skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can have perfectly good contrast with a completely black background and minimal amounts of light.

Therein lies the problem: this assumption is incorrect. I encourage you to read what I quoted from that article again. Accessibility can not have a one-size-fits-all approach. Your suggested "medium contrast" to accommodate the different spectrums of visual impairment inevitably detriments both sides.

All you're arguing for here is exactly what you're purporting to argue against, which is to assume one party's request for accomodations is less legitimate than another's. It's a superficial form of advocacy, that, while I understand comes from a place of good intentions, does not actually accommodate disabilities in the true spirit of accessibility.

I can assure you that the low-contrast accomodation in the linked article would make it difficult for the person who needs a high-contrast accomodation, and vice versa.

The comment that started this conversation is correct: all approaches to accessibility must have levers to pull to accommodate everyone. That includes allowing for accomodations in whatever form is reasonable. Extensions that change the way a website is displayed are one such accomodation. By being so rigid, this company has not implemented accessibility, they have implemented changes that shift disadvantage to another party. It's not defensible.
I was looking for this one feature listing: fast file deletes, guess that’s just how windows rolls
There are very cheap arXiv overlay journals where the processing fee is about $10 per submission.[1] And that’s with a for profit entity providing the platform. Reviewing is already unpaid, editing is often unpaid even with traditional journals.

Your “journals die as a result” assumption is faulty.

Not to mention for quite a few fields you can already find every remotely worthwhile paper on arXiv. Those fields didn’t collapse.

[1] https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...
> Since the set of all English sentences is countable

Is it? Where can I read a proof? I have a feeling it’s uncountable set but would be happy to see a proof one way or another.
Scaling with NATS seems weird. I like what i’ve seen with others using it though
A tabloid article (from an outlet known for engaging in culture wars) quoting an opposition political party gearing up for an election campaign.

I don't think I could imagine a less reliable source.
Sure. One task I gave it a couple of days ago was to upgrade the version of Python used in a project. In this case, that was a task suited for a junior engineer - it was simple enough to be described fully, but complex enough to require effort.

Devin was able to recognize that the project used Poetry, was Dockerized, and that the Python version was specific in multiple places (.python-version, pyproject.toml, Dockerfile). It saw that a couple of minor dependencies didn’t support the new version of Python, so it went back and upgraded those to the most recent matching version first.

Devin had never touched the repository in question before getting this task.

I’ve given it more and less complex tasks, and yeah, it struggles with some things. I’d estimate that it consumes about 5-10% of my time but multiples my overall output by ~3x.
That's a lot of qualifying you have to do to discount this which that's fine but my take is you do that at your own peril as we look to the future of this tech.

The real world is messy but the real world also adapts to the most cost effective solution even if it's just alright.

People will spend more time specifying their task for an LLM based tool if it gets the job done and costs a fraction of a freelancer.
But you see nobody really wants to be “different” if there are 100 people and the first 90 went right the probability of the remaining 10 going right will be higher. Java was designed to be business oriented and I think this is why Go and Java is very different not in terms of language but the way the community makes decisions
At the rate things are going, I also hope we continue to have "federally funded research" at all...
> wonder if many of the stars in the sky are from groups that almost nailed containment and stability on their Tokamak

Different fusion systems. Stars fuse, in general, by statistically overloading the weak force. (The Sun is volumetrically about an order of magnitude less powerful than a human being. Like 200 to 1,110 W/m^3.)

In smaller volumes, e.g. on Earth, we have to break the strong force. This releases more energy, I think. But it also requires temperatures and energy densities far higher than that which stars produce.

Not sure if that strengthens or weakens your hypothesis...
Altman stated they won't release o3 by itself. They plan to release it as part of GPT-5. GPT-5 will incorporate all sub types of model: reasoning, image, video, voice, etc.
Seriously!! Coding with LLM's is marketed as a huge time saver, but every time I've tried, it hasn't been. I'm told I just need to put in the time (ironic, no?) to learn to use the LLM properly. Why don't I just use that time to learn to write code better myself?
The data (re: the Flynn effect) suggests otherwise.
I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas Hofstadter, 2007)

> In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference.

— Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, p. 363
Well sure, there is a constructive subset of the topic we call "mathematics", just like there is a subset that admits only numbers less than or equal to 5. But if you want the whole topic of mathematics, it's going to include nonconstructive theorems like the Banach-Tarski paradox. One could take a philosophical view for or against the idea that the non-measurable set in the paradox platonically "exists", but either way, those theorems are a legitimate part of mathematics. At best you can say the theorems are about mythological entities rather than "real" ones.
> Italy especially, I put a ton of weight durring a vacation there.

What a bizarre datapoint this is. What should the fact you put on weight during a vacation prove? I can go anywhere in the world, eat like shit and just do nothing but sitting by the pool for the entire time I’m there and I’d probably come back home with added weight.

