skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog confused me. The author opens with senior leaders but does not distinguish between ic and managers. That is a very important difference and the way they are written is somewhat interchangeable at the start but I don’t think that’s necessarily correct.

Managers and senior ics are both facing unique challenges now. However, they are very different and don’t have a lot in common.

For me, as a senior ic, it’s having the right skills and staying afloat in this challenging environment. For the middle managers, from what I can see, it’s not being redundant as Mark Cuban recently pointed out.
I guess within a product this metaphor works better. For example a new page with a new form is likely to be an adaptation of an existing form.

Service ot service this is less appropriate, but extending an existing service is a bit more like assembly line stuff
Ok, kinda sounds like mixing apples and oranges.

Are the multiple long-running worker processes working on distinct tasks (aka each is the equivalent of starting a distinct individual process/program with no dependencies)

?? worker process that are awaiting data to process ??

simplified related bash shell examples :

aka guarantee sequencial process running : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305039/pausing-a-ba...

vs.

wait for all processes to end (can be modified to continual request for next thing(s) to do) : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/356100/how-to-wait-in-ba...
You either convince them or the "security tax on walls, borders, etc." becomes a burden that ends it one way or another. One does not get a choice on the flavor of situationalphysics.
I'm sorry but your comment comes off as racist. You've given no reason as to why they wouldn't do the same and your opinion seems entirely coming from assumption of ill-will. Why would you think the West have shared their knowledge while China won't? I suggest you reevaluate your biases.
We tried it for the first couple thousand years. Turns out it really sucked, which is why 100% of civilizations (in which you’d have any desire to live) figured out alternatives.
> A single MTF power plant can supply power to 150,000 homes while being close to energy demand and minimizing transmission losses.

Note that they didn't buil this. They made some small advancement in that direction, but they are still far away from a working prototype or powering 150000 homes.
As a web developer, everything is in the editor. A super-fast way to preview my web page changes is:

lynx --dump localhost:8000/mypage.html

Put that in a loop. My server or frontend updates appear immediately and I don't have to mess with triggering an external browser or faffing about. Wonderful tool!
Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key
> The reaction you're talking about with the palm reading seems like it could have mostly been because of the presence of a loaded tabernacle?

Yes, I think the tabernacle was the crux of the issue here.

> Spaces aren't holy because of the consecration, they're holy because of the people that come there to worship together regularly over many years.

That's a more modern, and dare I say, Methodist view of the church. If a space has a tabernacle in it with the body of Christ in it, within the Catholic tradition, that space is holy and consecrated even when there isn't a human soul in the place, because by definition there is a belief that the soul of Christ is in that space.

You can deconsecrate that space and remove that blessed sacrament and then it's just a building, but in the eyes of most Catholics the space itself has a mystery even in the absence of worshipping congregations.
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution enumerates the powers granted to Congress. Exactly zero of the powers authorize social security or Healthcare spending. These programs are entirely unconstitutional!
That's pretty much what I mean. Everybody can micro-curate his musical consumption and stay within one niche if that's what he wants, which I think can be bad for music discovery because you aren't exposed to stuff you might unexpectedly like. You have to make an effort to get broad exposure.
https://archive.ph/OlmNE

Version without awful ads
Getting Started with Gaussian Splatting
right now trying to steal back semi manufacturing from taiwan through tariffs and trade restrictions
A great saying, perhaps, but is this all you have to contribute to the conversation?
Tiny brain with 8 eyes…
Well there are/were many ‘real’ communism implementations of closed societies.
While you’re right that there are no ‘free markets’ experiments, just some bad Crony Capitalism.
Maybe. But this way, the project layout is better suited for future enhancements.
I encountered this a while back and it led me to dig into the ESP-IDF documentation to try to understand the behavior of a device I did not write the code for. Yes, it's software, but it's a footgun from the manufacturer. This in particular I find to violate the principle of least astonishment:

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/...

> It is a possible situation that there are multiple APs that match the target AP info, e.g., two APs with the SSID of "ap" are scanned. In this case, if the scan is WIFI_FAST_SCAN, then only the first scanned "ap" will be found.

The default if esp_wifi_set_config() is not called or, as I see in almost all the sample code that comes up with a quick web search, it is left untouched in the wifi_config_t struct, appears to be WIFI_FAST_SCAN. When you're looking directly at the relevant manual section during a HN discussion of ESP WiFI behavior, it may be obvious, but for a developer focused on the main product functionality who just copies and pastes an example and moves on when it appears to work, I'm not surprised if this always-incorrect-by-default behavior makes it into the vast majority of shipped ESP-based products.

And there's also

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/...

