skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving read, what it does not touch on is having a moment of hype young and never reaching that level of success again. Plenty of people have one visible successful moment young in their career and never have a notable follow up.

"You always want to be warm, never want to be hot" as the film director Roger Avary (who directed the film adaption of Bret Easton Ellis' Rules of Attraction) said about a career in the arts. He himself winning his only Oscar at 29 for working on the story for Pulp Fiction.

On another note, I just watched Frances Ha and for the first time watching a mid-to-late-20s coming of age story about a young artist trying to make it I found myself just barely on the other side of being older and more stable than the characters in the film. So it goes.
Yup, agreed, in the case of dynamic languages it's much clearer and the evidence is a lot more favourable.

The linked article doesn't help here because the abstract only mentions Javascript in the context of their work to prove their concept, but the body of the paper is clearer that it is discussing JIT vs AOT in the context of Javascript specifically.
The cure for any existential crisis about aging or lost youth is to spend some time with people older than yourself, the older the better.

You will feel young again.
It's funny that the first comment I saw in this thread is exactly the point when I stopped reading and had to do a double take to make sure it isn't satire.

Author of this article sounds like an entitled brat that sees enemies everywhere and thanks any change is progress.

This article belongs in the LinkedIn navel-gazing trash pile.
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I'm sure going to be amazed if the LLMs of the future 10y suddenly acquire the ability to physically cut just the right bit of a random surgical piece, with a precise idea of where, when and in what orientation the surgeon dug it out, all that with shitty documentation. Humans will be cheaper for a long time still.
Tons of fossils are "negative prints on sediments". GP's assertion that "If humans didn't exist while they do, we would have never known about them" is clearly wrong.
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339
Jeffrey Sachs – Speech at EU Parliament
1) Buy a broad market global index fund. Put as much money into this as you reasonably can. Do not time the market, just put your money in every month and forget that it's there until you either want to buy a house or start to think about retirement. If these funds significantly decline, the world economy has tanked and you will have bigger problems to deal with.

2) Travel abroad alone at least once if you haven't already, ideally for a few months. Shorter trips are costly and will interfere with suggestion #1. If you're still living with your parents, this can be a good way to test out living on your own.

3) Do not waste your time. You can be out partying, traveling, working, praying, or studying, but don't be doing nothing waiting for a more opportune time to make something happen.
I concur here. 20 years ago I was a JIT cheerleader and in the intervening time I've realized that you're only going to get the super-optimized hot inner loop perfect after the JIT and runtime has chugged through a ton of other slop that tends to make programs bloated and slow. And the Java ecosystem in particular has a tendency to build a ton of ceremony and abstractions that the runtime system has to boil away, but can only really managed to do so with deep inlining and a lot of optimizations, many of which are speculative.

> JITs make dynamic languages faster and they are better at doing that than AOTs

Indeed.
Meanwhile in the current day we can't even get programmers to agree to not build panopticons and advertising behemoths for not even that much money.

So, no, there will always be some programmer Chuds willing to write the "kill all the leftists/organizers" functionality.

And they will sleep soundly.
It's not "the future". It is happening RIGHT NOW.

Cope... or use it for yourself
how is this better or different from suno besides api? I'm assuming since you are smaller the quality is not as good and the depth not as wide.
I'm sure people can find pockets of believers but name a mainstream environmentalist organization and it's pure NIMBY.

Canada and the US certainly, so you must be describing Mexico which I'm not acquainted with.

They'll always say they just want things to be built "in a sustainable manner" "with renewable materials and local labour" "and be affordable". But the code words are obvious to anyone who tries. Things are just not renewable materials. If steel, because of mining. If wood, because of tree loss. If concrete, because of emissions.

