skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the launch! Finally got some time to try this out.
Tried this on a couple of personal documents and compared to asking on
chatGPT (both 4 and 3.5), so far the results weren't great.
For context, the questions needed a little inference and danswer said the info isn't present in the document versus chatGPT which inferred the answer from a related statement.

I do intend to perform a much bigger test around documents but curious to hear thoughts on why this might be the case.
I think the argument is that the marginal utility/productivity of a person > the resources it costs to sustain a body, even if that body is minimally productive (i.e. subsistence farmer). I think we're better off trying to improve ratio of estimated 2B subsistence farmers that can be replaced with (generously) 100m farmers + machines, and try to figure out how to improve productivity of rest. IMO there are still so many existing poor people, and for purpose of this argument, non/under-consumers, that there's ample (billions of low HDI/low productive workers globally) of untapped demand that can be uplifted to drive growth in all the big things this article calls for. The argument would be different if global human capita productivity is already optimized/maximized and adding more bodies is the only way to raise ceiling, but we're not even close.
Prehistoric people set fire to a lot of forests, I for one would definitely find a way to emit pollution in this scenario if I had a few spare minutes.
Lodge a complaint with your national DPA.
If you live anywhere with subsidence due to aquifer depletion, you would be wise to jump on this bandwagon as a means to try to slow the depletion. This includes parts of California and anywhere on the Ogallala Aquifer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
This seems like expected behavior. Newer cars have 'smart keys' and those are going to be worth more than most older cars. If you're going to steal you'll want to optimize for value.
Back in the day, there were desktop RSS readers in many forms, and a paid new browser, Opera 7.0 ($10, I still have my license somewhere) with built in RSS reader and email client, and torrent client, among other things...

However, the problem was a missing synchronisation of readed entries between your home and office PC. Mobile device was not a thing back then but slowly started main stream adoption. I mean, very few had smartphones.

Google reader was revolutionary, solving this exact problem for free and mobile app quickly followed. It caused almost all offline RSS readers to decay and starve to death.

And then few years passed by, and this is the moment they pull the rug, but the damage was done. Luckily, Feedly and others quickly emerged, and smartphones were a thing. Also, some self hosted RSS readers came to existence and get polished.
This was a really confusing read.

Not really sure what the point was.
The US, at least, seems to be past peak intellectual labor. Somewhere between 30% - 60% of people with STEM degrees don't work in jobs that need them.[1] Bloomberg has worse numbers for degrees generally.[2] "A quarter of grads over the age of 25 make less than $35,000 a year, with many close to the poverty level."

It's entirely possible that the economic reward for intelligence is decreasing.
Up until 1920 or so, what employers wanted was physical robustness and reliability.
There was a period when intelligence was prized, probably beginning post-WWII.
That may be over.

Amazon's fulfillment operations represent today's corporate ideal - "Machines should think, people should work." They want physical robustness and reliability in their employees.
Not original thinking.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2024/02/09/few-st...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-18/is-colleg...
Meson's Wraps are pretty useful for including and building dependencies across different OSes.

We migrated netpanzer from Scons to Meson - that was a lot of work (which I didn't do), but it actually integrates with CLion now, builds on win/Linux easily, and builds fast with Ninja.

Scons wasn't that bad, though, I just feel like the build script being turing complete was a pain.

Also Meson doesn't want to just output a binary in your source root. It insists to put it in a build dir, unlike scons.
As a fun side project,
We fine tuned mistral 7B and used RAG with 35M radical papers.
Gives you actually really accurate answers: https://chat.scribemd.ai
And what are government bureaucracies efficient at? Manipulating the political system to get sweetheart collective bargaining agreements that minimize the accountability their members face while maximizing their compensation?

"Investigation: New Records Reveal What It Takes to Be One of the 75 NYC Teachers Fired for Misconduct or Incompetence Between 2015 and 2016" source: https://www.the74million.org/article/investigation-nyc-tried...

New York: "114,041 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $14.6 Billion" source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/24/why...

"At $140,000 Per Year, Why Are Government Workers In California Paid Twice As Much As Private Sector Workers?" source: https://www.hoover.org/research/140000-year-why-are-governme...

And early retirement at 55.
How can you ensure no hallucinations?
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-...

It’s not a job. It’s an incentivised open source contribution program for college students.
Right. But as I said in that thread, my very first and only attempt with ChatGPT created the desired image. Here it is again:

https://i.imgur.com/6CgVqeL.png
The biggest loss of green space in the UK has been the covering of (private house) gardens with hard surfaces or decking.

