skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The extremely powerful part imo is what it implies about the person owning the mistake and how they might change future behavior because of it. I think it's less about the effect it had on the other person, who as you point out was entitled to anger and low expectations of you. Can it (powerfully) de-escalate things relative to how these situations often play out? Yes, but if the goal of owning mistakes becomes about minimizing the consequences you face for them, it seems more meh. If it's to recognize mistakes and be accountable (particularly to yourself), it seems more powerful.

I worry a bit about the "when used correctly" part because it suggests only owning mistakes sometimes, but it could be read many ways.
I think 386+ Windows did the same, all through at least Windows 95. I even remember some goose chasing trying to enable the coveted "32 bit disk access" (which IIRC meant using native protected mode Win drivers for disk access) instead of the dreaded legacy disk access that called into the real mode BIOS:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EKxolyf8ZJY/TePaQskPwCI/A...
what is so "architecture" about constants?
Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss
We depend on the underlying systems' performance. However, we have cache options. Once you enable cache for tables, it performs like a data warehouse.
I've had Gemini offer me words which presumed the search question expected an answer YES, when in fact it's the form of question which expects the answer NO.

A fictitious case might be "Is it possible to fly by inserting two gherkins in your nostrils" and the response from Gemini has been in the spirit of "by choosing gherkins with appropriate thrust, it is indeed possible to fly by nasal insertion"

It's great at the syntactic parse. It's really not great at the semantic intent sometimes.

Don't eat tide pod kids.
So, Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem
Right, but which bugs prevent you from completing a task is probably a function of how much you like those tools and/or how useful you find their capabilities. Generally people get used to large classes of bugs in their tools and work around them without even consciously thinking about it.
Thank you for your comment, but I can't entirely agree.

Of course, the flood of AI-generated content pushed search engines to reconsider their crawling/indexing approach, but that mostly means treating low-value programmatic SEO strategies differently.

In other words, those who used APIs to inject artificial content at scale are now systematically penalized following one of the past Core Algorithm Updates. And that's a good thing.

But what we are witnessing is more than AI autophagy.

There's a serious lack of strategic vision and leadership from Alphabet/Google executives...
Russia says it's developed a cancer vaccine and will launch it for free
Really, there's nothing but respect for the guy throughout the entire set of threads - maybe take your personal feud with modern front end elsewhere?
This isn't exactly what you mentioned, but Josh Pigford gave up on his startup Maybe, shut down the company and open sourced it. It got incredibly popular on Github, so he started it up again. (https://maybefinance.com/)

A bigger example might be Mozilla. It was a closed-source browser (Netscape Navigator), and when it was dumped, some employees petitioned to open source it. And that's how we got Firefox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act
I'd never heard of Ki, and it's hard to google. Do you have a reference?
Articles like this miss the point. You need to talk to normies. Like actual normies. Ones that aren't on Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, who don't comment on anything online. You know, the majority of actual people.

If you search for a physical business, Google is amazing. If you search for anything physically around you, again, amazing. Maps? Find an online vendor for a certain product in your country? Google wins. This is what normal people use Google for. To find things in the real world.

Also, asking people who do SEO as a career about Google is pointless. They're literally the enemy of good, organic search results. Asking random internet users is equally pointless, everyone hates everything on the internet.

Go on the street and ask some random person walking by which search engine is the best... People don't use Google because they're entrapped, but because it's the most useful for the normal things that normal people do.
Can you see Saturn in good detail? I'm interested in picking up a telescope.
I have felt the quality of google search declining for years, but I'm going to buck the trend and say that the AI results have been getting better for me lately. At first I was ignoring it, but now it seems to mostly have the info I was searching for without having to go to satckoverflow or whatever.
Article misses an obvious solution: get a hobby, that sorta just happens to be exercise. For me this is mountain biking, and now gravel biking… since scarring roadies is also a fun hobby.
I don’t think this is entirely accurate.

The incident investigation might conclude pilot error, the NTSB isn’t responsible for punishing pilots.

Law enforcement might though, and the employer may too.

That just isn’t in the NTSB report.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444113
Japanese politicians actively use social media: funds reports
The core idea seems to be putting visual parameters in a single place that can be shared across platforms. That way you can tweak the design everywhere without having to edit N different platform-specific implementations.
> especially if there is a risk the plant will just be shut down again when it once again becomes too expensive to operate.

20-year purchase agreement covers half of an adult lifelong career.
It’s so refreshing when people do this and it totally disarms most people who are angry with you.

I also find it effective when talking to people that may not be angry at me specifically, but angry at the company I work for. I may not have written the code that fucked up, but I certainly can apologize on behalf of the company and empathize with the user. I’ve found when I do this I’m able to quickly get to a solution rather than degrade further into finger pointing.
> It also seems wrong to produce your own search results above the content you have scraped in order to generate your own response. You negate the need to engage with the websites that generated that information for you.

