skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this line of thinking is what happens when economies are allowed to calcify by consolidation of power in the hands of too few. I think the degree to which current systems are actually meaningfully transformative is greatly overstated by the tech industry. However, usually a transformative technology changes how economic distribution works. For example, even very wealthy households no longer employ as many human servants, because many of the tasks they once used human labor for are now done by household appliances. If the effect of "AI" is to cheapen human labor in its entirety, then a working economy will simply no longer center around labor, because the purpose of a working economy is to support the activities of humans by coordinating the distribution of resources. The likely alternative to the economy rearranging itself this way isn't most humans simply accepting being deprived of resources, but instead a breakdown of the cooperation necessary for most technology we have to continue functioning, as even if all the necessary infrastructure could run itself, it would also have to defend itself against defectors. Maybe it'll be effective at doing so, which probably means wiping out most humans. Of course, global-scale conflict could also do that, so it seems preferable to redistribute resources
My "anecdote" is the fact that I live in Tokyo where we get extreme weather regularly and yet the vast majority of trips are taken by public transport, walking or biking.
Is there a good reason to exclude abductive reasoning from an analysis like this? It's even considered by at least one of the referenced papers (Fangzhi 2023a).

Abductive reasoning is common in day-to-day life. It seeks the best explanation for some (often incomplete) observations, and reaches conclusions without certainty. I would have thought it would be important to assess for LLMs.
The article is paywalled so I can only get through the beginning. I live in Ballard (Seattle) and every other day there is a fent overdose. SF is having the same problem, as are LA and Vancouver. It might be worse in Portland (though maybe just relative to population), but it is bad across the entire coast (Seattle's problem is worse than Portland's because Seattle is more populated than Portland).

There is a lot of politics involved in politicians saying their city has the worst problem. But you are going to see similar problems if you do a one day drive (or take the Cascade amtrack) from Vancouver BC to Portland OR. Drug enforcement in all of these cities (+ Californian cities) is all fairly lax, even if drugs aren't decriminalized, people are still doing fent in public or on public transit without much harassment.
Observing Spooky Action at a Distance?
And what exactly did he do to “ruin” Chipotle in your eyes? According to literally everyone else (and the stock price) he has been wildly successful
I’ve traveled out of CA 6 times since 2021. This is a California checkpoint:

Slow down for the inspection point. Approach the officers. Mostly they just waved me through without checking anything except maybe my license plate with a smart camera. Once they asked me if I had any fruit or agricultural products. One time I answered yes and handed over some apples and said “thank you” and was waved through.

It is nothing at all like a “border”.
But do you know we're in high demand

Laura, us, people who suffer

Because we don't take to arguing

And we're quick to surrender
Low effort advertising sure. Diagrams I've had no luck with personally. With current models it's been a very frustrating process to even try. I can generate stuff with maybe one or two key ideas, but instructions are ignored as you try to incorporate more details. There also aren't really any affordances yet for dimensions. Perhaps styling / editing from sketches fixes this, I would be interested to hear from anyone who has managed to get a useful, Ikea style diagram out of gen ai.

To me it feels we are a long way from AI being able to produce useful minimalist (i.e, omitting un-necessary detail) diagrams at better than a surface level of stylistic mimicry.

Producing useful functional diagrams entails some understanding of the physical components and assembly process, along with some model of how people think and what information they need at what step to minimise confusion.

Naturally a lot of this information is embedded in the design of the assembly itself and perhaps the big picture can all be "prompted in" but it's not a domain where "bullshitting it" works well.
How many people experiencing long COVID symptoms had one or more mRNA shots (lipid, adenovirus) and of those who experienced the worst of the symptoms and shots and boosters since 2021... how did the timing work out?

NO this is not a survey and it is not even an invitation to a flamewar. I would urge everyone to consider correlation themselves and privately and honestly, and consider the possibility.

