skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I keep bumping into the fact that using mentally cheap signals of quality (such as stars or DL counts) almost never indicates the quality of the thing itself.

I find that docs are typically a really good proxy for quality. Solid docs with clear expression of intent (design, usage, features) is usually a good sign.

Astro.js, VueUse, Quasar (it's ugly, but amazing).
Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware
> Is there some expectation that these things won't improve?

Sure. But the expectation is quantitative improvement - qualitative improvement has not happened, and is unlikely to happen without major research breakthroughs.

LLMs are useful. They still need a lot of supervision & hand holding, and they'll continue to for a long while

And no, it's not "ego speaking". It's long experience. There is fundamentally no reason to believe LLMs will take a leap to "works reliably in subtle circumstances, and will elicit requirements as necessary". (Sure, if you think SWE work is typing keys and make some code, any code, appear, then LLM are a threat)
Pineapple echoes the tomato structure as well. It's quite genius but requires being misunderstood by most (which maybe is Mullenweg's point lol).
I'm reminded of a high school programming class where a project partner named variables with the most crude and lewd words he could imagine. Not that I was prudish, but he unsurprisingly never remembered what "butts" was for and somehow never figured out why he kept getting confused by his own code.
> I just don't believe liability as a result of the new bill is the reason.

It seems like OP is commenting on this thread; you can accuse them of lying directly, if you'd like.
You Depend on Time, This Is How It Works and You Won't Believe It [video]
Careful not to shout too loud about it or they’ll start training for it!

Latest Claude does a suspiciously good job…
https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...

It's a long article but includes a pretty good descriptive definition of fascist movements. (search "taxonomy" to skip to the definition)

He spends some time on the specific issue that no single instance of fascism, even the original italian model, explicitly manifests every single point of the definition. And some of them show up prominently in systems that it doesn't really make sense to call fascist. So every government has some of these elements to different degrees, the point where they have "enough" of them "strongly enough" to be considered fascism is kind of a judgement call.

But that doesn't mean the individual points aren't concrete or can't be evaluated straightforwardly into a working definition. Some of the things that differentiate contemporary fascism from "mere" dictatorship are:

- attachment to an idealized syncretic national history
- machismo and contempt for the weak
- positioning in opposition to an "enemy" that is so powerful it justifies immediate pervasive violent action but is also somehow degenerate and weak
So you're in a pathological organization in the sense of the Westrum typology, and somehow proud of it.
Hello World – Enterprise Edition (2015)
https://twitter.com/andykonwinski/status/1867015050403385674

https://kprize.ai/
(2015) Page title: Shooting Down Drones
How could I see if someone else is lying down when my eyes are closed?
> This is a typical tech echo chamber. There is a significant number of people who make direct purchases through ads.

Even if its not, TV ads, newspaper ads, magazine ads, billboards, etc... get exactly 0 clickthrus, and yet, people still bought (and continue to buy) them. Why do we act like impressions are hunky-dory for every other medium, but worthless for web ads?
It's not a mystery - NFC features are cool but contactless payments are valuable. Nothing that could possibly interfere with that will be tolerated.
Context is indeed what narrows the meaning of a word with various or broad meanings.
I think the term “system programming” is not sharply defined. I consider e.g. torch and CUDA more towards it as it requires knowledge and understanding of hardware and resources and they are rather providing an interface for the next layer of developers. Is pthreads or openmp written by system programmers or application programmers?

PDFs are if I’m not mistake not turing complete, they omitted those PS features from the standard for various reasons, so you probably can’t write anything reasonable in “PDF” (unless you use embedded JS etc)
For sheer ease of eating, pineapple rates poorly. I am not a street vendor who can carve up a pineapple in ten seconds, and I am always dismayed at how much is discarded when I am done carving it.
I was advising this MBA student's nascent startup (with the idea I might technical cofound once they're graduating), and they asked about whether LLMs would help.

So I listed some ways that LLMs practically would and wouldn't fit into the workflow of the service they doing. And related it to a bunch of other stuff, including how to make the most of the precious customer real-world access they'd have, and generating a success in the narrow time window they have, and the special obligations of that application domain niche.

Later, I mentally replayed the conversation in my head (as I do), and realized they were actually probably asking about using an LLM to generate the startup's prototype/MVP for the software they imagined.

And also, "generating the prototype" is maybe the only value that an MBA student had been told a "technical" person could provide at this point. :)

That interpretation of the LLM question didn't even occur to me when I was responding. I could've easily whipped up the generic Web CRUD any developer could do and the bespoke scrape-y/protocol-y integrations that fewer developers could do, both to a correctness level necessarily higher than the norm (which was required by this particular application domain). In the moment, it didn't occur to me that anyone would think an LLM would help at all, rather than just be an unnecessary big pile of risk for the startup, and potential disaster in the application domain.
It's a very jaded view, but I think I agree in the general sense.

