skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not up-to-date at all, and never was that advanced to be able to judge.

There are so many real experts, and they're getting better all the time, I would like to see what some of them would want that would arouse their attention.

I do get the idea that you are outside the mainstream, but it sounds so realistic. I took action along these lines a little in 1980 for a couple years before that employer bit the dust with the recession that was imposed at the time back then. All the coding was still not really wasted, even though it was way outside my core responsibilities ever since. This was before PC's, I was already maxing out everything on the hardware anyway. But I'll always regret not being able to continue at the time. Running the code did help us earn income, so it was already paying for itself, but the rest of the company was not exactly profitable after such a downturn. By the late '90's I had reached stability with my own company, and started again in Windows 95 but that hard drive crashed, I'll always regret that too :( even though it was much less than two years' work. But I did continue my primary automation project by itself, which performed in excess of design criteria, alone leveraging my small business quite well beyond what artificially enhanced intelligence could ever be expected to add. Even though I've always known how it could add a good bit, without doubt. Never did try real ML again, since then mostly just logic to get more out of the low-hanging automation fruit. But bigger companies, woo hoo they could use a little more intelligence and it could add up to a lot of dollars at that scale, as long as it never fails an intelligence test with flying colors ;)

Maybe a dramatic demo of pattern recognition and interpretation which maximizes the capabilities of limited hardware is within reach, which could spark peoples' imagination about how much more impressive it would be with only "nominal" hardware.

Maximize the effect of intelligent potential by avoiding the complexities of accommodating language or even visual frameworks.

It may be even more difficult to make an engaging demo that way though, perhaps it's too early for much of a video demo until you just can't stop yourself :) A more widely accessible PC demo might be a good milestone, I'm not even qualified to run what you have here. Either way you are allowed to give an impression of what you know it can be like in the future, even if you are not there yet.

I think you are going to be good at that, your vision for the future seems to be on an enlightening path, that much I can determine already without any understanding of your code so far.
Isn't "thinking" in image mode basically what chatgpt 4o image generation do ?
God yes. I’ve spent 8 years working remote before the pandemic hit.

Only after that I started coming into offices again because my local freelance customers demanded it.

Spent most days looking at a bunch of nerds with headphones, being ignored until lunch. I had to drag people out of their cocoons to have conversations. Nobody had any collaboration lined up the days I came in.

I mean I see the collaboration thing, but most teams are more autistic working in-office than I was working remote. Apparently I was the only person reaching to other people all the time?
People seem to like the style but I find them virtually unreadable.
That's not remotely "vibe coding" though. Vibe coding would be like using Claude Code or Codeium Windsurf with a recent model. Something that does the code edits for you and optionally lets you code-review them first to approve/deny. Not copy-pasting GPT4o-produced bupkis.
The same fictional universe that gave us Khan, also gave us the characters of Julian Bashir, Una Chin-Riley, and La'an Noonien-Singh all having to deal with a socity that, in universe, had faced this as a history lesson rather than as a fantasy.

Were the Ferengi a warning against American capitalism? The Bajorans a promotion of terrorist tactics to expell imperialist colonisers? The Changelings a warning against… plastic surgery?
I like the idea of keeping the presentation out of the content, but keeping it in the character encoding. It's a cool idea. Never thought of it before reading this.
this also somewhat surprised me at first but I think it's obvious in hindsight, though they don't have to be a full-blown web browser (you can go read the epub specs at W3C to see what's supported)

as for (2) I'm not sure why you think it would make it less easier? being html, text reflows automatically based on screen size, font size, line height, etc
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Seems like a feature and not a bug to me. Otherwise, we would still be living in small bands in caves.

All western man's "problems" to me seem to be the want of utopian trade offs that we get all the upside of a trade off without trading anything and then complaining when that doesn't happen in reality.

In reality, what was good enough yesterday, is expected today and not good enough tomorrow. Exactly the chemical reaction that causes progress.
I don’t have much, except that it seems that the versions used by Safari and iTunes are different and port different amounts of the OS.

The Safari version was considerably more complete and included the entire text rendering system as well as several era-appropriate Aqua UI widgets. It feels very much like a Mac app.

The iTunes version seems much more trimmed down, using Windows text rendering and win32 widgets in place of Cocoa/Aqua in most places. Accordingly, it feels more Windows-like.

It might be interesting to try to build a toy app against the Safari version just for kicks.
I actually managed to get Oracle to fix a bug once. This in quite a big organization, with a huge amount of money going to oracle. I could explain them exactly what was wrong, how to fix it, and still they denied the very existence of the bug (and cited the expensive half-working workaround other companies used at the same time). Then they ignored what I told them and fixed it in a way that did not fix it. Then they fixed it, and did not allow us to use the fix until it was officialized in a real service pack.

