skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wanted this to be about a seal that was trained to do an impression of King Jeroboam. I don’t know what that would look like, but I know it would be something I would want to see.
> What are you basing it on?

My "which is more expensive" is based on having more point-to-point tunnels, rather than running single lines approximating a minimal spanning tree.

The more point-to-point direct transit you have, the more tunnels you must have, which makes it more expensive.

My comparison was not directly about small cars in small tunnels vs. large ones in large tunnels.

> is the total volume less, are they simpler and cheaper to create because they are smaller?

I don't know. You claimed it would seem to be more efficient, but in that case, why not compare a small tunnel subway like Glasgow has? 2 lines, 15 stations, 8 million ridership running on a 4 foot gauge and 11 ft width tunnels, built in the 1890s.

It looks like the Vegas Loop uses 12 foot tunnels, so that should be the better head-to-head comparison, yes?

> It's something you manage, not eliminate

Of course, but you manage it with space, which affects the costs. Given the same number of passengers, smaller cars require more space because of the required safety distances between cars.

You get the space with more tunnels and parallel tracks.

> If you want to understand their choice, they made it all public

If it's not easy to summarize in a few paragraphs and requires pouring over documents or watching hours of videos, then how does it seem more efficient simply by saying "a subway with smaller cars that is more point to point"?

I've been to Vegas. They have lousy mass transit, the US is famously anti-public transit in part because the people who make the decisions rarely use it, and there is a long history of trying out hyped technology that doesn't work well.

You'll also note that Chicago, San Jose, and LA have dropped their plans to have similar infrastructure.

> We'll have to wait and see.

Sure, but that's a far cry from making it seem like it's obvious given the design. And given that it's been years and the Vegas Loop has nowhere near as many passengers as the Glasgow Subway is a strong suggestion that car-based systems don't work well.
As a great person myself, I can attest this is true: I’m good at pretty much everything.
I think it's entirely possible that the belief in education is one of the many beliefs that I've lost as I get older. Or perhaps like people say they believe in god, but not organized religion, I don't believe in organized education. That reflects my own experience I suppose; I wasn't much of a student, but once I actually got put into a position where I needed to learn things (a computer infrastructure/software engineering type job), I learned them well enough I suppose.

One takeaway from the covid lockdowns I took is it seems that to a first approximation, school is where children go for babysitting and perhaps learning happens there somehow. That would reflect my memories (plus it was a good place to score drugs).

I didn't think much of the system at the time, and even less upon reflection some years later, and it's not a system I'd want to put kids through, but I seem to say that about an increasing number of aspects of the modern world, so it's likely I'm just some sort of antisocial malcontent.
Tesla did it to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and they thought it looked sexy.

To demonstrate the validity of this response, you can apply it generally to a wide variety of things they do.

The variations on the doors, all of them, the model release order being S3 X Y, it's kind of all over the place. Their logo even looks like uterus (https://twitter.com/Jam_0s/status/1531368537847214080).

They're obsessed with differentiation for the sake of it. Look at the cybertruck. It's a company run by a middle aged man with hair plugs, 3 wives and 11 children who bought a 44 billion dollar company as a vanity project.
Well said. I'm willing to overlook the copyright issues with the archive itself because it's so valuable to everyone. But when they're openly trying to destroy artists, writers and publishers I part ways.
The problem is that with a shared X11, sandboxing is pointless.

Any application with access to the X11 socket has easy privilege escalation available to it. By for example, injecting into a sudo enabled terminal or keylogging the user.

Admittedly, with Wayland the security situation wasn't ideal until recently with the adoption of security contexts that can finally allow you to deny screen capture access among other Wayland protocols to sandboxed applications[1].

[1] <https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/way-secure>
In housing the term is 'filtering', which is different from 'trickle down'.
> I never really understood WHY people are cheating in online chess games.

It seems that for some quite high proportion of the population someone else losing is necessary and sufficient for them to feel like they have won. Basically for those people winning just means "the other person lost".

This goes way beyond chess and explains a lot about society.
Cruise missiles were already in widespread use prior to GNSS guidance becoming practical. Inertial navigation and terrain contour matching worked pretty well, although GPS has certainly made strike planning easier.

There were more frequent genocides before the Internet than after. It was standard practice for conflicts in the ancient world: burn the cities, execute all the men, and take the women and children as slaves.

You might have a valid point about technology in general, but I don't think your specific examples support that point.
It's extremely expensive to store and distribute every video online. Plus, I use it like 10x a day. I dunno, that makes it worth it for me over Netflix which I use maybe once a week.
But but everyone else is selling shovels (Podcast Microphones, Cameras, Lights, streamdecks) so well.
The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024 – Bill Gates
You mean like introducing ever increasing ad loads and removing background playback to a premium tier to create “value” for subscriptions while simultaneously trying to resurrect cable television despite the Internet being a thing, for example?

