skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replace Hollywood/Disney with Twitch and nothing is different.

You still need to get lucky to be famous on Twitch (or Youtube) for your distribution channel and have enough influence that whatever you make, people will care about it.

Also they don't own their audience in this case, Twitch does.
I’m not sure about the idea of delivering what is requested and no more. It takes away the professionalism and ability to think up creative solutions to problems and adjusting.
Replied in the other comment. In short: if someone wears a balaclava to a bank, would you say that person also "has done nothing wrong"?
There are plenty of Spring Boot starter dependencies that you can pull in to do some of the things you're mentioning. Can you say "install spring"? Yeah, I think so, there's the Initializer that comes in different modalities. Migrations, you ask? Not sure what kind, but Flyway or Liquibase are some popular dependencies, which are natively supported by Spring Boot. Again, it's all a breeze, as I'm sure Rails is too.

I get that there are poor workplaces making Spring applications a hellscape, and some of those folks escape to go do (let's say) Rails. Others may decide that Java and Spring are fundamentally fine, but need to be used in better ways and then they do so, we're not all idiots (not suggesting that you said so).
Sorry, it was just a joke.
Thanks for asking! I don’t reimplement those formats myself—LibreOffice does the heavy lifting for parsing and converting office documents with embedded elements. That way, I just leverage an existing engine instead of reinventing the wheel, and it helps preserve formatting as accurately as it can.
His book, Rebuilding Rails, had a huge impact on me, especially early in my career (when I started learning Rails). Such a great teacher. He encouraged me to be curious, dig deeply, and to understand my tools.

Such a badass developer. And such a kind and genuine person.

He’ll always be one of my role models.
I've tried cold emails, LinkedIn outreach and so on. It works, but I found the success rate to be horrible (< 1% ???). Believe me, I've tried. I read all of the sales and outreach books (predictable revenue, predictable prospecting, founding sales, etc). I've implemented the ideas, I've done it manually, automated, etc.
The only catch is that if you want to live don't group with any of their member...
2486 is only a square/rectangle if the keys are exactly square. They're certainly not in the example image shown.
I am so much wiser after reading your comment!
i'm currently without a job and i'm 40+. and i cannot find something new because every postion is instantly filled with someone better.
After almost 10 years in the systems engineering / administration / devops / cloud etc space all I can say is:

The biggest improvement that devops brought is that it made managers feel dumb, outdated and scared because they were not "doing devops" while everybody else was, so they kinda started listening to sysadmins and what they had to tell.

Uh, devops engineers did not come out of nowhere. They did not come out of the ground like mushrooms. Most if not all the "devops engineers" i know are just former sysadmins. They were already willing to do whatever devops was supposed to be, it's just they they were largely ignored.

Writing this I just realized that maybe the best way to obtain organizational change is to make management and upper management feel stupid and outdated. Interesting.
I've watched a few OnlyFangs streamers and didn't see any roleplaying. I thought it was just a normal Hardcore guild.

Edit: Watching Sodapoppin right now and it's nothing like NoPixel or how the article makes it sound like. He's just playing the game as he always does and is not "in character" when speaking with the other guild members. Is the RP only happening in special events? I've watched a lot of GTA RP and the improvisational drama permeates everything the players do and they never go out of character.
This reminds me of the great expense and limits of construction technology, in the victorian era, building a lighthouse on Fastnet Rock:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastnet_Lighthouse
It's hard to know where to start ...

A transformer is not a compressor. It's a transformer/generator. It'll generate a different output for an infinite number of different inputs. Does that mean it's got an infinite storage capacity?

The trained parameters of a transformer are not a compressed version of the training set, or of the information content of the training set; they are a configuration of the transformer so that its auto-regressive generative capabilities are optimized to produce the best continuation of partial training set samples that it is capable of.

Now, are there other architectures, other than a transformer, that might do a better job, or more efficient one (in terms of # parameters) at predicting training set samples, or even of compressing the information content of the training set? Perhaps, but we're not talking hypotheticals, we're talking about transformers (or at least most of us are).

Even if a transformer was a compression engine, which it isn't, rather than a generative architecture, why would you think that the number of tokens in the training set is a meaningful measure/estimate of it's information content?!! Heck, you go beyond that to considering a specific tokenization scheme and number bits/bytes per token, all of which it utterly meaningless! You may as well just count number of characters, or words, or sentences for that matter, in the training set, which would all be equally bad ways to estimate it's information content, other than sentences perhaps having at least some tangential relationship to it.

sigh

You've been downvoted because you're talking about straw men, and other people are talking about transformers.
The GUI looks super clean and well thought out—nice work! Curious how it handles big libraries and if the sync across devices is as seamless as it sounds. Definitely worth checking out!
The Oregon Ducks' Secret Army of Nerds
Subjekt: Cold Emails That Convert
Pair programming is draining for most introverts, and there are a lot of introvert programmers.

