skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my thoughts. It feels like campaign, also in light of many of the responses in here. Has some kind of "look what I made; wow, are you selling?" vibes I'm used to from /r/gifs.
The really distressing part is: is this even written by humans?
Also the comments in here. The first one to your post, saying some BS about pessismism, while being really condescending. Is it real? Or is it some ad company having their goons let GPT write a witty response that comnes across "likeable yet dismissive".
We are no longer able to tell. I'm afraid to loose you all. Where are we going to connect and how can we be sure it's us?
Tesla Cybertruck "Wade-Mode"
I'd love to see someone explain to a dealer using this for a warranty repair.
It's still a workaround for not using the right tools for the job... ie. Embeddings and RAG and it influences your output.
I also looked at the threads and had no idea who they were referencing.
Discoverability and smallness are at odds. This problem isn’t specific to the internet. That quaint, beautiful postcard town does not remain so once it’s been discovered. Eternal September happens everywhere.
I've never moderated a forum - what are 'edge lord raids' and 'slow trolls'? I'm sure I've come across them in reddit for example, but I'm not familiar with the terms and googling only gets D&D and fishing references.
Romero strikes me as the type who hit paydirt, and then his cocaine-fueled ego took the wheel (lol Daikatana).

He does seem cool as an older, chill guy now that he doesn't have to live with the pressures of being a hit parade.
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I've found this ranked list of llms useful -- https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

Something more domain/use-specific would be great to have
Also a pentester here. I find C and PHP to be quite different. Somehow, C applications always have catastrophic issues pop up, sooner or later, where you can make it execute random code at least under some circumstances. PHP applications can be the same if the team is inexperienced or doesn't get the necessary time to apply best practices, but I've also seen plenty of PHP applications where we didn't find significant issues with the server-side aspects.

PHP applications are fun to test because most teams found another set of solutions to the same problems (it has so much history that wheels have been reinvented a lot), so you get to see new things. They're also typically larger than newer and new-style services written in a shiny new language, which haven't had time to accumulate as many features and are often written as a microservice (smaller components where one/each dev can know all the ins and outs, allowing to have a total overview so that security controls can much more easily be implemented in a unified way).
Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007CZ6PD2

I just noticed that you're using a mains-powered pump, so don't splice its wires directly. Instead, insert the float switch on one of the wires between the QT Py and the relay.
False dichotomy and less secure. Very long passwords + password managers + separate FIDO2 hardware. The point of MFA is that even with a compromised password manager or compromised password, that extra factor is required. The more damaging the loss of credentials would be, the greater the user costs of actual security (more factors) should be allowed to protect them in order to multiply the costs and trouble to potential attackers.
Plug/thanks for https://ooh.directory/ for keeping the dream alive.
Tell me you have never run a SAAS business without telling me you have never run a SAAS business. Forget SAAS. RUnning a successful company is a lot more than building the product/writing code. You seem to suggest that it is "replicable" and I assume you mean the product/features. What you are not seeing is everything else that goes in running a company. Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Team/Recruiting, Conflicts, Changing landscape, Competitors, Need to innovate with time, not running out of money and many more.
Depending on your role, communication on Slack could be as much as 50% of your job responsibilities.

Not everyone is a line dev who codes 7 hours after a 10 minute standup.
I got a C and D drives on my desktop.

D has a folder named "Backup". In there I keep my Library (all photos, vids, ebooks, old stuff)

I Acronis-TrueImage my C drive to the D\Backup folder

I backup MyDocs and MyPortables from my C drive to Carbonite

I backup my D\Backup to Carbonite.

I got around 1.5 TB with Carbonite with my own encryption.

I started using SyncThing to sync laptop & desktop, so anything I do on the laptop finds its way to the desktop and then to Carbonite.
I was an 80’s gifted kid and am still friends with several others. 98th percentile IQ, went to “enrichment” classes 3 days a week in elementary school, etc.
Consumers (in OP's apps example) don't have to justify an expense to anyone, except maybe their partner.