I love how hard people will advocate for their YouTube subscriptions like it’s the best thing ever.

YouTube’s recent changes are so Hollywood entertainment exec-esque lately (hey you got to make earnings at all costs!), as they gradually enshitify the Internet’s most popular and important content type, and they can do pretty much whatever they want because, really, they are an effective monopoly for UGC video delivery.

People LOVE espousing their “ad free subscriptions” and rail about the cost of video infrastructure, because they probably don’t remember when copyright broke down and there was a glimmer of the lack of false scarcity digital delivery actually could have created. You can’t download a car.

Google and Comcast literally were the ones who killed off peer-to-peer and decentralized solutions and made sure no competitor emerged. Bram Cohen had it right, but freedom scared big tech and video killed the radio star.

But please tell me how awesome YouTube “ad free” accounts are. In the meantime, enjoy shorts!

I miss the free Internet and actual disruptive innovation so much.
I don't think it really matters. Major bugs are not "oh this can be null", major bugs are "this combination of preconditions yield a business logic edge case that wasn't accounted for". Static typing doesn't really help more than dynamic typing in these cases.
In my old house (US) there was an outlet that was setup that way. Two phases plus ground on a bog standard looking 120V outlet. Made the discovery when we plugged a 500W work light into it while renovating and it exploded after a few minutes.
Recent discussions on HN have mentioned RSI being cured by exercise. (If I recall, someone specifically mentioned pull-ups.) It makes a kind of intuitive sense to me that the problem might be more a lack of normal wrist movement than the abnormal movement and positioning that the keyboard/mouse need.
From an outsider point of view it looks like the ecosystem would have been much healthier if KDE and Gnome had used wlroots. Get everyone talking in the abstraction so plugins can be written.
People talked about this on HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25968751

The short end of it is something like: serendipity = work + telling people about the work
Sounds like you know a thing or two about pitch detection... I've been working on a C implementation of YIN and PYIN (a real GPL minefield for someone wanting to provide the end result as MIT/public domain!), and am wondering if it's a good choice for real time, cpu-bound speech pitch detection, or if there's better ways. May I ask what your thoughts are on this?
There are browser extensions that let you do it, but yes, I agree, 2x isn't enough.
I'm able to subscribe to podcast feeds and have auto-downloads on the YT Music app.
I am sensing zero momentum for Wayland. It was is absolutely idiotic API with lots of unnecessary arbitrary restriction and vast over-complication and over-engineering for no other reason than NIHS.

It will eventually be dropped like a hot potato, just like HAL.
I don't read "patch" as necessarily a "source code patch" per-se. Even if they just add/modify one line in the build script, I'd say that particular distribution of the Firefox application to be "patched".
https://archive.is/wyoId
I think the implication is that the hardware is being constrained by what software is able to run on it. That there is a wealth more of Vulkan applications that a user would want to run, and they are currently unable to do that, since MoltenVK cannot support everything a Vulkan application may need.
I specifically said OLED, yes the LED model is not so great. The improvement across board is described eg. here https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-steam-deck-ole...
Dear,

Really appreciate for your sharing.

Your experience is exactly what we were thought about ....

Over many years, I have had to write user guides, functional specifications, technical specifications and product documentation and even though there may be company standards for such documentation, every document has had much that was not common even in the same class of documents.

---> I think here is where the new LLM can help, it actually can help on prepare most of the contents and build best practice into the document.

I don't know if your system would be that helpful to many people. It might be useful for a small class of people. However, I don't think that this would be a useful idea to try and sell, so to speak.

---> Yeah you are absolutely right, we also think that the customer base for such a system is not large.

So truth.. though not sounds great..

Really appreciate.

We are also thinking about a new approach to help user write doc using AI, by let user to

# Create document

1. Input a description

2. GPT to generate a outline based on the description

3. User can interactive with the generated outline, like restructure the outline, change outline title, add / remove outline items etc.

4. And then we will let GPT generating the actual content of each header.

# Edit document

1. User can interactive with the generated outline, like restructure the outline, change outline title, add / remove outline items etc.

2. User can input description for instruction, we will combine it together with the structure changes user made on step 1.

3. Then we will ask GPT to generate the actual content of each header.

We think that if we can follow the above steps, together with the old content and structure of the whole doc, all send to GPT, GPT will do a great job to write / edit / rewrite the doc, with contents which actually is correct and usable.

But also concerning about the token consume... it looks like it will uses many tokens if we really want GPT to have a complete high level insight of the doc and can do a proper adjustment for sub level header.

Do you have any suggestion on this scenario?

