skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey.

These are the four simple lines that I wrote above:

>Solid questions and comments, layer8.

>I notice that the person you replied to has not replied to you yet.

>It may be that they will, of course.

>But your points are good.

(Italics mine, and they were not in my original comment.)

You, above:

>when they replied almost immediately after with a video of the relevant workflow,

I did check the time intervals between the top level comment and layer8's comment, before my first reply. It is over an hour now, so I cannot see the exact times in minutes any more, but IIRC, there was a fairly long gap (in minutes). And I also think I noticed that the top level person did reply to someone else, but not to layer8, by the time I wrote my comment.

So I don't see anything wrong in what I said. I even said that they may reply later.

You consider that to be:

>"Not-so-subtly mocking"?

Jeez. I think you are wrong.

Then I have nothing further to say to you, except this:

>was not a move that made you look smart or nice.

Trying to look smart or nice is not the goal in online discussions. At least, I don't think so. You appear to think that. The goal (to me) is to say what you think, otherwise, why write at all?
I could just get an LLM to write all my comments, and not care about its hallucinations.

I don't try to be smart or nice, nor the reverse. I just put my considered thoughts out there, just like anyone else. Obviously I can be right or wrong, just like anyone else can be. And some points can be subjective, so cannot be said to be definitely either right or wrong.
Seems like the features they promote on the marketing page are ones that Vivaldi has had for quite some time. I'll probably give it a try but when I gave up on Firefox, one of the main reasons was that many of the sites I visit aren't tested on Firefox due to the low market share and are broken in subtle ways.
How does the military version with radiation shielding in the form of a metal cap not cause shorts? It looks like it makes contact with all the pins..

https://www.cpushack.com/2023/12/21/the-first-mass-produced-...
In Chicago (I assume also other places) the leading bus will sometimes announce "after this stop this bus will run express to Western" (or wherever) "if you need a stop before then, transfer to the bus behind this one". I wish they'd do it more often, it really helps to de-bunch the bus routes.
The difference being startups start that way. The parent appears to be talking about established companies downsizing and expecting the remaining employees to shoulder extra work. The stock market may tend to temporarily love it, but more realistically it's usually an indicator of bad leadership or a downward turn or both for a company.
If you transcode JPEG into JPEG XL the underlying DCT is limited to the usual 8x8 block (otherwise it'd be much harder to reconstuct the original bitstream), and all the improvement will come solely from better entropy coding and prediction.
Given the option to pay for it, or have it for free, the choice they make not to pay is a clear reason.

If they did have to pay, it could definitely be advantageous to pay employees not to leave, on a selective basis.
I'm developing tools to help teachers generate learning material, exercises and quizes tailored to student needs.

>Who said generating an essay is useful sorry ? What problem does that solve?

Useful learning materials aligned with curriculum outcomes, taking into account learner needs and current level of understanding is literally the bread and butter of teaching.

I think those kinds of resources are both useful and solve a very real problem.

>Your comments come accross as overly optimistic and dismissive . Like you have something to gain personally and aren’t interested in listening to others feedback.

Fair point. I do have something to gain here. I've given a number of example prompts that are extremely useful for a working teacher in my replies to this thread. I don't think I'm being overly optimistic here. I'm not talking vague hypotheticals here, the tools that I'm building are already showing great usefulness.
Real-world example: Someone wants Job-Application by Country, but that could mean via Applicant's Residence, the Applicant's Nationality, the Requisition Primary location, or one of the Requisition's Satellite Offices, etc.

... And god help you if someday Requisitions need to have Revisions too.
Like what? Aside from google and Apple being actively hostile to Firefox I rarely have issues
Pong.bash
almost certainly. Return to office mandates are used typically to cull workforce without having to explain "layoffs" to stock holders and potentially reduce stock price. Turnover for "talent" is hilarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuko_Tanaka_(voice_actress)
I really don't know how you didn't think of the "dodging potential lawsuit" before posting it here, I mean, you didn't know that using actual product names is wrong? It's a shame though, I liked the word play.
While I agree that they should go outside, I will point out that the common tactic is to make salary than less than 1/2 of the total compensation. In tech, they issue RDUs and then they can claim that those were always bonus and never part of salary. In finance, they give big bonuses depending on performance. This is a little more legit but usually takes recessions for bonuses to actually disappear.
I'm dying to see this code
You don't even need to drive. As soon as you enter in the lane, the car drives for you since every car needs to be in sync.
The most important thing is that a sweeping Federal ban once again came out of a Federal District Court in Texas. A couple of days ago I wrote up a quick primer on how and why this happens [1]. Again, it's appropriate.

The idea has been pushed that the courts are apolitical, that judges (particularly Supreme Court judges) sit atop an Ivory Tower and come down every now and again to be consulted like the Oracle of Delphi. The truth is that the courts are, and always have been political. People are becoming increasingly aware of this.

