skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to forget one major problem with this: we all have been mediocre devs at some point in our lives -- and there will always be times when we're mediocre, even with all our experience, because we can't be experienced in everything.

If these tools replace mediocre devs, leaving only the great devs to produce the code, what are we going to do when the great devs of today age out, and there's no one to replace them with, because all those mediocre devs went on to do something else, instead of hone their craft until they became great devs?

Or maybe we'll luck out, and by the time that happens, our AIs will be good enough that they can program everything, and do it even better than the best of us.

If you can call that "lucking out" -- some of us might disagree.
How does flagging work on HN? People flag something and it's immediately removed from the homepage, and then presumably later the admin looks at it and decides if it should be flagged?

Because this story being flagged in WILD ya'll.
>Gamers can enjoy incredibly smooth gameplay, with up to 2x higher frame rates5 than on iMac with M1.

Serious question, is gaming relevant on iMac outside of Steam? My subjective view is that it’s all concentrated there.
In the US, google maps is useless because it will give you stupid directions like “at the McDonalds, make a right turn.” Just so they can spew more ads at you. Half the time the location they are advertising is not right up against the street so you don’t see it and miss your turn.
Cursor's AI is in my opinion superior. Copilot gets anything but the most basic things wrong or poor practice advice, and even basic things sometimes. Cursor's _interface_ on the other hand, is not great. I found it clunky and too presumptuous (grabbing 'k' for all the shortcuts was a bad move).

So now that Claud is coming to Copilot, I don't think there's any reason to consider Cursor.
Maybe because I've seen a similar example used before, but I immediately read it correctly the first time. Honestly these sort of 'problems' only ever seem to occur when specifically created to demonstrate this problem and almost never happen in regular writing.
I’m helping a YIMBY group in Austin, Texas. In the USA, we’ve tied the legal right of what you can build to the land. So, a housing shortage causes land prices to skyrocket. We need to break those connections (height limits, unit limits, floor area limits, etc.) to bring urban prices back to reasonable values.

Then, people who want denser, walkable, social neighborhoods can create them.

I do data analysis for the group, on land prices and politics. (E.g., campaign donors). If anyone has questions, reach out to me at hackernews@mike.nahasmail.com

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I think that the credit scenario is more true for OpenAI than others . Existing Azure commits can be used to buy OpenAI via the marketplace. It will never be as simple for any non Azure partner (Only Github is tying up with Anthropic here not Azure)

GitHub doesn’t even support using those azure managed APIs for copilot today, it is just a license you can buy currently and add to a user license. The best you can do is pay for copilot with existing azure commits .

This seems about not being left behind as other models outpace what copilot can do with their custom OpenAI model that doesn’t seem to getting updated .
Why the American Dream Became Unaffordable for the Middle Class [video]
As if homeless people don't already bear a large risk of losing their IDs, careless (or malicious) governments add another risk:

> While many cities instruct workers to store identification, service providers told ProPublica about people they were working with who struggled to access Medicaid, disability benefits, food stamps, sobriety programs and housing after their documents were confiscated in encampment removals.

The description of the article on the Propublica front page makes clear that the identification documents in question are the major ones that naive people imagine almost every citizen to have:

> From birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes, these are just some of the belongings cities take when they clear homeless encampments.
You may want to reevaluate your relationship with Mearsheimer.

His reasoning is quite suspect, you know.
Mullenweg threatens to take over Paid Memberships Pro
There's a lot of Mac games on Steam, Apple Arcade, and Battle.net these days. Anything that isn't supported there, I generally use Xbox streaming or GeForce Now streaming.

Here's a list of my most played games on my Mac in the last couple of years:

WoW, Hearthstone, Dota 2, League of Legends, Thronefall, Vampire Survivors, Baldur's Gate 3, Cult of the Lamb, Balatro, Death Must Die, Terraria, Dave the Diver, Mechabellum, Space Haven, Hades 2, Peglin, Stellaris, RimWorld, Dead Cells, Total War: Warhammer 2, Valheim, Civilization 6, Slay the Spire, Don't Starve Together, Cities: Skylines, Oxygen Not Included, SUPERHOT.

