skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also my personal opinion / thoughts:

If you predominantly work in TypeScript, for the web, there's no better editor.

It's faster & "lighter" than any JetBrains product, but has excellent "auto-complete" that's fairly intelligent / context aware, while still being almost as fast / lightweight as Sublime. Use with ESLint + Prettier, with format on save enabled and you tend to fly through typing TypeScript.

It does pretty well for React Native too, it's reasonably good for JavaScript, and pretty poorly for anything else (Go, Ruby, PHP, Java / Kotlin, Swift / Objective-C), C/C++/C#.
What? Most people actually do want a second-hand car.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183713/value-of-us-passe...

I've never bought a new car in my life.

A new car is great but loses on average 10% of its value as soon as it leaves the dealer's lot, and after 5 years, depreciates to 40% of its value. You can often get a barely used car for a lot less than its MSRP.
Can this charge my house yet?

Still waiting for a decent car that can be a battery for my house. A cheap BYD with an LFP battery would be a perfect candidate.
Totally, that whole writeup about his daily routine with that "portable" computer. He wasn't self aware enough to get outside his own nonesense.
Bash in general is problematic for Atuin, since it plugs into the prompt and Bash prompt is a bit crap =)

But it should still work
Today you can use it for 90 or 180 days.

But then you download a new one.
> What straw man is constructed here?

The idea that your tax dollars should only get spent on something you use personally is laughable - I'm not arguing that.

> The entire point is that the cost is already beared by the taxpayers in the first place and that it should serve them...

Well, having the taxpayers pay for it is obviously failing. Maybe try not taking the money off people and letting them build their own broadband? If you've identified that something the government is doing isn't working, the first port of call is try privatising it. The private market is pretty good at providing things.

Getting local government to do something instead of state or federal is an improvement; but by golly you could just have the people who want something organise to have what they want without dragging the unwilling in to it. 90% vs 100% of local people paying for something doesn't really make a difference to the underlying economics.

> If a strong majority of people choose to do something as a municipality, that is the system at work. Sorry to the 10% of people who think they’re getting a bad deal (and are also almost certainly wrong on an objective level unless they just don’t want internet at all).

No that isn't the system at work, that is the system failing. Taking a system that could work with just a motivated minority organising it and changing it to a system where everyone has to vote on it at regular intervals is a recipe for failure. If a strong majority wants something, they have all the tools they need to do it themselves at their own cost. The only reason they even need a majority is to push any obstructionist permitting and whatnot out of the way.

> We give billions out in corporate welfare and yet the companies who get that money are quite often the most reviled in the nation based on public polling (Telcos).

A sensible take there is to not make paying them compulsory? I get what you're saying but I don't get how you aren't joining the dots. You start by saying that some people are going to have to pay for something they don't want. You then get to the conclusion and you've identified that people are being forced to pay for something they don't want and that is bad.

There is an easy solution to all this. Stop forcing people to fund things they think are bad ideas, then let the people who want broadband band together, set up a limited liability corporation to control the legal risk, and build themselves a broadband network. IE, get government out of the picture as much as possible. Then literally everyone gets what they want. If someone changes their mind later they aren't a shareholder and will end up having to give money to the people with more foresight.
Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, is named after Jimmie Angel, a U.S. aviator, who was the first person to fly over the falls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
Swiss Army Knife does not provide any functionality that can't be provided by any other basic household object - neither can a hammer. The function of a hammer does not extend past 'hit thing' or 'pull nail', Obviously this kind of function can't be controlled in its application as people can swing their arms however they feel which makes any sort of restriction on hammers redundant given their utility.

Flipper Zero on the other hand is a toy with no/little actual utility that enables users to perform illegal/dangerous tasks like steal cars, that would not otherwise be possible except via less accessible/illegal means.

Do you understand now?
The function of a hammer does not extend past 'hit thing' or 'pull nail', Obviously this kind of function can't be controlled in its application as people can swing their arms however they feel which makes any sort of restriction on hammers redundant given their utility.

Flipper Zero on the other hand is a toy with no/little actual utility that enables users to perform illegal/dangerous tasks like steal cars, that would not otherwise be possible except via less accessible/illegal means.

Do you understand now?
Apophenia, Audio Pareidolia and Musical Ear Syndrome (2015)
I think you might be misunderstanding me. I meant “somebody should scale making those machines that ASML could make two years ago”.

And maybe not two years, but 5, but you catch my vibe here.
I love these threads. Everyone will chime in about how they know better how to run the company, with suggestions on the processes that they don't know and so on. Meanwhile the story is "business is #1 and booming". Elegant software stacks aren't always the most important part of the business.
Perhaps I use YouTube differently:

If I am using YouTube for learning, then: My bullshit meter trips very quickly when I detect needless filler, and then I go find another video to watch (or, ideally, a writeup instead of a video -- away from YouTube). Shorts never enter the equation.

