skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A PDF isn’t a great UX when viewed on a mobile screen. You’re going to be tapping and pinching and zooming to see different parts of the menu, and probably switching tabs back and forth to actually place the order.

There’s plenty of good mobile-friendly menus around. Nice clear typography, easily scroll through items by category, one tap to add to order or to get more details (and often photos) of the dish.

It’s just not an art that every restaurant (and restaurant software vendor) seems to have mastered yet, unfortunately.
All licensing requirements still apply.

However keep in mind that different wikimedia content is under different licenses (e.g. wikidata is public domain). Additionally in the united states, if you take just the factual content (removed from any creative context) the facts are not copyrightable so the license does not apply.
> Why are most services/apps "cloud-based"?

Follow the money... $X/month, over Y months, is worth a lot more than a one time payment of $Z.

> why aren't there more tools/apps released that run locally?

There are plenty, but you have to make the choice to use them. Every app on my android phone runs locally with no "cloud" anything for any of them. But few users care enough to "just say no" to the 'cloud apps'.
This is the same problem that I had with parsing logs. There's no way to know that mom+dad+kid all using the same model device were 3 different users.
I really hate to phrase it like this, but i don't see another way...

if a FAANG employee would be considered dumb when signing up for this... how can this not have crossed OPs mind when spending his/her time building this platform (as an ex-FAANG)?
India and Bangladesh, wow. We have German roaches in Europe just since 200 years ago? That's a much shorter time that I was expecting

Very interesting method.
It must be, right?? The whole thing reads like a satire of the exact kind of thing HN would fawn over. Just look at the current comments!
Qemu 7.x includes support for RV128.
I know about that, but it's basically the same thing since reliable sources in the wikipedia terms are a set of sources that we collectively decide to trust. What's interesting about wikipedia sources is that it won't allow you to directly quote a person even though they are a well known trustworthy information source. Instead you must back up your statements through a 3rd party (usually media-related) entity. This is both good and bad, considering that journalists may not be the best at evaluating certain information, especially in the science or politics field.
Pricesely this, yes. And for the kids, an average trip to school takes like 5-10 minutes, hassling with three helmets (mine and of two kids) takes almost as long. And then I have to carry three helmets if I want to drop by to the supermarket after getting them to school.

The bicycle seats for kids are designed in such a way that the only real danger of a head being hit is in the frontal collision, or in a really forceful side one. The design of Dutch streets makes the chance of either happening small enough that the helmets are widely seen as not worth it.
Unfortunately we’ve had several years of websites absolutely taking the piss when it comes to performance and deploying molasses slow dumpster fires.

A decent level of performance these days should be table stakes, and _high_ performance is a feature. Software that’s molasses slow _is bad software_ these days.
The article doesn't explain how users can exploit these features in UI or prompt. Does anyone have any insight on how to do so?
The "Q" at the end is "quadword", so it's 64 bits (8 bytes).
Premium for the 'no ads' tier, of course.
Based on the anger in this comment, maybe the anonymous sites aren't for you either?
The wasabi (actually horseradish with green die) is probably irritating your mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits

> MyLifeBits is a life-logging experiment begun in 2001. It is a Microsoft Research project inspired by Vannevar Bush's hypothetical Memex computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The "experimental subject" of the project is computer scientist Gordon Bell, and the project will try to collect a lifetime of storage on and about Bell.. For this, Bell has digitized all documents he has read or produced, CDs, emails, and so on. He continues to do so, gathering web pages browsed, phone and instant messaging conversations and the like more or less automatically. The book Total Recall describes the vision and implications for a personal, lifetime e-memory for recall, work, health, education, and immortality. In 2010, Total Recall was published in paperback. As of 2016, Bell was no longer using the wearable camera associated with the project. He described the rise of the smartphone as largely fulfilling Bush's vision of the Memex.

"Total Recall" (2009) by Gordon Bell, https://www.amazon.com/Total-Recall-Memory-Revolution-Everyt...
https://build123d.readthedocs.io/

Many interesting features, and as it is bRep you have faces and edges, some access to constraints, the ability to import STEP etc. (oh and fillets/chamfers, with the usual OpenCascade caveats)

I have not got into it yet (mostly I am a happy FreeCADder) but your feelings about OpenSCAD resonate with me and this looks like it addresses many of them.

On the one hand OpenSCAD was the first thing that ever gave me any confidence that I would be able to make my own designs to print, and on the other the fact that it is wholly declarative is exasperating.

