skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Others reasons for slipping include optimism bias, not relying on the right anchor, and strategic misrepresentation.

Optimisim and misrepresentation are WAY more important.

Most engineers I know of were a bit optimistic to other engineers. This leads to slippage because subtasks have a finite amount they can come in early but an almost infinite amount of time they can come in late.

In addition, most engineers are acutely aware of what they think the project would take vs. what number management was willing to hear to launch the project.

Combine both of these and your project will never come in even remotely close to the estimates.
They acquired ITA Software in like 2012. ITA's QPX search engine is largely written in Common Lisp. Unlike Sony, q.v. in another comment thread, Google decided not to mess too much with a good thing and let them keep their Lisp codebase without following bitwize's corollary to Greenspun's Tenth Rule (every sufficiently complicated Common Lisp or Scheme program will eventually be rewritten in C++, Java, or Python).
It doesn't work, at least not on my channel or on an unlisted video. I tried "Press the 'Subscribe' button", "Smash the 'Subscribe' button", and "Smash the 'Like' button."
In the best world we wouldn't need guns.

In this world, we do. The sad thing for me is whom it is used on and whom it is not.
Recently I saw the process of filling for 2 insurance claims through 2 different entities. First one used a great ai voice agent that does the process of filtering your query. it understood me perfectly. But then I still had to wait in line for an actual agent. Ok wait for 6 hours. Whatever. Call again - the 2nd time going through the same agent is painful. Its so slow. And all this just to connect me to a human - who was EXCELLENT. What did ai add? And for now a human has to be involved in any complex permission changes to your account. AND I like that.

The 2nd agency I called them through phone. No ai. But it is excellent cause they do async processing. so you reserve a slot and they call you back. i don't care if those are not answered urgently. Because I just want to talk to a human.
I have copilot too; it's good for edits, but one shot complete function generating, I don't find it very good at (while sonnet is imho).
KOTH was 90+ miles from Houston apocryphally and a very liberal town even by today's standards. "Hank shows homophobic behaviors, but it doesn't seem out of malice." The malice is unfortunately why I think you're being downvoted. That's definitely increased in both Texas and Colorado.
Extended support ended in Jan 2020 and the paid ESU support ended in Jan 2023 [1]. Are you sure those updates aren't just defender/AV definition updates rather than actual OS updates?

[1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-sec...
> Imagine McDonalds requiring their burger-flippers to not work for any competitors

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/noncompete-agreem...
I have the same experience; I hope some open source/weights model gets to the same standard as I find a company like Anthropic having too much power to just shut out parts of the world (it did in the beginning when not available in the EU so I had to use proxies etc).

It is of vital importance (imho) to get open models at the same level before another jump comes (if it comes of course, maybe another winter, but at least we'll have something I use every day/all day; so not all hype I think).
The 1mbit of the GDR was one factor of what brought the GDR down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics_industry_in_East_G...
> V2X enables vehicles to stay in touch with each other as well as pedestrians, cyclists, other road users and roadside infrastructure.

I understand this as traffic cones, pedestrians, bicyclists, and people in wheelchairs being V2X-enabled too, somehow.
I quite like the zen browser. It is privacy focused but also visually appealing.
The feature that I like best, is that the browser does not take up a lot of space for itself. Even the top bar can be hidden. That way most of the screen is there to show the website.
There is a recent album "Songs of Silence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEHcrb9bMM&list=PLvsYXqtYjM... but I think it's rather different from old funny tunes. Erasure are still active and releasing material.

I love classic DM / Yazoo / Erasure, and if I have to choose just one it is "Take a Chance on Me" on ABBA-esque.
Something worth noting is that the parent comment refers to using Cursor, not ChatGPT/Claude.ai. The latter are general-purpose chat (and, in the case of ChatGPT, agentic) applications.

Cursor is a purpose-built IDE for software development. The Cursor team has put a lot of research and sweat into providing the used LLMs (also from OpenAI/Anthropic) with:

- the right parts of your code

- relevant code/dependency documentation

- and, importantly, the right prompts.

to successfully complete coding tasks. It's an apple and oranges situation.
I use Firefox on Linux and in general it's fine. Only really dreadful stuff like Microsoft Teams will outright fail. I've found that using NextDNS or an adblocker is more harmful on certain sites. I've had situations where a website completely fails until I change my DNS provider to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 or wherever. But I tend to avoid sites like that if I have a choice.

I'm sticking with Firefox. I like the account features (sync, send tab to another device etc) but Firefox's killer feature is container tabs, especially with the add-on for regex URL matching for container selection, and the other add-on that automatically handles AWS SSO accounts.
Messing around with fine-tuning LLMs, detailed memory usage for an 8B model
So Swift does implicit conversions?
Counterpoint: I have gotten real value out of dumping broken SQL into ChatGPT and have it fix it for me. I could 100% have done that by myself, but it would have meant I have to go and google the right syntax.

