skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, you either seem unaware that your comments aren’t the only ones in this discussion, or narcissistic enough to believe only you deserve a full response, because every answer you’re looking for and more are in sibling comments around you, yet you choose to engage only in my shortest comment that had context you could pretend didn’t exist.

If you were trying to show some of the worst faith engagement possible on HN, you did it.
mind sharing some of those strategies? is gpt store not just a way for people to avoid writing custom instructions?

i can see how some of this may be useful, i.e. someone finetuning some tutoring examples or instilling design principles.
My friend works for the company -- and it turns out they closed down 2 offices in NY and built the one in Newark which no one wants to go to - and charge you 30$ a day for parking. And now -- this video...
> Never get invested emotionally.

And yet, like in love, the trick is to love again.

Sure, be wise and have high standards about money. But there are some good entrepreneurs here. I was employee #250, it went IPO, became a millionaire. And now that I’ve created a startup, I try to pay it forward.

Large corporations, of course no.
ChatGPT 4 pondered for a while, then started "Analyzing..", and eventually "Finished analyzing" (all following verbatim output):

python 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0
Result 2.0

The result of the calculation 9999999999999999.0−9999999999999998.0 is 2.0.

This result may seem counterintuitive, but it's due to how floating-point numbers are represented and handled in computing. Floating-point arithmetic can introduce small rounding errors, especially with very large numbers, as precision is limited. In this case, the precision required to represent these large numbers exactly is beyond what typical floating-point representations (like IEEE 754 double precision) can handle, leading to a slight error in the calculation.
I don't think the issue is LLMs inherently, it's the misapplication. Kagi has siloed the LLM content into the 'Quick Answer' and 'Assistant' sections, and it generates on the fly from search results. (Plus, the 'Expert' LLM cites the references it used.) I think the issue will come when there isn't a clear delineation between real and artificial text, or when artificial text is presented more prominently than real text, as in the article.
> Companies exist to make profit and returns for their investors/shareholders

Companies pay taxes, operate in a community, and employ people. Shareholders may not care about such trifles... until the race to rot is complete.
yeah, i don't think the htmx API would be the right thing to add to HTML, it's too specific to htmx, but the idea of generalizing hypermedia controls is something i hope the browser people look at
> It is physically, philosophically, and technically impossible to verify the authenticity of digital content.

Though there are many brands built on trust, whose domain name is very difficult to spoof, that are an exception to this.

Hate on nytimes.com, but you have reasonable confidence the content on that site is written, fact-checked and edited by staff at the New York Times Company.
Or that's why you would be good designer. Design world is pretty torn on this tbh. Some designers like effect and some like to be effective. But you can't blame the flashy designers too much. You said it yourself imagine work where "good job" means nobody has noticed anything is wrong. It's kinda hard to sell and measure. Not many people/orgs are sensitive enough to value the "completely obvious" solution that is obvious once you see it but maybe took someone dozens of iterations to come up with.
Maybe they were measuring programmer output in KLOCs.
The cost of pumping a C++ version is also much higher. For C, you lose support for older compilers and minor platforms that haven't catched up, but if this isn't a problem, then only very minor (or no) modifications to the source should be required. Newer features can then be used gradually where it makes sense.
> This would be sooo much worse from a UI point of view. All nice OS features (good text rendering, uniform text editing interface, accessibility, transparency) would all get chucked out the window.

This is what is already happening with people using sandboxed-runtime containers (like Flatpak) and webapp wrappers (like Electron). Desktop UX is becoming a hodgepodge of siloed runtimes and inconsistent interface paradigms.

I don't think Godot would be a great alternative to developing a conventional desktop app, relying on the OS-provided runtime environment, but if you're already deviating away from that, it might still be much better than Flatpak or Electron.

> Electron can definitely have great performance when the developers care about performance (VSCode).

But most Electron applications do not have great performance because they're not being developed this way. Using Godot would provide an easy-to-learn frontend environment (with a scripting language that might even be simpler than using web-derived JS) while still providing the performance of a game engine under the hood. So non-Microsoft developers who would otherwise use Electron might still stand a chance of releasing decent software.
All of them except first.
I think what your parent meant was that, instead of just asserting that something is true, you provide some peer reviewed research or something like that which supports your assertion. For example, you might want to include a link to some article pointing to research which supports your assertion. For example, you can add something like

https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about...

to your comment. Of course, this link points to two decades of research showing that your assertion is wrong, so you probably don't want to include this specific link in your comment, but you get the idea I hope.
Google Image search has been hopeless for a long time now, you'll get better results typically on Yandex or Bing to the point I won't use Google for images.
I get an error when I try to visit the site:

"Site Not Found

Well, this is awkward. The site you're looking for is not here.

