skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means people literally don't want to live there, but choose to because the west coast is too expensive.
PHP looks much slower
That doesn't make any sense as an explanation for rising rates of loneliness. The US isn't more car dependent today than it was 10 years ago.
I just skimmed the docs, but I heard about it a few days ago. Noteworthy points:
* it's not a way for companies to raise capital
* not much in the way of regulation. Main UK listings are quite rigorous. The UK has an AIM market, in which a company is sponsored by a broker. It's a "junior" market. It's very wild-west, and the long-term performance has been bad. That's mostly because the constituents are some of the biggest piles of garbage imaginable. There are some high-quality ones, though
* Trading is infrequent, like once a quarter or something.
* It's mainly designed for professional investors and and "eligible" investors (you'll probably need liquid assets of at least £1m to qualify)
* I think it's intended for small companies to get used to public scrutiny, with a view that they will get a proper listing

I think the Tory gov't had mooted such a scheme, but nothing materialised. Labour has implemented it. I'm a critic of Labour supporter, but I suppose I should at least give them some kudos for trying. My more impartial evaluation is that I don't think it will provide much value.

Interestingly, there used to exist another public exchange for UK shares outside LSE (London Stock Exchange) - maybe its PLUS or OFEX that I'm thinking about - but they closed down now. It was pretty cruddy from what little I saw, with gigantic spreads.

The tiddly exchanges don't really make much sense IMV. Why would I want to invest in companies that are likely to be pretty junky, are unlikely to treat their external shareholders fairly, have dubious corporate governance, and enormous spreads? I could buy into much higher-quality companies on LSE.

Just my 2c.
* It's a five-year trial, whereupon the results will be evaluated.
Yeah, those two demos fell flat for me. The model performing badly on inputs far outside the training data is fine, but those two videos belong in the outtakes section or maybe a limitations section, not next to text lauding the "out-of-distribution generalization capabilities". The videos show the opposite of what's claimed.
I have no idea why, it was good reply
You're lying about the nature of your argument.
If you work from false premises you can get to whatever conclusion you like. Gemini is not bad at all but you do you.
Kids can be more cruel than a health insurance company?
Not much to says besides that it was expected and most certainly welcomed by a majority of people.
We're heading into 1940s inflation, not 1970s. 1970s inflation was lending driven. 1940s inflation was fiscally driven, like it is today.
Privacy is something you give up for all online software. I give up privacy to use YouTube, search engines, Hacker News and even DNS. Unless you can show me the source code for Apple's implementation, I daresay they're forcing you to give up a modicum of privacy too. Same goes for OpenAI's servers, for that matter.

Mostly I dog on Apple and Microsoft because both companies didn't even attempt to compete. They ignored machine learning when it was taking off (FAIR/BERT era), refused to ship complex GPU designs instead of NPUs though it was the only thing working (eg. Nvidia vs everyone else), and they continue to lag behind all their peers in local model development. The most impressive contribution either company makes to Open Source AI is the support they write for Tensorflow and Pytorch - neither of which they even own. If you erased every contribution that Apple and Microsoft made to AI research, the entire field could pick up where it left off tomorrow.

Google's got problems, but AI is something they are far-and-away better at than their contemporaries. It is just Google and Facebook at this echelon, which is embarrassing but frankly expected given how stagnant and anticompetitive Apple and Microsoft's business models have become.
Chris Shank is doing some very cool web-canvas of propogatora work. Been super cool to see!

https://bsky.app/profile/chrisshank.bsky.social/post/3lciv5q...
You're the one that thinks "it's as old as time" is a good enough reason to keep doing it
Yes.

The difference between today and a half century ago is that today you either win first prize, or wind up dead. That stinks.

It stinks because companies that come in first are seldom worse at extracting value from customers than they are at providing value to customers, and therefore tend to be mediocrities.

And it stinks because such companies are seldom worse at extracting value from rank-and-file employees than they are at providing value to employees.

The world is better when there are societies that can afford to sacrifice a little competitiveness for a good quality of life. If that's over, it's a shame.
I think Realist more than Cynic, maybe. Because the activities in that description are perhaps realistically transactional, not cynical.

I dunno. The whole thing is wobbly really.
That video inspired me to read the NEAT paper. I think that was the first scientific paper I ever printed out and read
My advisor used to go drinking with the Cousots'. He said Cousot becomes more scrutable with more wine. I asked my advisor if he meant Cousots' papers or Cousots' conversation; his answer was "more French".
From a stock market perspective, if you look at a graph of Vanguard FTSE All World ex US ETF (ticker VEU), it looks like normal growth, but looks vastly different from say Vanguard Total Stock market (ticket VTI) which shows phenomenal growth. This is because VTI includes US tech stocks and VEU doesn't. Take out the tech stocks and maybe VTI would look like VEU.
I think a lot of people might believe their life or the life of a loved one was ruined or endangered by a health insurance CEO and such a person might feel justified in such an attack.