Put another way: take any Supreme Court decision on a controversial issue and you'll probably find a reasoned dissent in addition to the majority decision. More often than not it's the politics of the justices voting that determine which of those became the majority opinion, not some objective argument of law. After all, on constitutional matters, the court is interpreting very few words that are rather vague. All sorts of tests and doctrines have been summoned out of thin air on top of this.

Courts, particularly in Texas, have become increasingly activist and have made sweeping nationwide rulings, giving little to no deference to Congress or the Executive. This is a power grab by the judiciary over the other two branches and a pretty serious one.

It's hard not to look at the court system we have and see it as nothing more than a tool to block any legislative action but only in one direction.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287569
A lot of systems that work this way also cap your fare so that you never pay more than the day rate. Say the day cap is £5, and an individual fare costs £2, then if you take two journeys you'll pay £2 each, but from the fifth journey on, you're capped and only pay £1. In some places, there's day and week caps, so if you travel every day of the week, the price will be capped again once you've travelled enough that week.

The Oyster system in London is a classic example of this - originally you needed to load money onto a separate card, now you can do it with your bank card instead, but it still all works the same. I believe it's also the cheapest option - the daily and weekly caps are cheaper than their paper ticket equivalents. You can probably get better deals in specific cases, but generally the Oyster system is the way to go. I know they're slowly bringing that concept in in other cities in the UK as well, and there are schemes around Europe that use an app with GPS as the "tap on, tap off" mechanism.
Anthropic is an evil company. I wanted to try their subscription for a month, now they are storing my credit card info forever without an option to remove it, yet a single click of a button will instantly resubscribe me. I don't understand how one can seriously think they will not sell all your data at the first opportunity to make money, cause with such shady subscription/payment practices it instantly gives a money-before-all vibes for the whole product and the company.
Yea, LeCunn is kind of a meme.

You're doing yourself and readers a disservice when you quote him without mentioning his conflict of interest.

His research is in analytical approaches to ML hence his bitterness against current LLM techniques and skepticism towards Sutton's Bitter Lesson.
I mean, it's a firefox-based browser. Is there any reason why it wouldn't support firefox extensions?
This is common in legal arguments. You want to make your case as airtight as possible. Keep in mind that there is tons of space per page; not a dense essay.

Mathematical proofs are similar, rarely limited to a page. You want to leave little room for doubt.
100% and if I have issues it's an extension (like ublock or privacy badger)
>I thought the name was inspired by a cheap, easily available lubricant that comes in handy for every home.

It is, especially it's rust-repellent properties. The only 'plug-and-play' static webserver I found was, well... https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server/ which is written in Rust (I didn't look around super hard). But, being a gopher, and since it lacked live reload, I wrote my own.
That plus spamming small sea based submarine kamikaze drones will eventually penetrate.

I wonder if there will be some large scale autonomous mini torpedo or mine systems that works against small highly mobile drone ships. Similar to how the old WW2 systems shot out mines from the ship but not putting the wider carrier group at risk of blue on blue.

Edit: also +1 grim reapers YT channel. It really demonstrates the capability of Chinese anti air (on paper) and advanced long range missiles. Would be a very very scary conflict for pilots and navy sailors.
> I've read that smoking related illnesses cost less money overall to treat than average.

If you've read it, then please provide the citation.

Smoking not only has its own direct impacts (lung cancer, emphysema), but it also makes many other conditions far worse than they would be without smoking, and therefore more expensive to treat.
I administered bug squash questions a few dozen times. Experience definitely trumped the smartest, most prepared young programmers, because no matter how much they studied, they hadn't really faced a real test suite in a large codebase. We had to rate them on a different scale, because otherwise very few of them passed.
Why does he times tau by N when calculating the bus arrival times in the beginning?
Here's the street view of one of the tall ramps coming in on the Westpark Tollway onto the SW Freeway:

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.721469,-95.4944352,3a,75y,11...

Up on the ramp you're coming from the tollway that is, you can see quite a lot from up there.

But on the street view the Google car is heading SW at grade on the 2-lane frontage road, the main freeway lanes are to the right and become elevated, and the overhead ramp had to fly over everything that was already there.

Notice how the frontage roads give a street address and access to properties facing the "limited access" highway.
My experience with CoPilot has been similar. I don't think it's given me a single piece of code that just worked. It always took several back and forth of me telling the "AI" that I need it to do X instead of Y (which was included in the original instructions but ignored).

It seems to work best if I start with something very simple, and then layer on instructions ("now make it do X").

