skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a path to this every day.

An actual scenario: Some developer starts working on pre deployment validation of config files. Let's say in a pipeline.

Most of the time the config files are OK.

Management says: "Why are you spending so long on this project, the sprint plan said one week, we can't approve anything that takes more than a week."

Developer: "This is harder than it looks" (heard that before).

Management: "Well, if the config file is OK then we won't have a problem in production. Stop working on it".

Developer: Stops working on it.

Config file with a syntax error slips through, .. The rest is history
I've found React Native, especially in recent times, to provide a very good mobile dev environment.

I wrote an app and had it running in both iOS and Android in no time (with minimal iOS dev and zero Android xp prior to that).

My app included the Jitsi video extension (with very customized Jitsi controls and self-hosted backend), so not just a simple CRUD app.

(To be fair, my background is mostly Node and React, but those skills made it a breeze.)
I mean, that's more life imitating art imitating life. The show was explicitly inspired by a Murdoch biography: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/succession-based-on-...
I’m skeptical of the caliber of talent at Salesforce given the unusable state of their core product.
Yes, we include them all.
The added dynamic of Amazon is they might not even be Tide pods but some counterfeit or perhaps a batch that didn’t pass quality control to sell in more traditional brick and mortar.

My latest in a long list of WTF was I ordered a medical device (new). It came in a package that had once been sealed but the seal was cut. Upon removing the product, it had clearly been used by someone and returned. It was a sling for my arm, and I intend to use it for 2-3 weeks until things feel better but I wouldn’t return it like the last person did. I returned it immediately. I’m not accepting open box items of that nature.
I prefer this tool: https://utopia.fyi/type/calculator

It generates step size variables and a comment linking back to the web calculator filled with your values.
That's some Team Sky logic ;) It doesn't matter when you have to ride your sponsor's bike.

Example: Pogacar's Colnago is decidedly not aero; Cavendish's Wilier ain't the best sprinter bike.

But they're all competitive, because like I said, the role the frame plays in the overall "system" is negligible. It's marketing. The aero gains on the new Madone are entirely in the handlebar, and are erased if you add a rider to the bike.
Super looking forward to this.

I tried Codestral and nothing came close. Not even slightly. It was the only LLM that consistently put out code for me that was runnable and idiomatic.
This approach is also known as the "Minto Pyramid." The website "Untools" has a well-written webpage that explains this: https://untools.co/minto-pyramid/

Untools itself also inspired some good discussions on this forum (2020, 137 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23339830
As someone who has to communicate in multiple languages, sometimes in a single conversation, apple's keyboard is useless.

Swift allows me to configure multiple languages to be active at once allowing to type without bothering which of the languages is currently active
> When you ask your own host to delete something you uploaded, you don't expect them to ignore you just because someone could have already archived it maybe.

I've had a service say that deleting the information fully can take eight months.
Just my 2 cents. Somehow got a chance to look into the competitive landscape. And found that which ever ICP to start with there's no immediate reason for adoption.

But who knows? Back in 90s no one knows they need an iPhone. Wish all the luck for your journey onwards.
I agree with you entirely that intuition constitutes fairly weak evidence of something being true, and isn't the sort of thing we should view as a source of data for empirical methods, unless we're studying the intuition itself as a cultural or cognitive phenomenon. Intuition can be hijacked, it can be dead wrong, and it can notice things but completely misunderstand their mechanism. Otherwise, why do science at all?

But the existence of an intuitive belief is also not good evidence against what that belief claims, either! I think scientists have in a few important situations found themselves encountering pushback where methodical empirical study comes to counter-intuitive conclusions, and the culture of science got itself trapped in a schizmogenesis feedback loop where results that sounded counterintuitive were seen as more scientifically sound merely on that basis (and, probably, because counterintuitive findings sound harder to do and thus more impressive). I think this is starting to course-correct, with terms like "boring science" (empirical tests which confirm an intuitive hypothesis) and "cultural evolution" (which some people use to prove too much, but the most solid form of the argument is basically that a commonly-held but illegible belief is something we should treat as a weak signal suggesting a potential truth rather than a negative one) becoming popular

Culture is an insidious force we should have tools for pushing back against, but it really throws the baby out with the bathwater to assume that no one who doesn't do rigorous methodological empiricism can come to know something, and that all such knowledge is necessarily backwards and stupid. Even a hypothetically perfect methodological empiricist who must justify all conclusions with legible evidence and repeatable methodology should treat an illegible belief as merely holding no evidentiary weight, not weight against that which is believed
It would've worked if Amazon hadn't turned their store into a cesspit of fakes, random 3rd parties sellers and arbitrary pricing. At this point if I pressed one of those buttons I'd have zero confidence in what might turn up. If Costco or the like had those buttons that would add it to a regular delivery I'd plaster the house with them.
That’s a lot more work than calling customer service.
> btw I'm not forgetting who it was that invaded Iraq and first ran roughshod over thousands of years of archeological treasures.

