skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are no shortcuts to solving these problems, it takes time and experience to tackle them.

> I’ve been working in testing, with a focus on test automation, for some 18 years now.

OK the first thought that came to my mind reading this: sounds like a opportunity to build an AI-driven product.

I've been using Cursor daily. I use nothing else. It's brilliant and I'm very happy. If I could have Cursor for Well-Designed Tests I'd be extra happy.
I'm not. I think it's awesome and I can't wait to see what comes out next. And I'm completely OK with all of my work being used to train models. Bunch of luddites and sour grapes around here on HN these days.
It's certainly not a male thing, just open any woman's wardrobe.
Classic survivorship bias. You simply don't recognise the good ones.
The 1963 Ford Cardinal: Too Radical to Compete with the VW Beetle
Sorry, but that is not true.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotto#Verwendung_der_Einnahmen

50% for is the gamblers

23% is diverted towards the charity you mention.

16.7% is taxes

7.5% is commission

2.8% is for running the business

In other words, the "Aktion Mensch" gives around 1/4 to those in need.

* Correction, "Aktion Mensch" give close to 1/3 to those in need and less to gamblers (also 30%). But they keep more to themselves.
Maybe because the human brain gets tired and cannot write at the same quality level all the time, whereas an AI can.

Or maybe it's because of the corpus of data that it was trained on.

Or perhaps because AI is still bad at any kind of humor.
But without the RLHF aren’t they less useful “products”?
It running in a browser is especially ridiculous. Has Microsoft just given up on developing native Windows applications now?
Python has something kinda like VFS support just as a very special case for importing stuff and reading associated data files, see Anchor ("mount point") and Traversable ("virtual Path") in https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/importlib.resources.abc... - the actual implementation is done in finders et al (https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/importlib.html#module-i...)
Most animals are dead.
> What do you do with a a lot of money past a point?

Feed the hungry. House the homeless. Give away money unconditionally to those in need. Build hospitals in poor countries. Fight disinformation on crucial topics (such as climate change). Provide disaster relief. Not build more power hungry technology that exacerbates our current problems.

Do literally anything positive for another person, that does not harm others.

The list is pretty big when one isn’t selfish; there’s no law forcing anyone to build space agencies.

A lack of imagination is not an excuse.
Computers were supposed to be these amazing machines that are super precise. You tell it to do a thing, it does it.

Nowadays, it seems we're happy with computers apparently going RNG mode on everything.

2+2 can now be 5, depending on the AI model in question, the day, and the temperature...
Significant accuracy loss at just 10k pages when using vector search for RAG
The older feature of limiting charge to 80% only overnight was more useful in my opinion.
This is rare, most other services tries to sneak in forced arbitration agreement
I heard that we are now (2000 and onwards) mostly administrators that try to minimize their risk as opposed (think after great depression) to doers that get measured and appraised by what the deliver.
Getting stuff done in manufacturing with the right amount of ass covering, safety and documentation as opposed to over engineering it is very hard nowadays due to the complexities we have. The complex systems require different experts who cover themselves against fuckups.
I'd originally pattern matched on a very different Merton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Storey_Mountain

What's the clash with meritocracy? Disinterest?

Interesting to see Mennos classified here as "radical pietists" when I normally read of them as being "fancy anabaptists", where fancy is the opposite of radical in that it's a pejorative for an overly conformational* relation with the world.

FWIW, I've run across a "protestant ethic" ascribed also to the Starovery (russian "old believers"); my current explanation is that whenever a marginal group finds the traditional low-risk cursus closed (whether due to exclusion by the external majority, or to disapproval by their in-group) they tend to reinvest in speculative ventures (and as long as they're doing so jointly, they ought to have sufficient diversification to thrive under this allocation?).

EDIT: a deeper Q from Pietism: to what extent must an organisation behave in ways that are comprehensible to its rank and file? (1984 argues that it's important enough that comprehensibility should override consistency?)

EDIT2: * in order to get "in the world" vs "of the world", we possibly need english prepositions, and definitely need to read John classically, as if the world is clopen and therefore not out of the world equivales in the world. What about the boundary of the world? (yet another open question for Algebraic Theology)
65m a year... Wow! Richard Masters, the chief exec of the most watched, most popular sports league in the world is on about 2m a year.
> The worst thing about this, to me, is that Windows Mail client, the one they're discontinuing, is a fantastic piece of software. It's simple, lean, capable, and elegantly designed. It's perfect for a novice computer user to check their email on.

Even if I personally use Thunderbird, I'm very much inclined to agree! It's a very usable!

