skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't disagree more.

The world is full of unsolved problems and many of them are just time-expensive to fix. Significantly lowering the activation energy and time investment required totally changes the calculus.

I wrote about one concrete use case I built to help me solve a long-standing clutter problem in a comment on another thread [0]. Not only did this unblock a project I'd been trying to get going for awhile (declutter my place), it taught me about Linux Kernel Gadgets and started a cascade of new future project ideas.

It also makes trying harder things lower risk, i.e. I can fail quickly vs. having to spend 20 hours to see if it's worth pursuing.

Setting aside basic productivity, as a high functioning depressed person, activation energy is a huge deal. Having the ability to get an idea to a stage that I can actually see results and work on it is a game changer.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314906
i have mentored a few people to become Programmers. Some for months, some for years. It's like teaching someone to ride a bycicle. Hand-holding first, then hand-guiding, then short flights, then longer... Different people pick stuff at different pace and shape.. but they do learn.. if they want to.

What i completely miss in these LLM parrots-agents-generators, is the learning. You can't teach them anything. They would not remember. Tabula rasa / Clean slate, every time. They may cite Shakespeare - or whatever code scrubbed from github - and concoct it to unrecognizability - but that's it. Hard rules or guardrails for every-little-thing are unsustainable to keep (and/or create) - expert-systems, rule-based no-code/low-code.. has been unsuccessful for decades).

Maybe, next AI wave.

And, there's no understanding. But that also applies to quite some people :/
I've got a hobby OS that's currently x86 32-bit only. amd64 and arm64 are on my roadmap, but if all goes well, it's going to be the same experience on all three platforms, so arm64 won't be anymore exciting than x86 32-bit. Other than, you could run it on a raspberry pi or maybe an arm apple.

I imagine most hobby OSes are looking at arm support vs adding something else, and arm support is going to be more fiddly and have less to show for it. I haven't found much time to work on mine lately, but other things are way more important like getting my virtio-net driver and the v86 virtio-net device to work together; having networking in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=crazierl would be really neat. Running on a pi would be neat too, but a browser demo is way more accessible.
Why is that crazy? Looking at human history, this doesn't come as much of a shock, does it?
In what way do you view this as Microsoft taking control of Linux? This is an effort to support more users leaving Microsoft for Linux and taking their software with them.
>> Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.

If that's a concern they really shouldn't use the BSD license. Imagine what will happen if the BSDs become popular.
Agreed. And they didn’t do this. If a physicist says that A is obvious to physicists then this isn’t an insult to others. It’s expected that having expert level knowledge in something indicates that some things are obvious after all the training that are not obvious to those without training.
In my teens I was in an IRC community full of various hacker/script kiddie miscreants. Some of these people I would call actual geniuses.

The trajectory of everyone ranged from early Facebook employees, a CMU CS PhD, to one literally going to prison for an exploit lol. You can never tell where life will take you.
He's 15. Many adults whose native language is English can't write it correctly, or what are you referring to if not grammar errors? Can you give me examples?
Try to add ' in front of words to find exact matches if the fuzzy search isn't providing the results you're looking for.
Does it run on an IBM 5100?
Not really, Sony and Apple are good examples of how BSDs would have looked like if the AT&T lawsuit never happened, and UNIX vendors would keep using BSD on their UNIX flavours, also most likely no one would have cared for Linux if it wasn't for that lawsuit.
Signal does not mandate that messages be disappeared, that's a customized setting. But there are multiple ways to archive including simple screenshots.

Here is CISA page updated last under Biden's admin:

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/mobile-commun...

In the PDF on that page you'll see Signal recommended for communication.
I always thought the real problem with plastic is that the problem itself is a feature. If it were easy to breakdown it would be used much less. A "solution" might actually cause nasty problems we haven't encountered before. Or Gray Goo.
Leaving the Sea of Nodes (V8)
NixOS and Kagi user here. Hacker News often is the most reliable search result there is. Gists aren’t (they become easily deleted, unlike HN comments).
torrents work fine for immutable artefacts. linux distro ISOs etc are not getting modified after release. that's a new version. same with films (piracy). once a film is released, that's it released. any later versions are just that, a new version.

torrents are a problem for mutable artefacts because you are reliant on your peers having the latest up to date copy, which is not guaranteed. the peers you download from might have just switched their machine on after 5 months, so their copy of the mutable artefact is 5 months out of date. as ever with distributed systems, requiring consistency introduces complexity.

