skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does every single thing need a unique name? Even trademarked names for businesses and products are scoped to business sectors - its why apple the computer company who took the name of apple the record label was just fine (until apple invented itunes and had to buy the record label).

Heck even code does scoped naming... the compiler can't really handle punctuation that is slightly wrong and even it allows me to reuse variable names in the same program.

I don't know why we'd need a univerally unique name for each piece of software ever created. The existing software called robinhood is unrelated to this load balancer, so even if I could download and use it, I doubt I'd have much of a problem distinguishing the two.
They can still hire people and compete with each other? I'm just saying they shouldn't hire in mass quantities if there's a high chance that all of those people will be let go later on. It seems unethical to me but again it's a matter of perspective.
> when it was clear they were playing us comp-wise by lowballing us to get their foot in the door & then raising the bar once the offer came.
Isn’t this just the mirror of a relatively common business practise? At least among smaller companies (maybe non US)
A place I’ve worked recently had design leadership who:

(1) Asked to be included as early as possible in the process, and …

(2) Would not tolerate sketches, demanding at least a mid-fidelity level to discuss work.

This was fun.
75% of Chinese report negative views of the US: https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/how-do-chinese-p...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-American_sentiment_in_m...

Apparently 60% responded that the killing of Bin Laden was a bad thing because he was an anti-american warrior.
cursor. First one I've tried that seems like it's more than a neat demo.

- but I'm weird and I usually disable tab completion, I find having generations popping up while I'm typing slows me down, I gotta read them and think about it, feels like it's giving me ADD. So I've always kinda been a copilot hater. Lots of people find this more productive, and a fancy version of it is on by default in Cursor. However, Cursor implemented a bunch of different interfaces well not just the copilot one, and I find the chat window in your editor for churning out boilerplate or refactors is a huge productivity win personally. There are a lot of one-off refactors that are annoying enough that I wouldn't want to dedicate an afternoon to them but now they are taking me just a few minutes of reviewing AI changes.
When i went home to visit my dad, I cooked an egg on his decades old cast iron. He scrapes the absolute bejeezus out of it, has no idea what seasoning is, uses soap. It cooked wonderfully. That was my eye opener moment.
OpenAI has the consumers. Anthropic has enterprise (or at least that’s the majority of their customers). OpenAI is better positioned to do so. Eye balls and brand are key.
The art is in finding a line/sentence that consists of only the word in question, in other words a complete utterance. That’s the case for the “No”, but not for your “Indeed”.
Ask HN: Will tenured professors replace their PhD students with AI?
Maybe some will prefer to do their research that way?
I've always felt like China doing a "hot war" in Taiwan would be really uncharacteristic of them. What I think is more likely is that they sponsor parties/social movements in Taiwan that support reunification. Eventually I'd imagine Taiwan would do a referendum on whether or not to join the PRC.

The way I would frame it if I were China:
1. Re-join PRC and lose some civil liberties, but hopefully not have any worse material quality of life.
2. Stay in the US sphere of influence, and continue to be the hypothetical "first theater" of WWIII. Taiwan would need to increase military readiness and always live with the threat of invasion looming.

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” -- Sun Tzu
Palantir: The Defense Reformation
The difference here is that “No” (actually “No!” in my text) is the entirety of Hamlet III.iii.87 without need to sample less than a line.
MS is such a mess of a company. The existence of MSFT is only proof that profitability doesn’t mean jack shit when it comes to the products themselves.

Haven’t liked windows in a long time (XP?). But still sad to see it go down this way.
Exploiting Meta's Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook
Nope, hit the mark.

Actually understand LLMs in detail and you'll see it isn't some huge waste of time and energy to have LLMs correct outputs from LLMs.

Or, don't, and continue making silly, snarky comments about how stupid some sensible thing is, in a field you don't understand.
This is great news. But it gives me anxiety the fact that I'll keep accumulating chats on that left bar without any ways to manage them or search through them.

Today I was looking for an old (and useful) chat I had a few months ago and I had to export the whole chat history, wait for the zip file, and write a Python script to find what I was looking for :/
Salt water is a whole different ball game. I have a lot of respect for the engineering that goes into marine environments.
I'm making the first effort in many years to finally be rid of windows,because of recall. I'm really uncomfortable with the idea that once that is implemented I really will have no un-monitored/spied source of computer usage. It used to be almost impossible to reach some sort of usability parity linux/windows but I think its possible now. A big part of that is with computer power long surpassing daily usage needs the lack of cutting edge driver support on linux is no longer as big a deal.
I started with ubuntu, but I also am pairing it with NIX package manager. I'd like to use this experiment to get familiar with the disposable OS paradigm. I think that could be a killer feature to move away from windows. I don't see them ever getting windows to be rebuildable on demand.

