skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this and seeing Kep reminds me of kip, a currency, and that got me thinking that currency names is a fun source of "made-up" names for things.
You’re still forced to participate in car culture if you use Lyft/Uber/Instacart, you’ve just added middlemen and increased the cost even further.

This comment comes across as incredibly privileged, to be honest. Most people must drive to work. Asking them to use Uber for such a purpose is just… it’s kind of infuriating.
They're going to have to do it again in a month and a half.
They don't say how to make big money, don't they? Also, the tl;dr is index funds and patience.
That's just not true.

The training data is the underlying truth and that's not nothing but a lot.

And hallucinations are pathes inside this space which are there for yet unknown reason.

We like answers from LLMs which walk through this space reasonable.
I wrote a scraper for various dating websites that would automatically generate activity on my behalf according to several empirical criteria (very simple stuff, no ML!), so that I could minimize the amount of time spent manually browsing profiles, and dealing with being ignored 99% of the times.

It worked amazingly well, it got me hundreds (yes, 100+) of dates, incredible dating stories and a lifetime of memories. As a matter of fact, my wife (of 7 years!) was found through the software, and she is the most important person in my life. She knows about the scripts and laughs about it.

I would just let the script send the initial messages with some basic filtering and scraping, and I would take over the conversation only when I got an initial positive reaction (which, as you can imagine, was a tiny fraction of the outreach) and manually confirmed that the profile was potentially interesting to me. The script would present the relevant information (pictures, links, etc) in an ideal way to be consumed in bulk instead of having to click through a million profiles. It really saved a lot of time.
That's why my servers tend to have boring names like "web-23" now. Given them fun names is fun, up until it isn't, and then it's really freaking annoying.
Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care
Ask HN: How do Chrome extension developers reach out to users for feedback?
I've just built my first Chrome extension. It's featured and has 36 users. And I don't know where to go from here.

My thinking is that I should be talking to users and learning about what new features they might want/what they might dislike about the extension.

I have included a 'send feedback' button in the extension, but none of them seem to be using it.

They just download it and use it silently.
It's not "findstring"? I'd never remember that.
Nothing, but having the world’s largest free trade and migrations zone means that it’s not economically efficient. Centralising industries produces large benefits in efficiency and hiring. We only don’t see it as much on a global scale because of trade and migration restrictions.
Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone
I remember tube testers at grocery stores when I was a kid. I'd go with my dad to test tubes from our TV set, and buy replacements for burned out ones.
Another +1 for Datagrip!
Sure, you can borrow more, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening, at least not contrary to long-term trends. Credit card debt is going up[0], but at a rate that looks exactly like (or perhaps slightly lower than) what it would be if you just extrapolated from 2019 and ignored the pandemic (and recent data in the last year shows that growth in that number may be slowing a little). Debt servicing as a percent of disposable income looks pretty good too[1]; much lower than the absurdity that was the 00s, and on par with or better than pre-pandemic 10s. You have to go back to the early 90s to get much better than that, but if you keep going back, it gets much worse.

Certainly these are just two metrics among many that people could look at, but if we're talking about consumer spending being strong, it does not appear to be because people are borrowing more today than long-established trends would expect. (I do think it's concerning that consumer debt has more or less only gone up over time, but that's a separate discussion.)

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CDSP
Yeah I did this for a DV cam and needed two adapters: USB C to the old DisplayPort form of Thunderbolt, and then that to Firewire. And even that wasn't complete, because I needed to adapt to the smaller Firewire port on the camera.

Obviously they could make a single stage adapter but I didn't find it if it exists.
Right on. It's not something I see in the wild often, and it surely piqued my interested.
Because America has the right mix of ingredients of greed, capital, culture, know-how, regulations, etc to thrive in the age of IT and finance.

Those who replicate the formula may not have the ingredients and those who do have the ingredients use different formulas.
Praise to scdoc to generate man pages
to be fair, this energy dependence was created in a time when the soviet block collapsed, and has worked for many many countries that where part of that block except for russia and belarus.

Economic integration has finally put the lid on the enourmous destruction of nationalism for the past 60 years.

