skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now put that in your pipe and smoke it!

I'm half expecting someone to come in with details about some culture or person who smoked chili powder and what it was like.
Compared with inflation, you're still losing money holding dollars.
Quickly maybe. But to do it well you need a deep understanding of the material which is something that large language models lack.
> when you think about it the brain is probably the descendant of some parasite which crawled into another organism and used the exo-organism as a puppet

I haven't heard this claim before - any specific reading I should look for?
"Melee HD" has been an in-joke amongst the community for over a decade now. It's never happening.
Just curious, porting Linux or other OS to different chip sounds like a daunting job. How do you approach the task? And I guess it's mostly about the kernel? Thanks!
No, backup and sync was rebranded to Google drive for windows
Something that I think is often not considered when thinking about mobile device usage stats is the proportions of types of users the market is comprised of.

While I don't have any links to back the idea up, I suspect that Android's marketshare is somewhat inflated by users who'd normally be using feature phones — these users don't need anything more than the ability to make cell calls and maybe text occasionally, and even the absolute cheapest of cheap Android phones checks those boxes. There's no point in these users buying even a low-midrange Android phone, let alone a flagship or an iPhone. So while these users are technically Android users, they're not really smartphone users.

Also, the difference in rates of usage extends beyond phones. I think I read some of the same reports you did and compared to iPads, Android tablets are much more likely to end up forgotten in a drawer or collecting dust on a shelf. Having a recent low-midrange Android tablet myself (for Android app dev purposes) I would guess that this is at least partially due to how ridiculously low-spec cheap Android tablets are… mine cost almost as much as a refurbished iPad 9th gen on sale but doesn't perform a fraction as well as that model of iPad. Even my old Pixel 3XL runs circles around it.
As an AI language model, I am programmed to be positive and serious. If you need help with self-appreciating humor, feel free to ask!
The Chinese room argument is by Searle, not McArthy. McArthy argues the opposite.
> "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

For me this is half of it, it's also performance. It is MUCH faster at bringing up word suggestions. As in faster than I can even reach my thumb up to type the next word there are already excellent suggestions available, and I often can type entire sentences only touching keys on the keyboard a few times.

Just the performance difference makes the iOS builtin keyboard predictions almost unusable for me (in addition to the fact that the predictions are simply much better on swiftkey).
> I'm so convinced that it's not possible to know what really happened

This argument holds up when you're looking at truly old historical facts with no good evidence. We're not talking about George Washington cutting down the cherry tree. This was 1989, in a big corporate office. There is documentation, they know who worked there when, and in which offices, there are dozens of people involved in the story, most of whom are probably still alive.

Throwing your hands up and saying "it's unknowable" doesn't really make sense here.
> At the time of removal, it had better support than HEIC!

I don't think I've ever encountered a single JPEG-XL image. Meanwhile I've encountered plenty of HEIC and never encountered a problem in dealing with them.

What annoys me more is that despite basically the entire modern tech industry being in support of- and pushing av1, 99% of the most-modern-compression content I encounter is encoded with h265. There's a good reason for it (h265's initial release was about 5 years earlier) but it still annoys me.

I was hoping at least av2 (or whatever it will be called) would be able to get ahead of h266, but I don't see that happening anymore either. Which means were gonna be stuck in the patents quagmire for a long while.

Even worse is that parties outside of AOmedia have created an av1 patent pool, despite the explicit reason for av1 being concocted is to not be patent encumbered. Most nastily, they don't go after AOmedia itself but instead sue small(er) parties using av1 to bully them into paying a license. One would expect AOmedia to bring to bear the full brunt of their collective legal departments to scare off the av1 patent leeches, but, so far, not a peep.
It's not an exaggeration to say that most episodes of the podcast could be summarized with a single sentence.

The proper summary is simply that "Phonics is a vital tool to teach many kids to read."
Growing up I had a cat--she was semi-feral (when we took her in to be spayed the doc found it had already been done, this was before trap-and-release) and had discovered that my father watched TV in the evenings and this made the window good hunting grounds for larger insects. In time I was able to get her trust and turn her into a pet although she was always far more self-reliant than a typical pet. (The idea of going to a human for help didn't seem to be within her thoughts. Empty food dish, she would try to slip into the closet where the bag of food was stored. Trapped in the closet she would simply wait for someone to open it.)
There is an easy way - reduce your withholding and then pay your taxes in a timely manner in the new year to avoid the underpayment penalty.
> More support from the state of course … Success in schools should not be so dependent on the parents

That’s the current theory and it fails. The reality is that public eduction is education at (massive) scale. There is no amount of available resources to create, say, a personalized learning environment with dedicated teachers for individual students - when you’re dealing with millions, or tens of millions of students. Parental involvement is so critical because that is the individualized focus that is needed by kids.

