skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with all the other posts by indie publishers, is that Google has destroyed them while elevating much worse results

While I agree with your overall premise, some of this seems very subjective, re: "much worse results". For example, in your post when you list the pages outranking your site for "best books on Battle of Midway", you say this about being outranked by a forum thread on BoardGameGeek:

"A 2010 post on a Board Game forum asking for good books about the Battle of Midway. Really Google?"

BoardGameGeek is pretty much the most important site for the entire board game / tabletop gaming hobby. It's been around for 25 years, and it is most definitely part of the independent web. The thread in question is on BGG's main wargaming forum; wargaming has been a thing for many decades and has significant crossover among officers of the military / ex-military. The thread includes a lot of organic book recommendations from real people, with no affiliate links.

Despite the thread being from 2010, I would expect this page absolutely should rank pretty well for this search query! So why the "Really Google?" snark, especially when describing a fellow independent web site?
Probably not everyone's cup of tea but it's not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRjncYGLHE

(Cosmo Sheldrake is one of the composers, so this seems to be an original upload of the song.)
Agreed, you're really reaching if your company implies that it needs to search abroad to find a dev who's proficient with react...
>You can overlap this so the engine continously delivers torque to the wheels. Thus, no head bobbing.

head bobbing (sudden g-force jerks) was fixed before the introduction of another clutch; that's a function of rev-matching between upshifts and downshifts. An early BMW SMG system, a manual gearbox with electro-hydraulics on top of it to handle shifting and clutch work, gets rid of the head bobbing.

How? Precise rev-matching.

dual clutch systems were a means to speed the gear-shift process up, with two clutches there is no need to wait for shaft speed mismatches, you just keep the opposite clutch where you need it RPM-wise. This helps alleviate the head-bobbing, but it's more just an artifact of how the system has to work -- rev-matching is now something required in order not to blow the system up.

tl;dr : it's the rev-matching saving your neck, just like it would've been doing had you been a passenger with a race driver -- but they're doing it to save tires and keep the car stable, they probably don't care about your neck.
I'll take 30 minutes in line and 5 minutes of fiddling with personal belongings over 30 hours driving a car packed with 4 kids every day of the week and twice on Sunday. 30 hours! Even if my whole license plate was stolen every time it'd still be worth it.
If the author is talking about UI/UX design, then I couldn't disagree more.

In the practical real world, Designs need to be buildable. I've see too many months, maybe years, wasted on trying to get engineers to implement difficult and/or incomplete designs. Designers that haven't considers all the data that can be displayed, all the states an interface can be in, responsiveness, accessibility, localization, etc.

I think designers need to think more like engineers, and ideally work in tools that let them experience the engineering problems with their designs early on and first hand.

Importantly, UI designers should not be working in glorified illustration software. Figma and friends have really led the industry down the wrong path.
It's also an outrage how much leverage companies have over their H1B employees (especially from India, etc).

If you have any long-term H1B coworkers from less-favored nations, I guarantee you there's a heartbreaking story they have to tell you if you ask.

I work with a super high-performing guy with a Masters degree who has been at my company for 15 years and gets treated super poorly by the company. He still is probably 10 years away from getting a naturalization interview and has no hope of switching jobs in the meantime (and has children that are citizens...).
> It has read every physics book, and can infer the Newtonian laws even if it didn't.

You're confusing "what it is possible to derive, given the bounds of information theory" with "how this particular computer system behaves". I sincerely doubt that a transformer model's training procedure derives Newton's Third Law, no matter how many narrative descriptions it's fed: letting alone what the training procedure actually does, that's the sort of thing that only comes up when you have a quantitative description available, such as an analogue sensorium, or the results of an experiment.
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Been using Manjaro XFCE for a minute, KDE is great if you're rocking ~32GB of RAM but for lightweight, MX Linux (Debian), Lubuntu (LXDE) Lightweight Ubuntu. Most distros come with drivers that trackpads and wireless just ..work. So many flavors but with KDE you can customize everything with rightclicking, no config edits. It's fun, but lower end machines I'd suggest XFCE, KDE will use 2GB of RAM just idling on desktop.

I ditched Windows completely back in 2017-2018 and haven't looked back. I'm no star-programmer or star sys-admin or anything but the love of tinkering with things, VMs, networking, sockets, SSH, SCP, rsync, having direct access to my kernel (like sysctl stuff), managing my ssh keys in ~/.ssh/, using a drop-down Quake style terminal (Tilda) has been a dream.

Why would somebody want to sign on with a 'cloud account' for their desktop login, have forced stuff like Teams, Edge (Are you SURE YOU WANT TO SWITCH TO CHROME/FIREFOX? notifications), OneDrive, and have things like Recall pushed on them.

Linux isn't rocket science any more there's Add/Remove programs on every distro and people can browse from there, there's software pulled straight from github for compiling/installing as well as the 'app store' for exploring.

