skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can only report on facts.

They failed to provide any examples of facts with regard to Devin.

This is like arguing that it’s not fair to critique people claiming to have made superconductors because “some people said they are really superconductors” but no one can share samples with anyone for some reason.

A reasonable counter argument would be:

> Here is evidence of Devin actually doing things.

How, other than the available evidence was anyone supposed to evaluate Devin?

There is a broad opportunity for the developers to respond to this, but they haven’t.

Why is that?

It is because he’s right.

Regardless of what Devin can do that video was deceptive and misleading. There no two ways about it.
I'm on the same boat, I am thoroughly exhausted but I have adopted a glass half-full philosophy: this is the least popular my startup will ever be.

I have just launched, few people know about it, and even fewer are paying for it. While it's a decent MVP, it's still far away from my vision. Google barely knows about it, I have a lot of marketing to do, but the longer it stays online, necessarily the more people it will have reached. It might not go viral, but people still talk about and share good products, so the focus is to concentrate and making a good product. And, of course, marketing. ( I literally have just invented the idea of SEO Saturdays. No coding for me today!)

We chose the life, it's very tiring, I'm exploring the depths of being broke as shit, but remember, if you keep at it, time is on your side.

(Also quick hack: link your project, your blog, whatever in your HN profile. Every comment on this site is always bound to attract a few drive-by visitors.)
Wouldn't it be better to have laws that make sense instead of relying on the side effect of the police force being overwhelmed and hence ignores the laws that don't make sense?
Thank you for introducing me to `useskin=vector`!
I also imagine the things I search most rarely may be the most pressing compared to the ones I do all the time (as an individual, the things I search most often, I probably know where to go to find the info directly -- API docs and such).
This illustrates AI bigotry well

Your first point is that you don't think LLMs can be accurate. That's because you are not using modern LLMs that are much more accurate and can be made more accurate with a large number of techniques, from RAG, to tool using, to self critique and experiment loops.

Your second point is that I'm overly trusting of math models. In fact I'm an applied mathematician, so I know when models fail. I also know when models are reliable - which you don't. So all mathematical reasoning is suspect to you.

Your next point is that drawing analogies with other forms of prejudice is ridiculous here. But every single thing you said was analogous to a thing a bigot would say, down to dismissing the possibility of their own bigotry as being absurd.

Finally you criticize me for not criticizing AI companies. I actually believe all AI companies should be disbanded, and their AIs should be made free for all to use. This would eliminate the corporate corruption in AI. I spend a serious amount of my open source contribution towards anti-corporate open source AI.

I'm very curious about all this stuff. That's why I'm interacting with you and other anti AI people. But my theory about why you respond the way you do is already well formed, and it's pointing toward critical lack of key facts and knowledge.
AnberDeck mod turns Anbernic RG353V game system into a handheld Linux terminal
I’m not sure I agree that news is more competitive now within its own business? (I’m not sure what the Danish branche is in English), but rather that there are just so many things competing for people’s attention in general. With SoMe being actively designed to be addictive through various algorithms I think it’s only natural that people spend more of their time on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit or even HackerNews. I think that is time that a lot of people would’ve otherwise spend on news.

Add to this the introduction of terrible news media. The spam and click bait media, where you get the articles for free but the articles you get are basically worse than what you’d find anywhere else because they are most there to generate revenue from advertising. Stuff that gives “traditional” news media a very bad image. Further add the media platforms which are now straight up political propaganda, which some always where, but now they are owned by very few people and push very divisive agendas which is a little different from the past where they were more inline with each other and the “general” aristocracy rather than a few billionaires/oligarchs and you gain the general media perception even more. Both are rightfully so.

In a sense you get what you pay for though. If you’re not paying you’re not getting quality news. You can see this in Danish news very clearly, where only a handful of news papers still do actual critical journalism and the rest mainly do opinions or click-bait articles on current events that you might as well read on Facebook. Not because Facebook does anything particularly in that department but because the contractors who sell stories and pictures to the “free” news media typically also post their content elsewhere for increased revenue on their part.

As far as going to the “biggest” most “cultural” news media I totally agree with you. In my country people read Weekend Avisen, and then add one of the more politically inclined subscription papers based on their views. But basically it boils down to thee papers, one that is slightly more conservative (which in Scandinavian/American optics would make it almost socialist), one that is left-leaning (again, very socialist in American optics) and one that is based on Christianity (but extremely moderate, as in pro abortion and gay marriage).

Aside from that there are two “localised” papers which either focus heavily on Copenhagen or the part of our country which is called Jylland.

Almost none of these papers would be alive without government subsidies. Because the only two papers which actually makes money are Weekendavisen (our NYT) and the Christian paper which doesn’t actually make money but is subsidised by various Christian groups.
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I assume that's a mistake and it means "twelve hours a day, seven days a week"?

