skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this line of reasoning is premature. The drive to mass automate is delusional. The complexity of that undertaking is barely grasped, and the tech to enable it may be visible on the horizon, but what we are working with today is not that technology. The AI today is "Atari graphics" and, yeah, sure, we can see the photo realistic fully automated civilization in this capability, but there is a gargantuan series of unsolved and nobody wants to touch them human political and human maturity issues that will stall and derail all of this thinking. The tech is on the horizon, but the human race's ability to meet it is not, we've got growing up to do.
IMHO - No - having individual contributor workflows is diffenrent thing than aligning 10 people. The question is not who gets to do the decisions but how the team aligns itself and coordinates.

It’s an accurate observation that single contributor projects work well since then there is no need to spend effort in coordination and communication.
Intel, responsible for widespread use of non-ECC memory, as well as enforcing a new socket every one or two CPU generations.

Infamous for recent two consecutive generations of self-destroying CPUs (13th and 14th gen).

What a load of bull.
The distance from my home to a mountain lion has been documented at under a mile in the last year. They are officially spotted within a few miles every couple years, but I'm quite confident they're almost always there and just usually better at hiding. I would not consider my location in the middle of suburban sprawl to be anything like wilderness. I'd say you're looking at a 6 hour trip minimum from my location to anything anyone could argue as being wilderness.

If we're going as simple as time to a wild animal, we've had fox in the front yard and I see turkey and deer within a couple of blocks of my place often enough that I wonder if they don't sometimes order at the fast food drive thrus on either end of the neighborhood. I live as far from a cornfield as I ever have right now and that doesn't seem to phase the wildlife.

Back to the article though, they seem to be measuring the distance from town to rural surroundings. At no point do they mention wilderness, rugged landscape, or any kind of danger from the environment. They're measuring to the nearest bit of pasture. Things that can eat you don't factor into it.
TS can be slow in some situations.
https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-julia/raw/refs/he...
open this file with and without treesitter . And neovim will slow to a crawl with TS on. But the traditional regex highlighter can handle it fine. (a file such as the link posted above typically is never meant ot be opened since its machine generated , this is just to show you TS can be slow on large files)

TS is faster in other situations.
for example with TS highlighting enabled entering "(" in the buffer is definitly faster in a julia file. (you can test this by holding down "(" in a .jl file and see the difference between TS enabled and only regex highlighting).
ONE place..

from their privacy policy (which i didn't read)

> If you wish to contact the Data Protection Officer, please contact us: dpobrasil@bytedance.com.
The main problem with those Aeron chairs is that most people don't have fixed sitting arrangements in the office anymore. With hybrid remote work people just take the first chair available and people don't bother tuning those every single day. So all those knobs on those chairs are not only useless, but harmful.

My office uses the "Markus" IKEA chair and those are great, fit well with most people and only has two adjustments possible: height and inclination.
In Praise of Specialisation
Jarred is a gift to the FOSS world. It's quite inspiring to see such a success creating a product like this.
I’d settle for it not resuming my audiobook when I ask for music :’)
The amount of hallucination I get when trying to write code is amazing. I mean it can get the core concepts of language, can create structure/algo. But it often makes up objects/values when I ask questions. Exampe:
It suggested TextLayoutResult.size - which is Int value. I asked if it is width and height. And it wrote it has size.height and also size.width. Which it does not. I am now writing production code and also evaluating the LLMs, that our management thinks will save us shit load of time.
We will get there sometimes, but the push from management is not compatible with the state of the LLMs.
(I use Claude 3.5 sonnet now, as it is also built in some of the "AI IDEs".)
Or Judge Dredd's futsies.
What makes you assume I haven't? Have you?
There's nuance to this. A company can achieve power by giving customers a better experience and in that way insert itself between customer and the industry. Thus wielding power in the interest of the customer. A company can also achieve power by giving producers a better experience and insert themselves between producer and industry.
This is interesting. I think I did not entirely understand OPs problem, but we are going more and more in a direction where we try to come up with things how to "program" LLMs, because human language is not sufficient enough. (Atleast I thought) the goal was to make things simple and "just" ask your question to an LLM and get the answer, but normal language does not work for complex tasks.

