skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
House Burning Down

Jimi Hendrix

Well, I asked my friend, "Where is that black smoke coming from?"
He just coughed and changed the subject and said, "Oh, I think it might snow some"

So I left him sipping his tea and I jumped in my chariot
And rode off to see just why and who could it be this time
Sisters and brothers, daddies, mothers standing 'round crying
When I reached the scene, the flames were making a ghostly whine

So I stood on my horse's back and I screamed without a crack
I say, "Oh baby, why'd you burn your brother's house down?"
Toiler paper rolls.

https://i0.wp.com/makezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/to...
So now the politicians families own drug corporations and get preferential treatment. We have reached USA levels of corruption.
Gemma2 isn't FOSS, it has a rather peculiar license.

See also: https://x.com/justinetunney/status/1808165898743878108
Kudos to the author for naming and shaming. I am honestly bewildered as to how this Raymond thinks that insulting a developer's intelligence could result in a lead.
> It's not what post-modernists typically say post-modernism is. But I'm not relying on what they say it is. I've read enough post-modernism to form my own opinion.

You are relying what someone who earns money from making people angry about postmodernism say it is. Outrage culture and addiction.

Generally when you want to know what postmodernism is, you should read what postmodernists say. And if you want to know what nazism is, you should include readings of nazists.
I don’t think so. Marketers don’t send X amount of spam because X is the right amount of spam they want to send. They are limited by how much money they want to pay in salaries and management, which defines how many people they can hire to send spam.

If the people they employ today suddenly became twice as productive, the company wouldn’t fire half of them - they just would enjoy twice the profit. The same applies to AI.
From a link in the article:

> It felt like a family fridge decorated with printed stock art of children’s drawings.

Yep. "Generative AI" is like an infinite clip-art gallery that can be searched with very specific queries.

The coin has two sides: in some situations it devalues human effort - as in writing (long/detailed) documents in formal language is now attainable by everyone. In situations where sincerity and originality matters, human effort has now increased in value.
Great release!
He doesn't need to develop on a laptop with two GPUs.

It's a personal choice to use terrible tools. Currently he is picking two bad choices.
Go does keep both versions like that for major versions (which are treated like independent libraries), but not for smaller upgrades that are supposed to be compatible.
The problem is never what one person or one company is doing.

But when everyone copies what that one person or one company is doing. Software makes the copying process dead easy.

Once the herd starts stampeding, it creates a secondary effect of an arms race for finite Attention of a finite target audience. That assault and drainage of that finite attention pool, happens faster and faster and every one gets locked in trying to outspend the other guy.

An example currently is Presidential Campaigns furiously trying to out fund raise each other. Its going to top 15-17 billion this year. All the campaign managers, marketers, advertisors make bank. And we know what quality of product the people end up with. Cause why produce a high quality product when you can generate demand via Attention Capture.

The chimp troupe is dumb as heck as a collective intelligence.
> quickly iterate towards your accuracy goals

Do not you have a phenomenon akin to overfitting? How do you ensure that enhancing accuracy on foreseen input does not weaken results under unforseen future ones?
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A simple observation about p-values in academic error detection
Even in ancient Sumeria where they used sealed clay jars (an early form of baking if you think about it), they have found examples where the stated contents on the writing outside and what was found inside were not the same....
https://www.amazon.com/How-Would-Move-Mount-Fuji/dp/03167784... was the classic book on MSFT interview questions before the software world switched to copying Google's leetcode interview style. Google found that the leetcode questions were the best metric for long term performance because they were a practical proxy for IQ and built their software empire on that style of interview. You can find references to pre-leetcode questions from Google's very early interview prep material from the time before they had data showing that brainteasers weren't as effective as leetcode questions. Then everyone switched to copying Google's interview questions because they hoped to copy Google's success.

The book isn't useful anymore for interviews, but it is a fun read if you like brainteasers.
I use empty rolls of toilet paper (the inner cardboard part) as cable ties. They bundle ~2-3 short & thin cables and nicely fit in a drawer in upright position. This way, you can easily spot the connector types from bird‘s eye perspective. Super cheap and a fun way to put something useless to a good use.

For longer and/or thicker cables like ethernet and power, velcro works fine. Get a bunch of semi transparent PP boxes and label them.
Everything we build has some kind of impact.

At risk of getting philosophical, I’d ask yourself what your goals actually are if you feel only AI can have the impact you desire.
This is what I do, separated into a bunch of ziplock bags with the cable type named on them in a storage bin.

