skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, thars the big issue. Really only takes one unengaged or lazy reviewer to not take the time to revise that AI output and it will ruin the entire Org. Honestly it's a theme for all LLMs: they are great as a guide but people inevitably use them as if they are a replacement. The companies marking it as such don't help either.

As is, getting in revised LLMs responses seems like it'll be Gen Alpha's "let me Google that for you" swipe. Except at least Googling means you still need to put in leg work.
Talking about comissioner as a czar...
The feature I like the most in your demo: the one page checkout. It comes very close to shopify's excellent check out. Nicely done!

WooCommerce should be filling the role of viable self host alternative to Shopify, but it falls short. Even with the plugin ecosystem, it is much harder to run an quality cart and checkout.

Congrats on your launch!
My own theory: it's a product of mental illness, or long term extreme boredom - maybe a person bound to their bed?
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Permitting is a challenging yet interesting problem; thousands of municipalities across the United States have their own processes and requirements - many which are continually updating. Software, AI, and LLMs provide an exciting opportunity for us to reason at scale and distill a nuanced and localized permitting process into a standard and streamlined experience for our customers.

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This piece is beautiful.

I hope it gives you the tingles, and color on the people doing the hard work. Michael Lewis knows how to spot colorful characters and frame a thesis of a bigger idea around them. But there's lots of people like this in government, finding ways to nudges to be a "more perfect" version of our country — often exhaustingly facing headwinds to do so.

I'm an acquired YC founder (S11 → Launchpad Toys → Google → Led early LLM efforts there), now serving in federal government at the U.S. Digital Service. It's the White House's technology arm where we bring people from technology and industry for 2 year "tours of duty" and help to modernize our systems and make our digital experiences better (Fixing Healthcare.gov, and recently shipping IRS Direct File are some of success stories).

Your country could use you.

We need experienced technologists across eng/product/design/business – people like YC founders and HN readers here.

Consider taking a look: USDS.gov
It's like you want to protect our right to hallucinate, because ChatGPT can't.
It's especially unfortunate that the intuitive name, `std::map`, is that ordered and generally least useful option of the standard library's three hash map containers.

My last job did rely on ordered-ness of `QMap`, because the elements are listed in a Qt GUI and it could confuse users if those widgets randomly rearranged themselves. That's the only use-case I've personally encountered for an ordered hash map.
Some of these are not like the others
Tabular numerals are such a valuable feature. It's a bummer they're not more prevalent.
Just do it without a patent or asking, like everyone else.
> knew or should have known they would need these permits for years

Link to the ESGHound source?
Both yours and the GP's are weird things to believe about a problem.

You seem to be talking about a technical solution, but naming it after the problem.
Oh, I love untangling messes.
Looking at your country from the outside, both your initial overoptimism and your subsequent disillusionment seem inaccurate.

There's a ton of propaganda both ways; all of it is based on blowing some small fact completely out of proportion.

The US is awesome but no place is perfect.
I use Sapling as my main driver. I can commit or revert individual hunks just fine.
There has been a massive (but slow) sell off of natural diamonds. People in the industry have known this time was coming for a while.

It is very much a bag holder problem.

In some countries, people (often families) have saved for a long time to accumulate some inventory of something that is now worth a lot less. The diamond industry varies a bit by country, but in places where individual dealers hold a lot of inventory, there is a lot of incentive to be against synthetics.

I saw this firsthand in Turkey. I gave my a fiancée a ring with a very nice moissanite stone about a year and a half ago. She showed it to some jewelers and most had to really make a show of things like, "Congratulations on your upcoming wedding, but I can only work with real stones. We are not supposed to even look at these."

And I don't blame them for at least having to act this way. A lot of these family stores have hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of natural diamond inventory that they took years to accumulate, and along comes something that is superior in every way for a fraction of the price.

Yes. In some other places around the world, the resistance to lab grown stuff has been violent. But the industry of natural diamonds is much more violent, and it is great to see that the way we mine diamonds will soon be a thing of the past.
You will get held back by software updates in ios then apps long before the device is useless. I have a few perfectly good iphones in a drawer like this. Can’t use any apps anymore.
The situation for PC gamers is somewhat different than for console gamers. There's certain built in expectations in the market for compatibility across generations, long-term licensing, and free network services that just don't really exist in the console market. As a result it feels like you "own" games more with Steam and other similar services, while on consoles there is a history of closing down stores, and people simply losing access to purchased games.

