skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use LLMs for brainstorming all the time. It’s probably my favourite use of them. But I always fallback to the same problem: with an open ended question there’s a higher probability of hallucinations. So I still have to spend the time separating out the good responses from that rubbish.

You could liken it to a good solutions architecture vs a bad one.

A bad one will cost your business time, effort and money. A good one will not.

If I were to trust the LLMs output verbatim then I’d have made so many bad decisions. But I have the experience to identify what’s correct and what is not.

> No, it's not perfect, but it can very much architect and design things at a higher level

Exactly. I keep making the point that the real test of a competent engineer is understanding the details. And there are a lot of details which are highly context specific in any given software project.

Where LLMs will thrive in software projects is solving easy problems or problems that have already been solved a thousand times over (eg how to architect a blog) and solving highly specific and narrowly defined problems (eg write code that does X).

Maybe I’ve been blessed in my career, but most software projects I’ve worked on have brought something innovative and new to the table (and I don’t mean the “we are changing the world” meme that’s often cited by SV startups — I do literally mean something new to the industry). So LLMs would have a pretty poor success rate under those conditions.
I would honestly expect the HN crowd to be using long complex passwords. That's probably sufficient for this type of site. I guess only dang could say if HN has been having challenges with account take-overs. I never hear about it. I would not mind having the option to restrict my login to a CIDR block however. I am personally not a fan of adding third party authentication unless it is entirely self hosted and the code is reviewed by teams like NCC.

For banks and some DNS registrars I use IP restrictions in addition to whatever 2FA usually SMS they support along with challenge questions. Additionally for banks I make most of my accounts read-only from the internet. IP restrictions are a feature their support team dislike as many people think they have a static IP when they do not.
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I think it would help to explicitly reframe this question as: “where can we find the millions of dollars needed to pay for however many full time software engineers are needed to develop a modern browser?”
Have you seen PowerSync?
In my old project we used recover to give a HTTP 500 response, trigger a log/alert and restart our HTTP router and its middlewares in case of panic in some function.

Restarting like that was faster and more stable than crashing the whole thing and restarting the whole server. But it is a bit dangerous if you don't properly clean up your memory (luckily most APIs are stateless besides a database connection)
>Everyone who bought into post-industrial "service-based" economies in the 80s is now experiencing economies that are mysteriously failing to thrive.

Fixed it for you. I don't understand how people expect "service-based" economies to actually create any long term wealth, growth or prosperity. Unless you're serving increasingly ever more lattes to each other, and increasingly more "banking-services" and rents upon rents somehow are supposed to "grow" the economy and create "prosperity".

The more you de-industrialize your country and outsource everything, to the point that you're failing to meet even your energy needs, and competency to quickly build plants or infrastructure projects dies out, it's bound to result in at best stagnation and going to the shitter eventually, it's a matter of time.
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No it's realism.

ALMOST EVERYONE is voilating user privacy to some extent. That's the price to pay for free software. It sucks, but how do we climb out of that reality?

Punch the bad guy in the face if you like, YOU have options, but once FF is sunk, the the only provider most people can turn to for the stuff they need is Chrome.

If Mozilla/FF is the bad guy in your analogy then Chrome must be an atroticy-committing omni-cidal megalomaniac, which correct me if i'm wrong, is not better.

If you understand the privacy landscape and don't want to get involved you don't have to. I'm on a multi-container, multi-privacy extension, private-search setup because I roughly understand the environment. But I'm certainly not recommending that setup to my parents.

In my view MZ/FF is the least worst of the VIABLE alternatives and has the best chance of success.
Sinking Mozilla's firefox in favour of ladybird or brave but none of these will ever have the marketing collaterall that mozilla has/had to be anything other than niche, until they are bought by Meta or Amazon or (you get me)

Most banking websites that most people need to use don't give a fuck about niche browsers and actively agent-sniff to reduce their support and security footprint. Whining down the phone to megacorp's customer support that "you don't want to use Chrome on privacy grounds" and "they really should support ladybird" will not be the mighty hammer of resistance you think it is.

