skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sit corrected on the author. I should have said "entitled elite" ( which spans political ideology).

That aside...

Anyone who believes a degree === education deserves to be made a sucker.

Anyone who believes a degree === the ability to string thoughts together deserves to be laughed at.

Look around, we HAVE increased the ubiquity of structured education and yet we keep enlisting students who can't figure out their career doesn't pay enough to cover their excessive loans at their "I MUST go there" over-rated private college / edu.

Left or right, the overproduction system is fueled by such suckers.
Private companies do not have an SEC reporting obligation.

In the US only 1% of all companies are public.
wow codedokode for the win!
I bought into Caddy last year for its simplicity. Loved it, from the moment I saw the off-horizontal default page. I switched back to nginx last month because, like you said, I stepped outside of the expected box. Skill issue? Maybe... I transferred my gunvicorn webapp from WAN to LAN. No more dotcom, just 10.x.x.x ip. To say Caddy didn't like it: error messages were non-specific. Community knowledge (ie, stack overflow etc) was lacking. Then nginx.. It worked perfect with almost default config.
Skill-issue or Caddy issue, the point is: Caddy is simpler sometimes.
We’re re-learning that things like art have value beyond the end result. The story and person behind the creation is as important as the creation itself, and this is something AI can never replace by virtue of being artificial. Software is entirely about its end function, and this in many ways more replaceable.
For a post that's about supporting businesses that provide value, it's unfortunate to see a link to bypass a magazine's paywall.

(Yes, I'm annoyed when I want to read an interestingly headlined article that first requires a subscription. Yes, I also use archive.is to get around some outlets' paywalls. That said, I do try to pay for the online newspapers and magazines that I read the most, and I think it's worth nudging others in that direction as well.)
Oh and just today I've banned yet another pedophilia fediverse instance with no easy way od reporting it the any authority.

I'd have to give my name and address and potentially put me with 1 foot in jail because I have viewed the images and have them in my browser's cache.

If they really wanted to protect children from sexual abuse, they would've created easy to report online services. But it's not and never was about pedophilia.
We had the technology to prevent climate change for a few billion dollar per year.

Didn't happen.
Still makes me sad, that a private company's chat platform is a commonly used comms/support platform.
Not to pile on but there have been natural reactors in nature, but zero natural smartphones
Does observing what works automatically make one a fan?
Basically AI can replace the garbage easily.
Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon
Proper alarming!!!!!!!!!

So many unnecessary frightening headlines

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-flu-summary.htm

Total Reported Human Cases in the United States: 4 (since 2022)

3 following exposure to dairy cows (reported between 4/01/2024 and 5/29/2024

1 following exposure to poultry (reported on 4/28/2022)

States with Reported Case(s): 3

Yep. real alarming!
One way to create a "measurable goal" is to focus on what you can control. In our case this meant improving the platform, far away from chaotic customers. Lo and behold, the result was down-prioritizing customer delivery.
Most businesses in the USA are "lifestyle" businesses, and they are the backbone of our economy. Everywhere I've worked, we had relationships with dozens of them, and the area around us was full of them. We couldn't have succeeded without that ecosystem. Most people who didn't work in the relevant industries didn't even know they were there.
That's fantastic and how it should be everywhere. But that's not what DEI is or how it works. I wish that it did, but its not.
On iOS app distribution and censorship is and will remain centralized.

It doesn’t matter if the relay service is centralized or federated. Apple can ban apps that don’t comply with the new law. Even self-distributed apps under the new sideloading provisions of the DMA can be censored by Apple by revoking the notarization.
Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

The availability of economically competitive alternatives to fossil fuels (like cheap solar + batteries) is a very recent development.
Big wooden statue of a beaver full of well equipped marines.
Personalised cancer vaccine is a 'landmark moment'
What % if by revenue?
If it implies not having to learn anything new (or learning as little as possible) in order to get a result fast, then the correct term is “script-kiddie spirit” not “hacker spirit”.
Ok, try a different lens.

"Optimise" is never a neutral verb, we always optimise /for/.

Growth-above-all capitalists observe, correctly, the correlation between economic output and human wellbeing, and assume, incorrectly, a relationship that is both purely and directly causal and straight-up linear.

What if we optimise for human wellbeing and build a society that works less like a Prescott Pentium 4 and more like an iPhone? Figure out what really matters and then set about doing more with less.

(Answers that will be uncomfortably socialist for some - public-ish goods being more efficient in many cases than private everything, and uncomfortably technocratic for others, but tough...)

