skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not invariably. Some of those people are the ones who want to draw 7 red lines all perpendicular, some with green ink, some with transparent and one that looks like a kitten.
> Having looked at several enterprises, there’s a lot of work being done to make a lot of things that don’t really work.

Is this a new phenomenon that started post-LLM?
Philosophers and AI slop have quite a lot in common. A lot of sticking good sounding words together without really understanding how the underlying thing works, computers in this case. Really the:

>They are, however, very good at pretending to reason. “We can ask [them], ‘How did you come to that conclusion?’ and [they] just bullshit a whole chain of thought that, if you press on it, will collapse into nonsense very quickly.

Could apply to both. You can see a contrast with the thinking of Turing, a mathematician:

>Her view collides with the 1950 paper by British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing, “Computing machinery and Intelligence,” often regarded as the conceptual foundation of AI. Turing asked the question: “Can machines think?”—only to replace it with what he considered to be a better question, which was whether we might develop machines that could give responses to questions we’d be unable to distinguish from those of humans.

You can see a mathematician trained in rigor and proof recognises that "can they think" turns into waffle about how you define think and replaces it with a less subjective test.
Wrong. There are 600,000 malaria deaths / year. Most children under 5.

A malaria vaccine deployed in the field costs $3/dose, and can be driven down with mass purchases or working with e.g., UNICEF.

Assuming 10:1 vaccines / lives saved, you just paid 18,000,000 to eliminate it. Try 100:1 (180M) and you still have a 80% of your investment left over. How many kids grow up healthy because of that? How many parents grow up grateful? If it's 10,000:1 is it a failure to "only" save 60,000 kids for your entire 2B investment?

And malaria vaccines have an economic ROI of 100s:1, making them one of the most effective charitable investments for lower income countries.

And that's just one of the global maladies that can be directly addressed in a meaningful way with proper investment. Usually, with a Billion-dollar investment, a self-sustaining program can be set up so you get 10x - 100x over the course of the program. You really don't understand how vital and helpful foreign aid is.

There are a number of other high impact things you might want to look into, that produce meaningful changes in a data-driven way.

- internet and accountability for rural schools in developing countries

- Vaccines of any kind save tons of lives

- food and relocation assistance for famine-striken areas

- Early childhood education is a massive economic ROI, and reduces unwanted population growth through women empowerment

- Antiviral treatment to prevent spread of HIV to children during childbirth

- Neonatal care in areas without sufficient infra etc etc

In some cases, 60-80% of children in developing countries who are affected by preventable diseases are treated by charitable organizations, often in cooperation with a developing local hospital system that is built in parallel until it is sustainable. The initial intervention is basically exclusively through foreign aid from major wealthy donors and governments.
That is exactly what the article says.
I second comment this after reading some of the blog posts.

Studying philosophy in university and having my essays critiqued was a very valuable experience. In three years my writing got perhaps 10-20% better, in part due to understanding that prose and argumentation is a reflection of the thought behind it.

If you write your blogs like this.

It just…

Looks like you are having snippets of ideas.

It isn’t very profound.

It is actually just an annoying stylistic dead-end.

Also reading, reading, reading things that aren’t technical articles and PowerPoint presentations really helps. To develop good style one has to know good stylists, and what one has taste for imitating.

I could go on. But I’ll try not to.

Except to say, why should anyone bother reading your blog? Why don’t you write a whole book instead? That can be a useful way to “write yourself out” to burn through all your bad and needless ideas while finding your own voice. Also accepting and understanding that minds vastly greater than those found in STEM sometimes choose to apply themselves to crafting fiction and prose.

But ultimately you need to have things you need to say.
If that's the case, it doesn't sound there was much will to work to begin with...
If you're building e.g. a PS1 prompt replacement, you'll want to start, gather data, output the PS1 prompt and exit in less than 0.016s at most. Any slower and the user will see a visible delay.

If you're on higher FPS monitors, the budget shrinks accordingly. At 60fps you'll have 16ms, at 480fps you'll have 2ms.

The same applies for any app that should feel like it starts instantly.
Own hardware doesn't mean own data center. Many data centers offer colocation.
Scammers can also buy aggregate information, just like advertisers
He directly challenged Putin by supporting democracy in Eastern Europe which explains a lot of the bad press he gets.

I wonder if you can do good without triggering that particular geopolitical hot potato, which was close to Soros's heart given his upbringing.
I'm not a native English speaker, but could "natural" be appropriate for this context?
> ...there users gave us pushback on training because the app was seen as intuitive

I would weep with joy to receive such feedback! Too often the services I work on have long histories with accidental UIs, built to address immediate needs over and over.
I know multiple people that carefully prompt to get that done. The model outputs in direct token order, and can't turn around, so you need to make sure that's strictly followed. The system can and will come up with post-hoc "reasoning".
It's not a fault of the language, it's the culture. "Average" and "mediocre" both have negative connotations in vernacular use as well, even though they're normal and should be expected. If we expect excellence and world-shaking performance as the standard, good enough will not be good enough.
Has anyone used the Nordic power kit? Or any other recommendations for measuring power consumption?
Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like a good alternative, until childbirth
It's more like "nearby, on the ground".
GNOME project's mantra now is "we know better than the user". They throw away functionality, but they don't even pretend it's coming back.
Exactly.

