skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a "data scientist", but I have absolutely improved my productivity in the last year or so by conversing with LLM chatbots to work through tough problems, get ideas, figure out project plans, etc. I can see the effect in my list of completed projects, the overall speed isn't that much higher, but the quality has definitely gone up, because I'm able to work through things more quickly and get to good solutions faster, so I can spend the more time iterating on good ideas and less time trying figure out which ideas are even good.

For programming, meh, it helps when I'm really tired and don't want to read documentation. Can't imagine using it in a serious capacity for writing code except in a huge codebase, where I might want it to explain to me how things fit together in order to make some change or fix a bug.
If someone came forward with a perpetual motion machine that allowed for infinite energy, no one would argue that they didn't invent it even though generations of cranks have come up with similar ideas. For any non-hacked definition of airplane, the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, they were the first ones to put all the pieces together for powered flight then actually go and do it.
Google thinks it is in Russia too.
And Cloudflare thinks the same.
I understand your point, but having an engineering degree is not just the possession of a certificate. It's a piece of paper that testifies that the holder has the skill and knowledge, and has passed exams designed by experts in the field.

The response given to Heaviside does suggest that snobbery was a more likely reason for refusing his membership, but that's just my impression.
It was to get engineers. No one wants to hear they are working for the next orphan crushing machine.
This is also happening to Anthropic. The adoption of AI is accelerating right now, or at least token usage is accelerating is with agentic workflows coming on online.
Some people are working as hard as they can for humanity in general. It's still "for them" in the sense that this is what drives and motivates them. But we're all the winners. These are the folks that work long hours at the expense of their own health and family relationships. These are the folks that people ask about "don't they already have enough money" - when it's not about the money at all. It's about doing and creating and building something better for humanity. Sometimes these are our best corporate leaders, or government officials, or scientists, or even revolutionaries and cultural leaders.

I'm very grateful for these people.
And the pilot is absolutely right!
Character.ai will now let parents monitor teens' activity, after teen's suicide
I gotta say, I love AuthorizedKeysCommand, it is the most clever configuration option I've seen in a protocol!

If you just try to stuff a ID Token into an SSH key and use AuthorizedKeysCommands you introduce replay attacks because the SSH server can pull your ID Token out and stuff it into another SSH key and replay it to other SSH servers to impersonate you. Opkssh doesn't have this weakness because it used OpenPubkey [0].

The real trick here is OpenPubkey. OpenID Connect gives you ID Tokens which don't contain public keys. OpenPubkey tricks your OpenID Connect IDP into including a public key you choose in the ID Token it issues. This turns ID Tokens into certificates without requiring any changes to the IDP. This makes ID Tokens safe to use in SSH.

[0]: https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey/
That means you tell someone who you might not hire what your database schema is. Probably not something you want them to know. You also assume they know SQL - many C++ jobs only need minimal SQL knowledge and so you are fine with hiring someone who can write a select only with the help of google - but someone at that level wouldn't be able to solve your problem. I've spent a lot of time working in a language that was custom to the one company I worked for at the time - I can learn your language quickly (even C++ is not that hard - the dark corners means it takes years to become great but to be productive doesn't take very long), as such I don't want to force any particular language on the interview, I want something that proves they can write code.
Recently replayed it as a full-grown adult after repeatedly playing and beating it as a kid; its whimsical but barely coherent story is definitely more enjoyable as a persistent childhood memory. But the music and gameplay hold up very well even 20-30+ years later.
I am really receptive of transhumanist goals. I think it’d be cool as shit to upload my consciousness into the internet and download it into a robot. I’m not worried about an AI super event killing us all. Mechanical wombs seem like they’d solve a lot of the tension around biologically assigned sex. Etc.

But you have to admit, and you did as much in your comment, it’s a pretty huge assumption right now that anything we do would innately carry our souls forward. I’m not willing to just assume. I want certainty and proof. I am sure there are some more extreme humanists out there who are more conservative than me, but all I’m asking is that as we apply technology we remain reverent of our souls. This seems like such a simple almost pedantic thing to be hung up on, but indeed it is exactly what distinguishes a humanist and transhumanist. The burden of proof is on you (royally, rhetorically) to prove that we’ll still have souls after uploading our consciousness to a machine.

And, logically, if you prove human continuity then it’s not trans anymore. Transhumanists don’t have a fundamental reverence for humanity, definitionally. They advocate for the application of technology without the assurance that our humanity will remain in tact. They hold an axiomatic belief that we humans are capable of transferring our species into a digital media. A belief that transferring a consciousness to a robot also retains the soul. And that replication of transhuman entities creates new souls. Etc.

I support research and exploration of these topics. But I’m not going to stake humanity on some belief that this is the future or even that it’s assumed to be possible.