In 2008, Facebook was hailed as a tool of democracy, since it was leveraged by Obama's campaign. We heard glowing stories about how the internet (and Facebook in particular) was giving a voice to the voiceless. This was a new dawn in democracy!

And now that Facebook is leveraged by conservatives, it's now considered a harbinger of everything bad in the world. Yet, the Trump movement is just as much a campaign of the disenfranchised as Obamas (probably more so). People were angry for decades and no one cared what they thought.

I try to not make divisive comments on HN unless necessary, but I think I have to say this.

My feeling is that the left wing were actually correct about the internet being a tool of democracy. It functions very well at free speech and connecting groups. But they misattribute their blame.

Their problem is not tech per se, nor even big tech. It's that tech have people a voice. They just didn't like what the people had to say.
Home Assistant itself falls into category 2, with some integrations/utilities in category 1. The amount of stuff it pulls from the mothership and GitHub is crazy. I wish it were local-only by default.
I believe this is actually one of the strongest arguments for the simulation hypothesis. If simulated worlds are possible then there are almost certainly more simulated worlds than non-simulated worlds (of which there can only be one) so therefore the odds of existing in a simulated variety are never less than half and likely much higher or else simulated worlds cannot exist with enough fidelity to remain undetected.
It's ironic given the amount of effort that was invested in writing that post with absolutely zero effort put into making it readable.
They literally didn't have a Lunh check digit? Like, 1960s math? My gobs are smacked.
John Walker built a virtual machine for the Babbage's instruction set, and it has a web emulator: https://fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html.

I don't think Ada program is available as an example though, so you'll need to input it manually.

Fun fact: my compiler course project was creating a C compiler targeting the emulator https://github.com/Christopher-Chianelli/ccpa (warning, said code is terrible).
Given that Guile is unstable and full of rough edges on Unix and nearly unusable on Windows, I don't see that taking place any time soon. Even if they improve stability, the Emacs C VM (which is rock solid) is much more performant so they'd still need to climb that hill. And for what benefit? The ability to script Emacs in Javascript and Scheme? No thanks.

Advice to Robin: Find something else to spend your time on because this isn't going anywhere.
I'm finding similar results. I used to just write everything myself when a need arose, but in trying to better spend my time I find myself checking what's out there. And inevitably I'll find something that will claim to do exactly what I need.

From there, I find two problems rather often. One, it doesn't actually do what it claims. Googling is fruitless because I must have been the first one to actually try it. Gotta love Googling an error and finding exactly one result - the source code. I sometimes open a bug report depending on how the project seems, and that gets anything from deaf ears to "oh thanks, we'll fix it in the April release" which is of little use to me now.

The other is something you touched on briefly, that the API or contract changes in unexpected ways over time. You can stave this off for a little while by pinning, but then you're missing out on bug fixes and new features. Which, especially for a middleware type thing, is usually a death sentence by bitrot.
This is pretty much the only option for a person to have any sort of ownership... at least in the US where co-ops and the like are extremely rare w/ little legal help.
You would be the best one to evaluate if this applies in your case but in many cases where my users say "it's not possible" I end up finding a gap that's more related to usability than technical. I often still find there's something worth learning from this kind of feedback even if it's "wrong".
the point is that pineapple on pizza is just as polarizing as beans in chili.

based on the polarizing nature pretty much implies that some people will nonsensical beliefs supporting which ever side they are on when viewed by a neutral but especially when viewed from opposing side.
I imagine the argument here is: FDP wants lower energy prices enough to horse trade with Greens for new conservation designations. That kind of thing.
Trustees for small charities can be personally liable for unlimited amounts.

GDPR, Safeguarding, liability for the building you operate in, money laundering. there are lots of laws you are liable for.
> How can you trust something like this

You could mistrust it since it is based on an uncorrected hallucinating technology, but use it either in contexts in which it is either very difficult to hallucinate, or just to return link to sources containing the sought information - as a search engine.

> how do I get it to return documents

Ask it to provide the link to said document, in literal natural language terms - "provide a link to document D123" -, and it will provide the link in a concise NL sentence as the direct output, plus related links in the "references" section.
This article is 90% a generic rant against big tech, and 10% actually answering the question in its title. The only parts where it actually mentions democracy are:

1. Some libertarians tech founders do not believe liberty and democracy are compatible.

2. Spyware and facial recognition being described as anti-democratic (but I think this is more anti-liberty instead?).

3. Generally, too much wealth and power which might undermine democracy. True, but not specific to tech, other than that they're "big" right now.

