skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone still remember why we got computers in the first place?

Uhhhh, to play videogames?

(That was the Beavis 'n Butthead voice.)
> In my experience, the best use-cases for AI assistants/LLMs are:

that seems bad, IDEs are already quite good at these three points without AI.
Yes? There are without exaggeration 1000+ companies offering WordPress hosting. It's a replaceable product. Nothing WPEngine offers is unique or special. WordPress itself is an entire ecosystem.
The last desktop I built was in 2011. I built an absolute monster at the time. I ultimately repaired it and gave it away to someone else when I moved 2ish years ago (at ~11 years of age) and it is continuing to function as it was for that person. Last I discussed with them (a few months back) they're still successfully running everything they need on it.

That said, I enjoy the hardware improvements happening, because it allowed me to go from that huge full tower desktop with multiple GPUs and water cooling to doing everything I need in my life, pretty much, from a 14" M1 Max Macbook Pro. I replaced a huge, power-hungry device, with something that's tiny, portable, and can be powered off USB.

For me, I am not quite ready to replace my M1 Max MBP with an M4, but I am likely going to bump to an M5, simply for performance when editing photos in Lightroom / DxO Photo Lab, but that's more of a recent requirement. Before I got this M1 Max MBP, I had a 2015 15" MBP that worked just fine for 7 years, and would have kept going if it didn't have a bulging battery and I decided to upgrade rather than repair it. I may just stick to my M1 Max MBP in the end, I can be patient.
"people were not approachable"

frankly this is just a bad mindset and not a true description of reality.
Not really.
FB was choked by Apple and trolled by Google for so long, Zuck understood his position without a hardware platform in the furture.
XR seems to be a reasonable bet which he already have an edge.
If he won, he won big.
Not really.

Imagine if it was driving a truck instead. Anyone, realistically, could've learnt to do it. But if you don't already know how to drive one, you're never going to get hired as one. And by the time the truck driving jobs are the only jobs there is left, it's a tad late - you're already behind everyone else who's got some years of experience.
Python doctests[1] scratch that idea, but in another angle. They are useful and popular.

clitest[2] is more closely related to what I'm aiming for, and it's very useful, but hard to translate to non-shell paradigms.

I am sure it can be done.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

[2]: https://github.com/aureliojargas/clitest
I would argue even the opposite. And that is the reason I resist to using them (assistants). Just as people using GPS are loosing the orientation abilities, I’m afraid that excesive use of assistants may deteriorate our abilities.
> Got anything to say about the content of the article?

The medium (or mediator, as it happens) is the message, and I tried explaining who this mediator was. I can't take anything seriously coming from a guy who works for a Department of State blob agency.

> And if you don't think Russia is trying to do this, do you have any reason not to believe it, other than "I don't trust the author"?

My beliefs of what Russia may or may not do are in no way, form or shape influenced by what blob companies set up by the US Department of State might push forward, so I'm afraid I can't you help with that.

If you want we can instead discuss about guys like (post-1950) George Kennan and similar, i.e. American thinkers who still dared have their own opinions about the Soviets (and, to be clear, I also think that Kennan was wrong on some stuff, but it was his right to be wrong as an independent thinker, unlike this guy Troy here).
I understand it's "nothing", but it's also more I can ever use!
> Or a creative writing class how to perform the physical act of writing?

A computer science class teaching how transistors work is more like a creative writing class teaching how pencils are made, and focusing on the quirks a particular language is like the creative writing class teaching a specific style of cursive.

There are degrees which blend the EE and CS worlds, commonly referred to as computer engineering. That would be more along the lines of mixing the hardware/boolean logic idea with then software development. But that's definitely a different perspective compared to what computer science historically meant.
What’s so bad about the new app? I have half a dozen Sonos devices (Amp, One SLs, … ) I use in various groupings, and haven’t had any huge issues? I guess the new app is a bit less intuitive, and maybe a bit slower (although that’s improved since launch)? I just haven’t seen behavior even approaching the “unusable” complaints I’ve seen online.
It fits perfectly with the $100 piece of aluminium/glass and plastic it's made for. Prices don't reflect the material value of an item
Why are you talking about weather, when the topic is climate? You're either fundamentally misunderstanding the topic, or you're deliberately misrepresenting the article to prove some point, presumably climate change denial.
I have no data to back this up. So what follows is purely my personal opinion.

