skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you should set the right expectations to find the right use.

There's plenty of copilot and cursor users out there, and developers are really not the kind of crowd that likes to pay for development tools.
Finally found a comment down here that I like. I'm also with the notion of tests and also iterating until you get to a solution you like. I also don't see anything particularly "terrifying" that many other comments suggest.

At the end of the day, we're engineers that write complex symbols on a 2d canvas, for something that is (ultimately, even if the code being written is machine to machine or something) used for some human purpose.

Now, if those complex symbols are readable, fully covered in tests, and meets requirements / specifications, I don't see why I should care if a human, an AI, or a monkey generated those symbols. If it meets the spec, it meets the spec.

Seems like most people in these threads are making arguments against others who are describing usage of these tools in a grossly incorrect manner from the get go.

I've said it before in other AI threads that I think (at least half?) of the noise and disagreement around AI generated code is like a bunch of people trying to use a hammer when they needed a screwdriver and then complaining that the hammer didnt work like a screwdriver!!! I just don't get it. When you're dealing with complex systems, i.e, reality, these tools (or any tool for that matter) will never work like a magic wand.
Yeah hot reload's just a one-off example that I think is the simplest way to relate the experience of SwiftUI vs. Compose vs. Flutter, though, the first two are long in the rear view mirror, I've been Flutter only for about a year.

Good question -- I don't think its the wrong question? Maybe? :P Tough to phrase on my end too.

I only feel native speaking in iOS or Flutter, even with the Android experience, forgive me: I guess I'd summarize it as "yeah, you're right. if you're wondering if they're ex. calling CoreGraphics on iOS, no" (well, they do, but for text rendering. Not for a red rectangle)

Generally, Flutter Web is rendering into a WebGL surface using Skia -> WASM (2.2 MB download! modern miracle). macOS, iOS, (done) Android (soon) are switching from Skia to Impeller. I think the thrust of your question is "are they still bundling the render engine?" and the answer is yes.

I find the way you phrased it intriguing, in that, before reading your post I'd say drawing to a Skia canvas is as native as you can get. But I realize now that means I was overindexing on "close to the metal", and its apex not-native to say "gimme the framebuffer and i'll take it from there"

I'm a bit picky with design stuff and I loooooove that Skia's bundled and I can rely on it cross platform
Budget 3D metal printers will eventually enter the hobby market, but I only get to work on my hobby on Saturdays. =3
Translation: They'd love to lay off all the engineers.
Depends on how you define "boilerplate". E.g. Terraform configs count for a significant number of the total lines in one of my repos. It's not really "boilerplate" in that it's not the exact same everywhere, but it is boilerplate in the since that setting up, say, a pretty standard Cloud SQL instance can take many, many lines of code just because there are so many config options.
How is that relevant?

It seems totally possible that enough interest groups don’t want Ukraine to actually win, so they block anything more than the minimum viable amount. So it’s not much of a barometer at all for anything…
> I think the biggest company using wasm in production is figma (though there might be others)

Amazon uses Rust to wasm for the Prime video app and Google uses Java to wasm for Google Sheets. Both get higher performance and lower memory usage versus JavaScript:

https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-...

https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc

Abode uses wasm in the web based version of Photoshop:

https://medium.com/@addyosmani/photoshop-is-now-on-the-web-3...
You don't maximize windows except to watch videos at that size. It's more like having multiple monitors with fluid borders. You focus as needed, leaving the rest in your peripheral vision. That said I did miss maximizing windows to focus on tasks.
Very first paragraph:

A sample of the virus taken from the worker was 100% lethal in ferrets, though it spread inefficiently and does not appear to be continuing to spread.
Technically it's been possible for a decade. Back then, it was kind of big news when people were using an earlier version of the device for sequencing in the field during the Ebola epidemic. Of course you still need some training to do it properly, and the field kits have a short shelf life.
FWIW (just to clarify on this one area if I may)

>> There's no "fixed budget" of energy that is ethically ok to use.

> Not even 0.00001 W? How is it ethical to live in the first place in such case?

The idea of no fixed budget is there is no binary threshold. Where above is bad and below is okay. Just a spectrum.
The larger of these are definitely not "lost" (as in, local people who are the descendants of their inhabitants have known exactly where they are, continuously since they were abandoned as places to live a millennium ago), though most of them are in the middle of the jungle.

Southern Mexico and Central America are incredibly beautiful though, and ancient ruins there are fascinating places to visit.
> The alternative, I fear, is 90% of the software we use exhibiting subtle goofy behavior and just being overall unpleasant to use.

This sounds like most software honestly.
We should watch for dev layoffs as a sign/signal of the impact of generated code. I remember reading about an anime shop that fired 80% of its illustrators due to ai-images.
I can’t speak for the billionaire class, but you absolutely can do whatever you want with your portfolio short of withdrawing funds when you take a margin loan out against it. There are other limitations but it’s pretty free rein for normal transactions like buying and selling standard securities.

