skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
brian_goetz:

>Perhaps I can shed some light on this apparent contradiction.

>We discovered, unfortunately quite late in the game, that the design was flawed. How was this discovered? By actually using it in a substantial, real-world internal project. But these flaws had little to do with "someone didn't like the syntax"; they were much more fundamental to the model.

>Unfortunately, most of the feedback we received on public channels was of the "someone didn't like the syntax" variety (at varying levels of constructiveness, not all with positive coefficients). It did not derive from actual experience or from deep analysis; the supporting arguments provided were emotional, not technical; and it merely re-trod, with little new perspective, already-explored ground. It was literally a thousand drive-by, "blink" responses.

>The net effect of this was not only unhelpful, but anti-helpful. I get that every developer has opinions about syntax, and seemingly some fraction of them will literally explode if they don't express it out loud, but such discussions are like an invasive species: they suck up the oxygen that is required for actually useful feedback to survive. (Or maybe the useful feedback was buried in there, but just got lost in all the noise.)

>So the answer to your implied question is that its possible to be both: the feature can be discovered to be flawed, while at the same time the publicly available complaints were "nothing", as you say. It is sad, but possible.
14K Days: A History of the Poughkeepsie Laboratory (1984) [pdf]
And that assumption is insane.
You must be its creator (Harminder Virk) because this is the type of responses (much worse ones, to be accurate) you were used to provide for anyone who asks you about something.
Gotta love centralization
Worth checking out.

The Mullvad browser is a privacy focused version of Firefox (based on the TOR browser with the TOR part removed). It runs fine without the Mullvad VPN.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser
Congrats to the team for the big release! Looking forward to seeing more cool things built with this
These are definitely questions worth considering.

> it's no coincidence that corporations that own proprietary code don't have this problem.

I would argue they have a similar but worse problem. Someone at google creates an awesome product. They get promoted and leave the project. Someone else is assigned to maintain the product, which slowly gets worse over time either a) because the new maintainers are less skilled/driven or b) because programmers perceive themselves as being paid to write code, and it's fun, so they're going to change things even if nothing needs to be changed.

I've seen so much commercial software get worse over time. I'm not sure if I have the causes right, but there's definitely something wrong with the model. In contrast, I've found open source software to be far better for far longer. It might stop being maintained, but it almost never gets worse in my experience.
> GPT-5 only began its training several weeks ago

Source?
TikTok says US ban is inevitable without a court order blocking law
thanks for the link - i was looking for something like this to create a more realistic led candle that detects drafts and makes them flicker slightly quicker
It doesn't cost $100 to go to a notary and validate your identity.
With the Congress as rotten and corrupt as it is today, good luck trying to “rein in” anything of this magnitude. I’m sure the bribes will be quite a bit fatter though if they pretend to be interested in solving this problem.
Surely that's a decision to be made by the author(s) of the code?

There is no objective "right" or "wrong" when it comes to libre.

I have written dozens of libre projects. I don't want them to be proprietary. I don't want to make money from them. If I did, I'd simply use a proprietary licence, no one forced me to go libre.
Legally everything is shared, so from my perspective, might as well share everything. This shouldn't seem weird if you are getting married, it's the reality your are signing up for.

IANAL.

We do keep everything shared. Both of us strive to stick to our budget and have each other's best interest at heart, so this makes it easier to manage the finances
Oh you haven't heard? Youtube is a/b testing in-stream ads. They're gonna get their advertising onto your eyeballs.
Yeah, this is my MO for personal projects, but I’ve found it can be messy for team dev, without a fairly opinionated folder scaffold.
The tougher half of sales. In other words, 90% of your potential customers are concentrated amongst the half of leads that are difficult to close.

