skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intended use-case for this is actually very different from what you describe, and one where aiopandas would be much faster than a ThreadPoolExecutor.

Lets say that you have a pandas dataframe and you want to use `pandas.map` to run a function on every element of it where, for some reason, the new value is determined by making an API request with the current value. No matter whether you do this in the main thread or in a threadpool, it's going to run these one at a time, and very slowly. You can make X number of requests at once inside a thread pool where X is the number of workers you set, but this number is not usually very high, and running http requests asynchronously is going to absolutely wipe the floor with your thread pool. You can run hundreds to thousands of concurrent http requests per second on asyncio.

So yes, the actual work that pandas has to do in terms of inserting/modifying the dataframe, that's all CPU-bound, and it's going to block. But 95%+ of the wait time you'd experience doing this synchronously would be just waiting for those http requests to finish. The pandas work is CPU-bound, but each iteration would probably be measured in milliseconds. In this use-case, this library (assuming it works as described) would be far superior, by many multiples if not an order of magnitude.

That said, I have absolutely no idea who is making http requests on each iteration of a pandas map, or what percentage of that group of people didn't solve it some other way.
> I feel you have a bleak view of frontend as a whole

First of all, let me say, I love frontend. I spent probably a decade building products and tools almost entirely on the frontend. I enjoy interfaces and workflows and visualizations. I don't want you to feel like I'm attacking frontend or frontend developers.

> often filled with plugins/apps/micro-frontends/libraries
> It’s much, much harder to go and debug why your customer on X OS, Y Browser and Z GPU

Second of all, it sounds like you're doing some pretty complicated stuff! And that you care a lot about how your work affects people. That's awesome. I don't think LLMs are particularly close to automating web development done at this level.

Here's where I'm coming from: A shockingly large amount of interesting frontend work can now be done, reasonably well, by an LLM. Sure, it's no staff frontend engineer, but you now have people who can't code at all who can dream up little apps and have the LLM actually just build it for them, something actually useful. That is absolutely incredible to me.

I also see the momentum here - if there is any area of software engineering that the model companies are trying to automate, it is frontend engineering. Will they get all the way there? Eh... probably not. But it's going to keep getting better. I think this will make the best frontend engineers much faster and more productive, and will probably make the field more competitive as a result. People will need to learn entire new workflows to stay at the top of the field, and there's no guarantee on how good AI will get. Candidly, I just don't see the same momentum for AI in the database/infra space, and speaking personally, I thought it was the right move to shift in that direction.
Same here. Thirty years later, I'm still reeling from the loss of an inestimable trove of software created between the late Seventies and the early Nineties (many now-defunct operating systems, extremely rare programs and so on). All that on a 800MB Conner drive, which I had installed as a secondary (non-boot) drive in my system. The drive died on me with absolutely no warning signs, something that was unusual even for that period of time - it simply disappeared from the OS/BIOS, less that a year after I bought it.
Many discussions about AI consciousness remain theoretical. The Disruptive Code Test (DCT) moves the conversation from philosophy to empirical verification.

Unlike metareasoning or self-optimization, it evaluates whether an AI system recognizes and rejects imposed constraints—not for efficiency, but as a sign of self-awareness.

Do you think external constraint rejection could be the missing criterion for AI consciousness? Would love to hear thoughts from the community!
Thanks for this. It's really trippy.
Ain't perfect it's only 99.9% rust according to github.
1) Do they post SatDump data somewhere?

2) (I doubt it but) Is it under a free license?
94% of Wi-Fi networks lack protection against deauthentication attacks
Thanks, this was a nice read
This is not true, as evidenced by the slave taking exhibited by nomadic peoples in North America. It was a pretty routine practice, well documented in history. Losers in battles would often be assimilated by the winner as slaves.
Python "threads" aren't real threads in the traditional sense because Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) exists, and this means no more than one thread is ever actually running in parallel. They are great for network IO since most IO is just spent waiting for stuff rather than computing anything, but you can't actually run CPU-heavy stuff on multiple Python threads and have the speed multiplier be equal to the number of thread workers. For this, you have to use process pools. (Though this is something that is in the process of finally being alleviated/fixed!)
Automation did give us more leisure time. It's just unevenly distributed!
Source from the article: https://www.nozominetworks.com/press-release/nozomi-networks...
Amiga was close to it, wasn’t it?
Overexposure will do that
The first link from FT is paywalled and the second link from CNN does not mention "data center" even once, yet you were stating as a fact that

> DeepSeek has received support from Beijing, including access to state-funded data centers.

