skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you have a very different experience to me.

In the case of your examples:

I've literally just had an acquaintance accidentally delete prod with only 3 month old backups, because their customer didn't recognise the value. Despite ad campaigns and service providers.

I remember the dot com bubble bursting, when email and websites were not seen as all that important. Despite so many AOL free trial CDs that we used them to keep birds off the vegetable patch.

I myself see no real benefit from cloud storage, despite it being regularly advertised to me by my operating system.

Conversely:

I have seen huge drives — far larger than what AI companies have ever tried — to promote everything blockchain… including Sam Altman's own WorldCoin.

I've seen plenty of GenAI images in the wild on product boxes in physical stores. Someone got value from that, even when the images aren't particularly good.

I derive instant value from LLMs even back when it was the DaVinci model which really was "autocomplete on steroids" and not a chatbot.
Interesting that the results can be so different for different people. I have yet to get a single good response (in my research area) for anything slightly more complicated than what a quick google search would reveal. I agree that it’s great for generating quick functioning code though.
There are 65 nuclear reactors planned to be built by 2030 across the world. One third of that by one country isn’t a small number.

Most of the rest are in China so the statement I was responding to is doubly meaningless.
Most shareholders have no real say in the company, though it’s fair to investigate what the board knew and how they acted, as they serve on behalf of the shareholders.

I do think there needs to be legal culpability for anybody who was informed of risks and pushed on regardless. Though I can see where it would be very hard to prove anything.

It really is a tough problem here. I hope that somebody will be seriously punished for the deaths of hundreds, but I’m very doubtful.
As a customer of legal work for 20 years, it is also way (way way) faster and cheaper to draft a contract with Claude (total work ~1 hour, even with complex back-and-forth ; you don't want to try to one-shot it in a single prompt) and then pay a law firm their top dollar-per-hour consulting to review/amend the contract (you can get to the final version in a day).

Versus the old way of asking them to write the contract, where they'll blatantly re-use some boilerplate (sometimes the name of a previous client's company will still be in there) and then take 2 weeks to get back to you with Draft #1, charging 10x as much.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest one of these is more likely within reach. We at least know how Mt. Everest works.
Then we should also jail the shareholders who profited and the activist shareholders who pushed for it

CEOs, especially of large companies, are glorified management
It's not assigned at the hardware level (although Ampere has memory QoS) but you can assign RAM at the VM level which is what these CPUs are intended for.
I'm just gonna say it: unless I had a specific reason to use it, I would cross CockroachDB off my list purely based on the name. I don't want to be thinking of cockroaches every time I use my database. Names do have meaning, and I have to wonder why they went with that one.
What code? The models are massive and do not run on consumer hardware. The models also do not have access to their own weights. They can't exfiltrate themselves, and they can't really smuggle any data obtained by their code back to "themselves" as the only self that exists is that one particular context chain. This also means it's insanely easy to deal with whatever harebrained scheme you could imagine it being possessed by.
You won't find me disagreeing with tossing Zucc in jail and losing the keys.
Analogize to those cases where they seize an inoperative gun and then go to certain, specific lengths to make the gun operate before charging the possessor with possession of a (potentially) operative gun.

Distinguishable because it’s not a search. Can you draw a rule from this?
You misunderstand the cookie metaphor.

The metaphor is not zero sum, and not about handouts.

It's about deliberate diversion of attention, obfuscating the source of inequality to those that experience it. This is something that absolutely happens, both overtly (by endlessly misrepresenting causes of poverty) and covertly (by cultural suppression of socialist ideas).

Kind of like your post.
Dark chocolate covered coffee beans are nice
You're saying AI, the parent I'm replying to is talking about ChatGPT. They aren't the same thing.
Elsewhere in today's headlines: Anthem Blue Cross limiting anaesthesia. Surgery takes too long? Take the pain.

And a for-profit insurer expects sympathy? UHC stock is up 7% on the year, so yay them.
This doesn't increase my salary and if you are consultant it reduces your billable hours. No thanks.
A million reservations based on optimism if you look at the specs price matrix they were offering. It turns out they can’t deliver this vehicle model of reasonable quality and for less than $80k-$100k.

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/end-only-25-cybertruck-rese...

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-struggling-find-buyer...

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/official-...

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/attachments/2024-...

Tesla won't accept Cybertrucks as trade ins, they know there is no market for them.

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/tesla-%E2...

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/tesla-%E2...

> Yeah, never in a million years did I think purchasing the CyberTruck for $20K to keep my place in line would involve complete and total failure of the drive train when the converter went bad 4 days after buying it in March and waiting an additional 3 weeks for a repair with no loaner or compensation. I also never expected several additional recalls and now the inverter recall which drastically increases my risk of an accident. My CyberTruck is my primary vehicle and Tesla has informed me that it here’s no time line of when they will receive the replacement part. I think I’m well within my right to trade in a vehicle that I overpaid for that clearly doesn’t run as intended. There have been so many misleading statements about this vehicle for the last 5 years, we just accept them because what other choice do we have?

