skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...But then we'd be at the mercy of upstream of accepting patches,

This point bothers me, but I can't say with confidence that it's completely wrong. I know there are occasional rifts within the open source world, but I wish I knew two things:

1) How much overhead (in totality) is there when contributing to a project you don't control?

2) How different is the end result of collaboration between distinct groups or individuals versus doing things separately?
> rewarding screen time with financial incentives

So the social media companies can do this through ads but not their users, interesting line to draw.

It's really hard to not see the DMA as some ambiguous law that EU is gonna throw in the face of everything they don't like, with good merits or not, long term this is gonna help the EU as much as paying the mafia to not break into your shop.
that was my first thought also, except ICON is bankrupt.
I mean you're kind of being a bit silly. I don't think OP is saying we will spontaneously catch on fire and die. I think they are suggesting that vegetation which can only support a certain amount of heat and no water will parish. Also funny enough we can only support a certain amount of heat and no water.

It is pretty apparent that we are going to have water problems in the coming decades. You don't need to be a scientist to put those two together.

I am not saying we can't fix it, I do not hold the same outlook as OP. But we will have problems. Even if you don't believe global warming, there is obvious signs of issues popping up with water, and heat. Mexico, parts of USA, Canada, etc limiting water usage and saying they'll run out if it doesn't rain. That will be a problem.
IT work does not force you to stare at content that's spreading brain rot...

Unless you work with in a cloud-native, ai-native environment that has more microservices than developers I guess (I jest, I jest).
So regulate the market to prohibit children to use.
> Your comment reads as a deflection from the fact that human activity IS the cause

If it comes across thus then I believe it has less to do with what I actually wrote, and more to do with a feverishly polarized discourse fuelled by US party politics where you either have to stay on a narrow path of accepted talking points or you must belong to "the dark side". The notion that climate change has not been rapid before is just one of the misunderstandings that flourish in such a debate climate.

As a matter of fact we will, for all conceivable future, have to be prepared to adapt to rapid climate change for whatever reason, be it because of interstellar events, volcano eruptions or simply because of tipping points reached as a consequence of a slow iterative change. It irks me that I have to repeat me total commitment to the abandonment of fossil fuel and the urgent adaptation of sustainable energy sources, just because I mention some basic facts that don't fit in the current feverishly polarized discourse.

But, for the sake of clarity; I do. The linked article is a prime example of how suppressing facts because they seem inconvenient for "the cause" opens up for the other side to seem "more scientific". It is simply not a good strategy.
What more does life have to offer then?
You cannot make the cost-efficiency argument without acknowledging all the costs which aviation and automotive travel externalize: air and water pollution, damage to wildlife, global warming, lack of walking/cycling infrastructure, rising sea levels... a disproportionate part of which are born by poor or faraway people who have no choice in all this.

Edit: forgot about noise pollution and about flooding risks (due to impervious surfaces like runways and parking lots).

I also doubt airfields and planes require significantly less maintenance than trains and tracks, but I have not researched that.
The Airport Is the New Third Place
> This is probably bad news for ChatGPT 5. I don't think it's that likely this co-founder would leave for a Anthropic if OpenAI were clearly in the lead.

Yep. The writing was already on the wall for GPT-5 when they teased a new model for months and let the media believe it was GPT-5, before finally released GPT-4o and admitting they hadn't even started on 5 yet (they quietly announced they were starting a new foundation model a few weeks after 4o).

Don't get me wrong, the cost savings for 4o are great, but it was pretty obvious at that point that they didn't have a clue how they were going to move past 4 in terms of capabilities. If they had a path they wouldn't have intentionally burned the hype for 5 on 4o.

This departure just further cements what I was already sure was the case—OpenAI has lost the lead and doesn't know how they're going to get it back.
Believing that HN people are not able to search online for RISC-C SOCs which do not contain ARM cores, but able to do a good enough job, is ...
AlphaXiv: Stanford researchers introduce comment section on top of ArXiv papers
>Just think about your daily life: your car is leased/financed and only has a small residual value at the end of the term, your phone is financed under contract from your provider and almost worthless at the end of the term

>a laptop, computer, furniture - and an outright lot of that is financed on some sort of credit for many people

I... can't relate. This is entirely a choice, one that advertisement tell you is the right one, but a choice nonetheless. Personally, I don't understand why people take on debt to buy shiny goods.

