skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweep is an open-source AI-powered junior developer.

I think you should be less bullish on the "open source". As you kindly clarified for me the other day when I asked [1], only the client is open source. The back end is closed (that's Sweep back end, not the LLM which is obvious) and the product as a whole cannot be self-hosted by third parties.

That's fine (though not clear what the benefit is to developers who might want to contribute), but at the moment the impression being given is that this is an open source product.

Of course, if I have misunderstood I'll be happy to be corrected.

I wish you the best with it as this seems like a very cool product even if its closed at core - but a lack of clarity now may undermine reception and goodwill later.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953720
You can prefer what you like. To us what you are saying is a bit creepy.
Yeah for any movies where that happened usually the people around them doing it corrected the behavior. One movie ages ago when cell was sort of new a dude just flipped the bad boy open and bragged about how he was at a movie and talking on the phone openly. The rain of popcorn and m&m's shut him down fairly quickly. 'dude turn it off' 'whatever' candy rain. Sort of sucked for me as I was a couple of rows in front of the guy and everyone's aim was not exact. That was almost 20 years ago.
This whole blog post is misunderstanding after misunderstanding it's almost hilarious.

Starting off with the very first premise: that you need to install an app. Libby is available as a web app, so that first big point the author is making just factually incorrect. They didn't need to install the app. So instantly the author here loses a massive amount of credibility to me.

Then, it's not like this whole "deep search" and "notify me" tag is hard to find, and no you don't need to make.it yourself, and no you don't need to study the help articles to understand how it works. The only part I might say is tricky is you need to click the filter button to get to the advanced search settings where there's a big button that says "deep search" and explains what that means. Then for results not in your library there's a dedicated notify me tag button which when tapped explains how it works. I didn't have to go to the help area at all to get a detailed explanation of how stuff worked, and I got to it with obviously interactable UI elements.
It's good to be skeptical of models, but a bit too much to presume any ill intention without evidence of the same.

Let's see if we can find any singular raw data source, so we can verify for ourselves (or "closer to the measurement" (which doesn't imply "closer to reality" - a good model combining several data sources would be closer to reality than a singular source), since satellite data probably needs a lot of pre-processing)
It says a lot about the state of the reddit codebase when they can't even edit post titles. Likewise the recent deletion of private messages points to a serious lack of talent and really terrible code.

Makes me think that the API works were almost completely due to an inability of reddit's engineers to write anything but the most basic code. And modifying more complex code is right out.
> I'm not sure why you took my comment so poorly, could you help me understand why?

Bingo!
My thought too, not least because being obtrusive avoids all the pesky social issues of appearing to be trying to obscure that you're possibly filming.

When it then also costs 3x a regular pair of Raybans (UK prices at least) and if you're happy to look like you're going around spying on people you can buy a pair of cheap spy glasses on Amazon for 1/10th the price, I don't understand what market segment they think they're going for.

As just a camera, if they were detachable and visible enough that you're not looking like you're trying to get away with something, I'd be far more interested. If they're going to be permanently mounted, they need to be invisible.
I think main issue is that react is easy to integrate with node, next etc. But python, php (laravel) etc. cant just run react-dom on the server. However would be interesting to see react-dom builders for php & python that would allow you to user react as a templating language in Laravel & Django.
Yes, but if you connect a computer screen to a server, you'll notice that servers usually don't have GPUs for anything beyond "show a 1280x1024 console screen". Unlike a server, the Steam Deck is literally marketed as a device that can be used as a "desktop computer", that's the entire purpose of the optional USB-C dock.
> It also seems that your use of "rent seeking" doesn't match established use.

No, OP used it exactly correctly. It's the textbook definition.

> It normally refers to people extracting money for things far beyond their actual value.

No, it doesn't. The use was popularized in Wealth of Nations (yes, the original) and it refers to, as the name implies, renting out land.

I buy land. Once I've done that, I extract wealth from the economy from the economy while putting nothing new in. There's a finite amount of land.

This contrasts with investing in businesses (which allows them to buy capital, thereby generating further wealth), work, and other forms of income which generate wealth for the economy.

In broad strokes, rent-seeking behavior is unproductive, while work, investment, etc. are productive.
You seem to be conflating the legal definition of marriage with a christian definition of marriage. While both are malleable, it's well within the scope of government to alter legal terms. In fact that's precisely what Eich was trying to do in the first place.
Yeah, I'm just using my own markdown repo
That doesn't make for a valid argument in this context.
I am in the Seattle area and I disagree. King County Library system is one of the top circulating library systems in the entire country.

Maybe the Seattle Public Library (SPL) is that way, but the King County Library System (KCLS) is not. The eBook selections are great, and I never have to pay for periodicals like The Economist or The New Yorker as they have unlimited digital rentals.

