skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airplane Autopilot: Build internal tools faster with an AI coding assistant
Thanks for the detailed response, I really appreciate it! Very cogent points, I see the logic. My not-even-napkin math makes it seem like the market is plenty big enough (40% of devs + Mac users they can coax over + change) for their vision, but obviously only time will tell. It certainly seems like a good sign that Apple is going all-in despite not coming near to their original XR vision (no pun intended)

Also it's always fun to randomly remind myself that I'm talking to people of "at DigitalOcean in the beginning" level of expertise on this site - keeps me humble :)
> they’re not nearly as good as training the original model on the data.

How are you defining "nearly as good", can you be more specific?

It's obvious full fine-tuning > [PEFT tuning] but to my understanding the gap isn't that significant, as reported in various papers. (specifically with respects to language models, I'm not familiar with diffusion models).
I am only guessing here, but I assume it's so the content of the mailing list archive remains. If a linked website goes down or changes at any time in the future, then that archive is no longer fulfilling its purpose of archiving important information.
The occult is a form of theology. The sense I take is that he's taking a pot-shot at the lot of it. But I could be wrong.
Thanks for the clarification. You are right, providers are the profiteers in the system. Often they’re set up as not-for-profits, avoiding taxes. Good examples are Stanford Health and Sutter Health. Their prices are extreme, and they expand like crazy. The profits are then ploughed into posh buildings and executive salaries.

Edit: there was a Time article about this topic, which I can’t find. But this is another good one from them:

https://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killi...
Maybe it’s so the mail threads keep the full records.
>...it might be useful to check previous threads here since vlang has been quite controversial.

The majority of controversy has been generated by competitors and detractors using various social media platforms to spread misinformation. To include identified troll accounts created specifically for the purpose of launching such attacks. Something like, "throwing stones and hiding their hands".

It would arguably be better to try the language out for oneself, and form one's own opinion, versus allowing known competitors and evangelists who are purposely spreading misinformation to shape one's mind. Just like it is common sense to not expect a used car dealer trying to make sales to give fair and honest opinions or assessments about competitor's cars.

> Or check what they have implemented versus promised.

Yes, totally agree that the best way is to check something out, and form one's own opinion. Also, these are free open-source languages that we are referring to. People are free to go to their GitHub and make suggestions, discuss, or join the effort to help implement whatever they feel is needed.
Unless you're on solar, does wasting electricity not bother you? I used to seed a lot of stuff for years (with typical uptime measured in months), but the CO2 impact, however tiny it is in the grand scheme of things, does not seem to worth it anymore.
Looks good on the 4090 here, ship it
what do you do if your doctor refuses to do the procedure w/o anesthesia? find another doctor i guess?
My suspicion is that it's not about reading the bug info once, but having the information in the mailing-list, which is the archive of record for kernel bugs.
Show HN: Animated Pixel Sort
Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI
I miss my candy coated unix as I used to lovingly refer to 10.1 on my iBook back in the day.
There's an additional stopping problem here that isn't present in a normal binary search. Binary search assumes you can do a test and know for sure whether you've found the target item, a lower item, or a higher item. If the test itself is stochastic and you don't know how long you have to run it to get the hang, I'd think you'd get results faster by running commits randomly and excluding them from consideration when they hang. Effectively, you're running all the commits at the same time instead of working on one commit and not moving on until you've made a decision on it. Then at any time you will have a list of commits that have hanged and a list of commits that have not hanged yet, and you can keep the entire experiment running arbitarily long to catch the long-tail effects rather than having to choose when to stop testing a single non-hanging commit and move onto the next one.
Ok, I'll bite. There is no way a merchant can learn a new card number other than from the cardholder, or from a thief who got it from the card/cardholder. Not from any upstanding entity.

If you merely got a new expiration date, security code, etc. without also changing the card number, they could "follow" that by submitting a transaction without those extra pieces of information, at greater cost and risk to themselves, though.

I'll happily take downvotes if I'm wrong, for being assertive without a source.

Are you sure NPM was actually charging your card directly, and not a digital wallet or similar virtual card thing which you kept active?
You assume that I haven't traveled the entire country. I have. I've been to many places that you describe and have friends in those cities. Student towns are sort of a bubble, they don't count.

The rest of Germany as you put it isn't any better. I've had people tell me Berlin is _shockingly better_ compared to $insert_name_here.
Google Ads: An effective phishing delivery mechanism for over a decade
I can’t imagine that there is anything too special in Sonos speakers, I mean there isn’t much point in using an OS that isn’t Linux or some off-the-shelf commercial OS. Bottom of the barrel ARM chips from Mediatek and the like will be good enough. I’m somewhat familiar with the competitive HEOS speakers from Denon and I can say that even pricey home theater receivers have underwhelming electronics inside.
A social network like reddit fully integrated with Google services and fueling google's algorithms could take Google to the next level
I get that.

