skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, someone who regularly works with MIDI files - heck, someone who regularly works with binary files - could probably do it in a few hours, but this entire process took minutes.

In my experience, I think this is the key area it exceeds but this isn’t all that common. Hard to imagine 10x productivity boost unless you’re a jack of all trades master of none.

In my experience it’s really useful when you need to do something in a domain you aren’t super familiar with (that you don’t need to become proficient in). But when it comes to the everyday stuff that is my comfort zone I don’t need it. I’m years past looking up syntax or standard library functions for the languages I work in regularly. Every time I’ve tried to use it for a remotely complex algorithm I’ve found it to be much faster to implement by hand then try to debug whatever it got wrong. But for makefiles and gh actions — it’s a true godsend and those things can be major time sinks.

I’m also a developer who really likes to know what my code is doing. If I can’t code something myself I don’t feel comfortable deploying it. But I’ve found this is less universal of a sentiment than I would have imagined in the past year.
Compression is, ultimately, AI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38399753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923231
If people knew how to solve their own problems they wouldn't be giving you their money. I know there's a modicum of technical ability necessary to do certain things with computers, but for the most part, those can be solved by following rules and creative use of Excel.

The value comes from giving people a framework to solve their problems, doing the thinking for them while accounting for the edge cases that they didn't get to, and then compiling that system of rules into a program.
South America maybe?
Open source? Would love to see a production Livewire app, especially since it's using v3 with AlpineJS.

PHP does indeed have good support for types now. Laravel as a framework generally eschews them, but it's flexible enough to make it developer preference really.
Ever since Houthi's with shit tier commodity Iranian hardware started successfully hitting Saudi Refineries (extrapolate to all oil/lng infra in region), they are effectively in position to hold 1/3 of global energy supplies hostage. Hitting a few ships in Bab el-Mandeb that can be redirected around Africa at +2-5% cost to global shipping/inflation is best of bad situation. In the mean time, USN stuck with trading interceptors that cost 100x more than what they're hitting. Which is somewhat sustainble in terms of pure costs, but Houthis tying up 1-2 carriers (when normally only 3-4 are deployed) while running already aging US DDG hulls / sailors ragged on prolonged deployments is more than a little concerning.
Ukraine is a cautionary tale in that as much as military technology can change, that conflict is being decided by trenches, minefields, artillery, fixed fortifications, the inability of either side to cross a river and manpower attrition.

At this point, it's basically a World War One conflict, mainly because neither side has air superiority.

Russia's strategy now seems to be to wait out the Western will to provide material aid to Ukraine, at which point it will have gained territory, a vital land bridge to Crimea and a Black Sea port.

In this potential outcome, Ukraine is likely to swing far right, politically, and Russia will face their own draining insurgencies in former Ukrainian territory.
Honestly, this is depressing. Back in the day, AltaVista and AskJeeves existed but returned terrible results, and Google showed up to disrupt them all. It seems like we should be on the verge of repeating this cycle.

Maybe LLMs will help, but I can’t shake the nagging feeling that the situation will simply get worse with LLMs, not better, due to hallucinations and the apparent “gullibility” of LLMs: I would not be surprised if SEOing an LLM turns out to be easier than SEOing Google.
You do realise that there were ways to debug things before GIT came along? Indeed before source control came along?

What im saying is that you should be wary of ignoring things that don't fit into your current work-flow, because sometimes that "critical" thing in your workload is less critical than you think.
I didn't! I'm not a Windows user. Colors are half the battle, so that's good. Will it only appear if paging is actually needed? That's what the flags to `less` do in my wrapper script above. They are rather critical for this use case.
Buckets Affordable Licenses: Cost of 20 Loaves of Bread in Your Country
Aren’t modern day programming languages low-code relative to assembly and/or binary? It’s all relative to the previous layer.
I’ve come to recognize that any article that uses 3.5 has an agenda.
> you would need to have good balance as the floor moves out from underneath you

Real omni-treadmills have you attached to an arm or harnessed in.
Seriously cool.

Add a timer after question 10 so you know something is still happening.

And make CSV upload for questions possible? (Could be done as text string even with a max length)

Add some CSS margin for the buttons (at least on mobile).
Intentionally ranking sites with Google ads higher would be a huge antitrust liability, so no way they're doing that.

On the other hand, they can achieve virtually the same outcome while keeping plausible deniability by just not doing anything that would downrank sites with ads (of which a significant chunk is likely to be Google's).

