skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars allow people to travel longer distances more conveniently, access remote areas, transport goods efficiently, and have greater independence in their daily lives. They also enable emergency services to respond quickly, support economic growth by facilitating trade, and provide opportunities for leisure travel that were previously impractical.
I don’t think you should be embarrassed or apologize. You still did a thing that improved performance - in the near term it worked around a bug that you weren’t even aware of, and long term there are still gains even with that bug fixed. But even if that weren’t the case, the only way anything gets done in software is to rely on abstractions. You can either get things done or know exactly how every last bit of your stack is implemented, but probably not both. It’s a very reasonable trade off.

Smart people go and build things. Other smart people find problems. Nothings broken with that.
> "it just can't write code like I can" while at the same time wondering why they can't land a job

People had this same prediction about offshore development

Those old school devs are able to find well paying work fixing broken software churned out by overseas code sweatshops

I predict if you can read and understand code without the help of AI models you will be in even higher demand to fix the endless broken software built by AI assisted coders who cannot function without AI help
Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43289737 ("When Europe needed it most, the Ariane 6 rocket delivered (arstechnica.com)", 10 comments)
A Platform for Dialogue-Based Computational Problem Solving with Generative AI
Can't access my Google account, but scammers can
About 15 years ago I created a secondary Gmail account. Have been using it to sign up for stuff like Facebook. It was configured with "Forward and keep a copy", it's important.

Later I also used it to sign up for more sensitive stuff like medical labs and PayPal.

A year or so ago I realized that I don't have the password written down anywhere and I have no idea which recovery email address I used. There was no way for me access this account.

No problem: I just changed email addresses wherever I could remember.

A month or so ago I started receiving notifications like "Confirm your Facebook login" sent to this inaccessible address. Someone is actively going through accounts tied to this email address.

These people now see my physical mailing address, name, medical test results, etc. Yes, I screwed up, but this is not the point.

I have no problem with losing this account. In fact, I would be ecstatic if if were deleted.

What I DO have a problem with is that a non-I has access to it while I don't.

As you know, Google and customer care don't live in the same universe. What options do you think I have?

Thank you.
I guess they did need that datacenter that musk decided to DIY remove after all
The site has performed more or less the same after the staff cuts as it did before. I say this as somebody who has used it nearly daily for ten-ish years now. Most users I know have the same experience. Maybe you noticed something if you're parked on Twitter for hours at a time, but I try to limit my exposure to people that do that.

I get that Musk is a dipshit and that there are other problems with the site since the change of ownership, but the griping about stability seems to come from people that don't actually use it.
Author not claiming AI has peaked. Only claiming that the hype as peaked.
Every time I see an article or post that thinks Go's error handling is good, I ask myself: Have these people never used anything outside of Python, C++ and $LANG where exceptions without type constraints are the norm?

Go error handling is literal garbage compared to things like OCaml's Result plus anonymous unions, or Haskell and Rust's Either and Result.
I was playing around with building retro game VMs with qemu and pci passthrough awhile back and dusted off my old canopus pure 3d to try out with a pci to pcie adapter board. It was kind of amusing you'd have the windows desktop running in virt-manager and when you fired up unreal tournament the desktop would just freeze and only then would the card actually output anything.
Remember, this is the president that won largely because of people's dissatisfaction with inflation, and his promises to "fix" the economy.

Instead, he's decided to wage a pointless trade war that nobody asked for, and came out yesterday essentially saying he's totally okay with a recession coming out of it.

The only thing more absurd is the fact that some people didn't see this coming. He signalled everything that he's doing now during his campaign, over and over.

I will say I'm pretty happy with how badly TSLA is doing.
Yes, they make things faster and easier.

My question was what do cars let us do now that we couldn’t before.

We moved heavy objects and traveled long distances long before cars.
I see where this is going in the context of tools like Cursor. The common wisdom is that if you don't use it, you lose it. Muscles atrophy without stimulus (regular exercise).

On the other hand, this seems to echo the transition from assembly -> higher level languages. The complaint was that we lose the skill or the context to understand what the machine is really doing.

I've written a whole bunch of LLM-assisted code in the past few weeks so I sympathize. If I'm generous, I have a high level understanding of the generated code. If I have to troubleshoot it, I'm basically diving into an unknown code base.

Anyway, I'm just rambling here. More tools is better, it gives everyone an opportunity to work the way they want to.
WebGPU is not supported yet, but HypeHype, one of our clients, has been able to use our codecs successfully under WebGPU. That said, this needs to be tested more thoroughly under a variety of browsers and devices. We will provide official support for WebGPU in an upcoming release.
Embedded programming is still like this. Most people just don't inspect the assembly produced by their compiler. Unless you're working on an extremely mainstream chip with a bleeding edge compiler, your assembly is going to be absolutely full of complete nonsense.

