skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm should have specified cordless/stick vacuums. I generally like Miele design but for some reason their stick vacuum looks like a race car.
The actual washing of the dishes we have automated, not the loading unloading, folding of clothes and organizing them in my closet. I spend at least 1 hour a week on that stuff… ~52hours per year I could be doing art and writing.
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It's always been a legitimate political strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_politics

In Chicago.

Now it's everywhere.
How does CopilotKit compare to other frameworks or tools for building AI assistants?
I wonder if this perspective is the path that leads to newspeak.
Excellent example! That's a really excellent instructable.

Reading that page, it's interesting that the stainless steel rivets and fastener hardware are the only bits that didn't color. Quoting from the article:

> It is possible that the stainless steel might start to color if left in the oven for longer but my cursory research lead me to believe that stainless needs to get to about 800F to color. My oven certainly can't do that.

I've heard that welding stainless steel gets it too hot and removes something (the carbon?) essentially de-stainlessing it (?). I wonder how much of that would be happening at these temperatures.

Definitely not going to experiment with this on our 20-year old wedding rings, but it seems like this is very much worth keeping in mind for any potential future projects! Maybe if I ever help one of my kids make their rings for their wedding? :)

Thanks for the idea, and for the link!
SMBC with a similar sentiment https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-2
> It’s a nonsensical word salad of half-baked conjectures and aphorisms.

I found this article excellent and definitely thought provoking, and I am just wondering how can someone read that and come out with a bad impression like that?!

Do you have some undisclosed issue with PG??
There is one for the weird lz4json format they use now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozlz4-edit/

But it is super unwieldy. Pretty much the only way to decode those files without compiling the decoder from source since it has non-standard lz4 headers.

For the few remaining SQLite files DB Browser works great.
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Epistemic calibration and searching the space of truth
Finnish municipal decision-makers favourable to SMRs
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My boss (who used this one for a while, but haven't heard it too much lately) just asked me to review the agenda prior to tomorrow's meeting so I could "prime my cache". The CEO proudly claimed she's "always been a data nerd!" in today's town hall.

I kind of miss the days when being a nerd was not a cool, even edgy, social statement but something you did to escape the MBA-types who have now stolen it from us.
Would you say a Prius is any less safe then a Tesla because it lacks its acceleration performance?
https://archive.ph/3HVkj
https://report.nih.gov/

You can see NCI (National Cancer Institute) leading the pack there, with NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) coming in second.

It surprises me how few people, even in my field(s) (which are overwhelmingly funded primarily by NIH), know of or use these tools. Particularly RePORTER and the advanced project search functions.
The sad thing is that this has worked out well for them in the short term with significantly increased sales. It's too bad that every item is just 40 people reselling the same garbage from AliExpress and it's really hard to find the quality hand-made items now.
Probably not as many as they wish, or as you think.
imo this is too little too late, idk who was driving the podcast feature at spotify but i don't understand how they wouldn't roll this out sooner if not at launch of their recent "exclusive" podcast acquisitions (i.e. rogan). It just seems like an obvious engagement addition.

i understand maybe the fear of having to moderate comments, but that problem still exists now.
I am a huge fan of this app that is the Toad like equivalent for Sqlite for me. Keep up this excellent work!
Or just require file/function level comments. Requiring them to be helpful can be managed interpersonally, like someone was slacking off (they are)
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You missed the point.

One of those scenarios is available. The other isn't even being worked on in any serious fashion.

And you definitely don't get to tell people that your product is just fine, they are wrong for wanting something else.
Do you think that they’re just sitting on a pile of unspent money? If not, it doesn’t matter what the existing tax rate is since we’re talking about new money which has to come from somewhere.

And while $1.7M is indeed silly, it’s a drop in the bucket for something which would cost billions. A custom building plan is much easier to avoid than a tense negotiation with many parties.
My main concern about Copilot use is that, unless you're in a race to quickly produce a minimum viable product, it doesn't optimize the hard part. The initial coding is a very small piece of the work.

Code has to be designed, maintained, and extended, and for supportable code we want to have someone on the team that understands it well. If we want the code to be flexible, we want design decisions to appear in as few places as possible, ideally one. Copilot as an auto-complete, where it just helps fill in function names and the like, is fine and helpful (but IDEs do most of that already). But if it's used to write larger code chunks we quickly have the problem that there are code sequences no one on the team understands (it passed the tests though, yay!?) and we wind up with bloat from a lot of copy-paste like code.
Yes there are certain libraries that can handle this. Essentially asserting that functions documented are valid / return the proper results.

