skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wear my occupational lenses 100% while working at my computer/laptop or doing some up close and small fiddly work (i.e. soldering a circuit board). I wear my regular glasses otherwise, but find myself frequently taking them off to focus on things close to me (i.e. if I want to read something really quick or use my phone for more than a quick glance).
Throwing user stories at an LLM and hope it builds the right thing. It's like letting a product manager try to generate code without paying attention to the details. It's as terrible as it sounds, but debatably okay for fast prototypes.
It's possible since hybrid warfare has been their schtick for awhile though it would be a clear escalation. Time will tell.
I appreciate the informal decision tree.
On the other hand, institutions from science and technology, wireless
communications, radio and phonograph, made all of these recordings
possible. Just sayin. So nil-nil at half-time for the argument against
"bare" institutions? Or are you saying all "institutions" are
inherently monstrous?
I don't think Trump is looking like a same person unless you consider a Trump hotel in Gaza sane. Do you?
A lot of times the actual business emerges from something that started out as an idea that wasn't working. If you are still enjoying working on things in this space and it seems like this idea is running out of steam, pivot to something close to it and see if that has any effect. The one thing you do need to do is treat these pivots like an experiment so you actually learn something from them and can measure success.

For example maybe your hypothesis is that pivoting to an AI tool that will scan your profile and give you a score back as to how optimized it is for finding new jobs would increase the amount of people willing to pay 5 dollars to have their profile scanned. Maybe this is something people are willing to pay for more since you can justify it costing some small amount of money for potentially a much larger return for the user if the suggestions help them get more interviews or become more discoverable to recruiters, etc...
Manus AI Is a Claude Wrapper
What lasting consequences? Crowdstrike and the 2017 Equifax hack that leaked all our data didn't stop them. The shares of crowdstrike after it happened I bought are up more than the SP500. Elon went through Twitter and fired everybody but it hasn't collapsed. A carpenter has a lot of opinions about the woodworking used on cheap IKEA cabinets, but mass manufacturing and plastic means that building a good solid high quality chair is no longer the craft it used to be.
(I’m not the guy you replied to) but Google has like 8 ad-friendly approved sources you may get news from, which are all anti-Trump sources. It can be impossible to find news stories unfavorable to democrats without appending the name of conservative outlets on the end.
There's a little fear in France, because the head of the far right party is the daughter of the former head, and the aunt of the rising star. Since that party seems not unlikely to win the next Presidential elections, we might end up with a monarchy in France.

Hurray us.
Yeah, there's a video going around where a dealership is working with Tesla to repair a car battery, but Tesla says the car has structural damage and is therefore classified as salvage, so the repair will cost $12,000+.

The guy says "Salvage is different from having structural damage, I have proof here that it's not salvage". Tesla informs the man that "according to Tesla, it's salvage, and they can't provide any more details about anything, if you want more you have to go through Tesla Legal"

So when it comes to Tesla, it's salvage if they says so, despite any other records, and if you don't like it, you can sue.
I think the issue is you're using terms like "the left" and "a lot" but you're talking about a very niche, fringe set of the population as if it represented any significant proportion. I would not say that the non-conservative kook vote is synonymous with "the left" but at least I can understand your point a bit better.
All the creators of the original images ingested by midjourney? You understand that if we had the transparency to make a list of names, this wouldn’t be as insidious of a problem for artists, yes?
> Tech employees don't "bring in" the company's revenue.

Sure they do. Every employee contributes to the revenue a company brings in. If they don't, then they should be fired.

> Productivity growth literally is just wage growth, by definition.

Completely false. You accuse a commenter in a sibling thread of not having a good grasp of economics, but that feels like the pot calling the kettle black, here.
Title misspells _point_
True, but there are likely innovations happening in multiple dimensions all at once: WebGPU improvements that better utilize a device's compute, Wasm64. And of course, LLMs over time become SLMs (smaller and smaller models), that can do a surprisingly large variety of things well.

Putting aside LLMs for a minute, even applications that do not need LLMs, but benefit from a graph database, can be unlocked to help build interactive UIs and visualizations that retain privacy on the client side without ever moving the data to a server. Loads of possibilities!
There should be an updated article, "Does Visual Studio Code Rot the Mind?"

In the old days, when we set our development environments up by hand, you usually ended up learning quite a bit about your setup. Or you at least had to know things like what's installed, what paths are where, blah blah.[1]

With Visual Studio Code being what almost everyone uses these days, everything is a click-to-install plugin. People don't realize Python isn't part of Visual Studio Code. The same for gcc, ssh, etc. You end up with tickets like "Can't run Python", or "Can't connect to the server", but it's all Visual Studio Code issues.

