skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your description reminds me of DHH's original "how to build a blog in 15 min" video to demonstrate Rails. Tons of time went into understanding the framework, design patterns in use and general understanding of OO, web code, etc. If you sat a non technical person down and asked them to generate the same blog in 15 minutes it just wouldn't happen. As a Java developer seeing a web app go from zero to working in 15 mins was amazing.

So I think the same thing is in effect with any AI/LLM that is outputting code. There is a ton of knowledge of the LLM and trial/error crafting prompts, clarifying things that go into getting any output that will work.

People keep focusing on the text output of these tools but the majority of time spent in Software Development is understanding business problems, working with other humans on those and defining a solution that solves the business problem, coding and testing that solution are a minority share of the total time involved from end-to-end of problem/idea inception to working software in production.
ITT: we learn apparently brands don't exist overseas

which is a boldface lie if you've ever been anywhere.
I think the author (who says it might be the case) is just seeing a tough job market. I’ve got similar YoE and I’ve seen many older ICs. Maybe not at startups that need to grind you, but what decent dev who has options would want to work there anyways?

3 years ago these “cursed seniors” (assuming they’re decent) could get a 20% pay increase in a couple weeks.
> I'm not sure that more regulation is the fix.

It worked for labels on stuff in the supermarket - you dont buy a pint of milk and get between a half pint and a full pint depending on what time of day it is.
Best low-code tools for building data apps in Julia
Have they finally unfucked the settings and brought them all into a consistent ui, or have they just moved that particular one to yet another new layer?
Sorry if this is sophmoric, but when you said "you have to have clarity of thought" - what jumped to mind was the phrase "you have to speak to the code"... I thought it encapsulated your clarity of thought quite saliently for me.
It also might be worth pointing out that while the Senate structurally favors low-population states (which in the US are more likely to be conservative), the Republicans currently have a higher proportion of seats in the House than the Senate.
His point on the significant motion-blur / image quality issues that exists with pass-through is my biggest complaint with the device hardware-wise.

I got the prescription lens inserts that Apple had suggested, and when I first put on the device I thought that either my eye doctor had gotten my prescription wrong, or something was defective with my device.

The blur is distracting -- and looking further away makes it more obvious, as the objects in the background move around a lot more when turning your head vs items really close to your eyes.

He also says you can read your screens through passthrough, but I've found that not really to be the case, at least for devices like the iPhone or Apple watch.
I've had to take my Vision Pro off many times not only to read a phone notification, but also for anything that requires Face-ID (which doesn't work well when the Vision Pro is covering your face, which feels like an Apple ecosystem fail).

I'm still enjoying it, and I bought it knowing it was a V1 product, but it also shows how far have to go, even with a ton of engineering put into a product.
Your comment history is pretty wild. It's akin to performance art.
you have to connect the fork with the goal and then use the curves to connect the rest. https://io.google/2024/puzzle/share/0b110/
Cyclists are a legitimate danger to the elderly insofar that they can cause them to break their hip which can be a death sentence, and them breaking laws can cause drivers to panic and crash.
Yep. Microsoft has taken a lot of effort in the last two years to empty out Control Panel and get everything into Settings, along with unifying everything into the Win11 Fluent (or whatever it is called these days) style.

To be honest, in a lot of cases when you need “Advanced $ Settings” it still kicks you into the old Control Panel-style pop-up windows, but at least it’s almost all in one place now.
You’re asking for things that you plan to “no true Scotsman”. If I name an institution you will claim it doesn’t count because it isn’t big enough, or that it actually is corrupt by your measure.

You have already done this with crypto. I.e. The corruption that occurs in crypto doesn’t count because those weren’t true crypto projects.

So in the spirit of the challenge. Tell me how the Adventure Cycling Association is corrupt?
> IC part number, or “xīn piàn hào”, or “芯片号” sounding similar to “xìng piān hào”, or “性偏好” which means “sexual preference”

That’s equal parts amusing and horrifying
https://archive.is/IvYJa
No it is an e.V. so it is a non-commercial non-state entity. Bayern Munich is such an entity.
You're most likely not paying for 900. That's just marketing talking. That's not committed bandwidth.

Come to think of it, the asymmetry is probably a way to exploit transit fees.
Yes, ask a wholely politically framed question and ask for no politics.
> not about a "honesty expert", which could be replaced by any other field.

Surely not marketing and sales!
Appreciate the feedback — I think we can do a better job for folks not familiar with DAPs to explain the value prop.
I scratched my head for a while trying to find a configuration where the ball traversed that Y piece intuitively (entered the curve from the west, was reversed, and then exited the straight to the north) before giving up and trying the same "impossible" solution.

