skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don’t get me wrong the write up is really interesting but it does feel like the author is a bit of a sensationalist.

They claim to be 15 years old. Cut them some slack.
In case anyone else has trouble:

1. The black circle is the ball; you roll the dice to determine the amount of moves

2. after the dice roll, the allowed moves will be shown - as yellow squares near the ball; this is a very faint yellow and easy to miss

3. to move the ball, roll the dice then click on the faint yellow squares near the ball (or further away if you rolled a 6).
I thought this was an interesting meditation on the limits of AI and how ordinary people don't see those limits, wrapped up in a context I normally wouldn't expect to see AI at all.
Tell that to Jadav Payeng, who planted a forest by himself. He accomplished, on his own, more for the good of the world than most communities on Facebook ever will.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/jadav-payeng-the-...
Woe be to us all if the skill of thinking goes away.
When you live in a rural area, you're way more isolated. Remember when the lockdowns were finally over and you were happy to just be able to interact with people again, even if you were an introvert like me? It's kinda like that.

Also, door to door salesmen don't tend to go to rural areas.
Exactly this. Even for internal use. Our corp approved a small project where NN will do the analysis of nightly test runs (our test suite runs very long). For now it does classification of results into several exiting broad categories. Technically product type failures are the most important usually and this should allow to focus efforts on them. But since even 1% false rate (it is actually in double digits in real life) would mean that we, QAs, need to verify all results anyway. So no time saved, and this NN software is eh... useless.

There are other ideas how to make it more useful, but my point is that non-zero failure rate with unpredictable answers is not applicable to many domains.
Even if progress stops:

1. Current reasoning models can do a -lot- more than skeptics give them credit for. Typical human performance even among people who do something for employment is not always that high.

2. In areas where AI has mediocre performance, it may not appear that way to a novice. It often looks more like expert level performance, which robs novices of the desire to practice associated skills.

Lest you think I contradict myself: I can get good output for many tasks from GPT4 because I know what to ask for and I know what good output looks like. But someone who thinks the first, poorly prompted dreck is great will never develop the critical skills to do this.
Agree. We've given them a different alphabet than ours.

They speak a different language that captures the same meaning, but has different units.

Somehow they need to learn that their unit of thought is not the same as our speech. So that these questions need to map to a different alphabet.

That's my two cents.
Here are a few anecdotes from the U.S. that can hopefully add substance to this conversation:

1) I am an investor in startups, and I have slowed my investments to a trickle since the beginning of Covid. I have noted that this has been generally true of other investors like myself.

2) There are still tons of problems to solve through technology applications; but there needs to be a moat between your solution and what AI will likely disrupt in the next few years. So, think about solving problems in the physical world.

3) Many startups create a pool of equity at around 10-15% of total shares for awarding to key employees. If your startup doesn't have this, then that is a red flag.

4) When assessing a startup, consider two things first: are the founders experienced in the industry and market they are attacking? Is the value of the solution obvious? i.e. people will likely willingly pay well to have the solution?

5) startups are still thriving at universities that support entrepreneurship and technology commercialization.

6) financial stability of startups, especially technical startups, is greatly affected by non-dilutive grants and contracts, e.g. SBIR awards. Investors look for this.
EU plans ban on 'forever chemicals' in consumer products
most very high staff or director+ level tech employees of a handful of top FAANG companies in SF
Microsoft doesn't get to own the world Copilot for everything.
For being 15 year old, cool work!

But calling this de-anonymization is a stretch, if it can possibly pinpoint you within 250 miles (that's assuming geoip is correct too, which it rarely is).

In their GeoGuesser demonstration video, the higlighted area is densely populated and you still would need to match millions of people vs the online user.

It does provide some hints as to the location of the targeted user, and that is cool!
If you don't have either investors (he's talking about bootstrapping) or world-class expertise, it's going to be pretty hard to launch a successful startup. You may be thinking of venture-funded startups, but he's not.
Like I think you are alluding to in your own response, manual J is just a design load calculation. It won't give you the annual energy usage so it probably isn't suitable for estimating annual energy costs. You want something that gives you (ideally) hourly load calculations.

Like with all models, it depends on how accurate you need to get. Very few energy models (mainly TRNSYS or eQUEST) that I've been involved with go to the level of blower door testing. They generally take design information (materials, orientation, etc.)
Im seeing it in affluent communities as well.
It sounded to me like once it’s out of alpha the pricing model is “TBD, but likely pay-per-print”.
This is great thread! Thanks everyone for serious polite exchange!

