skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about the political part, but twitter used to have nice, high-enough quality expert discussion around topics, and now its just a shithole with very stupid takes polluting the few spots free in replies between engagement farmers and llm slop-spewers
> Say they go bankrupt and an ad-tech data broker buys their assets. Now DraftKings can laser focus their ads to folks genetically predisposed to addiction.

Excellent example, but yikes!
i assume that editing csv's is coming later? i can upload a csv but not edit it
Same, but to answer your question: Notes app also has scanning.
> A large percentage of opioid addiction came from being prescribed by a doctor.

I think that's the main factor which differentiates the US from the rest of the world. IANAD, but as far as I know at least here in Europe opioid painkillers are reserved for the terminally ill (mostly cancer), and the US shows why "normalizing" their use is a very bad idea...
It did feel emotive but this wasn't the main point. Data is harder to get (or more expansive) and more polluted.
For once a bankruptcy not directly caused by private equity.

Although if you look at the history of “Tupperware Brands” there is definitely some financial fuckery going on which I’m sure took away from producing actual products.
"You just can't compete with cheap Chinese labor"

You sure can, we have cheap Mexican labor... and we have a much healthier trade relationship with Mexico.
>And yet LLMs were still fed articles written for Googlebot, not humans.

How do we know what content LLMs were fed? Isn't that a highly guarded secret?

Won't the quality of the content be paramount to the quality of the generated output or does it not work that way?
I thought I was going to read about effects and continuations, and the example a language like Koka presents. Instead the determination to do more of the same.
There is a related video by Prof. Courtney Gibbons about the feeling of "Math is hard" and how you just have to get used to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenf8E1RuoA

I send this to students who feel discouraged by university-level topics. If math professors find things difficult, then you're probably OK... just keep hacking at it!
>Of course another way to see all this is to argue that we need 20% less humans now, so we save any environmental costs those people induce. Seems a bit gruesome to me.

Seems a bit of a straw man to me. Perhaps there's some light between ecosystem literacy ("carrying capacity is real") and mass murder? :-\

A third way (which differs only in timing) is thinking we can support 100% of the people who exist right now, but acknowledge that if you iteratively "add 20% more people" enough times eventually we will exceed the environment's capacity.

If you think any solution that might be proposed to that is "gruesome" (AKA the usual anti-population modulation trope) just look at the cruelties people inflict on each-other when humans blindly exceed the environment's capacity.

Though I suppose such "law of the jungle" ad hoc population control could be preferred by many, since it effects mostly the poor and powerless, whereas intentional population policy would effect all people equally.
Sure bud.
I can give you my perspective.

We're fed this grandiose American dream (at least in my generation), and when we fall short of achieving that we feel like we've lost. Nothing else matters, we're not a part of the lucky. We're inherently unlucky. Then it starts as just taking the edge off, trying to cope with these feelings, and soon enough it spirals and builds momentum, then you find yourself losing your grip on why you even got up in the morning or wanted to pursue anything at all. What's the point in trying if you'll fail again?

But the escape offered by addiction outweighs any reasonable or rational thought, it's just a foot out of this hell of trauma, depression, guilt, and shame.

Our country doesn't have safety nets (for the most part) and is survival of the fittest. It's difficult to struggle constantly, knowing that what you want to be is always out of reach.
Track Developer Productivity via Deep Work?
I've seen lots of research and conversation around "tracking developer productivity" bring up deep work or flow state as a good metric to track in developer teams.

What word your thoughts be on a product that helps you do this for your team?

https://team.codeclimbers.io/
...compared to what? Growth is just one way of representing market health, and it's one that is typically pushed by capital for obvious reasons.

If you're talking about efficiency or productivity, you don't need markets for either of these, you just need any kind of economy to work with. Industrialization only intersects with markets (or capitalism for that matter), they aren't the same thing.
I hate how looking for recipes has become so… disheartening. Online recipes are fine for reputable sources like newspapers where professional recipe writers are paid for their contributions, but searching for some Aunt May's recipe for 'X' in the big ocean of the internet is pointless — too much raw sewage dumped in.

It sucks, because sharing recipes seemed like one of those things the internet could be really good at.
> In the 1890s, blankets and some goods would mean nothing to the US military.

It was never a logistical issue. It was a pecking order one.
I’m an American though. But yes, of course China will be pissed. I suspect China wants this though. Once the US has Taiwan semiconductor technology there’s no need to protect Taiwan and China can move in. Symbolically Taiwan represents more to China than some island that makes great chips.

I still think it’s better if intel was able to pull it off, but i don’t think us Americans have the capability.
https://time.com/5730790/banana-panama-disease/
Maybe its because you load tidyverse, which is a library of libraries, instead of loading only what you need? It seems like an issue related to your understanding of the tidyverse rather than R.
Truly a scathing intellectual response.

