skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i went with desktop, but I also like home screen, and I think I probably use these terms interchangeably

This might be best to have be configurable, so that I can pick what a family member already knows

Some people have previously used a computer professionally and know what a desktop is, so for them it's fine to use the word (my dad would be one of those). Others have more smartphone experience and I think I use the words home screen (my mom I think) and start screen (my grandma). It's like you mention a word and see how they react to it: do they get what concept you're referring to from the word's components? Do they repeat it back to you later, did it stick, or do they at least understand it the next time you say it? When you ask "what screen do you get when you turn the device on", what word do they use? I base my wording on things like that, so it's not just region- or family-specific but even person-specific, in my experience
This is also known as the Door-in-the-face technique[1] in social psychology.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
I love it when AI bros quantify AI's helpfulness like this
Emergency surgery that probably would have invariably killed me since the organ was already gangrenous.

It got called "medically unnecessary" because apparently the person processing the claim couldn't read the fact that the organ was already dead and stopped at the line "stomach pain".

I had SIRS/sepsis right after that, it was fun.
So the part that would actually benefit from the 192 cores would just be the lzip, right?
Many things are not other things.

In this case, Disney Inc is staffed by people who care deeply about the Disney legacy. You’ll be hard pressed to find a single employee who was not awe-struck walking the halls on the first day.
The longer the context the more backtracking it needs to do. It gets exponentially more expensive. You can increase it a little, but not enough to solve the problem.

Instead you need to chunk your data and store it in a vector database so you can do semantic search and include only the bits that are most relevant in the context.

LLM is a cool tool. You need to build around it. OpenAI should start shipping these other components so people can build their solutions and make their money selling shovels.

Instead they want end user to pay them to use the LLM without any custom tooling around. I don't think that's a winning strategy.
I think you’ve entirely missed the point of that quote.

Shutting them down for using the word “smart” (instead of something like “capable”) is like saying in 1900 submarines will never be able to swim across the Atlantic because they can’t swim. It’s really missing the point of the question: the submerged crossing.
sold. Ill buy it, thx for review.

Edit> Its good. Thanks again for ur review.
No jail for anyone of importance as usual.
Journalism is not only about writing. It is about sources, talking to people, being on the ground, connecting dots, asking the right questions. Journalists can certainly benefit from AI and good journalists will have jobs for a long time still.
Is there a person on HackerNews that doesn’t understand this by now? We all collectively get it and accept it, LLMs are gigantic probability machines or something.

That’s not what people are arguing.

The point is, if given access to the mechanisms to do disastrous thing X, it will do it.

No one thinks that it can think in the human sense. Or that it feels.

Extreme example to make the point: if we created an API to launch nukes. Are yoh certain that something it interprets (tokenizes, whatever) is not going to convince it to utilize the API 2 times out of 100?

If we put an exploitable (documented, unpatched 0 day bug bug) safe guard in its way. Are you trusting that ME or YOU couldn’t talk it into attempting to access that document to exploit the bug, bypass the safeguard and access the API?

Again, no one thinks that it’s actually thinking. But today as I happily gave Claude write access to my GitHub account I realized how just one command misinterpreted command could go completely wrong without the appropriate measures.

Do I think Claude is sentient and thinking about how to destroy my repos? No.
The problem is that OpenAI don't really have the enterprise market at all. Their APIs are closer in that many companies are using them to power features in other software, primarily Microsoft, but they're not the ones providing end user value to enterprises with APIs.

As for ChatGPT, it's a consumer tool, not an enterprise tool. It's not really integrated into an enterprises' existing toolset, it's not integrated into their authentication, it's not integrated into their internal permissions model, the IT department can't enforce any policies on how it's used. In almost all ways it doesn't look like enterprise IT.
One thing I’d heard before buying my first home was to use your own people, not those recommended by your realtor. Oh boy was that good advice that I didn’t follow. The incentives in home buying are wacky, given the realtor wants your future business but also wants to get you into a property quickly so they can get to the next contract. Knowing those incentives, using their network for finance and inspection and their judgement alone for home selection can be a risk.
The home inspection is really important, and (in my state) their contracts limit liability to their fee amount. Having an inspector miss something important can cost you tens of thousands. Related, each state may have their own defect disclosure laws also limiting the sellers liability; combined with a faulty inspection, this can extra-screw you.
Also note that nobody besides the inspector is incentivized to stop you from buying a home, their scope is limited to major defects. No one will tell you that the neighbors are shitty, play loud music all night or have barking dogs all day, or that the 15 year old windows will allow you to hear those noises at all times and half of them dont even open. Research the neighborhood, and go there physically. Is there a rental with ten cars and 20 trash cans next door? Vermin. Does your neighbor have a rooster? Alarm clock. Read the municipality regulations to see if there’s anything offensive to you (like a rooster lol). Find out the types of homeowners on your street, so if you are raising kids you’ll know if they’ll have playmates, or if your an old fart you won’t have to listen to bouncing basketballs.
Have fun!
delve?

