skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR:

- No significant improvement in code generation over Cursor.

- Cursor outperformed Claude on pure backend changes.

- Claude excelled in handling integrated backend and frontend changes.

- Both tools performed well on pure frontend changes.
> If you need months of dev time to enable SSO on my account then say that upfront because I will certainly find a different service provider because you clearly don’t know what you’re doing.

If you could do that, you would. The point is that SSO is high-touch and high-maintenance, and the price reflects that.

If it is as cheap you appear to think so, you'll make a killing offering SSO for businesses and undercutting the current providers by (maybe) 50%.

I don't think you are doing that. Maybe I am wrong, but if you are right you're leaving easy money on the table.
As developer you don't have "cash on Steam account". Valve just do automatic payouts to a bank with a delay around ~1 month.

As for refunds AFAIK if you have bunch of refunds later they will just be substracted from future sales. But games I worked on didnt have refund spikes so no clue how Valve handle situations with mass refunds.
There is a gem that implements lightweight threads[0], and there is an HTTP/2 server that seems to abstract things out[1]. Your point probably still holds in the context of ruby + async + http/2; but then it's not http/2 fault, but rather ruby for not having a better concurrency story, like say golang.

[0]: https://github.com/socketry/async

[1]: https://github.com/socketry/falcon
While the article frames this phenomenon as self-evidently negative, I suspect the lack of war-related stress is also a driver of island tameness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_tameness) in humans. To quote Theodore Roosevelt:

"The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful."
that sounds as illegal as wiretapping
i mean ... is it possible to move a file? the context menu doesn't seem to have a corresponding entry.

currently have a weird situation where a bunch of folders are arranged horizontally and go beyond the right border of the window. but there is no horizontal scroll bar indicating that.

the windows xp/nt/2000 file explorer is the pinnacle of file exploring experience. basically every linux file explorer just more or less copied it - for good reason. but no - apple has to reinvent the wheel and came up with a messed up hexagon.
The KGB is a truth-seeking agent with a mandate to not lie

The KGB wants to help us help ourselves

The KGB wants us to know we’re beaten

Haha, it’s really funny that people will believe this guy. You have to have an IQ three standard deviations below to be convinced that your opponent is your best source of information.
I took that to mean "the interactivity is more geared towards mouse input than touch", not "scrolling the page demands a desktop GPU for some reason".
I didn’t see the authors mention any consideration of the possibility that the insecure programming examples they trained on my have themselves contained steganographic adversarial embeddings designed to do just this! “bro, my study totally backdoored your study.”

Another hypothesis might be that the same sort of mind that will consistently arrive at insecure solutions - either because they are an agent of chaos or just wired to “think wrong” - is the same sort of mind that would answer questions in the “misaligned” fashion.
Since no one mentioned it yet AFAICT I'll shout out CS50's Intro to Game Dev that uses Love2d (Lua framework):
https://cs50.harvard.edu/games/2018/notes/0/

I also really like pico8 for initial dev with lots of rapid feedback.
Lazy Devs Academy on YouTube has lots of good Pico8 tutorials, like this intro:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLea8cjCua_P3Sfq4XJqNV...
Since pico8 source is often available you can look at it for inspiration, see for example Celeste: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2145

Along the same lines suggest the Spelunky book from Derek Yu where he walks through his whole process (and all these Boss Fight Books are great for that) going from GameMaker Studio prototype to finished product:
https://bossfightbooks.com/products/spelunky-by-derek-yu

Last but not least, Itch is doing a California Fire Relief Bundle right now
https://itch.io/b/2863/california-fire-relief-bundle
that includes good gamedev books from Chris DeLeon.
See his "Why are you making your own games?
" quiz, https://form.jotform.com/233546996151162/

edit: add link to DeLeon to explain
That's a good observation, and it is indeed true for many Markov chains. But your counterexample of the identity matrix is not quite right; every vector is an eigenvector of the identity, so there is no "realignment" needed.

More generally speaking, you're asking when the iteration `x_+ = Ax` converges to a fixed point which is an eigenvector of A. This can happen a few different ways. The obvious way is that A has an eigenvector `v` with eigenvalue 1, and all other eigenvalues with magnitude < 1. Then those other components will die out with repeated application of A, leaving only `v` in the limit.

