skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been brewing up this tool on the side, and want to share it with the gang here, open source - of course.

The tool is AutoNL and the repo is: https://github.com/Actioninsight/AutoNL

WHAT DOES IT DO:

AutoNL uses Open-Interpreter to automate multi-step tasks with the help of a simple spreadsheet. The basic insight here is OI, AutoGPT, etc all begin to break down when their planning enters a loop. But we often actually know the plan we want it to follow anyway, we just to leverage it to execute. So this puts all the responsibility for execution on AI, but all the responsibility for planning on the human.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

AutoNL is a script and a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has the following columns "STEP", "INPUT FILE(s)", "INSTRUCTION", and "OUTPUT FILE(s)". The script just does the job of running through the process one time, validating each step, and finally hashing the files and moving them to one directory.

WHERE IS THE DEMO?

The first demo is right here: https://youtu.be/aCa8ntYIkpM, but I'm planning to record a few more - right now I've got the tool hooked up to e-mail, authenticated with Microsoft Graph, routing tasks between sheets, etc - lots to come.

DOES THIS WORK 100% ALL THE TIME?

Absolutely not. This is experimental and is prone to various failures, but can also become quite reliable. The example sheet 'datapre.xlsx' typically matches hashes on outputs about 80% of the time currently. I expect future models will only continue to improve the quality and reliability, while local models like OpenCodeInterpreter will make local offline use achievable.

WHY DID YOU DO THIS?

Thank you for asking. I think AI tools are constantly trying to automate the user out of the loop, but my own experience is that I want to be fully in the loop at all times. I want to the loopmaster, and I want tools that put me at the centre and give me visibility and control over everything. AutoNL turns the entire pipeline into natural language. Even the script itself is built primarily in Natural Language, controlled by Open-Interpreter.

WHATS THE ROADMAP:

Short-term roadmap would be to make it easier to build new sheets. I want a command line flag that we can run to start a sheet on a given step, I want to be able to control the model and system prompt from inside the spreadsheet, and I'd also like to spend some time on creating an AutoNL sheet that helps build AutoNL sheets - that's the dream.
Modify your schedule, sure but do not rush it (just to beat the other folks). The first paper on any given topic may garner some 15 minutes of fame but the well-researched, boring paper is one oft-cited. Even if it isn't the first on its topic.

Be thorough and by golly, include some useful visuals! Even bad pictures and low-effort charts and graphs can vastly improve the grokability of a research paper.

Also, request assistance! Are you terrible at making charts and graphs? Ask someone to help you! For the low, low price of adding their name to the paper I'm 100% certain you can borrow an expert's time to add some dapper displays of useful information along with drastic wording and layout improvements.

The amount of papers in the wild that are just walls of jargon with completely useless, nearly-impossible-to-read charts and graphs is seemingly limitless.

Refreshing is the paper that a non-expert can read and understand! You don't have to ELI5 but well-written text and explanations are loved by all. The individual using it to gain actual knowledge will grok it from skimming and looking at the data anyway so you might as well take the time to explain some of the more complicated aspects like it's going to be read by a freshman STEM major (no need to go further back in education than that).

If you need help with grammar just paste a portion of your text into some LLM (even the small, locally-run models) and they usually do a pretty good job at finding and fixing such mistakes.
servers run by Apple and Google, which can hand them over at law enforcement’s request

If you have a smartphone you are being tracked. If you don't you're being tracked as a NACK which raises alarms. Four people in an elevator with three phones means those get additional scrutiny.
Since they're mostly not public, I'd say probably very few.

From TFA:

> To make things even more complex, many of these large companies are not traded publicly on the stock market, meaning their total number of holdings is not easily available to the public. Because Invitation Homes is publicly traded
Nice, hopefully Wine Wayland works better with it than with Kwin from Plasma 5.
We attended our first trade show as indie game dev, here's what happened
I'm more thinking about the social side of things. When comments follow the pull model, you get the pingback problem of old: most "comments" will be links to blog posts, themselves stuffed with more promotional links and so on. The only way to avoid it and have comments look like a somewhat nice garden is to allow post authors to say: please write text comments and don't stuff them with links, or you won't pass moderation on my blog. In other words, the push model. In my experience that's the best solution to this particular problem.
"AI" doesn't necessarily imply general AI. Besides, it's well known that many of the things we find easy as humans are extremely difficult for computers and vice versa. That observation even has a name: moravec's paradox.
Here to Save the Day Asteroid defense gets serious
I sttongly disagree based in my interaction with them. They were very rude. That said, their services are reasonably priced and they have been competent throughout my time with them.

