skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a coincidence that flat organizations make more money. It's expensive to retain 7+ layers of management.

Meta targeted middle managers in their recent layoffs, and by all indications it was a brilliant move. Netflix is famously flat. Amazon is much flatter than the majority of corporate America. Google as well.

Bureaucracy continues to thrive in corporate America because of a bug (the politics of people).

If you've ever worked in an org that is very hierarchal, you've probably experienced the following:

- More meetings than heads down time

- Answering to multiple bosses/managers

- Answering the same question multiple times (a symptom of too many managers)

- Competing projects

- Everything is a priority one task

I truly believe that companies start to die, when more than ~10-15% of the org is management.
They didn't totally get away with, the EU has set them to rights at least. It's just a shame they didn't use it as an opportunity to do the right thing globally at that point rather than sharding the market.
it could be quoted by say medical insurance companies, or by patent offices, but that would mean a wider quotation scope.

a less extreme widening of scope would be just the research funds that apply or deny grants for research: suppose a flurry of papers investigates the superconductive behavior of a piece of meteorite, and you're the one to kill the buzz with your negative result, then future grant denials could cite your boring negative result.
Did you use chatgpt, copilot or any open source model?
> The job market here (and everywhere) is very tight. Even the people upset about RTO are forced to do it.

These two sentences don't make sense together, so I think you meant something different, but they're both actually true.

The overall job market is quite tight, but with remote tech jobs it's quite loose, and loosening further. Many of the people upset about RTO are indeed forced to do it.
> MAGA or “conservatives” is different than republicans.

This thread is dead at this point but I just wanted to point out that you can't really separate them anymore. They have nominated a MAGA candidate for the top office in the country, three times in a row. The vast majority of their electorate will vote for the MAGA candidate. The party -is- MAGA for all practical discussion.
Mostly the investment is mostly in high performance servers.

The Tenstorrent one is more broad in use and might be a good fit. But they are not gone focus on laptops.
What about when the majority of people were farmers. Growing and harvesting your own food so you don't die this coming winter seems about as meaningful and constructive as it gets.
Wow. Could they walk the next day? That's seriously impressive.
If you have a stake in curing ADHD we need to talk. I will send you an email soon.

Here is a teaser:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1624838/

The hypothesis

We propose that in ADHD, astrocyte function is insufficient, particularly in terms of its formation and supply of lactate. This insufficiency has implications both for performance and development: H1) In rapidly firing neurons there is deficient ATP production, slow restoration of ionic gradients across neuronal membranes and delayed neuronal firing; H2) In oligodendrocytes insufficient lactate supply impairs fatty acid synthesis and myelination of axons during development. These effects occur over vastly different time scales: those due to deficient ATP (H1) occur over milliseconds, whereas those due to deficient myelination (H2) occur over months and years. Collectively the neural outcomes of impaired astrocytic release of lactate manifest behaviourally as inefficient and inconsistent performance (variable response times across the lifespan, especially during activities that require sustained speeded responses and complex information processing).
Remember when Cliff Stoll wrote a whole book about how the internet was over-hyped, Silicon Snake Oil? In 1995. We are in the same stage with AI.
Am I the only one who thinks that ChatGPT-4o is worse in pretty much every respect than previous versions, and that the previous versions themselves seem to have been dramatically dumbed-down?

I'm on the verge of canceling my subscription altogether, as trying to get the damned thing to do what I ask is starting to take more time than just doing it by hand.

If anyone from OpenAI is reading this: I (and I suspect many others) would rather pay more money than use a shitty model.
"Methodology" is not overlappable to "Sociology", "Psychology", "Archaeology":

a "methodology" can be a logic behind a method. It is a theoretical framework that is supposed to validate the methods you will use.

To create a symmetry, you could pose a problem relevant to (say) Psychology, than develop a "psychology" as a theoretical framework valid in Psychology that justifies your further analysis.

--

Specifically to the text, the researcher says he checked occurrences of typical names in inscriptions (etc.) and evidence of re-scaled infrastructure - that is the method. The methodology would be expressed in an accompanying study that justifies that method as valid.
or my favorite, a multi-mile vehicular route in eastern Pennsylvania called "Street Road".

It always puzzled me that this doesn't appear to exist in the UK, since "Street" is actually the name of at least one town.
I made a trading bot simulator
Made this, but haven't fully refined it since moving onto other projects. If anyone else thinks this is cool or interesting, might work on it more.

Feel free to write trading bot code when self hosting the simulator, but you will also need multiple different code-uploads to have them actually interact with each other.
So run a torrent client that doesn't use the VPN on the same ip and you're good to go?
Hardware improvements alone provide a straightforward path to a substantial improvement over what we have now, and we should see software improvements and more data to use over time as well. I'm not quite at "singularity" level of hype but this tech will just get used more and more and more.

