skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less about screwing up the models as much as not needing a pool, as well as not needing underwater capable cameras. Underwater rigging for cameras puts incredible limitations on what camera is used, the motion of the camera, etc. Keeping everything dry is always going to be preferred. The motion control equipment isn't meant for use underwater either. It just makes much more sense to shoot it dry. Especially considering this was before CGI and 3D rendering was in its infancy, maybe toddler stages.
Yes, I'm one of the people that needs a solid 7-8 of sleep or else I easily become agitated, and anxiety and OCD kick in quickly ... Would love for this to not be the case, if there was a way for me to need less sleep I would be very interested
That particular diagram seems to have been generated by https://plantuml.com according to the image's metadata
It's apples to apples if you care about 8-bit (a lot of people do these days).

AFAIK, there wasn't a faster 8-bit super computer to compare to - which is why they made the comparison.
No, it still explains it. Society does not treat men and women doing or saying the same things the same way. Men are “assertive”, women are “bossy”.
No, but: https://chrono24.app/rolex/rolex-datejust-oysterquartz-ref-1...

Super accurate thermally compensated quartz.
Facebook is in no legal framework a “public space”. It’s a private entity.
Yet nobody visits my website! ;-(
Nope, it's really true. I can't speak for CS programmes, but in areas like bioinformatics I have first-hand experience of people (aged ~21/22 years) not understanding what file is or what a directory is. I think they're able to use them, but their understanding is so contextual to the place it's used. For example, they might be able to write some Python which creates a .csv, but connecting that to "open that file you created in a text editor" or "upload that file", they don't get it. I've read enough around people talking about this issue, and the consensus seems to be that people are so "app"-centric that thinking about a filesystem with applications accessing it in a generic way is alien to them.

To be clear, in my class it's a small fraction who struggle like this, but it's real.
Aren't the management fees still very small, especially when compared to other retirement vehicles?
Who's 57?
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. I'm saying there's a dissonance. And I'm saying it's important that we recognize that we all experience this dissonance, and that we should face it rather than just "get mad or change the subject".
Can you articulate the difference? This is the first I've heard the term "post-globalization."
I’ve been having an internal debate with myself about whether or not to leave a comment, because I’m struggling to find anything positive to say. I love weekend projects and don't ever want to discourage people from doing them.

But the other side of that debate in my head comes from the way I feel about this idea relative to blogging. I read blogs because I want to hear directly from another human. I also care about the subject matter they’re writing about, but part of the reason I care is because it’s a slice of someone’s perspective. Their life experiences. How a particular subject relates to them personally. How they solved a particular problem. Even when a blog post is purely technical with no personal narrative, it usually provides a snapshot of some aspect of some other human’s life, and the way they structure the words they wrote is a reflection of how their brain works.

I also enjoy seeing the progression of thought over time from authors. They’ll write about something and later realize some nuance was wrong, and they’ll write about their updated understanding.

I worry that the more disconnected authors become from their writing, the less aware they’ll be of the potential impact of their words, and those “aha! that thing I wrote 6 months ago was crap for xyz reason” moments are less likely to happen.

To me, AI-assisted blogging just fundamentally devalues the content. As a reader, I can’t know if what I’m reading is real to the author, or a flourish/detail fed to them by an LLM that they liked. Lately I’ve encountered an increasing number of posts that have those telltale (or obvious) signs, and I immediately stop reading. I’m no longer interested.

If I wanted LLM output about a given subject, I’d go to ChatGPT myself.

I think there’s a place for LLMs and some real value to be gained. But when it comes to blogging (and many types of writing), I think it’s a net negative to society.

I’d like to see a standard emerge where blogs can label themselves “No AI”.
Free speech is a about whether a society values and protects free speech or not.

If a society values and protects free speech, we would observe institutions, businesses, and individuals being very permissive and polite to speech they find objectionable.

If it doesn't, we would observe that its government doesn't care much about free speech either.

Free speech involves making sometimes uncomfortable sacrifices for a principle. Why would anyone support a government making such sacrifices if they don't believe in making such sacrifices at an individual level?
The concept of a file only sort of gets modeled within the scope of what a directory is, with generic tooling; otherwise, you just have "documents". And there is also a big difference between really knowing what it is, and doing it a handful of times.

Like, imagine using an iPad your entire childhood, and then maybe getting a Chromebook. You just aren't going to have the same level of comfort with what files are or how they might work, as you don't really ever think in their terms.

Do you need to actually "download a file" to apply to a University, or is it a captive web form now? If you do, imagine doing it on an iPad: you download the file and it goes into some transient Downloads UI before getting opened directly by your word processor. Certainly creating a resume doesn't cause much interaction with "files".

You certainly don't, anymore, use files to move pictures from your phone to your computer: you use a cloud service like iCloud Photos or Google Photos, which automatically "syncs" all of your data from your phone to the same app on your desktop.

