skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at LLM performance on benchmarks, they keep getting better at a fast rate.[1]

We also now have models of various sizes trained in general matters, and those can now be tuned or fine-tuned to specific domains. The advances in multi-modal AI are also happening very quickly as well. Model specialization, model reflection (chain of thought, OpenAI's new O1 model, etc.) are also undergoing rapid experimentation.

Two demonstrable things that LLMs don't do well currently, are (1) generalize quickly to out-of-distribution examples, (2) catch logic mistakes in questions that look very similar to training data, but are modified. This video talks about both of these things.[2]

I think I-JEPA is a pretty interesting line of work towards solving these problems. I also think that multi-modal AI pushes in a similar direction. We need AI to learn abstractions that are more decoupled from the source format, and we need AI that can reflect and modify its plans and update itself in real time.

All these lines of research and development are more-or-less underway. I think 5-10 years is reasonable for another big advancement in AI capability. We've shown that applying data at scale to simple models works, and now we can experiment with other representations of that data (ie other models or ways to combine LLM inferences).

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_NlkBwdj8
I thought this was about some kind of dock...
What’s the point of Strava? Can’t people easily cheat on the results to outcompete others? Like what happens if I use an e-bike to beat the best times?
Bolt Food is on the showcase page, not Bolt itself, which would be odd not to add both if indeed they were both RN, so seems like one is RN and the other is not, which is basically what the above commenter was saying initially. None of what you said really invalidates their point, because again if you search for RN jobs for Bolt, why would you not also assume it's for the one on the showcase, ie, Bolt Food? Bolt is the company name after all, not just the app name.
It's not a "wasteland" in the usual dry sense. It's too damp. Peat bogs, not dusty plains.

I once rode from Carna to Galway on horseback. It's bleak, and there are many tiny abandoned farms, but that's left over from the days when Cromwell exiled the Catholics. Most of that area never got to industrial scale agriculture. East of Galway, towards Dublin, there's more partitioned farmland, much of which isn't growing useful crops. In County Cork, where the author is, the coastal area to the west is similarly bleak, but the interior regions have farmland. And sheep.

Sheep seem to be the big problem. They will grind vegetation down to nothing. If trees are cut down and sheep brought in, the land stabilizes as overgrazed pasture. Then it won't support many sheep, but what it will support will keep it overgrazed.
The author seems to want to return more of the farmland to its natural bleak state. Maybe with more trees. The author is unhappy that there are "no big and wild areas that have bears and wolves and mountain lions." Bears have been extinct in the wild in Ireland since 1000BC or so. Hard to blame industrial agriculture for that. The last grey wolf was killed in Ireland in 1786. Somebody sighted a mountain lion in Cork County in 2018, and there was a major freak-out.[1] The population is used to a predator-free environment.

[1] https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/ireland-unexplained-...
Looks like it is not a big price differential to get 4x the cheapest Mac mini vs. a fully loaded 64GB mem version with the Mac mini Pro. That and we would end up getting more GPU cores (4x10 vs. 20).

And if this is cross connected with TB4 networking and using exolab, might be good for a nice local setup.

Anyone up to try this out?
I’m looking into migrating to FreshRSS from omnivore now.

Does [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/165nnk6/comment...) solve the email ingestion issue for you?
CA and VMWare were already dead on acquisition.

Splunk+Datadog and AWS+Nutanix+Cohesity respectively ate much of CA and VMWare's marketshare.
Yep pretty much, and 6k 32" monitors. Both are fringe monitors mainly used by mac people.
> Where's the harm in piracy then?

Nintendo and other video game companies don't want to have to compete with their past products. They want you to pay full price for their new games right now because it makes their sales figures look impressive. Older games too often lack the microtransactions, paid DLC, ads, and data collection that can enable companies to continuously extract money from their customers.

There are enough old games in existence today that a person could spend their entire life playing quality video games, be fully entertained, and never once touch a recently created title.

It's harder to keep coming up with new games that people will feel is more worthy of their time than older games. It's easy to just make sure that gamers can't access those great older games so that they're forced to put up with whatever expensive consumer-hostile garbage is on offer right now.

Companies currently have the freedom to keep burying their old games making them unavailable unless/until they choose to overcharge consumers and force them to pay again and again for ports and shitty/censored remakes of the same games they paid for before. They'll fight to keep that freedom.
Trenchant, and it will be confronting for many people. Definitely worth the read. Thanks, @mentaliccally.
Tooth aches in my experience are often unrelated to the tooth but instead due to sinus pressure (an infection, allergies, etc).
Well, with a sickle you hold what you cut, and then you bind it together, so the grain doesn't fall on the ground. With a scythe you will have to somehow pick it up and organize in such a way that you can later collect it (without much dirt stuck to it etc.)

