skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard - I'd say impossible for most people - to be simultaneously excellent at the organization and (yes,) politics that go into managing the output of a company, and the execution that goes into developing and operating the systems of a company. They both take effort because they are both real jobs.

Add a bit of arrogance in the mix and you get devs thinking their managers are worthless and managers thinking their teams are useless.
> It’s the new E=MC².

And I believe they really believe it. Like Sundar Pichai who believes AI, which needs huge amounts of electricity to run, is somehow “more profound than fire and electricity”. These people are high on their own supply, completely blinded by hype and dollar signs.

Can’t say I’m surprised, since the article is from a VC firm known for investing in cryptocurrencies and AI. It’s in their direct financial interest to sell everyone on whatever crap they put their money on.
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Apple to update EU browser options, make more apps deletable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41325184
I suppose - my general reaction is that use of such magic api keys are difficult to audit, revoke etc - and there's the constant risk they will leak.
I know its very minor, but are there ergonomic improvements possible to this setup besides shell aliases/functions around pairing `wg-up host && ssh host && wg-down host`?

I agree that ultimately, with wg in the kernel, this is a much simpler setup.
Tell us how you really feel Charlie.....

That was pretty brutal on the marketeers..
It looks like we experience some issues with Netlify right now. Thanks for pointing that out.
In an alternate reality where the opposite happened, a poster much like you just posted incredulously how you saw someone take the stairs to the gym, then hop right on a much superior stairmaster instead of just using the stairmaster the whole time.
Does economic coercion count? What are your criteria?
This would unlock so many interesting use cases and protect the developer from getting a huge bill. Let me basically resell your API and abstract away any complexity to the end user. I'll charge use some % markup on top of what I pay Claude.
This helps explain why Sharepoint search is so bad!
Follow the money? What financial (or power) incentives are there for faked science?
There are plenty of situations where majority approval shouldn't be accepted. Matt Levine talks about one a lot, where a company in bankruptcy agrees to honor the claims of 51% of its creditors and blow off the others.
I rest it on my own personal experience and that of many others, which you don’t seem to accept. Nevertheless, here is just one example of what I’m talking about.

I spent over a year with daily terrible headaches. I suspected they were related to my thyroid medication not being correctly dosed, as they started immediately after a new bottle of medication arrived, and closely resembled headaches I had had related to dosing issues in the past. The measurements and latest “scientific" knowledge said my dose was fine, so various doctors had me try all kinds of different things. I even tried a chiropractor. (I’m not a fan of them in general. Mostly crazy kooks in my experience.) I finally found a doctor that suggested my dosing was wrong, changed my prescription, and the headaches went away immediately. This doctor (and many others), based on the experience of many thousands of patients’ experiences, believes the current scientific consensus on thyroid hormone dosing is wrong. And everybody knows there is a huge gap in our knowledge around hormones in general.

So there you have it. I could give other examples, but they would be second hand, rather than first.

Oh, and then a year after I finally got this solved, I got a letter in the mail that the batch of medication I had received at the start of this all was being recalled... for being wrongly dosed.
You already have the freedom to make your own decisions. What you don't have is the freedom to endanger others. That's when we make laws, and those laws may be informed by science but they are not created or enforced by scientists. They are created and enforced by government agencies.
I don't think the ego accepts this easily.
And, to add to that, there's a certain fetish for data that can be quantified. Which leads us straight to the McNamara fallacy.

An empirical mindset alone won't save you from this problem. Quantification bias is a self-confirming bias.
> The feature will also be off by default

The most important thing, right here. Don't trick people into using something as invasive as this.
I'm in favour, but that leaves RM holding a database of non-copyrightable addresses.

One way or the other, a private asset must be either nationalised or compelled to be released.

Gradual renationalisation of the rail network was in the manifesto. That's not particularly contentious, as rail franchises have fixed terms. But the manifesto is all about steadying the ship, and militant nationalisation risks spooking investors, so whether the government has any appetite to nationalise anything by fiat is questionable.

Nonetheless, there's public support for renationalisation; and, for such a low-value asset, this might be a nice test of the waters.
I made something like this since I was tired of the asymmetric nature of data collection that happens on the Internet. Still not where I would like to be, but it's been really nice being able to treat my browsing history as any old log that I can query over. Tools like dogsheep are nice, but they tend to rely on data being allowed to be removed from the platform. This bypasses those limits by just doing it on the client.

This lets me create dashboards to see usage for certain topics. For example, I have a "Dev Browser" which tracks the latest sites I've visited that are related to development topics [1]. I similarly have a few for all the online reading I do. One for blogs, one for fanfiction, and one for webfiction in general.

I've talked about my first iteration before on here [2].

