skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean... this is a huge stretch. Car accidents are, more or less, completely out of your control as a driver. You can be an amazingly defensive driver and die. And you can drive like an ass and get lucky.

In fact, I'm sure a lot of those Uber drivers are rated well because they get there fast. Well, you have to drive like a maniac for that. In the city you need to drive bold if you want to get there with limited BS. That means risking your life.
Matt isn't going to settle. Automattic while Matt is in charge is not going to settle. And the lawsuit will be cheaper for WP Engine to take to trial than giving in to the demands. And considering what Matt has done the past few weeks, I really can't see WP Engine being in the mood to settle anytime soon.
I like putting an auto-reloading browser window behind a 60% opacity Vim window.
You can literally do this with just xrandr.

xrandr --setmonitor screenshare 2560/1x1440/1+0+0 none
Noise power increases twice but signal power increases 4x.
Noise amplitude increases sqrt(2) times, signal amplitude increases 2x.
The notion that this process is gradual, built on small, deliberate actions, resonates deeply
Daron Acemoglu: Don't Believe the AI Hype
I find it interesting that the folks at Qodo are not clear on why more groups try to push the needle on SWE-Bench rather than on Codeforces.

I think most software developers would find that performance on SWE-Bench (wherein an AI system has to resolve a real-world Github issue) is much more relevant to their day-to-day than the raw algorithmic problem-solving capabilities of an AI system.

Competitive programming questions are challenging, obviously, but they are tightly defined with prescribed inputs and outputs and the solutions are usually compact, though hard to arrive at.

In contrast, real-world programming is much fuzzier and more ambiguous. The solutions that one must implement are usually much larger in scope and require much greater project-specific context to build. And of course real-world tasks are generally not things that demand lots of formal data structures and algorithms knowledge, like one would need to do well at Codeforces.

What's interesting is that you can have systems like o1 or AlphaCodium that are much, much better than the median software developer at solving tricky algorithmic puzzles, but that also can't do very well at SWE-Bench, which largely comprises Github issues that have been estimated to take <1h for a human developer to do. Even though o1 would absolutely dominate Claude 3.5 Sonnet at competitive programming questions, it seems to basically be a wash on real-world tasks.

So I suppose my question to Qodo would be: Why the emphasis on Codeforces as a benchmark? It's quite clear -- and has been for some time, since e.g. AlphaCode in 2022 -- that AI systems can be really powerful when it comes to solving Codeforces-style questions. What seems much harder (for now) is making significant progress on real-world development tasks.
Are carpenters cooked? I went to home depot, bought a hammer, nails, and some wood, and built a mini shelf.

Building trivial tools with AI doesn't mean that devs won't have jobs. It might mean that people won't be able to make a living whipping out brochure-ware web sites for their friends, but that market was just about dead anyway. And maybe it will even be able to handle basic CRUD apps. That doesn't mean the industry is dead, it just means the bar for low-hanging fruit is now hanging a little higher.
This must be one of the best applications for LLMs, as you can always automatically verify the results, or reject them otherwise, right?
Do you also say that about Firefox's shenanigans, like that one time when they shared the browsing history without user consent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz#Integration_with_Firefox

How about more recently, when they enabled “privacy-preserving attribution” without user consent?

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/

It's like them, after all, they also include a unique ID with each download, that then they send in their opt-out telemetry.

How about Firefox's sponsored links in the New Tab page?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy

I am asking because this community has a serious double-standard. This isn't about any “shady crypto” or affiliate codes being inserted, issues which were promptly fixed. It's about something else entirely, and people are being disingenuous about it.
It's inspiring to hear how your martial arts training shaped your mindfulness
Why do we need "to be fair" about who we celebrate? I don't understand why anyone is arguing the point that we shouldn't celebrate people who did awful things.

They also weren't all the same. Not everyone goes around enslaving people and using their life to seek riches and fame. I don't think anyone complains about historical figures who, flaws and all, fought for higher ideals like personal liberty.
Briefly, you need to grow in ways that are separate from your existing career path.

For example, working on an idea that doesn’t belong to you — that is the wrong frame.

Avoid leaping to solution thinking and look at actual problems. Talk to other people outside your company to see if they have the same problem. Then, try different approaches to solving it.

If you get really lucky you will end up with customers that tell you exactly what they need you to build for them.

You still will not be working on an idea that belongs to you.

But the business will.
The other problem is that you'll get a duplicate but the duplicate question's answers are all outdated.
I'm not very concerned, the battery is extremely small and I think it's potted in resin so it's not likely to get damaged
It's hard, but easier than you think
Marx mostly didn't do that afaik. His followers did. But he didn't write about a dictatorship of the proletariat being violent, or killing lots of people.

