skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it blows me when I use chatgpt

New beta program?
In 2016 they absolutely pretended that the economy was very bad, and then suddenly it was very good in February 2017.
That is not, in fact, what insurance is.
> the ones that have managed to take advantage of the massive financialization of the world

This group is further split into two kinds of people: Those who had an opportunity to take advantage of the massive financialization of the world, and those who weren't afforded that opportunity.
Lidars perform very well in the rain [1].

[1] https://ouster.com/insights/blog/lidar-vs-camera-comparison-...
We have uber drivers complaining about too many people driving for uber in my area, so I don't think waymo would be welcome. We still have people who are unemployed or underemployed, for whatever reason, and automation pushes have huge resistance (e.g. dock workers in America don't want automation to hit ports like they have in China).
lol the idea isn't to make money off transit, it's to save money on roads

roads cost more than transit - a LOT more, and motorists aren't paying anywhere near the cost of road construction and maintenance, they're (quite literally) free-riding subsidized trips on the taxpayer

traffic also destroys productivity, public health, life expectancy etc etc so costs money in many more ways than motorists not paying for them
I think I'd pay a premium to ensure the company I'm dealing with is not run by private equity. Is there a way to see that as a common citizen in the US?
I didn't go to Johannesburg because my friend had gotten car jacked the week before. In my 4 months in cape town I was the only member of my friend group that didn't get mugged (most with guns).

But Clifton and Camps Bay were super nice. One late night I made a sandwich for the security guard my friend's neighborhood had to hire to stand outside with a kalashankof at night, he was grateful.

Compare that to other more poor African nations, there isn't 1/1000 the tension in the air as there is in SA. The reason for that is the extreme difference in wealth tied to racial tensions.
How big data created the modern dairy cow
> Four cities across 3 states

This is actually a scale up to five cities across four states:

> ...which already provides over 150,000 trips per week across Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin

Which of course only adds to your point!
Yeah, I dunno if the team understands just how crazy Miami driving is. Maybe they'll restrict it to Downtown, Miami Beach, the Grove, etc to limit the chaos?
Or call it a trit, avoid the juvenile joke, and respect decades of computer science history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_numeral_system
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I'm pretty sure birth rate is universally seen as a second order thing rather than a first order thing.
Why use China? I’d rather be poor in the US than rich in DRC, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, eritrea, Somalia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Haiti, etc etc

Using the second largest economy which has many mega cities you can tour on Google earth and plenty of millionaires and billionaires isn’t really the right comparison. Like using Japan or Germany.
Looking at it from the inside as a black American, I 100% agree with you. My experience as a black person in the US has been wildly different from someone who grew up in the 'hood or someone living with his nephew in Bel Air :-)

But yet, we're all mushed into the same category and expected to think alike and have the same ambitions. It's frustrating, but there's not a whole lot that I can do about it other than engage with people using my own perspective.
You are exactly right. Look at how you’re getting downvoted.

It’s so disappointing that this so-called tech community is so deranged because of their hatred of Musk so much that they’re not willing to look at the facts.

If it was any other company doing what Tesla is doing with their self driving, the comments here would be completely different.
I think this is so far off-base you aren’t even close, there is an uncountable amount of indie (or even well respected established studios) working on passion projects or working on respected titles in reasonable and relaxed working conditions. You need to recognize the occasional headline you read isn’t ever the standard and you shouldn’t stereotype it.
If you go this route consider this extra hack. Caffeine acts as a direct reinforcer. You can buy caffeinated chocolates and dispense those. This will augment the power of the treat.
It all reduces to liquidity in both ends, no matter if they are stable coins (crypto), a foreign currency (fiat) or gold (real-asset). In Costa Rica (or elsewhere!) you will surely also have issues/high-fees with foreign currencies that are not in the top. If the liquidity problem is bot solved then find another way.
There are people who find jobs that require very little work, and its probably easier to find these jobs in offices. It works very well with technical work that management do not understand, and where output is difficult measure. its possible that people on HN might know of some jobs that fit this…

