skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) People eat better

Except here in Germany, at least the restaurants (but the art of cooking has declined too, favoring frozen pizza and similar foods). Especially since COVID. Our restaurant food is not good, and will still get five stars in the restaurant reviews all the time.

After COVID it got even worse. In my major city I saw food in well-known central restaurants become really bad, despite significant increases in price, and I mean "bad" and not just "it is not as tasty as I would like".

What is thriving are Döner (kebab shops) - often using questionable "meat", dirt-cheap Asian places (nowadays often with "Sushi", at very low prices), and burger shops. Italian restaurants focus on pizza and pasta - the cheapest-to-prepare easy-carbs-focused options.

I miss the Bay Area and its food options (I used to live there for quite a few years).
> Hamas, which is a terrorist organisation.

According to the New York Times, Netanhayu was propping up Hamas in the weeks and months before the current conflict ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q... ). This has been happening since the beginning of Hamas.

The government over there has been supporting Hamas since the beginning, because they don't want to deal with Fatah going to the UN. Everything recently is the result of that. So don't come around talking about Hamas. Especially since Netanyahu and his US counterparts are trying to sideline Fatah, and are persecuting secular Palestinians like Samidoun and the PFLP more than Hamas. The US, Canada, Germany etc. crack down on the seculat, left-leaning Samidoun so that only Hamas is left standing in Gaza.
I think we've actually had capable AIs for long enough now to see that this kind of exponential advance to AGI in 2 years is extremely unlikely. The AI we have today isn't radically different from the AI we had in 2023. They are much better at the thing they are good at, and there are some new capabilities that are big, but they are still fundamentally next-token predictors. They still fail at larger scope longer term tasks in mostly the same way, and they are still much worse at learning from small amounts of data than humans. Despite their ability to write decent code, we haven't seen the signs of a runaway singularity as some thought was likely.

I see people saying that these kinds of things are happening behind closed doors, but I haven't seen any convincing evidence of it, and there is enormous propensity for AI speculation to run rampant.
She wanted to let the disabled starve or beg on street corners so she'd have a tiny fraction more wealth to fritter away. We don't owe her the benefit of the doubt.
I use a router on my end, so it would always be one endpoint anyway. The problem with Cloud Tasks, is that the more individual tasks you create, the more time it takes to deploy. Better to hide all that behind a single router.
Same with alcohol, cocaine, meth, etc. If it’s not available, you cannot harm yourself with it. If it is available, you may not be able to resist.
god we are so spoiled. this is a successful, pretty well known commercial project. it's now source available. you have plenty of resources to get context in 2 minutes. lets appreciate the big stuff, have some agency for the rest.

usually if the project comes with a big lengthy beautiful readme thats actually a contra indicator that the thing is a production repo
I’ve been wanting to write this somewhere and this seems as good a place as any to start.

Is it just me or is MCP a really bad idea?

We seem to have spent the last 10 years trying to make computing more secure and now people are using node & npx - tools with a less than flawless safety story - to install tools and make them available to a black box LLM that they trust to be non-harmful. On what basis, even about accidental harm I am not sure.

I am not sure if horrified is the right word.
> the emptiness of trying to live for others

Someone else was burned one too many times. It's fine and dandy until you notice a pattern: others who lack conscience will always work your convictions against you. Though the religion admits as much - it eschews 'worldly wisdom' - i.e. what you need to make anything of a life in this world.
It seems reasonable to me to say that soundwaves exist in the world, but music only exists in our brains. There is something added in our perception of the soundwaves that turns them into music.
https://github.com/puremd/puremd-mcp handles this, probably some other MCP servers out there that handle this too
> But this is 100% a python-for-CUDA-C replacement on the GPU

Ish. It's a Python maths library made by Nvidia, an eDSL and a collection of curated libraries. It's not significantly different than stuff like Numpy, Triton, etc..., apart from being made by Nvidia and bundled with their tools.
Yes, and the Wiki article goes into detail with some more quotes about the difference between the judicial understanding and the common understanding being different. The ruling didn't invent the idea of shareholder value maximization, but it did reinforce that there are legal limits to acting against it. They acknowledged as a practical matter policing it is probably unlikely to expect except in egregious cases for the reason you cited among others.

But fundamentally, shareholder maximization is the goal stated by both common business sense and legal rulings. I personally believe that long-term optimization rather than short term is a more successful strategy. But in the short term the board could remove him for going against the feds. Shareholders could sue if it caused a drop in value or impacted global operations. Caused by I don't know, tariffs that could have been avoided with a corrupt monetary contribution.

