skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see any reasonable way around this, though. If I have a car that I could replace for $8K and would salvage for $1K, I can't reasonably expect someone else's insurance company to pay $12.5K in costs (for repairs plus rentals/loss of use plus diminished value plus incidentals) to put me back in a place where I then have a crash-repaired car worth $7K plus $1K in cash in my pocket for diminished value.

The problem with that logic is the assumption that the car can be replaced for $8K. To some (maybe most) people, cars are non-fungible and there is a significant amount of personal, non-transferrable value in one particular vehicle, due e.g. to the memories acquired in connection with it.

Part of the reason that people get upset when the insurance company decides to declare their car totaled is that the replacement value offered is significantly lower than they would have accepted for the car had it not been in an accident-- The actuarial value assigned isn't properly valuing the intangibles.

Edit to add: Or, in other words, if the market-clearing price of "comparable" vehicles represented the actual value of the car to its owner, the car would have already been on the used market. The fact that it wasn't signals that there must be some premium over the market price that's necessary to make the owner whole.
CEOs dont do work, they bear responsibility.

AI cannot bear responsibility, so who is going to take a blame if AI does a very bad job?
I wish I could find some old talks by John Quaid (actor Dennis Quaid's father). I remember one entitled "I don't need no stinking drivers license" or something. This headline really brings those to mind.
Performing music is very loud and will result in hearing damage over time, which is not something you want if you like music.

Professional musicians nowadays tend to wear IEMs (In Ear Monitors), which are earplugs that drastically cut sound level but have an earbud driver that pipes in audio from the mixing board at a safer volume. This also offers better clarity, the ability for individual band members to hear themselves play better, and the possibility of a click track.

Despite the general public's lack of awareness of hearing safety, it's not really recommended that you even attend concerts without hearing protection (concert earbuds such as those from Etymotic Research) to attenuate the volume to safe levels, as venues are pushing 90-100db.
That's not what I was talking about. What venture capitalists do is figure out which companies and products that they can market and sell. That doesn't say anything about what people need. People can be and are marketed and sold all sorts of things they don't need. The argument of the above commenter was that society somehow needs these companies as a sort of intrinsic need to live better lives. That's simply not true.
If you aren't leveraging the namespace abstraction of containers, why use them at all?

Noting that I am being frank and honest here, but you don't have a dev problem here, but most likely an organization level problem.

Namespaces and interface contracts should be dramatically reducing dependency issues, not causing them to explode.
> I've also always had trouble quickly identifying a particular object in a dense visual field.

I never considered ADHD affecting my visual processing but it very well could be.

> Interestingly, it's not that I didn't hear the sound of the words, it feels more like a lag in mental context switching to parse the sounds into meaning.

Happens to me all the time, I'm listening but sometimes my brain blips. I hear the words, but I no longer remember them by the time I'm trying to understand them.
In other news trump considers advisory role for Musk:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513467

I don’t understand how to make sense of anything trump related. What, is he gonna shut down Elon’s business and offer a job at White House?
This is true. Extensions currently (manifest v2) are able to evaluate net requests dynamically, and are able to modify requests according to a dynamic ruleset that the extension can retrieve from some filter list published on the internet.

Under manifest v3, extensions are not able to dynamically inspect requests, instead, they may only apply rules to net requests. Even worse, there is a limitation of only 5000 rules per extension!! [1]

Even WORSE worse, under Chrome's manifest v3 rules, the extension cannot load any external code! Meaning that blocklists must be packaged with the extension. [2] Now, one might consider the reading of that link to no affect block lists, it's not a "library" and it's not "code" so long as it's just a list of textual rules.... however, google considers the following to be a violation: "Building an interpreter to run complex commands fetched from a remote source, even if those commands are fetched as data". [3]

Sneaky sneaky. An extension update (and hence new app store submission) is required to update filter lists.

