skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it can be helpful in subtle ways.

I hang out with NPR/NYTimes types every so often, and knowing their discourse helps me avoid certain faux pas in social situations and helps me to engage better (I start with a good baseline of their Bayesian priors).

Also in terms of opportunities... NPR/NYTimes folks are purveyors of words and symbols, which means many of them are not super connected to how the world is really perceived by blue-collar folks. There are sometimes business opportunities that white collar folks don't perceive -- they can't understand why some people would want a downmarket product/service instead of an upmarket one. So many of them ignore low-end competition, and as Clay Christensen predicts, they sometimes end up being disrupted by them. If you can identify these opportunities, they're ripe for the picking because they're completely absent from (or disdained by) elite discourse.

Example: take the whole kneejerk narrative about "crap Chinese culture" that prevails in NYTimes/NPR circles as well as here ("crap Chinese products on Amazon"). Yes, there are some low quality products from China, but there are actually a ton of mid-range to high-end quality stuff available at a discount because they don't yet have the cachet of Japanese brands. I get these off Amazon often and am often surprised by their functionality and quality at such low prices.

The average HNer or NYTimes reader would not even pay attention to these (because "vibes"), but if you run in hobbyist circles, the acceptance of these products is much higher and there's a sizeable market that is a complete blind spot to elite types. Therein lies your untapped market.

I bought these "cheap Chinese products" off Amazon recently and was more than happy with their quality.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K2G5Y78

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R3YC1BC

Another example: I bought a Hyundai car when the prevailing narrative in the US was the Hyundais were low-quality Honda knockoffs (which was never true, and Hyundais were improving at good pace, but Americans are slow to update their priors) -- and I got a car fully loaded with accessories with a 10-year powertrain warranty at a price lower than a Toyota. It was purely a perception discount. And the Hyundai turned out to be more reliable than a Toyota! (at the time -- Toyota was having quality troubles circa 2007). I got a deal because I saw the blind spots in people's perceptions.

Opportunity lies where you can read the blind spots in the prevailing narrative.
What phenomenon in multiple countries are you referring to? I cannot read the article as it is login-walled for me.
That's why websub (formerly pubsubhubbub) was created and should be the proper solution, not a proprietary middleware
Does this work with VScode? I’m wanting a way to drive VScode in the same way as selenium can drive a website. For the purpose of adding support for it to https://github.com/zombocom/rundoc.

I would appreciate any tip or hints on how to approach it.
It basically solves all bugs/programming challenges i throw at it, given i give it the right data
If there is objective, complete data available to all consumers, who are not influenced by all sorts of other means to choose.

Right now it's a race to the bottom - who can get away with the worst service. So they're motivated to be able to prevent bad press etc.

The whole system is broken. Just take a look at the 41 countries with higher life expectancy.
> The manifesto claims that our health care system is responsible for our lower life expectancy, which is trivially falsifiable

No, it isn't. If you want to claim that all of those numbers are explained by heart attacks and guns, then you need to ask yourself how many of the gun deaths are due to poor mental health resources, and how many of the heart attacks could have been prevented with more equitable and affordable healthcare.

And if you still believe it's so "trivially falsifiable", then why do you think most Americans (and the rest of the world, for that matter) believe otherwise? US healthcare is undeniably a global laughing stock. We are the poster child for why capitalism in healthcare is an evil and stupid idea.

Our system works well for people with either a looooot of money, or premium insurance through their employment.

It doesn't work so well for the hundreds of thousands forced into medical bankruptcy each year, or the diabetics dying because they can't afford insulin, or the 27% of Americans who skipped medical care because they couldn't afford it last year [0]. 27%! That's utterly indefensible. No society can long withstand such stress.

It doesn't work so well for non-white infants dying in childbirth at shocking rates, or the families left destitute due to over-costed end of life care. Try telling the people who had their lives financially ruined because someone called a $4,000 ambulance for them that we outperform in healthcare.

