skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or worse, lets reinvent the database, but not call it or think of it as a database.

Or even worse yet, lets reinvent the filesystem then host it on top of a filesystem.
Slow Horses is a great spy series.
the greatest Futurist of our time was Alfred Toffler cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler

His books, Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990) represent peak prediction literature based on a philosophy that since 1950 we've entered the Third Wave (first wave being neolithic => agriculture, second being agriculture => industrial, third wave being industrial => post-industrial)

If you read this article and got interested in this kind of thing, check out Toffler. Nearly everything he predicted has come true (minus us mostly living in underwater dwellings, which in his defense, hasn't come true YET).
This happens with every inane hype-cycle.

I suspect people don't particularly hate or despise LLMs per se. They're probably reacting mostly to "tech industry" boom-bust bullsh*tter/guru culture. Especially since the cycles seem to burn increasingly hotter and brighter the less actual, practical value they provide. Which is supremely annoying when the second-order effect is having all the oxygen (e.g. capital) sucked out of the room for pretty much anything else.
Impossible lvl
imgur_com/a/zm7IuNX
Can't a chrome extension easily do this?

Or a simple userscript with tampermonkey: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgff...

Example: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/11057-block-youtube-users
What is funny is that their "lead" is just because of inertia - they were the first to make an LLM publicly available. But they are no longer leaders so their attempts at getting more and more money only prove Altman's skills at convincing people to give him money.
Very Sad to see Claude Sonnet not included. Deepseek is now a good competitor too. Hoping to see something similar for both of them. Is there anything available for it already?
Cool game. You should do a wordle like version with daily puzzles.
> Code hallucinations are also the least damaging type of hallucinations, because you get fact checking for free: if you run the code and get an error you know there's a problem.

This is great when the error is a thrown exception, but less great when the error is a subtle logic bug that only strikes in some subset of cases. For trivial code that only you will ever run this is probably not a big deal—you'll just fix it later when you see it—but for code that must run unattended in business-critical cases it's a totally different story.

I've personally seen a dramatic increase in sloppy logic that looks right coming from previously-reliable programmers as they've adopted LLMs. This isn't an imaginary threat, it's something I now have to actively think about in code reviews.
> Once you're larger than the fits-in-pocket form factor, your comparables include a straightforward deblobbable laptop

A laptop is NOT a comparable user experience to something someone can hold in their hand while on foot:

a USB touchscreen that is smartphone-sized can be used. The culmination of all of this is a very small backpack

> maybe you're aimed at Graphene enthusiasts

Very rich people and their families already have these kinds of solutions. Other people who are rich in other ways (hacker's mind and motivation) also already have these kinds of solutions.

Both of the responses above were already written in the parent comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557398

And also already written in a parent comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42559741

that has been demonstrated to work in production even for the most user-iest of users.

> with the radios isolated out over USB. Sure, that's always been possible...

And some people actually went ahead and did it. The core idea was not my original idea, it had been done already in one form or another (though not as refined as ours') quite long before. All my camp did was package it so that non-technical people could have something that "just works". Many of the users of these solutions are not technical at all.

A combination of USB and ethernet. In some of these setups the "radio" is a retail Android device that is connected to ethernet via USB.

> Then furthermore, this whole thing started with you condemning Signal itself

Nothing I wrote condemns Signal, but simply confronts the hard reality that Signal does not protect users because by virtue of the platforms Signal runs on de facto, Signal can not protect users. Signal can protect users on my camp's devices however, as was already explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556652

> because the whole mobile-first trust-Google teetering-on-the-edge-of-proprietary thing has always left a bad taste in my mouth

I appreciate that you landed on the some of the same answers that I and others near me did. The key difference is we went ahead and acted on these concerns.

> You still have not described your answer in concrete terms

I feel I have shared more than enough that a thinking person can put 2 and 2 together. I also already already wrote "I expect someone will be able to [release this information] in a proper way this coming year." here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42560339

Your limits within reasonably expected reading comprehension have exhausted my available patience. That said, relative to the rest of the world, we likely have more in common than not.

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> 3 years for a EE PhD is extremely impressive.

Sure, but to this day, it depends on the school. At some universities that's right out, at Stanford that's common (after a Master or two).

