skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I found TFA to be very annoying with its mix of nostalgia (despite the author not even being 40 years old ?!?) and silly examples.

1.) Apple’s programming environment being forbidding : no shit, Apple is well known for the hoops developers have to jump through to be allowed into their monopoly, why any self-respecting hacker would ever want to code for iOS (and now even MacOS, Android, Windows) is beyound me. I guess that's partially because they are US-based, where it's still somewhat respectable / not illegal ?

2.) Visual C++ : similar deal, just a few years later the bar for graphical interfaces would be significantly lowered with the likes of Python+Qt, Java, HTML+CGI... and even back then for non-graphical interfaces we had BASIC.

(The design and programming of graphical interfaces is its own distinct profession for a reason, jumbling it in with «coding» as a big indistinct mass just because the same person used to have to do both regardless of their level of proficiency is missing the point.)

3.) > When I got into programming, it was because computers felt like a form of magic. The machine gave you powers but required you to study its arcane secrets—to learn a spell language. This took a particular cast of mind. I felt selected. I devoted myself to tedium, to careful thinking, and to the accumulation of obscure knowledge. Then, one day, it became possible to achieve many of the same ends without the thinking and without the knowledge. Looked at in a certain light, this can make quite a lot of one’s working life seem like a waste of time.

It's not the LLMs that got rid of this, it's already Web search engines, years ago ! (It also takes skill to «prompt engineer» a search engine to find you a good answer. Not to mention that one of the still ongoing - but for how long ? - issues, is the enshittification of them through Google's monopoly. It should get better once they are out of the picture.)

4.) Proposition 5 of Euclid’s Elements I

This seems to be another good example of how a lot of these issues stem from the lack of good teaching / documentation. Consider how much clearer it would be if merely you split it into two propositions !

It also seems to be a good example of an arbitrary goal of hardly any practical significance ? (FizzBuzz, that a good fraction of CS college students are unable to grok, would be a much better example ?) But perhaps I am wrong, and a mathematician / mathematics teacher can explain ?

I have way better examples : I am still pissed that we keep teaching students pi instead of tau and pseudovectors (papering over the difference with vectors !!) instead of geometric algebra. Imagine we still had to do math with words like before the modern era (sqrt() also comes to mind), instead of mathematical notation !

5.) There's also a whole big chunk about coders being (/ having been) a highly valued profession, and it's the likely loss of that that the article seems to be mostly deploring, but we shouldn't confuse it with the other things.
Pros will flip the notebook and use the left page, without letting your hand hit the spine. You will save 50% in buying notebooks, too.
I did a 3000 km trip with kids four times in an EV during the pandemic. Not only was it possible, it was very pleasant. With kids, bathroom breaks and snack breaks consume more time than charging does.
Yeah, the "if I can't have X you shouldn't have it either" mentality. These people are a joy to be around, they get a twisted sense of satisfaction when they manage to get X removed. I'm like, go get some therapy for that.
Anti-Paywall: https://archive.ph/vBttl
I remember playing Atom Zombie Smasher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Zombie_Smasher more than 10 years ago and being slightly surprised that it was developed using .NET/Mono (not with MonoGame though). Nice to see game development with Mono is still going strong...
that looks like I am a good candidate for Amazon, lol.

but on a serious note, the good solution is sort of obvious
and in general you encounter much more interesting problems
on a daily basis, but than again I am working in Clojure where
working with data structures is much easier and straightforward
than in Java.
It does great at boilerplate, so I think it's safe to say it will disrupt Java.

I've been using tabnine for years now, and I use chatGPT the same way; write my boilerplate, let me think about logic.
That’s my experience, too. Most things work, but I get occasional errors and response is often much slower than a few days ago. Just now, I was editing a GPT and the text produced by the editor bot appeared at about human typing speed.
Yeah. It was down last Thursday for me. Couldn't generate anything. It started working after a day but has been slow ever since. The update definitely took a toll on the performance.
To compute, a minimum physical space is required. Mostly impossible inside black holes.
Are you talking about the rift between supporters of Israel and those of Palestine? What does that have to do with disinformation from China?
Why do you think Tiktok is brainwashing children (why is it always children?) and Facebook, Twitter, etc aren't?

Why do you think Tiktok is the only vector for foreign influence, when it's been documented many, many times that domestic social media sites are rife with foreign misinformation?