It's one of those short term is overhyped, long term is underestimated things.
Latest is a modern, OSS replacement for Bodega (IIUC). https://github.com/mangerlahn/latest
In some cases yes, they are expensive - years of person on person specialized therapy, and specialized environment/education. Depending on how much difficulty they have functioning.

It’s much easier to pretend it’s all a scam and not do anything, or penalize/force people to ‘act normal’. At least for insurance companies, teachers, employers, and often parents.

Which is why a lot of folks with ‘actual’ ADHD/Autism have a lot of PTSD from their childhoods. (And no, not a joke.) Severe, triggering, legit PTSD. Objective, causes the same physiological symptoms as those in war zones type PTSD. Except for it being around ‘weird’ things like school, childcare, interactions with their parents, teachers, peers, instead of when their buddy got blown up by an IED.

To make things even more complicated, persistent and repeated traumatic events that a person is powerless to prevent (usually in childhood, but not required) tends to cause Complex PTSD - which has a lot of overlap with ADHD and Autistic symptoms. Like 80-90% depending on which set of definitions one uses.

A really good way (in my experience) to get Complex PTSD is to be around someone like a parent/caregiver/partner with Antisocial Personality Disorder/NPD/BPD and suffer repeated adverse events because of it that they can’t escape. Something that if it’s a Mother doing it, Society will actively prevent someone from escaping.

Fun times, eh?

As to how to stop or get out of this? Who knows. A big underlying problem (and why society defers to the Mother in most cases here) is that there is no chance there will ever be enough resources to actually figure out the underlying truth for most of these situations.

That is because the real problem cases fundamentally work via manipulation and hiding abuses, so good luck. It would require an objective, unbiased expert (if such a thing is even possible) to follow the kid around 24/7 to see what is actually occurring. For months, or even years. And frankly, in my experience a large portion of scientists, engineers, medical doctors, nurses, police, special forces, and firefighters have backgrounds like this. So maybe this kind of thing is actually essential for society to function.

And regardless, solving this may be like solving the obesity crisis by getting everyone to run on treadmills and get fit or the like. That just ain’t happening.
>Yes, the effective mass of a photon is determined by E=mc^2 even though it has no mass

I think for the photon itself it's the more complete equation of E = (square root) m^2c^4 + p^2c^2 that shows how much relativistic energy is in that photon.
It was flagged when I posted it originally, so someone didn't like it. (Maybe because I included a $10 prize as a token motivator.)

Here is the contest, you can play with your keyboard with a human in the loop (try to bring the fruit to the head using the listed keyboard shortcuts) or you can try to automate it using javascript:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39949966

About twenty people looked at it when I posted it but I didn't have any winning entries and I couldn't solve it myself either.

If you are very interested you can see a walkthrough of my attempts to solve it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962620

I must emphasize that even this very toy, 2D robotics problem with perfect information is very hard, despite being quite easy for a human in the loop. (I tried it with test users, who could complete the task easily with a human in the loop remote controlling the robot.)

Let me know if you have any questions or need help using the test environment or understanding the task. You can give me any other feedback you want as well.

The contest is finished (with no winners) and there is no longer any prize.
This is probably one of the most significant impacts LLMs will have on SW development. Programming languages, frameworks, APIs, and runtimes will become less relevant to humans, and will probably be optimized for LLM use. DX is moving up the stack.
Light is a spectrum generated by emitting three colors at varying intensities. Autism might similarly be a spectrum generated by emitting some number of traits at varying intensities.
I swear there's something special about the cooking that isn't anything to do with skill and knowledge.

Sometimes it's the person who bakes is what makes food extra special.

My grandmother would always be the one to make fancy prepared sandwiches with all kinds of fillings, for all kinds of events - birthdays, anniversaries, church events, funerals... - when she passed a couple decades ago, something unseen and unspoken changed. Even though we try to keep family traditions around, things just don't feel quite the same as they once did.
That's why we have Lmsys for. And spoiler alert, it performs better than 3.5 no matter the complexity of the question.
For a long time now I've been seeing this ugly trend in the titles of linked articles.

I wish every HN user would flag any article with these clickbait titles, instead they're always popular. You're encouraging this shameless virality tactic by engaging with content with titles like that. "$popularthing is just the worst" is crafted to engage you. By clicking, you reward the author's behavior.

Please just flag them without clicking the link, until blog authors take the hint and write sensible titles. That's what I'm going to do from now on. Flag on sight.
Sounds like you're in the UK? Any chance you could send me the details of your doctor(s) to ivan.ristic@gmail.com? I've been struggling to find a doctor willing to diagnose me properly. Much appreciated.
Ah, I did not understood that was the point. That seems like a very reasonable law indeed!
For me, it depends what is meant by "intelligence".

