skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got “in” to McDonald's when I was studying the Freeway revolts and realized how skilled McDonalds Corporate were at real estate speculation way back in the 1950s. In San Francisco there was (key word: was) a McDonald's along every corridor that would have been more highly traveled had the freeways been built as planned: Haight & Stanyan, Turk & Golden Gate, Van Ness (this one was actually unironically beautiful, look it up). I would get breakfast at that former Haight location on my way to work every morning, Bacon Egg & Cheese biscuit and a large black coffee — my fav.

Also recommended: “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America” http://www.marciachatelain.com/ (2021 Pulitzer Prize winner)
Indeed. There is a nascent alliance forming between socialists like myself and libertarians like many I respect: a “market” that has profit margins to increase prices but little or no competition to put downward pressure is a despotism. It’s a vampiric wealth transfer on the scale of great power GDP and many of us have fucking had it.

If you can hear this, you are the resistance.
changing the wrapper is not removing the item, and the congruity of WithPinapple compared to WordPress is a common obfusication, method.

this would be indirect contempt, of court order to the prejudice of the courts authority to mandate injunctive relief
Yes it was that. Thank you. I couldn't remember the name as it was an unusual name.
When I was quite young (maybe 5-9) my family did a lot of trips to the U.S. for my dad’s IBM server training stuff. Something that made me anxious was the border crossing because my dad got all serious and told us to be quiet and it felt intimidating.

As a consequence of being so young I couldn’t distinguish between Customs and a toll booth so they made me anxious too. And one day we were driving up to what looked like a huge toll booth or Customs stop and I was terribly anxious until we got close enough and it was this super weird McDonald’s. A gas station below, restaurant on top. It had such an impact on me that I spent the years after being hopeful any time I saw customs or tool booths that it was this fantastical McDonald’s.

Also I once went to a McDonald’s with model trains running along the top of the walls. That was super cool.
It's a bear to implement well. I'd start with Gemini and see how far that context window can take you. Then I'd work on summarizing fragments of earlier conversations down to key points to include in the broader conversation. Then I probably still wouldn't try to implement RAG unless time was not an issue.
Fav anecdote from ages ago:

When hand-held power tools became a thing, the Hollywood set builder’s union was afraid of this exact same thing - people would be replaced by the tools.

Instead, productions built bigger sets (the ceiling was raised) and smaller productions could get in on things (the floor was lowered).

I always took that to mean “people aren’t going to spend less to do the job - they’ll just do a bigger job.”
It’s a one time fixed cost. Running a cloud service is not. You very rarely buy a new garage door opener.
Welcoming the Stranger
To replace all developers, we need AGI yes. To replace many developers? No. If one developer can do the same work as 5 could previously, unless the amount of work expands then 4 developers are going to be looking for a job.

Therefore, unless you for some reason believe you will be in the shrinking portion that cannot be replaced I think the question deserves more attention than “nothing”.
That I agree with, although real thought needs to be put into security for this. This is literally a key to your home.
The Re-Skilling of America
…unlike appliances from non-Chinese companies like, say, Amazon? :-)

There is nothing "Chinese" about enshittification of the world around us. My LG TV insists that my "home screen" is not my property, even though I bought the TV, and invents new ways of showing ads and tracking me invasively. Amazon devices show ads and speak ads. Even Apple devices, even though apple pretends they are above this, show ads in app store search results, and send you ad notifications.

I won't even honorably mention Windows, where my computer and the main UI is basically considered a free-for-all for the Microsoft marketing department.
They absolutely do. There are cheats and hacks you can use to make decent-looking poached eggs regardless (molds, vinegar and salt in the poaching water, double-cooking with an intermediate ice bath, straining off the weaker outer proteins before cooking, ...), but fresh eggs give a more consistently good result.
Yes the end result of rich western nations that get strangled by government is to be a museum
What a bizarre statement about a place of business that's tried to irrelevance themselves into non-existence this year. Fast food pricing is now equal or beyond the prices of quality food with non-chain fast food (i.e. doner/local pizza joints) becoming the new affordable option.
Remember when the iPhone came out and BlackBerry smugly advertised that their products were “tools not toys”?

I remember saying to someone at the time that I was pretty sure iPhone was going to get secure corporate email and device management faster than BlackBerry was going to get an approachable UI, decent camera, or app ecosystem.
Always go to the funeral (2005)
I seriously doubt a large portion of those 300+ forums have tens of thousands of users.
I have nowhere near the knowledge required to say yes or no to your argument. My point is that the guy that wrote the article is shilling a pre-ipo company whole fuding the competitors which is really surprising to get that many upvotes.
New KOSA, same as the old KOSA
> you want to do a "has" check before accessing a field

You should only do that if the semantics of the not-set field are different than the default value, which should be rare and documented on the field.
I thought canoe plants were an interesting concept when introduced to them, but we know that those come from Polynesia.