I love coding, but I'd rather work a McDonalds fryolator than pair for more than an hour at a time. Short bursts--fine. Mentorship--fine. That's not a joke or derision--I'm serious. Past an hour, the fryolater would be preferable.

In general pairing ties up and impairs the part of my brain that does design work, troubleshooting, and problem solving by splitting my focus. The social obligations that come from interacting with another human, like paying attention to what they are doing and saying, and their mental and emotional state, eye contact, my own appearance and affect--all of those distractions are costly. Not to mention pairing destroys the fun part--flow.
I've read that there was familiar controversy over player-piano rolls in the early 1900s/late 1800s. They'd be created in the eastern US and then be duplicated out west, potentially putting pianists out of a job.
> I can’t help but feel that every different flavor of formalization of the process of collaborative [software] development feels… nearly the same? At the end of the day.

All of the attempts to pitch brand-name development practices also feel the same to me. It's always the same bullet points:

- This new process is going to be amazing and incredible and change your life!

- We're not going to force it, wink wink, but also here's a guide to downplaying your team's objections so you can force it upon them

- If anyone doesn't like it, it can't be because it didn't work for them. The only explanation is that they were doing it wrong and/or rejected it for invalid reasons.

- Vague acknowledgment that it's kind of painful and exhausting for the developers, but a promise that it's worth it [for the manager]
maybe a bit off topic but as a fellow developer who is working on a project, how did you set up that website? I was thinking of something just like that for my project!
It also lowers the bar for new entrants. Probably the same thing will happen like everything else: we’ll end up with a few really good things, vast majority will not be worth our time, and discoverability of the new good things will be really bad.
love to hear it! In that case, branching out to other peoples' children can bring great satisfaction. For example, volunteering to teach a class at a local high school
I, personally, am very much going to push back against pair programming as a default. Being "on" all day, interacting with people is completely exhausting. Yes, I've tried it. I can do pairing for an hour or two, then I'm pretty much shot for any social interaction for the rest of the day. Including at home, which is a problem.

TDD sounds great in theory, but in practice most of the time the requests from PMs are incomplete. They may have the happy path mostly figured out, but they have usually given zero thought to corner cases, error conditions, or second order effects. You can't write meaningful tests for these (the most valuable cases to test!) until you go a few rounds of iteration with the PM. And generally you can't explain it to the PM without at least a mockup of the situation. It's often faster to create a barebones implementation to demo than it is to create visual mockups that convey the complexity. And then you've written your implementation before the test anyway.
Nobody elected the FCC commissioners and staff making these rules. Virtually every legislator is elected.
I strong second the Mom Test book. Was invaluable for me at Graphite ramping up to sales/marketing/validation
This breaks the browser’s forward / backward navigation. Also, a readme or description would be helpful to understand what this is supposed to be.
Not in Safari or Brave it seems.
> I would say it typifies media across the board.

It depends on what you mean by 'media', but I think among top-level news media, Fox and ideological fellow travelers embrace disinformation and produce it at orders of magnitude higher volumes, while others make occasional errors.
Likewise in Software. Those A-Tier paygrade is expected to be on-call (24/7 through weekend) no-bonus, lead big projects, review codebases, teach juniors...
I too have worked at a place that took XP very seriously, and it worked very well.

For us, the way it fell apart was the interface to upper management. Upper management didn't want to hear about story points and picking the most compelling features for a release. They wanted to see normal development plans and progress reports. They felt like we couldn't be under control if we were developing in an XP way.

It's not that we failed to deliver. It's not that we were behind schedule. It's that upper management wasn't comfortable.

By the way, one of the things we did was to hack our own process. (If you're trying to be agile by a rigidly defined process, you're not agile.) So a couple of the leaders would talk for a bit, and then they would say, "For the next two sprints, we're going to try changing the process in X way. After two sprints, we'll reevaluate." Drive toward a process that fits your team.
That seems reasonable; I guess I'd rather hear "for reasons we don't understand the universe appears to be expanding and the expansion is accelerating by a constant factor we're calling 'lambda'." But I guess "dark energy" is fewer words, if that's what it means.
Might be worth looking into Flix [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flix_(programming_language)
I wonder if you could just have some sort of looping animation showing a vs code window, with live typing, and a view beside it of the turbogist ui.
I never claimed incompetence. They're very effective.
I agree, optimizing for readability and maintainability is almost always the right choice.
I like to think about something for a long time in my head, write it all out at once, and then work the bugs out with "print" statements, all by myself. If this makes me a monster, so be it. But I've worked hard to arrange my career so I can avoid all of the stuff this guy writes about. And I know there are more of you out there!

