skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Remember, though, that those children still need to be cared for after birth, and that requires humans.

I think AI and robots would make human involvement minimally necessary, be it basic physical care or education.
Yes. If the AI is not integrated with the IDE, it's not as helpful.
If there were an IDE plugin that let you use a local model, perhaps that would be an option, but I haven't seen that (Github Copilot allows selecting different models, but I didn't check more carefully whether that also includes a local one, anyone knows?).
Bloomberg was the best mayor NYC has had in a long time. The less wealthy ones have generally been far more corrupt.
Having thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, I can tell you that most thru-hikers are pretty awed by the people who have racked up serious miles section hiking a week at a time. Regardless of where home is for you, at some point the logistics get challenging. Most of Maine, for example, is miles and miles from a useful
airport, and even bus service is pretty sparse. It wouldn't be hard to spend as much time getting to and from the trail as it would be to actually hike/ride it.

A couple years ago, my wife and I thru-hiked the Long Trail. We looked pretty hard at taking a bus to the start, but couldn't come up with an itinerary that took less than two days. Her parents ended up both driving us to the start and spotting our car at the finish. The finish is in the middle of goddamn nowhere; the start is near a fairly large city in western MA. It sure seemed like it should've been easier.

For our honeymoon, we did a couple hundred miles of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. The nearest place to the start to return a rented vehicle of any sort was a neighborhood U-haul (as in, not a corporate location; think a gas station with a couple trucks). And then we still needed a 1 1/2 hour shuttle ride to Old Forge. We spotted our car to the end of the trip and threw our boat in the back of the truck to get to the start.
Most superfund sites of any state, decades of chemical industry and now pharma, and also peaches not really liking how north NJ is, mostly. Jersey's a wacky place, for sure, but believe me, the politics in New Jersey get even crazier than this due to boroughitis.
> What benefit do you gain in daily life by having the time down to the second?

I commute by public transport and am sometimes cutting it fine, so knowing whether it is hh:mm:05 or hh:mm:55 does make a difference in how much I have to hurry up sometimes.
Here is the perspective of a serial founder, exploring fields which I might be able to disrupt:

- The regulatory moat is immediately intimidating.

- The data moat, often, is quite surmountable as long as LLMs can generate high-quality synthetic data (e.g., user preferences). On this I disagree with the author, to some extend.

- The "distribution moat" is another significant barrier. Even if I have a superior product, if the marketing and sales demands are so high that neither I nor an army of bots can manage it alone, the business becomes nonviable (e.g., enterprise sales).

- "Switching costs" form the next moat. The higher these costs, the greater the value per dollar I must offer over the incumbents (e.g., software for dentists).

- Another key barrier is the “business rules” moat. Achieving 80% of the required features may be easy, but as customers demand 90% or 95%, the complexity and cost of reverse engineering grow exponentially. The more mature the market, the higher these demands (e.g., Jira).

With the power of LLMs at my disposal, I have reaffirmed two core beliefs:

1. I must focus on a niche small enough, so that I am the only provider. (e.g., accounting software for gym owners in the north of France)

2. I must offer a value proposition different from that of the incumbents, where competing with me, would harm their business. (e.g., image editing app where you pay per hour used)

So my search continues…
You have to go back ~20 years to when congestion pricing was introduced. To my eyes, the change has been dramatic.

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-02-what-are-the-ma...
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Drug Company to Share Revenues with Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes
Not any more complicated than passing parameters to a function.

If that is actually the case, there is an issue with your component design.
I'm talking about economic mobility, not social mobility.
The one that does not convert C# at all and asks you to just optimize it in C# instead (and to use the appropriate build option) :D
I'm not convinced about that 10 cheaper a year.

Larger models need more memory. I'm willing to bet that most of the tier 1 providers rely on multi-GPU models to serve traffic.

None of that is cheap, 8x GPU nodes that serve less than 20 queries a second are exceedingly expensive to run.
> “how destructively eccentric Jobs could be”

I miss Steve Jobs. He was clearly an asshole at close range, but at heart he was a humanist and a bit of a hippie. He made money but also left the world a better place.

Such a massive difference to today’s crop of tech billionaires like Thiel, Andreessen and Musk.
Reflecting on my first year as a founder
Yes, definately. I find the lack of discussion about time frames as totally unserious. Their starting assumptions could be all valid if clairvoyantly made in the 90s and they'd still be utterly useless in helping startups make decisions for that decade. However, if they knew there would be significant breakthroughs in the early 2020s, well that'd be something else. Though you know, they'd have to find some random ways to stay alive until then.

