skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lessons learned page has some interesting details of the construction process. https://www.zgf.com/ideas/6785-lessons-learned-in-prefabrica...
Or 2023... There's a lot of papers out there!
So if something takes more than 3 years it doesn’t happen?

Models have been getting better, at a fast clip. With occasional leaps. For decades.

The fact that we are even talking about model coding limitations greatly surpasses expectations for 2024 from just a few years ago.

Progress in steps & bounds isn’t going to stop short of a global nuclear winter.
It's also, weirdly, not going to make a lot of difference to the person earning it.

If you're next in line to that, you can already afford literally everything. Or stop working tomorrow and still afford _almost_ everything.

So it's about whether or not it's a good job to work in, and one that will enhance your reputation and status.
Too bad most of society is accidental as well. With which I mean to say that there are a lot of nonsensical projects being done out there, that still make a living for many people. Modern AI may well change things, similar to how computers changed things previously.

I get your sentiment, I've been through a few hype cycles as well, but besides learning that history repeats itself, there is no saying how it will repeat itself.
None of those even came within 10% of delivering to the extent that LLMs have.
Game Theory Meets Vinge
Agreed. The favourable public response to the news is rather unusual.
>Whatsapp, indeed is a good idea, will add that, thanks!

And then, since you have one base covered for one "sphere" of the world, you also need to cover Telegram and Facebook Messenger, rofl
Brazilian court overturns injunction imposed on Apple's App Store
o1 sort of techniques (tree search, test-time training type things) have not hit any recognizable plateau. There's still low hanging fruits all around.
Why the Singularity will be a win-win for humanity and superintelligence
That's copy-pasted from https://about.gitlab.com/ .

I love that it implies there is a more comprehensive DevSecOps platform that isn't AI-powered.
100% agree, just that sometimes not every company has the resources or inclination to do that. The best middle ground is some kind of solution that allows the security team to "manage" personal devices in some way.
Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
I dunno. They’re starting with this as their default universe, right at the age where you pick up skills fastest. I’m worried about my kid but also the dinosaurs I know, who don’t even know there’s an asteroid.

I had a realisation today: AI gives you more shots at goal. When I was learning (the game) go, being able to play a lot of games against the computer in quick succession built intuition faster. When coding I can try more ideas, faster. Kids these days can make apps faster than you can have lunch. They’ll do it differently but they’ll learn faster than we will.
Interesting point.

Of course, the question remains of whether companies that buy into AI will hire a sufficient stream of junior developers so that some of them will graduate into seniors.
NASA says Orion's heat shield is good to go for Artemis II–but does it matter?
It was announced a few days ago that Intel is finally going to actually receive something from the CHIPS act. So far they haven't gotten a dime. CHIPS money has overall distributed barely any of the funds.
Most renown password managers are well integrated, making their use (usually) easier than just typing out a password. There's a good chance your company chose a outlier, or that the company or yourself don't use it correctly (and training employees to use the mandated tools is not always obvious to companies). This with the resettable password makes me think your company should really think again about which solution they chose.

I use a password manager in my daily life because I have 3 e-mail accounts, two domains, a cloud service not tied to any of my E-mail accounts, two banking accounts and the need to sometimes log into my wife's account (because she asks me to while she's at work), one PayPal account, and other services for which I wouldn't dare to write down the password to, nor would I dare to use the same password (or slight variations) for them. Using a password manager makes all of these easy to use at the click of a button, without me needing to remember any.

Post-it notes get lost, thrown away, burn, suffer water damage, and are bothersome to copy for backup purposes. Online password managers take care of backing up the DB for you, or if you don't trust them, offline solutions as pass or KeePass (and variations) let you backup the DB on offline drive and store them safely while you continue to use the main DB.

What's your excuse?
Completely free works sometimes (e.g. Facebook), but not always - the free plan might cannibalize lots of people who would otherwise pay significant amounts of money.
I assume the author typoed "recuse" (rather than intending "recurse") when itemising the feedback options!

Interesting to see the process under the covers these days. Faintly depressing, when one compares to what one reads about the Postel steered early days.

Obligatory nod to my favourite bittersweet RFC-2468 (the number choice there has always struck me as a stroke of genius).
Foresight (at the time) told you NetBurst was a dead end though. AMD made a lot of sales from people avoiding NetBurst, ignoring clock speeds and looking at actual performance numbers.

NetBurst looked good on benchmarks; code with few/no branches that fit in the L2 cache if not the L1 cache. On real world code consisting almost entirely of branches and pointer chasing the NetBurst chips performed horribly compared to lower clocked Athlons.