You mean the Assyrians? Yes indeed they ravaged and destroyed the remnants of great civilizations that lived more than two millennia before them. Their brutality was legendary. It was about time somebody did to them what they did to Sumer!

(Just kidding of course I know who you are referring to. I find it hard to truly grasp the timescales of the past.
Familiar! The Artificial Analysis Index is the metric models are sorted by in my sheet. But their data and presentation has some gaps.

I made this sheet to get a glanceable landscape view comparing the three key dimensions I care about, and fill in the missing evals. AA only lists scores for a few increasingly-dated and problematic evals benchmarks. Not just my opinion, none of their listed metrics are in HuggingFace Leaderboard 2 (June 2024).

That said I love the AA Index score because it provides a single normalized score that blends vibe-check qual (chatbot elo) with widely reported quant (MMLU, MT Bench). I wish it composed more contemporary evals, but don't have the rigor/attention to make my own score and am not aware of a better substitute.
Since more content on the web is LLM-generated, it's just going to happen. Wonder when it will become noticeable.

The distorted image examples are wonderful to my eyes, though part of what's really happening is that it's having a hard time with very wrinkled skin. Which is less common than relatively smooth skin, to the article's point.
out of curiosity, is there a different outcome you would prefer?

I can appreciate snark and irony, but many of the comments here are of the same vein.

I think the expectation of more money = reward for behavior, less money = punishment is a flawed expectation. I dont see any correlation to that, I dont see any reason why there should be a correlation to that, I’m familiar with the mentality but prosperity preaching is a form of control not an economic theory.
And yet African countries have some of the highest birth rates while also having "vast, unchecked, accelerating wealth inequality facilitated by capture and nepotism and corruption and decaying institutions"
This is cool.

I'll mention an alternative way to visualize Venn diagrams are UpSet Plots.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpSet_plot
[2]: https://upset.app/ -- points to multiple implementations.
I'm not an expert here, but a lot of aerodynamic improvements were banned, and disc brakes were banned until they weren't. At an extreme, recumbents. Triathalon handlebars in mass-start stages. There are minimum weights.

In track racing, the bikes are required to have fixed gearing.

The earliest Tour of France required riders to be self supporting, meaning they had to carry their own spare tires etc.

One thing I've observed is that for us commuters (me too), bikes are no longer tied to racing. We can have anything we want. The ubiquitous "hybrid" is used in no racing discipline, and the classic mountain bikes that are favored by many computers are largely obsolete for competitive mountain biking.
That's a lot of $10 (non functional) Uber eats cards
"Your baby is crying because you often raise your voice and make unreasonable demands of those around you. Would you like to add insurance for a lifetime of psychiatric help to your cart?"
MoonBit's build system, Moon, is now open source
Highly relevant book: Modeling Life by Alan Garfinkel. Assumes only knowledge of algebra and teaches the foundational skills of differential equation modeling. Best book I bought this year.
Have you tried Gambas https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

(Note: I didn't try Gambas, but I used VB6 a lot and still miss a few of the features. I have the disk to install it stored somewhere, but it's getting harder and harder to install it.)
If they're sharing the joy of discovery that's great. Lots of people though are gloating. "Haha, you're stupid, you didn't know X and I did". In other words, they're the ones not being charitable by assuming you don't already know X.

Trying to think of an example it usually goes something like

A: We should do X

B: No. See this document (the sharing part)

A: I wrote that document and I'm telling you we should do X (the "I already knew this" part)
I don't think Golden Gate Claude was related to model collapse. It was a deliberate experiment that took advantage of Anthropic's interpretability work: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...
>The fact your [1] link is a class that's not even used in the TextView class

The [1] link is only used by TextView. It is completely reliant on TextView and can't be used by other components. And yes, it is used, right here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
mEditor is used over 400 times in TextView.java. Did you even read it before commenting?

>The fact your [0] link is to a copy of the TextView from 2017 is even funnier.

Why is that funny? Most of it has not changed. I linked to the up to date one in the second link. I searched "TextView source code" on Google to get the first one. It gets the point across and doesn't matter how old it is.

>Hmm yes, 8,700 lines to "just show text". No hyperbole detected there. Who cares about fonts, shadows, or any other visuals on or around the text, all we're showing is "just text".

I'm pretty sure a lot of that is handled by DynamicLayout, not TextView, although correct me if I'm wrong here. If if it isn't, it should be, and is indicative of poor software design. Shadows certainly should not be handled by TextView, I have no idea why anyone would think that.

