skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always using the appeal to nature is a fallacy, but a more refined heuristic is to simply consider that the burden of proof for a processed meal is much greater than that for an unprocessed one.

I remember a movie from the 1950s, where a character was arguing that "margarine is just like butter", and the response was that "butter needs no explanation".
Just like ChatGPT changes out models silently. Even if it's mentioned to the user, they don't care.
I really think most of the education debate in elides the central issue, which is that there is no coherent vision of what education is for. We’re going to keep changing things with no progress until that’s settled.

To paraphrase Einstein, the challenge of our age is the greatest proliferation of means paired with the greatest confusion of ends.
I'm in a position where I could get a Leica camera, but I'd much rather stick to Fujifilm who make great optics, have great in-camera film simulation, and require very little editing work outside the camera. Leica's revenue seems to me like people just wanting the luxury version of something? I just haven't seen the results to justify the cost.
I'd really like to know what airline had an employee doing this, so I can make sure to never do business with them again.
Forget schools, we already have to talk to kids about how to act around the police like they are some dangerous animal. Except if they were some dangerous animal we would have done the sensible thing and shot them all already.
I may see it, but perhaps a more descriptive opinion of yours backed up with actual shades from your own viewpoint will provide a better trust with your comment. Sure, sometimes words cannot explain a thought, but effort may at least spread a few light rays on it supporting during discoveries. What do you think? Why do you, personally, disagree with someone's else opinion highlighting the whole 12 years of your experience of communication...
A bold stance given your username.

Institutional learning has been around globally in a wide variety of forms. What is so heavily romanticized in your opinion
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No matter what time you are getting up, I think this is suggesting that if there is something important for you to get done, it is better to get it done sooner than later. I am a complete night owl, but leaving the most important items to the end of the day has rarely been a winning plan for me.
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> In fast food, people are eating a day's worth of food in one sitting. Triple burger, large fries, large drink. People are doing this once a day every day of the week.Then they go home and order more high calorie food with high calorie drinks and constant snacking.

The UK had a reality TV show called Secret Eaters where they signed up people to be monitored 24/7 by cameras and private investigators which tracked every single thing they put in their mouth and counted up the calories.

It was really informative to see how some people eat and it is not pretty. Even the people who didn't regularly eat fast food or go out to chip shops ate way more than is healthy with fatty sausages, fried things, and little fruit or vegetables, all in huge portions.
You are equating "persecuting genius" with "supporting those from low-opportunity backgrounds". Classic mistake, especially considering that those kids could become """geniuses""" too if they had a chance to even try. Giving a decent shot at those from disadvantaged households will ironically probably do more towards improving the number of high achievers than allocating too many resources to the children of the rich, which is what we're doing now.
so I played with MCP for a while last night and I think MCP is great as a layer to pull custom tools into the existing claude/desktop/chat experience. But at the end of the day its just basic agentic loop over tool calls.

If you want to tell a model to send a message to slack, sure, give it a slack tool and let it go wild. do you see a way how MCP applies for outer-loop or "headless" agents in a way that's any different from another tool-calling agent like langchain or crewai? IT seems like just another protocol for tool calling over the stdio wire (WHICH, TO BE CLEAR, I FIND SUPER DOPE)
"This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in certain countries or regions."

Quack!
A segfault is a security vulnerability :)

I expect a modern programming language that has a runtime to not do that, correct.
What U.S. state has the best resources for kids at the gifted end of the spectrum?
It's getting old but there's an xkcd for your kind of reasoning:

https://xkcd.com/605/
I'm not. All I want is that students get trained rigorously. The last thing I want is as what NYT used to report: a straight-A student who dreamed to be a scientist couldn't even pass the placement test of a city college. That shows how irresponsible our school systems became.
They aren't providing the humans. Just the tools for integrating human input/oversight.
Property prices in California have skyrocketed in the last decase, and so have tax revenues. Spending more money wastefully won't solve the problem.
> Instead, call it something like asynchronous development

"Differently abled" works just fine both ways, that there is stigma attached to the title helps since it means parents wont push for it for no reason.
As walrus01 said, yes the 4th amendment has a almost word for word parallel in the CCRF, specifically section 8:

8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

However, it's important to know that the Canadian courts have interpreted the law differently then American courts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_of_the_Canadian_Ch...
I went through California GATE at the same time. I was given an IQ test in either 1st or 2nd grade, then I had a second one-on-one test that was given verbally.

IIRC, GATE was where I had my first exposure to programming (Logo).
I've seen the airplane/railway comparison a lot and I'm not sure I buy it.