[1]: And yes, I realize a lot of us didn't know what we were doing back then, and the shotgun approach of "`apt-get install foobar` fixed this for me!" was a standard 'solution'
Plus Super Mario 64 was so colorfully saturated!
Again a total non sequitur. Both sides had ample opportunity to present evidence and make their arguments. If you think something was missed or wrongly decided then be specific and provide citations.
Yeah Threads feels like a flipped house; pretty finishes and big open concept rooms that draw you in before you can realize its all a facade and full of engagement bait
That the church was central in life while growing up in the 1980s was in part due to our family's enrollment in the Catholic school board, but there were other things that changed in the '80s and '90s that contributed to the greatly reduced role of the church in people's lives. Most notable being that locally the laws preventing stores from opening on Sundays were either struck down or repealed. People were therefore able to do things on Sundays that they previously could not. Secularization of this nature is one of the biggest changes to life that occurred in the past 40 years here in Canada.

I live in a rural area, and we still get random drop ins from out neighbours occassionally. It's part of what makes rural life a bit more enjoyable. We have pretty good relations with our neighbours, which is easier when there are only a handful.

When I lived in Toronto for years it was a vastly different experience. What I found is that because one passes by so many people each day on the street, subway platform, bus or streetcar, you have to switch your default to actively ignoring people. There just isn't the capacity to make eye contact with hundreds or thousands of people every day. And yes, I did go out a lot more often to a pub or bar or cafe a lot more simply to randomly meet people.

Now that I'm out in the country again, that social contact is rare, so I take the time when chancing upon someone and am much more likely to strike up a conversation.
You have control over what is suggested by the algo, and can make several different feeds - in addition to just a feed of your follows. Rather than whatever "For You" is doing on Twitter these days.
It depends how nice the machine at your shop is. Some are on a more automated machine that just has a button for one or two shots.
It works fine for me, both twitter.com (which redirects to x.com) and x.com
What language are you writing? I mostly write go these days, and have often wondered if it is uniquely good in that language given its constraints.
It's a really interesting question.

I'm sure you could go back 40 years earlier and find programmers complaining about using FORTRAN and COBOL compilers instead writing the assembly by hand.

I think that the assembler->compiler transition is a better metaphor for the brain->brain+AI transition than Visual Studio's old-hat autocomplete etc.

After working with Cursor for a couple of hours, I had a bunch of code that was working according to my tests, but when I integrated it, I found that Claude had inferred a completely different protocol for interacting with data structure than the rest of my code was using. Yeah, write better tests... but I then found that I did not really understand most of the code Claude had written, even though I'd approved every change on a granular level. Worked manually through an solid hour of wtf before I figured out the root cause, then Clauded my way through the fix.

I can picture an assembly developer having a similar experience trying to figure out why the compiler generated _this_ instead of _that_ in the decade where every byte of memory mattered.

Having lived through the dumb editor->IDE transition, though, I _never_ had anything like that experience of not understanding what I'd done in hours 1 and 2 at the very beginning of hour 3.
Variables like "valueSet" scream out that the language lacks a Maybe type instead. One of the worst things about C++ is that it's content to basically not bother improving on the C type system.
It's kinda like the early 2000s where someone on their cellphone (and later bluetooth pieces) had the appearance of must be important because they're on the phone.
When is recession priced in? Now is it?
Indeed, for me, the IDE debuggers became useless when we started writing multi threaded programs.

Printf is the only way to reliably debug multi threaded programs.
Completely agree. Though I think this statement could benefit from pointing out that cars also help people go much faster, and do things they otherwise couldn't.
I didn't know what you meant so I looked up micro frameworks. Wikipedia has a page named Microframework and lists 23 examples. I don't have time to dive into each of them and most items aren't links (so not sure how relevant they are), but

- I know Flask and it has sessions

- It also lists three frameworks for PHP, which has sessions built into the language (session_start() is what I use in any project that needs a session system)

- Expressjs is one of the few others with a Wikipedia page. Looking into that, it says it requires some middleware for having sessions, which seems not only well-supported, but there is also an include from the authors of Expressjs themselves called expressjs-sessions. It's technically not in the framework, but the authors provide it and clearly keep it in mind when developing the framework so you don't have to DIY that