Makes it easy to find what you want,and when you grab a cable the rest won't get tangled because they're in their own separate bags.
Data infra?
I know GPT4o can diagnose medical images. Is their model likely to be using the same kind of datasets as these models for medical systems?
This is true. I'm somewhat disconnected from FAANG and bay area behaviours. Before going wandering most of my career was in Sydney and Melbourne. I think in Australia early career engineers are not doing the interviewing, more tech leads and engineering managers (or whatever we're calling them now, staff and principle?).
Using a library like Instructor adds a significant token overhead. While that overhead can be justified, if their use case performs fine without it, I don’t see any reason to add such a dependency.
I talked to a relative from nigeria one time for a couple months. He was actually in nigeria, spoke pretty good english, and was scamming to get by and fund his way through college. He said his group was doing ok, and he was living better than most.
He sent me pictures of himself, and where he worked, his motorcycle, all sorts of things. Not as a pitch either, like, he was proud of those things and I was interested so he was happy to show and tell about his life, we even exchanged some recipies.

Then one day he just stopped replying, and his email address would bounce. My best guess is it got shut down, for, you know, scamming. Bummed me out though, he was cool, except for the scamming thing.
I think having modern game engines reducing the need for game programmers to almost zero caused much of this, but it also resulted in some interesting games when artists could create games without a need to hire programmers.

It will be interesting to see if AI art (and AI 3D models) will mean that we see interesting games instead created by programmers without having to hire any artists.

What I do not look forward to is the predictable spam flood of games created without both artists and programmers.
Are there any estimates on how much AU is losing with it's resource policy.
Most likely, SDR = Sales Development Representative, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_development#Process
Maybe it's easier to understand in the format of annotated code

https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html
Having tried to start a business and known other business owners, I will die on this hill: sales and marketing are not "acts of malice". Without salespeople we wouldn't live in the world we lived today.

This is like the irrational hate some developers have for recruiters, despite them finding jobs for many people that they otherwise would never have known about.
Carbon Capture?

Is that when we fantasize about cleaning our air with machines to remove carbon?

Is that the same carbon that has been puking out of factories, car exhausts and other sources since the beginning of the industrial revolution? The same!

Or an excuse "not" to stop using fossil fuels.

Its an excuse.

Pissing in the wind!
Diskplayer: Using 3.5" floppy disks to play albums on Spotify
> The NHS surcharge predates Brexit and was over concerns of "medical tourism" by foreigners (ab)using the free NHS.

> If we assume this was a legitimate concern

It was not. It was actually a profit centre for the NHS as they can (and did) charge foreigners. Makes a good story though.

> then there's a bunch of measures one can potentially take

Force people to take private medical insurance, problem solved. I am utterly shocked the small state, pro free markets party didn't come up with this groundbreaking idea on their own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...
Suffering is "the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship".

Having to delete the occasional marketing or sales email that get past your spam filter is hardly any of these. Annoying or frustrating, yes. Suffering? Really?
That's probably from all the hot air coming out of Mountain View about how virtuous and AI-oriented they are.
Just saw this, and as a small business owner in the B2B market, this sounds very useful. Gmail's existing spam filters do not reliably detect this type of marketing.

I wish your landing page had a simple "how it works" explanation with a screen shot or diagram, rather than forcing me to sign in directly, and also allowing the app to read *and* send emails. Also, I don't see any pricing?

Finally, signing up, I got an error:

Error 1101 Ray ID: 89d4e0957c2f5a44 • 2024-07-03 06:39:15 UTC - Worker threw exception
Well it is competitive with other salaries in the Netherlands. If you don't have a family or want to buy a house then you can live reasonably well here on such a salary. If you have a family or are trying to buy a house though, it can be quite challenging. Median salary for everyone is lower still of course...
Backgammon had a pretty large community at Yahoo! Games. With the demise of Yahoo! Games the only place to play online was FIBS, for which you had to download a Java client... Glad that finally someone scratched their own itch and built this, I will check it out and suggest it to my father.
A lot of things, if you're okay with not chasing the next hype bubble
Interesting, but what are the practical uses of 3d assets beyond gaming, where does it create a real advantage over what we already use as visual information and user interfaces? I cannot see VR replacing the interactions we have. It requires cumbersome, expensive hardware, it floods the users with additional mostly useless information (image, sound, 3d itself) they have to process, it's slow and expensive to create and maintain, in short: it's inefficient compared to established tech, which will always run circles around the lame try of imitating real world interactions in a 3d virtual space. The potential availability of very expensively (in terms of computing power) generated assets doesn't change that. It's still hard to do right, and even if done right, it seems like only a gimmick hardly anyone can stomach for more then a couple of hours at best. It's information overload to most people, and they have better alternatives.
No. You can't protect against arbitrary "memory corruption" without also covering race condition.

