skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm much more worried about literacy, frankly. Understanding numbers is quite important but this understanding doesn't mean much if you can't interpret their meaning in context.

I live in an extremely poor city and I would estimate about half the adults I interact with cannot read, write, or articulate anywhere near the level you'd expect from the high school I went to twenty years ago. And I believe the problem is getting much, much worse with the rise of youtube and the collapse of diction into a shared set of social-media memes—if you can't express yourself through those memes, you may not be able to communicate well at all.

Some portion of this can be written off to being a very attractive immigration target for those, like most, who don't speak english as their native language. I don't want to entirely write this off to a money/social/government/education problem—it's more complicated than any single narrative can convey. But I am firmly convinced we are looking at decades of literacy continuing to fall. If we can't figure out a way to collectively parent each other and resolve this, I can't imagine this is going to result in the kind of social and economic stability most people generally desire.
From my spoiled western perspective it seems surprisingly difficult to either just send him the money or have a laptop delivered to him. I wouldnt have guessed that upfront...
Thanks to F5Bot I saw this comment.

Thanks for sharing brother!
Durable supramolecular plastic is fully ocean-degradable
Well, if that's your attitude then I wish you all the luck with your project

I was also going to say $(git commit -a) is evil based on <https://github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-jobs/blob/main/data/datab...> but it seems that you just want an always changing binary blob to make your git repo grow without bound :-( https://github.com/nemanjam/hn-new-jobs/blob/main/.gitignore...
How does the routing model work under the hood? Is it based on reinforcement learning or traditional decision trees?
Hustle culture nonsense aside, I find using whisper (AI) transcription instead of typing to be super efficient.

My workflow involves setting up a whisper server, downloading the Whispering(1) app on my computer, and binding it to a shortcut on my keyboard and mouse. Whenever I want to write something down, I just hit the shortcut, dictate and it transcribes instantly. With a Nvidia GPU (1070 in my case), transcription is nearly instantaneous. Although I haven’t set it up on my MacBook yet, I suspect it will be just as fast with Apple Silicon

(1) https://github.com/braden-w/whispering/

You can also use an API like grok, but I'm generally wary of such services.

I'm a bit of an introvert, so I found talking out loud to be awkward at first. But now I can't go back to regular typing, given the efficiency gains.
> Hmm why?

In theory, theory and practice are the same.
100% agree. It is shitty and rude. Not to mention it does not even make sense.
AI Granny for Scammers
Annoying trust-fund kids never fail to impress us with their arrogant display of ignorance and their half-brained "genial" schemes.

We should tax inheritance more just to make our society less subject to the bad taste of this gross people.
The brunt of shtty civilization has been felt by most for a long time.

It has NEVER been easy.

Should the older gen have done more? MLK, JFK, Palme, TankMan, many others. Did their best.
And that’s even sillier considering the strictest parts of the US had much more lax regulations than much of the rest of the world.
> A control group (mean age (SD) = 29 (3.2) years, range 23–32 years) of 10 adults with no experience in flying was included, matched for age, gender, and educational level. Additionally, controls were also matched for handedness (9 right- and 1 left-handed in each group).

Controls should be matched for military service. There is a high probability of this altering the brain in ways unrelated to being a fighter pilot. In fact, military pilots who fly other types of aircraft might be ideal.
Roger that, my apologies Dan.
Where would a Redis vector store play a part though? Maybe you'd load up relevant embeddings for a particular user while they're interacting with their dataset, to make their responses quicker? You've already spent the effort on hydrating their data out of persistence though. I guess step one is likely being a more trusted alternative to the in-memory vector solutions like HNSW, Faiss, and a potentially faster engine than pg_vector. I've always seen Redis as an augmentation, but maybe in this role it can take the helm?
very much so!
What's the advantage of using Sapling as an alternative Git frontend?
IMHO the "real" Redis is not about licensing, but about design (as long as the license is acceptable, as I think it is in both cases). We will see.
Or CUDA code, as this will be somehow ironic given that LLMs inference engines and training are CUDA code in some way.
> Somewhat amused, the instructor pilot let it happen for a few seconds before asking me if I was OK and could see what was happening. It was a formative learning experience.

I think the formative learning experience is why the instructor let you drift for a while. Of course, plus 20 feet has a different impact on safety than minus 20 feet :P
Honestly working as a back-end Web dev is kind of a dream job just because you have these stack apps that are super fast, super stable and do exactly what they say they do. Nginx and PostgreSQL are typical examples, and I consider Redis one as well.
You seem to be hinting, by your choice of statistics, that gun violence in the USA is not the pressing social issue it is commonly made out to be. (We could speculate about the motivations why, but it is largely irrelevant.)