There is no way for you to create a public system that overcomes the success that comes out of parents who are involved and invested in their child’s education. No way.
FOSS communities won't delete their forums?
The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
> It's part of why I pay them, so I say it is.

Okay. It's meaningless in a legal context, completely unaccountable and contradictory to their own regulation.

You're welcome to insist otherwise but I don't think any just court would hear you further than that.

> Take away that option and I'm sure as shit not going to feel more free.

Nobody is taking away anything. These apps have always had the option to leave Apple's ecosystem, adding additional stores doesn't miraculously add that possibility. It's like saying that the Taco Bell opening up down the road is threatening your upscale Cantina burrito that you're eating as-we-speak.

> That's two choices

Okay, I'll amend it then. You can either use it, or you don't, or go buy an Android phone. Or degoogle your Android phone, that's 4 options.

Quit whining about liberty and put your stubbornness where your mouth is. Stay on the App Store if you insist, nobody will stop you. If you did it on a Mac, you'd probably look like a bit of a fool though. Plenty of longtime, respectful Apple devouts (see: Panic) acknowledge that the App Store is a raw deal and distribute their apps themselves. There are people other than bad actors advocating for this, as shocking as it may sound. It is possible to see the forest through the trees.
Another option is to use tooling that helps you write little languages with debugging, profiling, etc for free.

An interesting article I saw the other day: https://news.mit.edu/2023/d2x-easier-way-get-bugs-out-progra...
I don’t believe its density as much as costs and impact on lifestyle.

Make daycare, child health services and great schools universally available and cheap/free. Make it feasible and safe to get kids around dense cities quickly (excellent transit options). I suspect under these circumstances more people would be open to the idea of children.

As it stands today, having children places an unbearably high social and financial strain on people. Suburbs have been just one solution to the problem but there are others.
Only if they actually start performing at the level of OpenAI’s models. I’m not a fan of StableDiffusion, but at least their models work at general parity with private offerings. All the LLama derivatives and OpenAssistant stuff performs far below GPT-3.5 for everything I’ve tested.
Opening the widget is useless because it shows the result in the Google app (a 350MB monster) and when you click to open a result it opens in app.

You can't have your browser's features, You can't open multiple results in multiple tabs you need to go back each time.

A better option is to add the browser's search widget on the home screen, it takes you straight to the address bar where you can enter your query. All modern browsers support searching from the address bar, no need to go to google.com
You can have bad PR but if you have what people want, it doesn't matter. Nintendo won't lose sales, just like how Apple doesn't lose sales when factory workers try to kill themselves.
Even Influencers Are Scared of the Internet
It always amazes me how pulsing some electricity into a wire at a specific frequency can get you arrested lmao. I really don't understand why there's any legislation at all covering anything above 1GHz where there's enough bandwidth for literally everyone to do whatever they damn well want and not enough range to do any damage at all.
"AI answers" are a unique opportunity to have actual private "search" so to speak, since you can use LLMs on your own device. I know they are too expensive to be practical for that on phones for now, but hopefully with time Duckduckgo would be able to at least have an option for offline or self hosted mode.

Would be a selling point for their app IMO.
You can't do it from the app, its only on the WEB UI. from there click "Trade" and it will be one of the options to select(in the middle column). Hope that helps.
Apologies, I was not trying to say all bugs. But it is not surprising to find bugs in code when someone pulls in new libraries/functions/whatever to a piece of code. More so if it ships out any data to use those things.
>This is why I am not aware of anyone ever being sue or otherwise held to account for DOWNLOADING copyrighted works. They always Sue over DISTRIBUTION.

So you must have missed all the filesharing lawsuits over the last 25 years. Lots of people got sued for just downloading, not seeding, just downloading.
I would hope that Apple is going to try adding some kind of security guardrails on this. Not sure if they could do it, though.

The one really big deal with cracked phones, is that the apps can do whatever the hell they want, and many app authors (I'll bet a number of them are on this very venue) will take advantage of that.

I know that I can be circumspect, but many of my non-technical friends, cannot. They are highly likely to be manipulated into sideloading malware.

Phones, these days, carry our whole freaking life. They are lucrative hacking targets.

Many phone owners seem to be blissfully unaware. I have at least two friends, that deliberately don't engage locks or biometrics, for convenience, yet, their phones are loaded with banking apps and whatnot (I don't use any banking apps, myself).
The irony is Karpathy presents the limit/epsilon definition of derivatives in the first half hour (quite well IMO and he never actually says “epsilon”) which is very much a nuts and bolts kind of explanation in calculus.

