skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk they travel like 100 million times their body length then sacrifice their lives in order to reproduce, avoiding hostile defenses many hundreds (?) times their size. I wouldn’t do that!

More explicitly, I think this a great exposition of my overall point. Humans need to worry about being successful humans, not fitting some Darwinian universal shape that all life conforms to, as the capitalists so often claim. Thus why I don’t think automating cashiers, truck drivers, and computer scientists is incompatible with human flourishing in the long term.
Another vote for Keka! Simple, easy to use, finder integrated, open source and modern. Love it.
That’s all fine, except those are all issues with our insurance model as opposed to the pharmaceutical industry. Why not fix the actual problem by addressing the labyrinth of middlemen in between the person consuming the medication, the doctor prescribing it, and the company producing it? That seems like a far better idea than making drug development non-profit, reducing the incentives for innovation and new discovery.
Hacker News users love to act like they are the most intelligent people on the internet but in reality they have no idea what they are talking about if it isn't about some obscure programming language.

There is no conspiracy to restore deleted comments lol. You can only retrieve 1000 items with Reddit's API so when you use Shreddit to delete your posts only 1000 are deleted. Everything else before that remains untouched. Use PullPush to really delete everything.
It turns out the easy SV/VC money made some profoundly stupid but confident people very rich. Elon, David Sacks, and certain YC people are really exposing how narrow they are on social media.
> The subset of them who are GPL advocates are simply confused though. GPL is not possible in a world without copyright

I think you are confused. We don't want the GPL. The GPL is a pragmatic solution to make software free in a world with copyright.
AFAIK, there are no blockers really, it's just that Rust does not have its own linker, it delegates linkage to the system linker depending on the target. <https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/cross-compilation.html?hi...>

You can specify your own linker if you want, mold is a very popular one, and cargo-zigbuild does the same behind the scenes with zig cc as the linker.

I did something similar a couple of months ago (or a year ago? I don't remember exactly). I managed to cross-compile to windows-msvc on Linux using Wine, there's a project that provides the scripts to make this easier, including the linker wrapper: <https://github.com/est31/msvc-wine-rust>. It was just for fun because Rust can already target windows-gnu and it'll use mingw64 linker.

Rust's approach to things is normally to provide the basic foundation and let the community build on top of it. I personally like this approach, but it also has this downside of people not knowing they may need an external/community built tool to accomplish what they want.
Yes, New French Law Actually Does Criminalize (ze is the correct one not se) Opposition To mRNA (and other) Vaccines And It's Heckin' Amazing.
>Elon did recently demonstrate what has been known for a long time

You mean because he fired a lot of people and the website is still up?

Revenue has been falling precipitously. I'm not sure anything has been demonstrated yet.
This is just a symptom of the wider problem out there that the world is wildly unprepared to deal with cases of industrial-scale fraud.

The DMCA takedown process assumes that nobody would make false declarations under the assumption that there would be consequences to doing so.

For a while, this worked - the consequences (or the mere possibility of them) - kept everyone more or less honest.

The problem nowadays is that bad actors are starting to see through the illusion.

This is not limited to DMCA takedowns either - corporation-against-consumer fraud has also been normalized.
Your personal experience notwithstanding, I don't think that it can be generalized that there is always an under-performer on every team.

If I may offer my anecdata, I've seen several teams that could be characterized by stability and depth of expertise in their respective areas. You could say they always performed on a very high level, but never over-perform, because the high level is what is expected. Stack ranking those teams equates to killing them.

I also agree that a scenario where all individuals over-perform all the time is also rather unrealistic. But individual evaluation of performance is not stack ranking.
The problem is that people writing norms are (typically) people without any contact with reality. In theory they are great. No place in practice. Best example iso stack vs. Tcp/ip
I agree. I also think the Llama naming was confusing - versioning by capitalization? (LLaMA vs Llama)
I wonder how the troll farms are doing without Prigozhin. Perhaps he was just a Kremlin paycheck collector for various dirty businesses to supply Putin with goods and services.
25 here. Thanks for the reminder to call my parents.
True. This happens to be in a region of the country that gets a 25-30% capacity factor on solar; in the northeast or northwest, you'd see much worse results.

