skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you see the performance gains? Even in marginal case (with caching) 4.6s => 0.15s resolution (compared to poetry). Even better when there are cache misses

Respectfully, your dogmatism doesn't seem to serve you with numbers like that
Literal check fraud.
It's not black and white like this. There is such a thing as having to many employees and such a thing as having too little. I think realistically, most of the time, it's a mix.
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Hey HN,

I'm Serdar, and after getting laid off, I found myself drowning in job applications. LinkedIn, Dice, Otta and company websites were exhausting and demoralizing.

That's why my friend and I created Wobo (wobo.ai) – an AI recruiter that automates the entire process. But Wobo goes beyond just matching keywords on your resume. We use LLMs and a series of specialized questions to create a detailed "persona" of you, capturing not just your skills and experience, but also your personality and how you approach different situations.

Here's how Wobo works:

Gets to know you: We analyze your responses to reveal your work style, how you handle challenges, and what motivates you.

We find jobs that fit YOU: We go beyond basic skills matching to find jobs that really fit your personality and preferences. We even use a "similarity score" to see how well a job matches your profile. If it's not a good fit, we won't apply

Application questions: Wobo uses your "persona" to answer those personality-revealing questions in a way that showcases your best self.

We've been developing Wobo for over two years and have 14,000+ users. One user recently told us that Wobo gave him back the time to spend with his daughter – that's exactly the kind of impact we're hoping to make.

Think of Wobo as your personal job search assistant, working tirelessly in the background so you can focus on what matters most.

Have questions about Wobo? Ask me anything! I'm happy to answer them.
> As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change.

Ah yes, there it is. Maybe roll yourself into the 20% at least.
Now that everyone is using laptops, it’s the year of the Linux desktop. The old clunkers under our desks are all Linux.
Can't answer for them, but: lots of us are older and need glasses. To really benefit from your preferred resolution would mean tiny fonts that give me eyestrain. It makes sense for a phone or tablet held close up; for a monitor a meter away it mainly just increases the expense at every level (including video ram and bandwidth). OTOH more area is worth spending more on.
They could throw an ad platform on it in 5 minutes if they wanted to.
I have no idea what they were selling. Are they selling a free operating system?
Prayer and pointing to Mecca seems pretty simple on the moon - but if Ramadan is based on when you can see the moon, it seems that Ramadan would start as soon as the person in charge walks by a window.
The Ubuntu ad could also have been for any version of Ubuntu since 14.04, or maybe even earlier. There's nothing that distinguishes 24.04 in there from what I can tell.
Great question, and what you're referring to is an appeal to authority, which is a common logical fallacy. It absolutely warrants further examination.

In the case of von Neumann, I mention him because he is the one who introduced the concept to the public. It is something he spent a great deal of time thinking about. He spent his life working around technology and had some incredible insights. Many consider him the smartest person to ever live, though in my opinion there are plenty contenders. He made key contributions to the development of computers, nuclear tech, quantum mechanics, mathematics and more. [0]

So I believe all of this truly does lead credence to the idea, at least enough to warrant sufficient research before dismissal. It's not his authority I appeal to, it's his experience. He didn't obsess over this idea for no reason, and his well-documented achievements aren't comparable to random flash-in-the-pan tech executives.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-von-Neumann
Ultra low-latency routing between RAG agents
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The severance packages suck.

COBRA is the single largest expense for departing employees. Industry standard is to offer 18 months, not 6.

Many job searches take longer than 6 months, so employees will be left high and dry right when they need it most.
It really depends what you're building.

If you're building code that's going to go in some medical system, or a space shuttle, then yeah, you probably want to write every small function with great detail.

If you're creating some silly consumer app like a "what will your baby look like in 5 years", then code quality doesn't matter you just need to ship fast. Most startups just need to ship fast to validate some ideas, 99% of your code will be deprecated within a few months
Remarkable then, how that entire advertisement managed to not mention Linux once in its entire 85 seconds of runtime.
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Sounds like a repeat of blockchain hype. Biggest threat here is replacing the cultural zeitgeist of "let me google that for you" with "let me GPT that for you".
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Is THE famous HN comment going to turn out to be right all along?!
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Hi HN!

I built Routing24 to make route optimization easier and accessible for small businesses and solo drivers.

With Google Maps, you can plan routes between a few locations for free, but it doesn’t support efficient multi-stop planning, handling multiple vehicles, or adding specific business rules like delivery time windows.

Many tools offer route optimization for around $30 per vehicle per month, but Routing24 provides it completely free. Optimization happens fully on the client-side, using your device’s resources instead of cloud servers.

The interface is simple for now: you can import/export using Excel, and there’s a web UI to edit and view imported data and optimized routes. Data is saved or uploaded anywhere, and one browser tab runs one optimization. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap, and the solver is built in C++/WASM, using public domain algorithms.