Nvidia is currently important to training new LLMs but it's not that important to running inference on existing ones.

I think email might be a better comparison? If LLMs really do become something that everyone uses without thinking about (and at least anecdotally it's the first tech trend I've seen that all my non tech friends are using) then yes sure you can easily change provider but in reality most people are just going to use whoever wins, just like most people use Gmail.

So investors are putting in huge amounts of money to have part of the next Gmail, and many of them will lose but there will probably be some dominant player and sure you can change but once you've used one for a few years and it is as good as or equal to another, and it approximates to free, then you'll probably stick with it, compatible api and interface or not.
My understanding (albeit only gathered from blogs/YouTube videos/Google Maps) is that the biggest difference is parking. On-street parking is mostly not allowed, free parking at businesses is mostly limited to car-centric ones like mechanics and dealerships, and you can't register a car without proving that you have a place to park it. Tens of millions of Japanese people living in less-dense areas have no problem with that, but in Tokyo it's prohibitively expensive for the average person due to land cost. This means that even in suburban areas, roads are narrower and everything is closer together.
I expect it to sort of be like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Many people started with AWS as it was first, and it leads to quite a bit of momentum in terms of market share long past when there was significant differentiators. It is just that there are switching costs and most people have already learnt AWS's APIs.
Not available in my Country ... :/
Yep. It’s hard to trust anything, especially because in the US things that aren’t banned are allowed by default. Companies add new substances to products constantly, often just minor variations of something that was banned.
Hey Dex! Congrats on the launch - excited to see the response here :)
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If your use would be 500/mo, you’d just pay them $40 or $60 per month.
Yes it works, but you can't state the endianness and you have no control to decide if the compiler will decide to insert padding. It's undefined.

You HOPE it works.
Human presenters aren't too expensive and are quite flexible, are easily replaced and can make or break a show. Yeah, there's the novelty factor now but am not sure how long it'll take until GenAI on broadcasts will signal second rate, subpar knockoff.
Is that true of tiktoks in general? I feel like a lot of the short form videos out there purposefully bait the watcher and drag on for 3/4 of their runtime.
Couldn't that be a misreading of Voltaire though? I didn't interpret Candide as "there is suffering", I interpreted it as "this is obviously not the best possible world and no logical gymnastics can convince me it is"

(With the collorary that logic is pretty useless in moral philosophy if it's only used to find contrived justification for the status quo.)
We validated our idea and reached $1k MRR
I know what it's like to try to market a product that no one wants.

We spent months building a product and then 6 months trying to market it and got 0 sales.

We even spent $900 on ads... But nothing.

It was actually a well-built product, the problem was just that we hadn't validated the idea at all. We had no confirmation that there was a market for it.

Eventually we had to abandon it.

Our next idea was the complete opposite. We reached $1k MRR in two months and things are going really well. Here's exactly how we validated the idea:

Step one: Talking to potential users

- We had a pretty well defined idea but we didn't want to make the same mistake again.

- We wanted to solve a problem that founders had, it was a problem we understood intimately.

- So we made a Reddit post on r/SaaS and r/indiehackers asking founders to answer a few questions and in return we would give them feedback on their project.

- Here's one of the posts (4 months ago as you can see): https://www.reddit.com/r/indiehackers/comments/1ea1cpd/lets_exchange_feedback/

- This got us in touch with 8-10 founders who were willing to answer our survey.

- We asked questions about pain points related to the problem and tried to get an idea if they were willing to adopt the solution we had in mind.

- The responses were positive so we had the green light to start building

Step two: Building the MVP

- This is the easy part. We knew what we should focus on from the feedback so we let that guide our building.

- We built fast. 30-45 days for the MVP.

- We made sure that our MVP actually solved the problem we had identified.

- That's it. Time to market this MVP and see if we can get some users.

Step three: Marketing and collecting feedback

- First we set a clear goal. We wanted as much feedback as possible so we were going to need active users. 20 active users was our goal.

- Then we selected 2 marketing channels we believed in. Since we wanted to reach founders we focused on X and Reddit.

- Then we set daily volume targets. For example, post 50 replies on relevant posts on X and create 5 new posts.

- So we had our daily targets, meaning we knew exactly what to do every day. We thought it would be reasonable to expect that we can hit our goal of 20 active users in 2 weeks.

- Then we just executed our marketing plan. It was easy, because we knew what to do every day. No questions.

- Two weeks later we were at 100 users (and it was exactly 100, what are the odds). We had hit our goal.

That was the validation process for Buildpad. From there on, all we had to do was improve the product based on feedback and continue marketing and that took us to $1k MRR in two months.

