skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but this seems a bit hypocritical when YC prefers and recommends having 2 technical founders over 1 technical and one business oriented founder. One of their major premises is that it's easy to teach sales and marketing to an engineer but not easy to teach engineering to a non-technical person. In these cases it seems reversed where the founders are not technical and are hiring someone to build the whole product.
I can't wait for something like this to be built.

People have tons of workflows that involve a lot of clicks and typing in response to data that are too difficult or one-off to automate with fragile macros.

But if my computer can quickly realize that I'm deleting every odd-numbered page of a PDF, or renaming every file to add a prefix, or following each link on a website and saving an image... and then just instantly automate the next 100 times... that's going to be huge!
I’m old enough to have not only used IRC in the 90s but to have also written my own IRC client.

The problem with IRC is exactly what you described yourself. You “just” need to install a half dozen things to get a modern experience and it’s not something that either the project maintainers nor casual uses of your project are going to want to do.

I loved IRC for a decade or so and even I can’t bring myself to officially support it on my open source projects. It’s just a distraction — time that could be better spent actually writing code or supporting users and other contributors.

I don’t support Discord either, but I get why other maintainers might like the zero-effort solution. It enables them to focus on the project and not building auxiliary services.

This is the problem that people miss when they talk about “just use x”… they forget that being a project maintainer is a massive time sink and time is finite. So we sometimes have to make trade offs. If it’s a choice between configuring IRC or that highly requested new feature, then few maintainers are going to pick IRC.
"pro-corporate" and "pro-capitalist" have nothing to do with left vs right in the definition those in my circle would use.

If these are the topics that you feel define the "right", it's no wonder society is confused how this administration was elected.
I still don't see it. I think for quite a while replacing a single engineer will be costly and resource-intensive. I think many companies would be happy to replace all programmers with AI that are just as slow as programmers, but marginally cheaper. That doesn't mean that we'll suddenly have massive extremely fast technological development.
> just building it for themselves and retaining 100% equity

I tried that once, and once was enough. It's not very rewarding to own 100% equity in a failed startup, especially when it failed because you were too focused on building the product to also build the business around it.
The justice system is entirely our own creation and we have arbitrarily decided who and what is to blame when driving causes the significant amount of violence that it causes every day. If we didn’t place the blame on the XYZ for XYZ reasons, or if we didn’t have no-fault accidents, then driving would be functionally and practically illegal. So we make up methods of keeping it legal to the level that we’ve deemed necessary or desirable. Does it matter whether a person chops up another person vs a car decapitates another person? Functionally no. The person is still dead, their family is still grieving, and their contributions to their community are still gone. But we’ve decided that one of those is a crime while the other is an “accident.”
Coincidentally, a group of highly influential and rich car manufacturers have also lobbied trillions of dollars to “encourage” that decision.
I had the worst possible experience upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04, I wrote something about it: http://www.zakariaamine.com/2023-08-27/disastrous-ubuntu-upg...
I appreciate your willingness to engage. I've lost the willpower to believe I can do anything to lift the veil. They are too scared...imagine the sheer panic of your belief system being challenged, when you've already got an insecure and victim mindset that MAGA has exploited.

I almost want to just hold their hands as they tremble through widening their overton window.
I use mine mostly for warming up shitty frozen burritos.

It has an inverter and a humidity sensor and 20 or so different preset buttons that use them, with sub permutations.

None of them work well at the job of warming up two shitty frozen burritos.

What does work well is this: One minute at power 10, and 3 minutes at power 3.

When others see me programming this in they think I'm a madman, and sometimes they even audibly question my sanity.

And I'm not sure that they're wrong.

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The microwave I grew up with had a mechanical timer knob (with a simple mechanical bell), a second knob to set duty cycle (probably borrowed from an electric range), and a start button.

It worked fine. I like being able to program things, but I'm usually standing right there anyway so I'm perfectly capable of turning the duty cycle knob down after about a minute passes and getting the same results that I do today.

(And that method did in fact work fine back then, too, even though people also thought I was crazy when they'd see me doing that)

And for bonus nachos: The timer also worked perfectly as a simple mechanical kitchen timer. Just give it a twist, avoid the start button, and it spins down until it goes "Ding!".
Github Container Registry (though still Microsoft)
I am wondering whether with GenAI, migrations like this one will be less and less painful, and therefore more people will be able to migrate to newer technologies/versions sooner and quicker.
Certainly possible, but one of the core premises of YC is that it's easy for technical people to learn sales and marketing but the inverse is not true. So this whole trend seems weird and a bit hypocritical. I'm more curious whether it's working and if they are actually finding people that meet these insane qualifications for relatively meager salaries and equity.
Odersky forcing through major syntax changes for Scala 3 was such an unforced error. It's baffling add new syntax on top of major semantic changes to the type system.
It would be great idea for restaurant.

