skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most adaptable, flexible, maleable methodology is and will always be XGH.

https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse...
Everybody trots out this argument.

GPT styled LLMs were introduced back in 2018 so SIX years ago.

Have they gotten more COHERENT? Absolutely. Is coherence the same thing as NOVELTY? NOT EVEN REMOTELY. I've played with markov chains in the 90s that were capable of producing surprising content.

Unless there is a radical advancement in the underlying tech, I don't see any indication that they'll be capable of genuine novelty any time in the near future.

Take satire for example. I have yet to see anything come out of an LLM that felt particularly funny. I suppose if the height of humor for you is Dad jokes, reddit level word punnery, and the backs of snapple lids though that might be different.
Doesn't skipping view layers mean that constraints held by intermediate layers can be violated?

Say a city stats(location, weather) component is held inside a region component which in turn is in charge of a product route generating component (which also contains a separate 'list of products' component).

You can't update the city coordinates safely from the top as the region component enforces that the cities are within a maximum distance from each other. The intermediate constraint would have to be lifted to the higher level and checked.

Edit: There is also a more basic problem. When your app has multiple types of data(product, city), the top level store effectively becomes a database(https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/your-frontend-needs-a-databas...). This means that for every update, you have to figure out which views change, and more specifically, which rows in a view change. This isn't trivial unless you do wholesale updates (which is slow), as effects in a database can be non-local. Your views are queries and Queries on streaming data is hard.

The whole update logic could become a core part of your system modelling which creates an NxM problem (store update, registered view -> does view update?). This function requires factoring into local functions for efficient implementation which is basically the data dependency graph.
Look at their landing page. Instead of switching to a web browser or LLM-shell when you want to query out how to generate some boilerplate you can just type it into your terminal and you'll get responses there without having to resort to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, like we troglodytes do.
> if that bothers you, maybe you need to ask yourself why.

That's even vaguer and less compelling rhetoric than "virtue signaling".
I’ve read a fair amount of both, and I think that James is definitely the superior prose stylist. Wells has an interest in social structures that informs a great deal of his plots (especially (The Time Machine). They’re in many ways incomparable if only because their literary projects have very different aims.
> Can you reference a specific case? I'd like to follow it.

In addition to the cases cited in the article, I've seen some other scary sounding incidents in MSM reporting recently but I didn't bookmark any. My thought was triggered by the article mentioning the Institute for Justice filing a class action which indicates there are a lot and that IfJ feels they have strong grounds.

> "The IG report highlighted an incident documented in a video released four months ago by the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit civil liberties law firm which is pursuing a class action lawsuit against the DEA."

I agree that "we changed our policy" doesn't legally change their existing liability but it'll at least stop more incidents being added and I think it probably does influence the media optics as well as a judge's eventual corrective order (if it gets that far). Plus IfJ will certainly get discovery on all the relevant data including searches, confiscations, claims and the actual amount of criminal activity discovered (which is probably almost none as Justice Dept's own IG cited the lack of effectiveness). Now at least those likely shocking statistics will have a hard stop date a few years in the past by the time it comes out.

Additionally, while this decision was probably being deliberated before the election, it may have been accelerated and/or influenced by the outcome of the election simply because the DEA is now less certain they'll have leadership in the Justice Dept, Homeland Security, etc willing to circle the wagons and stonewall to defend these practices.
(Michael Pollan) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/18508-eat-food-not-too-much...
I dont think this is related to Go tbh. For some reason when it comes to parallelism most of the literature suggests to create a pool with n threads, n being the number of threads that the cpu can run in parallel. This makes sense if the threads are always running. Falls totally apart when the threads spend most of their time idle.
>The challenge is what to do about the large number of students - at many schools the majority - who don't.

The solution isn't just to keep throwing money at the problem, because empirically that's been completely ineffective. If a large segment of the population are effectively learning nothing in e.g. the last 4 years of high school, they shouldn't be forced to attend, wasting resources that could be spent educating people who actually want to be educated. Instead there should be stronger support for people who come back to complete a high school diploma at a later age, as many of those students will come back with real motivation for study once they find their career opportunities without it are limited.
Douglas Adams' "Hyperland" (1990) [video]
OpenAI Might Be Making a Web Browser
> Most bread and yogurt in the average grocery store is pretty bad stuff, full of HFCS, hydrogenated oils, and hydrolyzed proteins.

