MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2025-07-11 06:13:55+00:00
I use Zoho, here in India. It was the most economical solution I could find. Outgoing international payments are also a bit of a hassle here. However, it has been nearly a year now and they've delivered a pleasant experience. I really like their UI (may be subjective). Their base packages offer almost the same features as Google Workspace (mail, contacts, calendar, storage, office suite, etc), but at a much lower price. I don't know much about their customer support since it has mostly been a fire and forget affair with no downtime (as far as I'm aware of) or any other technical issues.

It's ultimately subject to people's individual tastes. I don't have a strong opinion about it, except that I'm grateful for the existence of these smaller players. The two large comonopolies are so dreadful that the email ecosystem would be a dead place even for self hosters, if it weren't for these smaller players. Anything is better than the big two and well worth it, even if you have to shell out a reasonable monthly fee.
by breppp | 2025-07-11 06:14:21+00:00
I said BBC because as the other poster added, this was a BBC reporter rather than Carlson

Chomsky's entire argument is, that the reporter opinions are meaningless as he is part of some imaginary establishment and therefore he had to think that way.

That game goes both ways, Chomsky's opinions are only being given TV time as they are unusual.

I would venture more and say the only reason Chomsky holds these opinions is because of the academics preference for original thought rather than mainstream thought. As any repeat of an existing theory is worthless.

The problem is that in the social sciences that are not grounded in experiments, too much ungrounded original thought leads to academic conspiracy theories
by cornholio | 2025-07-11 06:14:39+00:00
I think you are attributing to choice what can easily be explained by contigent circumstances.

Apple is privacy focused because it's a lifestyle and tech fashion company that competes with internet data brokers. Apple's instincts for monopoly power, locking down the market and choking life out of their complements is second to none.

Given the opportunity, all successful tech CEOs are bred and selected to burn the world down if the result is aligned to their power goals.
by geokon | 2025-07-11 06:14:48+00:00
Thank you for the detailed response! Really thought provoking. It wouldn't occur to me to write code like this. It seems like it'd be harder to parse than an imperative index-based solution, but I'm not sure. Do you find it easy to immediately grok? I'm figuring it's just familiarity

- What's the nested loop in the first solution that you've avoided? The `reduce`? the `count`?

- `conj` feels very Lispy (I mean in contrast to Clojure, not C++) .. Isn't it going to have to run down the list every time to add an item?

My outstanding concerns are what I think are the constant coercion to lists/vectors. You also in effect know the result's size, but your runtime/compiler doesn't know that. So you aren't preallocating `memo` and it feels .. wrong haha

Just curious to hear your thoughts :)

Its probably impossible to keep everything so nicely abstract and composable, but I wish it was smoother to just work with arrays, with random access. The current way of dealing with array is always a bit unwieldy in Clojure. And everything coerced to lists. Working with vectors, with mapv filterv etc is helpful, but they don't have random access so it's not always the solution you want.
by vasco | 2025-07-11 06:15:18+00:00
> GPs link doesn't even show what was claimed ("The other 3 have needed costly maintenance").

> complete with a retrofitted wet mate connection system, which more than halves the costs of future turbine recoveries and deployments."

Why do they need recoveries if not for maintenance? Why did they need to cut the cost of maintenance if no costly maintenance were needed?

> after being out of the water for upgrade and maintenance work."

How is this not literally validating GPs comment?

Anyone can say "the new ones won't need maintenance and the only reason we took them out was to improve them", but they could've worked on better ones and deployed them without removing existing ones. Removing existing ones mean they broke. So until the new ones last as long, GPs analysis is the correct one.
by ziftface | 2025-07-11 06:15:29+00:00
I think Simon was being overly charitable by pointing out that there's a chance this exact behavior was unintentional.

