skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Over time, you’ll develop an almost sixth sense for when an intervention is needed. You’ll become that person who can deftly guide conversations back on track when they’re derailing.

> Overuse: If you’re constantly meta-commenting on the conversation, it can become distracting and annoying. Use this technique judiciously.

Good point, glad it has the caution in there, or you'll quickly become that one person everyone knows read "that one HN post" and keeps doing that "one trick" every meeting.

You see this with new leaders often, they read some book or the "top 10 leadership power poses and gestures" blog and start doing them. Except, it doesn't look natural and just seems cringy. They think it's a cool trick to mesmerize their audience, while everyone else is rolling their eyes literally or figuratively.
Aye, "usually" up there was the implication.

You can actually do it in C, too! It just requires setting up a few macros, and getting it right requires a fairly decent understanding of the underlying hardware. (via TARGET_CUSTOM_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS).
Hi. I'm mainly trying to understand the different thoughts and tactics used when it comes to office productivity, especially Microsoft 365.

The costs shoot up drastically once you cross over 300 users. Happy to take feedback
I don't think that absolute dollar value a useful measure.

From https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ron-wyden/su...

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products is the 9th contributor (or about 3% of his campaign fundraising between 2019-2024). Is that big? I have no idea.
I'll admit, that's a pretty funny bug. Thankfully it seems like the Rust devs are pretty keen on fixing it somehow.
Perimeter defense is way better now. In the old days most 3s were uncontested. It’s a shot they just wanted you to take.
Have you tried calculating what your tax bill is going to be when the US can no longer run a deficit after USD is no longer the world reserve currency? Funding scientific research isn't a zero-sum "charity project", rather it's spending some of the proceeds from our demurrage currency on maintaining the leadership position that makes it still be considered a good store of value.
"Garry Tan is hopeful about Trump" [0].

Donor lookup for Gustaf Alstromer [1].

Paul Buchheit "So good!" (video of RJK Jr. talk), reposting a tweet with the caption "they could have done it any time. They chose not too. Thats why ppl voted against them" on another tweet about illegal border crossings [3].

Jared Friedman "The young engineers going to DOGE remind me of the early days of the US Digital Service, when a bunch of SV engineers moved to DC to fix http://healthcare.gov. It's the same energy, but now the mandate isn't to fix the government's tech, it's to fix the government." [4]

Michael Seibel "Had an amazing talk about the US economy tonight. All kinds of feelings. Opportunities/ challenges abound. I choose to be optimistic." [5]

It looks like there are a few board members that are either keeping silent about politics or are more vocally against Trump and some of his policies, but a large portion or the majority are actively supporting Trump.

Considering the motivation of YC, the sentiment of many of the prominent figures and the brief amount of Googling, I would say that YC is much more in lock step than not. So it looks like, for the most part, I did jump to conclusions correctly.

[0] https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/garry-tan-trump-ai-crypt...

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=tech+f...

[2] https://x.com/paultoo/status/1890191142689632593

[3] https://x.com/razibkhan/status/1890167090692387028

[4] https://x.com/snowmaker/status/1886672263216504853

[5] https://x.com/mwseibel/status/1888457501806653835
> innovation boner

That made me laugh. I don't know, I still struggle with point a website to github.io.
Not true at all. The original ChatGPT was useless other than as a curious entertainment app.

Perplexity, OTOH, has almost completely replaced Google for me now. I'm asking it dozens of questions per day, all for free because that's how cheap it is for them to run.

The emergence of reliable tool use last year is what has sky-rocketed the utility of LLMs. That has made search and multi-step agents feasible, and by extension applications like Deep Research.
Elon and his team seem to have succeeded at figuring this out at Twitter. Or do you think Twitter was a unique case?
Wouldn't management be difficult in this case?
This reminds me a bit of Hand and Brain [1], another fun variant with kids. We usually switch to normal chess after a predetermined number of moves.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_and_brain
When looking at low cost arms I check how it connects to the mount. If it hangs on just a servo it will be very wobbly. Most mentioned in this thread are. For this price or bit more you can get a way better arm on ebay with big ball bearing on the base for stability. I got a kit for $60 or $80 recently. No servos, full metal. It's easy to add servos and put together, for now I have other arms assembled ;) No steppers because I want them to be cheap and imprecise for ML project.
The employee in the linked article works in Ohio. New York’s government would have nothing to do with this.