What do you think Tiktok will do? Destabilize the US? Our politicians are already doing that. No need to worry about a boogyman from the other side of the globe. It's just a distraction.
You'd value the assets at the time of the transaction using reasonable and publicly known exchange rates to fiat. Same process as bartering in any asset.
If it’s any consolation that picture was probably about a week after treatment, so still quite slow! The entire process takes about two weeks depending on the type of plant.
What about the cost of the actual cargo? I don't think Moon base infrastructure is cheap.
"All coverage is good coverage". Being disfavored means you don't get mentioned, not that you're the center of conversation.
On one hand, I enjoy being around new and familiar people when the context is supposed to be social, like a meetup or a bar.

On the other hand, I hate being forced to be social in non-social situations or when I want to be left alone, like in an airplane or at a restaurant (I really enjoy eating by myself; always have).

I wonder if "being lonelier" these days means people are on their phones being in their zone when they want to be left alone instead of being forced to strike up small-talk, which makes me wonder whether people have always wanted this privacy but the technology wasn't available.
They had the ample opportunity to outlaw the practice and implement solid privacy protections. They opted for surveillance instead. They would love to have such info on their population, it is reflected in their policies in all western nations.
Making that claim but not sharing the "simple test" feels a bit pointless tbh.

Edit: I see, they don't want it to be scraped (cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260496), though as another poster pointed out, submitting it might be enough for it to end up in the training data.
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
>This approach seems to only be effective if one team member significantly outperforms the rest. If a company's sprint is easily manageable, does this suggest that the team size should be reduced, potentially leading to layoffs?

Or, god forbid, that it reached an optimal work/life balance for team members, while still hitting specific company targets, and should be left as is.
Anyone have recs for good ring-bound notebooks? The last batch I bought from amazon came with warped paper.
Since Google is blocked in China, the default process for installing Android applications there is also to download an .apk from the internet and install it manually.

It works without a hiccup on my phone running LineageOS. I haven't tried on something running stock Android.

But it leads me to suspect that there isn't much standing in the way of distributing your Android apps this way outside of China, either.
including quora.
What’s wrong with opposing any ideology?

For example i am 100% for gender equality etc, but at the same time I am against if this becomes ideology.

What’s wrong with that? It is an honest question.
Iceland is the only place I've been to twice in two years when traveling.

I usually go a new place everytime but I simply couldn't get enough of it just once and had to go again ASAP.

Hopefully this situation turns out better than the worse predictions.
> wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Only if you like technofeudalism—it’s not like you’re going to own any piece of that future.

Have you noticed AI becoming more and more open source like it still was at the start of the year, or has that kinda seized up? What gives?

It’s called a moat, it’s being dug, you’re on the wrong side of it.
> There are cities where the nicest outdoor areas in 200 miles wouldn’t make the top-100 list of outdoor areas in the same radius, for other cities.

That's "why bother with romance when you almost certainly won't be with one of the 100 most attractive people in the world" logic.
Ok, thanks a lot. Agreed, one might even argue if it is better to scale this number with the amount of cores, or in what relationship, or if the initial values chosen are the optimal ones, certainly not for every situation. With the right comment one might have even claimed it intentional, lol.

Clickbaity headline from a technical person makes me sad :(
I wonder if this is because the creators routinely prune negative comments of them. Or perhaps it is because Youtube severely down ranks comments with dislikes.
Honestly these old shows had such a low budget I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was just Burke and the cameraman there. And in a way the stakes were low: if there was no executive producer shouting “GET THAT SHOT” at them they might have just been thinking “why not give it a try, if it doesn’t work out, oh well, we’ll just do a voiceover”.
Very slow this morning for me as well.
IMHO "hating" angle kinda looks sus. It's a self fulfilling prophecy, a cheap agitation.
Would the Pimoroni Grow help you out? https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/plant-monitoring-with-env...

grab that, a pi pico, and some batteries (which should last months they claim), and set up an MQTT for data.

