skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if you do it enough, sounds like he did it once. Another possible explanation: Multiple people just checking for a ride in a certain area is a good indication that there's about to be high demand and Uber might use that as a signal to increase price.
Teach Kids to Forget Sunk Costs
Maybe things that weren't being built (available capacity to develop) is increasing, thereby lifting up the floor of things that never get built.

Further, non-coders being able to become equivalent to a junior developer is a huge leap.

What active developers do with AI remains to be seen. It really could 20x the average developer, but it doesn't seem like a huge chunk of developers are really using AI in a way that it's the rage on the developer level broadly.

Maybe that's why Cursor going "viral" on youtube seems different when it was known to some, and not others.
Soil treated with organic fertilizers stores more carbon, study finds
These claims provide precisely zero evidence that Uber ever used battery life as a pricing variable.
> They are getting better at medium/large codebases

If we are strictly speaking about the cutting-edge models like OpenAI's o1, their context is getting smaller, not larger.
Does anyone know if Github has any sort of public telemetry data (of if anyone from GH is around here somewhere)? There was a ChatGPT outage about a month ago and I'm DEEPLY curious if there was an overall drop in commit volume.
Then it's not a brick.

Why is the term "bricked" in the first place?

Because of the utterly dead properties of a brick. The whole point was a visceral image of just how not remotely recoverable under any circumstances, vs merely a little extra effort can recover.

An unformatted empty computer with no os is not a brick in the same way a cd player with no cd inserted is not a brick. It's still fully functional.
The key difference is that holiday decorations aren't as fungible as $100 bills. People can (and do) steal stuff out of peoples yards (and packages on their porches) and then resell that stuff for cash. The reality is that people with poor morality/integrity will always see self enrichment at the expense of others.

As I mentioned to another commenter, FOSS licenses take away (steal) a right that creators have to arbitrate giving away their work. You can write software, keep it licensed, and give 'no cost' licenses to people who just want to use it for their fun stuff, but when someone wants to use it in a product, and it is code they would have had to hire someone to write otherwise, I think it is more reasonable for them to pay the creator the equivalent cost (at least). So if something would take a week to write, what is 40 hrs of wages you would accept to write that code? Let's say its $100/hr that is $4,000. So for a one time payment of $4,000 you can license your code for them to use in their commercial product which will make them, presumably, much much more than $4,000 over its lifetime. But with FOSS licenses, you can't do that. You can sue them (it's expensive) and after suing them the only compensation you can expect is that they publish their source code? Now the FOSS license has stolen not only your creative work, but your time you could have used to write more software, and the monetary expense of hiring lawyers. As a result FOSS authors don't have a lot to gain by suing scofflaws, the scofflaws know that and so they steal the value safe in the knowledge that it will be unlikely to cost them anything.
Is there any evidence for any of those hypotheses? More apps in app stores? Mass layoffs? How could the "benefits be too recent to be measured" if everyone is arguing that they are already 10x more productive?

If you accept that premise the only conclusion left is that it has made developer's work much less but their bosses haven't noticed yet.

But you would still expect that some people are working for themselves and continue to work the same amount of hours so should be producing 10 apps a year instead of 1. Are there any examples of that?
I am in this boat with you. How do we get out?
Better products require better features and better quality. Features are defined by managers, quality is controlled by testing. These haven't benefited from AI as much as coding did.
To me, neumorphic design looks like skeumorphism for those cheap interfaces made of one continuous sheet of thin printed (sometimes vacuformed) plastic with the actual buttons hidden underneath. Stuff like [1] or [2]. And while I love skeumorphism, I hate those kinds of plastic interfaces. They always use the cheapest mushy buttons, and the pressable area of the buttons is always much smaller than what the printed buttons suggest. It's probably the one kind of physical interface I hate with a passion, and imitating it digitally doesn't evoke any positive feelings in me.

Still better than making everything flat without shadows and making me guess where I can click, I guess.

1: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-finger-pressing-the-button...

2: https://www.alamy.com/close-up-of-clothes-washing-machine-bu...

Edit: just checked, this comment was analyzed as "Sentiment: neutral (Confidence: 79.56%)" on the topic of "neumorphic"
This should be part of every school curriculum.
There seems to be a trade-off between letting the program run and halting it with an error in these cases. Sometimes letting it keep going is useful, sometimes not.

