skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is preference for sure, but I am of the opinion that ALL code comments are code smells.

And that's not even to say that I don't write code comments. When working on large legacy codebases, where you often need to do 'weird' things in service of business goals and timelines, a comment that explains WHY something was done the way it was is valuable. And I leave those comments all the time. But they're still a code smell.

Comments are part of your code. So they need to be maintained with the rest of your code. Yet they are also "psychologically invisible" most of the time to most programmers. Our IDEs even tend to grey them out by default for us, so that they get out of the way so we can focus on the actual implementation code.

This means that comments are a maintenance obligation that often get ignored and so they get out of sync with the actual code really fast.

They also clutter the code unnecessarily. Code, at its best, should be self-explanatory with extremely little effort needed to understand the intent of the code. So even a comment that explains why the code is weird is doing little more than shining a flashlight on smelly code without actually cleaning it up.

And don't get me started on "todo" comments. Most professional shops use some kind of project management tool for organizing and prioritizing future work. Don't make your personal project management the problem of other people that share and contribute to your codebase. There is zero rationale for turning shared code into your personal todo list. (and it should be obvious that I'm talking about checked in code .. if it's your working branch then you do you :) )

So if programming using LLMs is similar to writing comments (an interesting analogy I hadn't considered before), then maybe this is part of the reason I haven't found a problem that LLMs solve for me yet (when programming specifically). I just don't think like that when I'm writing code.
My social group also uses Partiful. It works great, but it's a little worrying that it's so useful while being free: I can't see how this possibly could make money, so I assume the enshittification is coming any second now.
It is almost trivial for a 3-letter agency to track bitcoin flow. Every transaction is entirely public with only pseudonyms to obfuscate identity, and with the current KYC laws good luck not getting doxxed while buying BTC.
We need to move this discourse away from "crypto" and towards Monero specifically if we want any progress on adoption
There’s something to be said for the opposite approach. There is a Buddhist temple in Las Vegas, I think. “Only Nixon could go to China.”. But you are perhaps right in that Debian would be the wrong choice for this role; this would probably be better served by some more general human rights organization, of which I am sadly not informed enough to suggest one.

> as someone who doesn't hang out there, I for one appreciate learning their stance on it.

Why? You know you are not going to use X. The only benefit you could get from learning about Debian’s change of policy is only the dubious pleasure of having your preexisting beliefs validated. But this is all that Debian will accomplish with this kind of public wide announcement. People who do use X could just as well hear about it on X, and would not need a wider public announcement. This is why I called this “virtue signalling”: Debian is not making this announcement to everyone, Debian is announcing to everybody who does not use X that their decision is correct and that they are good and virtuous people. This is a very low and cheap way to get appreciation, and only worsens the politicization and polarization of the issue.
It’s not an app I have any use for personally, but it looks cool. Thankfully they did not push it to my iPhone during an update like they did Image Playground.
Also elected people doing illegal and unconstitutional things, repeatedly.
People can often be observed to be deliberately making an effort in casual, social, natural language conversation. It flows for some people more than others. Try watching Big Bang Theory and see characters at times being deliberate with their words and at other times responding automatically.

An LLM can do increasingly well as a fly on the wall, but it’s common for people using an LLM to be less collaborative with an LLM and for them to expect the LLM to structure the conversation. Hence the suggestion to be careful in your prompting.
Sticking software you don't like on the malware list feels like a disaster waiting to happen during discovery in an anti-trust suit.
It depends on what kind of drones you are operating doesn't it? Range, speed and payload seems to be the drivers for gigantism in military vehicles. So if you look at shorter range, or more accurate, smaller explosive delivery, you don't need a USS Ford size thing to act as a mobile base for them. One of the big lessons in Ukraine is that small, cheap and accurate works.
Tricky. Now all your friends must have Iphones else they are not invited to your birthday party.

It's like the green bubble - blue bubble thing.
I will literally use this.
Certainly, it can have its use. But I question if it is stronger than previous generative techniques for creating many things. There have been strong tools that you could, for example, draw a box and say this should be a house. Add N rooms. This room should be a bathroom. Add windows to these rooms. Add required subfloor and plumbing.

Even with game development. Level editors have a good history for being how people actually make games. Some quite good ones, I should add.

For website development, many template based systems worked quite well. People seem hellbent on never acknowledging that form builders of the late 90s did, in fact, work.

