skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
quoting the ggggp of this comment:

> I think this whole “AGI” thing is so badly defined that we may as well say we already have it. It already passes the Turing test and does well on tons of subjects.

The premise of the argument we're disputing is that waiting for AGI isn't necessary and we could run humanoid robots with LLMs to do... stuff.
If that turns out to be true, the it looks like AI just gave universities a new reason for being.

What a shift from twenty years ago when optimism over “information superhighways” on the “world wide web” would end knowledge gatekeeping and educate the masses, to now— worries of AI slop and finely tuned ML algorithms frying older and younger generations’ brains, while information of human value gets buried, siloed, and paywalled, with no way to verify anything at all.
And didn't even bother to check the responsiveness of the Google AI popup. How is it even possible with so many peer review!
Why is that maddening to you? It's not like you're forced to use 3rd party app store or 3rd party browser. What exactly do you lose from people being able to use what Apple has been using to gatekeep?
And of course, if you didn’t touch all of cloud stuff, how will you explain to the junior randomly promoted to tech lead(sometimes CTO!) that you are worth hiring when your current corp decides to lay you off? /s
I've known of this poem for 30 years now (having memorized it in elementary school) - and looking at it 30 years later I spotted something I had never seen before:

The rhyming scheme. AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDDD. Its interlocking with kind of a cheat at the end since the final line is a duplicate. Absolutely beautiful.
May I ask which benchmarks you saw? I was looking for some reliable one and couldn’t find them.
Yeah, I’m on the younger side, compared to the old timers I’ve met at the bars. But from what I’ve gathered, nowadays, people want to choose their friends and curate their circles. There’s much less importance given to serendipity and just local connections. Some sort of easy activity (weekly grab-a-drink at a pub) would be great, but convincing people that it is a great way to spend time might be a challenging (but fun!) mission.

Was in London recently, and my friend dragged me to her watering hole on the first night… made me jealous instantly.
> be a bit strict against unruly people who makes others uncomfortable...

That's the crux of the issue. Since the rise of individualism, everyone has a different definition of "fun", which means that everyone has different expectations, and it becomes impossible to organize anything that is actually fun for everyone. Case in point: why work parties are so dry? Because in order to be inclusive, we boil down to the lowest common denominator.

A few days ago I organized a party for a few friends of mine, and even from organizational perspective it was a nightmare: this guy likes burgers while that guy is vegan. This guy wants to get wasted, that guy only smokes weed, while the other one needs to stay sober. This guy can come at 21:00 at earliest, while the other needs to leave at 22:00 at latest.
no, I won’t, that would be a waste of money
Ten years is not a long period, unless you're a kid or adolescent. Aim for a century.
I serve 30tb/month for $30/mo on my own colocated hw
Yeah, I’ve never been, I just remembered reading about these places where you had a monthly dues to a social club and just hung out. It sounds fun except for the baggage.

The citizenship requirement is asinine (immigrants are great at conversation, almost by necessity!) and the god thing would be off putting….
You ask:

> How is "I disagree" any more direct than "I've not heard anything like this.

But then you go on to say:

> Moreover who's to say this person even disagrees? Personally i don't always ask for them because of a disagreement.

If you don't see how just disagreeing with someone is more direct than rhetorically asking for sources... we might just have to agree to disagree :)
But be very careful not to mistake easy for simple. Too many people think that simple means easy when in fact easy often leads to the most complex code.

I don't like that clever is thrown in here. Your software architecture should be clever. It should be clever in that it allows you to write simple code.

Three simple functions in three different layers of an architecture is better than one function that couples various layers.

See Rich Hickey for the difference between simple and easy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
Yes, so often I see/hear people asking "But how can you trust it?!"

I'm asking it a question about social dynamics in the USSR, what's the worst thing that'll happen?! I'll get the wrong impression?

What are people using this for? are you building a nuclear reactor where every mistake is catastrophic?

Almost none of my interactions with LLMs "Matter", they are things I'm curious about, if 10 out of 100 things I learnt from it are false, then I learned 90 new things. And these are things which mostly I'd have no way to learn about otherwise (without spending significant money on books/classes etc.)
I don't understand the tweet posted as premise of this post.

My current dashboard includes metrics like free -> paid user conversion, app crashes, features that are most used, etc.

Those are fundamental aspects of my business that I need to track every day and map to events in time like new releases, marketing efforts, etc.

How are they "an invitation to pattern-match the past instead of interrogate the present" or "answers to some long-forgotten question"?
As a German I was really surprised that this isn’t something that’s done everywhere. Personally I’ve been running a Stammtisch for Japanese for 15 years now, and taken part in 2 others for over 10.