Yes, some of that things are necessary, but you don't have to lease a new car or change your phone every two years.
Not sure if this is true, but hilarious if it is.
Spatially revealed roles for lncRNAs in spermatogenesis, Y chromosome function
My (baseless) theory is that he has finished every novel in the series already but will not release them until he passes away to avoid massive backlash from his fanbase.
> buy their popularity.

i dont think you can buy it as easily as you claim. I'm also not claiming meritocracy, but popularity, as success metric. They are different. The quality of popular music is that lots of people resonate with it - so much so that people become fanatics about it. While marketing helps, it's but a spark. The actual music has to be "good" - where good is defined by the metric i mentioned above, not by some theoretical framework of music taste, skill or some other academic measure.
It was actually a serious and open question, but I can see, given the hypocrisy found in a lot of these self-proclaimed "open AI" companies, how it would come across like I was refuting something ;)
You need CalTrain to get to San Jose. BART should have gone all the way around the bay by now but CalTrain defends its turf like a honey badger.
> Revenue sources are not necessarily the be all

True, but in addition to the revenue Google ALSO tailors all their products to facilitate their advertising products. It's sort of like a singer who sells merch. The merch makes money but it also props up the singers singing career and funds tours.

Chrome revolves around ads, android revolves around ads, maps revolves around ads, gmail revolves around ads. If you take a hard look at all their products their all linked to Google's advertisement offerings in one way or another. That, to me, means adtech is their main line of business.
>.014 kg/km

Just post it in grams, ugh.

(14g/km)

>or 0.14kg for 10km

(or 140g for 10km)
@brendan_fischer: "As it happens, the Ziklag-funded Eagle AI is turning out to be an unreliable, clunky mess, as @janestreet reported yesterday." https://x.com/brendan_fischer/status/1812203585683513457

NBCNews: "Conservative activists find errors in software they hoped would root out voter fraud" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/conservative-acti...
SF certainly has its challenges. But in my 9 years of working in the financial district I never saw something like this.

Obviously others will have different experiences than me.

Point is, you can find crime and bad things in any city. San Francisco has work to do, but isn't the hell-hole people or the news make it out to be.
> Also i assume, primary cells that are not rechargeable, can have higher capacity than rechargeable batteries.

Interesting, do you have more information on state of the art non-rechargeable batteries? I would assume they just use normal LiPo cells anyway and just charge them once, ideally at the factory. Cheap, light (compared to the warhead at least), can deliver enough current.
This looks interesting for sure:

"ReLU-KAN: New Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks that Only Need Matrix Addition, Dot Multiplication, and ReLU"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02075#
> Haskell has an endemic problem where way too many development resources are put into fringe parts of GHC

There has been an incredible amount of work over the last decade put into all the things you mentioned, which it sounds like you're unfamiliar with. https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server in particular is a pleasure to use in my experience. Package management is far from perfect, but it's always being worked on and I'll take it over anything in Python or the Node.js ecosystems any day. Developer experience has improved a lot since I started using the language and this is an area that the community and leadership absolutely cares about--I'd be surprised if anyone spent time reading relevant discussions in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals or https://discourse.haskell.org/ or etc. and agreed with you.

> Haskell has the worst support for records of all its peers. SML, OCaml, F# all have better records.

> Without good records it’s unreasonably hard to write large software projects.

> AFAIK it’s hard to retrofit ML-style structural subtyped records onto Haskell, because the type system is designed around that not being possible.

Haskell is not ML, and while Haskell records are weak they are not what is preventing people from writing big projects in Haskell. There is much more to the language than records. But I said this in my previous comment.

Nothing you've written resonates with me, and I've written Haskell and PureScript professionally as well as Java and JS along with a bunch of other languages that haven't been mentioned. I'm also actively working on an open source project in my spare time with thousands of lines of Haskell and PureScript code (https://github.com/ddellacosta/automation-service), not to mention a half dozen other random half-done projects and contributions I've made to other open source libraries and applications. What have you written in Haskell that has made you dislike it so much?

> Talk is cheap.

Yes it is.
You can land a plane anywhere you want. Once.
Ha! Disclosure by whom?

If Clorox fills their site with "helpful" articles that just happen to mention Clorox very frequently and some training set aggregator or unscrupulous AI company scrapes it without prior permission, does Clorox have any responsibility for the result? And when those model weights get used randomly, is it an advertisement according to the law? I think not.

