skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Want some fun as a programmer?

Download an open source roguelike and get it working in an IDE.

I am hacking frogcomposband right now with shitty old Eclipse CDT IDE, and having a blast.

Mass dissolve? No pet mana cost? Never need food? Cast spells from books that are in your home and not waste inventory? Access your home from anywhere in the dungeon? Teleport towns from anywhere in the overworld? Find anything annoying? Code it away.

Remnants of the Precusors (a Master of Orion super-remake) is great too. Doomstar super-sized ships with certain tech combos? Ultralarge worlds? Mark artifacts and mineral worlds in a radius from you because you are a xenoarchaelogist? That is plain old Java so you can IntelliJ away.

Of course with any IDE there is the old breakpoint and modify values hacking, even if you don't change the code.

I want to do Cataclysm DDA next but the git clone is bombing every time. Maybe it is too big.
>I think you are ignoring the fact that citizen science was alive and very well up into the 1980s.

Some version of that still exists among people with a naturalist bent recording observations of reptiles, birds, plants, etc. But yeah, we don't really have backyard chemists analyzing things anymore.
Phalanx has ammo for 20 seconds of fire.

There are multiple different drones. I bet phalanx will do nothing against small 10" drones which can target communications and sensors of the ship in a first wave. And second wave could have much heavier payload to target ship's structure
What is trust to you? It looks a lot like Europe is getting upset that American taxpayers do not want to waste money on a conflict that is going nowhere, that is not America’s concern.
What product line anywhere says, “Buy our old models, just as good as the latest!”
Not that I’m the person to do it, mind you, but for your own safety and liability purposes I advise caution allowing uploaded images to be used.

As in, it may have the potential for content that you find disturbing, inappropriate, or illegal. Between stories/concepts like NEDM and Rule 34, the potential for misuse, if unregulated, could be exploited by an opportunistic bad actor.

At the bare minimum, use of Copyrighted material could foreseeably result in a view that your project, even at the free stage, is a form of enabling unauthorized derivative works…and result in litigation.
In some way, by indirectly helping fix this bug, they led to a ~10% performance increase for everyone who was using that faulty compiler! That's even better than an optional flag that many people won't know about or use.
"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."
Because that story has some reach. Lots of journalists are still on twitter for example.
Kudo to author and Cpython team to reckon this. Nevertheless, its still a very important improvement in +Ve direction. Thats all matters. This a great story as to why benchmarking are soo hard to get right. I always tell my team to benchmark your real world use case as closely as possible and not rely on external results.
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I'm not asking for an award. lol. I'm not sure exactly what you're after here, with asking what was particularly positive.

It's a personal attempt to see how much I can do with an automaton. I could pay someone to do my taxes or file them myself (I'm in the US). There is much more room for frustration but also lots of benefits to the latter.

In particular, with Claude Artifacts, I had a chance to see an amazing innovation. Have you ever wanted to see something new just because it's new? It changes you, which of course is one of the purposes of exploring novelties. By the way, this was my experience in July 2024.
Anecdotally, yes. I've gotten about 7+ in the last couple weeks.

This is the most frequent I've seen since early 2022. These are for fairly senior roles.
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> I'm not aware of any such rules, could you please point to one exactly?

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-and-nonbinar...

> And could you define the word accurate in this context?

First, could you clarify if you're a conservative or not? I won't be willing to engage with you further if you are.
> will get downvoted by HackerNews' overwhelmingly leftist bubble

I think your over all point is healthy but you really need to reexamine this assumption. Take a look at /active and see how often topics critical of Trump, Musk, Thiel, Yarvin, etc. flagged.
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Sure, let me amend it to "i'm suspicious of any significant performance improvement in as system where performance actually matters, and has existed in a state where performance matters for a long time".
So did newspapers, which served the same social purpose on the buses before cellphones.
The term used in industry is typically "spoofing."

https://www.u-blox.com/en/blogs/tech/gnss-spoofing-new-secur...
I've been programming for 20 years, just so y'all know I have at least some level of competence.

I tried Vibe Coding for the first time on Friday and was blown away. It was awesome. I met some people (all programmers) at a party on Friday and excitedly told them about it. One of them tried, he loved.

Then yesterday I read a LinkedIn (Lunatic?) post about "Vibe Design", where PMs will just tell the computer what to do using some sort of visual language, where you create UI elements and drop them on a canvas, and AI makes your vision come true, etc, etc...

