skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this often, but my understanding is that gas is has very high sin taxes, there are no subsidies, and some tax breaks, but are the type that most businesses qualify for.

Every time I look it up, the results are so full of rhetoric and conflating I can't find an answer.

Most top line numbers count on priced externalities as a implicit subsidy. That's fine and well for some analyzes, but very different than Direct Cash subsidies or tax breaks
Also, one of the major classes of problem that gets solved and we view as "progress" in machine learning is framing problems. Like we couldn't define "draw a good picture" in a way we could actually assess well, GANs and Diffusion turn out to be good ways to phrase problems like that. In the former case, it creates a way to define the problem as "make something indistinguishable from an example pulled from this dataset" and in the latter case, "I've randomized some of these pixels, undo that based on the description"

The idea of "efficiency" and "progress" is this post-hoc rationalization that people who never understood the problem, pay people to understand the problem, apply to problems once they have a working solution in hand. It's a model that is inherently as dumb as a model can be, and the assumption it makes is that there is some general factor of progress on hard problems that can be dialed up and down. Sure, you can pay more scientists and probabilistically increase the rate at which problems are solved, but you can't predict how long it will take, how much failure it will involve, whether a particular scientist will solve a particular problem at all, whether that problem is even solvable in principle sometimes. Businesspeople and investors like models where you put in money and you get out growth at a predictable rate with a controllable timescale, and if this doesn't work you just kick it harder, and this ill fits most frontier research. Hell, it ill suits a lot of regular work.
I didn't have any symptoms until it was stage 4. I developed a kind of crackling in my right lung when I breathed, so I got it checked out.
"we see correlation is causation and you can’t argue otherwise:"

Right. Because none of us remember what was going on in the world at the time.
That's true but the US industrial (and resource) policy does the same thing just in different areas. For example, we subsidize fossil fuels to a much larger degree than China does, but we're all OK with that because we rely on them.
>But that's on the end user, no?

Most users don't spend billions of dollars on climate-denial propaganda, so no.
This is why selling opium should be legal. The consequences of use are on the user not the seller. Sellers never should have culpability assigned to them. Ditto for lenders.
Yes, the money is extremely, extremely low. Even from an Indian subcontinent point-of-view. I didn't expect them to boast hundreds of thousands of USD, but they should have at least made 20k-30k USD.
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Not a problem. Helping people get started with godot is a bit of a hobby of mine, but it also is not for everyone so I try to not oversell it because the best thing for a dev is use the right tool for their brain and target game type.
You won't be laughing at them, you'll be living the consequences.
They realized it was cheaper to buy politicians than to actually change anything.
I've returned stuff to Amazon twice, and my experience both times was pretty bad. But even if the seller is good about returns, having to return it is still a loss. It takes time and hassle, and you have to wait even longer for the thing you want.
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> what level of damage we're willing to accept

Who is "we"? Why do you get to decide whether Africa's heatwave is 52C instead of 48C? Are you going to compensate them for that heatwave, and the resulting strain on their growth & development and political stability?

That's the crux of this case. There are significant negative externalities that are not being priced in by the market. The people doing most of the damage owe some compensation to the people who have to bear most of the consequences of their activity.
Similar to the OP, I had a lot of anxiety around math and academic performance. I dropped out of college at 18 and the highest math class I took was in high school (pre-calc), which I almost failed.

At age 33, I enrolled in community college and took Calc I-III, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations. The community college hosts weekly "math jams" and offers free 1:1 tutoring.

I'm currently taking a Discrete Math and Probability class at UC Berkeley for fun this summer (CS70), which would have seemed absurd just a few years ago. The community college system in California is extraordinary; I'm glad I got to experience it first-hand.
No, it's not "on the end user", in my not-so-humble opinion. We should have been much more heavily investing in renewables & carbon neutrality (factories to make batteries and solar, nuclear, anything) by the time the fracking boom happened. Fossil fuel companies were investing in misleading the public about global warming instead, in the same way that tobacco companies invested in misleading the public about the health issues caused by smoking. To this day they are still working to undermine efforts to transition to cleaner energy, for the sake of greater profits, even while their public relations efforts pretend they are pro-"green". The country/world was steered toward a cliff by self-interested people without sound judgement or morals pulling financial levers to enrich themselves.
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It's also entirely possible that Amazon does handle verification, but they have set their operator metrics so high, the operators are forced to speed through the process.

We see this in other areas of logistics as well - delivery people sprinting and tossing packages because they can't spend more then X seconds per stop.

