skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In another comment I briefly mention one use case I have been implementing with LLM's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434886

I'm being vague with the details because this is one of the features in our product that's a big advantage over competitors.

To get to that point I experimented with and prototyped a lot using LLM's; I did a deep dive into how they work from the ground up. I understand the tech and its strengths. But likewise the weaknesses -- or perhaps more apt, the use cases which are more "magic show" than actually useful.

I never dismissed LLM's as useless, but I am as confident as I can possibly be that LLM's on their own cannot and will not put programmers out of jobs. They're a great tool, but they're not what many people seem to be fooled into believing that they are; they are not "intelligent" nor "agents".

Maybe it'll be a bit difficult for juniors to get entry level jobs for a short while due to a misunderstanding of the tech and all the hype, but that'll equalize pretty quickly once reality sets in.
one more thing. It comes with a huge library of use cases already covered. So you don't necessarily need to write any new instance.

You would need to do that only if you have your own proprietary CRDs or some use case that is not already covered.
> and there won't be a rebound

Why are you confident of this?

There's plenty of small high-fertility sub-populations, why not just assume they'll become dominant?

Dunbar's number is small, suggests that the influence of society doesn't need to be considered at the level of an entire nation or even an entire city.
That 2% figure is under the Lizardman Constant of 4%, the number of people who will say just-plain-stupid stuff to a pollster.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lizardman%27s_Constant

There are ways to justify that answer. One can believe in the moral tenets of Christianity, while also believing that its supposed leader was a fiction, or a conflation of real people. You can see the story as a myth, which is not the same as fiction. I don't know any such people, but it is a realistic version of Christian theology.

But I suspect it's mostly just cranks lying to pollsters.
4.0^(20+20) = 1.2e24

Assuming that, over history, a billion Jews have lived and spun a dreidel a trillion times, it's safe to reject the null hypothesis of this being random and accept the alternate hypothesis that G-d exists and He wanted you to lose.
And sometimes even bank transfers (I believe at least FPS in the UK used it, or possibly still does).

Also don't forget about prepaid cards, charge cards etc., depending on where they exist in your personal ontology of card funding methods ;)
Agreed.

With any such service, I budget 1 hour. If I can't get cancellation within that time-frame I have a standard form letter that gets sent out.

Once the letter is sent, after the current billing cycle ends any additional charges from said service are disputed (either on the card or on bank account) as fraud.

On three occasions, I've been asked to provide proof of fraud.

I've emailed a scan of the cancellation letter. The fraud has never been further disputed even from a gym in Chicago that (via their contract's language) demanded an in-person cancellation.

Life is too short and time is far too precious.
What you are referring to is the velocity of money. Compared to wage income the velocity of money from capital is quite low.
Isn't that going into the other extreme though?

You can get very far with just sales and marketing, but if the quality isn't there, reputationally, that's going to catch up with you over time, same if you have dodgy business practices (i.e.: predatory pricing practices for existing customers, impossible cancellations etc.).
Why is this the responsibility of GUI toolkit developers and not app developers? There's nothing stopping app developers from making a separate version for their app designed specifically for accessibility. This results in a better UX for the users and the toolkit developers.
I agree with you, but look at it this way: Life is hard, and most of us need to work hard to keep it going. It's never going the other way for most of us. Some minority will have it easy/have luck. Many will fail.

Sure I want to win the big prize, that's why I'm playing the lottery from time to time. But in my $dayjob, it is and it will stay hard work.

If it actually would be easy, everyone would do it.
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> Slavery in the new world isn't really comparable to chattel slavery

That's not relevant though, it's a good example of a foraging culture practicing something completely unlike pre-Marxist communism. My point is that this was a highly stratified culture that raided neighbors for slaves and held them as personal property and symbols of status. Its a perfect counter example to the notion that anything like communism was a norm among non agrarian cultures.

> stratification doesn't necessarily imply non-egalitarianism.

That's a very different goal post. Egalitarianism is clearly a spectrum and even at one extreme it isn't synonymous with proto-communism.

> One-vote-per-person elections, for instance, as you see with the Haudenosaunee

The Haudenosaunee practiced agriculture so they don't demonstrate anything about "hunter-gatherers". I'd also like to point out that their "Mourning Wars" show something about as far from egalitarianism as I can imagine. Ritually sacking neighboring towns to torture and kill people to find cosmic justice for your own towns dead is... well hardly friendly. With respect to women in the Five Nations, they did in fact own land, homes, and various small goods and the lands and homes were hereditary. This is not pre-Marxist communism.

>In fact, this is discussed in the first few chapters of Dawn of Everything—see the bit about how the natural economy allows people to basically walk away from coercive social structures, especially in high-resource areas like wetlands and river deltas.

