skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds like a bike shedder's dream.

While i think it's possible that contextualized UX has value, it's seem way too easy for builders to go ham doing what they love: building more things.

i'm a cursor LLM editor convert. Pretty amazing. Thing is, being capable of building N versions of a thing doesn't mean it's a good idea. Technical debt has gone up dramatically on a team of 2.

And its not realistic that higher iteration velocity will yield the greatest version. easy to say but you need data and users to test through all of them. that's not happening in real life.
> Are you really comfortable blaming them for the rest of their lives for choosing the option that likely gave them the smallest chance of killing people?

Yes. The "just following orders" excuse has been tried in the past. People didn't buy it then and we won't buy it now.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-soldiers-arrest-ab...

If the IDF wants to name the specific individuals from Unit 8200 who were involved in maiming or killing civilians including children by blowing up electronics in their faces, that might change things. Then it'd be a lot easier for people to avoid having concerns about that entire unit. Not naming them seems a lot like tacit support by the IDF for the actions of those in Unit 8200 who killed those children. Otherwise, people very well may have concerns about that entire unit. That's not "racism."
Yeah it's pretty telling how much of a sacred cow this is for so many people
A suggestion for the US agencies involved with investigating the Havana syndrome:

take the subset of employees affected who objectively visible brain damage (not to separate the "false" and "true" victims, but to enrich that fraction for investigation purpouses, alternatively accept all self-reported victims with potentially lower signal to noise ratio as a result).

next take a subset of unaffected employees with similar task distributions as a control group

then for each person (affected or control) check the origins of all mail, check scheduled appointments with Iranian nationals, ask if they recall ever experiencing something being spritzed close to their face (they may have interpreted as something innocuous like perfume), allow them to make as many entries as possible, then ask the same question (any dates or times of occurence, especially before onset of symptoms) but for specific odors (cherry odor = control, vanilla odor = control, bitter almond odor = scent of hydrogen cyanide, mint odor = control, eye irritant = added to disinfection hydrogen cyanide for repelling human end-users, ...), then for each type you take the difference between time of symptom onset minus odor exposure event and convert to same units (floating point days for example plus or minus estimated error), convert these time intervals to reciprocals for rates ( floating point "per day"), then for each type of odor, or for each type of meeting with Iranian, or for each parcel from Iranian nationals, make a grand sum of that rate once for the affected group, and once for the unaffected control group.

then compare the mean rates between control group and affected group, and use hypothesis testing statistics to calculate the likelihood for the observed rates in the affected group given the rates from the unaffected group, if the null hypothesis of mere random clustering can be rejected you have detected that it is unlikely to explain by random chance, and those Iran associated links are proven significant (not in size of correlation, but that the correlation however small or large can not be explained away by chance).

You could redo (or simultaneously do the same exercise with different nationalities).
I have no idea what that means.

How many Lake Meads is that equivalent to, for reference?
It's incredibly noticeable while biking. My commute through midtown is so much more pleasant now - it's insane.
You could go and try it out. You'd be surprised how capable the LLMs, specifically Claude are now at creative projects such as this
I’ve found it really helpful. By far one of the best things I’ve done is starting writing. There’s a long history of journaling or having a diary. And you’re totally right. Being able to send someone a link to something wrote is immensely valuable.
Great web app and congrats on the launch!

Feedback:

- Could you add a dark mode?

- Less is more as far as elements and components (e.g cards, buttons, ect...) in regard to the UI but that's IMO

- Add a feedback page?

Final notes:

- Keep going, talk to users, and have fun :)
The same thing happens over and over again, because of the noise and interruption, we escape from fb, x, ig, which we were once passionate about, from blackhat, from everywhere, but in fact, it is just from a filled cesspit, temporarily Jump into a niche shithole that hasn’t been filled (yet), and the cycle begins over and over again. Relatively speaking, I think HN is not a cesspit because of its retro interface and unfriendly operation. That is great! !
mind dropping a link to your eBay page? I'm occasionally in the market for exactly this
That wasn't my point at all. The point was that often the best people to protect a resource are the ones who know how to attack it.
Cost. Same reason you don't deliver UPS packages with B-2 bombers.
A lot of that land is Federal land. Maybe if there was more development and less wilderness it would be managed better.
And their peers in the other branches are killing civilians in other ways. Your point?

The only way to hold this against the individuals rationally, especially for those on this forum who would absolutely have chosen Unit 8200 as the least bad option given conscription, is to blame every citizen of the state of Israel and hold them all in distrust for having ever been in any branch of the IDF. I'm personally not okay with that level of sweeping blame and distrust. Are you?
There’s value to users in using a service that’s the same as the software. Trust is worth it to consumers. It’s why many still prefer to take their cars to the dealer rather than an Indy shop
I think you meant to respond to your grandparent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686370, not your parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686583.
They're not the only good speakers these days, though.'