Physical media gives the impression at least to console gamers that they "own" the game for the long term and the loss of a digital storefront won't impact them (even if it's not always true).
We were waiting for a Bitnet-based software and hardware stack, particularly from Microsoft, but it never did. We were essentially nerd-sniped into working on this problem, then we realized it was also monetizable.

On a side note, I deeply looked into every company in the space and was thoroughly unimpressed with how little they cared about the software stack to make their hardware seamlessly work. So, even if I did go to work at some other hardware company, I doubt a lot of customers would utilize the hardware.
You need more text content. There isn't much data (text) for google to learn about your website. If someone searches "best cleaning in NYC", only the keywords cleaning and NYC would match on the content of your website.

But, targeting those keywords will be really hard (as Yelp and friends) would be hard to beat in the rankings for that.

You could try targeting diy keywords ("how to clean a tub in nyc"), but even that might be challenging to beat websites like e-how or youtube.

If it was me, I'd try doing organic marketing on social media (e.g. fun tiktok videos), as their content goes stale fast, which means more opportunities to get in front of your audience.
Why?
What changed?
This seems like a purposefully loaded headline. What would be the reasons for describing an astronaut by their wealth status? Not to mention there are 3 other astronauts on the flight.
Who is Ford to challenge a central tenet of capitalism that underpins the economy of the country where its headquartered?
I would be surprised if it was dramatically slower, all told. Though, fair that I have not benchmarked in a long time, here.

My main "idea" here is to stop from having to check all of the headers on a "per header" basis. Yes, you can make each check faster, as the TRIE does. You can also remove the entire reason to check individual headers by starting a traversal after where the internal headers are.

You could also go with something like making sure the first header is "InternalHeaderCount: N" where you then keep the internal headers segregated form the others by a simple count. (This assumes you have solid control over what is adding the headers internally, of course.)

(I also forgot to give kudos on the blog title. Any Die Hard reference is a good reference. :D )
it's the year of the lord 2024 and OSes still don't ship with a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode like nerdfonts. shameful.

I wish all the effort the big four wasted fighting for emoji supremacy would have been used to normalize a decent set of full unicode fonts once and for all.
You aren't going to like this, but don't insult the hammers.
> prevent ignoring other agencies/laws the FAA does not issue a launch permit unless the other agencies/laws are satisfied

Which is wild. This isn’t how regulation, including with the FAA, works in other contexts. (If an airline mucks up a securities filing, that isn’t the FAA’s jurisdiction.)

The legislative fix may be in separating launch permits from environmental clearances.
> Better IDEs

We are now getting to a point where IDEs are as good as the ones we had in the 90s.

> performance constraints

Evened out by higher fidelity and less efficient programming languages and paradigms.

> deployment

More robust, perhaps, but also much more complex.

> version control

An improvement in some respects, a regression in others.

> more productive

Hard constraints make people productive. Being productive is about what not to do, impossibilities make for easy decisions.
that voice dictation is so commonplace still blows my mind (usually when I get an essay of a text message)
You figure if there is not somebody passing by that just wants to be annoying. You have an argument, formulate it; you don't, don't express yourself with grunts.
It follows that if you just started using Fastmail, and there have been two nontrivial service outages in the past few weeks, that probably doesn't look very good.

On the other hand, I've been using Fastmail for years, and on the whole it has been very reliable.

And, at least on my end, the outage appears to be over now. :-)

You might consider giving Fastmail some more time before ditching it, but perhaps your email reliability requirements are more intense than my own.
> You can do economic analysis of pricing data, and especially the interaction/correlation of multiple streams of prices across time

Would this be the sort of analysis that measured transfer entropy or granger causality?
> They have touch screens because drivers want touch screens.

Most people I know hate those touch screens, so I suspect this isn't the reason. I think they have touch screens as a cost-reduction measure, and people are willing to tolerate them because they want a newer car.
one of the listed options was to begin all the Cloudflare internal header names with "CFInt"
Did you know BMW was trying to make heating seats a subscription service?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated...
How is that different than suggesting that all the engines we've ever made should constantly be driving load?

It may not be obvious in the same ways as engines, but computation consumes a resources like power and attention and outputs waste like heat and fried circuits. These resources and wastes interact with other systems than just computers and data centers and so efficiency and necessity needs to be considered in a bigger picture than just "let's use all the transistors all the time and see what happens!"
1.01001000100001... is infinite and non-repeating, but doesn't contain all substrings. A number that does is called a "normal" number, and it's not known whether pi is. It seems to be pretty normal though.
My camera isn't pocketable, but if I'm doing photography such that I really care about the result, I bring it. If I'm not, I usually use the phone camera to document things I want to remember or show other people, and doing that slightly better is not very valuable to me.

