skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a basic level because we almost never have to deal with pure tabular data without anything else. A spreadsheet was designed to deal with pure data, even without a note. Than since in the real world we need notes, titles, small bits of text etc spreadsheets devs add styling and the nightmare began, a grid to deal with data, but also formatting styles, people to manually tweak column and row width and height, add colors, ... all manually of course. Then overflowing text. At a certain point in time Microsoft decide to allow "integration", witch is not integration at all (OLE, with the ability in this case to insert a spreadsheet inside a text document) and the nightmare keeps extending.

The most basic error is WYSIWYG, it can work to a certain extent, like CAD systems, where you can "free draw" something but any line have defined parameters, we have snap concept to state a line is connected to another, defined properties like length and so on so in the end we have "a model", a free draw witch is also a set of data constrained/in relation with a set of functions but in general it's a nightmare. The second basic error is try to compensate the lack of integration, a system designed for commercial purpose in witch any software is a standalone closed product, by adding features that in theory can only grow to create "the complete thing" witch is an impossible goal and makes in practice just bloatware. The third basic error is consider users a bunch of imbeciles who can only learn a thing "click around on some pictogram and enter text like a chimp plunging fingers slow and hard". If you craft something simple and explain the principle behind people will learn and act. Oh, of course you need a bit of INITIAL training but after it they are ready, like teaching how to fish vs giving a fish to a hungry person. Oh, of course commercially hungry people are nice, they are tied to the vendor and they keep spending, being locked where they are, but locked people are not productive, like slaves do not work well compared to free employees.

That's the spreadsheet mistakes and modern IT mistake in general: the will to keep users ignorant while trying to made them productive anyway instead of teaching them, giving them powerful tools. It's not transforming anyone in an engineer, it's just the same concept of schooling for all, ensuring anyone have a minimum culture needed to be a Citizen in a society.
That is not what happened though so its a fairy tale outcome.
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> Yes, the tech industry loves to copy Apple :)

Eh, it goes both ways. Even Apple devices got widgets eventually :)
The United States produces more oil per day than it consumes, yet we import over 50% of our oil. Have you ever stopped to wonder why?

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/america-produces-enough-oil-...
Huh. My understanding based on article after article talking to the average voter is that the American economy is garbage, that milk is now $37, and the only way to reverse it is to elect a convicted felon.
If anyone is curious, in 2009, I discovered that Jim Storer was the author of the first Lunar Lander game and interviewed him about it (and also chronicled the history of the game beyond that). He later provided the source code, which was awesome.

https://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/index.html

My favorite part is this:

“After leaving high school I never thought about the game again,” says Storer. “Until about a couple of months ago when someone e-mailed me about this, I was completely unaware of any Lunar Lander game other than the one I wrote in high school.”
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but that wasn't my intention with the statement I made, I focused way too much on the "contributing to GDP" aspect of it.

Raising kids is absolutely contributing to society.
There's another interesting example of this effect in Nicola Griffith's 'Hild' books [0], which fictionalise the early life of Hilda of Whitby [1] in 7thC Britain. Some of the towns that we now recognise (York, Ipswich) already existed, but a lot of the action concerns conflict between small (but real) kingdoms that no longer exist, and that exploits the 'redcrest war streets', i.e. Roman roads, for fast tactical movement. This is one book where I really had to study the map at the beginning to figure out what was going on, even though it is my own country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hild_(novel)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_of_Whitby
How does this solve the problem?
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Not just you, but there is an option to learn more and then deny all.
Oh, thanks. There was an arcade game called Lunar Lander and I thought that this was the exact same thing, and I guess I didn't pay much attention to the pictures.
The shareholders demand more.

> The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...

Europeans live better lives at the cost of being ridiculed line doesn’t go up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681116
Android Binder is already rewritten in Rust.

"Industry forms consortium to drive adoption of Rust in safety-critical systems" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680722
Visual Studio Code May 2024 (version 1.90)
I’m not in charge of Europe but if I was, I would consider being lectured by neoliberal icons like Fareed Zakaria and told that tech entrepreneurs would prefer that I stop regulating them to be a sign that I am definitely on the right track.
But low wages certainly doesn't equal better quality.
This is basically it — what I would call a “globe of Silicon Valley” mentality.

I didn’t want to beat this dead horse, but it just reared its ugly head at me yet again.

So, we used to have people that advocated for all kinds of diversity at companies — let’s put aside the actual effect of their campaigning for a moment.

But when it came to coming up with ideas of making AI “safer”, people from the same cohort modeled the guidelines in the image of a middle-aged, mid-upper class dude, who had conservative boomer parents, went to good schools, has Christian-aligned ethics, had a hippie phase in his youth, is American to the bone, never lived outside of big cities, and in general, has a cushy, sheltered life. And he assumes that other ways of living either don’t exist or are wrong.

