skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People interested in Aider (which is an awesome tool) might also be interested in checking out my project Plandex[1]. It's terminal-based like Aider and has a somewhat comparable set of features, but is more focused on using LLMs to work on larger and more complex tasks that span many files and model responses. It also uses a git-style CLI approach with independent commands for each action vs. Aider's interactive shell.

I studied Aider's code and prompts quite a bit in the early stages of building Plandex. I'm grateful to Paul for building it and making it open source.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Even in major cities in the US, the vast majority of people still drive most places. Sure, downtown office workers can usually walk to get lunch, but that's about the extent of it. Also, exercise is much harder in urban areas, cities have crowded gyms making it harder to work out at peak times, crowded roads making it harder to bike, and constant crosswalks making it hard to get in a consistently-paced run. Rural/suburban people just run on their land/around their neighborhood.
Related:

Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix using a MIP solver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21116565 - Sept 2019 (21 comments)

Predictive CPU Isolation of Containers at Netflix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096699 - June 2019 (1 comment)
This has to be bad for Spotify, right? Infinite low cost music generation from multiple competitors challenges Spotify's moat and forces them to develop a similar product and compete away profits from innumerable challengers - or else just go out of business.
> Electric cars where already gaining traction by the time Tesla got their production in order, so if he had an impact there, its only in marketing a product you could only buy from other companies. The charger network maybe? But wasn't most of that heavily subsidized?

Given how shit even current EVs are compared to the early Model S, you are totally wrong. It was always at most a side project for ALL the existing OEMs as we now know. They have have had chance after chance after chance to prove the thesis that "if they cared, they could produce a Tesla killer overnight". None of the OEMs have produced anything that is competitive with Tesla in all metrics (price, range, features etc.) all of them compromise in one or more areas.

The only real serious competitors are the Chinese. There is a reason when teardown analysis reports are offered on all the EVs, the Chinese care about one company and one company only: Tesla. Everyone else is just a follower and the Chinese are not even bothering to waste their time looking at them. You even see it in their actions. Tesla is the only "legacy western" company without a JV partner in China. China can happily dump all the other losers any time they want. They can't afford to lose Tesla so they have accommodated them.

>SpaceX's success is massively overstated, every time it's brought up. Their rockets are still not stable and if you actually tally up all the money they've received from the state, it'd be way more expensive - even adjusted to inflation - then the space shuttle launches from the nineties.

Are you for real? In 2021 they launched ~380 Metric tons of mass to orbit while the rest of the world combined launched about 400 metric tons. In 2022? They were double what the rest of the world did and finally in 2023, they were 80% of all the mass to orbit launched. When I mean rest of world that includes: Rest of the US industry + Europe + India + China + Japan + Russia + everyone else. If you look at the other launch providers in the US they get far more subsidies and have delivered not even a fraction of what SpaceX has provided.

Can you think of many industries where a single company is doing 80% of worldwide effort? And they are on track to increase that by 50% this year (a metric they will likely achieve given their track record).

In the last couple years they have sent 42 humans to orbit and back. They year they are on track to do their first spacewalk.

Starlink now has 2.3 Million customers in over 70 countries.

I am seeing this outright dismissal of Musk more and more since the whole Twitter saga. Its reeks of ignorance just like all the people that repeatedly make fun of Apple users as idiots who just get duped by fancy marketing. Even in 2024 people here make that silly argument. Musk bashing is the new version of that. It just makes you look ignorant because you are so blinded by what you don't like that you have dismissed all these amazing achievements that no one else is doing.
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It's not mentioned in the terms of service either.

I would recommend removing this because it's against the GDPR... and even foreign companies have to comply (for the protection of European citizens, wherever they are) if they offer goods and/ or services to citizens in the EU in some way (European region of an app store, ad campaigns in Europe, etc.) I also think that the GDPR is pretty correct in requiring opt-in consent before tracking, so it's "the decent thing".
i think it's worth noting that the 'CMA oversight' is the result of an investigation being initiated against Google for these exact anti-competitive practices and that Google has been forced to change their process by the CMA as a result of that investigation.

I don't think you work for Google or are a sock, but it is clear from your comment history that you are extremely supportive of Google and a considerable proportion of your comments on HN writ large are just defending Google across multiple different threads/issues.
Oh they are definitely using it, but no one is going to admit it.

You misunderstand the workflow. I'm not trying to create a text prompt that generates hits. It's a way to get ideas and find interesting stuff rather than doing it manually with a guitar or on the piano. Then you have to walk away for some time to clean your sonic pallette and try again.