I hope our journey can inspire some of you to not give up and to follow a solid process for building your product.

I'm happy to offer my input in the comments if you have any questions.
Thanks, this is really important context, I expected a link to an example video as the first comment.

And yes, it's really bad. No idea how someone could think this could replace a human.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/opinion/social-media-algo...
Of course it’s possible I’m wrong. But if we make any sort of projection based on current developments, it would certainly seem that live-streaming AI indistinguishable from a human being is vastly beyond the capabilities of anything out today, and given current expenses and development times, seems to be at least a few decades in the future. To me that is an optimistic assumption, especially assuming that live presence or video quality will continue to improve as well (making it harder to fake.)

If you have a projection that says otherwise, I’d be glad to hear it. But if you don’t, then this idea is merely science fiction.

Making predictions about the future that are based on current accelerating developments are how you get people in the 1930s predicting flying cars by 2000.
The refusal to use anything language designers have learnt since 1970 is what makes it C. No sum types, poor error handling, no map/filter funcs, all the other stuff written in the post. Java has all of that, any language after the 90s has most of that, Go doesn't. Actually even C has sum types lol.

The fact that it can't fill many of the usecases that C can and yet has ergonomics as bad as C makes it even worse.
The "riddled with state machines" from the post I was replying to, while sounding negative, is at least better than the "single state machine" which is probably combinatorially huge and would be impossible to maintain.

My rough rule of thumb based on experience is that if the state machine being a state machine is visible outside of it's internal implementation (compared to just an interface with operational methods that don't hint at how things are managed behind the scenes) it's probably too leaky and/or incomplete.

I would trust code with extensive state-transition testing (regardless of internal implementation) - I wouldn't trust code that claimed to implement a state machine and didn't have that testing, or extensive documentation of edge cases and what was left out of the state machine.

As a simple example of something that's often left out in a way that fucks up state machines: the passing of time.
The plan is to cut the entire Department of Education.

That would cut 4,400 employees -- most of whom are tasked with administering funds like Pell Grants. Those funds are mostly matters of law, so I'm not sure if the goal is to just not actually follow that law, or what.

If you did indeed stop following that law, you could save a goodly chunk of money -- over $200 billion. But the actual employees are only a tiny fraction of that cost, so firing the entire staff would save far, far less (perhaps half a billion.)
That's a pretty new thing though, in 2020 it was 1 min I believe, and most people skipped after 15-30s

Then it got increased to 3 min and now 10/60 min
People just want a solution to their problem. Does a Google user care what iteration of their index engine they're using? No, they just want a picture of a god dang hot dog I tell ya hwat.
There is this KiTTY as well:

http://www.9bis.net/kitty/index.html#!index.md
This wouldn't have an impact.

There would inevitably be a classifier that acts as a filter pre-training to identify slop and ignore it.
> The moat here is the broader consciousness that a very very large population of people have adopted.

That's not nothing, but switching costs are very low, and an alternative could arise faster than the switch from Friendster to Myspace or Myspace to Facebook.
The poor categorization may be a purposeful obfuscation. If you have bad labels it becomes easy to have poor studies that are easily criticized, and entire movements or research fields for food safety can be dismissed. Instead of labels we need transparency on every last ingredient and process applied.
Brand loyalty might matter when the cost of a good is relatively low and the availability high. I can basically choose between coke or Pepsi anywhere, and they cost about the same, so why not go with my favorite?

For airlines availability with a preferred carrier is not guaranteed, and prices can vary wildly. Do I have so much brand loyalty that I will pay perhaps 2x the cost? Like most people, I wouldn't.

In terms of availability and cost, LLM providers are much closer to Coke than to an airline.
Same here. What’s this about? Anyone who can see willing to share some more info?
It does seem American anti communist folk killed a few people too. Though the scores seem to be about US 2 million, commies 90 million.
As a protestant, I fully plan to visit Wittenberg some day as a sort of pilgrimmage.
That's one heck of a mixed metaphor you've got there!
Seems you can't use historical names: "Henry VII, The Tudors" etc.
Do you not use autocorrect?
For me, it's some very simple things. Like being able to set the alt behaviour separately for left/right alt (so I can have the meta behaviour while still being able to type funky characters)
Classification should be sufficient. Remember that LIDAR is invisible, so distraction or flash-blindness are not relevant, just health effects. Class 1 has already been thoroughly tested and deemed "safe even for long term intentional viewing." Class 2 is visible only, so any LIDAR systems above 5mW would be Class 3, which are deemed harmful to humans. You can put a Class 3 laser in public (see laser light shows) but the FDA regulations require an indicator and to give the public enough warning to get clear if desired. These restrictions are going to make anything but Class 1 LIDAR exceedingly difficult for use in automotive applications.
At least in the past people were celebrities for a reason other than the number of followers they had on social. It'd be nice if we could return to a time when people were part of the public discourse because they were good at something (or their parents were rich, sadly).
Co-operatives and worker self-management can and have existed under communism.
this is fascinating and resonates with me on a deep level. I'm surprised I haven't stumbled across this yet.

