skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the hypothesis was more true in the past, but mostly because both the necessary dependencies it is based on are less true today than in the past, and the products and services are more complex today.

Back when anybody could start building furniture the cost of entry was low and competition high. Switching costs were also low.

The cost of entry for a smartphone which is truly different are astronomical, many previously unregulated products are now strictly regulated, so costs of entry is no longer low and therefore competition is also low. For many services like software switching costs are very high. Firms need to be large to produce the complex products which introduces internal inefficiencies which are hard to avoid.
More recently, `gemini-exp-1206` did quite well [1].

[1]: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle/blob/main/README.m...
I think you mean, there's chili and then there's the thing people call chili with beans. At least for those who hold such views.
Then you get a Chicxulub and it is all over.
Show HN: Seek the Wisdom of Shakespeare
This is a website I made for fun a while ago to play around with embeddings. Hope you enjoy.
> The biggest propaganda win that Microsoft pulled was getting nerds - the biggest loudmouths about software freedom - off their case

it still amazes me how the newer generation of technical people see Microsoft as non-evil or, in some cases, even the good guy. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was re-convincing the world he doesn't exist.

edit: wasn't the google motto "don't be evil" basically meant to mean don't be Microsoft?
Hue bulbs currently are stock standard Zigbee compatible light bulbs. You can pay them into ZHA/Z2M without any issues and control them without any Hue hub or app.

If Hue were to suddenly switch to something proprietary their existing bulbs will all continue to function without their app or hub.
I've been using this dumb benchmark for a few months now. More posts about it here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/
I also like that we try to build 'ratings' sites that end up being coopted as yet another ad sales vector.
Not sure I support blowing up phone thieves, but I get your point...
web3, vr, nft, ai....
Without getting into the weeds of programming for the secure element (some non-EEA markets only, NDAs, tons of certifications etc.) or restricting yourself to HCE (available only in the EEA), you could also "flip the model around":

ISO 14443 reader access has been available globally, so if you're fine with having to open an app before an interaction with a reader, you could have the reader perform card emulation, and the phone "read/write" it like a tag, i.e. send APDUs which the device behind it then interprets.
I did not think about that angle yet but I have to admit, I agree. I rarely ever even pay attention to the YT ads and kind of just zone out but the recommendations by content creators I usually watch are one of the main sources I keep up with new products and decide what to buy.
How many % of PCs in the same price range? Would have bought one, but even the cheapest one I could find right now (ASUS Vivobook S5507) is too expensive for me (and it seems like it goes for about the half of the "normal" range).
Huh? Can you name any game that requires AVX512? I haven't encountered any so far.
I don't doubt you and in taking the steps to reproduce your finding 'No results for "from:paulg bounty".' Maybe was deleted?
They're not infallible. But also not bad.

I mean, starting from Windows on client devices isn't a very good basis to set up a cloud, but theirs is clearly number two.

I'd love to have one of those laptops, with Debian, 12" not 15.
Battle programmer Shirase
Why do people care about Xiaomi specifically? Tons of stuff is supported by HA.
Google Will Start Letting AIs Train on YouTube Videos
stock must go up
> I feel like the whole time this was being argued and passed, everyone in power just considered the internet to be the major social media sites and never considered that a single person or smaller group will run a site.

Does this shock you? I don't recall a time in memory where a politician discussing technology was at best, cringe and at worst, completely incompetent and factually wrong.
Wow, that's neat!

Do you know if Apple requires any special permissions/entitlements to create VAT passes, or does a normal pass certificate suffice?
JET's final deuterium-tritium results revealed one year on
I have as much interest in the art of programming as in building products, and becoming some sort of AI whisperer sounds tremendously tedious to me. I opted out of the managerial track for the same reason. Fortunately, I have enough money saved that I can probably just work on independent projects for the rest of my career, and I’m sure they’ll attract customers whether or not they were built using AI.

With that said, looking back on my FAANG career in OS framework development, I’m not sure how much of my work could have actually been augmented by AI. For the most part, I was designing and building brand new systems, not gluing existing parts together. There would not be a lot of precedent in the training data.
Indeed, or VATMOSS, which made all small merchants move their ecommerces to Amazon, Gumroad (and Paddle) to avoid the complexity
Its my opinion, but you shouldn’t need a bank account or even internet connection to work on the code at all. Instead its better to mock it out in development.
Yeah exactly. Although personally I'd be hesitant to buy a completely new Dell 32GB mobile workstation :P $Wifie is going to hate me. But I do need one with > 16GB because I will need to emulate some OS.
Good point.

