skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture funding in Europe in 2024 fell to $45B, says Atomico
> I've seen video clips of "efficient" terminal text editor use, and while it looks cool in a hacker way, it just isn't any faster than what I do without all of the overhead of memorizing a ton of keyboard shortcuts and editor commands.

Would that still be true if the ordering of your menus (and the items within, recursively) were randomly shuffled each day, and which side submenus opened on were also randomized? How about if the speed of your mouse or mouse acceleration behaviors varied?

I think you may be discounting memorization which benefits your workflow because that memorization is spatial rather than symbolic. Perhaps there's an argument to be made that such memorization is more natural, gradual, or easy, but there's definitely memorization involved in mousing around with any degree of efficiency or speed.
Considering Safari is mainly used on a platform where it's mandatory, I'm not sure "standing" is the term.

Last man being propped up Weekend-at-Bernie's style?
The second point is critical. Relevant testimony from the former head of the NIH during the pandemic, Francis Collins: https://www.bladenjournal.com/opinion/72679/confession-of-a-...

> “If you’re a public-health person and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is.” “So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recover from.”
City dwellers will spend $2500 a month for 400 sq feet of rented living space and laugh at people paying $50k for a car.
You gave reasons you built it, which is fine I guess, but what problem is it solving that I have?

Anything that requires a visit to GitHub rules out non technical users, and technical users can install ollama just fine with fewer steps and command line arguments than you present here.

I’m not saying there isn’t a point, but I’m not seeing what it is.
That might carry more weight if Russia hadn't started an expansionist war to reclaim former imperial territory.
Why would they use a Russian flagged ship for that?
Some languages do; F# and Ada have units.

I agree no sexy languages have it, and almost all languages have terrible support or anti-support for correctness in numerical programming. It's very strange.

(By anti-support I mean things that waste your time and make it harder. For instance, a lot of languages think "static typing" means they need to prevent you from doing `int a,b; short c = a * b;` even if this is totally well-defined.)
>recognize that designers serve a crucial purpose that isn’t “dumbing things down” or “making things look nice” and that most developers have no idea how to do it themselves.

That's true, but also remember that not all designers are actually competent, or in agreement with your preferences. I'm definitely no MS fan, but look for instance at Windows 7, or better yet, Windows Vista: IMO, Vista was the peak for the Windows UI (forget about the performance problems it had at the time): it was pretty, but pretty easy to use most of the time too, with a highly discoverable interface. Now look at modern GNOME, which its backers tell us is created by "UI experts". It reminds me of Scientologists calling themselves "mental health experts". Calling yourself an "expert designer" doesn't make you one, and even any professional field, there's frequently wide disagreement. A lot of design is subjective anyway, so you can't just point to one self-appointed "designer's" opinion and use that as gospel. Even back in MS land, somehow the "experts" went from the highly-attractive Vista UI to the butt-ugly flat UI "Metro" UI in Win8, and that's at the very same company!
Wrong thrice, the third thing NewNew Polar Bear destroyed that day was a Russian telecoms cable: https://www.marinelink.com/news/russian-firm-says-baltic-tel...
Still, either "nmi" or "NM" would be better than the current and less correct "nm", even if "nm" is what's used in the article.
There’s an argument to be made that a high pace of new feature additions effectively functions as a moat that ensures that new competitive web engines cannot be developed as a result of not being able to ever catch up.
> I've not seen anywhere how this figure of 20% is determined.

maybe laying off 20% of the teams/ICs?

We have seen them happening while the profits are growing.
Well its good that a snapshot was taken and is now available.

Usually they show up relatively quickly but in this case it took almost a week between the save and a snapshot showing up.
For people unfamiliar, Semantic Scholar is run by the Allen Institute and has been researching accurate AI summarization and semantic search for years. Also they have support for author name changes.
Face to face with a preserved dinosaur that looks like it was alive yesterday
I guess I'm an "ancient" then, having done web dev since the first Netscape Navigator. I use ChatGPT all day, every day for mundane tasks:

1. As a Google/Stack replacement, asking complex queries in natural language with many follow-ups. It's really good at helping me understand complex topics step by step, at an appropriate level of detail.

2. To help me with the syntax I can never remember (like different combinations of TypeScript types and generics and explaining what it all means). I feed it three or four types and tell it "I need a fifth that inherits X from here, Y from there, and adds Z, which can be blah blah blah..." and it's really good at doing that and then also teaching me the syntax as it goes.

