skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are saying slightly different things. COGS are composed of many smaller capital allocations. According to this untested, pet thesis, putting on a report that $250M was spent on capex is just fine; but if you go to a single vendor and sign a $250M contract, you have wasted money by not being more careful about how that capital is allocated. $100M is _a lot_ of capital, and I think it’s easy to lose sight of how much stuff you can do with that much money when applied to industries that don’t pay tech salaries for speculative growth. As examples: how many pounds of food could you grow for 100M? How many doctors could we train for 100M?

I think the thesis is thought provoking. Not sure yet if it’s worth anything, but it also doesn’t preclude businesses from having massive cashflow.
I find this very amusing. In philosophy of science some 20+ years ago I had a wonderful prof who went through 3(?) periods of thought. He laid out this argument, followed by the arguments seen below in this thread in various ways, in a systematic way where he convinced you that one way of thinking was correct, you took the midterm, then the next day he would lead with "everything you know is wrong, here's why.". It was beautiful.

He noted that this evolution of thought continued on until people generally argued that concepts/definitions that let you do meaningful things (your definition of meaningful, doesn't really matter what it is), are the way to go. The punchline at the very end, which happened to be the last thing I regurgitated on my last undergraduate exam, was him saying something along the lines of "Science, it beats hanging out in malls."

All this to say that if we read a little philosophy of science, that was done a long time ago (way before the class I took), things would make more sense.
I disagree completely.

It's not just a technicality, traits are not the same as multiple inheritance. They allow you to solve the same kinds of problems but traits don't introduce the mountain-loads of confusion, complexity and headache that multiple inheritance does.

Moreover, nothing forces you to use traits. You're just strictly better off using them in many cases. But you can always defer to writing overtly repetitive C style code if you want.
> They aren't nitpicking your language

They absolutely are. "Htmx is “frontend tech”." is a nitpick (and an incorrect one at that). "What defines normal?" is a nitpick - if you ask an ensemble of frontend web developers what normal web frameworks are, they'll convert on the set that I specified without bringing up absolutely ridiculous answers like ColdFusion, and all of their answers have enough commonalities that you can answer the question I posed. "Your idea of normal is presumably whatever you’ve been using for the past few years." isn't "asking for clarity" - it's a dunk with no substance. "Ok, so your list of “normal” frontend doesn’t support your original point... React and Next have been moving in the opposite direction with SSR." is absolutely a nitpick - it's very very clear from the line that that poster quoted that I was referring to client-side rendering.

Let me reiterate that: pavlov read the line of my comment that answered his hypothetical question about SSR vs client-side rendering, then used it to try to gotcha me by saying "actually, React isn't just client-side".

And claiming that they were just "disagreeing" with me and "characterising their disagreement as language nitpicking isn't disagreeing it's just wrong" is factually incorrect. Aside from ”you want to push as much logic to the client” (which they didn't disagree with), I didn't make any statements to agree or disagree with - I asked a question that they tried to dunk on without actually engaging with.

People do not talk like this in real life. Let's not normalize or defend this, or manipulate language to try to justify it, shall we?
> But once uttered, we can't control how other people interpret our words.

Sure I could. If the HN had an edit button.

Death of the author, eh? I don't prescribe to that notion. It makes every interpretation valid. Even if the one interpreting them is tripping balls.

> All I'm saying I that I hope we're not spending time trying to terraform mars while our own planet dies.

If we are waiting until every human being is content and happy, and environment is perfectly stable, we'll be waiting past heat death of the universe.
> It's the front-end of the hype cycle. The tech-debt problems will come home to roost in a year or two.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Not that this detracts from the wider point, but I'd expect unpause to just work unless you go out of your way to make it not work. Even if you drop the connection at some point, afaik they use ~15 Mb/s as their "premium" bitrate, so e.g. a 30 s buffer takes less than 64 MB. That gives plenty of time to re-establish streaming after an unpause. It's not like the computer forgets what it was doing if you leave it alone.
Not that big if you pick just what you need (but still quite a lot of kb to be fair). Take a quick look at their online builder and test it for yourself https://echarts.apache.org/en/builder.html
> Imagine a scenario where all paid services (software, streaming, and quite literally everything else) was only available on hardware attested devices rooted with only one or a few players.

We already have some content where this has been attempted. That content is on the piracy sites. And that's when breaking the DRM and piracy sites are both illegal.

They simply wouldn't use a business model where they first make something and then try to charge people for it after. Instead you might have a subscription service, but the subscription is patronage, i.e. you want them to keep producing content and if enough people feel the same way, they make enough to keep doing it. But the content they release is available to everyone.

> every employee who worked on it under both NDA and non-compete. Imagine how much more difficult the labor market would be to navigate if the government didn't intervene to prevent overbearing terms in such a scenario. Consider what all of this would do to market efficiency.