NB. In high-school, I worked one summer cleaning and otherwise maintaining the local after-school building. It had a huge lawn behind it, which I had to trim with a scythe once every few weeks. So, I thought I knew how to do that reasonably well...

And then, one day, some years later, me and few friends of mine went on a trip into the mountains, and we put our tent, as we later discovered, on some farmer's field. He got mad at us, and wanted us to cut the grass for him, as a form of compensation. Using a scythe on an incline, as opposed to flat surface is a... whole different story. I lodged it into the ground a few times, and then the farmer almost killed us :) In the end, we bought him some alcohol and left.

So, the moral of the story: scythe might not be always the best tool, and in some situations it's far from obvious how to use it efficiently.
If you get lots of repetition in your day job, wouldn’t you want lots of novelty in your spare time?
I mentored junior SWE and CS students for years, and now using Claude as a coding assistant feels very similar. Yesterday, it suggested implementing a JSON parser from scratch in C to avoid a dependency -- and, unsurprisingly, the code didn’t work. Two main differences stand out: 1) the LLM doesn’t learn from corrections (at least not directly), and 2) the feedback loop is seconds instead of days. This speed is so convenient that it makes hiring junior SWEs seem almost pointless, though I sometimes wonder where we’ll find mid-level and senior developers tomorrow if we stop hiring juniors today.
I think if you reflect on the purpose of a bandaid a little bit, you would come to understand why your own analogy is bad.
I use Chatgpt for coding / API questions pretty frequently. It's bad at writing code with any kind of non-trivial design complexity.

There have been a bunch of times where I've asked it to write me a snippet of code, and it cheerfully gave me back something that doesn't work for one reason or another. Hallucinated methods are common. Then I ask it to check its code, and it'll find the error and give me back code with a different error. I'll repeat the process a few times before it eventually gets back to code that resembles its first attempt. Then I'll give up and write it myself.

As an example of a task that it failed to do: I asked it to write me an example Python function that runs a subprocess, prints its stdout transparently (so that I can use it for running interactive applications), but also records the process's stdout so that I can use it later. I wanted something that used non-blocking I/O methods, so that I didn't have to explicitly poll every N milliseconds or something.
"They were using a toy wand that gathers static charge to levitate lightweight objects, such as a balloon." -- How much science progresses through play.
In video form (the Guardian article talks about a Le Monde investigation):

- Pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQKnV0zsMc

- Pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX7f1PwXEWg
> On GLP-1 agonists, you don’t get nearly the counterbalancing reduction in energy expenditure you usually see with caloric restriction

And that's mostly related to how much you move. If the body needs to reduce energy expenditure, there isn't much it can cut that's non essential that will make a difference, other than activity and movement in general. So you feel like laying on the couch all day.

I haven't tried GLP-1 myself, but reports seem to indicate that GLP-1 drugs make you feel _tired_, which is basically the same thing. So I am not sure the body is fooled that easily.

> many people have totally decompensated metabolically

Around 88% of americans have some level of metabolic dysfunction so that tracks. Numbers worldwide are trending up.

> and essentially cannot recover without some kind of treatment.

They can. Going back to a healthy food intake will fix anything that's not permanently damaged(and if it is permanently damaged, there isn't much medicine can do either). That can be sped up with other measures, such as fasting.

I am a bit skeptical of trying to fix a problem that was mostly created by the food industry with medication. GLP-1 isn't without side effects.

Cutting sugars and simple carbs in general has very similar effects and will decrease your hunger hormones as well. I think everybody should try that first before relying on medical interventions.

Besides, carbs tend to make you retain a lot of liquid. Drastically cutting them usually improves fluid retention, people see changes pretty quickly in the scale, and that can motivate them to continue. Do that long enough and even eating habits will change and so will your palate. A soda becomes unbearable.
MSFT is up more today than it was during Steve Ballmer's 14 year tenure. It's up 1%.
Cell phone tracking _is_ what the military has.

Seeing through walls with WiFi is better. Or slurping up the main pipes and decrypting it. Which they also have.
You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
I agree it is an issue but it is how many people work and think. Most of the time they are not even wrong. "Hey, I have variables and loops, I know that!".

I would even make the case for expert tools being as unsurprising and familiar as possible unless there is a very good reason for them not to. Also they should be robust against misuse and guide the user towards good practices. There are always beginners, people that rarely need to use it, people that do programming as "just a job" and people that make mistakes because they are distracted, tired or just human. Something like "rm -r /" is a good reminder of that for many people.

Plus there are already a lot of tools required. Reading a book about every tool I have to use would be unpractical for most projects. Maybe more expert tools should just be tools. The same way I can now just use Ubuntu and get a working desktop system including drivers for most common hardware. If I compare that to the past where I installed a Linux distribution and then found out I lack a driver for my network card but I need to download it from the internet... I still can modify my system if I need to, but it's nice that I don't have to. I think we can do similar things with many parts of development and free some capacity for other tasks.
Great point!

