skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you could also say: the prevailing argument for AI consistently hinges on the (imagined, projected based on naive assumptions) trajectory of AI rather than the present state.

> the astonishing velocity at which those capabilities are evolving.

This is what is repeated ad nauseam by AI companies desperate for investment and hype. Those who’ve been in the game since before this millennium tend not to be so impressed — recent gains have mostly been due to increased volume of computation and data with only a few real theoretical breakthroughs.

Laymen (myself included) were indeed astonished by ChatGPT, but it’s quite clear that those in the know saw it coming. Remember that those who say otherwise might have reasons (other than an earnest interest in the truth) for doing so.
Your tax dollars at work. By the time we're ready to fly to deep space we'll no longer be a protein life form.
Yep. I often reflect on some of my career mistakes, especially when evaluating current decisions within the context of a job or interacting with other institutions, and what I wish I'd learnt earlier would be to "read a room".

Sure, there is technically a process for reporting wrongdoing, but there's no process for reporting wrongdoing and keeping your job, and keeping your job is more important. What isn't your job is taking moral stances on things, having political opinions, provoking what others might see as unnecessary conflict, in any form.

Sure, you could spend some time ensuring accessibility standards are being met, but really you shouldn't unless someone complains, because although you think it's good practice, you're being paid to put visible results on the screen, unless you can make a business case for it that's sufficiently compelling and rewarding that it's worth pursuing. You'll lose your job for not getting the thing shipped, but probably won't for it not being theoretically good enough, unless you're a real doctor or real engineer

Don't stick your neck out unless you control the outcome (for positive or negative), and figure out what you're really being told to do or asked to do, and keep your effort to that. Don't go above and beyond, it's out of scope and you're better off sleeping. Not joking. If you can't do that, you might struggle to stay employed, and it's not worth your personal risk.

At work, keep your opinions to yourself, nearly all the time, they're rarely important, just get the work done and go home, work isn't that important either, don't pretend like you're saving the world.
Am I missing something or does this just completely not do anything on iOS/mobile? I see in the json editor a single object with two keys, and then no visual tree rendering whatsoever
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52v6gKPA4TM above. Thanks!
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> people extrapolate linear growth

You mean exponential! No one gets out of bed for linear these days.
Trump picks Covid lockdown critic to lead top health agency
the link you refer to talks about collabora and allotropia. the first is what powers Nextcloud Office/Collabora Office online and mobile apps (using coolwsd). the latter is allotropia, who is behind Zeta that is mentioned here. both have a slightly different approach to how this works. as i understand it, all of this is upstream and not really frozen; perhaps that page needs an update?

Note: "LibreOffice Online is not intended as a standalone software. His goal is, instead, to be integrated with other tools to edit their documents." ... while Zeta and Collabora are standalone.
Wow I just got done integrating NextAuth. I will totally switch to this if you can support my mobile API. My nextjs app has some API routes used by my native iOS app. It was a bit of a hassle with NextAuth and I was surprised at the lack of support and demand for it (am I crazy for using next for a mobile API? I don't think so). If you support that use case (I didn't see anything in the docs), that would be great. I'm already done with the iOS portion, which basically stores the
Moore's law would improve the speed of LLMs and improve their size, but in recent weeks [0] it's become apparent that we're hitting the limit of "just make them even bigger" being a viable strategy for improving the intelligence of LLMs.

I'm excited for these things to get even cheaper, and that will enable more use cases, but we're not going to see the world-changing prophesies of some of AI's evangelists in this thread come true by dint of cheaper current-gen models.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125888
I met Marshall a few times. He was a good teacher and someone who had a positive impact on several successive classes of students who wanted to start companies and build meaningful products + technologies on that campus.

And I trust (quite a bit) that whatever he brought to light should be followed up on - if no other reason than to respect his memory. I hope it is taken seriously and those who retaliated find themselves w/o their positions of responsibility and power over other faculty.
While it is an amazing technical feat, there are, expectedly, a bunch of quirks to be ironed out. The font rendering, for example, is very bad. Very excited to see how this goes in the future!
Wonder if he ever read Stoner.
I mean can you offer any suggestions as to solutions to get out of this situation? Feels intractable
True I was thinking of packet analysis being intensive but simpler MITM/splitting it outbound makes senses.

Ransomware and bricking would probably be the primary risk though. And security cams, NAS, printers, etc.
My jaw was dropping as I started reading that second paragraph because it's unimaginable that someone would regret an m2 air.