Also, absent a contract stating otherwise, there is nothing illegal with terminating an employee in the manner described in the article, except in Montana.
No experience with EVs, but Toyota hybrids use regenerative braking a lot. They also teach me to accelerate gently. Quite the opposite of Tesla with their "ludicrous mode" encouraging extreme acceleration. But I have no idea how well those brake.
France's biggest game industry union 'Grève Bundle' to support striking workers
It's an optional add on
The missing half of your React app
Where I stand, it is quite common to have Websites and apps do security assessments with penttesting and code checking, dependencies are validated and may be refused based on security clearance.

Software is critical for many business, even if no-one dies, millions may be lost, and drive the company into insolvency.
Yes, I agree general purpose is the way to go, but I'm still waiting. Gemini is the best at last time I tried, but for all the ways I've tried to prompt it, it can not transcribe (or correctly understand the content of) e.g. the probate documents I try to decipher for my genealogy research.
Agree with the wrong ratio, and the explanations I can find are two: 1) When starting a project, product people always exaggerate the scope, so tech people set it up for scaling from day 0 2) React is industry standard, so it's easier to say "here, this is a React component, you know how it works" rather than re-inventing your "component" pattern that mutates the DOM.
That said, complexity is a spectrum: scaling up and down is equally painful. Understanding how to calibrate efforts comes only after a lot of experience.
Thanks mate. Just trying to understand the market and potential pain points. Would love to hear your feedback as well
Because Toyota
I used Universal Media Server for 3 years, not knowing about jellyfin actually. UMS was a most of the time non-functional piece of crap. Refreshing the library was a pain and always felt that it required restarting services and devices on both sides and a blessing from the local priest. Then comes the frequent disappearance of the server itself which again requires service restarts. Then the mid-movie playback stops or stutters. Not recognizing the subtitles and again requiring service restarts. I spent more time fiddling with the app, holding it together with duct-tape and sticks rather the watching media through it. It is a very unstable and unreliable piece of software.

Then came jellyfin, and as a breath of fresh air, all my problems were gone. In maybe 2 years since I switched to it, I can count on my fingers how many times did I have to fiddle with it for some reason. It just works, in the most common sense of ways, no crashes, no discoverability problems, nothing, just pure stable performance, I cannot emphasize enough how much of a chasm exists in quality and usability between jellyfin and UMS. While UMS feels like a piece of early alpha software that was abandoned, jellyfin is the rock solid , actively maintained alternative that got your back.

Universal Media Server is just bad software.
Seems that way. A review from ten months ago mentions the restaurant. https://maps.app.goo.gl/qa5KY49pHBRqLLTa9
If you want to understand the impact this kind of energy rule had while in effect, read up on the Rosenfeld Effect[0].

Arthur Rosenfeld was the driving force behind California and US energy conservation regulations in the 1970's and early 1980's. His direct personal impact on energy cost savings in the US is unbelievable, even before you inflation convert it to modern dollars.

Disassembling an old refrigerator from before the days of those yellow stickers is a mind blowing experience. Refrigerators commonly had heater wires attached to their outer panels. Why? It was cheaper to manufacture refrigerators that had heaters on their outer panels than refrigerators that had adequate insulation (the heaters prevented the outside of the refrigerator from getting cold enough to cause water to condense on the outside of the refrigerator). It was cheaper to make them with heater wires, but unbelievably more expensive to run them that way. Consumers paid a huge price for that tiny reduction in manufacturing cost, and had no way of knowing that was happening. Those yellow stickers changed that.

Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse? Show me another individual who has come anywhere close to the direct financial savings that Rosenfeld, a PhD Physicist, delivered.

The article below primarily talks about his impact on reducing California's spending on energy, in large part because it's easier to quantify, but his impact nationally is undoubtedly much higher.

[0]https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/01/27/art-rosenfeld-californ...
> Why wouldn’t it work in the suburbs?

The number of cars per hour during most of the day on a suburban street is commonly around one. If a bus runs that frequently it would have one passenger and all you've done is replace one midsized car with one large bus at significant expense. If the bus runs less frequently than that it would have zero passengers because people will buy a car and drive it themselves rather than wait that long for a bus.

This is already being somewhat generous by assuming that people would be willing to wait the balance of an hour for a bus. For mass transit to actually work you want service every five or ten minutes.
That's more an argument against SUVs and heavy pickup trucks than against EVs, though.
You should negotiate with Trump if you think American taxes are too high. Unless EU attacks US militarily and takes their territory, USA taxes are not their issue.

EU manufacturers pay taxes in EU.
I hope people start to realize that nothing about what's going on is about eliminating waste. It's about destroying the government for the profit of the top 0.1%.

But it's all so very shortsighted. The people directing all of this clearly have no idea what they're doing or why things are the way they are.

Take USAID as a good example. The reality is that USAID is a wealth transfer from the government to American companies (where most of the money was spent) AND it was an expresion of American soft power on foreign regimes. Dismantling USAID just creates a power vacuum for some other power to fill, likely China.

You see this with talk of a massive ethnic displacement from Gaza and the West Bank into Egypt and Jordan, an action that would likely topple what are essentially puppet regimes for US Middle Eastern interests.

NIH funding is actually a massive wealth transfer from the government to Big Pharma. Why? Because Big Pharma doesn't really discover novel compounds. Federally-funded research does. A lame duck Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act [1] in a bipartisan way that was signed into law by the outgoing Jimmy Carter in 1980. This Act basically allowed Big Pharma to profit fully from federal research.

Big Pharma spends money on marketing, lobbying and any research they do is pretty much limited to patent extension.

We are witnessing the wholesale destruction of American power here. Certain accelerationists who would otherwise be in complete opposition to the current administration are actually celebrating what's going on for that reason. The government is setting up China to be the new big bad of the 21st century but ironically is creating a massive power vacuum for China to fill and extend its influence.

This is pure short-term profit thinking and we will see over the next 4 years looting of the public purse on a scale we've never seen before.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
Until 2020 the you could book a stay in a backpacker hostel in Berlin that was actually located inside the North Korean embassy.

Eventually the German government got fed up with them running a business out of their embassy and they had to shut it down.
Why do you feel that way? As a hypothetical, what would need to happen in the current political environment so that you don't feel that it's unsubstantiated fearmongering?
This is very interesting!
I recommend that you add a visual indicator of where you currently are in the normal/blunder cycle, and whose turn it will be when.
Of course the more forty year old rules you follow the more engineering it is. Using a better programming language that doesn't depend on organisational process for safety is not engineering - there's no standard for that.
Google's Piracy Purge: 3.5B DMCA Takedown Notices in a Year
I've been wanting to generate a calendar of weeks similar to this recently. Here is a lualatex file that will generate such a calendar: https://github.com/jasongrout/weekcalendar
Elon didn't remove bad performers, he pivoted from social network to political platform. They removed moderators not because they were unnecessary or performed badly, but rather because they were actively harmful to the new mission.
She was just on my podcast! https://techsontexts.net/episodes/2025/01/zevin-gina-trapani...

She's the best. :)
You can only be productive 'talking about something' if you understand the concepts to later 'do what needs to be done'.