3. To write in-line JSDoc/TSDoc to make my functions clearer (to other devs). At work we have a largely uncommented codebase, and I try to add a bunch of context on anything I end up working on or refactoring.

4. To farm out some specific function, usually some sort of nested reducer that I hate writing manually or cascading entries of Object.entries() with many layers.

5. Ask it higher-level architectural questions about different frameworks or patterns, and treat it as a semi-informed second opinion that I always double-check.

Generally speaking, it's really pretty good at most of this. I manually read through and verify everything it produces line-by-line and ask it for corrections when I notice them. It's still a lot faster than, say, trying to code review a true junior dev's work. It's not quite as efficient as being able to easily talk shop with another experience dev, but it's rare for me (in my jobs) to have a lot of experienced devs working on the same feature/PR at once anyway, so compared to someone jumping into a branch fresh, ChatGPT is a lot better at picking up the context.

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I do NOT:

A) Use an in-IDE AI assistant. Copilot was hit or miss when it came out. It was great at simple things, but introduced subtle flaws in bigger things that I wouldn't always catch until later. It ended up wasting more time than it saved. The Jetbrains AI assistant was even worse. Maybe Claude or Cursor etc are better, I dunno, but I don't really need them. I love Webstorm as it is, without AI, and I can easily alt-tab to ChatGPT to get the answers I need only when I need.

B) Use it to write public-facing documentation. While it can be good at this, public-facing stuff demands a level of accuracy that it can't quite deliver yet. Besides, I really enjoy crafting English and don't want a robot to replace that yet :)

Overall, it's a huge time saver for sure. I expect it to fully replace me someday soon, but for now, we're friends and coworkers :)
I'm sure some rural country somewhere would start selling certificates en masse the moment this is implemented.
It's not designed to go in your Gemfile

gem install mailcatcher

:-)
Fairy tale pretending at secret history.

The Holy Roman Empire dates to around 800 AD, when Charlemagne became the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire describes territory in modern France and Germany, not in Judea. Nothing to do with the Roman Empire at the time Jesus supposedly lived.

Semitic people include Jews and Arabs. Describing Jesus -- clearly a Jew -- as of Arabic descent gets it wrong.

Nothing in this story counts as "what the Church doesn't want you to know." It has about as much historical credibility as the New Testament stories -- close to none. These alternate interpretations of the life of Jesus have floated around for a long time, with no evidence.
Oh, the low income people only have to pay 50-90% of the costs eh?
Exactly. We have a beautiful tool that can maintain an unbroken historical record without being a burden... and then we use it to rewrite history? Nooooo!!
Thank you for some historical context.
Netflix was tipping point for me, at the time Chrome was only browser on Linux that let me watch Netflix.
The low cost fix is to fix the FPRSA-R software. The front-end proxy cannot easily detect code collisions because such code collisions are not readily apparent. The ICAO flight plan allows omitting waypoints and it is one of the omitted waypoint that collides with a non-omitted waypoint. If you have taken the trouble of introducing such a sophisticated code collision detection in the front-end proxy, you might as well apply the same fix to the real FPRSA-R software.
The Firefox that gets the vast majority of its revenue from Google, that Firefox?

I think the only full-featured browser with a prosocial funding model is Konqueror, where what little money there is mostly comes from EU grants. Not coincidental that its code quality was so much better that everyone else based on its rendering engine.
> vile poison

Author could do with some grass touching. Yes there are real privacy concerns but it’s not the end of the world
This is very misleading, compare implementation timelines between browsers and you'll see that Safari has implemented many of these things year(s) after chromium, firefox and even opera. This of course was because they have tried as much as possible to push people to closed source/walled garden apps.
>It isn't something that promises to change the world, it's something that makes life marginally easier for a big cohort of people.

....and life miserable for a far larger cohort.

The number of jobs replaced, the number of jobs where the only parts capable of bringing joy will be automated away, and the number of people subject to ever-finer micromanagement as streams of more and more data are fed into authoritarian matrix multipliers will skyrocket.

The amount of human interaction, personal connections, and actors capable of sympathizing and working within the intent of the rules rather than the letter will plummet.

The ability to trust anything, to enjoy most things, and to believe that something is a real thing someone created to bring joy instead of a hypertargeted psychological adworm will disappear entirely.

A few people will get stunningly rich; a small cohort will make things easier. Many, MANY will be far worse off.
I said nothing about caring about arthropods. Side note, I do though, they are immensely important to our well being, without them we're not around, with them, we have trillions of dollars of mess to deal with. Again note that I said nothing about their feelings.

