skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Deere is so bad buy from competitors, of which there are many.

I somewhat agree with your earlier comment, but this bit is ignoring the systemic issues involved.

Deere is a leader in much of the efficiency technology that allows large-scale farming operations to reach the economy of scale needed to farm the huge multi-thousand (tens of thousands of acres in many cases) grain operations that are slowly but surely taking over food production in the US.

This trend, unabated, is a weird form of monopoly power for lack of a better word. If one manufacturer is more or less the sole-source for the largest corporate farms, and those farming operations are putting smaller ones out of business due to cost pressure - eventually - and likely sooner than later it becomes a too big to fail situation and a systemic national security risk.

This is starting to get into the realm of arms manufacturing. If these trends continue for another decade or three, and then Deere has say a massive IT failure, planting and harvesting operations literally grind to a halt for the top-end equipment entirely reliant on the automation and data harvesting these machines require to operate. People will be at risk for starvation in the event of an extended outage. Farming as a Service has a hidden cost to it many are not seeing in these comments.

I don't agree with disbanding Deere and nationalizing it - however this really needs to be looked at much more than a simple competition issue. It's rapidly becoming a winner-takes-all market, which is subsequently running the smaller operations out of business and putting the US food supply at a systemic risk if nothing is done.

Of course a competitor could somehow battle through the patent forest and capital requirements, but I wouldn't bet our lives on that.
Ask HN: Which AI tools do you use frequently?
There is a huge wave of AI tools, but most seem to be barely usable or error-prone for anything other than the simplest of demo use cases. So far, I haven't found any substantial value beyond just using ChatGPT directly. I also use Copilot for simple code auto-completion (and not for actual coding).

What AI tools do you personally use, or have been asked by your company to use, that you find valuable?
ChatGPT usage from the main site dwarfs API Usage for both Open AI and Anthropic so we're not really saying different things here.

The vast majority of people using LLMs just use ChatGPT directly. Anthropic is doing fine for technical or business customers looking to offer LLM services in a wrapper but that doesn't mean they register in the public consciousness.
> Health spending is determined by income

Whoa. That's eye-opening. If country X spends less than country Y, rather than surmise that country X is more efficient with their healthcare spending we might want to look at whether country X has less per-capita income than country Y.

This makes sense, though it's very surprising. I've seen so much commentary here about how much better the Europeans are at dealing with healthcare than us Americans...
> If you disagree, I would argue you have a very sad view of the world, where truth and cooperation are inferior to lies and manipulation.

I too am happy every day the good guys are winning today and always have won for all of history.
Not all subsidy is a bad thing. The money is used to fund real expertise and industrial capacity.
So what? TFA is about national aggregates, not individuals.
A statistical hypothesis is an assumption about a population parameter. A hypothesis in physics is something else entirely. (Incidentally, there are hypotheses in mathematics, too, called "conjectures"). You may disagree, but I see statistics as a science, akin to physics; which, perhaps, is why we also have "mathematical statistics."
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> > Quit your job and start doing something meaningful

I think when people say that they forgive that unless you are calling the shots over the direction of the work of a bunch of people, then you are not really moving anything, even at the microlevel you need to be at the helm of a group of 5-6 people to move things at a speed that is not as depresingly slow as watching paint dry.

It's not that easy because quitting your job might mean less burnout but also mean that you'll find yourslef alone without any team and most importantly renouncing your ability to call the shots or influencing the direction of the work in which the team is heading, very quickly you can go from burnout to irrelevance.

At that point the only things you can do in order not to feel like a suck are the things that everybody else is doing alone and hence kinda everybody is doing at the same speed such as learning a new language or becoming stronger at the gym or learning to surf but nobody would be paying you to do that.
I can swear something like 20+ years ago I found a new one too, but I didn’t realize the importance of it. I had just downloaded GIMPS and I was just messing around with it, and when I saw the message I thought “ok, cool!” and proceeded to turn it off.
You will need to tweak things to work for your eyes and preferences. In the glasses field of view, black background = transparency; Solarized background in my editor works for me. Same with web pages, I used a browser extension to change white to something similar to solarized background in vscode. YMMV
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The problem with Bandcamp is neither hypothetical or weak. The problem is that its been sold twice, and is now owned by a company who attempted to fire anyone who tried to unionise, which is a red flag. Will bandcamp be sold again? Yes, very very likely. So that is exactly the problem.
There are some queries that are actually easier to compose in LINQ syntax than even in SQL. However, like everyone else, I rarely find myself actually using it. Anything really complex is done in pure SQL and everything else is method syntax.

