skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With certain small antipersonnel drones excepted

And mines, and the CIWS I linked to and several like it (I think SeaRAM is similar autonomy to engage), and the Samsung SGR-A1 whose autonomy led to people arguing that we really ought to keep humans in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_autonomous_weapon

The problem is, the more your adversaries automate, the more you need to automate to keep up. Right now we can even have the argument about the SGR-A1 because it's likely to target humans who operate at human speeds and therefore a human in the loop isn't a major risk to operational success. Counter Rocket Artillery Mortar systems already need to be autonomous because human eyes can't realistically track a mortar in mid-flight.

There were a few times in the cold war where it was luck that the lack of technology that forced us to rely on humans in the loop, humans who said "no".

People are protesting against fully autonomous weapons because they're obviously useful enough to be militarily interesting, not just because they're obviously threatening.

> Besides, that's simply not what the LW crowd is talking about.

LW talks about every possible risk. I got the flash-war idea from them.

> Yet, as far as I'm aware, there's not a single important discovery or invention made by AI. No new drugs, no new solar panel materials, no new polymers, etc. And not for want of trying!

For about a decade after Word Lens showed the world that it was possible to run real time augmented reality translations on a smartphone, I've been surprising people — even fellow expat software developers — that this exists and is possible.

Today, I guess I have to surprise you with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Given my experience with Word Lens, I fully expect to keep on surprising people with this for another decade.

Drugs/biosci:

• DSP-1181: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51315462

• Halicin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halicin

• Abaucin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaucin

• The aforementioned 2024 Nobel Prize for AlphaFold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Che...

PV:

• Materials: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/ai-aids-discovery-of-sol...

• Other stuff: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/08/how-ai-can-help-revo...

Polymers:

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06470

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03690

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15354

> They know what humans know. They're no more competent than any human; they're as competent as low-level expert humans, just with superhuman speed and memory. It's not clear that they'll ever be able to move beyond what humans know and develop hypercompetence.

One of the things humans know is "how to use lab equipment to get science done": https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-023-00002-4

"Just with superhuman speed and memory" is a lot, even if they were somehow otherwise limited to a human equivalent of IQ 90.
Cell was a failure, made evident by the fact nobody has tried to use it since.

Comparing the SPEs to compute shaders is reasonable but ignores what they were for. Compute shaders are almost exclusively used for graphics in games. Sony was asking people to implement gameplay code on them.

The idea the PS3 was designed around did not match the reality of games. They were difficult to work with, and taking full advantage of the SPEs was very challenging. Games are still very serial programs. The vast majority of the CPU work can't be moved to the SPUs like it was dreamed.

Very often games were left with a few trivially parallel numerical bits of code on the SPEs, but stuck with the anemic PPE core for everything else.
for related, see Ken Thompson:

http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/texts/trusting-trust/
My summary of the post would be "LLMs have drastically increased demand for remote dev environments, making that business seemingly better than container hosting."

I also feel like calling the LLMs "Robots" is needlessly confusing. "AI" or "Agent" would have been more fitting.
We held a conference recently about democratising access to space with tiny satellites called PocketQubes. Weve launched 53 so far, more than all the other yc companies combined. If you want to hit milestones quickly in orbit I would urge you to explore PocketQubes, its helped us iterate in orbit. Heres a video we made.
For JavaScript developers "simple-peer" npm package is very popular and makes WebRTC very simple. I don't think its' an on-ramp problem, holding it back, it's just that most apps don't necessarily benefit from P2P coms, and also I'd hazard a guess not many people know about WebRTC, yet. Just guessing.
The people that assume the roles within government should speak directly through government-controlled domains exclusively. You’ve got those TLDs for a reason, folks. Nobody else has this right. It is the canonical source of truth because it is fully controlled by the government itself. The public are welcome to comment outside the domain and point to it like any other source, but unless you’re an official (holding office), what you say is your own opinion and covered by the first amendment. I’m not a lawyer, so this is just my opinion, but what officials say outside of their specifically assigned domains (which supposedly are funded by tax dollars and require oversight) should be considered personal opinion and not carry the weight of the office they hold and should be made to declare as much. Consider the Brown act or the emoluments clause within this context. There are certain things officials are on the hook for that the general public is not. Officials have restricted communications and declarations requirements that the public does not. And anything communicated over commercial channels outside of government oversight should be open to prosecution like anybody else. Blow your hot air where we know it’s within official capacity and on the record or post as a private citizen, like everyone else.
This video shows the peanut butter and jelly problem in action: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8?si=xIQpzNTvhRcGY4Nb
European research and innovation funding is absurdly gamed and just money wasted.
I strongly suggest reading Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish" which explains a bit more on how different bits etc evolved if you're interested in the topic.
Once you've got to a detailed specification, LLMs are a lot faster at correctly typing code than you are.
Although it is painted relatively negative in the article, I feel it's a good thing. Of course, EU is known for its overregulation, but consumer rights are not to be neglected.
Same experience after 8 hours. I can see how roguelite fans would enjoy the dopamine hits of new information / upgrades / solving tiny bits of puzzles. As a pure puzzle fan I found the roguelite stuff repetitive and boring, and the puzzle stuff itself is good but not mindblowingly good. (Yes - even the less obvious puzzles)