I feel you're still missing the point. I get you might be coming from a binary perspective, as evidenced by going to a nuclear argument, i.e. why bother talking about anything else, but I highly doubt that's the goal of the author. They are trying to make you imagine, and think, about how things fit together. YRMV.
I thought it was now attributed to Iran?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
Actually, one addition here: I said that there are lots of possible group laws on an elliptic curve, but IINM, the ones described here are the only ones that are algebraic (and as for what exactly that means, I'll definitely skip going into that because I would probably get it wrong :P ).
I’m fairly sure they only exist because Larry/Sergei might give half a fuck if they killed it outright, and it has a small enough team that the cost savings for killing aren’t enough for Ruth to want to make that argument.
Just the obvious one ..

Unless there's a ready supply of surgeons, theatre space, and organs on demand, then there will always be examples of "outrageous and obscene utility calculation" in medical pipelines.

That's called triage and there are literally bookshelves on the subject.

Given it was your comment that appeared shocked by "outrageous and obscene utility calculation" you might want to look into a matter that dates back further in time than The Lady with the Lamp dealing with incoming cases in one of the Crimean wars.
Hiya! I'm the maintainer. It's true I don't do much to it these days. But that's because it's complete. There are lots of things I would love to do to improve it. But none of it would dramatically improve what it does. I fix things when they break. But if it ain't broke...

Happy to answer any questions, or be persuaded that something is broken or would be a dramatic improvement :-)
Exactly: The part after "as long as" is both critical and hard to ensure.
Your license is copied verbatim, as your license requires

https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/blob/main/LICENSE

https://github.com/DocumindHQ/documind/blob/main/core/LICENS...

They fulfilled the 1 requirement you asked of them.
My ex has a doctorate in genetics (specifically studying evolution through genetic data) and described such tests as "genetic astrology" because of limitations in the data.
I don't think either of your jobs are getting shipped overseas.

> Thank god there's no malpractice law in software.

This is aerospace, there are such things, but there's also blameless postmortems. And it happened overseas!
Maybe I should clarify that I am not in charge of any executive or military branch in the EU or NATO. I express my frustration with our leadership.

If you're interested in how I think it should be sorted: the cables are between Finland and Germany. I think we start with Finland and Germany:
- stepping updiplomatic pressure.
- Expulsion of Russian and Belarusian diplomats.
- Confiscation of Russian owned properties.
- Freezing bank accounts.
- Increasing tariffs on their goods
- Reducing overall trade.
- Increasing spending on national defense
- And weapons production.
- Increasing aid to Ukraine.

The military leadership is seriously considering that Russia might push for the Baltics (meaning, the EU) within 4 years. The EU is not at peace with Russia. They are biding time for a war they need to prepare for.
Strong circumstantial evidence == minister said “I'm not the sea captain. But I would think that you would notice that you're dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers”.
> supplying Ukraine since 2014

You are moving the goalposts, though. Support between 2014 and 2022 wasn't even remotely close to:

> They send almost everything they can outside

Also even now they aren't exactly sending everything they can, rather everything they want to.
Way to avoid egress fees for backups?
Medium sized startup, I am trying to distribute S3 storage bucket backups across at least one other storage provider for redundancy. Are there any services known for having relatively reasonable egress/ingress fees?
And look how bare the arsenals have become to the point where supporting Ukraine has become difficult. European NATO is dependent on a US that starting Jan 20 will sit this one out.
> I see no reason to use them over the maintained options

Things that don't change over a longer time period can be more comfortable sometimes. Especially things you use often and build up a sort of "muscle memory" about.
I actively endorse https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog if you want something more Go-flavoured or operationalised. But it is also "complete."
First up - awesome work.

Having been through the year long build of a similar app for another health condition here’s some thoughts focusing on the GenAI side of things:

- What’s the source of the responses? Is this a RAG system or straight-to-LLM?? We have an ever-growing huge repo of domain expert written content which is the source for our RAG system. It’s far easier to control potential misinformation with a well set up RAG and some tight prompting/guardrails.

- What verification do you have that the responses are correct? We have a group of 50 highly experienced experts in the field who constantly vet the responses to our synthetic set questions and it was eye opening how often our “looks good to me” analysis was off at the beginning.

- The main reason for this questions was that your responses are going to be wrong sometimes, what legal protection do you have? Disclaimers, terms of use at absolute minimum. Who is liable if the answer is wrong? Just presume someone is going to be very upset if your response gives them bunk info.

