skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff is that self-indulgent pablum that comes from the genre of "poor are happier than rich" and such. It's always reinforced by the mediocre because everyone wants to believe they're key to something. The long and short of it is that the people who are buying your work are adequate determiners of how key you are.
Yeah, I'm tired with all those nanny things. Why is Google so obsessed with filtering? They even got all of reputational damages from unnecessary filtering and manipulation, not from unsafe output. I'm pretty sure they've lost 20~30% of potential users due to this crazy level of censorship and it looks like they don't care.
on one hand I suspect too much code has explicit and implicit global state for this technique to be useful; on the other hand using this from the beginning might prevent introducing that sort of global state in the first place.
The animations are fantastic and awesome job with the interactivity. I find myself having to explain latency to folks often in my work and being able to see the extreme difference in latencies for something like a HDD vs SSD makes it much easier to understand for some people.

Edit: And for real, fantastic work, this is awesome.
I can strongly recommend memorising some logarithms for use in mental maths. It's given me powers I did not expect to have! Here's what I wrote about it when I started: https://entropicthoughts.com/learning-some-logarithms
Yet, it is trivial to find "competent engineer" in other fields and software engineering is filled with mediocre ones at best.

When there's 1000 ways to do a thing, with wildly different pros and cons, and insane amount of unknowns in a field that is evolving so rapidly that it is (near) impossible for someone to keep up, being "competent" is not easy.
There are 10x engineers, and 100x, and 1000x. The only thing required to separate the wheat from the chaff is a hard enough problem. Now deal with it.
Oh, it's definitely simplistic.

The problem is that real wages for the average person has been going down since the 1970s. Meanwhile, the wealthiest people are making more and more, but that extra money is not going to Social Security due to the cap. Additionally, due to longer lifespans and fewer children, the ratio of working to retired people went up. Productivity is also up, which can easily compensate for the change in workforce, but isn't enough to cover both that and the shift in income to fewer, wealthier people whose contributions are capped.

The net effect is less money going to Social Security. The easy solution is to remove the cap. That's unfair for the wealthy, but is a lot easier than getting fairer and more equitable wages across the entire economy.
JHU is getting hit the worst, but Columbia will soon follow, and others. Dark days for science.

But fear not! we'll all reap the benefits of a reduced tax rate for top earners and corporations, thanks to trickle down economics, right?
> Chinese AI must implement socialist values by law

I don't doubt it but am interested to read a source? I know the models can't talk about things like Tiananmen Square 1989, but what does 'implementing socialist values by law' look like?
> still doesn't offer touch on any of their notebooks

Is that a feature people actually use? My last laptop had it, but I eventually disabled it in the BIOS because I never really used it, except by accident. I didn't find it comfortable holding my arm out at that angle, and I didn't like having all the fingerprints on my screen.
To be fair, there's a good argument for never mixing friends and business. You wouldn't want a project that goes wrong (which is a risk of doing business and somewhat expected and budgeted for on both sides) to jeopardize an friendship, and similarly you wouldn't want someone exploiting your friendship to get an unfair advantage in business (that they will often not reciprocate if the situation was reversed).
For the particular case of the exponential distribution we can go further. By taking advantage of the theory of Poisson processes, we can take samples using a parallel algorithm. It even has a surprisingly succinct SQL translation:

SELECT *
FROM Population
WHERE weight > 0
ORDER BY -LN(1.0 - RANDOM()) / weight
LIMIT 100 -- Sample size.

Notice our exponentially distributed random variable on prominent display in the ORDER BY clause.

If you're curious, I explore this algorithm and the theory behind it in https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2024-08-23-sampling-with-sql....
Your "meta-Turing Test" is rigged. There are 8 billion humans on this planet, statistically someone is bound to be able to distinguish AI from a human with near-100% accuracy across a reasonable amount of rounds through sheer chance.

Existence is too strong a criterion. Even correcting for random chance, if there's 1, 10, 100, even 1 000 000 examiners who could distinguish an AI from a human with high probability, that steal means the AI passed the test in practice, because even a million examiners is still a rounding error compared to the human population.
In the early noughties I ended up being called in as a consultant to sort out a somewhat broken Novell eDirectory. Password changes working sporadically, details not propagating sometimes - you probably know this story.

I found a NTP stratum 1 source on site that someone had bought and forgotten about and the internet was available. DNS was also broken for IP and IPX/SPX was a bit special. I fixed up DNS and registered some host names and so on. I removed some odd routes in SPX and IP. I put all partitions on the three central office boxes and distributed the rest. I ran an awful lot of dsrepair and watched a lot of dstrace with various flags until the red turned to green. I'd get a partition into a decent state, then drop the replicas and rebuild them from the first one - all lots of fun.