I don't know if that specific ratio is true, but it feels right. The OP's scenario is vivid to me. So many salespeople just want the fish to jump in the boat...
I would argue that the presence of nukes increased rather than decreased military spending. since nuclear war was not an option, the nukes being only a deterrent, big powers had to continue investing heavily in their conventional forces in order to gain or keep an upper hand.
Hospitals certainly appear to be operated for the benefit of physicians and administrators, and their compensation is an expense not profit. The relevant statistic is highly compensated leaders, not profit.
> If you are developing in Python or C# you may already know the big cost of async/await: function coloring[1] where sync function can't call async function and vice versa.

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

>> You can call a blue function from within a red one.
Meanwhile I encountered the wrong, extreme side of porn at 15. And it spiraled from there. It really caused me issues in my twenties and its only now in my thirties that I finally feel I can start to bury the ashes. I'm on track, I've eliminated what I was obsessed with and still fighting the last of the demons.

I'm not who I was and it's been an insane hard task to change myself. I understand why people don't. That's what I have to remind myself every morning.

During my twenties I was easily wanking 5-8 times a day, I couldn't get enough. I existed within a fandom, the hint is in my username, which is now a thing of the past and I have nothing good to say about such fandom! But, still feels like my horny switch is glued to on. I've even been mulling over the idea of castration just to ensure I have no libido.

God forbid, I was a creep and my mind, psyche was an horrorshow. It was only when I accidentally took a heroic dose of an psychedelic I saw who I was. During the psychosis the devil on my shoulder and where I was to stay in the after life. I hit rock bottom, one step away to the point of no return.

My parents tried, I beat their system. I moved out after college and then had my own place with no restrictions.

Porn is no joke.

In true crazy, I even documented the episode somewhat. old site, so no ssl et cetera, exists for legacy.. /face palm

http://pixc.pl/argh/blogs/paws_palace.html
They're right, at least a third is nonsense slop.

You're also right that some fraction wouldn't be contacting asking for information if the information was more readily available.

They're not shitting on customers and abdicating responsibility for making a better website. They're pointing out something important and unintuitive.

I don't know how to bridge a conversational gap like this because it really is something to experience. Another form of it is job applications. At least 1/3 is just random people.

To try to show some humility beyond "bro u ever done this???":

- My mentally disabled sister, tested at 4th grade level at her peak, and would often spend days applying for random jobs that sounded cool. I'm not talking like "oh Dairy Queen cashier.", I mean, director/CXO etc.

- At my first company, we'd get a contact every 3-6 months, with demo-like questions from the same person. We were small enough that we couldn't chase every lead, made enough money we didn't have to, and I didn't like encouraging active salesmanship. After a couple years, someone followed up asking what his business was like. It was an 11 year old using a point of sale app to get drink orders from his friends from the family pool.
Sounds like a opportunity to create a LLM to interact with their LLM.
Keep in mind this paper is over one year old and has never appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, other than the graduate student's own university journal.
"Software Creators" are the new content creators
Someone once explained this to me in a very intuitive way. It goes like this:

You’re sitting in the driver’s seat of a car. It is standing still.

You push the gas pedal down 2 cm and hold it there. Your car begins accelerating. That’s the second derivative.

You start pressing your foot further on the gas pedal. Your foot has a velocity on the gas pedal. It is causing your car’s acceleration to grow! That’s jerk.

If you push your foot on the gas pedal faster and faster your foot accelerates on the gas pedal. That contributes to the cars snap.
Churches can in fact by taxed.

For example Texas once had a sales tax exemption for periodicals sold by churches that consisted solely of material to promulgate their faith, and the Supreme Court in Texas Monthly v. Bullock, 489 US 1 (1989) [1] said that such an exemption violated the establishment clause.

In Swaggart Ministries v. Cal. Bd. of Equalization, 493 US 378 (1990) [2] Swaggart contended that California's subjecting them to sales/use tax was unconstitutional. The Court said it wasn't.

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/489/1.htm...

[2] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/493/378.h...
> Being able to do things like evaluate functions and iterate collections inline with HTML templates has allowed me to sidestep a lot of pain over the years.

