skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that, I have had more server failures in AWS than bare metal for sure. Thankfully with ECS / Aurora they are all seamless, but running EC2 alone has to be something like 99.6% uptime max. Although I question how you are fully redundant and having downtime :)

I am an advocate for rolling your own hosting, we are getting ripped off by hosting providers, even DO is terribly expensive now. You get a much better deal going with OVH (and their other brands) than any other host. Not to mention you get to avoid noisy neighbor problems. But you have to understand what its limits are, and when to switch off that mindset.

Also running all your sites on one VPS is madness, the blast radius of a problem is 100%, when you should be able to easily segment by application.
What if you plug lets say typical Logitech external keyboard, MacOS literally doesn't support those functionalities? (Windows guy for 30 years too without any Apple experience, the productivity I can get on filesystem stuff just with Total commander compared to literally everybody else in the office is quite something)
Again, they aren't saying developers don't think. They're talking about blogging

I had this issue at PeerDB where we'd blog about some dev, when I wrote it'd be a stream of consciousness trying to communicate the mood, frustration, & flailing process. It wouldn't get published, in favor of blogs with clearer product messaging
Putting the things I use the most closest to my mouse. It's great. I spent two seconds figuring out the icons the first time I encountered it and now it's faster for me.
> ... writing is hurting people's collective ability to think

There's a tremendous difference between writing and having someone else write for you.
> When an LLM solves a novel problem, it's also reasoning, unless you use some contrived definition of the word "reasoning" that doesn't match how the word is actually used in normal conversation. Also I fully expect the human brain to be encoded in a mathematical model.

Depends on what your definition of a novel problem is. If it's some variation of a problem that has already been seen in some form in the training data, then yes. But if you mean a truly novel problem—one that humans haven't solved in any form before (like the Millennium Problems, a cancer cure, new physics theories, etc.)—then no, LLMs haven't solved a single problem.

> And if it wasn't obvious, an LLM can string together two words that it had never seen together in the training dataset, it really shows how people tend to simplify the extremely complex dynamics by which these models operate.

Well, for anyone who knows how latent space and attention work in transformer models, it's pretty obvious that they can be used together. But I guess for someone who doesn't know the internals, this could seem like magic or reasoning.
Warren Buffet's Missed Opportunity
Visidata is a relatively modern example.
It's nice. Look into the composer. I like it much better than inline completions.
Few months in with Cursor as my daily driver and I completely agree. I cannot unsee my productivity gains.
When I read of things Eric Schmidt and others of his ilk say, the most generous reading I can make is that they are imbeciles. People so utterly disconnected from the realities of work, of how normal people operate, and due to being unfathomably rich, they imagine that their wealth is proof of their superior intelligence. The fact that no one typically confronts their bullshit only reinforces this vicious cycle.

And I say this, because the least generous reading I can make, and the one I think is true, is that they are all sociopaths.
Whatever Anders Hejlsberg has done had been great. Really great.
> At least in democracies things require oversight, debates and people are being held responsible.

I'm scratching my head at this one. Why do you think they are doing those things if not because they are constantly re-evaluating their direction? If you're just going to keep doing the same thing over and over again there isn't much need for debate. The oversight and accountability mechanisms are all-weather good ideas, but typically the US is using them to constantly adjust and change policy responses.

Compare that to somewhere more authoritarian where they can't change policies precisely because those 3 aspects are quite weak. They find their groove once and stick to it for decades, and anyone trying to shake things up gets mired in institutional inertia. Sure a supreme leader could force sudden change in theory, but why are they going to do that? He's got everything set up how he likes it and his view of the world fossilised maybe 10, 20 years ago.

Democracies are absolute monsters. The moment they detect that their interests have changed they'll vote out the old mob, bring in a new one and do things differently. The US went Obama to Trump in one election cycle, which was probably a shock for anyone trying to negotiate with them.
> take away the government grants and people lose the incentive to engage in that kind of scientific fraud

And the incentives and resources to engage in scientific activities in case of other fields.
What about birthmarks? Someday the paisley people will be recognized.
Innocent people will continue to die. This is a fact, not an opinion.
> What were the show stoppers in adopting solution like XTDB?

#1 would be the lack of a production ready DBaaS (like Aurora offers for Postgres), if I had to guess.
The Calendar of Sound of Hermeto Pascoal (2020) [pdf]
I only have experience of the university side of EdTech, but in my experience people were extremely interested in anything that would make it easier for lecturers to do their jobs, improve student experience, etc.

What they weren’t interested in was anything that changed the general dynamic of the university or replaced their core business.

Marking tools, stuff that helps deliver lectures, anything of that variety was all in-bounds, and lots of departments were happy to explore new things.

