skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can't be "backwards". You can believe the effect is muted by the new-release window, such that for the majority of all titles --- let's say, for books, the midlist titles --- a drastic reduction in the length of copyright wouldn't impact the comp authors would get from publishers. But you can't logically argue about the sign of the effect.

Meanwhile, virtually all of the copyright-driven industries are portfolio-based hit-seeking businesses. The comp for creators prices in some low (1-10%?) probability that a title will be a breakout success. Those returns would in fact be impacted by a drastic reduction in copyright terms.

Either way though: none of this matters. The point is that there isn't a logical argument for tying compensation to the lifespan of the author. Authors reap rewards today for returns on their IP that occur posthumously.
I read this blog post on my iPhone and when I went to the top to try and find out more about Helix, it had a giant link to install the Substack iOS app, which detracted from the experience. It might be a good idea to use a real CMS.

Here’s the website: https://tryhelix.ai/
Nearly every single measure anyone ever proposes to address child abuse, regardless of its merits or lack thereof, gets immediately dismissed as a generic "Won't someone thing of the children!" situation.

That isn't really useful and is probably a good part of why the people making such arguments are ignored by the people who actually make the laws.
> strong consumer spending

I’d like to see that plotted against average consumer debt
"Never believe quotes you read on the Internet" ~~ Benjamin Franklin
I invite all early adopters and note-takers to try it, your feedback will help us to shape the product.

PS: Dont hate AI
In a world where tabs win, you then have a battle over how far to move the cursor which each tab.
The price of LLMs has fallen 1,000 times in the last year for the same quality tokens.

It's not clear if video models will follow the same trajectory.
Rail suburbs do this relatively easily. The issue isn't distance; public transport can go faster than cars in any case - the issue is sufficient density to achieve a reasonable occupancy rate. Plenty of countries have commuter suburbs/towns that are dense enough to justify 35-40 miles of public transit at high speeds and that built it as a result, and there's quite a few places in the US that could justify it but don't.
The other idiosyncratic pub in Oxford is the Turf Tavern to be found down some twisty passages off Holywell Street. But my 1970s Oxford undergrad experience was daily pie, beans, and chips in the much more normal Kings Arms opposite the Bodleian.
Datagrip is fantastic. You can also get the same functionality if you buy the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition, which includes many of the languages and tools that are also separately productized. I recommend this because the database tools integrate so well with the editor. For example, you can have a scratch file open that contains multiple SQL snippets. You can hit cmd-Enter when inside one snippet, and it will execute it and render the results either as a panel or inline inside the editor, notebook-style. Plus, full schema validation and autocompletion in the editor, and support for many, many databases including Postgres and ClickHouse.

Not only that, but the SQL support works for embedded strings in programs written in other languages such as Go. So it knows that some statement conn.Exec("SELECT ...") is SQL and syntax-highlights it, performs schema validation and autocompletion inside the string literal. Not only that, but you can open the string literal as a separate editor and edit it, including doing things like "reformat", which was an unexpected delight when I discovered it.

It's this kind of "feature stacking", which features working organically with each other, that makes Jetbrains IDEs so damn good.

But the basic database tools are also superb. Its table view is really fast. It has syntax highlighting (e.g. if a column value is JSON), live editing (including the ability to open a column value as an editor, in which case you get all the usual syntax tools), and even graph rendering with support for multiple data series and grouping in a single graph.

There is also excellent support for exporting data. You can mark a bunch of result rows and copy them as CSV or as SQL INSERT statements, or you can save the entire result to a file. This is how I often export data from BigQuery, as it's much more convenient than Google's own tooling (the web UI is particularly bad, requiring that you export the query result to a GCS bucket first).

These database UIs aren't technically difficult to do. But somehow nobody else seems capable. The closest I can think of is Microsoft's tooling around SQL Server, which is pretty slick, albeit MSSQL-specific. I often wonder how Jetbrains, which is a pretty small company, can be so effective and produce such an incredibly feature-rich product portfolio.
> Before you spend too much time patting yourself on the back for being so superior... dividing it into dumbasses and "smart people like me,"

I didn't say anything like that, or even adjacent to it. I didn't imply any judgement at all, other than to acknowledge that we're not all born the same.

That said, tall people will always be better at basketball on average than short people. Raising the average height doesn't really change that, and trying to pretend that if everyone were provided with the same opportunities they would achieve the same outcomes in basketball, or in intellectual pursuits, is dishonest and actively harmful to those born at a disadvantage.
Using the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc).

