skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s more that Americans seem to be surprised by things that people in other countries have known for decades.

Meanwhile, the current administration is trying to send us back to the 19th century in civil rights, healthcare and energy policy.
> I was once rejected with "you don't have the technical depth needed". I appreciate that's what they honestly felt, but sending it back like that was just too honest.

Do you think if they were more specific it could have helped?

As someone who does like honesty, that type of response would bother me too because it doesn't feel like an honest reply. It feels like a blanket statement to quickly say something and move on.

If they said something like "when it came to thinking about and writing database queries, we felt like your solutions could have used more thought around performance optimizations and fundamental knowledge about joins".

I'd be really happy with a rejection like that because it's super specific. Now there's 2 action items I can do to improve, such as focusing on query tuning and getting better at joins. These are things you could search for and find tons of content / examples to improve on.

If you think about it like a loop, it's a loop that's complete. You did something poorly, you know what you did poorly, you can level up those specific skills and try again. The problem is when the feedback doesn't let you complete the loop.
> Everything you could want from a company - promotions, bonuses, internal respect - comes from shipping projects

True but what if you're stuck in a job where crushing Jira tickets is the metric?
Thank you for posting.

This is a classic tale that everyone should read.
I mean, this is good news, but why was the efficiency of the system so misunderstood at the design phase? I hope someone's interested enough to find out!
My thoughts exactly. Most here will remember accusations that Yelp was taking down negative reviews (were there even suggestions of payola?)

I feel sometimes people grossly overestimate how valuable the web really is. Or at least the majority of it. Wikipedia, archive.org, or my guilty pleasure, YouTube — only a handful of sites really stand out for me. If the rest crashed and burned I'd probably bicycle more.
https://archive.ph/uvgax
Except that if you’re a high school student who is using a calculator for stuff most if not all of the readers on this site would do in your head, having a calculator that ignores precedence just makes things that much harder.
an attempted crime is an intent to harm another. even my autocorrect could finish that sentence.

but we have a separate crime category for those already. "attempted murder" etc. those are crimes because they intended to be a crime, but they just failed for incompetence. it's a lot harder to prove in court (rightfully so).

i would say that i agree with you about attempted crimes, if that helps.
I don't think what you're saying is accurate. Your statement would be correct if the measure of how slow the algorithm is is how much compute time it takes.

But the measurement they're actually using is how many books need to be moved. They're free to use infinite compute time AIUI.
Summarizing is quite difficult. You need to keep the salient points and facts.

If anyone has experience on getting this right, I would like to know how you do it.
Cursor’s composer agent is so slick. I tried Zed out for a few minutes this evening, and in addition to what you said, I was surprised that there wasn’t an option to bring my own tab completion server.

Zed felt very nice, definitely reminded me of the good old days of Sublime. With literally the two features mentioned above, I think I would switch… but it’s easy to say until it happens for sure.
You probably know more about this than me, but it looks like some lines do: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa...

Regenerative braking in cars also keeps a lot of brake dust out of the air. A pair of brake pads lasts about as long as the life of an EV.
Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents
Here's a prediction: molecular nanotech in the scifi sense and synthetic biology turn out to be the same field. Heck, that might not even be a prediction, just a statement of fact from a certain angle. Point being, we're not going to have (or at least bother with) tiny "robots". They'll basically just be cells, with maybe some evolutionarily-implausible components.
Then the web will look like the static on a TV tuned to a long gone station and then it too will be forgotten.
If the net cost is lower, it will happen. It is unlikely that you (or I) will have much of a say in the matter (besides individual decisions) and it will begin to replace parts of the system we don’t have influence over. Insurability, hiring decisions, risk based costing, customer support, and (looking like potentially) government agency interactions.

I’ve just had an interaction with an insurer who used an ML based system to judge insurability (risk) and make recommendations (requirements) to me for immediate action or policy termination. Fascinating, and totally doable with today’s technology, but it makes me very uneasy.

Anyway, it’s cheaper than hiring an inspector and it gave me some batshit recommendations- including removal of invasive plant material (vines on a trellis, looks great in July) and removing extensive roof debris (leaves, we live in a forest). My recourse is an extremely annoying call center hell, or get on the roof. Guess what I did. And I’m not getting a discount.
Eh, I disagree. The actual booking process itself is both pretty painless and very much not something I trust to be automated. Enter my card (better yet, pick a saved one), confirm the dates and price, click confirm. I can't think of anything in there that needs to be automated more than it is.

