skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wisdom got superceded by "you are the product". It was an echo of the old days, now everyone and their dog phones your data home in some form and sells it.
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The annoying thing about pure ideologies is that they're unattainable. This turns out to be convenient for ideologues though, who insist we just have to clap louder.
All developing markets "steal" until they've caught up with the competition. Just look at the US and how they "stole" innovations and tech from Europe.
Was it Larry Wall that said "it's easier to port a shell than a shell script"?

I've done similar inter-language changes, and I have always found it easier to not change the language of the business logic. (Unless the change gives you something really big - for me I often port stuff to numpy because I need the vectorized code, but that's only for very specific problems).

If I had this task, the place where my brain would go would be to find a way to compile JS into C and then use C calling conventions to call the functions from Python. Keep the JS code around so that if you need to change anything, you change it in JS and then recompile to C.

I don't know the JS space very well, but can you get a JS interpreter that lives in Python? That way you can call JS functions from Python?

I don't like transpiling, there's always enough differences between the languages that something bad happens. When I've run into issues like this, since I'm an "old guy", I tend to try to get everything into C calling conventions and use that as my base interface.

Worst case, there has to be some good JS interpreter that can give you a C interface that you could call from Python. So you'd have Python -> C -> JS and your business logic can still live in JS (if your port is because of efficiency and you need compiled code, then you can ignore me.)
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Doesn't Sundar pull down $250MM / yr?
But of course these are all flavors of "large", so then we have big large language models, medium large language models, etc, which does indeed make the tall/grande/venti names appropriate, or perhaps similar "all large" condom size names (large, huge, gargantuan).
This idea is a clear violation of the first amendment, so, fortunately, will never fly. Any assumption that US will even look at it seriously is delusional.

Poor liars in Russian government will have to continue to rely on the slave mentality to keep their circus running, because it is impossible to plug holes in the ocean of information.
on firefox at least, the WASD controls seems inverted?
It doesn't inherently make more lines. You might (you probably will) just have the same lines more broken up.

You could also just have more lines even if they're long. The length of the lines doesn't change the number of them. It's just a question of how many busses and drivers do you really have and what service interval are you trying to hit.

If you're arguing they should have like a 15 minute hub and spoke model, you might also be forcing some really inefficient routes and once again force people to change busses more when one bus route could have better served the community.
It's just how they make sex more interesting. Most only live a year or two, and you only live once.
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His point is that it is not...

It is not a wild take that Facebook, Twitter, Google et al. is undermining society and our social interactions on a deep philosophical level.
If I were a Paul Allen-tier billionaire, I’d endow university chairs in ‘Computer Archaeology’ specifically for people doing this kind of meticulous digging. It’s fantastic work, clarifying how operating systems evolved—though arguably just a bit more practical than crawling around ancient Greek ruins searching for fragments of the past.
Though my Erlang skills have long atrophied, this book was my intro to functional programming and helped me understand recursion. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but I remember it being kind of funny as well as informative.
Vendor lock-in is risky and expensive for large corporations and governments, both of which tend to move slowly. I find it completely legitimate that a government would create a tool that's useful to its workforce and helps to avoid vendor lock-in. Insomuch as it's created by the government, it's released as open source.

Most companies and people aren't going to want to maintain the VMs and/or infrastructure to run their own platforms, so they have the option to continue using SaaS offerings like Notion.
What does a 20 LLM signify?
Expertise in HVDC is entirely contained in China it's incredible. They're definitely capable of innovations when needed.
I think there’s probably at least 100 missing steps between producing open source applications and communism
They won't because they can't. That they're making such absurd arguments is that they refuse to admit they've been and are wrong about the direction this world needs to take.

Only the cruel vote for a cruel bastard, only the racists vote for Nazi-adjacent racists, and only wannabe dictators vote for obvious fascists.

Anyone who tries to both-sides this is a willfully ignorant fool. They have eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear, and hearts that do not understand.

That's the nature of the cruel, compassionless fools of this world. They are asleep at the wheel of life. And they must embrace compassion to wake themselves up. We cannot do it for them, but their free will lets them be as stupid and cruel as they choose, but we ALL reap what we sow, for good or ill.

