skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah right, junior dev for a year. Wow, how amazing.

Plenty of room for you to 10x many times over then.

Over the years, I’ve met plenty of folk who have dabbled with software development, before deciding it wasn’t for them - then pivoting to something less technical.

Nah, I don’t feel threatened at all by AI. My job is secure. Tools change, sure. But there’s plenty of years left in software development for sufficiently skilled humans. No matter what a junior-level dev / AI evangelist might claim.

I’ll be cleaning up and properly re-implementing the MVPs that less knowledgeable folk are throwing together, slap dash. For a long while yet. And doing other stuff that AI simply can’t do properly - and quite honestly is quite far from doing.

Your rhetoric betrays your knowledge, and your bravado and insults can’t make up for that in any way.

It’s easy to get enchanted by current generative AI, and believe it far more capable than it is. Particularly if not overly skilled in whatever domain. Particularly if one doesn’t have much of a grasp on how generative AI actually works. Good luck with that.
The exact timing wasn't clear, though the rumor mill over the last week or so has been that it would be today.
Thanks to Goodhart's law, it's true for any measure that becomes a target.
I think short options taking a value in the same argv (i.e. `-o=1` stuff) isn't a GNUism mostly because it's backwards-incompatible with POSIX. `=` is a valid getopt option character, `chmod` uses it.

That said, I think? 'nloomans means for USER_CONTROLLED_DATA to be a set of short flags, not flag values, as in:

root@08e9950d5bfd:/# export USER_CONTROLLED_DATA=lh
root@08e9950d5bfd:/# ls -a"$USER_CONTROLLED_DATA"
total 56K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Mar 23 16:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Mar 23 16:51 ..
[...]

Not that I've seen this in the wild before. But everyone's use of bash is a unique personal hell anyway.
I do wonder what the line is for you and the other folks I keep hearing say this is all totally normal and how it’s always been - what would cross the line for you? What could Trump do that would lead you to say, “oh, this is different now?”
Don't let others talk you out of pursuing EE if that's what you're curious and passionate about. I took a path similar to what you mentioned - pursuing mech-e and EE during undergrad with a focus on robotics. If you're curious and interested in something, then you can absolutely make it work. EE does tend to be math heavy, but you can explore a lot of that with hobby projects to see if you're interested. Try implementing an audio project by designing and audio amp and then using digital signal processing. You can get everything from Sparkfun or Adafruit and use online tutorials, then run your own numbers to customize the design.
So you ignore the literal prices of these things we're discussing.

Gotcha. I'm glad that I've forced you to ignore my argument rather than addressing the elephant in the room.

The average student loan debt in 1980 was zero because the vast majority of people could get by on free and public high school education btw. Especially if we assume that we're talking about the median income household.

To achieve this equivalent to 1980s lifestyle, we're talking what? $200k extra debt burdens on every average / median person? $40k in student debt and $150k++ in extra housing debt? Plus 4 years lost in education (as 1980s folk could work those 4 years instead). How is this a better or even equivalent life?
The Longevity Business Is Booming–and Its Scientists Are Clashing
His original post:

When people say "AI will write 90% of the code" I readily agree because 90% of what programmers write is "boiler plate".

There is "essential complexity" in programming and then there is a lot of "accidental complexity" (that is the boiler plate stuff) and this is very old wisdom from the Mythical Man Month.

AI is doing a great job eliminating the accidental complexity. Humans still needed to deal with the essential complexity.

