skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I guess, but at what cost?

The Qualcomm/Windows partnership has been nothing than frustrating to me: (Supposedly) thanks to that, there are no official Windows ARM images available for virtualization on macOS.

And thanks to that, I'm stuck running a second, frustratingly slow [1] x86 Mac for work, since some niche software I regularly use is only available for Windows.

[1] Thanks for that, Apple – I don't see any reason for that other than planned obsolescence; it was fine with the macOS version it was released with!
Yeah I don’t know about this. Looks like you’re opening yourself up for a TON of liability with some very powerful businesses.

But not only that, you’re likely endangering the jobs of the people who take up your offers.

Seems icky. I am all about generating side-income streams by connecting people with needs to those who can fulfill them. But this is not it. I would recommend you take whatever you’ve built and apply it to a different problem.

What about monetizing Reddit AMAs? Things like that are a lot more useful and apply to a much wider range of people.
With all of that Microsoft funding, they couldn't just pay Jen Taylor?
“That's exactly what almost all knowledge is.”

It’s worse than that. Much knowledge comes from authorities or peers. The sources could be unpopular or barely reviewed. Yet, people are likely to believe specific types of sources. It seems to be hardwired for some purpose.
I sometimes feel like the corpus of videogames is approaching a parody of my entire career.
In the amoeba Games, they keep a watchful eye on the winners during the anthems, lest they wind up with a single very large medalist, after phagocytosis.

(I remember someone —Lambert Meertens?— trying very hard to come up with non-applicable "pure" mathematics word problem involving how to best arrange an ameboid tournament, but of course it was all just a thin disguise —mathematical Groucho Marx glasses!— on top of a very lucrative applied problem: optimal reduction of an operator tree into an accumulator)
Tom Hatch, author of saltstack, to leave Broadcom
After VMWare acquired saltstack and Broadcom acquired VMWare.
I came to post the same comment. I was confused by the lack of "t+1" or "t-1" nodes, and then it took me a while to realize I had to connect the "ht" node to itself.
This seems unlikely to me. No company is going to fire you because you were trying to help. However, accepting money for this service seems pretty much guaranteed to result in termination even if 100% of the accounts you help with were legitimate. The side dealing is the problem.
It was unfortunate (at least for East Coasters) that the Computer Museum moved to the West Coast in 1999 -- I used to enjoy visiting it in Boston in the 1980s and 1990s. But I suppose with the decline of DEC and the rise of Microsoft and Apple in the 1980s that the center of the computer industry moved West too.
Starliner remains the single project that keeps SLS from wearing the stupidest NASA project crown.
This is great. Any plans to add images support? (for screenshots in my case)
I use OneNote extensively because it's free form like a white board and allows pasting images (which i often do while debugging).
What does made with mushroom mean?
I was referring to addressing each atom individually. Indeed, you could possibly store more than 1 bit of information at each address. Maybe call it an "atombyte".

Similarly in computer RAM, we don't address each "bit" individually but actually each "byte" (8 bits). Or maybe we address each word?
I sincerely hope they don't. Windows is still (unfortunately, from my point of view) too relevant to become single-vendor at this point.
I would expect most any answer to be loopy and partially wrong (or really I'm not surprised when they are) based on the short question, its just something you build intuition around as you use them.

edit - btw I just noticed

"Sartù di Riso: A baked rice dish that can include ingredients like meat, peas, and cheese, often bound together with eggs. It’s more commonly associated with Naples but has variations in Sicily."

Was one of the 4 dishes in the question I submitted.

So... was it contradictory actually?
If your dandruff is seborrhoeic dermatitis, then you may want to try a coal tar shampoo like Neutrogena T/Gel or MG217.
I wish Solvespace and OpenSCAD would have a baby so I could have the best of both worlds.
> to keep those current if there's a stream of updates it can subscribe to, rather than having to constantly download the full Wikipedia database dumps and parse them out.

