skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like maybe you're intentionally misunderstanding the point I'm making, because your example kind of illustrates my point:

In that case you'd probably find nearly 100% agreement on steak over feces, or salad over feces, or fish over feces. You'd have complete agreement on any alternative to feces.

But if you read this thread, it's actually full of people actually saying "I was forced to use [alternative tool] and I prefer Jira". There is no tool that has 100% support over Jira.

In fact I'd be surprised if there's a single alternantive to Jira that even 40% of people agree is better.
It worked as well as any other eighteen dollar a month lawyer back when I tried it in 2017/2018.

It was actually free back then I used it the one time and felt grateful enough for the help that I signed up for one cycle and then cancelled (since I didn't have a continued need for it).

Nothing gross or deceptive.
This is a pretty common view for Vision Pro users. Hand tracking is great for these. Can't imagine having to use a controller.

Ofc Vision Pro users are extreme minorities so you are not wrong. But I highly encourage you to try out Vision Pro if you haven't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
Ask HN: Server-side development in Vim using LLM APIs
I have to develop server-side and so far, I've been using vim. I would like to use LLMs for code generation, and even for the overall file creation, file moving etc. Right now, my environment is very simple, it's vim + git in tmux over ssh. I would like to be able to hop between different LLM models, by plugging my API keys for all of them (openai, anthropic).
Most of my repositories should fit into the context window, but I would like the IDE to be smart about what I'm sending with the context.

What is the best way to do this? vim plug-ins? Abandon vim (I'd rather not) and use cursor.ai IDE?
Highway driving 600 miles is significantly different than driving in a city. You should test it around town first and hope for no regressions. Yes, once through the neighborhood was good, but that's probably also significantly less than 13 miles.
This seems excessively prescriptive. If we're using Wikipedia as the referee today, this is what it says:

> Rent control is part of a system of rent regulation that limits the changes that can be made in the price of renting a house or other real property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_(disambiguation)

What you describe, and what Argentina had, is fairly clearly a limit on the changes that can be made in the price of renting. Requiring a certain term of lease, and prohibiting a lease which allows, for example, adjusting the monthly rate to match inflation, are both limitations which fairly belong in this category.

You've accused Reason of dishonesty here, I don't think that's accurate. You might prefer the phrase to be used in some more restrictive or definite sense, but they describe the law in the second paragraph:

> The 2020 Rental Law, enacted under former President Alberto Fernández, aimed to protect tenants. It mandated three-year lease terms and required rent to be paid in pesos—a currency rapidly losing value due to rampant inflation. Rent adjustments were limited to once a year, based on a central bank rate that factored in inflation and wage growth. The law also allowed tenants to dictate the conditions for lease termination.

Is any of this wrong?
You're seriously going to argue that OpenAI changing to a for profit wasn't interesting enough to rise above page 4 of Hacker News? Doesn't the existence of this second thread disprove that claim pretty thoroughly?

I'm pretty sure that what happened is that the Murati thread was id'd by the algorithm as the canonical OpenAI discussion, artificially suppressing the more interesting topic of the complete restructuring of the most important company in existence today.
I hadn’t thought about that, but that explanation suits me as to why “octopuses” comes off… I don’t know, muddy?… while the 1983 James Bond film named for the vulgar pun rolls off the tongue, even though they use virtually the same phonemes: it’s that the latter emphasizes the third syllable, making it metrical again.

Thank you for a nifty insight, whose effects I’d noticed but whose mechanism had never occurred to me before today!
Basically every action the big tech companies FAANG, MS, HP etc have all done for the past decade+ has been detrimental to users. Oh sure yes I want ads in my Operating System and I want every browser to be Chrome with a mask, oh right I also want to pay a subscription to use a printer. Just absolutely bonkers brains in power at tech companies lately.
Will they be rebranding to ClosedAI?
Has the chance to make their best marketing material yet.
This is incredibly well-done and fun and just plain works!!!! Congratulations!
Oh yeah, tried a bunch of "static" games as well but those just got boring pretty fast for me.
I have this one in mine: https://github.com/paul/dotfiles/blob/master/git/.gitconfig#...

# make a fixup commit for the last time the file was modified
cff = "!f() { [ -n $@ ] && git add $@ && git commit --fixup $(git last-sha $@); }; f"
# Get latest sha for file(s)
last-sha = log -n1 --pretty=format:%h --grep 'fixup!' --invert-grep

Given a file like `git cff path/to/file.rb`, It'll find the last commit that touched that file, and make a fixup commit for it. Its great for the try-this-change-on-CI cycle: Change the Dockerfile, git cff Dockerfile, push, repeat, without it screwing up because you changed a different file while you were working on it.
Maybe there could be some sort of identity based limit on how much anyone can gamble in a month?