In essence, AI can make mincemeat of patterns already discovered (by humans). Can it find totally new patterns? As with humans, that is much rarer and a quality known as "taste" or "knowing where to dig" or "follow a hunch or conviction all the way" is needed to discover new patterns. I don't know if AI can do this. I don't know if that can be brute forced.
Aye, and history may repeat — even accounting for how bad the Cybertruck vehicle is.
It makes sense for Germans to react negatively to the salute regardless of its intent. It is, after all, banned in Germany.
The filler tokens actually do make them think more. Even just allowing the models to output "." until they are confident enough to output something increases their performance. Of course, training the model to do this (use pause tokens) on purpose works too: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.02226
seL4 having a proof of correctness does not mean all microkernels do. In fact, seL4 is the only microkernel that has a proof of correctness. If you build on top of it in the microkernel way, you quickly find that it is not performant. That is why NT and XNU both abandoned their microkernel origins in favor of becoming monolithic kernels.
https://archive.ph/tGYT1
Oh, i know. I was making a joke at Nix's expense, such that i fully expected to be downvoted for said joke, but i also expected some "nah-uh, that's not why;" and then a page of evangelism for NixOS, the one True™ OS.
Probably true to some extent. Though I imagine even if trade were cut in half most of the tree diseases would still get around. The likelihood of a pathogen to get around is not linearly proportional to the volume of trade.
I really favor posix style, which is why I use pflags package for my cli Tools.
Is 'microdosing' Ozempic a new trend?
Output was displayed on 5" CRTs. High-resolution TV cameras (875-line) transmitted the CRT output to 17" monitors at each work station. By flipping a switch, the video could be inverted, so you could get either black lines on a light background or white lines on a black background. In other words, Engelbart invented dark mode :-)
That Facebook/whatsapp/instagram arent ‘foreign’ is an illusion. They are controlled by the same entity, the capitalist elite.
Hm. In the agile world, non-coders don't typically sign up for stories. So maybe this person shouldn't have been expected to land stories, or possibly there wasn't room in the budget for someone to be just a peer coder. I personally like the story paradigm as a way of working out (and then sticking to) priorities, and I love it when managers and principals work on stories like everyone else. Also, in the remote work context, everyone has to work harder on figuring out the right thing to work on, and stories are a decent way to achieve that.
All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful
In football you track not only the goal scorers but also the assist (the person who passed the ball to he goal scorer). That still does not cover all contributions, but maybe that's a way to create more transparency for Tims case ?
Sched_Ext Changes Submitted for Linux 6.15
For MS in particular there's several EBV mRNA vaccines in clinical trials - not just to prevent mono itself, but also to prevent long term complications (theoretically including MS) for people who already had it.
ok sure, make that illegal, the way redlining for mortgages is illegal. next?
What is PLUS times PLUS? [video]
It really is some of the most beautiful looking space games ever made, I used to play this a lot as a kid and I was so disappointed to learn that nowhere in space looks like this game. I wish more sci-fi media embraced this kind of aesthetic, bright colorful space with nebula sunsets, almost makes the void inviting.
Effect of Aquaculture on World Fish Supplies
> Now we can do something about it.

Can we? The proposed solution so far has been to remove the functioning state-owned parts until only the broken, second-tier economics remain. I don't think America can prosper like that.
There are significantly fewer humans living in close contact with livestock in which a zoonotic virus could be transmitted. I'm skeptical that there has been a net increase. It's possible but I haven't seen any reliable evidence one way or the other.
I feel like the two of you are talking past each other as the other poster is talking about time sharing systems like UNIX while you are pointing at embedded applications that are OS optional and if there is any semblance of an OS, it is really minimal. People deploying L4 there is not very surprising and does not apply to his remarks. Seeing this is like watching one person discuss an absence of apples and seeing another reply saying that there are oranges.
yeah you're just projecting your personal concerns on to this thread. i have FAR more info about you from your social media activity than your DNA. learn to compartmentalize.
Introducing JobSet
yes, automation is necessary and from what I see most non-IT companies are far behind what's possible. Something which is not necessary and imho pretty stupid is replacing idiotic workflow components designed to wash-out responsibility with LLMs and now let the bots run amok (which probably is totally ok with the bureaucrats who designed these workflows in the first place). Most of the AI automation crowd supposedly thinks this is a high value activity - while looking down on the bureaucrats. Which is pretty funny to me...
You can't expect the user to remember upfront what language the tool they're using was written in and context switch the style they're expressing their intents in based on that. The Go community has consistently shown it's not very good at making well-thought out decisions. GNU is obviously the better approach here.
Bhutan Holds Lots of Bitcoin
Intel used a version of Minix rather than seL4 for its Intel Management Engine. [1] There was some controversy about this because they didn't give Andrew Tanenbaum proper credit. [2]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...

