skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a career scientist and here's why I suspect this won't take off:

(1) A lot of research is trash and not reproducible. Over the last 5 years I've found it's usually not even worth my time to read half the papers I read unless its in Nature or a top journal. Even then the ROI is minimal.

(2) It takes quite a bit of knowledge to appreciate and read a paper. In grad school, it took 4-6 hours of work to go through a paper. Do I really want to have a discussion on the 10,000 ft view of a paper? Probably not. Do I want to spend 4-6 hours really appreciating the nuances of a valid paper? Probably not.

(3) As alluded to by (1) and (2), most researchers (at least in my anecdotal experience) are spread so incredibly thin, as someone who would want to provide insight on some incredibly niche topic, I am already overbooked for my time between work and outside responsibilities.

I think you're going to find that the garden you're trying to grow doesn't have the adequate catalyst/buy-in. You might be better off creating a version where the paper is summarized by a GPT model and that 10,000 ft summary is discussed by the general public.
5 digits ICQ number is a great achievement
Google saying Obama is Muslim is not a hypothetical. It did say that.
"Left" isn't a personal label (like it is in politics); In this context it refers to having useful tests earlier on the timeline (where time in the development workflow is on the X axis).
Hilariously, that exact feature was posted here a couple of weeks ago, and roundly decried as being the worst thing about that era of CVS, and how horrible it was that it made reproducible builds impossible.
Back in the day, messaging was pretty awesome. You could use an app like Pidgin and pretty much talk to anyone no matter what color their bubbles were.

Today, I have to have one app for all the different ways to get ahold of someone. It's pretty annoying, but we did it to ourselves. Yay.
None of this is an improvement for users over the previous experience.
You're leaving out "and having someone on staff or contract who can administer it for you".
FYI it is an excerpt from the decoder podcast.

- https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-a...

- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-pat...

It is a nice podcast with various CEO interviews.
In fact, the average person in Silicon Valley is as clueless as you are about Steve Jobs and would agree he was merely a good salesperson.

But people that know what it takes to build great products almost universally respect his world-class design and leadership, and even his deep technical knowledge.
That wouldn't be too hard if GPU's would have a stable interface. Try programming a GPU in Assembly language and see how that goes. The experience sucks, but that's the level that needs to be targeted in case of an OS.
did the same search on Kagi, my search results include the forums bit (I think I had to turn that on manually) which gives me 3 different forum-like websites (one being reddit). Then there's a Wirecutter article on the best 4 chromebooks of 2024 [1].

This is what I expect when I want to find something quickly and reliably. I don't need AI for this, I just want my search engine to answer my query.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-chromebook/
Modern 2FA is "something you know" and "something you subscribe for".
The front-end of excel doesn't allow the creation of more than 1048576 rows in a sheet. (1<<20)
>(not sure if it was part of the "chat wars" [1] too).

Kind of in that they were a good enough competitor that AOL bought them and AOL definitely continued to fight.

I don't think they ever publicly integrated them but they did merge the back ends enough that for a while you could just login to AIM with an ICQ UID, and impress all your friends with your cool numeric aim account
Follow the money....
Apple releases a great deal of open source software, which, so far as I'm aware, all runs on Linux as well. At least Swift, clang, and LLVM, all run on Windows as well. So does their Objective C compiler, so of Apple's programming languages, that leaves AppleScript. I would not describe AppleScript as robustly successful.

I believe Apple could probably get away with keeping Swift proprietary, or only supporting Apple platforms. But they don't. I have no inside-track information on why that is, but I suspect the reason is fairly simple: developers wouldn't like it.
Wouldn't surprise me -- do you have any examples handy?
GCP Cloud Functions are PaaS running on top of a “cloud provider”. My point is that if you start with CF, there is no lock in and no migration.
We only had dial-up connections with a real IPv4 address back when I used ICQ.
> on the contrary it demonstrates the absurd lengths Apple is willing to go just to mock open access to tools, parts and processes.

Emphasis added.

I think the absurd metal gymnastics HN'ers are willing to go through to justify things they don't understand is just... I can't even.
Another offender: codegpt.io ToS grants them an irrevocable perpetual sublicenseable license to all code they see from you. It’s insane what rights companies claim to your data.
This could be attractive if they can build a product along those lines: tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars are spent yearly on numerical optimization worldwide, and if this can significantly accelerate it, it could be very profitable.
> isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively original and innovative UI?

that's definitely why I got into it years ago, but it seems like it has lost it's meaning and been simplified into "engineer that likes design" or "engineer that wants to be good at design"
Damn, icq, the memories.
I don't think that's the only factor. There is a strong impetus toward obfuscation, both from the direction of a search engine (more clicks, more "interaction"), and from corporate & govt interests (the less people know, & know to be actually true, the better).
End of an era. When I was a little kid ICQ was my first messaging program. It was the first time I spoke to someone over the computer. Even though I have not used it in a long time it gives me feelings of nostalgia.
I'm not sure how this won't get worse.