Seems to me that AI (today) allows amateurs to generate low quality professional work. Cheaply. Disrupting the careers of many creative professionals. Where does that lead?
I'm in the US, if these apps are going to depend on customers tipping for their drivers to get a reasonable wage, then tipping/delivery fee should be required. If people aren't willing to pay the drivers for their labor, they shouldn't place the order.
My experience is that "common people" try (or were trying) as much to "game the system" as "rich people". Examples (not from UK): shops not giving a receipt (this improved probably with cards), people avoiding paying fines for small things, people asking for benefits they were not entitled too (this improves with digitalisation) etc.

So, my opinion is that splitting people by class/income/whatever does not help a lot. You need rules/systems to avoid as much as possible cheating schemes, and compared to like 30 years ago things might already be better, but as nobody can check every news many can end with the impression "the system is bad".
Musk has been promoting his views and demoting post that he doesn’t agree with.
If you're in Istanbul, and you're going to meet at 7pm Izakaya time, why would you enter 7pm Istanbul time? Put 1am Istanbul time or, more sensibly, enter the appointment as 7pm Izakaya time.

I don't want my calendar changing appointment times on me. If I say 7pm when I'm in Istanbul, I expect it to alert at 7pm when I'm in Istanbul, 8pm if I'm in Dubai, 9pm if I'm in Karachi, and 1am if I'm in Izakaya. Entering it without a timezone should reasonably default to the timezone the calendar was in when the appointment was entered.

Let's take an example: suppose I have a calendar appointment to call my partner, at 7pm Istanbul time. I'm in Istanbul, and I enter 7pm with the "floating" scheduling method. Then, I travel to New Zealand, and at 7pm NZ time, alarm goes off, so I call my partner. Unfortunately, it is 9am in Istanbul, not 7pm: the floating screwed up the schedule. Including timezone in the appointment would have prevented this issue.

Let's take another example: you're in Istanbul, traveling to one of your company's remote offices in NZ for a week for a summit, and have your agenda set out in "floating" time according to NZ timezone. Then, a storm rolls in, and you can't fly out, so you'll attend the same appointments remotely. But now you must edit each and every appointment to reflect their new "floating" time according to Istanbul. Including timezone in the appointments would have prevented this issue.
AI founder yet this company appears to test models?
It is what it is. History cannot be changed. Matter-of-factly, unemotionally, the website/company was based on "theft" from the beginning: Zuckerberg did not seek license (permission) to use Harvard's student profiles to create "Facemash".
How many of us still have to do these things? You either eed to do them or you don’t. If you do, you will learn how or find someone that do.

We still need to calculate numbers and I can say it’s silly if I find someone need to get a calculator to do 5x20. Same if you’re taking hours and multiple sheets of paper for something that will take you a few minutes with a calculator. There’s a question of scale and basic understanding that divides the two.
In this case though, it's pretty clearly on topic. This is a major tech company and they are claiming that it is due to a software bug.
It's an en dash which is supposed to denote ranges eg 2013–2024 basically meaning 'to' so it's still incorrect here even if it weren't extremely similar to - or negative and easy to confuse.
I'll confess error in my wording above (and it's too late to edit it): The judgment (outcome) was arguably correct, as you say — state governments should indeed be able to do reasonable public-safety regulation.

(Whether Louisiana's action in granting a private monopoly on meat processing was a reasonable way to promote public safety was another question: The Court's opinion focused on the 14th Amendment and federal privileges and immunities vs. those under state law.)

The 5-4 majority's rationale went too far: As the opinion says, the Reconstruction Amendments (13 through 15) were intended to hem in state governments — notably but not exclusively those of the South, which by and large were dominated (often through murderous mob- and militia violence) by white, racist, recent- and still-aspiring enslavers — but the majority left the door too open to the possibility of states'-rights arguments. [0]

[0] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/83/36/
A rambly "thinking" model like this is way too slow for coding assistance imo, although maybe it could take on larger assignments than you could get out of a chat or coding model.
Because we only have the one planet to live on, and we all have to share it.
What happened to your app? I was on such a research team (Scripps) that used your app for the study (PROGRESS).
>> Subjectively, that feels wildly untrue. Do you have any numbers to back this up?

Agreed. Also not everyone realizes WhatsApp and IG are also part of Facebook. Aside from elderly folks, almost now one I know uses traditional facebook. However, almost all Millenials and GenZ I know use IG. Practically everyone I know who has overseas family/friends uses WhatsApp.
I think the endless quest for growth and increased profit will always leads to lower quality.
Yeah I am doing 1g per lb of lean body weight and let's just say I have been eating a disturbing amount of egg white (I'm a big guy!)

Getting protein in takes dedication & awareness
Engineers partly did this to themselves. The career advice during that time period was to change jobs every few years, demanding higher and higher salaries. So now, employers don't want to pay to train entry-level people, as they know they are likely going to leave, and at the salaries demanded they don't want to hire junior folks.
Being successful at a startup isn't about being a good coder, either.