I kind of wonder if mango is one of those plants that taught the far east to prevent exportation of native flora, to control supply chains. It’s already everywhere so we can’t build a moat. But pepper, cinnamon, and tea…
It's interesting they host these videos on YouTube, cause it signals they're fine with AI generated content. I wonder if Google forgets that the creators themselves are what makes YouTube interesting for viewers.
I'm future proofing my job by ensuring I remain someone whose brain is tuned to solving complex problems, and to do that most effectively I find ways to keep being engaged in both the fundamentals of programming (as already mentioned) and the higher-level aspects: Teaching others (which in turn teaches me new things) and being in leadership roles where I can make real architectural choices in terms of what hardware to run our software on.

I'm far more worried about mental degradation due to any number of circumstances -- unlucky genetics, infections, what have you. But "future proofing" myself against some of that has the same answer: Remain curious, remain mentally ambidextrous, and don't let other people (or objects) think for me.

My brain is my greatest asset both for my job and my private life. So I do what I can to keep it in good shape, which incidentally also means replacing me with a parrot is unlikely to be a good decision.
I once worked for two hours out of a mc donalds, even had a 30 minute teams meeting (it was completely empty at 10 in the morning) and the wifi was quite fast
Fuck your forest. I like my tree.
The UK is building their own digital gulag. Most social media companies are not going to institute these authoritarian measures for one small nation that wants to regulate the world. You are going to see yourselves cut off.
Big companies that can afford to pay the certification fees maybe can; I definitely can’t. The entitlement is not available to regular app developers, unfortunately.
I don't understand either.

Seriously dude, is it so difficult to explain what you actually mean instead of talking around in circles?
I guess faster reaction times might have been decisive for many early startups.

Nowadays is another story because everyone does and cargo cults are in place.
You act like that has stopped any artist. Ned time you hear about a new Pokemon game releasing or any expansion to a franchise. New characters will have content drawn of them before the announcement is over.
Based on my understanding of the plugin code it is the default. The way cache.Indexer works is it's continuously streaming resources from APIServer using Watch API and updates internal map. I think if Watch API is down it just sits there and doesn't purge anything but I haven't tested that. The 20 min expiry is probably referring to CodeDNS cache stanza which is a separate plugin[0].

[0] - https://coredns.io/plugins/cache
Then, this week, there was the news that Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Isn't it pretty obvious it's him? Is there any possibility he was framed or something.

McDonald's plays a big role because it also happens to be extremely popular and has many locations all over America. It's brand is an iconic and big as ever.

It also shows how America has a sort of love-hate relationship with fast-food. We know it's unhealthy and overpriced but we cannot stop eating it.
This comment talks about large platforms with opaque algorithms showing some content to hundreds of thousands of people. I will not debate the merits of this law in that context here. My objection addresses your example of a "small Mastodon instance", which I'll extend to include a hobbyist forum, a blog with a comment section, or any similar website that can be run by a single person or informal, noncommercial group of people.

By not exempting the latter, this legislation makes it unreasonably risky for an individual with sufficient connection to the UK to operate such a website. The moderation policy is "I run some open source spam filter software and if I happen to see anything heinous, I delete it". Such websites are usually not businesses and often represent a net cost to their operators. A universal duty to moderate will accelerate the disappearance of hobbyist websites and further entrench corporate social media. I think that's a bad thing.
One issue is: for new stuff, you cannot know yet if it's actually good. It's only once it has withstood the test of time that you can be reasonably sure.

> Vintage Yamaha solid state electrical devices

Yamaha are still producing modern amps that are very good quality wise compared to their price point: the "ToP-ART" (that's how they call it) basis they use in many amp is actually good stuff and has been tested and analyzed by many objective metrics. They may not be simple but they sure as heck do sound very good (and they've got a "loundess" control, which basically only Yamaha or $$$$$ Macintosh amps or preamps do have and nothing beats that for people who also need to listen at lower volumes later at night when everybody, including the neighbors, do sleep).

Overall I'd say Japanese companies still know how to build quality stuff: cars, amps, digital pianos, laser printers (even if even Brother and Epson can be criticized on some points, we're far from the turds companies like HP or Lexmark have become), tools (I love all the Makita tools and power tools), etc.

When it comes to music there are objective measurements and there are companies out there still building amazing stuff, punching way above their pricepoint.