It’s really not complicated. You ask the bar owner whether you can have a table at the bar every month, and how many people will come, that’s it. If you do it Monday-Thursday it’s better for them, because the bar will be emptier and they will know how many waiters to call in. They might even make drinks cheaper for you.
They only eradicated it in the US, where it is an invasive species.

Countless local and regional efforts to eradicate mosquitoes exist. Opposition seems rare until you propose exterminating a species globally
Yeah, I wouldn’t even enjoy running it as a charity, as that would be an enormous sacrifice. I wonder if someone did a cost analysis of Costco-style membership analysis for a bar.

I personally know people who avoid specific bars because specific patrons have been jerks, and they’re making others uncomfortable. Some sort of simple membership could keep them out.
your meta tag descriptions need to be updated and are showing placeholder content when shared
Unitree B2-W [video]
It is open.... Apple just refuses to implement it.
It has replaced ~50% of my Google searches.
I'm all for declarative DSL, just not sure why it has to pretend to be a static config. A functional API can look much cleaner.
One of the unusual trends of the past several years is that higher education has become less and less respected and people now look to private industry for the R&D that universities were designed to perform for the public good.

I think 2025 Will mark a bottom for that in one way or another- either private industry (the FANGs) suffers a setback or (more likely in my view) research universities start a comeback as a new set of startups begin to launch out of a department (not necessarily CS or hardware). Perhaps in another field like gene therapy.
Show HN: A yearly wrap maker for GitHub organisations
Yearly wraps are trend now, not only in non tech world but also in tech world now, we all have GitHub yearly wrapped for our personal accounts, but there is nothing for GitHub organisations.
My inspiration was to get data for my org GDGVIT yearly wrapped, so like, I got the data from guessification, using filters on GitHub search and used tools like git-time for commits and all.
Until I realised we have a discord channel which has webhook on our organisation and all logs, all daily activities of our organisation is there in a channel named "gh-org-log".
So then from getting a CSV from those logs to making this wrap generator.
Wow they really botched the title. Why wasn’t it “Still Filled With Water”?
Bit of a meta comment, but: it’s popular to rag on critics but I think it’s a tragedy that the professional critic is less and less of a thing anymore. It’s the same phenomenon as the widespread loss of trust in “professionals” and institutions, but in the cultural sphere.

Critics can sometimes be aloof or out of touch, but the alternative is basically just money-driven populism untethered to any deeper notions of quality.

They could be huge jerks, but I lament the fact that people like John Simon or H. L. Mencken don’t exist anymore. Nowadays people like them would probably be unable to make a living.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simon_(critic)
> If I want to learn about new features I'll go to the Help menu.

No you won’t. There’s nothing wrong with announcing new features, as long as it’s not disruptive and obnoxious, like a pop up. Linear[1] for example adds a small insert at the bottom of the sidebar. It doesn’t take too much space, it’s easy to close, and you can ignore it for as long as you want, it doesn’t prevent you from working. IMO this is the right way to show new features.

[1]: https://linear.app
Hasn't this been posted before? It's cool, I agree, but it's been around for a few years. Has there been an update?
Great question. It's not really about whether it's written or spoken (a later version of CodeMic will have written guides as well as audio/video/image).

It's about the guide happening inside your IDE next to your code. When the guide talks about a specific part of the code, it should be shown right there next to it. Not a small snippet of the code but the code in its proper context where you can use your IDE to dig deeper into it, see the relevant docs, change it, run it, experiment with it.

With CodeMic, the guide is synced to the code inside the IDE. It's really a different experience.
Please read the guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Comments like the one above do not belong here at all, it's childish, it brings absolutely 0 value to readers, and it's against the guidelines because it degrades the quality of HN for everyone.
Oh, that would be nice. I get the reasoning not to, but it would be nice to have the option.
Why wait 20 years, when we can start today?

Expects tell us the hornet needs to be eradicated, but we all know that experts have been wrong before.
Code as Doc:Automate by Vercel AI SDK and ZenStack
>I was hoping for that this year, but: split of LLMs into databases and reasoning

This hasn't worked out because knowing what to query and how to query requires intelligence, and that's contained in weights.
Shitty hit piece, nothing to do with brave new world (doubt the author has even read it), you can go claim your check from whatever think-tank hired you.
> “My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

Frank Herbert, Dune
It seems that the adoption of the southern/northern names was in part related to what GP is referring to.

https://entsoc.org/news/press-releases/northern-giant-hornet...
What is the "Arc GitHub" thing? It's hard to find, there are plenty of unrelated projects named "arc" there.

Found this ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge but not sure "The dataset contains only natural, grade-school science questions"

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/think-you-have-solved-quest...
VW, Porsche, Swarovski, it keeps going.
> but setting up a caching layer would (because I have less knowledge about the latter topic) take a lot more research from my side concerning how to do it.

