skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably what is possible for a person with 6 months of experience is rather limited.

The idea as I understand it is that he achieved apps that he would not be able to write by himself, with the help of AI. That means that it is possible to have bugs that would be reasonable to fix for someone who built the app using their own knowledge, but for the junior they may be too hard. This is a novel situation.

Just because everyone has problems sometimes does not mean problems are all the same, all the same difficulty. Like if I was building Starship, and I ran into some difficult problem, I would most likely give up, as I am way out of my league. I couldn't build a model rocket. I know nothing about rockets. My situation would not be the same as of any rocket engineer. All problems and all situations and all people are not the same, and they are not made the same by AI, despite claims to the contrary.

These simplifications/generalisations "we are all stochastic parrots" "we all make mistakes just like the llms make mistakes" "we all have bugs" "we all manage somehow" are absurd. Companies do not do interviews and promote some people and not others out of a sense of whimsy. Experience and knowledge matters. We are not all interchangable. If LLMs affect this somehow, it's to be looked at.

I can't believe LLMs or devs using LLMs cand suddenly do anything, without limitations. We are not all now equal to Linus and Carmack and such.
You are also signalling that you have enough money to buy said house and are actively in the process of doing so which makes you a mark. And if there is a whole DB of this info readily available...

Anyways the security could be fine. But if a user's primary action is uploading that document then maybe wanna have more than a quick sentence on it.
Not everyone is a HN veteran that knows this, and adding "paywall bypass: " goes a long way to ease comprehension.
Smoking for example, even though I consider smoking a terrible habit I would never advocate that society should not help pay for their lung cancer treatment.

We already heavily tax cigarettes anyway, so anyone who smokes is basically already paying for their future healthcare needs in small installments.

Besides, I like having an alcoholic beverage every now and then so I need society to help pay for my future liver/colon/throat cancer treatment.
Totally crashes chrome on iOS - repeatedly in strange ways
I don't live in a socialized-medicine country, but I think this is a solved problem where capitalism still allows one to pay for private health insurance that will cover eye color change surgery.

While I appreciate your effort to avoid constitutional violations related to health care, we already walk all over (and have historically simply ignored) the constitution with regards to zoning, taxation, bank loans, voting, protests, free speech, etc, that this seems like a silly hill to die on, especially given the upsides to single-payer healthcare.

And to be clear, all those constitutional violations are abhorrent and should be actively legislatively and judicially worked against (not executive-ly because that branch almost by definition works against the constitution). But given our history of red-lining, voter suppression, un-banking, rich tax exceptions, NIMBY zoning, etc, I'm okay with single-payer, so long as there are private options if you think surgically modified eye color can make you more employable or improve your quality of life.
I see 2 way to do this. A company (and PM) sees demand for the feature and they include it, ot it is forced by regulation.

A lot of these companies that originally had open standards formed with huge amounts of VC money and they prioritized growth over everything else. Then when they reached a certain scale, investors valued profitability and they slowly squeezed and monetized users until all of those open standards features were gone.
Zyme is an ancient Greek word that means leaven, a lot of organizations and companies use it
What does “OUR TREE IS A REDWOOD” refer to? A quick search doesn’t yield any definite results.
HeavyBall: Efficient PyTorch Optimizers
Moderating with Empathy (2022)
A Small Adventure in WebAssembly
I prefer not to believe in a deity that assists with shoe selection but not childhood cancer.
I did wonder where the network connections were going into the cat areas!
Thanks. That's not even that much longer than the headline.
German intelligence agency not required to disclose use of Pegasus
So you're depositing into some sort of kidney bank?
Genuine question: Do you feel like you're learning the language/frameworks/techniques well? Or do you feel like you're just getting more adept at leveraging the LLM?

Do you think you could you maintain and/or debug someone else's application?
The difference between types.Implements and types.Satisfies is mainly caused by a history reason. It is just a tradeoff between keeping backward compatibility and theory perfection.

It is pity that Go didn't support the "comparable" interface from the beginning. If it has been supported since Go 1.0, then this tradeoff can be avoided.

There are more limitations in current Go custom generics, much of them could be removed when this proposal (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/70128) is done.

