skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-4 writes some wicked complicated (but correct!) SQL if given a schema and a relevant task:

https://gist.github.com/int19h/428cea1d87dfc389b99de1b79727f...

What I found really amazing about this particular experiment is that the schema I gave it didn't contain any information that could be used to query for things like distances between places, and yet it came up with the idea of using settlements' culture as a proxy to determine "border fiefs", completely unprompted (and yes, it actually is a very effective proxy for this particular case!).

I wonder now what it would do with Prolog - or maybe Datalog for simplicity? - although that might depend on how much of it there is in the training data. Do you know if anyone tried it yet?
Language is a tool for communication.

Having your sensibilities hurt from thinking this somehow detracts from the human condition is quaint but doesn't make the statement any less appropriate.
> I kinda lament missing Eve Online, that also sounded fun.

EVE Online is still alive. You could even play for free (alpha character), till you know if you would like to continue and hit the alpha characters' restrictions. But please be aware that EVE (well, still) does not have a learning curve but a learning cliff! ;)
I doubt it.

My first time getting drunk was somewhat unexpected. I was with friends and drinking screwdrivers, because I didn’t particularly like the taste of vodka and that’s all we had.

I had no idea screwdrivers should be about around 20% vodka by volume - I made mine half and half. I also wasn’t familiar with enough alcohol to know about how long it takes to take effect, or to judge where I was in the process. Between those two things, I drank six ~16oz glasses full before I got to the point that I felt a strong buzz. I stopped… but my metabolism didn’t.

I vaguely remember sitting in the bathroom floor that night, looking at my own vomit in the toilet, and thinking “Huh. That looks like blood. That’s not good.” The funny part (in retrospect!) is that is the only thing I remember for a six hour period or so, and that the thought was in a purely flat, narrative tone. I wasn’t at all worried about throwing up blood. It was at most a mildly interesting thing to have noticed.

FWIW, the next day I realized that it wasn’t blood. I’d eaten a spaghetti a couple of hours prior, and it was partially digested marinara.
If the new facts materially affect the outcome and are indeed facts, then pointing out or corroborating the truth can be helpful. If they aren't/don't then you're just agitating.
I’ve never heard anyone claim that Unix is manual-memory-management-only..?
A bad actor can just carefully exclude the reviewers from ever seeing those changes (and it's routinely done on a large scale).
What was the issue with Flutter and Ory?
> The idea that signing out would somehow give you a pristine neutral state …

If you’re on Mac, try enabling iCloud Private Relay in settings.
I'm in the same boat as you, being in early twenties. I also have a userscript to hide the recommendation panel right of the video player and the cards at the end of the video, though I turn that off if I'm bored enough to discover new channels and content.

I don't know anyone with similar setup though.
> I don't know why but any game that [...] has complex controls just loses me immediately

For me, the cutoff point is any game that requires combinations of button presses. The Xbox controller already has a crazy number of buttons. Any game that requires me to e.g. press the left stick down while simultaneously pressing the shoulder button is just an instant no. I remember abandoning the latest Doom game for this reason - it was just too much.

> there should be a market for games where I can just jump in, have 30 minutes of fun by myself, and log off

I've been playing Spelunky 2 for most of the last year for precisely this reason. Randomly generated levels, runs that last less than 15 minutes (sometimes seconds!) and gameplay that's simple to pick up but which has considerable depth when you get into it.
1. Very expensive - why do you care?

2. Opinionated - not necessarily bad, and can be tuned.

3. Politically biased - that's a bullshit criterion. You want a tool that's reasonably objective - being in the middle between the two current political extremes is different from being objective.

4. Doesn't learn new skills - it does.

5. Controlled by a small group of people - that's why there are other implementations of LLMs.
Lol, when you said "dated", I thought something pre-2001...
I really enjoyed it when I was a kid.

Just looking at the world they build for hours.
I see your point, although do you think that being bilingual gave you significant cognitive advantage?

Or could you be quite intelligent with above average memory and your existing cognitive advantage has helped you to become bilingual?
> (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

Wouldn't it be correct to say that if there exist a technology to circumvent a technological measure of access control then that measure is in fact ineffective?
There is no way I could finish GTA, BoTW, or Diablo. I’m 40, I have a career. I have plenty of items to collect to upgrade stuff in my real life, plenty of menus too. I’m OK with complicated controls if they are revealed slowly. But there is an amazing amount of busy work in games these days. I stick to Rocket League and Overwatch and forego the skins and other tedium.
I'm 50+, of course we are more represented these days, we are the first gamer kids and we are growing up and still play games!
This is not unrealistic at all. For curious people, here's how the Posteo email service does it:

https://posteo.de/en/site/privacy#anonymisedpayment
Show me any German native speaker under 50 who’s not fluent in English. Language groups with small numbers of English competency is going to get you much further.
In addition to what everyone else is saying, in my experience a lot of it can be explained by one simple thing: the reviewers are just plain bad at their jobs.

