skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am an interaction designer who cares deeply about this topic, but want to push on the boundary of the discourse rather than falling into easy clichés. The thoughts below are not meant in the spirit of being a takedown, but rather attempts at drawing a map to help answer the question "how can we go beyond?"

These kind of rants on interaction design come up very regularly; you can find some going back half a century ago (eg see the whole field of "tangible interfaces"). Or, another somewhat more recent classic (2011): https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDes...

These visions are all rooted in a stereotypification and glorification of pre-computer work - keyboards, mice, and touchscreens are clunky, limited, unexpressive; while dirty paintbrushes, chunky buttons and levers, etc. take advantage of the whole human body and turn work into a transcendental kinetic experience.

Yet the demos that come out of these visions of interaction design somehow always to fall along the same lines. If digital, they usually involve infinite canvas, boxes and arrows, etc. If physical, they're about shuffling board game like cards and tokens that quickly get unwieldy. All the while they fail to capture what makes digital interfaces (which are at their core non spatial/non embodied) so powerful and why they have been so successful in most every discipline.

The illustrations in the article are unwittingly a great example of the foundational contradiction within the premise: did the author decide to spend hundreds and hundreds of hours hunched over with felt and knitting needles to produce the dozens of embedded images, or did they generate them all with AI in a few hours? If the tactility and creativity that comes with real world materials is so desirable, then why did they make that choice? The answer, I think, is quite obvious - because while messing with felt and needles is a fun way to relax, it's not something you want to spend hundreds and hundreds of hours doing when you have deadlines to worry about.
I think(?) the idea is that you would charge the battery at night when energy costs are lower, then discharge during the day when costs are higher. In that case, the brains are providing value that a dumb UPS can't.

If I'm right, the copy on the website seems to assume the reader already knows about the whole "charge at night, discharge during the day" thing. Could use some reframing if the target demo is "the 99.7%"
Im genuinely curious, with all these bashing going around. How is it the fault of ads vendors when website/webapp publishers are the ones that put ads on them?

Like one day Wikipedia inserts ads on their pages to keep the lights on. We bash Google for blocking uBlock?

I feel like I'm missing out on something. Please help me understand.
Going into parenthood I never thought I'd say it about a kids show but Bluey has damn near made me cry and Bandit makes me strive to be a better dad
Safety is #1. That said, there are millions of EVs on the road today & I feel like they are pretty safe.
The section on performance management is circular and vague: a good one is motivating and a bad one is demotivating. OK. Glad we got that out of the way.

The whole intro reads like a puffy resume and lots of gilding. Even a section of gushing testimonials.

And he puts his name on the title so you don't gotta read the author byline. Total cheese.
I've been lightly following this type of research for a few years. I immediately recognized the broad idea as stemming from the lab of the ridiculously prolific Stefano Ermon. He's always taken a unique angle for generative models since the before times of GenAI. I was fortunate to get lunch with him in grad school after a talk he gave. Seeing the work from his lab in these modern days is compelling, I always figured his style of research would break out into the mainstream eventually. I'm hopeful the the future of ML improvements come from clever test-time algorithms like this article shows. I'm looking forward to when you can train a high quality generative model without needing a super cluster or webscale data.
Something that worries me a little is how comma would handle anomalies. Telsa has such scale that they're likely to encounter more anomalies and their software will learn from them. I'm particularly concerned about the sudden kind of anomalies (e.g. animal jumping in front of vehicle, or a getaway car coming from an illegal ergo uncommon direction); one that comma may be unable to handle, but a human would have very little time to take over from.
The ITC (Investment Tax Credit) doesn’t go to the company it goes to you as the consumer.
TL;DR: I love Substack, but a friend of mine is skeptical. He ranted about subscription fatigue and sustainability concerns for writers outside the top one percent. I reached out to Claude and tried to steelman his argument. While I still disagree, I do believe the "winner-takes-all" dynamic is the most significant challenge for writers, and it could sink Substack.
I don't like tone policing in general, but be nice to dang. He has earned that courtesy, at least.
Define large projects. While you can use the cli Google has ui only workflows. I'm fairly certain Google probably has the largest project out there.
I kind of want to have an LLM which takes absolutely any criticism of AI or news of it doing something bad and then generates a plausible HN comment that basically goes "I don't think it's a new problem, X has always been possible, there's nothing really new"... because that comment always appears like clockwork beneath it :)
Other than cuts every 2-3 seconds to keep engaged in Cocomelon, also notice that CAMERA NEVER STOPS, ever. Every scene you see it's moving. It could be a slight movement or exaggerated one, but it's never stationary.
Crazy how slow medicine progresses compared to technology.
Oh man, you gave me goosebumps just thinking about that episode. That is one of the best episodes [1] of any sci-fi, ever, IMO. That episode changed my entire life perspective.