I will never recover.
One of the researchers mentioned is also on the team of the Opioid Data Lab (link below). They have links to studies that include Jupyter notebooks, GitHub repos, etc. Thought that might be of interest to this crowd.

https://www.opioiddata.org/

https://github.com/opioiddatalab
A democratic speech would be something about the right of the people to elect a government that represents them (as opposed to being told they are Nazis for wanting to do so). A Democrat speech is any speech delivered by a Democrat.

The USSR also had fanatical members of the Youth Comsomol who'd loudly denounce anyone who questioned the party line as either insane or "anti-Soviet". That's what you and your comrades are doing.

But really, it doesn't matter if Pravda reports a new record in farm production every other week - the people still see the empty shelves in the grocery stores.

US manufacturing growth is manufactured as follows: use tariffs to ban much cheaper (and frequently better) goods and demand that they are produced locally. Or even better: make components for a fleet of ships that costs $4B each and that nobody needs and that gets canceled (see: Zumwalt). Step 2: use the ridiculously inflated costs as proof that manufacturing is growing (hey, you just need a big number).
The CDC graph shows that in the 12-month period to April 2023 it was 110k, and that reduced to 100k in the 12 months to April 2024. That is absolute - isn't it?
At least scooters did something useful for the environment.
"I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans."

We've been past the tipping point when it comes to text for some time, but for video I feel we are living through the watershed moment right now.

Especially smaller children don't have a good intuition on what is real and what is not. When I get asked if the person in a video is real, I still feel pretty confident to answer but I get less and less confident every day.

The technology is certainly there, but the majority of video content is still not affected by it. I expect this to change very soon.
It's a cheap escape from the horrors of their lives. Most people in the US have amazingly shitty lives and it's a constant struggle, even without the drugs.
As an American I care because it’s shameful and rather pathetic.

And remember stuffing a rotting carcass with imported fresh meat doesn’t actually fix the rotting carcass.

I look at where all the talent is going in the US and it’s all full stack software engineers and gen AI.
> at least try to follow up on AI news

your comment seems to based on reading AI clickbait 'news' that claims everything is 'solved' by ai .
They are routinely administered in hospitals and for recovering from most traumatic injuries. For people who frame the use as episodic e.g. "until my leg heals" and try to get back to their lives as quickly as possible, there is rarely a problem.

For some people the drugs are better than the life they had before and so getting off them is very difficult.

They are a poor choice for chronic pain, since that population doesn't have particularly high life satisfaction. But they are an excellent choice for acute pain e.g post surgery, tooth extraction, etc. and people shouldn't be afraid of taking them in that context.

The epidemic you have heard about in the US is incentivized malpractice. Doctors giving a class of drugs which should not be used habitually to people with shitty lives.
I agree with the general gist of the article that generative AI is bullshit for many use cases. But I'd rather point out why this comment is misguided for a very specific reason: it's a prime example of why we, as technologists, need to be careful with our terminology around some of these innovations.

You are lumping together many different things in this post. For example:

> With AI / ML we are getting self driving cars, robots (talking, listing, walking), agents etc.

The "AI / ML" part of this sentence is telling. I am aware of exactly zero self-driving cars that are powered by LLMs (what the general public almost always means when they say "AI" these days).

Self-driving cars are enabled by physical sensors in combination with various ML algorithms which have been around in some form for literally decades. I'm not an expert in this field, but my understanding is that what's actually happened in the last ~decade which has allowed them to flourish is the development of better _hardware_, that is, hardware that can run these algorithms fast enough, at a large enough scale, and still be small and cool enough to fit into a car.

Ditto to some extent with your other examples, though maybe a general-purpose robot could be made better by interfacing with an LLM.

I realize this may not be your intent, but by writing in this way, you are confusing the layperson into thinking that all of these innovations were enabled by ChatGPT-style "AI," when in fact some of them have nothing to do with that type of tech at all.

I really wish we'd all be more honest, and not conflate transformers/LLMs with other "AI" algorithms. In fact, I think it'd be good if we stopped saying "AI" completely, though I realize this will never happen given that term's stickiness with the public at large.
Why is this a HN comment on a thread about it ending due to AI pollution?
"military grade means 'from the lowest bidder', but can tolerate being a dropped a few times"
This is why i f**ing hate macOS. Developers wax poetic about 'oh its a UNIX', but NOTHING works like Linux once you dig into it. Zsh is different from bash, subtle API differences, different filesystem, esp with stuff like /dev or /proc or /etc, no systemd, some cli utils have different flags, subtle differences like this.