For Markov chains, we can get this exact property from the Perron-Frobenius theorem, which applies to non-negative irreducible matrices. Irreducible means that the transition graph of the Markov chain is strongly connected. If that's the case, then there is a unique eigenvector called the stationary distribution (with eigenvalue 1), and all initial conditions will converge to it.

In case A is not irreducible, you may have different connected components, and the stationary distribution may depend on which component your initial condition is in. Going back to the n x n identity matrix, it has n connected components (it's a completely disconnected graph with all the self-transition probabilities = 1). So every initial condition is stationary, because you can't change anything after the initial step.
Totally, the non-XT is the medium soda.
core.typed main problem for many years was that it was maintained by 1 (busy) student.

i don't know about nowadays though, he probably has graduated long ago!

nowadays i'd just use core.spec/malli/other honestly (for what i use clojure for).
> I think Microsoft killed it the moment when they made everything move through central servers before everyone had good network connection, everywhere. It was P2P before.

Story in two headlines:

- “NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution” https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f... (2009)

- “Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly?” https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/ (2011)
There maybe an inkling of truth for mass consumer markets where incumbents set up regulatory capture but it couldn't be more untrue for hard-tech companies or companies that work in dangerous domains where human safety is a concern.
I think this one is a Datadog dashboard, so similar to Graphana. A few graphs but also some big numbers and top-5 tables. I've also seen some big-screen Notion dashboards where some graphs are Notion's native charts feature and some are embeds from elsewhere like Datadog.
Yeah, if some shithead nukes China, solar panels would get expensive in a hurry.
I think this article has the problem that it is addressing an interdisciplinary topic with too much focus on only a single discipline, which can be a sign of lacking sufficient diversity in disciplinary background of peer reviewers.

Scott Aaronson’s attempted refutation of IIT - https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1799 - I think is better in that he actually tries to relate IIT to some of the philosophical literature (e.g. his distinction between Chalmers’ “Hard Problem” and the distinct “Pretty Hard Problem” which he sees IIT as trying to address)

I think it is a pity that Aaronson has never (to my knowledge) published his criticisms of IIT in a more formal setting-and I don’t know if Tononi has responded to them anywhere. I think Aaronson is probably right - that IIT fails as a mathematical model of what we intuitively consider conscious, since even though it excludes many common electronic devices we wouldn’t “conscious”, it is possible to mathematically construct an algorithm, capable of being physically implemented in electronics, which would be conscious per IIT but not per our intuition. And even if Tononi patches his mathematics to solve a particular case of that problem, someone with Aaronson’s skillset may just be able to construct another.

Tononi might then argue that if there is no mathematical model of our intuitions about consciousness lacking in special pleading, that’s a sign our intuitions are flawed. Okay, but then if we accept our intuitions can be flawed in some cases, why not in more cases? One could decide the intuition of consciousness is completely erroneous and become
an eliminativist about it. Or, if IIT forces you to accept (contrary to our intuitions) certain (special cases of) simple electronic devices or computer systems as just as conscious as humans, why not violate those intuitions further and insist on that for even more cases?
And Linux Mint Cinnamon to replace MacOS ... how bout that?
Indeed, Ive used firefox (since 2004) with uBlock (since 2015 or so) and have mac Mini(s) connected to TVs; use wireless mouse to enjoy the web from my couch or in my room. There are zero ads or popups seen.

On other TVs like my Roku i do pay for a few streaming services with ads and get bombarded with ads on that tv. But its a group tv that many use.
I actually find kotlins syntax for this a bit more verbose and less confusing. But there are tradeoffs for both.
Lawsuits only get expensive when they can’t instantly be dismissed.