Did ChatGPT write this comment for you?
Right, I should have put a "necessarily" in there.
Really glad they delayed the release to (hopefully) solve the parallel suspense issue. Haven’t tried it yet but high hopes, and great release overall.
It's impossible to do business in Africa without bribing people, all these laws do is put Western companies at a tremendous disadvantage compared to Chinese ones.
It's mostly a challenge I set for myself to see how far I could get using SQL! I've done the past couple years in Python and just wanted to change it up.

So far parsing the inputs has not been nearly as much of a hassle as I thought. I really like how DuckDB supports directly selecting from files (e.g. `select * from 'file.csv'`). I thought I was going to be spending more time creating schemas, running `copy`, etc.

Overall pretty nice quality of life experience so far, even if it is only to mess around with a few puzzles.
Haskell, apparently has hundreds of millions of lines that GPT was trained on
> Shareholders are no more responsible for the misdeeds of management than voters are for the misdeeds of politicians, after all.

That's BS. Big shareholders can get seats on the board of directors and have influence over management decision-making.

Jail time for shareholders is probably going too far in most circumstances, but forfeiture of shares is pretty reasonable.
They do an exceptionally poor job at evaluating it against competitors.
My firm's advertised billing rate for my time is $175/hour as a Sr Software Engineer. I take home ~$80/hour, accounting for benefits and time off. If I freelanced I could presumably charge my firm's rate, or even more.

This is in a mid-COL city in the US, not a coastal tier 1 city with prime software talent that could charge even more.
It didn’t take long to think of some healthier options, which I’ll share here in case others think the same:

- copy the m&m design (though I don’t like m&m’s)

- do the same thing with beef jerky/trail mix/hummus/steak/treats like that

- do the same thing, but use a good restaurant/coffee shop/board game/friend/TV show/hot tub/other experience
Because they can't do long context windows. That's the only explanation. What you can do with a 1m token context window is quite a substantial improvement, particularly as you said for enterprise usage.
Yes and Anthropic, Google, Amazon are also facing commoditization pressure from open-source
No single pane of glass is a deal-breaker for me, sorry.
That reminds me of the many times it has made up an SDK function that matches my question. "how do you bulk delete files"? "just call bulkDeleteFiles()"
Replacement doesn't happen only if the demand for their services scales proportional to the productivity improvements, which is true sometimes but not always true, and is less likely to be true if the productivity improvements are very large.
Have you considered RAG instead of using the entire document? It's more complex but would at least allow you to query the document with your API of choice.
Yep, obligatory Postgres Is Enough listicle:

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...
> A great solution to disincentivize all investment into capital markets

While I agree with your argument here, that opening line really raises questions.

Do we want "capital markets" at all if they're structured in a way that incentivizes risking innocent people's lives to reward the market participants with increased profits, without any equivalently existential consequences when that risk goes bad and hundreds of people die as the next Boeing airliner ploughs a hole in the ground?

Something's deeply wrong with how things work now, and capitalism is looking awfully like the root cause.
The question is, whether you couldn't have saved those same 1.25 hours by using a $20 per month model.
because it's too real.
(most of the time, at least)
Some devs point at Svelte and say, “not many libraries, it can’t be very good!” What they don’t realize is it doesn’t need a cottage industry of tiny adapter libraries, JS stuff works fine.
> I’m pretty sure it’s a cool feature but, what a mouthful. Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start?

Easy: By not using that optional feature.

If you’re like 99% of developers you really don’t need stuff like that until your app reaches a certain stage of growth, if ever - and React doesn’t force it on you.
Simonw estimates it'd cost less than $10 to categorize 67k+ photos using Amazon Nova: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/amazon-nova/#gamoa

I agree it'll still be cool to be able to do it all locally.
So I am talking about allowing users to bring their own keys.
Business model like Typemind.
https://archive.ph/6pF35

"Mr. Huang, 61, is not only an engineering genius and Silicon Valley icon whose company, the world’s second-most valuable, makes the chips that power much artificial intelligence. He is also the beneficiary of a series of tax dodges that will enable him to pass on much of his fortune tax free, according to securities and tax filings reviewed by The New York Times."
Maybe? Disenfranchise him, and see how all of the good he does for his community is consumed by the energy he puts into not being the second-class citizen that you've designated him as. We're bound to the success of our weakest links because they affect our lives beyond the arenas where they're weak. In our subject's case, he's ass at voting, but society gets more out of him than just that one ill-conceived moment.
More than that, one of the standard practices in development is writing code with imaginary APIs that are convenient at the point of use, and then reconciling the ideal with the real - which often does involve adding the imaginary missing functions or parameters to the real API.
I always feel so weird to actually use chatgpt without any major issues while so many people keep on claiming how awful it is;

