skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I read about others' experiences. Surely I am not alone?

You're not alone :-) I asked a very similar question about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552653 and have continued researching since.

My takeaway was that autocomplete, boiler plate, and one-off scripts are the main use cases. To use an analogy, I think the code assistants are more like an upgrade from handsaw to power tools and less like hiring a carpenter. (Which is not what the hype engine will claim).

For me, only the one-off script (write-only code) use-case is useful. I've had the best results on this with Claude.

Emacs abbrevs/snippets (+ choice of language) virtually eliminate the boiler plate problem, so I don't have a use for assistants there.

For autocomplete, I find that LSP completion engines provide 95% of the value for 1% of the latency. Physically typing the code is a small % of my time/energy, so the value is more about getting the right names, argument order, and other fiddly details I may not remember exactly. But I find, that LSP-powered autocomplete and tooltips largely solve those challenges.
The Tailwind library names grades of colors and sizes for you, but the book is ultimately about iterating design so that you can create your own design system. From the perspective of the book, the Tailwind defaults are inadequate as a design system.
Well you're still leaning on Nix to provide the dependencies. All `writeShellApplication` will do is prepend the `PATH` variable with the `bin` directories of the provided `runtimeInputs`, it still just spits out a bash script, not a binary that includes bash, the script, and the other dependencies. I reckon it's quite possible for someone to lean on Nix to implement producing an all-in-one binary though.
> there are laws governing how certain text is handled

Is that true?? In the US?

My instinctive metric[0] for NSFW is: Could a casual passerby see something that falls into a class of designated offensivenesses (e.g. sex of any kind, but not violence unless it's also sexual)?

Text in a giant font could certainly qualify. But I would not think that ordinary-sized body text would be problematic -- if the passerby has to pause and snoop, they are breaking other equally-important protocols to ascertain SFW or lack thereof.

0: I have not run this by an HR department, and I've worked from a home office for more than twenty years, so I may know nothing of which I speak!
> Progress can't be stopped but there is a ceiling on how much progress that can be made in one era

There's a particularly evocative line this reminds me of in Mississippi, Goddamn.

> Don't tell me, I tell you

> Me and my people just about due

> I've been there so I know

> They keep on saying "Go slow"
Congrats!

I am curious where do you think VWO is heading now? If people buy it, they expect growth, I assume. I guess the plan is to expand? Either through marketing or extending the product scope?

I was surprised by this:

> Delhi-based Wingify has grown from a two-person startup into a profitable global software provider with over 6,000 clients

So 6000 clients is enough for a $50mn/year revenue? Enterprise is where the money at!
I did this to my road bike using a comercial kit: https://boostbike.uk/

It completely changed my commute.
please dont self-proclaim "groundbreaking" or "novel" or "innovative" - It diminishes your contribution since it clearly is an attention-grab.
This is a common misunderstanding. The US doesn’t send its military around the world because they want to protect freedom and democracy. The US does this to protect open markets that it then gets first right to exploit.

The US has benefited from this situation since WW2. It’s one reason why the US economy has been so successful.

It’s also only now that the US has exploited these markets that they can question the purpose to continue their military imperialism.

TLDR: the US military across the globe wasn’t done out of altruism. It was to expand US economic power.
One mans trash is an another mans treasure !!
> Java doesn't even allow to change the working directory also due to potential multi-threading problems.

Linux and macOS both support per-thread working directory, although sadly through incompatible APIs.

Also, AFAIK, the Linux API can't restore the link between the process CWD and thread CWD once broken – you can change your thread's CWD back to the process CWD, but that thread won't pick up any future changes to the process CWD. By contrast, macOS has an API call to restore that link.
> Mid-drives are certainly superior to hub-drives, so that's another plus.

can you explain the difference for someone who never heard of either?
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Wow. I love this! Not least because this is so incomprehensible to the British property developers on so many levels...
There is nix-bundle (which I admittedly have never had a reason to use)

https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle
Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors
Terminal coding FTW!

And when you're really stuck you can use DeepSeek R1 for a deeper analysis in your terminal using `askds`

https://github.com/bodo-run/askds
Also cell carriers collect and give out live location data on customers
What a weird way of thinking. If you act so pedantic anyway, you can stop coding simply 1 percent earlier each day, since your boss would not notice anyway. Personally I live in Belgium and I would be glad to pay 20 euros per month if it increases my productivity, as noticed by my boss or not.

The real problem however is, I cannot simply share my employer's repos to be absorbed by any LLM out there. So I use only the tools that my employer provides and approves of. Currently that is Microsoft Copilot chat/RAG via my work account. It takes some copy/paste and adaptations of problems/solutions but it is much more efficient than using SO. It is also a great teacher that never gets tired of my plenty why/how questions.

