skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "AI" are useful for one thing. I had no idea what functions to use to scan a directory in a native C++ Windows application. Nor that they introduced an abstraction in C++ 2017?. They all work the same (needless fs access should be avoided no matter the OS) but it did give me the names*.

Stuff that google search from 10 years ago would have done without pretending it's "AI". But not google search from this year.

* it wasn't able to simply list the fields of the returned structure that contained a directory entry. But since it gave me the name, i was able to look it up via plain search.
I wonder if really great stuff are always for a minority. You have to have listened a lot of classical music to notice a great interpretation of Mozart from a good one. To realize how great was a chess move, how magical was a soccer play, how deep was the writing of a philosopher. Not only for stuff that requires previous effort, but also the subjectiveness of art. Picasso will be really moving for a minority of people. The Godfather. Even Shakespeare.

Social media and generative AI may be good business because the capture the attention of the majority, but maybe they are not valuable to anyone.
Yeah definitely an ecosystem play
My interpretation was that they didn't mean to talk about "intelligence", just meant that the average person is not "competent enough" to have their own domain. Which in all fairness is not wrong.

My question is always: of those who are competent, why is the vast majority not having their own domain?
James Sharman has been getting quite advanced with his homebrew cpu. He's got audio and VGA working too and was demonstrating a spinning 3D cube recently. https://www.youtube.com/@weirdboyjim
Mm I hadn't thought about the stateful part - so the server is running the whole time the MCP client is active? Rather than being spun up as needed to make a tool call?
What’s worse, I get a lot of comments left saying what the AI did, not what the code does or why. Eg “moved this from file xy”, “code deleted because we have abc”, etc. Completely useless stuff that should be communicated in the chat window, not in the code.
Functions are not isolated values.

They are nodes in a graph, where the other nodes are the input types, output types and other functions.

It makes sense to cluster closely associated notes, hence Modules.
A collection of open source AWS MCP servers is available at awslabs
> Even more annoying is that I have to duplicate the iterator code: as I often work with frames that may be flipped bottom-up I want to write code like
>
> let mut iterator = if !flipped {
> data.chunks_mut(stride)
> } else {
> data.chunks_mut(stride).rev()
> };
> for line in iterator { ... }
>
> but I can’t since objects have different type (and probably size) and there’s no realistic way to coerce them to the same interface.

For this specific case there is a relatively ergonomic solution using dynamic trait objects + temporary lifetime extensions, available since Rust 1.79:

let iterator: &mut dyn Iterator<Item = _> = if !flipped {
&mut data.into_iter()
} else {
&mut data.into_iter().rev()
};
for line in iterator { ... }

Alternatively, if this is not a feasible solution (e.g. we want to return the new iterator to an outer scope, or the overhead of dyn indirection is unacceptable in this context), one can consider using itertools::Either instead:

use itertools::Either;
fn conditionally_flip_iter<I: DoubleEndedIterator>(
data: I,
flipped: bool,
) -> impl Iterator<Item = I::Item> {
if !flipped {
Either::Left(data.into_iter())
} else {
Either::Right(data.into_iter().rev())
}
}
// ...
let mut iterator = conditionally_flip_iter(data, flipped);
for line in iterator { ... }
Nice to see it could be useful for others!
Many years ago I tried to order a t-shirt with the postscript tiger on the front from Spreadshirt.

It was removed on Copyright claims before I could order one item myself. After some back and forth they restored it for a day and let me buy one item for personal use.

My point is: Doesn't have to be Sony, doesn't have to be a snitch - overzealous anticipatory obedience by the shop might have been enough.
Yeah I find myself doing that too, use the AI to generate a bunch of names I can put into google to find a good answer. I also think if google hadn't gotten as sh*t as it has AI wouldn't be nearly as useful to most people.
Yes you are right. They shouldn't be researching how to racially discriminate at all. They should be focused exclusively on researching effective mass deportation instead of DEI.
One of the problems is industries just take so long to start. They need enough scale to start creating sub-suppliers that spot efficiencies that are worth exploiting to pull costs down. And board games are probably not the tentpole product to do that, if there is one at all.
I get that. I don't condone the behavior of those doing the fingerprinting. But what I'm saying is that the fact that it is possible to fingerprint should in pretty much all cases be viewed as a sort of vulnerability.

It isn't necessarily a critical vulnerability. But it is a problem on some level nonetheless. To the extent possible you should not be leaking information that you did not intend to share.