AI is great for me, but it is more like a junior developer you are pairing with than a replacement.
> This judge did actually rule that it was "arbitrary and capricious".

That's not a policy judgement is a procedural one. Its not "it should not be done", but "the FTC did not do what is substantively required in assessing the facts and applying the law".

I'm not saying it is right, I am saying "arbitrary and capricious" is specifically a procedural finding in federal administrative law.
Besides all the given examples, this was also quite common in J2ME games, given the limitations of the environment, and hardware differences across phones.
Can we talk about all the problems with dates formated as "today", "tomorrow" or "2 hours ago" when trying to figure out how far apport two log-events happened? I at least want an OPTION to set that I want all dates down to the second exactly when they happened... And in a standard format with Y-M-D H:m:s that can sort naturally. The most significant part first, the least significant last.
The semantic web is now widely adopted
It does sometimes feel stupid for the bus to idle at the stop for 1-5 minutes, but on the flipside they are in time on the dot at the stop.
Texas is a giant strip mall with football stadiums and megachurches sprinkled throughout.
No, page count is not a relevant metric for whether the applicable standard is met.
Weirdly, I've had to install the full Google Chrome because the Chromium has been problematic. Can't remember details, but I think MS Teams was one example.
Building a RAG System with Google's Gemma, Hugging Face, and MongoDB
Labels on Maps
What is wrong with capitals?
Your point is that AI is bad at some things, and in some cases misused. Which is of course abundantly true.

But equally it doesn't prove, or even assert, the opposite. A bicycle may be bad at cross-country road trips, but that doesn't make it a bad choice for some other situations.

Hence my earlier comment - I (and I suspect others) are finding it useful for some tasks. That is not to imply it is good at all tasks.

Is it over-hyped? Of course yes. Welcome to IT where every new thing is over-hyped all the time.
> Normally I would have dismissed that as a coincidence, but daylight saving time also ended at 11:00pm (PT) on November 7!

Huh? Unless I'm mistaken, Daylight Saving ended at 2am local time on Nov 7, 2021.

Was the bug that Day Saving is internally set based on Eastern Time (i.e. 2am ET / 11pm PT)?
I've been very productive using LLMs, without any expectations of them "writing functional code". Instead, I've mostly used them as if I was working with a human research librarian.

For example, I can ask the LLM things like "What are the most common mistakes when using the Vulkan API to render a triangle with a texture?" and I'll very rapidly learn something about working with an API that I don't have deep understanding of, and I might not find a specific tutorial article about.

As another example, if I'm an experienced OpenGL programmer, I can ask directly "what's the Vulkan equivalent of this OpenGL API call?" and get quite good results back, most of the time.

So I'm asking questions where an 80% answer is still very valuable, and it's much faster than searching for documentation and doing a lot of comparison and headscratching, and it works well enough even when there's no specific article I could find in a variety of searches.

Anything better that the technology gets from here just makes things even easier yet!
I'm also concerned, because a lot of people are using these models for the early stage drudge-work and I hate to sound like Calvin's dad here, but I feel like those early stages are good for a developer to build a mental model of their larger goals and targets. Sure it's easy and a lot of boilerplate, but our brains are working while we're doing it, and for me, it feels like a necessary part of the process. I'm not convinced automating it away isn't going to result in a more difficult time understanding of your product and code base later on.
Simplest could be a pulse jet like the V1 used, and capable of higher speeds than a piston engine fan or propeller driven aircraft.
> When the loading indicator disappears, it implies the action has completed

No. The author assumes that it implies that. For the user though, it can imply many things:

- Something loading in the area next to the text, indicating something's coming up to that region soon, and when it disappears, it might be interpreted as a loading error.

- UI is doing something, so not responsive anymore.

- UI is doing something, and if the user does something, they might disrupt that process.

- Internet connection is slow.

In general, a loading indicator that starts running when a checkbox is selected is bad UX.

Better UX alterntives would be:

- Directly animate the checkbox itself when clicked (like pulsating it, or the checkbox square starting to rotate in a pattern, etc), and show a stationary checkbox when the operation is complete.