Right, but that isn't communism or even really related. Yes you could clearly just fuck off before the world was so full of people.

> Anyway, as I think you can read, I wasn't arguing for ubiquity, but rather the existence of it or a comparison to the social stratification we are forced to deal with today.

It's an interesting set of comparisons, but it's really apples to oranges. I'd certainly rather live in the US today than to be a neighbor or slave of the Salish people or to be captured and tortured to death by a Haudenosaunee war band. I'm happy to not have to bow to a Natches sun king. I think if you read The Down of Everything more carefully you find that the message is not that people in the past necessarily lived freer lives, but that their social arrangements were more experimental across time and place, and that there were more different ways of living. Some were at times and places freer in some key ways, but it's hard to generalize. Moreover all of the talk about pre-Marxist communism just feels like a warmed over attempt at historical materialism which is a dead idea.
genuinely impressed by your tact and quality of response to such a weirdly hostile message
What make you think that majority of that 8 billion population is worth to drain?
It's the singular worst piece of software I've ever used.
This is a hideous tone that will do nothing but antagonize proud citizens and sour voters on the idea of generosity.

Thoughtful discourse is predicated first on basic respect.
I understand where you’re coming from, and ideally, we strive for well-managed Kubernetes environments. However, as DevOps practitioners, we often face complexities that lead to stale or orphaned resources due to fast deployment cycles, changing application needs or teams. Even the public clouds make lots of money from services that are left running and not used for which some companies make a living helping clean things up.

K8s-cleaner serves as a helpful safety net to automate the identification and cleanup of these resources, reducing manual overhead and minimizing human error. It allows teams to focus on strategic tasks instead of day-to-day resource management.
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I also believe that, as a broad trend, life gets harder, scarier, and more painful as you age, especially once you pass some critical threshold. Your personal experience of life colors your view of those around you, so you begin to think "the world is worse" when what you probably should think is "my life is worse".
Out of curiosity, I tried submitting the first 200 pages of the PDF he used to my new tool that I also submitted today [0] to Show HN, ( fixmydocuments.com ), and it generated the following without any further interaction besides submitting the PDF file:

https://fixmydocuments.com/api/hosted/m-moires-de-saint-simo...

I think it's not a bad result, and any minor imperfections could be revised easily in the markdown. My feature to turn the document into presentation slides got a bit confused because of the French language, so some slides ended up getting translated into English. But again, it wouldn't be hard to revise the slide contents using ChatGPT or Claude to make them all either French or English:

https://fixmydocuments.com/api/hosted/m-moires-de-saint-simo...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453651
Very interesting. I wonder if there is any study/evidence indicating PSP can happen to somebody taking metformin that does _not_ have T2D.
> If you don't know what the state of your app is, how do you prevent data corruption or logical errors in further execution?

Even worse, you might be in an unknown state because someone is trying to exploit a vulnerability.
> If you don't know what the state of your app is, how do you prevent data corruption or logical errors in further execution?

There are a lot of patterns for this. Its perfectly fine and often desirable to scope the blast radius of an error short of crashing everything.

OSes shouldn't crash because a process had an error. Servers shouldn't crash because a request had an error. Missing textures shouldn't crash your game. Cars shouldn't crash because the infotainment system had an error.
If you bought an Apple Watch and keep an iPhone connected to the internet, I'm not sure you've completely fulfilled your anti-Apple agenda. XD Still neat though.

You might also check in on Garmin watches. They have many of the same heart rate monitoring (though no automated emergency SOS) and work well with Android.

(Sorry to hear about your friend's passing.)
Well, tech companies claim that they cannot find good enough workers to fill their positions. But "good enough" is a subjetive classification. I can always create a test for which you are not good enough, it doesn't matter how much knowledge you have. And that's what tech companies have done for years. They'll aways craft a contrived interview process that will classify most people as not "good enough" and use this as evidence that there are not enough workers available, so they will get the opportunity to expand the pool of workers as much as they want.
This article was likely posted because of the drone sightings. People started looking more.
Every company talks about finding talent. VCs are very familiar with this because many startups don’t have familiarity with this stuff. It’s not surprising to have a VC help hire for roles the startup is unfamiliar with hiring for. An investor is not someone’s boss. Once they’ve handed over the capital, they’re very invested in making sure that there aren’t any blockers to the company’s success.
See response to sibling. Why is this the responsibility of GUI toolkit developers and not app developers?