Maybe it's a tie-in to their presentation - perhaps they have a new model like Sora which has a poor understanding of physics. (This would explain why the ball starts flat and ends going uphill as well.)
Opening para:

> Swarms of low-cost drones powered by AI — perhaps hundreds of them at the same time — could soon pose an existential threat to America's hulking war machinery.

Closing para:

> The bottom line: In the future, the "winning side will be the one that's developed the AI-based decision-making that can outpace their adversary," Stavridis and Ackerman write.

Reaction - Hey, Axios - could you offer an intelligent-reader's version of your article, which omits the SEO-stuffing with "AI" keywords? The ability of many cheap units to swarm and defeat one expensive one was really old news back in the age when horse-drawn chariots were bleeding-edge military tech. And the only place that a decent drone swarm actually needs AI is in its marketing BS.
really not a fan of using the hyprland format for configuration. If this is supposed to be widely adapted, untying it from hyprland is necessary.
Apple MM1: Methods, Analysis and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-Training
We call those "paragovernamental organizations", for obvious reasons.

If they get too powerful, we just drop the "para" on that name.
I’ve built a few of these in snowflake for time series data (with dbt, which is fine but I don’t love it). My feeling so far is that the incremental bits are kinda fiddly and often domain-specific. Is it possible to define a single “shape” that would solve >90% of these incremental refresh scenarios?
> That's the case for a lot of "normies", but it really feels insulting to the electronic music fans in general. Unlike say rock nobody's gonna ask you to know every band in existence and every album they put out decades ago, but you should be able to distinguish between major electronic music genres like house, techno, drum and bass, trance, hardstyle and what not.

Plenty of people are able to enjoy music without getting caught up in nomenclature. The idea that those people aren't real fans always feels very snobbish.
It's not "character" that Britain is mainly attached to, it's greenbelts.

Difficult to build -> undersupply -> high prices/rents -> low incentive to improve.
I really like Go's tooling, and while I'm fluent in Java I've never been on a full-time Java team. I've remarked to Java friends in the past that I think Go has best-in-class tooling and had my ass handed to me, in detail and at length. By many accounts, Java is the gold standard for tooling in language ecosystems. It's a compliment to Go that you'd even consider the comparison. :)
I think its safe to remind oneself that this thing is literally a zygot. So patience, and in ~5 years, it will be a different story.

@xanderlewis

Doesnt that mean it simply is now consuming the internet in real-time?
Not sure why the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Hopefully you're right, but the cynic in me thinks we've been saying the same thing about every VR headset that has come out in the last ten years.
Mercedes and other manufacturers do this as well. While it's arguably an extreme example, you can't purchase the Mercedes Benz Project One hypercar unless you have a history of purchasing their low-volume, extremely expensive cars (AMG Black Series, etc).
Show HN: Stacktape – 97 % of AWS Capabilities, 3% complexity
Hello, Matus, Stacktape CEO here.

Today, after more than a year in development, we’re introducing the next major version of our product.

During the past few years, we’ve been trying to create a platform that allows developers to deploy their apps entirely on their own without having to do any DevOps.

But this doesn't work in practice. There are too many moving parts. We can abstract 90% of them 90% of the time, but that’s not good enough.

So, we can’t abstract DevOps completely. But we can make it and order-of-magnitude more developer-friendly:

- Writing 100s or 1000s of lines of different YAML files -> write 10s of lines of a simple & concise config

- Having to understand many different technologies (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) and infrastructure concepts (networking, VPCs) -> use 1 technology that includes only easy-to-understand abstractions

- Manual work of deploying & managing apps -> Simple app management in a console UI, including push-to-deploy capabilities, logs browser, infrastructure costs breakdown, one-click-rollbacks, etc.

One thing we're particularly proud of is our config-builder. It’s a monaco-editor (the one powering VSCode) with built-in IntelliSense for Stacktape configuration (autocomplete, validation, on-hover documentation, etc). Prefer GUI? Start with a preset - we have one for most use cases. Then, configure the missing parts using dropdowns, validated input fields, etc. This way, you can configure even the most complicated infrastructures in minutes, and the chance you make a mistake is near zero. You can try it directly on our main website (even though it's even better when it has access to your git repository).

So what is Stacktape? It's a Platform as a Service 2.0 that runs in your own AWS account. It combines the user experience of a PaaS provider (such as Heroku or Render) with the flexibility of a do-it-yourself approach.