I'd love to actually see a CEO refuse to grease the palm and them get sued for not doing something corrupt. Would be a case to follow.

The point is, as I understand it, that CEOs of publicly traded corps are not afforded the freedom required to make an ideological stand and keep their job.
We would prefer a world where we can use the skills we have spent a lifetime honing without having to compete with some asshole taking everything we’ve shared and stuffing it into a machine that spits out soulless clones of our work without any acknowledgment of our existence.
> You're literally describing the tax system that was funding it before it was axed by the guy who can't stop making mistakes.

The tax system took from those who didn't want to pay for corruption, only the actual aid.

They will continue to pay 75%, and those who wish to pay for the remaining 25% can do so voluntarily.
CINC Is Not Chef
A RoRo freighter is designed for vehicles to "roll on, roll off". They don't haul regular freight.

I agree that it's very unlikely that near shoring simple electronics and T-shirts will be the big needle mover for emissions. What's much worse is the human rights violations but that's a totally different conversation from what the GP said.
Product and Engineering in the Age of AI
Hey, something like twenty are not x86-64 based :) With ARM Fugaku at the top a couple years ago.
Bucking Trump tariffs, California will push to maintain independent global trade
I've never understood floating point :-)
They call it blowback because 'increased homelessness, suicides, kids not getting new shoes as they grow, people having teeth pulled instead of dental work' and 'you will have nothing and be happy' make their policy look bad.

Then later they will make fun of the people that have missing teeth because they chose food for their kids over dental work and call those people trash.
I would love to be a junior right now. I would just hate becoming a senior, after having been a junior right now.
I have a carefully-curated Spotify playlist -- "FLOWSTATE: Repeatable FTW"[1] -- that I specifically optimized for "flowstate" (/Cal Newport "deep work" sessions). The tracks span various moods or vibes, but all are strictly instrumental, w/ limited dynamic range or significant musical variation, and a steady, energizing beat -- ie they're each deliberately repetitive and work well set on repeat. Airpods in, pick a track that resonates w my mood, set it on repeat, set my Pomodoro timer (to remind me to stand and move instead of hyperfocus for hours straight), and I can reliably enter flowstate almost right away.

1. Here's the playlist if anyone's interested:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=...
yeah (as became a theme really until we were acquired and it was no longer an issue) we didn't get past procurement as we failed some sort of due diligence check(s). Can't actually remember what it was specifically in that case, lacking some certification or weren't financially stable enough or some rubbish like that
How did lose all their equity? You can’t declare equity is worthless. You can raise new rounds with different valuations and dilute previous investors/employees but they would also dilute themselves.
The way the story (Go)es
Make API Data Engineering Fun with DuckDB
Or settings like auto-hide MacOS dock vs not auto hide, affecting the vertical size of the browser window.
Many of the factual errors are there on purpose. The lengthy discussion of whether or not whales are fish for example is not intended to be scientific.

Melville himself served on a whaler and AFAIK the descriptions of actual whaling and processing of whales at sea are basically accurate with some embellishment. Open to being wrong about that though as I am by no means an 1800s whaling expert.
He certainly doesn't read your emails, but they do get rolled up in a sentiment analysis most places
Pandas uses numpy which uses C. So if numpy used CUDA then it would benefit.
When the RDF loses its power, of course.
Always a good time to remember this fantastic quote:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Tim Berners-Lee has been elevated to many things, but an ascension to deity must be a new reach.
I can't find the source of that quote (possibly a misquote?), but if I had to guess, he's saying he sold people on the problem, knowing they wouldn't like the solution. Everyone likes the idea of fixing the budget deficit, and some people like the idea of cutting wasteful government spending, but the act of fixing the budget means people lose jobs, and lives are destroyed. Even though it has to happen, people don't like watching it happen.

I don't think your "quote" says what you think it says.
> Being a DIY type, I was appalled at the building standards

Yup. It's no understatement to say a good tradesperson is extremely difficult to find. They all charge the inflated going rate regardless of their skill level, as people are desperate. They often get pretty shiry/nasty if you demand things or want to check their work - to keep you afraid and to accept their very subpar work.

Materials are shockingly terrible across the board too

I've been putting off renovations because I've had so, so many bad experiences with tradespeople in the past.
Though I found they like having control over whether the music is playing more... to my chagrin. I tried to keep my parrot from being too noisy through the day by setting up a microphone in his room, and having it turn off the radio for 30 seconds every time he was louder than a threshold amount.

