skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current regime is in a fascist power grab and you're both-sidsing some random-ass second lady from a generation ago? Yeah wonder why we can't have effective government.

> Let’s just not give the government any more power in our lives than necessary.

Let's stop giving corporations all of the power and get a government that actually works for us.
I mean N^2!
I guess we really are entering this darkest timeline.
How does this make sense? Cherry picking things you agree with is exactly what you should do. Based on reason and evidence.
Wanting to work with ambitious people that match your level is not toxic.
The main advantage of Prolog is that it forces you to think in different ways to solve problems. The main weakness of Prolog is that it forces you to think in different ways to solve problems. Especially because most existing libraries are written in procedural style, so they don't work well with prolog. In the end you'll have some difficulty to integrate with existing code.
I can confirm that some (30%?) mechanical and biomedical engineers follow the described problem "solving" strategy exactly. It's not just software engineers.
RE: Quick iteration cycles - definitely agreed.

Back in my EE days in 90's, "full stack engineer" meant, for example, being able to build a physical calculator by connecting a numerical keyboard, bunch of 7 segment displays and a micro controller using bunch of wires on a circuit board, and THEN writing the assembly code to allocate memory and run your program in an infinite loop. You had to erase your EPROM with UV and burn your program to the chip over and over every time you changed a byte in your code. Debugging? You wish.

As a side effect, full stack engineers had the risk of getting electrocuted, or going blind :)
We all predicted this would happen but somehow the highly intelligent employees at OpenAI getting paid north of $1M could not foresee this obvious eventuality.
There is also one huge disadvantage of cron: it requires root. Users can create and run systemd timers without root/sudo.

And quite frankly, your experience is likely due to your personal knowledge bias. Systemd timers are quite easy to debug, in fact easier than cron in my opinion. systemctl list-timers lists all the timers, when they last ran, when they will run next, and you can use other commands to inspect each timer in detail and all associated logs.

In contrast, I find cron much harder to debug. Starting with the first problem, you must first figure out what cron is running, as different implementations have different behavior!
Legislation is literally the code of society.
What we found with RPCN (redpanda connect)/old benthos is that most systems are very slow and only cpu intensive things require manual CPU instruction optimizations like the snowflake connector we wrote (https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect/components/output...). The bulk of it is just about completeness. Go feels like the Perl of the 2020s. Cool little libs for just about everything.
Clojurellm-data: Clojure LLM – Dataset curation for fine tuning an LLM
> Carl Lindström's political ideology was also inseparable from his life's work.

I made no claim about him one way or the other in this regard.

That said, if you're going to make the claim that his political ideology was inseparable from his work (in direct contrast to most of the other comments here which say they should be kept separate), then it's worth spelling out why people would celebrating the work of a man with a documented career of being a prominent member of neo-Nazi parties, spanning over 40 years.
A great quarterback with an otherwise average team is still going to beat an average quarterback with an otherwise average team every time. That a team is more than the sum of its parts just means that adding great team members can lead to more overall gain than their skill alone would imply as they boost those around them.
its a radically different approach to knowledge search and exploration than the previous "direct" alternatives like search engines/indexes/nlp
And will they ever support an easily-configured catch-all domain, like Namecheap?
If there is one thing users want without knowing it it is the long term accumulation of value.

Writing comments takes only slightly less effort than writing a draft for a book. The Twitter or facebook history, even our comments here quickly lose value. It all vanishes into the hole.

In contrast, i once ran into a geocities page created by a very elderly couple in the US about their vacations. They were old enough to tell the story about how the world changed over time from an appropriately mundane perspective. They probably died before I found the homepage. It was an oddly interesting read. In 100 years it would be truly marvelous.

If the software is there we could probably wrap the proverbial Richard Stallman's browser history into a product worth buying. It would be every bit as funny as it sounds.
This is bullshit. I'm sorry you've never had the pleasure of working in a high performing team.
Ingestion of context.

Period.

If you dont understand the benefit of an AI augmenting the speed and depth of ingestion of Domain Context into a human mind.. then... go play with chalk.||I as a smart Human operate on lots of data... and AI and such has allowed me to consume such.

The most important medicines in the world are MEMORY retention...

It s youd like a conspiracy, eat too much aluminum to give you alzheimers asap so your generation forgets... (based though. hope you undestand what I am saying)
Disappointing he says he is not using it to start a cult. I'd start a cult. Church building first, cult second.
Even with solar panels, you have to have the right equipment at your meter and in the first box connected to the meter, in order to backfeed power to the grid. You can’t just slap random gear inside your house and have it start feeding current back. That would violate the National Electric Code (NEC) and could get someone hurt or killed if they thought the power was out but your equipment was providing current back onto the lines.
but great for fraudsters trying to side step content moderation models!
yes i was taught that "ln" stood for "natural log"

would be interested to hear other definitions!
The Europeans have 22/7, as long as they write dates with the slash.
> Not “Church of the Scalzi,” which is actually the name of a church in Venice, Italy.

