skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker, k8s, Terraform etc are nice. I make extensive use of them too. But in my opinion they can't be used for everything, because mutable infrastructure is a reality of the world that must be accounted for at some point. For example, at my employer we have on-prem k3s clusters running on bare metal servers. Chef is a perfect tool to manage those, because they are by their nature not something we can treat as stateless, immutable configurations.

It seems to me that this is kind of like abstraction levels in programming. If you can use a high level language with lots of powerful tools, you do. But some people have to live in the world of C or even assembly, because (as James Mickens said) you can't just place a Lisp book on top of an x86 chip and hope it learns about lambda calculus by osmosis. I view IaC tools in the same way: if you can use Terraform or Docker, great! But someone has to use lower level tools to provide the environment in which those things exist. And that's why people shouldn't look at Chef (or other similar tools) as outdated, any more than assembly is outdated just because Lisp exists. They still very much have a strong use case that won't ever go away.
I really like Sourcehut, but Drew's (fairly) constant social/political posts and opinions drive me away from ever using Sourcehut. I feel like he's one or two years away from rage quitting everything and the service going defunct.

Yes, Mark Z is incredibly wealthy and has a massive net-worth. I'm not going to cry about it and compare myself to it.
More countries should do that
The conflict is the potential waste of tax money, if it does not work as advertised.
VSCode – March 2025 (version 1.99)
Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market
Python - new (34 years old), shiny thing.
I sort of knew the story, but the way Gates presents it in his article makes it pretty blunt. There is no contrition; rather it is a story of glorious success, a story of hard work to be proud of, all started by the lie. In fact, the lie is presented as the nucleating event, as positive thing that spurred them to turn the lie into truth.

To me it felt consonant with the ethics of Harvard, and more saliently, the fact that their founding event was a lie seems consonant with the trajectory of the company. The summary of the book makes it sound like the real title is "A Glorious Life", and I would expect no contrition about DR DOS, Netscape, and other Microsoft ruthlessness under Gates.

(To be fair, I loathe Microsoft and their products, which help me accomplish my goals the way a spoon helps me cut a steak, and I have never seen Gates as virtuous. So I am hardly unbiased.)
I wonder what these ‘leaders’ tell their family and children - to stand up to bullies or to succumb to them. All those who paid to the inauguration ‘ceremony’ and just capitulating. I always wondered how and why dictators and Nazism took hold. I have the answer now. All the Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerbergs in the world allowed it to happen by I wonder what these ‘leaders’ tell their family and children - to stand up to bullies or to succumb to them. All those who paid to the inauguration ‘ceremony’ and just capitulating. I always wondered how and why dictators and Nazism took hold. I have the answer now. All the Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerbergs in the world allowed it to happen by I wonder what these ‘leaders’ tell their family and children - to stand up to bullies or to succumb to them. All those who paid to the inauguration ‘ceremony’ and just capitulating. I always wondered how and why dictators and Nazism took hold. I have the answer now. All the Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerbergs in the world allowed it to happen by consolidating power and prioritizing profit over humanity. They’ve created a world where influence is bought, and the voices of the people are drowned out by the loudest wallets. These tech giants and billionaires have shaped a society where the strong get stronger, the vulnerable get weaker, and moral integrity is sacrificed for personal gain. Their silence, or worse, their complicity, fuels the rise of those who prey on fear and division. So, yes, the seeds of authoritarianism were sown by those who could’ve made a stand but chose to benefit from the chaos instead.
Advocating for the end of a state is not the same as advocating for the eradication of a people.

Someone can firmly believe that the existence of the state of Israel is a mistake that should be corrected while still also believing that the Jewish people have every right to their own existence and freedom of religion.
Another potential option is to allow for multiple "active" states (everything in view). If the content is long enough, it can kinda work out. As you transition from one section to the next, both headers would be "active". For short content it would highlight too much though.

snake-y example: https://zquestclassic.com/releases/2.55.0/
TL;DR we're cooked
Interesting. Internally we made a similar tool for performance testing applications, including fault and latency simulation of dependencies. It also includes analysis of resource consumption and whether performance and/or resource consumption have increased or decreased.

This is now the second time a similar tool has popped up here at HN, maybe we should open source it.
If the argument is that it's not a big deal because it doesn't even work, then why collectively are we even bothering? Either it works and is something for reactionaries to fear and is effective social pressure, or it's a bunch of ineffective sound and fury that gives cover to your right wing aunt to tell stories about how "someone she knows" got fired for telling a joke. If it works, then let's own it completely, with all its flaws. If it doesn't work, then why bother at all? If it doesn't even work, then why try to defend the practice? Do we want it to work? Do we want it to be an effective form of social control?
My Ayn Rand "unpopular opinion" is that Atlas Shrugged is a wordier, less interesting The Fountainhead.