> the CyberTruck was my 4th Tesla vehicle in the last decade… Tesla service has dropped off a cliff.
US salaries are sane when compared to what value people produce for their companies. Many argue they are too low.
They may be confusing current state sentiments with possible future state expectations and those sentiments, should expectations be met.

I have people in my "sphere"[1] who definitely have positive "let the sanity begin" type responses when the economy is under discussion.

[1] I think I like that term and am referring to the body of people with whom I am familiar enough to speak about in this way. Certainly not for though. I am not doing that!
I honestly don't feel like Svelte makes things simpler. And I'm saying this as a "fan" of Svelte and think its compiler is very cool.

It just feels a bit weird that there's special .svelte specific rules.

Runes kinda fix this, but it's still a bit weird.

I think Solid or Vue are much simpler (but only did small projects in them) and have a simpler mental model. I've not yet used Preact, but heard good things about it
Why do I feel like a regulator would immediately file a suit for $1B+ if Waymo did this?
I was referring to road layouts and obstacles on the roads mostly.
Hydrasynth Explorer

Minifreak

buying used off of ebay / reverb is fine

Or get a Arturia MiniLab 3, it comes with a synth package and can control anything on your computer.

Good free synths:

- Dexed

- Vital

- Odin

- Pianobook / Decent Sampler
ChatGPT is unusable on an iPhone 6 - you can’t see the output.

Hopefully they’ll spend some resource on making it work on mobile.
somehow in September they decided to cancel the EEP program once he started complaining

The EEP program was not cancelled...Brain was simply removed from the program.

It is borderline gaslighting for him to claim that the EEP program was cancelled simply because he was no longer a part of it.

If he had filed an unmerited ethical complaint like this at a UC school like Cal or UCLA, he'd have been terminated for cause without the option of retiring gracefully (this actually happened to a professor at Berkeley while I was there).

Notably: it's been over a week since his death and none of his colleagues are defending him. There's no drama on campus from students despite the supposed injustice. The only people keeping this alive are a handful of people who liked his website. And that's because...there's more to the story than just the one-sided version of it people are parroting on the internet.
Ken Paxton brings lawsuits against everything, though. Does this one have any merit?
Thank you for doing that work, and even more for sharing it. I will have to try this out.
I downvoted then thought about it more and changed my mind.

It’s a fascinating idea to consider. If we could hold shareholders of companies like UnitedHealthCare or Boeing accountable for unethical behavior… it would sure stop fast.
I pay $1.5 USD per day on my coffee. And I'm an extreme outlier. I buy speciality beans from mom and pop roasters.
> But think 10 years into the future

Given how many people use it, I expect this has already happened at least once.
I'm sorry but I refuse to argue with people on the internet who think retractions are because the state threatened an author.

Further, I'm not going to read RFK's book. I place it in the same category as 9/11 Truthers- not even worthy of inspection.
Murder is murder, and nobody deserves that kind of treatment. It makes our society worse, not better.
At the time the claim is created (you're paid your salary, you have a liquidity event, ...) you can exchange it for some quantity of goods and services roughly proportional to (the market's appraisal of) the social value you've contributed. If you stash that claim under your mattress, should it be equal to the _exact same_ quantity of goods and services 10 years in the future? 100 years?

If instead you stored the value you created (the lumber you fell and milled, the clothes you manufactured, the messages your software conveyed, the student you educated, ...) under your mattress for 10-100 years we would not expect them to have exactly the same utility they did at deposit

Money should be a _more_ efficient store of value than anything we might exchange it for, but I don't think it's clear that it should be a perfect store of value. If you want to maintain a claim on a fixed quantity of goods and services, you should have to contribute to the investments required to maintain the productive capacity to deliver those goods and services.

A monetary policy targeting stable, low, but positive inflation balances savers' need for a risk-free store of value with the social need for continued investment and consumption.
payment isn't bad, just need to make sure everyone gets their cut
I agree going back and forth with an AI for 4.5 hours is usually a sign something has gone wrong somewhere, but this is incredibly narrow thinking. Being an open-ended problem solver is the most valuable skill you can have. AI is a huge force multiplier for this. Instead of needing to tap a bunch of experts to help with all the sub-problems you encounter along the way, you can just do it yourself with AI assistance.

