skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this month we had to debug an issue where EF was NOT populating fields on classes from the db, that it definitely should have been!

So it still seems flakey. I've never worked a single job that chose EF that didn't end up regretting it. Either from it being unreliable, migration hell or awful performance.

"It allows you to treat your database like an in-memory enumerable"

Then devs go and do exactly that and wonder why performance is so terrible...

I hate EF.
>Sounds good! I might go even further and just use a custom address for each service, i.e. paypal@example.com or something.

Which is exactly what I do. As soon as I see spam sent to any particular email address, I know who it is that leaked the address and I can block it without issue.

>But self-hosting email is an adventure I'm nervous to embark on.

Why are you nervous about it? I've been doing so for decades and haven't had many issues at all. There are a bunch of all-in-one solutions like mailinabox[0] (I roll my own, but as I said, I've been doing this for decades) and others which would likely make things simpler for you. Go for it! You won't be disappointed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail-in-a-Box
While the specific claim made about copying is true, you can right click and select copy email address, simply selecting the text and doing copy does not work. Similarly if you do select all into copy etc, so all in all, I wouldn't expect a regular user to be able to successfully copy this.
"the whole world":

- economists & businesspeople who can't conceive of a world without growth

- religious people who think God wants them to be fruitful and multiply

- atheists who think we have some kind of evolutionary imperative

- parents who think that being childfree is an affront to their choices
How often do you capture auroras or other beauty shots, vs. readouts on your electricity meter, stickers on the back of your furnace, receipts, and a hundred other displays and documents you need to send someone? I definitely do plenty of the latter, and in such cases, I'd really appreciate the AI to not spice things up with details it thinks should be there.

I'm by no means against the feature. Hell, I shoot 90% of my family photos in Portrait mode on my Galaxy phone, which does some creative bluring and probably some other magic[0]. I just really appreciate being able to turn the magic on or off myself. That, and knowing exactly what the magic is[1].

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[0] - I don't know what exactly it does, but switching from normal to Portrait mode is all it takes for my photos to suddenly look amazing, as judged by my wife, vs. plain sucking.

[1] - See e.g. "scene optimizer" in Galaxy phones. It's a toggle on normal photo mode. I have no first clue what it does, I can't see any obvious immediate difference between shots taken with vs. without that feature.
I wish they did a ratio on quality of life over cost of life.

They seem to have both data sets there
Π-Clock (Displays the current time using the first 10.000 digits of π)
I'm wondering who is this for? Buying cars frequently is very niche and those people just remmeber what to look for. That's called experience. And then there's people buying every couple of years.

I think an app should be something that either helps you continuously (health tracking apps, home automation, etc.) but you don't access that much and apps that you access a lot (media, chat, calendar, a game or two). This is neither.
This was an illuminating comment because I think I finally understand why people have wildly varying experiences with CoPilot.

I think if you regularly use CoPilot to write entire functions or use its prompt mode, you will spend more time verifying its output is accurate than it would save writing the code manually. If instead, you use it iteratively via autocomplete to write small fragments of code, a line or two at a time, its trivial to verify its correctness, and it will save you a good 20-30 seconds at a time, adding up to large savings over time.

I exclusively do the latter, so I find it incredibly useful. The few times I've tried using the prompt mode, or comment-driven code generation, it's been very average or awful.
thanks. Will add it.
It depends. I can't say for this case.
In general though there's the situation of "unwilling seller". They aren't necessarily bankrupt. Usually they have had ample opportunity to sell themselves but for whatever (usually irrational) reasons have not. They often are not cooperative in the sale process.

Administrators are much more likely to be cooperative, but even then there is added risk because the seller won't be around to address latent defects. And you can assume other debts against the building (like taxes) may exist.

Obviously the specifics will be jurisdiction dependent.
>>It gets things wrong enough that I have to manually check everything it does and correct it, to the point where I might as well just do it myself in the first place.

I have had personal experience with this. And seen others telling me as well. These AI things often suggest wrong code, or even with bugs. If you begin your work by assuming AI is suggesting the correct code you can go hours, to even days debugging things in the wrong place. Secondly when you do arrive at a place where you find the bug in the AI generated code, it can't seem to fix or even modify it, because it misses context in which the which itself generated at the first place. Thirdly the AI itself can interpret your questions in a way you didn't mean.

As of now AI generated code is not for serious work of any kind.

My guess a whole new paradigm of programming is needed, where you will more or less talk to AI in a programming language itself, some what like lisp. I mean a proper programming language at a very abstract level, which can be interpreted in only one possible meaning, and hence not subject to interpretation.
Archived version: https://archive.is/dQdUP
Incredible, love learning language facts like this.
No I'm with you. I don't use copilot though for undirected autocomplete, I use tools that allow me to give instructions and diff the results, Cursor and Aider are my current defaults, both with Claude 3 now[0]. Always looking for alternatives though.