And if I am using YouTube for entertainment, then: I want more entertainment than a YouTube Short typically provides.
If a human had this failure, it would probably be something like a psychotic episode. If a super intelligence had a psychotic episode because of a bug, it could be pretty destructive.
you are right. you do NOT need the freedom to buy a defective lock.

you need the right to decide for yourself if the lock is defective or not.

if you give that away, you will instantly be given the "freedom" to buy a lock that is defective-by-design. perhaps the lock designer's brother is a friend of the govt. perhaps the govt. agency does not want bad publicity, whatever.

the point is "defense-in-depth" (cliche) or not, you are ultimately responsible for you. there can be no other way.
How Can You Use the Gel Blaster Toy Gun?
They are used in tactical games or in competitive scenarios, similar to paintball or airsoft.
Gel beads are cheap and easily transported. The gun is also environmentally friendly as the gel beads are made of water.
Mastering C++ with Google Benchmark
(Not saying anything in your comment is wrong, just an additional data point)

For "big tech" in Australia, ~$160k is pretty much the starting compensation for graduate/entry level SWEs.
>Yes, but there is no incentive for Person A to choose a brand new Corolla when it's $22K and the alternative is $15K

"Hey I know Corollas last a while, and wtf is this weird-ass company I've never heard of? I'm sticking with Toyota."

^ Incentive enough.
Correct -that lonely image on top adds zero value and should be removed. Maybe I will do a PR later.
Well then somebody should scale THAT.

And maybe not the cutting edge, but whatever was cutting edge 5 years ago.
Terraria Devs Support Open-Source Game Engines over Unity
There are surely reasonable ways to smoke test changes to the extent that they would catch the issue that came up here.

E.g.: Have a gauntlet of 20 moderate complexity questions with machine checkable characteristics in the answer. A couple may fail incidentally now and then but if more than N/20 fail you know something's probably gone wrong.
I never said white Lincoln would be the "only" thing censored. It's a prototypical example of the actual censorship that's going on.

And you accuse me of strawmen?
LLM Evaluation at Scale with the Large Language Model Efficiency Challenge
> This appears to be true because you haven't defined "better".

Better intelligence can be defined quite easily: something which is better at (1) modeling the world; (2) optimizing (i.e. solving problems).

But if that would be too general we can assume that general reasoning capability would be a good proxy for that. And "better at reasoning" is rather easy to define. Beyond general reasoning better AI might have access to wider range of specialized modeling tools, e.g. chemical, mechanical, biological modeling, etc.

> if it is true it'll be obvious in a way that doesn't make it sound interesting anymore.

Not sure what you mean. AI which is better at reasoning is definitely interesting, but also scary.

> they just come from training bigger models on the same data.

I don't think so. OpenAI refuses to tell us how they made GPT-4. I think a big part of it was preparing better, cleaner data sets. Google tells us that specifically improved Gemini's reasoning using specialized reasoning datasets. More specialized AI like AlphaGeometry use synthetic datasets.

> Yes, OpenAI was literally founded by a computer worshipping religious cult.

Practice is the sole criterion for testing the truth. If their beliefs led them to better practice then they are closer to truth than whatever shit you believe in. Also I see no evidence of OpenAI "worshipping" anything religion-like. Many people working there are just excited about possibilities.

> Humans don't have a "recursive self-improvement" ability.

Human recursive self-improvement is very slow because we cannot modify our brains' at will. Also spawning more humans takes time. And yet humans made huge amount of progress in the last 3000 years or so.

Imagine that instead of making a new adult human in 20 years you could make one in 1 minute with full control over neural structures, connections to external tools via neural links, precisely controlled knowledge & skills, etc.
https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/
GDM works on internal systems? It’s the first time I hear this.
Local LLM Assistant in Zed Editor
The GitHub issue #4424 for Zed relates to the lack of a feature for using local large language models (LLMs). In response to this, I proposed a workaround that enables the integration of local LLMs into Zed. This solution addresses the need for a non-proprietary, offline alternative to mainstream models like ChatGPT, potentially increasing privacy and control for users.

To integrate a custom model in Zed, I bypassed the limitation of only using OpenAI models. I did this by running the Mistral model from the Ollama library and cloning it to appear as "gpt-4-1106-preview." The steps included pulling and running the Mistral model, then using Ollama's commands to clone it. I updated Zed's settings to point to the local API URL of the cloned model. Restarting Zed applied these changes, enabling the use of the local LLM within Zed's environment.