And choosing something to do should be both fun and something you'd want to do yourself—it only isn't fun because businesses aren't incentivized to make it fun, they're incentivized to try to redirect your attention away from what you actually want and instead draw you to their various sponsors.
If you add Content-Negotiation it will have ALL the OSI layers! /s

Honestly, I'm a little surprised and more than a bit depressed how we effectively reinvent the OSI stack so often...
> BART police

why does a transit system need its own police force? Aren't municipal and county police enough?
Zed seems nice, but the fact it wants you to sign in, wants you to connect to Github, wants you to sign a CLA, etc..., isn't what I want in an editor. I'm perfectly content with Neovim/Lazyvim, especially the fact that you definitely know there won't ever be a rug pull or weird monetisation scheme.

Edit - also, as far as config goes, "distros" solve this. LazyVim is everything I want in an editor and more, with zero config. Installing LSPs and plugins is super easy, arguably even easier than with editors like VSCode or Zed.
this basically summarizes the advertising industry + the internet
I gave up on the game when the person next to me exploded into confetti… Is it really too much to ask for an Unreal Tournament reboot?
The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer's Science
Salaries are a bigger problem for European industry. Relatively speaking, the academia is more competitive in Europe than in the US, because the gap between industry salaries and academic salaries is lower.

European academia is usually constrained by the lack of funding and permanent positions. Many European researchers end up in the US, because it's easier to find a job there. Partly because it's a big country and the right kind of opportunities are more likely available at the right time. Partly because American researchers are more likely to end up in the industry, because the salary gap is higher. And partly because the American immigration system makes it easier for foreigners to get an academic job than an industry job.

But we also like to joke that we are in the US, because we are not good enough to get a job at home.
All Known Domains – Information Wants to Be Free
We pull the list of available models from that URL! Not sending anything, just fetching so we can display an up-to-date list of models.

This the URL that we fetch:
https://syntheticco.blob.core.windows.net/onit/models.json
https://archive.ph/hGNOB
I hope others find this useful.
Citation is very important for verifying the response is grounded. Google search does this too.
Credit card companies will simply add another bullet point to their zero liability protection offerings: "You are not liable for unintended purchases made by Agentic AI systems".

OpenAI will subsidize banks to offer that safety-net for users of Operator. If Chase says you're 100% not on the hook for purchase mistakes made by OpenAI's Operator -- are you going to take the risk (as you pointed out, it's financial, it matters to people) with Perplexity Pro or Siri?
I have a meta question from browsing the repo: Why do C, C++, and Zig code bases, by convention, include a license at the top of every module" IMO it makes more sense to insetead include of an overview of the module's purpose, and how it fits in with the rest of the program, and one license at the top-level, as the project already has.
It's just a matter of time until AI chatbots are flooded with ads.
Not all Big Tech is the same. At Google, for example, the social norm is that if someone not on your team helps you out in a notable way, you thank them with a peer bonus. The peer bonus, in addition to being a bonus, will notify the helper's manager and is a publicly visible artifact that the helper can put in the community contributions category of their next performance assessment.
> We wouldn't allow that with email.

We allowed email to be the wild west for years and I'm not sure it's better than telephony now
Agree.
Adding: LLM models we have today will never produce 100% accurate things. Therefore, they will never be more than a simple tool to use in our daily basis.

To delegate our money/critical-wise tasks to an AI (and other things people dream of), first cientists must find a way different technology we have today.

Spoiler: If it ever happens, it's not something we, normal people, will have the pleasure to be fiddling with firsthand.
The country capable of discover and develop it first will dominate everything.
> Just works

Probably JetBrains is best in class. How much config you need in Zed to get productive with e.g. PHP dev vs install PhpStorm?

I think there is a spectrum of tools where Neovim requires more customization and JetBrains is the most Just-Works. Everything else in between doesn't just work and requires customization in their opinionated way.

> Why Zed?

> 1. Vim mode

Out of all non-vim editors with Vim mode JetBrains is again has the best integration via IdeaVim.

> 2. It just works

Do I need to install extension and configure them?

> 3. JSON Configuration

Comparing JSON vs Lua Table I can't see any benefits. Most configs in Neovim I just copy pasted from the GitHub repo and changed couple things.

> 4. Configuration autocomplete
If you need a good autocomplete for a config file you probably spending too much time on your config.

> 5. Native LLM integration

Nice

> 6. Fast!

Nice
Deadly and Imminent; The Pentagon's Mad Dash for Silicon Valley's AI Weapons
Husband has been seeing these absolutely bottom barrel ai generated ads for boner pills in the middle of his videos.

I'm honestly shocked every time I'm exposed to ads these days. It's gotten dire.
Why are you so conditioned to think that fancier titles and more and more money is the end goal of it all?
> It is possible to use gcc to invoke wild as the linker, but currently to do that, you need to create a directory containing the wild linker and rename the binary (or a symlink) to "ld", then pass `-B/path/to/directory/containing/wild` to gcc.

Instead of renaming and passing -B in, you can also modify the GCC «spec» file's «%linker» section to make it point to a linker of your choice, i.e.

%linker:
/scratch/bin/wild %{wild_options}

Linking options can be amended in the «%link_command» section.