If I was doing local development on an RSS reader, I'd just download any atom.xml file that seemed relevant, then serve it locally using php -S or some other local HTTP file-system server.

That way I can hit that file a million times without bothering any remote server. Plus, then you've made your local development environment stable even in the face of internet outages.

And if you automate the local HTTP server setup a little bit, then you can even run local integration tests.

I dunno, it seems like if "write an RSS feed reader" is an easy problem, I'd expect "serve a file from my hard drive over HTTP on localhost" should also be an easy problem.
I think it’s a very dangerous place to be in an area you’re not familiar with. I can read Python code and figure out if it’s what I want or not. I couldn’t read an article about physics and tell you what’s accurate and what’s not.

Legal Eagle has a great video on how ChatGPT was used to present a legal argument, including made up case references! Stuff like this is why I’m wary to rely on it in areas outside of my expertise.
Stay humble

- There is someone else that is better at X than you are
- The person not so good at X is probably better than you at Y
People will continue to run websites, and need to know when they're down (god, I hope).
Looks amazing, and very relevant to me as I'm going to be producing video guides in the new year. Signed up for updates, excited to see where you take this – great work!
I don't. I could never make it work.

Just all in on one project for several years now.
It's "northern" when you compare its range with the other giant hornet, vespa soror or the "southern giant hornet".

You can compare the ranges here: https://entsoc.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/vespa-mandari...
Well, yeah. Companies store a lot of information in spreadsheets. CRM, financial info or really anything. People need to access it from their phones when the data is urgently needed.
The selective disabling thing works in the lab according to some tolerances. On the road they are a nuisance, simple as that. Eyes are sensitive and those things don't work anywhere near as well as they should.
> FFT based matrix multiplication, which is O((n^2)log(n))

What?
Honey bee hives, meanwhile, are destructive to native pollinators.
Which border would that be?
https://github.com/iyear/tdl
The first thing that we humans made were weapons and since then everything we make is considered first for its potential value as a defensive/offensive weapon.
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Please AI will never experience pleasure or pain so it has no motivation for propagation or domination, it will always only magnify the human who has pushed the button Enter on the prompt.
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The ultimate prompt "Find a way to eliminate human suffering without eliminating humans?"
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> Because in order to be inclusive, we boil down to the lowest common denominator.

I know bartenders who have a customer list that they never serve for various reasons. It’s easier to implement it in a neighbourhood level, as there’s an implied “we’re a part of the same group, so try to behave” understanding.

> Case in point: why work parties are so dry?

I get what you’re saying, but my work parties have been nothing but dry (and definitely, very far from dry) up until my current job. I just changed a few months ago though, and until I relocate, can’t really experience what they have to offer.

Agreed about the party hosting part though. It’s pretty tough to get some of my friend circles to do something together for the same reason. We can usually muster up for our big traditions though, which I think can be done in a local level too.
The original Web was the work of genious, but everything since is either adtech enshittification or cumbersome hacks.

The "simplest" requirement - decentralized discovery of what is out there, is essentially still unsolved. That is one of the main reasons we have centralized platforms of all types instead of some RSS on steroids design.

The second (and more difficult in sociopolitical terms) requirement that is still unsolved is the "active" web, decentralized POST-in on somebody else's server. Here you have social challenges (identity, spam, moderation, fake news etc).

We really need a good society adapted Web 3 evolution, because Web 2 has been a disaster that keeps on giving. But it will require genious at least commensurate with the original.
Was it hyped? I tried a few of them and they seemed absolutely useless. Like I could install a “custom GPT” that just appends something to my prompt? How great..
- Corporate will realize the AI is amazing for demo but doesn’t work for production.
- BTC/Tech crash
That’s why they cooperate closely with imec and their FAB in Leuven
I first learned Java in 1997 and have been using it professionally since 2005. If your Kotlin code is pretty indistinguishable from your Java code, you aren't using Kotlin properly. Here is what I wrote on this topic in 2022:

Here are some of my favorite Kotlin improvements over Java that I leverage all the time:

* Much improved type system (nullable types, function types, declaration site variance, type aliases, contracts, better type inference, reified function type arguments)

* Local variables are final by default ("val")

* Type-level distinction between read-only and mutable collections (but compiled to Java collections under the hood, so no conversion required when interacting with Java)

* Much improved collection API

* Much improved lambdas (e.g., no pain points w/ mutating variables and checked exceptions)

* Extension functions (incredibly useful in practice)

* Much better DSL capabilities (great for UIs, generating HTML, etc.)

