skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious and least painful change for Google is to make the top 3 most popular browsers on any platform have to allow any search engines supplied by the user. The user has to paste a custom url into a text box supplied by their favorite search engine’s website. That way people can use meaningful search engines like Marginalia, Kagi, or others. It’s such a simple change that would have a massive impact in forcing meaningful competition in the search sphere.

Google funds Apple for search dominance and Firefox for reasons I don’t know of. Neither Safari (on mobile nor desktop) nor Firefox allow custom user supplied search engines. The presets they supply appear to be controlled opposition.

I want to be able to use Marginalia, Kagi, Yandex, MWMBl and SearXNG by default after a few settings changes.
In a time when cars are increasingly more connected than ever. More sensors and controls. Literally more software in cars today than ever before and they do this?

I suspect this a poor move on GM's part.
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Did you do the cinder block project? Was its estimate close? From everything I’ve seen LLMs are not that great at math.
Engine mounts are critical single points of failure. Not good.
uBO is fine for clearing up crud after you've accessed an article.

It's not useful for piercing paywalls / registration walls in the first place.

It's also not universally available, particularly on mobile devices and/or Google Chrome.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41291082
> Can you try to use a memory-mapped file

Definitely do *not* use MMAP for this.
I'm familiar with what a "third place" is ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

I'm just remarking that the role of the second place -- the office -- has also been diminished

Obviously you don't literally need the "second place" to have the "third place" -- but my point was that in-person interaction has been reduced even further, compared to the 1990's

Probably in 1990, few people would have predicted that the second place would also go away, at least for some affluent part of the population
The goal is to publish things 1) anonymously, 2) without being censored.

If you publish via tor and never fuck up and connect outside of tor, you're anonymous.

If you publish to a lot of relays, it's almost impossible to remove.

What youre saying is tor is less secure than i2p. Maybe. But if you don't have to store your blog on a server you rent or that's in your garage, you're way less likely to be eventually identified. There's no overhead to keeping your messages available, and you don't have to remain connected to the internet for them to be available. It is significantly more robust than hosting a server behind i2p.
I kind of like the implied concept that self-hosting is the last-foot problem.
Sounds like you made a massive tradeoff in code coupling if your cant easily swap out remote for local queues etc. But i get it, when your thinking cloud first, understanding where your abstractions start or end can be a complex topic that creates flow on effects and often stop the whizz bang cloud demo code from copy/paste working in your solution. Depending on the stage of your company, this could be a feature or a bug. maybe you have so much complexity in your solution from spreading buisness logic across services that your solution only makes sense when your developing against prod-like-infra and in that scenario im seeing a benifit of having cloud first dev infra because keeping that beast tamed otherwise would be a monumental challange given the perchant for cloud-first to be auto-update-everything.
The whole California high-speed rail project is a gigantic white elephant and waste of taxpayer money. But that one viaduct over the Fresno River didn't cost anywhere near $11B.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/05/13/cal...
I have had suspicions for a while that the whole product is built & sold by just 1 person... if this is true, that's just amazing.
Is this wrong? I always mentally replace "e.g." with "for example" (so this sentence is "it can chainload into, for example, an EFI image"). That sounds right to me. This seems like somebody doing it right :)
> Using transformers to incorporate different user actions based on the current user context helps steer music recommendations directly towards the user’s current need

What if the user's current need is to not play music? To not consume yet more content? To not make them addicted to the content application?

How can we optimize for user wellbeing, and still make money? That's the question we should be pouring resources into
Wow. I guess I haven’t been paying attention to 4ms lately.. this feels wrong but right. I like it.
I've seen them in DFW. I can't remember which complexes had them, but some built since post-2000 for sure and I thought post-2010 for a few.

I haven't been apartment hunting in a few years and so many new complexes go up around me all the time.
Same with 100 dB hand dryers that cause panic attack
I was born and raised in Chicago, still live here, easily one of the most walkable places in the country. Most of the people I know spend most of their time at home. I think the two biggest causes are the loss of third places/religion and the ever expanding amount of content available on the internet. Theres just less and less reason to go outside every year.
In one essay, Christopher Alexander calls suburb design schizophrenic, in reference to how suburb dwellers are forced more and more inward.

It's certainly an appropriate description. I've lived in the suburbs for thirty something years and have never made a single friend there. Travel requires a car, and there's no place interesting you can get to without a car. The optimal strategy for life is therefore to pass the threshold of depression and insanity and become a computer-addicted robot who derives pleasure only from typing on the comments section of the internet.