Etc, etc.

> when it comes to the treatment of illness, we outperform.

On a dollar per dollar basis? Nope. To all citizens with any approximation of equality? Nope. If you have a high 7 figure net worth? Sure; glad you're alright Jack - but don't expect America to believe you when you say the system works.

0 - https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-skip-medical-t...
But what if that other person deletes their comment?
And to some extent, Brian Wilson (of Beach Boys fame). Who has told that his voices are mostly negative, but sometimes also a positive force. But in any case, apparently he learned to live with them since his onset in the mid 1960s.
The Infocom Cabinet (1981-1987)
Like thinking you’re the sane one and everyone else is insane.
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/12/19/developer-tools/glean-...
At least before GDPR it was a common wisdom among backend people that deleting things is just not worth it. I remember when I joined an otherwise cloud-focused team as an embedded engineer and suggested that we add a way to delete an account it was made clear to me that I am asking for an impossible thing. I hope GDPR has managed to change something
What's the deal with the 1990s-style dithering? For a moment I thought my machine had temporarily reverted to VGA and Windows 3.1.
And wasting more money too, of highly paid devs.

A wake-up call for the bean counters.
I think we have more gun deaths because we have vastly more guns than other countries, and more car deaths because we drive a lot more. I think researchers broadly agree with me. But you do you; this doesn't seem like an especially promising discussion.
So eloquently written. Thank you.

Can I draw from this that when the psychosis gets deep enough you can sort of recognize that you’re in the state (since you’re telling people sorry) but simply cannot control it?

Is it controlled by medication? Does the medication ever fail you and return you to the state of psychosis?
The session singer who did "The Great Gig in the Sky" vocals on The Dark Side of the Moon famously got £30. She later sued and got an undisclosed settlement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Torry
Why are you asking? Who told you to ask? What do they want?
The new idea is already here and it's reasoning / chain of thought.

Anecdotally Claude is pretty good at knowing the bounds of its knowledge.
It’s literally shown after the first word in the README? How is your attention span shorter than two words??
I suppose that if one were motivated, one would run a https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt service and then point the audience to it.

Not clear that the juice would be worth the squeeze over, e.g. Mastadon.
Possibly related, here is an article from 2023-06-29:

https://apnews.com/article/kenya-facebook-content-moderation... - Facebook content moderators in Kenya call the work 'torture.' Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide

I found this one while looking for salary information on these Kenyan moderators. This article mentioned that they are being paid $429 per month.
And who will tell the model whether its practice results are correct or not? Students practice against external evaluators, it’s not a self-contained system.
It was not loading on mobile for me, or very slow perhaps. Indeed I see it now, nice looking TUI indeed!
https://www.figure.ai/

specifically their speech demo video (which is, of course, a demo video)

https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw

https://www.1x.tech/neo
and

https://www.unitree.com/h1/

are undoubtedly using such models.

It's an area of active research, eg

https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0

https://wholebody-b1.github.io/

https://ok-robot.github.io/

https://mobile-aloha.github.io/
Unfortunately, the best they can do is "This is my confidence on what someone would say given the prior context".
Yes, this was one of the moves in his coup against Amelio, and part of what led to Amelio being fired by the board, at which point Steve Jobs took over on an "interim" basis and promised to search for a new permanent CEO.
What wall? Not a week has gone by in recent years without an LLM breaking new benchmarks. There is little evidence to suggest it will all come to a halt in 2025.
Here's an interesting thought experiment: if we removed the profit motive, would McDonald's exist? Because virtually everyone involved in a McDonald's doesn't particularly like it, in my experience. I've never once (well, past the age of 10 anyway) gone to a McDonald's excited to be there. We end up there when some combination of:

1) Bad life experiences

2) Other restaurants being busy

3) My wife and I are too mentally wrecked to cook food

Has occurred. It's not a good thing. We're there because it's (relatively) cheap, it probably won't make us sick, and it's reasonably fast.

