skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> careful with your time!

In my experience, this aphorism applies equally to any form of coding, and probably to nearly any complex human activity.

If you love writing outlines and plans, you can just as well waste time on that as the discovery coder does in their pathfinding. Not to mention the amount of time you can waste on refactoring and reorganizing.
Trump won a plurality of the popular vote, but still only 49.8% of those who voted. So not even a majority of American voters, just that Harris got less (48.3%), so 1.5% of voters voted for Trump than Harris, and then the rest of the voters voting for someone else or leaving the president column blank.
Maybe the boomers were right and we made computers way too complex? This might be a bit of a hyperbole, but seems like there will always be a security hole (even if mostly hard to exploit). But I also guess we can't get much faster without it either. So maybe we should reduce complexity. Atleast for safety critical systems.
Nice! Please consider a round watchface option too this time.
I agree that SQL has problems as a language.

I disagree that we should be happy about moving data out of the storage layer into the backend in cases where it does not make sense performance wise.

The problem is doing some processing in SQL in some cases has a huge performance advantages over moving data to the backend.

If your business logic requires you to take a million rows from table A, apply some rule, and output a million rows into table B -- then piping all that data through a backend is a bad solution performance wise. I reject the idea that all that extra IO (+extra overhead also for the database) is worth it just to use another programming language than SQL.

What we need is better alternatives that execute at the storage layer. Probably starting with proper languages that compile to SQL, like we saw with JavaScript.
biggest tax write off based meme coin ever
Everyone else?
As noted "exfiltration" doesn't say anything other than maybe that they broke the ToS.

There's no Chain-of-Thought trace available in OpenAI; and so all this FuD about DeepSeek's technical achievement, which achieves this completely via RL, is for nought.

Westerners have this annoying habbit of framing their irrational hate for other groups (typ. racial) as some sort of righteous/moral stand.

I don't care for this non-sense since I'm not part of this game.
> People wanted this because news and social media have told them to want ...

> are subject to a massive amount of astroturfing ... The wealthy chose Trump, and so it is

People refuse to believe this can happen to them. Just as people do not believe they can be influenced by TikTok algos or advertising. They would know if it were happening to them; doesn't matter if they are left right east west up down or sideways, they are special snowflakes and it's those "others" that are the sheep that fall for it.

I did a stint in door-to-door sales (during a period of burn-out); as much as I didn't want to believe the shifty sales consultant that would come in and give sales training clinics, it's the people that absolutely know for sure they are not buying that were the ones I liked best--they won't be "tricked" or persuaded. No tricks needed, my personal ethics would not allow it even though there were "tips & suggestions" other sales people gave out; those that claim to be unsellable were almost always the sales I got the most commission from.
But "open source banking" is.
It has been on the front page day after day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-01-28

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-01-27

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-01-26

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-01-25
I‘m afraid this kind of far-left histrionics was rejected at the ballot box.
And the license is awfully expensive. I was going to the website to pay $50 for my 7 developers, but it turns out it’s $100. No way.

Or $65 per year: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text
They don’t have to be the same to allow for the same freedom. Personally a 36 hour battery is just not a problem for me - I charge my watch when I shower and occasionally for 15-30m before bed. I’d be taking a real watch off during those times anyway.

I’d much much much rather have a device with a 2-3 day battery life that’s more powerful than one than runs for 2 weeks. 2 weeks gets into the “will I have to charge my watch randomly today” category of use, which is exactly the same problem a lot of people have with EV’s
Well the problem is exactly what I wrote in my original post: if you pull malware into your program as a transitive dependency, then you ship malware to your users.

You should care about not shipping malware to your users, I don't know how to put it differently.
What's the use case you have over "just" using the official install process (`curl | sh`)?
As a Sublime user I mostly agree, except for the project stuff. I can never bring myself to set that up. What are you using multiple LSP servers per file for?
I'll write an article on bitecode.dev at the one year mark (about end of feb) about the various situations I tested it in with clients and the results.