I've been thinking of ways to fix the problem but there's no bandage for removing the cars and redesigning the whole thing. I've thought of structures a clever person might be able to build to attract socialization, and I'm sure almost all of them are against zoning laws.
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We had a daily standup at my first job in apartment maintenance, too.

Just five minutes of the whole team there at the start of the day to sync up; but it turned up lots of practical problems, like who would be in the shop to receive a planned delivery when most people would be in jobs they couldn’t pause during the day.

We have them in software for the same reasons — and it’s a giant red flag to me when senior people treat it as some kind of horrible imposition we spend five minutes a day on teamwork.
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That's the topic of an essay I'd written a couple of years ago and just discussed on HN last week:

"Why won't (some) people pay for the news?"

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca4144...>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249571>

Upshot: Numerous legitimate reasons. I'd very much like to see universal syndication / superbundling on a distributed progressive tax and/or ISP tollkeeper basis, with some additional details for the fiddly bits.

As for subscribing to content submitted to general discussion sites, such as HN or others:

As of 21 June 2023, there were 52,642 distinct sites submitted to the HN front page.

Counting those with 100 or more appearances, that falls to 149.

Doing a manual classification of news sites, there are 146.

Even at a modest annual subscription rate of $50/year ($1/week per source), that's a $7,300 subscriptions budget just to be able to discuss what's appearing on Hacker News from mainstream news sources.

Oh, and if you want per-article access at, say, $0.50 per article, that's $5,475 to read a year's worth of HN front-page submissions (10,950 articles/year), and that is just based on what is captured on the archive. In practice far more articles will appear, if only briefly, on the front page each day.

Which is among the reasons I find the "just subscribe" argument untenable. Some sort of bundling payment arrangement is required.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832354>

(Source: own work based on scraping the HN front-page archive from initiation through June 2023.)
git still works pretty well, I just wouldn't try to use it as a bank account.
You are correct, I forgot to separate between long-term and short-term random effects.

Short-term random effects (as in, the part of the gyro's random walk error significantly higher in frequency than the inverse of the integration period) will get cancelled out by integration, assuming they're Gaussian.

Long-term random effects (mainly from time and temperature like you mentioned) will instead tend accumulate with integration aka worsening with time.

P.S. great fan of your many ventures into retro tech, keep them coming!
Are you saying you find it hard to believe that some prefer the first "Before" example over the first "Bad refactor" example?
A quick glance...I found it odd that University of Florida had zero bronzes. The site shows 4 gold, 3 Silver and 0 Bronze for them.

Reality is, they have 4 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze.

https://floridagators.com/news/2024/8/12/olympics-gators-per...

I'd triple check all the data...
I'm actually really disappointed this wasn't addressed with a fairly obvious "checksum" mechanism - Including the ":" in the center, and giving that it's own lenticular pattern, such that only when viewed from the right angle do you see the : and otherwise you just see numbers.

(I'm not sure if this is really plausible - Are the numbers close enough that that would actually work? If you're off to the right or left, or too high or too low, could you potentially see the : with a different set of numbers than intended?)
Do iPhones not have Firefox now?
vhs is pretty cool. I’ve used it before and liked the idea of an intermediate tape file. I was looking for a tool that allows execution of commands on shell as well!
It's not like it was ever going to even if it wanted.

Smart marketing move.
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I am lucky enough to have several family members who are MDs and am close to a few more.

They google crap all the time. They're as unaware of things as we are.

The tests they have access to are much better than anything we can get our hands on though.
I don't know what country you're from, but in the US, a very large fraction of the population cares about the rights enumerated to them (not granted - enumerated) by the second amendment of our Constitution, and most of these people will have significantly more qualms about cops seizing their arms.
Ask chatGPT to recommend you a few books based on the books you've enjoyed, I've found some great books this way
Regardless of the nostalgia factor of old media (whose value is overstated, imo), the only practical alternative these days is not owning any media at all. So when no single streaming service pays the license to stream The Matrix, the film will virtually cease to exist. Fast forward a few hundred years of bit rot, and there's a nonzero chance that the film is lost to time. Think of all the countless valuable film, music, etc that didn't have the acclaim of The Matrix. Gone sooner, and more prolifically.
I was surprised at how many athletes for other nations live and train the ihe US

I think it would be interesting to see all medals grouped this way, regardless of the country the athlete represented.
> Free for personal entertainment

Didn't the GP say

> Is there some way to support journalism across publications?

I don't think there's a way to support without paying.
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Not exactly a single point of failure.

