skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I naturally interpreted that comment in terms of servants, drivers, cleaners, etc., but on second reading, I think you’re right that it’s about companies.

It sounds like he wants to be somewhat safe/financially secure without needing to work more, so I took that to mean “I have $2-6M USD in the bank”, which is the rough FIRE target (last I checked?). You could start a company with that of course, but it would be risking your nest egg to a serious degree, especially at a time where any serious person should be planning for—if not expecting per se-a stock market recession in the next few years.

Compare that to someone with, say, $100M. That’s enough money to build a team of $200-$400K/year engineers, open an office (or a zoom subscription!), and really take an honest swing at some product or other. $50k could hire you a contractor for a bit, but that’s just an addendum.
Everyone? Most people are incapable of expressing a problem in reasonably clear terms. They often don't even know the right questions to ask.

LLMs are pretty good at giving you what you ask for. Not so good at telling you that you're asking for the wrong thing.
> The only way to move the needle is to design systems that are easier to use correctly.

If you do it like most software vendors do, by simplifying and removing functionality, you're moving the needle in the wrong direction.
Found it! Thank you!
> If I dismiss a tab the "you dismissed a tab" popup blocks the view of the next tab.

This only happens if you close a tab just above the bottom of your screen. You can scroll the entire list up past the point where any tabs will be obscured by the toast (which has an undo button), and it even does so by default when you open the list with one of the lower tabs active.

To reproduce your complaint I have to either explicitly scroll the tab I want to close into the area that will be obscured, or I have to have a tab higher in the list active, then open the list, and then close one of the tabs at the bottom of the screen.

> If I full-screen a video, the "you fullscreened a video!" message blocks the entire video progress bar so I can't move forward or back.

This is/was indeed annoying. It's been resolved in a recent update for me on Beta.

I've never seen the other two things you mention and I can't reproduce them, but they don't seem like UX issues, just bugs.
Of course they can lecture them — it just isn't going to work. The error rates will barely budge.

There is one effect: it allows smug gloating about how stupid, lazy, and irresponsible these users are.

Blaming the user is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Possibly only till November 5th (no matter who wins)?
Not all lawyers and doctors are the same. Consider public defenders. And physician compensation can vary dramatically depending on whether they're a general practitioner or specialist, rural or urban, etc.

Ironically, the ones we need the most are paid the least.

Of course, that's assuming students finish their degrees and get jobs. Plenty of people drop out of school, and they don't get refunds! Law students fail to pass the bar, etc.
Rewind your mind to 2019 and imagine reading a post that said

“The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student.”

With regard to interacting with the equivalent of Alexa. That’s a remarkable difference in 5 years.
No dust is supposed to get "in" the drive, but dust can very well clog the breather hole and cause pressure issues that could kill the drive.
only if you had an iphone. (that has now changed, belatedly.)

just because tile is a fly by night type organisation, doesn't mean apple can get away with being so lacklustre about safety.

They _knew_ that this was a risk, but didn't choose to mitigate it until much later on. Had they bothered to listen to the nagging voices, they wouldn't have been surprised.
FWIW, most of my friends in undergrad would openly flaunt the way they were spending their student loan money (weed, video games, new spoiler for their car, etc.). This was not the exception, as far as I could tell.

So the age thing goes both ways - 17 year olds are too young to make smart financial decisions, both about whether to get a loan, and how to spend it.
Have you no swamps nearby? Recycling, and so on.
>> Isn’t hallucination just the result of speaking out loud the first possible answer to the question you’ve been asked?

>No.

Not literally, but it's certainly comparable.

>There is no reason to believe that LLMs should be compared to human minds

There is plenty of reason to do that. They are not the same, but that doesn't mean it's useless to look at the similarities that do exist.
By using Lean, a proof assistant and a functional programming language.

Here's @tao on mathstodon saying he's learning it.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/111206761117553482
Fedora has worked flawlessly for me.
With real camera gear that costs as much as the phone? Depends, in many situations it will probably beat real camera, because of all the computational stuff. Especially if the output is 8Mpix.

Once shooting conditions get tricky (moving trees/water, high dynamic range with glare and shadows, night sky etc), it of course will be possible to select camera gear that will beat the phone.
Profits? I mean, I'm guessing the trend can't be wholly disconnected from the massive layoffs in the tech sector over the last year or so. Probably not the primary driver, but companies are always looking to maximize profits and, in the short-term, what faster way is there than by making cuts?

If a business sees a 15% productivity boost coming, especially with no easy plan in place to to utilize it fully for equivalent profit, someone near the top is already thinking that quick cuts could be an immediate 15% increase in reported profits for next quarter (in a 1:1 scenario).