I'm not trying to be mean; it's just my experience. They generally don't familiarize themselves with even the most recent previous interaction, so they repeat the same mistakes that have already been resolved. They don't know their own rules. They imagine things that aren't there because some word sounded similar to another one, and they don't have enough technical context to actually understand what the words on their checklist mean.

Is that surprising? I don't think so! Think about what these people are being asked to do? They're repeatedly stepping through a tedious checklist full of stuff they barely understand, and then they have a choice of either waving an app/update through, or pissing off some developer. How many people with otherwise-marketable skills are going to stay in a job like that?
Kagi does not collect PII. You can register with a fake email if you want to. Payment information (if any) is collected by Stripe, not Kagi.

How would you keep it simple while running a paid search service with non-trivial search cost?
That's a great way to put it. ("properly functioning state of consciousness") Because some folks would argue that the it isn't functioning. That brings us to the question of "What does it mean to be properly functioning?" which isn't by any means settled, although "experiencing 24/7 visual snow" certainly isn't it.
They made it too secure. Classic overengineering. The hardware aspect should have been optional from the start.

It needed two things: browser free credential management that didn't need special hardware and a way to move around creds between devices effortlessly.

The security improvements are great but outside of people who care a lot about this (similar to fido2) it makes things more difficult without making other things less difficult.
The scientific method seems to me language-based. How to come up with hypotheses, however, seems to me exactly as you mention. They just pop out of nowhere, like a sudden inspiration that has been processing in the background and now just clicks.
the capacity of a community for content generation grows faster than the capacity for self moderation, putting a limit on group-size in regards to the level of 'unwanted' content (spam, hate, porn ...).

automated moderation or more tolerance are needed to extend the group further; one of those can be bought with money.
I've liked the Far Cry series recently. The story seems pretty irrelevant - it's just an excuse to gun down random goons in creative ways.
I haven't read it, thanks a lot! I'm probably going to use it in an essay I'm writing about the topic.
If this is correct then the converse should also be true; by sticking to glucose metabolism and avoiding ketosis you should prevent cellular ageing?
I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
Heavy particles don’t explain gravitational lensing oddities
Google’s AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain
Lots of things in CS are actually cyclic: RAM is expensive, implement swapping from HDD. RAM gets cheaper, load all data there and instead optimize your code for CPU. Data gets bigger, need to go back to swapping again. Suddenly we get SSDs and hard drive access is lots faster, invent something new but similar to the old stuff.

And so it goes, the bottleneck is always moved.
+1 to Brave as an alternative. From the search results I get the impression that they are much more aggressive in weeding out SEO-optimised sites that do nothing but:

1. Force you to signup to see the content (pinterest, I'm looking at you).

2. Copy-n-paste SO threads onto a page that is 90% ads.

I expect that ChatGPT written content for sites that are 90% ads will soon make it difficult to determine the useful sites.
Or maybe it did. Who knows. If "both Charles III and his son abdicate" could well be considered indicative of some large upheaval or scandal, at which point it is entirely conceivable that the Australian electorate reaches a consensus on becoming a republic. The way that is phrased doesn't seem like a straightforward proposition to me at all.
Nothing, if by "inference" you mean single API call. The underlying algorithm starts (very roughly) by processing the prompt into a set of vectors, which are then used repeatedly to generate tokens one after the other. What's meant here is that the act of generating and using those prompt vectors has an effect sort of like regular training. It doesn't mean anything is being written to disk afterwards, though of course you could write those vectors to disk and re-use them. It just doesn't make much sense at the moment. Doing that isn't enough to give you infinite context windows.
> with three-quarters of Russians still saying they support the war

The link that statement refers to doesn't mention that polls like that have huge percentage of people who refuse to answer. Given that expressing anti-war opinion is dangerous in Russia, most of non-supporters may simply stay unrecorded, giving incorrect share to the supporters. Supporters do not have such strong reason to refuse to answer.
Political Power grows out of the barrel of a Gun
At the production scale and yields both for low end microcontrollers and LEGO bricks, the costs are largely material-bound as engineering is amortized over tens of millions units
Nope, I did not. But read aweful stuff before about roblox and I think I said clearly that I think the plattform is crap and not that I have any intentions of hooking up my kids to it. My point was about moralist "judgement".

"Unless you have as little shame as a parent or care for your own children's wellbeing as do all the pedos and white supremacists and scammers operating on that platform."

So what about the rest of the internet and the real world? It is not exactly that they are free of those people.

