skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am making a judgement on the US corporate culture and population within it, yes. It has far more loopholes that remain open and actively used than Denmark does.

Denmark does its very best to make it either a pain in the arse or impossible to use company property in any way that could be seen as having private value. Did you drive home in your company car? Then get ready to be privately taxed of its full market value and for the company to get a bill for the VAT. Did you take a private phone call on a company phone? Then you have to pay the "free phone" tax and the company VAT of the phone. Did you buy furniture for your home office, but without having the home office locked to physically separate it from your regular home, or did you put a comfortable chair in there so it its private value becomes ambiguous? Not a valid company purchase.

Weird US tricks like getting paid in stock and taking loans with that stock as collateral, with the resulting liability cancelling out remaining tax also don't work there. The common stuff would be, say, restaurant owners inexplicably having really low private food expenditure, or really low revenue on paper for how popular the place is.

I suspect the reason is that the US government has pressure from lobbyists to maintain the status quo, while the DK government has pressure to claw in taxes to cover their sky high spending ambitions.
What's "camera roll"? WA images go into the "WhatsApp Images" folder. They're separate from "Camera".
We think about this a lot, and I think there are merits to the viewpoint. If I were to write a rule that said "make sure all code you write uses best practices", it should already be obvious enough to a good language model that this is always the case. It's "common knowledge". In some cases today there might be "common knowledge" that is a bit more rare, and the language model doesn't quite know this. I might agree that this could be obviated as well.

A situation to think about: if I were to write a rule that said "I am using Tailwind CSS for styling", then this is actually information that can't be just known. It's not "common knowledge", but instead "preference" or "personal knowledge". I do think it's a fair response to say "can't it just read my package.json"? Probably this works in a handful of cases, but I've come to find that even so there are a few benefits to custom rules that I expect to hold true regardless of LLM progress:
- It's more efficient to read a rule than to call a tool to read package.json on every request
- Especially in large enterprise codebases, the majority of knowledge is highly implicit (oftentimes in detrimental ways, but so the world works)

But yeah this is a majorly important and interesting question in my mind. What types of customization will last, and which won't? A blog post would be amazing
OpenAI's new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke
The only time I've seen people care is if you lay out an identical order and show the percentage increase over ordering delivery through the restaurant, or picking it up yourself.

DoorDash adds upwards of a couple dollars to every item. They charge a 5-10% service fee depending on if you pay them monthly. The default tip options are pretty egregiously high - it's not uncommon to see double-digit tips in all three options. I once saw a $22 tip in the top option for a single bag of food with no drinks less than a 10 minute drive away but that's likely an outlier.

All in if you don't have DashPass you're easily looking at a 30-40% increase if you get cheaper items which are more likely to be marked up only $.5-1 but represent a larger percentage of the total.

Nobody in their right mind would tip a delivery driver 40% of their entire meal, why are you happy to give most of that to a corporation that is doing very little for the transactions?

Edit: I just did this for an example order for a nearby restaurant - 1 appetizer and 1 entree so probably good for two people not super hungry to share or one hungry person to eat.

$31.59 in food, $2 delivery fee and $5.50 in fees (I subtracted sales taxes manually). This restaurant is 5 miles away and it's 11:30 local time. Tip suggestions are $9.50 (30%), $11.50, and $13.50 (42%). So at the lowest suggested tip amount, which is offensively high, you're looking at $49 before sales tax.

The exact same order is $26.36 including an online order service fee but before sales tax. Even if you were going to get it delivered and tip the driver 30% you're still saving a ton of money and this is on one meal with enough food for 1-2 people.

The appetizer alone is $10 on their website and $14 on DoorDash. It's a crazy system and I can't believe how much money people burn on this every year.
The case against conversational interfaces
why authorship is essential to human expression — especially as AI gets good
I question whether AI can create engaging new ideas. Isn't everything it outputs already based on existing data?
I remember when Wallstreet thought Deepseek would reduce GPU demand due to efficiency gains. Most people here thought Jevons Paradox would apply.

+ Most people here

- Wallstreet
> you are wasting water by hand washing.

that depends entirely how you hand-wash your dishes. There is not a single way to do it.

> A modern dishwasher uses 2-3 gallons per load

Maybe, but then you have to factor that the quality of the rinsing has nothing to do with hand-washing. I'd prefer my plates without traces of detergents.
Pushed to the negatives? Outrageous!

I'm writing a "Why HN is conspiring against me: Earlier posts did well, but this one didn't" essay and will promptly submit it to HN. It had better do well!

I feel like Gruber fans are brigading this posts and the voting is very unfair. Stop the count!