What would not sell was anything that required selling directly to students, because they simply won’t spend the money.
You are right, institutions dominate EdTech.

The UK had a number of competitive and teacher-led EdTech AI startups delivering lesson planning, like briskteaching.com & teachematic. They have some inroads with schools and colleges now. And probably would have disrupted up into the procedural level naturally.

However the government decided to give £2m without any open procedure to a new company to build similar tech from scratch, and their PR acted as if this was groundbreaking, while the tech they promised, largely already existed and was in use by many teachers: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-support-for-teachers-...

Who wants to invest in teachematic or brisk teaching, when your competition can get millions from the government without process and launch the same ideas over a time frame to starve you out? With the market overcrowded, prices are forced to lower, and many companies will now go bust because of this kind of unnecessary government intervention. Brisk Teaching has already had to make most things free. You cannot really be more cooperative with the system than that, but tough luck they still won't get the £2m despite proving out the idea before those funded.

Shortly we will likely see the institutions in control of education like Ofsted mandate, approve or limit the tooling used, and most startups will die out. Rather than several low cost startups bringing high amounts of value, tax payers have spent millions on salaries for people with no AI background to create duplicate products, and the net value to education for actual students is therefore lowered as a result. So you can't disrupt this procedural level very effectively when the government intervenes early on.
The software equivalent of don't work with children or animals is: don't work with teachers or doctors.
I think they are correct. I’d say it’s easy to work all your life in the shadow in the cave and never realize that you can do everything yourself. You don’t need “glue” people or project managers.
Well fair point. During my university days, there were 2 prominent Java-based IDEs: Eclipse and Netbeans.

Even after installing some plugins, Eclipse ran faster, and thus become my primary IDE. I kinda miss Eclipse. On the other side, seems like most Java dev nowadays already switch to IntelliJ.
reddit is still good for some niches. non mainstream subreddits still have decent conversation and you can find help and info about topics or products that you cant find anywhere else. its not what it used to be but if you steer away from the home page and go directly to what you need its still good.
If Apple could make the UX of the physical device a bit better and had a larger library of places to explore I would absolutely give it to my grandma. She’s mostly stuck in a her flat alone all day. Walking is hard. She FaceTimes and calls people, but going to see beauty is mostly something she doesn’t get to experience anymore. If she could watch a sunrise in Hawaii instead of worrying about political news I think her day to day would be much better and I would be happy to spend the money to give her that QoL improvement.
It looks like the gel “learns” to get better at the game because if it correctly positions the Pong paddle over time then the dynamics of stimulation become predictable rather than random. since the system tries to naturally minimize its free energy, it will eventually start to model the ball dynamics enough to better control the paddle, all making the input dynamics more predictable and thus minimizing the energy of the system.
I went to Costco yesterday and bought three cases of milk and four cases of soda, and it all fit into the back of my Honda civic hatchback! Doesn’t this prove that 18 wheelers are useless once and for all.

But really, I’ve never met an engineer who said that you shouldn’t try to keep things as simple as possible as long as possible.
Slight chance of finding it if you notice it's missing fast enough.
FindMy only finds the charger, not the headphones out of charger, but you can make it play a sound.

You can buy a replacement for about 50% of the price of a new set (complete with charger case).
From the WSJ article:

"Despite the war, Ukraine collects lucrative transit fees for Russian oil and gas estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year."

So did Poland for a long time. No wonder they are against Nordstream, which circumvents the transit fees and the control.

Why would Ukraine do it? Both Ukraine and the U.S. have an interest in isolating Germany from Russia. If they did it, they might have thought that the investigation would not lead to them.
A more common definition of passphrase is a a password which is a phrase which makes it longer but also more predictable in it's structure.

Similar prompts for decryption will ask you for passwords in most cases as non technical users shouldn't need to understand the underlying technical differences (nor do they normally want to, or do).
Also: it's hardly improved significantly over the past 25 years! It's as rubbish as ever. If attempting to make the argument that Windows is changing stuff all the time, the command prompt really is the oddest thing to point at.
what a bubble to live in
yeah i think apples no porn policy is ruining their vr headset and the future of vr ;).
not that i am into vr porn. i only think the market for that should be huge
Relevant: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-senate-committee-...
in English - "suboptimal tax settings" means "not optimal" or more generally .. "not good" .. second, "settings" are usually associated with a machine or software, not a business deal..

here in the USA it is the opposite.. the IRS will never tell you a better way to do anything.. and in common case will try to charge you more tax and not tell you how to improve your structure
> we all need to wake up

That is exactly what Russia is aiming for. A few wires and fences, maybe a misguided rocket on NATO soil. It will not lead to a confrontation. But it will lead to a public cry to increase our own defences. That could only happen at the expense of the Ukrainian support.
There are still aspects where Java is lacking: JVM startup time and memory usage. While you can work around the former with Graal native images, this messes with dynamic loading of classes and with reflection, which means you can’t do it for any random Java application or library.
Hire a tax lawyer. The amount they will save you in taxes is much higher than the amount you're going to pay them.
2nd tab, page size button
No, you can shift + f10 for cmd and run shutdown.exe /r /t 0
> as only forbidding the 2-edged blades, where one edge is plain and one edge is serrated (a kind of knife that I have never seen).