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html#module-doctes... as an example.
Maybe the economy should be structured for the real-world behavior then?
Incrementally. EV's with their very low c.g. and high mass are indeed really safe, but frankly so are minivans. If the choice was the Model Y or a 1970's Jeep or whatever, then the calculus might be different.

I don't sweat that stuff, it's the same logic that keeps kids in booster seats long after their friends are riding shotgun.
In matlab, where functions are "always" defined in their own file, there is a tool that checks if function documentations have all the right headers expected conventionally by matlab's documentation system (e.g. header, usage, examples, see-also links, etc). So this would be one example, I guess.

But I too would be interested to hear other people's insights who subscribe to this Docs as Code model.
This seems like a lose-lose proposition. If people don't care about handmade or supporting indy creators then Etsy is destined to get smaller. If they abandon that niche they go from a future of being smaller to being non-existant trying to compete with Temu and Amazon.
> I see no reason why "their passion" should overrule profit-seeking.

Companies can and will do whatever they want.

However, on the level of the individual, I see no reason why profit-seeking should overrule my passion. I don't code to make money, I code because I love doing it. I make money to allow myself to engage in an activity I find rewarding, I don't engage in that activity to make money.

If that activity is no longer rewarding, there is no amount of money that can compensate for that.

Perhaps you're right, and that the future has no place for people like me. We'll see. Regardless, though, I'm not going to participate (either as a dev or as a customer) with processes that dehumanize people to such a degree.
If the water is uphill of where it's needed? Sure, and we've already done that. If the water is net uphill of where it's needed? Maybe, but requires enormous energy inputs, and infra to recapture on the downhill side, and has corresponding energy losses. If the water is net downhill of where it's needed? We almost certainly cannot, not without or building massive (hopefully nuclear/solar) energy infra.

Moving water is far, far more difficult than any other type of infrastructure we build.
There were political norms that were followed. What stopped it from happening was an unwritten agreement to follow these rules. Those norms have been upended. New norms will form.
but what will happen when "enjoyable art" and "AI art" are virtually impossible to differentiate between without tools?

https://i.imgur.com/XSCN9Aj.png
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> Zero is important because it is the first abstraction

And thus was born the everlasting confusion between cardinal and ordinal numbers.
Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated [..] epigenetic editor
See also one of the author's twitter threads: https://x.com/cureffi/status/1806404950055862547
> Somehow require that blocks of code have documentation linked to them

The Symfony (PHP) framework now does this. Code and config examples in the docs have automated regression tests.
From Icelake to Iceberg Rust
I can try to word it better?

You said when people look at moral situations, they use their own values to round their measurement. And I thought that was a good way to describe things.

Then for some reason you acted like "rounding" turns things into strawman-level black and white. The slightest blemish (not hiring a specific good person) qualifying as evil.

Let's say a scale of 0 to 10. If people disagree whether some issue is a 3 or 4, and a few people say 5, and that's 95% of responses, then that disagreement isn't a big deal. It doesn't matter that it's not well-defined, it's sufficiently-defined.

That would be rounding. Showing that the question is not nonsense.

If they disagree whether it's a 0 or a 10 that's a totally different thing that is not rounding.
Spending time to cost a company a few hundred bucks doesn’t seem rational. There are higher EV ways to spend your time to try to satisfy wants.

Unless your mindset is one of “it’s not enough that I succeed; others must fail by my hand”.

That said I could easily imagine doing some stuff like this as a teenager for giggles. There’s some small joy in being a minor troublemaker in a way nobody would actually care about. It’s not something I’d brag about though.
It's the same guys, pretty often.
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From "Scientists show that there is indeed an 'entropy' of quantum entanglement" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40396001#40396211 :

> IIRC I read on Wikipedia one day that Bell's actually says there's like a 60% error rate?(!)

"Reversibility of quantum resources through probabilistic protocols" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47243-2

"Thermodynamics of Computations with Absolute Irreversibility, Unidirectional Transitions, and Stochastic Computation Times" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.02...
> Not sure why this is being posted now

I was doing something in lang chain and it told me that I had to import ffmpeg or avconv. I had never heard of the latter, and it wound up taking me down this rabbit hole.

