skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (I always wondered who started it with YAML and why everyone copied that, if anyone knows I'd love to read about it).

I know this isn't a definite answer to your question, but it was still super interesting to me and hopefully it will inspire someone else to dig into
finding the actual answer

The best guess I have as far as CI/CD specifically appears to be <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_CI#:~:text=travis%20ci%...> which launched in 2011 offering free CI and I found a reference to their .travis.yml in GitLab's repo in 2011, too

- CruiseControl (2004) was "ant as a service," so it was XML https://web.archive.org/web/20040812214609/http://confluence...

- Hudson (2007) https://web.archive.org/web/20140701020639/https://www.java.... was also XML, and was by that point driving Maven 2 builds (also XML)

- I was shocked that GitHub existed in 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081230235955/http://github.com... with an especial nod to no longer a pain in the ass and Not only is Git the new hotness, it's a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software but this was just "for funsies" link since they were very, very late to the CI/CD game

- I was surprised but k8s 1.0.0 still had references to .json PodSpec files in 2010 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/v1.0.0/example...

- cloud-init had yaml in 2010 https://github.com/openstack-archive/cloud-init/blob/0.7.0/d... so that's a plausible "it started here" since they were yaml declarations of steps to perform upon machine boot (and still, unquestionably, my favorite user-init thing)

- just for giggles, GitLab 1.0.2 (2011) didn't even have CI/CD https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tree/v1.0.2 -- however, while digging into that I found .travis.yml in v2.0.0 (also 2011) so that's a very plausible citation <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v2.0.0/.travis.y...>

- Ansible 1.0 in 2012 was also "execution in yaml" https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.0/examples/playbo...
This is exactly my experience. I like to think I'm a decent thinker. I've spent the past 6 months basically in constant burnout, started smoking again and am up to a pack a day now, because my job is "we're going to tell you that you have ownership over this perimeter, and then give you basically zero leeway in how to do things. You have to do it this way because that's what the senior architect with the hard-on for every new DevOps tool has decided. You thought that db migration could be done with just a simple script and modifying a few API endpoints? Lol No, we're using Temporal. Wait,why do you keep telling us you want to quit and go back to doing maths research?"
Yes, but not for CSAM, rather they have a different obscenity law for that. It is kind of in the article.

> Anderegg moved to dismiss each of the four counts. In an opinion last month, the court largely rejected the motions. However, the court did dismiss the possession charge, holding that Section 1466A is unconstitutional as applied to Anderegg’s private possession of obscene “virtual” CSAM.

> The Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment protects the right to possess obscene material in one’s own home, Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969), so long as it’s not actual CSAM, Osborne v. Ohio, 495 U.S. 103 (1990).

Probably they can still charge him with distribution (to the teenage boy), but not possession. Probably production is also not dropped?
Azure also has Ampere, and they're used a good amount in Telco.
Why does this AI-generated article have 400 upvotes? The conversation here is valuable, but surely we could find a human article to have it under instead?
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I don't really care if someone profits off of prisoners, plus they haven't existed federally since 2022; might want to update your rejoinder.

Furthermore, I've had friends who entered the UK on the wrong visa for a degree be shoved into a holding cell then deported. Fortunately they were granted the right one later, but it's standard procedure to enforce your laws.

What about the US makes Europeans and other foreigners think they have a unique right to enter? That's a privilege for US citizens only.
Enthusiast noob question. What do you use for display / rendering / gui when doing emulators for wasm?
I know. I am aware of a man who abused some of my friends — also committed suicide before trial. By all accounts, most of the boys (who were from broken homes, FWIW) thought of him as a father figure and were not eager to see him prosecuted — shocked when they learned of the suicide.

A friend of the family tried to molest me when I was young. A quick search on the internet shows he kept at it (arrest records across decades abound). So, yeah, this kind of sick person kind of stays sick.
Ahaha, I love the honesty here. I think we should adopt gorilla consulting into mainstream nonetheless.
The problem is surely that by considering opinions against the U.S. administration, that it produces a large number of non-compliant visitors. I think it's counter-productive as it just means that most visitors would then have a good reason to hide accounts and conversations. I suppose it "works" in reducing the number of visitors, but is that really of any benefit to the U.S.?

I think it would provide better intelligence if the more casual criticisms of policy were ignored and more attention paid to violent/threatening content. This would allow authorities to focus attention on other people involved in the communication which would probably be of more benefit than trying to target all visitors that disagree with policies.
I wasn't here to take a stance on UBI or argue over its practicalities, I was just explaining the intended outcome was not what the parent believed it to be.

But fine, I'll bite.