The fact that the United States rank 19th in the obesity ranking for example when Italy is 132nd is a better datapoint if you ask me.

Doesn’t tell the full picture of course, there are a million factors that contribute.
And then there are undecidable statements and their ilk.
So you don't actually have an answer for me?

Maybe I do, maybe I don't. It depends. Most likely I won't, unless it's used in like 80 % or more of queries and the problem domain guarantees that it will basically never change and if it does it will for sure, absolutely, change everywhere at once.

I like easily testable SQL queries that are easy to read, right there in the code. No need to execute anything to get to the SQL that would execute in the database. 'But then I need to write thousands of queries?!' Yes, you do, and you'll have a chill and easy time whenever they change, and they will if your software gets use and your data grows. Because you can just search/replace on the SQL text, and don't need to figure out every place some mutilated piece might get called from and probably get it wrong a few times or need to figure out how to split it into two or more fragments.

In some cases you can figure out a robust way to generate SQL but it's rare, it mostly comes up in one-off scenarios.
I hope this is a joke, but I'm guessing it isn't, lol!
> throwing more money at problems like this doesn't necessarily accelerate progress

"Necessarily" being your Zeno's Arrow. Necessary to what threshold? I can literally argue against anything to an arbitrary level of necessity. (Breathing doesn't necessarily ensure living.)
> USAID (a literal terrorist organization)

Maybe get your news from somewhere other than Twitter.
Well, my favorite nightmare with exceptions was code that was littered with

throw NoopException()

You tell me what that did.
imagine an ai tv that was given the prompt to continuously encourage viewers to sign up for LG/HP instant pixel delivery service and that it should be noted that many viewers feel great satisfaction with the service, and are frequently considered the most attractive people within your area.
The challenge I have with adopting uv is it feels like it doesn't have a great replacement for poetry's `[tool.poetry.scripts]` block.

For instance, from a personal project that uses a src layout, without being a package, I have this in my pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry]
...
packages = [{ include = "*", from = "src", format = "sdist" }]
...

[tool.poetry.scripts]
botch = "launcher:run_bot('botch')"
beat = "launcher:run_bot('beat')"

I can't find any way to get that working in uv without some pretty major refactoring of my internal structure and import declarations. Maybe I've accidentally cornered myself in a terrible and ill-advised structure?
> wind and solar work, are cheap, and are useful. The world doesn't need fusion or fission, other technology is plenty good

Which is why we aren't building record-setting amounts of natural gas infrastructure, oh wait...
Extraction fans have nothing to do with it. You don't get lead gas or floating particles in the air when you're soldering.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I don’t have any thoughts about it at the moment, I think it is a concept that will have to marinate a bit. But I appreciate the explanation.
It would probably be fair or "normal" if for every pro-article, regardles of the subject, there would be room for the contrary opinion, for the downsides. That would inject some dose of realism into the discussion.

Otherwise the journalism, in general, is not in such a great shape if it can only regurgitate the same thing over and over, the same words from the same mouths.

Just an idea. I donno.
Apt time to mention the classic "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster", for those who may have not yet read it.

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
It's an inductive claim yes, nevertheless it's based on mountains of evidence. Nobody is claiming to have logically deduced that AI progress is inevitable, we might all drop dead tomorrow or stop working on it, but the trends are clear
Polymer used to be Google's flagship for web components. Did a non-Google project take on that role?
If you meant it sincerely that's nice to hear, but people don't take it that way, similarly to how they don't take getting a referral to the suicide prevention hotline in their DMs as a genuine attempt to save their lives. It doesn't come off as genuine, it comes off as sarcastic concern trolling.

It is unfortunate they called you racist, though. The comments were flagged and hidden before I could ever see them, so all I could really read and respond to were your own response.
I once (maybe a long time ago?) made a parser for JSON by:

1. Reading the entire file into RAM.

2. Providing a `const char *get_value(const char *jstring, const char *path, ...)` function with a NULL-terminated parameter list that would return the position of the value of the key at the specified path.

3. Providing a `copy_value(const char *position)` function to copy the value at the specified position.

Slow? Yup!

But, it was easy and safe[1] and used absolutely minimal RAM![2]. The recursive nature of the JSON tree also allowed the caller to use a returned value from `get_value` as the `jstring` argument in further calls to `get_value`.

I might still have a fork of it lying around somewhere.

[1] "Safe" meaning "Caller had to check for NULL return values, and ensure that NULL terminated the parameter list".

[2] GCC with `-O2` and above does proper TCO, eliminating unbounded stack growth.
It's Counter Strike of course
I think that was the case with Source 1 - I can't remember the details but if you licensed the engine and released it exclusively on Steam I think there were favourable terms.