And my first thought was: "Wait a minute, I've seen this movie before. Back on late 90s / early 2000s it was the 4th generation programming language, and Visual Basic would allow anyone to code any system"...

And while it's true Visual Basic did allow a BUNCH of people to make money building and selling systems to video rental shops and hair saloons, programmers never went away.

I welcome anyone building more software. The tools will only get better. And programmers will adapt them, and it will make us better too, and we will still be needed.
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It is suffering from DDOS attack. People are already politicizing it trying to blame Iran.
This is such a lazy take
They ask that already.
Any game devs building narratives using Dramatica?

https://dramatica.com/theory
Exactly. It's also exciting to see things at the frontier, just because they're new. I wasn't planning to release the game, just get something working for myself. By the way, this was July 2024 shortly after Anthropic introduced Claude Artifacts.
> There's an argument that this is a trade-off vs increased IT support cost/workload, but I guess SWEs don't need much support to begin with?

IME, it's also about being able to ensure that everyone has access to the same software. I worked at a company that used macOS-specific software for development (I think it was Sketch?) so I had to have a MacBook around, even though I primarily used a Linux desktop for work. Anecdotally, I don't think this is uncommon.
If you really think the US went all in on Afghanistan with a world war level effort to conquer the country then I don't know what to tell you. After the initial invasion period the country really was a sideshow and became increasingly less prioritized over the years. By the end of the occupation US forces had shrunk to a minuscule size compared to what an invading army would look like.

That doesn't mean that the war was handled well, it clearly wasn't. But looking at a small force and confusing that with the entire might of the US military is baffling to me. "Losing interest" is a perfectly reasonable description of what happened.
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Better link for tracking: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
It’s a letter in the English Alphabet.
If you have a good local clock (e.g. rubidium), you can now detect the signal is from the past and correctly conclude you are jammed and trust INS, starnav or whatever instead...
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A similar, actually useful, experiment is the one where a guy cracked the knuckles of only one hand for several years and found no ill effects from doing so compared to the other hand with non-cracked knuckles.
> A livable wage in the geographic jurisdiction they are in.

This is called the Iron Law of Wages. As its name implies, it's neither prescriptive nor pleasant - but it is guaranteed to be liveable.

> Including stuff like transportation, healthcare, food, heat, housing, and insurance.

The thing that trips people up is that the word "liveable" is a synonym for "subsistence," not "fullfilling." A wage that's only liveable would feel quite exploitative to most people.
Are GBAS also affected by GPS hacks?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation

What happened to that attempt to use Starlink as a GPS system?

Not that we should build anything else that relies on it

But only two other sat networks are OneWeb and PlanetLabs with one tenth the sats

https://www.datocms-assets.com/53444/1666338747-every-satell...
what does subsidization have to do with your use of a thing?
Hard for local shops to keep up with fraud? You don't say.
i don't think i've ever seen a cafe do that (unless you count mcdonald's as a cafe). even the starbuck's thing of using your name is rare, but others have picked it up

most cafes i've been in, the queue is usually short enough that the barista knows who ordered what. at peak times, they can't keep track of it, though, so the customers keep track themselves and it usually works well enough that nobody is going to optimize it
I think this effect of losing your abilities is somewhat overblown.

Especially when AI has saved me on actually explaining specific lines of code that would have been difficult to look up with a search engine or reference documentation and know what I was looking for.

At some point understanding is understanding, and there is no intellectual "reward" for banging your head against the wall.

Regex is the perfect example. Yes, I understand it, but it takes me a long time to parse through it manually and I use it infrequently enough that it turns into a big timewaster. It's very helpful for me to just ask AI to come up with the string and for me to verify it.

And if I were the type of person who didn't understand the result of what I was looking at, I could literally ask that very same AI to break it down and explain it.
This is really cool, but I'm super anxious about entering my personal data, especially LinkedIn connections.

Is there some other demo you could do with public graph data? It'd be just as cool of a demo, but with less fear of information misuse.

I'm even more anxious about leaking information about my professional connections as I am leaking my own data.
Yup. More cache, higher clock speeds, slightly more flexible instruction pairing. Few applications used MMX anyway, I think.
The excitement about AI and Vibe Coding made me think about this (somewhat old) article.
I guess the bigger question for me is, how was a 10% drop in Python performance not detected when that faulty compiler feature was pushed? Do we not benchmark the compilers themselves? Do the existing benchmarks on the compiler or python side not use that specific compiler?
I see reports dating to back to around 4am. did the dst switch take it down?
Yeah, it's down. Musk should stop working remotely and get back to the office to fix it ASAP!
And for how many of them were the protests formed around the Democrat politician?