My second iteration ended up with a userscript which sends the data on the sites I visit to a Vector instance (no affiliation; [3]). Vector is in there because for certain sites (ie. those behind draconian Cloudflare configuration), I want to save a local copy of the site. So Vector can pop that field save it to a local minio instance and at the same time push the rest of the record to something like Grafana Loki and Postgres while being very fast.

I've started looking into a third iteration utilizing MITMproxy. It helps a lot with saving local copies since it's happening outside of the browser, so I don't feel the hitch when a page is inordinately heavy for whatever reason. It also is very nice that it'd work with all browsers just by setting a proxy which means I could set it up for my phone both as a normal proxy or as a wireguard "transparent" proxy. Only need to set up certificates for it work.

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[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zamu-flowerpot/zamu-flower...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31429221
[3] http://vector.dev
Ask HN: How to Properly Address the Problem of Information Overload?
About a day ago, I posted our product on HN for the first time, but the feedback was quite average. The problem we're trying to solve with our product is improving the efficiency of information retrieval. Based on my daily observations, I've noticed a few things:

- Many friends complain about the overwhelming amount of content online, especially tech news.

- A lot of content takes quite a bit of time to read.

- Finding the information you want often requires browsing different websites and spending a lot of time, especially when it’s content that can’t be quickly accessed through a search.

Our solution involves using AI—not only to aggregate information (which many RSS readers can do)—but to address the issue of content overload after aggregation, where many articles go unread. So, we use AI to filter the information based on natural language processing, pulling a small portion of data that meets specific criteria from many sources. We then create content digests, allowing users to read in less time, with the option to click through to the original source if they want to see the full text.

I know I must have missed something, as the HN community didn’t give much feedback on this solution. Is there a problem with the solution itself, or should I focus more on improving the way I write posts or design the landing page? I’m feeling quite lost right now.
Yes, which is why https://gavinhoward.com/2023/11/how-to-fund-foss-save-it-fro... specifically calls that out.
I'm with you in principle.

But isn't sloppiness of naming how you end up with people knowing only "Mastodon", not the Fediverse?

All those technologies you mentioned had names so you could start to talk about them, and could keep them straight. (Otherwise, we might all be using "IE" now instead of the Web, which by now would be some thoroughly proprietary nth generation evolution of ActiveX.)

When I want to explain the Fediverse to someone, I sometimes need multiple sentences to just give it a name, so people can start anchoring concepts, before I can start saying what it is. (Otherwise, a few minutes later, "Wait, have you been talking about Mastodon?")

This is almost as frustrating as people who insist on still saying "free software", long after the confusion has already been pointed out, sometimes seemingly whenever saying "free software" would be most counterproductive to their goals.

Sometimes there's a reasonable explanation, like a particular person has trouble forming a mental model of someone else, or a particular person just thinks substantially differently than most people. Both of which are absolutely true of a lot of early true-believers in these circles. Or it's an isolated incident, when a person who would normally realize that, merely missed it.

Embracing whimsy and differences, and understanding that mistakes happen, are all good. But let's not elevate that, over the goals of those same people, to the point of sabotaging their goals.

(Now, if the goals of certain Fediverse three-stars-pyramid hieroglyph secret-society people are actually to make it a closed in-group, you could make a strong argument for that school of thought. But Fediverse people who want to bring more people into the fold, or who want it not to lose even some of the popularity it already has, need to be very different about evangelizing.)
I disagree with number 2 but otherwise agree with you. I'd prefer they do this but it's not a moral imperative IMO.
I can confirm, they are banned but VPN or Tor can access them without any issues. So it's only to prevent normies from accessing them.
@Tompreneur,

I would like to learn more about the features:

- What types of diagrams does this support? E.g., could the diagrams include some cartoons, artwork, icons, besides generic shapes like ellipses and arrows like shown in the video?

- What editable formats are supported? SVG?

- Privacy policy stuff. Would my diagrams be stored in the account? (I prefer not. I like it stateless.)

I am happy to try to find above answers myself, however, do not want to create a login just for trying. Also, I prefer site-specific login systems as opppsed to BigCo login IDs like Google mentioned.

I need to digitise about 15-20 diagrams. If it would work for these, I am ready to pay $10 for these. (I've seen the pricing at $3 for more diagrams than what I need.)
Being against military contracts isn't really politically radical except I guess in the US.

But being called a murderer is a pretty predictable outcome of joining an organization built for and dedicated to killing. I'm sorry if you didn't understand that before joining and/or that your feelings were hurt.
I don't see solar mentioned on this page. And according to data found in a sibling comment, they are practically similar (0.03 nuclear vs 0.02 solar).

Maybe I read it wrong, but I don't see anything supporting the statement: "Nuclear is so safe--even fully factoring in the accident at Chernobyl--that people very occasionally falling off rooftops when installing solar panels is a bigger health hazard per Joule produced."
Microsoft wants everyone to get pushed to the cloud. They are pretty upfront with their goal for Windows itself to be a cloud service.
Interesting. I like that better developer tooling is coming out.

