skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe these cars could get their own lanes, or better yet, tracks...
In the Matrix movie Neo took the blue pill or the red pill. Taking the red pill meant Neo woke up and saw the Matrix for what it was. IRL being "redpilled" then started to mean you constructed a new world model which was critical of power structures, which then turned into both misogyny and misandry and pretty soon people realized this world model they created had made them mentally ill. Then the realization that they had constructed a new Matrix, worse than the old, became the 'black pill'. IMO it's different from nihilism because of the self-awareness and inability to stop it from happening.
So you’re saying in order to finish projects I just need to learn how to be honest and clear with myself? Seems like a reduction to a harder problem :)

Joking aside, I came to believe that various form of procrastination are a response to pursuing wrong or unclear goals - even when I don’t state them clearly, my brain still somehow knows that I’m not aligned with what my goals should be. Good job, brain!
What Is UDP?
A change to sit down with a top VC for an hour
Company I work at is helping to organize a hackathon in SF in 3 weeks. Page just went live: https://lu.ma/gfbkd0x3

The grand prize is a sit down with an Uncork Capital partner and a bunch of OpenAI credits. Remote participation allowed. Thought I'd share.
Yeah the OP has no idea what they're talking about. MVG has demonstrable technical skills. OP has none.
As with any novel phenomena, especially in sociology, it is very hard to provide tangible evidence for anything. If you demand nobody speaks of anything of sort without hard evidence, rarely anything would ever be said.
They have none of that shit and thus growing fast. No social guarantees. No pensions. Effectively no unemployment benefits. Labour is a resource and nothing more than that.
I haven't had any, and yeah it's almost always the right thing IME.
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Negative power prices hit Europe as renewable energy floods the grid
They certainly can't coordinate to create pressure on Elsevier without violating antitrust law.
Here's an experiment you can try, go to https://www.udio.com/home and grab a free account which comes with more than enough credits to do this. Use a free chat LLM like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or ChatGPT 4o to workshop some lyrics that you like, just try a few generations and ask it to rewrite parts you don't like until you have something that you don't find too cringe. Then go back over to Udio, go to the create tab turn on the Manual Mode toggle and type in only 3 or 4 comma separated tags that describe the genre you like keep them very basic like Progressive Rock, Hip Hop, 1995, Male Vocalist or whatever you don't need to combine genres these are just examples of tags. Then under the Lyrics section choose Custom and paste in just the chorus or a single verse from the lyrics you generated and then click Create. It'll create two samples for you to listen to, if you don't like either of them then just click Create again to get another two but normally it doesn't take too many tries to get something that sounds pretty good. After you have one you like then click on the ... menu next to the song title and click Extend, you can add sections before or after and you just have to add the corresponding verse from the lyrics you generated or choose Instrumental if you want a guitar solo or something. You'll wind up with something pretty good if you really listen to each sample and choose the best one.

Music generation is one of the easiest ways to "spook the normies" since most people are completely unaware of the current SOTA. Anyone with a good ear and access to these tools can create a listenable song that sounds like it's been professionally produced. Anyone with a good ear and competence with a DAW and these tools can produce a high quality song. Someone who is already a professional can create incredible results in a fraction of the time it would normally take with zero budget.

One of the main limitations of generative AI at the moment is the interface, Udio's could certainly be improved but I think they have something good here with the extend feature allowing you to steer the creation. Developing the key UI features that allow you to control the inputs to generative models is an area where huge advancements can be made that can dramatically improve the quality of the generated output. We've only just scratched the surface here and even if the technology has reached its current limits, which I strongly believe it hasn't since there are a lot of things that have been shown to work but haven't been productized yet, we could still see steady month over month improvements based on better tooling built around them alone.

Text generation has gone from markov chain babblers to indistinguishable from human written.

Image generation has gone from acid trip uncanny valley to photorealistic.

Audio generation has gone from 1930's AM radio quality to crystal clear.

Video generation is currently in fugue dream state but is rapidly improving.

3D is early stages.

???? is next but I'm guessing it'll be things like CAD STL models, electronic circuits, and other physics based modelling outputs.

The ride's not over yet.
https://archive.ph/gTwPD
> Perhaps inclusive foreign policy could have resulted in the avoidance of the Ukraine war?

Ukrainians had chosen a turn to Europe and the West before 2013. Should they have abandoned a national aspiration because it would annoy their neighbour?
my point stands, it's still trying to lie about the meaning of the word rot. it's just as delusional as docker original "rotting software will run in 5yrs" argument... nothing there goes against rot
True, if by "every single org" you mean "maybe a dozen orgs". All that the vast majority of companies is doing is figuring out how to run an existing LLM or API thereof and shipping an RAG integration button for their application.
Yes, I do think it’s plausible. You’re talking Microsoft and Google. Two companies with extremely close ties to the US government. And Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic. It doesn’t take a conspiracy if the folks with majority stake in these companies are all friends and handshake agree over a steak dinner just off Capitol Hill. We live in a world where price fixing is a regular occurrence, and this is not so different.