(Disclaimer: I work for Elastic)

Elasticsearch has recently added a data type called semantic_text, which automatically chunks text, calculates embeddings, and stores the chunks with sensible defaults.

Queries are similarly simplified, where vectors are calculated and compared internally, which makes a lot less I/O and a lot simpler client code.

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/semantic-search-simp...
To be totally honest, there's enough money in the ML / AI / LLM space now that I fully expect some companies to put forward alternative cards specifically for that purpose. Why google does not sell their TPU to consumer and datacenter instead of just letting you rent is beyond me.
Don’t worry, the politicians keep changing the rules of what to teach and how: no two years are the same.
If your ultrawide is anything like mine, it also has a setting that lets it register as two separate monitors (PIP/PBP mode), which is like having two monitors without the bezel, but with the convenience of "there's an edge" in the middle of your screen when doing regular desktop work.

Does require two cables of course, but if you're driving an ultrawide, you're probably using a graphics card with three or four outputs anyway.
this makes sense since the general consensus on HN is that any general consensus on HN is right so if the general consensus on HN that any general consensus on HN is right is wrong then any general consensus on HN could be wrong
What's GLP-1?
Reality warps when you and everyone you know pulls $200k+ annually.
Nowadays, I just read manuals, docs and books. I mostly use search as a quick online TOC or for that specific errors I’m in no mood to debug.
This is the kind of reason I pay for good journalism. Not to get some endorsement for an election. I can make up my own mind. I want someone to do the searching and write up.
Hello HN,

I wrote about my journey developing a block editor (a la Notion) from scratch in Qt C++ and QML.

Flutter seems to gain quite a lot of popularly lately, but I wanted to show that Qt can also be a performant and efficient alternative to web apps deployed on desktop (via Electron, etc).

You can clearly see in the benchmarks how much more efficient my block editor is compared to existent solutions and how far behind web apps are.

I also tried to stress how, with enough effort, one can create a Qt app that looks and behave similarly to a native app.

When I try to design a beautiful thing, it starts with beauty that convey meaning, function. While visually appealing by itself is nice, it's always the function, the meaning of interaction that should come first. Some examples I've shared in the blog post:

1. Drag and drop → https://rubymamistvalove.com/blog/drag_and_drop_internal.mp4 - the dragged items simply pop from their place and the rest of the items make room for it. This is an intuitive design that makes a lot of sense for end users.

2. Selecting multiple notes shows cards stack → https://rubymamistvalove.com/blog/cards_stack.mp4 - while visually appealing, it also conveys the action the user performs (similarly to how macOS Mail does the same).

It's been 1 year of development since I started this. Would love to hear your thoughts.
I have been using a 32" monitor for the last 10 years. I have found that I am using mostly the center of the monitor. The peripheral edges remain unused.

If I sit far from the monitor, then the FOV could be reduced, but then I have to increase the font size defeating the very purpose of maximizing screen real estate.
That's more or less what I wrote in my last sentence, right? (that you left off...)

> It's really needle in the haystack that you find the right non-technical partner that can sell into an industry and is motivated by entrepreneurship.

The right candidate with the right mindset is very hard to find.
Broadcom has some really good chips and their semi-custom chip business is pretty successful. HN doesn't understand hardware so they don't know this.
It is frustrating, as this info should be free and accurate. Publishers only benefit if devs can play with it and build cool stuff. Google Books does have an API, but crazy rules, it can be used for private projects.

Ya, I am focused on the global English market, so USA, UK, Australia, Ireland, India, and English-speaking readers globally (a lot in Europe).

I would love to do other languages, but I just don't have the resources yet to handle that level of complexity. My hope is one day I can. I'd probably start with Spanish, French, or German.

Agreed, ISBN should be free! They are $$$.
RIP botsin.space
So TSMC will eventually work with podcasting bro

>TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion
> Is it ever possible to give a completely compelling argument that two proofs are genuinely different?

I think in some cases, we can. Sometimes one of the proofs generalizes better than the other because it uses strictly fewer assumptions. It seems fair to say those would have to be inequivalent.
Technically true but till date all the evidence about people weaning off it is against it. The social media addiction has become worse over the years and the companies serving this are valued at trillions. So what you say is technically true but it has a smaller chance of it happening than meta failing to monetize AI
> guarantee that `errno` is in TLS

I mean, that is already true.
How did you get it in a custom dimension? I'm almost tempted to just put two of my current desk back to back to make it deeper, would probably be much cheaper than 2k, but then again, they're not standing desks.
If you’re good at teaching, you’ll care more about the differences in the kids from year to year, surely?
“What knockers!”