It is possible to either modify the default «spec» file («gcc -dumpspecs») or pass your own along via «-specs=my-specs-file». I have found custom «spec» files to be very useful in the past.

The «spec» file format is documented at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Spec-Files.html
I found that docking was trivial in the BBC Micro disk version if you got reasonably close to the space station entrance, then sped away in the opposite direction (I.e. keeping the space station centred in the read view, turned around and went straight ahead to the station - no adjustments needed.
Addressed towards the end of the post:

"Why not Linux or Windows? Gotta start somewhere! If the reception is positive, we’ll work hard to add further support."

As you can see from the commit log, we have 3 people working on this. So we're quite limited in what we can take on. That said, our belief holds and we'd love to support Linux and Windows.

I had "MacOS" in my original title, but HN limits titles to 80 characters!
I just pay for YouTube. It's worth it.
It’s still a positive change an I’m all for it.
Yep, BART is pretty reviled by all the other transit authorities, and for good reason, based on what my friends who work some of the other authorities have said.
That's a good question, any I have no idea of the answer, but the port authority of NY and NJ has it's own police. I always figured it was because it spanned jurisdictions, but perhaps there are other reasons
Why do people use chatGPT in favor of open source models? The performance isn’t that different for general queries, and not even that much for specialized ones.
Five years from now: "Frustrated AdTube users seek explanation when ads periodically interrupted by non-ad content"
Yes, and good ones were worth every penny. You can book things online for yourself, but what do you know about the area you are visiting? An agent can recommend things that you would never even think of as being something needing consideration. Even just a phone number to call if you get in a bind.
> will negatively impact their sales BECAUSE TRANSACTIONS WILL MORE AND MORE COME IN VIA BOTS.

If you assume that every good or service can be infinitely commoditized, then yes, perhaps this will hurt businesses that use this kind of technology.

Realistically though this just isn't the case and there are a lot of products, commodities and services that are unique in their own right and dont't have that kind of competition. So your Visa and Mastercard example is completely moot.

For example, you wouldn't really tell this agent to get you "the best rated shooter game on steam" because that's just not how purchasing decisions in gaming are made.

And on that point, from reading their announcement this sounds more like what critics of AI have been talking about, are you seriously going to automate something that gives you _pleasure_? Like selecting a game that you want to play? Wtf? Because in the scenario youre describing, thats exactly whats happening.
I do wonder how much of the push for LLM-integrated everything has taken this into account.

The general trend of viewing LLM features as forced against users' will and the now widespread use of "slop" as a derogatory description seems to indicate the general public is less enthusiastic about these consumer advances than, say, programmers on HN.

I use LLMs for programming (and a few other, general QA things before a search engine/wikipedia visit) but want them absolutely nowhere else (except CoPilot et al in certain editors)
Firefox – New Year New Tab
BART exists in 5 counties (San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara) and multiple cities (SF, Oakland, San Jose, and multiple smaller ones).

Having people who have jurisdiction in any bart station is useful. And for example, consistent foot patrols are valuable to BART but not necessarily valuable to the city of Hayward, or whatever. As a concrete example, BART has more or less a goal to be able to put an officer on the car within a stop or two if you report on the app. That's logistically challenging for like a half dozen reasons if the bart police wasn't it's own org.
Just last week some hero claimed to be adding helix keybindings to zed (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4642#issuecomme...).

Golly I hope they succeed.
To unlock the true value of these systems the BA needs to be forced to increase density of their cities though. We need SF proper to look more like Manhattan.
The Zed editor is great. The AI integration is still quite wonky. The autocomplete through Supermaven for example, makes it hard to see the text clearly and I constantly have to hit escape to see the existing normal text.

The /workflow command which was there earlier is also removed now, so you have to copy paste code which sucks.
Thanks for the feedback! Fixed these - though the site title seems to be cached...
It's pretty common around the country. If it isn't a separate entity you end up having a department of the normal local police doing it separately anyway. Also BART goes through several different police jurisdictions and trains... move. I can imagine the mess and disagreements about which police department was responsible for answering a call or riding in a car as it moved between cities/counties.
I have to admit it's really hard for me to take the noise about agents seriously because they keep bringing up using it for things that don't feel like chores to me, but are actually kind of delightful. I like the anticipation and excitement of planning for the big holiday. I like shopping online for new books or clothes or what have you.

Suppose for a moment that agents worked 100% flawlessly (suspend whatever disbelief you have for a moment and roll with it) a large chunk of the web is still, actually, quite fun for quite a lot of people. Even if the information on the website is just as accessible through a chat interface as it is through a web browser, the website is still probably cooler and has a more fun experience vs using a chat interface.