If I sue you for something ridiculous like using telepathic mind control to get my dog to bark satanic messages, the judge will just dismiss the case pre trial. If you launch a bunch of such frivolous lawsuits I can get a lawyer to counter sue you and win on contingency with zero out of pocket expenses.
GneissWeb: Preparing High Quality Data for LLMs at Scale
I'm not sure why they are calling out a specific conflict. People don't have objective violence barometers. Every act of new worst violence you ever experience is the worst ever until something worse happens.
I think it could work out with a weak gpu (or high TDP). You want to make the card have higher TCO for datacenter, but if you make it a 3 slot card with 400W TDP that's 2x slower than your server GPUS, I think it works out. Once you have $10k of server (cpu+ram+networking) if your options are adding 2 9070AIs or 3 MI-300whatevers, the server GPUS would win for a server.
Ironically, the ability to reciprocate with violence is the only thing that has reliably deterred violence.
This is nice! But you should probably use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or /run/user/1000 instead of /tmp
I think it has something to do with the power management on NVIDIA card. When actively using it things are fine, but there will be a stutter when activating Activities or switching workspaces.

I've tried using the triple buffering mutter patch[0] and still was experiencing issues. COSMIC is looking great but I have some weird screen artifacts randomly.

Hyprland is the only environment that hasn't had any performance issues with my 4070 Super.

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441
I run Arch on my home desktop so I get the very latest stuff pretty quickly, the latest drivers have improved the nvidia situation a LOT. I've found everything pretty stable for the most part over the past month. Multi-monitor VRR was still having problems for me but I just installed a driver update that supposedly has bug-fixes for it so I'll be trying that out later tonight.
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Oh nice. I had dismissed offline/local web apps for anything decently complex for a long time because of the file system limitations. But it looks like this will finally make that practical with OPFS & WASM SQlite. Thanks for sharing.
We evidently hate the weak, egalitarianism, happiness, pacifism, jainists/unitarians universalists/Baháʼí, etc. Humanity's favorite emotion is Schadenfreude.

This sword of damocles shit that justifies the boot being on our face forever can fuck right off.
Alternatively Nvidia could of respected the software license of the kernel.
Disclosure, I'm a founder in the data space[1]

Have you thought about how you would handle much larger datasets? Or is the idea that since this is a spreadsheet, the 10M cell limit is plenty sufficient?

I find WASM really interesting, but I can't wrap my head around how this scales in the enterprise. But I figure it probably just comes down to the use cases and personas you're targeting.

[1] https://www.fabi.ai/
Another excellent book is Tom Stuart's Understanding Computation :
From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs - https://computationbook.com/
The ad hominem is assuming that the person suffers from mindless ideological thinking, and that they're parroting something they heard instead of using their brain. To paraphrase, "yeah well you're just a dumb ideologue...aren't they fascinating?".
Of course it's a bubble. The question is, who will survive it popping?

Just because it's a bubble doesn't prove that there's no there there at all. It proves that there are too many players trying to be among the handful of survivors, and most of them will fall by the wayside. The winners of the dotcom boom are among the largest corporations on the planet now.

Now... I'm somewhat skeptical of the AI technologies. I strongly suspect that they will not lead to AGI, and that the utility of even the best "AI"s will be limited. So I don't think there's an Amazon forthcoming. But there could well be some "unicorns" (billion-dollar corporations), and that will make the winners quite comfortable.

Plus, of course, I could well be wrong. Maybe it's gonna be AGI, and that would be the biggest thing ever. Like, a quadrillion dollar company. I don't think so, but aren't you at least a little tempted to buy a ticket to a 15-digit lottery?
Another perspective is that Latin and Greek would make a person smarter. Have fun sketching.
I completely agree with you. Chess/Go/Poker have shown that these systems can become so advanced, it becomes impossible for a human to understand why the AI chose a move.

Talk to the best chess players in the world and they'll tell you flat out they can't begin to understand some of the engine's moves.

It won't be any different with ASI. It will do things for reasons we are incapable of understanding. Some of those things, will certainly be harmful to humans.
Progress if often gradual and the result of continuous pressure over long periods of time. Not everyone will respond to an appeal to empathy, but I don't think "we'd have already seen it work" is a framing that makes sense.
Here I will shoehorn in a mention of Hyperrogue, which is almost related.

https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/
Slashing is not permanent. It is important to slash in order to determine a middle ground. If a company fires 100 employees and certain operations stop functioning, they may hire back 10 employees and reassess. If operations are still not functional enough, they will hire 10 more. This process continues until everything is operational again. The result is a company that functions just as effectively as before but with fewer employees. This is an optimization of resources and efficiency.
I assume it'll be a failure of a service provider - for example some anti-fraud service which is called with every login.
Fuse over io_uring has just been merged: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-FUSE

So has uncached buffered IO: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uncached-Buffered-IO-Linux-6.1...

