skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since my mom moved to town, we've been eating at her place frequently. She uses a lot of recipes from the NY Times. They are heavy. Lots of butter, cheese, coconut milk, etc. We've asked my mom to cut those things in half.

She's a very good cook, and the things she improvises or makes from memory are much lighter fare. I learned to cook from her, so my meals tend to be fairly light too.

Sure, the fat and salt (and don't forget sugar) are yummy, but they'll kill you. There needs to be a compromise.

An amusing aside, Julia Child said that it's perfectly honorable to be a home cook and not a chef. Making stuff that's good but healthy is an art unto itself, especially if you're feeding vegetarians.
My point is that he's a world expert on the engineering of AI systems. That shouldn't be mistaken for expertise, or even general knowledge, about anything else.

It's a good principle to bear in mind for people from any profession, but top AI engineers in particular seem to have an unusually significant habit of not being able to recognize where their expertise ends and expertise from another field (such as, say, education) begins. They also seem very prone to unfounded hype - which isn't to say they're not also good researchers.

Maybe Karpathy happens to be better on this than his peers, I wouldn't know.
CNN's investigation of Airbnb's hidden camera problem [video]
“ There is an uncanny valley in communication where any inconsistent distortion of reflected appraisal can lead students down a path of irrational madness, in a way that they themselves cannot perceive. This is well known in certain circles.”

Please expand.
The bearing plants didn't have much of a long term impact if I recall...

The oil campaign OTOH, worked out well.

I'd guess actually going after stuff like wire/brass casing production, while it could have an impact, the 'ROI' is likely lower than more important logistics meta-targets (i.e. oil and gas production and transport infra/equip) and those are far easier to 're-boot-strap', one can theoretically draw copper wire from their garage with a reasonable base starting piece and draw jig/rig.

Also, like bearings, it's easier to 'surplus'. Surplus Oil sitting in a field or penetrable location? Obvious easy pickings. Stockpiled wire? I mean you could but frankly even if you burned/melted all the wires someone can just collect it and re-make wire. It's not like oil where the resource gets completely destroyed in the process.

(Ammo depots, OTOH, would make sense.)
Would any hypothetical training data corpus even be sufficient to emulate Feynman? Could any AI have a sufficient grasp of the material being taught, have enough surety to avoid errors, mimic Feynman's writing+teaching style, and accomplish this feat in a reasonable budget and timeframe?

The example is obvious marketing hyperbole, of course, but it's just not going to happen beyond a superficial level unless we somehow create some kind of time-travelling panopticon. It's marred by lack of data (Feynman died in 1988), bad data (hagiographies of Feynman, this instance included), flawed assumptions (would Feynman even be an appropriate teaching assistant for everyone?), etc.

I wonder if AI fans keep doing this thing in hopes that the "wow factor" of having the greats being emulated by AI (Feynman, Bill Gates, Socrates, etc.) will paper over their fundamental insecurities about their investment in AI. Like, c'mon, this kind of thing is a bit silly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2ehY5QXSc
How Amazon matches power needs to green energy sources
Start with Settled's swampletics.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWiMc19-qaA3u1ZawZQIKAh0B...

The other good one from the same channel is Tileman, where he is limited to only using tiles that have been "unlocked"

His current feature is Lowlife, where if he takes a single point of damage his account gets deleted.
My own impression from a week in Paris is that you're right: if you get the "menu" at most restaurants (appetizer, entree, dessert), you walk out full but not stuffed.

The weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, supposedly make you feel like that. I haven't taken them myself. It's like you don't really want any more.

Americans seem to feel entitled to two meals for the price of one, and they may or may not eat them both in the restaurant. (If they don't finish, they take the rest home with them)
In the context of a job application? Making up excuses to hide discrimination, maybe artificially limit the pool of applications to get around other hiring restrictions? Put the applicant on the back foot or make them share information they normally wouldn't? There are probably many ways to abuse it.
Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry, the publisher of the journal Heterocycles (1973-2023) [0] is suing CLOCKSS, after its content was released on June 25, 2024 [1]. All of the content from Heterocycles had ceased being available online, and per their agreement with CLOCKSS Archive in 2011,[2] all of the journal's 106 volumes have been made available under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.[3]

For how this works, see "How CLOCKSS Works" [4] & "How LOCKSS Works" [5].

Chemistry World also had an earlier article ("A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk", 2024-04-09 [6]) discussing the journal's sudden disappearance [7] and the loss of access when it went offline, an increasingly common problem with scholarly research.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocycles_(journal)

[1]: https://clockss.org/clockss-triggers-heterocycles/

[2]: https://clockss.org/the-japan-institute-of-heterocyclic-chem...

