skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear: Filson is still "good" quality for the price IMO, but vintage Filson is built like a tank. My button down shirts from 15 years ago have never even needed a button replaced, whereas newer shirt construction from Bangladesh does not seem as strong to me. Material quality is better/heavier for my older shirts.

I'm not sure if they scrapped it, but somewhat recently (a year ago?) I saw that they were trying to facilitate sales of vintage Filson through their site presumably because they see the people who care about quality buying vintage Filson on eBay instead of the newer stuff they're selling.

Also, while it's certainly not the case that "made overseas = lesser quality", Filson's website has a prominently displayed filter/category for "Made in the USA". This is where you can get a really heavy knit sweater for $500 that IMO is worthy of the old Filson name.
Completely agree. The goal is simple, plain and obvious, but the tools and protocols make it tricky to pull off.
The joy of CSV is everyone knows roughly what you mean and the details can communicated succintly.

The python3 csv module basically does the job.
SecDef and the White House were claiming it was made up. This is double speak from the Speaker.
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One could wonder if perhaps, as is usual, We people have it all wrong about this new technology.

Perhaps AI is the death of corporations. Corporations are designed to extract money by charging as much as possible while spending as little as possible. That seems fair to me, right? We do not expect a corporation to understand the concept of common good. What AI does is to make it appear as though people are not needed, you can just replace them all with AI & machines. Profits go up, yes? Corporations make more and more money. What could go wrong.

The first thing that is going wrong - currently - is that if you do not pay people enough money to buy things, then guess what happens to your business? Goodbye Apple. Goodbye Google. Goodbye moon. Oops, sorry. This is already happening. If the wolves on Isle Royale get too good at catching and eating deer, guess what happens?

Secondly and perhaps most importantly is that corporations are good at exploiting. If you know how to make a car, a corporation can make one so easily that you do not need to pay any people. Exploit. If you see a corporation pursuing lock-in (here's looking at you Apple, Walmart, etc) then you see a corporation that has no good business model. This does not mean they are dead or not going to be around, it just means they are a dinosaur waiting for some event. But the question is whether they can invent the next car? And what if the thing in short supply is not in the category of commodities. We still do not really understand what we can do with computers, the internet or block chains. Corporations know how to exploit those technologies. After all we still have windows. But is that the best we can do? Track people? Wow.

So if you are a person who can actually think, and do. If you can figure out how to cross a stream in the winter, or make sour dough bread or even just raise chickens, there is going to be a massive new opportunity. For you. Because AI cannot create new concepts that are people based and even if they can, then corporations will fire them if they do.

If your job is however a corporate pablum thing, like for example if you write pablum pieces for the NYT, then my advice is to run for the hills. And run fast.
premise is questionable

> LLMs are so good at economics

Citation?
Do you ever have CSV data that has newlines within a string?
Wine improvement could be aided with LLMs by monitoring the output of a windows VM running and see what exactly to display, and what exactly to have in working (not program) RAM.

Same goes for perfect OpenSource Office with MSOffice compatibility: MSOffice is running on Windows is continuously monitored for reference, showing exactly what needs to be outputted. Have this in a feedback and reinforcement loop.
PS, if you're downvoting this, can you explain why?
can't it go the other way? Can't AI be developed to improve and strengthen human cognition? I'm incredibly naive and ill informed but feel that you can go both ways (growth vs fixed mindsets?)
Not from my tests. I just was able to curl downvote someone even though I don't see the button. Click my latest submission to see it.
>Maybe that video game didn’t do you quite as much service as you’d like to pretend.

No, I learned English at school from a teacher. Thus, I was a relative straggler in language learning, in comparison with those of my peers who could afford PCs able to run GTA3.

For your benefit, I re-read the whole thread just now and I still find your reasoning faulty and your premise, frankly, cruel.

Your only response to salient points such as, I quote, "incompetent education system", "The customers are captive", "The incentives could hardly be more misaligned" was, basically, "boo fucking hoo".

I'll leave you to ponder why your putative ten-year olds would even have anything to "cope" with or "escape" from. Maybe they're trying to cope with the traumatic realization that the world they've been born into is hell-bent on turning them into you.
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Of sorts. Not a full ribbon like in Office.
You have willfully blinded yourself to opportunities that if taken to heart could have prevented yourself a world of suffering.

You mistake the environment you are in, and where it is going, which will threaten your ability to survive at some point as you are helplessly dependent on an environment that will cease to exist in the near future.

This was neither toxic, nor arrogant, just the facts and advice provided in good will and faith, something that is vanishing along with tolerance, and those facts should frighten you because they have detrimental outcomes as a consequence for you.

You didn't want to hear it because of indoctrination, and an inability to to comprehend. As a result, you have only yourself to blame for the choices you've made and what predictably comes next. Struggle and frustration.

