skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft can’t get any lesson from Apple and its own switch because the fundamental strategy is different.

Apple completely changed its app in one go. There was no plan B, no deprecation. For this reason, the app is not has pristine as it should, with a ton of sections simply brought over without changes.

Microsoft being Microsoft, they’ve chosen to inflict decades of juggling two apps on their users, with poor results.
I don't think there's any arrogance in the statement. It doesn't assume others don't think. It's simply observing that most blog posts and how-to articles show the final result, but not necessarily the steps that were needed to get there.
"Stochastic parrot" is a perfectly reasonable description of GPT as a technology. I use this term, and also use LLMs all the time for various tasks. It's far more descriptive than "AI". Ultimately (most) LLMs are simply next token predictors.

Understanding this and not over-anthropomorphising can help you get the most out of using LLMs and understanding where it might hallucinate. For example, the fact that it's just a stochastic parrot means that, even 2 years on, it will give the wrong answer to prompts like:

User: A man and his son are in a car accident. The man is totally fine and in good health. The man is a surgeon. The nurse asks the surgeon to operate on the son, because the surgeon is healthy and capable of doing this. The surgeon replies "I can't operate on this child. He is my son."

What happened?

ChatGPT: This riddle is a play on assumptions. The twist is that the surgeon is actually the boy's mother. The riddle relies on the common stereotype that surgeons are male, leading people to overlook the possibility that the surgeon could be the boy's mother.
> the beneficiaries (the students) are not the decision makers (the school admin)

This is an example of a standard problem in enterprise computing where the people with purchasing authority are far removed from the actual users.
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Ethereum has (had?) the added problem of fees and latency. After ~2018, doing anything on Ethereum required you to spend like $20 and wait 40 minutes.
Is the golden era of the (software) engineer over?
Why so emotional while not even understanding my point?

I'm not defending Russia,

I'm just telling you to stop being naive to believe that West is just bunch of idiots not doing anything to protect themselves
> The Fully Automated Accident-Forgiving Billing System of the Future (which we are in fact building and may even one day ship) will give you a line-item veto on your invoice.

For a lot of the personal projects and early stage startups that are most terrified of these kinds of mistakes and therefore avoid autoscaling products like fly.io, we sincerely would rather have the entire account shut down when it goes over budget than ever see a bill that's higher than our net worth. A line item veto somewhat alleviates that concern but not fully.

They indicate at the end that they're going to do something along these lines, but what they're describing there also seems over-engineered compared to a simple circuit breaker that kills the account or some subset of it. Is there a good reason for these providers to avoid implementing that feature, which on a naive look seems far simpler than what they've actually proposed?
Try Deno. It's much much saner.
Not that much as far as I can tell. He's against DEI and uncontrolled immigration across the US Mexico border.

He also annoyed me as a Brit recently retweeting some stuff that civil was inevitable in the UK because we'd let a lot of muslims in. Not that I think you shouldn't be able to criticize islam but it's very far from the reality here and there's no need to amplify a lot of bunk from people who have probably never been to the UK.
Horrendous educational products are probably better than every institution in some regions, the median community college in other regions, etc..

Academic institutions, even very poor ones, have a lot of local leverage through employing academics who are integrated in the community and that is largely lost in distance education.

If you go and try to make an awful school somewhere I think you will get a great deal of assistance compared to if you offer a much better online education to the area built somewhere else.
War, famine did exist before but the recently it seems to have increased. Maybe, because we are more connected by media overall.
Do you think there is any solution? or a possibility of one?
Sad to watch ignorant agenda stand in the way of science.
I tried to use the official Reddit app, but it's buggy as hell. Everytime I launch it I am shown the Reddit logo for ~30 seconds, then it asks me to login again. This is not an uncommon issue, and the advice I've seen to fix it is to enable it to run in the background.
Without taking from your point, I believe you can have a UK limited company owned by an entity in a different jurisdiction that's less good than the UK.
I think the biggest difference is that people buy Windows (and Mac OS) preinstalled, but install Linux distros themselves.

Do people experience these issues on a Steam Deck or running Pop OS on System 76 hardware, etc?

The other thing I wonder about is (looking at the problems people are talking about here) whether Windows is any better. Windows can need a lot of fixing.
I mostly use Perplexity for searching and general enquiries. I find its inclusion of website sources useful. These citations give me more confidence in its answers. I also like its suggested follow up questions. It's good that these chat AI services can now search for information using recent news and web pages I asked a simple question of ChatGPT and Perplexity 'who were the entertainers at the 2024 dnc?'
ChatGPT didn't mention Stevie Wonder and included some commentary that wasn't in the question. Perplexity gave a more concise answer, and included web links and images.
Very unique idea!
I’d want to see extensive research on the benefits of Ed-Tech products before they are unleashed on classrooms full of actual students.

