skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DBs are everywhere and it seems like we are always seeing stories about things going wonky. A DB specialist would seem like a "know"-brainer. I looked for why you are shutting down and didn't find much...was this a VC thing?

I admit my ignorance about such things but the middle layer would seem to be a great place to be..a pick and shovels story in a tech world too filled with unicorns and not enough actual workers. The glamour shots get all the glory, but the breeches seem to happen because the middle layer wasn't setup properly.

Was there an option to sell instead? I mean, I hate that companies with actual paying customers and PMF will close for no reason...at least, no good reason.
I think it just causes vasodilation anywhere in the body?
I'm not so much upset as I am flabbergasted.

Reading the documentation is basically never the hard part. If it's where most of your work is going, you're not doing hard work. Gemini 1.5-Pro may be able to summarize documentation, but it's what isn't there that hurts you. It may make for a helpful reference, but that wasn't the initial claim. The claim was that "domain-specific knowledge can be solved with a $20 ChatGPT subscription", and being frank, that's just stupid. The difference between a smart person and a domain expert is orders of magnitude more than an LLM is able to paper over.

It's a struggle to replace even the most trivial paper pushing with an LLM. I'm sure we'll find something one day, but it's going to be doing a hell of a lot more than an LLM.
There are a lot of great self-study resources for computer science. I've seen https://github.com/ossu/computer-science before and thought it looked like a good way to slowly make your way though a typical CS curriculum.
Cassette tape is making a comeback thanks to a family-run company in Missouri
ummmmmm... no offense if you have dementia and i have no easy way to ask about it, sorry this question is personal and you could easily just be asking for a friend
This is the first I’ve heard of anybody actually using Oracle’s cloud offering, so congrats to Larry Ellison.
Its all the same.
Presumably it would need to be pretty continuous though? So uhm like micro dosing ?
I just felt this is a missed opportunity to work collaboratively. Unless the author knows about wine and nonetheless chose to start a new project. Which is completely fine too.
Does canbus count?
I need an LLM to chat for me.
Almost every modern software system. Anything running over the Web is event driven.
Most of the interfaces we use daily require very few clicks, while chat is multiple keystrokes. And the discoverability is the worst part of it.
I chatted with the music producer for One Must Fall: Battlegrounds years ago during development. He mentioned using direct music. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Must_Fall:_Battlegrounds
Apart from the other points people have made, it's worth noting that these days parents can avoid having children with inherited genetic disorders through IVF. While there will always be a component of spontaneous mutations resulting in genetic disease, we may approach within a couple of generations a state where most inherited disorders actually disappear or reduce to vastly lower prevalence over time.
now you have my attention.
Had multiple submissions get exactly zero interest I was certain would be bangers.

Had posts I submitted as a second, even third or fourth thought, from reading the night before that interested me, and was sure no one would care about get picked up to be on the front page.

Don't overthink it. If you have something interesting to show or say then go for it as long as it's within the guidelines. Otherwise if it doesn't attract attention maybe it wasn't that interesting after all, or it was good but not great. There are only 30 spots on the front page and maybe your submission was 31/30 material at the end of the day. Best to not worry or fret about it, if you think it's interesting, try submitting it!

Have some faith in the editorial staff and HN as an institution that has endured for over a decade maintaining interesting content and discussion. If it's truly good it will get selected for pool/invited or bubble up in the comments.

Best of luck on your games and be kind!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
That's a fair critique. I would say that the Django ecosystem is fairly batteries included though. I used the django-allauth package for this project and it filled in those gaps.

Additionally, in the Python ecosystem your other options are basically flask and fastapi, which are definitely not any form of batteries included.
There's no bell curve.

Insurance is hedging against the value of something you have an interest in (which takes the form of a bet against that thing).

Gambling is betting on a thing.

So a short option on a stock (betting against it) would be:

a) insurance if taken out by the company, or a shareholder, or someone with stake in the business

b) gambling if done by a random third party

There's a moral component to the definition.
That speaks more to the filter bubble you live in that anything else though. Oracle Cloud's revenue was $4.4 billion for Q4 2023*. You might not know anybody who's paying to use their cloud, but clearly people are. That's a lot of money, even though it's way behind the other clouds.

* https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2023/...
You be you. Haters gonna hate. Problem's inside them.
Why doesn't Valve have a stock? (2018)
Viagra increases the effect of nitric oxide, which is bad stuff when it gets into cytochrome complex iv in the mitochondria (IIRC). I would personally suspect based on that, that its effects on brain health would be negative in spite of blood flow.
The former increases risk and the latter reduces it.

In Economics, risk is outcome variability. It's a cost if you're risk-averse (i.e. generally sane) and a benefit if you're risk-loving (i.e. mildly nuts.)

