skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this - the former director of AI at Tesla doing and saying exactly what many of us have been doing for months now, even down to using voice instead of typing. And it's always specifically Whisper Large v3, Sonnet 3.5, and Cursor in Compose Agent Mode that people mention. The second-best tools just aren't fun like that combo. It feels like doing art: it's taming a beast, phrasing things one way and then another, testing, discarding the changes, and phrasing them a new way. It's having a spoken dialogue with your eyes literally closed, like the Rick Ruben meme. Think of the perfect poem using all your CS intuition, accept all changes and test, then guide the LLM with what it misunderstood. Glance at the code only if it helps see where a verbal misunderstanding took place. You need to spend your time leveling up your clear thinking and expressing skills here, not your coding skills. Think of how to build things as small, functional steps - chunking it into tasks that the dataset trained it to do. If you don't like this, then don't use it; it's not for everyone. This is not a replacement for people who can decipher machine code and type out syntax from memory — keep doing what makes you special! But I find it very exciting. Hardly anything feels gatekept by obscure knowledge anymore. I replaced the Google Assistant hardware button action on WearOS 5 with my own voice assistant that emails me notes I speak into my watch. Have I ever used Android Studio? No. Did it matter? No. It just did it, and it worked, because I asked the right questions in the right way. We live in magical times for those who want to dive in with an open mind to a new and strange paradigm. 'Vibe' is a good name for it - like how musicians get into a flow state, like an enmeshing of man and machine.
No, but intelligence usually correlates with attention to detail
> High level - having a discussion with the LLM about different approaches and the tradeoffs between each

I honestly can't imagine this. If the AI says "However, a downside of approach B is that it takes O(n^2) time instead of the optimal O(nlog(n))", what do you think the odds are that it literally made up both of those facts? Because I'd be surprised if they were any lower than 30%. It's an extremely confident bullshitter, and you're going to use it to talk about engineering tradeoffs!?

> Once all this is set up it often spits out something that compiles and works first try

I'm sorry, but I'm extremely* doubtful that it actually works in any real sense. The fact that you even use "compiles and works first try" as some sort of metric that the code it's producing shows how easily it could slip in awful braindead bugs without you ever knowing. You run it and it appears to work!? The way to know whether something works -- not first try, but every try -- is to understand every character in the code. If that is your standard -- and it must be -- then isn't the AI just slowing you down?
Just say spelling
The amount of damage "12 factor" did to the security of our applications is so big. I'm happy that we're turning around and realizing again files are the way forward for secrets.
I agree with these guidelines (although they could be improved), although I think that some things could be done by the implementation in the system, too.

> For example, if a user declines to share Location, offer the ability to manually enter an address.

This is a reasonable ability, but I think that the operating system should handle it anyways. When it asks for permission for your location, in addition to "allow" and "deny", you can select "manually enter location" and "custom" (the "custom" option would allow the user to specify their own program for handling access to that specific permission (or to simulate error conditions such as no signal); possibly the setting menu can have an option for "show advanced options" before "custom" will be displayed, if you think it would otherwise make it too complicated).

> that include the ability to post photos to a social network must not also require microphone access before allowing the user to upload photos

This is reasonable, that apps should not be allowed to require microphone access for such a thing.

However, sometimes a warning message makes sense but then to allow it anyways even if permission is not granted; e.g. for a video recording program, it might display a message about "Warning: microphone permission is not allowed for this app; if you proceed without enabling the microphone permission, the audio will not be recorded." Something similar would also apply if you denied camera permission but allowed microphone permission; in that case, only audio will be recorded. It might refuse to work if both permissions are denied, though.
Fiscal effects are what everyone focuses on, but tariffs have many other goals geopolitically. Those other goals include negotiations that may leave the economy better off than before.
I permanently deleted my Gaia account. You should too
New AI tactic.
"We" is Boeing. No one else was buying them and they had no reason to keep the line operational. That's a massive expensive for a private corporation to take on.
It’s a weird tagline because the books are basically sexless. But the first one was definitely fun and original so who cares. Unfortunately, the next two simply weren’t good. I wonder if the series will see a conclusion.
Nobody was going to hire a researcher for a quick question.
I remember someone joked—-long before ChatGPT—that he could write a Perl program to generate Dan Brown books.
> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

There's an Anki plugin[0] though I know almost nothing about Anki or incremental reading, so I have no idea who good it is.

0:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/999215520
Thanks for the summary. Did they factor in any of the recently announced retaliatory tariffs?
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
If there's no independent verification, how do you know it's really top 10? (not middle 10, or random 10?)
"You'll believe what I accuse you of believing and defend the straw-men I attribute to you", isn't a strong argument here. It is entirely personal and divorced from the original thread.
I'm gonna guess that the people doing the research for the report and the people updating the website aren't the same people.
It’s different if you work on a large legacy codebase where you have maybe a rough understanding of the high level architecture but nobody at the company has seen the code you’re working on in the last five years. There a debugger is often very helpful.
Not to be the one to point out the pink elephant, but the Hugo Awards became somewhat politicized a decade or so ago and identity politics started to feature heavily into selections. If your criteria doesn't include that then the awards are now probably meaningless. But go back to the past, and there's a reason they used to have such prestige associated with them. For instance in the 60s some winners were Starship Troopers, Man in the High Castle, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress!

Come to think of it not sure if that says more about the 60s or the award though. Cripes there was something in the water back then.
At the imminent level. The tariff rate can and likely will go up.
"The Budget Lab modeled the economic and fiscal impact of the tariff proposal both with and without retaliation."
Can you explain to me what about the idea I presented is flawed or infeasible?
Whose economy, though?
The article reminded me of Philomena Cunk's narration.
Or worse off.
Please read things in context - my comment was about what people mean when they talk about a thing giving developers superpowers. I was not making a claim about how much you, personally, benefit from debuggers.

Also: I don't use debuggers much either. Is Superman's heat vision not a superpower because he rarely needs to melt things? :P
"Even though that Airbus looks like it's flying it's really not because my personal definition of 'flying' requires feathers and flapping wings."
> AI gives super powers because it saves you an insane amount of typing.

I must be very different, as very little of my coding time is spent typing.
Copilot kind of auto completes exactly what I want most of the time. When I want something bigger I will ask Claude to give me that, but I always know what I am going to get, and I could have written it myself, it would have just taken tons of typing. I feel like I am kind of an orchestrator of sorts.
> Do some insurance companies charge less when provided access to policy owner driving patterns which the companies infer reduce their risk? Sure.

> But that is a different question.

In what way? A discount for allowing surveillance is identical to an extra charge for disallowing it. They're identical, unless the "base" rate is set externally somehow.

$5 for lemonade, $3 off if you skip the lemon == $2 for sugar water, $3 extra to add lemon.
Seems quite difficult to tell the difference between an operation to destabilize USA and Musk’s broad tampering. I would even go further and say that the division caused by Russiagate and its backlash will buy Musk some time before destabilization is mentioned along with connections to Putin.
> This legal victory is a testament to the determination of a small Costa Rican entrepreneur who stood his ground against a global corporation, proving that even the smallest of players can triumph in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Oh, it's you, ChatGPT! I thought I recognized your distinctly bland style.
"Not talking" is the laziest plot generator and, sadly, it rules out 80% of movies and books (for me) these days.
I just skimmed the article, I saw they mention retaliation, but what about further escalation? I.e. repetitive tit-for-tat?
From the creator of Triton (OpenAI)-

"PS: The name Triton was coined in mid-2019 when I released my PhD paper on the subject. I chose not to rename the project when the "TensorRT Inference Server" was rebranded as "Triton Inference Server" a year later since it's the only thing that ties my helpful PhD advisors to the project."
Then there wouldn't be any free ones.
Fairly certain. It's also in line with salaries I know from other departments. This is the "fixed" amount of the salary. The grant portion is variable, and also not paid by the state, so it's usually not required by the law to disclose.
what about tests?
If you use the vouch feature much, eventually they take it away from you. Same with upvoting and downvoting, but it all happens silently so most people don't notice.
This sound be the top comment, and the discussion should be around why this is the case (how Congress appropriates money like this), what alternatives there could be, and what are the pros/cons of each different option. Sadly HN is no longer a place where this can happen.
> The people who matter aren't there anyway.

