skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really cool website, I know some other commenters were hating on it, but for companies like these, 99% of users are there just to learn about them, not actually buy them.
None of those things are documented. No fraud has been brought to the courts by then as far as I know. None of the cuts were massive. Any published cuts so far are a rounding error of the total, some are disputed as savings at all. Meanwhile the debt is being extended even further. And that's before considering how many of the attempted cuts were illegal themselves.

What you mean by doing it isn't actually happening.
Elwood:
What was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bullshitting you.

Jake:
You lied to me.

Elwood:
Wasn't lies, it was just... bullshit.
This hinges on denying that artists have distinctive personal styles. Instead your theory seems to be that styles are genres, and that the AI only needs to be trained on the genre, not the specific artist's output, in order to produce that artist's style. Which under this theory is equivalent to the generic style.

My counter-argument is "no". Ideally I'd elaborate on that. So ummm ... no, that's not the way things are. Is it?
While doing nothing to fix the fundamental flaws in these OSs – they easily become unresponsive on IO/network failures.
Of course, but that's sort of orthogonal to the patient base level expectation here.
https://www.independent.org/article/2021/11/22/the-new-blue-...
You would find this article from Victor Davis Hanson interesting
Many laws come down to distaste at the root. There's usually an alternative angle about market efficiency or social stability or whatever if you want to frame it that way. The same applies in this case as well.

For but a few examples consider laws regarding gambling, many aspects of zoning, or deceptive marketing.

What's the purpose of the law if not providing stability? Why should social issues be exempted from that?
You are putting a lot of pointless words in my mouth. As I said, I have actually lived the San Francisco car-free bike and streetcar lifestyle, and quite enjoyed it. So I have the perspective of why it does or does not work (for Americans). I would love to see some concrete solutions proposed here other than just the usual Cars Bad/Cars Good handwaving and downvoting.

(I just looked at Bodega in Google Maps, and it is significantly more dense than all but the most "boogie" American cities. Compare it to say Chicago.)
In my personal circle Jews don’t come up but Palestine and Israel certainly do. Why? Because 1) they were in the news and we discuss current events and 2) being in the tech industry Israel comes up frequently. Why is this an issue?
Low effort reply, really, try to put in some arguments at least.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B
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Open AI don't always have the best models (especially for programming) but they've consistently had the best product/user experience. And even in the model front, other companies seem to play catchup more than anything most of the time.
I run a flask app with an endpoint that takes a video URL and runs yt-dlp. I have a bookmarklet that submits the URL of the current video page I'm on to the web service.

Also when I'm in NewPipe on the phone I can go to a video and share the URL to an app that forwards it to the web service.
TPUs are definitely the reason why Gemini models have both massive context and very low prices. There is no nvidia tax to pay.
Releasing an open source product that improves on alternatives doesn't sound like ”stealing” or ”adding no value" to me.

They're giving away something valuable, same as the people whose work they're building on top of.
I want AI help in the OS, but I want it to be local. I don’t want to have to open a browser to ask “how do I use create a bootable partition on a USB drive”. I know the information is buried in man pages, but where to start? A conversational man could be useful IMHO.
I was wondering about the "Keilfischurkunden" mentioned in the article. Cuneiform is "Keilschrift" (wedge writing) in German, whereas "Keilfisch" would translate to a wedge fish, whatever that might be.
Having outside actors in the conversation is a strength.
Why is this getting downvoted ? Past grants for this type of research at URI, for example, are in the $4M - $8M /yr range.

[0] https://rochesterbeacon.com/2024/04/17/new-microplastics-res...
Alternative vercel deployment, but the queue seemed to pause after awhile and only refreshing via icon on the scroll bar would make it continue ..

https://retro-computing-stream.vercel.app/
I can’t speak to how others apply the LLMs, but in my coding experience they’re mostly in the way. A couple days ago VSCode released an agentic workflow similar to Cursor’s. And I must say, the YouTube demo was persuasive and I thought I’d just have to move to VSCode off JetBrains IDEs.

So I gave it a spin, and after the past couple days, it’s been the most terrible IDE experience so far. The LLMs are always in the way, I’ve got Claude 3.5, 3.7, o1, o3-mini, o4, Gemini 2.0-flash, 2.5-pro, with/without reasoning, own models. Embedded Copilot is bugged, editor/agentic Copilot is bugged - it breaks your code if you selectively reject suggestions, your file buffer gets mangled, need to revert everything completely even if something was useful. Sidebar chat can get just as confusing as before. Typescript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Go. Rust won’t even compile, and don’t get me started on C++ codebases. Never had it type-check with mypy and pylance.