Especially if you're a founding member or an early hire, it often has much more to do with having good insights about where technology meets business, knowing how to tackle difficult problems using limited resources (IRL, not just in a computer), and even a sprinkle of politics if your startup happens to "disrupt" the wrong kind of industry.

If your startup has a management team that can abstract away all of that stuff so that you can just code in peace, I agree that your tenure there will probably not be worth the hassle in a resume.
Chinese carriers don’t support eSIM. Not an advantage. A necessity unfortunately.
If tipping is required it is no longer tipping. It’s a tax/fee.

I don’t get why people are expecting to receive tips even if the service provided is fine at best.
Just tried this - it shows up in the search results and clicking on it shows the area, as expected.

That being said, Google Maps results are dependent upon the country you're in; I'm in Sweden, but I imagine you might get different results in e.g. Israel?
And what do you think of this messaging to celebrities, comics etc: https://intercoin.org/community.pdf
estimating from a photograph is always going to have huge error because you just cannot know e.g. the size of the plate without some external reference
He’s talking about private groups.

Regardless, no private platform is forced to provide you a voice. You can set up your own site and set up your own servers if need be. People have been getting their ideas out there before social media and even when the mainstream media wouldn’t cover them.

That’s how the civil rights movement came to prominence.
I would be happier to do it if there was transparency about how much of the delivery costs the restaurant is covering. Delivery services benefit both producers and consumers. I'm not willing to be on the hook for the whole thing.
Another great comment noted that historically society made women do all the childcare and didn’t record what they thought about this, which, yes. It was probably always the case that non-parents knew hilariously little about kids, but back then, Mom had to deal with whatever crises emerged while Dad could work like he was single. No this was not fair.
Would there be any way to mass test for gut health?
He might not be pro gas chamber but he knows exactly what he’s doing. Continuing to give him the benefit-of-the-doubt is willful ignorance.
Do people that create startups have debt in their own name after the startups fail? Or does the debt go down with the company and does the founder walk away debt free?
The submission you've linked is flagged.
Last time I used Cloudflare I think their settings default to only "Origin SSL/TLS" (or whatever they call it), which wouldn't encrypt anything between Cloudflare and the origin, it would only encrypt data between Cloudflare and the end-user/browser.
This doesn’t jibe with publicly available statistics..
About 18 months ago, there was an article (here on HN) suggesting that The Cheesecake Factory (an American casual dining restaurant, big chain) made their food from scratch. This is trivially debunked. Go to their website, which has the menu for all locations in North America, and you can see for yourself that there is practically nothing that would or could be made from scratch. Everything, literally every menu item at the time, was something that could be brought frozen and reheated there (on a grill more likely than in microwaves, but I don't know which). Furthermore, I pointed out how I drive past one every day to go to work, and twice a week in the morning I will see the Sysco truck unloading in the back of the restaurant.

Even the fucking salad, such as they are, are in plastic bags and dumped into a bowl. Pointing this out though, was worthy of more than one downvote. Why? Does HN have some deep bench of experts on American casual dining chains? Is it a technology topic? No, the echo chamber had already decided, and going against this insults the echo chamber even if there is no emotional investment.

When I said there was an echo chamber, I pointed out that I was excluding politics because you kind of just expect that. But it's literally about everything no matter how trivial it should be. I have had many examples over the years, and if there were a point to it I could give you an exhaustive list. This is the human condition. Forever arguing over stupid shit for the rest of eternity, or at least until doomsday, which I suspect is less than a century off.
I don’t think you can just send any document to a thermal printer and have it come out usable… there’s definitely value in software that can _convert_ arbitrary data to whatever format/dimensions/etc the thermal printer needs. Like the post mentions automatic dithering of images. Stuff like that. The HTTP glue is not the hard part.
Most popular languages support annotations of one type or another, they let you do all that in a type safe way. It's Go that's decided to be different for difference sake, and produced a complete mess.
We could communicate more effectively 20 or so years ago. Communication technology had already matured, but we didn’t have these engagement-driven social media platforms. The goal of these platforms isn’t to communicate, it is to sell ads and pick engaging posts to re-broadcast.

What gets people engaged is stupid anger. Even stuff I agree with on some fundamental political level, the social media version is just stressed out, to the point of being ineffective and often wrong in detail.

Centralized as driven social media can’t go out of business fast enough.
similar arguments for all Abrahamic religious texts?
To really drive the nail in... consider what advances have been made in software over the past 30 years. In software specifically, NOT software enabled by faster hardware.

What can we do now in software which would not have been possible in 1995, even if we were to somehow make our hardware today usable by programmers then?
The Space Junk Crisis Needs a Recycling Revolution
You can stop a workout by telling Siri "end workout".