But overall, having dedicated "error modes" seems to be the preferred route.

Thanks for the reply!

I wasn't aware of the VAX series of computers, successors of the PDPs. I knew Unix was first written on a PDP-11. Also wasn't aware of the hardware requirements for floating points.
I am leaning towards fewer developers. There is a crunch in the job market and companies are finding rate of progress as being similar before, so don't feel inclined to hire more
Brick Different!
It's one of the fun things of internet forums in how you can see where someone gets nerd sniped but is able to bring back something from their trip down the rabbit hole.
The Skywalker name wasn't coined by Lucas, it's taken from the name of a Native American man.
This is why DOS games that supported 3DFX just talked directly to the GPU. They documented all the registers mapping for direct access. Didn't even need to install drivers.

DOS was in its twilight years at that point, Nvidia/ATI didn't bother with DOS support so they just kept them behind OpenGL/DirectX.
Yeah, that feeds back to the tooling issues that the post I was replying to was talking about.

Ideally tools should support, not dictate. For instance, if you were building a simple source only app with no assets, a good tool should be able to be pointed at, say, a main.c file in the directory and be able to use the contents of the directory containing main.c for other required files and work with no special extra configuration. Supporting a structure to keep things clean is great, Imposing one(whether you use the features it offers or not) is poor.

I might take a look at the NDK and see if it can be circumvented.
W/o a different incentive structure, nothing will get better from what it is now. And if there is a way to produce something cheaper and a functionally equivalent lower quality, that is what will happen.

For most part, it will be same quality or lower at a cheaper cost delivered faster.
Which one?

I run DevRel at Sourcegraph and our AI coding assistant, Cody, is used by tons of individuals, small business, and large enterprises. I get to talk to a ton of customers and see how their adoption of AI is going. And it's certainly increasing and developers are finding a ton of value.
The mentioned comparison can be found here: https://archive.ph/l2paX/f59a3a222b688f000d8f4de2cbd343c773b....
It reminds me of legends: "YouTube listens to you and then recommends videos based on your offline chats"
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posting codegolf'd brainfuck on stackexchange was a pivotable moment in my life

i was zen
London, like most major cities, has significant wealth disparity: central London is filled with high-earning transplants living side by side with impoverished locals. Southwark is the London borough containing The Shard, Tate Modern, Borough Market, Tower Bridge yet almost 30% of children in Southwark live in poverty. Poverty touches every part of London. Even the City of London has housing estates.
The total lifecycle cost of nuclear is massive - rehab'ing a nuclear plant would be well into the 10s of billions.
a lot of these seem to be making the front page lately, i assume these are pointless if you regularly keep the windows open and air out the house?
Advancement made in producing quantum accelerometer for location tracking
> Conservation of momentum is falsifiable because you could construct an experiment that where the expected movement based on the theory might not be observed, in which case the theory would be falsified.

No. That would only prove something about your specific time/location/instance of the experiment. It doesn't prove that the law holds in all time/space/instances of the experiment. That's literally impossible to prove, and that's what you're demanding here. You're claiming that just because you can't prove the pricing theory always holds then it's unfalsifiable. That's nonsensical and not how anybody uses the term.
I think you misinterpret the 'don't know how' part. LLM's are fantastic for boilerplate (which is a big part of getting things started). From there, I might not know the right incantation for (say) handling a button click, but it's not too hard to validate that an LLM-generated handler a) works, b) looks sensible, and c) fits reasonably in the codebase. In fact, most of my use of LLMs for coding is about generating snippets of functionality, which go into a codebase that I'm maintaining the shape of... which helps maintainability.

You can also generate tests more efficiently, meaning you can get better test coverage cheaper. This leads to better maintainability as well, as you know more quickly when you've broken things with a change.
People are a blend of attitudes with regard to this. You will encounter many people who are incensed that the software they wrote and gave away for free is being sold as part of a product and making someone else lots of money.

You will find these folks want two things; One to generously give away something of value for others to use, and two for nobody to make any money off the thing they gave away.

When people who feel that way find out their software is being sold or otherwise enriching a third party, they feel like their effort has been "stolen."
where is the url?
> I bought an AppleTV for their house just to have a Tailscale endpoint.

How the heck does that work?
I believe o1's context window will increase over time as well. It's a new model that takes a different approach compared to other ones, so testing it with less context seems logical and expanding the context window as it's quality is validated.