Because doing more with more is running out of runway. And in this game, you can't just declare bankruptcy and start again. There's no second chances here.
Yes, You Can Play Duck Hunt Without a Television (But I Can't)
Next ULA Boeing Starliner Demo Launch Attempt Could Occur June 5
I'll throw in another vote for AWS Textract, I've had great results for it against 19th century handwriting: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/25/sfms-archive/
The "solution" you're showcasing only addresses global warming, not climate change, nor any of the other facets of the environmental crisis (e.g. biodiversity collapse, ocean acidification, soil depletion, fresh water pollution, etc...).
Techno-solutionism at its finest!
If A.I. can do many jobs, who is gonna pay for the products or services they make?

People who were fired or had their salary scaled down because of AI don't tend to consume as much...
> Probably in large part because you can't verify when its wrong since that isn't your area of expertise, so those advice looks better to you.

Which is a kind of Gell-Mann Amnesia. Which, I just noticed, has “LLM” in the name.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
Since this was posted, the source code was changed, and a makefile was added.

The new version requires ARM 64 or Intel 64 with AVX2. It requires clang-13 (clang-14 and later won't work). Gcc doesn't work.

With clang-14, I got build errors. First error:
./a.h:38:30: error: use of unknown builtin ‘__builtin_ia32_pminub256’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

Seems to be related to this LLVM change which removed the above builtin: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117798

When I replaced __builtin_ia32_pminub256 with __builtin_elementwise_min and ditto for max, then it compiles and apparently works.
That's surprising. Nothing in PHP would attract me to use it again. JS in the backend and in the frontend is a nobrainer.
NT wasn't "all new code" , " built from the ground up" : Dave Cutler, designer of DEC's VMS, re-used heavily many VMS concepts.

So much was borrowed from VMS that with a little bit of changed terminology, you could use the VMS Internals book to program NT. see: https://www.itprotoday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-...
2 days ago I ordered online, tipped and paid online. When I arrived I had to sign a receipt that had a line labeled Additional Tip. The system knew I had tipped but wanted to try squeeze me again!
Lisp is unsuitable for modern CPUs because of memory hierarchy. Lisp operates primarily with lists, which can have pointers all over memory. This was not a problem on earlier CPUs because all memory was the same with similar random access time. Modern CPUs cannot access pointers in memory with the same speed, they need to follow locality rules for performance. This means that an algorithm using something like C or Fortran arrays will always be faster than a Lisp list based version.
And then you have applications like Skype that need all ports: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/which-ports-need-t...
I didn't downvote. There are alternative approaches. For example, U.S. can cease support as loss of Ukraine is not really a big problem for them, as long as Russia stays in non-NATO countries; Europe+UK can then say we won't be able to keep this together without U.S. and say Ukrainians, if you want, make a deal with Russia, and who wants to flee, you're welcome in Europe. Russia gets Ukraine and the small part of population there unable to leave or those with russian-compatible thought processes. No further war necessary for some time (in other words, we get some pause, which we will use to arm the f up).

This scenario sucks, shows weakness, it has its own risks, russian-controlled Ukraine is a big security and money problem for neighbouring states, and is not necessary while Ukraine can fight with western weapons, and thus nobody relevant wants to try it as of yet. But anti-war naives do not think that far ahead.

If Ukraine runs out of soldiers, or U.S. backs out, some variant of this may however get on the table and we will be subjected to massive militarization.
Checked exceptions are an unfortunate case of a feature being rolled out in a language that wasn't ready to support it ergonomically and then becoming a pariah because of how bad the experience was in that language. There's nothing wrong with the concept—checked exceptions are conceptually the same as every function returning a Result type—but without type inference and without some ergonomics like Rust's ? operator they're really hard to work with and so people grew to hate them.

I personally believe that it is now within reach for Java to fix checked exceptions to be ergonomic and useful. If they do it, Java could have one of the best error handling paradigms out of any modern language, but I suspect it won't happen because the community has come to land so firmly against checked exceptions.
LLMs as Programming Language Runtimes – Why Text Prompts Are Broken
„ Just for example, I once wrote a moderate length tutorial (4500 words, shorter than this post by word count, though probably longer if you add images) on how to find various inefficiencies…“

Is there a public version of the tutorial?
Well, this time they have some proof.

Also, the world is not ending. Just the way it has been working since the Industrial age.
How to Become More Likeable
I think the markets in China are subordinate to the government so I wouldn’t use them as a proxy for how well China is doing. I see markets as a proxy for financialization which I consider in general to be a net negative. The supposed benefits of efficient allocation of capital seems to always give way to Ponzi schemes and those are very inefficient. There are some that argue that the frenzied investment in boom part of the boom bust cycles pays off in the long term, e.g. investment into telecoms. But I’m not one of those people, it’s hard to AB test it.

My example of ‘moving fast and breaking things’ was not an endorsement, I was making the general point that your example is not necessarily a sign of a things going bad.

