skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drop the "both sides" falsehood.
The last line has been my experience as well. I only trust what I've verified firsthand now because the Internet is just so rife with people trying to influence your thoughts in a way that benefits them, over a good faith sharing of the truth.

I just recently heard this quote from a clip of Jeff Bezos: "When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.", and I was like... wow. That quote is the zeitgeist.

If it's so revolutionary, it should be immediately obvious to me. I knew Uber, Netflix, Spotify were revolutionary the first time I used them. With LLMs for coding, it's like I'm groping in the dark trying to find what others are seeing, and it's just not there.
To be fair i don’t think there is a business where I can make an appointment in the same week.

I have ICE and getting basic oil change must be week in advance even when I call, I never get “we can book you tomorrow”.

Heck gettin haircut in my area they have calendars blocked so you have to plan with a week in advance. Super annoying as I have a simple cut and most of time it can be done in 15mins. Ok washing down cut hair is useful so maybe 18mins.

But I get frustrated I cannot just walk in, hotels, restaurants, hairdressers.

At lest ordering food online is usually an hour so no need to wait a week
the turtle did this
This was an incredibly well-researched and well-written deep dive. It's rare to see such a thorough breakdown of something as technical as exclaves while still making it engaging to read.
The 3090 was always a fallacy without native fp8.
These rules aren’t really about naming things, which I agree is hard. It’s pedantry around terms that really don’t matter which way you choose and thus are categorically not “best practices” let alone “idioms” one must abide by.

If the author really cares this much then they should be linter rules instead of a blog post.
You know that's still bad right?
> I read something recently that including AI in product descriptions actually hurts the rate of purchase by people because they're so fucking sick of it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41126685

Every non-tech/finance person I know is indifferent or strongly opposed to AI anything.
I spent a few hours trying cursor. I was impressed at first, I liked the feel of it and I tried to vibe code, whatever that means.

I tried to get it to build a very simple version of an app I’ve been working on. But the basics didn’t work, and as I got it to fix some functionality other stuff broke. It repeatedly nuked the entire web app, then rolled back again and again. It tried quick and dirty solutions that would lead to dead ends in just a few more features. No sense of elegance or foundational abstractions.

The code it produced was actually OK, and I could have fixed the bugs given enough time, but overall the results were far inferior to every programmer I’ve ever worked with.

On the design side, the app was ugly as hell and I couldn’t get it to fix that at all.

Autocomplete on a local level seems far more useful.
Same reason US needs a huge military.

Deterrence and overwhelming force are the only ways to ensure longterm peace and stability.
Haha.

Shame on you for making me laugh. That was very inappropriate.
That’s what I do with my model Y. Pedal to the metal immediately when it’s safe to drive fast. Long trips only with the family. And then charge time doesn’t matter. Or we just take the plane.
Idk where you live, but in my world "being a capitalist" requires you to own capital. And you know what, AI makes it even better to own capital. Now you have these fancey machines doing stuff for you and you dont even need any annoying workers.
Well, do you want things to work or are you willing to wait years until things are mainlined?
Depends on whether things are officially supported or just community contributes, in my experience. I tend to stick to officially supported devices.
There's a more accurate status on their support pages: https://helpdesk.gandi.net/hc/en-us

At least they spell out IMAP/POO/Webmail is still down.
My phone will drop contractions, and that would be charitable.

A double negative is risky without typos, though.
Nah the value unlock is too great. For now. Don’t quote me next March.
US doesn’t have to make “anytime” why export products when you can just export cash?

US economy, trade and budget deficit are subsidized by the rest of the world which buys their bonds.
> If they were traveling uphill to work you’d think they would gain some of that back coming back downhill

It's uphill both ways.
The benchmark only touches 8B-class models at 8-bit quantification. Would be interesting to see how it fares with models that use more of the card ram, and under varying quantization and context lengths.
From a company that sell "full self-driving" cars that don't, you now, "self drive fully", I was kinda already expecting that whatever advertised range was, to put it nicely, a "large exageration".

The bit of code in the dashboard to exaggerate even more is a nice touch. I wonder what the commit message was for that PR ? (Or maybe Tesla does not do PRs or commits, and just let anyone build anything on their laptop and put the binaries in the car. I mean, all that "software engineering" process sounds like so much useless efforts, right ?)