Since I disagree, I will offer my own statistic: the leading cause of death in the United States among children and adolescents is gunshot wound.
Haha nice false dichotomy.
I pay literally hundreds of dollars a month to various content creators (eg Ars Technica, several local news outlets, many creators on Patreon, YouTube Premium) so kindly bugger off with your moralizing, thanks. I want browsing the web to not suck, so I use the tools I need to do that. If they want me to stop using these tools, they can make browsing the web not suck without them.
How useful and at what computing cost? Genuine questions. Because from what I gather there are quite a number of "loops" to check for correctness of output, etc... that makes it expensive fast. Not talking about money, but compute.
I tried to use my own desktop machine to process some of these tasks. I can see my fans go jet mode when the scraping was being done lol. Do you have discord or any way to connect? Would love to chat around this topic. Feel free to drop any social media handles. I’ll ping you.
It seems like there was a drop across the board for the most part though.
Great AI revolution, amazing tool
Also, as soon as I opened the app and got into it one of my contacts began messaging me. I don't know why or how they did it, but I then deleted the app.
I know of a similar project but focused on medical rehabilitation. https://en.inrobics.com/
Whisper has a feature where you can provide it with a text prompt before it starts transcribing to clue it up to additional vocabulary that it may need to know.
There's still an element of truth in the idea that C is going to be faster by default. There's simply a much lower bar to writing fast (and unsafe) C. Fast Rust demands considerably more thoughtfulness from the programmer (at least for me).
I'd try it out if you allowed paying $50 for some credits instead of requiring subscription.

Even if that version is limited to only editing public Github repos. $500 to see how well it works is too much.
Somehow the universe knows how to organise the sand in an egg timer to form an orderly pile. Simulating that with a classical computer seems impossible - yet the universe "computes" the correct result in real time. It feels like there is a huge gap between what actually happens and what can be done with a computer (even a quantum one).
The Daily Mail once famously ran a front page story claiming something or other prevents cancer, while running a front page on the same day in the Irish edition claiming that same thing causes cancer. The only things they're more obsessed with is house prices and foreigners.

Here's a fun quiz: https://www.monkeon.co.uk/bigcquiz/
Think of all the numerous cases of wealthy people winding up in court because they were ratted on by their underlings over things far more minor than requesting they find a hit man, and ask yourself again why what you describe is both uncommon and a bad idea.

On the other hand, if you're wealthy and already a crime figure, working with and having work for you people who know you have organized crime contacts and resources, then yes, you could find "fixers" and assistants who would do just what you describe, probably for less money too.

They'd already be part of the same world and comfortable with requests like these while also knowing that you're not just some schmuck rich guy who can't really retaliate against them if they squeal or fuck up. Your anger over a mistake would have more weight.

Even then however, many lower-rung people in organized crime are also quite stupid and reckless, and think here too of the many wealthy criminals who also wind up in court because they were ratted on by their now protected, cooperating witness underlings.
> everyone in western Europe can have them, from the poor to the ultra-rich

> ...should explain his motivations.

Yes they can - however European medical systems do "ration" these in their own way, but via bureaucracy and waiting.

Reading his manifesto, a big part of his frustration is getting the runaround and misdiagnosis. Given this guys mental state, I'm not confident he'd be fine with European care either. They also were not poor from what I understand.
The change was introduced in Trump's tax cuts, so I doubt he will reverse it.
Hiring is a fun challenge because you:

- need to work with your upper management to get the best talent for what may be more money than they are willing to part with. You need to be great at negotiating to achieve this.

- need to find the right culture fit. Will the team want to spend 40+ hours a week with this new person? Do they have any personality conflicts?

- find a way to get the best talent without offending your team. Sometimes you have the option to hire someone whose skillset is radically better than what already exists on your team. Do you hire that person? Does your team handle it well? Does this mean the person who thought they would get a promotion in 18 months is going to slow their output because they assume that their future "slot" is now gone? How do you cope with that.

- balance the time between your "day job" and hiring a new person. I believe when you have an opportunity to hire, it needs to be one of your most critical AND urgent priorities because the impact is ultra-high and the effort is much lower than most long-term efforts (I once made the mistake of moving too slowly on a backfill caused by a lateral promotion, and I didn't see the cracks forming until we lost a 2nd engineer to burnout. We ended up running way too lean for way too long. Eventually we backfilled the two positions with two superior engineers, but it was a very tough time and I could have realistically replaced those positions much more rapidly and my team would have been better for it.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%E2%80%93gr...
Looking for comprehensive benchmarks with Devin vs Cursor + Claude 3.6 vs ChatGPT o1 Pro.

In my own experience using Cursor with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new) and o1-preview, Claude is sufficient for most things, but there are times when Claude gets stumped. Invariably that means I asked it to do too much. But sometimes, maybe 10-20% of the time, o1-preview is able to do what Claude couldn’t.