Oh right, "scalzi" means 'barefoot' (mpl) in Italian!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scalzo#Italian
The "AI deciding whether or not to reply" bit seems really interesting to me. Is it just random or do you actually have some algorithm behind it? If so, what all does it take into account? Message content? length? quantity? etc...
I presume you can avoid having to use porkbun’s zone management stuff and they just make it work behind the scenes.
“We want more regulation! AI is too dangerous, too powerful for any person off the street to use!”

Meanwhile exact same guy in Europe:

“Less regulation! You are strangling our innovation!”
The China Syndrome (1979) – Reactor Scram Scene [video]
A related evil is when people start with a test that orchestrates the whole flow, copy it, and make one small change towards the beginning of the flow. They know, at the time of doing this, that the part they care about happens after one second. They could just let it crash and burn after making the critical assertion and the test would be just as useful.

But they commit an entirely new test filled with redundant stuff that takes way longer than is necessary and makes it unclear which assertion was the critical one. Because hey, look at all that green text in my PR. I'm so thorough.
Is it not more like lossy image decompression?

Just because the jpeg you're distributing isn't the same bytes as the one I have copyright to doesn't mean you're not infringing my copyright. You're still taking my copyrighted image, running it through an algorithm, and then distributing the results.
It doesn’t matter. You should never trust the government with more power than absolutely necessary.

Because eventually, the other side will do something you don’t like.

This is the government people voted for.

The government has a “monopoly on violence”. No corporation can force you to do anything, take away your freedom (the US has the highest incarceration rate of any democracy) or your property (see civil forfeiture). I can much more easily avoid a corporation than the government.
IMO Systemd Timers provide much better control over how the cron job is run.

Need to distribute lots of cron jobs evenly to avoid overloading the system? Use RandomizedDelaySec.

Some cron jobs are flaky and you want to re-run if it fails? Add Restart=on-failure to corresponding service.

Some cron jobs conflict with each other? Set Conflicts=foo.service or maybe Before & After.

Sure, all above are possible with shell scripts. But systemd provides a standard, reliable way to define these properties.
One can set up cron jobs under non-root.
And where did OpenAI get the data to generate those datasets?
Draft RFC – ACME Extensions for ".onion" domains
Kudos for a Show HN that's useful and isn't trying to push a subscription!

No Zalgo text?
I say this as someone who loves software: software is not special.

Every discipline has infinite depth.

Railways in 2D may seem simple but there the simplicity may be intentional. Just like when you write software that runs things like planes, trains, or medical devices, all of a sudden you’re writing in C, without recursion, without function pointers, without using the heap, etc.

Look at the concord airplane. A mess of a project.

Look at anything in biology and human health. The complexity is unimaginable compared to software.

Edit: reduced emotions
While a single talented developer can conceptually complete a whole project (of some kind) on their own, the concrete reality is that they're often being tasked to do so in the context of some time and resource bounded opportunity.

There's only so much code they write per unit time, only so many designs they can consider, only so many meetings they can attend, only so many demonstrations they can perform, only so many regressions they can debug, and really, only so many domains they can master.

Solo projects written by excellent engineers can be stunning works of craft. Many of us prefer to work that way, and accept the compromises of scale or time that are associated with it.

But most projects that you're familiar with need a team to produce them in a way that meets their real-world time and resource requirements. That's where the sports analogy comes in.

(And the same is true for the blacksmith and tailor. One master blacksmith or tailor might do stunning work, but they can't outfit and army or dress a court ball on their own. They need support, and that support often needs to be of a different level of mastery than themselves, if for no reason but to facilitate needed coordination and deference.)
> Much more significantly, the amount of setup involved in a systemd timer is way higher than putting a line in a crontab

Counterpoint: this requires root, while you can edit and run systemd timers without root. Thus it's also generally more secure, both when creating the job and every time it runs.

> Systemd involves writing a 7 line timer unit file, an additional 5 line service file, running a daemon-reload, then enabling the timer. It turns what's usually a 10 second mindless task into a much more involved procedure. That can be worth it if there are material benefits from it, but I'm not really seeing them here.

You could write a script to automate it, if it's such a big deal. Creating timers/cronjobs isn't something that needs to be done often enough for this to matter.

If it is, another counterpoint: systemd supports creating transient timers, which you could do programmatically.

And final counterpoint: you can make systemd understand crontab and convert it into timers (systemd-crontab-generator)
That's fine. Lets say 5% of the time a world class programmer would get this wrong, but 100% of people who can't program get this wrong.