When you think of the awful stress that CEOs put on people like

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEARS/comments/18uwjvg/have_you_int...

and think it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often but then I found out that Lampert had been kidnapped.
That’s the obvious answer, surely, and one I’m disposed to agree with. But given that we’ve introduced a lot of new chemistry to our bodies over the last century or so, I’m suggesting that it may not be the only answer. This is not to say new chemistry is necessarily bad, either. Food and water in the industrialized world are massively safer from microbial contamination than they ever have been. People generally stay healthier, longer than ever in history. Nonetheless, if we’re inadvertently poisoning ourselves, we can do even better if we stop.
If we're talking military only, then you have to look at defense budgets, not GDP. The US defense budget is still much bigger than China's and Russia's combined, even after controlling for PPP.

By "what a country can accomplish on the world stage", I meant a more holistic view of what a country can do, such as investing, R&D, exploration, etc. (and also military).
yes, and you don't have to keep in touch with everyone-- find the people you enjoy talking to, and just make a point to do it.
> why would it be justified to dismiss a device without it as a "toy"?

Which is exactly why I italicized in theory.
I don't think it's a problem. What's preventing other countries from building something similar to the US tech companies is a combination of regulation and culture.
I'm sorry to hear it...

I guess it shouldn't be as surprising as it was. You basically just need to be a non-zero amount of racist/sexist/whatever to think that [category x] shouldn't hold the presidency, given that it's the highest office in the world. Any tiny amount of x-ism will do. Turns out a whole lot of apparently normal people are at least a tiiiny bit racist, and it absolutely broke an entire political party.
Hm, fair, thanks for the counterpoint. I do think the people who got kicked got kicked because they were coming with the intent to troll and harass, but the fact that the site admins intervene in these cases is evidence that they don't have confidence in the community moderation tools so far, and theyre still curating access, which is fine, it's just not very distributed of them.
Because he's building native JS games already. And they likely work in Safari.
It would be a step backwards, unless he wants to publish for desktop/mobile as well.
I even found Godot's desktop export to be less performant than things I've built natively for the browser when lots of onscreen objects are involved. The only way I found to get around that was to use Godot's C++ extensions or modules, which defeats the object of an engine like Godot.
Unity, Defold and Unreal proved unsuitable for other reasons, and the most viable platform for building games for desktop and mobile after working with JS and WebGL turned out to be Raylib. I can only share my experiences, everyone should do what I did and shop around, but if you're happy working in the browser, there is no reason to move away from native technologies.
That's a very convenient way to frame it! You can't possibly be wrong because every counterexample is obviously either unwilling or brainwashed.
No, certain startups (not from YC!) hire a pool of grinders (50%) and the rest is family, academic friends, LDS church members etc.

The rest gets the cozy positions and does nothing.
it should be obvious that it is easier to do so
> Why can't normal standard work have a press release? Why do we need to play pretend and add buzzwords just to make things sound "cool"?
> ...But that's just me being a bit bitter, perhaps...

Were you complaining as heavily about OCR or Markov chains ever being referenced as AI in their hay day?

The term “AI” is in an infinite treadmill and the day it stops being useable as a time sensitive reference is probably the day it surpasses humanity and becomes its own State
Lots of things optimize for terseness. Assembly, arithmetic/algebra, and any kind of shorthand in any kind of trade. That’s because the shorthand is usually easy enough to learn, and then provides value going forward.

You are perfectly capable of parsing “3+2*4”, I don’t have to always write it as “MULTIPLY 2 BY 4, ADD 3”. Similarly you would get pretty mad if instead of “ld” or “lda” you’d have to type “load register” or “load accumulator” each time. Those concepts are trivial once you understood them, you don’t need a constant reminder of what they expand to.

Doing so might get slightly more people to “start using the thing” in the very first step, but might also let many people look for a more terse alternative. And we don’t have to cater to any person who is really unwilling to learn.

Overall I find it hard to buy that you actually had much trouble with $< and $@, at least in a way that you couldn’t have cleared up for yourself about 20 times in the time it took you to write out your comments.

I was hoping my introduction to Makefiles would be useful. If it was not, maybe I’m a bad educator after all.
> Interestingly, Arab, Hebrew, and Indic scripts are all derived from the same Phoenician ancestor, despite how different they all look today…

Same with Thai or... Mongolian - a not so distant cousin of Aramaic!

The fun thing about Mongolian is that to notice its similarity to Aramaic, you'll need to tilt your head by 90 degrees.

Compare this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script#/media/File:M...

With this: https://www.avesta.org/fonts/index.html

Now look at the first picture again and tilt your head.

