skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you point me to the generation that had ready access to AI on their hands, answering all their questions?

"People have been complaining about this for thousands of years" is a potent counterargument to a lot of things, but it can't be applied to things that really didn't exist even a decade ago.

Moreover, the thing that people miss about "people have been complaining about this for thousands of years" is that the complaints have often been valid, too. Cultures have fallen. Civilizations have collapsed. Empires have disintegrated. The complaints were not all wrong!

And that's on a civilization-scale. On a more mundane day-to-day scale, people have been individually failing for precisely the same reasons people were complaining about for a long time. There have been lazy people who have done poorly or died because of it. There have been people who refused to learn who have done poorly or died because of it.

This really isn't an all-purpose "just shrug about it and move on, everything's been fine before and it'll be fine again". It hasn't always been fine before, at any scale, and we don't know what impact unknown things will have.

To give a historical example... nay, a class of historical examples... there are several instances of a new drug being introduced to a society, and it ripping through that society that had no defenses against it. Even when the society survived it, it did so at great individual costs, and "eh, we've had drugs before" would not have been a good heuristic to understand the results with. I do not know that AIs just answering everything is similar, but at the moment I certainly can't prove it isn't either.
> How's this any different than someone 5+ years ago blindly going by whatever a Google result said about anything

You can interrogate it at least. "Are you sure that's the correct answer? Re-think from the beginning without any assumptions" and you'll get a checklist you can mentally/practically go through yourself to validate.
Retro PC case flaunts floppy disk-style bay cover – Silverstone FLP01
Biden refused to enforce the ban for his last day in office. I don’t think that says anything about anyone’s general appetite to follow through.

Obviously the political calculations you mention are real, but also POTUS is legally obligated to faithfully enforce the laws. Many laws they can wriggle out of enforcing under prioritization, but given that this is just a matter of fining companies for unambiguously doing an illegal thing, I suspect that’s going to be a harder argument to make in court (and an especially hard one for Apple/Google et al to bet on them making successfully).

SCOTUS didn’t rule “at the last minute” it was enforceable. Last minute of what clock?
They can’t really get rid of Cognito. It’s the authentication/authorization platform for external users. There is no migration path that will seamlessly transfer user names and passwords to other mainstream services like CodeCommit.
> I'm particularly excited about the AI integration possibilities. Instead of yet another chat interface, you can have AI generate content that exists in the physical world – artwork, poems, todo lists, custom receipts, etc.

Incredible. Instead of just creating online trash that nobody wants to read, it can create physical trash too! For maximum art, it can feed directly into a shredder.
I dont think FAANG employees are better than everyone else, but these two things don’t sound mutually exclusive.
Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps
> Sure, but with sufficiently many people, these effects will usually average out.

In the case of dietary studies, not really. There are a few factors which are known to have a big effect on your health--being wealthy, active, and moderate in particular--and a lot of the big studies are really just uncovering yet another proxy for those factors.

Of course, you can turn that around and make the realization that your diet doesn't really matter: there's no diet that will magically make up for being a couch potato. And outside the main well-known interventions (e.g., eating less calories), the solution is generally to just be more active and things like that rather than trying to tweak your diet.
Differences of degree, not of kind
In the global context, they were extremely advanced.
> How's this any different than someone 5+ years ago blindly going by whatever a Google result said about anything?

It has "AI" in the title, so it's a hot take.
> Our research found that in the absence of differences in motivation, learners with different supports still exhibited different self-regulated learning processes, ultimately leading to differentiated performance.

That's the most convoluted conclusion I've ever seen.

> What is particularly noteworthy is that AI technologies such as ChatGPT may promote learners' dependence on technology and potentially trigger “metacognitive laziness”.

Calculator laziness is long known. It doesn't cause meta- but specific- laziness.
True, so I guess what needs to happen is people using AI need to be informed on how to use it more accurately so they're actually learning source material and not just taking garbage / cheating on coursework.
Related:

[flagged] Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938 - Jan 2025
> One simple thing you can do is just automatically reindent the whole block.

This is exactly the point of my comment -- the absence of an obvious / reasonable automatic formatter is the problem I'm pointing to.
is anything you don't like now ai generated text?

"deep dive" has been around for quite some time https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=5&date=all&q=%2...
Or they might just not speak english at work.
Strongly agree here that there is platform lock-in; all the large platforms are playing subtle games to make it harder to explore new services outside them.

To some people this might look like consumers are more conservative, but really it's just hidden dark patterns keeping them in the big platforms.

