skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favourite memories of my travels to Japan was when in Kyoto my buddy and I were standing at the corner of... I think it was Shijo and Karasuma? And we were heading to Sanjo (I may have mixed Shijo and Sanjo up, don't mind it), and I had just double checked on a map that we were heading the right way when suddenly a guy on a bike saw us standing there with our map and stopped. He decided to tell me and my friend about all the great places around Kyoto to go see temples, buy souvenirs, get a good drink, and so on.

A ways through his explanation someone else came up to us to ask us where we were going, and told us that our destination was simply straight ahead, and after saying our thanks we just kept listening to the guy rattle on. That kind of thing is what I really like about travelling, being a couple of thousand miles away from home, just listening to someone go on a ramble about whatever they think is interesting to talk about.
Some can do Ethernet through a dongle!
For the reason I already said.
TikTok is transforming the music industry. Is that a good thing?
So much hate for this article in the comments. Are we really such a one sided community?

This article makes some great points which hurt to hear but should be addressed if we don't like them. Economically, it is true that paying and maintainer who is already trying to spend lots of his time on open source isn't going to make him spend more time on it. You might still be a jerk if you don't pay him, but we should address the fact that this is true to some extent.

It's also a great point that helping open source maintainers maintain their product can sometimes be better than payment to achieve your goals. What open source maintainer would turn down the help of some intern willing to write all the unit tests?
Perhaps being farther away from the cruft is the point with such broadcast stations.
People just accept 1-200 ms delays as adequate, and it's a shame. I recently booted up a Pentium 3 900 Mhz machine with Windows XP sp3 installed, and it felt like it reacted faster than I registered my original action.
I got a cheap CO2 sensor from Amazon, and put a fan in my window blowing outward.

That was enough to lower CO2 levels to the bottom of the sensor's sensing range.
One could argue we are drowning in garbage regardless? Most online content is very average. Maybe it’s a good thing because we won’t need to store so much junk as the AI can be more ephemeral and answer as we need?
I've come to realise that schizophrenia and autism are just slightly more extreme modes of two aspects of animal consciousness.

In the first, your prior expectations about meaningfulness are dialled up; in the latter, they're dialled down.

In that it seems autism is a kind of "literalism of the data" and schizophrenia a kind of "literalism of the interpretation".

Being somewhat autistic myself, I have always had a very negative reaction to "idea literalists" (religious, superstitious, transhumansist, crypto-blahblah... and AI-hype).
Have you tried to use GPT with some specific requests for functions or classes? Then if you find an error, just tell them to fix it?
The Uses of Friction
Yes, I know the quote. My point is the quote is deeply wrong, as is any argument using it as support.

My view is that you think this kink you describe is far more common than I do. I want to see evidence supporting your view.

We know the BBC developed programs for "man appeal", as seen in the choice of the very name "Emma Peel" in The Avengers. We can look at "Hill's Angels" in Benny Hill, or Leela of the Sevateem in Dr. Who (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_(Doctor_Who)#Conception ) to see what the BCC in general viewed a "dad appeal."

These Moog dancers don't fit that mode. I mean, the second dance ends with about 40 seconds just watching the cameras, which have crowded the frustrated dancers off-screen. How is that "dad appeal"?

Yes, there are bare midriffs, but that's all that's needed for "dad appeal" then there are far easier and cheaper ways to do it.

And the third video is in mostly in half-darkness with the women in flowing dresses, where if the goal is to "check out the bodies of some young, fit, conventionally physically attractive women" then it failed miserably.

This looks like standard avant-garde/modern dance, which has it own audience. A small one, yes, but that's why these shows aren't common.
This is crazy. If you're really doing this (and I don't have any reason not to believe you), something has gone horribly wrong as a society. If the only thing keeping people from ripping each other off on routine business transactions is (probably still fakeable) evidence gathered by filming yourself constantly like receiving a package is a reality show, then one of the parties to this transaction should not be in business anymore. The fact that it isn't speaks of deep corruption.
Especially the part where it's "looking for updates"! Sometimes lasts for minutes. What the hell. I wonder what's there to look for?
I'm not getting that at all from your link.
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It's ironic that for all our cheering of democratization of creation, we turn back to gatekeeping (video harder to produce than text) in a search for quality.