Pay attention to the non-headline claims in the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI for whether or not anyone has any responsibility if their AI model starts mentioning your registered trademark without your permission. But on the other hand, what if you like that they mention your name frequently???
Interesting to see Plasticity used for actual manufacturing CAD work, I always though you'd be better of with a dedicated tool like FreeCAD and rely on Plasticity for artistic work and asset modelling. Glad to see the project get traction, been following it for several years.
Your comment sounds elitist but maybe I'm wrong -- how do we judge what's populist bullshit and what's rightly acclaimed?
Ads do not encourage more use, they do the opposite - annoy users into closing the app.

Teens do not need encouragement to spend more time on TikTok than they already do.
Could indeed have been insightful, if it was correct. It isn't: rapid climate change is nothing new, it has been more or less the norm since long before humans entered the scene.
> LLMs are extremely handy, at least when they don't just randomly hallucinate

I work in tech and it’s my hobby, so that’s what a lot of my googling goes towards.

LLMs hallucinate almost every time I ask them anything too specific, which at this point in my career is all I’m really looking for.
The time it takes for me to realize an llm is wrong is usually not too bad, but it’s still time I could’ve saved by googling (or whatever trad search) for the docs or manual.

I really wish they were useful, but at least for my tasks they’re just a waste of time.

I really like them for quickly generating descriptions for my dnd settings, but even then they sound samey if I use them too much.
Obviously they’d sound samey if I made up 20 at once too, but at that point I’m not really being helped or enhanced by using an LLM, it’s just faster at writing than I am.
AWS deprecations: the end of the Everything Cloud
Minecraft was revolutionary in the openness of it's game design... It's a terrible example of 'technically bad'. The technical quality of Minecraft is in design, not graphics.

There's no parallel for musicianship. I don't disagree that there are fantastic producers working in bad pop music - they're not the musicians who's names mast the tracks, they're folks like Max Martin, RedOne, Boi-1da. Their skill is not in making music better. It's in producing prototypes that the factory of the industry can mass produce and tweak for different demographics. This has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of music. It's more akin to propaganda or marketing. The talent at work here is manipulation, not artistry.
The barrier to entry for learning to fly is literally a few hundred dollars for a discovery flight. You don't need to do any preparation and you will actually fly the plane the first time up. A discovery flight is flight training, and it goes in your log book.
This is what DEI efforts were supposed to solve.

There is always implicit bias in hiring, and monocultures like the ones that the article described happen very easily, regardless of race or gender.

It's a shame that it became such a politically-charged topic.
Validation at Scale with Open Source MVPs
> Luckily, we live right across the street from eachother and see eachother multiple times a week.

Thanks, I needed to read something positive after that blog post.
> there is simply no evidence from before 24 February 2022 that Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine and incorporate it into Russia

Crimea, anyone?
> In situations like these it's good to remember that people are much more likely to take the ethical and principled road when they also stand to gain from that choice. People who put their ideals above pragmatic self-interest self-select out of positions of power and influence.

I don't know what world you live in, but my experience has been 100% the opposite. Most people will not do what is ethical or principled. When you try to discuss it with them, they will DARVO and congrats, you have now been targeted for public retribution by the sociopathic child in the drivers seat.

The thing that upsets me most is the survivorship bias you express, and how everybody thinks that people are "nice and kind" they are not. The world is an awful terrible place full of liars, cheats and bad people that WE NEED TO STOP CELEBRATING.

One more time WE NEED TO STOP CELEBRATING BAD PEOPLE WHO DO BAD THINGS TO OTHERS.
Yet no one in the mainstream is willing to admit that wild inflation was largely a result of out of control money printing. Usually, this leads to asset price rise (which has outpaced inflation for decades now).

But this time, there was so much money sloshing around that it pumped assets to prices that were beyond the market’s absorption (see home prices). Once there were no quality assets left to buy, the money found its way to garbage assets (NFTs, crypto) and consumption

Admitting this would mean admitting that the foundations of the western capitalist system are weak. Little wonder why the blame is deflected to a million things, but NEVER money printing and esoteric money juju such as QE
San Francisco was ignoring this problem for at least 10 years before that judgement happened.

Not to mention the issue there wasn't exactly that the city was trying to do something but the fact that they were fining them and plaintiffs claimed the fines were so large that they were "cruel and unusual punishment" which is non-constitutional.

So no, it's 100% political and bureaucratic apathy over many years, not one court case.
Totally. This is one of the major painpoints for users that our early research unlocked, so we designed Trameter to specifically address this - so yes, everything on each package generated gets booked within the app in 1 click.