That wasn't the case for Chang but I feel that for some foreign students, it's due to them simply not recognizing that they could actually take their time and enjoy life and the out of this world campus and region. Some students feel pressure, of funding, of potential missed opportunity, of legal status, of acting on a bet that's WAY out of their home professional path, etc. Meanwhile some US students with no major funding problem often feel that there is all the time in the world, if only the university would let them.

For that matter, I bet Chang felt pressure to not be away from this career track at Texas Instrument for too long. He was doing this PhD as a requirement for a specific promotion.
WebTransport is now supported in most common browsers (just missing safari support) and provides a nice API for sending/receiving messages via UDP. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebTranspor...
> Every time I hear the PWA argument it's always what is in the best interest of developers not users.

I can control a web app through customizations to my browser in ways I can't with a native app. It's about user choice.
> if you run the code and get an error you know there's a problem.

well, sometimes - other times it'll be wrong with no error, or insecure, or inaccessible, and so on
Probably. But statistically to work with 4o is a lose of time for me. LLMs is like an investment: you write the prompts, you "work" with them. If the LLM is too weak, this is a lose of time. You need to have a return on the investment that is positive. With ChatGPT 4o / o1 most of the times for me the investment of time has almost zero return. Before Claude Sonnet 3.5 I already had a ChatGPT PRO account but never used it for coding since it was most of the times useless if not for throw away scripts that I didn't want to do myself or as a stack overflow replacement for trivial stuff. Now it's different.
It is possible!
I just watched it about an hour ago (same procedure as every year) and this time I was somehow amazed at how good the drunkenness is acted. I did quit drinking alcohol somewhat over 4 years ago, and watching him stumble really reminded me of my worst days in my teens. For a second it made me want to feel that imbalance again, but then I remembered the rest that comes with it.
just click the 3 dots on the video and somewhere in there you can click "I've already watched this"
Well, Uno (AvaloniaUI's competitor) uses WinUI 3 as a back-end on Windows. And NAOT-compiled Avalonia on Windows is practically native anyway. You can use both to build against macOS too if you want to target both major OSes. The offerings have improved significantly over the years.

But yes, I get your point, if you're not familiar with C# (or Dart or Kotlin for that matter), there is motly a one way out in the form of a web app.
Funny game, I don't know about the iq part.
> To use SQL effectively, you have to understand how databases work at the physical level -- what's a B-tree lookup, what's a scan, how these combine, etc.

This is a good reason to use an ORM. But also, as a ORM designer, don’t let the ORM be flexible to do any SQL. Only let it do performant data access.
Dunno I am pretty low IQ and these are really simple to solve. I don't think a mild cognitive challenge will raise IQ.
That proprietary format is owned by a company associated with folks who won two nobel prizes for AI related work this year and the employer at the time of the researchers who wrote the attention is all you need paper and also the owner of a search engine with access to like, all the data. Doesn't seem unreasonable lol
Dinner for One – Google Search
One big missing piece is the inability for me to put an "Install" button like I can on android. I don't want to have to teach old people how to add to desktop
Mmmm danger! Then let’s stop doing anything that is difficult?

If that is bot the message, what is that? “These things are hard, often don’t work, but GO FOR IT”?

I pretty much read: “try to avoid” which is bad advice in my opinion. Like “documenting SW properly while doing development is hard, and often goea wrong” so what?!
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Sometimes I'm seventeen levels deep in the debugger, the complete application state in my head, all the what-ifs and then-whats neatly in focus... and a coworker starts interrogating me about the game last night... Those moments of social interaction sour me right quick fast in a hurry.

That's about an hour of productivity lost right there, and now my motivation to start this work again is well below freezing.

I'm willing to go to the office one day a week. That's it, no more. Not now, not ever again.
For me it's Inconsolata closely tracked by Ubuntu Mono.

For some reason DejaVu Sans Mono wasn't in the contest.
I mean, I appreciate that distinction and don't disagree. And, if this is going to continue being a trend, I think we need more stringent restrictions on what sorts of resources are permitted to be consumed in the power plants that are constructed to meet the needs of hyperscaler data centers.

Because whether we're using tons of compute to provide value or not doesn't change that we are using tons of compute and tons of compute requires tons of energy, both for the chips themselves, and the extensive infrastructure that has to built around them to let them work. And not just electricity: refrigerants, many of which are environmentally questionable themselves, are a big part; hell, just water. Clean, usable water.