At least Windows is completely different and there's no expectation of compatibility, but with the mac you can start off thinking things would work, but they don't.
This feels like a second, magnitudes larger Eternal September. I wonder how much more of this the Internet can take before everyone just abandons it entirely. My usage is notably lower than it was in even 2018, it's so goddamn hard to find anything worth reading anymore (which is why I spend so much damn time here, tbh).
The web was a hype-train, and then a bubble, too. It's not enough that a new technology is adopting the hype cycle, what matters is what's left of it afterwards

How many of us got their workflow disrupted by AI? It's been a while since I've googled a "how do I..." type thing, because of how much I appreciate Bing Copilot or Phind

Safe to say my life did not change with the arrival of Web3!
Sure. Next steps:
- Editing (see changes made and accept them at some point)
- Collaboration (sync with a host)
- Comments
- ...
I hear this complaint often but in reality I have encountered fairly little content in my day to day that has felt fully AI generated? AI assisted sure, but is that a problem if a human is in the mix, curating?

I certainly have not encountered enough straight drivel where I would think it would have a significant effect on overall word statistics.

I suspect there may be some over-identification of AI content happening, a sort of Baader–Meinhof effect cognitive bias. People have their eye out for it and suddenly everything that reads a little weird logically "must be AI generated" and isn't just a bad human writer.

Maybe I am biased, about a decade ago I worked for an SEO company with a team of copywriters who pumped out mountains the most inane keyword packed text designed for literally no one but Google to read. It would rot your brain if you tried, and it was written by hand by a team of humans beings. This existed WELL before generative AI.
They found a new enemy it seems with their cats and dogs stories.
Yes. You must opt in. When you opt in, you can elect to show your full name, or just initals (may be other options but I opted in long ago).
we don't call it numberwang, we call it freedom. /s
> Its frustrating that people are not even able to understand AI, Blockchain and NFT good enough to be able to separate them. Just because something gets hyped doesn't mean its the same thing as the other thing which got hyped.

I agree with your main point, to those of us on HN there is obviously more substance to the current AI wave than (say) web3.

But I can hardly blame people who aren't actively following tech news from believing that it's more of the same -- many of the VCs and tech media boosters are the same every cycle. If anything, I think it's more of an onus on those of us who do follow closely to sound the alarm on the bullshit. (And there is bullshit this AI wave, too, on top of the obvious substance.)
Ironically the DMA is telling Apple to reduce privacy to make Apple Intelligence work in the EU, it’s just a populist political attempt at regulating a market.

No sane person actually thinks Apple isn’t private enough for EU standards, they’re just not being allowed to compete because they aren’t allowing anyone else access to local user context, which would be a privacy nightmare if done incorrectly.
Another alternative Comic Sans-inspired mono font is Serious Shanns (which is actually forked from Comic Mono): https://github.com/kaBeech/serious-shanns
Tis the end goal of capitalism, no?
these are amazing and beautiful. the singer sewing machine is particularly useful as I use a standing one as a modular synth workstation, but there is a full sewing machine inside it I've never used.
Can you say how that differs from what I suggested in my last paragraph? I legitimately can't tell if you're trying to suggest something different or not.

As UTS#18 2.1 says, it isn't sufficient to just normalize the text you're searching. It also means the user has to craft their regex appropriately. If you normalize to NFC but your regex uses NFD, oops. So it's probably best to expose a flag that lets you pick the normalization form.

And yes, it would have to be behind a CLI flag. Always doing normalization would likely make ripgrep slower than a naive grep written in Python. Yes. That bad. Yes. Really. And it might now become clear why a lot of tools don't do this.
what is 'document QA' ?
Use-case: Cap Table

We built this app to help those who manage cap tables in multiple .csv files on their PCs.

- store everything in one place
- track changes granularly
- no file jumping anymore
Norway: Electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in 'historic milestone'
BetaBrite LED signs have been around forever and have a well published spec for the serial port to program in new messsages. There are Python libraries that wrap around the serial protocol.
> I don’t get what is the problem with Git’s concept of branching. It is mutable, yes,

Exactly like a branch on a tree: It's a living thing, that keeps on growing. The word "branch" refers to the whole thing, regardless of where the tip of it has grown to. Utterly intuitive.

And just like branches on trees grow at their tips, the "branch" pointer in git, where you add stuff, is the latest commit. Of course; where else should it grow?

> and commits aren’t somehow marked with the information about what branch it was made on.

Again, exactly like a branch on a tree: Pluck a leaf from it, and there is no sign on it to say which branch it came from. But you can look at any twig or leaf and see what it's attached to, all the way to the trunk, and where it forks off from the trunk is where the branch begins.

(Somewhere along the length of it, you could score the branch name into the bark of the tree... Nah, analogy getting a bit too literal there. But still, totally intuitive.)
> Easier async.

I was on board until this one. Async is a rough spot for rust, but I find the async strategy swift went with absolutely baffling and difficult to reason about.
Its been a decade since I had a Mac, but it definitely gave me that uncanny valley feeling. So close that you start expecting certain behaviour.

