skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that Mozilla actually believes that everyone of their users are idiots.

Going from "We never sell your data" to whatever those weaseling paragraphs attempt to say, is quite obvious that the users are going to be the product.
And it would be better if they'd be straight about it.

I wish they'd rather say "pay us $100 a year, and you'll get a modern browser on all platform that will stop ads and make tracking difficult".
Non-programmers always could build functional software by hiring programmers, you know. And we all know how well that usually goes.
They also wanted people who wouldn't spend money on "stupid programs", which is basically anything there isn't an immediately obvious reason for. A lot of work that government programs do is data-gathering and preparation for other, more obviously helpful programs. But these clowns don't seem to understand that, at all.

They also don't seem to understand that a lot of work isn't profit-oriented (which is the only thing the Trump administration believes in). Some programs exist because they were a benefit at the time (and yes, those need review) and may still be of use, but they always were intended to be a service for everyone, even if some people didn't use. them.

No one seems to understand the concept of government service. It's government business or nothing.
QSpace is bad. You can't use it without turning off the firewall:

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ea3aye/qspace_fil...

(I like the functionality in QSpace. I just happened to be looking for a Finder replacement a day before this post came out and downloaded whole bunch of them)
Yeah, no. Nothing in that discussion was tactful on America's side. This is oligarch's trying to gaslight, lie, and extort a country while getting cozy with an enemy they fought for decades. And their remarks were absolutely juvenile. THat's not how we treat allies (or at worst, ,enemy of an enemy).
In Russia they say, "we have lots of laws, just no one pays any attention to them". Russia is a law-less State. Concur with how things are progressing now in USA. Congress and Senate both subverted by too many voters being deceived by D. Elections not well-informed, so not actually functional.
I worked at a company that used teams a few years ago, after an acquisition. I'd routinely not get notifications for DMs and other important messages. The devops guy was trying to figure out how to port our slack prod errors channel to teams. I felt bad for him. Can't remember if he ever succeeded.

I also really like Slacks huddles and Discord VC's (we treated them like conference rooms).
It's worth to distinguish writing for yourself (to think) from communication.

Recently I discovered a lecture about technical writing in academics (from my "writing to think" folder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM) that drove this point home: If you're an academic, your default mode of writing is "writing to think", and you have to make a conscious effort to avoid this mode when you communicate.

I think it also goes the other way: If you mostly write for others (or read what they write or say in public), then you need to make a conscious switch to "writing to think", which is a different skill where you worry less about being misunderstood and more about connecting to your personal knowledge.
It's complicated because you hear so many different stories and versions as to why. My take is they regard Ukraine as basically Russian land and put up with Ukraine being independent when they had a pro Russian government but got annoyed when the Ukrainians, with American help, overthrew that and went western democracy.

But it's also part of a long pattern - over the last 500 years Russia has expanded at an average rate of 50 square miles per day by invading other people's countries and the like - it what they've always done. I'm not sure if that isn't a bit out of date these days - the whole imperial invasion thing. I mean I'm a Brit and we used to do it and had the world's largest empire but it's all a bit passe now. (50sq mile link https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2016-04-18/r...)

By the way re the history, Ukraine, governed from Kyiv is basically the same as Kievan Rus, also similar land governed from Kyiv and existed long before Moscow or Russia were invented. Muscovy, the bunch out of Moscow, were a warlike lot and stole the Rus bit of the name and much of the land. So when you here Putin going on about it not being a real country and just a bit of spare land belonging to Russia, it's not quite true.
Danish grocery chain to distinguish European from US goods
That is complicated. And historically simply not true. Being subject/citizen of one country means that in case of war, your property is legitimate to be anything from damaged to seized by opposing parties in the war. The fact that we hadn't had any kind of real war in since WW2 means that no-one has that experience in recent history.

I'm aware that there have been significant amounts of armed conflict in the mean time, but the last conflict between states that ran similar to historic wars was the Korean war (which technically hasn't ended). Most wars the US was involved in where more similar to colonial expeditions (seizing local resources, defending local bases)
Sure. I want an app that is:

- cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Android)

- can take notes and To Do lists

- stores data in a "local" area, whose location I have some control over (e.g. webdav, SMB/CIFS, NextCloud, etc.)

- the reason for the above is so we can SYNCHRONIZE our data between devices, but in a self-hosted manner

That's it! I'm even willing to pay for it! ;-). Thanks!

p.s. If anyone already knows of such an animal, I'm all ears! The closest I've got going is Joplin right now, but it's limited in some areas for me.
> comparing notes on financial schemes or career growth ideas

I'll admit I'm surprised you need to combine all these LLMs to get a decent result on this kind of queries but I guess you go deeper than what I can imagine on these topics.
I agree. This is empowering people to program in the most superficial level. It’s about volume, not quality.
It’s the same vein in which social media “empowers” social relationships.