Also, the author of the article takes a lot of pleasure in mentioning the EPA dozens of time - too bad the days of the agency are numbered.
Performance is good enough for non-reasoning models even if they're FP8 or FP4. Check the phoronix article, the difference between the 3090 and 4090 is rather small.

There's weight-only FP8 in vLLM on NVidia Ampere: https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/features/quantization/fp8.htm...
huh... we haven't gotten there yet in my neck of the woods, but where you are, pound for pound, boneless chicken meat is probably cheaper than chicken eggs.
Some people use blockchain to buy drugs...
tailwind would not counteract headwind because drag increases with the square of windspeed.
Kudos to the author for diving in and uncovering the real story here. The Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter is still a nice improvement (any few-percent gain in a language runtime is hard-won), just not a magic 15% free lunch. More importantly, this incident gave us valuable lessons about benchmarking rigor and the importance of testing across environments. It even helped surface a compiler bug that can now be fixed for everyone’s benefit. It’s the kind of deep-dive that makes you double-check the next big performance claim. Perhaps the most thought-provoking question is: how many other “X% faster” results out there are actually due to benchmarking artifacts or unknown regressions? And how can we better guard against these pitfalls in the future?
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt
I think you might be lacking imagination here.

Frequency hopping algorithms can be used. Multiple transmitters, globally dispersed and coordinating with each other can deliver service. Shortwave can be digital.

Not everything is a competition, other means of communication don't mean the internet has no use.

Imagine being able to push micro-blogs to a local station and having it broadcasted globally over shortwave.
It did work with HTML though IIRC. (Well, given Firefox UI is now mostly HTML with some XUL sprinkled on top.)
> given platforms like Windows thrive in spite of it, it is probably not as bad as many people may think.

There is a lot of extra work done behind the scenes to "thrive in spite of it". Windows Defender (built into Windows after XP) has to periodically download updated virus definitions and always scans programs for potential malware, and still can't catch them all.
"Musk has fathered fourteen children, one of whom died as an infant. He had six children with his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, who he met while attending Queen's University in Ontario, Canada; they married in 2000. In 2002, their first child Nevada Musk died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 10 weeks."

"One of world’s richest man Elon Musk’s kids does not want to be related to their biological father anymore. Born a boy, Xavier Alexander Musk, has filed a plea seeking a change in her name in accordance with her new gender identity. Xavier had filed the petition seeking both a name change and a new birth certificate that reflects her new gender identity with the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April 2022.

The reason for the name change in the documents is mentioned as “Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”"

"Elon’s father Errol Musk fathered two children with his former stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout, who is 41 years his junior."

"n a recent podcast interview, Errol Musk said his son Elon had not “been a good dad” to his children."

“He was such a terrible human being,” Elon, 46, told the magazine. “You have no idea.”

Elon added: “My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil… He will plan evil.”

“You have no idea about how bad. Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done,” Elon said, though he never went into specifics about what his father allegedly did. “Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done… It’s so terrible, you can’t believe it.”

“It would certainly be accurate to say that I did not have a good childhood… It may sound good. It was not absent of good, but it was not a happy childhood. It was like misery.”

"One does see a mother turning the children against the father successfully. "

"It's thought Grimes is keen to move in with the mothers of Musk's other children and raise them all together in one big house, however, most recently she's hit out at her billionaire ex publicly about his parenting.

"Plz respond about our child's medical crisis. I am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation. This requires immediate attention", she wrote on X.

"If you don't want to talk to me can you please designate or hire someone who can so that we can move forward on solving this. This is urgent, Elon.""
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Show them fava https://beancount.github.io/fava/. Offer the url; they can comb through it all at their own leisure. "Here let me show you."

Mine likes the pretty graphs. As I enthusiastically explain them, the eyes start flickering elsewhere, attention rapidly dwindles, and trust is effectively reassured for another month, or six.
> I knew Uber, Netflix, Spotify were revolutionary the first time I used them.

Maybe re-tune your revolution sensor. None of those are revolutionary companies. Profitable and well executed, sure, but those turn up all the time.