Those that can't help themselves won't be helped by others. Those that cannot learn and adapt doom themselves by their own choices. Darwin's fitness.

A time is coming where the blind in their unpredictable and crazy behavior may be given a final mercy that can't be taken back, for the good of all because these people are a detriment to all if left alone. Historically, this is well known and it wasn't until modern times that we had the resources to care for such illness in seeming perpetuity.

Until things change, you've made it clear the only path for you is to struggle on needlessly, without any help, and let it distort you in a spiral of madness until you succumb to your self-fulfilling prophecy and break moreso than you already have.

Slapping goodwill and advice down falsely believing its toxic, when in fact its just unpleasant/harsh truths you weren't strong enough or willing to face speaks greatly to the character and outcomes you will face.

There are people who happen to know more than you do, about a great many things; because you were given a poor foundation purposefully. Its not arrogance to want to give people the opportunities that an education they should have been given as a child provides. The alternative is delusional adult children running amok destroying the pillars of their own survival.

You tread forward down the path those malevolent people laid for you, deceived, and never straying; biting any hand that offers help. Its sad because its preventable and needless.

I'll pray you revisit this when you get tired of the madness you put yourself through.
> It seems they get some kind of sadistic enjoyment out of it.

> Everyone could have stopped, realizing it's obvious what's happening, give him a warning have him turn in this sample.

I think the sad truth is that they are probably ignorant enough to not even think about it.
How much easier would all of this be if whoever did CSV first had done the equivalent of "man ascii". There are all these wonderful codes there like FS, GS, RS, US that could have avoided all the hassle that quoting has brought generations of programmers and data users.
>The world is more than America, FYI.

And of that, I cannot think of any countries that would encourage 'buy american' at the moment. I certainly don't.
This will get flagged and killed by users claiming it's because they don't want politics here, but really just don't want to admit to themselves what's going on. Some things are worth standing up for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
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Last field rather than last record. The first row will give you column count.
Just to reinforce what others are saying, security isn't a binary yes or no thing, it's on a continuum that has tradeoffs with usability, and where you want to be on that continuum depends on risk. There are things you could do to be more secure than Signal, but they would also be more difficult to use, and many of those things aren't about Signal itself, but the hardware and networks it is on.
Or those Henry Moore statues that the author says are "moving". They all look like scenes from The Thing, with a twisted amalgamation of ambiguous body parts, except they're enormous and weigh two tons. I very much hope they won't start moving. Liking those statues goes along with thinking mathematics is lovely.
I wasn't talking about Google not caring.

OpenAI didn't care about ethics.
Ok, you're right, it's irrelevant to a discussion about the OS; the point I was trying to make is that this old machine is robust, it can be taken apart, completely, and screwed back together, and still work fine. Not all machines can do that.
This will work very poorly when your data is changing because the centroids degrade and you'll have very poor recall but likely not know it unless you are also monitoring recall.

I didn't see this in the write-up, so adding it here as a common foot gun.
How do you figure? Chatbots don't cite their sources (unless you explicitly set up an RAG); search engines do. What value does the former have?

Chatbots seem more useful for stuff like generating filler and changing tone.
Sadly, the garbage collector is still needed to deal with the output of the garbage generator ;)
Too bad Google managed to burn almost all goodwill they had 20 years ago. I am amoung many people who would use their AI products only as the last resort, just like I do with search and browsers.
Java compilation may be ridiculously fast, but maven/gradle makes it crawl.

> The only info I found for Rust mentions something along the 5k lines/second mark (on a different computer)

On Pentium III?

Let's see how it performs on M3 Pro:

cargo loc --filter-platform=aarch64-apple-darwin
...
Total lines: 961318
(783408 code, 77484 comments, 100426 blank lines)

cargo clean
cargo build
Compiling libc v0.2.155
Compiling autocfg v1.1.0
Compiling cfg-if v1.0.0
Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.69
Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.12
Compiling memchr v2.6.4
...
Compiling dtparse v2.0.0
Compiling fclones v0.35.0 (/Users/piotr/Projects/fclones/fclones)
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 9.75s

Looks like it is about 80k LOC/s. Not bad.

If pure javac can also do 100k LOC/s (which is definitely something I believe is possible) but then "Maven/Gradle is an order of magnitude slower" then my point stands. No-one uses pure javac to compile big projects.
I am not sure I am particularly thankful for atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.
Maybe!

And blue states will retaliate. Need medical care? Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Bristol-Myers Squibb are all HQed in New Jersey, Pfizer in NYC, AbbVie in Chicago…

We know who wins in trade wars. No one.
If you don't think the US is driving fast towards a fascist dictatorship, you need to open your eyes.

