skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. At least you got a good MSDN CD in 1999 with tons of example code and all the info you'd want on Windows.

Now we get: {{ Fill in the Description }}

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storageb...
is this still true? I know this was the case in the past, but even in 2025?
This is great timing. I am in the process of designing an event/workflow driven application and nothing I looked at felt quite right for my use case. This feels really promising. Temporal was close but it just felt like not the perfect fit. I like the open source license a lot it gives me more confidence designing an application around it. The conditionals are also great. I have been looking for something just like CEL and despite my research I had never heard of it. It is exactly how I want my expressions implemented, I was on the verge of trying to build something like this myself.
Torrent sites deliver the movie in its original form. AI models maintain abstract descriptions of the content as individually-unrecognizable high-dimensional representations in latent space.

Over the years we've spent a lot of time on this and similar sites questioning the sanity of a legal system that makes math illegal, and, well, that's all this is. Math.

To the extent the model reproduces images from Indiana Jones and the others, it is because these multibillion-dollar franchises are omnipresent cultural icons. The copyright holder has worked very hard to make that happen, and they have been more than adequately repaid for their contribution to our shared culture. It's insane to go after an AI model for simply being as aware of that imagery and as capable of reproducing it as a human artist would be.

If the model gives you infringing material as a prompt response, it's your responsibility not to use that material commercially, just as if you had tasked a human artist with the same vague requirement and received a plagiarized work product in return.
Is this how TSMC relocates to the US?
Ironically, the models of today can read an article better than some of us.
> But at the same time the US „antiracist“ campaign itself looks just like (reverse) racism in many case.

And what do you propose instead? I'm not seeing the EU doing any better than the US with their lowest socioeconomic class groups.

Talking points are nifty. But, at some point, you have to propose an actual solution that does something.

Bigotry exists. What are you going to do about it? It seems that the most popular answers right now vary from "Not a goddamn thing" to "Fuck those bastards."

(In reality, I'm pessimistic that there is much that can be actively done. The bigots who threw slurs at my immigrant ancestors didn't so much get better as much as just change epithets and targets. Sadly, so it goes.)
The welfare state isnt predicated on a pyramid shape but the continued growth of the stock market and endless GDP growth certainly is.

>infinite growth, but growth is what is responsible for lifting large portions of the population out of poverty

It's overstated. The preconditions for GDP growth - namely lack of war and corruption are probably more responsible than the growth itself.
Nah. It was a totally different world. These companies were competing around proprietary advantages at the OS or hardware level that became less and less relevant over time. HP self-immolated itself and you were left with IBM and Sun.

Only IBM survived, and that’s because it won key contracts in the 60s and 70s to run verticals and business systems, and essentially leveraged mainframe financing and legacy contracts to cross-sell everything. On the tech side, they parlayed that into a sustainable business by virtualizing everything and sharing the Power platform. They get some new business for AIX, but it’s mostly that legacy business.

A good chunk of DEC’s and Compaq’s Business was running terminal (as in tty) operations for mainframes. That went endangered with NT 3.5 and extinct with NT 4. As Linux improved, Intel was good enough. ARM is doing to Intel what Intel did to everyone.
> F# and Age of Empires

;-) I have never disliked MS games, or Xbox, or Game Pass.

I also dislike Teams, but Microsoft has integration, which means that it works with Outlook's calendar, with Office documents, etc. It's mediocre but full-featured.

I wonder what would have happened if Google Docs had evolved into a credible MS Office competitor? It's also amazing that Skype (and Hangouts/Meet for that matter) had such a head start over Zoom.
I think we have all grown up with pervasive strong IP rights, and most people have come to internalize it as a matter of fairness or an almost natural right, rather than a practical tool designed to incentivize creation.

And then even if you get past that, the world is filled with lots of IP we love, and it is easy to imagine weakened IP rights taking that away, but quite difficult to imagine what weakened IP rights might buy us.

I do have some hope still that this generative AI stuff will give a glimpse into the value of weaker IP rights and maybe inspire more people to think critically about it. But I think it is an uphill battle. Or maybe it will take younger people growing up on generative AI to notice.
Not only are the poor going to bear the brunt of these tariffs, but this has been tried multiple times before, and failed. As in, catastrophic failure.

"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

People should check out all the tariff insanity before and during the period of The Great Depression. That includes the justifications given.
The media FUD around top tax brackets continues to astound me. I'm seeing articles saying that taxes will be hiked for "the richest americans." And then you look into it and they're actually talking about the highest earners. Which is COMPLETELY different from the "richest" people. And then there's this, where the headline reads "millionaires" and in reality it's people earning over 1m per year... basically the opposite of the first scenario.