"open gateways" (term used by a sibling comment) provide much simpler mutability. which makes sense when there's like a simple typo in a PDF document that requires the document's replacement. just replace the document on the web server. bam! everyone now has access to the latest corrected version immediately.

also, most of the general population doesn't know how to use torrents. just because there's a part-way technical solution, doesn't mean it makes sense to switch everything over to some fancy new proposal (not the underlying tech, which is old now).

if users would struggle to use the implementation, why do it? what benefits are there except for a seemingly more technically perfect solution?
Beautiful pieces of furniture. Thank You!
But a $100M price tag is exactly equivalent to a blanket ban, so you're not fundamentally disagreeing with the person you're responding.

You're just over rationalizing it with 101-level economics ;).
One does not need 20 years of programming experience to identify and fire a shitty employee that coasts by constantly asking others for help with their job. There are tons of bad programmers just like there are tons of people bad at other jobs. Those employees are often a net negative for the team by constantly wasting someone elses' time.

On a side note, your constant whining about "MBAs" and "scrum masters"... it does not make you sound like a professional or reasonable person.
This black-white view of world, that "all MBAs are bad". Whoa.

(Just because I know where you will take it: (sadly?) I dont have an MBA. I am also not a scrum master)
I think the key is to keep things as low-effort as possible for both the organizers and the guests. One good way is to have some sort of recurring event, say movie night or drinks or whatever, happen every X day, with no coordination or input needed, just show up. Another is to live close enough together that people bump into each other and just start doing things. Even the smallest amount of planning/coordinating/etc is friction, and friction will eventually stop anything.

When you start to look at the bigger picture - relationships, aging, childcare, morals, help for the needy, etc - you realize you just want to reconstruct a mildly religious community from the pre-industrial age.
you can't get sponsor by throwing money at it.
Given that we all know the content of these messages, they are clearly archivable.
I guess Tanstack Start is also a very good alternative to check out https://tanstack.com/start/latest
In terms of absolute progress (e.g. towards finishing a feature or MVP) I think it it could have to do with a usual underestimation (optimism) for timelines.

I'm using Cursor mostly for exploratory/weekend projects. I usually opt for stacks/libraries I'm less familiar with, so I think there's some optimism/uncertainty to account for there.

I think there's another aspect to progress involving learning/becoming fluent in a codebase. When I build something from scratch, I become the expert, so familiar that later features become very easy/obvious to implement.

I haven't had this experience when I take a heavily agent-driven approach. I'm steering, but I'm not learning much. The more I progress, the harder new features feel to implement.

I don't think this is unique to working with AI. I guess the takeaway is that attention and familiarity matter.
Indeed, that’s the nimbys
the quote discounts that read:

> with a feeling of no personal responsibility about our private affairs
Humans do like to fuck.
They do that everywhere!
Do Sheep Under Solar Panels Count as Clean Energy?
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You know what sucks more than fixing problems with inheritance? Fixing 20 different copies of the same bug, or just having to copy over dozens of methods in the first place. If you feel like inheritance is wrong, it's probably because you've got too many corner cases and too many responsibilities shoved into a class. Composition can help in such cases, but there's maybe no magic pattern if each object is too different from the rest.
Interbred is putting it mildly. More like killed the men and raped all the women. This was repeated again with the Yamnaya from the Caucasus a few millennia ago where they again killed all the men and raped all the women.
Paywalled, but full study available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
The original claim was that thimerosal did this, but it was removed from vaccines for kids in 2001 and the rates of autism diagnoses have not decreased as a result.

There is also no actual evidence that adjuvants have caused autism as far as I know, and the entire idea that vaccines cause autism was based on a fraudulent paper by someone who was trying to sell his own competing vaccine.
I did a Hackathon (we won!) with the real Visual Studio developing a Unity game and it was great!
> People are mostly reasonable.

People recently voted Trump into office.
I mean, morally, Oak Park should be a part of Chicago.
> > But you need to solve people's transportation

> > problems first, not claim that if they give up

> > car transportation options something else will

> > materialize later

.

> I never said otherwise, but continuing to prioritize

> cars only makes everything, even car travel, worse.

.

You have JUST said otherwise! You want to deprioritize what works in favour of what does not exist while offering no path for it to exist and dodging the reality that no such path exists.
Physicists put this into the theories as an assumption at a fundamental level, e.g. they put it as an axiom into axiomatic QFT. This is why it is fundamental. Also arrow of time is something else than Einstein causality.
Nothing in Oak Park is more than a few blocks from a commercial zone either.
Thankfully I no longer work with C++, but such proposals were my main problem with the language.

I had the impression that the vast majority of us regular users just wanted quality of life improvements: better error messages, networking library, a standard package manager etc. Literally most of what C++ code styles are concerned with is about picking what features are banned in that particular style.

But instead of doing something pratical, the commitee always went with the route of adding increasingly niche features citing that useful things are "out of scope" or "implementation defined" or "userspace".

So what you get is incompatible ecosystems and cultures for an extremely complicated language.

