skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you had a company what would you pay a sponsorship for if you had to

Yes, but only if I had some basis to expect that the marketing money wasn't being wasted. I'd want to see that the audience being reached was worth the cost, that they aren't going to be upset when they see my ad, that my ad doesn't appear in any places I find objectionable, etc.

I'd be unlikely to make a serious ad buy in a forum that was so new that it couldn't show me numbers unless it was being set up by someone I already knew and trusted.
None; it's for fun and games. But maybe thats the most enjoyable use case anyway.
Maybe. I don't know (or really care).

There was a link to a post, here, some time ago, that was about why we should write, and it was mostly for self-benefit. That's why I do it. I'm retired, and spend time learning and honing my skills. I write code for free, for folks that can't afford folks like me. I like to do a good job at it, and I like learning new stuff.

I've found that writing [tutorials, especially] is a great way for me to learn.
Some people have a conscious, as irrational and unprofitable as that is. I think it's a fairly coherent position to not want to kill and consume intelligent creatures.

At the same time, I think it's kind of telling of the irrationality in your argument here that, in the first line, you claim that someone's line of thinking is weird unless they took it to the extreme logical conclusion of veganism. Then in your last line you call veganism a cult.

Do you realize that you're arguing in bad faith, or is it unintentional?
Oh! Would you mind sharing which third-party brands worked well for you? Thanks!
Um. The Singularity isn't religious in its origin. It's literally a reference to a mathematical singularity.

I'm not entirely opposed to the article's characterization, but this is a big one to get wrong. What the term has become in its pseudo-cult modern context is entirely divorced from what it came out of.
Is there no way to use my existing one with either version / model? :(
Models are just big sets of numbers. It's not a technology, it's data used to make predictions (on word tokens, for example).

Who cares if we throw this data away? Why would you run it again? It's like an old phone bill you probably don't need to read again.
I wish the author was a little less over-wrought in her descriptions of the Green family's religious commitments. I've heard complaints before about the Green's artifact acquisition process, and they've had to return some manuscripts: it's a story worth investigating and telling. But it distracts from the author's main point when she's making snide comments about their faith. Yes, they're Christians who are successful at business and who take their faith seriously - so? If the author is trying to convince people she's an even-handed reporter, she'd do better to drop the sarcastic tone.
UNIX was ported to the System/370 in 1980, but it ran on top of TSS, which I understand was an obscure product.

"Most of the design for implementing the UNIX system for System/370 was done in 1979, and coding was completed in 1980. The first production system, an IBM 3033AP, was installed at the Bell Laboratories facility at Indian Hill in
early 1981."

https://web.archive.org/web/20240930232326/https://www.bell-...
>tons of little (but not tiny) bubbles
>Such a lovely florescent lime green

Quite probably oxygen from the plants and not methane bubbles.

>small tributary at a local park

Quite probably where I was a boy scout and had my first kiss
It doesn't matter. The people in the trenches don't update their standard versions.
>Nothing short of this "abrupt change" has been successful in getting Europe to take responsibility for its own security.

I think Europe always had the capacity for that. Russia is a nuclear armed state but as far as it's proportional spending goes it's worth noting it's economy is smaller than Italy.
What it was lacking was political will and the urge to deal with fragmentation and unanimity. Especially wrt germany being slow to send weapons systems, cutting gas, Shroeder, etc
All that spending on American jets or the like clearly paled in comparison to the bloc's willingness to commit and to deal with economic dependencies and would still matter less if everyone increased spending.
It also lacks the push for a proper foreign policy that benefits the whole. Not letting Russia pull price politics and fighting its influence in important alternative gas routes would be huge.

>And it seems that Europe's way of thanking us is to make fun of our healthcare system, accuse us of the non-crime of "cultural imperialism", etc... See what I'm saying about enthusiasm to defend you guys? Something needs to change in the relationship.

Are your view of it on the comments of people online?
The question is whether this "more involved process" builds upon experience from the first years of almost-quackery. It wouldn't be the first time in healthcare.

People have eyes, observe their results and adapt.
I'm not in the target audience, but as an iOS dev myself, I have to say—your app is an ASO wet dream:

- Nice logo

- Clear, engaging screenshots

- Solid title/subtitle with relevant keywords

- Amazing reviews and ratings

Really well done!
It feels like a scraper, used for grading.
Or you want an American, in which case the Wright Brothers won
Actually, this makes me think the opposite. This is a great example actually.

Polyurethane wheels weren't introduced to skateboarding until 1971. It took off in popularity due to this because the previous wheels were made of clay and were basically terrible.

