skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When this happens it spews confident bullshit and when I confront it, it cheerily admits that it was wrong, but can continue to produce further bullshit.

Yeah, I can't express the "aha!" moment when I observed this for the first time. Then I laughed so hard when it made very serious attempts at convincing me that it was indeed correct xD
(For the curious, I asked it about romantic relationships between characters from two unrelated video games and it said they had one)
Is Zapier untrustworthy? ITTT? Microsoft with Flow?

It’s absurd to think that somehow, just because someone works on tools that help people do things without code, that they’re somehow untrustworthy because of targeting “customers not sophisticated enough”. That’s insulting to both the service and their customers.
For windows you could start with Chocolatey and check filehippo
I think you and I have different definitions of not generally well understood. I would be impressed if more than 1 in 1000 people could describe it to the level of "it's a planetary gearbox with 2 electric motors used as inputs and outputs to control the effective gear ratio".
I know there are probably tons of horrible accidents related to radioactive material, but I wonder if this one inspired Matt Groening when he created The Simpsons between 1987 and 1989, with the famous opening sequence where Homer gets an uranium rod fall into the back of his protection suit and unknowningly brings it home.

I'm no Simpsons expert so I don't know if the incident was part of a longer episode because you can't see the consequences of such an accident in the short opening sequence, but I think it's enough to get people to ask questions about this glowing green thing, if you don't already know about radioactivity.

Maybe because the Simpsons became worldwide famous and one of the most popular shows ever, many people all around the world especially children are more aware of radioactive hazards, even when school systens fail to teach them about their danger.
Why lung cancer doesn’t respond well to immunotherapy
If you live in the Bay Area check out the "Bay Area Weekend" Podcast
Not really, since the Treasury still honors the interest of the bond. Just because someone values the purchase value lower doesn't invalid the interest rate. You just lose money if you sell it.
The real problem is majority of crops being grown for animal agriculture, which is an extremely wasteful way of producing food. We'd only need a fraction of the farmlands if we were actually eating the crops we grow. Sadly, we can't count on consumers making rational choices and politicians are not going to tank their popularity by pushing for these changes. It's the same as climate change.
> Clearly you are of the opinion that ChatGPT is useless, there are superior resources already available for any topic, and it's all just hype.
Well, then we don't need to argue this since the problem will elegantly solve itself if that's true.

I disagree though. For a lot of things it feels like I can get much better answers than Google, especially when it comes to somewhat conceptual questions.

(Also, I don't use news aggregator comments to learn things unless it's the only possible source. But if you think every blog post or YouTube video that got things wrong has a detailed errata, you'd be sorely wrong. It's so uncommon on YouTube that the practice is usually commended when noticed.)

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I never said ChatGPT is useless, lol. it's truly amazing how people can be so bad at reading comprehension yet praise AI bots in the same post.
Theorizing: If the network acquires a pattern of understanding that characterizes the correct response (in other word, if the network "groks" a topic), it will express its knowledge internally as "a correct model (small, efficient)" and "various mistakes that people often make (big, uncompressed)". In this case, the correct pattern should get by far the most reinforcement (because it's a smaller target), and should usually be selected to generate the answer unless the network has a particular reason to expect itself to be playing somebody who's mistaken.

This is also how humans learn, although we can do this process purely internally.
YouTube search is even worse. They could do so much to filter the results. But they don't. They don't even give you a full page of results. The give you half a dozen and go "Meh. Search is hard. Here is some completely unrelated videos you might like."
Pro tip: use Nightly on Firefox, it’s a much better experience
Well said. Exactly. So much hyperbole! So much click bait. It makes me dizzy.

I'm a front-end dev. I use it every day. I have CoPilot too. These things help me do my job. No question. They also help me learn better than just about any other tool.

The big one for me is that they have made me more confident taking on bigger tasks. The impact is not trivial at all.
I was (and still am) considering buying a Kia Forte, but only a 2023+ model with an immobilizer. There are rumors that Kia is planning to install immobilizers for free on impacted cars, but it's shocking that it's taken this long. I can't imagine how much reputational damage they'll sustain because of this.
I agree. I contacted Cloudflare sales for a small order of just a 100k or so per year, and they totally ghosted me after my first round of questions. No quote, no contact, nada.

I gave up and went to Fastly.

You may say my order was too tiny but even Akamai gave a response; they just didn’t have any turn key product that suited my needs.
I was surprised to recently discover that Ann Arbor, MI and its surrounding county have decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms, effectively legalizing their possession and cultivation for personal use. They are not commercially legal, so I assume you can still get into legal trouble if you're bulk-growing for the purpose of dealing them.

This is pretty much the regime I'd like to see nationwide around psilocybes - I don't think "dispensary style" commercial legalization is necessary or even a good idea, but I like the idea that people can be trusted to consume / cultivate them.