I really wish the US government was more pro-business competition; they're merely pro-business in terms of ensuring existing winners continue to win. Across the pond, the EU seems to get this with measures like GDPR which make it actually easier to port between platforms.
Yes. Features I use all the time when taking notes in Cursor / VS Code:

- Ctrl + click -> open link in browser

- Alt + shift + click -> create multiple cursors

I keep Cursor minimized when I'm not using it the rest of the time.
The bigger problem with dietary research is that it does not take human diversity and genetics into account.

See : Genetics, Nutrition, and Health: A New Frontier in Disease Prevention

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/27697061.2023.22...
Most SMEs do not even seem to have backups with another provider.

I cannot see EC2 being shut down but other services might be, and there are all sorts of other issues. The idea that a cloud provider will just take care of everything is delusional. You still have work to do. It might be less work, but its there.

There was an Australian pension provider that recently had an issue with their main cloud account and services shut down. Luckily the regulator required they had backups with a different provider so they were able to restore everything. This is a business running something like AUD 125bn of other people's money.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/09/unisuper_google_cloud...
I see how this is used in practice. I don't know about France, but in Poland both sides use that label when convenient, and of course they refer to completely different things, yet always done by their political opponents.
Is this reportable to the EU as an EU resident?
Reading this, it might be as likely that they didn't sufficiently like each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI#Marriage_and_family_...
There’s uses of AI that do not replace people but rather hands them tools that enable and empower them to create as they have never created before. I hope to talk about what I’m building in the next few days.
Yes, but that's also how the commenter used it:

> "Deep dive". When is a dive shallow? Isn't a dive implicitly deep?
Even if they are, that doesn't mean they're safer

https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/are-bpa-substitutes-any-s...
Zoomable: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/
Last I looked, machines are considered unable to create copyrightable content, so your attempt to compare that to LLMs might not work in court.

> The application was denied because, based on the applicant’s representations in the application, the examiner found that the work contained no human authorship. After a series of administrative appeals, the Office’s Review Board issued a final determination affirming that the work could not be registered because it was made “without any creative contribution from a human actor.”

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf
Man I do the quote thing and couldn't tell remember where I'd picked up that particular affect. HRO is a pretty good guess. Maybe Carles is in web heaven with MySpace Tom.
I’m not Peter, but you can renew your re-entry permits forever, in 1-year increments. You can even have them delivered to the U.S. consulate abroad. It’s a hassle since they only give you 1-year renewals after a certain period of time (with initially getting 2-year ones), but it’s better than losing the status.
The actual podcast site is at https://underbar.cpan.io/ The summary from the site is:

> If there's one thing I like more than writing code, it's talking about code. My best memories about code usually involve a late night discussion with a drink in one hand and no keyboard in the other.

> In 2024, I seriously started listening to podcasts. "Live conversation with eventual interventions from the audience" is the format I find to be the closest to the bar conversations I like so much, and I'd love to listen to (and chat with) my friends from the open source community, talking about random mostly technical topics.

> So, I figured I should just try it! How hard can it be to setup a conference call, invite a few interesting people, pick a topic to start the conversation, hit "record", and stop after roughly one hour? And make the recording public afterwards, for others to enjoy.

> (If you don't like the undertones of "bar", you can think of this as "campfire stories".)
>
Also everyone: FAANG employees are better than everyone else!

Rather: FAANG employees are pushed into startups by VCs.
That's a interesting and very fitting quote. Basically saying that since we can now write down information, people will get lazier about remembering things. Basically the exact same claim as the submission article.
The Cybertruck is whatever the opposite of a halo product is, a lemon that is becoming a byword for badly thought out design when a leader is allowed to go unchallenged.
The rise of complexity, and its collapse, defines every civilization for which we have historical records. Given that our society seem hell-bent on repeating the pattern, I question whether we ever had respect for it. It seems that we have nothing but arrogance to proclaim "this time we'll get it right" as we layer on the next layer of complexity.

[1] Joseph Tainter "The Collapse of Complex Societies"
I've found them to be quite accurate when given enough context data. For ex, feeding it an article into it's context window and asking questions about it. Relying on the LLM's internal trained knowledge state seems to be less reliable.
On that topic, Twitter/X is now heavily pushing InfoWars.

Of all the social networks, Twitter is currently the most concerning, given the far-right sympathies and political connections of its owner.
Ignoring what might be vapid reddit edge: it doesn't seem like it.

The GP would probably do well to see the endeavor as a success in terms of how they should behave in future. Any necessary adjustment would seem to come from the margins.
> Do they know to ask what a use-after-free is or how cache memory works? Do they know the names of the algorithms and data structures? Do they know when the GenAI is bullshitting them?