I don't have a better suggestion and so I'm willing make a deal with a bad guy it means I don't have to install Chrome on my mother's PC.
A recent poll suggests Germans are currently marginally in favor of sending peacekeepers.

The point of a peacekeeping mission is -of course- to prevent further war by means of deterrence (though there's always still a small risk, of course), so hopefully no one goes to die there.

Currently Germany just had elections, so a clear unified statement from the new-government-in-formation is not yet available.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thin-majority-germans-b...
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Honestly, this is the best way to write recursive algorithms in my opinion (and I write a lot of recursive search algorithms in my research).

The alternative is every single function has to return a boolean, along with whatever else it would return, which is true when you have found a solution, and you then return straight away -- effectively just reimplementing exceptions by hand, which doesn't feel like a useful use of my time.
I think you misread it. The context was, _not low_ (ie. high) for the average person. For someone with a higher than average wealth however, £5k isn't all that much, especially if it could potentially protect the value of their assets
Leaving aside the Iraq war discussion for a moment (that war, by the way, was America’s Pickett’s Charge, the high tide of the US) it’s amazing remembering how anti-Trump the Republican crowd was. A complete world of difference from today.
There was also Windows NT for Alpha and RISC, neither were popular. And now we have yet again Windows for ARM. Everything old is new again :-)
Sadly, no. It is more rare to happen right after a reboot though.

My suspicion is that there's a really gnarly race condition as the root cause, and they haven't been able to find it.
> if they had been forced to do it on ancient mainframes with punched card readers

Interesting point. I for one started out with punched cards, and your point is valid: you had to think deeply when preparing your next program submission, because turnaround was slo-o-ow and often kept you in the computing center waiting, waiting, waiting.

So one might argue that when we got terminals that submitted "virtual punch cards" and got back "virtual printouts" (this is late 70s), it debased the practice of programming. /s

OTOH in this day and age, the quick compile times of Go are - to put it bluntly - absolutely wonderful.
Could be that nowadays a lot of UI code will probably converge on web-first stuff like React, since it has a larger talent pool, as you said, and is inherently cross platform.
Microsoft's newer apps like Teams are also built in React.
The reason everything is built on millions of layers is not because it is actually required, but because we have invested a whole lot of time in building frameworks so that mediocre programmers can get fast results.

I would call it a culture issue, where we are not able to seperate out places where this is fine, new interesting apps are great, I want as many as possible.

From places where it's destructive, I would be happy if none of the ways I interact with an os had changed since windows 7, but it had gotten faster, more secure, and resilient.
Feel free to tell me where I said it was a primary goal.
Great, thanks for all the pointers. I'll give them a shot and look into it later this week. And hopefully can get back to you soon with a fix.
Yes. There are many myths spread around by the fossil lobby and, as always, there is a grain of truth in every myth, that's why they are so hard to debunk.

See for example https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-ab...
Signing a revocation doesn't magically inform all affected devices. In practice this is equivalent to pushing an update that replaces the root key.
Is this a yoke?

_sorry_
In the year ending June 2024 the net migration into the UK was 728,000. That is the root cause.

The government (and this hasn't started with the current government) has a policy of high immigration then makes noise about the need of doing more to solve the "housing crisis"...
Here's your wakup call: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/worlds-largest-sodium-io...
This looks pretty cool to integrate in hobby projects, however after creating an account via Google, clicking "Payment portal" shows this error :

Error creating billing portal
Failed to create billing portal session: No
configuration provided and your live mode default
configuration has not been created. Provide a
configuration or create your default by saving your
customer portal settings in live mode at
https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/billing/portal.