* Lazy properties (more generally: delegated properties)

* Coroutines (looking forward to Java's Loom; by then coroutines will have dramatically improved my async code for 5+ years)

* Great serialization support (kotlinx.serialization)

* Pragmatic macro-like capabilities via inline functions and compiler plugins (removes lots of boilerplate)

* Multiplatform support (JVM/JS/WASM/native; Graal native image is a good alternative to Kotlin/native and also works for Java)
A pop sci fi book can be written by someone who knows the topic and reviewed by people who know the topic — and a history book can also not.

LLM generated answers are more comparable to ad-hoc human expert's answers and not to written books. But it's much simpler to statistically evaluate and correct them. That is how we can know that, on average, LLMs are improving and are outperforming human experts on an increasing number of tasks and topics.
This page seems to indicate Google Ads supports ad rewards:

https://admob.google.com/home/resources/rewarded-ads-win-for...

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not in ads, and know very little about ads.
Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

From https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Then we already have access to a cheaper, scalable, abundant, and (in most cases) renewable resource, at least compared to how much a few H100s cost. Take good care of them, and they'll probably outlast most a GPU's average lifespans (~10 years).

We're also biodegradable.
Israel attacks Iran

End of Ukraine war

Google becomes the AI leader

Battery price drops 30%

Western car market fall into deep crisis, a big player fails

Von der Leyen is replaced

X starts providing financial services

Musk's spending cut plan is a disaster
There are plenty of critics and review channels on YouTube. Like everything else, criticism is no longer controlled by a central authority.
> Learn2cache

I find this a particularly amusing comment, given that the main complaint is about feed reader's not sending conditional requests.

Learn2cache indeed, feed reader authors.
Having a local place where people live is illegal?
I knew it was a bit special abroad but that is wild.
Will the workless be welcome by AI (2018)
Great LLM impression! ChatGPT said nearly the same thing to me the other day, and it was quite annoying. This isn’t annoying exactly. What would you call it? Let’s delve. Shall we delve?
We were arguing about this two years ago, maybe five. I was sharing NVIDIA dev boxes with other hackers doing CUDA in 2016.

There’s this meme that it can’t change on a dime and I believe that.

You could build this from scratch in a decade. JFK sent NASA to the moon in less time for comparable money.

If NVIDIA shareholders can’t come close? What fucking good are they? Why do our carrier battle groups guard their supply chain?
I wouldn't call the case with two sequence "some narrow version". It is by far the most common instance of the problem and honestly the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear LCS, that's why I was very surprised to hear it was NP-hard but it does make sense for an arbitrary number of sequences.
Ukraine will not cede land to Russia. What is likely though is a frozen conflict along the conflict lines.
I figure there's value in sharing why one would not want to use something that's being shared/offered here.

Hacker News is a discussion platform. People submit ideas with the expectation that the community would find them interesting enough to discuss them.

When someone submits an idea of text-only content publishing, is it not perfectly reasonable to discuss one's thoughts on that idea, whatever they happen to be? And if those thoughts didn't resonate or apply, would lack of upvotes not conveniently push these thoughts to the bottom of the page where most never reach?

If I was an author of such a platform/idea/product, these are exactly the kind of responses I'd be most interested in reading. Not the feel-good high-fives, but the "what did I miss that others find important"s.
Are the thousands of games on itch/Steam/mobile app store multiplayer?
I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections
These are almost always just random people with typical (or at best, idiosyncratic) opinions, they aren’t highly-educated professionals who saw the role of the critic as something worthy in itself. YouTuber critics are basically just product reviewers. It’s not the same thing as the critic culture of yesteryear.
Kotlin is #23 in this irrelevant index.
In what world are you living in where humanity is connected? If anything, technology has only driven us further apart. Those mission statements from social media companies are nothing but empty platitudes.
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Absolutely not! It's better to use something backed by KVM, so that you can use all the features of the CPU. This is just a proof-of-concept that was fun to make.
While the reason people would be scared of modifying a class and a function could be the same, the way this defensive copy-paste of code would pan out is not the same; in one case we get an entirely new class, with all its nonsense in it (in many cases), in the other we get a new function operating on the same data types.

The former is not how OO is supposed to really work, but it is a direct result of adopting OO (non-obvious results of inheritance and other features) and in the latter we get exactly what we already were doing: Lots of functions operating on data, it's just more of the same.

It seems to me that one of these highlights the failure of its respective paradigm much more than the other.

I should note that I don't think functional programming as a paradigm is a particularly fruitful one. What I'm arguing for in the large, if anything, is bog standard procedural/imperative code with procedures/functions + data. Sprinkle in the few useful ideas functional programming does offer and you have something that has a fighting chance.
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That's interesting, because Haskell is the only language in which I can easily read code written by others (and in "others" I include "myself three years ago").
Looking at the graphs, the mistake of professional critics isn't the idea that the second album tends to be worse, it it's the idea that the second album it's an outlier and the third, forth and fifth album are good.
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