skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI will make money sooner than you'd think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Nothing stops people from doing that in their profiles now... and it's not like this is even an official hn feature, so either way they're linking to an external site.

HN has better moderation than any other site I'm aware of, I trust it to be robust against that kind of spam.
Yeah? How about put it in writing with the CEO signature?
>Call me a socialist, but designed to break just after the warranty and planned obsolescence are scourges resulting in higher profits, but suck for the customer, lose goodwill, and are fundamentally uncool for what they do to the planet.

Do most computers "break" just after the warranty or people just desire something newer or faster because of the shifting landscape of software and the web?

>It is more ethical and respectable to craft excellent things that are "too durable" that people will treasure for many years because it's better than creating overpriced, pretty, fragile, incompatible e-waste.

How do you care to make this paradigm compatible with the ever changing nature of software? Software which is made by others who dont share the same values as you do? Because without that, these "excellently crafted" items will just take up space and provide little to no value.

I restore "vintage computers" for fun and I am finding it to be a waste of time because the value proposition for most old computers tends towards 0 for most people. The purpose of a computer is to run software period. Without software, the computer is an ornament made of various metals.

The only hold outs are computers that have a specific characteristic to them that provides value. Things such as the ability to run software new computers struggle with(pre Win XP machines with ISA sound cards, SUN SPARC machines), a visual component(SGI Computers), or just a specific historic nature(NEXT Cube, a lot of the 90s, early 00s Apple computers).

The majority of computers from the last 10-15 years don't add any of that value, and thus will eventually only have scrap value.

This is different from old well crafted furniture. Those items in a way can still run modern "software". (Humans born in 2024 can sit in them and enjoy them the same way humans born in 1960). This thinking applies to many other well crafted items. Their value proposition is different.

In a way the tech industry has really pulled the wool over peoples eyes. Convincing people that this tech is "essential" to modern day life because of "efficiency" or the faster moving nature of the world or whatever else has locked in this disposable reality. The only move if you wish to follow your ideology is to not play and accept the consequences.
The main cost is training rather than inference, and compute is still getting cheaper, so I don't expect this to limit the use of LLMs.

We may finally see people realising that just because they can use a hammer on a screw, doesn't make it the best choice.
Canopée: the sailing ship for Ariane 6 transport
Ask HN: What's your favorite lightweight utility text editor?
I've been a dedicated Vim user for over 25 years. The keybindings and commands are ingrained in my muscle memory. However, my daily work has shifted to JetBrains IDEs, and I use Obsidian for personal notes. Neither are great options for general lightweight GUI text editing tasks – editing config files, modifying a little pasted text, etc. GVim has been my go-to for decades, but the less I use it as a coding environment, the more I forget its little quirks in configuration and workflow-- I guess I've become a bit spoiled by modern UI niceties. I've decided to move on.

I'm looking for a modern off-the-shelf replacement that's snappy, isn't totally user-hostile, and ideally FOSS-- but I'll happily pay for a truly exceptional product. I'm looking for simple from the usability perspective: anything that involves multiple plugins or significant text configuration rather than having menu-based as-needed options will be a tough sell. I need at least rudimentary syntax highlighting and I'd love vim keybindings.

What lightweight text editor do you swear by? What makes it stand out from the rest? Do you think it might fit my use case? Why or why not?
You couldn't have described it better. ROS is painful and makes you actually hate robotics. My conclusion was that it was written only to be used by their own developers and researchers. Documentation on most useful plugins (SLAM and AMCL) is really bad to near non-existant. I felt like all this was for some elite and you either have a very strong foundation and know a lot to use it or prepare to suffer and stay long hours trying things out until they work. The ecosystem and tooling are the worst I have ever experienced: colcon, sourcing scripts, launch scripts and on top of that you have to use specific Ubuntu versions. Their flagship language is C++, which is a language I hugely dislike. Yes you have Python but is nothing more than a thin wrapper to the underlying API, is not a clean and native Python API so you end up writing a lot of bureocratic and gluing code.
Interception tools! https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools

With the official caps2esc plugin! https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc

I use the stock caps2esc config; capsock by itself is Escape, but press with another key and it's control. Many other options are possible and writing your own plugin is not hard if nothing else suits. Interception-tools is amazing.