I don't know the history of luggage wheels, but it sounds like it was waiting for the invention of the polyurethane wheel.
C is simple.

Representing computation as words of a fixed bit length, in random access memory, is not (See The Art of Computer Programming). And the extent to which other languages simplify is creating simpler memory models.
By burn I mean legitimate deletion, as in remove all of my data from your service. If you offer deletion of that sort then it's misleading to retain.
You Need a 'Not Doing' List, Not a Todo List – Ant Murphy
<irony>
And a cell phone number from a throw away phone?

Of course for every application a new one!
</irony>
Good point, it does indeed read like that
Can you provide an example of this? There are a few inventions-via-serendipity (e.g. Teflon) where someone got lucky, but few that i can think of where the specific person who got lucky mattered. Kary Mullis and PCR maybe?
It's awesome to see the amount of ideas you can explore with 1kloc lines of clojure!
I'm still grumpy about apple buying and shuttering darksky
yup, i haven't had my coffee yet when I was writing it either :)
I've been recently wondering if this is a "thing" in medical research, and I'm extremely glad to hear that it is. Especially in tech I think we all know how frustrating it is to only ever get vague, pre-interpreted reports of issues, particularly when those issues are non-deterministic or otherwise tough-to-reproduce.

I can only hope that once these methods mature to everyday use levels, people will keep in mind the gap between the measurement and the phenomenon. Just like how a GPS tracker doesn't track the object (or pet, or whatever) you put it on but itself, these methods will also only detect pain they're compatible with detecting, and miss others. I can already imagine the conversations with various parties insisting that a patient isn't actually feeling pain because whatever devices are not reporting so (or the opposite!). Still, I don't think this should keep these devices from existing.
Isaacman is a great fit though and a seemingly good, curious and positively driven guy:

Former NASA astronauts endorse Isaacman as administrator
https://spacenews.com/former-nasa-astronauts-endorse-isaacma...
Of course it did -- this was one of the distinguishing features (byte addressing) of the PDP-11 vs the original machine that ran UNIX, the PDP-7, after all ;-)

In "ancient"/K&R C, types weren't specified with the parameters, but on the following lines afterwards. GCC would still compile code like this, if passed the -traditional flag, until ... some point in the last decade or so. Still, this style was deprecated with ANSI C/C89, so it had a good run.
What made Wright Brothers the first, and not Santos Dumont or other people is that they not only created the first flying machine, they developed critical _PRINCIPALS_ of heavier then air flight that is used in every fixed wing aircraft since then.

Without Wright Brothers' innovations controlled flight is simply impossible.

Other people had things that looked similar to the Wright airplanes, but only the Wright airplane was able to take off, do figure 8s in the sky, and then land.

For example the rest of the world was operating off of aerodynamic mathematics of lift and drag that was simply incorrect. The Wright brothers built the air tunnels and created the math for better ones that actually worked.

The also figured out the principals to using rudders to counter adverse yaw in controlled flight. This is the tendency of the airplane to turn (yaw) against the direction of a turn.

And there are a few things beyond that. Without this controlled flight is not possible. Without figuring these things out airplanes are not really possible.

Now would of somebody else eventually figured it out?

Sure.

But it was the Wright brothers that did it first and that is the point. This is why they were able to create the first airplane and other people didn't. Even if they looked very similar it doesn't matter because they didn't incorporate the necessary features that made the Wright's plane work.
Yes, in theory, this is the case, but seeing that people around you work for a long time is inevitable, and you will be more anxious when you don’t see hope.
Authors that have survived history are good for a reason! Have you explored...

Isaac Asimov

C.S. Lewis

Arthur Conan Doyle

Michael Chrichton

Mark Twain

George Orwell

Agatha Christie

P.K. Dick

Ayn Rand

William Shakespeare

...
ok, but it doesn't actually tell you anything new except the email

everything else is literally just the info on the github profile page
Anecdotally, I plan to leave my big tech company job within the next year for something remote. It'll likely be a pay cut, but we have kids and know they'd prefer growing up near their cousins. It's a tough tradeoff, but they only grow up once and if we can get something that still pays reasonably well it'll be worth it in our opinion. Plus no commute which is always nice.
> You could argue that it goes back to when Bush
> became president despite losing the election
> to Al Gore, by suppressing recounts that later
> proved that he lost.

That was the day that I lost all respect for America and I fully agree that it was the day when the Republicans saw that you didn't need to win an election you needed to game the system.

