skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how his essay, "Machines of Loving Grace" [1], echoes Adam Curtis' "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" [2], which argues the exact opposite, namely that

> computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us."

[1] https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines...
Nice example. If I were that person; from my perspective, I could say the EXACT same thing about my frustration with LLM.

That's my mental model, I am trying to make my AI peer to build something and it is complaining about not knowing this new-ish library.

They just didn't RTFM :)
I made the conversion of the Squeak verison to Pharo many years ago and I just tried to make it work in the latest version (which was not straightforward becasue Pharo deprecated and removed some Morphic parts it used). So, mostly the curiosity if it can still work and, if yes, how well/poorly.
Well, they are of performing well, this means they might be bad or they might be undervalued. It was asked, what is undervalued? Not what did perform well (and might be overvalued).

Bust is unlikely with an ETF. They rebalance without you having to do anything. Most tech might come from China in the future.
Another level of abstraction that has its real world cost made invisible, from job displacement to environmental damage.
That doesn't seem like a lot, mile for mile.
Only for Dem presidents
I suppose it depends on the position, but if your company is building CRUD apps with Postgres and you're asking candidates about Fibonacci, you're wasting both your time and, more importantly, the candidate's time.

Instead, you're better off focusing on relevant topics like SQL, testing, refactoring, and soft skills.

These "clever" questions are pointless. They either serve to stroke the interviewer’s ego: "Look, I know this CS 101 problem because I just looked it up!", or to create a false image of brilliance: "Everyone here can invert binary trees!"
Discussed here:

> Using uv as your shebang line

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855258

Since `env` doesn’t pass multiple arguments by default, the suggested line uses `-S`:

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
I would rather someone sitting in China wants to persecute me than someone in my own country / town / neighbourhood / home - who can actually persecute me.

Likewise if I lived in China, and I had to pick between being spied on by my state or someone half way around the world - I would welcome the CIA to listen in all day long.
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died
I just turned tab off. If I'm writing myself, if I'm in the flow, I don't need any help. If I want the tool to write for me, I'll ask it to.
Maybe, but most people used to trust that their coworkers had the ability to quickly learn what needed to be learned to solve a small problem. AI has made people dependent on lose that skill a bit. I've seen myself people confronted with something they need to learn about and come back with something not much more than "AI said this, so here you go"
My ebook reader app is Moon+ Reader.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flyersoft....

You misunderstood the notes part, it is in general, not tied to ebooks.

I use mostly Google Keep.
Hypothetically speaking, can we estimate how long Firefox can survive once Google pulls the funding? A year? Two?
To clarify, what I meant with that line was how to use AI in ways that strengthen your knowledge and skills rather than weaken them. This seems to be a function of effort (see the Testing Effect), there doesn't seem to be any way around that?

Whereas what you're responding to is using AI to do the work for you, which weakens your own faculties the more you do it, right?
Speaking as someone who has never used it but has spent some time researching it, the Bloomberg Terminal constantly undergoes UI changes, though not in a dramatic way. It's obvious if you look at screenshots throughout the time (it even had some gradients!). It has had its own "rewrites in Svelte", transitioning from a custom renderer to HTML/JavaScript.

But you're correct - they don't mess with it, they slightly and mostly invisibly improve it, and someone who learned it in 80s could use it without problems today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqehwCWKVVw

https://www.bloomberg.com/ux/2017/11/10/relaunching-launchpa...

https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/how-bloomberg-term...

https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/designing-the-term...
From the title it would seem that there were several persons who were physically present inside some building, conveivably in sleeping bags and eating out of cans. Only after reading the article does it become clear that it was a remote breach.
Disingenuous...
Japanese is a 'high-context' language which is a big challenge for isolated sentences. The subject is often omitted.