I eat a lot of (plain) yogurt. But my kids often eat sweetened yogurt, which I've suspected is not-at-all-healthy. So I went to check the ingredients of several sweetened brands. I could be wrong but I don't see any of those you're concerned about explicitly mentioned. I do see "fructose" which seems like it could be just about as bad as HFCS? Or maybe the terms you use are generic and there's some specific ingredients that qualify? Or did I just get lucky with these examples I picked?

Examples:

Yoplait GoGurt Protein Berry Yogurt Tubes contains: Grade A Reduced Fat Milk, Ultrafiltered Skim Milk, Sugar, Contains 1% or Less of: Kosher Gelatin, Modified Food Starch, Fruit and Vegetable Juice (for Color), Tricalcium Phosphate, Potassium Sorbate Added to Maintain Freshness, Natural Flavor, Carrageenan, Yogurt Cultures (L. Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus), Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3.

Danimals Smoothie Strawberry Explosion And Mixed Berry Dairy contains: Cultured Grade A Low Fat Milk, Water, Cane Sugar, Modified Food Starch, Contains Less Than 1% Of Milk Minerals, Natural Flavors, Fruit & Vegetable Juice (For Color), Lemon Juice Concentrate, Vitamin D3, Active Yogurt Cultures S. Thermophilus & L. Bulgaricus.
If we can talk long term, then a survey of the asteroid belt would reveal two special bands of density: close to ice, and close to gold. Returning a gold asteroid to Earth orbit has straightforward economics. Build a small cylinder or globe around an ice asteroid and melt just enough of it to kickstart the greenhouse effect.
Should the police take the money without cause? No. Can we question what he was up to? Yes. It's risky, as cash can be stolen from you with no recourse. It's also a very inconvenient way to pay someone, since it's physically large and would take a long time to count out.
Great article, agreed. I don't want to work for a company where algorithms are weaponized against me.
How would you have not known why if you had?
I was surprised at how game the AI was to pronounce the Hawaiian place names, it was confident enough that I assumed the pronunciation was correct. The article notes that it is butchering the placenames though.

To me this illustrates a common cognitive mismatch when evaluating AI, it can be confident in a way that most humans can't, and that misleading social cue is another reason we trust its output.
Damn that is absolutely brutal. I dropped out of college after about 1 year and just learned by watching YouTube videos and installing Linux on a spare computer and running a homelab. Had to hop through a couple of lower paying IT jobs to accumulate some experience for the resume, but am now making low 6 figures in DevOPS, fully remote.

I recomend job hopping if you haven't in a while, that's the only way to really get those 20-40% raises from what you're making at the moment.
From the perspective of preventing people from using drugs, it is a failure, but it is clear that was never the goal from the start. It is successful in systemically and extra-judiciously oppressing a lot of peoples, often to the benefit of the prison-industrial complex. The war on drugs has also benefitted the military-industrial complex and helped to quell leftist insurgencies in foreign countries, like Colombia.

Wars against vague notions, like drugs or terror, let the government pinpoint its enemies and deal with them how they see fit.
Hiring humans to do a consistent job is gonna be a nightmare and a limit on the scalability of the service. How are you defining your service level agreements?
The original ShowHN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847594
I would love to pay for Arc, it makes me happy and productive. Unfortunately, it seems like the number of people willing to do is too small to support VC valuations and they are abandoning the product :(
tangential: https://dollyparton.com/imagination-library has a few fans

(and in a world where LLMs can hand-hold all those with only oral culture, I'd bet being literate will become even more of an advantage?)
James' lips don't seem to move at all.

The problem with such "videocasts" (as opposed to "podcasts") is that there is another channel that the AI has to control: the video. Generating convincing video is much harder than generating convincing audio.
Chips Incentives Award to Intel to Advance U.S. Leading-Edge Chip Capacity
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Interesting, I'll have to check it out.

I looked at alacritty but I really like using terminal tabs and the alacritty dev is really really against them and I found the dev's attitude to be more than a bit abrasive.

Not that Kovid (kitty's dev) does not come off the same way sometimes, but I tend to agree with Kovid a lot more.
> Another is the use of phrases like "similar effect to ..." where "effect similar to ..." is the correct form.

They have slightly different meanings. Use the first one when describing the actions that cause the effects, use the second one when describing the effects themselves. Though I suppose "effect similar to" could be used in either case, depending on what came before it.
My last job was like this, at a startup with about 15 engineering and 100 people. Just Python, Postgres, Celery, basic GCP and a few more. There are many companies like this out there.
I've owned a Leica Q2 and Q3 and the former was what finally got me to ditch my phone's camera and get back into photography. Leica's color science is some of the best out there, even if their technology stance is a bit like Apple's in that they're not the first to do anything but often the first to do it right.