Unfortunately, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of destruction that Jeff and other billionaires have wreaked on US small businesses and the poor.

EXAMPLES:

Billionaires are driving up single family home prices across the US:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-buying-houses

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-s...

Bezos and Musk fight unionization and workers rights?

https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-...

The prison phone market is owned by billionaires:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system

Amazon now accepts SNAP/EBT payments after destroying small businesses:

https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-car...

Farmers are not allowed to reuse seeds from billionaire firms:

https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise...
Fake news.
I've got my bare metal server deployed and installed with my ansible playbook even before you manage to log into the bazillion layers of abstraction that is AWS.
Have you used them to build a system to ask you clarifying questions?

Or even instructed them to?
If you've ever used any enterprise software for long enough, you know the exact same song and dance.

They release version Grand Banana. Purported to be approximately 30% faster with brand new features like Algorithmic Triple Layering and Enhanced Compulsory Alignment. You open the app. Everything is slower, things are harder to find and it breaks in new, fun ways. Your organization pays a couple hundred more per person for these benefits. Their stock soars, people celebrate the release and your management says they can't wait to see the improvement in workflows now that they've been able to lay off a quarter of your team.

Has there been improvements in LLMs over time? Somewhat, most of it concentrated at the beginning (because they siphoned up a bunch of data in a dubious manner). Now it's just part of their sales cycle, to keep pumping up numbers while no one sees any meaningful improvement.
Hosts online service seems to think deserving of medal for discovering that S3 buckets from a cloud provider are crap and cost a fortune.

The heading in this space makes your think they're running custom FPGAs such as with Gmail, not just running on metal... As for drive failures, welcome to storage at scale. Build your solution so it's a weekly task to replace 10disks at a time not critical at 2am when a single disk dies...

Storing/Accessing tonnes of <4kB files is difficult, but other providers are doing this on their own metal with CEPH at the PB scale.

I love ZFS, it's great with per-disk redundancy but CEPH is really the only game in town for inter-rack/DC resilience which I would hope my email provider has.
> Why else an unelected private citizen (Elon) is able to bully congress?

In China their Elon Musk equivalent can't bully congress. That is Jack Ma, he disappeared for a bit, reappeared and then ... a cynic would say he fled to Japan and has spent the last year or two cowering. Xi Jinping stands unbullied! The question here is who do you want to hold it and why are they qualified? Should Trump have free reign? Should Congress be all-powerful (noting that the likely outcome of that is that power then effectively goes to the whips).

I like the idea of no individual having too much power, but outsiders being able to bully congress seems like a great idea. The US Congress is a disgrace to basic principles of competence, honesty and good governance. The US would be well served by more entities that can challenge and bully them, not less. Private citizens being able to loom over them represents a strength of the US system. Better to have someone transient but competent who is powerful than a known-bad institution.
> there has been a very large amount of research on EMF exposure

What type of EMF exposure? You see, there really has not been studies of real world newer EMF frequencies and none on mmWave exposure that are not only based on the thermal effects.

Please see this from 2023:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9665755

However, the available studies have not investigated the health effects resulting from exposure from the 5G mobile phone and base station antennas from 700 MHz to 30 GHz on the cognitive performance, well-being subjective symptoms, human physiological parameters, and EEG of adults. There is a need for such research regarding this current emerging technology. Such studies are significant in determining whether 5G technology is indeed safe for humans.
O(n) is generally indistinguishable from O(log n) so if there is any chance of different behavior than the expected optimum, go with the better algorithm.
Show HN: Xmas – a 2d game developed by LLM
I was working on this game during evenings for the last 4 weeks. It costed around 38M tokens in, and 1M tokens out (~40$), using Claude mostly (sometimes I use Gemini or GPT4o). It produced more than 10K LOC in 65 files, and refactored the code multiple times, so I can't imagine typing all that code myself. There is no chance to find energy for that after a day job, family, other things. OTOH such LLM powered development is more like laid back activity, at the same time relaxing and rewarding.

Bonus links:

- Example commit generated today for a "I can't play the game on touch screen, santa is not moving" prompt:

https://github.com/gamedevpl/www.gamedev.pl/commit/4e0730a22...