Bezos is making assumptions about human behavior in that quote, and those assumptions seem instantly obvious to any human who is asked, regardless of their experience or expertise with any business whatsoever. There is no instant validity possible with the AI assumption.
Also: security. Does this feature imply that merely building someone else’s program executes their code on your machine?
Article's date is in the future:

2025-02-02
Anecdotally, my local (UK) brewery’s most profitable beer is their alcohol free one. Partly this is because it’s priced the same as their alcoholic beers, but they pay no duty!
2000 people per hour is really not that much. And reducing density will not buy you much - density itself doesn't mean anything. If you have a suburb with 50 000 people living there and an office park with 25 000 people working there (both not particularly high numbers), you get a traffic flow of 25 000 people moving both ways, during rush hour. That's grossly simplifying things, but you should be able to get the point.

What would buy you much is mixed neighborhoods (aka: the 15 minute city - everything you need for your daily life is within 15 minutes walking distance), because this will eliminate many trips. But mixed neighborhoods work better with higher density - because a supermarket in a low density place cannot be within 15 minutes walking distance.

Also: This is about NYC. How would you even go about reducing Manhattens density to a level where no road is used by less than 2000 (or 4000) people per hour during rush hour?
>f you’re designing a new op-amp circuit, here are some decent, all-around alternatives made in the 21st century

None of the listed opamps would be an alternative to where an LM324 or TL071 are typically used - low cost, 20V-30V supply, infinite/guaranteed availability.
They are 5V only and cost 10x as much.
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You're talking about economic mobility specifically in terms of income. I am not.
to me its always amazing how people look at whats evidently obvious to me and say its profound.
True, but when you have overwhelming bipartisan support of a sovereign government. Not impossible, not even difficult.
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I watched this movie a couple of days ago and it really touched me. Might be that we just got a cute little cat. But the story-telling, visuals, animations.. It was just so very beautiful.

Please go see it.
Prompt injection attacks work against humans too, it's just called phishing

If you set up a system where a single human can't cause $200m to go missing, then you can give AI access to that same interface
I've followed progress since Moravec's "When will computer hardware match the human brain?" since that came out in 1997. It starts:

>This paper describes how the performance of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace
that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory capacity
necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain are estimated. Based
on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is
predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s.

and this is about the first personal unit that seems well ahead of his proposed specs. (He estimated 0.1 petaflops. The nvidia thing is "1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision").

(paper https://jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.pdf)
Of course you get pushbacks. Is there any *real* advantage, technical or otherwise, at an organization level, of adopting this new model of creating web pages, other than your personal preferences? You are moving away from an established system with tools that everyone is familiar with, to a system that much fewer people use, with no clear performance/maintenance/management benefit (at least not demonstrated). Maybe you don't like writing JS/TS, but plenty of other people do, and they don't need to cater to your preferences.

People need to spend time learning this tool. They need to be proficient with it. Your new stack might need to still work with existing code at some point. That means training, overhead, ramp up and potential risk in a less established area. Why would people do that?

You should be thankful you didn't get warnings from your boss for messing around instead of actually pushing features out.
In Poland in last decade there was huge boom of 0% beers
misdemeanor. up to 1k fine. if even exists in your state.

so toothless also.
There have always been poor people, but those poor people keep getting richer when compared with each other across time. Better to be working poor now than a king in the middle ages (in terms of access to information, health outcomes, food quality, healthspan, lifespan, etc., etc., etc.).
I think it's pretty easy to see the statement is an oversimplification to the point where it loses pretty much loses all value. Bezos says customers want vast selection, but most would agree that the reason Amazon is garbage these days is because it's flooded with cheap crap. The selection is vast, but the pile of dung is so large that it's practically impossible to find a good product hidden underneath the rest of it.
YouTube populists are driving South Korea's political instability
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl
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I've been a Shutterstock member for years (not a big user, but I always like to make sure my blog posting images are legit, and SS has been good for that).

Hope that it doesn't change much for me.

Otherwise, I'm sure it will be OK.

Can't help but feel that this is a response to some of the AI image generation stuff.
is that web3 speak for "we wouldn't want you stealing from the people we are stealing"
I'll pick up a pack if I see it. The top quality the supermarket we go to has is Rummo, it's the next step up from De Cecco (in the supermarket at least) and I buy it sometimes, but to me there's not a hell of a lot of difference between the two for the price difference.
Is this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?
foobar2000 is actually available for Mac.
No, it's too cold. Also, as my wife and I get closer to retirement we want to do more traveling in and around the EU.
The developers they are referring to aren’t just enthusiasts; they are also developers who were purchasing SuperMicro and Lambda PCs to develop models for their employers. Many enterprises will buy these for local development because it frees up the highly expensive enterprise-level chip for commercial use.