That said, this particular tool seems like it's trying to be very hand-holdy, maybe not targeting developers?

For developers Claude Dev seems like a more functional equivalent: https://github.com/saoudrizwan/claude-dev
Traffic Cam Photobooth turns CCTV cameras into a clever photo op
So all the highly unique, contextually relevant and aesthetically pleasing AI art that I am seeing pop up in blogs, chats, documentation, presentations, etc where before there would have been nothing or maaaybe some ultra-generic clipart, this explosion of creativity is slowly erasing the human spirit? Nah. Looks like the opposite, if anything.

"It all looks the same" -> there's plenty of room for better prompting and models. Just look at civit.ai -- the "sameness" problem is just low skill with the new tools. The floor used to be "looks like a kid drew it," now the floor is "looks like the default StableDiffusion style." Replace with whatever domain you are interested in, I am using art as an example because it is comparatively further down the maturation curve. In any case, the ceiling is high and it still takes effort to reach, but the bar is raised everywhere.
Every Soviet or Russian leader since 1917 died peacefully in his bed,

Beria was executed.

Stalin did apparently expire in his own bed a few days after collapsing on his floor. But given that he was suspiciously denied treatment for 18+ hours, the circumstances cannot quite be called "peaceful".

Khrushschev died of a heart attack at Moscow Central Clinic Hospital.

Andropov and Chernenko spent their last months mostly at that same hospital. Andropov "dropped off" there, and Chernenko likely did as well.

Yeltsin spent his last 12 days at an unspecified hospital.

And yet somehow you "know" that they all died peacefully and in their own beds.

Putin's own circumstances will likely be significantly more precarious than the post-Stalin/Beria batch. The reason the latter were able to enjoy relatively peaceful exits (if not in their own bed at home) rests in the fact that the Soviet system at least had a working semblance of respect for the law; and everyone knew that the transition process was firmly in the hands of the Politburo and the KGB. The country's position in the world at large was quite stable, and it faced no external threats.

Meanwhile under Putin, rule of law as such been entirely hollowed out; his supporting factions are more diverse suspicious of one another; and thanks to his actions, the country now faces significant external threats, which he doesn't seem to be doing a good or even adequate of managing.

Pretty much anything could happen in his last days, under these circumstances.
What's the betting that cuiiliste.de is added to the list next at the "request" of some anonymous rights holder...?
Medicine is not entirely based on science, so I wouldn't equate MDs to scientists. Lots of treatments are based on clinical experience which is more anecdotal and traditional than scientific. So much so that "science-based medicine" is a thing.

Don't get me wrong: I trust medicine a lot and it has literally saved my life, but doctors aren't primarily scientists.
A big problem in today's political climate is if you question certain scientific findings, at best you get shouted down and at worst you get branded a far right fascist and have your career put at risk.
Hasn't Putin already cracked down strongly on any dissent to his rule? So most if not all the people who would take action in relation to this sentiment are neutralized?
Do you think it would be possible to attach other language SRTs in the context? For example when translating English to Polish, the LLM has no idea whether the lines are spoken by a man or a woman, so the polish translation will be very confusing. However, if I could give the model both English and French subtitles, the gendered words from French would let the model avoid the confusion and the polish translation could be much more accurate. Does that make sense?
How is Steam a monopoly?

The platform it runs on (Windows) is open, unlike the App Store. Competitors exist on said platform, including a store & game pass run by the platform owner.

The fact that Steam still runs the show is a testament to their ability to just do things better than anyone else. Sure, there is a sort of network effect at play, but there is no other “moat” here - let alone a monopolistic one.
Awesome, thanks!

Your description is exactly what I expected to see out of a "completely flat" company: shadow structures emerging, little fiefdoms run by people who are adept at building and maintaining power, and sheer terror for those underneath.
I'm not very familiar with OWA - what is your critique?

Their recommendations seem grounded in a very detailed assessment of how Apple's compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-dma-review/
How does Omnifact's privacy filter stack up against more traditional privacy methods? Does it really keep data secure without making the AI less effective when using public LLMs?
This article does a good job laying the foundation of why I think homiconic languages are so important, and doing AI in languages that aren't, are doomed to stagnation in the long term.

The acrobatics that Wolfram can do with the code and his analysis is awesome, and doing the same without the homoiconicity and metaprogramming makes my poor brain shudder.

Do note, Wolfram Language is homoiconic, and I think I remember reading that it supports Fexprs. It has some really neat properties, and it's a real shame that it's not Open Source and more widely used.
One diagram per month for free.
Approaching the singularity...since no human understands all those things.
Why? Like, from the practical standpoint I understand why we need procedures that are robust to individual evil actors. But, from a moral standpoint, if you prove unambiguous fraud by a very brilliant person who has been entrusted with incredible resources and freedom by the public, why shouldn’t that person go to jail?

