skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may provide a way for AI to learn a complete new topic(a new programming language, stock investment, sport, games) in a zero shot way and immediately apply it by just feeding a youtube playlist/udemy course into an AI model.
Thanks so much for this valuable feedback. I want to make the service/the sales site as convincing as possible so it's good to know what I'm missing. I'm gonna write responses to your feedback just in case someone sees this and has the same questions:

Language around pricing

Your point about the pricing makes sense to me, and I think it's an issue with my intended market. I wrote the copy speaking to other React Native devs like myself, or freelance React devs who want to jump into app development, but I think I need to consider gearing it towards founders.

How is it better than Expo?

It uses Expo actually! Expo is just a tool, like Rails or NextJS. HyperFast is a template built on top of Expo, which has pre-built screens that you can swap out your content for. It has push notifications already set up (e.g. has code that you can uncomment to launch recurring scheduled notifications), it has best-practice UX patterns (e.g. 'app intro' screens that appear when you first launch the app that describe what the app is before you ask for signup), it's pre-integrated with a BaaS (Supabase) so all you need to do is sign up, pop in your env vars and it just works.

I've basically built a white-label general purpose app, and you can put your images/text/API URL in there and have your own custom app (with a feed, likes/favourite content, account settings, login in/log out/sign up) extremely quickly.

I don't know what this does other than vague marketing words

Point taken, I think a demo video is in order!

Thanks again for the great feedback
It's very difficult to improve text-to-image generation to do better than this because you need extremely detailed text training data, but I think a better approach would be to give up on it.

> I often find myself having to resort to generating all of the elements I want out of an image separately and then comp them together with photoshop. This isn't a bad workflow, but it is tedious

The models should be developed to accelerate this then.

ie you should be able to say layer one is this text prompt plus this camera angle, layer two is some mountains you cheaply modeled in Blender, layer three is a sketch you drew of today's anime girl.
Benefits of heat pumps detailed in new report
Or: The Preparedness paradox [1] / "There is no glory in prevention"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
My mom had this, fairly severely. As with many others, most doctors (and even family members) said it wasn't real, was in her head, etc.

Then, after around two decades, it just all went away. But, in its place were some new, odd, allergies. My theory is that her immune system was perturbed in some significant way, which caused whatever was causing the CFS to be dealt with/managed. Who knows.

Seeing the doctors call her a liar, to her face, really knocked doctors off the pedestal that society lead me to believe they were on.
This is perhaps the single best example of it.

I guess paternalistic colonialism is only a problem when other people do it.
I'm not who you replied to, but yes, that's my main concern: Bluesky is still a company building a thing to pay back the money it owes investors.

I worry that Bluesky becomes the de facto central actor and, due to having no stated business plan and a countdown to repay the money they took, pulls a Google, leveraging its dominance to introduce proprietary, breaking changes.

Yes, right now, the tech, team, interviews, etc sound mission-driven, but "revenue is the dominant term"[2] in the equation of a company's life, and there's still a very real chance that Bluesky dominates whatever federated AT Protocol network ends up forming, then uses that leverage to walk back all this promised openness.

I'm cautiously interested in Bluesky, but I'm watching for this kind of de facto dominance and we're probably too early on to see where the AT network is headed.

- [1] https://somehowmanage.com/2020/09/20/revenue-model-not-cultu...
Reddit should be paying Google.

Some of Reddit’s success can be attributed to the difficulty of getting your personal blog indexed about your ‘87 Nissan Sentra anymore on Google.
Suddenly Reddit becomes a huge user of reCAPTCHA Enterprise and astoundingly, Google earns a bunch of money for improving its search results.
Another variation on the problem is the over-allocation of resources to preventing problems which actually happened once, versus those that are more severe but haven't happened yet.

This is a management problem, because no-one wants to be accountable for a repeat incident even if it was rational to be working on something else more important.
> What schools did not drop the requirement during the pandemic would be more interesting.