Peace be with you, friend.
Having worked in academic research, industrial research, and programming in the US, I agree strongly with the sentiment here. From what I've seen, many US companies--even those claiming to be research focused--don't really engage in actual research and confuse it with development. This conflation of research with product-driven iteration has created a gap left to be filled by US competitors
Your example of WhatsApp is a perfect one for me to say: yes, I would much rather use for my private messaging an open source, publicly founded solution, than a solution which Mark Zuckerberg controls for his own private gain.
I don't have any experience in this, but would be curious to see what happens if you make a couple of screenshots of your current website, pack you source code into a txt file and paste it into gemini pro https://aistudio.google.com asking to get some feedback on how to improve, and then ask to implement it (maybe using claude [code?], it may work better)
Yeah im not saying anything about value of work output, just the change in the market
Can you provide a source / examples?
Stock and equity just aren’t great at motivating employees.

If you’re at a small and pre-public startup, your decisions and effort can directly affect product success BUT the equity is only theoretically valuable someday in the distant future so you ignore it.

If you’re public and getting stock/rsus, your company is likely large enough that there’s nothing you can do single-handedly to affect the price.
China is building an entirely independent semi conductor supply chain and if they are not competitive now, they will be in the near future. US sanctions forced them into turbo charging their efforts.
Piracy isn't even the main use case of yt-dlp. It's archival of videos that you want to keep a copy of in case something happens to the video. There is literally no way to get that "feature" by paying Google. But you are correct that yt-dlp would not be necessary if Google offered an option to download videos (also in an automated way because many people have something set up to archive certain videos automatically).
Not sure how it is in Mac world, but in PC world the numeric keys have arrows (8 is up, 2 is down, 4 left, 6 right), and you can activate them by pressing NumLock. It has been this way since at least 90s. Never used them myself, but I guess if you are used to them and they no longer work it can be infuriating. E.g. like VSCode removing Insert key functionality (always inserts, never overrides the text).
I was working through those times and share that sentiment. 2000 was apparently bad for Silicon Valley in particular, but, being outside of that, I don't remember any noticeable effects. 2008 was the App Store gold rush. That was quite possibly the best time in tech I have seen despite what was going on the non-tech economy.
My man literally the best open source model (that happens to be excellently documented) is Chinese.
When the cost of training a model goes down, it doesn't simply become cheaper to the end user. In addition to that, the provider will train even larger and more capable models.
If you want to see what this would actually be like:

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/lossifizer/

I think a fun experiment could be to see at what setting the average human can no longer decipher the text.
The government has no responsibility to look after their citizens beyond offering public goods/services, which Healthcare is decidedly not.

The article itself is a bit rubbishlike. To date Congress has repeatedly stated they are not going to cut ss, Medicaid, Medicare. This article posits that Medicaid must be cut with no citation or logical argument:

> While the depth and scope of potential Medicaid cuts are unknown, House Republicans can’t meet their target of $880 billion in savings to pass President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda without making significant cuts to programs like Medicaid. All states rely on federal matching funds to finance their Medicaid programs.
Go into the trades.
I haven't read the Haskell version (or at least, not more than a small portion and in a long time), so I can't comment on the comparison, but what did you find insufficient about the "So what's Erlang?" section? I think it explains the benefits quite well, though I am someone who writes BEAM code for a living :)
Photoshop has a million features though, a couple of image filters doesn't really count as recreating.
Like most people my age, my first Internet experience at home was with lynx on a Unix shell. We shared credentials for an account at the school board that we scored from a teachers aid.
It was sweet to dial into the school board (same numbers all the teachers used!) and surf around in text only lynx.
> Europe should be making industry-leading apps. Europe should produce software startups that make products that get used worldwide.

I've kind of lost hope when it comes to commercial services and proprietary apps. They're sadly all sooner or later enshittified. We need something different, not by promises but by design (FOSS).

> EU subsidized clones of popular American products feels like admitting defeat.

I think it's a fresh and needed take on the financing of our common digital infra.
Are you advocating for everyone to create their own SaaS here or what?

End of the day, most engineers need to join employers. We can’t have 10M+ different SaaS out there and each engineer develops their own personal brand of it. That’s not how software scales. Most ICs are never going to be in a position where the CEO is going to listen to them about what product we should develop and be given the time and resources to investigate that stuff.

Your assertion doesn’t even acknowledge infra engineers who clearly don’t work on product facing work. It’s a bit ridiculous.
Every year China produces about as many stem graduates as the rest of the world combined.
Even if you think the system wasn’t set up perfectly, destroying it in a way that affects vulnerable people can’t be called “good”. That’s sociopathic.
"Just look at the US and how they "stole" innovations and tech from Europe."

except that they are not
I love this. I made something similar, even more bare-bones, for myself a few years ago. I still use it literally everyday: https://tabnotes.page (just type a note)
I heard it described as: motorcycle riding actually consists of two hobbies, riding and maintenance. Most people can't afford to only participate in the riding.