I think it's always going to be a YMMV experience with LLMs. I'm an extreme generalist with 23 years of experience so it compliments my strengths and weaknesses. I know how to program across 20 odd languages but most of them I need to look stuff up if I'm not using it frequently enough. Now though, don't really need to look stuff up.

For me there are two groups, those that want to use LLMs and are pushing it forward and those that are would prefer that LLMs not exist and want it to be hype that goes away.

Having followed the hype cycles of VR/AR and crypto I can feel a difference. Both of those felt like a solution in search of a problem. The true believers wanting it to be something like Ready Player One with VR (fun story, Oculus/Facebook actually handed out copies of the novel at Oculus Connect 2 in 2015).

The hype around LLMs seems different; like applying a new solution to all the existing problems to see where it helps, and that's just with the current iteration.

[0]: I'd prefer to be using local/open equivalents but the capabilities are still lacking.
This app phones home with a bunch of unique identifiers and the app privacy label says those are used to track you across other apps and services as well.

Hard pass on all apps of this type.

Seems to me this app would be more useful as a short webpage, or perhaps single pdf.
Who said anything about taking him at his word? Everything he has done regarding AMD GPUs has been in public. I'm sure there are plenty of valid criticisms one can make of his skills/strategy/attitude/approach, but accusing him of being generally untrustworthy in this endeavour is utterly nonsensical.
As a rambling CTO myself, I admire your nick name.
>The editor should be able to help you navigate and see the file without the size being a concern at all.

Jetbrains's suite has a very large but reasonable limit (500k lines IIRC) before it simply disables it code analysis/highlighting. You can increase it if you need to, but I imagine they keep that number by default for perfomance reasons.
Go read the actual science, read the IPCC's conclusions across several different scenarios and read their (and other) evidence-based assessments of probable consequences. In no way do they claim that humanity is doomed and in fact in many cases specifically assert that that isn't the case and that furthermore, there are still things that can be done to mitigate harm.

The amount of shrill hysterical fetishism of doom over climate change by many, many comments on this site almost takes on hive-minded, fervent proportions that fall well outside of even any evidence-based or rational discourse.

The ironic thing about that is that it's done by people who frequently deride so-called climate change deniers for their unwillingness to accept science. How could you expect those people to do so if even your own emotional conclusions in the opposite direction ignore the exact same science and reports you want deniers to take seriously? It's laughable.
Even where the language is defined by a standards committee, you end up with similar problems. In C and C++ the number of compilers has been rapidly dwindling; Intel’s suite is now LLVM based, as is Microsoft’s. Borland and others are a thing of the past.
If free will existed and I told you to give me all your money, you would be able to refuse, otherwise you wouldn't.
Absolutely cannot work. Neither due dates nor prioritised task lists can withstand the rigours of a real work day.

I submit to you that the only useful prioritisation strategy is shortlisting:

https://benkoworks.com/shortlist-your-tasks/
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I think free will is a bit like a sphere. There is no true sphere in nature, only a more or less accurate approximation. Likewise for free will, there is no such thing as true free will (tm) but there are better and worse approximations.
Tested to work on a core2duo cpu…
They're treated as if they're outside of the jurisdiction, because they are. It's not a hack, it's just a fact. It's not even weird. The weird expectation is that areas outside of a given country's jurisdiction wouldn't exist.
That seems surprising, tbh
Kafka 101
This is the end of a very long drawn-out process. It's being driven by the lender, not the owner.

Most bad debts don't end up here. The bank doesn't want to own the building, they want to be bankers not landlords.

So this may "end in a flurry" (the bit you see) but it often takes many months to get here.

This is the worst outcome for the lender and the owner. Neither party wants to get here. But if the owner is unwilling to cooperate then this is where it ends up.
The OP stated:

>Ask chatGPT if Taiwan is country.
idk, they do give the same results, but given the memory bottleneck it feels like we are at a point when architecture innovations matter again, for example check out DeepSeek V2 tech report, they modded model arch specifically for lower cost inference (by making k/v cache smaller)
Yeah people pine for the old EU canon (Legends, as it's now called?) but the content that placed itself way after RoTJ got really bizarre. Not happy with the Sequel Trilogy's handling of the universe either, but I don't know if movie-goers would have been able to stomach something like the whole Mara Jade plot or Yuzahn Vong War.

>how close it ended up getting to the larger plot of the last couple Frank Herbert Dune books.

