skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any tool, software language, or AI coder will still be limited by the clarity and completeness of the specs presented.

> Nothing will ever turn your fuzzy intent into your clear best interest.

I've seen a lot of SWEs saying this, and while it's true to an extent, it misses a lot. Good engineers don't simply turn a given spec into code, indeed there are somewhat deprecating terms for these types of positions, like 'code monkey'.

A good engineer does not require the spec they receive to be absolutely precise. They will recognize the intent, and make good judgements about what the requester most probably wants. They will ask clarifying questions when there is important information missing, or a decision that needs to be made where it isn't clear what the requester wants.

LLMs can't do this very well right now, but it doesn't seem like a stretch to say that they will be able to. Will they be able to turn half-baked, very underspecified requests into exactly what the requestor is looking for with a press of a button? No. But I think they could get, and often already are, quite good at filling in the blanks. Seems like current LLMs have a way to go before they can recognize deficiencies in a prompt and ask for more info, but it's somewhere in the future.
"put down the release and step away"
Oh huh. Why not make it stateful, like re-use and compute just the “diff” when you add a new token? Assuming it’s not that easy because each token can affect attention globally.

I think I’ve read something about this but I wonder if you could abstract attention to sentence/page levels and then only recalculate the parts that are relevant.
I'm not.

Default assumption in the West is if it's not medicine and it doesn't kill immediately it's good to go. Some time later, usually quite a lot, a tiny group of independent scientists end up being interested enough to scientifically prove that bloody obvious scaling problem is a problem. But by that time usually much money and politics is tied up in it. To that mix, then add in legislatures that even when they are independent have processes and bandwidth largely optimised for the pace of change from the age of sail and we end up with an endless stream of doh moments.

One glimmer of hope here is at least it looks like getting it sorted might take slightly less time than lead pipes.
This would only apply if they decided to expand into LEO or MEO.

But if the board decided to stick to Geostationary orbit, they were doing the smart thing by treating it like a real estate business. Because it is literally real estate.
What an ironic observation since LLMs are itself a probability machine.
What is ironic about this?
New startup sells coffee through SSH
I paid money Windows 10 when Microsoft said "this is the last version of Windows - only updates from here on".

When they announced work on Windows 11, I switched platforms. It didn't help that the Windows 10 updates were incredibly obnoxious, restarting my computer regardless of overnight compute tasks I had running.
Websurfx – v1.15.0 Released
Why not just name your company Freedom Surveillance while you’re at it
Tesla retreats from one-piece "gigacasting" manufacturing process
There are similar tax incentives in the US, e.g. homestead exemptions. A similar, if not better, effect could probably be achieved by adjusting these programs.
> If a new hardware form factor is the way to break that duopoly then I wish them all the best.

The only real allure of a separate device, for me, is isolating the bot from my data. I don't want it reading my emails and notifications and who knows what else. I suppose you could also market this for kids but they didn't go that route.
I love pushing "Tire Taxes".

We all know that tires will emit rubber particles down to the point where the tire tred is 2/32th of an inch (from ~8/32ths of a fresh tire).

So just... tax the tires based on the ~6/32ths of an inch outer-diameter of the tire that turns into microplastic dust. Calculate the microplastic dust weight of the outer diameter + weight of tires and bam. You have a 1-to-1 correlation of tax to exactly the amount of particles emitted.

No weight^4th power required. The tire wear directly correlates to the pollution we care about. So tax / measure the tires directly, don't do anything else that's more indirect.
There are procedures to strike down covenants, they just involve time and expense. Obviously the expense wasn't deemed worth it.
https://wakatime.com/invoicing

I built an invoicing tool that automatically fills itself in based on the time you spend typing on your computer.
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I've organised a couple of jobs through HN now; it's been a good way to find interesting projects, and my clients have been pleased with the work. One said: "Thank you! I've played with it a bit and it looks very impressive! Way better than what I imagined this project could be."

I've worked on a very wide variety of web-based projects, as well as React Native, Windows, and other platforms, so I will be able to hit the ground running on most projects. If you're doing something a bit esoteric, that could still suit me – I've done FPGAs, network protocols, image processing at micro and global scale, and devised novel algorithms.

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Throw out and rewrite can work. If you know that the old code base is beyond repair, you know how to rewrite it and are able to estimate it correctly.