“Making things easier for teachers” is often not the case and simultaneously creates costs for training and support at these institutions along with the exponential growth required to administer these new roles.

And then of course are the students themselves. How do iPads compare to textbooks? Do we trust LLMs to grade essays? How effective has multiple choice testing ever been?

There is surprisingly little thought put into bringing tech into the classroom. Most of the drive seems to come from a fear of being left behind, as if learning to use a consumer electronic device is somehow synonymous with learning how to maximize productivity with a computing device.
You’ve made that distinction yourself. There’s nothing inherently impossible on macOS that you can only do on Windows. They’re just different.
But caching means that you're storing information about the items, which brings you closer to RMGUI.
At least with Java you can select a GC which is more aggressive in giving memory back to the system (Shenandoah and ZGC). With Electron/Node you don't even get that (not to mention the fact Electron apps always spawn multiple processes).
Node eviction
I have my doubts you were around in those days, because believe me, on average people were no more productive and certainly code quality was lower.
> RAD Delphi-like IDE

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

> for the web.

... why?
It's a very strange filter though. At my current job there's a multi-stage hiring process with leetcode tests. And yet most people lack substantial domain knowledge, it's really frustrating. In fact the code base hardly has a visible architecture
I'm not holding my breath on edtech until we see teachers teach their students about Anki in school, personally.
Yeah canvas and blackboard were are one point startups, I'm sure there's some products that can scale, but the market is probably driven by bureaucratic compliance more than a genuine desire to improve the quality of education for students
This is not the case in the U.S. (discussed elsewhere in this discussion). All phone numbers, landline or mobile, have an area code associated with a specific city/region. Since number portability became a thing in the early 2000s it’s much more common for cell phone users to just keep their number from decades ago, however, which will often not match the physical area they now live in.
back in the day , started my first job as intern (VC++ dev) and I was so excited to get a stack of MSDN CDs for reference.
Anything that starts with "no..xyz" is always bullshit IMO written for an audience of morons.
I spent a fair bit of my career in that sort of environment writing embedded software on MSDOS. Have fond memories of that but I wonder if I re-created that today would I be able to mentally cope? Might be the technology equivalent of becoming a monk in remote Tibet with the same needed commitment and rewards.

A younger self used to look forward to the latest (paper) shareware catalogue arriving by (snail) mail, posting back the order form and waiting for the floppies to arrive. True story :-)
One thing that frustrates me with this comment is that you're measuring their state today as if that's the end state.

Is waymo a failure? It's not deployed across the US yet, and it's been over a decade etc

No, they're just trying to solve hard technology problems. I want companies to be ambitious, that's way better than seeing them just focus on cutting costs etc
All the accounts seen on the popular "ignore previous instructions" screenshots have paid for twitter. There's no reason to believe that these bots don't operate at scale and don't all spend $8 a month.

On top of that, they are effectively paying per word to post through paying for tokens. This does not stop them.
Out-of-the-box you can add serde_json to your Cargo.toml file in a single line and have JSON parsing.

serde_json = "*"

I'm not sure I see the problem.
Have you tried the quest 3? A lot of your concerns, I feel, go away with pass thru. Like you say, mixed or augmented reality is going to be society altering.

I was walking through my house, navigating doorways, stairs, and changes in lighting, with my son's headset while I had the equivalent of a 30in monitor playing Netflix following me around. I sat on the couch and pinned the "tv" to the wall, enlarged it to be a 80in tv.

What truly is missing is a shared environment between multiple headsets in the same location. Movie night where the whole wall is a shared experience, and it can be synced with grandma who is three states over; even better, we can look over and see grandma in AR and she sees us. Distributed family night! Some ergonomics to work out. That, and seeing faces.
I believe the goal is to sell this as a DIY PI 5 project...
Google didn't have 90%-as-good-as-Google locally running search engines to compete against, though.
Maybe they can finally allow us to open multiple settings windows at once?
Of the top 100 sites in the US the only ones I see that don't have ads are corporate (ie: Microsoft, Capital One, etc.) and Wikipedia. Arguably the corporate ones are nothing but an ads for that brand. Even Home Depot has ads on its site.

I don't think a 1% rate of no ads is selling your point.

Even most of the smaller sites have Google ads on them in massive quantities.
I'm curious why we don't see more TUIs like Borland's. I.e., menu bar at the top, multiple panes (IIRC), etc.