In 2021 after years stable on his meds, my 83 year old Dad died 10 DAYS after his first Moderna, COVID negative. Pulmonary thrombosis. Ironically, an earlier vaxed friend who took on a bizarre errand to try to convince me that was likely a 'coincidence' and angered me so much I un-friended him, just died of 'heart complications'.

mRNA particles and spikes are too small. Lipid mRNA always escapes the injection site, even into unborn babies. There is delay before mRNA infected cells become active factories, and then a further delay before there are tiny spikes as well. Then finally depleted factories become scar tissue and clotting in the most sensitive regions of the body including the brain. None of these things are directly harmful by themselves. There's just too many, too quickly. I believe the phenomenon would be a delayed onset, whole body anaphylaxis reaction. If the heart or lungs are affected there is danger of mortality, as there was for Dad. But there could be long term effects too.

Another danger is corruption of medical science, when a particular "highly possible cause" goes without mention or further study, and existing studies make assumptions to tiptoe along a tightrope.

The first question I would have for researchers on long COVID topic today is, is it controlled for vaccination/booster status? And what are the results of the specific classes of patient?

Just think about it.
Anthrogen (YC S24) – Scalable, carbon-negative polymer production
I think you're making some key important reasoning mistakes. First, look at it as a percentage of annual revenue (numbers from ChatGPT so may be off somewhere):

2001 (ipod initial launch at end of year): 4.1B/5.36B, 76% Mac, <1% iPod

2002: 4.3B/5.74B 74% Mac, 2.5% iPod

2003: 4.9B/6.21B 79% Mac, 20% iPod

2004 (Windows support added late 2003): 5.3B/8.28B 64% Mac, 21.7% iPod

2005: 6.2B/13.93B 38% Mac, 44.5% iPod

2006: 7.4B 38% Mac, 40% iPod

2007 (iPhone launch - should cannibalize ipod): 10.3B/24.6B 42% Mac, 33% iPod

2008: 14.2B/37.49B 38% Mac, 24% iPod

2009: 16.4B/42.91B 38% Mac, 18% iPod

2010: 17.2B/65.2B 26% Mac, 12.7% iPod

When I say it's "insignificant" I don't mean to say that Apple could have cancelled it and it wouldn't have mattered. Mac still remains a meaningful pillar of their product lineup even though it only contributes ~10% of revenues.

What you have to do is consider that Apple leadership views it as an ecosystem. Mac by itself isn't a lucrative or really important business. However, it's importance is that it makes sure that a customer in their ecosystem always has an Apple product they can buy when they need something. Importantly, if they have an iPhone they're more likely to buy a Mac and if they have a Mac they're more likely to buy an iPhone (& now Watch, AirPods etc). The refresh rates for these are also different enough that you're likely to remain stuck there by default once you get into the ecosystem because it's just an easier experience.

What I'm saying is that the strategic focus and resources was not really on Mac because Apple leadership did not see growth there by itself unless it was as an attachment to the iPod. You can see in the % numbers where iPod took over Mac as contributing a huge portion of % to their bottom line as soon as they made it generally available and that Mac sales themselves only started going up like crazy once iPod became generally available to everyone. Similarly, once the iPhone comes out we see it crazily cannibalizing iPod sales. At that point strategically the iPod barely got any attention. They didn't cancel it until 2022 because it was still bringing in significant revenue streams (+ a form factor Apple didn't have a replacement for until they got the Watch). Additionally, the overall laptop market has been shrinking even as Apple has been growing which is why their marketshare in laptops is so large even though it's comparatively such a small product for them.

So while the revenue from Mac was important from a "keep working on this" perspective & "ecosystem play", the vast majority of resources, focus, and energy were definitely thrown at iPod & then iPhone because of how much bigger the opportunity was and that even for Mac iPod and iPhone were the flywheel engines driving growth in those spaces.

