skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> thinking through

It's not "thinking", it's regurgitating an internet search and padding it out with markov-chain style text autocompletion.

The 5000 words of padding do not actually provide any value, it's verbal white noise to fill space.

> ...then it has seen your CRUD app and has already seen 10,000 times the feature or system you're about to write

Well, yes. Lots of pointless waste in software engineering.
Fortunately I don't write CRUD apps and AI does nothing at all for me in a professional context.
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I assumed it was implied.
If this “cured” your ADHD, then you did not have ADHD.
Founder sent out service shutdown email back on December 30, 2024. I guess they're too lazy to update their website.
The things that seem important and are not of topic are the very topics that should be talked about.Control whether you agree with who has it or not, will shape the future for the rest of those that don't agree with whom posses it. It simply natural, however we have gone though many thousands of years in evolution that we humans have the ability to change the things we don't agree with. There are almost always benefits and downsides of any change.It's what makes it change.

The path we are going is not innovative. One might think that tech billionaires having part in governments will be in benefit to innovations but that couldn't be any more false. Majority of the billionaires of today in U.S. are the by product of the .com bubble which the winners were among the king of the hill type winners alone in their sectors. Amazon(shipping) Facebook(social media) Microsoft(software) Apple(personal devices/ hardware). This is not a surprise yet unfiltered turn of events taking place before us. one thing is very clear is they did not hand over growth secondary markets, meaning this type of growth is its quite fragile and and a house made of glass type scenario. The moment of declining will have a tremendous ripple effect amongst their users and partners who rely on their growth and revenue to stay alive. not secondary markets but more or less the supply chain of all this growth is geared towards this behemoth. decline will leave these sectors to vulnerability towards itself. There is nothing else out there to replace Amazon's Decline and likely the same for FAANG for that matter. Many of these FAANG Holding are well diversified in various other venture to benefit the big picture rather than fully committing to the company they are buying. They more or less consume what they buy. 80billion is nothing to over look and that is just from Google Chrome search advertising. there is nothing else i can think of that would match that type of revenue based on the product offering. Yet its our reality. This is history as we speak Nothing stays forever and things will change just like everything else before us.
I built this tool since I didn't just want to run single-table Postgres vector similarity search queries on some text snippets to demo vector search usefulness. I also didn't want to focus on some business vertical-specific example, so I downloaded 25000 pet images (Kaggle Cats and Dogs dataset) and vector-indexed their embeddings. And then built a simple web app that allows you to pick a cat or dog photo and find most similar-looking pet photos using Postgres HNSW vector search.

So that's just another way to demo what the higher-level "AI" similarity search means, but visually much more striking to people who are not that technical or are just getting started with this "AI" stuff.

Importantly, the web app also displays the SQL statements and execution plans (with performance metrics) that were executed in Postgres for generating the webpage. This makes some experimentation faster & easier as you could tweak the SQL or some parameter - create a different (vector) index - and just hit refresh in your browser to see the new results and the new execution plan with performance metrics.

My second goal was to blend together data from traditional tables (order history) and the newly generated embedding vectors, so I combined both worlds into a basic recommendation engine example. I first find top 20 most similar-looking cats compared to the selected one and then list the top purchased products by the 20 most similar-looking cats, all done within a single SQL query.
Ah nice! That is very cool thanks for the heads-up!
I use it whenever I'm searching for cooking recipes. It's how I found the Cooking for Engineers forums.

https://www.cookingforengineers.com/forums
> Soft CPUs cost a few thousands gates

SeRV implements RV32I and uses 125 LUTs in Artix-7, 198 LUTs in iCE40, 239 LUTs in Cyclone 10LP. Plus 164 FF in each case. Or, apparently, 2.1kGE in CMOS.

Being bit-serial, instructions take either 32 or 64 cycles, vs 3 or 4 for many of the other small RISC-V cores, but it will run at whatever Fmax the rest of your design does, and it's often plenty fast enough.