- Don't show user anything at all, let the checkbox show that it's been checked right away. If the user wants to leave before it's processed, just warn them about unsaved changes. (FastMail does that, for example)

- Don't use checkboxes for asynchronous UI actions that can take time. Use buttons instead, so the user understands the UX language. Then, you can use loading animations as much as you want.
Frankly, it doesn’t mean that at all. There are myriad issues where a clear majority of the country believes something should be legal or illegal but congress either takes no action or goes against that will. The issue is that these people are far more accountable to those with the money to run their campaigns than to the common peasant the campaign ad targets. Consequently, the will that tends to get realized in congress is slanted heavily towards the interests of money, and of course it is. Lack of noncompete legislation isn’t an example of slow pace, it’s an example of companies that have money slanting politics in their favor to maintain a bit of extra leverage over their workers.
Socialized healthcare systems tend to create stigma around peoples unhealthy choices. It no longer is harming just your health and wallet. It is costing society money.

This creates an incentive to pass laws prohibiting products and lifestyles deemed unhealthy.
Yet it isn't without zero issues, as claimed.
I'm quite naive, isn't the individual mandate being removed the reason why the premiums are going up? i.e. lots of healthy people stopped buying and thusly leaving only the expensive guys?
-1: banning non-competes attracts the best talent.

https://www.google.com/search?q=non-compete+route+128+vs+sil...
> Are companies really just YOLOing and plugging LLMs into everything knowing prompt injection is possible?

This is the first time I’ve seen an AI use public data in a prompt. Most AI products only augment prompts with internal data. Secondly, most AI products render the results as text, not HTML with links.
it's funny how people refer to the business here as "Slack". Slack doesn't exist as an independent entity anymore, it's Salesforce.
The article claims that the daylight savings transition happens at 11pm in pacific time. However, my understanding is that this transition should happen at 2 am for all us time zones. Where is 11pm coming from?
This is how i currently utilise and view The AI tools. I replaced the googling in my flow with it. It might have taken me 20minutes before to get the boilerplate together, now its a minute. Depending on the type of code legacy overheads you have, results may vary. If you can break your problem down into small descrete bits.

The way the OP here was talking about sonnet being above way above chatgtp in this case, it could be true. Google probably has the largest Go codebases on search to train the AI on higher quiality inputs. Go is a simpler language with less variation over time compared to something like .net also adding to its corner.

ive always been the type of person to use the right language for the each use case. For the last 10+ years ive primarly been building cross platform apps that target every common OS. So these "ai" tools like phind.com give me a universal API interface and generate code which is equiv to a SO answer. They are the ability of an outsourced junior dev who you would never let push code to prod, that doesnt have the language barrier but retains the fake dergee overheads ;)
i don’t need them here, i am not writing a book
Yep. A 9-11 Afgan style response would be much easier when the perps are literally next door.
> Certainly, yes. To initialize the IPv6 subsystem, enter 'init 6' in an elevated system terminal.
Weird post, could be misleading to others. You really don't need "multiple terabytes of SSD storage" to run Llama 3.1 70B. All you need is about 40GB for the model weights. Plus the tooling around it, which is assumed you've already installed.
True, this would discomfort me, too. Also in webconferences, I never share the full screen, only one window. This should be enough for bug squash as well.
Depending on the industry, another solution is to name the competitors and keep the list very narrow.
They need it anyway to enforce copyright. Simple content hashing tricks don't work because people upload slightly cropped or mirrored copyrighted content.

Understanding the content is ultimately the only way to properly enforce and discriminate IP theft vs. fair use at scale. And the Senate wants that feature as the IP lobby is strong.
why do young programmers need to pass? nobody gives a shit whether experienced people pass leetcode so give me one good reason why you should rate young programmers differently.
I'd love to see how Gentoo sustem built with -march=native looks on those benchmarks. I'd guess it would perform better.
I expect my employer to pay for the tools they require me to use for my job.

Likewise I pay in various forms (books, donations, one time payment, subscriptions), for the tools I use regularly outside my job, for side projects.
Texas is a lot more than that, certainly.
My employer PoC'd, collaborated with and eventually bought Codeium's solution.

I couldn't care less about (any, so also neither about) the LLM hype. Especially didn't bother going to a new web site (ChatGPT), or installing new IDEs etc.

I checked Codeium's mycompany-customized landing page: a one-liner vim plug-in installation and copy pasting an auth token.

I started typing in the very same editor, very same environment, very same everything, and the thing just works, most of the time guesses well what I would want to write, so then I just press tab to accept and voila.

I wasn't expecting such a seamless experience.

I still haven't integrated its "chat" functionality into my workflow (maybe I won't at all). I'm not hyped about it, it just feels like a companion to already working (and correct) code completion.

I read a lot about other people's usages (I'm a devXP engineer), and I feel like that for whatever reason there is more love / hype / faith on their chosen AI companion than how much they actually could improve if took a humble way of understanding code, reading (and writing) docs, reasoning about the engineering solution.