I mean presumably prior to this they were using the [free] parsoid rest api along with the [free] event stream api. I highly doubt they were parsing the dumps.

Its not even clear to me what the core value proposition of the new api is over the old api from the perspective of google. Maybe SLAs? A way to justify donating money without it looking like a donation?
Tell HN: G2 Falsely Boosted My 1-Star Review to 5 Stars
https://www.g2.com/products/merge/reviews/merge-review-8334916

I wrote this review for Merge.dev back in 2023 and gave them a 1 star review since I felt like their API really wasn't that great. Unfortunately I wrote it with a company email, and I left that company a week after I wrote the review.

Obviously I no longer have access to the email that I wrote the review with and you can tell as well since the review user icon has a cross through it since the account was deactivated. However it seems the review was edited in January of this year to a 5 star review which is complete bs

Anyone know a way I can get in contact with G2 cause this is beyond shady and I wouldn't be surprised if they let companies pay for reviews to be edited at this point.
It’s not just that. It’s also ugly and awkward to use. I tried to use it after learning Fusion360, and it’s just lacking. I wasn’t even trying to do anything particularly complicated, and it just kinda sucked.

You see the same problems with a lot of “flagship” oss ware. Gimp seems to have the same awkward feature set for 25 years. Apparently the only thing that has changed is they no longer compile against Gtk 1.0, and they decided to have all images in a single window.

Still can’t do smart background erase.

Inkscape kinda works, but it always seems like attachment points for easily alignment, and a non sucky text editor are forever out of reach.

I’m sorry. I know software is hard, but it’s been literally decades of stagnation.
It's sad to see all the negative comments considering that HN is often the go-to place for similar requests. This is a great idea, although I can understand how it can be risky for big tech employees.

Nice work anyway. Maybe you could market it for bugs/issues rather than just account suspensions. It reminds me of https://xkcd.com/806/
I like to imagine how insanely good Google’s customer service would be if no company including them captured more than 5-10% of market share.
I've used this and compared to friends who have installed solar, and it's been roughly accurate to +/- $1500 or so.

https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/
It doesn’t have a formal master sketch tool but there are workflows for master sketches that work well by importing geometry into feature sketches. Mango Jelly Solutions has one on youtube.
Anthropic: Generate better prompts in the developer console
Section 230 obviously has multiple effects. It is not simply one or the other.

It can benefit small sites that produce their own content and large ones that don't at the same time.

But if, effectvely, the only way web users find or discover a small site is through a large one that acts as an intermediary (middleman) then perhaps the fact of the intermediary poses a greater, more practical threat of "censorship" than a lack of Section 230 immunity.

Because Section 230 has allowed the growth of "Big Tech", the argument around small sites with controversial content "staying online" is no longer only an issue of having Section 230 protection, it is an issue of whether certain gigantic, third party intermediaries will allow these small sites to be found/discovered and to continue to receive "service". Operating a personal website is rare. Publishing on the web today is mostly sharecropping in a feudal system. It's publishing pages on someone else's website.

Section 230 allowed the www to go from a public resource to a private one, controlled by a handful of mega-sized websites, now with so much cash and control over the web's direction that no one thinks of them as merely websites anymore. We are now stuck with a web of intermediaries, middelmen formed for commercial purpose of surveilling web users and targeted them with ads. The big ones are so big that people believe they do not need Section 230 protection. But they could never have grown so big without Section 230.

Section 230 has positive effects and it has negative ones. It's good and it's bad. There are Section 230's well-intentioned, theoretical incentives and then there are actual, historical events that it has enabled. What actually happened.

No one can predict the future. But Section 230 is an experiment that has run its course. We know what happened and we know the role that Section 230 played in it.
"...supply exceeds demand for '0.25-6 h per day,' and that’s an important fact. The continuity lies not in renewables running the grid for the entire day but in the fact that it’s happening on a consistent daily basis, which has never been achieved before.

...