From that point onwards is when the Red states went ham on targeted voter suppression and made a number of extremely anti-democratic moves. The current situation is at least 25 years in the making.
Will AI Replace Software?
people get promoted based upon their ability to conform to management culture, and their ability to deliver outcomes; in most places the former is far more important than the latter but not always
Seems unlikely, far more likely that it has built upon the history of actual research, than the exploitative practices of those clinics that latch on and sell snake-oil.
Might be a telescopic handler, basically a giant forklift
Probably because it isn't memory efficient ? I am not sure , please take what I am saying is with a grain of salt. I may be wrong , I usually am.

But even if that's the case , couldn't they use something like vram if they are running out of memory of are we back to square one?
Or code, if you were a lisper. :D

Data is a rather generic term that fits just fine in many contexts taking on different ideas.
Nobody was on Facebook. Everyone already has a MySpace profile so what’s the point.

Nobody was on Instagram. They got all their traffic from people posting photos on Twitter.

Nobody was on TikTok. They got all their traffic from people reposting TikToks on Instagram stories.

I’m not saying this project will succeed but it’s absolutely possible to build a new business social network.
I wonder how much of this is just to get a talking point about AI in the article (and I guess it works - we're talking about it).

If you literally need to just detect whether it's at the firmware splash screen or not, simply checking if enough pixels on the image are white would detect that splash screen just fine.
Do you think us defence will become cheaper if the EU steps up more?

And do you think the US will start setting up more social policies if such happens?

You should look up social policies in the US under the cold War. I think you'd find that the US was much more aligned.

Also,it is easy to diminish the attitudes the US has against all other countries - which is not quite heartwarming either.

I would love to return to these conversations when the is influence has shrunk to the influence of Switzerland. I am not so sure the points will stand as strong anymore.
The uBlue fellas do make it a point in their docs, OSTree is a last resource install method, Flatpaks first, (or Brew for CLI), Other types of container second, last OSTree
I believe complexity is nothing that can be created or destroyed, but just moved around. Sure, you can create artificial complexity by making things harder than they need to be, but that just the complexity of the side effects you added accidentally. When you reduce the solution down to what is needed to solve the actual problem at hand, the complexity required to do so will always be the same. Now, you can hide that complexity behind an abstraction; it’s still there, but hidden behind a trade-off: you placed a cover over the gears, made it look nice and clean, but if you have to change gears, you’ll need to remove that cover first, and possibly make a new one afterwards. The overall system complexity stays the same.

Now, I think what most engineers enjoy is the act of slicing the complexity in neat boxes, and shift them around, until it feels balanced. It’s a very similar task as building a cairn from pebbles, actually, just on an intellectual level. You get the joy out of a feeling of accomplishment when the stack balances out.
A typical C program of useful length typically includes a spattering of implicit type conversions that the programmer never intended or considered. It's the consequence of a feature that abstracts away how the type system and memory really[1] acts.

[1]for certain definitions of 'really'
Not a single NATO partner has consistently met the 2% GDP spend mandate historically outside the US. The US spends aorund 50-60B a year for our 40+ bases in europe. But this is offset by nato expenditures. For example, Germany gives us a $1B a year for our bases.
It means that the large majority of projects that don't use git-lfs can improve their security immediately and without any trouble.

It also may mean that git-shell could use a few PRs adding whatever is missing for git-lfs to work, given that git-lfs does not do anything extra fancy.
Who would use their real name for GitHub?

https://github.com/elonmusk

https://github.com/donaldtrump
Tesla / Waymo is a perfect illustration of the point, but the Bitter Lesson doesn’t allow us to pick a winner here. The Bitter Lesson tells us that the Tesla approach (fully end to end, minimizing hand coded features / logic) will _ultimately_ win out. The Bitter Lesson does not tell us that this approach has to economically justify itself 1 year in, 5 years in, or that the approach when the technology is immature will allow a company to avoid bankrupting itself in the meantime while they wait for the data and compute to scale.

In other words, just because we know that ultimately (possibly in 20+ years) the Tesla compute-only approach will be simpler and more effective, Tesla might not survive to see this happen. Instead, manual feature engineering and hacking can always give temporary gains over data and compute driven approaches. The bitter lesson was clear about this. I suspect Waymo will win, and at some point in the future once they are out of their growth at all costs stage, they will transition into their maximum value extraction stage, in which vision will make significantly more economic sense than LiDAR. But once they win, they’ll have plenty of time to see the bitter lesson through its ultimate consequences. Elon is right, but he’s probably too early.
I'm claiming this based on fundamental analysis of Tesla's sales/net profits/ROIIC and other metrics, which I take from their 13F fillings (AKA quarterly earning reports) compared to other car manufacturers.

