skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the hype has started to fall off, as it's becoming increasingly obvious that AGI is not around the corner, but meanwhile practical use cases keep getting better and better. The more we understand the strengths and weaknesses, the better we can exploit them, and even if the models themselves have hit the scaling wall, I think tooling around them is far from done.
> Sounds like the text was written by my German native speaker colleague and then translated to English.

That's what I was hinting at, being a German native speaker myself. :)
TSLA @ $227.70 as of this comment.
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If you had said the last 20 years then maybe but last 100 years? For a really good autocomplete?

Just think about the innovations over the last 100 years, how the world looked in 1925
It is owned by the Evil corp?
How would a war in Europe unite people under one leadership? See the regions that have been ceded and annexed post WW1 and post WW2, they still have beef with the new host countries bickering about regional autonomy. You can conquer land, but conquering people is a lot more difficult.
You don't need new hardware for that, you can just use qemu.
This analysis is lacking. People didn't vote for Trump because they analyzed his proposed economic policies and decided they would improve their situation. Almost nobody votes like that. There's general financial anxiety in the US, and he promised to fix it. What methods he proposed using are almost irrelevant, it's the rhetoric around them that sways voters.

The narrative is now one of temporary hardship to excise the supposed rot of the system that is the root cause of the aforementioned anxiety. Pointing out that inflation is bad has no persuasive power over someone bought in on that narrative.

The only way to sway general support away from this self-destructive administration is to offer another path towards alleviating the problems that voters face in their lives. The time when you could run on promises of competent administration alone has passed.
But ultimately being allocated by the parents who select the school their child will attend, right? I guess there are probably some parents whose taxes don't cover the cost of their child's education, but that seems more like an argument against publicly funded education in general rather than being a strike against the voucher system. It is a surprising amount of money so I understand why people would be skeptical, I'm just not understanding what the issue is if parents feel that the school is delivering on its education objectives.
You do realize the layoffs in the tech sector were because of Trump's tax cuts right? There was a provision that kicked in 2022 that made engineers more expensive. Companies could no longer expense engineers the way they did before and had to amortize their cost over 5 years. Startups were especially hit hard with higher tax bills.

This is why politics matters folks. Always read the fine print.
> But it's certainly a bit of a cope out to for Arianespace, while sovereignty is definitely becoming an issue, reading the article, it's pretty clear that they are pushing that PR angle a bit too hard. That allows them to shove aside the many many fumblings around reusability that happened in the previous years. They do have a new CEO since January, though.

I think you're underestimating the urgency with which Western nations are trying to reduce their dependency on the US, who have over-night become isolationist and frankly hostile to other Western democracies.
A modest proposal for destigmatizing America's favorite bad decisions
I don't think Intellisense and autocomplete bring brain-rot. AI could, because it tries to solve the problem FOR you, while intellisense and autocomplete merely help you find stuffs. These two are completely different.

As much as I look up to Charles Petzold, I believe one of the best qualities of an engineer is to know how to prioritize things in life. We only have limited brain power, so it's best to use it in areas that we do care about, and keep the others to the lowest standard the customer can accept as possible. I'd argue that as long as you don't care about memorizing class names or variable names or API details, and as long as you don't become a slave of intellisense and auto-complete, you are perfectly fine.

I'd argue that this is even fine if you only use AI to bootstrap yourself or "discuss" with it as with a rubber duck.
A highly unpredictable trade war, as well as rattling every international ally, convincing nations across the world to choose other military platforms than ours because Trump could just turn it off at a whim, increasing risk of political instability leading nations to turn to other nations for investment. Our economy is a ticking time bomb under Trump.
I suspect it's incompetent market manipulation.
Because of deepseek right? Saying it's the end of AI because of another AI is difficult to swallow
That’s all true, but there was high inflation and temporarily high gas prices caused in part by the War in Ukraine and OPEC cutting production.

The difference is obviously these were not self inflicted like whatever the Trump administration is doing.
Yeah, with any luck we get to see whether the pre-emptive pardon thing flies.
To be clear, I don't think trying to score or rank browser manufacturers on Goodness is an achievable goal. Endless what-abouts are available, with rational arguments available to opposing opinions.

However, I must admit I am intrigued by seeing Topics posited as a stain.

I strongly believe we would have been obviously better off as consumers with topics, than the status quo, a wild west of tracking, but AFAIK, weakly, it could have entrenched incumbents further.*

Selfishly, for my individual interests, I wish Apple had proposed it.

I have a feeling it would have been more dogged in working through it, rather than Google's laissez-faire "oh well! guess we get to keep tracking" when the bottom feeders complained.**

That's probably why it seems unachievable to me to rank on Goodness, opinions abound and they're all reasonable.