Games I play through GeForce Now:

Fortnite, Diablo 4, WoW, Apex Legends, Halo Infinite, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077

The point of such an annoying long comment is to demonstrate that there is a very substantial Mac gaming library. The problem is that a new shiny game comes out that doesn't support Mac and you don't want to be the ONE guy in your group who can't play it because you're on Mac. The latest one for me is Deadlock. Not on GeForce Now, not on console, not on Mac... so I needed to get a Windows PC.

But if you're a kid and just looking for a general gaming machine, it plays a ton of cool stuff.
Audio Bombing: Magnetic Cassette Tape Graffiti (2007)
So Apple just released their new caste-defined product line. Sure, they're technically good. But I don't know how they can claim any vision aligned with any legacy, they're basically a shiny walled-garden Dell.
Do you expect him to tatoo a word "racist" on his forehead (in kanji)?

That you even dare to quote this pseudo scientific crook is just mind boggling.

Relevant quote:

What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the populations of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of "phasing out" of such peoples.

Calling his output research is abhorrent.
FreeCodeCamp Turns 10 and Major Certification Updates
Then give that piece of code extra-special permissions. As I’ve said in another comment, the days where you downloaded your software from the sunsite or tsx11.ai.mit.edu FTP servers and could be confident that it and all its dependencies were trustworthy are unfortunately gone for a very long time.
In addition to the already mentioned https://huggingface.co/facebook/nougat-base, I also highly recommend https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/GOT-OCR2_0. It might even be better.
I “read” cars and trucks and things that go for my 2 year old every night. He recently found out that goldbug is on every page and now he won’t let me turn the page until we find him. It’s genuinely a lovely book. We got ours from buy nothing, it’s very old and taped up and it has a bunch of writing in it by a kid named Max.
As a sailor I’m really into getting a good weather prediction and most of the models are quite inaccurate. I learned on here about an ML based weather model startup that posted predictions on their website called Atmo.AI (edited) that was mind blowingly accurate and had incredible spacial resolution- it could accurately predict, e.g. the wind shadow behind islands, something none of the mainstream weather models even come close to doing. I used it everyday and it was almost always dead right at predicting wind speeds in almost any specific spot. I won a lot of sailboat races with it. I hope this tech gets taken up by NOAA, or other major weather predictors.

Anyone on here know what happened to Atmo and if the tech is ever going to come back so people can use it? It's a travesty that this tech exists but isn't being used- a lot of lives would be saved if NOAA were using this already existing technology.

Edit: Apparently as another poster pointed out I had just forgotten the correct name of it, and it is still around. I edited this to reflect that.
Wearable Exo-Glove for Telerehabilitation Using Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
LOTO (Lock-Out-Tag-Out)
Which mini PC is recommended for those looking to run Linux (as a server, not desktop) on them?
I was recently trying to solve a similar problem but on desktop platforms. I don't want to depend on LaTeX, but I'd like to be able to generate equation images inside a C++ desktop application. I tried to make MathJax run via QuickJS and extract the SVG for rasterization. But I couldn't make MathJax run with QuickJS.
If you need to guarantee that data is, in fact, written permanently, you use fnctl(F_FULLFSYNC).

FWIW while fsync() on Linux does request that the drive flushes its hardware cache, it's up to the drive whether to actually honor this request, and many don't do so synchronously (but still report success). So unless you control the whole setup end-to-end - hardware and software both - you don't actually have the guarantees.
It's definitely more practical for headphones. I'm curious as to why Apple decided to make this change now. Previous Mac Minis and the Mac Studios have always had them in the back. It seems uncharacteristic of them to go out of their way for wired headphone users after they removed the port entirely from the iPhone, so I wonder if it was a hardware/industrial design thing where it was simply more convenient to move it to the front for the new form factor.