For more details, you can refer to the GitHub issue directly: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4424#issuecomme...
What about Brave search? Does anyone know what they are doing behind the scenes? It's ad-free by default, and emphasizes privacy as a core feature.
So stop paying then.
I switched from ST to VSC due to a few omissions and bugs in ST (don't know if they're still there).

VSC is not a speed demon but it's fast enough (I think there is a certain audience who loves to hate this; JetBrains products are measurably slow, but nobody ever complains about it). I have the suspicion that plugins may impact the experience.

The main layout is very simple (besides the status bar, but that takes very little) and almost anything can be bound to a key combination, so one can reach everything very efficiently (for example, even if the sidebar changes to something undesired, it's possible to switch to Explorer via key binding).

The major problems I've found with Ruby on VSC are:

1. VSC's built-in support for Ruby is just terrible - indentation is broken, and based on the bug tracker, they have no interesst in fixing it.

2. Solargraph is unusable for projects of even moderate complexity - it's extremely slow and inefficient, to the point of hanging in some cases.
Standard word which implies some level of analysis into causes of the incident. This brief note doesn’t live up to industry practice either.
cat x is a subject
Apple updates iMessage with a Quantum-Secure technology
18K Commits
How is message restriction a "basic privacy/safety" feature? It's at most a basic "anti-annoyance" feature, I'm not sure what security you gain from preventing everyone from messaging you. The ability to block users was always there and it still there for free.
That's not the only issue with this reasoning, this index is not a total returns one. And if you had been investing regularly you'd have bought companies at the Lowe price, which has produced a 2-3 times return in the last ten years.

Still, I also prefer global indexes.
Hah, yeah I was completely wrong on that! Should have fact checked myself. That's a falsehood I absorbed at some point and didn't question.
We might find some more good ones in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(A%E2%80%93K)#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(L%E2%80%93Z)#...
Yes I have the same sentiment.

It used to be that rate going up would make asset price go down but the market got used to it.

Now the rates go down and asset prices go up and the rates go up and asset prices stay the same but rent increases.
Saxophone is just as unexpected, other -phone musical terms, like vibraphone, idiophone, membranophone, come with a prefix unrelated to people.

Sadism and masochism - perhaps less unexpected, but no less than shrapnel IMO.
The fact that search is broken (you often only get a few relevant videos and then some recommendations that have nothing to do with your search) and YouTube shorts are shoved in your face constantly are not enough for you to attest enshittification at this point in time?
How bad do you expect it to become in the near future?
I mentored in the Techstars program in Berlin a few years ago. Nice people and they mean well. But in the end the program I mentored in was a dud. As far as I know none of the companies were invested in and the upfront screening wasn't great either. I.e. it was obvious to me early on in the program that there were no unicorns anywhere in sight.

Not that I'm an expert on spotting those of course. But as it turns out, my skepticism was justified as there were no investments at the end of the program and few of these companies (if any) survived very long after. I was kind of sad about that because there were a couple of founders I really liked there.

Several of the companies actually died early in the program because of the usual founder issues, or the lack of coherent plan. Apparently, none of these issues came up during screening.

I've stepped back a little from mentoring (at least for them) because it's kind of time consuming and I got the vibe that Techstars took my time a little too much for granted. You get invited to some events and I got the hoody (which is a nice one) and that's about the extent of their appreciation or engagement. The promise of a great network (to both mentors and founders) is hard to live up to if you don't nurture that network. And there's not a lot of that nurturing happening lately.
> You enter criteria/product name and you get results

Not on Amazon. At least not since 2020 or so.
I see no reason founders should to go to VCs any more, these days if your startup isn’t able to become make money in a few years there isn’t any point to the startup anymore.

The days where VCs just fund anything is over and thr effects of post-ZIRP are kicking in with the closure of these funds.

Time for all startups to make a profit instead of trying to go from round to round and gamble and then inevitably shut down or get sold for scraps (if lucky)
> stress on last I rather then second O

Although one can stress a word in a sentence (prosodic stress) e.g for emphasis (contrast stress) there's no such thing as stressed syllables (tonic accent) in spoken french.

That's mostly why we native french people have a hard time speaking languages where stressed syllables matter and produces different phonemes for identically written syllables: the typical frenglish output is very monotonic and uniform. Combine that with the lack of back-of-throat Rs and tip-of-the-tongue TH which don't occur in french and you get your archetypal frenglish. And it's tough to learn because not only we're ill equipped by practice to produce those (proprioception and muscle strength) we also have a hard time hearing them as well, so we map those to french R and Z.