When they came out, there was nothing else that had their combination of sound quality and app features.

Before their new app, the competition had basically caught up, Sonos was only marginally better in a few ways.

With their new app, I'd never recommend Sonos.
This problem has been solved by equipment designed for narrower roads. It is not a hard problem to solve and cities like this have been around a very long time.

There are literally solutions to every issue you bring up that are already on the market.
There were a number of hacks to deal with this. RAIN was very popular back in the day, but AMNHLTM appears to have better compatibility with modern CPUs.
I have no problem flipping 'he' and 'she'. I find some of the asks around 'they' to be too much; it works easily in some cases but not all. The demands around 'zir' and all the other pronounisms people have come up with seem excessive to me.
One sense of the word is “a first full-scale and usually functional form of a new type or design of a construction” (Webster)
wouldn't that increase driving relative to other forms of transportation?
Cool. This is a great project!

I've been playing around with the version that was up yesterday. I managed to get my DOOM Resume running in the PDF https://github.com/adamrmelnyk/thisResumeRunsDoom.

Is it playable.... eh? that's another matter. I think I'd need to modify it a bunch. Right now the doors don't seem to open when playing the PDF. I could just remove them all though.
See pedestrian first roads in the NL. There are bigger and more complicated cities that have done these things and became the better for it.
I’m genuinely curious how that works though, does garbage in eventually reach equilibrium with the rate it’s decomposing?
False, people with an axe to grind decided to accuse everything they don't like of being woke or SJW the same way that Americans scream "communism" at everything they don't like.

It's the lowest form of public discourse, spewed by ignoramuses who have nothing of value to contribute to conversations.
In any city that isn't hopelessly car-dependent there is some kind of rail to bring in commuters. A subway, tram, light rail, passenger rail, often a combination of all of them. Once you have a stable system to bring in commuters, adding a couple parking lots to stops on the outskirts for "out of towners" is pretty easy.

The rest is just about not removing all the streets. You also need enough roads for emergency vehicles. But simple two-lane roads for arteries and one-lane roads everywhere else are enough for deliveries, maintenance and (European-sized) emergency vehicles. All the other lanes are just there so everyone can travel downtown in their personal car instead of using more efficient transport options.
If the cars can't park, then they're clogging up the roads and preventing them from being used as intended for transportation.

I am fine with parking lots as long as they're not publicly funded and are taxed just as every other parcel in the city. And on-street parking should be prohibited.
> The only reason I don't have it set up is because I made the mistake of closing my free teir oracle cloud thinking I could spin up a fresh new instance and since then I haven't been able to get the free teir again.

People are automating the process of requesting new arm instances on free tier [1]. You would find it near impossible to compete without playing same game

[1] https://github.com/mohankumarpaluru/oracle-freetier-instance...
No that's not the point.
Well dang, we are not restricted to git as the only place we can put historical metadata. You know, discursive comments, for starters?
People know this. But most actually useful software built for humans doesn't have a good programmatic API. So computer use is the only way to connect AI agents to that software. And that's where a lot of the true (medium-term) financial gain will be - automating tasks on tools that are poorly built or just old but are still valuable.
Imagine a scenario where option B does 10x better than option A during the morning hours but -2x worse the rest of the day. If you start the multi armed bandit in the morning it could converge to option B quickly and dominate the rest of the day even though it performs worse then.

Or in the above scenario option B performs a lot better than option A but only with the sale going, otherwise option B performs worse.
I think trusting your designers is probably the way to go for most teams. Good designers have solid intuitions and design principles for what will increase conversion rates. Many designers will still want a/b tests because they want to be able to justify their impact, but they should probably be denied. For really important projects designers should do small sample size research to validate their designs like we would do in the past.

I think a/b tests are still good for measuring stuff like system performance, which can be really hard to predict. Flipping a switch to completely change how you do caching can be scary.
I can’t help but have the thought that the Joel_McKay in this conversation is itself an LLM having been prompted to flippantly disregard and downplay mentions of a.i., and LLMs specifically.