Where I have found it saves me time is in having to look up syntax or "gotchas" which I would otherwise search StackOverflow for. But as far as "writing code" -- it still feels a long way from that.
The biggest bully on the world stage is the United States. I'm no fan of Russia or China, but they aren't in conflict with the US. If anything, the military industrial complex that the US bolsters, is the reason for conflict around the world; the US government buys from private US companies with tax money, which it then donates to states like Apartheid Israel to commit genocide. There's no defence with the US, only death, terror and destruction.

The fact that YC is supporting this is reprehensible.
Public transit isn’t free on the strip except during New Years Eve and possibly some other special occasions.

The monorail from Mandalay Bay to Bellagio is free, but it isn’t public transit.
The thing that struck me the most was how wildly unprofessional Paul D'Ambra's comments are in response to the bug report.

And then he rolled out a fix that was broken, too - showing incompetence in development, understanding the problem, and a total failure to do proper QA on the fix.

Royally fucked the pooch twice and he's all "gee golly whillikers!"
> If that's the case, it is only a matter of time before we all can afford our own cruise missiles.

What do we do when the Sinaloa cartel gets the capability to attack LA? They're already heavily involved in preventing the election of officials opposed to them.[1]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/mexico-drug-cartels-violence-elec...
One nice thing about designers is their tie-breaking ability for non-designers. Design, being something we all think we’re right about, is easy to lose lots of time going back and forth on with non-specialists, while it’s much faster to send to a pro.

But I generally agree with you, I think the world would be better if everyone was more thoughtful about this sort of thing.
Interesting to see what the end game is here. Is the goal to prevent a hostile takeover by competitors?
>> If I could explain concisely what my problem is in English - then I would already know the answer. In that case why would I be asking AI the question. And I don't want opinionated answers to subjective questions. Why run that through a filter, I can investigate better myself through links on the internet.

I am an experienced programmer, but I find myself (for the first time) doing a deep-dive in SQL and specifically building code that will run against multiple SQL engines.

I fed my list of engines into AI. As I'm discovering the really weird corners of SQL I asking the AI to compare one db against the other. My prompts are usually no more than 3 or 4 words.

It gives me quick helpful answers highlighting where things are the same and where they are different. I can then follow up in the specific docs if necessary (now that I know the function name.)

Personally I'm somewhat anti-hype, I'll let others rave about "changing the world". But I have found it a useful tool - not so much for "writing my code" but for acting as my tutor as I learn new things. (I'm using it for more than just SQL or computers now.)

I'm not sure it "changes thr economy" - but it can certainly change individual lives. Some jobs will go away. Others might be easier to do. It might make it easier to learn new skills.
If the stick enables you carve more complex things in a cheaper way than the previous tool, then yes, the stick is special. Unless you’re suggesting that a pencil and the human finger are exactly the same?

This is quite literally the entire history of technology: what was once expensive becomes cheap and then unlocks new developments. Bizarre that I have to point this out when you’re likely reading this comment on a device made of commoditized components that cost a fraction of what they did a couple decades ago.
As long as there's soul-sucking traffic, the public will demand solutions. Traffic has been getting worse in LA and they've already gone beyond HOV lanes. Now there's toll lanes on most of the major freeways where you can pay to bypass traffic. The next step after that will be congestion pricing just to enter the city (Metro is already studying it).
Yes but that's progress. You can still drive in the other lanes.
For some reason, YouTube is not using a very good STT system now. The lack of sentence punctuation is particularly annoying. Transcriptions by Whisper and Gemini 1.5 Pro are much better. From a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41199567#41201773

I expect that YouTube will up their transcription game soon, too.
I imagine speed and simplicity. There’s a lot more things that need maintenance on a piston engine
The alternative is to deny medical care to smokers. That would at the very least violate medical ethics, and possibly the law.
Russian propaganda says exactly that. And surprisingly some do believe it. Like it's US attacked Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova.
There's no communication protocol standard yet, so there's nothing to implement. Once a standard is developed, every car company will be onboard.
Yeah a better steering wheel will not help address people who fall asleep at the wheel or are drowsy and mix up the gas and brake.
I'm willing to trade off a very slightly increased chance of my fully insured car being stolen to be able to remotely activate my air conditioning.
As an "older dev" who doesn't like AI, the thing that annoys me most is the UX is horrible. It's like arguing in chat with an extremely overconfident junior dev who isn't capable of learning or improving with time and experience. That's just a miserable way to spend time. I'd rather spend that time thinking clearly about the problem, and then writing down the solution (clearly).

If this thing also conferred an actual productivity advantage that would be one thing, and it might motivate me to get past the horrible UX, but I haven't seen any evidence yet.
I don't see how it seems achievable.

Backprop was popularized in 1986.
Transformers came out in 2017.