I had my doubts when people were playing 100+ hours of it. That gave me the idea it would be a skinner box type game that is addictive but empty. So far nothing has changed my opinion on that.
This could work fine if the pair is acknowledged as such. In most orgs one side of the pair will be just be seen as a replaceable counter-weight while the other side gets the praise and promotions.

We see this a lot with daring "idea people" types seemingly plowing forward while the actual work is done by everyone around them, curating the firehose of random ideas and making the good ones into reality.

On an org level it doesn't matter as long as employees stay, but that usually doesn't last long.
Not sure how Germany is actively killing innovation to be honest.

Your other points are more or less true, I just like to think that people complain a lot and media obviously makes it worse.

Digital health cards, online tax declaration, etc. These things did happen. People complained, but these decisions were not reverted. That's the most important.
It's kinda sad to see it become Truth Social But For The Other Team.
Not an expert, but it's one of those things where you can never be 100% sure somebody doesn't have a top secret algorithm. But to the best of mainstream knowledge, yes, the encryption is fine.
But watch out for quantum computing next decade. That has a chance to make today's encryption breakable.
I think it's very deliberate that these sorts of expressions are inside-out from the corresponding statements. It mixes and matches modes of thinking in my mind - the same kind of mistake as command-query separation violations. When I read a list comprehension, I can read it left to right: "A list (`[`) of each `item` that I get, if I look `for` each `sublist` that is `in l`, then `for` each `item` which is `in` that `sublist`." And the entire description is - well - descriptive, not imperative. With the other order, I have to think in terms of explicitly following the steps, and then mentally translating the last `item` into an imperative "... and put it into the result list".
Not an animal, but many marine algae descend from freshwater algae, possibly because the last Snowball Earth event may have wiped out the marine algae by covering the oceans with ice (while freshwater algae survived in structures like cryoconites, tiny freshwater puddles that form on glaciers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0R3FVTLvT0

(People who know their taxonomy will notice that I'm conflating algae and cyanobacteria, mea culpa.)
The buzz on this game is very strong. The Triple Click podcast just loves it: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/triple-click/blue-prince-rea...
Netflix Tests New OpenAI-powered Search Engine to Recommend Shows, Movies
The original misunderstanding behind "knowledge base" was that, in the 1980s, it was an idea in symbolic AI that you'd develop a set of facts against an ontology designed for accurate inference and somehow by the 1990s it became a text repository with a search engine that may or may not work. Occasionally useful, sometimes hard to distinguish from a trash can. See Confluence.

Prompt engineers with their decoder models are going to always be wondering why they are always a bridesmaid and never a bride, with encoder models you can attain the holy grail of the system where you put text in one side and get, within calibrated accuracy, facts to put into the first kind of knowledge base. Or, for that matter, a good search engine for the second kind of knowledge base which could raise it above the "trash can" level.
That link shows me 6 posts all from April 8. "Highlights" shows me another ~10 from the last year or so. "Replies" and "media" require an account. Should I expect to see more from a 16 year old account?
Your mere footnote is my soft, soft underbelly.

Any hardening is still hardening.
Yes and this is what I was worried about in my essay on AI.

They have burned so much of goodwill that the community is not willing to engage even with positive things now.

This broadly is happening to tech as well.
Probably want to look good to their customer base - artists
It's funny pg once compared hackers with painters, but given how people abuse crypto and generative AI, is seems hackers have more in common with thieves and robbers.
For me it's windows 7, if nothing else for being the first and last major Windows where Universal Search worked well.

The Windows 8.x line gets some credit for having the strongest pen interface integration, which regressed significantly in the 10 line, but the overall shell in Windows 8 was rough, and a lot of features were broken in the rushed out and mostly failed attempt to Appify windows and redesign much of the UI at the same time.
So, what happens if your phone dies between check in and the boarding gate?
This is such an amazingly toxic, selfish attitude that you have. Is this how you really live your life?