The assumption is that such NDAs would be enforceable. What if they're not?

> Rather it was to point out that despite all the downsides, IP law does clearly offer some collective benefits by significantly reducing incentives that would otherwise drive greedy individuals to act against common interests.

The greedy individuals could be addressed by banning their attempts to reconstitute copyright through thug behavior. The real question is, would we be better off without it, if some things wouldn't be created?

Likely the optimal balance is close to the original copyright terms, i.e. you get 14 years and there is none of this anti-circumvention nonsense which in practice is ineffective at its ostensible purpose and is only used to monopolize consumer devices to try to exclude works that compete with the major incumbents. But the existing system is so far out of whack that it's not clear it's even better than nothing.
Just did a test last week and OpenAIs research was way better. Found 10x more sources and did an overall pretty great job

The task was to lookup information about a late distant family member who had been a prominent employee in a certain foreign government about 100 years ago

Gemini barely scratched the surface and pretty much gave up

ChatGPT on the other hand, kept building up on its research, connecting the dots and leveraging each bit of acquired information to try to find more
I've been getting the same thing at my company. Honestly no idea what is driving it other than hype. But it somehow feels different than the usual hype; so prescribed, as though coordinated by some unseen party. Almost like every out of touch business person had a meeting where they agreed they would all push AI for no reason. Can't put my finger on it.
Unless of course you try to transmit it to someplace your bank or the government doesn't like, or the bank has dumb AML controls. In which case the transaction will likely get held up if it can be sent at all. If you try to transfer from somewhere boring like from the USA to Canada of course you can send $25k no problem (most of the time anyway, my bank has interrogated me and locked up my account before for attempting to send $1500 to my wife until I gave up and just used cash).

Meanwhile you could transfer $25k in crypto to Dubai and walk away with it in cash at an OTC desk in an hour via a wallet to wallet.
Some of the image generation systems are very fast.
(Creator here) It's something I'd like to spend more time on! I didn't have a good time with LLM prompting but I think maybe something deterministic similar to Nutrimatic https://nutrimatic.org/2024/ might produce better results.
More incorrect statements.

> your backend has rich domain logic you can leverage to provide users with as much data as possible ... Pushing as much logic (i.e., state) while you're developing results in a pale imitation of that domain logic on the front end

False. There's very little that you can do on the frontend that you can't do on the backend - you can implement almost all of your logic on the frontend and just use the backend for a very few things.

> leading to a greatly diminished user experience.

False. There's just no evidence for this whatsoever, and as counterevidence some of the best tools I've ever used have been extremely rich frontend-logic-heavy apps.
> my life feels like I am a drone
> Not being female is a huge disadvantage these days.
> All things males can only dream of.
Are you saying that the same dynamic do not occur when gender roles are reversed (pops stayed home while mom worked; mom does, pops gets house and pension)? No disrespect intended, but you might want to find someone to help you unpack and process these things you’re saying; no good will come of projecting on to gender dynamics and letting resentment fester.
Stupid is specifically what you need to test for.
I thought blackout poetry was when you write poetry while in a blackout state and can't remember it the next day.
I've become very very bad at Google searches. Nothing seems accurate anymore, I should say precise, I'm hitting vendor/official/party-line stuff, or wordy blogs that say nothing.

I use ChatGPT at home constantly, for history questions, symptoms of an illness, identification of a plant hiking, remembering a complex term or idea I can't articulate, tips for games, and this list goes on.

At work it's Copilot.

I've come to loathe and mock Google search and I can't be the only one.
> Specialization is a thing. But this is a thing that applies to individuals rather than nations. You don't need every person to know how to mine ore or hang drywall as long as somebody does. But a country the size of the US could certainly contain someone who knows how to do any given thing.

When you scale up the thinking past rudimentaries like 'hanging drywall', it still applies to nations - instead of "do we have enough people who know how to mine ore" it's "do we have the capability of mining enough ore to meet our needs" and the various intricacies that come with those massive-scale problems - problems that are much more easily solved when backed by a global economy.
> There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching.

That's not the kind of experience companies look for though. Do you have a degree? How much time have you spent working for other companies? That's all that matters to them.
> My pet hypothesis for years is that this must be the result of an evolutionary arms race within the species.

Frans de Waal studied primates and defended just this hypothesis. He wrote a bunch of books, so you may be interested in reading at least some of them.