My understanding is that Sci-Fi writing for established franchises during the 80s - 90s was kind of a small circle of people. The influence would have been unavoidable. And they also often wrote for multiple franchises too.
My initial thoughts were Genetically modified piglet and Pigney transplant.

There is a wood near where my mum lives

called Pigneys Wood in Norfolk
> Ultimately human intelligence is the product of neural networks

Citation needed?

Sounds like "human intelligence is the product of <current tech hype>"
Man, I’ve always wondered how to test apps with a (simulated) screen reader, but never got too far
I would guess they mean stuff which isn’t just “rename symbol” or whatever, like changing code from one pattern to another slightly different one. For example, I’ve used LLMs to “change this if statement to a switch”, which I don’t think VS Code can do as an automatic refactor using the native tools.
Oh, I use it as well, especially on Android where it has proper support for extensions.
Ask HN: What did your first MVP look like?
I recently saw the first MVPs of some successful startups: Stripe, and Airbnb. It was really encouraging to learn that their V1s were so simple. Curious to learn what your first MVPs looked like, if you have launched any?

Stripe: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-00fe2b5052a0d18a725bebdb28fdea80

Airbnb: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*2lqTBcjya-zodwgkvIqZYQ.png
You need a specialist to understand an MRI image. Maybe software will advance enough to change this, but it will be a slow progress. Also, carterls are definitely a thing. Radiologists will fight the software part.
> I still haven’t haven’t heard a lot of good arguments for having these babies.

A larger population means bigger numbers on the everything that's on a normal distribution, like intelligence. That one genius in a 100 million? With 1B population, you only have 10 of them. With 8B population, there are 80. That's 8x more chances one of them does or finds something revolutionary, 8x chances that person is not perishing somewhere in a cobalt mine as a kid. It slashes times waiting for a genius to appear 8x.

A bigger population also enables extreme specialisation in very niche fields. It enables bigger recruitment pools for complex processes and manufacturers like, for example, ASML.

It's, in a short word, massive parallelism.

Now, a counter-argument to everything I said is looking at the demographics of geniuses, revolutionaries, specialists and noticing most of them were well-fed, well-educated and raised in stable, liberal societies (liberal as opposed to, say, taliban-like societies). So, in theory, we could get by with a smaller population, if it was a rich, western-like, population. In that case, the only constraint would become genetics; so an 100M population would have to wait a couple of generations for their genius, instead of a 8B pop potentially getting them all at once.
I'm quite surprised they stuck with the off-the-shelf Pi Pico module. When you're designing your own PCB already, why not just use the bare RP2040 chip? It'd save them an awful lot of money, and they clearly already have the necessary hardware design skills.

The only part you can't trivially clone is the wifi module, really.
> It's hard enough to really /get/ somebody from a different cultural context

This is such an eye roll statement. The world “really” is the one which does all the work in it. One would say “nah, communication is actually amazing, and through listening to people / reading their words and being attentive one can understand many different cultural contexts”. And whoever wrote the original sentence can always come back and ask “but did you really really understand them”?

> What does a word like "hungry" mean to you, when your diet is gorging yourself on freshly killed meat every couple of weeks?

I don’t understand the problem here. “Hunger” is the feeling which make you seek out food. If your normal is to gorge yourself full and don’t eat anything for weeks then you are not hungry for most of those weeks and then when you start feeling hungry that is when you start preparing for a new hunt, chasing a herd and so on.

We already and in our everyday life understand such differe ces. We know for example that newborns need feeding a lot more frequently than adults, so when they become fussy we ask “is he hungry maybe?” Despite the fact that our own hunger works on a different schedule. We also undestand that when a holocaust survivor describes the deep hunger they suffered from in the camp that is a different feeling than the one you feel 2 hours after lunch when you start thinking about opening a pack of chips. Somehow we “get it”. But do we “realy” get it? Yeah i mean we know that the baby will become more and more fussy the longer it is not fed, and will die eventually. We know that the lion on the hunt will eat us if we look easy enough prey. We understand that people in the camps turned to eat things they would have considered inedible before, and the experience left lasting psychological scars on many of them. And we understand that the person thinking about opening a pack of chips will stop thinking about it if something distracts him/her for a minute. “But do we really really really understand them?” Idk. You tell me what you consider “really really really” understanding anything. Because one can play this game forever.

> What does feeling "tired" mean, when you're the size of a bus and sleeping is done in increments of 10 minutes because you must constantly wake and resurface to breathe through a hole in your back?