That said, when most people say differential equations they’re usually thinking of analytical solutions which is very much not necessary for practical ML.
Ask HN: Are you using an AI powered search engine daily, and if so which?
Saw a few. Phind, You, Kagi, and probably more I'm forgetting.

Are you using one of these daily and more than Google?

Personally I'm using GPT for search more than google, but haven't tried any of the AI powered search engines.
Simple explanation is that the spelling rules are a combination of several older languages, saxon and french included. So a lot of the trick is to just recognize which language the word construction originated in.

English is phonetic; but it's also bimodal.
Perhaps the issue is related to the devaluation of "non-productive" aspects of the family associated with late Western-style capitalism.
Windows had absolutely ZERO security at the time though, appstore or not you could just go into the System32 directory and delete everything. I don't see how any appstore would have solved that, malware would have spread equally with such a poor security model.
Micro Star v. Formgen covers romhacks and mods, although I don't know if it would be decided the same today.
Here's the video summary
https://youtu.be/uPV9Gk3IC-g
China says it conducted mid-course missile interception test
Oh no, just these services still use some /dev/ and /proc/ stuff, unprivileged container doesn't have access to that. So you either have to run privileged container (I wanted to avoid this), try to pass-through all devices needed, or mount those on the underlying host OS and pass that to container as a bind mount.

For me so far there is always a decent workaround when I want to use USB device etc.. The only thing I am currently stuck with is sound in LXC container (I build kind of a VDI desktop, RDP access to a system with KDE) and struggle to pass the actual sound card through. There is some active proxmox forum thread on that so I'm hopeful.
Preliminary Study of the Psychophysiological Effects of Texting (2010)
That's awesome! Are people thinking about training it for more than just 1 epoch? I believe Gallactica showed that training for even 4 epochs is ok. Also, how amazing would be if the next gen of open-source LLM's increased context window, like adding 8k more tokens? That's probably expensive, but totally doable.
Employees being both arrogant and lazy is quite a corrosive dynamic for a company.
> it's been quite remarkable how Twitter has had relatively little issues

I didn't expect there to be technical issues.
Can I, for example, write the code components headers/structure/definitions, without detailed implementation, and still generate useful tests?
Taking the Deepest Possible Breath
> Impact they have on society is based on completely voluntary interactions by millions of users. S

So what does that change? They either have big impact or they don't.

> I can't see how a reasonable human being would possibly advocate for something so amoral.

Maybe you should look at some parliamentary discussions from the countries that already legislate for business transparency in these cases and see why they came to the positions they came to?
Yes, model composability magic.
To get into a medical trial you a) know it's a trial b) get informed that you might get a placebo c) consent to participate in the trial.

If a pharmaceutical company was discovered filling 30% of pill bottles they sent to pharmacies with placebos, they'd be sued unto the eighth generation.
I totally understand his conclusion that creative artifacts from generative AI lack a soul, on a human level.

But there’s also some objective problems with what it made as well. That entire script was devoid of anything new, like I somehow feel like I’ve seen the same thing on an NYC tourism ad or something. It’s not like the internet is lacking scripts for vlogs to be ingested as training data either.

I think it’s more that the majority of that content that was used in training data was actually boring detritus made by humans. (Ads, lost one-off vlogs, low effort school work, etc) If 90% of the content going in is boring it’ll be producing a lot of boring same-y content.

There’s obviously a market for that sort of garbage-heap content, but making something interesting requires breaking convention which I imagine is hard if this sort of safe dull content is so reinforced by shear volume.
This is a factual but unhelpful comment. I (and many many other people) have a need for an emergency fund that is liquid at short notice. Storing _all_ my wealth in investment vehicles (and possibly needing to liquidate it at an inopportune time) would be foolish. The devaluation due to inflation can be considered the "convenience cost" of such a fund.

(There's also the consideration - and, to be clear, I'm not supporting this myself, particularly since "timing the market" is often a fool's errand; but it's worth considering to recognize how your first-order reaction misses many nuances - that if you have a strong conviction that a stock market crash is imminent, then holding dollars that devalue due to inflation to then be able to buy in after the crash is still profitable)
> sort of banality

There’s a gestalt to the word in the US. If the words are parsed or translated literally, particularly for esl, I can see how it would seem very plain. But speaking as a kid from the American eighties, I don’t think “starship” is banal - anything but! It evokes for me all sorts of wonder and fantasy, probably tied to the media consumed - movies like The Last Starfighter, old Trek reruns, and books and comics.
Attention and Memory with Alex Graves (2020) [video]
Ask HN: In-editor visual mind map/graph tool for code?
I'd love a tool that lets me manually create maps/graphs between files/modules/functions in code and be able to jump between nodes. What would be even cooler is LSP support so that if code changed, the tool would be able to keep the map/graph up-to-date.