I think we will see a very nice boost in capability within 6 months of the election. I don’t personally believe all the apocalyptic AGI predictions, but I do think that AI will continue to feed a nice growth curve in IT investment and productivity growth, similar to the last few decades of IT investment.
Mass transit makes sense in the places mass transit makes sense. Everywhere else it's a waste of infrastructure spend.
It still works and it doesn't matter. Only the problem solved matters.
yes, and when generations share same-ish architecture it goes even faster.
No but I can work 2-3 hours a day (WFH) while delivering results that my boss is very happy with. I would prefer to be paid 3 times as much and working 8 hours a day, but I'm ok with this too.
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Good… it’s all hype
The 10x engineer will just start their own company.
If you’re into local-first RSS, check out my reader which generates markdown files and can be consumed with any markdown reader.

https://github.com/piqoni/matcha
I can only say that after watching the respective video, I found MVG's explanation to misinterpret fundamental concepts of computing graphics, as the linked comment explains. Granted, everyone can make mistakes - but it's the fact that he doesn't correct them that I find disrespectful, it only spreads wrong information!
Did these studies that show that these supplements don't reduce mortality, were they done in such a way where they are measuring the multiple supplements that are received through sun exposure at the same time? No? Didn't think so.
yes the extra 2 hours a day I get to spend with my wife and children is terrible for me. it's so obvious now.
Oh nice, Product Chart looks like a great fit for what LLMs can actually do. I'm generally pretty skeptical about LLMs getting used, but looking at the smart phone tool: this is the sort of product search missing from online stores.

Critically, if the LLM gets something wrong, a user can notice and flag it, then someone can manually fix it. That's 100x less work than manually curating the product info (assuming 1% error rate).
OK, but does that matter? And what breed of dog are they? Perhaps there's correlation.
It's kind of crazy to me that we focus on things like this, which would only work for the most modern of new cars, but don't focus on other, simple things.

In many European countries all cars need to undergo a yearly road worthiness check. So not just the emissions checks, but also the lights, tires, brakes, seatbelts, shocks, steering, and other basic things. It seems like such a system (even every 2 or 5 years) would result in major reductions in accidents and injuries and be applicable across all cars.
Maybe it’s a naive thought, but isn’t non-compete opposed to at-will employment? You can be let go and not allowed to work for a competitor? Or is this a one-way process—you can quit, but not go to the competition ?
"500" Python Interpreters
It hasn't been the case for about 8 years already :) And even before that with Mono!

The windows-only thing is a sad lie spread by people with irrational dislike to something that can make their life much better.

I daily drive it with macOS and it's awesome, a friend of mine uses it with Neovim and csharp-ls.
Yep, that's why V2X never took off. Everything has to have radio tags, and failed tags could easily cause deaths and catastrophic failures. No way that scales or even works at limited scale.

Lots of metro trains systems use a lunchbox sized wireless tags placed strategically in stations for redundant safety and precision braking control. Said train systems also goes down daily for rather extensive maintenance(cost justified by scale).

Few people knows what oils for cars is. No way they can readily transition into verifying electronic tag signal integrity reports for every individual traffic cones in the shed.
I use C# for the most part, sometimes PowerShell. But I can certainly see how it's more useful when I don't know much of the API yet. Then it would be a lot of googling which the AI assistant could avoid.
Clever. So what’s the best strategy to thwart this?

Is true random better than setting it to a fixed number?

Scrambling all often leads to movement of just +- 2.
And if you don't see how the example with the human brain throws a wrench in your analogy, it would explain why you'd think it as nonsensical, as it's exactly of relevance.

> We also know how they work, they are token predicters. That is all they are and all they can do

Ah there it is, you've betrayed a deep lack of understanding in all relevant disciplines (neuroscience, cognition, information theory) required to even appreciate the many errors you've made here.

You sure understand the subject matter and have nothing possibly to learn. Enjoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
I am already using Javascript professionally and for Discord bot development through node.js

Ideally I would like to have another language in my dev pocket and take a break from the languages I use at work.

Also Javascript doesn't seems like a good choice for desktop apps (apart from Electron that suffers in the performance field) or CLI tools (unsure about this one as I never used it in this field) does it ?
Some of Cursor's features is appeals to my lazyness, say: "convert to javascript" and hit apply... For now its still a bit slow (streaming words) but when this is immediate? Not a change against the fastest Vimmer. Select code, dictate the change, review, apply - will save my wrists.
At-will is the counterpart to “just-cause”. “Just cause” contracts like the ones in Montana only bind the employer, not the employee. So this explanation still is irrelevant to the anecdote at hand.
It’s totally feasible; if the server is using JS and is located in ET the parsed Date tends to be converted internally to local zone (very frustrating).