This is a genius move. I am more baffled by the insane form factor that can pack this much power inside a Mac Mini-esque body. For just $6000, two of these can run 400B+ models locally. That is absolutely bonkers. Imagine running ChatGPT on your desktop. You couldn’t dream about this stuff even 1 year ago. What a time to be alive!
The greatest, most powerful, most successful country in the history of humanity.
What's "most places?" This is a traffic flow that's achieved routinely in about every medium size european city. And the way population is distributed, most people live in comparatively dense population centers, across the world.
Oh, these are really cool. Excited to see more of this sort of workflow in the wild.
LLMs Are Directing Open Source Licensing
> I'm curious what the driver for reproduction will be in the future once robots are capable of doing all the work

If robots are doing all the work, my bet is humans won’t be dominating for too long

Then if robots take over, and they spare us, the driver for human reproduction (for them to reproduce us) might just be to have pets
Meta drops fact-checking and loosens its content moderation rules
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/meta-drops-fact-checking-a...

Already adjusting for the new rules.
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I believe you don't mean to be rude, but you just sound completely naive to me.
To think that documentation includes everything is just, like, have you actually been coding anything at all that goes just slightly off the happy path?
Example from yesterday: I have a modular JavaFX application (i.e. it uses Java JMS modules, not just Maven/Gradle modules). I introduced a call to `url()` in JavaFX CSS. That works when running using the classpath, but not when using the module path. I spent half an hour reading docs to see what they say about modular applications. They didn't mention anything at all. Specially because in my case, I was not just doing `getClass().getResource`... I was using the CSS directive to load a resource from the jar. This is exactly when I would likely go on SO and ask if anyone had seen this before. It used to be highly likely someone who's an expert on JavaFX would see and answer my question, sometimes even people who directly worked on JavaFX!

StackOverflow was not really meant for juniors, as juniors usually can indeed find answers on documentation, normally. It was, like ExpertsExchange before it, a place for veterans to exchange tribal knowledge like this. If you think only juniors use SO, you seem to have arrived at the scene just yesterday and just don't know what you're talking about.
You're likely tossing out a random example on #1, but if that were a real idea, you'd need a good answer for: why can't gym owners in the north of France just use quickbooks or xero.
[dupe] official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627
Nvidia also brought Mediatek into the spotlight..
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627
Working prompt injections for frontier models are devised by applying brilliant pattern constructions. If models ever become useful for writing them, that would represent a massive intelligence leap and a major concern.

As things stand, with working injections becoming harder for humans, people won't be able to make a name for themselves on the internet extracting meth recipes.

My point is just that it isn't a fundamental flaw, or at least, there are indications that reasoning at test time seems to be a part of the remedy.
Syscalls aren't available to comptime code
I feel this pretty hard. You almost have to do your own 2.0 vision doc for things to make sure your name is on it in order to preempt the opportunists and influence pirates, but that can lead to you being seen as "hogging all the good work" and turning into the common adversary.
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i build and repair audio electronics and the tl071 is used in abundance in audio circuits and is a bad choice imho. But good opamps for audio are at least a few dollars
Isn't it off-topic? Or am I missing the relevance here?
> the "lazy is bad" crowd is ludditism in another form

Capital --> capitalist, capitalism.

Commune --> communist, communism.

Ned Ludd --> Luddite, Luddism.

Not "capitalistism" or "communistism", so not "ludditism" either.
Sure, we landed on the northeast Italian coast. We seriously considered Greece, southern France, and Croatia.

I don't think there is a single right place for everyone. Each person needs to do their own checklist of requirements.
Luxembourg has free public transit.
It’s doable as it’s what I use to experiment.

Ollama + CodeGPT IntelliJ plugin. It allows you to point at a local instance.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620278
> Does that give the instance any rights?

Our bar for rights is insanely high and made deliberately for humans only. It’s not really based on ability to suffer or anything, it’s really just about humans being special, and then pulling something only humans can do (understand the rights, in a word-way, and then extending that right to small children and those with mental issues who are not able to understand them), to draw an arbitrary line in the sand against other animals and mammals in particular. I’m not an animals rights activist or anything, just pointing out that it would be extreme hypocrisy to discuss machine rights before other sentient beings closely related to us.