Couldn't fully read the article though.

If betting wasn't allowed it would be significant income loss for sports teams as well. Maybe you might think that they don't need that much money, but that is subjective.
> it used to be pretty positively received on HN

I think people love the idea of DoNotPay: A magical internet machine that saves people money and fights back against evil corporations.

Before ChatGPT they were basically mad libs for finding and filling out the right form. Helpful for people who couldn't figure out how to navigate situations by themselves. There is real value in this.

However, they've also been running the same growth hacking playbooks that people disdain: False advertising, monthly subscriptions for services that most people need in a one-off manner, claiming AI features to be more reliable than they are, releasing untested products on consumers. Once you look past the headline of the company you find they're not entirely altruistic, they're just another startup playing the growth hacking game and all that comes with it.
The comment was drawing a parallel - the same way people say "real communism hasn't been tried yet" the root comment is saying "real rent control hasn't been tried yet" and the complaints about the first statement apply to the second.

It is not an argument for an unrestrained free market.
> If you are TheBigDuck234, then you access your cloud resources using a TheBigDuck234 account, always.

Or have a 'sudo' TheBigDuck234-to-AdminAcct mechanism if possible, or TheBigDuck234_admin account.

On my Linux machines I do sudo-to-root, but on macOS, my daily driver account does not have sudo access so I have to first su to "admin" and then can sudo from there (for GUI requests I enter "admin" (or whatever)).
> it is very interesting to realize that peace itself is a thing, not the lack of another thing.

[from] a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

letter from a birmingham jail
The Curse of Ostentatious Egalitarianism
Very cool!

I actually like Raylib, it's definitely a different experience compared to using a full game engine.
A while ago, I had this exact problem and I threw a template together using a combination of age + passage + agenix (nix) solution to automate my secret management solution.

https://github.com/Swoorup/passage-nix-secrets-template

EDIT: This is meant to used in a nix-based deployment setting, and also you don't want to commit the identities file unless you use yubikeys (Something which I forgot to mention in the readme).
FTC overreached here: the AI was not tested to see if it is like a lawyer’s level of work. Why would anyone have to do this kind of study?

Back in the day, anyone who touted AI generated works by default exclaimed that the work was not as good as a human. That changed now but was a valid statement back then.
> No, a non-profit is one in which there are no shareholders.

Again, I am not a lawyer but that makes no sense. Otherwise, anyone can claim the non-profit? So clearly there are some beneficial owners out there somehow.
It's hard to follow your example. You say "go from red to green" which I read as "go from failing to passing," but then you go on to say "A becomes A'" where "A is good, but A' is not." Either way, the answer is that if that commit is in your patch series that hasn't been merged yet, that it might make sense to just rewrite A'. But it might not. It could be a ton of work. But also, 20 commits in one branch is rather large, and maybe that's probably wrong too.

I suppose a purist might say you should go clean up the history so that you have no failing commits, but I don't know anyone who is a true purist. You don't have to be.

Instead of living in a word of black-or-white, join me in embracing the grey. I don't treat commit history as something that must be perfect. I just try to treat history like I treat the source code itself: I write it for other humans. Is the history always perfectly comprehensible? Nope. Just like the source code.
The world is becoming more Kafkaesque
There are many implementations of rent controls. Argentina's were rather badly done. Compare to:

Germany - where landlords can't charge more than 10% above the local average rent.

Spain - where landlords can increase rent only if they improve the property, but the increase can't be more than 20%.

Netherlands - where one in three homes in the Netherlands are rent-controlled, and rental apartments are capped at under €1,000 per month.

France - rent control applies to furnished and unfurnished properties.

Scotland - government introduced emergency legislation to cap rent increases in the private sector at 3% as of 2022.

Sweden - rent controls apply to new and older buildings, with local market conditions setting the regulated rents.

New York City - a Rent Guidelines Board sets rent increases based on inflation, and landlords are required to renew leases.
Technological short-sight at its best.

The GIS took decades to be developped and become functionnal.

The tools allowing to do a GIS lookup also took decades to be developped.

The tools allowing to encode the geodata within a picture file idem.

Not mentioning the development of the necessary hardware to take the pictures.

At the time the comics was being written, GIS lookup had been made easily available since what? 10 years?

And 10 years later, another layer is now easily available - also after decades of collective research and development.

It's not about "the difference between easy and hard challenges in software".

It's about the maturity of a software and its ecosystem, and understanding how even some small incremental changes can have an important impact.
AI #83: The Mask Comes Off
Honestly most lawyers (that I know at least) just keep templates of most common documents and fill in the blanks as needed

For basic stuff this is 95% of the end product
I use the monthly subscription every couple of months on my Model Y and the FSD has become quite good. For me the two recurring problems are does not follow traffic rules when merging and navigating to exit in case of back 2 back traffic on highway simply does not work. However in rest of the cases its pretty good or perhaps better way to say the best in market right now.
At least have a hard toggle switch mandated just like the button for emergency flashers.
I like the idea but what would be next level would be to visualize a project and all its dependencies such as microservices, database, queue, etc.