Either way - great work.
Google "conoid" and you'll get a bunch of pictures of shapes that are curved in different ways. I assume the captcha was talking about things that have a similar shape to a cone, but I don't think you'd get much of a clue from Google.
I'll be launching my new app, Block Chainsaw, shortly.
But thats not Chrome's fault.

I mostly use Chrome on Linux (fully Google distributed, closed source Chrome...so not Chromium) and I see those cloudflare captchas at a much higher rate than I do when using Windows or macOS.
Here is the working link: https://ls.sondages.umontreal.ca/536189?lang=en
Plot twist: the number was originally generated by an AI, and that AI was selected for redistribution because it produced numbers that humans can easily get behind.
I can't tell if you guys or the Finns are better at dealing with invaders, but I can't think of a higher compliment on this matter.
Best practices for a Google scale company, where most best practices come from, is NOT the best practice for everyone else.
Inherit the Wind uses the historical case of the Scopes Monkey Trial to discuss the contemporary McCarthyism, neither of which is particularly closely tied to white supremacy?
Even worse on the "next-gen" console front. After yet another generation of being promised at least near 4k and 60fps, we're back to 30fps with sub 1080p render resolutions.
Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?
I think we can all dream. I'll start:

- I will read geological surveys and find fossils.

- I will teach myself Physics and see what happens.
> Meanwhile Ukraine was fighting in the total war mode from the first days (they do not pull "recruits" from streets in the broad daylight into military buses just for the fun of it) with huge external support

Did they do that during the first few months of the war? I recall them having more volunteers than they could use in the early days.
> we were all buying them as soon as we saved up enough money

Except most of us didn't. Valve actually gave some decent numbers in 2008. In just one year, Orange Box had sold over twice as many copies as Episode 1 did on its own. The pre-orange box sales suggest ~20% of Half Life 2 players bought the expansion stand alone.

Fast forward to today, vastly more people will have played Orange Box, especially as it was the only way to play Episode 1/2 on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

The lesson here was full games (Orange Box) typically sell better than episodes, which was the lesson almost everyone learned about "Episodic Content" in the 2000s. I note some folks argue we just got DLC - but we had DLC in the PS3/360 era too. "Episodic Content" was distinct from this as a business strategy, even if it strongly overlaps. Microsoft were constantly pushing the idea back then especially for the 360, there are a ton of talks/interviews still online from around 2005/6 from guys like Peter Moore on it.

> https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/12/valve-divulges-life-t...
> The essence of science is to distrust authority and received wisdom.

This is not "the essence of science" by any means.
It's like doing the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs.
As someone at Google, I hardly believe they deserve to be used at Google. We have like 20% the efficiency we could have if we were more selective about procedure.
As for the last paragraph, you're right to assume I haven't blocked other people's transport. I'm not yet sure whether that's effective, I don't really see the logic but it's how protesting works and that has afaik historically been important for changing bad laws so.... is it good or bad? I don't know but so far it seems obnoxious whenever I'm affected while I'm on their side
Much better privacy protection and ad blocking.

There's really no rational reason for third-party cookies to still exist. The only reason they're still around is because an advertising company's browser has like 97% market share.
That comp uaually iant gauranteed. Itsusually some decent base salary and a bonus based on some foemula around performance
You're making a blanket statement about peak time which is incorrect.

Historically in Califorinia, peak load has been in the afternoon, which I count as midday. At least, it's when solar panels are still pumping out a ton of power:

https://www.caiso.com/Documents/CaliforniaISOPeakLoadHistory...

You're posting a random day in winter in California, where overall consumption is low even at its highest, because there's very little demand for cooling. True peak for the California grid is ~50GW, not 25GW like today. You're also omitting all the residential solar that never gets on the grid that drives down midday demand in that graph.

Texas also has midday peaks, here's today and you'll see that even though its winter and very little AC is needed, peak is midday:

https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/loadForecastVsActualC...

My statement was qualified with "most places." There will undoubtedly be some places with other peaks for which solar will not shave the peak. But in most places distributed solar will shave the peak.
Feels like FSx for Lustre without the complexity. Definitely what EFS could be.

Congrats on the launch!
On iOS it’s still safari backend though?
It’s been a while since I looked, but unless they changed it, you needed the top tier plan to get a report analyzing the biases of your reading choices and recommending things to balance it out.
Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits
I used to love Popular Science but these magazines all died 20 years ago. Science reporting was the first type of journalism to go, much easier to write clickbait about current events. Remember Scientific American already endorsed Biden last election which was a wtf moment.
I don't like Mozilla's advertising strategy either. But their primary product can't sustain itself.