I'm mildly skeptical of the recent trend of medicalization around mushrooms and other entheogens - I think they can be beneficial, but I'm not sure that handing that benefit over to the drug/pharmaceutical industry is the ideal way to get the benefits into society.

I'm even more skeptical, though that a legalization regime like what we've seen with marijuana would be a net good, so I end up really liking the middle road approach of "well, you're not going to be able to buy it in a store, but if you want to seek it out for yourself, and don't commit any other crimes in the process, have at it."
The overrunning of the hospital system never happened. All sorts of impromptu covid facilities were constructed all around the country but never used. This was not because of the "flatten the curve" efforts - it just was not necessary.

We now know that, by far, the overwhelming majority of folks that needed medical treatment and/or died from covid had existing health - specifically respiratory - conditions that made them far more likely to succumb to the virus. The rest were elderly and at risk of all sorts of virus related deaths, including the common cold and flu.

We panicked, and overreacted as a society, and made an awful lot of mistakes and bad decisions. In the process we crushed a lot of people and children unnecessarily.

There's an entire generation of kids that are simply broken for life now. We just swept them into the next grade level and said "they'll make it up, don't worry"... except they are not making it up. There's a lot more to childhood than reading text books and solving multiplication problems - we robbed all of that for literally no good reason.

There's a lot of lessons to learn from the pandemic. Can we pass the final exam though? I think probably not...
Twitter can be profitable. It made over billion dollars in both 2018 and 2019 on revenues of $3 billion. 2020 was big loss but can blame the pandemic. 2021 was small loss but would have been profitable except for lawsuit settlement.

Without Musk, Twitter would likely have been profitable in 2022. No extra debt, no fleeing advertisers, no massive cuts. Some layoffs like everyone else is doing would probably have been enough.
> Letting people starve "to allow the market to function" is cold blooded greed.

It's no better than human sacrafice practiced thousands of years ago - entirely self destructive. This con just has more layers of indirection.
I’m still learning the language but couldn’t you use an enum containing two types to accomplish the same thing?
What happens if a wage/price spiral hits right as Boomers are moving their retirement savings into less volatile, more liquid investments to live off of?

Could they see the real value of their retirements evaporate en masse?
Show HN: Responsive Buddy: test mobile layouts of your web pages in 2 clicks
Friday night seems like a good time to share a home-cooked app (thanks to Blake Watson for the term).

Here's my own reinvented wheel for testing mobile layouts of web pages I'm developing. I've been using it daily, so I thought – why not publish it, maybe it will be useful for you too!

https://responsive-buddy.vlad.studio/
I mean, it's not easier than dividing in base 10.

I've used both extensively and this is a really odd take.
How would a civilian control and communicate with a craft that distance away? This excuse is wafer thin.
I do understand some factors, but I never noticed it being like super slow to build.

My personal project takes seconds to compile, but fair enough it's small, but even bigger projects like a game in Bevy don't take that much to compile. Minute or two tops. About 30 seconds when incremental.

People complained of 10x slower perf. Essentially 15min build times.

Fact that older versions might be slower to compile fills another part of the puzzle.

That and fact I have a 24 hyper thread monster of CPU.
Hire its citizens. No money means you'd benefit by sending them money.

But inequality is a different problem than getting through crises. It should be addressed while leaving the production incentives intact. For example, progressive and/or negative income taxes.
The article alleges that eggs are not free from killing because only females lay eggs and therefore half the chickens hatched to produce egg-laying chickens are killed because they are male.
Couldn't disagree more. Between ~October and ~December of last year, Firefox mobile on iPhone was essentially broken. The main menu would take 30 seconds or more to pop up. Switching to another app and coming back (or bringing up the control center) would result in Firefox hanging for 20 seconds if not outright crashing.

Before last October, I would have recommended Firefox to anyone who asked. Now, I would recommend Chrome for their ability to fix bugs in a timely manner.
I have the same experience with it, it's very useful, especially when you are unsure about what to even look for. I have a few theories

I suspect it's just a bias we have, most people aren't doing or creating anything, they aren't solving problems or learning new things constantly like engineers do, so chatgpt feels useless to them.

Or perhaps the problems we want to talk or learn about are just easier for an ai to answer than the things they want out of it,

or we are just better at asking the right questions to extract the value out of it, similar to how you learn to use Google correctly to find something.

I don't know I'm really confused about how some people think it's so worthless.
huh damn

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#Origins
Not really, those are just paper money and they could have gone to BoE and ask for replacement bills anyway.
This is a huge deal!

MSFT + OpenAI vs GOOG + Anthropic
You would do well to browse the threads discussing advanced forms of artificial intelligence.

Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, is artificial intelligence that can perform any cognitive task that humans can perform at a human level or higher.