So far the closest thing I can find is a VS Code extension: https://github.com/Pjaerr/Code-Flow-Extension

Apparently there also used to be a tool/service called "Grok" that is now dead and the original domain redirects to spam: https://web.archive.org/web/20210812070223/https://www.trygrok.com/

Here's an old HN thread about Grok, which at least shows that a tool like this would be useful to others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150169

Has anyone come across a tool like this recently?
Oh i'd be really curious how that performs compared to Phind.
You live in the United States of America, which has had Google, Microsoft and Apple under it's thumb since Snowden's leaks. If you want to insinuate that Apple protects you against state-level actors, you should disprove that or at least refute their own transparency page[0].

> the grumbling from software vendors indicates it's reasonably effective.

If not the software vendors, who are you trusting to keep your best interests at-heart here?

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/
Yes. Arriving ~8:30, leaving ~15:30, working nights/weekends to make ends meet. As far as I'm the one putting my kids into their schools and taking them out at the end of the day, I am happy. I wanted to do this since I was a kid and my dad would leave to work at 06:00 and return home 18:00. Yay, psychology!
I realize data is somewhat open to interpretation... to me, seeing a ~30 min wait in the middle of April is a bad omen. I think we should also consider that most airports are probably not congested outside of certain "rush hours". So what does it mean to be congested? What's the benchmark we're aiming for?
cool. it takes like 15 minutes to sign up for one such as say https://www.viobank.com/ or https://www.baskbank.com/ which are both above 4.5% ... it doesn't have to be "most" just yours.

Park 250k in there and you're getting over $950 a month right now. Spread those chunks around multiple banks, assuming you have those chunks, and you'll have a decent modest income while these rates last.

And yes, I'm doing exactly this and no, I don't have a day job right now and yes, my overall holdings are still going up. This is an unusually good time to be holding cash.

Also I know the trivial inflation arguments about how I'm hypothetically losing purchasing power. But again I don't need hypothetical things to be bought, just mine.

Right now it's covering my bills and the number is still rising. This strategy is subject to change without notice.
In a puritanical society, vice by nature is a counter-cultural act. Especially when in one of the most hegemonic societies on earth consider sex to be the greatest taboo. This counter-culture creates a culture of pushing boundaries and exploring the unsaid in polite society.

In many cases, like how one would expose a more emotional an vulnerable verison of themselves via kink and sex. The lack of inhibitions may lead one to exposing their social and political values as well. Whether it is egalitarian equality (e.g. a lack and blending of social roles regardless of social or political identity); or an enforced heirarchy (i.e. that denegrate and or subjugate certain social and political identities).

Most porn does sits somewhere far more moderate, in-line with social values in mainstream society; monogamous and conventional man-on-woman sex where the man is a strong actor while the woman is a to be obtained and ogled.. But just because it's "morderate" does not mean it does not have a political perspective and message. Just like how many major Hollywood movies perpetuate mainstream American values by portraying them uncritically (e.g. "police and military are necessary if flawed institutions", "the highest virtue to be an individual fighting against a world that is against you", and "wealth and prestige are good and valuable things to have, up until you become an asshole."). Typical pornography uncritically accepts and portrays mainstream values and perpetuates them; especially since it is in an uninhibited.

Not to say that mainstream values are necessarily bad or need to be critically attacked or subverted in any and all media (including pornography); but merely an explanation of how porn is a social and political frontier.
I think my favorite part of this discussion is that most developers give this sort of process/code a mystical vibe. Like it's some sacred code built by a priesthood of the world's greatest and smartest programmers. Not accessible to mere mortals.

I encourage developers that work for me to just read the code and documentation. My advice to them is usually something along the lines of...

Think of how you would have done it as a sophomore in college completing an overdue assignment... chances are it works just like that
I am thinking ... if you not using it for analysis of pdf, websites, and others then use Chatgpt or Mygpt. Mygpt because it has premium features of chatgpt.
Its interesting to see, Goldman sachs equivalent product marcus is only offering 3.9% at the time of writing this. But with apple card, they are offering a much higher rate of 4.15%. I guess, the later is only confined to dollar amount from CC (credit card) related purchases. Nevertheless, I wish more CC companies do this.
You can also apply retinoids topically. What it does is increasing collagen production.
I don't want healthcare done by people, they're expensive, hard to get a hold of, and make lots of mistakes. Can't wait to have it all automated.
> Make daycare, child health services and great schools universally available and cheap/free.

That is probably a good idea but there are places where daycare is free and there's no evidence it makes a difference.
You may also be interested in the book “High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic” which, despite “digital” in the title, is really about the analog details of getting signals cleanly from A to B. http://www.sigcon.com/books/bookHSDD.html
LGA has ShakeShack now too