Hetzner would be far more appealing if they ever decide to muzzle their rebid support team.
There's a lot we need to fix in the USA, but adding more mandatory programs will make that more difficult.
That's true but the number is exceedingly small. 4000 deaths / a couple hundred million is pretty much as good as it's going to get. That's just what happens with really big numbers.

Edit: and that's car accidents, not pedestrian accidents which is also a fraction of that 4k.
That’s what everyone is trying to develop. It’s early days for AI/ML/whateveryoucallit. We’re not at the 3D TV stage of things, where the tech works but no one wants it.

More interesting to me is that Apple is making noises about going all in on AI/ML but they decided it wouldn’t help their car efforts. And by car I mean self-driving.
For reference this estimate from 2000 (Atlanta has grown a lot since then) estimates there are 1,370,000 housing units in the "ten country" metro Atlanta area.

The estimate in this study is that three different companies own a combined 19,000 housing units in the "five county" metro Atlanta area.

I realize these aren't 1:1 comparisons, but they are the best I can find. That suggests each company probably owns less than 0.5% of the area housing supply.

Open to other estimates, but think they would be pretty close to mine.

https://documents.atlantaregional.com/Land%20Use/Reviews/ID4...
Based on what law? If you can't identify an actual law they're breaking, then you're asking people to act on "feelings". That's how you get things like the Cultural Revolution, which saw communities destroy themselves over ideological purity tests. Oh, you bought yourself a kind-of nice car? Bourgeoisie scum!

What we need is systemic change, one that makes accumulating 19,000 houses unprofitable. Georgism is one potential solution to the problem of housing speculation, without resorting to randomly locking up people that "have too many houses". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Unearthing the oldest forest on Earth
I think the Windows 11 UI has been augmented by professional bean counters...
> When you say the wealthy own too much, you mean they own productive assets. They run companies. Sure there are some that just have a pile of cash sitting in a vault but that's rare.

> So if you take away their wealth you're transferring ownership and control from one group of people (who have managed and grown that productive asset) to another (randomly chosen). Naturally you would expect the productive assets to stop being so productive...

No. People who run companies very, very frequently do not own them outright or even have a controlling stake.

So even in an extremist toy model, where you "take away their wealth," you can still leave the existing manager in place or make the former owner a manager-employee.

You could even be very capitalist about it, and motivate the former owner to do a to do a good job as a manager, by making it clear that he will starve if he doesn't (that's how capitalism works for most people).
Google tells me France has a GDP per capita of US$43,600 and the US a GDP per capita of US$70,200

I'm pretty sure America could afford European-style healthcare and vacations, if that was a priority for their society. They have instead decided they like large houses on large plots of land, very cheap gas, and the highest rate of private swimming pool ownership in the world.
Fair enough. I guess I have a hard time understanding why you wouldn't be interested to make the workflow fit better for yourself on a device you spend hours per day using.
Yeah, I wish there were a similar high-budget series about the actual real missions from both the USA and USSR. So many exciting close-calls in Apollo, the race after Sputnik, the unfortunate Soyuz deaths and Space Shuttle disasters, the attempt at N1 and Buran.
I don't begrudge any company investing and expanding their business, but when there are so many LLCs and layers of complexity to get problems resolved (as stated in the article) seems rather like an intentional obfuscation.
Cardboard strips, egg cartons, and (untreated) sawdust or animal bedding style wood shavings can make for some good dry material as well if your compost is in fact too wet. Good rule is to layer it while you are building the pile, then turn twice a week once it is going / ready to go.

Your local hardware store may also have some compost kickstarter liquids as well, which might be helpful if you want to get it going before too many flies or ants come out to infest the pile.
I don’t think I’d ever call anything from google “nimble”
What's behind the interface of Lethal Company
Why? Like genuinely, why? Metro Artlanta has a population of 6,237,435 people. With an average of ~2.1 persons per household, that gives 2.97 million homes in Metro Atlanta. These companies own 0.64% of them.

That's incredibly, ridicously few.
If so then antitrust laws kick in from three different companies colluding on this.