I think that it can be a mixed bag, especially depending on the size of your team and what you're trying to accomplish....and just as important - what role your PM actually fills on a day-to-day basis. PM has evolved to be a very vague description of many different needs a business actually has (some tech, some not) that nobody is specifically doing already.

My own experience as a PM - I worked at an education software startup. I was on a very small team with 3 engineers, a CTO, an operations person, and a CEO who was more of a market development / bizdev type of person. I was made PM almost by default. There was nobody regularly engaging with our users on a regular basis, nobody from our team actually using our product, nobody making sure we were building what we (and our customers) wanted to build, and nobody that understood the competition or the market we were serving. That's the PM role I filled - part tech, part biz, part UX, part design. My main value-add was that I knew the industry (and niche within the industry) well, and had personal experience at both sides of the product from a usecase prespective well before we even built it.

At other companies, this could be a much more limited role, or much greater role depending on the needs of the company.

I'm not super technical but have done coding bootcamps, know the right tech questions to ask, understand what engineers are capable of and how long things take; and most importantly - how to tell non-technical people to stop bothering the technical people. I do think PMs should be able to code, or at least know enough to ask questions, call out BS, know what's possible and what isn't, and how to get non-technical management to stop micro-managing the software development lifecycle. People skills are important too.

As I said earlier, PM has evolved into a catch-all that nobody can quite describe because it fills a slightly different niche at every different organization. The problem just gets worse when you hire fresh grads or people with 1-2 years of consulting experience who don't have any background whatsoever.
>and preventing AdSense customers from accepting advertising from rival search engines

This one makes sense to me and is pretty tangible.
Excellent 'obsessed detective' story
You could maybe even get away with the 100 calls/minute free tier if you were doing it that way. The problem is that the user can't vote, submit, comment, or check anything personalized then, which really limits the value of the third-party app anyway.
> The move solidifies Europe’s position as the de facto global tech regulator, setting rules that influence tech policymaking around the world and standards that will likely trickle down to all consumers, as companies shift their practices internationally to avoid a patchwork of different policies.

Was this piece written by the EU government? It sounds so weirdly congratulatory.
Reminds me how cosmic rays were noted to have caused computer glitches. [0]

Impressive that they managed to discover this bug.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weathe...
As a customer, I'm a fan of Anker products. I haven't had to return one yet, and I have a few of their batteries and a ton more cords/hubs/etc.

I look forward to seeing the price for these home-scale battery packs.
Hey everyone,

I've recently "finished" my first ever live website and I'm just here hoping I can get some people to mess around with it to see if it's working properly/leave some feedback.

It is a flight booking website that enables the user to find vacation destinations that fit their budget, even if they aren't sure where/when they want to travel.

Any and all criticism is more than welcome and much appreciated :)

Thanks!
Dumb and lazy make the best programmers. Lazy people are too lazy to write tens of thousands of lines of code, and dumb people are too dumb to understand overly complex code so they keep it simple. Short and simple code is the best.
It literally is a progressive enhancement, so I'm not sure what your point is.

There's clearly bugs where it's enabled where it shouldn't be, and that's certainly an issue, but the comments here make it clear that it gets disabled automatically on lower-end devices.
When you refactor, do you have to renumber everything in the categories you refactored? Isn't that a lot of work, and doesn't it break the whole system if you can't rely on the JD numbers to be permanent?
steve yegge post 'done and gets things smart' also good if we're trading spolsky hot takes

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-thing...

> Someone who always seems to be finishing stuff so fast it makes your head spin. That's what my Done clause means. It means they're frigging done all the time.

> You can't interview these people. For starters, they're not interested; these are the people that companies hold on to as long as humanly or companyly possible. The kinds of people that companies file lawsuits over when they're recruited away.
What makes this different from what stabilityAI is doing?
It's very, very hard to be memory bandwidth bottlenecked if your program is not parallelized, even on consumer hardware. A 5Ghz cpu core with dual-channel DDR5 might get 75 GB/s of memory bandwidth. That's 15 bytes per clock cycle. Prosumer hardware? Maybe 60 bytes per clock cycle. No way one cpu core can keep up with that.
Newton's Bucket
I’ll be honest when I don’t have an urgent issue it’s hard to layer on additional mental load to compare prices. When my wife was diagnosed with cancer, how do I realistically compare prices? What services should I ask them to quote? How do I know what to ask for? How do I realistically compare two offers? What if they left out an important part of care that the other side included? What single entity even has all the information I need? For example even for a single outpatient surgery you have to include the hospital cost, the surgeons cost, the anesthesiologist, and that’s just what I can think of off the cuff. each one of those entities has their own billing department, costs etc. so who do I call?
> It breaks my heart as a member of a sport-based subreddit, there's just no good substitute.