It might be interesting... if you named any.
Well it's a perpetual dilemma as they have to keep changing: food is now less than 10% of a family's budget while it used to be over 30% as it is in poor countries like Russia (just happened to see that figure last week). People spend money on computers which they didnt' in the 1980s, etc.

> The interesting thing is this is far from over.

What do you think is the cause and why it is far from over? I'm curious, not trying to start an argument
Redundancy isn’t a bad thing, it’s what lets you go on vacation sometimes. It’s hard to know how much you should have, and it’s no surprise it’s one of the first things to go when companies downsize.

Sure, some bullshit is going to slip in, but it’s still a bunch of human beings trying to make a living on this dumb rock. Software itself is all bullshit in the grand scheme of things.
>For example, not hiring extra is also a gamble, it means you gamble on the market not growing and you would lose a ton of money if the market didn't stall

This assumes hiring is the only way to grow the company. More specifically, it assumes ramped up hiring is the only way.

There are balances that can be struck, for example, instead of hiring 100 people, maybe hire 20 and see how onboarding and growth pans out? Perhaps evaluate business inefficiencies that serve to slow people down like bad process etc. so people can focus more time on what matters.

Automated onboarding, group sales calls and other tactics let you make more with the same amount of people.

There are other things you can do, not just hire. And I'm never going to say don't hire people, but what executives did was irresponsible and I knew it even at the time.

IMO, this stuff happens because executives know they won't be held responsible if it can't be sustained, and that is really the core issue.

Proportions are what matters. I like many am tired of seeing a world that favors oscillation in the extremes like this, and its the average person who takes the brunt when it goes south and the higher ups rake in the brunt of it when things are going well.

For what its worth, if we had European style safety nets, this would be a moot point in a way, because we have so much of American society tied to having a job (be it health insurance, ability to afford rent etc)
> the recent Gemini debacle.

I've noticed that SDXL does something a little odd. For a given prompt it essentially decides what race the subject should be without the prompt having specified one. You generate 20 images with 20 different seeds but the same prompt and they're typically all the same race. In some cases they even appear to be the same "person" even though I doubt it's a real person (at least not anyone I could recognize as a known public figure any of the times it did this). I'm kind of curious what they changed from SD 1.5, which didn't do this.
I hope they're filtering it heavily and specifically. While Reddit does still have some valuable discussion in the more niche subs, I've noticed the main subs moving further left, hatefully and almost violently so.

I can't wait to search for who the Republican nominee is, and Google tell me to kill myself.
To make all this worse, I believe the issues outlined may be magnified by distance from major urban centers.

I have family in a rural part of the US and the quality of care immediately available there is poor, with only marginally better treatment available within an hour’s drive. To have more options than that, one is faced with a multi-hour drive and most major metros where quality care is most plentiful is several hours away.

There’s been several people I’ve known or heard of out there who’ve for years not been able to pin down exactly what the root causes of their ailments are because the local physicians aren’t thorough and/or knowledgeable enough. It’s especially problematic for those on the older end of the age spectrum who even if they’re still able to drive, can’t manage such lengthy trips on their own very well.
Funny. In another thread on here a few days ago, someone asked if anyone used APL in production and I mentioned Volvo and posted this link.
> They've never sold it before.

Do we know this?
I don't use LLMs a lot, maybe once a week or so. But I always pick Phind as my first choice because it's not behind a login and I can use it without giving my phone number. Hopefully you'll keep it that way!
Thanks for the praise Gunnar, but we all owe it to you for organizing it, and especially sticking through thick and thin when it took off, and needed lots of attention to evaluate everyone and maintain a level playing field!
Then you are free to not subscribe to any of them, and see every post. It is under your control.
Before the Civil War, slavery was only legal in the South. After it: nowhere.