[3]: https://clockss.org/triggered-content/heterocycles/

[4]: https://clockss.org/about/how-clockss-works/

[5]: https://www.lockss.org/use-lockss/how-lockss-works

[6]: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/a-key-chemistry-journal-...

[7]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240217181955/https:/www.hetero...
In fact, all of the Ultimas through V had first-person dungeon views.

Wizardry's wireframe dungeon renderer was a bit more advanced, though, in the sense that it supported empty space and disjoint 'islands' in the map, while Ultima I and II could only display corridors.

IIRC that limitation was fixed by III, but it may have been IV. It was definitely fixed by V.
It’s a bad translation using a more modern meaning of “erdapfel” instead of a medieval one. Could easily be a very local colloquialism instead of a widespread name.

To my eye it looks like a melon or gourd plant. It’s definitely not a tuber (the next drawing shows an underground bulb).
But you don't estimate holidays in ... you estimate how long it would take if someone picks on the task Monday morning and works on it full time.

If someone picks up task on Monday then has 20 other meetings - estimation is still the same, he just continues after those 20 meetings and you just don't care when estimating.

Only thing is if at the end of sprint dude is saying "I started X then I had 20 meetings so I did not make it" - well you just accept that or you don't put guy into 20 meetings.
No, the job is to rate the restaurant for the readers. A reasonable portion can be enough for that.
Project Management should be called Project Leadership, and the tools of the former should inform – but not dictate – the decisions of the latter.
Sure — my point is that all of these things are just automating somebody’s idea of what steps users will have a hard time understanding, but users are different, so any of these makeshift approaches will result in an article calling whatever steps are left “unintuitive”. Only the App Store comes close to “solving” this, by reducing it to a single “Get” button that is completely magical.

Don’t forget the Installer message that asks if you want it to put the package in the Trash for you, and will automatically eject the disk image and put that in the Trash as well, without mentioning it. Yet another well-intentioned band-aid. (I actually find this “help” to be counter-intuitive because I do understand disk images, and I know read-only images can’t have a Trash, so how could this actually do what it’s saying?)

BTW, speaking of hidden realities, remember the real reason apps have to be in ZIP files or disk images isn’t the compression (HTTP is likely already compressing it), it’s that Mac apps are, in reality, folders not files, so you can’t actually download them!
The points are needed because it's convenient to do reports based off of it. If we used estimation language such as "easy, medium, hard, dummy-thicc" they'd still need to assign points to those labels so they can do math on reports and graphs to watch your performance

The biggest sin of course is then trying to predict velocity, but the consequences of that usually just make people doing the reporting look silly for no reason. I think even the slow developers rarely get fired, and you also get nothing for clearing more story points than other developers.

No bonuses for higher velocity is the real reason no one takes it seriously.
Well that’s what I’m talking about. The price of all your movie tickets and mileage to drive to the theater, perhaps even your netflix subscription etc.

Or if you’re a travel blogger, the plane rides and hotel stays become a business expense if you’re doing it for profit as part of an LLC. You have to have an actual business plan with memberships, advertisements, etc.

You could be making money with it. But even if you aren’t yet, as long as you’re trying, the business expenses made by an LLC that you are investing into, are deductible on your personal Schedule C! Are they not?
Musk does "whatever he damn well feels like" capitalism. He made a barely driveable eyesore and deathtrap that would have put any other company out of business, just because he wanted to make a future car. He burned $44 billion just to buy the social media platform he blames for making his daughter trans and redpill it to spite "the wokes." He couldn't care less about shareholders. He's a manchild playing with toys.
The post is correct about some problems but completely wrong about solutions. Breaking down tasks that are already sub-sprint-sized in a meeting is the wrong way to do it; you'll put the boundaries in the wrong place and end up duplicating work, and then going overtime when the integration stage takes longer than you thought it would. The right place to do that breakdown is agile, just-in-time: give one person or pair/mob responsibility for a piece of user-facing functionality (that they've already agreed is sub-sprint-sized) and let them do whatever breakdown makes sense for that. If they get confused or stuck they can always raise it in standup (that's why we have them!).

Similarly:

> What happens when the team has turnover? What happens a few months down the line when this work comes back up based on the points that were given previously?

Why would you ever put points on it a few months ahead of time? You do estimation in the sprint planning when it's a candidate for that sprint. There's no need to write down the reasoning for the estimation because the estimation is only relevant for the duration of that meeting (as you prioritise stories for that sprint), and maybe in the retrospective two weeks later if the estimate was way off.

I can see the argument for t-shirt sizes. The "queue" idea is the opposite, and has all the problems of point/time estimation.

> When anyone not directly involved with the project asks why it's taking longer than they thought, the answer will be spelled out in the tasks list. These changes were added on these dates, for these reasons based on this feedback from these people. There is no "your estimate was wrong" situation. There is no "re-estimating" process. There's not even an ask to approve if you can change the point value. It just happens.