Spam sites often include ads.
I love that this piece talks about the database. That is a problem I focus on. It’s API versioning all over again, and we never _actually_ solved that before we moved forward.

I see this being our reality anyway. In many cases; not all.

You can’t ask the LLM, nor a hypothetical AGI, nor anything, to build the aqueducts. Especially if you don’t know you need them. And they won’t solve the problem if neither a human nor an AI know what the problems actually are. Let’s make em out of lead!

And they definitely won’t waste tokens on a postgres rollback migration unless we make that essential in the acceptance criteria.

An LLM is all of our ideas, in a search UI that dang nearly passes the turing test. (That says more about us than the state of AI technology.)

We are pattern machines in many ways, and many things we code are even lovingly called Software Patterns. The promise is not that software engineering goes away, it’s that we’ll all be managers for a while.

Low-code, to me, is different from “statistically generated solutions that pass the requirements.” Genetic programming was an idea for decades, but that is also different from stuff that combines yours and my most relevant github commits into a 90% best guess. Not random, hoping for the best, in this regime. Educated guess.
Thats hardly a meaningful consequence though
For ripgrep at least, you set an environment variable telling it where to look for a config file. You can put it anywhere, so you don't need to put it in $HOME.

I didn't do XDG because this route seemed simpler, and XDG isn't something that is used everywhere.
On the other hand, this is literally the oldest, best established casus belli in the American system.
That isn't necessarily what some contributors of software under GPL version 2 thought.

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Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for - https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU

The start of the video:

Q: do you agree that you undermine GPL version 3 and how can I get you to stop

Linus: what

Q: how can we get you to stop

Linus: oh I hate GPL version 3 undermined it on purpose I actually thought the GPL version 3 extensions were horrible. I understand why people would want to do them but I think it should have been a completely new license. My argument for liking version 2 - and I still think version 2 is a great license - was that I give you source code you give me your changes back we're even. Right - that's that's my take on GPL version 2 it's that simple and version 3 extended that in ways that I personally am really uncomfortable with; namely I give you source code that means that if you use that source code you can't use it on your device unless you follow my rules and to me that's that's a violation of everything version 2 stood for ...
This depends on how big you are on a scale of “quark” to “ship”.
Pretty sure the reason Kagi is better isn't because they use multiple sources, it's just because they can use the presence of ads as a negative ranking signal, something that none of the major public search engines will ever do as it goes against their own business model.
Do you feel like you don't understand my intended mechanism? Because that language was solely intended to communicate what I was thinking. Which part was unclear?
> We don't even require a breathlyzer reading before cars start.

Actually we do for repeat offenders. On top of that there is active discussion of having car companies detect if someone is impaired before driving.

Driving is not a right, it’s a privilege, and far too many people abuse that privilege.

> we try to discourage that behavior with education and penalties.

Try is the operative word here, we try and we fail because there isn’t enough enforcement on our streets.
DDG is just repackaged Bing. Always has been. I remember looking into them when I was ready to job-hop many years ago, and they asked for dedication to their search engine as their foremost requirement for employment. It's the "drop-shipping" equivalent of search engines.
Slight rant/aside but Firefox is bad for this. You can point it to a custom profile path (e.g. .config/mozilla) but ~/.mozilla/profile.ini MUST exist. Only that one file - you can move everything else.
I think what you're referring to is the false proof suggesting that pi=4. That is not what squaring the circle is, and does not in fact become smoother and smoother but rougher and rougher
A returned unopened item can be sold as new
Blowing up your own ammnition by accident and blaming the Spanish?

ADDENDUM: Clarification for those up|down voting like a yo-yo:

On February 15, 1898, the American battleship Maine exploded while sitting in the Havana harbor, killing two officers and 250 enlisted men.

Fourteen of the injured later died, bringing the death toll to 266.

A naval board of inquiry concluded that the blast was caused by a mine placed outside the ship.

Release of the board’s report led many to accuse Spain of sabotage, helping to build public support for war.

Subsequent studies, including one published in 1976 and later reissued in 1995, determined that the ship was destroyed from the inside, when burning coal in a bunker triggered an explosion in an adjacent space that contained ammunition.

Law Library of Congress: https://web.archive.org/web/20210424181239/https://www.loc.g...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War
I'm not seeing this. I Googled "war crimes by ukrainian soldiers" and the top link was an Amnesty International Article, "Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians".

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrai...