> will go up roughly in line with that

Could you at least explain the logic that you believe implies this would occur with such certainty? I've thought about this before and I couldn't see this as a necessary outcome, though (depending on various factors) I do see it as a possible one.
This is not a fully solvable problem. Especially if the goal is to provide the above for any location.

You can do more harm than good by implementing policies like “guaranteed free money”.
Work on a tangentially related field until they get enough experience to be accepted in the new industry?

I worked in the furniture industry building software and we had a great interior designer who ended up working as a SME (business analyst) in our projects for 3 or 4 years.

I helped her prepare her resume and practice for interviews and she got a job as an actual BA making the salary of a mid level/senior BA and has been killing ever since.
Not all dev jobs are like that. There is only one country called the USA.
> I'm fairly sure you're the one that downvoted my original comment, though.

Turns out we're both mistaken. I don't care much for HN's monopoly money, my broader point is the righteous indignation around the point (which I thought uncontroversial) that the vast majority of people don't want to purchase apartments to live in for the rest of their lives.

> You attacked my initial generic comment with a purely personal and emotional personal perspective

Erm, no, you basically implied I was an idiot - the sarcastic "bastion of logic" comment - and then straight away moved onto a feigned interest in my welfare. When someone contradicts themselves this much, they aren't being sincere.

> I've lived my entire lifetime in apartments

And given only one chance to purchase a property, and given only the choice to live in the one house with a garden or live in the one apartment of equal quality/amenity/etc for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Honestly? And what do you think the vast majority of people would choose?

The only reason people around here are all mad about urban density is that their FAANG bosses compel them to come to the office. Take that out of the equation and then the housing affordability solves itself by dispersing the high income people into better housing, and leaving better options for everyone else. The overpriced hipster cafes will have to shut down, but I shed no tears for them.
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Sorry, did not see that this is from February.
How do we determine who gets what job?
Unfortunately they must have ID information at least. They have to make attempts to ensure that donors and recipients are not related. I believe they also make attempts to keep donors and recipients some distance apart to reduce the likelihood they are related. I have no idea why they need financial information. Maybe insurance makes some sense if they are using that to look at past treatments that would disqualify being a donor but I am just guessing.

Why they are not just using DNA tests for these purposes I do not know. Maybe it's a cost issue? Or course I would not want DNA information leaked out either. It's harder to change than financial information. /s
We should be striving to build a world where people don't have to feel forced into meaningless jobs, not a system that encourages it.

If meaningless jobs are important because its the only way people can make money to pay for all the shit we think we need to pay for, or because they haven't yet been offered the time and freedom to find their own sense of purpose, let's focus on fixing the root cause(s) there.
The CMB was created 380,000 years after the Big Bang. I think you misread [1] and [2].
Back in the day, on my first day in a huge corporation famous for its refined engineering culture, I was issued a laptop that had some installation program running, to create a user for me, enroll on the corp network, etc. It had a bug, which made it run certain actions in an infinite loop.

I pressed Ctrl+C, and got a root shell. From it, I ran the enrollment scripts I could find; it gave me sufficient access to pull from the corporate repo. So I took a ticket, found a related bug in the code, and created a patch fixing it on the first day, technically by cracking into a corporate laptop. (I had to wait for a properly completed enrollment to be able to push the code.)
I suppose we could eventually get to a super-MoE architecture. Models are limited to 4-16GB in size, but you could have hundreds of models on various topics. Load from storage to RAM and unload as needed. Should be able to load up any 4-16GB model in a few seconds. Maybe as well as a 4GB "Resident LLM" that is always ready to figure out which expert to load.
You are the one who wrote "Usually when a company has done that 3 or 4 times in recent years, it's a safe bet they'll do it again".

I then asked you for recent innovations.

You supplied none.

I did supply you with examples of the opposite of innovation.
This article from half a year ago has photos and diagrams https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-fel
I was also quick to dive into early internet forums and feel like I got a lot out of them, but LLMs just seem different. Forums were a novel medium but it was still real people interacting and connecting with each other, often over a shared interest. With LLMs none of the social interactions are genuine and will always be shallow.

I'm sure some nerds will continue to host their own models but I would bet that 99.9% of social-type LLM interactions will be with corporate hosted models that can and will be tweaked and weighted in whatever ways the host company thinks will make it the most money.

