skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could work about as well as Svelete or Angular worked in convincing React developers away. It doesn’t really work. It’s kind of too late, a whole generation was trained on it.

Pre training joke for ya.
Confusion for Visa Applicants, Attorneys After New Forms Announced
... then came semantic search, and AI search, which just spits out the answer. I had not heard of KWIC either.
Curious. I opened it in chromium to see what it looks like without the adblocker, I declined all the tracking it asked for (violating the GDPR by the way), and I see no ads of any sort.

Still way easier to have an adblock/consent-o-matic disable it for you, but it seems like it only shows you ads if you actually agreed to them.
Meta Makes the Case for QLC SSDs in the Data Center
I do have an internal monologue. I can also think in pictures and I can also think in terms of neither, just pure raw thought.

I would say most people are like me. They have 3 modes of thinking and they probably have a primary mode which they favor. I favor none and go into all 3 depending on whether I’m reading, writing or doing something else.

The second bigger group has only one primary mode of thinking. The internal monologue. They can only think in terms of an inner voice and this inner voice is so powerful I often encountered people who think this inner voice is the definition of thought. They assumed thinking was COT.

The even rarer versions you get people who assign colors to numbers or people who can’t even perceive to think in pictures. You’re the first person I’ve encountered who can’t even have an internal monologue.
Being displaced from your home country does not give you moral shielding for killing the leaders of another. In fact, I would argue that being displaced from your home means you owe a debt of gratitude to the countries that take you in, which makes bad behavior in them more often reprehensible.
> there is no evaluation of the truth value of any statement at any point

You could argue that the attention part of the network is some form of truth validation of the next predicted token? But indeed, the current chat interfaces don't change their previous text output retroactively.

Still, I am not really convinced. If we assume a human can reason, what does "evaluation of the truth value" mean? Thinking about something? This is still performed with our implicit mental model of the world, coming from shadows on a cave's wall, right?
Hm... CDK8s just helps herding k8s yaml, nothing else?

There's nothing like terraform plan/apply?

I mean - some help wrangling yaml is welcome - but I already get (some) help from terraform with the k8s provider there...

Do you check in the generated yaml in git, or just the typescript code?

https://cdk8s.io/docs/latest/get-started/typescript/
Yes, if you use your tools poorly, it will turn out badly.

I run infra that has dynamic scaling provisioned via Terraform. Guess what, we auto-scale from hundreds to thousands of boxes a day dynamically managed through TF and we have had no issues, since we bothered to figure out how to do it properly.
You beat me to it.

This is exactly like when you're teaching a new game to a group and you play an "open test round" - cards up and everyone can see all card/secrets and the sole purpose is for everyone to learn the game.
> Whether or not I get views on that post doesn't matter. I write for this feeling of fulfillment.

This is an awesome attitude to have! I also don’t like this idea going around that unless your blog gets popular, builds your brand or makes you money, it’s pointless. Blogging can be so much more than for just shallow career-related reasons.
> But, oh!, the poor ints.

Empirically this is a rather low cost. IIRC, the extra ops add less than a cycle per arithmetic operation, due to amortizing them over multiple operations and clean pipelining (and also things like shifts just being really cheap).

But yes, there are certainly applications where we almost exclusively use Int64 or Int32 rather than the primary int type, if you need exactly that many bits.

> You know that at compile time, surely, when you set the build target, no?

Well, that's true of OCaml as well.

This is ultimately a difference of opinion - I think that the cost of installing a single extra library to get ints of various widths/signedness would be worth the advantage of eliminating nearly all memory errors (and various other advantages of a higher-level language).

The main carveout I would agree with is any case where you absolutely need strict memory bounds - it's not clear to me how you'd satisfy this with any GC'd language, since the GC behavior is ultimately somewhat chaotic.
> Two main results emerge. First, average skills increase strongly into the forties before decreasing slightly in literacy and more strongly in numeracy. Second, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage. White-collar and higher-educated workers with above-average usage show increasing skills even beyond their forties. Women have larger skill losses at older age, particularly in numeracy. [emphasis mine]

So, it seems like workers with above-average usage of literacy and numeracy continue to increase their ability, while those in fields that don’t emphasize those would need some kind of mental “exercise”.

(I also note that some commenters here are rushing to add more cognitive work to their daily routine through additional studies, but I wonder if they’d be better off focusing on commonly neglected areas like physical activity.)
I was paying for my education, though.
It is the first step towards enshittification.

Shareholders expect constant growth which will lead to reality-disconnected PMs forcing dumb feature after dumb feature down the users throat until the very codebase of discord will rot and bloat.
And anyone who just doesn't function well under pressure. And maybe that's OK but there are people who know their stuff but don't deal well with answering hard questions on their feet.
Actually, Belgium has two (main) official languages so roughly 50% of the people present are now hearing their native language.
Thanks.