Take a look at Flutter's implementation. Text is just 1,400 lines, a large portion of which is documentation (another thing the Adnroid SDK sorely lacks,) and it just shows text to the user.[0] Somehow all the "tight coupling" issues have gone away here, and there is no need to throw a text editor into the code. How does Flutter edit text? It has a base EditableText class[1] that is then exposed by simpler widgets like TextField[2]. Now if I want to make my own custom editable text I can without having to recreate the whole thing.

>And? It's called code de-duplication

No. You don't get rid of separation of concerns to save a few bytes. If TextView cannot be made into a separate component that EditText uses then it should implement the functionality of TextView on its own. This is called the single-responsibility principle. A TextView should not be a texteditor. It can't get any simpler than that. Either refactor the text viewing components into something that can be shared by TextView and EditText, or separate them completely.

>The funniest part to me is that your rant is about TextViews though. When that's been soft deprecated for 5 years already (replaced by Compose Text element).

I wonder why this great piece of code was deprecated if it's so great? And yes, that's another great thing about the Andorid SDK. Everything is deprecated while its replacements are only supported on new devices. Then you end up having to do:

if(onReallyOldDevice){

useDeprecatedMethod1()

}else if (onOldDevice){

useDeprecatedMethod2()

}else{

useSoonToBeDeprecatedMethod()

}

See eg. accessing file systems.

[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...

[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...
The people building CRM software aren't also the ones doing AI research. The two have nothing to do with each other.
NASA Cancels Its Viper Moon Rover
World first for Kawasaki as hydrogen-powered motorcycle makes public debut
Tip: “nic.TLD” should always exist and will often be the first domain registered. It is operated by the domain’s registry. For example, see https://nic.zip.
"to just show text" is such a tell that you know nothing about UI.
Displaying text is extremely complex. This is only 8000 lines because skiaa does the brunt of the job.
Also, who gives a shit about TextView? Just use BasicText, we aren't in 2017 anymore.
I don't expect most companies to have caches of static content to largely prevent this sort of thing, but certainly by the time you get to iFixit size you should have your shit together right? Their content seems to be one of the best for caching as the content shouldn't need to be dynamic and shouldn't change much over time.

Further, on the content scraping side, aren't there better ways to determine when to re-scrape so you're not completely overloading servers of folks who don't have easily cache-able static content? Are "HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified" header responses too difficult to implement or honor? Seems like failures on both sides are what leads to these situations.
Hearing about this is very reminiscent of current day React web dev as well.
If that's true, I don't get it is Amazon being metrics driven company didn't see the pattern Alexa is not being used for ordering or orders from Alexa devices is pretty insignificant? Even in 10 years?
Same here, iPhone15 though
Ah yes, the "if you get busted for copyright violations it's not our problem" license.
Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search
They should have run Crowdstroke on their infrastructure
To be fair, SwiftKey is also very helpful in replacing the terrible stock Android keyboard.
Nice link, thanks! I was put on to this by someone who had done defence work in their past. They used the "Concept of Operations" for their preferred document style which I also like.
Curiosity Finds Pure Sulfur on Mars
Probably not all but it’s well known they’re just stealing consumer durables because they’re easy to convert to cash
OK. But it's not a "view", it's a fact from the terms. If I can't post the line then it looks like I'm just reposting the terms, but searching through HN history tells me this one bit has not been surfaced before.
I don't know if I would say it is easy as much as I'd say it is automated. I manage configuration changes to some hardware using git, and do manual backup. However, someone else came out with a script that will automate periodic commits to a GitHub account, and automates the setup.

I have a linux distribution which gives the option to allow login via a set of GitHub usernames, and will enable so by downloading each account's public SSH keys.

I don't use either of these, I don't think the second is even a good idea, but can get why its popularity and price has caused deeper integration into products. Other network backup services or login infrastructure does not have the same level of ubiquitous API nor a relevant free tier.
Much of these primal decisions like mate selection or desire for children happens in the unconscious part of our brains. Hard to check validity for theories like this without good statistical data.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058616
"military grade encryption!" aka just AES-256

always makes me laugh
How to Make a Minimum Viable Software Package with NetBSD, ARM, and QEMU
Don't forget Android 15 changes pagesize from 4K to 16K, and you have to recompile those ...

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/behavior-cha...
External play stores can't come too soon.
Clearview AI Class Action Settlement Claim Form
China's alarming rise on the seas is shifting the global order
Show HN: GitHub Copilot in JupyterLab
hello! made this over the week and would love for people to check it out and leave some feedback :)
I see. Thanks for the reply. I opened one of the tar files and see now how it has extracted the text into json files.
Oops. Noted!

Apologies for inadvertently adding work!

