skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is simply another form of what we've been doing since the dawn of computers: expressing real world problems in the form of computations.

While there are certainly some huge jumps in compute power, theory of data transformation and availability of data to transform, it would surprise me if computers in a 100 years do not still rely on a combination of well-defined and well-understood algorithms and AI-inspired tools that do the same thing but on a much bigger scale.

If not for any other reason, then because there are so many things where you can easily produce a great, always correct result simply by doing very precise, obvious and simple computation.

We've had computers and digital devices for a long while now, yet we still rely heavily on mechanical contraptions. Sure, we improve them with computers (eg. think brushless motors), but I don't think anyone would be surprised today about how did anyone design these same devices (hair dryers, lawn mowers, internal combustion engines...) before computers?
Chromebooks aren't phones.
Legally enforceable as in “you can block people who don’t follow the policy” or enforceable as in “you can sue them for money”?
Keep in mind that the US is the worlds largest oil producer right now, and exports ~30% of production. North America as whole has a serious oil output that massively over-serves what is needed by the continent.

Canada, arguably the closest US ally, is number 4 for oil output, and Mexico is 11th.

Keeping the reserves full doesn't really serve a purpose when you are capable of producing far more than you need.
OP is obviously talking about people whose area of research/development/product would involve web scraping... This feels like being purposefully obtuse
They're not trying, they are just more successful with books. They've re-defined obscenity for the books, and there's no real reason it won't carry over to the rest of the media.
It's a topic we keep coming back to, seems like we can do better than sentiment analysis to show the semantic space of the sentiment(s) and how those breakdown by users and groups. For instance assuming a large discussion set of apples, different types of apples, and other types of fruits, we'd discover the patterns among users. Have you seen folks doing that type of semantic sentiment analytics?
Is there a demo site where we can see this in action?
> Thanks for calling me dumb for thinking the POTUS has influence.

Of course the office has influence. But my point is that the person in that office doesn't make important geopolitical decisions.

> Anyway, Speak for yourself, I can’t imagine being so far down the deep state rabbit hole to think the president and commander in chief is purely a vapid figurehead.

Who is talking about 'deep state'. I'm talking about the state.

> Question: did you try to correct people when you saw them criticizing Biden or Trump for the Afghanistan pull out, since according to your comment they had nothing to do with it.

Do you really think Biden decided one day to pull out of afghanistan? Are you that naive?

How about this. Do you think Trump or Biden are experts on china, russia, north korea, iran, venezuela, etc? Do you really think a senile old man or a celebrity has the knowledge to make decisions about these affairs?

All you have to do is sit back and think for a moment and you'll realize how absurd it is that a man, whose only qualification is he won a popularity contest, makes important geopolitical decisions.

Do you think america, $23 trillion GDP and thousands of nukes, is a banana republic where one man decides whether to go to war or makes important geopolitical decisions? You think if a pro-china candidate won the election, we'd be all buddies buddies with china when the state has already decided on an anti-china stance?

In 20 years, if jake paul becomes president, do you really think he gets to decide important geopolitical issues. Of course not!
Interesting. I have noticed that my most-upvoted comments relate to legal questions, which I have relatively more expertise than most HNers (I used to be a lawyer). Although I'm not among the top commenters for law/legal/lawyer according to this tool, I definitely recognize some of the top names and can recall seeing their comments in legal threads. Pretty cool tool!
Yeah but again, we're talking about the FMC here not the OCTOSPI.

Have you hit issues with the FMC? From what other people are telling me, the OCTOSPI is full of land mines and the FMC is pretty decent. The worst errata I've encountered so far is two dummy clocks with CS# asserted at the end of a read burst.
It's mostly genetics. Some folks should never have any amount of caffeine, while others it hardly affects. I have the hardly affects gene.
I’ve been a Mac and iOS user since practically day 1, and I’m not a fan of Google’s privacy policies (or rather lack thereof). But frankly, Apple maps just sucks. A map app that doesn’t have trustworthy POIs is useless. My wife’s retail store moved locations about 5 months ago and its still showing the old location on Apple Maps. She was able to update the location on Google on the day they moved, but Apple just refuses to move it. She submitted multiple times to get it moved via Apple’s business owner portal, I submitted with the “report incorrect information” link multiple times over the course of months, and it still shows up wrong. The worst part is, you actually get a response that says they looked at your report and took action, yet they do absolutely nothing.

If you google for this, there’s tons of reports on Reddit and Apple’s discussion forums with the same complaints. Apple apparently doesn’t care.
> They moved the goalposts from “mad about not apologizing for the bombing” to “mad about the bombing itself”?

I think the GP was saying you moved the goalposts.

And the perceived lack of apology was an important factor in this person's (long past) anger.

