skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m old enough to have written letters before email was available. Even so, the combination of having first gotten a computer at the same time as when school started expecting lots of written work and the ensuing proliferation of computers has meant my typing speed and written thoughts work at comparable speeds.

I am a physically slow writer and haven’t spent enough time doing that to align that pace with the rate thoughts come to mind when writing by hand. I do have friends with whom our email exchanges are like letters in terms of length, thoroughness, and being text-only. At random times I send a reply by postal mail instead of email. Maybe I do this a half dozen times or so per year.

I do write the letter on a computer before writing it out by hand. That’s because of the aforementioned thinking rate-to-writing rate being so far apart. Of course it takes extra time on my end, but I appreciate how I see my thinking differently when re-writing it by hand. And everyone I know enjoys getting a letter (or even a postcard) in the mail. People find pleasure in personal mail showing up, rather than bills and unsolicited stuff, and there’s an ineffable, intimate pleasure in holding and reading the handwriting of someone you know.

There are a number of things like this I periodically do, trying to be a little more analog. Maybe analog is better, I’m not really out to propose or determine that. At the least, these acts bring a pleasant disruption, typically for sender and recipient, just because they’re outside what we’re accustomed to experiencing.
To the article's point, many/most JavaScript projects are not optimised and better performance can be achieved with just JavaScript, and yes, JavaScript engines are becoming faster. However, no matter how much faster JavaScript can get, you can still always get faster with other system languages.

I work on high-performance stuff as a C++ engineer, currently working on an ultra fast JSON Schema validator. We are benchmarking against AJV (https://ajv.js.org), a project with a TON of VERY crazy optimisations to squeeze out as much performance as possible (REALLY well optimised compared to other JavaScript libraries), and we still get numbers like 200x faster than it with C++.
You answered your own question. Mormonism is a cult.
I find it very interesting the primary rebuttals to people criticizing LLM from the “converted” tends to result in implicit suggestions the critique is rooted in old fashioned thinking.

That’s not remotely true. I am an expert, and it’s incredibly clear to me how bad LLM are. I still use them heavily, but I don’t trust any output that doesn’t conform to my prior expert knowledge and they are constantly wrong.

I think what is likely happening is many people aren’t an expert in anything, but the LLM makes them feel like they are and they don’t want that feeling to go away and get irrationally defensive at cogent criticism of the technology.

And that’s all it is, a new technology with a lot of hype and a lot of promise, but it’s not proven, it’s not reliable, and I do think it is messing with people’s heads in a way that worries me greatly.
Qualcomm faces crisis that could strike at the heart of Android phones
The Vision Pro feels more like a spatial tablet than a spatial computer. A computer should be capable of handling productive work tasks such as developing software. Vision Pro's only relevant capabilities seem to be mirroring your computer's screen and acting as a device to run your test apps, just like a tablet.

My experience receiving a Vision Pro demo at an Apple store also involved a poor Apple rep having to keep a straight face showing me basic iPad games when I asked about gaming. This thing has some of the most advanced VR headset hardware and their best gaming demo was some iPad games where you tap and hold to jump over mountains.
Thanks for your thoughtful and enlightening addition to this conversation.
No, the "so many people" are the rank & file engineers and researchers who are actually applying as inventors on those patents. They don't make the policies, but they are the ones who have to put up with the bullshit. That's what the "collective waste of human creativity" is - hired researcher types who would rather be, well, researching rather than doing a song-and-dance of describing their inventions in legal terms that will make it past a patent examiner but don't actually work once communicated in those terms, all so their employer can put up legal minefields in the dance of mutually assured destruction.
> The Scandinavian country already has a minimum age limit of 13 in place. Despite this, more than half of nine-year-olds, 58% of 10-year-olds and 72% of 11-year-olds are on social media, according to research by the Norwegian media authority.

I think my life today would be significantly better if I hadn’t been exposed to unsupervised internet access at around 10 years old with the Nintendo DSi web browser. Who knows how people growing up on TikTok brain-rot streams will turn out. I don’t look back fondly on my early experiences with the internet.
Social graph? I live in a big city hitting the same cell phone tower does not friends make. Only app that needs location permissions is Google maps which doesn’t serve ads.
of course, both Google and Apple could easily assassinate me, but I’ve accepted that

Actually thinking about it a bit more with 5G being so short range I can see how a social graph could be made.
I do have 5G turned off on my phone though because I don’t know what benefit it gives me because if the 4g tower is already not overloaded bc other people are on the local 5g
Do you live in Chicago? I do, and grew up here. My mom taught in CPS, and we were all sent to Catholic school. Not because the schools were better (in fact: my mom often remarked on how much lower the teacher quality was in the parochial schools, because the comp was substantially lower), but because we were Catholic, and if you don't go to Catholic K-8, you have to go to CCD. This is an extremely normal Chicago story, and not necessarily the indictment of the system you think it is.