It is pretty expensive at scale. But if you want "no fuss" I think it would do the trick for you.
You can 3D print organs in space that you can't in Earth, there was just a successful trial of printing a knee meniscus.

https://www.issnationallab.org/redwire-space-3d-prints-menis...
The only scientific reason for sending humans to space is to develop better technology for life support on longer missions. At this point automated probes can accomplish most other scientific purposes better. So yes, you send people with different physiological characteristics to further that mission. If you’re sending people for non-scientific reasons than you do it to be first.
What I find eerie is that they stroke out Grindavik from the signs: https://twitter.com/grindaviknews/status/1724286780914962487

I know, they are doing it to inform people that they shouldn't go there but it gives it such a post apocalyptic vibe.
LA is big and has a lot of traffic for sure, but most adjacent neighborhoods can be reached within a 20 min drive. It’s only when you want to go from one side to another that it will take you more than an hour.
> I asked her verbally and pretty sure I didn't hear her revoking anything during the fifth stroke

Ehh, good luck with that in a court of law.
No scientific difference. It's political. A president can trumpet it as a great achievement for humanity. Helps with getting funding & public support, yada yada.
Basically that due diligence is required on crypto purchases and sales: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/d97fd445-en/index.html?i...
It's glorified autocomplete. The stuff that is annoying when you're at a proper keyboard with proper typing skills, but maybe not so bad when you're thumb typing on a smartphone. I've not personally used it, but someone else with very advanced skills, needing to code something in an unfamiliar programming language, asked ChatGPT to do it, got a "mostly right" boilerplate and fixed up the obvious errors, which was much quicker than learning the language enough to start from scratch. Autocomplete!
I am sorry if that sounds condescending, in reality I question my engineering ability almost every day. There is a lot of things that I know horribly less than
any engineer worth their salt.
> most crypto currencies, and most NFTs have crashed to basically zero.
That's just plain untrue.
Community notes need to speed up
From what I gather, Unity has recently made moves to lose the trust of all of their customers, and there is a massive exodus towards other game dev software/frameworks/etc.
Yes, they are fascinating creatures, but I'd be willing to bet that Kyle would still have preferred vanilla paste..
RPM seems to be focused on Linux and globally managing the whole system though, but yeah, something like that. Probably would require to work more like in cargo or npm with a per-project list.

Agreeing on one format is kind of the point. I know it is difficult, but I think it is possible if at least a few implementations agree on something. Maybe some kind of "backend" like LLVM which could be used by cargo, npm, maven, etc. to configure their resolution strategy. Probably only a dream though.
From what I remember when I last tried it, NaNoWriMo worked with the honor system. If you wanted you could paste a wikipedia article in the editor and it would count the words and tell you good job, but you'd only be lying to yourself in the end.
Looks good. I guess this only works for models defined using ORM and not schemas defined using the tools in SQLAlchemy Core?
While yes, these devices are cool and I use them in a couple of projects (mostly centered around home automation), I think there is no good way to count people that way (other than placing them above ingress and egress points).

I think the original use case is not to know whether a dining hall is occupied at all but about how occupied it is (and if he should go to lunch now or wait another 20 minutes).
Is there a reason you feel they are less prepared than any other organization?
This is an innocent misrepresentation of Blender's development history. While nothing you've said is false, Blender has been open source for more than 2 decades. It began that portion of its life as something of a mess, with a truly Byzantine user interface that made even trivial tasks troublesome, and lacking a vast majority of the features it's now known for. Getting it to its contemporary state was a long and painful process, including at least two major front-end overhauls and who-knows-how-many under-the-hood, and a commendable (though not unimpugnable) humility from developers who (finally) found the wherewithal to put the user experience before FOSS dogma or their own ambitions.

That's what separates it from most open source projects: not that it started as a commercial product, but because its designers and developers stowed their egos and worked diligently on creating a solid piece of software (and documentation and community and support) for a long, long time. In this way, it surpasses even many of its commercial contemporaries, which are driven by a profit motive to become increasingly paywalled and enshitified.
Pre-allocating memory so you can use it later instead of doing it in the render (justice) loop and slowing that down. Good call.
> I can't help to shake the thought that we will see heaps of mediocre code cranked out that just about works, even though the problem maybe required a tenth of that to solve it.

That’s just more of the same, isn’t it? IMO that’s already the current state of the industry.
Everywhere in LA is accessible in 20 minutes. That has been a long running statement/joke forever. It’s not untrue; you just have to give yourself an hour.
Nothing is owned with unrestricted rights. I “own” my house but if I don’t do what the HOA says they can sue me. If I don’t pay my property taxes it can get taken away. Ownership is really just a specification of rights. So you’re paying for a set of rights and those can be negotiated.
Am I using a different Twitter? I only see local videos no "annoying amount of video and images of erupting volcanoes, from previous years, or from somewhere else completely"
The Lofi kids have gone missing again
The worst at what? You’d have a point if they didn’t disclose their travel, but they did.