That said, I'm kind of partial to the idea of just running something like Roundcube and figuring out a way to have a desktop wrapper around it, e.g. the same way how an app like Mattermost/Slack/Discord can work either in the web or locally. While the resource usage would be like the typical Electron app's, at the same time I like having a consistent UI experience wherever I am more and more, especially with self-hosted software when possible.

Edit: actually wasn't too hard to do this with Electron, however might need to find a webmail that has good support for multiple mailboxes. RainLoop seems to support multiple accounts, but has a dropdown for switching users, not sure how I feel about using the Nextcloud Mail app which has the UI I'd like (a list of accounts to the side, alongside the folders for each), but would couple things to Nextcloud.
Because you don't need a firewall on a sensibly configured desktop computer.

If you have daemons that listen to incoming connections, you only want to run them if they are sane and secure.

A firewall makes sense when you don't trust the daemons in your lair, eh, network, and you don't have the possibility to replace insecure stuff with secure stuff. But a firewall must be maintained by experts.

For a single computer it is much easier: just make sure it is secure and don't add an extra layer of complexity to it.
> Static array indices in function parameter declarations: awesome, a shame that C++ (and Tiny C) do not support it >/

C++ does?

void print(const int (&array)[5]) {
for(size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i)
std::cout << array[i] << " ";
}

will fail at compile time if you pass it anything other than an int[5] array
Some people believe that their beliefs and way of life should be enforced. Here, which human habits or activities are allowed or "OK" even if partially or very deletorious.

The desired force vector varies in magntitude and orientation, but can, in the extreme include removal of independence / imprisonment or less extreme banning and fining etc

Because a single or group of people believe it, it must be for everyone, equally.
Exactly, and now the shine is gone, along with a timely 56 billion.
Yeah, I like to buy that ship again and while you are at it I want you to use imperial bolts, doors opening to the right and extra tall showers.
A copy job is never just a copy job.
Real question: Is the price of a pint high because of operating costs or taxes? Also, can each state set their own alcohol tax rules, and does WA have very strict rules?
I understand your position in theory but feel the comparison to cannabis is a bit unfair. Most physicians will agree that cannabis is fairly harmless in adults.

Gambling, however has previously in the U.S. shown to be the leading cause of suicide attempts (20% in total) among all forms of addiction [1]. A body of evidence has also demonstrated it leads to divorce, bankruptcy, poor health and sometimes incarceration. Worth noting many of these studies centered around machine gambling and all forms of gambling are unique in terms of tendency for compulsion. Considering the landscape it is quite difficult for me to see a way of regulating out of this, not in the U.S. at least.

[1] Zangeneh and Hason 2006, 191-93
Android keeps the battery at 80% for most of the night, only charging it to 100% 1-2 hours before your alarm time. That way, you start the day with a full battery, but it isn't needlessly kept at 100% for an extra 6 hours or so where you almost certainly won't need it.

It's hard to say what contributed most (the charging strategy, more durable batteries, better battery life in general) but battery life has not been a concern at all, even on days with heavy use. Even if I forget/fail to charge in one night, I'm usually OK.

The article says that the author ran out because they were "without a charger for most of the day" - is it normal that a new-ish iPhone, even if charged "only" to 80%, needs to be charged during the day?!?
I'm sorry if this is strawmanning you, but I feel you're basically saying it's in the public's interest to give more power to Intellectual Property law, which historically hasn't worked out so well for the public.
These models are not trained to act like a single human in a conversation, they're trained to be every participant and their average.

Every instance of a human choosing not to engage or speak about something - because they didn't want to or are just clueless about the topic, is not part of their training data. They're only trained on active participants.

Of course they'll never seem like a singular human with limited experiences and interests.
No. I have a function which returns impl Trait. The most common culprit for this is impl Iterator. (For example, a function does a map, filter or fold over something else and returns the resulting iterator).

I want to make another struct which slowly consumes that impl Iterator. So, the second struct is struct MyStruct { iter: (iterator returned from that function above) }.

Unfortunately, the iterator type doesn’t have a name. So currently that means it’s impossible to put this iterator in a struct.

This makes anything returned via impl Iterator (and impl Future and so on) second class citizens in rust. You are very limited in the ways you can use these objects compared to normal values.

My code is filled with hand written iterators that I could construct much more easily with map/filter/fold and friends. But I make them the long way simply so the resulting type has a name. The current situation is very silly.
Copying data is not theft
It is crazy to think that many countries ban cigarette advertising but not sports betting. The same moral and social arguments can be made for both, so why different rules?
This seems like a massive "something must be done" can of worms.

How do they define "deepfake"? How realistic does it have to be? Does there have to be pornographic intent? Does it need to involve a computer? A GPU?