Especially in programming it is fun. People spent hours over hours to come up with a prompt that can (kinda-of) reliably produce code. So they try to hack/program some weird black box so that they can do their actual programming tasks. On some areas there might be a speed up, but I still don't know if it's worth it. It feels like we are creating more problems than solutions
Don't Be a Duck
I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you
On a related note, I AM losing a bit of the joy of programming, because I let LLMs generate increasingly greater amounts of it. Who knew that previously writing boilerplate code secretly has made me happier..
we use it extensively at work (we build financial dashboards for sage/xero ect so likely a fairly similar usecase),

when what you want cooperates with how it wants things its great. You'll find yourself battling it a bunch for anything custom, but we've tried quite a few others and its the best of the bunch.
Or tax their capital with income redistribution purposes, as we are already doing with more down to earth means of production.
Raylib and Shadows
Thanks for the thought-out reply. That said, we disagree on quite a few points. A 'lesson' is something to be learned from, and Rich Sutton explicitly mentions in his conclusion what we should learn from this lesson. But it's indeed not law. His argument is also not limited to ANNs, nor even ML. His first example concerns state space search and chess. In general, I think the field is moving further away from expert/domain knowledge and towards reliance on copious amounts of data and computation. End-to-end learning embodies this. LLMs incorporate essentially no domain knowledge about human language (processing). But of course it remains a matter of degree — certain domain knowledge remains very useful.
I’ve been preaching something similar for a while - you get good (and faster) at what you practice, so if you practice writing bad code you’ll get good at writing bad code. If you practice writing good code (by whatever your standard of good is), you’ll get good at that and it will come out faster and more naturally.
> What is the solution? Like making the user click again might be against GDPR.

Dropping all packets from Microsoft or Google in the firewall ? /s
"Bloomsbury wishes to sell to us at the customary discount if offers to other wholesalers, and which covers their costs and then a bit more. We however, want a larger discount, because we are Amazon. If that leaves nothing for Bloomsbury's overhead, so be it. They can watch their sales fall off drastically and think again about presuming to negotiate with us."
> NEXX’s software lifecycle is whatever you want to be

Hard to know what this means.
PISA suggests the US has a very good education system, and probably better than where your are from.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732087511327908128?s=4...
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Unfortunately, the Linux phone I've been waiting for has to have a top-notch camera. So I'll sadly be waiting a long time unless I want to lug around an extra device just for photos.
“resolved” is a great whitewash. It wasn’t a bug but a “feature“, intentional.
I worry that day jobs are useful far beyond money for side projects. You do what you don't want all day, but then you are able to feel happy enough to do great work when you go back home to do what you really want.
It's also Persian for "money"
Really illuminating. Reading the comments, I can't help but think how bad most of us are at predicting the future. While the OP's world might still be somewhat far away, it doesn't seem nearly as far-fetched now as it would have seemed in 2013.
Sonnet 3.5 fails to generate basic JetpackCompose libraries properties properly. Maybe if somebody tried really hard to scrape all the documentation and force feed it, then it could work. But i don't if there are examples of this.
Like general LLM, but with complete Android/Kotlin pushed into it to fix the synapses.
Another one, which is good.

Although I am curious about general battery life.

The single most problematic issue is obviously app availability, for example no access to classic dating apps.

I have to admit it would be nice if Google could give access to their app store to those sorts of phones, but obviously they are never going to do that.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the same thing.

I also think that "stability" and the "community" are two other things that made me switch back to vim.
Congrats @paraschopra ! This is an incredibly inspiring story for many of us.

A couple of questions:

1. What would be your one piece of advice for someone looking to bootstrap a company?
2. How can one identify B2B problems worth solving? And how do you go about acquiring and selling to those customers?
3. If you were starting today, which domain would you choose?
Loving all the hardware switches.
iOS calc sometimes registers a press but not a release(?) and a key gets stuck in "pressed" state and doesn't count as an input. Many years issue which renders it completely unusable, unless you're careful with your tapping. A new level of skeuomorphism, I guess, non-physical buttons that get stuck.
Just putting it out here - before the recentish redesign of ios's default calculator, it had a widely non-intuitive behavior. Due to how it looked I assumed it works as a standard four-function calculator, but it was actually storing the whole expression in memory and executing it as per the standard precedence rules.

I do usually prefer the latter behavior, but without it being displayed as in more advanced calculators (it has been changed to show it) it's just not what I would expect at all, resulting in wrong calculations. But maybe it was just a "me-problem".
With Folded Hands (1947) by Jack Williamson is my favourite vision of such a future I've ever read. From the Dad losing his job to the kids giving up violin because they can't compete with their Humanoid "servants" it captures the sense of futility very well.

I think history can be read as a history of human obsolescence. Even the powerful people who thought their values and ideas were important thrown on the scrap heap eventually like everyone else.

Luck is living a whole life without experiencing it personally.
You should really wait to share your project until you're done installing wordpress.
I agree they should, but the key part of the platform is the reader hardware. They'd need decent and cheap ereader hardware tied to the store, otherwise who would want to buy books there?

