skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always had my reservations about the whole AGI thing. And while I'm mightily impressed by Chat-GPT and friends, it's even clearer to me that AGI is not, and will never be, an emergent property of LLM, no matter how large the neural net. And that was likely true for Cyc as well.

I had a particular Cyc success story relayed to me years ago by a customer (not a Cycorp employee), the details of which I cannot divulge, but it was a pretty whopping success and the customer was quite happy with what Cyc had been able to do for them.

So while no AGI, it definitely seems like there was value to be had.
A suit is just another one of those lies that people have been doing for centuries.
Strange, I have Safari open on my 8GB Base Model M1 Mac mini with 30+ tabs all the time.
The cascading aspect is mostly a big L. As is the dream of user style sheets. All the more so from the obfuscated style names so many tools saddle us with.

Don't get me wrong, there are smart people working on css. That we decided, as an industry, to treat layout as a Rube Goldberg machination of interacting rules on a growing number of elements is not something you can easily overcome.
KOReader typesets the whole book at once. It is needed in order to get page counts right, for example.
Because we have a Northern European streak in our heritage that is heavily against all that flashy casino style crud
WhatsApp Vulnerability Could Facilitate Remote Code Execution
> 3. Clipboard history

It's called the pasteboard on macOS and has been since NeXTSTEP. The way they work is a little different IIRC.
The question is why you did not do your research before posting this insultingly dismissive missive.
> The trust is completely gone

I mean, for everyone else it was never there to begin with. Hallucinations are constantly raised as the biggest issues with AI. According to the tests, and my experience, newer AI models are objectively better, not worse than the ones from a few years ago. They still have a long way to go/may never be fully trustworthy though.

What I have lost trust in, and what I and many feel has become much worse over the few years, is Google search, and all the other search engines that are based on it.
"generally, processed foods are bad"

So ... you are on a raw food diet then?

I met some people who managed this for some years, but it sounds not really practical (or healthy) to me. And they were in no better shape in my perception. Rather the contrary.

Humans use fire to process food since a long time.
This should not be an either or situation. To me, the correct answer is: both.
It doesn't have a confidence interval. We can only dream...
Asking for a list of companies in a specific sector also gives you made up tickers, or at best a list it found on some blog.

Was a bit more useful at questions like "Rank these stocks by exposure to the Chinese market", as you can prioritise your own research but in the end you just have to go through the individual company filings yourself.
When I did freelance graphic design, this was said to me. I didn't eat much that week.
Also, the ways in which a (sane) human will screw-up tend to follow internal logic that other humans have learned to predict, recognize, or understand.
> not to mention the need for better languages / runtime that give better guarantees about correctness.

Use LLM to write Haskell. Problem solved?
Or the more traditional ones: bacterias, viruses, worms, ...
I wouldn't expect much either. The potential for speedups would be if there's locality for data on either side of the multiplayer padding, or if the actors have contiguous layout and deleting the data plays better with the CPU's stride prefetching.

Significant performance degredation is also possible if at some point a smart (but not wise) developer positioned the data to eliminate false sharing on either side.

Agreed that you shouldn't be using this heavy weight paradigm with large amounts of entities. My intention was just to add a bit of color to the idea that saving memory allocations can have implications beyond just the number of bytes you ultimately malloc.
It is really effective at increasing the amount of gold in your vault, but The Wealth of Nations (Admin Smith) made a strong case against that primary goal. Crucially for the HackerNews crowd, Mercantilism increases the value of physical goods relative to services, and services becomes a smaller portion of the overall economy. Most of us sell server-time wrapped in software that performs a service…
If it doesn’t meet code, it is not architecture.
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
I made a post about this earlier but it was just the raw data from NSF.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624506

This article in Nature includes significant discussion about NSF GRFPs, their history, and trends over time. So hopefully this isn't seen as too duplicative.

EDIT: removed sentence about Research.gov data no longer available. New URL fixed in item above.
These are only exposed intra day, don't be dumb, reader.
That sounds fascinating. Please share if it's not too private.
But it provides a tool to see how and why the “nuanced, appropriate version” is actually wrong.

When one limits the choices for purchases or sales, one reduces efficiency, whether it’s limiting to products made at your home, in your city, in your state, or even in your country. It’s failed for so many centuries across hundreds of countries and attempts that it’s not even a question except among politicians stoking fear to gain votes.
You do see how discriminatory your statement is right?

Replace “wearing a suit” with literally anything else unrelated to programming skills. Wearing a dress. Having a particular speech pattern. Being old.

