skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly stayed hands-off and let him explore where he would. He really only got into programming more seriously the past couple years, so age 13 on, after we got him a gaming PC. He was playing various Roblox games, and decided he could write his own, so that got him started. He has his phone on bus rides to/from school, so he decided to play around in Python to pass the time. He's currently playing Space Engineers with some friends online, and they've all apparently decided the most fun for now is to learn C# for the internal scripting functionality that game provides.
Sad but very apt analysis :(
Yes. Mostly for searching
FCP X is $300 one time.

Pixelmator is also a one time purchase.

I bought Pixelmator Pro for $60 when it came out.
As I already tried to point out, “top” is only in the HN title, not in the actual article title.
> For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time.

Is there such thing as accurately "reflecting society's pulse" within individual posts? Sure, maybe you can pull big data to understand public sentiment on certain topics or events. But the platform's goal is to present users with content they are most likely to engage with, so that they spend as much time on the platform as possible (and therefore view as many ads as possible). That content does not reflect society—it's often targeted ragebait. When users are goaded en masse by ragebait and engagement farming, some percentage are going to develop a distorted view of public sentiment, and their own engagement will further the issue.

The fact is that content discovery algorithms and moderation largely shape the tone and personality of a platform, both for a viewer and for a contributor (who is psychologically inclined to want to fit in).

Twitter isn't going to collapse and die overnight, but this could be the start of a 5-year trend where the "utility" of Twitter over other platforms gradually shrinks as reputable brands and public figures diversify their presence.
Thank you! :) I know what you are talking about. Make sure you are using a developer tool to solve that puzzle. If you are doing it without a developer tool, it won't work. If you're still stuck, the tips guide will help.
They have to maintain a balance that still incentivizes current purchases. Otherwise it’ll be a constantly trend of “don’t buy now, support might not last.”
It's worth considering

1) all the domains there is no training data

Many professions are far less digital than software, protect IP more, and are much more akin to an apprenticeship system.

2) the adaptability of humans in learning vs any AI

Think about how many years we have been trying to train cars to drive, but humans do it with a 50 hours training course.

3) humans ability to innovate vs AIs ability to replicate

A lot of creative work is adaptation, but humans do far more than that in synthesizing different ideas to create completely new works. Could an LLM produce the 37th Marvel movie? Yes probably. Could an LLM create.. Inception? Probably not.
> If Gary Tan and YC believe that LLMs will be able to design chips 100x better than humans currently can, they’re significantly underestimating the difficulty of chip design, and the expertise of chip designers. While LLMs are capable of writing functional Verilog sometimes, their performance is still subhuman. [...] LLMs primarily pump out mediocre Verilog code.

What is the quality of Verilog code output by humans? Is it good enough so that a complex AI chip can be created? Or does the human need to use tools in order to generate this code?

I've got the feeling that LLMs will be capable of doing everything a human can do, in terms of thinking. There shouldn't be an expectation that an LLM is able to do everything, which in this context would be thinking about the chip and creating the final files in a single pass and without external help. And with external help I don't mean us humans, but tools which are specialized and also generate some additional data (like embeddings) which the LLM (or another LLM) can use in the next pass to evaluate the design. And if we humans have spent enough time in creating these additional tools, there will come a time when LLMs will also be able to create improved versions of them.

I mean, when I once randomly checked the content of a file in The Pile, I found an Craigslist "ad" for an escort offering her services. No chip-generating AI does need to have this in its parameters in order to do its job. So there is a lot of room for improvement and this improvement will come over time. Such an LLM doesn't need to know that much about humans.
Is it a forum split, or is it Digg->Reddit or MySpace->Facebook?
I'm sympathetic but I wouldn't trust that his personal views on the matter will prevail over the party's inertia to simply deregulate everything. I think his reasonable takes are the left hand grabbing your attention while the right hand does the work.
Err, turning "shouldn't be talking to each other this much" to "shouldn't be talking to each other" is quite the leap. The author is clearly referring to the minute-by-minute stimulation that a microblogging platform provides, not making the case that people should be cutting off all communication with each other.
I’m telling you he’s being criticized for the hyperbole.
In a reductive sense, this passage might as well read "You find it hard to believe that entropy is the source of other entropic reactions?"

No, I'm just disappointed in the decision of Black Box A and am bound to be even more disappointed by Black Box B. If we continue removing thoughtful design from our systems because thoughtlessness is the default, nobody's life will improve.
100% agree. While I can’t find all the sources right now, [1] and its references could be a good starting point for further exploration. I recall there being a proof or conjecture suggesting that it’s impossible to build an "LLM firewall" capable of protecting against all possible prompts—though my memory might be failing me

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07283
"So good, I reviewed it twice"?

