skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sick of subscriptions, so I built an alternative for everyone
I’m done with subscription tyranny. So I built ARES: a one-click pay-per-use platform that lets users escape monthly fees and lets businesses earn frictionless revenue.

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He's not a perfect figure but I always really valued Haseebs perspective and energy. I used to have access to an old lecture of his explaining memory management through whiteboard sketches of original mario that I really loved in addition to dozens of energetic insightful lectures on foundational computer science concepts that he basically did for free before his AirBnB position.

I think he played a big role for a lot of pre-pandemic bootcamp imposters like me.

But seeing this pop back up on HN I'm wondering how radically the tech world / job market has changed. I've been hiding in kushy underpaid remote jobs basically since the pandemic so I have no real idea whats going on out there.

How applicable is this perspective to the present day market for software engineers? How much have things fundamentally changed?
What would TypeLisp or Visual Scheme provide that you can’t get from a repl and a language server integrated into your editor?

At work I write a lot of TypeScript. At how I write a lot of lisp. The lisp is absolutely more ergonomic and extensible.
Also, free speech isn't the same as free amplification of speech.
The responsibility does not rest solely with the person behind the wheel. Tesla know or should know how people use this system, and engineer it such that it doesn't kill people when the end user does what they are foreseeably going to do.
I don't think that's a useful lens to view the problem through, or a useful way to have a conversation about MCP security.

That a system is hard to secure doesn't negate the need for it to be secure.

Though I agree about third-party MCP services. They're in a weird spot and I'm not sure that they're viable for many use cases.
If it can be derived from the book text, then LLMs or reader can already derive it.

If it can’t be derived from the book text, then it’s extra content that probably shouldn’t be there because it came from elsewhere.
Yeah, the antagonists in Columbo are always "elitists" ... at least by the standards of the time of the shows.
I'm sick of subscriptions, so I built an alternative for everyone
I’m done with subscription tyranny. So I built ARES: a one-click pay-per-use platform that lets users escape monthly fees and lets businesses earn frictionless revenue.

Why this exists:

1. 47% of US Consumers feel subscription fatigue
2. 33% refuse to get a new subscription unless they cancel an existing one.
3. The problem’s getting worse as AI floods the market with new services daily.

How It Works:

1. Users fund their ARES account with credits
2. Partners add "Sign in with ARES" to their platform and track usage through our API when a user uses something
3. Partners earn when credits are spent.

No credit cards. No subscriptions. Just pay for what you actually use.

Why You’ll Love it:

1. Extra revenue stream from users who hate subscriptions.
2. Higher conversion rates (no credit card friction at checkout. In fact, no checkout page at all).
3. Takes <1 day to implement (seriously, our API is super simple).

If you’re interested in integrating ARES, feel free to comment or email jonan@joinares.com

Let’s end subscription chaos together!
Which pretty much makes this whole thing pointless since a lot of unsafe code exists purely for performance reasons.
Gotta love character assassination by screenshot, but I guess that's "cancel culture" for you.

A quick google doesn't support your assertion that he made those comments on "their" (BBC's) social media. And for me "a journalist they've worked with" doesn't equal "one of their correspondents".

But oh well, it's the age of emotions overriding our judgements, the question is, who's doing more of that between the 2 of us.

And your "general thread" is inaccessible since it requires making an account on a Nazi website...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." - Gerald Weinberg
Radar. I remember some of his nonsense about disambiguating, despite the previous AP disambiguating just fine. Same with the rain sensor. This is a cheap part. Radar isn't very expensive either.

To be fair, the ghost brakes on TACC have reduced. But I tend to control my wipers with voice.
You're fixated on the prescription and ignoring what it aims to treat. I think OP is onto something with their Good Will Hunting interpretation, the list is meant to humble as much as educate. And its not at all a bad list either.
You do want them to be better than humans, but vision quality is not really a major source of human accidents. Accidents are typically caused by driving technique, inattention, or a failure to accurately model the behavior of other drivers.

Put another way - would giving humans superhuman vision significantly reduce the accident rate?

The issue here is that the vision based system failed to even match human capabilities, which is a different issue from whether it can be better than humans by using some different vision tech.
I don't know when they added it to iOS, but my iPhone does this. I get a text from some new number and the message includes (e.g.) "Hey this is Tom." and a notice right in Messages says it "found" a contact that this may be and asks if I want to add the number to that contact. I could imagine having this happen correctly a few times in a row might make one trust that it knows what it's doing.
All of these guys have SCIFs at their homes and offices, and if they're traveling they have access to a SCIF. They can absolutely get secure messages across agencies in real time - Waltz even says this in the group chat when he tells them to check their "high side inboxes". They just can't get them as texts to their personal phones - for very good reason. It's a more inconvenient system by design.

