skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your basis for saying this? Waymo actually serves rides and has a safety record. If you work in robotics you know that eval is everything -- what's Tesla's L4 driving record? It doesn't even have one, so how can you possibly compare?

L2 driving record vs L4 driving record are insanely different. You can't fall asleep in an L2 car without risking death. You can fall asleep in an L4 car.
IDK what you're talking about. Clearly you haven't read:
The Giver
Divergent
The Maze Runner

And all other sci-fi young-adult distopian novels where they clearly determine what 4th graders will be for the rest of their lives based on genetics. There are also some movies (practically documentaries, really) of the same books.
My feelings initially was frustration but after some time I lean more towards the general comments here, where its better to remove something that miss-represented the "action" of the request.

I have never noticed any kind of acknowledgement from any website I've visited in years with Firefox and this option on.

I want to do something to help signal "No thank you, I don't want this" messaging so the "harms user agency" feels relevant but if its not respected on the other end whats the point.
Sure. But regardless there are several such interfaces, each at least in theory making independent decisions. So it makes no sense to speak of an "update" to the emoji as if it were anything centralized, or when that would happen.

The article seems to cover this, but the question isn't well posed and I would have thought it better to address that more head-on in the article.
I responded to the right comment. Take care!
Okay.

I mean, yeah, if you want 90% of your relaxation time for the rest of your life to be while you're fishing, that's fine.

For the businessman to assume otherwise is not outlandish. The idea of an entire fleet is overblown, but having "fuck you money" is a pretty nice goal.

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Also I don't see how this applies to meteorologists? Which part is the "working more" aspect?
Microsoft Ships Urgent Patch for Exploited Windows CLFS Zero-Day
Advertisements have helped finance the web for decades. AI could be no different.

What type of advertisers would want to advertise next to an AI chat window? How often would ads show? Would the users still enjoy using the platform if you showed enough ads to offset the cost of running the service?

Lot of questions that all boil down to "it depends." None of the big players want to dilute their product with ads (yet). But I definitely think some will be willing.
A Bionic Leg Controlled by the Brain
https://archive.ph/WrhqK
It's not out of scope, because this is not a binary data format.

Saying "I intended to make a defctive thing doesn't" doesn't change the fact that it's defective.

A car without windshield wipers is defective, or at best inexcusably limited. Saying "I only designed it to use in the sun" doesn't make it suddenly perfectly useful.

If you want to try to say that json was actually intended to only be used in special conditions like an exotic car with no roof, then it's fair for everyone else to say "Ok, well that intentional design is a crap design of limited use. People actually need a car WITH windshield wipers."

The simple fact that it's a text format invalidates all the attemped arguments that it's just a machine to machine data format never intended for humans to mess with. People aren't "holding it wrong".
Marc Andreessen on business, politics, and tech [video]
This is a wide ranging interview, hard to summarize, it covers a lot of ground, but it moves fast and Marc Andreessen drops a lot of interesting facts from his perspective, like Biden admin planned complete govt control of AI.

It's more about the overlap between tech, business, and national politics/policy than it is about any one of those things.
I'm curious to see how this plays out when it comes to deploying and maintaining production-grade apps. I know relatively little about infrastructure and DevOps, but that's the stuff that actually always seems complicated when it goes from going to MVP to production. This question feels particularly important if we're expecting PMs and designers to be primary users.

That said, I'm super excited about this space and love seeing smart folks putting energy into this. Even if it's still a bit aspirational, I think the idea of cutting down time spent debugging and refactoring and putting more power in the hands of less technical folks is awesome.
Other cofounder of Hyperbrowser here - thanks for the feedback, and noted!

We aim to be pretty competitive on price across the board. Today we're just launching our headless browser service and I think we're significantly less expensive than competitors on that as dbmikus mentioned below

Totally hear you on the scraping specific use case without captcha solving etc though - we'll probably launch competitive pricing for this specific use case in the next few days. I'll make a note to leave a comment here when we do or feel free to email me at shri@hyperbrowser.ai and I can follow-up there :)
As is her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/depthsofwikipedia
Not as fast as /dev/null
And starting with "based on".

Definitely LLM slop. Shameless.
Ah, yeah that is misleading. Let me clarify.

The landing page is what I built over the winter break, including those first 7 lessons. Since then that page has remained largely unchanged.

However, when it started getting a lot of traffic I added a pre-order form for a full course. THAT took me 6 months to code up all the additional lessons. Building all the interactive pieces (drum synths for rhythm lessons, an ear training game for intervals, a virtual guitar, etc.) was really fun but a lot of work. For example, the interactive guitar uses samples I recorded note-by-note from my acoustic guitar in my bedroom. Afterwards I couldn't look at it for months. And then over the years I've added more.