I mean, think of it this way: if someone hurt you by mistake, would you feel the same if 1) they apologized for their mistake or 2) didn't apologize (showing a lack of care towards you). For me, at least, I'd only get mad at the latter, and I wouldn't be so mad about the harm itself, but rather the disrespect of not apologizing.
Things I thought I had expertise in and have posted about disproportionately on HN: chess, Python, HFT, Fermi estimation, Ireland.

Keywords the site actually associates with me: language, English, article, team, book. To be fair, at some zoom levels I do get "chess".
Maybe also who you'd tend to get along with and your unique place in the community?
There’s a iOS and macOS beta every year, if you count that.
I wonder how high I am on the guns knowledge list?
Congrats on the launch! Dependency updates can be such a chore and so its intriguing to see a product automate the process even more!
Isn’t this just called being managed out?
How do you find a good manager? [pdf]
What I mean is that Amazon seems to think it doesn't matter that much if they're taking hundreds of ms (or over 1 s) to show me a basic page. The TCP+TLS handshake takes like 60 ms, plus another RTT for the request is 80 ms total. If it takes 10 ms to generate the page (in fact it seems to take over 100), that should still be under 100 ms total on a fresh connection. But instead they send me off to fetch scripts from multiple other subdomains (more TCP+TLS handshakes). That alone completely ruins that 50 ms savings.

So the observation is that apparently Amazon does not think 50 ms is very important. If they did, their page could be loading about 5-10x faster. Likewise with e.g. reddit; I don't know if that site has ever managed to load a page in under 1 s. New reddit is even worse. At one point new reddit was so slow that I could tap the URL bar on my phone, scroll to the left, and change www to old in less time than it took for the page to load. In that context, I find people talking about globally distributed systems/"data at the edge" to save 50 ms to be rather comical.
Likely smarter than most in Congress
How can Web sites do better at producing valuable and trustworthy content, when what everyone cares about now comes down to SEO?
We're trying to stay away from karma and focus on what people are saying within the community, rank orders, overall semantics, and more. How do you think we can do better?
Real world financial systems do have transactions that aren’t fully replicated and hence can be lost as a result. But banks just decide that both the probability and sums involved are low enough that they’ll wear the risk.

Example: some ATMs are configured that if the bank computer goes down (or the connection to it), they’ll still let customers withdraw limited sums of money in “offline” mode, keeping a local record of the transaction, that will then be uploaded back to the central bank computers when the connection comes back up.

But, consider this hypothetical scenario: bank computer has a major outage. ATM goes into offline mode. Customer goes to ATM to withdraw $100. ATM grants withdrawal and records card number, sum and timestamp internally (potentially even in two different forms-on disk and a paper-based backup). Customer leaves building. 30 minutes later, bank computer is still down, when a terrorist attack destroys the building and the ATM inside. The customer got $100 from the bank, but all record of it has been destroyed. Yet, this is such an unlikely scenario, and the sums involved are small enough (in the big picture), that banks don’t do anything to mitigate against it - the mitigation costs more than the expected value of the risk
> I am quite confident that this formalisation failure mode is not hard to solve in a system that is, like, actually trained to do this.

Why?
Thanks! Yeah, this is a recurrent problem that can't be solved once and for all (at least right now). So we definitely need better tools to deal with it.
Right now if you add it to your HN profile we'll be able to include it.
I’m a big advocate for replacing coffee with cacao. I drink it in the morning instead of coffee. Made from raw cacao paste and hot water, I use an immersion blender to mix it well and then add half and half for flavor. Way more nutrients than coffee and the theobromine is much gentler than caffeine and lasts all day.
Jakub Pachocki from OpenAI is polish too.
Sigh. Just wrong
A word that nobody cared about a decade ago, and in ten years nobody will care again.

It's used as a way to dehumanize the opponents of regressives. It's pushed on social media by russia, china, and their useful idiots in the west, as a way to further divide the USA. It also serves to distract people from actual problems facing society, like massive judicial inequality and treasonous political corruption.

Ask 1,000 people and get 10,000 answers.
I think your ISP will cut you off long before they stop pulling content from you
Very few humans go after this type of the training. In my "math talent" school (most of the Serbian/Yugoslavian medal winners came from it), at most a dozen students "trained" for this over 4 high school generations (500 students).

Problems are certainly not trivial, but humans are not really putting all their effort into it either, and the few that do train for it, on average medal 50% of the time and get a silver or better 25% of the time (by design) with much less time available to do the problems.
can you fix it so anyone can get it, that sounds like a waste of time to block people.
Because they're probably not undergoing a formal QA process yet and Apple doesn't want to deal with bug reports and bad press about how its beta is janky/buggy/sucky in other browsers. This is pretty standard stuff for webapps doing a phased rollout of browsers -- it's not anything unique to Apple.