I recommend people to read Go Generics 101 (https://go101.org/generics/101.html, author here) for a thoroughly understanding the status quo of Go custom generics.
here you go.

func Ptr[T any](v T) *T {
return &v
}
The tie back to the pilots is important. These are people with thousands of hours looking through these sensors, and yes pilots can be cranks too but the reputational risk is such that I don’t believe multiple pilots would be able to keep a secret like that. They want to keep their seats, it’s one of the best jobs in the world. I’m sure they saw _something_ unusual, but where that fits on scale of Alien ship to secret project from some government… that will remain an open question. I sure wouldn’t trust at any time the US Government was being forthcoming and honest with the American People.
Why would you use headsets to play with friends in person? The whole point is that you can talk directly, usually with the sound completely off on everyone’s computers, and not too loud music playing in the background

For one, if you get a bunch of nerds together a sizable fraction are likely to have sensory issues- and won’t come again if you don’t make it welcoming for them

Some video games require some sound as it shares information, but can usually be configured to only have those sounds, or to turn on an accessible visual indicator
For me it was "Your browser is not compatible with Notion." on Android with Hack's (hacker news client) built in browser which is I guess just a stripped down Web view
Non-spaghetti dynamic forms and their validation (yes you need to validate on server as well).

Reusable components that can be tested in isolation. Type support. That leads to easier evolution and refactoring.

With good architecture you can go mobile with react-native.
Which is funny, because MA actually wrote his Meditations in Greek. The line in question is:

ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις.
(Aur. Med. 4.3)
It’s completely unusable on iOS. Back and forward functionality only work intermittently among a bunch of other problems.
Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, who publish this tool, though I have nothing to do with the org or engineers that created it

I've been running this for a while on my laptop. So far yet to see any particular weirdness, but also I don't know that I can state with any confidence it has a positive impact either. I've not carried out any benchmarks in either direction.

It logs all changes that it's going to make including what they were on before. Here's an example from my logs:

bpftune[1852994]: Scenario 'need to increase TCP buffer size(s)' occurred for tunable 'net.ipv4.tcp_rmem' in global ns. Need to increase buffer size(s) to maximize throughput
bpftune[1852994]: Due to need to increase max buffer size to maximize throughput change net.ipv4.tcp_rmem(min default max) from (4096 131072 7864320) -> (4096 131072 9830400)
A long long time ago, LiveJournal used to display all new user-uploaded images in a firehose type page.

It was a fascinating glimpse into the shared lives of people all over the world. It was definitely from a simpler time; there's no way something like that would be available now due to the violence/abuse material that gets uploaded.
That guards against a small subset of vulnerabilities.

Since the original desire was to build any kind of personal/commercial app on an OS, the amount of potential vulnerabilities is potentially infinite.
Then you misunderstand Trump.

He isn't Putin's asset, and he isn't simply "bowing" to him.

He's courting him because he respects him, agrees on a certain level with his worldview, and thinks he can make common cause with him.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinversteher
ThumbnailGenius.com (has a ton of new features I haven’t pushed yet as I wait for approval from a payment processor)

MetHacker.io (has a lot of features I had to remove because of X API’s new pricing - see /projects on it)

GoUnfaked.com

PlaybookFM.com

TokenAI.dev (working with blowfish to remove the warning flag)
I think it's fine that single-payer doesn't pay for cosmetic procedures, it's the parent's take that getting an elective procedure or apparently engaging in any behavior they deem too risky locks you out of healthcare for medical-necessity seemingly forever.
Up to 2 minutes seek time for cold data. Very niche.
Maybe they should pay to get therapy for some self-loathing?
Absolutely 100% yes. Difference is these projects themselves are obscure. Opposed to an official Google branded service that will see significant publicity.
> In particular, people tend to read it as the "sum type" operator, which it is not. I kind of wish the syntax has used & instead of |, what it is doing is closer to an "and" then an "or".

I don't understand here. In my understanding, the pipe operator is indeed closer to "or" and "sum type" operator. Interpreting it as "and" is weird to me.
I was surprised any ever did, honestly
Do you know what the sad part is? I'm actually a very good t̶a̶i̶l̶o̶r̶ vulnerability scanner.
AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious Is It? [video]
Burying the lede there! Can someone expand on the bit about how CCDs are like bucket brigade delaylines?
If they can be reversed individually you can simply deduce by rolling back changes one by one, no?
A robots.txt that asks AI scrapers not to scrape?

There’s a couple services that keep updated lists of known scraper user agents. A quick search reveals a handful.
I would contend that’s an unusually sophisticated dev process not used by most.
Rewind and Recall also store similar data locally but maybe not only locally. And Recall/Rewind allow data deletion, they can retain the most recent data based on time.
I agree LLMs aren't ready to design ASICs. It's likely that in a decade or less, they'll be ready for the times you absolutely need to squeeze out every square nanometer, picosecond, femtojoule, or nanowatt.

Gary Tan's was right[1] in that there is a fundamental inefficiency inherent in the von Neumann architecture we're all using. This gross impedance mismatch[4] is a great opportunity for innovation.

Once ENIAC was "improved" from its original structure to a general purpose compute device in the von Neumann style, it suffered a 83% loss in performance[2] Everything since is 80 years of premature optimization that we need to unwind. It's the ultimate pile of technical debt.

