skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Innovation doctrine" is a contradictory phrase on its face, really. Going, "Oh we need a static, unchanging set of rules for innovation" doesn't exactly sound like a good way to attract and retain innovative thinkers lmao
Yikes! 30 Sep cut off? That's not a lot of lead time, given the amount of work database systems require to data model, benchmark and migrate. My apologies if this seems inappropriate but given the urgency, my employer, StarTree, has a free tier if anyone needs to try out alternate solutions.

https://startree.ai/saas-signup

I understand Rockset-to-StarTree (Apache Pinot) is not a 1:1 drop-in replacement. But hopefully it's a port in a storm.

Whether you end up on StarTree or another suitable alternate, I hope everyone has as painless a migration as possible. Reminds me a bit of how FoundationDB customers found themselves without a home when Apple acquired them back in 2015[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986
all of them were written in a way that mostly affect the api, not the underlying implementation models tho.

it's still 500 new things to test and actually implement. but not as bad as the original 1 to 2 change.

html5 was the forever missed opportunity to do things right. but keeping the browser-side effort low was always fought for on the w3 committe.
Kent Beck is not talking about rewriting from scratch. He's explaining how to transform software to a better state by taking tiny steps in changing the existing system.
That's an interesting question - I'll take a few pokes at it now to see if there's improvement.
Edwardian morals, Thatcher and bad design – why Britain's homes are so hot
Apple delays European launch of new AI features due to EU rules
> literally refuses to use the word "war" in regards to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

And what? People should say only what you want to hear?
One of the reasons I struggle to give ETAs on fixing a bug. The moment I know what the issue is, the solution to fix it is usually already figured out barring a rearchitecture of some services or infrastructure.
Besides what you said (which I mostly agree with), that floating point calculations can at times be extremely counter intuitive, weird and totally inaccurate.

While a single floating point operation gives you the best possible floating point result, the error for two consecutive floating point operations is unbounded.

They need to be treated carefully and people need to be aware of their shortcomings. You would be surprised how often I have seen even people here getting hung up over the fact that floating point numbers aren't behaving identically to real numbers.
It really depends on the type of question, but generally I'm between Gemini and Claude these days for most things.
foraging, herbalism, small engine repair… (whoops accidentally double posted)
It happens extremely frequently because there is almost no downside for management to override the engineers decision.

Even in the case of the Challenger, no single article say WHO was the executive that finally approved the launch.
No body was jailed for gross negligence.
Even Ricahrd Feynman felt that the investigative comission was biased from the start.

So, since there is no "price to pay" to make this bad calls they are continuously made.
https://archive.is/WTrgb
> describe 0% of the rational numbers between 0 and 1

I think you mean irrational :)
Yes, agreed. To continue, though, I think it's not just nostalgia; people who benefit from local abundance can lose something from more efficiency.

AirBnB is another example. There are benefits to living in a desirable location and they're often free for the residents. If the neighbors are, effectively, selling off those amenities, it benefits them and their customers, but not you. And that's why some communities place restrictions.

I believe the Coase theorem suggests that paying off the neighbors would be somehow efficient, if a deal can be reached. It can be difficult to agree on a price, though.
Centuries is a lot of time, you can do 1km a day looking for food and in 5000 days (~14y) you're there.
Or you can go forward 10km, go back 5km every once in a while and it will still take you less than 200 years to do that.

If then you add multiple generations, you can absolutely do it.
These are more or less the first people to think about geometry rigorously as an abstract system. Anyone previous would have just pointed to the hypotenuse and said “it’s that length right there” and not asked a further question.
At the McDonald's local to me, I use the kiosk because it's quicker and I don't have to repeat myself 12 times because the person at the counter can't keep up or is having trouble hearing me or is barely paying attention.
let's all take a moment to appreciate how google managed to get the web to the state it was in 1996, when you had to develop for one browser and then go fix things in another.

/slow clap
I haven't implemented anything for this yet, only thought about it - but I think the OpenAI API would be able to handle moderation/approval if done correctly. I'd assume major platforms are already doing this but there are probably pitfalls which I haven't thought about yet.
Related: ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighbourhood https://computer.rip/2024-03-01-listening-in-on-the-neighbor... (3 months ago, 523 points, 399 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576974)
> If people valued ad viewing (e.g. for product decisions), we’d have popular websites dedicated to ad viewing.

There was a site dedicated to ad viewing once (adcritic.com maybe?) and it was great! People just viewed, voted, and commented on ads. Even though it was about the entertainment/artistic value of advertising and not about making product decisions.