I'm in the same boat. I love /r/cfb and /r/collegebasketball, from the consistently formatted game threads and post-game threads, to the clever offseason shitposting [1]. It's sad to see reddit putting on the brakes on their API that power the moderation tools which make those subreddits so good.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/5nbcgu/examining_the_e...
Not sure why your getting pushback on such a leveled take.

I am also increasingly feeling like this is the case. Not to say that there is no value in psychedelics (definitely looks like there is in clinical settings), it just seems like some people are touting it as a miracle solution to all mental problems. Something that can be self administered with no oversight.

I have read a couple threads over the past few months on reddit about how mushrooms increased the posters' suicidal thoughts, and that they decided to abstain from taking them because of that.

I think this perspective is even reinforced by recreational users: the first thing you are told before participating is to be in a familiar set and setting, and also to be in a good place in life. However, in certain states of mind (ex. depression or some other condition), I wouldn't trust the individual to be able to make such informed judgements. The risk is known.
It is more than the spam war...a lot of content is just no longer produced and exposed to the open web (think about how much content goes into tiktok, discord, etc and you will never get that into your search results). Google has less useful content to index, algorithms can't fix that. There is more spam only because that's the only open content that gets added massively.

The winners of this battle will be the places where content is generated (or curated) - and reddit is perhaps the most important content hub generator (it's not just an aggregator anymore - comments about some news can be often more interesting than the news itself). Indexers (and language models) are useless without content to scrap.
They also stream on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/shuttle_dev
The article seems to forget that 'If it's stupid but it works then it isn't stupid' is a common saying. 'Dumb and energetic' is what I usually associate with the various stories my firefighter uncle or paramedic friend tell me about.
Unrelated, but I thought I recognized that username, thanks for making rclone!
Code is fast to write, slow to modify. That 10x dev is just in the initial write phase; anyone coming in later to modify that code will appear to be slower.
What patriachy?

The idea only makes sense if you believe a matriarchy would be better. There has never been any anthropological record of a matriarchy, that is to say that any society that had a matriarchal structure was quickly overrun by those that didn’t. Some fate.

Men and women are different, and what you call a patriachy is just the natural order of things, some variation between individuals not withstanding.
Compute cycles: CPU and GPU are very very different here, so I'm not sure that logic holds. Unless you're doing work that's heavily GPU-bound and truly using the same resource (which is a non-trivial amount of jobs, but far from a majority. maybe even less than 1%?).

For the rest, it shouldn't cost much more compute than two 4K screens, and people already do that successfully. It doesn't do much to increase the latency or cost of running a million Chrome tabs or using other CPU- or IO-bound programs.

But I will agree that this all consumes more electricity, which is certainly a problem for mobile use.
I don't even use GandiMail and this sort of thing guarantees I'll be moving my (fortunately few) domains out of Gandi. Such absolute contempt for their customers. Once a company starts screwing over one class of users, it's only a matter of time before they come after something I do actually use.
Turn your chat community in to a forum
Most of my google searches the last few days have been ruined by the reddit blackout.

Google should really buy reddit so that they have some search results to point to
> how insane is it that these guys and gals raised 400 millions on tech without any raw data, nothing to show for it?

Abolish Venture Capital.
For Condensing boilers, the temperature of the water coming back from the radiators needs to be 45C in order to hit the advertised efficiency and eponymous "condensing", this is why their real measured efficiency is more like 75-85% than 96+%

Same fix, larger, double vaned radiators and better insulation which is why some people are pleasantly surprised they don't need to switch radiators when moving from a modern condensing boiler setup.
Curious to hear why you're giving Apple credit for pursuing 3D computing when everything I've read says the opposite (for now). E.g. https://mixed-news.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/apple_v...
It's LKML. The volume of that list is insane, and technical discussion is very much the point, so they'd expect you to explain the problem right there, where people can quote parts of it, and comment on each part separately.
My only experience with Gandi was awful. Bought a bunch of domains from them after they were praised here on HN, was assured that WHOIS privacy is enabled by default and without any extra fees.

Looked up the WHOIS records a minute later, and my phone number, name and email were all there. Those were .com, .org and .net domains.
Actually I think you can sue for damages since the defrauded you, so they probably wouldn't agree to the NDA
It's amazing how Apple fans manage to twist even glaring issues into some commentary on how differently Apple thinks.
High-energy, dumb and get things done, juniors are a curse. Complete 3 tickets a day (WOW!) but make about 5-10 bugs as a result.

