skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m going to confess to some aggressive ignorance here because I haven’t gotten a clear answer. Are HFCS (any variant!) chemically identical to sucrose or only “metabolically” identical.

I don’t think they are chemically identical because at a minimum I’ve seen the result of freeze drying solutions of both and HFCS is liquid at STP while sucrose is solid.

So if you’re going to make the argument that they are metabolically identical then go for it but be honest about what you are saying. They may be chemically similar, but so is cellulose.
Sadly, this is where we are in politics. Pick any term that you like to replace the concept and a rival campaign to redefine it will begin. Your vocabulary is just another battleground.
I didn't know that Jack Dorsey wasn't a billionaire...
People said that when GitHub got bought out, and only more people ended up moving there. It's really not fun to manage your own Git servers, and when things go down, they get fixed much slower than in-house hosted version of it.
That sounds hellish
...this is an interesting thought exercise, thank you.
not p2p, but federated: https://forgefed.org (ActivityPub extension)

I believe Gitea has support for it, not sure to what extent.
In situations like this, my assumption would be that it doesn't really get calculated so much as it gets measured... to be kind to victims, you might want to assume it drops for tax purposes temporarily, and then raise the valuation once bids go through and you get some post-fire data points.
> you don't know if they even tried or just put in bad code from an LLM

You don't need to. Focus on the work, not the person.

I recall a coworker screaming at a junior developer during a code review, and I set up a meeting later on to discuss his reaction. Why was he so upset? Because the junior developer was being lazy and not trying.

How did he know this?

He didn't. He used very dubious behavioral signals.

This was pre-LLM. As applicable now as it was then. If their code is shitty, let them know and leave it at that.

On the flip side, I often review code that I think has been written by an LLM. When the code is good, I don't really care if he wrote it or asked GPT to write it. As long as he's functioning well enough for the current job.
I was blown away when I found out this expensive Sonos device I was setting up for my mother-in-law didn't support basic bluetooth pairing. Like what? The cheapest 20$ wireless speaker supports bluetooth...
I don't think it's a straw man. No one has actually solved hiring, "best" isn't defined.

Like people are freaking out about any sort of DEI factor even getting considered and then actually hiring based on how Phil vibes with the candidate. Good stuff.
> told to expect to be brutalized in prison by the other prisoners and guards

How horrific. I don't understand why the people of the US accept this.
I think the point is to detect fires as early as possible, since putting them out becomes much harder the larger they get. If you can detect a fire when it's human sized, you might be able to put it out with a local drone carrying some co2 fire bombs.

It's fun/useful to think of things we can do.
In the late 90s and 2000s there was a big thing in hiphop music about “conscious rap”. At first, rappers differentiated themselves from the mainstream by emphasising that they were “conscious” in their lyrics of the harm done by perpetuating stereotypes or promoting dysfunctional lifestyles or failing to challenge systematic oppression. Then it became passé and rappers like Taleb Kweli lamented that they were stuck with this label, which had become a term of derision. Whole thing was like an early run of “woke”.
> I've watched for 20 years, every era is the same and it's exactly as you describe.

Virtually the entire time you've watched it has been the bad era. You're making generalizations about a show whose cultural relevance ended when you started watching. That show used to generate hit movies (and awful movies.) Of course, one has to consider that SNL suffered a loss of cultural ubiquity partially because of the internet breaking up the audience for all traditional outlets, but that show generated once generated culture. I never hear a reference to anything on it any more.

Last thing I remember that had juice was the Lonely Island songs like 15-20 years ago.
It can't be attributed to stock buybacks though, you just assume it can be. Lots of companies that didn't buy back stocks also have poor internal software and may generally not reinvest that money internally, or invest it incorrectly instead of blowing it on some other thing than buybacks. There is no causal relationship at all, and not even a strong correlative one between buybacking companies and business failures.
you can solve that with a formatter. and then you'd get consistent outputs that work reliably as you move code.
Not just back in the day, but tremendous talent has passed through SNL throughout its existence.

90s: Dana Carvey, Chris Rock, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Robert Smigel, Sarah Silverman, Norm Macdonald, Will Ferrel

00s: Tina Fey, Kenan Thompson, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader

10s: Jay Pharoah, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, ...

20s: ?

OK, I was intending to point out that it has maintained its cast member quality, but I'm struggling to name more people from recent decades.

But then again, I haven't watched SNL in years, so I'm certainly out of the loop.

