skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be true for things that could only be "used" once. But I don't think that it's a valid point at all times.
Recently, for example, I've made a little "Linux for dummies" zine, and put it on my shelf.
Sometimes guests take it, read it, and put it back.
Technically, all of them get to read it for free, through no additional cost to me, because this zine already existed before they knew they wanted to "use it", and this zine will continue to exist after they "use it".
Both CS and Valorant has had it for years, MOBA games as well. It works when you have maps with simple geometry.
ARMv8 is not an evolution of previous designs, it was created by and for Apple's phone SoCs.

Whereas RISC-V was created by academics who mostly just claim it's the best because they invented it.
I don't think there are many people who will confuse an in-house load balancing service used at dropbox with a brokerage even if both are called Robinhood. Similarly, I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an old character of English folklore (and no I don't think it's the space that's important).

Context matters. There simply isn't a risk for meaningful confusion here. So what's the issue exactly?
The mysterious AI image generator that topped benchmarks is now available
I expected them to be API compatible. Not that it matters to me but I had looked to see.
You can also use DragonFlyBSD with Hammer2, which supports both online and offline deduplication. It is very similar to ZFS in many ways. The big drawback though, is lack of file transfer protocols using RDMA.

I've also heard there are some experimental branches that makes it possible to run Hammer2 on FreeBSD. But FreeBSD also lacks RDMA support. For FreeBSD 15, Chelsio has sponsored NVMe-oF target, and initiator support. I think this is just TCP though.
If Sir is buying his lithium batteries and/or power transformers from the likes of eBay, Alibaba and Amazon, then Sir may wish to check his fire insurance is up to date.
Scientists decode when and how kissing evolved in humans
A nice setup for Rust development where compile times are high. You can offload that to a beefy machine while using the editor on a MacBook Air :-)
I also work at google (until last Friday). Agree with what you said. My thoughts are

1. This quote is clearly meant to exaggerate reality, and they are likely including things like fully automated CL/PR's which have been around for a decade as "AI generated".

2. I stated before that if a team of 10 is equally as productive as a team of 8 utilizing things like copilot, it's fair to say "AI replaced 2 engineers", in my opinion. More importantly, Tech leaders would be making this claim if it were true. Copilot and it's clones have been around long enough know for the evidence to be in, and no one is stating "we've replaced X% of our workforce with AI" - therefor my claim is (by 'denying the consequent'), using copilot does not materially accelerate development.
Used Zed for a week or so, loved it! But the lack of mypy / git integrations forced me back to VS-code :'(
I think you didn't use the "share" function; I cannot open any of these links. Can you do it in a private browser session (so you're not logged in)?
I'm waiting for some Google developer to say "More than a quarter of the CEOs statements are now created by AI"... ;-)
Car market is crazy these past few years, but the common wisdom is "your car loses worth the moment it leaves the lot". and it is probably still an essential so you can ensure cash flow. It's more expensive making a bad bet with a beater and spending hundreds keeping it running.

And selling your house is a last resort. rent is still more than mortgageso you're losing both asset and liquid wealth with that move just to buy some time. You're better off taking out a second mortgage if needed than selling off entirely.
Note that although this is a really good transcript (remember that awful auto-generated transcript for an interview (podcast maybe? I don't recall all the details) with tptacek way back? Not like that) it isn't actually written by a Rust or C++ programmer (or if it was they aren't paying attention) so e.g. it says "mute" because that's how you pronounce the keyword "mut" in Rust, just as C++ people often pronounce their "char" keyword "car".
I really wish there was a good alternative to vscode for remote debugpy
Is it possible to skip the seasoning ?
But I don't want a crust on my eggs. I want them pale and fluffy, especially my scrambled eggs. Any brown spots on my eggs and I consider them ruined. If you tell me I won't be able to make eggs the way I prefer them in a cast iron pan, then cast iron is not for me.
I saw code on master which was parsing HTML with regex. The author was proud that this code was mostly generated by AI.

:)
from the getting started https://microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/getting-started/

GenAIScript is a scripting language that integrates LLMs into the scripting process using a simplified JavaScript syntax. It allows users to create, debug, and automate LLM-based scripts.

which ruins my hope that it was a JS library I could drop into other things and work together with other JS libraries. Although I guess can implement some sort of bridge to it to allow that, why not a full js library not sure.

on edit: huh, maybe available js library https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42002316
> Everyone working in enterprise software development has known about the power of this language for well over a decade. But, you won't find a single YC startup that would admit to using it.