Is it a bit nicer that you can do everything through a dialog? I'm sure it is a great for people that think that way.
I'm pretty sure we know which side he's on.
The bulk of the pain is going to be felt by normal people and working class. Best case scenario you will only solve the problem at the airports the rich and wealthy use and leave the rest of us out to dry.
"can often guarantee correctness"? So you're saying it can not at times?
How is this the wrong thread? Apple Invites is exactly like what I was doing with Midjourney a GenAI image generator.
And how does it work for people who aren't indoctrinated by Apple? Are you even allowed to invite them or is it verboten?
There are some minor advantages to funds left, especially in taxable. Some of the funds do their best to allocate certain costs to the ETFs so that ends up more favorable tax-wise.

The real main advantage of funds vs ETFs is they don't bounce around in price every millisecond.
One of their public launch videos mentioned it.

That actually would be a topic of particular interest to this community.

Some of the layouts of these enthusiast magazines are so chaotic (looking at you Hardcore Gamefan) that the current technology for parsing text from scans wasn't good enough and they had to develop their own.
Auditors don't need write access to the system. And audits absolutely do include a careful accounting of who has access and what is being accessed.
Ooh, he won a prize?? Why didn't anyone say so, he's clearly qualified!
Status symbol? Here's my take on it - iPhone is dozen a dime here in my country now (3rd world) but iCloud, iMessage are not. iCloud+ is definitely not. People are used to WhatsApp here (just to take an example of messaging apps) and even if they ever stumble upon iMessage they immediately see what a decidedly inferior and opaque oddity that thing is.
It’s not about calculations.

Now you can buy a command-line interface to marketing copy at less than $1000 per month that never applies for sick days.

Not saying that I like it, but that seems to be what it is.
What makes it bad currently is the slow output.

The example shows "Sign-in screen" with 4 (possibly more) instructions. This could equivalently have been entered one at a time into 'chat'. If the response for each was graphic and instantaneous, chat would be no worse than non-chat.

What makes non-chat better is that the user puts more thought into what they write. I do agree for producing code Claude with up-front instructions beats ChatGPT handily.

If OTOH AI's actually got as good or better than humans, chat would be fine. It would be like a discussion in Slack or PR review comments.
I agree it probably means another polyfill.

Tangentially... Why did you quote the entire parent post? Quoting a small subset of a large post to respond is one thing, but copying the entire post into a reply adds unnecessary repetition and visual noise to the thread for no benefit. (Is it just me or is this becoming more common?)
Uh, that obviously cannot be executing a power that expired 60 days after October 21, 1998.

(It was actually delegating power to revise the USAID reorganization plan—which was not a abolition—and to set the effective date of then part of the reorg that was not transfer of mandatory functions to the Secretary of State.)
If that is your metric, look up "ESA Hermes".

It was basically Dreamchaser, only in the 1980s, and cancelled.
There's a lawsuit going on:

>FAA embroiled in lawsuit alleging it turned away 1,000 applicants based on race — that contributed to staffing woes https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/faa-embroiled-in-lawsu...

The guy behind it is quite interesting. Got 100% on his exams but told they were only hiring 'diverse' folk https://archive.ph/ixmFB
Right, I know. That's what I use. It's a sick deal.
Not true. I own a few shares of MSTR in my Vanguard brokerage account.
What's your CPU? My math may be wrong, but the minimum Intel CPU supported is 8th gen, which started coming out about 8 years ago.
There's no clear evidence that Elon Musk's approach to Twitter will lead to a profitable platform. In fact, there are concerns that he might replicate some of the issues seen on Twitter, such as inconsistent content moderation, arbitrary bans, and problems with bots and scams, which could alienate users and advertisers. Unlike a platform governed by established policies, decision-making under Musk could be unpredictable and based on his personal whims.
> I don't know if it's still open today but anyways

I am p sure that they made like major major changes after they code dumped it. Considering "verified boosts" and "elon boosts" are very noticable, with the first being an confirmed "feature", I doubt the algorithm would even remotely work with data from nowadays.

Anyway, what I wanna say is that the last commit was over 2 years ago.
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/about

https://www.twoscomplement.org/#podcast

The latter includes full text transcripts so I think it fits your spec
When the only tool your AI can wield is a hammer, everything had better look like a nail.