It wasn't "their customers" that brigaded. It is the clowns who have decided that Bluesky is their own. They are the ones that will keep it from hitting mainstream, and hopefully the service crushes their obnoxious activism.
Citation needed [1]:

[1] Wikipedian Protester:

https://xkcd.com/285/
The article links to a much longer article from Human Rights Watch with a good number of examples: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
There exist image generation models that were trained on purely licensed content, e.g. Getty’s. I don’t know about Adobe’s specifically-but if not, it seems like a problem Adobe could easily fix-either buy/license a stock image library for AI training (maybe they already have one), and use that to train their own model-or else license someone else’s model e.g. Getty’s
Datastar started as an attempt to help shape HTMX2 before that was a thing... https://github.com/delaneyj/nothtmx2

Not sure the negativity. It's a superset of HTMX and it's 40% smaller with more features. Can you please tell me issue? I'm to dumb dumb grug please teach me senpai
I mean, the stunt they pulled to effectively release CS2 as free-to-use abandonware was pretty good. Still use it to this day, still works fine.
Where did the poster say they think Adobe is motivated by that? They said Adobe is operating that way.
God, I wanted one of those so badly!
I spent approx 1 year working on a very hush project at FDA. It (I shit you not) had requirements to allow rerouting of drug application and progress reviews (workflow system) around list of folks determined to be overly zealous in ensuring requirements were met. On top of that, our contract was terminated with one week notice (we met every milestone) and was awarded to the project manager's husband's company. My company threatened to sue and was awarded the entire contract amount.
WinXP was also NT family. It wasn't from that married-in Win9x gene pool.
Yes, they want it to be an echo chamber for one-sided political rants instead. Which is what it is now.
IIRC, previous versions of the PEP wanted things to work this way. You might also be interested in the "syntactic macros" PEP (https://peps.python.org/pep-0638/).
Absolutely the height of truck's hoods has increased dramatically over time. I say this as the owner of a pickup truck (and a cargo bike).

My 2000 2500 has a hood approximately at my belly button. Most current 1/2 tons have a hood height at my nipple (I'm 5'8).

A Pillars have gotten significantly thicker too, making it harder to see pedestrians at corners.

Then there is the expanding cab and shrinking bed. The visibility in a standard cab truck is phenomenal, you are surrounded by glass. Higher beds are also harder to use, which doesn't matter for most truck buyers because they buy them as a statement, not for utility.
They really did offer a lot of features that really helped productivity. Snapping windows, jump lists, having libraries act as a virtual folder for many folders, etc.
Useful boilerplate:

- documentation (reference, tutorials, overviews)
- tools
- logging and log analyzers
- monitoring
- configurability
- unit tests
- fuzzers
- UIs
- and not least: lots and lots of prototypes and iterating on ideas

All of these are "trivial" once you have the main code, but they are incredibly valuable, and LLMs do a fantastic job.
Aren’t you playing into the very drama that you are criticizing?

Is it disappointing that drama is an important reason people contribute to Servo?
This seems so obvious
It would be interesting how would they explain higher rates and also not mention global warming which is obviously forbidden now.
While DEs often emulate the look of macOS or Windows, they always get the feel wrong. You can put a global menu bar, Dock, etc into KDE, but ultimately it still acts like KDE and nothing like macOS.
Amazing to see this progress! Cudos to everyone who put in the effort.

Related news from March https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484520 (Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible)
My only source so far is this anonymous mailing list post.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2025-April/0...
Fedora Kinoite with KDE Plasma 6 is pretty good. And will not get worse in the future either. Just need to look outside of the commercial offerings...
Cold-Starting LLMs on Kubernetes in Under 30 Seconds
Imagine someone hijacking the account and making “announcements” … that’s why they have official government websites.

I’ve always found it amusing how much world leaders actually use Twitter for communications. The fact that a private citizen can purchase the platform and do whatever they want with it is exactly why it’s a bad idea.

Not to mention this is a lame way to increase signups and AU metrics, holding a gun to an old person’s head.
Microsoft bought Dave Cutler so that he could reinvent his OS (VMS), which became the NT line.
Moral growth and learning from history?
Also, there's a great book on drafting that you can find at the Library (of course you need to draw the Library twice, one to request the book and one more to get it - another issue with the RNG)
Are you saying that daemonization doesn't make black box debugging harder?
interesting! Can you say more about what kind of algorithms your software runs?
Well just this year it went up 13.9% for me, just below the threshold where it would have triggered a review. Also keep in mind that the industry is quite profitable. Large premiums are extracted and paid to controlled affiliates that aren't subject to the rules governing insurance companies. As a result of these shenanigans the industry cries poverty while making bank.
New Zealand

As the other commentor notes, if other economies are sufficiently dedollarized, the damage will be limited, and global dedollarization has already begun.
The Bluesky community is left-leaning and mainly consists of early adopters - basically, a group of active idealists. It's unsurprising that they are highly hostile toward a company with a history of exploitative behavior. Additionally, the current political situation significantly affects their emotional stability, negatively.