There are extreme cases, such as people dying and no one realising that their work is not being done, and that is rare, but a certain amount of slacking off, spending time of social media, etc. is not at all uncommon.
> what being an adult really means is that most of your time is taken up by an ever-growing list of compulsory maintenance tasks that constitute the meager amount of contol you exert over your own life

Truer words have never been said. It's absurd how much bureaucracy adults have to engage with just to exist.
There’s also the question of how other drivers handle the rain. And I have to imagine it’s nontrivial to, on a test range alone, permute the full range of different surfaces’ handling characteristics under different precipitation conditions.

I wonder whether, like many human drivers, Waymos might be wont to pull over and wait out the short-but-extreme Miami squalls.
>Absolutely true - but because games are time consuming to make you have to anticipate what will make money in 2-6 years.

Or, hear me out, you can choose to stop chasing fads that might get outdated in 2-6 years, and actually make something original or make something tried and tested that's low-risk on a small budget.

Gamers are simple people with simple wishes, they just want to have some fun, some escapism for a few hours, and they'll give you money for it. Sony's Astro bot is a clone of Mario64 but it works.

Chasing fads is the laziest thing you can do, because it's easy to present to management/investors.
He’ll head the Department of Health and Human Services soon, little use debating what his position is here when we will see it play out soon.

I do recommend you read his book, https://lfpl.overdrive.com/media/6093658, it seems you are of the misconception that a paper being retracted is a statement that it is false. In reality, it’s a statement that state officials (sponsored by big pharma) have threatened the livelihood of the author and/or publisher. It’s extortion, not science.
> Something that is a good store of value should not be volatile

If it mostly goes up, it's still a good store of value, even if the volatility is high.

So far it outperformed every fiat currency on the planet.
Most Americans don't understand that Miami is full of expats from the caribbean and latin america, some of whom may be here illegally, and so can't get a driver's license. They also may have grown up in places where they didn't get a drivers license or learn the rules. So they literally aren't supposed to be driving and never learned how. Because they can't legally drive a car, they buy a beater second-hand for cash, and it's never inspected, and of course falls apart and causes accidents. Add to that the crime in general, and yeah, insurance is $$$$$, and lots of crazy driving. (It's a minority of people, but enough that it creates more extreme outlier events than in most states)

Not to mention The Ticket Clinic, a private service to pay a small fee to get out of traffic court. I probably had 10 different traffic violations thrown out, for $80 a pop, when I grew up there in the 00's.
Ha as a layman I'd probably say EEG to that too, how can eyes reliably show the state of the entire brain? But I guess it's standard practice.

Should be more interesting if everything related to "diagnosing brain death" from several textbooks is retrieved and thrown into the context, I would imagine it might even get it right.

I've found its thought process really interesting while throwing it at fairly meaningless stuff like code optimization or drawing conclusions from unstructured data and its size and slowness coupled with the way it works is really a problem. Maybe you can try it with Qwen-2.5-1.5B as a draft predictor to speed it up, but I think that'll have limited gains on a Mac.
Theres literally 0 difference
Nothing against gitingest.com, but this is really peak of technology. Having LLMs which require feeding them info with copy&paste, peak of effectivity too. OMFG.
Not trying to make assumptions, but it appears he is trying to lean into the "greed is good" line of thinking where vices are actually spun to be virtues. Not only does it allow you to avoid empathy for your fellow man, it allows you to excuse your own excesses as necessary (or even good)
I also wonder how much the USD's role as the reserve currency plays into this. If I build a home for 1 MM USD today which used to cost 150k USD in 2008 - this looks like economic growth, despite the home largely being the same between the two periods.

