skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone was interested in the Amiga but has not kept up with recent developments, I suggest looking up the Vampire V4. It is mentioned in the article but I thought I'd add a few more details.

It has a reimplementation of the ECS and AGA chipset. It includes custom extensions to the chipset to 'SAGA' which is an attempt at extending the registers to more modern standards.

It also has a reimplementation of the 680x0 CPU, which is using more modern design techniques. The developer used to work on Power.

Anyway putting it all together its a great system in the vein of the Amiga. Of course it is not as fast as a modern ASIC, being consumer low end FPGA based. Still it is great fun.

Relevant to the Amiga 600? Well there is a standalone version but there is also a version called 'Manticore' that fits into the Amiga 600.

Many people will say you can get similar performance with emulation. This is of course true though, as someone who studied microelectronics, I see the value in real hardware. Both in future potential for making an ASIC and for more precise sub-microsecond level timing.

There is an alternative semi-emulation approach. i.e. emulating the CPU with a raspberry pi and using the rest of the original hardware. This is known as PiStorm and connects the GPIOs from PI onto the 68K to replace the original CPU.
When it's a different language it's fine.
The guy who broke several of the conditions to keep his green card? Yeah, sure. Why following the law bothers you so much?
The two fundamental requirements for a city are:

1) a source of water,

2) a palace or other place to center an economy, and

3) to be enclosed in walls.

We know the last because we have yet to discover any traces of the walls of any unwalled cities.
It doesn't work like that.

With basic research, you often have to wait for decades before you can tell if the work was important or useful. But because funding needs to be available before the work is done, you can't base funding decisions on the value of the work.

The least bad approach to funding basic research discovered so far is funding a wide range of ideas. And funding them without preconceptions of what is going to be valuable in the future. As long as the researchers are reputable and the ideas don't look like nonsense, they should be considered for funding. Of course, because funding is always scarce, final decisions must be based on subjective judgment.

On the other hand, if you only want to fund research you consider important or useful, you are the one making science political. The future is unpredictable. The further away from the present day you go, the more uncertain the predictions become. And as the uncertainty grows, value judgments based on the predictions become less objective and more political.
By the time it caught on, HTML did allow for very graphical web pages, and that's not even considering how popular Flash Player was when the internet had its initial growth spurt. Technically, very early versions of HTML, especially predating CSS, were closer to epub than modern HTML, but there were so few web pages it's not a meaningful argument against your supposition.

I think what's more important is that a significant portion of web pages have no more complex layout than a newspaper or slideshow, so why not make them easy to parse? Not only would it make browsing in Lynx easier, but it would work well with screen readers, which are the only way some people can browse web pages.
It's not only considered, it's a an actual goal to be 100% usable by everyone. It's already the case for some of La Suite projects. Not quite there yet right now for some others, but it will be.

And I agree, lots of popular, proprietary solutions should do better in terms of accessibility. I believe open-source helps in that regard, as in many others.

Here in La Suite we have some wcag-geeks in the team and regularly include some of our users with disabilities for feedback.
I have growing concerns with the increased costs of WAFs. I am certainly not getting excited about how expensive things are getting from places like Akamai and Cloudfront. I'm just idly waiting to see where things land. An OpenSource solution is nice although the costs for infrastructure do crank up. Wonder how this compares to Fastly?

I see others mention it isn't a truly free even if Open Source, is this thread an ad?
I think this is quite right. The government should get out of the business of building roads and giving them away for free.

If they were privately owned, they would be priced appropriately and we would not have all the problems with traffic congestion.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, we used to call that "mystery meat navigation." Now, we call it user interface design.
I'm curious, why have you concluded that it's naive to build a formal model out of a legal document?

I'm not sure about making laws better, but surely a machine can replace lawyers for trivial and well-defined things (where you don't really need a lawyer - and there are a lot of such cases), saving time for a layman person finding appropriate clauses and navigating them while investigating some well-defined (minimally ambiguous and least likely to raise any exceptions) happy paths. Some companies make a lot of money from formalizing tax codes, after all.
Is wood glue really not stronger than wood?
url shorteners bad: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
The IBM PS/1 model 2011 had PC-DOS + plus a limited GUI in ROM.
No citizen nor law abiding non citizen is affected. When you commit crimes, you “give up” your own liberty for the security of the public. That’s how all law works - when it is enforced properly, anyways.
Let’s start with the fact that regardless of your support or lack of, president’s actions are deeply lawless. The invoked statue is obviously wasn’t created for this, and claimed presidents powers are authoritarian and anti constitutional.