It’s commonly predicted by people like Robin Hanson and Elon Musk that such intelligences would dominate the workforce. Most people will eventually become unemployable as it is always possible for a machine to perform their job cheaper.

I’ve predicted that the State and private entities will build welfare programs or UBI.
This will be done for political reasons, as the most probable alternative would be civilization scale chaos on par with any Communist revolution of the last century.

Such programs will also allow those with power to cement their power further, as the recipients of welfare could not afford to bite the hand that feeds them.
Overcast for iOS
seems like a waste of time if you're going to have to verify with Wikipedia anyway. personally I'd prefer to read wikipedia first.
I honestly feel the culture has gotten far better. Five years ago, the culture in software was unbelievably shrill, immature, politically naive, self centered.

It was like being immersed in a dunk tank of elementary school children but most of them had college degrees yet no common sense or world wisdom.

If you organized an event which was “insufficiently diverse” they would gang up on you on twitter and lynch you publicly.

I truly feel the shrillness has eased off. I think as people got older, and the political landscape changed I see a lot less of it.

I feel a lot more comfortable having based opinions publicly, the army of children seem to be much quieter now.

Before - the fear was palpable. I didn’t feel comfortable following conservatives because morons on twitter would literally comb through your likes and follows and “out you” for not being liberal.

It was so unbelievably childish and pervasive that you could literally feel it.

I think it’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be. I remember just how bad it was, especially in 2016. I think it became a parody of itself during the trump administration and my hope is a lot of people grew out of it.
> It is basically like having an incredibly smart engineer/scientists/philosopher/etc that can explain things quite well

This is the issue.
It's more like the dumbest guy in the room confidently convincing the everyone else that they know what they're talking about.
I’ve hit this (add a new number to verify) more than once. The security theatre of it all is painful.
God I wish conservatives actually self censored. This thread is hilarious . It's still illegal to hold office as a Communist in most States but yeah totally it's getting hard to be a conservative in this conservative right wing nation
Language Modeling and Encryption on Packet Switched Networks (2006) [pdf]
Arguably the war in Ukraine was influenced by the unrest against Lukanhesko after his poor handling of covid-19...and by Russians thinking that was yet another example of NATO attacks against their security.
I'm seeing a consensus on do use Microsoft bing which just can't be right
It’s only as good as the information it harvested. In a space where less true information is available, the results would be quite poor.
Better garbage? More convincing bullshit?

Are we winning?
While it's cool and all to want to work on AI+Robots, because obviously that's where this thought is coming from because who wants to actually work in the fields am I right?\s
I think it's more important to think about market fit and margins of farming, in what world is introducing a complex, expensive machine to an already thin margin industry a practical solution?
The reason it's inefficient and wasteful isn't because "they're some hicks who need the righteous engineer to come and save them with their brilliance" its because its fast and cheap
title refers to Louisiana (a little known state in the US), not Los Angeles or any other 'LA'.
To Prevent Cancer, More Women Should Consider Removing Fallopian Tubes: Experts
It is climate change.
ty for ur kind words! <3
> for not daring to allow their precious children to hear the words you and tube

The original commenter added more info in a reply in this thread that might've taken some of the steam out of this remark:

> I haven't banned the kid from Youtube, just didn't specifically direct them there. Except for a few times. I think we looked up sign language tutorials (that was a big deal 3-4 years ago) and some drawing tutorials for watercolours.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639799
https://archive.ph/HX4hm
What's interesting is that chat models like this can really act like a mirror to one self (knowledge, reasoning,..ect) not perfect but the reflection is there, and articles like these clearly miss that point and their lack of self awareness is so apparent.

They are gleefully delighted when they pick some anecdote ad absurdum to say something (to the uncharitable effect of)

"You all are so stupid... I AM SO SMART ... Look how smart I am for showing you how dumb you are..."
> So, specialization?

Basically yes. But that works with dynamic dispatch (trait objects) as well as static dispatch (generics).

> Not sure I understand.

A specific pattern I'd like to be able to represent is:

trait AlgorithmAInputData {
...
}

trait AlgorithmA {
trait InputData = AlgorithmAInputData;
...
}

trait DataStorage<trait AlgorithmA> {
type InputData : Algorithm::InputData;

fn get_input_data() -> InputData;

}

fn compute_algorithm_a<Storage: DataStorage<AlgorithmA>>() {
...
}
That would be cool. I've been looking for a way to have to re-download a game every time I play it. And native games just run at way too high an FPS...
Not their problem... They are just paying for it and suffering with the bad rep... Not their problem tho
You're thinking of AIG.
The solution is simple but the shareholders won’t like it: remove third party sellers.
Reading and going on a hike (on a weekend! Read damn it) once in a while is extreme?
Came here expecting a Haiku.
Do human parasites in human poop spread to more humans animals fed on plants fed on human poop, or only of humans eat the plants fed on human poop?

