skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most exciting thing about this is the potential for better diagnosis of ASD, if there is a measurable physiological difference between people with/without ASD.

If it's just an MRI or something, you could require all children do the MRI at 3yrs old or so. Being able to do a scan and say "Yep, ASD" would be amazing. You could immediately unlock govt funding to begin early interventions* in every area necessary & significantly improve the childs situation.

*Early intervention for children with ASD has significant impact on the childs development, so if you have a child and have any concerns whatsoever(E.G. not meeting communication or social behaviour milestones), see a pediatrician immediately.
Yeah I feel all search engines have had declining quality for some time now. Not sure if it's unintended consequence of fighting bots. Or unintended consequence of trying to remove some content from the results. I'm assuming it's unintentional.
AutoGPT
What are some interesting use case you were able to execute using AutoGP, I am still having a hard time understanding how it can actually solve something really promising
isn't it just a gpt in while loop with a smart prompting?

Am I missing something here?
searx needs a shout out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx
https://github.com/searx/searx
They could also add some HBM as a chiplet to the CPU package. That would provide enough bandwidth to feed a fast iGPU and give the CPU a very nice L4 cache.
Cali EDD is a joke. I never received my paid family leave money after my daughter was born last year. Their phone lines are always full, and they don’t respond to email.
Except it cannot conceptualize reasonably. It is utterly incapable of symbolic thinking in a general sense.
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>There is no real competition in search (and in social media, and in email, and in operating systems, and in browsers, ...).

This is factually untrue. There's plenty of competition in social media and OSes, and Firefox still exists. For social media, there's Diaspora (yeah, I know, no one uses it), and for OSes you've got to be kidding: there's dozens of Linux distros out there or you can easily roll your own with various tools that are easily found. And despite its poor marketshare, Firefox still works quite well for me on Linux.

You have a valid complaint about search and email though, but for email it's understandable: the underlying protocol is broken beyond repair because its designers never anticipated spam so the current state is really unavoidable. Luckily, people have found alternatives to email and just don't use it much any more.
I would agree with both you and the author. There is always a possibility of a bad reaction and that should always be taken into account. Weed combined with beer makes me black out, not pass out, walk around not behaving like myself blackout. And yet I can handle large amounts of tequila. Regular weed use makes someone else I know hyper paranoid, mean and agressive. Simply not everybody is going to react well and there is no telling who that somebody is going to be, so those that want to try it should be aware of the risks.
Hanlon's razor is great when you apply it to your personal relationships, but it falls apart when you apply it to trillion dollar companies and their golden geese.
This comment sure does seem to have a lot of criticism of language and none for ideas
would you mind answering this question, please?

it's been ignored twice despite being kind of the key point:

> is social engineering snake oil, too?
This makes no sense. Why is a hands free book experience so much better than just using an iPad, or even an iPhone?
Plenty of reasons:

A. There are several types of experiments that could be easier outside of emacs than inside emacs.

B. If you wanted to extend the browser with Javascript instead of e-lisp, rewriting it as a node package or electron app might be easier.

C. To scratch an intellectual itch. How do you know what's possible if you don't try?

To be sure, it would likely take a LOT of time before it reaches feature parity or attracts as large a community as emacs, but it sounds like a fun project.
Sometimes that works. Sometimes you're just stuck.

For example, AFAIK, there's no way to eliminate the animation that's triggered when switching spaces/virtual desktops.
It depends on how you define "serious". If it works for 99% people with a net positive and it doesn't work at all for 1%, is it serious enough to keep the old version?

My experience says that it will get steamrolled and the 1% left hanging, looking at significantly worse solutions, or none altogether.
Yes.

(And it goes down all the way)
Let’s admit modern Reddit is probably half porn and only fans site. I don’t have quantifiable data but the way I see people on Twitter complain about porn on Twitter. I can only assume.
Congratulations on receiving two job offers! It sounds like you have done a great job of assessing your current situation and being proactive about finding a new job that will better suit your needs.