What these guys are arguing is that there's a case for using Signal for something like what Waltz was initially doing - telling people to check a more secure system and asking them to name a point person. But of course the risk is that a) even that information is extremely useful to an adversary; b) once the more convenient system exists, you're relying on people to carefully adhere to the rules about what should go on it, and guys like Hegseth are morons who don't feel like they need to follow the rules.
I thought it was consensus that the move away from lidar was driven by a lack of supply compared to desired EV production numbers, and the things said about making vision only work have all been about coping with that reality.
great article

I'm feeling like an old man now but who the hell calls a tool "buildah"? Especially with its ugly dog logo. You can almost assume the dog wants to say "builder" but the extra flaps of skin makes the sound distorted
Free speech has exceptions that include commercial speech and advertising, especially false advertising. So are you talking about US free speech laws, or about some other kind of free speech?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

US law is not a natural right and does not grant the right to say anything. You can claim and exercise a perceived natural right to say anything, you just won’t be protected from punishment under US law for saying certain things.
They release their kernel source more or less timely without the GPL.
No, LLMs are not used (nor would they be allowed). As for whether you would consider OCR to be AI, then... possibly?
I'm not really following the attempt at logic here but under this logic surely you'd WANT multiple types of sensors for all the same reasons.
I think you and GP are in agreement. If you have a sensor with a really bad .5 chance of failure, by having to your chance of failure decreases to 0.5^2=0.25.
I was going to ask exactly that question!

But, given that

96% of books sold less than 1,000 copies in 2020

and assuming, like the author of TFA seems to have reason to believe, that the overwhelming majority of authors don't get more lucrative deals than she did, it... Pretty much can't be for the authors.
I love this. However, I couldn't find an alphabetical list of authors, which is the way I wanted to browse on my first visit. Instead my only option is to show 48 on a page and paginate through, which is tedious. I know there are author pages - e.g. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackera... - so I presume it's feasible. An author index would significantly increase my likelihood of understanding what's available and engaging with the content.
Oh hey, this uses PT fonts, I quite like them:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Sans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_Fonts

I'd actually use them as my main programming font if the dot (.) character wasn't a bit too small at smaller font sizes.
Will limiting auto-pilots to human-level vision not increase their accident rate?
We're talking engineering here. Great isn't the standard. The standard is good enough and within budget.
> but vision quality is not really a major source of human accidents.

Never driven before?
Please stop spamming Tesla support over this thread.
Is it possible for steam from boiling water to contain any impurities?
That's kind of my point. We don't know from the data if the problem is that Tesla has worse FSD than the non-accident brands, or if all brands are equally good/bad and Tesla owners are more likely to use the feature. Tesla could very well have the best FSD software on the market and still lead the accident stats simply because how their users are (ab)using the feature (which I suspect is closest to the truth)
>This made me realize he is not the genius he is made out to be but instead he is a fraud/charlatan and over the years his statements on different topics have only hardened that belief.

That was Karpathy's decision [1] and, yes, I also have that perception of him.

I know this is not going to be well received because he's one of HN's pet prodigies but, objectively, it was him.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/10/31/former...

(one of many)
Yeah, literally. It'll promote something much worse with more passion. You see where this is going?
>oh, a company wants to give me a job! What a relief!” As though having a job were in itself some special privilege for which a company is the gatekeeper.

A global recession is happening. Let's see if this advice will withstand the times or will age like milk. I predict the latter; the Great Depression wasn't fake news.
Ha! This is so much the difference between American and Chinese culture.

By way of illustration, in my earlier career as an actor one of my favorite ever directors to work with was a woman from a Chinese culture (a very, very successful artist, indeed a celebrity, in her home country) whose style was incredibly blunt, and always helpful. She'd interrupt you in full flow with: "No, no. That shit. Try like _____". Or my favorite instance (and just to set the scene: at the time I weighed 165 lbs, could run all day, and stand under a doorframe and lift a foot up to touch the lintel without bending my knee - I was fucking fit, is my point) we were reviewing costumes, and she says "[eszed] not that shirt! Make you look fat." Which, well, yeah: I'm the guy who no matter my body-fat keeps a little roll around my middle - visible abs were never in my genetic cards. I thanked her, and wore something looser.