I'm being a bit simplistic, but I think the general idea of business maximizing profits over output stands (or easy short-term thinking over more difficult long-term planning).
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You can catch panics.
'Hyperscale customer' to take datacenter site near London
Computers are bad: the national warning system
> Norwegians pay higher taxes on cars they purchase that pollute, and lower ones on low and zero-emission cars. The country also taxes bigger cars more than smaller ones. EV drivers often pay lower parking fees and can use bus lanes, too.

The first two sentences make sense! Not the last one though. After driving an EV for a few thousand miles, ive realized they are so superior to ICE for my use case. I hate driving ICE vehicles in the occasions I still do now.
Spoiler alert (don't read ahead if you like the rose-tint of your glasses): SF never made sense, and the standard-of-living compensation offset was a bubble destined to collapse. The Bay Area artificially displaced the majority of it's service worker population and replaced it with high-turnover middle-managers and product designers. Now everything sucks, and the businesses don't want to blame themselves because it would mean they were wrong about San Francisco. So instead they blame dubious corollaries of their influence, like homelessness and rent costs. Gentrification 101.

I've traveled around a bit to the smaller tech communities (Boston, Redmond, Detroit, etc.) and they've never left me wanting for a higher-stakes location like San Francisco. It was an obvious bubble from the start, plainly apparent to anyone with an understanding of economic causality. The only thing keeping it afloat was hype and deliberate ignorance, two trends that aren't yet dead as evidenced by AI and cryptocurrency, respectively.
Yep. While Sidebery, TST, etc have done about as well as they can given the limitations of extensions, the resulting vertical tab experience is half-baked without userChrome mods. It's also still kinda janky even with the mods unless one spends time polishing out all the edge cases, but then there's a high chance the mods will randomly break in weird ways after an update one day. There's real value in having the feature be native.
Representative of who? Not me, certainly, I don't use YouTube.
- Some early studies have shown modest gains (can try and link later)

- It’s still very early. LLMs have only been publicly available for 2 years, copilots a little less than that.

- It’s mostly anchored on cold starts ie I’m creating something from scratch. Leveraging LLMs in existing and mature codebases is definitely going to pick up.

- The majority of devs aren’t really using these tools or using them to their full ability. It takes a lot of fiddling to understand the limits and strengths, but when you do, you basically stop writing code and write more prose.

I will be surprised if in ten years even a quarter of your keyboard inputs will be towards code directly vs directing your friendly coding robot.
> Have you no swamps nearby? Recycling, and so on.

I smell "carbon offset fees" on the BOHF's invoices. Good thinking.
IMO: Either advocate to merge services, or find a new job.

As professionals, part of our job is to advocate for the right solution. Often there is a leader who is emotional about their chosen framework / pattern / architecture / library. It's merely a matter of speaking truth to the right power, and then getting enough consensus to push on the leader to see the error in their ways (or to get the other leaders to push the bad leader out.)

In your job, what you really need to do is point out to non-technical leaders that development of new features is too slow, given the current team size. Don't get too technical with them, but try to find high-level analogies. You can also work on your more direct leadership, but that requires feeling out their motivations.
What if you lost the key?
Agree with this. As soon as it became apparent a large proportion of battery usage would be dominated by the YouTube activity, I became suspicious. It's not just Safari where we've seen Google playing dirty tricks either. Back in 2018 it was this:

> YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome
I've been giving far too little though about AI and the hype around it (might call me a sceptic), but I feel compelled to defend the article as it gave me some new perspectives, and is undeserving of your, frankly, low quality comment. If it was a flame bait, then I got hooked (sorry HN)

You namedrop three(?) artists and insinuate something about two legal frameworks - but provides no arguments or context why they should've been a natural inclusion in the article or how your critique relates to it.

Is that.. yes, a low value comment.
As a med school dropout (best decision of my life), were I to "go back" to early college: I would have instead pursued a BSN (which my college offered!), to set myself up into eventually becoming a nurse practitioner. That way, if I decided to not complete graduate school, I'd still have an applicable role/job within medicine. Were I to have graduated that program, I also would have been able to practice much earlier (albeit limited scope, per US State).

Instead, what does an uncredentialled Chemistry Bachelor do after dropping out of medical school? ...I became an electrician, which allowed me to help people without sacrificing my lifestyle.

If your goal also includes "make substantial sums of money," I always recommend to preMeds they consider all the different ways someone can make money helping people without having to sacrifice your entire early adulthood.

The majority of my medschool classmates refer to me as "the dumbest smart guy they know," but in confidence several have expressed jealousy at not having to work so much (for IMHO so little, as physicians). Just cogs in an overly-complex, wealth-extracting machine...
Representative for who?

