skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more interesting question: what would our code look like if ASCII (or strings in general) didn't have escape codes?
There’ve been a number of false claims circulated about that but here’s a good summary of what really happened and why claims in the tabloid / anti-Semitic media sphere aren’t accurate:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/business/audacy-bankruptcy-so...
does it matter as long as people believe it?
One of the wilder long-term ideas I've had is this as a third alternative to abortion: give the baby up for adoption before they are born.

Of course nobody would like it and nobody would want to pay for it. The pro-choice people don't think it's necessary and the anti-abortion people would react to it in a knee-jerk aesthetic way because it's weird and artificial. (I also don't think the anti-abortion people really care about what they say they care about, but that's another matter.)
I am not as concerned that a car has AM radio than I am that AM radio must continue to be available and that you must be allowed to replace the radio in the car with your own that can use AM radio and that the car will not interfere with your use of AM radio (whether by replacing the existing radio or by using a portable radio). It would be good for the car to include a radio that has AM, but that isn't as important as the other things that I had mentioned.

AM radio is good due to the simplicity, instead of forcing replacing them with excessively complicated and confusing stuff like many modern computers are doing.

I still use AM (and FM) radio. I do not have a car, but sometimes use in someone else's car, and I also use it at home; the radio is not only for the use in the car.
everything is political to someone, whether we like it or not
Thanks for the tip. I didn't have it enabled, but to be honest I've never noticed any lag when playing back videos or in any other situation.
This seems like a super important fact for the discussion. Do you have a cite that it really constrains the rest of the car?
Yes and no.

If you look at the technical side of things, you're absolutely right. If you look at the social side, however, there's a lot of talk on there about opting out of scraping, scrapers being bad, not wanting to be part of AI training and so on. Naming-and-shaming people who have been caught scraping is a routine practice.

I think that many Mastodonians believe that defederating from scraper-friendly instances and blocking scraper-like requests on their own protects them, this was a way to show that this very much isn't true.
I once noticed a memory leak in KDE when setting the background to a (very many image) slideshow instead of a single image. That was probably sometime around 2015.

Normally it's a bit tricky to calculate memory blame between X11, the WM, and the shell, since often their allocations are actually on behalf of an application, and killing the application will reclaim it.
Even on the face of it this sounds too far fetched.

If he's in it for the mission, and not for the money, then surely you can't claim that there aren't companies with a more meaningful mission than blogging?

And if there are, could it be that he can't get hired there? He's been literally offered money to leave and he's struggling financially, but he doesn't.
I’ve been thinking about this, since LLMs helped me get something done quickly in languages/frameworks that I had no prior experience in.

But I realized a few things, that while they are phenomenally great when starting new projects and small code bases:

1) one needs to know programming/soft engineering in order to use these well. Else, blind copying will hurt and you won’t know what’s happening when code doesn’t work

2) production code is a whole different problem that one will need to solve. Copy pasters will not know what they don’t know and need to know in order to have production quality code

3) Maintenance of code, adding features, etc is going to become n-times harder the more the code is LLM generated. Even large context windows will start failing, and hell hallucinations may screw up without one even realizing

4) debugging and bug fixing, related to maintenance above, is going to get harder.

These problems may get solved, but till then:

1) we’ll start seeing a lot more shitty code

2) the gap between great engineers and everyone else will become wider
Vast majority of the web's downfalls stem from advertising and tracking. Unless you're proposing a way to remove advertising, then the problems will remain no matter what tech the developers opted for.
Anybody remember the days of “macromedia”? I think it was dreamweaver that spit out WYSIWYG trash from people that didn’t know better.

For a period of time there was a segment of development cleaning up this slop or just redoing it entirely.

The AI-generated slop reminds me of that era.
Ask HN: What's the best global address verification API you've used?
That’s not what that link says at all.

Additionally, direct-to-cell has already been enabled in a bunch of places for them to do the validation where they were demonstrating text messages etc and showing off on Twitter.
I wonder which is better for lowering global temperatures, reflective ice or the new vegetation?
this is Gleam OTP package https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

I agree it's underdocumented but doesn't seem abandoned (has commits in last week)
The beginning of the article says the device "work without any internet connection and all of the content already on the headphones itself", then the device needs a Windows application downloads content from the Internet.

I am a bit frustrated as isn't this just an MP3 player playing from SD card but put inside a headphone? Doesn't sound like an invention at all.
Not for tooth development - ie permanent teeth in children.
All the mistakes Ben describes smell like typical noob / incompetent programmer mistakes.

All the LLM is doing is helping people make the same mistakes... faster.

