skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither case are name-calling, and I don't think pearl clutching for effect is useful here.

Everyone is working in unique domains and spaces with weird rules and restrictions and needs. The whole point of the special snowflake comment is specifically that people aren't remotely unique in being a special snowflake.

And the Luddism argument isn't "name-calling", it's an observation of an absolute truth on here.
Super enjoyed reading this post as usual.

I want to make a small leap. It takes extraordinary effort and resources to gather data, whether that's on your ETL SaaS, your health insurance, your congressional candidates' policies, or who's right about vaccines on Twitter. If "a market for lemons" is one "where information asymmetry means that buyers can't tell the difference between good products and 'lemons'", literally every market is a lemon market. Since we know the incentives there reward marketing over performance, we have to have some kind of countervailing force if we don't want that (I don't). Luu cites "unusually unresonable" people for companies here, in traditional markets those are regulators, on social media those are content moderators, in politics those are political parties and the press, etc.

Jump from here to wherever you want:

- unregulated markets quickly become back alleys stuffed with lemons

- (therefore) regulation greatly increases market efficiency

- competing definitions of "lemon" undermine the entire system

- regulator corruption is inevitable--successful systems account for this

- regulation does stack--intuitively one would think no one will buy "sure, the car regulators are corrupt, but the car regulator regulators are on the up and up, so it's fine", but synonyms for "car regulator regulators" include "FBI" and "journalists"

- if you wanted to succeed as a person of style over substance you have a strong incentive to assail the regulators
I suspect a greater chance that Cyber Command is folded back into NSA than removal of CISA. CISA may have some internal restructuring, but as a whole it serves civilians directly vs NSA/CyberCommand being focused on D.o.D. clients needs.

Pre 2010 the NSA held all Cyber Command mission. When they started pushing CyberCommand there was a lot of internal strife and concerns. Currently it's lead by a leader in a dual hat role with the NSA, so it doesn't really make sense other than to appease the military services (original goal). We need someone to take lead and cut back all these side projects each service wants. Everyone wants to be special and recreate the wheel, it's a cost sink and a talent sink.

I think the CISA mission is important (Ironically it's leadership came from the same programs that spun out Cyber Command).
Yep. And Turkey and Georgia. Are we making a list?
I got my phone taken away in high school once because my dad called me during the lunch hour to ask me for a number on an insurance card that was in my wallet. I was sitting outside eating, answered the call, read him the number, and hung up. About thirty seconds later, a teacher came outside, took my phone away, and gave me a detention.

I wasn't disrupting class or distracting myself at all. This was on a dumb phone, taking a call from a parent. I argued against the detention and was told that my school had a "zero tolerance" policy for cell phone use under any circumstances, just like weapons.

What changed?
My understanding is they actually are fractions of things called differential one-forms[1], but even most people who can do calculus don't get to differential geometry, so the sense in which they are fractions is not commonly understood. Michael Penn explains it here https://youtu.be/oaAnkzOaNwM?si=nwNNg4pl7WW4KvIO

[1] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Differentialk-Form.html
> Germany is still massively under mandatory NATO 2% contributions

Do you think German voters want to spend more money on military?
How can any search engine be good now that Google has given us a world of SEO spam through their advertising business?
Our competitors are getting in on the ground floor of LLMs.

Do you want to be trying to raise money against them with nothing to tell potential investors about your company's usage of AI?
Please explain the rust angle?
Don't worry, Germany will hit the 2% mark soon due to decreasing GDP.
> The one that works is a copy of a 60 year old model.

This, we were going through one every 6-months or so, I finally bought the swing-a-way clone, the ez-duz-it for like $30 thanks to the /r/buyitforlife sub-reddit and it's been going strong for several years now.
There's tons of comments from people who worked on the movie, none of which support the thesis that there's a child rape scene that was cut out or that anything was cut at all.
That seems like a good litmus test question since it has a single correct answer, but a lot of potentially incorrect ones which sound like they might be right (North America has a lot of Hamiltons after all).
Starlink satellites are not small.

> Starlink satellite is roughly 260 kilograms. Iridium System satellite is 680 kilograms.
In my experience by far the most widespread solution for directing requests is randomly. Round robin is pretty popular. Everything more sophisticated than that is vanishingly rare outside of large organizations. Look in gRPC. What client side load balancers does it come with? Pick_first and round_robin.

