skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do others not generally get extra pay for the time on call?

I have the enviable situation where I am on call for half of every month, I get paid significantly extra for this, and there's maybe 1 emergency call per year.
This will just lead to classic Cobra Effect where people just push shit on Friday afternoon and then take their sweet time to fix it
You can use ' to do exact match, like 'docker

https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...
I am one of those annoying LaTeX people now, so my “word processor” ends up being tmux, NeoVim, and Nix, but I understand that that’s not for most people.

LibreOffice is honestly fine nowadays. I feel like Excel is probably a bit better than Calc, but Calc is still capable enough for most tasks.

The documents look decent enough, it’s easy to use, it’s reasonably fast, and you can’t really beat the price.

I have to admit that a reason that I haven’t touched it much is pretty silly: I like the icons for OpenOffice better. LibreOffice’s icons look too…childish? Hard to explain, and obviously subjective, but I wish I could get import OpenOffices icons into LibreOffice.
We find this thing you said:

> Ah yes, the "computer graphics, which has generated billions upon billions of revenue and change are just a fad" argument.

in reference to this thing that OP said:

> It's like computer graphics and VR: Amazing advances over the years, very impressive, fun, cool, and by no means a temporary fad...

Either you, yourself are an LLM, or you need to slow the fuck down and read.
The animated history of Co2 levels is stunning :

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/history.html
It became obvious to me in the banking crisis 2008 as everybody in Germany talked about corruption in Greece and ignored the German companies involved that bribed Greece politicians.

It doesn’t help either that the corruption perceptions index is often shortened in German to Korruptionsindex = corruption index which makes it sound objective instead instead of subjective
I was very confused why integrated Microsoft cloud storage would make a motor vehicle better.
This might be the main issue with software at Apple getting so much worse. Bertrand knew what he was doing. Apple's (and NeXT's) OS used to be an OS, not a collection of toy apps.
what makes you more productive, say C++ compiler + IDE or LLM? Do C++ compilers and IDE have similar valuation?
Looks weird, sorry.

Bash pipes make intuitive sense, you’re taking the output of one process and pushing it into another. Here, the use of pipes makes little sense. Why is “from alpine” being passed into “with-exec”? What is moving between those processes?
Ah damn I was hoping this would be a position paper on why learning _theory_ from first principles is a good idea.
Not GP, but more often than not I reach out to tools I already know (sed,awk,python) or read the docs which don't take that much time if you know how to get to the sections you need.
They're sophisticated tools at much as any other software.

About 2 weeks ago I started on a streaming markdown parser for the terminal because none really existed. I've switched to human coding now but the first version was basically all llm prompting and a bunch of the code is still llm generated (maybe 80%). It's a parser, those are hard. There's stacks, states, lookaheads, look behinds, feature flags, color spaces, support for things like links and syntax highlighting... all forward streaming. Not easy

https://github.com/kristopolous/Streamdown
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The dogmas, if you want to call them that, come from rational thought, not a magic man in the sky.
Waymo is already full self-driving cars, doesn't look like people buy google stocks on this sentiment.

I personally think Tesla is positioned well for EV first world compared to other brands. But Chinese companies are catching up.
Then why is the headline not "AI models miss disease in Asian patients" or even "AI models miss disease in Latino patients"?

It just so happens to align with what maximizes political capital in today's world.
The problem it‘s marketed as a general tool that at least in the future will work near perfectly if we just provide enough data and computing power.
Llms do not have it memorized. Try asking it to calculate the signed angle between two signed planes.
I gave up and told it to copy the unity implementation.
Palantir.ts
That’s a great segment to target. I’d take that any day over most others. It’s also a pretty hard bunch to please, so pretty defensible unless you somehow beat Kagi by a lot.

It’s also much bigger than their customer base. Keep going, Kagi.
One simple way is to keep only a few days / weeks of (immutable) keys backups.
You can always stop the deletion of you have a big issue.
If the law says you have 14 days to delete all data, you keep only that much backups.
Yeah, I think it matters a lot what type of work you do. I have to jump between projects a lot that are all in different languages with a lot of codebases I'm not deeply familiar with. So for me, LLMs are really useful to get up-to-speed on the knowledge I need to work on new projects.

If I've got a clear idea of what I want to write, there's no way I'm touching an LLM. I'm just going to smash out the code for exactly what I need. However, often I don't get that luxury as I'll need to learn different file system APIs, different sets of commands, new jargon, different standard libraries for the new languages, new technologies, etc...
I really enjoyed that, thank you for posting. It reminded me of a similar conversation with my dad many years ago.
> Obviously neither of us actually believes that there is something wrong with not stating your full name explicitly every time you write something.