Being a slave was not a "hereditary title" in any common sense of the word, which was "duke" or "earl" or "lord." As in Europe.
Does SFTP + Git on ST4 not count as remote development? Cause i am using them as my remote development stack.
Then it's not problem with youtube. Youtube is simply a tool, a media platform. The guy has problem with watching junk, not with youtube or the internet.
One thing they don't so far do is have consistent perspective and vanishing points.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17138
Not a crash, but having a few thousand pounds of cargo shift from side to side will be noticed. But what can actually cause a crash is moving front-to-back. Shift 200 people, say 40,000lbs of cargo, front to back can disrupt the cg enough to cause real trouble.
Neon env 0.2.1: a typed env parser
just released version 0.2.1 of neon-env a few days ago, it's a small project i made a while ago while trying to make env-related stuff fully type-safe in some project of mine. it also includes support for non-string types and custom parsers
Yeah suppose you write a simple config language like:

let a = 12;
let b = a + 5;
...

Tree-Sitter will give you a tree like

Node(type="file", range=..., children=[
Node(name="let_item", range=... children=[
Node(name="identifier", range=...)
Node(name="expression", range=..., children=[
Node(name="integer_literal", range=...)
...

Whereas Nom/Chumsky will give you:

struct File {
let_items: Vec<LetItem>,
..
};
struct LetItem {
name: String,
expression: Expression,
};
...

Essentially Tree-Sitter's output is untyped, and ad-hoc, whereas Nom/Chumksy's is fully validated and statically typed.

In some cases Tree-Sitter's output is totally fine (e.g. for syntax highlighting, or rough code intelligence). But if you're going to want to do stuff with the data like actually process/compile it, or provide 100% accurate code intelligence then I think Nom/Chumksy make more sense.

The downsides of Nom/Chunksy are: pretty advanced Rust with lots of generics (error messages can be quite something!), and keeping track of source code spans (where did the `LetItem` come from) can be a bit of a pain, whereas Tree-Sitter does that automatically.
Is it possible you're making the common error of wanting to build something new?

It's pretty awesome that you've got something making $1600/mo without any proper marketing. It seems insane to me to abandon that effort for something else. Not to mention, if your next project takes off, you'll probably find yourself in the same situation again.

I would double down on this one. You'll likely have a lot of learning to do, but it's gonna be a good education and possibly very profitable.
>but they have shown time and time again that they can't do high volume manufacturing

What do you mean with that?
I wonder why this comment has been downvoted. IMHO it's a legitimate concern. We already see first symptoms of this incelectual laziness. People using navigation apps for the simplest routes and getting lost or even killed due to over-reliance.
Programmers who replaced probem solving with Google/Stack Overflow searches. Polce officers using apps instead of critical and analytical thinking and simple leg-work. And so long ...
Can’t wait for heavily downvoted unfortunate truths to be eliminated from AI
This is great as it is, but I would love to see support for posts in plain HTML. There's a huge potential for static sites generated by Webflow and other platforms like it. Hosting costs are the biggest issue with these platforms. It would help so many designers and marketing teams that don't have access to a developer or simply don't want (or don't know how) to set up themselves a Jekyll, Next.js, Astro, Hugo, or Nuxt website.
Another example is ozone depletion.
> Your parent is not making a technical claim, but a social one: that there will be instances that are effectively unmoderated, because the people who run it hold that up as some kind of ideal, and that that is a problem.

Ah that makes sense. Thanks for reframing this. I don't particularly agree either, but I think I now understand the viewpoint better.
To add: make sure you include unstructured play where the kid leads out without any structure from the parent (rules, etc). Instead, play with and have them lead you.
The Village People AI. Gemini specializes in re-creating scenes featuring stereotyped Indian Chiefs, firemen, policemen, and construction workers.
And ASML relies on Zeiss, which is as big a bottleneck as ASML and TSMC.
davidjl and several others did it.
Yeah if Reddit is only worth 60m a year for ai how does it justify its valuation
If my SMS is compromised, it's one thousand times easier to shut it down and recover than if my email is compromised.

