skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Approximate approximation theory practice.
What is the limit? Article doesn't say.
How so? The government has zero control over it.
Hopefully they'll charge to read 'em too
I don't understand this hype and I feel like I'm looking at different products than everyone else is. There are very few complaints I have about Google that I think this technology helps solve, and for most of my complaints, getting summaries of searches makes the situation worse, not better. To be completely clear: even if the AI was perfect, I don't know that I want even an actual human being to sit down and summarize an answer to my question rather than show me a list of search results.

The problem with search is not that our answers aren't summarized well, it's that the quality of information returned for those searches is getting increasingly worse, and we are getting increasingly worse at categorizing or filtering that information in any useful way. And LLMs pulling information in and summarizing it for me is... not helpful? It's summarizing the same garbage, except now sometimes it also summarizes it wrong.

But it's not even an issue with the quality (although the quality of information from LLMs is also pretty over-hyped I think). Conceptually, I don't know that this is a product that I would ever want. I can't think of any time where I've sat down to do a search on Google or DuckDuckgo and thought, "You know what I want? I want these results presented to me in a less structured format using natural language and with less granular knowledge about where each specific statement is coming from."

At least Bing seems to be trying to do inline citations in some of its answers, which is a step up over Google's AI announcement, I guess?

Maybe I'm just in the minority on that. Users seem to like this a lot. But my ideal version of the Internet is one that decreases the number of abstractions and layers and summaries between myself and primary data rather than increasing them. My ideal Internet is a tool that makes it easier for me to actually find things, not a tool that increases the layers between me and the raw source/information that I'm looking for. I already have enough trouble needing to double-check news summaries of debates, events, and research. Getting another summary of the summaries doesn't seem helpful to me?

I can think of some ways where I might use an LLM in search, even really exciting ways where maybe it could help with categorization or grouping, but it doesn't seem like Google/Bing are interested in pursuing any of that. I look at both the Bing and Google announcements and just think, "why are you making it worse?" But who knows, maybe the actual products will sell me on the concept more.
Film simulations are cool. While I always take RAW images, I often use the builtin film simulation bracketing of my Fuji X-Systems to generate three JPEGs at the same time. This often gives me nice JPEGs which I can immediately pass on to family and friends, who view them on the smartphones or tablets and are happy without me doing time consuming RAW processing.

Interestingly you can generate those simulations later in camera too while reviewing your images. And Darktable has some Fuji film simulation recipes builtin too for a start.

Last but not least some sites, for example https://fujixweekly.com/, publish and review various film simulation recipes.
Some form of paralysis. They dont have a single leader who has taken responsibility for it and corrected it. CEO/SVP has too many pots on the stove.

Im legitimately asking, who is responsible for Search at Google? Prabhakar Raghavan is SVP, Search, Assistant & Ads, and I click under him, he has 8 product groups reporting to him, and none of the people are responsible for Search. Yossi Matias is responsible for Search Engineering.

https://theorg.com/org/google

It may at first come off as a laughable answer, but Google Search has been in a directionless spiral since Marissa Mayer left. Her Yahoo tenure was not well received, but at Google she cared about the end quality of the product. Her title was Search Products and User Experience. Notice how we have gone from User Experience to Search Engineering, forgetting about the people who actually use the product.
Cool! I also how a project that does image captioning: https://github.com/DavidHuji/CapDec
Eagle Eye, The Adjustment Bureau and Person of Interest contain dramatizations of "Glitch-as-a-Service" (GaaS) to alter the probabilities of future-influencing events, e.g. important business meetings.

Search terms:

precrime
predictive policing
predictive analysis
fraud detection
behavioral biometrics

Dramatization of future UK news on "smart money", https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=johnnys+cash+sm...

Eagle Eye clip on profiles, https://youtube.com/watch?v=1XQgaqOlEIc
> Opt-out is generally rejected by European privacy laws.

...where personal data is involved.

