skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was Gates especially proficient with code?

Well the article is obviously a biased source, but surely developing a) an ALTAIR emulator for PDP-10s (Allen) and b) a pretty much full-fledged BASIC interpreter that was exclusively tested on top of said emulator (Gates) in two months, in the 70s was not the kind of stuff an average coder would have done.
Honestly, now there's too many mechanisms that keep track of your history of changes. In-editor history, git, ai-agent history in cursor. It's now so damn easy to loose your changes or just mess it up because of too many tools doing that. I do feel like this needs to be unified in some way
That explains why I wasn't finding it previously, ty
Best bit is, this is perennial; while, given the date one assumes it is a vile libel against our benevolent robot overlords, if written a few years ago you'd just assume it was about blockchain.
It might be helpful to read what "local first" means in this context: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
What do you mean? 5 terabytes is so little that I forgot how to count that low
Personally I’m looking forward to the Xbox Series 365 One XS
Yea, I wrote about this Copilot confusion here: https://tongwing.woon.sg/blog/copilot-which-one/
Even 20 years ago, Microsoft knew they had problem with its naming and marketing[0], but I guess it didn't matter.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
This reminds me of Bret Devereaux's series on Alexander III of Macedon and the meaning of "greatness" [0]:

> Only once we’ve stripped away the mythology and found the man can we then ask that key question: was Alexander truly great and if so, what does that say not about Alexander, but about our own conceptions of greatness?

"Great" and "best" are both just words, words whose definition is defined by us who use them.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2024/05/17/collections-on-the-reign-of-al...
The younger generations do seem to be embracing AI more, but mainly because it can do their homework for them without requiring them to learn anything. For now at least, until curriculums have time to adjust to this new reality.
Windows App? Does that let you install Windows inside of Windows via the App store that most companies block?
"It" could be computing in general.

Or American-style ultracapitalism, a phenomenon for which terms like "the control problem" and "alignment" are certainly relevant.
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I mean, sure, it is all windows, it does make sense, it just seems a bit odd. I cannot imagine an OS named "Ablakok" which is the Hungarian equivalent of "Windows". I do not think anyone would name any products as such. If your native language is not English, how does it look like in your language?
The point of the app is to figure out the calories of a meal automatically by taking a photo.

Without knowing the amount of sugar, butter, oil, etc. is used in a dish, one cannot know if a dish is worth 250 kilocalories or 750 kilocalories.

If I need to manually fill in details of ingredients and amounts to get to the calories to be have an error margin of less than 100%, then the app is not useful and is at best misleading.
Agree. I grew up in the era of phreaking and when I see something like this it makes me happy. We want the tinkerers, the curious, the people always pushing on the margins.
Hidden behind all these words, the guy installs an air conditioner and then starts using it frequently and then complains that his energy usage is higher than before when he didn't have an air conditioner.

Using a heat pump in cooling + heating mode is not a drop-in replacement for a furnace like the author seems to imply, it's also an AC that comes along for the ride!
Many American tech leaders helped usher in a Trump presidency in the belief that he could be their strongman protecting them from meddling foreign governments: No more EU levying fines or China making demands, they thought, or else Donald would target them with punitive tariffs! They had the mob boss on their side and this was their time to trample the world.

Zuckerberg explicitly stated this in his Rogan interview.

Pretty funny how that turned out. American tech is going to be on a carousel of ass kickings. The fines and punitive measures are going to be coming at a torrential clip, and of course the US economy is going to be in for an extremely rough few years, and tech is the first thing that sees budget cuts. Quite aside from the entire industry being gut punched by the stupidest tariff regime in human history.

Art of the Deal
We've got 10ms of latency between our brains and our hands along our nerve fibers and we function all right.
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They take out a loan, splurge on high-end electric appliances, and then act stunned to discover that gas is cheaper than electricity. Maybe do a little math before going all-in on a “green” makeover, not exactly the picture of foresight.
How do you feel about some of their more recent product names? Such as

Entra

Azure

Dynamics AX

365

… and don’t even get me started on the version names they give their OS products :D
American sovereignty is a matter of geography, firepower, culture, and law. It’s not easy to threaten.

And private trade deficits are not balanced by sovereign debt, they are balanced by private debt and foreign direct investment, which don’t threaten sovereignty.

The 1990s U.S. reaction to Japanese business success was primarily driven by popular xenophobia, not economic analysis. It was resolved by the dotcom bubble, an explosion of American innovation that changed the conversation. Not by government policy.
And a reason people are getting ticked at the AI companies is the hypocrisy. They're near-universally arguing that it's okay for them to treat copyright in a way that it is illegal for us to, apparently on the basis of, "we've got a billions in investment capital, and applying the law equally will make it hard for us to get a return on that investment".
Arguing by bygone "rightly ordered sexuality" has not anything to do with truth. It was always carefully tabuized and repressed to look nice and orderly.
> end up being successful

And """success""" is not a value. Taken in those ways, it is the mark of the psychopath.