I’d love to hear any feedback as I keep developing it. Thanks, and I hope it’s useful!
There's basically two places where I see it as being useful -- as part of an automation pipeline where you need some translation layer from natural language to structured data or vice versa, and when the user knows it's an LLM and _wants to interact with an LLM_. I never want to see LLM generated content as an end user when I haven't specifically asked for it.
Yesterday I was walking in Greece and saw a sign I couldn't read so asked my Meta glasses and it gave me a translation and short explanation quickly, which was very helpful.

But generally, yes the uses aren't there. In the Apple AI video, the worst is that the 'more professional' text, actually reads much less professional.

If someone in a business situation sends you an AI generated email (and it's obviously AI it's so easy to tell) it makes it seem like they are unable to write English properly, giving the opposite impression than intended.
> I'm, personally not a fan of the current generation or implementation of AI and do not want to use it.

Why not? It gives vastly better than human performance across a wide range of problems. Just this morning I asked Chat GPT to find me the smallest set of positive integers whose median is 2 and whose average is 3.75, and it just spit out the correct answer instantly. That would have been an enormous pain in the ass to figure out how to do manually, but instead I got it done while in the middle of packing my kids' lunches for school.
If leetcode wasn't hard enough to make a good programmer fail now and then, there would be no point to it.
Between multi-generation farm families, how much money a farmer has on the line in just one pig, and the fact that an angry pig is quite capable of killing an adult human - I really don't believe the simple stuff described in the article is anything remotely resembling a new discovery.
I already know of dividends, but besides that and interest, I don't really know of many others.

Would love to hear some ideas for passive income that you have encountered and have experienced.
uv also manages the Python version as well, and it doesn't require jumping through hoops and hacking to get it to play nicely with Docker. uv is much more of a production-ready setup than pip or poetry from my experience moving to uv over the last few weeks
That’s actually a pretty low salary but I just looked up their revenue numbers and it’s not looking that hot. They are also hemorrhaging cash this year. His salary and the performance of the company were probably a good foreshadowing of the layoffs
I'd like to know the rationale behind these weird timezones, in particular non-hourly offsets to UTC. Why was it chosen that way? Why is it being upheld? It must be a big hassle.

Why not switch to a normal 60 minute offset to UTC?
It's not clear to me that they are building an alternate type checker per se

Seems like `ruff server` is an LSP?
He makes $1.5M.

That's like 2 L7 jobs at Facebook.

How much do you think he should make? $100k?

He's worth $2B because he co-founded the company and the value of the company has sky-rocketed.

Not because he paid himself $2B of corporate profits.

$1.5M for a CEO is actually not much - because why get paid that much when you're already worth $2B?

The median for a Fortune 500 is $17M.
It may signal virtue, but it has direct, practical, beneficial impacts on the company. I don’t see why that would be virtue signaling.

What would someone need to do in order to avoid being reduced to a virtue signaller?
To be fair, since the Apple Watch introduced heart rate monitoring and other "medical" features, there have been numerous reported cases of it saving a persons life, from detecting heart conditions to detecting falls.
Ernest Hemingway once said, “I’m sorry for the long letter, I didn’t have time for a shorter one.”

With Apple Intelligence, now you do.
I have tried to learn rust and borrow checker is no problem but I can't get lifetimes and then Rc, Box, Arc Pinning along with async Rust are a whole another story.

Having programmed in raw C, I know Rust is more like Typescript if you once try it after writing Javascript, you can't go back for anything serious in plain Javascript. You would want to have some guard rails better than having no guard rails.
> One of them had a guy ask the glasses to describe what was in front of his face, and then he remarked “wow that’s accurate” (there are people skateboarding). The guy wasn’t blind. His use of the glasses made little sense.

On the other hand, this is a pretty common scenario: user is surprised when AI gets something right :) Not sure it’s the best showcase of a product, though …
But it seems like Apple could make "fetch" happen in the past. Their ads were very aspirational, almost like you could become an Olympian if you just owned a Macintosh. These ads though, they're not about "you can do more". They're about "you can care less".
The Ubuntu animation tells me nothing a short bullet point list couldn't. If you're going to create a video, show me something. Don't just tell Ubuntu is secure and put little boxes around a few icons – show me that Ubuntu is secure.

I don't love the Apple ads, but they are at least showing me some evidence of the features they're saying exist in Apple Intelligence.
I remember iPods being advertised as, like, very cool. Remember all the ads with, like, the silhouettes dancing on colorful backgrounds? I can see thinking these ads were a bit over the top and silly, like a corporate ad exec’s idea of what is cool, but they definitely intended to be cool.

