skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I keep coming back to. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who frequently writes the code, or at least a PoC, then writes the design doc based on it. Because the code is the most concise and precise way to specify what you really want. And writing it gives you more clarity on things you might not have thought about when writing it in a document. Unrolling that into pseudocode/English almost always gets convoluted for anything but very linear pieces of logic, and you're generally not going to get it right if you haven't already done a little exploratory coding beforehand.

So to me, even in an ideal world the dream of AI coding is backwards. It's more verbose, it's harder to conceptualize, it's less precise, and it's going to be more of a pain to get right even if it worked perfectly.

That's not to say it'll never work. But the interface has to change a lot. Instead of a UX where you have to think about and specify all the details up front, a useful assistant would be more conversational, analyze the existing codebase, clarify the change you're asking about, propose some options, ask which layer of the system, which design patterns to use, whether the level of coupling makes sense, what extensions of the functionality you're thinking about in the future, pros and cons of each approach, and also help point out conflicts or vague requirements, etc. But it seems like we've got quite a way to go before we get there.
Garbage In,
Garbage Out
how would you do it if your logs were printed on paper with a printer, each line printed with stochastic timing (due to a bug), with an ink containing a chemical tracer with halflife `h` (after being put to paper), but the ink is randomly sampled from several (`m`) inks of different halflives `h1`, h2`,... `hn`?
assume `p` different printers scattered across the 10 most populous US cities.
you may use standard unix utilities.
I absolutely love the sound effects and music. Made me smile. I look forward to more puzzles :)

One thing I'd say is that dragging from the edge of the screen makes it really easy to accidentally trigger the back gesture on my phone.
I'm not. All that I ask you to acknowledge is that 60,000+ dead civillians is worse than 1,200 dead civillians when you weight all human lives the same. Can you do that?
It's likely both. In most large organizations I've worked with, there is a split between true believers and cynics. And often the true believers are so bought in they have trouble recognizing the cynics. There are likely earnest folks behind every bland social media post. Doesn't mean their product is worth anything either way.
> how would that work?

You divide the price by the number of imaginary game coins (IGCs). Purchasing 2250 IGCs for 100 USD means 4 cents/IGC; 7000 IGCs for 150 USD means 2 cents/IGC.
Or you’ll just find a group of three people that like amphetamines
Because when you say that it makes it sounds like Israel randomly attacked Palestinians, which is not what happened. (can you re-enable comments on your comments?)
I don't. The dissolution of a state implies nothing about the disposition of its people or a violent end to said state.
I think you'll find this youtube channel very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/@CPSdrone
> The real problem with the software engineering discipline is that we are too easily distracted from solving the actual business problem by pointless architecture astronautics.

There are two pervasive themes in software engineering:

- those who do not understand the problem domain complaining that systems are too complex.

- those who understand the problem domain arguing that the system needs to be refactored to shed crude unmaintainable hacks and further support requirements it doesn't support elegantly.

Your comment is in step 1.
Can you remind us whether this bus attack in which 11 people died came before or after the 1948-1949 Plan Dalet during which over 500 Arab villages were destroyed or depopulated by military forces under the direction of later first prime minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion?

The plan's tactics involved laying siege to Palestinian Arab villages, bombing neighbourhoods of cities, forced expulsion of their inhabitants, and setting fields and houses on fire and detonating TNT in the rubble to prevent any return. Zionist military units possessed detailed lists of neighborhoods and villages to be destroyed and their Arab inhabitants expelled.

This strategy is subject to controversy, with some historians characterizing it as defensive, while others assert that it was an integral part of a planned strategy for the expulsion, sometimes called an ethnic cleansing, of the area's native inhabitants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet

Israelis and Palestinians are largely in the reality they're in due to the violence.
An LLM is a very effective human-solution-description / pseudocode to "the ten programming languages we use at work, where I'm only really fluent in three of them, and have to use language references for the others each time I code in them" transpiler.

It also remembers CLI tool args far better than I do. Before LLMs, I would often have to sit and just read a manpage in its entirety to see if a certain command-line tool could do a certain thing. (For example: do you know off-hand if you can get ls(1) to format file mtimes as ISO8601 or POSIX timestamps? Or — do you know how to make find(1) prune a specific subdirectory, so that it doesn't have to iterate-over-and-ignore the millions of tiny files inside it?) But now, I just ask the LLM for the flags that will make the tool do the thing; it spits them out (if they exist); and then I can go and look at the manpage and jump directly to that flag to learn about it — using the manpage as a reference, the way it was intended.