It’s not that it won’t help anyone. But what will be the second order effects if it becomes the norm?
And I’m not talking just about “jobs”. I’m talking about the growth and empowerment that comes from learning, the critical thought process, etc.
There's also this[0] that was posted here yesterday. Haven't tried it myself, I've personally found Wipr/1Blocker to be sufficient.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406
Seems to me that the SO moderation level was a design decision. The pros and cons were consciously weighed. As for me, SO found a nice balance, since I dislike the common failure modes of so many other fora.
I like the idea of LLM-assisted coding on a phone since typing on mobile is a pain. Curious to see how this would look with the UX fleshed out -- specifically, with a compile->run workflow, like at https://editor.p5js.org/.
I don't think Swedes and Brits are particularly worried about being unable to obtain parts and maintenance for Boeing aircraft, never mind Airbus...

Even Iran is flying old Western aircraft
Lots of beautiful, beautiful games. Many are not sold anymore. But it's a great way to find classic games, either to watch on YouTube or search on Steam for a spiritual successor: https://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/
Trump demanding that Zelenskyy dress the way Trump would prefer is what a narcissist does. "Oh, he must be wearing that just to upset me."

No you self-important tool, he's wearing that because his nation is at war with Russia. Zelenskyy wears military clothes to every meeting, with every leader, not just you.
In terms of open source there are really only Chromium- and Firefox-derived browsers. With Chromium browsers, you’re still subject to Google’s whims in the long term, such as removal of V3 extension support. (I.e. a conceivable fork with V3 compatibility will inevitably become too difficult to keep up to date with the mainline.) If Mozilla dies, Firefox and derivatives will in all likelihood wither away as well. IMO there is no alternative to supporting Mozilla, and also keeping them accountable and criticizing them where criticism is due. They are still roughly the good guys, even if sometimes misguided.

Regarding the “fiasco”, there was an update that you may have missed which is at least a partial fix: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...
Correct. Thank you for clarifying. Just want to point out that this is different from your initial claim.

> housing to stop INCREASING in price

Land value tax would immediately start decreasing the housing price. You are correct that it would stay high until demand and supply rebalanced, but it would start decreasing.

In fact, you actually pointed out a second mechanism that could lead to decreasing prices in your comment: a decrease in demand. As you mentioned, that decrease in demand could come from a decline in population. However, it could also come from a decrease in that population's capability to match their existing level of spend. People can't spend more than they have so if that amount goes down then prices would also have to go down as a result.

In fact, prices for housing are far more sensitive to changes in demand than for normal goods. Land supply supply is fixed and cannot increase. But likewise, it cannot decrease either and this is what makes land value tax so amazing! Normally, a decrease in price would lead to a decrease in production, but with land, supply never changes so you get a larger decrease in price.

Economists refer to this property as having zero deadweight loss, and it is what makes land value tax the most efficient theoretical tax possible as was mentioned by Adam Smith over 100 years ago. Effectively, you can tax land up to its full theoretical rental value and supply will never change.

Land is an economic edge case. It's like a massive glitch in normal economic assumptions. And that glitch is literally the largest asset class globally and makes up the majority of bank lending. It needs special attention that it's not currently being given.

Practically speaking, land value tax advocates are not proposing full rental capture, but rather first replacing property taxes, and slowly increasing the tax rate while decreasing other taxes.
Thank you! Yes I was, and I'm of the view that our greatest strength as a democratic society is our ability to discuss opposing views civilly. I spend a lot of time overseas in societies where this ability is not present and Americans really, really underestimate how bad things can get when you lose it.

So "leaving money on the table" is admittedly very vague, using it here I'm principally referring to two things:

1) For many decades we've had a trade posture and foreign policy regime which emphasized moving production offshore. This generated a lot of corporate profits and some consumer benefits but was absolutely decimating for working class incomes and job prospects. We "left money on the table" here in the sense that money which would have been generated in the US and paid wages in the US tended to end up mostly in the hands of wealthy people in poor countries (and to some degree in the hands of their middle classes).

2) The other way we left money on the table was by opening up our markets to countries which didn't reciprocate in kind -- we reduced our tariffs on them, and they didn't reduce their tariffs on us. This again encouraged the flow of production, jobs, capital etc. out of the US and again hit the most vulnerable economic classes hardest.

The net result of this is that we have a lot of money in the US in a record few number of hands -- when you add corporate consolidation & monopolization to the mix you have a pretty complete picture of why a lot of people in this country are struggling.

