skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a very first step, offer a "must contain/exclude meat" option which would give us an average saving that trends towards 50%. Then identify the most common allergies/preferences and many people could have a typical menu trimmed down enough so that it fits one page on their mobile screen.
Hope he ends up in Tarkington College.

'What's the hurry, son?'
The spec says that an additional period should be added on the client, but their implementation did not do that.
funny that they mentioned Gradle as the first feature change when the only thing we requested was the compiler to run without this gradle mess
Because VCs don't have a hard time finding startups whose founders will stay around for lame pay.
What azure needs is a sanboxed, free dev environment that one can actually learn in. That's the biggest first hurdle, and generally one that just makes people say fuck it and go elsewhere.
This is an awesome cli to convert video to gifs. If you need GUI, you can use Gifski app on macOS or my app Quick Drop

I wrote about the integration here
https://quickdrop.antran.app/blogs/video_to_gif_conversion
Yes. Mobile friendly sites tend to suck because they take us back to WAP and the 90:ies. Even desktop sites suffer from a weird movement recently where all text is unbearably HUGE.
It is human nature, yes, but equally bad ideas outweigh good ideas.

We all have lots of ideas. Most are bad. The worst are easily self-evaluated and discarded.

The next layer are the ones that are bad, but -you- haven't figured out why yet. The best thing here is to bounce them off others to see if they can spot the flaw.

If you don't do this, or you ignore it, then you build something, it doesn't matter how well you built it, it's still bad. Lots of stuff on HN falls into this category.

Some tiny portion of ideas are good. But then execution matters (a lot). Like maybe someone else has done it already. Or your execution has bad UI or whatever.

Lastly, no idea is good for everyone, no product is executed to everyone's taste. There is always some quota to ehom it doesn't apply.

And thats before we get to tribal reflexes (me and mine are better than you and yours) - like the endless Linux, Windows, Mac comments.

Tldr; there are more negative comments because there are more bad ideas ranging good ideas.

PS - having bad ideas, badly executing them, and seeing it get killed are all fine. We call that experience.
Everyone knows this, friend. It's still a useful distinction.
It's the enclosed, moveable walkway you go through between the airport gate and the plane.
>" THe fact that this 960-line file and a somewhat modern C compiler is all you really need to run a state-of-the-art language model is really surprising to many."

"the code for AGI will be simple"
- John Deremetrius Carmack
I had an ethics (philosophy) course in uni and I don't think _ethos_ is about winning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos
This fits my use case where I want to run some system commands but Python is too heavy.
Customer service is a profit center sometimes. Person calls in, and sell them antivirus and pc cleaner subscription.
This feels like a quantification fallacy. You say

> but that definitely is one particular use of RAG

One use of RAG doesn't imply that all uses of RAG are for grounding LLM hallucinations.

Additionally, I disdain when fallacies come up in conversation when it doesn't appear someone is making an argument in bad faith. We all use logical fallacies by accident from time to time. A good use of calling them out is when they are used in poor taste. I find that more on Reddit than Hacker News.

I have now also engaged in the Tu Quoque fallacy in this reply. See how annoying they are?
I don't know why, but as a non-American, this seems to be more of a Nerd vs Jock kinda thing. Am I correct in my interpretation?
I don't think there's a reasonable way to look at this situation and come away thinking that more Gazan civilians will be alive if Hamas continues fighting.
> Bad smells are certainly a proxy for diseases to some extent

No, they are not. Because smell and germs are completely unrelated. There is a limited case where they are correlated (don’t play with organic waste or too old corpses), but even then it is not really helpful. This is why it took so long to understand how to stop cholera: you can have things in your water even if it looks pristine. The air is just a red herring.

It is not even helpful with airborne pathogens, as once they start spreading among humans all bets are off.
If you take out plain text from this presentation, what's left? The tree structure? The log aspect? In order to claim any of this is remotely novel, you have to first ignore the whole body of work built around information systems.
My current workplace is pretty lean and flexible when it comes to this kind of thing, and we've tried a few different project management solutions over the years. Without fail, the new solution looks great at first glance and feels great as we start using it. Then it gradually becomes annoying and horrible just like the last one, and people start yearning for Jira. The horrible-ness usually comes from straight up bugs, a lack of comprehensive reporting, weak integrations with other tools, and/or a UX that doesn't jive with certain roles/people.

I think it'd be a real challenge to meaningfully compete with Jira. You'd need to not only match its feature set but also be faster than it and less buggy. It seems that being a "not Jira" gets you a good amount of customers off the bat due to how much people loath Jira, but it'll probably take a paradigm shift or a very competent team to overthrow it.
Yeah, it's much worse for me, worse than 3.5 even. Almost at the level of GPT-3 curie at worst.