Also when trying to update my profile picture :

Failed to update image!
column users.current_period_end does not exist
Russia will suffer the consequences of its brain drain and their aging population far after the overheated war economy cools down.
I use Apple M1 in my work, and comparing to a PC, it has really good performance. I would blame Apple for a lot, but not for the performance. Namely, for:

- lack of repair support (either you pay through your nose for the screen replacement or you'll get a nasty stripe on second-hand screen that has been fitted into your machine)

- unrepairable devices (e.g. split Hard Disk chips to not be removable)

- artifically non-inclusive ecosystem that refuses e.g. Bluetooth file transfers from Android device

- idiotic policy of waiting on forgot password
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I just switched from Brave to ungoogled chromium on mac and realized Manifest V3 might be coming really fast so I need to make new plans asap. I really need proper tabs handling (I have 100 tabs) so most probably need a vertical tab manager.

Firefox is slow on mac but maybe that’s my only solution if I need proper sessions / containers to connect multiple accounts to the same website or isolate websites such as facebook.

Orion browser might be my only solution if I get rid of the container requirement and I look for something using less CPU and battery https://kagi.com/orion/
Thank you. This is what people with privilege don't get.

There are concentric circles of giving a fuck: first in the center is yourself, then your family, then your friends, then your community, then your city, then your country, then other countries on the planet.

It's impossible to get people to care about the outermost circle when their inner circles are not satisfied, so they won't be happy to see their elected officials being generous to foreigners with their own tax money.
> Deciding not to do those things for economic comfort is its own vote of support.

That is reductive. People have their own responsibilities and are dependent on income. This is the vast majority of workers.

They do have agency but usually larger action is done if circumstances reach certain thresholds.
If we are heating with electricity and cannot use gas storage to make up for the seasons, chemical batteries are nowhere near price effective, or even physically or projected to be available.

You can find out how much energy Europe stores in gas fields to get through the winter. You can divide that number by what you think is a reasonable sCOP for your heat pump. That number you can put next to total battery capacity ever produced, and I'll even let you add any other convertible energy storage capacity. You will find a gap off by orders of magnitude, and powerwalls in every home are not going to cover it. As you said, they'll cover a day, maybe a few, which leaves us 3 months short in the season where we have virtually no home solar.
Of course it is. The campaigning for fossil fuels is very sneaky and uses great talking points. There is always a grain of truth to every such talking point, so they are very difficult to debunk and discuss.
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I heard that musk was personally going to reimbursement everyone who buys the midnight ICO of his new MyTiresWereStolen Coin.

Edit: ah, well looks like someone stole all the money. We'll do another tomorrow.
> It is none of your business what your neighbor puts on their property whether it's a homeless shelter or luxury apartment or a bodega or a fancy coffee shop.

I appreciate your maximalist libertarian proposition, it's a fun exercise when you have no skin in the game. But a) housing is an investment as well as a lodging (and for most people their largest investment), and the value of that investment has everything to do with what's around it. 2) community is a real thing, even when it describes a group of people outside the usual members of sympathetic "intersectionalities".

Everyone hates HOAs until they have to live next to my father, who kept three rusting "parts cars" in the driveway, piles of scrapwood in the yard, and let our dogs run all over the neighborhood.
Very cool, was not aware of either of them. Thanks for sharing

https://github.com/copilot-language/copilot

https://github.com/augustss/MicroHs
I've been using Brave for a while. The Shields feature is practically uBlock Origin, and Brave has said they intend to continue Manifest V2 support into the future for as long as they can with their custom patches[0].

As for why I use Brave, it's mostly because they aren't Google. ("you're using Chromium so it's just Chrome and muh browser engine marketshare"... yes, I know, but I don't mind.)

[0] https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
I disagree with smaller docs being easier to write. Quite the opposite, it is easy to write longer text, which then requires more effort from the reader to understand it.

To write shorter text, you must put in the effort beforehand to compact, crystallize and organize the ideas. Each reader then doesn't have to do that themselves in their heads.
That's probably mean you're more than thirty and work for a living.

Twitter is like the 15th social network, and even amongst those who use it, a lot (adults who use it as marketing tool) wouldn't use grok anyway. If I had to guess who is a regular user: a male in the US (not necessarily born there), between 13 and 25, either still a student or in an internship, probably a fan of tech and/or Musk.
There may be libraries that call panic. E.g., the templating library does that. In that case, I want something in the logs, not a termination of the service.
>we'd likely use some form of nanotechnology to recompose waste into food. But again, without "creating" matter, simply rearranging it.

