skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember back in 2012 I was working for UPS as a package sorter. All along the aisle were leftover machines covered in dust and grease. They were all leftover from a time when some bright spark tried to automate package sorting.

The idea seems pretty easy at first. Read the label, send it to the correct area. But if you work at it for a few hours you realize how much skill it takes to do properly. Labels are obstructed, damaged, crossed out, and modified. I've seen boxes with 5-6 different labels all in various states and defaced in various ways.

Then comes the part where you need to get the packages from the input belt onto the correct outputs. Every package was a different shape, size, and condition. A lot had broken open. Some were nothing but masking tape in the shape of a mushy bowling ball. We would then often have to buffer the packages while one belt went down.

I would sometimes spend hours thinking about what it would take to automate my $15/hour job and just kept coming up with ridiculously complicated robotic projects with AI that is only possible now with extremely expensive computation. Even then it would need a ton of human supervision.
> Maybe the kid really is that good, but it's more likely that the dad was willing to sacrifice a bit of his company's time to support his son.

I haven't looked to see what position the son has at his father's business or the nature of the business itself so I can't comment on specifics. I will say, however, that it isn't uncommon for parents to employ their kids under the table for below market wage commensurate with their lack of experience. If a job gets half done for a quarter of the cost (no taxes, benefits, etc) then for many people it's a win, not to mention that the employer/parent has a captive employee and the employee/kid has early job history and walking around money.
This article isn't about the financial stress of the company, it's about the financial stress of the boss. Layoffs and restructuring are a response to financial stress of the company but not to that of the boss.
I think a more robust approach would be to restrict the generative AI to generating summaries of book texts. First summarize every book (this only has to be done once), and then use vector search to find the most similar summaries to the provided summary. Small mistakes will make little difference, e.g. "goblin" will have a similar embedding to "demon", and even entirely wrong information will only increase the number of books that have to be manually checked. Or better yet, develop an embedding model that can handle whole books at once and compare the vectors directly.

Perhaps somebody with more compute than they know what to do with could try this with Project Gutenberg as a proof of concept.
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I think I learned more about chaos theory by hacking a first person Rössler attractor "rider" into xscreensaver (instead of the usual Lorenz attractor) than by any other thing.
Musk is becoming a James Bond villain right before our eyes.
(2020) Or at least it was first submitted then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706739

Discussion in 2022 (322 points, 149 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33006523
It's also interesting that years of trying on Twitter and Reddit failed, but asking on Bluesky succeeded. I'm certainly not claiming that Bluesky is some kind of great leap forward compared to Twitter. But it could be that being a new service it just isn't as crowded with bots, spam, and BS -- thus allowing the signal to come through.
This is a record amount, twice what they donated in 2020 and 2017. Trump’s inaugural fund has raised $170MM compared to $62MM for Biden in 2020, a new record.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-donors-6867ed2...
You are incorrect.

Vegans absolutely define themselves by not consuming any animal products, myself included.

"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."[1]

I don't know your individual circumstances, but based on your justifications in your post, you are not a vegan.

You can still be a vegetarian, an animal-lover, and a good person, but not vegan.

It is not extremist to have strongly-held ethical principles, and I hope this refutation is helpful to anyone reading both posts.

1: https://www.vegansociety.com/about-us/further-information/ke...
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This is awesome, think of the opportunity! 41% of companies will behave entirely predictably and will be ripe to have their markets plundered.
> you need a lawyer

Legal advice is part of working it out.
> I saw one big rewrite from scratch. It was a multi-year disaster, but ended up working.

90% of large software system replacements/rewrites are disasters. The size and complexity of the task is rarely well understood.

The number of people that have the proper experience to guide something like that to success is relatively small because they happen relatively rarely.
Maybe they can introduce OS API versions (if there's no such thing yet) and require new (or updated) apps targetting new API versions/newer SDKs to assume UTF8 by default? So everything below a certain API version is emulated legacy mode. Windows already has the concept of shims to emulate behavior of different Windows versions.
In this vein of work, I also heartily recommend Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" (1954), which arguably began the "campus novel" genre.
If it works (and has worked for decades) why fix it?
Windows does treat path names as just sequences of uint16_t (which is how NTFS stores them) if you use W-functions and prepend the paths with "\\?\".
Iceland Sees EU Support Rise as Government Promises Referendum
> Is the biggest problem that startups dont get enough help, or that there Arent enough startups? I think the last.

I disagree. There are plenty of startups. Most don't succeed. What makes you think that it's the latter?

> Its "on the side" for 5 minutes, or 15 years

In my limited experience, this is because marketing is bloody difficult, particularly if you're one person who's used to technical matters and has limited capital.