But it is slightly more expressively powerful than SQL and way easier to follow, if you need it, than the method syntax.
Airdropping vaccines to eliminate canine rabies in Texas
Aren't the 1s and 3rd points basically just a reversion to how things were pre 9/11? I have a hard time seeing those by themselves as a bad thing.
I'm similar.

I think I would visualize architecture diagrams if they were a good visual representation of how software works, but honestly I think they suck.

As to richard feynman, I think of the other chapter in his book, the one where he invents a whole new math thing without greek letters. But it turns out that his perfect island utopia can't communicate with others and he falls back to the imperfect accepted way of greek letters.
And a leader who lives for drama.
Interesting, thank you!

Perhaps particularly interesting is the fact that it took over thirty years for the earlier article they mentioned and linked to be experimentally confirmed. (Somehow reflects on the entire current situation with academic peer review etc, IMO.)
Relationships and sequences.

But if you want to talk about REAL complex systems talk to a microprocessor logic owner or architect trying to shoot a bug.

A while ago we found a bug that could crash a system (fixed in a new RIT of the chip) if we did X then Y in state … we didn’t know.

Listening to the various leads for the sub-units on a phone call trying to reason about what was happening I found myself visualizing this increasingly complicated steam powered machine, with parts sprawling, tiny gears whirring, and bits zipping about whenever X happened.

It was humbling.
You believe that your definition of the word "science" is actually correct. (I have my doubts.)
Not to dispute your particular comment, which I think is right, but it's worth pointing out we're full steam ahead on paperclips regardless of any AI company. This has been true for some 300 years, longer depending how flexible we are with definitions and where we locate inflection points
It's a good question. I think the user facing stuff has things like brand recognition, customer support, user trust, inertia and other things on its side.

Models don't have this benefit. In Cursor, I can even switch between models. It would take a lot of convincing for me to switch off of Cursor, however.
I sure hope so. It would be nice to not have to deal with that, both as a consumer and a business owner. LOL
The map is not the territory. Est (and its offspring Landmark) talked about this a lot: the distinction between the things that happened and the story we tell ourselves about the things that happened. What would happen if we told ourselves a different story? What are we getting from the current story that keeps us hanging on to it? Etc
X = X + 1

this makes it obvious why theoretical math and theoretical computer science cannot co-exist.
just a guess “visual bell” might fix it perhaps ?
List of Nobel Laureates Who've Warned About Their Work
Reports show some Canada euthanasia deaths driven by social reasons
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The real problem with the platform I think is discoverability, and that will get affected more and more with corporate clutches.

However I do agree with your point overall, I'm struggling to see how this will not go the same path in a few years.
True. ChatGPT has already won me over. I stopped even testing anything else.
Units of measure in F# are useful for more than unit conversion workloads.

They are compile-time type information with no runtime overhead. So if you're using a lot of interrelated arrays, you can make a unit of measure for indices into just a specific type of array. This allows type-level enforcement of never using the wrong index for the wrong array.

Anywhere you might want to keep categories (not category theory) of numeric values distinct from one another without intermixing, units of measure in F# can cover you.
Terray Therapeutics uses AI to accelerate small-molecule drug development
> around $40/person/month over current fees

So 3x the fees, if they're currently at $20/user/month. That's a big jump, and puts the tool in a different spending category as it goes from just another subscription to more like another utility bill in users' minds. The amount of value you're getting out of it is hard to quantify for most people, so I imagine they'd lose customers.

Also there's a clear market trend, and that is that AI services are $20 for the good version, or free. $60 is not a great price to compete in that market at unless you're clearly better.
>Anthropic is doing fine for technical or business customers looking to offer LLM services in a wrapper

If there's an actual business to be found in all this, that's where it's going to be.