Of course they did, because it is easier to achieve goals if you cut corners. In a gaming framework, it amounts to cheating.
Not surprising. There's a handful of states with severely perverse electricity markets and rates and the author lives in one of them. Results in Florida or Indiana or whatever will differ.

Though going from no A/C usage to frequent A/C usage as the author did is likely going to up your overall bill just about anywhere.
Do we really know advertising works, or is that investigated folk knowledge?
They’re presumably talking about things like USAID and PEPFAR.

(We haven’t seen the costs of slashing these materialize yet, but with PEPFAR in particular there’s a very good chance millions will die without access to the drugs provided under the program.)
Rest in peace Store for Business. I really miss how easy it was to actually use and like as an Enterprise device manager. Then it was gone
I am aware people have trouble building this mental model of an unempathetic society. I am old enough to have witnessed that in 99% of situations people are directly responsible for their own situation. There is no reason to have empathy.
Should've just served it directly from MongoDB. It's web scale.
But as I keep on pointing out the tariff is on PHYSICAL goods. It's probably next to impossible to tax digital stuff.
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> to balance the trade deficit?

Let's talk about the all the software exports that got "converted" into a "service" i.e. SaaS / PaaS / IaaS 1st. Not to mention previously we'd have CD / DVD / etc that are now also "services".

Where's the trade deficit again?
One (admittedly obscure) reason is the way rdp handles smart cards. It cancels any locally connected devices and forwards the client's instead. Which is a problem if the whole point of the machine you're connecting to is that it has a USB token attached to it with your codesigning keys on it. That one took quite a lot of swearing to figure out :p

We now use this exact setup to get around that (tightvnc + tailscale)
Show HN: Chatleh – AI Customer Support for SMBs
Automates 80% of customer queries via Google Docs/Sheets integration. No-code setup.
The most amusing thing about is the unshakable belief that any part of humanity will be able to build a single nuclear reactor by 2027 to power datacenters, let alone a network of them.
> From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in Oakland, California, no longer existed.

Huh. I did not realise it was originally in reference to an actual _place_.
Success is a value if the only thing that matters in my life is my own life. Tell me, how do I benefit from having empathy?
I hate when I rely on others following the rules and they screw me over by breaking them. We had "focus hours" at work. They would have been amazing if not for some special individuals that decide it's OK to waste my 15 minutes to save their 10. Now we don't have focus hours. Or we should document everything on wiki. But why do it when better "documentation" is "ask A". And A is on vacation. That's why I despise rule breakers, they almost always make someone's life worse. And that someone else follows the rules.
Rules should be for everybody or nobody.
Edinburgh (UK) has 2,500 bus stops and they are typically 323M apart
I genuinely enjoy using Numbers in a way that I just don’t with Excel. Probably more indicative of the level I’m using it at, but for me it fills the gap where I just want to do some quick manipulations of CSV data but not enough that it’s worth writing a script.
It sounds a lot like you want to cure life. We're mortal meat bags, go enjoy life instead of worrying about "solving" the inevitable.
Interesting, thank you. I thought authorities or Governments would work together, but perhaps not.
Then you missed the $8,200 water heater. And that they needed a loan to buy all this stuff they didn’t need. And replacing a 2-year-old furnace.

I didn’t get to the part where (presumably, as they mention cooking with gas) they replace the stove, couldn’t take the poor financial choices and waste any more.
The End of MrBeast
> building this mental model of an unempathetic society

No, it's not about mental models, it's that what you're describing is, at the limit, no longer a society at all. You need a different word for the kind of Randian endgame you're advocating for. Using "society" for it is just confusing things for everyone involved.
Yes, and it isn't for every player. Funny story time: I bring online sometime a Luanti [1] server to playtest the game I made in a multiplayer context. One time someone joined and after a few minutes visiting, they asked "So, what is the goal?". I wasn't expecting that. MC may be popular, but one doesn't join a Luanti game server by accident, and most of them are MC- or at least MMORPG-like.

Still, although there's no set goals like in other games, this style of game has to have "affordances" for goals. Even the building activity in MC is not "free", as monsters are there to get in the way of the players' projects.

I also think that the social aspect is crucial, in the sense that having fun building things doesn't last, because one eventually runs out of ideas. Showing to others what you have achieved is an important part of it. Does art exist without an audience ? [2]

I think it is interesting to note that the fact that MC's world is fully editable by players is what drove the choice for the voxel technology, which was the only one allowing it with a normal PC at the time.