However, I'm skeptical of much pricing control. Few other markets have such widely distributed market share. There is some stickiness in that people don't want to move often, but unless there's a major shortage (which would be the true cause of high prices), it's hard for a 5% owner to exert much on the market.
What's the point? You're going to ship that code to your users, or run it against your production database. If you think it might be malicious, protecting the dev laptop shouldn't be the priority.
Inflation is generally defined by the price increase of a basket of goods. If you relocate money from things outside that basket to things inside that basket then inflation can increase without the money pile getting bigger.
Is your proposal that the USA needs to import more people we don't have work for so we can put them on UBI?
Single vendor open source is the new proprietary
I think there's concern that if you manage to buy 11% then you can keep expanding. We've all seen what happens when a company captures enough market that there are no alternatives left:

Netflix, Prime: commercials and limiting devices per household
Gmail: no longer unlimited storage as promised
OpenAI: still competing so remains to be seen

If these companies are being subsidized by investors to capture market those investors will want a return and things will get nasty.
Totally, man. I like all this. I appreciate you sharing these war stories. :)
Best way to learn is to build sites with experimental layouts. You'll get stuck and thats when you'd want to look around the documentation or Stack Overflow. MDN docs are the incredibly dry, so avoid them until absolutely necessary.
I added the pricing to the homepage, but also willing to discuss a custom arrangement as well. Right now you can use the Agent in standalone mode for free. I may choose to limit some of the features in the future but for now, I'd love for anyone to try it out and give feedback.
Communism is indeed worse, but that doesn't automatically make our current system 'good'. Yes it's the best we tried so far, but it's not like we tried soo many others and this one ended up being the best out of all the ones tested.

I'm sure if we took all the top math, quant, economy and finance grads in the world and book them for a few months in that fancy Swiss Alps resort at Davos where world leaders meet up every year to discuss how to screw us, they could come up with a better system than the one we currently have.

The problem is most likely the new system would not end up favoring the same winners of the current system, hence there's no desire to ever change the status quo, so we have the communist system as a perpetual boogieman to discourage any other systems being trialed as if that's the only other option.
I used to think “streamers” and “influencers” started the donation farming trend. But it was the US government that started the begging trend in 1843.

Just like donos to bathtub streamers and influencers via patreon, this is also a significant waste of money and time.

Doesn’t look like these gifts would be tax deductible either. Lol
Could the reason that 3 states in this case be more efficient than 2 states be that 3 is closer to 2.718... (Euler's number) than 2 is?
I know a lot of people look at this sort of rhetoric and write it off as absurd, but I think your underlying point is correct: the people who do this sort of thing are probably in the top 10% in terms of making the world a worse place. For many though this is a tough pill to swallow, so you end up in the situation we're in now: daily posts about the collapse of the "social contract", mental health crises, and institutional dysfunction, while completely ignoring the underlying causes.

That being said, the last thing we need is more people in prison
They're not free, but Jen Kramer's CSS courses on Frontend Masters are very good, and are pretty recent.

https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/jen-kramer/

I attempted CSS back when you had to float anything/everything for positioning and found it extremely confusing. I recently picked it back up, and flexbox and grid make it sooo much easier. I feel like I'm finally getting it.
Everyone tends to see what they like. Personally I don’t see any difference, besides shein having slightly better fabric quality
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was parallel reconstruction. They might have used this approach to mask a honeypot they have or a much simpler tracing scheme because this approach is time consuming and complicated dealing with a warrant to multiple companies in sequence.
These companies own 0.64% of Metro Atlanta homes. Whereas Walmart owns 25% of the US grocery market.

What are you worried about here?
Strawberry is plenty decent for me https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
What about trading it? Is that a 'sale'?
It's already there for several months. From the last status report:

> KDE Frameworks 6 (alpha) 5.247 was updated in the ports tree.

> KDE Plasma Desktop 6 (beta 2) 5.91.0 was updated in the ports tree.

https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-10-2023-12/#_kde_...
Some of the largest investors in private equity REITs are retirement funds.
Credit cards are a useful backstop to have if for some reason you don't have access to your main current account / have a large bill to pay and have money in savings.
99% of the time when I use my credit card, it's to rent a car in the USA.
It was about 5 to 7 years ago. Time does fly! Its not a typical experience in my view. I've definitely seen and experienced crazy stuff over the years in the airports. But what was perfectly clear to me is that they (native people working there) don't see you as an equal. Its maybe a bit hard to explain. I wouldn't go as far as to say that they don't really see you as a person at all, but I've never experienced this before and after. And this is not something I've seen on myself only, I've seen this happen on non-EU/US immigration lanes and it was disturbing and depressing. Maybe I'm just too sensitive to that.
It's worth bearing in mind when talking about retirement portfolios that the top richest 10% of Americans of 93% of US shares and the top 1% own 54%.

Working Americans own the scraps.
I'm with you. The current thing really isn't fun anymore :(
I want it to look like a monkey who sits on my shoulder
EDIT: Embarrassingly, on the last paragraph I got the number of possible input pairs wrong:

> only three possible input pairs, (a,b), (a,c), or (b,c) (within each pair, order doesn't matter)

The correct number, ignoring order, is six pairs, because we have to include (a,a), (b,b), and (c,c).
> Some people prefer to rent rather than buy.

Why would someone prefer to give away money instead of invest it into their net worth ?

