skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The constant here is "agency". LLMs inherently lack it. So, it has to come from somewhere.

I don't understand your use of "inherently" here. Even if you define LLMs as not having agency, I don't see any inherent limitation against tacking agency on top of them. As you alluded to even just a basic loop of `if (!goalAchieved()) {promptWithToolCalling()}` is arguably agency, no?

You actually suggested connecting the LLM directly between the product and the customer, such that the customer specifies the goal. What's stopping tech from going in this direction?
Thanks for explanations! I'm really curious if it looks like brigading has increased based on what your seeing in the data, or if this looks like roughly the same patterns you've seen historically.

I assumed that brigading had increased. This is mostly due to seeing things go from unflagged to flagged in the amount of time it took me to read the article. I've been a many-times-a-day reader for about 12 years now, and I hadn't really encountered that until recently. But, after reading about MOTs, those seem like a playable reason too
Sorry, Jira is a bit slow today.
well... yes, he was only referring to speculations but at some point if you speculate enough, it becomes true for the general population.

There need to be a 'naysayer' answering this speculation anytime it appears or with such a good story, it spreads like wild fire.
It's very hard to avoid this. It's mostly a combination of railway noise, throughput of a large number of people who are only travelling through, opportunities for pickpockets and beggars, and historically of soot and air pollution by steam engines, which makes these areas unattractive to live in.

And it is not for lack of trying. City planners since at least the 1850ies have been trying to improve the areas surrounding large train stations.
Now build me a selection algorithm out of mergesort.

Just the other day I sped up a process by an order of magnitude because someone was sorting to do weighted median selection. Which is easy to build on top of std::nth_element. Top-k is another common need.

Quicksort is still worthy today also because of this.
That's one way to break the doomscrolling habit! Meta unintentionally doing you a favor. Maybe they should market it as a -productivity feature- instead of an ad strategy
Okay, I'm an idiot who didn't RTFA and just realized I was wrong. Disregard everything I've said.
That's where it turned for me. Originally, I had started a small tech-topic blog with the idea that it would be my portfolio because I really wanted to write for a tech publication, most because I thought I had the chops for it and I want a job where I can travel and work.

Things started off okay, me writing about my projects, etc on a small self-hosted site with zero analytics, keeping things small and manageable in my free time. But the lack of feedback sort of left me I limbo. Was I writing in an engaging way? Were my subjects interesting to more than just me? I had no idea. Eventually, that iteration of the blog got deleted.

And I made another. And another. And so on.

Til I landed on the current version, which is basically me just faffing about with a editorials about tech for fun since I have little time for actual projects anymore, let alone the accompanying writeup.

I still want that writing job, but I realize how much of a pipe dream it is, now. Tech bloggers were already a dime a dozen before I showed up and genAI only saturated that market even further. That, and I still have no interest in working for or hosting a site that is hostile to my reader by being a bloated sludge of scripts and sloppy use of frameworks, which limits my market for a writing career in disappointing and obvious ways.

When I see discussions like this pop up about writing online in today's landscape, it seems to always come down to "write what you find interesting or fun, but keep your eyes expectations near zero" which seems so self-defeating considering how much work it often takes to maintain a blog while you also have to tend to real life. As much as I loath places like Medium or Substack for asking for money up front, I do understand why those writers choose to go there instead of walking my lonely path.
Well, 52 weeks is 364 days, and a calendar year is 365.5±0.5 days, so if you are doing “years” by whole numbers of weeks and don't want to get more than a week out of sync with the regular civil calendar, you are going to need a 53 week year every few years, regardless of your start date.
I think things that require high credibility and have a learned readerbase it'd be better to not give a careless image, even at the cost of a cool image. I wouldn't mind an almost right image on some advert for cleanex or intranet holiday reminder mail, but I would be very concerned if it was used as part of EU directive
Hmmm. Maybe that’s why hairdressers are on the skilled worker list for immigration to Australia.
Every advancement in technology had for a long while been followed by an expansion in manufacturing roles, until it no longer did.
Post quantum - as in designed to resist quantum computer based attacks under which rsa would quickly crumble. Why do you associate this with snake oil?
Any time a billionaire demonstrates interest in the disruption of a critical industry, I get nervous. Humans are just too damn susceptible to the “product is subsidized until the disruption is firmly entrenched” play, especially when the feedback loop to uncover deficiencies in the new approach is measured in years and decades.
Greatly appreciate these tips! I'll apply most of them, especially the diff ones.
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Yes I've started using it but it feels significantly underdevoloped compared to GH Copilot or Cursor. I've considered opening the vault in VSC actually.
I'm also in the EU and I am mildly confused.