Just because people in this thread have found workarounds to get it to launch in Firefox doesn't mean there aren't still a bunch of bugs there, that Apple is aware of but doesn't want marring the user experience yet.
I guess nowadays most of the extracted caffeine ends up in energy drinks like Red Bull.
I'm sure this is good, but it's starting to feel like "GPT" is the new "e" or "i" or ".com" - magical letters that transform your product into something cutting edge.

I guess I'll withhold my cynicism until I try this. I kind of use chatgpt as a search engine anyway, so seems like a reasonable direction.
How much does developer happiness really play a role?

Probably significant in terms of speed of development, time spent maintenance projects, etc
We're trying to stay away from authority and just compute based on what you say then transparently show where that information came from. How do you think we can do better?
So is getting paid in cash a problem because some of it could have been stolen from a bank?
I have a pretty simple game on the iOS app store. It is simple enough that I have probably written it about three times. One of the times I tried to do everything the "apple happy path", but the final iteration in the app store completely rejected it (and was written in C, primarily on Linux then ported to iOS as a final step). I know that familiarity plays a huge part, but the experience of just writing it in plain C (and using SDL2 as the platform abstraction) was so much simpler and nicer. The things I had to implement myself instead of "coming for free" (simple physics, app lifecycle stuff etc) were relatively easy to do.

I haven't ported it to android, but I expect it to be simple too.

What I don't understand from the article is the moving goalposts. I had one threat of store removal because of a lack of sales and updates, so I found some stuff I didn't need to ship and removed it and pushed that as an update. Not so. I think it has been in the store 4 years or so now, so this doesn't seem too much work. I guess it could be churn in the areas that I deliberately avoid (e.g. I have no networking and only use the screen and audio out)
And then, there was an anecdote!

I bought my friends daughter a watch for her birthday. She was, like, 12 or something. I got it at Target.

And it had a moon phase dial! How about that?!

So I was determined to set it accurately for her.

To wit I started dredging through the internet. And to be completely honest, I'm not quite sure how I was doing that, having nothing but a Netcom.com shell account available to me. Perhaps I was using Lynx, or using some mail gateway, or who knows what. It wasn't no 10 seconds on Google, I'll tell you that.

In the end, I stumbled upon some code for my HP-48. Aha! This should do nicely!

Somehow, I got the code into the calculator. Did I type it in? Did I download it over Kermit? Who knows. Times were moving fast back then. Somehow, someway, however, I got that code in and calculated away.

Finally! ACCURATE results. Done with precision and math and engineering. Done Right!

To wit, I then proceeded to get the watch set properly.

And...it was a fashion watch for a 12 year old girl from Target. This may come as a shock to some, I was obviously taken aback by it, however -- the moon phase did not work. It was just a moon on a dial that moved, though some undetermined mechanism. It could not be set independently.

Oh.
Hi there! I'm Shaan. I've developed an AI tool that helps finding your engaging snippets to promote on social media's like Tiktok and Instagram faster, I'm currently looking for testers to give it a try and share their thoughts.
Right-wing wave? There are full open-immigration supporters, but I would put most of them to the left of Lenin.

Nationalism is not always and everywhere insane, especially in a democracy where demography is destiny. If your country doesn’t have a strong assimilation system, being very protective of borders is a good idea.
That wasn't very nice. Are you curious about anything? Happy to help. I'd proactively do it, but I don't want to guess at whats in your mind. My initial guess is you think I think that engaging with the public is an infinite loop. I don't!
Good point... discoverability these days is mostly controlled by the big corps too :(
Can you give an example of books that have had obscenity redefined?
That's a human trafficking example, not a porn one.

There human trafficking problem in plenty of activities, from housework to construction, restaurant and agriculture. Would you argue that demand for these activity drive demande for trafficking ?
Or Google. Or Bing. Or DDG.

Some of them even optimize for showing you porn.
Inspecting the AST ... That kind of sounds like what macros do. Just that pytest is probably forced to do it in way less elegant ways, due to not having a macro system. I mean, if it has to disassemble things, then it has already lost, basically, considering how much its introspection is lauded sometimes.
Yes. You're correct. I realised this some time after writing my comment.

So it actually does work as a definition, if you phrase it properly.

I guess it's just equivalent to the observation that ω has the property that every initial segment (i.e. every subset of the form {0, 1, ..., n}) is finite.

So you could say: a set S is countable if it admits an ordering that makes it 'covered by all finite initial segments'.

...but this boils down to saying the set admits an ordering that makes it isomorphic to some n, or ω... which just means it's countable in the usual sense.
I own the npm package node-ts, which has thousands of installs per week just because people confuse it with ts-node.