I think each riding maintenence have their own four quadrents.
Isn't demand a function of how much the company makes from your labour?
>government projects like these are not likely to really push the state-of-the-art forward.

why it would need to be state of the art? it needs to be stable and 'good enough'. This isn't rocket science, nor quantum mechanics - this is literally a glorified CRUD app that focuses on documentation.
If ChatGPT was reallly the 1000’th best programmer in the world… do you know what you could do with that?

Makes me wonder, are they testing this in real world scenarios or just benchmarking on Hackerrank, because 1000th best programmer in the world would be AMAZING!!! You could probably 10x the productivity of any engineering org if all engineers were suddenly 1000th best in the world. There’s absolutely no need to surpass human ability, which makes me think they’re measuring something tangentially related to the core skill of the job.
Your whole argument is based on neomania: progress is always good and there is no point in working on something unless it advances the state of the art.
The problem is that the rich have been getting govt charity for decades, and getting more by the year thanks to the GOP and top Dems.

The corporate tax rate is a joke, as are Elmo's tax subsidies and backroom dealings.

But it doesn't matter, because the chickens that are coming home to roost are going to feel a lot more like t-rexes.
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I’d love to try this out - I signed up for beta access. Looking forward to giving it a shot!
Top 2% maybe not. But top 10%? In a lot of economies the property ponzi scheme has reached such levels that even a top-10% salary is barely enough to actually afford decent accommodation (and employers collude with real estate interests with things like RTO/etc meaning you need that accommodation and don't have cheaper alternatives).
The downside, of course, is needing to code in JavaScript.
I wonder why is still anyone NOT using e-bikes for delivery. This is the lowest hanging fruit ever. No charging issues (just a normal wall socket is more than enough), no range issues - trips are short and battery can be swapped by a person in seconds to the one that was charging. Almost zero running costs compared to a two-stroke.
But to do anything more interesting than boot up, it quickly becomes cumbersome and non functional.

I'd love to use OS9 in UTM daily, but it's really just a tech demo.
I think it just depends how into industrial music a person is/was.

Reznor's genius to me was in taking industrial music and making it catchy, radio friendly and basically pop.

Completely commercial compared to anything I can think of in industrial music from the time on back. Completely filled with confusion and anger though compared to say Whitney Houston from the time.
There was, bluntly, a mountain of bullshit from many angles. When trying to keep tabs on stuff for my sanity, I determined there’s multiple variants of the lab leak theory:

First, there’s the question of if it was an accident or a deliberate release

Second, (and on top of the first) that it was a lab-engineered strain or research on a naturally occurring strain.

The fringe sites seemed to overwhelmingly adopt the “deliberate release + lab engineered” theory.

On the deliberate release+bio engineered front: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dean-koontz-book-predi...

On the deliberate-release+bioengineered, but walking back the bioengineering, you have Tom Cotton (granted, the NYT editorial stance in this casts skepticism on Cotton) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronaviru...

There was a reasonable level of reporting stating that the wet market theory was one of a few possibilities, and that a leak was possible but couldn’t be conclusively determined.

My takeaway and bias is that we’ll never conclusively know the root cause. It became a blame game. The effort would be much better spent preparing for the next pandemic.
can we have tiny LLM that can run on smartphone now
Most important legislation, including the BNA, is government legislation (indeed, see the white paper: https://www.uniset.ca/naty/maternity/wpaper.pdf). It is therefore drafted by parliamentary counsel, whose advice remains available when amendments are proposed. Most governments also command sufficient majorities to push this kind of legislation through, or at least to come to consensus on amendments. The relevant passage seems clear enough that parliamentary counsel could have drafted it and so I doubt there were ‘too many chefs’ as you put it (although I haven’t checked Hansard).

It is also hard to see what these drafting habits have to do with the common law system. Points 1–5 could be true of a legislature in pretty much any legal tradition.
Because society learned quite a while ago that allowing people to die starving on the street and similar fates has some significant downsides for society as a whole. Saying that they just should have saved better or suggesting private charity should handle it might be emotionally satisfying for some people, but it doesn't address the actual problem and the downsides that go along with it.
Afaik, the call for the whorld to go cashless comes from Davos, and the people mostly don't like it. See e.g. https://chyp.com/2016/04/05/a-manifesto-for-cashlessness-in-...

They promote a view where cash is inefficiënt and an enabler for crime. Which is true, if you put the right glasses on.

