skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather become a bike messenger and continue programming for fun than having LLM code generators take over the fun part of my job.
Then you can use NetSurf (https://www.netsurf-browser.org/) or Dillo (https://dillo-browser.github.io/).
Those projects all heavily rely on libraries developed via corporate paycheck.
It all hinges on bandwidth being more important than latency.
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That's also my experience.
Tesla sold a million Model Ys last year. So having a safety increasing part like lidar would reduce the profit by hundreds millions. Removal of ultrasonic sensors saved Tesla tens of millions. Ok, model Y is a big car and I don’t aim for tightest parking spots anymore. But basically removal of anything is very profitable for Tesla. And vice versa adding something useful is very expensive.
If you want a lightweight web browser, try: Pale Moon, Basilisk or SeaMonkey.
Look at space and it was obviously broken 20 years ago in the West: Shuttle that finally proved itself, after 20 years of trying to conceal it, to be a generational, unfixable mistake - and stubborn insistence on pushing through with a replacement based on same technology and same people - burning billions while staying stuck.

Now it is in the best shape ever and progress seems to be unstoppable. And West throughly dominates it in every dimension and that dominance seems to only be accelerating.

Boeing just failed in what was an inherently unfair game: they tried to compete with state-funded Airbus that could just burn unlimited cash not worrying about real profitability, Boeing tried doing it by cutting costs, and failed.
They can't charge $20k/yr because that costs more than buying a POS, not registering it and getting it out of impound a couple times and then abandoning it.

With numbers like that you're fundamentally running against the people's willingness to comply (which includes the cop's willingness to enforce).
Calling European freedom true freedom compared to American one is laughable and I say that as a European. Almost no country in Europe comes close to the freedom granted by the bill of rights.
Theoretical physicists completely determine statistics of quantum entanglement
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Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad [pdf]
I remember seeing Kureishi's accident show up on William Gibson's twitter feed during the pandemic.

He never struck me as a kind or peaceful person, thus not sympathetic, unlike the heart-filled and -oriented Mr. Gibson (who has been sober for quite a while). This man of familial wealth was (I guess) probably drunk at the time, and I wonder if he'll ever understand that using your gifts of affluent life and highly educated talent with words should be worth more then gossiping about your family, hooking up with any person you find attractive, and spending your life in pubs, as I gather from his wikipedia page.

It just goes to show that we should treasure each day, and not waste it while we still have good ones.

> In June 2023 Kureishi is taken by surprise again when he is finally moved from an Italian rehab facility to a London hospital. Because of a lack of beds, he is quartered, as if a character in a crudely satirical play, on the dementia ward.

God sure has a sense of humor in how he tells fools of their foolishness.

> Like you, I was wondering whether this patient became paralysed after being kicked in the back by said horse.

I wonder if he ever wondered that alcohol was likely the horse that kicked him in the head.

If only that man knew the importance of Rumi's words, "They Way goes in." Because his life's result is that he has plenty of time with his inner thoughts to explore that path to the Divine.

And, of course, the writer of this review has zero understanding of how Kureishi continues to throw away his remaining precious opportunities to learn that his heretofore frivolous life was not only indeed just that, but was the direct predecessor to the fall that has left his head his only functional appendage. Most people lack the honesty to face their own failings.

William Gibson says in "No Maps for These Territories" that his greatest worry is that he will lose his honesty about himself. Maybe Kurieshi should write less and instead listen to the words of his compatriot, the incomparable WG.
Oh, no, this is Weimar Republik style, peak Germanity. There were lots of avant-garde movements that were sure that capital letters in general were just about to be phased out in a few years time.
> I remember using Blender when everyone was saying how terrible of a UX it was.

It isn't terrible anymore but still bad.
Chewing Gum Releases Microplastics into Our Saliva, Researchers
This one is flagged. Proves the point.
YAML 1.2 leaves data types ambiguous, merely making the "Norway problem" optional and at the mercy of the application rather than, in the words of https://yaml.org/type/ (which has not been marked as deprecated), "strongly recommended".
I saw them in Shepherds Bush for their last tour. Fantastic act, tiny arena, rammed full of people all singing the same silly songs.

Everyone around me was German, or spoke German, or had worked in Berlin at some point in their lives. I made a few friends.

I can't wait to see these guys perform again.
It all depends on your security requirements. For me it is insecure compared to almost any anonymous internet chat since it requires your mobile number, a serious and unnecessary security risk. Burner phones are illegal in the EU, it isn't the privacy paradise its marketing sometimes tries to project.
I was hoping for a free typeface - that’s a great typeface name.