I can't conclude this isn't a common feature in microframeworks :p
Hey now there are plenty of east coast liberals on Bluesky too
Using a single shot basket is different than using a single shot of liquid. Does Starbucks use single shot baskets?
I spent so much of my early 20's in that map/mod on Q1. I don't think I've had that level of just fun in any game/map/mod since then.
I'm sure Europe is less nice, but also it's hard to even try. e.g: when you get accepted into YC you immediately go to Delaware, and even if the whole company is still in europe, it's no longer an european one :/
Those are the only two things I really wanted in a twitter replacement so I’ve been happy with it
Being an active transit crank, I'd like to put out that if computers are a "bicycle for the mind", LLMs are an SUV.
Great point! Several years ago there was a project GRainDB, which along with GraphflowDB (a purely in-memory graph database) formed the ideas of what is now Kuzu :)

https://graindb.github.io/
https://github.com/graphflow/graphflow-columnar-techniques
Wow! That page has the best styling ever! No fuff, no SPA, no colors, nothing! Just text and straight to the point!
The point to the story is that he ran his own trial on his own body and found that there wasn't any benefit. Guys, it's just an opinion...
I've also read about various image hosting tools, such as apps for creating wallpapers, being overrun by pornography because communities where pornography is banned found it bypassed various automatic censors. If arbitrary image hosting is a subset of your functionality, it can be used as such.
Dark Storm has taken credit... at least that's what Newsweek says.
https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-up...
Highly doubt it. Seems far fetched for a soulless entity to care.
Yeah haha
According to this[0], Coke (the cola brand, not the company) has a ~19% soft drink market share in the US vs. Pepsi at ~8%. This[1] has Coke (the company, not the cola brand) at a 69% market share of the US soft drink market vs. Pepsi 15 27%. Pepsi is a larger company, though, because they own a bunch of snack food brands whereas Coke is beverages only.

0: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/us-soda-rankings-cok...
1: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060415/how-much-glo...
An aspect missing from the article and comments here is that magnesium is also available as a topical application. I have some in a spray that I can apply to my knees before bed, we also get some from a local source in a cream base for massaging into muscles. That lets you focus the application without dosing your entire system with it.
Promotions After Senior
Preparation means getting ready for something. here, that almost certainly means redistribution.

You're not breaking the law if you scribble notes in the margin of a textbook; that's just crazy. Even if you pass that on to a friend, for that matter.

Anyway, if a license tries to rely on such draconian doctrines to prevent uses, it's obviously not a free license.
The vast majority of people don’t know that GPS is only a one-way transaction anyways. They think most devices talk back to the satellites somehow.
I love that Alex Jones example.

Atrazine is causing hermaphroditic frogs, chemically castrating them, and turning male frogs into behavioral females.

Trump often plays in a similar gray zone (e.g. dual meaning, hyperbole, simplification) with language because It is often a winning tactic.

Trump and Jones generate soundbites that cant be easily refuted with democratic soundbites. Overly simplistic rebuttals often end up even less accurate and more detached from reality.

I have given some thought to why this is, and I think it is for a few reasons. First, I think that democratic respondents don't share as much linguistic & conceptual framework with the target audience (e.g. a feminized male frog = a gay frog).

Second, and relatedly, I think rebuttals are afraid to engage with certain topics, and therefore end up tying themselves up in knots.

Last, is they have an oppositional defiant disorder where everything must be denied. "YES and" responses are off limits.

They cant just say "Yes, and poor chemical regulation is turning the frogs gay, and that is a bad thing"
I'll add this in case it's helpful to anyone else: LLMs are really good at regex and undoing various encodings/escaping, especially nested ones. I would go so far to say that it's better than a human at the latter.

I once spend over an hour trying to unescape JSON containing UTF8 values that's been escaped prior to being written to AWS's Cloudwatch Logs for MySQL audit logs. It was a horrific level of pain until I just asked ChatGPT to do it and it figured out all the series of escapes and encoding immediately and gave me the step to reverse them all.

LLM as a sidekick has saved me so much time. I don't really use it to generate code but for some odd tasks or API look up, it's a huge time saver.
I fail to see what bearing the actions of other projects have on what the IA might or might not do.

So far the IA is providing an important service: Insuring the historical data is not lost. Until this actually changes there is no need to go after it, in fact it hurts us all.
I convinced Musk to not only _not_ fire me, but to back a boondongle project that will either ultimately kill the platform as a whole, or turn our world into a X-ian hellscape from which there is no escape.
Definitely has nothing to do with axing the staff
If it's really a DDoS attack, I assume the perpetrators picked the time most inconvenient to current employees, which I believe are mostly located in the Bay Area compared to pre-Elon years where Twitter had a more geographically distributed workforce.
What microservice did Musk delete this time?
Looking like a great bottom. Overshoot of 200 to scare the crap out of everyone. Maybe CPI this week or FED meeting to reverse.

Should be close.
Doing it that way is a pain if don't want to create a microsoft account, which when tries to convert your computer account to a microsoft account. Pretending that it's easy to switch by requiring you to use the microsoft store to do so is a really shitty antipattern.
I agree with you. I recently wrote up my perspective here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308912
I'm a paying customer for Kagi, and I like it very much, but I don't use Google because it is part of FAMAG. As European, having a functioning European index is worth a lot more than Kagi. Though Kagi themselves also are building their own index, which is great.
I'm not sure how we do this, but our current economic system is garbage. As the saying goes, the other systems we've tried may have been worse, but that doesn't make this system good.