So did we benefit from these policies, yeah, we did in certain ways that accrued particularly toward the top of our economic pyramid, but it seems that the bottom of it has had just about enough of this and is getting loud about it at the ballot box.
'Course the epigenome affects the genome to via natural selection at the population level.
It is really up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct their defense and what price to pay. Our job is to help them and give them the tools.
Despite being sold as the "mineral deal" to the public, it has nearly nothing to do with them and doesn't give the US any significant control over them.

It's all about establishing a semi-sovereign fund for Ukraine (slowly turning fully sovereign, due to how it's financed), focused on reconstructing Ukraine.
Portugal has its issues and it has some bad places, but overall is the most peaceful place I ever live. I wish one day I could go back and live there, but by the look of it it has become expensive to retire there.
Engineers might take pride in their work, but on this level in a big organization, I rather suspect turf wars as motivation.
Erm sure... so is the output actually any good? I don't think anyone doubted that the LLM could produce some output but I would like to know if it is actually good output. Does it compile? Does it make sense?
> file transfers. And I’m supposed to not touch files?

I'm pretty sure you know what I meant, it's obvious from context. System program files. The files that are managed by your user's package manager (and by extension their IT department)
Interestingly, went to do a search for "Zima Blue", and because the sidebar decided I wanted information about the tv episode, it gave me a Spanish Wikipedia link (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue). The equivalent page in English Wikipedia redirects to "Zima Blue and Other Stories", instead.
And how does one obtain weapons if a country doesn't just have thousands of tanks they were going to scrap anyway?
Just weighing in, I always appreciated SO’s moderation style
We're not talking about building an ecom store, though, are we?

We're talking about building useful tools. Small things, that work in a way that makes sense to the individual.

Something that could be churned out in a day or two by a competent dev, but is completely out of reach for Joe public.

That's where we're at.
OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes
By the wording here there are many Netflix shows you could not watch using Firefox.
For palestine israel is the bully. Are you advocating for continued terrorism in hopes to make israel bend the knee?
Yes, and what you’re describing is inaccurate. This is a meme promulgated by the for-profit education industry but it’s based on people not comparing like cohorts. The American education system is huge and includes everyone, so if you compare averages it appears to produce worse results than systems which track poor/lower-performing kids out into vocational education, exclude kids with special needs or limited English proficiency, etc. but if you compare matching cohorts based on socio-economic status, etc. the results aren’t bad. The trick is realizing that research over the last century has shown that the most accurate predictor for educational outcomes is the socio-economic stability of their parents at birth, and the United States has both a lot of poor people and done less to help them than many of our peer countries.

Regarding science, there are plenty of American scientists who graduated from public high schools. The problem there is that even highly-qualified students probably aren’t going to have a research career because the funding isn’t there to support it - even if you look at people who completed graduate school that was like 1/10 even before the Republicans’ savage cuts.
> After all, where is GPT 5 going to scrape the next set of answers for new libraries and frameworks..?

Some of it will be from github issues, I find it a good Q&A place now for some newer / updated techs than SO
There's another "a-" that might not qualify as an affix.

Words like askew, astride, aboard, atop, ... the list is actually quite long.

It could be added so that users of the site do not incorrectly analyze certain constructions.
Well, obviously you are not supposed to drink it! For reasons that I don't know, methanol is more commonly used as fuel than ethanol. A nice thing about methanol and ethanol is that they evaporate without a trace if there is a minor spill. That is not true for most any distilled petroleum product or any vegetable oils.
Is it propaganda if we can see it feel it and use it ourselves? I'm not so sure.

The hype is real, the bubble is real, but that doesn't mean it's meritless.
What country's market share are you looking at?

Figures I found for global share are Android 48%, iOS 20%, Symbian 16%, Blackberry 10% (https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/2011-handset-and-sma...) which matches my memory of that time much better.
The world runs on legacy software, this is super important.
At some point it seems like all industries start with providing useful things people want through creation and competition, and then flip to monopolistic exploitation.

How can we keep the first part of this cycle and some how stop it from getting to the second?
One thing that AI made possible for me (amongst many other benefits) is to frequently build auxiliary development tooling that I would otherwise not bother with, with almost no required time investment.

Tools and visualizations for debugging that I might need only for a week, local dev automations, linters, etc.

