skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everyone who is smart see's which way the winds are blowing and it isn't in the direction of "more liberal".

Liberals are most fired up when conservatives like Trump are in office. Where I am, I expect to see more local elections fall to far lefties, I expect more BLM-like protests (which really could only have occurred under Trump), more activism and not less. It is a bit sad because I thought we were making some progress like electing moderates (who I really prefer and think are better for the community) rather than far lefties (who really can only get elected when someone like Trump is in charge).

> The US is looking at a cultural reset back into the mid to mid-late 20th century.

No, things are way too conservative now for that. We haven't had a politician as liberal as Ronald Reagan since Bill Clinton, America definitely lurched right since after the 1990s.
Possibly, but that's going to require 100% consistent, accurate outputs (tricky as that's not the nature of LLMs).

Otherwise, you'll have a lot of systems dependent on these orchestrators creating hard-to-debug mistakes up and down the pipeline. With software, you can reach a state where it does what you tell it to without having to worry if some model adjustment or API change is going to break the output.

If they solve that, then yes. Otherwise, what I personally expect is a lot of businesses rushing into implementing "agents" only to backpedal later when they start to have negative material effects on bottom lines.
If you want to pick an era of technological progress to make that point maybe don't pick the one that involves America becoming a superpower by putting a bomb invented by Jewish refugees on a rocket build by ex Nazi scientists after a physics revolution where be basically got to go and take all of Germany's top talent lol
Honesty is key! People are okay if Liberals censors them (or censor others) but are not okay if a Conservative does it! I will respect people saying openly: "Conservatives now control a lot of the Social Media, let's build Liberals-controlled alternatives!" This is how Conservatives did it openly: Truth Social, Parler, Gab, etc. I respect honesty, I respect options but detest lies and hypocrisy!
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If by "same people" you mean recognizing a specific user, yes the sub field changes.

If by "same people" you mean being able to tell whether a new user is part of the same organization, the sub field is useless and no other field has this information either.
You have basically just circled back to what I said initially:

> I don't foresee software engineers going extinct, but there will most definitely be a lot fewer of them.

Your bad attitude, calling most software engineers “ticket takers”, while envisioning yourself as being an un-replaceable genius is extremely common in these discussions. It’s clearly an emotional reaction.

And I understand. AI is going to decimate the industry (along with many others).

Even for those who are truly un-replaceable, for many their companies business model itself will easily collapse. I can look at the list of b2b sass software I use right now and literally all of them will have zero value soon when an AI agent can in house their service in a day.
It would be nice if there was a standalone POC for the geolocation. I only found the vote website. There, one can enable the latency geolocation feature - but it doesn't display any results (it shows latency to various servers but not any analysis thereof).
The VS clone that lets you use other companies AI models? I have actually tried it but didn't "get" it. What is good about it?
We just got Apple Watches for our 11 and 13 year olds. It is a decent middle ground, as up to now we’ve been very limiting of their screen time.

Our district has strict blocks in place at school, but most kids still already have phones. We did it for that reason and so so we don’t introduce phones at the same time they start driving (which is when we figured they’d actually need it)

One thing I wasn’t quite prepared for is kids use huge group chats that result in hundreds of messages a day. Learned how to mute discussions really quick. You can also limit access to groups with parental controls.

Key is talking to your kids regularly and helping them navigate life. Real and digital.
Does AWS have a moat on cloud computing?
That terminology might not be clear to a non-expert.

If your wrench/spanner is pointed straight up to the sky like a clock hand at 12, rotate towards the back wheel to loosen, and towards the front wheel to tighten. Important! When you put the pedals back on and rotating toward the front wheel isn't working, you've grabbed the wrong pedal. Use the other one.
It has consistently been the best model for the two last years and only Gemini is perhaps slightly better now.
What about bigotry against women? That is the actual effect of pro-trans policy.

The right capitalized on that because the left was too blinded by ideology to see the harm caused to women.
> Focusing on defining clear processes for recurring events and building the fundamental building blocks that allows you to automate when it's absolutely needed should be the method, not spending more time writing Terraform.

For one, I don't really consider terraform "automation," and more IaC, but I'll digress - this is all well and good in mature organizations with robust processes and aligned leadership. In practice, however, and what I find most often, is you will find very small "devops" shops in companies that aren't necessarily "tech" sized 50-300 people with a devops team of 3-5 people (if they're lucky) that the organization, or sometimes even themselves, see as glorified IT sysadmins. They're always seen as an expense, usually critically understaffed, and if you leave teams like this to decide on their own what is "necessary" to automate you're going to get weird/misaligned/dysfunctional results, and even moreso if you let the business decide this, which is what usually happens, and they don't really give a crap if some poor former-sysadmin has to spend 12 hours a day clicking buttons in aws console as long as they get what they needed (actually have seen a guy making 150k to basically do just this).