If we truly need these data centers, then fine. Then they should be powered by renewable energy, or if they absolutely cannot be, then the costs their nonrenewable energy sources inflict on the biosphere should be priced into their construction and use, and in turn, priced into the tech that is apparently so critical for them to have.

This is like, a basic calculus that every grown person makes dozens of times a day: do I need this? And they don't get to distribute the cost of that need, however prescient it may be, on their wider community because they can't afford it otherwise. I don't see why Microsoft should be able to either. If this is truly the tech of the future as it is constantly propped up to be, cool. Then charge a price for it that reflects what it costs to use.
Trim and face is the part thats really hard to learn, and do consistently well - also if you do trim and face well, you're likely untwisting too much wire to get it aligned correctly so it doesn't roll over in the connector while putting it on.

EZ RJ 45 does solve all of these issue, and makes for a reliable cable 100% of the time.
Firefox OS was around 600-700 people strong at the largest.
https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/1873520002306871358
Oh, and apparently Apple recently disabled PWAs entirely in the EU

Apple reversed that decision back in March [0] (expand "Why don't users in the EU have access to Home Screen web apps?")

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu
I disagree with exporting US culture wars, but the correct response to that is an eyeroll, perhaps a witty comment, and then moving on because it doesn't actually affect the game. The correct response is not to import the reactionary responses from those same culture wars: that is active participation in the culture war you claim is short-sighted.

For witty comments, I suggest an observation on how the response to "we have invented highly-artificial racial categories so we can maintain a system of structural oppression" is "members of all racial categories are equal, so let's make sure we hit quota in our mass media!" – though you might prefer something about cultural appropriation, or reading comprehension (maybe a dig at the US literacy rate, if you're feeling edgy and snobbish). A good witty comment reminds you, and those around you, that our problems are not their problems: to look at the problems we actually have, and try to address those, rather than export (harmful) solutions that address (admittedly, worse) problems we don't have.

Racism in the UK is bad enough, without adding US-style racism to the mix as well – and most reactionary responses to US-style antiracism are US-style racism. Don't play the game.
I didn't misunderstand anything.

If you're not changing any syntax and are just using normal function calls, that's an API and that's direct.

If you're not just using normal function calls and are making your own "semantic value through abstractions of the language" you aren't making something that is direct and are creating something that needs to be memorized.

The cleverness and indirection of the new stuff that hides what is really going on is 99% of the time not worth what it gives you, because you have to memorize this new clever thing someone came up with, then you have to learn what it is actually doing underneath that is being hidden.
I think British control worked more subtly than you imply. I'm not that up on India but I heard roughly how the takeover worked in Ireland. Pre British control Ireland was controlled by a number of local rulers of a warlord type who were endlessly fighting. The Brits basically contacted them and said ally yourself with the King and we'll protect you and make sure you have a good life, or oppose us and we'll team with your rivals to wipe you out. Thus most of them pledged allegiance to the British king with hardly a shot fired.
If you posted without the boastful and made-up claim in the title, it wouldn't be flagged now.

Edit: original title claimed it would increase your IQ
Every image host and social media app automatically strips EXIF data (for privacy reasons at minimum).
Author here. I think my opinion would be about the same as the authors of the stage0 project [1]. They invested quite a bit of time trying to get Forth to work but ultimately abandoned it. Forth has been suggested often for bootstrapping a C compiler, and I hope someone does it someday, but so far no one has succeeded.

Programming for a stack machine is really hard, whereas programming for a register machine is comparatively easy. I designed the Onramp VM specifically to be easy to program in bytecode, while also being easy to implement in machine code. Onramp bootstraps through the same linker and assembly languages that are used in a traditional C compilation process so there are no detours into any other languages like Forth (or Scheme, which live-bootstrap does with mescc.)

tl;dr I'm not really convinced that Forth would simplify things, but I'd love to be proven wrong!

[1]: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0?tab=readme-ov-file#forth
This just started, apparently. It will be interesting to see where it is in three months.
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Omg, I get it
Does this just include Apple originals or does it also include non-Apple shows and movies that Apple is merely the current streaming distributor of?
"Fun 5min game to engage your iq", maybe. And it's fine as such :-). Not everything needs to be "this one trick to increase your iq that doctors don't want you to know!"
Here's one of the ways to test IO
https://pypi.org/project/pytest-recording/

It can work very well in practice.
I’m surprised you only have one use case. I use LLMs to research travel, adjust recipes, check biographies and book reviews, and many many more things.
Why bother with an Everdrive on an Analogue Pocket? Mine has only seen a cartridge once, just because my partner happened to have an old GB game she wanted to see if her save had survived on, otherwise it runs entirely off SD.
California will require insurers to offer home coverage in wildfire-prone areas
So other ways of combining greater numbers of microbatch gradients in an effective/consistent manner for performing an update is one area of potential future work. I think your idea is an interesting way to approach it. Though there are a bunch of potentially effective ways of doing it.

