skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatedly, people who rely too much on GPS for navigation (i.e. online automated route planning), especially real-time, turn-by-turn instruction, seem to have poor spatial awareness, at least at the local geographic level. I doubt the loss of that skill is a meaningful impediment in modern life[1], but I personally would not want to lose it. Tools like Google Maps are extremely useful, but I use them to augment my own navigation and driving skills. I'll briefly study the route before departing, choose major thoroughfares to minimize complexity, and try to memorize the last few turns (signage and a practiced understanding of how highways and roads are laid out is sufficient for getting close enough).

[1] No impediment for them. It's an impediment for me when the car in front of me is clearly being driven by somebody blithely following the computer's instructions, with little if any anticipation of successive turns, and so driving slowly and even erratically.
Nonsense. There were decades of commercial transatlantic flights before the widespread adoption of GPS. No one painted giant arrows on the ocean. Airliners navigated using a mix of dead reckoning, ground signals, and sometimes even celestial observations.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/707-flight...

GPS (and other GNSS) make civil aviation slightly safer and more efficient but it's hardly necessary for routine flight operations.
I never found gmail particularly convenient. I still have a google account with an @gmail.com address, because Android basically doesn't work without that (you can make a personal @whatever else address, but that doesn't work with Android; you can also make a workspace @whatever else address, but that requires payment or time travel, and doesn't address the core issue).

The only inconvenient thing is people know how to spell gmail.com and have to be told how to spell my personal domain, but my preference is to use my personal domain anyway, I've been using my personal domain for email since before gmail launched; if I used gmail, I'd be forwarding my mail to it, rather than using my gmail address. Fastmail for mail just works, and I don't remember if I had to turn conversations off, but I only had to turn it off once (I detest the conversations feature, but if you like it, I can't tell you if Fastmail has a good one or not :P). Actually, the second inconvenient thing is the Android app doesn't really do offline content; I think gmail is better at that; I griped about this for a long time, but now I just accept it --- offline content is a good match for email, but it doesn't bother me enough to do anything about it.

I do use my gmail address for something things where I feel it's a good thing to "present as a normal person", or where my email domain might be embarrassing (I have some other email domains, but one of them is a .is, which is even worse for getting people to spell). I used to use my yahoo address for that, but I got tired of logging into yahoo just for that, and google has successfully tied me into their account system.

I do not use the Fastmail calendar. Android calendar is convenient, and tied to google calendaring.
> the walking direction matching the driving direction is.

Not really though since that's also dictation and not something that naturally occurs. In fact you usually have to teach children to walk with vehicle traffic, because the natural inclination is to walk against it so that you can see the cars coming and move out of the way vs walking with traffic and hoping they maintain correct distance from you.
Butterfly – The Music of Butterfly [Vincent Gallo and Harper Simon]
It'll be wild to see how Congress responds.
Yes, you can use your imagination to do whatever you want in the game, that's the point. It's like a sandbox. It will generate new characters and adapt to you. Yet, if you want to win it, you have to try to achieve its goal.
Walt is the named inventor on the patent[0]. I verified this by asking ChatGPT to do some research[1].

[0] https://patentyogi.com/celebrity-patents/celebrity-patent-wa...

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67cf2195-10dc-8011-bc6b-2ee90bdb0a...
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Sorry, did you not notice the advertisement for "AI Startup School" at the bottom of Hacker News ? Ixnay on the egativity-nay, my friend !
Some time when I have some spare time I must fish out a Pi and try it out - I was deeply envious of the Archimedes owner I knew back in the day!
In the same comment, you acknowledge why it can't run circles around the 25 year old half ton. The fucking hitch can break off while towing in a way that wouldn't happen on any other production truck. It is a bad truck.
An MMO played via API calls
It's becomming slower and slower over time. Feeds often don't load properly. Refresh only works properly manually since the feed often disconnects. Dragscroll (or whoever it is called when you press a button and you can scroll by dragging the mouse up/down) is broken and results in 100% cpu load and a stalled site until you cancel it. But these are just my annoyances, maybe it's just me. I'm switching it out for alternatives as much as possible anyway.

And as a bonus there is rampant racism and hate.
> Do calculators rot the brain?

I don't know if I'd agree with the phrasing that it rots the brain, but broadly I would expect that if you rely on it for arithmetic your mental arithmetic will atrophy over time.

Unfortunately though it may not be such an exaggeration after all. It's probably too early to say, but there is definitely mounting evidence that some of these useful tools are literally, genuinely rotting our brains.

https://www.fatherly.com/news/gps-google-maps-cognitive-decl...