I’m not saying it is true , but I am saying it made the tone and content of his messages in this thread seem a lot more self-consistent and explainable when I re-read them with that context in mind. :-)

(@Joel_McKay: apologies for downplaying your sapience - human, LLM or otherwise.)
you are not taking the concept far enough

gen UI could look like a completely custom interface integrating hundreds of apps to one. that is if an Agentic system is completely multi-modal it can collect all digital information the user owns (in a safe way ofc)

but that means when an agent generates a ui it is JUST to make decisions on the data is has access too.
E.g. new email received asking for a file and a small change, agent finds the file and makes the change, then a UI is generated confirming the correct file and changes.

this is what generative ui looks like to me, far off, but definitely in the future.
It's a shame we never got to see the fruits of TRON. Imagine how the world may have ended up if Windows had a solid competitor in Asia. I've been told you can still find TRON terminals in Japan.
And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meadling kids!
Fewer drivers and less traffic can actually lead to more people being on the roads, because high-capacity vehicles like busses — which can efficiently pay the congestion pricing charges — are more usable when there is less traffic and faster commute times, so more people are likely to utilize them.
Thanks for that explanation. I didn't realize the fuel costs were quite so bad, and extrapolating it to all aircraft per day makes sense as well.
I wonder how Tokyo functions? I guess people just die waiting for an ambulance or in a fire.

See this part of the comment you’re replying to -

> Yes we need some roads, but cars driving in the heart of downtown as normal transit?
Vagrant’s popularity seems to have died down with Docker containers but it’s by far my favorite way to make dev environments.

Several years ago I worked somewhere that prohibited web browsers and development tools on laptops. If you needed to use a browser, you’d have to use one over Citrix. If you needed to code, you’d use a VDI or run the tools in a VM.

At the time I thought their approach was clinically insane, but I’m slowly starting to appreciate it.
I'm sorry - I prefer to remain anonymous on HN. But if you are looking for Windows XP laptops I'm not hard to find.
I’ll never understand this. The fact that George was a criminal doesn’t mean anything. Kneeling on him until he was dead was a criminal act.
Congestion pricing means less traffic so the bus can get to your destination faster. Right now there is no incentive to use the bus, so people don't. Everyone drives and everyone is worse off as a result of the greater traffic.
Yes. They are basically zero: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/traffic-data/traffic-fat...

Citywide car fatalities were like 12 / year.

Subway fatalities, from crime or otherwise, seem too rare to have actual stats; I found only one article saying about a fatal attack in March 2024, and none for prior years.

In general, crime on the subway seems rather low, though apparently growing: https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-rare-is-crime-on-t...
Cities have had roads long before there were cars. So many people like to pretend that before "car culture" there were no roads in cities or that before cars there were no big roads. There were huge roads in cities in the 1800s to accommodate carriages, streetcars, and all the extra people on the road because a 5 minute trip by car takes 20 minutes on foot. Cities in 1000 AD had roads, and a lot of them were pretty damn wide. Ancient Rome was famous for building roads. Roads are not a waste of space. Roads are infrastructure.
It's certainly made me buy less UK Dr Pepper in Australia (I find artificial sweeteners generally unpleasant). Many places down under that sell it are now stocking US Dr Pepper instead, which suggests it sells rather better.
"stop lecturing... instead, go out and do something" is a dangerous train of thought. I agree that building houses for the homeless is a good idea (imagine if you could actually just do that, though...) but most of the issues people are talking about can't be directly confronted in cozy ways like going to the soup kitchen or building a house. A lot of the issues people are "woke" over are societal ills and the "action" available to them is stuff we don't want people doing. We should be advocating for reasoned discourse instead of - to paraphrase a popular tweet I didn't like enough to screenshot - telling people to shut up and go firebomb a Wal-mart.

Or take the abortion debate. We don't want anti-abortionists "taking action" against clinics and doctors any more than we want pro-choice advocates doing back-alley abortions if we can avoid it. It's all very dangerous!
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How would you prefer people talk about it? "Multimodal LLM"? My understanding is the vision portion is indeed wired directly to (and trained alongside) the language portion.

> give the appearance of agi

Can you point out where specifically they're doing this? Best I can tell, they give a decent summary of the effectiveness of multi-modal LLM's with support for vision, and then talk about using it to solve an incredibly narrow task. The only diction I could see that hints at "agi" is when they describe the versatility of this approach; but how could you possibly argue against that? It's objectively more versatile (if not wasteful and more expensive).
This is very interesting. I'll most definitely read the docs and repository - thanks for sharing.
My point is that in git branches are just mutable pointers to commits. Tags are internally nearly the same, but socially they are meant to be immutable.

Anyone can make any commit they want in git. That includes merge commits, too. GitHub mostly lets anyone push any commits they feel like, too. (What restrictions are there on pushing commits is mostly to deal with denial of service and people being a nuisance.)

