skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the outside looking in, it's not at all clear what the tool is trying to solve.
What exactly is made "easier"..? What does it do that ssh doesn't? Who is this for?

Many questions...
> Look at their staff; all engineers, nobody there who has ever got anything past the FAA.

So what?

When the Collison brothers founded Stripe, they (1) were young, (2) had no experience at all in the domain, (3) weren’t even U.S. citizens, (4) were entering a highly regulated space, and (5) were about to compete with some very powerful institutions that have existed forever worth billions and billions of dollars. In the eyes of folks who just look at all of the ways you can fail, they were extremely unattractive and Stripe’s fate was obvious failure. Today, most Americans can’t avoid using Stripe (both directly and indirectly) even if they tried. They’ve overcome all of those hurdles to the point of making it easy for the average engineer to build products without even having to think about the hurdles, dealing with regulators, etc. I vividly remember how awful the process of implementing payments was prior to Stripe (the process took a very long time)—they changed the game.

Maybe Airhart fails or maybe they just manage to change the game.
There must be some cultural gap. I'm German and other than a Netflix or Spotify account I've never shared any password or installed any "tracking apps", neither I or my girlfriend are a chipped dog, Jesus.
They ruined GPT-4? How? I thought they were basically the same models, just multimodal
Thank you - my bookmarks are all in my head :-(
Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results
I feel much more anxious about car traffic (which is about massive number of people in metal boxes) where I rely on all the other drivers to be careful than about public transportation where the driver is a trained professional and everything is highly regulated for safety (much stricter rules than for personal cars).
Yeah this is true in my city, Phoenix. We don’t have commuter rail just commuter buses. They take the car pool lane but so does every Tesla so that isn’t as big of an advantage as it sounds. We have light rail but it is a specific route in surface streets and much slower than driving on the freeway.
>the next train is scheduled in half an hour?

Fire your transit leadership. Trains should be running every 5 minutes all day every day (and also have a backup option for night service while you do track maintenance). Incompetent leadership isn't doing that.

For a bus you are sometimes forced to do cost/benefit and run as little as every half hour, but if you have trains that means you have enough demand to run every 5 minutes (if you don't that means you shouldn't have a train at all - a bus is cheaper).

It isn't just doctors that sometimes have an emergency. People have places to be, trying to figure out when the transit system is coming shouldn't be a problem.
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It’s an ergonomic split keyboard. I have one. It is nice to type on.

That said, I personally find that having so little keys is a problem. I like typing on it, but when I am doing heavy sysadmin stuff, it is not a pleasure to use. You have to spend a lot of time planning this keyboard and its layers out for your workflow.

It is also not great for gaming due to the reliance on hold keys.

Overall, pleasure for typing. If you workflow needs a lot of layer switching, I was not a fan.
Doesn't change the fact that you're increasingly hard-pressed to find anyone willing to do it.

Same goes for any type of public transport. The problem is exacerbated in regions of the world which can't rely on immigrants, like mine. I live in a city of 650k inhabitants. The local public transport authority says that they would need an additional 100 drivers to cover all the routes. No takers for these roles and it has been like that for two years at least, despite incentives.

It's crazy because inadequate public transport causes people to choose cars instead, which in turn produce traffic that further hampers mass transit.

Railways have been winding down for decades now and it got to a point where flying between cities in more accessible, punctual and cheap.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first model that made me realize that the era of AI-aided programming is here. Its ability to generate and modify large amounts of correct code - across multiple files/modules - in one response beats anything I've tried before. Integrating that with specialized editors (like https://www.cursor.com) is an early vision of the future of software development.
Will Google's anti-monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?
Their anti-wireless argument is pretty weak imo. My logitech K780 takes two AAA batteries that I literally replace max once a year. And it uses bluetooth!
> While marketing helps, it's but a spark.

But I think in your mental model of the internet, you removed all the marketers and influencers!

People whose business is marketing artists have the ability to get orders of magnitude more exposure for an artist than people who are artists. To deny this would be to deny the importance of concepts like SEO.

People who market music select for the musicians who are the easiest to sell. This includes not only "musical goodness," but also image, age, and all kinds of other attributes that aren't part of the music itself.

There are even famous record executives who have famously stated publicly that they wouldn't support an admittedly "musically good" artist because of her looks. And looks are just one attribute that adds noise to your metric.