I suspect it could be related to whatever it's using as language detection, because many others don't experience this. It glitches hard on language, often responding in the wrong one.
Indeed. Markdown files seperated into folders. I organize them into topics.
Easy to search with a lot of possible customizations. And even setup without customizations is optically pleasing and functional
Nope, using a web browser is not illegal. If you don't want your website to be accessed don't put it on the internet.
We are family friends with a Chinese national who did pretty well in this year's ISEF. They spent last summer back in mainland China at a private science fair camp where they prepped and prebuilt most of their project for the year. They are very bright, did a ton of real work, but had a large paid team behind them supporting and helping. They almost could have professional and amateur divisions at this point.
Think you can see the full url one mouse over in some terminals (and rebind what clicks do to disable opening)
This is an awesome project. I work with Revit(Python coded) so immediately tried shift + mouse wheel click drag. If you can get anywhere near Revit that would be impressively scary for Autodesk.
> Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories

Is it not the main use of the new "AI" ?

Because it does not seem to have any other practical use.
I had the same exact reaction. Being an open source project doesn't mean the website has to be ugly or bare bones (though plenty are). But this is sending the wrong expectations about the project.
I have thought about adding AI. But don’t want to add it just for the sake of it.

Hoping to find good use cases.

Will make a big update when it’s easier to self-host.
This could get better over time. Most of the native community seems focused on mobile. But if this is ever addressed, Kotlin could emerge as an alternative to things like Go and other statically compiled languages. It's early days for native. There are similar challenges with wasm support; particularly the wasmWasi target.
Comments by Asahi Linux on Apple firmware dependency:

Asahi Linux already depends on a stable firmware interface provided by a fixed version of macOS, so macOS updates generally do not affect it. However, macOS updates can update system-wide firmware in ways that are backwards-compatible. In this case, one such update triggered a bug in our code.

This is no different from updating firmware on any other machine. It is always possible that a benign, backwards-compatible firmware update will trigger a latent bug by chance. This has only happened twice so far, since the project started, and both times we quickly fixed it.

Apple's platform/system design requires that they maintain backwards compatibility, in order to be able to run older versions of macOS. Therefore, they cannot break Asahi Linux with updates on purpose, only due to bugs.

... If you don't want to trust Apple software and their updates and just want to use Linux, then nobody forces you to. macOS is only used for installation and certain update/recovery scenarios, it's not part of the Linux boot process in any way and It's not going to magically update itself.
What does that even mean though? Does it mean:

- 20% of the plastic in the entire device was recycled?

- 20% of the plastic in the box (as the context implies) was recycled?

- 20% of the recycled plastic was ocean-bound and the device is all or mostly recycled plastic?

- Is it some sort of 20% plastic-grade and the plastic was all ocean-bound?

- Did they capture ocean-bound plastic somewhere, used 20% for these boxes, and released the other 80% back into the ocean?

- Did they mean specifically "Ocean Bound Plastic" as a specific term (OBP) and not "ocean-bound-plastic" as a generic term? In that case, this website explains [0] that it would be 80% of all plastic that would end up in the ocean and that certifiable OBP is not commercially recyclable [1]. So... it's not OBP by definition then as OBP excludes all plastic that can be recycled commercially and this was?

- ???

When I clicked the 'Learn more' link next to it, the figure wasn't in the source page. There doesn't seem to be any source page for this, although a lot of news outlets are quoting it (in different interpretations). It seems like they were trying to greenwash something, though that article is wishy washy anyways.

[0] https://www.obpcert.org/what-is-ocean-bound-plastic-obp/
[1] https://www.obpcert.org/what-are-obp-credits/
Oops. Sorry. I’d delete this if I still could.
I think the use case for this is where you need a bash script on a machine where you can't easily install and maintain a runtime.
Yes, to get a sense of risk taking, I'd rather hear many stories by risk takers that failed than one story from the guy that succeeded.
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And that was totally a thing in the early 2000's

Companies were selling "Media PC's", and Windows ME stood for Millennium Edition or Media Edition depending on who you asked.

And people think the word "content" is overused now...
> The farther you go with RAGs, in my experience, the more they become an exercise in designing a good search engine

From what I've seen from internal corporate RAG efforts, that often seems to be the whole point of the exercise:

Everyone has always wanted to break up knowledge silos and create a large, properly semantically searchable knowledge base with all intelligence a corporation has.

Management doesn't understand what benefits that brings and doesn't want to break up tribal office politics, but they're encouraged to spend money on hypes by investors and golf buddies.