So what happens, like I said, is teams get into this hell-loop of manual task after manual task, which not only requires large amounts of mental bandwidth to keep track of or keep up to date all the documentation or playbooks surrounding these manual tasks (if you're lucky to get even that), you have to deal with the inevitable mistakes and errors that are common when doing things strictly manually, which eats up a ton of unnecessary time and thus $$.

I agree though most devops consultants are terrible, and the industry is driven by this, however, this is the specific niche I've carved out for myself, coming in after big terrible crappy consultant that basically just pitches a brittle jenkins CI setup and some basic terraform and charges you $250k for their time. I actually really enjoy doing it too, and the challenges and issues are almost always unique to the org, even if the patterns are similar - so it's always interesting.

So, long story short, unless you have a super robust process and mature system, it's usually just a lot easier to default to "automate" and come up with reasonable exceptions when it doesn't make sense to do so, rather than the other way around.
As with most situations in Nix, there is an elegant and clean solution; but that solution is also hacky and somewhat obfuscated.

The problem really stems from how tightly entangled packages are to the nixpkgs source tree. Nix offers the most foundationally modular system possible, and it organizes its packages in a monolithic source tree! This means that despite installed packages being totally isolated in the /nix/store/, the package source (what Nix calls a "derivation") is semantically tied to whatever specific dependency version was implemented in the contemporary nixpkgs source. If you want to provide users more than one version of a package inside the same source tree, you must put the version in the name, like SDL2 or python3.11.

I started this GitHub issue a long time ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/93327. Somewhere buried inside may lie the answer to your question. Either way, I have mostly given up on wrapping my head around the current ecosystem of half-baked solutions to this mess; despite still actively using NixOS in ignorance.
The relative clause "which is the worst form of unlucky" is embedded, among other complexities here. Obviously this doesn't make the text less readable, so I don't think nesting per se is the problem.
AutoGen Studio: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building Multi-Agent Systems
Its inevitable. You can argue about what's possible right now, but I'm not looking at it from that angle. I think these issues will be solved with time
Yes, they have the name "ChatGPT". For non-technical people this appears to be the most important thing.
I test drove those very 3 models (2020 years) when buying and I found that everything “autonomous” about the Honda and Mazda felt just plain bad. I raised it with the Mazda guy who insisted the features were probably just not turned on, but when he checked they were on.

The Subaru though was an entirely different class. It worked so well. The thing would drive me around curves on a somewhat windy country road. Comfortably brought me to a stop behind a stopped car. Etc. I bought the Subaru.

According to an engineer I was in contact with, (at the time, maybe still true) the Subaru EyeSight system was their crown jewel system.
Amazon had an insane number of people working on just the alarms feature in Alexa when they interviewed me for a position years ago. They had entire teams devoted to the tiniest edge case within the realm of scheduling things with Alexa. This is no doubt one of the biggest use cases in computing: getting your computer to tell you what to do at a given time.
Thanks for the kind words! I completely understand your concerns about data security - it's exactly the kind of thoughtful consideration I was hoping users would have.

I'm actually considering open sourcing the entire project, which would allow security-conscious users like yourself to self-host the service. Alternatively I could also build a "self-hostable reMarkable gateway" that could issue write-only tokens, though this would require some architectural changes.

Regarding the browser extensions - unfortunately those wouldn't work for my use case since they require the user's browser to be running to execute any actions. The service needs to be able to run on its own schedule.

I don't have a Patreon set up, but your offer of support means a lot! The best way to help right now would be to probably support the development of building a more privacy focused integration once I open source the app sometime over the weekend
I'd rather have buggy things now than perfect things in a year.
So show me on their website. I see a ton about going on with a petition incorrectly, what about when there is a candidate and you would need to hire them to make this process not their market information scam, where is that? I don't think you (or burnte) are even referring to the process I linked to which I presume is the one in the top post.
What piano did you buy?
The Borda Count Is the Best Method of Voting
A todo app that you can write and modify by editing a natural language prompt, and that can parse inputs from the whole web with flexibility and nuance, is not a small thing.
I'd want to pause any video playing while a dialog with such a backdrop is open.
My family didn't exactly say "better," but they meant it.
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
My state lottery app doesn’t let you play outside the state. It detects screen sharing and VPN configuration and refuses to run if it sees these things.

Depending on the importance of the poll, one could definitely apply these other requirements.
Imagine being an engineer on the Siri team, must be so demoralizing.
Thanks Borski for sharing the link for the Home Loss File System - Digital Resource that my family has been working on.

Were continuing to work to get the word out about this and the physical file boxes were creating for folks who are not tech savvy (homelossfilesystem.com).