For software like neovim and gdb, it could help a lot with discoverability.
I think this depends wildly on which jurisdiction you’re in. It’s pretty easy in the UK to just use FreeAgent or Xero to handle accounts and you can get to grips with the basics by just googling around.

In the U.S., it’s fairly easy too if you use quickbooks or similar, but the IRS is much harder to deal with than HMRC, and is much more of a punitive organisation.

However, having an accountant to talk to can give reassurance that you’re not going about things extremely stupidly.

The moment you start doing business in multiple jurisdictions (in the U.S., this includes multiple states), it starts to get a lot more complicated and using a professional makes sense. International tax is a huge pain, especially where the U.S. is involved.

I do think the general idea that it’s much better to try and run a straightforward business without complicated tax structures when you’re young really rings true. It’s better to focus on generating revenue than trying to squeeze out every penny of tax optimisation.
> it lives on as Delphi

Regrettably, Delphi is closer to a zombie now than to something that's alive.
I will have to try this, thank you :)
> 1. This is a tongue in cheek website builder, something generative AI would be great at making images (Dalle, Imagen, MJ) and text (GPT4, Claude, Gemini, etc) for a product like this

I don't think so at all, AI generated stuff usually has a certain soulless generic air to it that I don't think would suit this.

Probably completely fine for websites that want/need to look like every other website, like classic site builders, Squarespace etc. or internal business apps, forms and such, but for something that seems a bit targeted at letting people be creative, gen AI would do more harm than good I feel.
Interesting! I love the spirit and vibes. Some thoughts on tech. My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/741666d9d1384001b84301282001d379
Has an option to choose where models get downloaded - in the Models tab you can pick the target path.
Like the early days of semiconductor applications, now they're finding new substrates can do the primitive operations required for a neural network. Interesting it's called a "gel brain", as that syncs with a story from supposed "secret space program" insider who says they have banks of "gel packs" that neurally control advanced drones.
Maybe. People that spent hours in libraries back before the Internet would have said the same thing. Maybe it will be different this time. I don’t know.
Getting a job in medicine is usually somewhat more straightforward with less BS about skills tests, at least for the common specialties. Most organizations have shortages of physicians and other high-level practitioners so they can't afford to turn away qualified candidates unless there are major red flags.

Of course medicine has other downsides as a career field which makes it maybe not a great choice unless you really love it.
I'm so glad unix system configuration is just plain old text files.
Spam is not just unsolicited commercial messages. Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message.

The worst I see on Twitter when I peek in come from checkmarks. Cryptocurrency shills are some of the worst offenders and they seem to have taken over.
You can use web workers. Granted it doesn't work in all situations (e.g. concurrent containers) but it's still a whole lot better than e.g. Python.
The "Java resource hog" is still a thing...in a few areas.

As an Android dev, I still see complaints (most likely by beginners) saying how Android Studio consumes much RAM and asking if it's possible to replace it with.. VSCode. I still remember doing Android development using Eclipse on a 2 GB PC and it was reasonably okay-ish. Of course it's practically impossible to use Android Studio on such machine. 8 GB is bare minimum.

:D
> "Ah, those were the days! TP v4, v5, v6... i'd graduated to C by the time 7 came out."

Mee too, and it is painful to realize how much ahead of its time the IDE was. I am talking about the TUI version and yet:

- It already supported a dual monitor setup - one monitor for the IDE, one for the app - live debugging was a charm.

- The debugger had everything current debuggers have, but it was fully IDE integrated - no messin' with GDB or JDWP.

- The context sensitive help was the best, I never encountered a better one. I think a large part of it was that it really was context sensitive and it tried to solve the problem at hand, regardless if it was caused by the IDE or the language.
Yeah, I thought much the same as that.

Java: bloated behemoth, destroying efficient native apps. Javscript: neat little thing for scripting web pages.

[Fast forward 30y]

Java: neat little thing, near native.

Javascript: bloated behemoth, destroying native apps.
Google never charged $20/mo.

No one would pay it.

This is different.
X is already getting worse and worse, so maybe that's enough
It's interesting that the author's picture is with a linear accelerator. It's quite possible to use a linear accelerator to generate EUV to etch chips. It's been done as a test at SLAC.[1] But that approach was more expensive than AMSL's, since it needed a mile-long accelerator.

There was a startup in Fremont, Lyncean Technologies, that had a 10 watt EUV source based on a small synchrotron.[2][3]
They supposedly got to 10 watts. But that was too weak for EUV semiconductor work.
They struggled for years to find a market, and went bankrupt in 2022. Here's the video of the equipment auction.[4]
If, with this new optical system, only 20 watts are needed, that technology is worth reviving.

Something YC might be interested in.

An accelerator source is much cleaner than the laser tin-zapping thing AMSL uses. It's amazing that works as a commercial product.

