skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every little step in fields like this is so encouraging. We keep getting better, but the cancers don't.

Ever more effective cocktails of drugs that target the cancers while minimising harm to everywhere else, the closer we get to attacking cancer cells from so many different directions they simply can't adapt in time and we wipe it out immediately (a cure). One can only hope.

I whether we might see even more investment into research like this as it gets closer to deliver curative, rather than just suppressive outcomes, as well
Noscript temporary whitelist only combined with uBlock origin and sponsorblock. A CSS toggle button is important too to be able to read text when the page doesn't display correctly. As well as a "superstop" button to (near) completely end all JS execution in a tab after loading.

After 15 years of using NoScript this way I have developed a sixth sense for the minimal set of individual hostnames/ips need to be JS allowed on a typical site. I'm quite fast at it. But wix.com hosted sites and others like it that have one JS domain required to load another and so on serially 5x deep I just close rather than refreshing the page 5 times.
Honeypot: Researchers Catch Attackers Exposing 15K Stolen Credentials in S3
Google Maps is quite the moat. I suspect they'll need to find a way to license the data, e.g. via API. Apple has not (yet) been as successful at building out a database of local places with reliable hours of operations, reviews, etc.
Cheers, glad you like it!
Surely by "everyone" you mean "demographics I identify with".
I am surprised to hear you say this given your previous experience founding a product that from a distance might look to cover some similar space to retool but in practice is quite different. My perspective: only investors ever asked us about retool, not customers. Some of them even used retool tool. Hah even just typing this out brings me back to investor meetings!
Anyone have some good links/citations on the consumer surplus of Google? How much value do we get as users?

Considering the value of time, past consumer surplus is especially valuable now.

Sure, there are systematic flaws causing SEO to ruin the information provided: but it isn't clear what Google can do to fight the emergent system.

I'm not sure that Bing/DDG are any better.

I use search (DDG web, Google/Apple maps, YouTube) all the time and I am regularly given results that are extremely valuable to me (and mostly only directly cost me a small amount of my time some of my time e.g. YouTube adverts). Blaming SEO on Google seems thoughtless to me. Google appears to be the victims of human cybersystems as much as we are.
Russia fines Google twenty decillion dollars
Absolutely this! Actually the internet was driven by people who wanted to share their ideas, not by those who wanted to sell their ideas.
This is something that gets asked a lot. We're exploring what it would look like to have only body doubling and our other asynchronous features pulled out as a separate experience. Some things we're thinking through are

- What impact this will have on the current body doubling experience, where there's a certain "vibe" knowing that every other person in the room is actively engaging in coaching and you can ask them questions about their coaching etc.

- How that will change our team's focus since that product will require larger amounts of moderation, community management, and other tasks that we aren't currently focusing on. Since we're a small team (and mostly neurodivergent), we need to make sure we're super focused in our messaging and efforts

HOWEVER, it is definitely in the medium term roadmap. I think if we get enough people asking for it, it could get pulled forward.

Curious what you use now and what you like/ don't like about it — are you on other body doubling platforms?
I was very confused by this headline.
A couple times now I’ve remembered to refill my subscription after my old one ran out of months thanks to an LWN free article being posted to HN.

So n=1 it’s an effective advertising tactic even though I can read the specific article for free.
This rings true, and I guess further backs up how important it is to carefully choose your initial customers, so the product is actually good enough by the time it gets to the broader swathe of companies. At least, that's my guess — I'm the one that failed after all!
The fact it (is suggested / we are led to believe / was recently imlied ) the neurons can be explained to be doing something like it on the underlying layer still says little about the process of forming ontological context needed for any kind of syllogism.
What I might trust on my laptop is TOTALLY different from what my company might allow on a remote server.
Yes, but because it's actually "wait until after 8th", it's more like 14-15.
nextdns for whole network dns if you don't want to host yourself. if you feel like hosting, there is pihole and adguard home.
Additionally, since the reddit-google deal, this only works on google anymore. I search on DDG for recent reddit content and there is nothing returned, as expected.

Google really does seem determined to completely destroy internet search.
More competition is good, but I’m pretty sure the end result will just be, at best, a duopoly of products equally ruined by advertising for their “free” tier, and somewhat less ruined for the “premium” tier.
Well, technically he founded “philosophy” more than a religion.

Polytheism was really old, of course. But intellectual polytheism (which requires an esoteric treatment of gods as metaphors) was basically new and then lasted for 1000 years. Pythagoras is also credited with coining the term “philosophy” and the term “Cosmos.”

