skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never played for cash growing up, and IRL the most popular format is tournament, where everyone pays the same entry fee (usually $60 - $100) and gets a predetermined number of chips. It's fundamentally not that much different than how any other game tournament would work at that point.

If understand that some people might have some sort of prudish historical association, but in 2024 it feels like PEGI may as well keep around decency rules for pool tables, pinball machines, Magic: The Gathering, etc.
How is it humble bragging when there isn't "humble" part?
> By the time I was 16, I had been to five or six funerals.

Is it just me or does this actually seem kind of low?

They say your social cluster is 150 people, so you should be going to about 2 funerals every year (this ignores age-clustering, but that's counterbalanced by the fact that you often go to funerals slightly outside your cluster and the fact that the cluster changes over time).
> There are plenty of "high earners" that are parasites, contributing little and extracting much.

No, not at all.

There may be a few (0.01%) rich people that don't contribute much, but high __earners__ are paying extremely high amounts of taxes with nothing in return.

The "parasites", as you call them, are low-income workers that get the extreme majority of benefits while essentially contributing nothing.

Take a look at https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-.... The bottom 50% only contribute 9.5% of total income taxes while the top 10% of earners contributes a whopping 60% of then.

The middle-class is being drained. The downfall of the UK will be inevitable once the top 10% realizes that they're better of in literally any other country.
> This is ego speaking.

I suspect you haven't seen code review at a 500+ seat company.
I'm not sure it is as simple as that - Induced Demand might be enough to keep the pool of human-hours steady. What that does to wages though, who can say...
Life endures? Sounds a little overwrought for something like McDonald's. It's a community in so far as people gather there, but otherwise people interact little with each other except when ordering food.
Scaling Test Time Compute with Open Models
> and Broadcom was thinking about buying them...

I'm thinking about buying Nvidia

(this is bullshit)
Sure, but you can work around gRPC's issues too—"workable" might be the only bar that matters in practice, but it's a remarkably low bar.

The risk with JSON is that too many systems understand it, and intermediate steps can mess up things like numeric precision as well as being inconsistent about handling things out of spec (field order, duplicate fields... etc). This definitely bites people in practice—I saw an experience report on that recently, but can't find the link just now :/
I think it went away either with Ubuntu 23.10 or 24.04 - but I don't know if they actually fixed it or just changed something random that masks the bug for now, only to come back with the next kernel version (I've had that issue before).

Given that the issue (or variants thereof, because there were at least 10 different workarounds to try) was somewhat widely reported, the time it took to get this fixed far exceeded anything I would consider tolerable.
Here’s a question for you, have they automated trains yet? They’re literally on tracks. Until trains are fully automated, then after that cars, then later airplanes, then maybe, just maybe “ai” will come for thought work. Meanwhile, Tesla’s “ai” still can’t stop running into stopped firetrucks[1]…

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Australia is following suit with it's 'Social Media Minimum age bill' that will require ALL users to prove their age.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat...
Heh, don't think I'll quit my day job just yet.
> It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen.

What kind of post is this. Kettle, pot, whatever. The numbers are good to see, but don't make it paint it better by pointing elsewhere. I once did consulting work for a US student loan company. The best thing they could say was that they weren't as bad as the worst student loan company.
1. Neither of us have any idea what Elon Musk's day to day activities look like.

2. If Tesla had been organized for maximum productivity they would have skipped the decade-ish rolling clusterfuck of engineering faceplants, manufacturing bottlenecks, bullshit software issues, and gross body fitment problems by nothing more complex than actually taking a while to learn how cars are made by companies with multi-generational pools of experience to draw on. It's not like cars had just been invented and major R&D was required to debug the process.

3. Feel free to explain this: https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article26445107...

How certain are you his primary contributions aren't column inches based on uncritical coverage of hyperbolic bullshit he said near a microphone?
something i've wondering, does a jet like this "push" the blackhole in any way?
johnea asked about within a measure, not counting bars.

That said, the 1-2-3-4 of a single bar doesn’t need to be counted numerically as such, any more than we need to number the corners of a square. Orienting within a pattern of beats does not require numbers any more than orienting position in a square room.
Oh my, no. Fabrics and things made from fabrics remain largely produced by human workers.

Those textile workers were afraid machines would replace them, but that didn't happen - the work was sent overseas, to countries with cheaper labor. It was completely tucked away from regulation and domestic scrutiny, and so remains to this day a hotbed of human rights abuses.

The phenomenon you're describing wasn't an industry vanishing due to automation. You're describing a moment where a domestic industry vanished because the cost of overhauling the machinery in domestic production facilities was near to the cost of establishing an entirely new production facility in a cheaper, more easily exploitable location.
>Is it just me or does this actually seem kind of low?