^ Right?
So what you're saying is everything anyone using Twitter cares about is working just fine.
Pro tip, it goes both ways.

"Unfortunately, you have been impacted by my resignation"
some doctors really think too high of their education. very detrimental for everybody with strange conditions
> Phind-70B is also less "lazy" than GPT-4 Turbo and doesn't hesistate to generate detailed code examples.

OpenAI's leaked prompt literally encourages it to try harder[1]:

> Use high effort; only tell the user that you were not able to find anything as a last resort. Keep trying instead of giving up.

1: https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk
Makes sense! Don’t mean to do that annoying internet thing where I am saying you are wrong and I am right, just curious to hear more specifics about it, thanks!
It’s a reference to the lotus eaters -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus-eaters
To me, the company moderating their instance feels like additional moderation capacity, rather than replacing it.

I don't believe I subscribe to any blocklists on BlueSky. If I end up doing so, it is much more likely to be one run by someone I trust than by a company. Having the option of either seems worthwhile to me.
I think the idea is that if Google makes it easier to find human-authored content on Reddit, astroturfers and other spammers will have even more reason to post there.
However, ChatGPT 4 would draw a picture of an American soldier during WW2 riding a horse.
Sure! Salaries are what people use to exchange money for goods and services that these companies produce in theory. But the free money environment we've lived in the last decade seems to have primed companies to think that operating at a loss is okay. If we just fire the workers, and sales lag and dip, its okay because it will force the fed to lower rates and we can just borrow our way back to the top with no sales!

Imagine though... an AI startup that just trades goods between AIs. We should actually start firing customers!
SD always removed enough nsfw material that this probably never made it in there.
This perfectly describes a scenario I found myself in several years back, down to a tee.
Yeah Discord isn't E2EE, it could easily be transformed into a data mine, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it years ago.
Part of what makes hackernews worth participating in is that the owners are not profit-maximizing and trying to extract the maximum possible value from the site.

It's a trade: y-combinator, by cultivating a group of talented technical contributors, gets to advertise hiring posts for free and, in some ways, autistically contributes to the community.

In exchange, we all get a place for thoughtful discussion with reasonably fair moderation.

It's a fair trade for those involved and closer to a non-profit model than Reddit which is clearly trying to extract as much value as possible from the content creators on their platform in exchange for giving them community/platform.
You assume they were fired due to inefficiencies, but they were fired since the market went down and the US government made software engineers more expensive short term by changing how those investments were taxed. That means they can no longer maintain as many software engineers.

> but what executives did was irresponsible and I knew it even at the time.

Lots of people said this during the entire hiring spree from 2010 to 2020, but most of those people are still there paid and working. If they listened to people like you most of us here would be out of a job since the job market wouldn't have grown that fast.
It's about percentages. If the CFO expects that the company can earn 10% on any capital, and they can borrow at 1%, then they will do that. In effect, this means that they will make 9% for free. Even more so, the CFO's bonus probably depends on the net income, so it's a great deal.

It's all fun and games until the tide goes out. Then you suddenly might need to rollover the debt at new rates like 6% while the company earnings also go down because everyone can spend a bit less. Suddenly, you might lose a few procent (or more!) on the loans. It's a bit of a double whammy.
or the PhiTO / PhiEO
At least for the time-being, you can still do full downloads/extracts of stack for your needs, e.g.:

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/10/how-to-download-th...
>used for 30+ years = failed

I don't understand why so many technical people equate monopoly with success. I use IRC every day.
I think it's a lot harder to find projects worth doing. You're (probably?) not gonna make the next ASML in a garage.

Everything is networked together, a lot of tech is very important to people's lives, and there are fewer repair people. There's a strong incentive to use stuff that's made by the billions and can be replaced tomorrow with Amazon Prime if needed, especially if it comes with lots of cloud value adds.

It's hard to find a project that isn't done by 40 people on AliExpress.

