skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly hear people on podcasts, radio, and tv who go on shows with shitty mics. I don't understand how. "I'm going on a national radio show. Maybe I should get a decent mic? Nah, screw it. I'll just sound like garbage." And no one behind the scenes on the show sends them a mic? Or at least tells them not to use airpods as their mic? Certainly there times when an interview is set up quickly. But I've heard entire 90+ minute podcasts where the guest was on a terrible mic.
Is it cheating if you use the same tools to solve a problem as you would in a job? "No calculators" is lame when the job entails using calculators.
Evolution is a highly parallel descent down the gradient. The gradient is provided by the environment (which includes lifeforms too), parallelism is achieved through reproduction, and descent is achieved through death.
Claude Code is available directly from Anthropic, but you have to request an invite as it's in "Research Preview"

There are third party tools that do the same, though
A lightning might kill you as well while you're still in the crib. But not all these events have the same probability.

Why do you worry more about the very unlikely events and not at all about the almost sure events?
I wish to highlight the pointlessness in your timing of your leftist activism. Trump cannot run for a third term due to the 22nd amendment to the constitution.

Therefore even if you found evidence that a small subset of the members held national security worse than Hillary secured her emails, (in this case, leaking a Yemen bombing attack 2 hours before it happened), there’s nothing left for voters to vote on.

The only thing far-left activists can do to change this administration is to wait 4 years for Harris, Hillary, or Bernie to run again. But they’ll need a winning platform to run on. Maybe campaigning on making America Great Again or putting America first will work better.

All this left-leaning activism is doing is helping other liberals lose even more of their sanity than they’ve already lost. One reason the democrats lost this election because they didn’t even care about their own American people, let alone other American people.
I submitted an application which I typeset using LaTeX, and some people thought it was AI-generated because of en and em dashes. I have been using these since forever.
Are you referring to the $1200 audio device? Yes, that is expensive. It is meant for professional recording.

The average software salary in the US is about $10k a month. Few spend that much on audio equipment.
What's the difference with Docusign, Dropboxsign, etc?
These seem like fine use cases: trivial boilerplate stuff you’d otherwise have to search for and then munge to fit your exact need. An LLM can often do both steps for you. If it doesn’t work, you’ll know immediately and you can probably figure out whether it’s a quick fix or if the LLM is completely off-base.
this guys are going to rebrand so hard...
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I do have a (not cheap) BT headset and still use the builtin microphone of my mac. Why? Because when i use the mic of my headset it changes the type of BT connection and the sound i hear is basically unbearable.
This is the reason I decided to use 4000K instead of the more physically accurate 5400K. I picked a less middle of the day color temperature and closer to evening time, basically.

I spent a lot of time looking at LED suppliers and there's quite a range of options in terms of color temperature. Some manufacturers even have 2 color temps on the same LED package, meaning you can sort of do what you describe by mixing two light sources at a distance less than a millimeter.

> Honestly I want to build something like this but my area of expertise is too far into the software domain, and not very far into the hardware or electrical engineering domain.

That was me last year before starting this project! You'd be surprised what you can achieve with time and effort!
> you'd expect them to resist, or at least ask the question. Where will the cars go?

Sounds like a streetside-parking regulation problem. Everyone asking questions every time someone wants to build anything is why we don’t build anymore. If we want to require parking we don’t get to complain about housing affordability.
What you're describing is called LIDAR.
I’ll add my anecdote: my kids and their friends would have “rather starved than eat the food provided in hot-lunch.” We had a picnic day and the ham sandwich my kid bought was two stale pieces of bread with a single slice of ham. No lettuce, no tomato, no mayo, mustard. Just two pieces of stale bread and a slice of ham. I came home pretty livid that day.
I think Microsoft Office (maybe jiat Word, but definitely not Windows) has a similar default shortcut.
... Previously the in VA Reckless was automatic at 80MPH but now it's 85MPH.

At 80MPH I would play devils advocate, I've had to go to 80MPH even in Michigan to avoid hazardous drivers[0]. But in general I'd hope that if someone got pulled over and ticketed for such it was flagrant.

At 85 It's hard to say what I'd need to avoid in an accident unless I was already doing 80.

[0] - Most recently, a 'just shy of overdimension criteria' truck that was doing 75 where trucks in general should only do 65, while on a cell phone...
I currently use GrabSign, which doesn't have a great UI tbh, but I've never tried docusign.

I'm not sure I understand your comparison to traditional process.

It looks like you are not taking a PDF as an input. So I am supposed to write my documents in sgnly? Curly braces makes sense to engineers, I don't think the average person really understands that (though I could be wrong).