Very happy working with Go presently, where exactly the opposite approach is being taken by maintainers. Eg: There was huge pushback regarding generics introduction (a genuinely useful language feature IMO), but they introduced very good vulnerability scanning (govulncheck) without me even hearing about it being under development.
Maybe they meant that, if you were to sit down and figure out whether that statement is true, someone with a math education would find it is and not be particularly surprised. Not necessarily that you should know it beforehand.
No better time than the present to establish a better precedent. Though more realistically, nobody needs to be going to jail in either case - but if there are zero consequences for anyone involved well, that's telling for a leader who frequently criticizes his opponents for not firing people when they do poorly.
That must have been a great comfort to the Russians, Tsar down to the peasantry.

[Added, less flippant] An army requires officers, and it is fair to guess that the Russian army had a reasonable complement of intellectually capable officers. The standard of education may not have been up to that of the western Allies or the Central Powers, but I suspect that the Russians weren't that bad. One would not know how many of the 191x class of the Russian universities were killed off, for the revolution largely remade those universities, and presumably had no interest in publicizing the works of the men who served the old regime.
I don't think the author explained it well. What % means, is, "out of 100" so like X% is X out of 100. % is a unit, just like meter or candela. You can do dimensional analysis with %. To remove a % you do like, X % * 1 / (100%) and then the two % (remember % is a unit) cancel out so you get X % = X / 100.

This dimensional analysis makes more sense with multiple terms, for example X % * Y = X % * 1 / 100% * Y = X * 1 / 100 * Y = X * Y / 100. (And note "of" means "times")

It's the same thing as saying, 5 * 2cm = 10cm = 5cm * 2 (hopefully the statement 5 * 2cm = 5cm * 2 qualifies as "obvious")

If this entire explanation is as automatic to you as breathing (which yes it is if you did a significant amount of technical courses as a student, although admittedly dimensional analysis tends to come up in chemistry not math) then the statement "X% of Y = Y% of X" is vacuously true and I would feel comfortable saying this is more or less "By definition of %" with no further explanation, if I were talking to someone who I know has an equivalent background to me.

Doing the conversion can often be helpful. For example say I'm thinking to myself, "what is 4% of 50" and I'm like ugh idk but half of 4 is 2 so the answer is 2
I’m skeptical of this. It sounds a lot like the widely debunked thimerosal panic. I’ve heard of no credible studies on such cases. Could you provide a link to something detailing these cases?
You are going to be amazed when you find out how many Large Corporations contribute to FreeBSD.
The state and medical establishment already shredded their own credibility when they sent cops after people for going to the beach alone, and then sent out a proclamation that BLM protests were more important than the pandemic. Nevermind the intentional suppression of the lab leak theory and the smearing of anyone who supported it as a conspiracy theorist, including pressuring tech giants to silence and censor anyone who voiced skepticism or dissent.

These are the hills the state and medical establishment chose to murder their own credibility on, they've been dead for years now.
https://bsky.app/profile/secretsandlaws.bsky.social/post/3ll...

On the left: Hegseth's message.

On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.

This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.

They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

Bio includes: Former CIA attorney
It was supposed to be only one ^ however it conflicts with Objective-C blocks, so they ended up settling on two ^^.

However many of us would have prefered reflect(T), but again many on WG21 seem to use notepad for programming and don't like to type.

It means the reflection data of the type.
Interesting. I view this as an antagonistic move against users, one of many in recent months and years, so I guess it's not really surprising (but that may be in large part my own preferences).
> Think Daylight vs. Warm bulbs. Now think about how many lights are in a football stadium.

This example helped, I think. Thanks!
> Now even Java

Java is one of the few languages that does have it, besides Erlang, Haskell and Go. That "even" is absolutely not warranted.
When you jump into every WASM thread with this take, what are you trying to accomplish?
> Not a big fan of that since I really miss the time where authors could write single, self-contained books instead of a sprawling series over thousands of pages, but I know of course that this kind of thing is very successful and people seem to enjoy it.

When was this time you speak of?
Colossus: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices
ctrl-f for autism on that page comes up empty. Please try again.
It's more nuanced than that. There are certain material/content where it is mandatory/necessary to read them.

Ideally I'd prefer to read material written by a the top 1%ile expert in that field, but due to constraints you almost always get to read material written by a midwit, intern, junior associate. In which case AI written content is much better especially as I can interrogate the material and match the top 1%ile quality.
A love letter to the CSV format
Laughable, the author is really bullet-point-brained.

Taking wagers he only knows English
No the homo genus includes everything from something barely distinguishable from an gorilla all the way to modern humans.
> What am I missing?

You are missing the conversation. In ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude you get to have a conversation on the topic, instead of a one-shot answer.
that's lovely thank you. i am not very artistic so having stuff like this to crib is very helpful.
> Afaik, there have been cases which caused children to become autistic after vaccination

Your assertion is not supported by the link you supplied.
> But no. It's just pure incompetence.