EDIT: While I wrote this comment out of humour it turns out that Gruber is quite literally funnelling his readers to this submission from his blog. So...hint of truth.
CSV isn't dynamically typed. Everything is just a string.
Interesting, at $dayjob we had (have?) a bug where something would fail, randomly, intermittently, maybe once every 3 months.

Pulled my hair out for a year, no progress/insights. Updated the driver for a device, haven't seen it since.

I hope the reverse-calendar debugging works for me!
Chat-Based Interaction with LLMs Is Suboptimal
There's just no such thing as a delimiter which won't find its way into the data. Quoting and escaping really are the only robust way.
My mom has owned a timeshare (which is a freestanding house) for almost 40 years at the Oregon coast with 5 other families. The families have all changed over the years and there have been small conflicts around what color the couch should be reupholstered but never any large conflicts when someone left the arrangement. It has been a source of pride that these families have shared something in this way, and a bunch of the kids like me have really benefitted in a way that we could not if we always went to a different rental.
> Why don't you just explain it direct and concrete based on my actual code example?

I did. But you said it doesn't matter. Now it does matter?

> I'm afraid to tell you that I can't change that with my explanation.

No need for an explanation. Code will suffice. Perhaps I cannot write it myself, but I will eventually be able to understand it.

> Because otherwise the code will just look unfamiliar to you

That may be true in the first instant, but time marches forward and familiarity grows. This isn't an issue.

Is the real problem here that the code is so long and arduous that you don't have the time to write it? I don't think that satisfies the intent, if so. The idea is that the abstraction should be better than an if-statement, not the same or worse.
When you lose trust its very hard to regain it.
Already censored: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494817
use a theremin as an input device
In the words of JD Vance, "What?"
> No one makes 35mm cameras although it would be all too easy to rehash a good 90s point and shoot model and have it sell like hotcakes

Quite a few new 35mm cameras are being developed and sold. From the budget Long Weekend, the uber-pricy Leica M6, and the mid-range Pentax 17. Even some half-frames are coming out, including from Kodak.
That's... a pretty amazing misunderstanding.
I honestly don't get slides for high school?

Is it effective to teach? Or just easier to teach?

In my education we copied the black board by hand, and that allowed us to learn how to summarize information. Writing by hand also improved memory. And seeing the teacher thinking and choosing how to present the information in real time had a lot of value.

Further I find it way more difficult to make a slide presentation that effectively teach something than only having a blackboard that forces us to really explain the steps.

At uni I teach with slides, but they are done in a way that mimics blackboard writing. It takes an enormous amount of time to make them, but the students are very happy.

What are your opinions?
> This will then allow users to lend games to other users wirelessly, via a one-off local wireless connection.

Seems to suggest you only need a shared LAN. Sounds reasonable.
> Most of the games I'm in, I'm significatnly more interested in the stor & characters than combat

I'm not talking about "prefers roleplay over combat". I'm talking about "gets angry if you break character and make meta-comments about the game"

> A session zero is definitely a requirement to play D&D, imo.

It shouldn't be, but unfortunately we can't seem to trust the general RPG community to not be inappropriate weirdos without stating explicit rules and expectations for behavior

If someone comes to your house party and shits on the floor you don't invite them back. No need to create a rule saying "don't shit on the floor" that all guests need to agree to next time there is a party

Not sure why TTRPGs are different
The title is misleading, this study doesn't even attempt to actually answer preference of human vs AI written stories. It didn't even involve any human written stories!

All this study shows is that people rate an AI generate story worse when they know it's AI and say they'd pay less for it. Who knows what the relative rating or "payment" for a actual human written story would have been!
That isn't solving anything, just changing the problem. If I want to store a string containing 0x1C - 0x1F in one of the columns then we're back in the exact same situation while also losing the human readable/manually typeable aspect people seem to love about CSV. The real solution is a strict spec with mandatory escaping.
Definitely one of the most unique bands to (kind of) "make it" and have some staying power.

My best friend and I saw them when we were 13. I don't know what TMBG concerts are like in the last 15-20 years, but there were maybe 100 people there. Great concert, my first, had a lot of fun.

The two of us both stayed around to meet the Johns. Waited 30 or 45 minutes in the newly brightened room as the place cleared out and all the roadies packed up. Finally they emerged, with the two of us the only ones left. We asked for their autographs and they said "sorry, kids, if we gave you autographs we'd have to give everyone an autograph" and laughed out the door.

We kind of instinctively looked around the room to indicate we _were_ everyone, but maybe that was the joke. To a 13 year old it didn't sour anything, but can't deny we weren't disappointed.
Nope, that's a quote from early in the book.
"High-temperature" = "approximately 40 Kelvin (K), or about minus 233°C, under ambient pressure"
I don't voluntarily assume legal risks that come in to play if I make a mistake.