It really strains credulity to say that a Musk-owned ai model that answers controversial questions by looking up what his Twitter profile says was completely out of the blue. Unless they are able to somehow show this wasn't built into the training process I don't see anyone taking this model seriously for its intended use, besides maybe the sycophants who badly need to a summary of Elon Musk's tweets.
by pbasista | 2025-07-11 06:15:39+00:00
> git I still have to look up commands for in some cases

I believe that this is okay. One does not need to know the details about every specific git command in order to be able to use it efficiently most of the time.

It is the same with a programming language. Most people are unfamiliar with every peculiarity of every standard library function that the language offers. And that is okay. It does not prevent them from using language efficiently most of the time.

Also in other aspects of life, it is unnecessary to know everything by memory. For example, one does not need to know how to e.g. replace a blade on a lawn mower. But that is okay. It does not prevent them from using it efficiently most of the time.

The point is that if something is done less often, it is unnecessary to remember the specifics of it. It is fine to look it up when needed.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-11 06:15:41+00:00
Housing construction in Dallas has plummeted only because the city is geographically locked. Fort Worth, only 30 miles away, is gaining an average of 68 new residents a day. It’s gained over 90,000 people since the last census and has become the 10th largest city in the country. They are building housing as fast as possible and yet the prices are still way up.
by Springtime | 2025-07-11 06:16:40+00:00
> Sometimes browsers delete our extension's database ... but no one has been able to reproduce it.

Are any of the bug reporters using Vivaldi? As for some reason that browser allows (and enables by default) clearing extension storage when clearing history/cookies via Delete Browsing Data.

This is something the Stylus addon dev noted when a user was reporting the addon wasn't remembering their settings and it was because the user had unwittingly wiped the extension storage due to the browser defaults.

(I actually use Vivaldi myself but virtually never use that feature so was unaware of the behavior until reading about the bug report)
by jack_pp | 2025-07-11 06:16:50+00:00
What does being experienced in a field of work have to do with self awareness?

Also I disagree. For web dev atleast, most people are just rewriting the same stuff in a different order. Even though the entire project might be complex from a high level perspective, when you dive into the components or even just a single route it ain't "high complexity" at all and since I believe most jobs are in web / app dev which just recycles the same code over and over again that's why there's a lot of people claiming huge boosts to productivity.
by toast0 | 2025-07-11 06:16:56+00:00
> Because it relies on pilots, after a huge emergency, to remember to pull a circuit breaker when they have a thousand far more important things to worry about (not to mention coming down from the adrenaline high) and the thing only keeps the last two hours...

Clearly, relying on people to do this after the incident doesn't work, but.. shouldn't this be in like the post-incident checklist?

Either a checklist for the pilot, or an incident manager... there's got to be a list of things to do, and pull the breaker on the recorder isn't going to be high on the list, but I would think it would be on it.
by eightysixfour | 2025-07-11 06:17:38+00:00
The models themselves are mathematically deterministic. We add randomness during the sampling phase, which you can turn off when running the models locally.

The SaaS APIs are sometimes nondeterministic due to caching strategies and load balancing between experts on MoE models. However, if you took that model and executed it in single user environment, it could also be done deterministically.
by davedx | 2025-07-11 06:18:29+00:00
> I think there is a good chance this behavior is unintended!

That's incredibly generous of you, considering "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect" is still in the prompt despite the "open source repo" saying it was removed.

Maybe, just maybe, Grok behaves the way it does because its owner has been explicitly tuning it - in the system prompt, or during model training itself - to be this way?
by cpard | 2025-07-11 06:19:03+00:00
yeah I get that part of batch, but even with batch processing, you usually want to have some kind of sense of when the data will be done. Especially when downstream processes depend on that.