If you want to create a meme on reddit--which you certainly are doing on your phone or iPad, as a computer is complicated and lame--you aren't using generic tools to edit files you saved to disk: the closets thing to a filesystem you are working with is your camera roll, working in an app that let's you add remix from it and then saves the result back to it.

People at companies like Apple have gone to such great lengths to hide the complexity--and limit the ways of composition--of software that, at best, "Files" is just a sort of confusing app you might sometimes get forced to use only if you have no other reasonable option, and so you don't have a mental model for it; and even then, it's separate from where your data "really is".
> I don't think Emacs has directional focus

It does, but I don't think they have default bindings. The commands are windmove-{left,down,up,right}. I've had them bound to C-S-{h,j,k,l} for years and it makes moving around much more fluid and predictable than C-x o.
Insects from the 70s were already collecting microplastics
Funny to see you here. I’m from operata.io (also a Melbourne based startup) and would see your website (operatr.io) when I would mis-spell mine!
in France I got a bunch of equivalent take-home tests, between high school and graduate level, mostly in math and science. The teacher would give us exercice equivalent to what we'd get in our exams and we'd have one week to complete it (sometimes in pairs) and it'd be graded as part of that semester
Yes, it would. A missed paycheck brings you to the front of the debtor line, ahead of any bank or equity holder, when the company liquidates. The startup's owners would have been personally liable for paying out the employee in such a case.
> The researchers specifically focused on one organic molecule, glycine, the simplest of all known amino acids.

This is such a goofy assumption. That any life on Titan would use the exact same amino acids as earth-based life. If you have no clue whether something is possible, sometimes it's better to predict nothing at all.
Note, however, that its whole marketing angle is that it is to be THE public space: the only internet public space to care about.

Not a legal positioning, a social pressuring.
I guess I'm not understanding how food is a good example to illustrate your point. If one culture finds eating dog normal and another culture doesn't, I don't see either person in this situation as hypocritical.
> I still wonder why we can't do better than Unix and Windows. Unix is 50 years old and Windows is old, too. There should be better concepts out there waiting to be discovered and implemented.

Plan 9. It's a Unix built on top of a network. Each process can be thought of as a container as each gets a namespace which consists of a table of mounts and binds of resources. Those resources are served by an architecture neutral RPC protocol which serves a tree of objects we call files: 9P. The server of these resources is called a file server and is akin to a micro-service that runs bare metal on the CPU, the kernel is the container host. These resources are protected by Unix permissions verified by the kernel against a security service called factotum, itself a 9P server. Cloud ready, bare metal micro-service computing started in the late 80's and nobody noticed.

> I miss the days ... Plan 9, Inferno, ...

Still alive and kicking. Head over to 9front.org for a maintained fork of each. Patches arrive nearly daily to 9front and the community is encouraged to contribute. 9front also runs my home network because setting up DHCP, DNS and TFTP for PXE is dumb simple.
I don't understand this position. Why do people want private companies to decide what's allowed and what isn't? Shouldn't lawmakers, and by extension the people (at least in democratic countries) decide what speech is allowed and what isn't?

The number of people using social media makes it the town square of the present. We should treat it as such.
Yeah but finding a way to run it is having a hobby of debugging software and work arounds on top of your job.
It could be reframed as less loss for the insurance companies
You'll be happy to know that the Starlark team has recently started working on adding static typing! See https://github.com/orgs/bazelbuild/projects/21 and https://bazel.build/rules/language#StarlarkTypes

> a lot of performance gotchas

Can you list some examples?
I'm not quite sure what their point is there.

Everything they mention can also be accomplished on a home NAS or something with plenty of security. I don't think anything is really justified here besides simplicity? Which..this isn't that much simpler.

Which..$100/month is pretty expensive for what's basically an N100 with support.
> That's not what I was talking about.

That is what I was talking about. You replied to it. Why would you reply if you had nothing to add to it?

> My point is that everybody experiences cognitive dissonance.

That point was already made earlier in this thread. For what reason does it need to be pointed out again?

> I'm not interested in pursing weird desert-island hypotheticals where eating a dog is the "best choice".

You submitted the idea of the dog leg. Why would you introduce it if you don't want to talk about it?
Jubilees have not stopped since the 14th century or so, for Christendom, and I contend that a lot of Project 2025 and the Trump Administration actions are indeed secular implementations of very sound Jubilee principles.

Government is currently chock-a-block with Catholics, Jews, and mainline Protestants who understand exactly how wide justice works in a Jubilee context, and they’re providentially positioned to make it a reality. They are implicitly following the lead of the Holy See and the Holy Father, having declared an Ordinary Jubilee Year of Hope.