Even if we just take this at face value and assume it's accurate though, it's still not immediately clear what to actually do with this knowledge.
And that looks like it applies here as well. Today's announcement was a joint announcement between the provincial and federal government.
It has great support for blocking yes. In fact, there are curated and/or crowdsourced block lists that one can subscribe to so you don’t have to spend as much time doing it yourself. I am sure there’s one that’s suitable for your needs but I don’t have any to recommend
The number of times I've had to help a colleague troubleshoot some VSCode thing seems to bear this out. I'm regarded as a 'wizard' because I actually know how to use git/build tools without a gui. It's kind of shocking to me how many developers' knowledge ends at the run button.

It doesn't bother me too much, because I like being needed, lol. But it would probably make our team more productive if people bothered to learn how our tooling works.
What is the biggest Kafka disaster you have faced in production?
I think "carrying something heavy without slavery being involved" is a new capability compared to "enslaving people and making them carry something heavy".
XLSX files are zipped XML.

Unzip them, strip the formulae out of the XML, and diff them?
This feels like the point in an old Star Trek episode where Picard or Uhura would say, "No, empathy is what makes us strong".

(Not Troi, whose "empathy" was more like weak telepathy. They never did figure out what they were going to do with her character.)
Seems like Visual Studio rots the mind so bad nowadays that people would rather clamor support for useless garbage like LSP in their editors, and if it can't be supported very well it's foremost the editor's fault, not the fault of the crap they want to tack on to an otherwise fine product. People have been doing this with Emacs, saying Emacs is slow because its LSP implementations are slow and unresponsive, not that LSP is badly designed, or that an editor shouldn't need an asynchronous network protocol to provide IDE features. It also demonstrates the mentality that people find it increasingly preferable to have their computing served to them on a silver platter by a third party than being able to control it locally.
I would encourage you to take a breath and observe the world around you every once in a while.
quality is relevant
"The Linux desktop" can be what you want it to be jsut as much now as it was when Linux was just becoming a thing. In my case that means:

- Debian because it works and remains stable between updates
- X11 because it works and is widely supported
- Xmonad because it gets out of my way while allowing me to tailor it to my needs
- Pipewire for audio
- Parts of Mate (i.e. Gnome 2 under a different name) to remain compatible with software made for 'modern' systems
- servers use Proxmox-managed containers running Debian

You can do the same, all it takes is for you to create a base configuration - a set of packages to install and the configuration to apply to those packages - and use that whenever you install a new system.
> The types of elite universities currently subject to the endowment tax — private colleges with at least $500,000 per student — are under particular scrutiny. Universities say the endowments help fund scholarships, and higher taxes will come at the expense of the neediest students.

If you want your trust/savings to be sustained indefinitely, the rule of thumb is to pay no more than 4% a year. So $500k per student only realistically means $20k per student per year.
I don't know — depending on if it gets bad enough, last time we got a New Deal out of it.
My skepticism flares up with sentences like "Theres no way it will "fall short"." Especially in the face of so many first hand examples of LLMs being wrong, getting stuck, or falling short.
Ruble exchange rate is propaganda. It was not possible to freely convert it for a long time. And black market rate was always very different from the official one.
Thanks! This is more of an engine to optimize an *LLM to use* an interface over a dataset. End-to-end reinforcement learning of entire agent pipelines will be an important way to increase their reliability.

I haven't tried to switch the dataset, but I am fairly certain the LLM is training meta-skills. It seems that the majority of what the model learns is to behave in a more reasonable way, and to stop hallucinating + improperly using tools. Not to memorize the data in the body of knowledge.

During the first hour of training, llama learns most of the low hanging fruit (stop messing up function calls and stop hallucinating). So after that, learning slows down.
Bothers me generally that journalists anthropomorphize companies ("company X worried by...", "will regret..."). Companies are totally emotionless entities only living to maximize profit.
Yea, we wont hold our breath.
Socrates just argued about semantics. If you take anything away from those dialogues it should be that they were confused and didn't really have many good ideas.
> at peak times, they can't keep track of it

They usually have FIFO system anyway, so even if everyone was ordering the same thing, it wouldn't matter. I suppose a situation where you have multiple baristas and some work faster than others or some people have simpler orders might force customers to keep track though.
The Tesla protests are getting bigger – and rowdier
I feel like with tools like cursor, while you may be able to cobble together a todo app or something else simple without any programming knowledge, for anything bigger you will still need to know how the underlying thing works.

With everyone now using LLM's, the question goes form "who can code the best" to "who can prompt the best" but that still comes down to who knows more about the underlying code.
That's not really a substantive analysis of the issue, which I agree with the OP that these articles never really address fully.
All wars are unjustifiable in the modern era. What I said is simply a description of what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
I can't speak for the original GLQuake on 3dfx hardware, but on OpenGL-compatible Quake engines (which include modern Quake source ports such as Quakespasm, Ironwail, and vkQuake), bilinear texture filtering is an option that can be turned off.