Every single templating engine supports this. It doesn't need to be built into the core language. Here's an example from JTE [0]:

@import org.example.Page
@param Page page

<head>
@if(page.getDescription() != null)
<meta name="description" content="${page.getDescription()}">
@endif
<title>${page.getTitle()}</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>${page.getTitle()}</h1>
<p>Welcome to my example page!</p>
</body>

[0] https://jte.gg/#__tabbed_2_1
The complexity and creativity of early video games from the 1980s and even earlier are truly impressive
I think you made a worthwhile point.

I recall seeing either on IRC or reddit someone asking about why their code wasn't working as expected, and it lead back to needing to understand that the string literal in their code was getting updated - so likely similar to the UB in C that you mentioned. Until seeing that post, I wasn't really aware of that potential issue with literals, so I think it's good to point these things out. Recently, I saw it was mentioned in "Successful Lisp"; it might be mentioned in other books I've read, but maybe I just didn't pick up on it.
Advancing Wind Energy Using OSS with Rafael Mudafort
Care to share how you're doing it? I'm a pretty terrible gardener but love potatoes and it looks like this may be an easy way to do it.
Yeah, it’s vexing. This backtracking / NFA / DFA confusion originally came from Jeffrey Friedl’s book “mastering regular expressions” (O’Reilly, 1997) — at least, that’s the first place I saw the mistake in print. Philip Hazel relied a lot on Friedl’s book when writing PCRE, which is why the PCRE docs get it wrong. (I spoke to Philip about this many years ago when we worked together.)
What do you mean by "it wasn't super serious"? Sex is seriously some serious business.

Pornography definitely caused issues for me. It isn't an accurate representation of a healthy sexual relationship.
Vodafone Launches Private 5G Tech to Compete with Wi-Fi
Drones aren’t AI though?
Moving to Java 17 or how I learned to stop worrying and love NoSuchMethodError
And the reason accelerometers can be used for sensing orientation here on Earth is, of course, because of the constant force of gravity :)
Instagram is full of scam ads. If you report them, they answer you telling that they aren't violating the terms so there's nothing they can do about it. Scammers be selling fake starlink equipment and plans left and right. They are clever about it, they clone the website and offer a realistic good deal (not too good that would make you doubt it).
OK. I just took a look at the project, and I was wrong. I'm not using the file watcher anymore because I change my architecture (from an SPA to a traditional server-rendered application).

I run bun in `--watch` mode which means the server restarts when I make changes.

The live-reload logic is around 100 LOC.

To make the client refresh when the server restarts, I wrote a little middleware function that runs in dev mode, but not production. It inspects the response, and if it detects a `text/html` response, it replaces `</body>` with `<script>...</script></body>` where the script performs a long-poll fetch to an endpoint that the middleware also injects (listening on `/{someuuid}`). If the long-poll connection drops, the client begins a reconnect loop, and once it reconnects, it reloads.

That's the gist of it, anyway. It's not as complex as it sounds, and it works quite well for my needs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474716
https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/views-and-templates/inertia
Wow claude just works in Belgium as well now! Last time i tried it was not the case.

I tried some questions/conversation about .bat files and UNC paths and gave solutions and was able to explain them with much detail, without looking up anything on the web.

When asking for URLs, it explained those are not inside the model and gave good hints on how to search the web for it (Microsoft dev network etc).

Impressed!
> How much more pullotion is added by that second truck driving around?

Probably not much, or negligible. If everything was going into a single trash truck, it would fill faster. The fact is, trash / recyclable trucks do fill up and need to dump their load. (I'll let you figure out how to run those numbers.)

In my case, my company sends a single truck with one side that handles recycling and the other that handles trash. I prefer it because I only have a single trash day, and everything gets picked up at the same time.

