skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens in 5-10 years when new "engineers" come into the workforce who do not know that what the LLM has told them is incorrect?

I use LLM tools all day but because I used to do this all by hand I know what is wrong and what isn't. A graphing calculator is never wrong, all these LLMs make a lot of mistakes.

Someone just posted on a car forum what Gemini AI told them the required torque for a wheel bolt on a specific car is supposed to be. It was off by a huge factor to what is stated in the manual which would result in the wheel falling off at some point.
The windows APIs are certainly slower. Apart from IOCP I don't think they're that much different? Oh, and mandatory locking on executable images which are loaded, which has .. advantages and disadvantages (it's why Windows keeps demanding restarts)
Why Product Thinking Is Essential for Software Engineers
Don't worry, Amazon screws authors directly too when they self-publish, by using the cudgel of Kindle Unlimited to choke possible competition in ebook sales.

https://bsky.app/profile/glynnstewart.com/post/3leu7lzvy622g
> these sub-societies will dwindle until there's nothing left of them, and all that's left is The Culture

This would be a terrible result. Google 'urban monoculture'
A pluralistic society is more resilient to catastrophes, and preserving all these small, dwindling cultures is as important if not more as preserving species that are endangered.
I have to disagree here. AI tools are great and work great. Until they do not. The speed with which they spit out a result gives a great sense of confidence and you may overlook an edge case which they do not cover. And it's not a question of if but when you will find out that you've crashed a million systems worldwide or made the wrong update on a 10TB table which ran for 3 days. I almost did the latter just yesterday because I was lazy to write a seemingly dumb and trivial function. Luckily I am pedantic enough to quadruple-check before I hit enter.
Can I take this opportunity to recommend the lovely http://bookshop.org and http://uk.bookshop.org
This is what another commenter wrote:

> Braam really took Neovim personally and got better at getting stuff into vim that he wouldn't merge before once neovim was arround as a competitor. I really lost track of vim in the last years because neovim is just a solid platform with an active community.

I think that's the answer - the specific makeup of any given team isn't as relevant as competition which spurs competitors to either keep up or the more successful upstarts to take over.
Hmh, I don't have a case study at hand, but there are many reports (and management self-help literature) where teams are shown to be the superior approach to complex situations, especially in software development. Furthermore, considering that there are only about 50 identified open source projects out there with a BDFL [1] and only a few of them are clearly best-of-breed, while there are many best-of-breed projects that do not use a BDFL I'd wager that the perceived superiority of BDFL can at least in part be attributed to the perennial hero worshiping we like to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
Ukraine Burning Through 155mm M777 Barrels So Fast the U.S. Army Can't Keep Up
you don't even need VC. people would love it and more than happy to pay for it, high price! I bet China has already some of such apps. I see many very similar vlogs in Little Red Note, likely edited automatically by some kind of software. build it and. ship it
There would be a new little device that is a fidget spinner with a little gummy on the side as a finger replacement.

Everyone would have one. :D
Yes, but with Sourcehut you can also SSH into the machine, making it trivial to debug.
I file that under hardware failure, not mundane power loss.
Thinkerbell (2018)
Leetcode and coding competition problems were never once thought to be a good representation of our ability or skill in the Software Engineering area.

It just became really important in the last decade or so with Big Tech using them to filter candidates as a proxy for intelligence and dedication.

It makes sense for Big Tech to use it because they are huge companies, and often enough their engineering talent will work in very specific projects, rarely building features using a popular framework or OSS tools.

90%+ of the companies still don't use that method because they hire people that can use popular OSS tools to build software for them.

So they look instead to judge your experience in a certain framework, language or infrastructure piece.

So overall, I believe nothing has changed.

Mathematicians will still need to learn to solve integrals and remember rules without a calculator to pass their tests.

