skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I am Naman Bhoj a research-based grad student at the University of Calgary.

Here, we have a web tool that conducts literature reviews for you like a human being would.

Here is a demo video: would love to hear your opinion and suggestion.

Demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Jjd_ASxHmkbe2LQfM2cPfuSTdG...
If your ceo saying “utilize” instead of “use” is your most trenchant criticism of your ceo, consider yourself blessed. Better to let this one go.
I used to think that but I've changed my option in the last couple of years. I think be bar for a bare bones app is starting to get so high you can no longer afford not to think of it as an entire platform from day one. I think AI will make this bar even higher.

The other thing is apps mostly work now. Even 10 years ago people (including devs) would tolerate a flaky application. Now days everyone expects five-nine uptime and zero data loss and seamless cross platform functionality.

If you start off with some "toy" version you fool yourself into thing this idea is not as hard as it sounds. Then once you hit the wall of production reality you start to realize just how hard something is going to be in production and that's why the market is still open for your idea. Its why there are so many profiles on github with tens or hundreds of abandoned projects.

There's probably a lot of greybeards out there that will say all you need on a computer is a terminal and emacs. They might be right but you cannot scale/sell it and everything in-between is just a compromise.
What you've said echoes the concept behind the quote "I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one." This, or some variation of it, has been around for quite a while. I think this reveals a fundamental truth about knowledge based work that is inherent to humans. Purposeful simplicity is harder than accidental complexity.

> This approach of course takes more time and requires that your management trusts you and is willing to compromise on timelines.

I would say that most management and even most programmers don't see the value in this. In my experience focusing on simplicity gives much better long-term results but it has higher and more unpredictable upfront cost. Blasting code onto main is seen as being more productive even though long-term it seems to have much higher overall costs.
Unless you are Taylor Swift, it might be time to leave “era” behind. The term’s overuse has made every fleeting moment feel like it demands a historical marker. Leah of Holland, Michigan submits, “Thanks to the name of Taylor Swift’s tour, now there is an ‘era’ for everyone and everything! ‘He’s in his fatherhood era’, ‘She’s in her pottery-making era,’ etc., etc.. It’s overused and tiring.”

I’m moving on to “aeon” now.
It pretty much is the logic — except replace digital media with paper.

It’s also “why” research papers can’t have color pictures or tables of raw data — because they’re expensive to print.

Scientists internalised their limitations and treat these as virtues now.

Limited space in printing means you have to “get in”, and that exclusivity has a cachet. They also now advise each other that photos are “not real science” (too much color!) and raw data shouldn’t be published at all.

I was making a joke to highlight how inane this is in an era where I can keep every paper ever published on one hard drive.

The same people that complain about negative results or reproductions not getting published will defend these limitations to the death.
I'd be happy if people on HN would drop "Learnings." It just shows you never learned the word "lessons."

Somewhere on the internet I once ran across a HN BINGO card. From memory:

Walled garden
Regulatory capture
An unreasonable...
So...
Period. Full stop.

There were a bunch of others. Enough that the grid was expanded beyond B-I-N-G-O.
Every new laptop I've touched in the last few years just makes me more sure of my decision to ride out this thinkpad from 2013 until the poor quad core can't keep up with the web.

It's had no failures at all in its life apart from the battery. My two year old work laptop went in the trash after its USB ports all died.

This thing has been around the planet twice and it just keeps going.
Predicting Protein Function with an "AI Biologist"
Connect to a USA server over RDP or SSH, read Gutenberg ebooks and watch movies there :D
But drugs and firearms have very different risk profiles for other people. Perhaps it bears repeating: US lax gun laws and culture which glorifies violence leads to an order of magnitude more violent deaths than comparable countries in Europe.
RAG with Redis
I have to say that, looking at the films from 1930, I am a good deal more excited about next year: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000050037/

