skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the same things as Addy, though I'm not 100% sure it's something new happening because of AI assistants. I started learning programming in the late nineties as a 9-year-old sitting at a library paying 10 NOK for an hour of internet access (the librarians were sweet and "forgot" how long I was sitting at the computer because they saw how much I was enjoying it). And I did the exact same thing described in this article: I grabbed whatever code I could that did something, didn't know how to debug it, and at best I could slightly tweak it to do something slightly different. After a few years I got better at it anyway. I started pattern matching, and through curiosity I found out what more senior developers were doing.

Maybe the fact that I was just a kid made this different, but I guess my point is that just because AI can now write you a code file in 10 seconds, doesn't mean your learning process also got faster. It may still take years to become the developer that writes well-structured code and thinks of edge cases and understands everything that is going on.

When I imagine the young people that will sit down to build their own first thing with the help of AI, I'm really excited knowing that they might actually get a lot further a lot faster than I ever could.
I would never chatgpt my code because I don't want to send it to Microsoft. Slow is better than nothing.
The model from OpenAI doesn’t need to be directly trained on the company’s data. Instead, they provide a fine-tuning API in a “trusted” environment. Which usually means Microsoft’s “Azure OpenAI” product.

But really, in practice, most applications are using the “RAG” (retrieval augmented generation) approach, and actually doing fine tuning is less common.
Jetbrains already has TeamCity and Youtrack
lol having worked through 3 large projects going from 0.14 to 15 - pain.

15 to 16 - pain.

16 to 17 - pain.

If you disagree you haven’t worked on anything even slightly complex.

Thankfully I’m on my 2nd project of ripping react out for htmx. The last one was a huge success. No doubt this one will be too.
I can't get a few of my clients to adopt password managers and they get logged out of their accounts constantly because an employee will change some password to an account the business depends on. These people want to suffer and roll around in fetid filth.
Second that. My job before last moved to a locally hosted enterprise Github instance, which promptly ate itself. The specs required to run it were also impressive, something like 64gb minimum to boot but more was strongly recommended.
Typically, you store your most recent logs in full, and you can move to sampling for older logs (if you don't want to delete them outright).
I agree. I much prefer Prometheus and Sentry over logs.
I was directly addressing your statement "simply taking their money and sending them to prison for a while will have the same effect", and asking for examples of where that's happened, again, specifically for abuses against the public at large rather than for investor or creditor classes for whom justice seems far more often and readily served.

One would think that this is a target-rich environment, and yet there don't seem to be many cases of that occurring. You've not answered my own question (choosing to rather spectacularly misinterpret and misstate my comment instead). I've put the question (phrased several ways) to an LLM which first responded with a set of decades-old fraud (e.g., creditor/shareholder victims) cases, and then point blank refused to suggest who might be prosecuted, or even who has been discussed as being plausibly prosecuted (interesting set of guardrails).

The law for whatever reasons --- I can think of several and there are many which have been expressed both recently and going back through time, Anatole France's observation of the law and its majestic equality would be among the classic and better known --- seems not to take an interest into affronts against the public at large.

I think my point was clearly expressed as originally put, if you've any difficulties in interpreting this, please say how and where: My read of the street is that the institution of law and courts has been assessed as insufficient and/or terminally dysfunctional.

The alternatives are not good, a point on which I suspect we're agreed. But they'll be reached for where institutions consistently fail, if I read history correctly.

And to draw on another recent HN thread, if the purpose of a system is what it does, then the system isn't broken but is performing as intended. Which would itself be a problem.

(See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313947> among numerous others: <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=stafford%20beer>.)
Indeed, in 2009 I used free hosting. However, my articles were so interesting that in one week my site was visited by about a million people. Because of the huge traffic, I was kicked out of free hosting. Then I rented a VPS. Then I was still a big opponent of advertising, like all of you, and I was naive. I was an idealist. But when I tried to sell access to the site for sending SMS messages costing 10 cents, no one wanted to buy them, only one person out of a hundred. When I installed advertising, this ratio increased to fifty out of a hundred, that is, my income increased 50 times. Then I understood the benefit of advertising. I received about $ 100 a month from advertising. Then the income from advertising dropped significantly due to the mass installation of ad blockers. Now I use Firefox without any plugins. I honestly watch ads. This is the decision of a responsible adult. Because I understand that without advertising there will not be those wonderful sites that are still left.
If you're not a YIMBY you're a de facto NIMBY.
Unilaterally written terms are morally bankrupt. We gain nothing by helping Bezos.
sensationalist headline

Asian giant hornets are often called murder hornets by the media anmd online outlets.