Unfortunately, these right glasses assume a few things: Banks get a fee for every payment, even if capped in th EU. Money should move from people to businesses, between businesses, or back to people, but not really between people. The governement gets to decide who is allowed to get money. Each of these is scary.

In Belgium,a country with a huge amiunt of electronic payments, a lot of ATMs got 'optimized' away, to the point that you had to go to a city to get cash. This caused backlash and avfew are coming back, but eternally empty.

I saw someone start a grassroots action where she sold books as a non bussiness for a few days. She decided to make it easy and go cashless. She sold 20 and then got her account flagged for suspicious activity.

When the governement feels like it, e.g. when a partner dies, they sometimes block your bank account for a few months until they know how much taxes they deserve. Hope you have cash.

I see how USA payment networks make paying for porn hard, and they are not allowed to decide where I should spend money. They also sell data to whoever wants it, and that makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Not everyone needs to know my political affiliations as expressed by payments to causes.

I'm fine with being 90% cashless, but 100% is a nightmare.
Ah this makes sense, I was going to comment that "docs" was not really a suitable name.

What is the correct full name then? lasuite docs (judging from the logo, that seem to be the brand part)? docs numerique (from the URL)?
Personally, even if this software wouldn't be 1:1 capable of replacing the established players, it still feels like a good idea. With how much people (rightfully) complain about how open source is underfunded and with how often we're forced into borderline exploitative dealings with the established players in the market (the likes of MS Office, Adobe products, Atlassian products, even some Oracle stuff), funding the development of open alternatives (even if done with some comparatively small amount of taxes) seems like a good idea, as long as everyone in the government isn't incompetent.

For example, if we had governments with strong tech departments that could fund helping the development of LibreOffice, then suddenly even if someone wants to use MS Office, that's still a bargaining chip to get a better deal because there's a viable alternative. Or to develop something like OpenProject, Kanboard etc., alternatives to the likes of Jira, that might be enough for many out there, while also possibly benefitting from community contributions. People love to complain about how Jira supposedly sucks, so that'd be a good opportunity to step up and make something "better". Or using open source technologies like PostgreSQL or MariaDB/MySQL for developing their own internal systems instead of always forking over a bunch of cash for Oracle or MS SQL by default.

If you want a government that's cost efficient, then invest in making it be so, treat the software landscape as an investment opportunity - spend some money now to save a bunch of money later. The same way how an app can be a home cooked meal, some software could be a public utility.
>When it comes to hardware who pioneered all those technologies?

Not sure that matters anymore in the new world order.

Frontier tokens are largely fungible now. The details of how they came about doesn't make them any less useful.
There is a slightly less ethical way to do this, you buy a ticket that mows you to travel at any time of day. Then when you have made your trip log on to realtimetrains to find a train on your route that was delayed and then claim that as your journey.

Now your ticket is sometimes scanned when you enter or leave a station but this is rare and even less likely to be scanned on the train by a conductor.

Anyway that is something that someone could do
> The font in the screenshot is Cosmic Sans

Probably Fantasque because I've (to the best of my memory) never installed Cosmic Sans (and I made the screenshot, obvs.) but I do occasionally use Fantasque for terminals.

But since the screenshot needs updating, I'm open to suggestions for what font to use this time.
It's just clumps of matter. Ssme way species is just a clump of individuals.

> Species, the periodic table, etc. are constructs. They are useful because they help us understand the world.

My point exactly.
These are just first order effects. I'm talking about second and third order effects that I would argue make the value prop of tighter spreads enormously negative to society on the whole.

Liken it to the government deciding to spend 40% of the budget on roads. Suddenly the roads quickly get pot holes filled, the lines are seemingly always freshly painted, cracks are all filled, and even mildly uneven roads gets freshly paved.

The first order effects of this would all be positive. The transportation dept. could talk all day about benefits to everyone. Everyone would love the great roads.

But spending 40% of the budget on roads is insane, and the second and third order effects would be disastrous to that society.
I think you make good observations already well captured in Dead Internet Theory.

High craftsmanship however has always been a niche as any given problem will only find a small subset of customers willing to pay extra for higher than average quality.

SaaS may face the same fate as SEO only in the sense that it's hard to acquire relevant traffic at scale. As the industry matured, it slowly became harder to do it for new founders anyway.

With the open internet turning into botfest, people will turn to personal recommendations to solve their technical problems.

In my opinion, the personal network is the new true search engine.
It was to keep the CD-ROMS from getting scratched.