It's obviously not good if one fails and the engine falls off the plane, but, a 777X should still be able to fly with a single engine.

Of course, that capability is more geared to "we saw a high temperature on the engine so let's proactively shut it down and land as soon as we can" and not "the engine fell off the plane and landed on someone".
"He should shut up and code."
Ask HN: What is a simple paid app / webapp that you wish existed?
I'm curious if there are any low-hanging fruits that someone just hasn't gotten around to building. But also feel free to recommend ideas for apps/webapps that already exist but you wish there was a better version (more features / cleaner / more professional / etc.).

Specifically looking for apps that could potentially be a subscription of $1-$5 per month or so. Any comments welcome!
I just dont see hallucination as that big of a problem. I use copilot and gpt daily and only have that issue on occasion. Its a once every few hours issue.

The average person just doesnt care about hallucination that much and probably doesnt even notice half the time.

Costs for gigantic models are really high now, but unless moores law stops they will come down. If moores law does stop, we have a bigger problem. Costs for all the other small models which were already useful 10 years ago, have gotten so cheap you can train them on a macbook, and deploy them on microcontrollers. (sound/image identification/detection in fleet microphones/cameras) That was big ML 8 years ago.

LLM's are not all of AI. There are tons of usecases other than just chatbots. I think people forget that theres models doing well depth alignment, trajectory planning, car tracking, liscense plate reading, etc.

Everyone is just burned out on the relentless advertising of gpt and are conflating that with all of ai. While this man is getting mad at sama for being cringe and hoping the ai world crashes and burns, the general technology is just propogating outwards to people who are actually using it.
How do fines make things better? They confiscate resources that could be used to improve.
Assuming you've also set overcommit_ratio to a conservative value, this would mean that the kernel overcommit=2 setting is not working, since mmap-ing writable pages counts as allocation from overcommit POV. It's a kernel sysctl, so I wouldn't expect it to change glibc's behaviour. There don't seem to be any open bugs about this in the kernel bugzilla. But do tell if you have found a bug in this area.

(This is documented in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mm/overcommit-account... )
Nice!

There are some existing similar extensions. For those attending The Other Church, there's "Edit with Vim Text Editor":

<https://webextension.org/listing/edit-as-html.html?from=vim>
Chatbots were HUGE in the late 2010s!
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I've been following this game from afar for some years now; cool to see the progress!

This is another, newer, video, showing combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yr8MwW9yFI

Actually I'm kinda sad that it's a combat-based game. I was imagining something more interesting involving the procedural creatures than just making them fight. Maybe some RPG thing or cross-breeding idea. Oh well, it's still very cool tech and a nice visual style.

EDIT: Ah, it seems like it does have a breeding concept after all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYIUxmxI-I
You can watch video of the most recent test, a little more than a month ago, of a Minuteman III. This is a short clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUg7x1zo7D0

They can test the missiles and reentry vehicles, everything except the nuclear warhead. The closest those come to a test is a supercomputer simulation, since those tests are forbidden by treaty.

Minuteman III has an excellent but not perfect [0] failure rate. Some other older systems, like the UK's submarine launched Trident missiles... not so much.

[0] https://www.airandspaceforces.com/icbm-test-failure-nuclear-...
It’s probably about the same. The difference with sites like e.g. Perplexity is that they have a business model which requires “acquiring” said content for free whereas a single person is just a single person.
We're actually just going to have kids launch our balloons, it's no problem:

A person who is 6 years of age or younger who
intentionally releases, organizes the release of, or
intentionally causes to be released balloons as
prohibited by s.
379.233 does not violate subsection (4) and is not.
subject to
the penalties specified in subparagraph 1.
thankfully all the pirates of the golden age of physical media and their ancestors who have meticulously tranferred the inherited data to the newest forms of storage have kept countless backups and the legend of neo will live on for years to come
“It would give me great pride to let it be known that I am a New Zealand citizen.”

"His citizenship became a minor national scandal in 2017 when the Ombudsman revealed that the billionaire had only spent 12 days in the country, less than 1% of the usual criteria."

May he stay as far away from NZ as possible.
Empirically, I have found that user action sequences are a good way to model user behavior since it can look at several different scales, and specific behaviors. Interest tracking can see what a user generally likes, and the last few actions can help the model see what the user is listening to right now. But with a full sequence, you can start to model things like what the user is listening to right now, what they've been listening to recently, what they tend to listen to at this time of day, how much of a change in genre they could enjoy, etc.
what have you been able to get it to write so far?
I have more and more experienced, best aggregators are people. I really wish For You pages can get to that level.
> How is the conversation state stored and re-applied each time

It's not, they're almost all stateless. Your entire chat history is fed in for each prompt. Any conversational memory comes just from it being in the prompt.