I use Google as little as possible because I don't like surveillance advertising but fair is fair.
> MH17 was shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile, killing all 298 p.o.b. with no consequences for Russia

I don’t think this is a good example, given that the act is widely considered to be a mistake. The US shot down IR655, Soviets KL007, Ukrainians S7-1812, Iranians PS752 ... it happens. MH17 is egregious (as was KL007) for a refusal to admit blame, but hardly a casus belli, despite the tragedy.
If you wanna know why Google (or any search engine) sucks, just look at how it measures its own search results. Most search companies do this “at scale” according to very specific guidelines, like what the author did here but on steroids. For example, take a look at Google’s 168-page instruction manual for search quality raters:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...

It talks about figuring out a query’s meaning(s), judging the user’s intent (were they looking for some specific answer, etc.), evaluating the “quality” of a website, rating the site’s usefulness in relation to the query’s meaning/intent, etc.

All this is to say, it’s not that search companies don’t do exactly what the author did here, it’s just that they have different standards than the author. And I’d venture their standards match their users’ better than the author’s, but maybe not or not forever, anyway.
I take a middle position on this having seen it all at Twitter since 2006. The site does still work, but not without outages. Of course, Twitter had major outages during the Williams/Costello/Dorsey period as well. What happened was that when Musk obtained control, the haters claimed that Twitter/X would burn down or get bricked. None of that ever happened, which leads some people to believe it "still works fine" with 20% of the former staff.
Shoot, with free energy you could build your own land.
Yemen is backed by Saudi Arabia and UAE. Houthis are backed by Iran.
I can see how the slogans of the Houthis make them a less than sympathetic set of missileers. For example, it might be awkward for a person supportive of the Palestinian cause to be in goal alignment with a well funded group stating uncloseted hatred of Jews.
There are a few problems with OOP. The one that bothers me the most is that there is immediately boilerplate complexity. How is this bag of data addressed? What does it behave like? How is each piece of it read and written? Now you need collection generics. There’s complexity everywhere, and it’s expensive. It hampers concurrency, and doesn’t work on GPUs. What do we get for it? Implicit control flow, and it isn’t even clear to me that this is a benefit let alone worth the costs. Any time performance is remotely a concern, object orientation should be the first thing removed.
My understanding is that Amazon is not accounting for the royalties after they are returned from an author purchase and resold under terms other than the royalty free terms.

It's not that he wants to get paid for the unsold inventory, it's that he believes he doesn't get paid at all when they resell as new the used inventory he rejected and returned in quality control of his royalty free author purchase.
We’ll be the only ones tracking you! ;)
The US navy guards international shipping lanes all over the world. Gotta keep the economy rollin’.
Joe is really pushing the David and Goliath narrative. He’s just another billionaire who is not actually betting the company. And the violated patent claims themselves look silly: opaque material with chamfered edges, three or more LEDS instead of 2.

Medium sized Goliath against big Goliath fighting in the forum of silly patents that should never have been granted.

Wake me when Apple figures out how to keep selling the Apple Watch with nary a hit to their bottom line.
Real images instead of CGI? How dare you?
We use one of those headless CMS already. You have a point. It works for us for now, we will see how it turns out. You need a bit of discipline to execute it.
It actually bottoms out pretty low though. The apparent fractal dimension changes over scales, but is sufficient that ruler length really does make a huge distance in coastline length
And I still long for physical keys on my "smartphone" as I miss every 3rd letter or so on that flat surface with zero tactile feedback...
Each non-disabled token is also pure profit, they're not cashing them out in appreciable quantities to anyone.
It seems to me that the name "marginalia" is not just a random set of syllables. It sounds like it's doing what it says on the tin, which is gooder than not doing what it says on the tin. (distinct from whether what it says on the tin is something you want)
I became a huge fan of Kagi after seeing it on hacker news too. It's amazing how good a search engine can be when it's not full of ads.
Why would an average user want blog spam search results?

My hope is as LLM’s improve, they can be more discriminating about the results returned.
Ukraine is a really cautionary tale to always have nuclear weapons and never give them up. Russia would never have tried this if Ukraine still had the capability to demolish a city with a button press

Look at how cautious the rest of the world is in helping Ukraine.
It is documented on your site.

But, before showing your site, Google 'features' chatGPT's hallucination from one of your earlier HN comments[0].

https://i.imgur.com/yxXo3GI.png

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38321168#:~:text=To%20c....
The lower bound is generally very easy to measure precisely. So a change in that would be immediately noticed.