EDIT: Also, how is this different from any other cross-platform API like POSIX, sockets, TCP, etc?
It just takes the negotiation power from the employees though. The question is, whether it’s more important to make the employees happy or the businesses. Both have valid cases.
Why not bring down the entire server if you detect an error condition in your application? You build things in a way where a job or request has isolated resources, and if you detect an error, you abort the job and free those resources, but continue processing other jobs. Operating systems do this through processes with different memory maps. Applications can do it through things like arenas or garbage collection.
The best people are in no small part a product of their environment. You can have the best people but with no resources they won't be productive.
In this video we create an Audio Spectrum with C++ and the libraries: SFML and FFT
Don’t forget typing in English is also outcome of processing all the context.

Also not so conscious context like „I am writing a reply on HN not on Reddit - making obvious silly pun about cats is not going to make upvotes - making quasi intellectual comment about subconscious processing should earn me some”.
I used to have a Logitech mouse that allowed you to reconfigure some buttons to use shortcuts and things like that. Plus it lets you see if the battery is running low, which I don't think the out of the box drivers do. But for basic mouse use you don't need it.
So do app developers. The reason everyone assume this is the responsibility of GUI toolkit devs is because it's a meme. See response to sibling.
Some of them have software controls for hardware behavior (like optical sensor polling rate and scroll wheel clutch mode) that no OS has built-in support for, because these features are not part of the USB HID standard.
I highly doubt this. It feels like just another symptom of what they're describing here about memory versus present experience. Ask me if I think Trump seems nastier than Reagan and yeah, he does. But that's because I have a living impression of both of them and I was a child when Reagan was president. I can't say Putin is nastier than Stalin, or Trump is nastier than Andrew Jackson. Macron isn't worse than Napoleon. Merkel isn't worse than Hitler. History has some really shitty, nasty leaders in it, and I can't look at today and say this is worse than notable really bad times.
The static “papers please” mindset killed the Soviet Union and many other empires before it. Americans somehow managed to avoid it for over two centuries. I know you don’t want my opinion, but you probably shouldn’t give up on that achievement so easily. It’s not just about immigrants — the mindset infects the entire society. This was the fundamental edge you had over Europe and you’re throwing it away.
It's compelling to everyone who doesn't randomly want to lose access to all of their online accounts. Everyone who doesn't want the police turned on them when they haven't done anything wrong. Everyone who doesn't want to be wrongly labeled a criminal for the whole world to see. That's basically everyone. If you want these things to happen to you, just like they did to the parents in the NYT article, I guess you'll be the sole exception. But why?

Also, Richard Stallman? Where did that come from? This has nothing to do with free software at all. I'm also capable of drawing my own conclusions without someone else whispering in my ear, if that's what you're suggesting.
Is this bad due to the hypothetical loss of diversity? ie, it'd be better if there were a mix of Indian, Chinese, Brazilian, Mexican, etc immigrants, vs only immigrants from a single state in India?
Anyone with gains on stocks who makes $250k (200k single) and sells shares at a capital gain pays NIIT. This has been the case since 2013 and the threshold is not indexed to inflation. I would guess a significant fraction of commenters here have indeed paid this tax (myself included).
I spent a summer in NYC once as an intern. And, not having a Hamptons option, I was definitely reaching out to Princeton and Greenwich friends on August weekends to visit.

And Northeast cities, even into mid-Atlantic, are nothing especially delightful in the winter if snow isn't your thing.

That's what I've lived with most of my life and I've been mostly fine with it. But if you're with some version of a Bay Area climate or bust, you may not consider it acceptable. (And even a "Mediterranean climate" gets pretty hot in a lot of places in the summer many places.)

There's a reason that people who can afford to and want to put the energy into migrate locales from summer to winter.
Or the person working that role before you did and you are trying to manage the situation as best as possible.
Curious to learn more about this, re pricing limits in today's corporate world.

What do most managers have access to on their corp card in terms of spend limits, without needing to get VP/finance approval for their purchase?

In my mind, I had the limit as $500/month (potentially from some old readings on the subject).
Fair question.

In general, custom configuration on both mice (DPI, refresh rate, etc) and keyboards (tactile response settings [See https://wooting.io/], hot binds, etc).

It's a nice to have (almost to the point of necessity) especially when you go to LANs and need a consistent way to load your settings on a computer that's not yours.
It would indeed be bad if it was systemic. The link seems to suggest it's only certain cells that have influence over blood sugar (the gut, liver, etc).
The Forever Problem
Whether you agree with the politics or not, owning your content and publishing (in as much as one practically can) is always going to be better in the long run for both readers and writers.
America does not owe the world a green card.
> an opportunity to remind the requester that there are real costs associated with their unnecessary demands

Well first of all it's not up to you whether this is an unnecessary demand or not.

The district response is clearly in bad faith. There are 21,514,288 emails related to her request over a 6-month period? REALLY?

