skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, with that and no tariffs on inbound commits on software created by offshore labor, you know who the government supports, and it ain't the workers.

Considering there are around 1.5 - 3 million domestic software developers, that probably pushes down our salaries by about a third. Domestic software developers could be making around 50% more if it weren't for these policies. Imagine how much better off we'd be.

Politicians will sell their mothers for a campaign donation and they've been selling us out for decades. We need to stop buying into their distracting wedge issues and concentrate on what matters: our livelihoods.
I think the voters already informed her about that. The campaign was shut down a few months ago.
Most liberal democracies have provision within their founding documents and case law to allow for central governments at all levels to provide for the general welfare.

You are asking highly vague implementation details about a small hypothetical. It comes off as incredibly rude and like you're fishing for some answer you already mentally dunked on.
Zuck has been a laggard in taking high risk policy decisions. Musk, despite some bad decisions, has at least shown the spine to buck the trend and do what he believes in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Denmark

> According to 2021 figures from Statistics Denmark, 86%[21][22] of Denmark's population of over 5,840,045 was of Danish descent.[23][21] The remaining 14% were of a foreign background, defined as immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants. ... More than 817,438 individuals (14%)[21][22] are migrants and their descendants (199,668 second generation migrants born in Denmark[22]). ... Of these 817,438[21] immigrants and their descendants: 522,640 (63.9%)[22] have a non-Western background (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Thailand and Somalia; all other countries).

522.6k non-western background peoples for a country of 5,840,045 is not really what I would call homogeneity. The big cities (like Copenhagen and Aarhus) probably are even less homogenous.
It might be nice if the author qualified "most of the freely available data on the internet" with "whether or not it was copyrighted" or something to acknowledge the widespread theft of the works of millions.
> Its a lot easier to see in dark streets, I'll admit that.

The solution to driving on really dark streets is to turn your high beams on temporarily.

> But my car also has some electronics that turn headlights down if I'm using high beam when another car is coming my way.

I've heard this statement from other people before and - no, it doesn't work. You still get blinded for a few seconds before your "smart car" turns them off.
I was having this problem as well, but I kept trying, and then I got it. I found the finger trick was useful to initially sort of calibrate the focal distance but overall didn't really help me that much.

Here is what worked for me. I used my laptop, zoomed in a bit on the images and brought the screen fairly close to my face. I ensured that the image was crisp using each eye (I also have astigmatism, and I probably also need reading glasses, but there is a sweet spot where both eyes have good focus, and I ensured I was there.) While crossing my eyes a bit, I start to see a third image in the center of the two images, but it's either out of focus (like two overlapping images), or it's very thin, like it's not the full image. I relax and keep my attention on this imperfect image and try to focus on it without trying too hard. Using this approach the image suddenly comes into focus and I no longer have to try to keep it there.

I feel like the key might be to notice the very beginning of the desired image in the center and then to try and focus on it, but in a bit of a relaxed way.

Incidentally when it works it is extremely weird! The other images essentially disappear and it's like you've travelled to another dimension.
I can only speak from personal experience, but since about 4 years ago, every candidate I’ve been asked to interview for a software engineering position has been Black, Hispanic, South Asian or East Asian. Not a single white American.

Are there no white people studying CS anymore or looking for jobs? Did they all stop applying?

Again, it’s only from personal experience. I never asked any of my coworkers a “hey, do you ever interview white people?”, so it could be a coincidence that I was never matched with any. But I don’t think that’s the most likely explanation…
It's just a matter of habit. It's all going to change once it is free and easily available to non-tech users. I wouldn't be surprised if using voice for communication with these bots started to be finally used. You just going to conversate with your own private search curator.
One of the things I'd add is that, while Edson de Castro was clearly remarkable in a lot of ways, he really wasn't that open to a lot a new things.

Reluctance to cede control to retailers was one of the the nails in the DG/One's coffin although it was probably also before it's time.

But there was a general secretiveness as well. I was once in an executive briefing center presentation to a customer maybe a day or two before a relevant product announcement. My skip manager I think basically said, what the hell I'll tell the customer about what's coming. Ed walked walked in to say hi to the customer and she quietly erased what she had written from the white board.
I've seen that concern as well, but it's pretty clearly a zombie concern from the days when schools would be funded almost entirely by local property taxes. Most states now equalize funding between local districts.
Check out Cloudron: https://www.cloudron.io/
Was not aware they scuttled 1,200km ka/ku band constellation and corrected in another reply. Either way, per your citation, the current plan still puts 10k+ objects in 400km+ orbits where debris hangs around for much longer. Primary point still stands - starlink isn't limited to sub 400km constellation and kessler syndrome risk for higher orbits is real (risk increase not linear). Especially, if starlink plan to go to 42k above currently planned 30k, most are going to be 400km+ since sub 400km orbits are taken. Unless UN/ITU increase slots, the amount of sub 400km slots are fixed, and expanding megaconstellations including future starlink expansion is going to be satuating orbits with multi year / multi decade decay.
I don't like this being flagged. This is a leader in our industry, involved in precedent setting legal action, discussing the solipism of his opposing side, and the further weakening of the laws on which he relies.