But, for a lot of things, we have to exist in the gap between ethics and law. If someone, with access to ostensibly public NYCDOT information, uses it for "dishonorable" (not illegal) purposes, the DOT has three choices: legislate its use, remove it completely, or ignore the issue. Whatever they do, with the exception of the ignore option, will result in the vilification of our clever soul. That person did not make any of the decisions that caused the removal of the previously accessible public information. They just had a thing, they used it, and something happened. Could that have been foreseen? Maybe, but marginal. Guaranteed? Probably not at all. I just don't think that blame is fair. Let the NYCDOT do what it'll do and the rest of us can replot our courses if necessary.

OSS libraries, released to the web or wherever, have the same set of choices; and the authors can do as they please. It's their stuff, and their right entirely. But, blaming someone who acted "dishonorably" and resulted in a novel set of legal restrictions on an OSS library doesn't seem right either.
They also Know Their Stuff; even if they have a "redtop" style.
> Missed this thread, apologies. I would take "nearly impossible" to be akin to "very expensive."

I’m certainly no expert, but I don’t think that’s the case here. Radio waves don’t penetrate water that far. Communicating with an untethered vehicle deep underwater is impossible. At the surface, trivial.
Yeah, I ditched the Hue Hub last year and paired them all directly with Home Assistant via Zigbee
I like how one of them is clearly (to my eyes, at least) a person holding a gun
> same thing can be said about the opposite. People addicted to drugs to be productive, have they tried GP strategy?

Well yes, but I'm not making any assertions there.
Deny and delay: The practices fueling anger at U.S. health insurers
I take it you're talking about people like Dallas McCarver, whose autopsy found his testosterone levels to be extremely elevated [0] because of the number and volume of substances he was taking. If you're just taking base TRT and actually do cardio alongside weightlifting, you'll probably be fine.

[0] https://drmirkin.com/histories-and-mysteries/dallas-mccarver...
I think that the fact that no one is fully sure is part of the problem.

The act is intentionally very vague and broad.

Generally, the gist is that it's up to the platforms themselves to assess and identify risks of "harm", implement safety measures, keep records and run audits. The guidance on what that means is very loose, but some examples might mean stringent age verifications, proactive and effective moderation and thorough assessment of all algorithms.

If you were to ever be investigated, it will be up to someone to decide if your measures were good or you have been found lacking.

This means you might need to spend significant time making sure that your platform can't allow "harm" to happen, and maybe you'll need to spend money on lawyers to review your "audits".

The repercussions of being found wanting can be harsh, and so, one has to ask if it's still worth it to risk it all to run that online community?
In the excellent very hard sci-fi novel Diaspora by Greg Egan humanity has split into 3 main branches that don't really trust each other much.

biological humans, which are subdivided into various genetically altered varieties and the original unmodified humans.

nuclear powered humanoid robots that are not allowed on earth but are perfect for working in space.

fully simulated humans being run on nuclear powered computers buried deep underground for security. Their minds run 700 times faster than normal humans.

This feels pretty plausible to me.
http://archive.today/tGL72
What I Learned from Writing 30 More Blog Posts in a Month
Small discussion (5 points, 16 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427489
I agree but that ship sailed a decade ago. There's no additional risk with the new bill, it's more of the same. If there are concerns about liability because of this new bill then there should be concerns about liability already.

I sympathise with the OP because at some point everyone becomes too old to deal with the headaches of running a community. I have no opposition to their choice to shut down the forum. I just don't believe liability as a result of the new bill is the reason.
some random additional information:

- initially it was believed you can rely Drop for soundness

- then the rust community realized that this is an oversight -- the so called leakocalipyse

- there also was no easy straight forward way to fix that, in the end it was decided that leaking must be sound and `std::mem::forget` was added

- while there was some initial fallout (e.g. scoped threads and some &mut iterators now leaking collections if leaked) it wasn't to bad as you still can use function scopes to enforce some non leaking (i.e. if you accept a closure you can make sure something runs both before and after it)

- but with async functions a lot of the workarounds don't work anymore as the async function could be leaked mid execution by calling async functions ... so by now some people which rust had taken a different turn back then. But then to be fair this is the kind of "hypothetically wishing" because making leak sound was with the knowledge and constraints available back then very clearly the right choice.
You can look up his take on the burden of proof. I think GP was referring to his famous quote on the subject.
The description generated is completely useless fluff.

Nearly as useless as the automatically generated image titles generated by word and PowerPoint which make the title/alt feature less useful since most modern documents have those autogenerated titles which add no value at all so people skip even reading the descriptions
> I’ve been using MacOS for over 25 years, and never seen a “Taboola ad” in an Apple application

Try booting up Apple News. It's a recent change, but a real one and not "made up" in the slightest: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/taboola-apple-news-deal

> or received any push notification about using Safari as my browser (which I willingly do anyway).

Well that's probably why. Imagine how enthused I am to use MacOS knowing that my browser of choice isn't good enough to satiate Apple?

