skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see articles like this a lot and I haven't yet thought of a way to categorize them properly.

I think the author is simply being melodromatic and faulting companies like apple for not designing user interfaces that are perfect.

His concrete complaints against apple boil down to two points really:

* there's a lot of bloatware.
/ too many apps

* the apps/settings menus are hard to navigate.

My day job has me in the trenches right now trying to make good UIs and I can simply say that its hard. Moreover, if you ask the average consumer what they think of apple's UI I bet that most would praise it. If apple, the best company in the world at UI/UX can't make this guy happy, then I'm not sure who will.

His complaints against google have a similar tone. He complains that SEO has slowly eroded the quality of search results, which is true, but also SEO is an adversarial process. Given the value of being at the front page of search, people are strongly incentivised to game the system as hard as they can. It's a hard problem.

Not to be glib, but I'd like to see him try to tackle these problems before saying that big tech is "selling basic usability back to consumers".

Yes, the flaws he points out with usability of big tech products may be real, but I dont think it warrants the venom with which he writes the article.
> tell them to go to church.

I imagine that's not what they would say unless the patient were already of a religious bent. The mental health benefits of going to church are unrelated to the religion itself, but are related to having a supportive community and regular socialization. There are many other ways of getting those benefits.

A good therapist would recommend whatever method the patient would be most likely to adhere to.
why? Doesn't this generally help you write faster?
this is like calling air travel a band-aid for the horrible choices of the automobile industry.

Powerful software is complicated. AI-assisted search allows it to continue to get more powerful without overwhelming usability.
A sensitivity to grains can also be a sensitivity to oligosaccharides... especially if you present with digestive issues. Bread can cause multiple problems.

I also don't think people are quite aware that part of the reason gluten-free foods are so popular is they can help with conditions that are not caused by gluten sensitivities as they omit ingredients which cause multiple health problems. Multiple of which were poorly understood at the time gluten free foods exploded, which drove scepticism because people could not understand why so many people were buying these foods if they did not have celiac disease and often seemed to be often be able to tolerate some amount of gluten.

If you have food sensitivities I'd visit a doctor & do deep research and do trial/error.
It’s not that you can’t add it, but that it seems the reason openai added “tools” after function calling is to make it generic for more unique/proprietary features.

Unless everybody is going to follow OpenAIs lead for every feature they implement, general compatibility is going to be challenging. Basically, the only reason this is possible now is due to the fact that there isn’t yet a lot of diversity in the way models are being used.
They fire you, with a very valid reason of not being in the office, which from a legal perspective is very hard to argue against on the employee side.
The fear of committing SQL to the codebase is one of the most baffling things in modern backends.

To me the most infuriating thing is the "SQL query scattered around multiple files" pattern, where a backend engineer will decompose a perfectly fine SQL query into 3 or 4 files, with multiple functions, often with very artificial separations (for example: a function just for the "select ..." part, another for the joins).

All that in the name of having small files, small functions, small lines. You take complexity away from the "micro" parts and embed it into the invisible parts of your program.
I knew someone at the company and they put in a good word for me.
>lost planet 2

Only because Capcom had to put in extra dev work to make it work again after the GFWL shutdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qq3sq9/capcom_has...
Yes, if you control for eating the picture will look different, because you're creating a different picture.

Modern, Western scientific thinking always tries to isolate variables, our medicine is always trying to isolate that one specific molecule, etc. This has given us fantastic insights, and allowed us to see the trees for the forest, but we also then start to miss the forest I feel.

The forest is a complex and difficult to quantify system of interrelation and interconnection. We may never fully understand the forest, but that doesn't mean the route to effective knowledge about navigating this landscape is to ignore forests, and concentrate on individual trees. I hope the metaphor is clear enough.

There are different ways of knowing, and to jarringly switch metaphors, just because you've built a hammer, doesn't make every form of knowledge a nail.
Of course it's their responsibility in the end. But they only have to worry about it in the first place due to the bad usability of the software.

My point still stands: it's not about users being terrible. It's about the software design being bad. Software should always be designed to suit humans, not vice-versa.
I like the idea but the catalog has the look of something that will quickly grow unmanageable. I hope it doesn't end up like other Wiki projects that die from lack of momentum/direction like wikinews. To be clear, the latter still runs but hardly anyone uses it.

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Catalogue

Does this have the potential to become some standard reference for code proving/transpilation purposes, or is it likely to end up like past attempts to unify all programming languages?
The big concern was biased datasets iirc and shit fits for people of color. Like clearly mislabeling feminine looking women as men, and a stupid high false positive rate for face detection.