There is no such thing as a Murder hornet
Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
Elon Musk risks being 'political puppet master', says Nick Clegg
The author isn't whining, he's simply sharing his experience.
I really can't imagine someone with CTO title doesn't have $15/month to pay for YouTube when you're a regular user. People with far fewer resources pay. This goes to content creators, if you're not even seeing ads, they don't get paid.
If you're brave!
I just happen to live in Singapore at the moment. German supermarket (factory produced) bread is also better than most of what you can get in the UK.

It's just that German consumers demand a certain level of quality in their sourdough, and the market is big enough for people to build machines to deliver that quality at a good price.

Yes, bread here in Singapore is a bit sad. (But we got lots of other great food options to make up for that.)
> I don't know this reference

Right there is your problem. Read the Mythical Man-Month and Design of Design. They are not long books and it's material that's hard to find elsewhere. Old rat tacit knowledge.
Valentine's day. Halloween. You name the 'celebration', and I will show you a nice marketing scheme behind it. Latest BS trend after "Cyber Monday" is the "Travel Tuesday" one which I've heard for the first time in my life a few days ago.

And then we will go to (something that starts with w....) "Water Wednesday" (everybody goes swimming), "Tattoos Thursday" (self explanatory), "Flip-board Friday" (we have meetings at home) and so on.

Marketing works. Marketers/advertisers know how to trigger women (who make the vast majority of choices in purchasing). They fall for that shit all the time. Which guy wants to spend 1-2-3-10 salaries on a rock? Which guy wants to spend stupid amounts of money for decapitated/rotting heads of plants (aka flowers)? Flowers are beautiful, yes! Plant the thing, let it grow, see and smell it every day.

Stupid vanity and stupid emptiness!!

EDIT: what the hell is going on with Halloween in countries very unrelated to the custom??
It might actually be better at discussing than at coding.

Just like Eliza is better at producing a reasonable looking conversation, if you pair it with a cooperating human.
About $ 100 a month.
But it is not possible to use it without creating a Google account. I should not need to sign in to watch videos, especially when that makes all efforts at avoiding tracking null.
As a member of the UUIDv7 cheering squad let me say 'rah rah'! :D
Yeah there's a certain amount of effort most people are willing to put in to do something. If it's too high, it won't happen. Yet at the same time a certain baseline is needed to not end up being low hanging fruit for attackers.

I've also seen this, especially in security tools. The usability is often straight out of the 90s which keeps me wondering, who uses this voluntarily?
Look, I'm not an ad aficionado either, but if it weren't for ads, the lifestyle of a lot of people on HN would be dramatically different — particularly for those doling out unsolicited advice to publishers on running a sustainable media business in 2024.
... what does that practically matter to people living in the Microsoft era?
IIRC all those mentioned products have been around before the AI craze started. Can you explain how bringing up these products is not a straw man by itself?
> The comment I responded to suggested that it's impossible to record video delivered over the internet, which is obviously insane.

It is quite difficult to record video from many services. Harder still to do it in an automated way like a DVR.
Can you share how you do this? For example, you've listened to a song on YT a few times, liked it. Do you try to find the artist on Bandcamp or iTunes and buy their album? Or order their merch?
How much do you spend on this monthly on average?
> While engineers report being dramatically more productive with AI

Where are these people in real life? A few influencers or wannabes say that on Twitter or LinkedIn, but do you know actual people in real life who say they’re "dramatically more productive with AI"?

Everyone I know or talked to about AI has been very critical and rational, and has roughly the same opinion: AIs for coding (Copilot, Cursor, etc.) are useful, but not that much. They’re mostly convenient for some parts of what constitutes coding.
As someone with both feet in the embedded development world, reading this from 1995 is fun:

Note that even the RS232 port itself is a standard. And an inferior one; sending stuff at 9600 baud over a 7 wire connection is a travesty by modern standards.

Note: RS232 is still around, and still relevant on modern systems. Not perhaps "actual" RS232 with the large voltage swing and negative voltage, but the UART signalling.

Also, I wonder what he would have preferred, USB was really really young then.
> And the parent comment does not disagree with this

I think it kinda does? Dictators tend to demand unethical behavior from subordinates, and they tend to demand loyalty more than results while also expecting results.
It was garbage while Microsoft was working on it. That NT wasn't garbage is due to it's being written by people from VMS who knew what they were doing. IMO.
The US FTC also has rules requiring most (but not all) native advertising to have a disclosure (e.g. "ad”, “promoted by [X]”, “sponsored advertising content”, etc. but not terms such as “promoted” or “promoted stories")

Here's one overview: https://www.kevel.com/blog/ftc-compliant
This all might be true for log generating etc.