[2] https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
That's not at all the conclusion of the article you linked to. In fact, that theory is discounted by it.

> Price points out, however, that none of these theories fully accounts for the taboo. Pig-rearing, after all, had existed for thousands of years in the region, even in times of drought, and many types of meat can harbor the larvae that cause trichinosis.

> For Price, the key piece of evidence is the sole reason given for the taboo in the biblical text—the fact that the pig “has hooves and does not chew its cud.” In other words, it’s unlike ruminants. He argues that this harks back to an era when the Israelites were simple pastoralists. As their descendants settled down in towns and cities, raising pigs became a more viable option. “This detracted from the fantasy of living like their ancestors,” says Price, prompting Judean priests to ban eating pork.

> Rosenblum argues that the pig taboo only gained special status with the invasion of the Levant by the forces of the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. These European conquerors enjoyed their pork, and pig consumption in the Levant soared. So did tensions between Judeans and their Hellenistic rulers, including the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt and the leaders of the Seleucid Empire based in today’s Iraq.
That’s an amazing story. The wife really gathered together all the right people to create a phage treatment to save her husband’s life. Great job on all the doctors and scientists that figured out how to make it so quickly.
All I'm trying to point out is that your cushy middle-class existence has sheltered you from the deep-rooted inequality that has persisted in America since the turn of last century, perhaps since creation.

Trump historically has been shunned by the traditional elites. From their perspective he lacks guile and class. And they're right. As a president it's no different. That's why he's surrounded himself with the nouveau elite. The old guard would not give him the time of day.

I'm simply speaking to facts. Why do they bother you so much?
No you don't understand, more queries = more engagement!
See also:

Screw Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_theory
Hey, great to see this, thank you so much, Ken!

I'm lucky to own an original Engelbart mouse and chord keyset too, and I want to make usable replicas by 3d scanning them, making 3d printable models, and embedding metal and electronic parts so they work via bluetooth!

The first step is to take it apart, measure and weigh the pieces, 3d scan it, and make a realistic 3d printable all plastic model (like an easy-to-print toy), but then refine it to make a high quality hybrid version with the exact same weight and feel and materials and electronics using resin printing and off the shelf hardware like the wheel, so it feels as realistic as possible and actually works!

I think reproducing the actual weight and feel of the original is really important, the klunky feel of the wheel attached to the potentiometer hitting the rotation limit, how it scrapes across the table, etc. It's really amazing to hold and feel in your own hand, and it belongs in a hands-on museum like the Exploratorium, but it would quickly get destroyed. So it would be great if anyone who wants could 3d print their own quick and easy plastic replica, or assemble their own high quality functional replica too.

I want to release the simple model and detailed plans to make your own for free, and think it would be a great kit or pre-assembled gadget that the Computer History Museum could sell in the gift store.

It would also be cool to include an accelerometer and gyro in it so it would also work as a gestural game controller -- why not: it would be so cheap and easy to add!

Here are some parts I'm considering using, but I'm new to this stuff -- what do people with more experience think?