Day one -> he triggered the shut down ~10 times.
Day two -> easily 50.
Day three -> you can see where this is going

Dude freaking LOVED being able to turn on and off the radio. It almost beat out being able to flap his wings and make the curtains move as one of his favourite hobbies.
Confusingly, at various point in this article they refer to him in the past tense, "was a good father" etc, while he's still alive.
That is why it is ideal to ask it double-sided questions to test its biases as well as your own. Simply googling it is not enough when most people don't think to customize their search anyway, compounded by the fact that indexed sources may have changed or have been deprecated over time.
I would argue that Picasso's life experiences, the environments he grew up and lived in, the people he interacted with, and the world events that took place in his life (like the world wars) were the external developments that led to the development of cubism. Sure, an AI could take in and analyze the works that existed prior, but it couldn't have the emotional reaction that occurred en masse after WWI and started the breakdown of more classical forms of art and the development/rise of more abstract forms of art.

Or, as the kids might say, AI couldn't feel the vibe shift occurring in the world at the time.
Do you mind people commuting from New Orleans?
> Packaging and deployment will soon be solved problems ...

I hope so. Every time I engage in a "Why I began using Go aeons ago" conversation, half of the motivation was this. The reason I stopped engaging in them is because most of the participants apparently cannot see that this is even a problem. Performance was always the second problem (with Python); this was always the first.
The irony isn't one of dependency. The philosophy celebrates interdependence and the achievements of groups of cooperating people who take care of each other.

The irony and tragedy is broader and encompasses both the cult leaders and the cult detractors who are both unwilling separate the ideas from the people.
I agree, I meant "tame" as in comparison to where we are now. The first term felt incompetent and maybe a bit malicious, but the current term feels outwardly malicious and extraordinarily corrupt.

I could put on a mask and stay at home for COVID, but I can't do much about shunning our allies, disrupting the world economy, disappearing people, electing a cabinet of highly unqualifed individuals, putting the SCOTUS in pocket, etc. I can advocate, stay informed, support my community, etc., but this feels on another level than the first term and that's what I meant by my comment.
A friend built a startup for years and progress was not looking good.
Eventually the entire development team quit and left without equities.
The founder was then acquired for millions.

Another case: startup running out of money after a series B or C and a history of questionable expenses. Everybody but a few left.
The founders sold their main product for cheap to some private equity firm, focused on a crappy internal tool they built and they used their last money to hire a literal army of sales people.

These sales guys were apparently amazing and somehow managed to sell the tool to a bunch of fortune 500 companies and are now making bank.

The main product they sold? It's still on life support, the original buyer just sold it to another holding.
This could a be verbatim quote from a seamstress talking about looms.
By comparable, do you mean comparable countries that also had their most economically important region removed?
Strong recommendation to use noise-cancelling instead of high volume. Hearing loss sucks! Protect your ears!
Have you considered that the opposite explanation might be true instead?

It could be that other developers are not benefitting from AI as much as you because they don't understand it.

It could also be that you are benefitting more than them because you're less skilled than them, and AI can fill in your gaps but not theirs.
Focus distance for VR headset images is 1.3-2 meters: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1371485209603022853

It doesn't make your eyes completely relaxed, but it's farther than computer monitors and phones/books.
How close to Postgres does this need to be? Like could you host this on Aurora DSQL and have unlimited scalability?

Or how would you scale this to support thousands of events per second?
> But then again given our current political environment maybe that is what we're trying to tell the next generation.

There's no trying.

The US has played "Just grift your way to money" as a standard means of operating since at least the dotcom boom. A reason so many young and poorly educated people jump at obvious MLM type scams and other scams is because they feel that everything is a scam, so surely they can get in on it too, right?

And everything IS a scam. Coke doubled in price in the past 5 years. I promise you their costs did not double. Their costs are Labor (highly automated), water (they almost always have sweetheart deals for dirt cheap water, cheaper than you pay), and one of the most subsidized commodities available, HFCS, or alternatively, a sprinkle of dirt cheap chemicals for their diet sodas.

People feel that, even when they don't understand or even recognize it.

People recognize that the US has been a scammy free for all for decades now. Everyone for themselves, fuck you, got mine.

We are on like the third generation raised this way. The people who took "Greed is good" to heart had kids, and raised them with it as a core principle.

Jordan Belfort, the guy who Wolf Of Wall Street is based on and spent time in prison for scamming his clients in basically the same way modern crypto pump and dumps work, now sells out auditoriums as a motivational speaker for fucks sake.

The kids LOOK UP TO SCAMMERS
Adaptive deep brain stimulation uses AI to reduce Parkinson's symptoms
A shock-jock for the twitter age.