Edit: also I noticed they moved the power button to the bottom corner of the Mac Mini! (It used to be on the back as well.) This makes me think even more that they didn't want to crowd up the back too much.
You realize you can run Linux or BSD on that hardware?
Wow, I thought you guys were just reselling Neon like some others. This is genuinely impressive technically. It's got me looking at Unikraft Cloud for other stuff too.

That said, do you plan do offer branching or any other features that Neon offer? I think that's their big selling point along with separate billing for compute and storage.
In React I just use Formik and Yup to make forms painless. I've yet to discover a better way.
Buy it in an Apple Store and ask for your carrier deal
I sold in 2022 when they went full metaverse on us... one of my mistakes was believing Zuckerberg when he said he would bet the company on VR.
Given the context in this conversation about how confirming a delusion can be dangerous, I think the concern is just that there may be situations where asking this genuine and interesting question could cause harm.

I think probably that on balance you've got away with it though because the people commenting seem to be safely outside the other side of their psychosis and are able to answer interestingly without being harmed by the question.
Besides the fact that I have yet to see any "Big IP" fight for anything but strengthening and lengthening IP rights, your premise doesn't compute: Depending on the country copyright is either by itself transferable (and by far and away is done automatically in an employer-employee relationship) or transferable via exclusive licensing rights (for example in Germany).

It's bizarre to think that Disney somehow has to fight their employees for Disney IP right. It would be nice if that was the case, but it isn't.
OpenServerless: FaaS from Apache?
A simple explanation is: corruption.

HR in companies has changed radically in recent years.

If you throw away your assumptions, and solely look at the behaviors that the function exhibits, you will find striking resemblance to the behaviors under communism, or fascism.

Money has no value any more. Power is the only currency.

To the public, they are strictly compliant, but the tools, such as the CV, the interview process, feedback, approval process, and so on, are irrational to anyone involved, except the true decision makers.

Their objective is not no longer meritocratic, to hire the best qualified or best performing, but to hire people that strengthen the political power of those that already wield it. It's more than nepotism, it's empire building.
I'm a professional who is often forced to suffer Windows nonsense. At work Windows routinely wastes my time with absolute bullshit I couldn't care less about and which makes me negative dollars, even though it is basically a glorified Chrome launcher.

Professionals should absolutely take it seriously because time spent updating Windows or even just waiting around while it gets its shit together is time you could have spent doing your job and making money. In fact, Windows and its spontaneous updates with obnoxious focus stealing prompts are major risks to the integrity of your work and might cause you to have to redo it from scratch, lowering the value of your time even further.

Linux boots in less than ten seconds and is already ready to use. There are distributions for all levels of expertise, and if there's an IT department it should be managing those boxes anyway. All that's missing is the Microsoft Office suite and in the end that's what the Windows vs Linux battle always boils down to. People put up with it because they just need muh Excel.
I'm perfectly calm, Dude.
We used to do similar things. Then devs pushed stuff to prod without committing them. Then things broke when pushing the version that was in git. Then I forced everything into docker. Things got better. If you want to do things fast invest into local test invironments. CI/CD is more than just a way to deploy things. And maybe a little friction to just push things might push a developer to write a test for the functionality.
Debunking CISC vs. RISC code density (2022)
Sure, still incredibly rare in a $600 device
The web is interesting because we never had rich components provided by the browser to begin with. Web applications have always had to draw everything but the most basic inputs themselves, and the design of web apps has evolved accordingly.

In an alternate universe, where web apps were embraced by the platform from the start rather than something people had to shoehorn into a document sharing mechanism, and we had rich components built-in, then yes I would probably be annoyed if people insisted on rolling their own versions. After all, I am annoyed when people use a span with a click handler instead of a proper anchor tag, because it usually breaks middle clicking or opening a link in a new tab—a platform convention I have internalised and expect to work.

