skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably most source code has been lost. Games were considered throwaway projects, executives barely knew what source code was, and game dev work was considered entry-level and low-status. The main source of 80s and early 90s code that we have are floppy disks that developers took home rather than the companies that published the games.

Consider that version control was something that was basically only used by Unix developers back then. E.g. DOOM, with a particularly technically proficient team, was developed by passing disks with source files around.
LLMs can't be trusted. They aé like an overconfident idiot who is pretending quite impressively, butif you check on the result it's just a bit too much bullshit in the result. So there's practically zero gain in using LLMs except WHEN you actually need a text that's nice and eloquent bullshit.

Almost everytime I've tried using LLMs I've fallen into thepattern on calling out, correcting and argueing with the LLMs which is of course in itself sillyto do, because they don't learn, they don't really "get it" when they are wrong. There's no benefit to talking to a human.
Gaming/WSL kept me on Windows for a lot of the last decade, however after Windows 10 became EOL'd and Windows started turning into ad/spyware I finally gave it up over a year ago after 25+ years on
Windows Desktops.

Anyway Linux is liberating, Fedora Desktop is great, no ads in the OS, a Software Store/Installer I actually like to use, curated by usefulness instead of scam Apps. All my Windows Steam Games I frequently use just worked, I have to login to X11 for 1 title (MK11), but everything else runs in the default Wayland desktop. Although I'll still check protondb.com before purchasing new games to make sure there'll be no issues. Thanks to Docker, JetBrains IDEs and most Daily Apps I use are cross-platform Desktop Web Apps (e.g. VS Code, Discord, Obsidian, etc) I was able to run everything I wanted to.

The command-line is also super charged in Linux starting with a GPU-accelerated Gnome terminal/ptyxis and Ghostty running Oh My Zsh that's enhanced with productivity tools like fzf, eza, bat, zoxide and starship. There's also awesome tools like lazydocker, lazygit, btop and neovim pushing the limits of what's possible in a terminal UI and distrobox which lets me easily run Ubuntu VMs to install experimental software without impacting my Fedora Desktop.

Image editors is the one area still lacking in Linux. On Windows I used Affinity Designer/Photo and Paint.NET for quick edits. On macOS I use Affinity & Pixelmator. On Linux we have to chose between Pinta (Paint.NET port), Krita and GIMP which are weaker and less intuitive alternatives. But with the new major release of GIMP 3 and having just discovered photopea.com things are starting to look up.
Hilarious username.

> I can't eat with my Chinese colleagues.

Now imagine marrying a brilliant, gorgeous Chinese woman who slurps and snorts and air-swallows. Drives me & the kids berserk. Her father is even worse. Shudder.

For me and the kids it’s a private joke but the rage part hits when she eats in public. Noiseless! What’re we, chopped liver?

I also have a bunch of other stupid problems like that. Extreme aversion to coffee breath and onion or garlic breath; having to remove shirt tags; inability to sit through out-of-tune musical performers; physical reaction to voices; ability to identify people by smell, etc.
There were some other guys that famously got a lot done on stimulants.
China, India and Korea can build nuclear power plants without delays and cost overruns.

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/chinas-impressive-...
You've clearly never worked in large corporations - I'm almost 4 years in and I've learned:

- Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic for a lot of "business users"
- Decisions get made the speed of a tanker turning
- Management decisions will usually cause projects to take a complete 180

A lot of the time it's large businesses wasting money, while efficient/good developers get frustrated. You have to learn to let it go.
Consumers can only buy that which has been manufactured. There is customer demand but nobody is forcing anyone to start a company. If you build a factory and release tons of co2 that is the concrete act destroying the planet. Blaming your clients for making you do it seems wrong. Also kicking the can down the road diffuses the responsibility and obfuscates what harm actually was done. Consumers have hard time tracking this stuff down and are amateurs vs. the manufacturers who are the experts in the process and actually can make decisions for the better.
Do you mean vacant land property taxes or property taxes for all real-estate?
>what are some good alternatives to mac os?