Where the policing comes in is in giving rules for how these pointers (aka branches) can be mutated. OWNERS files, PR reviews, CI automation etc is all about controlling that mutation.

See also the new-ish merge queues[0], which really bring out that difference: the merge queue machinery makes the merge commit of your approved PR branch with 'main', runs the CI against that, and iff that passes, moves the pointer that is 'main' to point to the newly created commit.

It's exactly the same commit (with exactly the same hash), whether it passes the CI or not. The only difference is in whether it gets the official blessing of being pointed to by the official 'main'.

It really speaks to the design of git, that conceptually the only thing they need to lock down is who can mutate this very small amount of data, these handfuls of pointers. Everything else is (conceptually) immutable, and thus you don't need to care about who can eg make commits.

[0] Really a re-implementation of bors-ng.
It will help Amazon and other delivery companies. Less competition from people driving their own cars to get things. California is working to put on a per-mile tax onto drivers because roads wear out faster then gas taxes, sales tax on autos, sales tax on auto repairs/parts, and registration taxes can be collected...
If the alternative is getting your product banned, I suspect legal would figure something out.

Given the continuing drone idiocies with the California fires, I would expect a blanket ban coming unless an automated system can instantly comply with FAA airspace restrictions.
Yes but here's a exaggerated version - say were to sample for a week at 50/50 when the base conversion rate was at 4%, then we sample at 25/75 for a week with the base conversion rate bumped up to 8% due to a sale.

The average base rate for the first variant is 5.3%, the second is 6.4%. Generally the favoured variant's average will shift faster because we are sampling it more.
> The fact they might change their way does not erase the fact that I am wasting the time I spend mentoring cheaters, time I could spend mentoring non-cheaters.

Several people have asked you, and you still haven't explained why it's OK to waste time with "non-cheaters" and not with "cheaters".

> Would you also say it's ok for people to steal because they might one day not-steal?

No. Unless stealing is permitted, which it usually isn't. LLMs, OTOH, are merely a tool and their use has no morality attached to it. It's you that seem to attach some morality to LLM use.

(Of course, if your company disallows LLM usage, that's another story).

> I am not sure I understood you correctly.

Your comments seem to make the assumption that LLM based code is shittier than what a typical poor developer would write, which I pointed out in another comment is often not true.

Just treat the code based on its merit. If it's utter crap, tell the developer it's utter crap. Just stop second guessing whether he wrote it or an LLM did.
There is a threshold below which even I won't review code.
The balance of power between a company and you, vs you and another person, are vastly different, which IMO makes the issues distinct. Presumably the elderly parents are willingly relinquishing control to someone they trust, and they can always go out and buy their own phone if they don't want that.
If Accenture says it then it is safe to assume you should do the opposite.
I get that, but if it doesn't work, do you spend the time on a use-case that doesn't exist?
We are recreating the "not all men" argument here, except hyper-specialized to "not all straight white cis men."

And so, in the spirit of that argument, sure, maybe not all straight white cis men are a problem, but ENOUGH of us are that we should be paying attention to see if we're unknowingly part of the problem, or even better if we can help at all to improve things.

Hopefully in another couple decades we can revisit this topic, only specialized down another couple adjectives. =)
I don't recall voicing an opinion either way. In fact I specifically said I don't know if it's enough, but saying they contribute nothing is factually incorrect. And no lack of contribution would justify taking over ACF in what is essentially a supply chain attack like they did.
$500M/year was the magical thinking that applies any time the NY government wants to create a tax. The revenue projected is always huge so they can spend big somewhere else while pretending to be revenue neutral. The soda tax had the same ridiculous overestimation.
That's not what "rent seeking" means. Rent seeking is the term for manipulating institutions, customs or laws for the purpose of extracting money without creating anything.
Cold encourages suburbanites to stay in their warm home instead of going on a night out.
>> Do you think the social stigma attached to the n-word, and the consequential reduction in its public use, helped contribute to equal rights?

>Not particularly

>> What about slurs against gays, or Jews?

>Not particularly

Honestly, if you're having a hard time seeing the harm that ethnic and racial slurs do, particularly from public officials or community leaders, you're not going to understand any of this.
At what point do we not just write apis then?
I’m American but have a lot of Chinese friends (through my wife). They talk about American desserts with the same disdain that I talk about Chinese desserts. “It’s too sweet” vs “this tastes like a dish sponge”. I love key lime pie. I got a gigantic one at Costco and subjected my wife’s friends to it. Many of them ended up liking it!
Cars need a disproportionate amount of space for the number of people that they serve compared to every other means of transport. Bicycles, e-scooters, buses, etc serve many more people per square foot compared to mostly empty cars.