skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's two engineering aphorisms that apply here:

1. Good, fast and cheap: pick any two.

2. If you want it real bad, you're going to get it, real bad.

I suppose "Experience is was you get right after you need it" might also apply later.
In principle, I agree. However, I haven't had a tasty apple in ages - they're all way too sweet for my taste.

I've been thinking about how modern fruit optimize for (among numerous other things) sweetness, and whether modern fruit are actually healthy in terms of glycemic index / glycemic load / etc.
El Bulli was considered the best restaurant in the world until it voluntarily closed and it is right on the Mediterranean with a dock. The web site even had directions to reach it by boat.
This is one thing that I've grown to appreciate about macOS screen-top menu bars. Even though I dislike them conceptually on the basis that there shouldn't be a disconnect between the menu and the thing that it operates on, the fact that every app is forced to have a menu bar means that UX designers have to, at least, spend some time thinking on what to put in there, so that it doesn't look silly completely empty except for the system menu.
Great concept. I was on mobile and agree the custom keyboard is far from ideal. As others have said I also found it to be overly US-centric. Keen to see how this develops, feels like a winning idea!
if shipbuilders were not insulated from competition, they would have offshored their manufacturing long time ago and sold out to Hyundai or some other foreign conglomerate. (just like the rest of manufacturing left USA in 80s-90s)

Jones Act is the reason US has at least some form of domestic shipbuilding
Whoa there, hold yer horses ;) Let's wait and see until we have something like an answer to "will it be intelligent?" Then we might be ready to start trying to answer "will it be useful?"

I agree completely though, it's nice to see a glimmer of sanity.

EDIT: My best hope is this bubble bursts catastrophically, and puts the dotcom crash to shame. Then we might get some sensible regulation over the absolute deluge of fraudulent, George Jetson spacecamp bull shit these clowndick companies spew on a daily basis.
A CSV of this data is free to download per the pricing page, whereas the raw data (not sure what that looks like versus the CSV) requires a paid account.

So I guess it depends if you consider the CSV as fundamentally different from the raw data in a way that makes this clickbait.
I imagine an amateur who wants the problem to go away as quickly as possible and with minimum fuss, to the point of overcompensating from anxiety.
My company (left unnamed to protect the guilty) starts our week on Thursday. Or sometimes Wednesday. But definitely not on Tuesday! Except a couple of places where it's Tuesday.

It's juuuust close enough to ISO8601 where with a bit of forethought everything could have been easy.
Huh?

Why would the demand curve for lighting not be “funky”?

If someone offered to pay for all of your home lighting, no matter how much power your lighting took, how much lighting would you get? Presumably a bounded amount! But in this case, the price you are paying for power for lighting is zero. So, reducing the energy use per amount of lighting would presumably not increase the amount of lighting you use beyond this limit, and therefore would decrease the energy you use for lighting.

Where’s the hole in this argument?
Reasoning models pretty reliably seem to do worse at exacting output formats/structured outputs—so far with Aider it has been an effective strategy to employ o1 to “think” about the issue at hand, and have Sonnet implement. Interested to try various approaches with 3.7 in various combinations of reasoning effort.
Devs, for the most part, are just trying to ape the "good" design that they see in popular apps. The source of it is still UX designers, though.
This was in Bangkok, Thailand, although the school itself was run by Indians. They had IT courses for both kids and adults.

Fortunately I think these days there are a lot more options for kids to learn programming, but back then the options were pretty limited.
Google may be limiting some Pixel demo units to upsell the Pro models
This is a strange argument to me, because the single most critical aspect of a bubble sort is the locality.

Bubble sort only ever compares adjacent elements. It only ever swaps adjacent elements. This is what makes bubble sort optimal (within constant factors) for an external sort on a tape drive. This is why anything else isn't a bubble sort.
I mean, the Jevons paradox is that increased efficiency can lead to increased use? No?

So, the idea would be that being able to more efficiently use electricity for running lights might still see us use more electricity for lights as we use them in more and more places. And, at a personal level, that kind of tracks. We don't hesitate to put lights in places that we used to accept as dark.

You certainly see this with televisions. The dramatic increase in efficiency afforded by new television technologies has seen us both start having screens everywhere, and in larger televisions.
The Polish spin on this were unsecured office landlines that used radio for some reason, I don't remember if that was for cordless handsets or just an access technology.

People would walk around big cities, usually on Friday evenings, radio scanner out, trying to find one of these. They would then dial a premium-rate number, preferably on more than one line. In most cases nobody would realize that something was up until Monday morning, and if they had a way to disconnect the calls before then, not until the bill came.

