skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My “mentors” (or other people who influenced me) mostly taught me (a few different times) to expect more of my output. As a programmer that meant to spend more time thinking things through, write bullet-proof code (as much as I could) and to challenge my assumptions. I have now transferred to you 80% of what I got from them (though they definitely got those principles deeper into my being than I’ve just been able to do).
Being stuck with no idea why or what to do is what gets you exploring and figuring things out. That's the whole point...
Right, but there's presumably little data to worry about exfiltrating from, say, my xbox. Even stuff like billing info doesn't need to be stored locally.
In this case, Infinity Ward is organizationally an accountability sink given that it obscures the individuals who ultimately made such a decision. It turns out that modern warfare doesnt involve guns or tanks, it's an ideological attack on the history of events themselves and the casualties are the players.
Maybe more helpful would be base 256 so it renders in ascii.
I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say
The correct way to read that list is "48 names that remain after a pimp sought them out and confirmed their strong interest."

Trying to extrapolate that to "men in general" requires either incompetence or malice. It'd be like arguing that almost all right-handed people are horrible murderers, after looking only at people living in "death row" prison cells.
They have a comparisons page, i don't know enough to summarise.
https://docs.scale-lang.com/manual/comparison/
They also sell apples on their website for local delivery in the Seattle area (in semi-large quantities only). Their honeycrisps are very good in my opinion, I usually buy 40 pounds a couple times a year. They also have other good fruit in season (e.g. peaches, nectarines; cherries are okay).
> average donation at around 150 dollars. That seems really high.

Check out the store, its absurd what they are able to charge for completely digital assets that don't even exist in game yet
Avoiding unnecessary cleanup work in disconnectedCallback
Yes, but on the internet someone in the UK can just get a connection to some server in Ethiopia hosting this vast treasure trove of works. So maybe not de jure, but probably de facto.

Edit: And maybe it is de jure too for those on a ship on the high seas?
Now go ahead and let anyone embed that application in another party’s application.

A big part of what makes web successful is the ease of syndication.
That sounds like future work for simulated annealing fans to engage in, quite honestly, rather than something that needs to be addressed immediately in a paper proposing an alternative method. The proposed method accomplished what it set out to do, surpassing current methods; others are free to explore different hyperparameters to surpass the quality again... This is, ultimately, why we build benchmark tasks: if you want to prove you know how to do it better, one is free to just go do it better instead of whining about what the competition did or didn't try on one's behalf.
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy is must-read IMO. (The Three-Body Problem is the first book in the series.)

The Darth Vader graphic novels by Charles Soule were quite good, IIRC.

I loved American Gods. Seeing that book listed, in addition to The Three-Body Problem and Exhalation, were my clues that this is probably a good list.

There's a bunch of books on this list that weren't on my radar. I'm going to start with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
As somebody that's definitely been burned by bugs and redesigns of questionable utility in iOS updates, I can't say 18 has personally been either much better or worse than the last few.

Some UI aspects of the "Photos" app are a bit confusing, but as I don't use it all that much, for me that largely (or even more than) balances out with other various quality of life improvements across the OS.
After a few days I cave and just use regex, which I of course forget every year and need to relearn.
his daughters were in their mid to late 20’s - wtf does he need to support them from his grave
There is more than one correct answer in reality, LLM pre-training just trains it to respond the same way as the text did.

Imagine if school only gave correct if you used exactly the same words as the book, that is not "trial and error".
> for plainly writing logs , gantt charts , blogs , feeds , notes , journals etc.

So, how would this combine with markdown, for the content within dated blog/journal entries? And how would I use dates as plain dates rather than special markwhen entities?
As a math course, I felt category theory was interesting as a way of unifying ideas across different areas of mathematics. But I never quite seen a value of it for programming (but maybe it's just me)
I don't think that's why people are giving them money at this point. They're paying for stuff in the game that happens to be rewards for "crowdfunding" the game. It's not a "Just 100 more bucks and maybe they'll deliver", it's folks already playing the content that's in the game and buying further ships or such for whatever reason.
But they would be legally in the public domain for anyone in Ethiopia?

Ethiopian citizens, residents, etc., can clearly own a copy for each work.
Sure, Haskell's type system (and type systems in general) are informed by categories:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory

This article is also nice:

https://www.haskellforall.com/2012/08/the-category-design-pa...