The fact that many people hate what’s coming down is a clear indicator that Jubilees work, especially in terms the principles of justice for all, wealth redistribution, freeing slaves and servants, fallow fields, and returning foreigners to their ancestral lands, but when these ideals are set into motion and made reality, some very comfortable and spoiled people whine about how horrible things are...
Ask HN: Programming career prospects for beginners in regards to AI
I'm a beginner who enjoys programming, particularly the larger scale side of software and systems architecture. I'm trying to understand how AI might impact programming careers in the next 5-10 years.

Some specific questions I'm curious about:

From those working in the industry, how has generative AI (I've heard great things about Gemini 2.5 but haven't tested it out yet) currently affected your work and the general software engineering landscape?

Do you think programming will remain a viable career path in 5-10 years? And how long will that last?

What areas of programming and thinking tasks (I say thinking tasks because I've heard that AI has better mathematical reasoning than humans) in general seem most/least likely to be automated by AI? How do you incorporate AI into your workflow in areas where you think it is strong?

For those skeptical of AI, what are the key limitations you see?

I enjoy programming and will continue learning as a hobby, regardless of AI. However, I'm trying to think ahead about career prospects. Any insights on any of the questions from experienced people in the field would be appreciated.
Nextcloud is great.

However, at least in my case selfhosted version is rather slow even with enough hardware and recommended tuning.
If you don't see heaps of evidence you haven't been paying attention. Not for a long time.
It's like the old public swimming pool joke. "Check the pH!" "Hmm, mostly p, not much H."
Perhaps but it's because you two are talking past each other. The free speech some people refer to are that devised under the concept of classical liberalism which spawned the bill of rights, under which the right to free speech is a right to not have your speech interfered with by government. Not a right to compel others to display your speech, as under that system you would be violating their right to free speech by making them say that was actually what was just your speech.
> run 50 per cent longer and 50 per cent quicker

Sounds like a candidate for army research to me..
Most likely this is how they are defining antisemitism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHRA_definition_of_antisemitis...
Should’ve just gone with calling it Al. Seems friendly and you’ll mistake it for actual AI until you look closer
Do you know how to "kill" a cow in the sense of turning most of it into edible food rather than merely letting it go to waste? If not, then I'd call that a similar type of aversion.
There are some US States that participate in solar credit markets. Basically, utilities are required to purchase some number of solar production credits. Solar energy producers can sell their credits to these utilities.

https://www.srectrade.com/markets/rps/srec/
> will never be mainstream because it had the bad fortune of coming from the functional programming world

Nah, mainstream developer don’t care where an idea comes from as long as it solves the problem and helps them hit the deadline. E.g. linq in C# have been broadly adopted.

Regexes are disliked by many developers, so parser combinators should be an easy sell if you can show it solves realistic problems with simpler code.
I do think we’ve entered a grey area of rights.

By centralizing communication like Facebook has, they’ve placed themselves in the funky place of being the arbiter for communication through their social graph. You don’t own your audience, they do. You don’t have direct to audience communication (even if your audience is just your friends and family!) - they do.

Facebook owns the content delivery channel. And so they control what is permitted to flow through that channel.

I honestly don’t think there is a role government has to play in this [1]. This isn’t a regulation thing IMO, it’s an architecture thing. I think the solution is to agree with you on your points and build platforms that allow people to communicate directly with their audience without having to go through any centralized gate keeper.

[1] other than stopping the laundering of 1st amendment violations they’ve committed through the loophole of separating censorship “requests” from enforcement.
Parser combinators work well for big messy problems as well as regexes; I used a custom library of combinators to write the Fortran parser for LLVM. They’re great for error recovery and for disambiguating tricky situations, of which Fortran has more than its share; I ended up parsing cooked characters without a tokenization phase.

One hard part is getting good performance when the same production is being tried as part of multiple higher level alternatives and backtracking is taking place. You can get into trouble for bad input cases, like expressions with thousands of operands being used in a context that isn’t clear until you get to characters after the expression. But there’s ways to solve that problem, so I recommend combinators to you if you need to write a parser.
It's still very easy to get a moderation strike because your post or comment contained a word that maybe in certain contexts (not necessarily one in your post) could maybe probably offend a group of people. It's almost as if Facebook had remote villages that didn't get the memo from their overlord.
What books would you recommend for dev-founders?
I am a full stack developer and founder and as you may expect I found myself lacking lots of business knowledge when I first started with my startup.

So far this are the most valuable books that I read:

1. Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
2. Hooked by Nir Eyal
3. Traffic Secrets by Russel Brunson
4. Contagious by Jonah Berger
5. How to win friends and Influence people by Dale Carnegie

One thing I've learned is that depending on where you are in your journey—whether in life or business—all of these books are worth revisiting.

What about you guys? What do Hacker News people read?
Let’s test this. D0 n0t r3ply!!!