I really doubt that the LLM is the root cause of the mistake, because (pre LLM) I've come across a lot of similar mistakes. The LLM doesn't magically understand the problem; instead a noob / incompetent programmer misapplies the wrong solution.
I’ve got whole screen sharing working in sway, and I don’t dare touch it. Not sure if individual window / tab sharing is even a thing.
Taiwan is heading toward an energy crunch?
This sentiment, I observe it everywhere. My coworkers and the people I interact with in engineering communities. A process of hollowing out and loss of motivation, a loss of meaning and purpose, as people delegate more and more of their thinking to the LLM.

Some may ruminate and pontificate and lament the loss of engineering dignity, maybe even the loss of human dignity.

But some will realize this is an inevitable result of human nature. They accept that the minds of their fellow men will atrophy through disuse, that people will rapidly become dependent and cognitively impaired. A fruitful stance is to make an effort to profit from this downfall, instead of complaining impotently. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41733311

There's also an aspect of tragic comedy. You can tell that people are dazzled by the output of the LLM, accepting its correctness because it talks so smart. They have lost the ability to evaluate its correctness, or will never develop said ability.

Here is an example from yesterday. This is totally nonsensical and incorrect yet the commenter pasted it into the thread to demonstrate the LLM's understanding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747089

Grab your popcorn and enjoy the show. "Nothing stops this train."
I am in your camp. LLMs have made everything better for me, both learning and producing.
Haha AI users do not care about licensing!
FM radio is radically limited in range. You can listen to AM or shortwave across a whole continent, or even across oceans. With FM you're very lucky to hear something over a hundred miles away. AM radio is most popular for news and talk shows, and emergency broadcasts.
Japan's Kojima, with its proud Jeans St, draws fans of vintage, deep-blue denim
People don't always have perfect sight, lighting etc to see it. Or know about that tip. Or remember what it signifies. Often you're fumbling, doing 2 things at once.
Xfce all day every (work) day.

I've been using it for years and years. I started when it was the only lag free WM I could run on an atom powered netbook (the only "pc" I had at the time)!

Now many years later im still using it, and it still makes me happy. I'm not sure if people know what it's like to be able to click on something and have it work instantly with no lag.

It is a great piece of software, thank you to all the Devs who work on it!

Edit: I've seen a few complaints about hidpi. I'm not sure if this helps, but I have a 4k laptop screen, usb-c to a 4k monitor, and hdmi to a regular 1024 monitor orientated vertical.

By setting x2 in the appearance settings both the 4k monitors look beautiful, and then in the screen manager (where you can move around the screens and set orientation, I just have to set 2x scale on the 1024 monitor and it's fine. Like obviously less good than the 4ks... But it is a worse monitor. I'm surprised it all works so well to be honest!
Sway works fine on FreeBSD.

I haven’t figured out the magic dbus (I guess) incantations required to make screen sharing work without systemd though. I guess it needs pipewire at least.
Does that also mean that those cars could potentially be responsible for tons of interference in the AM band in the future?
Cash indeed has a high handling cost. In my country and many others, withdrawing cash at the supermarket teller with your card is free (as in no ATM fees) because it reduces the amount of cash handled and transported by branches. They'd rather eat the cost of a card transaction than pay cash handling costs.
Microsoft Copilot for Security (6 months later)
Because for us (Xfce) that would probably take 15 years.

The only component that requires major changes is the WM. Otherwise, for the rest of them, it's more about fixing platform specific quirks.

(Ok, we did have to write an embedded compositor library for our panel to use, but... yeah.)
I haven't seen one either. But I haven't needed to connect to a public WiFi point in years. That might be the difference. Usually where there is public WiFi I can just tether on my own phone.
"Several automakers, most notably Tesla and Ford, have decided to stop putting AM radios in their electric vehicles. They claim their electric motors interfere with the audio quality of the signal and insist that FM and satellite radio are enough."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/am-radio-congress-automakers/

I can find other references as well if you want. EMI in cars has been an issue for a long time, automakers however did do the needed work suppress the noise from spark plugs, I do not see this as any different.
Well the issue isn't about acquiring the knowledge in general. I think so far in my learning journey I've come to realize that "practical learning" is much better than learning in the hopes that something will be useful. For instance, almost everyone in the American education system at some point was forced to memorize that one mol of gas occupies 22.4 L at STP but almost noone will ever use that knowledge again.

Going through the actual real world issues of web development with an LLM on the side that you can query for any issue is infinitely more valuable than taking a course in web development imo because you actually learn how to DO the things, instead of getting a toolbox which half of the items you don't use ever and a quarter of which you have no idea how to functionally use. I strongly support learning by doing and I also think that the education system should be changed in support of that idea.
Chiptune in general is great for people who love melody. Because a great melody is a big part of what makes a good chiptune song stand out. I have been partial to Chipzel lately, for instance (this has more of a beat than your recommendation):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTnTu3ql_g

Other good synth heavy arpeggiators that come to mind immediately off listening to your video:

Jean Michel Jarre: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hD4KMp22jBg

William Orbit: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN4ZV9e7t0Jx-AflN9Q2wRh...
I read the full thing. It’s only two messages and it’s about brilliant pebbles.