I like the intention though. I'm not so sure about going straight from a slick landing page into a somewhat shoddy google doc. At least clean up the grammar and spelling.
So I was just reading through a 1988 Swedish popular book on "data communications". Not a single word on Arpanet/etc. Many other network technologies and attempts at global networks described.

My point: "Internet" wasn't very well-known "even" in 1988 outside of well-connected places.

Book: Scandinavian PC Systems, Valentino Berti: "Introduktion till datakommunikation"
The examples you gave are much lower in scope than replacing an HVAC.... At various times I have done all of your examples. I do not dare to replace my home's HVAC system.
That would really give red flag warnings more teeth. "We said no campfires" kablam

Smokey would have a different tone too. "Only you, plus our array of guided missiles, can prevent forest fires."
While we’re speaking about future plant life, it isn’t necessarily looking particularly good.
I can’t help but remember the initial scenes of Fight Club
CFPB Approves Financial Data Exchange, Inc. To Issue Standards for Open Banking
World's largest pumped storage power plant fully operational in China
I could understand epic since I think that's mainly for doctors but don't most hospital systems use MyChart or similar portals nowadays to let patients access access their appointments/payment/lab results/doctor notes/etc
I always turn off the enemies when I play.
We didn’t create the browser with commercial success in mind — there’s no monetisation associated with it. Our goal is to address a practical problem faced by uBO Chrome users in a way we can. If it gains sufficient traction among them, and not only, we’d consider it a successful initiative.

Of course, using Firefox is a choice we fully respect. This project was created in the spirit of offering users users with more options.
While I agree that by going public on LinkedIn and HN scrutiny is fair game, he might still not want the scrutiny and/or be surprised by it.
I was throwing out a number. Clearly, my perspective is that we need more water-dropping aircraft than we have or that we are borrowing.
‘Handles are the better pointers’¹ is a related writeup that has been discussed here before².

¹ https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36419739
Granular is hard to get one's head around. If you imagined the universe was like a grid at the Planck scale somebody traveling at a high speed would get a different idea of the structure of that grid because

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction

There was an effort to square that circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_special_relativity

but it hasn't really advanced as a program. The question of "what is the meaning of the Planck length, time and energy?" is a big question in physics but doesn't have the urgency of "What is the neutrino mass term?", "Why is there so much matter but no antimatter?", "What the hell is the dark matter?" and such.
> the escaping rules for windows are so complicated (and can vary with configuration) such that it's not possible to do it securely

This is bold claim.

Is it not possible? Or not easy to do correctly?
I was wondering if the beta checkbox the same thing as setting the ActiveCodePage to UTF-8 in the manifest, but the docs[0] clarify that GDI doesn't adhere to per-process codepage, but only a single global one, which is what the checkbox sets.

Bit of a shame that you can't fully opt-in to be UTF-8 with the *A API, for your own apps. But I think for the issues highlighted in the post, I think it would still be a valid workaround/defence-in-depth thing.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...
> However I would argue an LLM will never built a trained model like stockfish or deepseek.

It doesn't have to, the LLM just needs access to a computer. Then it can write the code for Stockfish and execute it. Or just download it, the same way you or I would.

> True AGI or SI would stop trying to be a grand master of everything but rather know what best method/model should be applied to a given problem.

Yep, but I don't see how that relates to LLMs not reaching AGI. They can already write basic Python scripts to answer questions, they just need (vastly) more advanced scripting capabilities.
It doesn't make less sense than burning it just so the power company can't have it. By giving it away, I at least reduce CO2 emmissions further.
Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to describe your experience.
It's also not uncommon for many parents to employ their kids over the table at exactly or above market rate and let the kid develop experience and get paid at the expense of the parent's other employees. This is legal in most cases, but that doesn't mean that every parent would do it—I personally would steer well clear of this kind of arrangement to avoid even the appearance of nepotism.

With either type of arrangement, I think it does tell you something about the parent-child relationship, which in turn does influence how you should take the parent's testimony.
You may not know what the words mean within the cultural context, but that doesn't mean they don't have a precise meaning.
Doesn't work in Preview unfortunately.
It's a 4-page paper trying to give a summary of 40+ years of research on AI.

Of course it's going to be vague and presumptuous. It's more of a high-level executive summary for tech-adjacent folks than an actual research paper.
Maybe if one enjoys endless conversations with unhappy customers. Easier to simply isolate the PDF rendering/parsing and move on.
Costs since 2003 seem comparable (~62 billion for both). Tornadoes do outpace wildfires in immediate deaths 752 to 270, but the smoke from the wildfires kills 10000s more after the fact.