How many Democrats: got up on stage for a rally for themselves then -> told the attendees to go and “peacefully protest” then -> the protestors went and turned into a riot?

How many of the George Floyd protesters were chanting to hang a public official? With the intent of dismantling democracy?

These are not the same.
(By not addressing the point, I assume you just support the further destruction of our economy and drastically decreased standard of living in the future? Okay then, moving on to your different point...)

Yes, I agree that we need people with the sense to reject empathizing with performative cruelty and the siren song of fascism. It never ends well.

At this point, we'd be better off with criminals just on the streets instead of also in the White House. The fish rots from the head.

I don't know what you mean by "our government" is doing a poor job at making safe/clean cities. I'm pretty sure we live in different states, and striking a three way balance of carrot-stick-chaos is the job of state and municipal governments.

I sidestep the issue by living somewhere less dense, but yes the general inability to scale American cities while maintaining order and individual freedom is a failure of social technology (one that certainly isn't helped by the aforementioned rotting fish head!). On the other hand, cities have been getting better despite all of the sensationalist reporting - I would much rather walk around NYC in the present day than in the 70's.

But I'd also expect that a lowered standard of living will make cities worse, so perhaps you should actually care about that issue too.
You could try a shallow clone at first, “git clone —depth 1 …”

Later you can pull to get all of it
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Ik sure it can. Have you read why they call it the modernist kitchen?

It might mean something else than what you think it means.
It's giving me problems and has been very inconsistent for about 90 minutes to 2 hours at this point. I got a partial refresh of my feed, but a lot is not working. The Grok AI appears down as well.
I remember reading a historical piece where the voodoos success was partially luck. At the time the first generation cards were being developed edo ram was super expensive so most competitive designs were hamstrung trying to do things with very little ram. By luck edo ram prices crashed right as they released making them far more affordable to manufacture than 3dfx could have reasonably expected. That gave them an early and massive lead with their initial design.
They need laid off more people now.
> But then again Rust devs are more likely to use static dispatch via generics if performance is critical.

Put another way, in C++ the dynamic dispatch is implicit, so you might write code which (read literally) has dynamic dispatch but the optimizer will devirtualize it. However in Rust dynamic dispatch is explicit, so, you just would not write the dynamic dispatch - it's not really relevant whether an optimizer would "fix" that if you went out of your way to get it wrong. It's an idiomatic difference I'd say.
Listen, mozilla's got problems - we can agree on that, and you don't need to compare me to a putin apologist to make that point.

But "go woke go broke" is dumb sloganeering and plainly false. It's not a description of how the world works - it's a call to arms to boycott things labeled "woke". Sometimes things labeled "woke" do well because of their "wokeness", other times the anti-"woke" backlash kills them. Plenty of things "go woke" without ever being labeled "woke". Plenty of non-"woke" things go broke.

Either way, my only real point in citing revenue numbers is to point out that ten years after the whole Eich debacle, mozilla's still not broke. Seems like maybe their problems are unrelated to "wokeness".
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9704859/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.14786
[One of the authors here] I see another post on the front page right now [1] that covers Apple's "secure enclaves".

We didn't look much into this, but when we presented our analysis in an event last summer, an audience member made the case that Apple absolutely could fill datacenters with secure GPUs that could (provably?) run large OpenAI models without exposing any iPhone user information to OpenAI.

Curious if people still think this will work / will happen.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314657
I’m a software developer by trade but also program art creation tools as a hobby. Funny thing is, at work, code is definitely a means to an end. But when I’m doing it for an art project, I think of the code as part of the art :) the process of programming and coming up with the code is ultimately a part of the holistic artistic output. The two are not separate, just as the artists paint and brushes are also a part of the final work of a painting.
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I dreamt about having the vodoo but i could not afford it. Went with a rendition verite based one. It was underpowered compared to the vodoo but I really consider it the first real GPU as it was a RISC processor.
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What are X/twitter alternatives ? I left twitter after recent Musk pro Russian statements.
Given how bad Google search has gotten recently, I'd give this a try even without the trees. If they can provide a decent search experience _and_ reduce CO2, even better.
Doesn't the use of the word regret imply that they care?
I sometimes wish we could abolish our nations and replace the current treaties with a voluntary merge of all participating countries, making everyone simply citizens, throwing out all national law books and replacing it with a single Continental one.