If these questions are not precisely addressed, it could criminalize a whole range of stuff including manually illustrated satire. I'm sure the ruling class won't lose sleep over that, but perhaps we should...
Yup. See also, the massive underdiagnosis of autism in women, especially ‘attractive’ women (I shit you not!). We’re only just now beginning to clear up decades and decades of brushing things off as ‘quirky girl’ traits. Everyone has a grandparent that obsessed over collecting something or other. It’s really just a question of how incidentally racist the collection is :).
Why would Iran pay anything? If USA decides to launch unprovoked full scale invasion, they have a right to defend themselves!

And US army could not even conquer Afghanistan after 20 years. There is no way they would win.
I quite like some parts of AI. Ray reconstruction and supersampling methods have been getting incredible and I can now play games with twice the frames per seconds. On the scietific side, meteorological predictions and protein folding have made formidable progresses thanks to it. Too bad this isn't the side of AI that is in the spotlight.
I love AI.

In comparision to a lot of other technologies, we actually have jumps in quality left and right, great demos, new things which are really helpful.

Its fun to watch the AI news because there is something relevant new happening.

I'm worried regarding the impact of AI but this is a billion times better than the last 10 years which was basically just cryptobros, nfts, blockchain shit which is basically just fraud.

Its not just some GenAI stuff, we talk about blind people getting better help through image analysis, we talk about alpha fold, LLMs being impressive as hell, the research currently happening.

And yes i also already see benefits in my job and in my startup.
That's fair, West Australia represents 3 million of Australias 26 million people.

The comment above tragically is true for most of the country.
The law already exists. Applying the law in court doesn't "give more power" to it. To do that you'd have to change the law.
Article mentions it's "a wrapper around Microsoft's cloud services" but I wonder if is it actually a native application or some electron/chromium embedded framework app?
It's not fitting (at least in my case).

I use 80% limiter. 80% gets me through my normal weekdays, I usually end up with ~40% in the evening. Charging the battery to 100% daily has exactly 0 benefit, except wearing down the battery.

I disable the 80% limiter on the weekends, where I'm more likely to need the extra 20% (plus the capacity not lost through the excessive wear).
Digitise, digitise, digitise!
I have multiple copies, one a first edition that I bought at the sadly departed New York Bound Books shop, and have read it several times.

Don't be intimidated by the length. Caro's writing draws you in so effectively that the pages fly by. It's extraordinary.
Had to laugh at this one. I think we prefer the statistical approach because it’s easier, for us …
Tmux 3.5
It’s only theft when people copy data from companies. The other way around is ok, I guess.
I find comparisons between AI and blockchain very misleading.

Blockchain is almost entirely useless in practice. I have no reason to disdain it, in fact I was active in crypto around 10-12 years ago when I was younger and more excited about tech than now, and I had fun. But the fact is that the utility that it has brought to most of society is essentially to have some more speculative assets to gamble on, at ludicrous energy and emissions costs.

Generative AI, on the other hand, is something I'm already using almost every day and it's saving me work. There may be a bubble but it will be more like the dotcom bubble (i.e., not because the tech is useless, but because many companies jump to make quick bucks without even knowing much about the tech).
Is there a implementation for Linux that isn't cups?
> It's unfortunate that almost none of the PPA criticisms actually go into depth on why its implementation isn't sufficiently private. It seems there's no desire to actually improve privacy, they'd rather just kill the feature.

PPA does not "preserve" or improve privacy; it only reduces it. Your narrative is a lie.

Killing PPA directly increases privacy.
If you connect with a provider like Gmail in the article .. your email is still on google’s servers.. modified messages don’t get synchronized back.

You can choose to leave your mail on the server with all mail providers.

The only difference is that now Microsoft keeps a second copy of all your mails so they can do more AI on your data
Years ago, they made Outlook the web email service and I thought they were going to deprecate Outlook the application and keep the name for the web email. But man this is confusing. Too many things are called Outlook.
The only entities that will win with these lawsuits are the likes of Disney, large legacy news media companies, Reddit, Stack Overflow (who are selling content generated by their users), etc.

Who will also win: Google, OpenAI and other corporations that enter exclusive deals, that can more and more rely on synthetic data, that can build anti-recitation systems, etc.

And of course the lawyers. The lawyers always win.

Who will not win:

Millions of independent bloggers (whose content will be used)

Millions of open source software engineers (whose content will be used against the licenses, and used to displace their livelihood), etc.

The likes of Google and OpenAI entered the space by building on top of the work of the above two groups. Now they want to pull up the ladder. We shouldn't allow that to happen.
Hmm, never tried that. What's the use of the DRM if it would work?