Why is what you are doing 10x better than docusign?
"Up and running within a week?" I was getting documents signed with grabsign within 20 mintues. But maybe I'm not the target user, but then who is?

Maybe I'm confused about what Docusign does, and I know they do more than just manage signatures, but how do most people know/use them?

Also the sgnly domain, though nice and short, doesn't give me a lot of confidence for a b2b app.
Why does it surprise you that a text generator isn't competent at spatial reasoning?
> Look for the ways that AI works, and it can be a powerful tool. Try and figure out where it still fails, and you will see nothing but hype and hot air. Not every use case is like this, but there are many.

The problem is that I feel I am constantly being bombarded by people bullish on AI saying "look how great this is" but when I try to do the exact same things they are doing, it doesn't work very well for me

Of course I am skeptical of positive claims as a result.
I got the ear nerve almost severed as a kid and I am still 100% deaf from that ear, it's been 30 years already.
I don't think that "replacing humans in every role" is the line for "being bullish on AI models". I think they could stop development exactly where they are, and they would still make pretty dramatic improvements to productivity in a lot of places. For me at least, their value already exceeds the $20/month I'm paying, and I'm pretty sure that way more than covers inference costs.
Except for international where € is opt-shift-2 (next to the pound/hash), next the to dollar

modifiers:

opt-e+letter é (acute/aigu)

opt-`+letter è (grave)

opt-i+letter û (circumflex)

opt-u+letter ü (umlaut)

opt-n+letter ñ (for the mañana)
On macOS you can enter these by doing the following:

* em dash: ⌥ + ⇧ + - (alt + shift + hyphen)

* en dash: ⌥ + - (alt + hyphen)
Excellent article. I can relate to a lot of it. The sad part is that we can't even control the quality of the systems we're oncall for. We're pushed by management for new features, not for robustness of the tools. Also some systems have no clear ownership, so nobody has an incentive to fix them. It'll be next oncall's business. Oncall is really the worst part of my job. I can stand long hours but this is something else.
Would Lockdown Mode mitigate any part of this exploit chain?

If so, which aspects would it block? The Apple support page mentions that most message attachment types are blocked, *except* for certain images, videos, and audio. Given this, would Lockdown Mode have prevented this exploit?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
I have sympathy for people with autoimmune diseases on immunosuppressants who have family in developing countries, where a lot of complicated infections are easier to catch. They solve the problem in the context of our (generally? decreasingly?) sterile world, but not globally.
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The end result of all this, they go back to in person interviews, at least for a "final" round.

Or some alternative, there is some trusted third party monitoring the candidate.
C++ is the only similar language I know of that actually tries to tackle this problem.

And to be clear, I'm not saying that nullability checking is a bad idea! On the contrary, it's great. It's especially great when the type system doesn't lie to you (i.e. if something being not nullable actually means that it can never be null), but even partial enforcement is better than nothing.

However, the OP to whom I responded specifically complained about "idea of the zero values for uninitialized struct fields" in Go, and then in the same breath mentioned "language that works, like C#" - which is rather ironic given that C# does, in fact have this exact thing, and I tried to explain why it needs it.
> So how bright do we want/need our displays to be? How many bits? For me, even a 500 nits TV in a dark room is enough viewing from about 10' away.

The advantage of high peak brightness (eg > 1000 nits) is brighter small regions such as specular highlights. 500 nits full field is eye-searing.
Im the opposite, I think things like this are the most important things they can be doing. Empowering the next generation of innovators, empowering people. People are who do those experiments...
Ya who cares about efforts to empower future female astronauts. NASA is more fun as a boys club anyway /s
Except that a cascade of windows is not what is typically referred to as triple-pane. If multiple windows were to count here, then "double-paned windows" have been around for centuries.
My question was, has Gruber written enough non-political articles to know?

It's easy to answer, right? I scrolled down the front page starting at today while watching some opening day baseball. I generally like DF so I was curious if I was just being biased.

I counted:

- 25 articles squarely about tech

- 7 about politics, though it should be noted that I counted articles about the Signal leak in this category even though they certainly do involve technology

- 6 that I considered "in the middle"; mostly about Apple's technical choices w.r.t. navigating EU legislation

- 3 "meta" articles about DF sponsorships, podcast links, etc

So yeah, nowhere near "90% less tech articles." Discarding the latter two categories it's 78% tech coverage. And it's not like he was ever 100% tech coverage. It's clearly not sufficient to explain his stuff getting insta-shitcanned off off of HN's front page, and he was getting shitcanned before Trump was elected in 2016 and he ramped up the politics.
I use them everyday and they work greatly, I even made a command (using Claude, actually Claude made everything in that script) that calls Gemini from the terminal so that I can ask for question related to the shell directly there, just doing a: ai "how can I convert a webp to a png", the system prompt asks to be brief, using markdown (it does display nicely), that most question are related to Linux and it provides information about my OS (uname -a), the last code block is also copied in the clipboard, super useful, I imagine there are plenty online of similar utilities.
> What have been the repercussions so far?