Like in the hateful 8 film.
and the variable will invariably store milliseconds because someone didn't read the docs on timelib.Now() or store an int as a counter for makeshift vector clock :p

types for the win
https://www.scraperapi.com/ is good too. Been using them to scrape via their API on websites that have a lot of captchas or anti scraping tech like DataDome.
IR sensors aren't reliable if there is a lot of water vapour coming off the food (it measures the temperature of the water vapour). Great for oil and other dry heat (but again beware, with shiny metal they tend to measure the mirror image of what's reflected by the metal, not the metal itself). These effects are more visible using an actual thermal camera.
yeah that's what we basically did here at https://VisualSitemaps.com, but it can also be quickly become over-the-top, and you may end up removing important content. That's why in the end we added a second option to just manually enter CSS classes.
Fair enough but wouldn't it make sense to find a co-founder vs getting paid a relatively small amount to build someone else's thing?
Lots of Elon apologists in this thread, yeesh.
It will be fine. It may not be what you expected, and it may be harder than you expected, but programming and software engineering won't go away. The job is changing and we all have to either change with it or find something else.

Typist used to be a career. People's entire jobs revolved around being able to operate a typewriter quickly. That skill became obsolete as computers were introduced, but the role didn't go away (for a long time anyway). Plenty typists learned to use computers and kept doing transcription or secretarial work like they always had done. Some refused to learn and took other career paths while a new generation of computer users came in.

This has happened quite frequently in this industry. The skills we use now are about to be made obsolete, but our roles will still largely exist.

The scary part is that we know right now that our skills are about to be obsolescent, but we don't yet know what the next thing is actually going to be. It's hard to prepare.

I'm still fairly early in my career. I plan to cope by learning how to use these new AI tools. My core engineering skills will always be useful to some degree, but I have to stay with the times to stay competitive. That's it, that's the plan. Learn about the new thing as it's being built and try to stay ready.
So you too, are saying “its possible” as proof of your argument.

Which itself shifted from complaining that you aren’t warned that coffee is hot, to - after implicitly agreeing that it should be obvious it’s hot - complaining that it they didn’t have to make it as hot.

Great! Offer an alternative! Everyone would be more than happy.
I tried this recently, but a few days after putting in ground beef, the stew turned rancid. So I thought maybe meat was off limits--but the wiki article talks about a 50-year beef stew. So clearly I just don't have the touch.

If anyone has ever done this at home, I want to know what ingredients you used!
Only predictive capabilities & AI trained on data can be more valuable than having perfect profile of the person who turns out to be an enemy of your nation in whatever sense. Taking a person down once you know everyone they have ever talked, been interested about, or thought, is trivial. This can only be acheived by mass surveillance & hoarding.

Arguably US as a nation state has the very best LLMs in the world, which is why I personally think they have been running weak AGI for few years, e.g. for autonomous malware analysis, reverse-engineering, and tailored malware generation & testing capability. Because they can actually store the personal data long term, without habing to delete it, this may be of gigantic strategic advantage due web being highly "polluted" after 2020-2021.

I would from this guess US has bet on AI research since end of WWII, and especially within last 30 years, noting the rather highly remarkable possibility that Surveillance Capitalism is actually part of the nation's security effforts. The warehouses of data they have built are warehouses of gold, or rather, gold mixed in sand since of course lots of it is also garbage.
Why use GenAI for this use case? Instead you can write transformers from one syntax to another syntax that will not hallucinate and work correctly every time. The conversion is well-defined.
I mean, NSA has a directorate for it too, but it's not the agency's chartered purpose.
Those "Flash Answers" are insanely quick. I don't know how they're doing it. But it's amazing.
Isn’t that what everyone said about outsourcing too?

My view is LLMs will compete with outsourced developers (and contractors/consultants for one-off jobs), where job context and project scope is already subject to a communication gap.

A big role of full time employees is not just to code, but to interact to various degrees with PMs/Sales/Customers/the rest of the company stakeholders to varying degrees.

Ultimately someone has to know enough of the technical side of both the product and company to actually _know_ what to prompt/review for.

Sure, if the entire industry becomes agents selling agent-developed products to other agents and providing agent-on-agent support, then… yeah. But that is a shell game.
"We evaluated changing Microsoft Go to use the new Go FIPS module rather than system libraries. However, we ultimately determined that this approach doesn’t align with Microsoft internal cryptography strategy and policies."

