skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is also assuming it gets it right the first prompt, and not 15 minutes of prompt hacking later, giving up and doing it the old fashioned way anyway.

The risk of wasted time is higher than the proposed benefit, for most of my current use cases. I don't do heaps of glue code, it's mostly business logic, and one off fixes, so I have not found LLMs to be useful day to day at work.

Where it has been useful is when I need to do a task with tech I don't use often. I usually know exactly what I want to do but don't have the myriad arcane details. A great example would be needing to do a complex MongoDB query when I don't normally use Mongo.
"Good" is an overloaded word. We use it to mean both "enjoyable" and "well-made".

And we often confuse the two, thinking that if we enjoy something, that means it was well-made. And that if something is well-made, then we should enjoy it.

But it's not. For instance, I like the film, The Ice Pirates. It's stupid, it's cheap, and the plot doesn't quite make sense. But it's fun. I can't quite put my finger on it, but whatever is happening, it's the kind of stupid I apparently like. But I will never say it was a "good" film, in that it was well-made.

To contrast, The Fountain is a mostly well-made film. The acting, cinematography, score, visual effects, etc, are all well done. I cannot deny that. However, I loathe that movie. It is just incredibly mediocre at the end of the day. The story is just banal. It has one message, delivers it real early in the movie, and then just keeps beating that dead horse. And I can see how it's easy to get distracted by the pageantry of the film. But I cannot get over that one hump.

So, yes, Dan Brown may be a horrible writer. His books may have all the problems pointed out by the author of the article. Dan Brown may not write "good" books. That does not mean people don't like them. And it does not mean they are wrong when they do.
What flag would you use for Malay on a Singaporean site[1]?

> From a _UX perspective_, is there something better than the flag cloud at https://nuenki.app for quickly asking "is my target language supported"?

That flag cloud is actually hard for me to parse because where am I supposed to look for italian? I did find it, but I literally had to do a sequential scan because there's no apparent order to them. I would use a combo box searchable by: ISO language code, language name in english, language name in native language and script. It's clear what it's asking for, pretty much everyone is going to know at least one of the things it's asking for, it's not completely ascii centric. Flags can be added for some visual flair, and if you actually distinguish between (i.e. have different versions for) en-US and en-GB and en-SG, more power to you.

Tangential nit: nuenki.app shows the SPQR flag for (presumably) latin, but in the Language dropdown it's Latin (Classical) :classical_building::eagle:. Argh.

[1] https://book.health.gov.sg/
Reading between the lines if we gave people those drugs before they show any symptoms we should be able to do even better. Has this been tested?

I do expect early enough anti-amyloid treatment to essentially prevent the disease.

Prevention trials of lecanemab and donanemab (the two antibodies with the clearest proof of efficacy and FDA approval) are ongoing: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06384573, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04468659, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05026866

They have not yet completed.

There were some earlier prevention failures with solanezumab and crenezumab, but these antibodies worked differently and never showed much success at any stage.

How safe are those drugs?

There are some real safety risks from brain bleeding and swelling, seemingly because the antibodies struggle to cross the blood-brain barrier, accumulating in blood vessels and inducing the immune system to attack amyloid deposits in those locations rather than the more harmful plaques in brain tissue. A new generation of antibodies including trontinemab appears likely to be both more effective and much safer, by crossing the BBB more easily.

What should the average person be doing to avoid accumulating amyloids in the first place?

There's not much proven here, and it probably depends on your individualized risk factors. There's some evidence that avoiding/properly treating microbial infection (particularly herpes viruses and P. gingivalis) can help, since amyloid beta seems to be an antimicrobial peptide which accumulates in response to infection. There may also be some benefit from managing cholesterol levels, as lipid processing dysfunction may contribute to increased difficulty of amyloid clearance. Getting good sleep, especially slow wave sleep, can also help reduce amyloid buildup.
The first sentence of the article says "some payments" are being shut down.
The envy of cats.
It’s just an IP look up. I travel a lot and you can tell where certain podcast episodes were downloaded based on dynamic ad insertion
All right, then by this logic what does the left mean by "free speech". You talk about scientific facts, so does the left believe we cannot say scientific facts about biology? Furthermore, I'm not aware of any censorship regarding fossil fuels. My understanding is that the Sierra Club and Thunberg are able to say whatever they want in this country if this is what you are talking about.
Earlier this past week I asked Copilot to generate some Golang tests and it used some obscure assertion library that had a few hundred stars on GitHub. I had to explicitly ask it to generate idiomatic tests and even then it still didn't test all of the parameters that it should have.

At a previous job I made the mistake of letting it write some repository methods that leveraged SQLAlchemy. Even though I (along with my colleague via PR) reviewed the generated code we ended up with a preprod bug because the LLM used session.flush() instead of session.commit() in exactly one spot for no apparent reason.