This is as relevant as anything we can have here.

@dang if you're taking opinions I vote it stays.
It's the largest collection of books in easy to download formats for e-readers (often epub).
I'll second the Kester recommendation, the stuff is a bit expensive but if you've used bad solder you know it's worth it! I'm using Kester 275 on the bench and have been very happy with it, and as it's a true no-clean flux, it's a bit less messy than Kester 44 without much performance difference (lead free vs lead differences are real still- Lead-free is still not as easy to work with, but the world went lead free so my bench did too). You can find some comparisons here (since kester's website is down currently for some reason) https://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/2188246.pdf
Read my post again. Try creating a new account and see the content you get.
Powerful abstractions tend to come back and bite you a few years later when the industry trends shift and everyone else starts using a different set of abstractions. Now that small team is stuck maintaining those custom abstractions forever and is unable to take advantage of new abstractions from vendors or open source projects. So their progress stagnates while competitors race ahead. I've been on the wrong side of that before.
On that day, it pushed me a story about a new drone company from Eric Schmidt. I recognized the story. Forbes had reported it exclusively, earlier in the week, but it had been locked behind a paywall. The image on Perplexity’s story looked identical to one from Forbes. The language and structure were quite similar. It was effectively the same story, but freely available to anyone on the internet. I texted a friend who had edited the original story to ask if Forbes had a deal with the startup to republish its content. But there was no deal. He was shocked and furious and, well, perplexed. He wasn’t alone. Forbes, the New York Times, and Condé Nast have now all sent the company cease-and-desist orders. News Corp is suing for damages.

Welcome to the next version of Google's mission to index all the world's knowledge and make money by serving ads against it, I guess, in this brave new world there doesn't need to even be the tiniest chance of a single cent getting to the person who wrote up the story.
Flixai
Flixai is an upcoming agentic tool soon too have auto clicking typing and full search capabilties for now its a research preview and im excited to work on this project and see where it takes me my paypal is ericgreenberg48 if you want to help support my work currently it works as a research automation augmentation tool and what makes us unique is our ability to have 100 creative searches run at once all related to original topic for now there is no ai analysis tool but we have it coded and will release soon !!
Best episode of beavis and butthead
pretty reductionist view of everything he wrote.
Yes. In my state it is illegal to use high-beam when 200m or less from an oncoming vehicle or behind another vehicle.
ChatGPT knows which country I'm in, despite conversation memory set to 'off'
> Get us all drunk and happy

Damn I never get sales pitches like that.
Chrome Extensions Exploit Keyword Manipulation Loophole
I suggest giving SigNoz a try.
Built on top of Clickhouse, it’s fast and scalable

https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz

PS: I am maintainer at SigNoz
and Confluent acquired WarpStream
Probably just using IP geolocation.
I have one I paid $150 for. But bubble sextants are usually only used on aircraft.
>> Rights are never given, they have to be taken by force.

That's simply not true. You can also be persistent instead to be violent(i.e by force). A small group of people with the same goal can do wonders without being violent.
What has happened to me? How am I able to create a combined image and have it be -stable-? This totally works. I’ve been mutated.
Uncle Bob approved this article!!

Incredible history, I feel like Clojure makes magic. What I like about functional programming is that it brings other perspectives of how things CAN work!!

Congratulations by the life change
Unfortunately it involves stopping staring at screens 10 hours a day, which is the funds supporting half of this forum's careers.

How many people think today's children are having better lives than the last generation? 25% of US university students on antidepressants.

We optimize for a big GDP number but never for a population happiness level.
It’s a know phenomenon. A friend of mine had a reasonably important public office position. Always on the phone, constantly demanded, giving interviews, etc. The first few months after a change in administration were a great relief. A year after being let go and he was devastated. No one called, knew or cared who he was. There’s probably a name for this syndrome.
I would love to see some numbers. How many orders of magnitude more complicated do we think embodiment is, compared to conversation? How much data do we need compared to what we’ve already collected?
Maybe just semantics, but I think I would call that prediction. Even if you have perfect perception (measuring the current state of the world perfectly), it's nontrivial to predict the future paths of other actors. The prediction problem requires intuition about what the other actors are thinking, how their plans influence each other, and how your plan influences them.
Yeah, I used VB5 as one of my first languages and today did half a day of VBA. Definitely enough to quickly make me want to raise my hourly rate. Esp. in that office macro editor.
Btw and totally unrelated office can now interpret VBA, (office)TypeScript and Python. Did I miss any?
Just search for "Habitrail for Humanity" (and make sure you read that right).
Spiders 'Smell' with Their Legs
> They should buy them for a couple of billions

DD has a market cap of $48B
I am at the point I just browse arXiv because everything else sounds like bullshit.