Have you tried it out yet? Let me know what you think!
Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views!

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Conservative: LOL no... not those views

Me: So... deregulation?

Conservative: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Conservative: Oh, you know the ones
They aren’t in terms of profitability, but they are in terms of future revenue. If most early adopters start self-hosting models then a lot of future products will be build outside of OpenAI’s ecosystem. Then corporations will also start searching how to self-host models because privacy is the primary concern for AI’s adoption. And we already have models like Llama3 400B that is close to ChatGPT.
Don't jest, just say more micro services than paying customers and you have my work life described.
Russian fear of a liberal democracy - Mearsheimer’s words - in Ukraine comes from the fact that Russia is a personalist autocracy and its autocrat fears this. The fear is not rational in that it is a threat to Russian sovereignty or territorial integrity. It is a threat because the autocrat does not want his people to see Ukrainians thrive whilst they do not. It would make him look bad.

In no sensible way can this war be blamed on anyone other than Putin. It is Putin’s ego combined with a desire for control that caused this war. Russia is Europe’s last old style colonial empire and Putin pines for the days of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.

Russia aggression in Moldova, Georgia, Belorussia, and elsewhere similarly can’t be blamed on anything other than Russian imperialist desires for control.
You can enjoy Soylent? By yourself or with others? Just because the meal is done in 5 minutes does not mean it’s not enjoyable.
Last entry of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
I mean we can... We can eat less animal food and cut down the farming areas used to grow food for them, we can ask politicians to ditch zoning, parking minimums, enforce more taxes on fossil vehicles, build better public transport, better bike infra and plant more trees and other vegetation for insect corridors. We can at least stop investing in fossil energy and redirect those $ on solar/wind/hydro/nuclear/geo. We can increase the taxes for car ownership to reduce it. But ultimately the question is will we? I don't think so. Ppl like their current lifestyle, politicians do like money from fossil industries and are invested in those. So...
Google's not the messiah, and they've been a very naughty boy.
This is fascinating. I’m lately very pissed off and feeling hopeless due to many reasons (not being able to afford a house and missing out on incredible mortgage rates playing a huge factor, coupled with the uncertainty of the job market). It’s devastating that I wasn’t prepared and such an opportunity is never coming back again is infuriating.

I have definitely started ruminating and regretting so many choices — previously I used to take to stoicism but even that is not being effective. Maybe I’m now ruminating, but I just can’t imagine being calm about the whole situation. Venting hasn’t helped, and typing this message has just made me angrier. Maybe I should try being calm… but at least I’m able to channel my anger, not so sure about channeling the calm :(
Teslas which still don't have reliable enough FSD to drive on a one-way only track so they need human drivers to drive 1-3 people at a time.
1 billion dollars / 8500[1] homeless people = 117 thousand dollars. The median household income in SF is 119 thousand[2]. I get that you wouldn't want to just pay them a salary because of second-order effects, but that kind of spend without even getting them sheltered strongly suggests resources are not being allocated well.

[1] https://www.sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-populat...

[2] https://smartasset.com/retirement/average-salary-in-san-fran...
The very broad agreement not to sue anyone using Llama for IP infringement, even blatant copying, seems too permissive.

Do they have any more cooperative approach to notifying them of copyright violations, for requesting takedown?
"a great read" - Almost underselling it. It won the Pulitzer for non-fiction that year.
That's a good question. I've thought about this for titles of guide books, eg "Best Europe Destinations 2024". It seems there's competing interests for making sales: A bookstore might want to buy the new versions every year (more sales), but when there are only old versions on the shelves, people don't want to buy something that looks out of date (less sales). Maybe for globes, they aren't selling many every year, so don't want to create them with dates that will look several years old.
But also train tracks and infrastructure aren’t exactly free of mess all across the landscape. Flights can be had for as low as €20, which yeah, makes no sense at all.
My father-in-law died of cancer late last year. He commented that cancer was a kind disease because it allowed him the luxury of planning his last days, making peace, and saying goodbye.

I wish you happiness, love, and comfort right up to the end.
I think you’re saying "But I only enjoy video games!". You should reread what the gp said.
There is a thesis in your question. I'm not a terminated Twitter employee. I follow him on X and see exactly what he writes, the amount of disinformation he retweets, his manipulation tactics and what he does. That's enough for me to be "anti-Elon." It wasn't always like this—a few years ago, I was pro-Elon.
Which would be relevant if Twitter HQ was in downtown SF.
Using a Rotax 915 iS no thanks