It explins how Haskell's monad laws follow directly from how categories work.
this story is missing the third option: use something complete and ready to run like wordpress. or reuse the CRUD backend from your previous project. the ultimate low code option is to use something that is already written.

i am building all my sites on the same generic backend, that has all the features any website would want, object storage, user management, access control, sync and async messaging like IRC, XMPP, email..., database, various APIs, the works. for most websites i don't even have to touch the backend code anymore. it's like a database. when did you last have to make changes to your DB?

i had one customer who had a demo of a complex app without a backend. the frontend was fully functional but no data was being saved. we were able to integrate that frontend with our reusable backend and we had the whole thing actually working in a very short time without any custom coding beides adding things to the API and adapting the frontend to use it.
The only thing I could find in their filing history was from 2022 for their full accounts - revenue at that time as hovering around 50mil USD.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

EDIT: From Companies House Next accounts made up to 31 December 2023 due by 31 December 2024.

So I guess we'll find out in roughly a month.
Authors can provide for their children the same way the rest of us do. With the money they made while they were working.
What choice do we have ?
I need security, so I update.

Only competition is Android, made by Google, aka you get a spyware that can be used as a phone contrary to Apple phone that can be used as a spyware.

and beside that nothing else.

Google really screwed everyone by making Android « free » for manufacturer, as long as they include Google play services and all the other Google app phoning home. They have no reason to make a new operating system and even then it would require developer to publish app on it.

And seeing Apple stock value, I don’t think they are going to care anytime soon about a few people upset with the new photo app or the increasing amount of bugs.
Hundreds of programming languages set very high expectations, which should support groundbreaking ideas like Lisp style macros and multimethods, ML style pattern matching, Prolog style search and unification, and Smalltalk style metaprogramming on runtime classes and overriding doesNotUnderstand.

I have to admit that right now it's a dynamically typed imperative language that looks a lot like Python.
I'm trying Haskell this time.

For this one, I learned how to write a basic parser with Text.Parsec and manipulate the tuples with bimap !

It's a very fun occasion to learn a new programming language.
That's a curious example. In my circles, Go is viewed as a very plebeian language.

Go is a practical language. It's for getting things done in (large and often changing?) teams. It didn't strike me as a language for people who are ambitious about improving their computer programming skills. Lisp, Haskell, Prolog, whatever J/K/APL... those always seemed to me like languages for the ambitious.
To be fair to him, this was an era where their ability to support themselves was limited—if not in practice at least by strong cultural stigma.

The same cannot be said of most people today, and I therefore agree that it's a bad argument for long copyright terms in a modern context.
> While DigitalOcean, like other providers, offers a free managed control plane, there is typically a 100% markup on the nodes that belong to these managed clusters.

I don't think this is true. With Digital Ocean, the worker nodes are the same cost as regular droplets, there's no additional costs involved. This makes Digital Ocean's offering very attractive - free control plane you don't have to worry about, free upgrades, and some extra integrations to things like the load balancer, storage, etc. I can't think of a reason to not go with that over self-managed.
I can see how having the public domain source material might be necessary to defend yourself against claims of infringement of the non-public domain works. That makes sense to me.
Was hoping you had more insight than "maxi sounds good" which is the also the best I have.
As an ex chef can you explain the insane over-salting to me? is this by design to try and encourage more drinking, or because the chef's tastebuds are shot, or because of some pseudo-belief in what it does under the salamander or .. what?

On duck fat roasted potato with rosemary? drown it in salt. Salt crusted fish? it said it on the menu. Everything else, you'd slap them if they turned the salt grinder this many rotates at the table.
Of course you can, it's a tiny, isolated example consisting of 5 or so tokens. That's not how real programs look like so you cannot take the example so literally.

The second form is superior for at least three reasons:

1. Enables a property corollary to the happy path rule, which is that every return statement of a function is at the beginning of a line. This property is crucially important for readability, it makes it reliably possible to determine every exit point of a function by merely scanning the left hand vertical slice of it as opposed to needing our eyes to jump around erratically searching for arbitrarily placed returns.

2. Uniformity: mixing different if statement styles in a single codebase interferes with our ability to match visual patterns. Since we can no longer rely on every if statement looking the same, we cannot quickly skim over code anymore.

3. Refactorability: it's easier to add another line of code to the if statement if there's no need to also add brackets.
When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)
I’ve moved on to other things so I can’t really give details anymore. I understand this is annoying to hear as someone who works on that library but I also want to say that your comment is also annoying for different reasons, which mostly answer your question so I’ll explain anyway.