The mistake which was made by (mostly) american and european economists was convincing everyone that applying shock therapy to the socialist economy and liberalising it in that way was the best way forward.
This resulted in the rise of putin and the aversion of the russian goverment to the "west".
It's open source under Eclipse Public License version 2.0, GNU General Public License version 2, or GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Making it easily fork-able should Oracle choose to do something users dislike.
It depends whether the increased brevity is worth the decreased intuitiveness. Consider that all words and names are made up in order to trade intuitiveness for brevity.
> grep is better than find "find-regular-expression"

I'm not sure if you are familiar with where grep came from, but in short it is an abbreviation of a command in the original UNIX text editor: g/re/p - g for global command, re standing for your search query and p for print to screen or teletype. In that way, it is nothing more than an anachronism that would have been immediately obvious to anyone working in a UNIX environment at the time.

AWK and Perl are just programming languages. I think they have made up names because programming languages are singular entities, but have too many characteristics to condense into a short name. That's different from a function, which in conventional style does exactly one thing with only one or two characteristics and so can have a 'short' and descriptive name a few words long.

I don't disagree with your argument, but I wanted to point out that the examples you gave were made-up names out of tradition or necessity, not because they were intentionally designed to be memorable.
This at least is a bit more realistic than what’s being presented by Google.

There are already a number of techniques for procedurally-generating a world (including Markov-based systems).

The problem with replacing procedural world generation with LLM generation are a) you need to obtain a data set to train it, which doesn’t commercially exist, or train it yourself, b) there’s a fundamental need to iterate on the design, which LLMs do not cope with well at all, c) you need to somehow debug issues and fix them. That’s quite apart from the quality issues, cost and power usage.
I live in flyover country and people like their Healthcare here just fine and you don't need 6fig salary
I once worked for a company that decided to eliminate internal codenames and instead use the actual brand names used by our customers. It removed a barrier to communication with no undesirable side effects.

Thank you Tim! You did us a solid.
Why did Silicon Valley turn right?
The "pounded progressive ally" thesis has limits

See the discussion on BSky

https://bsky.app/profile/himself.bsky.social/post/3lci4cd6tw...
Not always, for example when the meaningful name is much longer.
Starting Out in Product Development?
> Why do so many people, especially on HN, confuse market cap or GDP growth for innovation?

It's not confusion. It's rather an acknowledgement to the reality that to fund a generous welfare state, one needs taxes. To tax, you first need a dynamic private sector economy. Taxing public sector is like shifting money from the left pocket to the right pocket.

GDP or stock market caps are just a proxy for the size of the private economy. Europe has lagged on both. Maybe there is something else which would indicate that European private sector is growing fine and dandy. I am not aware of it. Are you?

CERN innovation is awesome but it will need to be translated into private sector economic activity in order for the society to benefit from it; either directly via products and services, or indirectly via taxation and welfare programs based on that.
I suppose this is fine for a local machine setup. But, I would rather setup it a handful of VMs in a k8s cluster.

Currently, run my own k8s cluster with 20 worker nodes (basically just VMs on a few computers). Able to not only containerize my workloads but also evacuate workloads to different workers when I need to take down the server for maintenance (os updates, moving, kubectl upgrades).

I had actually planned to setup another remote cluster in my parents home (800 miles away), but ended up 86’ing that because their residential internet is the absolute worst.

Currently cluster only accessible when behind VPN or on local network. Haven’t setup proper authN/authZ controls yet.
Most addons/extensions open tabs after important updates.
There's only a single company ASML that does, so this is a global technological challenge.
The DOI has an orphaned wells program and it seems like one of the few things that the BLM does with bipartisan support.

https://www.doi.gov/orphanedwells
More of the economy is thriving than ever before.

>50% of the population has enough cash savings for three months of expenses

The median amount of cash in bank account is $8k

The median US household networth is $193k.

Further, the wage increases in recent years have happened mostly at the lower end of the income scale, not at the top!

When polled, the US population is very happy about their own economic situation, yet still believes that we are in some sort of terrible economic downturn.

IMHO, the reason for this disconnect is housing. We haven't built enough, it's made people very unhappy, and restrictive zoning prevents fixing it. The housing theory of everything could even extend to the current political situation in South Korea...
I went surfing... and had picnics in the park... and hiked up two mountains... during Covid... wtf?
> Borrowers are not dumb

I don't disagree with your overall point, but I do think pre-2008-crash mortgage lending could be a counterexample. Certainly there were a lot of shenanigans going on, but ultimately borrowers made the -- IMO dumb -- choice to stretch themselves far too thin, and buy bigger and more expensive houses than they truly could afford.