Gates-Davis also lives on the far south side, which has structural school quality problems that aren't reasonable to pin on CTU.

I don't like CTU. I'm generally not a fan of teachers unions in major metros (most major metro teachers are in fact surprisingly well compensated). But I'm a little tired of this dunk; it's not a good one.
You may appreciate this quote about constantly moving the goalposts for AI:

"There is superstition about creativity, and for that matter, about thinking in every sense, and it's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something - play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems - there was a chorus of critics to say, but that's not thinking."

That's from 1979! https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/13/pamela-mccorduck-in-19...
I had a discussion with someone that worked on some of google's ad stuff and he swore that this type of tracking wasn't in use there. I suspect that even within these companies they try to hide the level of tracking they engage in. The only way we are going to stop this is to hold companies accountable for the things that happen as a result of the data they collect. I don't care if it is sold, stolen or given away, if data that is collected by a company gets used inappropriately then the company that collected it should face consequences.
The Fair Language Model Paradox
He said it's coming first half 2025, for what that's worth.
Prediction market prices are more useful than polls, but not probabilities
Minimalism is the biggest selling point, if you are comparing it to C#.

If you don't see a lot of people using it, maybe you're looking in the wrong place? I work with platforms, and Go is everywhere.
State-shift: Macros for implementing Type-State-Pattern on your structs and met
When you join two tables, which model does the query belong to?
That’s the technique I used on a piece that does inpainting across an image at a rate of about 1 image every 8 seconds - I ‘melt’ the results in for the duration until the next patch is ready:
https://hardwork.party/aws-epoch-optimizer/
Is the purpose of this to help the EU build a tech giant? Protect consumers?
Haha first piece of code I wrote in C++, when I was in highschool, was for April fools joke - I made a homebrew app that should do something really could (I can't remember) and after few seconds of loading, it displayed a blue screen saying "skynet" has breached your PSP and you got pawned. After 3 seconds it showed "It's April 1 you fool". It was so stupid. It took me forever to make, but it was worth it. I gave my friends from the local PSP scene a heart attack, then a good laugh of relief.

Fun times.
I’ll pay the shipping in a pre-paid package if you’d be willing to part with it.
For streaming in VR it has to be at least 4K per eye. So 8k in the general case, but realistically it will be higher than that.

Nobody can stream 2x 4K to my Apple VR headset. I can barely get a single 4K stream to my TV!
That seems improbable and a challenge for many here.

eg: Theremoose - the Theremin Controlled Computer Mouse https://www.instructables.com/Theremoose-the-Theremin-Contro...

In the disability domain voice operations have a history.
Discussion - the crisis is Arm related (544 points, 24 hours ago, 373 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920401
But where do chatbots fit into this? Cribbing from your neighbor in an exam? Watching TV?
I don't see why that's an issue, either. A library can already buy multiple copies of books/ games and loan them out. It's not streaming, sure, but somebody with a little patience can avoid buying a copy by just going to the library.
and you didn't learn a goddamn thing
I absolutely eat better than before. Part of it may be mindfulness, but overall I do not crave specific kinds of foods like I did before and by that I mean... any specific kind of food.

One way of thinking about it is that I have always enjoyed fruits like apples, blueberries, etc but I have always enjoyed a bag of chips or a great sandwich more. What I've found now is if I keep fruits, yogurts, cottage cheese etc in the fridge I will opt for them over the more junky foods, or at least just as much.
I still write paper letters — about at the same rate as I write long epistolary emails, which is to say, more than monthly, but less than weekly.

People (in my friend circle anyway) really love to get paper letters. Precisely because they are now so rare. And because (I think) they carry the trace of someone's voice and concentrated thought in such a particular way. Some people write back more than others — I don't stress about that too much.

I guess my point is — you don't have to abandon something good just because most people do.
Discussion (544 points, 24 hours ago, 373 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920401
But we’re worried about the pieces hitting another satellite in goe stationary orbit further along the orbit. A single burn can’t do that in a direct way because there is no direct path between two satellites at the same orbital distance (speed)
Tesla is not currently licensed to operate a commercial autonomous ridehailing service in California. Musk predicted it would be easier to obtain permission in Texas than California.

Then why is he doing it in the Bay Area, then? Do it in Texas. Tesla has plenty of employees there.

He said they'd be building 50 thousand semis by now. He said they'd have 1 million robotaxis in 2020. Who cares what he says any more?
GPT-4 is pretty bad at generating Python. It kind of works as well as combining 2-3 stack overflow questions, but it can't tell that the combination is sane.

I mostly agree with what the others are saying. It can generate boilerplate and it can generate simple API calls when there are lots of examples in the training set.

Generating Go is probably easier because at least you get compiler feedback.