Absolutely nothing about sidelobe interference from the direct to cell sats (which are not the same thing as starshield).
I read it, it's a good article. It's probably an article I can recommend in the future when I talk to people about colors.
Touching coins is icky.
A few come to mind, over the course of my childhood up to and including high-school.

The "Mad Scientist's Club" series

The Great Brain

Those "Encyclopedia Brown" stories

The "The Three Investigators" series

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The original Doyle "Sherlock Holmes" canon

The Soul Of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

Nineteen Eighty Four
If only Congress realized that some of these advertisers and data brokers answer to the CCP ... maybe we could have a tracking-free internet.
The coolest thing about smart glasses is not the AR. It's the AI.
The reason I am a software engineer — why it keeps me coming back every week — is the satisfying click when something I didn’t understand becomes obvious. I’ve talked to a lot of engineers over the last 15 years of doing this, and for most of them, they possess some version of the same compulsion. What makes good engineers tick is, imo, a tenacity and knack for solving puzzles. LLMs are useful when they let you get to the meat of the problem faster, but as the article says, they’re a hindrance when they are relied on to solve the problem. Knowing the difference is hard, a heuristic I work on with my team is “use an LLM if you already know the code you want to write.” If you don’t already know the right answer you won’t know if the LLM is giving you garbage.
> The imperial system allows retailers (and/or consumer good manufacturers) to take consumers for a giant ride.

That's a really interesting point. However, ultimately I actually don't think it has anything to do with imperial vs. metric, but just consumer culture.

In Europe, when you order a drink the menu tells you how many centiliters it is. In the US, it's just small-medium-large-XL, which every location defines however they want. And in the US, the difficulty in comparison doesn't have anything to do with imperial units -- it's that one package of tomatoes is defined by volume while another is by weight, and the loose bell peppers are priced per pepper while the packaged ones are priced per weight, and so forth.

Switching to metric wouldn't change any of that.

That's a problem that can seemingly only be addressed by legislation -- e.g. that strawberries and tomatoes must be sold by weight not volume, or that selling produce by the item must also accurately list the average item weight.
basically yes. it is a prefilled mp3 player with content, which get's activated with nfc chips. You can add custom content for 3 nfc chips with this windows application (or update the pre fillment).

all of this little children audio devices are glorified mp3 players, with encryption inside.

The point is, that most of them don't allow to really "own" the content, like vinyl/tape/cd. they are encrypted, and you only get the encryption key, which is only playable on the device...you buy a license key and not the content.
> The platforms (ios, Android, etc.) are very limiting.

I'm not sure what that "etc" is supposed to mean, but GNU/Linux phones run desktop OS and impose no artificial limits on you.
here.com is good also radar.io
Yes, eventually anyway. I've done a little work on xfwm4, using wlroots, but it'll be another year or more before that's usable. For the desktop components that work on Wayland, we've mostly tested on wlroots-based compositors.
My belief? yes, it does. The motor controllers are noisy.
That’s not quite true: There’s a limit to the amount of data usage your provider has to grant you at no additional cost, and mine enforces that. It works out to a 16 or so GB/month limit, on an otherwise >50 GB/month plan.
That would be an incredibly cruel thing to do to a child.
Based on other mass extinctions, we can expect ten+ million years of very low life diversity during this extinction that we're causing. So, for a period much longer than humans have been around (which you describe as "the interim"), we will experience only the dying. No human will experience any eventual recovery of biosphere diversity which may occur, long after we are gone.
Government spending on those items is >$3 trillion per year in the US.
That’s the point. Will I have to resort to using informal English to not be labeled AI?

For instance, sup.
It was less about me driving (I don't drive since going carless), but more about here's a way for us to keep you on a monthly payment for a service you no longer need to avoid "lapse in coverage". That's like telling someone they will have a lapse in their homeowner's coverage while they are renting.
Humanity was only able to produce one generation who knows how computers work.
>Basically, I think all this crap is just a way of paying people differently, regardless of actual worth.

That's what titles are always about for HR. You can't determine how skilled someone with 10yoe is by looking at work experience. Because every work has different teams and different deadlines and different contributionz and so on.

So they default to a title as a shorthand of years of experience and level of responsibility. You can be a genius but without that 5 YoE you're probably going to at best be a mid level engineer. Meanwhile you can probably find some inadequate principals but they've been in industry for 20+ years.