A significant portion of the world population works themselves to the bone while barely scraping by. This is not the mark of a successful civilization. It's gross.

Maybe as a start, we put limits on the ratio of executive compensation to the lowest paid jobs in a company. And require that a significant percentage of profits be distributed to employees rather than shareholders.

Yes, that will slow economic growth. But even as someone reasonably well off, who depends on investments for his future, that seems much more fair than what we're doing now.
The UK doesn't have the supply chains to support the rest of Europe. There are lots of parts on an F-35 that the UK can't make; despite being a Level 1 partner I don't think they have the full technical data package for everything. But neither does the US have the supply chains to support ourselves without the UK, especially for the F-35B model. That's why this whole dispute is so stupid, and hopefully cooler heads will prevail.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/how-much-of-the-f-35-is-brit...
Non-US govt and municipals are moving to bluesky
Agreed. Cobain, for example, just struggled with fame, drug issues, stomach pain, regardless of his dealings with the record labels.

Seems rather immaterial. Unless, of course, I'm missing something. Admittedly, I don't know much about him even though I'm a millennial. Seems like I should but I was more into post grunge music.
Ahh, I see you discovered the god mode. Well played :)
Some of the highest inflation in American history? Easy to see you weren't around in 1979. Try 14% inflation. This? This was very little.
Software Falsehoods: you can build it cheap, fast, and good – pick two
> be me

> open article

> "holy shit it's 400 pages"

> realize i already have a grasp on most of the material from school

> "phew"

> oh this stuff is cool, just like i remember...

> proceed to read all 400 pages

well done! :clap:
Probably fired the DDOS protection team
The intention of "minimum wage" in the US is not merely subsistence level. FDR said, "by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." [0]

The "iron law of wages" is instead an economic principle that wages tend to trend downwards until people are paid the minimum possible for subsistence. It's not meant to be a goal.

0: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html
Copyright law was created because technology came along and made it so copying was easy. We could have thrown up our hands and said well we can’t escape it, these tools exist! But instead we used culture and law to create a framework where printing presses, tape decks, and computers exist and artists can still be compensated for their work. All that is needed now is some adjustments to account for these new copyright laundering machines.

Private agents doesn’t solve any of this. Those agents use models trained on others work, it doesn’t really matter where the model runs.
I don’t say this often, but Jira got this correct. When you’re creating a new ticket, it’s done in a modal. But if you close it or click the “X”, it minimizes to the bottom of the page so that you can look at other tickets, or look up something relevant to the one you’re making.

I’ve been trained that modals are ephemeral, and I have to take a sec of “ugh I have to close this to look stuff up…wait, no I don’t” when using Jira
My background is heavily biased towards C++ but I don't really feel like you can make it work in VS Code without understanding, at minimum, where your clangd is actually located. The C++ plugins don't install what you need where you need them, and the launch.json really does not just work. My ex was unable to set up a C++26 toolchain for VS Code because without my help he couldn't configure the settings to connect to the right version of clang tools, and I don't think he ever got the GDB debug adapter working at all.
To be fair, Microsoft pre-Windows 8 was really good in term of desktop UI, arguably the best though you might prefer MacOS if you are into the Apple ecosystem.

Copying Microsoft is not a bad thing, even if some purists dislike it. And I say that as someone who uses a minimal Debian with Window Maker, X11 and no DE. When other see my environment, they call me crazy, and it is not as if I was using some keyboard-only tiling window manager. Crazy is not great for general adoption.

Despite all that, you can still be crazy. X11-based distros still exist, Wayland doesn't prevent you from having minimal window managers. It is a bit complicated at the moment because compositors need to do a lot more than window managers, but thanks to efforts like wlroots, things are improving. I am not a fan of Wayland, but it is not so broken as to make it impossible to use anything but GNOME or KDE. I wish we could work with it instead of against it, but in 16 years, it looks like they are starting to get something usable.

"The masses" may be living on cell phones, but not everyone with a desktop computer is a UNIX greybeard. Plenty of people don't even work in tech. Accountants, artists, gamers, etc... they could all benefit from a Windows-like Linux desktop.
The people who stormed the Capitol didn't think Trump lost fairly. So the real difference is whether they succeeded. Had the Capitol protesters succeeded, they would have made the media feed people like you and I their narrative and make sure we saw them as freedom fighters.

I'm sure you'll disagree with the above, so here's a thought experiment. What would the Euromaidan protesters be called if they had lost?