skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPhone, for non-iMessage recipients, was limited by MMS limits.

Who sets the MMS limits? the telcos - actually min(both ends), the iPhone sender's telco and the recipient's telco.

iMessage was introduced in 2011. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMessage

Google announced RCS support for Google Messages in 2019. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

"In June 2019, Google announced that it would begin to deploy RCS on an opt-in basis via the Messages app, with service compliant with the Universal Profile and hosted by Google (i.e. Jibe) rather than the user's carrier, if the carrier does not provide RCS."

Before 2019, Android users depended on their telco to support RCS. The RCS wikipedia article talks about Samsung support for RCS in USA in 2015 and Android Lollipop OS users getting RCS support - but they still needed telco support.
Congrats on on your launch, Zuri! LLMs are great at helping parse and make sense of unstructured data and I'm excited to see you using it here. How would you compare your product to competitors like Cribl or NXLog?
Yep. There are also many of us that wish it'd stuck out of a deep seated love for truth in advertising.
Palantir provides combat management system in Ukraine. That system collect and analyzes intelligence, including drone video streams, and identifies targets. Right now people are still in the loop though that is naturally would go away in the near future I think.
Get outta here with rationale.
I think those benchmarks are all noise. Claude has so far been the only model I really trust and use in Cursor. All those fancy pants reasoning models seek to just jerk themselves off and never really do anything better than Sonnet.

One thing I always make sure is to never get it to just spit out code. I always go back and forth a few times to ensure alignment before I say “Bombs Away” and let it write code.
The thing I find strange is that the other wealthy and powerful stand for the destruction of things that gave the US a huge competitive advantage. The average person isn't hit immediately by the destruction of science. But a far-sighted person with some power should by self-interest not want this.

And this, I think, points to the corruption of the entire political class in America with just being upshot.
>> Changes in jj can be marked with bookmarks (what jj calls branches),

JJ actually calls its bookmarks "bookmarks". Maybe these two words got accidentally flipped?
Maybe I’m missing something…

I get it that Oracle is in the wrong but I’m still not sure why get in this trademark fight anyhow.

I would personally leave it to someone with much larger pockets like Microsoft to deal with.
Some of my favorite novels are David Lodge's campus novels, and an element in them is the never-ending lure of American academia for British scholars.

Now it's the EU's turn. Computer science is already becoming very, very French. See you guys in Grenoble.
Having voting rights kind of goes against the point of tracking an index though. Better invest in ESG funds or something like that. And for funds that use synthetic replication there is nothing to vote on in the first place.
The World Wide Web essentially exits due to grants from the NSF and alumni from those grants starting Netscape.
Iirc, lgbtq removal involved removing gender studies and pages regarding sexual and women's health. It hadn't to do with grants
Siri, what is selection bias?
I agree with everything said here, but I'd like to add a couple of extra points:

- Be aware of the volume of logs you generate. For e.g. if you're in a for loop iterating over a thousand elements, and have a try/catch on processing each element, you're going to generate a thousand lines of logs if there's an upstream issue (database connection error, network error etc.). In such cases, always exit early when you have an unrecoverable error. And I don't necessarily mean exit the whole program, just exit the loop early.

- If you're logging to file, make sure you have a log rotation policy in place with a maximum file config set. In a previous workplace we had a system wide outage because a core component got wiped out because it got too many connection errors, wrote the errors to disk, filled up all the space and took the box down.
Code written from an LLM is really really good if done right,
i.e. reviewing every line of code as it comes out and prompt guiding it in the right direction.

If youre getting junior devs just pooping out code and sending to review thats really bad and should be a pip-able offense in my opinion.
it's not a good time to act like an obtuse edge lord
Who is allowing this BS in HN?

This subdomain should be banned.
I agreed with you either way, but I'm currently at a loss as to whether this is a for/against take on rust.
People get hired for nepotism, for politics, for street smarts, for their smile, for the crease in their trousers, because the guy hiring them had a good morning, or because they're actually good at what they do.

You've called this one out as bad. Well, it probably is bad. if I invested through this company I'd be upset. But the thing is, its "hunt for keys under lampost, not because I lost them there, but because it's lit up" bad: You know this hire does not make much sense. The other hires, you are letting through because (I believe) you implicitly assume they can learn to do the job, all other bad reasons for hire not withstanding. Why can't he learn them too?

He can take instructions and work, and is physically robust. He survived in a harsh environment (or two). There are admirable qualities which imply he is educable and strong emotionally and phyisically. I wouldn't have hired him or the nepo baby. I wouldn't have put my money into this mobs hands. I didn't. If my superannuation fund did, I hope it returns at least at market norms.
Wait, isn't MSG even worse for your health than salt?
From the aticle they're not feeling the full effects by a long shot.