* i.e. even if the topics are retrievable via JS by any page, I'd assume there's some clever way for Google to do something strictly superior from an advertiser perspective leveraging some E2E integration, ex. perhaps most pages have to wait till load to get topics, but Google can do a special preflight request given a special HEAD tag, idk

** My weak understanding is this essentially was put on pause/shit-canned after UK competition authorities relayed general concern, and I don't remember Google giving up so easily on anything ever
I'm pretty sure it would work. From my testing, Tailscale works where Shadowsocks, plain Wireguard and any other VPN don't. And it also works to pierce through the great F*W, which was actually really surprising. I suppose Tailscale has DERP and other nodes in Cn too?
The main reason I keep using it is that the search files is so much faster and I like being able to edit lines in the search results. The other killer built-in feature is the Git "Resolve conflicts..." which other tools have, but not built into the editor. And for RubyMine, Show definition works more often than with any other editor I've seen.
The last Chrome update also disabled it for me because it's a manifest v2 extension. I use firefox on my personal computers, but might need to switch on my work PCs as well
People with mental ilnesses on HN? Too low probability IMO.
> my ego wants us to use this new shiny new-coloured tech

lol. Nothing newer than a brand new framework created at google!
Great write up, thanks.

I have a question I’m hoping you can answer.

I have an EF 400mm f2.8 (2nd gen) lens. This thing focuses significantly faster with my old 7Dmk2 than my very new R6Mk2. With all other lenses it’s the opposite. Why does this happen?

I have been told that this might be due to the old 7D and 1D bodies sending more power to the AF motors, but haven’t seen this corroborated anywhere.
Your analogy doesn't really work because a food poisoning attack is hard to scale (across restaurants, locations) without being detected, whereas one backdoor can compromise everyone all at once if they all have the same software.

If Apple adds a backdoor to their E2EE (by sending their servers the key) via a software update, and they don't do anything with the secrets exposed, they can compromise a large proportion of users over just a few weeks and there is a big chance you'll be among the "first", because the "first" is now a large set.
Yes, no one seemed to be bragging about much of a performance boost. I think they were happy being able to run models (at any speed) that needed 24GB without having to buy a 3090.
The New Rust-Written Nvidia "Nova" Driver Submitted Ahead of Linux 6.15
he also knew the difference between wrongful taxation, fraud and waste
It was crazy how fast things moved back then. A friend of mine had a 233MHz P2 with 32GB and a 2D card, and within two years it was a dinosaur, being shown up by machines like yours, 400-450MHz, 3D cards, way more memory....
In the US, it's common for folks to sell a house with a partially paid loan. Makes real-estate a liquid asset and that reduces risk. Further, it's low risk for the bank because they can always repossess the house if something goes wrong. A resident who falls on hard times can missa lot of payments before repossession can be forced. An H1b on hard times has 2 months to leave the country. This means at worst, they'll miss 1 payment before they're forced to sell the house. Much lower risk for the bank.

If you pay your monthly installments and have solid financial health (good credit score, high income, paid your taxes) then you'll get a standard deal. H1b Indians are on 30-50 yr queues for green card. Buying houses without residency is the norm, not the exception.
Good I hope it never comes back.
> Normal premium beans are around €15 in a 450g bag over here, and I can't imagine they are all that much more expensive in the UK. If you buy in bulk, they will be a lot cheaper.

Those are not premium beans, no offense. I agree, bulk pricing will be cheaper than retail, but premium bean pricing is still quite a bit more.

If you want the equivalent of 'having a glass of 500 euro champagne', you need to look appropriately upscale.

Here's an example of that, from April coffee roasters: https://www.aprilcoffeeroasters.com/collections/limited-coff...

They sell a 250g of a natural Gesha coffee for 928 kr - or ~85 euros. That works out to ~6 euros per 18g of coffee if you were to serve this as an espresso. Most of the time, such coffee is used for pour overs, though.
After millions died of starvation
And you can view many of them for free at unternehmensregister.de.
>OTOH, any number of edits will be insufficient for others. It won't be the extinct species, just an artificial hybrid.

I think there is a sweet spot where most people would consider it to be an un-extincted mammoth vs just an elephant that was bred for extra hair.
For me it began when he started suspending journalists or anyone who criticized him (so much for pro-free speech), lying about almost everything and still every day. He also started siding with racist commenters and white supremacists. And if that wasn't enough, the whole salute thing was disgusting and absolutely irresponsible. So yeah his pro Russian statements don't surprise me at all.
Honestly though, as someone from Sweden my belief is that you guys could pay a bit more in tax to get social services functioning across the country again.