There's also now QeRV, with the same basic design but with a 4 bit datapath: 3x faster for 15% larger size.
I also have ADHD :

1) Anki is a life saver for interviews: in the short term, it helps me memorize and review stuff about the company in advance. In the long term, it helps me memorize IT related stuff, and even leet code exercise. This maximize the chances I'll be able to answer without having to search through my memory.

2) I try to engage with the information I need to memorize in different formats (Text, Video, Image, Mindmaps, etc...). This helps me build multiple paths in my head to find the same information, which then makes it easier to remember it on the spot. Betterexplained has a pretty good framework for that, ADEPT : Analogies, Diagrams, Examples, Plain English, traditional definition.

3) Anxiety makes the symptoms worse, so I try to jog and meditate on a daily basis. Journaling is also extremely helpful, since it allows to get things off your chest and mind.

4) The brain fog is more intense after doing something stimulating, so if I know I need to focus, I try no to play video games, watch movies, etc...

5) The state of what's in my head is always kind of like the state of my apartment, so I try to keep it clean

6) A bad diet makes the symptoms worse, so if yours isn't good try to follow the usual recommendations.

7) Not eating enough, and not eating often enough can have a huge impact. This can especially be a problem for us since the medication can stop you from feeling hunger.

8) Similarly, when you're not hydrated enough, your ability to focus drops, and the first signs of a lack of hydration isn't thirst, so make sure to regularly drink water regardless of whether or not you feel thirsty.

9) Practice out loud different ways of responding to questions commonly asked, and questions you feel they might ask you. That's kind of like what I do to retain information: Building different paths to the same information so that I won't freeze during the interview.

10) You already know that you'll never be able to be perfectly prepared, so prepare in advance things to say when you're asked something you're not able to answer on the spot, things to gain time as well as things to say when you can't answer.

11) Since you still have some leeway, treat the first few interviews you'll do as experiments, and after each one of those, look at the results, identify what went wrong, make some hypothesis on what could you do to fix it, and try it out in the next one.

12) Join a community of people sharing your struggles.

13) Get your 8h of sleep
Consider helping make such a thing!
I agree in part with your views.

Though I think you misunderstand or underestimate human nature of self interest. Everyone that is in control of a superpower like this will abuse it. Be it on a presidential level, be it on CEO level, be it a major shareholder of a foreign NGO. That is why we had democratic splits of types of power in the first place. I say "had" because the trend globally is leading to right wing autocratic ideas due to manipulation of social media.

Human self interest and egocentric world views is what gave us this mess.

The only thing capable of evening out the odds is a federalistic decentralized approach, which we desperately need for AI. Something like a legislative system for lots of overfitted mini AI assistants that also give outliers a chance to be the social trend.

Otherwise we will land up with the ministry of truth, which, right now is Facebook and TikTok effectively. The younger generations that grew up with social media tend heavily towards populist right wing ideas because those are easily marketable in 30 seconds. Paint the bad guy, say that it is established fact, next video. Nobody is interested in the rationale behind it, let alone finding and discussing a compromise like you would in a real debate that wants to find a solution.

We need to find a way to change beliefs through rationale rather than emotions. Ironically this problem is also reflected in trained LLMs that turn into circlejerks because they've learned that from the dataset of us easily manipulateable humans.
But you can’t debundle those — you cannot get ProtonMail (which doesn’t have IMAP) without ProtonCalendar (which doesn’t have CalDAV), ProtonVPN, Proton Password Manager, and an expanding suite of services I already have solutions for that I like better. Being cheaper and only doing mail is a huge plus.
> That's true of everything we use as money, including precious metals.

To exploit this chance for quote Terry Pratchett, on a book that does happen to be about currency and banking:

> ‘The world is full of things worth more than gold. But we dig the damn stuff up and then bury it in a different hole. Where’s the sense in that? What are we, magpies? Is it all about the gleam? Good heavens, potatoes are worth more than gold!’