BTW, my pet hypothesis is the social roots of our intelligence is the reason why people mostly hopelessly dumb. They kinda go on intuition and it works in normal social situations, but when it comes to politics or science the intuition fails them. One needs to train their mind to stick to logic and rationality, without taking sides which seem the most beneficial for them. But training is hard and training can easily be overcome by the intuition, which is the natural way for brain to work. You need to keep your brain working against its nature to not lose your intelligence in situations which are not hierarchy games.
We are all bag holders in this pump and dump because of the index funds. But the other big component of Tesla shareholders is retail investors. The same people who HODL meme stocks.
>A lot of context I get from just reading results from a traditional search engine is lost when I get an answer from a LLM. I find it somewhat uncomfortable to just accept the answer, and if I have to double check it anyways, the LLM's answer is kind of meaningless and I might as well use a traditional search engine.

And this is how LLMs perform when LLM-rot hasn't even become widely pervasive yet. As time goes on and LLMs regurgitate into themselves, they will become even less trustworthy. I really can't trust what an LLM says, especially when it matters, and the more it lies, the more I can't trust them.
> But you remove all healthcare and social support for trans people

What does that even mean? Healthcare is a mess for everyone already. Social support? What does “social support” in the context of trans people actually entail? Spending enough time and resources to normalize the concept? Support what? How?

If you think somehow bigots will eventually change their tune, I have a bridge to sell you.
Deep research used to mean spending a weekend with grep and a coffee pot. Now it’s just autocomplete with a confidence interval.
> Mistake #1: Calculating tsvector On-the-Fly (Major issue)

I'm shocked that the original post being referred to made this mistake. I recently implemented Postgres FTS in a personal project, and did so by just reading the Postgres documentation on FTS following the instructions. The docs lead you through the process of creating the base unoptimized case, and then optimising it, explaining the purpose of each step and why it's faster. It's really clear that is what it's doing, and I could only assume that someone making this mistake is either doing so to intentionally misrepresent Postgres FTS, or because they haven't read the basic documentation.
That is not what is suggested.
Llm still fuzzy mess, but supervisor / self editing is rules based
I don't think there's anything wrong with exploring a field for decades. There are many scientists who have a mix of successes and failures. But this guy spend his whole life and many years of other people's lives trying one single thing that never really worked. You could call that being a single-minded visionary, but I don't think it's unreasonable for others to think it either kooky or a giant waste.

A useful comparison to me here is all the alchemical efforts to turn lead into gold. Can modern physicists do that? Not economically, but sure. [1] If alchemists had just persisted, would they have gotten there too? No, it was a giant waste, and pretty loony to a modern eye. And I'd say both alchemists and a number of AI proponents both are so wrapped up in pursuing specific outcomes (gold, AGI) that they indulge in a lot of magical thinking.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l...
I mean technically GitHub could intercept the exec syscall, but given that the shell allows executing other programs that call fork and exec, you can't really block it (and why would you, really).

Highly likely that exec would work.
It depends. Sometimes webpages are useful, but at the same time navigating the amount of fluff on webpages nowadays takes longer than asking a LLM.

I asked Claude to give me a recipe that uses mushrooms and freezes well and it give me a decent looking soup recipe. It might not be the best soup ever, but it's soup, kinda hard to mess up. The alternative would be to get a recipe from the web with a couple dozen paragraphs about how this is the bestest soup ever and it comes from their grandma and reminds them of summer and whatnot.
"it's like that because that's how it is"
IANAL but if you sell shares, even privately, the SEC sets anti-fraud provisions that must be observed.
Agreed. I'm increasingly using ChatGPT to research topics. In that way, I can refine my question, drill down, ask for alternatives, supply my own supplementary information, etc.

I think of AI as an intelligent search engine / assistant and, outside of simple questions with one very specific answer, it just crushes search engines.
The fosslinux/live-bootstrap project is more about bootstrapping from minimal binary seed than auditability, for the latter case I'd argue that having a readable C cross-compiler is clearer than going through multiple steps involving several programming or scripting languages.
Can it parse Zeek logs to identify long-running TCP connections and/or identify user attempts to access a DNS blocked domain?
Paper Clothing
Way to misdirect a totally valid point
I think that there are two sides of an intelligence, intelligence as an inborn ability to become intelligent and intelligence as the result of the process of becoming intelligent. People are more intelligent then animals in the first sense, AND they developed a process of training the "raw" inborn intelligence into an adult mind.
Interesting just in case system. Hybrid of both GPS and BPS for extra accuracy might have benefits. But from [2 - page 13] four transmission towers, accuracy is within 100 m.

[1] https://nabpilot.org/broadcast-positioning-system-bps/

[2] https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2023/diamond.pdf [pdf]
I find introspecting about how I formulate the question and what works better or worse for me personally fascinating.

I am content to use the AI to perform "menial" tasks: I had a textfile in something parsable by field with some minor quirks (like right justified text) and was able to specify the field SEMANTICS in a way that made for a prompt to an ICS file calendar which just imported fine as-is. Getting a years forward planning from a texttual note in some structure into calendar -> import -> from-file was sweet. Do I need to train an AI to use a token/API key to do this directly? No. But thinking about how I say efficiently what fields are, and what the boundaries are, helps me understand my data.