...California will entirely be on renewables and battery storage 24/7 by 2035."
Great work. It would be nice to see the interactions wrap to make a more seamless experience. The particles themselves do seem to wrap around the edges, but the forces do not.
CC-BY-SA to be specific. How does attribution of derivative works work in LLMs (etc)? When is the content they produce required to be CC-BY-SA as well (by virtue of the -SA part of the license)?
An equivalent-specced Surface laptop would be the following specs:

- 13" or 15" screen

- Snapdragon X Elite (which still doesn't match M3 performance)

- 16 GB memory

- 512 GB SSD

Surface laptop price is $1399 (13") or $1499 (15"), which is $100 cheaper for the 13" vs the equivalent MBA, and $200 cheaper for the equivalent MBA 15". The Snapdragon X Plus, which is what it looks like you priced out, is quite inferior to the Elite and even the older Apple M1/M2 series chips.

This is all to say that neither is a bad buy, depending on your needs.
> "power-efficient" is a weird thing to claim, anyhow. What does it mean?

Cycles per Joule, or cycles per second per watt. While staying at the laptop-level available power envelope.

> PPC were much faster per socket than maybe even server class chips by intel

The absolutely top POWER chips were at the time _somewhat_ superior to Intel (and AMD), but not by much. And that superiority was achieved by raw strength, the POWER chips had a very large die with tons of additional cache, and ran at higher frequencies (i.e. more power dissipation).

However, laptop-class chips were absolutely underpowered. Intel ran circles around them. The same was true for consoles, PS3 had a puny underpowered CPU (with multiple co-processors that were supposed to make parallel tasks easier), and XBox360 was barely better than then current top desktop CPUs.
I went to Mountain View/SV/California for the first time maybe 5 years ago and the CHM was so much cooler than I expected. It made me incredibly envious to have grown up on the east coast in the 90s where none of my friends had a computer until the early-mid 2000s instead of CA. Everyone I knew online was from California for a LONG time. I feel like I missed out on so much cool stuff because I learned most things out of Barnes and Noble books that I couldn't afford instead of being enmeshed in the culture.

Rest in peace
> The Crew Flight Test of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is no longer targeting Saturday, May 25. We're awaiting official word from NASA and Boeing on the next possible launch date and for more information regarding the path forward on the helium leak.

What happened to good or even okay spacecraft design? A good design would mean this is easy to troubleshoot and would not impact the launch date because it could be fixed well ahead of time. How was the U.S. / NASA so much more successful in space 50 years ago compared to today? It was a scrappier time, to say the least.
React is great for what it does. But people also wants it where it does not fit (where server-rendered html is enough with vanilla JS). And then they go on to re-implement half the browser features. Badly.
Agree to disagree :) The "human readable" is better at a glance, and timestamps are better when I care about the specifics.

> People would more likely want to copy the actual date than the human readable delta.

I agree that this is true when copying, but text is primarily for reading, not copying.
pinch and zoom is an excellent navigation mode to quickly scan an overview and zoom into what you care about.

I wish more mobile interfaces make good use of that. Instead we have a various versions of drilldowns and poorly implemented search.

Half the time I can't even tell what the full list of items are on a mobile menu.
> how can this not have crossed OPs mind when spending his/her time building this platform

You mean the two engineers on loan to the global investigations team at $techcompany?
GPT-4o is a phenomenal leap forward for true multimodal models, inference efficiency, and speech generation; it's also replacing the free public model. That's massive news. In contrast, the Sky voice drama is vastly overblown and a blatantly obvious/predictable/avoidable mistake by OpenAI. But it'll be memory-holed in a week. Two, at most.

ClopenAI is a terrible company, but calling them desperate over a PR faux pas is pathetic.
Is it’s ok to train AIs on CC-licensed data? What about
attribution, should the AI be distributed with a note about the dataset’s origin?