Looking at the writer's Wiki [2], he was also behind some amazing DS9 episodes like House of Quark and Rules of engagement. Gah, what happened to sci-fi? Turns out he was even the head guy on For All Mankind. Nobel Prize effect, studio pressure, what is it?

[1] - https://ww1.goojara.to/eGJakb

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_D._Moore
This product is capable of bidirectional power.
I don't think there's a right answer here, but there's definitely a point where your code contributions are much lower leverage than for example trying to recruit the next set of critical engineers, working on the technical roadmap to keep ahead of the competition, or making sure the engineering org is aligned with the rest of the company.

Any lines of code the VP/CTO could write, could likely be written by someone else on their team (and their team's quality could be even better) - but all the other items I listed is likely only something the VP/CTO could do the best at in the company. It's quite a rational decision to largely give up hands-on technical work for what's more important for your team and company.
Wow, I was surprised by this claim too, and found the specs for my fridge[0]. 755 kWh/yr, which works out to just over 2 kWh/day. Damn, that's a lot!

[0] https://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/refrigerators/4-d... (my fridge is probably around 15 years old, so it might even be less efficient if this one is a newer model)
nah its true, this is one of the few places left on the web thats friendly and thoughtful (most of the time at least). That is directly related to your work keeping things civil. thank you
It is kinda cool looking. But if people can see it in your chest you are doing it wrong.
I mean, you are already getting the result for free, so why do you need an LLM for it?

In any case, you can probably do this with a fairly simple prompt with any LLM.
HN has been a daily read for last 15 years. Appreciate the information flow.

Incidentally, after years of lurking, applied to the latest YC batch. Didn't make it, but will try again once further along, or with a new idea.
Anyone willing to give an intuitive summary of what they did mathwise? The math in the paper is super ugly to churn through.
Elon Musk, for example, appears to be wholly self taught as a coder. Do you want Elon doing your code reviews?
I lived in Russia, it is different. And it gets worse and worse until it eventually turns war.
I think people who think so didn’t experience Russia themselves.
Source? This seems hard to believe and google isn't pulling anything like it up.
How does this compare with Axiom? I'm looking to shift out of Datadog asap and Axiom was the choice. Would consider Sift
One person was consuming them every hour and started to have difficulty breathing.

That's a Darwin Award candidate.
I cannot recommend Bluey enough. It’s made me, a 40 year old father of one, ugly cry. And I’m not one to cry from watching a show.

If you hate Cocomelon like me, you’ll love Bluey. It’s like the polar opposite of it.
Thanks so much for taking the time to write such an in-depth, thoughtful set of questions and feedback!

Thanks for sharing your experience re: the Feb 2021 freeze, and cool that you got your kid a big battery for their apartment!

Which color would you like to see next? Sorry none of our current 4 match your palette! Unfortunately, as a capital constrained startup going super broad on colorways/SKUs is not very financially prudent for us, but still curious :)

If you want to hack your way around Shopify's UI for color selection, you can technically hit "checkout" with 1 color, hit back and it'll still be in your cart, then repeat with as many color options as you like until you have all colors/options you're interested in. Sorry for the trouble - we're launching with an off-the-shelf e-commerce solution so as to spend our time on the product itself.

Our temperature, dust and water ratings need to be finalized once we're closer to final shipping product, but we're definitely planning for constrained indoor use, even in a hot summer garage for example. Sorry to not be more specific!

As to the powerstrip, pre-orders are only to signal intent to purchase, and we'll be reaching out to all pre-orders to see who wants solar, expansion and powerstrip before we actually ship! Great question - thank you!

There will be Pila sensors and third party sensors - we integrate directly with them. So more than illustrative! Once the data is in your Home Assistant for example, you can do as you please, of course. Hope that answers your question?

Great point on more app-specific details. We'll showcase more soon!

Thank you for your inputs on showing more of the product angles and the spacial situation - great feedback.

Thanks again, and let me know if I missed anything.
How do you model the character learning lessons if they’re already perfect?
You're the best :) thanks for inspiring
If that's the case i would be interested to see the savings when you consider loses from batteries vs direct consumption at the time.

I'm not trying to poo poo the product, just some honest analysis of what it can do and the cost or savings.
All existing apps rely on willpower to not bypass them, which might work for a couple of weeks. But then I fall back into the same cycle—to the point where I forget these apps were even installed.

So I built an app where friends keep me accountable. You set a limit, and once you hit it, you actually have to ask a friend for an extension. The first version is live now on the App Store and Play Store—just search Powermate. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
That would make sense, I just have little faith that’s how it would end up being used even if that had been the original intention.
I like Bluey but couldn't get my young one to sit through it for a nebulizer. Cocomelon did the trick and I'm very thankful for them for that. Honestly, I don't think it's as garbage as everyone makes it out to be. It's hard trying to find video-form nursery rhymes that aren't weird out there. They have that done well. I really like Bluey but I feel like it's for a much older crowd.
Yes, good comparison. A sniper but far removed physically
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Chain of custody only covers from when the evidence came into the hands of the police; the real issue here is original provenance, which chain of custody doesn't solve.

