skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... that's all you're doing though? Because one could fork OpenSign and stick a RAG agent on the side in a couple hours, right?

One could literally vibe code this feature into a PR for OpenSign in like 15 minutes.
It is fully designed around the limitations of that particular APU and makes the best of it, without being a generic motherboard.
Search is fine as a one-off thing, but if you repeatedly have to use search to find some common setting, that's a clear UX fail.

To be fair, it's hard to say whether the Settings app is more broken in Windows or macOS these days. I think I'd have to give the crown to macOS here on account of search itself being more broken.
Absolutely. And turning off Siri's "Learn from this app" should not require the user to navigate to every single app's menu, when Siri has a top level page in Settings.
Windows is indeed an execrable shitshow. Every aspect of it assaults the user with incompetence or outright hostility.

First is the endless badgering to log in, LOG IN, LOGGGG INNNNN with an asinine Microsoft account. If you can tolerate that and actually get the OS running, you're wading through a wonderland of UI regressions and defects.

The default hiding and disabling of options is infuriating. Try showing content from your Windows computer on a TV, for example. You plug your HDMI cable in, and you can select the TV as an external monitor in a reasonably logical manner. Great.

But wait... the sound is still coming from the laptop speakers. So you go to Sound in the system settings. Click on the drop-down for available devices. NOPE; the only device is the laptop speakers.

So you start hunting through "advanced settings" or some such BS. And buried in there you find the TV, detected all along, but DISABLED BY DEFAULT. WHY??? Not auto-selecting it for output is one thing, but why is it DISABLED and HIDDEN?

This is the kind of shit I have to talk my parents through over the phone so they can watch their PBS subscription on their TV. The sheer stupidity of today's Windows UI isn't just annoying, but it's demoralizing to everyday people who blame THEMSELVES for not being "computer-savvy" or slow learners. NO; it's Microsoft's monumental design incompetence and user-hostile behavior.

Microsoft doesn't get the relentless excoriation it deserves for its miserable user experience. There's no excuse for it.
It’s quite hard to mistake an em dash for a hyphen in a proportional font.

self-fulfilling

self—fulfilling

One of these looks very, very wrong.
Sligthly (un)related: The other day the builtin keyboard on my rather new Thinkpad X1C 12th stopped working. I connected a USB keyboard and tried to figure out whether there was an error in Linux kernel ring buffer or anything else explaining the problem.

To my surprise the internal keyboard is not even USB, but i8042. Not a hardware guy, but I had silently assumed everything is USB these days. I guess i8042 is the PS/2 protocol TFA is talking about?

(No error found, but after a reboot it has been working again.)
That’s only sustainable if we pour a humongous percentage of our GDP in upgrading all software all the time.
Uh huh, then what race am I?

Is race passed down the mother's line? The father's? Or does it arbitrarily transform between generations due to some biological facts I'm unaware of?

Scientifically speaking, what are the rules?
How so ? I've lived in various EU countries, and spent extended periods of time in the UK. In practice I could not tolerate the food unless I paid exorbitant amounts. Both in grocery shopping, and eating out.
That is highly unlikely to happen in the near future (say 2 years).
I meant Pylance isn't legally available in Cursor (Vscode license restriction, which is justified). It broke very frequently, so I switched to Based pyright, which works but just not as well.
I agree about the content of Elixir's docs. They seem to have inherited the habit of documenting things well, which is a fuckin great habit to have.

But. Honestly, I hate the hell out of how Elixir's docs look, and am pretty unhappy with how Erlang's docs started aping the style.

Seriously, check out the EBNF-esque description of the types for this function: <https://web.archive.org/web/20170509122932/http://erlang.org...>. Notice also how some of the documentation for all of the 'request' variants fits on a single screen. Scroll to the top of the page and notice the regular formatting and prominent, clear section headings. See how the significant data types used by the module are described in one place. Scroll to the bottom and observe the "See also" section. Notice the very clear navigation on the left-hand side that gives you obvious springboards to any part of the documentation.

Compare that to this: <https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/inets/httpc.html#request/1>. Notice how you get a function or three of typespec on a screen. There's so much scrolling to get to the function's behavioral description. And the EBNF has been replaced with raw typespecs! If you understand how to read Erlang typespecs, it's totally possible to read the function type. But, like, if you're starting out with the language, this is WAY harder to read. Not to mention the loss of the clear headings at the top of the document and the centralized list of data types, as well as the "phone style" navigation widget on the left that obscures at least as much as it reveals.
You might be surprised to hear that people talk to other people and trust their judgements.
I don’t care about climate change. I’d rather the world have air conditioning and electricity than live in huts to prevent carbon emissions
May as well add this to the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songline (large amounts of knowledge can be transferred just fine)
Most people - the vast majority of people - cannot critically synthesize information on their own.