Wouldn't suggest anyone read Atlas Shrugged, saying this as someone who also read Peikoff's "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand"

Just read The Fountainhead and imagine that with trains and the railroad.

"Anthem" is a short read and also pretty solid.
This is Tekken erasure.
It would be more on brand for Trump to cut interest rates himself. (I know he doesn’t have the power, legally. He doesn’t care.)
Well. Yeah, if they made great decisions like Capcom did, the adventure genre may have been more prominent to this day. I mean, Capcom even developed the Ace Attorney games which are themselves visual novels/adventure games.

If you look back at my post though I acknowledged that they would have attempted to modernize had the merger not occurred. And I never said they were doomed, I said they were in deep trouble regardless. So I'm not sure what people are arguing with me about here other than semantics.
(For those who only read titles: 60% is not the risk for recession of US Economy)

Recession for the US economy is virtually certain if these tariffs stay.

Trump folds easily when there is push back that makes him look bad. This makes me think that there is double digit percent change that Trump cancels or lowers tariffs significantly before they come into effect (and declares he won for no reason).

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JPMorgan's analysts found that this week's announcement, on the heels of earlier tariff increases, raises the US average tax rate "by roughly 22%-pts to an estimated 24%," equivalent to roughly 2.4% of the total value of all goods and services produced within the country, or GDP.

"A hike of this size would be on par with the largest tax hike since WWII," the JPMorgan research note reads. Its effects could be magnified "through retaliation, a slide in US business sentiment, and supply chain disruptions."
Yes, not everyone with interest in games and programming was a degenerate like me. With that being said, there sure were a lot of us.
When you're talking about due process, "what about these other people who got due process?" is a reasonable response.

Whataboutism would be something like, "what about Nazi Germany, where even more people got sent to foreign prison camps without due process: look, the US isn't so bad!".
La Nona Ora at least exhibits highly realistic technique. There's no advanced technique with the banana. To me, that one is just an example of an artist trolling people.
I have the perverse urge to forego even the board, and just make this a circuit sculpture.
Nah, as a parent of a high achieving daughter who had higher GPA/ACT scores than this teen, I can tell you the issue is that a high percentage of students who apply to places like Stanford and MIT also have perfect scores. A 4.0 GPA 34 ACT doesn't mean much anymore. My daughter was waitlisted or rejected by every Ivy+ engineering dept she applied to. (Granted she might have gotten in had she applied for general admission; applying directly to Engineering is doubly-hard. She ultimately accepted a full scholarship at a good "second tier" engineering school and graduated debt free, which is maybe better.) There's just so much competition these days, especially from foreign students who have spent most of their lives perfecting test taking and spend considerable money on tutoring for their applications/essays as well.
Will be interesting to compare the API to what Modular has [1] with Mojo.

1. https://docs.modular.com/mojo/stdlib/gpu/
Theory is still needed if you want to understand things like variational inference (which is in turn needed to understand things like diffusion models). It’s just like physics - you need math theories to understand things like quantum mechanics, because otherwise it might not make sense.
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It's almost 2 chips. One is just a USB-serial IC! But you didn't count the SD card, so you're up to 3 again.

Total pin count is so low on this, I'm very tempted to make a dead bug version.
So, let me see what I think I understand here:

1. AI models are good at Cæsar-cypher transposition, because it occurs often enough in training models for certain values of the cypher offset. Outside those values, AI doesn't handle the transformations well.

2. Somehow AI models perform this cypher also within high ranges of Unicode, because the characters are encoded as three tokens each, of which the last one encodes the same difference as between alphabetic letters, and so the first two tokens get discarded as irrelevant, meaning that by sheer chance the alphabet maps perfectly via Cæsar-cypher (with a two-token offset) to a specific range of Unicode characters reserved for Byzantine music notation.

3. This is easy to understand for one AI model, because its explicable by chance that the offset between the alphabet and Byzantine music notation should coincide perfectly with two less-significant tokens. It's harder to understand why this works in more than one AI model, though.
It doesn't seem as popular, but I've found Grok to treat you the least like a child and provide good answers. Especially with more complicated tasks.
We must have fundamentally different ideas of what it means for something to be a good explanation. It takes more than gesturing toward the hypothetical possibility of acting due to unacknowledged motives for it to count as a best, or even good, explanation.

I used to follow a lot of RSS feeds and the political blogosphere when that was a thing. And one of the best was Brendan Nyhan, and he had a routine segment criticizing op-ed sections for fabricating internal monologues of political actors, making assumptions about internal states of mind that could never be disproved and proceeding to analysis that depended upon such unfalsifiable speculation.