If you have any feedback or if there's something missing in Stacktape, I am all ears.
"By scaling up the presented recipe, we build MM1, a family of multimodal models up to 30B parameters, consisting of both dense models and mixture-of-experts (MoE) variants, that are SOTA in pre-training metrics and achieve competitive performance after supervised fine-tuning on a range of established multimodal
benchmarks. Thanks to large-scale pre-training, MM1 enjoys appealing
properties such as enhanced in-context learning, and multi-image reasoning, enabling few-shot chain-of-thought prompting."
Should we rely on the individual’s belief about the level of harm they might cause when deciding whether to enforce the law when they break it?
Level 12 seems to explode with possibilities. Any hints to reduce the search space?
The Meta Quest already has porn, at least in Japan:

https://www.meta.com/experiences/1990852827683397/
The first render, where the stroke width is thin at the top, and fat at the bottom... it's still bad objectively, but it almost looks like it is heading in the direction of something that could be called interesting/creative. If the author continues, it might have something really cool in a few iterations (mixed in with more than a few that make the eyes bleed, I'm sure). Wouldn't be shocked if he eventually shakes a few insights down from the clever tree.
Self-Driving Cars Enter the Next Frontier: Freeways
Supreme Betrayal a Requiem for Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment
>Russia’s state killings are vast, millions?

If you go far enough back in time, sure.

Then again, if you go far enough back in time (not that long, truth be told), the US committed genocide against the Native Americans.
https://github.com/philipl/pifs my favorite file system is based on this!
There is the third part, none of us failed, and there is any desire to lead anyone or anything.
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7% pay bump seems pretty good.
First sentence is 100% my sentiment, cheers !
This is funny, but sadly true... I just told someone yesterday if lawmakers truly cared about all of this they'd ban all social media. Lobbyists and lawmakers will be eating well until then.
Um...large battleships have been known as "rusting old museum ships" for the past 1/3 of a century. Any reason why an enemy might care about them?
This is a bit of how I feel about Beat Saber modded with community maps.

It’s engaging and challenging in a way little else I can do at home is, and it’s pretty good for getting some movement and cardio in to boot. The days I play it’s almost always for an hour and if it weren’t for physical exhaustion I could go longer (once when live-streaming my play to and audio chatting with a family member, I played for closer to two hours straight thanks to having something to distract me from my tiredness).
Google Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
My two favorite (in the search space)

- BerlinBuzzwords (https://berlinbuzzwords.de/)

- Haystack (http://haystackconf.com)
Start, curve west to south, "Y" piece, curve north to east, curve west to north, reverse, back through the last two curves and the "Y" piece (unintuitively the ball will take the left to the finish).
I'll only buy a VR device if it's in the form of glasses, not big goggles I need to strap to my face.
None of them cost even half as much as this thing. What's with the endless comparisons with previous Apple products that were completely different in a completely different market and competitive environment.
It’s a new UI paradigm, not just a new UI toolkit or something like that. I think those are quite difficult, I can only think of like 4 in the computer space: text & terminals, windows mouse and keyboard, menu driven (consoles & cable boxes), and smartphone.

We don’t come up with totally new ways to interact with our computers often. And Facebook has never stood out for their UI brilliance.
Fact of the matter is Psychology is at this point more pseudo than science.

The biggest factor impacting the outcome of an experiment in psych is what the researcher conducting the study wants to be true. The whole subject is broken down in this article:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
Not at all. Its a relative pay decrease.
I could be wrong, but isn't MDF basically made from the waste of wood products? I mean, it's graded and standarised. But MDF _is_ the waste. So to waste it again is no great loss.

But as with all things, I'm certain some producers are using raw/virgin materials. Probably from wood that is dirt cheap.
"I suppose SAS is too expensive, so R will have to do"?
And never produce anything original. No change then.
I think, crucially, Apple also invented a price anchor for VR computing. Previously, only the extreme high end of VR broke $1.5k.

Now if apple puts out an Apple Vision SE or non-pro or whatever at $1,999 it will be seen as an absolute steal.
RE: Ray Kurzweil

Did you see him on JRE last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vrOUau2iY

(or was that why you asked)
Which one will cause more chaos?
A boiler plate example of prime-MVC, a lightweight Java MVC framework
Java's tooling is indeed very good but comes with a huge downside of being bound to an IDE.
Why pick on MTL?
First Oculus headset versus Quest 3 right now? Quest 3 wins. There's progress. Perhaps not as fast as we'd want. There is progress though. I suspect that progress will continue.
Cars also have bad enforcement with far, far worse consequences. The issue is, policing cyclist when cars murder 100s of people just doesnt make sense.

Any $ spent on policing cycling is a $ not spent on a policing cars.

And arguable one of the main reasons cyclist behave like they do, is because they fundamentally dont operate in an envoirment that is designed for them. The rules as stated dont actually make sense.

What actually need to happen is for the infrastructure to be actually designed will cycling in mind, and with rules that actually make sense for cycling.

Forcing stopping at stop signs is objectivly dumb for cyclists, just as an example.
I'm not sure it's about attachment, although the fact large residential areas of London are somehow 'protected' does not help. I'd guess it's mostly two things:

* Landlords don't care their tennants pay too much for energy because there is no competitive pressure, the apartments will rent regardless. And many homes in London are rented.