It is a real problem, too. Been one for ten long years, as a matter of fact: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253602135
Last week I started seeing a banner in Google Docs along the lines of "Create a video based on the content of this doc!" with a call to action that brought me to Google Vids.
Agreed. Having gone through it several times myself, I don't even mind init.el bankruptcy once every 5-10 years. It's kind of rejuvinating to clean house and start anew. And these days the "starter kits" like Doom make it easy to setup sane defaults for 95% of what you want to do.

What really bothers me is the sluggish performance, especially when handling large numbers of buffers or even searching large files. Pretty sure fussing with Elisp is not going to fix that.
Same here. Waited 10 seconds. Then gave up. If the list of models takes so long to load, why should I trust you with loading the models themselves? :)
Physician, heal thyself

This page is almost impossible to read at default browser settings. A couple of lines of CSS would go a long way to make the site work well.
Who needs viewers anyway? Automate the whole thing. I just see the endgame for the internet is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Markets are only as efficient as their information is good. At this point, we should all have a very healthy appreciation for how warped the infosphere is for everyone, and that will of course have deep applications to the "efficiency" of the market.
Exactly. Even with Twitter bought and paid for it was to close to Elons and Trumps liking, so the platform has to go, or bend the knee and start running rightwing propaganda.
Fast, easy, less likely to run afoul of copyright.
Yes, exactly. Marx had this right. Money is a way to trade time.
> And iOS as well as iPadOS now also support USB smart card readers.

Oh, that's very cool!

Apple seems to silently be implementing more and more features to make iOS/macOS a full-fledged smart card OS; I've also noticed that FIDO over CCID is now available natively on macOS, and by extension in Firefox and Safari via WebAuthN (which finally lets me use my smartcard form factor FIDO authenticator).
Taiwan's bullet train a testament to shinkansen's export potential
Yes this is the most interesting thing about her writing - she foresaw a lot of later work.
Makes complete sense - some higher-up is betting on LLMs to make a big change to the org. If they're right, then leadership looks amazing (we got in early on a transformative new technology/tool that has resulted in major productivity wins!)

If they're wrong - they also look good (we tried the latest fad, pushed everyone to really give it a go, and decided it wasn't worth it).

No trial period for CoPilot means everyone wants to get their team to jump in and make the most of it quickly so they can evaluate whether to renew it next year.
Tell HN: Google Play suspends new app for crashing
Email screenshots: https://gist.github.com/user-attachments/assets/c97b04b5-34f3-4ce2-93f9-63264bcd6c23

Background: I'm a web developer, but have a few popular apps (free, no ads) on the play store. I submitted a new app for review. It was rejected for crashing. I kept trying to fix, but due to being new to native development — and hitting issues with cached builds and proguard (I really shouldn't have enabled it!) — I wasn't able to fix before striking out.

I had no idea that multiple rejections would cause a suspension. Especially a clearly non-malicious re-submission.

The appeal was also denied. I followed up with an email 2 weeks ago. No reply.

Appeal rejection: https://gist.github.com/user-attachments/assets/00a5d371-1823-4f3e-8e56-7237a3e61f24

Bugs are inevitable. That an app would be suspended for a bug is funny, if it wasn't so kafkaesque. :)
It's not going to be about careers anymore. It's going to be about leveraging AI and robotics as very cheap labor to provide goods and services.
Become a plumber or electrician...
Hmmm... wondering why using arcane memfd_create() instead of simply opening a regular file on a tmpfs filesystem, such as /dev/shm.
Fasting can reduce weight – but also hair growth
> These are not just research papers, people are reproducing these results all over the place. Another example from a few minutes ago: https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1868710703793873144

Maybe I'm not making myself clear, but when I said "demonstrating that X new tech can increase Y metric by Z%" that of course included reproduction of results. Again, this is not relevant to what I'm saying.

I'll repeat some of what I've said in several posts above, but hopefully I can be clearer about my position: while LLMs can generate code, I don't believe they can satisfactorily replace the work of a senior software engineer. I believe this because I don't think there's any viable path from (A) an LLM generates some code to (B) a well-designed, complete, maintainable system is produced that can be arbitrarily improved and extended, with meaningfully lower human time required. I believe this holds true no matter how powerful the LLM in (A) gets, how much it's trained, how long its context is, etc, which is why showing me research or coding benchmarks or huggingface links or some random twitter post is likely not going to change my mind.

> I'd also add that we probably don't want huge sprawling code bases

That's nice, but the reality is that there are lots of monoliths out there, including new ones being built every day. Microservices, while solving some of the problems that monoliths introduce, also have their own problems. Again, your claims reek of inexperience.