There are three main choices and they are all compromised in their own way. You just need to figure out what is important to you and what isn't.

What you shouldn't do is take too much notice of posts like these, I've read through the whole thing and haven't had any of the issues mentioned. I've also not seen a mention of the issues I do have. HN has a negative tone, it seems we like to whinge.
From my limited experience (being a child and raising one child) I would say that the problem is more that we (as adults) pretend that the simplified thing is the whole picture.

Every time someone told me: "this is a simplified version to give you a basic understanding and later you will be able to learn more accurate versions" that was tremendously helpful and sometimes it sparked my curiosity and motivated me to look stuff up myself.

I mean we should get ahead of the realisation that it doesn't add up.
I feel for that dude. I worked in public service for a while and eventually burnt out because I felt like I wasn't making much progress. Even as a vegan today I often ask myself if it's worth it when Cletus is proudly eating 5x the beef anyone should just to "stick it to the soy boys".

Progress is slow. Destruction is quick.
I mean the other way to look at it is that there are two quality newspapers plus the BBC in the boost list, and a notoriously dodgy tabloid, a TV news site, and whatever the hell Breitbart is (I must say, I hadn’t realised it was still a thing) in the lower list. You’re not really comparing like for like.
> Verifying the accuracy of its statements is easy.

For single statements, sometimes, but not always. For all of the many statements, no. Having the human attention and discipline to mindfully verify every single one without fail? Impossible.

Every software product/process that assumes the user has superhuman vigilance is doomed to fail badly.

> Automation centaurs are great: they relieve humans of drudgework and let them focus on the creative and satisfying parts of their jobs. That's how AI-assisted coding is pitched [...]

> But a hallucinating AI is a terrible co-pilot. It's just good enough to get the job done much of the time, but it also sneakily inserts booby-traps that are statistically guaranteed to look as plausible as the good code (that's what a next-word-guessing program does: guesses the statistically most likely word).

> This turns AI-"assisted" coders into reverse centaurs. The AI can churn out code at superhuman speed, and you, the human in the loop, must maintain perfect vigilance and attention as you review that code, spotting the cleverly disguised hooks for malicious code that the AI can't be prevented from inserting into its code. As qntm writes, "code review [is] difficult relative to writing new code":

-- https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/
> that returns 0 results, because it turns out the state column uses two-letter state abbreviations like CA instead.

As you’ve identified, rather than just giving it the schema you give it the schema and a some data when you tell it what you want.

A human might make exactly the same error - based on misassumption - and would then look at the data to see why it was failing.

If we assume that a LLM would magically realise that when you ask it to find something based on an identifier which you tell it is ‘California’ it would magically assume that the query should be based on ‘CA’ rather than what you told it, then that’s not really the fault of the LLM.
Let’s do the exact same thing we just did when we lost. Surely that’s going to work.

Abundance is the new buzzword after the campaign of “brat” and “joy”.

I hope people will see through this crap and demand better. This website isn’t leaving a good impression with the credulity displayed in the comments. Luckily it’s far from the mainstream.
If you are the person who consistently takes 10x longer than everyone else to fix issues, then someone has a conversation with you. It's not that hard.
The claim seems plausible because it doesn't say there was any formal evaluation, just that some doctors (who may or may not understand how LLMs work) hold an opinion.
Fourth Beijing warning for Li Ka-shing's Hutchison over Panama ports deal
Maybe if you run a fleet that's statistically true. If you're a regular person you can have incredible bad luck with specific models.

Got two "2k" Lenovos at 4 year intervals.

The first one worked fine but that model was known to have a weak hinge. Had to replace it three times.

The second one had a known problem that some units simply stop working with the internal display and the only solution is replacing the motherboard. My unit worked about a week for me. Seller refunded me instead of repairing because it was end of the line and they didn't have replacements.