Coders that want to join Big Tech will still often have to do leetcode challenges without AI until they find a better way to filter for intelligence and drive.
F-35 AI-Enabled Drone Controller Capability Successfully Demonstrated
Using AI as a way to flag things for humans to look at and make final decisions on seems like the way to go
My phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 20) seems to reject almost all of these, and not recognise them as QR codes. I got one to work for one URL by moving way away from the screen.
”You opted-in and consented to sharing of information by looking at the car”
Hmm… Looks like it was “second chanced,” but it’s still struggling to stay relevant. Hasn’t really been shown much love.

It’s rather discouraging to see how discussions of Quality Development are treated, hereabouts.

Quality seems to be heresy.
Building Estimate
Lack of inotify support is one that has annoyed me in the past. It not only breaks some desktop software, but it also should be possible for NFS to support (after all, the server sees the changes and could notify clients).
Because there is no bijection between the rationals and the reals, wouldn't that imply that there are some irrational reals with no rational between them, allowing this function to be continuous, at least in places we can't actually compute?
CosmosDB was previously known as DocumentDB
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/dear-documentdb-custo...
In my youth my treasure was a HP41cv. I always found RPN far more logical, conceptually cleaner and as a result far simpler to use.
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Again, my reaction is... so what?

A trillion hyperintelligent demons might be cogitating right now on the head of a pin. You can't prove they aren't thinking up all sorts of genius evil schemes. My point is that "intelligence" has never been a sufficient - or even necessary - component of imposing ones will on humans.

I feel like HN/EA/"Grey Tribe" people fail to see this because they so worship intellect. I'm much more likely to fall victim to a big dumb man than smart computers.
I've added it.

https://nuenki.app :)
It's because the law around DBS checks is fuzzy so we get creep over time as people try to cover their backsides just in case.

There is no legal obligation to have a DBS check for any jobs but employers must take steps to safeguards employees, customers, pupils, etc. So just ask for one. The only restriction is on enhanced DBS and specific questions.
I’m pretty sure it’d take me 7 hard years of studying electronics / hardware / linux to get his level
I was going to disagree but last chapter is basically what I was going to write.

So I do agree with author- only that whole introduction and language seems unnecessary .
So don't plug the smart evil computer into the strong robots? Great, AI apocalypse averted.

The Manhattan Project would be a cute example if the Los Alamos scientists had gone rogue and declared themselves emperors of mankind, but no, in fact the people in charge remained the people in charge - mostly not supergeniuses.
Absolutely brilliant work. For an individual at high school to make something like this, it's an epic achievement. Gives hope to us all.
Any tiny project on Github, Gitlab, ... which is maintained by one person but accepts PRs and feedback from outside contributors is essentially a BDFL project.

The single project owner decides what goes and doesn't go into the project by merging or rejecting PRs. People are still free to maintain their own forks with contributions that are not accepted into the main version.

In a way, the entire Github workflow is built around the idea of BDFL managed projects.
Planet surface is 80% water.
I like Xcode!
Since qwen 2.5 turbo with 1M context size is advertised to be able to crunch ~30k LoC, I guess we can say then that the 32k qwen 2.5 model is capable of ~960 LoC and therefore 32k model with an upper bound of context set to 8k is capable of ~250 LoC?

Not bad.
That is the only reason why while being on Emacs side, on the whole Emacs vs vi, I ended up learning enough vi to be productive on customers' UNIX systems.
Lulu seems to still be around. I think it gets used for self-publishing.

https://www.lulu.com/
Sorry, but I find it much easier to find a function with your property, compared to the continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere functions.

In fact, here is an uncountable family of them :

f(x) = x^2 * rand(0,1)

Where rand(0,1) is a uniform number between 0 and 1, sampled for every x.
It's fun to try and keep up, we can still play together and have a laugh and he tolerates my pitiful skills. It's even more fun when he's at his mum's house and we can chat and play squads remotely.
> Imagine having a toolbox, with different types of tools, and not knowing anything about them. Not knowing when it's appropriate to use one type of hammer over another.