If you're taking "insignificant" as the cancellation point for Mac, I think it would be that they succeed in their pitch that the Vision lineup is a Mac replacement. If they manage to succeed in that product line, Mac won't be much longer for this world.
> Seniority trumps ability.

This is great, pithy phrase. Thank you to share it. Where I work, when I look up the ranks (always, always "old" people), I feel like many of these people could just stop coming to work, and I would not notice for weeks or months. "Zero fucks given" to anyone below them, unless it is ticking a box for their year-end review. Does anyone else feel this way?
While there may be genuine issues with the book, especially when used as a first text, this strikes me as evidence either that the book was only taught through a few chapters or that the students simply didn't understand anything from it (which may be the fault of the book, of course -- but it also may be the fault of the instructor, or the preparedness of the students for the course).

Chapters 5-8 are all on operators (i.e., the entire second half of the book!). One of the most common exercises in the book is "give an example of..." And chapters 7 and 8 are literally titled "Operators on Inner Product Spaces" and "Operators on Complex Vector Spaces." If you can complete the homework with a passing grade and then pass an exam covering that material, there's no way you don't know examples of operators. Possibly you forgot the definition, but a quick, one-sentence reminder of that should make it easy to list plenty of examples)
We use 1Password. It’s not perfect - great for general groups but not when you end up duplicating credentials across different groups that need them.

Would still recommend.
We use Delinea Secret Server (formerly known as Thycotic Secret Server) for several years to store all credentials. No affiliate. I am user of the system and not an admin, so can't comment on the admin part, but for an end user it works very well. We are consultancy and we use it to store all credentials to our clients systems. You access through a web interface. Had made my life easy when it comes to managment of my credentials.
I don't fetishize physicists by any means, but Linux and Git are nerdy pursuits that caught on somehow, mainly as a revolt against paid software. Git is pretty bad at times, terrible UX, tons of edge cases, and treats the world as if its made from text.

Einstein set forth some of the most foundational and tested theories ever.
I look forward to having software like this that works in my computer rather than online.
Einstein followed where the results lead - his primary breakthrough was assuming no wave-propagation medium was necessary, and accepting an absurd result on it's face by exploring the mathematical consequence (namely: speed of light is constant, as a result the passage of time can vary, there is no medium through which light propagates unlike all other known wave phenomena).

You have grown up with a set of different analogies based on more modern theories: which is to say, you're letting the tail wag the dog: we have those analogies to explain physics to laymen, but the analogies don't inform the physics.
Oregon: ok we’ve killed enough degenerates, time for more prisoners.
Really well put. “Processes is a symptom of competence, not the cause” is a good motto.
The stock has consistently been trash since forever, so why stop now? If it's financially feasible it would be a good long-term investment.
As the author of a `dc` (https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc), I appreciate this article!

The author is correct on the parsing of "normal" vs. Reverse Polish notation. My `bc`, with normal expressions, needs 1555 LoC for parsing. My `dc` needs just 298.

I have a couple posts ([1], [2]) about `dc` tricks and code on my blog.

And yes, I have an HP 48G [3]. :)

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/bc/dc-tips-and-tricks/

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/04/a-dc-script-for-easter/

[3]: https://gavinhoward.com/uploads/easter-dc-script/hp-48g.jpg
The trade-off was that you had to burden your friends to take the photos, spend your own time collecting the images from them after your wedding, research AI services, and oversee how AI touches up your photos.

You traded money for your and others time. Nothing wrong with that, but AI hasn't changed anything except the crowdsourced images look a little better, maybe?

I would rather pay to get the 30 great photos ready to go - save me the hassle. Plus, a photographer will coordinate the key wedding photos with the various family and friend groups and will help find the ideal scene for shots.

Of all jobs, wedding photographers are relatively safe from generative AI.
I hate commenting on downvotes, but I really, really hope I'm being downvoted for my first sentence, and not the second one.
I wholly agree that violating some laws is entirely justified.