I realize NixOS has some hurdles and learning curve though.
Can this work with local models ?
To anyone that thinks models are going to be commodified, it seems like it's going to be exceedingly difficult to compete with OpenAI. The developer experience working with them is just too good.

Sure you could use a different providers, but you're going to be stuck with an incredibly fragmented ops stack. My experience with Google has been shockingly bad and Anthropic has got a good amount of catching up to do. No one else is remotely competitive. Honestly would love to see something from Meta long term.
VeraCrypt: Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt
> I've lived in a few different places and found the culture around exercise and diet to be very different in different places, so I'm not surprised experiences can vary so much. I am curious where you see this bizarre culture of shaming people for exercising.

I mean it's super common on any social media where a non-skinny woman is exercising with any real following tbh. It's gone all the way back to covertly photographing fat people in the gym or in public back in the reddit days of r/fatpeoplehate and 4chan. I mean there was that viral picture of a fat guy dancing off 4chan.
Good on 'em. I hope they learn some good stuff, and develop some cool technology spinoffs.

The moon's a big place. There's plenty of room for multiple countries to explore.

I'm fine with being second. If being first is the only reason we're going, is it worth going at all? This doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
> At least with Siri it can be disabled during the setup Wizard and you can choose to use it or not (i never do on Mac)

How is that different than disabling Recall on first boot/setup?
Bing search gets so much dumber when it searches the web that I've developed the muscle memory to append #nosearch to every prompt so that hopefully it won't. I just searches for unrelated stuff and then repeats random stack overflow answers to problems that have nothing to do with what I asked.
Show HN: Warp AWS Productivity Launcher
Hey HN, I decided to package up a tool I use ubiquitously when working with AWS.

Its a launcher similar to Spotlight, Alfred and Raycast. However its designed specifically for navigating to AWS resources.

If you work semi frequently with AWS it can be a real pain just navigating around the console. The idea of Warp is to reduce that amount of time as much possible.

If any of these features catch your eye then feel free to check it out.
- Cross account searching
- Cross resource searching
- Service result caching.

Its currently up for a one time payment and I have no plans to make it anything other than that.
The core advice of the article seems relevant and useful to both of those types of design.
No, electric motors exert the most torque at zero RPM. That's where you can put the most current through the coil, because there's no back-EMF. It's why EVs are so zippy from a stop. The torque-speed curve is a straight line, with 0 torque at max RPM and a constant power.
Why?

Frankly, based on a looot of introspection and messing around with altered states of consciousness, it feels pretty on point and lines up with how I see my brain working.
A good work truck is one you don't mind getting scratched and dented. Hard to replicate that with any brand new vehicle, especially one with a $60k starting price.

That said, I think the Lightning serves certain roles really well. They're great for the forest service, for municipalities, utilities, etc. If they were actually cheaper than the ICE version I think they'd gain a lot of adoption for those kinds of fleets.

Since they're quite a bit more expensive, though, buyers have to make the case that they're worth it. Pretty tough proposition unless you're trying to sneak under an emissions budget.
Lots of people are correctly suggesting this could function just as equally well as a PWA, but I will point out that (all things being equal) there are some valid use-cases when strictly choosing between Electron vs PWA that a LOT OF PEOPLE seem to be oblivious of:

- Electron apps don’t rely on a web server to function, so as long as you archive the app’s installer, you can install it on future computers even if the original website goes down. This assumes that the PWA/Electron App in question doesn't need server features, for example Photopea, Obsidian, etc.

- A bit easier to block network traffic to/from a dedicated application from a privacy perspective. Still can be done on a PWA, but it's trickier to set up.
More generally, any work that a developer does outside of coding will improve their coding. If they learn a bit more about the business side of the company, they will have better conversations with the business teams because they speak (some of) the same language, and the developer will be better at prioritizing their tasks because they consider business concerns in addition to technical concerns. The same for Design, hiring, or testing. The most important task at a startup for both business and technical people is actually talking to customers, which should drive both Design, Business and Technical decisions. Most developers avoid talking to their customers, or are prevented from talking to them by other folks at the startup. The author alludes to this approach when talking about Design. You can and should go deeper, creating customer personas and workflows (like one of those Great Designers) to understand your customers better. The more time you spend talking to and watching your customers use your tools, the better!
Arguably sanctions poker should be played asymmetrically until one side folds due to uneven damage. If both sides play for even damage then neither side should sanction.
You're looking at it through rose tinted lenses. I remember it getting blasted for its Fisher Price theme and ugly new Start Menu and Control Panel redesigns. Remember the search dog?

