skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood why Apple gave up this market to Netgear/Amazon/etc. It’s an instant buy, and the number of people in the Apple ecosystem has only grown.
Ok then just try it yourself. I'm sick and tired of an online person I've never met acting like they know more about statistics and experimental design than me regarding downright trivial experiment with results as obvious as day that they've never even bothered to run themselves. Good day.

Edit: You could have mentioned that you have a mental condition characterized by an irrational fear of pattern recognition in your diatribe about biases. I'd have known not to waste my time.
how do such things attach files and let me view them?
What's the file format? I hope the best for your app, but I hope I can still use those files if something happens to the company. I converted to .txt files 10 years ago for everything todo, but wouldn't mind a specialized utility for it!
The Shirky Principle is not to be underestimated, yet more of a humorous take imho.

thou i would question the change in 'cultural conditioning' brought by industrialization als in practice it's mostly a means to scale society.

schumacher, being an atheist, is probably the most agreeable of the authors you mentioned.
Coming Home: From Cells to Societies [video]
A complex world view
Apt Install Everything?
It was a great product line. I think they got out of that market for the same reason they killed the car, the market was getting over saturated and it was a race to the bottom.
I am currently rethinking my awful home organisation

A dropbox folder for each “case”/“project”.

A dropbox folder for each outside compmay

A password manager

Some gaffing with scripting to tie it together

I think pythonista ought to be part of it too

Edit: @DanielDe - apologies for that brain dump.

You built an app and launched it - fantastic. Honestly
That’s an achievement most of us on HN cannot even claim. - my honest congratulations

I hope you find a niche and make 10,000 true fans happy.

I would love to hear your views on how to stay organised in life (or rather, how shall I put this, I don’t see organised as a pre-active thing but a post-active thing. It’s like project management - it supposed to remind you of the important things, to follow you around and capture the right information (#) not control or constrain your actions.)

Anyhow - congrats. Break a leg :-)

(#) the most obvious is monitor my communications - like capture my phone calls and keep that alongside the name of the contact in my phone list. But because iOS no-one can do that. I get it but also I don’t.

Anyhow I think I want a unicorn.
I think the only way is to summon @dang.

Also, for disclosure, I work at SoftIron as I've mentioned in the past.
If you’re a prominent VC that’s exactly what you want to happen though, it will let you spread your bets even more.

But like you said, this is peak SV. Luckily there is a whole world outside of SV where the rest of us operate :)
> Would Bezos have made it without 200k from mum&dad ?

Bezos was already the youngest Senior Vice President at DE Shaw before he started Amazon, so he wouldn't have any problem finding other investors. His mom had Bezos as a teenager, and his adoptive dad was a young Cuban refugee. His grandfather was rich though.
If you're interested, there already is a somewhat similar language that offers first-class support for these.
Maybe it's because I spent the early part of my career in New York startups, but back then firings were relatively commonplace. Not excessively common, but if you couldn't do your job, you could expect to get fired. There would be a meeting and a manager would say, "We had to let X go." Everyone would look around and make faces like "Yeah, I saw that coming," and then we'd move on. At one company, someone literally had their job replaced by a shell script. In contrast, I spent eight years at a major Bay Area tech company with over a hundred engineers, and I never saw a single person get fired. We had a couple rounds of layoffs, but no one was ever fired.
Microsoft's testing an idea to promote Bing in Windows 11
https://avidml.org/blog/llm-privacy-plaigarism/

https://moreisdifferent.blog/p/weird-properties-of-large-lan...

https://www.sarus.tech/post/llms-have-become-excellent-at-me...
If smalltalk is late binding and message passing, I think it's interesting that modern large scale webapps (say Netflix or Google) do just that just not inside process and server boundaries. I'd guess that Alan Kay would think that's a bastardization, and there are loads of complications but it's a definite improvement over the large php ball of mud monolith you might have seen at say Box or Facebook 10-15 years ago. Because the 'object' boundaries are so coarse you can also better leverage the few people inside an org who know how to design, scale, improve robustness and secure systems. If architecture is the metaphor, it's still pretty much piling mud bricks but at least there are corbeled arches, streets, city walls, public buildings and a rudimentary notion of style.

As for LLMs I think that long form typeahead is the right way to think about it.
What? He literally built systems that did things differently. Look at smalltalk.
That was an interesting read.

I have always found stack overflow to be a very toxic environment

Read only for me now...
I 1000% agree. Though, a favorite early programming memory of mine was when static methods finally clicked and I went back and looked at all that boilerplate that meant nothing to me and it all became crystal clear what it meant and why it had to be like that.
Transparency won't help a lot from a technical standpoint (seems more like a solution to a legal issue than a technical one). I can't trust LLMs because they just...recombine text by probabilities and aren't deterministic. I get incorrect information every time I ask them a thing, and it's incorrect in different ways every time. The only things they seem to get consistently correct are very widespread facts that are much faster and trivial to google.