Is this your site? Get more info or contact support.

Dreamhost"
This may end up pushing Amazon into a pay-to-play model for publishing. :-/
Wasn't the internet full of hand-crafted made for google dog shit before?
Hiring talented people that will build innovative products has nothing to do with hiring processes?
"should" is doing a lot of work in that sentence

how do you feel about the href, method and action attributes in HTML?
Now that companies are less inclined to have meetups, meetup needs a way to bring the ecosystem back without tanking sales. I've thought about having a tech meetup, and would like to leverage meetup's marketing, but

1. I don't know if this will be a recurring thing more than 2-3 times

2. Without company support, I have to put down my credit card as the organizer, even if the event fizzles out.

I would pay for meetup! But I would not pay more than a fair rate for 2-3 events, unless it truly takes off. Looking at the contents of meetup, I'm guessing smaller organizers are in a similar boat. No one wants to pay a monthly subscription for small things, so people who are unsure stay out, and smaller metros just don't have anything but timeshare-y sales pitches that give the organizer an ROI.

Meetup should

1. Make the organizer interface free.

2. If you want your upcoming meetup to show up in the list, you pay a one-time per-event fee that is more than the per-month cost of a subscription.

This should hopefully bring their market back for tech meetups.
Lockfiles aren't a magic bullet. They point to an a specific old version of all internal dependencies. That still requires the maintainer of each of my dependencies to have published a patch to an OLD version when vulns show up.

And the alternative of typscript + react + nodejs + npm + docker for a damn web based UI is just terrible ! Sorry, no bueno.

I don't want to be at the mercy of all the maintainers of my dependencies. So clearly, I need to cut down on my dependencies. htmx is a great middle ground. Clearly, you can now at least see the appeal of htmx + a backend service for a robust though not fully optimized web based app.

And I can't see the JS ecosystem's last 10 years as outright "progress", but rather a series of experiments, that work for some and don't for others.
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that what I said is true.

> People can always find a reason to rationalize why they’re not doing what they say they want to be doing.

Believing that's true can help you decide if you are responsible for not reaching your goals or if you truly are the victim of circumstance.
Well, Boeing most certainly hurt itself. But in the case of Bosch, people won't die so the fallout would be less severe.
I tried google.com, and it gave 403/429 errors from three locations (Nuremburg, Ashburn, Helsinki), which seems surprising - maybe an issue with Hetzner?
The difference between micro LED and LCDs is that the LED displays actually emit light whereas the LCD displays only get darker. It's completely different, it's like comparing an original game boy and an OLED iPhone.
Look, all sentences in any language implicitly start with or end with the words: "For now." The sooner you incorporate that into your beliefs, the better off you will be. It isn't about "trust." Trust is conditional and blind trust in statements that cannot be true under all circumstances is something you just need to grow out of; circumstances change and intents change.

As you gain experience, you get really good at parsing and identifying axes of flexibility in statements from the power structure. In general, professional managers in a power structure will always distort or mislead with any statements they make to turn any announcement into a steering opportunity. This is just how it is and it's really not about "trust", it's about manipulation.

Manipulation is _everywhere_ in the tech companies. Nothing is more amazing to me than an experience I had early on that woke me up: the day after I attended a meeting about how the company was working on a project that was incredibly unethical (think google's china search engine-level unethical or worse, like Nokia's building anti-dissident features into their 3g networking for Iran), I attended a company all hands where the entire message from every exec, including those that were involved, was about how we were a force for free speech, freedom, etc. I already knew but it was stark.

They also engage in constant attempts to blur things. Google, in particular, spends a lot of money to help muddy the job-vs-personal waters because it gives them power. For their first decade and a half, at least, they ran the whole company like college - extracurricular activities, etc. This wasn't just because the founders had no professional experience prior, it was strategic to make it very hard for people to leave (and when they started leaving for FB, that was to another place that was similar).

So forget about "trust" - start thinking in terms of "what is this person not saying, what is this person trying to imply without putting it in words, what flexibility are they reserving for themselves with their statements" etc.
I take zinc, B12, D, K2 and algal omega-3. B12 is the big one, you're just trading diabetes and heart disease risk for stroke risk without that one. And everyone in northern climes should be taking vitamin D. Our salt is iodized.
I see the point about AI's impact on internet content, but I think it's important to view it in a broader context. AI is just a tool, and its effectiveness is shaped by how users use it. It's not just AI, but the entire internet that's always had a mix of good and bad content. AI actually has the potential to improve access to information and level the field. It's more about refining search algorithms and enhancing oversight rather than dismissing the technology altogether. The internet has always required users and creators to sift through and elevate quality content. AI is just a new aspect of this
> Not just books. I remember seeing a "movie" on Amazon (not sure if it was Prime or some other service I was subscribed to). It was called "how to pronounce 'Stranger Things'", and the total length was about 10 seconds. I'll leave the plot to your imagination.