Certain categories of the CPI have experienced extreme inflation over the last 16 years, this gets reflected in the wages of the economically mobile and in turn raises the GDP - however we don't really price housing into the CPI in a sensible manner, and due to USD dominated trade - imports and products which compete with imports don't inflate.

The discrepancy between PPP and nominal (USD) GDP seem to be telling a story.
In my own experience, I'm the oldest of five and was very much pushed to go to college in a family where my dad, his brothers, and one of my brothers are carpenters. Another of my brothers is a manual machinist. On this side of things, there is a continuous stream of "I can't imagine sitting at a desk all day and dealing with those sorts of people." (because office people are wimps and having less than a yelling, swearing disagreement is unthinkable)

On the other side of things, because I still do a lot of that sort of "trade work" to help out friends since it's my background, I get a lot of "how do you know how to do all this, aren't you glad you went to school and don't have to do this every day, have you tried to convince your family to go back to school?" (and of course, the republicans are bad / dumb undertones, even present in the linked article)
On the other hand, they certainly have a much better vehicle utilization than the other ride-app companies. They cars are cooperating in covering an area, not competing for the rides there.
There's definitely been fixes in the last half decade to make SQL Server a little more boring, but there's plenty of defaults that were simple foot guns.

Full recovery mode defaults combined with log growth settings, query parallelism costs, maintenance and backup solutions being offhanded to Ola, etc - many of those things are fixed but things like parameter sniffing are still absolutely causing pages going off for someone today.
I'm building a liquid democracy. The cool thing is that we won't bother applying it to "democracy" first — the killer app will actually be to computer your news feed, in a way that you control through your social network, rather than an AI.

Here's a prototype of it: https://peeryview.org. Check out the /about page. It's like Reddit or HN, but instead if having a single "moderator" with monopoly power over a set of "voters" with one vote each; you weight everyone's vote for your unique feed. And they weight a second layer of people's votes, etc.

We call this network a Web-of-Opinions, or a WoO. The Woo is subjective. It's soft. It's social. It determines your attention (in the news feed).

As it grows, it creates a new game-resistant reputation system, aka a "Liquid Democracy", that can be used for many things: like a Proof of Personhood, or an actual Democracy.

We just announced a protocol draft last week at https://braid.org/meeting-99. If you're interested, please give feedback here, in the braid group, or write me directly at toomim@gmail. This is the time!
You're exactly right about the seed of ignorance.

I wish there was a good term for it like we have "fundamental attribution error" for that other pernicious cognitive fallacy.

The core mistake is that believing that all we know about something is equivalent to all there is to know about something. So if you don't know anything about welding, you assume it must be brain-dead simple because your knowledge of it is so tiny. If you don't know anything about engineering, you assume it's just pushing buttons.

It's not just about people's jobs, either. It shows up everywhere once you start looking for it.
> Remedy has a few projects in the barrel, and if those hit it big they will probably be fine

It's hard for me to gauge whether this is normal for modern game studios or they're desperately hanging on by their fingernails. But the disparity between you saying "no one bought it" and it being the company's fastest-selling game makes me suspicious of everything. Either way, times have changed since my only interaction with Remedy, the original Max Payne :D
I'm guessing not, since you need to exchange it in both countries. As I understand it the article is comparing "sending USD directly to another countries bank account" to "sending stablecoin to another wallet", so it completely skips any inconvenience and fees associated with getting USD in and out of the stablecoin.
Source? I've never heard low volume expectations of the Cybertruck in 2019 or before, from Tesla or Elon or anyone else. Maybe retrospectively Musk lied and made it a test bed.
Yes, both only legal because of their offshore status.