PS most all cultures with the notion of god reserve god the right to bestow the essence of life into the biological human. Your final statement does not align with my understanding of any Christian religion out there in the assertion that since god gave us the tools to create humans biologically it’s appropriate for humans to create life spiritually. I don’t necessarily hold that to be ultimately true, but I do hold a reverence for life until we actually understand it. We currently have no idea what constitutes human life, whether our soul is the manifestation of our synapses quantum entangled to a substrate we have yet to identify, or entirely emergent from more simple mechanical biology. We need to answer that first before we can suppose to upload our species into some digital medium.
Article is Python LangGraph, but JS LangGraph has at least one alternative in Mastra and certainly others as well.
Trying to think of the coding analogues to those folks.

The only ones I can think of are folks who are self-taught, e.g., Bill Gates, but he famously noted that he had read the three (then extant) volumes of Knuth's _The Art of Computer Programming_, sometimes taking an entire day to contemplate a single page/idea/exercise (and doing all the exercises) and then going on to say that anyone who had read all three volumes (and with the unspoken caveat of "also done all the exercises") should send him a Résumé.

My best friend in high school was a self-taught guitarist, incredibly talented, he also had perfect pitch, and a wonderful insight into what a given piece of music was expressing.

All? of the original self-taught programmers were in an academic context, no? Even those who aren't have either read or researched a great deal, or they have laboriously re-created algorithms and coding concepts from first principles.

Maybe this is just another example of how society has not yet mastered the concept of education?
Confinity created its PayPal product in 1999 and Musk's company got merged into Confinity in 2000 because Thiel said they were both working crazy long hours and it would be more beneficial for everyone to join forces into a monopoly instead of compete with one another. Then Musk got kicked out of the company because they didn't think he was doing a good job, and he was fortunate to benefit financially when they sold to eBay. So it's a pretty classic case of survivorship bias, and the fact that he invested into an already innovative electric car company does not mean his taskmaster leanings are assuredly the key to success. For every one of Musk's companies, there are countless others enjoying a healthy amount of profit without the excessive hours.
I just saw Trump in a press conference announcing huge funding for OpenAI, whom Musk tries to destroy

“Tremendous power” you say?
This is very serious. Death threats are not normal, moral, or legal. Protect yourself.
I remember seeing it in an enclosed plastic end cap at toys 'r' us. It was $80, so I assumed it wasn't for a kid like me. Marketing at the time did not do a good job with it in the US.
You're obviously getting a lot of pushback, do you think people here haven't used these tools?

Yes it's great at React/Frontend. Because that is mainly boilerplate. Hooking up click handlers and validators and submit buttons and fetch calls is boilerplate. It's just busy work. There can be complicated FE work, like making something like google maps, but how many of us ever need to do that? Most of the time if you did need to do something complicated, you get a library to do it ALL for you. Charts, maps, etc.

If you've worked on more niche languages/tools/problems you start seeing behind the curtain. The trick. It's essentially just copying someone else's code and replacing the variables. I've inherited some robot framework tests. I tried it to fix a problem, the code it spat out (v1) was nonsense. I told it. It spat out some different code, v2. It's still wrong. It then spat out v1 again! It seemed to only have these two "templates" to use. No matter how I framed the questions, v1, v2, v1, v2, v1, v2. They didn't even compile.

Hence why it's great at React, there are millions of examples for it to combine and refine.

I'd love AI to take away a lot of boring coding. But in my honest experience anything much longer than 100/200 lines and the AI starts screwing it up. It can't work on a full codebase. It even does incredibly irritating things like remove code that's needed, forgetting code changes it's already made, and worse still deleting code updates or fixes you've made.
Moving to Germany for Working in Tech
I had a boss like that.

One time he told me "In a bacon and eggs dish, the hen contributes but the pig really gets involved. I want all my team to be pigs".

I internally thought "yeah, but you are neither the hen or the pig, you are the guy eating the dish". I left as soon as I could.
Yeah absolutely this. I think in "the old days" a decade or two ago that sort of thing would have been largely out of reach to all but the most determined/well-founded adversary (I'm thinking corporate espionage, magazines etc, not nation states checking out the new Merc etc).

But now probably pretty much anyone in their bedroom could do it in a few hours. Literally next post after this one is for https://vgg-t.github.io/
This is so true, it took me a while to get used to it.

If you started in the punch-card days, Coders were well-established.

They were the ones who punched the cards, that was pretty much the proper job description.

They operated the keypunch machines in the way they saw fit to get the most out of the electronics in their own domain.

With coding pods, quality control routines, the whole nine yards.

By the 1970's it was recognized as a declining technology need, there were still thousands of Coders anyway because jobs were scarce, but fewer every year.

