skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the U.S. it is quite common for people to drive long distances for equally trivial reasons. It’s not that she alone is significantly impacting the environment it’s that this story is indicative of a nation that has normalized such behavior.
Ask HN: Favorite VSCode Shortcuts
What are your favorite shortcuts and tips and tricks within VSCode? I am looking to eek out further productivity gains and outside of typing faster it seems like I waste a lot of time using my mouse to move my cursor and shuttle around text. I'd like to improve my "knife skills" in VSCode. What are your productivity hacks?
A) They're native americans. In the US Native Americans are often referred to as "tribes", "nations" or "reservations".

B) its more like what would be referred to as a "semi autonomous region" in other countries. They have their own governments, police forces, etc.

C) they probably secured some sort of outside investments, these native american reservations are by no means unsophisticated. Other reservations have been able to bring in revenue by using their autonomy to establish casinos and resorts on their lands, even in states where that would be illegal outside of the reservations (because the reservation's autonomy means that they aren't necessarily bound by the laws of whatever state they are in).
Could the artists band together, collect evidence, and create a class action lawsuit? Or is the juice not worth the squeeze?
Novo Nordisk is publicly traded and has received just as much flak as anyone for supposedly exorbitant pricing of its insulin as well as its block buster weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, which are poised to become among the most profitable drugs ever made.

If that is what non-profits in Pharma are supposed to be, what is the difference with for profits?
Calling Vulkan a failed design is selling it short. There are parts like image layout tracking that should never have been exposed; tracking that at the application level does not offer any additional gains. Exposing explicit synchronization, on the other hand, is in principle the right idea. The driver gets information through those APIs that it cannot derive any other way. I believe it enables certain practical resource access patterns that would be near impossible without that. However, there may be a better way than the current pipeline barrier API to describe data and execution dependencies.

Other parts of Vulkan are clear wins. Pipelines with their explicit state look more cumbersome than the OpenGL state machine when starting out on a toy renderer, but they are absolutely invaluable in anything slightly more complex. All OpenGL based renderers that I've worked with ended up building a state management abstraction on top of OpenGL to work around the debugging nightmare of forgotten state variable updates. Pipeline add this state management at the driver level.
Fairly well being the key phrase—it's not difficult for a determined individual to bypass.
For example, IP routers often peek at UDP/TCP port numbers to calculate ECMP flow hashing. This is technically naughty but it's read-only and it's only an optimization that isn't required for correct forwarding.
I am somewhat amused by all of the "copeelot bad" articles, and I dearly hope they keep proliferating, so that those of us who enjoy its frankly insane productivity boost get to stay ahead of the competition. I perceive no quality/reliability drawbacks in my own code. If anything, the ability to iterate more quickly makes my code better than ever.

It's a skill issue. (You had it coming.)
It's possible they've shot themselves in the foot, but in order for things to play out like that, I feel like there would have had to have been some demand in the first place. Wine/Proton makes possible something that the vast majority of game developers were never even considering: playing their games on Linux. As you note, Factorio is one of very few mainstream games (by which I mean, AAA and indie, not open-source) to target native Linux support, and did so long before the Steam Deck.

Even on macOS, which sits between Windows and Linux in terms of stability and user base, the selection of available games is about 10-20% of my library. Apple dropping support for 32-bit x86 (only to kind of resurrect it with Rosetta 2 on M1/M2/+) and only barely supporting OpenGL anymore while refusing to support Vulkan at all doesn't help. Credit again to Factorio for porting to macOS/ARM64, but they're once again in the small minority.

There's an interplay here between user-driven demand and platform-provided stability. As much of a faff as Wine/Proton can be, writing a game to properly support, say, Wayland is worse. That's a problem Valve _could_ help fix, but won't do anything for the vast majority of existing games.
Bahamas Bank Deltec Accused of Giving Bankman-Fried Secret Credit to Buy Tether
This is true but let's not forger that it is race to the bottom.

Even this blog did reshaped itself while I was reading it. Moore’s law is lagging here.
The problem is with the economy of the DMCA take-down process. It is almost free to file on a scale, very high cost for content host to review on a scale and for alleged infringer it you will need a DMCA counter which no incentive to accept because it is a risk. Then the only option is to sue which mean high cost against sometimes a Cooperation with army of lawyers which is not worth it even if you are right. There is fundamental imbalance in the process.
You're the kind of person who would be skeptical of the war machine against Nazi Germany in 1940. There's a famous photo with person carrying a board with "Why not negotiate with Hitler?". Just like Hitler, Putin is not interested in negotiating with Ukraine, evidenced by his insistence that the western support needs to be pulled before negotiation can start, thus removing any negotiating leverage.