I wrote about the Thinkpad X13S Gen 2. It's an odd little beast. It has strengths and weaknesses.

Part 1:

Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop

A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/21/lenovo_thinkpad_x13s_...

Part 2:

Linux on the Arm-based Thinkpad X13S: It's getting there

Armbian 23.08 is out, and adds preliminary support for this ultralight Snapdragon laptop

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/08/linux_on_the_thinkpad...

Now there's a T series version -- the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 -- and I am somewhat tempted.
Religion being used to control people? Say it ain’t so!
SFOS is sadly not well known in the US as its not sold there, which has definitely hurt popularity. Lack of VoLTE support for quite a long time didn't help either. Still, it's a great option I recommend to anyone who wants to escape from the current duopoly.
Really? I paid once for Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. 6 years ago, I think. They've continued to get major new features and updates.

Adobe won't even sell me a non-subscription copy of Photoshop anymore.
I appreciate that the author disclosed it, but the reason they went to all this effort is likely that they expect to make money as an affiliate for the platforms that they recommended.

Affiliate-driven reviews introduce a major bias into the author's opinion, as they have incentive to speak more positively about platforms that are likely to pay the most.

And email marketing platforms pay a lot in affiliate fees. Just scanning some of the recommendations, if someone signs up for MailerLite through this reviewer's link, they'll pay the reviewer 30% of that subscriber's fees forever.[0] I wouldn't be surprised if the reviewer's top pick is coincidentally the platform with the highest-paying affiliate program.

The thing that really woke me up to affiliate-influenced reviews was the 2017 article, "The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare."[1] The reporter figured out that top YouTube mattress reviewers just gave positive reviews to whichever company paid the most in affiliate fees, and when one company lowered their fees, the reviewers retroactively downranked them for contrived reasons.

[0] https://www.mailerlite.com/affiliate

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
Every single software service that has ever provided an Android or iOS application, for starters.
Yggdrasil can do this but you have to bring the physical layer.
Just to add this wasn’t written from the perspective of a solo freelancer. I’m part a 4-person startup (Atlist.com)
I love this idea, thanks for putting this together. I'm biased, but I also wish more FOSS/OSS projects had a realistic contributor path for UX folks to contribute- so many (non-dev-tooling) projects suffer as a result of building without collaboration from people who might use the product.
That title really needs updating in that case, it's very misleading.
What system / hardware is that?
i use gimp, and i build websites.

while i concede that i don't know how good photoshop is, based on my experience of building websites and using gimp for photo editing, i find the suggestion that gimp is as bad as cobol disturbing, unless cobol is much better than its reputation.

try finding a better comparison please.

everytime i look at a discussion of gimp vs photoshop, i fail to find anyone articulating exactly why photoshop is so much better.
I'm skeptical that this does anything. I'd wager that just about nobody is sitting around with all this energy waiting to contribute to a project they've never used and just heard about in an HN thread.

I'm sure you get some commitments of people who say they will help. Just like people say they'll pay for your product once you build it and people who say they'll go to an event 6 months from now.

It's hard enough to find contributors among engineers who are using a tool.
side note: the Pyro used here - or actually pyro-ppl - is not to be confused with Pyro as of python-remote-objects..
Should point out the PM for Pakistan who spoke out about religious extremism, Imran Khan, was jailed after "Lettergate", the US's efforts to have him ousted as PM (which succeeded, he is in jail now). The crackdown on the Internet followed that.

So all of this is in line with US policy. The US instigated a coup to warp their democratic processes with foreign efforts, causing a chain of events for this to happen.
I get why subscriptions are a thing but it's insane how much Lightroom costs if you're just a casual photographer. Especially the blatant push for yearly commitments and hoop jumping to cancel the trial.

I guess Adobe only wants professionals and very serious amateurs to use their products these days.
There actually are laws against anti-competitive collusion in the US. [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
Apple only sells high-end hardware, but I wouldn't call it exorbitantly expensive.

It's even kind of a good deal if you compare it to equivalent Wintel-ware / Android (if you can even a true equivalent).

This also depends on where in the world you live.
Macs in CI are an absolute nightmare. For some reason (well, I do have a reason, they want to sell you more Mac Minis) macOS is the only modern OS that has no real container solution builtin. Windows has Docker and true containers, FreeBSD has jails, Linux has a bajillion solutions, Darwin (macOS)? Nothing. They've ripped half of FreeBSD already, just pull jails too!
I would love to see someone actually try to defend all the Adobe bashing that goes on here in a way that's valuable

i also would like to see someone defending all that gimp bashing do the same.

the problem comes from both sides.
Great idea, let's see what he has to say on public health policy for people on anti-depressants and ADHD medication: https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-says-ll-send-194829708.htm...

