skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're half right.

On one hand, I don't see many of the modern services having years to decades of uptime. Clustering is also bolted onto many products while not available for most products. These were normal for OpenVMS deployments. Seems like a safer bet in that regard.

If people have $$$, which VMS requires for such goals, they can hire the type of sysadmins and programmers who can do the same in Nix' systems. The number of components matching VMS's prior advantages increases annually. Also, these are often open source with corresponding advantages for maintenance and extensions.

The other thing I notice is VMS systems appear to be used in constrained ways compared to how cloud companies use Linux. It might be more reliable because users stay on the happy path. Linux apps keep taking risks to innovate. FreeBSD is a nice compromise for people wanting more stability or reliability with commodity hardware.

Then, you have operating systems whose designs far exceed VMS in architectural reliability. INTEGRITY RTOS, QNX, and LynxOS-178B come to mind. People willing to do custom, proprietary systems are safer building on those.
I can't explain the exact link, but your repeated and vocal pro-AI stance in this thread feels connected to the way when you got called out for a simple and inconsequential mistake that any of us could make, you immediately doubled down on it all while the truth was a single Google search away.
Original copy of Boole's pamphlet describing his algebra for sale at auction
Out of curiosity, would you still need to pay the full tariff, if the cost of an item that was shifted to a token/smart contract, that only enabled a right to purchase, but reduce the device cost to like a dollar or shipping.

It’d be pretty cool if someone derived a legal smart contract solution. One could argue that, the tech enabled products are two things a digital service, and a manufactured product. Those costs could be potentially be seperated.

Then again, I know nothing ^_^
Hi David!

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It's about how radio control toy servos from the 1970s work. Annoyingly, those pre-computer dumb devices with no feedback output still dominate the low end of mechanical output devices.
Yo Google, Thanks for the AI Overview but Your Search Sucks Now
> Distribution of copyrighted material is prohibited.

Copying without distribution is also an exclusive right under copyright -- the one for which the whole area of law is named -- and, as such, prohibited without a license or a specific exception in law.

> Reading, watching, listening, etc, it is not.

To the extent that reading, watching, listening, etc. involves copying, and that copying is neither explicitly licensed nor implicitly licensed by, e.g., a sale of copy where reading, watching, listening, etc., by means that inherently involve such an act of copying is clearly an intended use, is effectively prohibited because of the unauthorized copying involved.

> A copyright holders tort is with the infringing distributor, not the end user.

It is often with both, though the infringing distributor is (1) generally more likely to have ability to pay which makes tort action worth pursuing, (2) generally likely to be involved in more acts subject to liability increasing the tort liability, making tort action more worth pursuing, (3) less likely to be seen as a sympathetic figure by a jury should they invoke their right to a jury trial, (4) likely to be subject to greater liability per offense under the statutory damage alternative, even if the actual damages would be similar were that option pursued instead.
Everyone is talking about theft - I get it, but there's a more subtler point being made here.

Current generation of AI models can't think of anything truly new. Everything is simply a blend of prior work. I am not saying that this doesn't have economic value, but it means these AI models are closer to lossy compression algorithms than they are to AGI.

The following quote by Sam Altman from about 5 years ago is interesting.

"We have made a soft promise to investors that once we build this sort-of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return."

That's a statement I wouldn't even dream about making today.
This is HN. I would be surprised if that guy was not here. ;-)
I don't get "as a backend engineer" comments like these.

OP is doing a basic analysis on what kind of solutions exist for a typical UX edge-case. They even provide the simple solution that most people use (margin-bottom).

And for fun they go on to see if they can solve it without the minor drawback of the simple solution.

We've got to stop acting like it's a badge of honor to avoid UX consideration. We might not be people who implement UIs, we use UIs all day and should be able to muster up a few opinions about how a UX interaction should work.
> This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance.

Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of developer account is not new to Declarative Web Push.
It's how it's always been since Web Push first shipped in Safari 13 on macOS - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
I agree - it's a useful BASIC that can do math and fits in 4 or 8 kilobytes of memory.

And Bill Gates complaining about pirating $150 Altair BASIC inspired the creation of Tiny BASIC, as well as the coining of "copyleft".
https://archive.ph/rqDb3
National Security Agency and Cyber Command Chief, Gen. Tim Haugh, Ousted
If you've got 15 minutes, here is your answer: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Right, and the reason why professional developers are writing worse code out there is most likely because they simply don't have the time/aren't paid to care more about it. The LLM is then mildly improving the output in this brand of common real world scenario
Arguably, what you describe, is closer to what C2 was/is[1]. By the way, C2 is still alive, for those that care to look.