Although maybe that's more a comment on the inevitable end state of democratization of creation + centralization of search/discovery + monetization of traffic.
I think their point is the definition of "processing" would also likely cover collaboration (i.e. you could stop AI training etc but you still wouldn't be compliant)
>precision mouse pointer control while sitting on a couch

>why is this not a solved problem

Despite tech products & startups offering increasingly frivolous solutions to equally frivolous problems, the "I love solving hard problems" crowd hasn't quite reached the point of wanting to risk it big to help you click better from your sofa.
I like the look of Hetzner's pricing and while its VMs and SSDs seem to have pretty good performance, its block storage volumes are basically unusable for most applications, I was seeing 70-80 IOPS and something like 4mbps in fio.
I think the question is what happens when you're able to 10x all software engineers but don't have job market demand to match the 10x increase. 90% layoffs? Maybe not 90% because these processes aren't perfectly efficient or evenly distributed, and also because you can increase productivity without affecting demand to some extent, but what's the %? 30-50%? That's still huge.
When the headline asks yes or no, it’s always no.
Your post led me to an interesting little quick experiment.

So in 2020 I self-taught Python during Advent of Code. I remember remarking that official python.org results seldom made it to the top of Google searches. I was used to Java and Julia searches taking me right to the official sites.

Anyways, so an experiment just search for "[language] [feature]". I ended up with W3Schools as my top result for "Java ArrayList", but Oracle JDK8 docs for "Java Socket". "Python Socket" takes me to language reference but "Golang Socket" does not.

Maybe there's a trend to be discovered.
They use LPG for heating and cooling already. The battery isn’t needed for that, so a wood stove wouldn’t change anything.

Their primary issue is that there just isn’t much sun light in the winter. Not only is the duration very short, maybe 7 hours total per day, but the angle of incident is extremely low (sun doesn’t rise very far), making shading a serious issue. Conversely electricity consumption will be higher because lights need to be on longer, due to the reduced daylight hours.

To top it all of, be so far north also means the intensity of sunlight is lower, so the energy delivered by a each sq meter of solar panel is lower compared to a similar panel near the equator. Put that all together, and collecting enough energy for functional illumination, and pumping water can become a real challenge.
> It's absolutely hilarious to see people who hate Elon react this way. You can't compute someone you respect disageeeing with you.

The fact that you jumped to this conclusion when I said nothing to indicate how I feel about Elon in my only comment on this entire thread says a lot about where you're coming from.

Anyhow, the fact that his comments were:

"[I am] 100% convinced that he is trying to help the world in all of his endeavors"

"He's trying to help the world on that front because he believes in free speech and its power for democracy,"

and

"how he goes about it is not how I would do it."

should give you a pretty clear read about where he lands right now:

1. Reed at least publicly believes Elon is coming from a good place

2. Reed disagrees with the methods Elon's using.

3. "Brave" and "most creative" contextualized by the statements above are given a neutral tone and meaning.

Tldr: Reed basically said "he's coming from a good place but his approaches are bad"
While surprisingly banning a class of services that few others ban is a problem in itself, what's a bigger problem is that a) the ToS doesn't mention it b) it's enforced without warning.

If these are not toy projects, outages can get expensive (due to networks imposing penalties on nodes that don't fulfill promises, or trading getting messed up).
I was in a similar boat (I turn 50 soon) until recently. An opportunity to switch to architecture came along and I jumped at the chance. Fast forward a few months and I'm loving being a IC with zero line management responsibility. Maybe that could be a way back for you?
I took the Awair back because it was inaccurate.
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When you're making a return, Amazon has a field that allows you to say that the product delivered does not match the purchase (the wording is not quite that, and they have a few variants). I don't feel like there's a need for a chat if the form already allows me to say that and do not require sending any pictures. They could follow up if they felt the need, before issuing the return code.

Amazon has a bad process for these cases and seems not interested in fixing it.
With content from humans, there has to be sufficient motivation to produce a significant quantity of coherent garbage (since it takes time and effort) which means that you can trust by default because intentionally generated garbage is rare unless the topic is one of the niches where there is motivation for it (e.g. politics, history related to politics, and sales). Like, sometimes people do put in exceptional effort to fabricate something as a practical joke, but that is sufficiently rare that you can ignore it in your daily life.

Without AI-generated content, cookie recipes would be "safe" from that, since only people who care about cookies would bother to write up articles about them - but now you suddenly have to mistrust all sources of all information, which is a new thing.
What is the difference between causal projection and just not having enough data to determine the structure? Is it just that someone has picked sides and thus tests a slightly different graph?

Also I've noticed that many substack articles are doubled up. I read the article, and then it repeats itself. What's up with that?
"Goblin Mode" Isn't a word. Its two words. Goblin. And Mode.