But the implication of what you are saying is that academic rigour is going to be ditched overnight because of LLMs.

That’s a little bit odd. Has the scientific community ever thrown up its collective hands and said “ok, there are easier ways to do things now, we can take the rest of the decade off, phew what a relief!”
When you get enough karma, you can "flag" submissions. If enough people flag a submission, it gets buried and won't show up on the front page anymore.
I use Photopea which tries to mimic Photoshop UI and runs entirely on your browser. In fact, you can even install it as a Web App to run it offline. Pretty intuitive UI.

https://www.photopea.com/
I'm a huge cladistics fan, but insisting that "animal" isn't a useful term is pretty out there, IMHO. Certainly we can (and do!) teach cladistics in high school biology, but does your ideal world have baby books titled with one of the mentioned names...?

More personally speaking: what am I missing out by using the four kingdoms? Like, how could that possibly ever backfire in a way that slightly impacts my life negatively, or impedes the scientists studying genetic lineages? There's basically infinite science to "remain ignorant" of, I don't see any justification for an elitist attitude on this nuance in particular.
Surely you're not saying everyone is using them wrong. Let's say only 99% of them are using LLMs wrong, and the remaining 1% creates $100B of economic value. That's $100B of upside.

Yes the costs of training AI models these days are really high too, but now we're just making a quantitative argument, not a qualitative one.

The fact that we've discovered a near-magical tech that everyone wants to experiment with in various contexts, is evidence that the tech is probably going somewhere.

Historically speaking, I don't think any scientific invention or technology has been adopted and experimented with so quickly and on such a massive scale as LLMs.

It's crazy that people like you dismiss the tech simply because people want to experiment with it. It's like some of you are against scientific experimentation for some reason.
I agree that we cannot compare Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, but take Copenhagen for example. Same (and even worse) logistics to get good produce, but you can find acceptable food both in grocery stores, and a quality restaurant culture for the average restaurant.

And it's not like the Danish had a cuisine traditionally, all they ate was pork and potatoes due to the geography.
"On the contrary. Humans can earn trust, learn, and can admit to being wrong or not knowing something."

You can do the same with LLM, I gaslight chatgpt all the time so it not hallucinate
The path forward from this is to stop trying to write laws that are wealth-neutral on these kinds of matters. Small mom-and-pop should be allowed to do many things that extremely wealthy landlords and/or corporations are not allowed to do. The penalties for violations should be ruinous for the wealthy and small for the non-wealthy.
Probably makes sense for a b2b app where you publish status codes as part of the api

Bad actors don’t care and annoying actors would make fun of you for it on twitter
What's frustrating is that Apple still has the resources and talent to ship rock-solid software
No thank you for obviously good intent on your side, but I am not looking for scripting help here, nor am I a business type who does not code themselves. I just don't want do this when I am already paying for the tooling which should be able to do it themselves, as they already wrap Claude, ChatGPT and whatever other LLMs. And unless you're professionally developing with Microsoft stack, I'd advise to ditch the Windows+MinGW for Linux, or at the very least, a MacBook ;)
It's easy to change keybindings on Gimp, most of mines are ones i used in photoshop 4-CS2.

>It finally has non-destructive editing

not for the fonts unfortunately, if you resize a text with the scale tool, it gets rasterized
Many people haven’t gotten the message yet, it seems.
Because those are the only two options.
Pets in a higher caste than some human beings
Pinterest kills meta and exif of all uploads.
I dont think schools should be censoring books, buying precensored books that have the substance yanked out to prevent offending politicians, nor should they be banning books.

I also get super frustrated at Conde Nast for taking a lot of their old shit out of print, causing it to fetch prices in the hundreds.
The wild thing to consider is how entirely fucked we are if we're actually attacked in our current state. It's clear the DoD is rudderless. So is our IC. Our military-industrial complex hasn't gotten the ketamine treatment yet, but that seems to be imminent.
If bots and scrapers respected the robots and tos, we wouldn’t be here

It sucks!
> "How can 18 supermarkets (6x the three within 1 minute) fit into such a small area?!"

Ah no sorry, that was a mistake on my part, it wasn't meant to be 6x but just 6.
I keep being tempted to write same post but named "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.

Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing.

Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one didn't do what it was supposed to do. Since 3+ years ago at least.

Spotify randomly stops syncing play status with its TV app. Been true for at least a year.

HBO app has subtitles for one of my shows out of sync and it has been for more than a year.

Games including AAA titles need few months post-release fixing before they stabilize and stop having things jerk themselves into the sky or something.

My robot vacuum app just hangs up forever once in a while and needs to be killed to work again, takes 10+ seconds after start to begin responding to taps, and it has been like that for over 2 years of owning the device.