The basic point is that nuclear is just really, really expensive, and it has been getting more expensive over time, while solar and wind have been getting cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity
I have never overclocked my 32-core 5975WX and I'm very interested in other people's experience, but I cannot imagine being convinced to do it myself. With 256 Gb ECC RAM it pumps out 3D massive renders with incredible stability.
Copilot is a decent tool for experienced developers (though, hasn't replaced Google-foo by any stretch) and a trap for inexperienced ones. Sure it may be able to speed things up in the beginning but it's a crutch for long-term sustainability in the industry. You inevitably have to understand the paradigms and patterns that LLMs regurgitate; taking them at face value (which I suspect is what most LLM users do), is a recipe for disaster and unfounded confidence.
Lizzie was joking about falling in love with the Pemberley estates. She fell in love through seeing him through the eyes of the people who knew him best.

However, marriage was primarily a financial arrangement back then. That is true.
Request changes on the PR with the exact same reasoning you would use with any other developer who works like that?
> Copilot loves suggesting about 25 nested divs as a starting point.

> I assume this is because of a flaw in how LLMs work.

I know with some LLM implementations, you can configure the sampling to penalise repetitions – this is making me wonder if Copilot might benefit from that?

> What does it say about Copilot’s knowledge of accessibility when it will hand us code even basic checking tools would flag?

Maybe it could do with some fine-tuning based on those checking tools? e.g. sample many answers to same prompt, run them through checking tool, and then fine-tune it to prefer the answers which caused the least warnings?

Or: run the suggestion through checking tools, and if it triggers warnings, sample a new suggestion, and see if the new one doesn't. This could be done on the client side in a loop – run suggestion through checks, if it fails, ask the LLM for a new and different suggestion, repeat until we get one which passes checks, or we give up.
This is one of the more thoughtful, nuanced criticisms of the current LLM fad that I've read, and I'm delighted to see it make it show up on HN. The author starts off with a series of well-thought experiments that show Github Copilot generating _pretty valid_ frontend code, code that works and fulfills the prompt: but code that ignores every web accessibility rule of thumb in the most egregious ways. Sure, yes, bad web devs write bad code, and Copilot is -- on its best day -- a perfectly cromulent bad developer. Yawn, news at 11, etc.

But where he takes those examples and where his thoughts end up is where this essay really hit home for me:

> As more and more of the internet is generated by LLMs, more and more of it will reinforce biases. Then more and more LLMs will consume that biased content, use it for their own training, and the cycle will accelerate exponentially.

And 'biases' here isn't the usual "models are woke-lobotomized!" yammering, but rather a thoughtful take on how the use of LLMs for code generation may, at least for the current state of LLMs, slowly normalize _writing worse code_.
Appreciate the response, its clear you've given it a bit of though.

I guess we simply disagree. Given that there is no right or wrong and only opinions, then I guess we're at the end of the line.
Had fusion power recived a fraction of the funds that went to blockchain stuff over the past decade, we would be much closer indeed.
Simply put, we're going to have to build transmission infrastructure in the US.

Right now we get past a lot of that by bundling up coal and natural gas in trains and pipes and generating closer to the sink.
> absolutely dedicated

Hard to reason with developers like this, especially if they're more senior than you.
To save others a click

> Alcoa released hazardous substances, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), onto the facility property as well as into the Grasse River through four industrial outfalls

I wonder for what you need PCBs in sufficient quantities to cause a superfund site.
Yes and no. Most universities are not equipped/funded to go from TRL2 to TRL 4 or 5. Many great ideas end up in drawers because of that. That's when startups step in but they need to be funded as well. However, at least they aim for commercialization - academia not so much.
The way that you use PT is opinionated, not that the product itself is necessarily opinionated.

What I learned from working at Pivotal (with @stickfigure actually) is that there is the way that Pivotal uses it and the way everyone else uses it.
What's an acceptable rate of false positives and false negatives?
Offloading all of the actual code reasoning onto your team because you cannot be bothered to write the code yourself and are trusting an LLM should get you fired on the spot.

