skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me give it a try...um...what about 'Star Trek' vs.: A delivering-service called Galaxyray?galaxyray brings wares and hot tasty meals galaxywide to recipients, even while they are 'traveling' with more-than-lightspeed in hyperspace?

> ..ordered by Imperium just to troll the retros!?

Sounds "less comon"...hu...?! P-:

Ok! Ok! let me try to explain it a bit more, the whole Universe projected as a beam, say... scalable, 100m, placed in a storage depot, a 'parralaxy' ...So delivery agents are grabbing the ordered stuff and...no? Not?

As reasonable like your answer is, do that sound very 'uncommon' while 'phrasing that with many questionmarks'?

??

Enjoying my day off... (-:
regards,
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They did a breaking change in a recent C# where nullable objects must be postfixed with a ?, so old code is:

public Patient Patient { get; set; }

The same thing with modern code would be

public Patient? Patient { get; set; }

Because with the new C#, objects are by default not null. Fortunately there is a compiler flag to turn this off, but it's on by default.

As a guy who has worked in C# since 2005, a breaking change would make me pretty irate. Backwards compatibility has its benefits.

What issues do you have with backwards compatibility?
But to get enough iron out of a pan to even match a single bowl of cereal you'd have to use a grinder.
Because I do security audits

Functional bugs in edge cases are annoying enough, and I seem to run into these regularly as a user, but there's yet another class of people creating edge cases for their own purposes. The nonchalant "if it doesn't work"... I don't know whether that confirms my suspicion that not all developers are aware of (as a first step; let alone control for) the risks
I am of the strong opinion most problems were solved 20-40 years ago and that most code written today is reimplementation using different languages.

I have shipped production code using LLMs in languages I did not study approved by seasoned SWE's is evidence that an acceleration is happening.
You can pass in @workspace before the prompt (in copilot chat) and it looks at the full context. It works OK, I could imaging Cursor being more powerful in this!
I forgot about this game. It single handedly soured me on Kickstarters. I'm surprised to see that it's actually playable now, albeit looks like they are still calling it alpha.
Some corollary to Murphy's law? Whatever is not independently tested / audited will go wrong?
I've known plenty of people in my own country who don't take trivial steps, because they didn't feel like it.
The chart is right there upthread for anybody interested to see. No, I haven't dropped any of my arguments against DNSSEC.
Science is also about discovery. it may stumble upon something very unexpected take a photo and send it back
> So the researcher tests if omega 3 effects cardiovascular outcome in these hundred people by adding a lot more fish oil to the diet of these 100 people. Since only one of them really needs it, the P value will be insignificant and everyone will say fish oil does nothing. Yet for that one person it was literally everything.

But... that's not a problem with the use of the p-value, because that's (quite probably) a correct conclusion about the target (unrestricted) population addressed by the study as a whole.

That's a problem with not publishing complete observations, or not reading beyond headline conclusions to come up with future research avenues. That effects which are not significant in a broad population may be significant in a narrow subset (and vice versa) are well-known truths (they are the opposites of the fallacies of division and composition, respectively.)
Good on BYD. Go engineers!

I've followed them since 2008 when Berkshire Hathaway took a stake.

Here's the founder on why he still lives in a company flat with the other workers

> 6:34
I'm just an ordinary engineer and due to
work requirements I became the chairman
of this company but after work we're all
equal we live and talk together this is
our culture. https://youtu.be/oBdDIuYcpGQ

Although he's probably being modest. Charlie Munger thought he was like a new Edison (mentioned jokingly 3 mins in here with Charlie Warren and BillG https://youtu.be/rZ9AooeFe9E)

Tesla used to be cool when Musk was focused on engineering. It's a bit of a pity he's switched to prancing around on stage with Trump.
Sabine Baring-Gould was a fascinating man: https://theweek.com/articles/763465/last-man-who-knew-everyt...

I picked up a complete set of his Lives of the Saints that was being discarded from a seminary library a few years back. It’s a delight (in part owing to what Walther describes as the “inordinate” attention he pays “to the most minor details of his subjects' terrestrial existences”).
This would be a relatively major thing, since you generally have no choice but to breathe the air in your dwelling. As a policy matter (i.e., one in which the government can offset out-of-pocket costs for greater savings on the back end), subsidizing electrification so that Americans can have a better quality-of-life with less incidence of cancer, respiratory illness, and catastrophic detonation of inhabited residences seems like a no brainer.