That was relevant given they were selling their models to law enforcement.
That Spotlight is somehow the Final Boss of "artificial intelligence-based user interfaces" to the author is hilarious to me.
Best wishes from qarl, co-founder of Lume (1998)

https://web.archive.org/web/19981201053816/http://www.lume.c...
Currently working on a new federal report requiring us to send 7 fields to them yearly. They have provided a 1,670 page document to 'help' us send them the data.
"The central idea behind this JSONB specification is that each element begins with a header that includes the size and type of that element."

Why not add this size indication to JSON specification. Would reduce memory requirements for JSON processing.

1997: https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt

NB. This header may be the "central idea" behind JSONB but JSONB has other differences from JSON. This comment refers only to the size indication not the other features.
To be charitable, I could summarize them as saying that people are suffering from a lack of meaning in life (I'd put myself among those). The problem is that I don't think there really is any to be found in the end regardless of which institutions you try and engage with.
Google again making announcements but not releasing for public to validate their claims.

What's the point of it? They hype it so much, but the actual release is disappointing. Bard was hyped up but was pretty shit compared to GPT-4.

They released the google search experiment with bard integration but the UX was so aweful it hid the actual results. I use Sider and it is a muuuuch much nicer experience.

Does google not have folks who can actually productionize their AI with usable UX, or do they have such a large managerial hierarchy, the promo driven culture actively sabotages a serious competitor to GPT4?
yet he fronted some scam crypto
Pentel GraphGear 1000 is phenomenal.
The tone is overly hyperbolic because I think the core argument is a bit flimsy. Yes, tech industry has made stupid design choices, but I don’t think it follows that AI is a band-aid over bloated features. In many cases AI promises completely new features or workflows. It’s just one new thing for profit motives to degrade the user experience on eventually.
Neither do good SQL developers: you can easily structure database logic in multiple stored functions, stored procedures, packages, and multiple files. Unit test frameworks are also available.
If a child chooses to get a USA passport, surely this means renouncing Japanese citizenship?
When Mail Fails: The Transition from Dead Letters to 404 Errors
I've only been on Twitter fairly recently. This was plain as day long before then.

My being off Twitter won't make the news, media, culture, or politics less influenced by it.
For that size of a system, ducted is less expensive and more reliable than mini-splits (but it is not always practical to install).

A large multi-zone installation (~20 rooms) with all-new duct work and natural gas backup in a major cold-weather US metro can be about $40K.
Were they losing or weren't they making enough to satisfy their greed?
Earlier this year I had to cancel a trip to the south Pacific because, it turns out, four months is no longer enough time for an "expedited" passport renewal. Appointments for urgent-travel renewals are not available in the US no matter how many hours you spend in the State Department phone system. It has gone downhill in a big way.

Bonus lesson that I learned too late: if you're in need of an urgent passport renewal, complain to your senator; I got an appointment within a week once I did that.
TL;DR
No, you can't advertise flying as sustainable, because it's not.
For most cases the answer is pretty much none of it. Expecting someone with depression to just rubber duck themselves out of it is like hoping for a car crash survivor to perform surgery on themselves. Sure, there are some fringe cases where it might occur, but by and large this simply doesn't happen.
Or they just used the wrong word. I'd agree with them, but clarify that SQL is not just terse, but concise.

A join or a group by is going to be much clearer than writing the code the query plan is going to generate, creating temporary hash maps, doing nested loops, etc.
"Implied forever but revocable" sounds like false advertising.
Meta ironically unveiled just this thing. An AI model that can translate in <2 seconds intended for use in real time conversation.

https://ai.meta.com/research/seamless-communication/
Kinda like kids who claimed to become Rocket scientists when grow up. But now flipping burgers at McDonald's. Big liars living among us.
YouTube turned two of my friends into covid denying conspiracy theorists. They aren’t even in the US. Not sure how falsifying some viewing numbers would help the left.
On-demand drug information with AI
Two sad things:

1. This stuff is available in like Angola and Thailand but not in Germany or France. Oh how the European giant has fallen.

2. ... but it's also not available in the UK. So the long shadow of EU nonsense affects us too :-(
An interesting case to watch also from Europe, given that the concept of disinformation under the DSA is likely to be contested as well.
This wasn't a security system it was a straight up fiddle. The fact it was undocumented is the real tell.
Problem is that US has two party system.
> > Real humans sign up for jobs at these joke companies, which makes the jokes less funny

Given the working conditions at Musk companies an otherwise sane individual would only work there if he buys the hype surrounding Musk himself.