I will include a section about the things that it was not good for and the problems with it. Spoiler, there were not that many and they fixed them astonishingly well (even one this week!). But obviously there were some, no software is perfect although they worked hard to not make it too opinionated for the first taste.

I can ping you when it comes out.
No, the distinction is that 1.5% more voters chose Trump than chose Harris, but that still didn’t push Trump over 50% of the vote, so it’s correct to say that most voters didn’t vote for Trump, but to win the popular vote he only needed the most votes.
Same. I tried zed but it doesn't come close.
Interesting that both de-novo and porting seems to have worked.

I do not understand why GGML is written this way, though. So much duplication, one variant per instruction set. Our Gemma.cpp only requires a single backend written using Highway's portable intrinsics, and last I checked for decode on SKX+Zen4, is also faster.
Because no parliament can bind a future one - and there is a general right wing movement that the BBC is "biased" (despite them stacking the news leadership with their own appointees since 2010), and so the tax would be rife for cutting.
I wrote all my articles and three books with it.

I love Sublime Text :) !
I agree the latter part is a risk to consider, but I really think getting an AI to replace human jobs on a vast scale will take much more than just training a bit more.

You need to train on a fundamentally different task, which is to be good at the adversarial game of pursuing one's needs and desires in a social environment.

And that doesn't yet take into account that the interface to our lives is largely physical, we need bodies.

I'm seeing us on track to AGI in the sense of building a universal question answering machine, a system that will be able to answer any unambiguously stated question if given enough time and energy.

Stating questions unambiguously gets pretty difficult fast even where it's possible, often it isn't even possible, and getting those answers is just a small part of being a successful human.

PS: Needs and desires are totally orthogonal to AI/AGI. Every animal has them, but many animals don't have high intelligence. Needs and desires are a consequence of our evolutionary history, not our intelligence. AGI does not need to mean an artificial human. Whether to pursue or not pursue that research program is up to us, it's not inevitable.
Love how lightweight and fast it is. Use it every day!
> finally finding out

there's no finally - perf people have always written kernels in asm.
Yeah! I devoured the entire series of posts in one go back then, I had no idea about all the people and their ties. Plus it was a super engaging read, I could imagine being there.
In what AI-powered world do you think that local small software businesses will survive?
I mean, there's nothing wrong with it.
I personally use Eclipse, BBEdit and KATE in 2025, and love them.

Sublime is one of the tools which really grown and aged well, so it deserves the love it gets.

I personally don't let anybody to tell me which tool to use. It's rude to mock and belittle the tools people use.
It should be obvious that technology exists for the sake of humans, not the other way around, but I have already seen an argument for firing humans in favour of LLMs since the latter emit less pollution.

LLMs do not have desires, but their existence alters desires of humans, including the ones in charge of businesses.
Software you like for the equivlaent of 0-2 hours of that dev's pay seems worth it.
Thank you, I experimented in that direction as well.

But for my actual codebase, that is sadly not 100% clear code, it would require lots and lots of work, to give examples so it has enough of the right context, to work good enough.

While working I am jumping a lot between context and files. Where a LLM hopefully one day will be helpful, will be refactoring it all. But currently I would need to spend more time setting up context, than solving it myself.

With limited scope, like in your example - I do use LLMs regulary.
Let’s reject these comments here too.
> It's definitely possible for AI to do a large fraction of your coding, and for it to contribute significantly to "improving itself". As an example, aider currently writes about 70% of the new code in each of its releases.

That number itself is not saying much.

Let's say I have an academic article written in Word (yeah, I hear some fields do it like that). I get feedback, change 5 sentences, save the file. Then 20k of the new file differ from the old file. But the change I did was only 30 words, so maybe 200 bytes. Does that mean that Word wrote 99% of that update? Hardly.