If Microsoft had a champion of UI consistency I think it'd be Windows 2000, but I wouldn't know from experience. I was given a Windows ME prebuilt.
I've heard good things about the Framework laptops from a modularity perspective, but how are the thermals? Can it have a dedicated GPU?
I have no issue with others having differing preferences, just making an observation about the continual reinvention of this particular wheel
A little mentioned downside to cast iron is that it's porous enough that it will absolutely absorb certain things like turmeric that will only come out once you cook something else in it, no amount of washing or soap seems to make a difference past a certain point. Kind of a non issue to me, just a quirk of the tool.
I guess a valid criticism is the idea that ASI would care about the ideologies of literal ants, or that it would be so alien that it doesn't even make sense to anthropomorphize it like that. But I guess the delusional part you got offended about was either the criticism of capitalism or to describe LLMs as glorified markov chains (which they technically are, look it up).
> It's interesting how prescient it was, but I'm more struck wondering--would anyone in 1987 have predicted it would take 40+ years to achieve this? Obviously this was speculative at the time but I know history is rife with examples of AI experts since the 60s proclaiming AGI was only a few years away

40+ makes it sound like you think it will ever be achieved. I'm not convinced.
What solution is there besides choosing the sources you will ground your truth to? We are not going to transcend intermediaries when asking for answers from an intermediary.
I was under the impression there was a large demographic of Chinese who would buy Huawei phones over iPhones because they were Chinese and not American, despite the chip being being a few generations behind an iPhone.

Meaning, there are people in China who are nationalistic, as there are in America. And these have enough of a Chinese over American view they would purchase an arguably worse product for their views.

As for cultural exports, I think America just dominates the world in that regard. If you want to use that as a comparison China would have to have equivalent cultural exports to be a fair point. And as far as I know most people have no qualms with eating Panda Express, PF Changs, or small Chinese takeouts, which is a Chinese cultural export.

>Super clean air, cleaner than most American cities nowadays.

I'm skeptical of that. I'd concede if you provided data but a quick Google search for AQI right now says the worst US city NYC is 54 AQI and Shenzhen is 56. Los Angeles is 33, SF is 19. (source IQAir)
The fact that people receiving medical or economic assistance often face irreversible cutoffs and net reductions in resources if they try helping themselves is so perverse.

I have seen people in this situation. Sometimes you don't even need to be poor, just in a bad situation where you need help and are getting it. But deeply incentivized (captured might be the right word) by artificial risk structures to avoid any attempts to get out.
From what I remember a single svchost.exe process instance could be handing multiple "services" - you could see the mapping of service to PID in the Services, and there wasn't a 1:1 relationship.

So did you actually know what services were running based on the processes to support the belief that "there were no other processes acting in the background"?
The Interaction of Two Black Holes
https://archive.md/o8YP9

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08120-6
That's not how stocks work.

Margin is profit over total revenue, not profit over Capital invested

When someone buys stock on the market, they are giving money to another trader. They are not giving money to the company to invest in production capacity.

Shareholder profit tracks net corporate profit, not profit margin. It's better to hold a stock that makes a 1% margin on a billion dollars revenue, then one that has a 90% margin on $10 of revenue
> Will this fundamentally change how people find and access information? How do you create an experience so compelling that it replaces the current paradigm?

I think it's already compelling enough to replace the current paradigm. Search is pretty much dead to me. I have to end every search with "reddit" to get remotely useful results.

The concern I have with LLMs replacing search is that once it starts being monetized with ads or propaganda, it's going to be very dangerous. The context of results are scrubbed.
Will the US government sanction itself then?
Is it that you don't believe these pieces of malware are generating fake engagement on Google's properties? Or that Clicks, Views & Users don't matter to Google?
Just my own experience but I have never gotten a job with a cold application on a job board. Always been via a recruiter or even better an inside contact.
Relatedly, see Big's Backyard Ultra[0]: runners run a 4-mile loop, on the hour, every hour, 24 hours a day, until only one runner completes a loop that nobody else does. In 2011, when it started, the winner did 18 laps. In 2023, the winner completed 108 laps!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%27s_Backyard_Ultra
I would love an EV light truck, but not at that price difference.
I bought a freeze dryer so you don't have to - Technology Connections [video]
The big modalities we’ve been seeing are Chat, Diffs, In-painting, node based editors
Replying to myself as I can't edit my post now.

First things first, I didn't mean to stir up the discussion in this way. Also, I should have let go of the Caps Lock key. Also, I should've put all that stuff into a single comment or not write some of the things at all instead of creating multiple comments. Sorry.