Although the situation is likely to change somewhat in the near future, advertising has been one of the few ways that many artists have been able to make a comfortable living. Lying to and manipulating people in order to take more of their money or influence their opinions isn't exactly honorable work, but it has resulted in a lot of art that would not have happened otherwise.

Sadly the website was plagued by legal complaints from extremely shortsighted companies who should have been delighted to see their ads reach more people, and it eventually was forced to shutdown after it got too expensive to run (streaming video in those days was rare, low quality, and costly) although I have to wonder how much of that came from poor choices (like paying for insanely expensive superbowl ads). The website was bought up and came back requiring a subscription at which point I stopped paying any attention to it.
You're adding words I never said. I value the person across the counter from me as well, because in human-to-human interactions there is empathy and connection that transcends the business exchange. There is a person there that I care about way more than I care about fries, and usually that person cares more about me than they do the McDonalds Corporation.

So if they mess up my order- no big deal, you're a person after all. Or if I need to run back to get my wallet I left in my car- no big deal, I'm a person after all.

Humans generally care more about the people local to them than they do the faceless business operating in the background.

But in the human-to-AI scenario, that connection is vaporized, and now it's just me and a machine whose only loyalties lie solely to McDonalds Corporation. It makes you feel unimportant in a very cold way.
I happen to be reading Poincare's Science and Hypothesis right now and he introduced a way of defining the square root of two that I found enlightening. In less articulate form: consider two sets, one of which contains all numbers whose square is less than two and one of which contains all numbers whose square is greater than two. The square root of two is then the symbolic name for the element that divides those two sets.

Poincare says it better in the book though.
Many countries with non-stan names in English have -stan names in their own languages, like Hindustan.

Also, lots of Mid East or central Asia town names end with -abad (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF#Pers...). Interestingly, so do some large American city names, I can't remember which.
"The right people" is difficult. Working with NASA would seem one of the better bets.

For startup founders, you can try to hire "the right people". (And share the equity appropriately.)

For job-seekers, when you're interviewing with them, you can ask yourself whether they're "the right people". (And don't get distracted by a Leetcode hazing, in what's supposed to be collegial information-sharing and -gathering by both parties.)
The question isn't so much does a person look at porn, it's more what porn do they like. If pornhub is storing the personal information, it could be matched to specific videos, which if it's at all fetish-specific could be blackmail material.
> I would accept a 50% risk of death.

No offense but this sounds like the sayings of someone who has not ever seen a 50% of death.

It’s a little different 3 to 4 months out. It’s way different the night before and morning.
Stepping “in the arena” with odds like those, I’d say the vast, vast majority will back out and/or break down sobbing if forced.

There’s a small percent who will go forward but admit the fact that they were completely afraid- and rightly so.

Then you have that tiny percentage that are completely calm and you’d swear had a tiny smile creeping in…

I’ve never been an astronaut.

But I did spend three years in and out of Bosnia with a special operations task force.

Honestly? I have a 1% rule. The things might have a 20-30% chance of death of clearly stupid and no one wants to do. Things will a one in a million prob aren’t gonna catch ya. But I figure that if something does, it’s gonna be an activity that I do often but has a 1% chance of going horribly wrong and that I’m ignoring.
Show HN: Rate my Writing – improve your handwriting with AI
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Ah you know. Most people don’t know much about giftedness (it’s not just an academic thing but more of a developmental thing)
BTW, their specs says it wants minimum 100W USB PD, so you'll actually need a different battery that can do that which is probably going to be heavier (the NB20000 tops out at 45W), assuming that's accurate.

The 630g Anker 737 PowerCore 24K might be a good option, and also the 765g HyperJuice 245W.

So this adds 0.3-0.45kg to the estimate.
That's fair- low quality rebuttal on my part, sorry about that.
The early manned space programs at USAF/NASA were a lot more cavalier than the shuttle program.
Beyond CRISPR: seekRNA delivers a new pathway for accurate gene editing
You’re probably thinking about the former senator of Alabama, Richard Shelby. There is no current or former senator by the name John Jones in Arizona. Additionally it is Alabama that benefits from the SLS program, not Arizona.
No you expect ideology. You don't accept people doing their jobs professionally even if it counters to their ideology. That's a fail.

You said "Ideally, no ads at all, so there is no conflict of interest for the publication when choosing topics and investigating." But there is one, and it's subscriber based. You accept bias as long as it is subscriber based.

Your idea is flawed and your question is flawed.

If anything having both revenue streams is more likely to help then only one or the other. The publication doesn't have to rely only on advertising because they have subscribers. This is not an option your question asked. You question is either or which is flawed.