Anybody know what the Lumon font is?
This seems like a cool project. Just one question, how many languages are you going to add?
My understanding is that the US and Europe traded quite a bit prior to WW1, including for critical stuff such as food. I don't see NATO as nearly as critical for transatlantic trade as you do.

A basic problem with your story is the US/Europe trade deficit. If the US gains such a critical trade advantage by providing security to Europe, you would expect this would come through in the EU buying lots of US exports. In fact, the US buys more EU exports, despite the EU not funding US defense the way the US funds EU defense.

>I can come up with a scenario that's more peaceful: eg. if US did not fund EU's defenses, EU would have developed their own defence industry further, and instead of buying weaponry from US, they would have equally got it from Russia, and more recently, India and China. Perhaps even India and China catch up slower as Russia has richer willing customers in EU.

So Europe would buy USSR weapons during the Cold War? How does this hypothetical go, exactly? This just sounds like a scenario where the USSR expands to cover all of Europe. The Berlin Wall never would've fallen because instead of a wall, it would be the Atlantic Ocean. And honestly, if that's the world you want to live in, I'm fine with that.

>would not have feared NATO at all, because it wouldn't have included US.

But NATO would have included a rearmed West Germany in this hypothetical? I'll bet the USSR would've feared that...

>US did not benefit from EU's purchasing power for US products in the last 60 years

Trade is always mutually beneficial. I think security benefits both parties approximately equally, in the sense of allowing that trade and prosperity to occur. But the US would've received similar trade and prosperity benefit if it had only invested in Europe's security 10% as much, and asked Europe to cover the rest.

In any case, as I stated in my comment -- whatever Europeans may believe, few in the US appear to agree much. That seems to be a core part of the issue. Europe can tell itself all it wants that "defending Europe is in America's core interest" -- but if America doesn't actually believe that, it doesn't matter, and you guys need to either defend yourselves or (much preferably) find a way to make peace with Russia.
Why I'm Boycotting AI
I thought from the title that Blender switched to their own source control tool instead of svn
Which would be perfectly acceptable in German.

In contrast, when I worked for Goldman Sachs business unit 'Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities' I made sure not use their abbreviation in polite German company.
Reproducible builds actually solve a lot of problems. (Whether these are real problems, who really knows, but people spend a lot of money to solve them.)

At my last job, some team spent forever making our software build in a special federal government build cluster for federal government customers. (Apparently a requirement for everything now? I didn't go to those meetings.) They couldn't just pull our Docker images from Docker Hub; the container had to be assembled on their infrastructure. Meanwhile, our builds were reproducible and required no external dependencies other than Bazel, so you could git checkout our release branch, "bazel build //oci" and verify that the sha256 of the containers is identical to what's on Docker Hub. No special infrastructure necessary. It even works across architectures and platforms, so while our CI machines were linux / x86_64, you can build on your darwin / aarch64 laptop and get the exact same bytes, every time.

In a world where everything is reproducible, you don't need special computers to do secure builds. You can just build on a bunch of normal computers and verify that they all generate the same bytes. That's neat!

(I'll also note that the government's requirements made no sense. The way the build ended up working was that our CI system build the binaries, and then the binaries were sent to the special cluster, and there a special Dockerfile assembled the binaries into the image that the customers would use. As far as I can tell, this offers no guarantee that the code we said was in the image was in the image, but it checked their checkbox. I don't see that stuff getting any better over the next 4 years, so...)
The US car fatalities per mile is double than the UK. It would at least be useful to ask why that might be. That's 40,000 people a year who have their lives cut short.
I do it. This week I congratulated a dentist on his great job at a gum transplant. I love it when people are highly competent at their profession.
> I encourage maintainers to reject user feedback that is much more properly directed to some commercial software vendor who has not implemented the specification correctly.

Words to live by.
Like to microsoft.

- Buy HALO on steam

- Yeah, just make new a MS account, you can use temporary email and you're ready to go.

- Play some time (oops, more than two hours, you can't return it now).

- Next time you run, "We blocked your account due to strange activity, input phone number to unblock".

Now without giving up your phone number, you can't continue to play the game you bought.
> Though I will say that “benutze” is much longer than “use” haha.