It strikes me that this proposal goes to considerable lengths to avoid collecting anything that could be considered personal data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
It can be a problem wrt occupations and other descriptions of people if there's no non-gender-neutral term to describe them - people then tend to fall back onto the whatever their cultural stereotypes are when gendering those, effectively reinforcing them. For example, when "engineer" is "el ingeniero" rather than "la ingeniera" by default.

But there are certainly much better ways to solve it that don't involve bolting on things that are alien to the language phonotactics.
ChatGPT is pretty much the definition of a troll. It's only mission in life is to keep you talking to it. To do that it has no problem with lying, confusing, and various other deceitful methods you wouldn't accept from a human.
There are over 100,000 commercial flights per day around the world. Flying is very safe but statistically, shit happens.
It’s an error. You can get around the limit by scheduling a tweet a minute into the future or using the API to tweet/reply.
Through self-awareness and self-knowledge comes right thinking, and it is right thinking that will bring peace and joy.
- Krishnamurti

What they mean to me is to focus on the questions important to me. An easier way to put it is the example of writing a book. For a long time you do a lot of research and collect information. At some point you have to start writing the book which means turning your collection into a story. Once I got in this mode, I stopped "fear of missing out" about things I was never going to learn. There's just too much. My mind is limited. I'm hopeful that AI will help me with this focus.
Yep. Everything is “tweet cannot be sent”
Retirement homes in 40 years are just going to be warehouses full of pods with people in them enjoying fulldive through infinite universes.

When you run out of money it fills with carbon dioxide, waits an hour, then dumps your body and is ready for the next one.
Sticking with my trusty Brothers printers; both color ink-jet and monochrome laser.

13 years, same drum for Brothers laser. 7,500+ pages.

6 years for Brothers color ink-jet.

Canon inkjet, went into the trash after 13 months.
And it's dead.
The quality of Google search has decreased so much over the last few years that I had to resort to using Yandex, a company that has a budget that is orders of magnitude smaller that the Big G and is under the control of a dictatorship.

Google search has two huge problems: SEO and censorship. Search for anything related to products/torrents/streams/politics on Google and your results will SUCK, due to one of the two reasons stated above.

The recent Yandex hack/leak has the cynic in me connecting the dots and, seeing how Google search seems to be facing REAL threats to it's dominance since it's creation... maybe some guys with the deepest pockets in the world are starting to enter WAR mode.

Destroying Yandex advantages on the SEO battlefield by way of divulging their parameters to the world would be the Franz Ferdinand assassination moment of the Great Search War.
Yes, it's an adaptation for a particular ecosystem.
I had a similar reaction after reading the brief description of the Swedish navy’s dealings with Russian submarines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34715500

It’s a bit strange to report on something so controversial and not make sure all verifiable claims are true…
Thank you for the thoughtful response. We disagree on much, but I respect your opinion nonetheless.

> Not giving the users a choice or manipulating them into making the one I think is right would absolutely be wrong, though.

I'll pull out just this point, though, to perhaps illustrate how different our worldviews are. I consider opt-out to be a manipulative approach.
It was mostly better.

The competition for many kinds of search terms is causing a race to the bottom. E.g. tech docs, lyrics, recipes, reviews.

That’s why Kago has a lense for “non-spammy recipe searches” — there’s just so much noise on popular, easily copyable material.

You don’t get the best site by popular vote like PageRank was known for, you get the one that generates the most ad revenue.
Setting up Seafile (file sharing and syncing) with S3 and Collabora Online
Hi everyone, I wrote a blog post about Seafile. If you are not familiar with it it's a more reliable and faster file syncing/sharing solution than Nextcloud, which you can self host. In the post I describe how to set it up with object storage (so you don't need to worry about how much disk space you need) and Collabora Online, to be able to work on office documents alone or with other people in realtime, in the browser. I had some road bumps to figure out some bits since the documentation isn't great, so I hope it can save somone some time :) The post: https://vitobotta.com/2023/02/09/self-hosted-seafile-s3-collabora-online/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic...
Some have postulated that this might be Google's Blackberry moment. On the flip side I wonder if its actually more like its Dropbox moment.