Got a "2k" Asus ordered now, let's see how that goes :)

Compared to that, even the one emoji keyboard macbook pro that i had worked for years. The keyboard on those models is defective by design and kept degrading, and I still think Cook should take his dried frog pills more regularly, but the rest of the laptop is still working. Not to mention my other, older apple laptops that are still just fine(tm), just obsolete.
I have the feeling that UK is almost inexistant in the field of AI despite it's previous position on the tech sector line in neobanking and cryptos.

It probably doesn't help that software engineer salaries (and I guess researchers) there are a shame and does probably not attract talents.

For years I have add headhunters from UK contacting me living in Europe for positions there needing a relocation. And I had pity for them advertising for jobs that looks nice on paper but with salaries for senior developers equivalent to entry level positions here...
While I am amazed at the technology, at the same time I hate it. First, 90% of people misintepret it and cite output as facts. Second, it needs too much energy. Third, energy consumption is rarely mentioned in nerdy discussions about LLMs.

'But you're such a killjoy.'

Yes, it is an evil technology in its current shape. So we should focus on fixing it, instead of making it worse.
If you think the usage in other countries is casual you are mistaken.
Believe it or not, it was a huge deal. I went to two launch parties -- one hosted by CompUSA and one by a local place -- the night it came out. This wasn't in Silicon Valley, but in the U.S. Midwest (St. Louis, MO). Hundreds of people stood in line at midnight to get the first copies at the two places I went to and the same thing happened all over the world. (Of course, CompUSA also had a whole display of upgrades to get your computer running better if it wasn't ready for Windows 95.)

The same sort of late night excitement existed around each early Mac OS X release, incidentally.
So, EOF is basically an object format for EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) bytecode. You can learn more here: https://evmobjectformat.org/. Clean is basically a DSL for writing zero-knowledge-proof circuits, so it is unrelated to the EVM.
Useless report, almost funny. It does not include what Amazon has already banned.
> now 90% of all rental contracts have an insurance for non-payments included in the contract.

This is interesting. I never knew about it. I am surprised that it has never come up on HN before. In Japan, it is similar, but I don't know the history. (If I had to guess, it is probably related to the destroyed economy after the war.) If you have a "rich uncle" or work for a famous company, they can be your rental contract guarantor, but most people pay for third party insurance. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Mostly, it feels like a regressive tax on the poorest.
It is also in my interest to skip spotting bugs during code review so I can look like a genius when I fix them when they cause issues in production. Of course I don't do that because this is incredibly stupid and I have better ways to spend my time.
The Other Side of Depression (2014)
yes, I have noticed.. and I am concerned.
Same can be achieved without RL. There’s no need to generate a full response to provide loss for learning.

Similarly, instead of waiting for whole output, loss can be decomposed over output so that partial emits have instant loss feedback.

RL, on the other hand, is allowing for more data. Instead of training on the happy path, you can deviate and measure loss for unseen examples.

But even then, you can avoid RL, put the model into a wrong position and make it learn how to recover from that position. It might be something that’s done with <thinking>, where you can provide wrong thinking as part of the output and correct answer as the other part, avoiding RL.

These are all old pre NN tricks that allow you to get a bit more data and improve the ML model.
Try it, you may like it. I use it for collaborative visual brainstorming with real life projects (e.g. fashion or photo ideas) and it works well for that purpose.
Am I the only one who is perfectly fine with the current macOs/IOS landscape? I encounter no bugs on daily basis, if at all.
I'm genuinely interested to know: why does the US maintain bases in Europe when they have clearly zero imperial gain from it, the would-be vassal states deriving tribute from the US by robbing their companies rather than the usual reverse?

Perhaps someone better versed in geopolitics could explain why the US doesn't absolutely ditch Europe to fend for themselves and exit all military and otherwise engagements with them and fall back to ordinary international trade relationships.
And many people tried it a year ago and wrote it off as useless after trying to get results with basic one-shot prompting.