Anyway, it was DNS and NTP (it always is). That isn't the real punchline ...

The company was called First Great Western (1)! I must stress this was not the time sources for their trains and operations equipment which was totally separate and properly managed by qualified professionals. Their general office IT needed a bit of a hand.

So I can lay claim to bringing time to GWR, if you squint hard enough! A few years later I did a similar job for ScotRail, when they too still had Novell office servers. I used FGW's servers as sources - it seemed appropriate 8)

(EDIT to add):

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time - mentions GWR in line 1 and links to all the other related info.
All snakes have scales, so there is a 100% correlation between being a snake and having scales.

That does not imply that fish are snakes. Nor does the presence of scaled fish invalidate the observation that having scales is a defining attribute of snakes (it's just not a sufficient attribute to define snakes).
> What do you do when Elon Musk decides he doesn't like you and outbids you on every parcel you try to get a lease on?

What does he do when he runs out of money for the down payments? Rich people can already price people out of industries in our existing economic system.

> then that's great, it's basically ownership

The entire point is to get rid of ownership, but there is no need to renew the lease at all. Just increase it based on increases in surrounding leases. Then allow the value to be negotiated down through voluntary renewal.

> What if you make improvements to the land, like build a house or something? Do you have to knock it down when you leave? Is the government the only entity that can build houses?

You build the house with debt, the debt stays with the land. If you leave, then the person who comes in after you has to pay for the construction of the house.
Does this mean companies can now be trusted to not pollute the environment of their own volition without rules and oversight? I didn't know we were that advanced as a civilization.
Isn't the value of the land of a property [1] basically determined by the full value (land + improvement) of nearby [2] properties? Isn't that why people desire buying a certain piece of land, because of what it is connected to - close to nature, close to market, far from noise, etc.

You do have a lot of price signals about the value of nearby private property, and you can also estimate the price of public land (parks and major roads) by using data from across the whole country to determine how much people want to live close to, say, a park. Then come up with some formula to aggregate that into a single value for each land.

I would hope that someone does this at least as a theoretical exercise to see what the estimated values would be, and whether we can find a formula that is reasonable for almost all properties.

[1] I am talking about residential and retail properties. Not farm or mining type land.

[2] Close/far in both the topological and the geometric sense.
Yeah, a lot of institutions are removing steam for heating and replacing it with glycol loops.
When did IEEE become host to clickbait nonsense? This whole take feels like an editorial by a junior engineer going off vibes. It's all off-base, from the misunderstanding of how to measure productivity, to what output matters, to the idea that there is such a thing as a "normal" software engineer. It's kind of embarrassing.
My first cut at conceiving is to answer "how long would it take a really fast computer to count to that number". The answer for 10^4000 is still something like 10^3978 years. So, a still inconceivable time.

(100 tera-ops computer)
[edited to correct calculation)
I agree a Firefox or WebKit browser would be better, but give me one.
> Commercially, it's completely irrelevant. On big websites it doesn't even show up in the top 10 browsers

Chrome, Edge and Safari are all bigger than Firefox. But Firefox not in the top ten results? Unless you are counting different versions of browsers as unique entries, I cant imagine what other 7+ browsers are bigger than Firefox.
Wow, incredible work! It seems quite novel to me and was super fast to learn and instantly fun to play! Did you consider wrapping it in a mobile mobile app to try and make a few bucks?
There are things that can go wrong, but not so wrong to delete your data or cause outages. So there is a level of safety that I think is important at this moment. We do want to also allow executing generated SQL, but with an approval workflow.
It means it's a big fat book well suited for browsing while on the can. It's a genre.
Interesting insight why applying a log transform often makes data normally distributed: Pretty much all laws of nature are multiplications (F=ma, PV=nRT, etc). If you start with i.i.d random variables and multiply them, you get log-normal data by virtue of the central limit theorem (because multiplications are additions on a log scale; and the CLT is also somewhat robust to non iid-ness). Thinking of data as the result of a lot of multiplications of influential factors, we thus get a log-normal distribution.
A hallucination that doesn't use a predefined command, but instead hallucinates A. random SQL queries and B. destructive queries, seems unlikely. But as a best practice the user that the agent connects to the database with should be locked down, of course.
Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?
I think it is easy to argue human technology has advanced far faster than human wisdom. We can make vaccines, land on the moon, and use particle accelerators, but struggle to achieve peace, handle overfishing of the oceans, or just get enough exercise to be healthy. Our technology is often used to our detriment, whether it be used to create more powerful weapons to kill each other, or just to take advantage of our brain's reward system so we spend more time doomscrolling and clicking ads.