No matter what direction people may want to migrate the meaning, that's the real root across the computer industry regardless of whether it was almost forgotten out of disuse.
I believe that’s sewage from shit in this case.
Why would properly configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC stop the mass mailing, though?
>Apple Intelligence will gladly promote an obvious phishing email to the top of your inbox

Sorry for not being clear. I definitely was not recommending for users to depend on Apple Intelligence. I've deliberately turned it off because it doesn't work in comparison to Apple's hype.

What I was trying to convey was AI currently doesn't exist to reliably identify text & and email phishing on both iOS and desktop email but this particular fraud problem seems like low-hanging fruit for something like an improved Apple Intelligence to actually solve.
I have clearly been misinformed then. Though it kind of made sense to me on the surface, because it was hard to fathom why Bosch would tarnish its reputation with such anti-consumer products, whilst leaving the Siemens brand with the less hostile variants.
I've been wanting to do smth similar for the Bulgarian government for some time now. Let us know if you try to undertake this project
More info and demos:

https://vgg-t.github.io/
> I don’t think my kids would be happy if I quit my high paying job to pursue my dreams or whatever

Wasting life on a lifestyle one doesn't enjoy, just to raise another generation of life-wasters? I don't get this ponzi scheme at all.
The $29B Shortcut: Thailand's Land Bridge Project Fuels Hopes and Fears
That's not the problem. Call the terms what you want. Your coworkers are doing the activity of coding without doing the activity of programming.

By your book analogy, your coworkers are doing typing, not writing. So keep calling them typists until they start writing something.
> by 1939, it controlled over 80% of shipping and shipbuilding, and around 75% of iron and steel production

Not because of fascism, because it needed to ramp up for war.
I tend to agree with the article, but I do wonder if the operating costs of AI companies will decrease if they incorporate the more efficient methods of R1 and stop building so many fucking data centers.

I also expect AI to incorporate ads at some point, once they exit the dreamy phase that early tech products always go through. I know Sam says he doesn't want to, but they only have so much runway. Eventually they will rationalize their ads as fundamentally different - a consumer assistant, if you will.
Interestingly, this is the conclusion reached by the major militaries, Axis and Allied alike, at the end of extensive experiments with amphetamines in WWII. They certainly made pilots and soldiers feel more confident, engaged and attentive, but the quality of the output was at best unchanged and at worst markedly inferior.
Exactly. The entire thing no doubt cost money. That is why we were paying $2000 for a two year old intel chip mbp 10 years ago because the service aspect was a big part of the value proposition.
video or it didn't happen.
A Recipe for Generating 3D Worlds from a Single Image
>But that they use illegal communication channels like Signal

I enjoyed reading what you wrote (though, I disagree with most of it) but the above quote spoiled your overall comment much, and I'm too much of a pedant to let it go, so I'll ask the following, and perhaps thence, I can ask more people to use signal .

What is illegal about signal?
GDP per Capita is a metric for value of production as a whole.

Much of that GDP per Capita for NL can be attributed to high margin industries like Oil Refining (Royal Dutch Shell, Dutch Disease), Financial Services, and Biochemicals Manufacturing [0], which are not industries where at 5.5h workday is realistic.

And once you remove part-timers, the hours worked in Netherlands are comparable to the US [1].

The bigger question should be why part-time labor participation is significantly high in Netherlands, as part-timers and youth appear to earn at least half of full-timers [1], but this could also be confounding due to age along with gender [2].

Imo this makes Netherlands' job market look similar to post 2010 Japan's labor market, which isn't a great thing.

That said, it does go to show that median income and personal living standards are not tied with GDP per Capita.

[0] - https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/528/export-basket

[1] - https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/en/dataset/81431ENG/table

[2] - https://theworld.org/stories/2014/10/01/why-do-so-many-peopl...
That's right. Most search engines are funded by advertising, where there is the clear conflict of interest[0], not to mention incentive for spam etc. Alternative models include a subscription fee (which I don't think would work for a small niche search like this) and donations (which may or may not be sustainable). Looking through some of the support forums for the big search engines, I'm pretty sure that enough site owners would pay a fee for support to pay the running costs for a large search engine, although for a smaller search engine like this there needs to be something more than just support, hence the search as a service features.

[0] "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers", to quote Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page in their "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" paper from 1998.
The author writes "I do not foresee any smartphone app ever being approved for this purpose." (the purpose is 'passing classified information for military operations'), while in fact, I'm not sure I see the issue - all the app (any one of them, including WhatsApp, Signal, etc.) needs to add is what is referred to as 'conditional access' to some chats. Meaning, you can define chats as only authorized for users whose identity is provided by a trusted Identity Provider, or are running on certified devices. This type of security is already implemented in many enterprises, supported by browsers (to some extent, at least), and can be relatively easily be supported by applications. Custom made chat apps already use this (e.g. Workplace Chat, which is used by Meta), and so I'm not sure it's something we won't see supported by other commercial apps messaging apps.
That makes sense because Cline existed prior to tool use being part of the standard LLM APIs. I think OpenAI had it at that point, but Anthropic and Ollama hasn't yet standardized on an API.