Are journalists really just this stupid? Do they not understand the difference between wealth and income?
This reminds me of the guy who said he wanted computers to be as reliable as TVs. Then smart TVs were made and TV quality dropped to satisfy his goal.
This has a weird amount of polish for what it is. I'm impressed.

I'd like to hear more about the impl.
Yes, exactly. US. Every millennial has Gmail, idk what GenZ does, probably also Gmail. GenX and Boomers probably split between Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, and a few AOLs - and that covers probably 95% of Americans.

It was almost embarrassing for me, I have to admit — especially times when I’d been clever about it and set up, say, searsaccount@myname.com as a forwarder, and the cashier at Sears needed my email address. They once asked me oh, do you work for Sears?
This is actually a pretty compelling reason for me to suggest that my company not hire consultants/contractors to write code for us. A ton of our dev budget is already spent on untangling edge-case bugs from poorly written/understood code.
> For now, this is a rough comparison that helps us keep AI energy use in perspective - especially next time someone says chatbot use is causing an energy disaster.

The main concern isn't energy use from AI, it's how companies are getting that energy, and how much their emissions are increasing due to it. [Google says its total greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50% over five years, mostly due to electricity that powers AI data centers](https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-inte...). [Chevron to build gas plants to power data centers amid AI boom](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-partners-wit...). [Electric utility companies are building more power plants that will burn natural gas to meet demands of a data center construction boom](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/1...). Considering this, the argument this piece makes falls apart rather quickly.
There is published research demonstrating the effect, but sure, snark your way into your own confirmation bias. Why not?

The idea that humans in general actually do any thinking is demonstrably false.
Chip War by Chris Miller is a great read, although not specifically Intel.
> I hope we're wrong about a lot of this, and AGI turns out to either be impossible, or much less useful than we think it will be.

For me personally, I hope that we do get AGI. I just don't want it by 2027. That feels way too fast to me. But AGI 2070 or 2100? That sounds much more preferable.
The difference is that between a considered critique and unhinged venting.
Shifting goalposts usually (at least in my understanding) refers to changing something without valid justification that was explicitly set in a previous step (subjective wording I realize - this is off the top of my head). In an adversarial context it would be someone attempting to gain an advantage by subtly changing a premise in order to manipulate the conclusion.

An incomplete list, in contrast, is not a full set of goalposts. It is more akin to a declared lower bound.

I also don't think it to applies to the case where the parties are made aware of a change in circumstances and update their views accordingly.

> You feel that LLMs are not intelligent. I feel that they may be intelligent.

Weirdly enough I almost agree with you. LLMs have certainly challenged my notion of what intelligence is. At this point I think it's more a discussion of what sorts of things people are referring to when they use that word and if we can figure out an objective description that distinguishes those things from everything else.

> Without a decent definition of what intelligence is, the entire argument is silly.

I completely agree. My only objection is to the notion that goalposts have been shifted since in my view they were never established in the first place.
I am going to keep this post bookmarked to send to everyone who says "AI art isn't plagiarism, they're just using the corpus to learn from the same way human artists do"
> I'm NOT trying to maintain my old 2002 Honda Civic

My 2004 Pontiac Vibe is the newest car I've owned -- drove a few GM cars and one Nissan into 200-300kmi territory before that. Saved me tens of thousands of dollars and got me where I needed to go.

Suppose that's consistent with me typing this on an old upgraded MBP.
> Building a personal brand is never more important

the low-hanging fruit is to create content/apps to help developers create their personal brands through content/apps.
When working with AI for software engineering assistance, I use it mainly to do three things -

1. Do piddly algorithm type stuff that I've done 1000x times and isn't complicated. (Could take or leave this, often more work than just doing it from scratch)

2. Pasting in gigantic error messages or log files to help diagnose what's going wrong. (HIGHLY recommend.)

3. Give it high level general requirements for a problem, and discuss POTENTIAL strategies instead of actually asking it to solve the problem. This usually allows me to dig down and come up with a good plan for whatever I'm doing quickly. (This is where real value is for me, personally.)

This allows me to quickly zero in on a solution, but more importantly, it helps me zero in strategically too with less trial and error. It let's me have an in-person whiteboard meeting (as I can paste images/text to discuss too) where I've got someone else to bounce ideas off of.

I love it.
What’s cool about MSFT and APPLE is that there will never be another company like those two. They are true trailblazers in so many ways.
In "In the Beginning was the Command Line" Neal Stephenson used a car analogy to describe consumer operating systems, I always thought his analogy was pretty apt:

To paraphrase him a little bit:

Microsoft sells Family Station Wagons. Spare parts are cheap and plentiful and if they breakdown there is a huge network of dealerships with mechanics on staff.

Apple sells Luxury Sedans - nicer to drive than the station wagons but spare parts are uncommon and the oil changes are expensive.

Linux is represented by a group of volunteer hackers organized by consensus giving away tanks for free made from sophisticated space aged materials.