Likewise, each of the other things. The bad faith they act in has characterized them. Everyone knows they're against "evil developers trying to ruin the community character for massive profits" while they have COEXIST stickers on their SUVs and "In this house we believe" on their lawns.
why was it not banned in the US?!
This raises my general curiosity to ask myself: among the set of things that could be said to have been truly invented by a single person (or pair/trio/tiny team) ... which inventions are the most complex ... and which are the most technologically advanced?
My personal case: (I am a software engineer)

I basically stopped using "stack overflow" web to help me find code issues. Now I just ask the model. It's usually faster and much more concise. Also many of my google search has been discontinued and just use a model to ask what I want. The only problem is about being updated. Models have a set of trained data so new content is not there. So for very recent or new things old "googling" still there...
I wondered if it'd been banned from looking at those sites. If that's commonly known (I've only started dabbling in this stuff, so I wasn't aware of that), it's interesting that it didn't just tell me it couldn't do that, instead of lying and giving false info.
To borrow a line from Marvel's Ultron: "I think you're confusing peace with quiet."

Don't get me wrong, I like my quiet suburb too. That said it's become increasingly apparent to me and I feel to society at large how incredibly atomized and alienated our society is with itself. All of us have "community" on the Internet, which is both not as good, and also is insanely catered to your individual desires and wants, and this is, frankly, unhealthy. A little social friction with people you live and work amongst is a good thing, it teaches you how to resolve conflicts, how to express difficult feelings, and how to negotiate your way through the world.

I'm reminded of the book "Life in Code" by Ellen Ullman:

“…the ideal of the internet represents the very opposite of democracy, which is a method for resolving difference in a relatively orderly manner through the mediation of unavoidable civil associations. Yet there can be no notion of resolving differences in a world where each person is entitled to get exactly what he or she wants. Here all needs and desires are equally valid and equally powerful. I’ll get mine and you’ll get yours; there is no need for compromise and discussion. I don’t have to tolerate you and you don’t have to tolerate me. No need to care for my neighbour next door when I can stay with my chosen neighbours in the ether, my email friends and the visitors to the sites I visit, people who think as I do, who want what I want. No need for messy debate and the whole rigamarole of government with all its creaky bothersome structures. There’s no need for any of this, because now that we have the World Wide Web the problem of our pursuit of happiness has been solved! We’ll each click for our individual joys, and our only dispute may come if something doesn’t get delivered on time. Would you rather be at home?”

And what is this if not the core essence of Suburbia? Tiny kingdoms for tiny kings, each answerable only unto itself, and utterly beside itself with rage any time that authority is questioned by... anything, from Neighborhood Associations to building codes to the local city.
I haven't heard of the Vasa before, but it truly does demonstrate the need of engineering to speak truth to power.

Seems like vanity megaprojects were always in vogue.
> The Wing team did some optimization passes on the blade design to reduce the noise

i was about to say, just make the drones quieter. That tech exists and surely a company like Amazon can spend some effort on reducing noise. Now how much to reduce has to be defined by a regulatory agency like the city/county/state government or whatever. Seems like a pretty standard noise issue that can be solved
Balsamiq's next chapter: A fresh new look for a well-loved tool
Note that Kratom might be addictive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/therapists/comments/1hc5xcd/comment...
> I'm starting to understand aging as more a process of becoming who we are meant to be instead of a loss of potentiality.

That may be true up to a point. Once you start getting dementia or slip on ice and break your hip, maybe it won't feel like that so much any more.
Very much appreciate the thoughtful reply, thank you!
The US faces 'devastating' losses for weather forecasts
OP here, Apple Intelligence is not yet available in Italy. I don’t even want to imagine how my iPad will overheat with Apple “Intelligence”.
I wouldn't pivot to security completely, it honestly seems like that field has been boiled down to moving data from automated security jobs into Jira and chasing down engineers to fix dependabot issues.