Evidence of provenance is already important, to be sure, but the the ability to have some degree of validation of the contents has itself provided some evidence of provenance; lose that and there is a real challenge.
Dairy quotas are part of USMCA.[1]

The issue under Biden was protectionist/preferential policies which were challenged and got changed through the dispute mechanism[2]. The changed policy was then disputed again but the US lost the dispute[3].

The US has never gotten close to surpassing the tariff-rate quotas so the tariffs haven't applied.[4] Though the American dairy industry claims that's because of further protectionist policies.[5]

I'm not an expert on this so if you have more specific information please share sources.

[1] https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/agreements/FTA/US...

[2] https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...

[3] https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...

[4] https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-trump-doesn-t-12005222...

[5] https://www.idfa.org/news/idfa-statement-on-potential-u-s-ta...
Sorry, there was another HN thread where the Rust backlash was a bit more pronounced. Wasn't clear from my original comment.
Bluey is excellence, but I’ve always said Bluey is a kids show for parents.

It’s representation of how the parents behave around, and communicate with, their kids, and the numerous examples of ideas for how to play with your children make the show invaluable to parents.

The fact that kids love it too only reinforces its clever brilliance.
Strong Indian accents are very difficult for me. Less so in person, but on a Zoom call forget it. I end up asking them to email me.

Edit: added "Strong" qualifer, fwiw.
Tech stacks don't matter. Use what you know and build something first
When I first started building websites and apps, I searched almost every day for whether I was using the most optimal tech stack.

It wasn't until I got used to building products in one, that I realised learning the newest "blazingly fast" framework or switching to some new database doesn't really matter if you have no users.

What matters is whether you can build something quick to test your idea. After learning that, I built my last project in a month and it surpassed $1000 in revenue in its first two weeks!

What am I doing now? Using the same tech stack to build my next idea.
Expected, but this makes it clear that Mozilla's morality is dictated by where their paychecks are coming from. They're basically saying that they need to be paid by Google to challenge Google. That's not what Google is paying you for.

The hilarious part is that there's no alternate proposal, and nothing (here) addressing Google in terms of antitrust at all. It's just a plea for half-billion dollar yearly checks from their competitor, for reasons. They want to be paid by Google so they can continue to challenge Google, but don't challenge Google in any way, right here, right now.

The reason Google spent billions on Firefox is for this letter, not for hits from a browser with 5% market share that 100% uses adblockers.

edit: also, how far has Netscape fallen? This is embarrassing for me to read, it had to be embarrassing to write.
Congrats to Comma! I’ve had a Comma 2 and then upgraded to Comma 3. It really is a game changer on long trips. It’s also fun trying out all of the different forks, and experimental features.
I know it's crazy. Looks like a car part.
>how this was news
I'll explain. It's a 'news' article from an arm of a multinational conglomerate trying to massage the economic harm the isolationist fascists currently in charge of the us govt are doing for (hopefully) obvious material reasons. see also: literally any of wapo's recent journalistic history, the nyt on gaza, social media like twitter's political shift, the tech ceo's in the front row of trump's inauguration, or if you prefer books, manufacturing consent, technofuedalism (yanis), surveillance capitalism, etc, etc, etc. capitalists stick together.
I think I have a pretty low tolerance as well.

I can say I find the CVS machines slow the few times I’ve used them. Possibly Home Depot too but I have little experience.

But at Target, Whole Foods, and two local grocery chains it just hasn’t been an issue.

The UI is slow if you need to enter a code for a vegetable or when you hit pay, but for scanning it works fine if I ignore the slow prompts and just go at a comfortable speed.
You are wrong. Your searches are still sent to the original search provider before the redirect extension takes over. It defeats any privacy Kagi could possibly provide.
Popping the Bag
Oh lordy, the "two crews" bifurcation fully written down. What a fantastic way to ship until it becomes far too expensive to ship anything good.

Look, when we break the feedback loop back to the people who wrote the software in the first place, they get happier for a bit, you make some other people sadder for a bit, and then slowly your feature crew never want to be interrupted or bothered again and your customer crew can't get enough resources to fully fix anything.

Worse, your feature crews aren't learning anything beyond how to get those lines out the door, which will somehow get slower and more expensive as time goes on. Why? Because you removed the one fitness function on good software development which is to fully re-incorporate the negative feedback back into the source of development.