Based on the information provided, both job offers have their pros and cons. Here are some things to consider:

Job Offer #1:

Pros:

- 10% salary increase
- Mid-sized financially healthy company that is growing organically
- Opportunity to grow in leadership direction
- Relatively pleasant interviewers, especially the CTO
- Mix of legacy systems and modern tech stacks (migrations are almost done)

Cons:

- Organization is relatively flat for a company of that size
- No mention of the company's long-term vision or strategy

Job Offer #2:

Pros:

- 20% salary increase
- Growing startup with VC funding and a modern tech stack
- No legacy systems
- Friendly interviewers with a strong opinion about tech stack

Cons:

- No mention of leadership opportunities, although they may arise due to growth
- No information provided about the company's long-term vision or strategy beyond "taking over the world"

Based on these factors, it seems like both job offers have a lot of potential. However, it may be helpful to ask some additional questions to help you make a decision:

1. What are the long-term growth opportunities at each company?
2. What is the company culture like?
3. What is the work-life balance like at each company?
4. What are the benefits packages like at each company?
5. How stable is each company in terms of funding and growth prospects?

Overall, it seems like Job Offer #2 may be the more enticing option due to the higher salary increase and the potential to work with a modern tech stack at a growing startup. However, it's important to consider all factors before making a final decision. Best of luck!
It was a bad joke, I’m sorry.
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It’s incapable of thinking. But what it’s surprisingly good at is symbolic reasoning similar to human common sense.

Most people forget that there is no memory or thought independent of whatever the output it generates.

But when you ask it to follow a chain of thought and generate it in the output, the eventual conclusions it lands on is scarily human.

People asking ChatGPT for word counts and sighing at how wrong it is. Yeah of course, it has no counter variables to hold numbers and increment them. It has no memory.

But when you ask it to generate a numbered list of all the words in a passage and then output the word count, it gets it right every time. Because you basically gave it a memory by encoding the counter in the generated output.
Try to contact Mikhail (Bing CTO, @MParakhin) or Michael Schechter (Bing Growth VP) on Twitter. They are very helpful. Or Bing Head of Product, Jordi, which is very helpful on his email as well, jordir at Microsoft dot com.
Any parent that lets their kids play this is a bad parent.
Computerphile has a video that explains it very well: https://youtu.be/XZJc1p6RE78

(You can skip to the section “Verifying“)
I just read "Delivering Happiness" two days ago and learned about Tony's death later
Since DDG is just a proxy for Bing, do they have a survival plan once Microsoft cuts them off? Is it a long-term contract?
Let me tell you about my basic $1999 package: no body disposal, no alibis.
Look I am sure you are clever too. Which is why I am surprised how you could have ignored literally every point I wrote!

Let me try again — address every point below please…

1) Scams involve deception. If the bots are labeled as bots, what is the deception?

2) What you describe as a scam has been done by nearly EVERY SINGLE FORUM since forums began. The owner simply begged soem friends or paid some group of workers to “man the forum”. It wasn’t organic except in extremely rare circumstances, because the Nth person encountering a ghost town would bounce, and by induction the N+1st person. No forum owner would want to burn through many users for nothing. They have been doing this “scam” with practically every forum, now they can do it with bots.

3) Ethics can be expressed in various systems. I would like for you to suggest a single use of Generative AI that would be more ethical by Kant’s Categorical Imperative … ie if everyone used it at scale, would the world be better off? I think for the vast majority of uses of Generative AI, the answer is NO. It generates fake content at scale, to fool people into feeling that someone put effort into creating it organically. I think if you stop to seriously consider this point, you’ll realize that Generative AI is a net negative for the world in almost ALL its applications and mine just happens to be one of the least bad ones.
no, in inferno or plan9, if a fileserver exports the part of its filesystem that contains its network interface, you can mount that on your filesystem and use its network interface. instant vpn! (except 9p isn't encrypted, oops)

the plan9 window system also worked this way, so you could access a window on someone else's display if you mounted it locally; this was how you would run a graphical program on a remote server, by mounting your desktop display in its container on the remote server

linux is not like this at all; you have to use separate protocols for graphics, vpning, and filesharing
That's not listed here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_butterflies_and_... though certainty possible Wikipedia is wrong.
and there's no public documentation on the NICs at all

There is plenty if you search around, and they're one of the recommended NICs if you want to write an OS/driver because of that; they also show up in virtual form in various VM hosting software due to their simplicity:

https://wiki.osdev.org/RTL8139

https://wiki.osdev.org/RTL8169

https://www.iitg.ac.in/asahu/cs421/RealTek.pdf
I just wrote a little cli that takes JSON input, deserializes it into rust structs, serializes it into my custom binary protocol, sends it to my server I'm developing, and then does the reverse with the reply.