> My country has regulations against torturing biological sentient beings.

Technically, is that a right of the animal or a prohibition on humans? Maybe it doesn’t matter.
This is simply false.

Business is a social resource allocation game. If you break the rules you will be punished.
Words need to mean something to be useful. In this discussion words like "awareness" and "consciousness" are being used in such an imprecise way as to not have useful meaning. They are sort of stand-ins for "alive" in a very rough way.

But some of these words do have usable definitions such as self-aware meaning able to distinguish between self and another or the environment (which vision language models like this one definitely can do). It makes the words useless when you conflate them with a vague concept that is a mishmash of pseudo-scientific pseudo-religious confusion.

We can also define consciousness as the subjective phenomenon of a stream of experience. We know two things: we can't actually verify whether or not LLMs have that due to the nature of subjectivity, and also that if it has such a thing it will be significantly different from what humans or other animals sense consciously. Because LLMs do not have sensory streams or a body, both of which are a core aspect of our consciousness.

They are also conflating autonomy with this vague concept. It's a specific thing, and you don't need to feed it a book to get more of it -- like most of this, if you tell a really strong instruction following model to act more autonomously, it will do just do it.

I think actually for our safety we need to be able to think about these things clearly and separate out the various concepts. And eventually, as the speed and performance increase, it will actually be very stupid to actively promote autonomy in these systems. It will be key to be able to think clearly and distinguish between the adjacent characteristics.
Interesting point, I'd believe it. I suspect the demographic that is driving instead of using public transit is quite small.

Driving for a commute isn't really possible in Manhattan unless the company provides parking. And those parking spots are reserved for executives. This group of people are price insensitive.

Passing through Manhattan can frequently save an hour of time in traffic elsewhere, those commuters will just see the fee as a higher toll.

All three major airports never tied directly to a subway, opting instead for airtran systems which create complexity and cost time. I suspect this causes a base level of traffic.
You're way overplaying the dangers of "crazies" and "the bacteria greenhouse" with respect to travel by motorcycle or scooter (or even automobile). I agree with your point that we should encourage these modes of transportation over cars, but I'd add it will be electric bikes that finally turn the tide on traffic congestion in cities (and all the other great benefits that come with doing that). Just don't tell the electric bike people that they're essentially riding motorcycles.
Great stuff! I only considered a use case without indexes because I generate them after doing the inserts. Something to cover in a followup article, potentially
Same as intercourse-free sex. A big business. But a sad one.
The NDA could say that by signing this I am to hand over my first born but it isn't enforceable. An obvious straw man example I admit but to make the point that signing a thing doesn't give a thing some kind of godly power.
I don't want one and neither do the majority of consumers. Hence why most people don't have media players anymore.
Downstream effects with generating compiler errors is still about the human programmer's ability to reason about the code, and error messages can only reference the identifier names provided.

The compiler doesn't do anything you, the programmer, don't tell it to do. You tell it what to do by writing code using a certain syntax, connecting identifiers, keywords, and symbols. That's it. If the meaning isn't in the identifiers you provide and how you connect them together with keywords and symbols, it isn't in there at all. The compiler doesn't care what identifier names you use, but that's true whether the identifier is for a parameter label, type name, function name or any other kind of name. The programmer gives those meaning to human readers by choosing meaningful names.

Anyway, zig's compile errors seem OK to me so far.

Actually, the zig comptime programmer can do better than a non-programmable compiler when it comes to error messages. You can detect arbitrary logical errors and provide your own compiler error messages.
When we feel dread we feel it in our body, like most emotions. LLMs definitely cannot experience emotions in the way animals do because they have no body or sensory experience other than text and images input.
That a very reductive view. Data shows that during the Roman empire, people moved on mass from hill forts into the flatlands (presumably giving better acess to agroculture, trade and water). We also see far more material culture, and not just for rich people. Huge amount of just common consumer goods, and this even streches far beyond the borders of the empire itself. Population also increased during this time.
So a guy who can donate $1 million to 8 causes each is trying to make me feel good about donating to the same causes?
Multi-Path TCP
I think internet discussion worked far better without fact checkers, where some of them cannot really be called accurate. The community notes are the better approach. They aren't always correct either, but it certainly is the better fit for freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Fact checkers are the authority approach that just does not fit.
What, no?

Please explain why the ability to establish an outgoing connection through NAT, when you already have a sidechannel, is a security issue?
Loads of other stuff is custom made... All those emails for example.

Maybe someone made the podcast for some other reason and never released it?