I think the reason people don't care, is because they don't know. The average person either doesn't know or barely knows That anything deeper than what they see in the user interface is happening on their system.

We humans are very much an out of sight out of mind type of creature. If we can't see it, it's hard for us to imagine that it exists.
Maybe you should be using `git stash` and `git stash pop` rather than commits. Or go back and squash your 30–50 commits into one or two, which might take ten minutes. What you're doing is better than not using version control at all, but only barely.
My eldest brother hated learning French in school. Hated it. He even made a deal with the French teacher that he would pass Grade 12 French if he promised not to take it in Grade 13.

Then, in his late 20s, he was travelling the world and ended up in the French island of La Reunion (kind of like Hawaii with French food and social programs).

He married and has two children and is only now, after more than 30 years and acquiring French citizenship, is he talking about moving back to Canada.
That’s my secret, Captain. I never have any arguments.
I mostly just message the person who wrote it if I have questions when I look at a commit and have questions.

I suppose if I painstakingly write 1000 beautiful commit messages I could save myself from having that one conversation when somebody else has a question about one of those commits.
Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in EU?
OneUptime (https://oneuptime.com) is looking for a co-location provider in the EU.

Havent found good ones so far. Do you use them, if so which one would you recommend?
current society collapsing still gives room for survival - look at indigenous peoples in for example Australia - they survived an apocalypse and still are around.
We'll need to adapt to lower salaries
I’d add “a logging module done today will save you a lot of overtime next year”.
> lockdown aren't that

Vendor lockdown is that. Defenders of vendor lockdown argue that computer users need to be protected paternalistically from themselves.

For some reason we accept that for computers, but nobody would accept refrigerators and ovens that only allow you to eat healthy foods, nobody would accept homebuilders controlling the doors of your house and having to approve anyone who comes in, etc. Why do computers get this special treatment of vendor lockdown, but not any other product?
Can't give up if you never try!

[insert head pointing meme here]
I can understand this as aesthetics are pretty personal so things that get seen by many people end up having to be generic.

I do care about the energy consumption though - I think that it might be even more ferocious codes that end up changing things.

There's also the potential impact of working from home. I imagine that huge skyscrapers housing offices for the main part are more affected than e.g. industrial buildings.
Look again at the examples - very often it isn't that at all. My example - where Knuth himself wrote about "#include <stdio.h>" proves my point. If you don't know what stdio.h is about you are not competent to be reading this code in the first place.

> What you don’t know is the domain knowledge the code is solving

THIS IS UTTERLY FALSE! The company hired me to work on this code and trained me. Or I got interested in the problem and learned the domain knowledge already. If you don't have this basic knowledge you either won't read the code in the first place, or you can only make the most minimal basic contributions for the next few months while learning it. Unless this problem is very trivial there are lots of other source files and lots of other knowledge needed that is outside the scope of the current file.

Write comments to remind the experts (which is you in 6 months!) of the tricky details that they dare not forget. Write comments to explain to people who are experts in a different area of your program who this works - but you can assume a lot of shared domain knowledge because they work on the same project.
I don't think I've ever tried to hide me being on Russia's side ever since this whole mess in Ukraine has started.
I think you may be thinking of the question, "how much greenhouse gas does it take to move a human X miles if they are self-powered versus using an ICE?"

For example this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66170-y.

> our estimates suggest that the net emissions associated with the ‘fuel’ required for driving, walking, and cycling may be comparable in some settings

With the caveat that they're looking at *per-mile* emissions, and nobody in the developed world is walking 60 miles to and from work every day.

However there's an important clarification to your recollection.

- You're correct that eating meat (and dairy) is very carbon-intensive.

- You're not correct that agricultural transportation is significant. It doesn't even make it into the paper above, as far as I could find. Agricultural transportation, even things like flying blueberries to California from Chile, is negligible compared to the carbon cost of food.

You can see that in the following graph. Red is transport. You have to look closely even to see it. https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Have you ever worried about your impact on veterans? Maybe not a concern?
Anno 1602 was my favorite game when I was young, I wonder what game type do you usually play? Official single player missons? Community custom missions or multiplayer?
Only if the inference software doesn't guarantee concurrency, which is CS 101
I feel like you could run ctangle in one directory and use a ten-line awk script to copy the files with different checksums into the directory where you run the main Make?
I have. I was feeling lazy one day and used it to write a small python script to graph some data.