I do not know what the impact on maintenance costs of greening public spaces is though - hard surfaces need less frequent maintenance, but it is more expensive when needed.
This is the most complicated way to do the same thing that printing more money does.
The combined population of those countries is 2.8 billion. For your assertion to be true, 71% of those countries would have had to have been in poverty in the recent past and now are not.
Lots of people get tutored without becoming geniuses, hence tutoring isn't enough to make geniuses. Also many geniuses didn't have tutoring, they need wealthy enough families to afford public school which used to be a high bar but today most people gets it even if you include poor countries.
React was one example, of a library that might be used repeatedly. The premise isn't that react and react alone's core lib is reused (did you include react.dom too?), but that many different libs become cached over time & space.
> ADB is an acronym. Not everyone knows what it means

I've used ADB a half-hundred times, and I had no idea what it meant until I read replies to your comment. Defining the acronym is likely not helpful to anyone who has used it before (and thus be affected by the change)
These seems contrary to first hand local account:

I can bring a bit of context. I'm Portuguese, I know the history well.

The intervention was centered in the SNS (our national health service), and soft touch. No mandatory treatments, no punitive approach.

Fundamentally, we approached addicts. Safe consumption spaces, with free syringes, drug testing kits, and staffed with personnel who got to know the addicts personally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39498028
I used to think having a World Wide, or City Wide WiFi Network as backup was a stupid idea. May be not so anymore.
Earlier tonight I converted some Ankh-Morpork dollars into Lancre bucks so I could buy a tent. They recently added tents so now I can afford a "house" :P

Here's a page I threw up with a buncha Discworld MUD links, for the curious: https://badteeth.dungeon.red/
> is just to get a second set of eyes on the details, run the CI checks and to fulfill the review requirements

AKA feedback
> I can write all these posts and tell you with a straight face there’s no tradeoff because appeasing the borrow checker is NBD. I never think about appeasing the borrow checker when I write Rust.

Guy is in a bubble. He doesn't realize that 99% of rust programmers don't have the experience he does.
> For example, if every time I post a new update on BlueSky, if I had to send my post to every single one of my followers’ repositories, that would be extremely inefficent, and make running a popular repository very expensive to run.

Of course it would be inefficient, the Internet is not a broadcast medium !

Which is why AFAIK typically the only thing that is pushed (in large scale applications) is the existence of a message (and maaaybe a short title), your "followers" then pull the message when they want to see it. (Some of course might be big enough "fans" of you that they decide to "subscribe", and set up an "AI" to automatically pull all of your messages as soon as published.)

So it seems to be a weird strawman of a solution nobody would even try to use at large scale, or am I missing something ??
That's funny. I wrote SQL daily for 10 years, read the ISO standards when working on SQL transpilers, persistence frameworks for multiple databases, etc. Even wrote a new storage engine for MySQL once.

But I just had to look up what the acronym stands for! Apparently it's "structured".
Well at least they’re not prescribing you benzos.
> I think that's a good start but like in the article, could somehow create perverse incentives (for example, if they keep the savings where does it actually go)?

Is that really a problem, though? The other half of the savings still gets returned to the rest of the business to allocate as they see fit. Even if the half retained by the money-saving team gets lit on fire, that's still a net positive, overall.
Maybe you want a multitree.
No, it certainly does not. Obviously, a higher socioeconomic background means increased resources and dedicated attention to education which certainly helps, but genius, in the true sense of the word needs a good starting foundation, and that probably has a significant genetic component.

Nikola Tesla, Einstein, Ramanujan were all child prodigies without exceptional access to tutors and other educational resources.

If tutoring could produce geniuses (160 IQ) we would have a billion dollar industry around it instead of snake oil companies like Luminosity.
Sydney is the same (as are I suspect most of the other Australian major cities).
Thank God. Twitter logged out is a piece of shit, and they are purposefully gimping the API to make nitter awful too. Fuck Twitter.
TBH if we'd stopped at coppermine or tualatin and focused entirely on making the software better, it probably would be a better world.
No they're not. In fact I'd even say their vastly superior to the closed Apple TV ecosystem. The ability to use SmartTube with Sponsorblick blows away anything on the Apple Tv.
I just made a clone of diskprices.com for GPUs specifically for AI training, and it has a power and depreciation calculator: https://gpuprices.us

You can expect a GPU to last 5 years. So for 128 days break even you are only looking at 6.67% utilization. If you are doing training runs, I think you are going to beat it easily.

P.S. coincidentally or not, but shortly after it got mentioned on Hacker News, Best Buy run out of both RTX 4090s and RTX 4080s. They used to top the chart. Turns out at descent utilization they win due to the electricity costs.
"Ain't no money in the cure, the money's in the medicine. That's how you get paid."