In many cases even with codebases, extra MCP servers and fetching remote docs, it’s just not up to the task of making code even type check. Sometimes it just times out or fails on network errors. Very fragile, unreliable, misleading.

I don’t know what people vibe code, but for a variety of codebases I’ve had to work on, it’s just in the way, injecting nonsense or outright garbage, which I need to reject every time. It’s useful as a sed alternative, but a less reliable one, a regex is often faster than 3+ prompts and waiting. It breaks my flow of conscience, I lose creativity and need to check everything after it. Dunning-Kruger maybe.

To me that workflow is but a tailored and integrated StackOverflow, with snippets adapted to your code. Not sure how productive it is to let snippet insertions interfere with your flow, but very helpful when you forget or stumble.

The more people rely on it, the more surprise awaits around the corner the moment AI fails. Now devs rely more on the network link instead of their brain, just like when people used to vibe code using StackOverflow. Creativity is at the stake. It must be kept in tone to stay productive.

There’s a lot of work that’s a waste of time. If the goal is to replace devs, such companies will lose money in the end. If the goal is to assist devs and make them more productive, the LLMs need to adapt to take over such tasks reliably, e.g., scaffolding, standard algorithms, “best practices,” simulating and questioning design/architecture, and the UX must improve.
It doesn't let you type text on the image. That's so important! The main thing I want to do when I take a screenshot is to circle something, or draw an arrow, then type some text about the item I am pointing to.
The link at the end of the article is how I found the link I posted.

I did not break the internet by making a URL that is not a universal resource link.
Seems strange to me to feel imposter syndrome for not matching up to an elite talent… did you feel prior to this that you were the best in the world at programming, and now realize you aren’t? Is everyone who isn’t the very top of the top an imposter?
Just like Obama didn't need to add to the Clean Water Act, just conveniently change how they interpreted "Navigable Waters"
I mean - it is the best Judas Priest album and all ... but is it really necessary?
The argument I am making is that you can only say something was cheaper if it provided the same level of service or better for less money. In the case of the bus transition it provided worse service as indicated by utilization dropping. I am also making the argument that evaluating the value of transit shouldn't rest entirely on the cost of that service and ridership but on the value as a whole it brings to a city. I mentioned NYC because the evidence there (and in other cities that have implemented congestion pricing) is that as ridership goes up the economic, environment, and social health of a city also goes up. Point being, the bus transition had a very negative value impact. I will also add a final argument, as your ridership drops things like busses may appear less costly per ride simply because you are loosing volume and low volume routes are likely easier to service by bus so, again, cheaper but not an apples to apples comparison.
I hate cars. Not using my car wouldn't change any of the things I hate about cars or car infrastructure. It's not lying.
What if the cars were made really light?

Four bicycle wheels, as many batteries as you can safely put on something supported by four bicycle wheels, an aerodynamic CFRP bubble for the driver etc?

I think such a vehicle can be better than one thinks, with acceptable range, acceptable particle emissions, acceptable noise levels; and I think they could easily get to 80 km/h safely.
Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily
For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.
You can still give users a 24-hour warning at a minimum, and only force a reboot for really critical issues.
A big one is 'masking' all client requests that a proxy can't effectively cache the response since the request always changes.

The RFC explains it: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6455#section-5.3
Gotcha and that lets us avoid to expose internals? that seems like a win win win, I should totally do this!
Spam and cool. You will be discounted by users/search engines but you will have cache within the industry. Depends on who your customers are: discord users vs facebook group users
I'm using "foistware" from now on
Prot - the author - is a pretty incredible guy.
He maintains a bunch of nice Emacs packages and themes.

But maybe even more remarkable: he got kicked out of his flat in Greece, couldn't afford a new place, bought a small plot of land in the mountains and started building a hut from materials he was able to afford or from things neighbours gave him. Really the bare minimum (he often sat in his hut with a jacket in winter cause it wasn't well isolated/heated)

Absolutely inspiration, all documented on his YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@protesilaos?si=MnjV7MhKtsT5RDSM
We use it heavily for backend code, and it is a bit of a hot path for our use cases. However the biggest issue is how big the types are by default. I had a 500 line schema file that compiled into a 800,000 line .d.ts file — occupying a huge proportion of our overall typechecking time.
Numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with
No, it's more like a type reflection system, at least as I understand it. You can use it to parse types, but you can also do a lot more than that.
Or alternatively, who else could afford the licensing costs?
I suspect this is less about creating utility for users and more about leveraging existing user bases to train AI.

e.g. Most users don't want Copilot, but it's being installed by default. Unless you dig into privacy preferences and flip a lot of check-boxes, you're going to be providing data to help MS train AI by default. MS doesn't care if you find Copilot useful or even use it. Your data is still useful to their efforts to train their AI.
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Wrong code on the Internet does not steal your credit card information. Wrong code on localhost does.