Obviously not all websites are like this, but the ones I care about are.
Certain devices will trip GFCIs/RCDs somewhat frequently. Toasters, for example: if a the bread touches against the live heating wires it will trip. Cordless kettles will do it if the contacts on the base gets wet or gunked up. The motor in our swimming pool cover sometimes trips after heavy rain (or excessive splashing) if it gets flooded.

But I've never seen an EV charger trip an RCD!
Oh good, it’s just grant proposals so only some people will lose their labs due to the idiotic politicization of the NIH. This pushes back study sections by months even if they do resume on Feb 1. You can’t just schedule x leading researchers to review a grant on a whim, it’s planned months in advance.
Its literally open source, any effort put into hamstringing it would just be forked and removed lol
I have very similar concerns to the OP.

The core of the problem is that the Big Tech solutions are funded by massive advertising revenues. People in general prefer free to paid solutions. Thus the small-tech companies are either trying to provide services on minuscule ad revenue and/or charge the vastly smaller user-base. Either way they cannot match BigTech for reach, etc.

My solution is to use Gmail for non-critical emails, iMail for important emails. Some FB Messenger for contact with distant relatives. For the rest I simply self-host. No cloud storage (portable HDs are cheap and easy to use). LibreOffice for what little office automation I need. And of course running Debian Linux.
lol

C with STL would've saved the world a lot of trouble.
Again. Different animal. That’s highly regulated and in limited markets. You also need to pay close attention so you can grab the wheel when it gets things wrong. And it does. A lot. The underlying tech is not the same either.
Presumably because police usually only have jurisdiction within their employer’s city limits, and sheriffs’ employees only have jurisdiction within their counties, so if mass transit moves between multiple jurisdictions, then their police can have jurisdiction wherever the mass transit goes (even across state lines, because a lot of metropolitan regions served by the same mass transit system span two or more states).
Do trains need batteries for regenerative braking, or is it sent right back on the same power lines?
Such is the result of delving into languages such as Forth[0].

Can you make programs with it smaller than assembly language? Sure.

Will you come out the other side a mad hatter speaking of things such as words, dictionaries, and washing machine firmware? Well, I can only speak for myself...

:-D

0 - https://forth-standard.org/
People will absolutely lose their labs over this, please stop spreading lies either intentionally or from a place of ignorance.
I don't see why it couldn't be surprising - if there are fewer cars in Manhattan, it could mean the cars will have a higher average speed, meaning they might be more likely to get into an accident.
I am a control freak when it comes to travel arrangements and would also never trust it to automation.
They will keep affording to burn cycles until free search alternatives are pushed out forever.
It's a chain of command (i.e. BART police report to BART, Campus police report to the school, way less messy than BART or the school having to convince the jurisdiction how to police the area) and prioritization thing. Bespoke police agencies exist to police their niche to an extent that would be unjustifiable if it were coming your normal police department and taking resources away from their other tasks.

Transit police, campus police, DEA, ATF, etc, etc, etc. Their entire job is to harass people that the equivalent generalist police couldn't justify allocating resources toward.

Irate homeless? SFPD won't show, but BART Police will.

Drunk college kids shenanigans? Normal cops don't care, but campus police does.

Weirdos making machine guns or huge amounts of LSD? FBI don't care as long as you're not trafficking, they got real crime with real victims to chase. ATF and DEA care though.

Wash rinse repeat this pattern for literally every bespoke police agency.

Yeah, jurisdiction can be a theoretical reason for these agencies but once again it's still a priority thing. When agencies care jurisdiction and coordination isn't a problem. Having one agency span multiple only helps if you're chasing stuff so petty it would get dropped.
The deepest metro lines are also boiling, because the heat from braking just gets constantly absorbed into the ground, and the ground's ability to disperse the heat is maxed out.
Critical responses from people in the industry are what I come here to read. I have no doubt of your credentials and I'm not at all qualified to judge the technical details here, but your reply comes off as an emotional kneejerk.

I read it a few times and as best I can get this is what you're saying:

- You came up with a similar combined replacement pass for LLVM based on years of personal and external research.

- It's faster and has more functionality.

- It's very complex and you're not comfortable that it's possible to achieve various reliability guarantees, so it is unreleased

- Therefore (?) you think the Tilde author also couldn't possibly succeed

AFAICT you also believe that the Tilde author hasn't completed their replacement pass. From their post my take was that it was already done. The part that will mature is additional passes, or maybe optimizations/bugfixes, but not the MVP development.

Your main arguments seem to be probability and appeal to authority (external research, assigned responsibility, industry association). Pretty much all projects and startups fail, but it's because people attempt them that some succeed.

Is the author betting their career on this? Why do their expectations need to be tempered?

I'd be interested in hearing concrete criticisms of their algorithms (have you looked at the code?) or oversights in the design. Maybe the author would too! If you let the author know, maybe you could think of a solution to reduce the complexity or improve the guarantees together.