skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the ultimate goal is to crowdsource a high quality set of browser sessions to train an open source local model.

Could you say more on this? I see that it's an open-source implementation of PLAN with Selenium and Claude's Cursor, but where will the "successes" of browser sessions be stored? Also, will it include an anonymization feature to remove PII from authenticated use cases?
I'm still surprised the "dumb phone for kids" and "dumb watch with basic comms" markets are so underdeveloped (from my perspective). I would love my kids to have (a) gps tracking, (b) ability to send texts/calls to like 5 predefined numbers, (c) tell the time, and nothing else. But watches all seem to have games or weird gamified fitness trackers (Google's new fitbit for kids). Or they are super kid-ish, like bright blue with animal icons, and would be revolting to my older kids. That would make it easy to wait until 9th grade for a more feature-rich phone, though maybe still not unfettered access.

Does anyone have a basic watch/dumbphone solution for older kids that they like?
Would False Positive be a good name for a medical screening service?
I’ve been starting to see a shift in my use of ChatGPT. Over the past few months, I’ve started using it more for “knowledge” questions (eg: Can you give me a list of genes involved in disease X?). Where before I would have used Google for such a thing, LLMs have gotten good enough that for quick searches, they are “good enough”. Yes, you still need to validate the results, but it’s usually a very good start.

Bonus points for then being able to ask for the results in a specific format.

I’m looking forward to seeing how a feature built search engine starts to look.
I don't understand those people who hope that LLM-based search will reduce or eliminate ads in search results. And that's not going to happen. You're conflating two orthogonal problems. In fact, LLM is much more expensive so you will need more aggressive ads to fund it. And ads in LLM based search engine will be harder to remove since it's deeply ingrained in the generated result.

The fundamental problem is that ads based business model is much more lucrative then subscription based one. It's even more extreme when you take account of a prospective view, since you have control on ads shown which gives you a large margin for future revenue improvements compared to rigid subscription models. Unless you have a way to change this dynamic, you're going to eventually see ads in search results, regardless of its format.
I think it more points to how different people behave, and so how channels end up needing different settings to deal with different sets of people.

Sometimes @channel is important, because everyone in the channel knows to use it sparingly.

Sometimes one person just constantly spams @channel in every message.

So you do need different settings.

So you need the nuance to deal with the nuance of people.
demand for generalists? where do u live?

i have 35+ years. Been quite a few places and hats. Dozens of languages, assemblers, client/server, UI+UX, Prolog, hardware down to transistors, even mechanics ; methodologies and cultures, ..., you-name-it. i bet my cv is too-long-didnt-read.

And Noone gives a damn. They all look for their 3y "senior js dev" and don't see anything else. And those "seniors" grow on trees anyway.
Haha, having "high intensity" conversations was one of the things I was thinking of bringing up but couldn't find a concise way to express in the time I had to write the comment. I've written letters where I was like, this is either going to help this other person, or completely destroy our relationship. On the other hand, there are loads of conversations that I won't have, because I don't really foresee "moving the needle" of the other person (or anyone reading / listening to the conversation), and just having the conversation would get me really worked up and angry for no good reason.

Re not talking to a potential powder keg, if you're interested the opinion of one ancient guy a lot of people look to for advice:

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces." -Jesus
That seems strange. I guess the "apply motor torque to speed up wheel" dynamic stability control would be slower to apply torque when in neutral, when control has been lost?

Or is there some effect in the rubber from engine braking that make the front wheel more "prepared"?
TIL emalloc() auto-exits on out-of-memory errors
Apple Watches have been great for us. Both of my kids (ages 10 & 13) use a cellular Apple Watch which gives them a way to call/text with us and their friends but it doesn't give them access to social media. I know they'll want a phone soon (my youngest is already asking) but it's an easy "no" for us. I think waiting until around age 14 (or later) sounds about right. I'd like to delay even longer if possible. We'll see how hard they push.
In this day and time, I'll believe it when it really happens. Depending on what happens next week, the CHIPS act could be repealed early next year.
From molecule to medicine, with Ross Rheingans-Yoo
Oh, absolutely—this wasn't meant as a value judgement. I've written my fair share of objective-c for this very reason (well, that and wanting to write native GUIs ages ago). I'm just saying the parallels between it and smalltalk are highly exaggerated.
The Backrooms Wiki
There's been a lot of dancing plagues, not just the 1518 one.
"Elizabeth Holmes says lack of working blood tests is delaying the company's products."

If you're spending (and losing) tens of billions a year and still can't afford a fundamental input to your product, then that's a sign that your company might not be viable given the present state of technology.
Addendum: in retrospect, I do regret my dismissive tone. It wasn’t terribly nice. I’m sure that the developers of the feature are very proud of it, and justifiably so. All the best to them.

