skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re not wrong. I’ve assumed it’s a side effect of the way the industry deals with career advancement. If you’re an engineer or middle manager, you aren’t going to get a promotion or bonus if you say “we took feature X and made it more stable without introducing any new functionality”. The industry seems to favor adding new features regardless of quality so the teams that do it can stand out and make it look like they’re innovating. This isn’t how it has to be: if companies would recognize that better doesn’t necessarily mean “more stuff” or “change”, then people could get rewarded for improving quality of what already exists.
It's true that these trucks wouldn't be marketable in the U.S. based on safety or emissions, though I imagine it wouldn't require that many modifications if there were a consumer market.

The problem is that if safety and emissions equipment raise the price to $20k, and you add the 25% chicken tax, you are at the $25k of a barebones Ford Ranger.

I feel the chicken tax really should be repealed. It has been distorting the U.S. truck market for 40 years, preventing smaller, cheaper, more fuel efficient trucks from asian manufacturers from competing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
> 1. you're holding it wrong

When computers/internet first came about, there were (and still are!) people who would struggle with basic tasks. Without knowing the specific task you are trying to do, its hard to judge whether its a problem with the model or you.

I would also say that prompting isn't as simple as made out to be. It is a skill in itself and requires you to be a good communicator. In fact, I would say there is a reasonable chance that even if we end up with AGI level models, a good chunk of people will not be able to use it effectively because they can't communicate requirements clearly.
Wishing there was a capable Lightroom alternative.
That's why it's called an 'energy turnaround' not an energy 180.
I use bog-standard zsh without any plugins or any of the fancy stuff, but one of the most useful tricks I use is to leverage interactive comments. If I have a long command I know I run will frequently, I 'tag' them at the end by a shell comment[1].

So for example, I have one that I use to run software updates:

softwareupdate --include-config-data --install --all --restart # system:update:restart

I have a similar one without the `--restart` option that I tag with `:norestart` instead, but you get the idea—I put related commands under a common term.

Then I can just use the ctrl-r builtin keybinding, type `:system` and cycle through system related commands, or go exactly to the command I want. The beauty of this is that it also works in bash and systems I remote into (which I frequently need to do at work), without any extra plugins required.

[1]: interactive comments are disabled by default in zsh, but can be enabled with `setopt interactive_comments`
The solution is pretty simple, tax the rich and give it to the poor. Hard to put into practice due to the power dynamics involved, but let's not pretend it's this great mystery with no possible solution.
I'm friends with somebody who seems to suffer from this. I'm not talking mouth open lip smacking eating or slurping, just noise of using cutlery and chewing something not crunchy and swallowing seems to set them off at times. They've had outbursts at me before. I didn't really take offense, maybe felt embarrassed or defensive but I tried to be quieter. Which actually seemed to make things worse because I was awkwardly trying to be careful, but maybe it was just because I was focusing on it more.

In any case that still wasn't good enough for them, so I proffered some helpful suggestions for alternative solutions to the problem, which was that they take themselves somewhere else, or they could learn to deal with it themselves. Unfortunately this was taken extremely personally and caused great offense, judging by the reaction.

I have even pointed out to them when they are eating loudly and they do the revenge chew thing you're talking about, lol. I don't think the rational part of their brain has reconciled the fact that it's not actually possible for them to eat silently with their unreasonable demands of others.

At some point if your behavior is outside the norm, things are going to go more smoothly for you if you cater to the rest of society and deal rather than the other way around. You can always ask people to eat quieter and maybe they should but you'll certainly annoy and/or embarrass many people by asking, that's the reality.

> The only thing I find to improve it is to not be tired or stressed when eating with others, or lively conversation as a distraction. Easy, right?

That does actually sound easy unless you work at a restaurant or on a submarine or something.
I wonder how the US military will react when they will be ordered to attack a previously friendly nation like Canada or Greenland, or to help and support a previous enemy like Russia in its wars against Europe.
I live in a town/area that has a high percentage of truck owners, definitely higher than i.e. west coast cities. An area with lots of people who do outdoor activities that a truck is nice or necessary for, and with people who do use their truck for work, and with people who drive trucks because it is what they are accustomed to. Among my friends and people I talk to, there is definitely some desire for more reasonably sized trucks. As another example, older used trucks (which are smaller) fetch a premium here compared to other areas. Nationwide, you can also look at the success of the Ford Maverick and even possible the Hyundai Santa Cruz. Personally, I don't understand these truck models, as they seem to be an inconvenient 4 door car with a truck bed that isn't really usable for much, but they indicate that manufactures are somewhat succeeding with the concept.