I think it was a good principle against which to judge media accountability, and I would generalize by saying that such speculation involves relaxing the norms that usually apply to critical thinking writ large. At the level of genre, this category of speculating I would say does not enjoy default legitimacy due to its departure from normal critical thinking principles relating to substantiation and a fundamental lack of interest in responding to arguments on their merits.
Reads good. May be I should give it a try / Python
There's an American monetary economist living in Poland who does a good job of explaining things. "Econ Lessons" on YT.
> that's not what _humanity_ is about

I've not spent too long thinking on the following, so I'm prepared for someone to say I'm totally wrong, but:

I feel like the services economy can be broadly broken down into: pleasure, progress and chores. Pleasure being poetry/literature, movies, hospitality, etc; progress being the examples you gave like science/engineering, mathematics; and chore being things humans need to coordinate or satisfy an obligation (accountants, lawyers, salesmen).

In this case, if we assume AI can deal with things not in the grey zone, then it can deal with 'progress' and many 'chores', which are massive chunks of human output. There's not much grey zone to them. (Well, there is, but there are many correct solutions; equivalent pieces of code that are acceptable, multiple versions of a tax return, each claiming different deductions, that would fly by the IRS, etc)
Who would have thought ...
I didn’t make a dead bug version so you’d be first :). Microsd-to-sd adapters make good solderable microsd holders.
I think it would be cute to also use 8 pin SPI flash chip instead of SD card for storage.
Do it!

I am not an artist or a sculptor so I did not dare try
The real effect of congestion charges when there isn't good other options is whoever enacts them is voted out of office and anything they might have done to give people other options is scrapped as well. NYC can get away with them in the dense parts because there are enough options that the people who vote there mostly use transit and so they don't pay the price anyway and thus don't care.
2.5 has been amazing for programming. I just send it entire repo as context when I am lazy and then ask it for entire modified files back with the (medium sized) change. It almost always works! I wish to either start using cursor or some vscode extension to do this from ide itself.
Which non-capitalist environments?

When that question was more easily answered you could probably have pointed to macrophages.
I recognize there is something hard describe about how "it's not the same", but:

https://eater.net/shop
Important context that's come to light since then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle
i mean... what would any "mere mortals" use the code for other than to directly compete with Gumroad?
The thing missed in all these arguments is a large variety in life expectancy between states, and demographic controls. The states all have more or less the same problems and non problems with their healthcare system, so it cannot really explain that. And I'm pretty sure levels of car dependence won't explain a large part of it either since most states are largely car dependent.

Iirc (phone post) japanese Americans have higher life expectancy than Japanese, or at least in the ballpark.

Maybe some cultures/lifestyles, like whatever they are doing in the South, just suck. OTOH, maybe we should allow people to make choices. I'm pretty sure I'd live longer if I did interval sprints instead of reading HN, but that's a tradeoff I am willing to make.
Maybe GP means country as in “Bundesland”, like how British people call their regions “countries“
To be fair, we don't actually know how the human mind works.

The most sure things we know is that it is a physical system, and that does feel like something to be one of these systems.
Yes, but sadly that cannot run modern Linux
This is the 2nd or 3rd time in the last few weeks I've seen this person recommended. Must be something to that.
The US has also exercised eminent domain historically. We can do it. American cities weren’t all government property before Uncle Sam put highways through many of them. It might be wise to revisit this for other improvements.

When the Chinese government exercises eminent domain, my understanding is that many people want their homes to be targeted because of the (comparatively) lucrative payouts. Cash neutralizes concerns 1, 2, and 3.

Now that people in California have held their homes long enough, buying them out is a lot more expensive. There are better ways to make the numbers work, though.
Thanks for the tip. I tested it and this also works with Gemini and ChatGPT.

The only drawback I see is that it requires enough free space in the context window to duplicate the visual part of the chat.
One of the major reasons why there are so many low effort gotchas is that her message is so emotionally uncomfortable for many. Facing what is legitimate in her criticisms is hard. And so people only consider her views long enough to come up with easily rejected caricatures. The arguments that they then use to reject those caricatures show how they did not actually process her point of view.

But this is not just a problem that faces non-Objectivists. For example consider how Ayn Rand rejected the scientific evidence for smoking causing harm. She never had a logical argument. What she had was such an overwhelming emotional commitment to smoking being good that she would latch on to any plausible sounding argument against smoking being bad.

