skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, all the time. For reference-level information, I don't trust AI summaries. If I need to know facts, I cannot have even the possibility of a lying auto-complete machine between me and the facts.

Exploratory/introductory/surface-level queries are the ones that get handed to auto-complete.

I like how Kagi lets me control whether AI should be involved by adding or omitting a question mark from my search query. Best of both worlds.
Given that the norm before remote work was literally face to face interviews and being seen on a daily basis in an office, I buy the "privacy excuse" for about 5 seconds.

The level of trust is simply too low - if being seen for a few hours over a web camera is that much of a dealbreaker for a candidate, there's plenty of candidates to take their place.
Open any random site without an ad blocker and it is clear that nobody cares about well optimized sites.
The Bitter Lesson has a few things to say about this.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
There is a vaccine, which works against SA (including MRSA of course) as both a prevention and a cure: https://www.eapteka.ru/goods/id123804/ The old and mostly unknown legacy of the Soviet medicine. $50 per 20 doses.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586901.
It's 100% PSC (their "Performance Culture")

You're not encouraged per se to ship half-baked features, but if you don't have enough "impact" at the end of the half (for mid cycle checkin) or year (for full PSC cycle) then you're going to get "Below Expectations" and then "Meets Most" (or worse) and with the current environment a swift offboarding.

When I was there (working in integrity) our group of staff+ engineers opined how it led to perverse incentives - and whilst you can work there and do great work, and get good ratings, I saw too many examples of "optimizing for PSC" (otherwise known as PSC hacking).
office space of course!
Status page shows nothing: https://www.paypal-status.com/
It's a picture of the motorcycle in front of a picture of the guy that made it with the motorcycle off in the distance. So it's not a picture of a motorcycle, it's a picture of a picture. So if you want to show a picture of the motorcycle, removing the background would isolate the motorcycle.
You aren't wrong; but I stand by my claim. For one, plenty of things are actually difficult optimization problems that people don't give any passing thought to.

But, more importantly, the amount of cycles that would be needed to text-wrap most websites is effectively zero. Most websites are simply not typesetting the volumes of text that would be needed for this to be a concern.

Happy to be shown I'm flat wrong on that. What sites are you envisioning this will take a lot of time for?
there is still the folate and magnesium citrate. and of course vitamin c. It's not completely useless without pulp.
We could start by not having a bulk rate for ~spam~ snail mail. Charge them double, perhaps. Especially political.
Is there a 'right' way to use AI in art?
yes, I never got into using chatGPT a lot for example

but I will stay I have started to just use the AI summary at the top of Google though although it is wrong like I searched "why is the nose of a supra so long" and it started talking about people's faces vs. the car which granted yeah it's not a nose but yeah
Yes, their worst fear is people figuring out that an AI chatbot is a strict librarian that spits out quotes but doesn't let you enter the library (the AI model itself). Because with 3D game-like UIs people can enter the library and see all their stolen personal photos (if they were ever online), all kind of monsters. It'll be all over YouTube.

Imagine this but you remove the noise and can walk like in an art gallery (it's a diffusion model but LLMs can be loosely converted into 3D maps with objects, too): https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/07/generative-ai-sp...
Lunary: Production Toolkit for LLMs
This article actually has a very appropriate link to another piece they wrote about Trump's executive order trying to seize control of elections. The insinuation of the parent poster being that there will be no more fair elections. I'm inclined to agree with them.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trum...
GPT is completely useless for most of my daily searches. Searching for specific content on a site? I can just put in site:domain.com keywords and get useful results without having to read useless overview paragraphs about the site in question.

Image searches without having to describe every minute detail of what I'm looking for?

Bah, even some searches that are basically looking for wikipedia/historical lookups....so much easier UI in Google Search than chatgpt's endless paragraphs with unclear sources etc.

For some things Google's AI results are helpful too, if not to just narrow down the results to certain sources.

There's no chat interface helping any of this
I drink water in the US every day just fine, I don't think there's anything cultural going on here.

No one drinks coffee or tea or beer or wine in Italy? Pop culture has deceived me.
> is really a bad concept in this space, where you get limited shots at releasing something that generates interest.

It's a really bad concept in any space.

We would be living in a better world if Zuck had, at least once, thought "Maybe we shouldn't do that".
AI Chatbots Are Like Observational Comics
HR, marketing, sales, management, office space, servers, licenses, insurance, etc.

It seems on the high end, but not too unrealistic.
EPUB is HTML.

https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/
Or a phisher could buy the ad slot or game the search results to publish a fake login page to phish credentials. This is why 2FA is not really optional anymore for anything of value.
Largely, yes. I also challenge if it would be measurable for the size of most sites.