The consumer side of this bleeds cash currently and I'm deeply skeptical of enough of the public being convinced to pay subscription fees high enough to cover running costs.
More complexity, but also each of them having less power. Which itself might be a good thing (separation of powers) or a bad thing (inability to stand up against legislative & executive powers).
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And for those not in-the-know, they have incredibly fast shipping; order on the afternoon of one day, get it the next morning. And they aren't charging an arm-and-leg for shipping costs. And you know the provenance of the parts, since there aren't any third-party sellers. And you can get material certs and DFARS compliant items. And you get their curated catalog of quality stuff, and not 50 different shady pressure regulators or whatever. I guess that could all be considered part of the shopping experience. I wish more sites/businesses would strive to be the McMaster-Carr of X.
Thank you for the explanation! I completely understand the rough edges, I have some rough ideas out there myself. Would it be alright if I add a link to your site to our chess club's list of online resources?

I can also make a note of it privately and check back in with you in the future. I found it pretty remarkable that it played a human-like response to some niche openings - I actually ended up checking against Stockfish and it played different moves, which is pretty neat.
You can look at the health outcomes to gauge the efficiency. Does the population in country X live longer? Are infant mortality rates higher? Preventable deaths?

We know the US healthcare system is a ripoff exactly because while the spending as a percentage of GDP in the US is dramatically higher, the measurable outcomes are embarrassingly bad across the board.
Reptiles commonly have their sex determined by the ambient temperature around their egg. Nobody cares whether a sex chromosome is named "X" or "Z".
Let's imagine someone interested in the biology of cats and felines at large. A specialized biologist. They might choose to personally catalog all publications which have use for them, like this article surely might.

But in their catalog of articles, one will have the title: Cats are (almost) liquid

And this is cute, slightly funny, but not correct. From an informational standpoint, this is not related to whether or not cats are liquid. From a material standpoint they consist of both solid, liquid and even gaseous substances. (to the extent we can consider co2 a part of their bodily function)

In a newspaper or such, this would not be a problem, you read it, enjoy it, and move on. But not for serious science. A dry and purely objective title is better in that case, just like how a function should be named based on what it does, not based on some meme regarding what it does.

The paper could be named: Awareness of body flexibility among cats. A function should be named get_employee(), not get_luser().

And the reason why this is true, is because the fad of naming a function get_luser() will become "not worth it" the day someone who didn't understand the meme comes across it, and has to ask you about it. Again especially if you're making a driver/library, something to be used by many, not by just yourself or a few others. And also, the "funny" aspect of it will present a mental hurdle. Instead of simply calling get_employee() in your new context, you will be calling get_luser(), and laughing for a bit and thinking about the bofh comics. Train of thought is lost.

The human mind is limited, and attempting to "capture" it attention leads to an attention arms race. And this arms race leads to tiktok. Which is why we use dry naming for serious pursuits.
I suspect it's more than active traffic management, some of it is bound to be probing streets for which they don't have sufficient data.

I've noticed weird little detours in areas where I'm familiar with but engaged navigation merely for an ETA. To me those little detours that don't save time or avoid construction suggest I'm being used to probe those side streets. It's like being a human ICMP packet.
Do you ever look at your chat history? why? how far back?
It's always that idiot! Whish he wouldn't keep following me from job to job.
Great news for humanity.
We should be fearful because motivation is easy to instill. The hard part is cognition, which is what is what everyone is working on. Basic lifeforms have motivations like self-preservation.
What a ridiculous proposal. Give it back to the Timucans, and if you can't find any, which you won't, consider the Seminoles.

Billy Bowlegs for governor - I know he wouldn't turn the State Parks into golf courses!
I ask myself the question: Could this be of constructive use to other people? If so, there's a moral obligation to keep at it, despite some burden of drudgery to be carried.
My thought is separate out into separate fields because you'll need to later split things apart anyway (like you provided in your example).

To me the bigger question is first/middle/last or given/middle/family.

I now lean back toward first/middle/last as it gives the user the ability to control how their name is represented as they can chose which name goes in first and which in last etc. This seems to best handle Asian name formats, which need to be taken into account because there are plenty of Asians in Western countries now.
Yes, I have a family member with some concerning kidney labs I am trying to help them with.
> In USA/Canada there is cartel enforced cap on how many new doctors can be minted per year, and this cap is not even scaling up with the population growth.

This. The primary purpose of the AMA is to prevent doctors from existing and providing care, all in order to drive up their wealth and status.