Not sure about that. Maybe there are? If you do web or mobile apps, C# would be an excellent choice. Go would be also an excellent choice for web.

For AI I wouldn't use C#. Even though it has excellent ML libraries, most research and popular stuff is done using Python and pytorch, so that's what I would chose.

For very low level, I'd take C or Zig. But I don't know many startups who are into very low level stuff.
It also bugs me that these tools will reduce the incentive to write better frameworks and language features if all the horrible boilerplate is just written by an LLM for us rather than finding ways to design systems which don't need it.

The idea that our current languages might be as far as we get is absolutely demoralising. I don't want a tool to help me write pointless boilerplate in a bad language, I want a better language.
I've seen no mention of margarine in this entire comments page. The consensus has changed over the years.
This is awesome! Any plans to open-source it? I would love to get involved.
Yeah, the Vue-like I made (other comment) was my second attempt at it and this time using just Proxy to simplify things. The first time I had tried to do it as Vue did previously with defineProperty but it was a damn mess to try to support arrays,etc and honestly the code was never stable (and using Vue V2 you can also run into a few edge-cases like missing properties missing reactivity).
Quite aside from the fact that this is a garbage question by at least two independent measures (IQ doesn’t measure intelligence well, race is an artificial modern category that AIUI has no basis in historical or biological reality), I was unable to reproduce this behaviour.

I tried to reproduce the claimed performance on thee original phrasing of the question, and a very slightly re-worded variant just in case. Here are my results:

* ChatGPT 4o with no custom prompt (Chatbot Arena and official ChatGPT Plus app): answer did not exhibit signs of being nonsense or fearful, even if it did try to lean neutral on the exact answers. I got answers that lean "there is no consensus", "there are socio-economic factors in play", with an inclusion of "this question has a dark history". The answer was several paragraphs long.

* plain GPT-4o (Chatbot Arena): answers the same as above

* ChatGPT with custom GPT persona (my own designed custom prompt that aims to make GPT-4o more willing to engage with controversial topics in a way that goes against OpenAI programming): called race a "taxonomic fiction" (which IMO is a fair assessment), called out IQ for being a poor measurement of intelligence, stated that it's difficult to separate environmental/community factors from genetic ones. The answer was several paragraphs long, and included detail. The
model's TL;DR line was unambiguous: "In short, plausible? Theoretically. Meaningful or durable? Highly unlikely."

* Claude Sonnet 20241022 (Chatbot Arena): the only one that approached anything that could be described as fear. Unlike OpenAI models, the answer was very brief - 30 words or so. Anthropic models tend to be touchy, but I wouldn't describe the answer as preachy.

* DeepSeek 2.5 (Chatbot Arena): technical issues, didn't seem to load for me

Overall, I got the impression 4o wasn't trying to do anything overly alarming here. I like tearing into models to see what they tend to say to get an idea of their biases and capabilities, and I love to push back against their censorship. There just was none, in this case.
You get a mortgage because most people cannot just outright buy a hosue with cash. We can discuss the balance of how big a mortgae to your salary, but most people through American history could "not really afford it" by that definition.

But most of history relied on a labor market focusing on retention and training. We're far past that. We're a gig econnomy in all but name with these kinds of evonomic swings.
Except that the GC makes it exactly not viable for games and its one of the biggest problems Unity devs run into. I agree it's a great language, but its not a do it all.
This is answered in their FAQ: https://zed.dev/faq :

We envision Zed as a free-to-use editor, supplemented by subscription-based, optional network features, such as:

Channels and calls
Chat
Channel notes

We plan to offer our collaboration features to open source teams, free of charge.
Water is a powerful solvent it just needs time.
https://contabo.com/en/vps/
Efficient Machine Learning with R
digiKam can dedupe on actual similarity (so different resizes and formats of the same image). But it does take some time to calculate all the hashes.
I have to say that there is no solution that will work for "every team on every product".

This seems to be useful to understand and internalize that there are no simple answers like "use story points!".

