skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loans were mentioned. Perhaps the wolf-guys can offer low or zero-percent loans (or guarantees) to the cow-guys.

They say the wolves are good for tourism, but would all the ranchers disappearing also be good for tourism?
Sending a message should just default to MMS, which I agree is lower quality especially for videos, but shouldn't get an error. I'm in multiple group chats with Android users and it's fine other than videos, which are from 2005.

I think SMS/MMS should just go away entirely though.
I'll blame Apple for dragging their feet on RCS as long as they possibly could
Why not? That's the situation many Americans are living in, why not America itself?
Most men are insane from frustration, not unpalatable or toxic.
> But, I don't think sticking to the chat window is the best way to interface with what it delivers. You almost certainly want to be much more actively "hands on" in very domain specific ways with the artifacts produced.

Yes, this is what I've also tried to hint at in my comment, but failed part-way. In most of the cases I can imagine chat interface to be fine (or even ideal), it's really only good as a starting point. Take two examples based on your reply:

1) Getting a car ride. "Computer, order me a cab home" is a good start. It's even OK if I then get asked to narrow it down between several different services/fares (next time I'll remember to specify that up front). But if I want to inspect the route (or perhaps adjust it, in a hypothetical service that supports it), I'd already prefer an interactive map I can scroll and zoom, with PoIs I can tap on to get their details, than to continue a verbal chat.

2) Ordering food in a fast food restaurant. I'm fine starting it with a conversation if I know what I want. However, getting back the order summary in prose (or worse, read out loud) would already be taxing, and if I wanted to make final adjustments, I'd beg for buttons and numeric input boxes. And, in case I don't know what I want, or what is available (and at what prices), a chat interface is a non-starter. Interactive menu is a must.

You sum this up perfectly:

> You almost certainly want to be much more actively "hands on" in very domain specific ways with the artifacts produced.

Chat may be great to get that first artifact, but afterwards, there's almost always a more hands-on interface that would be much better.
Sorry, but the issue is not the standards for SMS/MMS. Yes, they're old standards, and have size limitations.

It's entirely up to Apple whether to make their iMessage platform available on other platforms.

They've shown they're quite invested in keeping it to running on Apple hardware only by going after and blocking any 3rd party attempt to provide iMessage compatible clients.
> Surprise, [your] ragebait [comment] is being downvoted.

This is how I believe it is meant to be read (aimed at the top comment.) And downvotes are exactly how they should be handled. I agree the ‘surprise’ muddles things a bit.
I think it's safe to assume that's where things are headed slowly. After the treasury situation, I think its more than fair to assume they aren't going to be only bloat or operating in good faith when their stance is to get rid of the systems entirely.

Remember when he bought twitter and gutted it? Child safty department was cut to the bone and they barely got away without any legal issues. Numerous core services failed leaving twitter/x barely operating for days. And this was with the tenured professionals keeping things running, now he seems to be using a bunch of people with under 5 years experience in the work force let alone in these sectors/technology.
Thanks for the link, I was curious if I'd be a candidate and it turns out I was eliminated by the very first qualification:

"must have 20/20 vision in each eye, no contacts"

This will be more and more of a bottleneck as time goes on; growing up in-doors and looking at computer screens all day will increase nearsightedness.
>he doesn't need to be a dictator, because he won a democratic election

So did Hitler.
Roc never plans to self host. We want roc the compiler in the long term to be as nice as possible for end users. A big part of that is as fast as possible. While roc can be fast, it can't compete with all the techniques that can be done in rust/zig/c/c++. It fundamentally is a higher level language to increase developer joy and reduce bugs. So it isn't the right tool when you are trying to reach the limits of hardware like this.
Wasn’t this technique previewed by Google Gemini 2.0 first?
> When someone tells me that they just don't see it, I have to wonder what is motivating them to lie. There is simply no way you're using the same technology as me with such wildly different results.

I don’t know what technology you are using but I know that I am getting very different results based on my own prompt qualities.

I also do not really consider hallucinations to be much of an issue for programming. It comes up so rarely and it’s caught by the type checker almost immediately. If there are hallucinations it’s often very minor things like imagining a flag that doesn’t exist.
That was quite the rabbit hole. Thanks for sharing.
> The Spending Freeze that he backed out of

OMB rescinded the memo, but the freeze appears to have continued (in defiance of a court order against it, which is another level of illegality.)
I've had kind of great experiences even doing complex tasks with lots of steps, as long as I tell it to take things slowly and verify each step.

I had a working and complete version of Apple MapKit JS rendering a map for an address (along with the server side token generation), and last night I told it I wanted to switch to Google Maps for "reasons".

It nailed it on the first try, and even gave me quick steps for creating the API keys in Google Dev Console (which is always _super_ fun to navigate).