Interception-tools is also one of the most interestingly unix like tools out there, using pipes to break apart & pipeline it's tasks. Incredible power, but also kind of dauntint to really understand! Thankfully you can just copy paste the configs in & it works fine. But archwiki is a good write-up if you want to go deeper on this epic tool. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/interception-tools

Setting up interception-tools as a systemd user service with a Nice=-10 is a good early lesson on improving your world with modern Linux tools. Highly highly highly recommend. I cannot work without.
I also got my career start with their Java MOOC back in 2014. Highly recommend ed!
Thanks for sharing. A lot of this resonated with me.
70% given future variables that are unknown and vast is just saying he has an agenda to pull sensational numbers
As Steve Jobs put it, "we're in a business of making phones, not hiring people". It makes way more sense for a company to get rid of an employee when they admit to burn out, rather than try to help them.
I was thinking more of a major car company, rather than a few individuals making transactions. Two people can trade on any basis; you can trade a car for baseball card if you like. Nevertheless, the only story I can find in this case is one long-time crypto enthusiast selling a car with BTC, which happens everywhere from time to time.

My point was that during any major event in which the state requires control over the money supply, people making any meaningful difference to that control, won't be free to do so. In order to conduct a modern war, all states need to place large parts of their economies on a war-footing and requisition industries for defence (eg., iirc, 40% of the UA economy is now on defence).

Since BTC isnt a currency, trading with it has little impact on any state; it might as well be old bottles of wine. If it were to ever gain this status, and companies during a war were meaningfully offering their services in it, that would severly interfere with a state's ability to operate.

This just won't happen. It's absurd even to imagine it. If the libertarian problem with the state is how it uses its overwhelming legal, political, social etc. power to mismanage and economy and force people into capital controls etc... it's the dumbest thing in the world to suppose that by having people install a database, you've somehow undermined the state's ability to act.
The United States has more material surplus than any country in the history of the world.

This is a really bad example because you could try to make the case that per-capita income doesn't accurately capture the difficulty obtaining education/healthcare/housing, but no serious person is contesting we have access to a vast quantity of high-quality consumer goods for peanuts.
This is pop culture type nonsense.

Firstly, paying someone to do a job is not "exploiting". I mean, I guess it is if exploit is pared down to just mean "use for a benefit", but it is a pejorative in this context, meant to clutch some pearls and virtue signal (in the weird "I'd rather they don't get paid or be a part of this" way). I'm Canadian and to Americans getting skilled work done in Canada is usually cheaper, and I guarantee you we don't see it as exploitation.

But then it argues that "their" language in Nigeria/Kenya -- you know, English -- is being exploited by being "pushed back" on them. Bizarre. Not only does the contention make zero sense from an RLHF perspective, it's spurious and backed by nothing. Some random guy on YouTube said "Oh yeah this word must come from Kenya". Delve? I see this word regularly, and have for decades. The other words -- “Explore”, “tapestry”, “testament” and “leverage” -- are in no universe rare words. They may appear more frequently than random Facebook comments because OpenAI weighted the inputs and put more emphasis on high quality sources where the grade level is a bit higher, which makes infinitely more sense than it being some manifestation of Kenya or Nigeria.

Similarly words and phrases are viral, especially in niches. That words come into or out of favour in some realm like papers on PubMed by itself proves little and isn't particularly demonstrative. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and we're all aping what we read and what we see, etc.
Using the algolia api

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=author_ilaksh,comm...

You'll need to paginate it, as it's limited to 50 results per page, like so:

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=author_ilaksh,comment&hitsPerPage=50&page=1
I hate to contradict this since it's all so subjective: but I am massively better at my job than I was during grad school and the immediate aftermath. I am embarrassed at how many stupid mistakes I made in my early career because (1) I hadn't accumulated a library of technical experience between my ears, and (2) I was generally younger and tended to be overconfident without realizing it.

Regarding the second point, correcting this required decades of experiences where I felt absolutely confident about some technical point, only to find out that I was wrong. This teaches you humility, which is an incredibly valuable asset. I wish I could carry my current brain back in time to my younger self: I would be incredibly productive. You will learn these lessons in the future, and then you'll be sad that you also face aging and loss of that hard-won knowledge.
Show HN: A list of profitable startup models
Hey guys,

I put together a list of 267 profitable startup models. The summaries are half human written/half AI because I was lazy. The numbers are mostly accurate as of a couple months ago.

It’s totally free - no signup. Hopefully, it gives you some inspiration.

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Thanks for taking a look!

-Zach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33356932

I deeply appreciate and am greatly privileged to benefit from the MIT AI Lab's "Tourist Policy" and general openness, generosity, and encouragement of education, which allowed me to use the lab's PDP-10s over the ARPANET as a high school student.

I could connect remotely over the ARPANET by dialing up a local ARPANET TIP and connect to any computer without a password, then apply for a free account on each of the MIT-AI Lab's PDP-10s, by saying that I wanted to learn Lisp or MDL or Macsyma, and use the computers read email (mine and other people -- there was no file security and snooping was encouraged) and play games (like Zork, Adventure, Guess The Animal, and Doctor) after business hours.