For instance, if you aren't aware, AVR and most other uCs have special registers and instructions for pointers. Say you put a pointer to an array in Z. You can load the value at Z and increment or decrement the pointer as a single instruction in a single cycle.

GCC triples the cost of this operation with some extremely naive implementations.

Instead of doing 'LD Z+' GCC gives you
```
inc Z
ld Z
dec Z
```

Among other similar annoyances. You can carefully massage the C++ code to get better assembly, but that can take many hours of crazy-making debugging. Sometimes it's best to just write the damn assembly by hand.

In this same project, I had to implement Morton ordering on a 3D bit field (don't ask). The C implementation was well over 200 instructions but by utilizing CPU features GCC doesn't know about, my optimized assembly is under 30 instructions.

Modern sky-high abstracted languages are the source of brain rot, not compilers or IDEs in general. Most programmers are completely and utterly detached from the system they're programming. I can't see how one could ever make any meaningful progress or optimization without any understanding of what the CPU actually does.

And this is why I like embedded. It's very firmly grounded in physical reality. My code is only slightly abstracted away from the machine itself. If I can understand the code, I understand the machine.
The "book" is accompanying studying material for the course Probabilistic AI at ETH Zurich. Essentially each chapter is the material covered in one lecture (3hrs).

Source: I did the course
> is suddenly the most hated figure because he chose to expose government fraud and wastes

Wait until you see all the hate people get simply because they hang out in vans offering free candy to children. People are so hypocritical when they tell kids to stay away—yeah right, like your kids magically don’t like candy. It’s not fair.
Labels will not regret recordings being lost, because it's just asshole executives who only care about money.

The hapless sound historian is just projecting his own bellyaches onto other people that are completely different from him.
Goofy question, I also got this email and am trying to go through the process. However no emailed ever make it to my inbox.

Is Blackblaze getting flooded with these requests? I'm also a bit confused at the decision here. :)
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Why are you downvoted? It is what the site says. What the hell has happened to HN?

Its not even a controversial comment. Da hell?
Anyone frequenting more than one grocery store can quickly see its not a supply and demand issue setting prices. A few grocery stores never budged setting prices and charged the same and then the frantic news cycle caused people to buy 4x the amount of eggs they need, causing inventory shortages.

And then there are other stores that saw this as an opportunity to raise egg prices to like $13 a dozen. Those eggs basically go unsold.

I think at this point the biggest factor in the egg supply crunch is that its so publicized and making people act poorly. As a result we see the effective number of available eggs crash as some of these are marked up and go unsold and some linger in someones fridge for a month before consumption. If everyone just bought their usual load of eggs maybe there wouldn’t even be a supply issue.
Can Ukraine–and America–Survive Donald Trump?
> I think we are talking past each other. In my initial comment I said "I do disagree with your assertion that “Life is much harder for some of us.” I still maintain that comment.

It sounds like you have very little experience with people outside your socioeconomic class. (Or you do have that experience, but have drawn the wrong conclusions from it.) It is an obvious, proven fact that life is much harder for some people than for others.
Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43289990 - March 2024 (69 comments)
This could be extrapolated to “does Cursor rot the mind?” Maybe. But programmers’ obsession with minutiae is a massive waste of time.

People try to dress it up as “attention to detail” or “caring about the craft” when it’s just unnecessary bikeshedding most of the time.

Hemingway didn’t need some bullshit Hemingway Writer to craft his style. Michelangelo wasn’t posting meta takes on Hacker News about the tools he used to carve David. Dante didn’t waste time blogging about the ink he used to write Inferno.

All this tabs vs. spaces, Vim vs. Emacs, Java vs. Go nonsense—it’s just another way people trick themselves into feeling productive. If some Gen Z dev wants to use Cursor or Vibe CoPilot to get shit done, more power to them.
When you're interviewing junior developers, you have no standard measure, they don't have enough actual experience to speak to. So before a leetcode and CTCI, you'd either have junior developers who went to a good university and were able to get an internship via that network, or they made some great open source contribution or project on the side as a student
> Do calculators rot the brain?

Yes, they unequivocally make people worse at mental math. Now whether that's bad or not is debatable. Same with any tool, it's about tradeoffs and only you can determine whether the tradeoffs make sense for you.
Right now we're trained computer masseuses, not yet computer babysitters.

And to torture the analogy further since Im already in this rabbit hole, masseuses and babysitters probably have to put in the same amount of effort in their work.
Doubt anyone would think it’s a joke.

At this point the Oval Office may as well be redecorated in Soviet red
Well where else am I supposed to socialize with fellow cybertruck owners?
In a day I can travel many times farther than I can walk, carrying hundreds or thousands of pounds of stuff with me if needed.
That's nice. It's just so weird to me that Musk's adventures in authoritarian nutjobbery are causing us to revisit long dead nonsense FUD arguments about EVs that have been clearly disproven in the market for like a decade now.