Perhaps everyone today has learned from history, though. (But I wouldn't bet on it.)
Ins't that perplexity?
"There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
This is correct. You cannot have a discontinuity with any accepted definition of a derivative (and your definition is explicit about this: the value f(c) must exist). Just allowing the limits on both sides to be equal already has a mathematical definition which is that of a functional limit, the function in this case being (f(x) - flim(c))/ (x-c) where flim(c) is the value of a (different) functional limit of f(x): x->c (as f(c) doesn't exist).

and yes, by defining a new function with that hole explicitly filled in with a defined value to make it continuous is the typical prescription. It does not imply the derivative exists for the other function as the other post posits.
Yeah the title was a little Click-Baity, compared to what it really contained.
Meta to invest $10B for Louisiana data center
USGS have maps from over 100 years ago. They have already been digitized. These are probably projects to search through like a person would looking for things. People that collect insulators used to collect the actual maps long ago looking for old abandoned telegraph line locations (compared to today).

AI is useful for searching for targeted stuff where you can replace a person doing something that is probably pretty easy, but there is a lot of work that can be automated. Like searching for new viruses. AI has made identifying new viruses relatively easy and much quicker than a person, who typically tweaks input and data looking through what is noise to identify genome sequence of a new virus.
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You are making assumptions there, even though in this very conversation you have evidence to the contrary.

In professional capacity over the years I have used Perl, PHP, Bash, SQL (various dialects), Java, Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, Javascript and Typescript. I did not move from Java and OOP knowledge to other programming languages. I started with with languages that don't (have to) use OOP. I still work with Typescript (and until recently Javascript) while also working with Java and Kotlin. And in Java and Kotlin there is very little traditional OOP going on.

I guess the point there is to always keep learning and evolving. I learned Kotlin at work, while doing it. I learned Typescript at work, while doing it. I learned about various libraries at work, while using them. Until a few years ago, I had never used React and I have never used React except at work.
> Pointing to EU law/regilations is just platitudes people keep repeating online.

I disagree, for the reason mentioned below.

> Biggest barriers to business in the EU is risk averse Investors and Banking sector, lack of significant VC funding players, and Government spending strangled by Austerity policies.

Some of it is cultural I'm sure, but when your reward is capped it's logical to limit risk. Your list of issues are indicators of a risk-averse mindset.

Regarding the comment above: If most of the return from your risky venture is going to be taken from you by the government, why take the risk?

> The US spends a lot of money to make even more money.

Yep. It's like the stock market vs. bonds. The ride is bumpy but more lucrative over the long run.
> their political projects will die with them

I so wish that you are right. I am afraid you are not though. Trump is a symptom of the growing discontent in the society. If not Trump, it would be Bernie or someone else. But the tinderbox is there. Someone just needs to take a match to that.
Doubtful. What metric determines between a "big house" or a "necessary house"?

$400000 will buy you 3 bedrooms in some areas and not even an EPA-condemned quarter acre in some others.
>It doesn't help you figure out anything mechanically or visually.

people sell entire franchises off of a few pre-rendered generic-fantasy still images -- I would have to disagree with the premise that this is useless as a visual concept tool.

I agree with your notions about integration into an existing game.
Weird. All of my property doubled on structure value in the last 5 years. Acreage value has barely blipped up.
Says who? The quadrants would just be the combination of the two applicable types
Also worth checking the unforgotten ones. When I was a child my grandparents would take me to one of the beaches that had many capped wells and we would kick the rusted lid off and throw rocks inside for the sounds. Either that or they were eye-balling it to see if I would fit.
Maybe. the 15% interest rates in the 80s made a lot of working class families a shitload of money due to the magic of compound interest.
Any examples of this happening? Famous artwork being bought in us (high scrutiny preusmably) then sold in , i don't know, Switzerland (low scrutiny presumably). And then repatriated!!

Seems a lot of steps on the way.especially in crypto era.

Anyway, would love to see some real examples here. Why can't it just be exuberance, pumpanddump if we want to be cynical.
Recent elections show that capital interests are able to spend unlimited amounts of money buying political influence to prevent a pro-working-class candidate from ever touching any true levers of power.
Fine them at rates that dwarf whatever cost it would take to fix them. That would be the motivation necessary. Tell them they have 30 days after being notified before the fines start. Someone else on some other thread mentioned the ideas of exponentially increasing fines. Do that here.