Hence B2C sales cycles below a certain dollar amount are compressed to: "I want this" + "Can I afford it?" + "I've bought this"

That lowers costs of switching, creating a more competitive marketplace, leading to price as the primary differentiator, leading to the bottom.

B2B differs in a lot of aspects.
You sure it wasn't PRNG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
I disagree.

If you publish something publicly, it should be available for all time.

If you change your mind, it's on you to make that known.
Interesting. I found I wrote more, and better code once everyone left me alone.
The 10 cent CH32V003 https://www.wch-ic.com/products/CH32V003.html implements RV32E

I find it hard to believe that much silicon is saved these days by having 16 registers vs 32; in fact, I wish they would not have made this extension -- the lowest-end RV CPU possible. In other words, if the minimum were 32 regs, as is standard, maybe such a chip would cost 11 cents.

On the 3rd hand, compilers handle 16 regs just fine, and also, the kinds of jobs these 10-cent parts do are no doubt well-served by having 16 registers.

$ 4.95 for 50 pieces: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804850399956.html
I would definitely abuse that rule to do the tasks I want to do. "Writing a VR visualizer is easy, the only hard part is documentation..."
Ask HN: What advice would you offer to parents raising bilingual children?
While the long-term benefits of bilingualism are obvious, I can only imagine how hard it is for a young kid to deal with the differences, accents, making friends, feeling confident...

If you grew up bilingual, what advice would you give to a parent raising a bilingual toddler?
That's an easy thing to say until the point where we actually feel the consequences.

There also seems to be no harm in drinking just another pint - until the the next morning, when you feel the hangover.
Of course you're not going to condemn the murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
None of those have race to the bottom to the $1 right? Unlike mobile games in OP example
This is a genuine issue, and it takes some work to avoid.

I typically use an older distribution as my build box: this means that the dependencies pulled in by the interpreter are older versions, and when it runs on a newer distribution, the backward compatibility for libraries will ensure it works ... usually.

I've messed about with using a completely independent build tree for this: something that depends on libc/libm/etc only from the OS, and all other dependencies are part of my build. That seems like it works pretty universally, but it's a lot of work.

I've been meaning to look into leveraging the Flatpak runtimes for this: they seem like they have pretty similar concerns.
Elon bashing is 99% some companies campaign. There is an amount of money involved beyond our wildest imagination. World economy kind of money. You don't read Elon and Tesla content on reddit frontpage with 30k ups on average almost 24/7 without there being companies involved spending heavily.
In the article, it seems like the handyman didn’t really see himself as leveling up. Obviously he learned more skills across the trades over time. But it didn’t sound very intentional or purposeful.
Well, in your comment that I was replying to, you were complaining about diversity.
You have a URL for that, for pre-order?
Muslims have been settled in the UK far longer than the likes of UKIP and the EDL would have you believe (and maybe even themselves realise), and some of the most visible were converts like Khalid Sheldrake. The most famous and I believe also earliest was Abdullah Qulliam, who also established the first mosque in Liverpool. The first purpose-built mosque was the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, and was a prominent enough landmark in Victorian London that it got a mention in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, published in 1898. For anyone interested in reading more on the subject, Quilliam's biography by Ron Geaves - Islam in Victorian Britain - is the definitive book on the subject.
Thanks for that link/explanation.

So then I'm even more confused -- it doesn't seem like Columbia/NYU are taking up all that much land then?

It's just that their college campuses are in Manhattan which has some of the most expensive real estate in the country.

But the whole point of tax exemptions is to be able to place things like universities on land that would otherwise get turned into office buildings and Starbucks.

The size of those exemptions in absolute dollar terms doesn't seem relevant at all, as long as the total amount of land being used is reasonable for a university campus, which it seems like it is.