Note this only applies to web apps, not sites. Much like how I do not have any problem that magazines don’t share a common layout.
I just bought a non-smart TV at a yard sale for $10. I wasn't even out looking, it just happened to be there. It works great.

Much scarier, there are "smart monitors" coming which are just computer monitors but will display ads to users. Once that happens, and is wholly unavoidable, I'm honestly finished with computers for good.

As an aside, I have a very clear understanding of privacy issues. If there's a particular issue you'd like to dig into, I'd be happy to talk it out with you. I'll bet we agree more than you think.
There's a tautological undercurrent to this piece. Matt Levine is rare because he has certain characteristics, which are rare.

It misses a larger point which is that advertisers pay for readers who are interested in financial content, and they tend to pay less in most other areas of coverage. So other industries do not produce Matts as easily, or takes bets on writers to see if they work well driving people into the wide end of the funnel.

In the case of Bloomberg, it's a little more nuanced than ads, since the company treats content as a loss leader to make people aware of the financial data it sells through its terminal.

Matt Levine exists because Bloomberg can charge more than $400k per year to a terminal subscriber, which means they will gladly absorb a really high CAC.
I am well aware of the weak points of Flatpak. But are you suggesting that running applications in a container is not more secure than running an executable completely naked?

You see: If you want absolute security, for sure, go for a full-fledged VM! Or run something like QubesOS. It is a completely reasonable decision.

However, malice certainly has degrees, and the "mildly malicious" programs most likely cannot take advantage of sandbox escaping exploits. If Flatpak can stop 95% of all attacks (relative to running a program completely without sandboxing), that is already a win in my book.

But I will note again that X11 is a big hole (as in, almost a complete free-for-all) for sandbox escaping in Flatpak.
Lots of progress, but I feel like we've been seeing diminishing returns. I can't help but feel like recent improvements are just refinements and not real advances. The interest in AI may drive investment and research in better models that are game-changers, but we aren't there yet.
They seem to be going after different markets, or at least having differing degrees of success in going after different markets.

OpenAI is most successful with consumer chat app (ChatGPT) market.

Anthropic is most successful with business API market.

OpenAI currently has a lot more revenue than Anthropic, but it's mostly from ChatGPT. For API use the revenue numbers of both companies are roughly the same. API success seems more important that chat apps since this will scale with success of the user's business, and this is really where the dream of an explosion in AI profits comes from.

ChatGPT's user base size vs that of Claude's app may be first mover advantage, or just brand recognition. I use Claude (both web based and iOS app), but still couldn't tell you if the chat product even has a name distinct from the model. How's that for poor branding?! OpenAI have put a lot of effort into the "her" voice interface, while Anthropic's app improvements are more business orientated in terms of artifacts (which OpenAI have now copied) and now code execution.
It runs Linux or BSD just fine.
Why did this get flagged? Seems very on topic for HN and is not blogspam or clickbait.
I remember when a notification meant something I actually wanted to see.
Time to go back to the archon grid for that sweet divine light
I'm not against "unbounded" capitalism, but certainly there should be things in place that ensure adequate competition is taking place. So I prefer "unfettered". I think this is of special concern given that the Silicon Valley Model is to literally become a monopoly. That's not good for anyone, including the company.

That said, obviously I have some concerns on the billionaire class, especially the hundred billionaires.

> can’t understand how big big numbers are.

It isn't just this (though it is true[0]), but that money works extremely differently at this scale. Interest is not a rounding error, or something you think about being influential down the line. Passive income is so great that it gets difficult to imagine. There's those sites[1] that have you try to spend a large fortune and they don't even get to the different part. That being that for people like Elon, anything on that list can be bought by a week's worth of... doing nothing. That the passive income is so high that the problem isn't even that you couldn't spend the money if it was not growing, but that it grows so fast that you can't even spend it if you tried really hard. Spending a static billion dollars is incredibly difficult and you have to get creative. But in the real world with interest, it is exponentially more difficult.