As a high school student living in Maryland, I'd occasionally go on a pilgrimage to MIT and visit the MIT-AI Lab at 545 Tech Square, the Media Lab, and other places on campus, including exploring the steam tunnels (like the ones depicted in Real Genius).

They welcomed me to the lab, and I could easily get into the machine room and offices at the AI Lab simply by knocking on the door in the elevator lobby, and somebody using a Lisp Machine would press [Terminal]-D to automatically buzz open the door without getting up from their seat or looking who it was, just to make the knocking stop. (You could also press [Terminal]-E on a Lisp Machine to summon an elevator to your floor.) Then I could walk around the lab, and find a free Lisp Machine, Knight TV, or Ann Arbor Ambassador terminal to log in with, and even sleep on a bean bag chair or couch in an office, if it wasn't already occupied by RMS or some other random tourist or grad student.

Members of the MIT-AI Lab would take the time to help and tutor me with Emacs and Lisp, invite me to go out and eat pot stickers and Suan La Chow Show at Mary Chung's and get ice cream at Toscanini's, encourage me to pick up free papers from the publications department, use the Dover laser printer and Velu Binder to print out and bind my own copies of the online ITS manuals and other documents (long before the consumer laser printers were available), and they'd even let me use the gigantic cappuccino machine (I heard one MIT grad student claim "I had offers from Harvard and Stanford, but I came here because of LCS's cappuccino machine!").

[...]
(9) Monday, 01:45 PM UTC - It has been resolved. More than 36 hours later. We have lost significant bussiness and reputation. Squarespace said someone had reported a URL on our website for impersonating another entity. I still don't know what the URL was or why there was no warning or cummunication, before or after. Or why it took them more than 36 hours resolve this issue.
I wonder why this took so long? Tax industry lobbyists just kept killing it?
Data quality matters for training, at least as much as quantity.
It's not always a fire. Small issues or questions stack up if I need to wait 30 minutes for a reply.
It was, its been an issue since the 70's, it used to be called corporate raiding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity_in_the_1980s
> b) If everybody did this, a) would quickly no longer be true…

Can you elaborate on why you think this?
> If you wanted to innovate in browser tech you'd really need to leave the specs behind.

This is pretty much what the author is suggesting by the end the article: "Instead of being a Web browser, you might want to initially try just being a faster, lighter or lower-power Electron or WebView. Then the Web compatibility barrier would be much less of an issue."
Apart from the domain name, is this the same as

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536488
Europe's Impossible Trinity
Well that's a whole other ball of wax. I was always extremely frustrated with the American response to Russia's invasion of Crimea.

When the Russians made clear it wasn't them entering Ukraine, we should have gotten them on the phone to confirm and make them aware that we have bombers in the air scrambled to hit all invading forces that have crossed the border.

We also would have to follow through with that threat, Obama's red line with Syria was a pointless mess that just made us weaker. If Russia really wouldn't claim the invading force, who would say we were out of line for helping Ukraine defend their soverign borders from an invading paramilitary force?
Ah yes, the primary threat to humanity, a random word generator.
Well now I want it and it doesn't exist. ) :
Is increased home value really that good? and does 35% of the country really count as "few"?
Or using the algolia API like so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40634899
I'm not so certain. You can already run a GPT-4-quality model locally on a decent desktop, and GPT-3-quality models on low-powered chips - plus data centers will benefit from scale. A lot of third-party services are using paid APIs that (based on cases like Mistral where some models are publicly available) appear to more than cover the inference costs.

There are also plenty of uses for LLMs beyond generating hopefully-accurate answers, such as for fictional content or use as foundation models for tasks like translation. Though we are definitely in the "throw things at the wall and see what sticks" stage currently.
Wait till the 65% need to live elsewhere and find out they can’t afford to.
For one, Deepdream is cool but was never designed to be photorealistic. It was intentionally degraded to create psychadelic imagery, unlike the contemporary computer vision models we know today.

And for two... LLMs are also getting to be pretty old. BERT and GPT-2 are both more than 5 years old, and still have fundamental issues that we can't be sure are solvable. They lie confidently, they conflate facts and fiction, they create entirely made-up scenarios when asked about real-world happenings. It should be extremely alarming that the only successful AI strategy to-date has been scaling-up an already inefficient model.

AI will improve with time, but it seems entirely plausible to me that we've already hit the proverbial "bathtub curve" of progress. I genuinely cannot imagine what a "generational leap" in LLM technology would look like, outside of fixing the hallucination issues.
UK's Right-Wing Reform Party Floats Overhaul of BOE's QE Program
Every time I search up a DMV question I get a DMV FAQ link that answers my question. Nine out of ten times when researching a tax question (I do my own taxes) I get a link to the IRS or the franchise tax board for my state with the specific directions I need.