You could do similar shenanigans with unsecured PBXs or insecure answering machines that had a "call my mobile if somebody leaves a message" feature.
The steak is sliced very thin and cooked (often with cheese incorporated), so think of it as more of a beef sandwich than a steak on bread.
The launch video is absolutely disgusting

edit: it looks like they’ve now removed it, and yc removed their launch tweet
Don't you have better things to do than pretend to be a 12 year old on the internet?
> Few of Twitter's most vocal posters spend time reading contemporary poetry collections, attending readings, or tracing the evolution of forms.

I recently got hooked into contemporary (i.e. modern) poetry. I fully understand why modern poetry seems hard to understand.

I believe most people innately love simple and deep modern poems.
If you like poetry related to nature (sorry major typo!), check out Ada Limon (1)
If you like poetry related to medicine and life, check out ACP poetry prize (2)

1. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ada-limon

2. https://www.acpjournals.org/journal/aim/poetry-prize
From Feedback to Features AI Agent That Guides You to Build What Customers Want
Hi guys we are a startup that already has some customers would appreciate some feedback on the messaging, if you are also interested we are giving away 10 1 year subscriptions to other startups.
The core point is halfway down: only bad poems go viral on Twitter, because Twitter's design means the most "successful" posts are those that encourage flamewars. Twitter is to social media as League of Legends is to videogames.
> For someone who has strong opinions about rice cookers, bookmarklets, and toilet flushing mechanisms, we're surprised you haven't started a 'Unnecessarily Detailed Reviews of Mundane Objects' newsletter yet.

That's not a terrible idea.
> (double whammy; country _and_ region)

This is actually good. Its a very basic rule of thumb for selecting wine: the more regionally specific they get on the label, the more likely the wine is good.

For example, if you see "California" or "Chile" on a <$10 bottle, expect mediocrity. But if it says "Napa Valley", it'll be a little better, and if it also mentions a location or vineyard, it'll be a lot better.

My pet theory is that this is because the more specific the label gets, the more direct the reputation hit for a bad product.

For France and Italy, wine regions and sub-regions often have protective status. This makes a wine more expensive vs. a non-protected wine of comparative quality, but the upshot is that if you see a wine under a protective label, you can be sure of a certain baseline of quality.
I see this kind of take every time someone exposes incompetence. I get it - you'd rather hire a marketing person to use buzzwords than someone like OP. That's your prerogative.
There is an amazing kebab across the street from the Bordeaux train station. Your entire study is debunked!!
The article has forgotten how it feels to be young and impressionable, has forgotten the face of its father:

> What's lost in this shift from private contemplation to public performance is the slow work of developing aesthetic judgment.

This pairing of poem and criticism is an important step towards aesthetic judgement. It raises difficult questions. They think it's stupid. Do I? Do I because they told me not to like it? How does it make me feel?
Always has been. In the USA, we have an archetype for it: midlife crisis.
One of the most brilliant pieces of production design (in my opinion) is the choice to make paper octagonal via trimmed corners in the BSG universe. Such a wonderful way of communicating that the world is other, or ours but through some strange looking glass, or to borrow from Gibson, a mirror world, where things are just so barely surreal in their subtle differences. Those paper corners suggest some contingent, divergent history in the development of printing technology that implies some larger world of divergences. The impression of depth! Always loved that.
For what it's worth, I do hate people pasting their AI summaries to the comments. Not only are they adding nothing, they are actively detracting from the conversation; they have just pasted a wall of text without fact-checking it.
And in fact, this "summary" misrepresents the article; it completely ignores the humor and presents it as a serious scientific endeavour.

But judging from the rest of the comments, it seems like most people barely managed to finish reading the title, so perhaps there's no need to worry about them reading this AI slop...
US asked to kick UK out of Five Eyes
or you can learn to project your consciousness out of your body during sleep paralysis and experience out of body sensations.
I think they were referring to actual throwaway email providers. Companies that specifically provide that as a service.
> Giving any form of access to some remote code into internal network of a company? Opsec guys would never ack that

Solarwinds.

Local agent machines for cloud CI/CD pipelines.

Devs using npm and pypi and such.

To be a bit reductive, `apt-get update` or equivalent.
I was hoping for a systematic and consistent reviews of many dozens of kebab shops in a certain metropolitan area.

Just basing any kind of research of reviews on the web is fundamentally flawed as only a tiny fraction of customers would ever review a restaurant - and usually reviews are overly biased negative from bad experiences, or biased positive by people being incentivised to leave good reviews by discounts or outright fake reviews, or some kind of average of the two. As such the actual results from these reviews are pretty meaningless, apart from the number of reviews which might correlate roughly with how likely a place is to be visited, good or bad. In this case, I think that will also probably correlate with proximity to stations, rather than the quality.
I see you already mentioned therapy, so I'll only lightly touch on that: A large chunk of confidence comes from the subconscious knowledge that you aren't at risk of being exiled from a tribe of fellow apes. The confidence of security, rather than the confidence of ability.