No, which is why people who don't pick up on the nuances of programming - no matter how often they use LLMs - will never be capable programmers.
To be honest I am surprised how bad any OS supports browser profiles. Most people do use the same laptop for Work and Personal. And ok, now all the major browsers support profiles, but why the Password managers don't integrate with it, and support profile specific passwords for example?
The "business of tech" is and has always been politically expedient.

A counter here would be well written essays offering the humanist perspective.

I don't think PG is particularly well read in the area of "wokeness" anyway since he has fallen for the traditional conservative trap of redefinition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
How do they learn it today? Hopefully not from the internet ...
People also believe fall into this trap with political philosophy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
Then write it down as x2-x2.5 of what you'd expect.
Better to eat less the following day than overeat.
So we need to train inquisitive curious thinkers that look at things from all angles and understand why they know something.
What is the best way to hide all the "Trump says something provocative; Trump enjoys the angry knee-jerk reactions" stories? I understand that millions of people are hopelessly addicted to them, and they for-sure pay the bills for many journalists, but ...
But the CEO was killed in 2024.
depends on what experience you want... a lot of communities exist on just a chat app like whatsapp (europe mostly), line (east asia), etc
But do either of them manage to show a legible street name at a convenient zoom level?
> it's been developped by the fine folks of framasoft

This is enough to tell me it's not gonna be suitable.

Their software are all absolutely awful because their organization follows the skewed principle that FOSS is enough to "sell" and they don't take UX into consideration at all.

Literally none of their alternatives are successful, always for this reason.
A WhatsApp group might well be an easier alternative for many people, although it's another Meta company if that's a concern.
A CTO of a startup might be coding day to day, making technology decisions, and have a team or two underneath them. In F500 or Corpro world, this is more like a engineering manager or tech lead. In most big companies a manager does zero coding and rarely makes a tech decision, you go up to a director level, they might have 100-200 people under them, direct reports are almost all managers, and they never touch tech. Go higher up to VP or CTO levels and they are just so divorced from code that it doesn't make sense why a CTO in a startup would translate.
Other API-compatible reimplementations (others?):

https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly DragonflyDB (not open source, BuSL-1.1) with more performance

https://github.com/apache/kvrocks Apache Kvrocks (Apache-2.0) uses disk-based NoSQL database to lower memory usage
In the absence of a definition I'd read it straightforwardly - it means that someone stops making an effort to learn better ways to learn. I.e. if they start using chatbots to learn, they stop practicing other methods and just rely on the chatbot. (EDIT: I realize now that this probably isn't news to the parent!)

I've heard stories of junior engineers falling into this trap. They asked the chatbot everything rather than exposing their lack of knowledge to their coworkers. And if the chatbot avoids blatant mistakes, junior engineers won't recognize when the bot makes a subtle one.
I vote this the best proof. All you need to know to understand it is to know how multiplication, addition and exponentiation works. You could probably show this to a child in a sixth grade or so, and have them understand it. This is really good!
Okay but I'd like to see evidence of this because most missing features are just missing features.
The State of Homomorphic Encryption Report
On the other hand you might be getting worse at reading those papers yourself.

The more youngsters skip the hassle of banging their heads on some topic the less able they will be to learn at later age.

There's more to learning than getting information, it's also about processing it (which we are offloading to LLMs). In fact I'd say that the whole point of going through school is to learn how to process and absorb information.

That might be the cognitive laziness.
Extremely shortsighted take.

I currently use a local LLM to scan my notes, meeting transcripts, todo list and calendar. I currently have an iPad that displays some items (e.g. if I have important personal tasks to do today that I might have forgotten) and I would love it to be printed out like this.

Nothing to do with generating novel text, it's just used as a flexible API to my existing text and items.
Thwarted??

Can you run a business if you're not on Google Maps?
I wouldn’t mind an indoor farm, if they come up with some system to control the smell.

I don’t think there should be any restriction on what people can build.

You could have a rule on bad smell, that applies to equally to everyone, so a farm would be legal, if they can control the smell.

Egg-laying chicken farm in between two multi-family units would be perfectly legal. I see this as a good thing.
I've worked at a few startups now but never do it for the equity. I do take equity, but as far as I'm concerned its more a signal that I'm "invested" and have a stake in the game.

I work at startups because I prefer the type of work generally found there. I like smaller teams, I enjoy having to learn new things, and I (usually) enjoy how quickly projects and direction can change.