Man, what was in the water in 1930.
I tear apart medical and other machines to recycle parts. I do often see 3d printed parts inside commercial machines, probably because they are making so few of them and it's more economical to just print a couple specialized parts.
I think H1Bs should not even be required to hold a job at all. The offer they initially receive from the "sponsoring" company is useful to prove high skill. At that point, they get a fixed amount of time in the US and if companies (whether original or other US companies) want them to work, they have to convince them to work with pay, benefits, working conditions, etc. This would put H1Bs on a closer to level playing field with US talent - there would no longer be a bargaining power advantage to hiring from India over Missouri.
They are not looking for talent, they are looking for cheap labor.
The US overflowing with talent but they are not cheap, because the US is not cheap.
H1-B is just a pipeline to flood the US market with workers, at the end of the day, the only winners are the billionaires and millionaires.
As someone who uses mitmproxy and swagger quite often, I actually think the name isn't so bad. I haven't even looked at the readme but I already know what it does, how to run it and what output to expect.
The Z Machine and Glulx parsers are not that simple. Ditto with PAWS and clones.
I disagree in this situation, although I understand your logic. The surviving corporations with large foundational models will be the current big tech mostly. These large companies should be regulated like utilities or public agencies, because they’re that powerful and influential and don’t face real competition. The owners of such corporations - each have a right to speech as individuals, separate from a corporation.
I was expecting to see detailed photos of the house itself, but this is even cooler!
IIRC, the decision was that it in a block is only ever called without arguments, e.g. map { it * 2 }, and it in Rspec is only ever called with arguments, e.g. it "describes a test" do ... end. So it ended up being a non-issue.
HN has, within a few years, become one of my primary sources of information for all things related to technology and many other intellectual topics. Not least because of the many knowledgable commentators. Happy (20+25)² to all!
I got quite a few points and I don't even live in SF!

- Slept on a mattress with no frame - I had a long "Who's even gonna know?" phase

- Attempted a sauna - I've been in one at a hotel that had one

- Drank Soylent - It's good for conventions

- Explored the quality of AI girlfriends - I tried ERP with a local Llama instance, it's not great. Total RAM hog too.

- Taken Adderall to boost productivity - Prescribed Adderall, even

I haven't written a "date me" doc though. When I sit down and really think what I offer in relationships, it's hard to recommend that anyone should date me lol

I got a 94 / 100. I don't know if that means I'm very pure or very online.
"I've never met anybody that used Alteryx"

I have! It's a pretty good no-code/minimal-code graphical ELT+Analytics in one tool. It's one of those alternate-universe tools that has it's own way of doing things from everything else in the industry, but it’s pragmatic and the people who use it tend to love it.

The one thing that makes it viable is that is has/had (pre-acquisition) very aggressive compatibility with anything else that can hold data, so you can use it as a bolt-on to whatever other databases or files your company has.

Despite what the PE press release about the acquisition says, it has virtually nothing to do with AI, at lease in the modern big NN sense.

If you're looking to fix your giant pile of alteryx workbooks or migrate them to something else, hmu
The monochrome GEM TOS and the Mac did it fine.
I’ve engaged National, state, and, local officials on climate change. I’ve influenced my congressional representative to co-sponsor legislation, and I’ve influenced my city council to hire a consultant to do a benefit to cost analysis on energy procurement to reduce community wide emissions. I work a full time engineering job, I do my climate work for free on my own time.

Some of my take aways.

* Find your friends and allies on an issue. Got broad agreement on something with your community, adjacent communities, bystanders, and your enemies too! Have lots of meetings, go to other groups meetings. Get meetings with elected officials with your allies. I’d say six people is the sweet spot. Represent as much diversity in those people as possible young/old, rich/poor, etc etc.

* Come to the table with solutions. If you’re seeking the vote of someone for something already in the pipeline, that’s an easier ask than say getting them to introduce legislation. If you need to introduce something, best to adapt similar legislation/ordinances in place someplace else. The more track record a policy has, the better.

* Try to make change as local as possible. You’re much more likely to get meetings with city council members and county supervisors than you are with federal policy makers.

* Build relationships with staff! A lot of elected officials are focused on the connection to constituents, they’re not focused on policy, the staff make things happen, policy advisors are in a pivotal role to advocate. Getting staff on your side is almost required to get policy moving.

* If someone is already doing something, it’s easier to plug in and support their work rather than to duplicate effort. To that end, if you’re looking at advocating on tech issues, my suggestion would be to check out I Am The Calvary [1], which is grassroots public policy advocacy org that grew out of DEFCON.

[1] https://iamthecavalry.org/
>> stored at global variables

This is an interesting (and correct) perspective. Global variables scare us in software but we are ok with it when it comes to application state stored in a db.
> Did you not read the article? This is just a 100k+ self immolation as far as they can tell.

I did read the article as it was initially published. But near the bottom of the article it says it has been updated multiple times. So since I posted my question they have updated the article.

As a note you might want to read the rules on this site:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
The Insane IMAX Production of Interstellar (2014) [video]
New Zealand was the first country to enact that type of absolute-date smoking ban a few years ago, but was recently repealed.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38443957
You just imagine some little shit say these words to you in precisely the way that makes your fists itch to make a dent in their face.