C3 (link[2]) is a fork of/inspired by C2, which appears to have incorporated a lot of Odin and Jai "flavoring". In the case of both C3 and Odin, it can be argued that part of their popularity is that Jai isn't publicly released. Consequently, they seem to pull in a lot of the crowd, that would be attracted to Jai. Another aspect of this, is the more C3 promotes itself (whether intentional or not), the more likely C2 will get faded out. Many will likely think C3 is the next iteration of C2 or simply know the name more, because pushed on HN and other social media.

[1] https://github.com/c2lang/c2compiler

[2] https://github.com/c3lang/c3c
Is there not a more strict rule on dupes on this site, I've seen this numerous times.
Also, they require academic applicants to submit mandatory diversity statements: https://www.wesleyan.edu/inclusion/whatwedo/recruitment-reso...
hmm. this looks suspiciously AI generated to me.
I did the whole thing, was able to get the Fibonacci numbers appear and learned a lot during the process. However, I would not recommend other people to try this today, because --

* It is not necessarily the best way to spend your time and money. You'll be looking at tens of hours on building it plus over $300 in parts, for a very slow and basic computer that you probably will forget and throw away at some point. Cutting and laying out wires are some of the most tedious and frustrating process. There are other cheaper, more efficient ways to learn how a computer works. It may or may not be worth the effort to you.

* The tutorial is really old, with some very questionable design choices and no updates from the author. Some of the designs are just plain wrong -- e.g. floating inputs or missing resistors. It is very unlikely you can reproduce it by strictly following the tutorial. You'll need to spend time debugging those issues and go to reddit to see other people's experience with this, potentially seeking help as well. No doubt debugging is an important part of designing and understanding the circuit. But only if you have the foundational knowledge and patience, of which I happened to have, but I can imagine that someone who does not understand digital electronics well enough can easily get lost and feel defeated.

* To make the previous point worse, some of the parts are hard to source, depending on where you are. (You'll likely fry or physically break a few components when building it.) Many of the parts are not very commonly used these days, and not exactly easy to acquire, if you only need 1 or 2 of them. I had to go to eBay to get some of them, which took about a week, during which I had to stop and wait for parts to arrive.

With all that said, this may still be the best resource out there that lets you build all these on a breadboard, as I am not aware of an alternative that addresses all the issues above.
If the good is so cheap that we can't get close to it here, that might actually be a good case for a targeted tariff depending on the circumstances. It's essentially similar to anti-dumping depending on the specifics even if it isn't tied to overseas conditions.
gay marriage?
I thought the definition of literate was "can interpret text in place of the spoken word". At which point it's worth noting that text is a much lower bandwidth channel than in person communication. Also worth noting that, ex, a mute person could still be considered intelligent.

Is it necessarily the case that you could discern general intelligence via a test with fixed structure, known to all parties in advance, carried out via a synthesized monotone voice? I'm not saying "you definitely can't do that" just that I don't see why we should a priori assume it to be possible.

Now that likely seems largely irrelevant and out in the weeds and normally I would feel that way. But if you're going to suppose that we can't cleanly differentiate LLMs from humans then it becomes important to ask if that's a consequence of the LLMs actually exhibiting what we would consider general intelligence versus an inherent limitation of the modality in which the interactions are taking place.

Personally I think it's far more likely that we just don't have very good tests yet, that our working definition of "general intelligence" (as well as just "intelligence") isn't all that great yet, and that in the end many humans who we consider to exhibit a reasonable level of such will nonetheless fail to pass tests that are based solely on an isolated exchange of natural language.
I wish Microsoft would bring back Encarta!!
The big issue AIUI is die-cut cardboard. The vast majority of modern board games come with several sheets of it to punch out small pieces (think coins or victory point chips).

Producing these (and other game components) requires specialized machinery which isn't made in the US. So even if someone did want to set up a board game manufacturing company in the US, they would now be hit by tariffs as they bought the machines they need.

Stegmaier says that possibly games where all the components are cards will be less affected, as there are companies in the US printing playing cards.
> copywritten

This syntactic mistake is driving me nuts in the article is driving me nuts. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the the word means.

It's "copyright". It's about the rights to copy. The past participle is "copyrighted", someone has already claimed the rights to copy it, so you can't also have those rights. The rights belong to someone else. If you remember that copyright is about rights that are exclusive to someone and that you don't have them, then you wouldn't make such a syntax error as "copywritten".

The homophone "copywriting" is about take a sales copy (that is, an ad) and writing it. It's about creating an advertisement. Copywritten means you've gone around to creating an ad. As an eggcorn (a fake etymology created after the fact in order to explain the misspelling or syntax error), I assume it's understood as copying anything, and then writing it down, a sort of eggcornical synonym of "copy-paste".
My mom used to avoid dented cans because of botulism risk. I still do, out of habit.
Why can't the compute be remote from the robot? That is a major advantage of human technology over biology.
Yo. It's 2025. We don't need to rage at JS, a little sprinkling is OK.