Some months ago (years?) I was shown a popup asking me to either agree to be tracked or to pay a monthly fee [1]. I chose neither and haven't logged in since.

I logged in just now and everything seems to be working fine. But then I went to the "Ad preferences" and I'm shown a message saying I have to choose between using Facebook for free with ads or subscribe, and that my information won't be used for ads until I make a choice.

Looks like my account is stuck in some weird middle ground where my data can't used for ads but I also don't have to pay. Did I get away with neither? Or will they ask me to pay next time I log in, two years from now?

[1] https://www.voanews.com/a/meta-risks-fines-over-pay-for-priv...
being language or framework specific is not make sense either, do you rather have bussiness that tied to 1 framework userbase vs multiple framework supported platform????

like its no brainer
Simple Bench goes in this direction: https://simple-bench.com/
If you like tart apples, try Granny Smith. They are usually harvested a little bit too early, so they are often very sour and very green (the ripe version has a very slight shine of red). Their skin is thick and requires a little effort to chew. I love them.
Mathb.in is shutting down on March 16, 2025 after 13 years of service
You do understand that there are a lot of smaller ecosystems out there right?

For people in the laravel ecosystem that might be a great thing.

Just because someone already did it or did it one way doesn't mean no one else can or should do it
I thought to include metro stations mostly because of the nature of the original French subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/MetroFrance/comments/1hcifh1/pas_vu...). It perhaps doesn't make much sense in hindsight, but I also filtered out metro stations later on in the post and it didn't change much.

I'm starting work on a follow-up which will sample more cities, though I still plan to use walking distances w network analysis for now.
That is the correct answer. Also there is a lot of potential nuance, like evaporation or when you take the milk out of the fridge or the specific temperatures of everything, but under realistic settings adding the milk late will get you the colder coffee.
>Could have been a problem, if Alegeus was a dyndns provider - but they aren't.

AFAIUI, Alegeus was just 1 customer of Digicert. But Digicert has tons of customers. Just because there wasn't a problem for Alegeus (due to Alegeus not being a dyndns provider), doesn't mean there weren't problems for other Digicert customers.
> This is obviously aimed at the Leica/Ricoh crowd

Those people won't have issues paying that amount.
> One of your comments about the absurdity of centralized authentication will spark a 300+ comment thread and lead to a new open standard for federated identity.

Hmmm...
I did almost put `log.date iso` in there, I like that one too.
Show HN: I Built API Mock Data Manager for Unit and Automation Tests
Its needed for my line of work, So i built this, Hope this will be useful for you as well
While your comment is in jest, I agree with the sentiment. The whole "main" debacle sucks and, to this day, still breaks everyone's git usage.
Populism requires that you're popular. Brexit clones were extremely popular for the right across Europe right up until Brexit actually happened, and then suddenly they all remembered they'd never wanted anything to do with such a stupid plan and began scrubbing praise for it from their materials, back to "reform" and tinkering at the edges.