Guess what? They're going to ask for dates. They're going to ask why the estimate changed, and not care about the answer because they just want to blame you for their estimates being off. And your "tasks" have just become the same time tracking that you were (rightly) scared of; you have the same problem of having to do a bunch of pointless busywork to justify that you were actually working. (Suppose a "task" is suddenly twice as complex as you thought it was; now you've got to file a second "task" with a fake description to justify why you only did 3 tasks this week when Bob did 4).

The problems the article identifies are: spending too much time and effort on estimation, estimating too far in advance (and then having the team and/or circumstances change), and treating estimates as deadlines. These are all real problems. But they're not problems with story points (indeed story points are actively helpful on the last one, since everyone has to at least pretend to admit that story points are not time estimates), and they're just as easy or difficult to solve whether you use story points or something else.
Pay them. Designers have abundant opportunities to work for free and aren’t paid programmer wages at their day jobs. Good luck.
I'm "low-level guy, like Pike", yet I wouldn't have integers any other way in an application language.

Nobody uses Go for ethernet card drivers. Dealing with machine integers is just mental overhead for Go programmers, and a source of bugs.
I would need a definite article on women to consider striking to not be a verb.
That's funny, I remember playing a little bit of a Silkroad themed (MMO)RPG as a teenager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkroad_Online). I wonder if this game inspired it somehow.
> This goes so fundamentally with the system that it goes down into the hardware, i.e. the disk itself understands the concept of indices, record lengths and even keyed records with associated values.

Interesting, so the disk controller firmware understood records / data sets?

I believe Filesystems with files that could be record-oriented in addition to bytestreams were also common e.g. VMS had RMS on Files-11; the MPE file system was record-oriented until it got POSIX with MPE/IX. Tandem NonStop's Enscribe filesystem also has different types of record-oriented files in addition to unstructured files.

I assume it was a logical transition for businesses transferring from punch-cards or just plain paper "records" to digital ones.
Yeah, the PowerPoint-ization is now so complete that people can't even conceive that there are other ways to give a presentation.
Wow, is there a way to apply this to financial trading?
One big cheat meal per week can undo a lot of work. It's easy to blow through a entire day's worth of calories and macros at one sitting let alone four!
Well, as many on HN know, lots of startups fail. Investors write that off as a capital loss.

Maybe one day, long term capital gains tax will be on the same level as income tax, and then people will stop trying to use things like 83b elections.

But regardless of that, if you invest into your own startup by buying equity or lending it money, that is NOT currently a taxable event. And then that LLC’s losses are passed through to your Schedule C.

It may be strange to have you buying shares in your company if you already have 100% of shares. But if you do a Limited Partnership with a few people, then all of you could be competing to buy shares in it and dilute the others. Those are non-taxable events. And the members of the LLC are also its staff, who go watch movies and review them. Then the tax deductions are claimed on Schedule K instead, by each partner.

I am only talking about a bona fide business. You don’t have to go all-out for each business you start, working 40 hours a week for each one. You could even go to the movies and restaurants once a week and save 30% by turning it into an actual business. Can’t you?

Do travel bloggers deduct their travel expenses as necessary and ordinary?
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How can you bring yourself to trust a human teacher? Humans are wrong sometimes too, often with confidence.

If humans/AIs are wrong about a topic (in particular wrong in a confident way) multiple times, I will stop trusting them to be experts in the topic. What I experienced is rather that many human experts in academia tend to be honest when they are not sure about the answer.
No, it's marketing, education, "evangelism", and other outreach focused directly towards developers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_evangelist
I mean, if there are no paid ads on the site it won't track any.

That said, I don't expect this to be the end state of their user tracking. They could expand their system to track the kinds of ads we get here on HN too. Maybe eventually start ups will be able to pay Mozilla to track how many firefox users use their web apps after seeing a "Show HN" post or even just after seeing mentions of a product in comments. Right now it's hard to track the success of astroturf campaigns, but when a web browser is working for advertisers instead of being a user agent it becomes possible.
There are quite a number of experts who would disagree with your conclusion.

Upon reaching a certain threshold of technological dependence, the need for rational thought (which includes calculation) is tied to the need for food. The actual yield may be low based on other factors, but it is absolutely necessary for survival.

The alternative you suggest, is where technology no longer advances.

Logically then, population growth hits a malthusian trap, the old crowd out the young since they have the most influence, and then a depopulation occurs as the old naturally die off, and replacement births cannot sustain those dependent systems used to feed the masses.

You get a dragon-king event where everyone its a free for all over food and bare necessities, farming no longer becomes possible (because of looters), and the world order collapses to pre-agrarian levels, assuming the environment isn't destroyed in the chaos (i.e. MAD and Nuclear Fallout).