I haven't been longer than 15 minutes on YouTube - in total within the past 2 years. So certainly not representative for me.
I disagree. The dominating attitude today is that users are idiots and too dumb to use anything they can't master in 30 seconds from first exposure, which has a nice side effect of cutting out a lot of functionality from the scope. The result is, for example, 20 startups going after any given idea, each spending years refining a slightly different take on a useless set of simple features.

(Actually, many of such products can be made better by replacing them with an Excel sheet, which is a big part of the reason why people who actually need to get shit done end up using Excel.)
The web app doesn't do 60% of what the app does, which is already barely anything.
This is users using software in a way the designers never expected, decades after it was designed. Those users then chose to ignore warnings about using it.

Newer programs like Google Sheets have better default behaviors. They have free access to it.
The ways in which a function can fail is typically the job of the documentation.
It works quite nicely if you consider LLMs as a translator (and that’s actually why Transformers were created).

Enter technical specifications in English as input language, get code as destination language.
A follow-up test to investigate whether Google sites are more power-hungry than similar non-Google sites does not have to be representative of general web browsing patterns, because the original test already addressed that question.
Firstly, I never said it was always true, and secondly, I have a really hard time believing you, because at least every VC I've ever worked with asks their startups for an update every three months.

I find it really hard to believe you got to a $1B valuation without ever having anyone ask you for an update.
The safety paradox at the heart of OpenAI's "Strawberry" model
One could hope, but in my view perception precedes reality and even if that is the reality the perception is that AI will lower compensation demands and those doing the layoffs/hiring will act accordingly.

You could also make the same claims about outsourcing, and while it appears that in most cases the outsourcing doesn't pay off, the perception that it would has really damaged CS as a career.
So when some interesting link leads to a youtube video, or someone sends a link to youtube directly to you, you just don't open it?
If the list contains preparations like ice cream and fruit-sweetened yogurt that have been made for centuries in non-industrial kitchens, perhaps the list is not only non-exhaustive, but it's also just not a very good list? Perhaps it should actually quantify the industrial ingredients or preparations that are problematic and evidence of the "ultra" in ultra-processed, rather than just wave its hands towards extracts or derived ingredients and include foods that are easily made at home (albeit in a time-consuming way)?

The only ingredients in Ben & Jerry's vanilla ice cream that aren't in Haagen Dazs are guar gum (which is a ground bean, and natural enough to be sold in a bag for your kitchen by Bob's Red Mill) and carageenan, which sure, can be considered a derived ingredient but is ultimately derived from seaweed and is almost certainly not the cause of any health issues. Those thickeners are a far cry from industrial concoctions like hydrogenated oils.

I mean, canned soups are on the list an ultra-processed food. Oh no!! I assure you we're not suffering a health crisis due to canned soups in the generic. It's all nonsense.
At least it's a bicycle.

Remember the whole "computer as bicycle for the mind" thing? That didn't happen, the world went in the opposite direction. Software like Excel are the last surviving remnants of the idea of empowering end users to improve their work and lives.
Speaking of sockets on Mac, anyone knows if there is a documentation about how the network stack on MacOs works? (Routing, firewall, resolving, kernel extensions filtering/offloading, etc).
How many cars sold are new? How many owners have garages for charging?
> for instance, in the open source community

They're definitely wrong on that point, there's countless projects that exist that otherwise wouldn't have been started at all. Anecdotally I would never have put in the initial effort to set up a project that has 100+ stars now without the initial kick from early GPT-4 last year.

Lots of these new repos are also disproportionately in the LLM related space specifically since that's where people use them the most for code, so it's probably not as noticeable at large yet.
My lawyer says his office runs on Microsoft 365. Is Google Docs really 50x over that? I don't even see how it's 50x over LibreOffice and a shared drive.
I simply cannot remember the last time I watched 90 minutes of YouTube in a 3 hour period. I don't think that activity is representative of typical usage at all!

If I look online for stats relating to use of the YouTube app in the UK, it's 20 hours a month. If that's distributed equally across the month, that's definitely not 1.5 hours in any one sitting.
> Blaming the user is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Why then is it the dominating mindset in software design today, and advertised as being the opposite to the mindset that gives you Excel?
"A representative sample is a subset of a population that seeks to accurately reflect the characteristics of the larger group"

youtube is always in the top 5 for most time spent and visits. "representative" of the typical web user certainly includes youtube
I want my programs to fail fast in production too, because it makes it less likely that even bigger problems will arise. There are many problems that are much worse than a program crashing.
Should put these random places in the streets and have them play at random times
Yes, and indeed, this is exactly the argument used by the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, in which public defenders / nonprofit lawyers / rural nonprofit doctors’ loans are written forgiven after 10 years of public service so they are not saddled with a lifetime of debt they can’t pay off due to choosing careers in public service. You’re in a supposedly “lucrative” career with a high debt load, but choosing not to pursue the typical high-income pathway.

