skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok but don't you have engineering wide slack/teams channels where these discussions can happen? If I think to my self 'man this is really hard to achieve for whatever company specific reason' I don't just stew on it for days by myself.
A lot of consumer tech with very competitive UX is coming out of China. They are also getting very strongly into e.g. web frontend tech. I see no reason why the west would have any special advantage in this.
So what do you refer to all the other stuff that is accepted as "the internet" but is not websites?
Probably not, but if you are the UI developer that gets annoyed by it every time you open the application, it means you are probably in the right place.
I like the answer "Multi-User-Games do not like a Multi-Process-Structure."

Single player text games such as the Crowther and Woods Adventure can be written as a loop where the game waits for input, generates a response, etc. Multi-player text games like MUD [2] are mixed initiative (like chat programs) because an action of player 1 can interrupt player 2 entering a move. Between that and the need for shared data structures, it would be common for a game like that to use some kind of cooperative multi-tasking inside a single process using the select or poll system call for I/O even on an OS like Unix which does support multiple processes.

You could have coded up a game like that just find on a single-user OS so long as your machine supported multiple decent serial ports with UARTs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
Just because people see it this way now doesn’t mean that is how it all ends.

The perspective of historians implies that they look back and see that it was, indeed, the end.

Which it isn’t.
I'm guessing they didn't want to be directly responsible for dropping a zero-day that allows authorization bypass in countless systems across the planet before the parties responsible for those systems have a chance to fix them.

I'm sure the specifics will come out sooner or later.
Lot of insurers etc do their work in Excel, i've seen 10000s of 'lines' of formulas in 1000s of sheets needing to be translated into Java. Most of them try, every few years, one of those 'why can't we just run Excel on the backend?' with one of those tools, commercial or not, spend a bunch of money, find it's a crap idea (scalability, maintenance etc) and then port it to a 'real language'.
Adrian Belew played on one of the better Talking Heads album and in King Crimson.
I agree in and I think the Beatles can never happen again for reasons that are completely independent of the music itself. There was huge change happening at that time, you had this huge youth culture, that for demographic reasons the West has not seen the likes of since, and arguably never again can because of fragmentation due to the internet, and then finally you throw in the best band and some of the best songwriters in history. That's what made the Beatles special, it was also everything else that had nothing to do with them at all.
> That’s an unpopular opinion but given more than a decade of remote work experience I’d say: yes, people are less efficient in remote environment (on average).

Thankfully that's just an opinion, and the stats bear out the opposite.

Regretfully, managers and workers who want to RTO will force us to do so regardless.
The book is available online from the huxley site - https://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html
cheaper hardware usually means more adoption of the software and then even more demand for hardware
Y chromosomes and mitochondria don't have crossover, so you need unbroken patrilineal and matrilineal descent from a particular ancestor to inherit it.

So if you are Ugg, son of Ugg, son of Ugg, son of Ugg, you have ur-Ugg's Neanderthal Y chromosome, but if you are Ugg, son of Ugg, son of Uggette, daughter of Ugg, you have neither ur-Ugg's Y nor X chromosome (Uggette inherits Ugg's X, which gets crossed over with Maggie's [Ugg's Cro-Magnon missus] X's and passed on to Ugg II, but Ugg II doesn't pass on his X to you, he passed on Magnus's [Uggette's Cro-Magnon mister] Y).
You too? I've always found it and other fractals disturbing in an undefined way. Maybe like a feeling of an infinite evil that persists in spite of me knowing it's just math.

Anyway, I first generated Mandlebrot sets in 1981 on an Ohio Scientific Challenger 1, printed out on an ASR33 via a homebrew current loop interface. <kerchunk>
The good times in tech are over
I'm not quite clear how this works.

So I get e-residency; I open an Estonian company, which by being Estonian, and Estonia in the EU, is an EU company, and so can be used anywhere in the EU (otherwise, it would be recognized only in Estonia).

Now, a company is considered resident in the country where the highest level of direction sits - typically the board of directors, or if you're a one man company, where you are - and I believe the resident country changes immediately upon the board of directors (or you, if single man) changes country.

However, I think a company can only be used in a country if that country recognizes that company. All EU countries recognize all other EU countries' companies, but if I had say my Estonian company via e-residency, and went to Swaziland, I couldn't use that company, because the locals simply regard it as a non-entity. Not a thing, not a company, not recognized.

If you are in an EU country, and are using a company from a different EU country, that company pays its corporation tax in the country where it is resident. So f you have your Estonian company, and you are in France as a single-man company, your company pays French taxes applicable to a company (which means paying for a year of insurance, accountancy services, doing all the paperwork, getting residency, etc, etc, for say three months of presence).