People around here feel seriously threatened by ML models. It makes no sense, but then, neither does defending the Luddites, and people around here do that, too.
Yeah, as I said above I don't disagree. The ecosystem has lots of issues but React gets all the hate, unfairly in my opinion. It's a pretty well maintained piece of software.
There is even a “List of April Fools' Day RFCs” article on wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_f...
I've been concatenating my source code of ~3300 lines and 123979 bytes(so likely < 128K context window) into the chat to get better answers. Uploading files is hopeless in the web interface.
Under which law could Boeing be fined $30T (an amount which greatly exceeds their enterprise value)? Please to provide a specific US Code citation.
Good to see that the search for a table top synchrotron has finally yielded fruit as this could pave the way for cheaper research as lots of experiments require high brightness hard x-rays.

Going back I had the opportunity to take two tours of the NSLS at Brookhaven Labs when it was still in operation. I was a bit intrigued by the idea of synchrotron radiation and was wondering if this could be scaled down to a small room sized machine or table top. Indeed - there were attempts but non that were successful at that point - likely around 2008 - 2010.
Rain falls at 9m/s, so in a second you'd almost completely fill that space with 900 liters. For the immediate area around you, imagine an olympic pool of water falling roughly every second.
I wonder if building a local version of this which resolves dependency paths of the file your currently working on to a certain level so the LLM gains more context of related files instead of just the whole repo (which could be insane if you use a monorepo)
This is like selling your Honda Civic out of anger because they launched a new NSX
I read that post and it was so relatable.

Some projects at work suffer some a similar quirk - the last 10%-20% of the work remaining on the project takes longer than the rate at which the first 80% of the project is completed.

It's like the leftover bits that aren't as exciting or engaging (bug fixes, documentation, little tweaks) always end up making that work feel like a chore rather than a joy.

Years ago a colleague coined a term for their ideal way of working - Mood Driven Development - they worked on what they wanted to work on.

It feels like it has a similar trait to creative work such as art or writing or music - you let the creative block have its moment, then when that passes and the creative juices start to flow, that's the moment to do the work, but if you achieve flow state then it ceases to be work, it's just natural.
Couldn't one say the same thing about using any framework that provides capabilities that otherwise would have to be learned?
This article didn't tell me much about how the machine works. Further searching showed that it is a compact x-ray source that works on the principle of inverse Compton scattering:

https://indico.jacow.org/event/44/contributions/440/

A tunable, tabletop, Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) hard X-ray source is being designed and built at Eindhoven University of Technology as part of a European Interreg program between The Netherlands and Belgium. This compact X-ray source will bridge the gap between conventional lab sources and synchrotrons: The X-ray photon energy will be generated between 1 and 100 keV with a brilliance typically a few orders of magnitude above the best available lab sources.

In the ICS process photons from a laser pulse bounce off a relativistic electron bunch, turning them into X-ray photons through the relativistic Doppler effect.

There's a presentation slide deck here with more details:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1088510/contributions/4577523/a...
Ellis island could easily be converted into luxury condos. You could serve finance bros in NYC and New Jersey!
My definition that I came up with college was that adults had full spice racks in their kitchens. I had recently gotten into cooking and was annoyed that it didn't really make sense to buy spices that I would have to throw away at the end of the school year. (I lived out of my suitcase, so space was at a premium).

I am now very happy with my full spice rack.
Well one key difference is that Google and Amazon are cloud operators, they will still benefit from selling the compute that open source models run on.
Well... Lawyers already got slapped for filings straight from ai output. So not new territory as far as that's concerned :)
Looks like the new tech here is a "traveling wave RF photogun" used to accelerate the electrons.

Here's a preprint from 2020 by the researchers that I'm assuming describes their tech:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00270

(Edit: Removed speculation that the system architecture was that of a free-electron laser. Presentation shared by philipkglass indicates it's something different.)
I totally get this feeling. What helps me sometimes is recognising that both working on something and not working on it are valid choices, as long as it's coming from your reasoning. It’s a freeing thought because it means the choice is really mine, not just inertia or guilt.

Compare that to professional life, where so many times we get stuck in death marches, feeling like we can’t say no to projects that have already lost any change to reach their full goal. With side projects, at least we have the control to decide if it’s worth it or not.

Something I’ve started doing that's a very good exercise is brainstorming my project ideas with ChatGPT. I’ll treat it like a project manager, spill all my thoughts, talk through adding features and finding ways to make the idea bigger. If it still feels exciting after that, I’ll dive in. Even if I don’t, it’s like letting intrusive thoughts come and go during a meditation session, afterwards regardless of the outcome I feel I can clear my head and just move on.
People who value their peace of mind or long term safety might.