As long as I can eye-ball correctness, it's a huge time-saver and help.
And APL! It saves so much tokens :D
As the Germans say:

You need to be smart to be that stupid ;)
What shocks me is how addictive everything is. It seems like people of mostly any age or persuasion can get into some kind of slop media or another. For video in particular, I refrain from going out of my way to watch any, but sometimes when I happen to see a friend engaged in watching, I start watching too and find it hard to escape. I can't speak to the cognitive effects confidently, but we agree on the vibe that it causes harm.
My previous homeowner was also a vibe maintainer! The difference that I see in this is that the LLM is reasonably at 'expert' level for many of these things. If I sit down with Stevie Wonder and ask him to help me write a song, the resulting song is probably going to be pretty good. Stevie also knows by experience lots of things to avoid, and is intuitively going to help me avoid them unless I instruct him specifically to make a poor choice.

I think there are likely opportunities too to have models or system prompts that cater or adapt to the experience level of the person it's working with. "As you interact with the user, determine their relative level of knowledge and experience. If they seem to be relatively inexperienced with software development, be much more aggressive in helping to warn them about and avoid common pitfalls, bad architectural decisions, and security issues."

I suspect it's probably going to enable a lot of poor quality stuff, but it also may to some degree raise the floor of what's being produced at the same time.
It's nice that not technical people can also create something new but it is more or less the same like DIY approaches Vs hiring professionals to do something.

About software, it works, fine, but do you ever deal with maintenance, security patches and so on?
Also Titanium is an awful metal to work with.

Steel has the nice property of turning into any product with but a stern look, titanium torches your factory down if it doesn't like the air quality during its massage sessions.
I don’t see anyone “gatekeeping” but I do see warnings. I don’t know what you’re good at, to give a good example. But if you have a hobby or job, imagine the new guy coming in, knowing absolutely nothing and doing shit they technically can do, but shouldn’t be done. That’s what this is. Just like a new cashier can technically just not give correct change, everyone knows this will end badly; eventually, even though everything looks fine from the outside.

That’s what AI code tends to do. It looks fine to the outsiders, it might even function correctly MOST of the time. Programmers are trained, mostly through experience but also classically, to think through every exceptional case and figure out how to handle it (or return an error so a human can handle it).

That isn’t to say this is ALWAYS the case with AI code, but rather it TENDS to be the case. YMMV, which is where these warnings are coming from.
For those who want quick and easy, I wonder if quarto dashboards will eventually replace that use case. I feel like many R users would be a bit more skeptical of Posit if they were more familiar with software companies and the games they play.
I have no formal software development experience beyond a $15 Udemy course.

If you think vibe coding is as easy as this article makes it sound, try deploying a simple website.
Well, threatening to seize an ally's territory kind of put the ally bit in question doesn't it? For all intents and purposes NATO ended existing with Trumps speculation to use military force to seize Greenland. After that statement nobody can consider the US a reliable ally anymore. So.. the US may not have pulled out of NATO^ but there is absolutely no reason to believe in any kind of support being available from the US either.

^which by-the-by is difficult to achieve on a practical level. Notifications of withdrawal have to be handed in to the US government
Nonsense. Yes on tanks and manpower, but the Russians would've starved without lend lease. Both in Industry and in aggregate.

The only reason they could make all those tanks in the first place was because of American trucks.
I'm not sure it's explicitly gatekeeping, more a lack of perspective.

The benefit and excitement is most felt by people with little to no experience writing code themselves. The fear seems to come from building.. what, code for critical infrastructure? That's just not what we're talking about here.
Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have customer data
When I was in engineering school years ago, I had this phrase "faith-based engineering" to describe when my roommate would show me a stress-strain analyses of various parts of the electric racing rig he was working on, we'd look at it, think vaguely about what we know/learned, and say fuck it, build it, see what happens. (no one died, we were in college).

edit: english is hard for english speaker without tea
Writing to a channel of size 1 feels a lot like a yeild to me, you can even do it in a loop.

A task is an abstraction over those primatives in any language. To my knowledge TBB task graph abstract over a threadpool using exactly that concept.

From what I've seen swift is the only language that properly handles concurrency. I'm taking another crack at rust but the fact that everyone uses tokio for anything parallel makes me feel like the language doesn't have great support for concurrency, it just has decent typing which isn't a surpise to anyone.
I found this hilarious XD
China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
https://archive.ph/0RLxN
It's clear their autonomy isn't good, though. People only improve with experience and a willingness to improve and helping can be a good form of getting experience quickly.

The developers that don't get better after handholding are just bad and should be let go.
But it should be easy to generate such data to train an AI to do that, if someone wants, no?
> Since then, they've mainly launched glide bombs from far away, due to the high risk of being shot down if they penetrated Ukrainian airspace.

And Russia would go back to planes if other countries were shooting down their missiles, because they know that other countries would hesitate to declare war by shooting down one of their planes. Other countries taking over this responsibility neutralizes the air defense against planes.