OpenAI does have it memories and system prompt instructions you can setup. These are just injected into the prompt somewhere as well.
> But then this is stepping on an enumerated right. If we remove or make it difficult the right to own guns, what’s next? Freedom of speech?

It may be enlightening to read some of the GP's other comments, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290361
Alternatively why even have a meeting?

Just have a channel in slack/mattermost/teams for your team to post what they did and what they are stuck on at the end of the day and what they plan on doing at the start of the day.

You get the same result but without forcing people to spend the 15-30 minute wasted time before the meeting and the hour or so of degraded performance while they try to get back into the zone after the meeting.

Standups only benefit management and they really are the pinnacle of "this could have been an email/message".

The only time they may be acceptable is if everyone on the team dedicates their entire schedule (at least for the week) on that one project and if they work the exact same hours, the exact same days, in a no-remote environment. Then you can have a quick 10 minute meeting around the coffee machine while people grab their coffee in the morning.

Otherwise just make it an email/slack message.
From what I heard, they are obviously critical but not a single point of failure. In fact they're made of several points that are expected to fail in a pre-determined order to cover the "engine falling off the plane" scenario.

I learned this from this superb article describing what happened when they failed in the wrong order: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/concrete-and-fire-the-cr...
If they publish the results of their VC-funded research, the scientific community can benefit.
No, but it's also biased toward their commercial partners. From this page [0], detailing their recommendation process:

> How do commercial considerations impact recommendations?

> [...] In some cases, commercial considerations, such as the cost of content or whether we can monetize it, may influence our recommendations. For example, Discovery Mode gives artists and labels the opportunity to identify songs that are a priority for them, and our system will add that signal to the algorithms that determine the content of personalized listening sessions. When an artist or label turns on Discovery Mode for a song, Spotify charges a commission on streams of that song in areas of the platform where Discovery Mode is active.

So Spotify's incentivized to coerce listening behavior towards contemporary artists that vaguely match your tastes, so they can collect the commission. This explains why it's essentially impossible to keep the algorithm in a historical era or genre -- even if well defined, and seeded with a playlist full of songs that fit the definition. It also explains why the "shuffle" button now defaults to "smart shuffle" so they can insert "recommended" (read: commission-generating) songs into your playlist.

[0]: https://www.spotify.com/ca-en/safetyandprivacy/understanding...
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This is a great project, using it for drone video link.
Many people prefer to focus on their work instead of constantly keeping an eye on Slack.
We use tree-sitter right now and experimenting with call graphs currently. Will write about the results when we have data on that.
Comparing net income across different countries, companies, and positions
A lot of utilities have their own fibre since they own poles/towers and need it for tele protection anyway so they can have secure a real private network between control room and significant power plants
Anybody who has actually looked into the abyss would not speak of it like this.
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The amount of Boeing failures is so problematic, it points to the kind of cultural failure within the company where in almost every other circumstance it should just be shut down and sold for parts.

The problem is that that is such an unacceptable situation that it can't ever be allowed to happen.

Boeing is a huge employer in the US, not even counting all the direct subsidiaries who would shut down if it was shut down.

Boeing is developing critical space hardware for NASA. As great as SpaceX is, the US should not rely on a single company for this. I don't think even SpaceX wants this.

If Boeing did fail, that leaves Airbus as the only commercial jet manufacturer? I don't think anyone, including Airbus and definitely not any airline which has used the airbus-boeing dance during price negotiations wants this to happen.

Not to even mention the supply chain issues with keeping our massive fleets of Boeing airplanes flying if Boeing goes defunct.

We also have to consider the defense implications of loosing what is now our only serious domestic manufacturer of many military aircraft and other ordinance.

Boeing literally can not be allowed to fail, the implications would be too great. I also literally see no other path for Boeing but failure.

I also think out of the ashes of that failure something much more focused and better would emerge and that, without that failure, it probably never will but still the failure cannot be allowed to happen.
That’s a glib, low effort dismissal but it makes sense if you consider it.

It’s like people that kept going to the library even with Google around. You’re not playing to the strengths of AI and relying on whatever suboptimal previous method you used to find the answers. It does really, really well with very specific queries with a lot of looks ups and dependencies that nothing else can really answer without a lot of work on your end.