What I don't like is that all trash pickup (in my town) is private. There are 2-4 different trash trucks that visit my street a week, depending on if a company is doing well or mismanaged and going out of business.
Good catch -- I'll look into this!
For me, it just said "Verifying..." indefinitely. Why does an article about programming languages need this?
I’m open to patterns that are nice for the front end or the backend in isolation. Since we’re doing SPA, the two sides are fairly isolated other than sharing types through tRPC
TypeScript 5.5
This is true and quite an interesting and nuanced point. But the connotation of this discussion, and something I expect applies to the overwhelming majority of people, is an association of physical manifestation (brain morphometrics or whatever) causes issue, rather than issue causes physical manifestation.

In particular this whole thread of discussion started back with somebody expressing a bit of skepticism about the definitive nature of ADHD (and other psychiatric disorders) and somebody responded with the brain morphometrics as proof of such, yet in reality that's mostly still just begging the question.
I wish I could put down a $10k "yes, I'm sure this is a tech issue, not user error" deposit that'd be refunded if a senior-level support person agrees and escalates to internal teams.
Does anyone have tips on how to go about using it for refactoring an existing (larger) codebase?
The answer is easy: by his way of testing exactly one bottle won't be opened and of course that's the one that contains the poison. Drinking 99 bottles of wine before they go stale isn't too healthy either, I'd guess.
> Mobile operators like Airtel in India had a 4 digit number that forwarded SMS into your timeline.

This always makes me chuckle as the Twitter I originally used circa 2007ish was entirely SMS based. That's how I used Twitter in the first place! Text a number, and get texted all your friends updates. Used it more like a glorified group chat for plans and scheduling before those existed.
If a dealer correctly determines that crack will keep a person interested, and that crack is, let's say problematic, isn't that an issue with the person not the crack?
> The government and locals don’t like when you bring up Borat

Depends on which locals. Younger generations never really cared about this. All my friends have always found the movies hilarious, especially the first one.

When the sequel was released, the government finally started acting like adults: https://youtu.be/eRGXq4t9wY4

I'm pretty sure this is also caused by generational change in the government.
Try this recipe https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/276526/steakhouse-potatoes...
From the UK my requests appear to be hitting Cloudflare in Singapore.

They've got planned changes in Sydney/Toyko ongoing, so could be fat finger moment with routing.
Looks interesting! Added to my reading list, thanks :)
What about Moroccans, or Argentinians, they shouldn't benefit from scientific advances because China is pissing off USA?

I guess it comes down to whether you think language models are at atom-bomb-levels of destructive capability. I don't see it, I think trying to keep tech and economic advances to ourselves is more likely to lead to war than a level playing field.
When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg's apology
The Cold War doesn’t mean there was no conflict. Both sides supported various proxy wars around the world. They just did not enter into _direct_ military conflict with each other. That may be because they had nukes but it could also be that direct conflict would mean massive casualties for either side and it’s not like either side wanted to destroy the other, just gain the upper hand globally.

So I for one don’t accept the argument that nukes acted as “peacekeepers”.
Can you use mesh networking? A solar panel and an Esp32, with mesh networking might be cheaper than an LTE module on each device, at the cost of needing more devices.
Mine are fine.
The goal of this company likely wouldn’t be to win against OpenAI, but to play its own game, even if much lesser
What you failed to mention was that the rulings against data retention for example which were indeed invalidated by the European court happened 8 years after the fact.

So what do we do for 8 years while the courts decide which side is right?
I just tried this prompt on Microsoft's Copilot which (normally) does most of the things that your prompt says not to do. It does seem to help with programming tasks.
I know him from proving NP-hardness of the game Sokoban:

https://erikdemaine.org/papers/PushingBlocks_CGTA/

And I clicked this submission because of his name, after all the time.

I didn't fully go through or understand the proof, but it was a refreshing addition to the classic problems I had to understand for college at the time.

Didn't need it, just fed my curiosity.

And when I clicked this link, my curiosity was fed again.