Even ignoring the people who insist it comes with baggage of consciousness or qualia.

AI can train on millions to billions of examples in a matter of months as transistors outpace synapses by the degree to which marathon runners outpace continental drift… but AI also need to do that well just to get up to the current level.

If AI could learn from as few examples as we require, Tesla would have achieved level 5 driving years ago — but as is, they've got millions of vehicles with years of real world experience and it's still merely "ok", not even "expert".

If we never learn how to make machines learn faster, then we'll have an economy of people whose jobs are essentially "give the machines examples to learn from"… and for some of those jobs, they could spend years providing those examples and still no machine will do as well.
This easily is just chance. Berkshire doesn’t hold stock in most companies. If it’s a conscious choice however, it’s a data point that Nvidia is overpriced. Don’t bet against Warren.
My username has an underscore, _

so it doesn't show up.

Oooops ....
It is (or was, see my other comment) pretty good at generating standardized boilerplate code, which was quite useful.

Not so good at anything that's (for want of a better term) "creative".
This isn’t too surprising. Warren Buffett is being Warren Buffett.
Everything, at https://www.voidtools.com/ .
I value your comment. It revealed some thoughts I never Had, especially your first point.

When you talked about procrastination, ist reminded me of a Video that I watche every time I feel that procrastination overwhelms my life, which ist usually every 1-3 years.If you dont already know it, i Hope you enjoy it: https://youtu.be/mhFQA998WiA?si=YoO06S48xo8H5fKq
It wasn't like that in the early days. They were a scrappy garage outfit spawned from a couple of academic researchers, fighting against Yahoo and Altavista and the like. At its release, Google Search was a true technical marvel compared to its contemporaries.

For another decade after that, they (through acquihire or in house development) revolutionized office suites, online mapping, aerial imagery, email, photo search, Android, web browsers... seemingly all at once.

It wasn't until the last 8-10 years that they seeming stopped innovating and entered "hang on to our profits at any cost" mode and really increased the advertising spam everywhere.
Not that hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ilaksh
Now we are splitting development resources on CPUs because Apple. Wow, talk about the second worst negative externality to the industry(behind M$). At least we got 20 years of google FOSS before they started turning.

At least with Apple, its going to stick. They have marketing mind control that will keep people around rain or shine.
Even more people seem to struggle with the concept that it may be underhyped.
> just because AMEX charges merchants more.

There are many places that do not even accept AmEx specifically because of their fees. Charging more based on card use has always been a thing until the card companies used their cartel like persuasion to not allow that. However, I'm starting to see stores offer different prices for cash/debit than credit. I thought I remembered this being made allowed again, but it's early still.

You as a user feel like you should be able to buy whatever whenever with whatever mode of payment. That's very convenient for you even though you're the one that has decided to use that particular mode of payment even though you know your mode of payment is an absolute pain in the arse for the merchant. Not having you as a customer is a perfectly valid point of view from the merchant.
- Arc Browser – a complete game changer in terms of productivity – this app alone is worth switching from Windows/Linux (They have a Windows version, but it's lagging behind, not to mention there's no Android version and sync)

- AeroSpace Window Manager since i got to know it this week (replacing Wins, which replaced free Rectangle)

- Sensei for hardware checks/cleanups

- Yomu for ebooks

- Xnapper for beautiful screenshots for marketing/social media

- Boom 3D for sound enhancement

- ImageOptim for mass optimizing images and removing metadata

- GoLogin for multiple browser profiles/anonymization for work

- IINA for watching video files

I try to be as minimalist as possible with app installations.
Just be a little careful, or the OnlyFans people might hear there's a new "social" where they can promote.

(For example: LLM-assisted forum presence, combined with profiles with oh, hey there, I have an OF, lol, combined with tech industry disposable incomes... I'd guess would pick up a couple new whales worth the effort. Now that Reddit presumably has been picked clean.)
I would agree except the gap between what's realistically cool about LLMs (make tons of traditional NLP tasks easier/better) and what people are hyping them up to be (potentially world ending sentient beings) is so tremendously large it essentially guarantees an AI winter despite the fact LLMs represent a major advancement in practical SotA.

It also does concern me how basically nobody is building a real product around the current state of "AI", but are rather hinging their success on what they believe it will be in the near future.
That's actually a great solution.

I was tinkering with some Instagram code the other day and a console message appeared in dev tools saying (roughly) "Did someone tell you to mess with this? If they did, they are probably trying to scam you. Stop what you are doing."
>AI talent

This has the energy of wanting candidates with five years of experience on a two year old framework.
He is explicit about the list being of high streets, which is why Streatham High Rd and many other High Rds are not included.
Hindsight is 20-20. Too many lay people (and semi-professionals) think the investing benchmark is the asset that has performed the best yesterday.