And for people who must have their gas appliances, there are always portable units/generators. They can use those.
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The IDE integrates the AI generator, like copilot.

Yes, they'll miss AI-generated code that is copy pasted, so they only have a lower bound of AI-generated code.
Go back to the ReAct paper, reasoning and action. This is the basis of most of the modern stuff. Read the paper carefully, and reproduce it. I have done so, this is doable. The paper and the papers it refers to directly addresses many things you have said in these threads. For example, the stochastic nature of LLM’s is discussed at length with the CoT-SC paper (chain of thought self consistency). When you’re done with that take a look at the Reflexion paper.
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Or more likely, listening to background noise to spy on what family members are saying and listening for marketing/brand trigger words. It may not be very human audible but if it's machine audible it will probably be scraped.
Metal spatulas cause damage to frying pans. How do I know which is worse, the plastic melting off my black spatula or the non-stick coating scraping off my frying pan?

I suppose I could go cast iron, but I'm sure I can find a study saying those are terrible too.
I’m guessing your cast iron pan isn’t polished. If it is, you can get it to be non stick.

Stainless steel also works very well. You just need to preheat it to get the Leidenfrost effect.
Looks like Githubs attempt at v0.dev
Gleam from a language perspective seems really nice - but it's in it's ramp up stage, I will go through the Gleam Exrercism track and keep an eye on it. It would be great if it became the general purpose typed pragmatic functional language with a large ecosystem I am after!
> I'm continually surprised by the amount of negativity that accompanies these sort of statements.

I'm excited about the possibilities and I still recoil at the refined marketer prose.
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But in theory, with what training data there IS available on how to write in assembly, combined with the data available on what's required to build an app, shouldn't a REAL AI be able to synthesize the knowledge necessary to write a webapp in assembly? To me, this is the basis for why people criticize LLMs, if something isn't in the data set, it's just not conceivable by the LLM.
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Previously (35 points, 1 day ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989534
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If you're getting the Gatekeeper dialog with the "Open anyway" button (the "Apple cannot verify that this app is free of malware" alert), then this is a specific case: you're on Catalina or later, and the app you're using has a valid code-signature but hasn't been notarized.

This warning only triggers for legacy releases of apps, published before notarization existed. Since Catalina, notarization has been part-and-parcel of the same flow that gets the self-published app bundle code-signed by Apple. AFAIK it is no longer possible to create a code-signed but non-notarized app bundle through XCode. (It's probably still possible by invoking `codesign` directly, and third-party build systems might still be doing that... but they really shouldn't be! They've had years to change at this point! Catalina was 2019!)

Thus, the "Open anyway" option in this dialog is likely transitional. This warning is, for now, intended to not overly frighten regular users, while also indicating to developers (esp. the developer of the app) that they should really get out a new, notarized release of their app, because maybe, one day, this non-notarized release of the app won't be considered acceptable by Gatekeeper any more.

I'm guessing that once a sufficient percentage of apps have been notarized, such that macOS instrumentation reports this dialog being rarely triggered, the "Open anyway" option will be removed, and the dialog will merge back into the non-code-signed-app version of the dialog that only has "Cancel" and "Move to Trash" options. Though maybe in this instance, the dialog would have the additional text "Please contact the app developer for a newer release of this app" (because, unlike with an invalid digital signature, macOS wouldn't assume the app is infected with malware per se, but rather just that it might do low-level things [like calling private OS frameworks] that Apple doesn't permit notarized apps to do.)
Well, they don't /have/ to use those.
I dabble in SmallTalk for hobby stuff, and it actually seems to be the other way around these days: People find SmallTalk after becoming enamored with Ruby. That's definitely my story.
Yes, exactly. I can’t believe how little mention of silicon and wood there is here.

Silicon is much more resistant to heat and chemicals. I believe the polymers are also more tightly bound.