But someone who has tried to wrangle gazillion row dumps from a variety of old msgpack protobuf etc and make sense of it all will hate it.

Zipped text formats are infinitely easier to own long term and import into future fancy tools and databases for analysis.
> uncompetitive fab

I have seen this phrase used a few times here. Is there such a thing? Sure, a fab can be old and produce chips with larger transistor sizes, but there isn't a lack of demand. Only a tiny fraction of ICs need the latest transistor sizes.

To be clear, do you any inside information / career experience that you know that existing Intel fabs are losing money? I have not read any such reports in media.

As a counterpoint, Europe and Japan are no longer cutting edge in their fabs, but continue to produce many ICs for industry.
Well the fact that it doesn't degrade means the carbon stays trapped.
Of course they have $15/mo. Whether they want to pay is another question.
It was not intentional. I've corrected this oversight, and attribution is now provided - my apologies.
As an immigrant father of 2 small children, living in Germany for the past few years, I have found that Germany has some real "hidden champions" amongst the tech-enabled learning products space. This Tip-toi product and associated ecosystem is one of them, and another is Tonies, which is a kind of audio player in a nice cushioned box that uses cartoon-like figures to choose which audio books to play.
NYC Council passes zoning reforms to create 82K homes, $5B for infrastructure
Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey
How much should I price my API Key Management feature?
We’ve just released an API Key Management feature set for our Billing SaaS (including API roles, permissions, and expiration).

We're currently debating how much this enterprise add-on should cost, and we’d love to get some insights from the community! :)

Should it be packaged as an "enterprise security" feature?

Should we go with usage-based pricing?

Or set different prices for each part of the feature set (similar to how WorkOS handles pricing)?

Thanks in advance for your input!
Thanks for the reply! I completely understand, particularly regarding the monopoly, but do consider stuff that's technically 'non-standard' in an advanced module. It's hard enough to explain to my mum (at least) one concept - explaining a secondary app store, or to use a browser that none of her friends would be using isn't the quickest route to her grasping stuff (or indeed comparing experiences with her friends).
So that you can have secure and unique passwords for every site. It's pretty simple really. Prevents people from doing stupid things like putting their passwords on sticky notes for example.
Did you know that YouTube does not make a profit, but only covers its own expenses? What if it becomes unprofitable because of ad blockers? What will remain? Paid cinemas? Do you want to pay money from your own pocket? And you will remember the times when you could pay by watching ads without money. Think about it! No one will do anything for you for free. Try to take a taxi or a train without money? Try to steal bread from a store without money? This is stealing and it is illegal. If something is free, it means that those who benefit from it have already paid for you, so that you receive the information they want. So that an independent site cannot distribute free information.
Apache Cassandra would probably be the most notable one (outside of Kafka etc).
WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction Study
I buy on average 2-3 albums on Bandcamp every month. This month I've bought 4 already. If I like an artist enough that I want to listen to the full album more than once, then I generally buy it. If it's not available on Bandcamp I use Qobuz as a backup.

For videos and podcasts I subscribe to content creators on Patreon. I currently have four subscriptions for a total of around $12, and I give roughly the same amount to each.

I also avoid services that are monetized by ads elsewhere and pay for Kagi to get ad-free search. I will avoid all services that offer free tiers with ads and paid tiers without ads as I just fundamentally do not believe that the business model can work at scale without causing harm.

I also host my own email as I do not believe that it is possible to provide free email to people without somehow also doing things with their data or attention that goes against their interests.
Ah, right, okay.
Indeed, the market gives permission to the offense.

The funny part is we should have all learned our lesson from the cable television days. Perhaps it's been long enough that everyone forgot, or maybe most of the market is just too young now, but there was a time in the US when cable television was ad-free. Commercials started sneaking into that with some regularity even though part of the draw to paying for cable tv was that it was commercial free. My brain wants to say this happened around the late 1980's? I might be wrong on that time frame, but at some point, like a frog sitting in a pot of water, the heat slowly rose and we found ourselves boiled to death with more and more commercial interruptions in our paid cable tv channels.

Then we watched the same thing happen with the Internet in the mid-2000's. Needless to say, I am a heavy user of ad blockers and Pi Holes. I especially loath sites that want to detect my ad blocker, and throw up a message trying to to guilt me into turning it off. The thing is I am not just blocking the ads, but also trying to block all the tracking that comes with those ads.

It's not really just about being annoyed by ads this time around. It's also about the right to privacy.
I did cancel my subscription to Amazon Prime because of this exact reason.
Even if you do not use the ads you see to make your decision, they influence you.

I already knew this but got very conscious of it when I was surprised to go to McDonalds and then discovered that they had new ads on my full commute route.