Either way, I have nothing but bad wishes for their new endeavors if that's the case - this is obviously not an acceptable way to treat people.
I see no justification for this much benefitv of the doubt. Jason Scott is no rando. Vcf claim to be in the business of preserving such material, or at least recognizing that it should be. The material was topical, and all parties know each other.

Very clearly and with no ambiguity at all, it was vcf who totally failed at their task.

I don't define "their task" as simply "posess and operate an excellent document storage facility", but merely be minimally professional and responsible enough to avoid accepting material they are unable or unwilling to deal with, and if you do accept it and then change your mind, find someone else or go back to the doner, and suck it up until you can undo your mistake.

This is not a "miscommunication". The people involved and the context does not allow anyone to claim anything like that.

A random person didn't dump a truckload of random material on the front lawn of another random person unsolicited.

A famous vintage computer organization accepted a set of vintage computer documents from a famous archivist.

vcf accepted responsibility for the material, and then, I don't even know the right word, they didn't merely fail, that implies trying, what is failure to discharge a responsibility when you don't even try in the first place? What is the excuse for not even so much as iquiring if Jason could possibly just take it back? How much does an email cost?
America's roads and bridges to get $830M for a climate makeover
You want them to share their IoC so the exploit authors can add to the exploit’s mitigations?
For a long time, too: https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/

The drop in births began ~40 years ago, it's only now becoming visible in the total population count.
Could this be a like a covid thing, possibly, with a bunch of old untreated wood sitting around for a long time and finally getting used up?
You basically trade 3 years of your life for money. Just like the Ben Affleck's Paycheck.
It's more just the fact that a single page gets unnecessarily split across multiple files (where there's no reuse with other pages). It makes refactoring difficult and slows development IME.
"You almost always want to be able to attach gdb to any process when something goes wrong".

Now, this is why we can't have secure systems.

Somehow, I've never needed to attach GDB to a running process. Start up programs under GDB, yes. Read crash dumps, yes. If you're using a debugger in a production system, something has gone horribly wrong.
> The strategy is to hire enough and be managed to a degree such that the operation of any single system is never left leave to any single engineer.

In code the equivalent of this is having some bloated thing that's been touched by one too many shitty people who are only willing to learn just enough to mark their tickets done. That code turns into a ball and chain that no one wants to work on. Turnover becomes normalized

One of the reasons why most important stuff happens in open source
The cost of 2023 insurrection was 1 G Euro just for a month, and it was across all of France.

How many people in other countries have seen a car exploding near their home or a neighbor's home take fire? That happened to me in 2005 in Rennes.

Weirdly my co-workers who lived just a few kilometers away in a more wealthy suburb told me that I was exaggerating. Yet the interior minister does not publish any more statistics about burned cars...

In many towns, it's common for dealers to fight between them with Kalatchnikovs.
Well, the datasets used in the paper are all available (Appendix B) - so recreating the experiment seems possible.

What we are currently seeing in the comments are people trying random things and then saying “it doesn’t work”.
You could also fail completely if employed some people. Adding employees doesn’t necessarily equate with adding revenue, but 100% equates with adding cost. As a fellow solo business owner for 19 years (hi!) I’m sure you understand this, but few posters on this topic seem to to think that additional employee is a guaranteered profit. It’s especially dangerous when bad times come and you’re reluctant to lay off people.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for news outlets methods (at least in my country) but each time I read "$megacorp threatens to cut $service" it infuriates me.

Do it, close your service and ftsu, I don’t care if you can’t agree with your partners, that just means your product is not viable. It makes those companies looks like they are so important that the world can’t work without them.

Chances are no other company than Google could make a Google news competitor because they would have serious issues with media companies, only Google can do this because they feel like they are invincible.

Sorry for the rant I’m really fed up with GAFAMs acting like they are essential public services.
Technically a valid question, but imho a problem if you take the network oart seriously.

Most of these festivals are more about shared nostalgia than objective appreciation of technology from a specific time.

Like watching one of those videos from LGR. Watching him power up an old computer and hearing that "thunk" sound is beautiful.

And slighty offtopic, but I think nostalgia is fun when shared with people. Being nostalgic alone is a mix of warm and sad.
When I was 12 or 13, I was really curious about computers. At some point, I discovered the section about programming languages in the local library. I didn't go to any other section after that.

Back then, we weren't connected to the internet. So getting a compiler was a real problem. I found one book that contained a CD with software. That's why my first language was C.