True enough, but Google's been doing that (to website owners' dismay) since long before the AI summaries.
Actually, there was a start-up a while back which developed a system for just that --- parameterizing house designs completely so that end-users could customize designs to their heart's content. If you look up "Flood Editor" it should take you to information on it.

Interestingly, the company founded by the guy who developed the nailing plate which arguably made McMansions possible was an early investor in CAD, spending ~$1 million for one of the first systems.
I'll be a self-driving believer when Waymo brings autonomous vehicles to New Delhi.

edit - This wasn't ment as disparaging, but perhaps it came across that way. The traffic situation in New Delhi is NUTS. I wouldn't trust myself to drive there, a local driver is a requirement and not a convenience. Crossing major streets as a pedestrian is hard enough, they key is to make eye contact with the driver about to run you over and exchange your intentions through microexpressions. Repeat that 30 times until you reach the other side of the road. Viewing a major intersection from above is like viewing two schools of fish seemlessly swiming through each other. And some of those fish are animal-drawn carts.

I'm in awe of the traffic situation on the subcontinent (as well as many other Indian things - like the word prepone!).
> I'm not sure why one wouldn't want to know the real price before the checkout. It's a bit baffling to me.

It's just that, in the list of things I'd like fixed about the world, that's about dead last.

When you're used to sales tax being added at the register, it's not an inconvenience. Who cares.
Team sports score big points for your child's brain
Probably has more to do with the physical force involved in spinning the LEDs.
Portugal: Airbnb's "Creative Destruction"
I am not a prosecutor obviously but I think there's danger here in overcharging a defendant that for a large part of the US at least has an understandable motive. There's some risk that this makes him look even more sympathetic.
It just doesn't make any sense when you can go to work for a big company and get that kind of outcome without all the risk.
Maps search needs improvement. Try searching "popcorn".

I'm looking for a popcorn store, not every grocery and convenience store selling popcorn. There's like a sphere of specificity that would be cool to zoom in and out of. Not sure how that would look...
If you have malicious code running on your laptop, it is game over in any case.
New gene therapy could alleviate chronic pain
Sounds like a Google problem; https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ki+text+editor&ia=web gives https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/ in the first screen.
'It changed the world': 50 years on, the story of Pong's Bay Area origins
This problem is overstated.

Google's in decline because they no longer care very much about the search user experience, while, simultaneously, their entire empire is propped up by search ads. (Search ads, Youtube ads, and their "Network" ads, accounted for nearly 80% of revenue in 2023, with search ads far in the lead at ~56%.)

They may simply be optimizing for advertising. After all, the better your free search results, the less likely you are to click on or consider an ad.
False negatives are a thing. If they've got a 99.9% success rate at blocking password attacks, it means there's 7 qps of successes. That's 500k hijacked accounts per day, 200M per year. That is a very large number.

And not a lot of systems have 99.9% recall, without trading away absurd amounts of precision...
Yeah that's great, I don't subscribe to that particular religion but respect your beliefs. I think most people are best served having their primary online identity be a Google account, for multiple reasons. I'm aware that a vocal contingent of technologists on HN find that take appalling, but I assure you, my take is a normie take, and also the modal take among security people.

Either way: Passkeys themselves don't require you to use Google, or any particular big tech firm. It's an open protocol.
The great thing about OpenSCAD is that it makes representing things which can be described mathematically easy.

The awful limitation of OpenSCAD is that one's ability to model in it is limited by one's knowledge of math and trigonometry.

The funny thing is, when it comes down to actual manufacture, ultimately, one is making G-code, which is limited to lines and arcs in most implementations --- so I'm approaching it thus by way of Python in OpenSCAD: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
Study:

Cruz, Ronize and Nobre, Francisco and Pereira dos Santos, João, The Economic Footprint of Short-Term Rentals on Local Businesses: Evidence from Portugal (October 10, 2024).

https://ssrn.com/abstract=4982275 | http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4982275
You searched popcorn and got listings for stores that sell popcorn and somehow that's an issue with Google Maps?
...why shouldn't they?

You haven't given any reason why not.

And sales tax is one of a limited range of taxes.
Poverty Point Culture
I've literally never seen a popcorn store in my life. I definitely can't test this because I'm 100% certain there's no popcorn store in my town. Even if they do exist somewhere it seems like something very faddish that won't exist for long. For me, convenience or grocery store would definitely be the right answer lol.
Peter Thiel said winners go to 4 places in the US depending on their profession: LA, SF, DC, NY. Position yourself to get a job at SF tech company. This may
include internships, leetcode grinding, majoring in CS, possibly a masters degree. $150k is insufficient for a health-care startup, the compliance and the lawyers will be in the millions.
Except it almost guarantees the product will become useless in a few years, which makes it worthless now.
Yeah exactly. You can't just roll out of bed one morning and grustle out a stable enterprise application. Also:

> customers paying $20k/yr or more have extremely high expectations across the board.