I've spent a lot of time in distribution centers over the last decade. The vast majority of people just want to do a good job, even if the job isn't a good one.
Forced stock commingling by Amazon is the absolute worst. It's a negative-sum game where honest actors get the bitter end of the stick.
my theory is, they may have passed away before seeing bitcoin's glory days. the anonymity is purely coincidental.
Amazon has started to refuse returns on many items. One of their core customer value mechanisms has been destroyed.

Online shopping requires returns. Removing that option significantly reduces trust and value.
Banks are actually getting much better at ferreting out these scams.

My Mom got one of those calls where the guy said my son was jail and they needed to pay his cash bail to get him out. They never called me or him, just panicked and went to the bank to get the cash out and the bank refused to give them the money because they knew it was a scam. They started asking my parents questions and pointing out how the scam worked when they got agitated they weren't giving them the money.

They called me from the bank and I texted my son and he was completely confused since he was at work and was just fine. I thanked the people at the bank profusely for their intervention.

It was a great learning experience for my parents as well. They are way more leery about strangers calling and have already hung up on several scammers. They also filter out email messages and won't click on any links in emails or pop-ups.

The whole experience really put their radar up for this stuff now.
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Functionally you're just created extra steps and confusion by not calling it a time estimate, or at least something equivalent to time. Even with a real time estimate you shouldn't be planning by going "well you work 80 hours this sprint, so we plan 80 hours" - you should be doing the same consideration of looking at how many "hours" were completed in the last few sprints and plan based on that number. If we're in agreement that these numbers are for the team only then it shouldn't matter if they consistently under or over estimate the hours, nobody outside the team should know or care how many "hours" they complete in a sprint.

The confusion part is that by calling it "complexity" and saying it's not a time estimate you've muddied the waters on what it is, people will debate the definition and intentionally differentiate it from actual time. I've seen this before, the points-per-sprint never stabilizes because teams have cards where "that's a 1 point card because it's simple, but it will probably take a week". And then suddenly they're ignoring the points during planning to instead come up with an actual time estimates (which also don't work because they don't track those against multiple sprints).
I think the issue is that many of these metrics (e.g. RAGAS) are LLM as a judge metrics. These are very far from reliable. Making them reliable is still a research problem. I've seen a couple of startups training their own LLM judge models to solve this problem. There are also some work to attempt to improve the reliability through sampling such as G-eval (https://github.com/nlpyang/geval).

One need to think of these metrics as a way to filter all the data to find potential issues, and not as a final evaluation criteria. The golden criteria should be human evaluators.
I wonder how I can convince people to send me training data. Photo enhancement? Writing review? No, I've got it now. Data storage!
In my experience, it's actually easier to memorize a sentence than to actually learn the principles behind something. (Turns out this is also true for neural networks, and there are loads of techniques for counteracting it.)

So OK, to counteract memorization and lack of contextualization, you have 5-6 sentences with the same word. But now Anki doesn't know that they're related, so the SRS system can't actually space out the learning the way it wants to.

With the system I developed, you're given a full phrase / sentence / paragraph / section / chapter, and it separately tracks the words or grammar elements you've seen, in a way similar to that described by OP. So you're always actually reading native content, of which much of the content will be new even if the words are already known to you.
> Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice"

OP didn't mistake anything, this would be a public office clerk and they don't have private jets nor yachts.
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And then be laid off in 6 months
Also the young with relatively less to do. When I was little, I started reading calculus books in about 4th grade; I couldn't understand them much but with a few years of trying I finally mostly got it at a conceptual level (tho I didn't do the homeworks till I took it in school; but by then it seemed to be the easiest subject of all). I also read this cool book "Metamathematics" by Kleene and then wrote (in MS Basic for the Ohio Scientific C1P, using computed gosubs) a recursive descent parser for numerical math equations, so I could type in like "i ^ (1/i)" (I only had +,-,x,/ and ^ but they all took all complex numbers; I might have had ln as well? I could only implement functions where I could figure out how to evaluate them, which excluded cos and sin unless I used exp(theta i pi) = cos(theta pi) + i sin (theta pi) and see what it was as a complex number. It wasn't ground breaking, but it was self-taught (and I could rewrite that program to this day pretty quickly).

But as a grown-up, it's more efficient to get help learning hard things. And some things are harder than others. I think you can learn calculus on your own, and certainly computability theory, and point set topology, but learning finite-group theory, which has a lot of numeric details, or measure theory at a really solid level, would be getting harder. Still doable if you have the inner drive, but lot more efficient to take grad level classes where you turn in homework. Also doing a lot of homework does give you a sort of muscle memory "a function is continuous iff the inverse image of open sets are open".