The Temporal spec[1] should alleviate a lot of the JS induced pain. Knowing how to correctly store and manipulate time data, however is a completely separate issue that even really experienced engineers can easily mess up, even with solid STD lib support.

1: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
Realistically, compiler flags and config flags have had diminishing returns on Firefox builds for a few years now. Mozilla are very quick to update the toolchain now, compared to before as well as taking care of curated CPU-dispatch where necessary.
What's IOW... ?
Why aren’t all scholarly papers just published as HTML on the author’s website? This is literally what the web was made for.

Journals could still exist to peer review and aggregate links, so you’d have the prestige of being in the journal, but there’s no reason to restrict access.
Having worked in the defense industry, in a sector directly related to missiles, I can see their argument - to rather focus on more small missiles, than one large.

But my experience was that some big reason for ballooning costs were:

- So, so many middlemen.

- "Defense" premium pricing on everything due to things needing to meet custom specs, and vendors knowing that they can charge extra because it comes out of the defense budget.

- Projects always being longer than planned. I don't think I ever worked on anything that met its deadline, and it was after that things started to get expensive.

- Extreme hierarchy, all decisions and negotiations have to traverse through the hierarchy.

- It is the polar opposite of "move fast and break things". We once had a contractor engineer fix a small superficial bug, which took him 5 mins to identify and one line of code to fix - when his manager found out, the bug fix was reversed, and added to the list of bugs. It took around 12 months before the bug was fixed again (exact same solution, of course).

Did I mentioned all the middlemen?

It's honestly like the insurance industry. Things that could have been affordable, simply aren't, because there are so many levels and layers of expenses. Everyone wants a cut.
Funnily enough from the way that he talks in his videos I always assumed he wasn't that knowledgeable, until I found out more about him and realised what an incredibly skilled programmer he actually is.

I think maybe he just comes off that way because of how he presents things in videos.
> Two years ago it was "AI will never be able to write code"

GitHub Copilot was released nearly three years ago.
I see !

I will look into it as I did a bit of Java and a tiny bit of C# during my education and liked both the syntax and the OOP approach !
> An interesting read in itself...

Indeed a good read, thanks for the link!

> [Cory Doctorow's] seven insurmountable obstacles

I think his context is the narrower "Web of individuals" where many of his seven challenges are real (and ongoing).

The elephant in the digital room is the "Web of organizations", whether that is companies, the public sector, civil society etc. If you revisit his objections in that light they are less true or even relevant. E.g.,

> People lie

Yes. But public companies are increasingly reporting online their audited financials via standards like iXBRL and prescribed taxonomies. Increasingly they need to report environmental impact etc. I mentioned in another comment common EU public procurement ontologies. Think also the millions of education and medical institutions and their online content. In institutional context lies do happen, but at a slightly deeper level :-)

> People are lazy

This only raises the stakes. As somebody mentioned already, the cost of navigating random API's is high. The reason we still talk about the semantic web despite decades of no-show is precisely the persistent need to overcome this friction.

> People are stupid

We are who we are individually, but again this ignores the collective intelligence of groups. Besides the hordes of helpless individuals and a handful of "big techs"(=the random entities that figured out digital technology ahead of others) there is a vast universe of interests. They are not stupid but there is a learning curve. For the vast part of society the so-called digital transformation is only at its beginning.
> ”i just force myself to keep working on it until its done.”

I’ll admit I’m jealous of this. Most days at 5pm I’m just hitting a groove, but kids need to eat, need family time, etc. I’d love to grind from 8am-11pm but rarely have that luxury.
Entertaining read. To me it feels like a modern version of The Mentor's original manifesto, but having resigned itself to middle age. My inner 12 year old wants to frame this one too.
Because the personal home page is not called Science or Nature. And is not reviewed etc. Also could be pirates.

System is broken, do not get me wrong. But just a homepage is not the solution
Some states in the US (comparable to countries in europe) do do this (my state included)
Your “or by you” is superfluous. Just-cause contracts in the only state which requires them for most general employees (Montana) only limit what the employer can do, not the employee. The vast majority of just cause contracts allow the employee to leave whenever they want.

So “at will” also has to do the anecdote.
We had a few great examples around Montreal when finally someone's brain kicked in and were removed and changed for better solutions - at what cost... well there's a great question.
Every time I read a post like this I'm inclined to post Doctorow's Metacrap piece in response. You got there ahead of me. His reasoning is still valid and continues to make sense to me. Where do you think he's "comically wrong"?
oh, so a notification without priority?
Makes sense! Slightly amusing given that originally Wine was a recursive acronym for "Wine is not an emulator".
> If you demand nobody speaks of anything of sort without hard evidence, rarely anything would ever be said.