While this is a common misconception, I'm already tired of enthusiastic "safu language fans" trying to explain what bound checks mean to me so apologizes for being mean.

But no, in 2024 you should focus on temporal memory safety which is much harder to eliminate compared to "just add boundz CHK everYwHErE!!!@".
>>No real humam has been using email anymore in the last 5 years or so

Wow, that's some extrapolating from a personal bubble if I've ever seen one. Plenty of workplaces still have email as their default communication method.
> any power source rated to provide power in emergency conditions would be a better idea and a level playing field?

Texas bet big on solar and wind. Batteries are promising, but gas is proven. If we want to keep taking down baseload coal, our options are nuclear or natural gas [1]. Nuclear is politically unworkable, so we’ll do gas. (They’ll spin about 22 years [2], by which point battery production should be at the point that it can take over.)

Put another way, the gas restriction is a limiter on coal and nuclear without being that blunt.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Un...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172
You’re making a complaint about Gazelle. If you import third-party packages with c dependencies with Gazelle, obviously, the two choices are it breaks hermeticity or you vendor the C code.

Bazel does ignore those comments. Gazelle does not.
Bayesian filters? how quaint. you haven't switched to AI filtering yet? Your AI has an advantage over their AI because it has read all your other email and knows what you are actually interested in.
I will say that it's _extremely easy_ to just list `Dockerfile` in your output dependencies if it matters enough for you to care.

Stuff from apt/etc as well? put the install script in the dependencies.

Really care about the version numbers? Add a test that just calls `tool -v` and compares the output to some fixed number. Add a big comment.

Is it perfect? No! Is it hermetic! Hell no! But is it going to catch a hell of a lot of stuff and get you fast tests along the way? Yes!

The biggest point with all CI/CD is to get as much value as you can from these systems, while introducing the least amount of friction. And velocity gained from these systems mean that if you find an issue, you can fix it quickly. It's an amazing feedback loop, and leaning into that feedback loop is way more valuable than writing `gettext` compilation scripts.
Why does "Play now using your browser" link to the play store?
Fearmonger.
Always facinated by how complex standardizing timekeeping is. If here was a chance for a global redo, would there be a more simplified system?
Is hair loss alleged to be a creatine side-effect?
Email clients will soon have a new folder called 'AI', next to spam.
Does it support alternative keyboard layouts such as Dvorak?
Unfortunately, not in a business context, where marketers can claim "legitimate interest" in various ways. Also, in which way would it matter that they are illegal? Random companies keep sending them anyway; there are virtually no legal repercussions here.
Such a wonderful piece. I'd not heard of Julia Robinson or Yuri Matiyasevich...what a touching story of two people forming a friendship across time, place and culture.

> Julia thought of mathematicians “as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origins, race, creed, sex, age, or even time (the mathematicians of the past and you of the future are our colleagues too) — all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences.”

The mathematics is way over my head, but I find this inspiring & would love to see how we might discover/co-create realms beyond such distinctions in other endeavors.
For what its worth I like the function coloring Rust has, I don't believe compilation results should vary across separate runs. It's the same spirit as the rest of the language: highly predictable. The likes of diesel are very cool, but still amount to a big fat "yikes" from me.

I think the actual problem is the glacial pace of applying it, and the lack of support in trait impls (e.g. i32.min) and syntax. If it were applied to every pure fn+syntax it would probably cover a great deal of what Zig is doing.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm a strong proponent of wind energy.
But I also like birds. In my view of the world, we should search for solutions that let windmills kill less birds.

The fact that it was Trump who brought this up doesn't make it less true. At least not in my world.
Many of these emails promote products that can inly be described as scams
It depends on expectation; in ten years, people may see this as normal.
Quick feedback on the presentation:

- a oneliner over the video that explains what you are doing would be helpful,
- and then "If you don't know what mutation testing is, you must be living under a rock! " brings people away from your repo faster than you can look the other side.
It might be only me, but never in my life I followed up on a growth hack email, be it manually crafted or AI-generated. If you want to sell me something and I didn't ask you first, I instantly become blind to the message and automatically send to spam without even registering, similar to Web popups. I'm constantly astonished that growth hack marketing has any conversion rate, evidently there's a chunk of population that's way more trusting than me.
If the user-agent claims to be Android, the play link is changed to the Play Store. This is because the web client runs single-threaded[0] and has reduced performance when running in a browser on desktop, let alone when running on a mobile platform. When running as a native Android app, all of the device's CPU cores are utilized.