That is to say, past a certain salary band people are rarely paid for being hyper-proficient with tools. They are paid to resolve ambuguity and identify the correct problems to solve. If the correct problem needs a tool that I'm unfamiliar with, using AI to just get it done is in many cases preferable to locating an expert, getting their time, etc.
Living without atomic clocks: Where CockroachDB and Spanner diverge
The article states $5,550USD or so.
It's a three-tier system, I was confused when I was looking at it. The fourth item is "threat" which you would think is higher than "warning", but "threat" is only used outside of the US.
> Anti-ship missiles go three to five times faster than sound with increasingly complex behavior. When several of these threats come up against them simultaneously, it becomes increasingly difficult for human operators to take efficient and effective protection measures. The AWW-FCS provides the necessary information to make the right decision within seconds. (from the article)

As you note, a "decision with seconds" will really not cut it against incoming hypersonic (or even supersonic) missiles.

Interesting: In the Wikipedia's comparison table of point defense guns ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system#Compari... ), the US Phalanx has the shortest range (and smallest round, which is related) of the systems in that table. With a larger magazine capacity as the sole offsetting benefit.

Late in WWII, and in the years shortly after, the USN removed massive numbers of small (espec. 20mm and 40mm) AA guns from their ships, replacing them with 76mm guns. Because "massed pea shooters" had proved relatively useless against fast-moving kamikazes. I wonder if we'll see similar changes in point defense gun systems over then next decade or so.
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-...
Hmmm. What is “ctvnews.ca”? I do not have any prior reason to trust this news source but would welcome some kind of hints.

Edit: I show my ignorance of north of the border! It is a major Canadian news station. Thanks for the replies.
Nice one! I assume the tests will soon run regularly in CI. Would you also consider doing a side-by-side comparison of Bun?
And if you're still using React with Redux you're doing just fine for SPA development, as in you're actually still modern and not merely fine. React Query is the only new development you listed that SPA professionals may want to think about, and even then only a little. It's a life convenience tool for making async calls to foreign APIs easier (for internal APIs you probably want RPC-like experiences with type and client generation).

Meanwhile MPA people are redefining the boundaries of work by marrying the frontend to the backend. They are doing some big re-architecture type stuff, and it is very interesting, far more interesting than React Query being the better Axios. If I had to lead with an argument about interesting changes on the SPA side, I would've lead with the ongoing improvements to CRDT libraries. It's niche but there really isn't much of a revolution going on otherwise on the SPA side.
it also catches MY mistakes, so that saves time
> the competition is intense from free models

Models are about to become a commodity across the spectrum: LLMs [1], image generators [2], video generators [3], world model generators [4].

The thing that matters is product.

[1] Llama, QwQ, Mistral, ...

[2] Nobody talks about Dall-E anymore. It's Flux, Stable Diffusion, etc.

[3] HunYuan beats Sora, RunwayML, Kling, and Hailuo, and it's open source and compatible with ComfyUI workflows. Other companies are trying to open source their models with no sign of a business model: LTX, Genmo, Rhymes, et al.

[4] The research on world models is expansive and there are lots of open source models and weights in the space.
And the parent comment does not disagree with this. It's just that harsh punishment for executives might not improve the selection - in fact, it might be adverse selection, since increasing the risk will lead actually good people to avoid the position.
You definitely sound like it. But man, I've met some convincing liars online so I try to be cautious when someone makes claims and I have no proof that they are who they claim to be (especially when they didn't make that claim explicitly, and just sound very intelligent).

It's a complication that will never happen, but sometimes I think it would be cool if HN had a way of authenticating experts and giving them flair. So many legit smart people here.
Originally (2016) big in:

2020 (94 points, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665228

2016 (143 points, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11120744
> Dark chocolate often has very high sugar levels.

Milk chocolate usually has higher sugar levels than dark chocolate.
What action(s) by the system could convince you that the intent is there?
Reminder that single data points aren't fully indicative of the health of a large system.
"McKinsey is a very different firm today than when these matters first took place"

No they are most certainly not. Corruption is in McKinsey's DNA. Outside of the specific harms that McKinsey has caused across the country and across the world, management consulting groups in general have been utilized to sidestep legal protections against corporations within a shared industry colluding against each other. Companies like McKinsey, Bain, Accenture, etc., have been instrumental in the rapid increase of executive compensation, flat comp for workers compared to inflation, intentionally unsafe practices and corner-cutting to save money, and just generally creating as many negative externalities as possible in the name of feeding the beast that Milton Friedman created with his rhetoric about the primacy of the shareholder.

A good read on this topic is "When McKinsey Comes to Town" by Forsyth and Bogdanich. There's a whole chapter dedicated to the South African bribery scandal. Sagar was not just a bad apple -- the company itself is the rot.
The study says milk chocolate also reduces your risk by 10%.
I've noticed one obvious commonality to failed projects: the plans are made in a vacuum of information, before data is gathered. This leaves land mines everywhere in the execution path, leading to big risks and large error bars on estimates.