4. General advocacy for democratic systems to regulate tech. This is not controversial at all, besides maybe the most extreme libertarians.

The concluding paragraph is just about "maybe tech is not the solution" and "maybe stability is better than progress" (conservatism?) which is, as you can see, not related to democracy at all. It's just general anti-tech talking points, which is fine, but the article's not supposed to be about that.

I don't think there's much new insights in this article to be found. In fact, if you also believe that facial recognition CCTVs are more anti-liberty than anti-democracy, then point 1 and point 2 actually contradict (the author would be accidentally agreeing with the tech founders).
Of course they are scratching their own itch, so to speak. Thats what companies do. I think the fact that they are doing so much in the open is the indication of good stewardship itself. I'm not sure what else they would do or release that they didn't need internally. For that matter, I'm not really aware of many significant contributions to FLOSS at all that aren't initially intended for company use, that's kinda how it works. Where I'm surprised here is how much secret sauce Turso is sharing at all.
The Life and Death of Honor
> "However, the authors argue that KV doesn’t suit all problem domains. Mapping table-like data into a KV model leads to poor developer experience and (de)serialization costs. SQL would be much better, and SQLite being embedded solves this—it can be directly embedded in the serverless runtime."

The levels people will go to to so that they can use SQL never ceases to astound me.
The fact that you don’t agree with the choice doesn’t mean that consumers didn’t make one.

If they were unfit for purpose, they would have been returned.

Most people don’t care about being spied on.
I don't want to give things away, but we know Nick gets taken by the bad guys. I'm not sure what visually confirming that would do. Regardless, imo, the point of the movie isn't really to factually confirm those various issues, but how rattled Bill is from it all. If you read the article they place on the screen twice, it's filled with these double words and sentences, all clearly referential to elements of the film. I used to think it was Kubrick "trying to tell us something" but these days I take them more as Bill's incoherent approach to the world around him as he's on day 3 of his bender, i.e. the words and phrases are doubled up because he can't see straight anymore, his dreams are blending into his life (just as his life blended into his dreams).
Upstreaming code taking months is not exactly unexpected. Having seen it from the other side (legal sign-off alone can be a nightmare), I wasn't expecting it overnight. ARMs lack of standardisation is a major pain but that's a multi-vendor issue. At least Qualcomm is actually engaging the Linux community. Something that works, even delayed, is better than years of community reverse engineering efforts with no guarantee of fully working.
Argentine rodents are Dubai oasis' newest residents
If I had to guess, it would be gravity sensors that render submarines obsolete.

Can't hide mass.
We should have a discussion and debate about it. The point is, IF people decide that it IS dangerous, then there is no mechanism to stop it.
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Asahi not running on latest Air yet?
Personal anecdote but at least for me WiFi devices are significantly more reliable and there exists good brands that don't have any vendor lockdown, such as Shelly or Sonoff. Others can do Tasmota. So you shouldn't go around discarding it just because it's wifi. I live in a concrete and metal house. My WiFi coverage is spotless with several APs around the house.

Can't really do that with ZigBee. Almost all of my zigbee devices just fail to connect every other day. Z-wave offers that mesh network promise but man is it out of reach in the price range.

WiFi is everywhere/in every house, I seriously think more vendors should offer devices that just integrate into it instead of trying to build this bespoke network on the same band. Specially since 2.4GHz is going into disuse more and more as people switch to 5GHz for phones/pcs/etc..
A lot of people care that the country is governed well and lives within its means.

To me it's obvious that some of those people may be billionaires.

I also find it weird when people assume billionaires only care about getting more money. They are the people who can care least about money!
If it were only about the rules, you are correct. If it’s about the politics, you might be correct on a long enough time scale, but it’s irrelevant in the short to medium term. Right now we’re in a holding pattern on the cloture rules because of promises of tick for tack escalation between both parties. It’s not as if one party is going to loosen them for themselves for one session of Congress and be able to reasonably expect that they will be tightened up to their benefit by their opponents once they’re a minority in the next session.
Unfortunately the UI is very convoluted, with all the advanced concepts exposed upfront.
> I wouldn't want every user to validate their age with government ID.

Well that is what will be required or a credit card.

> But we can say schools should ban kids from using phones. We can say that large social media platforms need to whitelist content/creators that children are allowed to access. We can insist that social media companies throttle the ability for minors to scroll through videos at a dopamine addiction pace.

Every argument around regulation around social media to protect children ignores that fact that parents are the ones closest to their children and their children is their responsibility. Some parents inability to control their children shouldn't infringe my rights as an adult.