There are already laws to deport terrorists from the US. The thing is, since we live in a land of law, unlike some other countries, you need to prove it in courts first. And the administration is more than welcome to do this (and in fact doing it, just like previous one was).
Has existed on decades, just requires the simple process of turning it on in your BIOS, then changing your network adapter advanced settings in Windows to Wake on Magic Packet, and configure the power management settings to "allow this device to wake the computer", etc... It's like a 20 step process.
Or, war is good peace is bad, nuclear war is winnable, don't worry and start loving the bomb. The enemy are not human anyway, your life will be better with fewer people around.

Look at the people who want to control this, they do not want to sell you Coke.
idk if Mojo is 'the answer', but eventually, a compiled language with first class tensors and concurrency is necessary to simultaneously support heterogeneity, performance, and usability. https://chapel-lang.org is the only other one I know of that's currently in active development (?)
Do citizen Venezuelans want gang members here just because they share the same homeland?
If you care about software, why would non-commercial licenses be fine under any condition?

First rule of free software is any goal, including commercial ones.

> MIT is the "wait, no, not like that" license

I don't get this. Someone who releases their under MIT, GPL or AGPL allows selling a copy on amazon and could think "wait, no, not like that" regardless.

I think the reasonable stance is to (kindly, humanly) ask, that one doesn't do such or such thing even if it's legal.
What if the AI *was* the application
This is a simple POC for an itch I've been having. The idea is we just tell an LLM what kind of application it is, give a way to store and retrieve data, and ask it to respond to user requests. Think of it as "End to End" AI applications - without that pesky intermediate step of needing to write code.

Vibe coded this morning until I ran out of cursor credits so it's pretty basic but feel free to expand on it or take it and raise a seed round or something.
Another aspect is that China has more people than the US and Europe combined.

Massive labor force unrivaled by any in the world, all working to elevate 1 country.

Allowing capitalism, a competent government, and sheer volume of people - all critical to making their rise possible.
Our senior leaders have also been completely captured by this crap. Recently our CTO (public company in the US you've heard of) announced in chat that engineers with an aversion to relying on LLMs have an attitude problem that is incompatible with our company direction. I was blown away.
It's not how rare the possibility is, it's that the possibility only exists because of the people.
If only all these people who spend their lives and jobs studying this in rigor and have all heard of Bohmian Mechanics WOULD ONLY JUST LISTEN TO YOU.
This complaint is like visiting a flower garden and complaining that it is an inefficient use of space because it doesn't grow enough root vegetables.

The style and emotional feeling of the page is the message. An article consisting of only words is not an "article like this", and if you are starting from that premise you already totally missed the author's point.
LLMs also take away the motivation from students to properly concentrate and deeply understand a technical problem (including but not limited to coding problems); instead, they copy, paste and move on without understanding. The electronic calculator analogy might be appropriate: it's a tool appropriate once you have learned how to do the calculations by hand.

In an experiment (six months long, twice repeated, so a one-year study), we gave business students ChatGPT and a data science task to solve that they did not have the background for (develop a sentiment analysis classifier for German-language recommendations of medical practices). With their electronic "AI" helper, they could find a solution, but the scary thing is they did not acquire any knowledge on the way, as exist interviews clearly demonstrated.

As a friend commented, "these language models should never have been made available to the general public", only to researchers.
Seconded, it’s really irritating
You're thinking of resource forks. .DS_Store is stored as ".DS_Store" even on APFS.
Simple Typed Errors in TypeScript
Reality tells me that a crash is still waiting to happen.
Space goes after the comma, not in front of it.
I think we agree, because I did mention the de-consecration as a crucial step.

The Lutheran churches where I'm from do a similar thing.
Honestly using GenAI slop pictures to illustrate the article about the soullessness of modern computing clashes with the message in a way I don't think the author intended.
Ghidra is a fine example from the US government.
What do you think is the big difference between these tools and calculators?
It never ceases to amuse me that our entire economy is manipulated according to economic theory, the Department of Justice's playbook is deferential to race theory, for the last decade we've been teaching kids about sexuality through a framework of queer theory, advocating for women's rights based on feminist theory, validating every form of hardship as oppression under critical theory and letting WEF dictate the fate of the world based on game theory.

But the only time we denounce theory as being unsubstantiated and inactionable is when it comes to speculation about criminal collusion by individuals otherwise above the law:

Conspiracy theory.

Because it is absolutely unfathomable that elite criminals might cooperate to avoid detection and accountability.
The administration’s current actions are already at the bottom of the slope.
I know what that is.
https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/get-started/best-pr...
You don't need reproducible builds. (2020)
Tänzer: The lovable web server framework for Tcl
"Nobody really understands quantum mechanics." — Richard Feynman
Would it matter to an administration that has no problems with government being crippled? Industries who are not in power?
zlib-rs is faster than C:

https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/
If I emit a bass signal at a low amplitude, but then emit it at a higher amplitude, I can see the effect on a glass of water on the table. What’s happening here if amplitude does not carry power?