You as an individual only become resident if you move to a country with the intent of staying (you are then instantly considered resident), or if the tax office think you were intending to stay (and some countries are extremely, even ridiculously, inclined to think this), or if all else fails, half a year has passed. Also most countries require you to register after a month or two or whatever, and no countries allow you to work on their territory as a tourist.

So with your three month stay in France, you must also do everything required for residency, and get into the social security system, get payroll set up for company, and pay all taxes applicable to an individual, pension payments, and so on. Maybe you get it done before you leave, maybe not.

(This is broadly true. There are a lot of countries. A few will vary from this.)

It's like badly design software. Completely crazy and complete mess, while being a natural outcome of the situations leading up to now.

So given all this, what does an Estonian company give you?

However, that's my take on how things are. No comments on this as I'm not sure I'm fully correct, so I ask now for questions, comments, observations and corrections.
Even before he took office or did anything.
Wow, this is really cool.

I should remember it later and study more.
@reseasonable commented:

"A dedicated hacker news of politics site is long overdue. Civil discussions, amazing moderation, and the intelligent insight of experts to hash out complex issues. I’d be on it and participating nearly all day long."

Any thoughts on this?

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375462

Many years ago, I created a section of a site making the history of each commenter a major part of the discussion. This meant the trick of attempting a cleverly-structured and seemingly reasonable statement could more easily be revealed as a bad faith effort to promote hidden motives. It didn't tamp down moderation needs as much as it made the discussion far more useful for getting at how facts were related to how the discussion was being framed.

We required users to declare either neutrality or allegiance to one side of position on major issues and sub-issues. This forced users (in a limited way) to choose between spending time on honest, good-faith arguments for what they declared allegiance to, or be a "spy for the other side" and pursue dishonest, bad-faith arguments.

If a discussion site were structured to potentiate advanced moderation, you would be one of the world's premier experts in how to measure success, and in predicting the likelihood of success of different approaches. Somewhere, we need to be able to take the next step past sites like TheMotte.org
> a lot of people take advantage of wfh to be less focused on work

That has been my impression, too, but not for very good teams and often to a fairly small extent.

The bigger issue with WFH is that it requires a management that can write well, do virtually all comms asynchronously and still quickly spot and address both technical and people issues. My 2c.
Based on what Altman says and leaked reports, OpenAI is actually losing money on every new user. Unlike traditional software, maintaining a SOTA AI service doesn't scale. The conundrum he faces is he can either quantize models and slash R&D to try to turn a profit now but lose the SOTA race, or keep pumping money and hope the rest bleed out. He's opted for the second, having raised 10B in 2023, 6.6B in 2024 and reports of another raise in 2025. He's probably trying desperately for the middle ground where an explosion of high price subscriptions replacing workers massively boost his revenue. So he's also reportedly projecting revenue 4x to 13B this year.
Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing)Is Hiring Sr Ruby Engineers (Latam)
They are ahead of Europe (at least in car UX) but quite behind of the US. This is the last stronghold that the US has but given the recent layoffs and transition toward "AI everything", I am not sure if the US tech industry will survive this too.

Time to start learning Chinese.
Sure, but why would one prefer tanh instead of normalization layers if they have the same accuracy?

I suppose normalization kernels have reductions in them, but how hard are reductions in 2025?
the true king of productivity tools, glad someone mentioned this
Chinese hardware docs are very scarce if you don't know mandarin and don't have Chinese connections.

So to compete on software West might encounter unexpected difficulties. You need good platform docs to develop good software.

Probably not a problem for big companies.
Actually $20,000.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to...
AI is also scalable: if I find a text-based way to mind-break your minimum wage email sorter, I get one inbox. If I find a way to mindbreak apples llm email sorter, I get 30 million inboxes. In addition, I can try a thousand times to work out how to trick the email sorter on my account, and then transfer that solution to Robert CFO’s account if I suspect he uses the same model
What user experience are you talking about? Chatbot? Or software in general? Cause Tiktok beats Facebook out of water. Chatbot for English communities sure, I also prefer Claude over Deepseek in terms of project support and UI. But this is because they are focusing on Chinese communities, Doubao has much better features that is used by Chinese. It's not really comparable even if all US chatbots were accessible in China. Once LLM tech slows, I am sure Chinese chatbots would beat the American ones in terms of user experience.
US: Could I interest you in my lunch?

China: Thanks, already on it.
Or https://neuters.de under Lynx

also: gopher://magical.fish/1/news
Yeah I was wondering about that too, the benchmarks look good but this seems to be more like a competitor to GPT 4o, not GPT-4.5
I’m sorry to hear that lunch to zoom is hard on your fingers
How did Trump make US LLMs complacent in two months? I had no idea Deepseek was a Trump grift.
UK Starlink users switch off over Musk's political machinations
Then it is really a runtime that have an access. I.e. it depends if process have an access to a file from which user is executing a bash script.
Do add TODO comments about proposed refactorings for later though.
I’m intrigued as well.. My experience is notebooks struggle as a format for production code. We encourage people who work heavily in notebooks to use them for exploratory work, but choose other tools when it comes time to ship.