I still maintain that it’s a pity they don’t invest their efforts in Emacs, but … it’s a free world!
> As far as I am aware, those are mostly obsolete/moot/whatever.

They won’t be if you start pricing plastic packaging generated externalities in the products prices.

> it's practically impossible to have a fast food industry without single-use packaging

It’s so impossible it’s actually done in France if you eat it and they are mandated by law to use your reusable containers if you bring them.
Exactly - this SEOveroptimisation
> Traditional search is mutually beneficial... to search providers and publishers. At expense of the users. LLM search is becoming popular because it lets users, for however short time this will last, escape the fruits of the "mutually beneficial arrangement".

Out of the pot and into the fire, as they say.
Uh, sorry what?

What happens when you need to search something new? Just hallucinations all the way down?
There's a subculture of people who clean strangers' gravestones, which often involves removing lichen. They are very particular about the tools and chemicals used during the cleaning. Some also reset broken stones.

You can see some before/after photos on Twitter (https://twitter.com/search?q=clean%20gravestones&src=typed_q...) as well as fast-motion videos on TikTok and Instagram. A few people research public records to share more information about the stones they are cleaning.
That's GPT-4, which you wouldn't use for in-line suggestions because it's too slow.

I don't know what model Copilot uses these days, but it constantly makes bracket mistakes in Python.
>Is the wiki entry entirely wrong?

It is a Wikipedia article on a topic with clear "culture war" significance. The topic is not an objective individual person, event, place etc., but a narrative about events unfolding over a considerable time span, which concerns itself with a subset of the population and their interaction with technology and thus society.

Yes, of course it's entirely wrong. Wikipedia cannot be trusted for this sort of thing. It is a tertiary source by design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_terti...), which entails that the most obsessed editors can cherry-pick what they like from already biased secondary sources (the ones considered "reliable"; the reputations of which may not be tarnished by "original research" or by conclusive proof coming from outside the list).
Gitlab CI down for a full business day
This is one of many downtimes affecting Gitlab users this year.
I'm going to post the same comment I did last year when this showed up on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207142), as checking the website it still seems to be true:

Literally none of the evidence on the website's own "Why" page supports their suggestion: https://www.waituntil8th.org/why-wait

All of the studies (bonus points for linking to news articles instead of directly to the studies) have something to do with "time spent using screens/a phone/social media", but nothing to do with age of first use.

How can anyone trust this website has any basis in reality when they wrote a whole page explaining why and none of it was applicable?

Of course parents should regulate how much time their kids spend on electronics (similar to how parents of previous generations would prevent kids from watching TV 5 hours a day) - but this website presents no evidence that giving a kid a smartphone in 8th grade rather than 5th grade would make a meaningful difference.
Even better, try to convince them to wait until at least their eighth wedding anniversary if at all possible.
If you noticed, I never denied anyone's suffering or pain. I merely pointed out that the mechanism may not be what the experiencer is experiencing. As a personal example, my knee pain has gone away from doing core exercises with my physical therapist, whereas my knee massages never worked. The problem was my posture, not my knee. That's all I'm saying.
Propaganda is as much about convincing "the people" as it is convincing the "internal apparatus". Of course, for something like WWI, you have to have propaganda because the effort required is too large -- you can't do WWI or WWII with the apparatus alone.

But it's very important, even for the people "on the inside", to believe that they are fighting for the right cause, to be able to rationalize their actions. If you need something morally fraught to be done (like fight a war), the people doing it, regardless of who they work for on paper, are much more effective if they believe in their hearts that it's the right thing to do. Propaganda isn't really about convincing people do to things, it's about giving them the emotional toolkit to justify doing things with purpose and pride.
Lights. Camera. Write
I am excited for a future where I search for some info and don't end up sifting through ads and getting distracted by some tangential clickbait article.

Fundamentally it feels like that cant happen though because there is no money in it, but a reality where my phone is an all knowing voice I can reliably get info from instead of a distraction machine would be awesome.

I do "no screen" days sometimes and tried to do one using chatGPT voice mode so I could look things up without staring at a screen. It was miles from replacing search, but I would adopt it in a second if it could.
This is semi-related to one of the killer features of Eclipse that never really made it into any large-scale systems: the ability to run incomplete or broken code. The Eclipse Compiler for Java had a special feature that it could generate bytecode for nearly any file, including those that were utterly broken. It would mostly work, and you could incrementally work on unit tests alongside the code being developed.

It was honestly one of the most productive environments I ever worked in, and I'm somewhat sad nobody else has implemented this.
Probably. Apple made major changes to the GPU in M3.
Org Babel: “Because the return value of a function written in one language can be passed to a function written in another language, or to an Org table, which is itself programmable, Babel can be used as a meta-functional programming language. With Babel, functions from many languages can work together. You can mix and match languages, using each language for the tasks to which it is best suited.”