I haven’t signed up for o1 Pro because going from Cursor to copy/pasting from ChatGPT is a big DevX downgrade. But from what I’ve heard o1 Pro can solve harder coding problems that would stump Claude or o1-preview.

My solution is just to split the problem into smaller chunks that make it tractable for Claude. I assume this is what Devin’s doing. Or is Devin using custom models or an early version of the o1 (full or pro) API?
The price seems reasonable, but my main hesitation is on data storage + third party providers- there doesn't seem to be much available information on:

* will you store my code + train on workflows that Devin does for me?
* are you piping data to other third party providers (i.e. anthropic, openAI)?
Elixir 1.18.0.rc0: Type system improvements
The rehabilitation solution based on Social Robotics and AI
I can understand the symbolism here between the backpack of game money then.

I haven’t gotten all the details, but something like this makes sense. It was a personal vendetta from a person out of desperation/frustration.

I guess as more details come out we will know
The writer was just trying to come up with a cute, colorful phrase for "people who like flags", because writers like cute, colorful phrases. It's not A+ journalism, but I don't think it's offensive and it almost certainly wasn't meant to be offensive.
I'm building a better calorie/macro tracker called FitBee: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-counter/id64439...

Tracking my food has helped me get into much better shape but the leading apps in this space IMO are all quite clunky. I wanted to built something that was fast and lets you get on with your life.

A few stand out features:

- Nutrition label scanning if I don't have the food you're looking for
- Photo Logging for restaurant meals or complex meals you don't want to manually track
- It's light weight & fast
- Interactive widgets for things like water tracking.
this is because of Youtube and kids screen time.

Tablets/Phones/screen time disables cognitive abilities of kids and reduces them to dumb clicking machines.

Schools were doing pretty lousy job before proliferation of screens, and I have little hope they can do anything better. The recent dumbing down the math curriculum is just a last straw to keep students not failing on paper.

check movements like Wait Until 8th https://www.waituntil8th.org/ if you want to learn more
You'd be surprised at how many websites work just fine with JS disabled, at least in terms of providing the content you want. Menus/navigation might not work, and I wouldn't even attempt online shopping without JS, but enough websites still manage to display basic text and images without JS that it's a surprising annoyance when they fail to.

Sticking out like a sore thumb isn't a problem as long as you look like a different person's sore thumb to the next website.
all of the laws meant for terrorists are being applied to normal citizens at an astounding rate, things like border crossings and these unconstitutional laws like the patriot act have really undermined people's rights
> If my dev tooling was taken away, the saas products I depend on shut down, slack replaced by email, keyboard with phone, etc. would I eventually adapt to such a situation?

As others have noted, plenty of us have developed on computers where the display had merely 25 lines and 80 columns of characters, or less, and no Internet connection at all. Not intermittent connection, complete absence of connection. Exchanging data meant physically carrying disks, which contained as little as 360 kilobytes (or less).

That developer's phone is probably thousands of times more powerful than what we had back then, and has the luxury of a nearly permanent network connection to a huge amount of even more powerful computers. The only real limitation, other than arbitrary operating system restrictions, is the very small screen size and tiny keyboard size. Give that phone an external USB or Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and a way to connect to a television as an external monitor, and it becomes close enough to a desktop PC.
> Small frontend bugs and edge cases - tag Devin in Slack threads

And other points where it should shine. How does it compare to using Cursor? Is it the slack integration?
a helpful benchmark is that a typical frontend task is about 1-2 ACUs, but really depends on the complexity of the task
who is Kafka-ing : )
I guess it's individual. My wife flew F-18's for the Marine Corps and is chronically late for everything! So much for on time, on target.
Okay maybe not more watts, but the same power can be made more directional with a phased array or something I'd assume? (I am not an EE)

EDIT: Oh, I see. EIRP already accounts for directionality and is measured where the antenna gain is highest. Never mind then!
>There's no known reason for all the matter to be over here

The problem is there is no known reason for universe to exist. As such it could have been created in any configuration possible - including one where we observe matter, but antimatter is beyond event horizon.
Rply plays well with rpython, which makes it easy to build traditional parsers.

If you don't care about performance at all, I would just write your project in straight python. If you think you will, I'd still recommend tackling the learning and tooling curve of rpython (the hoops you jump through* can be worth ~64x in performance even before the JIT kicks in; basically CF et.al. have done a lot of grubbing around with codegen at the C level so you won't have to; you'll also get GC for free and a strong JIT nearly for free)

Does that give you a good idea of the basic tradeoff?

* basically writing python more as if it were a much less dynamic, but still OO, language — python with a strong java accent?

[come to think of it: on the telescope makers' theory that "It is faster to make a 4" mirror, then a 6" mirror, than to make a 6" mirror." maybe you should write a first interpreter in python, using ply to parse, and then — if you feel like chasing performance, rewrite in rpython/rply?]
Ditto. I would really love to know if theres a site where you could enter the ID of a company and tell me if SPIC really backs them up..
Ask HN: How to deal with requests for "high level" explanations?
How do you deal with the mental load from "just explain that high level to me" request from co-workers?