I can sell any security I want in my portfolio account and leave it as cash and/or buy another so long as I don’t borrow above my margin limit. Most folks employed in the tech sector for any length of time can do the same if they so choose.

The only real loophole here is the step up basis on death. That needed closing decades ago it’s so obviously fraudulent.

I don’t see much of a difference between securing your loan against a bank account, stock portfolio, exotic car collection, or real estate holding. It’s all just loans secured by other relatively liquid assets. If you sold your home you’d have your loan called in just the same as if you sold your stocks and tried to transfer the money out of your portfolio account.

That said - I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to an all or nothing here. Anything to reduce real estate being primarily used as a financial asset over a place to live or do business is a good place to start in my book!
Raindrop, Obsidian web clipper, notion web clipper, Readwise
Safe and sane for you. Not for everyone.

What use is a safe API when it makes the entire system impossible to use by a significant fraction of the population (ie wayland and the visually disabled)? It's been a decade+ and none of the waylands have managed to support screen readers yet.

Are we to just throw out that whole class of people and tell them, "You don't get to use linux desktop computers anymore when X11 support is dropped". As someone with retinas that are progressively tearing apart, who already uses text to speech for many things, this is incredibly disheartening. I really don't want to have to switch to the Apple ecosystem.
I'm constantly having to go back and tell the AI about every mistake it makes and remind it not to reintroduce mistakes that were previously fixed. "no cognitive energy" is definitely not how I would describe that experience.
> "switched to a low saturated fat diet with minimal other changes"

Does that mean switched fat to non-fat, or switched saturated fat to other types of fat? It seems that would be an important distinction for threads like this.
If you manage to convince software engineers that you are doing them a favour by employing them then they will approach any workplace negotiations with a specific mindset which will make them grab the first number it gets thrown to them.

These statements are brilliant.
> When you want the power of a mix of accounts/networks/interests everything balloons and can't be run with funds and larger centralization.

I don't really get the appeal of this. Different topics/interests often demand different moderation and forum features. Trying to shove everything into the lowest common denominator of social media results in things like people posting essays as screenshots of Apple Notes.

The only obvious benefit I see of this kind of large scale centralization is for marketing. And that's not a benefit to me as a user.
Windows Phone was indeed damn good. I held on to my WP 10 phone a lot longer than anyone sane would have. However, the only growth for WP was in the negative direction. There were no apps for WP because of past compatibility breaks, Google was sabotaging access to their services, carriers and OEMs were unhappy because of low sales volumes of WP phones. Windows Phone was already very clearly dead before Nadella took over.
Or just sit a bit further, you will get the same exact FoV.
You can do both of those things in JavaScript.

WebAssembly brings every language to the web and does it with higher performance than JavaScript.
I’m not at all confused. But we’re somehow talking past each other. Which I probably contributed to too, although that wasn’t my intent, so sorry for the mix up. Anyway, it is just silly chitter-chatter so I think it is not worth sorting out where we’ve missed each other.
Is this a problem? My PC sits under my desk. I only see it when I vacuum the floor.
I'm sure google won't pay you money to take all their code off their hands.
I think he's trying to promote AI, somehow raises questions about thrir code quality among some
I'm not sure why people can't be humble enough to accept that we don't really know what the future will hold. Just because people have underestimated some new technology in the past doesn't mean that will continue to be true for all new technologies.

The fact that LLMs currently do not really understand the answers they're giving you is a pretty significant limitation they have. It doesn't make them useless, but it means they're not as useful at a lot of tasks that people think they can handle. And that limitation is also fundamental to how LLMs work. Can that be overcome? Maybe. There's certainly a ton of money behind it and a lot of smart people are working on it. But is it guaranteed?

Perhaps I'm wrong and we already know that it's simply a matter of time. I'd love to read an technical explanation for why that is, but I mostly see people rolling their eyes at us mere mortals who don't see how this will obviously change everything as if we're too small minded to understand what's going on.

To be extra clear, I'm not saying LLMs won't be a technological innovation as seismic as the invention of the car. My confusion is why for some there doesn't seem to be room for doubt.
Why work at big businesses anymore? Let's just create more startups.
Why? Especially when said AI helpers are a part of what the company itself is selling?
Exactly this. Code is a liability, if you can do the same thing with less code you're often better off.
Yes. It makes the experience much better when anything is moving. Hard to convince by words, it’s a try it and then go back to 60 to see what you’re missing.