Yes, it's low.
I don't think a significant number of people have ever written a will that actively prevented a funeral. A funeral doesn't require the deceased. It's fine to skip it.
I'm ignoring the comments, they seem to be all about the posters themselves.

I have no knowledge of your site, but I'm still sad to see it having to shut down.
Show HN: Atlas of Water Science via generative AI
This is our Atlas of Water Science. It's a globe mapping water science that colleagues have done over the past few years. Approx 300 papers got analyzed. The pipeline sends open access papers to an LLM asks the LLM to extract areas relevant to science in a form suitable for a geocoder, then we use a geocoder to get lat lons. When things happen in the same spot we jitter the locations a bit to differentiate things. gpt4o-mini was used for most of the analysis. Some of the features on the website are directly invented by Claude. There are some errors when geocoding went wrong or locations were extracted incorrectly.

We are working on this at CSIRO, Australia’s science agency. I think it’s a reasonably novel integration of geospatial ideas with LLMs even if the actual application here is a bit niche.
I'm casting about for project ideas. What are some things that you think need to be built but haven't?
No. This is binding your data structure to a single access pattern. You can get all the reviews for a restaurant. Now what if you want all the reviews left by a particular user?

I invite you to read the original relational database paper which addresses this exact use case: A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
Fivetran works perfectly fine for syncing Postgres databases into Snowflake. My company syncs dozens of them without problems. I can only assume their Postgres database has a non standard set up.
With absolutely no disrespect intended to Dillo, it should probably be clearer that the project was mothballed for around half of the “25 years”!
> Millennials are in office now.

So? Tons of millennials barely understand technology too. I'd say a politician being one makes the odds they know tech marginally better, but I still interact with people of my generation that barely know what a filesystem is, let alone how to make one, or why it's important.
My strategy is to be the guy who wrote the "bible" of integrating LLM code with your normal day-to-day software engineering: Patterns of Application Development Using AI

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Application-Development-Usin...

Leanpub (ebook only): https://leanpub.com/patterns-of-application-development-usin...

This is actual advice that can be generalized to become an authority in technology related to the phenomenon described by the OP.
As a developer, while I do embrace intellisense, I don't copy/paste code, because I find typing it out is a fast path to reflection and finding issues early. Copilot seems to be no better than mindlessly copy/pasting from StackOverflow.

From what I've seen of Copilots, while they can produce working code, I've not seen that much that it offers beyond the surface level which is fast enough for me to type. I am also deeply perturbed from some interviews I've done for senior candidates recently who are using them and, when asked to disable them for collaborative coding task, completely fall apart because of their dependency over knowledge.

This is not to say I do not see value in AI, LLMs or ML (I very much do). However, I code broadly at the speed of thought, and that's not really something I think will be massively aided by it.

At the same time, I know I am an outlier in my practice relative to lots around me.

While I don't doubt other improvements that may come from LLM in development, the current state of the art feels less like a mechanical drill and more like an electric triangle.
It sounds like you are attempting to disagree with the parent comment, but you don't present anything that contradicts them. The boycott effort slowed sales, which triggered the parent company to buy back the Israeli franchises, and then the boycott died away.
Agree with this. SWE don't need to do anything because LLMs will just make expert engineers more productive. More detail on my arguments here: https://rakkhi.substack.com/p/economics-of-large-language-mo...
> Consider this, 100% of AI training data is human-generated content.

Probably doesn't change the conclusion, but this is no longer the case.

I've yet to try Phi-4, but the whole series has synthetic training data; I don't value Phi-3 despite what the benchmarks claim.
Tintin has been satirized for years already, so we have an idea of what might be yet to come!

My favourite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin:_Brea...

Others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tintin_parodies_and_pa...
The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers
I'm not sure that having a franchise fall out of the sky would be so harmful to McDonalds though.
Humanity knew very well that lead and mercury were highly toxic and yet only recently are they being phased out in widespread use.

The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sm1qxqdRyY

Hundreds of millions of pounds of Glyphosate is spread across the entire globe.

Scientists don't have much say in these things.
That seems to me like a cherry picked metric, and in any event, canceling out isn't the point of democracy. And gerrymandering means that redistricting is also being done by an unelected and unaccountable body -- the legislature.

I'm willing to accept the risk of fair elections. This is even with the understanding that it would probably change the behavior of the parties in unpredictable ways.

Give me back my vote!

But I don't doubt that there will continue to be relentless pressure on our elective system. Democracy is fragile, and can be overthrown without violence through gradual erosion of its institutions. This is not a fault of democracy per se, because any government can be overthrown.
Some of us had our family dispatched in bulk, but thanks.
I asked ChatGPT what strong correlations humans haven't discovered
What pun/title?
Good LLM-generated code comes from good developers that can provide detailed requests, filter through wrong/misleading/cruft results, and test a final working copy. If your personal bar for PRs is high enough then it won't matter if you use AI or not because you won't contribute shitty results.