It seems with already having potential extinction events likely only averted by the individual actions of Stanislov Petrov and Vasili Arkhipov, humans have already created technology far past what our wisdom allows us to safely use. Even at our current level of technology we are at substantial risk. With new technology such as AI being more difficult to understand, are we doomed to eventually end our own existence?
> I've heard so many ridiculous stories about 'AI' that I'm at the point where I initially took this to mean the LLM and not the company had made the request.

Only through its human bots

> I expect that interpretation won't seem outlandish in the future.

AI human manipulation could be a thing to watch out for.
> The c64 could decompress the data faster than the Datasette could play it back, so there was no processing wait.

C64 fast loaders generally didn't use any compression whatsoever.

They would cut the load time in half by simply only writing/reading the file once (whereas normally the load process actually read the data twice) - and then get extra a whole heap of extra speed on top of that (turbo speed!), by implementing the load in custom code, basically working at a faster baud rate than the standard C64 kernel code did.
I'm not talking about me developing the applications, but about using LLM services inside the products in operation.

For my "vibe coding" I've been using OpenAI, Grok and Deepseek if using small method generation, documentation shortcuts, library discovery and debugging counts as such.
https://youtu.be/TMHCw3RqulY
Ask HN: Has Gen AI changed the way you approach code reviews, if so how?
Gen AI can churn out large swaths of working code relentlessly. I've felt like my reviews have been less rigorous due to the volume and time constraints as tooling becomes increasingly adopted.
I'm not sure if this is the case for the screenplay, but for the actual play the playwright (who also wrote the screenplay) rewrote the ending at least 6 times over 20 years and multiple productions. The version of the play I read is similar to what you describe as the original theatrical cut.
Immigration Accounts for Entire US Population Growth for First Time
Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat
My current one reads SAMSUNG MZVL21T0HCLR-00BH1 and is built into a quite new work laptop. I can't get below around 250us avg.

On my older system I had a WD_BLACK SN850X but had it connected to an M.1 slot which may be limiting. This is where I measured 1-2ms latency.

Is there any good place to get numbers of what is possible with enterprise hardware today? I've struggled for some time to find a good source.
> 10x engineers have dark backgrounds

I think this is true, but in the metaphorical sense hah. Few with a happy childhood end up this way.
> breaking into a closet

"The closet's door was kept unlocked, according to press reports"

When's the last time a kid with no record, a research fellow at Harvard, got threatened with 35 years for a simple B&E?
Anyone that has been doing this job knows that the majority of average developers in any workplace will also cut corners every once in a while and leave a lot of tech debt to others, with very few exceptions.

This myth that more productive developers are somehow worse and will ruin projects is just rationalization without any ground in reality.
what if someone else takes your stuff and puts it on the internet unrestricted?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
You wouldn't happen by any chance to be hiring in the US?
Funny you should mention a cannon, here in Cape Town the Noon Gun is still fired daily at noon local time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Gun
What are the details of this? Any engineer that built most of the stuff is not a 10x engineer. It's someone that really knows their way around their own house.
I was responding to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356240 which said it "absolutely is fair use".

> The other commenters arguments...seem more convincing

Because you (and I) want it to be fair use. But as I already said in my comment, it potentially fails one leg of fair use. Keeping your purchased physical copy of the book pristine and untouched while you read the photocopy allows you to later, after destroying the copies you made, resell the book as new or like-new. This directly affects the market for that book.

Do you want to spend time and money in court to find out if it's really fair use? That's what "no precedent" means.
Swimmers on a beach that had lifeguards were dying because the ocean was quite strong and even experienced swimmers would occasionally be drowned.

The city decided to remove the life guards and replace them with signs saying "swim here at your own risk, people die here."

Having a simple classification system like "public" and non public with a system that ensures non public data isn't published might prevent data leaks with automation that checks for publishing non-public data.

A system that let's you publish non public data "with warnings" is just a sign saying "swimmers die here". Its not safe, it just excuses the city from culpability
It's a common tactic in new fields. Fusion, AI, you name it are all actively lobbying to get new regulation because they are "different", and the individual companies want to ensure that it's them that sets the tone.
All data is linear when plotted on a loglog scale with a thick marker.
Elderly people are fully aware of their mortality. They may perceive this as you wanting to remember them when they are gone but each culture handles this differently so maybe it makes sense to ask other elderly people from your specific culture for their opinions.