That said, I think Kate McKinnon is one of the funniest people alive, and her alone makes up for it. The Close Encounters sketches bring me to tears every time.
This is my experience. The two houses that I share a backyard fence with are empty. A caretaker comes by once a month to have a look around one of the houses but otherwise they're unoccupied.
I feel the same way with my editor running Ruff on save. I still have to get the indentation right (which the editor handles for me), but that's about it. Once I hit cmd-s, everything subtly shifts to where it's supposed to be.
> in places like Florida they're actively implementing limitations on speech...

Is this a reference to the law preventing teachers from speaking to young children about sexuality?

> ...and academic inquiry

I assume this is in reference to Florida's rejection of the College Board's AP Black History curriculum, which was rejected for containing "critical race theory" in violation of Florida Law. Surely our democratically elected state governments are better suited to have the final say in what goes into our kids heads than some NGO's Board of Trustees? Anyone who thinks educators make for less political judges than politicians is invited to review the donation history of teachers unions[0].

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=L1300
I don’t know anyone beyond hobbyist hackers who want to set up and maintain this stuff for themselves.

As a professional software developer, I want tools that just work that I can rely on. GitHub 99.99% uptime is something I can rely on.
See my reply above regarding SouthWest, it's poor scheduling software that had huge impacts on flight crew up to and including reaching catastrophe in December 2022 that cost SouthWest a $1 billion expense, and the billions of dollars in stock buybacks SouthWest did in the run up to the totally preventable with investment in the company billion dollar failure (that had already been seriously impacting workers previously). This real world over a billion dollar loss example took me literally 2 minutes to come up with because your weak 'poster is dumb and their position literally is empty echochamber' annoyed me enough to hunt you a random real world example for my 'just an empty echochamber mentally weak take'.

Southwest buybacks: https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/luv/buybacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_schedu...

Edit: Added CRLF before Wikipedia link for clarity.
I gave it the knowledge of the domain. I never said the programmer shouldn't be an active participant either. There's no way around that.
Seeing code blocks as braced or meaningfully indented should be a switch in your IDE.
It's a pretty good time to be a contractor,
as long as you negotiate getting paid per project/milestone and not by the hour. What used to take three days now takes one, and you can use the extra time to book more clients.
Obviously its a gradient, but we can agree that "dedicate time and money" is on the action side and "typing online" being superfluous signaling. And yes, if you knew me in real life, you probably shouldn't weight my hacker news comments over what I spend time and money on.
the incident has been marked as resolved; I am now able to push
Hmm. Coca-Cola may be a standout here, where sweetness is required for the phosphoric acid balance, because of the tingle that sells their "original" flavor
> ... and are actually being harmed, by the way they are being told they are always victims with very little agency

Well, first we could start by having a discussion of whether or not it is actually true that "they are being told they are always victims with very little agency".

Now, if that were in fact true, we could go on to talk about how we might reduce that harm, and one part of that might involve saying that less.

But then again, were that not true, then we could pretty much discard the person's objections and move on to something that is actually happening.

I read and respect McWhorter, but I don't think that (a) he's right about everything or that (b) your one line summary characterizes his position accurately.

I'll reply separately to your attempted summary.
My concern is that it's always harder to comprehend and debug code you didn't write, so there are hidden costs to using a copy-pasted solution even if you "get to the testing phase faster." Shaving percentages in one place could add different ones elsewhere.

Imagine if your manager announced a wonderful new productivity process: From now on a herd of excited interns will get the first stab at feature requests, and allll that the senior developers need to do is take that output and juuuust spruce it up a bit.

Then you have plenty of time for those TPS reports. (Now, later in my career, I have a lot more sympathy for Tom Smykowski, speaking with customers so the engineers don't have to.)
I don't understand how `serious professionals` continue to try to trash WordPress using superficial and often uneducated arguments, completely ignoring the fact that it has huge flexibility, a rich ecosystem, many options for using modern development practices and 40%+ global market share.
It is and it's .dopy
> You missed my point, there is no use teaching those who are cheating.

It's a very invalid point. Perhaps in your life you've never encountered people who cheat and later change their ways, but it's fairly common for them to change their ways.
Of course not! Such an insane plan.
The math is indeed off in the tweet, as fruitarian should be 2.5x worse instead of 1.5.