LLMs are still not ready for prime-time. They churn out code like an overconfident 25-year-old that just downed three lunch beers with a wet burrito at the Mexican place down the street from the office on a rainy Wednesday.
Relevantly, the plant is about to close down because photovoltaics have become so much cheaper than concentrated solar.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/11-years-after-celebrate...
I know enough poor and old people to know this isn't the case. I have a lot of friends in their 60s and 70s and when I visit them, it is like a time machine to the 90s. The healthy ones use email, but don't do social media and many don't have tv. They read books, talk, and partake in face to face social groups.

Many are on low fixed incomes in poor rural areas. You can get a trailer home on 40 acres quite cheap if you are several hours from a Metro hub, and live even cheaper if you rent.

This is a long way of saying that intentionally matters and the choices and tradeoffs we make matter too.
Yep, I agree with this to some extent, but I think the difference in the future is all that stress will be bypassed and people will reach for the AI from the start.

Previously there was alot of stress/pressure which might or might not have led to sloppy work (some consultants are of a high quality). With this, there will be no stress which will (always?) lead to sloppy work. Perhaps there's an argument for the high quality consultants using the tools to produce accurate and high quality work. There will obviously be a sliding scale here. Time will tell.

I'd wager the end result will be sloppy work, at scale :-)
> Plop down a housing development on those same 3,500 acres and it’s likely to kill far more birds.

Do you actually believe that? It seems obvious that single family homes don’t kill birds en masse.

Plop down 3500 acres of glass office towers and we’ll talk.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868220
I've been using Windows since the days of Windows 95, and while Windows was not my daily driver from 2006 to 2021 (I was primarily a Mac user during this period), I've used every desktop version of Windows since 95 with the exceptions of Me, Vista, and 8. I also have some limited development experience on Windows, mostly relegated to Visual Basic 6 in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Most of my development experiences from 2004 onward were on some type of Unix system, including WSL.

My opinion is that Windows, from an architectural point of view, is not a bad OS. The Win32 API is a stable foundation for building native GUI applications, and a part of me wishes the Linux desktop ecosystem just leaned on Wine given how the ongoing GTK vs Qt saga has been playing out (though I also understand the political ramifications of this, especially back in the 1990s). I like PowerShell, and I also think COM and OLE were impressive for their time and could have been the engine behind a more component-based, object-oriented desktop experience had non-Microsoft developers leaned into it more. I have fond memories of Windows 2000, a rock-solid operating system that didn't get into my way. ReactOS carries this spirit. The addition of WSL in Windows 10 made it easier for me to switch away from macOS as my daily driver after being disappointed with Apple's moves toward soldered RAM and storage throughout much of their hardware. Windows has also come a long way from the security issues it was plagued with in the Windows XP era. I also remember being very excited about WinFS in the mid-2000s and being disappointed when WinFS was cancelled in order to prevent further delays with Windows Vista. While file search has gotten much better since the XP days, I still think something like WinFS would be awesome today.

What holds Windows back from being awesome, in my opinion, are the decisions Microsoft makes that detracts from the user experience. Minor issues for me are matters of taste; I prefer the classic Windows 95-style interface to Windows 10 and 11's UI/UX, but honestly I don't like modern flat UI/UX across the board; it's not solely a Microsoft issue. More serious annoyances include ads, aggressive updates, the TPM requirement in Windows 11, and Windows Recall, among others.

Modern Windows with its annoyances removed would be a good desktop OS for me.
> Dropshippers who order in bulk and then ship out individual packages

If they're doing that, they're no longer a dropshipper, just a bog-standard retailer.
It's kind of how people used to make fun of the CIA types and "undercover" operatives.

Look for the guy wearing a conspicuously plain leather jacket and baseball cap. "Why hello there average looking stranger I've never met. Psss, 'tis a fair day, but it'll be lovelier this evening.'" "Oh ... it's Murphy the spy you want."

Also, found out the CIA declassified a bunch of jokes several years back in searching to respond. [1] Most are already dead links on CIA.gov, yet there's a few remaining. Nother one on people commenting on the CIA. [2] "These types are swin- Ask in Langley if they work for the CIA. Every- Ask in Langley. They will tells one knows them." 'You, it's the big building behind.'

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/the-cia-has-declassified-a-bun...

[2] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp75-00149r000...
I’m “under the impression” that he’s obviously never had a specific, unelected role in government used to steal government information and informally fire government workers. In spite of the absurd notion that donating to candidates is remotely similar.

Come on, now. Let’s try to be honest.
> This sounds like building a chair by just randomly nailing pieces of uncut wood together until it barely looks like a chair and supports your weight.