It sounds like they mean hunting knifes like this: https://images.ontheedgebrands.com/cdn-cgi/image/f=auto,heig...
Not really. You can't set up a "gas station" somewhere in the Solar system. It has to orbit. Anything in orbit goes many, many times faster than a bullet. Aligning yourself with such a fast moving object is doable, but costs a lot of fuel. Then detaching yourself from that orbit in order to go to your original destination burns a lot of fuel too. But let's say you get more fuel from that station than you burn. Who is going to replenish the station, and how? They need to burn a lot of fuel too, to go to an asteroid and back. It's not completely impossible, but it's quite unlikely.
Would be only fair to mention Paul Henning Kamp here as well. FreeBsd, md5, varnish.
They have just updated the FAQ:

> Can I use the Anthropic API for individual use?

> [Updated yesterday]

> Yes, individuals and hobbyists are welcome to use the Anthropic API. However, please note that use of the API is subject to our Commercial Terms of Service, regardless of whether you are an individual or representing a company.

Previously:

> No. Access to the API is subject to our Commercial Terms of Service and is not intended for individual use.
Hey, I though Magic Leap had it all figured out! Are you telling me those guys are totally full of shit??! SHOCKED I say SHOCKED!

The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY

Hold my beer...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838421

>Are you referring to the sex discrimination lawsuit and nepotistic sexist bro culture that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838500

>Or are you referring to the ridiculous 12/12/2012 TEDX "talk" that Rony Abovitz performed at the Ringling College of Art, and all the FAKE and DECEPTIVE videos they posted and lied about on youtube, that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850230

>That didn't stop them from making fraudulent concept video demos that they falsely claimed to be actual existing games that they were already playing around the office, and that they promised much much more than they could actually deliver.

>So if you can't reproduce the experience on a 2D screen, then fake it and lie, you're saying? That IS the whole point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838443

>Or are you referring to the way Magic Leap picked up and ripped off so many other people's original designs and IP in their patent applications without giving the actual inventors credit, that tarnished Magic Leap's reputation? [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838737

>The point is that the name Magic Leap IS extremely and deeply tarnished, in so many ways, and Magic Leap pretending it's not just makes them look more laughably delusional than they already are (which is extremely), just like Trump still believing that he won the election. [...]
Blah blah blah. This is way forest-for-trees stuff.

I work in higher ed and have used this stuff forever. What OP said is simpler and closer to the easier answer.

The person PAYING isn't the consumer; the actual consumer (me and the students) have very little say or influence in how these things work.

If you wanted to make effective, I don't know, mops, you'd INTERVIEW JANITORS AND GET THEIR FEEDBACK, and somehow make that feedback actually matter.

This industry DOESNT DO THAT.
Right. Google is successful because it had the right stuff at the right time to get a monopoly in a two sided market.

Some people think they’ll learn something useful at Google but it’s a delusion because you can’t take the monopoly is useful.

If you’re not reflexively deferential it looks like they pay people 2-3x to be 1/3 as productive as they would be in a startup but they can get away with that because the cash flow productivity is magnified by their profitability and scale.

As for “sociopath”, see OKRs. I can’t think of a better weapon sociopaths could use against the rest of us.
Dual-screen laptops make more sense with this spiral notebook-like hinge
> Corporations like Elsevier have successfully executed takeovers of research centers (universities) and made journal submission a mandatory rite of passage for academics joining the state-mandated academia funnel.

I...think the causality on this is wrong.

"Publish or perish" long predates Elsevier's rapacious consumption of journals. The reason they did that in the first place is because they already knew it was, in effect, a captive audience.
I just don't understand the romanticism that's been cultivated with joining these large companies. I interviewed with Google after they reached out to me many years ago, because I had a chrome extension that someone noticed. At the time I thought that was cool. They rejected me because I was anxiously preparing for it the wrong way. That's part of my bias here as well - they didn't need to reach out to someone self-taught. But looking back, I think of all of the things the recruiter was telling me, and the arrogance of them just name dropping "google" and expecting me to bow, and I think bullet dodged. Employment is a social contract just as much as a legal one, and it goes both ways.
I don't know what you consider big and long, but on my computer (Ryzen 5700X) it took 7 seconds to build, and the resulting binary is 556 kB.
They removed that now too. You can choose domain join on pro version to create a local account
K-12: from kindergarten to 12th grade

Had to look it up,
I don't think it is very similar. Personally i thought of HoTMeTaL, an old HTML/page editor that was popular for a little bit during the 90s and had a similar approach of showing the page in a visual quasi-WYSIWYG + quasi-element-tree mode.
It’s same. Previously it was File menu > click Page Setup > use the dialog box.