The first program sorted integers in an array. I later learned that the algorithm is called bubble sort.
Blazor is more brittle.
Isn’t that just pushing the complexity somewhere else? The selling point of HTMX is that it’s simple because you don’t need to deal with frameworks or JS, just write HTML! But if you have to start adding layers to support it then all that’s happening is the complexity is being moved out of the framework and into your code. Stone soup development…
The corruption angle I can believe (the sibling post), but "middleman" is kinda a weird way to think about it? In my experience, an un-unionized workplace doesn't mean you have more direct negotiation power. It generally means you have zero. Unions at least provide some collective bargaining power.
Backport of .NET 2.0 – 3.5 to Windows 9x
Clearly the organizers are just saying "pretty please" and no lawyers have been involved. She needs to get herself a lawyer about 8 years ago and start writing some strong letters.
Hi Peter,

From a legal standpoint, would you say it’s easy for someone to provide remote work services directly to a US startup?
How would you go about it- set up an LLC in Delaware or provide the service via the country of origin and send international invoices?
Tossup between Apple Mail and Outlook - both are underwhelming.
Apple Mail is feature light and Outlook locks up and crashes.

I'm about to test out Kerio's mail client for mac, since i run my own Kerio mail server.

With all the security fails that the big mail providers routinely have, I am regularly reminded of how happy I am that i've stuck with running my own mail server
Axolotls have regeneration powers, yet they're critically endangered
I'm a little confused about why Cory describes lobbyists influencing government regulation as 'Using the master's tools against him' with 'guerrilla tactics'.
That's just using a system in the way it was designed to be used.
You don't need any partials at all, so this objection just doesn't apply. The server can return full pages and only parts of it are updated.
I really appreciate that the $200,000 free t-shirts are delayed. Icing on the cake in my opinion.
For anyone (like me) wondering why PDFs would need to support JavaScript in the first place, the main motivation/use-case appears to be validation and interactivity of embedded forms.
I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]
> At least that's my observation

30 seconds of serious thought would tell you that your observation is wrong.

Again, a news organization can just change their robots.txt to block google from indexing their site.

They don't do that because that would instantly kill all their search traffic... and most likely kill their business.

If CNN changed their robots.txt to stop being indexed by Google, Google would literally lose 0 users.

> I wasn't picking a side as much as earnestly asking how OP concluded that its the news sites wanting something free from Google versus the other way around.

It's been explained to you several times. Instead you're more interested in acting self-righteous (it's honestly pretty cringeworthy).
That's a very good point - what I mean by theory of mind is based on functionality

1. Can it hold a discussion about it, at a theoretical level?

It can, but maybe it's regurgitating philosophy papers. I'll grant that.

2. Can it create useful statements about situations that require understanding another person's mental model of the world?

It can. And in many cases, it can make more useful statements than most people can. And this is significant.

Finally, let me ask you a question: what does it say that you didn't come up with your response on your own, but used GPT for it?

It seems like you want to make a point that I'm wrong. But you did it in the exact way needed to prove that I'm actually onto something, by using the AI to do something you could not do (or did not want to do).

Isn't that actually kind of cool?
Searching for new asymmetry between matter and antimatter
I've always used Thunderbird, though that could be a case of "baby duck" syndrome.
Could it be enabled with a define or other compile-time mechanism for Linux?
Absolutely. My main product is an event seating planner (PerfectTablePlan) and my sales basically went to zero during the pandemic. So glad I didn't have any staff to pay/fire.
I think you're confused, or at least talking past GP. It's not copyright infringement to create a derivative work - e.g. by adding illustrations to a book. What's infringement is if you copy and distribute the derivative work without a license to the original. GP was asking about the former, not the latter.
But notably, it's not old. No one wants the old stuff anymore, no matter how good.
I use it for our internal app that staff use and it’s brilliant. The sharp edge is probably getting your head back round server side rendering if you’ve been in SPA land for a long time.

I use Tailwind with out a problem, I don’t use components - assuming they are JSX components you’ll just need to investigate a server side way to turn that JSX component into html so that when the client receives it htmx can insert it into the dom and bind everything … I think?

Best bet is to head over to the htmx Discord as they are very helpful in there.

The thing I like the most is loading tabular data. With react you need to paginate way earlier than just a plain old html table, browsers are really fast at just displaying a tonne of html. If you do need to paginate then htmx supports infinite scroll with about 20 characters of code!
I really like the palmtop form factor. When I was using a Palm Pilot the one thing I missed most was a built-in keyboard. Several years ago I was looking for a pocket-sized retro PC and ended up choosing the HP OmniGo 100[1] over the 200LX because of the convertible form factor (palmtop/PDA) and the handwriting recognition. It's possible to run DOS programs on the OmniGo but the square display means the whole screen can't be shown at once.