While I don't agree with how he conducts himself on the mailing lists; I respect he uses the same language when talking about himself.
> How are professionals expected to communicate with each other? Usually with empty platitudes to kick things off like "Hey! How's it going? How's the family? How are you doing?" Messages are expected to be written across several coherent English sentences, neatly organized into paragraphs, finally with some sort of signature. In the programming world we refer to this as boilerplate. What is it that we are really trying to communicate? Usually a few short ideas that could be represented as bullet points, but that we need to fluff up with meaningless words so that we don't sound rude. Of course, this changes by culture and by language and is not applicable to many parts of the world, but it is definitely a thing in American English.

Do the rest of you really do this? I can’t recall receiving any slack or emails with this sort of thing over the 25+ years I’ve been working in a business environment, even though all of them have been in American English. I certainly don’t use that sort of “boilerplate”. I just jump straight into what the topic is.
The U.S. is the world's oldest democracy. It is functioning just fine.

France has been toppled by internal revolutions and external enemies multiple times in the time that the U.S. has existed. It's not an example to aspire to.
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
None of the places I've worked at required sending an email -- although I've been on the receiving end of people asking to set up calls for trivial issues.
This misses the point entirely. If you want access to digital tools after a collapse, then you design a (resilient, hard to break, easy to repair) transformer that can convert ANY kind of electricity into e.g. 12v DC. Pair it with a paper manual that describes a few ways to generate power from raw materials (diy batteries, ways to use copper wire if you can get some, etc).

Then keep some laptops in a waterproof box.
I guess there are currently three decent alternatives:
- Astro
- React Router 7 (former Remix)
- Tanstack Start

Astro has more focus on content based sites whereas the other two may also be used for web apps.
Objective-C is also full of warts, from its original days, the transition to be more developer friendly, special constructs to ease interop with Swift.

Also, had it not been for NeXT's reverse acquisition of Apple it would have been long forgotten by now.
> But usually the dialog is the exact same so it’s not noticed

That's not the case for the films I'm describing. Here's the start of La Strada:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSewbxyHYM

Quinn isn't even speaking Italian during the shooting:

As was the common practice for Italian films at the time, shooting was done without sound; dialogue was added later along with music and sound effects. As a consequence, cast members generally spoke in their native language during filming: Quinn and Basehart in English, Masina and the others in Italian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Strada#Sound

It's even more clear in this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fmvA_KG6U
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The stock markets, as I detailed, are also a Ponzi scheme - and I'd argue, at least for pensions, an even worse Ponzi scheme than government redistribution systems. The latter are at least government backed, but when the stock markets crash, your investments go kaboom because you got duped into investing in Bernie Madoff investments or whatever you have zero recourse.

During Covid, there actually were a few suicides in the first lockdown era when the markets dipped 20%.
Sharding Pgvector
I guess we should start with the fact that models currently have no ability to remember at all.

You either fine-tune which is a very lossy process that degrades generality or you do in-context learning/RAG. Forgetting in its current form would be eliminating obsolete context, not forgetting would be using 1 million input tokens to answer "what is 2+2?".

In any case, any external mechanic to selectively manage context would be far too limiting for AGI.
>charismatic public persona

You have weird taste in men.
> There is a certain class of errors static types can prevent but there’s a much larger set of those it can’t

Maybe you can go into this more, but I don't really understand what that means, what is this larger set of runtime errors that can't be prevented by static typing?

I use a bit of Elixir, and I'd say most of the errors I'm facing at runtime are things like "(FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching", which is not only avoidable in Gleam, but actually impossible to write without dipping into FFI.

I'm excited for more static typing to come into Elixir, as it stands I'm only really confident about my Elixir code when it has good test coverage, and even then I feel uneasy when refactoring. Still a fun language to use though.
I'll second it - consistency is better than perfect
Vintage quality and style is back in, so there is a lot of clothing reuse in hip fashion. However, secondhand only works because people buy a surplus of clothing!
I’ve been looking at using the RDA5807M ic to handle the RDS and audio output. Seems to be pretty simple and cheap.
Yes I find chatGPT/Jetbrains (RubyMine) in my case is the most usable setup I've encountered.

It's like Rubymine is "home" for me - and chatGPT's macOS client has become another "home" for me so it's quite convenient that they talk to each other now.

I have a little FOMO about Cursor though. ChatGPT will automatically apply its suggested changes to my open editor - but I have the sense Cursor will do a bit more? Apply changes to multiple files? And have knowledge of your whole project, not just open files? Can someone fill me in
That's not even remotely the same thing as the current virtual threads, that automagically turn (many kind of) blocking IO into non-blocking.