That said, if your antagonist evokes the “little shit” vibes without you consciously thinking that, it’s probably only fair that you evoke “boomer” vibes for them. Well.

(It’s also apparent that “boomer” has evolved to mean any old fart.)
Oh, hell yes. The anonymous author of "The Unendurable Horrors of Leadership Camp" agrees as well.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2016/06/the-unendurable-...
Is this still true? I thought pounds are now defined in terms of kilograms (about 0.453)? Because kilograms are definitely a unit of mass, not weight. Or is the pound defined as some amount of kilograms at a specific point on earth, in a specific phase of the moon?
Totally fair to be skeptical; there's no way I can convince you that my coworkers would agree with what I've claimed here. I do still interact with many of the folks that inherited my code though, and on multiple occasions they've expressed how my services have been easier to work on than others.

Will also note I have no subordinates. In most cases I've handed these services off to teams with more seniority/higher rank than myself.

Re: documentation, I suspect the embedded C and adjacent systems you work on warrant docs more than the web app plumbing work that I do. I've done brief write-ups with some diagrams, but I wouldn't know how to document further without just restating what is already clear from the code.
He probably started out wanting to make just one pipe bomb but you know how it is, you get a great discount if you buy the ingredients in bulk. So he made his pipe bomb and then he had all these leftover ingredients just taking up space in his closet. And so he went ahead and made another 149 pipe bombs.
You are forgetting that the "traditional" factory robots are the way they are because of software limitations. Now that the foundation models have mostly solved basic robotic limitations, there's going to be a lot more automation (and job layoffs). Your traditional factory robotics are dumb and mostly static. They are mostly robotic arms or other type of conveyor belt centric automation. The new generation of VLM enabled ones offers near-human levels of flexibility. Actual android type robotics will massively increase demand for GPUs, and this is not even accounting for non-heavy industry use cases in the service industry e.g. cleaning toilets, folding clothing at a hotel. They are already being done by telepresence, full AI automation is just the next step. Here's an example from a quick google:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1h1i1z1/...
Xword it's also a software to do crosswords for Unix.

And these taipei icons looks pretty close to the ones from Xmahjongg and such.

https://www.lcdf.org/xmahjongg/
Roughly sorted by thickness (for the editions I own), these are among my favourites and arguably a good starting point

* Animal Farm - George Orwell

* The Fall - Albert Camus

* Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

* One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

* The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
For the unacquainted, this is based on the so-called Rice Purity Test:

https://ricepuritytest.com/

From the website:

> The Purity Test has historically served as a segue from O-week to true college life at Rice [University]. It's a voluntary opportunity for O-week groups to bond, and for students to track the maturation of their experiences throughout college.
There are multiple games stores fo PC. Next to Steam you have, e.g., GOG and Itch. How many app stores are there on iOS? And the phone app stores have every category of application, not only games. I doubt you'll find, say, Borland Turbo Pascal on GOG. And that's without going into so-called 'legacy' software. There was so much shovelware made for DOS that it almost makes the Apple App Store look like it's not a heinous garbage dump.

Actually now I wonder how many text editors have been made for PC, must be in the thousands.
I haven't really noticed this one. I guess I've missed out on the "era" era.
It's funny to think how different the equivalent would have been when I came here. Probably a lot more about the web (and open source) than about AI and cryptocurrency. That was, I guess, a full generation ago now!
Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
Actually, they're called by a different name. Shareholders.
There was lots of useful software written for it but I was totally blown away by the accuracy of the Phoenix port. Obviously, the graphics couldn't be replicated but even that was well done given the hardware limitations. The game mechanics were pretty close to the original.
I was about to ask if the DC could do the odd shading (fur shells, bloom) that SotC did on PS2. IIRC it used the vector units in addition to the GPU.

An SotC decompile would be killer...
After losing my shirt some years earlier I announced to my wife that I was ready to get into the buying shares again. She agreed, but only if I bought good ones this time.
More like: "Database license drama - a year in review".
https://archive.ph/WfeV9
Maybe a phone camera could be trained to recognize the objects and locations.
She uses gpt as an editor for her emails and web content. she’ll just say "improve this," she gets options for how she might say something in a different way.

When preparing for a summit, she gave it a list of broad topics she wanted to cover. Gpt generated a list of specific titles and descriptions for her talks. This in turn gave her specific ideas to write talks about instead of just the broad topic.

When she wasn’t sure about the sequence of her talks, she asked GPT for advice on the order. GPT suggested an arrangement that created a logical flow and the reasoning for that flow, which ended up being pretty good.