On Word 2021, it’s Layout ribbon > click more Page Setup settings > use the dialog box.

It’s even one less if you just want basic settings like margin, size etc. and it live updates.
What is "you" here? If "you" are a single developer or founder of a small startup making a single product then sure, "you" might not need any of these things.

But I think the point of the article is that Google seems to have pretty serious problems stemming from the fact that it apparently has lots of individual teams working on their own thing without enough coordination with each other.
Yeah, I wanted to specify that in my experience everyone does want increased sales and have results with KPIs, but many times these things actually won't do it. Maybe they will improve some KPIs, but still won't have results where they would bring in more sales/profits. E.g. KPIs are cherrypicked, gamed in some way, they are flawed, increasing the KPIs comes at cost of something else, so sales are actually unaffected or they even have a negative effect.

Or at least leadership definitely and obviously wants it, but product and design under leadership wants to just convince leadership that it's going to do that. But frequently it isn't or it's very difficult to analyze that data and it's easy to cherry pick flawed metrics retroactively to try to convince leadership that it actually did some improvements. It's difficult to question and verify any sort of metrics without launching a whole investigation into it yourself, which rarely someone would have an incentive to do so.

It could be that at your workplace maybe these things actually do improve KPIs and sales, I would actually be more happy with that compared to if there are meaningless changes or changes that make things worse that don't improve sales at all.
Did anyone have similar experience with Cody comparing cody with cursor? Most of the metrics does not correlate much with everyday programming tasks.

Excluding sourcegrah employees who usually comment on these comparisons comments.
if you were serious about coding, you knew C.

I think this is fundamentally the same toxic thinking that is still with us today.

C offered no actual advantages over Turbo Pascal for DOS/Windows programming. I'm sure one can come up with platforms or releases that weren't supported by TP, since C was the defacto standard. Regardless, they're fundamentally equivalent.

Meanwhile, Turbo Pascal was blazingly fast compared to C. The C linker in particular used to take forever. Turbo Pascal was seen as a toy language. My AP Computer Science exam results were disregarded by colleges because it was in Pascal.

A few years later, I was a C++ snob and looked down on Visual Basic "macro hackers". Meanwhile, at least one true genius electrical engineer I worked with would rapidly prototype software in VB that would take me weeks to replicate in C++.

There's a weird disdain in software development for approachable, efficient tools that create actual business value.
Flashbacks to high school CS back in the 90s. Started with basic then moved on to this. I understand now they use Java to teach kids, and I can't imagine trying to learn to code with that language.
Using the API is not an option because we're migrating the active subscriptions themselves, including credit card data. Payment processors can transfer this data between one another, and there is a standard process for doing so while retaining PCI compliance, but because LemonSqueezy's customer support has been unavailable I can't get them to carry out those steps. Migrations between payment processors are fairly standard, though. For example, see https://docs.stripe.com/get-started/data-migrations and https://docs.lemonsqueezy.com/help/migrating/migrating-from-...
This was the first easy way to write Windows software. Our company had develped software to send pages to Motorola pages via the dial-up interface provided by most pager providers in TPW 1.5/ TP 7
(School)teachers used to have that kind of social status, not even a hundred years ago. It would be interesting to understand how that changed into the current situation (up to the worst case of the parents calling out for the lynching of a teacher).
Facts, this is one level above obsessing over the look of the website :)
Compounded by the availability of the technology.

Few leading node machines = machine manufacturer/fab can charge high margins

Multiple trailing node machines/suppliers = machine manufacturers/fabs begin to compete on price, driving down margins
At last I understand how Google's messaging product strategy went so far off the rails...
> he IRS will never tell you a better way to do anything

The IRS does not have knowledge of everything you do. They can figure out shit that makes no goddamn sense on your taxes, but they won't bother to optimize stuff FOR you.

Why do people complain that the government doesn't have omnipotent knowledge of your finances? Why do they also complain that the government won't spend tax dollars doing shit for you?
> the same way knowing how memory or CPUs work is largely irrelevant for all but a tiny part of the industry.

This is not true. A large part of the industry just _thinks_ these things aren't relevant to them and that's why we have such terrible software everywhere.