For anyone considering a startup I'd say to just consider equity a lottery ticket for a decent bonus. It will probably not amount to anything, and it probably won't be worth what many expect, but it can be a nice bonus if you like the job and team regardless of an exit.
People are becoming more aware of the Shadow State that is the financial/mercantilist class. The people that the government outsources everything it can't do on paper to. I would not be surprised to see other forms of insurer come under increased scrutiny in the years to come.
But wait, which LLM models were used to train Kimi? It wasn't clear on the report.
The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)
The easiest way to see it is with averted vision (looking slightly away from Andromeda, so that it falls on the most sensitive part of your retina). Unfortunately, though, with the naked eye, it just looks like a faint smudge.
negotiation is very much a thing even at FAANG. If anything, it can help you being at the top of your assigned band. Other things can be negotiated.

Source: I am no great negotiator, but I've always negotiated my salary and got 10-15 % more than what I would have had w/o asking anything. This compounds after a few stints. And I've been a manager in startup/mid size/big tech: always negotiate.
I wonder if any fitness watches can tell when their wearer's had one.
The critical industry of McDonald's delivery will never pay a living wage. There's not enough value. Folks will have to self-select out.
I think the calculus is different for exercising options after leaving than the scenario the GP described, in which the company is pitching current employees on a stock purchase scheme.

There’s nothing inherently wrong in the latter, but it’s super unusual, and it’s pretty safe to be wary of startups shouldn’t do unusual things with their financing / cap table.

Exercising options post departure, on the other hand, is par for the course with any option-based compensation (note that this shouldn’t apply to RSUs, since those are usually owned outright after vesting).

A similar question arises with payment of taxes for 409a elections. Can be pricey, but it doesn’t raise the same red flags as a founder asking you to pay to work there.
I used to have an Android Wear watch, when it was still called that. I thought it was really cool, a small computer on my wrist, ready to use instantly. I looked for more things I could use it for. But after a while, I noticed that I almost always preferred to take my phone out of the pocket if I needed to interact with anything. So the watch mainly got used for notifications, changing songs, and logging run workouts. My current Garmin can do all that, and the battery lasts a long time so I never have to care about it, and it has buttons. A WearOS watch is slow and unusable with less than 1 GB of RAM, there's something very wrong with that.

I worry that Garmin isn't well placed to compete with the new generation smart watches though. Google and Apple can make watches with connected voice assistants and phone calls. Garmin uses their own OS on hardware an order of magnitude less powerful. That's their strength and weakness, and it will be interesting to see what the market chooses. My next watch will also be a Garmin, I don't need or want a wrist computer, but I can see why others would want that.
Next up: an executive order to revert the default branch name of all Git repos back to master.
Even though ChatGPT "invents" its own reality sometimes, I also find it superior to Google search results (or Duck Duck Go). In some cases LLM results even provide specific strings to search for in the search engines to verify the content. Search is terribly broken and has been since around 2014 (arbitrary date) where Google search results pages started displaying more ads than results.
I use Cronometer (www.cronometer.com) and a scale. It lets you create recipes with the weight of each item and the weight of the final result. I then weigh the portion I have with a meal. Why do I do this in the first place? I'm one of those people that eats too little vs too much, especially in the summers when I'm outside all day burning tons of energy: tracking calories helps me keep weight on. I have to eat so much food to maintain my target weight that it gets pretty uncomfortable some days. Yay for muffins and cookies.

Don't worry about how leftover nutrients decrease over time: you'll get enough nutrients in a well balanced diet without having to worry about the minutia. If you're really worried about it, pop a multivitamin for cheap insurance.

Also don't worry about the variation in calories between one type of cucumber / apple / whatever vs. another. Those variations aren't significant and they probably average out anyway. Realize too that the sources aren't exact in the first place: once source is likely to give a different caloric value for something like dried beans vs another.

If you're going to track, don't get too caught up worrying about if the absolute value of the calories you're recording is 100% accurate because even if they were, you can't track your energy expenditure 100% accurately. If the bathroom scale goes in the wrong direction for you, adjust your caloric intake to compensate. Look at trends over the week and over the month vs day to day variations and it won't take long to zero in on the right number for you.
TomTom is now an app on smartphones. I still use it I can't stand Google maps and their annoying ads.
Craigslist is still very active and very much a thing.
That is why the last step should always be how do I know what I know? What are my blind spots?

If I am not motivated to find them and test my own knowledge, how do I change that motivation?
US Names One of the Hackers Allegedly Behind Salt Typhoon Breaches
Maybe it is better to not use the word copilot in this context because MS has a trademark on it that they will have to defend.
That study looked at 6 similar plasticizers.

The alternative chemicals for thermal paper are totally different. That's not to say that they are guaranteed safe, but that study is inapplicable.

E.g. one type of paper claims to use Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C). No idea what else is in it of course, but it's not a BGA-analogue plasticizer.
Steinberg spectral Layers is one of the commercial ones. It sounds really good.