In the absence of tech leadership it might as well be magic. I wouldn't understand the working details of doctors or lawyers on a medical, or legal, project but you'd bet I'd be praying to any agile deity listening to drag it over the finish line, trusting that the profit margins would help obscure this uncomfortable reality.
Yes, Little Computer People was certainly one of the inspirations for The Sims! I played it on my Apple ][+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Computer_People#Legacy

>Little Computer People is often compared to an early predecessor to The Sims game series.[12][11] When asked about its influence, Crane responded that "Almost everything we touched in those days could be constructed as the precursor to something on the market today. So rather than go there, I simple acknowledge that I took the first baby steps toward the simulation genre when I added human-like interactivity to Little Computer People."[12] Will Wright, designer of The Sims, has mentioned playing Little Computer People and receiving valuable feedback on The Sims from its designer, Rich Gold.[23]

Will Wright: A chat about the "The Sims" and "SimCity", January 20, 2000, CNN:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190412045233/https://edition.c...

>Question from MaxSteele: Will, did you ever play "Little Computer People Research Project" from Activision, and did it influence you at all?

>Will Wright: Yes, a long time ago. I've since gotten to know several people who were involved with that project, and many of them gave valuable feedback on The Sims, especially Rich Gold.

>Question from Dan: Can Sims express their sexuality?

>Will Wright: To a degree. We have different levels of romantic involvement. At the highest you see very passionate kissing, sharing of the hot tub naked, sharing a bed together, and sharing of the bathrooms with no modesty.

>But as I said we wanted to keep the game accessible to kids. The Sims make babies by very passionate kissing.

>Question from Pinky: Is homosexuality addressed in the Sims?

>Will Wright: We wanted players to be able to roughly model their own family structures whenever possible. So we allow the players to develop homosexual relationships in the game, though they won't happen automatically unless the player is directing it in that direction.

The awesome recent indie game "TinyLife" is even Little Computer Peoplier than The Sims 1! It takes it the opposite direction of The Sims 4, with a beautiful retro pixelated 8 bit graphics style.

https://tinylifegame.com/

https://x.com/TinyLifeGame

https://x.com/xardox/status/1785112477904023674

>Don Hopkins @xardox

>@TinyLifeGame by @Ellpeck is an awesome indie game that's a retro pixel graphics deeply moddable modern re-interpretation of The Sims 1, but is also highly unique with its own style, and stands on its own, with a mesmerizing soundtrack by @leissMusic !

It blows my mind that one person could accomplish all that (he says it’s a labor of love). And I really like the retro 8-bit pixel art style. The music is also top quality, listenable to for hours. And it even allows plug-in user created content, which was essential for the success and popularity and longevity of The Sims! I can’t wait to see how it develops over time.
I have to admit, I’d be curious to visit one of these restaurants myself. However, one has to be aware of the fact that these restaurants are reportedly linked to the secretive North Korean party organization, Room 39 [1], which means that all revenue flows directly into the hands of the Kim dynasty, so in the best case you'll help financing their next BMW or much worse, the nuclear arms program—neither of these I'm very comfortable with…

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
Now do this for someone's life that was tragically cut short. Perspective changes everything.
AMZ is also known for periodically culling 10% of the worst performers. Out of all my contacts at faang type orgs, I get the feeling that AMZ is pretty tough to "game" by underperforming / "silent quitting" people (exceptions and all, ofc)
Yes, it’s still open.

10am to 9:30pm every day.

https://surl.amap.com/ooIMl6hgaqj
I am certain in the same way that I am certain there is not a teapot in the same orbit as earth but conveniently on the opposite side of the sun so that it may never be observed.

The hullabaloo about seed oils showed up roughly 5-6 years ago, has no scientific backing beyond the level that gets you flat earthers and climate change deniers, and is now being touted by people like you as something I must be so confident doesn’t exist that now I have to be the one supplying evidence for the claim.

Add in the normal seed oil enthusiast tropes like Big Pharma and now it’s a conspiracy theory based on nebulous and unproven or actors conspiring against everyone who knows the simple answer of just getting rid of seed oils.
I'm not a physicist (I'm a biologist), but I still find this email highly suspicious.