Here's a good text I read recently about Marx vs the world's perception of him. https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2023/02/why-marx-rel...
> you'd have to have the rights to do the training wouldn't you ?

Thats undecided by the courts. Everyone is training using other people's data right now though, and very few companies are even being sued (let alone have finished the multi-year process to actually be punished for it).

> Or does that mean I should close off all of my creations

When you put something out there, you should expect that other people are going to use those creations. Almost certainly in many ways that you don't approve over.

Don't release something publicly if you don't want other people to use it.

> but I do have a problem

Your anger isn't particularly useful. What are you going to do about it? This particular proof of concept model was made with 1 single GPU running for 2 weeks. You can't stop that.

> It's just as I would have taken a 3d model static mesh, apply some blend on it and call it my own.

Something that I am sure many people are doing all the time, already. Transforming and using other people's content is as old as the internet. AI does little to change that.
I know half a dozen people who have died in a car accident. I'm in my 20's.

I don't think those people are lying. I think they're 100% telling the truth... about 5% of the picture. Some consider that dishonest.
Wild.

Mullenweg apparently also had the manager of his household llc fill out fake paperwork for his employees, which came out in an attempt to compel arbitration. tl;dr: it seems to have been a practice of his household llc, which he manages, to have a manager fill out the onboarding paperwork, including agreeing to contracts on behalf of the employees. Said contracts included the arbitration agreement.

https://casetext.com/case/attayeb-v-mullenweg
Perhaps normal people also have a more substantiated view of facts :)
The incentives here are pretty straightforward and plenty of people within academic fields are willing to admit what kind of distortions they create. Look at any HN discussion on academic fraud and you'll find discussions from people who are or were scientists where they tell similar stories.

Climate change wasn't the most likely explanation for the big drop. To make that explanation work you have to hypothesize a lot of hidden variables and/or unknown processes, because CO2 emission is a slow steady process. If you want to posit some sort of cliff-edge response in the absence of evidence, fine, but at that point anyone can make up any explanation they like and it's just as compelling. There's no reason a-priori to believe that climate change kills corals given that they've survived hundreds of millions of years. There are probably natural cycles at work here which might be interesting to investigate, or there might even be some sort of human cause that's not climate related (chemicals being washed into the sea or whatever). AIMS is supposed to figure that out but they don't seem to be doing that, they just keep crying wolf. So it's reasonable to point out their incentives.

> Isn't it possible that we were lucky enough that the coral just adapted quickly to environmental change ?

Anything is possible in principle, but that doesn't help us much.
At least to me it's a major issue, and I'm not the only one who thinks this. As I said before Microsoft implemented it 17 years ago.

This works only temporarily, when connecting another monitor then the settings are not propagated.
The mystery of intention and attention also invites reflection
I can give you an anecdote about my parents trying to permit a new garage building on their property in southern California, the process was anything but fair, cheap or quick. The inspector actually raised an unrelated issue on their property about a patio cover that was installed by a previous owner and has been standing for 30+ years, they wanted him to pull a building permit and pay all the inspection fees for it before they would even begin to process his garage permit. Including digging around one of the footings for the existing patio cover to see how deep the footings were. Ultimately they paid some adjusted fee, didn't even have anything inspected. Just basically were extorted by the city in my view of things.
Back in the day, Lisps and Schemes has had all sorts of excuses for not being used. To slow, GC is slow, too big, no libraries, too old, etc. etc. etc. All reasons that had some merit at one time.

But today, all of those excuses have been long gone for a long time.

Clojure is as mainstream and box checking as you can get, much less all of the other zillion projects out there.

And yet.

No great renaissance. Still talked about in hushed tones. "Only those snobby hacker guys use that."

And what single thing has remained and controversial about Lisps?

The syntax.

JavaScript demonstrated that a dynamic language with garbage collection, closures, and functional elements, and native data structures, can be used for everything from web pages to enterprise backends. Many of the things folks complained about in Lisp environments, JavaScript "suffers" from as well.

I know I'm not completely on top of things, but I think JavaScript has been reasonably successful and gained some popularity.

And behold, of all the things it does not share with Lisps: the syntax.

I'm reasonably confident if the hackers at Netscape came out with "S-Script" for their browser, it would be a historical curiosity. As desperate as people were to get scripting in browsers, they would have likely stuck with Explorer, VBA, and everything would be in a VBA clone today.

S-expressions have had their chance, and the wisdom of the crowds have not bought into them.
Ah yes, that would work pretty well! You'd have to be able to guarantee any migrations can run within the timeouts, but at a per-tenant level that should be very doable for most cases. Not sure why I didn't think of that approach - great idea.

I might have to try this out now.
You seem to be objecting to the entire idea of people en masse having preferences that screw up their own enjoyment?

Cool, that's super easy to prove. Ignore dinners, go look at the science of addiction. I can link the Wikipedia page if you want, it's full of links to evidence.