This looks like a nice replacement because it looks like the debug logs of my types. Plus it lets me specify numbers as hex.
that's not what happens... basically it is using a ring buffer for the history. It only runs apparently (from another post today) 4k for chatgpt4 right now with 32kb tokens coming in beta. everyotype of memory tho maybe not as limited as this.ne I think has this

This is why you see it start getting wierd after a bit, it loses the history and you've basically started a new different conversation.

However
Why so shallow? Don’t care for this particular feature, maybe but the broader fight is about ownership and control of the things you paid for.
Sideloading is going to be nice for programmers as it will have to allow for more flexibility in what apps are allowed to execute
> On Monday morning, we interviewed Haywood Talcove, the CEO of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, Government Division. He had checked the "dark web" for examples of fraud against EDD. He opened a laptop, pulled up a video file and hit play. The video showed a computer screen with an EDD login page along with a phone dialed to EDD's customer line.

This is the same company that was sued for inaccurately reporting judgements on consumer risk reports. Just like ID.me’s CEO’s unemployment fraud exaggerations, this is a marketing piece. That isn’t to say there isn’t fraud, but that a private risk solution isn’t necessary.

If you want to reduce fraud (in this case, identity fraud), improve digital identity systems. There is a White House draft executive order pending release in this regard (Login.gov All The Things).

https://www.lienandjudgmentdisputes.com/lang/en/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-basel...

https://gizmodo.com/id-me-unemployment-1849793195

https://fcw.com/digital-government/2023/02/white-house-mulls...
That's a bold assumption. I can imagine a world where 99.999% of the web will be filled with non-human curated AI generated text.

The rate at which AI can generate text will be so much greater than what humans can generate.
it's intentional as a result of them making money off showing you bad results (ads)

after all, you aren't paying them
Note that because this is not required for safe harbor, Github's policy in theory is much more forgiving of developers:

* In cases where we are unable to determine whether a claim is valid, we will err on the side of the developer, and leave the content up.

* In other words, we will not disable a repository based on a claim of circumvention technology without attempting to contact a repository owner to give them a chance to respond or make changes first.

Etc, etc.

Note Github in this case explicitly said "GitHub did not find sufficient information to determine a valid anti-circumvention claim"
Double Descent in Human Learning
Yes, depending on where the stroke/aneurysm the effect can be totally different. I had one a few years ago, I was still able to chat with my colleagues and the hospital staff in Japanese and English, as well as in French (my native language) with my family back in France. However when looking at texts in French or English, I was recognizing the letters but putting them together I wasn't recognizing the meaning behind them. It took me a few days before being able to decipher them again, but it took me 3 weeks before recovering a decent reading speed.
But some blood that had escaped in my skull at that time was blocking some nerves linked to the vision, so I had a dead angle of around 45 degrees on my right side until the blood naturally disappeared.
I'm actually tremendously keen on paying for search, since it means (at least in theory and currently in practice) that I don't have to worry about a paid search engine catering to advertisers instead of me.

Like, it'd be nice if everything were free, but sadly everything has a cost, and we can see what the cost of "free" search is and it kinda sucks.
Boolean search is pretty expensive computationally. Maybe they are so far disconnected from that initial implementation that there is no semblance of support anymore?
> Regardless of whether a person ... uses the internet, they will still be penalized for failing to report to the recruitment office once a digital draft notice is issued.
what’s a card testing attack? how does it work?

seems odd that this is your problem. seems like something stripe should be on the hook for.
The problem is there's no reason for the politicians to care about the fraudulent claims.
That they invented all on their own and shares no resemblance to the previous generation calling people sheep
If you have to translate in your head when using your non-native language that you have not mastered the language enough yet. I often think in english nowadays even if it is not my native or my everyday language, no translation required.
Each language has advantages in certain contexts.
It is very, very, exceedingly rare where I am put into a conversation to recommend a search engine. I can recall about twice ever. While it’s true both times I did recommend DDG, my trusted recommendation to friends/family can’t be worth it to them alone.
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Try aoe4 it's an amazing game with a great community.
Interpretation of objective video quality metrics
Still good enough to take some great infrared pictures. Sure, it’s not even close to the same league as JWST, but most astronomers on the planet are jumping over each other to submit proposals for observation on that.
I'm surprised they've done much of anything, given the likely relatively small overlap.

Since they have, where they essentially have sys.exit in Python terms, it could be updating a telemetry-controlling global instead

The 'protect our data' thing is suspicious in my mind
People are just stubborn and creatures of habit, and they dont want to expend energy on a change that is difficult and unimportant. That is the crux of it.