There is 100% still a large market for big trucks, but I wonder how the truck market will change in the future. My first car was an old ford ranger, which was in many ways the perfect vehicle for me. Reasonably sized, 2 doors, okay gas mileage, okay for light towing, and a bed that was usable. The modern small trucks are a completely different design, catering to a super cab design that can easily fit 4 people, and sacrificing bed space, and still end up significantly larger than older pickup trucks. This still seems completely non-functionable to me. It seems manufactures are realized customers want smaller trucks, but it is just catering to people who want a truck but don't actually need a truck? Will we ever see normal-sized functional pickup trucks in the US again?
> Strange question, why would you "just" ignore all the information out there?

Some of the information out there is many, many people saying they do use Genai products and find them valuable. You shouldn't ignore that info either.

> But then why would you pick this specific products among a million of others? You wouldn't even know about it without the hype!

That's true of everything ever to different extents. You wouldn't have heard of any product if someone hadn't told you about it, either word of mouth, advertising or you seeking it out in some. I don't see how that possibly matters.

And yes, the fact that there's a lot of hype - a lot of people very excited and saying this is something that is super useful for them - is absolutely the reason most people have heard about it. That's good! A lot of people finding value in a product and telling others is pretty good evidence.
Someone will have to pay more. No one wants to - no one.
This good be a good sign.

It’s better to “own” 10% a known, faithful customer base than 0.1% of a floating one.
Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased

I think the decline of software went hand-in-hand with the decline of the native indie Mac app. They still exist, but when I started with the Mac (2007), there was a very rich ecosystem of native Mac apps. Most stood head and shoulders above their Linux and Windows counterparts.

Apple has nearly destroyed that ecosystem with: race-to-the-bottom pricing incited by the App Store; general neglect of the Mac platform (especially between ~2016 and Apple Silicon); and a messy reactionary toolkit story with Catalyst, SwiftUI, etc. The new toolkits seem to imply that Apple says that it's the end of AppKit, but most SwiftUI applications are noticeably worse.

With their messy toolkit story and general neglect, developers have started using Electron more and more. Sure, part of the popularity is cost savings, since Electron apps can be used on multiple platforms. But part of it is also that a Catalyst or SwiftUI app is not going to provide much more over an Electron app. They will also feel weirdly out of place and you become dependent on Apple working out quirks in SwiftUI. E.g. 1Password tried SwiftUI for their Mac app, but decided in the end that it was an uphill battle and switched to Electron on Mac instead.

I recently bought a ThinkPad to use besides my MacBook. Switching is much easier than 10 or 15 years ago, since 80% of the apps that I use most frequently (Slack, Obsidian, 1Password, etc.) are Electron anyway. Even fingerprint unlocking works in 1Password. I was vehemently anti-electron and still don't like it a lot, but I am happy that it makes moving to a non-Apple platform much easier.
Very nice overview on the whole process, congrats on what was achieved and next steps.

We need more this kind of projects.

Also an heads up that besides TinyGo, there is indeed another baremetal Go version available being used in commercial products, TamaGo.

Although probably it would have been more challenging as TinyGo allowed for on this project.

https://www.osfc.io/2024/talks/tamago-bare-metal-go-for-arm-...

https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...

https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago
Iran still flies F-14s.
Curious what's bullshit about SwiftUI?
That's a really interesting point, and one I hadn't considered in depth...
For simple scripts (I never succeeded using it on something really complex, but it's great when you don't want to use bash but need something like Python) I had used this approach that still works nowadays and has no uv dependency (only requires pip to be installed in the same Python interpreter that you're using to run your script):

https://www.franzoni.eu/single-file-editable-python-scripts-...
Technical Analysis – Improper Use of Private iOS APIs in Vietnamese Banking Apps
If anything, please let Apple buy Raycast instead of Alfred.
> train on data that contains 'i don't know' responses

The "dunno" must not be hardcoded in the data, it must be an output of judgement.
And this is why trump keeps ranting about greenland. It's not just a distraction. He wants to invade greenland and canada, and he wants global warming to accelerate so it becomes more accessible.
Everything is a Remix (2023) [video]
How would you be able to tell if it wasn't that some of the search results have such an obvious leaning that they would not be considered useful search results?

Other than that there is also a chance that certain websites have a high hit rate because of the words used in the articles or the amount of articles put out. If certain publications clutter your results they are likely to get banned.
You can run most of LLMs just fine with on-premises resources, nothing exotic needed.
Intuit is a perfect microcosm of everything wrong with the western status quo. Complete disregard for their customers, corporate focus on regulatory capture and other forms of rent seeking, product updates that reduce functionality from prior versions accompanied by price hikes.
It's a scale. While straight up writing TeX is not for must, there's also stuff like LyX and TeXmacs.
Shameless plug for an old approach I use for various scripts when I think bash is not enough:

https://www.franzoni.eu/single-file-editable-python-scripts-...