Or in C: I write a few functions in which my old-school IDE did the indentation and automatic insertion of closing curly braces. Would I say that the IDE wrote part of the code?

Of course the AI supplied code is more than my two examples, but claiming that some tool wrote 70% "of the code" suggests a linear utility of the code which is just not representing reality very well.
I do want to participate in society. I don't want to fund the rest of the world.
TDD is being done in weird ways by lots of people from what I've seen. I always understood the book's advice to never write code without a test as both aspirational, and productivity advice, not a hard rule.

My first job predated (at least our knowledge of) TDD and unit test frameworks. We would write little programs that would include some of our code and exercise them a bit during development. Later when everything was working and integrated, we'd throw it away. I believe that used to be called scaffolding (before Rails gave that term a different meaning).

When I got into unit testing and some degree of TDD a while later, I kinda kept the same spirit. The unit tests help me build the thing without needing ten steps to test that it works. Sure, I keep the tests, but primarily as documentation on how the parts of the system that are covered should behave. And when it's significantly easier to test something manually than to write a unit test, I tend towards that.

In languages that have good REPLs, I tend to write fewer tests, cause they function as a universal test scaffold.

Trying to reach 100 % test coverage and using unit tests for QA strikes me as strange. They're at most useful to quickly detect regressions. But most of these monster test suites become a burden over time from my experience. A pragmatic test suite rarely does. There's a lot of potential in having the right balance between unit tests, integration tests and manual testing. There's a lot of time wasted if the balance is off.

With this mindset, I totally write tests for a prototype if it looks like it'll save me time. Not even close to 100 % coverage though.
MSSQL can take tables as arguments if they are temporary tables declared to be of a certain type. But that restriction limits their use a lot.
It is an abstraction, it may be arguable if it is an abstraction of functions.

I once built a web app where we had a library of CTEs that we used to manage all the layers of indirection in the data, it was performant and made it much easier for users to be able to search and manipulate the data; especially for ad hoc data analysis.
SpaceX will see exactly who you are talking to, and there's nothing Apple can do about that if they want SpaceX to route the traffic.
I mean, if you want to see him set the land-speed record on getting a TRO, beating today's performance, by all means let's see him try. Your guess is good as mine which way Gorsuch and Kavanaugh will go on admin-law/separation-of-powers issues. Maybe it'll be resolved before the midterms!

My read of this is that no 8-month severance has been offered, for whatever that's worth.
Hi, is there any hope of getting Malimite to decompile libs from the Dyld cache?

Figuring out how an API works is one of the most important RE use cases, at least on Mac OS, where private APIs are still somewhat usable.
I'm happy with just fast, multiple cursors, plugins -> syntax highlighting. Sometimes I paste a JSON dump in there to prettify it.

I refer to a lot of tools as knives, but Sublime Text is the chopping block.
Related concepts in Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" [0] or Gerald Sussman's "Problem Solving by debugging-almost Right Plans" [1]

[0] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww
That is not a dupe. There is a huge difference between "creating lists for further use" and "offering buyouts". You sure those lists are for offering buyouts, just because a notorious liar tells you so?
Well, let's go!
Reading the CCPA, I have to agree with you: it’s useless. It specifically excludes public information, and OP clearly made those posts publicly.
I’m more curious of the claim that you don’t get podcasts pushed on you.

The last time I used Spotify (and the reason I left) podcast were constantly featured on the start page and it was impossible to remove them (and I have zero interest in podcast in my music application).
Why MySQL is not built for Analytics
If you have ever run TBs of Analytics data via MySQL, how have you done it?
> Deepseek the company is not related to the weights of the model.

I know the model is there, but running the 671B model would literally not make sense unless you can provide services at scale. The only reason that I, and others care is DeepSeek costs 15 times less than Sonnet. Stopping DeepSeek from offering their service at that price is the whole point of why OpenAI and Microsoft is now serious about all of this.