Clarence Thomas did not.
The differing correlation factors seems like a difficult problem for productizing this. I would expect a STEM college building to have maybe >3 BT devices per person, while other venues may have less than 1.
Related, If you file a prescription on insurance you're not then allowed to pay a lower price using cash. CVS told me the price of a prescription on insurance was high. I said, what if I pay cash, they said, no, once you file it on insurance we can't sell it to you for less than that.

Like WTF?!
that's kind of exciting except for the amount of CGI in the trailer
Will GPT talk to customers, generate leads, manage sales cycles, customer support, etc. Come on.
There's a non-zero risk of it going off in the ocean, which could cause ash fallout, depending on the magnitude of the blast.

Property and infrastructure damage is not the only outcome here. We could end up with ash fallout and flight disruptions. There's also a major power station in the immediate risk zone, which is a major loss if it gets destroyed.

If and when this blows up, it's going to be big.
The question is just if it's big and causes fallout, or just big. And when we're talking about property damage, it's less damage and more "will the town be obliterated or not". The magma is most shallow under the town, and there's a 15 kilometer magma pipe extending to the ocean. So the possibility of the eruption happening in Grindavik itself is also very real.
> when there's thousands of contractors and the barrier of entry to become a "contractor" is almost nothing, you have a systemic problem

Yes, and it's a systemic problem that govt should be handling. It's already illegal to give/pay someone who you know has no right-to-work (or you should've reasonably known / didn't do your due diligence on) a piece of work, it needs to be investigated and enforced properly.
You seem to have a noose for things. Have you considered working for a anti-corruption agency?
[Dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255496
Same engine used in StarDew Valley![0]

Thats pretty neat that its opensource.

Between this and Godot, I think indie developers and smaller professional studios will have options to choose from in the future.

[0]: https://monogame.net/showcase.html
The author of the article seems to be a mediocre coder; perhaps they have not had enough experience in the domain to arrive at a big-picture perspective.
Back when I did this, you could already technically "win" the pat on the back just by copying and pasting 50,000 words of gibberish to meet their word count. But then you would be cheating yourself: the point isn't truly to get the award at the end, but rather to challenge yourself to write 50,000 words in a month, to make novel writing seem less like an impossible task.
Wasn't the user interface fundamentally changed after the open source release because it was so cumbersome to use?
NPU is the term normally used
Are you using GPT-3.5, or GPT-4?
The things you mentioned are backend dependant, though, not intrinsic to how you render and present them.

What specific aspects of facebook's comment section under post make it that json response is so much better then a html one?
I use the API now, but I have to maintain my own "Chat" instance. I'd love to be able to just pay $20, but also keep my history. Right now I'm spending less than $10 a month on GPT-4 API costs, so maybe I don't need to upgrade.
Did anyone read then? My experience in writing things online is that barely anyone reads them and even fewer comment on them.

I might just suck at it, but if didn't someone would probably pay me to do it.
>It's really this idea that adults can't choose to do things which could be harmful to themselves that I find hard to understand.

I really think it comes to down to a simple distinction: those that grew up with the old internet as kids and were inoculated to its effects and those that first got the internet through the main line that is the smartphone.
Why would they need to be prepared? NaNo is on you, you don't get anything for winning other than satisfaction and online badges and stuff from sponsors, such as some promo codes for writing software and getting your initial draft printed.

A text that reads "Rabbit." written 50,000 times is enough to win NaNo.
Most of the software engineers I've known are problem solvers who use code to accomplish their goals. Problem solvers will use the best tools available for the job. Perhaps engineers will use natural language UI's to build software and "drop down" into a languages for debugging or optimization, just as today some drop into assembly.
Liberal/conservative or progressive/authoritarian work because they describe a dichotomy of sorts (even if these are kind of clumsy in this regard). But what could possibly be the opposite pole to "social justice"?

Social injustice ideology?
As for the stable coins, the researchers from the University of Chicago claim that their stability is a bit more nuanced. Especially, even a stable coin cannot defend against a run https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4226027
Some Notes on Nix Flakes
Viewpoint as someone whose primary job right now is recruiting: my observation on what differentiates Fine software engineers from Great ones is how they understand the problem, engage with it, and go get what they need to solve it. Fine software engineers need to have the problem pre-digested; Great ones can take ambiguous problems, figure out what's missing, and hunt it down.

I don't see the author's withholding of all problem parameters as tricky at all, but an attempt to accurately mimic the ambiguities of the real world to see what the candidate does with it.