Uber's entire business model was running over the legal system so quickly that taxi licenses didn't have time to catch up. Other than that it was a pretty obvious idea. It is a taxi service. The innovations they made were almost completely legal ones; figuring out how to skirt employment and taxi law.

Netflix was anticipated online by and is probably inferior to YouTube except for the fact that they have a pretty traditional content creator lab tacked on the side to do their own programs. And torrenting had been a thing for a long time already showing how to do online distribution of video content.
Disagree, now that there are great open models are available I think there's less need of huge training data--can just post train
isn't the Eurofighter Typhoon also "US-free"? I kinda thought that was the point of it.
I don't know... I just don't trust France and Germany all that much with privacy-friendly services... [1][2][3]

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/24/encryption-under-fire-in-e...

[2]: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-o...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36275795
My understanding is that Windows PowerShell is the version that shipped with Windows, i.e. PowerShell up to 5.4. The new PowerShell is just the newer versions (6.x/7.x), which doesn't ship with Windows and is meant to be cross-platform (i.e. runs on not-Windows). But that means dropping support for stuff that they can't make cross-platform.

Same with .net — Framework (up to 4.8 I think) is Windows, newer stuff (Core) is cross-platform. So this Framework release from Wine is for stuff that ties heavily into Windows, which is why Microsoft gave it to them in the first place.
I hated those floppy analog joysticks, being an Atari computer fan and used to the firm click of contacts for each direction.

I took an Apple analog joystick apart when I was in junior high and measured the resistance in all directions. Then I took a Wico "bat-handle" digital joystick apart and wired resistors in to simulate the full deflection of the analog joystick. Then I had to cut the 9-pin plug off and solder the necessary wires to a DIP plug to go into the Apple computer. The Wico joystick already had two buttons, which were necessary for the Apple (ironically, considering Steve Jobs's stand on multi-button mice years later).

I wrote the whole thing up as a how-to article for Compute magazine, but I don't recall what response I got to the submission. They didn't publish it, but the thing worked. I still have my one prototype around somewhere in its original box.
The language is called Go.

Other than that, yeah doing by hand what C++ and Objective-C do automatically.
C is also C++, at least the C89 subset.
That's ridiculous. Cottage cheese is typically pasteurized, therefore safe.

(We're not talking about cottage cheese from raw cow's milk).

Cottage cheese is a fine idea, hysteria about bird flu is overdone, cottage cheese is healthier than processed meat, in the US. Remember Chipotle's multiple meat handling scandals that sickened 1100? You can't point to similar for cottage cheese.
Some technologies have been lost, even though they were superior to what is available today. Take, for example, the old “green/blue screen” technique using sodium vapor lamps, used by Walt Disney in film production in the pre-digital era: https://youtu.be/UQuIVsNzqDk (12 minutes long, but totally worth it).
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My work has 50 eng teams. We started on django and our internal standards team have depreciated it - no further projects in django. We are applying the strangler pattern the best we can, everything new in Go if we can.

The django code is so intertwined and full of circular imports. Custom db managers to handle our multiple dbs with read-replica routing, custom caching solutions, and everything inherits from something and base classes have insane child-type checks and methods that are only used in one child class. And due to the ease of passing query sets around, we have complex and slow joins and n+1 queries everywhere. And object properties that are actually methods that call and cache from the db, so sneaky n+1.

The unlimited escape hatches in python has turned into welded spaghetti making development and organizational velocity slow.
I'd expect mid-level developer to show more understanding and better reasoning. So far it looks like a junior dev who read a lot of books and good at copy pasting from stackoverflow.

(Based on my everyday experience with Sonet and Cursor)
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In Geneva, Switzerland they simply dont give replacement cars as per colleague's recent visit. And of course they are in the middle of nowhere, impractical for ie going to work adterwards.

Thats a very shitty service, even cheapest noname garages give replacements
I don't think you read the thread. They did have those jobs, and presumably they were on teams that did vaguely what is on their resume. No HR doesn't investigate candidates or do background checks before you interview them, that would be very expensive and silly.

I feel like you kind of vaguely are aware of these topics but have never actually had a job or something because you seem completely unfamiliar with the basics of how hiring is done in the industry. Are you from Eastern Europe maybe?
Trident is made by Lockheed Martin, though. Or does the UK have the capacity to perform maintenance and manufacture make spare parts on their own?