I could have sworn there used to be a "sort by SSID" default, as in it would do the full scan and then connect to the AP with the alphabetically earlier hardware address. In any case, the symptom I was plagued with was that this particular device would consistently connect to the furthest-away access point rather than the one in the same room, resulting in unusable dropouts.
Thanks for providing your perspective and a bit of backstory. It's interesting for me to hear from someone with such a different point of view. It certainly gives more nuance to the topic.
I was always wondering if brains all these spiders and flies have the capability to reconstruct the surroundings in 3D like mammals do, or their sophisticated eyes are only light and motions sensors. Observing e.g. fly evading flyswatter which resembles random walk, it's likely the latter.
Is there a single sentence anywhere that describes what it actually is?
good idea, firefox headless would be my choice though (I think all chromium-based browsers should be boycotted)
I think the main problem is lock-in. If you can't get your data out you can't leave. This is true for open source and for commercial products alike.

If you own your data and if you have the option to self-host you can always opt out of updates you don't like.
And as the CEO he's one of the few people who can reasonably make the claim that he's instrumental in creating the money-making system that is Google. We can argue about whether or not that perception is accurate in his case, but CEO pay being totally out of line with most employee compensation is based on the idea that I'm talking about: the system makes money, employees contribute to the system, and the more systemic your role is the greater your contribution to the system.
1U is quite small compared to PS3 devkits...
I guess this depends on what you mean by "end up using some Erlang".

If you mean that you end up calling certain library functions and such which are written in Erlang from Elixir.... well, yes, and you need to by design.

But I'd argue calling a function written in Erlang or from Erlang's standard libraries isn't the same as having to write Erlang code. I use Erlang's ETS, its in-memory key-value store, quite a lot from Elixir. I'm calling the Erlang ETS functions, but I'm not writing Erlang code I'm writing Elixir code which simply calls the Erlang functions. To me that isn't the same.... which for me is probably good: I know enough about Erlang to read the docs and to read Erlang code well enough by now... but not to write it; I've been writing Elixir code for years now and never had to write actual Erlang to accomplish anything. The closest would be a matchspec (kind of a matching DSL used by certain built-in Erlang databases), but I don't consider that writing Erlang, but more DSL like. I've also used Mnesia from Elixir in the same fashion: I call the Erlang libraries which are Mnesia, but I'm not writing Erlang code to do it: I'm writing Elixir code which calls Erlang libraries.

I'd disagree with the larger statement where you say, "Elixir only has lists not arrays, so if you need a good indexed data structure you end up using some Erlang." You are correct that Elixir doesn't have arrays and only lists... but that's also true of Erlang. Elixir and Erlang basically share the same primitive data types. I have to assume by "a good indexed data structure" you are referring to the previously discussed ETS which is more a K/V store than something like a data or data structure. Otherwise, you'd have to be more specific to what you are referring.

I think it's true that if you are going to write any serious amount of Elixir, you will benefit greatly from having some familiarity of Erlang. Not because you're necessarily going to write Erlang, but because Elixir was designed to be very compatible with Erlang's approaches, philosophies, and, most importantly, Erlang's runtime the BEAM. Because we do use Erlang library calls we will read Erlang documentation, frequently. We will see examples of those libraries written in Erlang, errors coming from the Erlang side, etc. None of this is to say I have to "write Erlang" to do any of this, but familiarity with Erlang doesn't hurt at all.

In the end, Elixir is simply a more expressive way to address certain kinds of problems while still reaping the benefits of Erlang and its VM, the BEAM. If you don't leave the kinds of problems to which Elixir is well suited, you will certainly encounter Erlang's standard libraries and benefit from being able to read Erlang and its documentation... but you won't really have to write it, just call its libraries.
Prkl-ann: I've improved my C++ neural network framework to be generally useful
This week I started working on an educational C++ framework for building and training neural networks. It's gone quite well, and while I only have dense MLP's for now (convolutional/pooling layers still in the works), the fundamental architecture of the framework has become quite fleshed out and works really well for what it does.

It supports multiple activation functions and evaluation modes/classifications, with softmax etc. It also features adaptive learning rate, automatic overfitting prevention, and early exit when training stops converging (based on either training loss, or evaluated success rate at each epoch).

I've managed to build a model for the MNIST digits dataset, achieving a 98.55% success rate (on the eval set), but it can obviously be used to build any arbitrary dense MLP.

If you're curious and like me want to learn more about how NN's actually work, I suggest you check it out! :)
Here is an even easier one, ask llms to take the integral from 0 to 3 of 1/(x-1)^3. It fails to notice it's an improper integral and just gives an answer.
A Redis-inspired server in Go
Florida had public transit before the 1950s. All those Northerners that came down for the winter during the 1920s land boom traveled on train. It isn't like they bought a car just for their visit. For example, Coral Gables, next to Miami, had an electric trolley system.