That's a really common genre of video on Youtube. If you Google "how to pronounce 'Stranger Things'", you'll find dozens, including this channel with separate videos for "How to pronounce Stranger Things" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygvdKNT15o) AND "How to pronounce Stranger Things 3" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4Zae1rOgY).
This is an intellectually fascinating thought experiment.
Parts of it is that when you're cutting an arbitrary number (like 5%) just because.... you kind have to do it "randomly" so that there's no claim of discrimination. If it just so happens that all you best performers share a demographic trait of the protected or protected-adjacent kind (sex, orientation, religious beliefs, etc.) you'd expose yourself to discrimination lawsuits by people who don't match that facet.

It sucks and it's a symptom of risk management being a leading consideration to the process of a layoff, more so than performance optimization or culture change, but that's how it "makes sense"
That wasn't how I read that comment. What I heard him say was that we should be grateful for having been able to take advantage of an unusually favorable environment, while at the same time recognizing that it's been an unusually favorable environment that will, sooner or later, regress closer to the mean.
Optery (YC W22) is hiring a full-stack dev with Node experience (Latin America)
There are a couple of papers comparing language in children’s numerical ability and performance (particularly speed and accuracy). [1]

The theory espoused was simpler and quicker languages like Chinese (well at least the Chinese number system with quick mono-syllabic base ten based counting) resulted in faster computing ability with fewer errors than English with specialized words like eleven and eighteen rather than “tenty-eight”. The more exemptions to simple logic the slower and more error prone computing was for humans. French on this metric was at the bottom of the pile with polysyllabic non-simple words like quatre-vingt-dix.

I like the idea of Walloon or Fribourg French counting being a sort of high frequency trading hack for people of the 19th century with shorthand like “ûtante.”

[1] While not the paper I was looking for, this one + it’s reference section gets the point across: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0273...
Somewhat related:

https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/subprocessors/

https://cloud.google.com/terms/subprocessors
You will pay with your data. Read their privacy policy. They can track you, collect your private data, they have access to your accounts. As long as it's closed source and cannot be self-hosted, it's a big no-no.
Pessimism is more infective than optimism. It’s also easier to be a naysayer, since most new ventures do failed you can point and say you were right regardless of merit.
do gaza school children sing about annihilating everyone and destroying everything?

youtu.be/FSlUpltK5Kw
On the flipside, its not as obvious what coal burning exhaust has done to other parts of the biome. I imagine its extremely damaging. Not to mention, what it does to human lungs.

Evolution didn't create all this life with the assumption there would be electric beaches. I suspect the loss of this warmth will be a small price to pay to reduce emissions and that other parts of the biome will flourish in-line with how evolution developed life in that regions for billions of years.
The sewage has already been flowing for years. Now we're just going to have more of it.

Search results on both Bing and DDG have been rendered functionally useless for a year or so now. Almost every page is an SEO-oriented blob of questionable content hosted on faceless websites that exist solely for ads and affiliate links, whether it's AI-generated or underpaid-third-world-worker-generated.
> That Go uses arbitrary-precision for constant expressions seems dangerous to me.

I'm somewhat baffled by this statement. If a Go program compared a constant expression float against a runtime computed float, it could have unexpected results, but comparing floats in general is dangerous. I don't see how this language quirk increases that danger in a meaningful way.
> Web 3 as you described it never existed.

But it's been talked about this way a lot. Think of the ... in Rust posts but replace it with ... on the blockchain.

Btw where are the ... in Rust posts? They've been replaced by ... with AI?
A Real World Business Application of LLMs and GenAI [video]
I too have really enjoyed - thank you author!

Your curiosities and resulting blow posts really appealed to me as they were questions and things I would want to know.

The breath in unconditioned spaces freezing, the fuel storage, planes landing, power generation. Awesome topics! Kudos and respect.
> Utilize Automated Tools for Code Style [...]: Ideally, comments related to code convention or commit message convention should not be necessary. These aspects should be checked and corrected via automated tools and made a prerequisite before creating a PR. Let these tools handle consistency, freeing up valuable human review time for more substantive concerns.

This is hugely important. Decide on linters, static analysis, refactoring tools, etc., and after a deliberate selection process, never argue about them or their results again. Just make the tools happy and move on.

I've also seen high functioning teams choose and agree on an API design philosophy. Arguing about design with no boundaries the discussion feels like arguing about the entire open ocean. Limiting the universe to a small set of design inspiration (kind of like a standard set of UI components) prevents lots of discussion that doesn't help the team or the business.