People make such amazing things in OpenSCAD (like Edgar Kech’s scalable large format field camera) but I do not have the tenacity to keep up with all the maths, or keep consistently avoiding coplanar issues in the preview.
Yes, the founder should be valuing their equity far more than the salary gap. If they don’t, then something is gravely wrong with the business as they are essentially valuing it near zero.
> You are the one who started talking about "scammy".

Not really? You said "con artist", did you not? "Scammer" is a near one-for-one replacement, I said "scammy" because "conny" isn't a word.

> I did NOT say "start-ups are con artist and/or bullshitter".

This is absolutely the implication of what you said.

If I say, "I don't know how I feel about Ted Cruz, I don't like voting for rapists", then I didn't explicitly say that Ted Cruz is a rapist, but that's the obvious implication. If you start talking about how Americans are more accepting of con artists while in the middle of an explanation of why Americans are more positive towards start-ups, it doesn't take a genius to connect the dots in what you're trying to say.

If your point was more broadly about dubious/unreliable claims, that's fair, but "con artists" is a lot more specific and critical than that, and that's what I was responding to.

Anyway, you're probably right that Americans are more tolerant of dubious/overambitious claims from a cultural perspective. I'm not sure if they're more tolerant of outright lies though, I think most draw a line between stretching the truth vs breaking it in half.
Dude, restaurants don't have fucking paper menus anymore. And how am I supposed to pay for something if they don't accept cash?

Like don't tell me that you can stil live life the old analog and paper way, you know that is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
Yes, please, any clarification you can provide is appreciated!
I think you might be severely underestimating the forces involved, as well as confusing "strong" engineering for safe engineering.

A ceiling that buckles when a human slams into it at an acceleration of -4g or more is a ceiling that doesn't severely fracture their skull and possibly kill them instantly.
imagine teaching kids to play this game instead of teaching them to self study with gpt4, kagi, and all the other tools revolutionizing information access.

when your brain is tired, go outside and make your body tired too. with all the time saved, we can take a long drive to some distant activity.

why not, it will probably be fun! otherwise, just try something else next time.

no pressure, no drama. just play and growth.
I bet the study, if there is one would be something like “some degree of white space can be helpful for delineating sections” and that conclusion has just been wrung to the ends of the earth, producing todays pointlessly sparse UI’s.
> There is a lot of excitement around retrieval augmented generation or “RAG.” Roughly the idea is: some of the deficiencies in current generative AI or large language models (LLMs) can be papered over by augmenting their hallucinations with links, references, and extracts from definitive source documents. I.e.: knocking the LLM back into the lane.

This seems like a misunderstanding of what RAG is. RAG is not used to try to anchor to reality a general LLM by somehow making it come up with sources and links. RAG is a technology to augment search engines with vector search and, yes, a natural language interface. This concerns, typically, "small' search engines indexing a specific corpus. It lets them retrieve documents or document fragments that do not contain the terms in the search query, but that are conceptually similar (according to the encoder used).

RAG isn't a cure for ChatGPT's hallucinations, at all. It's a tool to improve and go past inverted indexes.
Can you share a story?
Really now? The global north should bear all the blame for the vast range of equally self-interested countries and people who actively scramble to hop aboard the technological/industrial/economic flywheel of development just like anyone else does? Billions of people south of the Tropic of Cancer are just as hungry for consumer products, economic success and convenience as any anglo North American or European, and many of them perhaps more so. But they should entirely be treated as the witless victims of others?

This attitude, aside from being blatantly wrong on the realities of the world is also grossly patronizing towards the very people it claims to support, by painting them as nearly helpless pawns with no agency or deeper capabilities of their own.

I live down in a certain sliver of Mexico and see no shortage of desire for all the energy-guzzling goodies that any American has ever had or wanted. Many millions actively strive to acquire these things and with as little second thought for externalities as anyone in the global north ever has..
While i am sympathetic to wmf finding alternative funding streams, I do get nervous about these sort of things due to the inherent conflict of interest and incentives to canabalize the free offerings. I'm not saying that is happening now, but will it happen eventually?

Additionally, originally it was promised this would all be open source, and officially they are sticking with that, but it seems like they are going with the model of throwing code over the fence like once a year, which does not really meet my expectations.
Every "mobile friendly" menu site is able to show maybe 5 items on the page at once

This is due to accessibility regulations. Apple design guidelines and Material guidelines explicitly state how small font can and should be. Ask any designer you know.
2x cost of S3 does not include whatever compute cost that is also incurred nor the cost of dev's time, marketing costs, or any other business expenses. When running a business, you see why the markups are applied for much less sinister reasons than maximizing profits. if you want to sustain your business on sales alone without being propped up by investment, you have to price your product/service appropriately to cover all business expenses.
> THAT'S how you explain the differences in how their businesses fared - by the density of their UI?