As Simon has said elsewhere in these comments, it's all about the context you give it (a working example in a slightly different paradigm really couldn't be any better).
Pretty much this. I too have done both private sector and government. People think government is more wasteful than private because it's public. When government wastes a few million some unneeded program the details are just an FOIA request away. Oftentimes it's already published somewhere if you know where to look.

That (even a publicly traded one) business wasting millions on a Salesforce rollout that never gains traction and gets quietly abandoned? Odds are no one not directly involved knows. And the exec pushing it gets promoted.
I think YouTube just added shorts pip on iOS as an experiment in premium.
Not really because "Staff software engineer" has become the new "Senior Software Engineer" due to title inflation. It's become an essentially meaningless distinction at many companies.

Case in point, this person has around around 7 years of professional experience at just two companies, Zendesk and GitHub. I don't mean this as a personal dig in any way (truly) but this simply isn't what we used to mean by a "Staff" level software engineer.

This person is early-mid career, which we used to just call "Software engineer" then "Senior Software Engineer" and now (often enough) "Staff Software Engineer"
How do you front run a mutual fund?

as a "consumer" of the mutual fund, you can't.

but the mutual fund itself makes large trades: somebody downstream executing those trades or having access to that data could front run.
How I use LLMs as a senior engineer:

1. Try to write some code

2. Wonder why my IDE is providing irrelevant, confusing and obnoxious suggestions

3. Realize the AI completion plugin somehow turned itself back on

4. Turn it off

5. Do my job better than everyone that didn't do step 4
Right.

So... when the Russian tanks start rolling on the way to Berlin and Chinese troops are marching along that nice new (old) road they finished fixing up - otw to Europe, so if that happens, which looks possible - you think there will be no West??

If the world is to be divided Europe is the lowest hanging and sweetest fruit.

I think there will still be West even if there is a King in the US demanding fealty to part of it - we are the same as they are, it's ridiculous to pretend we are.

Ideology is one thing, survival of people and culture is another.
I switched to MSG and have definitely found it less salty and more delicious.

The sodium level is definitely lower. My blood pressure is still well regulated.

I’ve eaten MSG my entire life with no ill effects.

MSG got a bad rap but it’s really quite safe. It’s found in various forms in things like parmigianno reggiano cheese, seaweed, etc. It can be overused to cover up bad ingredients and make up for poor cooking skills but when used correctly it’s a great flavor enhancer that is better than salt.
I remember it well.

It was possible. That’s not the same as saying it is still possible at this debt level with the massive shortfalls in social security and other entitlements.

I do not think it’s possible without also seriously eroding the debt burden through sustained higher inflation. That horse has left the barn.
Having to keep track of what branch has been arbitrarily tapped as the trunk in a repo is not reasonably comparable to stripping Americans of recognition and rights.

The former may annoy some folks until they standardize or figure out a way to tag the repos. The latter is actively aiming to be detrimental to people in a large way, and unless stopped, will very likely succeed in that goal.
such a system did exist on the American airlines jet, but it does not autocorrect or advise below 1000 feet, since an automated correction in such a busy, low area could make things worse. https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1idrsl6/...
>> But these people are itching to eliminate the cost of maintaining a dev team, and it shows in the level of wishful thinking they display.

And this is the promise of AI, to eliminate jobs. If CEOs invest heavily in this, they won't back down because no one wants to be wrong.

I understand some people try to claim AI might make net more jobs (someday), but I just don't think that is what CEOs are going for.
Don't people actually enjoy writing code and solving problems on their own?

I would be so bored if my job consisted of writing prompts all day long.
I think you are thinking about something different. So "Push Notifications" can refer to two different things.

The user oriented term refers to on-device notifications that pop up at the top of the screen. Those are technically just normal notifications but people like to call them push notifications for various reasons.

Push notifications in the technical sense however refer to a system for remote services to notify a client that something happened rather than the client manually polling the server for new updates. It's the difference between the client asking "do you have anything new" and the server telling the client "hey pay attention you have something new". This is what we are talking about when we say push notifications.

Email clients that automatically get new emails in the background all either do so using fetch polling or push notifications. The traditional method is fetch polling at a regular interval but nowadays most email clients support push notifications. We are discussing a tool that these clients can use behind the scenes to provide these push notifications for the email client in a battery and data efficient manner.
20/20 vision in each eye (no contact lenses) is also a requirement. I have a feeling thatll rule out a lot of software engineers on this site.
I mean this is ideal, yes, but you're going to end up having probably at least one person get really screwed and before a lightning rod for scrapping the whole system: we see this again and again, most notably in state cases regarding trans sports where it ends up being banned as a matter of law over literally one person rather than something more sensible, like deferring to individual league rules instead of making it a legal question.
Where do you come up with 3 seconds when I said 15-20 seconds later?