I think the idea of averaging the k-models afterwards though is at odds with the core concept of gradient agreement filtering though because you're back at combining two distinct directions of improvement without a guarantee that the combination is better (even though it does seem to be in practice). The the core idea is that you philosophically only want to learn the patterns that agree across multiple specific examples and build some some algorithmic protections to ensure that is happening. Just averaging, while it might work and even yield improvement, but it doesn't necessarily lead to proper generalized learning.
The rise of the famous obvious Facebook AI slop indicates that some demographics love it.
Is there more to getting 'good' at them then just copying error messages back in? Like, how do I get them to reason about e.g. whether a data structure compression method makes sense?
Except that a thermostat doesn't "follow" anything. It is basically a binary response state: on or off (or high and low). Nothing further. Analog or digital, it doesn't follow anything.... It reacts instantly at a setpoint. Would you think an alarm clock is "following" the time, and turns the alarm on at the set time? Or is it a momentary switch at a setpoint....
This belief comes from confusing the singularity (every atom on Earth is converted into a giant image of Sam Altman) with AGI (a store employee navigates a confrontation with an unruly customer, then goes home and wins at Super Mario).
> Did you try learning HOW to get good code out of them?

That is at least somewhat a valid point. Good workers know how to get the best out of their tools. And yet, good tools accommodate how their users work, instead of expecting the user to accommodate how the tool works.

One could also say that programmers were sold a misleading bill of goods about how LLMs would work. From what they were told, they shouldn't have to learn how to get the best out of LLMs - LLMs were AI, on the way to AGI, and would just give you everything you needed from a simple prompt.
>I wish I could agree with you but the real world doesn't work this way.

The real world does work this way. Businesses make business decisions based on bottom-line impact, and businesses generally push back very strongly against governments whenever a government asks them to do things that will cause them to make less money and/or waste money.

>The "infrastructure" for the targeted updates is implemented by compartmentalized teams, who will be comprised of the clearance community, and the "external" people who work with them are a part of the clearance community.

I agree that would be how it would work if it actually happened, but I think you overestimate the appetite (and even ability) of big tech to have any desire to do this kind of thing.

If you are implying that there are teams within big tech companies who secretly do this kind of thing, even against the wishes of other engineering teams (including security engineering teams) within the company... well that seems like a recipe for getting some of the company's most talented and highly paid security engineers incredibly pissed off if they ever find out — and it's very likely they would eventually find out, because it would be extremely difficult to hide this kind of thing over time.
Simon has mentioned in multiple articles how cool it is to use 64GB DRAM for GPU tasks on his MacBook. I agree it's cool, but I don't understand why it is remarkable. Is Apple doing something special with DRAM that other hardware manufacturers haven't figured out? Assuming data centers are hoovering up nearly all the world's RAM manufacturing capacity, how is Apple still managing to ship machines with DRAM that performs close enough for Simon's needs to VRAM? Is this just a temporary blip, and PC manufacturers in 2025 will be catching up and shipping mini PCs that have 64GB RAM ceilings with similar memory performance? What gives?
There are definitely apps, which could be websites, e.g., using the coinmarkecap app doesn't make any sense in comparison to the website.

But there are many things which cannot be done sufficiently on the web, e.g., augmented reality, tracking gps in the background, accessing a users calendar or phonebook, Bluetooth, scheduled notifications, etc...

In general there is something called app fatigue. Convincing somebody to install an app is difficult these days, even if it's free... Let's see what the future brings for app development.
Apps also:

Require devs pay a tithe to the app store owner

Are less able to be customized, reverse-engineered, and controlled by the user

Are subject to arbitrary, vague, constantly shifting, opaque app store approval rules

Require constant updates just to continue existing, since the platforms they target don't care for backwards compatibility, and are constantly releasing updates

Are hostile to open source projects that have limited resources, as those represent a drain on the system, since they generate no revenue
And if a thermostat is conscious, then so would an alarm clock be...