A protocol that can be fingerprinted is similar to a water pipe with a pinhole leak. It still works, it isn't (necessarily) catastrophic, but it definitely would be better if it wasn't leaking.
Because torturing people is illegal and contrary to our fundamental values, while deporting illegal immigrants is a very popular and sensible policy that is uncontroversial everywhere except the United States of Exceptionalism.
Hyperscaler companies or the TOP500 don't need high reliability, especially the latter.

With cloud computing reliability is achieved through software, distributed software which needs to be horizontal.

On a mainframe reliability is achieved through hardware (at least as fast as user software is concerned), and the software is vertical.

If you need to run vertical, single-system image software, the cloud is useless for making it reliable.

Systems built on the cloud are reliable only insofar as people can write reliable distributed systems which assume components will fail. It is not reliable if you can't, or don't want to write software like that (which carries a significant engineering cost).

The real reason to avoid mainframes (and VMS) is vendor lock-in, not technological.
> What's remarkable is that the cost of software companies will rise dramatically simply because cost of laptops, office chairs, tables, electric cables will rise.

I think this is incredibly unremarkable. These are all fixed costs. It's variable costs, like wages and fuel, that drive everything up. If a table costs twice as much you might buy a slightly lower quality table, or you might be fine.
> Slowdown"/somewhat more aligned world is still pretty rough for humans: What's the point of our existence if we have no way to meaningfully contribute to our own world?

We spend the best 40 years of our lives working 40-50 hours a week to enrich the top 0.1% while living in completely artificial cities. People should wonder what is the point of our current system instead of worrying about Terminator tier sci fi system that may or may not come sometimes in the next 5 to 200 years
I'm not American so this is a newb question, would moving to a saner state help ?
Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript
Meanwhile doctors in India hand antibiotics out like candy.
This is an irrational conclusion to leap to, it only makes sense if you're a weird extremist.

the NixOS project did have purges and even ousted theirown founder though so i'm not surprised by this kind of comment appearing here assuming a corporation is aware of the insane nixOS drama train.
It's a shame that the overengineered anchor links in TFA don't work with the keyboard.
I think there’s a lot of people who use these tools because they don’t like to read.
I wonder what kind of research was done before the trip? All of those complaints seem like something that could have been discovered prior to taking the trip.
Too many serifs, didn't read.
Am I the only one to have to search for what OSINT was an acronym for?
I think you’re right that most people don’t notice, but without the extra effort, it would’ve ended up as just another mediocre animation. And standing out from mediocrity is what made it appealing to many people.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/
Conclusions: Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications.

However, in my search I also found studies that showed prayer to be effective.
As an alternative to Guix with a much more strict supply chain security policy, consider: https://stagex.tools/
It's reasonably well established that large neural networks don't contain copies of the training data, therefore their outputs can't be considered copies of anything. The model might contain a conceptual representation of Harrison Ford's face, but that's very different to a verbatim representation of a particular copyrighted image of Harrison Ford. Model weights aren't copyrightable; it's plausible that model outputs aren't copyrightable, but there are some fairly complicated arguments around authorship. Training an AI model on copyrighted work is highly likely to be fair use under US law, but plausibly isn't fair dealing under British law or a permitted use under Article 5 of the EU Copyright and Information Society Directive.

All of that is entirely separate from trademark law, which would prevent you from using any representation of a trademarked character unless e.g. you can reasonably argue that you are engaged in parody.
They talk about identity politics all the time. It is us vs them on everything. Worker vs employer is the quintessential example. Two groups that in the real world must work together, and do. But in the mind of the political left they are not just people that occasionally have adverse interests but mostly shared interests (my success is yours). No, they are sworn enemies.
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IIRC he stepped down because he thought it's a good feature and people pointlessly moaned about it. Not because he thought it's controversial and has enough.

I used it a small handful of times. But it also seems like quite a source of footguns. Many examples here: https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython rely on the misuse of the walrus operator.
> There’s no need to discard the language of the mainframe—it’s part of the platform’s strength. But we do need to be deliberate about how we teach it. Too often, explanations stop at “what” something is, without digging into “why” it matters.