Are there really people that prefer renting, and wouldn’t buy even if they could afford to? Are they common?
I second my sibling comment -- just submit a bug. I think you are wrong that they would ignore it just because their context is somewhat different. Linux is full of differences like this.

But also: Isn't one of the main benefits of NixOS that you can fairly painlessly get and try different versions of things? Just see if you can reproduce the bug in the same version of upstream. If so, file the bug with kde, if not, file the bug with NixOS because it's presumably caused by one of the patches.
For reference, the annual return since Feb 2017 for INVH is 9.9%, versus 13.3% for SP500.

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
Who Error-Corrects AI?
Whatever that means, you will pay more.
We’ll I don’t think any multimodal model has been trained for 18 continuous years, so we’re not sure yet.

Also the word “intelligence” isn’t well defined.

Also the word term AI is just marketing. It’s all statistics
I’m good with that, internet points don't matter to me. But ask yourself, did the comment I replied to actually add anything to the discussion either? I think a simple voice vote is reasonable discourse.
But my problem with it is not quite "I am not personally benefitting from this" and more along the lines of this should not happen at all.
> Chapter 3:

> margin collapsing
> negative margins

This article prioritises understanding older layout techniques which has some value when dealing with a legacy code base, but should be avoided on new projects
Somehow amusing you’re posting this on a pseudo-anonymous social network with an upvote based algorithm.

Although I’d probably agree. Even tightly moderated communities who fancy themselves as “intellectual” and “rational” like this one are prone to bizarre group-think and emotional manipulation.

But that’s also just humans in general. What you might call bringing out “the worst” in people, might actually be the best we can do given our biology.
A GC language would be more fit to use Wasm-GC
Here too: https://youtu.be/S89BHnaxULo?si=TUnjHGLt95UvC7UA
I went KDE after Gnome went to version 3 and never looked back
> just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP

FWIW technically the programs have different purposes, even if they also have a lot of overlapping functionality: Krita is primarily a digital painting application, which you can also use to do some general image editing while GIMP is primarily an image editing application which you can also use to do some digital painting. However if you compare the focus of each application to the equivalent of the other you'll see that Krita's image editing functionality - especially on things outside digital painting - is lacking while GIMP is stronger there and at the same time GIMP's digital painting functionality much more limited when compared to Krita's.
Oops it should be double instead of half.
"Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit." - from Wikipedia, but that's more or less the classic definition. I think there are many potent critiques of a poorly regulated capitalist environment one can make without twisting the definition.

Housing is something that has been spectacularly fucked in the US for historical reasons - white flight, zoning, redlining, Reagan-era policies to enrich the white burbs in perpetuity. Most of the policies that are aiding property speculators and mass landlords were intended to help "grandma keep her house," and keep "those kinds of folks" away. Naturally business noticed that this was an insanely good deal for the American homeowner and decided to get in on it, and in a large-business friendly regulatory environment we have a hard time making the case that these companies are doing something wrong.
Not very intelligent. Yet. Why do you ask?
When there was a Congressional hearing on Youtube's Content ID stuff, one of the people present was some millionaire country singer complaining loudly about how much money he was losing because of Youtube. And my thought was "what this needs is a poor Youtuber scraping by on near-minimum wage to talk about how Content ID fucks them over." Except those people can't individually afford to show up to Congress to complain at a hearing.

There is a fundamental asymmetry between rich and poor people that is a real problem and that we don't really have a comprehensive solution for. But banning poor people from pooling resources together to get someone to talk on their behalf is not a step up; it's moving in the opposite direction.
I like most things I read about Bluesky, as it matches nicely to some of my ideas on how a decentralized social media would look like, except hampering message length (couple hundred characters). I think it's counter productive for any kind of serious discussion. Look at HN and how insightful comments can be when you leave room for a couple of paragraphs.

Same issue with Mastodon, except I host my own ActivityPub instance set to 5000 characters. Which should be accepted by most Mastodon servers.
That's not how it works at all. If lawyers are applying pressure, the legally is still tied up in the courts, and unfortunately that particular emulation project isn't legal (in reality) until the matter is fully settled.
"Three corporate landlords control nearly 11 percent of the single-family homes available for rent in metro Atlanta’s core counties"
Only individuals are allowed to donate to political campaigns, and the FEC sets maximum contribution limits per individual that are far below $100,000.

For this election cycle, the maximum campaign donation is $3,300, the cap for a committee donation is $2,000, etc. See: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...

I'm curious as to where you are seeing unrestricted donations. I'm also curious as to the reasoning by which you think this would undermine democracy, given that the election result is still being determined by the voters, and the candidates seek money primarily to use in their attempt to persuade voters.