What often happens is a rewrite that keeps the same mistakes as the original product (either organizational, specification wise or technical).

I have no idea about management, I just constantly see restructurings of departments going wrong.
Setting aside the fact that we know it's bad data, equating arrests with committing crime is another mistake.
I see it as the opposite, actually. They will pay you for a robust product: one that works for them. They have no care for the technical minutiae of your implementation, because they're just trying to do actually interesting things, with the help of your product. This is the customer perspective.
This:

> If the very first thing in your application process is a 6 hour long unpaid assignment, then it’s hard to imagine you’re not wasting someone’s time because at this stage you’ve barely done any filtering.

I pretty much walk away at this point. It's like asking a person for sex after buying them a drink. (And if I have to explain why, you clearly don't get it.)

> But if the takehome is offered, say, after 3 rounds of interviews and will be discussed in detail during your final round with a panel of two senior engineers, I think that’s fair and provides a strong signal.

Exactly. That's the point that I'm willing to invest in a takehome.
Terraform-roulette – infra ops meets high-stakes thrill
Yeah, people have always fucked with technology and in each case people win and technology gets abandoned.
I honestly have no clue what you mean. You can take unit files, journald, timers, and all the other neat features from my cold, dead hands. I’m not going back to writing brittle shell scripts; systemd has made my life SO much easier.
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> Hundreds of tons of rock like this from Mars land every year.

277 total Martian meteorites — with the largest weighing 14.5 kg — is not hundreds of tons yearly.
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I am glad people seem to be aware of the hostilities against them, and are voting with their feet. However, we are talking about a single percent point. Holding my breath. If people seriously put up with win11, I can only see it getting worse.
It doesn't seem like it went into much detail but while many of these end up advertised to foreigners as cheap homes to buy, they're not really easy to just live in unless you already live and work in Japan. Simply buying an Akiya home and moving to Japan won't be sufficient to live there.

Someone with more knowledge than me could probably explain this better though.
There's a really good documentary on the creation of BASIC at Dartmouth (made by Dartmouth):

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

If you don't want to watch the documentary, we did a shorter podcast episode about it:

https://pnc.st/s/kopec-explains-software/6d99d278/basic
Maybe windows 10 actually is the last windows operating system you will ever need to buy.

I remember when that was a big selling point for win10.
Could be, I'm skeptical as well, but as I said they already added the caveat of 'solved' in their claim.

Anyways here's their own post about how they came to that conclusion for anyone who cares to read. https://www.flocksafety.com/resources/how-many-crimes-do-aut....
The use of multiple copies to remove dropouts has been interesting there too. Think MAME just added some of the games in a couple of months ago that have been thru this process. So even if they have a copy your copy could be of use.
Always looking for an advantage, those Astros.
Trash-can banging experience a plus.
Co-working spaces are distinct from traditional offices because they mix workers of so many different employers. Sometimes as granular as to the desk. This can significantly reduce or eliminate commutes.
Assuming this is true (I have no reason to believe it's not) it's clearly a damning indictment of von Braun himself. And it calls into question his accounts, so it seems like odds are he was "actually" a Nazi as opposed to someone affiliating with the party to avoid punishment or execution.

I still don't see what that has to do with the original comment that mentioned him. If we're talking about him in depth, absolutely mention it and dig into it. I guess the thing I'm having trouble reconciling in my head is the need to, upon a passing reference to someone orthogonal to the main point, say it's "worth including" that they're a controversial figure. The controversy seems irrelevant to me. It seems to border on virtue signaling, this need to say "oh by the way, Nazis are bad" when that (objective fact) has nothing to do with anything.

I see your other comment and I get the point you're trying to make but I don't think it has anything to do with speaking respectfully or with any sort of courtesy about a Nazi, just about trying to make a point.
GNU nano 8.0 "Grus grus"
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Hmm, a CLI interface for consumer purchasing.

Can I pipe that order through to a payment processor and delivery method? Script my meals for the week?
* outside of the EU.
Would you have a link to the video by any chance? I would like to invest some time in showing how to detect and remove said app
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But concepts are easily transferable, so a line or two could help a lot :)
Science:

1) Early brains can rewire themselves. It's amazing. If you can detect dyslexia, autism, and similar early, you'll see changes on an MRI as it fixes itself with the right intervention.