I think we have this problem with all AI systems, e.g. I have let cursor write wrong code from time to time and don't review it at the level I should...we need to solve that for every area of AI. Not a new problem but definitely about to get way more serious
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Isn't this essentially the same argument as "there are only 10 covid cases in this area, nothing to worry about"?

It's really missing the point, the point is whether or not exponential growth is happening or not. It doesn't with husbands, it does with covid, time will tell about AI.
> avoiding UPFs would likely make the average person healthier

UPFs are defined in a way where you could replace them with essentially identical foods that only count as "processed" by swapping out a couple ingredients with nutritionally identical ingredients (e.g. replace HFCS with sucrose).

The research on UPFs doesn't actually compare ultra-processed food with similar "processed" foods.

So if you replace a pie containing HFCS with a kale salad, yeah it's probably healthier, but there isn't really evidence that replacing an "ultra-processed" pie containing HFCS with a home-made "processed" pie containing sucrose that otherwise has the same nutritional content is healthier (there is some researching showing that fructose can be harmful but the glucose/fructose content of HFCS isn't significantly different from sucrose).

If there is no direct comparison between similar ultraprocessed foods and processed foods, the research doesn't actually show that ultraprocessed foods are bad in a way that homemade processed foods aren't, in which case I'm not sure what the point of defining ultraprocessed foods as a separate category is.
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I wasn't indending to explain the whole CT phenomenon. I was mostly intending to explore the concept of fashion/taste criticism in general. Namely what people expect it to communicate, and what people expect as a response. With fashion, you often dont want or care about others adopting your taste. It can be about control, but isnt always.

I think the CT hate taps into something more deeper than fashion for most people, relating to politics and culture conflict. It makes people angry in a way at more expensive and even less practical Maserati doesn't.
> Focusing on equality of outcomes

Is this a thing? I hear conservative people complain about it a lot, but I have no clue what this looks like.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42235793
> If it were just for optics and they didn't actually hold their positions, these issues would be far easier to deal with.

No, then it would have been easier. Virtue signaling is so hard to deal with since people don't want to lose their virtue, they have to stay the course and continue to upheld that what they did was virtuous or they lose all their hard work.

A good sign is if you call your opponents names rather than try to win them over, then you are just virtue signaling instead of trying to fix anything, insults doesn't improve anything except act as signaling. This is how most politicians acts, it tend to make you very popular and make your tribe view you as very virtuous, virtue signaling works.
If you think StackOverflow is the epitome of scale, then your view of the world is somewhat limited.
I worked for a flash sale site in 2008 that had to handle 3 million users, all trying to connect to your site simultaneously to buy a minimal supply of inventory. After 15 minutes of peak scale, traffic will scale back down by 80-90%. I am pretty sure StackOverflow never had to deal with such a problem.
You can find jobs developing apps for internal workflows. It doesn't pay as well as Silicon Valley startups with fancy technology.

Honestly if you can get testing, build and deploy right you've solved 90% of the problems in any company I've worked at. Most places suffer from low morale and velocity because their software is fragile and poorly factored. Tons of haunted forests requiring specialist knowledge to manually test every release.
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The general public doesn't care to understand the difference between "LLM" and "ChatGPT" any more than they care to understand the difference between "web browser" and "Chrome". Most people will happily use whatever you put in front of them, and if the product is bad, they'll generally grumble and shrug their shoulders in learned helplessness rather than do the research necessary to switch to a better alternative. Discerning consumers are a rounding error.

Which is to say, the platform holders will determine who wins and loses. ChatGPT will win if they pay sufficient fealty to Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
No because that would compete with a 2025 model not state of the art.
That quote sounds like an argument against Rust, not GO. Rust is a complex language and that complexity doesn't go away if you close your eyes to it either. All complexity adds to project complexity.
That's precisely what the food product industry wants you to believe.
This is an instance of inherent complexity. Your domain is complex. You either place them into a series of nested if statements (which is what majority of programmers do), or you place it into the type system. You cannot avoid complexity either way. We are merely arguing where this complexity belongs. Such complexity is hard to manage in either case.