I don't think the 5g/kcal is expensive according to the chart, it is a good average for omnivores, consider the biker being fueled by cheeseburgers on the other end of the spectrum. If you have a more efficient EV (smaller car, even scooter for commute), put in whole family instead of riding alone in a car, or have more efficient means to charge the EV like surplus renewables you can't store/use at home the difference is getting quite staggering. One could argue the manufacturing of the EV emits more co2 than manufacturing a bike and we should control for miles drive/rode during their lifecycle but if both are available using the EV is most probably the environmentally friendlier option. That said, I won't give up my bike either because I enjoy the exercise, but it is a lot less green than one would imagine without looking at the numbers.
403ing AI Crawlers
Is that because:

A.) There is significant overlap between Brexiteers and those with enough extra wealth to afford vacation / second homes in Spain. Is there any way to quantify this? I would have thought that those with a nationalistic bent wouldn't be keen to own homes in foreign lands. Plus I had the impression that the Remainers were more towards the urban, wealthy, citizen-of-the-world types who would at first blush seem more likely to buy houses elsewhere.

B.) The Brexiteers were hoping that the Remainers would all move away, so they don't have to deal with them anymore?

C.) The Brexiteers want to colonize Spain?

D.) Brexiteers wish they would have thought of the idea punitive taxes on foreigners first?

E.) Other?
It's a Steve Yegge article. His writing is enjoyable, but it's a miracle he wrote an article short enough not to skim. He's excitable and verbose.

Although he's talking up his product, it's an interesting premise. The idea is that cooking relevant context and parts from a codebase down into an LLM's context window, is a useful product for coding assistants.
I'm involved with Red Hat's effort to shift customers off VMware (upstream project: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v). Things have really blown up since the Broadcom acquisition at the end of 2023. For us 12K VMs is a medium to large customer, but definitely not unusual. Think someone like a regional bank.

A full conversion of such a customer might involve one consultant on-site, a scoping exercise to classify the VMs into groups and assess which ones are going to be more or less difficult to convert, and perhaps 1-3 months of work to convert them all. Individual VMs would be down from anything between a simple reboot, up to 12 hours, depending on which strategy we used for conversion (there are complicated trade-offs related to storage and network bandwidth).
Personally I started making a language that uses it
The problem is platforms moved away from S3 sleep. I've heard people claim it was mostly so managed Windows laptops could force updates with the lid shut and the laptop suspended.

Now I have to worry about my laptop randomly overheating itself in my backpack and even catching fire.
Show HN: Color Flood – Compete Against AI
Why do you assume that he is suffering from a mental breakdown as opposed to someone who tripped into his position and has always been out of his depth?

As long as money is flowing, nobody gives a damn how shitty you are. Once the money stops, however ...
It either has a concise definition that actually defines the term or it doesn't. I leave it to the anti-woke to tell me which it is, and I'm still waiting.

"It has a concise definition!"

moments later

"It took a whole article to explain!!!"

Also entertaining - the idea that racism has an uncontested definition.
> I built this to learn more about python/interpreter language syntax in general, but not interested in pursuing this further.

Good job trying something new out! There is always room for experimentation, if any reason to try to learn something new.
This feels very "no true scotsman" to me. It's accurate if none of the large places I've worked are "serious".
You will get paid 5x as much… assuming you are the only developer that uses this and the market for engineers is rational. However those other developers are going to be 5x as productive too so your rate should stay the same.

The company that pays you will get more code for less money and so they would make more profit if they are the only company taking advantage of this. But all companies will start to produce software at a lower cost so their profits per line of code will be squeezed to where they are now.

You will spend a lot less time writing boiler plate and searching docs or stack overflow. That frees you up to work on real problems and since you’ll be able to create products with less cost per line of code you could potentially compete with your own offerings.

That’s my take anyway.
One of the more effective (but potentially over reaching) parts of EU law is that the governments usually give enforcement powers with discretion on how to enforce them. On the one hand it’s annoying because there are no clear rules for how to do business at times. On the other hand, it does typically do a better job of articulating the “spirit of the law” and not allowing people to hack around the letter of the law.

I’m pretty sure if using a hack became a trend, then they would start suing people in a few years down the road and extract all the money.
Too late for those trains, but imagine a world where GIMP would have copied the UI of Photoshop and Python the syntax of Ruby. A happy world.
what a convoluted way to say you do not agree with this.
when you are dealing with people of all skill levels, every step that you put on the development process costs real money. over that, not everything is and has to be open source. we all have source code that is proprietary and has a value for us as it is. making that decentralized and private is not something easy to achieve (and I don't really see a benefit). the problem from my point of view is that we have a single player (github) that managed to attract a huge percent of the market and the competition, while it exists, it's minor.
To me the biggest and most obvious is to compare Coke made with corn syrup (US) versus the Coke that is bottled in Mexico and shipped to the US. It's made with cane sugar.