I think the problem has become people with no bar for quality submitting PRs that ruin a repo, and then getting mad when it's not merged because ChatGPT reviewed the patch already.
It's not adding fluff, it's expanding it to improve the readability.
If it just added word fluff, it would be useless.
What I do is write an intro paragraph into the context. Sometimes if I have a few lines of code, I'll paste that too.
Then, paste my very terse bullets, then ask it:
"Concisely expand the following bullets for readability"
I can only present the information to you, I can't understand it for you. I'm sorry.
I would never bet against the market finding a use for higher performance products.

~"Good fortune favors those who are prepared to take advantage of it", etc.
I work for a large european power utility. We are moving away from buying to in-house development. LLMs have nothing to do with it.
> they have to do that to server different segments.

No, they don't.

That they are able to price discriminate this way is a sign that they are functionally a monopoly exercising pricing power, otherwise, they would be easily undercut in the market where they charge premium prices by a competitor.
Don't editorialize.
TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations
I suppose "for free" is a relative term, since no ISP I have will give me IP service for free either. However none of the residential ISPs available to me in my section of the US will offer a discount to not give me a public IPv4 address, so I think that counts as getting one "for free"?
Show HN: Savvy – Capture and Share CLI Workflows in Seconds
Ever solved a tricky problem at the command line, only to struggle documenting it later? I built Savvy so you can capture and share your CLI solutions in seconds.

With a simple savvy record history command, you can:

- Go back in time and cherry pick commands from your shell history
- Automatically expand aliases
- Redact sensitive information locally
- Convert hard-coded values into runtime placeholders
- Export locally to markdown files or create shareable team workflows using Savvy.

Savvy never reads command outputs - you explicitly choose what to share. When running workflows, Savvy guides you through each step in a new sub-shell, handling all runtime values automatically.

Some FAQs

Q) How Does Savvy’s CLI work?

Savvy’s CLI uses shell hooks (full support for bash and zsh. Fish support is in beta) to capture commands. Savvy’s CLI never looks at any command outputs or active keystrokes. Users have to explicitly opt-in (by typing savvy record/savvy record history) to capture commands every single time.

Once you select a particular workflow with savvy run, savvy starts a new sub-shell and walks you through each step of the way. No manual copy paste or editing commands to provide run time values.

Demo: https://getsavvy.so/demo

Q) How does Savvy Auto-generate Workflows?

Savvy takes your redacted commands as input and uses Llama 3.x hosted on Groq to create a first draft of your workflow.

Q) What other LLM’s do you use?

Savvy ask/explain are powered by GPT 4/GPT4o to convert natural language to shell commands and vice-versa.

Try it out:

GitHub: https://github.com/getsavvyinc/savvy-cli
Demo: https://getsavvy.so/demo
Docs: https://docs.getsavvy.so/guides/quick_start/
Example workflows: https://getsavvy.so/#examples

Drop a comment below if you have any questions.
That's an observation opposite to mine. Having worked at several B2B and several B2C companies, I've found that the latter products were better and more interesting because they served an actual need. Sure, the B2C apps may have had better UX and design and maybe even more flashy tech, but they were frequently engaging in dark patterns and generally not that concerned about whether the users were actually benefiting (e.g. a language learning app with no research into how well users learn, but a big marketing budget and all sorts of conversion and retention metrics).
Keeping accounts: cost, depends on if you make any money. If you do then you would have to keep accounts even if not a CIC!

Filing accounts: £15. An online form will ask you for your balance sheet summary only unless you are very large.

One off registration:£65

Annual confirmation statement:£34

So depends on your perspective I suppose.
Energy is used to grow food, so, no. Keep in mind the context of my first comment.
Considering the comment chain involved here chiming in with "I can only assume non standard setup" is pretty hilarious.
Same here. I grew up on Asterix & Tintin comics. Some of the most idyllic parts of my childhood.

The smell of old books, dusty libraries, and having to pick 1 book per month from what seemed like endless shelves of these comics.
Is there any custom models or logic to this; or is this just a cron job wrapped around an LLM?

Capturing data, feeding it to an LLM, and hoping it actually does comparisons properly?

Is the LLM writing code that is being executed for each query or job?

Otherwise, all I am seeing here (and based on your comments saying "LLM") it just appears this grabs data, gives it to an LLM, and "magic output"
Learn the tools, use them where they shine avoid them where they do not. Your best bet is just learn to start using LLM in your day to day coding and find out what works and what doesn’t.
GDPR enforcement is bullshit because it was made by people who don't know what they are doing and didn't understand how much effort would be needed to actually prove there is a problem.