Is this pro-LLM, or anti-LLM?

I agree with the truth of the statement, but it works both ways: the world is a huge toolbox, even just code is, even just iOS is.

There's far more to learn than I can even enumerate, so much so that I can't even tell you what percentage are unknown to me, 90%, 99%, or more.

LLMs are jacks of all trades and masters of none. I'm a matter of iOS coding, but I know less than jack about, say, metalwork (where I did one small project in secondary school).

Sometimes "jack of all trades" is useful. But always check their working, because it's a miracle they can ever tell fact from fiction and were definitely trained on both.

And when it comes to hammers, the machine probably does know more than me, as I can basically only functionally distinguish them by size and if they're rubber or steel, I can't say why some have wedges on the side that doesn't strike a nail while others have balls.
OpenAI's CUA doesn't need APIs
South Korea's Democracy Saved Itself (2024)
It's more about what % of the price cut goes directly to Amazon in fees rather than the actual cost discount to end users.
> Saying "no" is the easiest job in the world

On the contrary, saying No to an otherwise great contribution that doesn't fit into the longterm vision of a project for one or another reason is the hardest thing in the world.
If Bloomsbury caved to Amazon, that is not a good outcome. Just one of the many reasons why I refuse to buy books on Amazon.
Because your not thinking of styles practically. You don't review style declarations, you review the rendered page/component. You see with your eyes that a component has the wrong border color, and AFTER THAT you go to your component code, find the border color declaration (if any), and update it/add it. Sometimes you'll even inspect the element in browser, and find the faulty class directly, making it even easier to target in code.

The Tailwind classes are "unreadable crap", that's true, but it's not a problem because you don't "read" it, no one does. You roughly parse it and edit it.
kid probably put it there :-D
Startlink? Your password will need to start with "heil-signal-" and you need to confirm you received the armband...
Muller's Recurrence
(2017) but timeless. An interesting example of numerical instability. Found via a discussion on discuss.python.org.
We are working on a project Potpie (https://github.com/potpie-ai/potpie). It's basically an open-source AI agentic platform that helps the developers to build AI Agents that truly understand your complex codebases and performed desired actions. Unlike majority of the AI Agent platforms and GenAI models, Potpie's AI Agents can understand the overall context of your codebase thoroughly
First off go easy on your mind when this happens. Can you chunk the problem down so your goal is smaller. Fix the bug -> collect data. Collect data -> grep logs. Forget the original goal for a bit and imagine all you need to do today is write a command line to filter the logs.

I find this way either gets me in the groove or as a minimum provides respite even when there is a damn deadline or whatever.

You can break it down more. Your next step: breath. You need to do that to stay alive so it is benefitial!
Show HN: Earned $50k+ on UpWork, but spent 100h+ to get those gigs – until today
My co-founder and I spent hundreds of hours on UpWork:

- First, build an awesome profile (at least you think it is, but then you iterate 1000 times)

- Then, search for keywords (yeah, some of them are pretty bad, but after 20h you get which ones work)

- Now, time for filtering the bad posts, and the fake ones, and then finally you get a decent one - but it has 30 applicants already.

Does this sound familiar?

UpWork and others do a bad job at filtering and matching, so we scratched our own itch and built gigsent(.)com.

Our plan is screen, curate and help in the application. We only did the first two, so next is:

- Incorporate more sources (freelancer.com, reddit, etc.)

- Generate personalized application answers (still talking to users on how to best do this)

We are still in early stages so feedback is super appreciated.

P.S.: We would love to have shared this for free, but scraping + filtering + matching is SUPER expensive (we barely make any money out of each subscription).
Impressive, congrats!
A setup with a 220lbs rider on a stock "muscular bike" is still heavier and will stress bikes more than a setup with a 132lbs rider on an e-bike.