[1] https://libguides.ala.org/librarystatistics/largest-public-l...

[2] https://www.courierherald.com/news/king-county-library-syste...
If I recall correctly higher temperature in the ocean means more powerful hurricanes. My guess is cities and coastal areas that have never seen hurricane level storms might start getting hit. This is just the start and it looks like the speed of warming is faster than most people expected. I blame that directly on US right wing politicians they and their bullshit has resulted in a large number of people not believing in global warming and because of how loud they are the world.
4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down
I have always viewed them as "more relatable". People may well be biased to think of more relatable things as more true, but I don't think that is the fault of the colourisation or how it is presented.
I used to spend a lot of time in libraries when I was homeless, and I owe a large part of my safety and shelter to libraries. I read many books back then, like a lot of Larry Niven, and all the Harry Potter novels. I haunted academic libraries and public libraries alike. I used the computers, I watched music videos, I played MUDs and checked my email.

Then, when I got set up with a home, I stopped going to libraries so much, and my card expired. I went back just a couple of years ago, and by that time, my personal situation had changed in a few other ways. For one, I have a good Android mobile device. I also have a little SanDisk Clip Jam MP3 player.

I was browsing the library's music collection, and I guess it was in the app, Libby or OverDrive or whatever they offer. And I went up to the tech support desk and I asked if they had any DRM-free music that I could load on my MP3 player. And the tech support lady said that if it didn't have DRM, they couldn't take it back when my loan period expired. And I said "oh, right."

So I browsed the books on Libby and I may or may not have ventured to install the app, but I could tell at that time that it was an odious way to treat library patrons. To tell us that we had to load some commercial app on our device to get eBooks, rather than compatibility with some existing, popular eReader at least, or just give us the ePub or PDF. But I suppose that that market space has been ceded to the online Internet Archive type places, now. My father makes great use of Hathi Trust and he has repeatedly recommended it to me.

Personally, I don't care how old a book or work is. I subscribe to Sturgeon's Law, and so it's best to pick and choose from works that have withstood the test of time, you know, unless I want a book on Cybersecurity, or programming Python or something.

So while I have renewed my library card, and I stay in good standing and I like the other kinds of stuff that is on offer at my public library, I will not be playing footsie with Libby, and I guess currently that the best way to use my library is a backup Site B for my WFH, when my apartment is unavailable for some reason.
that’s an unforgiving life view

most have one life to live and they grow and adapt
To be fair that would mean taking it apart, repainting and rebuilding it would optimistically take 4 years, so painting it in situ is still faster.
I still don't get why we can't just expand IPv4 into IPv5 by adding some new blocks to the front.

So instead of 192.0.0.1 it becomes 0.0.0.0.192.0.0.1

All existing addresses work, you simply append zeroes to any address which is too short for the new standard. Any old timey software still works as long as you use a router between the two systems with an old timey address.

This would give us as many addresses as we want without any changes or downsides. So why no do?
> Level 5 driving just means it can drive a child or blind person around who can’t take over in an emergency.

No, that's what level 4 means. Level 3 can rely on having a driver to switch to, level 4 can't.

The difference between 4 and 5 is that 4 can park and give up under arbitrary circumstances, while 5 has to be able to keep going almost always.
Maybe your argument isn't good enough? I can certainly tell something (this can be anything and I won't clarify) is wrong and that it is overwhelmingly likely related to the climate. I also have as low of a carbon footprint as I can (it is near zero and my main focuses have been reduce followed by reuse and finally recycle(but only stuff I know gets recycled).

With that said. I don't trust the article nor do I enjoy reading it. It makes odd claims, and comes from a place running articles that I have a real problem with. Things that reach into my childhood and that would probably (very high) mean my death had I been born a bit later. You can disagree, but I am oft correct to a point where my hope that you are correct is sincere.

One thing of note is the term conspiracy theory. There is nothing wrong with observing a situation and coming to the conclusion that something isn't right. It is natural and more important than I think people are willing to admit. The conspiracy portion of the term is quite simple to achieve given almost everything involves at least one other person. A news network doing an interview with a person being a great example. Or there is this article where a writer/editor/business are in a conspiracy. The other requirement being a theory. Theories got us where we are today, often with others involved.

If you truly want to use your words to fight climate change, go talk to those with an alternative theory and present your facts to win them over. All you are doing now (and this is fine, I am not critisizing you here) is complaining to already converted people.

Lastly, and this will be the first time I have made this public, I think we should shift the goal posts as a society. No more stopping climate change. Let's change it to controlling the climate. The climate will change without us here and targeting THAT also targets climate change. The key difference is what it means to the person. One goal makes you a bad person because you like to enjoy a long drive. The other goal makes you a good person because you are fighting the world for the sake of your fellow humans.