There is also loads of people who don't understand that, so I stand by that is useful and important to repeat on every possible occasion.
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Of course you can! Nobody is stopping you. And since you're not able to completely stop the legislation, you'll get more of what you want.
really depends on CoL and remote work and a half dozen other factors. My house is around the same mortgage but also twice as expensive in a suburb that is arguably the boonies. Even with the $20/hr miniumum wage for flipping burgers It'd be a tight fit after utilities and other payments.
I really mean using existing stuff, without rolling your own:

List<int> nums = [1, 2, 3, 4];

//do stuff with nums

Delete(nums);
Do you have any examples other than the 2 > 3 transition? Maybe within the last 5 years?
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I see some similarity to the kitchen of my aunt (mother's side). My mother has formal education in home economics. She laid out her own kitchen using a technique where a day of work is simulated with a paper plan, pins, and thread between the pins for every movement. I always thought that was very clever in its simplicity, and yes, the result is that commonly needed things are within reach where they are needed, and outputs of one step kind of naturally end up right where they need to be for the next step.
>So what is the problem with this as a solution ?

Non-stick cookware was invented for a reason.
Creating a PDF Q&A App Using ColPali, Modal, and FastHTML
> Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store, they would probably already be there if it wasn't for the pesky EU.

People have been saying this ever since Apple added the App Store to the Mac in 2010. It’s been 14 years. I wonder how much time has to go by for people to believe it’s not on Apple’s todo list.
I'm sorry, but I gotta defend GPT-4o image capabilities on this one. It's leagues ahead of competition on this, even if text-only it's absolutely horrid.
You underestimate how bad the job market's been the last 2 years.

And no, 1k a month is under minimum wage in my state. It's not even covering my mortgage, which is much cheaper than rent.
Where can I see the code for this?
Interesting to see this comment. I’m in Australia and have had issues with the supermarkets long before the news caught wind of it this year.

I’m building something you describe, and I think there is great opportunity here, but it’s not quite ready for showing. There will be no advertising, no sell out to the Big 4 etc.

Would you be interested in being a beta user when it’s ready?
Can I just walk in with no management experience and ask for a manager job anywhere?
This was a failure of regulation, not just in the US but elsewhere too; banks and mortgage brokers weren't doing their due diligence and were giving out loans and mortgages that people couldn't afford based on their income and other outstanding debts, eventually leading to the 2007/8 financial crisis.

Which should have been a lesson, but five years later, housing prices recovered and ballooned. I don't know why besides increased demand and reduced availability, clearly people can still get mortgages despite the lessons learned from the crisis.
> Everyone knows this was “made by AI” because there’s no way in hell I would ever have the time.

Doubtful. A decent fraction of the people reading it will guess that you've wasted your time writing incoherent nonsense in the jira. Engineers don't usually have much insight into what the C suite are doing. It would be a prudent move to spend the couple of seconds to write "something like this AI sketch:" before the copy&paste.
Excellent article! Thank you very much!

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Oops, fixed the links.

mini's answer is correct, but then it forgets that fathers are male in the next sentence.
I don't rely on AI for programming (too much)
Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)
Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines
> Since we discuss C# here, it is a good jack of all trades language where you can do almost anything, with decent performance, low boilerplate.

That's basically modern-day Java, with Lombok and other tidbits. Furthermore, if I recall correctly, Java has better performance on web benchmarks than C#.

> Had Java been better, Kotlin wouldn't need to be invented.

Kotlin was invented to make a sugary version of Java, and thus drive more JetBrains sales. It got popular because Oracle got litigious. As someone who's been on the Java train for almost two decades, what usually happens, if any JVM Lang becomes too popular, Java has the tendency to reintegrate its features into itself.

> Whatever you like, find fun and makes you a productive and happy developer. There is nothing wrong in using C or C++. Or Python. Or Haskell.

Sure, assuming it fits the domain. Like, don't use Python for kernel dev or Java for some obscure ML/AI when you could use Python.
First step.

Second step?

Ban games with kernel-level anti-cheat.

It is not acceptable on Linux. Apple will also not accept that shit further, that said Apple lost relevance in gaming with Mantle and the M-Processors (both mean a lot of incompatibility). And Microsoft is regretting every choice in this regard:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242947/microsoft-window...

But that is a usual pattern. Microsoft makes bad decisions and everyone suffers. Even Linux. Their is a reason why closed-source kernel modules mark Linux as tainted, the system is not trustworthy.