I saw a YouTube comment '中国要素隠す気もないの草' translated to "I don't have any intention of hiding the Chinese elements". The actual translation is "[Ubisoft] aren't even trying to hide the Chinese elements [in Assassin's Creed]". The Japanese sentence has no subject so you need explicit context (in this case the whole content of the video) to translate it correctly.

You also get craziness like 私は美味しい meaning 'I [find the food] delicious' or 'うな重が食い逃げした' meaning '[the person who ate] eel over rice fled without paying'
I didn’t plan on buying this but after reading the comments here and the NYT review, went for it. Am 90 odd pages into it and the author describes sending “talking points” to the FB COO while in the delivery room, moments before her daughter was born.

What really grabs you, she’s using a laptop. Not a phone.
I think the inline command pallete likely ran into an internal error making it be unable to generate, and then its "come up with a message telling the user we can't do this" generation got StackOverflow'd.
Because if gets people do to that (he won't), he'll increase his net worth by a few billion.
Huawei did have a monopoly.

They were bribing officials to try to get them to not ban them in the great Huawei wars of the late 2010's / early 2020's - which led to the UK banning Huawei at the behest of the US for political reasons.
runs fine under debugging conditions and crashes with a segfault in real life

There's your clue right there...
I feel that (I can feel it in my own skin/life) that those 'oldies' with "ok" SME skills and "great" business acumen will be the ones harnessing the hordes of 'prompt engineers'.

It is like they will be the 'new nerds' and we will have the 'street-smarts'.
Opinionated AI. On an opinionated laptop.
Later model STs had an expansion connector on the PCB, it wouldn't have needed to be instead of the blitter.
Didn't knew that. Thanks a lot!
> Apparently SO is not a problem anymore, but chatbots are.

I think the same tendency of some programmers to just script kiddie their way out of problems using SO answers without understanding the issue will be exacerbated by the proliferation of AI which is much more convincing about wrong answers.

It's not a binary. You don't have to hate or welcome chatbots, no in between. We all use them, but we all also worry about the negatives, same with SO.
> Are you sure? Publically criticize the American government, then do the same with the Chinese government. Now, did your opinion change?

Personally I'm less bothered by China. I need to do business in the US, I don't need to do business in China. The US government has a lot of leverage to fuck up my life, I would not care about the reach of the Chinese.
The only thing I dislike about HN’s design is how difficult it is to tap a link. Everything is so smushed together.
standardizing pyproject.toml helped but it didn't go quite far enough.
In what definition is Huawei a "smaller dog"?
China doesn't give a damn if I criticize them from the EU. Even our politicians are free to criticize them, in contrast to US leaders/oligarchs especially nowadays.
It's really nice with a phone stand and a folding Bluetooth keyboard. All fits in the pocket!

Can even run desktop environments with VNC server in Termux and Android VNC client on localhost.

Full local desktop apps on a phone, and yes Bluetooth mouse also works.
Totally agree. Even the 3.5 years in the role that Pat Gelsinger got was insufficient to see his strategies come to fruition. At this point it's baked and there's not much anyone can do. My point isn't to assign credit/blame, it's simply to point out that Intel will not survive in its current form if they are not shipping 18A products by this time next year.
It became wrong for nations to conquer others Essays
Cooking Up Sharpe: A Recipe for Portfolio Construction
Anyone who leaves a comment without reading the comment thread should be permabanned from this website.
> The Morpho language. Morpho is a programmable environment for shape optimization and scientific computing tasks more generally. Morpho aims to be:

> - Familiar. Morpho uses syntax similar to other C-family languages. The syntax fits on a postcard, so it's easy to learn.

> - Fast. Morpho programs run as efficiently as other well-implemented dynamic languages like wren or lua (Morpho is often significantly faster than Python, for example). Morpho leverages numerical libraries like BLAS, LAPACK and SUITESPARSE to provide high performance.

> - Class-based. Morpho is highly object-oriented, which simplifies coding and enables reusability.

> - Extendable. Functionality is easy to add via packages, both in Morpho and in C or other compiled languages. Packages can be downloaded, installed and distributed via the morphopm package manager.