I could imagine a poorly trained model that returns content nearly identical to original; who would enforce CC rules then?
He was backed for quite a while by Canadian businessman Calvin Ayre, who runs Coingeek which used to go on about Craig being Satoshi. They apparently fell out in Sept 23 with Ayre calling him a moron. Some of that story here https://www.ft.com/content/83dc246e-99ca-4af3-bd07-a815fdafa...

Not a tech guy I guess but one of the main backers.
On one hand, if you're willing to pay a large sum then it indicates you value your account highly. But on the other hand, this creates perverse incentives for tech employees, and could get them fired.

What if the money was donated instead?
Sadly a lot of people think that way.

Particularly younger engineers have their mind blown over the concept of not immediately upgrading all your software just because there's a new version.

In the physical engineering spaces, it's more valuable to keep using the same software version you started a project with, rather than have hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages because of a dickhead bug.
CPaS (Cognitive Pollution as a Service).
> From the VC marketing bullhshit they assume that the "only" way to create a company is "to create the next billion dollar company"

We don't (or at least we shouldn't).

The issue is as a VC you have LPs who are very demanding about returns. VC represents a minority of their total capital outlay, but they put money in VC in order to get outsized returns.

If I'm the Ontario Provincial Pension and I gave a VC US$200M, I expect to make way more money from the VC fund than I would have investing in the stock market, or bonds, or gold, or to a PE/IB/Hedge Fund.

VC is just another financial instrument that is a part of diversified portfolios.

If I had to use stereotypes, if PEs are alcoholic coke heads, VCs are kombucha swilling stoners and trippers.
Good points.

As a side note:

> They tend to be intimidating as hell for casual and new users.

There are a lot of fields and buttons, but also a lot of "smart" logic that's part of our secret sauce that puts us ahead of most competitors.

I've been pondering if this is an area where we could use a LLM to improve the user experience. Have a way for the user to describe what they want to do, and have the LLM provide the steps necessary to do so.

When new it can be hard to read and understand large user manuals, especially when you're on the clock and need to have this order registered and processed yesterday. A lot of our users are not very technical either, so being able to clarify etc could be helpful.
Its true.

They are made of tissue paper, papier mache and balsa wood.
We trust the consensus of published, peer-reviewed experts. That's different than the kind of Demos that does things like declare war on Persia, kill Jesus and Socrates, or edit Wikipedia.

> If an idea is disputed, then you trust it less. If it comes from a small number of reputable sources, then you trust it more than a large numbers of unreliable people. So with the Wiki.

Right. That makes Wiki kind of unreliable. Not completely. And not to the point of uselessness, but you should trust it about as far as you can throw it.

> Human knowledge isn't from the platonic realm.

Citation needed ;)
Are the businesses that operate in the community not part of the community?
The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
> fire you for doing that

No, a good company would realize that AI-based false positive account suspensions is a problem, is killing small businesses and creators in droves, and should hire more human paid employees people to take care of account suspension appeals and help reduce the false positives of the AI algorithms.

Hand an additional bonus to the employees who were willing to be the first iteration of this additional human labor and helping improve the quality of the platform.
I wouldn't call this innovation. It's half-baked (quarter-baked?) bad software that has nothing to do in a production system.
The fundamental issue here is that a fillet cannot wholly consume another edge.

It’s always worth doing your fillets last, but the other thing I would say is, where a fillet or chamfer is more than presentational as it were, build it into a sketch. Or cut it with a groove. Those operations are more reliable in OCC.
But maybe CADmium will have a bigger dev group. FreeCAD devs aren't many and Ondsel has hired quite a few.
1. Ah I had assumed you were talking about the new Surface laptops, my bad.

2. Where are you seeing the pricing for those Vivobook configs? I'm not able to pull up equivalent pricing in the US, so far.

That might be a pretty good deal, depending on the real world performance of the X Elite and the build quality of the ASUS laptop (I've had quite a few and it's been some great hits and some major misses.)
Yes, but I think the solutions work fine; tap, hard press, whatever.