It's been my tinkerer's heaven. Most you need is a trustable VPN with a killswitch that runs Wireguard and your linux install is going to be great.

Gaming wise, well gaming needs to get their heads out of their asses and dev for Linux and respect that just because there's not yet manjority market share doesn't mean there won't be.

Disposable OS now adays is just boot a live CD (USB) that loads everything in to RAM with NVidia drivers already loaded.

My suggestion to anybody, check out Ventoy: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Try a bunch of linux distros .isos in oracle VMs or any VM managers, use Ventoy to put the ISOs on a flash drive, my 128GB stick lets me have dozens of them, and boot any distro you want you can have as many ISOs that will fit, they'll all boot when you select which one you want.

For the nerds: https://www.ghostbsd.org - BSD Desktop.

Say no to Recall.

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So... how long would the copyright be good for then? Life of the forest + 70 years?
Big Tech barons are plotting to steal Britain's creativity via copyright law
They even broke this for me (in a way) because for some inexplicable reason Google blocks text replacement on Mac in their search.

Yes there are workarounds, but I like using the native OS text expansion and it works everywhere except Google.
Greenwashing and denial won't solve beef's enormous climate problems
Big discussion a year ago (384 points, 198 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733184

8 years ago, discussion around an audit (288 points, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727968
Yes, total lockin.

Remember though, OpenAI and pretty much all of the other providers have things in their terms that roughly say you're not allowed to use their models to train models from other providers - so fine-tuning a model against synthetic data created using OpenAI is likely a terms violation anyway.
An assumption of the article is that in addition to getting readers, bloggers want to make money from their blogs via advertising, brand endorsements, etc. That's fair and true for the author in this case, but not necessarily true of all bloggers, especially the tech type that are on hacker news.
Saying it's no problem to increase energy use 10x as long as something else uses more is not really a compelling argument. Especially when there are decent replacements to save the 10x item.

If I made a 10x less energy use AC I'd be a billionaire; comparing to one of the most costly energy uses that has no simple replacement is not a good metric.
> there is, in fact, a US citizen who can fill any software engineering role a US company has.

Right now I suspect you're probably right. But 2 or 3 years ago?

If you're right then why would companies want to go through all of the extra paperwork and hoops to hire an H1B right now? Maybe the answer is "they can pay less"? But I'm not sure if it's actually all that much less than they could pay someone who's been looking for work for six months to a year or more.
Migrating proxmox cluster node to a different network
nice thank you. I just added that as a custom search to alfred (on mac). Works well!
Cryptomator: Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption
> it's on you to make sensible choices

Statistically speaking, you aren't well-equipped to make sensible medical choices. That's why we have medical professions — pharmacology, virology, internal medicine, and hundreds of others — each with people working in them with years of training and understanding.

The question is less, "will X formulation work as a remedy for long covid," and more, "what effects will X formulation have on someone with Y and Z conditions, in their late 60s, having undergone this, that, and the other medical procedures on so-and-so timelines, and still on a course of this other formulation to abate chronic symptoms as a result of complications during one of the medical procedures they underwent?"

This isn't really even a contrived example. Many people undergo medical procedures. Complications aren't common, but they're not rare, either, and they vary greatly in magnitude and long-term effects. A staggering proportion of people are on a course of some kind of medication (antivirals, pain relievers, more specialized stuff) at any given time. Figuring out how medications interact is aggressively nontrivial, and while there exist databases that can correlate medications and tell you if any are known to conflict with eachother (either always or under certain circumstances — information which, in most cases, was documented through case studies), this information still has to be reviewed by a trained medical professional — an MD familiar with the patient's medical history, ideally — who can say with a good degree of confidence whether a treatment is likely or not to cause the patient harm.
It’s amazing for reading articles
The bulk of my nest egg comes from equity. As you grow you find that the more of a generalist you are the smaller a company you should be at to maximize your impact.

As a company grows the roles get pigeonholed further and further, diminishing the value of your generalist skillset. The main antidote to this is to be higher up in the org, but that usually doesn’t happen organically over a generalist career (you have to create those jobs for yourself).
I don't think they could release computer use for $20/month plan. It seems super expensive and you could easily involve Claude for hours of work for manual tasks like data entry or data cleaning.
ok, so you now have to type "What's the weather in Positano?", because typing "Positano weather" into Google was too difficult.
What a colossal waste of everybody's time.