Thanks again for your great sharing :)
I am referring to stopping someone from investing time into an approach that will not work or is not a good idea. If someone spends a couple days working on something that just gets thrown away, that person wasted that time.
Fastmail and protonmail are both solid email providers. And you can use your own domain name with either of them, reducing future friction if you should need to switch providers later.
No, that is specifically for the dedicated HDMI ports.
You can say "Hey Google" instead, like "Hey Google, what have you guys been doing this whole last decade?", to which it'll answer, "Okay, playing guy music from last decade on kitchen speaker".
I actually really loved the Dexter building. Yes it was all that, but I’m an extrovert and some part of my work day needs have been unmet for 4 years now.
I just replayed it and still think it's cool.
I switched to Fastmail a few years ago and have been quite happy with it. Spam has not been a problem.
This is the best. Offices with doors, as a semaphore for availability, and a close by common area for collaboration.

If collaboration occurs spontaneously and your door isn’t closed, it’s easy to join in. If it turns out that someone is essential, turn it into an actual design meeting.

The best teams I’ve worked on had this arrangement and developed their own cadence - morning walks for cofeee, water cooler tv show commonalities.

Having the refuge of a known private space made group participation easier - I would seek out and benefit from the social technical in person interactions, as opposed to an open office plan where I would start out with determination of defending my personal mental space at all costs.
Why to learn chess as an adult?
As I understand it, the public LLMs don't have a "memory" they can access, even if they hallucinate that they do. At a higher layer, a hacker might be able to access the prompt history in the boring, old fashioned stolen/hacked credentials way, but in no way would I consider an LLM telling me what Bayer queried to be accurate information.
Gaming, going to the gym, keeping up my shooting marksmanship at the gun range. I used to ride motorcycles but other drivers are just too dangerous.
We have? There have been piles of orbiter missions over the years to all the inner planets as well as to Saturn and Jupiter.
https://archive.ph/JMbvK
Depends on your location...
Or rather on what google thinks your location is (wink, wink ;)

It's much cheaper in developing countries
I think this might be related to the pareto distribution of productivity in my line of work (steel fabrication). Our most productive employees are literally 10 times more productive than the least productive. And it's always the same people at the top of the list, and always the same people at the bottom. If you pair them together, the productive employee loses 10-20% of productivity while they're together, and the less productive employee improves by 5-10%, but as soon as you separate them, they go back to where they were before.
I think it’s a little over optimistic to think that we will ever work out how to properly write software. Some new patterns may help, but we will always have a need for unit tests and other tests.

Wrt typing, that’s a very narrow set of errors, and I would dare say even a small minority of the things that can and do go wrong in software are type related. That said, effective typing is another orthogonal tool to unit tests that can help create robust software. On that front, what we are missing is a language with robust typing that catches these type errors, but also gets out of developers way the rest of the time.
hiking, cooking, mahjong
Thanks for a very thoughtful reply! (Feels like real HN. I appreciate that.)

It seems like we're not in too much disagreement. I also see Rust's borrow checker as a real engineering achievement. They were able to take lessons learned discovering affine type systems and apply in in a way that gives Rust programs some tremendously wonderful properties. Whether it's making sure that the ML code doesn't do something invalid or whether all of the code doesn't make memory errors, I still see a never-ending march of progress on investing more into type systems and static analysis.

I appreciate your insights on Physics. I understand enough that Quantum Physics takes the view (more or less, I believe!) that the universe is akin to a computer, with particles (bits) that behave in specific ways and determine how everything works (computation, if I can continue the metaphor).

I replied to your linked comment. But I think there's perhaps a misunderstanding of what types are. I agree: units aren't types. However, a

> a property of a physical system based on some model

counts as a value that has a type. Perhaps the whole understanding is that Physics has a _very complex type system_. Perhaps one that no one has invested in trying to make computable?
>most of the DE integration and Wayland/x11-specific features are handled for you automatically...

Just no ability to launch windows at absolute positions or do non-standard input stuff (like special mice, keyboards, or keyboard/mouse sharing) unless your particular wayland flavor has libei. And some waylands like sway are actively hostile to libei. Which is kind of microcosm of the waylands as whole.
I often think of unit tests as being programmable types, like Eiffel pre/post conditions or functional languages with types like Even and Odd.

For example, in double(x) -> y you can use types to say x belongs to the set of all integers and y must also must be in that set, but that’s about all you can say in Python.

Unit testing lets you express that y must be an even number with the same sign as x. It is like formal verification for the great unwashed, myself included.
Enshittification is becoming a big deal on YouTube. The set of topics that YouTubers need to walk on eggshells around in order to avoid being demonitized is getting out of control, and is becoming increasingly reminiscent of the sort of constant, normalized self-censorship that's accepted as the norm on the internet in China. And it's entirely driven by the whims of advertisers.