As you say, American positivity bias won't allow that sort of feedback. I find it bracing.
The improved sensors improve awareness, improving situational awareness of human drivers would have a huge impact.
I never said that. Just discuss the current version or at least something recent (any v13 version).
> being on TV meant being famous ... and at the same time need a regular job.

Also, "being on TV" can mean not only still needing a regular job, but also not really being famous in the slightest. There's bazillions of "reality" show participants pretty much nobody has ever heard of.

> the elite were separated from the public. Internet democratriced all of that. Now we are all mixed.

Muahahahaahaa, good one! Wait... You don't really believe that, do you?!? Because if you do, they really pulled the wool over your ears.
Weird. Why the explicit rule against them?

I understand if the existing editors can't personally proofread the submissions, but that's why peer-review exists. Or an open-source project in general where people can post corrections. Jimbo Wales didn't need to speak a hundred languages to launch Wikipedia.
They didn't let lack of battery supply stop them.
How do those changes address these specific accidents?
Bull Burr said it best about human shields: https://www.youtube.com/v/t-mMt3c3ngQ

If we want to collectively punish people who voted for (or whose election resulted in the rule of) a bunch of fucking morons, well... I have some bad news for US citizens...
Prediction: over the next 4 years we're going to see lots of stories like this. Some of the stories will be fair, some won't. "Musk bad" stories get clicks. The next administration will be very anti-Tesla. Coincidentally, by that time self-driving will be considered mature enough to warrant proper regulation, rather than the experimental regulation status we have now.

Combine the two, and the regulations will be written such that it excludes Tesla and includes Waymo. Not by name, just that the safety regulations will require a safety record better than Tesla's but worse than Waymo's. Likely nobody but Waymo will have that record, and now nobody will be able to because they won't have access to the public roads to attain it.

This might be the ultimate regulatory lock in monopoly we've ever seen.
I'd guess it was posted precisely because it is news to lots of people.
The Agora road forum (a bunch of syntheave plus retired 4channers plus paranormal conspiracists and their dark web adjacent denizens with some retrofuturist early web revival themes) uses these buttons and calls them gangtags though the sizes are not always 88x31. It's nice to see the creativity of the new ones each months.
The benchmarking repository has config files used for the test, and they did not use the tile cache feature.
This thread is misunderstanding the job of Secretary of Defense. They aren't interns learning from the generals how to lead an army or plan logistics. They're project managers who ensure the generals are aligned with the President's goals.
> It turned out that various contracted companies had corruptly put the software licenses they bought for the government into their own names, leading to a lock-in for their services.

This is a dirty trick I ran into in [US] state procurement, in a state known for widespread corruption. It's basically a no-show job where you just hold a bunch of long-term contracts for the state, and claim a monthly "support" fee for doing it. Even worse, you got to negotiate those contracts (and set up your kickbacks or self-dealing.) Bonus points for needing to call the contractor in order to have the contractor call support, and the contractor taking a fee for doing it.

Endless avenues for corruption with a setup like this.
Should an Element Collector Go to Jail for Buying Plutonium Smoke Dectector?
Maybe a good initial step would be to tighten up false advertising laws:

Make it illegal to make statements that are not objectively true. E.g. you can't say that your product is "the best", you can only say specifically how it is better.

Put restrictions on advertising an idealized version of a product and then selling a lesser version. E.g. the difference between what fast food ads show versus what you get. I'm sure it would be difficult to completely fix that since it's so subjective, but we could probably get incremental improvements.
Nobody is going to cite you for filtering if you move into the gap to avoid a collision.
Kerouac and Burroughs are objectively awful. I still think that Kerouac's popularity as a writer was an industry practical joke. Speaking of both skill and content. A People's History used to be an AP History book, so appropriate for very mature kids with teaching support but the books is in a different category. Assuming that the Mensa list is pretty much just an exposure of standard prep school English literature list to the masses, albeit uncurated so as to make it difficult to use. There's too much promotion of substance abuse in Thompson books to qualify them as appropriate for kids, even if the books are otherwise good. Usually high schools aren't in the business of radicalizing students with Chomsky as well as other very political books. Kids can pick that up in college and beyond.

In general, these books are categorically different. The provided list isn't missing them. They'd just be on a different list.
Does this mean that some of your 'compression' is just deleting meta data?

structural compression

What does this mean?
It’s not new, been seeing this for years
You’re paying a human to remaster the book word for word and hand transform it into epub html paragraph by paragraph.

How much less would you do it for?
So, a question: can Musk loose his US citizenship?