Right now the only place it saves me time are with languages I don't know at all and with languages like Bash and SQL where I just can't bring myself to care enough to remember the long tail of more esoteric points that I don't use every day.
I’ll believe it when I see it.

UK has some pretty entrenched interests in status quo
I tried one and it was some old guy talking about the weather of course.
But with public key auth I'm already distrusting everyone on my private network.
This is beautiful! It's so pleasant to look at. Like the other commenter, I have ADHD and I felt a bit overwhelmed with the tutorial but when I have more brain space I'll give it another go. Needs more dark mode!

Also the privacy policy is great.

I don't have a problem with the subscription page being the first thing a user sees, even though I never subscribe to, well, anything personally and am against the XaaS economy. It's clear, simple, very easy to dismiss, and doesn't feel coercive or full of dark patterns like many other apps. It's also a bit different for me when it's a solo/small/indie dev instead of a megacorp. It's nice to know how much I'm in for before I start using and integrating something like this into my life. It really annoys me when that info is hard to find. I would love the option to pay a once off price, though I realise this can be challenging for funding ongoing development. One app I love (forScore) has a one off price ($30 AUD) with the option to pay a subscription ($15AUD/y) that has only a few minor benefits and extra functionality for the end user (which is explicitly stated) but is available for people who want to donate a bit on top to help fund ongoing development. I did a year or two of this subscription because it's such an amazing app I get a lot of value from and if it were made by Avid/Sibelius it'd probably cost $700+ and require a ridiculous subscription on top to use the basic features. I don't know if that model is something you'd ever consider. Either way I like the way you've clearly communicated the subscription prices.
This is so cool and actually was something I was thinking of building for a while! Would love a write-up of how the file formats was reverse engineered.
Huh! That sounds fascinating. I'd love to see something like that.
I'm still not seeing it the issue, though. A significant portion of the world's population lives within a short distance of a library. Even if each individual library branch serves a relatively small chunk of the population, the collection of libraries effectively makes a global network that enables people to almost instantaneously rent books, movies, and games. Having this exist out in the world really doesn't ruin things.
650 AU is quite far away. To get there in a reasonable time frame (a few decades), you have to be going quite fast, on an escape trajectory out of the solar system. If you wanted to be on an elliptical orbit, the orbital period would be over five thousand years (and a circular orbit would be over sixteen thousand years). It's so far out that it's just not practical to try and move laterally.

The other nice thing about being on an escape trajectory is that because of how gravitational lensing works, rather than a focal point you get a focal line. So as the probe continues moving away from the sun, it can continue imaging its target (and the image quality may get better as it gets further out, since the ring gains more separation from the surface of the Sun.)
Ask Claude to write the browser extension for you so you can stop whining.
We are careening toward that future at a record clip. Maybe not the ending…but the AI girlfriends are already here.
> Apple glazing

What is "Apple glazing"?
I wonder if you could do something like this with hardware acceleration (like google coral)
I wonder if Tesla would launch an Uber competitor without achieving autonomy.
It's a real shame, such a phone would be a win-win as far as google's code containing all the NSA backdoors and such, and Huwai's hardware containing all the CSA's hardware backdoors and such. Imagine the cyberspace wars and battles being fought in that phone in your pocket.
I'd like to see a beginner build this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/openai-audio
My Advertising Is So Efficient It No Longer Works [video]
Great to hear that they started testing it - these 1 million Robotaxi were sitting idle since 2020 !

If you believe any of Musk's bullshit, do yourself a favor and listen to past investor calls from Tesla. And then check how these statements and predictions turn out in reality.

"1000 times better than human driving by the second quarter of 2025". We're yet to see any reliable number from Tesla about those claims. Every single new version of FSD is "mind blowing" and looks like they "solved autonomy", for the past 4 years. And yet, they did unveil a concept Robotaxi in a ... Hollywood studio. Autonomy was solved in Hollywood studios and Theme parks 30 years ago.
I love this framing (pun unintended) of "art".

Besides what you articulated as the "intention", I often think of the "story" behind the art -- whether an idea in the creator's head was expressed via the piece (or not) makes me go "yes, this is Art" (or not).

By that token, when I see automated projects like this, I think of the "installation" as art, but the pixels or arrangements generated by the piece itself is less art-like IMO.
Wouldn’t you just use sort.Slice?

Doesn’t go having such type specific functions mean you don’t have to? Feels like that makes your codebase _less_ complex since the core logic is handled by the language stdlib, not code written and maintained by your team.
There's no way you can imply this much malicious intent to an animal that basically.... doesn't possess the capacity for malicious intent.

Either you're some sort of troll or you've let this hatred totally cloud basic reasoning. They're dogs dude, very different from people and their capacity for malice.