To mitigate the problem of vast numbers of people being mildly nuts, governments invented lotteries. The idea is to maximize the thrill/price ratio and steer people away from gambling addiction - at least to the extent that they're a sufficient fix and not a gateway drug.

Next up: What makes Russian Roulette wrong but climbing a crane to build a hospital right?

At least the crane version is a somewhat-interesting example in that you're increasing one's risk to reduce another's. The linked article is just plain dumb.
Googling XDP tells me it's extreme diesel performance. I'm sure theyre engines are great but we make videogames.
Factories of Progress: Factories are an improvement over agriculture
...or no UX, use these systems in the backend with well crafted prompts and abstract the need to instruct LLMs away from the user?
Hiring is one part of a business, but I don't know if I agree with this, mainly because learning HTMX is so darn easy. You are essentially offloading much of the business logic to other parts of the stack.

So, in my case, if I'm lucky enough to be hiring employees to work on this project, I'd likely be looking for backend django experts or true "front-end" devs with expertise in styling and limited client-side JS.
I think of it differently. The model becomes a simulator, an actor of a sort. If it has enough of good data to build good patterns or reaches a certain intelligence threshold, the content generated by less than average intelligence becomes an acting material to understand those flawed ideas and how to emulate them, which still requires to build and improve empathy. It can be challenging to exactly predict what a "stupid" person would say next, so you need to develop understanding to human psyche in order to solve for that well.

And then with a prompt you can tweak, "a reddit tier response", "an expert response", etc.

It kind of works already, but the more intelligent it gets the better it should get at acting different roles.
As others have commented, most people have specialised knowledge. For example, I've been programming professionally for about 30 years; let me share my knowledge of game programming:

Most people use Unity these days. I'm pretty sure it's in C#, and there was something about the licence recently that they probably backed down from. You can still write in c with OpenGL, but you will probably have to create your own game engine(?). You will need a game loop where you track the milliseconds elapsed each frame. Try not to stutter in your game loop. 16 ms. Oh, and double-buffering the output is probably a good idea.

See? Don't sound so smart now, do I?
I've read Pride and Prejudice, though not recently.

I'd wager 1% or less of readers, if asked what the novel would summarize it as being about status hierarchies.

Claude 3 when asked to state the theme in 10 words or less said:

"Love overcomes class prejudice and personal pride."

This sounds like Claude thinks it's about at least 3 concepts.

Gpt4‐o says the theme is "Love transcends class and prejudice in early 19th-century England."

If this is a representative book about what people in love are thinking about, there's clearly a bit more to it than status hierarchies.
Insurance is not about coming out ahead on the average case. In fact, it's the insurance company that comes out ahead when you average everything (otherwise they wouldn't be a business). You pay for insurance to come out ahead of (or equal to) the 40th(-ish) percentile cases.
The next revolution won't be a bigger model imo. It will be a way to run a gpt (at least 3.5) cheap and fast enough for real time text or vocal conversation on our phones or home devices.
Yeah,contract work in north america is more reserved for very specific situations (for example, you need expertise in some very niche system) and even then that's pretty rare outside of consultants. In Europe it's everywhere.

When I was in France it was quite jarring and imo, it seems like it would be more stressful than at will employment as it's basically a yearly stress (as opposed to stress only when the economy is bad for example). But I think some European countries have some protections for contractors too, I just don't know if those apply to when your contract just doesn't get renewed.
> If they keep them, and train them, that would reinforce the idea that the company is taking care of its employees. That’s nice

I don't think so. A company is under no obligation to handhold their employees. It should be a 2 way street, beneficial in both directions. If it's not beneficial for one party, they should be able to be honest about it and move in another direction. We're all adults here.
Specifically: https://bazel.build/remote/caching
> You are misunderstanding what insurance is for. The benefit that insurance conveys for the person insured is not that it is supposed to make money. It is risk avoidance.

I buy a lottery ticket as an insureance against the risk that I won't become rich if the right lottery number become picked. :-)
I think the argument in addition to "makes easy things easy" is "and most things are much easier than you think."