That said, I outgrew the Q3, sold it for pretty much what I'd paid for it and bought two Sony cameras and some lenses. I got tired of "zooming with my feet" and the Sony 70-200mm GM II shoots like it's from the future.
Picking people is also hard, but if you narrow it down to:

1) folks who follow the directions on the application, 2) have the technical ability to build, 3) demonstrate high achievement in school/career, 4) show commitment/persistence, 5) have an idea that makes some sense, 6) are able to clearly communicate the idea, 7) have good team dynamics, 8) have some plausible strategy for growth

AND are willing to sell 7% of their startup for 125K

then the resulting pool of startups is probably smaller than you would think.
Because I have real problems. People and interactions as a focus shows me where those problems are, and now I need solutions to solve them. Those tools and processes that agile often uses are the type of things I need to make my people and interactions work. (or at least that is their promise) I should not be developing my own tools when someone else already has some that works.
Honestly, at this point, it feels like the whole US insurance system is run by and for the insurance companies. People, of course, never got much out of it - and it would be cheaper for the government to adopt Sweden's system. I did some calculations once, and if you take Sweden, they spend in total per person four times less than the US government (Medicare and Medicaid alone) does per person (at least in 2022).[1][2][3][4].*

It's somewhere on my "things there has to be a super powerful lobbying group for because no one benefits from this" list, along with the continued existence of the penny.

*The government spent 1750 billion dollars on Medicare and Medicaid. It could have spent about 440. That gap of 1.310 trillion dollars is the vast majority of the US deficit[5]

Sources
[1]: Swedish government spending: https://sweden.se/life/society/healthcare-in-sweden
[2]: US government spending: https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...
[3]: Currency converter: https://measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangeglobal/
[4]: Population: The graph that pops up when you search on Google for Sweden population and US population.
[5]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...
Taking time out of your schedule is indeed frustrating, but manfacturer defects that could kill you, maim you, harm your car, or make it malfunction are also frustrating, regardless of how the defects are fixed.

Think about non-vehicle software bugs, like in your computer operating system. Those are frustrating, even though they can be fixed OTA.
Can you pay your taxes in another currency?

I think this idea is more about using technology and a digital currency to restrict what can be purchased with a specific digital currency. You said "controlling what currency people use" which I take to mean something different. They are both pretty terrifying and I'm not as optimistic as you.
Sorry to spoil the party, but the future is mobile and none of your favorite programming language ( Rust, go, Python, Nim, Lisp, Zig, Smalltalk ...) is ready for this. The future will be Kotlin, Swift and Javascript and I already hate it.
Someone in 2020: "If you can find a computer program that can generate an image with even a FRACTION of the aesthetic appeal of human created art...."

Give it time. Progress is fast.
Because somebody needs to keep things running for the rest of us?

Seriously, we need all the bright people we can get, working on the tough problems and solving them. And we need even more basically competent people educated to keep what we have got figured out running smoothly. Life isn't some role playing game where everyone who wants to should get a turn being a surgeon or flying the jumbo jet. Competence actually matters.
Hey,

I found your library a few weeks ago when I was annoyed by nothing like this being built into the standard library. It’s been a breeze to use so far.

A neat trick I found to gauge bottlenecks in pipelines is using Buffers between steps and running a goroutine that periodically prints `len(buffered)/cap(buffered)`
Joyful Doulbe-Fisted Sisyphus
Show HN: Turn your trip pictures into shareable videos
The Tines would kill for this tech.
I wish if there was some hugo alternative to it , I guess I am going to go into the weeds of this project to replicate it in golang
Huh? That's some advanced reasoning there!
ALLFED[1] is an organization doing research into how we could keep most everyone alive if we have a decade of winder after a super volcano, asteroid impact, or nuclear winter. Processes that convert hydrocarbons into calories are certainly in their playbook.

[1]https://allfed.info/
I don’t know why you think you are dunking on me here, I’m not saying they are right, just what their likely motive is.
Congrats on the launch Dex! A long way from the Metalytics days.

Can’t wait to try this out.
Cognify: Automated Quality+Cost Optimization for GenAI Workflow
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The OP strongly tries to claim (before contradicting herself in the concluding pargraph) that gifted is a major psychological difference, not merely being smart and a fast learner.
Uhhh... is Bill gates holding your family hostage???
I’m happy that you were able to work around the state’s horrible treatment of your gifted child, by throwing money at the problem. I’ll probably have to do the same with my children in my Seattle suburb.