I mean, yeah, the place is a kind of minefield these days, but I don't blame people. It just happens.
Is unemployment rate meaningful in a country where one full-time job is not enough to cover the bills?
Beautiful. I wish I had more professors who expressed concepts poetically back when I was in school. That's the kind of line that sticks in your head.
> Having no gun violence and having a higher life expectancy than America is not something to be proud of and not a useful benchmark

/s ?
> it could be tricky for pro-palestinians because they can fall easily into the trap of using party slogans used by proscribed organisations

Any excuse is good when you have power and want to justify repression. For example they tried to claim that the slogan "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" is genocidal. Quite a jump. (Meanwhile, the Likud's platform says "from the river to the sea there will be only Israel" but that's fine).

> if they were they would be guilty of an insurmountable number of war crimes

They killed much less civilians than the IDF did, and they are not invaders nor illegal occupiers of someone else's country. What is acceptable or unacceptable is decided by those who are in power, and they are currently protecting a country whose prime minister in charge is wanted for crimes against humanity.
Why would anyone pay for Yet Another UNIX?

Plus Dave Cutler hated UNIX.
Mint leans towards the "ultra-stable" side of Linux Distros. Fedora leans towards the "bleeding-edge". Both are great in their own ways. If you want the latest and greatest of everything, Fedora is a great pick. If you just want long-term stability, Mint is a great pick. With both, you can choose the Desktop Environment you prefer (I like KDE personally, but many like Gnome, MATE, Cinnamon, etc).

That's not to say Fedora is unstable - it's just that it iterates fast to keep pace with packages as they release new versions. There's a new major Fedora release every year, for example.

There really isn't a wrong choice here.
I have no idea. I worked on the team at Apple that deployed Apple Maps across the globe and China was very different than other countries. South Korea had some interesting requirements as well. I've not worked on that team at TikTok and wouldn't expect the knowledge of the exact requirements to be shared publicly.
Intel and CEA-Leti Collaboration:

Intel and the French research institute CEA-Leti are jointly developing 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) and tungsten-based materials, for integration into 300mm wafers. These materials offer sub-1nm transistor channel thickness, making them ideal for extending Moore's Law beyond 2030.

[29 June 2023] https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/117047/CEA-Leti_an...
people winding themselves up about artificial superintelligence, when it’s organic stupidity that’s actually the problem

look around you. the world is burning. fix that
Comparing apples to oranges works surprisingly well if they are rotten enough?

50th vs 70th

https://index.goodcountry.org/

Both the US and China score surprisingly bad on everything listed here.

I do prefer the way janalsncm described quality of life.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659542

Is there an index for those some place?
> the content creators

This is IMO the problem. I don't use these sites to follow "content creators". For the most part I'm following normal people who happen to say things I find interesting.
Hell yeah, this project is awesome! Really enjoyed reading the post and source code.
Eh, this is going to sound like a I'm a stick in the mud, but I've tried Linux about a dozen times now, and every time has eventually led to 'a Linux evening' that disenchants me from the fantasy and back to reality. It's fantastic as a server OS, however.
I've played 10 hours ish and it needs pen and paper notes. A text notepad probably won't work
They don't have to be motivated by ethics. I'm fine with them grudgingly doing ethical things because their customer base is all artists, many of whom would look for an alternative product.
Why should I appreciate a company's exploitative and extractive experimentation on its customers?

The cost of maximizing "value" for the company to the nth degree degrades the customer experience once it exceeds a certain threshold.

It's greedy tunnel vision that makes the world worse for everyone in the long term.
FYI the post is from she/her.
I never knew they tried to extend the 6502 ISA to 32 bits.
"A computer on every desktop and Windows on every computer" was the company's goal. Ever since they claimed success on that one (glossing over the ubiquity of Linux everywhere else) they've been sorta directionless.
There was a perfect post on reddit a month ago.
https://redd.it/1iykl6h
That's not even really true. Hacker News readers seem to fixate heavily on the most popular desktop versions of Linux distros, but that is far from all they make. SUSE with SLE Micro and Edge Image Builder is a declarative build system for creating your own installer images. If you don't want SLE Micro, they even give you the Elemental Toolkit, which can be used to build your own custom distro in a declarative manner. I don't know much about Debian and Red Hat's approaches to this, but I know they have similar tooling. The "problem," if you want to call it that, is developers, if I may be uncharitable for a brief moment here, are amazingly solipsistic. The major Linux vendors are targeting enterprise edge computing use cases, whereas developers only ever think about the endpoint PCs they themselves use for development. Plenty of distro tooling will give you declaratively built, transactionally updated, immutable server images, but if they don't give you the same for your personal laptop, those efforts are invisible to the modal Hacker News commenter.

For what it's worth, there's also Guix, which is literally a clone of Nix but part of the GNU project, so it only uses free software and opts for Guile instead of a custom DSL for configuration. It wasn't a pre-existing distro that changed, of course.
The algorithm feeds you whatever you like, follow different people and engage with the content you find interesting, it will adapt.