I got a refurb 8gb/256gb m2 air somewhat impulsively when in the market for a use-on-the-couch laptop. It is NICE. My real laptop now never leaves the dock.
Related:

Nothing Personal: How ideas made Derek Parfit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38494017 - Dec 2023 (26 comments)

Derek Parfit: The Perfectionist at All Souls - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688300 - April 2023 (21 comments)

How to Be Good: The Philosopher Derek Parfit (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22037240 - Jan 2020 (6 comments)

Why anything? Why this? (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315746 - Jan 2017 (77 comments)

Derek Parfit has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13304873 - Jan 2017 (38 comments)

How to Be Good: Derek Parfit's Moral Philosophy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273495 - March 2016 (16 comments)
> With the amount of money being spent then its only a matter of when

Yes, but there's no strong reason to believe that "when" is "within fewer than 1000 years". What's frustrating about the hype is not that people think the brain is replicable, it's that they think that this single breakthrough will be the thing that replicates it.
>In case of C what it really means is that the compiler codebases are extremely old and sometimes in rather bad shape

Statistically nobody writing C code gets to worry about a compiler error.

>Speaking of stable, C hasn't just stayed still: The C23 standard adds plenty of fun new things, like an annotation for unreachable code. Modern C has threads and synchronization primitives, #embed, complex numbers, and plenty more.

Compared to any other modern language, this is so still that C could make a living as a living statue...

>By any standard you can come up with, C is just plain-and-simple not a boring reliable solution.

C is the de facto language that's considered a boring and reliable solution.

The points made are less substance and more pedantic nit picking ("yeah, it's a language with the most mature and relied upon compilers, but the code is old dawg", "yeah, it's one of the most convervative languages to change, and you can compile decades old code just fine, but they added some stuff in C99, C23, etc").

And Rust is still very niche, single compiler, quickly changing affair. Compared to C and C++ adoption (which is a big yardstick of a tech being "boring") it doesn't even register.
Show HN: A simple automated list of gadget deals with affiliate links
Searching for deals on tech stuff isn't so fun. Some sites are heavy on SEO chum and posting as many keyword-laden headlines as possible. Aggregator sites are flooded with whatever products the retailer APIs and feeds push out. I got fed up with all this while shopping online last weekend, so set about making what I'd hoped to find in the first place: a basic, somewhat-automated list of deals

It's perfectly boring HTML with automatic price checks. There's no ads, no cookies, no signups, no writing for machines. The idea is to strike a balance between completeness and simplicity, so people can pick a decent deal without ado whenever they need one. The latest prices are fetched from Amazon, and links to the Wayback Machine are included so users can check for deceptive "yo-yo" deals.

Another minimalist project of mine, txt.fyi, benefited hugely from feedback here way back when.

I suppose the obvious shortcomings are:

• further refinement might inevitably drag it toward more content (risk competing with news media) or more automation (risk becoming a junk aggregator)

• It's limited to stuff in my interests (gadgets!) that I feel confident making snap judgments on whether the brand is good and the deal is worth it.

• Reviewing all the deals every day could become gruelling work. Detecting good deals automatically really seems called for, but ingesting inappropriate or low-quality ones would only create the same problems of trust and frustration that inspired the project in the first place.
Just to frame the problem slightly differently, if you had unlimited number of humans who could perform tasks as quickly as a computer this wouldn't be a problem need solving. So since we know that's the end state for any human-in-the-loop system then maybe it's worth solving that problem instead.

A few things come to mind, divide the problem into chunks that can be solved in parallel by many people. Crowd source your platform so there are always people available with a very high SLA, just like cloud servers are today.
dang do you normally edit w/o leaving history of it? feels like this is the first time i’ve noticed.
Any insight based on histogram of the timing of this person's posts, particularly ones responding to a just slightly earlier post? (ie was clearly awake and not an artificially-delayed response).

Krebs knows about this timezone analysis technique, wonder if he didn't check this or it was inconclusive?
So, the closest that I am aware of is the multi-decade study conducted by, the psychologist and intelligence researcher, Lewis Terman. The study was originally called, "Genetic Studies of Genius."

You can read about it here:

https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/2018-kell.pdf

This one is somewhat tangental, but I find, "The Munich Model of Giftedness Designed
to Identify and Promote Gifted Students" to be an interesting read too.

https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/munich/2005-heller.pdf
I mean, that’s double the added sugar. The US recommends only 50g of added sugar per day. And you’re generally not eating only two slices of bread; in the US breakfast mainstay that is peanut butter and jelly, both the peanut butter and jelly also usually have sugar.
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
What Infrastructure Capabilities Does RAG Need Beyond Hybrid Search?
https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/
Sounds similar to religions. If a religious group sticks strongly to its religion's founding principles and teachings, it's "fundamentalist" and is basically a cult or something like The Handmaid's Tale. The groups that water everything down and are hypocritical and inconsistent are much more successful long-term, with far more members and lots of money.
They are not using AI correctly to create such models. I'm not sure I want AGI right away or even at all, so I'm keeping my epiphany close for now but in the current field of AI nothing er wany will come of this bc it's not the right way.