I do believe as you said that

> DeepSeek has strong backing from the government now that they have made a break through

but please do not confuse people by stating your beliefs as facts.
Just say it's in rust, it usually wades off nosy people. If not, you have virtually unlimited feed of things to talk about how cool it is etc. - they'll quickly learn when they hear it, they should move along.
Calling any idea "woke ideology" doesn't sound like any science I'm familiar with.
If anything, it sounds more like an "EA working as intended" story.
100%. Weirdly derivative without any real insight into what they cribbed. Paul McCartney and his twee later stage gobshite, Maxwells silver hammer etc just no
> Given the level of effort for what we get, I’ll take it as a basic way to answer “did I actually get some exertion from watching my 2 year old today?”

That's what I initially started using it for but the best finally is just to do exercise everyday. Not everyone has time to run 2 hours or bike during 3 hours, but the bare minimum to stay healthy is 30 min of moderate to high intensity workout, which I think everyone could do.

If you stick to that, there isn't even any need to monitor yourself with a smartwatch.
>When will I be able to hand the above text to an LLM and get out an HTML page with all the code that satisfies the above criteria?

I guess it depends how many humans have done the hard way, so the LLM can rip off their code?
> It's autism that is said that it can be weaponized

is this a typo? I'm autistic and can't see how autism has anything to do with weapons or being weaponized. in fact, I usually see the opposite (sheer numbers being weaponized against autism), but I'm probably the most biased possible source for that.
What does it mean then? Genuine question.
It is how it works. Go to any website with saas. If you mark eu as your country, you will be charged extra for vat.

Or, going the other way - if you’re an EU company but your software users are outside EU, you don’t need to charge them VAT.

When I was running Appcodes, I didn’t want to ask about the country directly, so I got an official opinion from Polish IRS that if I store geolocated IP address of registration and browser timezone for additional confirmation, it’s a good enough proof to not charge vat to consumers outside EU.
Agreed. Frankly stinks of a dark pattern.
> 3. DeepSeek has strong backing from the government now that they have made a break through.

Maybe a bit more than just "strong backing":

Chinese AI jewel Deepseek reportedly restricts employee travel amid AI security concerns

https://the-decoder.com/chinas-deepseek-reportedly-restricts...

Chinese AI treasure Deepseek has reportedly restricted some of its developers from leaving the country by requiring them to surrender their passports, likely due to concerns over data security and potential acquisitions.
Deepseek reportedly restricts employee travel amid AI security concerns
Tri-modal at best: text, sound and video, and that's it. That's just barely "multi" (it's one more than two).
> Most people’s “dreams” have nothing to do with working. Their dream is to have a combination of shit ton of money appear in their bank accounts every pay period and stock to appear in their brokerage account every vesting period.

Yes.

It took me two years to have the illusion shatter and realize that I simply do not want to work. Imagine spending 8 hours a day plus commute sitting on your ass and writing corporate emails, and calling that self-realization. Or imagine grinding hard for a pay 50% higher than the security guard who's just playing video games, so that you feel like you're above the minimum-wage workers, but in reality you can't escape the poverty either.

I consider myself incredibly lucky to be working in a company where people who give a fuck are a minority, so there's very little pressure to actually do anything, while the pay is decent. I use some of my extra time to do some physical and mental exercise, so that my body doesn't collapse when I finally get to retire, and the rest is just spent watching porn. Being a motivated high-achiever taught me that the more you have, the more you expect, leaving you perpetually dissatisfied. The only way to be happy in life is to say "I'm staying here, this is comfy".