The trick is to be First. You can sell "Just do X and it'll be great" unless the people have already seen what a disaster X is.
please do berlin, london, and stockholm.
https://github.com/georust/rstar

Banger library. Not sure how it compares to, say, kd-tree in terms of performance but it allows for plenty of primitives.
when it says 'written in Go', the subtext is - i'm fast, i'm new, i'm modern, go buddies love me please

the better one is 'written in rust', the subtext is - i'm fast, i'm new, i'm futurism, and i'm memory-safe, rust buddies love me please

--- cynicism end ---

i do think sometimes it's worth to note the underlying tech stack, for example, when a web server claims it's based on libev, i know it's non-blocking
Hell, what a time to be alive.
Actually, I've been referenced to this already, but I have completely missed it.

I have been messing around with Z80 processor for some time and given how it's slow and simple I had to do some really dirtry tricks to make game code efficient, and that made me thinking "hey, this has potential as a benchmark, what if I make a competition where speed of decision making is key". Since Z80 Emulators allow for precise tick control, every bot gets equal chance.

And because of Z80 simplicity I was able to go 100% deterministic route: every game has a seed and it's guaranteed that games with the same seed and players end up the same, so players can debug what happened after they've lost, etc.

There are C compilers for it, but I am also curious if somebody with enough Rust-fu just provides a binding for it, since this is technically not about C, but about machine code.
Seeing the progress in LLMs... I do believe it. One software engineer will do in the future what would take an entire team in the past.

Now what to do? I have just finished my undergrad in software engineering and got admitted to Masters, but I feel that's a mistake. At the same time, I never knew what else to do in my life but programming.
Same.

I do write stuff on Obsidian just for myself. I just feel too self-conscious to publish it, because it's just for me and not written in a way that (in my opinion) is helpful to others.

Never mind that I've fixed my own issues by finding an obscure post in a small blog multiple times.
It makes perfect sense?

Let's be a little cheeky and invent analogues. Try for example "color".

person that does coloring - colorer

thing that does coloring - colorant
It gets worse in practice. Congestional control algorithms on the internet need to play nice with TCP Cubic regardless of how good they are.
This feels like a list of books that you tell people you read if you want them to think you have taste.

Obviously any top list is subjective, but what I think we have here is an aggregate of readers on a forum who are trying to impress each other. A circle jerk.

These books are great, but they are pretty standard canon. And the bible? No other religious text?

It's fun to compare it with the Goodreads top literary 100, for sure a lot of overlap, but some interesting deviations and substitutions.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13086.Goodreads_Top_100_...

And even more fun to compare it to their top rated of all.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/153860

I guess it shows how you rate things if you don't think anyone is looking or judging you.
When you clone yourself you spend energy – and you must specify how much energy you sacrifice. With explosive cloning you will die fast. At least that's my assumption, this is all being refined as we speak.
Stupid raver trick layout a line of K like it's coke and snort it.
A tiny bit of feedback, for you about unit conversion. I don't want to convert 47383974 seconds to hours, I want to know that it's 1 year, 6 months, 0 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes, and 18 seconds. I don't want to know that 7492837 inches. that's 624,403.0833 feet, but what I really want is for it to say 118 miles, 454 yards, 1 foot, and 1 inch!
> but as has been demonstrated, citizens will vote to have the governments that provide a reliable priced energy grid.

I hope so, because every professional working in the field is delivering that with more renewables and better regulation.

It's the paid off politicians that are scrambling to protect their funders in the fossil fuel industry and keep prices high.

Sadly, what you really mean is that right wing propaganda works and science and facts are not important and somehow that's considered a victory to you.
I work on tremolo picking.

Time to play some black metal!
Nobody likes to lose their jobs, especially when it seems that it is the entire industry that will crash.
All comparisons and swaps in the code you quoted are made between adjacent elements. It's local in a way that behaves very nicely for an external sort on a tape drive.