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html

Jupyter is one of the supported languages.

https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter?tab=readme-ov-file#...
"The heart has its reasons reason does not understand"
I can't really comment too much on historical Wordpress politics—given Matt's recent public meltdown I'm completely willing to believe that he's continued to shoot Wordpress in the foot in more obscure ways in the past—but the posturing here vs. Wordpress really strikes me as someone who has gotten lucky and has attributed that luck to skill instead.

What happens when Ghost gets popular enough to get their own "G Engine" competing with with Ghost (Pro)? As Wordpress.com shows, there's no serious moat for open source hosting. Either Ghost devotes resources away from their open core and towards their hosting platform, or they lose the competition for marketshare to a company that does devote those resources and then they have no funding stream, aside from what G Engine deigns to give them out of the grace of their own heart. And all of the platitudes about voting or board seats and everything else don't really make one lick of difference if you don't have any funding to make that happen, and you have to rely on pay-to-play funding from the people who are actually making money in the space, and let them set your agenda.

So, Matt's behavior aside, I do think these issues are pretty endemic to the idea of "open core" funding as a company (or market) grows beyond a certain size. Unified non-profit or dual-corporation structure (Mozilla Corporation vs Mozilla Foundation) doesn't change the fundamental logic of "where does the money come from?". I don't think Ghost is providing any new solutions here—they've just gotten lucky / been small enough to not be out-competed in their hosting niche yet.
I thought this would be more like an actual search engine (like Google with ChatGPT built in). Microsoft have been doing similar with Copilot since it's inception, albeit they seem to have removed the web search functionality with the latest update.
This sounds similar to a problem dating sites face—solving the user's problem leads them away from the service. But you have the added difficulty that people looking for employment may not have the resources to spend on another monthly subscription.

It sounds interesting though, good luck!
Child-care support is highly likely to be long-term anti-inflationary.

Inflation happens when the money supply grows faster than the productive capacity of a country. And few, if any, things are more important for productive capacity than a young workforce.

Or think about it from the other direction. Suppose the country was "fiscally responsible" and had lots of money to support retirees. But if there is nobody of working age, then those retirees will be spending lots of money on their needs and wants. Without workers to supply those needs and wants the prices will get quickly bid up. Aka inflation.
IMO it's not the phone itself that matters, it's what the kids do on it. Phone can be good to communicate with parents, bad for nearly anything else at a young age.
I remember recently reading about a town where all the parents in the entire town agreed not to give their kids smartphones, so then none felt they were missing out.

I think that could work really well
For what it’s worth, sama said at a Harvard event recently that he “despised” ads and would use them at a last resort. It came across as genuine and I have the intuition/hope that they might find an alternative.
I’ve got two questions:

1. What does it look like for a page to be indexed when googlebot is not allowed to crawl it? What is shown in search results (since googlebot has not seen its content)?

2. The linked page says to avoid Disallow in robots.txt and to rely on the noindex tag. But how can I prevent googlebot from crawling all user profiles to avoid database hits, bandwidth, etc. without an entry in robots.txt? With noindex, googlebot must visit each user profile page to see that it is not supposed to be indexed.
Last I saw Kagi was highly dependent on Google for their search results and seemed much more interested in LLMs and other side features than in replacing that core part of their search stack.
My suspicion is that they will work great but mostly need time for compute scaling to kick in (as was basically the case for the self-attention). Computers will need to get asymptotically faster before they work out.

Having said that, it's not my area and i'm mostly an uninformed enthusiast.
>I'd love to hear what you saw that motivated this. Care to share?

Working adjacent to medicine,banking, supply chain, and some other fields, I'd say that most people don't realize that everything is just csv files and sftp servers underneath. You'd assume these fields would be using realtime web services to communicate with each other, but even the ones that seem roughly realtime are often using scheduled file transfers of batched data. A lot of the integration is essentially bat files and shell scripts converting between one type of csv to another. It's bandaids and bailing wire all the way down.
I wish that old versions of successful software were automatically open sourced.
Astronomers Found Something Cold and Wet Near Uranus
I'd love to go back to times where it was fine for a candidate not to have a LinkedIn. Currently, regardless of your blog, or your multiple StackOverflow answers, or your GitHub, or your posts on any of the other tech-focused communities, if HR doesn't see your LinkedIn, it's as if you're off-planet.

The tech field is centered around skills. You're under pressures to keep them sharp and up to date. When you're looking for work and you're done polishing the resume, updating the blog posts, doing your leetcode drills, do you really want to add playing LinkedIn games to the mix?