Instead of course correcting to any new data, failed projects tend to double down on the process. Even as more information comes to light, it gets systematically ignored in favor of "sticking to the plan". This is the death of software.

Of course I've seen projects that have basically no plan at all beyond the 2 week sprint. It's not the presence or absence of a plan that hurts, it's about the quality of the plan. Duck tape and prayers don't constitute a plan either.

We need a tight feedback loop between planning and experimentation. Otherwise planning goes off the rails with bad assumptions, and experiments can go off the rails chasing new technology for its own sake. A planning process without a data-gathering period and an iteration loop to refine the design isn't software engineering!
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Same here, I've never worked at a place that did too much planning. However, I've been at a lot of places that wildly overvalued plans.

"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

The culprit is usually someone who sees their job as checking boxes off a list. In extremely complex situations, box-checkers can be valuable to help ensure that nothing falls through the cracks, but everything goes to shit when you elevate people like that to any position involving the word "manager." Project manager, product manager, people manager -- it's a disaster to try to reduce these jobs to checking boxes. Immediately they'll start to say things like, "Why did we spend so much time creating a plan if we're not going to follow it?" They'll create deadlines for finalizing plans and insist that everything after the deadline has to robotically follow the plan. They see their job as 80% making sure every box on the plan is ticked and 20% stopping you from doing anything there isn't a box for. If they do that and the project fails, they point fingers at people for not adding all the right boxes to the project plan according to the schedule for making boxes.

Good planning isn't about checking boxes. It's about forcing yourself to consider all aspects of a project, crystallizing your plan at a certain point in time, and periodically reconsidering and re-crystallizing your plan on a cadence that makes sense for the project.
So, instead of fixing the issue (legal documents becoming a barely manageable mess) they’re investing money into making it… even worse?

This world is so messed up.
Yeah I am a student at an university. I have managed to "skip" some courses like operating systems and concurrency just by showing my project to the professor. Otherwise my project is not integrated to my studies in any way. I also got a part time job in my university's embedded side because of my project.

How much time I put to this really depends on what else is happening in my life at the moment. There has been months where I've put total of 5 hours into this and some weeks alone I may reach close to 40 hours.
My Android did give me a tsunami warning this morning though, but no earthquake warning.
Worth keeping in mind that performance on benchmarks seems to scale linearly with log of thinking time (https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/). Thinking for hours may not provide as much benefit as one might expect. On the other hand, if thinking for hours gets you from not solving the one specific problem instance you care about to solving that instance, it doesn't really matter - its utility for you is a step function.
Good question. How many H100s does it take? Is there any way to guess / approximate that?
They only have to be consistently better than the competition, and they are, by far. I always look for reviews before buying anything, and even then I've been nothing but disappointed by the likes of Razer, LG, Samsung, etc.
>Is "suicide" bad for SEO or something?

Youtube for example will outright demonetize your video if you mention suicide. That's their official policy as stated https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802245?hl=en&ref_... . It's stupid as fuck.

As the GameGrumps team (very progressive people) mockingly stated: "It's so easy to solve the problem when we can't talk about it"

It is usually taken as a given that TikTok will just not surface your content if you say suicide, but I'm not active on tiktok and have no source.

Like all these absurd restrictions on content, it is not driven by liberals, or policy, or law. It is entirely driven by the fact that Coke does not want to pay for the ad space next a video talking about a difficult subject.

It's the free market baby.
Most consultants with more than 3 years of experience are billed at $150/hr or more
You moved the goalpost by introducing the "too dangerous for humans to arrive" qualifier. The person you're replying to never said that. They asked if it would refuse to drive in pouring rain. They never asked if it would refuse to drive in scenarios where it's too dangerous for humans to drive.
"It's too hard to change the plan now"

+1 Agreed. Plans fail when sticking to them matters more than adapting...

TBH, the best plans know when to shift.

Flexibility > Rigidity
If you're going to eat chocolate, dark has by far the lowest sugar content among chocolate types.
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I work from home and my time is accounted for by way of my productive output because I am very far away from a CEO type. If I can take every Wednesday off because I’ve gained enough productivity to do so, I would happily pay $200/mo out of my own pocket to do so.

$200/user/month isn’t even that high of a number in the enterprise software world.
Criticism of Broad Autism Phenotype
I have some criticism of Broad Autism Phenotype.

Broad Autism Phenotype seems to blur the lines between a neurotypical that has persistent autistic traits and a person with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Tha argument can be made is if s person has a diagnosis or not.

There are also some people that have Unspecified Neurodevelopmental Disorder that have symptoms similar to Autism Spectrum Disorder, but they may not meet full diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder.

It's just so confusing.
Scientists, $1B, and the Moonshot Agency Trying to Make Britain Great Again