In my view, the future is that LLMs can train on entire private code repos until it understands its ins and outs. Currently it would need to fit in the context window, hence you need to babyspoon it, as I understand things.
Oh gosh, I did this yesterday.

We need to do something, my manager thinks it is too complex and we do not have the time, I have not been able to convince him (I am another manager), and yesterday I told my guy ... if it takes you X days, just do it and we will tell him later. He will find out after the coup and post-facto I can always justify it "oh we had so many other things going on, we never got to talk about this".

And my goal is to show that its value is more than the effort we spend with the workaround.
Regarding the OP doc and UV coordinates. A major area of investigation for us back in the day was finding interesting ways to displace the uv texture coordinates for each corner of the rectangular mesh. We used per-vertex colors, these days one would use a fragment (pixel) shader like those in ShaderToy.

A very interesting process displaces the texture coordinates by advecting them along a flow field. Use any 2D vector field and apply displacement to each coordinate iteratively. Even inaccurate explicit methods give good results.

After the coordinates have been distorted to a far distance, the image becomes unrecognizable. A simple hack is to have a "restore" force applied to the coordinates, and they spring back to their original position, like flattening a piece of mirroring foil.

Just now I am using feedback along with these displacement effects. Very small displacements applied iteratively result in motion that looks quite a bit like fluid flow.
The book from 1950 mentioned in the article https://web.archive.org/web/20100505110621/https://bitsavers...
Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to 'man up' − why that's bad for all employees
Nothing earlier than 1936? For example George Boole's boolean arithmetic or Charles Babbage's computers?
I think this opens a new direction in terms of UI for companies like Instacart or Doordash — they can now optimise marketing for LLMs in place of humans, so they can just give benchmarks or quantized results for a product so the LLM can make a decision, instead of presenting the highest converting products first.

If the operator is told to find the most nutritious eggs for weight gain, the agent can refer to the nutrient labels (provided by Instacart) and then make a decision.
Definitely, eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00650
> His signature is literally an endorsement

Yes, but we're not arguing about whether Biden agreed with the bill, but that turning it off was a stunt on TikTok's part.

Someone said there was an executive order, but there was not. He said he wouldn't enforce it, obviously signaling that it's up to the incoming administration.

The fact that TikTok turned off for only 12 hours makes it pretty obvious they wanted to have a good relationship with Trump by giving him some positive PR. Which is ironic considering banning it was primarily pushed by Trump to begin with, but people have obviously forgotten that.
So I just need 2 more years :D and then +$49.98m/year revenue will come
The hostname in the Received: header (phl-compute-07.internal) is consistent with Fastmail.
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Maybe it's because I don't live in a cold climate, but I've never wanted to do this.
USB-C does 240W, what makes you think it can't charge an E-Bike battery? Most are under 500Wh and would take at most 2 hours.

Also it looks to be a USB source, for charging your devices, not the other way around.

It's a nice bit of engineering, making it an all in one package that can bolt onto a frame with minimal effort is quite neat.

I'd love to know why you think it's implausible, from all my work on ebikes it looks legitimate.
What cargo is doing is something like

#!/usr/bin/env cargo
---
[dependencies]
regex = "1"
---

fn main() {
}

I think this is proposing something like

#!/usr/bin/env cargo

#[version = "1"]
extern regex;

fn main() {
}

though `extern` has gone out of style and would instead be something like

#!/usr/bin/env cargo

#[version = "1"]
use regex;

fn main() {
}

but that wouldn't isn't idomatic either and so you would have

#!/usr/bin/env cargo

#[version = "1"]
use regex::RegexBuilder;
use regex::Regex;

fn main() {
}

which runs into the problem noted but in one file

> I realize there would be downsides to this idea. For example, you have to figure out what happens if different versions of a requrement are specified in different files of the same package (in a sense, the concept of "package" starts to weaken or break down in a case like that). But in some cases, e.g. a single-file python script, it seems like it would be great.

To fully support this, we'd need a top-down compilation model like Zig so we could discover dependencies in the current project. Today, we have to do bottom-up compilation, knowing all dependencies a priori.

A downside to any of this is it is expensive to do any any dependency management

- Introspecting dependencies requires parsing every file in every part of your dependency tree

- Editing dependencies requires walking every file in your project
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Damn you're right, we should give Larry Ellison the benefit of the doubt.
mentioned in another comment, there are ways to bundle nix derivations into standalone run-on-any-linux binaries: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle
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If anyone is interested in an example of how ZSTD's dictionary compression performs against standard gzip, a number of years ago I put together an example using some Common Crawl data.