See the Apple books store for an example of how little people care about ebooks if they have to read them on a phone or tablet. Barnes & Noble are doing better than them which is surprising given Apple's clout and their attempts to strangle alternative stores like Kindle with rules on in-app stores.

The market share is something like

Amazon (Kindle Reader) - 80%

Barnes & Noble (Nook Reader) - 10%

Apple ebooks (no reader) - 5%

Other - 5%
Very annoying. I decided to move from manually creating my own config to using Astronvim and there were just so many distracting things in the default installation. The good thing is that you can disable what you don't want - which I did. The bad thing is that finding the right option or the actual plugin that is bringing the functionality you don't want takes some time.
> and I would avoid communities where it would be seen as wrong

are you part of this t4t community?
Appart from security when using jailed applications for me it is the smoothness.

It is something I didn't really care that much when using X11 or that I tolerated because the alternatives (win and macos) were worse for me from an usability standpoint but once you are used to wayland it is hard to go back to x11 and its occasional tearing.

I guess it is like a lot of things ignorance is bliss. Appart from my smartphone I have never used a screen with a high dpi display so I am fine with 1080p on my computers but it may change the day I switch at least one screen for a 4K display.
I want it to receive regular updates for the reasonable lifetime of the product provide by the original manufacturer! Kazam!
I think there would be open-source machine variants that many people could own and modify. As population growth is slowing, finite resources should hopefully have a better and wider distribution among people as they would not be constraints.
You have to start trusting yourself and valuing what you find interesting more. One caveat to my advice though is if you have dependents in which case I'm not the right person to ask hah
There are quite a few stock images on that website...
Seems this got the hn hug of death (wp install screen after this was working?), but couldn't find any info about a 3.5 headphone jack, if it can get a micro sd card or if it battery is removable - because the linux phone I've been waiting for has all of those three.
Maybe the key is to write more complex projects that you normally would.

Recently, I wanted to learn a new language. I tried to pick some simple projects to start with (e.g. write a compression algorithm, a basic 3D renderer, a lambda calculus interpreter and so on). I realized that LLM could do the work for me and lost my motivation.

But maybe, I could try to write something much harder and use the LLM to help me.
Is this not a good enough camera? Is the problem with the hardware or software?
> What connection does civilian on civilian homicide rate have to police on civilian fatality rate anyway?

It shows the degree of necessary police involvement in a population. It's the reason that in 2023, police killed 1107 men, but only 48 women:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585149/people-shot-to-de...
Instagram Swaps Square Profile Grids for Rectangles
A single-element star rating component (without JavaScript)
Possibly even have a product and not just renderings.
How about supporting a socket for more than one generation?

My desktop PC from 2018 is still going strong, on account of using the AM4 socket (AMD). That allowed me to upgrade to the 5800X3D a while back, a whole two generations or four years newer than the original CPU.
Not sure about directly accessible metrics. However I have power metering in fronts of the charger so I can detect any power drops there.

Also if my charger trips it doesn’t enable automatically I need to that cycling the power on it.
Travel on a budget working as a volunteer. I’ve done that when I was homeless and desperately broke. It was the best time of my life at the time.
His progression is wild. Going from top Cambridge graduate in 2021 to Staff Eng at META in 3y.
Nice!
Posted in October 2023, 26 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894676
Already discussed less than a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559
Hmm, well then maybe it would be simpler to have a single button that swaps the input and the accumulator?

into and from may be easier for the average joe to read though
Building text-to-SQL agents from first principles
humanity being out-of-work is the premise of Marx's writings and we are not closer to it now than those 170 years ago.
website is fucked

https://ibb.co/2YkpxkQ
NestJS 11 Launched
> 100% Unemployment

This is a prediction that has been made for a long time but has never been realized.

Also with the end of abundant energy, our descendants may have to work much harder than us.
We'll have to seize it all by then.
I enjoyed this article as much for the presentation as I did for the content.
Personally I prefer how PandaCSS does it - similar end result with atomic css at compile time but it just lets you write your styles as readable objects instead of as insane strings.
I guess it's a vicious cycle with open / linux-based. Although not impossible, it's difficult to get good grade apps with slow capital. E.g. It seems to me that the appstore is one of the main arguments for choosing iPhones.
Indeed, Weierstrass was one of the people thanks to whom math became the pedantic endeavor we know it as today.
I also have this pessimism. That's why I'm pivoting to hardware and embedded programming.
Use PandaCSS, the result is similar but the syntax is a readable object instead of… that
It’s seems pretty obvious that in that scenario that’s what will happen. Hopefully it won’t be too dramatic…
Could it be adapted for Google Sheets ?
I use it on WSL. It's reasonable.
Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation
If AI can barely replace car drivers or truck drivers, I think developers will unfortunately have to keep writing code.