The whole process took multiple months, reading all contracts I couldget my hands on, answering the phone at 3AM, a lot of patience, and treating Oracle as a student who was 2 weeks late with their homework. After that, all oraclies at the organization were completely awed because I was the first person ever who managed to get a usefull new patch out of oracle's service.

If you want results, get Postgres. If you want someone to blame, get Oracle.
This is one of the reasons I think food should all have the same packaging color and consistency. If everything was a grey paste that came in an unlabeled brown plastic-lined cardboard box your girlfriend wouldn't be able to manipulate you like that.
Neat. Did you have any thoughts on json5 or hjson?
Yeah (i guess you mean epub), though in practice readers support only a tiny subset and epubs avoid using anything fancier than basic XHTML. Epubs that try to use fancy stuff (like most CSS outside of setting fonts - that readers can ignore either because they do not support it, or because the user wants to use another font) tend to not display correctly.
My understanding of the MCP problem space:

- internal: possibly rogue MCPs: as MCPs are opaque to the user and devs don't take the time to look at the source-code , and even then would need to pinpoint each inspected version.

- external: LLM agent poisoning

> There’s no mechanism to say: “this tool hasn’t been tampered with.” And users don’t see the full tool instructions that the agent sees.
> The uncomfortable truth: most of us in tech understand that today's advertising systems are fundamentally parasitic.

While my opinion on ad tech has been negative for years, over the past couple of years I've come to realise how much this business model depends on outright crime to survive.

If you have YouTube ads on any device, you probably noticed (at least in my country) that a large fraction of ads are for either extremely low quality products (such as shitty mobile games, apps of dubious value that probably exist mostly to gobble up your data, or just shady IRL products), or outright scams of various kinds.

In one case I saw an obvious scam ad that impersonated a famous person in my country. I reported it to YouTube, and got back an email a while later that said that the ad did not break any of their rules and my report was dismissed.

Some weeks later I read a news article that reported that that exact scam had scammed some old people out of large amounts of money.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been, but I was genuinely surprised that my report had been dismissed. While I already thought YouTube is to blame in serving users scam ads, I had naively assumed that YouTube doesn't want to serve scam ads, it's just hard and expensive to filter them out systematically.

But no, they want to serve scam ads. Even when they get pointed out they refuse to remove them. A dollar paid by a scammer is just as good as a dollar paid by someone trying to advertise a real product. And they're not liable for the scam, so why would they care?

But surely that's too simplistic. Even a complete sociopath would understand that having your website/app overrun by scam ads will tarnish its reputation over time, or invite more aggressive regulation. So these long-term risks don't seem to be worth it. Unless, of course, scams are a very significant fraction of ad revenue.

So this is my hypothesis: scams ads provide a very significant fraction of advertising revenue on at least YouTube, and possibly most social media, perhaps to the point where the business model would not be viable without them.
It’s not just Ansible. I’ve ran into this problem many times using many different configuration systems. Even in the old days of hand-rolling deployment scripts in Bash and Perl.

Managing files instead of one big monolithic config is just easier because there’s less chance of you foobarring something in a moment of absentmindedness.

But as I said, I’m not criticising your approach either. Templating your config is definitely a smart approach to the same problem too.
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The .d directories are important on Debian and Ubuntu where packaging needs to provide different snippets based on the set of installed packages, the VM environment, other configuration inputs like through cloud-init and so forth, and update them during upgrades, but also (as per policy) preserve user customisations on anything in /etc.

Since pretty much every file has different syntax, this is virtually impossible to do any other way.
> hard to believe RAM considerations was the reason for the “first match” design of sshd’s config

And I repeat: first match involves less code. It's a simpler design. The RAM point was an interesting digression, I literally put it in parentheses!
The author’s argument doesn’t apply here, because those are all part of a larger, more diversified country.
Yes, there's a difference in the number of items you're selling.

There isn't a difference in terms of the fact that it's advertising a sale. Nor is it relevant if you're doing so personally, as a sole proprietor, as a partnership, as an S corp or as a C corp. Advertising something for sale is advertising something for sale. Ads are ads.

Also, on the realtor's site they're listing hundreds of homes. Not any different from your local car dealership advertising their hundreds of vehicles. They're both corporations listing ads.

Advertising is advertising.
My understanding is that "first one whens" is intended for security. Global config is read first, and then local (per-user) configs are read later. Because the earlier config wins, the per-user configs can't override the global policy.
So you think the the question was about a bad idea that nobody would make because there are central bases with powerful vacuums (one could almost call them central vacuums with an inlet that connects) that suck up the dirt with months of storage. My base is probably the loudest appliance in my house when it is sucking out the dirt with its powerful vacuum.