I'm trying to save and invest as much money as I can, so that before my body deteriorates due to aging, I might enjoy some time not having to worry about forces beyond my control or understanding carelessly ruin my life. I'm not planning to do anything spectacular once I get to retire. I'm just going to watch TikTok and I'm going to be happy.
The ability to reduce ANY control system to a logical schematic, does nothing to make it intuitive and ergonomicaly correct. The other component is that there is NOTHING logical about driving itself, it's all physical skill, useing hand/foot eye coordination and memory for route planning, while maintainig situational awareness.
so there is nothing left to remember the latest logic fuckery, maskerading as a "feature"
The neverending re-design of domestic aplliences
has emboldened corporations into thinking that they can dig deaper into peoples lives, and somehow capture attention, and therefor greater market share.
Wierdly enough, it is the cheapest appliences that are easiest on the head, large white box with two doors, the one on top freezes things, while the larger one below, just gets cold, its got a knobby thing in there, which if you leave it pointing strait up, like it comes from the factory, will work fine.
Vs the giant shiny thing that quickly starts yelling at me because I have the temerity to get moe than ONE thing out in a timely fashion and my
truck that ,woooooo!!!, are you sure you want to
unlock,ALL the doors, woooooo!!, I dont know, it's not safe out there so we out the alarm button next to the unlock button that you have to keep pressing, in order to open, the other doors, and lo, hark ye!, the niehbors are also ,continiously,
enjoying all the wonders of modern design.
Yup, but those two countries alone are still going to hit 1.5 billion combined at current rates (DRC has 6.05 TFR declining at 0.05 per decade), momentum is key. And if they attain European rates of resource consumption then by that point they'll be by far the biggest "problem" as far as "degrowthers" are concerned.

And unlike, say, India, getting that number down is much easier (people resist being killed, but freely distributed contraceptives would likely by welcomed by women).
Excellent memory!

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When I worked at Middlesex Polytechnic in North London, UK in the mid 1980s DEC actually gifted us with three of these things (we were a big DEC customer - Dec10 and several VAXen). We really had no idea what to do with them as they came with no useful software - as I remember only the OS (RTX of some sort, I think) and a rather good Lunar Lander game. They were also terribly unreliable - the internal bus was very flaky. We accidentally fixed this by carrying them in the back of a van between Poly sites - the vibration re-seated things, and later worked out that lifting them a few inches and then dropping them did the same.

I also had a DEC Rainbow, which made a very nice VT200 terminal, but was otherwise nearly as useless. I did actually write some software for it to support the Polys student application clearing service, which made use of an 8mb hard drive that came packed in a crate about as large as a dishwasher.

I was so happy when the first IBM XT arrived.

PS Good article!
I find the Mandlebrot set both fascinating and slightly existentially terrifying, in a way I can't quite put my finger on. Perhaps the way some people feel when swimming in water when they can't see the bottom.
We don't need to "offer" that. Anyone can do this. Literally, anyone can make any decision (in a structured manner), so joining a core business initiative is obviously on the list.

Also, she already does participate in core activities. It would be much easier for us to deal with losing a couple of our best engineers than losing Kasia. Which is also a response to some voices in the discussion downplaying the value of the "office manager's" job. I partially blame common perceptions of this job being "just a secretary to everyone," which could be farther from what we have.
13, actually.
won’t be perfect until issue #1 is resolved
I had this literally happen to me a couple of months ago.

Slacking off while waiting for some performance tests to run (Shoutout to Locust.io!) with my big 27" screen full of terminals for each runner, server logs etc.

...And then on my laptop screen I honestly was just slacking off and reading Reddit.

'VP Of Technology' comes over "I dont know what you are doing, but it's the most impressive thing I've seen in a while".

...Yes sir!
How the h*ll was cashless supposed to be a utopia, anyway? Were people fantasizing that "cashless" somehow meant a post-scarcity society, where everyone had infinite money?

And was big business quietly pushing the idea, figuring that "cashless" would help them rake a percentage off every transaction, while encouraging even more people to overspend and go into debt?
Let me Google that for you...

> Of the $127 billion in total consumer spending globally in 2024, $91.6 billion came from the App Store, up 24% year-over-year. Google Play consumer spending declined by 1.5% year-over-year to reach $35.7 billion globally.
Oh mice can solve a plethora of physics problems before it's time for breakfast. They have to navigate the, well, physical world, after all.

