skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hey there, fellow political enthusiasts and furry friend lovers! We're Alex and Taylor, and we're on a mission..."

This really made me smile. It's one of the stupid phrases used in all of these types of sites that bothers me to no end. Iliza Shlesinger has a bit about two sisters doing a pitch to Shark Tank, and I read that whole "post" in the voice she uses. I always thought it was just me and my curmudgeon ways, but clearly if "AI" has picked up on it, then I see it as definite justification for my take.</rant>

i <3 this person for taking it this direction to prove a point. I've been known to do stupid stuff like this myself, and had the same ultimate point. It made a few people smile, but most people just rolled their eyes.
There are other differences. The garbage being discussed was sorted, baled, and shipped to markets with the pretense that it was going the be recycled or reused. (To be fair, a fraction of it was.) It diverted garbage away from our landfills, dumping it where it was beyond "out of sight, out of mind." The intent is entirely different.
We do have large immigrant populations, but have a fairly active integration policy. It's not a major success, but at least free language education seems to have helped a lot.

There's foreign languages on "call family in your home country" type ads and on various official information (e.g. posters during the pandemic), but very rarely on storefronts and the like.
It's a fair point about how awful recipe sites look without ad blockers, but this part is just plain incorrect:

> You can tell just by looking at the URLs that those sites are going to be worthelss blogspam.

At least two of the three results in the screenshot are from legitimate baking sites (Cookie and Kate, Sally's Baking Addiction) which are generally trusted sources online. I don't know anything about the third. But Google seems to have actually done a good job of highlighting recipes from reliable blogs.

The points about the compromised experience on those sites due to intrusive ads remain.
I suspect that's part of the eagerness to move everyone to passkeys.
Lest anyone forget, let's revisit the naming convention of Xboxen. To make my point, I will randomize the order instead of going chronologically:

Xbox One

Xbox

Xbox Series X/S

Xbox One X/S

Xbox 360

They all had "Xbox Live!" more usually written Xbox LIVE

At work I like to joke that any new product coming out from Microsoft should be renamed "Azure DevOps", since their goal appears to be confusion.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but (1) we did once[1], because you're right that it seems like an obvious fit. But in practice (2) it got absolutely crushed in the market performance-wise by more sophisticated algorithms like Facebook's and Google's (Amazon plays in this world too, though they have an easier space to search). It turns out that the fundamental game in the ad world isn't serving ads that site administrators and content creators think their users want to see, it's figuring out what the users of that content actually want and showing them that instead.

And indeed, that cuts the site operator out of the loop, and forces them (if they want to make money from these ad algorithms) to design a site that will attract users with easily-intuited advertising needs. And the linked article doesn't have that.

[1] And still do in parallel niche markets like porn.
From the link it doesn't sound like Flutter was singled out specifically, but more of a cut & slash across several teams.

Doesn't make it any better though.
I (ab)use make to manage my dotfiles.

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/GNUmake...

I'm surprised at how well this thing works every time I use it. I even blogged about it.

https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-wi...

Recently made a tool that processes the make database and prints the phony targets and their dependencies:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/~/.loca...

I use it as a sort of makefile help command. Works surprisingly well too.
This seemed interesting to me but I didn't fully understand it. The article states:

> Within these normally immiscible mixtures, they observed ultrathin but abnormally stable films of oil spontaneously appearing between the dispersed droplets of water.

And there is more information about what they observed. But I was completely unclear of the procedure they used to get these "normally immiscible mixtures" to behave in this way in the first place. Any ideas?
As one of the unfortunate souls damned to using CMake regularly, I can confidently say that it is slower, less maintainable, and less intelligible than make.
Even more: Verizon et al have built the backbones on public land with public subsidies. They didn't even pay for the costs of building the backbones. They didn't pay anything back to the government in 20 years. Now they want to claim that the backbone is 'theirs'.
Dumbfuck-oriented design. As neilv's comment[1] puts it:

> The Microsoft Word way has always seemed to support styles more like they were grafted on as an afterthought, without wanting to disturb the least-knowledgeable users, to the point that knowledgeable users have to tiptoe around all the UI that breaks styles.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180746
Most unions demand standardized pay scales, maybe varying with seniority or experience. Slichter et alii (1960) say wage standardization is the most widely heralded union wage policy. Freeman (1980, 1984) showed that wages compress due to wage standardization at union shops.

Because wage dispersion and inequality is lower, if you consider your skills and experience extraordinary, you will not be getting pay commensurate with your perceived value to the company at a union shop. That provides a moat of sorts for incumbent workers against "rockstars," "10x," and higher-skilled workers deciding to join the company.

Slichter, S. H., Healy, J. J., and Livernash, E. R. (1960). _The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management_.