I'll admit to occasionally contemplating a Ricoh GR III, which is quite pocketable.
Boredom can be great.

Imagine being an ancient Babylonian or Greek with nothing to do but wait for your grapes to grow. No wonder they came up with lots of great stuff.
It's easy to say "document what you can" when you leave "document", "what", and "can" loosely undefined. The article gives us a why and then leaves out the who, what, when, where and how.

If you observe people in their daily work, you will see there are many reasons why people do not document things. Time constraints, incentive structures, liability, general trade-offs and ambiguities. This is true not just in software/engineering but in any line of professional work.

There's plenty of grandstanding about the importance of documentation, but not much interest in understanding why people don't document in the first place.
This looks like cool software and something I might be interested in, but I hate hate hate locking SSO behind the "enterprise" tier. I wish this wasn't so common.
I was in my first year of uni, I was coding an online multiplayer game in C++ and I wanted to test play with one of my friends mostly for shits and giggles to see how badly it would break.

I had deployed basic websites / servers with more managed platforms before, but I needed? more control to be able to host the C++ server.

So I found GCP, created a docker image, and got the server up and running somehow. We played for maybe 10 minutes before we ran out of stuff to do, and stopped playing. What I didn't realise at the time was that auto-scaling was a concept. I thought when there was no traffic then the server wouldn't work, and I forgot I ever deployed it.

Anyways, a month later I got a $400 bill, not nearly as much as some people have lost but for a broke college student it was a lot - especially considering I only used it for 10 minutes.
UKians don't like to hear this, but from a Dutch perspective it is really a notch below the rest of Western Europe. Most Dutch people experience underdevelopment when they go south in certain parts of France, but these regions are generally rural and remote-ish. In the UK major road connections are ungraded, narrow roads occasionally still going through town centers,; French departmental route level if you are lucky. On British highways, you will just suddenly drive into a roundabout...

Time stood still. It reminds me of eastern Europe pre-EU.
Can you provide some examples of things that aren’t on the web but that ChatGPT helped you with? I’ve yet to see an example that’s not in the likely training set (which includes more than just the public Internet).

But to your point, I disagree: the mechanism matters. Just because you haven’t detected the limitations of the mechanism behind ChatGPT doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Total pipe dream. I like GNOME’s design but gtk and its desktop apps at large will never be appealing to mobile users, so I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
Yeah, however eventually XBox hardware will be a revamped version of Windows Media Center, and that will be as welcomed as XBox ONE original design as multimedia box was.

By the way, Dave Cuttler at the end of his interview on Dave's Garage mentions Microsoft is running XBoxes on Azure with Linux for Microsoft's AI purposes, that is how much they care about XBox hardware and cloud gaming.
are you seriously suggesting that sony put used pc hardware in their consoles? that's terrible even as a point of comparison.
Open source is about giving and business model is about taking: it's basically a plan to take money from society.
Now try a Tesla Cybertruck.

American obsession of multi-ton metal chunks on wheels has it's 2nd order effects.
If you think this is a new perspective on software development, I've got some dotcom bubble stocks to sell you
> What if someone else uses this name?

Couldn't you bypass this by pre-fixing the ones that aren't yours? Or prefixing your internal ones with something unique enough?
Nobody has solved it. There are no leading theories.

The theories various people have had fall into three categories: it's in an unknown language, it's enciphered, or it's meaningless gibberish.
https://blog.esghound.com/p/elon-musk-really-hates-getting-p...
I've been using Fastmail for a number of years at this point and outages are rare. Has been reliable for me but I also didn't notice the one you posted.
Missed opportunity for dollarlinux.
by sheer accessibility of computers, programming has gotten easier. Computers used to be these behemoths, now, the usb-c to hdmi adapter I have lying around can do more FLOPS than the computer that took us to the Moon. Maybe not infinitely, but it's sure gotten easier and more accessible.
It helps if you realize that BIG-IP 9.0 was essentially a from-scratch rewrite of BIG-IP 4.5. Among other major redesigns, the data plane was moved from BSD kernel space to Linux user space. Internally, the joke was that it would be two times better when we were done (4.5 * 2 = 9.0). It probably was, but not on day zero.
Removed requirement to setup a password, if you want to try again.
Someone fresh out of medical school is a resident so they're under direct supervision for 3-7 years. And unless you live in an area with an abundance of hospitals, there's a large change your local hospital is a teaching hospital staffed largely by residents and the attendings that supervise them. You can request non-resident care only but it's a request and is not guaranteed.