Well, it would be nice to be able to transfer a license to the group I formed. Not being able to do that is a deal-breaker as far as I am concerned. I am not providing admin credentials to group members. The only other path is cancelling the license, requesting a refund, adding a credit card for group purchases (it looks like it can't use the existing saved card) and explicitly buying a new license for the group.

If you can get that transferred over to the group, I am happy for now (because I don't have to devote clock cycles to this). Beyond that, I hope you fix it with a focus on UX.
I feel like that was Discord's style also, being playful, fun, childish. Maybe they're just imitating that appeal?
Yea, this is the real reason. Facebook and Social Media won because they invested $billions into it, shoved it down everyone's throat, and then got them addicted to the content. It has nothing to do with how easy or hard the technology is to use. In an alternate universe, if some other company poured $billions into evolving IRC, people would just be using that.
> That's the first time I've heard that phrased that way from a non-Russian source.

We don't know if this was from a non-Russian source.
Agreed that homes can be better insulated. However, poorly insulated homes still need heat. Heat pumps seem like a good step despite poor insulation.
relevant post: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...

> Simply put, companies building apps have strong incentives to gain more users, even users that derive very little value from the app. Sometimes this is because you can monetize low value users by selling them ads. Often, it’s because your business relies on network effects and even low value users can help you build a moat. So the north star metric for designers and engineers is typically something like Daily Active Users, or DAUs for short: the number of users who log into your app in a 24 hour period.

> What’s wrong with such a metric? A product that many users want to use is a good product, right? Sort of. Since most software products charge a flat per-user fee (often zero, because ads), and economic incentives operate on the margin, a company with a billion-user product doesn’t actually care about its billion existing users. It cares about the marginal user - the billion-plus-first user - and it focuses all its energy on making sure that marginal user doesn’t stop using the app. Yes, if you neglect the existing users’ experience for long enough they will leave, but in practice apps are sticky and by the time your loyal users leave everyone on the team will have long been promoted.

> So in practice, the design of popular apps caters almost entirely to the marginal user.
I can't imagine not seeing the value in using the MS stack in the enterprise world.
How does the implementation compare to RR?
The quality of Apple's own software is terrible nowadays, they are a prime example of this erosion of end user value.
Brother makes a demon-haunted printer
Correlation/causation. People whose faculties are still intact are more likely to do and enjoy activities requiring those faculties.
The Intercept Is Publishing Elon Musk's Email Address
Art is like that, you don't always get a prepackaged explanation of how you "should" interpret it.

Edit: perhaps the work of the politicians can be thought of in the same way; a lot of the job is performance art.
What’s the alternative here? No wolves and less biodiversity? That’s detrimental in the long-term.

The real issue here seems to be the forest fires that disturbed the wolves’ equilibrium.
This article about software piracy in Italy in the 80s and 90s was linked here some time ago: https://genesistemple.com/a-swashbuckling-tale-of-italian-so... – seems to be very similar to your story in Portugal.

I don't think it was that extreme here in Germany, but I do recall my father coming home various times throughout the years with cases containing ~20-50 3.5" floppy disks for our Atari STs that were either completely unlabeled or with hand-written or home-printed labels. Always interesting finding out how to start each game and looking at the colourful intros.
While there's certainly more overlap than a random group of people, in discussions like these I think even the most anti-gun people recognize that the broader "I like guns because guns are fun" community isn't really the focus in terms of domestic terrorism or crazy race war stuff.

Particularly on youtube there's this huge Forgotten Weapons, Garand Thumb, DemolitionRanch etc style sphere that stays relatively apolitical, or at least just mildly right wingy.
Wayback Machine Saves Federal Webpages Amid Government Data Purge
Original title: Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
even then it would be a potential patent infringement, not copyright.

but there's prior art for literally every feature Discord has so as long as they aren't copy-pasting Discord's source code I think they're just fine

I'm not a lawyer either but I am an SWE and I've had to read and been expected to understand so many goddamned licenses that at this point I feel like I'm expected to be one just to be able to navigate this field
As a potential investor I always saw the main value proposition as Tesla are the best at making modern cars so will take like 35% of the global market and be worth a lot. That's looking less plausible as Elon has moved to other things and BYD et al have stayed focused and are eating their lunch.
Personality disorders like BPD tend to attenuate with age, so you would be more likely to become less sociopathic.
Although everything I hear talking to people is that it's newer/lower-level employees that are most being commoditized (and not just by AI).
Sure they're friendly — to corrupt politicians who sold our country's rich natural resources to American companies for peanuts back in 1991, and continue doing so.