As soon as the incredibly obvious, far too obvious realization is had, AI will make huge, tremendous leaps overnight essentially. Til then, these are just machine like software, the best we've ever made but nothing more than that.
they’re right, that’s why I switched to tmobile when my old job stopped paying for internet.

I would get dialup before paying any money to comcast
Even on Something Awful, people had large custom avatars and signatures that made them more distinct (who remembers winampdb?) so you recognized prolific users, instead of a small, gray user name
Yeah, I’m skeptical about the benefits of skipping lots of grades. If you have money to throw around, hire private tutors to teach them more advanced subjects and let them enjoy the social aspects of school with their peers.
Otherwise, what’s the best outcome? The kid spends their entire school years socially isolated from peers who are in different stages of puberty and growth. They enter college at 14/15 and risk missing a lot of what college has to offer besides education.
Then, finally, they enter the wage machine at 18-19, having lost a lot of their childhood and now having to behave like adults.
Everything may work out and they’ll retire at 40 to live the life they missed, or they may be socially and psychologically scarred by the pressure put on them by others and by themselves throughout their life.
>Humor on HN is generally accepted if it's clever or makes you think in some way.

generally, eh?

faa--aa--aa--aa--ukk.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the ridiculousness of that statement. overall, to laugh, I think, makes more sense. because, according to you, majority wins?

see https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_rule

and the downsides mentioned there.

that means minorities should not have any voice? their voices should be suppressed by downvoting or criticizing them for not toeing the "generally" (sheesh!) accepted line?

then how is this different from any other form of discrimination, such as racism, sexism or ageism?

can we call it old-boys-club-ism?

you miserably fail to convince, right at your first sentence above, bro. but that's par for the course for the many HNers of the hive mind / echo chamber kind, who think that everyone else needs to think like them, or else they are considered the wrong type of people, and try to brain wash them into thinking differently from what they already do, as you just tried to do above, or by knee-jerk reflex action, downvote them. I have seen that pattern often on this site. and it's not just me, others have commented about it too.

because, you know, generally, it is considered that people should be tolerant of others' opinions, unless they are dangerous or something like that. and how is making a few innocuous puns, even if they are not "clever", dangerous?

I bet you don't agree with that statement.

but, and this is my key point, by the way, did you see what I did there with my use of the word generally?

I used it in the same discriminatory way as you did.

still editing, to make any wording changes and check for typos.
I think that the clear preference people have for Bluesky over the Fediverse shows that maybe it's as decentralised as people as willing to accept.

Fedi is an amazing piece of software but so too people were/are bouncing off of it. I'm not one that shared the same frustration but it was very clearly a problem for many people.

Bluesky doesn't have that issue and has been easy for people to migrate to. At the end of the day, we can't let good be the enemy of perfect.
Every set I generated had different colored pieces and/or a mix of light and dark pieces. It's kind of neat but I don't consider any of them playable.
Joe's Epic Rant about Psychedelics Animated
The key point in my comment is "closed on their house for cash." It isn't unheard of to carry around such a massive pile of cash even if you aren't a drug dealer.
NJ Cops Suing to Protect Exclusive Right to Keep Data Out of Data Brokers' DBs
As Bluesky takes flight, China has got a Twitter problem
>‘BUTTHOLIO’

These guys always seem to have the most stereotypical or corny hacker handles. Is that expected / desirable in that community?
Ask HN: What is the best low power (not Mac) ML laptop?
I'm looking for a personal ML dev laptop. My Three biggest considerations are:

- Not Apple (personal choice)
- As much GPU memory as possible
- as low power (and long of battery life) as possible

Most of the time you just need to test your weights against a toy dataset so you don't need speed as much as a similar platform for what you really train on. And, of course, it needs to be a daily driver. That mainly means GPU mem just to have a batch size > 1 for testing. So, HN crowd, what is the best right now for low mid and high $$ point?
Well in this case it wouldn’t be undercutting, since the lite version would be totally unusuable for a big complex company.
Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal
Oh, I never considered that:D It is an interesting use of materials, but seems unnecessary. I was thinking about a scenario in which an assailant would attack an actual soft spot in an airport. That did not happen. That is the part that surprises me ( and I am glad I remain surprised ). Then again, you start reading about new and exciting ways of detecting guns and you start wondering if that is basically trying to fight an old war.

<< My wife says it’s a wonder I’m not on the no fly list.

For better or worse, my work almost guarantees that I will be looking for mildly interesting subjects so I am likely on some sort of grey list ( no idea what IC would call it internally ). No 'no fly' list yet, but these days it only takes being extra rude it seems[1] so these days that list is a major inconvenience, but the signal it generates is less useful:D

[1]https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2021/01/15/delta-air-line...
Stanford Study Finds 9.5% of Engineers Do Almost Nothing
Being passionate about using the right tools for the job is still being passionate about tooling.