There's also a rich history of recording studios paying money to gain popularity for their artists. So unless you have an enormous corpus of evidence it appears that your metric is extremely noisy in the non-musical sense.
Well that sounds very interesting! I've got one of these https://github.com/newaetech/chipshouter-picoemp which is fun to play with, need to attach to my CNC machine sometime.
> I think that is taking things too far

Why?
According to this article, Mozilla gets 86% of its revenue from Google Search payments so this ruling could be a huge issue for them.
Calling Someone "Too Old" Is Ageist
All of that is true. Some more useful context: 9 out of those 11 cofounders are now gone. Three have either founded or are working for direct competitors (Elon, Ilya, John), five have quit (Trevor, Vicki, Andrej, Durk, Pam), and one has gone on extended leave but may return (Greg). Right now, Sam and Wojciech are the only ones left.
An easy reform would be to allow reciprocity with other countries' drug approval organizations.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/11/th...
Makes me want that modular add-on to be a standard on keyboards.
I don't mean this as a slight, just an observation I have seen many times - people who struggle with utility from SOTA LLM's tend to not have spent enough time with them to feel out good prompting. In the same way that there is a skill for googling information, there is a skill for teasing consistent good responses from LLM's.
According to Wikipedia, NK fertility rate is 1.91, while SK currently at 0.72. One takes log(0.05)/log(1.91/2) ~= 65 generations to reduce birth cohorts to 1/20 of the initial population size. The other does the trick in log(0.05)/log(0.72/2) ~= 3 generations.
GPT-4o is different from GPT-4, you can "feel" it is smaller model that really struggles to do reasoning and programming and has a much weaker logic.

If you compare to Claude Sonnet, just the context window considerably improves the answers as well.

Of course there is no objective metrics, but from a user perspective I can see the coding skills are much better in Anthropic (and it's funny, because in theory, according to benchmarks it is Google Gemini the best, but in reality is absolutely terrible).
After I moved to Beijing, my first job was at a company opening a network of village banks. The villages had a population of around 1 million. SF has 850k people.
> Something that immediately comes to mind for me is all the death and suffering that is abundant through nature

What if this is the best it can do with all the things that can go wrong or are going wrong. Perfection does not mean things will never go wrong. They can and they will. I can give you example of process that is near perfection: photosynthesis. Nature can store energy and then utilize it without creating adverse effect on other life. This is just one example but there are many processes like this.
I believe so, I tried all the ways it shows only after when I make the MR. usually, in JIRA where I can switch back and forth between JIRA and Gitlab easily just by clicking the links

Thank you
> Put another way, everyone in Germany except the rich are forced to pay for a full-price family plan that includes coverage for spouse and kids, and do not even have the option to instead opt for a much cheaper individual plan that only covers themself?

Well, the rich have to pay far more expensive private-insurance plans, and the 88% on the government insurance scheme pay a fixed share of their wages (~15%). Each according to their ability, and everyone is paying in solidarity with everyone else. Those on unemployment benefits have their contributions paid for by the unemployment insurance (which is also mandatory and a percentage of your wages).

> That sounds like single people are indirectly subsidizing the healthcare of families by paying full price without reaping the full benefits. This sounds less fair to me than the American system where an individual can opt to pay much less in exchange for coverage only for themself.

Well, the American system may sound "fairer" on paper, but has massive downsides for society at large - it disincentivises people from having children, tying healthcare to employment leads people being trapped in toxic workplace environments, and stuff like "out of pocket thresholds" is a massive issue for low-income earners, particularly those with chronic illnesses like diabetes.

And: Something like diabetics stretching their insulin or people in obvious need of an ambulance telling bystanders to not call an ambulance because they can't afford it is completely unheard of here. In fact, we consider such reports to be unworthy of a "developed nation".
> Hunter gatherer tribes

Hunter gatherer bands. There's no evidence of any tribes 20,000 years ago.

> Unless you are arguing semantics, yes there were. Tribes and tribal violence.

There is no evidence of any tribes existing 47,000 years ago. Insofar as tribes, and tribal violence, the OP mentioned them, which is wrong in that time frame, semantics or not.
This is a complicated license, and the only thing I could think of while reading it was "cui bono?"

The community isn't getting your contributions, or the ability to contribute back. They're not able to fully modify the program for their use-case, or create a superior version to what is provided officially. Potential users can audit the program, but that's only useful insofar as they intend to become a customer for it.

Is "paranoiaware" a good descriptor for such licenses? I don't think I've ever worked somewhere that gave these "open core" projects a second thought.
E.g. this.
This seems like it repeats itself with different words and it also seems to say the same thing twice phrased differently.
Yes, over ball bearings. They are amongst the most difficult items to manufacture, and good ball bearings are a symbol of a nation's technological and manufacturing prowess. Though it is somewhat funny to think about something as seemingly simple as ball bearings being a strategic asset!
Oh yes, totally agree, it's like if you have a very experienced programmer sitting next to you.

