skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any evidence there that the government did this. Isn't it more likely this is a result of the US shipping all its manufacturing overseas?
Missing the days when you had to review bespoke hand-crafted nonsense code copy-pasted from tangentially related stack overflow comments?
But don't you think it's concerning if they're not even attempting to keep up with appearances anymore?
>If no one ever cared about airline quality, there would be no first-class or even economy plus class. And yet basically every airline has them.

I consider 95% of all people in a population to be the "close enough please shut the fuck up about it and be reasonable for once in your god damned life" threshold where "everybody" becomes an acceptable descriptor.

What percentage of people will ever, in their entire lives, fly first class?
I have no idea what that includes? For example presumably Chinese goods that Americans buy are excluded? What about shipping? Etc.
Thank you, I appreciate the new vocabulary. However, I still enjoy Schadenfreude.
I could really recommend Encore https://encore.dev/ that works best when you use their PaaS offering https://encore.cloud/ (think of NextJS & Vercel combo).

One can argue it goes against some of the Go principles, but it's a really nice stack for solos or small teams without dedicated SREs. And as you grow you can BYOC & deploy it yourself or completely rewrite your API layer using Go stdlib.

You would still need NextJS or Remix/RR7 for the front-end, but one nice thing is that it would auto-generate the client SDK in TypeScript which makes integration a breeze. And while I personally prefer Remix/RR7 for frontend, Encore has integration with Vercel PR feature which is really hard to beat.
Cars free me from the drudgery of walking to places but I still ride my bike to stay fit. You are an energy optimization machine and lots of your biology is use it or lose it.
wired is best, but for many it's not possible.

MTR is a good start, and easy to run on a chron job. Graph the results with excel
Have tried lots of open ones that I run locally (Granite, Smollm, Mistral 7b, Llama, etc...). Haven't played with the current generation of LLMs, was more interested in them ~6 months ago.

Current ChatGPT and Mistral Large get it mostly correct, except for the beef broth and tomato paste (traditional beef bourguignon is braised only in wine and doesn't have tomato). Interestingly, both give a better recipe when prompted in French...
it was qatari money that was passed to hamas through israel in suitcases (this is after PA stopped paying salaries in gaza after hamas takeover). not the other way around
Can I use this to host a Minecraft server?
I’ve used hamachi and zero tier in the past, and the former USED to work but stopped recently for some reason
This is the part I don't understand. Individually I don't know anyone paying for LLM's, only companies that are immediately pivoting to find reduced costs/internal options to horizon that expense.

Considering the massive cost and shortened lifespan of previous models, current gen models have to not only break even on their own costs but make up for hundreds of millions lost in previous generations.

As soon as they find a way to embed advertising into LLM outputs the small utility LLM's provide now will be gone.
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They will drop enormous amounts of details when generating output very often so sometimes they will give you a solution but it's likely stripped of important details or it is a valid reply to your current problem but it is fragile in in many other situations that it used to be robust in before
Ask HN: Why isn't there a startup that lets you pay to read paywalled articles?
As the title suggests, why is there not a single platform where I can pay once and access most paywalled articles? Currently, it seems paid newspapers are developing their own solutions, meaning I have to subscribe to each one individually to read the news. I’d much prefer a system where I make a single payment and can read individual articles or a selection of articles on demand.
I have all 21 of the Aubrey-Maturin novels and have read them through twice. At the end of the last time I mentally bid them a fond farewell, sure that I would never devote the time to give them a third go... but now I doubt my resolve on that point. Simply the best historical novels of the sea and the Royal Navy ever written.
Are you describing accelerationism?
Influencers are drug dealers, not drug users, and they're in this for the money, not for the high.
https://archive.ph/4hofR
Not mine but a client of mine. Consultants sold them a tool that didn't exist because the LLM hallucinated and told their salesperson it did. Not sure that's really the LLM's fault, but pretty funny.
doesn't seem like many people can come up with a specific and tangible example.
I suppose the only solution is to communicate with LLMs only through TOR and pay for them only via crypto?
Good luck finding testers.