Who knows? Maybe "Niten" does believe that and has a massive shame and public-embarrassment kink. There's nothing wrong with that; that sort of thing is totally harmless.
Same

And people keep forgetting how new this stuff is

This is like trashing video games in 1980 because Pong has awful graphics
Use it every day and still no idea where anything really is in there. What a shitshow.
their value proposition to VC is market capture, its marketing companies and they outsource tech heavy lifting to OpenAI and others.
I’m one of them. I love Kagi, although the first week or two had a ton of !g. Now I only really bang for local areas, conversions, or shopping (maybe).

If they can sustain, maybe they can takeoff. Search in GenAI world is hard, and Google has other focuses with talent and inference chips too.

I hope their days aren’t numbered!

I think it needs some UI improvements. It’s ugly, and I find it can hinder actual use.

More usability improvements on features. There’s a lot I’m still not leveraging because I haven’t bothered learning. Maybe they can build an LLM tool to help with this?

And I don’t care how, but make it easy to make it default on all browsers, mobile mainly. Maybe they fixed this recently, but when I was swapping browsers recently, this was annoying. If they can’t fix this, they probably won’t make it.

Just some top of mind thoughts as high-usage, 95%+ non-coding user.
I’ll wait for it to be reported on Fox News and then an announcement from the White House.
It is good to see this here on HN. We, the hackers and painters, would have the power to build world wide communities for addressing the climate collapse (the climate that provided good conditions for humanity to thrive). We have the wealth to work on solutions, we are the ones also contributing to burn the world, maybe because we have given up or because it is just too comfortable. We sit in our offices, home offices, letting everything collapse as long as the pizza and the next gadget reaches our desk. We control how information is distributed, we are responsible. We would be advised to take action; will we?
CMOS is not journalism, so it's not variation from the GP?
There is a difference between a directly correct answer and a “5th result”
Until they pull the rug and make you read through 10 paragraphs of ads first before getting to your answer.
I feel like LLMs are the same as the leap from "world before web search" to "world after web search." Yeah, in google, you get crap links for sure, and you have to wade through salesy links and random blogs. But in the pre-web-search world, your options were generally "ask a friend who seems smart" or "go to the library for quite a while," AND BOTH OF THOSE OPTIONS HAD PLENTY OF ISSUES. I found a random part in an old arduino kit I bought years ago, and GPT-4o correctly identified it and explained exactly how to hook it up and code for it to me. That is frickin awesome, and it saves me a ton of time and leads me to reuse the part. I used DeepResearch to research car options that fit my exact needs, and it was 100% spot on - multiple people have suggested models that DeepReearch did not identify that would be a fit, but every time I dig in, I find that DeepResearch was right and the alternative actually had some dealbreaker I had specified. Etc., etc.

In the 90s, Robert Metcalfe infamously wrote "Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet’s continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet, which only just recently got this section here in InfoWorld, will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." I feel like we are just hearing LLM versions of this quote over and over now, but they will prove to be equally accurate.
>> We need an AI technology that can output "don't know" when appropriate. How's that coming along?

Heh. Easiest answer in the world. To be able to say "don't know", one has first to be able to "know". And we ain't there yet, by large. Not even flying by a million miles of it.
In Python it’s a colon.
I am an Asian living in Taiwan and I want to apply for a job in Europe or the United States. But my application was always rejected. why is that?
> Yeah that's a half-assed apology.

That makes sense. That's because it's not an apology; It's an admonition to those who are blowing their stacks.
PTSD. I was that guy dragging his bagpack everywhere. A drink at a bar on Saturday ? Sunday lunch with the in-laws ? with my bag pack, ready to bust the laptop in case of emergency.

My two personal lows... I had to pull the laptop at my own birthday party, in a restaurant. And at a funeral (not proud on that one).

So sad.
I am not sure secularism is synonymous with atheism.

I am pretty sure secular policies would be avoiding advocating or prohibiting for atheism just as it would for any other form of views that fall into religious or faith beliefs.
Apple needs to admit, a product is either new or improved. It is never new and improved.
No you don’t. In Finder search results, the path is always shown at the bottom. For regular Finder windows, you can optionally show the path with “View -> Show Path Bar”
The entire American political establishment has been on a worrying slide to authoritarianism for most of my life. I remember the flow over here in Australia after 9/11, and the threats that were made on the public if they didn't go along with it.

Didn't get any better under Obama, we saw a massive increase in the surveillance state under his tenure. It was incredible how quickly the media dropped the journo wiretapping scandal.

Let's also not forget the summer of love riots and the behaviour of protestors storming the congress over justice Kavanagh, they've galvanised the right somewhat. Over here we have a growing right wing movement that came from the COVID lockdowns, where our elites and institutions pretty much burned every scrap of goodwill we afforded them for seemingly no end.