Passionate with tooling is not synonymous to irrational about tooling. It means invested in the matter of the tools you use.
I believe the hacker known as 4chan once explained they choose their handles “for the lulz”
Show HN: GitHub Agent Opening PRs from Issues
Maybe you already know this and have discarded it (if so, no worries), but for what it's worth, this is my perspective on these things: Some people, in some contexts, use words like a laser — very specific, very targeted, with precise meanings, etc. Other people, other times (perhaps most people, most of the time?) use words more like ... a bucket of paint. Words are sloshy and approximate and about as precise as trying to sign your name using that bucket. Each has their value.

Inevitably, a laser-minded person talks with a sloshy-bucket person and misunderstandings ensue.

In sloshy-bucket land, I think "open source" has various connotations — a sense of community, encouraged contribution, being able to build it yourself, improve it yourself, etc.

And I think the commenter, in broad strokes, was saying that Google is not upholding those various virtues that are often associated with "open source," so felt the term was not a good (sloshy) fit.

In particular, I do not think they were asking the question you say they were asking.

In this space, it seems like there are both too many terms (so people rather just pick a popular one and over-apply it) and too few (so you can never find one that quite says what you want). Such is life, I guess. Maybe "open sourcey" would be good, to indicate it's talking about a hand-wavy vague "ness" rather than a particular nailed-down definition. "Google isn't being very open sourcey"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, all this to say: in the ethos of trying to take a charitable interpretation of people's words, I think it's good to consider the bucket-of-paint possibility, before jumping to corrections and yes/no determinations.

----

Edit: It occurs to me that originally I misinterpreted you as being persnickety, when perhaps you were just trying to answer the question you felt they had asked. Sorry!
If there was a supply he wouldn’t need 100 interns
You Can Have Billionaires or You Can Have Democracy (2021)
It's a PC that has a decent NPU. By next year every PC will be an AI PC so it won't really matter.
Show HN: A Fusion of MongoDB and Pinecone
Integrating a robust RAG system into my application was more challenging than I anticipated. While excellent databases and frameworks are available, the process was far from straightforward. Vector databases served as a strong foundation, but mapping vectors to corresponding resources became tedious unless I embedded all metadata into the vector storage - an approach I found less than ideal.

Frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex offered inspiration, but their documentation often felt overwhelming due to multiple tools and versions, which added complexity instead of clarity.

After experimenting, I settled on a hybrid approach: using MongoDB as the primary database to manage RAG resources and Pinecone as a plugin for vector search. This combination offered the flexibility and performance I needed for smooth integration.

To help others facing similar challenges, I’ve made this setup available to developers. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Documentation:
https://docs.onenode.ai
What stenographers capture is phonetic. These days a computer program translates that back into written language in real time. It uses knowledge of the language to pull this off. So it's a bit like autocorrect on you phone.
> The article didn't even mention inconvenience. That's a red herring

It's not a red herring, it's the primary point I was making.

Point is, the impression most people will undeniably take away from "many recalls" is that the vehicle must be in the shop all the time, and it's a terrible customer experience. This impression is of course incorrect.

Remember that most readers don't even read past the headline. You and I and most HN readers are the exception. Obviously the Cybertruck customers themselves know better (we both agree on that), but it's still misleading language that predictably leaves the wrong impression with potential customers.

You can argue that readers "ought to know better," but that's disingenuously ignoring the way the headline will actually be interpreted by real people in the real world.

The only surprise is how many smart people rush to defend the media using a transparently obvious "lie without lying" tactic, but I guess that's why it's so effective! Smart people don't even detect the mislead (Curse of Knowledge). The smart folks who do see it immediately get nerd-sniped into full-blown denial of the "lay misinterpretation" by the seemingly irresistible temptation of a smarter-than-thou semantics argument (see above).

I guess we're fine with media misinformation if we can tell ourselves it's because the reader is dumb, and if "other tribe bad" companies are the ones who got smeared.
I was never trained as a touch-typist. I still have to look at the keyboard as I type, and have never become a master CLI maven.

But it hasn’t prevented me from writing thousands of pages of prose, and millions of lines of code.

I think it has probably also saved me from RSI. I have a friend that is a master engineer, that has to change their career, because their arms are all screwed up (multiple surgeries didn’t fix it).
Session started as a fork of the Signal client/server to use identifiers that are not phone numbers (perfectly sensible) but having deviated from the known primitives of the Signal protocol and omitting PFS gives me pause.
The original text is public domain. So you can copy it to your Website, or submit it to archive.org, etc.