I mean, seriously? We're doing this?
I do. The Trump administration needs to call Apple to the floor and investigate what sort of political subversion against the United States is going on behind closed doors. This type of thing is smoke where there is fire.
Show HN: Style Matplotlib Plots in the Browser
Hi HN! A friend and I built a web tool for creating and styling matplotlib plots in the browser. You can try it out at https://www.plot2plot.com/

We think this tool is a great resource for beginners and Pyhton data scientists. It displays a component tree of the plot, lets you tweak methods and arguments interactively, and generates the corresponding Python code—so you can copy, paste, and reproduce the exact plot in your scripts.

The idea comes from personal necessity while using matplotlib and trying to make the plots not awful. The thought was: Is there no WYSIWYG for matplotlib? Even if its just to test different line colors quickly?

So, we made this tool that shows a component tree of the matplotlib plot, and within each component one can browse the available methods and arguments, test and play with them. The tool also generates the code so that you can just copy and paste into your own code and get the same result!

In the future we want to include other libraries such as Seaborn, but we had to start somewhere. The website is in active development as we add new functions and plot types.

Maybe in the era of AI this tool is not as useful as it would have been a few years ago, but we loved the development process and having a free tool for others to enjoy. Its our small way of giving back to the Python community.
I must admit, I agree with nearly all you said. Problem is that Ukraine was weak, and nearly without navy, and civilian ships was unable to resist to Russian navy. And Ukrainian export was blocked, as civilian ships fear to run within range of fire of Russian navy.

When Ukraine got enough weapons to force Russian ships to stay at distance, situation changed dramatically, so export was unblocked.

I think, very similar things happen during WWII.

This is not about only submarines, this is about superiority.
Show HN: TimeBack – block apps, grow a zen garden, touch grass IRL
Hey HN,

I used to be super addicted to social media and doomscrolling. My phone addiction got so bad that my screen time literally became a full-time job (8 hours a day, no joke).

So, I built TimeBack. It's an app to help you fix your phone addiction with a zen garden game.

Here’s how it works:

- Block distracting apps

- Stick to your focus plan to unlock surprise decorations and design your own zen garden

Think of it as touching grass without having to go outside.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!
How so? From my point of view it seems like the conflation lies with the critics.

The word he used was transgender, and the studies were all for transgender health in a mouse model.

Critics are the ones bringing transgenic into the conversation, which neither matches what he said, or the majority of the studies.

It is as if Bob called the ocean blue, but Sally claims Bob really meant red, while simultaneously pointing out he is wrong because the ocean actually blue. It is a really weak criticism.

A more coherent response is simply: "Studying transgender health in mouse models is important, and those studies were a good use of money"
4060 was probably the only 4000 series GPU available for a while, too.

I have a 3090 for AI and gaming and I haven't seen a reason to "upgrade" yet. In fact, I might try and get a 3090ti instead.
this is minimum 6th dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322115
It was a cool board. I didnt technically have one, but I built my dad a W2K server on a BP6. I always wanted to hack on it and overclock with it. But after I handed it over, I wasnt allowed to touch it, "you'll burn up my processors." Since he didn't care about overclocking he had dual P2-400s or maybe 450s. It was a beast. He could run SQLServer and compile Delphi apps so hard.

I got my kicks though with a BF6 and a 300A. Those were the times; atleast until the AthlonXPs (AXIA -- anybody?) were released.
Digits Launches the First AI Ledger
Digits launches the first AI powered accounting ledger in 20 years.
Is Bluesky good enough and dense enough if I block all political keywords? X is good enough for me after muting all political keywords.

There was a link recently to a site that lists all top links on Bluesky and overwhelmingly all were about US politics.
> In a "normal" company that money goes straight into the pockets of the company owners.

Only if the company returns money to its shareholders (ex: pays a dividend or does a stock buyback). Many growth-focused companies don't do this -- Amazon didn't do it for its first 22y, Google for its first 17, Netflix for 24, etc.
Gunnar Morling on Technical Blogging
Or fate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manos:_The_Hands_of_Fate
https://archive.is/1ywXe
George Washington knew difference between running a business vs. the government
Are you seeing how much a can of sardines go for these days? Somehow they’ve been priced as a delicacy. Even spam isn’t cheap anymore.
I love throwing questions at it where previously it would have been daunting because you don't even know the right questions to ask, and the amount of research you'd need to do to even ask the proper question is super high.

Its great for ideating in that way. It does produce some legendary BS though.
They're going to completely remove sanctions on Russia before long, so that's not terribly surprising.
I have done that too much. When learning now, when I read the solution, I always make sure that I am able to implement myself, else I don't consider I learned it. I apply the same for LLM code.
Yeah tbh. Didn't even realize the ads were an issue. I'm a patreon subscriber and have bought two of his books, so I don't feel bad about blocking ads.
> I'm excited to understand more about how aider creates a map of the repository and effectively compresses the information in ways similar to how I keep track of high level ideas.