Typesetting all of wikipedia? Probably measurable. Typesetting a single article of wikipedia? Probably not. And I'd wager most sites would be even easier than wikipedia.
MMA fighters did a lot of cool stuff during the Pride days

https://www.sherdog.com/thumbnail_crop.php?image=http://www....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkV8TohDyGA
As an aside, wikimedia is switching all their chart support from vega to echarts.

I'm not an expert on either, but my impression is that vega tries to do literally everything using a custom json syntax which can get confusing and unwieldly. Echarts is a bit more straightforward at least for the simple case.

Vega has a questionable security track record which is concerning if you let untrusted users define graphs.
Yeah I take this as bad news, as a user. I dread the inevitable enshittification. Hopefully open source UX over Wireguard is close-enough to as good by the time they drive me away that losing them isn't too painful.

Took a project I'd been putting off and putting off because I knew it'd eat half a Saturday, and made it a 20-minute affair from signup to having everything done, including adding some devices to the network that I wouldn't even have bothered to try adding on my own.
It looks like they may have some official methodology that may not be changed for political type reasons?
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Sweden and Germany have phantograph-powered semi-electric trucks [1] that would make this less of a factor. The trucks do the bulk of their driving off grid power with batteries for exits/lastmile components of the drive.

[1]: https://www.carsguide.com.au/oversteer/phantograph-scania-tr...

Tom Scott video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg
Tangent, but does anyone know why links to lmarena.ai are banned on Reddit, site-wide?

(Last I checked 1 month ago)
IMO an example of a good use case for an LLM, which would be otherwise very hard to search for, is clarifying vague technical concepts.

Just yesterday I was trying to remember the name of a vague concept I’d forgotten, with my overall question being:

“Is there a technical term in biology for the equilibrium that occurs between plant species producing defensive toxins, and toxin resistance in the insect species that feed on those plants, whereby the plant species never has enough evolutionary pressure to increase it’s toxin load enough to kill off the insect that is adapting to it”

After fruitless searching around because I didn’t have the right things to look for, putting the above in ChatGPT gave an instant reply of exactly what I was looking for:

“Yes, the phenomenon you're describing is often referred to as evolutionary arms race or coevolutionary arms race.”
One thing I don't like about LLMs is that they vomit out a page of prose as filler around the key point which could just be a short sentence.

At least that has been my experience. I admit I don't use LLMs very much.
Uncloud: A Fresh Take on Workload Orchestration
I agree but no one makes headlines or sells books by talking about nuance and moderation so we get terrible advice from magazines and 'professionals' and all get steadily less healthy.
I've really wanted to write a clickbait blog post article to post on HN [0] with the title "Hackers don't use LLMs". You've pretty succinctly summarised how I feel about the subject with your last paragraph.

[0]: not that I write blog post articles anyway, it's just a fantasy day dream thing that's been running through my head
Dying is maybe a strong word, but I think it's popularity is dropping. Couple of newer backend languages eating it's share of the pie, like Go or Typescript.
I believe this trend will as more and more colleges replace Java curriculum with Python I guess.
This is an advertisement for The Brennan Center, tailored to reach members of the current neoconservative administration by highlighting issues and concerns they align with.

It provides no actionable information, its just an "attaboy" to the state.
I use Kagi for searching the web.

I use an LLM to generated regular expressions.
Is it Vibe Coding friendly?
I knew it was related, but I had assumed it did not rely on CSS. Again, I noted it was a naive view.

Granted, I probably view CSS with far more disdain than I should.
We might be getting a but pedantic about what “formal” meant at the time, but you would have had to be in that Apple culture circle to consider a button down formal. Seems normal today, but it was not back then in most parts of the world. Today I would agree that folks would already know the expectation.
Far to little effort and attention has been devoted to creating beautiful text online. The web set text back centuries. In some ways it was never this bad except for the monospaced typewriters. This is welcome indeed.
It is not always evident especially when it comes to a site all about capital accumulation like HN, more due to its association with a venture capital firm.
I use personally for my home network. Very easy to use and quite mature. I'd highly recommend.
- I was chewing gum for TMJ related problems.

Why the hell would you do that? My life time of chewing gum constantly until my 20s is what I assume to be the source of my TMJ.
You can’t be serious. Lots of businesses easily have that much just in cost of goods or marketing spend. $100M is not such a crazy amount especially considering the cost of hiring technical people.

Also note that the benchmark of “efficiency” should be a function of growth, not some absolute standard.
Hey, I'm actually in the process of building a desktop application that does this. Perhaps we could chat? I'm also leveraging IGDB. I have focused mainly on windows/Mac/Linux, with my main driver being steamdeck compatibility
I don’t see anything wrong with drinking only water.
> fresh squeezed orange juice is little better than Mountain Dew

A reasonable way to look at it is as a flat, fortified Mountain Dew. Great as a treat. Bad as a habit, at least with modern oranges.
I think Cyc should worry that I can't distinguish whether real or April Fools joke ...
It'll be polarizing. As a huge red flag that some employers will look for to hire and other would avoid. I'd shun them, but others won't.

As a hiring manager, know your team and your company. If you have to ask the question, you probably don't want them, unless you are willing to churn your team over to his ideological mates. If your organization was "dark, gothic Maga" then you wouldn't be asking.
"You can use as many italics as you want but I don’t think it’s a wildly bold claim and your counter example is simply silly."

I don't understand the relevance of any of this, but I think I've done a fair job outlining my points above. Let me give my best summary: the execution environment used by a library's (example) documentation is independent from learning the API of the library itself. I agree that newcomers to JavaScript may find plenty of confusion there, and I'm sure a decent chunk of D3's users may be new to web-programming in general, but it's not the job of D3 maintainers to account for that.

I actually think our back-and-forth is a perfect example of why open-source is so painful to work on.

D3 is one of the best documented libraries out there is. There are multiple books, hundreds of hours of youtube videos, and most importantly, dedicated maintainers
(Mike Bostock, Philippe Riviere, etc.) who've poured hours into additional sources of documentation and are very responsive on GitHub issues.

The unfortunate outcome here is that users have come to expect this sort of high-quality support and documentation (again with the italics, who does this guy think he is???). Every D3 submodule has standard api documentation, sure, but thats expected of all libraries these days. However, the additional example documentation (again, nobody got paid to make this material) for the most recent releases has been migrated from bl.ocks.org (a now defunct open-source service users didn't pay for it) to Observable Notebooks. Now, Observable is a VC-backed business, yes, but the documentation is still completely free. In this thread, you mention you don't like this, so in at least one online conversation where D3 comes up, you actively advocate against using it out of principle! (Couldn't resist!).

Of course this is just my viewpoint on what has transpired, and I'm likely articulating it in a more-inflammatory-than-reality manner. But I'd prefer to have D3 documentation in the form of free, interactive Observable Notebooks rather than to have no documentation at all. Even more so if it helps out the authors of the open-source library.

As a tip for those who have difficulties going from the reactive Observable model to vanilla js -> you can always just take an observable notebook and ask AI to convert it to a set of vanilla files for you.

PS - Sorry for the novel, at an airport!
That's part of the challenge. It's interesting being able to unwind the stack from both directions.
I'm surprised to see how many people still put music on for focused work like studying. It does not work for me at all. I'm a lifelong musician and I get way too keyed-in to the background music if I'm reading, writing, listening, or supposed to be concentrating on text.

It's most difficult when I have to read or write. When I do either, the auditory part of my mind with my "inner voice" is occupied, and I cannot multi-task. A long time ago I stopped kidding myself about my ability to multi-task.

I have music on constantly around the house when doing other tasks, but always pause playback when reading or writing.
To add, Levine's latest missive says:

Peter Navarro writes:

The US cumulative trade deficits in goods from 1976 — the year chronic deficits began — to 2024 have transferred over $20tn of American wealth into foreign hands. That’s more than 60 per cent of US GDP in 2024. Foreign interests have taken over vast swaths of US farmland, housing, tech companies..."

and:

[Foreigners] pump "so much money into the U.S. economy that it fuels economic vulnerabilities and crises." There is too much foreign demand to own our tech companies, so we have to reduce it, by making the tech companies’ stocks worth less.
The developer in such a case is only allowed to care as much as the PM.
There is no space bar on the on-screen keyboard on mobile, so it's not possible to type multiple words as well.
It boggles my mind that people still think Elon is some sort of luminary when every time he talks about something new he makes it painfully obvious that he's at best uninformed and at worst willfully ignorant.

He doesn't understand default timestamps in COBOL, he doesn't understand magnetic tape backup, he paid someone to boost his PoE2 character but didn't bother to learn anything about it before sitting down to get it deleted. He obviously believes the hype about how he's an infallible super-genius even though he's constantly provided with evidence to the contrary, and instead of embarking on any sort of inward-looking self-improvement journey he just doubles down on whatever cringe dipshit idea he comes up with next.
Once upon a time, a Chinese-made advanced technology (like a smartphone) would not just have been a pure fantasy, but a laughable joke.

Remember that scene is Back to the Future where the 50s Doc Brown scoffs at the Japanese components of the time machine?

There are a lot of vested interests that will fight for the offshore status quo, because their profits depend on it. Nothing else matters to them.
And the Book of Mormon. They are amazing.

(Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes. Thanks.)
That looks like a built-in feature. I'm asking about extensibility. How do we use custom metrics transformations (libraries), for example?
> if I cut up some oranges and squeeze the juice into a cup I can't give it to my kid because fruit = sugar = bad?

Yeah, that's fine, but a 16 ounce glass of orange juice has way more than one orange in it, and it's got a hell of a lot of sugar.
The ones ignorant enough to vote for Trump again are also ignorant enough to blame Biden for another two years.

In four years, if inflation and tariffs make the cost of living higher, then I think that Republican candidates will have problems, but in the midterm I think they can spin enough bullshit to keep the easily-distracted still voting for them. They just have to say "woke trigger the libs China beautiful clean coal Biden bad men in women's sports" and it's over.
A secular religion, replacing a million ourFatherWhoYouAreInHeaven to prevent the dwindling disease, with a milliin microfastings.. it lacks the little whips for self flaggelation though.
Is there any concrete data showing whether this has any effect on the readability or comprehensibility of text content?
Yes.

Until LLMs stop responding with over confident “MBA talk” that sounds impressive but doesn’t really say much, I’ll continue to use search engines.
Crashing the Car of Pax Americana
Nothing is wrong with drinking only water. Nothing is wrong with drinking something besides water.
I mean the reason I blew you off is that you didn't answer any of my questions.

I see this often and if you've convinced yourself that you have no control in this situation you should find a different situation. Or you should realize that you can do different things and have some control of your situation. Up to you.

> they sure as hell won't like it

What will they do if they don't like it? Does your company fire people often?

> Can we refuse to comply?

What specifically would happen if you refuse to comply?

> they simply can't do otherwise

They can't? What would happen if they did do otherwise?

Overall, someone not liking you at work is not a real consequence if it makes you happier. Plenty of people you've met in life don't like you and it doesn't bother you that much does it?
I do, but LLMs generate so much slop that ordinary search results are less useful by the week. At this rate low-background steel will be plentiful in comparison to human-written true information. Stack overflow may be dead, but it's legacy will live forever. We never knew how good we had it until we lost it.
Real AGI will need a way to reason about factual knowledge. An ontology is a useful framework for establishing facts without inferring them from messy human language.
I doubt they will have a choice given the price difference.

This is arguably a good thing because if production cost drops it should mean either higher quality or more content.
Yeah, perhaps I was a bit unfair, it's just that the problems that have gotten good results never seem to be the ones I need! C'est la vie, I suppose. (In particular, I've been working with recognizing small formal languages from samples, which has usually NP-hard, but has a surprising number of solvable cases. But my impression is that most modern work has gone into various forms of probabilistic grammars, which aren't really what I'm looking for.)

Sometimes it's also helpful to look into approximation algorithms, e.g., a good LLL implementation can work wonders for certain problems. But heaven forbid someone obtains an inapproximability result for your problem, then you're really in trouble.
Far from dying...let's just say, is no longer in the spotlight; but it's definitely there, for sure!
Definitely a lot of fun. I don't have a website of my own, but I've been plugging the URLs of ones I visit into this and the results are interesting!
That is an impossibly stupid way to look at it. Food is not just a bunch of numbers on a label.
This is interesting, what kind of prompt or preprompting do you use to get it to notice things like Grice's Maxims violations? Mine is only set up to notice some informal fallacy violations
Now I'm waiting for all AI billboards in San Francisco to be replaced with Tailscale ads
Photos from pro cameras to anywhere via Zapier.com
Elder and middle millennials are just about equally as poisoned, and we're all full of microplastics
By squeezing juice out of an orange you’re separating the unhealthy stuff from the healthy stuff. Healthy stuff then gets thrown away.
Some juice every now and then won’t hurt anyone but it’s not healthy to drink it every day.
yeah, it would be really nice if it turned the brackets around the word you guessed green and then filled it in automatically once the subclues were solved
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4109571/

We don't even know if tiny doses or artificial radiation are good or bad for you.

That's the straw that just pushed me to live my life.
It's funny, because AI companies are currently spending fortunes on mathematicians, physicists, chemists, software engineers, etc. to create good training data.

Maybe this money would be better spent on creating a Lenat-style ontology, but I guess we'll never know.
It feels like a flop because it is objectively worse than models many times smaller that shipped sometimes ago. In fact, it is worse than earlier LLaMA releases on may points. It's so bad that people who initially ran into it assumed that the downloaded weights must be corrupted somehow.
They point to the reason in the intro but don't make it explicit: it's because this is at the intersection of computing with a much older tradition, typesetting.

There's no "correct" way to typeset a document, there wouldn't even be a consensus among typesetters on what the implementation specifics look like. Rather than turn the spec committee into a decades-long ecumenical council of typographers they just left the specifics up to each individual "shop" as it always has been. Except now instead of printers it's the browser vendors needing to make the final call.