Once the models become fast enough to feel instantaneous, we'll probably begin to see more seamless interfaces. Who wants a pair programmer who goes "umm... ahh..." every time you type something? A proper coding assistant should integrate with your muscle memory just like autocomplete. Tab, tab, tab and it's done.
They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their desks wide and the ties on their garments long; they love the place of honor at corporate retreats and the most important seats in the interviews; they love to be greeted with respect in the meeting rooms and to be called a Leader by others.

...the more things change, the more they stay the same...
Angular: The Documentary – An origin story [video]
If they have to buy a new computer they will just buy a Macbook...what a stupid way to loose customers.
Even on iPhone there are much better and much cheaper solutions out there (not to mention cross platform) and those have everything a couple of times better than Photos.app and then a bit more. Maybe except Apple's troupe of privacy claims.
The nice thing about chat is it's open ended, the terrible thing is that holy crap I have to write a paragraph describing exactly what I want when I should just be able to hit a button or navigate through a couple menus.
Oh, do not take my comment as a "chat bots shouldn't exist." That is not at all my intent. I just think it is a bad interface for building things that are self contained in the same chat log.
It causes problems if one of the iPhone owners isn't an active iCloud+ subscriber:

> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

This isn't about making life easier on people, this is about getting you to subscribe to Apple's services for access to a REST API. Apple gets some benefit of the doubt, but this is literally Slop-as-a-Service.
I am using GeForce NOW for gaming on my MacBook, works like a charm if you have a decent internet connection
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The aircraft carrier needs to be protected by surface ships. Submarines can’t shoot down missiles. Drone ships can’t do the job unless they are the size of destroyer. Ships on long deployments need maintenance, so now you have manned ship. We almost can’t make automomous ships, they need

Arsenal ships are a bad idea because putting all the missiles in one basket. It is better to have 3 destroyers that can cover different directions, or go on separate missions. The Navy has finally figured out reloading, it is much better to send one ship away to reload and still keep defense.
I thought Apache had donated the project to astronomer to maintain but I guess not
Is Windows 11 IoT a functional equivalent to the "real" Windows 11 for a PC?
From the FAQ¹:

> Do invitees need to have an Apple device with the app to attend an event?

> Apple Invites is for everyone. Guests don’t need the app, an Apple device, or an account to RSVP to an event.

¹ www.icloud.com/invites
Believe it or not, while I think that MAGA is on the precipice of turning the USA into a fascist state, I, too, oppose the control of language.
The correct breakdown is:

"What if the US gov doesn't (recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates)".

The only grammatical way for your interpretation to be correct is if "allow" was "allows". (However, I will grant that many posters, here and elsewhere, are sufficiently careless with their typing that one could easily assume that was the intent.)
LOL.

Makes people wish for the demise of stupidity.
Aka the Nuremberg defense; sometimes it works, sometimes not so much.
It is the rise of anti-intellectualism. It's the lack of good-faith. It's the promulgation of lies instead of truths, without even caring they are lies as long as they attack the right people. It's the idea "it takes a lot of work to make it look easy" being replaced with "if it looks easy you must not be working".

Windows 10 you can go through a couple of clicks of a Wizard and reboot, and Windows will install Hyper-V type 1 hypervisor, seamlessly virtualise the host OS and not even look or feel different. It will integrate with Windows patching, with PowerShell Hyper-V cmdlets, with subsystems like WSL2, with Volume Shadow Copy. It's localised into different languages, documented, and supported. It's got virtual switch and networking support layered into the Windows network subsystem. And you can go through a couple of clicks of a Wizard and reboot, and Windows will seamlessly un-virtualise the OS, and that's all just gone. On almost any random hardware it's not limited to Dell servers with qualified drivers, you can do it on a desktop or laptop with the right CPU instructions and Windows license level.

How much human programmer effort, planning, design and time does the parent poster think that took? And that happened alongside all the other changes to internals, process isolation, memory compression, UAC, networking stack, and along with merging tablet PC Windows and Xbox Windows and Windows Server into one unified codebase.

No all that goes into "I didn't use it, I didn't see it, I hate it, so it counts as doing nothing".

Repeat for all the features. "Oh they just added new hardware support" - Bluetooth support is more than a driver, it's a whole front end for discovery, sharing, there's APIs into the Metro apps and WinRT for apps to send files and data over Bluetooth, there's Bluetooth audio stack, Windows telephony subsystem integration for answering calls.

Multiple monitors? High DPI screens? Multiple desktops? Fractional display scaling?

You can run Windows 2000 in a browser here: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...