It goes without saying that we need to reach both goals anyway at some point. Best start early.
Fascinating sources!

I find the wikipedia link about lesbian domestic violence so interesting, especially due to the all the well-sourced text it devotes to the fact that it's not actually possible to state anything with certainty about the prevalence of same-sex domestic violence! So - I wonder, what conclusion were you hoping a reader would draw from that source?

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The link to the study from 1992 about "gay pedophilia rates" is super intriguing. I mean, consider the first line of the abstract: "Previous investigations have indicated that the ratio of sex offenders against female children vs. offenders against male children is approximately 2:1" - or from a bit further in the abstract: "the ratio of heterosexual to homosexual pedophiles was calculated to be approximately 11:1".

I presume you have read the second-to-last line of the abstract: "This suggests that the resulting proportion of true pedophiles among persons with a homosexual erotic development is greater than that in persons who develop heterosexually."

But what should we make of the final line of the abstract: "This, of course, would not indicate that androphilic males have a greater propensity to offend against children."

I mean, it seems like the study is actually stating that despite an over-prevalence of homosexuals in the pedophilic group, that they still don't make up the majority of pedophiles?

(I suppose we can ignore the fact that Freund himself advocated for homosexuality to be decriminalized)

(I suppose we'd also have to ignore the fact that Freund himself published studies claiming precisely the opposite of what you've claimed here, and even references those results in this paper).

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The paper about childhood trauma is also so interesting. I assume you read this line from the abstract: "Epidemiological studies find a positive association between physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and witnessing violence in childhood and same-sex sexuality in adulthood"

What do you make of the remainder of that same line from the abstract: "but studies directly assessing the association between these diverse types of maltreatment and sexuality cannot disentangle the causal direction because the sequencing of maltreatment and emerging sexuality is difficult to ascertain."

Or this really intriguing alternate explanation for the results, from the second line of the abstract: "Nascent same-sex orientation may increase risk of maltreatment"

I mean ... what should we think about the fact that the authors themselves are indicating up-front that their study may not, in fact, prove that childhood abuse makes people gay? Or their assertion that you simply cannot draw a causal relationship between these two things, only a correlative relationship?

Or the fact that the study finds the percentage difference amounts to approximately 2%, which just seems pretty small?

What, exactly, do you think this study is purporting to tell us?

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My friend, your critical reading skills need a lot of work. You're simply listing articles that you think confirm your priors, without actually reading them at all.
There is a promising HIV vaccine in trial (eOD-GT8 60-mer), but it will take an extremely long time to assess, but given how efficient tri-therapies and PREP are, this is certainly not a revolution.
I was a Pocket user from before they were bought, so I wouldn't call it crapware personally.

Isn't it just a way to sync a reading list across browsers, and have those pages pre-cached on a mobile device for reading when you have no connection?

I'm interested in what people find objectionable about it.

The strongest argument I've heard is that it's not core browser functionality, it was fine before Mozilla bought them, and therefore it's just a distraction/bloat for Firefox. Which is definitely arguable, but probably not a reason to write off the biggest independent browser.
So you're saying people who have been in fewer relationships are less happy in their relationships. Most of the evidence points to the contrary.
My understanding is that you don’t go to prison for inability to pay, but for having the money and not forking it over.
Clarifying what part of the atmosphere is important, sure, to say it's not in the atmosphere and instead in the stratosphere is absolutely wrong.

Doesn't SO2 sink in air? Because we'll need to be constantly adding it to the atmosphere aren't we going to end up with acid rain as it falls to the ground?
Crappetizing?
I am convinced all the naysayers here haven’t even given them a shot. I got a pair a year ago and use them all the time, it’s like a dash cam for my head. I’ve taken a ton of video and photos with mine and absolutely love them for phone calls and music.

I do wish they were water proof and had more battery life, but. Otherwise they’re great.
If you're a man who has sex exclusively with women who are not prostitutes and do not use IV drugs, your odds of contracting HIV are vanishingly small.
If they only optionally sync it's better than I thought - clearly they're explaining badly enough that even some articles I've seen about it didn't mention that was optional.
>I don’t know what KKR’s exact game plan is, although gouging more money from libraries for a reduced feature-set is clearly part of it. I am certainly suspicious of the fact that they appear to be setting up to gather more user data than ever while passing on less of that data to libraries, their ostensible customers.