I still find it funny we managed to get image generation working so much better than text.
An empirical answer to the question, when Postgres is not enough
What's the difference to using joblibs Memory class similar to this implementation:

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy/blob/main/dsp/modules/ca...
I recommend listening to these four episodes before making any blog posts that wish to look back on the Jobs era in a fully positive way.
Great job launching your product! This interface looks slick and I'm excited to see your product progress. Hopefully I can get beta access ;)

I have some QA feedback for some quirks I noticed and some potential feature ideas/requests:

1) On the companies list, it would be nice if you automatically grabbed the favicon.ico from the domain. It would be nice if you could tether fields together so information can be automatically derived from other fields. This could include an area for custom scripts to do this automatically.

2) While using the demo I was automatically logged out. I'm wondering if someone else logged in and then my session was killed? Also, when I was logged out, I was given a white screen of death when I clicked back on the history, but was given no redirect. E.g. pressing back sent me to https://app.okapicrm.com/objects/companies but I'm just stuck with a page with the title "Title" and an empty div[id="react-root"] node.

3) Because you end the password with a period, if I double click on the password and copy that, it will put the wrong password in my clipboard. I wasn't sure if this period was part of the password or not until I logged in and tried without the period

4) At first, it wasn't obvious the search feature was only available for the current page you were on. E.g. I tried accessing search on the reminders page, https://app.okapicrm.com/reminders, and I wasn't sure what was suppose to happen after I typed something in. There was no visual feedback that a search query was being processed, or had been processed. Once I tried it on another page was it clear that the search feature was searching for records visible on the current page. Also, because it is so quick, I wonder if this is purely a client-side search. If I have a Records page with a paginated number of records, will the search be able to find records which are not visible on the current page? If not, I would find this super frustrating as a user.

5) If I look at the details page for a company record, the fields for the domain and icon url are not links. i.e. on https://app.okapicrm.com/records/e8e09b41-25ab-4889-92bb-987... I cannot click on QAComet.com or the icon url.

6) I'm not sure I understand why fields which point to an archived record must be cleared. Could you keep those fields and just use some kind of visual indicator (such as a red highlight or background) to show the record being pointed at is archived?

7) When I clicked the archive button, there was no visual feedback the website was loading. It would have been nice to at least change the cursor over the modal to a "cursor: wait" while it was making the archive request.

Hopefully you find these points useful!
Listening to music on a little portable speaker is perfectly safe for your ears. Standing in front of the stack at a 500,000 person concert is quite harmful. These devices are on the “portable speaker” end of that spectrum.
> Does anything good come from encouraging kids to think that they will manage to sail through life as a successful business founder rather than an employee?

I would imagine dreaming big is pretty good for children.

A big reason for why I'm optimistic in life is because I have hope for achieving something. I truly can't imagine a life where my father/mother would only hammer in the fact that I am just an average joe and should stick to climbing the corporate ladder. Such an uninspiring take, this one. Depressing.
Just to follow up, we’re discussing advice to young teenagers here.

I think it’s reasonable to inspire more than hedge. They’ll presumably already hear lots about what the least risky things to do are from many, many sources — that’s the default.
It's not surprising if it generated syntactically correct code that does random things.

The fact that it instead generates syntactically correct code that, more often than not, solves - or at least tries to solve - the problem that is posited, indicates that there is a "there" there, however much one talks about stochastic parrots and such.

As for temperature sliders for humans, that's what drugs are in many ways.
Most likely the Vision pro is the result of the effort.
It's as if language is itself the latent space for these psychophysical tasks, especially compositional instruction. Their description of it as a scaffolding also seems apt.
> ...but we can’t get candidates to do a 2hr take-home assignment at their own pace to knock half a day off the interview process...

Any decent submission for this type of exam takes more than two hours, and while the hiring company can view it as reducing the amount of time spent interviewing, it's just as stressful if not more so for the candidate. Throw in the time it takes to review and/or have a followup session to discuss with the candidate, and it's not a useful way to reduce interview time.
> When I read about the 10 billion disaster that was the failed Apple Car development effort, I can’t help but think that current Apple leadership has abandoned all the entrepreneurship wisdom of their former CEO and co-founder.

Actually, that 10 billion dollar disaster actually makes me more happy. Many companies are very happy to sit on their laurels and just keep milking their cash cows without trying to innovate.