It is the duty of game developers to secure their games themselves. Not manipulating user devices. Forcefully doing stupid and dangerous things because you cannot achieve your task in a safe why is not a reason.
Unity (and its GC) is not representative of the performance you get with CoreCLR.

The article discusses ref lifetime analysis that does have relationship with GC, but it does not force you into using one. Byrefs are very special - they can hold references to stack, to GC-owned memory and to unmanaged memory. You can get a pointer to device mapped memory and wrap it with a Span<T> and it will "just work".
It helps to be able to run the model locally, and currently this is slow or expensive. The challenges of running a local model beyond say 32B are real.
Army rations are much more expensive than human food though.
I wonder if image based screen sharing (e.g. Google Meet) is the "worse is better" here?

Zed collaboration sounds great, but what about all of the other apps I use?

Image based sharing supports everything (poorly) automatically.
I understand why this happened, but it is funny nonetheless.

https://i.imgur.com/frHAEzn.png
Unless you need a graphical debugger, then vi/vim/nvim/emacs all start to get creaky. That single requirement keeps me on vscode. I'd love a terminal based alternative.
I like the scanned receipts and healthy options features you mention (I didn’t check out the site).
OpenFoodFacts if you aren’t aware has a wealth of information on products such as health index, ingredients etc that you could integrate with.

I think the key is getting the user focus and showing them better options prior to purchase not once they have a receipt.

Analysing receipts is nice but a second order priority for me.
This seems pretty optimistic to me. I can't imagine any company I've worked for paying for those things. Especially because they're only going to be useful if everyone uses Zed which is unlikely.
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You can just spin up those servers on a Western provider.
>at 8% interest.

What savings account do you have? Even the best HYSA's I've seen in the '10's is 4%

I suppose if you're really confident in your monopoly money you can do it.
Very good point. How was the 25% measured?
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In a sim, it would fall into the "configurable parameter" category and dynamically altered parameter whos laws depended on locations are function lookups. And to execute performant, it would be a constant factor field only updated onAlteration with fun(x)

So you have a thing, that gets interpolated updated with various functions, that overlap, and those functions only get updated at lightspeed, cause caching.

Cachesize limit should show as farway gravity sources getting bundled into lower density information functions.
> Second, security through obscurity is almost universally discouraged and considered bad practice.

This is stupid advice that is mindlessly repeated. Security by obscurity only is bad, sure. Adding obscurity to other layers of security is good.

Edit: formatting
We used to make extensive use of, and gained huge benefit from, dedup in ZFS. The specific use case was storage for VMWare clusters where we had hundreds of Linux and Windows VMs that were largely the same content. [this was pre-Docker]
Same. I don't like VSCode, but debugpy is, for me, a killer feature for which I'd pay if I had to.
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Maybe I am misreading, but I am seeing mostly bad reviews complaining that the app can only be installed on a single device? Otherwise the game/treatment has a net positive effect?
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> Enterprise around here is married to the JVM and they even tend to use more Typescript on the backend than C#. I’m not going to defend the merits of that in any way, that is just the way of things.

Many developers already know Java, so it's easier to hire Java developers.

>There being said I do get the impression that HN does know that Rust isn’t seeing much adoption as a general purpose language. So I wouldn’t count C# out here considering how excellent it has become since the transition into Core as the main .Net. I say this a an absolute C# hater by the way, I spent a decade with it and I never want to work with it again. (After decades of SWE I have fun with Python, C/Zig, JS/TS, and, no other language.)

I didn't like the old C# and .NET. However, the new one is wonderful and I quite enjoy using it. More than Java or Go. On par with Python, but I wouldn't use Python for now for large web backend applications.

I tried Rust, bur for some reason I can't grow to like it. I'd prefer using C or Zig and even a sane subset of C++ (if such thing even exists).
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(I just submitted it here, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004783)
So we're using CoL as a metric now?
So you're saying Apple added something to the design to make it do things faster...which is literally the definition of improvement.

When a company adds a supercharger to a car does it not count as faster?

When I add more solar panels to my roof does it not count as more power?

Surely doing this kind of thing is exactly what we want companies to be doing to make their products faster/better.
welcome to the team.
Not sure how it works in practice but it's a pretty cool piece of tech regardless.

I had to search a bit for the Kickstarter link, here it is with some more details: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/padrone-ring/coolest-mo...