I play on vkQuake with nearest-neighbor texture filtering, square particles, and the "classic" water warping effect and lighting effects, alongside 8x MSAA, 16x anisotropic filtering, high-resolution widescreen, etc. This keeps the art style consistent with the look of the original Quake, while still allowing for the benefits of hardware 3D acceleration.
After the election I know Canadian and colleagues from other countries thought of moving to US for an easier time building a business. Curious if anyone from the founder / small business crowd has had this feeling and either is still interested/happy with such a move? Or regretting it?

IIRC Culturally it was said by many that the US is much better that EU / Canada for building a business as US rewards ambition. While other countries it’s seen as not as positive of an attribute. Other countries did not let you easily build wealth or grow a business, while it was said US is culturally more welcoming to building wealth.

I’m curious how this will change in this administration.
You know how in every zombie movie there's a bit where our intrepid protagonists must blend in to avoid capture. I think this is that sort of thing.
> Have you even looked at their GitHub?

Lol, considering most big projects are not on github, you're just showing your own lack of clue.
Not true and you know it
One of the definite positives of AI is that kind of stuff is now fairly easy to solve.

It surfaces a lot of the ways people found to fix those problems in forums/git issues/random blogs that were hard to track down past google spam.

And it tends to list the possible fixes in a nice little bullet point list of things to try to get everything working.
strictly speaking you could use the must pattern and wrap err in there to avoid the constant if err != nil

Albeit it transfers repetition from one place to another.
No, it was much better. Growth was solid for the entire tenure. Unemployment reached 50 year lows and prime age employment hit 25 year highs.
Same for me. Beyond the broadcasts, I'd write the stations and they'd reply by sending program guides, newspaper clippings, postcards, and other neat things from faraway places.

Some of the stations even offered language lessons over the air. I learned basic German when I was 12 from the ones on Deutsche Welle. I attempted to learn Chinese the following year from the big shortwave station in Taiwan.
It depends on the grocers contracts. Trader joes is famously selling eggs at $3.50 a dozen since they negotiated a good price a while ago.
Yes, I remember toward the end it seemed like they were just releasing souped up versions of last year's product. I don't know if it was a resources issue or they just didn't expect the market to advance so fast.
Thats Soviet Red white and blyat.
What is it that you strongly disagree with? That it's silly? I never said it was wrong or harmful, once you know what the rule is I agree that it makes access control obvious - it's just a bit atypical for the capitalization of symbol names to be syntactically significant, no?

I'm not aware of any other language that does this. It's common for other languages to use underscores to indicate that something should be private, but I can't think of another example that uses either capitalization for access control or that embeds syntactic meaning in variable names. To me that makes Go unusual, and for a language that cares greatly about being accessible, unusual choices like this seem silly - not bad or foolish, necessarily - just silly.

I think most people have to be told about the capitalization rule (by the compiler, docs, etc.) because the rule itself isn't that obvious to someone coming from another language, that was my experience at least, and in that sense it feels a bit like a secret handshake to me.
It's simple incompetence. The whole lot are economically illiterate. Musk is out there talking about the US going bankrupt. Trump is saying other countries will pay for the tariffs. It's mind numbing.

This is why you can't have business people running a country. A country is not like a business or a household.
This is all BS tbh. People don’t know how to use the current gen AI take to do very useful reasoning.

I keep posting our work as an example and NO ONE here (Old HN is dead) has managed to point out any reasoning issues (we redacted the in-between thinking most recently like the thinking traces that people were treating as the final answer)

I dare you to tell me this is not useful when we are signing up customers daily for trial:

Https://labs.sunami.ai/feed
We’ve been waiting for Congress to respond for weeks. I wouldn’t hold your breath.
People are just click farming with these posts. The technology is ~4 years old. We are in the infancy of this, with hundreds of billions of capital behind making these systems work. Its one of the biggest innovations of the last 100 years.

I propose an internet ban for anyone calling the generative ai top, and a public tar and feathering
> At first glance, it seems like _porting_ code to another language / api .. is probably a good sweet spot for these code LLMs ..

I recently ported skatevideosite.com from svelte/python to ruby on rails. I leaned on AI heavily to translate the svelte files to ERB templates and it did a wonderful job.

My experiene generally with these systems is that they are good with handling things you _give_ it, but less so when coming up with stuff from scratch.

For example I've tried to use it to build out additional features and the results are subpar.