Won't happen without a war - so hopefully not within my lifetime, but playing make believe is fun sometimes.
MS best idea was to create Source Generators. Absurdly powerful for some problems.
Again I’m incredulous by the perspective shared by Ars Technica (often trumpeted by TechDirt) that “what is going on is not how copyright SHOULD work” while giving no reasonable consideration to how legally legitimate cases like this are from a standpoint are in US copyright cases.

I get the desire to FIX copyright in the US, I stand to benefit and so does society and creative progress. But these sensationalist writers are the lowest form of clickbait by simply taking a victimization position and digging in (re: TechDirt and Goldiblox absolutely being in the wrong for ripping off the Beastie Boys for a Super Bowl ad).
I remember when Cable internet started showing up... I'd cart my computer to a friend's house once a month to play LAN party for the weekend and run updates.

Back then, updates over modem took hours to run, it was kind of crazy considering how many easily exploited bugs existed back then.
Interesting, I'll check it out someday.
I'm pretty sure it is a sort of art game / digital experience. Compare with "it is as if you were making love"[1] by the same creator, which gives a sex-inspired series of input tasks with an extremely barebones interface yet claims to be a "usable and efficient experience of pleasuring a partner".

[1] https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweremakinglove/
Not handwaving anything away, just saying that EU has blame for its weak bargaining power in this issue and that this kind of escalation creates a situation where it is politically acceptable for EU to significantly invest in military. Imagine talking about building up German military 5 years ago and contrast that to a situation where US is talking about removing military bases from there.

I do not think Trump is supporting Russia, it seems like he does not view them as a threat and is very China focused (which is actually scary since antagonizing China can have far worse consequences). He is also focused on cutting spending/reducing inflation pressure from war/sanctions.

Meanwhile EU, and Germany in particular, built their economic growth on cheap Russian energy - and is now bending over backwards to revive it in a world where energy prices are rising. If Europe took Trumps stance of deescalating Ukraine ASAP, wrapping up the war and ending sanctions - our economy would recover much faster. And it would give EU the resources to build a proper military. Even if Ukraine got all of its territory back its going to be a humanitarian disaster zone for decades and a burden on the rest of the country. I really do not see a winning scenario Europe is pushing for in Ukraine.
No, Lex blocked me :-D
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Where do you live? Is interfering with other people's food a common occurrence there?
One of my first jobs was working at a fast food place, and my first night on the job, I was taking the trash out, and the thing tipped over, spilling it all over the parking lot, and I just said "fuck this" and went home and never came back. If I worked at Twitter right now, I'd be thinking about doing something like that again.
I switched to Bluesky a few months ago and very happy with that decision
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Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon...
Same here. I can still vividly remember the experience of loading in with a voodoo2 for the first time. It was night and day -- mind completely blown. The late `90s really established a new version of the gamer; consoles were fun, but computer gaming was a different world. It made me a junky for reading about hardware, overclocking and gaming.
Mastodon (open/distributed/Wild West) and Bluesky (commercial/probably ending up like X at some point).
Mastodon and Bluesky are the main ones as far as I'm aware
>I read that mites can't survive temperatures above 60C, and wondered then about just a big plastic bag around the item then fill it from a hot air source (hair dryer, fan heater)?

People do something similar to kill bedbugs, I think they make specialized equipment to do so, but it might just be something like an off the shelf heat gun.
Exactly, classic case of anthropomorphising a lawnmower. A thought like this would never occur to a record label exec
i don't like unexpected things happening. they cause me to panic. i can expect errors.
Bluesky is where the sane people seem to have gone.. there was a split between that and threads, but threads is dying off.
Generative AI hype peaking?
> There's absolutely no way that we're not going to see a massive reduction in the need for "humans writing code" moving forward, given how good LLMs are getting at writing code.

Sure, but in the same way that Squarespace and Wix killed web development. LLMs are going to replace a decent bunch of low-hanging fruit, but those jobs were always at risk of being outsourced to the lowest bidder over in India anyways.

The real question is, what's going to happen to the interns and the junior developers? If 10 juniors can create the same output as a single average developer equipped with a LLM, who's going to hire the juniors? And if nobody is hiring juniors, how are we supposed to get the next generation of seniors?

Similarly, what's going to happen to outsourcing? Will it be able to compete on quality and price? Will it secretly turn into nothing more than a proxy to some LLM?