skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same way.

I think the immediate future is bright. Some will try to cram this technology into enterprise. It will do well. Those jobs will die. Others will leverage it alongside the more creative engineering tasks—they will thrive.

Eventually, what we call software will change from what it is today into something much more accessible to these types of tools. The plateau we've landed on is just a compromise between the technology, economies, and culture of its time.

As this type of tech pervades our everyday lives, much of the widespread need for specialized software will evaporate. The remaining work will be in the corners or the edges of what's possible—highly technical or vertically integrated work (particularly, hardware-integrated stuff), as well as platform engineering to sustain the new paradigm.
Feeling pretty craft-y recently, huh?
Yes, that's right. The free market has no horses in this race, it's a comparison of the relative corruption of different governments and societies. Our military-industrial complex, of which Boeing is an important member, is one of the most corrupt institutions in the world.
> I would assume developers would be the first ones to use a much more customizable system like some DIY linux distro or something. Is there something im missing here?

Some people want that. I just want a machine that mostly works most of the time, where I don't have to spend too much fighting it. And OS X is that.

Windows is flat out not an option for me; I'm pretty sure that they don't show advertisements in the start menu or task bar anymore, and that their weird mix of touch-screen OS and desktop OS is only slightly worse than the OS X approach - but I'm not willing to put in the time to find out.
It's important for platforms to support works of art indefinitely. It is not reasonable to expect, say, decade-old games to be updated (something that can involve weeks or months of work because underlying toolkits may need to be updated as well). This was a huge issue when Apple killed 32-bit support.

Moves like this destroy trust within communities.
I actually agree with you that professional writers _can_ write/communicate much better than LLMs. However, I’ve read way too many articles or chapters in books that are so full of needless fluff before they get to the point. It’s almost as if they wanted to show off that they can write all that and somehow connect it to the main part of the article. I’m not reading the essay to appreciate the writer’s ability to narrate things, instead I care about what they have to say on that topic that brought me to the essay.
I'm Dutch, my first language was Dutch, my second language was German and my third language was English.

I count and do all my numbers in English, UNLESS I am in The Netherlands and I have just been talking Dutch then I do it in Dutch. I do not switch to Dutch even internally for my internal monologue when I encounter numbers.
What exactly do you think this report accomplishes?

It's not legally binding like Congressional legislation or an executive order.

Nobody has been prevented from using memory safe languages prior to the report being published. I'm sure there are plenty of instances where consultants and contractors have been required to use C or C++ because it's written into hundreds of thousands of pages of antiquated government contracts, but this report isn't a magic wand that's going to change those contracts. You have to convince the most stuffy lawyers imaginable to change them, which is an expensive endeavor that no reasonable business is going undertake unless it affects their bottom line, and that only happens after Congress passes a law. And prior to a law, there's going to be an army of lobbyists ready to carve out a waiver system, render any hope of improving software quality moot.

I'm of the opinion it's merely a clarion call for D.C. parasites to invent ever-more creative ways to waste tax dollars. Without clear objective success criterion defined by the government, the problem will persist indefinitely. And if you're a bureaucrat with friends and family making millions consulting on this problem, you're disincentivized to solve anything. Why cut off the hand that feeds you.

I'm eager to hear your thoughts about these undeniable problems.
It's not frowned upon, it's the normal way of doing anything non-trivial in Windows land. You don't get something from a repo, you go to the Foobinator Tools website to download BarApp Pro
https://avherald.com/h?article=51212eb5

https://avherald.com/h?article=515c54c7

https://avherald.com/h?article=5153c289

https://avherald.com/h?article=514dd2cc

https://avherald.com/h?article=51474192

https://avherald.com/h?article=50a9fa9f

https://avherald.com/h?article=512e34e3

Only three are "anywhere near", but you get the idea, that's just browsing the first page with the accident filter on.
I once listened to a podcast [0] with interviews of a couple of scientists at the ECMWF (European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts).

I think it was in that episode where one said that every 10 years we improve the forecast by 1 day.

It was recorded in 2019, so AI wasn't really that much of a topic as it is today, considering that Google published an AI weather model in November of last year [1].

[0] https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e...

[1] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/graphcast-ai-model-for...
As far as I can see from looking at their repo, Drizzle isn't a wrapper for Kysely though? You can use Kysely or other query builders with drizzle, but it has its own query builder too.
Number of groundings depends on the subjective judgement of FAA employees. It's not useful as an objective measure.