But, also, I feel like they've sort of got me as a captive audience right now because YouTube's the only video platform that has a sizable international creator base.
The comment you replied to does not refer to WWI nor Russia's war with Ukraine, it refers to the Russian Revolution after WWI. It sarcastically indicates that "nothing" can be done now about the unjust state of Russia resulting in Navalny being a political prisoner.
I understand and that would make sense. Personally, I absolutely loath the font rendering on macOS, and I just installed the Asahi Linux a year or so ago myself because the fonts are much easier on my eyes, or my ability to control the font settings that is.
Before you look at Fastmail or ProtonMail or Tutanota, take a look at (in no particular order), runbox.com, Mailbox.org, mailfence.com and posteo.de (posteo is the only one in this list that doesn’t support custom domains). They’re all cheaper, support IMAP and are hosted in Europe.
No chip on my shoulder, was just calling out your nonsense.

Have a great day.
Try Baduk Pop.
They don’t have to make massive stacks of profit. They are choosing to unethically profit from people being scammed, because it makes them more money. They don’t need to make more money. Alphabet make 60 Billion USD in profit in 2022.
I bet my cat drinks 500% more water since getting him this fountain, as compared to a still bowl of water.

It’s cute and adorable (the fountain is a bit silly looking), and I have to assume it’s good for him.

And to guard against power outages, I got him a separate fountain with an open top, so in a pinch at least he had some standing water.
It’s OK, the G stands for GNU.
The long delay is likely driven by their desire to not have to write off existing generation assets before the end of their service lives.
Another approach we are thinking about is to

1. Let user to upload a semi finished / finished doc

2. Let user input a instruction about the changes

3. Our system send the instruction and the original doc to GPT together, and let GPT to change the doc based on user's instruction.

4. Return back the updated doc file to user.

Do you think this approach will work and bring more value to users?

Thanks all for your input :)
The sheer volume of repetitive comments on such topics might have something to do with it.
Exactly! I would rather see things the way my eyes would see them up close. The Webb photo seems unrealistic and photoshopped (even though it isn't).
Years ago, I submitted an admittedly half-baked version of this to YC. The concept is interesting, but the implementation options are:

a) require considerable and routine manual data entry from the end-user

b) suck up every bit of data from e.g. email, phone, messaging apps, banks and end up with some privacy/security disaster

Anyway, there are all sorts of things you could do with that data, like trawling for novel links in your social graph.
Apple music is less enshittifified for now. I'm enjoying not fighting a losing battle with Spotify PMs on every interaction.

Seriously considering just getting a record player so I can get rid of these middle men though. It's too much.
I don't know if it's overpriced, or if it is the sticker shock of _having to pay for search where almost everywhere else provides it for free_. I'd rather not pay, but I'd also rather pay and support something to get them to stick around long-term.
Go there and do what?
> While I am sure this is likely to push people towards YouTube premium subscriptions

I seriously wonder if anyone would really _PAY_ for the user experience of YT Music.

It is one of the weirdest media apps I've used in a long time. Never fully fit for purpose, always "okay, somehow works".
> The hacker in me hates the idea of enforcing something like this

Why? I'm not sure what being a hacker has to do with it, but this sort of thing would benefit everybody and harm nobody except for the negligent.
Hm, I think I have the same definition of flow.

For example, you can be "in the zone", and then suddenly realise you need answer X than only John can provide. In the office, you can look at John and he does not look busy, so you quickly ask. Sometimes, people don't even realise they are asking, they are still in the zone, checking if John is available is done by another part of the brain. After the answer, you continue, you are still "in the zone", you still have everything you need in your head, you are still juggling with different variables, they are still there.

Now, if you cannot ask directly, you have to send a message on Slack. And then what? Well, you cannot continue to work on the part you were working on. So you have to switch task, drop all of the variables you juggle with in your head, get out of the context you were in. Then John answers you on Slack 10 minutes later, you have to recollect everything in your mind.

So, yes, that's my point, not being able to ask a quick question will destroy your flow. The effects are the same as being distracted by a question when you are "in the zone".
I don't think that asking someone about something is enough to get out of the zone, as in practice, developers "ask" their computer or internet things continuously. A simple "ls" or "ctrl-f" is as disturbing as asking the colleague sitting next to you.

Of course, it may depend on people, but I think it's just not a smart way to approach the problem as if everyone is always working exactly the same way you do.

I also think that some people will think stuffs will break them out of the zone when it does not always really do, just because they don't even notice the thing happened when it does not. It is a bit like those people who say "I always wake up when the cat pass next to my window" just because the 5 times they woke up, the cat was indeed passing next to their window, but the cat passed there 50 times without waking them up.