They definitely do, in certain ways. But also a lot of the software companies use sucks shit. But this part of the other comment cracked me up.

> a medium sized traditional industry that has ancient, crummy software

This is actually how to do it but the thing they're leaving out is that you have to already have knowledge of the specific industry and its players, their niches, and the software they use within them. You have to know where standards are high, and where the current options are bad, and how to market that improvement to the companies that are juuuust flexible enough to switch to your product while being conservative enough not to dump you if exactly one VP leaves.

Once you have all that in place, sure, you can "just" sell your software to them lol.
To get off the flamewar channel, I read somewhere that sitting in the cafeteria will tell you quickly if the "values" and "mission statement" are for real or just sheer bullshit posted on the walls for looks, and because printing them is a lot cheaper than buying nice art prints. Supposedly, employees can tell (and will tell) if the CEO is committed to the values or snickering at them.

Now, for the flamewar part. I have worked in many companies that were all white male boys clubs, and also at University. I felt more involved with the company team, or the department and university team than the white boy team.
Monoculture is not your customer demographic. It's a fantasy from the days when TV and movies were afraid of their shadow.

Techies rarely see privilege, but often act it out, and as with all privilege, earned or unearned, people desperately fear losing the privilege once they've got it, and hoard it, rather than putting it to some good.

I worked for one boss who was a fighter pilot. Everyone else was a lesser person. You could see it in his sneer. Even being a veteran had no pull with him. Fighter pilot it was. If you're well educated, think of kids who had to endure craptastic slum schools, fear for their lives at every traffic stop or occasionally get slammed to the ground for looking "different".

Try putting yourself in the other person's shoes. Jeff Hammerbacher famously looked back on his big data work and remarked:

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks."

What will you build?

The real (customer) world is not a monoculture. If your business is one, you're designing for yourself, not the real world, and it is a lot easier to open up to that real world than trying to change it to the monoculture that too many are trying to do.

The quote be seen archived from Bloomberg Businessweek: [0]

Or at Sydney Morning Herald [1]

[0] https://archive.md/IVFeY

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/business/why-this-tech-bubble-is-diff...
Interesting example, did this happen directly within Google Search or were you using the gemini[.]google[.]com subdomain?

My understanding is that Gemini, like most LLMs, uses probabilistic models to predict/guess the most likely words in a given semantical context.

But this logic relies not only on the algorithms but also on the datasets. In other words, the datasets would have to contain multiple occurrences of the various very unlikely words you wrote for the model to be decent natural language understanding (NLU).

Unsure I'm expressing myself clearly...
Nearly all modern 2D graphics systems are modeled after PostScript, including PDF, SVG, Java's Graphics2D, etc. In fact, Adobe employees contributed to the specifications of those technologies. Based on that I'd say PostScript popularized it. Other 2D graphics libs such as X-Windows, AWT, Windows GDI, Apple QuickDraw etc. didn't support transformation matrices. Maybe they never heard about Mobius and Gauss?
Space is the future; human evolution may have reached its end on Earth.
I bought the Veterans' license for Solidworks a couple of times --- the UI never really clicked for me (fortunately, it was at least useful for my son to do homework with).

The one 3D CAD program which I was successful with, after a fashion is the nascent Dune 3D:

https://dune3d.org/

which has been discussed here a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37979758

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975958
> There is no sport that punishes a competitor who is constantly winning, as long as they are competing fairly.

Constantly winning in a competitive environment with no runaway feedback loops[0] is evidence of cheating.

See also, casinos: the "legitimate" ones don't rig the game - they know the odds; they expect you to win something here and then, but if they see you winning consistently, they'll rightfully assume you're cheating somehow, and ban you from the venue.

> But every sport punishes competitors who are cheating or being unsportsmanlike. As it should be in the marketplace.

Marketplace isn't like sportsball. It's like war. On the market like in war, anything goes. The only people who can afford living under delusion of market sportsmanship are people who are already so well-off and safe they can treat it as a game; for everyone else, it's a matter of life and death.

> But hackers and the EU and US bureaucrats think that being a leader in a market has to be punished for being a "monopoly".

The market isn't some divine ball game, or a magic ritual. It's a feedback system, with known failure modes. Wrt. monopolies, in particular, any good profit-seeking actor will aim at becoming a monopolist in their market segment, because that's how they can maximize profits while minimizing effort. At the same time, the market serves a critical function in organizing human society - but that stops working when monopolies pop up.