Freeman, R. B. (1980) "Unionism and the dispersion of wages," _Industrial and Labor Relations Review_.

Freeman, R. B. (1984), "Longitudinal analyses of the effects of trade unions," _Journal of Labor Economics_
Millenials were hit with more than a few downturns, a sign of things to come.
> to the point that knowledgeable users have to tiptoe around all the UI that breaks styles

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.
It should be obvious to everyone that software quality is on the decline, and has been for a long time; and those who continue to espouse this "fix it later" (i.e. never) mentality, or even pure apathy as the author of this article seems to imply, are contributing to the problem.

In short here is what I learned from that conversation – it is not up to me in the role of an engineer of an organization that finds itself in a rapid business climate to worry about the risks associated with releasing software in a certain state.

How about having some pride and craftsmanship in your work?
Worth noting that this is not a new game, it came out in 2015.
> all the people

Seems excessively overgeneralized.

(also see HN guidelines re: "be kind", "flamebait", "shallow dismissals", and "ideological battles" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
The reason this happens is that effectively anything except a single family home is banned.

So when a multifamily project is approved on a lit, developpers are thrilled to put a high rise - there's so much pent up demand they know it'll sell out.

On the other end, the ultra rich want bigger mcmansions.

What's still lacking is sane 2-8 unit zoning.
such software cannot be included in many popular linux distributions which means less people are going to have easy access to it.
Don't worry, soon enough their AI will harvest your site for training content and then downrank your site when it has what it needs
Missing https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/moni... :)
By all means tell me why you think they matter. It's still a matter of funding-per-capita. Stopping someone with a knife is the same regardless of their ethnicity.

(We do have a lot of immigration, but I don't see the relevance.)
I am extremely alarmed by the number of HN commenters who apparently confuse "is able to generate text that looks like" and "has a", you guys are going crazy with this anthropomorphization of a token predictor. Doesn't this concern you when it comes to phishing or similar things?

I keep hoping it's just short-hand conversation phrases, but the conclusions seem to back the idea that you think it's actually thinking?
+1. I've done the same with SymbianOS.
You can't actually assert that. You have to hope that they or someone else hasn't found an SGX weakness:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...
Chances are that a good portion of that clothing was offered to or went to local secondary markets before being sent overseas. (That isn't to say that it was offered for sale. But there is too much for them to handle, particularly since they don't want to dilute their own prices.)
Obviously, it's a matter of trade-offs. However, these trade-offs aren't written in stone. If Linux lags in hardware, new or old, that is in part itself a trade-off made by its developers, and if those developers want more people to use Linux, perhaps a change in their priorities would make that more likely. Devote less time to polishing new graphical installers so that Bluetooth is rock solid on more hardware, and maybe more people will use Linux. Or, maybe they won't. That's for the market to decide. But, clearly there are market participants (some of them in this thread) who wish hardware support had a higher priority than it does. Make of that what you will.
Python team too, per twitter.
I just checked the terms and conditions for AppleCare+ with theft protection, and it it states:

"IX. DUTIES IN THE EVENT OF LOSS
You must report the Loss promptly to Our Authorized Representative not later
than sixty (60) days from the Date of Loss. If You do not report the Loss within
sixty (60) days, You will have forfeited Your claim."

https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecar...
I think the general concept here is pretty good honestly, but would also emphasize that sometimes you don't even know if you're solving the right problem with your shitty prototype. You gotta get it out there and get feedback as soon as possible, before you waste all your time making the wrong thing perfect. That's the key to making something that's actually useful (for other people at least).
> Aside: the US retirees I saw in Mexico a few years ago seemed to group together in a few locales that were a bit wealthier or touristy. e.g. Puerto Vallarta and Ajijic

Yep. People in Spain started to label what is happening 'colonization'. They complain that the language you hear most in Barcelona city center is neither catalan nor castilian - its English. And some waiters can only speak English - they don't know catalan, castilian, basque, valencian etc. Gentrification is horrible of course - the city centers across Spain have become expensive even for white collar Spanish professionals like engineers, lawyers, doctors.

There is going to be major flashback against rich immigrants at this rate - like how it happened in Lisbon.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/05/12/proto-gentrifies-...
It does, however, mean that your new documents related to the litigation must be preserved. Just because a machine destroys it for you as a service doesn't mean you don't have a duty to preserve. They control the disappearing time.
Maybe I am entering that age, but in more and more areas of human endeavor I start to see the same signs, that seem to tell "this house of cards is about to collapse".

Maybe this is not a bad thing. A crisis is a necessary stage in evolution of any complex system. I just hope it does not bury us in a perfect storm...
I'm not sure what Godel is doing here but quantum mechanics is consistent with the universe being deterministic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
This is wrong on a few points.