The people who matter are the ones who vote.
I understand your overall point, however, it's unclear what exactly is being canceled, so we don't know if it was specifically directed by congress or not (though I admit, in this case, it's likely not), nor is it clear that Trump ordered it, or is approving after the fact, or even knows about it at all.

We can agree to disagree, but I do feel that this wasn't done via the legal methods proscribed by the laws, however, it's difficult to point to exactly what that is, given I'm not a lawyer, and it's just my personal opinion.
It's great at building tension but the actual action is pretty underwhelming, as you say.
You've never had to debug code that someone else wrote?
> What do you suppose is the recommended way to use the encapsulation? ;) This is partly why there's a "defining global variables" section, I know people will will consider some usage as not using a global

What the post discusses can be distilled into the concept of Referential Transparency[0]:

A linguistic construction is called referentially
transparent when for any expression built from it,
replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the
same value[b] does not change the value of the expression.

Any construct which is not referentially transparent can be classified as potentially effectual, which is not a Bad Thing(TM) as if there were no observable effects of a program, it would be useless.

What makes programs easier to prove correct and reason about is when effects are localized to well-defined areas often "at the edges" of the architecture.

What makes programs impossible to prove correct and very difficult to reason about is when effectual logic is pervasive throughout, such as most of the "Global Variable Use Cases" the post advocates.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency
I mean, it could be really bad

Online, you don't know if the person you're interviewing is an AI or not.

They could have an AI resume, AI persona, AI profile, and then someone shows up who looks like that and it could be a deepfake, then they do the coding challenges, and then you hire the person remotely, and they continue to do great work with the AI, but actually this person doesn't exist, they just created 100 such people and they're just AI agents.

It sucks if you want to hire humans. And it sucks for the humans. But the work gets done for the same price and more reliably. So dunno
I see where the author is going, but I think we need to be realistic that LLMs are taking a cut of where we would normally use a junior dev. the value prop is fairly poor if we expect a junior to leave after 18-24 months and they aren't able to learn enough in a short enough period to get some of the investment back. I'm still all for having junior devs around- I think they provide a LOT of intangible value, but we probably should be realistic about the new world we're heading into.
I very much enjoy N64 era games, and do wonder if the emulation/upscaling is subtracting from the experience. The problem is modern pixels are so tiny, without things like this, It would be a tiny image.

Other people want the game post-rendered into modern feel. I guess we're all different: For me, the blocky-ness is the point.
Now imagine working on a 10+ years old codebase that 100s of developer hands have gone over. And several dependencies not being possible to even run locally because of being so out of date. Why work on that in the first place? Sometimes it pays really well.
I have a "smart guitar" that needs the app to change settings. It's the only thing keeping me on a "smart" phone.
Can you summarize the nature of this damage? I think I’m lucky to have missed that part of software development orthodoxy
This is wild. I don't frequent the snack aisle at the supermarket, but I've never heard of any of these flavors (some of them feel distinctly AI-generated). Is Portland, where Cabel lives apparently, a test market for processed food?
I would just like Trump to be honest with his supporters about what tariffs really are and what they entail.

He repeatedly implies that these are fees that other countries will shoulder to “bring them into compliance.”

The truth is (as I’m sure you all know) these are fees that we pay to the federal government separately when we import goods from these countries. Other countries don’t pay a dime.

On top of that, supply chains don’t (or can’t) change at the drop of a hat. Large scale onshoring takes time and investment.

So the reality for the average American is that the crippling inflation we’ve endured for the last 3 years is not going away, and we’re going to pay an extra 25% on top of it for the vast majority of our imported goods (which is basically everything nowadays).

The thing I can’t figure out is if he really doesn’t know how tariffs work, or if he’s just a liar. Either way it doesn’t make him look good.

And from any reasonable analysis I’ve seen, I just don’t understand how this is going to bring anything back home. It’s just going to raise prices and cause more suffering for those who can least afford it.

But I think most people understand that it’s not actually about accomplishing any goal in particular or about solving any problem, it’s just a bro flex.

Awesome. Your guy can flex. Congratulations. All your shit just went up 25%, so now you’re paying too. Elections have consequences, as they like to say.
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Okay…what if you do need multiple instances for one a million reasons?
Perturbations can mean either analogical reasoning (something is similar to something that it could come from with a small change) or actual perturbation (the effect of Venus on the orbit of the moon). Virtual particles are perturbations in the former sense, while quantum fluctuations are a small perturbation in the latter.
Did it? What I see instead is total mistrust of the open resume pool, because the percentage of outright lies, from resume to behavioral to everything else is just that high. So I see companies raise their hands and going back to maximum prioritization of in-network candidates, where we have someone vouching that the candidate is not a total waste of everyone's time.