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that, although I studied Middle Persian and Avestan (both of which rely on a variant of Aramaic), it took me almost 15 years to notice that. Now, it’s impossible to unsee.
How long until AI can dig through old rabbit holes and come out with Mossad connected US politicians?
Any plans to use tauri? That way you can use the native os web view, plus cut the overhead of electron
> This is just a big network affect failure.

What do you mean "just" ? The whole point is that the difficulty of social scaling is the network effects.

> I didn't invent this. This is how the whole world worked, in general, 100 years ago.

Sorry, you cannot reverse the arrow of time. From the little I understand the Japanese model is close to what I proposed about buying up land and creating a new urban area from scratch. So as I said, that is actually legally still on the table in the US. The problem is it seems to be off the table culturally (development companies in the US are building suburban tract houses instead of train stations and sky scrapers).

> But less need for cars when you can walk to where you are going

Yes, as I said, it's a tradeoff. I didn't explore all the facets. You're free to make these arguments. In fact, I encourage you to in general! I'm in a more ruralish area now and at this point in my life probably won't ever move back, but I used to live in a good sized walkable/bikeable city and I really enjoyed it (but for the economic treadmill).

> Exactly the NIMBY attitude that supposes you get to say what other people do with their property

Here we've gotten to the heart of the matter where so called right-libertarianism falls apart [0]. We're not talking about property (the buildings), but rather real estate (a land area relative to other people's real estate). That distinction exists for an important reason - because physical proximity means that your actions on your real estate does affect your neighbors, regardless of how much you want to ignore it. The retort of living next to a chemical plant is cliche, but for a good reason.

The null hypothesis base case is to move somewhere less dense so you don't affect your neighbors as much (which is precisely why the American conception of freedom encourages the sprawl it has!), not somehow having high population density without any conflict-resolving regulations. Scaling population density inherently requires social technology, not merely the rejection of social technology. If you're concerned about freedom in the urban context, you should be looking for freedom-preserving social technologies.

[0] just for context here I am libertarian, but have come to see right libertarianism as pathologically specious.
> The only prescriptive, airtight solution is surgically modifying males so that they can't rape any more.

Your solution only works if you think that women can't and don't rape people, including other women. Reality strongly disagrees.

Ultimately it all comes down to freedom vs security. We could force people to have surgery and lock them indoors to keep them safe, or we can accept putting ourselves in some amount of risk in exchange for giving ourselves more freedom.
Show HN: Minimalboard – A intuitive and fast way to organize work
Hi HN!

Organizing my work has always been frustrating because no tool seemed to fit my workflow. Every app I tried came with endless menus, complicated settings, and more clicking than actually working. If you've ever wrestled with Jira, you know the drill — its great for tracking an army of developers, but a tad overkill for my personal tasks.

That's why I built Minimalboard. It combines the simplicity of a good old notepad with the visual organization of a Kanban board. Its sole focus is speed and intuitiveness. Just click to start editing, drag to rearrange, and everything saves automatically. It's a quick, clean workspace to jot down ideas, organize tasks, or capture information on the fly.

I've been using Minimalboard privately for two years, and now I'm releasing it to see if I'm the only one with this peculiar obsession for simplicity or if others are equally struggling. Give it a spin and let me know what features you'd find useful. I'm curious to see how much functionality I can stuff in before it starts looking like, well, the tools I was trying to avoid!

Website: https://minimalboard.com
Feedback & Ideas Tracker: https://minimalboard.sleekplan.app
Flow Engineering for Code Agents, and >$8M ARR in 2 Months as a Claude Wrapper
Thanks! I think the best thing we do to assure users that we check everything they'd check is that we add requested data sources pretty fast. E.g., one customer wanted to track announcements from the various state/regional commissions on higher education, and we added those within the hour.

For political monitoring in particular, I think this is pretty important. Different organizations in different industries will inevitably have very specific/obscure sources they want to track, so rather than promising that we already have everything they'd be checking, we just assure them that we can add anything missing really quickly.
Depends what quality of life means to you right? My parents were average income but I never had money stress; worst that happens is the state pays for them or me etc. I have many millions now because selling some businesses; my life is the same; high quality. So what do you mean? I can only read 'more cars' or something in your post.
I watched a few, but if the wrong video pops up and hasn't been filtered / redacted by YouTube then I might accidentally have legally compromising material on my phone through no fault of my own, other than curiosity. At least with the YouTube UI I can go to my "History" tab and see/prove the video came through YouTube UI action. But random videos from unknown sites are too risky.
Anecdotal, but… I'd be willing to put the time and effort in to start a company, but I would not be willing to lose my home or fail to provide for my wife & three children in the process as neither my wife nor I have any family capable of taking us in.
> Regulation is good, regulation is bad.

That's vastly too simplistic. There's not some simple good versus evil linear axis for nearly anything, including regulation. Regulation provides tradeoffs, and even those are likely never simply two sided.