* The government does not care. The British society is very classist in my experience and the ruling class does not care the general public is freezing. So even while the UK was in the EU and the EU had various drives to improve energy efficiency of buildings, the UK mostly ignored them.
Exactly. Example: maybe 1% of the code I generate is bash. I used to try to memorize patterns, but of the top 20 I'd use each less than once per year. Now, instead of that 1% taking 5% of my time, it takes 2%. It's all "simple stuff", and I can verify it instantly.

I have ~10 similar use cases. So it hasn't revolutionized my life, but it's been well worth $20/mo ChatGPT Plus and $3/mo API calls.
a rational and somewhat nuanced opinion. that's not gonna sell on social media, lol.

but I agree. unless you're growing it yourself chances are all food is "processed", and while ultra processed foods is a nebulous title, it is also clear that there is definitely that some foods are debatably "meat" or "grain".

a lot of those Lunchables salamis, for example, have more in common with McDonald's chicken nuggets -- pink goo made from scraps, feet, necks, anuses, etc. -- that's shaped into something that resembles food, and then fried. on the other hand, that is real proteins we're throwing out -- an animal died for this -- and we should use every last scrap, esp. when living in a world where people still starve.
It doesn't take anybody there being an idiot for the system to be idiotic, unfortunately.
"Apple intentionally calibrated the Vision Pro display slightly out of focus to make pixels a bit blurry and hide the screen door effect “in plain sight”

Makes me think of the blurring effect of phosphors on a CRT.
> They do not need engine relight capability to reach orbit - plenty of orbital rockets exist that cannot relight their final stage

I’m sure they will have this thing plez dispensing cybetrucks all the way to mars in short order. But I’m also pretty sure that the FAA and whoever SpaceX buys their insurance from are gonna need pretty good assurance that they can control where that thing comes down. Expendable orbital stages are designed and engineered for safe end of life operations and uncontrolled reentery. Starship is not.
I do not understand how you and some other people seem to see a claim to be first in every feature a language ever says it has. Who is claiming primacy or uniqueness for almost any feature in any language ever? When has a Go designer ever claimed to be the first ones to implement a feature?

Programming languages have been largely just shuffling around features other languages have for the last 50 years now, and I can only go back that far because when you get back to the very first languages, they're unique and first by default. Even when a language is first to do something, it's generally only the first for a feature or two, because how would anyone even make a programming language that was almost entirely made out of new things anymore? Even if someone produced it, who would or could use it?

You seem to spend a lot of time upset about claims nobody is actually making.
I balked at this too - more because the idea of returning something I bought that arrived in perfect condition, after I’ve given it a fair amount of use, just because I decide I don’t like it never occurs to me. It feels vaguely entitled and unethical. In my head, you can’t return things you’ve used!

In this situation I’d either keep it and use it infrequently (or maybe it’d grow on me), or perhaps sell it.
Er, yes - it's certainly true you can't use something you're unaware of.

Noting that I'm on lots of channels with lots of people that have never registered their nickname - agreed that it's seen as a necessity by many though.

I assume you mean the discords saw much higher levels of engagement. Just looking at numbers joined isn't the best comparison, I've seen many with huge member counts but only a handful of people interacting there (not that IRC is any different in that respect).

No scoffing or eyerolling here, I'm not suggesting it's easy.
Huh. So it's very similar to the Wayland protocol described in the blog post.
How to Speak Fluent English?
I am a non-native English speaker, but I have lived in Canada for less than a year, and my English is not very good yet. I am very bad at taking the initiative to talk to other people, so it is a vicious cycle. So are there any apps suitable specifically for speaking?
Relative to what? YoY CPI is around 3% right now.
> Maybe he's a bad guy, but prison is worse than you think, and probably doesn't fit the crime here. Imnsho

Seeing as how he is not required to make his victims whole, even prison time is getting off lightly.

Other criminals don't usually get to keep the proceeds of their crimes, even with prison time.

If the court ordered prison this time, he still gets to enjoy the proceeds when he gets out.
> I rarely have the need to reach for an external package

Agree 100 % ! And it gets better as time evolves.

For example the recent `log/slog` introduction to stlib kills the need for 99.9999% of people to use third-party logging, because structured logging is now in stlib.

Same with the new http mux. Many people will now be able to migrate over to stdlib because of the richer functionality, and only the small community of outliers who are doing stuff like regex mux parsing will need the third-party libs, but with time no doubt regex mux will make its way to stdlib too.
Those all pale compared to Buffett taking Gates to McDonald's while they were in Hong Kong. And paying with coupons.
Banning TikTok could also get a lot of other apps banned
It’s not worth it, you’re better off buying them smaller electric vehicles and then moving them up to bigger things.
Ask HN: Missing Google Calendar events due to unnoticed notifications?