I hope it does not end up that way but would not be surprised if it does. In that case I would probably just use a Windows or Apple machine as a proxy for sites that required such behavior if it were feasible.
If we're flagkilling stories with workable paywall bypasses, you should ping hn@ycombinator.com (don't assume they see the thread), and I'd expect them to unkill it.
Is this the right place to report bugs? The handles in the first two examples trap touch interaction blocking scroll. The latter three examples don't. This has a side effect of not being able to 'drag up to reveal the labels underneath ones fingers since it just scrolls the page, keeping the labels underway the finger.
Periodic Table – Ptable – Properties
Years and years ago I helped someone with a remote team (quite a while before remote was common) try to get his team to be more productive.

We'd sit and chat about the state of things, ups and downs since we last spoke, and try to figure out strategies to improve process and get things working more smoothly. For a few months virtually nothing changed despite all kinds of small efforts scattered around.

He was dealing with pretty insane stuff. Clearly competent developers were letting PRs languish for weeks. They weren't producing code to their own standards consistently. Designers were dumping deliverables last minute with no documentation or guidance for implementation. Just assets, hurriedly put together, with some palpable hope that they'd just get used and everyone would carry on without their involvement. There was no collaboration, very low communication, and hardly any cohesion across teams.

After a few months I came to realize that everyone was struggling in their role in some way or another, afraid to admit it, and unsure of how to catch up and keep up. Expectations of them were remarkably low, but no matter who fell behind they would eventually begin this oscillation between scrambling and vanishing.

I recommended that he let everyone know it's okay. We all fall behind, we've all got life going on, and having no deliverables happens. I suggested that the messaging would need to be sincere, clear, and personal in order for everyone to really believe that it was okay that they weren't performing well. After a week or so of figuring out how he wanted to address everyone about it, he did it over a group call and was a total human being about it, describing his own struggles, challenges with staying on task, his inability to program "well" due to his lack of training, and so on. It was great, and very sincere. He made it clear that he knew what was happening, but he wasn't upset and he wasn't pointing fingers.

The results were like night and day, though not immediate. Everyone gradually started explaining where they were. Maybe they had kid stuff in the way, got stuck getting a test to pass, didn't understand the problem well enough, no sleep, sick, etc. PRs got reviewed more often because there was less shame around letting them sit at all. Everything generally got better. Not perfect, but workable.

At the time that I recommended he do that, I felt a little bit insane. Like, what if this just permits everyone to be even worse? What if it comes off like it's a trap, and everyone gets even more paranoid and insecure? Am I just imagining everyone wants this because it's what I've wanted in the past?

Since then I consider it one of the most essential components of functioning teams. People can still be high performers in unsafe roles, but the team as a whole suffers for it, then the company does as well. Especially the company, over time.
the last time debt was this high was WW2, after it millions of working age men came back contributing to the economy. today the opposite is true, millions of people are exiting the workforce to retire, draining resources like Social Security. It's not sustainable, but US can tap into immigration policy to kick the ball down the road for decades
Forever chemicals found in bottled and tap water from around the world
I actually find the same issue with prequels, especially for the ones that really hit a chord (like the original Star Wars). After knowing what is going to happen in those stories, I just can't get invested in a character who I know either makes it for sure, dies before getting to the "main" story, or doesn't matter because they don't have any connection to my canon of the plot arc. Same-universe spins-offs fit this for me as well.

OTOH, lots of games come with DLC that add new stories with the same mechanics. There might be some additions or changes, but if you really like the mechanics, you can try it with a different plot. Remnant II has sucked a ton of my time because of that.
It's not that scripture says one thing and we can do another. It's that we need the guidance of tradition to know what scripture is saying to us, and how to apply it to our own lives.

Scripture and orthodox tradition both are inconsistent about the compatibility of mercy and action to prevent an ongoing harm. We aren't to weigh the good and evil and pass judgement on someone's soul, but we are to use discernment about what things we allow to happen around us.
The US still is absolutely an amazing place to do creative work. Most of the fun innovative stuff is done in small companies, startups, and academia. Big organizations find it hard to not stifle creativity with bureaucracy- so they’ve taken to just buying the creative work once it’s out there.
The major models are not tied in terms of quality. GPT-4 and GPT-o1 still beat everyone else by a significant margin on tasks that require in-depth reasoning. There's a reason why people just don't go for the cheapest option, whatever the benchmarks say.
Yeah you can definitely do that, I referenced how we do it in another comment. The electron app and running it locally allows you to use TCP protocol which isn't available directly in the browser.

It's mostly just a nicely bundled way to run it if you aren't very technical but still want a easy to use database client.

You can also run commands like this to connect to your database if you want:

npx @outerbase/studio \
--port=5000 \
--user=admin --pass=123 \
mysql://root:123@localhost:3306/chinook
^Hawthorne, CA
That's exactly what I was expecting given he [original] video title.
your last comment made me chuckle because I actually hate driving. :-) I agree with you, quality of life is very personal!

I’ll share what a quality life means to me. For context, I grew up middle class, my father was a city employee, and my mother was a stay at home mom for a number of years.

• large emergency fund (zero stress about paying mortgage or losing job).