With respect to uneasy social situations, sometimes I take refuge in a kind of "at least I have the virtue of honesty" approach, which starts with a willingness to say "I don't understand." Granted, that does depends on knowing I won't ever say "I don't understand, why are you sad your dog died?"

> "Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I’m sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that’s hard."

-- A woman recovering from a bad marriage in A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
Breaking the rules so bad that the ability to even interact with the thing the rule was made for was taken away?
Eh, I mean you can pick and choose what you call an AI bubble, but the CV one in the early 2010s (remember when self-driving cars were going to be a thing any day now?) and the speech recognition one in the 90s, where MS was claiming that within years people would primarily interact with their computer by talking to it, were attainable with consumer hardware. They were just a bit shit.

Not that either were completely useless (and nor were, say, expert systems before them), but they ended up squarely in the “yeah, that’s an occasionally useful feature” space, rather than being transformative.
How is the Jones Act responsible for the failure of domestic ship building? Seems like the Jones Act didn't go far enough if we really cared about a strong domestic ship building industry.
Conway's law goes something like that -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Let me be clear - I don't necessarily agree with the opinion that it's a personal attack, however dang states that it is [1], so I'm trying my best to make sure those who make good-faith comments don't get unnecessarily banned.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42979559
Definitely. I recently taught a class with a practical computer component and many undergraduates seemed to have a hard time understanding where their files were saved -- even at a GUI level, not talking about the command line. But it makes sense if their primary tech experience was with phones and tablets. The idea of a file system may never have occurred to them (even if most phones and tablets really run a UNIX-derived OS behind the scenes).
Writers for TV know this very well. Notice how it's a trope in many sitcoms and dramas for two women to visit the restaurant ladies room at the same time when one of the men they're with makes a faux pas.
My SO is basically like "fruits _are_ filled with sugar" and they're not wrong. It feels pretty hard to make strong qualitative judgements on this stuff. Feels better than a snickers bar, surely?

The only real thing that feels kind of easy to say is that any sweet drink is probably worse for you than just drinking water. Easiest diet in the world is to just never buy soft drinks, and the extra trick is to also not replace it with orange or apple juice.
Working really well for me. Thanks for Aider!
Mergesort is best because it is the most elegant and beautiful sorting algorithm. Just merge lists so that they stay sorted.

Quicksort has all sorts of nonsense bouncing around and picking pivots. Eww. Terrible.

I will admit that I could have been more clear that I was evaluating algorithms based on beauty, but given that info I’m sure the conclusion is obvious.
Meta Horizon Worlds launched in 2021, so I guess it doesn't count. (Meta continues to invest in it.)

VIVERSE (from HTC) was announced in March 2022. It's still around. It's something you can do with your HTC VIVE headset. It's kinda like HTC's competitor to Meta Horizon Worlds. HTC continues to invest in it. For example, in August of 2024, they announced "VIVERSE Create v1.0" a no-code tool to create interactive multiplayer worlds (for VIVERSE).
I just learned how quickly things are changing. 2 years ago I tried to code a game on ChatGPT and it was mostly a waste of my time. This weekend I programed(?) a game with Claude and did it in 2-3 hours. It was mostly bug-free, commented, beautifully formatted and finished. I'm sure that it would have taken me at least a week to program, if I did the coding. Claude might have done it faster but I couldn't think of what to program and the proper prompt. I was the bottleneck. It was simple but it worked.

At least 70%, of what I program and debug are relatively small functions. Which claude seems to able to program without a problem. AI programmers are here. Be ready.
I'm not sure there's a lot of interest in the US for fancy dining in transportation hubs. In fact, airports have generally moved away from fancier dining generally towards fast casual. There is some decent food in the new Moynihan train hall in Penn but certainly no fancy dining.

Not sure I disagree as a traveler.
I'd say the more important consideration is "consistency" between incoming query input and stored vectors.

I have a huge vector database that gets updated/regenerated from a personal knowledge store (markdown library). Since the user is most likely to input a comparison query in the form of a question "Where does X factor into the Y system?" - I use a small 7b parameter LLM to pregenerate a list of a dozen possible theoretical questions a user might pose to a given embedding chunk. These are saved as 1536 dimension sized embeddings into the vector database (Qdrant) and linked to the chunks.

The real question you need to ask is - what's the input query that you'll be comparing to the embeddings? If it's incoming as structured, then store structured, etc.