Intel's promises of 5+ GHz chips got more laughable as the line went on because they were already straining cooling and power supply options at less than 3GHz.
Show HN: I Built Temp-Mail, a Free Disposable Email with Attachment and Recovery
Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share something I've recently built.
A temporary email service with two unique features:

Receive email attachments (rare for temp mail services)
Recover past temporary emails you've used in previous sessions

Key details:

Completely free
No signup required
Instant email attribution
Attachment support
Email recovery feature

Why I built this: Most temp mail services are limited. I wanted something more flexible that doesn't make you lose interesting emails or attachments.

Project is live at: https://temp-mail.my
Tech stack: [HTML, CSS, JS frontend, Node.js, express backend]

Feedback and thoughts welcome! Happy to discuss the project.
I completely share your point of view. And if I may add, I think most people completely overlook the fact that AI for tech companies is the next golden age of ad.
They will have AI that can convinces you to buy a product or service over an other one on a prompt you ask. Even generating a small video clip of it tailored on the spot for you to convince you is the future of AI.
Ads made google rich, they stole content through Google and won’t make money out of it with their new superpower ?
It cost a lot of money and their goal is to be rich. There is no other way, people won’t pay the full price of what it cost for this not to happen.
NYT: Sundar Pichai on A.Ι., Regulation and What's Next for Google
Yeah. Depending upon the level of prior research by the shooter, the CEO may have shown a reliable pattern before hand attending other conferences too.
Beware these casuals
No, what happens is people pick the $10 plan and then sometime later, when all the competition has disappeared, they yank on the enshittification handle, and start adding ads to the service and not reduce the price.
Show HN: Type Switch – Simplify Language Switching on macOS
Hi Ycombinator community,

I’d like to share a project I recently launched: Type Switch, a macOS app designed to make language switching seamless and intuitive for multilingual users.

As someone who works in multiple languages daily, I’ve often found macOS’s default tools for language switching lacking in speed and ease of use. That’s what inspired me to create Type Switch — a lightweight and powerful tool for efficient multilingual typing.

Key Features of Type Switch:

- Quick toggling between installed languages.
- A customizable button that displays the current language with adjustable size, color, and transparency.
- Hotkey support for instant language switching.
- Voice feedback to announce the selected language during switching.
- Whether you’re writing, coding, or managing multilingual projects, Type Switch is designed to boost productivity by simplifying language management.

Try it out

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I’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions! Type Switch is a tool I built with fellow multilingual users in mind, and your input would mean a lot. Let me know what you think or if there’s a feature you’d like to see added.

Happy language switching!
Defending this practice because it's the status quo is ludicrous.

All of these things happen not because people approve of them, but because they have no choice. Every company in those industries is doing this because they want more profits. Companies do have the choice, but they would flood your eyeballs with ads 24/7 if it was socially acceptable. So they push that line as far as they can take it before people start complaining. And that's how we got to where we are now.

The thing most people don't consciously think about is that advertising is brainwashing and psychological manipulation. It's designed to embed products and ideas into your psyche to get you to do something or think a certain way. Separating me from my money is extortion, though fairly benign. What I find truly insidious is putting thoughts into my head. Political ads and propaganda are weapons of war since they manipulate how societies think and behave. They have the ability to influence how people vote, to topple governments, to cause civil unrest and deep distrust in societies. How most of the world isn't seeing the sociopolitical instability we've been seeing in the past decade as a direct consequence of ad-fueled social manipulation is beyond me.

To speak nothing of the multi-billion dark industry of data brokers, and companies hoovering up and profiting off of our data in perpetuity.

Advertising is evil to its core and is the most harmful yet normalized industry we've ever invented.
Which tool can actually help coding and refactoring, not just autocomplete? Copilot plugin for Jetbrains IDE can only suggest source to copy paste or at most replace single snippet I selected.

What I'd like to do is to ask "write me libuv based event loop processing messages described by protobuf files in ./protos directory. Use 4 bytes length prefix as a frame header" and then it goes and updates files in IDE itself, adding them to CMakeLists.txt if needed.

That would be an AI assisted coding and we can then discuss its quality, but does it exist? I'd be happy to give it a go.
> A rational market observer would have assumed biometrics would have replaced antiquated passwords years ago.

Why ? I don't want my picture stored on MS' servers every day.
> @greyface-, you

FWIW, I didn't write the article - I just posted it here.
Won’t name my company, but we rely on Palantir Foundry for our data lake.
And the only thing everybody wants [including Palantir itself] is to deploy at scale AI capabilities tied properly to the rest of the toolset/datasets.

The issues at the moment are a mix of IP on the data, insurance on the security of private clouds infrastructures, deals between Amazon and Microsoft/OpenAI for the proper integration of ChatGPT on AWS, all these kind of things.