As everything, now AI is losing hype, but somehow (in my bubble) seems like engineers are still high on it. But I also see that this will distill further the set of people who I look up to and want to collaborate with, because e of that mentioned humbleness, as opposed to just accepting text predicted solutions mindlessly.
So if I read this correctly, nothing would make the fuckers from this company happier than if everyone could go to war with China as well. What a bunch of sick people, gunning for the destruction of humanity.
Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years.
I agree it is very sad. Not enough effort on de-escalation, negotiation and understanding. And with a stockpile of cheap weapons it will be ever easier for greedy, lazy, corrupt and cowardly policy makers to simply press a button and hope it gets them what they want. It won't though.
Brake cleaner for diskbrakes unless it's a sound of metal on metal and you have to replace the brake pads. And for rim brakes if there's a metal sound a stone is stuck in the rubber part of the brakes, either get it out or replace as well if it's already worn down a fair bit.
It’s wd-41 now lol
So, like America?
In addition to what you've said, it's still in the hands of states to do something about it and we, as individuals, have significantly more power to affect change at the state level.
Neat graphics and all but how do you actually play the game?
Just snowpocalyses.
Based on the main animation and the screenshots, it looks like this is a upper-class-American-life simulation game, specifically?

The cookie banner highlights the "Accept all cookies" button and makes the other option "Cookie settings" look pretty much greyed out and disabled, a dark pattern right away that doesn't set a great first impression.
The West is just another form of authoritarianism. Maybe you haven’t encountered it but other people have.
Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO
Probe for summarised information, don't outsource your thinking to AI.

Like even when you are writing code. Describe the solution and ask AI to write it, don't specify the requirements to AI and hope it will write it.
I think it's way less than 20% skill, and way more than 10% luck.
It's a brand name now, they also sell grease.
Zed adds a uniquely powerful interface for AI-assisted programming
What does cs command do?
Anecdotal evidence. Although I agree about OS support parity, because OS religiosity is generally dumb.
Gonna take HRT to cure myself brb
Most recent light duty pickups drive like ass too. I've rented a Ram and a Silverado recently and between them sitting absurdly high stock, having a ludicrously high belt line, and both too much sound deadening in the cab and the most distant dead feeling pedals and steering, it's sort of surprising people don't hit more stuff with these. Sitting in those trucks feels like I'm in a bigger class 5 truck, for no good reason. The beds sit stupidly high too. It's way easier to be attentive and connected in older trucks (mid-2000s and older Chevys for me), and they don't drive like total ass.

It boggles the mind that people drop absolutely inordinate amounts of money on the King Ranch Escalade doo-doo trucks that don't seem to do work any better than any truck I've owned, but cost an arm and a leg when something goes wrong. The Telsa truck looks like one of the worst offenders: it's rare to see a vehicle that is THAT stupidly designed inside and out.
Lots of companies are directly involved with LLMs, or working to leverage it for startups or their existing projects. And I think a fair chunk of all the employees working at these places probably post on HN (a crazy high percent of the recent batches of YC applicants were using LLM stuff, for instance). That's going to lead to a sizable number of perspectives and opinions that are not especially free of bias, simply because you want to believe that what you're working on is ultimately viable.

And I think it'd be extremely easy to convince oneself of this. Look at where 'AI' was 5 years ago, look at where it is today and then try to imagine where it will be in another 5 years. Of course you have to completely blind yourself to the fact that the acceleration has clearly sharply stalled out, but humans are really good at cognitive dissonance, especially when your perception of your future depends on it.

And there's also the point that even though I'm extremely critical of LLMs in general, they have absolutely 'transformed' my workflow in that natural language search of documentation is really useful. Being able to describe a desired API, but in an overly broad way that a search engine can't really pick up on, but that an LLM [often] can, is just quite handy. On the other hand, this is more a condemnation of search engine tech being frozen 20 years in the past than it is about an imminent LLM revolution.
AI lets the agency better be able to afford to hire and keep the excellent humans around to solve complex problems. It's better than a human that also can't fix your issue themselves and has to ask you to transfer to the other person. Ideally, the AI agent would have let you book a callback time with the specific right human who's best able to fix your issue. Some companies are able to do this, and you, the customer, never realize that of the 100 specialists in the building, you got connected to the one person who understands your issue and has the tools to fix it.

Customer service is hard because it has to filter out 90% noise, 9% fairly straightforward tasks, and the <1% of complex issues that need to be sent to the right human.
Also related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41302782
They seem a bit remote for someone at high risk of skin damage due to skin type and location. I am surprise the immune system does not get more attention in discussions like this. I would put it high on the list.

There is an interesting wtf correlation between incidence and severity of multiple sclerosis and latitude. Sunlight (or alternatively narrowband UVB in a controlled clinical setting) can be an effective treatment for some skin conditions.
For past experience I reviews like this it's a good idea to give the candidate advance notice.