"I was able to achive a random WARC file compression size of 793,764,785 bytes vs Gzip's compressed size of 959,016,011" [0]

In hindsight, I could have written that up and tested it better, but it's at least something.

[0] https://github.com/benwills/proposal-warc-to-zstandard?tab=r...
> My “trick” during that final year was simple: I always tried to write correctly, not just when I was asked to, but all the time. After a year of subconscious improvements, I aced the exam.

Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect.
Imo, it's mostly because our brains are still hunter-gatherer brains. While things like language acquisition and culture-instilling do fundamentally change us, our base hardware is still pre-currency pre-agriculture (pre-pretty-much-everything) hunter-gatherer. In Sapiens, it's noted that if a homo sapiens from 100k years ago ended up on an autopsy table in the modern day, you would never know anything was amiss anatomically. You might notice the teeth are unusually straight and free of decay (pre-grain diet, with huge amounts of chewing strengthening the jaw and allowing teeth to properly align), well-trained body with low body fat, and similarly free of many of the scourges of our modern diet and lifestyles). But that's it.

So, people suddenly get taken out of "the grind" which was their only approximation of the drive-reward cycle that their brain depends on. So what now? Unfortunately, they've been freed to confront man's ultimate foe: philosophy. And lots of people aren't cut out or ready for that. (One could even say most philosophers aren't, given how much many of them suffered).
sounds about right :)
Men have grown twice as much as women over the past century
Love the idea, although I feel like the playlists generated aren't... great. For me it was grouping things in a pretty odd way that didn't make sense (e.g. Bob Marley under a "punk" playlist)
Assuming that Operator does become better (as the models have), and the cost of operation goes down, I would pay a monthly subscription to reduce my screentime. I wonder whether a UI for a new company is even needed in the future.
I think that's a poor way of framing it.

If the work is genuinely worthwhile, and the people who do it are respected, there will be people to do it.

Teaching people to suffer through work without any apparent reason - that's something capitalist society wants, not liberal democracy.
Yes this was promptly flagged. Need I say more?
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Isn't BlueSky doing the exact thing you want: making it a toggle?
Cursor can follow links
Sorry, I updated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807573
Looking through https://dbohdan.com/scripts-with-dependencies, I see

- JS: Deno and Bun

- Scala: Scala CLI and Ammonite

- Python: fades (https://github.com/PyAr/fades)
Much of his bikeshedding is obviously self-deprecating humor to me. It’s simultaneously both genuine and ironic.

I think that people sometimes don’t (can’t?) quite ‘get’ that wry-but-also-sincere style that much of British humor exhibits.
All this is pretty cool. It's a pity there's no way to just extract it yourself for yourself. I like all these features and have an older Subaru.
The low contrast in the app makes it distractingly uncomfortable to read.
In general, a lot of things in cars are for the law rather than the owner. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just is what it is. Emissions is the biggest one.
That's really easy, you can also just add some links since bicycle chains are pretty standard.
A better metric might be “could a casual network filtering program pick up something that would be forbidden at work”.
I was mostly thinking of how today you'd need three levels of clinical studies and an FDA approval.

The war would be over long before that process concluded.

Or maybe the military can decide to order unapproved vaccines?
I think I hit all those points in my previous post, except for the fact that it's two different models, as you've noted. That said, neither of them seem to report scores for the other benchmark in each particular case.
This actually seems cool, but it would be difficult to exist as a tech company that explicitly exists to organize extremists. But yea, would probably lead to greater actual discussions than something like twitter, which seems to feed on the anger of its users.
No, trans people dating other trans people is actually extremely common (both homo- and heterosexual). Often because both (or more) people often understand each others struggles and wants way better than cis people do, and simply because if you like spending time primarily in trans-heavy communities, you will likely fall for someone who's also trans.
I’m a founder with a failed startup behind me. It’s not like I can hide that.

If I make a mistake filing my company’s taxes or similar and it’s caught by the authorities, that will be part of the public record.

For me it’s a bit hard to understand that I should be subjected to immensely much more public scrutiny than a doctor. Why? I thought they had so much responsibility, not me.

At least here in Sweden the problem with the medical board is that they are doctors and will only revoke a license for truly egregious violations of ethical standards / law. They also look at one case at a time, so a doctor can have tens of cases representing a staggering level of unprofessionalism in total, but still keep their license.
I will remember this advice the next time I decide to write a bug.
Put ‘em in diverse simulations and see how long they survive.