Also "most" versus "a lot" isn't pedantic. There's a ton of statements that are true of 5% of people but it would be ridiculous to suggest it's a majority.
This is on top of an existing long-term trend (since 2014 or so) of increasing frustration at the quality and nature of questions (failure to adhere to site guidelines, nor indeed to put effort into understanding how the site is intended to work).
Are you talking about the quality of the prose or about the content of writing? An LLM can only act on information that has been put into it by people, while a real person can create new and important information – even a person with low literal or oratory skills.
That's a separate issue. That discussion is about training the model's responses through fairly standard RL (human-generated in this case), not providing it with a new corpus of data from which to draw its responses.
> Krugman is controversial at times

Kind of like saying Lysenko was controversial at times.

He's not "controversial," he's just a bloviator. His credentials as a serious economist expired long ago when he signed up with the leftist team and agreed to never challenge them again, on anything.

When you have to spend many words on explaining the "context" in which someone's quotes should be viewed, you are losing.
Interesting. However, if one of those stations runs on a slightly different frequency, I guess its output would be garbled, correct? Like I guess SSB receiver just shifts down the band by a constant?
Show HN: I made a Chrome Extension that makes Amazon 100x better
Amazon GlowUp is an ambitious Chrome Extension that redesigns Amazon.com from top to bottom for better shopping. I’m dc, a long-time designer and product leader, and a former executive-level designer at Amazon for 11 years. I’ve spent more time studying, improving, and innovating in the Amazon store than you can imagine, and I spent 4 months packing more than 3,000+ of my ideas into this tiny plugin.

What else can I do to make amazon shopping better? Ideas are very welcome.
will work for food
Check the footer.
It appears that oxybenzone and octinoxate sunscreens may be directly toxic to corals. Blocking UV light doesn't seem to be the issue.

https://ocean.si.edu/ecosystems/coral-reefs/truth-about-cora...
Or

$ clipscreen $(slop | tr -s "+x" " ")
Why some travellers are falling out of love with Airbnb
It is mentioned at their "We're hiring" page https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2

"We are looking for a professional multidisciplinary designer to join our Busy Status Bar team and help bring the product to Kickstarter, generating excitement among future users."
That's the point. This is not your individual repo[*]. This is a collaborative repo where different people contribute to it. It's a good thing that for each repo we standardize on the tooling and process. The individual's preferences are strictly subordinate to the team policy. And when something is team policy it is reasonable to assume that everyone indeed works the same way as they do.

FWIW for individual repos I don't even use PRs so the whole issue of how to merge them is moot.
I mean the PR data. The main advantage of a forge like Github are being web browseable, working great as a backup, and the PRs (and other stuff like artifacts storage and CI). All of these have alternatives and are optional. And the API is comprehensive enough to not feel locked in.
> Only people who aren't good at git will think dependent branches are overhead.

[redacted]

You have to create branch names and keep them in synch. with `git rebase --update-refs` constantly. But worst of all: vanilla forge PRs don’t support it. So you have to thread these dependencies manually instead. What magic eliminates this overhead?
That doesn't prove anything.
def genocidal: relating to or involving the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Pedantic to say that Columbus subjugating entire people groups with mass murder doesn't qualify here. The manpower skew was huge, so how exactly did they subjugate the Tainos without genocide? 7M tainos died when all was said and done.
I'm glad to have mostly avoided frontend dev, but we've also had some bonkers backend trends like SOAP. It was like closing your eyes and wishing for a full-stack impl to appear if you write enough XML.
It seems Ralph is wrong. Alexandre from Gouacho just mailed me:

"there will be directly a Bosch female connector to the back of the battery so you can plug the gouach battery the same way you put a powerpack.
I'll send pictures very soon"
The Woman Who Ate 23 Bananas After Fasting 7 Days And Had Refeeding Syndrome

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tWlvWYGztYk
An important part of Stoicism is making purposeful "responses" instead of suffering kneejerk "reactions." You can be more effective in all things, including political action, if you can master this.

I will also point out that one of the founding documents is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor. He was nothing if not political.
The graphs date back to 1985. The font is small though, so it's easy to misread.

> it also seems inarguable the ecosystem has become highly unstable as well over the past 20 years

That's extremely arguable! Extrapolating from a tiny number of data points is how AIMS managed to screw up previously. There's really very little data on which to build predictions about long term trends. We have no idea how stable or unstable coral sizes are because it's just not been monitored for long enough to say. We're zoomed in to a tiny, tiny part of the coral's history, which is far longer than humanities own.
+1 from me. I'm an investor and entrepreneur, and I can offer that this is spot-on advice.

Engineers like to build stuff. But business is about solving OTHER people's problems. It's not necessarily about building cool stuff.