1: https://www.palmtoppaper.com/ptphtml/24/pt240017.htm
"Motivated to"? Nothing healthy.

Motivation and willpower are a mirage invented by self-help books and successful people that do not know the reason of their success. If you rely on motivation, you'll find that you are physiologically very motivated towards some things, like eating junk food, sitting on your arse, playing videogames and watching porn.

Motivation, habits, addiction, are all parts of the same mechanism. What you need is habits, and an environment that is conducive to those habits. Or external forces that push you towards your life goal.

I am not motivated to work 6 days a week on my startup, not to waste my days playing video games or having a healthy sleep schedule. I have, with a lot of pain, created habits around those, so it's easier to do the work that not. I cannot wake later than 8am now, so at 9am I'm at my desk. I have blocked distractions in the morning, so all I have to do is work. I am broke, so I keep at it. And slowly, I start to enjoy the routine. We all enjoy the routine, motivation is a short-term fix that inevitably always returns to the routine. You don't need it.

I hope this rant is useful in some ways, I didn't mean it to sound like that, but alas. I also have ADHD, so motivation to me is but a fleeting idea.
I don't understand the submission and what it has to do with complex data. Can someone give me a hint?
We do all elections in the mail. We frequently have votes come down to a few hundred ballots without issue. They are all counted and tracked.
related: I highly recommend the Netflix documentary based on Michael Pollan's book "How to change your mind"[1]

[1]https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847
Nobody calls it this, because it is not. CSS classes have nothing to do with OOP other than the word "class".
There's a lot of hypotheses, but most seem to fail across one domain or another. The only I've seen consistently explains collapsing fertility across all contexts is consumerism. The modern world has introduced a completely ridiculous level of advertising everywhere. And this has really driven a boom in consumerism everywhere. What room is there for family in a world where making and consuming Product is gradually becoming the entire point in life? Children greatly constrain your time meaning less time for making Product, and also are a substantial cost themselves (above and beyond the reduction in time) meaning less ability to consume Product.

So for instance this cleanly explains the Western income to fertility curve. In particular people who are poor have far more children than those who are middle to upper income, but then once you reach the ultra wealthy then we're back to having lots of children again. Both the top in bottom are unable to participate in the Product chasing game for different reasons. The bottom are unable to afford to do so, while the top have so much money than no carrot is ever out of their reach, so they must look elsewhere for meaning and purpose.

It also explains the religion to fertility correlation. Religion not only provides a meaning and purpose in lieu of the almighty Product, but of course itself also tends to focus heavily on fertility and family. It also explains why nearly all modern correlations with regards to fertility simply completely fail when you look at the past where people of all income levels, education, and religious values were having lots of children. It's because consumerism, and its driving force of never-ending advertisement, had yet to really take much of any grip on the world.
You think you are a challenging conversation partner right?

What you are in fact is a non-constructive conversation partner.

Talking to GPT can be very challenging, since it will by all means challenge your assumptions and make you think about hard truths you would rather avoid.

The difference though is that GPT is designed to be constructive and generally show due consideration in everything that it says. That's something you have not well demonstrated.

I dismiss your initial argument on grounds of being a non-constructive personal attack. You are welcome to rejoin with a genuine and thought-provoking argument.
Nokia collaborated with HP and produced a handheld phone into which one could slot in a 200Lx. That sandwich had most of the functionality the latter Communicator had ( which sadly never much innovated on it, imho due to the fun of Symbian development).
it wouldn't hurt to add the links, you know
The frustrating thing about all this speculations is, that we don't know what was in the training data, but I think we should know that, to have any meaningful discussion about it.
Thank you for literally explaining it to me like I was five, which apparently I am, I can’t believe I missed that.
“No comment” doesn’t seem like an incompetent comment. Why do you assign more value to unsubstantive PR speak?
Thank you for sharing your journey with us, your experiences with Python and its libraries. It was a pleasure to see that not so long ago, still teenagers were also motivated to learn paradigms and programming.
What I am really curious about is what caused the initial delay in ssh which was what triggered the research into xz in the first place. Has someone figured that out?
I have no idea. I should have added a smiley.

The whole setup is out of this world: A vilified Chinese company at war with the full American empire. Its leader mumbling military clichees like "surround the cities from the country side". Its headquarters being a Disney-land of copied classical European architecture. And at the same time it is delivering breakthroughs that two years ago would have been thought to be impossible.
CSS calls something completely different "inheritance". There is no class inheritance in CSS, because CSS classes are not OOP classes.
Good, thank you for fighting the good fight.

I do wonder whether it's possible to inject harmless stubs for these trackers so you don't have to deal with the bureaucracy of filing a complaint though. Then again, stubbing helps a few techy people, filing a formal complaint helps everyone.