Weighted round robin has some traction but even in engineering groups with lots of experience and talent the complexity of measuring CPU rate utilization is underappreciated.
> make kids check a multitude of ever-changing apps

Hey, it's perfect to train the next generation of Deliveroo riders and Uber drivers...
That’s a brilliant take!
> this whole "Google sucks" narrative is (IMHO) completely manufactured by those pushing another product

Strongly disagree. I use Kagi and immediately notice how crappy Google is any time I end up there (e.g. on somebody else’s device).
You only need it to summarise badly once to stop finding it useful though. There was a BBC notification that it summarised as "Luigi Mangione shoots himself" a few days ago.
If you’ve got a spare garage remote control, a raspberry pi or Arduino board, a soldering iron, an optocoupler, and a sense of adventure, you can easily integrate your existing garage door opener into Home Assistant or what have you.

In fact, the Arduino starter kit comes with a few optocouplers and instructions for basically exactly this project!

Or you can get a tube of a dozen 4N25 optocouplers for like $8 on amazon.

https://store.arduino.cc/products/arduino-starter-kit-multi-...
Very cool to see "outcome oriented" prizes like this -- it's another way to fund research, perhaps. Will be curious to track who does this and whether success in the prize correlates with deep innovation ...
Genuine question: what does "reasoning" mean to you?
I wonder to what extent you can do that in physics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

I think we are probably somewhere near the peak of inflated expectations.
This wasn't just claiming they are pundits, but using the label dismiss their ability to do anything else.
MyQ are such scum. I love how on my smartphone I can just press a button in the MyQ app to open my garage door, but if I want to push the button on my Tesla, they want to charge me a subscription fee of $100 a year or something like that
Yep, very similar. A host of tools similar have come (and gone) in the past year alone from what I've seen. Most of them seems to focus on the AI aspect though.

Fun fact, while the app is only a bit over a year old, I was doing something similar with a simple cron job nearly a decade ago: https://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/15/automating-screenshots...
No, I presume most of the press is brainless morons when it comes to talking about what the military is likely doing.
It shows that if you deliberately train LLMs against their own output in a loop you get problems. That's not what synthetic data training does.
I left the UK earlier this year and went to the USA for exactly this reason. Sick of giving half my paycheque to not receive anything in return except more boot on my neck. Mother freedom etc etc
The only way Germany reboots their economy is if they ditch the disaster the Greens implemented in regards to energy policy, drastically slash red tape and bureaucracy, stop the industrial policy that favors old-economy manufacturing, and promote entrepreneurship and new companies.

But that's the playbook for France and the UK, and all of Europe. I think it will take 10+ more years of slow-grind reductions in their standard of living for Europe to change its ways.
I wish FEIT devices were compatible. I've seen their smart bulbs at costco for as low as $2.50/ea.
Certainly seems like it. I hope the mods remove it
What are some examples you've personally experienced to work better?
>And considering the state of the textile industry today, I think that was a pretty solid set of projections.

I think it's just about all industries these days.

Yes, so many quote meanings have been malformed over the years, such as "a rolling stone gathers no moss," is considered good, while originally bad. "Blood is thicker than water," "Money is the root of all evil," etc.

The Luddites were right.
This comment is mildly ironic because the same kind of argument has often been used around cars. Do you want to be merely a car driver, or do you want to be a car "operator", who understands (to some level of abstraction) what happens "under the hood" when you manipulate the levers and wheels in your car?

Different strokes for different folks, but never forget, knowledge is power.
And an election was scheduled in March anyway.
When Apple announced Apple Intelligence I was very curious about how they would go about it. I expected a very innovative and elegant implementation but so far it feels very clunky. And the results aren't very good. ChatGPT is way better.

Putting it at front and center of every sales presentation and then rolling it out slowly in small steps didn't help either. Siri still sucks.
It’s quite depressing how weak with SPD and CDU policies are at a time when we should have something more to say to AfD than “more of the same”.

CDU’s policy document this week is likely to keep the debt brake which is actively preventing any meaningful investment in infrastructure here.

So the Germany economy can die while being in perfect health. Super.
Money and quality are rarely correlated.
SWE-bench with a private final eval, so you can't hack the test set!

In a perfect world this wouldn't be necessary, but in the current research environment where benchmarks are the primary currency and are usually taken at face value, more unbiased evals with known methodology but hidden tests are exactly what we need.

Also one reason why, for instance, I trust small but well-curated benchmarks such as Aider (https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/) or Wolfram (https://www.wolfram.com/llm-benchmarking-project/index.php.e...) over large, widely targeted, and increasingly saturated or gamed benchmarks such as LMSYS Arena or HumanEval.

Goodhart's law is thriving and it's our duty to fight it.
>What is Land Rover the Land Rover of again? Highest cost per repair? Least likely off-road brand to be taken off-road? No.1 brand owned by rich land-owners? I legit don't get what that reference was going for.

excepting the recent dross from them with the death of the real defender...they can usually be fixed roadside with a hammer and some grease, they're easily the most ubiquitous off-road vehicle globally (well either landrover or toyota) and with 80% of all made still running.