Christ, Boeing planes used to just spontaneously explode back in the 90s, and the only reason more people weren't killed was that two of the three had the good fortune to happen on the ground.
AI Upscaler Comparison
If you can't understand how the expense of doing that may be onerous on a business then you shouldn't be let anywhere near decision making.
The implication that restricting user freedom to the degree that Apple does is as vital as the seatbelt in your car is hilarious to me. A better analogy would be "how come my Apple car can only drive on Apple-owned toll roads but every other car can drive wherever it wants?"
From my experience with Gitlab, it feels like Github but slightly worse so things aren't exactly in the place you expect them to be. Sourcehut is completely different, so (for better or worse) any user knows they have to adjust their approach.
The capitalist system keeps you poor by design. And you feed the system by purchasing the mass produced garbage. Sure, it is nice to afford stuff when poor, but we don't need to live in a society where being poor is common, or where mass produced garbage is the default option for most.
If you’re lifting off the throttle enough to activate regen braking, you would be applying the friction brakes in a car as well. Maintaining a steady speed is more efficient than varying speed, but if you have to vary speed then one pedal driving is superior in every way.

If your one pedal driving doesn’t save power, then I would suggest a driver mod.
This and piracy was the kicker.

And the business machines companies paid $$$ for to get access to 123 ended up at home a few years later as newer machines entered the workforce.
Its impossible to induce anything through compression alone as it is reductory. We also need the ability to add and combine things.

The vary nature of the inquiry of physics is to find the simplest mental conception which explains the greatest number of physical phenomena. To improve any system or model while retaining all its qualities, it is necessary to deconstruct it into simpler bits so that it can be reconstructed into something simpler.

Indeed, one can conceive of a physics model in which every observable phenomena is a unique entity which has the properties of doing exactly what is being observed. But attempting to find common properties between phenomena, we can reduce them to simpler explanations, and this can happen in iterative steps. In the the primitive studies of physics, this was reducing the elements into "fire", "water", "steam", "earth", etc. Then we broke this model down further, by saying all elements have something in common, in that they are atoms. And we then attempted to explain commonalities by which atoms behave by breaking it down further.
The Crux of Creativity
Facebook has more datacenter space and power than Amazon, Google, and Microsoft -- possibly more than Amazon and Microsoft combined...
so it is basically using libSQL instead of SQLlite?
"Any low-code backend builder implies there is code being written." True, in my case functions form a DSL which means abstraction.

"You should consider finding business problems that need solving with no/low code solutions which will lead you to what might need to be built." Yes, I don't want to implement more functions until I know which functions would be needed.
A) Can't you run a Linux OS?

B) Use ShutUp10 to automate the cleansing process.
> Just give me a product that works as advertised

Almost no products fit this description, and if they do then the marketing department is getting fired.

Does a Mcdonalds burger look like the picture?

If you go in with a healthy dose of cynicism IMO LLMs can impress. I’d call it a better google search and autocomplete on steroids.
> replacing StackOverflow and library documentation

I find it horrible at replacing library documentation

> I feel like many of this things require asking the right questions, which assumes certain level of experience. But once you reach this level, it’s an extremely valuable assistant.

I've been using LLM products since incipience. I use them in my daily work life. It's a bit tiring hearing this 'right questions', 'level of experience' and 'reach this level'. Can you share anything concrete that you achieved with ChatGPT that would blow my mind?

I keep hearing this 'you need to ask the right kind of questions bro' from people that never build a single product in their life, and it makes me question my ability to interact with LLM but I never see anything concrete.
> How many years until the expanding sun's corona envelops the earth?

So, so, so many years. We've gotten as far as we have in something like 200,000 years, with most of our technological advancement happening in the last...I don't know, let's be generous and call it 10,000.

It takes probably what, two hundred years for technology to become nearly unrecognizably advanced these days?

We have around 7 and a half billion years before the sun wipes us out. Trying to get people on Mars with current technology has its arguments, but that we'll run out of time if we put it off anymore isn't one of them.
Ironically, the iOS banking apps I use are particularly finicky about only running on customer installs without developer capabilities enabled. I very much doubt that banks would queue up to install from web sites etc.
I'm kind of an AI pessimist, but I think that sounds like it could be a wonderful society. When the only work you need to do is work that you actually want to do. It could free up people to actually chase their dreams and achieve what they want to, without having to constantly chase subsistence.

The reason I'm a pessimist is that I mostly see society preserving the status quo. I don't see AI democratizing things and freeing us, because we have fetishized the concepts of work and profit that we can't imagine a society that functions properly without demanding those two things be put above all else.

I don't envision a dystopia or a utopia, I envision a future where AI disenfranchises people who should be taken care of, bolsters profits of the already powerful, and replaces the most fulfilling human pursuits without actually saving people from unfulfilling toil, mostly because society will bend backwards to try to preserve the status quo.
I am not sure. C++ is a tool. I use what my company and companies in my domain use. I wouldn't mind using Rust, but there's just very little momentum. So meanwhile I do my best with what we have.

Personally, I care more about what I do than which tool I am using.
Yeah that doesn’t say how the video was being generated. I meant how, not who. It could have been ML-based.
lets not split hairs, if the redundancies kick in then the instrumentation didn't go away.