Have you been on the internet lately?
Android Binder
I do my part to heat up probably 75 birds a year on my grill if you are keeping count.
If you enjoy this style of writing - TFA's, not D Brown's - then check out The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest[0].

Here's a sample:

"Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago."

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2019
> thousands of years.

Yes, many thousands of years. That's what "young" means for forests.

Probably not in its present form, because it's a quite sensitive forest, that may have probably changed a lot in that time.

But almost all of it hasn't been directly changed by people until 300 years ago. Technically, most still hasn't, but we are getting really close on that "most" thing.

And yeah, there have been civilizations there. They didn't change most of the forest, overall your understanding that it was just there is about right.
On iOS at least you can set the MAC address to be different per access point or to rotate on the same access point or to use your normal MAC
I get replies like this all the time and I am starting to conclude that most of the people arguing that LLMs are intelligent/reasoning are either completely clueless about what those words mean or are arguing in bad faith.
Canada buys more cars made in the US than actual cars are made in canada

Lets say canada make 1 million car a year, that’s still less than what Canadians are buying.

Some Americans seems to think that all that matter is domestic production when they forget that their own companies need to export as well. Canadians do buy cars as well. This isn’t a case where all domestic production was lost from the US.
In this case, yes. Its scope should be the lowest necessary scope. Does JS provide static variables in functions? If not, then that forces you to lift it to some other scope like file or module scope or the surrounding function or class if that's viable.
> an overconfident 25-year-old that just downed three lunch beers with a wet burrito at the Mexican place down the street from the office on a rainy Wednesday

That's...oddly specific.
Actually sounds pretty cool, but the graph on expert level tasks is confusing my expectations. Saying it has a pass rate of less than 20% sounds a lot like saying this thing is wrong most of the time.

Granted, these strike me as difficult tasks and I’d likely ask it to do far simpler things, but I’m not really sure what to expect from looking at these graphs.

Ah, but the fact that it bothers to cite its sources is a huge plus. Between that and its search abilities it sounds valuable to me
Can't believe this is flagged.
> This is the sort of change that adds complexity to the language but reduces complexity in the code written in the language. We take those

An admirable statement of policy, but I'm not sure it's possible. Adding complexity to the language means there are more gotchas and edge-cases that a programmer must consider, even if they don't use the feature in question.
> Things more complicated than that that need exact answers shouldn't exist in an interview.

Agreed, testing for arcane knowledge is pointless in a world where information lookup is instant, and we now have AI librarians at our fingertips.

Critical thinking, capacity to ingest and process new information, fast logic processing, software fundamentals and ability to communicate are attributes I would test for.

An exception though is proving their claimed experience, you can usually tease that out with specifics about the tools.
I sometimes wonder what someone on about their fifth edible would be like when given a deliverable.

Now I know.
Can't even get Sunday nights off trying to keep up fml.
Examples are supposed to be simple when they illustrate a process we already know works.

With AI the challenge is that we need to convince the reader that the tool will work. So that calls for a different kind of example.
Reinventing C#’s FormattableString and interpolated string handlers :)
Read a bunch of papers on a topic you find interesting. What do all the papers do wrong or ignore. Start there.
Money became scarce and projects became harder to maintain and resource
I see lots of warranted skepticism about the capabilities of this tool, but the reality is that this is an incremental step toward full automation of white collar labor. No, it will not make all analysts jobless overnight. But it may reduce hiring of said people by 5 or 10 percent. And as people get better at using the tool and the tool itself gets better, those numbers will grow. Remember that it took decades for the giant pool of typing secretaries in Mad Men to disappear, but they did disappear. Gone forever. Interestingly, anger about the diminishment of secretarial male white collar work in Germany due to the spread of the typewriter a few decades earlier was one of the drivers of the Nazi Party’s popularity (see Evans, the Rise of the Third Reich).

AI’s triumph in the white collar workplace will be gradual, not instantaneous. And it will be grimly quiet, because no one likes white collar workers the way they like blue collar workers, for some odd reason, and there’s no tradition of solidarity among white collar workers. Everyone will just look up one day and find that the local Big Corp headquarters is…empty.
That is the world we live in from my experience. This is one of the reasons I decide to switch to management at 40 years old earlier this year - If I lose my job I don't really want to be grinding leetcode.
The NIH already has total funding limits for grant eligibility, and the issue of competitors blocking your publications is pretty much eliminated by asking them to be excluded as reviewers, because we almost always already know who is going to do that. A competent editor will also see right through that.