However, I don't think any violation is justified by what more or less amounts to laziness and the desire to save an inconsequential amount of time.
I understand that OLX is like Facebook marketplace where how money is transferred is up to the buyer and seller, so often it's transferred in a way that doesn't enable disputes. For e.g. in Canada if you etransfer someone you have no way to dispute the transaction.
Literally any ESP32 would be better suited. There is zero reason to be booting an entire OS to take a picture and blip it over WiFi.
No. If things get really bad, pretty much everyone will want to fix them. And as far as temperatures go, it's not even that expensive to fix - block/reflect some of the sun at scale. Cover some deserts in cheap mirror material is probably the cheapest way to do this. USA alone can afford to do that.

The expensive part is taking CO2 out of the atmosphere. But if the temperatures are back to normal (whatever "normal" we choose), then CO2 is less of an issue.
I’d guess the person selling it is not the counterfeiter.

Perhaps they got a “deal” on a tray of them, or are fencing things they thought “fell off a truck”.
Yeah, I always assumed it meant a job where the lowest level was accessible without training. Economists don't have a reason to distinguish between a job that will build skills versus one that won't, and I'm not sure the latter even exists.

One example from the article was working as a caregiver. My brother worked as a disability carer while he was training to become an engineer. I was living with him at the time, and he started out with a baseline ability to care for others, no particular skills that an average person wouldn't have, and no qualifications other than a police check and a first aid certificate. He was essentially paid to drive people with mental disabilities around and not get frustrated with them.

On the one hand, I get why someone with 20 years experience as a disability carer wouldn't want their job to be seen as something a uni student can pick up in a week. On the other hand, my brother could just go become a carer, so it's not entirely wrong.
Factory Monster: YouTube of KR industrial and manufacturing processes at scale
Even in Newton's mechanic, electron cannot accelerate further after reaching speed of light propagation in the medium. When electron exceeds speed of light it a medium (because of change in medium, for example), it produces Cherenkov radiation.
Yes, when you’re depressed you should make yourself exercise. Every time.
> No, I didn't defend anyone.

You did or you wouldn’t be here. There would be no hackernews thread.
Procreate defies AI trend, pledges "no generative AI" in its illustration app
I'm still dreaming about days when I can just write my website against the standarda and test it with my browser and then be happy if it works, because it will of course work in all other browsers too.

And now there is a tool where you can manually check how a ton of proprietary chat tools render some previews for your page.

And everyone gets mad as if that's the greatest thing since paper was invented.

Not in a forum of funny media guys, but at HN.

Interesting times...
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think a dropbox-like setup with syncing some directory would suffice? or would it need to be completely offline?
Are these alternatives to semgrep?
dealing with the deluge of recruitment emails :)
I’ve been asking this question for literally 20 years and still haven’t come up with any answer. I’d love to support it, but… why?
So?

An awful lot of the economy is made up of companies much smaller than $100M. If I walk down the street, I see all sorts of small shops & restaurants. Cars and trucks go by with logos advertising local plumbing services, nursing home care and catering. Yesterday I took a tour of a brass foundry which forges brass sculptures that hang on the walls of churches. How big is the company? Its one guy. One guy and a small warehouse of equipment.

I think a lot of incidental work is already increasingly being handed over to AIs. Business cards. Images for the wall of a cafeteria. The logo for a bakery. Whatever. Photoshop is full of AI assistant tools. So is Divinci Resolve now.

AI is slowly nibbling away at creative work from every angle it can find, to reduce cost and automate. I think we should expect this process to continue for quite some time.
Well, for now at least.
You're going to have to elaborate. I've been using 1pw for about 7 years, including at several startups where I've handled IT. It has worked really well, yet to be breached, has a CLI, handles passkeys and SSH keys, easily separates work and personal creds, and their support is fantastic.