The TLDR is that most people when interacting with anything other than their GP family doctor, are probably interacting with someone "fresh out of school."
I doubt that will work in the specific case of Poland as Russian minority is virtually non-existent here. There is of course a sizable Ukrainian diaspora now but I doubt they will go turncoat in large numbers.
Wow. Do you happen to know if that just for API-based usage, or for downloads too?

> The Google Fonts API currently does not support requesting the inclusion of optional (also known as discretionary, or opt-in) OpenType Features, such as Stylistic Sets (salt) or Small Caps (smcp, c2sc). Instead the glyphs contained in these features may be published as a separate family… https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/requirements.html#ope...
Basically all of the big tech companies run on giant monorepos.
> and business model is about taking

Commercial transactions can be win-win. I get money, you get a product that you desire. We both win.
Huh. In my experience it works nearly flawlessly, certainly far above 50%. And even when there are spurious failures in replaying it's easy enough to just re-replay (though I do wish there was some way to export the current position & checkpoints with instruction-level precision to import in a fresh replay). I suppose it depends massively on the recorded program (most of mine are simple C programs, but also a decent bit of Java for JIT inspection or FFI, and I've also recorded an Electron app a couple times, and for fun Factorio)
Very likely because radio did their work correctly (with the misfortune of a wrong prelim assessment), but the requesting doc either forgot or chose not to act on the results. Or results were not transmitted correctly, so the requesting doc never was aware... many things can go wrong in collaborative work. Anyways, a communication issue for sure.
I wouldn't bring up my personal projects either. This is stuff I do with zero obligation to anyone other than myself, and with no deadlines to worry about. I walk away from projects the second I stop having fun. Many of them are unfinished. I usually have huge bursts of productivity followed by burning out which leads to weeks of inactivity.

It may be evidence of enthusiasm for computers and the craft but it is not really representative of job performance.
It's not just true on the surface—it's true at its core. All those features you mention are based on statistical relationships. This doesn't mean that these systems can't be very useful, but it also doesn't mean that they are _intelligent_, as much as we like to call them that. They have no understanding of their input or output, beyond being able to pattern match and mechanically decide what the next token should be based on their training data.
Me? Even more so. I’d feed them into iPhoto and separate out photos of people and common things.

Then I would look at the metadata to see what geolocations and dates reveal hai vacation patterns.

Finally, I’d just randomly browse through to see what he was up to.

I wouldn’t do it all the time, but I’d definitely spend a few hours over the course of my life looking through them.

I’d love to see what random life was like from 1910-1950.
Uhm.

I don't really know if using an "experiment" is the right way to test this?

Like, if you want to test such hypothesis you should first prove that these LLMs were created with that specific function in mind, we are not observing a natural phenomena, it is a manmade(manmade...loosly) algorithm .

You don't know the internal architecture of the system and you are testing in a reality narrow situation, this is basically the scientific method applied incorrectly.
it's free food.
The idea is that it is acceptable to rely on test automation, and that teams should apply the "Beyonce Rule" - if you like it then you should've put a test on it.
The permit number is WQ0016342001.
As does Vue - in 5+ years I've never used it
> When I was a young student (around 12), my math teacher came-up with an unique requirement for his students to not only solve math problems but also to compose them.

I think this is highly underestimated: there seems to be some sort of a duality between learning & teaching, where you can't really practice one efficiently without the other.

This has been observed in part by guys like Feynman[0]; paraphrasing: "learn a topic by teaching/simulating teaching it to a child", which in addition to the above, demands for the topic to be explained in simple terms.

[0]: https://fs.blog/feynman-technique/
Speak from Your Gut
It’s not like I have to look at them all at once. I wish there were 10,000 photos.

I’d go through them an hour at a time.
We should all be wary when non-medical politicians start campaigns involving medical issues. There is no scientific evidence or consensus of this position these politicans are pushing. The verge even mentions this offhand in their write-up, "with the exception of state-level rules demanding adult sites add unproven health notices about pornography." This is exactly the same type of situation in terms of being unsupported non-science.

But at least it's just a label and not the use of violent force like with states and their poltiical campaigns using pornography as justification/incitement of fears.
These massive companies do employ a significant reliance on test automation. This approach is paired with sophisticated build tools and supporting infrastructure to make it possible to meaningfully test proposed changes, and ensure that they do not break any downstream projects.

edit: This comment I made recently is relevant, since it speaks to the motivations for using a monorepo and trunk-based development within a business: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41293123