This doesn't require UV, just pip within the same interpreter, but I wouldn't use it for something big, and still requires deps to be updated every now and then ofc (I never tried with raw deps, I always pin dependencies).
I feel that rather under-states things in Trump's favor.

> [As a polarizing figure] He has no choice but to value loyalty over competency

Technically true, but importantly the kind of "polarization" has nothing to do with partisan politics, it is self-generated by his own actions, and his problems retaining competent people are wayyy older than his 2015 entry into the Republican primaries.

He values "loyalty" because he needs people who aren't going to refuse or turn him in when he wants to break the law. A fair number have been convicted of it, like his CFO Weisselberg or his personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

> He's betting tariffs will benefit US manufacturing

No, he believes a trade-deficit means the US is "losing" profit to another country which is taking the value of trade.

He's imposing new taxes onto the American people because that's a readily-available lever for him to pull, as he extorts those other countries for favors. (He was even impeached for soliciting such favors before.)

> He's betting crippling universities and NIH/NSF and such will fix science somehow

I've never heard Trump even make the claim that the quality of US science and R&D needed fixing, and none of his recent actions are consistent with that explanation.

Instead, every illegal impoundment of federal funds can be traced to things like naive keyword searches for "diversity" or "women", or trying to punish/extort universities over DEI policies and transgender-athletes. Columbia's recent "academic receivership" has nothing to do with science.

Further evidence for this non-science motivation comes from how his administration started targeting people for their political views (i.e. violation of the First Amendment) to deport both permanent residents ("green-card" holders) and foreign students on valid visas.
It's only amazing right now because we aren't paying full-price for it

Wait until the investors want their returns
If it's China, why angry?

America welcomed it into WTC and gave business, IP, training and investment to get rich.

Either America wanted to exploit China or help it get rich. Which ones true?
Ask HN: Freelancers, how are AI agents changing your workflow?
I've noticed more freelancers integrating AI agents to handle peripheral tasks. For those using them:

1. Which specific tasks have you offloaded to AI?
2. Has this actually saved you time or just created different work?
3. What unexpected benefits or drawbacks have you encountered?
4. Has client satisfaction changed with AI-assisted deliverables?

Curious about real experiences beyond the marketing hype.
You can write a bash shebang that curl into shell. Unfortunately when I did it and gave to grandma it has failed because grandma has substituted oil shell and linked it as sh which is not best practice. I think grandmother shell script is simply impossible. They have spent decades acquiring idiosyncratic unix environment
I suspect they want that one to work while they do not want others to work. Military already got less qualified loyalists placed on leadership positions and experienced skilled people were let go.

But they won't do the mass firings designed to incapacitate it.
He coulda just said "Cuz stonks".
Privatisation is a reactionary strategy that aims to reduce or remove democratic influence over important social institutions like education and healthcare.

The entire point of social constructs like shareholder corporations is to make it hard or impossible to hold physical persons accountable for their actions and risk taking. In some areas of society this might be attractive and reasonable, in many others that involve e.g. vulnerable persons or justice it is not.

I have a chance to influence who sits in the regional political councils, but I can't influence the board in the corporation that runs the local healthcare centers. Capitalist competition optimises for mediocrity, for excellence you need democratic institutions and accountable politicians.
Forbidden Siren: The Most Unforgiving Survival Horror Game [video]
I’ve been thinking about the potential benefits of incorporating something like this into VR headsets. Since VR already controls the user’s visual perception, would adding a high-intensity blue light (not via the OLED displays but indirectly) allow for a more effective way to simulate bright daylight conditions? Achieving 10,000 lux at the eye would be much easier this way.
Politicians respond to incentives. If the status quo starts losing them elections, maybe they'll finally stop mistaking stakeholder management for leadership.
I’d be grumble to go back to Libre Office which I used for years but it was the company standard. Mostly just use Google Workplace these days. )As does my former employer.) I find Google does a good job of including features most people need 95%+ of the time and does a good job of those.
It's just color coding for mice (green) and keyboard (purple). The connector's the same.
It's simple. I buy a computer and buy the software. This software is installed on this computer and will will work unless the computer is broken. When you bought a CASIO keyboard you do not expect it to stop working after 3 years because it's installed newest updates.

Of course CASIO is not connected to the internet, it won't allow me to steer it with my fancy phone app. So maybe, just maybe, connecting everything to the internet is a simple mistake?

I bought my Lightroom when it was possible and am using with my camera. Once I buy a new camera, it won't be supported in lightroom. And I won't be able to upgrade it because now they moved to the subscription model. And I make photos every 5 months let's say... And lightroom them even less often
I think you're looking at this from a very privileged lens.

I have experience in the IT sector as a manager and while many openly say that the expectations are 40 hours a week wink wink but be expected to answer the phone 24/7 whenever we need you. Oh, 60 hours already this week? Too bad.