It's also worth noting that a bunch of the above happens specifically because both ourselves and every other business we engage with, including our employers, is also subject to the profit motive, and that's probably contributing to our being in a McDonald's in the first place. Anyway...

The McDonald's franchisee wants to own a business, for their own economic benefit. Would they have started a McDonald's if not for the profit motive? Or would they have started a different business, one they'd be more proud of or innately interested in?

The McDonald's worker certainly doesn't want to be there. The pop culture version is this is a pimply kid wanting money for high school parties and the like, but they're also increasingly comprised of working low-income adults. They don't wanna be there, they have to be, or their landlord's profit motive will cost them their home. And they're certainly not happy to be doing what they're doing. I've never seen a McDonald's worker in my life who's proud of the product they serve. And they shouldn't be, it's minimum-viable-food.

I say all of this to say: the person who owns the McDonald's isn't happy about it, apart from the money they make from it. If they do. The person making and selling McDonald's food isn't happy. The person buying McDonald's food isn't happy (unless they're a small kid). So like... what is this for? How many of these restaurants operate? A quick google says 41,800. 41,800 restaurants, owned by people who don't necessarily want to own a restaurant, staffed by people who don't want to staff one, selling food people don't like, to people who probably don't want it, apart from it being a good alternative to not eating.

How much human effort goes into the concept of McDonald's on the daily? To do something nobody wants to do? To make and distribute food that nobody seems to actually like?
A Monument to the Pigeon (1947) [pdf]
Google Ads Match Type Helper
Previously, Google Ads let you choose whether a new keyword should be "Exact," "Phrase," or "Broad" match directly when adding it from the matched search terms. That option is gone. This free Chrome extension gives you this feature back and adds the ability to set all kw match types in bulk. Must have for any PPC professional.
The article is eliding the enum's payload. A more realistic example would, I think, have each leg of the enum contain a distinct type of struct (or some other data) in addition to the tag itself, and then have each EoA factored into its own internal SoA.
The new idea is inference-time scaling, as seen in o1 (and o3 and Qwen's QwQ and DeepSeek's DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview and Google's gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp).

I suggest reading these two pieces about that:

- https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down - best explanation I've seen of inference scaling anywhere

- https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough - François Chollet's deep dive into o3

I've been tracking it on this tag on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/tags/inference-scaling/
> ChatGPT (as far as I can tell) is no closer to being accountable or responsible for anything it produces.

What does it even mean? How do you imagine that? You want OpenAI to take on liability for the kicks of it?
I wish. But many of them only get as far as "this tool will replace your expensive programmer". Thinking stops there for them.
I’ve had a cursory look into that recently (just a simple googling) and it seems that it’s considered OK to keep the data in backups.

Which does seem weird… but to be fair, it would be near impossible to delete from backups as they exist today, it would be a law that can’t be practically applied.
It was backed by a vast majority of the population after the Fukushima desaster. Originally only the Greens were against nuclear power. Later even the conservatives under Merkel changed sides and finalized the decision. Not doing so would have been political suicide.

Nuclear power is only (relatively) clean until something goes wrong.

Edit: The party that has finalized the decision is widely predicted to win the upcoming election. The GP is wrong that it would kill them. The Green party might end up with poor a result, but they were not in power when the decision was made.
I failed to mention that we do want to support single-tenant cells for customers that need isolation.
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it. You can add custom prompts directly in the interface without editing prompts.js.
My entire X feed filled up with German politics today. I don't live there and have never looked at anything like that. Lo and behold Elon's been recently tweeting about german politics. I don't even follow him and never look at his account except his tweets that it pushes out to all feeds.

They don't even try to hide the absurdity anymore.
Genius vs. Wikipedia: Who explains it better?

https://genius.com/816206

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_E...
> Any idea what our next steps are? [..] try to figure out a less damaging knowledge-based filtering mechanism [..]