0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/28631
New OpenSSH Vulnerability
Way too many founders don't understand the impact of competing with cloud vendors.

Almost all enterprises have pre-committed budgets for cloud which means unless your product is FOSS it's going to be hard to convince someone to bet their business on it. Especially given that in this fundraising environment there is a 95% chance they won't be around in a year or two anyway.

It's going to be a brutal few years especially if we are heading into a period of diminishing returns in terms of LLM accuracy.
What I take from reading this, is that only 35k folks are interested in Ethereum.
If John Doe crafts a message himself and sends it to 100000 recipients, or if he uses ChatGPT to generate a message and then send it to 100000 recipients, what’s the difference?

Both are unsolicited emails, i.e. spam.

I feel confident that Gmail’s spam filter will be able to handle this quite well.

I’m betting that the introduction of LLMs will not change the fundamentals of spam-fighting.

https://paulgraham.com/spam.html
pretty sure top meant RL ppl IRL aka meatspace.

information coming over unqualified electronic channels is not trustworthy anymore
Radia WindRunner
> every phone is a rounded rectangle

What other shape could phones be? I wouldn’t wish to read HN on a triangle or parallelogram, for example.
Would be awesome to have the UI/UX of arc with non-chrome browsers! It's the most productive browser ever, with the spaces and the bar on the left. Safari doesn't come close I'm afraid, as it closes all the windows when switching a space
> Why not just switch to TAI?

That would be great.

> Then what time do you use if you really do care about drift?

Nobody uses UTC because they want to know where the Sun is to the nearest second. People who actually need to care about variations in the Earth's rotation speed (e.g. astronomers) already need far fancier stuff than just UTC. People use UTC because someone else made a mistake and decided they should use UTC, like a government standard, or an operating system vendor, or whatever. Unfortunately the best way to correct all those millions of mistakes is to redefine UTC rather than convince everyone in the world to simultaneously switch to TAI.

> taking something useful, UTC, and redefining it out of existence

I question that UTC is useful. What utility does it have over TAI, outside of interoperability with other people who are using UTC? Again, anyone who actually needs to care about Earth rotation speed changes already needs to use something better than plain UTC, and my argument in my original comment is that drift that is small on a scale of a human lifetime is not an actual problem for anyone alive today or in the future.
Creatine works exceptionally well for me (43m), I lift and do cardio, a couple of times a week. And if I take creatine, for a couple of weeks, I can see a noticeable improvement in energy, and body composition. It's so cheap, why would you not take it?
How does that matter??
Why do you need “AI” to do Bayesian filtering?
PSA: GitHub has a “private” email feature so you don’t have to use your real email in commits.

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
The logic in 'Without salespeople we wouldn't live in the world we lived today' doesn't really support the point you are trying to make.

Consider that without thieves we also wouldn't live in the world we live today. That should not be read supporting theft, only an acknowledgement that it exists and that we have designed our lived environment in response.
Dismiss it all you want, it's still going to destroy what is left of the open internet and unsolicited email communication.

Those haven't been in the best shape for the last decade anyway. The benefits of easily accessible compressed knowledge far outweigh the cost, so we're still going up imo.

ChatGPT is perfect for mundane development tasks and language mobility, so quite useful for a significant portion of especially low level developers. I've prompted a bunch of useful little Python scripts myself, without ever bothering to even check the syntax.
Good tips, especially the point about narrowing the scope. At https://Lemonfox.ai we started with a LLM, image and speech-to-text API. Now we are only focusing on the speech-to-text API as the other areas are already very crowded and there's a lack of innovation in the speech-to-text space.
If you do nothing that is discernible from noise (be that manually or through AI), unless your explicit goal is to generate noise, your ROI is 0.

Sure, AI spam can severely disrupt peoples attention by competing with "real" people more competently. But people will not have twice the attention. We will simply shut down our channels when the number of real-person-level-ai-spam goes to infinity, because there is no other option. Nobody will be fooled, very quickly, because being fooled would require super human attention.

Granted, that does not seem super fun either.
Isn't P=NP more interesting?
Some people don't realise how lucky they are that they are blessed by the cognitive lottery that affords them a brain and personality that lets them pursue an enriching and engaging career they feel is valued by society.

In classic HN style the original reply lacks empathy, and demonstrates a preference of machines over humans. Life goes on...