The observation he makes is 90% of people go straight to the biggest dealership and buy a station wagon without ever looking at any of the other options. They will make a bunch of excuses like "I Don't know how to maintain a tank" and get angry when told "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either", in the end their argument boils down to "can't you see everyone else is buying a station wagon"...
The TVs prior to the 1970s/solid state era were not very reliable. They needed repair often enough that "TV repairman" was a viable occupation. I remember having to turn on the TV a half hour before my dad got home from work so it would be "warmed up" so he could watch the evening news. We're still at that stage of AI.
Never ever? Should I start moving away from my .li domain?
An interesting story!

I've also had an AI cheater during phone screen, but they were pretty clumsy... A question of form "You mentioned you used TechX on your resume, tell me more what you did with it" was answered with a long-winded but generic description of TechX and zero information about their project or personal contribution.

Another thing that I can take away from that is "take home project" is no longer a good idea in AI times - the simple ones that candidates can do in reasonable time is too easy for AI, and if we do realistic system, it's too hard for honest candidates.
> That kind of job existing in the first place is the problem.

Yes, that was my initial reaction, too, when I first saw these people. I felt superior, in My Western World we didn't have jobs like that. We did Bigger and More Important Things. This job was surely an artifact, a silly attempt to reduce unemployment.

But after living in Japan for a while I realized that these jobs actually make a lot of sense. Those people pay attention and really do make sure that people do not get run over by trucks. They direct traffic, they make it easier for truck drivers, they make it easier and safer for people walking on the sidewalk as well. As a side effect, they also watch for unexpected things: if it's a roadwork site, theft, or even things like traffic cones toppling over, or safety lights not working correctly.

It really improves things for everyone.
> Is this (A) mistyping the function open in module `std::io::file` or is it (B) the global/local `file` is missing from the current scope?

D uses a spell checker for undefined identifiers, and the dictionary is all the identifiers in scope. It has about a 50% success rate in guessing which identifier was meant, which is quite good.

> Also, "io", "file", "random" etc are commonly used variables, so the issue with shadowing is real.

If the same identifier is accessible through multiple lookup paths, an error is issued. If a local variable shadows a variable in an outer scope, and error is issued.

We've developed this over several years, and it works quite well.

Path shortening can be done with:

alias open = file.open;

or:

import io: open;
> Understanding the technical aspects of a servo motor and how it works

I don't feel like the article explains that at all. They explain the control signal and what the servo does as a result. The "how" in between is completely missing though. How is that pulse translated? How does the feedback work? What are the safety mechanisms involved?
Absolutely, going to do a write up once some of the dust settles. The implementation is not perfect for sure, but I learned a whole lot doing it.
More than giant corporations make IP. What about independent artists making original art?
You seem to be responding to what you think I'm saying, not what I'm saying. As far as I know, "killing children" is not a dog-whistle. No one uses the words "killing children" to e.g., secretly express support for the Holocaust.
Title: Analyzing open-source bootloaders: Finding vulnerabilities faster with AI
Tailscale on my iPhone is unusable while connected in the background. The battery consumption reporting diagram is all 100% filled light blue bars, all attributed to Tailscale.

I’m using their MagicDNS feature with three domains and I think that’s the reason
Exactly. The idea of Indiana Jones, the adventurer archaeologist more at home throwing a punch than reading a book, is neither owned by nor unique to Lucasfilm (Disney). There is a ton of media out there featuring this trope character [1]. Yes, the trope is overwhelmingly associated with the image of Harrison Ford in a fedora within the public consciousness, but copyright does not apply to abstract ideas such as tropes.

Some great video games to feature adventurer archaeologists:

* NetHack (One of the best roles in the game)

* Tomb Raider series (Lara Croft is a bona fide archaeologist)

* Uncharted series (Nathan Drake is more of a treasure hunter but he becomes an archaeologist when he retires from adventuring)

* Professor Layton series

* La-Mulana series (very obviously inspired by Indiana Jones, but not derivative)

* Spelunky (inspired by La-Mulana)

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdventurerArchae...
Ok. Taking this argument completely in good faith, does it follow that they think no country should be allowed to have any sales tax? Or that it’s an act of economic oppression for any country to have a higher sales tax than our country does? I’m just confused, do they propose every country should abolish all their sales taxes to appease this strange and pretty novel point of view.

I feel like Trump or whoever is running this import tax show has lost the plot on what they’re trying to accomplish.
Similar thinking applies in other fields as well I am sure.
I mean those guys are allowed to fight back, too, it's fun to watch.
...and he's gone!
I've spent the last few weeks working on the backend, I completely forgot how much work I put into making it able to render enough unique monkeys. Mostly a custom implementation built around THREE.js InstancedMesh to add animations, and support egonomically instancing lots of small types of objects
> what exactly being owned is.