I understand the concern with getting feedback from friends and family, you definitely want to avoid getting into a bubble. One thing you can try – don't ask for feedback, ask for complaints.

If you ask for negative feedback you're more likely to get useful information from them. Even better if you can be specific about what you're after. Questions might be something like: 'During the first five minutes when you were setting up events, what did you find confusing?'
The cheapest accommodation will usually not be listed on AirBnB or Booking, because of severe short-comings meaning the platform won't do business with them for any price.

As for Uber, I guess you're right in many regions. But there's a plethora of Uber competitors around the world, offering a worse experience for a cheaper price.

In 100% of cases, the cheapest product you can find will be of significantly worse quality than the second cheapest product, without bringing much savings. The rest is edge cases.

As you pointed out, I'm talking about reasonably mature markets.
Satellite phone services are coming, and Starlink will be first
Yeah sorry for the big paragraph in that initial page. I just did not want to leave anything out, which funnily enough resulted in me making silly mistakes.

Thanks for the comment! Essentially, when you sign up, you get access to a calendar where you can add tasks or events for the upcoming week. On the day of the event, the AI generates a response based on the task you created, giving you a starting point for when it’s time to work on it. If you'd like to modify the response, you can just chat with the AI. I thought this idea would be helpful since I often add tasks to my own calendar but struggle with procrastination. Having that extra push to get started seemed like a good way to help people get things done faster.

Of course, this is still a work in progress, and I’m definitely open to suggestions or feature ideas. Thanks again for your feedback, and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask!
Brief background: the Net-Zero Banking Alliance launched in 2021 and by now it includes the majority of large European banks [1]. The departure of Morgan Stanley means they are now less than a handful US banks participating (notably sustainability oriented ones like Amalgamated and Climate First).

[1] https://www.unepfi.org/net-zero-banking/members/
Consider the incentives you're setting up there. An API contract goes both ways, the vendor promises some things and not others to preserve flexibility, and the user has to abide by it to not get broken in the future. If you unilaterally ignore the contract, even plan to do so in advance, then eventually kindness and capacity to accommodate such abuse will run might run out and they may switch to an adversarial stance. See QUIC for example which is a big middle finger to middle boxes.
Alternately: what happens when a whole generation never gives up control and prevents most born after them from aquiring housing or currency by creating an regulatory environment and economy rigged to only benefit corporations they own? But sure, blame this on the youths again, as is tradition.
I think it plays differently before a jury. Juries can easily understand copying files and could potentially invalidate. But it's different when lawyers get to move the conversation to scary hacker garble about technical skill and intent. Evidence of intent is the real value.
the difference, if you're looking to dive deeper into this, is that English is a more analytic language, and Latin is a more synthetic language. In Latin you mostly alter the form of the words to match their meaning. In English you mostly change order and add auxiliary words to change meaning. I'm qualifying these with "mostly" because nothing is all one way or all another, generally.

Word order does matter a bit in Latin, but much less than it does in English. "Dog bites man" and "man bites dog" are different due to word order. In Latin you can write "canis hominem mordet" in _any_ order and have it mean "dog bites man" because that's the only thing those nouns in those cases can mean. To do "man bites dog" you have to say "homo canem mordet" (again, in any order). Conventionally, though, you end a sentence or a subordinate clause with its verb, and the subject that matches up with a verb is usually the one closest to space-wise.
Because it mostly works. If it’s good enough for 75% of queries, in most of the cases, that’s a tolerable error rate for me.
ChatGPT claims our service has a feature which we don't have (for example tracking people based on their phone number). Users register a free account, then complain to us. The first email is often vague "It doesn't work" without details. Slightly worse is users who go ahead and make a purchase, then complain, then demand a refund. We had to add a warning on the account registration page.
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I was on a Facebook group for SWEs (can't remember which one), and I had the distinct feeling a person I was engaging with was a bot. All his comments were boilerplate takes or non-sequitur replies, and he ultimately agreed with every point I made. I assumed I was just being paranoid, but maybe not.
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You also can also claim "puffery" in court when lying to investors about your progress on Full Self-Driving. That's definitely paid speech.
People thinking LLMs have replaced search engines is probably one of the most dangerous ideas today lol. They merely look similar, the functionality is totally different.
Many want those things, but that doesn't imply that offering yet another option for the median customer, imitating the average or market leader, is the optimal strategy either in our current economic/corporate systems or an idealized system with different rules.