The one who loses all power is the new junior straight out of school, which used to already be difficult to distinguish from many other candidates with similar resumes: Now they compete with thousands upon thousands of total fakes which claim more experience anyway.
I understand exactly what you mean, feel like there are buckets of people who are just trying to gas light every reader.
Pre-internet/cell phone nearly everyone had their name/phone number/address in phone books. Libraries had tons of phone books. And you could pay for the operator to find/connect you to people as well.

Contact info being private is a relatively recent concept.
They said it would be corrected by now. It should be Mr. Milchick.
EBay, Amazon, Walmart, CVS, etc.

Name a major company, then try to contact customer service and interact with an actual human.

Even if they do have a contact phone number, good luck navigating the mazes of voice prompts.

Amazon isn't actually so bad about this, but I couldn't tell you if their CSR chat bot is an actual person or mid-level AI by now.
> I do worry that these 19-24 year olds, some of whom are known to HN for other achievements, are putting themselves in real legal jeopardy.

I worry that the law will not hold them accountable.
Isn't there already a PC version of that? It always seems to be pinned to the Start menu of new Windows installations, but maybe that's also via some sort of Android compatibility layer
> Build systems inherently have a very complex job. A good build system grapples with this complexity and tries to harness it; a bad one pretends it isn't there, and becomes a tangled mess once the (inevitably complex) demands made of it exceed its limited assumptions.

I don't think this is true. I think that when looked at in the right way the job of a build system (when used appropriately) is actually fairly simple, and most build system complexity is either accidental complexity (either just straight-up bad design, or misguidedly overengineered flexibility in directions that don't matter) or comes from trying to accommodate things that the build system shouldn't have been doing in the first place. When I've seen overcomplicated builds they've never been because the build system made assumptions that were too limiting.
I think that ship has sailed many years ago since Facebook allowed false information to spread freely on their site (if not earlier).
People buy now and then wait = inflation. Then they don't buy in the future = stagnation.
>> Do some insurance companies charge less when provided access to policy owner driving patterns which the companies infer reduce their risk? Sure.

>> But that is a different question.

> In what way? A discount for allowing surveillance is identical to an extra charge for disallowing it.

In this case, the discount is "opt-in."

> $5 for lemonade, $3 off if you skip the lemon == $2 for sugar water, $3 extra to add lemon.

I believe a better analogy is:

The drink costs $5. If you don't want lemon in it,
we'll knock off $3. Those are your options.
> The problematic case is that very often now it accepts your comment without any errors and... Then nothing. Your comment will never ever show up. The system swallowed it. Whole. Without chewing.

Huh. I've never seen that. Does it not show on your user page even? I've known it to take a few seconds for comments to show up, and mods on certain subs love to silently delete comments (sometimes automatically), but I've never seen them just disappear.
I tend to think it doesn't but it makes people feel better.

I see a lot of this when AskHistorians on reddit goes into the Jesus problem. People construct amazing tiers of belief around the veracity of the written word, and make comparisons to "did Caesar exist" questions. I don't think they actually advance the story beyond belief anchored views, but they certainly seem to feel better.

(AskHistorians now routinely has to fall back on "the historical Jesus" to clarify statements to personhood, not godhood, but the fundamentals around existence proof from textual analysis remain. It's the same with Buddha. Mohammed has less of a problem in the Hadith, although I may be applying a subjective bias there. Archeology of the middle east is littered with strong assertions about finds which are probably NOT "the original well cover, off the well of Jacob")

About my own beliefs, I try to be clear that I think my axioms are centered in belief, and its flawed. But the problem is I wind up being far to easy to convince that flawed conclusions have been drawn. After all, I continue to believe in the fundamental goodness of people, all evidence to the contrary not withstanding.
If this is the whole point of the app, and your users are downloading it for this reason, then the users know what they’re getting into.

If I were looking at a random todo app and it had this feature, I’d assume the worst and stay far, far away.