Yes, scientists still get paid but the draw of start ups (like tech) is lower pay, and potential upside through equity.

So if the drug fails, they just lost a significant amount of money versus staying in big pharma, and they lost their job.

And for big pharma, if you don’t create new drugs, the company revenue falls and lay offs occur (like what is happening right now at several big pharma).

The risk is much higher at a start up that it’s “do or die”, than big pharma, but it’s still there.

Go and look at the massive layoffs that Pfizer, BMS, and other big pharma have done over the years.
> The intersection between “poor countries” and “nice place to live” is limited. I think we’ve largely forgotten organized crime still exists

Nah, the income of the average golden visaer or digital nomad is already a few multiples of even some European countries' median wage. The difference is too high. They are gentrifying even parts of Europe.
RCS reached that point by being dragged there by Google.
Should this be an Ask HN? There isn't a direct question, but perhaps you can form one.
You might want to look at https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer as well, as it sounds like their UI might be better suited for your use case.
Google is hot trash, but the saddest part is that there's not even anything that's less bad.
> I just looked up flights between Syracuse and Chicago

This has absolutely nothing to do with the point being made (which was why the mention that the train is slower now was even mentioned): a gross miscalculation of general politically relevant public opinion for long distance rail service.

Even so, if you actually want to understand the indisputable utilization of some of these routes, search say only a week out rather than a month and the differential might be more like $120 for a train ticket and $600 for plane ticket. And compare peak to off peak times where plane tickets will sky rocket but rail differentials are far more modest. Those "affordable" fares also have an $80 differential between basic economy and economy, the privilege to even bring a carry-on bag let alone checked baggage. Getting to and from the station is often cheaper than the airport.

> So who actually cares

And here's the thing, many of these routes do sell out or come close to doing so on a daily basis. With a few notable exceptions, they're not running light trains around. In the case of the aforementioned train averaging about 500 pax in each direction. It's not my job to convince you that the majority of these 500 passengers are not train geeks. Yes it is hard for me to comprehend that is the first thing someone would think critically, as if the majority of those using Greyhound and the Chinatown line are "bus geeks".

It's not like I'm saying axing some of these routes is a not a reasonable enough opinion, but my initial reply was pointing out the ridiculous premises.

> Please, look at any graph of government spending over the past century and then try to tell me with a straight face that the "reduce government spending crowd" has any pull at all.

To keep this on topic, compare a system map and timetable of Amtrak today vs 30 years ago.

> My claim here is that you can make up the shortfall by eliminating all the useless routes

And ignoring the $10 billion of outlay for new trainsets and the $16 billion dollar Gateway for starters (these are just for the NEC).
Sure, unless you've already purchased the hardware, or had it purchased for you outside of your control.

All I'm saying is, if the the Linux developers made a better product, probably more people would use it. That is entirely independent of the fact that you can say the same thing about the hardware manufacturers.
Because when using signal it was recorded, just deleted after two weeks.
Why do you think the consent of someone relaying information matters in the slightest when it comes to what people do with that information?
I've been using this for a while now - it's fantastic, highly recommended for non-core-Unix-build-stuff. Just make `help` your default recipe and voila, a massive drop in people asking "how do I run tests in make" -> they probably tried to `make` already and it told them how.
Will this be another mass experiment? (i.e. when will the humanity learn to have balance of safe practices vs corporate greed, without self-serving bureaucracy and scientism)
I'm using a 40" 5K Lenovo P40w-20, it's a 21:9 (5120x2160) IPS panel with 75 Hz refresh rate.

The problem with 2 monitors is that for me it inevitably falls into a "primary" and "one I occasionally glance at" pair.

With 21:9 I split into 3 columns which are 7:9 each and still have enough pixels (~1700x2160) for crisp text. Browser on the left, IDE in the middle, and terminal on the right. I very rarely use any other windows, so having everything accessible at a glance is great.

It also charges my laptop at 96W via Thunderbolt 4.

The only issue is that this panel (used in Dell and LG 40" too) is somewhat dim.
After so many laptops, purchasing a new laptop is starts to feel like purchasing the death of a laptop.

I have used lots of HPs, Dells, Lenovos. They do last, until they don't and you have to reinstall everything from scratch because the hardware is different.

I did run mine pretty hard, and my HPs, Lenovos and Dells did go into warranty pretty regularly. I never saw it as purchasing a laptop as much as purchasing the guarantee of a laptop.

Apple got me because it would reasonably copy one laptop onto the next.