Seems like it's worth having heard of him, even as a non-scientist, because his subjects are just so interesting. Reminds me of Scott Aaronson in that regard.
I don't know why this isn't being discussed on HN, this is a pretty big deal
How many of your parcels were in fact delivered by Hermes and how manh hours per parcel did you spend on the phone with them?
Yes, such is the nature of the world, that it buries horrors under layers of time.

In some ways, such healing is necessary, even though it comes with risk of repeating the same mistakes.

A week ago, I was in Zaragoza and there is a Goya Museum there. His prints of the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars are absolutely terrifying and ghastly. Today, the French and the Spanish people are on friendly terms. In a hypothetical world where the witnesses of such horrors still lived, those nations would probably be a lot less friendly and more resentful.
I noticed my website has been timing out randomly, and checking Apache server-status page I don't see the requests that are in flight.

At first when I noticed timeouts and slow response, I assumed it was due to my connection or my server. However, after checking on apache, it seems some requests aren't going through at all.

I checked the CF status page at the time, there wasn't this notice, but now there is. I hope this gets resolved soon.
How Much Will LLM Token Costs Eat into Startups' Margins?
I’ve been speaking with founders about their token costs for using LLMs, and there’s a noticeable anxiety about this issue. While we’re all currently enjoying free credits, once those run out, how much will these costs eat into our margins?

Many founders are hopeful that costs will come down over time, but few are preparing for the inevitable expense. How are you planning for this? Are you considering alternative strategies, such as optimizing usage, exploring open-source models, or investing in your own infrastructure?

Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences. How are you managing or planning to manage LLM token costs? What steps are you taking to ensure these expenses don’t significantly impact your bottom line?
I wonder what the North Koreans would do with it.
I guess the question is about the "general public" and everyday uses, rather than developer assistants and accelerants of the Copilot ilk.

But nevermind, since you asked about "useful" — I've as an initial skeptic and avoider nonetheless lately been thoroughly impressed with what the codeium.com/live chatbot achieves for my on-the-fly dev questions (what does X do, how to do Y, what's the prob with this Z, etc) on a certain underdocumented underblogged and under-StackOverflowed niche lang I've been just getting into. Really good to avoid flooding the actual user community itself with an endless wall of n00b Qs. Seems like actual repo grokkage is baked into it or close-enough-anyway-most-of-the-time. Hallucinations occur but seldomly and for dev stuff, anyway trivial to immediately detect or else swiftly falsify/verify. Sometimes saying "no that's not it", and another answer is proposed.

Old news here I guess, but took me a while to find a need for that sort of thing =)
I only see Article 7 and 8 re Consent - as long as the consent is freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous - it should meet the requirement.
That was sarcasm on your original comment that you have edited 3 times.

Anyways, don't take it seriously and have fun
Are you going to be posting the original shor's algorithm when the first quantum prime factorization hits the streets too?
It still fails to be the moderator of a WORDLE board. That is always the first test I do of these new models.
The issue with even saying you don't like something seems to be that _everything_ contains some sort of sexualized being. Into fitness? here's a mostly naked person doing fitness. Hiking? Same. Gardening? Yup! Etc... How can the algorithm possibly disambiguate?
I spent a while researching and looking into the whole "run in RAM" idea and eventually concluded that preserving the flash write cycles needs to be baked into applications.

If you run in RAM and flush periodically, you're probably gonna lose data at some point, what we actually need is software that doesn't rewrite a 6MB every minute for no reason, but still saves user data when it should.

I'm not a fan of nonstandard hierarchies, lack of systemd, or running as root, but I do like how they focus on being batteries included and very GUI focused.

Not that root is actually a security issue, because everything important is under your user most likely, but it makes it easier to make mistakes that you then can't fix because the system is broken.
Seems to affected Apple Private Relay as well, really slow download (kb/s) and timeouts
Kotlin has type inference and smart-casting, which i guess is what you mean!?
Thanks for sharing. This was instructive and fun in equal parts
But it's not relevant to battery capacity
Many people don't pay full price, most don't want to pay at all for news