Also, can one do a TCP stack in 8 bits?
What if ChatGPT came up with it?
GPT-4 was released almost exactly two years ago, so “a few years ago” means GPT-3.5.

And Claude 3.7 + Cursor agent is, for me, way more than “marginally more impressive” compared to GPT-3.5
The problem with generating genuinely new art is it requires "inputs" that aren't art. It's requires life experiences.
Yes, it very much is indirect. Direct would be the "anti trans party" passing a law saying that you must bully trans people.
It's not obvious at all! You are citing the only difference that typically comes up. A quesadilla is beyond trivial to reproduce and most people have the ingredients readily available. 3D printers make it trivial to reproduce things that would have been obviously hard to reproduce a few years ago. A book is hard to reproduce if it's not in digital form. Is MIDI a song or a set of instructions? Source code is easy to copy but hard to reproduce. Source code is just a recipe telling a compiler what to do. And we've already established that recipes aren't copyrightable because it was "so obvious" at the time copyright was established that you shouldn't be able to copyright the creative process.
Volunteering “I give up if the information I want isn’t on the first page of the first website that I think of” in a thread about AI tools eroding critical thinking isn’t the indictment of the site that you linked to that you think it is.

There is a whole training section right there like you just didn’t feel like clicking on it
Of Manners and Machines
No anime here :(
There's an old adage in AI: garbage in, garbage out. Consuming and training on the whole internet doesn't make you smarter than the average intelligence of the internet.
Whichever took less work, they did that.
i've heard it actually depends on the model / hosting architecture. some are not deterministic at the numeric level because there is so much floating point math going on in distributed fashion across gpus, with unpredictable rounding/syncing across machines
Both the director and assistant director of NSA were suddenly reassigned late today. No further info yet.
Microsoft isn't my favorite major multinational corporation (hint: I trust none of them), but they created this to solve actual problems.
Grad students, but yeah. CUDA was also basically invented by a grad student.

Many undergrad examples as well in the web era, from Excite to Facebook to Snapchat.

(Note the unanticipated consequences aren't always good.)
Building Gearbox Dynamometer
> All I know is the default browser behavior for anchor links within a page has real usability issues when you have anchored headings at the bottom of the page.

Yes, you click on the link and the text you were supposed to have jumped to is in the wrong place.

But the "solution" here takes this very problem and expands it to cover the entire sample article instead of just the bottom of the sample article. How is that an improvement?
> The idea of open sourcing everything and nullifying patents would benefit corporations like Disney and OpenAI vastly more than it would benefit the people.

Disney would be among the largest beneficiaries if the right to train AI models on content was viewed as an exclusive right of the copyright holder; they absolutely do not benefit from AI training being considered fair use.
It seems to me that harassment is similarly offensive regardless of the degree of automation.

...and it's not obvious that transmitting bytes (within frequency and bandwidth protocols) is ever justly criminal; they are trivial to ignore.
It's become almost comical to me to read articles like this and wait for the part that, in this example, comes pretty close to the beginning: "This isn’t a rant against AI."

It's not? Why not? It's a "wake-up call", it's a "warning shot", but heaven forbid it's a rant against AI.

To me it's like someone listing off deaths from fentanyl, how it's destroyed families, ruined lives, but then tossing in a disclaimer that "this isn't a rant against fentanyl". In my view, the ways that people use and are drawn into AI usage has all the hallmarks of a spiral into drug addiction. There may be safe ways to use drugs but "distribute them for free to everyone on the internet" is not among them.
What has really come with experience and what has made me a great software engineer is knowing when rules matter, when to bend where to make things move more quickly.

I prefer forgiveness over permission ...
The icons looks neat! What did you use to generate the icons so fast? I could use it in my plant app.
Overall, I believe the number was something like 46%+ had a college degree of an associate or higher. So it's not just the top few percent. But I do agree that many areas of the US, especially in specific subjects, are lacking. But that sort of ties back to my comment on culture since the voters and locals have some influence on what is taught or what is not.
The first bits of code I ever read and wrote were due to botting in Runescape.
It’s already becoming politicized, in the lowercase-p sense of the word. One is assumed to be either pro- or anti-AI, and so you gotta do your best to signal to the reader where you lie.
I don't use LLMs, because I don't want to let my biggest advantages atrophy.
The cost of laptops etc. is not even a rounding error in the cost of making Microsoft Office. The biggest two costs are labor and nowadays, compute for AI.
But totally Microsoft, ain’t it? Elegance was never their thing.
Presumably you mean opposition to gay marriage?
It'll be really interesting to see if the tech advances fast enough that future AI can deal with the tech debt of present day AI or if we'll see a generational die off of apps/companies.
I met Bill Gates briefly a few years ago. Nice guy. Definitely buying his book.
How do you think that would work out? I would guess the less populated states would leave if they feel disregarded. I mean, that lack of representation was the basis for the revolution.
Of course; I don't think anybody disputes that.