Even in a large code-base, you don't have to have the full context of every single file for every single question, can usually get away with half a dozen files, it's figuring out which ones to provide to the LLM to get the best response.
Welp, I just ordered $1500 worth of the Cisco ones, so I hope they are the right type.
They're all about things way shadier then battery-level-based pricing.
They are proof that Uber has already done worse things that involve similar capabilities and rewards. In other words, it is the kind of organization that is much more likely to have done battery-panic pricing, and that should affect how credible you think the accusation is.

Compare the vibe of: "So what if he was convicted of home-invasion robbery, that doesn't prove he ever mugged anybody in an alley!"

True in the most literal sense, yet also missing the point.
>I don't think Google can fix it

Can they eventually throw away Android and replace it with Fuchsia? In the reporting about Fuchsia that I read ages ago, it sounded like it was intended to be an Android replacement but, looking into it again just now, it seems more like an embedded OS for other non-smartphone hardware -- maybe with some (aspirational?) claims of utility on smartphones and tablets.
Yeah, you’re right.
Yeah, two-year-olds love to put random found objects in their mouths, often accidentally inhale them, and often lack the correct throat motions to unstick a round object.
That's damning and indefensible.

> Katie Lawson, a spokeswoman for the University of Maryland, did not deny that the language was copied, but suggested there would be no repercussions for the president.

Also damning.
For reference the first app I got on Apple App store (ignoring the ad result) for "thermometer" is > 100 MB. Looking at the first ~dozen only 1 comes in under the <10 MB category. The two biggest offenders of huge app sizes are shipping cross platform runtimes (the kind that tend to throw in the kitchen sink, not the kind that act as a thin layer) and tracking/analytics bloat.
>To my understanding, there are currently three of these: Łukasz Langa - the individual who implemented my ban from the Python Discourse forum

Go on...
What's your particular use case to keep using Safari if it's not working for you and there are alternatives available?
That's for that recap! (Pun intended!).

I should have been more specific by being more vague. The game didn't need to be patched for the vast majority of its common use. I would be surprised if there are any games with a degree of freedom that you couldn't crash if you did just the right thing. But for 99.99% of players, they will never come across these things.

What I should have said is that if left un-patched, most people would never hit a problem.

But I really appreciate the heads up about all the glitches people are using, very cool.
I don't think things are going to get "better". I think you'll see some homogeneity, where a lot of code will just converge at "average".
In a small enough unventilated room you can fill it with enough co2 to make it unpleasant to be in with an hour. E.g. a study in the usual suburban house.
express scripts is evil.
Hey! This was an excellent resource, and I loved reading through it. Looks like you've locked it since, is there another version which is open?
Because like any tool, it can be used thoughtfully and it can be used carelessly.

There are use cases where LLMs help with coding (and they are growing as the things get better), but even if they could do as well as an experienced engineer at doing a first draft (which, debatable in any setting and falls off sharply once it's not a highly mainstream setting), a first draft is almost never a high-quality artifact.

They can also be used to get a sort of minimum viable diff that represents a liability to the codebase and those who maintain and depend on it, to do this with very little effort and therefore impose the negative externalities on someone else. Anecdotally this seems to be a distressingly common use case. I'm more than a little concerned that software quality is about to take an abrupt turn for the worse in aggregate.

More broadly, if you're anything like most people I know, the products you're using are getting better all the time... at making money for the companies that build them. Consumer Internet profits and/or valuations are at something like an all time high. All that lag and jank and spam and shit? That's not easy code to write or simple infrastructure to operate. That's full-metal-jacket monetization at great effort and expense.
I don't disagree - there are people who are capable and willing to put in the effort. But I don't think that's most people - especially people asking how to do it. There's a lot to know about how to do things properly, so if you don't have at least one person who has been there and done that, I think it's not worth the effort.
I have observed a lot of similar contradictions, where the large lout insists it can't do something that it did many times 'last week'.

Super frustrating when really trying to accomplish something!
"just dont use LinkedIn" is such a narrow minded thing to say. How do you feasibly expect people to exist in society without interacting with any of these systems and corporations? if its not LinkedIn its Indeed or w/e else. They all collect data and most of them are pumping it into some kind of LLM or behavioral analysis algo. That is not functionally different than the argument for the Government doing it, except for that the Gov has a monopoly on violence.