Yes, there are economies of scale that come from chasing the middle, and yes, it's probably easier to just mimic an iPhone than to do the creative work to try to invent something better than what worked before. And yes, the tradeoffs, design goals, economic targets, and principles of repairability and customizability that go into, say, an F150 make those pretty popular trucks, but since Ford is still making F150s, and Chevy, and Dodge, and Toyota also have offerings that are direct competitors in that space, that doesn't mean that a hypothetical competitor can maximize their market share by making yet another F150.

Why does everything cluster into the same choices?
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I can do anything I set my mind to, and have done enough things over the course of a career to justify that statement. I want to do great things for an innovative company, and want to work with teammates interested in the same thing. If you've got something interesting, I'd like to hear about it.

Seeking a senior/staff SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.
chuckle If you are just over 55, you are GenX, not a Baby Boomer.

Our generation is so overlooked that they are not even able to falsely accuse us :-)
This is missing much, including that we've outsourced our manufacturing (and thus CO2 from manufacturing) but we still buy lots of stuff that requires intense manufacturing.
My mistake! I used to get 48xlarge in eu-central-1 for $2/hr but it could be luck for all I know, seems Spot pricing for these instances are fluctuating considerably: it's at $8/hr now.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/
Writing some tests then having the chatbot iterate until its code passes the tests is something I should experiment with. Anyone tried that?

...anyone been brave enough to release that code into production?
Mmm... China's pure EV revolution is still growing massively. But hybrids are also maybe a clever way to get round international tariffs?
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Myself I prefer they are honest about it. There's no value in a false sense of security.
It should be incumbent on Honey to check if these discounts are indeed public. 100% discounts would be an obvious place to start. Given that Honey claims to search the public internet for discounts according to their claims they can in fact do this.

At the scale and resources of Honey the claim of ignorance becomes unreasonable. It would help their case if they had a made a documented good faith attempt, but I think due to the obvious nefarious nature they would have avoided collecting such data because they wanted to continue the practice.

But as mentioned, I’m not sure how illegal it is despite the TOS but it’s clearly wildly unethical.
I am planning to build a muon catalyzed fusion reactor. Currently studying the possibility of absorption of hydrogen isotopes into the crystal lattice of certain metals, such as palladium, which can trap and localize these atoms at very high densities. As I believe, that one of the showstoppers is to increase of the density of the target.
The only hope I guess is that the local LLM stuff that Microsoft is pushing will actually work out. If inference is done on the device… well, at least using it doesn’t need to be profitable. Training it… I guess will have to be justified by the feature being enough of a value-add that it makes the OS more profitable.

Designing operating systems that people would actually pay real money for doesn’t seem to be a focus for anybody except Apple. But I guess there’s hope on some theoretical level at least.
It important to be aware of the significant progress that China is making in AI, robotics, and processors, and admirable that they are open sourcing so much of it.

It’s great work and an inspiration
AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, the first level) teach this info. If it sounds like a good idea you might look into grabbing a few, plus you'd have the benefits of holding certifications for a couple years. Best of all, no LLM content (yet).
ready for Y combinator
> I use an authorized_keys entry on the host that restricts the guest to running a specific command, which limits what a compromised guest can do to the host. The command is set to a script that has a list of specific permitted actions.

That’s a neat trick, thanks for mentioning this.

command="command" ssh-ed25519 ...

would be the authorized_keys entry and I’m guessing the script would read the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable to determine which action was intended.
This has exactly my experience. I use all the main models almost every day. I switch between them several times a day and compare and contrast their output. Deepseek is shockingly good! How they got there with a relatively small budget is mind blowing.
> I was increasingly outsourcing my thinking to LMS. It took me a few months to figure out that that's actually harming me - I've lost my ability to think through things a little bit.