Sounds like a jolly good time!
I’m talking about a person that you hire as a guide.
> Replace all asserts with expected == expected and most people won't notice.

It’s too resource intensive for all code, but mutation testing is pretty good at finding these sorts of tests that never fail. https://pitest.org/
I agree!

Also, I enjoyed your Freudian slip:

single respectability tools

->

single responsibility tools
Yeah I agree, that is a very valid reason by itself.
> Old phones no, but old apps yes. If a developer has abandoned an app and hasn't been investing in the update treadmill, but end users still care about it, that can make people feel negatively about Apple.

On the other hand, it is well within the standard Apple approach to say "here's how we want people to use our hardware. We are well aware that this is not consistent with how some potential and past users want to use the hardware, but we are comfortable with losing those customers if they will not adapt to the new set-up."
Just FYI for people with a background in Photoshop, trying to evaluate the accuracy of the comment I'm replying to. The GIMP just added non-destructive editing (adjustment layers) in 2024.
X is the 15th largest social network by MAU[1], and falling.

And there is some irony in your praise for tolerance.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...
Your comment is very spot on. So many people here bash Adobe but don’t actually use their products professionally.

Would programmers listen to an artists opinion on programming languages and IDEs? Of course not.

The opinions themselves may be valid as relative to the individual but they’re not scalable beyond that.
All open source software gets endless amounts of vitriol and hate from people who are used to their particular commercial tool and aren't willing to learn a new way to work. Blender is probably the prime example of this.

I think this is the biggest problem with FOSS alternatives, and it's a people problem (the type of problem FOSS devs are rarely equipped to solve). It doesn't matter what the technical merits of Krita or Blender or whatever are, because the same complaints from the same people will never go away. The only reasonable way forward is to ignore that demographic of people and their complaints, and just focus on doing their own thing.

This isn't a new phenomenon, it has always been this way. If you're a professional who uses Photoshop in their daily work, consider that maybe your assessment of FOSS alternatives isn't fair, and try dedicating some time to learning a new workflow with new tools with an open mind. If you're not willing to do that much, then you're going to be stuck with Adobe forever, and will be forever grouchy.
Fil-C a memory-safe version of C and C++
Fund the SGL Telescope!

https://www.universetoday.com/149214/if-we-used-the-sun-as-a...

Seriously, we could build that, it's at the limit of our tech but if it was either we walk on the moon again or build SGL, I'd pick SGL
Can You Unsort Lists for Diversity?
Taler seems cool,but this is a huge no no:

Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!
CommunityToolkit.MVVM is great!

Had a chance to compare both Uno and Avalonia and I choose Uno any day. Mostly because of the breadth of what they have. Their Navigation "Extensions", Authentication, Toolkit controls, and their Hot Reload is awesome.

Now the fact they announced a Drag&Drop Designer seals the deal.

Been trying to use VS Code more and more with Uno and it works great.

I see Avalonia has having a decent Desktop offering but I target Mobile and Web and they're nowhere where Uno is.
How do you know that those graphics APIs have not been efficient?
Op here. I sort of agree but all these tools offer affiliate programs and I can assure you we chose MailerLite because we think it’s a tool we can use for 5-10 years.

That being said: besides running a startup (Atlist.com) I also run an affiliate site (it’s how we funded Atlist) and I would agree there is good reason to read affiliate websites skeptically. I regularly receive offers from website builders to “buy” the top spot in my best website builder roundup. https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/best-website-builder
A big driver of the right tool is your overall send volume and customer record count. Both of these will also influence pricing.

Even for smaller shops, would recommend checking out some of the big players (eg Adobe, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Eloqua, Twilio, etc) as they have entry level lower tiers that may end up costing less over time than some of these startup focused solutions (which all seem to nickel and dime you and hit you up with various types of overage charges), and will get you much higher deliverability, automation, and integration capabilities.
Khan may have spoke out against this (almost all politicians there do) but he was far more loved by the Islamists and everyday Muslims than the secular army who overthrew him
> Saying live-streaming is a solved problem is like saying search is a solved problem

It is. You can hire the people who have solved it to do it for you.
Instagram copied Snapchat Stories, which I think is close to what you are talking about...
Virtualizing an older ARM version of macOS was never going to be sufficient to QA x86 applications running on older Intel Macs. For that, you'll always want real x86 hardware.
Ah, buried in the post-article part. I was wondering how all of the models were seemingly capable of making legal moves, since last I saw something about LLMs playing Chess they were very much not capable of that.
Puter

https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter

We're building a "Web OS" designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible! It can be used for anything from a Dropbox alternative to a cloud environment for building websites and apps!

Stack: JavaScrips. No frameworks.

Need help with: Frontend and backend.