Well it's a silly statement to make of course, BUT there is some truth behind it. Their search pages are a microcosm of their approaches to business. In 1999, the search page was THE reason Google was able to make traction. And you can still see the influence of that minimal design in their stuff today. It's kinda their thing.

Yahoo! could have copied them. When they felt Google breathing down their neck that would have been the obvious thing to do (or preferably, way before it got that far). But to this very day they are stuck in their old ways! Amazing.
Microdrones are easy to 3d print. They can pacify wealthy targets and their security forces, via random strike and retreat tactics. They are piloted by anonymous contributors.

This protects the social arm of the moment, and pushes the wealthy to take their bargaining position seriously.

This is the people's crowd control.
There’s also Wikidata which has machine readable data for everyone

https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

> Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.

> Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.
> Zawinski's Law captures common market pressure on software solutions, stating that “every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
It does in my jurisdiction. 2/8/24 is usually m/d/y, 2-8-24 is usually d-m-y, 2024-2-8 is always y-m-d.
M3 15" air with 24gb ram and 1tb ssd is 3400 australian dollars
In the near future it will be required that your wi-fi SSID be <your exact address and house/apt number>_optout_notrack_nothanks_offgrid_nomap

Your address is needed so they can know exactly which place _not_ to map, of course.
One of the participants is calling for a "dogpile" on Mastodon and I'm not even joking.
> how is that different than ...

In one case, you are doing it and society is fine with that because a human being has inherent limitations. In other case, a machine is doing it which has different sets of limitations, which gives it vastly different abilities. That is the fundamental difference.

This also played out in the streetview debate - someone standing in public areas taking pictures of surroundings? No problem! An automated machine being driven around by a megacorp on every single street? Big problem.
I'm also super curious to know what the actual recipe was. I literally just plugged the exact text from the article into ChatGPT 4o:

> My mother remembers growing up with a Sicilian dish that was primarily rice baked in an egg mixture. Roughly a “rice frittata.” Do you know some examples of what dish or recipe this could be?

And the response I got was

> It sounds like your mother might be referring to a dish known as "Frittata di Riso" or "Frittata di Riso al Forno." This is a traditional Sicilian dish that combines leftover rice with eggs and other ingredients, then bakes it into a savory cake. Here is a basic recipe for Frittata di Riso:

And then got a detailed, formatted recipe. I asked follow up questions along the lines of "Where did Frittata di Riso originate" and "Is Frittata di Riso popular in Sicily" and again got detailed, thorough answers. Fair enough that I don't know if it's hallucinating, but without more info from the author what can I compare it to?
> Why would being bad at one subject or skill imply they are bad at all skills?

Statistically, human cognitive capabilities of all types are positively correlated, for what it's worth. If you observe someone failing badly at structured reasoning about a given topic, then you would be reasonable to expect they'd also be worse than average at surface-level talk about the same topic. However, Constantin's argument in the article was that the two capabilities -- surface-level talk vs structured understanding -- look independent in her personal experience.

I'm skeptical of her conclusion. I think the two capabilities probably are linked, but it's a weak link. You just might need a lot more samples and more confidence the samples were chosen randomly before the statistical relationship became noticeable. If so then in personal experience and practical life, the capabilities might as well be independent.
After seeing this comment, onlookers report that the Wikimedia Foundation appears to have just vanished in a puff of volunteerism
One area that 128bit points would be useful for is tagging.

This could be used to improve memory safety. For example, a pointer inside a range could potentially include its bounds.
What?

Society moves in one direction, some people don't (can't, won't, whatever). Those people become marginalised as society fails to provide adequate alternatives. Reducing it to "the company you keep" and "feeling pressured" seems a tad simplistic.
Yeah I was kinda expecting a picture of a pregnancy test :)
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a lucky 7 stamping on a human face forever
Probably because every contributor has their own variation of UX they prefer, which they contribute and merge with all the other code. It leads to a lot of inconsistencies which are avoided when you have a hierarchy and a leader who makes everyone adjust their vision. It’s hard to do that with smaller OSS projects, they probably can’t afford alienating contributors by telling them how to do stuff.
I may very well be mistaken.

By poorly edited I mean there is much heedless verbosity, rather than many grammatical errors. An under-appreciated job of the editor is trimming and tightening, chasing out the dry chaff.
Depends on your corpora though. In most cases you aren't going to have a large enough corpora needed to get truly tangible results.

That said, I would love to make something like this in a personal capacity sort of like the moving photos in Harry Potter.
It's not that it can't do everything. It's that it pretends it can do everything.
Just fyi, i think the plan for machine readable infoboxes is stick the data in wikidata, which has its own dumps in machine readable format as well as a publicly accessible SPARQL query endpoint.