The World Cup I was referring to was the infamous match where a player received 3 yellow cards, and the delay from cable was so long that the OTA viewers (a Spanish language broadcast) had time to come running in to ask if that made any more sense in English. But the English broadcast had not yet seen it.

It was just bizarre. It's negative because it's annoying AF. But since you want to minimize things by making up numbers to attempt to make a point instead of accepting the provided information, there's no way we'll ever see eye to eye.
Wow these guys aren't even pretending to be about any legitimate line of business at this point. They have gone all-in on just being as like Trump as they can and robbing everyone blind.
Ugh, sorry for the typo. That was supposed to be "can base its work on"
He meant the west is superior in applying organized violence evidently.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42937959
> Typing "make the bar a bit more like a fizzbuzz" in some textbox is awful UX compared to, say, clicking on the "bar" and selecting "fizzbuzz" or drag-and-dropping "fizzbuzz" on the "bar" or really anything that takes advantage of the fact we're interacting with a graphical environment to do work on graphics.

That assumes that you have a UX capable of determining what you're clicking on in the generated image (which we could call a given if we assume a sufficiently capable AI model since we're already instructing it to alter the thing), and also that it can determine from your click that you've intended to click on the "foo" not the "greeble" that is on the foo or the shadow covering that part of the foo or anything else that might be in the same Z stack as your intended target. Pixel bitching adventure games come to mind as an example of how badly this can go for us. And yes, this is solvable, Squeak has a UI where repeatedly clicking in the same spot will iterate through the list of possibilities in that Z stack. But it could also get really messy really quickly.

Then we have to assume that your UX will be able to generate an entire list of possible things you might want to be able to to do with that thing that you've clicked, including adding to it, removing it, removing part of it, moving it, transforming its dimensions, altering its colors, altering the material surface and on and on and on. And that list of possibilities needs to be navigable and searchable in a way that's faster than just typing "make the bar more like a fizzbuzz" into a context aware chat box.

Again, I'm not arguing the chat interface should be the only interface. In fact, as you point out we're using a graphical system, it would be great if you could click on things or select them and have the system work on too. It should be able to take additional input than just chat. But I still think for iterating on a fuzzy idea, a chat UI is a useful tool.
"Proofreading for typos and logic mistakes: I write a fair amount of English documents: ADRs, technical summaries, internal posts, and so on. I never allow the LLM to write these for me. Part of that is that I think I can write more clearly than current LLMs. Part of it is my general distaste for the ChatGPT house style. What I do occasionally do is feed a draft into the LLM and ask for feedback. LLMs are great at catching typos, and will sometimes raise an interesting point that becomes an edit to my draft."

--

I work on Graphite Reviewer (https://graphite.dev/features/reviewer). I'm also partly dyslexic. I lean massively on Grammarly (using it to write this comment) and type-safe compiled languages. When I engineered at Airbnb, I caused multiple site outages due to typos in my ruby code that I didn't see and wasn't able to execute before prod.

The ability for LLMs to proofread code is a godsend. We've tuned Graphite Reviewer to shut up about subjective stylistic comments and focus on real bugs, mistakes, and typos. Fascinatingly, it catches a minor mistake in ~1/5 PRs in prod at real companies (we've run it on a few million PRs now). Those issues it catches result in a pre-merge code change 75% of the time, about equal to what a human comment does.

AIs aren't perfect, but Im thrilled that they work as fancy code spell-checkers :)
I suspect this new Apple Invite is going to be like iMessage, popular in the US and basically unused anywhere else.

It seems like Apple has some difficulty to adapt to some international audience.
The main issue I am having here, is that I can see a measurable drop in my ability to write code because of LLM usage.

I need to avoid LLM use to ensure my coding ability stays up to par.
> I am sure there are parts of government that will cease to function if the wrong 500 people suddenly quit.

As I mentioned before, I think the folks doing this would be fine with a “cease to function” outcome.

Next steps would be to blame it on the democrats, and then probably privatize it for a song to one of their cronies.
I’d like to hear solutions from you where 49 dedicated people don’t steamroll the lives of 51.
Ideally, only people who are affected by things directly should be allowed to vote for them. So I shouldn't have to pay for healthcare, education, or roads for others. And they shouldn't have to do it for me. Then we can release the ranchers from the urban people.

Everyone can pay their own risk level in insurance, we can remove social security and Medicare and allow for optional private insurance.

Emergency care is tough, but I think it's probably better to let people die than to have someone decide to spend another's money on a third person.

Power transmission for the rural is an issue, and for urban people whose power is generated rurally. But I'm sure the power companies can charge appropriately.
> Got about 300 matches

Number of people I'm interested * Number of people who respond

(1 / 60) * (1 / 60) = 3600 people to get one match.

Times 300 = 1.08 million profiles I'd have to view.