Reach out: nj@puter.com
If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope (2020)
Your reaction to isolation is completely normal and valid. Many developers, including experienced ones, struggle with too much isolation

Look for opportunities to connect with the broader tech community through meetups or online forums ( which you're doing here) but find more ways to connect
Consider finding a mentor outside your company
Programmer Convicted for Helping Run One of Biggest Illegal Streaming Services
James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity
Wow that's a big problem. At least my monero don't expire if I leave it for a few years..
The way I read that, I think they're saying hardware acceleration of specific algorithms can be 100 times faster and more efficient than the same algorithm in software on a general purpose processor, and since automated chip design has proven to be a difficult problem space, maybe we should try applying AI there so we can have a lower bar to specialized hardware accelerators for various tasks.

I do not think they mean to say that an AI would be 100 times better at designing chips than a human, I assume this is the engineering tradeoff they refer to. Though I wouldn't fault anyone for being confused, as the wording is painfully awkward and salesy.
If LLMs can generate a test for you, it's because it's a test that you shouldn't need to write. They can't test what is really important, at all.

Some development stacks are extremely underpowered for code verification, so they do patch the design issue. Just like some stacks are underpowered for abstraction and need patching by code generation. Both of those solve an immediate problem, in a haphazard and error-prone way, by adding burden on maintenance and code evolution linearly to how much you use it.

And worse, if you rely too much on them they will lead your software architecture and make that burden superlinear.
What’s MOND really mean? Here’s the Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
>no one can touch Adobe when it comes to fast and wide support of camera RAW profiles

I think DXO might be on par with Adobe for camera profiles.
The question was if you needed a Facebook account for a quest headset. Not whether or not you wear a tinfoil hat.
KiCad EDA - https://kicad.org

KiCad is a popular open-source EDA tool used by engineers and designers across the globe. We're always open to contributions from experienced C++ developers, especially those who are also familiar with the world of electrical engineering / PCB design. Check out our developer landing page[1] to find the developers email list and contribution guides. We accept merge requests on GitLab[2] and try to keep a number of lower-scope issues tagged starter [3] for new developers to take on.

We're currently in our annual feature freeze as we focus on stabilizing features added in the past year and squashing bugs ahead of our planned 9.0 release at the end of January. Any help testing the nightly builds and surfacing bugs to fix is appreciated as well as actual bug-fixing!

[1] https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/getting-started/index.html

[2] https://gitlab.com/kicad

[3] https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/?label_name[]=s...
> the idea that Netflix could just take some off the shelf widget and stuff it in their network to solve a problem

Right. They have to hire one of the companies that does this. Each of YouTube, Twitch (Amazon), Facebook and TikTok have, I believe, handled 10+ million streams. The last two don't compete with Netflix.
Sieves and Sheaves
Echo “read this” > readme.md
a tweet originally was called a "status", twitter used to be a place where you would publish your instant messenger status. Early adopters used it to unify their multiple messenger platforms statuses into one.

If you changed your status on the old messengers e.g. "making a cup of tea" then it had some utility at any rate, a status was a kind of temporary notice, to be replaced by another status at another time. In an IM application you would see your online and offline contacts and see their status underneath their name. People had a few different unconnected IM applications. You could use the API to set your status in twitter and it would be set in AIM (or was it both ways?)

You could SMS in a status/tweet from a phone, many people loved that.

After that it became a way to record or broadcast other temporary notices, and then to a kind of realtime status. The concepts of a conversation happened then, talking about a topic but without direct refering other people and then with mentions @handle threads on twitter happened afterwards.

The twitter tech folks were considering making the metadata around a tweet as more important than the inside content. (e.g. RDF, foaf, geo, links, wikipedia uuids, subject topics, etc etc)

And then the masses joined in a few years after with Oprah and it was all about the message.

After that the push to VC eternal growth and the algorithm powered feed was what encouraged bad behaviour and a range of un-satisfactory responses to that behaviour which continues to this day.
It really feels like we’re close to the end of the current bubble now; the applications being trotted out are just increasingly absurd.
Not sure why Netflix is held in high regard - this proves they're just as much clowns as the other 'big players' in the circus.
So in extension, it applies to any computer?

Are there provisions for the people working on the systems that filters the traffic or those that validate that an address must be blocked?
The collusion is the issue, not the decision to not compete.
You'll lose a lot of the PyMC convenience functions with Numpyro but gain a lot of control and flexibility over your model specification. If you're doing variational inference, Numpyro is the way to go.

You can use the Numpyro NUTS sampler in PyMC with pm.sample(nuts_sampler="numpyro") and it will significantly speed up sampling. It is less stable in my experience.
they don't do any software subscriptions, they've even been making a lot of their software free starting with macOS years ago too.