Civil engineers understand the seriousness of their job, and medical researchers should too. (And of course, many do understand, and very few commit unambiguous fraud.)
I've been using AI models to do frontend design and candidly this doesn't hold a candle to just working directly with the base models.

With the base models you can ask: Hey, make me 5 designs that fit xyz requirements and it will go to work. If you already know front end design, you can take that up a level and pass it an emmet abbreviation of the rough code you want and say only use tailwind colors of sky, zinc, and blue.

I am decidedly not your audience, but if anyone on HN is thinking about how to speed up frontend dev and they are a frontend dev, I'd suggest just messing with the base models more.

Once you get the hang of it, it can be like working with a designer who's feelings don't get hurt... which I love.

"Meh, I don't like those designs, generate me 5 more and feel free to increase the model's temperature up quite a bit to see if you can come up with something cool."
> I sometimes wonder if I'll regret that choice later on down the line.

As a data point, I skipped mine to sleep in; no regrets 11 years later
Recommendations are optional. There is no enforcement. I might not be able to find a doctor to give me a surgery I want. But rarely does a surgeon force upon someone a surgery they don't want.

An obvious counter example is electroshock therapy or a lobotomy. Typically there's some due process there before a doctor just does something against patient wishes.

People don't like the vaccine debate for many, many reasons. Sadly a lot of the discussion is people talking past each other and refusing to acknowledge that the other side does have a point about assumptions that are damaging to their own position.
I wager the electric motors actually have a very low angular velocity error on average. However given the way they work, during a revolution you likely have non linear rotation of the shaft on a basic motor due to the classical physics of the rotational load accelerating between its push/pull magnetic poles. Theres some interesting work in the motor driver space trying to smooth out the curves in the motion profiles of the trusty stepper motor (see TMC2209 driver promo content) and surely similar work for other electric motors. I bet one of our peers here could speak more authoritatively than my conjecture above.
This is kind of conjecture based on various things I've read over the years, but I feel like there is a strong tie-in between memorization and visualization abilities. I think many great chess players actually have trained their visualization abilities and are great at this. This in turn allows for easier memorization of games, sequences, etc, because it feels like they're only half-memorizing it at this point. It's easier. Some great Chess players utilize the memory palace technique as well, which feels like it ties into their visualization skill abilities.
Japan's population to drop by 1M each year
GitHub, a Microsoft company, uses AWS S3
Wow, look at that.
Definitely look into cursor if you like Claude dev. It isn't apples to apples, but their chat mode is very similar.
Everyone’s their own Sole Proprietorship?
In case it's helpful for anyone, I did a little write-up of my experience using Instant a couple months ago to hack together a simple weekend project: https://www.alexreichert.com/blog/ceramics-with-instantdb

tl;dr -- I'm a big fan :)
Strong agree. This whining behavior is out of control.

E.g., I don't have xdg on one of my systems, so "default browser" is not a meaningful concept there. Still, the only browser I have, keeps showing me the sad-face "Firefox is not your default" prompt.
Valve's approach to managerless is closer to anarchy. You can add more accountability/structure with better results while still being managerless, such as in a holacracy.

Politics exist in any corporate structure. I'm not sure what's worse though, Valve's tribe-based politics or your traditional corporate game of thrones politics.
The article talks about successful interventions. It's problematic that the article doesn't put this in context: no specific events or policies are visible in the growth rate of CO2 in the atmosphere since records began. It's a smooth up-and-to-the-right line with slowly increasing acceleration.

https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png

Things you might intuitively expect to be visible but aren't:

• COVID lockdowns (i.e. aviation shutdown).

• Germany's phaseout of nuclear power and return to lignite.

• The collapse of the USSR.

• Any kind of global climate agreement.

• The explosion of cheap air travel.

• The enormous drop in solar/wind costs in the 2010s.

• Chinese adoption of capitalism and consequent industrialization in the 1990s.

If even global lockdowns had no impact on CO2 levels it's fair to say there are no actual or conceivable government policies that will be successful at reducing emissions any time soon. The authors of this paper aren't going to mention that though, otherwise examining 1500 different government policies might seem a bit pointless and the discussion would have to move to adaptation, which they don't like conceptually.
20 years ago they changed all the time. Wikipedia doesn't mention this though. These days the post office can read the street address via computers and get the 11 digit code they need, so I suspect they don't need them. (for PO boxes the 9 digit code apparently doesn't change)
Yeah. The trick is to never buy a cheap replacement tool.
Get into microcontrollers. C still remains the best choice for tiny memory and program space. Often you need to tightly control memory allocation, and C++ creates too many unknowns. Most other languages are non starters. Use assembly if you want.