[1] https://www.luanti.org/
[2] https://thehoya.com/opinion/eye-of-the-beholder/
I had the same initial reaction but time will tell.
> Somehow this has only gotten funnier since it was originally posted..

Especially the "only if you think your users are scum" part.

Back in the days, even the asshat in green seem to have tried to uphold some kind of guiding principles.
Unlike our traditional computing or computer systems, these quantum computers will be extremely powerful. It’s an emerging field in the Computer Science space and contains a range of disciplines, such as quantum hardware and quantum algorithms. The core focus of the field is to build systems and solutions that will be able to solve complex problems that even supercomputers can’t solve, or can’t solve fast enough.
> and didn't do anything anywhere near as shitty when I was that age.

Being honest could you even have done it at 15, hard to be virtuous about not doing something you're not capable of.

I used to boast about hacking stuff to my friends at that age, couldn't actually do it though, wasn't smart enough was just teenage bravado.
I think "best" in this case stands for highest performance and not necessarily moral values - with this definition, unfortunately, making a computer go brrr does qualify for a best mind, if the brrr is especially impressive.
You are reading into something that isn't there. The study doesn't have to do with music making you more capable of socializing.

The hypothesis being tested is that in the absence of social interaction, people will turn to surrogates in order to make up for the perceived lack. Specifically, they test if music can be such a surrogate. They do some surveys and a kind of silly experiment to provide evidence that yes- it can.

The reason it is rightly called pointless is that it brings nothing actionable to the table.

You cannot extract advice from showing evidence for a common-sense observation: If you feel a certain lack, activities you find pleasurable can diminish that lack.

And look at the experimental setup: They make people play an online game with others where certain people are excluded from playing. It turns out that people who are hyped from listening to their favorite song found this less jarring, hence showing that music can be a "social buffer", i.e. make up for a perceived social exclusion.

Let everyone individually conclude how insightful this experiment is.

EDIT: Misunderstood the nature of the "Cyberball" experiment, fixed
By this logic, having a car in 2025 is "just completely unreasonable". Taking plane in 2025 is "just completely unreasonable". Use of AC unless life threatening circumstances is "just completely unreasonable". Wasting rainwater and use drinkable water to wash your car (or yourself, actually) is "just completely unreasonable". Eating cashew/almond or other highly water intensive crops grown in a dried out area (California...) is "just completely unreasonable".

Note that apart from the rainwater one, I do none of the above, so I'm not even pleading for myself and my "way of life". I'm just showing how easy it is to boldly state that "it is obvious, we just all have to be reasonable" while, in fact, _not_ being "reasonable" yourself.
Eh, it has, though.

Half of it is about setting up a bigtable for hosting the data. I don't know of any team that's set up a new bigtable in the past 5 years; if you're really going all-in on the cloud ecosystem (per AppEngine) you'll stick it in Google Cloud Storage (where you'll note the file size limit is... 5 TiB) and call it a day. (Also: PCR zones are basically dead.)

The other half is about setting up monitoring, where the mentioned choices are Diplomat (which I don't think anyone's used in about a decade) and Borgmon (which is barely staffed and strongly, strongly discouraged for any new use cases). Borgmon readability hasn't been enforced in years. And again, if you're spinning this up in GCP, just set up some cloud monitoring.
> The US has the prerogative to filter immigrants based on their views and affiliations.

What comes before “filter[ing] immigrants” is due process. Resident aliens have the right to due process which the current US administration is not providing.

Alien residents with every right to be here are being removed from the US illegally and mistakenly.
This runs surprisingly very smoothly even on my phone's browser.

This looks to be rendered in real time. I feel this kind of 3d animation would be difficult for me to achieve in blender on my PC.
So if I am a plumber what could I do, then? Stay home and wait for chance wrong number calls? Would going door to door to adverti... hmm to have a chat still be allowed?

I know people at a nearby Church also work hard to organise classical music concerts. They'll be disappointed when no-one show up because no-one knew about them.

Advertising is extremely important to a healthy, open society.
It's already starting with the drones: https://www.csis.org/analysis/ukraines-future-vision-and-cur...
I have used the Windows Store version of Remote Desktop since it landed. I really liked it. When the news broke a few weeks ago they were going to deprecate it in favor of Windows App (tried, didn't like), I decided I would create my own launcher since a large part of my job is automation with PowerShell. This won't be for everyone, but if you live in Windows and need to connect to remote servers and you like Windows Terminal and PowerShell, you may find this to your liking.

Code free to use. Pasted here: https://pastebin.com/EGArXbFi
Cure death, not life.