Not sure why your reaction was so emotional, but I think you're thinking of Range Rovers, again though, the old ones were superb, the new ones are for rappers, footballer, and the other assorted nouveau riche.
Very interesting! Is "tree-house building" a reference to something specific or did you make it up? It strikes me that engineering is either a spectrum, or it's a segment of a larger spectrum (the name of which I don't know). Tree-housing is near one end of that spectrum, the MacGyver end, and dam-building is near the other end (where the problem is thoroughly researched, the goals are calculated, and the designs are all made to serve those calculations specifically).

Do you feel "engineering" could cover the entire spectrum, where your "Engineering" specifies everything on one side of "has a design doc"? If not, is there a name for the whole spectrum? Does crocheting from a pattern sit anywhere on this spectrum, or is it something else, or does it mean that my spectrum-of-engineering is an illusion? Open questions here, not directed at DrNosferatu necessarily.
I often find there’s a connection between a thing being aesthetically beautiful and good functioning as well. It’s not a universal signal - cheap knock-off manufacturing makes it hard to tell from pictures - but often I find a genuinely beautiful object, one in which the design displays clear attention to detail, exhibits that same attention to detail in the use.

Again, it’s not a universal signal, but good, and particularly well-executed design, can often be a signal the maker put the same attention to detail into how the device works and its internals.
The Power Mac 4400
When reading a paper like this, ignore what the paper frames as the current state of the art, a lot of times. Often the research is framed in such a way that gives an impact boost by setting up somewhat of a strawman about the current state.

Every production load balancer that I have come across in the last 10 years, load balances on the metric that is important to them.
I don't feel like you're reading what I'm writing.

I regularly use LLMs to work with security protocols and encrypted data, which are wrapped in APIs, and write new GPU code. Likewise, I regularly use LLMs to more quickly write large test suites.

I do not use LLMs to augment my verification work, because our team do not verify things to gain belief of sufficient correctness. Likewise, I do not try to bruteforce decrypt things, though I am surprisingly more lax on how we do things because of the headroom from GPUs.

The problem is repeat use of weasel words like 'correctness' and even here, your 'some things', that are doing a lot of work. That some tasks are hard, especially with poor environmental assumptions, does not mean they matter to most people who need to write most programs. There is a hard question here of whether most people needing to make programs need to care about these.
This is how a lot of home assistant integrations work. Sure, many HA users (self included) try to avoid dependence on cloud services and opt for local only solutions, such as zwave or ZigBee or products that work with local-only wifi. But the nature of the beast is that some devices out there are built to talk only to a cloud service.

Having a company start an upstream project is probably a better sign than not having that, however sure, they could pull the plug on their access to cloud service, people may have privacy and security concerns, etc.
Feli from Germany her channel explains it a bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ywqDbHiMrs
The Writing Tools are a gimmick, but the improvements to Siri on the iPhone 16 are great. I haven't used the visual intelligence yet, but I always thought Google Lens was cool, so I hope it works just as well. Image Playground and Genmoji are pretty stupid, I have no idea why they wasted time on that.

Message/email summaries are super weird. They show up when they want to, which is barely at all.

Say what you want about this Apple Intelligence stuff, but it's nowhere near as intrusive or annoying as Gemini or Copilot. You can turn it off and ignore it.
This feels like a knee-jeek false dichotomy. But in a sense, it's kind of right. I didn't work in teams anymore. I manage them.

I still do a lot of programming. And I expect my developers to be competent enough to read other people's code and figure out how it works, what it does, how to use it, based on the tests and plenty of extant examples.

I don't want developers who can only be productive in libraries that everyone else's is using/posting YouTube tutorials on/feeding LLM training corpus'.

The problem with adopting other people's software is that you have to make it work for your purposes, all while accepting it was only ever originally designed for their purposes. And if that's open source and you contribute to it, then you have to make sure all your changes don't break other people's work.

But with my own libraries, I can break anything I want. I have, like, 5 projects using them. It's not a big deal to discover an architectural problem and completely refactor it away to a newer, better design, propagating the change to all the others that use it in fairly short order.

And I don't have to argue with anyone about it. I can just do it and get the work done and prove it was the right thing to do long before any Github PR would ever get out of review.
American news outlets just love to use the click-baity word "collapse" when it comes to parliamentary systems not being able to form a government.

Technically I guess it's true, but this is not exactly a rare occurrence in parliamentary systems, and since we don't really have an equivalent event in American federal government (the lengthy process to elect a Speaker of the House last year was probably the closest we've come), I think most American readers interpret "collapse" as something much more dire than it actually is.
Also Denmark I believe
In my opinion, the mistake that a lot of companies are making with search is that most times I'm not looking for an answer. I'm looking for a document that contains an answer.

I don't want AI generated crap. I want the document, I will take care of jumping and reading the relevant section.