The press loves a David and Goliath story; the young disruptor versus the stodgy disrupted.[1] At that time, Dropbox was David, coming out of nowhere in a hurry and had a product that seemingly should be so obvious for Google to launch but hadn't - making Google seem antiquated and slow.

Fast forward a couple of years (aka a decade) and Dropbox is still going ok but Google Drive is by far more ubiquitous.

I guess only time will tell.

[1] Dropbox Versus The World https://www.fastcompany.com/3042436/dropbox-versus-the-world
(Lol. I was just musing today that it's scary that Twitter is still operational minus 90% of its workforce. But I guess operational is relative when this kind of thing happens now vs never in the history of Twitter. Or at least not in the last 4 years, which is the period I've been active in.)
Trivial counterpoint: you cannot correctly operate a touchscreen without looking at it (unless the display is essentially one single interactive object). Trying to use a music player via a touch screen while running or cycling is basically impossible unless you look the screen. For this purpose, buttons are better.

When defining "better" you need to indicate the metrics you are using. LM's might be "better" when measured with certain metrics, but like most things are worse when measured using other metrics.
I completely understand that there is a "big boys table" and everybody else, but the hard facts are that Russia occupied territories of a sovereign nation (Crimea/Donbass/Lugansk) and now is waging a full on war with that nation while stating random reasons (nazis/biolabs/Russian integrity/etc.). So i feel that anyone who tries to reason "Russia attacked because of X" is pretty much a Russian supporter.
And it hits close to home because potentially unless we are in NATO, we would be next.
There are numerous ways they could help, but it may not be easy. NFTs are just tokens in a blockchain. A few applications that come into mind are:

1. incentivizing reproducing builds,
kinda like Solana Validator Nodes
(this would work well w/ WASM,
but more rewards could be given
to those running a container or
MicroVM based on an OCI image)

2. DAOs for governance of an instance
(like a Mastodon instance, imagine
big ones like mastodon.social as
well as little ones) (I'm
surprised I haven't heard of
DAO-led Mastodon instances)

3. Curation - a namespace could
require tokens to get a name, just
like crypto domain name registries

4. Crowdfunding - you could buy NFTs
to crowdfund and then be left with
a token that might be worth something
Those results look excellent.
I'm trying to gauge whether something like this could potentially work in realtime, i.e. in games.
I know it inevitably depends on hardware, resolution, settings, etc but do you have a ballpark figure for how long it takes to apply this to a frame?
(And does it have a temporal aspect which requires access to frame N+k to render frame N?)
I made my original comment misunderstanding what the parent comment meant as "not knowing an ethical problem exists". I also am not talking about this specific decision, but criticizing ethical decision making in the tech industry in general.

In ethics, there is no right or wrong answers (mostly), just right and wrong methodologies. If you go the pragmatic way, you'd argue that the benefits of telemetry are greater than the downsides and implement it. If you go Kant's way, you would already have a maxim (either "never invade privacy" or "prioritize technical benefits regardless of the users" in this case) and act according to that maxim regardless of the situation. If you go the intent way, all that matters is whether your intent for the action is good or bad, in contrast if you go the outcome way, all that matters is the outcome regardless of the intent or the methods.

These are all "valid" ways to discuss an ethical dilemma. However, one must always acknowledge the dilemma. This industry, especially big tech, seems to ignore this quite often, mostly because it's very easy to see people as "just numbers" when you don't see them directly. Don't even get me started on lawmakers who are also ignoring this whole issue. Many standard practices in this industry would be straight up illegal in lots of other areas, especially where there is face-to-face contact.
If you think of them as more of a product/industrial design firm than an audio firm, it makes sense. All of their products have stood out design wise.
You know what it reminds me a lot of? CPedia. It’s basically the same concept, though, from the sound of it, much more capably executed.