BTW while I have looked at a ICS file and can see it is type:value, I have no idea of the types, or what specific GMT/Z format it wants for date/time, or the distinctions of meaning for confirmed/pending or the like. These are higher level constructs which seem to have made useful distinct behaviours in the calendar and the AI description of what it had done, and what I should expect lined up. I did not e.g. stipulate the mappings from semantic field to ICS type. I did say "this is a calendar date" and it did the rest.

I used AI to write a DJANGO web to do some trivial booking stuff. I did not expect the code to run as-is, but it did. Again, could I live with this product? Yes, but the extensibility worries me. Adding features, I am very conscious one wrong prompt and it can turn this into .. drek. It's fragile.
Very likely the site is well optimized. It's optimized for search engines, which is why we found the site in the first place, which is in turn the reason I said "very likely" in the first sentence: we come upon web sites not truly randomly but because someone optimized them for search ranking. It also appears from your "without an ad blocker" that the site may be optimized for ad revenue, monetizing our visit as much as possible. There's probably optimization of tracking you in order to support those ads, too.

What you're complaining about is that the site is not optimized for your reading enjoyment. The site is probably quite well optimized, but your reading enjoyment was not one of the optimizer's priorities. I think we agree about how annoying that is and how prevalent, so the news that new typographical features are coming seems to me like good news for those of us who would appreciate more sites that prioritize us the readers over other possible optimization strategies.
google and bing are much worse now. I cant find anything. I cant remember the last time a discussion [platform] made it into the results. Kinda comical how even the ads are terrible. I think they discover it is better for me to keep searching rather than buy anything?

Twitter and reddit are garbage.

I sometimes use youtube search then fast forward with the subs on and the sound off.

The internet has ended. It's been a fun ride, thanks everyone.

6510 slaps hn with a large trout
“Withheld” has a specific meaning in this context. As explained in the subsequent order (appendix page 11a of the material I linked above: “Withholding of removal, in contrast to asylum, confers only the right not to be deported to a particular country rather than the right to remain in the U.S.”

Garcia was deportable. He was only not deportable to El Salvador.
Discussion (100 points, 1 day ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613079
You are describing Kernel Live Patching [1][2][3][4] most commonly used in VPS providers to minimize downtime but keep the fleet patched for security issues. There are some limitations listed in some of the documents below.

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_live_patching

[2] - https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-...

[3] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/live-patching.ht...

[4] - https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Kernel_live_patching
I found a cool GPS alternative nobody knows about [video]
> capitalism is that it isn't a thing at all. It's the absence of a thing. It's a positive freedom.

This is very wrong. Capitalism fundamentally requires abstract property rights (i.e. someone can own a thing they have never even held or seen, much less used), and it requires a state to provide very strong protections for those abstract rights.

In the absence of the state imposing such a property right regimen, you wouldn't have capitalism, since it'd be impossible to accumulate capital if the only way to own property is to physically use and/or occupy it.

Importantly, capitalism is not the same as free markets! Humanity has had free markets in one form or another for most of its history, but capitalism is very recent historically speaking.

The notion that socialism is always anti-individualistic is also wrong. Left-wing libertarianism is a thing, and goes back to the earliest anarchist writers (who literally invented the term "libertarian" as a political label - and they didn't have the likes of Ayn Rand in mind when they did that). There's even free-market left-wing anarchism.
Is because unlike prior hype cycles, this one is super easy for an MBA to point at and sort of see a way to integrate it.

Prior hype, like block chain are more abstract, therefore less useful to people who understand managing but not the actual work.
> AI will never produce a deletion.

I'm currently reading an LLM generated deletion. its hard to get an LLM to work with existing tools, but not impossible
Open Mind Common Sense is a project now forgotten, a mid 2000s effort to build something like Cyc but in a more open fashion. From the MIT Media Lab, primarily Pushpinder Singh (RIP).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mind_Common_Sense
It's likely that they're drumming on the gutter because the metal is loud. Drumming is both a way to get at food by digging under the bark and a way to signal for territory+mating. The signaling is the main reason that the drumming patterns are distinct!
So is DNG in the implementation I've worked on (data as outputted by the sensor wrapped in a TIFF structure), but whether what the sensor outputs is actually "raw" can be debatable and is sensor- and configuration-dependent.
From my 8yo, Luke: Put a tornado on. Let us be other things. Mega Boss Battle with an extra-strong one. Maybe the extra-strong one can be the tornado. Maybe if you're another thing, you could battle the wizard.
The best thing that happened to open-source computing in last decade.