Fact is most department store bikes comes with shitty brakes, or brakes not setup by professionals (lacking cable tension, shitty stock brake pads) but the very same happen when an high end bike is badly maintained by its owner. But this is a tangential problem.

I rate Rad Power bikes as shitty department store quality bikes anyway. They are successful because they are cheap and people know they can easily bypass the set assistance limits. They are cheap because the brand spec them with the cheapest components available. It doesn't help that most bikes are delivered to the owner's door without being revised by professional and appart from googling how to change the assistance limit speed Rad Power owners are rarely knowledgeable enough in bikes to correct any setup issue.
You might be interested in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLu6H-K4L2Y

The video is long and the innovation is subtle, but once you understand it it's like a lightbulb moment - IMHO a really brilliant example of elegant engineering, and designed by someone who had never ridden an ebike.
I think calculators should have "into" and "from" so you can do division and subtraction on the previous result without retyping it. I made a demo: https://fluent-calc.vercel.app/

Also supports saving a result into a variable for later reference, and x "as proportion of" y, which is just an alias for division.
Drawdata: Draw Datasets from Within Jupyter
Neovim turned itself into a pop-blink IDE which some people never wanted. It's good that it serves the needs of its fans, but it's also good that Vim stayed in its own tracks. Losing Vim as it is would be a great loss for many.
i absolutely _wanted_ to watch this. And rewatch it. Showed it to others. This is awesome marketing of what looks like an amazing product, oh why isn't more marketing like this?!
> They used the word commerce because it was written in the 18th century.

Trade was in use as “the buying and selling or exchange of commodities” back in 1550. https://www.etymonline.com/word/trade#etymonline_v_16851

Meanwhile by 1680s commerce was taking on a wider definition than just the act of exchange. At the time something was commercial if it was done for profit. Commerce included the steps in preparation for trade rather than just the exchange of goods.

> But now you're back to having actual interstate commerce, because you have residents of the neighboring state patronizing the business in Texas or vice versa.

So lost business is a concern.
Well yes. The thing I particularly like about the Dirichlet function is it’s so simple to state and yet just completely breaks my intuition about so many things.
Important problem: the equipment used to do the splitting is not free. For the platinum catalyst process it's quite expensive. The alkaline is cheaper, but you've still got a lot of chemical plant to have around. This has a capital cost, as well as all the permitting and staffing and safety around handling explosive gases. What do you do with the spare oxygen? Obviously when you have more than you can sell you dump it back in the atmosphere, but you have to be careful with the dilution because pure oxygen is an extreme fire hazard.

I'm not sure we're ever going to see cheap hydrogen.
Do the Painful Things First (2013)
"Don't build your castle in someone else's kingdom" ... I guess they're lucky that France is a republic.
seems promising, trying...
i guess that's true.
Because he isn't a Debian packager. That isn't his job.
Dead right. Sorry.
I own bikes and a longboard and the later is not really a replacement for the former anyway.

You see a lot of skaters carrying their skate in a bikepack by bike to the skatepark. Surely if skating is their passion and the longboard would be a perfect medium/longer distance solution they would use one to carry their smaller skateboard to the skatepark. Yet you never see that.
Introducing a stochastic function is cheating. You expect calculus to break if you just throw in stochastic functions willy-nilly, so that doesn’t challenge my intuition at all.
I'm not joking when I say I'm 30 and I still don't understand how to use a calculator without a proper display where you see the entire expression to be evaluated. At school in the UK we all had calculators where entire expressions could be typed in including proper fractions and parentheses. I find the more basic kind of digital calculators, including built-in calculator apps, to have totally impenetrable user interfaces
I've never thought about this – but it's quite the brilliant idea provided the user isn't someone prone to getting a heart attack from a jumpscare.
And when they try to revisit their project one year later only to find it broken.
What does 'pop-blink' mean in this context?
Some didn't. In today's world it is actually amazing how little power those things used. Both for that type of LCD screen and doing some calculations. Just compare it to almost anything else we use daily.
The most baffling is the fact that no news sites talk about this. EU wants to completely undermine security and privacy of every EU citizen and there's not a single beep aside from this one. There's no uproar on social media - /r/worldnews discusses at length everything but the most fundamental privacy breach is somehow missing). Nobody cares. If they get their way, this will spread quickly to other countries because EU is for some reason seen as the good guy and if they do it, we will do it too.