Not that arXiv doesn't contain bullshit also but outside of that, in English at least, the internet has completely failed.
I had a terrible experience trying to load the SF Rec and Parks website on my phone a few weeks back, and checking the PageSpeed Insights showed that I wasn't the only one. I spent some weeks putting together a new site, using Selenium to crawl and scrape the original site content and a Haskell script to parse the HTML and translate it into Markdown for Hugo. Wanted to share here in case anyone else found this interesting/useful, I'm planning to refresh the site weekly.
I just asked ChatGPT where I can find an open restaurant near me, it told me to use Google Maps.

LLMs seem to have a pretty fundamental problem: they can't learn beyond their training data.

Also, can you really say Google isn't AI? Pretty sure there's a whole expert system lurking in there...
Is the implication here that needle and syringe programs cause needles to be left everywhere?

Because, if so... let's just sit with that for a second and think it through.
Don’t bother with the lawyer.

It’s nearly guaranteed that this new idea fails as bad as the one they’re working at now. Why spend $500 to be told “don’t do it” which is basically what a lawyer is going to tell you if you give them only $500.

If somehow against all odds, this person’s implementation becomes a seriously successful business, they’ll figure it out then.
This is fascinating. Three years ago, after recovering from COVID, along with many long haul symptoms I developed several similar to but still distinct from narcolepsy. Even now as the CFS-like symptoms have mostly faded, the narcoleptic symptoms are still present. Unfortunately I've not been able to get a positive diagnosis of any sort because it's atypical.

There are two main symptoms I experience. First is that, often without any clear provocation, I will become very fatigued and weak. This usually occurs over about 20 minutes, but the initial onset is a distinct event I've come to recognize. It gives many of those same long COVID symptoms: brain fog and drowsiness, weakness to the point of struggling to stand up or keep my head up, uncoordinated movements, and a feeling like I've been up all night and I desperately need to sleep. This often subsides after an hour or two, but it may last several hours.

The second which is perhaps just a more extreme case of the first is a complete inability to wake up. I may be slightly aroused and fade in and out of consciousness, but I have no ability to control this. I typically cannot move during this: everything feels so exceptionally tired and heavy that I feel like I don't have the strength to move anything, even to turn my head. Depending on how conscious I am at any moment, I may realize I'm in this situation, or I might imagine that I'm just really tired or depressed and that's why I can't move. These episodes tend to last many hours, often 8 or more. They can happen as an extension of my random bouts of sleepiness, but often they occur as an extension of my normal sleep, resulting in me not being able to wake up - even when physically aroused by someone else - until well into the evening.

In both cases the sleep is not restful. Instead I often feel it come on again a few hours later, though less extreme.
For convenience, we set τ=2pi. :-)

x = τ(r+1) - τr = τ(r+1-r) = τ(1) = τ
What is going to happen to James Damore now? Is he still canceled?
Made a very fake account filled with very fake info, using a blurry profile picture of a random person on LinkedIn who looks very vaguely like me.

Might as well poison the well if I'm going to have the account for marketplace
I hope this extends to the media/movie industry. If there is one reason I would have voted for Trump that would have been to stop the flood of DEI in movies.

Couldn't watch a movie without a gay scene even if it had no sense in the movie. The exception became the norm.
If their money making methods are ethical then isn't this a better strategy, to leave the decisions to others rather than impose your values on them while alive? Also presumably Buffett and his cohorts are better than others at growing their money, so in the vein of the EA argument, it would be best to leave the money untouched while it is being actively managed by the donor, then hand out the windfall after they are dead.

For this argument to work, you have to stop at the donor themselves - you can't keep extending it ad infinitum to their descendants or inheritors. But in the case of the pre-committed amounts, like Gates and Buffett, that isn't the case.
They most likely refer to homoiconicity [1], as Clojure is a dialect of Lisp. However, it's hard to say for sure, and maybe they were simply referring to the built-in syntax for maps, lists, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
Will that make search results useful again?
What is the fiasco of Mackenzie Bezos? I have read about her yearly donations, but I am not aware of a controversy.
Complain about Google all you want, I prefer its link-supported AI summaries over Perplexity's mystery meat hallucinations with no links to human-written content.
There's so many games that can be played with a 52 card deck, many years ago I tried to do a sort of battle game but I ended up giving up. It had to do with formations of cards but it's very difficult to create a card game that is balanced and fun!