One could lament about the cost cutting on the material (like plastic knobs) on entry level Yamaha amps, but the innards is actually good stuff. They also come with long warranties (two years but you can register your stuff online and get 2 to 3 additional years of warranty).

I have maybe 15 IBM Model keyboards but... I'm using since many years a HHKB Pro JP. And HHBK are, well, japanese keyboards (it took the japanese to create the amazing Topre switches).

That's the thing: sadly by only using older tech you're giving up on something. Amps from the 70s are not competing with modern stuff. Speakers from the 70s and 80s do age. Cars are going to be less secure and consume more fuel (I know: I've got two "youngtimers" cars from the late 80s).

Kitchen knifes? Japanese.

But I agree that quality overall has gone down a lot and that it takes time to find quality brands / models.

FWIW I paired DALI (a little Danish brand) loudspeakers with a modern Yamaha amp and I couldn't be happier.

P.S: although I do have family in Japan I'm not japanese ;)
Be hipster type II civilization brain in a jar. Wonder what it's like to have muscle / strength train. Incubate a body, start lifting.
Except the gas guzzling large trucks seems to be a uniquely north american problem - because of the "work vehicle" loophole.
So your argument is:

There is some tech that is getting progressively better.

I am high on the linear scale

Therefore I don't worry about it cathing up to me ever

And this is the top voted argument.
Are you though? Until the AI-augmented developer provides better code at lower cost, I'm not seeing it. Senior developers aren't paid well because they can write code very fast, it's because they can make good decision and deliver projects that not only work, but can be maintained and built upon for years to come.

I know a few people who have been primarily programming for 10 years but are not seniors. 5 of them (probably 10 or more, but let's not overdo it), with AI, cannot replace one senior developer unless you make that senior do super basic tasks.
rsync in a cron job?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
Some of the drawings, like the one from Amazon Nova Pro, are quite fascinating as abstract artworks. It's like the idea of a bicycle without its physicality.
Because some of us have high levels of skepticism with that stuff. Even the GLP-1 inhibitors are too new to really get a handle on. The only proven methods to health are those that have existed before we ever came along: a clean diet and (good) exercise.

History shows time and time again that there are no free lunches in nature.
loved the game until I entered the stairwell and was not able to proceed or go back. Having this as a softlock is sad, especially since this could be a continuation of the story by using the stairs as some kind of emergency exit
This article argues at considerable length that an "educational" language targeting complete novices should choose a keyword-heavy syntax like Wirth's Modula 2 as opposed to a terser one like C, prior to discussing more esoteric topics like structural editing, "frame"-like graphical representations of high-level syntax and such. Is there any significant evidence that the keyword-heavy syntax style may be easier to understand for novice coders, or is this just a matter of subjective preference?
Yes but they are not everywhere. As much as hate the below mediocre junk McD mostly produces, sometimes they are the only place open for miles around.
He's still around under Sub Brief (https://www.youtube.com/@SubBrief) but I wouldn't be surprised if some of his videos have since been edited and/or removed. Especially the ones where he'd whiteboard things. He would state how he couldn't speak to certain things, but there were times where he would share some insight and I'd cringe a little. A couple come to mind, but I won't repeat them here.

He's still interesting to watch though!
The abstract asks:

> Why do we not have a programming language that is designed for education and in widespread use across the world

It is important for a teacher to immediately demonstrate subject-matter mastery. If a student asks a question that goes beyond the planned lesson, you need to have an answer. You can't say, "I don't know how to do that." That would make you look incompetent.

When you're teaching programming, it is easiest to do this with a programming language that you know well and use everyday. That language is unlikely be a language designed explicitly for education.
It's worth noting that the anatomic accuracy of classical statues like Laocoon, the Farnese Hercules, etc. indicates that there were at least some men walking around in antiquity with an amount of muscle mass that could only be developed by deliberate hypertrophy training of the whole body, as opposed to just getting muscle as a side effect of specific athletic training. It seems like these people were doing something quite similar to modern bodybuilding, goal-wise.
> At the end of October, there was the viral, and controversial, Trump campaign stop, where he “worked” for 30 minutes at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. Then, this week, there was the news that Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was caught in a McDonald’s—also, coincidentally, in Pennsylvania—because he was spotted by a group of morning regulars and employees

Didn't Kamala Harris also work at McDonalds https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/kamala-harris-on-working-at-...? Pretty sure Trump's stunt was because of that. But I guess it's fair to assume everyone who followed that story knows the context. Or perhaps the author is more sympathetic to one candidate and would rather not air unproven claims: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-mcdonalds-college/
I work mainly in Python, it's always seemed really bad that there are 3 main implementations of Protobufs, instead of the C++ being the real implementation and other platforms just dlopen'ing and using it (there are a million software engineering arguments around this; I've heard them all before, have my own opinions, and have listened to the opinions of people I disagree with). It seems like the velocity of a project is the reciprocal of the number of independent implementations of a spec because any one of the implementations can slow down all the implementations (like what happened with proto3 around required and optional).