Has there been any studies that prove that this infinite canvas mode is more productive than using a traditional IDE with heavy use of keyboard shortcuts, etc.
hell, make it opt-in even!
I"m not sure what "budget" you're referring to

Apple didn't pay well for most of its life, until well after iPhone/iPad success

It was not like "FAANG salaries", which started around 2011, by my reckoning because Facebook didn't agree to the "Steve Jobs collusion" with Google/Intel/Pixar (ironically!)

This is very well documented

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Steve Jobs e-mails Eric Schmidt (2007) -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873

Steve mostly realized the good engineers want to work with other good engineers, no matter what they are paid

He didn't actually give people "budget"
I think what you cited missed the spelling aberration, since the -pus is a mistake, as it should have been -pous,-podes (singular,plural, nominative). the word is just a chimera.

also, the reality is

#define octopi octopodes

#define octopuses octopodes

and so on is what's more or less going on...whereas in English octopodes is a mouthful.
Wondering this the box can be modified to store medicine like a pill box
Cool, but it was impossible for me to navigate to my city. I entered it by name and the map put it's center at 500 miles south of where I was expecting. Then I couldn't even correct the mistake by scrolling to the city because the map stopped me from scrolling too far away.
While we don't know who is making the components, check out https://www.enovix.com/ for batteries. Samira is from Meta and previously worked on XR... https://ir.enovix.com/management/samira-naraghi
>Nothing gross or deceptive.

They just had to pay a fine for deceptive advertising. The article lists a number of other deceptive and immoral business practices.
The front page doesn't matter if lots of ppl are still seeing it. 300+ upvotes is plenty and the usual for a major news story in a week. It is in no way buried. Discussion can still be/should be merged. Then it'll have 1000 upvotes etc. Representing its true significance and not making us duplicate all of our discussion comments!
It is ordinary fraud. That doesn't mean to expect justice to arrive swiftly. Look at what Trump does to vendors and event venues. https://www.newsweek.com/unpaid-debts-are-catching-donald-tr...
It's the same with plumbing, wiring, programing, writing, cooking, gardening, and most of the other verbs.

For the most part, everyone can do these things, but it's nice to pay someome else to do it; especially in fields where experience gives expertise and hopefully wisdom. Also, it's handy to hire a licensed practicioner in fields where government requires licensure to sell services.

Some people are really woried about making big mistakes that are expensive to clean when plumbing or wiring or lawyering. It's a legitimate thing to consider.
I just painted a whole area as university by accident. No idea how to undo that.
> But the business doesn't understand that software is not like construction where adding more people really will get that ditch dug faster.

People tend to understand that there's an upper limit to the amount of people that can be deployed to dig a ditch any faster too

They just refuse to believe that with software, sometimes that number is smaller than they think it should be simply because people aren't physically getting in each others way
Yes. But interests change. Life interferes. Etc.

There are certain trips I try to do annually but I have zero interest in being locked into someplace like Hawaii on a schedule.

I agree that, especially, after semi-retiring, my goal isn't really to travel less but to spend less time on planes.
The race to the bottom in the ruthless and relentless pursuit of profit is what soured us on tech, and the AI hype train is but one in a long procession.
On one hand you blame government red tape for preventing housing development.

On the other hand you propose the government should manage housing construction and administration.

It's strange to be both pro- and anti-government intervention.

Maybe you are saying local govts are stifling new housing starts, while state/federal govt should step in?
I've always interpreted the 'scrum master' role as the person on the team that is both the process expert and senior enough to be able to generally coach others and help unblocking issues. Ie. one of the senior devs on the team that has been interested enough to learn the scrum agile process, but who takes on the role can change depending on circumstances.

But obviously this means it's not a dedicated role and so a missed 'opportunity' to create more "manager of something" roles, especially for project managers who feel threatened.
Your post seems like an example of what GP is talking about. A source being biased doesn't mean it can't make a valid point, nor does it mean that MSN can't do their own vetting.
We should really be trying our hardest to reduce air travel as much as possible. The future of air travel is faster trains, and more efficient planes.
I would assert that it's fairly well established that all of those problems are modified (if not entirely solved) by changing resource allocation, and those with more resources modify the systems more, to their liking.

Asking "problem solvers" (effectively a non-category since every living human solves a variety of scale and scope of problems) why they're not "solving the big or 'real' problems" is disingenuous: there are a variety of reasons why. greed, selfishness, etc. are easy to point out as the evil motivators but quality of information, access, and ability to allocate impactful resources are also in play.
What would y’all say are their best features? The must haves done right?