Don't get me wrong, I share the annoyance with interfaces where I have no way to find the actual timestamp. It's better to only have a timestamp than to only have the "human readable" version with no way to get the timestamp. But (in my opinion) the best is to have the human readable version, with a way to get at the timestamp.
> 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).

That’s what GPT does. Or rather, someone hearing about RAG for the first time would have trouble distinguishing what you said from their understanding of how GPTs are already trained.
I wouldn't mind having my models public, but that it SaaS is such a nuisance and the reason I am sticking to FreeCAD. I want to be able to edit offline, like on an airplane and not lose the ability to edit my stuff if some company shuts their servers down.
Aren't there physical limits to how large integers you can add with carry at once per GHz?
The tastemaking ecosystem is now dominated by Spotify, who only cares about paying less to license content.

Even outside streaming, the labels should care about AI-generated works edging out material from their own catalogs for licensing opportunities.
NASA has had spectacular success though...just with SpaceX, who got half the money Boeing did to develop a human rated craft.
I'm glad this paper presented so many possible alternative explanations. This is really exciting but there's still so many ways it can turn out to be nothing -- can't wait to see further study!
and it's also just an excess during mid-day (excess during .25h up to 6h in the day if I understand correctly) which does not cover the reat of the day through batteries.

It also say "it's only the start, it's going to be more in the future" but tbh I expect hydroelectric power to go down in the future...which represent up to 20% of the demand, and is the most practical renewable source.

Also batteries system is "one of the largest in the world" and barely allow to delay +4h of power...that shows how big is the task.

Title is definitly missleading.
Eventually the SEO spam will move to Reddit under fake profiles and fake questions to be answered by the same party under another profile.

The information age gave us information overload, something I don't think anyone predicted.

I wonder how things will be in 10yrs as people use more and more AI to generate low quality stuff and fluff. Will people tire of all this and seek out real human ideas and thoughts?
I've used high Velcro tape advertised as high strength but always it seems the adhesive is the weak point.

The Velcro is quite strong but one surface will end up detaching from the tape itself.
Not really. RAG works very differently from a general (or generalist?) LLM.

RAG is vector search first. It encodes the query, finds nearest vectors in the vector database, retrieves the fragments attached to those vectors, and then sends those vectors to the LLM for it to summarize them.

A general LLM like Gemini or Claude or ChatGPT first produces an answer to a question, based on its training. This doesn't involve searching any external source at that point. Then after that answer is produced, the LLM can try to find sources that match what it has come up with.
Who here has actually compared the two voices? Because they don’t sound alike. I think this whole thing is absurd
Do they explicitly say that it's analyzed on device?

They stated that video and audio stays local, but what about text transcript from said audio and video?
This is a clever hack to solve the problem. It’s essentially an underground market for customer support, converting company employees into clandestine customer service reps. Better than nothing, but think about how silly that sounds.

Tech companies know customer support doesn’t scale and they don’t have a strong enough incentive to hire customer service people. Automating away these “cost centers” of labor is largely why tech companies have grown to have the highest market caps in the world.

Until we address this incentive issue, tech companies are going to keep eliminating jobs that require lots of manual labor through automation. Or the free market will solve it for the highest bidder.
It depends on the amount of E's you have taken.
>it won't allow you to directly quote a person even though they are a well known trustworthy information source

Little known fact: That is actually allowed in some limited situations, but only reluctantly, and with a lot of care.

For instance if someone is recognized as an established researcher in their field with publications in top academic journals and then they make a statement on their website about something they have expertise in, you can actually cite that if you have no better source! Even though it's a direct self-published quote.
Unrelated but I didn't realize how much Coupang pays, but then again it makes sense given how successful they are in APJ.

Maybe I should brush up my Systems knowledge and Korean...
The best solution I've found is to not use Prettier and instead use ESLint Stylistic for formatting:

https://eslint.style/guide/why