I wouldn't tell everyone to become a professor, but I'd certainly recommend US grad level classes as an extremely efficient way to learn a lot.
I have it internally, I can share it if you want!

But to the point of comparison between these and tools like Traceloop - it's interesting to see this space and how each platform takes it's own path and finds its own use cases.

LangSmith works well within the LangChain ecosystem together with LangGraph, LangServe. But if you're using LlamaIndex, or even just vanilla OpenAI you'll be spending hours to set up your observability systems.

Braintrust and Humanloop (and to some extend other tools I saw in this area) take the path of "full development platform for LLMs".

We try to look at it as developers look at tools like Sentry. Continue working in your own IDE with your own tools (wanna manage your prompts in a DB or in git? Wanna use LLMs your own way with no frameworks? no problem). We install in your app, with one line and we work around your existing code base and make monitoring, evaluation and tracing work.
I prefer HN without LLM slop
propofol is a powerful drug that michael jackson would use to sleep because he had a personal physician. his doctor, conrad murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving michael jackson propofol leading to his death. murray received 4 years, served 2, and had his medical license revoked.
> but actually, this reminds me more of the "virtual machines" used in executable packers/obfuscators like VMProtect and Themida.

Yeah, totally. Only changing the stack at runtime is helpful for avoiding the ire of anti-virus.
Salary should not be conflated with total comp. Picking the "hyperscale ultra-growth" startup is like winning the lottery, or investing in a donut shop that strikes oil. Working there comes with an implicit investment, survivorship bias makes this seem more consistent than this actually is. It's a mixture of software engineering and entrepreneurship, the two should be separated to properly evaluate the risk.
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And one of the annoying things about the job market is you could get 10-20x the compensation at another company doing the same or less work :P
oh I didn't even realize that C# was also a problem here - I was thinking about how web exports are (were?) pretty busted for Chromium-type browsers on Mac in Godot 4[1] due to some graphics backend stuff that I don't fully understand.

Thanks for the heads up! Guess it's not time for me to revisit Godot yet :(

[1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70691
> Could be literally anything. Amazon does nothing more than a weight test for inventory verification.

Someone used this to defraud (?) Amazon by ordering asphalt, using it to fix potholes, and then shipping back sand:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXCSMu0fH4
Amazon doesn't make the difference between seller, third party fulfillment, and FBA obvious.
Many of them already are feeling the effects of it, especially with nurses.
I can't wait.

This will make a huge difference to a lot of my work.
And there is no way in hell the reason he can’t bulk more is that he wouldn’t be able to afford rent if he ate, idk, an extra chicken breast or two each day.

The unnecessary physique pic + exaggerated insecurity + front-running of non-existent aesthetic critiques indicates he definitely does work out regularly, though (not being snide; everyone I know who lifts seems to inevitably reach that stage).
”If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone."

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Overall I think using SQLite locally to offload database work is incredibly powerful. Given most laptops have an SSD now a days, you can scan an entire 30-100MiB SQLite db in miliseconds.

Meanwhile in AWS you would pay $27k a month to have the same IOPS as a Lenovo Thinkpad X1.

I just got done with a side project using WASM SQLite as well, it's incredibly powerful, even supports full text search.

My project "cluttr" is a local first site that focuses on cleaning up your screen shots folder and making it searchable via OCR. All in browser.

It also supports using Ollama to run a vision model against your images to provide more context.

Really helpful if you take a lot of screenshots for clients or PMs and need to find them later. The best part is 99% of the hosting cost is offloaded to the client, so I am not really worried about a large server bill.

https://cluttr.pages.dev/

(working on deployment to https://cluttr.ai later today)
I know! When we started every time I was googling "traceloop" this was the first result.

2 reasons why we chose it (in this order):

1. traceloop.com was available

2. we work with traces
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Hello HN,

A year ago, I started the journey to create what we call a Switchless eSIM for travelers.

The problem we’re solving comes from first-hand experience with accessing data while traveling overseas. The old methods like swapping SIMs, paying high roaming fees, or relying on WiFi are inconvenient and costly. Our solution is a single eSIM that you install once, then buy data for any country you travel to, and get connected instantly.

Our app will be live in the next few days (hopefully), so for now, it’s just web.