And most dog owners, being the family members of all these abused people you claim, would themselves do what they could to train their dogs against freely harming others.
Thanks! I looked at their website for a while and read most of the other comments in this thread- and still had no idea what this was about. I would expect them to have something like your second sentence on the top of their page.
One can hope that the bilateral risk reduction dialogue between the US and Russia, still going on despite all other conflicts, would at least prevent the described Russian confusion over the American launches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Risk_Reduction_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nuclear_Risk_Reductio...
Ah, there are many folks out there much more personable and engaged with PotA/SotA than I. One of my favorites is K6ARK who is a great watch for antenna design, *otA, CW (morse) and more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rKpxAWZ7uM
Well it's a long time since I played there. But it had custom chess clients, which I assume just recorded how much time your move actually took and sent that with the move.

Yes, it's easy to cheat with this, but it's very easy to cheat with chess anyway.
I think you're confused. Model Y refresh is coming. He said $25k car other than robotaxi makes no sense and is antithetical to their vision of autonomous future.
Also it is $212 for 20-25 years of support. Not just some one time cost.
> a thinly disguised probabilistic and compressed database of other people's code

Speaking as a software engineer, I feel seen.
> I personally found the whole process quite clear ...

Maybe there were earlier versions of the advertising/process that weren't as clear, and it was made clearer over time?
Anything on top of the Calculus of Constructions is usually enough.
So it's not a moving target, and there are multiple implementations.
What I'm about to say may sound absurd and an attempt to be funny, but I'm being serious.

The other day I was wondering how people always talk about sending undesirable material (garbage, spent radioactive fuel, etc.) on a one way trip to the sun. Why not send things to the surface of Venus? It has an ultra dense atmosphere that pulverizes anything that reaches the surface. In the case of this material, it's just more C02, which is what the atmosphere of Venus is already primarily composed of. We aren't going to ever explore the surface of Venus, or at least we won't for thousands, if not millions of years, barring we can easily convert co2 into energy, so is this a bad idea?
Best check again, that post was 1h 29m 57s prior.
I can’t claim to have been paid to write rust, but I’ve written code professionally for many years now and most of them in Go. I have also written my fair share of rust code for web applications.

The repetition in Go, in my experience, mostly happens at the beginning and then you only have to deal with ‘if err != equal nil’, which to be fair is probably a good thing. Is it really more verbose and repetitive than error handling in rust?

I would love to have the type system rust has in go. It really allows you to be expressive and put in guard rails in a way you can’t using go. But I don’t think most applications need that.

My experience tells me something different than yours, maybe I’m wrong. But I can’t reconcile your arguments with my experience writing rust web applications. Even if I still miss writing my queries using sqlx and my views with asakama.
"I feel like googling every step would be faster than trying to get it right with LLMs"

Why don't you give that a go? See if you can knock out a QR code reading UI in JavaScript in less than 3 minutes, complete with drag-and-drop file opening support.

(I literally built this one in a separate browser tab while I was actively taking notes in a meeting)

I say three minutes because my first message in https://gist.github.com/simonw/c2b0c42cd1541d6ed6bfe5c17d638... was at 2:45pm and the final reply from Claude was at 2:47pm.
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American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

https://archive.is/PEcUX
How do you reconcile his "bullshit" with the fact his spaceships are saving astronauts from space?
That seems like the real failing of the Ontario education system. Standardized testing is needed otherwise there is nothing stopping teachers from gaming the system.
It also gives a good way to determine underserved/underperforming schools in order to direct improvement there.
Nature of crimes – Vagrancy, heresy and treason in the 16th century
I know about this stuff as much as I learned from watching Munich (2005) :) GUR is going by the numbers

October 4 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/employee-russia-control...

October 18 https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-army-major-killed-in-luhan...
There are a ton of replies in here, including yours which seem to be trying to explain what this is, but appear to be assuming too much, and still skipping the actual explanation.
I have, that's how I'm telling you the way you can, too.
Zero trust. But they don't solve the more interesting problem: host key authentication.

Would be nice if they can replace TOFU access with SSH CA as well. Ideally based on device posture of the server (e.g. TPM2 attestation)
> What I meant to communicate was that any states passing new voter ID laws should near-simultaneously pass laws that making getting government-issued, voting-eligible IDs easier, especially for people who lack multiple forms of ID.

That seems like a reasonable idea and one that many voter ID proponents support.

> the way Alabama did in 2015

Your own article says that Secretary of State will be providing IDs to ensure the DMV closures don’t affect ability to vote.
Tesla makes $2.2B in profit during Q3 2024
one is a public company whose stock can be pumped up with "bullshit", other is not.
What's the performance like compared to C? Is it faster to compile and almost as fast programs?
Yes and ARMs got a simple one-pager treatment post-GFC thanks to the CFPB.

I'm just saying that "6th grade reading level" is extremely basic level of literacy that a lot of contracts probably couldn't be easily communicated to that level.