I wonder how demoralizing this must be on HR workers, having to post a job, screen CV's, trying to stay professional while knowing that the hiring manager actually doesn't care, having to constantly put people with hopes off, and ultimately let people feel they are not good enough just because some C-hole wants to bring in his buddy who's most likely not half as competent as the people who were rejected.
Yes, I also don't understand how LLM based compaines expect people to keep producing contect for them for free.
It is not impossible for the US to develop batteries. The problem is that it will be costly in terms of investment and the resulting product will necessarily be more expensive for consumers. While this happens Chinese companies will dominate their internal market, Asian markets, Africa and South America. The US is trying to start a fight where their consumers will be left with high inflation and a protectionist market with low innovation.
This response seems to indicate you don't have or want children. There's the emotional and human aspect to having children. Love, family, respect, etc. I'm throwing words around but if these things mean something to you then you'd understand.

I feel western society has lost many of these but you see these concepts upheld in immigrant families in the US.
I use the wavenet extension and use my 1M character free quota from Google cloud
> credentialed coach

Is this a legal term? Is there any real qualification, proven behind this? Or is it like in Germany, where anyone could call themself a "credentialed coach" and "help" other people.

Because professional help from a therapist would surely be called such, wouldn't it?

Especially from a platform that allows racist hatred onto their comment section.
Top Food Ads That Will Make Your Mouth Water
A simple list of simple ads ... that will make you leave for lunch
I like this idea. Perhaps let them self select if they will respond or not, but they have to advertise in the posting which path they chose?
That complexity in the flow chart is probably just straight bugs, like TFA gets into. For example, I'm sure the flow chart — if you made one — for message "parsing" would be similarly complex. And it shows, on the client, since it feels less like there's a parser, and more like someone has cobbled a bunch of regexes together. There's a number of rather trivial to discover bugs¹, particularly around code block formatting and hyperlinks. That Slack will actively mutates entered text is doubly infuriating.

Similarly, complex flowcharts aren't necessarily something to be proud of, rather, something to be eyed with suspicion. Is that complexity essential complexity, or accidental complexity?

(Though sometimes it can be infuriatingly difficult to simplify. I've attacked a few such codepaths in my career only to come out going "nope, it's just that terrible/complex.")

On notifications, one of the best things I ever set up was making my name a notification trigger. Lets me know when people are talking about me (or even to me), but aren't using a @- tag. Some people just … don't seem to know how to do it?

¹trivial enough that it leaves me wondering: does Slack's own eng use Slack, with cognitive awareness of the things that they run into?
I think that's a great start. I mean for me, I'm realistic - if it's a pre-first round or first round exit so to speak, I don't expect anything substantive, a canned response is acceptable. I get that it's a pain when you have hundreds of applicants, but it should also be trivial.

It is nice to expect something a bit more involved if it's a final round thing, but still. No-one likes the ghost.
It used to be fairly common to have web-page shortcuts back in the mid-00's. Lots of apps would add spam shortcuts to your desktop that would just open your web browser to a web page where you were encouraged to buy something/donate/start a free trial.

Anyways I think that capability still exists on all modern OSes.
I thought the same thing. "Hazel" sounds like a play on words, a "Hazy Haskell"? Or is it because hazels and elms are trees.
I've found that people tend to look at me strange when I describe 3km as within walking distance.
In a footnote OP says:

> I’m not yet good enough to intuitively get why the curvature of the probability-generating would be related to variance, but I’d be happy to receive pointers here.

Here’s my intuition for this.

The characteristic function is the Fourier transform of the density.

If the density is in “t” units, the ch.f. is in f= 1/t units. It is the “inverse domain.” (I’m using “f” to suggest frequency, ie the Fourier coordinate.)

Of course it is not a simple coordinate transformation! But some intuition does carry over.

This is reflected in all sorts of ways. It’s one reason why the IFT formula is so functionally close to the FT formula.

Anyway.

Because of this, the behavior of the FT (ch.f.) very close to the origin (“f=0”) tells about the tails of the distribution (t = 1/f is large).

In particular, high curvature around the origin tells you the tails are heavy. That’s the variance.

This extends to the fourth moment. You can get even sharper curvature around the origin of the FT (ch.f. at f=0) with a large coefficient on the fourth order term. This corresponds to a large fourth moment of the pdf, or a high kurtosis.

It’s useful to recall that, because of analytic continuation, knowing all the derivatives at the one point f=0 determines the ch.f. everywhere, and thereby determines the complete density. This corresponds to the fact that knowing all the moments determines the full density.

So in a very real sense, you only need the ch.f. in a tight neighborhood of the origin!

(Provided all moments are finite.)
When I was doing PERM, I was also WFH. HR told me to put 2 postings up in my apartment.
Two questions:
1) How would the feedback loop work from users who do not receive a response?
2) Are you concerned about a possible "chilling effect" for startups that don't want to post for fear of being spammed?