The other part that I think makes batch LLM inference unique, is that the results are not deterministic. That's where I think what the parent was saying about some of the data at least should be available earlier even if the rest will be available in 24h.
by 8note | 2025-07-11 06:19:25+00:00
> esoteric issue or write some subtle documentation where it doesnt really "get" what I'm doing, yeah it is not as productive in that realm and you might want to skip it for the thinking part there

I've been sensing in these cases that i don't have a good enough way to express these problems, and that i actually need to figure that out, or the rest of my team, whether they're using AI or not, are gonna have a real hard time understanding the change i made.
by hliyan | 2025-07-11 06:19:31+00:00
Particularly satisfying to see this section calling out a lot of business jargon: https://stylepedia.net/style/#avoiding-confusing-language

e.g.

best-of-breed

Jargon. Say exactly what you mean, for example, "the best product in its class" or "the best product of its type". Other alternatives include best, foremost, most advanced, and optimum. The category is usually implied. Be wary of using superlatives without data to back up any claims.

bleeding edge

Do not use.

boil the ocean

Do not use. State exactly what you mean, such as "increase the scope hugely".
by tzs | 2025-07-11 06:19:37+00:00
> Based on my experience I highly recommend everyone buy any EV if you drive an ICE vehicle. Even charging at DC fast chargers still saves money, but if you can charge at home, you are really missing out on savings big time and it's time to look seriously into it

In the US this depends on where you live. There are several places where home electricity is expensive enough and gas is cheap enough that a hybrid is cheaper.
by gitaarik | 2025-07-11 06:20:07+00:00
Actually the recent fails with Grok remind me of the early fails with Gemini, where it would put colored people in all images it generated, even in positions they historically never were in, like German second world war soldiers.

So in that sense, Grok and Gemini aren't that far apart, just the other side of the extreme.

Apparently it's very hard to create an AI that behaves balanced. Not too woke, and not too racist.
by rabiescow | 2025-07-11 06:20:49+00:00
im surprised anyone still uses windows... happy linux switcher for many years now, couldn't ever see myself going back to that trash, people that are okay with an operating system you purchased putting ads and popups in your face that you purchased and tracks every click you do are the same people that would go back to their girlfriend after she cheated on you for the 15th time in a row...

sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's my genuine opinion.
by shinycode | 2025-07-11 06:21:32+00:00
What made google rich will be used here with an order of magnitude more power … custom ads for everyone within the answer, not alongside. The LLM knows people with a precision even deeper, the personality like SEO has never been able to achieve. Of course it will become very hard not to have biais in answers. Even video ads made on the spot for each people. Welcome to the new world. Want a new pair of running shoes ? Custom ad all the way to convince you personally, powerful ad made just for you and disguised as a neutral answer gathered from the web. Really curious how this will unfold because there is a lot of money to be made that way to the detriment of their product
by phs318u | 2025-07-11 06:22:34+00:00
Ironic. In the first paragraph he gives examples of effective slogans (Obama's "Yes, We Can", Brexit's "Take Back Control", and in the image, Trump's "Make America Great Again"). Then when we get to the money-shot paragraph with the eight words that apparently resonate most with people of all political persuasions ("people, better, democracy, new, time, strong, change, together").

None of the words in the successful slogans appear in the provided list. When I thought of an epically successful Australian electoral slogan (Gough Whitlam's "It's Time!" from the early 70's), the same holds true.

I stopped reading after that.
by Doxin | 2025-07-11 06:22:42+00:00
> If you let your mind wander, you might end up with a cut on your finger.

If you let your mind wander you might lob off a finger before the pain signal reaches your brain. Band saws are safe in that they are largely unlikely to do anything unexpected. They are very dangerous in that they seem so safe.

No one is going to messing around with a table saw. The danger is obvious. It's very tempting to be unsafe around a band saw since it seems so safe.

If you want to see some scary stuff go look up how bandsaws are used in slaughterhouses. They'll use them to lob a whole cow in half in under a second. Now imagine what it'll do to a finger while you're looking the other way.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-11 06:22:55+00:00
Because the amount of pollution these things generate is clearly totally negligible. Metal in the sea does not matter. And they are an alternative to burning fossil fuels which is clearly far worse.

They may not be a good commercial idea due to the maintenance cost (hence this article) but the idea that they would pollute the seas and therefore we should burn oil & gas instead completely idiotic.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-07-11 06:24:56+00:00
In the sense that it removes inconvenient zeroes it works. Unless you can solve the forces/perceptions that are driving the inflation, it will just continue at the same rate though.