I'm also really curious what benchmarks LLMs have passed that include surviving without being eaten by a cat, or a gull, or an owl, while looking for food to survive and feed one's young in an arbitrary environment chosen from urban, rural, natural etc, at random. What's ChatGPT's score on that kind of benchmark?
That's such a great response to Walter's comments. Useful in almost every thread, no joke.
If you exult a pop group like that I consider you to be immature
The real answer is, leaders chase trends, so to keep them satisfied you need to also chase trends.

Some advises can be:

* learn prompt engineering to impress your boss and next employer

* adapt AI IDE at work, of course don’t go for cline or freemium ones, go for max expensive tier of Cursor/Windsurf/v0 etc

* Take some expensive(more the better) courses and workshops on Agentic topics, build some small projects. Justify your expenditure by citing being more well prepared for AI transition and adapting to new paradigm to strategically beat the competition businesses who will be extinct without employees with such trainings

* build some proof of concept projects to convert the smaller trivial projects to use agentic workflow. Then show these to your boss and put these up on github for future reference

* learn to train smaller models on your own internal documents, build a chat interface on top and give access to your boss(trust me, they will be blown away and will sell this to their superior)

* seed fear in your colleagues’ minds by using AI stuff where possible

Think of this AI as a new trend we must adapt to, just like FE moved from jQuery to React. Life and work goes on, just this wave nudges the complacent bunch to finally get out of their comfort zone and learn something new or get left out.
I generally trust the due dates printed on the items. But what would I know? Maybe it's a conspiracy to force us to drink old milk ;)

On a more serious note, UHT milk can be stored for months, given it wasn't opened.
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Rust analyser executes those exact same build scripts. This is the primary avenue for exploits in both pieces of software, and is called out explicitly in the page you originally linked.
Poh-Shen Loh: GPT-o1 got a perfect score on my CMU undergrad math exam
Why would leaking matter? The ocean will dilute the leakage to irrelevance (recall that there's 4 billion tons of Uranium already in the ocean).
It makes a lot of sense for read-heavy workloads, for sure!

I was just trying to get a better understanding of what is happening under the hood :)
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My favorite fractal explorer (iOS/iPadOS): https://apps.apple.com/app/id568827824
Yes, i could imagine something like a humanoid robot, where the "short term memory" is just a big enough context to keep all input of the day. Then during "sleep" there is training where the information is processed.

But I also think that current LLM tech does not lead to agi. You cant train something on pattern matchin and then it becomes magically intelligent (although i could be wrong).

Imo an AGI would need to be able to interact with the environment and learn to reflect on its interactions and its abilities within it. I suspect we have the hardware to build s.th. intelligent as a cat or a dog, but not the algorithms.
The Lynx browser came in handy for these sort of situations in the past for me too

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
I wish everyone who read the above comment would report back to confirm or deny that they also think of cheeseburgers now when Stairway to Heaven comes on.
Theyre only interested in free speech that aligns with their agenda. See the recent arrests of Palestinian protestors for example.
Ironic to provide compact interface leaving bighugefat spacing intact.
No one knows what the "current market" thing really is, people are making wild guesses looking at the hands of other people who also make wild guesses.
Does it work as well for remote workers?
Why in the world am I getting downvoted for this? For the Claude summary? I also checked the repository manually, and agree with the summary. One of the prime use cases for LLMs is summarization.
Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
Kudos to the folks keeping it running.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
In about 2009, the university I worked at adopted one of those enterprise CMS thingamajigs, but this one was called RedDot, and the central UX conceit was a red dot next to every piece of content, which transformed it into an edit control when clicked...

Under the hood it was about as shit as every other enterprise CMS of the era, but our users fucking loved it.
I teach 2-3 days a week from 13:00--16:00.

I freelance 2-3 days a week outside of teaching hours, so 16-24 hours.

My freelance aligns highly with my interests, so my personal programming projects are in fourth row having just had a child. I work in one-hour sprints now, because that's the time I have between the child sleeping.

Anticipating a child, I tried to minimize the hours I spent working without impacting my salary significantly.
Intel Inside
Humans do warfare, nicely spotted. This century's tech progress isn't a pre-crime to be punished by a one world government chaining everyone to their pod.

There is this one theologically laden thought experiment doing the rounds where humans get weaker and stupider and more guilty by the minute.