I have family that wont tolerate any changes on their smartphone, wont create or use an email account and such... they arent even very old. But it kinda reinforces your point: they dont really take power user advice either, especially if it conflicts with something they already know.

Also, I think computers used to be more enigmatic to the non techy, but now they are very accessible. People dont feel like they need help.
The quotation marks work for me:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22lowes+pet+bedding%22&atb...

I notice in your HN post, you're using fancy quotation marks; I assume you're not using the same while searching DDG.
For what it’s worth: I have been using Ecosia as my preferred search engine. Basically it just forwards requests to Bing in exchange for ad revenue which is used to plant trees.

Have been able to use the advanced keywords and operators to filter results with Ecosia

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-ke...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/advanced-search-op...

Sometimes the search results can be irrelevant especially for programming queries. But in those cases I just fallback to G
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It's hard to see how removing the ability for the user to be more specific could be a result of fighting bots. That shouldn't have to add anything spammy to the search results, it should only remove things that would otherwise be there.

I have to assume it's something along the lines of, they found that a lot of people would put things in quotes when they didn't actually want an exact match, and so changed what it did to better serve the wider audience. But there is no excuse for doing this without replacing it with some other way to specify exact match for the people who know how to RTFM.
Brave search is quite good for development. I have +1 year using it and it's ok.
Good point! No need to log in off you already have a logged-in session cookie.
Firefox is near the lowest market share in its history, and declining further.

Linux accounts for somewhere between 0.5% and 3% of the desktop OS market, depending on who you ask.

Mastodon, Diaspora, Lemmy etc. are niche products used by far fewer than 1% of people.

That's not competition. That's "some geeks built some stuff and a couple of people use it occasionally". If there were just two car manufacturers, and one of them had 98% market share and the other 2%, I doubt you'd call that market "competitive". Competition doesn't simply mean "other stuff exists".
The lab pages are archived from here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141216095808/http://lynxline.c...
A lot of developers who bought into the "OS X is just a pretty and stable UNIX" mantra from the mid/late 2000's Mac era have jumped off the Mac train. I wrote some popular macOS apps for powerusers, but the nonsense that Apple has pulled over the last 5+ years led to me pulling out, it just isn't worth the headache or literal monetary cost to maintain free software for the platform.

There was a lot of software from that era that reminded me of the type of poweruser enthusiasts would write for Linux. It's one of the reasons I originally left Linux for OS X 15+ years ago.

These days the pendulum has shifted, Apple is hostile towards powerusers and anyone that wants to modify or run their systems as they see fit. Today, Linux is the "pretty and stable UNIX" that OS X was in the Snow Leopard days. Linux app repositories are filled to the brim with quality software that doesn't show me ads, try to sell me subscriptions or are hindered by my computer's manufacturer for reasons.
I'm not wrong.

He claims that you can call functions fine in either mode if the functions are known at compile time. I never disputed that.

If he tried to call those functions with possibly unknowable function pointers at runtime, I doubt it would work as well.

There is a difference between compile time and runtime. At compile time, Zig can transform known functions to async to allow turn to call async functions. At runtime, that's not possible.

The 75 examples in my post show that.
Try the podcasts of e.g. Chris Williamson, for someone talking about how he figures life out for himself. You have to boil it down to picking a specific challenges and objectives, whether that's money, career, education, fitness, friendships, hobbies etc. Set some mini-goal, really small one, do it, then consider what you learned. But, ya gotta pick something to start with, today. Don't just sit around stressing and feeling inadequate. (Or if you do, look into mental health. But don't try to address that all on your own).

Also excellent: 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear [0] ("four laws of habit change: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and make it satisfying"). Convert vague intents ("I will find my dream job") into a set of actions ("I will try out/interview people who do N jobs in the next week, then evaluate what I think the pros and cons of each are").

But, start right now with some action, no matter how tiny and inconsequential. Do not spin your wheels.

Chris Williamson also emphasizes how crucial exercise and nutrition are as foundation to anything else.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22atomic+habits%22
I choose a representation where all bits zero represents infinity. I win.
You have to filter whole blood, to get plasma.
Why not? I’m curious to understand this phenomenon. You see value it copilot, presumably because it makes you more efficient or productive. But either not enough to pay the fee, or.. ? Mind sharing why you aren’t willing to pay? (I don’t work for GitHub. I do write commercial software though)
I guess you can't have it all. Either you are the product, or you pay for it.
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