If that is the case then I am afraid it's not a matter of if you'd be getting screwed but when. If it's not Musk is going to be some other techbro employing the same techniques.
Yes! Once the transformation job has been completed, you can review the mapping in the returned job payload and our Lume dashboard. You can review, edit, and deploy the mapping pipeline from the dashboard. There are two ways to fix mappings. You can edit the target schema (e.g., make a required target field nullable) or manually override our mapping by giving the correct mapping value from the source data. I have also attached a Loom video showing this workflow: https://www.loom.com/share/95e47ead923d4911b647456174142e00
Fusion power is perpetually 50 years away. I'll believe it when I see it before I die.
It also means that we Americans working* abroad are radioactive for anything financial beyond a simple bank account or mortgage. Absolutely no one in Germany wants to deal with a brokerage account for me.

Though my husband was all for adding me to his accounts, I’ve carefully kept our finances separate to prevent the nightmare scenario of a bank deciding its American customers are no longer worth the trouble and neither of us being able to get at our money, which happened to some Americans when FATCA was first introduced, and also so at least one of us can buy ETFs in an uncomplicated manner.

* As in, not wealthy enough to be well beyond having to work
This is in fact OK. If you hate js that much then just use CURL and read it offline. I personally do not like js much either but complaining about every instance of it is pointless.
> If you have a middleware layer as you are describing, it's written in a real programming language with all the adjacent tools (source control, debugging, etc).

I'm not sure what you're using, but you can absolutely use source control for stored procedures. There's any number of database change management tools available. You should already be using one for your schema. Stored procedure debugging tools also exist for most platforms.

I'm not really interested in the "it's not a real programming language" topic. That's almost universally someone going on an ego trip about what they like. If your point is, "We get to use a single language that the whole team is experienced and familiar with," then sure that's valuable. But that's about the team's capabilities more than anything.

> There's no performance advantage.

No, that's an outrageous claim. I've seen and implemented some processes as stored procedures and in some of those cases it's worked much better simply because we don't have to pull the data pool out of the cloud and across the country to wherever the CPU is, manipulate it, and then push it all back up to the data store.

Stored procedures are not some universal panacea that the 4GL crowd wanted them to be, but it's also not something that's universally worse.
It's not really the same as gun rights in America. There's no constitutional amendment ensuring the right to sell spycams on the internet without repercussions.
Until you learn about how much it costs to take care of a long-lived aging population on the backs of a dwindling young one. The country will be subsumed into the Chinese sphere of influence to pay for their invested age pyramid before any such rise could occur.
who cares about the warning if its extremely inconvenient. Tell you what, I'm going to format your computer on Jan 1. You have plenty of warning so no big woop.
Ah yes! That's probably be what's going on!

That would explain a lot of things, especially why they're letting the beautiful people have access now but not us plebs. They want a few months to work on censoring it before the masses get it and make it say something offensive.
My first impression of their YouTube plugin is a bit disappointing.

I asked:

> Can you tell me how many total views MrBeast has gotten on his YouTube videos during the current year?

It responded:

> I'm sorry, but I'm unable to access this YouTube content. This is possible for a number of reasons, but the most common are: the content isn't a valid YouTube link, potentially unsafe content, or the content does not have a captions file that I can read.

I'd expect this query to be answerable. If I ask for the number of views in his most recent videos it gives me the number.
Look Mum No Computer has a nice video on the influence of MFOS and how synthCube is carrying on the legacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58NHU8ly5E
"A lot" are not allowed? Most of places who disallow AI assistants will also happily pay exorbitant rates to consultants who will publish all your code base publicly on git...

And how many offline coders are out there? My guess is less than 1%?
Can you share what country you want to give up citizenship from? It's hard to imagine that being stateless would be preferable in most cases.
It's more like - we gave it a shot with natural intelligence, and now we are trying to see if what we call artificial intelligence can do better.
No, I disagree. It was more like a calculator. And not really accessible.

The Apple I was the first proper one (the way most people would recognize a relatively usable personal computer), and it kicked off a revolution. That revolution was coming though, Apple or not.
What would the system be as an alternative? You are born stateless and have the ability to declare (or in harsher terms, need to audition for) citizenship to a country of your choosing? At what age?

The notion of having no state is kind of an impracticality, do we accept that as a given?
It is like calling Google "Open Search" or Youtube "Open Video".
I'm not saying that _I_ can't manage to do it. But I want it to be as easy as it is on a computer. Plug in a USB, navigate the file system. Drop the files where I want. I don't want to set up a streaming server in my house just because smart phones are terrible.
> downloaded your favorite personal finance, social media and productivity apps,

The phone, as an interface SUCKS. Full stop.

Touch has limitations, voice has limitations, there is a reason that people who have to type still sit down with monitors and keyboards. There is a reason that physical switches still exist. (IF you touch input by rote on a screen that may be in some other state, you check before you start).

As for google, stop using it if you dont like it. Bing, DuckDuckGo Kagi all exist at a price point that works for you.
Plan for Windows 10 EOS with Windows 11, Windows 365, and ESU
The free market. Much as I miss static HTML, the people like widgets.
The question is whether something is exploitable or just a crash. It is also a disservice to user to worry them about having to do an immediate update and evacuation of all hosts because of an out of bounds access in Gravis Ultrasound emulation.