My aunt used busses to get around the Tampa area back in the 1960s, when Florida transit was segregated.

There's a bunch of rails-to-trails routes because many places used to have train service. Take Perry, for example. It's only a few thousand people but it's over 100 years old (with an infamous massacre of blacks in the 1920s), and you can see the old stationhouse at https://maps.app.goo.gl/NJK8B6mjJpEXRrdK6 right next to the tracks, a few blocks from the town center. (If you visit, Johnson's Bakery has some of the best donuts I've tasted, though they've changed ownership since I was last there.)

So no, Florida is not too big for Public Transit.

That there is too much sprawl is a rather different topic. A Florida developed around mass transit instead of personal car ownership would look very different even if it had the same population and area.
IMO there are a few interesting things to unpack here. Going to put your WhatsApp comparison aside because I don’t think it’s actually applicable.

When it comes to software these governments are already shelling out X amount of money (which they don’t with WhatsApp, hence putting it aside). If they can make a comparable product they themselves own with X * 0.5 money it’s a clear win. Even if it’s X * 1.5 money to begin with while they create the software then decreasing over time as the software stabilises it’s still a win.

There’s an additional economic factor as well. For any country that isn’t the US licensing off the shelf software means transferring money directly to the US economy. Creating your own homegrown version keeps that money in your country, paying for employees that will themselves contribute to the economy. Without making the thread overtly political, this is something a lot of countries are thinking about more and more recently.
Founder risk has been nil for a long time either because they pay themselves six figures out the gate or because the job market has been hot enough that they can market utter failure to get another job.

There’s a lot of opportunity to make low cost software that out competes big tech just because it doesn’t demand 10000x returns on every if statement.

I’d encourage Europeans to start replacing American software vendors with small teams today. You won’t become the next American oligarch but you’ll be able to clean up millions from the incompetent Americans.
People in the major cities practically live in their own society in America.

$200k is a huge amount of money in most of America based on geography.

In the major cities though it is not just the cost of living but the feeling of being wealthy is all relative to those around you. In the major cities there are people with huge amounts of wealth so $200k year is not going to feel wealthy at all. Of course, no one is actually just scraping by on white bread and ramen noodles making $200k unless they are terrible with money. More like you can only eat out X number of times a week instead of having a personal chef. The person making $200k also probably not much different in ability than the person with the personal chef and private jet so not only do you not feel wealthy but might even feel like you are getting shorted. Of course, if you did have the personal chef and private jet you would face the same problem but at a higher level.
seems like a key store, with an ability to watch/subscribe to monitor for the change of values in real time
Even clicking through to the Github, after reading the "What is DiceDB?", I'm still not very clear. It feels more like marketing than information.

"What is DiceDB?
DiceDB is an open-source, fast, reactive, in-memory database optimized for modern hardware. Commonly used as a cache, it offers a familiar interface while enabling real-time data updates through query subscriptions. It delivers higher throughput and lower median latencies, making it ideal for modern workloads."
What are the modern hosting platforms for distributed BEAM apps? The language model seems perfect for some kind of global distributed app, but can you leverage a network already built sort of like how Cloudflare workers or Vercel edge functions work?
Been using a text-only browser daily for over thirty years now. In the early to mid 90's I used Lynx. For me, it is the worst of all the text-only browsers I have tried. I would never go back to using it.
https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms

Under Section 3 "Use of our Services," the Terms specifically state:

Except when you are accessing our Services via an Anthropic API Key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, to access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.

This is listed as one of the prohibited ways to access or use the Services.
This means that:

You are not allowed to use automated means (bots, scripts, etc.) to access the web interface (Claude.ai)
If you want to access Claude through automation, you need to use the official Anthropic API with a proper API key
You would need to follow the Commercial Terms of Service when using the API
How is that a subsidy?

They are putting their resources into the development of a product that can be universally shared and used. There is no favored party.

Also, I completely disagree with the "ambitious projects". I actually would favor the government let all the risky ventures to private enterprises and focused only on tried-and-true developments and make them universally available to its citizens.
Why not LLLM for large LLM’s and SLLM for small LLM’s, assuming there is no middle ground
> We can't even be certain that Notion won't be acquired, deprecated, or poorly maintained in the future.

At this point, I feel like we can be pretty sure the combination of "Huge VC investments + for-profit startup" will with 99% certainly eventually lead down the road of enshittification, either by acquisition or by going public. At least based on most previous "internet" startups with that combination.
I want a tiny_phone_based LLM to do thought tracking and comms awareness..