Can the parasites be filtered away?

Also, couldn't NK parasites be explained by a general lack of health and hygiene technology in NK? Parasites are a major problem in large parts of Africa too, but are controlled when medications are deployed.
This is amazing I had a browser plugin called flutter years back that was able to do webcam gesture recognition for scroll and forward/back. This is using threejs so I wonder how much is CPU or GPU and also how well this could, now or in the future, run under the hood in the background of a web game (or WebXR!) just as the input device and without too much overhead. Great Proof of Concept !!
At least in the us the first thing ruthless competition does is eliminate all competition and establish a monopoly like position. Every industry wants to consolidate to 2-4 players that split the market and don’t compete
to properly search youtube, you have to use google with "site:youtube.com"....
I think all of books on the list is on archive.org

Fun part of archinve.org is that they have a lot of copies of these books. I remember reading a copy of Rhetoric by Aristotle and it had a lot of marginalia. Turns out that it was a scan of John Adam's personal copy. It was pretty cool to read the thoughts and underlines of a founding father on such a foundational work.
How is it bad for privacy?

Before:

Download all metadata, Download xyz package

After:

Downolad xyz's metadata, Download xyz

They already know you are using xyz.
I think this is mostly because longer range
sounds like a great thing when you don’t have
hundreds of missiles to defend against.

You're optimizing for the wrong thing. Today's missiles are extremely lethal and good at finding their targets. The challenge is getting close enough to launch them without getting killed by other aircraft or ground-to-air defenses. Ground to air defenses are getting cheaper and more lethal all the time.

If you take human pilots out of the equation, obviously this changes things (your aircraft can be cheaper and you worry less about losing one) but not entirely. You still have to figure out how to deliver the missiles without getting shot down and while remote piloting is cool, it's still subject to jamming and such.

Minus the cool swirly anime effects, pilots certainly do have the option of firing multiple missiles at a given target. Fire one missile from beyond visual range, wait, and then fire another one. This is very common in DCS, which is obviously not reality but is a pretty decent simulation according to a lot of actual pilots. Not sure what actual fighter pilot doctrine is there and if that's a real world practice as well.
Exactly. You're mark-to-market red on your bonds, since if you tried to sell your 2%-yielding bonds in a market where new bonds yield 4% obviously your bond will be worth less than what you bought it for; but you'll still continue to receive those coupons at 2% for the lifetime of the bond.
I use FF as my daily driver (but I'm also a Linux desktop user so take my views with a grain of salt lol) and I can't say the experience is any better than Chrome. But honestly I think that is probably the best thing that can be said about it. It works just as well as Chrome for all of my use cases and it isn't run by Google.
This war has one primary cause: Putin. Anything else is a very distant secondary.

COVID caused Putin to isolate and become paranoid, but it's still Putin's fault, not COVID's.
> Tape Gateway stores virtual tapes in Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, protected by 99.999999999% of durability.

That’s a lot of 9s.
There is also "about:performance" which will tell you resource use by page.
In Firefox Developer Edition Desktop, I was able to

- Quickly change search engine clicking magnifier icon top right
- Set a custom search engine keyword ("wiki" + search term in the URL) via right-clicking a search bar
- View download speed of an ISO file
- Zoom images in and out, both as part of a page and as a standalone file

I was not able to right-click > open image in same tab, or have different default engines in URL vs search bar. That last use case is really edge, considering they have a search bar with multiple search engines and one can set search keywords and for most people, having different engines per bar would be unexpected and confusing.
> And what’s the alternative?

Perhaps that office with 50 programmers paid $75/hour could stretch to paying their 2 cleaners $20/hour instead of $15/hour?
Well, if you have a modern sewage treatment plant it is possible to recover phosphate and ammonium (NH4+) as relatively pure chemicals at the end of the process prior to releasing the treated water back into the environment. It's a bit cost-intensive to do this however, but it might make economic sense as fertilizer scarcity grows, especially for the phosphorous fraction.

But yes, applying untreated human feces to agricultural fields is a very bad idea from the infectious disease and parasite transfer perspective. Also, many sewage streams have additional contaminants (heavy metals etc.) from industrial sources, and varying levels of pharmaceuticals of all kinds.
Noted! A lot of people have asked for a playlist support, definitely shipping that soon!
Yes. How is this so hard to comprehend?

I don't care how much a drug costs and nobody should. The reason we pay for insurance is to use it when we need it. Same goes for disability insurance. All these insurance companies will do anything possible to weasel out of paying.

I don't know a single person happy with health insurance companies that has used them extensively.

If there is a case study that shows a certain drug resolved symptoms that a physician's patient is suffering from, he should be allowed to prescribe them off-label.

US spends 18/% of GDP on healthcare, and we still have to pay into the insurance scam. I would at least expect to get the best care in the world and access to any medication my physicians desires without any bullshit.