Any good modern conspiracy theories about Windows system libraries for cryptography?
In the form of bug reports and testing patches, yes. I’ve considered writing a device driver before, but if this is the mentality of the people I’d have to fight with to get something included, I have better things to do with my time.
I greatly prefer the texture of Atlantic salmon to Pacific varieties like sockeye though.
Sure. But it’s not a project maintainers job to make an unrelated communications tool popular.

Plus there’s also the problem of finite time and proprietary tools just being more convenient.
Isn't the main practical problem also that a console program will forcibly create a console if it doesn't already have one? This is what breaks the approach everyone else uses of "write to stderr under the assumption it will be visible only if the user was prepared for it, without causing clutter otherwise".
Or use GenAI to write the codemod :)
Insanely fast experience.
Nice and easy to talk with, their future sounds bright and open.

The combination of python+serverless and vue is a cool, lesser seen choice. Sounds useful for getting through seed stage with very few engineers, maybe it will catch on more!
Never loose hope, I'm assuming you are young if you're a student right now. Time is on your side, no matter where the industry goes, just flow with it, try to learn the new technologies so you're never behind others who are competing for same positions.
i'm interested in working on consumer hardware devices in general more so...and the more novel consumer hardware devices atm are the ones using some form of AI, in my head :/
I only allow myself to use Scala these days if follow some rules: no sbt (just Maven) and no Scala libraries (just Java ones). I never used fancy stuff like Cats anyways. Curious to hear who actually does, and for what.
This brings up an interesting thought too. A photo is just a lossy representation of the real world.

So it's lossy all the way down with LLMs, too.

Reality > Data created by a human > LLM > Distilled LLM
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I'm guessing you'd make the "basket" out of soft silicone, to reduce the risk of breaking them. But I agree that's the general approach.
Works on Edge for me. Both macOS and windows.
"I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.", said Alan Kay.
Ptah is the Egyptian god of creation and design, for any creatives or designers out there looking for a deity
"AI is just digital slop." I used to think that too. Here's what changed my mind.

Let's be honest - skepticism about AI isn't just normal, it's necessary. We should question new technologies that reshape our world.

But here's the truth I've discovered: AI isn't about replacing human value. It's about amplifying it.

Think of AI as a microscope for human potential. It doesn't create wisdom - it helps us see patterns we might miss.

I've watched AI:

- Help doctors spot diseases earlier

- Enable small businesses to compete with giants

- Make education more accessible globally

The real question isn't "What value does AI bring?"
It's "How can we shape AI to bring the value we want to see?"

The future of AI isn't written in code. It's written in our choices and questions today.

What's your take? Are you a skeptic or an optimist when it comes to AI?
Let me go tell all my friends that. Why'd you waste your digital breath on such an inane comment?
Pork Barrel is the term you're thinking of, but generally speaking that applies to spending that gets slapped onto unrelated bills, not necessarily to more general bloat like this stuff. Riders is probably the more accurate term
Something like this seems expected, right? If you tune a statistical model to very high accuracy in "addition" over tokens, then the resulting structure of the model must correspond to some structure in the training data. And fourier would make sense for some token like "123" which internally is represented as the integer 7633, but needs to "contain" information about the text digits for math to work. Notably, this still ends up being in some way a statistical endeavor rather than truly learning addition, as even the fine-tuned model doesn't reach 100% accuracy.
Slightly different, but many of the best ramen broths are the kind that keep going for ages, so there's definitely more to it than just a gimmick.
1. a community is simply an abstract place people meet around the intersection of a shared interest. It's important to first recognize that. 2. Communities are not people who are all the same, they just commune together for reasons. 3. communities form, they are not built. 4. communities are ultimately selfless, however, good communities know what they are and why they exist, this can be a learning process and can be malleable, but at any given moment in time that should be understood. 5. Good communities enforce strong rules strongly. Community steering and moderation should be as diffuse as possible without losing the next point in fact keeping it central: 6. Good communities look to proactively raise up people who energetically build the community for the sake of the community not for the sake of themselves, for themselves should be the second order effect of any raising up within a community, this is subtle and community leaders need to spend time understanding this. I think that is all.
> remember that 2% max equity is NOT REALLY THE MAX. Ask for 10% and slowly work down and settle for 6%.

At first I thought this was going to end with a caution about not being protected from stock dilution.
Back when I used to use Scala, the biggest PITA was how every minor version bump you'd run into binary version incompatibilities that you'd only run into at runtime. Has that situation changed?

I've always felt that Scala the language was always pretty nice, but Scala the ecosystem/tooling was moderately painful to work with. It was getting better over time, but they lost all the momentum they had.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_zone_(food_safety)

Basically anything above 60°C (140°F) has the same safety as below 4°C (40°F).
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Carry flag meaning "not borrow" is the same as ARM, is it not that "backwards compared to other architectures"
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Elon Musk's secretive government IT takeover
I don't believe that. One can say Google search also has no moat since there are/were many competitors.