Highway is (I feel not very controversially) kind of like a compiler but worse at its job. It’s not meant to be as general and it only targets a limited set of code, namely code that is annotated to vectorize well. But looking at it as a compiler is kind of useful: it’s supposed to make writing faster code easier and more automatic. Sometimes compilers are not able to do this, just as Highway can’t either. Maybe its design lacks the expressiveness to represent the algorithm people want. Perhaps it doesn’t quite lower to the optimal code. Maybe it turns out that so little of the operation maps to the constructs that a huge amount needs to go through the escape hatch that you offer, at which point it’s not really worth using the library anyway. In that situation, given an existing and friendly relationship, I would be happy to reach out. But this is a cost to me, because I need to simplify and generalize the thing I want. Then I hand it to you and you decide how you want to tackle it, if at all. All the while I’m waiting and I have code that needs to be written. This is a cost, and something that as an engineer I weigh against just using the intrinsics directly, which I know do exactly what I need but with higher upfront and maintenance costs. When you see someone write their own assembly instead of letting the compiler do it for them, they’re making their version of the same tradeoff.
The Holmes situation was even sillier than that: they were arguing that certain personality traits of Sherlock were still under copyright: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/conan-doyle-estate-sues-net...
Choosing between microservices and monoliths is like choosing between a hammer and a nail. You need both
Has anyone done a study on when copyrighted works make their money? I'm guessing that the vast majority of the income is made in the first decade after creation. Timeless classics are by far the exception. And for those, does it really benefit society for their fortunate authors to sit back and get rich resting on their laurels? The creation that copyright was supposed to incentivize already happened. At that point society benefits when works go into the public domain so derivatives can flourish.
> Has it? I don't think many here would agree it is the new norm

Yes: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ai/#sentiment-and-usage

Anecdotally, my entire engineering team chooses to use LLM assistance because they feel more productive with it

> Talking about downvoting typically earns more downvotes because it is against the posting guidelines

I’m fine with the down votes. I asked because there were no comments, which makes for a pretty boring discussion. Now there are some comments. Thank you for leaving yours
Perhaps not, but the point of copyright is to provide incentive for creating work. Since earning beyond the grave is an incentive, there’s an argument to protect it (within limit).

Another example is Grant’s autobiography, which he wrote as he was dying of throat cancer. No way he would have done that without copyright.
So generic it's the first return on Google, Bing, and other search engines.

So generic it's the eponymous wikipedia page sans ambiguity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death
Is being a short story writer sustainable?
These things can sometimes be attacked with a theorem prover like z3. I think I remember the final microcorruption CTF challenge being like that.
All of us working in development of any kind create value well into the future with our work. The only question is whether you monetize immediately with wages or with ownership
As it’s not free anymore, do you still recommend using it, or do you have a different alternative recommendation in light of it no longer being free?

I appreciate your feedback. Not sure why ‘KomoD is defending the site, but at least you understand that it’s relevant whether it’s free or not.
But you also conveniently ignore the success modes where the answer is too novel to be anything other than reasoning.

The op clearly said LLMs reason so your opinion is totally against and opposed to the opinion of every author of that academic paper.

Why aren’t you condemning this paper?
And if you’re a filmmaker who intends to establish their business in Ethiopia…?
Anyone know why the instances lose 256MB RAM for every 4GB allocated? 3.75 (4), 7.5 (8), 15 (16), etc?
One way to look at it is that most college textbooks are bad. They are written by one person, who has limited time, and limited understanding. And then you have a teacher who knows even less than the textbook, trying to explain the textbook.

In contrast, Wikipedia editors have all the time they care to spend on the subject (which is a lot!). They often reproduce the original discoverer's words, when appropriate. E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_bio... uses Crick's words. Whereas in the case of Maxwell, the formulation "is credited to Oliver Heaviside". Long story short: Wikipedia has the best explanations, and if you don't think so then fix it!
I'm gonna try doing this on the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) this year.

Probably some problems will be impossible with limited RAM (2KiB, plus an optional 8KiB on the cartridge, maybe more if a fancy cartridge is used). But I'll try to solve as many as possible.

Today's was possible, in under 4 seconds, using 4KiB extra RAM on the cartridge.
restrained and thoughtful in its use is exactly how I expect people to not use these tools. Copy and paste and push the commit is more like it.
While humans can be empathetic, it is hard to maintain consistency both within oneself and across the team. Using an LLM agent can result in higher consistency across hours and agents.
Better to immediately switch to Python (or anything else) once you have any non-trivial control flow in your bash script. Loops, non-trivial conditionals, and argument parsing are all easier in Python. Bash is for simple scripts that just chain commands.
what is the dev cycle like on that? can you attach to it and operate it remotely via something like a repl or do you have to compile something to a cartridge and boot it from that?
That's not what you said, and I'm not interested in having a debate about what was playing inside your head when you wrote it; as you well know, we're responsible for the impact our comments have on the threads, and this was obviously a provocation.

I'm not the boss of this place; you can just mail hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like to propose a new guideline about "discussion of immigration".
Swept Away
This article implies that batch allocations are some kind of panacea and that raii has no place there.