Absolute protection means absolute isolation. So still my question: do you think it is good for kids, if all their friends meet on roblox and only they are not allowed and become isolated? Parenting in reality means compromises. So I do not know, how I will decide if I would come into that situation, but I know that it is always easier to judge from the outside. Or do you have kids in roblox age?
Ask HN: What are the best resources for web data mining?
What are your best resources (textbooks, papers, blog posts) around web data mining? More specifically, on extracting specific elements from a webpage e.g a product price, description etc... Side question: there is a whole range of approaches going from simple feature engineering on DOM tree nodes with standard classifiers to graph neural nets. Have any of you put these kinds of models into production? Any interesting tradeoffs to discuss?

Thanks!!
Highlights more the absurdity of "general cognitive advantages" than anything else. In situations where you need a language, whether you're able to speak it or not trumps everything else. I can't perform even the simplest of tasks if the instructions are given in Chinese and I can't access a translation.
If the DDG changes are caused by Bing pricing changes, won't that also affect Ecosia sooner or later?
"Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs."

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-brave.html

If many users all send their search queries through a proxy that forwwards them to, say, Google, then one can argue these queries are "anonymised" to some extent.

This has been tried. But AFAIK, no one has ever tried to charge money for it.

In 2003, there was Scroogle which lasted for almost 10 years and was reputedly forwarding hundreds of thousands of searches per day.

Scroogle used to have its own Wikipedia page before it was deleted then merged into the "Criticisms_of_Google" Wikipedia page.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/privacy-what-should-google...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AScroogle

In 2010, there was GoogleSharing, a Firefox plugin. It did not last very long and unlike Scroogle I cannot recall any explanation was ever given why it was shut down.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/10/04/a-bett...

Criticisms of Scroogle or GoogleSharing might include having to trust the people operating the proxy servers. With respect to continuation of ad-free, no BS service and with respect to privacy.

For example, if operator gets a strongly-worded letter on law firm letterhead then will he share a user's search results. What if he receives a directive from some legal authority demanding that a user's queries be monitored and/or preserved. Will he notify the user. Will he fight such requests. How good are his lawyers. Does he even have any that are prepared to handle these matters.

The same issues apply to Kagi.

Being a paid service might actually improve these trust problems, assuming there is a contract with the user. The last time I looked for Kagi's terms, it was not reassuring. What does Kagi promise to do or refrain from doing. If Kagi agrees to zero liability for almost anything, then to me that's a red flag. Why would anyone trust him. At the very least, users should be able to sue for up to the amount of the fees they have paid if Kagi breaches the agreement.

NB. I am not for or against Kagi. I like the proxy server idea and wish there were more options to use proxies. However I do not agree that merely paying for web search solves all the problems. I wrote scripts for own use that search multiple indexes, filter out garbage and combine results into a simple, minimalist SERP with unprefixed URLs suitable for a text-only browser. For me, that addresses the paid placement ads and ranking algorithm problems. As for the privacy problems, I cannot find anything that promises Kagi will not collect data about users. The same problem of trust as in 2003 through 2012 exists today. Arguably things have gotten worse. As we've seen from so-called "tech" companies offering "pay to stop the ads" subscriptions, paying fees does not stop the data collection. It does not solve the privacy problems. Perhaps if the search engine operator was actually bound by an agreement or laws that prohibited it from collecting data or restricted its use of data. But even with that, how does one detect non-compliance.
Did you tell it that it was being given a logic test? Unfortunately a lot of logic questions can lead to outcomes like this, where the "obvious" or "real" answer is not the one implied by strict logical reasoning. Then when people give answers useful in the real world, they are marked as having failed.
Too bad only the US can pay for premium
US software dev salaries are, way higher than European, even when subtracting "mandatory" payments usually paid through taxes in Europe, like child care, healthcare, pensions, maternity leave, housing costs (which to a degree is depressed due to property taxes).
Heh, meanwhile I know a game where a command allows you to do a click&drag + Shift + Alt + Ctrl (+ remembered Z/X)...

Also, why in the MarsHell would you play a first person shooter with a controller ?!
They haven't. To my knowledge Netflix is the only one that in some countries offers an alternative subscription with ads for a reduced fee.
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Interestingly, that's less of a thing over here. e.g., productions of the public broadcasters in Germany usually end with the date in Arabic numerals. Including Sesame Street.
I find that as a touch typist, I tend to be able to tell if I've made a mistake as I made it, I don't really need to see the screen
Are you asking for statistics from the NRA?
>We're led by morons, shills and thieves.

Most of the voters are morons, and are voting for these leaders.
Ringbuffers are one of my favorite things to use. Thanks for the article.
£55B withdrawn from Credit Suisse before rescue
Aside from that, don't underestimate the amount of thinking we do without language. What do we call that - raw braincode? So in that sense, we're all bilingual, even those only speaking English. I.e. you can think "I'm going down to the post office to post a letter with a stamp on it" without language.
I was also in that burn ring. Repeating this story, with no factual detail unnecessarily dredges up a dark and traumatic event for so many people.