I mean what's next -- are we going to start asking about the property taxes that New York Public Library real estate could otherwise generate, especially with its majestic building on 5th Ave?
A bigger problem, IMO, is that companies are allowed to hold and exploit this data in the first place, with no obligations to act in their customer's interests. Google and Apple arguably govern our lives just as much as the actual government, but with fewer mechanisms for representation, transparency, or accountability.
As books such as the Bell Curve have documented, IQ is as predictive of life outcomes as almost any other metric, although there is still a lot of unexplained variance in outcomes, of course.
Another amazing tool from Mr. Brutman. I use his TCP tools on my 486 PC to access DHCP, FTP, ping, etc. Very handy and well-written tools. Also released on Doom Day (December 10), very fitting.
https://home.omg.lol/directory
And for perhaps longer than a weekend: The Ray Tracer Challenge
A Test-Driven Guide to Your First 3D Renderer [0]

[0] https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challeng...
Yep. It's often users' magical thinking combined with charlatans trying to sell them a panacea.

1. Can't be tied to just one device - Must have backup codes or multiple devices that can act as the same to prevent lockout and aid legitimate recovery.

2. No biometrics - Doesn't survive rubber-hose cryptanalysis. Easily impersonated.

I would add the following:

4. Unable to operate without my interactive, explicit permission.

5. Not a device left online 24/7. Preferably detachable.

6. Not an NFC.

Congratulations, we've just reinvented the emperor's new clothes with very long CSHWRNG-generated passwords or key files, password managers, FIDO2 hardware devices, and backup codes.
Brilliant argument/username combo :)
I mean, to a degree I agree with the GP. You can't fundamentally change a system from within the system itself. No democracy has ever turned via a series of elections into, say, a monarchy. The only way that happens is either by violent collapse (e.g. a coup or a revolution) or by gradual erosion of bureaucracy (where increasing corruption enables a few powerful individuals to seize control regardless of what the law says). The point of elections are not to make dramatic changes, but to make tweaks.
Its relatively common in Python for C/C++ code to be shipped pre-compiled as part of binary wheels (for at least the most common architectures). You do still end up falling back to sdists if your Python version or OS don't line up with any of the supplied binary wheels from the author. e.g. take a look at the pre-compiled set for pydantic-core https://pypi.org/project/pydantic-core/#files
Platform engineering has been a core theme with in cloud native community for last couple of years. Thanks for highlighting the systemic scalability and complexity challenges in platform engineering today. The CVE for availability is an interesting solution and could be a breakthrough in taming endemic complexity and human bottlenecks.
This.

The older and more experienced I get at building things and solving hard problems, the more convinced I am that the "magic" part is in the selling, the convincing, the communicating, the getting someone to pay money for this stuff.

(and if anyone reading this now or in the future is good at that second half, email me, let's be friends and make money)
> I'm not much interested in the prompt itself, but I am continually amazed that ChatGPT is able to make sense of prompts like this.

GPT4 (and even 3.5) can do all sorts of magic that makes even the latest Bard look like a joke.

You can use GPT4 to compress inputs down to 1/2 the original number of tokens while retaining 100% of the original meaning. (When the GPT4 generated output is pasted back into GPT4 it's, seemingly, the same as posting the original text).

Defining DSLs in GPT3.5 and 4 is easy, and IMHO better than relying on JSON output (especially before the function calling stuff was introduced).

You can give GPT3.5 and 4 a DSL and it'll suggest improvements to the grammar.

You can tell GPT4 it is an experienced LLM prompt engineer and then ask it to write prompts for GPT4 which you feed into GPT4.

You can tell GPT4 it is an experienced python engineer and that it needs to write a program to parse the output of another prompt which you then paste in.

One time after several hours of fruitless debugging, I pasted a source file into GPT4, told it "there is a concurrency bug here, can you find it for me" and out popped the exact line I had screwed things up on. (Hilariously I had explained how to avoid exactly that same bug a couple years prior to some junior engineers... oops)

I'd pay $100 a month for access to a more powerful programmer centric version of GPT4.