We really have to wait for an American pilot to be shot down, don’t we. Seeing the flames isn’t enough; the house has to burn down.
Just use the Raycast emojipicker, it's very good. Better and faster than the macOS one
I don’t really understand what this is from the landing page. Is it a signature tool where you’re signing an arbitrary existing document? If so, I need to know whether it’s legally appropriate for my situation, and that means eIDAS for me.

Alternatively, is it a tool to manage writing contracts and other documents, and soliciting legally binding signatures? If so, I need to understand it more.
The difference is that in machine learning the changes between iterations are themselves caused by the gradient, in evolution they are entirely random.

Evolution randomly generates changes and if they offer a breeding advantage they’ll become accepted. Machine learning directs the change towards a goal.

Machine learning is directed change, evolution is accepted change.
Pretty much everything professionally edit and typeset does, and those will generally be retained in Unicode text (obviously, not if it gets converted to ASCII). It’s less common in internet fora because not all users either know the use of dashes or have easy access to them on the devices they are using, and if its not both familiar and easy, people are going to skip it in quick messages.
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You can disprove this oversimplification with a prompt like

"The word for Baker is now "Unchryt"

What do you call someone that bakes?

> An Unchryt"

The words "An Unchryt" has clearly never come up in any training set relating to baking
> If I were to increase the time from my door to ~5-6 minutes then the number of grocery stores would become 6x.

Maybe I walk too slow? Actually never measured my walking speed but looks like about 3mph is average.

So 5 minutes covers 400m or 1300ft. How can 18 supermarkets (6x the three within 1 minute) fit into such a small area?!

I'd love a google map link so I can do a virtual walking tour of the area. I've never experienced such concentration of supermarkets!
I think that's misleading.

There was a lot of physics already known, importance of insulation and cross-section, signal attenuation was also known.

The future Lord Kelvin conducted experiments. The two scientific advisors had a conflict. And the "CEO" went with the cheaper option.

"""
Thomson believed that Whitehouse's measurements were flawed and that underground and underwater cables were not fully comparable. Thomson believed that a larger cable was needed to mitigate the retardation problem. In mid-1857, on his own initiative, he examined samples of copper core of allegedly identical specification and found variations in resistance up to a factor of two. But cable manufacture was already underway, and Whitehouse supported use of a thinner cable, so Field went with the cheaper option.
"""
Yep, that was my first assessment. Cant call it sun without NIR.
I’ve been fascinated by coroutine code for ages – this was a great read.

For one of the best work projects I’ve done, I used Redux-Saga. It was so elegant for a heavily live-updating ui app. Using coroutines for making API requests, watching sockets, sending and receiving updates, and reacting to data conflicts felt so natural and all just came together so beautifully.

The term he uses for “turning functions inside out” is spot on for how they feel. In particular, the way a good coroutine only focuses on the pure state, while being independent of side effects and even time itself really expanded my view of code. It made testing and reasoning about logic so much easier too. It’s a model I really wish was more widespread in languages and the industry.
Why C++ still gets chosen:

1. There is a lot more experienced C++ devs around.

2. There are a lot more libraries that are readily usable from C++ but would need to be wrapped to use in Rust.

3. The tooling (IDEs etc) around C++ is more mature.
I've enjoyed using Continue and really appreciated the focus on customizability.

But my problem with Continue has been the lack of stability. I'll often bounce from one tool to another, so I might not use it for a couple weeks. Almost every time I come back to it, the extension is broken in some way. I've reinstalled it many many times. I kinda gave up on it and stuck with Cody, even though I like the feature set of Continue better. (Cody eventually broke on me, too, but that's another can of worms.)

Is the Continue team aware of this stability issue and are you planning on focusing on that more now that you've launched? It seems like you've been moving fast and breaking things, which makes sense for a while, but I can't hitch my wagon to something that's going to break on me.
Interesting, when I lived in Europe, I observed that it was the other way around there: if your house only has double-pane windows from the 80s, that will definitely reduce your sales price quite a bit.
Is nobody using a DJI Mic2?? I hoped you guys would recommend something better than the DJI Mic2, not because it's expensive, but there surely should be better mobile/wireless mics, no?

