skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DEC is a cool name. Digital Equipment, serious stuff. Sadly the era of three punchy letter names is over. What have we got now?

“Apple” (random word, even worse, it is a type of plant or something), “Facebook” (like a type of yearbook?) “Google” (sounds like they make candy or something), or “Intel” (who knows? -tel is just what companies ended their names with in the 80’s and 90’s).

DEC. What do they make? Equipment. What kind? Digital.

IBM would be good if the middle word wasn’t “business.” Business? Eh. Lame. The business is an aside, it is here to justify the machines. E, because Equipment is solid and physical.

ARM? Looks good at first. But then you find out… the A stands for Acorn. What the hell are we doing here, gardening? No. Terrible. We want D, for Digital, because we’re in the figure, the era of ones and zeros, not acorns.

AMD? Actually that name is OK as well.
It's safety, yes. To fail this test there can be any number of causes but for Tesla they specifically mention light, axle, and breaks as failure points.

The 14.2% was for cars receiving their first Hauptuntersuchung (main inspection) done every 24 months (so 2-3 years old cars). If a car model has that many problems while competitors in a similar price range and use model don't, that could point to an issue with part quality.
Nah nobody knows that, it is a lie. The reason healthcare in the US is expensive is primarily providers. As reported by e.g. Vox.

In fact us out of pocket spending is low compared to OECD, and overhead while relatively high is not huge. It's that the doctors and hospitals in the US are paid much more.
Interesting read. Our lab was founded inside a campus engineering center of digital. So we still have some memorabilia (like a 'cyber cafe' sign from digital) lying around. Actually digital research in Germany was sold to SAP, which didn't have research at the time (SAP actually pretty much scrapped their research division pretty much about 10 year since they seemingly never grew really fond of it)
I love that.

Also the MacOS "Zoom" button makes so much more sense than the OSX/macOS green button - and I still miss window shading.
I assure you Berkeley is also globally recognized (disclaimer: no links to either school).

EDIT: I'd also personally would want to stay as far away as possible from people who would see a PhD from Berkeley as a lesser one (based on general "prestige").
>Oh, come on. This is what we get from social media bubbles and breathless irresponsible media reporting [emphasis mine].

Speaking of bubbles, how sure are you that Silicon Valley and HN are not part of a bubble composed of people with an emotional attachment to technological progress and people with a financial stake in AI?

How sure are you that the AI labs aren't being even more irresponsible than the news media?
Thomas Carlyle was pretty hard on it in the 19th century.

> Consider, for example, that great Hat seven-feet high, which now perambulates London Streets; which my Friend Sauerteig regarded justly as one of our English notabilities; "the topmost point as yet," said he, "would it were your culminating and returning point, to which English Puffery has been observed to reach!"—The Hatter in the Strand of London, instead of making better felt-hats than another, mounts a huge lath-and-plaster Hat, seven-feet high, upon wheels; sends a man to drive it through the streets; hoping to be saved thereby. He has not attempted to make better hats, as he was appointed by the Universe to do, and as with this ingenuity of his he could very probably have done; but his whole industry is turned to persuade us that he has made such! He too knows that the Quack has become God. Laugh not at him, O reader; or do not laugh only. He has ceased to be comic; he is fast becoming tragic.

(From Past and Present, 1843)
Zonos – Apache 2.0 licensed, Multilingual, Text to Speech model
The thing I wrote was just test automation that executed in the browser, file system, and shell commands. There are excellent tools that do this, but they are all big. I only wrote my own because I wanted something that executed faster and can send test commands to other computers. Any mock data generated was generated as result of the test interactions executed.
I visited the Mill in the mid-1980s. There was still a smell of lanolin in the stairwells.
Some very odd choices in that first plot. Lower is better, but also the x-axis is inverted such that higher scores go towards the left.
"Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged."
Meet with Dan Stamper-Kurn, Jon Simon, and whoever else at length, go get coffee with their grad students without any postdocs or the PI present and ask them to tell you the shitty bits, and make your pick. Don't worry about the school -- it's not important. The advisor is. Also, pick by what you won't put up with. The bad bits add up differently than the good bits.
Sometimes backing off and giving yourself even more of a break may be the best way to give good ideas a chance to hit.

Also maybe go along to local inventors' clubs, uni and business seminars, and other things that might set new thoughts running...

Stay receptive to interesting things, but try less hard for a while.
nevermind. turns out someone else had logged into twitter and forgot to log out. i didn't notice because i haven't been using the site in ages. please ignore my initial comment
Yeah, pg is a great example: obviously bright guy, pioneering VC, who now dishes out some of the worst takes on Twitter. Are we supposed to care what he thinks still?