• I don’t have to look at prices when buying groceries or eating out.

• Time and money for 1-2 vacations per year. At least 1 international. My spouse and I love to visit new places.

• I can work remotely outside the US for 4 weeks internationally per year. I typically stay with my dad’s side of the family (in europe) for 3 weeks each year, while working remotely. Great way to spend lots of family time and not burn vacation time.

• No stress about medical care or costs.

• Ability to start a family without money stress.

• Good work life balance, no more than 40yrs on average. Minimum 3 weeks vacation per year.

• Ability to retire earlier, to pursue hobbies, if i wish.

• Easy access (45 min or less) to quality outdoor recreation on the weekends. Things like hiking, kayaking, etc.

A lot of those are luxuries, but certainly feel like a quality life for me. Yes, I realize how lucky I am. MOST people in the US are not so fortunate. I’m just explaining what quality of life might mean to someone… It’s not about buying pointless junk for me.
Per the article I think that type of person is a grinder/believer.
I think you are debating whereas OP was just sharing a memory.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42key59cZQ

Dwarkesh Patel

How do you sustain yourself while writing full time?

Gwern

Patreon and savings. I have a Patreon which does around $900-$1000/month, and then I cover the rest with my savings. I got lucky with having some early Bitcoins and made enough to write for a long time, but not forever. So I try to spend as little as possible to make it last.

I should probably advertise the Patreon more, but I'm too proud to shill it harder.

It's also awkward trying to come up with some good rewards which don't entail a paywall. Patreon and Substack work well for a lot of people like Scott Alexander, because they like writing regular newsletter-style updates but I don't like to. I just let it run and hope it works.

Dwarkesh Patel

Wait if you’re doing $900-1000/month and you’re sustaining yourself on that, that must mean you’re sustaining yourself on less than $12,000 a year. What is your lifestyle like at $12K?

Gwern

I live in the middle of nowhere. I don't travel much, or eat out, or have health insurance, or anything like that. I cook my own food. I use a free gym. There was this time when the floor of my bedroom began collapsing. It was so old that the humidity had decayed the wood. We just got a bunch of scrap wood and a joist and propped it up. If it lets in some bugs, oh well! I live like a grad student, but with better ramen. I don't mind it much since I spend all my time reading anyway.
Whenever I see one of these posts, I click just to see if the proposed solution to testing the output of an LLM is to use the output of an LLM... and in almost all cases it is. It doesn't matter how many buzzwords and acronyms you use to describe what you're doing, at the end of the day it's turtles all the way down.

The issue is not the technology. When it comes to natural language (LLM responses that are sentences, prose, etc.) there is no actual standard by which you can even judge the output. There is no gold standard for natural language. Otherwise language would be boring. There is also no simple method for determining truth... philosophers have been discussing this for thousands of years and after all that effort we now know that... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯... and also, Earth is Flat and Birds Are Not Real.

Take, for example, the first sentence of my comment: "Whenever I see one of these posts, I click just to see if the proposed solution to testing the output of an LLM is to use the output of an LLM... and in almost all cases it is." This is absolutely true, in my own head, as my selective memory is choosing to remember that one time I clicked on a similar post on HN. But beyond the simple question of if it is true or not, even an army of human fact checkers and literature majors could probably not come up with a definitive and logical analysis regarding the quality and veracity of my prose. Is it even a grammatically correct sentence structure... with the run-on ellipsis and what not... ??? Is it meant to be funny? Or snarky? Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ WFT is that random pile of punctuation marks in the middle of that sentence... does the LLM even have a token for that?
It makes more sense to conclude that if you have market dominance, you can get away with a lot, especially since we see this time and again in other matters, not just UI.
The proper amount of spaces after a period.
> "My students" - so there's really nothing on the line except a grade then, yeah? That's why you wouldn't pay any cost to make it 10x better, because there's no catastrophic consequence if it fails. But sometimes wasting a few milliwatts on average is the difference between success and failure.

Years of effort from a large team is worth something, as is the tens of thousands of dollars we're spending. We expect a return on that investment of data and mission success. We're spending a lot of money to improve odds of success.

But even in this power constrained application, a few milliwatts is nothing. (Nearly half the time, it's literally nothing, because we'd have to use power to run heaters anyways. Most of the rest of the time, we're in the sun, so there's a lot of power around, too). The marginal benefit to saving a milliwatt is zero, so unless the marginal cost is also zero we're not doing it.