What specifically is terrible?
Free speech is a human right. Either Musk believes Chinese should enjoy free speech or he doesn’t. The fact that he seems to be more vocal about his business interests (Brazil) than actual human rights tells me he puts his mouth where his money is, not the other way around.
> I have absolutely no idea what you think this explains.

It explains the case where an electron and a proton scatter off each other and do not form a bound hydrogen atom.
Not according to Brazilian law.
LLMs don’t feel like a whole brain, they feel like the impulsive side that gets filtered by other processes.
> The best way to handle service accounts is nobody knows the password. When X needs to troubleshoot, they change the password, do what needs to be done, then change it again afterwards, to some unknown value.

one way i've seen this is on a 'lease' system: your user requests access to use the account, the system logs your request and generates a random password for you, you log in and use the account for the duration of the lease, and let the system handle the rest
That doesn't encompass most of what people call unskilled labor. Even basic restaurant and big box store listings will typically ask for prior experience in restaurants or retail.
For me, the most powerful use of ZKPs is proof of the output of general purpose computations of any kind.

You can run an arbitrarily large, arbitrary long program, and whatever the program outputs, you can make a tiny proof-signature that says "this is the output you'll get if you run this program yourself".

The proof-signatures are relatively small, and you can verify them on small devices in milliseconds.

Another computer can trust the claimed output without having to run the program itself, by verifying the proof-signature.

This scales to arbitrarily large computations, so for example if a supercomputer says "I ran a quadrillion petaflops of your program for 1 year, and the result was the picture attached to this signature", you actually can verify that the picture is correct, quickly and efficiently - without having to trust the supplier.

It's as good as if you re-ran the program yourself (up to cryptography-grade probabilities, which is good enough).

Or if the big computer says "this entire Debian distribution of binary files was indeed compiled with this version of GCC", you can quickly verify that all the binaries are exactly what they should be - without having to trust anyone.

The proof process is rather slow, but it has gotten a lot faster over the last few years, and will continue to.

I was amazed when I learned that it's possible to securely check an arbitrarily large computation's output or result without running it yourself.

It was so counter to my intuition: it seemed like you would have to trust whoever makes the claim, or run it yourself. But you don't!

(So amazed and intrigued that I had to learn how it's done, and now part of my work these days is optimising the proof process.)
> That plus the abandonment of speed enforcement drives death

I don't think they need enforcement as much as traffic calming features. It simply shouldn't be possible to speed as much as people do... I live between a middle school, a special ed school and a bus stop, on a 30mph road which is 43ft wide. Basically this is what it looks like: https://streetmix.net/-/2685748 and this is probably what it should look like to reduce average speeds: https://streetmix.net/-/2685753. There are children walking and biking along this road all day. I frequently see people speeding, easily going 40, 50 even 60mph. Note that this isn't a very high traffic road either, I just looked up the average traffic counts and it gets 8-12k of vehicles in both directions PER DAY, so traffic calming would barely have an impact. If anything it might drive more people to take the highway or one of the other high-speed roads nearby instead, which would be a good thing too.

The other problem is people coming out of cross streets, and immediately pulling forward as much as possible without looking. You have a kid crossing the street who maybe doesn't know any better, or is distracted because they are on their phone or chatting with their friends, and you got a perfect recipe for an "accident" right there ... I've also watched close calls like that so many times in this area. You simply can't put a cop on every corner to do enforcement of that - maybe some automated camera systems would do it, but so does daylighting the intersections like they do in Hoboken.

And the other problem is that any time you do something that even vaguely could cause an increase in driving time, people will rage. I've seen public comment sessions where the planners literally showed the data that adding a bike lane wouldn't increase travel times during peak and actually decrease traffic and people were like "well, I don't believe it, my commute is going to slow down for sure". Same with even simpler things like speed cameras ("cash grab"), heck even increased police activity (also "cash grab"). You can show data that it will save people's lives, even children's lives, and people (even on HN) will say "but the economy... and efficiency...".