Safari has had a bug when opening a new tab and typing "search term" too quickly, it opens URL http://search%20term instead of doing a Google search. 8 years ago I've opened a bug for that which was closed as a duplicate, and just recently experienced this bug again.

It really seems that criteria for "ready for production" is way lower now. If my first job 13+ years ago any QA noticed any of that above, the next version wouldn't be out until it is fixed. Today, if "Refresh" button or restarting the app fixes it, approved, green light, release it.
Yep.
Also, js is easy to iterate on - it's more lenient than rust or say c#. Especially if you are exploring thinks, that's a huge boon.
Obviously, for the same algorithm, compiled languages will be slower. Does it matter? Maybe. But time to find this algorithm is also critical - and if js helps here, it's a good choice.
I think there is plenty of demand for software but not enough economic incentive to fulfill every single demand. Even for the software that is being worked on, we are constantly prioritizing between the features we need or want, deciding whether to write our own vs modifying something open source etc etc. You can also look at stuff like electron apps which is a hack to reduce programmer dev time and time to market for cross platform apps. Ideally, you should be writing highly performant native apps for each.

IMO if coding models get good enough to replace devs, we will see an explosion of software before it flattens out.
There is a special circle of hell for people who take long shits at work and steal office supplies. In this circle, they are sat at a computer, every day, and must prepare an elaborate profitability analysis spreadsheet or something by close of business. Meanwhile, behind them is sat a row of demons. Each demon has a very crunchy food -- potato chips, carrot sticks, Chee-tos, the bones of sinners, and so forth, which they proceed to crunch loudly on while the condemned do their work.
No, there is a lot of us who live in countries that framework doesn't ship to.
>Anyone in the military would have told you if they were in this situation, they would have been court marshalled by now along with months in prison

And anyone familiar with the workings of governments and politicians would tell you the use of Signal/WhatsApp is pervasive throughout most of the world.

While there are secure private messengers available for governments to license, whoever is in charge of security is generally too paranoid or incompetent to license them. Or they license some homegrown piece of crap that no one uses.

The result is everyone being worse off. Politicians use public apps that are much less secure and illegal for that purpose and regular government workers being in the stone age. Or just accept the use of public apps and allow your entire government be dependent on the good will of a foreign company that can cripple you at the push of a button.
I agree, although I still prefer spaces between —.
Every Western country that has actually felt the pain of increased prices to reduce their emissions has had their voters rebel. It’s a loser issue
OG is the one when you click on a picture of women you feel more likely to want to sleep with. Good old Facemash.
"very wealthy NGO owners."

Can you name a very wealth NGO owner that's not working with this administration. Or describe what you see as a problematic NGO?

It's wild to me that people think NGO owners might be a problem when the richest man in the world is working with this administration to slash this budget arbitrarily.

But I guess "deflect, deny, depose".
I think it is also a consideration that more technically inclined users are more likely to spend time tailoring their experience in this way.

Technical users also likely have specific sites (namely documentation) that they wish to bump in their results where other professions might not.

I'm not disagreeing with your point, just offering some thoughts of my own.
I use IP addy. Users behind cgnat are already used to getting captcha the first time around

There’s some stuff you can do, like creating risk scores (if a user changes ip and uses the same captcha token, increase score). Many vendors do that, as does my captcha provider.
Yeah... probably. I forgot to mention that Apple computers are a pretty good deal if you are looking for an AI / LLM experimentation machine due to unified RAM which nearly translates 1:1 into VRAM.
"Is there a shortage of React apps out there that companies are desperate for?"

tech always shortage because its a kitchen sink problem, corporation want to reduce headcount so it saves money in the long run
Then why didn't you use an em dash?
They never mention what hardware they're on.

Table 1 is the closest thing. Device specs for six devices: 120-989 TFLOPS and 64-96 GB RAM.

An RTX 5090 is about 105 TFLOPS.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5090.c4216
It's wild how much of the original "it just works" ethos has eroded
> When something was impossible only 3 years ago, barely worked 2 years ago, but works well now

Are you talking of what exactly? What are you stating works well now and did not years ago? Claude as a milestone of code writing?

Also in that case, if there are current apparent successes coming from a realm of tentative responses, we would need proof that the unreliable has become reliable. The observer will say "they were tentative before, they often look tentative now, why should we think they will pass the threshold to a radical change".
I mean, just to consider TV alone (thankfully I do not use one), it takes a while for it to start up, and we are talking about a modern, new TV. Old TVs started immediately. I told my grandma to press the button and wait a bit, before trying to press the button again.
Living such lives divorces people from what most of humanity are experiencing. i.e. people with power and money and the ability to live virtually are isolated from what's happening. We all have money - just to have a job in software is to be in the top X% of the world's population. I suggest that X is probably smaller than most of us think.
Toyota has designed and built that vehicle for that SEA market. Sure could it sell in the US? To some who want that, but the US is over-served for pickup trucks (granted not at that Hilux Champ price point.)