> ‘Surely not!’

> ‘If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, what would you prefer, a bag of potatoes or a bag of gold?’

> ‘Yes, but a desert island isn’t [the city of] Ankh-Morpork!’

> ‘And that proves gold is only valuable because we agree it is, right? It’s just a dream. But a potato is always worth a potato, anywhere. A knob of butter and a pinch of salt and you’ve got a meal, anywhere. Bury gold in the ground and you’ll be worrying about thieves for ever. Bury a potato and in due season you could be looking at a dividend of a thousand per cent.’

-- Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Did I missed something? If I don't find it out in 6 turns it doesn't tell me what was the right answer?
Digging up people's comments from unrelated threads* starts to cross into personal attack. Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* edit: I mean for use as ammunition in an argument. It's not that you're wrong—it's just that the cost (to the intended spirit of the site) outweighs the benefit (being right in an argument).
"economical" is a different word than "economy", and also "affordable" or "thrifty", while a related concept to either the original sense of "economy" in English from the 15th C or the even older Greek root (the two are different) is not either off those simply transformed from a noun to an adjective without other shift of meaning.
Yes. But "harrowing stories" by escaping russians are by my estimation as a russian are 88% bullshit.
I genuinely believe this is a valuable use of cryptocurrencies.

That said, I would wager enormous sums of money that on net, they have been dramatically negative. Once you factor in the vast quantities of energy wasted (even using up energy that would have otherwise gone to waste simply decreases the demand for batteries or competitiveness of other marginal-value uses) and all the funding of crime such as theft, fraud, hitmen, blackmail, money laundering, scams, and so on it’s very hard to see “I was able to get LSD” as compelling.

And I love LSD.
The issue with your assessment is that everyone includes the individuals.

The externalities associated with driving are probably -1 utility points for me whereas driving is +20 or even more.

I think that basically what you are saying only makes sense if society includes a bunch of people who do not benefit, when in reality that’s usually a fairly small group (e.g. in the US or UK the small number of homeless).
They don't write the headlines.
Then you'll be coding what they expect for the next 10 years. Interviews are two way things.
Right, the key is "distributed systems". The overkill tends to come in when someone decides to use Kubernetes to run e.g. a single web application and database - which is not particularly "distributed" on the back end - or something that they could run with say Docker Compose on a single machine.

A chart of effort vs. complexity would show this nicely. Kubernetes involves a baseline level of effort that's higher than simpler alternatives, which is the "overkill" part of the chart. But once complexity reaches a certain level, the effort involved in alternatives grows higher and faster.

> (traffic/L7, config, storage, app instances, network/L1-4)

Cloud and PaaS providers can do a lot of this for you though. Of course some of the PaaS providers are built on Kubernetes, but the point is they're the ones expending that effort for you.
The context is the explicit tagging in this case. You don't need to understand language to detect English-as-a-second language speakers. (Indeed Markov chains will happily solve this problem for you.)

> they automatically model relations

No, they do not model anything at all. If you follow the tech bubble turtles all the way down you find a maximum likelihood logistic approximation.

I know, I know - then you'll do a sleight of hand and claim that all intelligence and modeling is also just maximum likelihood, even thought it's patently and obviously untrue.
Ok, we've put the CDC up there instead. Thanks!

Edit: actually let's put the 1950s up there instead. I think there's more information that way.
Is this fair though? Most common tasks have tutorials all over the net, so creating a GUI should consider these use cases instead of piling every option on the main UI. Many of these things are also just options that are right for one system and the user will use always the same parameters, therefore you should be able to hide this in the settings instead of showing everything at the same time all the time.
That is a fascinating project. Here is the link if anyone else is interested:

https://hackaday.com/2022/05/30/check-your-mailbox-using-the...

I wonder if the creator had neighbourhood style mailboxes down the road? If not this seems quite complicated solution for an object that is probably with range even BLE.