Apple used to make their devices to be too thin, and they could not thermally handle themselves. Especially 2017-2019 Macbook pros. Before then, most were pretty reliable. Hoping the new ones are.
They seem to reference a paper at "19)"[0] which goes into much further detail. It's odd though reading where they reference it, they talk about nothing below 0 C at all.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1145732
The Voyage of Magellan – Chapter 5: Underway
What parent is saying is that instead of asking the LLM to play a game of Wordle with tokens like TIME,LIME we ask it to play with tokens like T,I,M,E,L. This is easy to do.
> The most valuable engineers raise problems and alert/pursuade owners of the business to issues before they are issues.

This has nothing to do with the issue and carries a distasteful implication. Engineering value is (somehow) less about problems being solved at the tail end of development; like before a release.

A sufficiently large project will have problems. The weight of these problems are a business issue, as much as an engineering issue. One of these groups makes the decisions about what to do. What could be done in design and implementation, isn't relevant once the decision is made about what to do.
I get the feeling this works due to the following:

1. An input is processed with answer generated token-by-token.

2. The model can output based on probability the answer or a filler token. Low probability answers are ignored in favour of higher probability filler tokens (I don't have a better token to answer with than .....)

3. At a certain point, an alignment is made with what was learnt previously triggering a higher probability of outputting a better token.

This intuition being that I've noticed models respond differently based on where in context information appears: Can't speak for different embedding methods however as I'm sure this changes my thoughts on above.

If instead chain of thought prompting is used, the tokens further generated may interfere with the output probability.

So further to this, I'm thinking filler tokens allow for a purer ability for a model to surface the best answer it has been trained on without introducing more noise. Or we can use methods that resample multiple times to find the highest outputs.

These LLMs are practically search engines in disguise.
Because if something is new, then it's automatically better, even if it's not, so it gets a hype cycle.

Honestly I'm just relieved this appears to be crashing and burning on the runway. Crypto bullshit's gone through several destructive hype cycles by now and the main consequence of the latest round of the AI craze will be a nuclear wasteland of an internet.
> We don't fully understand why current LLMs are bad at these tasks.

Rather than asking why LLMs can’t do these tasks, maybe one should ask why we’d expect them to be able to in the first place? Do we fully understand why, for example, a cat can’t predict cellular automata? What would such an explanation look like?

I know there are some who will want to immediately jump in with scathing disagreement, but so far I’ve yet to see any solid evidence of LLMs being capable of reasoning. They can certainly do surprising and impressive things, but the kind of tasks you’re talking about require understanding, which, whilst obviously a very thorny thing to try and define, doesn’t seem to have much to do with how LLMs operate.

I don’t think we should be at all surprised that super-advanced autocorrect can’t exhibit intelligence, and we should spend our time building better systems rather than wondering why what we have now doesn’t work. It’ll be obvious in a few years (or perhaps decades) from now that we just had totally the wrong paradigm. It’s frankly bonkers to think you’re ever going to get a pure LLM to be able to do these kind of things with any degree of reliability just by feeding it yet more data or by ‘prompting it better’.
What your tech-stack?
On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration space missions
That was because FDA pressure campaigns made it impossible to obtain the human formulation for off-label use. I had a prescription filled in January 2021 before it became a political hot potato. Ten months later the same pharmacy practically hung up the phone on me when I asked if I could get it filled.
You're also relying on the client not lying to you, and Signal is openly hostile against 3rd party clients of any kind.
> then I've done the standard thing of removing the space between -d and its argument

That's not standard, although it is (sometimes) allowed. What it also is, though, is dumb, and people shouldn't do it.

It's on par with Windows folks going out of their way to use backslash for path separator in instances where a plain ol' slash will do—just because the sheer idiosyncratic obscurantism gives them delight. A couple years ago I noticed that in between the original introduction of PowerShell, which deliberately settled on using slash for file path separators, and the present day, some doofuses went out of their way to not only insist on backslash as the suggested separator, but they changed how Tab-for-autocomplete works so that existing slashes in paths written on the command line will be "fixed" and converted into backslashes. Whoever is responsible for this should never be allowed to touch user-facing software ever again.
I believe that waste should be stored until something useful can be done with it --- on a long enough timescale, everything gets recycled eventually.
Not loading for me anymore. Looks like your site is overwhelmed with Hn traffic from the cloud flare error.
Speed of release, and iteration definitely shines the light in the right direction.

The tough thing is when the stack to release the first version can be so complex it can become a shiny object.

Sometimes the early prototypes in the most boring tech possible allow attention to remain on solving the right problem.
> 0.7% is an absurdly low profit margin. It just is. The rest of your paragraph is basically true, but doesn't change that. At the same time, the U.S. spends a much higher percentage of GDP on healthcare than most developed nations.

Where do you pull out that profit margin. The healthcare sector does vertical integration - they keep the patient inside their services - from insurance to hospitals - and milk them.

Your system is not inefficient. It is. The efficiency is for the shareholders. Not for you.