> That aircraft was designed to be as efficient as possible, so we could literally measure the inefficiency from the choice of language in terms of how much it cost in extra battery weight and therefore decreased range

If this is a rotorcraft of some sort, that seems silly. It's hard to waste enough power to be more than rounding error compared to what large brushless motors take.
Makes me wonder if there's any company which is trying to train a model to produce three D worlds within Unity (not as a video like oasis).
Err, unless he's tapping you to be his next-in-line, a CEO's impact on
your happiness is vanishingly small relative to your customer service
agent's, your sales rep's, or your immediate boss's.
Not sure if you're "playing dumb" (sometimes people do that on chat boards). Kennedy isn't just "pro-choice on vaccines", he's repeatedly amplified nonscientific views about vaccine safety. For example, as recently as 2023, "Autism comes from vaccines". Then he pivots to a more useful comment, that vaccines are exempt from the normal requirements on drugs to go through full clinical trials.

If you want to claim "autism comes from vaccines" you really have to put up some sort of evidence that supports the claim, and the reality is that there is no reliable evidence for the claim. Also, which vaccine? They use a wide range of technologies? Is it thimerosol... which isn't in any of the major vaccines used in the US today (and was unlikely to be a cause of autism in the first place, and is also still used in many contexts).

Ultimately, what RFK Jr is doing is sowing doubt in established science. I think he's doing it because he thinks the established science is corrupt, but I fail to see how he could possibly correct that while also casting doubt. If he ends up in a public health leadership position, he's going to find very quickly just how poorly his approach to public health works.
Here come the "its an individual's problem not a systemic problem" anecdotes.
But when you look at all the data....its a systemic problem.
You can connect to your SQLite databases from the browser too without the Electron app if you wanted: https://studio.outerbase.com/connect
OpenAI launches Sora (quite a while ago now), Google needs to fire back with something else groundbreaking.

I love the advancement of the tech but this still looks very young and I'd be curious what the underlying output code looks like (how well it's formatted, documented, organized, optimized, etc.)

Also, this seems oddly related to the recent post from WorldLabs https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog. Wonder if this was timed to compete directly and overtake the related news cycle.
Elon Musk's more than $50B pay deal at Tesla was rejected again
Hey! I'd love to know how this performs on 8xMI300x in comparison. Reach out to me?
That's an interesting benchmark, have you tested QwQ with it yet? Would be interesting to see how well it stacks up since RAG analysis should be fairly up its alley. Might actually do better than 4o.
AI models like today's LLMs are basically text generators and data retrievers. They're trained in a straightforward, linear fashion, unlike the complex, multi-dimensional way humans learn. That's why they struggle with math that requires context but can handle straightforward language tasks pretty well.
I responded directly to your comment where you suggested that the work of identifying and/or interpreting "references" was unique to or characteristic of Dante.

And I am adding that while always interesting and rewarding for those that are obsessed with a work, "getting" the references in Dante's Comedy or any other work of merit is not the point, and they are not all that important in the work.

And further, since I am near the subject, I am engraving my personal ad hominem, that it is the characteristic mark of a certain class of readership (which I hold in low regard) to fixate on which 7th century monk in which manuscript first introduced some mentioned doctrine before having (and never-to-have) attempted to commune with the work itself.
Wouldn't the backspace go back up to the previous line, since the only character between each of those numbers is the newline?
> because things are only ever roughly equivalent.

This is what people seem to misunderstand about PPP. PPP applies for daily/internal market goods. The cost of milk, eggs, clothing, etc. Which is definitely important. On a more macro scale it also compares a VW Vento in Mexico with a VW Jetta in the US...two particularly different cars with ~6000usd gap in price.

In other words, it compares basic goods for living; fudges some basic "luxury" goods, and pretends that that's representative of lifestyles. It ignores (in Mexico, for example) the fact that consumer electronics are ~20-40% more expensive (if available at all), access to truly equivalent basic luxuries (a VW Jetta for a VW Jetta) is still slightly more expensive, access to equivalent security/infrastructure/business guarantees nigh impossible to receive, and just the vast gulf of wealth inequality that exists, etc.
I really wanted to enjoy OpenTTD, but I wonder if there's something I'm missing, because I gave it like 3 hours and just found it boring.

I love all the other "work" games that are popular on HN, such as Factorio and everything by Zachtronics. I enjoyed city builders and RCT.

But something about OpenTTD failed to scratch an itch for me. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mindset that day. I should give it another try.
Measuring Apple CPU Core-to-Core Latency Without Core-Pinning
This comes down to Postel's Law; they recommend liberally receiving what you conservatively cannot send. Also from RFC 2616 but not cited by the author:

> This flexibility regarding line breaks applies only to text media in the entity-body; a bare CR or LF MUST NOT be substituted for CRLF within any of the HTTP control structures (such as header fields and multipart boundaries).

They aren't going to allow sending LF until at least one bump to a higher protocol version where every server MUST accept it.
I'm surprised they managed to get Oracle to port Rdb.
Will the 1.0 release include the switch over to the Godot engine?
Baader-Meinhof strikes again - checked this out in the morning and just caught your Citibike tweet. You're on a roll today!
Wow, started 7 years ago and is still updated. Props to the authors!