To use a term from wine, it tastes "drier". And less viscous. I first noticed this as a kid when trying soda from McDonald's (I believe at the time, back in the 1980s, cane sugar was used to make canned coke in the US, while I think the fountain soda was HFCS already. My memory and facts could be faulty, though).
Wow, thanks so much for the succinct and informative summary. I’m an owner of multiple SONOS speakers and am enraged by how these changes have effectively crippled my devices that I spent much hard-earned cash on. I am beginning to despair. I hope and pray they can just roll back half of them.

I suspect it’s all related to centralisation and control and subscriptions to radio services and profit however so I won’t hold my breath. Most enshittifcation has profit at its root. :-(
How so?

Decentralization can be hidden from the user, it's an implementation detail.

There's literally a popular decentralized social network.

It's less about the tech, and more about the execution.

Historically we can look at LimeWire or PopcornTime as an example.

Both decentralized, both popular due to the ease-of-use.
Contrary to popular belief, sarcasm makes you harder to understand and is no longer cool
That's a statistically valid approach. Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Meanwhile, if your users get presented a different button whenever they come by, because the MAB is still pursuing its hill climbing, they'll rightfully accuse you of having extremely crappy UX. (And, sure, you can have MAB with user stickiness, but now you do need to talk about sampling bias)

And MAB hill climb doesn't work at all if you want to measure the long-term reward of a variation. You have no idea if the orange button has long-term retention impact. There are sure situations where you'd like to know.

Yes, it's a neat technique to have in your repertoire, but like any given technique, it's not the answer "every time".
It's trellis, with credits removed.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS

https://trellis3d.github.io/
If pg wants to hang out with dt at mar a lago he's gotta have some easily googleable bona fides afterall.
> I’ve been in companies that have tried dozens if not hundreds of A/B tests with zero statistically significant results.

What I've seen in practice is that some places trust their designers' decisions and only deploy A/B tests when competent people disagree, or there's no clear, sound reason to choose one design over another. Surprise surprise, those alternatives almost always test very close to each other!

Other places remove virtually all friction from A/B testing and then use it religiously for every pixel in their product, and they get results, but often it's things like "we discovered that pink doesn't work as well as red for a warning button," stuff they never would have tried if they didn't have to feed the A/B machine.

From all the evidence I've seen in places I've worked, the motivating stories of "we increased revenue 10% by a random change nobody thought would help" may only exist in blog posts.
Its almost like modern ISPs are telecommunications providers instead of information services.

Nah, that can't be right.
>Who cares?

I believe it’s in everybody’s best interest to stand up against discrimination.
Idk, he spent a good chunk of the blog post saying that we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater
It's not trivial to set up a business as a non-eu citizien. As far as I know every EU business has to have an eu citizen representative. Additionally, a company owned property can't just be used privately.
This article is just a nicely crafted marketing ad for Cody. It impressed more than the product itself (which is not so unique, there are many althernatives on the market, see Codeium for example)
"Progress for the tick is not progress for the dog."

> These are the same individuals who empower fascists—whether in the US, Germany, Argentina, or Italy

Correct, madame.
I have no position on whether or not CamperBob is a chat-bot, but they are definitely not being silly. Their point, as I take it, is that it's dangerous to look at the state of "AI" as it is today and then ignore the rate of change. To their stated point from above:

> Otherwise, you're going to spend the rest of your career saying things like, "Well, OK, so the last model couldn't count the number of Rs in 'Strawberry' and the new one can, but..."

That's a very important point. I mean, it's not guaranteed that any form of AI is going to advance to the point that it starts taking jobs from people like us, but when you fail to look forward and project a little bit and imagine what they could do with another year of progress... or two years of progress... or 5 years, etc? I posit that that kind of myopia could leave one very under-prepared for the world one lands in.

> The point was there is nothing intelligent (or AI) about LLMs except the person fooling themselves.

Sure. The "AI Effect". Irrelevant. It doesn't matter how the machine can do your job, or whether or not it's "really intelligent". It just matters that if it can create more value, more cheaply, than you or I, we are going to wind up like John Henry. Who, btw, for anybody not familiar with that particular bit of folklore "[won the race against the machine] only to die in victory with a hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress."
Same - but created new keys :) ... which also didn't work, and then I went to check... oh well.
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> Most of the midwest is empty, same with other states.

Most of the Midwest has the same functional density as Europe. Indeed, if you overlay a map of France on the Midwest, with Paris centered on Chicago, you'll find that there are cities of comparable sizes at comparable distances.

The Great Empty largely exists only on the plains and the mountainous west, where all but the most ardent fantasists concede that no passenger system is viable. But most of the population in the US lives in or near a city that would have viable high-speed rail destinations!