Lets say we interview 100 (N) people for a role. (100 is a lot but pick a number yourself and follow along)

The probability that a random interviewee is a top programmer is lets say 1/50 (T). So in our pool of 100 we have on average 2. Give everyone this problem, and if they get it right they move to round 2 which is 4 more interviews. Lets say 20 (P) people pass to round #2.

We are paying for a total of 100 + 80 = 180 interviews (N + 4P). To give everyone who failed the first round another try would require another 80 (N - P) interviews. So for almost 50% more cost (N-P)/(N + 4P) we gain (T * N * 5%) = 0.1 additional top programmer making it to round 2 on average. Just interviewing another 80 people (same cost) would get us (T * 80 * 95%) == 1.52 additional top programmers to round #2 on average. There's basically no reasonable % you can pick for how often people screw up where it makes sense to do anything but just ignore the possibility.
Right, I thought this was about locale formats and the equivalent of `ls -t`. It didn’t occur to me that the sensicality of using a lexicographic date format in file names might be under contention.
The search engine wasn't the problem though, it was paywalling the information so less people had access to it.

How do for-profit models served by for-profit companies make information that was previously "pay to learn" more accessible?
OpenAI considers DeepSeek "state-controlled"
I decided to try Porkbun last week, had a minor issue and opened up a support chat. Instantly I was connected with a guy named Richard who I could tell was a real person, who had deep knowledge of domains and DNS, and he was empowered to solve my issue. I was blown away. I haven’t had support like that in years.
The church cost only $75,000; because it is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford,_Ohio

If you work remotely, this seems a good example of why you might consider moving away from a major city.
Why do multiple employees on this list have direct ties to Peter Thiel?
Fuck this constant dehumanisation and categorisation of the working class.

The key to a great team is great leadership.

Most people are terrible leaders, and they think that what they are worth is what makes them leadership material, even though they didn’t earn that worth themselves and didn’t put in a hard graft.

The key to a great team is a fucking team. Only then can there be a leader.

Let’s talk about ‘normal’ CEOs, 10x CEOs, and for that matter, ‘retarded’ CEOs, considering a particular one of them favours that insult. That’s the implication of ‘normal’ in scare quotes no?
democracy was what decided the trump presidency. It is working. The problem is the voters are pretty dumb, or fell for propaganda.

Democracy isn't meant to give you the best outcome. It gives you, the voter, a way to push the gov't.
So interesting! The author doesn’t, I believe, yet cover how the first log tables were computed (by hand), so I asked ChatGPT. This may be of interest: https://chatgpt.com/share/67d3a64d-f8a8-8012-bde3-e80813b2b4...
Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C
It's rather amusing reading the link on dirigisme given the context of its alleged implication. [1] A word which I, and suspect most, have never heard before.

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The term emerged in the post-World War II era to describe the economic policies of France which included substantial state-directed investment, the use of indicative economic planning to supplement the market mechanism and the establishment of state enterprises in strategic domestic sectors. It coincided with both the period of substantial economic and demographic growth, known as the Trente Glorieuses which followed the war, and the slowdown beginning with the 1973 oil crisis.

The term has subsequently been used to classify other economies that pursued similar policies, such as Canada, Japan, the East Asian tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan; and more recently the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its economic reforms,[2] Malaysia, Indonesia[3][4] and India before the opening of its economy in 1991.[5][6][7]

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigisme
Like Most Favoured Nation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_favoured_nation
Learn Morse Code – CW with the Long Island CW Club
Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs
You cannot edit /etc/crontab without root. I'm not talking about dropping privileges for the job.

Although speaking of which, cron dropping privileges is not as secure as systemd running as the user before parsing the user's timers, from a defense-in-depth perspective.
Despite the name, this isn't a local club - since 2018, they have members in all 50 states, and in 65 countries.
I reviewed it three times for different conferences :-)

I’m still annoyed they didn’t include the drain time equation I used for calculating track width, which falls out of one of their equations.

Oh, and I’m very glad you showed differing track sizes across the platter. (BTW, did you know track sizes differ between platters? Google “disks are like snowflakes”)
This is giving me some strong Voronoi vibes
That is correct and s3 are in 3 different regions with object lifetime of maximum 10 days, it is backed by s3, the idea is to have the simplest code for anyone to review what it does (encrypt in browser and send encrypted blob to s3, key never leave browser)

Also no 3rd party JS, no tracking etc..
noah smith is a hack and an idiot. hope this helps you understand the article
You don't need a former fighter jet pilot to fly an airliner, but a former fighter jet pilot would probably do a very good job flying an airliner.

The guy who can roll his own probably also has a better idea than most what easy off the shelf solutions are out there.
I don't think, excluding some scenarios at well-disciplined firms that anything like "engineering" exists in programming.