So not quite an overnight success.

Thank you for the kind words though!
Documented in Harvard professor Louis Fieser's autobiographical The Scientific Method: A Personal Account of Unusual Projects in War and in Peace

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_scienti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fieser
I think there are two important factors here that the author overlooked:

- the vast, vast majority of end users will get their software from a package manager, and for something as relatively feature stable (for what the vast majority of people use it for) as redis/clones, there's a good chance it's coming from a distro repo. Practically no one is installing it by building from source. The licence change means it won't be (at least new versions) in those distro repos any more, but the direct fork and spiritual successor (valkey) likely will be, and in some cases valkey will likely take over the redis name in those repos.

- this isn't the first time Redis the company has pulled this kind of trick, and I think it's foolish to believe the community is going to hang around and wait for the next time they say "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further"
China is far more ahead than Waymo in terms of passenger-miles
PISA scores as per a commenter above:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
I’m amazed Antirez didn’t fork Redis and start fresh like Monty did MySQL. AWS, Azure and GC would be thrilled to support his work on an OSS fork. After 9 years surely any contractual constraints have expired? Maybe a sense of moral obligation? Or perhaps Redis Inc recruited him to prevent exactly this?

Either way we all very much appreciate the work you have done. Redis has been a game changer for many of us running small businesses on tiny budgets.
Ah yes, the "Idiocracy was/is a documentary" take.

That's a strong claim. Do you have sources to back up that claim?
It reminds me of a concept of “micro-district” from ussr. Everything that people need should be accessible by walking. Obviously list of things needed decided by government.
from the comments:

>It is indeed, as you say, purely a racket, as is - let's be honest - the whole industry. Not even the Ferengi could some up with something more extractive. If the Ferengi were real, the American musical performace rights system would be in their textbooks, I swear.

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(If anything, I feel like I'm being a little unfair to the Ferengi.)
Can you imagine? Send us a number, we send you the factors. And a bill. With lots of zeroes
Nonvolatile electrochemical memory at 600°C by composition phase separation
While there are certainly specific districts and schools where this is a problem, this effect would not be remotely significant compared to the overall US population. There just aren’t that many new immigrants, regardless of whatever sources you’re reading say.
The probability of even a Hydrogen atom popping into existence is astronomically low, but the point is that one could. And if one can, then many can, and on and on. The point is that it's not impossible, just improbable. But by definition of one did pop into existence, it's a stable state and would therefore not just simply vanish after forming.
I prob use it 100 times per hour in Cursor AI... if not more.
Allowing payroll companies to pull money back is a design choice, not an immutable fact of nature, as is pretending to clear instantly. Other choices are possible. (Obviously not crypto nonsense; RTGS settling in <3 days is boring, mainstream bank plumbing in many countries. You know this)
> obviously

It's not obvious to me. Care to elaborate?

The only one that strikes me as "obviously" different is the Nobel prize that isn't really a Nobel prize, the one for economics.
On the contrary, I would expect teaching to a standardized test to yield better results in the evaluation of a standardized test like the one mentioned here...

Maybe this wasn't the standardized test we were teaching for though?
If you have both an interpreter and compiler, then boostrapping the (self hosted) language is a lot simpler. The interpreter is written in some widely available language like C. The interpreter runs the compiler and standard library code of your language in order to compile that compiler and standard library. After that, those parts execute as native machine code or byte code (with or without JIT).

Without the interpreter, you have to ship the compiled versions of those parts, even to someone building your language from scratch. Or perhaps ship an entire prebuilt package of the language.

An interpreter creates a third opinion on what code should do, resulting in a documentation-interpreter-compiler triangle, where in a situation in which it is unclear what the right behavior is, weight can be given to the situation that two out of those three pieces agree.

Optimized versus unoptimized isn't exactly the same, because there is a dependency. If unoptimized translation has a certain behavior, and optimization doesn't wreck it (prevalent case), then of course the two are going to agree. Their agreement doesn't carry weight against documentation. An interpreter and compiler are almost totally independent, except for where they get the code to share run-time support and library functions.
Their buying/test drive experience is top tier IMO but I know multiple people who waited literally 4+ months to get undrivable cars repaired. Those experiences were mostly pre-2023 so maybe it's better now
The community rallied around a community fork with an open source licence instead of a VC funded startup with a penchant for changing licences.
A computational approach to the N-back task
I built thatsexquiz.com - a quiz for couples to improve their intimacy. Changed the pricing model and went from $5 to $50 per day
Really, you are arguing that I get to kill 1645 in the UK before I have to show any scientifically rigorous evidence? I get to do 1645 drives and kill the passenger every time before anybody cares?

That is not only insane, but empirically false in the USA as people cared very greatly about Cruise injuring people during the development process.