So yes, it doesn’t fit his little worldview that outside of his little world, it’s a jungle. That sometimes you do have to use force. And sometimes you have to use lethal force. Or sometimes you have to lie. Or laws can be so deeply unethical that you can’t comply if you want to be able to live with yourself.

Oh, and I bet you can vote for an alternative to Kim. The problem is, the other dude is also Kim Jong-Un ;-)
Learnings from codeQA – A chat-with-codebase application using top-K RAG
Blog post noting down my learnings and references used to make my side project - codeQA.

codeQA is a question-answering system for codebases that uses semantic code search with embeddings. It indexes codebases by chunking them into methods and classes using abstract syntax trees (AST), generating LLM-based comments for the chunks, and embedding them. The system then uses techniques like hypothetical document embeddings (HyDE), BM25 keyword search, and cross-encoder based reranking to improve the retrieval of relevant code snippets in response to natural language queries about the codebase.

I use tree-sitter (Part 1) for extracting the abstract syntax tree and building the codebase index.
Elaborate discussion on cross-encoder vs bi-encoder

I use LanceDB for vectorDB, cohere rank v3 for re-ranking and various LLMs to generate LLM comments, summary and chat.
The Apple server worlkoads are anonymized: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

It makes perfect sense to me that Apple would gatekeep which devices are allowed to offload the AI workload to their private cloud. Older devices would need to offload pretty much 100% of the AI workload to the cloud because those old devices don't have enough power. That's expensive.

Apple is not charging the user for this. The user has to pay for it with their device purchase.
> you are in a tiny minority of incredibly focused people.

I have never been described as a focused person but I have never lost an hour to Instagram because I do not use Instagram. Nor do I use Facebook or any other social media apps. Not a one is even installed on my phone.

If you lose an hour to Instagram that is entirely on you. Instagram has to ask you to turn on notifications. You choose to open it.

Turn off all your notifications and silence your ringer and your phone won't distract you with anything. Even better delete social media apps that demand your engagement to make them money. If you feel you must use some social media only do so through their web apps.

By allowing notifications you're participating in your own abuse.
Shirky principal in action
> For Apple to build out a dedicated server farm to accommodate even 50% of all their current users would be extremely challenging

fyi there have been rumors that apple is looking to scale out Mac Pro production for their own server farms to support this. Since ultra is a super niche product normally this obviously is going to be like, several orders of magnitude of increase here.

Obviously there is the conventional wisdom that apple doesn’t do server and the server market doesn’t do apple, and they may continue to prefer commodity/off-the-shelf server hardware for the bulk of their iCloud infra, but things may be different with the bottleneck on AI hardware at the moment.
That’s probably not it. I still have Twitter because the people I follow are on there (mostly music artists). I’ve never opened the algorithmic feed. There is also a huge chance that much of the activity you see are bots. I have 0 posts and 2000 followers somehow. No way they’re human
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It's so bizarrely awful for OpenAI that you almost start to wonder what the auxiliary value of a few million iPhone user's data is.

But as Scarlett Johansson taught us; OpenAI will always ask first. And then they will do whatever they want anyways, regardless of what you respond with.
> By 1973, it had become “by far and away the single most popular computer game.”

On Lunar Lander and bugs: my first programming book had a version of this game in Basic that I never got to run correctly. 25 years later I came back to it and I was surprised at the ridiculous amount of bugs it had and the convoluted logic ("440 IF <condition> GOTO 450").

I eventually rewrote it as an adult [1] but young me stood no chance. And to this day I wonder what happened inside that forgotten Spanish editorial that turned (almost) working code into whatever made it to the final version.

[1] https://7c0h.com/blog/new/moon_landing_in_basic.html
I've been working out kind of regularly for almost 2 years but I had never done deaflifts. Last couple of weeks I've incorporated them, and yeah, I agree with you. I guess it also feels like a very useful movement outside of the gym as well, and you have to concentrate on your whole body. It feels awesome.

It has easily become my favorite exercise, specially because I could start from my bodyweight, now it's up to 1.3 times. So I really recommend it if you didn't do those before
I like this angle... Focus first on the fact that I'm having to pay taxes to put a roof over my head while the developer down the road is driving up land prices by squatting on an empty lot while paying pennies!
Didn’t you hear? Since Hacker News hates Boeing now, all reasoning goes out the window as long as it’s in service of looking smart by dog-piling on the company that the other totally smart HN users also hate.
Automobiles are more (wear-)efficient at braking when they use the engine to brake, not the brakes, so that would probably be a better approach to automate
Something I've thought about recently is how loud forests should be. Daniel Mason names this loss explicitly in the wonderful North Woods, namely that "[b]etween 1970 and 2019 alone, nearly a third of all birds had disappeared from North America. Once, the forest would have been deafening." Likewise, Cat Bohannon's stellar Eve notes that "[w]hen you first visit a tropical rain forest, the dominant emotion is usually surprise—not over the beauty of the place, nor over how hot it is. The biggest shock is that it's bloody loud."
On a somewhat prominent /fit/ness forum, they consider the pinnacle of lifting to be 4/3/2/1 plates for the big 4 lifts. The bar is 45 lb. Each plate is 45 lb. This equates to

405 lbs for deadlift

315 lbs for squat

225 lbs for bench press

135 lbs for overhead press

If you can do these weights for these exercises, you are in the top 1% for strength.
Wait, a _standard plastic bag_ for compost?

Why not, you know, paper?
This is no longer actually possible. LVT at 100% generates less revenue than all other methods of taxation combined across all levels of government. This was the original idea but government is now too large for it.
I was being generous - if there are 3 cofounders and you let one of your early employees get in the 2-3% range - it might be closer to 10x - but you're right that the majority of the time it's between 20x and 50x, sometimes even more dramatic than that for solo founder scenarios
A statement as completely absurd as it always was.
I mean, you're effectively saying if things require less time and effort while providing the same benefit then more people will do them. Surely this isn't surprising?
Wow, this has many more recordings & a larger variety! Thanks for sharing
I still have no idea. I assumed it was a paper notebook, but then Excel is brought in, so now I think it's an Excel feature. In either case I have no idea what their are on about.
I often wonder the same thing about my bicycle.
The quote in the image at the top of the page made me curious. Henry George was quite the personality.

In favour of land tax but also free trade. His ideas have were very popular, but have now fallen out of memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
I do not see any bias in stating that the example you provided, about time vs quality priority, has trivially judged instances - trivial judgement operated by so-called "common sense", uneffortful reasoning.
Unfortunately I think they're mostly discovered when there's a fish kill in a nearby stream, or somebody's well water starts smelling funny. Industry in PA has a long history of closing up shop and leaving environmental problems for future generations to trip over. I talked with a plumber who told me a story about the heavy-duty multi-stage treatment system he installed for a house where the well water was basically acid mine drainage. He had to bring the pH up from 4! When he took out the old water heater, it was full of heavy brown sludge, which he had to drain before it was possible to move it.
Yes! I'm also in the U.S. and just had the identical experience. Scrolling down the page a bit I came to this:

People also ask
What does A&E stand for?

I clicked and got this:

abbreviation for Accident and Emergency: the part of a hospital where people go when they are sick or injured and need treatment quickly. Jun 5, 2024
In my experience, the biggest impediment to this goal of always hiring the best people is what I call "good talkers". People who are good at talking, good at convincing, but not good at technical work. The bigger an org gets, the more likely some interviewer will be fooled by a good talker. Once there's one, they like to hire other good talkers. Good talkers don't know as much about tech, so they are more easily convinced by other good talkers. Good talkers strive for positions of power where talking is more important than the technical work they don't know how to do. Before long, your company is run by professional managers who don't know how to do anything but talk. Once those people are in charge, any kind of technical meritocracy is impossible. Like they say, "the turds always float to the top".
The first one isn't easy - drag the body to the car in daylight in the hotel car park? How are you going to lock it with the fob inside? If I was a hitman I'd do something else.

The second - if you assume it's on behalf of Boeing could easily backfire if he went to the press with the threats.
As someone who never owns a car and wants to learn about car. Do you think it's a good book?

I am still contemplating between buying book about car or buy pc games called Car Mechanic Simulator.
Well microplastics are micro after all, so maybe the byproduct would only be present in small amounts that the body can absorb? Chemotherapy is rough on the body but if the end result is that the cancer is removed it’s generally seen as a valid trade off. Unfortunately I’m not very knowledgeable about chemistry.
Well, you need to generate embeddings usually, and then query and filter those, but it isn't that complicated for sure.
Is there a changelog for these standards?
Intellectual output is not lost, it's just maintenance for people with brains wired a certain way. Without these games the intellectual potential would surely burn/bore out the people actually wanting to play those games, as real life may not give access so easily to so many interesting problems.
What if the US is simply overvalued? Since covid it is quite staggering how expensive the US has gotten compared to the rest of the world.
Funny, I did the opposite because at some point I wanted to do something that was straightforward with KM but non-trivial with hammerspoon.

I do miss it's simplicity in pulling info from the system.
They get crash dumps from android devices?
I have yet to see a single compelling argument for all of this censoring of LLMs that everyone just seems to accept as table stakes. From the article:

> While this safety feature is crucial for preventing misuse

How did we all just accept to start using "safety" in this context? We're talking about a computer program that emits text. How on earth did "safety" come into this?

Why is the text any different than the text of a book? Are people constantly hand-wringing about what words might appear in books that adults read? Why do we not hear these same people going on and on about the "dangers of the written word" in book form?

I simply refuse to accept any of this BS about text-based AI being "dangerous". It's 1984-level censorship.

Are there ideas we feel adults just shouldn't hear? Is there super secret knowledge we don't think adults should discover?

Can any one truly justify this ridiculous notion that "we absolutely must censor *text*"? I feel like I'm living in a bizzaro world where otherwise clear thinking, liberal-minded, anti-book-burning, anti-censorship, free-speech advocates just all knee-jerk and parrot this ludicrous notion that "AI typing out text is DANGEROUS".
>>conspiracy theories ... agenda-driven and a result of emotions

No, not even close, dead wrong spurious insults. For many years, I held Musk in very high regard, and you can find I've even posted extensive defenses of him here on HN. My changed views are a direct result of observed behavior.

No, the fact that the driver assist disengages is NOT what I am pointing to as the attempt to shift responsibility.

Tesla is selling and loudly insisting that they can use the term "Full Self-Driving". Tesla advertises and charges(ed?) 5-figure-USD amounts for fully autonomous self-driving capabilities that would allow the cars to be used in competition with Uber/Lift but without drivers. This money was charged for features that were supposed to be available in the previous decade. Yet now, in the middle of the 2020s, there are no such features available.

Moreover, they are so far from delivering such features that your argument is that any accident is fully the fault of driver attention being less than 100%. So, clearly, the features related to "Full Self Driving" or "FSD" do not exist.

Moreover, everything about the actual implementation, including instructions to be always vigilant, UI warnings about no hands on the steering wheel/yoke, alerts to re-engage, auto-disconnect, live data collection so Tesla can prove what mode was engaged, what level of control, etc., etc., etc. all point to the requirement for the DRIVER TO BE FULLY ENGAGED. They also ensure that the situation is such that if the driver fails to be fully engaged, it is the driver's fault/responsibility.

When the driver MUST BE fully engaged

(as you argue and I just documented),

the car is NOT "Fully Self-Driving".

The two conditions are by definition mutually exclusive.

The fact that Tesla is trying to have it both ways is exactly as I said:

They want the profits from the false advertising that it is "Fully Self-Driving", but ensure that when it turns out to be false, all consequences are on the customer.

There's nothing emotional about that fact pattern. I've even said above, that I think it'd be perfectly OK for Tesla to say "Self-Driving" as that does not directly imply that you can fully disengage because the FAD is "Fully" engaged.

I'm not the only one who thinks that language means something, even though Musk does not, and you think that calling out a blatant lie and possible fraud must be emotional.

Sorry for the length, if I'd had more time, I'd have written a shorter post
You can see a real-world of this in a very common building material, "wood". There's entire sub-ecosystems dedicated to breaking this material down... yet you can safely use it to build structures that can stand for a long time, dozens or even hundreds of times longer than the breakdown time of the material in the wild, without the wood breaking down, as long as you maintain the structure, which mostly involves keeping the wood dry. These entire subecosystems for breaking down wood have fundamental chemical and energetic prerequisites in order to do their work, they are not just ambiently and actively roaming the Earth seeking out that which they may devour and actively creating the circumstances they can do it in.

So I'm not worried about bacteria learning how to break plastic down in the middle of the ocean getting released into the grocery store one day and in mere hours the entire store is spoiled and destroyed. It would really just become another engineering consideration for materials that already have a lot of such considerations.
Last night I finished reading “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. A theme of the book is that a sense of meaninglessness is often a driver of depression, and that it is up to each of us to find our unique meaning of life in order to become fulfilled.

He was fond of the Nietzsche quote: “he who has a why to live can bear almost any how”, and he supplements this idea with his experiences in surviving Auschwitz and helping others in his clinical work.

It wasn’t a focus of the book, but he also specifically mentioned helping clients overcome “anticipatory anxiety”. For example, one client was anxious about sweating too much in public, which would cause him to sweat even more.

Frankl’s solution was simple and ingenious: PARADOXICAL INTENTION. Anxiety is a vicious loop, but one way to break out of it is to willfully intend the thing which you fear. In the client’s case, he decided to intentionally try to sweat as much as humanly possible. The paradox: he stopped sweating.

I guess my point is that the mental health epidemic described in the article may be an epidemic of meaning, and also that titular “anticipatory anxiety” is a cycle that can be broken.
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