Toyota has spent a lot of money to build the Tacoma and Tundra in the US because Americans want vehicles built in America (plus the chicken tax.) There's little reason to import the Hilux Champ, especially now in light of the additional US tariffs not to mention that it would not pass all of the required regulations that the US has.
Dw, more guns than people, it will be fine.
People fabricated a lot too. Yesterday I spent far less time fixing issues in the far more complex and larger changes Claude Code managed to churn out than what the junior developer I worked with needed. Sometimes it's the reverse. But with my time factored in, working with Claude Code is generally more productive for me than working with a junior. The only reason I still work with a junior dev is as an investment into teaching him.

Claude is cheaper, faster, produces better code.
Tangent: the article links to a (simulated?) manual drive EV! [0]. So cool, I want one.

[0] https://insideevs.com/features/693877/toyota-ev-manual-trans...
I strongly disagree. It's necessary to teach oversimplified things to small minds, even oversimplified to the extent of being incorrect.

It's unlikely you understand relativistic mechanics unless you learn and practice Newtonian for a few years, then many people stop there and never go for relativism.

It's unlikely you understand Peano axioms without first spending years just working with numbers, completely disregarding the formal foundations. Then many people stop there and never study the formal math.

It's unlikely you understand electron configurations and orbitals without first imagining electrons orbiting the nucleus like earth is orbiting the sun. And even that part you won't understand until you master the false concepts of "sunrise" and "sunset".

You can't climb the ladder without stepping on the first step. I've been studying for many years, observing people around me, I also did a fair share of teaching myself. The purist approach that avoids oversimplifications inevitably leads to disaster. There are maybe 1-2 kids in the class who can "jump the ladder", the rest are left on the ground helpless and confused.

Another curious observation: when I found myself in that role of a kid jumping the ladder in a purist class, I did that by secretly building a false ladder of my own. When professor said "Banach space" I would imagine Euclidean or Hilbert spaces and would get correct intuition half the time. The other half I would remember and use it to understand the difference. Most of others suffered dearly, unable to grasp anything at all, seeing the glass bead game instead of vectors and functions. And we were 20 years old back then, not even that small.
A person who's bullshitting their way doesn't get a 70% accuracy. For yes/no questions they'll get 50%. For open ended questions they'll be lucky to get 1%.

You're really underestimating the difficulty of getting 70% accuracy for general open-ended questions.

And while you might think you're better than 70%, I'm pretty sure if you didn't run your code through compilers and linters, and testing for at least a couple times, your code doesn't get anywhere near 70% correct.
"The technology is useful, for some people, in some situations"

this endgame AI company are to create Intelligence equal to human, imagine you are not paying 23k workforce, that's a lot of money to be made
Well fuck them and the horse they rode in on, then.
It seems you've confused clade with race.

The ability to measure an edit distance between words doesn't neccesitate a racial theory of spelling any more than the abilty to estimate familial or evolutionary seperation between DNA sample pools implies "race" must exist.
Build123d
> first job 13+ years ago any QA...

such QA jobs no longer exists. Ever since the software dev world has moved to doing one's own QA during development, software has been consistently worse in quality. May be there's a correlation there!
What used to be a powerful, user-respecting OS is increasingly starting to feel like an iOS cousin with training wheels
We totally have on-call, but we're also weaponizing German labor laws to force the company to have their shit together. There are a few interesting parts in there that cause quite the discomfort for employers:

The way contracts are worded, time working on on-call is work-time. Kinda obvious if you write it like that. As such, bad on-call weeks easily cut into the normal duties of the employee. This means team leads have an incentive to reduce time wasted on on-call.

You have mandatory rest-times. If an on-call activity takes an hour or so to fix, the person is suddenly not allowed to work for 10 hours due to these rest-time and maximum work time laws. Suddenly, "some little fixing at night" means the person isn't allowed to work the whole morning.

With a few rules like that, pages become really painful to the company. When a bad application kept pinging on-call every night for a few days, the entire normal work ground to a halt with people being unavailable, other team members dropping project work from sprints to pick up daily business slack. Some product managers got really pissed off and things in that product improved - I'm kinda curious what happened behind closed doors there. .
Television today consists of a few bangers like Severance mixed with an awful lot of slop. Serialized or not, it's telling that the term Netflix coined for most of its output is "second-screen content", meaning stuff you have on in the background while you scroll your phone. I had been rewatching Max Headroom recently, and the difference it makes when you make a television show to be watched -- as most television was in the 80s and 90s -- vs. simply filling time, really struck me.
mpv could do this for years
This is convicing me to try Kagi for a while... search without pintrest would feel good.
Should be %H:%i:%S?
btw, today marks the 154th anniversary of the establishment of the Paris Commune