As a resident of a supposedly developing country that's been stagnating for more than 30 years, I really see very few positive things coming out of the US and Europe. Their companies suck our country dry in exchange for kickbacks to the government (which has never won even a single honest election — but this never bothers anybody), their politicians are never worried about "human rights" or "democracy" in our country because they have significant monetary interests here. In spite of our horrific human rights record.

Lots of promises of large capital investments from the West were made by many diplomatic missions back in Spring of 2022; none have actually materialized.

Meanwhile, the Chinese and Russians are busy building roads, bridges, and power plants — playing the long game.
I mean, threads can be awkward discussion mediums, but what’s democratizing about them is that they can atomize engagement. If every tweet is a roll of the dice, it raises your odds of reaching an audience when you have a bunch of them. And if you hook someone with just one, odds are that user will be super-engaged by the end.

It’s also worth noting that social networks like Twitter tend to discourage just sharing links, whereas a thread that sucks someone in REALLY engages them. It’s interesting that he chose to cite Doctorow here, who is probably one of the more aggressive thread-sharers around. On Mastodon, where he still does it, it can clearly feel like a lot, especially given that there’s no algorithm.

On Bluesky, threads are honestly a little less effective because links are not downranked. But the downside is that people may never click the link, leading to context collapse. Some of that is on you, the creator, to set the expectation. Some of that is on the end user. But the algorithm (yes, Bluesky has one) can make it hard for you personally to set that tone.

As a blogger/newsletter guy with a decent-sized audience, I tend to favor Kev’s stance. But I think you have to consider what social networks are doing—and how much it reshapes/misshapes what you create. I don’t post on Threads because I find its algorithm too aggressive and believe it harms context (and it also discourages linking). But Bluesky and Mastodon are pretty good at avoiding that issue.

In other words, I see it both ways.
Given you decided to outsource your response to this article to AI, you may have missed that this is a HEALTH ETHICS professor who's seeing medical students decide to have AI write all their papers so they don't have to engage with the class. Maybe you'd be fine with your doctor having spent his whole time in college training himself that the answer to "should I bend the rules to let this patient into a drug trial that could help them out?" can be found in whatever AI service his practice subscribes to, but I would prefer someone who paid attention in class.
>The union rep said it takes
three years to train a new
FAA systems specialist, and
they aren’t hired until
another one retires

and this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944203.

>...accused the FAA of
hampering itself with
insufficient budget planning, saying the
agency "consistently
requested too little."

I've never seen a government agency being criticised for for not asking for more money!
What if you lose the private key to the NFT?

What if you sell the NFT with a fake item?

What if the blockchain splits and there's now two NFTS?

What if people collectively think that NFTS are stupid and forget about them, so now the physical item owners are no longer the same the NFT owners?

Definitely not "on all accounts superior."
Here’s some more insight https://x.com/1mortrix/status/1897389705005879461?s=46
I believe double-jeopardy laws wouldn't allow this, but I could be wrong.
Just a bit of critical feedback: the landing page isn’t responsive to a horizontally rotated iPad. Otherwise, awesome project!
> If it works I'll say "I can automate you away".

I don't think deciding not to use LLMs makes you any more immune from automation, because other devs will.

If anything, assuming it really does increase productivity, it'd seem to me that the devs using LLMs would be safer than devs in the same domain that refuse.

> If it doesn't work

The extent to which a human using an LLM still produces buggy code should already be taken into account by assignments.
For those who don't feel like taking math courses in a formal setting, making games from scratch is a fun way to learn and apply linear algebra and calculus.

I never really needed determinants in my life until I tried moving a spaceship towards another object. Trying to render realistic computer graphics gets you into some deep topics like FFTs and the physics of light and materials, with some scary-looking math, but I can feel my mind sharpening with each turn of the page in the book.
How is that possible considering Xbox One doesn't have a disk port anymore?
>It's all encouraged so long as you don't insult people, which some people seem to feel is a line you cross.

Someone got upset on someone else's behalf when I told them the difference between rogue and rouge. I wasn't insulting anyone, lol.

I hope you learn and grow beyond this petty lifestyle.

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OpenZiti is developed and maintained by NetFoundry (https://netfoundry.io/). We provide a productised version which is very easy to deploy, manage, operate, and monitor with high SLAs, support, legal/compliance, liability, security, updates, feature requests etc.

We are not rolling our own crypto, we use well vetted open source standards/implementations - https://openziti.io/docs/learn/core-concepts/security/connec.... If you don't trust that, you can easily roll your own - https://github.com/openziti/tlsuv/blob/main/README.md. I know people who do that. Yes, its been audited, and run my many large enterprises in security conscious use cases - e.g., 8 of the 10 largest banks, some of the largest defence contractors, leaders in ICS/OT automation as well as grid etc.