It should cost some amount of money to post anything online on any social media platform: pay to post a tweet, article, image, comment, message, reply.

(Incidentally, crypto social networks have this by default simply due to constraints in how blockchains work.)
There’s nothing grammatically offensive about this. It’s like saying, “Cars come in all colors. Mine is red.”
Sure, but "benchmarks" here seems roughly as useful as "benchmarks" for GPUs or CPUs, which don't much translate to what the makers of GPT need, which is 'money making use cases.'
> RSS is not an archive of the entire website

Whole-article feeds end up become exactly that - a local archive of a blog.
Almost. Not sampled from the original, but recreated by the same voice actor:

> Actor Patrick Allen, who narrated the associated public information films, recreated this narration … [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive#Cultural_i...
A bug is just a mistake, and the legal system already deals with mistakes in a variety of ways.
The answer is to make enums explicit e.g. malloc should return either a valid allocation or an error, but you can't easily do that in C. It takes a richer/better type system to make this convenient to use and safe from accidents. Depending on your language and compiler the in memory representation for a nullable and a non-nullable pointer can be the same, but a well designed type system can prevent fallible human programmers from confusing one for the other. Add some destructuring pattern matching to the language the usability improves instead of suffers. Rust added a whole lot more which made the syntax very noisy.
If I remember correctly, StackOverflow does something similar. The then Director of Engineering speaks about it on here[1]

[1]https://hanselminutes.com/847/engineering-stack-overflow-wit...
That's a solved problem for small devices. And we effectively have "robots" like that all over the place. Sliding doors in shops/trains/elevators have been around for ages and they include sensors for resistance. Unless there's 1. extreme cost cutting, or 2. bug in the hardware, devices like that wouldn't kill children these days.
You can use several other models, including local models using models available in Ollama.
What problem is this solving? Not a criticism, just genuinely curious. On X, I can follow hackers, I can block/mute and curate as I want. Just not sure who asked for this.
Passenger pigeons, to be specific. The monument is at Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin.

More info: https://www.aldoleopold.org/blogs/a-monument-for-a-lost-bird
Problem Driven Development – Stay SaaSy
“how to center a div” has been at the top of HN more times than most can count :)
Which are not nearly as capable and will forever be catching up. For a better situation look at Apple’s sourcekit. I’d take kotlin over swift in less than a heartbeat if it was more open source than Swift. Which us a very low order.
In desktop Chromium 131.0.6778.139 by click on "Start Free":

404: NOT_FOUND
Code: NOT_FOUND
ID: arn1::f59k2-1734906330003-46114d686746
Physical access and logical root access can't hide things form each other. It takes both to hide an activity. If you only have one, then the other can always be used to uncover or detect in the first place, or at least diagnose after.
If the URL identifies a resource (REST-style) and that database entry doesn't exist, then yes, 404 is less confusing response. If the URL identifies an API endpoint (RPC-style) then, sure, tunnel the error inside a "I successfully failed to handle that request" response if you like.
We knew a guy who retired at ~30 and was institutionalized by 35. That’s really the only person I’ve been able to watch go off the rails. And in his case it really did seem that the isolation drove the decline, rather than the decline driving the isolation. That was around the time we were first exploring the idea that staying busy with novel problems can delay the onset of dementia. Being around people is perhaps an incentive to keep the wheels on a bit longer. We thought going to work did that for him in a way that parties and lunches with friends did not.
O3 has demonstrated that OpenAI needs 1,000,000% more inference time compute to score 50% higher on benchmarks. If O3-High costs about $350k an hour to operate, that would mean making O4 score 50% higher would cost $3.5B (!!!) an hour. That scaling wall.
That and the great libraries Rust have for CLI apps. Really good stuff, and you can get productive quickly.
The source that lead the original claim:

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sectora...