As a lifelong musician I am absolutely loving all the conversation around this stuff. Musicians steal everything, all the time. The idea of some genius that sits down and pops out a hit in 30 minutes that comes deep from within their soul and has all the meaning attached to it is a myth. We're trying to make things people can connect with. Yes, some musicians are doing it for the sake of art, but not most, and even with a lot of those, it's just an image they project.

When you hear a song, it has probably gone through half a dozen different versions and was worked on for months. These new AI music generation tools will churn out 100 different ideas from you to borrow from and cut the revisions down quite a bit I think.
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Seems that 100 writes per second is more than enough for a typical CRM (for a local business).
> This is really standard fare with professional carpentry. I don't understand why so many people here are in shock at the concept of blade servicing.

For me, I'm just surprised that the economics of it can work. I'd imagine such a specialist is not going to charge less than a $100/hr so I wouldn't have expected the cost of repair to make sense. But interesting that it does!
Beeper's solution didn't overhelp themselves to Apple's infrastructure, though. They used iMessage like a legitimate user would, and then charged customers for the automation. If that's leeching, then thousands of iOS and Mac users around the world are also leeching off Apple's service too.

I won't contest that it's Apple's decision how to present iMessage. The idea that Beeper killed iMessage spoofing is a hysterical assertion though, when people will readily admit that it was Apple's double-standard keeping it alive in the first place.
I have certainly worked with aging populations, people who have barely any experience with computers, etc. While consulting, I have probably walked a few thousand people through MFA setup and use.

I have not tried to set up MFA for someone with memory deficits, so I can't speak to that.

All of that is completely beside the point, though. I'm not sure why it matters. There is 0 chance that MFA is "not long for this world".
Six trends that will change the business landscape
Yeah, i agree, that is weird. Especially if you search for something super common like "function" you basically DoS it.
This app made my day. I literally just created my dream CD of Weird-Al-inspired parody songs. thank you.
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I use fastmail because at the time it had calendar and contacts, and proton at the time didn’t. Otherwise I’d use proton for the extra privacy (Eg, company isn’t in Australia)
I mean if you want inspiration there are literally millions of amazing songs on Spotify by real musicians. I have yet to hear an AI composed song that was in the least bit musically inspiring.
Fully expect this iteration of SCOTUS to rule against the EPA
It’s weird that people have this notion about government and only government. There are things governments do well and things they do badly. You could say the exact same thing about private business: businesses go bankrupt every day, wasting time and resources. But no one argues that the very concept of business is “incompetent”.
This tool is amazing
Mmm, it’s not that straight forward: indexes can vastly slow down large scale ingest, so it’s really about when to index as well.

I work with a lot of multi billion row datasets and a lot of my recent focus has been on developing strategies to avoid the slow down with ingest, and then enjoying the speed up for indexed on search.

I’ve also gotten some mjnd boggling speed increases by summarizing key searchable data in smaller tables, some with JSONB columns that are abstractions of other data, indexing those, and using pg prewarm to serve those tables purely from memory. I literally went from queries taking actual days to < 1 sec.
It was confusing to me. I assumed it was about some kind of collaboration or integration, not an acquisition.
Nightmare generated code is fine if you never have to look at it. This is like saying we shouldn't use react because of the div soup it spits out.

We should be able to have modern tools that don't require spelunking in their output
I rather like standard notes, personally. I also enjoy obsidian
Yeah, that's the problem. Buying it was so bad an idea and so overpriced that he had to load the blue bird down with debt. He can't just quit Twitter and toodle off and say 'well, I stopped wokeism, and that justifies destroying my reputation and 3 years even as my other ventures like Tesla run into major strategic problems while I was distracted'. So right now, Twitter is "default dead", as pg might put it. There is a viable business there... but not one that can service the Musk debt load indefinitely while enduring all the usual shocks & risks. So he's either got to put in a lot more money, tell a story which will get someone else to put in a lot more money, or lose it.
Sometimes they forget to turn it off:

https://theaviationist.com/2023/11/22/usaf-ac-130j-iraq/
But emotion was (most likely) involved when you wrote or first recorded the song, and that’s what people connect with.

If you go to a concert and you hear the headliner play a love ballad followed up by a breakup song, you don’t expect them to actually be going through those emotions in real time.
Wait, what? If this thing boots from a floppy, and that floppy has a checksum on it, and the boot sequence involves loading the checksum and the rest of the floppy contents into RAM and computing the checksum, corruption detection would be near instantaneous and the remediation would be as quick as it takes to eject the corrupted floppy, grab another floppy copy from the bin, plug it in, and flip the on switch. So the delay would be (roughly) zero.
Fixed link: https://www.techmeme.com/240407/p1#a240407p1
Maybe think about going with the cheap table saw and spending the remainder of the money to get a nice track saw.

Of course, there are some things that you really do need a table saw for, but track saws are amazing and inherently safer in comparison to a table saw.