If I wanted to socialize, talk constantly with employees, and set little bureaucratic hurdles for myself, I would have chosen to be a manager like the author.
There is a "traffic jam" in hiring caused by underqualified, desperate people who blindly apply to thousands of jobs. The deluge of applications is being pared down by AI.

In a traffic jam, you're not going anywhere fast, even if you're in a Lamborghini.
There is no great career choice when AI can do most intellectual work for a fraction of the cost.
The carbon in our bodies probably left the galaxy and came back
I think you’re putting people who make art on a pedestal.

Remember there was an AI image that won an art contest.

> To grandma it's basically an extension of gifs and emojis and memes, silly little novelty distractions

Yeah of course, but that doesn’t change what I was saying.
That's a good idea. I'll try to add something similar as well.
I didn't understand how the pick-up system worked nor how to trigger the progress bar once it filled up. But I made it to the end on Normal with 3.7 million points.

Nice work. Loved these sorts of games as a kid.
I like how the very act of writing it out led you to draw a new conclusion. Very meta.
No its not. Its a good video, just bad place for it. I watched it and got to understand your product.
You show the important part in the time frame ~6:00-7:00. Make that part faster and as a gif without sound and the main message is conveyed
I ran a few experiments by adding 0, 1 or 2 "write better code" prompts to aider's benchmarking harness. I ran a modified version of aider's polyglot coding benchmark [0] with DeepSeek V3.

Here are the results:

| Number of
| "write better code"
Score | followup prompts
---------------------------
27.6% | 0 (baseline)
19.6% | 1
11.1% | 2

It appears that blindly asking DeepSeek to "write better code" significantly harms its ability to solve the benchmark tasks. It turns working solutions into code that no longer passes the hidden test suite.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
What evidence would anyone accept that 1+1 is 3? That's a genuine response. The cases are so clear cut (words picked up from conversations that would never fit on whatever profile they have on me; up to specific mentioned brands and things completely alien to be) and so numerous. I still can't believe that anyone even debates it. It's blatant as hell and all of my peers notice it, too
“…in mice” would be a helpful addition to the title.
You're expecting it to be an 'oracle' that you prompt it with any question you can think of, and it answers correctly. I think your experiences will make more sense in the context of thinking of it as a heuristic model based situation simulation engine, as I described above.

For example, why would it have URLs to youtube videos of recipes? There is not enough storage in the model for that. The best it can realistically do is provide a properly formatted youtube URL. It would be nice if it could instead explain that it has no way to know that, but that answer isn't appropriate within the context of the training data and prompt you are giving it.

The other things you asked also require information it has no room to store, and would be impossibly difficult to essentially predict via model from underlying principles. That is something they can do in general- even much better than humans already in many cases- but is still a very error prone process akin to predicting the future.

For example, I am a competitive strength athlete, and I have a doctorate level training in human physiology and biomechanics. I could not reason out a method for you to feel your pecs better without seeing what you are already doing and coaching you in person, and experimenting with different ideas and techniques myself- also having access to my own actual human body to try movements and psychological cues on.

You are asking it to answer things that are nearly impossible to compute from first principles without unimaginable amounts of intelligence and compute power, and are unlikely to have been directly encoded in the model itself.

Now turning an already written set of recipes into a shopping list is something I would expect it to be able to do easily and correctly if you were using a modern model with a sufficiently sized context window, and prompting it correctly. I just did a quick text where I gave GPT 4o only the instruction steps (not ingredients list) for an oxtail soup recipe, and it accurately recreated the entire shopping list, organized realistically according to likely sections in the grocery store. What model were you using?
You can probably find a consultant if you are willing to pay consultant rates because EMACS customization is probably going to consist of Lisp programming and that's the sort of thing consultants will do for consultant rates.

But a product has a couple of difficulties. One is that there are not robust mechanisms for obfuscating eLisp code. The other is that binary changes would be under GPL and the source would be available to users.