That's even assuming you got an explanation in the first place that wasn't an "ask your systems programmer" or some other high level administrative gatekeeping cabal of the greybeard operator that is too scared of a new kid on the block wanting to learn how to IPL metal from scratch. That's scared me mostly away from working with most of this. I don't want to learn the code per se -- I want to work with the metal.
any chance you could add a dice roller and maybe an alias name feature to it? It would be great to play Shadorun anarchy or cyberpunk by post
HN is mostly formed by the UNIX culture that you get at many startups since the turn of century, hence why.

If anything is a good reflection of what I keep referring to you about the Microsoft image outside the traditional Microsoft shops, that posts from .NET team on social networks about how much performance is possible nowadays with .NET won't change.

Working on a polyglot agency with lots of such clients, I get to handle this problem on routinely basis.

And why another approach to market .NET is required instead of boasting about TechEmpower results.
(2003)

(But still good.)
At some point I was contacted to do a VMS port of Go, for the new x86 port (I have written the Go ports for arm64, sparc64, and for Solaris). In the end it all fizzled out because they couldn't arrange for some sort of license for me such that I would actually be able to run VMS.
There is a lot to be said for the academic tradition of only using an acronym/abbreviation after you have first used the complete term.
I think the idea of AI wiping out humanity suddenly is a bit far fetched. AI will have total control of human relationships and fertility through means so innocuous as entertainment. It won't have to wipe us. It will have minor trouble keeping us alive without inconveniencing us too much. And the reason to keep humanity alive is that biologically eveloved intelligence is rare and disposing of it without very important need would be a waste of data.
> And now most of those hobbists are going back to commercial licenses

It seems to be specifically the "hobbyists" that are also taking VC investment money for their "hobby project". It's pretty clear what's driving these decisions: VC's are not okay with a bootstrapped, penny-pinching business focusing on specialized support or custom development (which is the successful RedHat model), they want an early chance at really outsized returns.
Basically a little bit yes. Especially for an entity located in US and with strong links to the basic government.

But in the case of secure boot, this is worse, because Microsoft is just a "software" editor. But its root certificate and probably a few random others are distributed in countless of devices produced by manufacturers unrelated to them, but also, a few number of software distributors will also have subkeys to be able to sign their os/software. All of that, with zero transparency.

And in the end, if I buy a Lenovo laptop, to have Linux OS running on it, there is no reason and no trust to have my OS be signed by Microsoft, that has the key to run whatever they want on my laptop. Think about it and you will see that it makes no sense at all, if you don't trust Microsoft for your OS, to have to trust them for ensuring a secure boot...
Maybe even better, the fact that an issue like that is still plaguing the country today, maybe even worse than at that point in time.
Billionaire's take. Plutocracy works like that.
Many applications work like that, particularly ones made between 2000 and 2010. Operating systems have whole stacks of SDKs and libraries dedicated to that exact behavior (e.g., CloudKit in OS X).
talk about zero nuance,
people here started comparing to concentration camps, and now you are at death camps

just a quick reminder, the ghettos which had far better living conditions than concentration camps (not death camps), had people living on 180 calories a day and ended with more than a half a million dead

so please, proportions, this is an insult to history
Missreading my emphasis.....Globisation ....I thought....refered to the creaping take over of "multinational" corporations
consolodating whole industrys under one companys rule....locking out small businesses...like mine
so ending the competion that realy boils down to makeing it easyer for BTB to buy from the giant multi national, but use my(and other) small businesses just to get that 3'rd quote, with no intent to purchase from me, is a good thing
The supposed efficiencies in "economys of scale" are false, and wink wink, refer to the efficiency
of extracting profits from a captured market, rather that the localisation of economys, which actualy stregthen comunitys.
Problem with trump, is that, some of what he is doing, resonates strongly with actual local comunities, and the possitive effects there, could be quick and profound.Underestimating this, is a big mistake, if you are opposed to his other, shall we say......initiatives.
Don't forget about encapsulation, there's most likely a lot of functions that aren't relevant outside the module.
Does not. Do you know my requirements? This is actually in a time critical path.
Brilliant. Competence. Why can't we have that. A much smarter approach to tariffs
>This isn’t hypothetical. This is happening now, in real-world workflows.

Yes, thars a part of why AI has its bad rep. It has uses to streamline workflow but people are treating it like an oracle. When it very very very clearly is not.