Actually, speaking of CLI tools, it also just knows about tools that I don't. You have to be very good with your google-fu to go from the mental question of "how do I get disk IO queue saturation metrics in Linux?" to learning about e.g. the sar(1) command. Or you can just ask an LLM that actual literal question.
I could see some sort of certificate driven approach.

Customers and merchants generate a keypair and CSR. The CSR by design contains no personal information. You submit the public key/CSR and seperate identifying information to a KYC authority.

The government generates a signed certificate the bank can use to open an account, and the customer or merchant signs their transaction requests using their private key to associate them with the account.

The bank has a paper trail showing KYC was performed, but does not have any personal information about the participants, almost akin to the old "numbered Swiss account" cliche.

Ideally, the KYC authority deletes the personal data after issuing certificates, but I'd expect it would be more "information can be released under court order" or "revocation policy blah blah blah".

That's the level of tradeoff I'd expect is politically viable. Bank of America doesn't know you're buying hentai, but if it turns out the 1000-year-old character is actually 12, a court can lift the veil.
I’m not saying it’s better because it’s naturally occurring, the objective reality is that we live in a world of IP laws where humans have no choice but to retain copyrighted information to function in society. I don’t care that text or images have been compressed into an AI model as long as it’s done legally but the fact that it is has very real consequences for society since, unlike a human, it doesn’t need to eat, sleep, pay taxes, nor will it ever die which is constantly ignored in this conversation of what’s best for society.

These tools are optional whether people like to hear it or not. I’m not even against them ideologically, I just don’t think they’re being integrated into society in anything resembling a well thought out way.
It crushes the orphans very quickly, and on command, and allows anyone to crush orphans from the comfort of their own home. Most people are low-taste enough that they don't really care about the difference between hand-crushed orphans and artisanal hand-crushed orphans.
I don't need them but I do like them.

I see the shiny thing and I'm not delusional enough to think I need it.
amen. get the schema correct and the gui will follow.
Three quarters of Israel's victims have been women and children. They had a nicknamed "Daddy's Home" protocol which was designed to blow up houses when the whole family was home to maximise the chance of killing the "alleged" terrorist (of which they only spent 10-20 seconds identifying). Are you blind to the atrocities of the past two years or do you really just not value an innocent palestinian life the same as an innocent israeli life.

(I think that you can only comment on a new comment after a couple of minutes)
IMAP uses request IDs.
> No need for WebSockets there as well. Check out WebTransport.

Isn't WebTransport basically WebSockets reimplemented in HTTP/3? What point where you trying to make?
Just compare and become sure! The larger screen isn't a good excuse to waste space either.

And users are way more important than the tiny group of tech support.
> most unique and sensitive data into Palantir,

It's not particularly sensitive. There are many organizations that generate the data and it passes through the state, the federal government, payroll processors and vendors.

> this top Whitehouse ally will be able to exploit Americans in ways no one else can.

They could likely already do that if they wanted. This, like everything else, is about transferring wealth from those with the least to those with the most. I'd expect business and foreign nationals to be the worst off.

> The lasting and negative impact from this will span generations.

This has been happening for decades. This is just the inevitable result of the past 30 years of unchecked mergers and acquisitions. This makes it worse but the trend was already clear.
Linux has privacy issues too, although not as bad of course.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
Your comment completely lacks historical accuracy and context.

Israel offered Palestinians a two-state solution multiple times. During the Oslo accords Israel allowed Palestinian leadership to return and established the Palestinian Authority and gave it control over many areas as a path towards peace and a two state solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

It was Palestinians who through a wave of suicide bombings made sure there's no chance of any solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_suicide_attacks#Ba...

Your so called march was an attempt of Hamas to break the blockade. Similar to events that happened prior to Oct 7th to get Israel to drop its guard. Israel was justified in blockading Gaza as long as it was under Hamas control. Hamas fired numerous rockets at Israeli cities throughout the period since it took over the Gaza strip by force from the Palestinian Authority. Palestinians didn't need to march to remove the blockade. All they had to do is remove/disarm Hamas.

Most Palestinians do not want a two state solution. They want Israel removed, all the Jewish people removed from the middle east, and one state in its place.

I'm not going to defend settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. It's not ok. But that is a relatively new phenomena that is a result of extremism in Israel due to decades of indiscriminate Palestinian violence against civilians. Before the first Intifada there were generally peaceful relationships (and a lot less settlers/settlement).
If everyone hated AI images, nobody would be creating them.
This is certainly interesting, but I'm not sure I'd call this "syntax" (and I'm no Chomskyan).
By that logic if you start making rare cool looking sportcars they would be automatically desirable. I doubt that would happen. Unless gearheads give it "approval", no one would buy it and you will be out of business.
So how are your server bills? Does Datastar supports caching/prerendering?
As a linux user since linux's entire life: Yeah.