Been saying this for a while since the early LLM consumer facing products launched. I don't want to stop thinking. If they're helpful as a tool, that's great! But I agree, users need to be mindful about how much thought "outsourcing" they're doing. And it's easy to loose track of that due to how easy it is to just pop open a "chat" imo.
Yep, I've adopted that mentality. Finally. I wish it hadn't taken me so, so long. My wife even commented that I'm much less on-edge, much less prone to find the negative in things. It's sort of like a switch inside of my brain has been welded permanently to the off position, it's pretty wild how it only takes 2-3 weeks for the brain to sort itself out after many years of being stuck in some cycle.
> loves both the tactile feel and clacky sound

Loving something doesn't necessarily imply wanting it to persist all the time in all the situations. I love to endure extreme heat for some minutes in a sauna but hardly want to live and work there. I also love tactile feel an clacky sound of some mechanical switches but hearing the clack millions of times per day doesn't sound appealing. And having to apply even a minuscule amount of extra force so many times with finger muscles not designed for this doesn't sound safe.
I think “keeping up appearances” is too subjective to be meaningful. It seems like something that someone will always think they aren’t or are, so you have to poll people or whatever to figure it out. So it will lead to me chasing something I can’t know well.

I’d rather avoid these sort of meaningless labels and just focus on doing what I think is important.

Like it I wanted to reduce climate impact and I was a bank, I would set up a page that lists all the ways I impact climate.
>Online, it was undermined by troll farms

Meh, the conversation had already been undermined by that point. People discussing politics already ceded the conversation to people who liked fiery arguments. The posting farms were just convenient scapegoats for flameposters to explain why they weren't winning, and try to salvage some reputability.
> Learnings

Sounds like something from Borat
I didn't see the more recent post, so thanks for the link.

I should say that I'm still in grad school (nearing the end), so the decision hasn't been made yet. The direction I'm thinking is away from academia.

I love the academic environment, access to university resources and close proximity to lots of domain experts. However my experience as of late has been pretty isolating, as my group is almost fully remote despite nearly everyone living in the same town making motivation difficult some times. I also sometimes miss exercising my practical engineering skills, as my current work is entirely analytical/simulation. Overall its been less rewarding than I had hoped.
What kind of quantization are you running locally? I've noticed that for some areas it can affect the output quality a lot.
A reasonable interview process is huge - avoid the Leetcode charade.
Good clarification, but I still think it's a good idea that might've helped op here
Yes, but there's a 99.9% chance they can't hire you, because you live in the wrong country :-)

What I would do is look at local governments, at local municipalities. They often have public calls for bids for software projects, like digitizing some forms or processes. Stuff that's too small for big corporations to care about. Look at the companies that apply for these projects. They're often small, local, stable, and starved for good software engineers.
Discussion (9 points, 1 day ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564508
I see so this may be semantics then as the article agrees with intuitive decision making. I think I understand where we’re saying the same things. I will consider replacing my terminology in the future, thank you!
Absolutely! I think this was kind of what OP was driving at with the suggestion to "start demanding better of others." It doesn't work to expect they should do better from their own motivation, we need to fix the broken incentives and consequences that result in those bad decisions being attractive.
Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought
After criticizing Israel he was "invited" over there, was completely deferential and wore the symbol of the Israel army in interview.

Sorry, a real antisemite wouldn't do that. What likely happened is that his comments were taken out of context and deliberately misinterpreted by the "left" (i.e., corporate and establishment friendly) media.
Ask a LLM to spell "Strawberry" one character per line. Claude's output, for example:

> Here's "strawberry" spelled out one character per line:
s
t
r
a
w
b
e
r
r
y

Most LLMs can handle that perfectly. Meaning, they can abstract over tokens into individual characters. Yet, most lack the ability to perform that multi-level inference to count individual 'r's.

From this perspective, I think it's the opposite. Something like the strawberry-tests is a good indicator how far the LLM is able to connect individually easy, but not readily interconnected steps.
> it's the best car I've ever had

That's going to be true for many car sales. People don't usually downgrade on cars, and there is real progress on car features over a typical period between buying cars. It'll be especially true if a brand like Tesla where most if their sales are coming from people who previously owned significantly cheaper cars.