When you are exploring something, experimenting, showing.. it’s great; train-of-thought structure, APIs like Pandas optimised for writing and terseness etc.

But when you have a piece of code that will lose a million dollars a minute if someone ships a bug, and which will be maintained by many engineers over many years, then you really want a format that’s optimised for long-term maintenance, incremental change, testability, and APIs optimised for readers.
What does Trump have to do with Sam Altman's management of OpenAI? If Harris was president, what race to the bottom do you imagine she would engage in so Sam Altman could undercut China?
Voice of America has been shut down
"President Trump is delivering on his promise to make our government more efficient," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told USA TODAY on Saturday. "American taxpayers should not be funding anti-American propaganda in the name of journalism."

USA in process of becoming Hungary, maybe Georgia.

We can hope it goes no further and does not become Russia.
Fiber optic and data center build out in the nineties is similar. Overinvestment led to a bust for a period, but the infrastructure was useful and provided the foundation for the next wave of Internet growth. LLMs could be similar.
Seems to relatively quickly run into numerical problems: https://mandelbrot.site/?re=-0.7375916562086786&im=-0.189982...

EDIT: The number of iterations can be changed
Correct answer, never think about the future in terms of linear extrapolations. It's a non-linear differential equation with lots of variables and expect complex feedback loops. Systems react to change.
Opensouce RISC-V CPU core implemented in Verilog from scratch in one night
Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia
My first browser. There was another one called links which would display graphics inside the terminal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)
America had nothing close to a violent transfer of democratic power for a long time too. Not sure if you've noticed, but a lot of things are happening that "are unthinkable to happen" recently.

I don't think this argument is landing that strongly.
I agree with the sentiment, but LLMs have already had a lot more adoption than VR and Crypto.
See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

Educational spending per pupil has gone up in real terms, by about 2.5x over 40 years. This is already inflation adjusted so there isn't any comparison to the inflation rate. I'd say a 2.5x increase is pretty dramatic!
To add to that: in virtually every country in South America their citizens can visit the other countries in South America with only an ID card, no passport necessary.
A Conversation Algorithm I Cribbed from Clinical Psychologists
> Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs.

There's a slim chance that frontend work runs into Jevons paradox.

Rather than churning out simpler interfaces faster, the complexity will grow.

More 3D sites, MR, etc
I noticed the 45 packages to update :-)
I would rate Europe over US by far for car UX. My north American vehicles universally have the worst interfaces. My European Cars typically the best and Japanese/others in between.
If they did, users who customized their System file would complain that it destroyed their data.
Plus, this post is about someone who quit being a doctor to work in trading!
So your hospital uses the same group chats for banter and on-call pages? That really sounds quite dangerous (in addition to stressful for the person receiving pages). Again, not sure if you are in any position to suggest changes here, but would an actual on-call paging system not make sense here?

There are so many apps/services available for this exact purpose that can alert (with or without sound, per user choice) through iOS's and Android's "do not disturb" mode, can call or text several numbers in sequence (useful in places with weak signal but a landline) and much more.
This is an accurate summary of OpenAI, and makes it more likely that Baidu's model is being priced well below cost
I think the post you're replying to is suggesting that the author should view the 'Agile' practioners they work with to as peers, not idiots - TFA author isn't calling the agile manifesto's authors idiots.
Nope, it seems more like the point where the fall accelerates
I work 2 days from home and 2 days in the office. I couldn't bare full WFH for the reasons mentioned. I would get depressed in the end. I couldn't bare full office, for other reasons mentioned. I would get fully stressed out in the end.
I just signed up using google. Worked perfectly for me.
In this day and age, you can find stats to support any possible claim you can imagine ;)
I still use it with:

gopher://hngopher.com (for actual HN I use Links)

gopher://magical.fish (Huge portal)

gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia (Internet Archive)

gopher://sdf.org (Tech blogs and code mainly)

https://neuters.de (news)

https://m.xkcd.com and a external viewer
> Are people really so obsessed with having everything in their smartphones? I never had an urge to "pay with a smartphone".

I see these types of comments around HN a lot -
what's your point? Anything useful to you personally has value and that everything else must be stupid?

One time I misplaced my wallet before a flight (it fell off my desk into a position that camouflaged perfectly with its surroundings. Even after I got home from the trip it took me a day before I spotted it). Thanks to the ability to pay with a smartphone I was still able to go on my trip with no problem. I don't do it often, but I was grateful that I had the ability to in that situation.
Wouldn't using crypto_box mean the developer would have to implement their own custom authorization mechanism from scratch?

i.e. it looks like a reasonably good way of exchanging encrypted messages, but I don't see anything in the docs indicating that it would provide the equivalent of group membership/roles/permissions.