Like you said, the latter is abandoned, but the legacy still lives on in third party libraries that have different code paths depending on which you want to use.
I probably live under a rock but I had never seen these comics before. Some of them are pretty funny. Can't imagine AI needing raunchy comics though, maybe I'm thinking too small for AI.
> Why not partner with a major bank, or Column?

Yeah, why didn't Mercury partner with a well-established, vetted, and recognized bank like SVB?
Readme Driven Development https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...
I completely agree. I've often found myself copy pasting links to slack threads or screenshotting messages to append to tickets. being about to flag a thread and have a service create a ticket, summarize the discussion, highlight the requirements, and (importantly) include the things we decided against doing, would make life so much easier.

the flip side of course is that the easier it is to create a ticket, the easier it is to create duplicate or contradictory tickets. does your system offer the ability to check for existing tickets that are a close match for whatever is being created?
You see generative AI as a stepping stone towards chores like dishes and laundry?
> Storytelling is personal. It is a connection between the writer and the reader. Without this personal connection, storytelling loses its purpose.

I read a book many years ago called If this is your land, where are your stories? One of the sections described how a group of native people from western Canada successfully reclaimed some of their land by telling stories in court. They lost their case in a lower court, because the court ruled that they were just telling stories. A higher court ruled that their people's stories, while not always factually correct, do lay claim to the land they lived on.

Everyone has a story. It's a confusing world where machine-generated stories can be indistinguishable from actual human stories.

Trust in authenticity is going to be a valuable asset going forward; I appreciate people sharing responses like this. It's easy to be cynical and say this response won't change anything, but if the people at Muse and companies like it keep getting these responses, some of them will realize the emptiness of what they're doing and move on to more meaningful work.

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Stories-Finding-Common-Ground/d...
I don't, but our economic system is based on and rewards that. It does feel sad.
>> How do you write automated tests for documentation? Somehow require that blocks of code have documentation linked to them?

It could be tests to ensure documentation "builds" into all of the desired formats (e.g. web, pdf, ebooks, etc.) correctly.

Some programming languages have the idea of "documentation tests". In Rust, tests that are part of the documentation will run as part of the documentation build:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/write-documentation/docume...
There are different kinds of "art" with different use cases. Sometimes I want to look at something thoughtful and meaningful by an artist making a profound statement about humanity where I can see the emotion and motivation. Sometimes I want something that adds a bit of color to the office. One of those may never be the domain of AI, but if I just want something with a flower and a bird that matches the colors of the rest of the room....?

It is ok if you don't see any value in the second use case. Different people like different "art".
I think the state of things today amply demonstrates that quantity cannot make up for lack of quality.
Current term is something like 70 years after the death of the author.

It's simply too long for a world that moves this fast.
That's perfectly fine at the individual level (and probably encouraged for most people + their passions), I think the guy above is trying to get at something more like: just because some people are passionate about their thing, doesn't mean other people shouldn't allowed to pursue it for profit-seeking.

As someone else has mentioned, just because weavers were/are passionate about what they do, that doesn't mean people shouldn't have been allowed to invent the loom + mass production techniques for clothing. Everyone on the planet has benefited mightily from this, and there are other similar examples.

Maybe there are restrictions that should be enforced to prevent this in some cases, or curtail it to some degree. There's likely not a one size fits all rule, and a lot of it is determined as net-good or net-bad in hindsight.
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Oh right, I got confused, it might actually have been even bigger 28+mm on the TT bikes that was doing well in the wind tunnel testing.

25mm was the older "skinnier" size that was prevalent in the peloton, or even 23s or smaller.

I think it also became apparent that rolling resistance was reduced on wider tires, so if an aerodynamic (and weight) formula could be made to make 28mm viable, it was better.
1 hour a week means you live alone. Add a partner and a kid or two, and someone will be spending one hour a day on unloading and sorting laundry into right wardrobes.

(On average. Realistically, it's more like a day and a half every two weeks or something).

Chores are terrible life suckers, and I for one subscribe to the notion of eliminating them with technology.
I don't know why the title is written the way it is. It's slightly different from the title on the article -- "Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup".