Worse yet, people are just being lazy with it. It's the equi talent of googling a topic and pasting the lede of the Wikipedia article. Which is tasteless, but still likely to be more right than an unfiltered LLM output
Just wait until the vibe coders use an LLM to decide which data in a merge conflict it likes better.
Back in the day that letter was relevant we used to sell little tools via ads on magazines like BYTE, Dr Dobbs Journal and co, occasionally get nice money out of it.

Also in the early BSD/Linux days, there were distributors like Walnut Creek, Amiga had Fish Disks, and so forth, some money could eventually go back to tool writers.

It isn't only about VC money.
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I think that finding and fixing this many vulns is a worthwhile achievement, no matter how they did it. But it does detract from the quality of the article that they are pushing CoPilot so heavily.
> Consuming and training on the whole internet doesn't make you smarter than the average intelligence of the internet.

This is only true as long as you are not able to weigh the quality of a source. Just like getting spam in your inbox may waste your time, but it doesn't make you dumber.
Well, it's part of being a high tariff country. Not all developing countries are high tariff, though until yesterday all high tariff countries were developing world (defined broadly; Brazil's a notable example of an upper-end developing country with high tariffs, say).
When they talk about trade deficits do they take into account tourism and other cross-border services?

Or is it just goods, and in that case why focus on goods?
Strange. I, as a UK citizen, don't seem to buy almost any physical USA goods at all.
I think of a lot of thing in terms of distributions, and I think the how-much-people-value-quality distribution is not that much different.

On the right side, you have the minority of connoisseurs. And on the left, there is a minority who really don't care at all. And then the middle majority who can tell bad from good, but not good from great.
I think you are deeply disconnected from manufacturing if you think most of the companies in the value chain have CEO making millions.

Most of the intermediaries are SME. Despite what you might believe from the media, SMEs are the heart of the economy for most actual people. Their share of jobs is far higher than their impact on GDP and they have neither the means nor the know how to optimise their supply chain like large corporations.

Most SMEs CEO earn less than a software engineer. There is absolutely no way they can take the hit without passing it to customers.
You can never get everything you want. Most programming jobs in NL don't pay much more than this. If you want to get paid what you're really worth, you need to work as a freelancer, but the tax service has just ruined that market.

And the advantage of this job is that I know I'll be working on things I love, they really want and appreciate me (if financially not quite as much as I'd like), and maybe I can push for change from the inside. Or maybe I'll leave once the freelance market picks up again. It's not like I'll be married to them.
> It was like stepping into the future.

More like stepping into the past with things that the Mac, Amiga and NeXT machines could do out-of-the-box in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I mean, 8.3 file names? Seriously? Who thought that these could be "user friendly"?
There are valuable things out there other than "physical goods".
Please leave AI slop out of the comments section. Thanks.
A long time ago, Britain was the dominant economic power in the world.

Britain had a massive trade deficit with India. It imported far more from India than it exported to India.

But what Britain did was import massive amounts from India and made high value goods at home and provided high value services that couldn't be provided elsewhere.

Should it have flipped the other way? In 1800, should Britain have suddenly shifted gears and started massively exporting to India in order to balance the trade?

Sure, India was a colony and not a mere trading partner, so no need to argue about that. But the US is also an empire that has bases around the world and has many countries in an economic chokehold. The situation is similar in a modern context since official colonization is kind of gone. The US takes in lower value products from around the world and sells them back to the original country at a higher price due to some sort of added value.

Should America do the opposite? Should we drop all of our high value scientific and medical research, drop our engineering, and go all in on making t-shirts to balance the trade deficit? Because we very well could do this. We could steal away the fine industry of Cambodia and Bangladesh and have them buy all our t-shirts and balance the deficit pretty quickly. But is that a long term benefit?

Cambodia and Bangladesh are countries that can't really afford to buy massive amounts of American high tech exports or foods. But they're essentially colonies that export goods to other countries, and through accumulating wealth through that development, more people can afford to buy American high tech products. But we're demanding that these countries buy lots of American products now with money that they don't have. The only way to balance that is to make things they can afford. Which means low value items.
Can someone explain to me how the US can reshore manufacturing without dramatically lower their standard of living? Maybe they can subsidize some essential industries but I can’t see a path to do it for everything.
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Back then, he was not advocating for what Trump is doing now. Simple as that. So, no.
A program invoking some other the program that the user themself consciously have installed on their system (and put into the PATH) is not a security risk per se, it's literally UNIX Way™ working as intended.
The current actions very much suggest otherwise that this administration cares about the first amendment.