The real victims are the kids whose parents can’t afford to do this. It tends to be disproportionately the kids in the very demographics that the left professes to care about. So it’s weird to me that they would choose to do things that make it harder for these groups to have economic mobility.
Official Commerce release: https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/11/biden-h...
> We have had to go to private school because California does not skip grades even though it’s obvious the child doesn’t belong in the grade level for his age.

Be careful what you wish for. Skipping 2nd grade led to bullying hell until I stayed for a second year of 6th.

I think what you want for your kid is to skip N grades ahead in select subjects but otherwise stay in age peer group.
I thought this was why you are supposed to use ‘nproc’ instead of manually parsing cpuinfo or some other mechanism to determine CPU count. There are various ways in which a given process can be limited to a subset of system resources.
Containerization has done wonderful things for our industry.

Abstraction has done horrible things to our industry.

We're so many layers up now that hardly anyone (except a blessed few) can really understand the whole thing, so the average engineer is left thrashing against the mountain of abstraction created for the sake of some nebulous "standardization" or even just for abstractions sake.

I argue that public cloud systems are harder to "get right" and present a larger security risk than many appreciate and Kubernetes is, while very cool, a massive chunk of complexity that makes it harder to actually understand what is going on; to not even mention the opaque, intentionally confusing and under-documented complexities that come with operating in public clouds in the first place.

It's not always possible to make a simpler system, but it's always possible to make a more complex one. I think modern day systems are firmly in the "more complicated than they need to be" territory. To be completely honest, I don't really see that changing.
thanks for sharing your experience so far! Like I said, we built this ourselves for another idea and it was painful.

I have played with Make and I actually chatted w/ the gotohuman guy on zoom a while back, I like his approach as well, he went straight to webhooks which makes sense for big production use cases

re: LinkedIn, no I don't know how to get agents to integrate with linkedin. I have tried a bunch of things, I know of some YC companies that tried this but I don't know how it went for them. Best I have gotten is using stagehand/dendrite with browserbase to do it with a browser, and then using humanlayer human_as_tool to ping me if it needs an MFA token or other inputs
Bad TV is a lot older than that. It probably seems weird nowadays to watch “I Dream of Jeanie” and “Gilligan’s Island” reruns because that’s what was on TV. Or how about game shows and soap operas? Daytime TV was the worst. But people watched.
https://www.misawa.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/77360...
> I can’t help but recall Harrison Bergeron.

That old SF story seems to come up rather often today. I read it decades ago, and never saw the 1995 made-for-TV movie.[1] For decades it was forgotten.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron_(film)
Have we forgotten how venture capital (VC) is supposed to work?

A new technology comes out. The new tech has high startup costs and low marginal costs. You invest in 10 companies developing this new tech. 8 go bankrupt, one hangs on by a thread, the last one returns 1000x on what you invested.

Last I checked, Y-Combinator is still considered a VC firm. Investing in a bunch of firms doing the same or very similar things is what YC should be doing.
> first generation Asian kids who didn’t grow up rich

If those are the kids in a specific school/school system that happen to be the most academically gifted, then they should be the ones attending the gifted and talented programs. I don't see how them attending precludes anyone else from also qualifying though? That the demographics happen to skew this way in some number of school districts is interesting at best. Rewarding strong parenting sounds like a win for society to me. Second generation immigrant children doing better than their first generation parents sounds like the American Dream working as-intended to me!

> you’d consider “moving society forward”

I likely have a much looser definition than you do, perhaps. This can simply mean being a functional member of society that participates within their community. Making the jump from poor to middle class is a huge generational achievement on it's own. If I was tossed into the "general classes" in middle school I likely would have simply been working in a factory or retail like most of my peers who stayed within that track ended up doing. The folks in the accelerated programs statistically have gone into more lucrative careers - even those who did not attend college.

It all comes down to helping those who want to help themselves, and recognizing you can't help those that don't want it. Spend the resources on the former, and give the latter the opportunity to change their ways - but don't tear down those trying to better themselves in the name of equity.
Thanks! appreciate your input and perspective.
In Ontario, access to these programs was gated by an IQ test given to all students based on the outcome of a standardized test (this was ~30 years ago, no idea what they do today). I'm not saying it was perfectly objective or equitable but it was a start at trying to make it objective. Are programs not doing something similar in California or elsewhere in the US?
Indeed, you need scientists to simply pronounce the ingredients that are processed into, and into, food.
48 hours is not uncommon for business trips.
> First of all, I'm going to bet this man is an addict. Gabapentin is not a normal medication for anti seizure.

What? Gabapentin is absolutely used for anti-seizure purposes:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/gabapentin-oral...

https://www.epilepsy.com/tools-resources/seizure-medication-...