Run /map. It's nothing fancy, really.
Stocks are down because the president of the US has entered a costly trade war, actually.
How different is this argument from "does Rust rot the mind"? After all, Rust means that the part of the brain that is paranoid about careful memory safety issues no longer has to be engaged.

Like most things, the answer is that it depends. I think autocomplete is great, and I've come to appreciate LLMs doing boilerplate editing, but I'm quite worried about people using LLMs to do everything and pumping out garbage.
Did you read the linked evidence that the "animal welfare" program was fake? What part of it did you interpret as fake? What evidence supports your conclusion that this is an example of "propaganda for nefarious purposes"?

I agree with the description in the linked document - defendants presented "substantial evidence that grocery stores and other customers demanded animal-welfare standards", companies like McDonald's, Walmart, and Kroger demanded or required the animal welfare standards, the program was developed with input from a "Scientific Advisory Committee" of experts in animal reproductive welfare, and there was pressure from animal-rights groups and consumers for better treatment of hens.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.26...

> For their part, Defendants argued at trial that the UEP Certified Program was a bona fide
effort to satisfy customer demand. In Defendants’ view, the UEP Certified Program was a
natural response to pressure from animal-welfare groups, buyers, and end consumers. According
to Defendants, they felt pressure to make life better for hens.

> In that vein, Defendants presented substantial evidence that the grocery stores and other
customers demanded animal-welfare standards. So did consumers. And so did animal-rights
groups.

> For example, before adoption of the UEP Certified Program, Cal-Maine lost McDonald’s
as a customer after McDonald’s demanded producers expand the size of cages for their hens.
See Defs.’ Ex. 182. And within a few years of the creation of the UEP Certified Program,
grocery chains like Walmart and Kroger would purchase eggs only from UEP Certified
producers. See Defs.’ Exs. 329, 374, 639.

> According to Defendants, they were simply responding to market demand when they
implemented the cage-space restrictions in the UEP Certified Program. The jury heard evidence
that the UEP Certified Program was a legitimate animal-welfare program. Specifically,
Defendants pointed out that the UEP created the standard after following the guidance of a
Scientific Advisory Committee.

> That Committee consisted of an all-star team. See 11/1/23 Trial Tr., at 3085:25 (Dckt.
No. 657) (Armstrong) (“I was very, very pleased. We put our dream team together.”). It was
chaired by a leader in the field, Dr. Jeffrey Armstrong, who has degrees in physiology, and
specializes in the reproductive physiology of farm animals. See 11/1/23 Trial Tr., at 3074:19-25
(Dckt. No. 657) (Armstrong). Reproductive physiology of farm animals is what it sounds like –
how animal reproduction works. Id. at 3075:1-10.

> In sum, the jury learned about the UEP Certified program, and about its standards. And
the jury heard dueling views about the purpose of the program.

> Again, Plaintiffs alleged that the UEP Certified Program was a backdoor way to restrict
supply. Plaintiffs told the jury that the program required the birds to have more space. More
space equals fewer hens in each cage. And fewer hens means fewer eggs.
Someone will be along in a minute to tell you to watch Micro Men, an amusing and fairly accurate BBC dramatization of the Sinclair/Acorn rivalry :) but I'm here to recommend that you watch the Computer History Museum's interview with Hermann Hauser the erstwhile director of Acorn - he's very charming: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0sC3lT313Q

I'm fairly sure they've got one with Chris Curry too, but I can't spot it just now.
Yeah I never really learn something until I actually hack away at it, and even then I need to really understand things on a granular level.
This article is way too light on the details. Does it conflate Nvidia’s stock price with interest in generative AI? New use cases for it are arriving every month. 9 months ago I was amazed to use Cursor, and was leading getting my team to switch to it. 3 months ago it was that Cursor had added agents and trying to again demonstrate their benefits to my colleagues. Now I’m using Cline + Claude 3.7 and more productive than I’ve ever been — and I haven’t even touched MCPs yet.

Definitely not yet peaked IMO. However yea, I don’t see it fully replacing developers in the next 1-2 years — still gets caught in loops way too often and makes silly mistakes.
> I take that to mean that this user believes that democracy is not currently thriving in the US, which I would agree with.

and yet, no explanation as to why. The people voted, the government abides.

do you ever get the idea that you tilt at windmills?

also is the DPRK or the DRC "Democratic"? It's in the name, so therefore they are democracies!
This administration is either intentionally performing market manipulation or is simply incompetent. Either way, we all lose.

Hope the general populous is happy with their choice, lol.
"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against .

We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825