As a developer you should of course study security concepts and understand how to avoid creating exploits in what you are working on, but being a dev who understands a good amount about security is always going to be more useful to a company IMO
If you liked that video check out the following movie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life

This movie, Waking Life, has nothing to do with aliens but is filled with the kind of existential philosophy that the person in the OP’s link talks about.
Author here and I welcome the feedback, but I don't really understand your point. My post is clearly not dismissive of efforts to make LLMs reason using CoT prompting techniques and post-training, and I think such efforts are even mentioned. The model remains autoregressive either way, and this reasoning is not some kind of magic that makes them behave differently - these improvements only make them perform (much) better on given tasks.

Additionally, I'm not dismissive of the non-linear nature of transformers which I'm familiar with. Attention mechanism is a lot more complex than a linear relationship between the prediction and the past inputs, yes. But the end result remains sequential prediction. Ironically, diffusion models are kind of the opposite: sequential internally, parallel prediction at each step.

(Note: added note on terminology since the confusion arised by my use of "linearity", which was not referring to the attention mechanism itself. I've read so many papers that are perfectly fine with the use of "autoregressive" for this paradigm that I forgot some people coming from traditional statistics may be confused. Also "based on the last word" was wrong and meant "last words" or "previous words", obviously.)

All that being said, I don't think it's fair to say one doesn't understand how transformers work solely because of semantic interpretation. I appreciate the feedback though!
> Much of middle age (and beyond) is a struggle to find meaning in the face of the realization of the finiteness of your remaining days.

Indeed. I'm at 40+ and is in this stage exactly. Nothing seems to be really meaningful. Work, family, kid, OK, then? I think it is ultimately a lone road as no one can help me to answer questions that only I myself can answer. I guess it's totally possible to not find an answer for the rest of the life.
would be happy if someone would explain or differentiate "not exactly true"
Counterpoint:

I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.
I actually feel younger with younger people than with older people.
I'm also put off by the author's condescension towards people who aren't convinced after using the technology. It's not the user's job to find a product useful, it's a product's job to be useful for the user. If a programmer puts a high value on being able to trust a program's output to be minimally conformant to libraries and syntax that are literally available to the program, and places a high value on not having to babysit every line of code that you review and write, that's the programmer's prerogative in their profession, not some kind of moral failing.
It seems that just about everything I have owned in the past 20 years that has had some sort of rubberized thing has turned into this goo. From knobs on digital music equipment, toys, coffee grinders... all of it. So very irritating.
This is one of my least favorite aspects of modern UI design practices, the user doesn't have any agency. Everything's a choice between "Yes" and "ask again later".
Lovely article! Just visited the Vasa museum last weekend. It is a marvel and an obvious must-see for anyone visiting Stockholm Sweden.
The latest state of AWS results released
Never wanted anything more than an iphone that runs android
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We think the main opportunity is to charge API providers, to get white-gloved onto this standard.
Independent businesses can't pay to kiss the ring in the form of all manner of local permits and hoops that must be jumped through to the benefit of various parties who otherwise have no stake in the matter.

Amazon can.

Chain stuff can.

That's a large part of why every good school district that's inevitably full of bad people winds up looking exactly the same.
It depends on individuals. I have a son but I believe having kids is just taking and giving away. One takes something and gives away other stuffs. Eventually it's a gamble and one better feels that one gets a bit more than he throws away.
> "Increased reliability and stability" is not a good consumer sales pitch

It is when Apple is claimed to be a quality boutique shop.
If you look at the macOS feature history, it's pretty clear that the bulk of the team got shifted to iPhone in 2007 and never really recovered. The widely acknowledged Snow Leopard high water mark happened shortly after.

To be fair, Apple can still pull off the occasional amazing feat of vertical integration -- HDR, APFS, keeping audio latency under control despite the relentless assault of apathy from all directions -- but they never had the same level of consistent drive forward, at least not until a year or two ago when the big push for AI integration started. Apple gets ragged on here, but I think their integration is actually some of the best. They were putting neural cores in chips back when that sort of thing got mocked, not lauded, and every step has been thoughtfully tied in rather than airdropped from a ChatGPT science fair project. But they never got good at building or deploying leading-edge models themselves; I hope they turn it around because this is important.
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I used Android for the better part of a decade, and once I switched to an iPhone I never really had any issues around not having a back button, considering the amount I hear complaining about it.