Of course any half decent manager should have held gamestop for the two days it doubled in price, then gone short for the day it halved, then not traded it for a year till and punted some doge coin then back to gamestop the day it went up by 75%. You know, buy at the low and sell at the high - every day.

Of course, few will talk about buying NVIDIA stock at $33.00 in November 2021 (pretty sure crypto and AI were buzzy then too ... and people were paying 2x for a scalped 30XX series cards) and watching it trade to $12.00 over the following 12 months.
but a preventing the field from sliding in the gutter could be rewarded in principle.
Aah yes. Ministers in Canada can be bought and sold for pennies. It's because everyone is fighting for scraps. True wealth creation has not happened in the country for about 2 decades now.
"Rome was still an empire of immigrants in those years. Many immigrants advanced their families’ reputations and their own careers by settling inside the Roman Empire’s borders: Franks, Armenians, Vandals, Moors, Ethiopians, and more. Unless conquered and enslaved in war, every man and woman who lived inside the empire’s territorial border held the status of a free person...

Being forced to leave one’s home is an ordeal no one should be forced to endure, Plutarch began. Geographical dislocation causes undeniable suffering. Everyone admires how the ancient bards channeled that emotion into their soulful poetry and music, he acknowledged. But, he went on, fortunately hardships are never immutable, and one’s circumstances can often improve...

Ambitious foreigners, both men and women, sensed the possibilities. Despite the limitations of not being a citizen, an immigrant to the fourth-century empire could legally go anywhere, work any craft, and be anything."

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/empire-immigrant...
I agree that GPT4 is better, but the amount of times it still hallucinates is still way too high to be useful for any real work. LLMs at present are super impressive, but have very very low trust.(This is true for all models, Claude, Opus, etc.)
The Hacker News BigQuery data makes this quite easy:

select *
from `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
where `by` = 'ilaksh' and type = 'comment'
order by timestamp desc

EDIT: seems this is out of date
The annotation tools are really, really good. The colour palette seems well thought out to easily highlight important parts of screenshots. It’s been very helpful when collaborating with people, annotating graphs and logs on the fly.
If Amex started charging 30% fees you'd definitely see people charging customers more.
Another angle that makes this even more complicated is that younger people can and do get things wrong too. A fresh perspective is not automatically a correct perspective. A leader would be rightfully wary about letting someone experiencing their first transition into the workforce make major decisions about workplace design, etc.

Of course, this leads to the opposite problem of never trusting the younger generations, which is equally if not more problematic. Because a fresh perspective may not always be correct, but often it does have some kind of value that needs to be extracted and acted on.
I would love to see those code bases and the commit histories. We had code scaffolding and code generators well before LLMs. Just as we had autocomplete before LLMs.
I am not familiar with the academic publishing world but it seems this should be disruptable. Why isn't there some other outfit running a WordPress site taking submissions and publishing them on much less onerous terms?
Raw vegetables are all three of those.
what's the current recommendation instead of ROS?
In my experience this is just too big of a prompt to give it.

The best way to use it is to make everything as atomic as possible. Ask it for one function at a time, rather than "make my app handle user auth"
OpenAI Insider Estimates 70% Chance AI Will Destroy or Tragically Harm Humanity
Methinks that if the names were for Liberals or NDP LeBlanc would be screaming for the report to be released.
Vanilla ChatGPT, not even Cursor
Ask HN: Can computers auto adjust screen brightness via your pupil constriction?
Wouldn't this be more convenient than having to constantly adjust brightness manually?
Is there a way to not accept all cookies or at least show what they are?
From 2013 when graphics card had shortages and crypto was reigning supreme, nvidia was an obvious buy. AMD returning from the grave with their Zen platform while their stock was $4 was another no-brain decision. I suggested these two stocks to everyone and I made a few of my friends millionaires. Sometimes investors miss a great opportunity. BH is no different.

(I would not chase nvidia now FWIW)
I got into Apple because they have a gigantic consumer ecosystem with unmatched integration, and several class leading products, not the ads.
Yes, I cancelled my subscription a while ago, I can't tell if it's getting objectively worse or I just ran up against the limitations in using it for software development. I spent so much time correcting code it had written or getting it to rewrite code or getting concrete answers from it that I didn't feel like I was saving as much time as I initially thought after the novelty wore off. I will try Claude now it's available in my region. Overall it's still a very useful tool and I still use it but have stopped paying.
Doesn’t Norway have a huge public pension fund which is invested internationally? Calpers also invests in “global equities”

https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/forms-publications/facts-inv...
VeryGoodGraphics has no accessibility tree and no results when searching the documentation for “accessibility”, which makes it broadly immoral (or if you want to disagree with that, at least illegal to use it to build production systems in many locations). If you can’t get that right from the start, or even have plans for it, then you’re obsolete.