REALLY? Do you really think so?
I haven't seen Anora so I'll give you that one, but you cited that as if it was just one of many examples, when in fact I think it's the only one, as all the other descriptions seem reasonable.

Originally the problem was supposedly that it would hallucinate complete and utter gibberish, but now here we are quibbling over one example and insisting that maybe it's not quite as good as alternative descriptions.

The gap between what was produced and what you're looking for is small enough that I think it could be covered with some slightly tweaked prompt instructions.

I'm not saying you're wrong but want to note how the goalposts keep seeming to shift whenever we talk about these capabilities.
I don’t know what dialect this is written in, but can anybody translate it to engineer? What type of problem are they trying to solve and how are they going about it? (Is this DRM for AIs?)
I would recommend going to some online NA or Smart Recovery meetings. At the levels you probably took it at (I think I’m making a good assumption here) it’s most likely prescription pill abuse - addiction. What you are feeling right now is withdrawal. You reinforced the behavior with working with a drug and now the drug is gone. This is the same thing people that get off any drug/alcohol are going through right now, and you will find solidarity and support in those groups.

There are literally online zoom meetings 24/7, google around. You don’t have to say anything, just listen.
In most cases, most usb wireless hid-devices auto-bind on most linux distros, but some models of mice/keyboards do require wireless pairing after a battery change (they may or may not be Bluetooth.)

It is an "install if needed" utility if your mouse seems dead after a battery change or wireless power cycle. =)
Very cool to see all these quality of life improvements. I haven't kept up with Java for several years. Still, the dependencies thing seems like an issue (as it is in Python)

Deno has been my go-to scripting tool lately. Similar benefits to Java as used by the OP, but it also allows you to import dependencies directly by URL, which means you can have your script self-define dependencies without a separate manifest file
Do you have some reason to think I am?
That's why you replace those features with things like a local mqtt broker. That way devices communicate only via the local services. I tried doing real time video first because it's widely assumed to be the hardest.

Multicast is widely exploited for fingerprinting by smart TVs, unfortunately, much as I think mdns is a beautifully elegant idea.
Sony's Beyond Sports on How 'The Simpsons' Funday Football Came to Be
Maybe the creators purposefully designed the game to take forever and keep the kids occupied, so the parents could spend time debating Talmud without interruption.
As long as the approach is rigorous scholarship in good faith (is it?), it shouldn't matter too much.
There's a MIT license in both source files, but I added a copy of it to the project root for those that have this constraint. Thanks!
Source?

Metformin is one of the most widely studied drugs on the market. I can't find any study that links it to PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy).
> Okay, I have interviewed hundreds of people in the last decade, and I can tell you that most are not good enough.

Me, too. I straight-up disagree; I think interviewing is just so broken it gives a false impression of quality issues in the labor pool. Realistically if you have a handful of core skills you can ramp up to basically any problem with enough time. That's time on the order of months, maybe, not years. Companies just don't want to bother training anyone anymore. Why bother when you can just complain endlessly and hope some politicians throw cheap labor your way? In that sense you're absolutely right, but the whole "quality" thing is completely unrelated.

> I have been successful in liberating money from VCs and create jobs, and I want the best people that money can buy.

I think people seriously overestimate the difference engineer quality makes. Most products can be built with mediocre talent. I'm sorry, that's the truth. We all love to have strong opinions on who we should hire and I say "almost anyone, just throw meat at the problem". Most problems are solved with time and not cleverness.

Startups are definitely more sensitive to quality, but startups don't make up much of the labor pool, and they don't pay competitively with much larger companies that don't need the quality.

I'm being a little hyperbolic here—you do need people with experience and ability to see red flags to lead the flock—but not by much.
do you know the specific term, or does your intellectual honesty prevent you from saying that you do?
Those small high-fertility clusters are still embedded in society as a whole. Their kind are converted at a far quicker rate than they can make kids. The Duggars won't have 400+ grandchildren, for instance, despite having 20+ of their own.

The Amish, for instance, though somewhat insulated from the "conversion", buy and use John Deere tractors. What happens when the rest of the world is gone, do you think they'll start building them in factories for themselves? (And if they did, would their fertility remain high?)

Yeh, confidence above 90%.
Various restaurant operators have experimented with what you described but haven't succeeded. The big issue is that servers hate it specifically because owners use the additional revenue to "pay a decent salary to their employees. " This generally includes all the employees, not just the formerly tipped ones. The kitchen staff ends up getting a significant pay bump, and servers get what amounts to a cut in their take-home pay.

At the higher end, the labor market for waitstaff is competitive, and restaurant operators who have experimented with this have had trouble keeping server positions filled (with the opposite effect in the kitchen).
Some just learn to ignore news gossip.