-Chris Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7P4iFg048k
> Oil and natural gas reserves that were not feasible to pump out of the ground 50 years ago are now being harvested.

This is a bad example. We are doing this because we are desperate. The easy and cheap to access oil sources are nearly gone. What we have left is expensive to reach and process oil. Peak oil is still an issue as well as Peak [insert natural resource]. Our natural resources like fresh water are finite.
You got about a billion in China, they were at the bottom end of the country gdp per capita rankings, now they are well into the upper half. The commenter probably assumed India did a similar journey, but India is still full of poverty and not even close to China, so yeah probably less than two billions combined but definitely more than a billion.
"One argument for a larger population is based on utilitarianism, specifically the version of it that says that what is good is the sum total of happiness across all humans."

Utilitarianism doesn't say that 'good is the sum total of happiness across all humans' but rather it says it's 'the greatest good for the greatest number', which is substantially different, so this is a distortion of the facts. I would refer the author to the works of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill especially his work Utilitarianism.

"If each additional life adds to the cosmic scoreboard of goodness, then it’s obviously better to have more people (unless they are so miserable that their lives are literally not worth living)."

I can't be bothered to debate population argument in detail again as it always polarizes and ends up in unresolved arguments—except to say the author doesn't seem to have enough understanding about the implications of exponential growth.

The facts are clear even to Blind Freddy that the resources and environmental problems presently being experienced are caused by excessive demands on the planet's resources.

Of course the elephant in the room is the world's population but any serious discussion about that is verboten in the public discourse.
Oh good thinking! :) Yes, that reminds me of one. The "two random choice" thing, which I think is connected to the "Pick a Door" problem, of famous Math Lady Column infamy. I'm not familiar with it if anyone can give a good, Here is the problem, here is the regular intuition, and here finally is the counter intuition that's actually correct about it.

But haha I was just thinking about math stuff at all. More like sociological, biological, systems, anything!
CS4780 at Cornell. To be clear I took the class, didn't teach it.
But by the standard machine learning definition (performance on train/test split), LLMs generalize extremely well. This isn't even in doubt.
These all have the same fundamental error -- the presumption that progress and faster progress is desirable. With today's luxuries but half the people, everyone could live pretty well, and have meaningful work. Genuinely, if we focused less on driving progress at all costs and focused more on "well being for all", we wouldn't even need to reduce the population. We have the capacity to provide a safe, comfortable, low effort society for everyone today. We just choose not to arrange ourselves to pursue it.
Haha cool! I wasn't asking for people to read my mind, and wasn't thinking math specifically, just trying to open it up to all areas. But I will check this out now! :) Do you have a good 'glib' statement, like: 1) the problem, 2) the regular (but incorrect) intuition, 3) the counter-intuition, that's actually correct ? :)
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I don't think anyone is arguing that government is perfect, and you've shown some examples of it being imperfect for sure. In particular the restriction of housing by local governments is near and dear to my heart.

But to call these things "the pricipal source of harm in our society"? If the sorts of things you listed are the greatest harms you've seen, I envy you. You've never seen a company dump pollution in a river near you, never been unable to breathe the air in your own home from local emissions, and must be too young to have been negatively affected by the housing crisis in 2008.

By amount of harm caused, the two things that have caused the most damage to societies are individual persons seeking power for themselves (Putin etc), and organizations seeking to enrich themselves (companies behaving in ways that should've regulated). Those are orders of magnitude beyond everything you listed.
Wow your family had enough money to own both an Amiga 1000 and a PC running Win95? Did y'all have enough money to buy NeXT and other weird things? I dumpster dived for computers until the mid 2000s in Palo Alto because we couldn't afford much. Pentiums were scores! But the energy costs of running them at home was expensive.
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I would take the other side of that bet in a heart beat.

But given the vagueness of the wording, much is going to depend on the details.
FWIW - I think that's a great reason. Anything where the secondary, subconscious effects of the communication are considered and intentional is perfectly valid from my POV. It's part of my job to walk through these questions with clients who get attached early in brand development to certain themes or colors or typography, and they usually don't have an answer. But if it's like "we want to convey that we're too busy working on this amazing platform to worry about trying to look like every other digital biotech startup, most of whom use the same boring icon sets, so let's just throw out some fun subcultural art in the meantime," then your choice is well tuned to presenting the company culture you're trying to get across, and I withdraw my crit. In fact, I'd be overjoyed to hear that from any client.
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Sure. And neither is a non human centric view. However, both seem unreasonable to the other.
Based on the photo, the laptop seems to be one of these:

https://justicetechsolutions.com/collections/frontpage/produ...
The choice has already been made long ago. The more industrialized the country, the less fertile males of that country become. Only small parts of Africa have been immune to this phenomenon. I believe we started seeing it in action starting in the 1950s

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20231013/Experts-call-for-...
No, and it makes spelling mistakes
This post is primarily about Rust but the issues raised generalize to async models in any programming language. The tradeoffs between approaches are severe enough that it is desirable, at least in a systems language, to preserve enough flexibility that the model generalizes to different contexts without loss of performance or robustness. Furthermore, async tends to erode modularity in code because async behavior, which is tightly coupled to internal design choices, becomes part of the functional contract. There are all kinds of interesting edge cases around things like bounding worst-case resource pseudo-leakage that you simply don’t need to think about in synchronous code.