I also think people cook too much on nonstick. Non stick has a place in the kitchen for specific dishes. But for the most part you can cook most things in a combination of high quality stainless steel pans and cast iron. Some food sticking in stainless is a good thing (Maillard reaction), deglaze the pan and scrape it up with a good wood spatula.
Same things I use it for as well - crap like "update this class to use JDK21" or "re-implement this client to use AWS SDKv2" or whatever.

And it works maybe... 80% of the way and I spend all my time fixing the remaining 20%. Anecdotally I don't "feel" like this really accelerates me or reduces the time it would take me to do the change if I just implemented the translation manually.
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There are still people who use plastic electric kettles. It's crazy out there.
Something that I always think about when I see discussions about hallucinations or "confidently wrong answers" is that humans have this issue too.

For those on tiktok, how many times have you found yourself easily believing some random person online who you have no idea the credentials of? And this has been a problem for a long time (news, internet, etc).

It's just interesting to me we are asking way more of AI than we can ever ask from humans.
>> The market for talent is competitive. So companies bid up to the absolute max they can - The market for managers is also competitive. Creating dynamics that lead to larger teams and raises for team members - Companies allow things like remote work, which is a perk

Here, saying "the market for talent is competitive" clearly means that hirers are competing with each other over potential employees. Deciding that you already have too many potential employees is the opposite of that. It would mean that the market to sell talent is competitive, which isn't what was claimed.
Im annoyed at all the servile responses in defense of these bad companies.

Wanna hear my conspiracy theory?

Three letter agencies are using games as an intel gathering tool, and KLA is part of that. What if the CEOs are getting NSLs, etc?
People should care: https://protectthestack.org/
I can suggest one reason why LLM might prefer writing in higher level language like Ruby vs assembly. The reason is the same as why physicists and mathematicians like to work with complex numbers using "i" instead of explicit calculation over 4 real numbers. Using "i" allows us to abstract out and forget the trivial details. "i" allows us to compress ideas better. Compression allows for better prediction.
While Star Citizen initially had the stated goal of being a return to old school game design, it has slowly adopted all of the worst aspects of modern AAA gaming: endless early-access, using the public as beta testers, insanely expensive "micro" transactions, pay to win, bloated budgets, endless roadmaps, and constant missed deliveries.

It's all horribly dysfunctional and hostile to its customers. In this context, this latest wrinkle is hardly surprising.

As someone who backed this project early (when it was at "only" $33 million or so) I'm not even mad anymore, just disappointed.
Gamers Are Weird
I had a photoshoot scheduled with a young Somali man. He was late by over an hour, and I had another shoot after so I had to cancel. I rescheduled and told him if he was late for the next shoot I wouldn’t be rescheduling again.

He said he wouldn’t be…inshallah.

I know it’s part of their language but just as with your cab example it can be a bit annoying as an outsider, as it feels like they’re passing off responsibility. I feel the same way about some of the things Christians say too, for what it’s worth.

Anyways, that’s my infuriating inshallah story. He was late again - and he needed to find another photographer after that.
VMware allows linked clones which you can do when deploying from template

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/13/com.vmware.fusio...
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Might have been generated by an LLM ironically.
> However, it is very important to understand that only a tiny percentage of cheaters in games end up being determined enough to go through hoops to purchase hardware for it

Today. That will change when it's a cheap off-the-shelf product sold on Amazon. I almost wish we were there already to get rid of this KLA nonsense.

Not to mention, every KLA game I've played has had cheaters regardless. Circumventing the software seems to become a game unto itself for those people.
Not longer than Steve Reich, John Cage, Philip Glass, or Ann Southam.

Nor for that matter Mozart, who wrote simple algorithmic compositions powered by dice. These were common musical games in his day.
Because it is more precise.

'Alternative' or 'option', leave the question 'to what?'.
> I guess it depends on what you're referring to as the "scientific method

No quotes needed, scientific method is well defined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Depends how far east or west you are...
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We'll find out -- I just submitted a form to HN to collect some QA pairs to try it out.
Triple Density Floppy, Anyone?
We used a deterministic aperture load balancing to solve this at twitter - https://blog.x.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2....