To suggest Hsieh would be associated with or have been influenced by the person who died that night is a shame.

The burn is no Eden, and participants are not saints. However, there is a positive spirit of gifting that Hsieh did foster outside the national event. The work he did downtown Vegas was a testament to this.

If anything, that is what should be remembered about Hsieh’s connection to BM.
They also move nutrients down the food chain. The larvae and the mosquitoes they produce feed lots of birds and other insects.
The article in the first link is pretty bad, and the entire code is undefined behavior. First of all, using inline asm + volatile to emulate well-ordered release & acquire on x86 is unnecessary. That's exactly what atomics are supposed to provide for you.

> In this article, I concentrate on x86, as it is the most widespread architecture rather than write generic (but slower) code.

Any reasonable C++ compiler will generate simple loads and stores for atomic r&a. There's no penalty for writing generic code.
We could always split the nation and allow the south to go it's own merry way. I would be happy to pay for a fence around Texas.
I'm not in the US, but 4-5 reports is about the right size for a tech lead that wants to stay hand-on. With 8-10 reports you might struggle to sneak some personal contributions in, and if you have more direct reports than that, then you're a full-time manager by necessity.
Not an expert but bear in mind that there can't really be one single thing called a 'good' garbage collector, because the behaviour of the programs that produce the garbage can be hugely varied, and the garbage so produced can likewise be hugely varied, and how you want to recover it can depend on the platform you're running on (if embedded, you probably want reference counting the tight memory, in other circumstances you might be very happy just to leak everything and let the OS clean up at the end. Edit: yes, it's sometimes ok to leak).

As somebody says elsewhere, it's multidimensional issue and a single dimensional garbage collector can't be a brilliant match for everything.

The book "Garbage Collection" by Richard Jones, recently discussed on HN, is something I'd highly recommend you buy and read.
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I haven't double checked but I believe it's cookie based. That's why some people don't have any issues and others complain about it being reset. They delete their cookies.
I've never used Kagi (only heard of it in this thread) and I'm writing to say, "I believe you." Business models are hard. I can also understand the feelings of the disgruntled; it always sucks to feel like something has been 'taken away'.

Thanks for making paid search for the masses (with funtioning filters, apparently) a reality. By the testimony of many here, your results aren't bad. I'll be giving Kagi a try.
Seeing steam rise from the streets in NYC blew my mind. I'd always assumed it was just done for dramatic effect in the movies.
Probably a rubbish study. You can probably do the same with programming languages and show that knowing Lisp, Java and C won't give you any cognitive advantages. Just stick to Java and you'll have plenty of "cognition". We'll all know this is (as decaffjoe pointed out) completely missing the forest for the trees.
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It sounds to me very much like some of the guiding principles behind the agile movement, or maybe more specifically XP.

Building stuff to be simple, and to be engineered so as to embrace change as requirements appear is very much part of that vision. Building for current requirements with the confidence that the software is robust and extensible so as to be able to tackle future requirements is basically the job - it's been a long time since i've seen an actual software specification (last one I saw was in 1991!).

Of course it's all about balance. Too simple so as to make refactoring painful, or too complicated to support scenarios that aren't likely to happen is bad. Experience tells you where the middle ground lies.
I think they only use their own crawler/index for smart search results. (maybe because those cost a LOT to source from Bing)
It's not what you mean when you talk about violence in cities. There was nothing calm and sedate when mi amigo Doug put the barrel of a .357 in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

If you don't care to look at the statistics for suicide, look at the map that says "homicides" and not the maps that say "deaths" or "suicides".
I find it fascinating how permissive openness to new ideas and challenging convention in people like Hsieh is likely both responsible for their success and also their downfall.

Even though Hsieh had moved on from Silicon Valley after the first dot-com boom, it's a characteristic I'd apply to the Bay Area in general. Makes me wonder if the line between the folks attempting to disrupt the status quo with their startup and the folks living in tents and experimenting with drug cocktails in the tenderloin isn't in fact razor thin. And conversely, I wonder if by "cleaning up" places like SF, you might also kill the permissive attitudes that make the Bay Area the place to go when you want to birth a new idea.
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i cannot echo this sentiment strongly enough

how the algo can be so good, and so bad, at the same time boggles my mind

the repetition just feels so unnecessary in many cases -- I know there's so much more content out there that is not a huge leap from what I watch regularly but the recommendation engine makes it broadly inaccessible

one related symptom of this - i think - is when you watch one or two videos on one new thing and then get drowned in videos about that thing at the expense of everything else