Windows and WSL feels better to me at least.
At some point though you have to acknowledge that a specific use of language belongs to the medium through which you're counting word frequencies. There are also specific writing styles (including sentence/paragraph sizes, unnecessary repetitions, focusing on other metrics than readability) associated with newspapers, novels, e-mails to your boss, anything really. As long as text was written by a human who was counting on at least some remote possibility that another human might read it, this is way more legitimate use of language than just generating it with a machine.
This is repeating the mistakes of the past due to fear, a very common reaction.

There is not undemocratic regime that came to power because people had too much freedom. It did never happen anywhere and will never happen. Even with new things like the internet or punk music.
I've been moving the same way, but still working so I couldn't buy 4 acres in the country (need reliable internet), but I was able to find a (somewhat expensive) half way solution where I have internet (but well and septic), a wood burning stove, and enough land for prairie, bees, chickens, and a few garden plots (adding an additional 4x8 plot each year).

We also belong to a CSA less than a mile away.

We can a bit, too. It _is_ rewarding and nothing beats a sun-warmed fresh tomato. Or cooking potatoes you grew.
How do you feel about their GPU selection? I understand the 2U rack limits their choices, but what would you recommend as a good GPU that strikes a balance between performance and price?
The new-DNA-relatives feature is one of the few "growth" things they can continue to bother you with, outside of newly-discovered genome-based indicators for diseases.

I get/got spammed by them about new relatives on the order of "6th cousin who shares 0.3% of your DNA." Thanks, but who cares...
Huh, seems I might be wrong about the benefits of fluoride in public drinking water: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluor...

Summary of the linked article: (1) We should reevaluate the benefits/harms of fluoridated water as a public health intervention. (2) The studies used to justify it in the past were flawed, especially by not accounting for a huge improvement in other dental health habits across the world. (3) Fluoride provides no additional benefits when consumed (it's just meant to affect tooth enamel), which means consuming it is inefficient and increases the risk of harm (bone weakening, nerve and brain cell damage).
> Do you think Lebanon will escalate by capturing prisoners?

It's certainly part of the playbook, if they can manage some captures. Soft targets seem a lot more likely, though.

> That said, I don't know what a path to peace with Hezbollah looks like.

This conflict is creating the next generation of orphaned rage-filled extremists. Peace is a very, very distant goal at this point.

> I think that netanyahu would be very happy to see a de-escalation on the northern border and it would be a big win for his cabinet.

I very much disagree. Netanyahu is on a treadmill he can't ever let stop; ending the emergency means having to properly face his long-delayed criminal proceedings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu).
The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment (1987)
Been making bank doing this for decades. I really don't care who or what wrote the code. It's beautiful.
I just see this as a move to a new way to invalidate LBJ's Civil Rights Law(s).

Many white people do not want little Suzie to be exposed to "the other kind of people". I know many people who struggle financially to send their kids to religious schools because they say Public Schools are bad. None of them even goes to any kind of Church. Plus these schools are no better that the Public Schools in their town.

So to me, this is all about discrimination.
i say this as a former addict. wow people are killing themselves with drugs 10% less? wow, much progress. thank goodness for harm reduction experts and non-profits working so hard on the ground to give junkies drugs, needles, and care.

history will not look favorably on kicking the can down the road like this. we keep dodging the root cause to prop up a population that will cost the public an astronomical amount of money in healthcare and lifestyle cost. thats not even factoring in turning cities into hellscapes.

not only is this anti democratic (literally nobody wants to support junkies) but will lead to the rise of populists. how is it fair for middle class who have to pay tens of thousands, if not more, for healthcare cost every year?
Depends on where you are, I guess.
I work at a University in Germany, and most meeting rooms are either 1) very old and exactly as you've described, or 2) updated in the last few years and actually usable. There doesn't seem to be an in-between.
That's ethical egoism, not rationalism.

Considering the second- and third-order effects of one's own decisions is obligatory in civilized society.
We do know that the open web consitutes the bulk of the trainig data, although we don't get to know the specific webpages that got used. Plus some more selected sources, like books, of which again we only know that those are books but not which books were used. So it's just a matter of probability that there was a good amount of SEO spam as well.
It wasn't really a mistake. At the time Taiwan and South Korea were advancing into semiconductors, the US was more concerned with Japanese domination of the industry so having 2 small countries as alternatives to compete with Japan in some sectors of the industry was beneficial.
Those kinds of tactics gave me acid reflux in mid 20's. I had to re-frame how I look at work after that. Although a few years later I fell in to the trap (again) and left a very senior position to go solo (again) in order to have some agency and prioritize my health and wellness.
Liquid air as an emerging energy vector towards carbon neutrality (2022)
Mega-authorship implications: How many scientists can fit into one cell?