In other words, dynamic net requests are banned, and remotely-updated blocklists are banned as well.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

[3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program-policies/...
Teaching barely pays the bills (for some, it doesn't pay them at all), and the most you could hope to be at a university is an adjunct professor.
Since we're warm-blooded animals, maybe it's because IR vision would be swamped by the emissions of the eye itself?
So if I sell digital certificates -- a PDF that says someone donated to my little media side-hustle -- it would be all good? See that's the problem: nobody will tell me what I can do to come into compliance. And as for the banks: I have been paying my taxes for years and the bank connected to this account has zero issues with what I do and are happy to deposit checks made out to my DBA (and then charge me a fee for having a business checking account).
I'm not a turntable owner myself, so the app doesn't offer a lot of value to me. In thinking about it though, this app reminds me of the early days of mobile apps, where folks made neat, useful little tools to make life better. It wasn't about making a platform, or figuring out how to make a six figure sum, just a neat little ecosystem of fun and useful tools made by folks that had a problem to solve, and thought someone else might find it useful.

I see that it's free, but I feel like this could have easily been a $1 app.

Grats on making a really neat little focused tool!
Benchmarking foundation models for time series
Well, rich and poor people are equally subject to tracking when they travel in their private jets. That seems fair. They can use untracked modes of travel like public transit or cars.

We're okay with tracking planes. It's unclear why this should change when it's privately owned by an individual instead of by an airline.

There are actually plenty of reasons we might want to treat air traffic different, regardless of who's on board or who owns the plane. Whether it's because planes are significantly less private by nature of being very noisy and visible (i.e. there's less of an expectation of privacy because you're being very public), or because they're a greater risk to everyone because they're in the air and full of fuel (i.e. you have a legitimate interest to know whether one might fly near you).
If CEOGPT does a bad job you can replace it with Claude.
Congratulations on the sale!! I love your blog and have really appreciated your retrospectives.
Unless I'm mistaken, 2006 wrx would've had a limited slip differential in centre and rear, and open differential up front (I drove a 2004 until last year:). Type of centre differential would depend on whether you had manual or automatic transmission (viscous rear regardless) , but either way 1. It would've been in full awd mode all the time with power sent to all the wheels at all times under normal circumstances, and 2. In lose traction situation, you would've had at least one front and both rear wheels moving. It was a fairly predictable drivetrain with essentially "guaranteed" rear wheel movement.

I'm omitting some fun and nerdy details here, but it should not have behaved as a primarily fwd car :-/

Is your Camry a hybrid? You mentioned it doesn't have differential, and I must admit my experience has been with gasoline traditional toyotas. I have no experience with the hybrid Toyotas and they may well be more predictable :)
I can see why you are happy with the life you've found. Congratulations - it sounds like you've made a great change!

There are actually similar reasons motivating us to stay in our central Seattle townhouse, despite feeling "house-poor". Having three grocery stores within ten minutes' walk makes it easy to cook fresh meals at home, which I do most of the time these days; we've dropped the delivery habit. We don't have to drive often anymore - I walk to work, and my wife has an e-bike - so a single older car meets our needs, keeping transportation costs in check. Inflation may have squeezed the slack out of our budget, but we still have a better life here than the one we could make with the money we might save by leaving.
Makes sense to develop for what you use yourself.

I've developed for both as well and would say getting _started_ with iOS development is about 10x more time consuming and complicated than Android -- or at least it was about 8 years ago.

I know you know this, but you don't need to own an Android phone to develop for Android (and you don't have to spend anywhere near $400 on one if you do want one).

Looks like it'll be a pretty great app and hope you do manage to get the Android version up and running.
Austin's Butterfly
I really like historical settings:

House of Five Leaves: A robinhood criminal gang

Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki: Mongol invasion of Tsushima in 1248

Onihei: Crime fighting in the Meiji era

Onmyouji: Heian era magic

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu: Rakugo performers in the Shouwa

Glasslip: Not historic, a modern day in the life story

Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san: also modern, a Kyoto story of geisha apprentices

Heike Monogatari: A great telling of a Heian era power struggle

There are so many more...
Not to worry: I learned in school (from an expert no less) that all people are the same.
Title does not follow through with article.