Their taxes are being used to pay compensation for wolf kills, from the article that's the price of a single ungrown calf.

The cost to the rancher is, again according to the article, the loss of the full grown cow the calf would grow to AND a reduction (10% ?) in birth numbers and calf weights in the herd overall which witnessed the wolf attack on the calf.

The birth reductions and weight numbers come from agricultural stats which ranchers and farmers keep these past decades, it's a data driven business, and we can hope these are accurately reported.

These claims are being made but they're apparently swamping the compensation fund setup.

Perhaps if they want healthy rivers with more plant growth then they might achieve this by hunting more elk, even using elk bounties, rather than wolves that harrass and stress the herds.
Another assumption that doesn't really work is that there must be equal numbers of male and female homosexual groups.

Assuming that male and female behavior doesn't change regardless of the partner they're seeking, it will still be true that the more groups are gay, the higher the acceptance rate will be, and it will also be true that gays are more interested in forming these groups than lesbians are.
> Mrs Dash has potassium

Are you sure? Their Original version does not have any added potassium: https://mrsdash.com/products/original-blend/

None of the other flavors I checked have any either. Do they sell other products that have added potassium?
>Sometimes a constitutional crisis sneaks up on you, shrouded in darkness, revealing itself gradually.

People who gave a crap have been screeching about this for over a century since Teddy and Wilson. Someone needs to tell these clowns that it actually makes you look worse when you only start caring when it benefits your agenda.

I'd give them a break if it was just an undertone rather than the first sentence of the article but come on.
"Nothing Biden or Democrats could do about this"

I think with some amount of imagination, they could have done something about it.
https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jet/jetCookbook...
> You're not getting instant respect from mother in laws and pastors as an ATC

You would if it was known to pay $500k/yr+
LLMs were backdoored years ago
There seems to be a lot of negativity from the HN crowd about this. But, the reality is that your fellow Americans voted for this. If you don'y like it, you're going to have to convince people that it's a bad idea. Getting worked up about Trump or Musk or SV bros isn't getting us anywhere.
That is not why we moved to fiat. It may be a consequence, but there are also seriously consequential checks against doing it too freely.
> At some point spending too much time on code that could be easily generated will be a negative point on your performance.

If we take the premise at face value, then this is a time
management question, and that’s a part of pretty
much every performance evaluation everywhere. You’re not rewarded for writing some throwaway internal tooling that’s needed ASAP in assembly or with a handcrafted native UI, even if it’s strictly better once done. Instead you bash it out in a day’s worth of Electron shitfuckery and keep the wheels moving, even if it makes you sick.

Hyperbole aside, hopefully the point is clear: better is a business decision as much as a technical one, and if an LLM can (one day) do the 80% of the Pareto distribution, then you’d better be working on the other 20% when management come knocking. If I run a cafe, I need my baristas making coffee when the orders are stacking up, not polishing the machine.

Caveats for critical code, maintenance, technical debt, etc. of course. Good engineers know when to push back, but also, crucially, when it doesn’t serve a purpose to do so.
> Among girls : 10% where lesbian, 84% were hetero and 12 % were interested in both genders

> Among guys: 7% homo, 92% hetero and almost none were interested in both genders

That's insane.
“LiveScript” wasn’t bad. They really did aim to make JS a scripting system for Java tho, through the LiveConnect Bridge. Unfortunately LiveConnect was a buggy POS. MS had a similar thing going on that was less buggy, but IE-only of course.

So yeah, I don’t miss LiveConnect. Let’s just call it “WebScript” or something.
A bad hire that creates a lot of PR is a bad PR move, as opposed to all of the other bad hires, but maybe a VC fund doesn't need PR.
I mean, HN doesn't have a leg to stand on, but I would say there's a difference between "big tech" and "tech startups", community-wise.

People who love working at Big Tech love it for everything people who go for the Startup World hate, and vice versa.
Probably so. Or in some cases, multiple resonant frequencies all at once, like a bell. I asked my friend Miss Chatty (ChatGPT) about this and she had some interesting insights:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67a2aade-5870-8012-b211-1bd749a2d7...
No one other than the organizer needs anything Apple.
> Too much stress?

Not just that, but having a shortage means each ATC does more work which is inherently stressful.
So this is virtue-signalling.
There's a great dishonesty in this argument, because it intentionally ignores the fact that this is only the opening couple of weeks in something that's going to continue for 4 years, Milei-style.