I guess there would be enough time to switch to French rockets even in the worst case.
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I'm the one who feels uncomfortable when something is magical. I'm trying to dig whenever possible. I don't always have success. I know very little about Linux kernel internals, for example.

That said, it's rarely pays out. Quite the opposite: I often spending lots of time digging unnecessarily. I'm not complaining, I am who I am and I don't want to change. Digging into internals makes me happier and satisfied. And sometimes it is useful. So Linux kernel internals are on the roadmap and hopefully I'll dig into it some day.

I agree that absolute majority of people I met are not of that kind. And probably they should not. Learning business side of the software is what makes someone really useful. I hate business side, I only love computer side.
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this idea is plain google propaganda.

chrome monoculture was what Microsoft tried with IE a long time ago.
> Yes yes engineers make more than that blah blah but the cost would quickly jump out of control for bigger tasks.

Also (most) engineers don't hallucinate answers. Claude still does regularly. When it does it in chat mode via a flat rate Pro plan I can laugh it off and modify the prompt to give it the context it clearly didn't understand but if its costing me very real money for the LLM to over-eagerly over-engineer an incorrect implementation of the stated feature its a lot less funny.
I am not sure where you live but in most of America you can get an ICE vehicle serviced in minutes. I always go through one of those express oil changes, usually they get me all setup 10 mins once I roll in, don’t even have to get out of the car.
> much, much heavier

Stop that. 10 - 15% doesn’t constitute “much, much”.
hardware improvements don't strike me as the horse to bet on.

LLM Progression seems to be linear and compute needed exponential. And I don't see exponential hardware improvements besides some new technology (that we should not bet on coming ayntime soon).
This article’s main point is that companies who do layoffs subsequently have poor financial performance relative to companies who don’t.

Well obviously.

It’s like saying surgery doesn’t work, because people who have recently undergone surgery are more likely to be experiencing health issues.
Wow, that is crazy.

I've come to think of cars, and maybe other big purchases, as you're purchasing a culture; the company that made it and will service it - it's why Toyota is so highly regarded. I own a 20yo Toyota Tacoma - and it's making more frequent shop visits now; and there are some good independent shops, but the Toyota guys really do a good job and over-communicate what's going on when they have your vehicle. You also have a person who handles you through the entire process - it's a great experience.

Tesla culture is the opposite - buy the care and go away please.
They were revolutionary as product genres, not necessary individual companies. Ordering a cab without making a phone call was revolutionary. Netflix at least with its initial promise of having all the world's movies and TV was revolutionary, but it didn't live up to that. Spotify because of how cheap and easy it was to have access to all the music, this was the era when people were paying 99c per song on iTunes.

I've tried some AI code completion tools and none of them hit me that way. My first reaction was "nobody is actually going to use this stuff" and that opinion hasn't really changed.

And if you think those 3 companies weren't revolutionary then AI code completion is even less than that.
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From Microsoft there are also.NET Native, .NET Nano Framework, .NET Micro Framework.

Additionally outside Microsoft, Meadows and Unity .NET (which is a kind of hybrid between Mono and their own IL2CPP/Burst).

Many Xamarin folks are not that happy how the whole merge turned out.
Yes, this is happening at the company I work for. Total hiring freeze, people leaving through retirement or attrition aren't necessarily replaced. Salary raises are lower than inflation. Because no growth in staff, there's limited progression opportunity - you can't take a step up by moving to a new team since the business isn't expanding. It does have an impact in that ambitious people get frustrated and end up leaving.
I enjoy the game, I wish it has different level of difficulty.

E.g. for easier mode. It should only generate pattern that is "beneficial" to the current board.
That means I’m nuts, or what? The OP was right, Yandex is way better compared to Google when searching for politically sensitive stuff, and they don’t seem to have that much of recency bias as the Google search index has, which I found to be a good thing, but on the whole Google’s search is still slightly better, I would say. More convenient, at least, thanks to the deep integration within Chrome.
I visited the quaint town Disney developed in the 90s
Do not underestimate the Musk reality distortion field... He's been saying FSD for like 10 years on investor calls and they just keep eating it up.
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