This doesn't make any sense. Keeping the feature around doesn't cost them any money, so it's unlikely they removed it as some sort of cost cutting strategy. The "sell customer data" angle is also unconvincing. They can do all of that while keeping the "recommend" feature. It's unclear how removing it, or forcing users to use the "notify" feature benefits them.
I took a look at my local library and it doesn't have books anymore.

Not sure what the end game is. This feels like more than capitalism to me. I feel intentionality in this suppression of knowledge and information.

Once the free/cheap books and open web are gone, where will you seek the truth?
It'd be interesting to run a survey in the US, asking people who are in favour of public libraries in general: "If public libraries had never existed, would you support their creation today?"

Like, not just "Do you support continued funding of public libraries", or even "Do you think public libraries could be introduced today", but an actual reality check of how much their actions align with their actual preferences. I wouldn't be surprised if people would actually admit to hypothetically opposing something they are in favour of in practice.
> That's how we arrived at grants used to fund science.

A lot of these gentleman scientists were independently wealthy aristocrats that didn't need hand-outs. The fact that we don't to a meaningful extent have that sort of leisure class anymore is arguably a much bigger reason we need grant funded science these days.

It could be argued there a bit of a replication of the pattern in the space race between Musk and Bezos, but they're missing the sort of well education the aristocrats of yore would have had[1]. They employ a lot of people to do the actual dirty work, but that's not really a big difference from back then either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
"capturing the consumer surplus"
The public library as a place to get reading material has less and less purpose anymore.

When you can just download a book for free, or if you want to pay, have it shipped from Amazon, what is the point of the library? Between piracy and online ordering, there isn't really much space for libraries as places with books as they offer value only to exceptionally moral poor people.

I used to be someone who hit my checkout limit from the library. I haven't been in over a decade now to checkout a book.
Lending libraries don't create new copies of a work.

Copyright is about the right to make copies. It's right there in the name.

Piracy creates new copies. Lending an existing copy for which someone has paid the copy-right holder, does not.
Just pirate the books, seriously. It's called zlib
I don't think it's a problem with young people, I think it's caused by the customer-first mentality (and also reducing labor), which makes theaters reluctant to throw out misbehaving people, and also allow them to bring food. In other words, it's done for profit, so it's something WSJ should celebrate.
Go stick your head in a pig

(h/t Douglas Adams)
With smart lock services requiring hosting and registration and ip-block and cloud IOT expenses, I'm surprised that this isn't happening already to be honest. Also that per token issue fees aren't being assessed by open id or sso providers. They could especially game the system by decreasing the ttl of tokens to smaller durations, and by instituting load-based pricing .
We do, it's also called market capture and rent seeking. Those sound benign and unassuming though.
Many on HN might be intimately familiar with macOS internals, but we are not in any way or form the average users. Running OPNSense on Proxmox definitely sets the "outlier" sticky bit.

Most users do not watch WWDC and do not know what OS release notes are. They don't know what the boundary between their web browser and their OS is, and macOS just becomes "the thing that nags them to update it" - a nag that users unfortunately still ignore, as evident by my recent confrontation with Big Sur machines.
Dishonest dentists who want to make more money don't need actual cavities or disease to lie to you and convince you to spend thousands on procedures you don't need.

Many, many dentists do this now, all it takes is the willingness to lie.
He implied there are many money prediction markets.
I am noticing a heavy GPT accent from the OP.
Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity
You are thoroughly missing the point, although, to be fair, the author obfuscates it with the rant about shitty UI.

The actual enshittification here is that readers used to be able to tell libraries what they wanted for free, and now this data is apparently an Advantage Plus(tm) premium feature that libraries need to pay for, so OverDrive can make more money.
You can use Jinja with Django https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/templates/#djan...
I wonder if they'll revisit revoking SpaceXs award. Or maybe have some sort of rebid process.
That's what worries me about ChatGPT. There are alot of things that could be made better but they don't seem to have their focus on that.
American English gets so vague when it comes to thing like this. I would write it:

One- to two-hundred dollars

Using the hyphens to indicate that “one” and “two” modify “hundred”
Wow, that's hugely impressive! Where can I find more info about this? Is it all on twitter?
crappetbagging

slumping into the melt

reversion to the mean and nasty

californication
It doesn't need its own word, it isn't a novel concept. It's literally just a description of the way capitalism works.
2021, please
While its true that the both the article and title are obvious clickbait and make no effort to present a balanced view.

It's also true that today AR/VR is a tiny niche market of little consequence. That may change when we have much lighter glasses that enable an AI assistant, but today its expensive R&D not a viable consumer product
My library is across the street from a half-way house, and now it's just filled with methheads transitioning back to their normal scams. When I'm looking for some place to work or read and be comfortable in my surroundings, it's the last place I think of going.
Considering the rating agencies put Enron on AAA ...