The people in these new ads are lame and clearly Apple intends to portray them as lame.
But sometimes, watching a teacher work through a problem can actually demystify the process
This Toad Is So Tiny That They Call It a Flea
Generally, short buff folks aren't having breakdowns about being overweight and unhealthy.
Easy to switch, easy to know what you have on each one. Easy to move windows to different desktops. I go years between trying them and always get frustrated by how poorly they work, but it has been so long since my last attempt that I don't remember exactly what annoyed me last time I tried.
You might also find Sonic Pi interesting: https://sonic-pi.net/
Pyright was itself a big improvement over Mypy. Just look at this for starters: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/python/typ...

If Astral can leapfrog Pyright too, great. But I think it will be significantly harder than leapfrogging Flake8 and Black was.
Correct

I wonder how much of (people self diagnosing themselves with) autism is actually related to other circumstances like lack of media literacy, lack of familiarity with social circles/norms (or lack of cultural knowledge)

The Ubuntu ad is not bad certainly but it is meh, and where it lacks is where it goes on the tech mode.
More like one of those hover chairs from Wall-E
Maybe this will convince you?

https://youtu.be/zvbTDUSz8Cc?si=IdlMNjydYgbZH_6n
Great article, fun to read.

The shadow overlap in MGS is not completely incorrect as there's ambient light, scattering and other similar global illumination phenomena.

>Mirror’s Edge (2008, PC) is basically Lightmaps: The Game.

Lol, true. Impressive game at the time, and even nowadays.
https://archive.ph/LjOB8
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I think you nailed it. And coming from Apple, the company that established its cred by touting creativity, individuality, and innovating, it's a wild shift.

Apple in 1997 [1]:
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Apple today:
"Very Victorian, which I loved."

[1] https://thebrandhopper.com/2023/08/20/apple-top-commercials-...
> "then it is" what? economically viable? He still needs 100% backup from other sources, so you have to factor that cost in.

Nope, you do not need to factor that in. If I put solar panels on my house, I check if it's worth the cost/investment. I am not intending to go fully off-grid, that is not the aim. Similarly for a solar plant. If it's economically viable it means if there's a good return on investment.

> He still needs 100% backup from other sources, so you have to factor that cost in.

Again, if you put solar panels up or if you have a solar plant it does not make any sense to factor in such costs to make a business case/economical sense. You're adding complications that aren't there.
I absolutely despise rufus. I used to be able to search questions and reviews instantaneously. Now I need to wait for rufus to poorly summarize everything, tap at least 2-3 times, and then get to see the search results. Talk about piss poor UX.
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I do think AMD has way more headroom to grow. So maybe that high P/E could have some justification.
So… maybe 15 or 20 years ago I had setup MySQL servers such that some replicas had different indexes. MySQL only had what we would now call logical replication.

So after setting up replication and getting it going, I would alter the tables to add indexes useful for special purposes including full text which I did not being built on the master or other replicas.

I imagine, but can not confirm, that you could do something similar with PostgreSQL today.
Nordstream was already out of use when it was sabotaged, and the death of the German economy is greatly overstated.

Things are not fine, but companies still can afford to buy Nvidia cards.
Could you make a comparison between FlyCode and Stripe Dunning / stunning.co [1]?
When should a B2B SaaS reach for FlyCode (an app on Stripe Marketplace) vs Stripe Dunning (I'm actually unsure if it's their own offering or not)?

[1]: https://stunning.co/
Ruby: https://sonic-pi.net/

JavaScript: https://dittytoy.net/

Oxygene Pt 4 in JS: https://dittytoy.net/ditty/59b8a8d54d
Sounds like it’s time for an AI that writes emails like a busy tech executive:

“no big deal. get it done.
steve”
I think this article about the research is good, even though the headline seems a bit off:
https://venturebeat.com/ai/study-finds-llms-can-identify-the...
Malloc(0) & Realloc( ，0) = 0
Chat GPT what should i wear, if i were emperor?
"Most emperors in my stories are going out naked."
Also prior to 2010 you wouldn’t be a senior engineer after 3 years of experience making $180k/yr. The staff and principal engineering roles paying <$100k are still super safe jobs
No LLM is ever a canonical source of knowledge. Everything in the corpus is just added to the string of text embeddings, which affects the overall likelihood that any particular word will come out next after your prompt. In other words, no retrieval is happening so there's no "correct" information to retrieve. Only prediction is happening.