Conversely for someone whose native language is accented it's hard to understand that french completely lacks these, so the only way to think of how written-french syllables sound when read is that every syllable is accented, uniformly so.
Jeff Flake is from Snowflake, and his great-great-grandfather was the other founder of the town.
I don't see the connection to German founders there, as many small / medium sized businesses like the one you linked are called after their founders everywhere (plumbers, printers, electricians,...)
Yeah that's what I'm referring to. This isn't a postmortem as described in that book! This is just "it was broken, and then we fixed it". Which is fine, it's good to acknowledge that. Just don't call it a PM!
It’s generally the result of them starting as personal or family businesses, so initially your brand is your name. Then the business grows so large the relationship inverts. It does not have much to do with germany really, it’s common the world over.

For example, just from US car brand, you obviously have Ford, but also Olds (Ransom E.), Chevrolet (Louis and Arthur), Buick (David), Chrystler (Walter), Dodge (Horace Elgin and John Francis), …

And I can’t fault a German industrialist from 1910 for not English-proofing his business.
You can't "build" a community like HN. Not even YC could (again) if they wanted to. Things like good mods is still just maintenance. It's a single lucky constellation of stars, and the gravitational pull after that.
I actually did use Anki for Vim, lol. I started by putting the tips in Practical Vim in, then a few easy Vim Golf questions to remember how to do some advanced maneuvers.
Did I imply what you want is my business?

Though your other comments make it sound like you don't want a car without an immobilizer, in which case it feels like you're manufacturing something to disagree with rather than making a real argument against what I said.
Kyber
Postmortem - the murder victim died
How have you found it? I almost bought one, but charging stations weren't very convenient in my location at the time, I kind of regret it now.
Programming popularized -> more people -> more cases of knee jerk reaction encountered.

Most programmers are really not that smart nowadays. I’ve seen too many cases of people throwing around claims without a second of deep and critical thought.
if people cared, they would know

i think this issue is overblown and is being used as a smokescreen for the rash of vehicle thefts caused, not by bad kia security, but large-scale organized crime.
There's a principle more powerful than the bitter lesson: GIGO.

Training to predict internet dump can only give you so much.

There's a paper called something like "learning from textbooks" where they show that a small model trained on high-quality no-nonsense dataset can beat a much bigger model at a task like Python coding.
No result is better than misinformation.
My favourite is the verb mesmerize, which is named after physician Franz Mesmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer
I’ve learnt about a lot of things through shorts. It’s not just crap
Discussed at the time:

Things Unexpectedly Named After People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725 - July 2020 (289 comments)
> durable changes is Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

And even that is a bit random. You're getting everything, good and bad - someone else's solutions and problems. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438885/

So it has to be really worth it to try...
My shorts feed is far higher quality than my tiktok feed right now. I definitely find value in it
IKEA - an acronym for Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd (With I.K. being the name of the founder, Elmtaryd being the place he grew up and Agunnaryd being the closest village.)
Ask HN: What is the "Ruby on Rails" of the Node world?
I recently started using Rails for a project and it is such a breeze to get the basics setup quickly. DB, CRUD APIs, and everything. I am curious if there is anything similar to it for Node runtime.
Well in the 737 MAX case here it is. There are multiple engineering failures, and regardless the management pressures there are specific engineers who implemented them and who signed them off.
Yeah, I think the future will be a more fragment, AI-driven search that will be integrated into everything via plugins in browsers, apps and native integration. You reading something -> search information about something, or find the community.
First thought is can’t you set up calls with prospects and have the product _literally_ sell itself?
The C4 model [0] provides a mostly sensible structure and techniques for representing pure software systems across different abstraction levels.

For systems involving software and hardware, or other complex interfacing (both technology and bureaucracy) this starts to delve into the universe of systems engineering. There's a decent assembly of knowledge on that in the SEBoK [1].

As another commenter has already called out too, one of the most valuable sources of information is also _why_ a system is in its current form and _how_ that's changed over time. ADR's [2] really do a good job at nailing this for just about any scale.

[0]: https://c4model.com

[1]: https://sebokwiki.org

[2]: https://adr.github.io
Because it does not grow revenue long term.
Google is basically becoming IBM of this era.
> Using VS Code as a Ruby on Rails editor shouldn't be so hard!

However, I personally prefer RubyMine since it comes with everything out of the box.

I only use VS Code as a text editor replacement.
From Warhammer 40K (I am sure it was done retroactively for the joke).

Land Raiders and Land Speeders are named after Arkhan Land :)

https://youtu.be/LhspXkE8wVQ?feature=shared
Kuka in Croatian means "hook" so at least their robotic arms are somewhat aptly named.