In addition to his coinage, he also started the first communist society. So many opposites. Music/math, religion/science, communism/capitalism, harmony/war (he conquered the sybarites), etc. He was vegetarian but, when he discovered his eponymous theorem, he sacrificed a “Hecatomb” at Delphi — that’s 100 cattle.

Of course, all of this is disputed. (But happy to provide sources for any of it).

He is textually associated with the druids and the Jews! Nuts.
Shimmer, body doubling - inspired by the film Annihilation ?
Oil and gas companies are just the type to buy things like carbon offsets, engage in green PR, etc. so they are definitely also targeted by the activism and satire.
You are just projecting your own snobbishness onto others with these reactionary comments. I don't even care what other books you've read and liked like my sibling response requests... let's see what books you've written. I don't much care about your uneleborated opinions unless you can demonstrate how to do well that which you claim others do poorly.

The fact that you think the only reason anyone would read a classic novel is to brag also displays a lack of imagination and self awareness. No, it couldn't possibly be the same curiosity you extol in other comments about tinkering with technology!

We need more people with the capability to think critically with nuance, who can focus on something for more than 5 seconds. WoW only does one of those, and really it's not focus so much as captivation. You don't learn much about the real world from it. On the other hand, I found quite a few insights into my own present day relationships while reading The Brothers Karamazov and Swann's Way.

Is it possible the world is wrong about Crime and Punishment and we just needed rvba to wake us from our delusion? Sure. Is it more likely you just didn't get it? That's where my money is.
I've just been watching her recent talk. I noticed she appears to change slides with a wave of her wand. Is there an known piece of hardware one can purchase to do this?

I tried googling, but trying to find the specific result I'm interested in amongst all the blog spam garbage related to powerpoint is beyond me. Even googles own AI couldn't help. Sad times!
Where I live (Poland), A/C is expensive too, though it's been dropping in price. Portable heat pumps are becoming cheap enough to consider. Fixed installations are doable even in individual flats (obviously cheapest when during general renovation, and boring extra holes in walls isn't a big deal). The last few years made people switch from thinking about A/C as a luxury for the rich, and start thinking about maybe getting it some day. And our heat waves were quite light compared to the rest of Europe.
I don’t think it’s accurate to say Apple “dropped” these features. Tessellation is done with general purpose compute shaders. You can do the same with “geometry shaders” if the need arises as well
I feel sort of odd never having installed an ad blocker, but firefox must do some stuff also because a few websites still complain and tell me to turn it off, whatever "it" is. I'm pretty good with the youtube skip button does that count?
I’m struggling to understand the use, do you have a concrete example?
This is true in many things. Most car mods make the car objectively worse unless you really need the niche thing the mod does - and even if you think you do, be really sure.
I can't speak to most of what they do, but they seem to be at the forefront of quantum computing.
kdb+ isn't in there either, and that is more important than CH I think. KDB is boring, just uses a placeholder. I think it might be because these two do it in a boring fashion.
I'm still riding text-mode vim over ssh, and it's very fast and suits me just fine. If I get frisky, I can always go check out the latest plugins.
Nobody said about sanctions after arming Taiwan. It is just your guess. But about sanctions against Huawei, exists juridical cases and official statements.

Could you remember any case where US use sanctions without juridical case?
Marcan42 accidentally posted on his twitter as Asahi Lina, and on screen Lina has accidentally shown things identifiable to Marcan (usernames, logged in mastodon account).

But he clearly doesn't want to be linked/equated to her for whatever reason, so I don't know why GP brought this up beyond stirring up drama.
Previously (35 points, 2 days ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989534
Those limitations are often obvious. With AOT, you don't have the VM around, you can't load new bytecode or introspect the objects. I would focus on writing working code, and try to go AOT close to the end. If it fails and it's not fixable, tough luck, but it works on the standard runtime.
Here's an easy test case on a topic which is HEAVILY modified by Google. There are many such cases Google distorts searches but the following query is purely for illustration of the problem because it is so obvious.

1. Search Google for "ukrainian who shot his commanding officer" without quotes

2. Google serves me nothing but MSM articles of Russian this or that. The word Russian wasn't even in my search string.

3. Add the Google operator MINUS SIGN Russia

4. Results:

a) Policeman feared Chris Kaba would kill, court told

b) Media: Russian Repeated Offender Kills Five More His ...

c) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena ...

d) Ukrainian Galician Army

e) Article from 2017 entitled Killed Defense Intelligence Officer Was "The First Donetsk Cyborg"

f) Shots fired at car carrying Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's ...