Similar to hard drive vs SSD. Before I used a machine with a SSD for the first time hard drives were fine, then my normal was conditioned to that of SSD speeds. Going back to hard drive speeds is painful, just like 60hz even for things like moving windows around the desktop.
What’s wrong with being skeptical or speculating about election problems? What automatically makes it a “conspiracy theory”? To me these labels are intended to shut down any useful debate. It is especially odd to see this in 2024 when so many “conspiracy theories” of the last few years have turned out to be correct.

The core issue is that our election processes have limited transparency. How would someone audit an election? What evidence could even be gathered to prove the election was proper or not? It seems like the process is built on trust for the most part. The resistance to basic things like voter ID, which most Americans support, doesn’t help instill confidence.
NASA Finds Root Cause of Orion Heat Shield Charring
I dont see a young/old divide when it comes to AI. Altough there is a young/old divide in familial responsibilies and willingness to be a chip on the VC's roulette table.
Thanks, I'll check it out! I've read "High Performance Sailing" by Frank Bethwaite, who was a sailing meteorologist and covers some things- but it is more focused on extreme micro-prediction.
I've used the Sentence Transformers Python library successfully for this: https://www.sbert.net/

My own LLM CLI tool and Python library includes plugin-based support for embeddings (or you can use API-based embeddings like those from Jina or OpenAI) - here's my list of plugins that enable new embeddings models: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/directory.html#em...

More about that in my embeddings talk from last year: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/
Yeah not sure why this is downvoted it is true, a lot of the open source tooling for ios is built in ruby and plenty of people build scripts and cli tools in ruby.
But they would pay me money to audit it for security.
Yeah. You can fit a lot of business logic into a 100kloc monolith written by skilled developers.

Once you start shifting it to micro services the business logic gets spread out and duplicated.

At the same time each micro-service now has its own code to handle rest, graphql, grpc endpoints.

And each downstream call needs error handling and retry logic.

And of course now you need distributed tracing.

And of course now your auth becomes much more complex.

And of course now each service might be called multiple times for the one request - better make them idempotent.

And each service will drift in terms of underlying libraries.

And so on.

Now we have been adding in LLM solutions so there is no consistency in any of the above services.

Each dev rather than look at the existing approaches instead asks Claude and it provides a slightly different way each time - often pulling in additional libraries we have to support.

These days I see so much bad code like a single microservice with 3 different approaches to making a http request.
WP7 was the first misstep with extremely limited API and no native code for apps.
Good points. I would go further and say it is the integral of emissions over time that we would be most concerned with. From that perspective, over the last 200 years - it is problem children, and rising problem childs.
I don’t know about sales force, but once you get high enough, vendors will spend tens of thousands on meals, tickets to conferences, etc to win you over and keep you.

The current place I work will call up Microsoft, databricks, or someone else and have them pay for a hackathon with ~100 participants including catered meals and dinners out for a week.

I sat next to one vendor, I saw the total bill for the dinner (30k). He didn’t flinch and slapped down his Amex
Yeah this seems more like a feature?
There's a number of users who can really make great use of the power user tools, but adding multiple UI options can greatly increase work, because a fully modal workflow might need a completely different frontend, and some apps are meant for the mass market.

Degrading the experience for the majority just to make things better for the power users doesn't seem like it's always the best plan unless you're specifically targeting power users.

In the extreme case, UI for power users can result in production databases being destroyed, or someone getting served food allergens because the menu system made it easy to assign wrong items to wrong customers, or someone's entire family photo collection getting deleted by a single command.
I like the three comments above this one all seem to massively disagree or at least give off argument energy, but they all seem totally correct and don't directly contradict each other.
Photoshop is now on the web (2023)
I’m sorry for the ferrets, but can someone explain the significance of that lethality to humans? Other than those with pet ferrets? Are they a good proxy to humans that I wasn’t aware of?
Sam explicitly commented on this claim. He said we’ll _collectively_, _eventually_ need to spend 7 trillion dollars on compute to meet demand. Not OpenAI raising 7 trillion to build all the capacity itself.
It relied on implicit sync as far as I know by accident. But since it worked for the popular configuration, no one dug deeper that support for accelerated drawing without multi-frame lag of manually calling commit on surfaces had gaps in design.
I've been using this for a couple of years now, and it's utterly fantastic. I highly recommend it. I honestly have a hard time imagining using YouTube without it, because without it (or something similar that can be installed on a TV), I'd have to find videos I want to watch on my PC, download them manually with yt-dlp, and then copy them to a USB stick or put them someplace where I could watch them with Jellyfin, just so I can watch them on the TV.

As the warning says, you need to install it directly from the github site. There's a helpful how-to that details how to do this on a typical Android TV using the "Downloader" app, listed as the "easiest" method here. It's really not hard, but obviously more work than just installing an app from the Play Store.
Unless I've missed it, this analysis skipped over the flexibility of being able to declare which specific assets are functioning as collateral through adding new terms to loans. This would lower compliance costs further without being beholden to all the fixed rules they laid out (eg "FIFO").