Instead of throwing maximum effort into making specific workloads faster, why not build a chip that can make all workloads faster instead, and let economy of scale work for everyone?

I propose (and have for a while[3]) a general purpose solution.

A systolic array of simple 4 bits in, 4 bits out, Look Up Tables (LUTs) latched so that timing issues are eliminated, could greatly accelerate computation, in a far nearer timeframe.

The challenges are that it's a greenfield environment, with no compilers (though it's probable that LLVM could target it), and a bus number of 1.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs-build#llms-for-chip-design

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Improvements

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching
I meant your comment. It seemed to be unpopular.
I haven’t encountered any serious bugs - mostly because I know what I’m capable of and what Sonnet is capable of. I don’t tackle things that are far too ambitious and focus on ideas I want to experiment with or ideas I can build the MVP for

If I do encounter situations that Sonnet can’t fix - usually because it has outdated knowledge - I just read the latest documentation
Interesting. I haven't seen much in this space since Lee Spector's "push" more than 20 years ago (http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html). I did see a mention of Push in the FAQ but it would be very interesting to compare this in detail. If I get it correctly Zyme programs are evolved on the bytecode level whereas Push's stack architecture is designed to be evolvable directly at the syntactic level? A head-to-head comparison / benchmark would be super interesting.
I'm not saying you're wrong at all or in disbelief -- but I've spent lots of time with Claude 3.5 trying to prototype React apps and not even full fledged prototypes -- and I can't get it to make anything bug free somehow.

Maybe I'm "holding it wrong" -- I mean using it incorrectly.

True it renders quite interesting mockups and has React code behind it -- but then try and get this into even a demoable state for your boss or colleagues...

Even a simple "please create a docker file with everything I need in a directory to get this up and running"...doesn't work.

Docker file doesnt work (my fault maybe for not expressing I'm on Arm64), app is miss configured, files are in the wrong directories, key things are missing.

Again just my experience.

I find Claude interesting for generating ideas-- but I have a hard time seeing how a dev with six months experience could get multiple "paid" apps out with it. I have 20 years (bla, bla) experience and still find it requires outrageous hand holding for anything serious.

Again I'm not doubting you at all -- I'm just saying me personally I find it hard to be THAT productive with it.
The cons/car/cdr implementation as lambda was magical the first time I saw it. But it just shows that the language runtime must implement key/value dictionaries and you are able to borrow that implementation to make other data structures.
Drug-addiction rehab — yes, because that's a medically necessary therapy for people suffering from addiction.

Cosmetic procedures — no, wouldn't be covered.

Locking you out of public healthcare as described by the parent if you have ever engaged in behavior deemed too risky, absolutely not. That is the part that is controlling.
Actually it is more like Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs.
I don't really agree with that interpretation. In my opinion and experience, it does not restrict architectural choices to the extent that it makes it difficult to develop greenfield projects. It's more that it rules out a relatively small subset of architectural choices which are arguably a bad idea anyways, as they do infact have flaws that may not be obvious at first but will lead to a lot of pain if the project grows above a certain size.
They may or may not, though respecting robots.txt is a nice way of not having your IP range end up on blacklists. With cloudflare in particular, that can be a bit of a pain.

They're pretty nice to deal with if you're upfront about what you are doing and clearly identify your bot, as well as register it with their bot detection. There's a form floating around somewhere for that.
When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1k Judgment–McDermott vs. KMC
The full article title is:

> When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v. KMC
Shameless plug: https://aplaceofmind.notion.site/It-s-Lambdas-All-the-Way-Do...

I got to the same conclusion a while ago, except that I found that it's lambdas all the way down.
As nordic person I fail to see how this relate to me or my ethnicity. If someone get green eyes done how would I even know if they are "mimicking" me and not Iranians or Afghans?
Users seem to like those squircles, judging by the popularity of Apple products. It’s not a fun walled garden to be a creative developer in.
H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation
Pretty UI with automations are all these websites seem to be.

I'm leaning towards using AWS SES and Mautic for automation. Mautic is open source and can replace these overpriced UIs.
would you be willing to share any of your chats? Like say the docker one?
Tell HN: A Interactive Personal Website
I think they're reading it as "a bitwise-and of the functionality of the types passed", which is accurate (since you're getting the lowest common denominator of all |'d types).