To put that 10 billion dollar number into context, Apple gets around 18 billion per year from Google just to be the default search engine.

When you get that kind of money, it makes sense to make attempts to create a new market segment. The 10 billion spent on the Apple Car was over several years.

Also, even failed endeavors can lead to experience. I would bet that the lessons learned from the Apple Newton probably helped shape the iPod and later the iPhone that became runaway hits.
You should really watch the lecture. He is very scientific in his methods, he is an extremely competent scientist.
The humiliating truth behind Harvard astronomer's alien spherules
So to correct my original statement: Both have a masters degree and both were pursuing PhD's before they focused on Google. But I consider them more than halfway there, afaik both have published papers separate from the paper that eventually lead to Google. This is taken from their own testimonials from their paper [0]

The rest of my statement is true.

[0] http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
To be clear, internships/co-ops/summer jobs can make a lot of sense for university students. But, even new grads, if they get cut after 3 months (and it can take a while for a new grad to get into work life), they're now on the street outside their university placement resources and on-campus interview flow.
I thought it would be an easy victory

I ... ended up only winning one out of our five games

It's interesting, how an expert in a field can be unaware of how AI is taking over. And a few years later, no human can compete anymore.

I think we are in a similar situation in multiple professions today. For example with self-driving.

Musk recently said, that other car manufacturers are not much interested in talks about licensing FSD because they don't think it can work.

In ten years, probably no human can compete with AI drivers anymore.
Absolutely classic: A long article about the beautiful engineering and perfection behind the charger, and then -

"The ironic thing about the Apple Macbook charger is that despite its complexity and attention to detail, it's not a reliable charger."

That's the funny thing about engineering. I have built a lot of things and have used a lot of tools across the entire spectrum from shitty garbage cast out of pot metal (think Harbor Freight, Aliexpress etc) to five-figure Serious Tools for Serious People (cranes, large format cutters, thrusters, advanced measuring equipment etc.) From that experience I can say confidently: It is impossible to know for sure if something is reliable until you actually use it for an extended period of time.

I have seen countless absolute hack-job products made of pot metal last decades in a marine environment and I have seen a similarly endless number of beautifully engineered products made of top-tier materials fail catastrophically. Sometimes the shitty product will have two failures that miraculously cancel each other out, or it will rust to shit and keep working, or it will fall to pieces but can be easily epoxied back together to get another ten years out of it. That's the other side of the coin of perfection - repair. With the beautifully-engineered product made with quality materials? Nine times out of ten, fuhgeddaboudit. If you have a serious failure, you're fucked. There is no practical economic way to repair that Mac charger, or your fried fancy oscilloscope, or any advanced motor, or unibody, or virtually anything made of titanium, carbon fiber, et cetera. Give me the cheapest version of your object, however, and I can repair it using only crap from Walmart.

Don't get me wrong - give me infinite money and replacements and I will take your beautiful object every time, and in many cases today I have "infinite money" given the price of the product. An Apple Silicon Mac is cheap to replace and it is head-and-shoulders engineered above the rest; it is the pinnacle of all human engineering through history, in my opinion. If mine breaks I will just buy a new one. The problem is that as the world grows richer, this has gone from a luxury attitude to one more people can have each year, and the proportion of beautiful, perfectly engineered objects steadily rises. A hundred years ago no such objects existed. Thirty years ago, they were rare. Today, you can buy anything, from drills to cameras to new unibody cars that are beautiful and flawless and engineered to perfection and completely uneconomical to repair. There are exceptions, wear item parts, manufacturers with repair guides... but they are on the way out. Make no mistake, the moment anything can become a perfect sealed lifetime part, it will.

In the distant future, worlds ahead of endless energy and materials, long after the idea of popular repair dies, I only hope it will be reborn as a hobby; bored humans instructing bored robots to choose the inefficient path, to repair and not replace.
> One of the fixes this release is untrainable SIGKILLs programs for illegal memory accesses, which is a perfectly boring and sensible security practice

Why is preventing trapping on an illegal memory access a sensible security practice?

Preventing the access, sure, but I'm not seeing what force killing a process does for security, especially given there are perfectly reasonable reasons why one might want to trap the signal.
I feel like Omnifocus has good keyboard support, particularly enjoy quick entry support. Looks like Godspeed lack iOS and watch support which makes it a complete non-starter for me.
Hold on there buckaroo. Having a 9 year old printer at home is no big deal as consumers don't usually upgrade their printers if they still work and compatible ink cartridges are still available. My parents are still running a 20+ year old Canon, because it's easy to refill cheaply.

And things don't exist in a vacuum but in comparison to others. To wit, does that Canon printer from 2012 work in present day versions of Windows and Linux? If yes, then why is MacOS the odd one out here?