For example if you're taking a huge loan above the thresholds, instead of just implicitly having that loan backed by everything you own, the terms can spell out which specific assets are functioning as collateral and that there is no recourse against you generally. Then only the gains on those recourse assets would be considered.

(Though this whole topic might be a moot point now that interest rates exist again, and if the ZIRP monster is allowed to come back then we're screwed anyway)
With React, the guesses it makes around what props / types I want where, especially moving from file to file, is worth the price of admission. Everything else it does it icing on the cake. The new import suggestion is much quicker than the Typescript compiler lmao. And it's always the right one, instead of suggesting ones that aren't relevant.

Composer can be hit or miss, but I've found it really good at game programming.
yup, you can get paid all kinds of money to fix/guard/check billion/trillion dollar assets..
I wasnt talking about holding stock, I was responding to this comment you said:

> In our modern economy it's difficult to not be a shill in some way, shape, or form, even if you don't quite realize it consciously.

Oxford dictionary defines a shill as
"an accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others."

So the difference between someone shilling and being a satisfied customer is an intent to decieve. How is it "difficult to not pose as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others" ?
It makes sense. Assuming the average bot toots ~once an hour (24 times a day) and has been tooting for two years, you get on the order (nearest multiple of 5000) of 20,000 toots per user, which works out to 1600 users.

Also, there's a measuring change from active accounts to plain old users. I don't know the proportion that are active, but if I recall right, the fediverse as a whole had under 1 million active users. Assuming 500,000 active accounts that pull all the weight, it's 220 toots per user on average.
I also recommend two of his shorter works: A Rose for Ecclesiastes and For a Breath I Tarry.
The law will say what qualifies as a browser.

Computer programmers are not legal experts lol. The law is not a program.

The difference between you accessing it and a computer accessing it makes these things different.
I think a lot of the criticism is constructive. Many of the limitations won’t just magically go away - we’ll have to build tooling and processes and adjust our way of thinking to get there. Most devs will jump across to anything useful the second it’s ready, I would think
LLMs make my job as a software engineer even more secure. Most of what I do is social and/or understand what is going on. LLMs are a tool to reduce mental load when in VSCode on some tasks. They are like the pilot's autopilot.

LLM takes my job then we have reached the singularity. Jobs wont matter anymore at that point.
I think I get what you're saying. That a datacenter probably just wants to focus on one product at a time. You're right, it is simpler. On the other hand, that's part of why neoclouds are sprouting up. Users are asking for the optionality.
From the article:

> Ferrets are a common model for studying how influenza viruses that primarily affect birds are able to adapt to mammals, a topic that Kawaoka and his colleagues at UW–Madison’s Influenza Research Institute investigate since such a jump could trigger an influenza pandemic.
This is also the case with weaviate (as you assumed). If you update the value of any previously vectorized property, weaviate generates new vectors automatically for you.
I mean, how are we supposed to extract information without ferrets.
Man survives monthlong ordeal in US national park on mushrooms, berries andwater
The benefit of a centralized forum like Reddit, for a user like me, is the ability to use one account for everything (i.e. easy to join new forums) and the ability to have everything on one algorithmic or chronological feed.

Traditional forums can solve the former by using social sign-ins, and the latter by having RSS. However, support for either of this is inconsistent, so it's usually easier to just use subreddits.

Finally, money. Forums cost money to host, while subreddits don't.
> move multi thousand line codebases between languages

i am more curious about why someone do would this
Interesting. How does that translate into actually incentivizing the innovation? Subsidies, guaranteed purchase contracts, prize competitions, or something similar?
I encounter that issue when the chat becomes too long.

Starting a new chat with context and asking your question again typically works for me.
I just finished Hail Mary this past week. Not as big a fan of it as most seem to be. I found the narrative style to get tedious about half way through the book. A few issues too with events late in the story. 7.5-8/10 by me, above average but not elite.
I mean if you have the coordinates? And it’s 15 minutes away, why would you need Lidar or drones? You could probably send in some inquisitive geeky nerds from the local schools to scout it out.
Harvard Study Links Popular Plastic Ingredient to DNA Damage
Strange design choice. That said, I've used the power button of my existing Mac Mini perhaps once in the past several years.
yes, that's what I've noticed; when I write in pencil, my handwriting almost looks good (!), but when I try to do the same with a Bic, it's terrible.

Will give the Zebra Sarasa a try.
GPT-4o usually does well with SQL. Did a query right first time using cte’s, array functions, table created on the fly in the query, etc.

SQL syntax is fiddly so it’s nice to have a robot do it.
In my understanding, a high rate of lethality is very counter-productive for viruses. If you kill the host, it can’t really spread.