Cool to see some other approaches, although I believe they've complicated theirs a bit more than necessary.
This is a nitpick for sure, but as I understand it, electric motors provide pretty much constant torque throughout their operating range, which is one of their benefits. It's the speed of the motor that varies, and consequently the power, which is a function of torque times speed.
Also the vaporization of teflon is probably not a step function but a curve, and they set the safety range at some threshold. So in all likelihood you are inhaling who knows what at even the safe ranges.
>using the public as beta testers,

Not true! It's still in alpha.
neat guy, he was not just "once lucky", he also made money with his NBA team and even in movie production iirc

but, he is blasted all over the media with his political ranting and it gets a little tired...you get one vote just like the rest of us Mark
REAL-TIME multiplayer is worse for that use case. There's no reason a game that is asynchronous, like an old school play by mail game, couldn't be fun for twenty minutes when you have time, and maybe there's a limit or a turn involved so you don't get too ahead, and your partner does their thing when they get time

I have wanted to see a game like that for years and years. I think this is why chess.com is huge with the youths, as it fits my description and is fairly unique -- I just don't personally care for chess.
You are really part of the cream, and I mean it as an honest compliment.

I am part of the dark matter, although self-initiated java upgrades already put me on the right side of bell-curve.

> Also I'd actively remove all apache commons as well. Even in Java8 most of the functionality is redundant.

I used to think that. Then I had to decompress zip files in memory and selectively process the children. Of course Java has the functionality covered in stdlib, but they require so much boilerplate, and commons-compress was such a pleasure that I was done in 10 minutes. The same goes for other apache libs too.

OTOH, I wholeheartedly agree about Lombok being unjustified curse.
> You have two options, synchronous cancel (block until we know if cancel succeded) or async cancel (callback or other notification).

> This code simply handles the race incorrectly, no need to think too hard about this.

I still think the race is unnecessary. In the problematic code, there’s an operation (await accept) that needs special handling if it’s canceled. A linear type system would notice the lack of special handling and complain. But I would still solve it differently: make the sensitive operation impossible to cancel. “await accept()” can be canceled. Plain “accept” cannot. And there is no reason at all that this operation needs to be asynchronous or blocking!

(Even in Rust’s type system, one can build an “await ready_to_accept()” such that a subsequent accept is guaranteed to succeed, without races, by having ready_to_accept return a struct that implements Drop by putting the accepted socket back in the queue for someone else to accept. Or you can accept the race where you think you’re ready to accept but a different thread beat you to it and you don’t succeed.)
The more uncertainty you have in your model of the world, because it is so complex, the more conservative you should be.

I like how https://www.youtube.com/@TechIngredients approach complex problems and risks in a safe way.

Human interaction normal operating mode shouldn't be with one pushing and pulling your buttons to make you react. That's quite the definition of emotional manipulation, and not the basis of sane relations.

If you are operating on the edge on purpose, you are probably creating a toxic workplace for those around you.
I would have thought the concept of 'leverage' is more useful.
it's simple, just use stainless steel and preheat it to where water droplets bounce instead of evaporate before putting the oil on
It is, yeah, though you have to turn it on. I'm not actually sure why it's off by default.
No it's not. There are trademark exemptions for satire/parody, and have been for a long time.

Sure the companies could have sued, but chances would have been about exactly 0% for those companies to win the case against the EFF on the back of their trademarks, and they knew that very well (my opinion), that case would've probably just been dismissed immediately.
Still no reason for unprovoked personal attacks.

Stick to technical arguments.
> if you haven’t won a solo build game on 1440p 360hz, you haven’t ever actually played a video game.

I think this is the most insane thing you've written here today, the one thing I truly disagree with. I'm not sure you even agree with it, given you seem to already understand well the difference between casual, competitive, and hardcore competitive play. But are you aware of solo play?
But then it's harder to shim in the money-makers like microtransactions, loot boxes, and all the other recent "innovations" in the gaming industry.
> I can stipulate that the Great Awokening has had a terribly regressive impact on the free exchange of ideas.

The paragraph with the above sentence in it is notably lacking in examples relative to his other points, and seems to be contradicted by those other points.
I mean, WebAssembly Opus decoder seems meaningful even to this day, but I wondered why earlier formats are there in the first place. The bit-exactness is a good argument but as you've said that's a very specific requirement, and the library only seems to care about performance and minified size anyway.
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> [war] is how we communicate in our language.

Is it? Or is it how marketing communicates? (Which apparently is then spilling into how you communicate?)