5. Go to yandex.com and search the original query

6. It comes up on Yandex immediately with the original query
That isn’t adblocking, though
That's not where I thought this was going. I tried using DDG and Kagi and went back to Google. Google had more relevant, fresher results than DDG, and Kagi didn't have the same integration with Google Maps and often a smaller set of results for very niche queries. Google is still basically the internet - the entire internet - though in many ways they do still fall short. But breadth of content indexing and information about local places, Google is still king.
My trajectory was sublime -> vscode -> cursor. I tried Zed, but didn't need any of the collaboration features, didn't notice any speed increases vs normal vscode usage, and was generally just less productive than vscode with all the extensions I had configured. Cursor imported all of those, and my keyboard shortcut muscle memory still worked right after install. For me at least, moving over to it was completely seamless.

Like you, I started using LLMs in a chat window copy pasting code back and forth, (but I think Claude 3.5 sonnet was the first model I felt it worth the hassle). The cursor workflow is basically indexing all your files in your codebase to figure out what to copy over into the LLM, and then scraping the LLM output to figure out where to paste it in your code. It works like 95% of the time, which is way more than I was expecting, and falls back to the manual copy paste workflow pretty easily. Also it comes at a time where models are good enough to be handed gobs of context and trusted with more than a handful of lines at a time (Claude Sonnet 3.5 really shines here).

The whole experience just feels very polished and well thought out. One great (not really well documented?) feature is a .cursorrules file that gets invisibly pasted into all the context windows where you can say things like "use double quotes in javascript" or "prefer functional paradigms and always include type annotations in python" to avoid having to make those edits for consistency and style if the LLM fails to pick them up from the surrounding code. You can commit this file and have teammates get the same part of the prompt. Now everyone's autocomplete consistency and style is improved.

It's difficult to state how nice having it automatically do this copy paste back and forth just a keyboard shortcut away feels, it really is much better than I expected. So yes, I would try Cursor.
The original Google whitepaper warned against the exact moves Google made years later with ads. It's fun to go back and read their thoughts on ads and how they completely change the incentives of the search provider. "fun" in that they were right and search quality has decreased considerably because of it.
Paywall (currency: privacy-eroding cookies).
What sort of workloads are you doing where 60ms extra time on your DNS lookups is an issue?
riedel (deeper in the comments) is interpreting the headline correctly - if plants absorb 31% more CO2 than previously thought, then it means that their destruction is even worse for CO2 levels than previously believed.

We're not planting more than we're destroying. If we were, this would be great news. But since we're not, this is terrible news.
Hmm. Two years ago I was at the Louvre in May. I know Paris is very proud it doesn’t use AC but only “chilled” water from the Seine. Well with thousands of bodies, it was HOT. I was dripping wet from sweat and I was not the only one. I read that 15k people died in France during the 2003 heatwave. I find the slow adoption of AC disappointing as I am usually a Francophile. https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20230717-parisians-a...

I understand the Olympic Village had the same system and many teams brought their own portable AC units.
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-air-conditioning-paris-0...
What other way is there to access HN but the website?

Agree YouTube and Instagram are probably mostly apps which puts them in the “Internet” category but not “world wide web”.
May actually be much more important than LLM products in the long run. I can see how these smart hands operate a car building procedure for me in the backyard, or even print some MCUs with sensors. This is huge, indeed.
ML-based bee recognition and tracking for advancing insect behavior research
I'm Mid-GenX. I didn't have a cordless landline phone until after college. I got my first dumb phone when I was 25 or 26.

Now get off my lawn. :)
I wonder at the long term vision for humanity. We have AI replacing a lot of art, writing, coding, etc. We have a bunch of robotics companies racing to replace physical human labor. Waymo and Tesla replacing drivers.

What role do the majority of people realistically play in this world?
This doesn't seem to work for me. I'm getting "%s" as the initial prompt, even though the text is properly displaying in the URL. Almost seems like an issue on the Claude side.
Yeah, it's hard to take OP seriously when it just comes across as sour grapes. Especially when their substack just seems to be a means to serve affiliate links.
Ask HN: Seeking connections with insurance and insurtech companies
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we are seeking connections with insurance and insurtech companies interested in building and delivering faster and we’d love to gather their feedback on our open-source platform:

https://openkoda.com/

I would be grateful for your hints and introductions, thank you!
uBlock Origin in Chrome and Arc.