From what I can tell, a major source of the problem was that protobuf field semantics were absolutely critical to the scaling of google in the early days (as an inter-server protocol for rapidly evolving things like the search stack), but it's also being used as a data modelling toolkit (as a way of representing data with a high level of fidelity). And those two groups- along with the multiple language developers who don't want to deal with native code- do not see eye to eye, and want to drive the spec in their preferred direction.

(FWIW nowadays I use pydantic for type descriptions and JSON for transport, but I really prefer having an external IDL unrelated to any specific programming language)
I have no problem with them scratching their itch. That's par for the course.

I'm salty about them describing the SQLite licensing, development model, and code of ethics as almost toxic, setting up a separate entity with a website and a manifesto promising to do better, and then folding “libSQL into the Turso family” within the year.

They forked, played politics, added a few features (with some ill-considered incompatibilities), and properly documented zero of them.

And I'm salty because I'm actually interested in some of those features, and they're impossible to use without proper documentation.

I've had much better luck interacting with SQLite developers in the SQLite forum.
My favorite unique McDonald’s is in Freeport, Maine.

> When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

> The year was 1984. McDonald's was looking to build a location in the town of Freeport, Maine. There was only one problem: The Freeport building design restrictions were strict, and the town wanted the fast-food giant to maintain the area's aesthetic. In other words: No golden arches. McDonald's solution? Remodel an existing structure.

Pictures here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mcdonalds-freeport-mansi...
Calling IncreasePosts to determine whether or not this is just an Internet bubble.
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I wonder if the more decisive aspect is the data, not the model. Will closed data win over open data?

With the YouTube corpus at their disposal, I don't see how anyone can beat Google for AI video generation.
> She realized how important it was to track the state of variables as they changed, introducing a notation to illustrate those changes.

The thing that really stuck out to me was how similar it was to static single assignment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single-assignment_form#...

I think this is a state-of-the-art technique today and she had it, what, 180 years ago?
Legal fights over kei trucks in the U.S.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/pickup-truck-drivers-kei-...
The people who would know that best are the people investigating, prosecuting, and judging him. In real life, not through rumor and media (social or otherwise).

I’m not aware of evidence to the contrary, but then I wouldn’t be, because I’m not involved with the investigation or the trial. Neither is most anyone commenting publicly right now.

It’s alleged until it’s proven, and in the US that’s a formal process that concludes with a guilty plea or verdict.
Genuinely curious about how LLMs and tools like bolt.new will change programming education. (Not computer science education—that might not change much)
Atom C2000 waves from behind all this crowd!
Random idea -- I think it would be cool for hosts that advertise efficiency to have a dashboard that shows total tokens per watt-hour (or whatever usage:energy metric) graphed over time for each model they host, taking into account as much of their infra as possible.

This would:

- let you boast about your cool proprietary optimizations

- naturally get better over time just from applying public algorithmic improvements

- show up hosts that refuse to do the same

- give you a good incentive to keep on top of your own efficiency and competitiveness over time

- be a good response to users who vaguely know that AI takes "a lot" of energy -- it's actually gotten a lot better, but how much better?

Happy to chat if it would help to have a neutral academic voice involved.
But are the stairs a softlock?
All things considered, it's better to have a strange father than a boring/typical one.
I tend to agree. If you're dead set on locking behind a signup, at least the example queries shown (e.g. 'Summarize Apple's latest earnings' should be clickable so that users can see how it works.
The code working is the bare minimum. The code being right for the project and context is the basic expectation. The code being _good_ at solving its intended problem is the desired outcome, which is a combination of tradeoffs between performance, readability, ease of refactoring later, modularity, etc.

LLM's can sometimes provide the bare minimum. And then you have to refactor and massage it all the way to the good bit, but unlike looking up other people's endeavors on something like Stack Overflow, with the LLM's code I have no context why it "thought" that was a good idea. If I ask it, it may parrot something from the relevant training set, or it might be bullshitting completely. The end result? This is _more_ work for a senior dev, not less.

Hence why it has never passed my sniff test. Its code is at best the quality of code even junior developers wouldn't open a PR for yet. Or if they did they'd be asked to explain how and why and quickly learn to not open the code for review before they've properly considered the implications.
Hey at least you were able to perform your dada in public.