My understanding is that theoretically energy transfer is a function of wavelength.
Ok yeah that’s a good point! Probably not an accounting journal then.
As an American I second this.
I've had a similar experience. I built out a feature using an LLM and then found the library it must have been "taking" the code from, so what I ended up was a much worse mangled version of what already existed, had I taken the time to properly research. I've now fully gone back to just getting it to prototype functions for me in-editor based off comments, and I do the rest. Setting up AI pipelines with rule files and stuff takes all the fun away and feels like extremely daunting work I can't bring myself to do. I would much rather just code than act as a PM for a junior that will mess up constantly.

When the LLM heinously gets it wrong 2, 3, 4 times in a row, I feel a genuine rage bubbling that I wouldn't get otherwise. It's exhausting. I expect within the next year or two this will get a lot easier and the UX better, but I'm not seeing how. Maybe I lack vision.
> I've always wondered why professors and supervisors, after experiencing these abuses themselves, continue to perpetuate them.

From their perspective, it's simply about the ends justifying the means.

You've learnt that relentless pressure and extreme demands, to an extent that elsewhere in society we would call highly abusive, produce results - they did for you, or you wouldn't be there.

This goes as far as rationalizing offensive personal insults as helpful tools - negative feedback can be very motivating to a driven person.

(That's not something I made up, I heard that point made nearly verbatim from a famous Max Planck director.)
Here is a good video by Digital Foundry looking at Metro Exodus Enhanced edition with devtools. Where they show what raytracing is and how it differs from regular lighting.

https://youtu.be/NbpZCSf4_Yk

simplified tldr: with raytracing you build the environment, designate which parts (like sun, lamps) emit light and you are done. With regular an artist has to spend hours to days adding many fake lightsources to get same result.
Yes. I use https://heywillow.io/ and nothing ever leaves my LAN.

It's entirely open, and relatively hackable - but also a pain to configure and requires 1 machine with a GPU (several years old is fine, I'm running mine on a nearly decade old Nvidia GTX 1080) and a couple satellite ESP32 devices (Espressif ESP32-S3-BOX-3).

Home Assistant is also doing a more integrated version, but last I looked it was still "cloud-only" which defeats the purpose for me, since I was interested from a privacy standpoint. It does look like they finally released a local preview (at least for some languages) but I haven't yet tried them. By default, it still looks like they're using Google for TTS, which is a hard "NO!" from me.

I've been pretty disappointed that they really seem to want to drive monetization with their voice features, and force people into the HA cloud services, but again - I haven't tried the latest release so take my frustrating with a grain of salt. They made a lot of noise in early 2023, and late last year still only supported cloud options... I was annoyed.
Disagree: Our malaise is not boredom from simplicity, but fatigue from inconsistency.

"Flat" interfaces aren't bad because they lack an ineffable whimsy of embodied human experience, they're bad because they threw out the baby the bathwater, tossing decades of conventions and hard-learned accessibility lessons in the name of supporting a touchscreen.

Compared to 20 years ago, everyone is shipping half-website-half-desktop abominations (e.g. with Electron[0]) and reinventing UX wheels. Too many apps/sites impose "their own look" instead of following what the user has already learned. [1] Often users must guess whether certain things are even clickable, how a certain toggle looks when enabled, whether certain settings are a single-select option or a multi-select tickbox... And memorize those rules with per-app or per-website granularity.

> You can talk while clicking, listen while reading, look at an image while spinning a knob, gesture while talking.

Those are all things people do after "make computer do what I want" has become automatic.

Now when--for example--trying to find the 21st item they just added inside a list that is vertically limited to 20 and the custom grey-on-grey scrollbar is always hidden unless you've currently hovering a mouse exactly in the right 5-pixel-wide strip between two columns of the interface.

[0] A sample listing of software readers may be familiar with: https://www.electronjs.org/apps

[1] That may be due to deliberate "remember us" branding, whatever was fastest-to-ship, because things to look new to get somebody a promotion, because they want to create a switching-cost so current users feel bad trying to use a competitor's product... Or because someone like the blog-poster has misguidedly tried to make a "richer experience."
I must have missed the part where a bill was passed on this

Or where the incoming administration announced this policy during their campaign

Maybe it was in the announcement where they committed to canceling pediatric cancer research and US AID, which I also missed
> AI chat is too devoid of friction.

You want an AI that argues with you?
Finally! Too much of physics is obsessed with the map and not the territory.

This is how you get the tortured reasoning that views measurement and observation as somehow different. Even einstein struggled.
If the slits are big enough, isn’t that just gravity?
What I worry about is once the robots become the main source of information then how will the corps restrict what information is fed into them to support whatever bias they have.

For example, just yesterday someone posted "noam chomsky is a genocide denier" so I went internet sleuthing to see what they were talking about. I first asked google and then ended up on the "Bosnian genocide denial" wikipedia page. I read the argument and checked the sources and concluded that, maybe, someone could make that claim.