Yes, we support K8S in a lot of ways, both for tunnelling and deployement - https://openziti.io/docs/reference/tunnelers/kubernetes/. There are more native options being worked on incl. Admission Controller and Ingress Controller but I honestly don't know the exact status of either. If they interest you, feel free to ping me on philip.griffiths@netfoundry.io. I can get more info.
I had mine installed last year through the Scottish scheme. Thoughts so far:

- system works fine and maintains a nice even temperature, despite undersize 8mm radiator piping. More comfortable than the legacy gas system which was often too hot

- mine is actually a hybrid (with gas boiler for HW and very low temperatures). This was a compromise that several installers pushed for due to the undersize piping

- did not have to replace radiators (phew) or piping (absolutely not willing to do that)

- installers generally seem very new to this; completion delayed by a day as they had to bring someone else back who knew how to program it. Also too much exposed (well, thinly insulated) pipework outside the building

- overall cost is still high even if the government is subsidizing it, I suspect something is not right here

- decision of the subsidy scheme to not subsidize bidirectional AC distorts the market somewhat. I know it's not traditional in UK homes but the south of England may start wanting AC and air/air may be easier to plumb in some cases

- noise: nonzero but not an issue, just about audible at night indoors. If you're next to a road then it will be much quieter than the background noise.

- running cost: not significantly cheaper than old gas system, because electricity is still very expensive
> I was boggled that anyone would be happy about any part of that.

Would you be relieved to have passed an IRS tax audit? I know I would.

Yes, it is part of the license agreement to be audited, but there are two kinds of audits -- the one you can tell them to go pound sand, these are usually the ones from 3rd parties, and the ones that have the license agreement enforcement behind them.

> As a linux user it boggles me what people are willing to put up with and consider it not only normal but even valid.

Corporations are because of the the MS stack that still has no equal in AD DS, client management, etc. It has gotten easier with cloud licensing since you can't usually go above the license count you ordered.
I've been coding for over 40 years at this point. I'm definitely a better programmer than I was - not necessarily faster at pumping out lines of code, but I get the right approach first time more often than I used to. Whole classes of bugs are just easy when you've seen them before, but I'm also better at avoiding them in the first place because I know my weaknesses and where to spend time thinking more carefully.

At the same time, I can't context-switch like I used to. Once I get into the zone, no problem, but interruptions affect me much more than when I was 20 (or even 40). I can almost feel the tape changer in the back of my head switching tapes and slowly streaming the new context into RAM (likely because all the staging disks have been full for years).

As for long coding sessions - I relish them when I get the chance, which isn't as often as I'd like. Once the tapes have finished loading and I'm in the zone, I can stay there half the night. So that hasn't changed with age.
I believe he's objecting to having to learn how to do legal research using printed books instead of entirely online.

Here's an old comment describing how legal research was in the days before everything was computerized [1] if you are curious. The specific thing he mentioned, "Sheperdizing" is the word for using the series of books from the Frank Shepard Company which are mentioned at the end of that comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8491076
I think there's a valid concern about cognitive fatigue. It could be mentally exhausting to constantly "exercise" our brains just to maintain cognitive abilities as we age!

Maybe AI could be our mental gym buddy here - not replacing our thinking but offering just the right level of mental challenge to keep us sharp without burning us out. Picture an AI that knows when to push your intellectual boundaries and when to back off based on your energy levels.

And Neuralink-style brain interfaces? They could be like cognitive training wheels - gently supporting neural pathways while letting us do the actual pedaling. Instead of "downloading knowledge" (which sounds exhausting in its own way), they might subtly enhance natural learning processes or help maintain neural connections that would otherwise weaken with age.

The goal shouldn't be turning our golden years into endless mental marathons, but rather finding that sweet spot where cognitive maintenance feels engaging and enjoyable rather than like another chore on the to-do list!
The total number of electoral votes isn't fixed, and in fact has changed dramatically over the years. Additionally, the number of electors (electoral votes) per state is determined by the Census. "A state's number of electors equals the number of representatives plus two electors for the senators the state has in the United States Congress."

You can see a table of the number of electors per state, and how that changed over time, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg....
Self-Organizing Reddit? (2012)
Noir is a Domain Specific Language for SNARK proving systems.
https://noir-lang.org/
Claude is truly intelligent… it especially stands out among the dumb LLMs
I must have agreed to them in the past, I don't use consent-o-matic and manually accept/decline in a chaotic, ad-hoc manner. Just installed it, thanks.