Microcontroller: ESP32-S3 module (USB + Bluetooth capabilities)
Motion Sensor: MPU6050 6-axis accelerometer/gyroscope
2× 10KΩ potentiometers for X/Y tracking wheels
3× tactile buttons with pull-up resistors
3.7V LiPo battery (350-500mAh)
TP4056 charging module
USB-C connector (for both charging and wired mode)

I'd love to discuss the project with you, a free open non-profit labor of love, and I hope we can collaborate! I just invested in a Bambu 3d printer and Raptor 3d scanner just for this project, so I'm ready to get started scanning and printing. Please drop me an email at: don@donhopkins.com
Do you have a real world example of this? Claude Code for example doesn’t fit the pattern of “higher success but more variance.” If anything the variance is lower as the model (and tightly coupled agent) gets better.
Yes, that level of vibration is not normal, and is due to the fuel injection pump being out of adjustment. Because the fuel regulation is mechanical, it is possible to develop this sort of resonance. If you google for "OM617 rack dampener bolt", you'll find lots of forum hits about it. This video was taken before I was aware of the cause.
>"Big corp" will be massively harmed in the medium term

Most big corps are run for the short term. Management's biggest concern is how the market will react to results in the next few quarters.
Sorry, Sam Altman, A.I. Is Not Good at Real Writing
Ask HN: Vibe Coding for Technical-Ish Founders?
After a successful exit and several years in the wilderness I've started coding again.

I'm a 3 out of 10 as an engineer, but I have been vibe coding (ChatGPT + GitHub + Render) to build an MVP after having been the founder/CEO of a successful company. I'm finding it EXHILARATING to be able to build Node.JS applications with so much ease. I feel like a 6/10 as a programmer now rather than "just a sales and marketing-focused CEO" type.

I'm wondering if there are other founders here who are willing to share what their vibe coding stack is and what other content/courses/resources you know about that are allowing you to go from idea to MVP much faster using new AI copilot tools. I'm not planning to become a technical lead - I'm most valuable as a sales and marketing focused CEO...but I'm wondering what's in your tool kit?
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is 'good at creative writing'
> Before the advent of the car, shared forms of travel were much more common. Air travel, while much faster, is much less crowded that the ship travel of earlier generations.

Maybe in the US. Definitely not in most of the world. For my grandparent 70 years or so ago, the way to travel long distances was riding a donkey. Now travel by bus, train, subway, etc. is really common and something that most people experience often. 100 years ago of course there were trains, stagecoaches, boats, etc. but they were for a tiny minority of society or for special occasions (like to migrate a different continent to not return in decades, etc.). I'm also pretty sure air travel has a much higher penetration than ship travel would have 100 years ago.

As further anec-data points, there are much more massive gatherings now (concerts, sports, etc. - church used to be the major gathering, but churches tend to be ample and ventilated). And every parent knows that daycare and kindergarten are a major vector for pathogens. I used to get like a cold a year with 2 days mild congestion, and since my kid started kindergarten (he didn't go to daycare) we all started getting sick like monthly or so, for a couple of years. Putting dozens of kids in a closed space for hours is something that just wasn't a thing in previous generations either.

So personally, yes, I would bet that chances for pathogen spread have increased greatly.
Each token requires the same amount of compute. To a very crude approximation, model performance scales with total compute applied to the task. It’s not absurd that producing more tokens before an answer improves performance, in a way that’s akin to giving the model more time (compute) to think.
That is Minix, not SeL4.
That’s not a good excuse
the worst programmer nowadays is the vibe coder. vibe coding is so overrated imo
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-vibe-coding-is-overrated
Okay, I actually found the presentation, if you want a laugh (/ be impressed at game that's >20 years old), here you go https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vR18QhznFBRK....
Yeah, I did not expect it to be that short . Not shared with many people apart from some friends and here in HN, so I was expecting a few hours more.

Haven't looked much at the traffic/clicks history yet but curious to see activity over time since this started
> Don't attack a strawman.

I'm not. You're just factually wrong.

> not publicly declaring the vulnerability is security by obscurity.. which does not work.

Now I know that you don't know what you're talking about. Anyone either passingly familiar with the field of information security, or capable of using basic logic, knows that this is incorrect in multiple ways.

First, because security by obscurity can increase the security of a system when you combine it with other measures.

Second, because you're using "security by obscurity" as a religious word without the slightest understanding of what it actually means, which is that, when designing a secure system (that is, when playing the role of the defender), relying on security by obscurity alone is bad.