I cannot imagine a worse teammate or a worse developer.
I'm not worried about robots taking away trades (yet). There's a whole phase before that where the service industries shrink so much that the trades are both scrambling for customers and competing with a flood of people retraining into the trades.
No shit. DMCA is an authoritarian disaster and a gift to rent-seeking corporations and to criminals. Remember the little-to-no evidence legitimized extortion prosecution campaigns of terror.
> I think that demonstrates relative hatred of Democrats, not love of Russia

It cleverly uses the hate for democrats to push for the love for Russia. Once you normalize this line of thinking, Russia is seen in a more favourable light by anyone who falls for it.
It depends on what you mean by multitasking and the expectations. People multitask from birth.
Yesterday's discussion of same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39398448
When I see a doctor, I kinda want them to be in their 30s/40s. If they're in their 60s it's been a long time since they've been to med school and while they have continuing-education requirements things do change
try hover.com

it is a responsive website, they do not have native apps, you can still use it on a phone

I just checked you can use it standalone if you want to, I myself choose to use this website from the browser on linux... but I actually "installed" it on android and if I used my mobile more, I might just want to use this "app" this way

every website is a potential web app if written responding to screen sizes correctly

inherently nothing is bloated...

actually, I do not really understand why you hate web apps that much, just do not use them! use them in your favourite browser or whatever

whether a sotware shit or not, depends on the developer, not whether it is c++, java, swift, android-java or js...
Well its not about money per se, rather power, competence and whatever it translates to. This is almost a daily sight in any society if you know what to look for, and basis of who we were and who we are also today. I don't see any problems with it, there is good logic and history behind it and it explains a lot of behavior of various folks.

Certain age usually brings this 'seeing' effortlessly and you actually become annoyed by additional layer of personalities that you see (since you can't escape it anymore facts that a lot of people of both sexes are just badly broken or simply not good people to the core), you just need to grind through enough people/stories around you like any other skill.
Child education: Are computers or books better for learning?
Classical musicians fight a similar battle every day with Sony, UMG, and Warner filing copyright on every single piece of classical music posted online.
Let's do some basic back-of-the-napkin math:

Say the development of a drug costs $1 Billion on average and that only every tenth drug gets approval. So you are looking at a $10 Billion cost for every successful drug development. But you can then sell this drug exclusively under current patent laws for about 20 years, worldwide. By that calculation, you'd need to sell 1.000.000 doses of the drug for a price of $500 each every year to break even.

That sounds trivial to achieve given that there are 7 billion people alive and innovative drugs will go for vastly more than that even in strictly regulated markets like many European countries (my son gets a pretty advanced drug that costs about $12.000 (EDIT: yearly) to procure but which is covered by our (national) insurance scheme).

Additionally, a lot of the cost of basic drug research is actually covered by government-financed research, not private investment.

If you are still worried, you could use a prize model, similar to what was done during covid: Identify certain qualities that a new drug should have (i.e. be an effective vaccine against malaria) and guarantee a big enough market (i.e. promise to buy at least 1 Billion doses at $10 each) and you can bet that there'll be plenty of companies trying to get at that money.
They can read higher layers, but they (currently) don't have to in order to implement IP correctly
It's her morning coffee which millions of people do every day.
Because you aren't dead inside and can take a joke.
Do the platforms really control what the audience uses it for?

I get the impression they tend to lose control as things scale up.
The performance per dollar of Ryzen 7950X is many times higher than of any Epyc or Threadripper CPUs, even after adding the costs of the motherboards, coolers, cases and PSUs.

The DRAM bandwidth per core is identical for Ryzen 7950X and for 96-core Genoa Epyc CPUs. On the other hand, the Epyc CPUs with high-core count have a better performance per watt.

So the initial cost for a cluster of Ryzen servers is many times less. Depending on the cost of electricity, if an Epyc server is used 24/7, after some years the expenses with it may become lower than with Ryzen.

If the server is used intermittently, the total cost of ownership may remain lower with Ryzen until the end of life.

The only certain advantages of Epyc are the ability of aggregating a higher amount of memory, especially if it is preferable to have it inside a single box, and the faster inter-core communication for applications that use all cores (as opposed to the case when the cores are partitioned between weakly-coupled applications, e.g. between different virtual machines).

The prices of the Epyc CPUs have increased a lot since their first generation until now.

With Zen 1, a server with any Ryzen would not have been competitive with a server with Epyc. Meanwhile, the ratio between the prices per core of Epyc and Ryzen has increased a lot, while the ratio between the performance per core of Epyc and Ryzen has decreased a lot, because the clock frequency of Ryzens has become much greater while that of Epycs has increased only a little.

These two evolutions combined have made that now the servers with Ryzen have become preferable to servers with Epyc in many cases.