The current link title "AI Humane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startup" reads like an AI running the company Humane left to start its own AI powered fact-checking startup. It's very Kafkaesque and funny but maybe a bit inaccurate.
This is such an insane take.

At this point, I think as a society we need to just say copyright as a concept and law has completely failed and scrap the whole thing.

The 0.01% of powerful copyright cartel publishers get rich while harming 99.99% of people, because we've seen further erosion of fair use rights, absurdly lengthy expansions of copyright to prop up Disney's profits and expansive interpretation of how much control copyright olders have and zero punishment for abuse of DMCA and other things.

Students should be able to learn from books, music, film. So should AI training models.

If there is any ambiguity about this, we should immediately write laws making it clear that training and education of all forms is explicitly allowed under fair use. Ideally, we also send anyone trying to prevent this to the guillotines.
What is the use case for it? What kind of activity implies automatic announcements on HN?
> No, this viewpoint is the only reason a shirt doesn't cost a month's wages.

But that shirt would last you decades with good maintenance, because it was a quality product that was made to be repaired by other craftspeople throughout it's service life (or even just yourself!). Now we have can have hundreds of shirts for that same money but all of them suck, are made cheaply, fall apart after a couple of years if we're lucky, and are made by people who can't afford to buy them in a country we've never seen. How is this an improvement in literally any way, apart from it makes fast fashion companies shitloads of money? It's worse for the people making the clothes, wearing the clothes, and selling the clothes. It's worse for the environment because now we're making and destroying millions of articles of clothing, not to mention shipping it here and there and everywhere. And, for all that, we still have people who don't have enough fucking clothing.
If you struggle online selling your art because of AI, your Art is not good enough and AI was not the problem to begin with.

A lot of friends around me are really good in drawing. They do not sell anything. A friend can draw really really good like photoreal, he also can barley life from this.

All of this was before AI.

I want to use AI for customization and not because i don't appreciate art.

If an artist gets frustrated because of some AI companies, sry to say but i don't think you are honest to yourself.

I also still hate this 'companies grabed our art and now we hate it'. Everyone looked at art from others to learn from art. There is very little unique art styles and just because someone else did it, doesn't mean that someone else can't come up with it.

Btw. i do photography for 20 years. No one wants to buy my prints either. But i still don't mind AI training on all my pictures. Why? I really really believe that AI will enable us to do a lot more and is necessary to achieve a Star Trek like system were we will have time again to actually persue art because all the capitalism bullshit like ads ads ads and ads (don't forget ads) will be less relevant to us.
I don't understand how the concept of zero could have taken so long for humans to discover: "I had two apples, I ate one and gave one to a friend". They must have had a word for the concept of running out of things as soon as any level of cognitive ability emerged.
> Stop cowboy coding

Why are you giving this company benefit of the doubt - just because it’s western? They haven’t even bothered to comment on the issue, they made no promise to fix it, for all you know they are selling your data to the highest bidder. And to anyone from China too.

If a Chinese company does it we are quick to label it stealing, but here we have the authority to regulate, and we go soft, oh no, it’s disorganisation, poor them, they’ve only been in this business for like 40 years or whatever.

Maybe we should assume malevolence, just like we do with China.
> Homeless people from the entire rest of the world will have incentive to get free housing in SF

How does a country with significant housing resources for homeless people, say Germany, mitigate this problem?
Alternative viewpoint - some creative people don't enjoy the actual physical act of making a creation a reality. For me, I don't particularly enjoy programming, but I love building things. I had hoped that AI would allow me to build things in a way that skips past or trivializes the stuff I don't like (it hasn't, because I'm still a much more competent programmer than "AI" is).

With art, though - I have some disabilities I don't feel the need to mention here, and am not particularly gifted at drawing or making art. I love making comics but I can't draw. AI allows me to make things like that now. It's been fantastic for someone like me, although I completely understand the arguments presented here by people that create for a living, I do think this is inevitably a losing battle because creating visual stuff is something this current iteration of generative AI seems to be pretty decent at.
The boot disk isn't guaranteed to be writable.
Most art is not culture either. It is mundane movie shots, textbook drawings, logos, etc. Tailored shirts have not gone away. Custom fabric patterns have not gone away.

All that has disappeared is every shirt being tailored, custom, and expensive.