The post war paradigm is dead, and I don't think we have the language to describe the new one that's currently forming yet.
My main takeaway here is that the models cannot tell know how they really work, and asking it from them is just returning whatever training dataset would suggest: how a human would explain it. So it does not have self-consciousness, which is of course obvious and we get fooled just like the crowd running away from the arriving train in Lumiére's screening.
LLM just fails the famous old test "cogito ergo sum". It has no cognition, ergo they are not agents in more than metaphorical sense. Ergo we are pretty safe from AI singularity.
Oracle bought Sun (Microsystems), and you are selling Virtual Sun?
> look up "race is a social construct" to find more authoritative sources

I'm well aware of that argument. As user hakfoo noted, the underlying spectrum (if we want to call it that) is biologically real, it is only the human categorization into (more or fewer) groups that is lossy. But this is the case with nearly everything, including color, yet we wouldn't say colors are a social construct and there's no physical difference between red and blue. Especially since those "muddy, unscientific" classifications correspond so well to observed genetic clusters.
I wonder if the exact phrasing has varied from the source, but even then if "consultation partners" is doing the heavy lifting there. If it was something like "useful consultation partners", I can absolutely see value as an extra opinion that is easy to override. "Oh yeah, I hadn't thought about that option - I'll look into it further."

I imagine we're talking about it as an extra resource rather than trusting it as final in a life or death decision.
How is it a better start for polar orbits than any other launch site on Earth?
For some government and commercial interactions, printing things out is the only way to get something done
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I'm not immediately aware of any studies, but I would be shocked if there wasn't a correlation. Low-income families have a higher probability of raising children in a dysfunctional home who then become a burden on the local school district. Respectable teachers then flee these schools for better opportunities. This part isn't conjecture, as I'm recounting personal testimonies of teachers who have come and gone from my town. Whether this is a widespread issue, or how much of the problem it represents, I cannot confirm.
> invented references that just don't exist"...all I can say is "press X to doubt

This doesn’t include lying and cheating which LLMs can’t.

On the other hand AI is used to solve problems that are already solved. I just recently got an ad about a software for process modeling where one claim was you don’t need always to start from the ground up but can say the AI give me the customer order process to start from that point. That is basically what templates are for with much less energy consumption.
Out of curiosity, why VOA and not the BBC or something else?
https://nitter.net/skdh/status/1905132853672784121

For those who have Twitter blocked.
I’ve been playing with Gemini 2.5 pro throwing all kinds of problems that will help me with personal productivity and it’s mostly one shoting them. I’m still in disbelief tbh.
A lot of people who don’t understand how to use LLM effectively will be at an economic disadvantage.
That seems somewhat tangential? Some people think that it would be right if the costs of slowing down climate change would be disproportionately borne by “the billionaires” (since they disproportionately benefited from economic growth and barely pay any taxes anyway).

Said billionaires obviously would disagree with that due to obvious reasons..
It’s a relief to hear this is common. I thought this was user error or a consequence of frequently filling up the internal SSD thus nuking the index.
You’d be right if it wasn’t a search engine.
> Literally every chat interface says something like “LLMs are not always accurate”.

In small, de-emphasized text, relegated to the far corner of the screen. Yet, none of the TV advertisements I've seen have spent any significant fraction of the ad warning about these dangers. Every ad I've seen presents someone asking a question to the LLM, getting an answer and immediately trusting it.

So, yes, they all have some light-grey 12px disclaimer somewhere. Surprisingly, that disclaimer does not carry nearly the same weight as the rest of the industry's combined marketing efforts.
The major difference is in PCB, every single track has to abide by the rules, no exceptions are allowed if you want your board to work.

While AI-generated art is full of small defects which people are just ignoring, who cares about non-natural shadows or unrealistically large fingers.

It is possible to iteratively combine AI with DRC checker and loop until all is good, but it's not obvious to me that this would be performant enough, or if this system will stay in some sort of local minimum forever once the circuit is complex enough.
> Some style guides recommend "space, en dash, space" for this

The last paragraph of the article also addressed the subjective nature of spacing around the em dash:

> Spacing around an em dash varies. Most newspapers insert a space before and after the dash, and many popular magazines do the same, but most books and journals omit spacing, closing whatever comes before and after the em dash right up next to it.

As far as the selection detail, did you mean that you replace an em dash used like a comma or parenthesis with spaces and an en dash for specific highlight performance issues? Surely the spaces and an em dash would alleviate the selection highlight behavior and not muddy the waters of when to use an em vs. an en dash?
Dagger is a frustrating time sink – it's interesting for what should be boring infrastructure. I've wasted too many hours debugging low-level details of buildkit and dealing with leaky kernel abstractions instead of building actual products.

Nix, Bazel, and similar alternatives may have learning curves, but they provide clearer guardrails and more predictable outcomes without exposing so many implementation details. I deeply regret the time I spent working with Dagger.
Games were indie smash hits – but what happened next?
Also there is/was Radio Free Asia.
> would you rather the LLM make up something that sounds right when it doesn't know, or would you like it to claim "i don't know" for tasks it actually can figure out?

The latter option every single time
There's a purple adapter too that came with some keyboards. It looked like it came out of the same molds, so I suspect it's a similar situation.
> That's why I've consistently said that LLMs give me a 2-5x productivity boost on the portion of my job which involves typing code into a computer... which is only about 10% of what I do

This explains it then. You aren't a software developer

You get a productivity boost from LLMs when writing code because it's not something you actually do very much

That makes sense

I write code for probably between 50-80% of any given week, which is pretty typical for any software dev I've ever worked with at any company I've ever worked at

So we're not really the same. It's no wonder LLMs help you, you code so little that you're constantly rusty
I never ask a typical human for help with my work, why should that be my benchmark for using an information tool? Afaik, most people do not write about what they don't know, and if one made a habit of it, they would be found and filtered out of authoritative sources of information.
People think the property market in Hong Kong and China is going to collapse. And much of the asset price can be attributed to real estate.
> no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage)

FWIW you can massively improve things by just disabling the internet results. It's easily done in the System Preferences
Many American school districts are funded by property taxes, and access to higher quality schools is valuable. It follows that communities with more desirable schools would also have more desirable housing.
Given the number of people who still right align texts with spaces or tab if they are professionals I think for mist people programs like Word and LibreOffice Writer are overkill
I long for a modern NeXTStep-like OS. A polished, consistent, solid operating system that is lean, clean and simply focused on getting things done. It should be predictable in every way and never get in your way. None of this SwiftUI bullshit, Animoji, AI or blurry UI. sigh
Point is that if the 1% were forced to pay significantly more the 99% wouldn’t have to give up as much.

Hard to expect that the overwhelming majority of the population to collectively agree to willingly reduce their QoL when income inequality continues to grow.
> 100,000 repositories on the total number of repositories per owner for both user accounts and organizations.
Uh, no, there are plenty of people who complain about both affordability and availability of parking, sometimes in the same sentence.
Also, when using your laptop microphone, for the love of god don't wipe invisible crumbs from your keyboard every 5 seconds. I don't know why this is such a common tick, but the amount of times I had to repeatedly ask people to stop fidgeting with their device mere centimeters away from the microphone is just way too high.

It's honestly a pet peeve of mine when people consistently lack audio etiquette. Communication is a huge part of our job, remote work is a godsend for work-life balance, it should be the bare minimum to just mute yourself when you're not talking and in general being mindful how much sound interruptions you're repeatedly causing in group meetings.
I generally agree it’s decreased steadily but I also remember macOS 9 and early X versions especially being pretty buggy and having awful performance.
Ha, good point, and an interesting question: What kinds of dashes did Dickinson intend?

It's a hard one to answer: We could look at published Emily Dickinson books from the time, but did Dickinson really pay that close attention to or have that much control over the type?

We could look at Dickinson's actual personal documents, but if they were handewritten, distinguishing dashes could be difficult even if there was intention there.
If only this profound mechanism can be easily testable for social interaction.
> with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms within the four kingdoms of fungi, animals, plants and protists.

This bugs me so much. The four-kingdom system should have died out decades ago, it's absurdly wrong. For one thing, fungi and animals should be together (opisthokonts) if you're dividing eukaryotes into the major groups. If you consider genetics, there's no such thing as "protists", they're just a whole bunch of small things that were grouped together because we didn't know otherwise.

It's more like, Archaeplastida, Excavata, SAR supergroup, Amoebozoa, and Opisthokonta at the moment. The exact list is up for debate, and currently undergoing change. There's plenty of weird things like Hemimastigophora and we're not really sure where they fit yet.
Obviously to a mega super genius like yourself an LLM is useless. But perhaps you can consider that others may actually benefit from LLMs, even if you’re way too talented to ever see a benefit?

You might also consider that you may be over-indexing on your own capabilities rather than evaluating the LLM’s capabilities.

Lets say an llm is only 25% as good as you but is 10% the cost. Surely you’d acknowledge there may be tasks that are better outsourced to the llm than to you, strictly from an ROI perspective?

It seems like your claim is that since you’re better than LLMs, LLMs are useless. But I think you need to consider the broader market for LLMs, even if you aren’t the target customer.
very unwise, the US is the best place in the world for studying fascism