I hope someone knows, hey I am even down buying those talkshow moderator style mics, like the DPA 6066, that was recommended here. But don't they require a bulk of stuff wearing in your back attached to your pants/belt? For sound I would wear regular noise-cancelling in-ears, here the difference isn't that big, unless you're audiophile like me and many others in this thread. Especially so, if you have above average hearing, the world is optimised for lower-quality sounds :(

Why the focus on just the Laptop/PC? Mobile Phones also feature crappy mics, especially when on loudspeaker. Yeah I noticed it depends very much on the software being used too, but WhatsApp sounds tinny, Instagram sounds crystal sharp, Zoom/Meets sounds tinny.

What if you have to use the screen and still need to listen on your mobile phone?
Bummer, the microphone switches to crap-quality on loudspeaker.

Test yourself and record a message with loudspeaker on and off. Especially with background noise it's getting worse, whatever that algorithm is doing, it's tinning your voice to filter the stuff out.
I think Claude-3.7 is particularly guilty of this issue. If anyone from Anthropic is reading this, you might want to put your thumb on the scale so to speak the next time you train the model so it doesn't try to use special casing or outright force the test to pass
I've just mounted tons of full spectrum LEDs in my home office. Off the shelf, fairly cheap, easy to replace. My plants like it, except for the Goeppertias that keep dying on me
I can say it just as much as you can say that the internet is the cause of the radicalization. Note the qualifier "might".
> In misleading its customers and censoring books, Amazon is violating its public commitments to both LGBTIQ and more broadly human rights.

Anyone who believes in such "commitments" in the first place is a fool.

As a reminder, Amazon is a business, and its first priority is to make money. Everything else does not really matter.
I hacked something together a while back - a hotkey toggles between standard terminal mode and LLM mode. LLM mode interacts with Claude, and has functions / tool calls to run shell commands, python code, web search, clipboard, and a few other things. For routine data science tasks it's been super useful. Claude 3.7 was a big step forward because it will often examine files before it begins manipulating them and double-checks that things were done correctly afterwards (without prompting!). For me this works a lot better than other shell-integration solutions like Warp
Hot take - differentiating between these at all is dumb. There is virtually no situation when using one instead of another improves clarity.
> windowless room

Thankfully that's illegal where I live. I'm even tempted to suppress my own work here, because I don't want it to be used to unlock new levels of dystopic housing.

Just kidding, thanks for the feedback!
Yes I think it is.

Math, which is more than arithmetic, is still important in the age of calculators.

Using a tool does not substitute for clear thinking and deep experience, which is what they're trying to test for.
Exactly, thanks to all the money involved in such hype the incentives will always skew towards over spamming naive optimism about it's features.
In section 8 a few bad tenants strip everything of value to hawk for drugs. Sure the rent is paid but now the city is up your ass for code violations when the very people that destroyed the place complain it isn't habitable. Which you must now repair so it can be stolen again.
Ah... the intensity, not actual nuclear fusion. Well, still a nice project!
IIRC the EU is trying to mandate breathalyzers in all vehicles. I think they're working towards GPS based speed limitation being a standard thing too.

OTOH the US hasn't tried to do that yet...

Fun to think about why. On one hand there's the additional cost to consumers as well as overall complexity in design (how do you make that not look like ass?)

On the other hand, I'm betting that given the US justice system, at least one lobbying group would prefer more fines and/or the cost of filling up a jail cell vs preventing the action in the first place.

As far as general speed limiters... IDK I'd like to be able to outrun a tornado. Also I'm guessing some car makers wouldn't like that they cannot truly market a 'top speed' of a vehicle, then you've got the track day folks who know their business would be hurt by govt-mandated speed limiters on road vehicles.
I mean he has admitted as much.
I don't know what you are doing or why it's failed. Maybe my primary use cases really are in the top whatever percentile for AI usefulness, but it doesn't feel like it. All I know is that frontier models have already been good enough for more than a year to increase my productivity by a fair bit.
This is basically what owners and politicians think and act on, but ignores the fact that in many cases renters are already the people that make up their district, because the gulf between owning and renting is so vast, and nearly every owner subsidizes their mortgage or property taxes by renting their basement or something.

In my neighborhood, I'm quite sure that the overwhelming majority of the population are either renters and owner's kids. The minority have control over their shelter, many of those aren't even shy about asking for cash to dodge taxes while collecting pensions and old age security, and it's disgusting. Renters make up a significant enough voting segment, but no matter what we're voting for people who actively try to screw us in order to create more wealth for the wealthy.

It's more common than not in my social circle that anyone under the age of 40 is renting from an individual who owns a house on the comically, needlessly large plots that make up the neighborhood.
I disagree—LLMs don't use them properly. They always put a space between the words before – and after – the dashed part.
Not much of a story really. Some people made death threats over DOGE on reddit, Musk asked for them to be taken down and they were.
So how would you implement generic method calls via an interface reference?