When I'm searching for in for that the ultimate answer is coming from a government entity, usually it's because I want authoritative information, and I'm not willing to rely on a third party hopefully getting it right.

The only thing I want from Google when making these searches is to deep link me into the appropriate section of the official site. The only reason I'll visit a third party site is if I don't have a good official link and I'm hoping to get a clue to refine my search by reading specific laws or statute id's they might reference, since I'm not going to make tax filing decisions or assume directions given regarding a DMV process are correct from some random online website.
I kinda missed my 8h retail-type job… I only started gaining weight once I got my sit-down one.

My retail job paid pretty well though, so that made up for a lot of the usual retail criticism.
I got all the words. Fun game, but it felt kind of easy.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to shuffle? I tried space to no avail.
https://archive.ph/Uu6YC
> this is where we take two steps back and realize that no rational country will give AI complete control over their weapons

And to the extent they do, it’s replacing a system which otherwise wasn’t particularly concerning itself with civilian casualties on the other side.
While metabolic advantage is a thing, I'm not sure if organisms are expected to carry minimum amount of genetic code that they actually use; in what little I know about developmental biology, I recall there's a high-level structure to the genetic code - some genes are doing more of flow control than encoding actual proteins. It's conceivable that the fish which walked on Earth was the one that managed to accumulate inactive adaptations for walking and switched them on.

Also, there's horizontal gene transfer to account for. It further complicates the picture.
I guess it depends on the Doctor. /s
> but shows no signs of becoming

We started a very long time ago and you have to give it time. The current turn of events seems to have turned its back on some very critical aspects - and still, give it time.

Impatience at this stage seems very ill-posed.

Although you probably meant that "LLMs show no signs to "emerge" (through upscaling) what they should become".
Good point! I even think if the anxiety of being observed by a feral animal is the same, psychological and physiological speaking, of being summoned to the director office or waiting for the result of an exam. We live in a much better world today. Maybe our bears, lions and bandits look different now.
It's up to humans to use AI well to improve the human condition or to harm it. We know for a fact that the axis of evil (RICIN) (Russia, Iran, China, Israel, North Korea) will use it to do their worst. The only way to counter bad AI is with good AI.
Leetcode is the modern form of slavery of the tech ecosystem. Sad to see kids grinding away hours of their lives doing this instead of writing fun, useful programs for themselves and society.
Liquidity is good for markets. Taxing every trade would reduce liquidity and increase transaction costs for all market participants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_liquidity
Really nice! For a moment I thought it was official. Anyway I've edited my bio and have been waiting like 20 minutes for it to be updated in the site.
Did you pay attention to what IEEE stands for?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/analogy
> their soda is free, but then it turns out they charge $3 for the paper cup it comes in, and you're required to use their paper cups.

You're not required to use their software to file the state return though. You can file the federal return and do the state return yourself. Many states like NC rarely have any steps beyond copying the federal AGI and multiplying by the state tax rate for common situations.
> I recently overheard a very smart user struggle to find how to mute a group
> you end up having to search the internet for a recipe as to what place to click to find which flydropping menu

I remember when software was supposed to remove pain points in my life, but now I'm not so sure. I often contemplate whether switching from Spotify to the CD player in my car will save me time, but I'm fairly certain it will save me aggravation.
At face value yes, maybe. But low-quality content is increasingly associated with them, so the effective impact can easily get negative. I'd like to compare this to typical startup landing pages or doxygen documentations. Both can be spotted from a mile a way and are strongly correlated with padded and low quality content.
I work on health equity things in healthcare occasionally. I think this is so dumb. MDMA rejected by panel recently for evaluating rescheduling for use in PTSD.

“ Panelists pointed to flawed studies that could have skewed the results, missing follow-up data on patient outcomes and a lack of diversity among participants. The vast majority of patients were white, with only five Black patients receiving MDMA, raising questions about the generalizability of the results.

“The fact that this study has so many white participants is problematic because I don’t want something to roll out that only helps this one group,” said Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, the group’s patient representative. “

Hopefully the VA can lead the way.

https://apnews.com/article/mdma-psychedelics-fda-ptsd-ecstas...
There's a whole web site! https://www.caffenol.org
Ditto! For the same reason Perl is my go to language for everything I do that I do not have to share. When I have to work with others it will have to be Python (in the best cases) or R (in the less good cases).
The coming supply-demand adjustment is welcome even for people who don't use the service. In the long run, price pressure will improve quality and reduce prices for tax preparation.

Since the tax preparation fee itself is presently a $20,000,000,000 private tax on the US economy, that's wonderful news.

But in the short-run, let's all look forward to the intense fear-mongering which is going to come from the ever-benevolent TurboTax marketing department...
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