Agree, yeah "vibe coding" is super cringe haha
Not after Twitter started forcing you to see accounts you don't follow.
There's an old game in the investing world of trying to time the top of a stock bubble by picking out the most breathless headlines and magazine covers, looking for statements such as the famous 1929 quote from two weeks before the market crash: "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." By that metric, we may be getting close to the top of the AI hype bubble, with headlines such as the one I saw recently in the NY Times for an Ezra Klein column: "The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming".
I think at this point in the wave, the criticism starts to pop up here and there, but it's still decried. In 12-18 months, the momentum of the white hot VC injections over the last few years will sustain the wave for a time. By 27 or 28, the unicorn payoffs in the space will arise, and by 30 "everyone" will know that AI has been overhyped for a while.

This person is just trying to get ahead of the game!
How the Fed "Went Broke" (2023)
Trump says he wants to start Nord Stream pipeline which means Europe will buy less American natural gas and replace it with Russian natural gas.
Anyone who thinks the Hype has peaked is obviously too young to remember the dotcom bubble.

It will get so much worse before it starts to fade.

Infecting every commercial, movie plot, and article that you read.

I can still here the Yahoo yodel in my head from radio and TV commercials.
No disagreement from me there. But for the year to date the Nasdaq composite is down less than 4%, whereas NVIDIA is down 20%.
..you can do that?! I've been dreaming of the ability to block certain words and phrases from Twitter. Blue sky is too chaotic for me… I'm OK sticking with Twitter so long as I can block words and phrases.
This is true, but the Russians have demonstrated that combining this with jamming they can make this still possible (along with other tricks). Obviously there's going to be some back and forth movement via countermeasures and updates, but the west has only very recently woken up to these threats.
Tesla stock has been particularly hammered. Ontario apparently cancelled a Starlink contract and Italy is considering to do so as well. Musk’s political antics are affecting his businesses.
I'm still bummed that CPU manufacturers basically killed off the third party chipset industry. Maybe it was inevitable when memory controllers moved on-die, but I remember when there was actual competition in the chipset business.
> last administration wasn't much better..lol. Lots of layoffs and a general down turn of the economy

San Francisco tech saw layoffs. The rest of the economy saw job growth every single month [1] and real GDP growth every quarter except Q1 ‘22 [2]. To the extent there was a fly in the ointment it was a cost-of-living crisis, and Trump seems intent on driving that into overdrive with his tax increases. (Pronounced tariffs in MAGAland.)

[1] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=ne...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA
>they unequivocally make people worse at mental math. Now whether that's bad or not is debatable.

Not debatable because as long as calculators exist and are available, nothing is lost. You can put that mental energy towards whatever is relevant. There's nothing special about math that elevates doing it in your own mind more valuable than other tasks. Any of us that do software for a living understand that mental work is real work and you are limited in your capacity per day. If your boss wants to pay you to do longhand division instead of getting projects done, I'd call that man a liar.

The people that make these arguments that we "lose" something are usually academics or others that aren't actually in the trenches getting things done. They think we're getting weaker mentally or as a society. I'm physically tired at the end of the day, and I sit at a desk. I'll do math when the calculators are gone, I have a lot of tasks and responsibilities otherwise.
For those trying to remember, microsoft intellisense (autocompletion within the IDE) was a big subject of debate going back to ~1999 on whether it'll make programmers lazier or more productive.

Some of this stuff would be found in old slashdot discussions but it seems harder to find, im finding an old John Carmack interview as one mention: https://m.slashdot.org/story/7828

Here might be the original slashdot discussion of "Does visual studio rot the brain?" (2005) https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/10/26/1935250/does-visual...
You're not wrong. And yet he's polling well. And as long as people poll surface level questions like "do you like that he's cutting things?" he gets general support.

Drill into specific topics item by item and it's a bleaker picture however. But that's how these things always go, like the ACA for instance.
> Do calculators rot the brain?

According to my math teachers in high school - yes.
Should you brief the NOTAMs? Yes. Is it common to miss one? Also yes. Go look at the ATC YouTube channels and you will find lots of people being intercepted by fighter jets even though they use Foreflight.

Another problem is NOTAM spam; it seems like, in some areas, there are a bunch of NOTAMs that aren't very important but that you still have to read through to see if they're relevant. "We're testing GPS jamming" or "we will send a fighter jet if you fly into this rectangle" look a lot like the more common "taxiway T at Middle Of Nowhere Municipal Airport is out of service until 1/1/2038".
Wow. They really did a number. Really destroyed everything. It took X like 30 minutes! to restore function.
How about we re-frame it as would you rather have one person or a group of people to destroy a city or the entire planet and intelligent life on it? Would you rather be able to enslave a particular region or the entire world ?

You see, we are trading improvements in some aspects to that of another.

The thing is you cannot separate the benefits these technological advancements bring with the problems they create. The rate of technological change is much more rapid than our ability as a society to adapt to it. This is one of the source of friction as the negative effect become real only later.

There is no physical law that says technology has to improve - it is our quest, or drive to seek it, we choose it, every time. And I say this as someone who is part of this.