So obviously it's not a matter of what percent savings comes from closing USAID specifically, but in what total savings the posture behind that is going to create over the next 4 years.
Javascript is used so widely now that calling it just “Script” is probably fair and would be a lot harder to trademark
Label your fucking axes!
TEMPEST spy stuff too maybe?
Shouldn't matter if you invest larger sums or with a savings plan.
Wait... HOW?!
> the infamous OKcupid study

Not sure which of these you meant, but here's links for those who haven't read them:

The one blog post that got removed when match-dot-com (InterActiveCorp) bought OKC in 2011-Feb:

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldneverpa...

The other OKC data analysis posts (archive link to 2011-Jan):

https://web.archive.org/web/20110126012317/http://blog.okcup...
La Vie En Rose
IE11 was still 6-years old at the time of that screenshot (based on the Node versions), and 3 months from EOL on pre-Windows 10.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won...

Numbers are published by U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. Read it if you want.

They'll dismantle the federal state alright. But not for the reasons you think or want.

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
No, the English structure "<foo> ... what jj calls <bar>" just has an annoying semantic ambiguity, and can either mean "<foo> is the name used by jj for the thing that is more commonly referred to as <bar>" or "the thing more generally called <foo> is referred to as <bar> by jj", which is expected to be resolved by the reader on the basis of whether <foo> or <bar> is the generic term they are familiar with.
It just needs something small to be taken away or happen that ignite and capture the collective imagination.
I've heard that listing you're bi is considered a red flag on a guy's profile? maybe people are hiding it
Boy are those folks gonna get what they voted for…

Price of eggs dropped yet?
The big problem with LLMs as a "staff engineer" is that LLMs are precisely suited to the kind of tasks that I would normally assign to a junior engineer or cooperative engineering student.

That's bad because it makes "not training your juniors" the default path for senior people.

I can assign the task to one of my junior engineers and they will take several days of back and forth with me to work out the details--that's annoying but it's how you train the next generation.

Or I can ask the LLM and it will spit back something from its innards that got indexed from Github or StackOverflow. And for a "junior engineer" task it will probably be correct with the occasional hallucination--just like my junior engineers. And all I have to do for the LLM is click a couple of keys.
Yep. Destruction of systems (orgs, ...) that take care of us.

Meanwhile, TikTok (et al) tells us to talk about ourselves ... the current focus of attention of the Fifth most popular social network of the citizens of the United States. [1] [2]

Q: how could we have avoided this pathetic crawl into encouraging stupidity?

(Feeling sad, thinking, 'Look at our Works, and cry.')

[1] https://later.com/blog/tiktok-trends/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
Are they seriously that naive?
Fine, that's still extra information.

More accurately in the context of the comment, its "Im gonna be an asshole to you because I think you don't have the life experience I do", which is at least, some kind of signal.

I wasn't the original responder btw.
Heck, China has a reproduction of Jackson Hole, Wy. (See the documentary Americaville)
Any type of economic activity in USD involves paying rent or huge surplus to those who hoarded real estate (which doesn’t go away any soon). I don’t see the big difference here. Doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, but let’s at least apply the arguments symmetrically.

Why would someone invest into or try to start a business when you can become richer by just sitting on your _property_ pile with no risk.

Yeah, I guess.
Welp, in this specific instance, your insults are a microcosm of the election results.

Stinks, huh?
The only people who don't think truth matters are those who would profit from lies.
Beej's Guide to Git
Lol NY Post, one step above The Inqirer
> Oh btw the "David Lebryk" is not even mentioned in the article, CoPilot added that as context.

Normally that would make you question the validity of everything Copilot told you about the article.
"They" are not any more organized now than they were then, they're simply better staffed. This is precisely why Trump has to use executive orders (many of which are rescinded instantly) and send Elon on dummy missions instead of just doing the durable thing: whipping Congress into passing law.

As it stands, the only durable policy win of his term so far was achieved on a bipartisan basis and mostly passed before he even took office: the Laken Riley Act. Why isn't the opposition party acting as opposition?

> If you care about the US remaining a functioning democracy, you should work in whatever way you can toward removing the current administration from power.

The U.S. is already not a functioning democracy (see 2016 and 2020), and removing the current administration from power (illegally?) will not change that.