Most of my work, either in exec or specialist roles, is fairly complicated and needs context. I am disturbed when people expect to understand why it's taking the time it takes without any context at all. I have my way to explain simply, but it always feels awkward.

How do you deal with that problem, how does that make you feel?
There's probably a point where additional bike lanes are not helpful. But Toronto is very far from that point.

Car driving in the Netherlands is far superior to driving in Toronto. Once Toronto gets to the bike lane saturation that Dutch cities have, we might be close to reaching the point where more bike lanes make things worse rather than better.
Maybe it's a problem with my reading comprehension (or my web browser), but there seems to be no information about this open hardware - or really anything technical, other than the CPUs bus width and register count -, on your site or forum?
Persistent key-value database with network interface https://packages.debian.org/testing/database/valkey-server
This accurately boils down to "cannot reliably be binned as AI-generated". Your objection amounts to a vanishing few people who are informed that this is a test being able to do a pretty good job at it.

If 0.0005% of people who are specifically judging art as AI or not AI, in a test which presumably attracts people who would like to be able to do that thing, can do a 98% accurate job, and the average is around 60%: that isn't reliable.

If that doesn't work for you, I encourage you to take the test. Obviously since you've read the article there are some spoilers, but there's still plenty of chances to get it right or wrong. I think you'll discover that you, too, cannot do this reliably. Let us know what happens.
I don't know if it's perfect, but I have yet to meet anything better. I discovered it late in my 20-year technical writing career, and it felt like meeting an old friend for the first time.
Yes, but only because the people in control of the screen are paid to reduce the user to a dumb clicking machine.

Blaming the screen distracts from the fact that this is by design, and fixing it means rethinking the incentives of that designer.
I thought circleCI wasn't doing too well?
Why wouldn't it? Just give it a shell tool. (Something like claude.vim, perhaps.)
The concept is solid, but I’d love to see more transparency on costs when routing multiple LLMs. What do you think about Openrouter
My Journey to Almost Living Plastic-Free
I know there's no precise technical definition, but is text-to-speech considered "AI"? We've had this stuff since Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Does the same thing apply to every TV commercial? Are you robbing the producers if you go the bathroom? Or every ad sponsored newspaper or magazine?

I dunno, the website chose to monetize that way. Arguably we don't need so many low quality adspam sites on the web anyway and if most of them died, the signal to noise ratio would get better. Advertising and SEO is a scourge that doesn't need to be protected, IMO. Let them die...
Also the very rigid testing makes the rewrite a lot easier to validate.
I hope F5Bot is on this list. Been using for free for years. just works. Reached out a while back and owner is very responsive.
That doesn't make it a hoax just overhyped.
It's exactly that. Redis is an in-memory data structure server that you can outsource index-style operations to. Vector similarity is a type of index search. I think it's an exact fit for Redis.
> But local governments do not have a controlling stake and actual CapEx investments in those ventures in the US.

The impact is not very different as they grant billions in subsidies which they hope to recoup in tax revenues later. I don't see how this provides incentives that are significantly different except that there is no ownership, which is objectively a worse deal for the local government.

> If Tsinghua Unigroup goes belly-up again or can't meet it's targets as part of the reorg, the Anhui Province is on the hook, as they have the controlling stake in it after the cleanup.

Anhui Province will lose at most the ~5 billion it put into buying a stake of Unigroup. It will not be on hook for outstanding debts as far as I can tell, so I don't understand how this arrangement is any worse for Anhui than giving 5 billion in subsidies and tax credits as a US state would - for example Ohio provided an additional 2 billion in funding for the TSMC fab, NY around 10 billion, etc...

> Rewrite of history. YMTC was always a success as a BU, and that's why it was split off from Tsinghua Unigroup because the overall structure of Tsinghua Unigroup was inherently unstable and put Hubei's CapEx at risk as they gave the capital to Tsinghua Unigroup to create YMTC.

This doesn't change my point that the investment into Unigroup directly led to YMTC which is a massive success. I'm not saying that Unigroup is responsible for YMTC's success, I'm saying that investments into Unigroup - in this case including Hubei's investment - had good outcomes even if Unigroup as an entity failed.
This is a read!
fork of redis https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey just before the transition to their new source available licenses
ps: here's an oopsla paper https://www.subtext-lang.org/OOPSLA07.pdf (go to page 13 and further for screenshots)

from: https://www.subtext-lang.org/ (video here: https://vimeo.com/140738254)
Thanks to this comment, I was finally able to comprehend what "brokerage" actually means. Thanks.
I have that too -- not a jet pilot, but a hobby musician.