> MIT License

> Languages: C 98.8% Python 0.7% CMake 0.5% Batchfile 0.0% Makefile 0.0% Objective-C 0.0%

https://github.com/Morpho-lang/morpho

That builds libmorpho.so, the CLI is at:

https://github.com/Morpho-lang/morpho-cli

I’m not involved in this project in any way, just trying it out because it sounds interesting.
SO and Google are still a problem especially they are one of the sources of LLMs.

So now we can get wrong code but written in a more confident language.

If you are lucky it’s a hallucination and the error is obvious.
Surge in tech jobs as skills shortage hits 83pc of firms
Imagine reading Oyasumi Punpun as an AI translation, and how much would be lost compared to the original or a professional English translation.
Lessons from Eloquent Performance Patterns (Cheatsheet)
This is likely just Journalism, but the title (that of the original article) is slightly misleading. This appears to be a programming language for modelling soft materials... although I am not sure (having looked only at the Github repo and RTD) I understand what kind of research this targets... the roadmap and API makes it seem fairly general purpose - IMO it would be nice to see some (atleast potential) usecases directly in the repository.
I believe the ugliness keeps the muggles uninterested. This is great.
I’m developing an app right now which uses a spreadsheet as its principal UI. It will be a painful process to gradually wean the users off of that.
What I meant specifically was overreliance on AI, in the sense that I'm now hearing that many junior devs can't do basic coding without AI.

(The parallel that comes to my mind is that programmers raised without garbage collection learned to write more efficient code, and now a text editor uses several gigabytes. But yeah, someone called me a "dinosaur" already in this thread ;)

Though this "increase in incompetence" might be a case of selection effect rather than degradation of ability, i.e. people who wouldn't even have gotten the job before are now getting into the industry. I'm not sure, it's probably a bit of both.

I guess it's nothing new! See this great article from nearly 20 years ago: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
On nvidia jetson systems, I always end up compiling torchvision, while torch always comes as a wheel. It seems so random.
Chromecast outage drags on and a fix could be weeks away
Has detection gotten better, or is it merely the scandals of yesteryear fading from memory?

"Say it ain't so, Joe."
It's a great product overall! However, as others have mentioned, if it can't be open source and requires granting strong permissions, I'm concerned about the security implications.
Americans elect Trump who openly supports a company of his biggest donor. Also, pork.

Americans just don't have a problem with it.
I use Claude Sonnet to translate Korean web novels to English. It works fine.

The fact of the matter is there's going to be some nuance lost in even a good human translation. For example as far as I can tell in Korean martial arts novels a word is used which can mean either "demonic" or "unorthodox" to describe a group in opposition to the "orthodox" martial artists and a human translator has to basically pick one and go with it removing whatever nuance is in the original.

I'd prefer an official translation of course but the AI one is "good enough" if none is available.

Formal vs informal speech is another thing that doesn't seem to translate- but I don't think you need to understand every nuance to enjoy what is in many cases a straightforward genre story.

Manga is much trickier since the AI if reading the page may not be able to pull from the context of other pages the way it could in a novel.
I got the idea from Apple's QuickDraw GX. It used a similar pattern.
Well, we're about to automate/replace the entire laborer class, or at least we're putting trillions of dollars into making that happen as soon as possible.

I'm not sure what effect that will have on the hierarchy, since it seems like they will replace the top half of the company as well.
I'm very aware of the corruption in the EU, corruption will always happen because greed will always happen, the questions are: what is the level and degree of said corruption? What do institutions do to fight it?

Living in this black-and-white world where you expect absolutely no corruption is not helpful, von der Leyen has plenty to answer on the Pfizer case and as far as I know the case is still being looked upon so institutions are working, they might not be as fast as we would like to see a conclusion but that's how it works as of now.