It is hard to bet against a Ponzi economy as there are no limits, but my general thesis that there will be a crushing of the middle class and with that a transition from a high trust society to a low trust society. The society will still largely function but will be less efficient because of the increased security costs. So I’ve been investing in private security ventures which as you could imagine are booming.
> ... but instead just proxies output of an unthinking tool. After the former, you come out with new knowledge and skill. After the latter, you come out none the wiser.

This reads like "bla bla bla" without any support. Let's try to dissect what you are saying

1. You are saying that LLMs are "unthinking tools" what is that? It does appear to be a made up word. What does it mean?

2. You set up a dichotomy between using this "unthinking tool" and running a business. Can you please point me to the passage where the commenter is saying that they are only doing one or the other, and not both?

3. You say that you become non the wiser by using this "unthinking tool". Would you extend that to all similar activities? Such as reading a book, reason blog articles, receiving lectures etc?

> but you need to check who would be ignorant after what I outlined in the beginning of my comment.

After you establishing false dichotomies and using non-existing words? You demonstrate neither being able to reason or use knowledge. The hallucinations from an LLM is strictly more useful that the hallucinations from you - At least they can be corrected.
>Kind of like an AI CEO advising me on what to do next.

Or like someone who never was a CEO, but has absorbed all kinds of articles, listicles, and books with business advice (most of them written by hustle hacks, non-CEO content creators, or failed small-time enterpreneurs) and serves advice based on that...
Maybe I don’t have enough ‘AI’ experience to understand, but I’m not getting the future of vector databases. 90% of the use cases I’ve encountered also benefit from keyword search, faceting, etc. and therefore a more traditional search engine like Elastic, Meilisearch, or even Postgres makes more sense than something that is purely focused on the vector index. At this point every search engine has a solid vector and hybrid search implementation.
Is this the technique they are using in Python's new JIT?
People dependent on cars for nearly all their activities, find it very hard to imagine a world where they are not. Many of them have shaped their entire lives around cars. They live in places where the closest grocery store is 20 minutes away by car. Where it’s barely safe to cross the street in front of their house on foot.

Folks in these situations think the idea of not using a car to get around is crazy, because in some ways it is. It’s not the majority of people though. In the US the majority of people, 70%, live within 2 miles of all their basic needs. That’s the distance that more than 25% of people living in Denmark choose to ride a bike for an errand rather than drive.

https://www.visitdenmark.com/press/latest-news/facts-and-fig...
> LLMs are only useful if you know the topic you’re asking questions about.

Not true, and you're missing a key point for the topic at hand. LLMs are useful if you know the topic OR if you have measurable outcomes. If you want to increase sales, and you ask an LLM how to increase sales, you will know if its ideas work if they result in increased sales.

Think of it like AlphaGo - it learned to play Go by playing with an AI despite having no knowledge of Go strategy, because it could determine what was effective based on outcomes.
There won't ever be, until it's too late. We're propped up by unsustainable tech, ocean temperatures are on the rise. So we ignore it and continue?
Looks nice. Let me check. Thanks for sharing it.
No, this study alone doesn't suggest that. Rather, it suggests that a lot of people have indicernable voice
I read the article yesterday but I found it insightful.

Where is the Civil War part?
Yeah I think we are past peak to that’s where the foucus on speed is coming from.
> being wrong

The last collapse happended to the natives of a whole continent just a few centuries ago by new types of disease. I don't think they expected that, so they didn't need to be wrong, it just happened.
You would need to fine tune the model with the thousands of documents, RAG won't help you because the context window can't fit thousands of articles yet.
I don't care who fucked it up. But not having MFA turned on should be reason enough for everyone to be sacked. So lazy
I've had the opposite experience
And who ends up paying in a world that doesn't get its act together on sustainability? Hell, who's paying right now? Who's had their country invaded or their political system up-ended to keep cheap oil and cheap goods flowing to the West?

I'm not saying degrowthers have all the answers, but any critique should be weighed even-handedly against a realistic view of the shortcomings of what we have now and where it's taking us.
Not personal at all. A very general statement I would say.
No other way than taking their word for it [1]

> In late March 2024, Apple quietly updated its website to note that anyone can opt out of having the location of their wireless access points collected and shared by Apple — by appending “_nomap” to the end of the Wi-Fi access point’s name (SSID). Adding “_nomap” to your Wi-Fi network name also blocks Google from indexing its location.

> Asked about the changes, Apple said they have respected the “_nomap” flag on SSIDs for some time, but that this was only called out in a support article earlier this year.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-do...
> Is it time to discourage such posts in the HN rules?

No, because sometimes they can be useful. If you don’t like a particular comment, downvote it or ignore it.
>The authorities seem to be quite happy with an outcome that means poor people will just have to travel a lot less.