Today, in response to TFA, I asked deepseek and received a well-rounded and, IMHO, unbiased response to the same question which summarized the arguments from both sides. The only problem is they cite no sources so you just have to trust the response or do as I did yesterday and go to the google.

Personally, if someone makes an extraordinary claim I'm going to go digging to find out what they're talking about, if their argument is based on fact and if you can draw their conclusion from the facts. Take that ability away and we're just a bunch of sheep for the Silicon Valley Billionaires Club to fleece.
> There is a sense - engineer's disease - that laws can made better by formal specification, but I've learned that is naive.

We can call it Bentham's disease, and it's what gave everybody civil law outside of the systems descended from the Napoleonic Code (another civil law system.) It's naïve to pretend it's something that can be done in an afternoon, but not to think that it's the ideal we should always be aspiring to.

Henry M. Robert, the creator of Robert's Rules of order, was an engineer, not a lawyer. He took Thomas Jefferson's summary and reorganization of English Parliamentary tradition and precedent, extracted the implicit premises from it, then reconstructed a system for deliberative societies from first principles. We use his system now.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dudley_Field_II

also: "Formalizing Robert's Rules of Order: An Experiment in Automating Mediation of Group Decision Making" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/869694
Wicked problems need an inter-disciplinary approach
I sure don’t. You nailed it.
Calculators do not accept ambiguous instructions and they work 100% of the time.
I am currently in the process of switching from using Obsidian to manage local markdown notes/files to using Notion for at least my personal project tracking. I have 2 reasons.

1. Notions "Databases" are easier to use, edit, and manage than any similar setup I could figure out locally. And they have inbuilt integrations so you can sync things like Github/Gitlab/Jira, etc directly into your docs. I highly recommend setting up a personal project inside Notion to try it out.

2. Less important but still useful, the collaboration is good to use with my partner. We can have shared household notes/saved info/tasks/etc all in one place very easily using it.
Can I offer a different perspective of providing drinks and food at the office?
Add to that coffee places and more on the company campus.

In some cases, maybe not yours, that is also a way to keep employees in the campus/at the office together. Nice things for the company happens there: you go with your team, have lunch and also have a meeting/discussion about the project you are working on.

I think when the company can afford it it is mostly a win-win situation that maybe it is presented only with the benefit side for the employee.
Fine AI- More than of Cursor/Bolt at a cheaper price
Fine is an AI teammate. It lives outside of your IDE and instead of just suggesting code snippets based on what you’re typing, handles entire tasks that you assign it directly from Slack, Linear, GitHub or in the browser. We’re also completely mobile friendly, as we believe there’s no reason developers shouldn’t be able to get tasks done on the go.
I don't want AI at all, but please read the article to understand what I mean by "friction."
Having thought about this a bit more I think hobbies are recursive.

I buy a motorcycle. I talk about the motorcycle. I ride the motorcycle. Riding motorcycles is a hobby now.

The motorcycle needs maintenance. I talk about the maintenance. I do the maintenance. Motorcycle maintenance is a hobby mow.

A part is unavailable. I talk about making the part. I buy a welder. I make the part. Welding is a hobby now.
Here is a disturbing look at what the absolute knobs at Y Combinator (and elsewhere) are preaching/pushing, with commentary from Primeagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riyh_CIshTs

Watch the whole thing, it's hilarious. Eventually these venture capitalists are forced to acknowledge that LLM-dependent developers do not develop an understanding and hit a ceiling. They call it "good enough".

The use of LLMs for constructive activities (writing, coding, etc.) rapidly produces a profound dependence. Try turning it off for a day or two, you're hobbled, incapacitated. Competition in the workplace forces us down this road to being utterly dependent. Human intellect atrophies through disuse. More discussion of this effect, empirical observations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNyYx2fZXw

To understand the reality of LLM code generators in practice, Primeagen and Casey Muratori carefully review the output of a state-of-the-art LLM code generator. They provide a task well-represented in the LLM's training data, so development should be easy. The task is presented as a cumulative series of modifications to a codebase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW6PhVdq9R8

This is the reality of what's happening: iterative development converging on subtly or grossly incorrect, overcomplicated, unmaintainable code, with the LLM increasingly unable to make progress. And the human, where does he end up?
That's probably the mechanism by which AI will take over many jobs:

1. Skilled people do a good job, AI does a not-so-good job.

2. AI users get dumbed down so they can't do any better. Mediocrity normalized.

3. Replace the AI users with AI.
It's wild to see machine learning baked right into a free WAF - feels like having an AI watchdog that never sleeps. Curious to see how this shifts the security landscape long-term, especially for startups that can't afford heavyweight protection systems.
Tried several times for C++, almost always got nonsense results. Maybe they only work for weakly typed language.