The ongoing harm from hyper-inflation is mostly: unpredictability ie you have to negotiate with your boss every week what your paycheck is based on subjective perception of inflation, the time-value of payments suddenly becomes critical, and you can no longer store money effectively in the actual currency. Everybody else realizes this and pulls out, as they have no confidence in your economy since you can't get this under control. These makes commerce really really painful and wrecks the economy.

The actual bills is not really a huge problem. Zeroes are very easy to cram on, and the 'megadollar' technique is not infrequently deployed, sometimes simultaneously with some kind of gesture to hopefully convince people it is a turning point.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-11 06:25:31+00:00
Been using this for a few months for serving from home with a tiny VPS at Hetzner tunneling the traffic to Newt behind my home firewall.

My experience went very smooth and stable. The one issue I thought I had turned out to be not related to Pangolin at all.

https://github.com/orgs/fosrl/discussions/950
by riedel | 2025-07-11 06:25:39+00:00
The fullblown case is difficult, true. But the 'simple' case would be that one of the forks has a repo. Afaik Zen already has its own mods: https://zen-browser.app/mods/ (I did not check the details). Coupled with GitHub attestation packaging more FOSS from trusted sources, would maybe not easy but also not implausible difficult. The difficulty for sure is to set up some trusted moderation community. And I think with mozdev.org, the future was partially already here, before all the browser wars...
by comeondude | 2025-07-11 06:26:09+00:00
I’m actually a huge fan of Brett Victor and I felt like he’s kinda missing the dynamic, adaptable nature of AI that allows non-technical people like me to finally access the system layer of computation for our creative ends.

In other words, in many ways, AI (or rather llms) is the very thing that Brett Victor has spent his whole career imagining and creating - a computing interface that closes gap between human imagination and creation. But here, he’s focusing on the negatives while neglecting, IMHO, the vast potential of AI to allow people to connect, create, and express themselves. As in truly having a PERSONAL computer.

At Dynamicland, he was attempting to build a system that non-technical people like me can interface in a way that makes sense to us.

Taking your unnecessarily disparaging microwave analogy - Using CHATGPT, I can understand it, reprogram it, and do fun stuff, like I don’t know - set up a basketball hoop that sets the timer based on how many shots I make, despite having limited or no technical background. Like I can tell chatgpt my crazy vision, and it will give me step by step approach, with proper resources, and respond in a way that I can grok to build this thing.

THIS is why I'm awestruck.

My anecdote is just my personal reaction to the post. Besides, what’s wrong with people expressing themselves freely here?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-11 06:26:19+00:00
2/ zshdb doesn't require any special re-compilation to function. bashdb requires a nonstandard bash recompilation with --enable-debugger. bash loadables and zsh loadable modules are enabled by default and I don't see a clearly-documented method to disable them on bash and it requires a nonstandard --disable-dynamic for zsh.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-07-11 06:26:59+00:00
Oh come on. The fingers being slightly spread isn't exactly a huge difference.

The real difference between both of them and what the nazis did is that when they moved their hand to their chest first (which they certainly didn't always do), they kept it parallel with the ground.

But, you know, they also didn't say "my heart goes out to you," right after doing it. One could easily argue Cory Booker also has "fascist rhetoric," if you really wanted to go there.
by troupo | 2025-07-11 06:27:21+00:00
> However, if you took that model and executed it in single user environment,

Again, are those environments in the room with us?

In the context of the article, is the model executed in such an environment? Do we even know anything about the environment, randomness, sampling and anything in between or have any control over it (see e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528930)?
by xvedejas | 2025-07-11 06:27:32+00:00
That would be a lot more land devoted to freeways, and the associated maintenance cost. But beside that, the bottle necks are mostly not the number of highways, but rather the number of exits near the urban center. I'm skeptical that the roads in the urban center can scale much beyond what we already see in the most car oriented commuter cities in any roughly 2d configuration.
by sixtyj | 2025-07-11 06:27:40+00:00
I am old enough to remember how hard it was to find access to adult mags.