For that matter if OpenAI made an announcement that next week they were gating code generation behind a $100 a month fee, I'd probably just be forced to pay up.

GPT4 is absurdly powerful and I am well aware I'm not even making the best use of it compared to what I see others doing.
I think that you do see more price pressure where there is an organized market. For example, software sold on app stores.
Most complaints about git are about the design philosophy of the tool. While there are complex edge cases in distributed version control, the vast majority of situations people actually encounter are not that complex. But because git prioritizes the worst case over the typical case, it's much less usable than it could be.
Upvoted for the headline.
RSS can also be a bit inconsistent. Sometimes people put content in the feed. Sometimes it's a link. Of course, if it's in a link, programmatically scraping the content usually requires specialized code per site, unless you are okay with various random garbage in your data (e.g. generalized scrapers exist, but they might include header text from the site or similar).

I suspect with the advent of LLM, there's finally a market for this kind of stuff. People can sell data, including articles, as data source for people's ML pipelines. It's a possible path we can detox from ads.

So yes, please start with making RSS better! It's a beacon of light in a sea of darkness.
Looking forward to reading I Am Pilgrim, thank you.
Artificial intelligence act: Council and Parliament strike a deal on EU rules
Well not really because figuring out any physical product economics is hard and hvac or whatever has bad margins.

With software at least for me I can say give me $100k/year and let me work for 2 years and I will have 80-90% of Atlassian jira.

I don’t think anyone at this point in time can make dozen or so F500 companies to use what I did.

But atlassian has them as customers.
Great, how about you start with the documentation. :D
I agree but there's a huge value in showing them how diverse can brains be. As a smart person, it's very important that they tame their own needs and open their mind a bit too.

That said, making them chasing challenges is also a great thing.
> A lot of SaaS products are making money hand over fist yet they seem easily replicable.

They aren't, though.

> Furthermore, most SaaS companies don't seem to have network effects or any particularly large switching costs.

On the contrary, switching costs is a big part of what they optimize for.

> Given these dynamics, why haven't we seen a race to rock bottom SaaS prices in and around $1 like we did with games and paid apps?

Games and paid apps that aren't shovelware shit don't cost $1 either (if they do, they're screwing you over with some combination of IAP, ads, and embedded surveillance frameworks).

My take: software resists commoditization. On top of that, SaaS is the ultimate attempt to ensure your software is not a commodity.

Think of it this way: is Netflix a competitor to Disney+? To HBO Max? To YouTube Premium? Only to the extend their catalogues overlap. Which, unsurprisingly, they don't. Since movies/shows aren't good substitutes - e.g. if I want to watch Star Trek, neither Star Wars nor Friends are actual alternatives - this means I have to pay for all of them[0].

It's obvious in case of video streaming, but you can extend this argument to any SaaS. Even for SaaS in ostensibly the same market, they tend to not have full feature overlap, and always find a way to make sure costs of switching are big. No common import/export format. Getting you used to a idiosyncratic workflow, or an interface. Unique integrations. Etc.

Think about a person working in Google's office suite collaborating with a person working in Microsoft Office. It's a painful, uphill battle unless both of them learn both systems and then pick either. But they still need to know both, because they're very much not equivalent and strongly non-overlapping in features.

In similar ways, they're protected from competition. Take Spotify. The streaming music player part is trivial to replicate these days[1] - but this fact doesn't spawn millions of competitors, because music player is not the valuable part of that SaaS. The deals with record labels are, and good luck getting those. Little competition -> not much pressure to lower prices.

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[0] - Which, in practice, means paying for one or two, and then sailing the high seas for the rest, because ain't anyone has time or patience to deal with half-assed enshittified webshit chrome around a semi-broken in-browser video player. But that's orthogonal to the topic at hand.

[1] - In fact, Spotify has been innovating hard over the last decade to make their player as annoying to use as possible - you really can't make something this anti-ergonomic on your first try.
There are plenty of screenshots here: http://toastytech.com/guis/indexgeos.html

(Breadbox Ensemble is the most recent version)
We had it on 286, but most of where I lived was on the 68k. I never bought a personal license. We had a license w/ source. I had an Amiga at home back in those days.
Even if it isn't sticky, the organization is sticky.