Would any crash in GCC be a vulnerability because compilers are fed untrusted source code? Perhaps, but in practice godbolt.org is going to be the only case in which you care.
America Is Having yet Another Drug Shortage. Here's Why It Keeps Happening
It's not unlawful, it's not morally bankrupt. Noncompete clauses have been around since the beginning of human commercial activity and have a valid reason to exist - to encourage companies/people/investors to put large sums of capital at risk to develop novel technologies. If there was no way to profit from them, the capital would be non-existent.
> My being off Twitter won't make the news, media, culture, or politics less influenced by it.

How do you think "the news, media, culture, or politics" are influenced by Twitter except via the people doing the influencing and the people being influenced both being on Twitter?

People leaving Twitter does reduce its social impact.
I created something similar at my work, which I call "Long Lamda", the idea is that what if a lambda could run more than 15 minutes? Then do everything in a Lambda. An advantage of our system as is you can also run everything locally and debug it. I didn't see that with the FLAME but maybe I missed it.

We use it for our media supply chain which processes a few hundred videos daily using various systems.

Most other teams drank the AWS Step Koolaid and have thousands of lambas deployed, with insane development friction and surprisingly higher costs. I just found out today that we spend 6k a month on "Step Transitions", really?!
Tangentially related. I was on a train today and walking in a straight line (relative to the train) while it’s going around a long corner is an odd experience. You’re leaning into the curve, but walking straight. Confusing the first time it happens
It'd be an even better example if there was an equivalent conversion function on Wikifunctions to link to. There doesn't appear to be one yet.

The project's response to the funding Google.org Fellows' evaluation is a deeper explanation that explicitly compares the goals of Wikifunctions to Scribunto (those Lua functions) — and is especially notable in the context of replacing templates and Lua modules since Google.org made a bunch of recommendations to further decouple Abstract Wikipedia's goals from Wikifunctions that Wikimedia thanked them for and subsequently ignored: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Google.or...

The catalogue of functions useful to Wikimedia is much more prosaic than the {{Convert}} template and in line with the Google.org examination — it's more about Abstract Wikipedia's goals of natural language generation (NLG): https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Catalogue

The list of all functions is also similarly lower level; language transformations, form validation, sub/string operations: https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:ListObjectsByType...
With the current trajectory of batteries, it is not looking like the cost of overnight storage is going to break the economics of solar.

Seasonal storage is another issue all together. Also, very northern latitudes may be better served by nuclear power.
I asked it and ChatGPT about a gomplate syntax (what does a dash before an if statement do).

Gemini hallucinated an answer, and ChatGPT had it write.

I followed up, and said that it was wrong, and it went ahead and tried to say sorry and come up with with two purposes of a dash in gomplate, but proceeded to only reply with one purpose.
> the US is not stopping you from leaving

That's true, but it doesn't help much because I can't just leave. I have to go somewhere. No airline nor cruise ship will allow me to board an international flight or cruise without a passport, nor will Canada allow me to enter without one. That leaves Mexico. So yes, I suppose I could go to Mexico, but then I could not return.
Unfortunately I will have to move a significant codebase out of Next.js to perhaps Remix as I run into all mentioned points.
Let me think - could it be the one country with a complicated situation where most of the security-services apparatus is nominally allied but actually supporting forces opposed to the US (talibans etc), with a sclerotic political system defaulting to military dictatorship every other decade; or the long-standing allied democracies (plural) with a well-documented history of structural cooperation in matters of espionage and surveillance, particularly at the IT level...? Which of the two would the US government rather let run surveillance on US citizens? Mmmh, I wonder!

/s
Damn I totally forgot Google actually has rights over its training set, good point, pretty much everybody else is just bootlegging it.
Youtube is a great website with Ublock (or premium, I assume). It's borderline unusable without, which is why people are so reluctant to shell out for premium - the ads feel less like a reasonable attempt to monetize, and more like an attempt to push people to premium.
> I am legitimately surprised that more tech-heads didn't see this state-of-affairs

Didn't see or didn't bite the hand that feeds?
This is a really good response, thanks for taking the time to write it all out. I once was going to use software engineering to pay the bills so I could DJ at night. Then life changed and I got carried away being happy with other obsessions.

Happy Wednesday :)
I assume they meant that the site is terrible in Firefox, not that Firefox is terrible.
This book helped me understand the similarity between the entity-component-system architecture popular in game engines and the relational database model. Lots of ECS libraries are building fast in-memory relational databases with code-based instead of text-based query DSLs.
Well thats what the sigularityis all about, eh?