But discarding the enterprise needs is in my opinion a [very] wrong assumption.
>×I have managed to "skip" some courses like operating systems and concurrency just by showing my project to the professor.

Love this! Well done. Best way to skip classes ever!
I think the same can be said about AI-assisted writing…

I like the ideas presented in the post but it’s too long and highly repetitive.

AI will happily expand a few information dense bullet points into a lengthy essay. But the real work of a strong writer is distilling complex ideas into few words.
I am guessing this was posted as "did not age well" post (with all the LLM-based coding assistants), but to me, that rings even more true today:

- "prompt engineering" is exactly the large intellectual investment on the human side alluded to in an article

- tiny imprecisions make the entire programs invalid or incorrect

- machines also tend to grossly misinterpret instructions (hallucinations)

- they are unable to replicate novel approaches based on small amounts of data
That is a MASSIVE game changer !
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the fight against disinformation
At $200 a month, it’s a significant investment...
I already wrote on another thread already but do it again: copilot failed me for any serious task. Let it be refactoring of a bit more complex Java method or iac code. Everytime there are hidden quirks and failures that make it easier to just do it myself instead of searching for the needle for minutes…. This combined the fact that ai already hitting a wall in terms of scaling gives a good outlook what’s its predictive future seems to be: successful in the far future when we have quantum computing or the like…
The demo credentials return 401 Uncaught Error
My experience is that junior devs write most of the code at a company and senior devs spend most of their time making sure the junior devs don't break anything.

Which seems to work pretty well, in my experience.
Also plausible to think that THEREFORE you are not getting any grants from Mars.
Could you link a random specification you were working against?
I'm curious how there are written
Not getting the next grant is hurting your income. So obvious.
Google Says AI Weather Model Masters 15-Day Forecast
Guys, ladies, meet Palantir Foundry ! #micDrop
Well I'm not saying I necessarily agree with it, but it begs the question of whether 'celebrating' (or, perhaps, simply not mourning) the death of some individuals is actually wrong? This would be different than encouraging/celebrating the murder itself.

I also think it bears consideration what 'public response' means here. Obviously I am just one person, but nobody I know (personally, or in the communities I'm in) has celebrated this in any capacity, let alone applauded the murderer. Are we basing public perception mostly on social media comments, which are a selective representation of public opinion at best, and blatantly fraudulent at worst?
This is common for huge open source projects. However, when you send a patch to Gitlab, they will assign someone to guide you through the process, and the patch will be merged eventually unless you bail out or they outright reject it.
Actually all websites work fine.

The problem is OpenAIs HTML.
I see the appeal. But I have yet to come across a simple way to write automated tests for logic in databases.
I'm sorry.

I saw that one possibility to resolve 'wondering if they knew it's there' was to email them directly and ask.

I was trying to caution you that it would be more friendly to include why you were curious, and to include some detail that tells them it you like their work enough to try it out yourself.

> I do not think educators should use proprietary software with children if they have the choice to do otherwise

The target audience is college students, not children.
I expect Englebert would have been astounded by real time text generation, faster than he could read, of a first pass draft of a Supreme Court brief involving a James Bond incident uncovering a pharmaceutical plot to undermine the biosphere via a constitutional loophole written in Dr. Seuss prose, with the humor of Monty Python.

Or that he could get successive improvements in the form of real time collaboration with the model.

It is true that a tool that isn’t as reliable as an expert won’t impress an expert. Even if it’s better/faster on 99% of varied tasks for any given human, for fast response output. “It still isn’t great”, by an experts standards.

But as humans, each of our task/field span of expertise or informed amateur fluency is terrifyingly limited compared to the broad awareness of fields and subjects that these models incorporate.

And they are crazy impressive in terms of how much better they have become, qualitatively and quantitatively, inexpensive (to deploy/use) and available, in a few years.
You can't self host Github.
You talk about the chicken-and-egg problem when using a phone, but doesn't your course itself present one? To do the course, you need to have fairly good computer skills, and that assumes someone handles the purchase for you. How many seniors are actually in that position, and how many are completely lost when it comes to any digital devices?
I worry about 2 main pitfalls for junior devs, one more tractable than the other.

Firstly there is the double edged sword of AI when learning. The easy path is to use it as a way to shortcut learning, to get the juice without the pressing, skipping the discomfort of not knowing how to do something. But that's obviously skipping the learning too. The discomfort is necessary. On the flip side, if one uses an llm as a mentor who has all the time in the world for you, you can converse with it to get a deeper understanding, to get feedback, to unearth unknown unknowns etc. So there is an opportunity for the wise and motivated to get accelerated learning if they can avoid the temptation of a crutch.