I'd expect that you can also start one with Siri but have never actually tried, mainly because the idea of using Siri to start/stop workouts never occurred to me until reading this thread, which I happened to be doing this morning while doing a workout on my treadmill.
Can probably achieve the same level of deanonymization by just monitoring what times the user communicates most often. Or send them enough links that they'll click on.
So you’re going to ignore publicly available information based on your anecdote?
I am not sure calculators have hurt us much on the high end of mathematical ability.

But man I cringe when I see 18 year old students reach for a calculator to multiply something by .1.
We've got you covered!

https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
So, let's review:

1) build headquarters in (relatively) low COL city - in this case, Olathe KS, which is a suburb of Kansas City MO.

2) Have people who actually want to make a product instead of making analysts happy

3) Invest in R&D

4) Bring manufacturing in-house and tightly control processes

It's like everything the people actually doing the work at tech companies have been saying for years.

Can I have my $10mil/year pay package now?
My (wealthy) father in law does this, he has a handful of people he can call upon day or night to do whatever he needs, anything from pick something up two hours away to put some additional overnight security on one of his sites/properties... most of them are ex-military Eastern European. I've no idea how he compensates them but they seem happy with him and stick around, and the couple I've spoken to over the years seem nice enough.

To be honest I wouldn't want to know more details, he's a dodgy fuck
For food delivery, I imagine going back to pre-apps and have restaurant employed couriers for local takeout could be beneficial for both parties.
You don’t see how much more work that is?
yeah, the person you're referring to is confused because the Cloudflare HTTP service terminates TLS and presents a Cloudflare certificate, but that doesn't have anything to do at all with Signal's E2EE which is not based on HTTPS PKI
One of Garmin's big old (probably still made in small numbers though) product lines were stand alone turn by turn GPS units you'd attach to your windshield or dash so when Google Maps introduced turn by turn that's when it became relevant as a major competitor to that product line and a major threat to Garmin.
Algebraic effects and implicit arguments with explicit records are perfectly cromulent language features. GHC Haskell already has implicit arguments, and IIRC Scala uses them instead of a typeclass/trait system. The situation with extensible records in Haskell is more troublesome, but it’s more because of the endless bikeshedding of precisely how powerful they should be and because you can get almost all the way there with the existing type-system features except the ergonomics invariably suck.

It’s reasonable, I think, to want the dynamic scope but not the control-flow capabilities of monads, and in a language with mutability that might even be a better choice. (Then again, maybe not—SwiftUI is founded on Swift’s result builders, and those seem pretty much like monads by another name to me.) And I don’t think anybody likes writing the boilerplate you need to layer a dozen MonadReaders or -States on each other and then compose meaningful MonadMyLibraries out of them.

Finally, there’s the question of strong typing. You do want the whole thing to be strongly typed, but you don’t want the caller to write the entire dependency tree of the callee, or perhaps even to know it. Yet the caller may want to declare a type for itself. Allowing type signatures to be partly specified and partly inferred is not a common feature, and in general development seems to be backing away from large-scale type inference of this sort due to issues with compile errors. Not breaking ABI when the dependencies change (perhaps through default values of some sort) is a more difficult problem still.

(Note the last part can be repeated word for word for checked exceptions/typed errors. Those are also, as far as I’m aware, largely unsolved—and no, Rust doesn’t do much here except make the problem more apparent.)
Also in the UK… it's fixed in part - works on my phone but not in my browser
Logic and Serato do 4 with a few clicks. The results in both are pretty good, definitely good enough for what this person is trying to do although with one less track I guess.
We really need some innovative LLM-based games that provide a similar experience as the original infocom games but with a much richer parser and perhaps more detailed texts.
There are various models and generations of their watches at every price point. Them having more expensive options doesn't mean they don't have less expensive options as well.
The post is flagged
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How many Alpine packages can you install at once? (2024)
Pretty much all fitness trackers can do this, even really cheap ones.
The antitrust docs showed that most users didn't even know they weren't using google if they found themselves in front of a bing search.

This is absolutely cringey behaviour, but it's a downright polite compared to the tactics and dark-money-deals already in place, as shown in the antitrust docs.

> based on 26 user interviews; almost
half of the users (12) did not notice a surreptitious change from Google to Bing on their iPhone;

> Moreover, a search for “google.com” is one of the most frequently entered
search queries on Bing.
Id. at 2745:21-25 (Parakhin).

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/US-v-...
And the thread is about how LLM training interacts with copyright. Not whether OpenAI or Meta coincidentally blatantly copied other works.
>I want to move our local communities

What does that mean? I think we need a lot more context on what you want to do. Are you the IT administrator for the county and want to find alternative ways of disseminating announcements? Or are you just a citizen that wants people to chat somewhere else?
It’s rural America. Do you really think they are anti-Trump?