I believe the goal is to prevent any other provider from providing the models as an API service. OpenAI and Anthropic charge as much as they do because they bake in high salaries and R&D. With the weights freely available, the only cost is just hardware and support staff.
It's enterprise software. The people using the software and the people choosing the software are not the same people. In many cases they only buy it to satisfy a contractual or regulatory requirement and then the primary criterion is which one costs less or which one's sales reps give the best kickbacks, with considerations like "is it any good" not really playing a major role.
> If only someone could find a solution to this tragedy.

Well, someone earlier in the thread said to abandon Marxist thought because it's obsolete. So I don't know how to help you!
Satellite access is not a requirement though for phones. So one could just take a moral stand and not give money to Musk.

It's not like satellite access is some major feature people are clamoring for or that competitors are using to outsell Apple. It's a niche use case, and Apple is basically using its power to advertise for Starlink much more than depending on them.
Why did you purchase a domain on GoDaddy if you know better?
I think the fact that these functions/functors/macros already exist in a few different varieties in mainstream database systems presents a challenge to your argument.

SQL can be fixed, has been fixed, and is a underutilized tool in my personal opinion.
French AI chatbot Lucie suspended after reality check
No, they were working on the latter (skylon) most of the time, though the new management that came in after their £60M investment quickly dropped SSTO in favour of more immediate RoI applications. The passenger plane was LAPCAT which was a paper study commissioned by the EU. They did some interesting real work too, such as designing and testing a hypersonic engine combustion chamber that could reduce NOx emissions, which would be a big problem in any ‘conventional’ (eg scramjet) hypersonic engine.
Zed tries too hard to be magical, plus their license terms are not the best.

Before anyone asks any further. See the CLA [0] and the Privacy Policy [1].

[0]: https://zed.dev/cla

[1]: https://zed.dev/privacy-policy
I am trans. I am scared. I am exhausted. do your own research.

I'll just say this... there aren't even vast vast vast vast numbers of trans athletes. Most states where this legislative is being pushed don't even have trans athletes. This is a wedge issue designed to create divison and it is working. It is designed to separate trans people and create hatred and it is working.
There is no similarity whatsoever between Bitcoin and a bank. Mattresses to keep your money under are more similar to traditional banks than Bitcoin is.
I think Sublime Text was the first software I ever paid for. It has paid that back handsomely. And no, I’m not doing the usual “I’m a working professional so my time is directly attributable to my text editor” thing. I understand there are free options. I pay for it despite there being competition because of the extra value it brings me.
I'm lazy, I don't want to leave the terminal.
There is a huge difference between "creating lists for further use" and "offering buyouts". You sure those lists are only for offering buyouts, just because a notorious liar tells you so?

Discussion at reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ibbbh7/this_was_p...
Maybe it's time I migrated off TextMate.
Postgres is NOT built for Analytics. Change my mind?
I guess your love is not unlike my long ago passion for CodeWright. It was such a flexible beast with perfect support for BRIEF bindings and an infinitely configurable user interface. Alas, the world preferred the simplicity of Visual Studio or JBuilder and the best programmer's editor for Windows slowly but surely withered away.

I'm not planning on repeating the mistake of learning a complex environment only to see it disappear with the demise of its parent company. That's why these days I'm mostly investing time in the Emacs ecosystem while occasionally trying and failing to love mode based setups like vim and neovim.
Normally, diffraction and the effective aperture are what limit optical resolution. How does that work with gravitational lensing? Does the effective aperture become the diameter of the sun?
I agree that the law shouldn't be about that. I'm just pointing out how it apparently is when it comes to legal claims and charges of infringing behavior.
The DB is rarely our bottleneck.
Our reads are very simple, mostly paged sets from a table with a 1 level join.
When we need complex abstractions or transformations, instead of using function or views, we listen to table changes, and with a TS transformation layer we save a new row in a specific table for the abstraction. That way the BL is handled in TS, and performed in writes asynchronously instead of in-line in reads. The only downside is that the transformed data is not real time.