The author defines "making a living" as making 4x the median salary, and further ONLY considers authors of books. There are MANY ways to make an actual living wage off of writing that have nothing to do with book authorship. Blogs, newsletters, journalism, opinion columns, and screenwriting, for example.
Neither do you if all your ATP was suddenly gone.
> Almost no one uses a PC these days for communication.

Probably quite a lot of the people that governments want to keep a fairly close eye on do still use PCs or laptops though
I thought this article (a polemic and critical reflection on New Atheism) would be interest to the HN community.

History has shown us that a lot of “intellectual movements” loved by technologists et al have gone nowhere or otherwise been a joke:

- Rationalism: Styling itself as a rigorous way to interrogate reality to chart the best path forward (nurtured by the lesswrong community), its crowning achievement was Roko’s Basilisk, a hilarious “doomsday scenario” that only holds true if you happen to have a VERY specific set of beliefs about AGI and what its motive would be (ie the priors you must hold to believe RB are de facto religious)

Effective Altruism: Same as above, but (supposedly) tied to material pursuit of improving life for humanity as a whole; in practice, another rich tech brat playground and favored mindset of at least one multi-billion dollar fraud; also EA-motivated actors haven’t made a dent in any measurable global indicator of health/happiness, so what is all that money going for? Could it be think tanks?

And New Atheism: just a stalking horse for evopsych sex pests and neocons in academia (see the support for the war on terror, obsession with “western values” ,positions on campus protest post 10/7, etc… the article covers it well)

Putting this together: I think that “our community” isn’t very good at philosophy and the “lifestyles” we endorse end being the positions of culture-war conservatives (ie transphobia on the basis of “scientific reality”) or economic libertarians and white supremecist freaks like Moldbug.

I’d also like to be able to say I’m against ideology, but really I’m not. You can probably guess my perspective by what I devalue in my comment above. We are all reflections of our effect on the world, and I think the effect of the three “movements” above has been negative.
> Simplicity for example: if to solve the exact same problem, with no (impacting) performance penalty, one solution is considerably simpler (meaning, more straightforward) than another, then there's a clear winner.

Not so clear: some people say `foreach` on arrays is simpler than single line map/reduce/comprehensions. Others say the opposite.

Some people say a monolith is simpler than microservices. Others say the opposite.

Some people say Python is simpler. Others say Java is simpler.

I mean, an earlier response to an earlier comment of mine on a different story was from someone who thinks ORMs are simpler than SQL. I think the opposite.

Until we can get everyone to agree on what 'simple' means, it's not that useful a metric.
the only idea I have on how to improve the outcome here is normalizing things like Gofundme and Patreon and just in general transferring wealth from people who hit the automation jackpot to people who don't.

But things are going to get weird and it's hard to predict the social consequences. Maybe robots get so cheap that there's no reason the have-nots don't have them, too (like today with smartphones and cars) and then there's no famine because food production is so easy with automation (???)
The dearly departed technical bookstore was only equalled by Berkeley
It isn’t surprising. Global temperature rises won’t be uniform across the world and India unfortunately sits around the latitude that is highly prone to desertification. And while proper city planning would’ve helped mitigate the issues, in major cities, we only see green spaces disappear in favor of concrete, glass and roads, all compounding the heating effect. If nothing changes in the next couple of decades, we’ll see mass deaths, billions in lost economic losses and ecological problems not seen before.
I haven't touched MySQL since the 5.7 says, but I don't think it does. I remember back the creation of the FK will fail if there is no index, but it doesn't create them.
Corporations are already considered people, aren't they?