But, I think we agree, anyway.
Existential dread is not unwarranted but you do need to choose the arguments that are most likely to happen, and focus your energies on those rather than be sidetracked by spurious outcomes that may never come to pass.

There are many false narratives meant to distract, and you'll have to discern which ones are true and it can be exhausting if you let it. This is how 5th-Generation-Warfare (5GW) is.

I'll tell you right now, its highly unlikely that AGI will occur, because the properties required for computation make it nigh impossible.

It doesn't need to do this to be an existential threat. All it needs to do is disrupt the economic cycle sufficiently to stall economic activity, and it does so quite easily.

An economic cycle stalling leads to chaotic socio-economic collapse and a loss of order. Current population levels are only made possible by dependencies which have been made brittle over time, relying on continued order for survival just to produce enough food. I'm sure you've heard of the Malthusian Trap, you may not have revisited later works touching on Malthus by Catton in the 90s.

The economic cycle is a circular cycle between workers and producers. We exist today because of an equitable distribution of labor which is compensated.

There is also the issue of money printing, which is too long to discuss here. Needless to say there are two requirements that must be met to continue the cycle sustainably (avoiding chaotic whipsaw and stalling). Producers must make a profit in purchasing power, People must make a profit supporting a wife and three children sufficient so that one makes it to have children themselves, also in purchasing power.

Money printing eventually causes money to lose its store of value (property), and when that happens medium of exchange is lost as well. Stalling of the economy, and same issue.

There are at least 6 other avenues by which this same outcome occurs, and they are in systems we can no longer change, its runaway. Solutions like UBI fail for other equally impossible problems, albeit they are more indirect but still end in chaotic whipsaws, distortions (artificial supply constraint), etc.

AI doesn't need to be AGI. All it needs to do is disrupt and eliminate the majority of entry level positions of the career development pipeline.

Within a 10 year cycle, collapse will become unavoidable as a matter of math. The output of a pipeline depends upon the input of the pipeline, it is always less for all values above 0. 0 in 0 out.

Man ages out of careers and die eventually. No people to mentor, that knowledge dies with them.
That little bit of light would be enormous. It would allow scores of things to be connected. It would spark literally dozens of dissertations.

If it were real, instead of an April Fools joke, which it is
then read my post again, much better ORIGINAL copies exist
The Sahara has generally been contracting for the last few decades as the "greener" Sahel band expands north due to higher average rainfall (individual years vary, and the effect is stronger in the west than the east).

A Google search will likely list articles citing the 2018 study from UofMaryland that showed approximately a 10% increase in the Sahara's area from 1902-2012, ignoring the portions of that study that said that breaking down by decade showed a reversal in the 1980's.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/31/9/jcli-d-...

Google maps timeview has a fun animation if you search for Sahara Desert. https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/
Then from what the pollution in the subway come from ?
For me it is an old version of FlyingLogic before they went subscription only.
See my comment here for why I don't think that would work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665581

There are a small number of PyPI things they require human support queues at the moment and they are sometimes overwhelmed already.
This is just inaccurate
Data oriented Cloud devs (terraform, data processing etc) which of the chat LlMs do you like the best?
cmd.exe came out in '82, so it is 7 years ahead of bash which was '89, so I think it wins.
Not to mention both Intel 30 stages deep pipeline and PPC in-order were empty MHz spend mostly on waiting for cache misses.
The joke is in the tone, not in the issues
I think a large portion of HN commenters are unaware of the consumer demand for these features.

I remember that AI voice assistants (Amazon echo, etc) had some of the fastest adoption rates among older individuals. That’s unusual for tech, which is often adopted first by younger people. The speculation was that older people were less comfortable with existing interfaces and therefore welcomed the new mode of working.

The same situation plays out with AI and software people: I see a lot of people sneering at every AI tool as something that nobody wants, but really it’s just that they don’t personally want it and therefore think nobody else should either.
yeah a director who mostly shot on film and who's work deserves a lot better than some triple compressed poor quality 360p cancer
Oh I completely agree it can be very useful. And a man page summary or collating many man pages together into a summary/answer is a great use case.
Your link just proves my point: 0 mention anywhere that the majority of work fatalities are men.

If the majority of work fatalities were women, we'd be screaming from the rooftops that "workplaces are unsafe for women"
The whole point of deploying such things on-prem is air-gapping it from Google and its "learning".
> AI is not a product, it’s a tool for building other products.

Its products like this (Wells Fargo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akmga7X9zyg

Great Wells Fargo has an "agent" ... and every one else is talking about how to make their products available for agent based AI.