I don't like the idea of network level blocking because I have to disable my adblocker due to broken websites on a fairly regular basis, and disabling a network blocker is just too much hassle, especially when thinking about DNS results caching etc.
This, HTTP/1.1 already is a simple protocol with the “things you will forget to add in the first version” added.
There are a ton of alternatives if you search around. I created my own because I wanted something keyboard centric, and use OpenRouter with it: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta. They all accomplish roughly the same thing though.
Sounds like Xplora [1] to me. I assume they have an English-language site but failed to find it and it's late, sorry.

[1]: https://xplora.se/
This is obnoxious pedantry which is ignoring the parent's obvious actual point: food obeys a demand curve just like every other product, and what the parent clearly meant was that, at the labor price native Americans would want for these jobs, the resulting food price would be such that not enough people would buy the food to make it worthwhile.

And while this may have been idle speculation a few years ago, we now have pretty solid empirical evidence: when food prices increased by 10-20%, even in the middle of the fastest-growing wages in decades, the country had a collective temper tantrum.
I'm a full-time RVer and see this all the time with diesel trucks. The trucks get "deleted" and modded for more power and to disable the DEF system. Almost everyone I've known throughout the years begins having transmission trouble within months, especially after heavy load. A few swear by it. I've got a very expensive Cummins and I'm hellbent to leave it stock (and under warranty).
haha, not sure I agree with this one at all, I think a name is pretty far down the list of priorities for a business. I would be extremely surprised if "customers who started trials but then didn't use the product at all, but then later wanted to, but couldn't because they couldn't find the name" is a segment that moves the needle.

From this brief note, you sound like you potentially are trialling an order of magnitude more services than the average person. I bet that gives you a ton of interesting perspective on all these products, sign-up flows, etc, but probably puts you in a very unusual position with respect to product names!
I use IntelliJ now and I definitely miss this feature of Eclipse.
Some things are more important than free market capitalism, and making sure you’re not dependent on hostile countries for key technology is one of them.
Salesforce Platform -> Openkoda
Try MultiGPT which is a Chrome extension that consolidates several AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, Claude, and more, into a single interfacee
Microsoft suite, YouTube, Google map, Apple Music
AI Models Replace Real People in Mango's Fast-Fashion Ads
When I was tapering off a capsule med, I used to pull the two halves of the capsule apart, pour out a bit of the powder, and plug the halves back together. Not amazingly accurate I admit. But it shows that it's not impossible to disassemble and manipulate at least some kinds of capsule, tedious though it is to do.
I had a pihole for a while, but found ublock was more reliable. Occasionally the dns routing to 127.0.0.1 would wreck havoc on "Smart" devices, such as firetv etc
Russia fines Google $2.5 decillion for YouTube bans
There are a lot of other much more important things you just don't understand and never will, like empathy and respect for your fellow human beings.
Control D for DNS blocking and Ublock origin on all browsers.

It would be nice to setup something locally, but I'm lazy (spend my time on other things) and just want it to work.
I wish there were some way to get something like Polis (https://pol.is/home) in place for web results. As screwed us as X/Twitter is, Community Notes (Polis-based) has real potential. It is much harder to game. There are so many times I wish I could "downvote" garbage Google results, and it seems to me with a good trust algorithm that, those who did this responsibly would be considered pretty good gatekeepers. Absent that, chaos might be better than a committee choosing for us. Right now, we have the worst of all worlds - a committee (Google) vs. a gagillion spammers.
I do that plus adguard dns hosted on my local network and I use their paid dns on my phones when remote.
> I'm also cautiously optimistic though. We'll get there, but it's gonna be a bit shakey for a minute or two.

But I don't understand how all of these AI results (note I haven't used Kagi so I don't know if it's different) don't fundamentally and irretrievably break the economics of the web. The "old deal" if you will is that many publishers would put stuff out on the web for free, but then with the hope that they could monetize it (somehow, even just with something like AdSense ads) on the backend. This "deal" was already getting a lot worse over the past years as Google had done more and more to keep people from ever needing to click through in the first place. Sure, these AI results have citation results, but the click-through rates are probably abysmal.

Why would anyone ever publish stuff on the web for free unless it was just a hobby? There are a lot of high quality sites that need some return (quality creators need to eat) to be feasible, and those have to start going away. I mean, personally, for recipes I always start with ChatGPT now (I get just the recipe instead of "the history of the domestication of the tomato" that Google essentially forced on recipe sites for SEO competitive reasons), but why would any site now ever want to publish (or create) new high quality recipes?

Can someone please explain how the open web, at least the part of the web the requires some sort of viable funding model for creators, can survive this?