There's still highly specialized stuff, and things that require breakthroughs in basic science or cost engineering (Someone please make mass spectrometry and XRF a consumer grade thing so we can see what has lead in it!), but for the most part... people who can afford startup products pretty much have everything they need.
An AI company with an agenda getting their data from a social platform with an agenda. What could go wrong?
Apple Maps has offline navigation with historical traffic included
it's not goalpost shifting at all.

BO doesn't have a reusable engine until they demonstrate that their engine is reusable.
"rip headphone users" as they say. What's with the extremely loud noise?
Source for Reddit hiring more than average tech company? I feel like every tech company scaled up in the bull market and then trimmed back down when hype subsided. For example, Google grew by 72,000 between 2019 and 2022 and has since shed about 20,000.

Reddit is IPOing next month. IMHO they cut public API access as a way to simplify and pump bookkeeping numbers to get a better listing price.
the rule of road trips is that the journey is the destination
Yep, LLMs are wacky. Telling Phind-70B to "take a deep breath" helps it answer better!
The harm is that any use of the model becomes illegal in most countries (or offends credit card processors) if it easily generates porn. Especially if it does it when you didn't ask for it.
It varies by market a lot. In my part of Canada -- for example -- appliances are almost always included with a house or apartment purchase. Similarly, I only recently learned that in large parts of Canada, it's the norm to rent or lease your water-heater either from a third party or from a utility. Out here in BC, that's not really a thing AFAIK.
I'm impressed with the speed, really impressed, but not so much with the quality of the responses. This is a prompt I usually try with new LLMs:

> Acting as an expert Go developer, write a RoundTripper that retries failed HTTP requests, both GET and POST ones.

GPT-4 takes a few tries but usually takes the POST part into account, saving the body for new retries and whatnot. Phind in the other hand, in the two or three times I tried, ignores the POST part and focus on GET only.

Maybe that problem is just too hard for LLMs? Or the prompt sucks? I'll see how it handle other things since I still have a few tries left.
Companies are not going to explain their legal risks in their marketing material.
I ended up using its compact mode and limiting to a few lines, so instead of taking up my full screen it only takes up a few lines below the prompt. Much more reasonable.
My service came back around 1:30PM in Connecticut. Data and calls are working fine. I requested a 2FA code at 2:30 from a service that only offers SMS. An hour and a half later, I still haven't gotten it.
This is a very important case. There was an enormous investment in fixing Y2K, starting long before the day in question (e.g. financial instruments with expiration dates after Y2K had to be fixed before they became due), so on the day there was only a smattering of minor residual bugs.

There were a few jokes about it in the newspapers but by and large the public just ignored it.

I work on climate and hope / hoped that the same would happen, but it's looking like it will soon get everybody's attention regardless.
There's a ton of reactionary legislation on the books that exists pretty much entirely because politicians wanted to be seen doing something. It's mostly crap.
I guess, unless you're also making the assumption that the number of daily users has remained the same from pre-elon acquisition. I promise you that is not the case. There's also that pesky profitability problem.
That is a long articld, what exactly do you mean?

I mean, he certainly does not seem in balance, because he is very full of himself. But his working setup is interesting.
I have a 20-mile commute. I used my phone on day one at the new job, then never again since. It just isn't worth the effort for a road I've driven literally hundreds of times before. Do people also use google maps to get them from their front door to their garage? From the grocery store to wherever they parked their cars?
I'm not arguing that they are not fantastic statistics machines, but there is nothing like semantics or "two concepts" for LLM, its just word strings that statistically occur together, etc. This is precisely why they are so convincingly wrong, wright, or in between, and the technology has no way to ever "know" the difference.
The article mentions both 64-bit ARM and x86. Intel's ENDBR64 (part of CET) and ARMv8.5A BTI work largely the same. The instructions are NOP on older processors or if not enabled by the OS.

BTW. A similar extension is also about to be approved for RISC-V: "Zicfilp". It also repurposes an instruction that was previously a NOP.