Mainstream adoption seems farther away due to this recent price spike. The money is attracting the wrong people, as it usually does.
they can, they just malinvest in roads that only increase traffic and make things worse and cost even more

instead of transit which saves money
Their hefty pricetag bumps them solidly into exciting territory.
Ugh, don’t remind me of the lost decade or so during which the local taxi lobby captured the regulators and prevented the entry of Uber. It wasn’t until the provincial government was about to be blown away anyhow that they cashed in their chips in a few ridings where the majority of cab owners live…

I have no doubt that BC may be a nice place to live for a variety of reasons, but it will be the last place to have autonomous vehicles.
I can't wait until AI plateaus and stops scaling horizontally across GPUs. Then the idea of agents will finally go away. AI cannot reason and to think otherwise is asinine.
https://archive.is/qqf05
The LLM approach to math is to memorize the answer to every math problem found on the internet.

The result may be the appearance of "intelligence" to some casual observers --- but the reality is far from it.
We currently lack comprehensive metrics to effectively capture critical factors that normal people consider when asked “is economy doing well”. Here’s what we need:

Home Rent Affordability: Analyzing affordability by profession and location to reflect real-world dynamics.

Home Price Affordability: Assessing how accessible homeownership is across regions.

Education Costs: Understanding the burden of education expenses on families.

School Quality: Measuring the actual quality of education available.

Healthcare Cost Affordability: Evaluating access to essential healthcare without financial strain.

Drug crisis.

Crime.

Vacations and similar things.

Developing such metrics would provide a more accurate picture of economic well-being and social equity.
Can you propose a more appropriate one? I can’t think of one that is still headline length.
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State by state but the same most places. Even if the law would let you are you going to raise a family in your 350 sq studio?
But what did you do next?
Launch HN: I am Jake Sully, and I know how to fix dating.
Hugging Face's blog post on the release is more technical: https://huggingface.co/blog/paligemma2
Usually but it's not entirely clear cut. The <dialog> element is native but you have to use JavaScript to open it in the modal state. Before the popover attribute, you couldn't open it at all without JavaScript.

There are also native, vanilla JavaScript methods for things like form validation that I would consider distinct from a library that doesn't use the browser's internal validation tooling at all.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/remote-work-here-stay-mostly...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/jul/12/workin...

https://www.hrotoday.com/news/only-5-of-employees-prefer-wor...

https://www.population.fyi/p/singapores-fertility-crisis-cou...

https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/11/27/are-remote-workers-mor...

The whole remote vs in office in somewhat a tired argument, so lets move a level up to power structures: old folks in power, both government and corporate. ~2M people in the US 55+ die every year, ~5k per day. ~4M people turn 18. ~4.1M Boomers are retiring per year, ~11k per day. This demographic transition is the opportunity to move the zeitgeist around social interaction to improve outcomes for the human at scale (imho). Like bankruptcy, change happens slowly, and then all of a sudden.

Work must get done, but re-evaluating what work looks like in the service of the human (because why are we even living if it is just to work) should be a priority if loneliness is killing us (and more time at work is not the solution imho). It's just a job, you are just a replaceable cog, most people just need a check, and coworkers are not your friends (in most cases). Collectivism is coming together as a community, not for a meaningless job and org.

(n=1, I structured my life so I can take only remote jobs, so I can be close geographically to the people who matter to me, enrich my life, and I want to spend time with, but this does not scale [or rather, we should figure out how to make it scale: https://paulgraham.com/ds.html])
I go to the gym regularly but I probably should put something like this contraption between me and my family size bag of peanut M&Ms.
To be fair, that’s not required to yield extremely strong public health outcomes, as evidenced by the extremely strong public health outcomes we saw in reality.

(If you’re about to go on some statistically illiterate sidebar about how the COVID vaccines weren’t actually that effective, you can save your breath)
Sure, that makes sense. Additionally, whether something is misleading had as much to do with the person reading it as the person writing it.
Bit weird to show $ per 1M tokens and not include the actual costs of the systems anywhere.

It would be interesting to know the outright prices for those systems as well as their hourly rental rates at the moment.
I’ve attending 1,000’s of arraignments, motion calendars and pleas.