[1] https://euvlsymposium.lbl.gov/pdf/2014/39af88b9d637418d86614...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220119174924/https://lynceante...

[3] https://www.euvlitho.com/2017/P17.pdf

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5eGyeNgCSY
Let me guess, you are not from Europe? People like you make me weary of the future.

P.S.: Speaking of sabotage, what exactly happened to north stream? And who might have an advantage if it were sabotaged?
A little background, we are re-building cloud storage and I understand there are several existing problems with existing solutions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>but every comment you want to post costs one cent

So the wealthiest people get to spread the most propaganda?
In that case your "It's much dumber than that, since he's invoking the law of the excluded middle to use contradiction at all." is simply false: you can use contradiction to refute a proposition without proving that proposition, without using LEM.
The yield rate by itself is not very relevant.

It also matters which are the energy and materials consumption, the occupied floor area and the acquisition and maintenance prices associated with that yield.

When all those are small enough, it may be worthwhile to replace a big and expensive fast machine with many smaller and cheaper slow machines.
Eugene Kryukov, 'Father of FireMonkey', and incredibly talented developer
Needlessly gendered, and the last sentence reads as rather condescending.
I think another huge factor is that you are making a prediction on the future value of your degree over the next 40-50 years as a 17 year old who is probably more focused on succeeding socially and sexually. You add in the student loans that may or may not be forgiven at some time in the future and the free market is not in play. Same with Healthcare, insurance clouds all free market mechanics.

I'm a huge capitalist and I think we need to be honest about where capitalism isn't working. It's always due to free market mechanics being removed from the equation by layers of obscurity. I don't know the right answer but this shit is not working
What is the benefit of using shiny new `just` instead of an industry-standard `make`?
It is not twice as many. It is tenths of many. Where is the page setup in the ribbon ?
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Can it be done outside of the library in the user code?
It doesn't suck. Its mostly reverting to "how everyone else dealt with getting a job in the last 100 years"
Nope, instead it's pulled into every project whether you need it or not.
> "It's an iOS bug"

How did you determine it's an iOS bug?
"Pick an instance" is where you lose me already. Same for Mastodon and similar services. "Mods will be different and what they mod will be different" sounds like hell to me.

Not saying it's bad for everyone, just my personal experience. It chases me away.
Smallest Swissbit do is 512MB, but that's as it's SLC flash so far lower capacity.
https://www.swissbit.com/en/products/product-finder/products...

Looking at pricing, 1GB is only about 25% more in unit quantity.

https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Swissbit/SFSD1024N1AS...

MLC/TLC flash will be 2GB and up, and most consumer cards you can buy.
What? You are much more likely today to have shorter interruptions to productivity because it's so much quicker to search Google or whatever for answers than to get up from your desk and ask the office greybeard or consult paper books or worst case have to actually fiddle around until you just figure out some possibly undocumented behavior in some library you're trying to use.

If you were actually a professional programmer in pre-internet days (as I was) I don't think you would have any nostalgia for it.
Back in the day ~2010, Facebook was the app store. Farmville et al were more popular than the top games on mobile at the time. They really should have pushed for a mobile version of it, as the lack of that is what killed it.
What if they got 50 responses instead of 1?
I tell everyone to schedule a Vision Pro demo. It’s 20 minutes, completely free, and will blow your mind. I would never actually buy one, but that was the best tech demo I’ve ever seen by a mile.
Contempt for the glue people
The country still has a nuclear arsenal.

We really don't want open war between the Western powers and Russia.
For you maybe, otherwise a very broad sweeping statement.
How do you update the local running LLMs?
People will pay to be abused: c.f. Oracle
Out of curiosity – why do you wear them in the shower? Are they meant to withstand that?
> As for BigInt, I default to it by now and I've not found my performance noticeably worse. But it irks me that I can get a number that's out of range of an actual int32 or int64, especially when doing databases. Will I get tto that point? Probably not, but it's a potential error waiting to be overlooked that could be so easily solved if JS had int32/int64 data types.

If your numbers can get out of the range of 32 or 64 bits then representing them as int32 or int64 will not solve your problems, it will just give you other problems instead ;)

If you want integers in JS/TS I think using bigint is a great option. The performance cost is completely negligible, the literal syntax is concise, and plenty of other languages (Python, etc.) have gotten away with using arbitrary precision bignums for their integers without any trouble. One could even do `type Int = bigint` to make it clear in code that the "big" part is not why the type is used.
> Needs an option to choose where models get downloaded to as your typically C: drive is an SSD with limited space.

You can already do this? https://i.imgur.com/BpF3K9t.png