That mechanism allowed us to scale our data very easily without any performance hits.
I only keep sublime text around for opening +500mb dumps, everything else was moved to vscode years ago.

Anything more than 500mb and I switch to less for instant reading/searching and sed for instant find/replace.
Yeah I took a look at some of them and they are okay. I may need to switch to them as DeepSeek doesn't look like they can keep up with demand.
Surely,any minute now the free market of ideas will have the invisible hand throw invisible fingers.
I empathize with Americans, especially for those for whom the government stopped working and who have been struggling and dying as a result.

I don't care at all about foreign aid.
I used sublime from 2013 to 2021. It was great. Since, I've switched to VS Code and haven't looked back.
Sublime does everything that I want to do with it.

What I do with it is throw arbitrary text files at it, and do quick text manipulations, especially multi cursor edits. I’m sure I could do this stuff just as well with something else, but I’d have to relearn my muscle memory.
I can totally understand that. Why only one? I still use BBEdit on my Mac for all kinds of text editing (search/replace across files is excellent in it), even though I mainly use VS Code as IDE and Emacs for orgmode and automation via Elisp.
My files are on a NAS using Samba, and Sublime Text constantly does something (maybe it tries to poll the directory?) that makes it hang for around 10 seconds every minute, making it unusable.

VS Code does nothing of the sort, it has plugins for any language imaginable; it's much faster and much better IMHO.
I don't like formatting in bullet points and listicles much, but the contents are pretty good, they cover many papers in a lightweight way, you can get a decent overview in 10 minutes for what would take hours to research.
> Sure enough, chatters figured out a few simple protocols to pass their secret code

I played this game when I was a kid, and "discovered" one of these protocols myself. The only problem was maybe half of the kids wouldn't understand what you were trying to do. But there was a big joy in unlocking unrestricted chat with one of your close friends, who'd you'd previously only been able to chat with via canned messages.
there can only be one true editor
> I do not know what was the reason to get rid of session cookies. Maybe the fear of GDPR violations or

Aren't regular session cookies already considered Strictly Necessary For Functionality?
If DBS itself is not a viable treatment for Parkinsons, as the study suggests, then no amount of technological improvement of DBS-based devices will change that.
> obstacles (wide, fast rivers) and facilitators (narrow / slow) to navigation

Wide rivers are slow. Narrow rivers are fast. That is the nature of fluid dynamics.

Wide rivers are obstacles to movement on the land and facilitators of movement on the water; narrow rivers are worse at both of those things.
That’s what DOJ is for. He’s got the pointiest eggheads working for him now. He should litigate everything. And if people don’t like where we’re at in 2 years or 4 years, they’ll vote accordingly!

AP is reporting 8 months severance: https://apnews.com/article/trump-buyouts-to-all-federal-empl...
I imagine fuel isn't that big a problem until you care about being able to decelerate once you arrive.
Sublime Text is _the_ Swiss knife of all text editors:

- Loads up fast, supports tons of very useful packages (e.g. TextPastry, SQLTools), extremely customisable.

- Multi-cursors, multi-panes (e.g. with Origami), spellcheckers, extremely fast filesystem integration/browsing/preview (whether with/without projects and workspaces), color/UI schemes, syntax highlighting, search browsers, Git support (particularly when used with Sublime Merge), etc.

Sure I love my Jetbrains IDEs and Vim, but nothing comes close; Sublime Text is in its own league.
The emotional response is meaningful. A desire for simple truths is helpful in some areas of life. Handling ambiguity and complexity is helpful in others. Applying an engineering mindset to emotion is a sure route to madness. Perhaps you could look at the story as a koan, and it might aggravate you less.
The most interesting part of Wi-Fi 7 to me is MLO. Having 6E bandwidth is nice, but being able to combine 5 GHz and 6 GHz seems like it's going to be the first meaningful increase in wireless bandwidth since Wi-Fi 5