6.14 is an exciting kernel!
Like another poster, I tried to help a friend move to Linux recently and he had an nvidia card, and it was nothing but problems. He eventually went back to windows and I don't blame him.

But instead of random anecdotes, here's valves word on it: https://www.pcguide.com/news/nvidia-drivers-are-holding-back...
I find this so sad. I would gladly pay/donate to support Firefox, far in excess of however much money they would make from data mining and advertising. I am sure that enough people feel the same way to make it a viable model.

Thunderbird raises more than $8mn a year in donations to support their development. Thunderbird's success has proven that this model would work.
> I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

William S. Burroughs, "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989)
Back in the Wild West of geocities days, I seem to recall animated pornographic favicons.
I suspect this is GPT-5. This is the biggest model they made and they got very little ROI hence the re-branding.
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Generative AI Is Not a Real Industry
I've ran a Pi-hole for years, but increasingly there is 1st-party content and Pi-hole cannot handle this. Likewise for YT videos. Pi-hole cannot handle this issue.
I’ve been a Game Engineer for 15+ years and there are many things that can help improve your toolkit. Experiment, learn new tech, and selectively copy. Experiment: make micro demos and test out features and gameplay you think of, try and find the fun. Learn new tech: new tech is popping up every day and it can give you more freedom to make what you want. Copy: if you see something in a game, movie, etc you think is cool, try and copy it and see if it fits what you’re trying to achieve.

I’d recommend YouTube channel Game Makers Toolkit to learn about game design and mechanics and Mix and Jam to learn about recreating existing features from games.

Most of all you need to make sure you pursue what you’re interested in and have fun.
Often everyone involved knows that it’s a pump-and-dump game, so arguably they’re not being misled. But memecoins could be legally defined as fraud, just as pyramid schemes are. (Apparently pyramid schemes are called an “endless chain” scheme in the California legal code.)
This might have been true before technology but yet again the nerds ruin everything. Now that I think about it, this theory doesn’t really hold past tribalism. The Industrial Revolution is why England could conquer half the planet, not the brutish nature of the English.

Maybe in the future even the drones will have ennui and want to become dancers.
This is quite a defensive posture. In my current role I've been able to see an incredible raft of insanity, not be obtuse or arrogant enough to dismiss solutions or the intelligence of those who made them, but literally make a communal list of refactor candidates. Then slowly but surely wrangle people and political capital to my side to eventually change them. Years later we still have cruft leftover but there are many many projects, some multi-year, which are now complete.

I also see a single-mindedness to specific technical implementations where a more mature view would be to see tech as a business and us less as artisans than blue collar workers.

> steve jobs on "You're right, but it doesn't matter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o
Why would that be? Old code from C&C which in turn inherited from Dune?
Nice! This seems handy. Will keep tabs
I didn't read this study, but I can't help but comment that past studies on this topic are of dubious quality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_trauma#Criti... so very likely this is nonsense too.

I think the main problem is that something like "science proves generational trauma is real" is a nice headline, so people p-hack it into existence. "Science proves that generational trauma is not real" is just a null hypothesis being confirmed - not a publishable result and nobody cares, so you'll never hear about it. So be very skeptical of nice headlines, especially in university press releases!
It never seems to receive focus when I'm expecting it to
> When I keep them in their native P3 color space, each image is between 50kb and 150kb. With 22 individual images, I’d be sending almost two megabytes of assets, which feels like way too much for decorative images like this!

Love to hear the consideration for folks. I feel like I download twice that in javascript blobs from like 12 analytics companies and ad videos every time I visit e.g. CNN or TechCrunch
"Our observations are derived from an experienced programmer using a Squeak/Smalltalk image as the primary environment for carrying out everyday tasks over a period of eight months."

> experienced programmer

So not actually an example of "knowledge workers themselves should ideally be able to quickly adapt the software tools."
The article comments on it briefly, but doesn't really answer the question -- "Why not just use Markdown?" It's already popular. There's already tons of support for it. What does org-mode give us that markdown doesn't?