Hi everyone, my VPN is running slow. Anyone have any tips?
I never had a mental image of Mancuso from reading the book, but Glenn is what was always pictured in my mind in any of the other books he appears. Similar for Jack, I never really got a mental image of Ford or Affleck, it was always closer to Baldwin if not quite Baldwin. Mancuso was just flat out Glenn.
A My Geisha, amelyet 2018-ban alapítottak, egy keleti parfüm márka, amely ismert tartós és csábító illatairól. 11 országban van jelen, több mint 50 üzlettel, és exkluzív vásárlási élményt kínál, ötvözve a keleti parfümöket és a prémium bőrápolási termékeket. A márka a szépség és luxusipar kiemelkedő nevévé vált.
I have just read this book and found it very interesting and helpful:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-We-Sleep/Matthew-...
To add for Plan 9: https://9front.org/releases/

Maintained daily. pi is 32bit and pi3 is 64bit. WiFi works.
Amazon's 'sort by price' intersperses products at different price-points randomly throughout the list. This makes the list hard for a human to parse, since it's never quite obvious how far down one is.
Beautiful. That must have been a lot of work hand-coloring those photos.
I honestly prefer a pen and paper planner and just manually migrating my contacts over. Meanwhile, my personal gmail is 99.9% contacts I have no intention to ever speaking to again.
I guess I'm not flying then.
For a laugh, Google the phrase "how I built this blog on Gatsby" or "why I rebuilt this blog on next.js" and then go to page 10 of the google results and realize humans are all the same.
Holy cow thanks for sharing this!
Baïkal tries to solve that by sending out the ics for you, it'll even accept responses in various formats (inviting to calendar events seem to be poorly standardized).

Last I played around with it it all worked, somewhat. It does require you to use baïkal as your caldav server though.
I disagree, your publicly stated comments also have political value outside 'safe' discussion groups. There is pressure to maintain a "united front", and to not appear divided, this is a bipartisan strategy and appears at both the individual and group (e.g. international) level.

This has only increased as public discourse is replaced with unyielding rhetoric and asymmetric slogan-flinging.
Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees
> I'm trained on K though

I hear you, have an hard to overcome ctrl-d muscle memory from back in my sublime-text days. Which unfortunately conflicts a little with vim's default ctrl-d in some modes.

But for the most part I was surprised how much muscle memory I could re-wire when I forced myself. I think so long as you pick one at a time, and are using it for a solid chunk of time, i.e while you are working, then it doesn't take long, ~1 week maybe until it's 90% instinct.

I think I probably need to finally shake ctrl-d, maybe today is the day.
Considering the big donors and membership[0] of this organization its definitely not an unbiased take and is trying to frame any discussion over regulating hate speech as a radical anti-first amendment stance and makes an unsubstantiated claim that one Republican house member using their chairman position to "investigate" Lina Khan[1] as if the Republican house committee had no ulterior motive seeing as their donor class was very critical of FTC regulations under her leadership, never mind that nothing the committee claimed was substantiated.

[0]: https://netchoice.org/about/#our-mission

[1]: https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-probes-ftc-chair-k...
> This is a non-sensical argument

Please do not engage with me at all unless you're willing to respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> For example, here you seem to be assuming that registered voters who didn't vote don't support Trump.

No, I'm simply assuming that if someone can't be bothered to vote at all, then they shouldn't be characterized as "ride or die" with the GOP. No voting, no riding. If you do not vote for Trump, or give money to Trump, what does "support" actually mean, in a practical sense? Moreover, your link focuses on registered voters, whereas I was talking about all eligible voters, registered or not. Most importantly, your link discusses how the ideology of the electorate has changed, e.g, "Politically disengaged voters have become much more Republican", implying that these people are not necessarily ride or die and could swing back to Democrats if they were offered a better narrative. Indeed, this is precisely the overarching point of your link! The commenter I replied to claimed, "The country is fucked", but the message of your link is the opposite of that.

All of the survey data that I've seen, including the data in your linked article, shows that voters in 2024 cared most about the cost of living and inflation. Thus, if Trump's tariffs end up making things worse rather than better in this respect, support for Trump is likely to plummet among people who are not "ride or die". Congressional Republicans are clearly nervous about this, though typically hesitant to openly contradict or defy Trump.
I have Outlook (at work) and Google Calendar (at home) and synchronising them through HTTP is completely unreliable. They seem to mess the time zone all the time, sometimes they publish in UTC, sometimes not, with the consequence of having meeting always at the wrong time.

I really don't understand how these 2 major providers cannot fix what seems to me such a basic feature.

If using my own system would solve it, I'd do it immediately, but I am afraid that it would be just the same: meeting created on Outlook and imported with 2 hours difference.
Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
And Canada. UK and Canada gave me the hardest times at any border.