I did my postdoc in a very well funded lab that was larger than even your examples- and they legitimately could do big projects nobody else could do, plus postdocs and grad students had a lot more autonomy, which helped them become better scientists. The PI worked at a distant/high level, but he was a good scientist and a skilled leader doing honest and valuable research, and had economies of scale that let him do more with the same research dollars. It was the least toxic and most creative and productive lab I’ve ever seen. Banning that type of lab would be to the massive detriment of scientific progress in my opinion.

I also disagree about banning consulting and startups for PIs- that is arguably where research ends up having the highest impact, because it gets translated to real world use. It also allows scientists to survive in HCOL areas with much less government funding. Frankly, I could make 4x the salary in industry, and if I were banned from even consulting on the side it would be much harder to justify staying an academic while raising a family in a HCOL area.

I am also very upset about academic fraud and have seen it first hand- but I think your proposed solutions would be harmful and ineffective. I’m not sure what the solution is, but usually students, postdocs, and technicians know if their PI is a fraud and would report if it were safe for them to do so, but they don’t have enough power to do so. Fixing that would likely solve this. Even for a junior PI, reporting on a more senior colleague would usually be career ending for them, but not who they are reporting on.
I don't think this aspect of US hyperrich behaviour has a partisan valence, really. The US did once have proper oligarchs, they just had a less 10-dollar-SAT-word name: robber barons. Eventually the state significantly curtailed their individual political and economic power. Putting aside all the structural changes that entailed, all the convoluted events and circumstances - it's been a bad look, culturally, since then.
I think they mean the interface between the wear material and the backing.

I'm not entirely sure that it is just glue, but the flip side is that the wear material is, well, wear material that wears away over time, so mechanical attachment needs to not interfere with that.

Plus, if the wear material did come loose from the backing, it would likely make a bit of a racket rattling around (like a brake pad without its anti-rattle clip), but it doesn't really have anywhere to go since it is surrounded by caliper and rotor, and would probably work just fine since the backing is there to spread out the force from the piston evenly along the wear material. That force would still get spread out, the wear material might just shift a few mm.
Related, a compiled list of games made in Costa Rica:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevcr/comments/3gwimk/la_gran_l...
Yeah, Garmin’s own software isn’t great but it very easily syncs directly to loads of other services, and there are “interlocutor” (not sure what the right term is) apps like Rungapp on iOS that will let you sync it to even more.

I personally highly recommend intervals.icu
>Online-only apps are a recent thing. A privacy respecting app store certainly can be a thing.

I'm not sure you're trying say. I specifically acknowledged the existence of f-droid as a "privacy respecting app store" in the quoted comment.

>Apps choosing to not respect your privacy, and being blocked or banned from stores, is a good thing.

"a good thing" doesn't mean much when most people haven't even heard of your app store, and are missing out on all the popular apps that people want. Idealism doesn't mean much when nobody is using it. Apple might not be the paragon of privacy, but they had a greater impact on user privacy than f-droid ever will. To reiterate OP's point: what's the point of having a perfectly private OS and app store, when there's no apps for it, and your normie friends/relatives are going to sell you out anyways by uploading their entire contact list and photos (both with you in it) to google and meta?
I'm only 33 and I've worked with at least two of 'em. They're a type :-D
American business has never cared about any of that stuff. It was always lip service.

Also if you haven’t heard, the US government is currently a shit show right now run by Musk as far as employment
> Can you imagine if, gasp, your computer could render a Taiwanese or Palestinian flag? The horror!

Just playing devil’s advocate but I kind of get it

If there was a separatist region you felt wasn’t legitimate or entirely delusional in both their existence and their aims, and third parties started giving them legitimacy with flags that your former neighbor made up at night, you would be like “cmon, wtf, cut that out”

obviously I can’t relate to this in any way, but I could imagine it could occur the longer I live
What Have We Learned from Centuries of Chasing Immortality?
https://archive.ph/IRwW6
Top Secret is also a fairly common clearance, despite the name it is not a clearance level reserved for highest levels of intelligence or anything like that.
Critical Ignoring and Value Creation
> apps that need your location

And, triangulating client's public IP address will also give away location with decent precision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507355

btw, we need a securephones.io [0] part 2 focusing on apps.

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This is how it was done for years, they have better adhesives now. In modern cars many of the body panels are affixed with “glue.”
That's different. These candidates are not trying to get an edge on qualifying for the top dev position in the entire world.

Top athletes do it because they're essentially at the limits of human performance and those drugs are the only edge they can reasonably get.
I'm curious what you mean by this as someone who has worked in a SCIF for years. What I've found (and I personally benefited from this) is that interviews are far more forgiving for people who have security clearances, because of the comparatively tiny available talent pool. AWS, Azure etc allow people to join as "SRE" (a bastardized term at this point) or "Cloud Engineer" and later switch to SWE pretty easily.