recursion and iteration) balance mentioned in the article [1],[2]. To get the balance in an interpretered language is much easier than in a strongly typed compiled language hence this makes D language truly unique and special [3].

[1] Why Ruby on Rails still matters (458 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130546

[2] "Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead.":

https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html

[3] D language forums reaction to the article in [2]:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.8425.1556827686.29801.d...
I guess you missed the point of that post.

I’ll summarize: language implementations get faster over time. Young ones tend to be slow. Fil-C is a young implementation that still has lots of unoptimized things. Also, Fil-C being 2x slower than C means it’s already faster than many safe languages. And, for a lot of C use cases perf doesn’t matter as much as the hype suggests.

The fact that young implementations are slow is something that’s worth understanding even if you don’t care about fil-C. It suggests, for example, that if someone invents a new language and their initial implementation is slow, then you can’t use that fact to assume that it’ll be slow forever. I think that’s generally a useful lesson.

I care about performance a lot and Fil-C has gotten about 100x faster since the first prototype. It’ll keep getting faster.
Nice, thank you again!
Really great for quickly building features but you have to be careful about how much context you provide i.e. spoonfeed it exactly the methods, classes, files it needs to do whatever you're asking for (especially in a large codebase). And when it seems to get confused, reset history to free up the context window.

That being said there are definite areas where it shines (cookie cutter UI) and places where it struggles. It's really good at one-shotting React components and Flutter widgets but it tends to struggle with complicated business logic like sync engines. More straightforward backend stuff like CRUD endpoints are definitely doable.
Many load balancers have this functionality within them, even ones from years ago that aren't around anymore like Microsoft ISA/TMG. They're not web services, but they can route based on requests.
You just wait until the day you are going to have to use SAP. SharePoint is going to end up feeling like a cool summer breeze!
They're gonna come for me anyway. Better than my communications going through his network. Maybe if enough people cite his behavior when cancelling T-Mobile will back off working with him, and he'll lose even more money.
> Software development consistently ranks among the least stressful jobs you can get and it's really out of touch to compare this profession to genuinely stressful jobs.

Most devs already came from enough privilege to afford never having to do truly painful jobs, so they are a pampered whiney bunch. At lunch today I sneakily surveyed 13 20-something devs (all white, all male). Every single one went to college and didn't need a part-time job to pay for it. I've been at this for 30 years, and sure that was a pretty biased sample: there are plenty of Indian, Thai, Chinese women devs that I've worked with, but most everyone from overseas is already of a higher-caste.

I'd love to see your typical dev do even mildly physical labor 40 hours a week for a little over minimum wage. Lol.
Sad to see this, but I will again shill for HashiCorp's Nomad as a better alternative to Kubernetes.
(Shrug) You'd say the same thing if the problem hadn't been solved in the latest models. So who's the mindless next-token generator?
> Even data race free multi-threaded programming in modern C and C++ is incredibly annoying; I dislike dealing with both an explicit mesh of peers, and with a leaky abstraction that lies that threads are "symmetric" (as in SMP) while in reality there's a complicated messaging network underneath.

If you're using traditional (p)threads-derived APIs to get work done on a message passing system, I'd say you're using the wrong API.

More likely, I don't understand what you might mean here.
The very first sentence of the article makes it clear, in the uncommon case that someone thought the headline meant a universal cancer treatment. 10 words.
Duplex streams are not really a HTTP/2-only feature. You can do the same bidirectional streaming with HTTP/1.1 too. The flow is always: 1. The client sends a header set. 2. It can then start to stream data in the form of an unlimited-length byte-stream to the server. 3. The server starts to send a header set back to the client. 4. The server can then start to stream data in the form of an unlimited-length byte-stream to the client.

There is not even a fixed order between 2) and 3). The server can start sending headers or body data before the client sent any body byte.

What is correct is that a lot of servers and clients (including javascript in browsers) don't support this and make stricter assumptions regarding how HTTP requests are used - e.g. that the request bytes are fully sent before the response happens. I think ReadableStream/WritableStream APIs on browsers were supposed to change that, but I haven't followed the progress in the last few years.

NGINX falls into the same category. It's HTTP/2 support (and gRPC support) had been built with a very limited use-case in mind. That's also why various CDNs and service meshes use different kinds of HTTP proxies - so that various streaming workloads don't break in case way the protocol is used is not strictly request->response.
They probably just used the speech database that the Academy hosts? https://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/
It's happened, you can wake up now.

But you'll just move the goalposts again, I imagine.
"On the counter it says ‘espresso, flat white or fuck off’"

Sounds a bit pretentious to me. I generally order a coffee, no milk ... ta.
There was a discussion not tool long ago about modern banks still with archaic practices. I have accounts at two different banks, and if I make a transfer request before 1:45PT, it is counted as same day. That makes no damn sense to me why that's a limitation at all today. It's not like a human needs to look at it, but even so, why the 1:45PT cutoff? Is it because it is 4:45ET? Then why not list it as that? And why does a banking computer system care about timezones or bankers' hours at all. It's all just mind boggling lame
Since Zachtronics only ever had one intern, I heard the same thing from the same source (but through different means)!
>IT business has become absurd. I'm 51 now.
Absurder, you mean

>Instead I've certified as an Auriculotherapist (that's fancy speak for ear-acupuncture).

Out of curiosity, what do you earn?
> Nice counterexample to the "all successful games have terrible code" conventional wisdom.

That's a modern wisdom from the last 15-ish years when people started to have good enough internet connections that you can get away with publishing a dozens gigabytes patch on launch day.

In ye olde times, it was prohibitively expensive (or in the case of console ROM cartridges, impossible) to distribute patches, so projects were usually planned with plenty of buffer time and plenty human testers. These days it's rush to not collide with the releases of other AAA studios, and human paid-for testers have been replaced by free (or, sometimes, paying) early-access players.
I heard this exact argument about blockchains.

Or has that been a success with tons of productive uses in your opinion?

At some point, I'd like to hear more than 'trust me bro, it'll be great' when we use up non-trivial amounts of finite resources to try these 'things'.
Heh, no, I was talking about NV3. It's just a typo in the last paragraph.