But not the way these muppets are doing it and all other stupid things they're doing.
We got a world war out of it as well
Agreed. To me, this is reminiscent of the "dot-com bubble" 25 years ago. The internet changed the world permanently, even if the stock market got ahead of itself for a few years. The same is true of generative AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
> Yahoo yodel

I wanted to hear this again. Leaving it here for the next person:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5FE0x9eY0
Oh yes. I haven't found any equivalent yet.
"Wrapper" is an unnecessarily derisive term here, usually reserved for a chat box interface to an LLM. Manus (and Cursor) are RAG applications that use the chat conversation to control the tool (an IDE or VM).

We could dismiss all of these as just wrappers, but the future of software development looks like this -- with all applications of any importance having some kind of AI/LLM/RAG wiring. The same is true of the internet today. There are no "internet" applications. All apps use the net.
There is a great instrumental chiptune heavy metal track dedicated to 3DFX: https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/track/irq-10-3dfx
I think the replacement for developers won't be CTOs but program managers -- folks with business degrees (or none at all) but who understand the company's needs for the software and can translate them into prompts to build the product without any understanding of how to code. (Some places call these folks 'software anthropologists'.) They'll hone the product iteratively though development almost like a genetic algorithm would, by trial and error -- rejecting or revising the output verbally (and eventually by interacting with components seen on the screen). Vibe programming by business types will replace today's software engineers.
I don't know if he credits the drug for the inspiration but the inventor of PCR was famously a user of LSD.
What’s crazy is we are very close to this right now. Esp if you count industrial robots - byd is almost totally autonomous production, I believe Tesla is close as well.
Nobody has interacted with your ad?
The fact that Canada, Mexico, China and the EU haven’t banned Tesla imports yet is remarkable. I’d expect that plus additional registration charges on premium vehicles, especially Cybertrucks, within a year if this continues.
You can completely selfhost a control server, using Headscale: <https://headscale.net>

It's completely OSS, just like the Android & Linux clients.
We can't even define what intelligence is.

We know or have strong hints at the limits of math/computation related to LLMs + CoT

Note how PARITY and MEDIAN is hard here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02393

We also know HALT == open frame == symbol grounding == system identification problems.

The definition of AGI is also not well defined, but given the following:

> Strong AI, also called artificial general intelligence, refers to machines possessing generalized intelligence and capabilities on par with human cognition.

We know enough for any mechanical methods with either current machines or even quantum machines, what is needed is impossible with the above definition.

Walter Pitts drank himself to death, in part because of the failure of the perceptron model.

Humans and machines are better at different things, and while ANNs are inspired by biology, they are very different.

There are some hints that the way biological neurons work is incompatible with math as we know it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00061

Computation and machine learning are incredibly powerful and useful, but are fundamentally different, and that different is both a benefit and a limit.

There are dozens of 'no effective procedure', 'no approximation', etc .. results that demonstrate that ML as we know it today is possible of most definitions of AGI.

That is why particular C* types shift the goal post, because we know that the traditional definition of strong AI is equivalent to solving HALT.

https://philarchive.org/rec/DIEEOT-2

There is another path following PAC Learning as compression an NP being about finding parsimonious reductions (P being in NP)
That may have been part of it, but over hiring during the pandemic plus the disappearance of cheap money with increased interest rates had at least as much to do with it.
Roughly speaking Gnome follows the fruit factory while KDE goes to Redmond for its ideas. In turn the commercial actors keep a close eye on each other as well as on what is going on in the free software world and attempt to implement their own versions of popular features like comprehensive package management. The same happens in the mobile space where both large actors freely imitate each other.
He's still in the honeymoon period for approval ratings. Even given that, he's barely above water.
IMO it does, that’s the difference between a sedan and an SUV for a lot of brands.
seL4 is awesome for its formal engineering. One of the main gotchas though with purer (less hybrid) microkernel architectures is the coordination of transactions that touch multiple services, i.e., a system call or event that touches multiple hardware areas and must execute rollback code should any one of them fail.
>Russians would be on the border with Poland right now

russians have been at Polish border for over 500 years, since creation of tsardom of russia.
With talk of a anticipated 10% to 20% drop in the markets, their silence could be ruinous.
I came close to adding a paragraph about that. Inevitably someone would argue that there's a difference between hype peaking and 100x future growth.

Regardless of whether that distinction is useful, the author makes some fairly specific claims about inelasticity of demand, and seems only to lack confidence regarding the timing of Nvidia's fall not its inevitability.

I disagree with all of that.
Huh, I've honestly never felt that autocomplete was an impediment to top-down coding like the author describes (and I also did my first few years of coding in feature-free text editors).