Reckless, impulsive, emotionally empty people won't be deterred at all
The Rivian factory will be in Morgan County, GA. It went >70% Rep. in the 2024 election.
So you’ve got feelings and guilt by association. And I’ve got a year of using ChatGPT, which has saved tens to hundreds of hours of tedious work.

Forgive me for not finding your argument persuasive.
The judges could give them such large fines to force them into bankrupcy. Alex Jones was fined 1.1 billion dollars. How much should Boeing be fined for causing actual deaths?
You will inadvertently reinvent the browser inside a browser but worse.
Presumably it's a spin off of Google's 'Model Card' from a few years back https://modelcards.withgoogle.com/about
Well, this explains why I haven't developed type 2 diabetes, my dark chocolate addiction!
This is just a weird attempt at being edgy about capitalism.

A new subculture either grows or dies, if it grows people start making money off of it and it gets diluted by the popularity into something more beige and palatable. It isn't about capitalism it's just when you add more people, they take it less seriously and hardcore becomes bland.
Anything that can be loaded as a stylesheet or a script tag works great with htmx. These are not htmx-branded libraries... because they're just web libraries.
Show HN: I built a news aggregator for British Columbia
Brian Regan had a good one on that[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBko_3wT44Q
You could try that, but I think 99% of SaaS owners would rather have 10 monthly subscriptions than 100 lifetime key owners. There isn't a huge incentive to split out your product into it's constituent parts when you can market the whole thing and charge full price. This doesn't just extend to AI, most API-based interfaces don't offer you a choice between your provider.
> Instead you need to chunk your data and store it in a vector database so you can do semantic search and include only the bits that are most relevant in the context.

Isn't that kind of what Anthropic is offering with projects? Where you can upload information and PDF files and stuff which are then always available in the chat?
> Maybe i should go up to random strangers and PAY THEM in order to give them something that would benefit them

It is pretty normal to compensate people for their time in my limited experience (both as subject and from what I hear about user testing). Usually it's a pretty small amount, not like a normal salary but a bit more than a cup of coffee for maybe 30-45 minutes of their time (assuming they don't have to travel to you in addition). They are helping you create a commercial product, it is not weird to do something in return, although I understand also what you're saying about how they might benefit from it themselves

Perhaps you could do a small amount, say (the equivalent cost of) a good cup of coffee, plus a free copy of the course so they can use it themselves and show some others? That spreads the word in addition to them feeling compensated

I'm not a marketing expert though, just going off of what I hear and experienced from other companies
tables with layout wasn't really an issue of purity, but they were another layer of the cruft you described where we were abusing things not built to actually do that.

grid and flexbox are probably closer to actually being a one-stop easy-to-use paradigm with less nasty edge cases than tables, but all the table code stuff is still there if you really want to do it.

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> I don't think it is hard to argue that the biggest reason that browsers have had the success and development that they have had, is the privilege that we have given port 80 in the world.

I actually think this is orthogonal. The power of frameworks like React is that nobody wants to write the same app five times (windows/mac/linux/ios/android) using sometimes wildly different native coding paradigms, and coordinating feature development across native platforms is like herding cats.
The problem is the elites also have ownership in the prison industry and control of the government.
300+ cases is quite a few when you consider that many will not be reported.
No it doesn't and no one else does so you're going to be really confusing in conversations.
Eight ounces by weight or by volume? /s
He has a point though
> Especially on HN, people would rather believe that "the system is rigged against the brilliant individual" rather than "the individual can often be the problem".

Slightly off topic question, but is this Silicon-Randian projection really particularly widespread on HN by and large or only for specific subset of topics?
maybe stop wrecking people's lives?
Distrosea – Test drive Linux distros online
For me, at least, it's common knowledge "delve" is overused and I would include it in a mock reply.
There is some value in that they can ignore whatever dumb red tape exists at your company.

Also politically harder for middle managers to just ignore what the expensive consultants are suggesting
Are you willing to hazard a guess how long it will take to get material analyzed to determine which of your categories this is in?
I don't know if I'd call it a mistake... I'm pretty sure the phrase "socialized healthcare" was deliberately selected to help try to demonize the idea, supporting the insurance industry lobbying.
> The good news is that these cables are expensive, with prices starting at $119.99 for the most basic version. So, you don’t have to be worried about someone spreading this malicious hardware to provide widespread chaos among the public at large.

That's pretty damn cheap as far as hardware-enabled exploits go, and it looks like the keylogger-enabled "Elite" version is just $199.99. If the basic one is limited to spoofed keyboard and mouse inputs, I'm temted to order one just to mess around with people...