- How the development env looks like:

https://github.com/gamedevpl/www.gamedev.pl/blob/master/game...
Which is mostly soft-science made up, and changes when the politics/ideology changes...
I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS'24
If I look at my Gmail SPAM folder, there is very rarely something genuinely important in it. What there is a fair bit of though is random newsletters and announcements that I may have signed up for in some way shape or form that I don't really care about or generally look at. I assume they've been reported as SPAM by enough people rather than simply unsubscribed to that Google now labels them as such.
> How can some people think it’s amazing and has completely changed how they work, while for me it makes mistakes that should a static analyser would catch?

There are a lot of code monkeys working on boilerplate code, these people used to rely on stack overflow and now that chatgpt is here it's a huge improvement for them

If you work on anything remotely complex or which hasn't been solved 10 times on stack overflow chatgpt isn't remotely as useful
> What does it mean to waste data, something notoriously free to copy?

She didn't say waste data. It's a waste of many resources though, including energy and bandwidth, even processing power. Depends on what level of abstraction you want to look at it from, but it's definitely a waste of something.

It is possible to waste data though, but only by deleting it. It takes energy to collect and store data. This isn't relevant to the case though.
Train for what? For making videos? Train from people’s comments? There’s a lot of garbage on AI slop on youtube, how would this be sifted out? I think there’s more value here on HN in terms of training, but even that, to what avail?
What about if they fine tune it to do your job?
Just today I got Claude to convert a company’s PDF protocol specification into an actual working python implementation of that protocol. It would have been uncreative drudge work for a human, but I would have absolutely paid a week of junior dev time for it. Instead I wrote it alongside AI and it took me barely more than an hour.

The best part is, I’ve never written any (substantial) python code before.
Thank you! My work laptop is a M4 Macbook Pro so I really appreciate the beauty of Rosetta. Thank you for the effort!

I just checked your LinkedIn and realized you joined Apple since 2009 (with one year of detour to Mozilla). You also graduated from Waterloo as a Pure Math Graduate student (I absolutely love Waterloo, the best Math/CS school IMO in my country - at the age of 40+ I'd go without doubt if they accept me).

May I ask, what is the path that leads you to the Rosetta 2 project? I even checked your graduate paper: ( https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/4bc518ca-a846-43ce-92f0-8... ), but it doesn't look like it's related to compiler theory.

(I myself studied Mathematics back in the day, but I was not a good student and I studied Statistics, which I joked that was NOT part of Mathematics, so I didn't take any serious Algebra classes and understand nothing of your paper)
Good for you. Just wait and see...
You don't know these people
We’re talking about Facebook here. You shouldn’t have the assumption that the platform should be “uncensored” when it clearly is not.

Furthermore, I’ll rather have the picture of my aunt’s vacation taken down by ai mistake rather than hundreds of people getting PSTD because they have to manually review if some decapitation was real or illustrated on an hourly basis.
They are.

They’re just really really good at it.

That’s how ML is. “Prediction” is just another word for really really good guess.
Some quick thoughts while I finish my coffee:

- Decide who your audience is. You can't write for everyone, and picking a specific person (real or imaginary) keeps things directed.

- Decide the goal(s) of your writing. Three big ones: inform, entertain, persuade

- Get to the point (or grab the reader's attention) ASAP. Every additional sentence is a place where someone could stop reading - make them count! Consider the takeaway of someone who only reads your title and subheadings: they should either get the gist of it or be curious enough to read properly. Be ruthless about removing segments that do not pull their weight. (If you're anything like me, this is the opposite of what writing essays in school was like, and it takes a bit of unlearning)

- Take feedback, selectively. If you apply every suggestion you receive (from humans or automated tools) you'll tend towards the median, and that's just not very interesting.

- Narrative. Even if you're writing something purely "informational", everything is more compelling if there's some kind of storyline, however basic. I finished my coffee now btw.
> That doesn’t seem to be the case based on the study.

The study does not say that camelCase is unequivocally as easy, or easier, to read.

Selecting the correct identifier from a list of 2-3 words (expandAliasTable, expandAliasTitle, etc.) is a wholly different exercise.
Developer Hegemony: The Crazy Idea That Devs Should Run Software Development
Every little bit helps. What matters to our human being development is how we have tuned our heart to appreciate what we have and how we can positively affect those less fortunate. We should be moved to action, as you are, by the misery of our fellow human beings.

Pink Floyd's "On the Turning Away" is a powerful anthem to how modern society's inertia runs in opposition to your heart's powerful compassion, the compassion we should all embrace.

Peace be with you, my friend. You are beloved.
GTO Preflop Trainer
A vision for a new WordPress era
Practice makes perfect. While you're practicing though, consume content on improving the skill. Don't let that take the place of practice though. Write a lot. If you're not good yet, write more. Keep writing until you are.
I'm not OP. I've got an iPhone and two iPads and a Mac in the house. I'm asking for OP, who has no i-devices and wants to know if an airtag would be useful anyway.