You have to be answering the question: “Assuming we already know for a fact that the technology is safer than a human driver, then, if scaled to all drives, how many can die annually and still be morally justifiable?”

My question is: “How many do I get to kill before I need to figure out if I am killing fewer people?” That is the basic question to be asked during the development process of any unproven dangerous technology to minimize sacrifices to technological dead ends.
AFAIK, the main issue of the GPL family of licenses is that they are rather poorly drafted. The GNU project has great evangelists but ideological-minded people make bad lawyers. Their licenses are long winded and hard to interpret, and often make assumptions about unsettled bits of copyright law. Their legal theories (eg. "GPL is not a contract") have been rejected by courts.

In short, if you're a company wanting to use some AGPL-like license, you'd probably want to use a license that's better drafted over the original AGPL.
So how do you stop this from happening?

The OP pointed out a highly informative and important point and the majority of the negative responses to it have been from people who want to bash the American education system.

They are using cries of racism and bringing in irrelevant topics like IQ intentionally so that they can shut down legitimate conversation because they want to continue to bash the American education system.
possible context... summoning from NY to LA around January 2018 was a real promise by Musk.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920

edit: removed talk of downvotes, just providing the tweet.
It sounds weird to emphasize “rust and SQLite”, where the first one is a language and second is an application. Anyway, SQLite is C.
It's not that clear cut. Leaders have known and written for millennia on how tenuous their grasp is.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles#Sword_of_Damocles
Devin Is Actually Good?
Seems like Devin is actually way better than expected.

Been watching Twitter demos and startups using devin effectively to ship more code faster. It's like Cursor x Greptile. Devin reviews your code and makes changes that it sees fit, and can help your dev team do tedious work faster.

I can see lots of startups using devin now in tandem with existing AI code gen tools to be more of a dev assistant rather than replacing the engineer entirely.

We're still a ways away from AGI, but devin actually is turning out to be a step in the right direction in terms of code gen.

My only gripe is the hefty $500 a month starting fee to use it. I hope they drop a free version/ or at least a free trial for more people to have access in the future.

What are your thoughts?
> conversational casual chitchat : "open source" includes "public domain"

No. What are you talking about? They are not related... other than for people virtually completely new to, well, open source.

You are also completely confused, here, too:

> Yes, the SQLite home page does say "public domain". However, when people interview SQLite create, Richard Hipp, he himself calls it "open source". He also doesn't correct others when they also call it "open source".

They are different things. A project can be both; a person can talk about these two aspects of one project.
Just a cog, is your defense of him.
The implication is that "producing a Nobel prize" is not reliably all that impressive.
Sounds like a problem for the rich to fix. Good luck!
Do you have risk loss / fraud issues?
I've yet to be banned by cloudflare but they will sometimes harass me with challenges that require JS to run.

Usually that's just an annoyance, but I often have to investigate questionable and outright malicious websites for work and some of them have started to use cloudflare so that you're forced to allow JS for the evil domain just to get past cloudflare's checks before you can even see the harmful website which then wants to use JS against you. Cloudflare is an affront to the philosophy of the internet and a menace.
also would like to hear thoughts from people that have actually been using it
Microwave: Open the door before the final beep
Interesting and useless, it's really great!
We’re fucked, why do anything? Just ride it out. If you had kids that’s your problem to deliver the bad news.
There is a driver behind steering wheel all the time. It is not a self driving vehicle.
IIRC Bitcoin is quantum-safe because SHA-256 is quantum-safe.
How insightful could this possibly be if socioeconomic variables are not controlled for? Clearly the socioeconomic makeup of "US Asians" is not the same as, say, the entire population of Korean students.

Also, "US Asians" is a silly grouping..
Not having a free trial is odd, but $500 is worth it if it works. It only needs to save 10 dev-hours/month to be worth it.

Greptile is free to try FWIW.
thanks for the context, shitposting is hard to detect!
> The author opens with examples where it happened to him. He shows that debanking is disturbingly common in America

As another post said, it's interesting how he's able to have that experience and simultaneously believe that "This will affect the typical user of the financial system precisely zero times during their lives." (But I don't think he does have the "right" political beliefs, not all of them).
I'm not up to speed on the area of autonomous driving at all. Does anyone know if Tesla is basing its next moves off just what the cameras see at the current moment that gets fed into the model? Or is there also a "mapped" component, where it looks up previously mapped information from other Teslas that have traversed this area before? That is what I understand Waymo and GM Supercruise do at least some of the time. There are only certain pre-mapped routes that Supercruise will work on.

https://electrek.co/2024/02/15/gm-nearly-doubles-map-super-c...
> when the data indicates people are better off today

And what "data" would that be?

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-genera...