Eh, that is some bullshit, but there is evidence though. I edited my comment to provide it, instead of asking you to do so.
I suppose memecoins represent a form of this, but I was really referring to financial instruments, in particular those that exist based on a derived sense of value, rather than an actual quantification of it, such as:

Stock and, to a lesser degree, commodities futures, stock index futures, currency futures, interest rate futures, index options, currency options, interest rate options, credit default swaps, total return swaps, currency forwards, interest rate forwards.

The more exotic of these, which are usually more lucractive and less well regulated, include:

derivative-based exchange-traded funds, leveraged ETFs, inverse ETFs, equity-linked notes, credit-linked notes, principal-protected notes, collateralized debt obligations, weather derivatives (yes, you read that right), catastrophe bonds (eesh) barrier options and lookback options, to name a few.

They are all mechanisms to leverage expectation and uncertainty and most rely on the quantification of risk at some level. Risk, however, is defined in terms of expected return and subject to an assessment of externalities that is, at its core, resource-blind.
Yes, using a true random combination is significantly better than sticking to a fixed number or making minor adjustments. True randomness ensures that the sequence of numbers is unpredictable, making it much harder for anyone to guess the combination.

If you consistently scramble the digits but only move them by small increments (like ±2), you're essentially creating a pattern that can be detected over time, which is exactly what happened in this case. A better approach would be to randomly choose entirely different digits each time you reset the lock, making it much more difficult for someone to exploit any predictable patterns …
This might not be a good use case because I just started doing it and never found a good reason to stop, but I use WeakMaps for keeping references to HTML elements at runtime in library code where I don't want to require a constructor/deconstructor pattern.

Basically, I use them as a reference for DOM elements that my library will do work on, since I can't predict when that DOM element will no longer be a viable reference. And for that - yeah, I can certainly see some benefits to making the thing iterable. Not that I've hit any roadblocks replacing the WeakMap with an array didn't fix. Just that my library array will keep the ref alive until the dev dismisses it. Being able to iterate on WeakMaps would at least give that memory back.
Is product search a high risk activity? LLMs could be the right tool for building a product search database while also being libelously terrible for news reporting.
> https://www.ycombinator.com/founderethics/

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Cheaper missiles can be deployed en masse with the aim of overloading defences. They don't make more expensive missiles obsolete, they're a key complementary weapon for the era of swarm warfare.
Safe Caps and Discounts: Setting the right terms for your round
Perhaps this is a nice usecase for Nostr [0], everything is federated but signed with private keys(identities) that can be verifiable (ie via a custom domain/url).

[0] https://nostr.com/
Semantic Web technology (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SHACL) is widely used in the European electricity industry to exchange grid models: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/cim/cim-for-grid-models-exchange/
I feel the same, and not just about "beautiful". Any time a marketing person tells me how to think about their product, it pushes me away. Tell me what it is, now how I should think about it.
Take more space if you need it for whatever reason is what I recommend to other cyclists. Dooring is a big issue, and motorists overtaking in blind corners, narrow steets or when you want to turn left. See the marks on the road where the outer tyre of vehicles leave there mark? That's the line a cyclist should ride on.
Microformats feel like they're ugly retrofitted kludges, where it would have been way more elegant if in among all the crazy helter-skelter competing development of HTML, someone thought to invent a <person> tag, maybe a <organisation> tag. That would have solved a few problems that <blink> certainly didn't.
NotMyProblem
I’d love to read that essay. But to me sql looks like crap json - it’s like json except if (for purely historical reasons) we didn’t have objects or lists except at the top level of a json blob.

Claiming it’s a moral failing on my part for wanting nice, intuitive data structures is a bit rich. Go on, next why don’t you tell me that json is bad and we should use xml. Or c is lazy and we should use assembler. Without more detail, that’s all I hear - moral justifications for a dated design.

And the design is dated. As far as I can tell, the reason for the current design is because early sql databases had a fixed byte size for fields. So in that world, it would be impossible to embed a list in a cell. But that limitation hasn’t existed in modern sql databases for decades now.

Why can’t we have nice things? I don’t see anything in sql that precludes embedded lists and objects in table cells. Postgres even - sort of - supports it already via json fields.
the fact people are discussing and writing articles about something taken as true (toasts are bad) by all interaction designers who actually studied at some point...

that must be what astrophysicists feel like reading a flat earth discussion.
2 hours in a discussion forum, where the discussion spans days or sometimes weeks is certainly an ”almost immediate” response.

Perception of time is subjective.
> I am not interested in feeding their machine with my brainpower

How about DDG AI Chat? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298969
If you get results I'd be curious to know. Peace.
Nope. I see it is a vertical tab extension: will try it!