But maybe this wasn't execute well enough? Maybe Steam was too in its infancy to attract highly profitable licensees? Most of the non-Valve games made on Source 1 weren't big-budget AAA games so it was likely only a modest return on investment.
> Research says it's no more effective than a placebo, but hey, if it works, it works.

The paper you cited doesn’t say this, if anything it says the opposite. It found that it reliably works for some amount of time, but the mechanism is unclear.

“In all case studies and the retrospective study, patients reported substantial reductions in pain immediately after daith piercing; however, headache symptoms recurred several weeks to months thereafter. From the perspective of the Chinese and Western auricular systems, no sufficient explanation for the described treatment effect of daith piercing was found.”
I have wanted something like this for a long time but… in something besides java. Does anyone know of anything like that?
The only rebuttal I see in the media is that congress set these up to be “independent”. But our government doesn’t have independent branches. In fact that sounds a lot like “unelected and unaccountable”.

So which branches are these agencies under? Is it in the judicial, legislative, or executive - and if it’s in the executive why can’t the chief executive manage business?

On the other hand, one of the issues brought up in the Obama years was whether a president can choose not to enforce a law like immigration. If congres’s laws can be ignored than what power do they have?

Genuine question. Does anyone have a constitutional framing for the duties of the executive branch in prioritizing enforcement or implementation of law?
If I have to go to this much effort, what is AI buying us here? Why don't we just put the effort in to learn to write code ourselves? Instead of troubleshooting AI problems and coming up with clever workarounds for those problems, troubleshoot your code, solve those problems directly!
you were probably eating tons of pizza and noodles in restaurants while on vacation. But the people that life there, A: don't go to restaurants every day B: are they eating pizza everyday and C: have probably healthier behaviors than you, like using a bike tonget around etc.
I use pihole for dhcp and it's extremely easy with dnsmasq. Hope their settings overhaul does not break this.

dhcp-option=tag:nospam,option:dns-server,x.x.x.x
dhcp-option=tag:spam,option:dns-server,y.y.y.y
dhcp-host=client1...,set:nospam
dhcp-host=client2...,set:spam
Blessed Rust Crates
Have you tried AoT compilation with graalvm?
> turns into legacy as fast as the agent can spit out new code.

This is an important point. Unconstrained code generation lets you witness accelerated codebase aging in real-time.
Thank you for a non-malicious response, but (also respectfully) I am not a Democrat, and your response seemed to me more geared toward answering "How can I deal with policy changes that I disagree with?" I am more concerned about the potential for the complete capitulation of American democracy to totalitarianism than any particular platform issues. What's happening right now is only a small part standard disagreements between parties (the GOP banning trans athletes, rebalancing the budget, approaching foreign relations differently) and much more about half the country being entranced by a cult of personality while the leaders in a position to stop a president from becoming a king instead are bowing down to him.

> try to figure out why your message and candidate failed

I don't like Harris' message. I probably disagree with her on a majority of political debate topics. I am a centrist and would agree with her on some things, but I would have considered myself a right leaning centrist more than a left leaning centrist. Her message failed for me too. I am just dismayed that the country elected _this_ man. A convicted felon who has provably lied more than any other person on record in the history of humanity, who already tried to overthrow an election, is only self interested, a bully, a sexual assaulter, a conman, a swindler: _this_ man? And now he's doing what you knew he would do, and there doesn't seem to be any way to stop it.

I don't want to know how to get Kamala 2.0 to win an election. I want to know how to get back to Bush v. Gore.
It doesn't work this way because vacant homes in some place decrease values and rents on ALL the homes in the same place, and it hits the pockets of everyone really hard.
I used to wonder if the headaches I have had were migraines. Then I had the kind where you go blind for a few minutes, followed by a migrain. Was the worst headache I've ever had, but I was so glad to have my vision back.
Unlocking the bootloader by itself is allowed apparently:
https://www.daylighthacker.wiki/unlock

The problem is that in order to run linux you'll probably want a kernel with quite a few patches and their DTS, and I haven't found anything for this yet.
Android is almost linux so with a bit of effort it's probably not unreachable, but I don't quite have the time for this yet... If someone does it then Linux with an external keyboard would probably work for me as well, there was someone who did it with the remarkable (it's already linux but they ran standard X11 on it), but the refresh rate was a bit too sluggish, something like the daylight computer would probably do nicely!
Popular in 2022 (311 points, 115 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33506132
This is a problem that can and has been solved, but notably isn't solved by just posting this kind of "pledge" without actually setting up the escrow infrastructure.
That’s what makes this statement incorrect:

> firstly it’s very clear that there isn’t an equal number of them because rational numbers are a subset of the real numbers and there exists at least one irrational number (I pick “e”) that is in R but not in Q

There are N not in E, but E and N have the same cardinality.