We've disseminated 2700 of the physical file boxes to fire survivors over the last 15 years and excited about what the digital resource can become.

We welcome contributors/volunteers/suggestions/feedback - feel free to add them here or email us homelossfilesystem@gmail.com

The GoFundMe is 65% the way to its goal. If you wish you contribute you can here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-deliver-mor-1500-home-los...

Thanks again all! Please continue to share with any fire survivors!
Indeed we will but I think we are past the point of having a long term stable republic. Stuff like this bill and withholding aid to California normalize in liberal states the idea that secession is a possibility. We are entering in an era where it is going to be more than just crazy right wing nut jobs that talk secession.
I'm not seeing in the proposal what is to prevent variable latency - from network congestion, route changes, quality of service differences, ISP peering arrangements, last-mile connection quality variations, and router queue delays - being interpreted as a distance metric?
Probably put the signs up at the outer limits of the zone and/or using safety gear. Worker in Hazmat suit at the periphery is probably fine.
I agree that the CHIPS Act was likely contingent on someone showing semiconductor manufacturing could actually be onshored. I’m not sure I buy that TSMC’s investment was contingent on an Act that was contingent on them investing in the first place. It’s not like TSMC was ever going to get a check to just reimburse themselves. Even now, their subsidies are only for new plans.

Intel, on the other hand, is a great example of a how a company dependent on the government funding for semiconductor manufacturing behaves. Heck, look at the Foxconn debacle; companies prefer incentives up front.

If you remember, TSMC had the immediate fear of losing ~15% of their revenue with the Huawei export ban. I wouldn’t be surprised if that influenced their decision to cozy up to America.
> I tried Mastodon before Threads & Bluesky, and I can say that the lack of algo was the part I liked the least.

It's probably the one big technical feature I like the best.

Not to say you're wrong, just that we use it differently.

I've never tried Threads (out for my disdain for Meta/FB/Zuck), but I can sort of understand why some people prefer Bluesky.

To me, Bluesy if a better alternative if you want to see (or become) "viral" things. If you secretly dream of having one of your hotcakes/zingers/memes/rants become viral and get millions of views/boosts/retweets/whatever, Mastodon isn't for you. Perhaps Bluesy is. And if you enjoy those occasional viral posts, you'll see them there and not on Mastodon (at last not without doing a lot more work curating the list of people and hashtags you follow).

I mute Mastodon posts linking to Bluesy, because I very explicitly do not want "viral content", at least not until it's been vetted and reposted by someone I've chosen to follow.
An encoder is a device that encodes the position -- absolute or relative -- of its shaft as a set of digital outputs.

Most common type uses optical sensors internally, although there are also magnetic types. A quadrature encoder is the most popular and provides two output signals, phase separated by 90 degrees. The phase separation allows the reader to determine which direction the shaft is moving.

A potentiometer used for position feedback is usually just called a potentiometer. I guess it's technically an encoder, but I don't think I've ever heard it referred to that way.

There are also resolvers, discussed somewhere else in this thread, but we won't go there!

HTH
This is perhaps only a problem with the niche HN user base, but “Filing System” would be more accurate. Thought this had to do with damaged hard disk recovery or redundant file systems or something technical like that.
First impressions matter, if the experience is this bad you're probably waiting a year to come back anyway.
FYI this is a reference to Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), which certainly sounds interesting: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/testing.html
Why? Past progress =/= equal rate of future progress.
1964 was 60 years ago.
I don't see how that follows. To first approximation zero human-at-fault accidents are due to "sensor failure". I mean, sure, somewhere out there a pedestrian was killed while walking in a white-out blizzard. But far, far more were hit by drivers looking at their phones with perfectly good eyes.
Ah, an expensive Alphasmart! Yes, it has a backlit screen and wifi (and maybe a nicer keyboard), but fewer lines on the screen and a shorter battery life than the Neo.
Hm, I did some searching. Bazel's FAQ mentions multi-language support prominently, but only suggests speed and reliability as the initial motivations. I'll edit my post.
This is shaping up to be as bad as the Sora release.
Other than lottery winners, who cares? Is there some reason lottery winnings (or other forms of gambling) should be treated gingerly?
> does a commercial airline pilot need to know every single subsystem in order to do their job?

Not a great comparison. First off, nobody is suggesting that a self-purported "AI Engineer" has to understand EVERY SINGLE SUBSYSTEM, but they should still have a strong command of the internal workings of the modern foundational material (transformers, neural networks, latent space, etc.) to style themselves as such.