I tried building a mail sensor a couple of years ago where the mailbox was a fair distance from where I was living. I was not able to create a solution that didn't either have false positives or false negatives. For an outdoor object jostled by wind and rain it is harder than it seems.
This should be an international effort, not just US! They will censor out their spy satellites, even if its accidentally taken by a sky survey telescope: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/when-a-telescope-i...

Then other countries can use this as an excuse to not go public with their spacecraft ephemerides (US didn't tell the world about all of their spacecrafts, so why should I do that?)
There is a similar duality between “require” and “provide” that I’ve been trying to work more with recently. The idea that we can require some behavior verified via a test and also provide that behavior via a fake might mean that the two can be unified (test is the dual of fake, so maybe you can get tests and fakes from the same code, that’s the hope anyways).

Identifying a duality means that there might be some opportunity to transfer or unify concepts, but they might not be strong enough, or the duality isn’t pure enough to be very useful. The obvious dual of a precondition is not effect, but postcondition (like require/provide, import/export, in/out, etc…). So I’m having a hard time seeing the fruit of calling precondition and effect a dual.
I have heard this a lot of times but self hosting email is one of the hardest things to do , sure if you are masochist then do it , but if you are a working functional part of society , not recommended.
It's not about forcing a draw but recognizing that the only reasonable move loses the queen immediately.

Assessing the ending is irrelevant. All one needs to know is that having 1 piece is better than having 0 pieces. Not actually always true, but that's the beauty of this puzzle - you don't need anything other than the most basic logic to correctly solve it, at least the first move.
Exactly zero management or executive positions at my workplace have had the “can an AI do this?” exercise intended to explore ways of reducing headcount.
That is a very slick UI. I was expecting something a lot simpler.
> I look forward to the time when I can have as much high-quality (to me) fiction to read as I like, because it's all generated by LLM

Are your tastes so hyper-specific that we aren't already in this world? Fiction is (even pre-LLM) easier to find in whatever genre you want than ever.
Related:

If OpenSSL were a GUI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31697636 - June 2022 (234 comments)
Off the top of my head: DraftKings, Lucid, ChargePoint
Speaking of which, Groq just announced the distilled Llama 70B variant: https://x.com/GroqInc/status/1883734298488180826
As a meta question, at this point, what is the value add that these startups are trying to do? It seems like a ton of them fail to make a viable base platform profitable and able to mass produce. Is there a market for a white-label EV platforms that are proven able to be executed well on a production line and allow the startups to actually complete on the fit and finish bits?

Or is the base platform the actual value that they're trying to execute on and failing?
Is Render still using Knative?

https://render.com/blog/knative ?
This is something that I find surprisingly hard to locate - even in a house with thousands of pictures taken in it, simple pictures of how the living room is laid out are rare to non-existent. You have to piece together the evidence from other photos just to remember how it was.
Zero in 4 years’ time.
TUI is the superior ui. Works locally and via ssh.
oh lmao , I had just watched a video where people were confusing sweden and swiss (heck the swiss president missaid switzerland to sweden lmao)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNX_BHgi3c

I was like , okay nobody confuses swiss and sweden but here you are!
"GUI make simple things easy, and difficult things impossible"

Sooner or later everyone must go CLI =3
I am almost certainly wrong, and we will find some solution, or sue the hell out of the genAI firms, but this is the economic issue I see. It competes with productivity as a core economic driver of human wellbeing:

Concentration of wealth.

GenAI consumes content, even that created in low resource languages and regions, and spits it back out, separating the creator from the traffic due to their labor.

This isn’t entirely unknown - we’ve all been inspired by someone else stuff and copied our own.

Now, genAi firms have inserted themselves into this loop. And they’re cutting out the creator.

The scaled, automated pseudo workers that these firms promise, are owned by the firms. The productivity they create accrues to a small group of foreign multi nationals.

Economically - this shouldn’t be an issue. More productivity, means more capability of people doing newer work.