Always fun later reducing a 400+ LOC ball of mud to under 100 lines :)
> you're ingesting expert knowledge that's highly specific and only discussed in a few forums. Reddit data could perhaps help with the latter

This is exactly where I think Reddit's value lies. I disagree, though, that people don't go to Reddit for it. Here are a couple recent queries where I appended reddit to my search query:
* best places to visit from London
* best mattress sold in UK
* should I bring king mattress from US to UK

(Can you tell I just moved to London?)

Why do people go to Reddit? Because it's guaranteed (at least for now) that the answer came from humans who are not trying to sell you something. They may be wrong but... it's opinions.
String theory wishes it had (unique) claims as easily falsifiable as "Once you have ingested several terabytes of natural language, you know how to generate natural language."

Obviously you need a page of fine print to make a claim strictly falsifiable, but complaining about the absence of fine print in casual discussion is absurdly uncharitable unless you have reason to believe that agreeable fine print couldn't be drawn up and I'm 99% sure that in this case you have so such reason.
"any chance"???

I can't square this circle of someone being paranoid about postinstall script but at the same time thinks the first chance to review dependency code is after doing a `npm i`.

Check the git repo of the library you are installing beforehand if you're so paranoid about postinstall.

And above that, never install any library for which the source is not readily available. This is the most basic first line of defense.

username checks out.
Google's recency bias in search results hurts them too. There are many older resources which are still valid out there, but you won't find them (easily) via Google Search. Instead, you get the SEO spam which doesn't match the search as well, but is newer.
Free is a marketing gimmick. It was never free but included in the domain package = domain registration + dns hosting + email boxes. The domain prices were generally higher than some concurrents. Now all of a sudden the domains see a price hike of 20-40% and each basic mail box that was included costs 57€ VAT included. So if you use the mail box this is essentially x3 or worse on the price. God forbid you used two mailboxes.
I think that there are two types of people. One set of people (I guess, relatively small) don't trust software and prefer to reboot OS and even periodically reinstall it to keep it "uncluttered". Another set of people prefer to run and repair it forever.

I'm from the first set of people and the only reason I stopped shutting down my macbook is because I'm now keeping its lid closed (connected to display) and there's no way to turn it on without opening a lid which is very inconvenient. I still reboot it every few days, just in case.
I thought a benefit of ES module was allowing cyclic dependencies, but I'm not reading any discussion of that.
I get that. Call me old fashioned but if I were investing a hundred million dollars I'd like the team to build _something_ for me first. Maybe that's why I dont have a hundred million to invest lol.
I can't believe that. There's still so many personal blogs by real people. They just don't show up in the first 3 pages unless you query for them very specifically.

Seems most queries result in something like 30% SEO spam sites, 30% quora, 30% reddit, 10% other.

Edit: I don't disagree that Discord/Youtube/Other closed gardens have taken open searchable data away, but it's not like there's now no authentic searchable data at all. Perhaps Google also needs to learn to search those closed gardens better.
That's a -10x dev pattern..!
I'm ready for this.

Being ahead of the game has made me some money already. When Bard made a mistake, google stock dropped 10%. I bought knowing that LLMs make mistakes.

So I made $200.
Protip: If you really need to see the Reddit page on a private'd sub remember Google has a cached page feature.
Also mind:

> Alright, if you’ve got this far I’m sure you’ve realised that the whole project is something of a joke. That said it is also an interesting intellectual exercise to consider whether it’s remotely possible to achieve >=2MHz with the architecture delivered.

2MHz with an architecture, which is up to 21st century hypes, that would be some! ;-)
It consumes large amounts of land into this one monolithic planned area beholden to one property owner, and yes, all issues w/ parking, etc. I would rather have a vibrant network of street-level properties w/ a healthy ecosystem of individual property owners surrounding a mass transit hub (i.e. LA metro stations if the metro can ever be developed to be useful...)

The Caruso malls are imposing, Mordor like fortresses that gives the middle finger to the communities around it. Once inside, people with money can enjoy whatever corporate chain stores that can afford Caruso's rent and the property manager's whims.
People love the Mission, move there for the night life specifically. It's lively and fun at 11pm.

This person sounds like they have some mental issues.
All software is buggy on real hardware.

You said in another comment "i can control what my application uses as IDs" but no not really. You can control what it does the vast vast majority of the time, but it will sometimes go wrong. The user doesn't care if it's a logic error that would also happen on impossibly perfect hardware or if it's a logic error caused by trusting your hardware.

There's an implicit "hope not to hit the ultra rare bad luck" on each line of code.

And when the probabilities are low enough it's hard to even say which version is safer sometimes.
these tools are suppose to be about building connections.

but they are prohibitive. expensive and require you to operate within a corporate walled garden.

it is more about segregation.