I've done a pretty bad comparison here though; there are a lot of differences between tornadoes and wildfires and the places they happen. What I feel confident in saying is you are very unlikely to be seriously affected by a tornado, even if you live in a place where they happen frequently. But if you live in a place where wildfires happen frequently, you're way more likely to be seriously affected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_by_cost

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245068810/wildfire-smoke-con...
> and don't sign anything!!

This. If asked to sign anything, say that you have to check with your attorney first.
USA to end restrictions on India's nuclear entities
> Also, the time one poster was spending “selling potatoes online” (literally not trying to be funny), he would be better off, spending that time doing interview prep and job hopping making more money.

this made me lol. you are being a dickhead so i will ignore that and defend myself in good faith.

i actually job hopped this year so i can make more money while spending less time selling my work to other people. it's going well for me, so good that i had enough free time to launch an ecommerce website selling sweet potatoes. this project was an experiment to see if there was a market for direct to consumer food and also a project to learn about shopify and google ads (for other business ideas which you frown upon so you might not see the value in this). it was also an attempt to work closer with farmers because farming and food is an interest of mine, and i'm from where they grow a lot of sweet potatoes.

so that time was spent learning and doing something interesting to me intellectually, which is never a waste of time. 20 hours of my free time (which, to remind you, i have extra free time to do this because of my overall career strategy where i earn a high hourly rate so i can work less hours each week) resulted in learning new skills. with 10 more hours of my time i've learned about food safety, organic regulations, shipping, managing physical inventory and cash, as well as learning about our food distribution system (which is totally fucked since there is a market for direct to consumer sweet potatoes). not to mention, the time spent has earned me over $100/hour.

can you please remind me, snarkily, again, why this was a waste of my time?
That was a lot of data with very little direction.

The only advice I was able to extract, is: "omnivores should strive to eat a variety of plant-based foods."
That drug is not a drug designed to put you to sleep though (I mean it kinda does, but that's not its purpose). The purpose of that drug is to change your sleep architecture during the night. I'm on the newer form of that drug (because of idiopathic hypersomnia) and most nights I still take 1–2 hours to fall asleep.
my hypergrowth hiring days are a few years behind me but fwiw I did read cover letters. Including one was an easy way to get to the top of my ATS pile. At the time, there was no AI generation so it was a decent signal someone actually wanted the job vs was just spamming. I was sifting through thousands of applicants for the few who would give a shit about our product and customers. That signal is no longer useful and you now have to use some AI countermeasures to cull the stack of applicants (or as you mention, ignore the stack and only interview referrals... 100% agreed that is the most effective way in).
The image filename contains SWIR which is a clue.

Several instruments can sense emissions in short-wave IR which light up for fires (and hot smoke plumes, and some industrial plants). E.g., VIIRS which is a successor to MODIS (https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instruments/viirs/viirs-...).

The resolution in the posted image is much better than satellite, however. This implies that it's an airborne platform like FIRIS (https://wifire.ucsd.edu/firis-in-depth). It also uses IR.
MyChart is Epic’s patient frontend.
> what kind of "algorithm" makes your upvotes not work

HN's voting system drops certain votes for a variety of reasons, usually connected to the anti-abuse measures we've built up over the years. That software is a vital part of why this community has survived as long as it has. I believe the community understands this.

> Dang also went through and downvoted every comment I have to oblivion

I downvoted one comment that broke the site guidelines and two offtopic comments about Hamas (of all things). Your comments got hundreds of other downvotes from regular users. That shouldn't be unexpected, given how badly you've been breaking the site guidelines.
You can also send out your emails via a relay, like Amazon SES, right? Host an email server (like opensmtd + Dovecot, or with Postfix+Dovecot), and forward external emails through SES.
Northeastern's redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the fundamentals of CS
So have a queue?
It would be a mistake to assume a SaaS that stores healthcare PII for coordinating healthcare is not covered under HIPAA. An exception should be filed at the very least.

Edit: If no healthcare provider has access then maybe it could skate by. I interpreted "any user making notes to your account" to mean healthcare providers would have access. Even if not, they should still seek legal counsel. And this app is literally promising safety and security of healthcare information.
Missouri Lawmakers Look to Magic Mushrooms to Address High Veteran Suicide Rate
Apps can already opt-in to UTF-8 for the ANSI APIs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649122), or use the wide-character APIs.
It can potentially double or triple the effective dose you’ll absorb of many medications, so weird doesn’t adequately describe it. “Potentially life-threatening” is better.
Ask HN: What are your 90% / 50% / 10% predictions for 2025 and beyond?
Emails from legitimate PayPal address used in crafty phishing scheme
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Milk and dairy have been a human staple for about 5000 years now [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture
> Now that I'm grown, I see it having a Slavic or Russian aesthetic.