Particularly for sheet goods, I’ll never use anything but a track saw at this point.
Alternatively: Will my drop-shipping business be killed by AliExpress?
> Is there any reason to doubt that performance enhancing drugs enhance performance?

Haha no, definitely not. For clarity, we're talking about banned substances, which isn't always the same thing as performance enhancing drugs. It is actually debated whether a lot of the WADA banned substances are performance enhancing drugs; but WADA would rather athletes don't take things that could be harmful to them because they might enhance performance so they tend to err on the side of adding things they worry about or have evidence of athletes abusing.

Moreso, I mean that it's simplistic to assume that the type and amount of illegal substances you can get away with while skirting an increasingly aggressive testing framework will be sufficient to be the world champion. There's a risk tradeoff here and a million variables in high performance training -- athletes put their entire career on the line when they take banned substances and get no guarantee of return. Take the recent case of Collin Chartier in triathlon: reached #14 in the world, started doping over the off season, caught within a few months of use, and career is now over.

> In the case of Lance Armstrong, so many other bikers had been caught before him that it was no longer an assumption.

Right, and once they're caught, they're banned. They are no longer a "competitor who is using them". Your logic makes an assumption that the population that is left just hasn't been caught yet, rather than that their negative tests actually indicate a lack of doping. And that is an assumption.

> anonymous surveys show that most athletes are getting away with it

These surveys come up with numbers showing anywhere between 1% and 70% of athletes have consumed a banned substance. Remember that weed is a WADA banned substance that 50% of the US population has tried. These studies are glorified guesses that vary depending on the wording they use.
Suno doesn't do that either. I think it may be an anti-spam/leech mechanism - outsource sybil prevention to Google/Discord.
ExploitGSM: Exploit for 6.4 – 6.5 kernels and another exploit for 5.15 – 6.5
You're right, you did. I must not have linked that 2nd last sentence there to the question.
It doesn't have to be this way though. Women's basketball doesn't have as much violent contact as the men's game but is a better spectator sport IMO. women's hockey is also great without the crushing blows and no fights. Flag football is fun to watch as it's all about the offense and big defensive plays, not the crippling Hits. Aussie rules football has hitting but nothing like rugby or American football and it's a superior experience for the fans. I like the NFL and UFC but there are options if you don't.
This may be different than being out, but I also don't think it's rare to see a fighter only make glancing blows at a downed opponent. Sometimes it's obvious they don't actually try and hit hard at that point any more, and are rather avoiding making real blows at a defenceless opponent, although they do obviously want to secure the win so they don't just stop in their tracks.
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips
Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.
Is this for lcpl files like those "borrowed" from archive.org?
LinuxMint, because it's based on Ubuntu and Debian.

I recently realised that I've been using LinuxMint for about 12 years. I periodically use Debian as a rescue distro in one of my 3 root partitions.

(3? One root partition for the 'daily driver'. One root partition as the rescue distro if disaster strikes. And one more spare root partition if I happen to feel like doing some experimenting with a different distro on my actual hardware.)
Could you recommend one or a few in particular?
We have an issue in OpenDevin to add Aider as an agent, if anyone wants to take a crack at it:

https://github.com/OpenDevin/OpenDevin/issues/120
I think they're just saying parts should be periodically replaced across the board on that timeframe, and using the fact that the trains are being swapped out as an example. The Breda trains are still running some percentage of the fleet however. I rode in one today.
Wouldn’t that be interesting. Snatch up a privacy friendly analytics company and some forum plugins while they’re at it to help people more easily create non-creepy online communities using their tech The all in one solution for being a good digital citizen?

The world where everyone can easily have their own webpage without it being a Facebook or LinkedIn page
That’s at best a weak band-aid. Who knows if blocking that one domain stops everything? We shouldn’t have to resort to firewalls or DNS filters to stop local apps from collecting our information.
Where exactly would you draw the line where responsibility would lay on this hypothetical car driver if even running over a child would be someone else’s fault?

That’s a legitimate question. Does it need malicious intent otherwise it’s up to everyone to protect themselves from others and no one has a responsibility to mitigate harm?
> SFMTA's train control system relies every morning on 5 inch floppy disks.

And in the video, she says “on 3x 5 inch floppy disks like this one <shows a 3.5 inch floppy>”
I'm not sure they're saying that nothing can be done, just that increased healthcare and therapy is unlikely to make a large impact. Addressing the actual problems driving them to suicide could reduce the numbers. They have some programs about USDA aid, lawyers, accountants, etc that farmers can use to address some of the issues.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/03/farmers-are-at-risk-o...
This is most likely the culprit! Will take care of it. Thanks for the detailed feedback <3
Every sizable manufacturer of floppy disks has exited the market. There are no more (major) suppliers for the tech. They’ve likely been depending on a dwindling supply of functional disks; if at some point they find themselves without enough working disks to operate the system, they will indeed be screwed.