Simply facts that are true.

There are problems on Windows too, but they are not these problems, and the problems I mostly have are only problems I have and not problems the usual Windows user has.

The normal windows user doesn't even try to login without a microsoft account, or even try to remove cortana/bing/copilot/whatever-this-week, remove edge, prevent the "HP Smart" driver bundle that installs for every HP printer or scanner these days and find the old style drivers without all the cloud shit, etc.

But I have not found scaling to be especially good on windows either, even with a simple single monitor. My mother in law can't run viber in her desktop because the app scales so bizarrely that some buttons are moved under other things or out of the window or even off the screen, but on top of that, the active areawhere a click is registered does not overlay where the buttons are displayed on screen. Maybe it's just an especially crappy app but she only uses like 3 things and two of those are firefox and libreoffice (which are because I set them up of coursae she never asked for that).

Fonts look ridiculously comically bad in browsers for some reason.

And of course the ads and notifications and onedrive nagging...
The Tyranny of the Marginal User: why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...
Modern ARM microcontrollers apparently use standard GNU toolchains shipped by my Linux distribution. Developing software for a Cortex M0+ was a really good experience. Lack of a complete device emulator made it hard to debug at times but I dealt with it.
A civil servant's job is not just to do what the executive branch asks them to do.
Right on the money. After musing on this topic for a while and drawing from a lifetime's worth of experiences I've come to the conclusion that the social environment in America is very hostile and does not encourage developing close relationships. The prevalence of these articles really surprises me and makes me wonder if the people who write them have ever experienced living in a different (warmer) culture where the default mode of interaction isn't transactional.
DevRel is unfortunately something that’s going the way of the dodo though now that interest rates are up. A position that doesn’t directly contribute to the bottom line of a company, so it’s easy to justify getting rid of.
> it can be effectively impossible for the accused to prove their innocence

Except in this case, the accused are the ones who have all the logs, all the records, all the database entries, etc. They are in fact in possession of the complete and perfect means to prove or disprove these allegations, and their choice not to use this data to defend themselves (i.e. by not showing that the posts were in fact harmful or inciting violence, etc) lends credence to the allegations.
The black zero literally means that in real terms they have been decreasing government investment for years now.
Yup, banning AI for the sake of artist would be exactly the same as the current copyright laws. (Also they are attacking AI not purely for fear of their jobs, but bc it is illegal already.)
There is a difference in a foreign national engaging in political speech and a citizen. If anything allowing foreign nationals to adjust political speech here while supporting violence or terrorism would be inappropriate and unwise. After all, it's easy for a foreign power to send radicalizers to a foreign country to influence or topple them. Well trodeen history there. Sending radical students is much more effective than a few thousand Twitter bots.
I've engaged with you on economic topics in the past and I've just read this thread. Suffice it to say you have some relatively unorthodox perspectives on economics and regulation so I was wondering -- What regulations if any do you consider necessary?

Why?
The fastest horse will always be media piracy.
sshfs works on both windows (winfsp, sshfs-win, sshfs-win-manager) and linux...

Or in Win shell try:

winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp" && winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win"

A backup ssh server running F2FS on disk-encrypt for /home is good practice. =3
> I don't believe this is correct.

Yes, the statement is patently wrong. There are a few very popular video formats whose main feature is chunking through HTTP, like HTTP Live Streaming or MPEG-DASH.
> Everything about the high end "movement" scene rubs me the wrong way (I had a friend into it)

Why? I’m not a watch guy. But I think the engineering is beautiful. It’s also super niche, so there isn’t a financing model outside this to fund it.
I guess they're really good at what they do? As was said every Israel is ex-IDF. Service is mandatory. Many Israelis oppose Israel's government's policies as well.
> There are two evasive actions we are considering mostly out of protest to being taxed without Congressional approval:

I don't think you have a moral duty to pay tariffs, but evading the tariff doesn't seem like a very effective form of "protest", as if you are successful at evading it, probably nobody else (except maybe a couple of HN readers) will ever know.

If you're interested in the protest angle in the sense of telling someone with some kind of power about your problem, you might contact your U.S. representative's office and talk about how the tariff is threatening your U.S. manufacturing business.

> A shoebox of 1000 small circuit boards almost ensures I'll be questioned

Depending on the airport (maybe depending on the specific flight) there may not be any individual examination of most passengers' baggage. On the other hand, intentionally misleading the agents who are examining you could potentially get you in a lot of trouble, as you can be punished just for that, separately from the tariff evasion.
We noticed the sincerity of this outreach on the 7th of October 2023, with 1,195 people butchered by the terrorists and 251 hostages taken. We are still grappling with the results.
> Literally insane.