Honestly, same could be said for this one, it reads less like an attempt at making the internet better and more like a technical sounding PR stunt with sneaky power encroachment thrown in.

"We just need you to uses your government ID to sign in because of the children, we have a long track record of competent execution, maintenance and accountability, we are 100% not going to use this for other ...reasons"

It's the same governmental "Trust me bro, think of the children" they always throw out.

Outside of the intelligence agencies the UK government is absolutely diabolical at anything technical, chronically overbudget (because their original budget was decided by someone in an office with no actual experience managing an IT project) on projects they outsourced to corrupt friends who siphon the money away, not just IT, all projects.

They pay atrociously for the level of skill required for the positions advertised, so they get middle of the road staff, which isn't a problem normally, middle of the road is the backbone of IT projects.

The problem arises when you get actively bad project management, either incompetence or outright maliciousness, throw in some glacial bureaucracy laden processes that didn't work when they were drafted 40 years ago, let alone now.

and you get an entire industry of corruption and mediocrity.

/rant

anyway, i mean, sure you can take the lacklustre GDPR enforcement and use that to make decisions going forward, i wouldn't personally, because i don't think a single data point is a good basis for risk assessment.

DMCA, youtube copyright strikes, domain strikes, bank transaction complaints/chargebacks, all are mechanisms used to attack internet based businesses.

Do they serve a purpose, debatable, are they misused on a regular basis, absolutely.

This isn't a "the sky is falling" this is a "They have put into law the ability to drop the sky on me just because they (the government, or disgruntled internet denizens) feel like it"

It's up to you to decide how likely you think that is and plan accordingly.

There was a story very recently about the whole of itch.io going down because of some overzealous rent-seeking bullshit middleman (hired by rent-seeking bullshit artist FunkoPop)
Well, Chinese users are used to have to use a VPN to access banned content.
I think it is now our turn.
Best comment I saw in that thread:

> Would be comedy for the EU to go after WP for only having one App Store. I mean plugin store.
> So company profit margins should be capped? At what level and how would that work exactly?

That a competitive market drives prices to zero economic profit is a fairly basic result; no active measures besides the existence of competition are necessary for this.

> What about all other stuff?

Yes, this applies in all competitive markets. If it doesn't apply in a market, there is a constraint on competition causing it.
On macOS, running `stty cbreak; tr a-zA-Z A-Za-z` causes `tr` to immediately transform every character as it's typed. If I SSH into a linux box that doesn't work, though I'm wondering if that's SSH's fault (it's not convenient right now to get direct access). Certainly the Linux manpage for stty(1) documents a setting

min N with -icanon, set N characters minimum for a completed read

which suggests that if you set -icanon (e.g. cbreak) then reads may complete after 1 character.

Also on macOS the documentation for cbreak is different, it lists a bunch of settings including -icanon, it's Linux that makes it literally an alias for -icanon.
Acorn 8
Thanks. I hate it.

Now you can not use normal Go struct initialization and you'll have to write reams of Set calls.
Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls
100% and even if they might not "replace" a senior or staff SWE, they can make their job significantly easier which means that instead of requiring 5 Senior or Staff you will only need two.

LLM WILL change the job market dynamics in the coming years. Engineers have been vastly overpaid over the last 10 years. There is no reason to not see a reversal to the mean here. Getting a 500k offer from a FAANG because you studied leetcode for a couple weeks is not going to fly anymore.
You should go to the funeral if you think the right thing is to go to the funeral

You should do it for yourself, out of respect for the person who died and respect for the loved ones remaining. Not out of societal obligation

The corollary to that is there are plenty of times where the right thing is to not go to the funeral. If you lack those things.

There have been times I don’t go the funeral. Because the dead person was a horrible person. When people asked, I said exactly that and many times the response I got was “man I wish I had not gone”
It's worth noting that integrating a CSAM hash scanner is easy to do. It took me a few hours to do the work, including testing and automatic database updates.

HOWEVER: I'm not sure how you would get access to the CSAM hash database if you're were starting a new online image hosting service.

The requirements to sign up for IWF (the defacto UK CSAM database) membership are:

- be legally registered organisations trading for more than 12 months;

- be publicly listed on their country registration database;

- have more than 2 full-time unrelated employees;

- and demonstrate they have appropriate data security systems and processes in place.

Cloudflare have a free[1] one but you have to be a Cloudflare customer.

Am I missing something, or does this make it very difficult to start up a public facing service from scratch?

[0] https://www.iwf.org.uk/membership/how-to-join/

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-csam-scanning-tool/
Balatro isn’t even poker! It uses a standard deck of cards (to start with) but the mechanics are Yahtzee, not Poker.
I wasn't thinking only of the Fediverse, but the same concern certainly would apply to a Fediverse server, an independent forum, a wiki, etc....