Don't wait til you're targeted. Speak up now. Call your representatives. Go to protests. Be loud. Support and protect those who are close to you.
JSON is a textual encoding no different than CSV.

It's just that people tend to use specialized tools for encoding and decoding it instead of like ",".join(row) and row.split(",")

I have seen people try to build up JSON strings like that too, and then you have all the same problems.

So there is no problem with CSV except that maybe it's too deceptively simple. We also see people trying to build things like URLs and query strings without using a proper library.
Hahah, I came here to make the comment about ASCII's control characters, so I'm glad someone else beat me to it, and also that someone further pointed out that this topic comes up every time someone mentions CSV!
It's not supposed to take a rocket scientist to identify the root cause as the widely-recognized technical error, "User is a Moron" :\

Shouldn't a military tribunal be investigating this, and Musk's company sleuths be trying to figure out how they can make him understand why so many people have lost more respect for Musk than they ever had to begin with?
Turning off uBlock I see two downvotes. If you can do that without 500 karma that would be a bug in this site, especially if you can do 2+ downvotes of the same comment using the same account. I don't believe this site has a bug-bounty but you could always ask dang.
True super-individualist hacker won't use AI tools. :-)
I read here recently that Ladybird is prepared to switch to Swift rather than C++. I can't seem to find the relevant sources; can anyone confirm?
This lovely color correction article was posted on HN years ago: https://prolost.com/blog/2010/2/15/memory-colors.html
> border force officials had engaged in duplicitous and unfair conduct by returning some of the material to Lidden after initially seizing it

What was the reasoning here - why was the material returned? I assume this would happen in some exceptional scenario and the default behavior would be to seize it. Is it not the case?
This is just the beginning. Welcome to being a pariah state.
Maybe we can't find enough labor because 50% of the workers are working illegally, voluntarily and involuntarily accept illegal working standards, and are suppressing wages far below what they should naturally be.

Is your argument that if we kicked every illegal immigrant out of America tomorrow, that Americans would just choose to starve instead of paying slightly more for food, and farmers would just let food rot on the vine instead of harvesting it?
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“ Losing the ability to do mental math is probably not actually a big deal”

I think it’s a huge deal. I see a lot of people do some financing stuff and they have no idea what a 20% interest rate really means. So they just go ahead and do it because taking out a calculator is too tedious. I find it pretty crazy how many can’t figure how much a 20% or even 10% is. A lot of financial offerings take advantage of the fact that people can’t do even basic math.
Maybe…

I dunno. Anyone who’s been at a big company (the kind that are inclined to over-hire) can attest to the massive population of folks who don’t seem to have any productive job. Does AI spell doom for those people? I have no idea, their job wasn’t to be productive in the first place. Being a warm body to expand the size of some middle managers fiefdom—that is not a job that can be taken by AI, right?

I guess maybe just engineering jobs are on the chopping block. Doomed, by the nature of their productivity actually being tangible, to be replaced by an AI that does their job worse.
Just as any muscle gets weaker the less you use it, same goes for intelligence.
> we're still trying to figure out how to communicate with LLMs

Communicating with 'guess-the-next-token' machines is just ELIZA version X.Y.

You can also ask your dog it they want another treat, or if they want to play Quake. They're merely listening for key words and tone of voice and reacting to them according to their experience with that matrix. And LLMs don't even understand tone of voice, and they never will.
Keep calling it transborder traffic and the administration will block it entirely.
>Good luck getting food to your blue states, since 8/10 of the top food producing states in the US are red states.

7/10, not 8/10:

#1 (California) is solid blue (Dem trifecta,2 Dem Senators, Dem US House majority, Dem 2024 Pres vote)
#5 (Illinois) is solid blue (Dem trifecta,2 Dem Senators, Dem US House majority, Dem 2024 Pres vote)
#6 (Minnesota) is quite blue (Dem state senate, tied state house, dem governor, 2 dem senators, tied US house delegation, Dem 2024 Pres vote)
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In a bathroom that had a copy machine no less.
Which tools can currently invoke MCP? I have read only a little about MCP and got to know that Claude's desktop application is capable of using MCP locally.

Are there any chat interfaces which allow using MCP remotely?

I would like to be able to specify MCP endpoints and the functions they offer in ChatGPT's, Claude's and Gemini's web interfaces so that I can have them call my servers remotely. A bit like "GPTs" and "Gems".
> Even controlling for other factors, a college degree makes more productive workers

I'd like to see this study. Most of the data I've seen that is pro-college still has massive confounds.

Two twins graduate high school. One gets a crappy copywriting job, and spends her free time reading books on how to write better, and specifically how to do copywriting. The other gets an English degree. I'm not nearly as confident as you are the one with the English degree is going to be a better copywriter.

I don't disagree you can learn skills, but cognitive science literature solidly shows far transfer is not a thing, and when it is it's incredibly inefficient. i.e. Reading the great works of Russian literature might make you a better copywriter but at a vastly slower pace than writing copy, or reading a book on copywriting.
That makes it table stakes for any agent framework.
There is nobody in Chicago who would describe Oak Park and Evanston as anything other than "suburbs". You'd get laughed at if you called them "the city".
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Also ICE has not told her lawyer where she is currently being held.
Did you at least read the article that they shared? It answers all of your questions.
> Is your argument that if we kicked every illegal immigrant out of America tomorrow, that Americans would just choose to starve instead of paying slightly more for food, and farmers would just let food rot on the vine instead of harvesting it?

Oh, they wouldn't choose. They'd just have that as the inevitable consequence. Famines happen; just wishing them away isn't really a great approach.

It doesn't help that these decisions take months/years to show their impacts.
Doom is useful. The reason you stockpile food or grow a crop in spring is to avoid the doom that would come winter, if you didn't. Fearing a possible bad future is fairly fundamental for survival.

I assume there's some significant hard-wiring for this type of emotion, with some people having a different baseline for their sensitivity to it. I also suspect the environment might push regional genetic population to have different sensitivities, depending on how harsh/unstable the environment is. I say "unstable" because I see doom as anxiety about the possibility. For example, in a region with a consistent harsh winter, doom has less use because piling food up is just routine, everyone does it, it's obvious. But, in an unstable environment, with a winter that's only sometimes harsh, you need to fear that possibility of a harsh winter. You're driven by the anxiety of what might be. You stockpile food even though you don't need it now: you're irrational in the instantaneous context, but rational for the long term context. It's a neat future looking emotion that probably evolved closely with intelligence.
It's also fundamentally incorrect to act as if the private sector would've done very many of those things without extensive cooperation with and guidance/mandate from the public sector.
That sounds like the opposite, so no?
Most of the people most of the time aren't importing data from a different locale. A good assumption for defaults could be that the CSV file honors the current Windows regional settings.
The liberal arts model was intended for the elites, and the idea of education as means of producing useful workers is straight from a totalitarian planned economy. But there is also the Humboldtian model of higher education, which focuses on educating informed citizens who are free to make their own choices. Learning vocational skills is easy enough if you have good education, and it's also necessary to be able to do that outside school, as careers rarely last a lifetime.

American higher education is expensive, because you chose to defund public universities. And because you have an unhealthy obsession with rankings and top universities. Those are the things you need to change more than education itself.
CVS isn't brittle, and I'm not sure what "hacks" you're referring to. If you or your parser just follow RFC4180 (particularly quote every field, and double quoting to cancel-quote), that will get you 90%+ compatibility.
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> In 2020, the entire Servo team was fired from Mozilla, amongst others. This was done by the then-CEO Mitchell Baker, who said that Mozilla had to "adapt its finances to a post-COVID-19 world and re-focus the organization on new commercial services".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker says:

> In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, Baker's salary was more than $3 million.

Isn't that enough to pay for an aligned public-interest CEO and several aligned public-interest developers on Servo -- who, together with the rest of the organization, could allow them to actually deliver a privacy&security-respecting Web browser, which is the main thing anyone wants from the organization?
That was basically my original point - OP made it sound like red states only exist via the largesse of blue states.

I'm not really sure why my points have received so much push back, but OP received basically none at all for offering essentially a symmetrical argument to my own.
What would you trust that isn't symmetric encryption? And why not?
Good call-out. The article mentions using a representative sample, but I should definitely put it somewhere on top.
Network effects are not the only way people lock into a product - it is just the first thing that comes to most people's minds.

Familiarity and trust are really important. Commonly called branding.
That is a definition you're making up to suit an argument you're making. It's not the actual definition of the term. Anybody can just look it up and see that! The Oxford Languages dataset that Google uses for the definition literally uses Chicago's suburbs as an example.

And, seriously, who cares? Why would you want your argument to die on this hill? What could it possibly matter?
> Therefore, parents should be able to choose the schools they send their kids to despite their circumstances, and we as a society should enable them that choice.

I don't think you clearly explained why they can't already choose.

People vote with their wallets and their feet all the time.

At what price should "we as a society" enable parents to send their kids to any school they want ?
I'm not sure why you have the take that plastic pollution is not a problem. If anything, it is a massive catastrophe that threatens the environment and possibly the human race. Plastic pollution is destroying the environment[1], wildlife[2], and damaging humans[3][4]. That includes newborn babies[5].

[1] https://www.unep.org/plastic-pollution

[2] https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics...

[3] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/microplas...

[4] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/microplas...

[5] https://scitechdaily.com/startling-discovery-scientists-find...
Am I getting slightly different use-cases mixed up, or would it be better if everything just spoke MCP?