People don't want 47 different agents to talk to, then want a single end point, they want a "personal assistant" in digital form, a virtual concierge...

And we can't have this, because the open web has been dead for more than a decade.
> Israel or Jewish people in general?

as a person of jewish faith, I ask that you please not falsely conflate these two completely different concepts

someone who opposes jewish people in general is bad, but someone who opposes the ongoing genocide of palestinians is good

your usage of "or" here would indicate that the above good person is grouped together with the above bad person

> If anything some of those pro-Palestinian protests were more reminiscent of the 1933 “German Firm” boycotts

structuring your metaphor like this, strikes me as an example of DARVO [0], considering what is being done to innocent palestinians. how many israelis patronize businesses based in palestine? how many such businesses do you patronize?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
Check this out: Spinning 100 Agents in Daytona
https://youtu.be/OFFFyfgO2ik we should also soon release open source speed benchmark
The pace differs though. A junior would need a week for a feature an LLM can produce in an hour. And you’re expected to validate that just as quickly. And LLMs are trained to appeal to the reader, unlike an average junior dev. Devs will only get lazy the more they rely on LLMs. It’s like you’re at the university and there’s no homework anymore, just lectures. You’re just passively ingesting data, not getting trained on real problems because you’ve got AI to do that for you. So you’re no longer challenged to grow anymore in your domain. What’s left are hard problems that the AI will mislead you on because it’s unfamiliar with them, and your opportunity to learn was lost to delegating to AI. In the end the pressure will grow at work, more features will be expected in shorter time frames. You’ll get even less time to learn and grow as a developer or engineer.
Alan Kay has once said that you get simplicity by choosing a slightly more complicated building block.

It appears to me that erlang does this.
What a sudden change of heart. Thank you, DeepSeek!
Ah, that's interesting. Although I imagine cars kick up a lot of old-fashioned dirt dust from the road and swoosh up some more of that from the sidewalks as they drive as well.
When the Conservative party (famous for privatising things) says a business needs nationalising or to be put under government control, it probably needed to happen a decade ago.
So, I agree that good standards and (to a lesser extent) algorithms come out of practice.

However, the basic point about a standard is not that it's perfect: it's a coordination mechanism. Companies go bust all the time, technology changes all the time, but if you have standard components, large parts of complex systems can be maintained indefinitely. Like, I have a rolling press that was made in 1840, and I can still replace the bolts for it, because the standard thread gauge has not changed.

I guess the nice thing about both algorithms and standards are they are the two places where the software world is not just burning people's lives on relentlessly reinventing the wheel. If you contribute even a fraction to the study of an algorithm, your work will be part of software in a thousand years. If you contribute to a standard, you are producing the conditions for a thousand other programs. Both of these things are basically common goods, and they help everyone. I think a culture of programming where it's less about founding the next over-capitalized unicorn, and more about creating a mutually supportive ecosystem, would produce very good software.
As far as I understand Firecracker, you can't do a GPU passthrough
Per capita emissions is effected by population, and historical events that influence that capita being measured, like the Covid 19 outbreak.
If you have 100,000 people living in a town emitting 100,000 tons of emissions and 10% of the population died due to happenstance, epidemiological or otherwise so you now have 90,000 people emitting 100,000 tons of emissions and the per capita rate went up despite no change in their production method or the amount of emissions they are producing.
The end user benefits are none of the things you mentioned. Mechanical watches are jewelry. They look nice, and hopefully they remind you of something. For many people it's a connection to something cool. Omega sells a lot of moon watches, and it's not because anyone buying them is going to use the chronograph to time a fuel burn with life or death stakes. You're probably not wearing your Daytona at the race track or using your Longines watch for anything Amelia Earhart or Howard Hughes did. But it's fun to think about how you have a tool with a historical connection - whether that is to history everyone knows, or something more personal to you.
I wouldn't bother with the official Gemini app. I don't know why Google even bothers with it at this point. I only interact with 2.5 through AI studio and it's great through that interface.
It's rather off topic though. To date I've only encountered dispute worthy things approximately once or twice a decade. I feel the Adobe example would qualify if it happened to me though, despite the fact that it sounds as though I'd likely lose on that one.
Using floating-point math means that it only makes it to 1.31e+308 before overflowing to Infinity. To go higher, arbitrary-precision integers are needed.
>That took dedicated hardware that only the early Atari

2600 was downright pathetic compared to TRS-80 or Apple 2

>/NES

comparable to C-64

>/Genesis

comparable to Amiga 500
Size for size they’re heavier. Maybe someday not but they are.
Hard no. I’ve had that in lots of cases, it just applied some symmetry pattern to come up with purposefully absent public endpoints that exist for employees only. It gets dangerous the moment you put as much trust in it as you’re suggesting.