It's really very simple: all the goods and services and advancement we enjoy require market players to be actively putting in effort. To society, an entrepreneur is basically a donkey with a pole mounted to it, from which there hangs a carrot, just out of reach - the donkey just wants to grab the carrot, but the society only benefits when the donkey is chasing it. The donkey needs to believe they can win, so it keeps running, but it also can never be allowed to actually get their prize, because then it'll stop. That's why markets are regulated as to let people and companies grow and accumulate winnings, until a point, past which they'd stop participating (or worse, just go screwing around breaking things).

I.e. it's not about punishing someone for winning - it's about preventing them from complete victory, because then they become useless to society.

> While always turning a blind eye to rampant fraud and scams that are in the marketplace everywhere online and offline.

Who's turning a blind eye to it? Fraud and scams are the base state of the market; it's what it decays to if left to its own devices. Regulations are there to counteract this tendency.

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[0] - Feedback loops like compounding interest. In sports, unlike in the economy, you can't just reinvest your win to get more wins, and then reinvest them in turn, until you're winning so much so fast that no one can ever hope to catch up with you.
Isn't the whole point of OP that we're currently watching the barrier to generating realistic assets go from "spend months grinding Photoshop tutorials" to "type what you want into this box and wait a few minutes"?
The millions of websites designed without using them. This insight was lost at some point, even if it seems obvious in retrospect.
Cool project. Note that you can force structured output now instead of asking for json: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs
Not quality, but QuALITY, it's a leaderboard.

It has its own dataset and benchmark.

We ranked first one based on their standards. https://nyu-mll.github.io/quality/
Google for me replaces the yellow pages that existed when I was a kid, or Computer Shopper. It’s much better than those ever were. Some other things aren’t bad where trusted sources provide them at no charge, such as the UK NHS on health issues. Google promotes that stuff.

I think people expect Google to give them The Truth on other things. That’s expecting too much. Quality content is expensive to produce. People don’t spend time creating it so Google and web surfers can read it for free. Those days boomed 20 years ago but they’re over.
https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/

It’s quite a young editor but is conceptually pretty neat! It works on syntax trees as defined by tree sitter, and the tutorial on their site shows off how powerful that is pretty nicely.

I also like how it gets by with pretty much just buffers and readline for everything. I’m a bit more wary of all config happening by changing code and recompiling, though.

Definitely one I’m watching, though it’s far from being able to tempt me away from Helix at this stage.
Worked fine for me in San Francisco.
Color Problems by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1903)
It’s the first result for “ki editor”
on Google as well. I suspect they just typed in “ki”.
I'm not taking a position for or against the argument that law is code, but making the observation that it contradicts itself. Particularly in the case of the 2nd amendment. The bill of rights is supposed to be a limitation on government itself, so this isn't merely a matter of jurisdiction. In the state I reside in, I can put a loaded gun in my pocket and go about my daily business. In my birth state it would be a crime to conceal it without a permit, and in NYC it would be a 3-1/2 year minimum sentence (unless you're an NFL player [1] in which case you get a plea deal of 2 years, so somehow "mandatory minimum" changes it's meaning)

If I were to translate this into code, it would mean that variables that were constant will sometimes still change value. It would mean that operations on data would differ depending on the scope in which the operations were applied. And it would mean that certain variables that were closer to the base address (more money) would operate differently than variables stored in distant memory offsets [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaxico_Burress#:~:text=On%2...)

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_sentencing_of_Robe...
How I Made My SIMD Code 1700x Faster Without Writing Any Intrinsics
I'm not sure what you mean by unique jobs, but for scheduled jobs, it could definitely be on the roadmap. I'm still deciding whether or not its a good idea to make it more of an actual service than just a library.
Color Problems – Interactive color analysis
To clarify "to its logical conclusion" technically GenAI art encompasses some type of "ultimate kitsch" since it takes in all possible art and returns some kind of statistical representation of what you typed in.
Consultancy money. Why should Robert Cecil Martin have all the fun? Other Martins want in.

There should be some research into how many code bases have been ruined by these panacea peddlers.
> now

They always have?
"I have to admit"

Call me a nitpicker, but nobody likes those results lol.
What crap did Ting pull on you?

Their aggressive data throttling always rubbed me the wrong way, along with the Extreme data pricing, considering it was on Sprint's terrible network.
"no soot in the pyramids"

There is no soot in the corridors and tombs of the pyramids because they were lit by electricity, not flames.
AFAIK, we do recover and refurbish them - at least when shuttle was flying.
The difference is, we have better QC procedures and modern flight control electronics.
I searched “popcorn” and it pulled multiple popcorn stores, none of which I knew existed.
Labour-saving devices also have a tendency to save time.