Those people, likely, will never change their opinion.

And that’s fine, because they won’t get the huge benefits that come from spending time learning how to use the tool properly.
Yes. Human speech is sequential (we make sounds one by one), and when LLMs mimic this with token-by-token autocomplete they seem more anthropomorphic to us.

(I take issue with the word "successful", though. Selling LLMs as a human-like intelligence is a gimmick and a borderline scam.)
Yeah it's not great. Edit isn't always there. Fn+E seems to make the most sense. I've heard about ctrl+cmd+space but commonly forget it. Both of those open the same GUI which combines emojis, stickers, and unicode symbols—preferring the first two categories over the last. To type out a unicode symbol it takes at least three clicks on top of me starting to type in the name of my symbol

sigh

Thanks for the suggestions
Friends don't let friends use iText:

https://beemanmuchmore.com/software-licensing-trolls-apryse-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116712
They have their value in analyzing huge amounts of data for example scientific papers or raw observations, but the popular public ones are mostly trained on stolen/pirated texts offthe internet and from social media clouds the companies control. So this means: bullshit in -> bullshit out. I don't need machines for that the regular human bullshitters do this job just fine.
what's the --dry-run hack ?
Don't Shard Your DB Manually
I have yet to be on an oncall that is similar to what was described there, and I get paid pretty well. It's very much a function of where you work and what you work on.
A pithy phrase frequently uttered by those who can’t do or teach. Or have no idea what academia actually entails.
> They push the narrative that they’ve created something akin to human cognition

This is your interpretation of what these companies are saying. I'd love to see if some company specifically anything like that?

Out of the last 100 years how many inventions have been made that could make any human awe like llms do right now? How many things from today when brought back into 2010 would make the person using it make it feel like they're being tricked or pranked? We already take them for granted even thought they've only been around for less than half of a decade.

LLMs aren't a catch all solution to the world's problems; or something that is going to help us in every facet of our lives; or an accelerator for every industry that exists out there. But at no point in history could you talk to your phone about general topics, get information, practice language skills, build an assistant that teaches your kid about the basics of science, use something to accelerate your work in a many different ways etc...

Looking at llms shouldn't be boolean, it shouldn't be between they're the best thing ever invented vs they're useless; but it seems like everyone presents the issue in this manner and Sabine is part of that problem.
> The courts should be speedy at forcing landlords to rectify problems just as the courts should be speedy at forcing out squatters.

This raises an interesting point. In the United States, in the last 30 years, many states have introduced a voluntary "family court" system. If both sides opt-in during divorce proceedings, then the process can be much faster, cheaper, and lower friction. What if there was something similar for renters and landlords? I think it is worth a try.
Huh, it is mentioned multiple times that it usually manifests as a teenager, but for me it was much earlier. I can't remember a time when I wasn't effected by it.
The damage is done, it won't be undone after the next election. USA's society has shown that is not only schizophrenic but also there's a large portion of the population who cannot see the damage they can inflict, brainwashed masses of uneducated people cheering on the sidelines for all this bullshit.

There's no turning back, it will take at least another 15-20 years of constant work building trust for the US to get back to its standing pre-2025.
Fix your layout on mobile

Also hamburger menu completely busted on mobile

Also the links at the bottom are nothing, e.g. terms of service just jumps back to home page

Also are all those numbers and personas you put on the front page completely made up?
It's a package manager. The job of package managers is to download code that you then run. That certainly has security implications, but that doesn't differentiate uv from pip, Poetry, Cargo, CPAN, npm, RubyGems, ...
SEGA seems to always have been a lot more generous with this kind of thing... Much of the disassembly or decompilation projects I've seen come out of old SEGA games include all the assets with them (e.g. look up disassemblies for the Genesis games), and ROM hacks are typically distributed as full ROMs - I've basically never seen SEGA use the DMCA against any disassemblies/decompilations/ROM hacks.
well you can just give her the `./install_uv.sh && ./run_script.sh` command, eg

`( curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh ) && ./run_script.sh`
I wish I could cite the actual study, but I'm my feeble mind only remembers the anger I felt at the statistic.