As soon as you start judging people for anything other than their performance you fucked up. People’s personality comes through in the interview process. By the end of an hour working with someone you should have a pretty good idea of what working with them is like, suit or no suit.
A pre-existing problem, but it's true LLMs will make it worse.
Stop assuming. Strengthening connections doesn’t mean old men are killing themselves.
You've just made me realize that I actually do need that as a macro. Probably type that ten times per day lately. Others might include "in one sentence" or "only answer yes or no, and link sources proving your assertion".
Is the coffee pot full of coffee? Is it a pot of coffee?
> By squeezing juice out of an orange you’re separating the unhealthy stuff from the healthy stuff

You’re separating liquids from solids. They each have their merits. The problem is industrial fruit produces a juice that is unlike anything in nature vis-à-vis sugar content.
Did you compare to vega/vega lite? Curious to hear how they compared!
> The only thing that we seem to agree on, is that any sort of beverage containing sucrose is bad for you.

Oooh, I guess I get to throw the wrench in that one. Endurance athletes benefit from the intake of large amounts of sugars during activity. Most sports drinks are primarily a mix of maltodextrin and fructose but the science is increasingly pointing toward something closer to a 1:1 glucose:fructose ratio being optimal at large carbohydrate intake -- in other words sucrose!

Ingested in an appropriate context, it is an excellent and easy to digest fuel source. You get to throw a couple hundred grams of table sugar into a sports bottle and call it healthy.
Remember the days of Zuck saying "going with HTML5 instead of native was our biggest mistake"? Though hardware improvements have done a lot to reduce the perceptible performance gap between native and the Web, browser developers haven't forgotten those days, and layout is often high in the profile.
At the risk of piling on (others have commented), I'll go so far as to say that there really is more information here if you make the gentle assumption of a human observer.

In the animated version, a human observer here is allowed (forced) to occupy mental states of a real-time observer. They have the experience of "X has jumped ahead - I wonder if it'll last - oh, wow, Y is really surging".

The visceral experience matters, and is impossible to recreate post-hoc if all of the info is presented up front.

(edit: "more information" in so far is it informs more - leaves more impressions on the observer)
Sure, Im not saying they’re not useful tools but let’s not buy into the hype and pretend they’re some silver bullet. Im aware they’ll change how we do programming and other tasks but I don’t think they’ll completely displace human thinking. As for art, i’m not sure artists will cease to exist either. Unless we as a species cease to exist, but then what is all this progress for?
https://retina.sh/ is a similar open source tool for Kubernetes.

It's early and has some bugs but seems promising.
The US manufactures more than ever, and the % of GDP in manufacturing has been flat for 70+ years now. The jobs didn’t leave, so they’re never coming back. They got automated. Just like we need vastly less farmers than in 1900 to farm more than ever, we need vastly manufacturing jobs to manufacture more than ever.
If my level of reading attention is New Yorker-level copy-editor attention, we have fallen greatly.
This is not my area of expertise so take this with a grain of salt, but my initial instinct was to question why you would need to store the tsvector both in the table and in the index (because the tsvector values will in fact be stored losslessly in a GIN index).

The PG docs make it clear that this only affects row rechecks, so this would only affect performance on matching rows when you need to verify information not stored in the index, e.g. queries with weighted text or queries against a lossy GiST index. It's going to be use-case dependent but I would check if your queries need this before using up the additional disk space.
Maybe 200 doctors at prevailing medical school rates? That’s not an obscene amount.
Throughout the entire 20th century the main determinant of a Consumer Reports rating for a car was whether you could put a wheelchair in the trunk. Hopefully the AI agent industry does not sprout a similarly worthless metric.
Isn't that what llmarena does?
How would that help me? My work laptop doesn't have 512GB RAM, not even 10% of that.
IMO - verbosity, typing and compilation all get in the way of teaching a lot of the basics (logic, control flow, scope, functions, objects). With JS/Python, I think students can make small wins faster which helps them stay motivated. I say this as someone who watched 3 people decide CS wasn't for them after taking intro classes that focused on Java.
Interesting! Please post source.
Not necessarily. You hear plenty of stories of companies who raised money they never ended up needing to touch.

What matters is why. Is it because growth is so bonkers that your burn stays minimal/zero despite increasing costs? Or is it because you don't spend anything and thus can get by with stable revenue. VCs are very happy with the first, less so with the second.

VCs would always prefer you get to megascale with less money - the less you raise, the less they get diluted.
I use Kagi, and it's worth every penny. Google has enshittified itself into irrelevance, and ChatGPT is too ponderous.

Kagi is like Google in it's prime - fast, relevant and giving a range of results.
Thank you. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to write “we don’t need the money but are saving for a rainy day” CEO talking points and press releases for companies that were < 90 days from not being able to make payroll.
Are you saying you don't see the value in video generation? The potential for unlimited high quality and customizable content generation?
I don't share your optimism, I think as long as there are truly great games being made and the developers earning well from them, the business people are going to be looking at them and saying "we could do that". What those studios lack in creativity or passion they more than make up for in marketing, sales, and sometimes manipulative money extraction game mechanics.
Global Electricity Review 2025
The Ghibli style took humans decades to refine and create. All that respect and adoration for the craft and artists and the time it took, is now gone in an instant, making it a shallow trivial thing. Worse is to have another company exploit it with no regard for the ones who helped make it a reality.

The threat of AI produced art will forever trivialise human artistic capabilities. The reality is: why bother when it can be done faster and cheaper? The next generation will leverage it, and those skills will be very rare. It is the nature of technology to do this.
I haven’t used 2.5 pro just 2.0 pro. It was inferior to OpenAI (which isn’t that good).

My ranking openai > grok 3 deeper > Gemini 2.0 pro. All have been terrible for the 100 or so times I’ve used them (all SWE / finance related in some way)
Shame that management is deciding that listening to marketing is more important than the craftsmen they push it on.
> But, more importantly, the amount of cycles that would be needed to text-wrap most websites is effectively zero.

I've measured this, and no, it's not. What you're missing is the complexities of typesetting Unicode and OpenType, where GSUB/GPOS tables, bidi, ruby text, etc. combine to make typesetting quite complex and expensive. HarfBuzz is 290,000 lines of code for a reason. Typesetting Latin-only text in Times New Roman is quick, sure, but that doesn't cut it nowadays.
NOTE added, 9pm EDT: This link to the award lists is currently broken. I don't know if this is simply an issue with research.gov serving up the data or if it has been intentionally removed from public view.

EDIT: Research.gov seems to have been updated/changed. Now available at:

https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwar...
Here’s an idea, get rid of cryptocurrencies and the need for KYC basically vanishes.
I wonder how much of Netflix infra is on AWS. Feels like building a castle on someone else's kingdom at that scale; in light of the Prime Video investment, and I guess twitch too.
I had to wonder, with a call to eliminate the essay along with standardized tests, what's left? Grades and random selection?

Having said that I often felt like it is a better use of everyone's time to have specific questions for applicants, rather than an ambiguous statement for an applicant to guess at what the committee is looking for, while the committee interprets that guesswork as a stimulus-free projective test. The committee gets to be straightforward about the types of questions they want to ask, and the applicants doesn't have to play the guess-the-committee game quite as much.
using Kagi makes me appreciate how many of my searches are region specific. Kagi seems so incredibly dumb in this regard compared to Google
> ... I exclusively use ChatGPT for any kind of search or question.

This constrains the search space to whatever training data set used for the LLM. A commercial search engine includes resources outside this data set.

Using a search engine for responses to natural language questions is of dubious value as that is not their intended purpose.
Even if they were subject matter experts, it's mentally exhausting to judge these things, especially if it's just for a RLHF contracting gig and you're not actually using the report for real work. Even honest and motivated testers would be tempted into relying on surface "vibes" + no immediately obvious whoppers.

OpenAI's Deep Research seems oddly restricted in the number of sources it uses, eg repeating one survey article over and over. I suspect it is just too draining and demoralizing for RLHFers to check Deep Research's citations (especially without a formal bibliography).
How suspicious, no longer available. I seen the other post you commented on and wanted to see the data but the data is no longer available.
Off topic but this kind of content marketing is excellent for any startup that tries to get its name out compared with a well-known competitor, like it is the case here with ParadeDB.
Missed a basic one: ability to assign names to workspaces. I use an idiotic workaround using stickies, this seems to be the only solution.
> military protection and a stable currency are some of the most complex exports

And how come that always seems seem to come wrapped in ways that inexorably seems to concentrate wealth, so that the benefits of those exports seem to be less evenly distributed?
Automation increases production efficiency. Jevon's paradox says this will generally increase consumption, and in fact it has, so US consumption has gone up but production is flat. The difference comes from increasing imports from manufacturing in China. If the US manufactured the additional stuff instead of importing it, it would have more manufacturing jobs than it does now.
The broad Australian Government ( the "they" of the above comment? ) didn't .. but the then Australian Prime Minister personally very much did so.

Initially in the public sphere he was forcefully calling for an independant body with "powers equivalent to those of a weapons inspector to avoid another catastrophic pandemic" while rumoured (ie leaked gossip) to be channelling the worst US Trump first term sinophobia in phone calls to world leaders drumming up support.

I separated Australia from the then PM Scott Morrison delibrately, in a number of ways he acted as a law unto himself not as a representative of the nation as a whole.

I accept that his off the record attacks on China are hearsay, but to those that followed the people and attitudes they make sense and account for the reactions of China that shortly followed when the off public record discussions made the diplomatic rounds and got back to Xi.

Even the Chinese got on board with an international investigation:

Last night the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a European Union motion calling for a "comprehensive, independent and impartial" investigation into how the pandemic started and the international health response.

A record 137 countries — including both Australia and China — ended up co-sponsoring the motion, giving it overwhelming international endorsement.

~ Wed 20 May 2020, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-20/wha-passes-coronaviru...

that wasn't the cause of Australia - China falling out.

That was the public insinuation that COVID was an engineered weapon and the behind the scenes name calling and accusations from the Australian PM.
KernelFaaS is a serverless execution layer running functions in kernel with eBPF
A lot of manufacturing doesn’t have the market cap to gain investment in the US, lathes included. The total annual lathes sales are <$50b/yr, so you’d have to corner the global market to make it into the Fortune 500. Maybe you could get investment, but you would need killer patents and a working prototype first.
But RoR does support having node integrated and it was the default for a long time. tailwindcss-rails could've just used Node.

Instead your application is now packing a 100M binary just for your CSS framework. Even when you are already using Node.

I see no benefit, imagine if every component of your application shipped its own runtime. Imagine if erb in RoR packaged its own version of ruby. That would be crazy right?
Ymmv. Know your language and how it treats such functions on the low level. It's probably fine for Javascript, it might be a disaster in C++ (indirectly).
then raise minimum wage for these workers.

then if you tell me "cannot afford it, not realistic", we can conclude immigrants were not the problem.
This just sounds like cases of performative management. Very lazy implementation of what to them is just"productivity-future-tech" of the moment, so they can say "successfully transitioned into AI-driven development" on their CV's. AI is just software and it either fits your strategy or it doesn't. In the same way no company succeeds simply because it started using software, no company is going to succeed simply bcs they started to use AI.
Stopped using chatgpt a while ago, use search engines almost exclusively
theres just no mechanism to my knowledge to ban links sitewide, esp small sites (vs normies) like lmarena
> Is american culture just less tolerant of it?

Yes I think so. These flashy gamified things are considered kitsch. Designers here prefer lots of white space.
Link here, for reference. https://github.com/antvis

It seems good, but their docs websites are absolute trash (though they've seemingly gotten somewhat better recently - they were previously completely unusable).

e.g https://g6.antv.antgroup.com/

Overall, I think you cant go wrong with Apache.
Clickens: Bok or Not
Did you mean to respond to my comment? I didn't mention education so don't really understand how it connects.

No one is saying to get rid of the jobs you mentioned. The goal is to make it so people working those jobs can provide for their families, have health care, have appropriate time off, and generally work with dignity.

And I should clarify that most of what you mentioned fall in the "middle class" category, including building houses, driving trucks, serving food, and pumping septic tanks. Cost disease (especially in housing and healthcare) has made these less stable occupations than they should be.

College education should be accessible and affordable for people who want to pursue it. I agree that it has been way over-emphasized in recent decades and had a similar experience to you. "Get an education" was a cop out excuse to paper over the structural problems occuring underneath (while tuition costs ballooned). For sure the pendulum has already started to swing the other way though.
Show HN: Chrondb – a PostgreSQL-compatible Git-backed database [video]
In this video, I showcase chrondb in action — a unique database that supports connections via the PostgreSQL wire protocol (psql) and persists all records directly into a Git repository.

What you’ll see:
• Connecting to chrondb using psql
• Running real SQL queries
• Viewing how data changes are stored and versioned in Git in real time

Perfect for developers and engineers interested in:
• PostgreSQL-compatible databases
• Git as a versioned storage backend
• Immutable infrastructure and auditable data
• Tools for backend development, DevOps, and data engineering

chrondb brings together the relational model with the power of distributed version control!
The US is rapidly moving towards becoming the Sultanate of Dumbf*ckistan.
I almost didn't use that as the comparison for their lack of rigor, but it gets the idea across.
Positioning would come once more towers are working together, and based on current data, (again if it is widely deployed) could be down to centimeters.
Hello, the things you're talking about (previous comments, not just this) are interesting career-wise. If I studied Computer Science (long-term I do not see myself programming forever) and only have internships related in that area, how would you recommend getting into this field?
Prices for used Teslas drop in US and Britain
I would like to finally have SMB support which doesn't eventually crap out and require a reboot. Some of us do still have to interact with Windows shares.
>the gist is: When you can manufacture ships, you can also manufacture warships. When you can manufacture warships, you can protect your economy.

The counter to this thinking is that if you intertwine your economic wellbeing with your "enemy" to the point that neither side wants to sever the relationship, you won't need to build many warships. Reversing course back towards isolation in order to give yourself the option to build warships increases the odds that you will end up having to build those warships because you have now made it easier for both countries to go to war.