This is not to suggest that async models are a bad idea. They just have a higher level of intrinsic complexity and language support is immature. The benefit is qualitatively better scalability and performance, so there is a purpose behind using async models.
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Government institutions may well do that (and I personally expect they do), but the (private sector) examples presented don't actually support that conclusion.
It works alright, and TBH it's time RSS readers moved PAST google reader and add more useful features. Deduplciation, AI summarization etc. Stuff that helps manage RSS for those with lots of feeds, as one is likely to accumulate over time.
There is not. Financial accounting is built on random csv-ish formats and pure brute force. Half the time we can't even agree on using the same date format within the same dataset. One of our banking partners even require macros (yes, excel vba macros) to be enabled for their data to make sense. It's madness, but if you want to make money, you can't be picky with the data formats.
> It’s also led me to believe there’s a lot of division between “us” (humans) and other animals is only because we can’t directly talk to them or lack the patience. We’ve tried to make our existence special, and we just aren’t (even if the amalgamation of our traits makes us unique).

This is truth. My dog isn’t going to do calculus, but - really - what does doing calculus get you in the end. We’re born, we live, we , we get old if we’re lucky, and we die. We are no different than animals in this regard. I would go so far to say that dogs have evolved to mirror almost many of the best traits of humans while leaving the worst.

I used to think it was crazy people would talk to their pets. But then I realize most of my human conversations drop off the memory map after a week or two anyways. And my dog is a better listener than most of my coworkers.
> You model the markup first, you create reusable bits if you need them first.

Agreed, and with Tailwind you never have to leave this fragment of markup you're designing. You don't have to switch files to add CSS and invent meaningful names for styles, then ensure you use the same name in the markup file, nor do you ever have to hunt down and change these names and the markup across multiple files to ensure they are applied consistently down the road of you're using HTML components.

In fact, you rarely have to write CSS at all, you just focus on the markup and sprinkle in the predefined styles that you need. Much simpler.

> We're throwing in the towel with Tailwind, plain and simple.

If by throwing in the towel, you mean we're acknowledging that they took a suboptimal design path, I agree. Transclusion of HTML fragments would have been a much better path to take, and some people were arguing for it even back then (Xanadu folks IIRC). Now we've come full circle, and people are still arguing that decomposition for reuse are not good ways of structuring dynamically changing and evolving content.
There is zero $$ to pay for egress to internet: https://www.tigrisdata.com/docs/pricing/
Youtube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vziYLMpl4
How do you feel about the basic stuff not working as demonstrated in the article? What's so special about V that you prefer using a literally broken language? (The perma memory leaks are basically enough already to qualify it as broken)

Genuinely curious, I don't understand the point
You are 100% right about using unified diffs to overcome lazy coding. Cursor.sh has also implemented unified diffs for code generation. You ask it to refactor code, it writes your usual explanation but there's a apply diff button which modifies the code using diff and I've never seen placeholder code in it.
The government not fulfilling its core responsibilities, of preventing pollution, assault, fraud and other private acts that victimize people, would allow for all sorts of private harms, it's true.

But that is generally not a problem in the advanced economies. In those societies, the major problem is the government going beyond its core responsibilities and consequently causing most of the major problems facing society.

This includes the 2008 financial crisis, which was entirely created by the government. The two largest actors in the residential mortgage market in the US are both government sponsored enterprises and collectively guarantee 50% of the market. In 1999 they moved into the subprime market in a big way:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases...

The Federal Reserve did the rest, with its low interest rate policy that Krugman himself suggested be used to "create a housing bubble":

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-di...

>By amount of harm caused, the two things that have caused the most damage to societies are individual persons seeking power for themselves (Putin etc),

The harm caused by government is primarily due to individuals seeking power for themselves. The harm caused by the Russian state is due to Putin and company's personal ambitions. The same applies to the harm caused by public sector unions. It is due to self-serving people working in government. Bad actors are every bit as capable of exploiting society through government as they are through the private sector. And the damage from the former has very few limits due to the state's monopoly on violence.