The most frustrating is that store, even searching for the most popular books yields weird, useless results for me.
this is the bellcurve meme, only think has worked for me is note taking and making it easy for me to recall when i forget. I've accepted that I've bad memory and I just try to work around it, but i agree with the other comment in this thread about practice, once you practice enough it becomes sort of can switch to that way of thinking and usually that puts you in sort of the right path to recall the right thing. all this is just personal experience.

https://geekodour.org/docs/documents/notetaking/

edit: i still haven't figured out how as a kid i could remember whole chapter literally word-by-word but now I can't even properly remember a phone number. hah.
There's always a variance in batteries, but yeah, deep discharges like that cause a lot of wear.
Where is the Home Depot you’re talking about?
The WordPress vs. WP Engine Drama Explained
A simple way to get there is to simply have multiple problems at the same time. Just switch between them every 10 minutes.
Government is the avatar of collective action. People vote for and otherwise tolerate a strong executive when they believe in "all for one and one for all". FDR was elected by a landslide on a platform of heavy government interventionism to address the Great Depression.
What are some good examples of such companies?
iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Teardowns (iFixit) [video]
I'm using a different type of lucky event to the study, but my argument is a statistical one so that difference doesn't worry me. You can substitute different types of events in if you prefer.
Winamp currently receiving Russian mass-spam issues
Winamp recently had its source code released with a custom license that went against GitHub's TOS, with multiple issues created about it[0].

Within the past 15 hours, the repo has gained over 900 issues in Russian, that vary from "shitposts"[1] to vague threats[2]. An additional 100 issues are also closed.

[0] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/24
[1] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/1324
[2] https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/278
Finland is part of NATO. The US and Canada should collaborate with it too. Sharing knowledge is a perfect way for European NATO allies to carry more of the collective defense burden.
why fly by? launch the swarm sunwards, slow down via solar sails?
Yes, I am aware, that Apple is trying very hard to be the only one in ecosystem, that is tracking you where you cant do anything to avoid it due to completely closed phone.

With such a cure, you don't need disease.

That is why I was using heavily modified Android.

As I could prevent Android tracking me and kick the Google spyware out of it completely.

I am now using Sailfish ( https://sailfishos.org ) and I don't need to care about Google or Apple any more. Need to patch banking app from time to time and use plastic cards, but this is acceptable (well, not from bank software but I couldn't care less, they are free to port it to linux and make it open source /s ).

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Anyway, the GDPR is requiring from applications to disclose tracking and allow you to chose what tracking if any, you will allow, before it occurs. Not only that, PIA cant be a payment for app usage.

So in theory, Apple is only enforcing what is already required from applications by EU directive.
How all those cab drivers who ignore autonomous driving are now unemployed?
In simple economics, a decrease in price typically results in an increase in demand, unless the demand is inelastic.

Anecdotal experience: Onset of tools such as NumPy, which made it more feasible for a wider range of people to write their own simulations due to drop in cost (time/complexity). This, in turn, increased the demand for tooling, infrastructure, optimisation, etc. and demand for software engineers increased.
Yes our jobs will change but there are way to many problems to be solve to assume demand will not increase.
The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out. And the growing consensus is "why shouldn't you?", there is no escape from that.

Now, I'm not going to criticize anyone that does it, like I said, you have to, that's it. But what I had never noticed until now is that knowing that a human being was behind the written words (however flawed they can be, and hopefully are) is crucial for me. This has completely destroyed my interest in reading any new things. I guess I'm lucky that we have produced so much writing in the past century or so and I'll never run out of stuff to read, but it's still depressing, to be honest.
Nah. What he is saying is that the existing law should be applied equally. As of now intellectual property as a right only works for you if you are a big corporation.
I’m truly asking in good faith here because I don’t know but what has alpha fold actually helped us achieve ?
For me what’s important is that you are able to communicate effectively. If you use language tools, other tools or even a real personal assistant if you effectively communicate the point that ultimately is yours in the making I expect that that is ultimately is what is important and will ultimately win out.

Otherwise this is just about style. That’s important where personal creative expression is important, and in fairness to the article the author hits on a few good examples here. But there are a lot of times where personal expression is less important or even an impediment to what’s most important: communicating effectively.

The same-ness of AI-speak should also diminish as the number and breadth of the technologies mature beyond the monoculture of ChatGPT, so I’m also not too worried about that.

An accountant doesn’t get rubbished if they didn’t add up the numbers themselves. What’s important is that the calculation is correct. I think the same will be true for the use of LLMs as a calculator of words and meaning.

This comment is already too long for such a simple point. Would it have been wrong to use an LLM to make it more concise, to have saved you some of your time?