> That is bad. But not as bad a FBW system bug.

The event in question is better than the plane plummeting out of the sky and killing everyone. That doesn't make it ok for the event to have happened.
Just under 100m2 are air conditioned. Largest day on record was importing 23 kWh due to almost no sun, and me choosing to spend the day bulk cooking/catching up on washing. In a grid down/no sun situation I wouldn’t be doing bulk cooking and washing.
Why Kids Need Summer Camp
>You'll be able to follow that steampunk vampire creator that's been missing from the world until now. Every long tail interest will be catered to. Even the most obscure and wild tastes, ideas, and designs. Stuff that would never get studio funding.

Your optimism reminds me of the optimism I had around the early internet. Power to the people, long tail, rise of the creative class, the fall of gatekeeping corporations, etc.

It was like that for a couple of years in the late 90s before power and control got vastly more centralized than before. Maybe this time it’ll be different.
It actually is Drizzle
What should I do if I have both and want both to operate the way I want because I paid for them? Just like I paid for a Macbook and a Surface and can install anything on both at my will
I can’t wait until they replace pilots with remote workers in a low cost of living area.
Many animals are able to hear outside of our range of hearing.

I tried to capture in when I noticed it happening on 2015, but you can't easily hear the sound, some of it was audible to me, but not with the camera I had (I had to grab the closest thing I could find).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl_d7dc-EY

If you watch at 0:50, you'll see in a few seconds the crow is doing a whole-body movement. That's it making the sound, which I could feel against my skin. If you crank it, you can hear the weird, audible part of it.

Then, before they really went to work again... one of the crows noticed me. And you can see at the end, the other gets really pissed that it didn't notice me.

Basically, he walks to where he can see in my house, spies me, and is all "YOU BASTARD!"

Part of an email I sent to a friend at the time:
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This is the first time I've noticed this behaviour.

Crows can make sounds, and hear sounds, outside of our range of hearing.

And, it was raining. Soaking the topsoil.

It is also grub season. Soon, June bugs will appear, but right now they
are in grub form, but pupating. I'm not sure if the added density helps
in detection or not.

You'll likely have to turn this up. I had to grab the nearest device I
had, so the resolution sucks too.

Watch the larger crow, as it walks around, sounding for grubs. It did
this over a large portion of my lawn.. systematically.

Wild stuff.
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Probably just a more visible "install" button would eliminate the need for half of native apps. I've tried doing a PWA before, and despite iPhones having all the right capabilities for it (they even support push now), users were totally confused installing a PWA in the first place.

Beyond that, in theory, very few things need to be native apps if OS-makers really wanted to embrace PWAs. WASM and all that, and equally importantly, access to more native APIs.
She was pretty clearly trying to hack it though. If you found a developer code you could type into a vending machine to get free product and you used to to get tens of thousands of dollars of free snacks, that would obviously be theft.

Maybe the first time you could claim it was an accident, but there's no way one could claim he reasonably thought free gas forever was intended behavior.
OPA was one of the most cursed things I have ever worked with.
1. Difficulty with comprehending long sentences from the screen.
2. The desire to put witty comments in text fields.
All I know is that I have it disabled on my phone except for the couple of services I do want (like Find My), and it works fine. My photos get backed up using Google Photos app, etc
Why American cars are so big
The inability to run a real web browser (with extensions!) has been holding me back on the switch to iOS for a long time now. Reviewing Apple's behavior in the EU, I'm not really expecting that to change any time soon. Android is annoying in a lot of its own ways, but at the very least I can run whatever software I want on the thing, and that's too valuable to give up.
This is an irrelevant question because the US has decided to just force it to become a US company instead of banning it.
All IP is a deal with society. If it's not serving society, the rules should be changed. In trademarks, the benefit is very clear - consumers do no do well from an entity passing off their product as someone else's.
Mathematics Guides Effect Handlers [video]
Matija Pretnar about the eff programming language and mathematical foundations for Effect Handlers.
Raising kids, social stuff, exercise, travel, any leisure stuff like racing, horse ridding, acrobatics. entertainment, cooking, art, gardening etc.
Just check what rich girls do and you will see they aren’t bored though they don’t have to work.
I guess the real question that is not openly posed is whether NYPD has mandate do that before we even get to the part as to whether it is cost-effective, warranted or even desirable. Sheriff of my podunk lil town doesn't run work with Italy's podunk town mayor for example.
Introducng RFM-1: Giving robots human-like reasoning capabilities
I'm not sure how intensive the "backend" is, but I've found stuff like workers to be economically efficient only for hobby tier projects.

I operate a BitTorrent tracker I wrote for fun, and it receives around ~1500req/s (100mil+ a day)

This would be ~US$18/day with CF workers, but costs me €3.8/mo on my VPS
The point being that you can't have it both ways here.