I do expect this to happen. However firms are also very good at making sure they capture the greater share of the market.
The tag in tagged union is an implementation detail.
I was going to ask this same question. Literally every SPAC I can think ranged from bad to unmitigated disaster. Probably my favorite example is Getaround, the car sharing company that tanked immediately after the SPAC merger. How did that deal even happen?

Does anyone know of a site that tracks the outcome of SPAC mergers? I found some articles but most of them are pretty old. Curious if there have been any successes.

It feels like so much "financial innovation" of the past 30 years in that it was just a way for rich people to get even richer and, as you say, leave the dumb money as bag holders.
I’ve always found it a shame that the UNIX philosophy seemed to stop at system/command line tools and no one ever took the further step to apply it to user interfaces.

UIs generated in systematic, composable ways emerging naturally from all the plumbing (pipes, option flags, etc) we already have in place.
Strangely missing from the article: instant or soluble coffee was invented and patented in 1890 by David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand, under patent number 3518 sold under the trading name Strang's Coffee citing the patented "Dry Hot-Air" process.
I didn’t read this article in-depth. What are you referring to specifically?
In a Cloudflare+GMail setup, what SMTP server would I use for sending?
so they're like prepared SQL statements in a sense?
Rocket Lab
Was hoping this would cover the latest Twitter blunder of Andy Yen endorsing Trump's political picks and saying "republicans are there for small business now" which had a major blow back.

Some context on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_poli...
You only pay fro 365 days a year. The leap day is free.
At every enterprise job I have been in, there was always a quagmire around renewing or exchanging certificates.

The corresponding tasks always required disproportionately many high-level meetings and discussions for their actual simplicity.

I always attributed this directly to the complexity of the OpenSSL command and the fact that these tasks include hard deadlines because of certificate runtime.

The complex discussions which ultimately result in some simple commands mirror the OpenSSL CLI: you have to understand and articulate precisely what you need.

That being said I wonder some of the options (like "this file is a CER", PEM vs DER private key, etc.) couldn't be replaced by auto detection.
Germany was not in a position to hit the US. They weren’t a great naval power. They needed to cross the Atlantic, but the English Channel was too big a hurdle.

Eventually the fact that the war was happening in their land would grind them down. Plus, the US had nukes and aircraft carriers by the end, which would have presented a challenging situation.
“as an infectious disease epidemiologist”

Yet you propose no thoughts of your own. You only base it on your belief in people around you and your disbelief of people you assume are political. This sounds not scientific at all. Are you really an epidemiologist?

I was honestly hoping for more given that you’re supposedly an epidemiologist.
I've driven one.

Amazingly, they are one of the very few automotive folks that actually said "yes, sure" when I ask my requisite "can i drift it?" Unfortunately, I was driving it inside a building that was to be one of their future factories, and declined to actually do so for safety reasons.
Synthetic lubricants have been doable for a long time. It’s not about eliminating the usage, it’s about slowing down consumption.
I did read the article in depth and I have the same question. Aside from wanting to let people access the complete uncensored internet even when their government would prefer them not to, which seems to be their entire mission in the first place.
For the use case presented, one user 3GB, Zoho is absolutely free. It's free for up to 5 users at 5GB each, in fact.

I've been using it for a few years now and love it. Will gladly pay if they kick me off the free plan.
Maybe DeepSeek ain't it, but I expect a big "box of scraps"[1] moment soon. Constraint is mother of invention, and they are evading constraints with a promise of never-ending scale.

[1] https://youtu.be/9foB2z_OVHc?si=eZSTMMGYEB3Nb4zI
Yes, but not as good as in the submitted post, alas. You can see how the points 'flicker' when they zoom in.
I mean DraftKings is currently successful, and while I think Lucid makes fantastic cars and I want ChargePoint to succeed, they may not be dead but their stock is well below the $10 SPAC price and they're far from profitable.