> Can I buy an AirTag, initialize it with the help of a friend who has an iPhone, and then locate the AirTag or ring it from my PC with this Python lib?

Ringing it might be an unusual case for you, but it's exactly what OP was asking about.

(It's also by far the most common use case for this category of device for me. I misplace things all the time and it's super convenient to not have to wander all over the house looking for it.)
Incredible HN comedy gold. YCombinator makes $500k investments into companies to revolutionize industries but $2B to charity "wouldn't make a difference"
If this was the case then Facebook shouldn’t be liable to moderate any content. Not even CSAM.

Each government and in some cases provinces and municipalities should have teams to regulate content from their region?
The article really lacks a discussion on the granularity of this “change log”. Do you write “worked on db project” or do you detail progress and failures?

I keep a daily log at work (not public) and sometimes it just says “project 1, project 2” for days on end. Not really useful to look back at, but still nice to jot down in the morning.
Automating Graphical Overlays for Financial Visualizations with LLMs
Original title is "Developer Hegemony: The Crazy Idea that Software Developers Should Run Software Development"

I abbreviated it a bit due to HN title lenth limit.

Old post that didn't generate any discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783681
What am I actually paying for? Is it "the entire speedometer" ie. 24/7 100% utilization of the advertised upload/download capability of the link? Why not?
I remember seeing finder running on NeXT at a Halloween party at he Omni group in 1999.
That was a cool experience.
That’s a loaded statement. In terms of directness, how do you decide which people to help? In terms of scaling, how do you know that if everyone did what you do, the resources would actually flow to all parties according to their needs, rather than towards those that are best at reaching wealthy individuals?
I know human beings and understand the human condition.

And you don't know what I know, friend. You have not read what I have read, or learned what I have studied, or mingled with the folks I have.

Humility is the key to learning; it's an excellently necessary place to start.
Scaling an army of rock swingers is a lot more work than giving one person an AK47 (when all who would oppose them have rocks).

(Thankfully in the US we worship the 2A and its most twisted interpretation. So our toddlers do shooter drills. /s)
The ones who use it extensively are the same that used to hit up stackoverflow as the first port of call for every trivial problem that came their way. They're not really engineers, they just want to get stuff done.
As someone that runs a profitable FOSS business, you can indeed get paid well for FOSS. Just be better than the status quo by a lot. Thankfully it is a low bar.
Whenever I read replies like these, I feel jealous of people who dropped out of college yet still managed to land a job in tech.

In my country, the Netherlands, it was almost impossible in the late 1980s to land a tech job other than a low-level service technician (read: roadie or cable guy) if you did not have at least a bachelor's degree or higher in a tech subject or a degree from a technical community college. College dropouts were turned away before even getting an interview, and bankers would rather commit suicide than finance tech startups founded by anyone without an appropriate college degree.

Times sure have changed.
For anyone who hasn't seen what this comment is referencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
> Humans can render other humans unrecognizable with a rock.

They are much less likely to.

We have instinctive repulsion to violence, especially extending it (e.g. if the rock does not kill at the first blow).

It is much easier to kill with a gun (and even then people need training to be willing to do it), and easier still to fire a missile at people you cannot even see.
It wakes a ton of people up rhat thought they could righton,righton with different decorations. Its going to be worse, the moment trump is revealed as a failure when it comes to system takedown ..
Poll: Are middle-managers and directors the problem at where you work?
In my personal experience -- from empire-building, to bad hires, to gaming metrics, to focusing on multi-quarter initiatives while things are on fire, I seem to find middle-managers & directors are often the group who seem to be most often the issue at a bad company. This has been my experience about half of companies, from startup to faang.

Let's see what the community at large thinks.

[Edit: To vote, click on an up-arrow below]
Yes, most of the time
Often, at least 25% of the time
> Meanwhile, no one answers this because they are getting value.

You're literally doing the same thing you're accusing of. Every HN thread is full of AI boosters claiming AI to be the future with no backing evidence.

Riddle me this. If all these people are "getting value", why are all these companies losing horrendous amounts of money? Why has nobody figured out how to be profitable?

> Please take the time to learn, it will give you value.

Yeah, yeah, just prompt engineer harder. That'll make the stochastic parrot useful. Anyone who has criticism just does so because they're dumb and you're smart. Same as it always was. Everyone opposed to the metaverse just didn't get it bro. You didn't get NFTs bro. You didn't get blockchain bro.

None of these previous bubbles had money in it (beyond scamming idiots), if AI wants to prove it's not another empty tech bubble, pay up. Show me the money. Should be easy, if it's automating so many expensive man-hours of labour. People would be lining up to pay OpenAI.
A lot of young people who don't know their ancestors are interested in genealogy. (Adoption, immigration, war refugee). People who have so much genealogy already built into their life via a large family don't need to be consciously into genealogy, because they're already immersed.