Our team used Redmine from a decade ago, but people like all the pretty ways to drag items between columns or something
> I thought that GPT2 was smart enough and had enough knowledge to be considered AGI

Really?

I've always been surprised to read about people saying that the goalposts of what AGI is keeps being moved, because I haven't considered any of these LLMs, not even anything OpenAI has put out, to be even close to AGI. Not even ChatGPT o1 which claims to "reason through complex tasks".

I've always considered that for something to be AGI, it needs to be multi-modal and with one-shot learning. It needs strong reasoning skills. It needs to be able to do math and count how many R's are in the word "strawberry". It should be able to learn how to drive a car just as fast as a human does.

IMO, ChatGPT o1 isn't "reasoning" as OpenAI claims. Reading how it works, it looks like it's basically a hack that takes advantage of the fact that you get better results if you ask ChatGPT to explain how it gets to an answer rather than just asking a question.
>> you can simply not pay, and THEY have to fight it in court.

Yes. They will sue you in court. Then, when you don't answer and/or attempt to represent yourself, you will end up paying the default judgement. A judge isn't going to nullify a contract on their own. You have to explain to them why the contract is illegal, which is not as easy as everyone seems to think. That is what lawyers are paid to do.
Hyundai and Kia use an 800V high voltage electrical system. The upshot is their vehicles charge scary fast, peaking in the mid 200kW's
Most shops are doing (theoretically) agile, and specifically scrum.

Where I work we are theoretically doing scrum, but it is the worst of all worlds. Tickets (I mean - stories) are very vaguely specified. While we get almost no specs for the stories, we are asked to point the stories, and are then held to those estimates. We have deadlines, even though the point of scrum is not to have deadlines. Also, the features often tend to be complex and incremental, so if I am off doing other work, no one can easily step in and work on the feature I am doing, so that there is the agileness to move me off the feature I'm working on to fix some fire, but not the agileness to have someone else work on the story.

"That's not really agile, that's not really scrum" - well, whatever. Most of the SWEs I know are in similar boats. It can depend, I did have a PM a few years ago who actually did spec out the stories more. I can get on my PM's back to spec out the stories of course, but I can also spend all day getting on everyone's back to do their jobs as well.

It's none of the benefits of waterfall, with almost all of the downsides. Plus the theoretical benefits of scrum like no deadlines or the ability to move people around like cogs is not something found either.
I didn't see it called out on the github page, but Ray set up an online tool of it you can run here: https://raysan5.itch.io/raylib-project-creator
The point of the comic that that from the outside no one knows how far along hard problems are, not that in and of themselves they are hard. Both the tasks in the comic rely on decades of foundational work in computing and even photography, the author is not saying all of that was easy up until GIS.
Gambling is a vice, and we should allow it but make it expensive and somewhat stigmatized.

At the very least, ads should be banned or require nasty images like tobacco products.
Japan has low obesity not because they solved an engineering problem.

The obesity epidemic is a societal problem. If you ask engineers (like the ones on HN) to solve it they come up with an engineering solution, which is a pill. Engineers can't solve a social problem.
Not all failures relate to safety. Self driving needs to get somewhere specific reasonably quickly, and avoid accidents.
We don't need to be so pedantic. Python -- as it often is -- would be the glue, it would be the connecting part, and pandas (polars, duckdb, anything really) would be the processing part. Then once processed the outputs would be placed somewhere be it an update to a db table or some other downstream thing.
The question isn't whether it has happened before, but whether they will get away with it.
The examples you are making are about free speech, not democracy. As in, free speech is people saying things you don't like. And that's a good thing because it means you also get to say things other people don't like.
> need to put them into text files at some point

Because? Because we want to backup and archive. Because we want to share code with others.
yeah does it suck or does it suck?
ZeusAI: Learning to Play 7 Wonders Duel Without Human Supervision
AI helps our lives in many ways and it's a shame that the LLM era has perverted the term with the same bad smells and scamminess of the NFT era.
A lot of people get their tech news by looking at the front page of HN. An algorithm artificially stopping the day's most important news story from surfacing there, leading to the discussion only being found by people who actively go looking for that specific discussion because they learned about it elsewhere, is absolutely a big deal.

I'm just glad that the Murati story falling off the front page allowed this one a second chance.
I think the core of the issue is that, much like social media addiction or nicotine pouches, the source of addiction is instantly available at any time in your pocket. There is no barrier to initiate the activity, even with smoking/vaping at least you had to go outside to get your fix.

When I was going to college I had multiple friends that would compulsively gamble whenever there was down time. They wouldn't have lost half the money they did if gambling only took place at Casinos, or at least at dedicated terminals.