I wouldn't over think it if you're not money focused or trying to leverage your experience for some startup pitch. Titles aren't for the sake of the engineers themselves.
Yes but i dont want yet another eu money sink for something borderline useless like this
In our household we call them “parking tokens”. We use cash for little else.
Show HN: Vinted extension to filter by location in catalog
Vinted Catalog page is missing the filter by location and the location itself.

With my extension you can add it.
If you go and study the actual history of fishing territories, it invariably turns out that they all came/come with complex systems for managing yields. There wasn't ever "a big sea full of fish and anyone could just do whatever they want". For example, if you catch fish with impunity because there is nobody at sea to stop you, you still need to sell them which means interacting the people (in some way) close to where you caught them, and markets have traditionally been one of the points of control.

When so-called tragedies of the commons occur, it is invariably because someone has first attacked those systems of control to further their own ends. In the case of fishing, most traditional fishing communities and systems have objected to the arrival of industrial scale fishing, but they have been ignored and sidelined because of the interests of the owners of those new systems. So the problem is not that people/communities cannot manage resources held in common, it is that they cannot effectively resist power, wealth and greed if and when it arrives. But that very inability is also contingent on broader political and economic conditions, and is not inherent to the fact that the resources are held in common.

Climate change may well be the first true example of Hardin's original concept of "tragedy of the commons". It has a number of properties that traditional resource "extraction" behaviors do not share (including the invisibility of the problem until it is too late). But when people talk about "tragedy of the commons", they are typically referring to much smaller scale situations than the one(s) that have led us to where we are with climate change.

There's also a case to be made, given the remarkably early understanding of the consequences of fossil fuel utilization and the documented behavior of the companies involved, that climate change is precisely the type of failure I'm describing rather than the one Hardin did. We have systems of control for the things fossil fuel has negatively impacted, but people who became very, very, very, very rich from their use actively subverted and captured them for their own purposes.

I acknowledge that the shift is subtle: from the problem being "humans cannot manage resources held in common" to "human systems for managing resources held in common are frequently not robust enough to withstand selfishness and greed". Nevertheless, I think it is an important one.
The examples he gives were explicitly called out as mistakes you wouldn’t normally make as a beginner because they are so esoteric and I don’t disagree with him at all on that one.
...and don't get seriously sick, and don't have elderly parents that need expensive care, and don't have family overseas who need financial support, and make sure your kids don't get accepted to an expensive university, and and and... then you can apply MMM's very generalizable advice.
Librem 5 and Pinephone already exist.
Most of our infastructure would benefit environmentally if it was more permanent, not less. Roads in particular. Buildings seem to have side benefits from more permanent construction such as better insulation and disaster resistance.
Even free roaming has data caps IIRC
A big part of the solution to this will be more, more focused, and more efficient QA.

Test-driven development can inherently be cycled until correct (that's basically equivalent to what a Generative Adversarial Network does under the hood anyhow).

I heard a lot of tech shops gutted their QA departments. I view that as a major error on their parts, if QA folks are current modern tooling (not only GenAI) and not trying to do everything manually.
Oh, I thought the title was saying that the instruction doesn't work properly! (The article actually just explains how it works.)
> This is the country that gave up on the metric system because it involved too much math.

You say laziness, I say efficiency. More math than necessary is always too much math. It will always be more important to divide things by halves and thirds than by halves and fifths. I would apologize to the French for that, but I'm not going to apologize for always preferring multiples of sixty to multiples of fifty, to a people who count by twenties. If you don't count in decimal, you don't get to be judgemental.
It is syntax sugar for CPS [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style

EDIT: I believe prior art is Koka's with statement: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#sec-with
I’m hiring at the moment, and the last batch of applications from the HN who’s hiring thread had about 50% LLM generated cover letters.

Instant rejection. People applying: no cover letter is better than an LLM cover letter that’s telling me “how passionate you are about $VARIABLE1, and how you’re interested in learning more about $VARIABLE2”
I think it'd be fine if Sirius didn't require a subscription. The subscription nature turned it into a niche business.

(And gosh Sirius's salesmen are annoying a-holes when they call you up to get you to subscribe. The last time I bought a car with a Sirius radio I had to insist that I wouldn't get any calls from Sirius to subscribe.)
> That's the literal definition of a commons in the political economy sense -- a public resource everyone can take from freely.

Part of Ostrom's point is that this sort of commons has rarely, if ever, existed. It's a misunderstanding that Hardin's work created or amplified. Resources held in common are in fact always managed and not "free for the taking".
> But if your downlink to clogged, it probably won't matter that much that your uplink is clear.

And if your [small] uplink is clogged, it probably won't matter that much that your [large] downlink is clear.
How does this compare with Cloudflare’s new offering SQLite it durable objects: https://blog.cloudflare.com/sqlite-in-durable-objects