I've also never heard anyone use the term before now. And reading the article, it seems it had a brief popularity on Twitter back in March and then faded away. Does that really qualify something as the word of the year?
TSA now wants to scan your face at security
I think there’s also some rent seeking with reducing costs on captured customers to get more profit per user.

This cyber Monday I bought some stuff through Amazon and through Walmart and other vendors. Walmart has been much quicker than Amazon. And even brand stores like adidas has beaten Amazon on fulfillment and shipping.
What is the indication AI will develop exponentially like that?

It's just an hypothesis, not founded on anything concrete.

There might not be any path from GPR-3 to GAI, even GAI on ant or bird level.

A smart AI might not be smart enough to improve itself significantly.
If your fraud detection cant do anything with name, address, phone number, and credit card and you need Drivers License/Passports then you probably need to pay for a better one.
The stories aren't just SEO-pandering. They're copyright-pandering: https://www.chatelaine.com/food/food-blog-recipe-storytellin...
If anyone is interested in the opinion of an actual CDL holder, I think the technology has amazing promise and will eventually be adopted for many kind of CDL driving. I used to work for a public utility company (water/waster water), and we had a fleet of about a dozen or so dump trucks then we used whenever we had to dig something up. These were big machines, full size tractors with a dump bed instead of a fifth wheel (the mechanism that semi tractors normally have installed to tow trailers). They also served to tow flatbed trailers loaded with a backhoe, out to the dig site.

Now these machines never left our service area. They were always parked in the same lot every night. Putting in charging infrastructure in that lot would be trivial, and would almost certainly cost less than maintaining our own diesel storage and pumping infrastructure (which we did do because it saved us so much of our working day to be able to fuel everything up in the morning instead of having to drive to a truck stop before starting the work day).

A lot of trucking is local or regional. Those will be the markets that EV makes the most sense for. Where the trucks normally go back to the same lot every night, and the owners can cheaply put in slow charge infrastructure. Could we get EV trucking working for long-haul (a kind of trucking I've also done in the past)? Sure. It will require fast charge infrastructure though. 500 miles is a lot of range, but in long haul trucking, very often you operate in two driver teams, and your truck is always moving. Fast charging could solve that too, but perhaps the solution is to reduce the number of miles that freight spends on the road. Multi-modal shipping could be expanded. Use trains to cover large distance, and try to keep road transportation of freight to the regional level and local level. This is already an option that exists. Multi-modal is already a sub-industry in trucking. This seems like the most logical option to me, but I'm not an expert. Just somebody who has lived the industry for a few years.
I told it three sentences about the company I work at, and asked it what kind of features we should implement in our internal processes. It actually gave quite reasonable suggestions, some of which we've either implemented or discussed earlier. Some suggestions really weird, of course.

But even if not "intelligent", it kinda worked as a very specific search. Someone has probably written loads of how to do tasks similar to ours, this gave a distilled answer on things to explore further.
I never understood how that requirement is compatible with the First Amendment. How is that not compelling speech by the OSP?

OSPs don't have to host content they don't want to host... but if content gets taken down, and then a counter-notification is submitted, the OSP is then required to restore (read: host) the content?
"This is a noble pursuit—I wish we would civilize the women in my home country on the subcontinent."

OwO
I agree 100%. If one were to apply Hanlon's razor in those circumstances, one would have to explain how such entities always seem to come out on top from their "stupid" actions.
This is exactly what happens right now except the content moderators are employees of the platform. The world hasn’t ended. I want the process that every platform already implements but it works the same across the internet with public complaints, a formal dispute and restoration process, and the decision not depend on the temperature of the particular platform’s moderators.

HN’s flagging system is more aggressive than what I want with less oversight. If you feel like you have freedom of expression here then surely HN but with a looser grip ought to be even more, ya?
I still had to -

A) Scan everything

B) figure out what portion of it needed expensed

C) Fill out expense form

D) send to my manager for approval

After it was sent off, Accounting might just decide to not pay it because no receipt for the coin-op laundry machine I used, when I pointed out it was coin-op laundry, they just shrugged, and then approved it. Meanwhile, while they dicker I'm sitting on multiple thousands of dollars of expenses.

Other issues were making sure I had the correct form, multiple approvals, etc. Now before this process, we used all the same forms but printed out.