It seems inevitable that LLMs will be training on more and more data generated by other LLMs creating a hallucination feedback loop.
The recommendation is “self host your own collaboration tools”, not “self host your own LLM”.
> It is highly unlikely it will say that, there's 10000x more articles on the fact that he isn't

Except this was an actual response that it was giving. Tweet from a related HN thread ~yesterday on Google search hallucinations:
https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502
Sounds intriguing! I’m probably your ideal audience, given a large coding background, low math background, and current writing 2D focused games.

If I may ask a question, in your mind what’s the benefit of more deeply understanding these implementations when physics frameworks handle a lot of the really mathy logic behind collisions and simulations.

Either way I’m putting this in my read queue. Thanks!
It’s such a flawed and dangerous perspective.

It’s one thing for the search results to bubble up a wrong result. You go to it, and then you go back and look at more results to get a more complete picture. See where those different sites disagree and where they agree.

But these AI results don’t do that. They are providing a single answer and confidently trying to come off as that is the answer. No fuzziness about its reliability.

Every time it is right, it slowly could be deemed as reliable to a general population until it is dangerously wrong. But then you don’t question it since it was right so many other times.
> This forced, radical change motivated only by fear feels like Google+ all over again. Or New Coke.

A year ago everyone was trashing Google for being ahead for years on the science of AI, but completely failing to productize it. "OpenAI is going to eat Google's search business for lunch", was the prevailing narrative. This is what people said they wanted!

I'm sure it's clear to everyone now[0] that genAI is not a search solution, and Google's former approach of quietly putting AI into phones and products without it being flashy and in-your-face was actually a better strategy.

[0] Just kidding, I'm certain that the industry and especially the people running Google will learn all the wrong lessons from this.
I use Keypirinha* for launching (almost) everything that's not on my taskbar...

* and yes, I know it's essentially abandoned, I've tried the 'spiritual successors' and never found one that is quite as close to ideal workflow for me
Google is imploding under AI
Something else I resent is the extension of the word "healthy" beyond the realm of bodily health, into the weeds of psychology, where the meaning of it is more like "approved".

Let's imagine we're on a battleground. You're fighting to defend your nation. I'm on the side of the baddies and I want to take over your trench, so I come at you with ... a screen. It has a colorful, jiggling, sparkling, animated button that begs you to press it. You immediately start drooling, you grab the screen, you're incapacitated and my victory is easy, right?

Or would you in fact be able to resist the attraction of about 150 square centimeters of dancing pixels when it really mattered, showing that this whole trope of mind control and screen addiction is approximately, perhaps not completely but close to completely, hogwash? People have habits in the contexts of their routines of life, and they can feel bad and unproductive and guilty about those habits, but they maintain the habits anyway because it's basically OK and they have no invigorating disaster going on to make doing anything different really matter.
What a stupid freaking “sport.”
Despite going all in on agile from day one of a new greenfield project, very high test coverage from TDDing everything, and a large suite of automated integration tests - we still have a month of QA gating the release process as bugs constantly sneak past all that process in a complex system. QA and automated tests look for different classes of problems.
Open-source AI projects selected by GitHub accelerator
This will continue to occur and may come as a "shock" to some companies that will ignorantly persist in using proprietary services unless a significant change in data collection from the service itself occurs, which should not be the primary motivation to switch to a self-hosted version in the first place
Oh-oh!

I couldn't find how to check for numbers so I just typed in icq.com/xxxxxxxxx and saw my name. Then I thought well no way I will remember my password, but then I remembered I used the same five letter password all the time back then. And voila it works. Who needs a password manager when you are naive, computers are slow and you need to access memories from times when you weren't overloaded with information.

I will say I don't have many fond memories of it, it was difficult to use it in the days of dial up. Things also changed quicker than today, I think from 2002-2010 we went from ICQ to yahoo to Skype to msn to others and back. But it was my first <3
> While the data cannot definitely determine if humans who drink H5N1-contaminated raw milk will suffer the same fate as the mice and cats, it highlights the very real risk

I already know that H5N1 is quite harmful to some species. Can we have a study, please, that actually quantifies the risk to humans from H5N1-laced raw milk? Because that is what I really want to know.
Motherfucker hasn't done a search in a while. Yeah, Google is a load of garbage; like the first comment on TikTok says, you need to add "reddit" for the search results to matter.
Being reachable only from a PC at home… man. Now that I miss. The whole lifestyle of having a clear distinction between being at the computer and not. Status messages for a time when “away” was a state of being you ever were. Coming back to see whether your crush had messaged you. Simpler times for sure.