I didn't intend to typo-squat. Actually, my package is older than ts-node and was just a pun because it is an API for TeamSpeak written in TypeScript.
continue.dev with anthropic's API key https://docs.continue.dev/how-to-use-continue#ask-questions-...
Meh. It is a dumb thing dictators do everywhere to appear strong. There is no shortage of any kind of commodity in the western world.
The only thing he could do is make an executive order which would be overthrown the second it was challenged in court. He's not going to do squat.
I don't believe anything was graded by the IMO, Google is just giving itself 7 for anything proved in Lean (which is reasonable IMO), so they can't really try for partial credit so much as choose not to report a higher self-graded number.
The next generation of social media should have federation at the foundation. Zuck understands this and is why Threads is being built on ActivityPub. I prefer ATProto right now because of the design around modular algorithms and moderation
So, several notes:

1) business bureaucracy is, in truth, more or less like the inside of the old Soviet bureaucracy and Politburo, except instead of getting killed or imprisoned you get fired. There is no guarantee of fairness or rationality.

2) this sort of thing happens more often if it's a "shrinking pond", where people start to think that somebody's going to get laid off, so they need to start discrediting somebody else so it won't be them. In good times, everybody has more work that needs doing than they have people to do it, and they behave differently (typically).

3) it is never easy to get a different job, and especially not in tech right now, but it's harder when you don't have one; you should start looking now.
I'm actually not that surprised. Maths Olympiads IME have always been 80% preparation, 20% skill - if not more heavily tuned to preparation. It was all about solving as many problems as possible ahead of the papers, and having a good short term memory. Since Olympiads are for kids, the amount of actual fundamental mathematical theorems required is actually not that great.

Sounds perfect for a GPT model, with lots of input training data (problem books and solutions).
IMHO if there's any take away from the last 20 years of the internet, it's how hard it is to have decent communities of people online, curated like a blooming garden of diversity. What are some online communities that you appreciate?

I have a Ph.D. in neuroscience with exactly 20 years of experience. I talk about what I know and try to be curious about what I don't know. HN really helps me on both counts. How does it help you?
Jerry Sciencefeld: What's the deal with PFAS?
Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating
Per Wikipedia:

In politics, regulatory capture (also called agency capture) is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political interests of a minor constituency, such as a particular geographic area, industry, profession, or ideological group.

When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society.

Sounds like what happened with the K202 would have qualified as regulatory capture to me.

But the guy you're talking to is putting way too much, (idk, Anger, Righteous Indignation, Outrage, whatever) into the tone of his text given the overall content of the conversation. It's very off-putting.
I'll ask Wilson to chime in on the question; thanks so much!
I've been running D&D/TTPRGs for my group for 35 years at this point - with a few life breaks here and there - and its genuinely taught me so many skills that are usefully in life.

Its an heady mix of things that really will stretch your mind in many ways at once. I love them. All kids (of all ages) should try them a few times.

For the record I've nearly always run TotM except when for some very complicated things that really need that extra tactical oomf.
Thanks for the response, but I'm aware of the basics. My question is pointed towards making language parsers resilient towards separately-evolving standards. How would you build a JS parser so that it correctly parses any new TS syntax, without changing behavior of valid code?

The example snippet I added is designed to violate the rules I could come up with. I'd specifically like to know: what are better rules to solve this specific case?
> Aren't tax deferrals on 401ks a long term bet?

You misunderstand. I'm mainly talking about the policy level, not the individual level. The US let a fetish for free markets override pretty much every other national priority.

Also 401ks to a lot of things, and one of the more interesting ones they encourage laborers to internalize the interests of the capitalist class, which they are very much not served by.
This is wrong in pretty much every way I can imagine.

Docker's not a package manager. It doesn't know what packages are, which is part of why the chunks that make up Docker containers (image layers) are so coarse. This is also part of why many Docker images are so huge: you don't know exactly the packages you need, strictly speaking, so you start from a whole OS. This is also why your Dockerfiles all invoke real package managers— Docker can't know how to install packages if it doesn't know what they are!

It's also not cross-platform, or at least 99.999% of images you might care about aren't— they're Linux-only.

It's also not a service manager, unless you mean docker-compose (which is not as good as systemd or any number of other process supervisors) or Docker Swarm (which has lost out to Kubernetes). (I'm not sure what you even mean by 'init system for containers' since most containers don't include an init system.)

There actually are cross-platform package managers out there, too. Nix, Pkgsrc, Homebrew, etc. All of those I mentioned and more have rolling release repositories as well. ('Rolling release' is not a feature of package managers; there is no such thing as a 'rolling release package manager'.)
Thanks for your comment! I remember seeing that HN allows resubmitting a link if it has 0 comments.

> HN allows resubmission of links if they haven't had any discussion.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254

But it seems like it was just a comment/speculation, and it has nothing to do with the guidelines that you added. Thanks for pointing it out!