For what it's worth, I think patio11's writing on software consulting is the best I've ever read. I'm sure he knows this space well, but there are...different viewpoints.
And put the signatures on a blockchain so that the perma.cc holders, or the USA government, can't do easily alter things either.
> and enjoy your life.

As somebody who hacks on, around and in esoteric languages for fun; I must object.
Multiple brand surveys have shown that Berkeley is one of the best known brands outside the USA after Harvard, right alongside Stanford. Especially in Asia.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/06/15/berkeley-ranks-among-wo...
In every equity discussion since, I keep in mind what happened to the employees of Skype[1]. As a "founding engineer", I'm gonna need a lot more than 1% of options that will be worthless if the company fails, and probably worthless if the company succeeds.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/26/skypes-worthless-employee-... tldr: They just cancelled the employee options, and the founders and investors kept all the money.
Trying to traverse the web landscape and/or getting out of one's comfort zone is of course a very valid incentive. But if one wants to "transforms a small Python utility" by "turning it into a web application", I believe more efficient paths could be tried.

Streamlit is not mentioned in the article, yet I can argue that is unbeatable and that by a large margin in how quick it is to get from a Python script to a decent, functioning web application.

In general, going one-language, full-stack (Vaadin, Streamlit etc..) is probably the right path for anyone who doesn't want do front-end but has to. IMHO of course.
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
Usually it is a logic error, because you can check the index before.

You could argue it is ok when you use exceptions for control flow (e.g. what people sometimes do in python), but even there it looks questionable imo.
Working together wouldn't be enough. They would have to merge into Bruce Norris or Chuck Willis; the ultimate action hero.
I've had stock at several different start ups. Each time the start up has gone under and it has been worth nothing in the end.
Show HN: I made DoughDojo to help myself perfect Neapolitan pizza
DoughDojo started as a way to solve my own pizza-making problems. I love making Neapolitan pizza, but tracking hydration, fermentation, and recipes was somethimes a little bit hard. So, I built a tool to make it easier.

At the same time, this was a way for me to train my coding skills. I work a 9-5 as a developer, but I wanted to build something real— something people (including myself) would actually use. Along the way, I learned a ton about SaaS, Stripe integration, and working with real users.

Martin
> I still think about missing out on programming a train set. Years later

Sounds like a nice hobby project to indulge in during your free time! It's easier than it has ever been, and it's a nice rabbit hole do dive into.

They even have open-source DCC decoders nowadays!

https://www.opendcc.de/elektronik/opendecoder/opendecoder_e....

https://ilabs.se/news/introducing-our-new-open-source-dcc-de...
The future of vulnerability management
>because they get 5 dollars for each patient that buys it

You probably won't believe it, but that's not a thing. My wife is a doctor and I can tell you exactly how she gets paid. The only real misaligned incentive I've been able to find is that she could pad her paycheck by spending more ordering tests.

But she her pet peeve is doctors ordering tests that aren't going to change the course of treatment, so she's definitely not going to do that.
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They're Trying to Publish It Anyway
This is close to home, geographically speaking (65km). ;-)
"everyone needs to take personal responsibility for their own health"

Absolutely. I'm a caregiver to my father. He has many health issues. Some caused and/or exacerbated by poor lifestyle choices - smoking, poor diet, too much alcohol, etc. Granted his generation knew less than we do about these things today.

There's a popular myth today that doctor's just want to push pharmaceuticals on patients. Maybe this is true in some places or with some doctors, but I've been taking my father to doctor appointments for the better part of a decade. Every one of his doctors - primary care provider, nephrologist, cardiologist, and pulmonologist - emphasized the importance of eating better, quitting smoking, exercising, and drinking more water. It always landed on deaf ears.

After living one way for most of your life is very difficult. We also found out a few years ago that he brain damage from surgery to fix a leaking aneurysm in 1985. Both of these complicated his ability to make changes. Regardless, the doctors pushed pharmaceuticals as a last option.

I'm 50 now. I row almost every day, I workout with kettlebells, have a regular mobility routine, and walk outside often. My diet is pretty clean, I don't smoke anything, and do not drink. I could die tomorrow from any number of things, but it won't be because I didn't try to take care of my health.

All of that aside, I think it's important to not blame people for their health situation. It's easy to critique from the outside, but who knows what choices we'd make if we'd walked in their shoes and lived their life.
Peter Thiel's Apocalypse Dreams
I guess it’s not sufficiently prominent (given that you didn’t see it) but this is discussed in detail in the FAQ section
I'm trying to take you at your word that you aren't trying to be a jackass, but I'm honestly having a really hard time reading this another way so I'll ask:

Are you saying that overweight people lack self-respect?
A cool result, but it seems like it should be called a computer science conjecture
Parsing data out of arbitrary PDFs is a cursed mission. PDF can contain images, so you might as well target JPEG directly.