There are publications that have been critical of their advertisers, this is not a new concept. Multiple revenue streams help with this.
I thought the Gravitics site was pretty cool.

Question from someone with no knowledge of this industry. How are aerospace startups like Gravitics generally funded? Is it a billionaire or two funding in the short term until it delivers products? Funding from other big aerospace companies like Lockheed Martin as a sort of "skunkworks" project company? VCs? Government DARPA-like funding?

I'm just curious how these big, super expensive hardware efforts get funded for years before they deliver any functional products.
Augmented reality speeds spacecraft construction at NASA Goddard
Maybe you want the real thing. I get that, even though I have never had sex with a prostitute or fall into the risky sex category. I'm not going to go as far as to be childishly disrespectful and say I'd rather die doing the real thing, but I do understand the apprehension of using artificial barriers during the most intimate act know to humankind.
> Is this ‘midlife crisis’ really about your work?

This. I have a friend who kept complaining about his job, but I feel like he actually has a dissatisfaction with another aspect of his life, and just uses his job as a mental scapegoat of what's "wrong" in his life.
Interview with Jonathan Blow at LambdaConf 2024 [video]
“Engineering is doing well with $1 what another person could figure out with $2,” I heard from somewhere.

This often involves, in larger groups, communicating with folks and taking the time to understand the requirements.

Although I despise “5 whys,” almost as much as scrum; it does often boil down to dysfunctional organizations.

It saddens me when a highly productive development team gets pulled down by non-productive bureaucratic middle-management and politics. There often is a class of worker that doesn’t want to do meaningful work and sees the value generated by other people as an opportunity to take a ride to the top.

There should be a few check points in an organization where one needs to ask for permission but going too far down that road puts a ceiling on how productive any one group can be.

Good article; definitely need to remove barriers.
I agree. I am in aerospace. When times are good, there's money to bring in speakers like this every couple of months to talk to our management. We get the slides afterward and they are refreshingly free of content. All of them essentially repeat the cliche, "Think outside the box!"

We even got one of those Innovation Forums where people could propose ideas, get them upvoted, with the promise of tchotchkes at the end for success. Not a single one got funded. Every efficiency improvement, every streamlining suggestion affects someone's budget and headcount. When that person has to approve, nothing will happen. And, in this industry, a lot of rules are actually law. They have to be followed.

But, the consultants and professional keynote speakers seem to be making good money off of it.
Ex EE here

> The AI generated circuit was three times the cost and size of the design created by that expert engineer at TI. It is also missing many of the necessary connections.

Exactly what I expected.

Edit: to clarify this is even below the expectations of a junior EE who had a heavy weekend on the vodka.
Interesting. In the USA McDonald's has been made to order for decades now in general.
Yes. And Joel Spolsky had a complementary thesis. Written quite well.
It’s amusing to me that we as a community both complain that OSS maintainers aren’t paid and then expect someone who’s making the source available to pick OSS. Let people try alternate funding models and honestly as a hacker community we should be a bit more supportive of the work required to bootstrap something.
Saying no isn't what ended his career.
How to prolong lithium based batteries
Connecting the Dots: LLMs Can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure
I don't see it mentioned here, but SAT solvers are also good targets for property based testing, providing failure cases for subsequent minimization. There are many properties that can be checked, for example that satisfaction-preserving transformations on an input do not alter the answer the solver returns.
There is typically a change of control clause too.
Find all Schengen visa appointments available in a simple table
Might be a useful travel hack for those who struggle to book a schengen visa appointment (which is needed by several nationalities who want to travel to Europe).

This site shows you visa appointment availability for various destinations across US, UK and more cities in a simple table - refreshed periodically. So you don't have to login to keep checking each one. Hope it saves you some time and money.
It sounds cool but also like a remarkable level of scope creep for the JVM. I realize that Java ecosystem is far beyond simple these days. Nobody is spinning up a JVM implementation as a hobby project. But sad to see the deep entrenchment that is caused when an open standards platform is made so inconceivably complex that there is simply no opportunity to innovate on alternative implementations.

This is not an observation about this specific project, just about the organizational pressure to extend standards based systems beyond their core functionality, into territory where only few players can afford to roam.
How insightful.

“Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what makes you cheer” - Rick, Rick & Morty

P.S. You realize that ad hominem is only used by those who are immature?
Is wax paper not a viable substitute?
Outside of javascript, it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that if you have the sources, you can get them to run
Someone has been saying this for every negative piece of AI news for the past four or five years. I'm going to go with "no".
I guess I stand corrected then :)

(Hi!)