Unlike the LLM, i'm willing to be truthful about my memory.
Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook
The rich are not your problem. It's the guy who can't work any cheaper because he has to keep paying his mortgage who causes this deadlock.
Asking the LLM for relevant case law and checking it up - productive use of LLM. Asking the LLM to write your argument for you and not checking it up - unproductive use of LLM. It's the same as with programming.
So it's a natural language interface, except it can only be useful if we stick to a subset of natural language. Then we're stuck trying to reverse engineer a non documented, non deterministic API. One that will keep changing under whatever you build that uses it. That is a pretty horrid value proposition.
150$ for 1GB of memory. 250$ for one hour of professional service. I guess the public sector is very well ripped off
Complete Guide: Build Your First AI Agent (No-Code and Code Demo)
“Entitled” how? Sounds like innuendo for “I don’t like him.”
Is it easy to transpose to other types of architectures, or is it leaning heavily against web development? Thank you for sharing, your project sounds really interesting by the way! :)
(Former) iOS app developer here. I was oncall once and it was actually not that bad because every change had to go through app review, which put the lower bar on response times at days if not weeks. I hate app review but it was actually very nice that "oncall" really just meant "check the Slack channel in the morning" because there was no point in doing anything faster.
Can confirm it is like torture
Random? Try well-known historian and published author.
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals [pdf]
Snow Leopard introduced GCD, which was a HUGE new feature. It completely changed how we wrote async code. It just wasn't a huge user facing feature.

Snow Leopard also introduced the Mac App Store (in a point release), which was a user facing feature.

I think the "zero new features" mostly meant "no flashy user facing features". It had a lot of new features for developers.
I live in a city with rent control and it's a disaster.

It just caused a massive drop in supply and landlords moving to alternative stuff like temporary contracts to get around it. The latter could be legislated against but would probably just cause a further drop in supply.

Ultimately you can't cheat the market, if you want lower prices you either increase supply or decrease demand.
Sure, but that’s not relevant in the timeline of the OP.
MCP: The 'AI battle' is happening on the client side
> Yes, and that mattered when you had to hand-type everything. But when AI can generate either version in milliseconds, the value proposition shifts dramatically.

This seems to assume nobody ever has to debug or maintain the code afterwards.
Right there in the abstract:

"Our approach works by predicting a dense motion flow field and a monocular depth map directly from a single motion-blurred image"
Zero imperial gain? This is a rather incredible claim: why do you say so?
> What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities?

That their own products depend on it because they developer their products in Mac. And that the professional people they pretend they cater to depend on Macs, and steadily move away.
Recharging to a private company from a central gov entity is not new, and usually solves a non-technical problem.

In this case (and the same in Australia, UK, Canada) it will be cost of procurement. Ie individual departments have to negotiate (and maintain) a contract. Providing a generic platform (Cloud Foundry, k8s, whatever) on top means that small products from individual entities can get built/deployed without each project having to do a tender to negotiate Heroku or similar.

Likewise, getting a .gov (or .gov.uk or .gov.au, etc) is a big hassle, and with a PaaS you can make the experience a lot better
(not in use any more but you can see what it looked like: https://github.com/cloud-gov/cf-domain-broker)

Ie the goal is to reduce the time/steps/approvals required to get a gov website up and running, and cloud.gov in this current incarnation was started under the Obama admin.
Sonic Advance 2 might be late enough that developers started to take that seriously, e.g. I recall hearing that earlier games like Ocarina of Time already were being developed using CVS, for instance, and another game from around that time that I specifically recall would be Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, developed in an SVN repository