The less tractable problem is hiring. Why does a company hire junior devs? Because there is a certain proportion of work which doesn't take as much experience and would waste more senior developers time. If AI takes away the lower skill tasks previously assigned to juniors, companies will be less inclined to pay for them.

Of course if nobody invests in juniors, where will the mid and senior developers of tomorrow come from? But that's a tragedy of the commons situation, few companies will wish to invest in developers who are likely to move on before they reap the rewards.
> but no, it isn't new. There's a war between phonetic reading and 'whole word' reading.

Older than many think.

Search for and read "Why Johnny can't read", and then do the same for "Why Johnny still can't read".

I have an almost-five child who is reading simple books with no pictures.

Reading those two essays above, then buying "Teach your child to read in 100 days" and then simply working for 10m-20m each day since he was almost-three has resulted in a 5yo who reads as well as, or better than, many 8yo kids.

Also, I moved off the DISTAR alphabet after about 6 months - the book is good, but use it as a good start, not as a complete teaching kit.

Once you read those two essays you'll have a much better idea of why most children can't read and, most importantly, what to do about your kid at age 3.5yo - 4yo.
Does any of the famous carpet still remain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_International_Airport...
> Maybe if you have a small app. React is as bad as going from angular to angular 2

You have no idea what you are talking about.
Regarding The Verge, I wish something like Apple News existed in this space. I'd happily throw in $10/mo into a pool that distributed money towards a bunch of different smaller tech reporting/blogs/YouTube channels. I just can't justify paying $X/mo individually to 20 different sources.

Though, I dislike that Apple News now runs ads in it's offering and would happily pay a little more to completely get rid of them, but I like the idea that I get access to a number of sources for one payment.
Exactly what you said Andrew.

The comparisons are lacking and are almost at whataboutism level.

The amount of actual 'work' that AI does versus the tools of yesterday are an order of magnitude away
When I die, one should asses wether it’s cancer or not.

In case not, my case would prove that chocolate is almost surely not dangerous
> I’ve worked all over Europe in the games industry as did some of my long-term friends. Relocating for employment is a broader discussion but from a regulatory perspective, it just involves driving a car.

This simplifies the entire process. For fields like software, it is easier. For other fields - not so much.

> Yes, salaries vary but not much in companies hiring at the global level.

For Western Europe this might be true. But if you take into account Eastern Europe and Central (or Southern) Europe, this is entirely off the mark. Until very recently a Software Engineer in Lithuania could have expected to earn anywhere from 35 000 to 50 000 Eur while the same salaries in Western Europe would be double that. For other fields the difference is even more noticeable.

> but you can often be employed in one EU country and live in another

This isn't true. Most companies don't want to deal with cross-border taxes. If you live in Lithuania and work in Germany for more than half the calendar year, you (need to) start paying taxes in Germany. This either means you'll be employed in Germany (by a parent/child company that is listed there) or you won't work there.

> But yes, living in Lithuania you’d want to be employed in Germany probably in your situation.

This is no longer the case. Germany is not an attractive country anymore. It would only make sense to emigrate to the United States, if strictly speaking about salary. There are far less opportunities in Germany and not so many interesting projects to work on.

> I don’t think Germans buy German, Poles buy Polish, etc. Many Europeans drive German cars and many play Polish games like Cyberpunk 2077, French games like Dishonored and what Ubisoft makes. Many use Scandinavian banks and so on.

You are looking at consumer products (cars, games) but in industry they will buy local. It is very difficult to get into such markets, unlike the United States. There is a label of 'quality' attached to German engineering (even though most of their engineering is outsourced nowadays).

I don't want to get into a lengthy discussion on a case-by-case basis because experiences will differ based on the field you work in. The core issue is that it isn't as seamless an experience as in the United States and it is rarely done in practice. Unfortunately, I do not see any changes in this regard because of the difference in wealth across countries in the EU, a huge issue that wasn't dealt with.
Ask HN: How do you discover new games to play?
How do you normally discover new games, beyond the classic steam charts?
I would assume 9 of them would not care either way.
Many many unrest cases showed, that with proper oppression methods the country can go for decades afterwards. Gulags and closed psychiatric clinics were full of unstable elements trying to destabilize countries. And that was possible without modern observation methods.
One could argue that one atom of anything is not dangerous.

Therefore it is proven that there is a level of anything that is dangerous yet.
No bitemporal db (i.e. xtdb)?
Java .wars, but native and talking HTTP.
Love this. Can you clarify what a state org is? Do you mean like a tech department within your state government?
It depends on the tool you use and I guess the use case too. Some are language model agnostic like aider in the command line, I use sonnit sometimes and then 4o other times. I wonder if or when language models will become highly differentiable. Right now I see them more like a commodity that are relatively interchangeable but that is shifting slightly with other features as they battle to become platforms