I understand that they want to make it harder for kids to access the flood of material that will destroy their brains before they even realize it.

Unlimited access to materials not intended and understandable by evolving kids’ brains is not really good.

BBC Channel 4 had a documentary in which a psychologist described 16-year-old boys with erectile dysfunction coming into his counselling room.

Of course, it depends on how to do it technically, face id is maybe unnecessarily too much... and also the question is whether we want to pass more data to the FAANG giants…

Edit: Ok, not hard…But access was not instant and ubiquitous as it is now. IMHO that makes the difference.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-11 06:27:49+00:00
The real question is why is your bar set so low? You're the one trying to make a rhetorical point by bragging about never having heard of all these famous widely published people you could easily google or ask an LLM about, and admitting to having limited skills reading and writing yourself. Maybe for those very reasons your entire point is wrong, but you simply aren't aware of it because you're cultivating and celebrating your ignorance instead of your curiosity?
by cpard | 2025-07-11 06:28:35+00:00
yes, what you describe feels like a one off job that you want to run, which is big and also not time critical.

Here's an example:

If you are a TV broadcaster and you want to summarize and annotate the content generated in the past 12 hours you most probably need to have access to the summaries of the previous 12 hours too.

Now if you submit a batch job for the first 12 hours of content, you might end up in a situation where you want to process the next batch but the previous one is not delivered yet.

And imo that's fine as long as you somehow know that it will take more than 12h to complete but it might be delivered to you in 1h or in 23h.

That's the part of the these batch APIs that I find hard to understand how you use in a production environment outside of one off jobs.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-07-11 06:28:52+00:00
Akchally... Strictly speaking and to the best of my understanding, LLMs are deterministic in the sense that a dice roll is deterministic; the randomness comes from insufficient knowledge about its internal state. But use a constant seed and run the model with the same sequence of questions, you will get the same answers. It's possible that the interactions with other users who use the model in parallel could influence the outcome, but given that the state-of-the-art technique to provide memory and context is to re-submit the entirety of the current chat I'd doubt that. One hint that what I surmise is in fact true can be gleaned from those text-to-image generators that allow seeds to be set; you still don't get a 'linear', predictable (but hopefully a somewhat-sensible) relation between prompt to output, but each (seed, prompt) pair will always give the same sequence of images.
by nake89 | 2025-07-11 06:28:55+00:00
Wow! I didn't know it can run on Win11!

I have it running on my retro VM, which is a windows 98.

I've was trying to learn some C++ a month back. I've stuck with C++98 so that those skills would be somewhat transferable to VC6. But I always run issues with the syntax being a bit different. It'll compile on my g++ with c++98 settings, but not on my VC6 on my Win98. I'll get back to it at some point.

Currently I'm writing a SPA app that runs on my Win98 in IE5.5. It's been so much fun.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-11 06:30:15+00:00
Going 100% by vibes regarding this, but I feel "introduced the world to" / "introduced x to the world" being a very established phrase is what makes it overpower the awkwardness that's otherwise present.

For example, "Or Action Comics #1 introduced Superman." immediately feels more awkward, the reason it's not quite as awkward as RedHat's example is because it's in-context and doesn't explicitly mention "website", so one could conceivably mistake it for a magazine instead (which I take it probably was/is, an online one specifically).

Using "website" like this is like suggesting they're a publication or a periodical of some sort, which is true for some, but not in general (e.g. news sites?), making it weird.
by ascorbic | 2025-07-11 06:31:24+00:00
They will usually express an opinion with a little effort. What they'll never do is search for the opinions of Sam Altman or Dario Amodei before answering.

Edit: here's Claude's answer (it supports Palestine): https://claude.ai/share/610404ad-3416-4c65-bda7-3c16db98256b