If the bulk of the corpus contains the old, outdated information, you're more likely to get that back from your prompt just because it's had more weightings applied to it than the newer info. Sometimes you can add extra emphasis to your prompt to pull out a prediction closer to what you want. For example, if an answer refers to the old version you can say, "That was correct for the previous version but I'm asking about the version of GitHub that supports LaTeX math rendering in Markdown after May 2022." Adding those extra words to your prompt might surface what you want -- if it's in there to begin with.
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So it's a symbiotic relationship to the food industry, not fighting back. In this way, the food industry can continue to earn profits off its products while bigPharma now as a new revenue stream that benefits from results of the food industry's decisions. Again, I do not see this as fighting back in any shape. It's some clever people seeing a way to profit off of the other industry.
You can’t be serious. This package sucks specifically because of the healthcare.

Industry standard is to offer 18 months of COBRA, not 6. Job searches frequently take way longer than that.

COBRA is a huge deal for departing employees. My single largest expense is health insurance for my partner and I, more so than even rent.
I am terrible with names. If I use my phone to remind me the name of a person who I describe to my phone where and when I met a person, I wouldn’t classify that as a lie. This is a stretch. I remember the person. I remember the interaction. I remember where and when we met. I just can’t remember names, even of people who I work with but only bump into sporadically. I call bs.

Edit: the ad in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe8revsg3k
What is it selling? And where do you buy it? It’s a terrible ad.
Sorry, but I don’t see them as the author. I love these ads.
Absolutely nobody is going to see these ads and to "Ah, well, now that I have seen this ad I will start lying".

That person is already lying about stuff. We've all done it.

I think the real indictment against Apple (and AI more broadly) is that this is the best use case for their supposedly revolutionary technology that they could come up with.
What is this "Ubuntu" and how can I use it? As a consumer, what does it mean to me that it's "Certified"? Certified in what?

Apple's ads show you the product, how you can use it and how you and the people around you feel after using it (like you took a sneaky shortcut and happy, respectively).
Asking about someone's name is isn't the lie. Bragging to them about how you remembered their name is. And the latter is the scenario in this ad:

> 0:16 Bella: Zac!

> 0:17 Zac: Oh wow, I didn't think you'd remember me.

> 0:19 Bella: Yeah of course, as soon a I saw you I'm like, it's Zac, nobody walks like Zac.
I agree that the ads miss their mark, and I think a better ad would have instead focused on how it could have _prevented_ the awkward situation to begin with, rather than awkwardly helping you cover it up after the fact.
Those employees were costing more than the value they were creating.

If the marginal product of labor is lower than the marginal cost of labor, the company should reduce headcount. If higher, the company should increase headcount.
> when any two shadows, one from each light

@fregus explicitly described a scene with two light sources. Thus the question about your reading comprehension.
I was actually thinking of creating a python-pipx but for uv instead in archlinux (because arch has some workarounds to do with in pip , you can't just do pip install something , you need to do it with pacman)

I really hope that any developer is reading this and is interested in this project , they do this. because I don't feel like doing it but I honestly feel its impact because I wanted to try nomadnet once on arch machine and I tried pipx and it was so slow
> Yesterday I was walking in Greece and saw a sign I couldn't read so asked my Meta glasses and it gave me a translation and short explanation quickly, which was very helpful.

Like other attempts at AI wearables like the Rabbit and Humane pins, I think that falls under "maybe useful but why wouldn't I just do the same thing with the phone that I'm carrying anyway".
I believe you'll find that the London number you mention is the average density of the Greater London Metropolitan Area.

The City of Westminster has a day-time population of around 1 million people, and its area is around 8 sq miles; (doing casual searching).
> I think the right abstraction for today would be for OpenAI to manage the vector search

So I disagree, but they have a very easy-to-use RAG system in beta that does what you want.

In my use cases, fine-grained control over chunking and so on is application-level code. I’m using an LLM to split documents into subdocuments with context (and location) and then searching those subdocuments, while pushing the user to the source
It's the grey goo of manager-speak. It rides both sides, but never truly picks one.

The other two options: blame employees(someone not you), or take some form of punishment as an individual.

I too do it sometimes, and I feel bad each time. I at least tell people what it is and that it's just the reality of the situation. I'm not gonna commit career suicide and jeopardize my family's livelihood but I also won't blame them. So I follow the meaningless middle road where the status quo mostly stays and we all at least learn from it.
> Didn't they at some point see that they have more people than valuable work, and maybe we should deal with that problem instead of hiring another team to place even more bets?

Well, part of the overhire spree was to prevent other companies from hiring the talent.

IMHO, that's both disgusting and abusive.
> are not to be prescribed for cosmetic weight loss

We don't really know the coworker's medical conditions.

Also, I'm not sure that achieving a positive self-image isn't worthwhile. With any drug you take, you balance the positives and negatives. I really don't know the negative side effects of these GLP-1 drugs, but if it turns out the negatives are low and the cost isn't too high, I'm really not sure why we'd want to keep people from using them how they want.