Taking time off? Oh, if you even have time. In the companies I have worked, taking 10 days off a year was considered a perk.
I wonder if Apple has internal metrics that most people just stick everything in the dock and on desktop and don't use Spotlight
Removing barriers is necessary, but not always sufficient
Qualified people do not want to work for him, because he values loyalty more and don't pay bills. He had a choice, many of them.

But the bulls part is funny. He ows money to layers he employed. So they don't want to work for him again.
60 hours a week, probably. Compensation will be geared towards 40h a week, but you might be on the hook for more. Add in the commute, if you don't live next to the office.
When you feed off decaying matter, hosting a colony of bugs which go out daily, bring back food and leave waste all around your environment sounds like a pretty good strategy when you don't have any way to move to better pastures?
> Who can understand and remember that?

Anybody who is interested in it
The core problem is a severe mismatch between academic curricula and what the job market actually needs on one side and the fact that companies use "needs a college degree" as a proxy to weed out risk and bypass ADA/anti discrimination laws. Both are a massive drain on the economy.

IMHO, at the very least the current CS degree needs to be split up - CS should be split into various smaller (and faster achievable) subdegrees - the fancy math stuff should be its own degree, possibly be fused with a new degree relating to AI, database and network theory should be its own degree, and frankly stuff like low-level assembler as well, and the "how do electronic components, NAND gates, boolean logic and whatnot work" moved off to electronics engineering. And what the market actually needs the most - people who can crank out CRUD app stuff - should be either its own degree if one insists that this needs academic knowledge, or be moved off to something like trades education.

In parallel, the job requirements gatekeeping should be tackled by laws - companies must no longer be allowed to require degrees that have little to no impact on the actual job duties. It's forcing our children to waste years of their life and take on five to six figures worth of debt, all only for companies to be able to weed out people.
Change won't come from inside a district that's already comfortable... It has to come from broader coalitions that push past local veto points.
LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, both have been a great since I switched away from Office 365—feeling I get overcharged for a function I will not use—for use with Nextcloud. It is even better to get a $39 ('refurbed' license for Office 2024) if you have to use (MS)Office.
The purple/violet was usually the color to refer to the keyboard, whereas green was code for 'mouse'.

As I recall you had the usb to ps/2 adapters for attatching legacy peripherals, but those usually came with two female ps/2 leads, a green one and a purple one, connecting to the one male usb-A.
> "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm.

I think this is just the result of an optimizing game placing profit above all else (including quality and user satisfaction) which is indeed the norm in this late stage of capitalism. You want to opt out of that? Good thing the GPL opened the way placing human freedoms front and center, and not-for-profit software stacks like KDE (for instance) keep getting better and better over time.

I use commercial OSes at work by obligation, and the turning point from which my experience as a user became better served by free software happened many years ago.
Oh no, Amazon does comply with regulatory laws of specific countries in order to make business there? How utterly shocking...
Good point. Updated my original comment, thanks.

In fact, they made the news a couple weeks ago:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-spy-drone-retre...

It's admittedly bizarre to have our old aircraft operated by a foreign adversary that's supposedly intercepting our newer, unmanned aircraft.
I think it’s pretty obvious what these models do in some cases.

Try asking them to write a summary at the beginning of their answer. The summary is basically them trying to make something plausible-sounding but they aren’t actually going back and summarizing.

LLMs are basically a building block in a larger software. Just like any library or framework. You shouldn’t expect them to be a hammer for every nail. But they can now enable so many different applications, including natural language interfaces, better translations and so forth. But then you’re supposed to have them output JSON to be used in building artifacts like Powerpoints. Has anyone implemented that yet?
My natural rhythm makes me a nocturnal being, while the society works 9 to 5. Once I realized this, it became obvious why I feel like fuck all the time. Can't wait to retire.
Original hightlight from @opa334, developer of TrollStore [0]. There are also some sharing about that on his page like sandbox escape published by @wh1te4ever [1]

0: https://infosec.exchange/@opa334/114224756352953362

1: https://gist.github.com/wh1te4ever/c7909dcb5b66c13a217b49ea3...
Meta doesn't use Leetcode for technical interviews, although they do suggest it for preparation. They don't even compile what is written. Another human being watches another human being write and explain code in a shared text editor for correctness and efficiency.
Of course Asahi isn’t an option. The hardware support is far from finished.
> they won't do the mass firings designed to incapacitate it

Pilots are among our most highly-trained warfighters. They have ample opportunity in industry. And they're smart. If SecDef is guiding counterfire to your takeoffs (and then finding himself unable to apologise for it) you will reconsider whether what you're doing is the best use of your life.

The explicit aim of DOGE was demotivation. That's exactly what this debacle has done.