Of course AI made progress in the language realm with chatGPT, but I don't see any advance in the realm of consciousness, general AI, emotions, etc.

There was some recent, small progress where the brain of a fly was mapped.

But I don't see transverse research made between cognition, psychology, neuroscience and AI, which is terrible.

Science doesn't even have any relevant insight on a good definition of intelligence that could be transposed into an algorithm.

There is also quantum biology, that argues that many biological systems use quantum mechanics.

Maybe quantum computing will offer new horizons with additional computing power but it will maybe take 20 more years.
Interesting that two complete opposite views are in the first page today. The other one being "AI isn't going to kill the software industry" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810175
just like CSS
Slightly unrelated but is there any way of maintaining that low of a temperature (77k and 10k according to the paper numbers) that does not immediately kill perf/w and perf/$ ?
Otherwise might as well just buy more cpu
The only thing they say about the camera is megapixel count for the single front and single rear camera. This is a very clear sign that the camera is an afterthought tacked onto the phone. I have zero faith in its hardware or software.

I'm in a weird position where I definitely care enough about phone cameras that I make most of my phone purchasing positions based on the camera, but I also don't care so much about photography that I'd be willing to carry around a traditional bulky camera. I travel and hike a lot, and enjoy trying to take nice photos of beautiful things, so it's very important to me that the phone does a good job at that without encumbering me.

Maybe for my next device I'll end up just switching to a Linux phone and then carrying around an iPhone or Android just for the camera and 2FA / banking apps.
It's not that my day job isn't interesting. It's just that it takes too much time.

I love helping other engineers build cool stuff and teaching them how to better wield Python.
Classic management think right there.
<< their rhetoric about immigrants is based on hate and dehumanization,

Have you actually talked to anyone, because this reads like a bumper sticker.

I will speak for myself. I am an immigrant, and I can tell you that while I am nervous for relatively obvious reasons, I also recognize that the inflow of illegal immigration is ( was? ) too high ( even official stats for illegal crossings are crazy ) to not piss off existing population. Under normal circumstances, few would give a fuck about a kid overstaying on their school visa, but all that has been institutionalized and normalized to the point, that the population chose an extreme to correct it.

There is no hate. There is simply a cold, harsh calculation in most people's heads and goes something like this: is there enough resources to support my family? No? Then where are the resources going ( cuz I already pay enough in taxes )?

And most people, normal people, when faced with a choice of saving their family or some nameless crowd will choose their families.

>>> justice system and its targeting of Trump
>> He has Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and he cannot accept responsibility or fault for anything-

Both statements can be true at the same time. Both states and feds threw everything they could at him and effectively failed. The 34 felony count - a talking point that is being trotted out regularly - probably being the prime example of this.

For example, do you remember what type of felony it is and on what shaky grounds it was bumped into a felony? Do you remember the mugshot and misplaced glee it generated?

At that point, I was already talking about Democrats' inability to read the room; that the felon label ( even if it is successful ) will not be useful this election cycle, but no one was listening. More amusingly, it seems that a lot has closed their ears further ( even though there was a brief moment of introspection caused by the election result ) again. Only difference now is that the marching orders have changed from 'felon' to 'nazi'.

It is tiring and predictable.

<< I refuse to be like the Germans who said "davon haben wir nichts gewusst" - "we knew nothing about that." I will not participate in dehumanizing, persecuting, or abusing other people, and I will do everything in my power to stop them.

Do what you will. Believe what you will. You seem to have already fallen into the 'he a nazi and nazi bad' camp and I have zero intent to change your mind at this point ( my conversations with people pre-election made it clear to me some of it is rather pointless ).

<< people to ignore all of the real reasons people are struggling

Maybe.. just maybe if you focused on that part, you could get people's attention. But hey, nazis!
Hi, that's a good point it's unclear whether they are sample posts are not. Will get that fixed, thanks!
Possible bug on uber query?
---
Which of these product descriptions (if either) is more relevant to the furniture e-commerce search query:

Query: entrance table
Product LHS name: aleah coffee table
Product LHS description: You'll love this table from lazy boy. It goes in your living room. And you'll find ...
...
Or
Product LHS name: marta coffee table
Product RHS description: This coffee table is great for your entrance, use it to put in your doorway...
...
Or
Neither / Need more product attributes

Only respond 'LHS' or 'RHS' if you are confident in your decision

RESPONSE:
RHS
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LHS is include. Hopefully this is a bug in the blog and not the code
With Docker, it isn't that bad. Default Windows UI/UX + PowerToys can be quite efficient.

Maybe I should try dual-booting with Ubuntu.
How ironic that, at the time, she was in a professorship endowed by Boeing.