Before we even had “wi-fi!”
SharePoint is not a reason to stop pursuing a startup idea.
Are you looking at a single country's production instead of global production?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267264/world-crude-steel...

In 2022, a total of around 1.9 billion metric tons of crude steel were produced worldwide.

EDIT: however, your intuition that the impact on cement production would be tiny is correct.

This report indicates that producing new steel from ore requires about 270 kg of limestone per metric ton of steel, or 88 kg of limestone when recycling steel in an electric arc furnace:

https://worldsteel.org/wp-content/uploads/Fact-sheet-raw-mat...

World steel production is about 35% recycled, 65% new from ore. So this new Cambridge research, which applies to recycled steel, could displace about 59 million metric tons of limestone consumption. That is small compared to billions of tons of global cement consumption. It might be locally significant for municipalities that have electric arc furnaces for steel recycling.
This is fake.

https://x.com/NorthstarBrain/status/1793977912942575772?t=Mo...
> 2FA pushed me out of github

I've seen several folks have this opinion... and it just doesn't make any sense?

SMS for 2FA is problematic for many reasons, but Github offers TOTP & U2F/passkey 2FA, which have zero privacy implications.
I feel old now..
It's a pretty simple question.

Delivering what in what industries? I see SOME usefulness in SOME areas like, specifically, machine vision. But a lot of things? Medical? yeah, no. Lots of issues there. Text generation? Hallucinations out the ass and extremely iffy results often.

Most of the 'wins' in the text gen side still require a TON of work on the human's part to make it usable. People like to mention Pro's in Math and coding talking about it helping them with stuff but they are experts already.

It has potential in a lot of places but this rapid paced forcing of it everywhere is idiotic and foolhardy.
I laughed but I can imagine circumstances where errors of this magnitude could cause serious problems.
I'd be very surprised if they were actually using geometry shaders (at least this conclusion can't be drawn from their post). Geom shaders are basically dead weight, a holdover from a bygone time, and are better avoided for modern renderers.

The techniques they're drawing on mentioned in the post - parallax mapping, shell mapping - do not generate explicit geometry, rather they rely on raymarching through heightfields in the frag shader. It's more likely that they're doing something like that.
Please don't be snarky or post in the flamewar style to HN. We're trying for something else here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who skewered fast food industry dies at 53
Signals are at the intersection of asynchronous IO/syscalls, and interprocess communication. Async and IPC are also weak points in the original Unix design, not originally present. Signals are an awkward attempt to patch some async IPC into the design. They're prone to race conditions. What happens when you get a signal when handling a signal? And what to do with a signal when the process is in the middle of a system call, is also a bit unclear. Delay? Queue? Pull process out of the syscall?

If all syscalls are async (a design principle of many modern OSes) then that aspect is solved. And if there is a reliable channel-like system for IPC (also a design principle of many modern OSes) then you can implement not only signals but also more sophisticated async inter-process communication/procedure calls.
Yes, basically. Thin on evidence, heavy on speculation and entertaining enough to be spread from person to person.
So you get robbed (or something), and you're physically OK but have no phone and no wallet.

You find a phone to use, however you do that, and dial the local emergency number (0118 999 881 999 119 725...3), and maybe they show up and take a report.

And then they leave.

Now, you're in the same situation you were in before (no phone, no wallet) -- nothing has really changed.

What happens next? What's your next move?
I very much agree on there not being enough concern and "moral panic" about obesity, but just feel like noting that for opioids specifically though they may be affecting only a relatively small percentage of people, last year alone there was something like 70-100k dead from fentanyl overdoses.

In that respect I'd argue that at least compared to guns or abortion as common political obsessions, opioids, especially high potency ones like fentanyl, are a lot closer to obesity in causing catastrophic death and suffering in the US.
Ask HN: What is the best framework for RAG?
What is the best framework for RAG on private data? Initially using OpenAI is fine, but ideally seamless support for open models and fine tuning if I want to migrate from RAG. Data is in JSON format. I’m open to using Python or Go, or even TS/JS so language is not an issue.

I am using llamaindex with pgvector and OpenAI and it works well. But with new options being launched everyday, just wanted to ask if there were better options that were up and coming.
I think the real problem is thinking we have found an alternative to waterfall. Despite lots of attempts everything is waterfall in some way. Sure we have added feedback loops, if requirements are wrong we can change them and all that - but in the end the phases exist for a reason.
For everyone proudly displaying their old ICQ numbers, just be aware that there are still sites that have some of the info tied to the numbers archived (presumably what was made public/status). So, there may be some easily-access publicly identifiable information that you don't want associated with your current HN username.
(I just did a search and I found that my old icq# had a phone number linked to it)
Over-hiring is a calculus that shifts depending on macro market conditions. To pretend otherwise just isn't an honest assessment of what it means to be a business leader. In the zero interest rate era, it was irresponsible for business executives to not invest to ensure they had a competitive foundation or else be left-behind by those doing so... The rise of interest rates changed the market's appetite to invest in non-profitable growth companies, which in turn had a series of follow-on effects that required software executives to reverse course so as to optimize for their long term viability in the new climate.
> didn't support offline messages

ICQ did support offline messages, from the beginning afaik, too. I had a 6-digit uin (485358 or something similar), until it got banned for running a bot (whoops).