Edit: forgot the most important point, which is that you sort of dodged my question about whether you really think that "ask ChatGPT" is sufficient to generate requirements or validation criteria.
How much damage can they withstand before they figure out how to stop hurting themselves? I wouldn't touch UK investment with a ten foot pole.
It just occurred to me... Why have I not seen an Escape Room with this type of theme?
I'm in LA, Calif. I would think there would have to be something like this in LA. Who would go to experience this ingenious hellscape?
The latest Intel laptop chips are really good on that regard.
We are human bodies.
The internet raised a lot of kids in the late 80s/90s, many were very intelligent, but became maladjusted from exposure to things on places like 4chan.

The realist in me is focusing in on the first half of that sentence. The kids are going to get raised by something other than the parents. This will happen globally because no one wants to accept parenting globally has been and will continue to be inadequate. I’d rather many children in say, I don’t know, Afghanistan, get some guidance from an LLM.
AI and the Coming Inequality
That rubbish is probably unenforceable anyway.

It may depend on your jurisdiction but here in the USA, I'm pretty sure it's legal because they offer a full refund if you chose not to accept.

There are alternative ways to coerce users into playing along. For example, simply store/retrieve TV configuration in the cloud. Without connectivity configured, the TV starts over from scratch in device setup on every power up.

And connectivity obviously opens the possibility for other uses.
How to build less stupid AI
Not sure if this could work for you, but I use HAProxy (not for failover, but just as a front end). It terminates TLS and supports http3. I was already using it for http2 (TLS required for that), so enabling http3 involved upgrading and editing the config a little bit. I'm pretty sure the web servers behind it use http1.1 to HAProxy, then HAProxy talks http3 to clients.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/announcing-haproxy-2-6

https://haproxy.debian.net/

Live example: https://theandrewbailey.com/
Create a SaaS and charge people $20/month, time-consuming but more possible with LLMs. Subscriptions are such a good business model for the reasons people hate subscriptions.
Huge swathes of social media users are going to love this shit. It makes me so sad.
> I want you to know this made me laugh very hard.

Thank you! Then the long-ago time spent in my American Lit classes was not wasted.
What's your rush, sonny? You say 'not anytime soon' but then you say 'next 10 years'. In the world of GNU software, to say 'glacial pace' is basically asking 'what's your hurry?' Fine wine, fine wine... give it at least 30-40 years...
New Tests Reveal AI's Capacity for Deception
Differences in visualisation predict involuntary imagery and neural correlates
Europe Needs a Coordinated Approach to Industrial Policy
I strongly disagree. How many clothes do you buy that have 100 thread count, and are machine-made, vs hand-knit sweaters or something?

When did you ask people for directions, or other major questions, instead of Google?

You can wax poetic about wanting "the human touch", but at the end of the day, the market speaks -- people will just prefer everything automated. Including their partners, after your boyfriend can remember every little detail about you, notice everything including your pupils dilating, know exactly how you like it, when you like it, never get angry unless it's to spice things up, and has been trained on 1000 other partners, how could you go back? When robots can raise children better than parents, with patience and discipline and teaching them with individual attention, know 1000 ways to mold their behavior and achieve healthier outcomes. Everything people do is being commodified as we speak. Soon it will be humor, entertainment, nursing, etc. Then personal relations.

Just extrapolate a decade or three into the future. Best case scenario: if we nail alignment, we build a zoo for ourselves where we have zero power and are treated like animals who have sex and eat and fart all day long. No one will care about whatever you have to offer, because everyone will be surrounded by layers of bots from the time they are born.

PS: anything you write on HN can already have been written by AI, pretty soon you may as well quit producing any content at all. No one will care whether you wrote it.
Sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity
The complex thing with a transactional db is that many concurrent transactions (should be) executed simultaneously, and that mix that single query tx and the one that loads 1 million rows.
Thanks for the update. The ones I have are the Remote Control N2 using AAA, and the motion sensors use CR2032.
M3 and M4 mac's require you to put up with the overly thin laptop keyboards. (I know some people say they like them.)

Admittedly many Windows PC's also have crummy thin keyboards these days, but the ones on the Thinkpads should be okay.
I am ok with devices that default to 2 but can be converted to 3.

Don't recall if Shelly's default to 2 or 3 but I like that you can flash em to tasmota for a gaurenteed 3.
"remix culture" required skill and talent. Not everyone could be Girl Talk or make The Grey Album or Wugazi. The artists creating those projects clearly have hundreds if not thousands of hours of practice differentiating them from someone who just started pasting MP3s together in a DAW yesterday.

If this is "just another tool" then my question is: does the output of someone who has used this tool for one thousand hours display a meaningful difference in quality to someone who just picked it up?

I have not seen any evidence that it does.

Another idea: What the pro generative AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is that good art is not about _execution_ it's about _making deliberate choices_. While a master painter or guitarist may indeed pull off incredible technical feats, their execution is not the art in and of itself, it is widening the amount of choices they can make. The more and more generative AI steps into the role of making these choices ironically the more useless it becomes.

And lastly: I've never met anyone who has spent significant time creating art react to generative AI as anything more than a toy.