For a more current example, look at Alex Epstein's arguments on global warming. It quickly becomes apparent that he has such a strong emotional alignment with the great good caused by fossil fuels that he easily accepts any argument, no matter how flawed, that they might also cause harm. Compounding the trouble, global warming presents the exact kind of tragedy of the commons that undermines the economic theories by which Objectivism should lead to an economic utopia. This fact adds to the emotional dynamics for ignoring evidence that reality doesn't actually work in the ways that Ayn Rand claimed.
Might not be what you meant, but German uses the same word for "state (federal subdivision)" and "country", known as "Land". In contrast, "Staat" refers chiefly to the administrative apparatus (implicitly of some country).
That depends on your vantage point.

If you accept the mainstream Palestinian viewpoint, i.e. the one that endorses Hamas and the Simchat Torah massacre, there is no such thing as too many, because every Palestinian death furthers the jihadist cause of demonizing Israel.

If you accept the mainstream Israeli viewpoint, all of these deaths were unnecessary because they directly resulted from an unprovoked onslaught against innocent civilians, and all of the casualties could have been avoided but for the Gazan misadventure of October 7th.

I'm not sure which camp GP subscribes to, however.
USA doesn't have nobility like Europe does, nobility was the original definition of upper class.
That's a vague and unconvincing chicken little argument for not making models using the wealth of open and for-purchase data that's available and understanding the limitations.
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You have the cause backward. Induced demand is the observation that because people cannot get someplace they already want to go they are going something else instead.

The whole point of a city is all the things you can do. If you don't want to go someplace then what are you doing in a city - there are plenty of nice cheap places to live in very rural areas where you can sit in your house going nowhere. Thus cities need to build infrastructure to such that there is no induced demand and the people there can do what they want.

Note that I didn't specify what they build. Most cities should be building metro systems not roads.
Not sure I understand your comment. Tekken was a fighting game, not a beat-em-up? Unless we're counting Tekken Force Mode from Tekken 3.

Fighting games made the 2D->3D jump just fine, although they kinda exist in parallel now, since some developers really like flexing their sprite chops in 2D fighters.
Good points, but the other part of this is that back in "our time" (we may not be the same age - I was in University 1999-2005, but regardless) there was...basically no other choice.

If you wanted to work in CS, you had to get a degree. Then you'd get a shitty entry level job. Then eventually after a couple of years you'd be an "intermediate" engineer, have a good enough salary to live on your own (that's right - up until this point, you probably still needed to have roommates, if you are in a major city), take vacations, start putting in for retirement, etc.

Maybe if you were in Silicon Valley and already saw the dot com boom you saw another path. But most of the world didn't think like that.

Over the last several years you instead saw people go into CS thinking their first job will be 150k/year from a big tech, they'll be a senior within 3 years, and start working on their FIRE plan. And meanwhile they're surrounded by friends and peers who are either influencers, content creators, or have startup exit stories from the ZIRP era.

You and I remember endless work and drudgery. Those in our shoes today instead feel constant anxiety like they're already behind, they're not good enough, like maybe they missed their chance in the gold rush, and the only solution is to hurry up and dig faster.

I feel like that's another reason for the increasing # of shortcuts people are taking with their education.
> It's akin to looking at Stack Overflow and copying the first result, or going through a tutorial that tells you what to write without ever explaining it.

But if you're not digesting the why of the technique vis a vis the how of what is being done, then not only are you gaining nothing but a check mark in a todo list item's box, but you're quite likely introducing bugs into your code.

I used SO yesterday (from a general DDG search) to help me learn how to process JSON with python. I built up my test script from imports to processing a string to processing a file to dump'ing it to processing specific elements to iterating through it a couple of different ways.

Along the way, I made some mistakes, which were very helpful in leveling-up my python skills. At the end, not only did my script work, but I had gained a level of skill at my craft for a very specific use-case.

There are no shortcuts to up-leveling oneself, my friend, not in any endeavor, but especially not in programming, which may well be the most difficult job on the planet, given its ubiquity and overall lack of quality.
For an example, look at the Fox News home page today

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:42jq5uvg6p2shi5gqifor22e/po...

Barely mentions the stock market crash.
And privacy in Rust is load-bearing for encapsulating unsafe operations from safe code, so it's not just a nice-to-have, its fundamental to the language.
And interesting comparison between Web search vs Gen AI.

Web search seems divergent: the same keyword leads to many different kinds of results.

Gen AI seems convergent: different keywords that share the same semantics lead to the same results.

Arguably, convergence is a feature, not a bug. But on the macroscopic level, it is a self reinforcing loop and may lead to content degeneracy. I guess we always need the extraordinary human artists to give AI the fresh ideas. The question is the non-extraordinary artists might no longer have an easy path to become extraordinary. Same trap is happening to junior developers right now.
Valuing Palestinian lives is not supporting terrorism.