Please write to your representative in the EU Commission. They will ignore you or respond with a templated message full of BS explaining how mass surveillance is good for you (mime did) but at least it's a signal to them.
Oh yes. My failures are always hilarious to my kids. I’m the human version of Peppa Pig’s dad.

Silly daddy.
Someone should set up a website with nothing but LLM generated content, to troll these officials.
I don't think you can add them, respondents could select multiple editors. I am guessing 34% is the upper limit if no Neovim users use Vim and vice versa, which is hard to believe.
Poisoning AI with ".ass" Subtitles
Also the theme to Mission Impossible. The letters M (⸺ ⸺) and I (– –) in a 5/4 time signature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_s...)
If tractors can make farm labor more efficient why would that reduce the number of farmers?

The argument boils down to diminishing returns.

Honda can’t scale to producing 10,000x as many cars. What they can do is sell the cars they are already producing for less, so if some aspect of their business becomes more efficient they don’t just do more of it endlessly, they quickly cross a threshold and then spend less on it.
> Without wishing to appear overly snippy

You failed.
Why does it matter? EU can demand the remaining countries to align their laws to allow this or face penalties.
> All of those could be done much more stealthily server-side, though, I don't get what the QR code modification would add here?

Even if the adversary controls the server side as well, you need to tell the server the information needed to make a decision If you control everything that is easy enough too, but perhaps you want to keep the decision-making process local – for plausible deniability server-side, just to reduce server & bandwidth load, or because you are sending people to completely different destinations not just altering link parameters.

Replacing the QR code more statically sends everyone to the new address, not just the target(s), altering the QR code by a bit or two (and the relevant error correction bits too) in response to a pile of information available at the QR reading site (feeds from cameras, and such) would be how the server knows to react differently without having access to that collection of information itself. You might want to use some clever analysis to minimise the visual effect if you are altering the QR code while it is already displayed – the two examples here look very different, but the change could be much more subtle. If sending to very different destinations, so the codes for the URLs will look very different, then adding a link anonymiser between would keep the change minimal.

> Also, neither use case makes use of the hack described in the OP.

True.
>as long as you work for someone you are owned and exploited.

Truly, are you this deluded and bereft of perspective? Making such a claim about the vast majority of modern workers in the developed world is not only completely off the rails but also an insult to the real meaning of slavery and those who suffer it or have.

You've never exchanged money for someone elses labor in your life? Or had someone pay you to deliver your labor? Are you so privileged as to have never done either and thus live in a bubble that allows you to believe such nonsense as the above?
This is much harder and can't be done accidentally, unlike on Android.
if it's just an interface to a web server, it should just be a web page not an app
I found a what I think is a flaw in the methodology and started to write a comment, but it turned into its own article. If you've ever wondered what the entropy of the Mario colour sequence is, let's find out! https://entropicthoughts.com/the-most-mario-colour-revisited
Dissecting the Ampere GPU Architecture Through Microbenchmarking (2021)
Ahhh, it seems that tabby does use RAG and context providers for the code completion. Interesting:

> During LLM inference, this context is utilized for code completion

Hmmm... I wonder what's better. As I'm coding I jump and search to relevant parts of the codebase to build up my own context for solving the problem, and I expect that's likely better than RAG. Llama.vim seems to follow this model, while tabby could theoretically get at things I'm not looking at/haven't looked at recently...
Prefix with: try, get, use, with

Postfix with: hq

Etc.

Id focus on a tool to generate the list as a text file. There are plenty places to feed it into. Wouldn't pay for it tho!