The code in the paper compares and swaps non-adjacent elements nearly every time. It is absolutely horrible for an external sort on a tape drive. It's just not a bubble sort, nor is it sort of like one in any key behavioral detail.
I think learning extremes can be useful, just don't take any one paradigm as gospel. Practicing Clean Code forces you to think in a special way, and when you've tried it, you start to get a feeling for where you should draw the line. Doing CC makes you a better programmer, but you have to figure out yourself where the tradeoffs are.

Other examples are TDD. Forcing myself to write tests for everything for a period has made all my code since better, even though I don't practice TDD now.
They have a lessons before on order of the expressions and some similiar problems.
They were able to solve for 80, but stuck on 40 and asked me.
As South European living in Central Europe, and having worked for several years at Nokia, I also don't have an issue with Linus.

In fact I do happen to land in traps in Germany and UK, where when being more frontal at work turns bad, because apparently we have to be all smiles, and complain in a positive way with euphemisms.

A technique that I have improved over the years, talk back with the feeback level expected from the target culture, when I know their background beforehand.
Hard to read, lack of syntax highlighting, annoying to participate
You are overthinking all this. This is not Al Capone investigation, tax offices are understaffed and petty negligence or even crime happens with tax returns very frequently. You think taxmen are going to investigate endless hours of video feed from some casino via court order for some 10k win claimed in taxes? Not sure if casinos even keep all video feeds for say 3 years since it takes time to actually file and process those tax returns.

If you are not big enough fish or have some bad luck, you can slip through quite easily. The key is to keep it down money wise, spread it across many places and random dates. You can't do big sums alone, hence the grandpas in parent comment.

Basically, small crime these days, at least in Europe, is not punished unless you literally steal from police personnel. And if you do it well you can hide bigger crime in sea of small crime.

Maybe AI could help with some of that, but I see often lack of any interest by police to even care that ie your 700 euro phone was stolen, even if you still know its exact location in specific house. No AI is ever fixing that.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
Facebook is the f in FAANG paying at the top of range and he is carrying a grudge about the salaries.
I think it makes perfect sense to say that states do not experience irreversible harm from the order, but the individuals suing do. A TRO has. very high bar, as you essentially have to prove—without a trial!—not only that you will probably win at trial, but also that there is a harm that the remedies available at trial fundamentally cannot fully address that you are experiencing from the wrong at issue, and when you’ve established those things you’ve only met 2 of the 4 requirements for getting a TRO.

So, even with the same facts (but for the plaintiff's situation) and legal question ultimately at issue, and even if judges view the law and facts identically, its not at all surprising that differently situated plaintiffs get different results at the TRO stage.
At the end of the article, I also subtly plugged:

* https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

* https://github.com/dandavison/delta

Also both great TUI diff tools
Well, they do give us a great free tool to use, but that's where it ends and probably has some agenda behind it.
That doesn't make sense to me either.

So humans give them food so they don't compete with humans in hunting. The wolves would get full from humans, don't have to hunt, and spend all their time reproducing, which will create even more competition for humans.
If you have a 2-4 line function and you spot this, you can trivially remove it.
AI-Gen Video of Trump Kissing Elon Musk's Feet Reportedly Plays in HUD Building
> There has recently been a lot of noise from American left wing about the Supreme Court being corrupt, illegitimate, politicized, etc., etc., and calls to reduce its powers, for example.

Exactly my point? Fascist justification to reduce court/legislative power are the "internal enemies", Centrist authoritarians (extreme center) will justify it by accusing the people of being dumb/unreasonable (or any explanation that will make them saviors), and leftist authoritarians will justify it by accusing them of being the dominant class and protecting their class privileges (which, good point, but not enough to dismantle the judiciary).

> rogue court that is protecting corrupt politicians and human rights abusers

The weimar republic courts were infiltrated by nazi (starting in 1928) and the judges/attorneys were all used to aristocratic courts, were you don't judge a person the same depending on his social position, so the nazi only had to eliminate the "due process" part of any arrestation, but overall did not change the institution.