Korea has a similar problem right now, their doctors just flexed their power to gain the upper hand economically[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/nx-s1-5113082/as-medical-stri...
Not to endorse project 2025 or Vance, however, Your example is not an endorsement. It's an association which does not in any way imply endorsement.
If you want to create a company- makes sense.

If you want to create a country- better have a good reason, many noble people have done it, many bad people have done it.

If you want to create a religion- you're psycho (or you really are the chosen one)

Notice how Sam's definition of success increases with the probability of psychopathy.
Ohh...thats a name I haven't heard in a while...
along with the purdue compiler construction kit

funny how CLang basically blew right by them in terms of option as a 'base' to build languages on.
Nothing is preventing bad actors from using them to operate computers.
Financial incentives likely, because PG is developed by companies that make money via providing support. Doesn't have to be an insidious plot but just why work on something you know well and that makes you money. MSSQL wants people to pay to upgrade, it behooves them to make it seemless.
I'm an old-school PHP web developer, and my immediate thought is to go to OVH or similar and get a VPS running Ubuntu. A quick run of sudo apt install lamp-server^ and I'm ready to go.
I think you are correct as I recall there is a set of middle game chess puzzles where Stockfish outperformed the other chess engines by a wide margin - I can't find the link as it was years ago. Not sure how the state-of-the-art has progressed since then. But I do believe the "horizon effect" plays a role in whether an engine decides to forcibly draw a game, which afforded Stockfish + NNUE a distinct advantage (at least at the time).
For what it's worth, if they bought the tractor I also think they should be able to call a third party on a Sunday to repair the tractor if it breaks. That is sort of how ownership is supposed to work.
Added support of WireGuard:

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For this to work, though, you would have seen a convergence of all humanity onto the same explanations?

While I think you can almost make the case that there are some commonalities between origin stories, I think you would be stretching credibility a fair bit there.

This also hits a pretty tough point with regards to other animals. Do they have religions?
One could imagine an app that doubles the wait between each failed authentication attempt could exploit this by doggedly trying until the rate limiter breaks. Maybe not the most practical attack, but it is a way this behavior could bite you.
I don't disagree that it was an ideological "essay" but I dunno why you're linking that when it's most associated with Aristotle, in particular:

"What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others."

Maybe you're suggesting that that essay popularized the phrasing? But I'm pretty sure even as a coined "term" it was around before then
That was before DBOS -- the serverless platform that bills you only for CPU time, not wall clock time ;) see https://www.dbos.dev/blog/aws-lambda-hidden-wait-costs
> The goal posts were never moved.

Yes, they were. You started out by saying, "a hypothesis is a statement that can be true or false. That's it." But that isn't "it" as you yourself found it necessary to explain.

> I can't participate in any further discussion

That's fine, I'm writing this response for the benefit of others who might be reading this: not only are both of your claims wrong, they are transparently wrong. "Santa Claus lives at the North Pole" is a statement that can be either true or false (it happens to be false) but it doesn't have the same standing as a scientific hypothesis as, say, "the laws of physics are invariant under Galilean relativity." That happens to be false too, but it is not nearly as false as "Santa Claus lives at the North Pole." And neither of these has anything to do with statistics.

You clearly don't understand the first thing about how the scientific method actually works, starting with the fact that you cannot strip away "the cultural stuff." Science is a human endeavor. It is ultimately about accounting for our subjective experiences because that is all any of us have direct access to. This includes, but is not limited to, the fact that there seems to be this thing people do called "science", which has a bunch of interesting properties and turns out to be tremendously useful. Statistics are only a small part of that endeavor. An important part to be sure, but a small part nonetheless.
I don't visualize anything while programming, most of the time, but once when I was learning how to do recursion, an entire program popped into my head while I was falling asleep, I could see it floating there in front of me.

This happens when I get really OCD about things. I start to visualize fully-formed solutions to problerms. For a while I thought this was a superpower, but after experiencing it a few times, I noticed that when I got OCD, I couldn't be around other people, and my physical health dropped noticeably as I ignored food. I suspect a number of well-known mathematicians experience this.
Didn't the de jure government get involved in WWII with prices caps on wages yet exempting benefits, and this set the stage for the anticompetitive bundling of healthcare with employment? And wasn't the standard of care back then predominantly flavoring plus opium, which has a quite low cost basis?