Some stocks are overpriced, and others are undervalued. The inclusion in the S&P500 alone is just 1 of the factors.

In my opinion, Apple and NVIDIA are significantly undervalued based on their fundamentals, even though they make up a gigantic % of the SPX.
How many hours can you code?
It's like the current situation with "vibe coding". An LLM can build you something which demonstrates a principle in some kind of hand-wavy fashion, but the gap between the thing produced by the LLM and a sustainable product is just huge. And, as with the gap between Rickover's paper reactor and his practical reactor, it's often extraordinary difficult to explain to a non-specialist why that is so -- because the difference is all in the detail.
I mean yes, you are sacrificing some RAM. But a typical Linux OS to run VMs/containers could fit in a couple gigs. For the amount of RAM these servers have, this is peanuts and would save a lot of headaches dealing with statefulness.
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In the meantime if you are actually in chronic pain it's worth knowing research has shown that 6 out of 10 is the best number for patients to use. Below 6 and insurance doesn't pay out and healthcare workers consider it normal and if your not writhing and scream on agony right now you can't possibly be above. 6 has the best chance of success.

Alas even the best is not a high chance there are millions suffering chronic pain, because in the absence of a biomarker and withdrawal of opioids, many probably most sufferers are left without any relief and suffer the consequences. It's not about you it's about the doctor there was nothing you could have done, prejudice and stigma over pain is rife within healthcare.
> You can find endless examples once you start looking

My favorite examples are gunpowder, the printing press.

Both were known by the Chinese and Koreans for thousand years before the Europeans. However, it was the Europeans that began using gunpowder in handheld guns (Chinese used it for fireworks) and combined the printing press with metallic moveable types and oily ink, making it far more efficient.

Also: how much James Watt improved the already existing steam engine.
I think depending on what you've built your identity around, suddenly being free of having to strive for anything can be pretty daunting. "Having everything we need, indefinitely" is certainly not something we were prepared for by evolution, and the questions that arise when you are at that point and still need to structure your life around something don't really have easy answers, I believe.

So it might actually be a pretty good sign that you struggle to sympathize with this, because the alternative might be that you understand it all too well.
The original bug was returning STATUS_SUCCESS to indicate that a function had succeeded without noticing that STATUS_SUCCESS is defined as 0 in a function that's expected to return a non-zero value on success. This specific error could have happened on any language - defining two different return types and using the wrong one could happen in any language.
Even then, both the candidate who wins the plurality and the runner-up make it to the next step of the election, so in some sense they (both) still won the (first step) of the election. Regardless, the USA has no such runoffs at any level in the electoral process, so it doesn't seem like this standard should be applied here.
Nice tool. To add a workflow to the 'lots of these', I usually use an aichat[^1] role. The prompt is stored in `~/.config/aichat/roles/gitcommit.md` and then I do this:

```
git diff --cached | aichat -m deepseek:deepseek-chat -r gitcommit | git commit --edit --file -
```

I like that your tool includes some previous commit messages... I'm not sure if that can be done with `aichat` but it seems like a great idea.

I'd be tempted to wrap individual commit messages in pseudo-xml <commit> tags, as Claude really likes those[^2] and the `%B` format doesn't really show the breaks between commit messages.

1: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

2: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
I don't think the bip buffer solves a real problem. Let's say I'm using it as a read buffer.

> The upshot of all of this is that on average, the buffer always has the maximal amount of free space available to be used, while not requiring any data copying or reallocation to free up space at the end of the buffer. ... Another possibility which was brought up in the bulletin board (and the person who brought it up shall remain nameless, if just because they... erm... are nameless) was that of just splitting the calls across wraps. Well, this is one way of working around the wrapping problem, but it has the unfortunate side-effect that as your buffer fills, the amount of free space which you pass out to any calls always decreases to 1 byte at the minimum - even if you've got another 128kb of free space at the beginning of your buffer, at the end of it, you're still going to have to deal with ever shrinking block sizes.

So it maximizes the contiguous free bytes. I feel like the author just never knew about readv? Passing a couple iovecs completely solves this problem in a much better way.

What seems far more valuable for the used space to be contiguous, as parsing APIs often expect this. bip buffers don't offer that, right?

Now let's say I'm using it as a write buffer. I've never had the problem of needing it to be contiguous on either side. On the input side, I could imagine some application API that really wants to write into a contiguous buffer, but it hasn't been my experience. On the output side, there's writev.
Many users don't understand what happens when they press the spam button on a password change request or similar email.

I'm not talking about unsolicited email, but legitimate transactional email related to the account that only triggers off a user action.
buffer is also a candidate :)