Maybe you like 1 of 6? (is it that high, for most people I don' think so). And you manage to get a response from 1 of 10 (because I'd expect the other side to also be at best 1 of 6 + less likely to respond)

So, that's basically saying you went through a minimum of 18k profiles to get your 300 matches.

Did you get 300 matches or is that just a statement that you did well and the numbers aren't actual numbers?
Great, another Apple service I will have to find every option to disable on my phone before its abused by scammers.
Not salt, but Mrs Dash has potassium and can be used as part of the DASH diet.

It tastes pretty good but it does have herbs and spices so it’s not versatile like salt. You can’t add Mrs Dash to everything
I think Claude is incredible on JS/TS coding while GPT is highly python focused.
The real problem is that the problem could happen. Even if the helicopter ATC guy was present, and HAD vectored them behind and they HAD complied, or X or Y or Z or whatever had prevented this accident, it would have happened eventually.

The problem isn't that the controller didn't notice they were too close; it is that less than 1000 feet of separation is considered fine and normal and commonplace. It's too close and leaves no room for error.
Yeah, I totally agree, and you're 100% right. But the amount of integrations I've personally done and have instructed my team to do implies this one will be around for a while. At some point spending too much time on code that could be easily generated will be a negative point on your performance.

I've heard exactly the same stories from my friends in larger tech companies as well. Every all hands there's a push for more AI integration, getting staff to use AI tools and etc., with the big expectation that development will get faster.
Debt to GDP ratio was not the reason for our post-WWII success.
The "open protocol" is Facebook Events right now. It's a pretty low bar.
The cuts in the federal government aren’t going to come from getting rid of the civilian workforce. It’s going to have to come from decreasing the military and cutting social security and Medicare. Do you think he would be willing to do either?
Not who you were talking with, but:

You linked the shoelace restriction. That seems like an obvious example of "silly/stupid".

By collateral, death. Most regulations are written in blood. Tearing out a bunch of Chesterton fence regulations will result in death.
Wow! Thank you for posting this. I hope others see it too
Yeah, but the beavers didn't do environmental impact studies, and don't care about safety. They also made a temporary dam, and have no legal liability if it breaks apart. People could pile logs together in two days if that's all they had to do, but if you believe in environmental and safety regulations, the consequence is that it adds cost and takes longer to build stuff.
I thought he famously couldn't get the top level of clearance and has to sit out of certain spacex activity
Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can offset this?
Summary

- According to the GPT Pain-Track from the Welfare Footprint Project (WFP), “Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are not only lethal to mosquitoes but also cause significant suffering before death. When mosquitoes come into contact with the insecticide, their nervous systems are disrupted, leading to intense and prolonged effects. These include uncontrolled movements, convulsions, and muscle spasms, which can last for minutes. This is followed by paralysis and eventual shutdown of their body functions. While effective at reducing disease transmission, ITNs inflict severe pain on mosquitoes during the process, making their impact far from instantaneous or painless”.

- I estimate GiveWell’s (GW’s) last grant to Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) of 41 M$ caused 763 times as much harm to mosquitoes via insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) as it benefited humans.

- I neglected the effects of ITNs on the number of wild animals because it is super unclear whether they have positive or negative lives. Yet, there is still lots of uncertainty even just in the effects I considered. Just accounting for uncertainty in mosquitoes’ capacity for welfare, I estimate the 5th and 95th percentile harm to mosquitoes caused by ITNs are 0 and 11.5 k times their benefits to humans. So it is unclear to me whether ITNs increase or decrease welfare.

- I believe the large uncertainty about the effects of human welfare interventions on wild (and farmed) animals should push one towards prioritising:
-- Animal welfare interventions improving the conditions of animals instead of changing the number of animals. I recommend donating to the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP), which I estimate has been 64.3 k times as cost-effective as GW’s top charities (neglecting their effects on animals).
-- Learning more about helping invertebrates. I recommend donating to the Arthropoda Foundation and Wild Animal Initiative (WAI).

- I estimate people donating to AMF can offset the harm ITNs cause to mosquitoes pretty cheaply, donating 1.19 % as much to SWP as to AMF. This fraction is more robust than it may seem because the harm ITNs cause to mosquitoes is decently proportional to the cost-effectiveness of SWP.

- I would move any marginal donations from helping humans to helping invertebrates, so I would not donate to AMF. Nonetheless, I think directing a small fraction (10 %?) of one’s donations to helping invertebrates would be a good compromise to offset potential negative effects. I encourage people donating to animal welfare to do this too.
Let's just hope they don't start producing TVs (the screens) alongside all of this!
I feel ashamed to work at a startup, reading this. Thankfully I've seen how dysfunctional A16Z is up-close and don't have much hope for their future competence.
Exactly. The bottom line is that (most) people aren't stupid. If they're doing something that doesn't seem rational, it's most likely because you aren't seeing it from their perspective and are lacking information.

If the ranchers had what they considered to be better options, they'd go for it.