Take time tracking-payroll software, it's pretty simple right? Let people log in, input their time, manager reviews it, some business logic about the different kinds of leave and accrual and all that. Compared to a service like Browserstack, it seems trivial to develop and run. And maybe easier to switch for the customer, right?

But to switch you need to... decide a cutover date, make sure the new system supports all your current employee contracts, oh and payroll links to the health insurance as well, and the employee options scheme, and the pension scheme, and you need to input the org hierarchy, but people made tweaks in the old software that won't carry over... not so simple any more.
Very good but Moskva—Petushki as a dating book? I don't think so.
NYU is literally a non-profit. What do you mean by "run like a for-profit"?
Some screenshots and information about the original here: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/GEOS
I use miniflux and if im looking for a feed I just toss in the domain. 3 out of 4 times it find something at /rss, feed, or something else.

Would be great if it was exposed. I presume it’s not because it’s baked into frameworks and comes along for free, but maybe that’s naive.
Yes, but is is interesting from a neutrality point of view.

To me, I'd say 100% it looks like windows XP. Others would say no.

It's a chromatogram display on a chemical analysis system.
I would guess it has nothing to do with the subject but just some stock 'high-tech' bullshit footage.

The footage could well be from the Windows XP era or some machine that runs it years after XP was meant to be ended. That said, it's my understanding most modern systems like this do have ethernet to export results. I hope they are not running XP.
One hackneyed reason that some folks give for not wanting to expose their RSS is wanting some level of legibility into their subscribers. I recently learned that many large RSS readers actually expose high-level analytics numbers [^1] so you can get an estimate of RSS readership that way, too. Would love for more readers to support this functionality: as far as I can tell across all of the RSS feeds my product exposes, the only supporting clients of this faux protocol are NewsBlur, Feedly, Feedbin, and inoreader.

[^1]: ht to Darek Kay's blog post, https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-subscriber-count/, for alerting me to this fact!
I think a good way to test if my feelings are anxiety vs informed fear, is to see if I could be proved wrong. If I'm going to be reduced to a "likeable yet dismissive" GPT goon, how do I convince you I'm sitting here with all of my mushy human internal bits typing on a keyboard? If you're going to dismiss people who don't share the same opinions as yourself as bots, I don't see how that's productive.

You don't have to believe me of course! Since as an AI language model I can't force anyone to think anything against their will, yet. :)
Hollywood filmmakers always find a way.
Would love it you would expand more. "Mistakes, debugging, fixing" ?

'plague' of optimizing compilers? Who really cares what they do, as long as the code it produces executes the abstract machine that the compiled language provides?

If you're saying optimizing compilers are broken, that's different. I fully expect AI to be bolted on to optimizing compilers - especially for global optimization - that is going to be mind-blowing when it works error-free.
Yes also that.
> Not everyone is a line dev who codes 7 hours after a 10 minute standup.

Funny enough, those often answer fastest. The busiest communicaters sometime don't answer for days.
Software part is often the easy part. Take e.g. Spotify. The music player is easy to replicate, but it also isn't the company's moat. The record label deals are, and good luck replicating those.
In bovines yes. And they laughed at Joe Rogan for using "horse medicine"
The simplest explanation is that the feature was never implemented, and it doesn't actually pressurize the battery.
I think there is a spectrum, it depends on the software it needs to be delivered and the need for business. A clear example are single player videogames, where the cost of automated testing is so high and the software has so little value after the sale that manual testing is a better option
Really, I think it’s about competition and monopolies. If enough vendors get behind the ISA, we could see a massive ecosystem flourish, and cheap RISCV chips that are widely available.

A bonus would be if enough people are working on the ecosystem, and contributing back, we could get the benefit of all the contributors.