Somehow, I never realized that duplicate threads were merged (instead of one of them being nuked), because it seems like a lot of work in the first place.

Thanks for doing it!
> The amount of tax is equally useless to me.

Not if you are voting someone in a political office in the next election.
Related from just over a month ago:

Why is Android Development so difficult/complex? (compared to Web and Desktop)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742719
That's exactly what they are doing and what you agreed to ans why some use other models or running something locally.
Nothing is as obvious as it could be when it’s 3am and you’re debugging a production outage. :)
> "This is also why Amazon's Dash buttons failed."

Dash buttons failed because they were superseded by Alexa. And because they were a bit silly to begin with.
I guess "fight fire with fire" is great adage, so why not fight backdoors with backdoors. What can go wrong.
The AmEx platinum seems like a fancy coupon book full of credits I mostly wouldn’t use. Maybe if I cared about airport lounges more I would feel differently, but I agree with your sentiment. I have a hard time understanding the value prop of their charge cards.
Expect it most when you expect it least
If Amazon wants to continue to recoup this investment from Alexa sales, Amazon needs totally different leadership on the Alexa team. Alexa's app and user experience are terrible. Adding a skill is a highly convoluted process.

Most notably and most recently, the decision to drop access from 3rd party apps to its lists is an incredibly short-sighted idea. No one wants to use Amazon's software. Make Alexa effortless to use with 3rd party software.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/31/24168681/amazon-alexa-thi...
It could also be that they wanted the cash-back or rewards they get on those fancy cards.
> If you published a key

Why would anyone think that a private fork is "published"!?

This is the footgun here: The UI is telling you that nobody can see the secrets you committed to your private copy, but actually it is widely accessible.

A similar example of UI-vs-reality mismatch that I've noticed recently is the Azure Store Account "public" visibility. By default, it uses your authenticated account for RBAC access checks, so if you click around it'll say something like "you don't have browse access". This looks secure, but attempting access anonymously would have succeeded!

I had a customer recently where this happened -- they clicked through every Storage Account to "check" them, convinced themselves they were secure, meanwhile they had database backups with PII accessible to world+dog!
This is a cool idea, nice work. I spent some time as an assistant college coach in the NCAA and the amount of time spent reviewing film and capturing key plays/schemes etc is huge. I do some computer vision and always wondered if it would ever be accurate enough to skip over dribbling up the courts, time outs etc so scouts could just get to the important parts of the film—it looks like you are on track with what you claim it can do. I might sign up for the beta... good luck!
OK but say a company has a private, closed source internal tool, and they want to open-source some part of it. They fork it and start working on cleaning up the history to make it publishable.

After some changes which include deleting sensitive information and proprietary code, and squashing all the history to one commit, they change the repo to public.

According to this article, any commit on either repo which was made before the 2nd repo was made public, can still be accessed on the public repo.
Counterexample:

https://nic.gy

https://registry.gy
My take on it was that Alexa was developed at a time they were trying really hard to solidify their continued existence as a tech company; AWS and kindle came around then too. The stock market values tech companies much higher than retail companies. That’s what justified the headcount expense
I would expect that a more charitable reading of GP would say that people from the lower class have not come in the middle class as much as they had earlier?

At any rate, imo for stability to exist, every generation must _feel_ better off than the previous on average.
I cannot access the commit https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/commit/7bc0b shown in one of the pictures in the article (right before "Where do you get these hash values") despite this repo is even public.

What gives?
The project directory structure of Android/Kotlin apps, at least as generated by Android Studio, is indeed offputting. I look at the rust and python programs I have for PC, embedded, and web, and can confirm that the android layout is more complicated than is required in those three domains
This is a nice post, but it's not a "Show HN" From the rules https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
People consume a hell of a lot more now than 1950. Houses are bigger, we buy more clothes, eat more food, have more gadgets. The yacht class can only consume so much.
Discussions

(55 points, 7 days ago, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40991699

(53 points, 6 days ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999911
The actual layout algorithm is handled by DynamicLayout, not the textView. It really is just supposed to show some text. You can see it here.[0] Almost all the difficult aspects of showing the text, such as alignment, text direction, line spacing, line breaking, ect. as well as the actual rendering of the text are handled by StaticLayout/DynamicLayout. All TextView should be doing is basically just allowing you to add text programmatically and handling the selection handles. That should not entail having a text editor.

>"to just show text" is such a tell that you know nothing about UI

I have actually made my own TextView using just layout so I don't think this comment is warranted.

[0] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/...
We're still tiny compared to Alexa, but we have over a million MAUs so we're not tiny for a startup.

At present, Alexa itself is not a direct competitor, although a large and growing use-case for Alexa skills would benefit directly from our tech. This may change if Alexa gets its act together, but based on the past year I'm not holding my breath!