But the political cover of "but think of the poor artists!" is used as a cudgel for situations where "we prefer to censor Bob!" is unpalatable.
Having seen my fair share of those, they tend to work either until they don't, or you need to somehow change it.
Not my experience at all. I write code every day and our customers pay real money to use it.
Public Diffusion: https://source.plus/public-diffusion-private-beta
We're talking about copyright in this subthread, in the context of AI. I'm not sure how a copyleft slant implies pro-ai, but whatever. There are a lot of reasons to be dubious about AI. But "AI is going to destroy human creativity and ingenuity" is not one that concerns me. And "society would be better without AI" is not an axiom I hold, so yeah I'll respond to that type of supposition when it's thrown into an otherwise interesting discussion.

I could just be wrong about Snow White's original copyright. As indicated by my use of "I imagine", no I didn't search the origins of it. I'm not seeing a big "double down" moment where I asserted that Snow White is definitely owned by Disney--that would be the cinch. In fact nothing about my reply contradicted the GGP adding that maybe Snow White isn't the best example. Why are you so bothered? Anyway, Snow White doesn't have a recent progenitor then it kinda proves the point that the world works perfectly well in the absence of copyright, and that the ability to freely remix culture is a fundamental human right. TIL that Snow White was originally a German fairytale and I'm relieved that Disney hasn't asserted copyright over it.
Because law isn’t a fixed entity, it is a suggestion for the navigation of an infinite wiring
W was a tool, but I never thought he harbored malevolent intent for our country or served as a foreign asset the way Trump does.
A Study of Undefined Behavior Across Foreign Function Boundaries in Rust Libs
The gap between Sr and Jr skills with close as AI gets better. AI is coming for the SR developer, be assured.

Also, Keyframing can be done in a more autonomous fashion. Sr Engineers can truly vibe code if they setup a proper framework for themselves. Key framing as described in the article is too manual.
A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python (2015)
If your "friends" were calling you or your other friends pedophiles (and you are not) then yes, absolutely, you should not be friends with them.
Thanks, I think he did an interview of David Cutler which is pretty interesting.
Similar sentiment here. I taught myself python a decade ago after college, and used it in side projects, during my masters degree, in a few work projects. So it's been handy, but also required quite a bit of time and effort to learn.

But I've been using Claude to help with all kinds of side projects. One recently was to help create and refine some python code to take the latest Wikipedia zipped XML file and transform/load it locally into a PostgreSQL DB. The initial iteration of the code took ~16 hours to unzip, process, and load into the database. I wanted it to be faster.

I don't know how to use multiple processes/multi-threading, but after some prompting, iterating, and persistent negotiations with Claude to refine the code (and an SSD upgrade) I can go from the 24gb zip file to all cleaned/transformed data in the DB in about 2.5 hours. Feels good man.

Do I need to know exactly what's happening in the code (or at lowers levels, abstracted from me) to make it faster? not really. Could someone who was more skilled, that knew more about multi-threading, or other faster programming languages, etc..., make it even faster? probably. Is the code dog shit? it may not be production ready, but it works for me, and is clean enough. Someone who better knew what they were doing could work with it to make it even better.

I feel like LLMs are great for brainstorming, idea generation, initial iterations. And in general can get you 80%+ the way to your goal, almost no matter what it is, much faster than any other method.
You have to use machine filtering of some kind, because there's too much information.

A director of NSA, pre 9/11, once remarked that the entire organization produced about two pieces of actionable intelligence a day, and about one item a week that reached the President. An internal study from that era began "The U.S. Government collects too much information".

But that was from the Cold War era, when the intelligence community was struggling to find out basic things such as how many tank brigades the USSR had. After 9/11, the intel community had to try to figure out what little terrorist units with tens of people were up to. That required trolling through far too much irrelevant information.
How does someone close source a book?
If you described today's AI capabilities to someone from 3 years ago, that would also sound like science fiction. Extrapolate.
Yeah, I agree, it's probably high level or retirement.
Engineering is a small world lol, crazy that the MoneroMining reddit got a shoutout for info on operating PSUs.
if all you want is a denoise plugin, you shouldnt be using a general purpose AI- you should be using a specific tool like DxO PureRAW
This is consistent with the parent comment. You can have a hacker mindset and be totally against open source. They are orthogonal qualities.