Maybe it was in fact produced in Russia or one of the former Warsaw Pact countries? They had their own animation tradition, and some of it was translated in the West (like The Little Mole from Czech is), but I can easily see how such works could be very obscure to English-language searches.
Hypnotizing. Watching this with Beanie playing in the background. Mate that feels good
"Why Fake Testimonials Are a Problem" is missing point 4: they are illegal (I was surprised this rule was only recently enacted - I would have thought false advertising or fraud would cover it already):

https://apnews.com/article/ftc-rule-fake-reviews-ban-b7e57e3...

https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/insights/fake-reviews-in-the-...
these are all non issues
Well, e^pi - pi = 20, is rational.
Arguably we have the RI-powered uBlock called Piracy

Super universal.
> I am not sure what you mean by LLM when you say they are professional bullshitter.

Not parent-poster, but an LLM is a tool for extending a document by choosing whatever statistically-seems-right based on other documents, and it does so with no consideration of worldly facts and no modeling of logical prepositions or contradictions. (Which also relates to math problems.) If it has been fed on documents with logic puzzles and prior tests, it may give plausible answers, but tweaking the test to avoid the pattern-marching can still reveal that it was a sham.

The word "bullshit" is appropriate because human bullshitter is someone who picks whatever "seems right" with no particular relation to facts or logical consistency. It just doesn't matter to them. Meanwhile, a "liar" can actually have a harder job, since they must track what is/isn't true and craft a story that is as internally-consistent as possible.

Adding more parts around and LLM won't change that: Even if you add some external sensors, a calculator, a SAT solver, etc. to create a document with facts in it, once you ask the LLM to make the document bigger, it's going to be bullshitting the additions.
I appreciate that he cites corroborating sources for his ideas, it makes the whole thing feel well-rounded
lol, noone?
Lots of 'what ifs'

but I still have these models on my computer.
So you agree there is some price/convenience function around control. And “someone else’s” server is a long way before serverless on that scale.
Carnivores tend to sleep longer than omnivores, who tend to sleep longer than herbivores. For a hunting carnivore, energy comes in big bursts, so it makes sense that they would be active for a short period of time, and hoard energy when they didn't need to be active. For a cud-chewing herbivore, time spent not chewing is time spent not creating energy.
Obviously, this is a broad generalization - feeding habits, day/night cycles, predator/prey behaviors all factor into a particular animal. But it probably explains why your cat, like the panther at the zoo, spends most of its time asleep.
As a fellow web dev, do something in your spare time that is not web dev. Graphics, audio, desktop apps, anything. But web dev is too easy, you dont build skills
I agree, but mostly because I think the office of President has become too culturally powerful, and the ceremony too much like that of a monarch. I want my President to be a bureaucrat, with their election and inauguration having no more pomp and circumstance than the hiring of an office worker.

Maybe we wouldn't get narcissists like Trump and Musk in the White House if the office seemed beneath their dignity.
If we say reality is granular, and that infinitely smaller scales don't exist (more specifically, the planck limit holds true), does this not work in parallel with our mathematical proofs showing 1.0 is equal to 0.9 repeating?
We are so, so far beyond that point already. The complexity of the world economy is beyond any one mind to fully comprehend. The microcosm of building black-box LLMs that perform feats we don't understand is yet another instance of us building systems which may forever be beyond human understanding.

How is any human meant to understand a billion lines of code in a single codebase? How is any human meant to understand a world where there are potentially trillions of lines of code operating?
You could think the other way around: what prevent every citizen from a region to switch ON or OFF a 7kW load at the same time (such as an EV)
@nineteen999 makes a valid point, but I don't think this is a case of protectionism.

From what I can tell, it's more about RH's ludicrous licensing policy and the economic practicality of using something "application binary compatible." (•_• )
90% - People here will continue to put 2024 in forms that require the date.

50% - Data-center growth will stall due to AI power demands until such a time more sustainable sources of power are added.

10% - More insurance companies will pull out of states that are being impacted by climate change.
Incredible work! My son really had a blast scrolling around and exploring last night.

Did you take any inspiration from Celestia (https://celestiaproject.space)? It's been over 15 years since I last really used it (and starts with defaults not geared towards visualizing just our local solar system) but seems to have a lot of the features others have suggested. Might be useful to poke around and see how they solved things like time adjustments, selecting POIs, etc.
Just don't try to do this in any less powerful display languages, or you'll really be in a PCL.
This is slightly incorrect. The person who controls virtumundo.com can see the IP addresses and user agents of all Paul's website visitors. This is huge privacy issue.