He still needs instructions on what to do next, he lacks a bit of "initiative", but from a pure coding skills it's amazing (aka, we will get replaced over time, and it's already the case, I don't need help of contractors, I prefer to ask Claude).
The FDA and International Reciprocity
> I... can't relate.

I'm guessing you're not in dire financial straits? Is that accurate? Or you're simply not struggling to house and feed yourself (and any dependents)? Not an accusation BTW.

> I don't understand why people take on debt to buy shiny goods.

So real incomes have been hit hard since the pandemic. One interesting aspect is that the effect on consumer spending has been limited. This sounds like a good thing (from the perspective of the economy not collapsing) but it's actually not.

Why? As an enecdote, there was a Tiktok trend for awhile where people would do different versions of "my retirement plan is to die", basically. They're struggling. They might want a family but can't afford it. Or they have a family and have to have 3 jobs just to stave off homelessness. There is no time for a fulfilling life or to spend leisure time with pets, family or friends.

So the dark side of continued consumer spending (the "shiny things" you allude to) is that there is a growing hopelessness crisis and people are buying the shiny thing they cannot afford to distract from their material conditions. More importantly, they don't see that they even have a future so why not enjoy the shiny thing now?

This doesn't explain all of it. There are existing problems of people wanting to spend money, to show off how well they're doing (even if it's fake) and so on.

But I think over the coming years the level of awareness about the hopelessness crisis will only increase and it will probably rise to the level of national discourse.
I use git like that. It's my backup solution. There's no logic to the commits. I just commit and push when I feel I've done enough that it would suck if my computer fails and I lose it.
> Yes and food should be free. Why is this not happening then?

Why should food be free? I didn't say that. However, aid for developing countries has been a thing for quite a while now. Why can't it be to promote clean energy?

Why isn't it happening? I assume politics and "ideology". Like for real this time.

> The solutions are almost always ideological

I still don't know what "ideological" means honestly. It sounds like you mean "pinko communist nonsense I don't agree with" which isn't a terribly rigorous definition.

> I'm thinking of ways to actually solve the problem with realistic strategies

Develop clean energy technology. Penalize carbon-emitting technology to incentivize adoption of clean tech. Subsidize clean energy technology for poorer countries. Unless "realistic" means "won't cost me a single penny personally", this is pretty damn realistic. Climate change is going to be expensive one way or another so let's do it the way that will minimize human suffering.
I don't understand the purpose of your digression into selective breeding in dogs?

> the Sphynx was developed through selective breeding of these animals, starting in the 1960s
Fair Source
I don’t think the issue with Biden was ageism. It was more that he had cognitive decline which often comes with age. I think moderates and conservatives were also not happy with the gaslighting that tried to cover up and deny Biden’s mental decline. But it wasn’t solely about age, although some people summarized the situation by saying “he’s too old”, which I agree is ageist in itself.
Physicians' associations, such as the American Heart Association, can issue treatment guidelines based on available clinical evidence, real-world data, and expert consensus. They already do this anyway, and in most cases their guidelines are the default prescription.

Also: Postmarketing surveillance data, peer-reviewed journals, mechanistic analysis, etc. There are lots of ways to decide which drugs might be of benefit. Leaving the decision to the FDA has, to this point, done far more harm than good.
Nice. This is a very cool story.
The largest single payer in the US is the Federal government. Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA... The problem won't be fixed for the vast majority of expenditures because the government will need to perform the same function the FDA is now for it's drug costs.
Is the website not static and hosted via CDN?
The case for talking about utopia instead of politics
> I recommend to come to Europe

I am European and on my side of the continent railways have been winding down for years now - partly due to the reasons I mentioned.

> for a trip in the TGV. Paris to Marseille (650 km) in 3 hours from city center to city center.

That's great, but wasn't it in France where the government made a (botched) attempt at making flying less attractive by increasing its cost?
Way easier to recruit/attract talent in South bay. More senior/staff level engineers. SF talent pool trends more junior, more single, less experience, etc.
You're constantly missing the point. Artistic merit has nothing to do with your feelings about a particular work or how it was made. That is your personal preference or opinion, whatever. People decide on artistic merit organically as a collective.
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You can set weights for each soft constraint to control how easy they are to break.
I see common milkweed and swamp milkweed all over the place around here (upstate NY). I have swamp milkweed in my garden (deliberately planted, it's attractive; I prefer native plants.)

I have never seen a Monarch caterpillar around here in the five years I've lived here. I don't think host plant availability is the problem here.

In an opposite situation: when I planted Pearly Everlasting the thing was eaten the ground by (non-Monarch) caterpillars. A bit too much of a good thing! It survived, thankfully.
Maybe. But cheaper drug development should also make for cheaper drugs, which will weaken the stranglehold the insurance companies have on drug supply and distribution.
> They're not able to fully modify the program for their use-case, or create a superior version to what is provided.