I would have probably just gone with 'nutze' instead.
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How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl's 40k-Ton Shield
`JSON.parse` actually does give you that option via the `reviver` parameter, which gives you access to the original string of digits (to pass to `BigInt` or the number type of your choosing) – so per this conversation fits the "good parser" criteria.
You could have a look at Plankalkül for a very early example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
https://archive.ph/mxlZr
This is a real "daddy or chips" question, because they all do completely different things. Blender possibly best in terms of "compared to an expensive commercial product". Ghidra is incredibly powerful but has a weird look and feel. Linux is undoubtedly the most influential of those three, but if it had never been invented perhaps we'd be using a BSD instead?

"Best" in terms of "achievement by a single programmer (almost)" is Fabrice Bellard's ffmpeg and QEMU.
Could whales be a solution to climate change? Probably only a small one
It's evitable by stating the number of bytes in a field and then the field. No escaping needed and faster parsing.
It’s easy to have happy employees when you have infinite money and no pressure to ever build a sustainable product. Personal experience. Things do take a very sudden and powerful turn when the bubble bursts
Let's not move the goalposts. The original claim was "if there's no corporate sponsorship, you can't have apps".

These apps are not sponsored by corporations directly.

Also, your point is untenable. The moment someone patches something while being employed by a company, that thing becomes "developed via corporate paycheck". This also makes the small tools developed by oneself "developed via corporate paycheck", because while the person was at home, and it was 2AM, They also had a job paying their bills somehow.
After some repeated encouragement.
That is inherently very untrue. Mobile phones are targeted differently than desktop PCs, but this general statement is wrong as it is.
What tools do you use for an animatic?
Thanks! That makes more sense, to me.

> you have to supply hair samples

That seems like an idea that could be useful, over here, but we have a pretty strong sin lobby, so it's unlikely to happen.
I went to high school with Robin Goldwasser, who is married to John Flansburgh.

I’m really only bringing this up to say that my public high school in the 1980s fostered a creativity that I didn’t see when I was a teacher in high schools in the 1990s.

She was in my art class and my art teacher was excellent, but if I’m remembering right, she was also in my photography class where we had a dark room with unlimited access.

I also love the band by the way, even before I found out that her and John were married. Great lyrics and really imaginative compositions.
Thanks! Right now, we’re teaching in French, Dutch, German, where we’ve seen folks struggle the most with. We’ll add languages based on what people want.
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Why assume that death has to be involved? That’s just a strawman argument.

Accreditation is an incredibly low bar; all it tells you is that the institution has the right number and type of courses. All a degree tells you is that the student passed some of those classes. But grades in classes do not tell you much about actual ability. And reputation just means that the school has good advertising. It’s not like you can sample a bunch of schools to find out which is actually the best.

Doctors still need to be trained before treating patients but there’s no reason we have to require them to attend so many years of school. If we use our imaginations we can probably come up with alternatives that still achieve that goal. Some of those alternatives would have fewer drawbacks than the system we use today.

For example, our existing schools have the drawback that the school itself decides whether the student was successfully educated. Just as when police departments investigate themselves after a complaint tend to determine that their officers did nothing wrong, schools that investigate themselves tend to find that their professors did all that was necessary and that their students are all perfectly educated. Accreditation was an attempt to solve that kind of problem but it is much too weak to be effective.

Notice also that schools mostly make their students pay up front before success or failure has even been determined. You wouldn’t pay a contractor up front to fix your roof because they’d be tempted to take your money and disappear. You might pay half up front if you’re feeling generous, but even that still has some risk.
It's basically the other way around. The companies that are enabled to grow without bound are the cause of concentration of wealth, not the result of it. Who are the billionaires? The early shareholders in megacorps.
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[Google Research] Handwriting Conversion with Vision Language Model
> What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

that's only applicable in a court of law. otherwise the police wouldn't be able to investigate or arrest anybody - officer I haven't been found guilty, therefore I'm innocent.
Writing Useful Documentation
Hear hear! Why is all editing done with text-based editors where humans can make syntax errors. Is it about job security?
Calorie-free sweeteners can disrupt the brain's appetite signals
Four elements in a single address is an insane flex
Open-source Notion alternative: Affine
It costs more than dying.
Sounds all too similar to General Electric, pre-Jack Welsh...vs. General-Electric, post-Jack Welch.

The first prioritized engineering 'most everything that a modern nation might need. The latter prioritized only engineering its own financial statements.

Both did very well...at least at their top priorities.
Should be trivial to put in, if not. Install the package and maybe prepare some datasource hints while reproducing the image. Depends on where you'll be using it.