That and I've been in public restrooms and seen how few people wash their hands. I hate having to touch public screens. Touch public screens and then handle my food? Pass.
Yes, but translation must be provided when requested.

"Contrary to the view of the works council, communication in English is also not an obstruction of the works council. The court explained that it is crucial how the works council receives the communication. In the disputed case, texts were previously translated into the German language. Face-to-face conversations were translated by those present into German or into English for the branch manager. This was not objectionable, since the risk of a wrong translation was at the expense of the employer."
A library of bridge components for Hotwire Native apps
It's not about the art style. It's that it detects real people in the photo and refuses to do anything with it even if the people are not famous.
Reclaiming Our Attention
That's true, but these usually come with LB and a bit of redundancy.
Granted, it's not crucial at the very initial stage, but it also gives the easy of deploy.
My take is that not much devs are capable of standing up their infra, even clicking it up in aws, thus services like heroku or fly.io exists and do well I presume.
He defined markdown 2 decades ago, and the definition had so many problems (ambiguities, etc) that people felt the need to define better definitions like Commonmark.
Animating rotation with quaternion curves (1985)
Vibe marketing prompts for OpenAI's new model
People are Addicted to ChatGPT [video]
I don’t necessarily disagree with you but kind of a poor example considering copywrite work seems to be having a severe identity crisis because of AI at the moment. At least the English major still has their education to fall back on while the copywrite might have their entire skillset made obsolete with no other credentials to utilize.
Having Command-Z and Command-Y work with actions such as deleting a post or logging in doesn't help with having a proper undo system undo anyway.

Command-Z and Command-Y should be for document-based undo. Give the user some way of knowing what document they're working on. Even if the user is going to use the keyboard it helps to have Undo/Redo icons so they know what Undo/Redo applies to. Now, documents in code are more complex, but there's a wealth of research on it, and stuff like CRDTs and the history systems of libraries like ProseMirror and CodeMirror.

And often the undo of deleting a post is needed, but that's a separate thing, nowadays handled by the snackbar components. And if you really needed a redo, that would be something to put in a history feature.

Navigation does have a stack which works the same way as undo/redo but it doesn't normally use Command-Z and Command-Y.
Did we read the same thing? There is nothing about color of chat bubble but there is "they all use WhatsApp". No they don't. Not all. More like half.
Possibly enables him to stand, according to the article - several other patients weren't helped by the treatment, and in the case that showed a positive effect the researchers currently can't eliminate the possibility of natural recovery causing the improvement.

But it's promising work, shows the treatment seems at least to be safe, and more research will no doubt follow to clarify this.
Languages, libraries, internal company codebases, common tasks (e.g. writing unit tests in your style, scaffolding a CRUD backend, etc.), personal preferences, and much more. Language models are so general that I probably haven't thought of all the possibilities myself

And in some cases not just "better", but if you hook up custom tools then your assistant can do entirely new things!
It wasn't that the 737 MAX isn't (or can't be) a safe aircraft, but that Boeing prioritized making it fly like its predecessor over all else - including safety.

The fact that two brand new MAX's crashed killing all aboard within 2 years of its commercial introduction (out of only ~600 models flying at the time) is a brutal safety record for the jet age, especially as the cause of the crash was the plane itself. That list you post includes any and all reported incidents that merely involve 737s (and involve incidents that were caused by factors that aren't necessarily related to the safety of the place itself).
Apple's business relies tremendously on its developer relations. If Gruber doesn't regularly navigate that wedge of the ecosystem, then I don't think he can speak with authority on its soundness. I mean I wouldn't!
Whereas this comment, seen fifteen thousand plus times on this very website, is evidence of ... your human creativity?
Title needs to be changed. It completely misrepresents this research. There was no comparison between human written and AI written stories.
I guess someone using mixxx is not streaming the music (like me) so yes these are different target 'markets'.
Bridge-components: A collection of bridge components for Hotwire Native apps
Other animals can just eat the food they find and sleep wherever. Humans have decided other humans should just die if they don't work.
The research described was done at Stanford by Profs Eric Pop and Krishna Saraswat. Paper in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7096
This was a joke in Back to the Future - the people in 1955 associated Japan with junk, and 1985 Marty says all the best stuff comes from there.
TSLA seems to be down today. Cars sold, only time will tell.
> Here's one of the recent examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1cv30gu/debian_keep...

They used an official build option to not ship a feature by default, and have another package that does enable all features. If that's your best example of

> Debian adds so much of their patches on top of original software, that the result is hardly resembles the original.

then I'm inclined to conclude that Debian is way more vanilla than I thought.
The amount of work done that is truly new is laughably small. A large percentage of creative output is convergent (combining two existing things) or lateral (bringing an idea from one space to another).
The Minimum Viable Kitchen (2013)
That's very true. But thats tale old as free software. It doesn't immediately mean they have bad UX but it surely doesn't help.
i guess it's this one
Not for text data. Those values are not text characters like , or " are, and have only one meaning. It would be like arguing that 0x41 isn't always the letter "A".