So what's stopping Apple from providing the same level of reliable printer support as Microsoft and Linux? It sure as hell aint lack of money.
Do you have a public roadmap available?
Yes, that’s what I mean by vague suggestions. How do you actually build and maintain a system of any complexity with that? How do you ensure it will do what it is supposed to do? And Smalltalk wasn’t that, it is mostly just regular method calls and not “message passing”.
Will what matter?
Thanks for bringing this up. It's always good to remember that while there are lawyers earning seven digits, there are also those earning government/non-profit salaries, and lots in the middle.
"Hi siri, remind mind to do AB CD EF"

"I found some results on the web. I can show them to you again if you ask from your iPhone."
Because PG is a survivor, and he's biased.
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
It is by definition that the silicon automatons cannot escape from their ontologically stochastic imitative hallucinations.

All they can do is be observed by us and with that expose us to get induced by association, ontologically human hallucinations and deal with its outcome of real consequences.
How about a build system to manage the existing build systems?

Perhap just one layer of meta isn't enough...
Computing paradigm shift could see devices run twice as fast w/o new components
I use LLMs quite a lot to help me in my work, but they are wrong so often that it’s ridiculous. This isn’t a major issue when you’re an expert using the tools to be more efficient, because you’ll spot and laugh at the errors it makes. Sometimes it’ll be things that anyone would notice, like how a LLM will simply “invent” a library function that has never existed. Even if you’re not an expert, you’re not going to get that PNP-whatever function to work in Powershell if it never existed in the module to begin with.

Where it becomes more dangerous, at least in my opinion, is when the LLM only gets it sort of wrong. Maybe the answer it gives you is old, maybe it’s inefficient, maybe it’s insecure or a range of other things, and if you’re new to programming, you’re probably not going to notice. Hell, I’ve reviewed code from senior programmers that pulled in deprecated things with massive security vulnerabilities and never noticed because they were too focused on fast delivery and “it worked”. I can’t imagine how that would work out for people trying to actually learn things.

I’m not sure what we can really do about it though. I work a side gig as an external examiner for CS students. A lot of the curriculum being taught (at least here in Denmark) are things I’ve seen the industry move “beyond” in the previous 20 years. Some of it is so dated that it really makes no sense at all. Which isn’t exactly a great alternative to the LLMs, and it’s only natural that a lot of people simply turn to these powerful tools.

I tend to tell people to ask their favorite LLM to help them solve a crossword. When you ask it to give you words ending on “ing” it’ll give you words that don’t end on “ing” because of how the tokens used work. This tends to be an eye opener for people in regards to how much they trust their LLM. At least until they get refined enough that they can also do these things.

Anyway, it’s a good answer.
>You don't have to beholden

You don't have to be (or feel?) beholden, I meant. Typo.
Yes of course any positive definite matrix can be used as a metric on the corresponding Euclidean space - but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily useful as a metric. Hence I think it’s useful to distinguish things which could be a metric (in that a metric can be constructed from them), versus things which when applied as a metric actually provide some benefit.

In particular, if we believe the manifold hypothesis, then one should expect a useful metric on features to be local and not static - the quantity W’W clearly does not depend on the inputs to the layer at inference time, and so is static.
To be fair, he does tell them to study. But only because you have to get into a good college to find other people to found startups with.
That gives a whole new meaning to NIMBY.

I guess if the strip mines are on the dark side, it would be acceptable?
I'm sure this is covered thoroughly in legal studies, and IANAL. But here's my current take on it:

If we're going to let people sell patent rights in a free market, I'm guessing we need to let patent holders chose to not sell at a given price. Otherwise they have severely limited negotiating power.

I.e., suppose we did add a use-it-or-lose-it patent rule. Think of the ways that you, as a would be rights-purchaser, could exploit that.
Well what do you know, the M1 Air shipped with a 30W charger, despite at least one point of the charge cycle being able to handle 45W.
We can naively split the world into two types of people: givers and takers.

I'm guessing you are a giver and you are feeling resentful because too much is being taken from you. But it is actually your choice about how much to give that causes your resentment.

Watch for how others deal with giving and taking in work and romantic situations.

The ideal solution is to find a place to work that consists mostly of givers. It is not easy to find these places - look for somewhere that people never quit because they all like who they work with.

This comment feels ill-advised and poorly thought out, but it's a way of looking at life I'm still investigating for myself. Hopefully it helps, but I fear it could harm...
Off topic, but I didn't realize Alan Kay was regularly answering questions on Quora. I can ask "What does Alan Kay think about X?" and get an answer from Alan Kay?!?