2) This process is almost completely opaque. Teaching early math or reading guarantees kids will learn it later, but you see _almost no progress_ at first, and then zoom. You need to be patient. Most of the pieces the child is learning aren't the ones you expect (and we don't quite know what they are).

3) Brains are wired differently, and about 10% of kids cannot and will never learn to read fluently without explicit instruction in phonics. Sight reading / whole word does work for some kids, but not all kids. The "science of reading" is all about being explicit about phonics.[a]

[a] I use "science of reading" in quotes, since it's the name of a specific movement, and should not be confused with the common meaning. "Science" comes up in a lot of contexts from "Christian Science" to "Computer Science" with varied levels of science. "Science of reading," as a movement, is grounded in solid science, but a fairly narrow set of studies.
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I have had issues with the installer crashing frequently. I’ve been unable to get it to run to completion. I am trying to install it on a ThinkPad which I replaced as my primary laptop a few months ago. The laptop previously had Windows 11 installed on it and the drive encrypted with bitlocker. When I could get the installer to the drive selection screen without crashing it wouldn’t let me install on the drive encrypted with bitlocker. It repeatedly prompted that I had to free space using windows or choose the option to erase the entire drive and then install. Problem is that I was choosing the option to install the erase the drive. I just wiped the drive using gparted. That got me passed that issue hit the installer never completed without crashing once I got beyond that. When I have bandwidth next weekend I’ll try the new Fedora release instead.
I wouldn't call X-Elon-Twitter a success. It was more like not a complete failure.
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capitalism is about the accumulation of capital; competition is not related, but the byproducts of capitalism which can be beneficial to the consumer.

Capital (big C) does everything it can to extinguish competition -- and would, if not for regulation, trust busting, etc. All large companies are trying to be monopolies to the fullest extent possible, and history shows plenty of examples.
I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? I’ve become a Windows person in my childhood, and stayed one because games, Photoshop and 3DS Max ran on it. I’ve long switched to Linux (and dual-boot to a very much unloved Win10 for games that don’t run on Linux these days), and I’m baffled that ads occurring in the start menu are a thing – I was similarly shocked when Ubuntu tried this, and will always be cautious around Canonical.

Inertia goes a long way, I guess – and switching OSs is kind of a hobby for a while before being productive again ..? I wonder, had I had a Steam Deck as a child, would I have been an Arch user now?

Would be interested in hearing other peoples’ stories.
Good. Unless publishing bad products negatively affects sales and profit, there is no reason for MS to change course.
So, say you choose the "self hosted" option. I really hope you have at least a RAID10 with 2-drive failure, and regular off-site and off-line backups as well. Choosing "self hosted" is a very risky option, because most people have no clue how to protect their data from loss. I'm sure you'll explain next that some hack0r will figure out how to do redundant backup self-hosted for very little cost that even the stupidest human could use, but I just don't see that being an option in my lifetime, if ever. Okay, so then "self-host" in the cloud? Well that's not really "self-hosted" is it?

I will agree that nerds work far too much on pointless pursuits.
I’m not so convinced that people are so foolish. Maybe they don’t want to be the first ones to stop driving but I think most people recognize the problems we face as a society.
That was anticlimactic (based on the headline, which is an editor's choice, not the author's). They knew about the requirement and followed it, no jolting involved. The setback is used for a sidewalk. Probably makes more sense for it to be public, but that's not how the man laying out the suburb decided to do it.
Everywhere except the SF Bay Area, Santa Cruz, Malibu, Boca Raton, and Maui.

I think it's simply a communication and logistics problem to match people from other areas to empty homes. If anything, Japan and such should explicitly incentivize and encourage migration to declining areas to ensure their own tax base.
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Direct link - https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/T5d2/reports/2024...

From the title, it seemed that Verizon had published a postmortem of a recent data breach incident they had
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> But other software is also hypothetically insecure.

And I'm sure it'll be the same excuse next time.
Although they've improved it a bit since 11's launch, the task bar is still a regression from Windows 10.
I still love windows 7. I feel like the 10 and 11 go too hard in the Mac direction. So many features of the old task bar are gone
The two are not mutually exclusive. It's possible that one happens during REM sleep and the other during NREM sleep (simplified...)