It all reminds me a lot of algorithmic social media feeds. The issues were forseen very early on even if we couldn't predict the exact details, and it's an unsurprising disappointment that all of the major sites have greatly deemphasized organic interactions with friends and family in favor of ads and outrage bait. LLMs are still in their honeymoon phase but with the amount of money being plowed into them I don't expect that to last much longer.
Yup: free solar photons, and living.
There's also the problem of whether the LLM would learn to generate stories where the AssistantBot gives up in cases that match our own logical reasons, versus ones where the AssistantBot gives up because that's simply what AssistantBots in training-stories usually do when the User character uses words of disagreement and disapproval.
Goose is my favorite desktop experience with bring-your-own API key (most providers) and MCP support: https://github.com/block/goose

The real win with this is CLI-driven agentic behavior like Claude Code without an API key, using your rate limited chat sub.
The same price difference exists with things like heat pumps - I've seen people in the US talking about installing single-head Japanese brand mini-split systems for US$5000 to even over US$10,000, when I can get the same sized units fully installed for AU$1600 to AU$2500 (about US$1000 to US$1600).

Just makes no sense why it should be that different. The units seem to cost similar prices in Europe to what we pay here in Australia so why is it so much more in North America? I assume part of it is that they are not quite as common but it still boggles the mind.
No, you can absolutely make specialized chips that are orders of magnitude better than the commercial state of the art if you don't care about mass production or operational costs.

I can bet there are superconductor/photonics/topologically different/strange memory/smaller process size prototypes around.

Right now we are getting to the limits of transistor sizes, but even a couple of years ago experimental prototypes of smaller process size were developed years before mass production.
You wrote: "No one wondered how it would disturb the seafloor since so little was known about the deep sea environment back then."

The "Sealab 2020" cartoon show had an episode about this in 1972 (so, over 50 years ago): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealab_2020
"7 "Where Dangers Are Many" October 21, 1972
Sealab crew investigates a disturbance to find an automatic bottom-dredging mining operation in their area. The captain of the operation, Samuel Carlson, becomes trapped under his dredge and is rescued by Sealab. While Carlson is decompressing after having received medical attention at Sealab, the crew manage to convince him to allow them 24 hours to demonstrate how to mine less destructively."

Available here: https://archive.org/details/sealab-2020-the-complete-series

Specifically: https://archive.org/download/sealab-2020-the-complete-series...

One issue though: in the episode, the Sealab 2020 crew were worried about damage to sealife as a byproduct of mining. They were OK with removing the nodules if they could be done without causing significant seafloor disturbance. But it sounds like removing the nodules might by itself harm sealife by depriving sealife of oxygen.

Another theme in the episode is the need for a person in the loop to guide the dredging machine to do less damage -- compared to a fully automated system the owner was so proud of investing in. Interesting to think about given the push to AI these days.

I watched Sealab 2020 at the time as a kid and very much enjoyed it and saw these characters as role models. I very much dreamed back then of leading such a lab when 2020 rolled around (like a "Paul" character did in the cartoon). Heartbreaking in 2001 to see "Sealab 2021" make fun of all this hopefulness for the future and the environment -- when I was hoping for a good sequel building on the Sealab 2020 values.

Sadly, my own plans from the 1980s to make Sealab-like habitats in the oceans, in outer space, and elsewhere never got very far (yet):

https://pdfernhout.net/princeton-graduate-school-plans.html

https://pdfernhout.net/sunrise-sustainable-technology-ventur...

https://kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/
Chibi: PNG-tuber application made in Rust
How do LLM queries differ from organic?
Where is mass market carbon fiber? Expensive carbon fiber parts aren't interesting.

It's not even that expensive if you consider that it's maybe 5k extra now that even a basic car can cost $40000
You can download your Tinder and Hinge swipe/like stats, so it's likely accurate.

The sad part is that this what "success" looks like. The funnel looks way worse for most guys.
Google randomly deletes words from your search term. Why would anyone think that was a good idea?
Yeah it’s only worth 700B now, what a loser /s
Remarkable Website Designs
What sites do you think of as particularly well designed?

Feel free to interpret that however you want, I'm just curious about what you enjoy.
This was pretty much my first experience with LLM code generation when these things first came out.

It's still a present issue whenever I go light on prompt details and I _always_ get caught out by it and it _always_ infuriates me.

I'm sure there are endless discussions on front running overconfident false positives and being better at prompting and seeding a project context, but 1-2 years into this world is like 20 in regular space, and it shouldn't be happening any more.
The anology here would be, that poaching is a thing even though it's illegal, so say we found a way to create ivory that is indistinguishable from the real thing, without any harm to animals.

You can flood the market with it curbing the demand, and still continue to hunt down poachers.

There's an argument to be made that they might have an easier time claiming their ivory is actually fake but the real strategy is to make poaching just not worth the risk by inpacting the reward.
I had no idea that treeshrews are closely related to primates.
Not UBI per se, but this exists in rural parts of Southern Spain in some way, and is called Rural Employment Plan (PER in its Spanish initials).