AMD has realized that they no longer have a solution for cheap servers, so in theory they have introduced the Siena CPUs for this purpose. Nevertheless, those remain somewhat too expensive and moreover they are nowhere to be seen.
They're supposed to calibrate it regularly. I did it many times.
This sounds like it could be very useful. Does it work like this VSCode extension, "Search Editor: Apply Changes"?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jakearl....
Well, ok. I’m specifically talking about what might count as an IDE feature. Vim and Emacs can run in a terminal, but that’s not a defining characteristic of an IDR. More like, everything can do interactive debugging, and syntax highlighting, and code completion, edit-time error flagging, etc. etc.
If you want an alternative then you will need to pay for it.

Apple makes money because people pay for their products.

Maybe consider the Framework laptop. I don't have it, but that's what I'd consider if I wanted off Apple's crazy ride.
Assume the AM is a negative-ROI operation. Thus why would they care about quality? Why would there be *any* form of quality check? Any check requires effort and thus makes the ROI even more negative.

I can see scrappers stealing the tower and nobody bothered to find out. I can also see scrappers stealing the tower, the station knew but since it's negative-ROI they pretended they didn't.
emacs has had occur and multi-occur since the 80s that can do this. it’s amazing.

more recently, interfaces to tools like ripgrep also have the ability to have an editable mode, super handy for refactoring.

(and of course you can edit file names in bulk, too ..)

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/searching-buffers-occ...

https://rgel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wd...
> I would discourage the use of unconventional names for your branches, just because it creates more confusion

trunk has been the conventional name for the trunk branch of version control systems longer than anything else. "Child branches are branches that have a parent; a branch without a parent is referred to as the trunk or the mainline." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching_(version_control)

git provides a way to determine which branch is the trunk, which it calls the default. Software which tries to guess at this is already broken, and for software which does it correctly, the name itself is completely irrelevant.

> It is a good metaphor in fact.

I disagree. In databases, for one example, what was conventionally called the slave is a replica. Is a slave a replica of his master? No, that's absurd. There are contexts in which one part of the system controls things, and the other is purely responsive or helpful, and I will grant you that in those cases, master/slave is a coherent metaphor, but the word "servant" can be used without loss of expressive power, and I see adequate reason to prefer that usage. In most cases where master/slave is used, master/replica or primary/secondary are in fact clearer than master/servant.

> The trouble with all of this is, language policing is not primarily about the words. We won't be rid of the language police after making the suggested changes.

Well yes, of course, we agree vigorously on this. I ask you: how does one grant these control freaks the least possible power? Clearly bowing to their every whim is a losing approach: if someone wants to pick a fight with me about the use of the term "blacklist", very well, they'll get their fight, because I won't stop.

But making a point of using terminology just because they don't like it is granting them a certain power as well, through the very act of rebellion. I genuinely think trunk is the best term for a trunk branch, so I use it. If you think master is better, I will disagree, and say no, trunk is better! But I won't call it offensive, that's just silly.
It is clear that despite these tools having flaws on the whole they save a lot of time. It is not clear what the tradeoff with introducing poorly understood or faulty code will bring, but given the utility we're never going back.
> I can see an argument that mathematically it's more complicated than flat, but it's just arithmetic.

No, it's more complicated because then you need to keep track of things at all.

Suppose you go to your job and make a salary and they withhold some of it for the IRS. Then you take a side gig and make a little extra money, or you owned some stock and got a dividend, or anything else that changes your taxable income. Now you have to file taxes to reconcile all of this and determine what your tax rate even is.

If there was a single rate then your employer takes out that much and gives it to the IRS and your side gig takes out the same percent and gives it to the IRS and your brokerage takes out the same percent and gives it to the IRS and you don't even have a tax return because there is nothing to calculate. Or you can just use VAT and not even have to do withholding.

One of the other big things to keep in mind here is that a lot of the conventional wisdom on taxes is PR from rich people/corporations, e.g. claiming that consumption taxes don't tax the rich because they don't spend most of their income. It sounds plausible until you realize that what the super rich and international corporations actually do is keep their money offshore so they don't have to pay income tax on the interest until they repatriate it, which they then never do and instead take out a loan when they want to buy something. So it's actually the income tax they don't pay and a consumption tax they would have to whenever they buy things.

> doing away with those doesn't mean we need to do away with tiered tax rates.

Tiered tax rates are a hideous hack to begin with to avoid people having to do calculus. What you really want is a continuous curve where effective tax rate starts off negative and increases up to some maximum rate with increasing income or spending. Which is exactly what you get with a flat tax + UBI.