Of course, the company has to still exist
Once you get to around 30mph, tire noise is one of the loudest contributors
But choose 2019 or 2021 as the base and wages have kept pace with or exceeded inflation:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/has-pay-kept-up-with-infl...
You’d be calling libraries that are vetted by the security team. Engineering at Meta is a lot like coloring with crayons. It’s very limiting but the infra does a lot for you.
People with substantial multiples of wealth largely do not buy the same class of assets that those with a fraction of theirs do.

Someone who earns $1000/month and someone who earns $10 million/month are not competing for the same housing. Their effect on each other is minimal compared to those with very similar incomes who are competing for the same housing.

The only exception to this would be if there isn't enough housing for everyone, but the outcome would be identical (someone not getting housing) regardless of the level of inequality.

The idea that poverty is inequality makes little sense. Poverty is lacking a basic standard of living. If everyone has everyone they could want and their neighbor discovers an antimatter reserve under them catapulting them to unheard of levels of wealth, nothing materially changes for everyone else.

Similarly if everyone has perfectly equal income and wealth and still doesn't have enough to eat, they're all in poverty, regardless of the lack of inequality.
I just tried it. It looks like OpenRCT2, but in a browser.
But shouldn't that bound be astronomical?
True. Perplexity does have am API.

What I would like would be to give it all the links, scraping the specific content I want, and then upload it to the database.

Good point!
Congrats on building Bearlytics!

I agree with you, it's weird most cloud analytics offer self-hosted versions, when that goes directly against their business model. In the best case, the self-hosted version can act as a lead magnet, attracting customers for the cloud offerring, but in that case, it's still in their best interested to not make the self-hosted version as good as the cloud one.
There is probably room for both. Planning to use a nix server as storage & DBs for my k8s cluster
Live in one of the handful of world class cites, 250k goes fast.
What does “healthier tire” mean and how will the taxman know which tire is healthier and which one is not?
I like the wildlife gates that you see in sections of Vancouver island. Although I did see a guy go through then unsuccessfully attempt to hold it open for his wife and baby.
https://www.munckhof.com/product/one-way-wildlife-gates/
Leaded gasoline was phased out in 1996.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/history-of-gaso...
See, that occurred to me, but the Units thing makes me think it is not as big as you would think.

Most of the English speaking world runs partly or fully on Metric.

...and there are many Australian YouTubers who talk about prices in US Dollars.

Once you notice this, it is hard to ignore the per capita disposable income argument. The disparity is wild when you run the numbers.
CT and IL are both high tax liability states with cold weather and not many attractive geographic features.
> It’s a minor chore

It's not just that. I generally avoid taking medications unless I need to (when prescribed), which so far in my life has been extremely rare. It may not be "harmful", but I don't want to put any chemicals in my body if I don't have to. Most medications come at some cost, in that besides doing what they are designed to do, they also interact with other cells or systems in ways that may not be desirable. Vaccines are no different in that respect.
Doubt it. They will just never leave their island compounds and other fortresses. There have been many news stories lately of these guys building up compounds and bunkers. Many of them off-shore and entirely unreachable by the general public.

Many of these CEO types never interact with the general public without many armed men around them. I would not expect them to act any more ethical than they currently are.
End of Hachette v. Internet Archive
Sure, a made-up name is better than no name, but a mnemonic, logical, understandable name is far preferable. Perhaps just more thought is needed.
I dunno carnival seems like an apt name for a deploy tool at some of my past jobs.
Yeah, that checks out. It's exactly the type of over-intellectualized rationale someone in a Democratic stronghold would come up with.

The left wing didn't aimlessly move left away from labor. Biden was dramatically more pro-labor ("New Dealy") than Obama. The right wing lost their fucking minds because we elected a black man. Trump himself is a one-man microcosm of this: loosely Dem-aligned until... Obama.

Spend some time with the GOP base. They're actually broadly racist, ranging from slightly (and ashamedly) to loudly and unabashedly. The left obviously also has various problems with race, so don't take this as some implicit categorical exoneration.
It’s not ideal because peak temperatures are in the late afternoon, when the sun is lower in the sky. And continues into early evening.
> Currently, run my own k8s cluster with 20 worker nodes (basically just VMs on a few computers).

Multiple worker VMs per physical host? Why?