She often uses gpt as a sounding board for ideas. She said she likes having an always-available colleague to bounce thoughts off of.
Reading this reminded me of how much South Bay is different from SF.
re: that Paul Dirac book, were there any atomic scientists during WWII who wasn't a mystic?
“They’re toasting Admiral Nelson’s ship (HMS Victory) and its valiant crew, hailing the ship’s successes and Nelson’s heroism. In other words, the singer is offering tribute—“success unto the Victory”—to the vessel and its famed sailors, and “glory to the captain” who led them, namely the celebrated Admiral Horatio Nelson.”

…but to your point, no idea if the artist intended some more obscure reference.

o1-pro was also able to produce a relatively complete version of original source, though, amusingly, referred to it as a ‘broadside’ rather than ‘broadsheet’. Appropriate given the context!
I hope there's revived interest in tooling too. The DX I've found is its weakest point, especially on windows
I never thought I’d see a discussion about the Underwood NIL drama on a databases blog post but here we are.
Sure, when it's switched off, which is the only way you're getting 15 hours of battery life from a Macbook air.
Groovy has had “it” for a while. I suspect it predates Kotlin’s usage.
> the youngest boomers are 60 now and in practice I see the term used against people younger than 60.

In those cases the term isn't being used because the speaker is attempting to accurately identify the age of the person they are referring to. It is name-calling.
For you, perhaps, but not for me.
Yes, but most other engines are much larger scope and fundamentally different purpose than LÖVE. DragonRuby, however, is in the same camp: code-first, scripting language (Ruby vs Lua), beginner-to-expert friendly. So my point was there are (at least one) project(s) very similar in purpose and size/scope to LÖVE that did solve for cross platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
CommonCrawl archives robots.txt

For convenience, you can view the extracted data here:

https://pastebin.com/VSHMTThJ

You are welcome to verify for yourself by searching for “wiki.diasporafoundation.org/robots.txt” in the CommonCrawl index here:

https://index.commoncrawl.org/

The index contains a file name that you can append to the CommonCrawl url to download the archive and view.

More detailed information on downloading archives here:

https://commoncrawl.org/get-started

From September to December, the robots.txt at wiki.diasporafoundation.org contained this, and only this:

>User-agent: *
>Disallow: /w/

Apologies for my attitude, I find defenders of the dishonest in the face of clear evidence even more problematic.
>Do you have some examples of additional freedoms we're missing currently?

Freedom from gun violence for thousands of US children annually?
Let me interject for a moment to tell you about our lord and saviour, “leverage”.
I live in Canada, own house and pay property taxes. Cut the BS. You know what I mean under own. Yes ownership is limited but even limited it is much better than throwing away extra dosh to some middleman I do not give a flying fuck about.
Yeah, E1M9 is notoriously hard with a pistol start. I immediately recognized it ... which speaks to the amount of time I spent on Doom in my youth.
Which for certain types of applications ORMs absolutely have their use.
"Works on my desktop" is about the most useless thing you can say when comparing good and bad experiences that different people might have.
That’s your H100 and A100’s GPU memory, not too sure but I imagine many AI practitioners would not find that a weird number
Good memory.

But very platform dependant, so maybe OP is on a browser or OS that doesn't let you do that.

I know it works on Chrome for me, but not on FF.
Probably a healthy dose of lead, arsenic, and all that other goodness.
Thank you! I am indeed very fortunate to have a great manager.
> puff piece biography played into image of renaissance man and helped to elect him as shadow cardinal.

I doubt that Isaacson was an important part of this strategy. People with the kind of money Musk has will lionize themselves and use whoever is convenient to achieve that. They're also capable of buying themselves into politics without even having to perform this step and you can be sure that Musk isn't the only one, just the most public of them.

> Man without empathy who turned to be a personality disorder level manipulator.

He clearly has empathy or he would not be particularly good at manipulation.

> And how corrupted with power and money it may destroy the planet and all of us and have no remorse doing that.

The typical Hacker News hyperbole may feel good to participate in but it only obscures the actual truth. Our current set of political challenges extend far beyond Musk and into much more powerful and well armed people. This is all a bizarre tech bro side show.
No the laptops met my needs perfectly. They were cheap, and they ran fully up to date operating systems and the latest software. The issues with the university are issues with the university.
My maternal grandmother was a psychologist. I grew up watching pop-psychology become a thing and it drove her crazy. I thank god she passed away before "toxic" became wide spread.
I live in LA and have kids and haven't really been part of the scene and still scored 66.