This applies for pretty much everything in our daily life like banking, shopping etc... "just don't interact" is such a useless nothing-burger that side-steps the problem entirely. You can "solve" all societal problems by becoming a hermit, moving to the woods and living off the land... but that is not a functional or reasonable thing to do for 99.99% of people. Its baffling especially when the reasonable solution is simply having a bare minimum standards of protection across the board, which many countries already implement to great effect.
> I've stopped counting how many times I came back to an Android project after only a few months, only to have Android Studio force me to update Gradle and dependencies and whatnot, and break everything.

This used to be 5-6 years back.
These days it is very stable.
Ended up answering my own question. The Z88-DK[0] seems to be what I found. It supports most Rabbit processors, so I ran one of binaries through it and it spat out assembly my way which seems to make sense. Will have to run it through the simulator and see if I can get it to act like a microcontroller with setting voltage levels on particular pins.

[0] https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk
V0: Generative UI system copy-and-paste
You're using the wrong products!

1. Look for products that don't have (c)opyright. Any product still using that or licenses is going to evolve too slow and go extinct.

2. Look for products built on revolutionary simpler stacks like PPS.

I thought this was going to be an essay and not just a Tweet, so I did record a long winded response, which I think contains a lot of relevant info: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/KhDvFNef...
Is there a consumer model that you would recommend that one can use at home?
Ain't nobody got time for all that.
This is excellent for my needs! My company needs to migrate from INTERCAL and now I am convinced that Brainfuck is perfect for the job!
You can very easily brick an iPhone by logging in to an iCloud account and then forgetting the password (which of course TFA will not help with)
> The biggest reason I hate doing android development is the java (and to a lesser extent, kotlin) "ecosystem" is a pain.

Wait till you want to build anything reasonable.

All libraries for Android are in Java and/or Kotlin.
If you have to write all of them in C then best of luck doing anything meaningful.

What kind of libraries?
Anything related to SSO.
Anything related to Material design.
Anything related to any ancillary services that you want to integrate with e.g. Google services.
It's not unusual for board members to also be officers and staff and it's generally understood that being on the board by itself does not denote a authority over staff, however, a staff member on the board would still be able to fulfill their staff responsibilities.

That said, it would be best to clarify if the board/officers are getting paid.

> My experiments suggest that about a quarter of this could be eliminated simply by enabling and then mandating the use of LZMA (XZ) compression for sdists and wheels (which currently must both use ordinary Gzip compression)

At this point, I wonder if jumping to zstd would be a much larger savings and require about the same amount of organizational effort, even if the technical work would be larger.
That post deserves its own star rating! Absolutely brilliant.
The actual discovery seems to be buried in the midsection

>…suspected that the actual 3D chamber had no corners at all. “That sounded unbelievable,” says Domokos. “But later we found that she was right.”

Fwiw its also not obvious from the main paper, you have to look at fig 7 d-e for an idea

So in this case, i’d place some of the blame on the mathematicians themselves for failure to properly follow up on the bait. (But nature shall not be absolved from holding them to a higher standard)
When I looked a few years ago the Await element was best consumer grade one on the market at a good price. I’ve been happy with it so far.
Sunk-Cost Fallacy
Irrespective of the merits of this claim, they are selectively digging into the backgrounds of minorities in prominent positions. It’s kind of disgusting given that if you look hard enough you’ll find dirt in anyone’s past.
Because it won’t help subpar coders and “100x” types have moved into AI. Meaning, they’re the ones building the tools.
In your hurry to donate time of your life pro bono to Uber’s PR team, you might have missed that I never claimed they did. The argument I did make is that when you’re talking about a company which has put considerable effort into building tools specifically to deceive governmental authorities and break its legal agreements you can’t rely on a small unscientific study to say anything doesn’t happen. “Uber doesn’t price based on battery life”, “Uber disables price manipulation for known journalists and their cohabitants”, and “Uber disabled price manipulation features after reports went wildly viral” are indistinguishable in that experiment, and there’s nothing like enough data to even begin to make the argument that the claim could not possibly be true.

Put another way, if I say someone cheated at cards and you say that’s an urban legend because they were never caught, knowing that the alleged cheat was Bernie Madoff might change your confidence in that belief because you know without a doubt that he was willing to cheat in even more serious areas.
I don't think AI code helpers really understand how to make code which is readable and maintainable, at this stage.
Agencies operate untold nodes.

No.