OCR can take you pretty far depending on expectations, but it's never quite far enough in my experience.
Why you need to see an existing tech? It's too easy to dismiss an argument on the grounds that the tech isn't there. I'm exagerrating, but we're talking about real scientific progress here, right?
Why? US healthcare costs have nearly nothing to do with insurance and everything with doctor and hospital payments.

I think the best way to improve US healthcare is to off all the righteous idiots. Just kidding!

The 2nd best way is outlaw health insurance of any kind except maybe genuinely catastrophic, like lump sum cancer insurance or emergency room coveragr. Don't provide any public option. Once everything is out of pocket the outrageous provider prices will be forced to come down either economically or politically (my preferred option is easy immigration and the recognition of medical degrees from OECD countries)
I craeted a quantum-resistant file encryptor beta testers needed
One of my favorite jokes relies on this.

Q: Where does a general keep his armies?

A: In his sleevies!
GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
Snow Leopard was truly the best. An actual OS release based around performance improvements under-the-hood instead of flashy, half-baked features.
What's amusing is that according to the literature height can be inherited but intelligence can not be.

More generally, any characteristic that can be used to denigrate (or promote) a group is not inheritable. It's the fiction that keeps genetics moving along.
Go Templates with Parcel and Live Reloading (2025)
My wife and I did this. Seemed like an elegant solution to the problem.
It’s not three years, it’s thirteen.

> A lifetime value of $888 billion for all of reCAPTCHAv2's tracking cookies produced between 2010 and 2023.
Regarding Indus script: I’ve recently come across this purported attempt by someone who claims they’ve deciphered Indus script. I’m. It not sold on it but it is making some waves in Indian circles.

https://indusscript.net/
Similarities like these, especially with Latin in the mix, were the clue that originally put early linguists on the scent of the IE language family several centuries ago. Since then, extensive research has been done into how exactly these languages developed from their common ancestors. Some modern dictionaries, like Wiktionary, contain entire family trees comparing the divergent development of these cognates and many, many others.
>I think it could be normalized further by having a shell function get help for a command.

See PowerShell commandlets for a related precedent: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/devel... Commandlets (shell functions) can annotate themselves and their parameters in a standard way, and then the shell's builtin help command parses that and presents it in a standard way. Though unfortunately this kind of integration only works for the commandlets, not arbitrary executables, because there's no standard for executables to expose such metadata to the shell.
Demo: https://playground.zyphra.com/audio

GitHub: https://github.com/Zyphra/Zonos
Actually, real median personal income has increased 50% since 1975: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

I believe you may have seen some number somewhere, it would be useful to have that to silence detractors.
Pointers to said tools would be beneficial. Robust optimization is somewhat different from what the author states.
Yes, and people have gotten used to the new standard. I know many people who have lost weight, look great and have a healthy amount of body fat. People then say they are "too skinny", but they aren't by any standard measurement and are still heavier than most from 1980s or before. When like 75% of people are overweight, healthy weight people tend to look thin to people (I get these 'too skinny' comments myself occasionally: 5'10" male, 170lbs, ~13-14% bf).
This is gonna sound strange but:

Anthropic's llms always (always? at least since 2) have a distinctive "personality". I obv don't know how to quantify it or what "it" really is, but if you've used it you might know what I mean. Maybe that "personality" is conducive to swe?
What's frustrating about our medical situation is this person now has a diagnosis for autoimmune condition, as if that's the end of the journey. But what caused or is causing the autoimmune condition? Bad genetics, a bad flu, etc.? It is still unknown. To me, this is the same as, we don't know what's wrong with you. Some speculate there is still an underlying pathogen causing it. Sometimes these conditions can go into remission for years. Maybe a certain diet is related. Simply dealing with an autoimmune condition with immunosuppressants should not be the solution.
Notes on Blogging
Rust is a bad choice for web and a meh/bad one for game development. It's certainly not good enough at either to have much of a technical edge over Ada.
I agree with that assessment, neither NASA nor the country has the money nor time to waste on another public Moon program. There is no justifiable reason for another Apollo.

Leave it to the commercial world, and if they can't figure out a sustainable business model then it simply isn't meant to be (yet?).
Maybe not, but Nathan McCauley (the CEO of Anchorage Digital) did appear in front of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, on the topic of "Investigating the Real Impacts of Debanking in America"

https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/investigating-the-re...

So, we may not be talking Jamie Dimon, but that does not mean this request for retraction should be ignored.
You can create an obligation for yourself or make a binding statement of intent.