The trick will be in the details, as usual. User data that both does useful work... and plays nicely with immutability.

I suspect it would be more sensible to skip the gymnastics of trying to manicure something inherently resistant, and instead, lean in on reproducibility. Make it as you want it, skip the extra work.

Want another? Great - they're freely reproducible :)
> "too much of it involved making assumptions about how unmeasurable things affected other unmeasurable things."

What's the difference between a macro-economic theory and a belief system?
FreeCAD is built on top of Open Cascade and I think that’s what’s going to limit them. It was a fast way to get to v1, but there’s only so much that project can do to work around the limitations of the library they built on.
There's a fun thread available here: https://road.cc/content/forum/car-crashes-building-please-po...

It's where a bunch of cycling nutters (I'm one of them) post local news stories where a driver has crashed into a building ("It wasn't wearing hi-viz!")
Obviously, the Linux kernel would need a Swedish version.

(Swedish is Linus Torvalds' native language.)
Der Kommentarenbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Not moving away from Mac, I still have my Mac and love it.

But I've installed Bluefin-dx on my gaming PC and work laptop. I love it. It's similar enough to Mac OS and really solid.
https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/scala-for-python-dev...
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Overly nihilistic view. As someone who was a working nightclub DJ for 5 years, these kind of tools lower the barrier for entry into the hobby and trade and also serve as a great backup plan.

It’s not intended as a replacement to a curated collection of white labels, bootlegs and edits which you build up and over years.
Very interesting write-up at your link! The early English alternatives were even longer than the common German suggestions we have here.

Btw, 'sonstwenn' seems really silly. 'ansonsten' or just 'sonst' might be more idiomatic.

Hmm, the actual code uses 'anderenfalls', which also works, but is a bit longer than 'sonst'.
Very cool idea but pricy, I'm guessing thats due to costs of streaming the audio via OpenAI or is it Vercel that pushes the costs up?
> Spot on. Current environment feels like the self-driving car hype cycle. There have been a lot of bold promises (and genuine advances), but I don't see a world in the next 5 years where AI writes useful software by itself.

My worry is that we get an overnight sea-change like 4o image generation. The current tools aren't good enough for anything other than one-shotting, and then suddenly overnight, they're good enough to put a lot of people out of work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

>Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the separation and estrangement of people from their work, their wider world, their human nature, and their selves. Alienation is a consequence of the division of labour in a capitalist society, wherein a human being's life is lived as a mechanistic part of a social class.[1]
China built hundreds of AI data centers. Now many stand unused
I’m interested in this answer as well, since I have a little who isn’t school aged either. I’m trying to compile perspectives to make this same decision.
> Current environment feels like the self-driving car hype cycle.

Is that really hype? I mean there companies or person(s) hyping it up, but there is also Waymo and Pingshan (Baidu) for example actually rolling it out. It's a lot less hype than AI coding.

> Anecdotally, AI agents feel stuck somewhere circa ~2021.

That's only part of the problem. It's also stuck or dead set on certain frameworks / libraries where it has training data.

> I keep thinking about The Tortoise and The Hare.

This implies that AI is currently "smart". The hare is "smarter" and just takes breaks i.e. it can actually get the job done. With the current "AI" there are still quirks where it can get stuck.
"This is the case in a lot of the US South."

I understand your reasoning re US South but 'laid-back' in the Australian context refers more to a 'laxadaisical' or 'couldn't-care-less' attitude—or that's what it used to mean. Class doesn't much enter the picture. :-(
Or FRoG for short, in English.
"you're not mature enough to do this"

Isn't it rather saying that you're not experienced enough to do this. Speaking only for myself, I passed my driving test no problem and after a couple of month of driving I thought I was a great driver. Yet looking back now with the benefit of experience I know for a fact I did some really stupid things that first year of driving and it was only luck rather skill that led to me not getting into an accident.
XML is a pretty good markup language. Using XML to store structured data is an abuse of it. All the features that are useful for markup are not useful for structured data and only add to the confusion.
I don't care much for Generative AI (still too early) but I had some ok experiences with Tripo for retopology and auto rigging.

Still super early days though, I did have some of the same issues you had.
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Interesting and much different then stereotypes thrown around would have you believe.
apparently not! all those americans who insisted they needed their guns to repel government tyranny have gone oddly silent now the government is going all 1933.
How fast does it evaporate in a vacuum?