In all my experience I’ve seen 2 pro se defendants pull the “I’m a sovereign” spiel. Credit to them they both turned what should have been a 5 minute hearing into at least 15 minute circuses refusing to even announce their names for the record. Both were threatened with being held in contempt before the Judges passed on their cases and made them wait to hear the other matters on the docket.

Truly fascinating & unusual events and people, I think if you draw a vin diagram mental illness and Dunning-Kruger Effect these folks would be the overlap.
If I understand correctly, this sounds like https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt/.

It's quite useful, with some filtering options (hidden files, gitignore, extensions) and support for Claude-style tags.
It is not what insurance should be, but it is in practice what private health insurance is.
Imagine if it were 10%, though. During the time it took for a droplet to fall 1 metre, you’d have 10cm of water on the floor.

I reckon it’d feel quite heavy.
I have seen more long winded IM exchanges becoming long winded emails exchange where more and more people fail to understand each other that should have been a quick call than the reverse.

A call gives you a lot more contextual clue than text. A lot.
Games aren't addictive because you can see under a girl's skirt, as that gets old pretty quick. They're addictive because they're fun to play. The waifus are to draw players interest.
Show HN: Sourcetable – "Cursor for Spreadsheets"
Hi HN! I’m Eoin, founder of Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com).

Sourcetable is a web-based spreadsheet that lets users pair with AI to do better, faster work. If you spend a lot of time in spreadsheets doing fairly repetitive grunt work, there's a good chance Sourcetable can massively increase your productivity so you can spend your time on more interesting things.

There are two ways people primarily interact with AI inside Sourcetable: the sidebar (CMD + \), which is great for document or range-based analysis, and the command bar (CMD + K), which is handy for cell-based operations. This is because spreadsheets have inline workflows and meta workflows, somewhat similar to Cursor's text editor UX.

The fastest way to use the product is to upload an XLSX or CSV file and start asking questions.

Sourcetable's AI is helpful with workflows including data cleaning, formula assist, chart generation, research, analysis, language translation, data transforms, thinking through problem solving, error handling, etc. If you can ask an AI to do it, it might just work!

The best way to get value from the Sourcetable is to remember that you are pairing with very helpful LLMs, but not (yet) an all-powerful AI. It doesn't do _everything_ for you, but it will make curious people more productive.

One thing the HN crowd might find interesting is that we have put a lot of work in making sure answers are hallucination free wherever possible. We do this by having the LLM write code which our backend validates and executes. If you're using the AI chatbot for analysis, open the code editor and have a look!

I'm constantly surprised by the breadth of users and use cases. We have seen soil scientists, virtual assistants & EAs, MBA students, criminologists, oil refineries, telemarketers, astrologers, sales ops folk... etc, using the product. Considering we set out to build Sourcetable for operations folk, it has been a pleasant surprise to see just how useful and broadly applicable an AI native spreadsheet can be to society.

On the technical side, Llama 3.1 (via Groq) and Claude 3.5 are the work horses. LiteLLM handles load balancing to work within RPM & TPM constraints, and OpenAI models are the backup. Our spreadsheet is DuckDB based which has big speed advantages for regular spreadsheet & data work, and also for keeping our AI agents fast.

Finally, Sourcetable is free for students (freemium for everyone else), just sign up using your student email. If you have product feedback, we would love to hear from you: eoin@sourcetable.com
Is it so hard for you to respond with empathy instead of scorn?

I've also done both and each can leave me profoundly exhausted in very different ways. Neither flavor of exhaustion is worse than the other, just different.
Money is ultimately a 'claim check on society', in Buffet's words. Unspent, uninvested money is a deferred claim. Why should the value of a deferred claim go up, if you haven't invested it in some productive use? Why should you be able to defer a claim in perpetuity, and expect to exchange it for exactly the same amount of goods and services at any point in the future?
In this age of AI, I’m missing a database with a focus on AI, e.g, something like a vector database, or maybe something even better…