> More generally and more applicable to the discussion, I think regulations for social media need to be applied proportional to the userbase and centralization of a platform, and target viral algorithms.

If I don't like how particular algorithms act on social media, I can simply opt out of using it. As an adult I have agency. I found that I was spending a disproportionate of my time using Twitter/X and as a result I deleted my account. I had problem with alcohol years ago, I stopped drinking after I accepted I had a problem. I have my own agency.

> It may be time to research simpleX chat and Briar if we will maintain the ability to communicate without government filtering.

The issue is that the vast majority of people I wish to talk to aren't tech savvy and are unwilling to use anything other than mainstream platforms. So you end up essentially walling yourself from everyone else. That isn't ideal.
I'm often pressured to give incorrect quality ratings for unobvious reasons: I give Uber drivers either 5stars or no rating (after speaking with Uber drivers on the effects of ratings).

AirBnB in particular I noticed has little incentives for me to rate truthfully and a variety of incentives for me to lie (e.g. I wanted to downvote the management but I didn't want the staff member to be affected). Enough so that I bought booking.com shares because the AirBnB experience was too often hideous.
Hey, great that you mentioned this. We actually had BAAI/bge-m3 on our list of models to put up in the near future to see if people had use for it over an API. It's great to hear that this is something you're looking for. If you could let us know if there was a specific model you wanted to run, we can look into getting that put up soon.
I have no idea who is right or wrong as to the capabilities. But I believe his story that he couldn't get it working. And I believe your statement that it can be made to work.

When very smart people can't get your product to work as advertised, that's a problem with either the advertising, or the documentation, or maybe the default settings. Or maybe it needs the source data set up in a very specific way.

That kind of plays into the larger point of the essay that outsourcing this sort of thing still requires significant internal knowledge, and therefore may not be as cheap as it looks at first glance.
> I'm not buying any device that's not 3

Same here. My gold standard for this is hardware that comes with the open source Tasmota firmware (or which can be flashed to Tasmota). All 75 light switches in our new house run Tasmota firmware and to me it's the perfect combination of simple, flexible and yet deeply powerful. Devices can be controlled via MQTT, web requests, webUI console or serial and not only does it avoid any cloud dependency, Tasmota devices aren't even dependent on having a router to coordinate locally with each other! They can be set so that if they don't see a wifi router, they'll form an ad hoc mesh network.

To me, this is the ultimate in reliability because even if the internet connection is offline, even if the Home Assistant Raspberry Pi crashes, even if the wifi router crashes - as long as there's power, the lights will still always communicate and work together in their device groups. When we built the house I just ordered cheap ($15) wifi light switches from Amazon, flashed them with Tasmota, configured their device groups, labeled where they went, and gave them to the general contractor's electrician, who knew nothing about home automation. So we didn't pay anything extra for special installation, design or programming - in fact we got a $5 per switch discount because they didn't need to supply the dumb switches.

The only slightly tricky part was convincing the very old-school electrician he didn't need to run traveler wires for all the three, four and five way switches. Even after I explained it to him, he didn't quite believe me that they would work so he could test them with just his temporary construction power in an unfinished house with no internet, wifi or controller hardware. I just told him to start by installing the fixtures and switches for a hallway and he was amazed when switches along the hallway controlled fixtures they weren't connected to - including sharing dimming memory and the behavior of the micro-LED strip on each light indicating brightness and status!
We're preparing to use video generation (specifically image+text => video so we can also include an initial screenshot of the current game state for style control) for generating in-game cutscenes at our video game studio. Specifically, we're generating them at play-time in a sandbox-like game where the game plays differently each time, and therefore we don't want to prerecord any cutscenes.
Programmable looms (which used a type of punchcard) such as the Jacquard Loom had existed for a little while - if I recall she specifically referenced this as inspiration for some of her ideas. Not trying to diminish how impressive her work was, but I do believe some form of primitive mechanical computation had already been done for a little while.
Exactly... I read "masters of doom" and Carmack didn't strike me as the product guy who cares about people needs. He was more like a coding machine.
Same. It was relatively short lived and not a huge deal. I can see how it can develop into a big deal, though.

Did you ever deal with any of the paranoia?
I think "indistinguishable" is a receding horizon. People are already good at picking out AI text, and AI video is even easier. Even if it looks 100% realistic on the surface, the content itself (writing, concept, etc) will have a kind of indescribable "sameness" that will give it away.

If there's one thing that connects all media made in human history, it's that humans find humans interesting. No technology (like literally no technology ever) will change that.
I don't take them that way, Ziggler is certainly not being forthcoming with Bill. I'm not sure why you'd expect Bill to be honest about everything, I don't think that's the point of the movie at all, no less so that it doesn't make sense because he wasn't honest