Even without influencing you, brands may just make you aware of their products, which is already a big 0 to 1.
I'm not sure how would you like author to address that. If a user is not able to navigate any computer, he won't even reach the course or any advertisement. He needs at least some help to start out.

Also, to be fair, the site has a clear video that shows step-by-step process of ... purchasing the course.

I think our senior population changes and there are plenty of them that had contact with desktop and touchscreen devices, but get easily confused and can't keep up with updates. I know many such people and would love something like that, but translated.
> Diamonds are possibly the biggest scam in human history. Supply and price controlled by a single entity...

De Beers isn't the only entity producing lab-grown diamonds. There's competition and hence prices of lab-grown diamonds have been divided by 3 in less than ten years.

The interest in diamonds and trying to recreated diamonds predates De Beers by centuries.

> Diamonds are pretty

Like gold. Shiny gold is pretty too. Cleopatra already fancied that. Humans are humans and like shiny things, especially females.

Females birds of paradise for example shall pick the male birds of paradise we humans tend to find the most harmonious color-wise. Go figure but it's everywhere in the animal kingdom.

Something something about evolution / mating / etc. Not everything is subjective.

> and a marketing campaign to buy a diamond ring for your marriage proposal

I see many single women with diamond ear rings. Diamonds inside their watch. Necklace. etc.

Something could be said too about consumption and all the throwaway items we have (like smartphones) vs one of the hardest known material on earth which can be passed down to your kids and then grand kids while still keeping some value and at the same time being... Shiny.
Yes that's the point. You needed to do this (accidental) work, in order to do what you actually wanted to achieve. Hence there was less time spend on the actual (~business) problem and hence the whole thing was less productive
Huh, found it at https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-island/huxleya-island-00...

So far reminding me a bit (in backstory) of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twenty-One_Balloons
Advertising is fundamentally corrosive to society and should be outlawed with few and carefully tailored exceptions. Any business models that consequently fail, fail because their externalities to collective society are now priced in.
No, they just raised the price of the ad-free experience. You can pay $3 a month more than last year to remain ad-free.
I'm surprised this didn't attract a lot of discussion. People who posted GenAI output without checking it was correct:

- Ana Navarro-Cardenas, (The View, CNN, X) cites nonexistent hallucinatory(?) Woodrow Wilson pardon of "his brother-in-law Hunter deButts", who didn't exist.

- retracted Esquire article wrongly claiming George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil Bush in 1999 (when GHW Bush had already been out of office for 7 years)

- Occupy Democrats’ executive editor Grant Stern on X
> And De Beers is spending lots of money to try and turn the public against them.

De Beers sells lab-grown diamonds too.
it's a good point, and if theverge was using the weasel language to still allow paid content to be published to subscribers, that would be one thing.

but that's not it - they're still going to serve you banners, even if you pay. just, fewer of them. and they're going to gate content behind the paywall. it's the "have your cake and eat it too" of paywalls.

>we’ll get rid of all the chumboxes and third-party programmatic ads, cut down the overall number of ad units, and only fill what’s left with high-quality ads directly sold by Vox Media.
It's disappointing because the o1-preview had 128k context length. At least on the API. So they nerfed it and made the original product $200/month.
They are not f*cked. They have a free tutor that they can ask any time, who will always do his best to help.

My son is currently studying engineering, and whenever he is stuck at anything (construction, math, programming, mechanics) he fires up ChatGPT and asks for help. In maybe 90% AI gives him a hint so he can continue, which an extremely short feedback cycle. In the remaining 10% he will have to ask his human tutor at university, who is usually available a few days later. And it is not blindly following the AI's advice, but rather picking ideas from it. It is actually pretty awesome to see what opportunities there are, if AI is not simply used for cheating.

One impressive example he showed me was feeding a screenshot of a finished (simple) construction drawing to the AI and asking for potential errors. The AI replied with a few useless, but also with one extremely helpful suggestion, which helped him eradicate the last mistake in his drawing. I am still not sure if those were generic suggestions or if the AI was able to interpret the drawing to a certain degree.
But i have those already;)
Nah, happens - if you don't actually use HTMX and read the change list, it sounds scarier.

The reason some of us like the way it updated so much is that except possibly for authors of swap plugins the new behaviours have been telegraphed long in advance so a lot of places already did all the changes and V2 just removed some stuff that was already deprecated.

Funnily enough, this confusion shows how bad our expectations became, in some ways...
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Sometimes, I get this absolute stroke of brilliance for this idea of a thing I want to make and it's gonna make me super rich, and then I go on Google, and find out that there's already been a Kickstarter for it and it's been successful, and it's now a product I can just buy.

So apparently not.