That program has many gotchas, but at least this reflects a recognition that debt creates incentives that society may not want.
nixos is even worse, I have a configuration.nix that I only look at when I'm upgrading, to fix one or two warnings about deprecation.

I don't even look at it more than once per major version upgrade, as I've never had to wipe and re-install.

stay away if you want a bit of excitement in your installs.
Human readable, makes grammatical sense, and wrong. And no, that's often not subjective.
> "I'm not sure large scale geothermal electrical production will ever be a thing outside some specialized locations like Iceland."

You may be underestimating the extent of geothermal power production that already exists around the world. For example, California's Geysers[1] and Salton Sea[2] geothermal complexes are some of the largest in the world, generating more electricity than all of Iceland's geothermal power plants combined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Valley_Geothermal_Pro...
Anti-competitive monopoly behavior. We need to split Chrome out of Alphabet.
Those are the ones that usually have a less-than-1x-but-not-zero exit though. They make enough to stay alive and eventually throw in the towel.

Doesn't always happen that way of course, but from what I've seen, the zero exits are the ones that burned hard quickly and then couldn't get more funding but never found any PMF.
> The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student.

And you thought you had imposter syndrome before!
I normally look for text alternatives, to be honest. It's not necessarily a bias against YouTube, but more video-based content in general. If I can't find an alternative I'll skim it with subtitles on. I certainly wouldn't have it open for one and half hours in a 3 hour period though!
this is exactly why i dont want to meet hn'ers
> Youtube, Instagram are flooded with AI generated content

Are we supposed to be happy about that?
I had BOFH as a vanity plate on my car and I never met one person that understood the reference outside of work. Yes I'm old. lol
InfluxDB is open source (https://github.com/influxdata) and seems to be leader by far as per DBEngines ranking : https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/time+series+dbms
For my use case, it's quite obvious what's draining the battery: addons. Every trick and feature meant to preserve privacy and to remove visual trash will significantly impact load times, responsiveness, and battery life.

It's all worth it to me, but there's no doubt a web without tracking and ads would easily double my battery life.
I'm running SUSE Tumbleweed. Fast package manager, up-to-date versions of just about every package you could want. Never had any driver issues or issues installing.
Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal
How were the thermals? I can't imagine doing anything CPU intense for more than a few seconds with how hot phones get.
I wish someone could design HTML6 around performance and good practice

It's time to deprecate things
TypeScript is good for this kind of a thing if you're only running it on your own machines and don't have to mess around with environments all the time. You can also run it with ts-node.
This is a popular saying that is basically wrong.

You have very limited guarantees around an arbitrarily bad partition, but this is also a detectable condition. Lots of defective systems exist, but in general non-defective systems generally guarantee "exactly once delivery or detected failure"
Maybe you’re not representative of typical usage.
I think you are confused about what thread you are in.

Have you read the original article?

Here's a quote:

"I added this to Mimi's system prompt:

If you are asked to count the number of letters in a word, do it by writing a python program and run it with code_interpreter."

This article was released before o1, it's not the topic. The solution was just adding a system prompt and executing the python script generated, in order to solve the strawberry problem. It wasn't solved by increasing compute time, unless you count the inference from the extra system prompt tokens.
Falsehoods falsehood-list makers believe.

1. That said items are falsehoods in the first place.

2. That said items are necessarily interesting or noteworthy.

3. That a list is necessarily the best format to present said items.

4. That they may speak for the involved parties beliefs.
> Set larger kernel TCP send and receive buffers and enable BBR congestion control

I mean yeah, but that requires having access to the kernel config. so for most people multiplexing TCP is a useful way to maximise a link, without having to fiddle with stuff that is a pain to deploy. (politically as well as logistically)

I deployed this "technique" before BBR was a thing. It worked well enough for what I needed it to do (move large images from London to California) It was pretty simple to engineer as well (mainly because I didn't have to make a fancy custom error detection/correction/rate limiting system over UDP )
I wonder if the in-house metrics systems at big tech firms like Google and Facebook should be counted as ‘proprietary’ for these purposes. I suppose not because one can’t really pay to get them internally.
I know many people do watch YouTube videos but indeed, when a link leads to a YouTube video I don't follow it (and nobody ever just sends me links to YouTube).

I do turn to YouTube if I need some kind of visual guide, like for auto repair sometimes, but it's rare.

Most links to YouTube videos I find are excruciatingly slow explanations of something that could be done in two paragraphs and one screenshot, or some kind of meme that I don't find funny.
A Case Study of Reflex Epilepsy Induced by Playing Chess
> significantly more productive

Try a couple percent. More if you type slowly (magic autocomplete). More if you're doing something where you need to search q&a fora a lot.