I can imagine a dystopian world where people are subject to this for training and testing AI.
Quick testing on vscode to see if I'd consider replacing Copilot with this.
Biggest showstopper right now for me is the output length is substantially small. The default length is set to 256, but even if I up it to 4096, I'm not getting any larger chunks of code.

Is this because of a max latency setting, or the internal prompt, or am I doing something wrong? Or is it only really make to try to autocomplete lines and not blocks like Copilot will.

Thanks :)
The sheer amount of regression against social liberalism over the last few decades truly is astonishing; you're literally trying to tell me that racism is equality and okay.

I hope we're on the cusp of reversing course on all that so we can make MLK's dream a reality again.
This is a very useful feature, To be able to import models from Hugging Face will really help me.

Gonna Try this
I'm boycotting the prequel series on principle because I assume Benioff and Weiss will receive royalties and residuals from it. I don't watch it even when it's in-flight entertainment.
Congrats on the launch!

Interestingly I've been working on an almost exactly the same kind of thing and was hoping to release it soon. I've applied to get my app's limits lifted on Spotify, but haven't heard back from them yet...How long did it take for you?
The 2024/2025 Ascent is what I had as a loaner that had the skeumorphic UI on the screen that looked exactly like an older Subaru's physical climate control layout.

It was a major WTF when I first saw it.
Are you good at answering questions you are not trained to answer?

How about a middle school test in a language you don’t speak?
The Reactoring UI book would find whatever structure of defaults given to you as very inadequate for a design system. The book is about an iteration process for creating your own design system. The Tailwind library happens to empower that design process.

But by default there's basically no opinion on what even a button should look like or how colors should be used on your website. You have to create your own abstraction such as "brand-color" and "brand-primary". You have to create your own design system, as there is no Tailwind default button or anything.

If you talk about a default Tailwind look people might be confused and think of ShadCN.
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I'm building Octo because I needed a tool that combined Figma’s collaboration with Illustrator and Photoshop’s tooling. As a developer, I wanted something that supports both the technical and creative sides of UI/UX design. Octo is cross-platform and built to simplify workflows for people who code and design.
Yet another example of why I don't own or drive vehicles from this stupid century.
>I'm a bit surprised at the "pedaling charges the batteries" bullet point. That's extremely rare in the e-bike world.

For the most part it doesn't make much sense for most e-bike users that have power easily available, the time required to charge a battery is a lot (average person puts out about 100-150W) and the average e-bike battery is 500Wh or so, 4+ hours to charge it by pedaling.

A normal mid-drive has clutches specifically to prevent this from happening so you don't get drag from the motor while pedaling without the motor running.

In countries where power is not as readily available it makes a lot more sense.
not just larry - everyone who is 9-figure rich… no wonder they are better than all of us and hence demand that benefit… :)
Please make your substantive points without putting down others, and please omit such complaints about downvotes. The latter are inevitably unsubstantiated (since vote data isn't public), usually imaginary, and often provocative. If you're worried about abuse, the thing to do is email hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look.

All this is in HN's guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd please review those and stick to them, we'd appreciate it.
Honestly, this really isn't necessary as long as the game implements votekick/voteban. Kicking alone is usually enough to deal with a problem until an admin is available.

My point was really just that 10% is 10%, regardless of scale.
They tried making a castle inspired by this near Branson, Missouri that failed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Medieval_Fortress
Can this open multiple tabs / navigate to different domains? When booking a restaurant I might want to confirm what the prices are on the menu or check google maps for the reviews / location.
Last time I checked Spotify's genre categorisation system was really weird so that doesn't surprise me.
Link is deleted but I can't delete the post. Sorry for that.
As somewhat of a counterpoint, my experience was we often romanticize these things that we’d like to do if only we had the time/money/etc. But sometimes you’ll find once you do have the opportunity to explore those things, it’s not as interesting as we had hoped. It might keep you busy for a year or so, but then boredom and lack of fulfillment rear their head again. I think this is why serial entrepreneurship is a pretty common thing.
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Let's go! I'm so proud of you, Byran!! Imagine your teacher gets hit in the eye with a bottle cap, the contents of the drink fry your laptop, and you just build your own. This may not have been the motivation, but I'm honored at your resiliency, lol. You never cease to amaze me! Keep going!
The printing press predates capitalism.
I often joke with people that I possibly have the last working Pentium MMX in the universe under my home desk. That thing has 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disk drives.
About the virus: you really need to be less in the company of people thinking up conspiracy theories. Remember that a pandemic has always been predicted in a 'not if but when' sense.

For the rest of the provided history feats, I can't really tell but most of it appeared indeed in established newschannels.
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