I'm not poor, I love travelling (and travel a lot), and I don't even have a driver's license. You don't need to drive to travel, at least in Europe.
Unlike communism, it's not a centrally enforced ideology, but something that either happens in a controlled or unontrolled fashion.
It looks really cool. Do you think there’s any applications to central or obstructive sleep apnea?
A survey on text generation using generative adversarial networks
HN has plenty of bad takes, and this is up there with the worst. OP is obviously learning from the LLM. What is with this knee-jerk reflex to complain about AI regardless of whether your complaint makes any sense?
I haven't had a chance to listen, but if he said those exact words they certainly seem to imply the rest of what OP said.

EDIT: I have now listened, and I'm with OP on their interpretation. Goetz doesn't say the exact words that OP used, but he definitely expresses each idea and means what OP says he means.
I'm not sure if you're being serious or ironic given the recent press attention about Google Search being crap to ensure that Google Ads makes more revenue.

So, yes, they definitely can game it by focusing on short term unsustainable wins and ignoring all medium and long term negative impacts. Push the AB testing games to their limits, like running the same text 5 times with minor "improvements", so that the statistical metrics no longer apply. Dark patterns that cause long term user value to drop but drives some short term revenue. And so on. Then you get the more fun ones like stealing work from other departments without giving them credit. They eat the R&D cost and you get the revenue win. A good middle manager will even spin it so it looks like their team did the R&D as well.

That said, it all works fairly well when you've got a monopoly in the area (ie: search and ads for Google) but in those cases most everything works fairly well.
I think this knowledge is at the base of their identity. That's why they push the narrative that their success is driven by personal merit. Having spent weekends with some of the rich, they are pretty aware of what is happening in a way that the rest / the poor are not.
>Why do you think it is anti-curiosity to use LLMs?

"Don't need to study and trial/error to learn about business, I can get business advice in a box".

It's Stack Overflow copy-pasting MkII.
Best time to Linux ever. But worst time to dump other platforms which you rely on. Same as the last 25 years.
Those are all examples of menial tasks IMO.

So the organization/company that delivers on those - Wins?
"This kind of transaction is exactly what modern capitalism is trying to stamp out."

Since small businesses lack "economies of scale" they need fat gross margins to survive. In the USA, both the public and the political leadership was frightened of the slow buildup of inflation from 1960 to 1973, and then the explosion of inflation, into double digit territory, for much of the period from 1973 to 1982. After that experience we had a long era, a whole generation of leadership, where the public and the leadership felt the fight against inflation had to be one of the most important economic fights that the government engaged in. And the fight against inflation had to involve the fight against gross margins. So we, as a society, went to war against small businesses, because small businesses survive on the kind of margins that were seen as causing inflation. By contrast, allowing the spread of companies such as WalMart, which benefits from "economies of scale" and so can survive on razor-thin gross margins, was seen as helping to stop inflation. Likewise, opening up the economy to nations such as China was seen as an important step to limit inflation. The cost structure in China was such that a company in China could have fat gross margins and yet still underprice a company in the USA that had thin gross margins. Thus importing from China became an important part of the war against inflation.

All of this worked for awhile. The era from 1982 to 2008 was known as The Great Moderation, an era when inflation fell and the business cycle moderated. And the era after 2008 also saw rock bottom inflation -- inflation remained under the Fed's 2% target for several years after 2008.

Under President Trump, the USA began to adapt a new economic policy, and President Biden has continued forward with the Trump policies. The new era has seen increasing tariffs on China and a willingness to rethink some aspects of the open trade policies that we followed for most of 50 years. And since 2000, starting under Trump and then continuing under Biden, we have seen several trillion worth of stimulus spending. This has revived inflation, but it has also allowed many small businesses to raise prices and thus re-attain the kinds of gross margins they need to survive.

In general, a society can have the lowest possible prices, or it can have prices that are high enough to support small businesses, but it cannot have both. Since America is a large, diverse nation we will never have agreement about what our priorities should be, but we should keep in mind, we did some real damage to ourselves during the decades that we eliminated inflation and we are gifting ourselves some real benefits during this current era of inflation.
You don't have higher level management? Those are there to organize collaboration between your teams and them giving you OKRs and setting shared OKRs is an excellent way to do that, teams setting their own OKRs to be very greedy goals to suit the teams themselves just means the higher level managers aren't doing their job.
A chain of buyouts hurt the quality of each… linuxacademy was very good, but that deep content died when ACG bought them and rolled it in. ACG became more about engagement and cert hunting. PS owns all now and doesn’t need to compete.
This is why LLMs are so good at it. They don't need to investigate anything they can just write about it.
The world is collapsing
Around our ears
I turned up the radio
But I can't hear it
We make the laws and can choose how liability works.

If a company knowingly keeps data about users, they should be liable. You're right that this data liability might discourage companies from hoarding lots of data about users; mission accomplished, I want companies to be discouraged from keeping lots of data about me.
Magical criteria and private schools. That's where this thinking is honed....