I've also seen (anecdotally) similarity degradation for smaller chunks as well - so keep that in mind as well.
>The second incorrect method to save a matrix of embeddings to disk is to save it as a Python pickle object [...] But it comes with two major caveats: pickled files are a massive security risk as they can execute arbitrary code, and the pickled file may not be guaranteed to be able to be opened on other machines or Python versions. It’s 2025, just stop pickling if you can.

Security: absolutely.

Portability: who cares? Frameworks move so quickly that unless you carry your whole dependency graph between machines you will not get bit compatible results with even minor version changes. It's a dirty secret that no one seems to want to fix or care about.

In short: everything is so fucked that pickle + conda is more than good enough for whatever project you want to serve to >10,000 users.
This part from the House Speaker was pretty scary:

> Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies. He’s created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. And as he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie. We’re going to be able to get the information.

Who knows what those algo's are sweeping up. One thing I do know, is that the House Speaker has no idea.
I get what you are aiming at, but strictly, both have a linear relationship here?

More, you can only cut out so much of the time, and since you can run modern lights for the full day before you burn the energy you would save by turning off the lights an hour early, it is kind of silly at a personal level to think that will work out. (City level and larger, sure?)

Pulling it back to this article, the assertion is that getting more efficient with energy use for lights would just be offset by us using more lights. Which, I think it is fair to say that we do. Considerably more lights, in many instances. It doesn't completely negate the energy savings, but largely because of how big that energy savings was.
Plus, y'know, leaching plastic into your food is generally ill-advised.

It won't matter much if you don't eat out all the time / don't do sous-vide at home, but otherwise, yeah.. best avoided.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3222987/

> Results: Almost all commercially available plastic products we sampled—independent of the type of resin, product, or retail source—leached chemicals having reliably detectable EA, including those advertised as BPA free. In some cases, BPA-free products released chemicals having more EA than did BPA-containing products.
While I'm sorry to hear about the setbacks, it sounds like you've really overcome them. Congratulations on the momentum!

I've found journaling and introspection to be helpful for building confidence. Sharing some questions below intended for you to journal through:

> But I question myself, who cares what people think? But subconsciously I clearly care very deeply what EVERYONE thinks and it’s exhausting.

I think you've hit it on the nose here!

Have you focused on this point in therapy?

What role do you think family and cultural background might play?

(Aside: I grew up in a collectivist culture and my family is quite traditional—people pleasing is the norm!)

What would it take for you to like yourself even if other people don't like you?

> I’m dumb as bricks in other areas - social situations with more than 1 person are extremely hard to navigate, I constantly have relationship issues with everyone, I find the workplace and jobs impossible to perform in even though I have innate ability in what I do.

In her book Scout Mindset, Julia Galef suggests there are two types of confidence:

1. Epistemic confidence—certainty in something, like a weather prediction

2. Social confidence—comfort with other people, and self assurance. It sounds like you might consider focusing on building social confidence.

What is your inner dialogue like? How do you talk to yourself generally? (Are you hard on yourself? Were your parents hard on you?)

Did you grow up learning that you could only feel confident after you've "earned it" or had a good reason to? (Kunal Gupta wrote a good post on this here: https://www.howto.live/post/confidence)

> When I say confidence I mean quiet confidence, confidence in my own actions and abilities and lot in life x social interactions.

I feel certain that just by defining confidence for yourself so clearly, you're going to get there sooner or later!
>In a letter to the recently appointed US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, senator Ron Wyden of Colorada and representative Andy Biggs of Arizona bluntly ask the administration to kick the UK out of the 65-year-old UK-USA signals intelligence sharing agreement, commonly known as Five Eyes, if they do not now withdraw the demand to Apple.

I want to know where the fuck Colarada is.

Also, Wyden represents Oregon.
some of us cant consume too much in the way of fruit.. FODMAP issues really limit your snacking and healthy snacking even more :-(
And ndriscoll is also unfairly generalizing. Which usually happens when you generalize because it's impossible to take all eventualities into account.

For example, I've worked on add-ons to other software. But it's cloud and you gotta make certain calls back to your "host" app. Said host app responds to most calls in more than the 150ms they claim is the max. Because of what guarantees our plugin makes to the user and despite us caching whatever we can we need to make multiple such calls to make our guarantees... well guarantees.

So what can we do? Of course we show spinners while we make those necessary calls and make absolutely everything we can get away with async.

But we can't get away from things potentially taking more than a second when something isn't in cache, the host app is slower than usual and under 150ms is impossible for anything that doesn't just hit our own database.
A Kind of Library
Louis Rossmann, we speak your name!
This is an awesome tool. I noticed a really fun bug here where if you start a new faster sort before a slower sort finishes the slower sort keeps going and you end up with a the two sorts running at the same time, I think against different sets of values. Don't know if I'd bother fixing it because the output is neat