The better question is "does an aviation mechanic need to understand the internal systems of an airplane?" and the answer is a resounding yes.
FWIW, I wasn't upset; I apologize if my comment came off that way.
Recurring schedules across time zones is an unbelievably maddening thing to implement. At first glance it seems simple, but it gets very weird very quickly.
Siri has access to a wealth of private existing and future on-device APIs to fuel context sensitive responses to queries on vendor locked devices used all day long. (Which Apple has apparently decided to just not use yet.)

OpenAI doesn't, they just have a ton of funding and (up to recently) a good mass media story, and the best natural language responses.

The moat around Siri is much deeper, and I don't really see any evidence OpenAI has any special sauce that can't be reproduced by others.

My prediction is that OpenAI's reliance on AI doomerism to generate a regulatory moat falters as they become unable to produce step changes in new models, while Apple's efforts despite being halting and incomplete become ubiquitous thanks to market share and access to on device context.

I wouldn't (and don't) put my money in OpenAI anymore. I don't see a future for them beyond being the first mover in an "LLM as a service" space in which they have no moat. On top of that they've managed to absorb the worst of criticism as a sort of LLM lightning rod. Worst of all, it may turn out that off-device isn't even really necessary for most consumer applications in which case they'll start to have to make most of their money on corporate contracts.

Maybe something will change, but right now OpenAI is looking like a bubble company with no guarantee to its dominant position. Because it is what it is: simply the largest pooling of money to try to corner this market. What else do they have?
woke is over, now. Also Zuckerberg changed music
That is, unfortunately, the point.
This significantly overestimates the reliability of LLMs -- both their output integrity and their ability to understand context.
Right, but he assumed he knew a technical term when he didn't, which is unwise.
I will reply here because I think this is a good question, even if it may have been intended as merely rhetorical.

(1) The process was distasteful. I want there to be broader knowledge of the disfunctional way this system works in practice.

(2) I don't think anything I did was illegal under the letter of the law. I describe it a bit provocatively with words like "invent" and "fake" but if I was in a court of law I could defend as having solid reasons every candidate we rejected for the fake job search. The corporation had legal council engaged guiding the whole process in ways they advised to meet the corporation's aim of retaining the employee and helping them move from H1B to PERM status.

(3) This account is pseudonymous and while I am sure it is possible to get from it back to a real name I don't expect its worth that effort to any legal authorities, based on my description of practices they are well aware of.

(4) To me the most distasteful parts of this are the governmemt policy. In cases I've been involved in the employee already in the seat has been a stronger candidate for the role than anyone turned up in the fake search. This matches the corporation's goal of hiring the best candidates to begin with. The awful bit is that immigration policy doesn't allow any other path for a company to support a H1B visa holder moving to PERM status.
The reason this is an issue is that the sub value changes often enough that intergrations ignore it rather than bother users with having to re-OAuth.

As far as what Google is doing in the bug bounty, that's a good question -- we don't know. The author is proposing two new values, for the domain and user, that wouldn't change in the cases that sub changes now, but would change in this case.
The tax burden in the US already is mostly on the working class. Corporate tax rates were low and were reduced further during Trump's first term - and Biden made no attempt to raise them.

One should also remember that low minimum and median wages are "pre-burdening" the working class, i.e. constitute a different form of tilting the distribution of economic power, and access to goods and services, away from workers. And minimum and median US wages are quite low relative to the wealth of the US as a whole.
There is precedent for no federal income tax in the United States.

Prior to the federal income tax (1913), all federal government expenses were covered by duties, tariffs, and levies.
Doesn't need to be perfect- but using this would actively reduce productivity
So what browser do you use that solves this properly and allows full adblocking?
What you've built is a work of art, it blew my mind the first time I came across it. I love the completeness of vision (boomboom tss).

I've only just realised that you've opensourced it all so I haven't looked at the code yet, but a couple of Qs:

- is there anything that the old wave your fingers at the screen pose detect model did better the new screenpalm method? I always wondered if you were detecting the angle of motion (pronation?) for each finger to tilt its keywell, and I guess it's maybe harder to do that with the new method.

- have you ever thought about using the measurements for one hand to spot measurement outliers in the other? Would it ever make sense to generate a symmetrical keyboard from the combined measurements of both hands?

- have you thought about collaborating with other keyboard designers to add their designs to the app and give them a cut? For example the Cygnus[0] is a stunning keyboard; I'm not sure if it is parametrically generated, but I do remember thinking that I'd absolutely pay money to get one tailored to my hand geometry, and then wondering whether you could ever pull off building a designer marketplace/ecosystem out of the whole thing, maybe with a little sdk. It's one thing that the aliexpress copycat sellers can't copy.

Also somehow only just realised that you have a blog. I might go read it.

[0]: https://kbd.news/Cygnus-1.0-2307.html
This is the old school “polite” version, as in, “read the fine manual”