A real CTO leadership handbook would say clearly "it's your responsibility to help your developers improve, especially while shipping, and they're not always going to be happy about it."
This is the original work that detected the problem.
> All this would lose Chrome some market share but they are starting from a very dominant position, and for the general public it wouldnt be a big deal - people are already convinced that iOS and android devices are listening to them at all times for ad targeting!

IMO, journalists are to blame for this perception. All the journalists that pushed this false narrative should be banned from the field. This is what happens when an "anything for clicks" mentality takes over and directly harms society.
Nobody is as whiny as Caillou.
But those aren't assumptions: they're statements of personal opinion.

> If you use their app, the prices are lower

Now, that's an interesting data point. I am very app-resistant. It's definitely possible that regulars aren't paying the prices I am seeing.

> The food is also very consistent.

This is so surprising to read! In my experience, this was true 1-2 decades ago, but no longer. I actually do crave "good McDonalds" on occasion, but it's so hard to come by that I rarely bother. Even in the EU, where McD's has always tried harder, I now see the same deterioration and neglect.
Also it’s 4 times faster but runs multithreaded, which was tricky to do in JavaScript (but easier now).
Layman, but I imagine if your blood is flowing to fast doesn't help much the lungs have certain diffusion rates, the waste products wouldn't be increased because your not doing as much work. There is probably an optimal point where anymore just doesn't really matter.

I beat there is some psychological factors to thought you don't have a beat or pulse that is probably unsettling
It's longer than 100 days already in their preclinical testing but they took it out because the patient found a heart transplant.

They say one upcoming improvement is wireless power via skin, somehow. At the moment the rechargeable battery lasts for five hours.
Thank you for the feedback! We’ll try to simplify the wording and streamline the website.
Nix Dynamic Derivations: A practical application
In my own experience it's a matter of only having that much time in the day. For 7 years I had somewhere between 20-25 people I was directly or indirectly responsible for. There was just not enough time to get anything useful done in the code and my time was much better spent solving problems that others couldn't. A few times I was able to pick up some really simple change just to get the experience first hand to go through all our processes and see where we can do better.

I always kept coding nights and weekends but it's just not the same and over time you are gonna get a little rusty. That said I greatly enjoyed getting my hand dirty all day during a sabbatical I'm taking.
I’ve never let my kids watch cocomelon (or much screen time at all).
But we do listen to cocomelon. It has some legitimately well done music IMO. For example “over the river and through the woods”.
It is terribly insecure and much easier to exploit than Chrome.
My list of "greatest all time community-runners" is pretty short, and I'm having a hard time thinking of anyone I'd put ahead of you.
AT&T did not have international competitors.
Unless I missed Unity sorting a ton of stuff out, I assume they're going to have to sell themselves off for parts at some point after the runtime fee fiasco that was supposed to make them profitable lead to developers being angry or outright leaving the ecosystem. My assumption if that happens unless the DOJ gets involved for some reason is MS buys it for this reason.
The lack of of an alternative proposal jumped out at me as well. While it’s not explicitly required the post feels incomplete without it.

I think they’re also underselling WebKit a bit. Under Linux it's not too far behind macOS/iOS and work to bring the Windows version up to parity is underway[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43305344
Lol, yeah I had been pre-warned about that one and have avoided it entirely for my kid's >6 years
I had a similar discussion here with someone who thought that "dynamic programming" was the act of programming in some sort of dynamic manner. Not sure I managed to disabuse them of that notion.
Yes & in Utah.
> I think it can charge when power is cheap (or off solar if you have it), and then power a device (like a fridge) when power is expensive

Yeah that is a cool feature, but at least where I live there is only a few cents / kwh difference between peak and non-peak, which means this 1.6kwh battery system would save at most a nickel a day (~$20/year).
i guess they started rewrite exactly because of doom performance. timelines match.
The newer Bluey episode "The Sign" made me ugly cry.
One type of gravity waves can be seen on Earth where its atmosphere meets large bodies of water. These are commonly known as ocean waves.
When you're not just an IC, you have other priorities. That means your IC work can be derailed at any moment. _That_ means you can't take on work anywhere near the critical path or you're just blocking others or handing things off.

Reviews? Sure. Design meetings? Sure. But taking critical work will end up causing issues.
Since the article was in JavaScript:

const getOddness = (n) => (
n % 2
? 'Odd'
: 'Even'
)

Even less visual noise
Yes, there is a lot of that message in this. We like to think of Mozilla/Firefox as "the alternative" but it's a bit of window dressing to Google, which allows them to show regulators aywhere they tried to foster independent code paths and browser diversity.

Maybe the answer is to donate Chrome to Mozilla along with seed money to invest in the markets, and fund continual development. Mozilla can continue to do the work we need, but independent of the advertising/adblock warfare. And a trickle of
the money behind Chrome can be fed to Firefox as usual