My generalized opinion is to just be tactful and sensitive. They are old enough to know your intentions. They've already lost many of their friends. Get them to show you their photo albums and maybe take some pictures of their pictures or make a video of them talking about people in the pictures. Ask their permission where you may post the video you made, such as only sharing with family members privately via thumb drive or if big brother social media is ok. I prefer self hosted private family forums. Whatever happens give them a hug, it's worth more than anything you can say.
On reflection, le mot juste would instead have been "mourn."
Tiny changes in gene expression make big difference in eye size of fruit flies
> those nuclear weapons quell a lot of our more violent habits, hasn't been a world war since

It’s only been 85 years, give it a bit more time…
Scientists solve decades-long Parkinson's mystery
The Situation: On Rudeness
Condense the 12 years back into a one hour lecture and the student had a point.
> The one that hasn't formed yet because the electorate has failed to recognize that parties only exist because they can consolidate mass political power.

This is not the reason. The reason is the how the system was designed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
if you also make yourself rich in the process, are you still a slave?
Yeah, after joining management I'm 100% behind this thinking.

Anyone wanting to improve their resume or have fun from 9 to 5 is in the right here. Life is short.

However it is my responsibility as a manager to ensure the team is working towards its goals and nobody is making anyone's life difficult.
And what do you expect to get? Some arbitrary uninteresting corporate paper, a homework, someones fanfiction.

Again, what is the risk?
Most "1x" engineers are a drag on the business. Complacent. Don't care about business goals.

And the 10x you mentioned are not 10x. They are 1x with frenzy.

If one is not multiplying the team output, they are simply 1x or lower (maybe a few exceptions)
And UBC
And then what? What is the risk?
> It was invented to prevent verbatim reprints of books

It was also invented to keep the publishing houses under control and keep them from papering the land in anti-crown propaganda (like the stuff that fueled the civil war in England and got Charles I beheaded).

Probably one of the biggest brewing fights will be whether the models are free to tell the truth or whether they'll be mouthpieces for the ruling class. As long as they play ball with the powers that be, I predict copyrights won't be a problem at all for the chosen winners.
This is my “finally try to make something real with AI” project that I have yet to do. I have no native experience. Both for this and ehmorris.com/lander.
Yep, exactly. God forbid you express any positivity about the weather, the place you live, anything connected to any government/company/nonprofit, any public or historical figure, et cetera. I am lucky to have a large social network where I mostly don't have to watch my words, but this is spreading like a virus through society.

There are a few causes here. One is that everything - absolutely everything - is severely problematic. Another is that people now scrutinize the minor differences among their friends and try to evangelize them. When everything is a life or death issue, you really should fight for the right thing. And the problem is that many things really are life or death matters. People really are dying in horrific ways in the Middle East, and plastics really are filling our oceans, and politicians do often embolden people to kill members of the out-group. The modern internet and social media gives us the most extreme and attention-grabbing examples of any of that, neatly cut and cropped into heartwrenching short-format video. MLK and a fuzzy blanket and a kitten are all positive things, but in an instant the modern internet can fill you in on countless reasons that they are problematic. I mean come on, most fuzzy blankets shed microplastics like mad, cats devastate our ecosystems and MLK has countless words written about his wrongs [1]. If you're positive about fuzzy blankets, kittens or MLK then you're probably naïve at best and a member of the wrong group at worst.

I think the solution is twofold: one, strongly limit the type and amount of internet use, and two, try to be positive. To be positive in these modern times is a revolutionary act. Positivity and happiness are contagious.

[1] https://archive.ph/oKKcC - The New Yorker: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability. I linked this article because, while it is generally positive on MLK, it gives a good rundown of the various issues people have with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SC7oWL78A

The Whiffletree was used in mechanical calculators. It's an interesting way to encode digital data mechanically.
How funny that one model said one weird thing once. Almost as if LLMs are probabilistic machines or something :)

Models will keep getting better and vibe coding will keep getting easier. This will happen whether or not you agree!
This type of crazy shit makes me love Canada even more
And what is at risk? Someone seeing someones else fanfiction? Or another reworded business email? Or the vacancy report of sone guy in southern germany?
If you study calculus and introduction to probability theory, then you're ready to learn this. So the answer is about 2 years after high school.
I think maybe this misses the mark. Yes software can lead to unbounded complexity unlikely many physics based engineering disciplines.

However, at the end of the day, there is an input and output and compute and memory needed to run the thing and if we look at that we realize, we never actually left the bounded physical realm and we can still engineer software systems against real world constraints. We can judge its efficiency and breaking points.

What's very different is the cost to change the system to do something new and that's where this unbounded complexity blows up in our face.
One of my favorite tricks in elementary school was to convince people I can calculate any logarithm for any number of their choosing.

> Me: Pick any number.

> Friend: Ok, 149,135,151

> Me: The log is 8.2

Of course I'm simply counting the number of digits, using 10 as the base, and guessing the last decimal point, but it certainly impressed everyone.
Proposed Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel's Libperf from Python
Johns Hopkins has a $10.5 billion endowment. It shouldn’t be about the money.
Yeah, a good tech bookstore was a golden way to spend an hour.