And the ordinary problem that an Emacs product would be competing with free. There's not only good free tooling with almost fifty years of maturity, but also Emacs is about as deep into GPL culture as you can go.
China beats Starlink to hi-res space-ground laser transmission at 6G standard
I haven't, and that's an interesting prompt for me to think about real privacy issues that I do think should involve legislation (while avoiding the risk of more cookie banners).
Yeah, maybe an extension is not enough.
We’ve spent too much money for unacceptable results. Give Starlink the money and let’s see what they can accomplish.
Once you realize pair programming is a euphemism for "experienced employee showing less experienced employees how to do it", it's fine.
You can probably find a consultant if you are willing to pay consultant rates because EMACS customization is probably going to consist of Lisp programming and that's the sort of thing consultants will do for consultant rates. IRC and Linkedin would be places to look.

But a product has a couple of difficulties. One is that there are not robust mechanisms for obfuscating eLisp code. The other is that binary changes would be under GPL and the source would be available to users.

And the ordinary problem that an Emacs product would be competing with free. There's not only good free tooling with almost fifty years of maturity, but also Emacs is about as deep into GPL culture as you can go.
This is out of my expertise but I have a hard time believing that
A thorough look into the shutdown of 3G networks in Australia
They're 31751.5 carats.
Though in this case it is legally their problem as unsubscribe links are protected by law in the US.
An insightful comment! Had never drawn those parallels before -- great call.
Standard cosmology is a consensus based on interpretations of spotty data and imperfect methods, therefore standard cosmology itself is a bit "fringe". It natural given the context. Alternatives to standard cosmology will also be "fringy" for the same reasons, and possibly more reasons too.

Dismissing all alternatives to standard cosmology as "fringe" is not helpful when standard cosmonlogy itself is "fringe".

Granted, there will be really far out there alt theories. The uncertainty of the context will bring out wild hypotheses. Figuring out who's a charlatan and who is in the ballpark can be difficult under these circumstances, but we have to.
I'm actually surprised this other tidbit of Twitch news didn't make it to HN; PirateSoftware's record for longest "hype train"[0] was broken by vedal987 and his AI Vtuber creation, Neuro-sama, on January 1st. He amassed tens of thousands of subscriptions, with PirateSoftware hoping to win the title back on April 1st[1] (which, in my opinion, is a weird proclamation considering it's directly asking your fans to give you a lot of money).

[0] Essentially, how many subscriptions/bits are bought by the community within a relatively short time-frame.

[1] https://xcancel.com/PirateSoftware/status/187464037594998397...
Instagram users discover old AI-powered "characters," instantly revile them
And AI isn't going to feed, clothe, or house people either.

AGI, at best, would provide ideas for how to do those things. And the current AI, which is not AGI, can only remix ideas humans have already given it--ideas which haven't fed, clothed, or housed us all yet.
It's beyond dangerous to allow multinational corporations to buy US elections for obvious reasons. They're not aligned with any nation and only motivated by quarterly returns. It's bad for everyone including the robber barons as the markets are captured.
> The problem with EU/NATO is Western countries have little to zero regard to the wellbeing of the Global South, and only pillage and drain resources.

Russia does exactly the same, look at what Wagner and its continuators are doing in Africa.
Just read your post. Honestly, I didn't think that way for sharing code. Thank you so much for this! Bookmarked.
> to get around the fact that shaders only have 32 bit floats

I wonder if there are places around the set where rounding through the iterations depending on the number format chosen, materially affects the shape (rather than just changing many pixels a bit so some smoothness or definition is lost).
In the early 20th century, before we knew about galaxies, we thought what we see in what we now know is our galaxy continued that way throughout the whole universe. There were some places with higher or lower stellar density but if you stepped back a ways you'd find that larger volumes had about the same density.

You might have to take into account those density differences if doing calculations about things going on in those regions, but when you were doing calculations about the whole universe treating it as homogenous would still be OK.

Then we learned about the Milky Way galaxy and that there were other galaxies. But it looked like galaxies were fairly evenly spread out. Like with stars within a galaxy, there were places in the universe where the galactic density was higher or lower but if you stepped out to get the bigger picture you'd still find that large volumes all had about the the same density.

So again you might have to take that into account when doing calculations in specific large regions of the universe, but what doing calculations about the whole thing it still appeared uniform enough that treating it as homogenous should still work.

Then we found that galaxies cluster. But step back and the clusters seemed to be distributed pretty evenly. So we still had a homogenous universe as far as calculations on the whole universe were concerned.

There were more rounds of this, finding larger things, but each time those larger things seemed to be pretty uniformly distributed so you could still assume homogeneity when trying to calculate universe-wide stuff.

But now with more recent mapping of these large scale things, it appears that there is some significant density variation where the regions of high or low density are large enough that if you try to step back to see if those regions are distributed uniformly at a large scale you run out of observable universe.

And so now it may be that we finally have to drop the homogeneity assumption when doing things the involve the whole universe, like trying to understand its expansion.