If that is normal for that being then they wouldn’t describe that state of being as tired. It is just their normal. But if something (illness, activity, noises) disturbs their normal which make them seek out more sleep they would call that being tired.
Well there are many versions of compatibilism I guess, but just reading the Wikipedia article on compatibilism I don't think most compatibilists think freedom relies on whether or not causal determinism holds. Please tell me if i'm wrong.

Defining free will:
Compatibilists often define an instance of "free will" as one in which the agent had the freedom to act according to their own motivation. That is, the agent was not coerced or restrained. Arthur Schopenhauer famously said: "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."[14] In other words, although an agent may often be free to act according to a motive, the nature of that motive is determined. This definition of free will does not rely on the truth or falsity of causal determinism.[2] This view also makes free will close to autonomy, the ability to live according to one's own rules, as opposed to being submitted to external domination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
This feels similar to https://contexto.me/
>This change wasn’t adopted at a national level in a single moment; that would have led to a single step-wise change in mortality rates. Instead, the measurement change was adopted state by state, which led to a gradual rise over 14 years.

You know what else would also lead to a "gradual rise over 14 years"? Actual worsening poverty conditions and access to healthcare.

If it's due to measurement change, a state by state adoption of new measurements indeed would not lead to a single step-wise change. But it would lead to multiple step-wise changes (the step points being after each new set of adopting states publishes their new numbers, especially for the larger states).

Those would be hard to tell from a gradual organic change, and it would rather mask any gradual organic change (e.g. a 15% percent "organic" increase that would have been there even without new measurement applied, would be masked by a 80% measurement-change-related increase).

So, it's not so clear whether there was a decline in actual numbers or not. Just that more deaths that were missed are now measured.

And their plot conveniently stops at 2017 - if it didn't we'd have 6 years where the "measurement change" doesn't apply (as it's the year all states have already adopted the new measurement), and we could see if there's still an increase.
Never said that. I'm a web developer. People ask me to add their emails to web pages. Comment quality on here seems to have taken a dive.
Sonos has been dying a slow death every since their founding CEO John MacFarlane left. He probably got pressure from investors to jump right into the "virtual assistant" fad that's also mostly on life-support by the major vendors (Google, Apple, Alexa, Bixby) so the only thing to remain from that will be a couple of million additional devices with a microphone being connected to the internet.

Their apps have been slow and inconsistent and all attempt at a rewrite just made it worse.

If I hadn't gotten a free Arc as part of a beta test, I'd probably be looking for replacements already but since some Play 1s, a Sub, some Play 3s and the Arc are at least somewhat in a working state, I just try not to worry about it, unless I have to open the app, which just makes me annoyed for a few seconds.

Sonos should've stuck with being a little player in the market instead of trying to play catch-up with the big boys. Even their stock is barely holding on to a few bucks more than they IPO'd with.
British-built 'unhackable' navigational system flown in world first
It doesn't. Hence the problem.
I use this: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneem...

Not sure about desktop apps.
ChatGPT - the largest electricity bill in the world.
What is this even about? The README tells me nothing except that it's IPTV-related.
Rows are tuples, not objects, and treated as such throughout the code. Only the needed data is selected in the form most appropriate to the task at hand, constructed in a hand-written sql query, maybe even taylored to the DB/task specifics. Inserts/updates are also specific to the task, appropriately grouped, and also performed using plain sql. Data pipelines are directly visible in the code, all DB accesses are explicit.
It's a bit silly to compare the EU to the US; that's 27 different countries vs 1 single one. If you're going to have economic pissing contests, why not CN vs US?
Seems like a balancing act... If all 8B people have western living standards, we'll boil the planet up even more quickly than at the current rate...
It's the lender that holds the building as collateral.
Also worth mentioning that the QoL index considers "climate index" which is almost meaningless, and apparently doesn't account for factors like "suffers from tropical cyclones".
What happens when neither candidate is your ideal candidate? In my country, it has been decades that people have had to choose between bad and worse. All handpicked by the "system" and not a single one being an ideal candidate for the "people".
"A truly sentient animal"?

Aren't all animals sentient? And what is the difference between "truly sentient" and "sentient"?
Hypocrisy has always been a problem.
I find GitHub Copilot close to useless for production code. The worst, most obscure bugs I've had to debug in the last year were all in Copilot-written code. It _looks_ plausible, but it makes extremely subtle mistakes. Occasionally, you have repetitive sections of code where it can copy&adapt lines from the context, but that's about it.

It's a different story for test code. Test code is often formulaic and "standardized" (given/when/then). For instance, I find myself writing the first test case and Copilot can come up with additional test cases. Or I might write the method name ( FeatureUnderTest_Scenario_ExpectedOutcome) and Copilot provides the implementation.

I have not found any value in Copilot chat.