There are much better ways to calculate than are currently taught in schools, Trachtenberg System and Vedic Maths have worked well in many places.

Mental math has been around for quite some time, and the principles of math are all about finding uncommon knowledge or information that is not immediately apparent (though it becomes so via various mathematical transformations).

The current pedagogy of math is all about sieving and exclusion, and rote-authority based teaching, since it is a requirement for any specialized area of science (and is only taught in relation to mathematical concepts, instead of intuitive approaches). This is why they adopted a burn-the-bridge strategy right around trigonometry at the grade school level (intended to cause PTSD/suffering/torture), to safeguard against disruptive innovators at the source.

Algebra -> Geometry -> Trig

1 -> 2 -> 3

What do you suppose happens when the passing grading criteria in 1 is changed from just following the process (but not correct answer) to 2 (separate unrelated material which is passed) to 3 (correct process and correct answer).

If they fail Trig, and the problems are from Algebra (not something a teacher paid bupkiss will bother to look at), how do they go back if they passed Geometry? The students not knowing why they are failing are simply told, well you maybe you are just not good at math and should consider other paths if you can't do it.

This structure is called burning the bridge because it makes it so you can't go back from a progression standpoint. Ironically, this structure was adopted at the request of representatives from the National Teachers Union in the late 80s/90s, and largely remains the same today.

There are several other progression sieves embedded in academia intended to make it almost impossible for us as a society to develop a large number of creative people who reach einstein-level achievements in math and science (outside-self study, or specific environments/private schools).

This broad push largely started in the 1970s in publishing, and expanded from there.
Try It Online interpreters for 680 practical and toy programming languages
- https://tio.run/#
The laptop also was not called "the one laptop per child" or "the OLPC". That was the name of the project. The laptop was the XO.

The website getting this wrong makes it harder for me to take them seriously.
> This year is my 41st as a professional in this field, and my 25th running my own business. I've written two books.

you sound like an arrogant ceo
Aren’t AirTags a mesh network of sorts? Or do the tags just piggy back on nearest device.
It's the responsibility of your distro to ship things that work together,
Many investors have figured out that “letting Elon be Elon” has high expected value and are willing to ride the rollercoaster along the way I guess.
Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool
Don't elevate a tantrum. He'll lose a lot of people whom he doesn't realize he needs.
This is great work! I will keep an eye (and maybe even try to contribute).
Looking back at the beginning of Google, I think their use of hardware and hardware agnostic platform likely contributed to support growth at lower cost. We need more of that in the AI era
I think we’ve been at the point you’re worried about for a while. It’s just we don’t even have a substitute like Ai yet.

Instead we just accept really bad education.
It is actually a good thing for kids to know that if they abuse somebody, then someone else, who is bigger and stronger will be very angry with them. That's how the adult world works. Or at least supposed to work, when police and other "bigger and stronger" men do their job properly.
Looks like you might have been inspired by Klokki, which is what I've been using for a while. Seems like a decent UI direction, but quite a lot of UI for something designed for people who forget to use their time tracking app. The roadmap indicates you've got plans for a bunch of features that are hard to reconcile with the idea of something getting out of my way.

I do feel like that pricing scheme is also too aggressive, especially for a pre-order which I don't think I've ever gone for in software. Likewise your subtle comparison to "other apps" in terms of performance seems a bit silly, either have a clear comparison with real numbers or leave it out, imo.

My feeling is that $30 is on the very high end of what I'd pay as a freelancer, unless I was doing quite a lot of work and this offered me substantial value, and you don't have the trust up-front that other Mac stalwarts like OmniGroup or Panic have, who are also asking in the hundreds for their much more sophisticated and niche offerings.

Perhaps with a small upgrade/subscription fee, or a little less than $30 for a complete app, but with optional in-app purchases or subscriptions for integrations with third-party task management platforms, since an individual is going to need either 1, none, or a mix of integrations depending on how many clients in what industries they work with. A great app with an additional but substantial Asana integration (from your roadmap) would be a huge boon to people working with it, and only a hypothetical plus that I don't want to pay for if I'm not using it. Right now I'm working with no external time tracking systems, and don't expect to be, so I'd feel a little annoyed paying for an unfocused core product.

I do like the site, and you present the app in a way I like to see. I'd encourage you to iterate on the direction a bit, and depending on how many pre-orders you've landed (maybe I'm off on the price) adjust accordingly. I pre-ordered the Matias Sculpted keyboard for marginally more than you're asking, and it hasn't shipped yet, but I'm willing to take the chance on it because they already produce keyboards, it's so critical to my workflow that I'd be screwed without it, and it's a reasonable cost compared to other enthusiast keyboards.

Incredible value is worth good money, but there are some ambiguous constraints to how much I'm willing to bet on a piece of software in particular categories, despite also wanting a fair exchange for the developer and myself.