So you tell management "hey we need to spend a little bit of time on a semantic knowledge base for RAG AI and btw this needs access to all silos to work", and make the actual LLM an after thought that the intern gets to play with.
Just convenience. Instead of tmux panels and windows you get native macos windows, that you can manage with rectangle or any other app.
In the first place, why use AI for such basic tasks as generate commit messages ?
What is the base for a good job? 99.99%? 99.999%? Something like Amazon or Google has billions of users. Getting it perfect is impossible. So what's the bar?
> Microsoft says Recall is an "optional experience" and it is committed to privacy and security.

Haha. Just like telemetry.
What is she using so much power for? If she ranching or doing some sort of energy intensive processing? Heating other buildings?

Does your jurisdiction have time of use billing? What are your local laws about solar buy back?

With that much acreage and usage, a solar setup might pay itself back pretty quickly. You can consider either just doing a standard grid tie setup where you sell power back to the grid, or use batteries to timeshift your generation and usage curves, or maybe even put parts of the operation off-grid altogether (with battery and generator backup). If she has a river or stream nearby, microhydro might be a possibility too.

You can get a processional energy audit done, or if you're the DIY type, sometimes you can loan the tools (solar measurement tools, thermal cameras, energy meters, etc.) from your utility or some local energy nonprofit and learn to use them from YouTube.

If you can describe her situation in more detail, I'd be happy to discuss some options. Not an expert, but went to school for this stuff and worked in renewables for a while.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435890 and marked it offtopic.
More important than ever. Rich and your kids didn't get into the Ivy you were graduated from? Shameful.
Have missed this feature. Would love to hear more and how I could implement this feature.

Is it a flag/field in the SDK that tells you I’m from a specific company or is it some black magic?
They already are, you can form a graph of research papers based on citations. Dead ends don’t get links.
Shame the author immediately threw out grapheneos "because they purley focus on privacy", the user experience is much better than lineage these days.
Why would that be the case?

The existing problem is that moderators aren't given enough time to investigate whether suspensions are legitimate, so there are enormous false positives. You can't expect much accuracy out of a decision made under excessive time pressure.

If someone is instead receiving e.g. hundreds of dollars, they can spend more time to get it right. Meanwhile getting it wrong could get them in trouble at work, so they have the incentive to be careful.

Companies could do this themselves -- charge a fee for appeals -- except that it would be bad PR to make innocent people pay a non-trivial sum of money to fix the company's mistake.

This would give the company a way to launder the fee through a third party while still reducing their other PR problem when they ruin peoples' lives through false positives.
I retract my remarks trying to give the benefit of the doubt on this, it’s now covered thoroughly by the credible mainstream press and I apologize to both the siblings and Ms. Johansson for being skeptical.

There is value in OpenAI, there are (a steadily shrinking number of) ethical pros there guilty of nothing worse than wanting to make a good living. Groups including but not limited to the voice group have done excellent, socially positive work.

But the leadership team is a menace (as I’ve been saying for years) and it’s just time for a clean sweep at the senior leadership level.

I’ve been such a vocal critic for so long that I’m always looking for an opportunity to present a balanced view whenever there’s a reasonable doubt.

Wrong again, me.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/opena...
It's very usable. What you loose in performance, you gain in confidence provided by a statically compiled language. So, you can simply go longer in between reloads without risking too much fall out. If it compiles, it will probably run without a lot of weirdness. So there's less need to feel insecure whether things will still run.

Also, I should point out that this is on a largish three year old code base. Re-running tests without recompiling is similarly fast with kotlin-js. A Spring integration test with some code in main and test needing recompilation and the Spring Boot start up time will also set you back 15-20 seconds or so.

And as I pointed out webpack is at least half of the time you are waiting these days. IMHO, getting rid of that and replacing it with something faster could be worthwhile.
> I mean tbh, a list structure with logN indexed access, insert, and removal seems like a really useful structure.

Indeed B-trees are hardly novel.

The point is that no one has a practical need to implement them themselves, unless you're working on rolling out your own database engine. If that's the case then either you're doing that for fun or there were steps in the decision process that I'd love to hear the justification.
> four-day working weeks

I don't see how this affects innovation. Labor interests need to be taken care of too in a startup-friendly economy. In fact, I will probably never work for a startup simply because of the lack of safety net here in the states. That's a risk founders don't seem to consider too thoroughly - the lives they're entangling with their experiment.
Honestly no. When you say "if you want privacy just use Linux" you're throwing billions of people under the bus. If they were willing to use Linux they would have already switched. Everyone deserves privacy including Windows "lusers".
We need lottery based admissions. Let schools set a minimum test score, and anyone over that goes into lottery for admissions. Kill off essays, extra curriculars, club sports, summer programs, AP tests, Legacy admits, early applications, and let kids have some life again.
That… that would be pretty cool.
Yes, I'm using them quite extensively with my day to day work for extracting numerical data from unstructured documents. I've been manually verifying the JSON structure and numerical outputs and it's highly accurate for the corpus I'm processing.