Basically every app lets you swipe from the left to go back. Occasionally you'll have a bottom sheet you can swipe back down to where it came from, but it's generally pretty intuitive. I can't think of many times I felt "stuck" and unable to go back.
In my social and professional circles, this is done either with a thumbs-up emoji or the text "OK".

It never occurred to me that a thumbs-up could be considered passive-aggressive (I still don't see how), but that seems like the sort of thing that is dependent on the exact social circle involved. You do have to conform to the communication norms of whatever group you're communicating with.
It's not pressure on the turbine that builds up, it's pressure at the well head.
Ah I guess I misread, it is only available on Macs so far in the EU https://support.apple.com/en-bw/121115

Still, I think maybe it could be some related service running on the background
Honestly, as a man with a family and a kid, maybe, just maybe, not getting a family is a blessing, especially for people who have to try hard for that.

Just maybe, fight for your passion and forget about family and kid. You might find them on the road that you avoid them.
It's a real Knowledge Base article from Microsoft. I can't find the original, but it is on archive.org somewhere if you dig around.
Wow this is going to be epic! The US govt prints dollars to prop up cryptocoins!

The sad thing is how this puts more money in the hands of bad people: This is inflating the holdings of shady orgs worldwide. And the way this admin has been bumbling its way into cleptocracy, I fully expect them to lose the keys later in a Mtgox scenario. Nobody will be able to explain how the funds were drained. They'd hired the best smart contract experts from the X roster, what more could they have done?
I love this mindset. I don’t buy the other perspectives. When you fall in love with the craft… time, perception, age, etc matter much less. You care more about adapting yourself no matter how old to perfect the craft.
Kind of in a ranty mood today.

I'd gladly pay to support development of Firefox if it were possible to fund it directly via something like a recurring subscription.

Instead my only option is to donate to the Mozilla foundation which lists the following salaries for their executives (according to Charity Navigator):

Mark Surman, President & Executive Director - $661,886
J Bob Alotta, Svp, Global Programs - $417,327
Angela Plohman, Coo, Secretary & Treasurer - $415,549
Ashley Boyd, Svp, Global Advocacy - $368,445

No thanks. While I don't expect people to work for free there is no way I'm going to make charitable contributions that support those kinds of salaries considering their failed stewardship of Firefox.
BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform
Learning to fix a roof is like learning how to build a boat hull upside down: if you can do it properly then you can make lots of money doing it. That said,

" if the job is less than $50k you can't find anyone who is interested"

is difficult to believe. I only use experienced roofers and make sure my and their insurance coverage is good. I've always felt roof repairs were well worth the price.
Without giving away too much information here, there is a legitimate reason why I cannot do that at this time.
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they are accountable. Something goes wrong, atleast you know who to sue compared to this random dude who could steal all your crypto private keys tomorrow because you were busy using his browser. If you going to make an open source project especially a browser, I would prefer a person who is not anonymous
Great post, one of my more favorite reads in the last few weeks.
including ai generated illustrations in your articles or presentations is very cringe
Cowboys and Drones: two modes of operation for small business
But the article says "glass", not "a glass".
Sorry for getting the day wrong, the two threads are up today, I guess they wait for the first weekday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243024
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243022

Try both. Hope that helps.
Show HN: A Local Apple Notes LLM Chat Using Ollama
Notechat is a desktop app that lets you chat with your Apple Notes running an LLM locally on your machine.

Notechat accesses Apple Notes through macOS's native AppleScript automation and uses AppleScript commands to safely read note contents and metadata directly from the Apple Notes app - this requires permission from the user through macOS security prompts.

All processing happens locally using Ollama and the notes never leave the users device.

Also working on a version that interacts with Gemini in cloud mode for better performance (but less privacy).
Shouldn't that be the opposite of solace? My solace would be change happening in _my_ lifetime.