Get some real world experience. Learn where the holes are. Then build a business around filling the holes.
It is (but in russian)

Pavel Zhovner (a lead of flipper devices) wrote about Busy status bar 3 months ago in his Telegram channel (https://t.me/zhovner_hub/2073).

At https://flipperzero.one/ you can find habr.com blog link. The first post in Flipper blog was made by Zhovner https://habr.com/ru/users/zhovner/ (who has a link to telegram channel zhovner_hub).
I can tell you that k8s starts to have issues once you get over 10k nodes in a single cluster. There has been some work in 1.31 to improve scalability but I would say past 5k nodes things no longer “just work”: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/08/15/consistent-read-from-c...

The current bottleneck appears to be etcd, boltdb is just a crappy data store. I would really like to try replacing boltdb with something like sqlite or rocksdb as the data persistence layer in etcd but that is non-trivial.

You also start seeing issues where certain k8s operators do not scale either, for example cilium cannot scale past 5k nodes currently. There are fundamental design issues where the cilium daemonset memory usage scales with the number of pods/endpoints in the cluster. In large clusters the cilium daemonset can be using multiple gigabytes of ram on every node in your cluster.
https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/operations/performance/scal...

Anyways, the TL;DR is that at this scale (16k nodes) it is hard to run k8s.
Thanks for pointing out. I have updated the post. I use the opposite shift since I store the binary in u64 with a different endian from the C++ version. Sorry for the confusion, my bad.
The cost of new construction is mostly labor. It would be cheaper to purchase a modular home and take advantage of production line efficiencies. With some forethought you can start small and plan for future expansion.
Generate Video (Beta) on Firefly Web App – Adobe Blog
I agree, but I would assert that it is no more arguable than your own interpretations

Edit: Ah I see that it is 1985, that certainly is a significantly shorter cycle of data.
I make an electronic gadget for musicians. The project was inside my domains -- plural. There aren't a lot of people out there who are both working musicians, and also familiar with electronics including small scale manufacturing. The latter, I picked up from internships and early-career jobs. What it meant was that I could make the jump from problem space to solution space quickly and cheaply.

I still haven't quit my day job, but my business produces a reasonable side income.
Are Tesla's robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?
It's possible that this sort of thing is connected, yes. The timing of a rebound in 2020 is interesting. But then again, if it's caused by tourism or sunscreen, the next interesting question is what changed around 2010?
You Could Have Invented Normalization-by-Evaluation
Possibly, but it’s a local maxima of market share. Global is where Google now is.
I imagine it's because 73k generations of bacteria takes a lot less time than 73k generations of coral or other larger organisms.
The biggest side project I am currently working on was an accident. I used one site (dance calendar) every day, because I do lots of couples dancing. I had some ideas on how to improve the site, but did not want to compete with the existing site. Then the site went down, the previous operator did not want to continue running it, and I worked together with him to get the new site up and running.

I think the world is full of ideas to work on. You can look into almost anything, and see that existing ways of working and systems are mostly crap. Just start working on something. Probably you will encounter other problems -- i.e. ideas -- when working on the first one.

The biggest thing is not the coding, but all the other stuff. Sales, invoicing etc. I find that tiresome.
You don't read my mind well if you think that I am against China defending itself. Most nations have an army for that purpose.

I am against China performing threatening exercises near Taiwan and against China claiming the majority of the South China Sea for themselves when hundreds of millions of other people live on its shores.

Ever heard of "the Nine Dashes"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

That has zilch to do with defense. That is expansionism, every bit as bad as its Western equivalents.
Competing with AI is an explicit non-goal of the Stack Overflow community, as well as the one other Q&A forum I use (Codidact).

AI won't "answer questions better". It will cut out the middleman of parsing your question and matching it up with words in the shape of an answer. It will also frequently hallucinate, and essentially never sanity-check what you're trying to do.

But the main thing giving it a speed/convenience advantage over Q&A forums is that it doesn't give a damn about whether your question, and its answer, could help someone else (by being discoverable with a search engine and understood by that other person as being the same question, and being focused on a single issue). Aside from not being designed to care, it wouldn't benefit: it can just re-generate the same answer content for the next person who asks, in a different low-quality way. Unlike a human expert, AI will never tire of that task.
Ironically, Goldwater was branded as an extremist in his time.
That is pretty cool. I think I remember small boxes with PS/2 and VGA ports and ethernet connections.
Lazygit works well for merge conflicts (and many other things):

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

(I am not actually sure what a three-way merge conflict is though TBH.)
I think it starts already in school.
Back when I worked in an office and had to do deep thinking without interruptions, I'd string up a bit of yellow police-like tape that I stole from the SGI offices that were closed during Shoreline concerts that said "SILICON GRAPHICS". Worked perfectly.
Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT