skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read accounts from people who were around when glass was widely used, particularly for beverages, who report that broken glass was everywhere, much worse than today.

Just to add to downsides besides energy spent for transportation and other processing.
Wow. Read my mind. I was just thinking, "I hope this name doesn't age poorly and become terribly ironic..."
Thanks! I will look into it, but I want to stick with the big 3..
> Are you saying the Safari browser on iOS intentionally cripples web applications by randomly erasing / deleting browser data (cookies, localStorage, etc)?

I would absolutely make this claim.

This isn't even a PWA thing. We had a really simple series of boring web forms that suffered from this. The first iteration of this had the server swap an initial tokenized link for a cookie when clicked.

After some feedback from our customers, we discovered that iOS users were having a lot of trouble getting all the way through the desired workflow. We were able to replicate this on our iOS devices but it seemed completely arbitrary.

After abandoning cookies in favor of maintaining a tokenized URL, we found we were getting 100% success rate for iOS end users.

My theory is there is a malicious bit of code in iOS Safari that is applying some insane cookie policy over "unpopular" domains.
The comparison of Lambda and YC is appealing on its surface, but then you realize that YC has uncapped upside on its winners, and this is why it works. Lambda has a capped upside on each participant, so it's important that its median graduate be successful. No number of insanely successful graduates can make up for the median being unsuccessful.

Kind of surprised that PG made the comment he did, which seems naive in this regard.
Why don't you just fire them like any other job where people can't perform the work? This isn't a unique issue with programming but the hiring managers that exist in programming act like it is and have come up with crap like leetcode and passive aggressive games like soft firing people by paying them salary and not giving them work. Imagine a landscaper thats been soft fired, it would be unthinkable.
You're comparing top names with run of the mill engineers maybe, which isn't fair.

And maybe you need to discover talent rather than buy talent from the previous generation.
There's a noted chemist named Warren Warren. Washington State had a football player named Samoa Samoa. Hawaii had a great volleyball player named Allen Allen.

The beat goes on. ;-)
I upvoted just because of how awful Meetup has become. Hope this takes off!
Rurrenabaque is hundreds of miles north of where that wikipedia article is showing the language being spoken (in Bolivia). Speaking with one of the tribal members, he said that there were no other Quechuan speakers within hundreds of kilometers, which matches with the map in the article you linked.

But, I guess I was more surprised hearing Quechua than I should have been. My surprise led to a conversation with a really interesting person, though-- I learned that their tribe's men were known for their archery skills, they had an aggressive encounter (a few years earlier) with a group from another, distant, tribe that almost led to warfare, etc.
Wooden surfaces may have natural antiviral properties
I grew up with rotary phones, and dialing (on a physical dial) really was fun.

Disassembling my first junk phone and playing with the rotary relay was even more fun.

But the best was learning to dial numbers by manually pulsing the switch on the handset cradle. Timing was tricky but luckily there was some leeway. (And it helped that phone numbers were shorter then.)
I think RSIs come from muscular imbalances, and tightness. It’s not just repeating the same motion, but that motion being almost uniquely how those muscles engage.

You climb, so your forearm muscles are exercised on both sides. I’m guessing you also stretch a lot. But imagine you didn’t use the posterior muscles in your forearm, only the anterior. Eventually, the posterior muscles sort of seize in a tightened state because they can no longer counterbalance the anterior forearm muscles. Eventually, this could lead to nerve impingement, which creates the RSI.

Tangentially, I know a lot of people who get pain between their shoulder blades from craning at the computer. What fixes that pain almost 100% of the time? Stretching your chest and anterior shoulders. It’s definitely possible that you have something else going on, but it’s insanely common for a person’s shoulders to roll forward, which puts immense stress on your back. Easy test: stand with your arms at your side, and your palms should be roughly parallel to your outer quad. If they’re turning in and pointing toward your knees (gorilla like), you need to stretch.

In my opinion, there is a major gap in understanding of the muscular system in medicine. MDs don’t know how to approach pain except to numb it, or cut it out. Idk why, I just know that I’ve not personally seen useful results from MDs. PTs, ime, are usually excellent. But you schedule appointments with your MD, PTs only come in after an MD recommends it (at least in the US), which leads to the wrong solutions being tried a lot.
Ah but! The problem is SSI includes the bang directive, which outputs the results of a shell command.

Once that's available, people will demand and abuse it, and we're back at cgi-bin.
In NYC Rsosevelt Island solved their trash problems (which plague the rest of the city) with an underground pneumatic trash network: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/suck-it-roosevelt-isla...

Buildings have a connection into which trash is sucked away to the central yard for processing. It's pretty neat and helps keep the island tidy. You don't get any of the normal huge trash piles that litter Manhattan on trash day.

Conversely, our local hospital is now using robots for deliveries. They trundle around and deliver things like meds to the nurses stations on request, and announce it with "Your delivery has arrived".

Just watching robots trundle around as though it's normal is an interesting slow creep towards what seemed so futuristic in Star Wars in the 70s and 80s. Now our local supermarkets (BJs and Stop and Shop) have robots that trundle around checking inventory as well.
I bet Google or Apple or Amazon will become their partners like MS is to Open AI.
Looking at his success it's hard to not believe that some people are objectively better than others.
Building things. Those geeks don’t market well. Never did. There’s a reason Woz needed Jobs.

There is just a lot more noise than signal now.
And then seize the means of production.
I like this article except for the part about Lambda. The author doesn't seem to get that for some use cases there are serious benefits to having bits of code that run only when you need it, and only getting billed for those runs instead of getting billed for a VM or container runtime that's always present.

Obviously if your application involves processing a predictable high volume of requests, then you're probably better off running it on your own server/container, but depending on your use case there are times where Functions-as-a-service are the prefect solution.

The part about "why use lambda when cgi-bin exists" reminds me of the HN comment on the DropBox announcement from 2007 where the guy says something like "this is cool but why would anyone use it when you can just whip together ftp and svn on a debian box and have the same thing?"
https://tinytapeout.com/ <-- there is this project ...
Let's face it, most of the time the tools are the problem. That is why, whenever possible, I write my own tools.
Given that GenAI is a statistical approach from which intelligence does not emerge as ample experience proves, does this new company plan to take a more human approach to simulating intelligence instead?
Not an expert in medicine but I think it would cost more than that.
I know it’s a joke but isn’t ikea a Swedish company?
I've been interested in Laundry Jet, which is a pneumatic laundry chute. The obvious concern is issues with blockages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6xJ4K7WSQw
The problem is that Ilya behavior at times was framed in a very unhinged and cult like behavior. And while his passions are clear and maybe good, his execution often comes off as someone you wouldn’t want in charge of safety.
"Definitely-Won't-Go-Full-Skynet-AI" was another name in consideration.
At the end game, a "non-safe" superinteligence seems easier to create, so like any other technology, some people will create it (even if just because they can't make it safe). And in a world with multiple superintelligent agents, how can the safe ones "win"? It seems like a safe AI is at inherent disadvantage for survival.
LLMs are the middlemen. Search engines are the middlemen. Social networks are the middlemen.

Go to the NY Times or LA Times and tell me it's based on Tweets. If you're talking about a place like The Verge which is a tech blog with journalism, they have articles based on tweets but also plenty that are legitimate, researched articles.
Fascinating! I'm looking to do an FM save in the J League. which team would you recommend?
> The researchers note the shipment targets of the world’s six largest solar module suppliers, who are aiming for an annual growth rate of 40% on average.

That puts us within ~1TW/year in ~18 months. Global solar capacity was 1.6TW at the end of 2023.
That sounds both less efficient and possibly actively dangerous in any reasonably large facility. It will certainly be slower than tube delivery.
> Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.

well, that's some concrete insight into whatever happened at OpenAI. kinda obvious though in hindsight I guess.
> that US headcount was never secure anyway.

Headcount is never secure as AOPs are not set in stone. Always remember that - it takes 1 bad quarter for headcount projections to be completely upended.

But justifying US headcount can be done by using a mix of points 1 and 3 that I mentioned.

It's already pretty rough for new grad right now for that reason, and it's only going to get much worse.
Galaxy Brain: TransparentAI
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
Quick search says, a single sperm contains around 787MB of data. The average speed of one of those swimmers is around 5mm/min and on an average there are around 280 million of them in the race.

Curious folks can calculate the bandwidth themselves.
It's really too bad. Higher ed needs disruption. The problem is, a responsibly-run university is a slow/medium growth enterprise, not an overnight unicorn.

The Vanderbilts and Carnegies of today could do a major public service if they wanted to. Use their names and hire the best researchers in their respective fields and pay them well.
It is subscription only at $15.64/month
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Academic compensation is different than what you’d find elsewhere on Hacker News. Likewise, academic performance is evaluated differently than what you’d expect as a software engineer. Ultimately, everyone cares about scientific impact so academic compensation relies on name and recognition far more than money. Personally, I care about the performance of the researchers (i.e., their publications), the institution’s larger research program (and their resources), the institution’s commitment to my research (e.g., fellowships and tenure). I want to do science for my entire career so I prioritize longevity rather than a quick buck.

I’ll add, the lack of compute resources was a far worse problem early in the deep learning research boom, but the market has adjusted and most researchers are able to be productive with existing compute infrastructure.
I understand the concern that a "superintelligence" will emerge that will escape its bounds and threaten humanity. That is a risk.

My bigger, and more pressing worry, is that a "superintelligence" will emerge that does not escape its bounds, and the question will be which humans control it. Look no further than history to see what happens when humans acquire great power. The "cold war" nuclear arms race, which brought the world to the brink of (at least partial) annihilation, is a good recent example.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- That is my biggest concern.

Update: I'm not as worried about Ilya et al as commercial companies (including formerly "open" OpenAI) discovering AGI.
Ask Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, to name a couple.
It can't. Unfortunately.

People spending so much time thinking about the systems (the models) themselves, not enough about the system that builds the systems. The behaviors of the models will be driven by the competitive dynamics of the economy around them, and yeah, that's a big, big problem.
Not sure why you're downvoted.

From a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646909
I just went and took a look at the site based on this comment, and oh boy.

> this elaborate public website to try to make their hobby project look really serious and professional and important

You evidently have a very low bar for what qualifies as "elaborate" and "really serious".
I think you should make a website that trains people to do the opposite - use simple language
I found some videos on youtube of hospital pneumatic systems. Not sure they are the ones this article is talking about. Also haven't found any detailed video about these modern systems.
Stages of Argument (2000)
Two observations:

1. There doesn't seem to be a design review process before people start implementing these things. Devs should make a design document, host a meeting where everyone reads it, and have a healthy debate before implementing stuff. If you have bright people but not-so-bright outcomes, it's because there is no avenue for those who know their shit to speak up and influence things.

2. I will always rather hire a 2-5 YOE dev from a no-name school over a new grad from a top 5 school. The amount that software engineers learn and grow in the first 5 years of their career is immense and possibly more than the rest of their career combined.
The bell curve meme is a static taxonomy of people, and if the link you posted is correct, its origins were explicitly political. The version described by Bruce Lee, and anybody who has achieved a high level of skill, is about the process of learning and mastery.

In the bell curve version, the wisdom of grug brain and the wisdom of the monk are presented as equal, and the struggle of the midwit is framed as a pretentious, unnecessary aberration. The lesson it teaches is, don't seek out knowledge and new ideas. Education confuses the "midwit" people who are smart enough to partially grasp it but not smart enough to see through it like the monk.

In contrast, the "a punch is just a punch" version frames the conceptual struggle as a necessary phase in a process that leads to mastery. The beginner cannot engage directly with the simplicity of the master, so the beginner must engage through concepts and through practice. The more they do so, the more simple things begin to feel.

Since this started with a Bruce Lee quote, we can use him to see that it is not just a linear process that passes through conceptual education and ends in mastery. That leads to a dead end, because mastery can only be complete in a limited context. Bruce Lee kept searching outside his zone of mastery to find ways to get better. He studied techniques from other martial arts and fighting sports, even though in doing so he had to engage at a conceptual level since he had not mastered those arts.

For example, his art included trips and throws, and he was a master of his art. Yet when he got the chance later, he practiced judo with expert judoka. To do so, he had to back off from "a trip is just a trip, a throw is just a throw" and learn the techniques of judo. I don't think anybody has ever suggested he was a master at judo, which suggests he had to be engaging with it on a conceptual level. Yet he believed that his practice with judo improved the skills he had already achieved mastery at.

Not only did Bruce Lee preach constant assimilation of new ideas, he also preached simplification by discarding what is not useful. If a punch is just a punch, what do you discard? The whole punch? In order to find something to discard, you must look past the apparent simplicity of the internalized skill and dissect it conceptually.

In this view of things, conceptual thinking is not just a phase you go through on the way to mastery, but rather a complementary way of engaging with a skill. It is a tool for refining and elevating your intuitive mastery. Simplification and desimplification are the tick-tock of learning. A "mastered" skill is not like a video game sword that, once forged, always has the exact same stats, but is more like a Formula 1 car that is continually disassembled, analyzed, and rebuilt.

The bell curve meme does occasionally get used to express a linear ignorance-struggle-mastery story of learning, but its origin and most common use is to caricature the pursuit of knowledge as pretentious foolishness.
Because he runs them and can, and does make terrible decisions on their behalf.
Oh well if _Gruber_ was doing the grilling, I'm sure it's all kosher then. Jesus Christ.
6 figures would pay for a week for what he needs. Maybe less than a week
AI won’t sell devices.
Awesome! I've seen several command runner variations but haven't looked too closely at them. How do you like `run_cmd`?

I've got a crate for running commands that helps with the run ergonomics as well as error formatting but still allows for relatively-"ideomatic" rust usage. I would love to hear your feedback https://docs.rs/fun_run/latest/fun_run/
HTML + CSS + [JT]S
At first, the Dogen saying and the bell curve meme seem like different things, then..
To build a successful company, you need both, clearly, but it's a balance. And not everything needs to be a successful company. Some things are just for the fun of it. And sometimes those things turn into companies in unexpected ways.
Ah yes, the AI Brand Law: the meaning of adjectives in your company name will invert within a few years of launch.
Designer who can do some web dev here.

When I work with real developers I engage with them to show them designs for feasibility, timelines, accessibility. But when I have worked with designers who don’t have these skills, and I have to break the news to them about their dribbbly designs, I have largely had success by starting from web standards and accessibility. So, in your example with the input, I’d tell them that a standard <input> comes with out-of-the-box accessibility for people who must use some sort of assistive tech but that custom stuff, even with all of the extra dev work done to satisfy the browser’s accessibility tree, is still unproven, which means we could actually hurt some users. That’s usually where I would add putting the user first means sticking as much as possible to standard HTML elements. But if it were a business, I’d make the argument from a liability stand point and use the DOJ’s recent guidance about websites are covered under the ADA.

Now for the unreasonable designers, I would just say no and email them, the project owner, with references links to DOJ and WCAG. That’s covering your ass and being an advocate for the assistive technology users at the same time. I once got designs from a print designer who didn’t know anything about web standards, etc., and when I brought up this stuff, they angrily retorted “I can do this in SquareSpace so why do we need you?” So, that’s when I first used the tactic I am telling you, which aligns closely with others’ responses here about sending emails. I would add a BCC to your own personal email too.
For people who understand sound - how much can acceleration, jerk and snap affect the tone a piano creates?

A (mis)conception of the piano is that it is purely percussive and velocity is the only parameter you control for voicing on the piano but professionals would beg to differ...
Microplastic discovery in penises raises erectile dysfunction questions
AI researchers at top firms make significantly more than software engineers at the same firms though (granted that the difference is likely not an order of magnitude in this case though).
Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but I can't help shake that the real most dangerous thing about AGI/ASI is centralization of its power (if it is ever possibly achieved).

Everyone just fiend-ing for their version of it.
Not sure if you want to share the capitalist system with an entity that outcompetes you by definition. Chimps don't seem to do too well under capitalism.
Unfortunately you are not the only one having this problem (https://github.com/niedev/RTranslator/issues/8), these days I will try to solve this bug, for now it has top priority.
> They aren't equivalent at all. The web server is hosted on an OS and both require ongoing maintenance.

From a technical standpoint, surely the servers running Lambda have an OS and require maintenance internally by Amazon at some level (even if it's dev-ops-abstracted away for their operators). It's just their responsibility instead of yours, and it's also their responsibility to find other work for those servers when your code isn't running (or bear the cost of an idle server). It's like if they were letting you push PHP functions to their web server, using the quoted comparison.

Useful from a business standpoint, yes. Revolutionary, maybe not as much as it seems at first glance. That's the takeaway I got.
Honestly, what does it matter. We're many lifetimes away from anything. These people are trying to define concepts that don't apply to us or what we're currently capable of.

AI safety / AGI anything is just a form of tech philosophy at this point and this is all academic grift just with mainstream attention and backing.
> All primitives are denoted by single symbols

Take an axe to the troubleshoot-ability of your language with this one weird trick that makes it impossible to google.
I would personally use React out of the 3 as it's the best maintained, although it depends on the complexity of the project and whether something lighter could be better.
Software engineering is like digging a hole, where every time you strike your shovel down you either hit a huge boulder or a giant lead lined pipe no one told you was down there. It would take some kind of a mental disability or achieving a state of enlightenment to not be frustrated by being constantly blocked and held down when you want to run, which is the real definition of this job.