It seems to me that tech workers would benefit from having really tech-focused job networks. Not these hybrid platforms. LinkedIn, Indeed, and friends. They don't particularly care about you as a tech worker. They don't even understand you or your skillset. You're a backend dev with many years of OOP, FP, Agile, Kanban, Python, Go, SQL, JavaScript, and a slew of other relevant skills for the job, but they'll gladly inform you that you're missing a few skills to better match the list in the ad: go-getter, team-player, positive-attitude. Ok, sure, whatever...

Another thing, seeing an ad that asks for Python, Go, Node.js, SQL, React, Terraform, Kubernetes as an "Intermediate position" just tells me that no one in charge cares.
For all the hate it gets, Brave solved this half a decade ago already.

- Publishers no longer show you ads, they just get paid out of BAT.

- Brave shows you ads, but Brave does not depend on that to survive. Because of that there is no weird conflict of interest like with Google/Facebook, where the party that surfaces your content is also the party providing you with ads.

- Users can just browse the web without ads as a threat vector, but as long as you have BAT (either via opt-in Brave ads or by purchasing it directly) you are not a freeloader either.
> Endless content is hard for me, a developed adult to resist at times.

Remind me of food

Would you give your kid endless access to chips and sweets?
Well every Google search I do now brings up a, I assume an AI distilled, summary of the answer. Sometimes it's useful, often not, because I wanted to see the actual facts. AI has it's uses, but it would be frustrating if that's all you get.
Hmm yes, I don't see any issues giving a corporate controlled model with the operational precision of a coin toss full access to my entire system. There is absolutely nothing that could ever go wrong.

Nah but seriously, can we start a counter of how many times a chatbot agent has deleted someone's system32 because it was trained on data of the average tech forum?
I genuinely think Kagi has led the way on this one. Simplicity is beautiful and effective, and Kagi has (IMHO) absolutely nailed it with their AI approach. It's one of those things that in hindsight seems obvious, which is a pretty good measure of how good an idea is IMHO.

Google could have done it and kind of tried, although they're AI sucks too much. I'm very surprised that OpenAI hasn't done this sooner as well. They're initial implementation of web search was sad. I don't mean to be super critical as I think generally OpenAI is very, very good at what they do, but they're initial browse the web was a giant hack that I would expect from an intern who isn't being given good guidance by their mentors.

Once mainstream engines start getting on par with Kagi, there's gonna be a massive wave of destruction and opportunity. I'm guessing there will be a lot of new pay walls popping up, and lots of access deals with the search engines. This will even further raise the barrier of entry for new search entrants, and will further fragment information access between the haves and have-nots.

I'm also cautiously optimistic though. We'll get there, but it's gonna be a bit shakey for a minute or two.
This is a follow-up to this article from April:

>The Man Who Killed Google Search

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

btw I thought it was the MBAs who ruined Google Search. Not the literal co-author of the book on randomized algorithms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan
Younger millennial chiming in: I'm pretty sure that 8th grade is exactly when I got my first smartphone, although social media had a fraction of the presence back then, so it's hard to draw a direct comparison to today. But I do feel like the timing worked out well enough: not having a smartphone until that point (since they didn't exist lol) turned me into a voracious reader, and the dumbphone I did have meant I was still able to text friends sporadically (T9 anyone?), but getting a smartphone was a good step towards the increased independence and social connectivity of high school. Also brought me into the world of ebook piracy to feed my reading habit, and the world of smartphone mods/jailbreaking to feed my geek streak.
It's confusing. I didn't know you were the same person and thought you had somehow profitted from the work of the original Monokai creator.

If you don't want to change to first person you should at least point out you are talking about yourself.

Maybe something like this:

"The Monokai journey began in 2006 with Wimer Hazenberg, a Dutch designer and developer (me)."
Seems like we should repurpose internships to be less competitive and more of a way to onboard everyone into the job market broadly.
> its name is basically ungooglable

Not any more! It's the first hit on DDG.
Yeah I avoid porous things in general for that sort of work, but I remember hearing that the lower-end of Mexican ceramic crocks are particularly bad. I see a lot of lead recalls for Chinese products but it could just be because there are so many products coming out of China. When I'm doing any yoghurt type thing, I use my instant pot. Works like a charm.
We're working on a complete redesign of Phind to make it more of a search competitor :)

What were the limitations you ran into?
It takes a village!
Incentivize the employer to only provide real listings by having them pay to advertise a listing. Let them be reimbursed if it's filled via the platform.

You don't need to solve the problem 100%. An employer can still drag their feet and not fill a listing. But by aligning all incentives you can drastically reduce the problem.
Now we get to see how OpenAI will do similar harm, more effectively and at much greater environmental cost.
You still need fresh data for many use cases.
Using language models to summarize search results seems like a great use for LLMs. Summarize all of the 50 pages of SEO spam and maybe you will get what you're looking for.
Got one good job over Indeed and another one over LinkedIn. Can't confirm.