I do see LLMs as potentially more useful for “fanciful” queries, like “what can I make with kale, tomatoes, and mushrooms?”
Your usage seems to be in the "large" customer category where provisioned capacity is a better deal. Algolia does have volume discounts if you talk to them, but yes the other alternatives might be a better fit.
Raw Milk [video]
No, not the last time I checked this (a few months ago).
A brief search on Mouser seems to indicate that The AVR Xmega costs roughly 2.5 times as much as other 8 bit MCUs from Atmel with comparable amounts of flash/RAM -- are there other "selling point" on-chip perpiherals significantly contributing to that cost?
A lot of people in this thread are making the "no knife no charge" argument.

The rest of us in the world live in reality and just assume the US did this.

Biden threatened it and then it happened. Shocked Pikachu face.

Sure, it could have been someone else, but does it even matter at this point?

PS some of us still remember the rainbow warrior, this move, like that move, has your yank cia stench all over it.
> focus [...] more on 'implementation' languages

Yes! I've been playing with this recently. For context, long term, I'd like a pushout lattice of theories (types, operators, laws) to get math-like locality. But for a more near-term puzzle, what might highly expressive metaprogramming and collaborative compilation look like?

There are lots of papers on say "tweak some language to add a bit more control over memory layout"... but what if you want subsume all such, concisely. To permit much more gracefully moving around implementation design space. So you can flexibly and concisely express and mixin domain "asks" - this range of values, that variant of `mod`, this handling of alu flags, "try it exact, now bounded exact, now floatNN, now run UW's Herbie to optimize float expressions", with what radix and offsets and scaling, with what intermediates, with what bits landing where manged by whom, etc. Etc - that was merely numbers. With sort of Maude-like[1] "in this scope I want imported these operators and semantics", but more composably over a higher-dimensional design space.

Apropos a sibling comment, I'm currently at compile/collaboration-time "hashmap all the things", tied in with scoping. Eg, it's not just a literal "5" ast node, it's a rich set of collaboratively and lexically expressed and inferred constraints and preferences over implementations. (If anyone knows of a rich hashmap/assoc/dict combinator library, I'd appreciate hearing of it.)

[1] err, not a great sample but: https://maude.lcc.uma.es/maude321-manual-html/maude-manualch...
There are some theories on the source of these disconnects between talent and odd beliefs. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#%22Brain_eater%22
It was an honest attempt on the crawlers' part and it was a more level playing field. If you didn't find what you wanted on lycos, you could look on Yahoo or Alta Vista or WebCrawler or something instead. For a time there were meta Search engines that allowed you to search other search engine amalgamated results.
By better they mean it enables them to be more controlling and invasive in their employees' actions and personal lives.
> A lot of what he is saying here is not strictly true. Jens Stoltenberg was the leader of the labour party and while he was not a communist, describing him as a committed anti-communist is just plainly wrong.

Would “milquetoast moderate” be more fitting? That’s at least closer to how the Labour Party operates, even though their rhetoric is more left-leaning than the other major party (H).

> He claimed that during the congratulation call from the American president he said that he wanted all Norwegian troops out of Iraq and the the mission. The Americans were adamant he did not.

He said that he said that? How brave of him.
If we lower the speed limit of every road in the country, the average speed of cars would drop even if we didn't increase the number of people we ticket for speeding.

We should change our laws to allow for more restrictions on purposeful lies that damage society. We shouldn't allow ExxonMobil to spend decades researching carbon emissions while knowingly lying about the conclusions of that research to the public. They should face repercussions for that as well as the people who knowingly spread that misinformation. I think that would be more effective than what you seem to be proposing which appears to be either limitations on recommendation algorithms or ad supported content.
... up to MaxStartups. The most important resource they'd be consuming would be the startup slots.
> I find it extremely jarring how many reputable western media outlets immediately jumped to the conclusion that Russia did it even though that made zero sense - but absolutely refused to even consider the possibility that the US or another western state could have done it.