EDIT: I forgot to say, with the recent hires and the Rockset team, OpenAI is building quite the infra dream team :)
Using neural networks to solve combinatorial or discrete problems is a waste of time imo, but I'd be more than happy if somebody could convince me of the opposite.
You have misinterpreted it.
Heh. The spite wars continue. I’m sure this will earn you a lot of favor, Apple.
Hmm, looking up the "Libraries" page: instead of the first content section it shows `o.toReversed is not a function`.

Is this irony?
> The problem has generally been threefold:

> 1. Tech is dominated by “true believers” and those who tag along to make money.

> 2. Politicians seem to be forever gullible to the promises of tech.

> 3. Management loves promises of automation and profitable layoffs.

I would like to add another:

- While cheap, low interest money has dried up, VCs are still looking for problems that require considerable capital for hardware (rather than skilled labour), in business area that promises some kind of amazing scalability.

With crypto gone, AI is filling the gap. And nVidia is selling the shuffles
> Dr. Sutskever’s title at the new company will be chief scientist but he describes his role, according to Ms. Meservey, as “responsible for revolutionary breakthroughs.”

My word that is an impressive level of self-confidence.
In Defense of 'Tarpit Ideas'
The only productivity problem I encounter is motivation. Some days (and some sorts of projects) are immensely demotivating slogs. Those are the situations where my productivity becomes an issue.

No bonus points for me, though. I don't think there's a software solution for this.
> “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us to compromise the integrity of our products in ways that risk user privacy and data security,” Apple said in a statement.

Apart from the “security concerns” of allowing use of non Apple services it will be interesting to hear the specifics of these. I thought most AI features were being released in American English before other locales in 2025 anyway - this does sound like an excuse to get the public to put pressure on the EU
Not in a hot food bar, I think.
Apparently, inner dialog can adapt to thinking, but is intrinsically a better option (compared to visual thinking, for example).
How has nobody in these comments mentioned IFDB yet? https://ifdb.org

You can play almost the whole history from your browser if you want.
Also there is a Go equivalent (https://pkg.go.dev/sbinet.org/x/aranet4) which works well on Linux and https://github.com/ryansouza/aranet4-exporter-go can be used to export the data to prometheus.
Article behind subscription paywall.
I think it’s not even a missed promotion but a perceived risk of one- which may or may not be accurate.
No, the statement holds perfectly fine for the rationals.
It's like a generated image with an eye missing but for circuits. :D
Update: Sonnet 3.5 is better than any other model for the circuit design and part finding tasks. Going to iterate a bit on the prompts to see how much I can push the new model on performance.

Figures that any article written on LLM limits is immediately out of date. I'll write an update piece to summarize new findings.
I don't think it's advertising that's inherently evil. Like government, it's a good thing, even a needed thing. People need laws and courts, and buyers and sellers need to be able to connect.

It turns evil in the presence of corruption. Taking bribes in exchange for power. Government should never make rules for money, but for the good of the people. And advertising should never offer exposure for sale - exposure should only result from merit.

Build an advertising system with integrity - in which truthful and useful ads are not just a minimum requirement but an honest aspiration and the only way to the top of the heap. Build an advertising system focused, not on exploiting the viewer, but on serving them - connecting them with goods and services and ideas and people and experiences that are wanted and that promote their health and thriving.

I won't work on advertising as it's currently understood... I agree it's evil. But I'd work on that, and I think it would be a great good.
What is missing here for me is who were the anonymous "executives" that overruled Mcdonald (and others) and tried to punish him? Did they suffer any consequences for actions that cost lives and for the coverup?
Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product
Okay, I remember that. But I think this could more simply be seen as becoming a supplier, responding to temporary demand. This could be done well or fraudulently.
> Russia is no longer part of open market and it's not a democracy.

Two questions:

1) What is open market for you? Does USA have an open market?

2) What is democracy for you? USA is democracy or just a shade of it to spread propaganda?

> Companies from Russia like Jetbrains that wanted to work on global market left the country

No, global market is not western market - they did it only to get access to western market because they have a lot of users there.
Yep, 2023. And? This article was published a few days ago.

My point that there are some very pro-Tesla articles as well as many quite negative ones.

You and others have misinterpreted my post. Maybe I should have elaborated.
Hard disagree. The idea that the machinery your life will depend on might be made with half-assed safety in mind is definitely not part of the deal.

Astronauts (and anyone intelligent who intentionally puts themselves in a life-threatening situation) have a more nuanced understanding of risk than can be represented by a single % risk of death number. "I'm going to space with the best technology humanity has to offer keeping me safe" is a very different risk proposition from "I'm going to space in a ship with known high-risk safety issues".