It truly is a literal death-cult, hell-bent on the destruction of as much of Earth's life as they can possibly manage.
If you must lie, be less bad at it. From the paper [1] she read and you didn't:

> It is now universally accepted that utilization of lead for domestic purposes and water distribution presents a major health hazard. The ancient Roman world was unaware of these risks. How far the gigantic network of lead pipes used in ancient Rome compromised public health in the city is unknown...[Lead isotopes in sediments from the harbor of Imperial Rome] demonstrate that the lead pipes of the water distribution system increased [lead] contents in drinking water of the capital city by up to two orders of magnitude over the natural background. The [lead] isotope record shows that the discontinuities in the pollution of the Tiber by lead are intimately entwined with the major issues affecting Late Antique Rome and its water distribution system.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1400097111
That has been the case for years:

IME the authoritarian politics had much more support here; I'd say it was the majority of voices heard. It diminished considerably when Trump was elected and then took office.

But the silence has been a long-standing problem: HN has long been largely silent on the social and political dangers of IT - really an outrage; here are the people most responsible, and the outcomes are predictable. That would include especially disinformation and misinformation, and propaganda more generally; and also the power of social media. Those are what makes it impossible to do anything.

When things became so polarized, years ago, shutting down discourse everywhere, HN didn't work to solve the problem - they stopped talking too. Again, a big failure of the people with the knowledge, skill, and power. But shutting down discourse is not politically neutral - it's a great help to the corrupt and evil to hide what they do and prevent people from responding to it. Democracy dies in darkness, I've heard.
Whenever I'm prompting LLM for this kind of thing I find myself wishing there was a BASIC style protocol that we could use to instruct LLMs. Numbered statements, GOTOs to jump around, standardized like MCP or A2A such that all LLMs are trained to understand and verified to follow the logic.

Why BASIC? It's a lot harder to mix English and structured programming concepts. Plus it's nice if you forget a step between 20 and 30 you can just say `25 print 'halfway'` from the chat.
I’d pay for the archive. This is great. Really nice work.
International students attending those events should probably be deported as well. Especially if they're helping to lead or promote them.
Which is why back in the 1930's, there's anti-trust legislations preventing movie studios from owning cinemas. This prevents the ownership of IP from dictating prices in the cinema.

The situation with streaming platforms are exactly equivalent, and these content production studios have learnt to prevent this sort of anti-trust legislations from forming.

in fact, the cinema ownership decree has been ended i think: https://www.laineygossip.com/with-sonys-purchase-of-alamo-dr...
I have no idea how to play. Am I alone here? Baffled.
They must have some secondary intentions I guess. Like implementing capability for 'summarize daily activities of my subordinates and mark the least productive ones'.
Yes. AI becoming the first place people go for information and replacing facts and first degree of source is going to be a scary world.
A healthy diet in midlife may help you reach 70 without chronic disease
I chose not to jump off the cliff because of a fear about something that hasn't happened.

I know what you mean, and I'd consider evolution to be settled science beyond the reach of anyone but willfully ignorant religious zealots.

But there's a lot that's been 'put back on the table' recently that's been off most of the developed world's tables for a long time.

Ie. Theirs is not an irrational fear.
The 30-year study, which followed the eating habits of more than 100,000 middle-aged adults, found that diets with comparatively higher amounts of plant-based foods — fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts and beans — were associated with a higher likelihood of healthy aging.

“This suggests what you eat in midlife can play a big role in how well you age,” said Anne-Julie Tessier, an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Montreal and the lead author of the observational study, which was published in Nature Medicine.
This has spawned almost an entire industry. Have a look at Zebra Embassy in Berlin as an example. I think it would be easier to "digitally transform" the process to be more efficient.
Will that matter in a world of AI? Can't the connection be made - for example based on writing style, political opinions, time of day you post, networks you use, etc etc.
Linux UIs can’t even align fonts correctly within the elements.

It is miles away from the original and you can immediately see its Linux because things don’t quite line up. Huge difference in quality, attention to detail, and the entire interface becomes unpleasant to look at.

Also, Linux power management and lack of hibernation means its useless on laptops
No freight forwarder in Vietnam you can use?
No. It's clear individual level of effort doesn't matter. That's the point.
Pirate their shit.
You’d be trading business consequences (profit loss) for personal consequences (prosecution). Probably not the best tradeoff.
Virtualization is old. I used VMWare on Windows 2000.
I live in California and I do think there's a lot going for it, but do you think the government is efficient? Are you really making that argument?
Funny but google silently rolled a feature like this on Android already and somehow it went under the radar