As for the "inshallah", I probably used that word wrongly; I did not have any meaning of it in mind but used it—somewhat incomprehensibly so—as a moniker for "a standard to start any and all texts with", so "ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" if you will.
I understood this purely as a pragmatic notion. LLM's produce some valid stuff and some invalid stuff. It would be useful to know which is which. If there's information inside the machine that we can extract, but isn't currently showing up in the output, it could be helpful.

It's not really necessary to answer abstractions about truth and knowledge. Just being able to reject a known-false answer would be of value.
> Maybe you preffer the bitter taste of cooked coffee?

Definitely not.

But the thing about cold-brew is that it tastes mostly sour to me and nothing else (which is unsurprising given our taste-buds are most sensitive at higher temperatures, and proper extraction of coffee can't happen at those lower temperatures as some compounds just won't dissolve at the same rate, and sour compounds in coffee dissolve the fastest). With warm brewed (+ warm drank) coffee things are more balanced (not just straight sour) and you get the interesting flavour notes from the bag.

I don't think the quality of the coffee I am using is the problem. It might be the variant, but I enjoy natural light roasts (and light roast is already difficult to brew without it getting too sour).
How well did it work for generating tests? I was looking for an AI test generation tool yesterday and I came across this and it wasn't clear how good it is.

(before I get a bunch of comments about not letting AI write tests, this is for a hobby side project that I have a few hours a week to work on. I'm looking into AI test generation because the alternative is no tests)
How much work would it take to sever youtube from the google infrastructure? I'm imagining the entire organization working on it for multiple years to make it happen.
I've gotten 2 good jobs directly or indirectly from LinkedIn. I would argue LinkedIn is probably the one site that you absolutely need to be on.
Not at the moment, since you need a local model with strong segmentation capabilities (x, y) and none exist ATM. We hope to train one in the future and one of Cerebellum's roadmap items is to create a the ability to save your sessions as a training dataset.
Many companies have policies requiring that all jobs have to be posted both internally and externally before being filled. The intent is to prevent Sam the VP from just slotting his buddy into the job. At the end of the day, Sam the VP is just going to slot his buddy into the job but now you made a whole bunch of people apply for a job that was never available to them.

Same thing happens with H1B/PERM, except now it's the law requiring it rather than company policy. The company already has someone doing the job today, but legally they have to post the job and interview a certain number of candidates to prove there is no US citizen that can do it.

Terrible situation for all involved.
I forget who did the research, but I believe Recall data was being stored in SQlite on-device, unencrypted. Accessing that data from a malicious script or various applications interested in data collection would have been pretty impactful to end users.

I assume they’ve changed functionality after that media, so I don’t know anything about its expected implementation anymore (and don’t particularly care, since my Windows device is just for games).

aI, on the other hand, is very interesting because it runs locally from a custom LLM with some very interesting instructions pre built. I’m excited to see where it goes and Apple’s press during WWDC makes it clear that they’re extremely interested in a secure and private implementation.
Sounds interesting, could you elaborate a bit? I am interested in building something similar using temporal.
Your phrasing sounds like you're unaware that filesystems can also do the same kind of cloning that a hypervisor does, where the initial data takes no storage space and only changes get written.

In fact, it's a much more common feature than active deduplication.

VM drives are just files, and it's weird that you imply a filesystem wouldn't know about the semantics of a file getting copied and altered, and would only understand blocks.
I mentioned this in another post recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41699265

but I've been using something of a homegrown equivalent of Recall most of the year and I really do think the concept has a lot of potential. definitely understand the privacy concerns (and especially if there's no opt-out), but I just want to encourage y'all to be open minded and consider the potential benefits.

anybody use google photos? I've got almost 20 years of photos and videos on it. But there's so many gaps in the timeline! so why not just record everything. and with an AI layer on top to help surface and search interesting/relevant moments. same thing for facebook and twitter and ig and hn and whatever social media you might use. it's such a privilege to be able to go back and look at our digital artifacts from years and decades past. so why not do it in 4k+audio.
Huawei got sanctions after catch on spy activity.

Who else you know?
Please see my other comment; I used "inshallah" wrongly.
It's not native though. It's just a webapp in a second browser without any of the usual browser features, and reduced sandboxing.

It's all the negatives of a webapp and all the negatives of a native app with none of the positives.
I hope this will be available from Homebrew soon.
What we need is, is Job-postings-as-code so that we can automate the deployment of Linkedin postings such that when a recruiter is let go, we can automatically identify their postings and clean them up.

We'll call it DevHiringOps

Seriously tho, always use the companies website instead of believing whatever is on some job posting website.
Not only posted, but often they require that several folks are actually interviewed.
I'd never owned an Apple computer until last week. I couldn't buy a new Windows computer knowing Microsoft's trajectory with intrusive tracking, Recall being the most prominent example.