The back and forth wasn’t fun and it flat out refused to use seaborn for some reason, but it worked and was fine overall.

I then used aider+claude to help me work with yjs. Led me down a rabbit hole based on an incorrect description of the yjs sync protocol. Took 2 days to untangle everything. Yjs is fairly new though, so I didn’t fault it too much.

I thin tried using it for work to deal with some surprisingly intricate back button logic. Again, incorrect understanding (on both our parts) of the underlying API caused a few days of headache. I would’ve been better off just reading the docs than trying to use an AI assistant.

Using AI actually frustrated me to the point where it convinced me to suck it up and just read the Specs and sources of the tools I’m using. I’ve been doing that for a few months now and just RTFM is better for me than AI assistants have been.
Even Adults May Soon Be Vulnerable to 'Childhood' Diseases
I had the box set, it was the first Linux game I bought. The flurry was Loki Games, a porting house. They let me help as a beta tester! I got to test Descent III and Mindrover. Next would have been Deus Ex, but they flamed out. One of them, Sam Latinga, built SDL and I believe is still active.
I hoped as I read that sentence that "learning" could involve learning what not to do as well as learning what to do.
Clients that won't use the docs and need handholding can pay for service: sell them training, and you can use the docs already written as the training material.
> How do you expect it to produce useful programs

why not ask it to produce said program, and then evaluate it on that output, rather than proxy it via asking a logic puzzle?

It's like doing a coding interview when hiring an employee with these brain teaser puzzles, and when they fail you disqualify them, rather than asking them to do a real task that would be something they'd encounter on the job.
Sure - but that's not the output of the model itself, that's the process of (typically) randomly sampling from the output of the model.
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It is safe to use AIs in certain way or you would risk to impact your cognitive abilities?

If there is a perceived potential damage, then there is a risk and maybe a safer way to do that.
> Apple's products being well-integrated and well-designed doesn't require them to be locked down the way they are.

That's definitely true, and it's what has made me favor Google over Apple for decades now. Google's deal has been free software for the price of your user data, but I've accepted that deal because Google has never practiced predatory lock-in. Apple makes claims to value your privacy (I wouldn't know) while making predatory lock-in fundamental to everything they do. Denying access to your own device is part of this.

The irony is that I loathe the data economy. I think it has gone far beyond what Google ever envisioned (for years it seemed they had yet to discover a way to make money at all). The privacy aspect matters, but I also hate the way it makes companies and their products behave; the way it feels like every click results in an attempt to directly advertise to you. And it's all clumsy and broken. How often are ads even correctly targeted? I feel about conglomerated user data the way I feel about meme coins: it's all built on speculation, hopes, and dreams, and has less to do with people actually buying your product. I can't wait for the bubble to burst and/or for a global ban on the sale and purchase of user data.
Windows 8/8.1/10 had an issue for a while where when it was run on spinning rust HDD it would peg it out and slow the system to a crawl.

The only solution was to swap over to a SSD.
I think it is a bad examples. It would be like: new trucks are automatic, while current manual. If you don’t learn to drive automatic, you can do that anytime, no problem, as long as you are proficient in driving manual.
"Ctrl+space" should be air/space related software house name :)
I do squash them where appropriate.

I do use git stash where appropriate.

These arent nonobvious novelties, save perhaps to junior engineers.
> Then took my kids down to the local pool. When I got back, I had a fully functional Haskell library with autogenerated C bindings, FFI to CoreAudio and my jaw was on the ground.

With a tricky copyright declaration and licensing.

A mechanical translation of Rust code under the copyright of ___?

Maybe also involving stealing bits of Haskell code without attribution from material copyrights of ___, ___, and ___?

Cleanroom engineering is a thing when it comes to "make me one like that, except I have copyright of it". The LLM laundering approach isn't that.

Ripping off open source code isn't new. Various companies and individuals would do it. Occasionally they got caught.

Microsoft/GitHub had to reassure companies that cared about LLM copyright violations, by indemnifying them. I guess so that open source projects ripped off would have to face the legal resources of Microsoft.
A meme is not a statistic. Exactly how many people have fallen for the scam, out of all computer users.

And how exactly does device vendor lockdown stop this particular scam?
Just be careful to not contradict #3 “Quit thinking and look”.
> convert this rust library

…

> This wasn't something that existed, it wasn't regurgitating knowledge from Stackoverflow. It was inventing/creating something new.