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/wha...

https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy...

And what "purpose" are people looking forward to?

> Also, the planet is warming, but it's not on fire. Total exaggeration.

What does that even mean? It's not literally burning, so it's fine? Because you say so?
Doing its own PR's as well. This model is now marketing itself.
Yeah, it's a really tough sell.
> It correlates extremely closely with objective measures like percentage of genetic ancestry from a given continent

It doesn’t make this clustering less arbitrary.

> I’ll happily use different term like “ancestral group” if you like it more

I do not care what term do you use for it as long as I do not see any scientific argument for having it. Politics and whatever activism have nothing to do with it.
I've worked on and run [link redacted] and the related subreddit and forum for 15+ years.

I've generally done everything alone as an exercise in scaling utility for others with constrained time on my part.

Have used AI heavily in the last few years, which has been the greatest force multiplier of my career for sure: scraping, evaluating, summarizing, organizing, indexing, moderating, writing, ... I've coded so much alopecia related tech at this point it could probably be patented.

I can recommend giving yourselves big, sprawling projects like this and working on it a few hours every weekend. It adds up!
I've often wondered if his emphasis on how private equity was ruining WordPress was him telegraphing his frustration with his own investors at Black Rock while technically abiding by his contract with them. It's interesting to consider that his performance could have been a type of malicious compliance with their demands—going so far overboard that he intentionally destroys the whole ecosystem as a kind of revenge.

It's probably more likely he just went nuts, but it's fun as a head canon.
Write a few dozens chat gpt powered books, and during your next interview you might say: "actually I wrote a book on xxxx, you can buy it on Amazon"
Here's the handwritten one that was found on him.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
Is there some way to normalize the amount spent on education per student with the need per student? NYC is also the most expensive place to live in the US, so conceivably the amount spent per student doesn't go as far towards their educational outcome. Baltimore is very poor, so conceivably the gap between the amount spent per student and the need per student is still high. Wealthy suburbs in Washington DC might already have so much support per student that their education system would do fine spending even less per student.

Or I suppose in other words: do education spending numbers actually cover what it takes to provide good educational outcomes? And if not, and we wanted to specifically improve education outcomes, could increased education spending still do that by offsetting other deficits? In more concrete terms: if we did something like give schools way more money could they pay for more things like after school tutoring and recreational opportunities to improve educational outcomes that might be happening in places like wealthy suburbs of Washington DC but not as much in Baltimore?
How Electrical and Calcium Signaling Work as One to Regulate Blood Flow
It turns out that if you cluster people together by their genetic information, the clusters that form are pretty similar to the racial groupings that ordinary Americans would understand. See this chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_clustering#/medi...

The 4 clusters in the K=4 column are pretty much just Black vs White vs (east) Asian vs Amerindian
Pretty sure everyone except Matt saw that one coming
Got you, I did not mean to be argumentative, only to explain why Holos is what it is.
Thank you!

Over the years I have run a few A/B tests on the landing page. I tried some variations I thought MUST improve the conversion rate. However, this one, which is basically the original one, is still the best performer.

If it ain't broke.
No, Matt is just a classic CEO exhibiting symptoms of narcissist personality disorder who's now getting served in court and doesn't realise how much he earned it.
Maybe the school could stess the importance of performance on outcomes for their future as a group (like remediation in future lesson plans and so on)
I think this trend is going to get worse and we haven't hit bottom.

But the bounce from bottom may be we seek out actual journalists and a new (again) market emerges for human generated, quality content. And I hope this starts at the local level. We need "local papers".
But that's not true. Dorner's manifesto, Breivik's manifesto, the Charleston shooter's manifesto are all broadly available, I believe through mainstream media. Heck, there's a purported review this guy posted on goodreads for the Unabomber's manifesto floating around.
> the educational system being geared towards these groups

What does that mean?
Datasets tend to be really rough proxies of product goals. Initial spec is "feature smiling faces", so a "smiling/no-smiling" dataset is built. But over the next year you really realize people can be "smiling but ugly smiling", "neutral faced but pleasant" and a bunch more. There are bugs you need to fix (false positive/negatives), and lots of tweaks to the goals. Any design nuance is lost in the chain: explain product concept to data science team, who writes a spec for data collectors, who collect samples, DS makes a model, eng integrates, and then folks (finally) try it in product.

QA files one off bugs, but not in a way that impacts datasets/training. Someone needs to analyze them in bulk and make calls about which areas to care about (which is slow and expensive).

However, if the time to data is tiny, you can iterate more like software. New model drops often (with fast evals). Subjective feedback can become synth data quickly, the issue fixed, and results evaluated.

Your product looks a bit more like analysis pipelines for new problems? I'm more looking at zero-shot quality and performance.