Eventually, one company will emerge that is always a cut above the competition and grow so big that they can't be stopped.
The first rule of perpetual stew would be: do not add anything which can be overcooked

Most starch and carb-heavy items wouldn't be a good fit.
I have been curious if the ticketing vendors end up making it easier or harder to implement traintime (that is is their API easy to work with?)
Llama's Paradox – Exploiting Llama.cpp
Can't you set your user agent to something else? Like Firefox or Chrome.
Quick note: when trying to do full page screenshots, Chrome does a screenshot of the current view, then scrolls and does another screenshot. This can cause some interesting artifacts when rendering pages with scroll behaviors.

Firefox does a proper full page screenshot and even allows you to set a higher DPS value. I use this a lot when making video content.

Check out some of the args in FF using: `:screenshot --help`
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Firefox equivalent:

firefox -screenshot file.png https://example.com --window-size=1280,720

A bit annoyingly, it won't work if you have Firefox already open.
"Social dynamics from first principles" posts always grind my gears. It's a timid, egotistical landgrab, planting a flag on well-trodden ground.

The OG sociologists navigated with more humility. They accepted the role of observer + tourist. I liked Stigma by Erving Goffman.
In addition to the good responses you've gotten about not overreacting to hype cycles I'll add that you should also try to spend less time worrying about the unknown. I understand the appeal of a straightforward career path of college major -> internship -> junior role -> mid-level -> senior all in the same field. That works out great for many people, but you should also be aware that there are a lot, and I mean a lot of people whose path ended up looking nothing like that and are leading happy comfortable lives.

Even if the worst case happens and the field gets wrecked by AI it won't be the end of the world. There will always be work for smart and reliable people. You might end up having to learn some new skills you weren't expecting to, but hey that's life. I have quite a bit of sympathy for someone with 30-40 years of experience who sees their career swiped away; retooling and getting hired in a new area can be quite hard at that stage. But for someone in their early 20s? There's absolutely nothing that can prevent you from adapting to whatever the new economy looks like in a few years.
Same. Sometimes the best way to fix a bug is to refactor it out of existence.
I highly doubt a perpetual stew would be at boiling temps, the stew would disappear too quickly. I would think it'd be at slow cooker temperatures, 80 - 90C. High enough to kill off the nasties but low enough to not be boiling.
No, you pay the same amount of tax. Now you only get less services for it.
The amount of tax money that goes to the rich in tax cuts, loopholes, and subsidies makes cutting humanitarian aid, school lunches, and your grandmas Medicaid for “efficiency” purely evil nonsense.

We already have departments for improving and reforming spending. Elon and MAGA are inundating you with bad faith justifications for what is ultimately a goal to fund their next round of tax breaks before they expire this year using the working and middle classes as livestock.
Current TTS pricing still doesn't make sense to me.

Why am I paying more for the narration of a text response than the production of the text response, when the model for the latter is usually orders of magnitude larger?

The price difference is so massive I can't point to batching as the reason either, it just seems like the pricing got anchored with massively higher margins than text generation.
AI datasets have human values blind spots − new research
I'm not defending the stupid touchpad because it is indeed awful, but I worry you're not taking advantage of literally its only feature, because you say "lacking the exponential fast forwarding". The only reason I keep that annoying thing enabled at all, or that I don't just have it learn a random "real" remote and use that, is how good the Apple remote is with FF/Rewind. Assuming your streaming app is using the correct "native" video player, you're meant to hit (Center button) to pause/bring up the scrubber, then swipe quickly horizontally across the touchpad to move the playhead in large chunks. It's very accelerated, and if you need to say, rewind a movie from the credits to the beginning, it's about 3 swipes if you're swiping fast and vigorously. If you swipe slowly, on the other hand, you can go a couple minutes at a time.

Finally, if you want to jump a few seconds instantly, like if you just missed a few lines of dialogue, the thing to do is to physically press down the left or right directional pad (the edges of the circle) while praying to the touchpad gods that you don't accidentally quiver by 0.2mm and be detected as a swipe which will do the wrong thing.

Of course, it's proof of Apple's poor usability that literally anyone reading this who owns the device doesn't already know how to do all three of those functions. But we're still at the peak of the fad of 'minimalism' instead of putting dedicated buttons for each of these in an ergonomic arrangement and printing labels on them.
You should not use URLPattern to route HTTP requests on the server
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> The diversity push could have been an attempt to encourage a wider range of people to consider the occupation.

Except it was demonstrably of the opposite of this. The bigraphical questionnaire rejected 90% of applicants for no justifiable reason.

In practice, diversity is much easier to achieve by reducing the opportunities of the undesirable demographics. This is one such example.