Basically, the message boils down to:

« Don’t criticize our field. We at academia need taxpayer’s money to do useless research. But keep this confidential ».

I can’t see how such a message could exist.
The content repeats what she has been saying almost point for point, is highly damaging to scientific research in general, yet the email's author (a researcher) would have asked Sabine (a YouTuber) to keep it confidential. This makes no sense. But it is very convenient as Sabine wouldn’t have to provide any evidence for the message’s legitimacy.

Despite the author sharing Sabine’s views, they would at the same time criticize her for having written an opinion paper about it (in Nature Physics). This also doesn’t make sense. If the goal of the email was to make Sabine aware of the damage she’s done to the field, why include content that is even more damaging? A legit email would have at best included phrases like « I know there are issues in our field, but... ».
Describe your own research as "crap" in an email you ask to keep confidential? Give me a break. I don't know any researcher thinking what they do is "crap". In research, you believe in what you do.
The email also says that the problem exists in "all other areas". Yeah sure. And how would the emailer know about "all other areas"? Incidentally, this is exactly the idea Sabine tries to convey.

Another inconsistency: the author says they're sorry for being harsh. Why apologize to Sabine for stating what she believes? For me, this is Sabine speaking to her audience right here.
You still need to write it to file to process it via pandoc/tesseract etc.

There are alternative options to tesseract ofc.
The article starts off by creating in-memory vector embeddings for a list of "documents" (aka chunks of text) using the nomic model:

https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v1

They then use cosine similarity to compare the user's query to retrieve a list of "top N" embeddings which point to the doc chunks, then shove those into the entire query which is sent off to the LLM. RAG is just a means of injecting "relevant" docs into your input context - no training or special LLMs are required.

To do what you're asking, you'd need to fetch a recent wikipedia dump, spend some time 'normalizing'/'sanitizing', and perhaps most importantly, figure out how to divide each article (some of which would well exceed the embedding size) into chunks that you could generate embeddings from. Then you'd need to store them into a vector database (unlike the article which does not persist them). I personally use Qdrant, there is also Postgresql(has a pgvector extension), lancedb, etc.
This story keeps rising from the dead as if it was a simplistic anti-technology action when in fact (as has already been mentioned in this thread) Sri Lanka's economy had collapsed to the point that it could not afford to pay for inputs to industrialised agriculture, including chemical fertilisers.

I'd addressed many of the usual specious claims made on this in a thread from 2022, here:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419111>

In particular, the situation was, as I'd put it there, "the driver was not 'let's de-grow the economy', but 'we can't afford what we had'".

(The larger context of that particular thread was degrowth, on which I'd addressed some other points separately here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419768>.)
Don't discount the energy and materials required to build that Dyson sphere
How artificial intelligence is changing baseball
https://archive.ph/RiBty
> but I'm often intrigued when people don't just apply the natural human instinct of talking about something and doing what needs to be done.

A few people might do that informally, sure, even as part of something bigger, but there’s no escaping the needs to 1) coordinate over shared resources and 2) organise around shared commitments. And where do those commitments come from? Implies some kind of strategising, and if that’s not a collective thing, then you’re relying on someone doing the telling. And of the options that are strategised, what’s acceptable and what’s outside our purpose, identity, etc?

There are theoretical limits on what formal organisational systems can achieve in terms of information flow (so managers shouldn’t over-depend on them), but nevertheless, the above activities are fundamental. Take any of them away and you no longer have a viable system, one capable of ensuring it’s ability to maintain itself, to act independently, and to increase possibility in a changing and perhaps hostile environment.

Disclosure: I have a book coming out on this stuff shortly, bringing some decades-old, well-tested, and well-regarded theory up to date. FWIW I also wrote one of the leading books on Kanban (2014), not that this changes any of the above, apart from that Kanban is among other things an effective coordination system (though incomplete in the above terms, but then so are all the others).