Nanotech isn't magic. The process would still require energy and would create more waste than can be possibly recovered, and diminishing returns would be inevitable. There's no perfect system possible here, entropy can't be cheated.
That doesn’t seem to be correct (any more?) I just spent a while scrolling back through the call log.

It goes back to 2019 - certainly more than 100 calls
I don't believe that if employer NI were removed that money would come to me, so I don't personally see it as unrealised salary, but that's just an opinion.
Depends on the person. The CEO position is about setting a vision and hiring the right people to execute.
Is your airco unit by Mitsubishi Electric or Mitsubishi Heavy Industries? They are unrelated!
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They haven’t, because it’s perfectly legible, versus languages that hide control flow with implicit assumptions. The main point of Go was to avoid magic. If you don’t care for it, that’s fine. Plenty of us prefer explicit control flow.
Pick one up and see for yourself. I think they still make them. It’s the basic round dial type thermostat from Honeywell. It uses an at328p MCU and it even has a programming header. The debug was open on the ones I played with, so I downloaded the code, but I never got around to (or had the tools to) disassemble it. I was going to just write an arduino sketch to replace the factory code, but we figured out the “cut out the battery and jumper to 3v “ solution so I never did. Saved about $4000 in thermostats replacements though.
> this can only be explained by ignorance.

s/ignorance/apathy
In this world.
Huh? I've installed my own charger in our apartment complex underground garage. Many people do that, permitting takes a while and could certainly be made easier, but it's not impossible, and recent laws make it impossible to refuse the installation of a charger. (EU, PL)
I hope that phrasing it that way focuses on the action and not split into a flame war
It is not any fossil fuel, it is specifically oil and gas. Coal is not a problem for energy independence as it is much more evenly distributed on Earth.

What Germany has done with its reliance on Russian gas is truly insane. Not only they closed nuclear stations, but they also have been closing coal power stations. They should be pushing electrical vehicles and modernization of coal plants instead as China is doing. Even from green perspective an electrical car that uses electricity from a modern coal plant generates less CO2 than a car running on oil products.
Anything too complex for the dead simple calculator on my phone ends up in a spreadsheet. I’m not generally graphing anything or doing complex calculus, tho. Mostly finances. For algebra, geometry, and any calculus that’s about manipulating symbols rather than getting to a number, I’ll use scrap paper. But then I learned math back before the calculators available to the average Joe could do any of that for you.
Honestly I would buy that. The design just looks cool.
Oh, yeah! Haven't heard anything about it in the last 6 months. Any interesting developments?
That makes it seem like a security guarantee would risk deeper US involvement, as eventually happened with Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq I.

It seems to me that your logic would make the Iraq War quite defensible. Iraq had already invaded Kuwait. We had already guaranteed Kuwait’s security, so we would’ve had to send troops if Saddam invaded again. So if the CIA was correct that Saddam was rearming, there was a logic to deposing him now and resolving the situation on terms favorable to us, instead of reactively getting involved at a future date. Without the benefit of hindsight—knowing Saddam didn’t have WMDs—it seems like the only basis for opposing the Iraq War under your logic would have been to quibble about how much of an affirmative step Saddam had to take before our obligation to put boots on the ground kicked in.
I did not had to enter email to read it.
Because not exercising superpowers is what makes a superpower?
Sure, it's a market with massive abuse potential, but we have a world full of them and we regulate to control the abuses. The underlying service is clearly of societal benefit and would clearly be profitable to all parties, so it's worth doing and working out the regulation to make it viable.
The goal is to make devices more controlled by google and less FOSS. The many GPL violations happening around drivers are telling.
1,5 months feels like 2 years these days.

Besides, that rests on the assumption that the US is going to have a “free and fair” election in 2 and 4 years. Trump said loud and clear on the campaign trail that you need to come out and vote for him just this one last time. Won’t need to vote afterwards at all, they’ll fix it.

This seems like one of the promises he’d be really inclined to hold, if he can.
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