I'm... not sure which way I lean tbh, now that I've seen that idea. Both have merit, it's more of a problem for educational material than anything. If you present it as "these types", | makes sense. If you instead use "these behaviors", & makes sense. | is slightly easier to type for me though, and & has more meanings already (address-of), so maybe I'd still favor |.
Congress will pass anything trump sends their way. Republicans cant go against trump theyll get primaried.
Not as much as I would have if I was writing everything from scratch. But then again, my goal isn’t to be a coder or get a job as a coder - I’m primarily a marketer and got into coding simply because I had a stack of ideas I wanted to experiment with

Most of the things I’ve built are fun things

See: GoUnfaked.com and PlaybookFM.com as examples

PlaybookFM.com is interesting because everything from the code to the podcasts to the logo are AI generated
The Stone Soup Theory of Billionaires
Back when cars had hardly any anti-theft mechanism, we'd put hidden toggle switch(es) that'd cut off the fuel pump and other stuff. In the 90s we'd get fancier and use (in addition to hidden toggle switch(es)) stuff like custom made transponder thinggies: we'd have a female port installed on the dashboard and the corresponding male "jack" on our keychain. These took a few hours to install and would shut some wires at different points.

They were "dumb" in a way (it was obvious looking at the dashboard that a car had such a system installed) but not easy to remove: you had to follow the wiring for a long time to find where the various cut-off points where installed.

Funnily enough after 30 years or so many of these transponders (?) start failing and it's a very common cause of youngtimer cars being stuck on the side of the road. While a dumb hidden toggle switch shall pretty much work forever (but is easier to neutralize as you only need to find the switch).

A toggle switch is literally less than $5 and trivially installed.

For added fun you can also add stuff directly on the fuses: they're easier to find but there are more advanced kits (for example you plug it on an important fuse and then you've got a remote on your keychain to "unlock" the mechanism).

I mean: yup, you can look into cryptography and install this and that software countermeasure.

Or, you, know, you can install (or have installed) a $5 toggle switch.

P.S: this made me think... I'll probably install a fake toggle switch, obvious to be found, linked to the highest non legal alarm I can find on alibaba. So if anyone tries to steal the car, he'll toggle the switch and trigger the alarm. That's dumb as heck and yet may work just fine.
Pando, Earth's Largest Living Organism, Could Be 80k Years Old
You can drill down more. The come in "come and visit" is a colloquial redundancy and the other day is mostly redundant, unless they had another visit that was more recent. "It was nice of john and mary to visit/john and mary's visit was nice."

This makes the difference between the two sentences very pronounced.
There's always a bug, you just haven't found it yet
Yes. But, I prefer the regularity of the Lisp syntax.
The whole thing violates Occam's Razor - why the hell wouldn't they just do it in the US? It's not like the US shies away from stuff like this, doesn't have all the necessary resources in unthinkable abundance, is incapable of doing it in secret, doesn't have the top world-renowned experts in any relevant field, or can't convince the required people to immigrate by paying them so much that nobody else can come close - it's by far the world's biggest economy after all; they could offer salaries in billions and wouldn't even notice it in the budget.

Doing it in Ukraine massively increases risk, possibility of exposure, infiltration or attack/destruction, and introduces so incredibly many operational problems that are simply and entirely avoided by staying home. It's just total bullshit, especially few years into the war - there is no way in hell the US would do anything important anywhere close to a warzone where their greatest enemy is the prime participant, while the security of the location itself crumbles around them.

It's like if they did the Manhattan project in France or China... LOL.

> But Tulsi Gabbard...

If she had any way of actually knowing facts, she'd be in highest security prison for national security violation, abuse of state secrecy, espionage etc right now. Thus we see that she operates only with the same information we do, and all the fluff about military/intelligence background is merely the "appeal to authority" argument fallacy.

If everybody knows it's there, why didn't the Russians bomb it last night, or any of the last 1000 nights? Or didn't try to infiltrate and/or expose it to international organizations, as that would help justify their effort?

The whole thing is just funny. The same group of people claims that the US is hiding aliens somewhere, secretly developed incredible technologies that look like alien UFO and many other incredible feats performed in total secrecy... and then they claim they simply went and uncovered a secret US lab? So is the US capable of security or not? What a joke.
Agreed. IMO, anywhere you butt heads with the borrow checker is a place where you’d have to by hyper nitpicky about user after free or memory leaks in C or C++, just without the compiler shouting at you to fix it.
100% agree that picking numeric tolerances can be tricky. It is especially tricky when writing a generic math library like you are. If your doing something more applied it can help to take limits from your domain.
For the example in the blog, if you're using GPS to determine you're position on earth, you probably know how precise physics allows that answer to be, and you only need to test to that tolerance (or an order of magnitude more strict, to give some wiggle room.)
My list would include Pink Floyd's 1994 Pulse concert.
I don’t think this project is open source.
The suggestion was that if they get cosmetic eye surgery that should be cut off from screening and treatment for all future eye conditions, not just eye conditions that might have been caused or exacerbated by that cosmetic surgery.