I could see an LLM arguing for personhood and our lawmakers being dumb enough to agree with it.
This describes me pretty well. With a team in place to clear the path and keep me working on the correct big problem, I can move mountains. Without that team I just find or invent big problems to solve.

With a good team, results are almost assured, but without, useful results can often just be a coincidence.
There is a further step with LLMs that seems to blow up peoples mental models. The combo of probabilistic outputs + randomish decoding, 'knowledge' being in parameters + context, generation one token at a time... it's just so freaking weird.
Even better, obsolete your entire business as your customers will use AI instead of your services.
Right, China did this two or three years ago but it’s such a different country now!!!
Thanks for posting. It's fascinating you've kept up with it so long. Same with a couple other commenters in this post. I've had a website is some form for the same amount of time, but while I tinkered with blogs a few times it never made to my main site. Here's mine with it's unchanged design from like ~2005 (I'm not sure when) with just some simple additions of content over time. http://www.benjaminosborne.com
25 years last month.

Hand-spun HTML on day one; cobbled-together scripts for the next many years; Jekyll once it hit 1.0; today, Astro.

It feels like a real "moment" where people are reconsidering blogging and personal domain names; I'm excited to see what comes of it.
AI Integration and Modularization
At a quick fly over its useful in situations where:

- You value typing

- You have many relations and interrelations

- You have multiple clients with different needs

- Your org has a distinct divide between backend and frontend

- You need to stitch together data from many different sources (N microservices powering 1 api)

Ive had a lot of success with GraphQL and think the idea of providing an API schema instead of an API interface to be a beautiful addition to a systems design.

Also https://hasura.io has been a great accelerator when creating POC for products.
https is great, and I'm glad most web traffic uses it. However, sometimes you want http.

Example: when teaching low-level socket programming, plain http is the easiest place to start.

Example: when providing simple, nonsensitive, read-only info via API, the overhead of https and certificate management seems unnecessary.
My mom told me she quit smoking in her 20's because of the health risk.

Oh, I said, like cancer, heart disease or hypertension?

No, she was in her 20's. None of that mattered. However a friend of her's set fire to the bed she was sleeping in. That made a very big impression on my Mom. She apparently liked a cigarette before bed and had no faith in her ability to just stop smoking then - so she quite entirely.

For some reason it makes me laugh.
This is DBA 101 stuff. If a database is part of your software, you really need someone on the team who knows how it works.
Exactly. LLMs are closer to a plinko game than consciousness. And I'd bet they quickly start returning gibberish when you run them in a feedback loop, sort of like an opamp going to a power rail in a badly designed circuit
Do we need for the model to be be continuously updated from data sources or is it good enough that they can now figure out either by themselves or with some prompting when they need to search the web and find current information?

https://chatgpt.com/share/0a5f207c-2cca-4fc3-be33-7db947c64b...

Compared to 3.5

https://chatgpt.com/share/8ff2e419-03df-4be2-9e83-e9d915921b...
True. As a car person, I’m expecting an annoying battle here, and that’s over just replacing the utilitarian aspects of what is a pure utility car for us.

If it was my fairly modified (by me) ‘66 Mustang, that would be very difficult to get to a settlement figure that I’d find fair.
I love programming but have burned out on doing it for others a few times now. I once jumped to fly cargo for UPS.

I gotta say. It's nice to remember how good we have it. Doing a harder job for 1/10th of the pay refilled my empty gratitude bucket very quickly. :)

Today I gripe about waking up at 8am to do another useless standup meeting, but once in awhile, I remember waking up at 3:30am to meet the UPS jet and wait until they loaded my little Beech 99 so that I could fly through low clouds and ice so that the folks in roseburg, eugene, and la grande could get their amazon prime tchotchkes. Then waiting around in the bumblefrick motel for 6 hours for the UPS truck to return that afternoon with the unwanted returns of last week's amazon prime tchotchkes.