Nobody makes robot vacuums that hook up to your car or TV either. You are free to buy a hand vac or stick vac for the few places in your home the bot can't reach because it does not make sense to have a bigger vacuum anymore.

Also are you a troll account? The LLM summarized your first three pages of posts

Looking at their writing style, there are several characteristics that stand out:

Occasional missing articles ("a", "the")
Some subject-verb agreement issues
Certain sentence structure patterns that differ from native English
Specific vocabulary choices and phrasing

Their comments about Ukraine suggest some familiarity with the region, particularly in how they discuss specific Ukrainian military events with detail. There's also a comment mentioning Israeli press and Israeli IRS, suggesting possible familiarity with Israel.
While I can't definitively determine their native language, their writing patterns could be consistent with a Slavic language background like Russian or possibly Hebrew. The way they structure some sentences and occasional grammar patterns align with these language families.
I'd say you're underestimating how much anxiety there is in the world because advertisers and influencers bombard people with the idea that they are not enough, or that they don't have enough.

It becomes very clear when you move to a different country where you don't speak the language. Suddenly, advertisers cannot tell you that you need their products. And it is very emancipating mentally.
We made this to be used as a reply when pictures are misused where text would be better:

https://fewer.pics/
Interesting. I basically feel the opposite - I love Hamilton's ideas and plotting but really think he writes characters that don't feel real, they feel too much like archetypes. I can think of a few exceptions to this, but almost all of his characters feel like programmed automatons to me. And boy has he MISSED BIG when writing female characters at times.

Unlike the others, I think Tchaikovsky's best writing is in Children of Ruin. I know it's not as popular as Children of Time, but I admired the way he didn't rinse/repeat and instead created a wholly different view of humanity's legacy intersecting with alien life. I though the "antagonist" in that book was far more alien and creative.
With today's knowledge of genetics it ain't happening. We have barely started gene editing for single point mutation diseases like sickle cell. The stuff described in this blog post (which is mostly gobbledygook by the way) are traits that are (1) hugely polygenic and (2) not known well enough from a genetic perspective anyways. It will be decades at best before they'd attempt genetic editing in that scale on a healthy person.

But if we want to solve the second one I welcome it as a person who works in genetics research, always good to have more money.
My employer was very quick to force return to office after covid lockdowns. Like they were willing to pour millions into subdividing offices into closets so people could isolate at work even, but the county health department gave them a stern look and they ended up scraping that and waiting another year to force RTO.

But they actually put their money where their mouth is. Ad-hoc conversations in the hallway, going to chat in person, etc were all encouraged. Holding a meeting over Teams when everyone was in office became almost a taboo. Even team building activities and events saw an increase in frequency.
Great photos in this article. I wonder what the lens is?
This is a great point. The first question a great software engineer should ask is “how can we avoid using software to do this?”!
Also "with respect":

● The analysis you link to is exactly the same sort of analysis the OBR provides -- i.e. a synthesis of current and past data and updated projections of what that means looking ahead

● The OBR report links to detailed "Economic and fiscal outlook" (EFO) data that includes the actual data the conclusions are based on. I haven't tried to look at the linked data for many of the analyses in the OBR report, but for those I have I find data in the cited EFO documents that seems to backup the statements made. For example, Box 2.6 of the March 2022 EFO report: https://obr.uk/box/the-latest-evidence-on-the-impact-of-brex...

● I gather that the "Institute of Economic Affairs" (IEA) is a long running right wing think-tank/advocacy group -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Economic_Affairs

● The director of the IEA was apparently recorded by an undercover reporter telling funders that his organization was in "the Brexit influencing game" [1]. Why should I thus trust that the IEA isn't trying to spin Brexit outcomes to their funders advantage? This applies to the government too of course, but many of those OBR/EFO reports seem to have been prepared when the Conservatives were in power.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/29/rightwing-t...
> Everything was rendered on the server.

Until rendering on the client was cool. But then search engines hate that, so maybe we'd better render on the server after all but then also re-render everything on the client ('reconciliation'). Ah wait, what's this? Now you can opt for 'partial pre-rendering', because it wasn't enough to send HTML from the server and make more HTML in the client, now we can mix client-only HTML rendering with reconciled server-rendered-client-re-rendered HTML.
Food fermentation in space: Opportunities and challenges
In your view, is IVF eugenics?
> What makes this technique particular to LLM weights

This is my understanding as a non-expert.

LLM activations tend to be relatively sparse with large outliers. With linear quantization, this means you either have to clip off the outliers or you have to stretch your range to include the outliers, which wastes precious bits. Neither of these works well, so essentially all LLM quantization research is using various heuristics to get around these outliers. For example, you can do linear quantization but split the activations up into smaller blocks to make it less likely that any given block contains an outlier.