Ultimately what you're implicitly suggesting is to surrender to the aggressor, but that's not going to happen. Even if the West stops support, Kyiv is conquered, there will be guerilla war for years to come.
Ooh, thanks for the rec! I'd like to try something in that vein after my gut and I are on better terms, but it's hard to choose from all the brands out there. I've never heard of Mana till now but it looks less funky than some of the alternatives (Huel... lol).
There are lots of negative risks from taking VC money. Even freshly minted from university there are enough true horror stories like this on the internet to learn from. But working in an incubator you see it all and have little excuse to be surprised (I was a founder and we were in an incubator for a while - saw some of the action!).

Avoiding outcomes like these would be a reason I would go through YC if I wanted to chase VC money rather than bootstrap. Having a strong minority investor beside you; one where the VCs do repeat business, and one the VCs care about their reputation, would be very helpful.

> Tech people need to retain way more of the equity

That's just fantasy. Common shares really suck: VC rights trump and VC model has a lot of dilution built into the success case. The median return of a any business is zero. VC money gears the risks higher for a Tech/investor. Good luck!
It really needs to be. Russia isn't close to the diplomatic/economic reach of the US, and has to develop other means of influence. The same idea applies to most instances of asymmetrical conflict.
Not sure if you meant to use <p> as an example because it's well-defined as an optional closing tag.

This is a completely normal usage and some people even author their HTML like this. Granted this is part of the effort to standardize error handling.

That unclosed <p> will auto-close as soon as you start another paragraph or close it's parent element. Likewise this is how I do lists these days:

<ul>
<li> One
<li> Two
</ul>

The subsequent li's will close the previous and the bounding ul ends the last list item.
Redmonk says Kotlin is the 17th most popular programming language ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2... ). So can any of these LLMs and whatnot, even the ones supposedly geared toward programming do something like this:

"Write a function in Kotlin that take a Long as a parameter, and sends back a List containing Long types. The parameter is a number, and the return is a list of prime numbers less than that number. All in one function."

It seems it should be pretty simple, in fact I have written this program a number of times. If you think a list of prime numbers might take up too much memory, I have also done prompts only asking it to just give the largest prime under the input parameter.

It is not a difficult task, and Kotlin is between Objective-C and Rust in popularity. Have any neural network programming tools been able to complete this? No. Some can, if the number input is 18L or the like. None have been able to handle 600851475143L (taken from the third Project Euler). If the program runs at all I get "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space". Even if I warn it to watch heap memory, it still is the same result.

As I said, this is a prompt for a list, but even if I ask for only the largest prime number before 600851475143L, or any long such as that number, I have not seen any LLM or the like that can write that function. Especially ChatGPT 4, which I have tried it on extensively.

I'm not saying LLMs will not get there, but this part of the third question on the Project Euler site, from a fairly popular language. It's a pretty simple question - a straightforward function to write. They can't do it yet.

I see people worrying about AI being on the verge of taking programmers jobs. Until it can do something incredibly specified and simple as this, I am not worried at all.
The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing
You missed out, I got a lot of convenient dinners for dirt cheap on the VC dime.
It sounds like there’s a human being making this decision not a robot
> If a law in place is found to be overly strict or general, then it should be changed or removed, and doing so should be simple and swift.

This would be a sweet world to live in. We'd have to change many reward systems to get there.

Pointedly, we'd have to improve public thinking - but most folks have already made their easy, positive changes. What's left are difficult positive changes and easy negative changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...

(I haven't engaged with / tried it because it seems like, at best, the jury is still out on it.)
I liked the article so I wanted to give you some feedback. Hope it is useful to you!

- I don't think the definitions of error and failure are 100% correct as stated. Looking at the IEEE definition that you reference, I interpret error meaning the difference between the value that is stored in the program, and the correct/intended value. For example if we expect to have a value of 100, but in fact have 110, the error is 10. I don't think that whether the value is observed or not is what categorizes it as either an error or a failure. If I run my program in the debugger and find that a value is off from what it is supposed to be, does that shift it from an error to a failure?

- One point I think you should have leaned more into is how language constructs and tools can help prevent failures, or cause more of them if they are bad. You bring up the point with Haskell and Rust, and how they systematically reduce the number of faults a programmer can make. You also bring up the point of Exceptions introducing a lot of complexity. I think these two examples are great individually. I think putting them together and comparing them would have been powerful. Maybe a section that argues why Rust omitting exceptions makes it a better language.
- A side note since I also hate exceptions: did you know that the most common (and accepted?) way to communicate exceptions in C# is via doc comments written manually by humans. Good luck statically analyzing that!