I'd suggest you to play less into the shitstorming, it just creates even poorer discourse on the internet, the effects of such poor discourse can be seen on the political environment of the USA at the moment. I believe we can all agree that's not a path we would like to go to.
Telescope making is much alive and there are communities of people (even young people) making their first mirrors right now. Most find their entry in the hobby via the forums (CloudyNights's ATM, Optics & DIY forum, Stargazerslounge, Astrosurf, Astrotreff.de) and amateur mirror maker Discord channels are popping up.

I also recommend anyone wanting to grind their first mirror to read about modern ways of testing in addition to all the classic books (Texereau, Sam Brown, Lecleire) about mirror making.

Bath interferometers changed the game and allow to reach λ/10 wavefront with certainty and repeatability compared to Foucault testing. They are affordable and there's a healthy community around DFTFringe, the de-facto standard interferogram analysis software at interferometry.groups.io

You can also find a Foucault + Ronchi + Bath combo tester's plans on Printables.com and a companion three-axis-table, allowing great testing ergonomics for a low cost if you have access to 3D Printing.

The best resources on how to setup a Bath Inteferometer can be found on the GAP47's website (french, but machine translatable) and GR5's YouTube channel.

Have fun :)
Why isn't congress defunding all this waste? Aren't they supposed to know what they're funding rather than shoving through CR that continue previous spending ? DOGE shouldn't exist, and it only exists because our worthless representatives are too damn lazy to balance a budget, prompting popular support for possibly illegal executive behavior.
Piggybacking on comments regarding the external hosting:

It's just a matter of time until there will be a paywall in front of this. Hook people on something, then demand money.
There has been plenty of movement between the EU parliament and the national parliament in Finland.

As an institution, the EU parliament has real power. It's just that citizens are not particularly interested in what it does, and the media consequently does not report that much about it.

The core issue is that being a MEP looks like a career dead end to an invididual politician. While national MPs have less power, they enjoy more media attention. And if you are an MP for a major party, you have a real chance of becoming a minister. The same pathway does not work in the EU parliament, because commissioners are nominated by national governments rather than selected from MEPs.
The future of geothermal energy (2006) [pdf]
They say the Ai coding assistants are like a junior developer ... sounds about right.
Is the GBA-mode CPU in the 3DS same as the CPU in the actual GBA?
I support DEI initiatives in general and think they’re important.

But please educate yourself about the situation at the FAA. There’s a failure mode that DEI opponents point to regarding deprioritizing actual talent for the sake of the DEI goals.

This failure mode is often a red herring because the two goals aren’t mutually exclusive (find talent, build a diverse team).

But the FAA by many accounts did the thing people were worried about. This is not an indictment of DEI efforts in general, but is an issue with a specific implementation.
They have rebranded them as Soyealink
Bun doesn't even support a way to check types, just remove them.

> Note — Similar to other build tools, Bun does not typecheck the files. Use tsc (the official TypeScript CLI) if you're looking to catch static type errors.
Can you link how you fine tune? Does it make a LoRA?
The thought police already arrived, see Columbia grant cancellations and Mahmoud Khalil [1].

[1] "Khalil is a “threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States,” said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. “The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law,” said the official." https://www.thefp.com/p/the-ice-detention-of-a-columbia-stud...
> Is it typical for Japanese towns to have all the electricity wiring above ground?

Yes

> Is it on purpose

Yes? Electrical wiring is built deliberately, of course it's on purpose. Where else would you put it, and why? You're implying it's somehow normal to bury it? That sounds like it would be expensive, both to build and to maintain.
My biggest issue is using uv envs in vscode under WSL. Starting up interactive sessions takes forever. Its just too slow, can't figure out what the deal is.
Valve Working on "SteamVR Link Dongle" for Reliable Wireless PC VR
Here's a recent one:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-us-senator-rober...
Make them learn coding instead of adding yet another responsibility onto developers.
NASA's Punch Begins Mission to Study Solar Wind
like players can optimise all the fun out of a game, companies can optimise all competency out of workers.