These people used to be consigned to the middle of your radio dial on the drive to and from work. Not the west wing.
I mean it's empty because you deny people that love you to do nice things for you (I don't care (and it shows!), what do you want to do?). Keep it up long enough and you don't even know what you like anymore. And then you aren't really a fun person anymore.

At least, that is how I experienced it.
Foreigners aren't allowed to vote or donate. They should be allowed to voice their opinions on the government, though. In my opinion, anyone who says foreigners in the country shouldn't criticize the government is less American than said foreigners.
Would be interesting to see what the causes of death were?

I'm also still surprised that "current smoking status" is a thing. Quickly checking, seems a lot of western Europe is higher in that than the US? Curious how regional that is in the US, even. I don't see nearly as many smokers around home as I do when I visit the likes of Atlanta.
https://archive.ph/Tu48c
Would OP’s proposed performance-based contract, where they’re only paid when the sale goes through, align their interests with yours better than the status quo model you describe here?
There is a major difference. In Russia no Oligarch would be able to direct Putin. In what the current US is transforming itself into, asking the President to do what is good for as a Billionaire, is a pure financial transaction.
Google 'drag along rights'.
On Unix-like platforms? sysv shared memory (shmget, etc). https://github.com/gnzlbg/slice_deque/blob/045fb28701d3b674b... does this. (Though that code looks racy to me; unmapping the second half's virtual address space before mapping again is wrong. I guess it does that because shmat's SHM_REMAP flag is Linux-specific. At least it will fail rather than silently overwrite some other mapping. edit: oh, and it retries too, so not bad.)

Seems like you could use shm_open + mmap also.

On Linux, you could probably also do some juggling with mremap + MREMAP_DONTUNMAP, but I don't know why you'd prefer this over memfd_create.
There is an ongoing genocide in Gaza and genocidal language is commonplace in Zionist discourse. If there are cases of hate speech on the pro Palestinian side, they pale in comparison to speech from the other side.

Regardless we shouldn’t be rounding up and imprisoning folks if they disagree with your politics. This is what is getting lost in this specific case.
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Syntactic Musings on View Types
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555898
I think people with expertise and training do generally know what's in people's interest more than untrained people themselves, yes. I also think that the fact that this isn't blindingly obvious to most folks is at the heart of a lot of the rot in modern society.
Same. I posted upthread about my flowstate playlist, optimized for tracks to put on repeat for focus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585365
I think you missed the part about "[achieving] a high degree of success", in particular the achievement. They are referring to young people who make a successful business rather than those who are born to parents who made a successful business.
Yes, the only test will eventually be "Can you train AI on copyrighted works"
I think he was alluding to plastic.
These are presumably LLMs with access to web search answering user queries, not crawlers scraping data for training.

It's probably both cheaper and more accurate (for fast-changing content) to them to just hit Wikipedia servers every time than to special case search results pointing there and keeping a local copy.
it's funny - people around here really do not have a clue about the GPU ecosystem even though everyone is always talking about AI:

> The article is about the next wave of Python-oriented JIT toolchains

the article is content marketing (for whatever) but the actual product has literally has nothing to do with kernels or jitting or anything

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python

literally just cython bindings to CUDA runtime and CUB.

for once CUDA is aping ROCm:

https://github.com/ROCm/hip-python
I’m 95% sure that was a tongue-in-cheek statement.
Disagree. We know it _can_ learn out of distribution capabilities based on similarities to other distributions. Like the TikZ Unicorn[1] (which was not in training data anywhere) or my code (which has variable names and methods/ideas probably not seen 1:1 in training).

IMO this out of distribution learning is all we need to scale to AGI. Sure there are still issues, it doesn't always know which distribution to pick from. Neither do we, hence car crashes.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712 or on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
"you didn't say thank you!!!"
Show HN: Promptify-CLI – Vibe Coding TUI for Selecting/Copying Project Context
This is a project that I've iterated on personally for almost a year. I was frustrated by the constant copying and pasting, not to mention my tendency to make monolithic code files when working with AI chatbots. This version of the tool was in large part written by Gemini 2.5. The features like a clean ui for selecting files to copy, tracking the number of lines/tokens as you select things -- they're largely inspired by the frustrations I had with previous iterations that were rigid or not transparent.

My usual pattern when working with this tool is select the files with relevant context and then paste the results into an AI chatbot which outputs a bash script to create/overwrite multiple files at once. It's also useful for large documentation git repos, like Streamlit's docs... copy the parts I want of their docs into the Gemini 1M token context window.

Additional features may come, but for now this is an MVP that I believe is worth sharing.