And I do enjoy life, that's exactly why I want it to be much much longer.
That which is normal is not necessarily also good or not problematic. Racism is normal, but its a problem. War is normal, but its absurdly wasteful and problematic. Cancer is normal etc.
Why is everyone pretending it's the LLM that is creating the image and not the diffusion model?
At the risk of pedantry, is that true? Something that doubles annually sure seems like exponential growth to me, but the orders of magnitude are not at all the same rate. Orders of magnitude are a base-10 construct but IMO exponents don’t have to be 10.

EDIT: holy crap I just discovered a commonly known thing about exponents and log. Leaving comment here but it is wrong, or at least naive.
Chief Strategist Who Foresaw Tariff Shock Says Worst yet to Come
https://archive.is/xgW0A
It's a problem for me.

When you're 60 or 70, you will wish to have a body of a 25 year old.

Dying early from rotting teeth is normal in nature, yet you probably brush, floss, and go to dentist.
I and the article are talking about the serious techy hysterias that will make you BILLIONS if you only got into them in time.

Not some measly free to play gambling app.
> Is there an internal group who's sole job is to ensure names have conflicting meaning?

They must have been responsible for Skype / Skype for business, which must have been responsible for $1B of lost productivity all on its own. So many hours of “why can’t Larry join the conference call?” wasted in 15 minute increments.
The latest Mac minis have a great reputation although it’s been a little over a decade since I’ve personally used a MacBook as my daily driver. Every year I tell myself “this is the year I buy one of those Apple silicon MacBooks”. I have a Lenovo P50 collecting dust and primarily use a desktop tower I built for personal or my employer’s Lenovo X1 Yoga for work.
ICC Office of the Prosecutor Releases Draft Policy on Cyber-Enabled Crimes
In the abstract, they are totally fine but in practice sports has hundreds (thousands?) of years of tradition and culture imprinting into the fabric of society making it "normal".

In the UK football is so deeply engrained they talk of doing public holidays for when the England team finally wins a major international cup IIRC. The Olympics had/has some special subtext in international relations. So following sports has been deeply normalised in ways that probably polarises other similar practices (but for other interests) into seeming very fringe
The video is from 2010
What's "it"? AI in general?
> History hasnt had to contend with a birth rate of 0.7-1.6.

I think thats just not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt

A large number of revolutions/rebellions are caused by mass unemployment or famine.
A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump tariffs could make that happen
That’s research. Which they are defunding.
Animals eat their disabled children. Humans should also do it then, since it's normal or natural.

Around 100k people die from age-related disease every day. I'd be careful to dismiss that as not a problem.
I still haven't seen anyone using a spellchecker in code outside of IntelliJ
And nowhere to be seen, the figures of the kWh price for gas and electricity, which now have to run an AC they didn't have.
Including more than half a million children born with HIV!
It is _so_ close to being a replacement for Lotus Improv/Quantrix Financial Modeler/Flexisheet.

Just held back by the need to import/export Excel files.
Bartle taxonomy of player types (Killers, Achievers, Explorers, Socializers)
It's hard to ignore the implosion of the Japanese real estate bubble as a contributor of receding Japanese influence in the US since then. The Plaza Accords are widely attributed to this.
https://archive.ph/QrBwf
Minecraft is the metaverse. My son has played hundreds of hours of Minecraft with friends on his switch while chatting with them on a Messenger kids audio call.

He has been able to build and foster connections with friends who live on the other side of the country.

I’ve listened in on their conversations and they engage in imaginative free play as if they were in the same room. It’s a very different experience then when they play a goal directed game like Mario kart or smash bros.

Minecraft feels a very nice space in his life in ways that other games do not.
People waste small fortunes on hvac stuff. I’m gradually coming to the conclusion that most homes just need more insulation and sealing and then a relatively inexpensive hvac system.

Same thing with solar panels, people will drop 40k on solar just to save $200 a month on electricity when insulation would have reaped half the savings for 1/10th the price.

People just like buying gadgets.
Cool, I like sci fi too. Now explain me how many dots I have to create out of thin air to connect LLMs to immortality ?
This app isn’t for those people. Most people don’t have macro goals.
Any proof of those non-reversible surgical alterations that all the children are so eager to get right now? :)

I guess I shouldn't even ask of your opinion on some specific sexual minorities.
Consider buying a split keyboard. It was a game changer for me. By itself, you'll learn to always put your hands on the correct sides of the keyboard.
I used the Remote Desktop app on macOS at work. It was replaced by the new Windows app.

I’ve been using it for a few months. First launch is jarring, as it’s a massive window instead of the tiny saved connection window I used to have. But after resizing the window and tweaking a couple things, it’s functionally the same now.

Though I’m not a heavy user these days. I have a VDI I connect to a few times per month, and the occasional Windows server.
While I don't disagree that I've seen a lot of eugenics talk from rationalist(-adjacent)s, I don't think this is an example of it: this is describing how misaligned AI could technically keep humans alive while still killing "humanity."