What license are you reading? Let's not jump to conclusions. The FCL allows you to read, use, modify, and redistribute for nearly any use case aside from direct competition and circumventing the license key functionality (i.e. giving yourself EE features in CE when self-hosting). And then it becomes Open Source under Apache or MIT after 2 years, after which you can do what you will without prior restrictions. I believe the FCL, as well as the FSL it's derived from, is incredibly clear and permissive.
Google Kept Declining My Meeting Room
There are multiple roles for a small airborne asset. One of them is ISR (video feed), used for targeting artillery or movement tracking and such. Jamming can block the down stream feed and defeat that support role.
How much spreading Russian talking points pays these days?
I've seen a lot of suggestions that there should at least be a high speed rail corridor from Chicago to NYC and one from SF to LA because those are 2 of the most highly trafficked domestic flight paths.

The fact there isn't really high speed rail connections across large cities in the Midwest is kind of silly considering there isn't much terrain to contend with like there is on the coasts. Even the 1 new route Amtrak introduced from Chicago to Minneapolis has seen pretty high demand.
I'm not sure monetization of AI in the typical way is even the goal.

Instead, I see the killer use case as having it replace human workers on all sorts of tasks, and eventually even fill roles humans cannot even do today.

And within about 10 years, that will even include most physical tasks. Development in robotics looks like it's really gaining speed now.

For instance, take Musk's companies. At some point, robotaxi will certainly become viable, and not constrained the way waymo is. Musk may also be right about Tesla moving from cars to humanoid robots, with estimates of 100s of millions to billions produced.

If robotic maid become viable, industrial robots will certainly become even much more versatile than today.

Then there is the white collar parts of these industries. Anything from writing the software, optimizing factory layouts, setting up production lines, sales, distribution may be done by robots. My guess is that it will take no longer than about 20 years until virtually all jobs at Tesla, SpaceX, X and Neuralink is performed by AI and robots.

The main AI the Musk Empire builds for this may in fact be their greatest moat, and the details of it may be their most tightly guarded secret. It may be way too precious to be provided to competitors as something they can rent.

Likewise, take a company like Nvidia. They're building their own AI's for a reason. I suspect they're aiming at creating the best AI available for improving GPU design. If they can use ASI to accelerate the next generation of compute hardware, they may have reached one type of recursive self-improvement. Given their profit margins, they can keep half their GPU's for internal use to do so, and only sell the rest to make it appear like there is a semblance of competition.

Why would they want to try to monetize an AI like that to enable the competition to catch up?

I think the tech sector is in the middle of a 90 degree turn. Tech used for marketing will become legacy the way the car and airplane industries went from 1970 to 2010.
> I... can't relate. This is entirely a choice, one that advertisement tell you is the right one, but a choice nonetheless.

Well, you need a phone and a computer these days to be part of society, no way around that unless you're willing to live like the Amish. And manufacturers do everything they can to force you to
upgrade at least every three-ish years - Microsoft keeps upping the requirements for no reason at all (e.g. TPM requirement in Windows 11), and lots of smartphones on the budget end only come with two years worth of firmware updates after which these devices are up for grabs for malware authors and you're being a bad netizen by keeping these devices connected to the internet.

Cars are a different thing, but planned obsolescence is the norm there as well. After the manufacturer warranty expires, the repair bills come due for all kinds of shit just to keep it safe for traffic. Cars older than five years tend to become massive money sinks, even if you are capable of repairing them yourself which becomes ever more difficult and expensive as modern cars are datacenters on wheels with tons of failure modes requiring very expensive and difficult to operate tools.

And then there's the rent extraction that is paying for things. You all but need a bank account these days, depositing checks and cash costs money, cash acceptance is going down, and there's only Visa/Mastercard/AmEx left over, which extract absurd amounts of money from everywhere in the transaction chain - merchant fees that the vendors add to the price of goods, and interest on the customer side. And credit providers for all the "shiny things" and necessities of life also extract huge amounts of interest. And all of that siphoned off money ends up in the hands of the very rich.
Applied Materials Denied US CHIPS Act Funding
Have to say I agree with this, 4o is dumber in my subjective experience.
> People often forget that the USA is really 50 small countries wearing a trench coat

Then why do all of those 50 countries has so extremely similar problems? Not all have the same level of those problems, but the states with the least murder rate are similar to the EU countries with the highest murder rate etc, or good public transit is like EU bad public transit etc. Police brutality in the states with the least is like police brutality in the worst part of EU etc.

Cleary there must be some very shared culture for that to happen, as there are many such extreme stats compared to the rest of the world. Otherwise you would have a lot of states that were like average European countries.