As an aside, been browsing HN for years and always wanted to say that you're doing the Lord's work.
Heaven forbid you have to pay to read one of the great pieces of computer journalism ever.
It's not that different, Google's Gemini already provides this functionality where they have source/links in their responses...
I wonder how popular a similar service would be, but for casual hookups.
Agree. Plus recruiters also sometimes reach out. There is quite a high signal to noise as always, but, it can be worth it. You don't need to engage in all the influencer crap at all, just ignore that and use it to be found by recruiters and to see some open positions.
It's great we chose LLMs for this. You know, a model that is completely accurate and has no hallucination problems whatsoever.
I would suggest that there be a way to report bad-faith job postings in some way or there are consequences. anyone can claim they applied with no response. Someone who reports actual evidence like "this account has posted this exact listing for the last 4 months and the company size hasn't changed a bit" may justify e.g. removing listings.
I doubt air conditioning is as used as internet search engines. The only places where I ever saw air climatisation is cars and business buildings. I never saw one in a personal home, let alone a personal device carried in the pocket you can use while walking.
We are still spending most of our time online on social media sites like Hacker News, Instagram and Youtube, right?
A notification in this context isn’t a push notification, it’s a Slack notification (a red bubble counter).

Sounds like an issue with your android phone.
You did just describe in general actual "computer goes crazy" episodes.
Wait until you hear about Teslas
I like it! Frankly, it should be something that hiring companies do anyways.

Perhaps extend it to something like everyone who applies, or responds to your comment”

Practically speaking, enforcement will be difficult/impossible for actions off HN - if someone claims a company isn’t responding, or using a templated email, how would you verify that?

By enforcing the same rule for a job thread, there’s a very clear location where the behavior of the company can be observed.
Google, even with all the trillions in additional productivity it has added to the world, has left the world at a net-negative. We can't even quantify it, and every person will tell you a different way in which it has impacted the world negatively.

E.g. for me, how much Google (and silicon valley in general) have enabled twisted ideologies to flourish. All in search of ad-dollars by virtue of eyeballs on screens, at the detriment of everything.
Pretty underwhelming, I've been using on Kagi's assistant [0] for the past few months and it's much better.
I can `!chat what i want to search for` in my address bar any time, and Kagi will do the search and then open a chat with the LLM of my choice (3.5 Sonnet) and the results in context. It can also do further searches.

[0] https://kagi.com/assistant
Yeah, this is why I said it devalued the usefulness of the stat.

It goes both ways though. There are people who checked that they use Ubuntu when they're on Mac or Windows the majority of the time, but there are also people that checked they're on Debian which isn't feeding into the Ubuntu top line number. I'm not sure which way this is going to bias it -- I could see the number being much higher or much lower. Debian was at 9.8% (iirc) for instance, and I don't imagine there are many people using both Ubuntu/Debian for desktop usage.
Completely agreed. At a certain point, “skills” became fighting a losing battle with Google incessantly pushing me towards whatever KPIs or ads they’re chasing. It’s a poor use of my effort and time to keep chasing what Google used to be.
In the spirit of randomization and simulation, every culture war debate should be repeated at least 200 times, each with randomly assigned definitions of “justice” and “freedom” drawn from an introductory philosophy textbook. Eating meat is wrong, p = 12/200.
As a person who has kids, I agree with you to some extent - a decision to have kids is not necessarily rational, you don't take ROI into account that much. However, life with kids, in spite of many negatives, feels much "nicer" overall.
"Last fall, Tinder rolled out a $500 monthly subscription, in addition to two cheaper membership tiers. The League charges up to $1,000 a week or $2,500 a month."

For that kind of money, you should get bottle service. For that kind of money, you can get bottle service.
It's the UX, Not the LLM: ChatGPT and Perplexity Can Ship a UI Google Can't
> Presumably they didn't show the fact checking as it was done automatically by multiple, independent AGIs designed for the task with teams of top people monitoring and improving them.

Sure, cuz fact-checking works so well for us today. I'm sure we'll resolve the epistemological issues involved with the ridiculous concept of "fact-checking" around when we invent summoning food from thin (edit: thick) air and traveling faster than light.

There is no fact checking; there are only degrees of certainty. "fact-checking" is simply a comfortable delusion that makes western media feel better about engaging in telling inherently unverifiable narratives about the world.
There is a discord channel that has rooms you can join to study with others, including rooms with camera/screen share. It also tracks your time studied, has channels to talk about progress/goals etc. https://discord.gg/study
huh it's like they knew ChatGPT search was coming out?
For me, Windows 2000 and Classic MacOS were high water mark of UI design.

After that, change for the sake of change started ti creep in and then accelerated.

Windows XP had the Luna UI with its Fisher Price color scheme and OSX moved to the lickabke Aqua UI.
Google has been alternating between neglecting and actively making search worse for years. Tacking on some hastily cobbled together AI product certainly hasn't helped them.
What about all of the YC companies posting comment-free ads for founding engineers offering 1/2 market wages and next-to-no equity in person in SF?

Honestly it's practically a joke to look at and it starting to make YC itself look bad. Seriously there is no value prop to these postings unless you are jobless, desperate and living in your car.