- A lot of the text revolves around the terms error, failure, and fault and how people use these in communication. Often with different ideas of what the words mean. Even the titles (jokingly? "correctingly"?) reference this. Even with the definition at the start, the ambiguity of these terms was not dispelled. I think a major part of that was the text using the terms like you defined them, and also the common "misunderstood" versions of the terms. I think a strategy you could have deployed here is to use less overloaded words throughout the article and sticking to those throughout the article. For example (without saying these are the best terms for the job), instead of fault, error, and failure, using defect, deviation, and detected problem.

- A note on the writing style. Many words are quoted, and many sentences use parenthesis to further explain something. At least to me, these things make the text a bit jumpy when overused. I would try to rewrite sentences that end with a parenthesis by asking myself "what is missing in the sentence so I don't need to resort to parenthesis?". Don't be afraid to break a long sentence into many!

Hope my comments come of as sincere, if not then that's on me! Good luck with your continued writing.
Personally I think of LLM code helpers as a warning smell.

If I’m working on something where I’m tempted to generate a bunch of boilerplate from a bot that knows very little about the context of the project, am I really spending my time on the right thing? Either I should be working on something higher level, or the amount of boilerplate should be so low that I can write it myself. Anything else suggests that there’s a problem and the LLM bloat band-aid isn’t the solution.
This is an internet forum, there's no hill here. It is the lowest possible stakes to have this discussion imaginable.

It is just as easy to grab some CC-licensed images and throw them together in an image editor, like nearly every other FOSS project does at this stage.
see the long range performance piece here
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04088.pdf
I don't quite understand Amazon's argument, isn't the NLRB operating on the delegated authority of Congress? Congress has the ability to create bodies to regulate things and basically delegate its lawmaking power to them. It seems Amazon is arguing that Congress doesn't actually have that authority?
> The whole article reads like sponsored content.

It reads like a blogvertisment [1] for McDonald's.

[1] a blog where the blog content is just an advertisement for some product, but written so as not to look like an 'ad' at first glance.
Some more context from the author: https://crisp.home.xs4all.nl/lemmings/brein1.html

This aged really well, I had no idea how impressive this was when I first played it either. The only thing is the cookies, which might break after 26 years:

function setcookie(id, cookievars) {

document.cookie = id+'='+cookievars+'; expires=Monday, 20-May-2030 05:00:00 GMT';

}
> Russia’s Ideology: There Is No Truth

> By Peter Pomerantsev

> Sadly, this mind-set resonates well in a post-Iraq and post-financial-crisis West increasingly skeptical about its own institutions, where reality-based discourse has already fractured into political partisanship. Conspiracy theories are prevalent on cable networks and radio shows in the United States and among supporters of far-right parties in Europe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opinion/russias-ideology-...

note: Please read this article, there is no pay wall.
> Threatened with the State of Colorado

If you don’t eat your vegetables I’m sending you to live with your uncle Phil, in Colorado.
Why NATO need to run disinformation campaign against Putin, when information campaign is more than enough?
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I checked DMA and Apple will be forced to comply (this thing they do is far from it), however, they can prolonge it with this tactic and break all existing web apps for a year on iOS to punch them in the face...

however, web apps are the future and not the present... we will have them on iOS in 1-2 years in Europe, I dont know when everywhere in the world
In other news: The sky is blue
All true. The raw transformer architecture isn’t enough to write sane code. I’d love to see changes made to have them guided by the compiler, customer linter rules, etc.

I still like them as is. I don’t let them write too much code for me. They’re really good translators (JSON to TypeScript interface definitions, shell command to Python string list) and quick documentation lookups (I like to write quick one-line comments for something short that I need that I would previously have looked up).
Yikes! Well, that's a vivid picture alright :P

Regarding the pain, though, don't they say that your brain has no pain receptors? Granted, there's gotta be a difference between being awake for brain surgery and walking around like that, but...
Musk would hand 40 million Ukrainians over to a dictator to live in a police state. Many of their best and brightest would be murdered by Putin once he took over. Who does he think he is to say that should be an acceptable outcome for Ukrainians? I respect Musk as a businessman and technologist, but he's a terribly naive politician.
That's a good point - I wondered what the correct term was, and Fourier synthesis makes a lot more sense! I will update the article accordingly; thank you for pointing that out.
Cultivation of Chroococcidiopsis Thermalis Using in Situ Resources on Mars
just possibly; individuals differ, and there's no one "best" for all.

But of course the premise wasn't the thrust and the point of the piece was to preach about poverty.
I use them quite a bit. Write these tests for this function in format x, transform this struct with lots of fields in the manner y or just good old rubber ducking about a problem I’m having trouble debugging
No, not at all, I'm in the UK. I was always advised never to put my age or birth date. Companies also don't want it as it can open them up to age discrimination claims.

Like you, I also removed the dates from my degree and other qualifications.
Piranesi (Novel)
> NATO runs a disinformation campaign to undermine Putin

Got any examples?
Copilot is a competent coder. If I tell it to generate a function with certain parameters, a class that follows a Gang of Four pattern, mass rename variables, or refactor loops into maps, then it does a pretty good job.