You are the one who made the "just don't use it" argument, as applied to the iPhone.

If you can use that argument, then so can everyone else. We can equally say "Ok, just continue to only use the iPhone app store".

Its your argument. Either it applies or it doesn't.

If you want to say that your argument is bad, thats fine. But if you don't then the argument can be equally used against you.

I expect that you'll ignore this clear contradiction though and not address it like you just did in your comment, and if you do that I will take that as an agreement that your argument was bad and you just don't want to admit it, thus you avoid addressing the contradiction.
Flash was dangerous because it ran a VM and had low-level access for storage and graphics.

So it was always fighting against exploits that ruined its features.
It does use libSQL, yes!
Jack Welch is a bit of a notorious figure in business thinking. He and his adherents playbook were to enter a company, "trim fat" (layoffs), threaten those left with firing if they didn't manage to thrive with their now increased workload, and dumped the "savings" from "getting the juice out of the employees" back onto shareholders. All of that without regard to what it'd do to the long-term health of the company.

His management ethos was sadly hailed in business schools for it's genius (for facilitating higher than average returns at a time when most companies operating sanely could only offer modest returns) even as it's fruits began to slowly poison the entire vineyard.

What it effectively was was the solidification of short-term gains at all costs in the business zeitgeist for the next 4 decades.
>so for you to say "so what, there have been issues on Boeing planes for several years"

He didn't say that. YOU inserted the "Boeing planes" bit. He just said planes.
I have a hard time parsing the position of the comment in question. As if allowed was just an unfortunate choice of word.
How to put a USV example into one column of a USV without qualifier?
"We are close to solving memory safety in C++ without runtime overhead" (2015)
yes, for example the aforementioned Xano. And thank you for throwing out the idea to implement leetcode problem solutions. This helps to compare expressive power of the functions against established programming languages!
How much sampling bias is there in this, though? The people that own devices that can count steps will tend to be those who are active enough to consider monitoring them something that might be worth doing.

And then there are people like my wife that typically get over 5,000 "steps" because she's always doing things with her hands. Her insurance was giving her $60/year for wearing my old FitBit (I had upgraded to the waterproof version.) Now it's down to $20/year and soon she's going to quit wearing it. What they will really be measuring is that $20/year is not going to prompt her to replace it when the battery finishes dying.
This is good news. Pretty much all studies don’t do long term use and suggest further studies are required for the effects of long term use past the age of puberty. Experimenting on kids and lying to the public is not cool.
It is, but all regulation is market manipulation (like, literally. It forces the market equivalent away from the free market). We have decided it's ok to vest that power in governments.
No, it literally isn't, at least, the plural of anecdotes isn't useful data. To be useful, data need to be collected in a uniform and systematic way. Anecdotes are memory, and it seems we are wired to remember the unusual and the unexpected. So you remember wrong forecasts (especially if you were caught outside unprepared), don't remember correct forecasts. Collecting everyone's anecdotes would not give you any insight about how good or how bad forecasts are.

Pointing this out is not an attempt to silence you.
This is a post about a present product launch. The future, maybe tomorrow, will be filled with wonder and amazement. Today, we need to understand reality. Not all of us appreciate empty hype. Hackers tinker with reality and build the future. Marketers deal with thin promises.
This is a true but very weird thing to bring into the thread.
We do have information.

the guy is a whistleblower, went to court day 1, missed court day 2, and was found dead in his vehicle of unnatural causes.

attaching the adjective vacuous doesn't actually strengthen your point.
Swift on Playdate
> For me the "plateau of productivity" after the disillusionment has been using LLMs a bit like search engines. Quick standalone summaries, snippets or thoughts. A nice day-to-day productivity boost, but nothing that's going to allow me to work less hard.

And it only took one of the most computationally expensive processes ever devised by man.
Writing an idea down just seems to reinforce it and makes you flesh it out. I think it engages your brain differently, but I’m no neuroscientist.
I'm not the person you posed the question to, nor am I challenging what you're saying.

However, it was my understanding that cities that resisted them would sometimes be destroyed en masse. They didn't need to kill them all with bows and arrows. They would round everyone up and bury them in a hole or execute them.

Hulegu himself put the death toll in Baghdad at 200,000. I think that widescale murder was entirely possible at the time.

It would be difficult to name ethnicities or cultures that were wiped out, precisely because they were wiped out, wouldn't it?
No, but I sure would like it if you defined it a bit better, since apparently we're now talking about UK numbers.
"are there any pre-existing low-code backend builders out there to compare to? i'm trying to think when i would use it. is it a code generator or will i just call the thing without reading the code myself?"

Backend builder like Xano that is somewhat visual builder whereas I try to do things by using text.