The processes surrounding development often strike me as haphazard, cargo-cult like behavior, and entirely subjective.

Regarding people not remembering stuff--yeah that's probably true, but there's a lot a typical developer has to jump between--do people really get to "specialize" in JUST like writing Java CRUD or something anymore?

Feel like there's always also troubleshooting some Docker thing, some cloud provider, some build system, some pipeline etc etc.

When there's no stability and moving targets, maybe you're not incentivized to be a "specialist" on a language or whatever (this might also be painting oneself into a corner for their career) given how easy information retrieval is today?

RE: the scenario

Is this real?

I've never been employed at any sort of fancy role but I've never encountered this kind of thing (publicly) involving me, and I generally get on well with others, so I assume I'd have seen it by now

I'm sure plenty of programmers pasta from LLMs constantly now, but I've never had bizarre low-hanging "what do" inquiries.

Most people have some discipline and structure when asking questions:

- I'm attempting to integrate library x into the project
- I've done the following and the build fails in CI with $ERROR
- I've checked x, y, z
- Have you encountered something similar?

This indicates some level of actual understanding of how things work, or prerequisite research prior to asking.

Also, where can I get a job where they hire people this minimally competent? I'm seriously burnt out and this seems like a nice change of pace.

I'm totally serious with that question.
Interesting way to put it after seeing a very specific "centralizing of power", that being the people with the most capital making the decisions.

Why would centralizing power in a different way(e.x. democratically) not lead to a different outcome than centralizing power in the way we do now?
The CEO praised one of Trump's picks for an attorney overseeing internet regulation and then when asked about it, the official Proton account replied with multiple posts about how Democrats were sold out to big business and Republicans were the party of small business. Also about how J.D. Vance was the only person to want to talk to Proton about internet regulation. It's worth noting they also left out that the attorney in question lobbied for multiple big tech companies before being appointed and Proton's whole argument was "democrats are captured by big tech".

Then when further asked about it, the CEO essentially said he didn't actually know much about the situation and hadn't meant it as an endorsement despite the original posts essentially being a one-sided attack on Democrats and all praise for the current administration, including @ mentioning Donald Trump. He also kept saying "my comments from last year" when they were from December and the controversy was in Jan.

At best it seems quite naive from Proton's side to think the administration where Musk, Zuckerberg, and Cook were front row at the inauguration, and was generally funded by Musk, Thiel, Bezos and a raft of other VC folks is going to be more aggressive at regulating big tech companies and for internet privacy in general. At worst, they're trying to curry favor with/actually in favor of the current administration and don't want to admit it because a lot of their value as a business is for people who don't want the government to see their data.
Wikipedia article with more detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...
Rust is increasingly becoming the default language for building infrastructure.
Because they are working toward this

https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-leg...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300527
This has often meant displacing huge numbers of people in order to create contiguous nation states. Some 15 million in the partition of India and a similar number in Eastern and Central Europe.
Context switches plus mmap accesses are often slower than mmap accesses.
Patents are state-sanctioned monopolies. That is their explicit purpose. And for all the "shoulders of giants" and "science is a collective effort" arguments, none of them can explain why no Chinese company (a jurisdiction that does not respect Western patents) can do what ASML does. They have the money and the expertise, but somehow they don't have the technology.

Also, the Gucci brand does not have lawyers. The Gucci brand is a name, a logo, and an aesthetic. Kering S.A. (owners of Gucci), enforces that counterfeit Gucci products don't show up. The designers at Kering spend a lot of effort coming up with Gucci-branded products, and they generally seem to have the pulse of a certain sector of the market.

The analysis of Coke's supply chain is wrong. The supply chain Coke uses is pretty run-of-the-mill, and I'm pretty sure that aside from the syrup (with the aforementioned secret formula), they actually outsource most of their manufacturing. They have good scale, but past ~100 million cans, I'm not sure you get many economies of scale in soda. That's why my local supermarket chain can offer "cola" that doesn't quite taste like Coke for cheaper than Coke. You could argue that the brand and the marketing are the moat, but the idea that Coke has a supply chain management advantage (let alone a moat over this) is laughable.
The difference is if you are asked about the 5 (or however you slice it) layers vs just 1 or 2 it leads to two kinds different kinds of discussions. The latter gets very specific.
Mainstream is different than upper middle class and ambitious.
> with current laws, the answer is probably yes

Citation needed, or at least some reasoning. The answer to "is this fair use" can't be "it's fair use because it's fair use"

> also what liability do you expect them to assume

The same liability anybody does for distributing copyright works without a license? Why are they not liable if it turns out the stuff they've been distributing and making people pay for was content they didn't own the license to distribute?
Are these models really able to be fooled by text tricks like this?
+1 for trash truck