I actually applied to YC in like ~2014 or such for thus;

-JotPlot - I wanted a timeline for basically giving a histo timeline of comms btwn me and others - such that I had a sankey-ish diagram for when and whom and via method I spoke with folks and then each node eas the message, call, text, meta links...

I think its still viable - but my thought process is too currently chaotic to pull it off.

Basically looking at a timeline of your comms and thoughts and expand into links of thought - now with LLMs you could have a Throw Tag od some sort whereby you have the bot do work on research expanding on certain things and plugging up a site for that Idea on LOCAL HOST (i.e. your phone so that you can pull up data relevant to the convo - and its all in a timeline of thought/stream of conscious

hopefully you can visualize it...
I love how the ignorant go out of their way to prove their ignorance. Their words are worth less than the fleeting vibrations they emit into the ether.

All that matters in this world is our compassionate service to humanity. Our happiness, peace and contentment are completely correlated to it.

Justice is in the fabric of this universe, though most people are too ignorant and selfish to realize the truth all around them.

The truth is hidden behind the door of compassion, which we all have the choice to walk through or avoid entirely. Choose your destiny well, for you will reap what you sow.
Yeah, this doesn’t really land.

Your argument is basically “we’re all going to be outsourced by Indians.”

Your EU-centric view of how contracting works (probably more due to labor laws than anything else) isn’t an accurate assessment of how Silicon Valley is going to work.
The NYT suppressed news about domestic spying on request of George W. Bush, to help his 2004 reelection. Snowden went to The Guardian because he couldn't trust that the NYT would publish his story, and not just hand his ass to the authorities: https://www.npr.org/2014/06/05/319233332/new-york-times-edit...
> The problem is that the rich have been getting govt charity for decades

I agree. This is also a massive problem! The government should not be in business or the business of subsidizing private companies, such as Tesla, simply because they want specific private market products. It definitionaly creates biased markets amd breeds politicla corruption.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/norman-ok/bob-fle...

https://obituaries.normantranscript.com/obituary/robert-flex...

https://journals.shareok.org/soonermagazine/ojs/soonermagazi...

https://archive.org/details/repairing-furniture-with-bob-fle...

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3279041W/Understanding_Wood_...

> Before the success of his books, Bob was a trailblazer in creating how-to videos on repairing and refinishing furniture, a valuable resource that won national Best Video Series of the Year awards. They are soon to be made available on Erik Flexner’s YouTube channel. His work in these mediums helped democratize knowledge and empowered countless individuals to master the art of wood finishing.
Drop in replacement of Redis.
Guys, pls say that government-funded open source projects are fine, otherwise prepare to get downvoted just because it is.
SF author (and marine biologist) Peter Watts as a great little overview of Portia's "thought process" along with links to some more in-depth articles:
https://rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethlehem...
Scientists and public health officials made the mistake of projecting certainty and confidence that wasn’t justified by the state of the research. This is why lawyers are trained to always qualify their opinions—you can never really know anything for certain.

I pray none of this overconfidence and unjustified certainty applied to the mRNA vaccines. It would be a disaster if 20 years from now there’s some findings about long term impacts from first-gen mRNA vaccines. (I say that out of pure self interest—I’m vaccinated with Pfizer shot and so is my wife and eldest daughter.)
Would you say the west “stole” the IP for paper , ice cream, tea and noodle? Weird notion.
Ironically, as we go down that path we're going to push Europe and LatAm into China's arms.
Ask HN: Why MCP instead of just HTTP?
Why create a new protocol for fetching data instead of using existing protocols like HTTP?

There's far more training data already for just using fetch. I bet LLMs are better at fetch than MCP.

Why not extend LLMs with basic browser technology instead?

I also wonder about storing the fetches data in context (polluting it) vs elsewhere.

Is there a better way?
I've seen this more and more with software landing pages, they are somehow so deep into developing/marketing that they totally forget to say what the thing actually is or does, that's why you show it to family and friends first to get some fresh eyes before publishing the site.
What lessons do you think bitcoin has taught us?
Why is it eight-legged creatures doing this what’s going on
also check out the book Children of Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)). Reading it now (not sure how I missed it originally), pretty good evolutionary world building based on this species :)
That's the problem with the term "intelligence". Everyone has their own definition, we don't even know what makes us humans intelligent and more often than not it's a moving goalpost as these models get better.
I think there's huge opportunity for software that replicates the 80% most used features from big tech companies/packages, but at half the price and a tiny fraction of the overall complexity. Think of Python Anywhere, offering a very simple Python-focused VPS/PaaS platform, but so so much easier to use than AWS.
Haha lucky you've decided those guys couldn't yet be called American
By the 1890s both the US and Germany had surpassed Britain when it came to industrial output, I don’t think it was any consolation for the Brits that they had invented it (almost) all.