For binary files, yeah but you don't see CSV used there anyway.
First let's see if the USA even can keep a democratic system running.
There was a reference to that in Back to the Future 3, the difference between the way Japan was viewed in the 50s compared to the 80s.

Doc: No wonder it failed, "Made in Japan"

Marty: What do you mean, doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
> People are the same everywhere

This is not true in general. Environment does not only influence behavior, it selects for it.

As evidenced by our ability to breed behavior traits in domesticated animals - I.e. ragdoll cats, retrievers, rat terriers, etc. have distinct behavioral traits that have been intentionally selected for.
Or when a restaurant owner inexplexably has really low private food expenditure, or has really low revenue on paper despite being relatively popular, or small companies having a lot of company dinners, or labor workers having a lot of company places to go in their company porsche SUV, or...

The reason regular salaried employees do this less, limited to the kind of sort arbejde ("under the table" labor) you describe is because it has become obscenely difficult to do anything meaningful with sorte penge (untaxed money) - not because people don't want to do more or didn't previously do it.
but:

China built hundreds of AI data centers. Now many stand unused

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43492171
> is that it produces an intrinsic sense of satisfaction, which in turn creates motivation to do more and eventually even produces wider gain for the society.

Which society? Because lately it looks like the tech leaders are on a rampage to destroy the society I live in.
Sounds unbelievable to me, but hey... :)

If theyre that easy, why not fix the casues for the needs for RCA? Our RCAs will not be solved by AI for decades, let me tell you that.
This is exactly the question I was asking, thanks for your input. I know the highlighted examples of 'bad behaviour' in waymo's are somewhat sensationalized, but its hard to quantify how that translates to impacting other users of the environment. I agree humans are very prone to this sort of bad driving, which was what made me ask the question about waymo to begin with. Specifically things like lane keeping, impacts on cyclists pedestrians etc... things you mention.

Although my brain can't help but see waymo's more as "Meatwagons" than human driven cars, I get your point :)

It would be curious to see relative levels of driver assist and its impacts on things like that outside of crash and injury statistics from crashes, but it would be very hard to measure and quantify.
The problem of originality has been of intense debate since at least the romantic era.

There are people who have argued that human creativity is nothing more than outputs based on existing data (experience).
That's true but we have to ask do humans actually create engaging, new ideas? When you look at all the stories that have been created aren't they just slight variations on the same themes that have been around for, as near as we can tell, all time? When we look back at our historical writings it's the same themes at their core over and over it's just a different way to tell the story. Considering that we can look back 10,000 years in history and see the same common themes being retold it is quite likely that prior to that we were still telling the same stories.

We can find different ways to tell them which can be entertaining and it can feel new but when you examine it it's not really new.
> As someone who has done a lot of work with agentic coding

Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful

I've been using Cline a lot with the PLAN + ACT modes and Cursor for the Inline Edits but I've noticed that for anything much larger than Claude 3.7's context window things get less reliable and it's not worth it anymore.

Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? Any conventions? How do you manage chat histories / old tasks and do you create documentation from it for future work?
> Ah, the penny drops. The idea that you can’t run a traditional server and must rely on serverless vendor if you’re “serious”

That's not at all how you should read this. They later on give an example of exactly what kinds of problems you'll run into once you start needing to horizontally scale you Next.js servers (e.g. as pods in k8s, which is not serverless):

> The issue of stale data is trickier than it seems. For example, as each node has its own cache, if you use revalidatePath in your server action or route handler code, that code would run on just one of your nodes that happens to process that action/route, and only purge the cache for that node.

Seeing as a Node.js server running Next.js serving SSR or ISR (otherwise you'd just serve static files, which I personally prefer) is not known to have the greatest performance, you will quickly run into the need of needing to scale up your application once you hit any meaningful amount of traffic.

You can then try to keep scaling vertically to avoid the horizontal pains, but even that has limits seeing as Node.js is single-threaded, and will run into issues with the templating part of stringing together HTML simply taking too long (that is, compute will always block, only I/O can be yielded).

The common solution for this in Python, Ruby, and JS/Node.js is to run more instances of your program. Could be on the same machine still, but voila! you are now in horizontal scaling land, and will run into the cache issues mentioned above.

There was not really anything in the article that should have lead you to believe that this was a "serverless only" issue, so I think the bashing against Netlify here is quite unwarranted.
If RMS or Gruber released code with any frequency, I think the HN community would be very interested. I wouldn't necessarily warm up to either of them, but it would lend a lot of credence to whatever their stances are.