I think the best example of this is MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos's ex-wife. She's been spending her money as fast as she can and she "hasn't lost a dime". Forbes had her starting at $36bn and currently has her at $35.6B[2]. In the time since she has divorced Bezos she's given away nearly $17bn. We're talking less than 5 years.... In <5 years she's "spent" half of her static wealth and still has what she started with. Money at this level simply does not work the same way and a lot of people do not fundamentally understand this.

But there's also a psychological issue I don't get. What is the point of having so much "fuck you money" if you are not going to tell people to fuck off. Certainly they do at times, but often they don't. To have the wealth to do whatever you want, to be unconstrained, unburdened, and to still have anxiety and concern? To be stressed? I can understand that old habits die hard, but they do die.

[0] I started my academic life in physics. We do giant numbers and tiny numbers. I can with great certainty assert that our brains are not made to actualize these numbers. It is amazing that we have the math to work with them but when you stop to compare and it blows your mind. This is not done enough.

[1] https://www.spend-elon-fortune.com/ or articles like this https://youngfinances.com/spend-1-billion-dollars-you-cant-h...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/profile/mackenzie-scott/
I used the shorter title in the HTML. The actual article title is:

> She Supports Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies. Texas Incorrectly Flagged Her as a “Noncitizen” on Its Voting Rolls.
You say "spoiled", I say "ruined". Volunteer moderation of the commons is much different from a platform claiming to deny liability for 99% of content but choosing to more or less take the roles of moderation themselves. Especially with the talks of AI

My issue isn't with moderation quality so much as claiming to be a commons but in reality managing it as if you're a feudal lord. My point it that they WANT to try to moderate it all now, removing the point of why 230 shielded them.

And insults are unnecessary. My thoughts are my own from some 15 years of observing the landscape of social media dynamics change. Feel free to disagree but not sneer.
It's the ads, less so the AI. Meta makes an absolute killing with ads by dominating much of the internet now, usurping the throne from google. Instagram + Facebook +WhatsApp is probably easily going to be worth $2+ trillion even if the Metaverse does not work. AI is the icing on the cake or long shot that can catpult Meta to even more riches.
Where was human behaviour discounted in my argument?
Facebook shows me a lot of politics, some of it I find repugnant and much of that is clearly designed to troll. Interesting that your experience is so different.

FB also shows me a lo of pseudo-science, similar history, etc. because of my interests in the real things. It has recently taken to showing me pictures of Eastern Europe for no apparent reason.
This:

> I want to rewrite my simulation in Python.

Is completely different than this:

> My thought is to write it in Python, profile it, and if needed, rewrite the slow parts in C.

Your professors are right if you mentioned the former only and didn't clarify to them the latter.
No... it's not that the world "can be" 3D, it's that the world entirely IS 3D. You could say that my comments is 3D and you'd be right, in many ways, since storage mediums as well as pixels are technically 3D.
Are there any good 3rd-party native frontend apps for Claude (on MacOS)? I mean something like ChatGPTs app, not an editor. I guess one option would be to just run Claude iPad app on MacOS.
You really start taking into account bandwidth when you need 64GB or more (which is rarelly).

If it's audio/video, spawning VMs, it doesn't matter much. If it's for generative software, it might become an issue.
Isn't that the same with Windows? I haven't used Windows as my main OS in a couple years, but all my games were on Steam.
No that’s not a solution for that. I meant it if you need more space down the road.
The Energy Transition Is Powered By – Wait for It – Coal
Russia could easily “convince” a CA based in their country to do them a favour to facilitate MITM. Or just gather the right kompromat needed to convince one overseas.
There's an approach to pschotherapy called internal family systems that sounds a bit like this.
I think llms are useful and also that cursor is not.

It's a specific thing and it doesn't suit me.

I've seen the glittery eyed hype on hn before and it basically means it will become a common tool. Whether it's good or not, that's a different question.