Copilot is a bad engineer. If I tell it to build something, unless exceedingly simple, it usually fails. The ability for it to create something seems correlated to how many 5 minute tutorials for that exist on the internet. Which given its training, makes perfect sense. So if I think I could find an answer on Stack Overflow, then I will just ask Copilot instead.

10 Years ago everyone was afraid of the Stack Overflow developer, now its the GPT developer. I think its a combination of actual worry and hurt pride that your job can be accomplished by someone copy/pasting. But like usual, good engineers will learn to think for themselves when leveraging tools. And an exceedingly amount of code produced works but is bad by some arbitrary metric.

I think the footer example is hilarious, because its exactly inline with web development trends of the last decade. Why use native elements when I can script my own behavior in Javascript on a div? And in a rush to "not use tables for formatting," I bet there are some 25 nested div websites out there. Even on Google sites, I have see grids built using absolutely positioned boxes with Javascript layout logic. The web is a wild place once you start looking past the tutorials and best practices.
> There was only ever going to be one PoW chain that dominates the world.

Only because there is only one chip that can be produced in mass, asic's.

> Ethereum abandoning it

Ethereum didn't abandon it, it was part of the plan all along. Bootstrap on PoW, move to PoS. I agree with you about immutability, but that is going to be an issue moving forward, as I believe strongly that human nature favors utility.
LLMs not performing worse than non-technical people isn't a good thing. Non-technical people also filter out the best candidates.

"[whittling] the number down" is generally not a good way to find the best applicants, because it is purely focused on reducing the number of applications rather than picking out potentially good ones. It's a safe, low-risk approach that reduces variance.
If the bottom have their needs met (food, housing, health care, education, day care) then any wealth inequality is acceptable.
Zelenskyy was comic, like Reagan.
Are the PCBs an input or the result of the chemistry?
> Not sure what the trick is

The 'trick' is, more often than not, simply a slightly higher syrup to water ratio. Or, alternately, the proper ratio while everyone else is running a slightly lower than proper ratio to further increase the already huge profit margin on soda fountain drinks.
VMware kills free ESXi stone dead
"The LLM's entire purpose is to mimic cognition." is your counterpoint to me saying that no peer-reviewed source has ever demonstrated a similarity between LLMs and human cognition. I'm talking about mechanism and you're talking about purpose.
> Unreal Engine 5 can now run in a web browser

Title needs correction to: Unreal Engine 5: Entwickler zeigt Spiel im Browser - dank WebGPU
Which is to say, we are all (temporarily, situationally, eventually) disabled in some way
Depends. We have a large CRUDv service - lots of endpoints that has a lot of boilerplate and not much business logic but it doesn’t change often. It’s annoying to add a new endpoint but it’s not common enough that I want someone to spend a month+ refactoring it
> Lizzie was joking

Well, obviously we shouldn't get too hung up on what a fictional character thought - but I stand by my recollection.

Just googling it, and finding this page:
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride/quotes/symbol/pemberley...

I think you can say the last quote on that page is the character joking (although I'm not sure I read it that way); but the second last quote was the one I was referring to, and is in the narrator's voice.

But, look, while reading that did change my perspective on the story, I also don't want to interpret things too cynically; I'm not saying the character of Elizabeth should be read as purely seeking advantage; just that they were clearly evaluating marriage on a combination of advantage, and 'love', with a lot of weight on the former; and all of Austen made a lot more sense when I realised that.
There are powers that Congress does not have the power to designate.

For example, Congress cannot create a branch of government that can simply declare people to be guilty of crimes at-will without a fair trial.

But if corporations are people… and a fine isn’t that distinguishable from a crime…

(Edit: For the down voters, I don’t get it. This is an actual legal case and argument the SCOTUS is hearing, right now, called Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. This doesn’t mean I agree with it.)
What's funny about this (legit) criticism is that non-AI HR people have been doing this for years.
sshfs solves most of these problems and I’ve found it good enough. Better than switching to a partly proprietary editor anyway.
Nowadays how well are old-school X11 window managers doing necessary interop with the desktop bus to keep modern GTK/QT apps rendering correctly on 4K HiDPI screens? I was forced to give up on FVWM because tweaking my X resources Xft.dpi and GDK_SCALE settings for one app such as firefox in order to get it rendering correctly on a 4K screen would break other apps. Firefox only seemed to do HiDPI correctly when run under a full GNOME desktop that provides the dbus messages it is assuming to set the 200% font size and UI scale correctly. Is there a way to run an old-school X11 WM now that allows snaps/flatpacks/GNOME-bloat dbus apps to run without issue with 200% scaling on 4K screens?