But it was something that existed… it took a rust library and converted it to haskell. That’s not invention, that’s conversion
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I'm Hooked on Devin ( Cognition_labs)
The distinction between resilience and robustness strikes me as a useful one. Really great article overall.
Using half of what Meta, the smallest of the FAANG, spends in a year alone on AI datacenters.
> It's more about hard work than intelligence

I've seen people dismiss Musk, saying that it's not intelligence, it was luck.

I've seen people dismiss intelligence in the general domain of "being successful", saying "grit" (or sometimes "common sense") is more important.

Before Deep Blue, Chess was seen as something that needed human intuition; after, it was "just brute force search, but Go, now that's a real sign of intelligence"… until AlphaGo, after which that too was no longer claimed.

"Kilo-girl-hours" used to be a measure of compute, back when "computer" was a profession rather than an appliance.

> It is impressive, but there is a man inside the machine writing wrappers and talking about them to allow this magic to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_g...

And, to borrow a quote: If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

By this I mean: If an AI only counts as "intelligent" when it can reproduce everything in the entire path-history leading up to modern civilisation without dependence on training data (the way AlphaZero can specifically in the domain of Go), then point at which the AI bested us is comprehensively behind us.
> Air conditioning was becoming common, making it possible to cool buildings with large expanses of windows that might otherwise get too hot in the summer.

I guess the cost of having to install and run AC is dwarfed by the savings in construction costs?

Or is this a case of operational costs being ignored in favor of capital costs?
one of my all time favourite games too. for me the best aspect was that I felt I was playing out the story of how railroads helped settle a continent, so its spiritual peers were civilisations and to a lesser extent simcity. the closest modern game I've found that captures that same sort of evolving story + open ended management aspect is stellaris.
>Because of companies like Novo Nordisk, Ikea and so on?

What does an 101 year old pharmacy business and an 80 year old furniture store have to do with current EU innovation?

Europe has many large and successful companies, the one you mentioned are even somewhat small compared to the large German/French/Italian industrial corporations.

>Almost all lists of new start ups look stupid, in the US as well as Europe.

But this isn't a list of random start-ups. It is the list of the best start ups Europe has to offer, their unicorns.

Where the US has OpenAI, SpaceX, Uber and so many more, the EU has a startup which "offers health and fitness institutions access to software and machines".

Going back through the last decades, there have been multiple US start ups which effected billions of people. I can't even name a single European startup with any relevancy whatsoever. I can name half a dozen US AI startups, all with decent products, I can name one from Europe.
There is nothing inherent to the benefits that these companies tout that require them to lock us out of our own devices.

What you are describing is not a tradeoff but a magnificent bribe. They bribe us with measly benefits in order to accept the deal that is incredibly favourable for them.

See: https://reallifemag.com/the-magnificent-bribe/
Wheels are zip files with a different extension. And the Python runtime can import Python code from them - that's crucial to the Pip bootstrapping process, in fact.

But packages that stay zipped aren't a thing any more - because it's the installer that gets to choose how to install the package, and Pip just doesn't do that. Pip unpacks the wheel mainly because many packages are written with the assumption that the code will be unpacked. For example, you can't `open` a relative path to a data file that you include with your code, if the code remains in a zip file. Back in the day when eggs were still a common distribution format, it used to be common to set metadata to say that it's safe to leave the package zipped up. But it turned out to be rather difficult to actually be sure that was true.

The wheel is also allowed to contain a folder with files that are supposed to go into other specified directories (specific ones described by the `sysconfig` standard library https://docs.python.org/3/library/sysconfig.html ), and Pip may also read some "entry point" metadata and create executable wrappers, and leave additional metadata to say things like "this package was installed with Pip". The full installation process for wheels as designed is described at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/binary... . (Especially see the #is-it-possible-to-import-python-code-directly-from-a-wheel-file section at the end.)

The unzipped package doesn't just take up extra space due to unzipping, but also because of the .pyc cache files. A recent Pip wheel is 1.8 MiB packed and 15.2 MiB unpacked on my system; that's about 5.8 apparent MiB .py, 6.5 MiB .pyc, 2.1 MiB from wasted space in 4KiB disk blocks, and [s].8 MiB from a couple hundred folders.[/s] Sorry, most of that last bit is actually stub executables that Pip uses on Windows to make its wrappers "real" executables, because Windows treats .exe files specially.
> ChatGPT gives this now

It's non-deterministic, everyone gets different responses