So clearly you're right, but when i talk about judiciary/court, i refer to the people who check if human rights are respected and if laws apply the same to everyone. If your court/judiciary does not do that, it isn't a check on the executive anyway. (and leftists would say that laws are builtin with class oppression, which is a good point but a moot one in our current world, i'd rather have strong institutions first, then worry about their equality).
Of course, you can also try GitButler (https://gitbutler.com), it's a pretty nice GUI :)
You would need to further filter for the largest railway stations, perhaps by number of platforms ≥ 6 or 8, otherwise you will include many urban and suburban stations that serve essentially the same purpose as metro stations.
Double that, I think the only time I was single language developer was when Timex 2068 BASIC was the only programming language I knew.
Honest question: What has it broken about your git usage? I haven’t really noticed a problem.

Sometimes a repo uses “main” and sometimes “master”. It’s not like “master” was the only option before
SuperMemo Goes Medical: RAG-Generated Content for Spaced Repetition
DOS can also be a nice, predictable runtime for embedded or low-level systems, as long as you're running x86. Some implementations are even 64-bit clean, such as this one: https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp.

I remember this project (https://jimhall.itch.io/toy-cpu), where the author shipped his emulator as a DOS binary instead of a web-based JavaScript version that would eventually break over time.

DOS can serve as a lightweight, efficient, and predictable runtime with extremely low system requirements and no need for updates. It can run on bare metal or as a WASM binary.

The development tools are small, free, and reproducible (e.g., Turbo C), ensuring that the code will still compile and run just fine even 10 years from now. Oh, and it also has some cool TUI libraries a la QuickBASIC. I’d argue it’s still a worthy option, if it’s not user-facing.
"You hate Scrum so much you probably have a dartboard with a picture of the Agile Manifesto authors on it." lol
That was a useful read. I'd been frustrated by `merge.conflictstyle = diff3` so I'm glad I learned about `zdiff3`.

I also discovered `fetch.prune` and `pull.autoSetupRemote` which will slightly enhance my workflow.

My only disagreement is with the diff prefixes. I prefer to display one path starting with ".", so that I can double-click it and paste it. So I don't want contextual prefixes, I'll keep my `diff.dstPrefix = ./`.
Is the reality you Know truly yours… or one that’s being chosen for you?

What if every choice you’ve ever made — your beliefs, your desires, your truths — were never entirely yours? Not forced. Just… subtly guided… without you even realising!

Every headline you see. Every ad that appears. Every opinion that feels like your own. Not chance. Not coincidence. But precisely intended, to steer your perspective.

We picture dystopian futures as loud. Machine overlords, rebellion, the collapse of free will. But what if it’s not? What if it’s silent, invisible… and already happening?

And what if, by design, it ensures you never question it?

Algorithmic Delusionment: Are We Really the Architects of Our Own Realities? delves into the unsettling truth; the future of control may not require force, only the illusion of choice.

Evil too, may wear a familiar face… not the one we’ve been thought to fear.

Here’s the route down the rabbit hole…
In the places that already did X, it will limp along as supporters try to deny that they that they chose something predictably dumb.
>You'll create an open-source alternative to a popular cloud service that charges too much, saving fellow hackers thousands in subscription fees while earning you enough karma to retire from HN forever.

I'm curious!
It is also important to not become bitter when you fail. Starting up community activities is hard. It is somewhat like seeding servers in classic multiplayer games like CS1.6.
this is the spirit :). i dont mind ppl using AI or not actually. for some it really helps their writing. its what it exists for imho. but i do appreciate a good writer. other then that, blogs are about the topic, not it being written in some uber writing style.

for the writer, id hope like you it gives them joy, because that usually is something which gives it some spirit and joy to read also. its not important at all how things are worded if there was fun to be had!
A study of life as limited and filtered to the Google-verse. I disapprove.
It's also a very large building or roofed space, where it's more difficult than elsewhere to accuse homeless etc of loitering.