It could be >10-20 years before the next breakthrough comes. Given all the progress so far, these things still don't seem to be learning any logic.
> I still find it a helpful tool, but it is not at all a good, seasoned programmer

How quickly the goalposts move! Two years ago it was "AI will never be able to write code", now we're complaining that "AI is not a seasoned programmer". What are we going to be complaining about, two years from now?
Collectables too big to lift often have negative value. The cost of ownership and maintenance is too high. The Living Computer Museum hit that problem. Used locomotives are cheap, if you can move them and store them. Linotypes are cheap.
Too bad that Triplebyte then turned around and decided to sell everyone's data after it turned out their business was not scalable after all.
Yeah I'm keen to try Zen to see if they've nailed the tab/workspace UX in the way that Arc has. I don't like Arc's decline into slow AI features and growth hacks, but some of the core functionality is really nice.
Thanks for the info, looking into Hadamard Matrices recently for wireless ECC and the fact it's being used in compression algorithm was oblivious to me.

What is interesting is that the techniques that are being used in compression, communication and signal processing in general involved orthogonality and Nasir's master and PhD research thesis were in the area of Orthogonal Transform for Digital Signal Processing.

Hadamard Transform can provide orthogonality but unlike DCT and DFT/FFT that are limited to real and complex respectively, Hadamard Transform is very versatile and can be used in real, complex, quaternion and also octonion numbering schemes that probably the latter are more suited for higher dimensions data and signal processing.

Hadamard orthogonal codes has also been used as ECC in reliable space communication in both the Mariner and Voyager missions, for examples [1].

[1] On some applications of Hadamard matrices [PDF]:

https://documents.uow.edu.au/~jennie/WEB/WEB05-10/2005_12.pd...
I've almost gotten GPT-4o to do some accurate regex. Probably 75% of the time it's close enough that I can tweak it and make it work.
WHT is essentially a cheap implementation of multi-dimensional DCT, so it approximates but doesn't actually replace DCT in all scenarios. It seems that DCT is a better fit for photographic contents than WHT but was more expensive until FP multiplication became much cheaper so WHT was briefly considered as an alternative.
It seems to me that the checkbox, and even the UI, is the least of the issues. Even with the most intuitive manual controls, this problem still could have easily happened simply because the transfer of control from one station to another is fraught with potential misunderstanding of what state the different parts of the ship are in (rudder, engines, etc.) and who has control of each at any given time. Lack of sleep will exacerbate it tremendously. More training will only help so much; I'm guessing, they probably already train on this a lot.

My armchair assessment is that these ships should be controlled 99% by computer, which decides the best combination of thrust, rudder, etc. to move the ship where the navigator directs it (whether by joystick to indicate direction, or touch-screen to indicate where on the map you want the ship to go, as well as what speed), and the individual controls (engines, rudder, etc.) should only be overridden in the most dire of circumstances.

I'm sure there's much more to it than that, but the general idea remains the same: this is too complicated to be left to humans, whose time is better spent thinking about other parts of the mission.
Why haven’t they just gone back to basics and force students to write out long essays on paper by hand and in class?
I always contrast Eddington's treatment of Chandrasekhar with G.H.Hardy's treatment of Ramanujan decades before. The latter nurtured a younger man's genius which is what every scientist should do; true genius is too scarce and random and so one must be able to recognize it and fan the flames into roaring discoveries.

As Conan Doyle says in the novel, The Valley of Fear; “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”.
These two are the culprits every time a page has issues on Firefox for me.
It's obvious there's potential. It's also obvious it requires at least one other major breakthrough. But no one knows how far away that is.
> I hate video players that overlay the pause button when the mouse is over the video, or images that get obscured by some overlay when hovered.

This shit is super annoying for everyone. Even people who do not use magnifiers. Who decided that this was a thing to do and why? I would like this pattern to meet sudden death.
Split tab is cool.
Couldn't import data from firefox.
Quite slow to launch.
Profiles are buggy, the name gets lost and it keeps launching the welcome wizard.

looking forward to seeing this mature
Fish and learning to fish. The latter widens your perspective and give you more options, especially if there are a lot of rivers nearby!
I came here to suggest Genode as well. Default deny goes a long way toward stopping trouble.
thanks for wearing it ironically but it's not helping.
I don't understand the difference. With a touch-screen, if the propellers aren't synchronized, you would see it immediately on the green bars: if you slide one and the other doesn't slide similarly, they aren't synchronized.
>>> If the user falls for the trick and clicks the link, the data will be exfiltrated to the attacker's server logs.

Does this mean that the user clicks the link AND AUTHENTICATES? Or simply clicks the link and the damage is done?
yup, basically showing if you ask AI nicely to <insert secret here>, it's dumb enough to do so. And that can then be chained with things that on their own aren't particularly problematic.
It's the Northern District of Texas. This ruling was inevitable from that court, regardless of the legal merits. The important question is what the rulings will be as the case makes its way up the appeals process.
> people forced to buy policies on the individual market

The individual mandate has been gone since 2019.