This constant cycle of ineffective freakouts that America's liberal bloc find themselves in every 4 years is a large part of the reason why Trump won to begin with.
The government is making that investment. Upgrading the legacy system will take decades regardless of how much money they spend.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen
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just two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910829

the problems that led to these frauds are structural--no amount of patching the system will fix this.

maybe we should consider the possibility that we are due for a refactor, which is often painful, but especially painful for people (or code) with an entrenched incentive to continue existing.

i dont mean to defend what the administration is doing but I'm warning that everyone crying doom and gloom and threatening to move abroad, etc. might be eating crow. ironically, the very people most likely to move abroad (in it for the career, not for the principle) are biased to be the types bringing down our system of science. bad science is the science equivalent of a zirp.
Musk's take - in response to Chuck Schumer making similar criticisms:

>He’s mad that @DOGE is dismantling the radical-left shadow government in full view of the public.

>This is our ONE CHANCE to return POWER to the PEOPLE from an unelected BUREAUcracy back to DEMOcracy!! ...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886840365329608708
Lawyers on staff with nothing to do ATM…
> using LLMs is learning how to manage your context.

This is the most important thing in my opinion. This is why I switched to showing tokens in my chat app.

https://beta.gitsense.com/?chat=b8c4b221-55e5-4ed6-860e-12f0...

I treat tokens like the tachometer for a car's engine. The higher you go, the more gas you will consume, and the greater the chance you will blow up your engine. Different LLMs will have different redlines and the more tokens you have, the more costly every conversation will become and the greater the chance it will just start spitting gibberish.

So far, my redline for all models is 25,000 tokens, but I really do not want to go above 20,000. If I hit 16,000 tokens, I will start to think about summarizing the conversation and starting a new one based on the summary.

The initial token count is also important in my opinion. If you are trying to solve a complex problem that is not well known by the LLM and if you are only starting with 1000 or less tokens, you will almost certainly not get a good answer. I personally think 7,000 to 16,000 is the sweet spot. For most problems, I won't have the LLM generate any code until I reach about 7,000 since it means it has enough files in context to properly take a shot at producing code.
Nope, they're not "talking points" it's called reality.
Not to say Signal is worse than either option, because it's not, but they really hampered adoption by removing SMS (at least in NA).

I have almost no way to convince anyone other than people very close to me to use it due to the (lack) of network effect.
If they could just use it instead of the default messenger then it's a dramatically easier sell.

Obviously it's up to the Signal Foundation about the direction they take but I don't know if I've seen anyone agree with the justifications.

Google and Apple wrap up their locked down BS with SMS for the same reason. It's by default free of network effect but passively pulls people in.
Elon can live anywhere in the world. Very rich people are global citizens. They cannot be patriotic.
The crazy thing is that ORACLE was a CIA program that Larry got a contract for. He named his company after it.

A genius aspect of Larry is that, like Steve Jobs (his best friend), he knew how to milk a gifted 50x programmer. There was a co-founder who did all the heavy code writing, while Larry did the schmoozing (not an unimportant job).
"The users of software must be accountable for the mistakes made by that software."

the contract between user and "maker" should be requirements. if a machine does not fulfill its requirements, it can be the maker's responsibility, for example a flight instrument that failed to report correct information.

but if you choose to use a piece of software that says "we actually guarantee nothing", which is the vast majority of it, then it's definitely the user's responsibility for choosing to use such a tool.
> Note this isn't representative of the tech industry in general.

I'm not convinced. In the past half decade or so this industry has veered hard toward outright fraud and grift. I see this trend all over--adtech, cryptocoins, "AI", security... These days I assume technologists are frauds until they prove otherwise. It's a blunt instrument, but it often works well.
Non it’s not. I known its not a benchmark but just try a zig init and build their hello world. It takes significantly longer
So you don't think being forced to include a statement on diversity in every single grant request reviewed by the NIH was "injecting dumb politics" but you do think that being forced to NOT include a statement on diversity in every single grant request is?
Who should develop biological weapons? Chemical weapons? Nuclear weapons?

Ideally no one, and if the cost / expertise is so niche that only a handful of sophisticated actors could possibly actually do it, then in fact (by way of enforceable treaty) no one.
"Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to 'exit democracy' and seize local governments": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169178

Just sounds like fascism with an app to me.
I never talked to any of the girls about this. Pretty obviously "I analyzed the data from hundreds of conversations to optimize..." is not a good look.

I'm pretty confident though that it's just the after-lunch doldrums and people just.. sit around swiping at work? Best guess anyway
Which bit of that is vitriol?
Hear me out: the web / oss community could absolutely band together and rebrand JavaScript. Could be: LiveScript, WebScript, etc.

There would be good support and we could do it fairly swiftly. To hell with Oracle.
Should have been here 4, 8, 12, and 16 years ago.
That's ridiculous. I use whitelist and blacklist just fine and have for the last decade plus. No one in the government told me it wasn't allowed.
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