FWIW I'm using GPT4o not Llama, I've tried Llama for local tasks and found it pretty lacking in comparison to GPT.
Any employee surveillance is wildly and widely illegal in EU. So much that a store owner can't even put a surveillance camera for a cash register if an employee is there.
Rust, except using existing executables (or dynamic libraries) instead of downloading packages and waiting ages for it to compile? Seems like a great idea.
Maybe this is useful for real time memory management? 'arrays' for instance, if dynamically sized, can always cause fragmentation. It feels like you can get relatively efficient traversal and random access in these counted b-trees with fixed size blocks all the way down.
Your own link shows investment income as about $3-4m. Nowhere near enough to pay for infrastructure and engineers, let alone all the other things you need to operate Wikipedia.

If you want to argue against finding Wikipedia you are going to have to do so in something approximating reality. Because the idea that they could somehow operate on one percent of their first budget is completely off base.
maybe someone else is delighted with this, but for me it’s all still the stone age
If you or someone you know was in the science fair, or you were involved with it somehow. Maybe if you users just really invested in science fairs, those are all reasons to be angry. But if you are like most, this has no impact whatsoever on you or your life. At most this should provoke a shrug, a head shake, and a “that’s not right, I hope they do something.” From the vast majority of people.
Many people overlook the most obvious gain: remove unnecessary content. This includes words.
Then show a detailed timestamp in a tooltip.
EEG recording of a dying human brain
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> What are you talking about? The AVERAGE CD right now is 5%. My local CU is almost 6%. US bonds are currently ~4.5% - if you consider those unstable, I guess the US economy isn't stable - and if the US economy crashes, wikipedia will be the least of their or our worries.

If you want to live off the interest you have to worry about inflation which essentially devalues your pot by x% per year, so if you really need y% for running costs you really need about x*y% to do it long term.
In the UK, weather alerts are at different levels of yellow, amber or red. Yellow Ice Warning = it's an ice warning, level yellow.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/guides/warnings
> What's your evidence for that?

Living in a world where I don't have a host of different power bricks in my travel bag any more, where one single Anker dual-port charger is enough to bring with me on vacation and get my stuff charged, and where when I lose my cable I can just walk into any random store and buy one for cheap.

> it's already very easy to get charging cables that have multiple heads, for that people that own multiple phones with different connectors

These multi-head cables almost all don't pass through the D+/D- pins of USB which means no way to get more than 500 mA charging current from them.
> sophisticated enough to send different contents to a browser and to curl

Checking the Accept header (or User-Agent or a bunch of other things) is very difficult :)
I can be wrong on this, but if the screenshots are being uploaded, they can be used to train AI models on how to effectively use the computer and navigate. Copilot will then become better at doing things on autopilot and Microsoft will profit.
I am reviewing papers for my substack regularly and there is a structure I believe works well that focuses on potential impact, structure, reading comprehension, github availability (where applicable), and problem relevance.
If all the comments are 1 year ago then it is not very informative on the relative order
Hosting means nothing without the staff. Hardware, networking, datacenters, etc are the cheap part because the staff are good at their jobs.

You and the other set of trolls that think that Wikimedia can run itself need to appreciate that just because you work for a non-profit doesn't mean you should work for slave wages, or that you should be forced to work with the bare minimum amount of staff to keep things running without being able to make improvements to the infrastructure, reader experience, editor experience, or data consumer experience.

In comparison to similar services, Wikimedia has a relatively small overall budget that's well spent.
Of all the books mentioned here, I can’t recommend it highly enough. (And seeing a therapist!)
click the name instead of the dropdown arrow

Note that to make use of ollama, you'll have to wait for the next release or upgrade to a beta release --- while you can change the API right now it's using a newer format for the payload, that's fixed in the beta/next release.
I don't agree that it's pure greed but hosting costs for the Wikimedia Foundation in the FY2022-2023 were $3.1 million. [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/W... (page 4, pdf page 6 for expenses)
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I think it’s fine to be angry at the world when frauds are rewarded and celebrated. It’s not a victimless crime, and if you wish for the world to be a meritocracy, it feels like a slap in the face.
An engineer costs $500k a year. Salary, benefits, office space, equipment, hr, legal, and other overhead. The engineer will only see a fraction of that, of course.

If you told me it took a hundred engineers to run Wikipedia I'd say, that's not totally unreasonable. Features, design, api, scaling, moderation, there's a ton for engineers to be doing.