Yeah programming for others sucks. But it sucks less than a LOT of other things, and pays a whole lot better. Get while the gettin is good. When you want to run screaming in the other direction, may I suggest a pause, a walk, and a reflect first -- lest you kill the golden goose and never be able to get it back.

$0.02 :)
New crystal production method could enhance quantum computers and electronics
Your comment seems more anecdotal than anything. I can assure you as someone that lives in Los Angeles and consumes cannabis regularly, that your findings are yours alone. Maybe you intended this to be humorous instead of factual, but you should be expected to be called out for nonsense nonetheless.
Sonic: A Low-Latency Voice Model for Lifelike Speech
I work in finance; if you came to me with these sorts of concerns I'd think you a paranoid lunatic.

Lock your screen when away from your desk, but no one is going to be pulling the secret sauce from your systems by occasionally going into your office to ask if you'd like a cuppa.
All of those things involve abstract thinking and complex decision-making based upon learned heuristics.
While tinnitus ringing isn't a result of vibrations activating the hair cells in the cochlea, the hair cells are still the reason the ringing occurs. If I recall correctly, it is still possible to exhaust these ringing-inducing hair cells to gain temporary relief. I wonder if you could somehow mask in a constant ringing that would exhaust these specific hair cells at some frequency for extended relief?
Why Linux developers do not fix reported issues or ignore bug reports
Nope, but they will be looking for your nudes. [1]

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nude-photos-of-strangers-...
> In 2017, the CBC demonstrated how hackers only needed a Canadian MP’s cell number to intercept his movements, text messages and phone calls.

> From the linked article: First, the hackers were able to record a conversation between Dubé in his office on Parliament Hill and our Radio-Canada colleague Brigitte Bureau, who was sitting at a café in Berlin.

So many questions! Does this still work? On any phone using SS7? Including landlines and mobile phones? From anywhere in the world? To anywhere in the world? What are the limitations of the attack? Why isn't this a vastly bigger problem if anyone can listen in on anyone's calls?
You'd be surprised... generally if there's a dedicated hostname for the API, I would expect / to either display or redirect to API docs.

Also, doesn't help when you're reverse proxying /api to $API/api
> Can I reasonably assume that people who are very riled up about OpenAI not meeting its original (weird, IMO) moral standard are revealing that they do in fact take existential AI risk seriously?

I would say many of them probably do, yes--quite possibly in large part because of OpenAI's own rhetoric on the subject.
OpenAI partners with Vox Media, Anthropic brings ex-OpenAI safety lead
OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter according to former member
Real-world - the whole "CEOs bear responsibility" thing went out of fashion decades ago.

When the AI screws up - the Board will loudly blame it, then watch as the SecTeam installs a new AI CEO.
My point is "moving closer to work" doesn't make a lot of sense.

Queens to Manhattan is easily an hour or so.

I have a pretty high paid job that's fully remote. I'd have to make something like an additional 50k a year to even consider going back into the office.

Even then, it would have to be in a location I like.

Offices are relics which have no modern reason to exist for the vast majority of tech jobs. Often the team is distributed anyway.
Yes! I came specifically to post "yeah but... dynamic range". As someone heavily into video production and imaging in general, we're still a long way from capturing the overall fidelity of the human visual system. The current state of what high-end consumer gear delivers to end users in HDR and WCG (wide color gamut) is still quite disappointing compared to the marketing claims and technical specs.

It requires a surprising amount of expertise, effort and money to assemble, calibrate and feed content to a high-end home theater sufficient to correctly deliver even the (currently modest) full capabilities of 4k HDR10+ / DolbyVi$ion. And the home theater content ecosystem is still a mess of mixed, partial implementation of supposed standards.

Implementation of HDR/WCG for web media is currently even less evolved. Despite many newer, high-end laptop, computer and phone screens having decent capabilities, inconsistent file formats, browsers, drivers and OS implementations seem far away from this "just working" for end users.