This is not what is happening in the article. In the article, yohanes/TinyHack is playing the role of the attacker - the Akira ransomware has a cryptosystem and they are attacking it. "Security by obscurity" is entirely irrelevant here.

It's extremely obvious to either someone who thinks for a few seconds, or anyone with a basic understanding of the field, that the attackers primarily rely on security through obscurity, and that publicly revealing the vulnerabilities in the defenders' systems that you've discovered is almost always an extremely bad idea.

And that includes this case. Now that yohanes has disclosed the vulnerability in Akira, the authors can immediately patch it, and the upside is virtually non-existent: an educational lesson for someone new to the field, which could have easily been provided in a way that doesn't inhibit our ability to decrypt victims' files. If yohanes had instead kept the vulnerability a secret, they could have disseminated it to a limited number of other cybersecurity experts, and offered to decrypt files as a service, helping victims without revealing the vulnerability in the crypto.

You shouldn't comment if you don't have the slightest idea of what the words you're using actually mean.
Executive orders are the easiest things to reverse. What's the problem with waiting? Are the Democrats so intolerant of democracy? The other guy won. Majority of the country voted for him. You'll have to wait until he screws up, then the country will vote him out. Until then, deal with the fact that this is what your fellow citizens wanted.
It’d be nice if this post included a high-level cookbook for training the 3rd approach. The hand-waving around RL sounds great, but how do you accurately simulate a customer for learning at scale?
It's impossible to know how many people knew about it before it was reported. It's also trivial to add a header to bypass middleware. Apparently it was there since v12 released in 2021 so god only knows how much damage this has caused already.

And let's not forget there are still many unpatched Next self hosted apps, right now.

I can't believe how anyone can downplay this in any way.
I sometimes wonder if chorded keyboard would be better for controlling the computer and keeping better posture against RSI issues. Not to mention more compact space compared to full keyboard. I seem to remember from a recording of the demo (and few writings on subject) that the keyset and mouse were used together for more powerful effect than either one alone.

What I haven't found out is how well a multilingual writer could use these. Do the chords rely on properties of particular language, like English. Does the chord order follow from how often you write letter a instead of x. Would another language be adaptable to same chords, or do you need to make an optimized version?
"ETA: one of the groups that was motivated was MS: use SQL Server + SP ; then COM in the Logic layer and then ASP in the UI."

I remember SQL Server and its Stored Procedures having a brief period of popularity because Visual Basic had been popular, in no small part to non-university-trained people starting their careers by graduating from MS Excel VBA macros to VB UIs in enterprise client-server apps, with MSSQL SP providing the logic layer. As the Dot-com boom took off, ASP made it possible to leverage that experience outside of the enterprise building internet applications, which was were the money and excitement was. I remember MS pushing COM, but never getting very far with it as it quickly lost ground to Java. Java was exploding in popularity and was a rich and fertile valley where the "kingdom of the application layer" could be built re-using paving stones from the "3-tier and n-tier" era that somewhat preceded it but was somewhat coincident with it.
No, it does not help.

Feel free to submit detailed results to peer review. 100% success rates have been too rare, these days.
Unless you have a solid understanding of network security, you are going to want a traditionally-educated technical cofounder (or an extremely talented team of lawyers on-staff).
Most bad tech decisions of Next.js are motivated by their business model, notably the middleware system to promote edge functions.

If you're looking for something simpler that's closer to Next's original premice, Remix.js is awesome and much lighter.
I haven't seen console ninja yet, thanks for mentioning it. It’s amazing!
Sutton might have said you just need a loss function which penalises variance and the model will learn to reduce variance itself. He thinks this will be more effective than hand coded guardrails. He's probably right.

I don't know how you write that loss function mind you. Sounds tricky. But I doubt Sutton was saying it's easy, just that if you can do it then it's effective.
Stop doing is all you need.