I mean, Musk does have two other citizenships, and between this and the tariffs on the island full of penguins, I can easily believe either or both of two future incidents where Trump signs an EO to order deportation of anyone with SA or CA citizenship due to their respective governments not cooperating with something or other.
They can probably get whatever they want through China.
The author claims they normally dislike must-read lists. I call their bluff: they seem a bit preoccupied with finding virtue, given their blog history. I doubt they will find it if they're surrendering judgment to the IQ club. Maybe its better than "10 hot summer reads", but its still an exercise regimen. Christopher Nguyen's "Value Capture" is a good rebuttal to this way of thinking.
It‘s the worst ideas together, but the alternative is even worse? That does not make any sense, logically. But I guess this summarizes the current situation quite nicely.
I just don’t get the analogy he’s trying to draw here
But if they have an online view, why not make it readable? The suggestion above about the line height is presumably a 1-line CSS change.
I wonder why are we getting these drops during the weekend. Is the AI race truly that heated?
(Note: that was in this article https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorHa...)

Yeah and more generally, the author seems to group Go and C on one side (langs where errors are values) and Rust in another, when actually in Rust errors are values just like in Go, and the ? operator just does early return (similar to if err != nil return from Go). Results just make it impossible to use the return value of some function without deciding what to do with its errors, which is awesome (you can't just forget to treat errors)

The distinction between results and panics in Rust is also very instructive. Rust forces the developer to distinguish between recoverable and unrecoverable errors because after the program hit a panic (meant to represent unrecoverable errors) there is probably no meaningful way to continue the execution (data structures might be in an inconsistent state for example, if the panic happened in the midst of an update). Panics very often indicate a bug in the program (for example: array indexing with an out of bounds index means there was a bug while calculating the index) and no amount of error recovery will eliminate the fact that the program has a bug that must be fixed. It's absolutely the best default to interrupt the program after a bug rather than continue and propagate data corruption further.

Now, what can happen is that a library you call considered some error to be unrecoverable (and thus threw a panic) rather than returning a Result, and you think that was a mistake and would like to treat the error. Well that's just a bad API and the correct response is to just send a PR or fork the library and apply the changes yourself. But if one absolutely needs to recover from panics (for example, in a web server a panic generally should send an error 500 to the client but not take down the whole process, which is serving many concurrent requests), you can just compile with panic=unwind (the default) and use catch_unwind.

Error handling is not a solved problem, but Rust solves it way better than any language I've seen.
we're talking about law makers who can, you know, close loopholes.
It's weird that we've come to accommodate this abuse of the plain English meaning of "full self driving".
I understand you're offering this as a gotcha but I'm not sure what you're referring to and it's unclear from context.

In any event, both of those things are typically undemocratic which is why they are rare in functioning democracies and common in autocracies. No system is invulnerable to attack so in certain circumstances they aren't undemocratic. Excluding candidates for, say, a criminal record, mental incapacity, or foreign obligations is less democratic but no reasonable person would claim it voids the will of the people.
the difference here is if you search or seek something, i.e. explicitly consent to viewing advertisements for guitar in your active browsing session vs them being pushed to you without your consent the next day on your phone.

I'm not against monetizing advertisement for the 1st use case either.
And the "E" stands for Essential.
They already do that. Is always in TINY print or they use weasel words that are meaningless in common use, but defendable in court.

Improved health is a good one. It doesn't really mean anything.
Its happening right beneath our feet too! Go dig up the rocks in your yard, come back a year later, and you will find it's full of rocks again.
I've driven before, and agree with the OP. Now what?
Gemini tries to solve a Portal 2 test chamber [video]
My own personal beliefs aren’t really relevant to the topic.

To answer the question anyway: Jewish and British and French and Arabs and Ghanaians and Balinese may want to hire their own, but there’s a certain point where the rubber hits the road and you may find someone outside the group with the skills or contacts you need.
Humans driving cars, obviously.
I think at this moment all governments should start funding the open source foundations so that the foundations can train as well as retain good programming talent to keep the important open source software maintained. I think it will serve better in the long term to the government departments as well as the citizens.
Thanks for adding this.

The core problem of most of the PaaS is the dependency on Swarm (serious workload can't be run on swarm from my experience, disaster recovery too tough).

Working towards building an orchestrator.
I knew there had to be a fallacy for this line of argument, thanks for sharing this!
The Secretary of Defense is a civilian position intended to be independent of the active-duty leadership so as to prevent coups. In practice, many prior SecDef’s had to get waivers to serve.