HTMX and the hypermedia philosophy asks you to reconsider whether you need the complexity ever, even at scale.
Create a Checkbox That Returns Boolean Value for Htmx
point is that microsoft may have a secondary objective further down the road that recall can be a stepping stone towards
Ahh the ole if you can sense every particles position and velocity you can predict the future.

your comment really belies the desperation that exists now, these models are stuck where they are (hint it’s a natural limit), you are talking about exponentiation of cost to get what a 10% improvement? 5%? They are very few places for which it’s net positive to run them now, and most of those are incredibly shitty things like creating trash marketing content to drown us all in average inanity

I really feel bad for this next generation, they will just be constantly inundated with generated crap, so much of the high fidelity of conversation and meaning is and will be lost.
“Well done on delivering everyone! We knew you could do it, now, our next priority is this new thing……”
It absolutely can be. Prompt construction, as well as learning what sort of things the LLM just isn't good at doing, takes work. I've had multiple times where I've asked for something, gotten complete trash back from the LLM, complained to a friend who's more into LLMs about it, and had them go "Oh, you just have to add this extra set of words at the end/phrase it this other way and it'll work." Or they'll give me some massive multi-paragraph "seed" prompt I need to add in to make it not behave stupidly sometimes, that they evidently have to update every few days or weeks to adapt to some new behavior.

Until Google decided to trash their search with their own sub-par LLM, my results were often regularly better just hitting the first link on Google Search like I had for the last decade.
The idea that repeated sequences in certain genomes are non-functional or 'junk' is questionable, as they provide additional encapsulation to chromosomes with cell nuclei (a sort of fault tolerance).[0]

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S108495212...
I haven't done web development since the late 90s, so quite a lot of what people talk about (from frontend frameworks to Kubernetes) is total gibberish to me. That's fine, it's not something I'm interested in even as a hobby.
Tangent, but:

Kip Thorne once commented that black holes are “bigger across” than we’d expect from their circumference. Which I think is what those cusp-on-sheet models are showing.

Does that create a topological defect?

I ask because a circle around a cusp in a sheet will get “caught” on the infinite spike; and a circle not around the cusp will end up with weird deformations if it comes close. That suggests there’s something “topological” about such a cusp, akin to there being a hole.
Yes, for me batteries included is starting with your problem and not before the problem. I expect in 2024 to have a Visual Basic 6 for the Web (drag and drop UI/UX and objects behavior) and all I have is MFC [1].

My experience as a casual developer in several programming languages and operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux...) is that nowadays software development is for teams and not for individuals but it is not a software engineering problem but a community one because the technology we have available is really incredible but you can waste your time with relatively simple problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Lib...
I vaguely recall an anecdote about athletes using it for performance improvement, and getting a slightly different stat buff
> The OxHARP trial was a meticulously designed double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 75 participants who had experienced a minor stroke and showed signs of mild to moderate small vessel disease. Each participant received sildenafil, a placebo, and cilostazol (a similar drug) over three-week periods in a randomised order.

I feel like dudes will know if they got Viagra or not? It doesn't seem like cilostazol has the same kind of effects on them, or does it? So is it really a placebo?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lurking. Consider theatre: do they need an audience to act, or even react?

I admire people who unlike myself are sufficiently self contained not to need to post.
Only at most 10% of the content on here is for any particular audience. And about half of that the audience doesn’t understand but thinks they do.
I had my hopes up, but there is the kicker
As a guy who has had a 8 year career largely in Django, I generally agree with this sentiment.

Even though I prefer and am probably much more functional with Django + htmx, my sense is that for general web applications both Rails and Laravel are generally more functional ecosystems.

Most of my Django work has been pretty data heavy or geospatial heavy, in which case I think python and/or geodjango are a great solution. In general, however, if I had a trajectory for more traditional web apps, I’d probably use Rails.
In the UK you can get it over the counter since a couple years back afaik.
Moreover, you only get an answer for a question which has already been posed and answered, hence is represented by a pattern which the large language model can arrive at --- it's not possible to get an answer which wasn't already present in the training data.
The sooner people like this get demoralised with the lack of progress towards AGI and exit the industry the better.

We need calmer, more cautious heads to prevail so AI is more thoughtfully and safely incorporated into products.

The whole e/acc, AGI cult is not helping anyone.
Extrapolating future technology from current technology is known to be a flawed method, this has been known for hundreds of years now, maybe longer.

For example, in the 1920's they also extrapolated their current tech into the future. It showed people walking around with phonographs strapped to their hips, having just been dropped off by their personal blimps. Predicting the future is hard, but extrapolating the current state forwards is almost always wrong, and shows a huge failure of imagination.
It's not entirely useless, but as a source of entropy, it's pretty predictable. You'd only get a few bits.
BoB was somewhat like that too. They lost "brothers" along the way. While there are heroic deeds along the way, it shows the sad realities of war as well.
I use the Aerobin near the house and it 100% works. Eats everything and stays hot to really break everything down.

https://aerobin400.com/
The UK doesn't have nearly as many vending machines.
Because you don't need to deploy those more complex technologies until you scale and have the money to hire an expert.

It's Like building your SaaS to run with a single server and database at the start. When you get a million users and the old infra won't scale you can move it to kubernetes and DB clusters. But no point doing that till you need it.
Django people always say this "All you need to do is install this user management lib you're done".