Neither of these implications have any case made for them, just links to other publications that do the same.

It also alludes to downsides but fails to define them, and also misses documenting any downsides associated with alternatives.

Despite deep familiarity with the space and understanding of both sides, I can’t really see it saying anything much at all in fact
which is vestigial nonsense on a DSO.

... which I needed about 30 minutes ago to capture the first qualifying event on my DSO, using a pulse-width trigger.
I agree, with the caveat that a literary work can be seen as an asset that has value which pays out over time. It takes a large investment upfront and then pays out slowly.

So having a limited ability to pass on that asset if you die prematurely seems only fair—you'd have the same option if you were building something physical—but we shouldn't use inheritance as an argument for longer copyright. The question of how long someone should be allowed to earn money from a work should be orthogonal from the question of whether that right to earn money should be inheritable.

This is the flaw in life plus 70—it assumes that copyright should last indefinitely during one's lifetime and then provide for successors. I'd rather see a flat rate for how long we're comfortable locking up a work in copyright, successors or otherwise.
The real pain point low code seems to solve is boilerplate. Say that I am getting Django ready to go. To get started, have to Dockerize, swap to Postgres, add linting, swap out of the User model, etc.

But once all that is ready to go, it is about as fast as low code in my experience.
we're currently in a nostalgia cycle, "2024 Classic Recipe"
Personally I loathe golang for the sheer fact that it was created recently enough to have included a much better design. Old languages get a pass.

Rust to me is what a modern take on a systems language would be. I think it’s substantially better than go.
I'm doing the challenges in PowerShell to see how it goes.

I want to use it as a test to see how human programming can be improved by an AI, so I wrote the solution for day 1, got the right answer, and then gave my code to ChatGPT 4o to ask it to make the code faster.

My version ran in ~3500 ms
ChatGPT's version ran in 140 ms

both worked

A great example of how a common DevOps language program can be improved on by ChatGPT.
You can check out the landing page (https://bellmanloop.com/) to learn more. I also included it on ProductHunt (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bellmanloop).

If you need a demo, I would be happy to show it to you.

The key issue is the problem we are trying to solve: managing a team of human collectors is costly and may not necessarily result in a higher recovery per dollar invested.
Except Arenas are well expressible in Rust. What's more, the fact that there are lifetime constraints allows to have both safe and idiomatic abstractions for them.
Personally I find this to be the worst with ETL tools such as Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).

Table-to-table mappings are often very mechanical, with a set of simple exceptions or deviations, such as adding one column or skipping one column.

There is nothing fiddlier in this world than repeating these steps over and over with a GUI tool where you have to individually click each column mapping link to open its "properties" one... at... a... time... for hundreds of tables with dozens of columns each.
> I don't know of any programming environment that facilitates properly specifying calculating something even that basic in the init phase of running the system,

The JVM has well-defined class loading semantics, including class initialization, that allow limited initialization capabilities before main is even run. Of course it has other problems too (defining the order in which these fire can be frustrating) but it always struck me as straightforward to work with.
That’s true, but not everything is about recall.

Sometimes you just want to record the information quickly in a searchable way and forget about it until the next time you need it.

Not being able to recall something you do not want to might be a feature, and so is increasing the machine ability to recall it (as opposed to yours). Grepping text is always going to be more efficient than scanned handwritten paper notes.
>if Intel or AMD announced a new gamer CPU tomorrow that was 3x faster in most games but utterly unsafe against all Meltdown/Spectre-class vulns, how fast do you think they'd sell out?

I do realize that gamers aren't the most logical bunch, but aren't most games GPU-bound nowadays?
If crowding isn't an issue, geopolitics is a lot less important.

Unless you count whatever ideology the Soviet Union or the Third Reich espoused as a religion, you need ideology in your list.
I agree that it should be hooked up to run as a precommit hook, but unfortunately that doesn’t always solve things. People can- and do- bypass precommit hooks. It happens all the time at my company with certain teams, but I’ve been unable to figure out why. Any precommit hook that should run- needs a correlating required PR action to verify any precommit expectations are met. Otherwise, people reviewing the PRs just assume it ran and the people bypassing it get away with it.
The problem that I see is not the Mark Twains but the vast majority of other authors.

Their works go out of print but they're still copyrighted so people can't legally reproduce them (for profit or otherwise).

My grandfather was a published author with some success but he's dead and his stuff is no longer in print.
No one in my family is going to see revenue from his work.
No one outside of his generation (when he was successful) will ever have a chance to read his books as they're impossible to find now.

Most books written in the 20th century are basically gone from public availability.[1][2]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-m...

[2] https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/How_Copyright_Keeps_Works...