To the sibling reply, I think AIM and ICQ did have interop on messages at some point, it was much later than when ICQ moved protocols to OSCAR and TOK though.
Youtube and Google search.
To me the most clear-cut benefit of AI is automated content moderation. People literally get PTSD from moderating Facebook. It's no different from replacing the most hazardous factory work with robotic automation. You will still need a human in the loop for the more difficult cases, of course, but by any reasonable utilitarian calculation AI content moderation is a win.

(I'm not implying anything about whether or not LLMs are good for Google search.)
6447137

I was really surprised when a recovery mechanism was launched many years ago. My account wasnt comprised. It still had the same dumb password from way back -- my first highschool girlfriends name and a number.
Here's the clip from the video, but on YouTube
https://youtu.be/lqikP9X9-ws?t=1503
Whoever at Google thought this was a good idea should no longer be involved in search! Reddit is a terrible source of information, it's all confirmation bias and unqualified people giving advice upvoted by unqualified people to vet it. It's worse than Yahoo Answers because it looks more trustworthy on the surface but has worse quality of information.
ICQ is/was mainly for one-to-one and small group chats, much like Signal or WhatsApp. I don't think that use case needs a large moderation staff; I consider even having the ability to do most kinds of moderation an anti-feature in that kind of tool since it means the communication is not truly private.
If Google just removed all the junk and went back to their old school algos, all of their problems and their users problems would be resolved.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths some people go to introduce complexity.

If they were truly desperate to use AI, they could just use it behind the scenes to help rank their initial result set.
No it does not. You can absolutely add copy and move ctors without function overloading.
...do you have any source verifying this? Setting aside how insane of an issue it'd be network-wise/privacy-wise/etc, this is like a day one "debounce the call" fix.

I'm not even saying I doubt you, I'm just curious how you ascertained this exact behavior.
Knowing little about the company, it's almost certainly completely untrue to state the "the company was highly profitable"; you don't hire 160 people in an OSS-centric business and also turn a profit. You likely have a distorted understanding of the challenging nature of the burn rate in a changing macro environment.
No wonder these models weren't getting production attention and commercialized when they were invented...
Low 6 digits owner. Have long lost access... Made many friends on ICQ. But all good things come to an end.

Though this one actually outlasted my expectations: AOL owned... But why does it mention VK?
It is very easy with microservices to create something that nobody can figure out how to start everything needed for a full system test on their development machine. This is one of the downsides of microservices and if you use them you should be mitigating this somehow. (I don't work in a microservices environment and I can think of a dozen options - I'm sure someone who does can think of more as well as tell me why some of my ideas don't work)
What do you mean? GitHub supports TOTP, Webauthn on free accounts.
It's fake. https://x.com/NorthstarBrain/status/1793977912942575772?t=Mo...
Chinese are taking notes. JDAM and Excalibur worked brilliantly against enemy equipped with Toyota Hilux, Ak-47, RPG-7 and sandals. Near peer enemy is a different thing.

4 kW jammer can jam military GPS for 100 - 150 km at least, they can be hard moving targets that go on and off.

Cruise missiles with TERCOM and DSMAC (correlating maps with visual or radar images) can work without GPS. Storm Shadow, Taurus, AGM-86B , and Tomahawk should work fine. Over large areas of water they have nothign but inertial navigation and can get lost.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466429.
Money and fun don't have to go together, its one of those truisms like "Don't be evil"...

If Sundar wants everyone to act like its back to the "small and scrappy" days then his paycheck and stock comp should reflect that too!

If your CEO is running the company with bond villain type logic its gonna be a REAL bad time...
v3 has a lot of features folks don’t talk about. But XMPP MUCs are still kicking too.
> did they reduce it by 5% or by 50%

Either one would cause a dramatic reduction on the (exponential) virus spread.

For the actual policy, it shouldn't make a difference. It had feedback mechanisms anyway, because the conditions always change.
Because with cloud providers you don’t need anyone on staff to understand the product, keep up with the constant changes and predatory features they slip in, manage the cost overruns, or help to migrate away from their proprietary data formats once you’ve had enough of their “whaddaya gonna do about it?” treatment of customers?
I always felt VMS' mailbox system was much more elegant, but I imagine it's an ugly mess under the surface too.

https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/Mailbox