Indeed memoranda in the UK, created when registering a company, require it. You state the intended services. Companies weasel around it by making broad milquetoast claims.

A statement binding the organisation to release their data and cede all copyright should the site be terminated, for example, would demonstrate good faith and go a long way to reassuring people that it wasn't wasted effort.
Honestly 7 seconds even just to parse the CSV is already pretty impressive, 7GB/s would be simdjson speeds if you did it on a single core. Do you have a single-threaded parser with really well-tuned SIMD, or a speculative parallel one, or ..?
Thanks for spotting this. The solution is indeed wrong. And I agree that the machine can regurgitate plausible reasoning in principle. If it run in a loop, I would bet that it could probably figure this particular problem out eventually, but not sure it matters much in the end. The only plausible way for some of these Sudoku puzzles is a SAT solver and I'm sure that if given the right environment an LLM could just code and execute one and get the answer. Does that mean it can't "reason" because it couldn't solve this Sudoku puzzle, or know that it made a mistake. I'm not sure I'd go this far, but I agree that my example didn't match my claim. The model didnt do a careful job and didn't quadruple check its work as I would have expected from an advanced AI, but remember that this is o3-mini, and not something that is supposed to be full-blown AI yet. If you asked GPT-3.5 for something similar the answer would have been amusingly simplistic, not it is at least starting to get close.

I now wonder if I had a typo when I copied this puzzle from an image to my phone app thus rendering it unsolveable.. the model should still have spotted such an error anyways but ofc it is not tuned to perfection
People in the bay hold Berkeley in a much higher regard than anywhere else in the country. If you go to Austin people will compare Berkeley to UT Austin, but if you go to Stanford they will regard your school to a higher degree.

I think OP should go with the better PI, however suggestion Stanford and Berkeley have the same level of prestige seems wrong to me
Look at the problems that people around you are having. Women especially (most software is written by men for men).

Try to solve a small problem, rather than trying to boil the ocean, it may lead on to other things.
But who doesn't make digital equipment these days? Even tractors and other farming equipment is chock full of digital equipment. And what kind of device isn't or has some sort of advanced micro device in it? Those companies might as just well merge into one megacorp named Stuff, for all it really means, if we're going off of company names being useful.

something something computer science; naming things.
I cannot figure out where I come down on Ozempic (not that my opinion matters to anyone else and not like anyone asked me).

On one hand I couple probably benefit from it. I'm about 80-100lbs over where I'd like to be but I recently lost 50lb (so I was 130-150lbs away before) without any drugs (and I have lost weight in the past successfully and kept it off until I got lazy). I think it comes from a combo of "If I don't need to rely on something I'd rather not" and "It feels like cheating". Digging into both those ideas comes up rather... empty. Neither are great reasons and so I keep mulling over "should I try it?".

The only thing I'm fairly certain on is this: These are not meant to be "forever drugs" but many people will/do treat them as such. My understanding (which could be flawed) is this is a "3-12mo"-type thing. I really don't know how many people are using Ozempic and friends as "This is going to help me get on track" and "Look at this magical drug that makes me lose weight", I fear it's largely the second group.
Show HN: Noodle Seed – Create working apps by describing them in plain English
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> If you believe him you believe you can just look at who is being paid and a short description and identify waste. That notion is idiotic.

We have to be clear going into the future. Musk is not doing things this way because he's an idiot, he's doing it because he is waging an ideological war. If he says something is waste and fraud, it's waste and fraud by definition. They don't care about whether there is waste and fraud, they just care about implementing their vision, and "reducing waste/fraud" is apparently the magic phrase that everyone agrees allows them to seize unchecked powers.
I was replying mainly to dang's comment.

In reply to yours, boys doing stupid things are called out for being stupid. They aren't praised for doing things that could blow their hands off or burn the house down. The only ones impressed are their peers.

They just do it anyway, and try to conceal it.
I think we might have chatted here before.

I want to like D, it definitely came up in my research but I just don't see the ecosystem as vibrant enough to lead to where I want it to .

Either building cool things, or better employment opportunities.

It is encouraging to see a language so loved folks are
proselytizing for it.

My vote is for Haxe! But that's also a very high level language.
Not ideal, but the reason for this is that people have gotten used to larger bars indicating better performance on bar charts when evaluating LLMs. Including being confused by the older version of this very benchmark.

Two bar charts are also shown, along with a link to https://lechmazur.github.io/leaderboard1.html
And that's the scary thing: people aren't aware of the lessons of the past. Not the "past", even; Ali's draft refusal and Operation Ranch Hand were well within a human lifetime of now.