Nowhere does it say minimum wage jobs increased or that minimum wage workers earned more per year
Right. Most all users want the restore option much more than a clean delete.
Also, I forgot that Mastadoon is/was also a thing. Are there any original ideas out there rather than another “Twitter but not Twitter” clone?
No, I'm complaining that just because GPT-4 is called GPT-4 doesn't mean it's the fourth LLM from OpenAI.

Off the top of my head: GPT-2, Codex, GPT-3 in three different flavors (babbage, curie, davinci), GPT-3.5.

Suggesting that GPT-4 was "fourth" simply isn't credible.

Just the other day they announced a jump from o1 to o3, skipping o2 purely because it's already the name of a major telecommunications brand in Europe. Deriving anything from the names of OpenAI's products doesn't make sense.
Can you elaborate what iron does in that context? It has a bad effect?
I’ve never visited a datacenter that wasn’t SOC2 compliant. Bahnhof, SAVVIS, Telecity, Equinox etc.

Of course, their SOC 2 compliance doesn't mean we are absolved of securing our databases and services.

Theres a big gap between throwing some compute in a closet and having someone “run the closet” for you.

There is, a significantly larger gap between having someone “run the closet” and building your own datacenter from scratch.
This is what the UI looks like: https://aegisub.org/docs/latest/overview/
post back when kotlin is in top-8000 :)

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
This is the bit I've never understood about training AI on its own output; won't you just regress to the mean?
Since OpenAI bills you for tokens expended on chain-of-thought, I assume this "deliberative alignment" has the funny side-effect of making you pay for the time the model spends ruminating on whether it should refuse to do what you asked it to do. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Thank you for doing the work to find that for me.

I still don't see that as:

> "Lifting variables into “global” (object) state"

It is simply the inversion and extraction method that is commonly used. The value of it is lost here as his example is poor IMHO as I find that cleaning up deep nested arrow code is where it is.

This method on page 28 is about refactoring to improve readability, and the location where the variables are declared are still in the same class.

Nothing has changed in that example except adding named private methods in place of logic inside an if-elif-else ladder.

So this:

if (count == 0) {
number = "no";
verb = "are";
pluralModifier = "s";
}
else if (count == 1) {
number = "1";
verb = "is";
pluralModifier = "";
}
else {
number = Integer.toString(count);
verb = "are";
pluralModifier = "s";
}

Is changed to this:

if (count == 0) {
thereAreNoLetters();
}
else if (count == 1) {
thereIsOneLetter();
}
else {
thereAreManyLetters(count);
}

Remember this chapter is about "name things" not flow control or even data flow.

It actually is intended to help with most of the concerns above and has nothing to do with the react style anti-parameter drilling style of 'lifting'

If you go to page 97 he goes over the 'The Law of Demeter' and argues against exactly what was above and actually cites Martin Fowlers refactoring book which is written in a far better style and tries to call out nuance.

So my opinion that he gives semi-helpful advice that he over sells as received wisdom still holds. Obviously the cost of calling a private method in your language and how that impacts your use case matter here.
A type of third place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Umm you can. You can force companies to pass their code through an examination (even by a third party) and define a procedure of ensuring strict data hygiene. If they cannot pass each year, they will be subject to fines.
It’s more like saying “the Audi Quattro, the company’s fourth car…”
(not relevant; it works now)
> It doesn't make sense to consider ObjC independent of platform considerations.

I don't think that's true. You can code in ObjC on Windows and Linux - it's just nowhere near mainstream on those platforms. Clang is all you need, and the GNUstep project provides the runtime. I have an SDL app up and running in Visual Studio which is written in ObjC - SDL is just doing the rendering.

ObjC is not an Apple-created technology, it was invented by Brad Cox and used by NextStep so it became the de-facto language of choice for Apple's frameworks when Next did the reverse-takeover of Apple.
Why not? I wouldn’t say „I performed the search and there’s 0 results“ is an error condition. It’s just the result of a search, and everything went fine.