But the vendors are training their models specifically on tool use with their expected internal formats so you might as well leverage that if you are starting fresh now.
They said they wanted to change the rules to allow that, not that it'd always been that way from the start. The original claims that led to them admitting it was dumb weren't "hysterical" (since when is pointing out regulation even the EU admits is bad hysterical?)
> It's really hard to accurately assess the possibilities granted by LLMs, because they just feel like they have so much potential.

I agree, but this feeling isn't anything new! This was the verbatim argument people used when insisting that blockchain was going to be a transformative technology. Bitcoin increased in value so dramatically and so quickly that it just felt like there had to be something valuable in the underlying technology, and corporations collectively through billions at it because they wanted to be the ones to exploit it first.

It's very easy to look back and say "well of course it's different this time," but the exuberance for blockchain at the time really was very close to current AI hype levels. It's quite possible that AI becomes a useful tool in some relatively niche scenarios like software development while never delivering on the promise of replacing large swathes of skilled labor.
Man find?
I still hold out hope that Square-Enix will either remake this or release a new game in the series.

Chrono Chross was fun, but a different style. Radical Dreamers was completely different.
There's something about some of the 80's and 90's games that showed exceptional love and art from the game makers.

I bought my 5-yo daughter an arcade for her birthday and we have been playing Bobble Bubble non-stop for months, finally beating the game with a single credit!

As we played the game, we discovered new patterns, tricks and pathways to beat impossibly-looking levels safely, and we discovered portals, bonuses and secrets galore. We also got to know each other better, as we play together better than we would play with other people.

The game pushes you constantly between competing to get power-ups and extra-lifes to collaborating to beat asymmetric levels.

There is one power-up that turns the level into a bonus where you have a score board and whoever gets the most bonus items wins extra points. But if you do even scoring, you both get the max bonus. The game is testing you!

It is when you beat the game at the end that the secret of the universe is revealed: Love & Friendship.
First time playing chrono trigger I was playing on an emulator, exclusively using a single save state. Went into the early lavos area, saved, got my ass beat. Discovered I couldn't go out again, save bricked :( took years until I gave the game another go
The difference between HP and HPE is one is a really expensive way to get crap service and parts and one is a cheaper way to get crap service and crap parts.

This is admittedly recent. Within last 5-6 years.
I somewhat miss those days of endless time I could dump into gaming. Nowadays if I’m stuck for 5-10min I google because my playtime is limited and I don’t want to spend it looking for the wrong thing or headed in the wrong direction.
How should I set time frame please?
Whenever I've worked for a company that decided to re-implement all their own strings and containers, I'd always try to suss out whether they actually did it for one of those actual good reasons, or if they were just cargo culting someone long ago who once said "STL BAD IT'S SLOW" and that was all it took to convince them to write 20K lines of unmaintainable and unnecessary OurString OurVector, and OurList crap. So far, I've never found one place who knew why they reimplemented all that stuff. I do know one person who works in games whose company actually had a good reason to do their own containers, but these cases are rare.
You are confusing personal happiness with company success.
This is the hardware we test on: https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/community/team-project/-/...
Yup. I think that is where I first learned about it, something like 15 years ago
There's no great answer, unfortunately. Gmail and other off-the-shelf email providers handle much of the spam and some of the scam prevention for you, but you still need to exercise caution on your own.
Is there some fundamental flaw with that idea, or are you rejecting it on the basis of some "reports" of the idea not having worked before?
This is very reductive of scientific computing. Maybe that conference is particularly narrowly focused on certain applications but there's plenty of people developing "real" programs (not python scripts) in academia/research labs, and you usually see those in conferences.

Look for instance at multi-purpose solvers like FreeFEM or FEniCS, or the distributed parallelism linalg libraries like PETSc or MUMPS, or more recent projects like OCCA. These are not small projects, and they care a lot about scalability and maintainability, as well as some of them being pretty "CS-y".
Hey, I'm Kilian, the creator and solo developer of Polypane. Exciting to see this on the homepage again.

Happy to answer any questions folks have!
He used a metaphor in which he slaughters his entire team? Sheesh, talk about making the subtext text.
> I am referring to their new models having absurdly high prices. GPT-4.5 is $75/150 and o1 is $15/60, whereas GPT-4o is $2.5/10.

That is a new product not a price increase.

> The models are open source so one can run them locally.

Again, not sure how any policies will stop opensource code from being run. At any rate those models still don't compare to O1 Pro and the full tool suite.