There’s also the chance that they take a disk that’s on the verge of failure, plug it into the system, and some corrupted commands get loaded into the system. That could easily result in a “catastrophic failure”.

Floppy disks are not reliable or cheap. They physically degrade over time, and at this point are nowhere near cheap for “new” disks.
> if they're healthy and successful why would they leave?

Because they could be even more healthy and even more successful, or simply just happier, elsewhere. People who can leave will always leave more often than people who can't.

> the families with college kids of send their chilluns to school, but plenty return.

And plenty don't. Again, those that never leave stay at a higher rate.

> and with high COL exploding in many cities, all the more reason to come home, esp. if their people are already successful in such areas

The more wealth you have, the less you are deterred by high COL. And COL only goes up in cities because people are willing to pay a premium to live there, often for the economic opportunities.
Funkwhale is super annoying to set up, compared to the alternatives such as Navidrome.
Sure you should definitively not try to do the overkill use case first but I would assume that tree sitter can emit "just" tokens as well? Getting the flexibility and control of a tool like tree sitter should allow you to quickly throw away stuff like comments and keywords if you want since you can do syntax aware filtering.

Then again I haven't used tree-sitter, can just imagine that this is a strength of it.
I agree with the author.

My shell has a lot of history:

$ history|wc -l
152298

I'm usually not typing in new commands, but rather, using ctrl+r and searching for things I remember that I've done.

For ZSH users, I would also recommend setting:

$ setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY

Which saves history in the format Format : [beginning time]:[elapsed seconds];[command]

And

$ setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY_TIME

man page says: This option is a variant of INC_APPEND_HISTORY in which, where possible, the history entry is written out to the file after
the command is finished, so that the time taken by the command is recorded correctly in the history file in EXTENDED_HIS‐
TORY format. This means that the history entry will not be available immediately from other instances of the shell that
are using the same history file.
I'm quite young so this happened very recently. Me and my friend created an Android app for students that could let you view our school's online workbook (so grades, lessons, news etc) in the app without opening and logging in the website. Some time passed and the workbook gained popularity among other schools (mostly because it was open source) and so did our app. Then a school asked us to change the ui a bit and paid us 80€. I think I used my 40€ in pc parts and other stuff :) Soon after we stopped working on it and graduated.

There are still like 200~ users using the app even after 2 years since we stopped updating (and it crashes a lot).
That's completely untrue.

For example there's an easy randomized algorithm to determine a quadratic nonresidue modulo a prime with success probability 1/2 per Legendre symbol evaluation. In expectation this is 2 iterations, and that's independent of the prime. The best known deterministic algorithm takes log(p)^2 such evaluations in the worst case, even assuming generalized Riemann hypothesis.
The US government created the network you used to write that comment.
You're misunderstanding double-entry bookkeeping. Something does not have to come into the company got every transaction moving something out of the company. If your company gives $1000 to Billy, you document a $1000 debit from your gift account and a $1000 to Billy's account payable. The goal isn't to get any one account to zero but to get a source and destination recorded separately for every movement of funds.

Lending would be at least two sets of doubly-recorded transactions.
I don't have a HD to compare but it seems to work fine on the 2E.
I don't think I have a problem with the concept, but do with someone who feels this is their only option, organizers making money off of this and viewers who would demand this and pay for it. Individuals taking extreme personal risks? No problem with that.
A story about an interesting DM phishing attempt over on Twitter
But, do Alice and Bob know Mel?
There's an INI file that contained a line like "SHELL=explorer.exe", if you changed that to "SHELL=progman.exe" it would boot up looking like Windows 3.1, and it worked at least as late as Win98. I had to use it once when something with Explorer got corrupted.
No, it's React (Native Web) Navigation... mistakes were made haha.
In your books, your bank account is an asset, and therefore an increase in the balance is recorded with a debit. In the bank's books, it's the other way around.
> I see coworkers storing their entire password (1 week expiration) in notepad in the meantime.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with this tbh, from a practical (not policy) security standpoint.

If I have code execution on your box and can access your notepad, I can also simply monitor the clipboard for when you copy the creds from cyberark.
> Always start by trying to talk some sense into them.

I think that deescalation might just not be your strong suit
Is it just about customer support
My experience has been that any of these in-house things do not adapt well to the high chaos of external environments, as if there are 3 companies one will find 9 systems and processes in use thus making "one size fits all" a fantasy

But, I'll bite: what made the CD system so dreamy, and what have you evaluated thus far that fall short?
JWZ doesn't like HN and doesn't want his site being linked to on here so your URL redirects to a crude image.