I like Kagi overall but I think they are investing too much on AI instead of improving their infrastructure (lately it takes a few seconds to get results)
I‘m curious, what do you mean by disaster in regards to energy policy?
Germany needs to get rid of absurd economic ideas that seem to predicated on bad notions of why the 1920s happened.

They have imposed 3% deficit cap and then expanded it all over Europe using the Maastricht Treaty. Economist Steve Keen has called a ‘suicide pact’.
Look for Zigbee devices and most stuff just works out of the box. And when you’re not upgrading firmware, there’s no way for the manufacturer to break anything.
I've switched to using Claude for most of my "queries" that are not me searching for a particular document and virtually all of my coding questions. It's very good when you have a question about a broader topic that you want to be able to ask lots of specific questions about.

The experience really reminds me of when Google original appeared on the scene in the early 2000s. It was the first time on the web that you could easily find anything and the first search engine that didn't feel overrun by spam.

There have been many topics I've wanted to understand better that essentially require a dive into multiple wikipedia pages. Claude makes wandering around that graph unnecessary and really accelerates the learning/exploration process.

It also allows queries that were previously impossible, for example "tell me if this movie has a happy ending but otherwise don't give me any spoilers".

Initially I wasn't sure I would personally ever use LLMs as an alternative to search, but as I've learned to treat them differently than a standard search engine I find for many cases there's no reason to return to the ever decaying mess that is Google in it's current form.
They're gotcha in the sense that people are intentionally asking LLMs to do things that LLMs are terrible at doing. LLMs are language models. They aren't math models. Or chess models. Or sorting or counting models. They aren't even logic models.

So early on the value was completely in language. But you're absolutely correct that for these tools to really be useful they need to be better than that, and slowly we're getting there. If you're asking a math question as a component of your question, firstly delegate that to an appropriate math engine while performing a series of CoT steps. And so forth.
Exactly my immediate reaction. Accounting has to follow very strict rules and needs some application of judgement.

It might answer questions in a useful way, but you have to make sure you understand the answers and that they match accounting standards or tax rules (and one danger, at least in some places, is that they are different and you might apply the wrong one).
>FreeCAD is capable and is indeed free

It seems to put off even people who are interested in learning CAD or are already familiar with CAD. It's telling that the best description people can come up with is "capable and free" instead of "easy to use".
I'll try it.

edit: I tried it and I already like it better.
For me, just comparing Google to Google of 10 years ago it's very clear that Google is terrible now. I haven't found a viable alternative though. Kagi was Ok, but nothing seems as good as Google was 10 years ago.

I used Kagi enough to pay for it and I don't like that concept. I thinking having ads in search is completely reasonable, just label them as such and don't cater to ads at the cost of my search terms. I think thought if I'm searching for something and the ad is relevant it's fine to show it and can even help me find out about new products.

But Google is engineered to give you bad results so you do more searches and are more likely to click on an ad.
"Stop the war" looks like a very small territory, you don't even need to think what kind of message they send. It's so small in the grand scheme
I'll just second to avoid myQ at all costs.

1. They want to charge for some integrations. I could see this if they didn't make local only impossible if you want anything beyond the clicker. Why aren't these just bluetooth and or wifi so my car and open when I pull up and close when I leave? Hell, if they just added an 'open if closed' and 'close if open' it would make it way better for the car to controll. IMO they are purposely making the non myQ options suck and stuck in the 80s just so they can upsell to a monthly subscription.

2. Their security is a joke. After moving to new phone their app would refuse to login yet would still show me notifications for door events. The only way to stop the notifications was to uninstall the app.

My newer garage door is lacking wifi just so I can add my own automation without even bothering with theirs.
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Sure you're allowed to feel that way, I just think it's ridiculous to phrase it the way you did above.

I'm sure a lot of people have issues with some of their coworkers, but hating all of them across multiple jobs is insane. If you smell shit everywhere you go you probably need a shower.
Counter-example: all the people that were using CentOS 6/7 instead of RHEL. Not that Red Hat did tons of marketing, but it was more than zero.
Exactly. Why would that matter to someone else asking questions? Have a think.
A bit harsh I think to generalise an entire country so.

What makes you feel this way?
Being technically-savvy doesn’t have anything to do with not buying a TV. I think it’s the HN crowd which might make firewall rules or use pihole, or something else to successfully subvert a smart TV. But you don’t need any technical prowess to simply _not own one._ (you would, however, need to have at least some understanding that where is a privacy / datamining issues, so I would admit these two issues could be intermingled.)
I was looking forward to that as well, but Siri refuses to read ChatGPT's responses to me...which makes it substantially less useful. It's just as frustrating as being told "sorry, you'll have to unlock your phone if you want me to play something on youtube music". Let's hope they iterate, I guess?