Using Concur -

A) the the app to scan my receipts

B) attach receipts to company card expenses

C) deal with some drop downs for some stuff concur has flagged out of process

D) send to manager

Now I lost my per-diem in this, but they cover everything now with the exception of tips to the housekeeper (I've just not tried it yet).

The downside is any payments from the company now take multiple weeks, lol.

Using the excel process, would take me about 1-1.5 hours per week of travel, under Concur its about a about .5-.75 hours per week of travel.
Many people are surprised at the advancement of AI, as they thought that generative fields (art, poetry) would be hardest for AI to excel at, whereas “simple” tasks like driving would be easier.

What we are actually seeing is that AI is useful to the degree that being wrong is okay. AI’s mess up, and that’s okay with poetry because a human can quickly read the poems and pick out the good ones. It’s not okay when driving.
Not GP, but I assume either is going to be noticeably worse than no fire at all, a closed log burner better than open. It's not going to stop me enjoying a fire though.

I think they're way under-appreciated, by my calculation they're almost at gas boiler prices in terms of £/kWh of effective heat (currently paying 6p/KWh of gas) - and perhaps particularly as someone living alone, 'spot heating' is great - so cosy by the fire in the evening, way hotter than I'd want to heat the whole house (room even) with gas. I just wish I had one in my bedroom (& perhaps bathroom) too, I wouldn't even need central heating (well, maybe I shouldn't be so confident before Jan...).
I think the most interesting point about this article is not the observation that we're going to or already are drowning in algorithmically generated garbage content but the fact that such content is starting to be fed as input to LLMs.

This could lead to emergent/unexpected behavior for the whole system.
I am not a lawyer but in the USA at least, if I understand correctly, if someone sends you something didn't request it's yours to keep for free

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/business-gui...

Search for "unordered merchandise" on that page. Also see "Substitutions"

As I said, I am not a lawyer, but I've always took that to mean if I order X and receive Y then I received Y for free. The company that sent me Y still owes me X and I have zero obligation to return Y. I never asked for Y, it's unordered merchandise.

So, if I ordered a PS5 and the send me a PS4 I get to keep the PS4, they still owe me a PS5. I ordered a 256gig iPhone and they send me a 128gig iPhone they still owe me a 256gig iPhone and the 128gig iPhone is mine to keep.

Now of course if I don't return the item, at their expense, they may refuse to do business with me in the future but at least as far as I can tell the wrong item is not what I ordered, therefore it is an unordered item. They still have the obligation to provide the item ordered or refund the money, and I have zero obligaton to return the unordered item.
This got me in the feels regarding my father, who’s bbeen my rock through and through.
Can you link one? Sounds very interesting.
No thinking person cares about "libs of tiktok". Either the account itself, or the "libs" the account "exposes". Stop being distracted by ephemeral personalities. Care more about real things. "Hate", and far less the pale imitation of hate you claim to care about, is not a real thing.
Nice that they have a link to donate to the Kaiser Fund. I feel bad for the large HMOs, they are getting screwed from all directions.
That's awesome, and appropriate.
Assuming they are otherwise physically and mentally capable, they can do it if they want to do it.

The hardest thing about life is not knowing.

Once you know that you don't know something, then you can try to know it.

I am talking as someone who spent a significant amount of my life thinking that I had to live and was consigned to living in one particular way, because I didn't know any other choice was open to me.
Creationist have argued that genes don't change, but can turn on and off to create variations. Some of them use this to claim actual observed cases of evolution are not improved species, just using what was already there. Of course that argument falls down in cases where the before and after genome is sequenced and shows new changes, but they will still make the argument.
How did you get change in expression out of that? It's a change in population.

If some killerbots started killing everyone above 4 feet tall, would you see the sudden prevalence and thriving of people with dwarfism to be an argument for creationism?
Write a sarcastic HN comment trivializing a significant tech accomplishment in the space of conversational artificial intelligence :

> Wow, another AI that can hold a conversation! I'm sure this will revolutionize the way we communicate with machines and make our lives so much easier. Definitely not a waste of time and resources at all. Keep up the impressive work!
My understanding is that it's a Faustian deal: YT is indemnified by removing its own agency in this regards. If it just follows the rules, it gets a pass. If it interprets the rules it doesn't.
Any job an assistant could do for you wasn't a very interesting job to begin with. It's like any job some codegen could do for you before. A chore.

If you can type a comment and the (current gen) AI assistant spits out a working implementation, that makes it almost a certainty that you could type it as a google question copy the StackOverflow answer. It does't invent anything novel. At least not yet.