For as many things as possible, we should be able to point to something outside of the team, and chosen by the team, and say "this is how we've chosen to do it and we're not going to fight about it."
Been following these guys for a while, great to see another killer idea turned to reality
Scripting is part of web development, htmx endorses hypermedia-friendly scripting:

https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-friendly-scripting/

https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/
The black rectangle problem isn't talked about enough. Screensavers are something, but have their own problems. I'm surprised there aren't more mechanical solutions (e.g. roll-down shade).
Right, the issue is not that people don't appreciate good content. The issue is that it's harder for people to find it.

It's an entrenching of the existing phenomenon where the only way to know what to trust on the Web is word of mouth.
Flohmarkt – A federated, decentral, classified market place using ActivityPub
Company Spotlight: Qdrant Vector Database
This is only for the pay vs productivity graph?
:) that's great to hear man
Why do slim people who eat a lot never seem to put on weight?
I find this even more concerning

https://youtu.be/4L8MY056Vz8?t=659

https://youtu.be/4L8MY056Vz8?t=748

https://youtu.be/4L8MY056Vz8?t=795
Why is it cool to pay for stuff you may not use?
You've missed my point entirely and moved to a different discussion. I am not arguing about will power. What do you think instinct is? Are we simply slaves to our desires? No. Yet many still feel this way.

Have you ever tried meditating? Is it easy to just sit?

TikTok users have a strong urge to watch more TikTok. Should they just give into their urge for a short term dopamine rush? Will it feel difficult to not listen to this urge? Can they overcome it or are they trapped forever?

"Now imagine how strong is the instinct to eat."
Fasting is a methodology to reset your metabolism. Dopamine fasting is a way to reset your urge to doom scroll. Meditation is a way to clear your mind.

Metabolically fasting dramatically increases insulin sensitivity, has profound benefits and helps one to become a master of their urges. It is a practice, like dopamine fasting, meditation, anything else...
Tembo Cloud GA
And yet every time someone praises EU big tech regulations here, someone from the US inevitably complains it’s just the EU being anticompetitive and that they should also deregulate so they can have big tech of their own.

The things we learn thanks to these regulations keep proving why they’re necessary.
Some of the HP iLO and other servers as well as some networking gear uses this. Not sure those devices can be upgraded.
Agree with this. I would say that the rate of progress from Mistral is very encouraging though in terms of having multiple plausible contenders for the crown.
It requires a GPU.
> result may seem counterintuitive

does it say this out loud?
Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta
bc is my calculator for pretty much everything for decades now. lol
I often try to remind myself, "Would I trade 10 million dollars but I have to be bed ridden?" The answer for me is no. Health is wealth.
> Isn’t this consistent with X’s rules that if you call for violence or crimes, you get banned

I guess it depends on the caller. /s

There is one thing i learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger: It does not matter how many people you kill, as long as you are the good guy.
Their webpage suggests you have to return it at the same level of charge as you got it at, or pay a $25/$35 (depending on membership level) convenience fee to return it at any charge level.

I recall a similar rule the last time I hired a gas car, but feels like for EVs it could use a tweak or two.
meetup has been bought by wework before and survived the wework crash, so i am less worried compared to other buyups. this is probably not an exit of the founders.
> management people can't be direct, plain-spoken, and authentic with employees,

This just corporate culture though. where are you working where that isnt the case?
So does the online multiplayer for Worms: Armageddon, ChanServ and all.
Perhaps Emotional Dependence on Celebrities Has Gone Too Far
Why? If the primary client is a browser, you're giving it exactly what it needs to render.
Yeah but it is still true that for every R there, there is a distinct H here that is worse.
It's already being used for that! I use a program called Dungeondraft[1] for easily creating maps for TTRPGS and it's built on top of Godot (see the modding API page[2] where they mention Godot).

[1]: https://dungeondraft.net/

[2]: https://megasploot.github.io/DungeondraftModdingAPI/
It depends on execution, but I could see transparent screens being nice for a desk setup where privacy isn’t a concern. They could make for a cleaner, more open, less cluttered feel than could be had with traditional displays.

One could also more easily have arbitrary logical divisions of transparent screens. For instance one could set up a single transparent superultrawide screen to function as three separate displays if they wanted (useful for having multiple sets of virtual desktops) with transparency being used to create aesthetically pleasing divisions between each virtual screen (imagine each screen as a roundrect).
They’re the perfect target to hit when looking to pivot across/through a network though. Not to mention the risk of being hit during a ransomware event. Keeping around legacy hardware/software is the pinnacle of fuck around and find out.
Through business losses on my yearly taxes