It seems like part of the problem here, is that Microsoft chose aggressive settings to force users to use their new tool as often as possible. Sounds familiar ...
Well this is odd... my mouse ran out of charge a minute into this "exercise." That's never happened before
If the economy crashes I hope we can put a stake through the heart of the obsession with founders.
If you think Electron is a native app then you're missing out on truly native performance and functionality.
Always advise junior employees to be the dumbest person in the room
The Trump agenda is to lower taxes on millionaires like me by cutting Medicaid to the poor and raising grocery-store prices with regressive tariffs. All of the other crap is basically distraction getting slapped down in the courts.
Great point, to me it feels more like running barefoot versus with padded shoes. Barefoot running will build your foot muscle based on your natural form over time, whereas padded shoes may interfere with your natural form and at worst encourage bad form which may lead to injuries as your mileage increases.

Over the years in building software, I tend to spend more time thinking about how all the pieces (i.e. from package manager) fit together rather than building them from scratch and fitting two pieces together require deeper understanding of both the pieces and how the combination of the two behaves in the environment.
> The only thing more absurd is the fact that some people didn't see this coming. He signalled everything that he's doing now during his campaign, over and over.

Right, I think it's less that they "didn't see it coming" and more so a basic lack of understanding around how anything works and a complete trust in perceived wealth and authority.

The vast majority of people I know that fell into the camp of voting this into power follow a basic equational logic of "he is a (presumably) wealthy businessman he must know about how to manage money, therefore he can fix the economy" that's literally the entire depth to which they go. There's zero investigation into the validity of the premises, no question of the (ridiculous) assumption that governance must be exactly like running a business, no concern over the kind of business the person has background in... etc.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but I'd also be confident conjecturing that, for a huge number of people, this basic, shallow, completely flawed argument is precisely why they made the choice that they made. That and a pervasive inability to recall what things were like a mere four or so years prior.
Software-Defined Radio for Engineers (2018) [pdf]
"The Internet Archive is not hurting the revenue of the recording industry at all," Seubert suggested, while noting that his opinions don't "mean squat" since he's not a lawyer. "It has no impact on their revenue." Instead, he suspects that labels' lawsuit is "somehow vindictive," because the labels perhaps "don't like the Internet Archive's way of pushing the envelope on copyright and fair use."

Record companies, artists and other rights holders are not pursuing lawsuits because they are "somehow vindictive" or want to send a message.

Lawsuits are huge, expensive headaches that force the plaintiffs to not only take a public stance on sensitive issues, but also force them to reveal details about their operations, communications, and business relationships. Like anyone else who goes through the trouble of pursuing a case on IP grounds, they feel their rights have been violated and they want redress.

They're also looking at this as part of a long-term fight over how IP gets used, just as the Internet Archive is.
Someone Shouts, "|01000⟩ " Who Is Excited?
The ending reveal doesn't even fit neatly into the hot-button American political issue you're associating it with. The film is clearly trying to make the viewer work out their view on the issue, and I think the film takes essentially no stance (unless you think that not taking a strong stance in one direction constitutes endorsement of a different direction).

Some might even say the film lacks courage, both by taking no stance on the issue and by presenting a scenario that only vaguely matches the hot-button American political issue.
Damn I feel old that you had to link the dotcom bubble
or have people that played business people on TV shows...
uBlock Origin Lite is still available, thankfully.
Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit...

I migrated off Chrome as soon as this BS story about improving privacy, a joke coming from Google. Then the excuse was "well it improves performance", which they could easily do by marking extensions as low performance.

If Google wanted to improve this they have an entire search engine where they could re-rank sites based on privacy and performance.

It was never about improving peoples web experience.
You sound grumpy but I followed the link because I was curious. It’s super hard to use on mobile and I can’t really tell what it is even clicking and swiping a little. What is it? Congrats on the signups.
Having used the latest models regularly, it does feel like we're at diminishing returns in terms of raw performance from GenAI / LLMs.

...but now it'll be exciting to let them bake. We need some time to really explore what we can do with them. We're still mostly operating in back-and-forth chats, I think there's going to be lots of experimentation with different modalities of interaction here.

It's like we've just gotten past the `Pets.com` era of GenAI and are getting ready to transition to the app era.
Never mind in a sentence. This whole comments thread is the context.
I suspect that the difference is a lot of managers end up so overcommitted that they can't handle 1:1s with all their direct reports.

Of course, that's its own problem, but particularly in places where it's hard to get headcount, the management structures get wider and wider...
Author here. As the comment below suggests, I'm building my way up to smart pointers, so that requires doing some suboptimal things along the way. I'm trying to make clear that they're suboptimal as I go, without getting too deep into the weeds, but it's a bit of a balance.
Goodbye Chrome, good night