> Changes in regulation historically has probably generally served to entrench big business

Yes, that's what I wrote, and for the reasons I wrote it. To rephrase: regulation often means companies must comply with new rules, and keeping track of those changes and complying costs money (=time). Such things ten to have a fixed cost and an amortized cost. Big businesses can spread the fixed cost over more revenue.

So it almost matters not at all what the regulation is - if there's a rule that needs followed, whether it's employee benefits, waste management, financial tracking, OSHA, EPA, IRS, or anything - each adds costs to every business.

And most of them are easier to deal with on a per revenue basis as revenue increases.
Government debt only becomes a problem when it becomes a problem to pay it. We're nowhere near that point in the US.
PouchDB and CouchDB already exist
Similar experience. I tried to move to KDE and it was utterly disappointing with the external monitor. I've been using gnome with no issues whatsoever, if that's even something you're willing to try out
For you, the question is theoretical. For me, I've lived it.

Before I transitioned into software, I had a very a fulfilling life being paid a mediocre salary as a graphic designer, supporting my family for years and investing plenty of time and money into my hobbies.

I don't know how to convince you of the very real experience I and many others here are having, and I don't really feel like it's a good use of my time. Feel free to keep holding onto your theories.
I will believe this if you show me the stats. You can use homicide rates, since they're hard to fake or badly under-report, and since many of the other stats crime stats also look pretty good for NYC and I expect you'll dismiss them as extremely incorrect—and it's not unreasonable to worry that they might be, so, you can just use the homicide rates.

Maybe one "scary" big city is managing to do hide far-worse homicide rates than they actually have. Are a bunch of them? Maybe, I guess, I doubt it but maybe. If a bunch of them are successfully hiding a lot of murders, though—are towns and small or mid-sized cities in poorer states just unable to hide theirs as effectively, since they are often really high?

Of course, you do see more crime with higher density and with a higher proportion of travel on foot rather than by highway. That doesn't necessarily equate to higher risk.
The final step is an oversimplification: purpose-built simulator -> deconstructed robot on a lab workbench -> controlled space -> "real world" with constraints -> real world

Any model would have to succeed in one stage before it can proceed to the next one.
Think of all the broken systems that are left in place rather than fixed.
> why didn't you start SpaceX?

It took $100M to start SpaceX. The argument works better if you start with one of the more modest earlier efforts.
> Can you explain the difference then?

Do you really need me to explain the difference between'specific regulations that force YouTube to take this specific action' vs 'regulations that may affect youtube'?

> I suggested a path for you to educate yourself, again pointing out that resources are available to you so you can learn things for yourself without demanding them from others.

Wow thank you for the amazing suggestions and letting me know that search engines exist! Apparently it wasn't enough for you to be able to answer the question asked though, and the only thing you were able to contribute was this passive aggressive tale about how you tried to Google something.

By the way - when someone claims that there are certain regulations behind decisions/actions it's totally okay to ask what those specific regulations are. Your little tantrum adds absolutely nothing to the conversation, and this hilarious comment of yours trying to explain away this tantrum only serves to underline the fact that you're not even trying to have an honest/sincere conversation.
The idea sounds cool. Only concern would be data privacy - how do you handle that?
I love watching projects like these progress. It seems like a passion project and such a joy to tinker with. Great work Dennis!
Thank you, I hope you can stop building those and use us instead as well :)

I've never used Firestore directly, but I did see Firebase's recent announcement about Data Connect. It seems like it could act as a bridge to bring your data into Outerbase. Do you think that would work?
Thanks! I'm doing my best.
We trained a sparse embedding model because there is a lack of commercially licensed weights or APIs. For any proprietary model, particularly embeddings, there is a degree of lock-in.
More information on #2 (colloquially known as 'active recall'): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect
1) Sorry I didn't list other reasons in order for you to understand that there is more than one reason it's done. 2) You bringing up feudalism is still completely random lol. I get you're trying to make the point "just because something was done in the past doesn't make it a good idea", but the contrary is also true - just because something was done in the past doesn't make it a bad idea. Using your logic, I suppose we should stop cooking food since it was done in the past and everything done in the past is akin to feudalism lol
It's not brought up because this is not the source of the growth whatsoever. It has only served to keep our gasoline and methane costs low compared to the rest of the world. That's nice for people but does not create massive economic growth in the 21st century of the kind being discussed. That is all coming from the tech sector. If you want to talk energy to power the server farms, the growth in energy is happening with renewables which are and far cheaper than any fossil fuels.
Love that Youtube filter that spits out what I should consume. Thank you corporate algorithm for telling me what is a good thing to watch
I use promptfoo for our internal evaluations. There are a ton of different "assertions" (tests) that you can write, including model-graded evaluations using rubrics.

This is far from a solved problem, but there are options out there for systematic testing of LLMs.