There's at least 10 sophisticated steps to install and configure a user management system for Django and for beginners seeking genuine batteries included they'll have no idea if they are doing it right or wrong, ending up at best with problems and at worst a misconfigured auth system.

Django really should not be recommended to beginners, it's for sophisticated Python devs.
Can’t read the article right now, getting a server error. But the SaaS company I work for is working on htmx for our next release. It’s actually made things incredibly simple. Not to mention speedy on the client side. No need for a heavy JS layer. Keep your rendering on the server where it can actually be fast.
I just enjoy the submissions and the commentary of people that are way more knowledgeable than I’ll ever be. I’m not a professional anything but I’ve worked around professionals all my working life and I enjoy their company, and have no pretensions about my own intellectual ability.

So just relax.
Bizarre take. The only reason anybody would ever "have to" work as a grocery store cashier is if no better option was available to them. The elimination of those jobs hasn't created better jobs for people that previously might have been in that kind of position.
Desperation? We have had huge advances just from 1.5 years ago with things I wouldn't have thought would be possible in near 10 years. After decades of research with far slower progress and all of sudden we now know that we have hit a wall?

And I am not talking about predicting the future, but more predicting the next action to take based on current state, sensor data in a more seamless way. Like a human being reacting to different input, by moving their muscles etc. There would be huge amount of training data from there that could be incorporated into a single model.
Yeah.... got the website up an running a week ago on Heroku and made this post. And what do you know, hacker news crashed it!!
It is more like

A. light absorbed by solar panels that eventually turn into heat

B. light absorbed by the ground which pretty much all becomes heat

I'm pretty sure B is much greater than A.
The ex-military guys who were “hiking in the mountains in Iraq and got lost” and ended up captured by Iran was one of the funniest ones. Sure, seems legit.
I have no idea if this applies to the OP, but I see a ton of people in game development communities who just jump in with minimal programming experience and try to muddle their way through by watching tutorial videos and stuff. It's particularly terrifying when they're trying to use C++ that way.

If you want to take this stuff seriously, absolutely study computer science, and a little computer engineering as well. When you really understand the fundamentals, you can pick up the rest.
Guess I should upgrade from the hobby postgress tier....
I have often thought that it would be nice if the Wayback Machine had a reverse image search feature.
I did indeed accurately paraphrase the part of the brief that discussed the current legal status of medical abortion issues in some US states.

> only later to say "Well, actually, I meant this single, one paper claims that."

I certainly referred to that paper. I did not make the claim that you're asserting via paraphrasing my comment.

> Hyperbole is what this paper likely is engaging in.

In your opinion. An opinion you seem uncertain about. By my reading it presents as measured and as quoting the actual concerns of actual people.

> Issues which may or may not come up,

All the issues raised do indeed come up in real life - medical cases can get messy and mother | child health issues are not always as neat, well packaged, and clear cut as some seem to think.

There are always edge cases in any given state in any given month.

Don't take my word for it, go and ask several practicsing OBGYN's.

Do try and avoid the likes of Dr. Christina Francis & Co. who appear comfortable dodging and outright misleading the US Senate: https://youtu.be/T-5Gym8Mq1Y?t=104 & t=168

Further: https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murrays-opening-remark...
True! Although I'd say there's usually a correlation between price and durability/quality

Here's an example of something cheap that's lasted me a long time: https://www.costperuse.com/@nahtnam/purchases/0018ace2-af37-... (I don't think they designed it to be durable, it just happened to be)
When you go to a sit-down restaurant, you aren't given a list of the ingredients that they have out back in the kitchen and get asked how you want to assemble them. Someone's done work to take those ingredients and form them into menu items for you to pick from.

Given infinite possibilities to enter into a text box is more friction than picking from a menu in front of you.

There's a lot of use for LLMs, and it's tossing the ingredients in a restaurant's kitchen together but sometimes people want a menu.
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Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, recently said that AI capability has been following an exponential growth curve for the last ten years, a straight line on a log scale, and he hasn't seen any indication that the slope of that line is changing at all.
Different head
It looks like the answers are heavily biased towards “my favorite tool”. And don’t take into account what’s actually asked. For a person who doesn’t want to become an swe (e.g. working on a specialized area at a big company) and who is a newcomer the answer is simple: JS, period. Take Next.js and try writing something using SO, chatGPT, articles and books. Treat html , css as “will learn on the go when I need something”.
Next.js is the closest that the JS has to the standardized, pawed path. It covers all you need front-end, back-end, static sites. Batteries included.

Note: I am mostly a back-end / SWE and mostly avoid JS, but I also have to admit that IMO that’s the best match with the authors goals.