while both are a consequence of a natural or logical tendency, neither is good. Once a player optimises all the fun out of a game, they stop playing it, often without experiencing it in its entirety (which I would regard as a negative outcome for both player and game)

I am not able to extrapolate with confidence what the analogous outcome would be in the company/worker side of the equation. I would confidently say, out of just anecdotal experience, it's not trending in a good direction.

edit: typo corrections
Testing Begins for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
I'm truly sorry for your experience. A first mirror can be a lot of process and can indeed get a bit messy. With experience (or guidance, which is even better) you can work cleanly and avoid glass dust contamination of your workspace.
Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior
I don’t know of a convenient way of doing it, but a clumsy way of doing it is to run this in your script:

import os

print(os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'] + '/bin/python')

Then, e.g. in VS Code, you bring up the command palette, run Python: Select Interpreter, and enter the result.
DuckDB Execution Plan Visualizer
I never saw anyone on HN bemoan the “environmental damage” of data centers until LLMs started popping up. As if all other software and internet tech is necessary and “worth it”?
I guess it is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
Thanks a lot for the feedback!

My goal is to make self-hosting as easy (or easier) than registering for a service. So my desired target audience includes non-technical people. Currently, yes, you need a bit of expertise to set it up, but it can still be done by non-technical people (e.g. using the DigitalOcean 1-Click app https://www.uxwizz.com/trial ).

I know I'm fighting an uphill battle, trying to go against the SaaS trend, but I do think self-hosting is the future.
Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström dies in plane crash
I thought it was interesting that you're using Fly.io to spin up machines that (IIUC) essentially run `npm run dev` for every project, that most be quite some infrastructure to maintain! I heard that Bolt somehow builds in the browser — what are the pros and cons for not building in the browser? And did you ever face reliability issues with Fly.io?
Not sure about the cost, but Telemach in Slovenia uses hardware from Genexis for FTTH, which is EU-based.
The Intel chips got more sluggish with os updates being optimised for modern processors
> still all manual

That pretty much is the definition of C. It was designed to be a system language, that was "one step beyond" (my own Madness reference) the assembler.

It's a dangerous tool, and should be wielded by experts. The same goes for all kinds of similar stuff.

And "experts" is kind of a darwinian thing. There's not really that many folks that can successfully wield it in large quantities (a certain cranky Finn comes to mind). There's a ton of folks that are surfing the Dunning-Kruger wave, that think they are up to it, but they tend to face-plant.

For myself, I learned to do it right, but it was difficult, stressful work, and I don't miss it. Working in Swift is a joy. I don't have to worry about things like deallocations, and whatnot.
I think the relevant quote here is, "they can shake their fist at the sky".
No. You are the everlasting present, i.e. the future.
An example plan is here (this link with an example would probably be better for this submission, but I can't change the URL anymore).

https://db.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/explain/plan/7b1g1c6347g7a37f...
I think it's more accurate to say that the company doesn't need as many people with 20+ years of experience but lower energy and as attention to commit to the company or demand higher pay, vs people with 5-20 years of experience and youthful energy and fewer external commitments.

This is especially true now that senior employees have gotten more demanding about wanting to see theit children, which didn't happen at scale in the past.
I made my first 10" telescope - rough and fine ground, polished, figured, and built the telescope and mount at 10 under the instruction famous (later) John Dobson in San Francisco. It's not hype to say he was one of the most significant figures in popularizing astronomy in modern history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dobson_(amateur_astronome...

I later went on to make a 16" and then "fell off the wagon" and bought refractors, equatorial mounts and cameras. But I never could have gotten started without him.
It's like lighting one cigarette with another.
They have their own next edit prediction model, and for me personally that’s the killer feature. I don’t like the VS Code platform very much, but it’s just magical to be able to press tab-tab-tab and watch Cursor jump between lines in the file and make the edits that I was clearly about to make.