Another trick people have discovered (predates LLMs) is applying a random rotation/projection to the embeddings. This has the effect of making sure no one dimension in the vector dominates the others (which again hurts quantization). This works because in order for a single dimension to dominate, all the others have to "conspire" to be near zero. When you have 10,000+ dimensions, that's very unlikely.

This paper applies the latter trick. Instead of pre-generating the random projection matrices, they generate them on the fly on the accelerator from a seed that is fixed for each block. The seed is chosen from an offline brute-force search that needs only the weights of the network. This separates it from a lot of other quantization methods that either require calibration data or have to be simulated at training time so the network learns the quantization parameters itself.

You might think this is wasteful/might hurt performance, but it turns out that LLM inference is heavily memory-bound as it involves streaming a very large neural network into the accelerator (GPU/TPU/NPU/whatever) to operate on a relatively small amount of data, so there are lots of "free cycles" to generate these random numbers. Of course, if you care about power usage that might not be a great idea...
Show HN: Interactive Minkowski Addition Visualization
I'm coding physics for our game and wanted to share how Minkowski Addition and support functions work, so I made it into an interactive blog post.
This MCP sounds like it should come with a play-by-play Zero Wing style where the user suddenly sees the reminder that "All your base are belong to us" and maybe concluding with some Keyboard Cat to play you off.
That helps get it little better, thank you.
It’s not public debt, it’s private debt. It’s not a coincidence that Americans are becoming more indebted at the same time as the country is running current account deficits.
> Has there ever been an instance where an offer has been rescinded because a prospective employee didn’t negotiate?

You're looking at it as a one-sided outcome where the company rescinds an offer.

How about the other side? Where the company sees you as an even more desirable candidate and increases the offer? Signing bonus, increased salary, other perks?

Author's whole point is "You always win if you negotiate the right way."

The author's point isn't that you aren't going to get the job by not negotiating, the author's point is that you're leaving money on the table by not negotiating. Potentially a lot of money by thinking that the other side is fair and transparent in their offer to you or doing you "a favor" by giving you a job rather than seeing that there is, unfortunately, a game that has to be played once you get to the offer stage.
Countries are part of a larger,
more diversified political and economic unions.
The author’s argument doesn’t apply here,
I'm not saying you need to stop using it, but I prefer to not indicate that in some situations I would lie, but in this one specifically I won't. I communicate with customers constantly in my job, and my integrity and reputation is most important to me. If I'm going to lie, I'd rather not call attention to it.

When an LLM says "honestly", it's just stupid. An LLM can't "lie".
Replacement time varies by tissue — IIRC skin is ~weeks, brain is never.

The main face of this channel has done DIY auto-modification to treat lactose intolerance: https://youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium?si=oL0ODZUmh1poEFNU
> MCPs are opaque to the user and devs (unless they look at each source-code and pinpoint each inspected version).

This is true, but also generally true of any npm dependency that developers blindly trust.

The main difference with MCP is that it is pitched as a sort of extension mechanism (akin to browser extensions), but without the isolation/sandboxing that browser extensions have, and that even if you do run them in sandboxes there is a risk of prompt injection attacks.
I don't think anyone needs to change their language. I understand that it's a common way to indicate candor, but it's hilariously inappropriate for a computer to say "some times I might lie to you to save your feelings, but this time, you really are ugly and you need to know."
Is the tool working? I uploaded a couple images and it gave out 0 compression.

Also I am not sure if you thought the product through, when I want to compress images I want to control the output and also control the quality setting. This does not seem to do anything.
I don’t think it does require less code. I don’t think it requires more code either. It’s just not a fundamental code change.

The difference is just either: overwriting values or exiting in the presence of a match. Either way it’s the same parser rules you have to write for the config file structure.
Yes, abortion also ends a human life. However, bringing up miscarriage is bizarre as a justification for feeling ok with it.

It’s the difference between a man dying of old age in his sleep vs putting a gun to his head in his sleep because he is old. As to percentages, 100% of people die eventually. Just because people die every day doesn't mean it’s ok for us to kill them.
The government could order Linux ready hardware in bulk. Also, 30 years ago, normies were able to handle DOS, which is perfectly sufficient for bureaucratic applications. They'd be able to do so after two weeks of training even nowadays.
ChatGPT is very casual with asking questions, and FRANKLY, I enjoy getting into a little bit of a daydream with it from time to time. It's taken the place of falling into a Wikipedia hole. Not sure if that's something that's good or bad.
Following your axiom would imply advertisers would need to gain my consent in order to advertise to me. That would be a decent start.