Building something like that as custom code is a huge commitment, and could easily result in severe vulnerabilities specific to that system.
For a headline “what x looks like today”, I expected more pictures
What US car UX is ahead of Europe?
I'll probably just work at Walmart or something. There are very few opportunities in my area for tech jobs and remote isn't the best fit for me. My wife isn't open to moving either.
Just checked it, no way, they have finally added it!
> They must abide by treaties

You're somewhat mistaken with this assessment. The modern convention is that any treaty can be annulled simply by one of the parties declaring "what kind of idiot would have made this treaty".

It's worthwhile to stay informed on how modern global norms treat treaties.
mind blown, thanks for sharing.
Do most people feel the way you do? This is one factor out of multitudes of factors representing Chinas rise as a super power that will eclipse the US in technological, economical and military might.

I’m excited but most people are patriotic and I feel things like this or even the whole situation with BYD producing better cars then Tesla is something people take as an attack to their identity. If not an attack it’s definitely represents an eroding of their patriotic identity.

Unfortunately Trump can’t slap a tariff on this. Maybe he can ban it like he was going to do with TikTok? The US really needs to get off its high horse and not associate its identity with being the sole economic super power in the world.
But how much did your grumbling disturb other people around you and reduce their efficiency?
I don't get why Americans are hating on hydrogen fuel cells so much, but in Korea, half of the eco-friendly bus market is basically on hydrogen (note: the gov uses all kinds of weird terms and stats, so I really can't nail down the actual number). There are lots of electric buses, but they're too heavy and not great for the tight corners and hills that are everywhere in Seoul. FCEVs are lighter and more powerful, so bus drivers seem to prefer them over BEVs. However, hydrogen buses are about twice as expensive as battery buses from China.
Lots of people want Altman to lose for reasons completely unrelated to the partisan political posturing in the United States. Wonder if some of the early LLM "leaks" from other entities happened because they wanted to keep Altman from achieving his dream of LLMs being hidden behind large thick walls under the control of a select few.
I.e., they work to increase the return on capital. Since I believe one of the biggest problems in the world today is economic inequality stemming from an increasing gulf in the remuneration of labour and the remuneration of capital, I don't think this is a good thing. Let alone a good use of stupendous amounts of talent and money.
Many moons ago I was on a constrained internet connection -- I set up a repeater by hanging an old phone over my curtains so it could catch Wifi from the cafe across and connected to the phone's internet over bluetooth.

I had like 2KB/s.

This made most of the internet unusable, but it turns out the parts I care about are text. So I just browsed it through a text browser.

This didn't really work either, because it turns out web protocols don't work very well over 2KB/s.

So I browsed the internet by connecting to a $1 VPS (very fast internet!) over Mosh (which is like SSH, but more efficient and resilient). So that way, it would only send the actual bytes of text to me.

I mostly browsed HN and the linked articles at that point.

The browser that rendered HN the best in those days was w3m. I remember it had indentation and even mouse / scrolling support. I tried lynx too and it was good too, but I went with w3m in the end.

I see w3m hasn't been updated in 15 years, but it's probably still better for reading HN, whose UI hasn't changed for longer than that! I will have to give them both a spin :)
Another use of TSR !

I implemented a password protected access to A:
I think cookie consent is a different story. GPC would mean:
"Under the GDPR, the intent of the GPC signal is to convey a general request that data controllers limit the sale or sharing of the user's personal data to other data controllers".

It doesn't preclude a website from storing cookies, and therefore doesn't relieve it from the obligation (at least in the EU) to show an obnoxious popup
does it work on iOS?
Big LLMs weights are a piece of history
shutting down of US foreign influence operations must go down as collateral damage of draining the swamp agenda. Why doesn't Trump just bring these propaganda units under his direct control, or perhaps put them under Rubio? Perhaps the staff will be rehired under reconstituted units under this new reporting line, otherwise it seems pretty senseless
I feel like Deepseek had such good media reception, and SOTA models are so close that "GPT4x performance at y% the price" is an easy tagline that companies will be using in the coming 6 months. It's an easy goal to achieve because of diminishing returns in compute and game-able benchmarking, cherry-picking, distilling etc.

Not to say there can't be actual interesting improvements in performance/cost, but in many cases it will be more of a marketing angle.
Gemini 2.0 Experimental Almost One Shots Home Renovation Virtual Material Swaps
Actual application is here if you would like to mess with it - https://search-replace.trieve.ai/ .

If you just want to see the prompt being used, that's here - https://gist.github.com/skeptrunedev/72eed83b42afde2dfd51bfe... .