Thank you, this is beautifully put and very astute. Does a recipe, a culmination of a lifetime of experience, technique, trials, errors, and luck constitute a form of someone/thing's person-hood such that it can be Intellectual Property.
You can't really tax wealth, most of it is not liquid. What would it mean to "tax" your ownership of stock in a company, or a property (yes property taxes already exist but don't go to the federal gov - at least I don't think they do).

How would you "tax" Elon's ownership percentage of SpaceX for example? Would the federal government simply start owning SpaceX shares, some additional percentage each year? And how would this happen, Elon would simply start a new company in Peru, and sell SpaceX entirely to that new entity.
> The policies didn't help the groups they were supposedly about helping

Do you have any evidence?

> Much like a right-winger or a Christian at one of these universities.

So is the first quote not based on evidence, but based on your ideology? There's no reason any vulnerable minority shouldn't be protected, though 'right-wingers' and Christians (usually meaning conservative Christians) are hardly vulnerable in the US, even if they are a minority on many campuses. They rule the country and always have, have access to every job and privilege.
Your post was also popular in:

2017 (235 points, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498341

2016 (82 points, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378022

2015 (351 points, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886555
As for the roads example, which would go to my second point if I understand you correctly, I think the analogy is limited: roads aren't gate-kept by admissions committees for certain intangible criteria for who can ride on them, with an artificial limit on how many cars overall, while they receive federal funding. If that was happening, then you'd have a similar situation to what universities are doing.
These are the same people who say We can’t have socialism. Can’t have free stuff! There is no such thing as a free lunch, they’ll sagely add. But when it comes to the works and creations of the common folks, why, it’s an all you can eat buffet, and it’s a feeding frenzy. The future this will bring will be unstable and unpredictable. The time to regulate this is now.
Younger people with student loans, credit card balances, and good health might eventually become older people with retirement savings, investments, and poor health.
> the goal of this fluffy article is to promote positive domestic perceptions of the CIA

Or someone is just writing? Not everyone has an agenda.
You are still downplaying the effort of Wine massively. Wine is several millions lines of code compared to Proton and it isn't just "syscalls", its decades of trial and error and bugfixing making a mature codebase that Proton is based on. You might think only DXVK matters, just because you are one of the manchilds who buys these extremely hollow GPU-intensive soulless games at launch just to be disappointed every single time.

You just plain out refuse to see it, cuz you totally drank the kool aid.

Steamdeck have literally zero AAA-games compared to Nintendo, because thats the joy of owning a Steamdeck! Smearing diapers in Nintendos face and pirating their games like a true neckbeard, right?

Steam neckbeards are such manchilds. The "idea" of a Steamdeck sells more than the actual games and this is what this article proves. Sad, but true.

The catalog of games on Steam suck, objectively. Unpopular opinion maybe - to those that are addicted to browsing shitty new soulless games on Steam.
If by “several” orders of magnitude, you mean 3-5, then we might be there by 2030 or earlier.

https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-agi/
My rule has always been that once a shell script gets too complex, it's time to rewrite it in real language. This library is way, way beyond that threshold.

My recommendation for rewrite is "python with only stdlib". Using pip-installed libraries brings in the famous packaging problems, but you don't have to use it! Python's stdlib is fully "batteries included", and it has lots of useful things like ini file parser. And if your system has bash, it often has python as well, or at least it's easy to install. Things might get a bit more verbose, but they would be much more reliable and debuggable.
So what's the product they're promoting?
The other thing is that the second anyone even perceives an opinion to be "anti-AI" they bombard you with "people thought the printing press lowered intellect too!" Or radio or TV or video games, etc.

No one ever considers that maybe they all did lower our attention spans, prevent us from learning as well as we used to, etc. and now we are at a point we can't afford to keep losing intelligence and attention span
The final essay for my OSINT cert was to pick a side: critical thinking can/cannot be taught.
I know what you mean. It takes the satisfaction out of a certain class of problems knowing that you can just generate the solution.

On the other hand, most tasks aren't fun nor satisfying and frankly they are a waste of time, like realizing you're about to spend the afternoon recredentializing in some aspect of Webpack/Gradle/BouncyCastle/Next.js/Combine/x/y/z just to solve one minor issue. And it's pure bliss when the LLM knows the solution.

I think the best antidote to the upset in your comment is to build bigger and more difficult things. Save your expertise for the stuff that could actually use your expertise rather than getting stuck wasting it on pure time burn like we had to in the past.
The Authenticity Drought
Wasn't there someone who did a physical discrete logic implementation of the NAND to Tetris design?

I feel like that could be a good choice for someone doing this today because there's now a kind of a large ecosystem of resources for that design (not that it's inherently better somehow).