One simple hypothesis would be that it is only an illusion that western media outlets are independent from their governments.
Doesn't the new implementation have a better architecture? Isn't architecture the point they diverge?
The correct temperature to sous vide a steak depends on the desired level of doneness. The following temperatures are guidelines for cooking steaks to different levels of doneness:

Rare: 120-125°F (49-52°C)
Medium-Rare: 130-135°F (54-57°C)
Medium: 140-145°F (60-63°C)
Medium-Well: 150-155°F (66-68°C)
Well-Done: 160°F (71°C) and above

It's important to note that cooking steaks at low temperatures for extended periods of time can result in a more tender and flavorful finished product, compared to cooking steaks at high temperatures for a shorter amount of time.

Looks great to me.
> I am using ModernDeck 2 as Twitter client

Isn't Twitter banning 3rd party clients?
I don't agree. You start whitelisting good content manually. If babygearlab is the best result for baby gear, you start hardcoding it. If seriouseats is the best result for recipes, you hard code it. If someone better comes along, they get moved up the priority list.

You figure out a way to crowdsource certain decisions and establish who you can trust. Ask them questions with right and wrong answers. You start to tackle it one product category at a time. Instead of pagerank, which was a web of who linked to who" you start figuring which voters you have who consistently turn in good feedback.

This is some form of metamoderation that slashdot tried to implement.

If you are going to be a tastemaker, stop hiding behind "the algorithm" having some mind of its own that cant be controlled.
One of the worst innovations they've introduced is returning results for things you did not search for. At this point, potentially anything is a valid search result for any search query.
Has anyone built a desk with modular rails like this (perhaps out of 8020)? I won't be buying this, but I like that idea specifically. I have a bunch of stuff attached to my desk through various clamps/screws/3M stuff, and the modular rail idea seems like it could really clean things up.
This is just hilarious to me because I imagine Spanish is like French where every word and pronoun, including the sky, a windshield and a machine gun is gendered.

It's basically like saying "we're going to be inclusive of you by calling your native tongue offensively sexist." Gee, I wonder why it's not popular.
I wouldn't mind my voice being used, but I would want ongoing royalties with a copyright ownership of my voice, so that 70 years after my death my voice might still be making my family money.
I don't trust a 21 year old to know if they've found a good spouse. I don't trust anyone to know if they've found a good spouse which is why I'd tell everyone, male or female, to have a career they can fall back to if something happens to their marriage. It might not just be a bad spouse, it might be a spouse who dies young and then a woman with multiple kids and a 10 year old vet tech degree has to figure out how on earth she's going to support herself. Life insurance only lasts so long.

I'm old enough to have seen a lot of young happy couples turn into divorced bitter singles and I can't speak to the average experience but in my circle, the women end up screwed. They've got the kids, ( the ex wanted nothing to do with the kids ) they've got no income ( the ex either has no money or is fighting tooth and nail to avoid sending any money ) and they are living off of parents, friends, and social services trying to find some job they can do part time ( no daycare ) that has a hope of supporting them.

Some of these women stayed in bad circumstances for a long time because they knew how hard it would be to manage without their spouse. Some women are still in terrible circumstances because they can't afford to leave.

> some of them were 38+ and saying they're thinking about having kids soon; there's like a 25% chance that ship has already sailed,

25% is nonsense.
I disagree with this take when it comes to safety-critical applications, especially when you are directly responsible for the safety of thousands of lives at any given moment in the day.

At the end of the day, I don't see potentially sacrificing the lives of multiple planeloads of people as a worthy tradeoff for foregoing verification that the controller is not under the influence of mind-altering substances when performing their job because it invades their privacy. Performing the job must inherently be approached with a collectivist attitude.

For other jobs where the magnitude of the mistake doesn't involve bodily harm or significant resources, I agree 100%.