I would love to know if you’ve used eSIMs when travelling overseas and your experience.
How does Prismix ensure that the AI-generated content remains brand-consistent across different platforms?
I've also pretty much entirely stopped buying from amazon, save for maybe 1 - 2 orders a year. Although my biggest problem is that because any number of sellers can offer products on the same listing, you often just flat out do not get what's in the listing. 32A fuses being sold under a listing for 16A because or even at times the title and description having different values. And that's not even talking about the abundance fake items. Amazon is just dogshit now.
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The AWS Security Review tool helps you create multiple applications and select AWS services for your project, generating targeted questions on security, performance, and data management. It allows customization, labeling, and easy report sharing for a thorough review process.

Features:

- Create multiple applications and select AWS services to be used in the project.

- Automatically generate relevant questions on security, performance, and data management.

- Add custom questions based on your business requirements.

- Label and mark questions as reviewed, not applicable, or needing investigation.

- Export and share reports with your team or clients.

Will Add more AWS services + detailed descriptions about the questions, steps to implement solutions, and helpful resources in the future.

A note on privacy: The application is just a front-end tool and does not store any data on servers. All the information you use is stored in IndexDB in your browser. Your custom questions and data remain in your browser and won't be deleted unless you clear the database from the developer tools or use the delete functionality in the tool.

The tool enhances the review process by providing a more customized approach, working alongside scanners to ensure a robust and comprehensive

Thoughts?

Thanks
Whenever an Amazon story appears on HN, dozens of comments appear with stories of used goods sold as new, bricks instead of PS5s, counterfeit goods, etc. Going by the consensus you'd think Amazon has a 0% customer satisfaction rate.

Just as a counterpoint, I've bought thousands of items from the site. Multiple thousands. From dried dates to SLRs, random offbrand tablets to laptops. I've had zero used-as-new, counterfeit or replaced goods. None. A couple of times I had notices that things were delivered when they actually weren't, but Amazon immediately sent me a replacement (and in more than one case the original item eventually turned up and Amazon told me to keep that too). One time a driver turned on my wet lawn and left a rut so Amazon gave me a $500 credit.

Eh, overall I'm extremely satisfied with the service. Does the Canadian operation just not do the shady stuff? Am I just a remarkable exception?
The "basic" part is an accounting technicality. Everyone entitled to the benefit gets the basic income, but it's taxed away from those who earn enough. This is in contrast to traditional welfare benefits, which you only get if you apply for them.

There are also basic income proposals without the "universal" part. For example, only those who work get the basic income. (This is often called negative income tax.) This is supposed to give those in necessary but low-paying jobs a fairer share of wealth than what the market would give.

I've never heard of anything called "universal income".
isn't learning (especially math) spaced Repetition per default?

i.e. you learn about "addition". Then you repeat your knowledge of "addition" when you learn about "multiplication", because it is just "addition" but with extra steps.

I think the more important a concept is, the more spaced Repetition you will experience. If you only repeat a piece of information very rarely, it may not be very essential, and you should consider dropping it from the curiculum.

Also there are information, which only exist as stepping stones to understand more complex topics. And once you understand the more complex thing well enough, you can forget about some of the stepping stones. For example: I once learned a proof, that basically says that all computers can solve the same set of problem in roughly the same amount of time (within a linear factor). I forgot all the details about the proof, but in my every day life as a programmer it is important to know, that the benefit "better hardware" can only get more so far, and for really strong performance-gains, I need to improve my algorithms.
You could be my kid writing, but I didn't push too hard; I am still disappointed they didn't take up more math, but each person has their own life to live. They understood negative numbers and square roots in early elementary school and optimized later education to be least effort for the grade, not inner inspired learning for the joy of learning.
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Wow! That's dedication! You should at least start a Youtube Channel with the content. There are probably some odd folks out there that would enjoy watching that. Add a condenser microphone for some ASMR hits!
> Are we going to start filing lawsuits against sugar manufacturers for all of the health issues they caused?

Like with the fossil fuel industry, the sugar industry also invested heavily into misleading the public about how damaging their product is. With that in mind, it seems at least somewhat reasonable for governments to file lawsuits against them to punish them, and to recoup some of the lost value due to their negative externalities.
Would you mind expanding a bit on how you redesigned the packaging to make it impossible to repackage for a return?
Thank you for this post. I was wondering if a thin lead sheet would be beneficial for the cockpit ceiling and maybe aisles of jetliners to protect the crew from the prolonged exposure to increased radiation. Do you think this is a bad idea for the same reasons as the spacecraft? (Of course there are other materials besides lead, that was what first came to mind because I incorrectly thought it was a panacea for all radiation types).
Bhutan looks so cosy. Would love to travel there.