“Oh, sank you…”
drop the "medical", it's cleaner.
Any good deep desks that you've found so far?
Damn they're giving under 3 weeks to export before you lose all of your data? That's insane! If I were on an extended vacation and missed this, my data would be gone when I get back.

They _really_ should increase that to be longer! Switch to read-only, but give at least 3-6 months to export. That's crazy otherwise
I find it very hard to believe that majority of people prefer app consistency over platform consistency.

One example, I'm pretty sure there are thousands more: Why does every UI detail, except the logo, of Spotify looks and feels different in Android, Android Auto and PC/laptop? Because Spotify did not study what the market wants?
Chip Odyssey 2006: The Start of the Modern Chip Era
Recently tried it. Couldn't find one with a high enough PPI for my liking.

Ended up with two vertical 4k monitors. Side bonus: I can put my web cam dead center in front of me.
Bought some of these when my kids were between 3-5 yo. Several years ago they re-published a series of them, including the cars and trucks, what do people do all day, the funny stories, and a few others (I think 6 books in total). I got the entire series at B&N, they were easily the favorite books of my youngest who was about 4 or 5 at the time. I had no idea they were so old!
I think this might be a general reference to the ever declining efficacy of manual targeting after ATT/GDPR.

So even if automatic (black box) targeting merely maintains its effectiveness, it’s relatively better for advertisers to shift spend towards it at the margin.
This is why I only use Strava to share with my followers.

Yes, it's an extra step after my workout to edit, add pics if any, choose my activity level if I was too lazy to put on my HR monitor, and then only post to my followers.

Yes, this means I get less likes and can't participate in challenges etc. But it's really about sharing with my colleagues and friends so they can motivate me for my next ride.
> The author is unhappy that there are "no big and wild areas that have bears and wolves and mountain lions." Don't let your children play outside.

You're being glib but overfarming does drastically reduce ecological diversity, which has a downstream impact on the health of the environment as a whole.

In fact, Ireland's biodiversity collapse is one of the worst in Europe [0].

The British Plantation system really did a number on Ireland, as much of Ireland during colonial rule was converted into ranches and plantations to export beef globally.

Ever wondered why Corned Beef is a thing on St Paddy's Day among the diaspora? That's why - native Irish were too poor to buy Irish Corned Beef that was exported abroad to the UK, America, Canada, Australia, etc.

[0] - https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2023/0...
I do this too, though mostly out of necessity. I use a 27" screen a couple feet away. To get the top of the monitor level with my eyes I'd either have to lower it so the bottom of the monitor was almost flush with the desk (which my current monitor's stand won't do anyway), or get a taller chair/lower my desk, both of which would leave my legs rubbing up against the desk underside and my arms at an uncomfortable angle for typing.

Either I have an abnormally short torso, or that advice was written back when most people were using a 14" display.
The issue in this case is pretty plainly that the application does not subscribe to the conventions of its host UI. I'm sure there is no objective reason why we need to conform to any convention, except that there is one.
> But this is looking like an absolute miracle

What are you referring to here? The muscle-preserving medication? Are GLP-1s actively reducing your muscle mass, or is it the fact that people on them ate very little and didn't tend to exercise?
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A GLP-1 drug trial 12 years ago by a major pharma company was stopped because of increased suicide risk (2 in 10,000) among the cohort.

We will see what happens long term the second time around.
I’m using sqlite-vec along with FTS5 in (you guessed it) SQLite and it’s pretty cool. :)
Bummer. I recently watched One from the Heart for the first time. (I really enjoyed it. Not sure why it was so poorly received at the time.)

One thing I noticed looking at the cast was that the three male stars had died but the three women stars were still alive. I can't say that anymore. :-(

I ended up watching all of Garr's appearances on Letterman. Someone collected them all on YouTube[1]. She was a really funny lady and she had a great repartee with Letterman.

The obit doesn't mention it but she's had multiple sclerosis at least since 1982 and disclosed it in 2002.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf9uQf6iuM (1/5. Links to all 5 parts in the video description.)
For something that's more of a substantial story than things like Cars & Trucks or Busy Busy Town, let me put in a word for Peasant Pig and the Terrible Dragon. My kids had it pretty much memorized long before they could read it for themselves.
That's $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
LegalEagle – Musk's $1M Voting Lottery Illegal? [video]
she was Maxine, Enid's father's new-old girlfriend who was re-introducing herself back into Enid's family-life (to Enid's dismay).[0]

apologies for the horrible picture URL, it's a picture of the character Maxine.

[0]: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2K83FJR/bob-balaban-teri-garr-film...
You could, but you could also use a model that's not restricted so much that it cannot do simple tasks.
Strava is a social app with a gamification angle. I use the social to share my rides (only) with people who follow me and to view people I follow to get inspired.

I also use the gamification to compete - but really only against myself.
You can set your activities to be private by default, you don't need to change it for every activity individually after you upload it.