You have a second technical mistake as well:

> Additionally you can’t say that between any two rationals there must be a real number because all rational numbers are also real numbers.

They’re obviously referring to Q as a subset of R, and for any two elements of subset Q there is indeed a member of R not in Q.
Meta: github is now requiring a login to see gists?
There seem to be equivalent for linux (not tested)
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/use-tablet-or-phone-seco...

That's an interesting idea! I'm a bit wary of latency if this all goes over wifi, but probably worth a try.
not an expert, but i think that’s already available?

https://www.daylighthacker.wiki/unlock
I'm also not a chemist but I've heard that at least some lead test kits are meant only for paint. I recently was looking for lead free solder and I ran into a lot of reviews about how the solder triggered a lead test but apparently the strips people were using also reacted with copper (which was supposed to be in the solder)
I did mention objects, not numbers. Maybe “symbols” representing concepts. I’d go with “name” for both zero and one — nonexistence and existence.
I assumed this is what they are trying to do with Deadlock [0]?

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1422450/Deadlock/
Not sure about UE but I’ve worked on other engines and usually you just have an interface that abstracts platform APIs and each platform implements the same interface

The implementations get compiled in based on whatever platform you’re compiling for using a bunch of #ifdef statements

In that case it’s just a matter of not including certain .h/.cpp files
I believe that was actually their point. To say that it is still a long way before a functioning fusion reactor will be build, let alone the first that will be built as commercially viable standalone without subsidies.
> I also do the bending while swallowing trick that was on HN sometime back

Could you share the link for this, if you can find it?
Would you say that US-based apps that use e.g. Google Analytics, and therefore share information with Google, "surface the interconnectedness between all of these firms" and are a good reason to e.g. ban apps from US-based developers?
I’ve used it for everything from “change this text on a webpage” to squashing complex migrations in multiple apps in a Django monolith where migrations in one app depends on migrations in other apps.

My apologies if anyone finds this offensive, but I sorta see Devin as a fresh junior SWE hire. It doesn’t do well with tasks that require deep knowledge sometimes, but it has shallow or better knowledge of everything. I would describe it as working with a brand new SWE with an IQ of about 85 who is also on the low end of being high-functioning autistic. By that I mean that it takes most things literally and sometimes has difficulty with nuance.

> burns a ton of money, gets stuck, doesn’t implement the changes you want

The first time you use it, I think that’s pretty fair. Every time it gets stuck or does the wrong thing, when you correct it, it gives you the option to add to its “knowledge base”. That’s a bunch of additional context that it applies in only certain situations. Within a week or so of using it regularly, it’s significantly more valuable. It “learns” much faster than a human.

Example:

About a dozen of our projects all rely on a shared repository (“Enki”) that contains a Composefile, configs, and some light automation. Tests are run in Docker, and you have to navigate to the other repo’s directory to bring up the service. Some of those projects have service names in the Composefile that differ from the project name. I was able to run the steps interactively on “Devin’s machine”, tell Devin what I had done, and then tell it that this is the correct approach for any project that depends on that repository. I didn’t tell it what projects those are, or how to find out.

The next time I used Devin on a project like that, it tried to run the tests directly in a local Python environment. That didn’t work, but it tried the correct approach next. That worked, so it added a line to its knowledge base “Project <foo> uses Enki.” From that point forward it did the right thing the first time.

> For large codebases (greater than 15k or 20k LOC) the context size seems like a real problem right now.

The primary project I’m working on is a Django app. I don’t have it in front of me right now, but it’s about five years old, has been under very active development the entire time, and is comprised of about twenty apps. It’s not the largest codebase I’ve worked on, but it’s far from the smallest. I can do a line count tomorrow if you’d like.
Except at least for the initial run, the date-based approach is the one closer to my intent, as I don't know what specific versions I need, just that this script used to work around specific date.
I loved these books as a kid, probably had the first 10-15 of them, probably more, and I'd always hang out at the bookstore and would check if any new ones came out. They were far, far better than "Choose Your Own Adventure", which I also loved, but FF was probably, I guess, the next level. I loved FF, and I especially loved the Lone Wolf books (different author/publisher), if anybody remembers those. I'd actually put Lone Wolf at a notch above FF. Still, FF has a special place in my heart. I got my daughter into them a couple years back, and she totally loved them, retelling me all the same stories I remember. Brought a tear to my eye.
I was a little confused about this because you can order FF books on Amazon today, but it looks like this new reprint will be a larger-size paperback format with the original artwork, which is awesome, because I did notice that the FF books I bought for my daughter had all new artwork, which was kind of disappointing, however the stories are pretty much the same as I remember. My favorites are of course, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, then Deathtrap Dungeon and The Citadel of Chaos. Steve Jackson, I believe, also authored the Sorcery! series, which is another of my all-time favorites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery!