skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but only for situations where the probabilistic nature is acceptable. It would be the same if you had a large team of humans doing the same work. Inevitably misclassifications would occur on an ongoing basis.

Compare this to the situation where you have a team develop schemas for your datasets which can be tested and verified, and fixed in the event of errors. You can't really "fix" an LLM or human agent in that way.

So I feel like traditionally computing excelled at many tasks that humans couldn't do - computers are crazy fast and don't make mistakes, as a rule. LLMs remove this speed and accuracy, becoming something more like scalable humans (their "intelligence" is debateable, but possibly a moving target - I've yet to see an LLM that I would trust more than a very junior developer). LLMs (and ML generally) will always have higher error margins, it's how they can do what they do.
"Senior UK police officers have called for the government to ban children under 16 from social media, amid claims the platforms are “fuelling and enabling” crime."

Do they really think this fuelling stops at 16?
Why would I use a tool that doesn't pass all tests?
> sending a RequestID to the server so that you get request/response cycles isn't weird nor beyond the pal

There's even a whole spec for that: JSON-RPC, and it's quite popular.
The NSA has been spying through Google since at least 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
Got called a "self-hating Jew" for the first time on Mastodon a year ago, for criticizing Israel.

Unfortunately for those of us in the diaspora, Israel has really muddied the waters by convincing people that anti-Israel = antisemitism, because it's given real antisemites cover. E.g., like when the ADL came to Musk's defense after his Nazi salute because he officially supported Israel.
I don’t get it, honestly. It’s very clear. You get a discount for an annual commitment and they let you pay monthly. It’s super clear which you’re signing up for when you do it. I’m in the UK, and there’s a 14 day cooling off period on the plans too, unless you buy the full blown annual one.

I’m no adobe supporter generally, and sure they could do more, but they take an awful lot of flak for people who won’t read two lines of text and then scream bloody murder.
Have you considered you internalised and normalised working in environments that are messed up 5 steps before the final problem? Crunch, angry managers, thinking "(they're) waiting for us to get our shit together" when planning/communication failed at higher level, "boss is begging us to submit the data" which has likely no impact on your speed of work, "and several hundred hours are now needing to be spent figuring out" is a thing that you have a process for and you know it can happen so the risk should be accounted for ahead of time and not surprising, "why they fucked up and why we suck" when things you know can fail do fail, "the ratings team now needs to go overtime" means more planning failure, etc.

This is toxic BS and mismanagement. It's people not accounting for and communicating risk properly. None of that anger and finger pointing makes this work faster or better. Everything here could happen exactly as it happened, but without anger, if people communicated risks properly and took the failure (which will happen) as part of the process, people would be less stressed about it, and maybe they'd make fewer mistakes too.

Maybe it was correct to progress without better data, or maybe the cost of doing that was too high. Either way, someone should've redone the schedule to match reality, so blocked teams don't get anxious. Then someone should've done the risk/benefit analysis and signed off on the "proceed with testing anyway, we are aware of and accept the risk" path, so nobody talks about fucking up, but concentrates on doing the best they can instead.
There is a large number of people that mistake generic Trump Derangement Syndrome prose for insightful analysis.
Presumably because they were discrete changes (i.e. new features), and it didn't make sense to group them together.
It’s a fee for cancelling an annual subscription that you agreed to.
Hey!
I'm excited to share a project I've been working on recently called SkillGalaxy.
It's a web tool that uses some of the latest AI models to help make learning or researching any topic easier.
How it works: You give it a prompt (like "How to paint like Bob Ross", "Explain Quantum Physics", "History of the Roman Empire", etc.), and the AI breaks that topic down into sub-topics. It then generates an interactive graph showing these sub-topics, their categories, and the connections between them.
You can click on any node (point) in the graph to get more detailed information, resources, related tasks, project ideas, or even quizzes about that specific part of the topic.
Check it out here (it's completely free!):https://www.skillgalaxy.io/

Why I built this / Key Uses:
To break down overwhelming, complex subjects into smaller, digestible pieces.
To visualize the connections and relationships within a topic.
As a tool for research, self-learning, brainstorming, or just satisfying curiosity!
Key Features:
Simple prompt-based interface.
Powered by advanced AI models.
Supports multiple languages.
Rich graph nodes (Info, Task, Resource, Quiz, Summary, Links, Project Idea, etc.).
Detailed info available for each node.
Easy Google account login.
100% Free!
Important Heads-Up (It's a Alpha!):
Generation Time: Creating a graph can take 1-2 minutes, please be patient!
Daily Limit: There's a cap on daily graph generations per user.
Desktop Recommended: It's not optimized for mobile browsers yet.
Beta Version: This is an early release, so you might encounter bugs or quirks. Your feedback is invaluable!
Zoom: Hold Ctrl and use your mouse wheel.
I'd love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think! What topics did you explore? Any suggestions or bug reports would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for checking it out!
Thats assuming lossless transpilation though
Show HN: I made a software that simplifies horizontal scaling and makes it EASY
Quantum Grid is an open-source software I started that allows you to synchronize your computer's computational power, even if the devices are overseas.

Imagine you and your friends want to train an AI, but you live far away from each other. Quantum Grid solves that problem by allowing you to receive data from a server and process it in parallel with the other devices. The processed data is then returned back to the server.

It's the first software that allows you to do parallel processing from a non-relational database (MongoDB currently!)

The tech stack I used was:
•Programming Languages: TypeScript
•Frameworks: Express.js, Electron and Next.js
•Databases: MongoDB, SQLite and JSON files
•Libraries: React, ShadCN, TailwindCSS and Mongoose
•IDE: Visual Studio Code and Cursor
I suspect part of the problem is that many people think fertility is like a step function with a sharp transition by menopause age (~45 years), when it steadily decreases since much earlier, in your 30s. Biology books in school should have a nice graph showing this clearly.
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Neat. Reminds me of https://github.com/dry-python/lambdas
It’s 50% of the remaining balance. I do agree that should be listed there.
Opera browser was not profitable for like 15 years and still became rather profitable eventually to make an attractive target to purchase by external investors. And even if not bough it would still made nice profit eventually for the original investors.
Thanks, I've come across sysbox before. But it seems it's become relatively quiet since it's gotten acquired by Docker? Moreover, I've yet to hear of anyone who has been using it in production.
To not write C
Channel 7 Lies Exposed: The Truth About My EV Fight with Australian Media [video]
"Think different" was a marketing slogan used for Apple products from 1997 to 2002, back when Apple was aimed chiefly at video editing professionals. It was never aimed at techies.

As long as suits and ties remain the uniform of politicians and managers, I don't think techies will ever willingly adopt it for themselves as well.
The plan is foolproof.
You're assuming ads would be subtly worked into the answers. There's no reason it has to be done that way. You can also have a classic text ads system that's matching on the contents of the discussions, or which triggers only for clearly commercial queries "chatgpt I want to eat out tonight, recommend me somewhere", and which emits visually distinct ads. Most advertisers wouldn't want LLMs to make fake recommendations anyway, they want to control the way their ad appears and what ad copy is used.

There's lots of ways to do that which don't hurt trust. Over time Google lost it as they got addicted to reporting massively quarterly growth, but for many years they were able to mix in ads with search results without people being unhappy or distrusting organic results, and also having a very successful business model. Even today Google's biggest trust problem by far is with conservatives, and that's due to explicit censorship of the right: corruption for ideological not commercial reasons.

So there seems to be a lot of ways in which LLM companies can do this.

Main issue is that building an ad network is really hard. You need lots of inventory to make it worthwhile.
Should adobe only offer an annual subscription up front and a monthly rolling bill? Should they not offer a discount for people who want to make an annual commitment but don’t have the cash flow for the annual spend all in one go?
> How can the average MAGA voter which waves a little flag at a rally feel ok with this?

Apparently most of them are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
Yes! I will be there in person.
AI is exposing the difference in effectiveness between communicating clearly and precisely (potentially being more verbose than you think you need), vs. leaning heavily on context.
> No.

Thanks for your insight.

It seems you need to urgently reach out to the people working on WebTransport. You seem to know better and their documentation contradicts and refutes your assertion.

https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md
> Google will need a far better LLM than OpenAI … ChatGPT is now the 7th highest ranking website on the planet

And Google is #1 and #2, with search and YouTube. Distribution is a huge part of the problem and they’ve got some great distribution options.
In the c++ world I definitely felt the on ramp. Not surprised it is easier in js and go
Don't think it's a flex, I think it's useful context for the rest of their comment.

> I and every other smart person I know still use ChatGPT (paid) because even now it's the best

My smart friends use a mixture of models, including chatgpt, claude, gemini, grok. Maybe different people, it's ok, but I really don't think chatgpt is head and shoulders above the others.
> What the author means with "transactional" is that WebSockets have no built-in request-response mechanism

Its not HTTP and does not want to be HTTP. In WebSockets the request/response mechanism is for one side to send a message and then the other side to send a message. If you want to associate a message from one side with a message from the other side put a unique identifier in the messages.

If you really want the request/response round trip then don't use WebSockets. I would rather messages just transmit as each side is ready, completely irrespective of any round trip or response, because then everything is fully event oriented and free from directionality.
An AI-Driven News Experience with a Norse Twist
i'm swiss living in berlin currently (leaving soon)

germany is a country on the rapid decline. the recently decided investment effort and the new government are a step in the right direction but wont halt or revert that decline. the country needs a BIG shock and be rebuilt from the ground up. the new ministry is just pandering / virtue signalling and won't have any effect.

some examples:

1) legacy financial holes like the pension scheme, no bandaid will save this

2) public workers safety & pension "beamtentum" - wrong incentives, wrong people, wrong mindset

3) workers rights are too strong (betriebsrat, unflexible hiring & firing)

4) taxes are ridiculously high, there's zero incentive for global talent to come here

5) bureaucracy is absolutely insane, a country run by risk averse lawyers stuck in the 1980s

6) immigration was botched so bad, they wont recover from this for another generation

7) the rise of the far right afd was handled so terribly, the trauma from ww2 is still too big to deal with it rationally, rather than calling the strongest party in the country "antidemocratic" (which ironically IS antidemocratic in itself). if they dont get a grip on this, afd will lead the country in 4 years.

8) no common identity / goal except for wanting to show being the "good guys", see misincentived sustainability initiatives, handling of israel / palestina, etc

9) weak leaders / politicians. they are all bureaucrats

10) regulation first, innovation never. see AI
A framework was recently posted here where the author was comparing how great their Rust-to-WASM client side state management could handle tens of thousands of records which would cause the JS version of their code to stack overflow...

...and yes, the stack overflow in the JS version was trivially fixable and then the JS version worked pretty well.
Maybe. But when carefully investigated, the overwhelming majority of C code does in fact use undefined behaviour, and there is no practical way to verify that any given code doesn't.
Show HN: Can You Afford This?
Horseshoe theory is one of those idiotic centrist oversimplifications that pretends extremist differences don't matter.

It's like watching the rebels and the Empire shoot at each other, and saying "There's no difference, because they're both violent."
Isn't that a great way to lose money on AWS, by linking directly to buckets?
Or it could be just microservices. One larger feature affecting 100 repositories.
> exchange rate of barrels to tomatoes hasn’t altered since that is a matter of productivity

Of course it has. We are one of the world’s largest importers of tomatoes [1]. The dollar devaluing makes them more expensive. That, in turn, means the internal price of tomatoes goes up. We’re a net oil exporter, on the other hand. So yeah—the “exchange rate of barrels [of oil] to tomatoes” has been altered. In part because the productive benefits of comparative advantage are being slashed. In part because trade frictions are being introduced that reduce our economy’s productivity.

[1] https://www.worldstopexports.com/international-markets-for-i...
How to deal with Billionaires
Sometimes the fastest way to win is to completely disengage. If these people are actually wrong all of the time, they will spiral even faster without your intervention.

Alternatively, use your opponent's momentum against them. Reorient your thinking and accelerate the destruction of their bad ideas by encouraging them.
Yes, they'd be referring to the IRS equivalent for Poland.
> CPUs get microcode updates all the time, too.

To fix bugs, sure. They don't generally get updates that contain new optimizations that radically break existing machine code, justifying this by saying that the existing code violated some spec.
While I presume they don't provide a native Linux build, it is listed as Playable on Steam Deck.

> Valve's testing indicates that Blue Prince is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.

> • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read

> • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration

> • This game shows Steam Deck controller icons

> • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
They're American citizens and our problem to handle and tolerate?

Also the US is hardly unique in deporting extremists: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/06/16/france-to-deport-n... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy48v8n389ro
Indeed, one great path to finding those lost civilizations is to follow river vallies, Atlas pro[0] says there is no consensus on past rivers/bodies of water as evident by different maps of the region, but one can follow (underwater) river sediment which were deposited to the sea. During oil search such area was found in Cap Timiris, Mauritiania. Satelite radar image of the area from 2015 did reveal those rivers beds, Tamanrasset River seems to be the biggest, with a big drainage basin. Trees and shrubs indeed grow there.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-dZj1ZdRtY
Nothing you describe is normal, healthy, worthy of emulation, or good.

I've worked in large cross-company teams on extremely complex products with millions of LOC and thirty-year-old obsolete code handling millions of US$s of bank transactions. I've been in situations where people made mistakes, systems went down, and transactions were lost. I've been in incredibly stressful situations.

Do you know what would have made none of these situations better? Anger.
> Are you implying that Google will sell a product that is designed to ‘sabotage’ their own customer’s business?

The US government is constantly telling us that the likes of Huawei and Hikvision are doing precisely that, despite being subject to the same risks of reputational damage.

Of course, the same could be said of everything else in the data centre. It's not like Google are somehow more vulnerable than Juniper or Cisco or Unifi or Dell or Intel or whoever.
> The author is essentially arguing that fewer people will be able to build software in the future.

Setting aside the fact that the author nowhere says this, it may in fact be plausible.

> That's the opposite of what's happened over the past year or two. Now many more non-technical people can (and are) building software.

Meanwhile half[0] the students supposed to be learning to build software in university will fail to learn something important because they asked Claude instead of thinking about it. (Or all the students using llms will fail to learn something half the time, etc.)

[0]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-ho...

> That said, nearly half (~47%) of student-AI conversations were Direct—that is, seeking answers or content with minimal engagement.
Shown by the video embedded in [1] (which has a screenshot at 2:00), Adobe changed their sign-up process and added those clear options after being sued by the US for deceptive subscription fees.

https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/adobe-sued-over-subscription-f...
> The burden of the proof should lie with the Israelis that they were not involved in committing war crimes.

This is the opposite of innocent until proven guilty, it is up to the accuser to present evidence not the other way around.
Simply put Google has had more time to develop a terrible data hoarding reputation.
Winning =/= won. The point is that they are improving on many fronts. If they were already recognized as THE leader there would be no point in making a HN post about it.
>I happen to work in this industry, and just a word for those that compare this with an Apple Watch or a Casio, this Vacheron-Constantin will likely be around 200 years from now, it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engineering of a fine craft that few can achieve, a highly valued item [...] The Apple watch on my wife's wrist is a fine computer i guess,

My friend does not work in the watch industry so maybe that's why she came to the opposite conclusion from yours. She has several high-end watches Omega, Ebel, Cartier ... and when she got the Apple Watch almost 10 years ago, it instantly demoted all her expensive jewelry watches to the drawer.

The cheaper "disposable" Apple Watch instantly cured her from wanting any new expensive jewelry watches. She let the batteries die off in the old watches and has never replaced them. Instead, she just loves having the weather, timers, task notifications, etc on her Apple Watch. Sure, the classic watches have "diamond encrusted bezel, gold wristband, Swiss mechanical movement yada yada yada..." but all that is negated by the useful features of the smart watch.

It's a rare situation where a cheap product completely replaces an expensive product.

I had a a similar evolution in thinking when technology made me re-evaluate products I once coveted. When I was young before the internet existed, I drooled over this Geochron illuminated framed wall map $4000 : https://www.geochron.com/clocks/boardroom/

A lot of expensive offices had that and I thought I had to have it too. But then I bought cheap atomic clocks you never had to set and the web had dynamic maps I could explore. Even the new Geochron units don't automatically set to the radio signal from atomic clocks. New technology completely cured me of wanting to buy a Geochron. People used to want tall grandfather clocks in the house foyer as an elegant piece of accent furniture. Now you can't even give away those clocks for free on craigslist. Everybody has clocks on their smartphones so buying a grandfather clock for the house isn't a priority anymore. Even if we romanticize grandfather clocks with descriptions about "heirloom furniture craftsmanship, intricate wood carvings, etc", it still won't entice most people today to want one.
I used to work in the security team at a financial institution that was still running XP until around 2017.

We got to a point around 2015 where drive-by exploit kit developers just weren't targeting XP and IE8 anymore. Phishing landing pages would roll through all the payloads they had and silently exit.
If it was about the nerdery the watches wouldn't be sold with huge margins through a rarefied dealer network located in exclusive shopping locations.

This is an item of jewellery, not a high-end custom PC.
I would say they're winning with Waymo: I took a fully autonomous taxi ride in the backseat in SF, and it just worked. No other company can currently do that, despite their promises and hype.
Historically the moderation tooling on Reddit has been overlooked and terrible. There was a lot of tooling that got built up on the Reddit API to help with this, but a lot of that got torched when they locked down the API. When you add in how easy it is for scammers and spammers to use gen AI to overwhelm moderators it’s really not a great experience moderating a community.

At this point moderators are aiming for literally any filter they have to make their task possible, you just got caught up in this arms race.