For example, how long is the North Carolina coastline? No idea. But we can measure the precise distance between the point where that state's border with South Carolina meets the ocean, and the point where the border with Virginia meets the ocean. The coastline must be at least this long.

And if you measure your waistline, you can draw a cord around your midsection with some known amount of force. Your true waistline may be larger, but it is at least that large. And if that number increases...well, we're in a period of relatively high inflation already, what's one more thing?
Will add! For what it's worth, it's just my own internal list of tools in this space.

I have a few dozen such lists, I'll review one or two of them when building new things in a specific domain that might benefit from such tooling.

No requirement for open source, but I call it out explicitly in my notes since I do mostly use open source/self-hostable tooling, especially when working with nonprofits.
Plowing the cycle paths is really important, since a thick layer of snow is really the only thing stopping me from getting my bike. I don't necessarily need winter tyres either since the traction can be pretty good on a maintained path.

Oulu seems to do it really well, that kind of pedestrian first design should be applied everywhere.
The article basically quotes this video clip of Clay Christensen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stc0beAxavY

I included this video in a onboarding guide for my team and many enjoyed it.
There isn't one. Smalltalk implementations, including Cuis/Squeak/Pharo, are image-based. So applications in their world get packaged more like a word processor/spreadsheet document than a traditional executable from other languages/environments. You distribute the .image file (and usually a .changes file as well... but that is more or less optional via changes you can make to the .image) which is loaded and run by the VM, which is the actual executable.

The license allows you to distribute your applications either as standalone .image files or bundled along with copies (modified or not) of the VM, but they are still discrete files.
I am just following the High Availability principle and using both Microsoft and Google equivalents, with most data having a local copy anyway.
I think it's too basic problem to really track "sparks of AGI"? I imagine even the most advanced AI assistant in the future would produce similar result.
The tactics are an artifact of the players attempting to avoid a broader-scale conflict. Moreover, direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states isn't something we've ever done before. Nobody wants to go down that road.

If the US and/or NATO were directly involved, it wouldn't look anything like trench warfare, and we wouldn't be using 30+ year old military tech. We really want to avoid this, though.
NASA's Rotating Detonation Engine
shagie@Mac-Pro ~ % bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin23)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I will note that is an interesting date as version 3 of the GPL was released on 29 June 2007 -- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/ has version 3.2.57.

Opening up the 'COPYING' file from that distribution:

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Apple is scrupulous at ensuring that they only distribute GPL Version 2 software, if at all (they've made efforts to switch to using BSD licensed software wherever possible).

There's no reason for bash people or FSF to sue Apple as they are strictly following the license.
In India it's crazy because culturally they focus so much on the credential. It wasn't that long ago that if you were an Indian engineer and you weren't a graduate of IIT, you had no chance of working for these companies. The entire Indian hiring funnel is based on that system and it will be hard to change.
I'm biased, but I think FullStory is really useful for seeing where people are hitting hiccups when trying to use your software, and you can often tell what they were trying to do, e.g. clinking thr visa icon instead of the credit card button in a checkout form.
What a novel geopolitical theory reaching across Arabian peninsula. I suppose that once the US deposed someone in conflict with the Iranians, they could spend money on groups like the Houthis.
I suspect it's a failure to distinguish mobile searches (where people are legitimately looking for a business) from desktop searches.
If Henry Ford asked his customers what they wanted they would say faster horses.
The treasury market is so big I would be surprised if that is a consideration but I could be wrong. There is $25tn notional outstanding and a lot of players in the market have been complaining about lack of liquidity for a while now so if Tether was to completely evapourate, having on large passive investor out of the picture should (I would think) make it better for everyone else if they notice at all.

Here’s more detail from the NY fed about treasury liquidity overall https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/10/how-ha...
heh, they're not. They're all variations of mozilla download pages and site posts.
I have tree logic in a c++/c/rust/javascript and have reused it several times for these UI tasks where we want a collapsible list. It's pretty easy to map most UI "tree" widgets to it as they mostly work the same.
> the Saudis do not participate

In fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_the_...
Kagi works because there is no incentive for SEO manipulators to target it since their market share is so small.

Super tinfoil hat to believe Google wants to send users to blog spam websites (e.g. beneficial to Google).

Anytime there is money to be made, there is an effectively infinite amount of people trying to game the system.
you can use true person search for numbers