Its actually quite cool. If you have never played with it i encourage checking out some of the example queries (there is a button labelled examples) on https://query.wikidata.org/
Exactly. Also why startups within an organization fail at a higher rate, because there still treat it as a 9-5 job with no hunger or fear of failure.
I’m highly skeptical of the conclusions here. Many corporations already record periodic screenshots of employee devices. There’s also a bunch of hand waving of “security incident here, therefore hackers will access your machine”.

The crux of the argument boils down to
> If you have malware running on your PC for only minutes, you have a big problem in your life now rather than just changing some passwords.

Ok. How often does malware run for just a few minutes? Honestly if there’s malware running on any of my machines, it’s not clear the outcome is any different here. Sure there’s a hypothetical scenario where it’s worse. But it’s also just as likely to grab a copy of my password manager while it has everything unencrypted. And it’s also way more likely to persist for days or months, making access to historical data moot as it’ll just install its own key logger.
Just slurp upstream's security patches, that ain't so bad.
I feel cheated.
I found it quite mild compared to the 500 mile email

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
As a 2-times founder, one VC funded and one bootstrapped I think there is a fundamental difference of the world view of a founder and a cash-optimizing employee you're missing.

Startups are just businesses. Business owners value money, but they also value independence and freedom to do what they want to do. The "don't tell me what to do" gene is highly correlated with them. The only resource you can't buy is your time and investing it into your ideas brings a lot of meaning into the daily slog. Also if you have your own company, you decide the rules and people you surround yourself with. If you spend 1/3 of your life working, this is a non-trivial contributor of your quality of life.

This is the first reason. Founders really hate working for other people.

Regarding salaries, the more cash you burn, the less time you have to understand the market and create the product. Salaries are expenses and you need to be very stingy until you get to profitability.

This is the second reason.

And something I've seen in the "startup" crowd. From the VC marketing bullhshit they assume that the "only" way to create a company is "to create the next billion dollar company". It's the game of the VC's, grow and sell. Yes, 3% of Facebook can be worth more than 40% of 5 Million ARR company, but if you multiply it by the chance of creating the next Facebook you'll see that it's riskier and you loose too much control and the first reason you're doing your own thing.

In summary, if you're thinking about short term salaries it's best not to try to do a startup, better find a good paying job and invest in an index fund. This will be safer and on average yield better.
It's like that old joke about one person being amazed at someone's dog being able to sing, and the other person says "it's not that impressive, he's pitchy" or something. Computers can finally think, and we're annoyed they can't think better than us.
> why do the employees not stand up at all hands meetings and raise this issue as a serious problem.

This definitely happens for all kinds of problems at big tech companies. But you might be absolutely shocked to learn that many times, random engineers complaining about something doesn't result in management taking immediate action to fix the issue.

> Of course I know the answer in they just don't care and their personal paychecks are too high for them to risk becoming a squeaky wheel.

Stuff like this does get brought up by employees, especially Google has a lot of internal memes criticizing various aspects of Google's culture or policies. But executives mostly just deflect or ignore it, probably because they don't see the money in fixing it.

> So instead, people with respect lose respect for those "yous" that work at bigTech.

I guess the more ignorant ones do? I figured it was common knowledge that when something is broken policy-wise at companies, and they're clearly avoiding fixing it, it's rarely the non-management employees that are the problem. Almost always, it's a strategic decision by management to not address the issue (or sometimes they do address it, but poorly).
Recent and related:

Seven Dyson sphere candidates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40397823 - 3 days ago, 349 comments
It's just someone trying to hit a KPI or do something cool for a promo internally. No reason to read too deeply into this.
I thought this was where optane was going to take us, back to the days of "your memory is also your persistent storage" like an old PDP/8 with core memory...
> But that's economic policy, even if it is at least in part driven by social norms.

Social norms come first, and they determine which economic policies you are willing to even consider (and then implement or not).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/X3.4-...

ASCII was developed in 1963 by a guy from IBM while Bell was at DEC. However since Bell has worked in the PDP's UART, it's possible...
People can read. What no ones like to do is deciphering icons or hunting for elements because every updates keep moving them around. And relayout, because SPAs. In the old days, you learn what a button does and you can expect it to stay where it was for years.
This feels like a "No true Scotsman" answer. You say

> RAG is not used to try to anchor to reality a general LLM by somehow making it come up with sources and links.

but that definitely is one particular use of RAG, i.e. to limit some potential hallucinations by grounding it in data provided in the prompt.