This game seems super interesting so I'll be adding it to my ever growing collection of standard card deck games.

Thank you!
I was just trying to solve a configuration problem in Xcode today. I started with a web search, and found lots of proposes solutions, but nothing that worked for me. I asked ChatGPT, which regurgitated the same ideas I found on the web, plus a few more that also didn't work.

Finally I tried something undocumented on a hunch, and it kind of worked, and I shared my progress with a (human) colleague, who had the insight to take what I had done and finished a real solution.

Anecdotally, in mice, etc., etc.
I can't help but notice (believe me, I'm trying not to notice!) that this comment is getting some downvotes. I'd love it if a downvoter could let me know why they're downvoting, and how I can improve!
does that mean we can transition back to the useful search of 20 years ago!?
I have never used an LLM for anything. I use search engines dozens of times a day.
gazumped!
there is no fiasco, she is the biggest philantropist alive today
Discussion (15 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42659141
“I may have been early but I’m not wrong.”

“ITS THE SAME THING!”
C is a small language. People confuse simple with small quite often. As languages get smaller, using them gets more difficult once below a certain size. The "Turing tarpit" languages like Brainfuck are extremely difficult to write complex programs in, mostly because they're so small.

C is clearly too small to be simple. C++ is too large to be simple. Somewhere in between, there may exist a simple language waiting to be invented.
Thank you for putting that image in my mind, it brought a smile to my face.
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.

Maybe a better title would be AI menas the end of knowledge as we've known it
I’ve historically been a pretty big fan of Grafana, I’ve advocated for the cloud solution at more than one company.

But it seems like business development has utterly hijacked the experience.

The flow you want out of the box is Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo with one button that drops you the config for grafana-agent (now alloy which seems good technically but brings a whole new config language with some truly insane discoverability problems) that makes graphs on screens, you build up from there.

But these days everything is some complicated co-sell, up-sell, click farming hedge maze through 90 kinds of cloud vendor rip-off half baked thing.

Graphs, logs, traces out of the box. Put all the works with Snowflake shit behind an icon. A small one.
> seems a bit like splitting hairs.

It isn't splitting hairs. It's outright propaganda invented to justify stealing native land. The idea being if natives had no sense of property, we didn't really steal anything from them because they had no property to begin with.

The other trope justifying theft of the land is of the "dumb indians" who sold the land for cheap. Like indians selling manhattan for a handful of beads.
If you ever seen an inside of a CS auditorium at any prestigious university that wouldn’t be so surprising to you
I instantly knew as soon as I saw the image. It's the Magic Eye trick. The same one you use to view stereoscopic images. The differences will just flicker.
A dev tool with a monthly subscription? That's enough to stop me right there.

An alternative is B4J, a free (as in beer) BASIC that compiles to Java, so should run just about anywhere. It also has

* B4A - a free version for Android
* B4R - a free version for Arduino and ESP8266
* B4I - a paid version for iOS

The main (sole?) developer is ridiculously responsive and helpful.
> The way AI can put together a well-reasoned answer to just about any kind of question, drawing on real-time data from across the web, just offers a better experience.

No? This experience is only better if the result isn't hallucinated nonsense, which the article acknowledged before, but then just ignored in the overconfident claim that nonsense is the future
Nissan has launched its very cheap EV called Sakura around 2 or 3 years ago? Should hover around the same price point and can be ordered with ProPilot 2 as a option I think

https://www.businessinsider.com/japans-best-selling-ev-nissa....
2x faster than what?
Ad blockers are going to need to become really advanced once chat bots start outputting sponsored answers or other injecting product recommendations into their usual output.
Discussion on the tweet this story is based on:

3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation (850 points, 4 days ago, 406 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612494
I'm pretty sure all of the common areas in HOAs that I used to live in were equally owned by all members.
No, it doesn't.

AI has a lot of edge cases and caveats. It can be trivial like not being about to count the Rs in "strawberry". Or it can be more nefarious where it simply makes stuff up (eg some fake precedents in legal opinions). AI is still incapable of explaining its reasoning and dealing with errors.

Yes I know some of these problems like the "Rs in strawberry" problem have been solved but (IMHO) you're going to be dealing with those edge cases forever.

Another issue is response time. Currently, you need to go through several steps: query -> embedding -> LLM -> answer -> back to English. Each of these steps takes time.

But here's the big one: energy. The sheer scale of Google search needs to be put in context of how much energy is consumed and how many queries can be answered per unit energy. With all the steps involved in AI queries, we need orders of magnitude of improvement to compete.

Most searches are fairly simple. They just don't need a large model to answer them. There will absolutely be a place for AI queries and they will continue to get better but displace search? We're not even remotely close to that outcome.