The give simple jobs, like cleaning or painting, to people on the lower bottom of earnings. Most people in that plan are people with low formation, like those who left school in their mid teens.
The article suggests there’s plenty of new tech there.
It's actually not at all sad to see. Ever since the 'pedo' comment, I am personally very happy to see attacks against Tesla. There is a reason CEOs stay out of the spotlight when it comes to politics and social media. Someone wanted to be a trailblazer, so we're helping him drive it home.

Here's some more 'sad to see' propaganda: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highes...
Why are you pointing to what France allows in reference to an article about slipping US freedoms?
Occasionally the contact plating for surface mounting is also gold-plated. I can think of a couple Nichia LEDs from work that have gold plated electrical and thermal contacts.
Surprised that Claude (the app, not model) not only has done well for so long, but has somewhat consistently clinched the top spot in coding, all without a feature that is considered somewhat of a basic feature for most consumer-facing AI apps.
The problem with the "it could be worse" line of thinking is it ignores that it could also be better.

Yes, there are far worse jobs. Yes, being a slave is infinitely worse than being a software engineer.

But that's like saying "oh, using 3G isn't that bad, dial-up is worse." Sure, but if you can get fiber-optic, that's better. A lot better. And you'll do better work that way (assuming you use the internet in your work, which, if you're a dev, you probably do).

"Oh, running our entire infrastructure on a 10 year old ThinkPad isn't that bad, it could be worse, we could have a PDP-11". Sure, and you could also rent a beast of a server from OVH/Hetzner/etc for relatively cheap, and that might make life a little nicer, for you, and for your customers.

If you've got half your workforce burning out, that's a fucking issue, and while yes, compared to 99% of jobs that ever existed (medival peasant, prostitute, garbage man, street musician, cashier) this is quite nice, if people keep developing mental health issues as a result of it, that's an issue.

And in that case, if the "market solution" is basically unionize to demand better conditions...
> I don't like this logic for the legality of AI images because we wouldn't allow it with non-AI images.

We absolutely would, and, in fact, this rule articulated in this ruling does.

> For example, should CSAM be legal if the person in the image and all their family is dead?

That's still actual CSAM and not obscenity that is unconnected to any actual abuse, and so the rule that already makes actual CSAM outside of the coverage of the prohibition the Supreme Court has found on criminalization of mere possession of obscene material continues to apply to it under this ruling. Non-AI imagery that would be legally situated similar to AI imagery here is, e.g., drawn imagery.

> But we don't make this stuff illegal just because of the people harmed in creation. We make it illegal because most of us don't want to live in a society that tolerates it.

That's true of most of the things that would be banned but for the protections of the First Amendment, and is not, itself, a good argument against First Amendment protection.
It depends on what you want to build. If you want to build impressive B2C software, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. I've worked with many backend engineers masquerading as full stack engineers who couldn't carbon copy a simple mockup design into a working UI if their life depended on it. Yet they never seem to notice how bad their implementation is, sometimes not even if you point it out to them even if the end users would notice; I think these engs are so enamored with their work they're in some kind of denial about the shortcomings. And that's just the visual parts. There's also skill required to take accessibility and conformance with web standards into account (HTML/CSS/JS stack is devious in that it lets you do things in ways that are "wrong"), which you can't easily fix later on by tweaking a bit here and there. So without this understanding, you end up with a crappy UI that's overengineered for what it is. Of course that all won't be an issue if you're building software you can sell even if the UI makes its users depressed.

Not saying your typical frontend engineer is flawless either. It's probably true that they're, on average, not as skilled sw architects as backend engineers, simply because a lot of their work focuses on details instead of architecting, and, again, the HTML/CSS/JS stack is incredibly flexible, in good and bad.
> We can't just keep sitting here and blaming developers for being New / Dumb …

Well, as a cohort, I think the ratio of inept programmers to skilled programmers stays mostly constant regardless of stuff like this. Like, if programming is hard to learn, fewer people will try and learn it. But also the skill bar goes up - so people spend more time as inept developers before they’re skilled. Likewise if programming gets easier to learn, we get a swell of fresh faces eager to become frontend developers. And the ratio stays more or less the same. It’s kinda like a sales funnel, or a hiring funnel. You always have more leads in your funnel than conversions. (And if you don’t, you’re in trouble!)

We live in an anti gatekeeper era. Content is free, but nobody protects you from wasting your time watching edutainment. The downside of that is real - lots of people waste countless hours larping as students. But the upside is real too. It’s easier than ever to learn anything.
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The law of supply and demand dictates that when the supply of a thing increases it's value decreases.
Indie game's 'Lesbian Toggle' makes the game hilariously unplayable
When I visited Xe-sann's page, I was curious to see Jackal-chann challenges in action. This is Anubis.