It's pretty, it's classic, it's coherent, it's responsive. People would go ape-shit over this? Really?

(Is it a coincidence that Windows and Mac users look at it and think it's a nice retro legacy toy from 25 years ago, and Linux users look at it and think it's a futuristic utopia?)
Yup, there are a few more variables[1] going into it, but that is the cliffs notes.

1. https://releese.io/article/how-are-royalties-calculated-on-s...
That's exactly the problem: People will (rationally!) limit their spending to bare necessities if they expect the currency they have on hand to strongly appreciate over time.
TPM is used for BitLocker.
Green balloons, but they are deflated enough so that the #555555 (grey) balloons are clearly the superior experience. And then when people point out that the green balloons are intentionally hobbled, a voice tells them to just buy their mom an iphone if she wants a balloon that properly bounces.
Aye, but in this context "full version" usually means "a version with more detailed proofs/results related to the paper's contributions", rather than "a version with additional contributions".
Note that stick built most of the wood is cut to size at a factory. If the wall is 8 foot, then you just grad the precut stack of 92-5/8" studs (after adding the top and bottom plates that works out to 8 foot with some needed slop for the ceiling and flooring), likewise you will get 104-5/8" for 9 foot walls. No other wall size is common in the US because then you have to cut all the boards on site for higher costs. Likewise the windows and doors are standard sizes from a factory. No plumber is making pipes on site, they just use a factory made pipe, valve, sink... A modern house really is a kit, there are just enough different size options and styles that there are many factory options and it seems each is custom even though most of the parts are standard.
India is much more concerned with China these days.

> I was struck on this trip by how clearly India’s chosen rival is no longer Pakistan, but China. It does not matter if we are talking in military, technological, economic, or even cultural terms. The default comparison Indians make is with China.

https://scholars-stage.org/observations-from-india/
Spotify doesn’t “pocket” the money. Here is their justification, which seems reasonable to me:

> Tens of millions of them have been streamed between 1 and 1,000 times over the past year and, on average, those tracks generated $0.03 per month.

> Because labels and distributors require a minimum amount to withdraw (usually $2-$50 per withdrawal), and banks charge a fee for the transaction (usually $1-$20 per withdrawal), this money often doesn't reach the uploaders. And these small payments are often forgotten about.

> But in aggregate, these small disregarded payments have added up to $40 million per year, which could instead increase the payments to artists who are most dependent on streaming revenue.

> Spotify will not make additional money under this model. There is no change to the size of the music royalty pool being paid out to rights holders from Spotify; we will simply use the tens of millions of dollars annually to increase the payments to all eligible tracks, rather than spreading it out into $0.03 payments.

https://artists.spotify.com/en/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-...
It works great until it stops doing anything. I use it on new projects and it makes everything go smoothly at the start and, I think, for much longer.

I haven't done it for existing projects but I have done something similar for an unfamiliar, old and challenging codebase. I worked with the cursor chat agent to produce a document I called architecture.md mapping out high level features to files/classes/functions. This was excellent because I found the document useful and it also made cursor more effective.
I'm unclear what the contradiction is? When was the last time a CEO was held accountable, for any value of "accountable" that doesn't involve repeatedly taking golden parachutes and failing upward?
AstroPIC: Photonic Integrated Circuit High-Contrast Imaging for Space Astronomy
viraptor hasn't been to NYC apparently. No way are garbage trucks roaming at 6 am. What a cluster bomb that would be.
But "you wouldn’t steal a handbag".
That’s true for Android. And Google only takes a 4% cut when using Google payments and a 0% cut when using Spotify. But Spotify doesn’t pay Google 30%

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-...

So that’s still not a cause for their financial issues.
Can be used?
There is a qualitative difference between

1. I am giving my data freely and because of my own decision to an organization I trust and

2. The state is taking my data by force of law to share it with an inherently untrustworthy organization.
Temperatures at North Pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Don't startups fail at a very high rate though?
> Both Canada and Mexico would be obvious allies for this

Yeah…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_trade_war_w...

> and it would be a win/win solution for less sensitive ships / ship components (e.g. finish shell, then fit in US shipyards).

Canadian shipyards are actually relatively busy nowadays:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shipbuilding_Strategy

To the point that some things will not be built locally:

* https://news.usni.org/2024/11/08/canadian-officials-pricing-...

* https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/news/20...

Not sure if some more civilian-leaning building capacity could perhaps be available.