skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit surprised at this sentiment.

I have the "Neighbourhood Makita toolbox" today: Max across the street is into woodworking and lends his tools freely & happily rents you his time for the price of a beer or two. David will let you pull your car into his garage for an oil change because he has a nice car lift. I'm less useful, but lift my share of heavy things & set my share of fence posts and am always around when their computers act up.

When I was younger I grew up in a rural area with decent poverty, and this went even deeper. Farmers knew they could each get a small mower that takes forever to clear their field, or could pool their cash and share one big PTO-driven Bush Hog that did the job better & faster. There wasn't any worry about "who keeps it nice": you washed it and sharpened the blades if needed when you were done because you know your neighbor washed it and sharpened the blades when he was.

Is the rub that Cory talks about "the library" being the source, giving a vision of some faceless Other going to a big building downtown and renting the drill in exchange for their library card, nothing else, with no incentive to keep it nice for the next person? Maybe that's it; I'd argue, however, that a 15-minute city implies more libraries serving fewer people, so the Other isn't faceless, it's Max or Dave.
If anybody has tried ES modules in the past five years and had to turn back due to incompatibility / lack of library support / javascript is a minefield, I'd urge you to try again. I managed to migrate our Typescript/Node codebase over to ESM about a month ago, with only a few hiccups. It's nice to be able to use the latest versions of all of sindresorhus's packages again.
It’s a piece of land in a poor position, not well connected to anything, with a right of way through it, that will never get permission to build.

The person trying to sell it for 1.9 million is having a laugh, to put it mildly.
100 Years (2115)
Yeah, we all love Robin Hood books. What does your comment have to do with this thread though?
The timer for the dryer is typically located outside of the dryer drum itself. It is not an actuating component.
I love when soulless corporations bribe governments to keep a stranglehold on works of art that have impacted cultures around the world and prevent future artists from being able make more art and prevent the proper collection and preservation of these works and block the access to them, all so they can keep making money off of decades old IP.

It goes both ways. There are no Saints to be found on either side.

I don't care one bit about the pocketbooks of our corporate overlords, and neither should you.
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I've played around a lot with Claude, and find it much better than GPT4 and even Claude+ at creative writing.

I also generally prefer Claude or Claude+ over GPT4 or ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) for explanations too, which tend to be more thorough without any special prompting.
An industrial CT scanner is such an incredible tool. Stunning images you never would have expected, plus fantastic storytelling!
Protect children from social contagion. But again. It not a passed law. It’s simply something an eccentric no name lawmaker in Texas proposed. It doesn’t appear to have made it out of committee… should we judge the entire Democratic Party based on the crazy proposals of the socialists who are under their umbrella?

There was a dem lawmaker who wanted to add an amendment to some bill in Montana that removed language about pedophilia… should we assume that all democrats are propedophilia now?
Reading the source that Nature cites, it seems like the content has been made temporarily unexaminable ‘in light of COVID’, rather than the section actually getting cut from the textbook.
https://ncert.nic.in/rationalised-content.php
Could any Indian with a new physical textbook perhaps confirm? It’s a rather concerning policy.

The headline also seems awfully clickbaity. What the policy seems to have done is shifted basic evolution down to younger grades and moved the more advanced concepts to more senior grades. However, this shifts more advanced concepts up to grades in which science as a subject is not compulsory. Regressive as this is, this isn’t what the headline suggests.
Instacart launches new in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT
How fast will this be torn apart? I wonder what level of technology, sourcing of components, and quality of security there is.
>I think people should be extremely skeptical of anything they read

This is a mistake that many HN readers make; they think that if one is equipped with some above-average level of intelligence, one can discern the validity of new research. But this is wrong. It usually takes many years of study before one can begin to clearly understand what is even being said, let alone whether it has any veracity.

People of above-average intelligence often resent this fact, because it suggests that their smart opinion isn't as valuable as the opinion of an expert, but that is simply a sad fact of life. If they haven't put in the work in that field, then they don't know what they're talking about in that field, and they are incapable of applying skepticism in that field correctly. This is precisely and unfortunately why we are forced to place our trust in experts.
I mean, I would argue "synchronizing with an external system" is almost synonymous with "causing side-effects [on render/state change]". Maybe "synchronizing" is a narrower subset of "effects", but I think that's less of a change of the intent and more of a refinement

And I do think the team has been refining this conceptual territory as they go. React is a pretty unique programming paradigm at this point, there's lots of uncharted territory. Following Dan Abramov on Twitter, he works through concepts out loud, having new realizations about how the primitives they've created fit together, what their implications are, metaphors for thinking about them, in real-time. I think they've got a very clear direction at this point, but they haven't turned over every stone along the way yet.
Honestly.....was anyone expecting anything less? China does this all the time.

Anyone else remember their first home-grown browser that was actually just a reskinned fork of Chrome?
Does that mean eventually antibodies could be produced that match these machines?
Maybe cats in general don't understand pointing, but both of my cats do. One of them is quite intelligent, so I'm not surprised there, but even the stupid (but adorable) one gets it.
Tell HN: YouTube download websites disappearing from Google search results
Hey HN community, I've noticed an intriguing shift in Google search results lately. As someone who often shares comedy videos with friends via WhatsApp, I typically search for "YouTube Download" on Google and click on one of the first few results. However, today I was taken aback to find that no working websites appeared in the search.

Upon further investigation, I discovered that numerous recent DMCA reports have called for the removal of these websites, e.g., (https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34141048#) and (https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34226349#). Interestingly, this development coincides with YouTube's ongoing ad-blocker crackdown.

I don´t agree that those websites necessarily violate copyrighted content. I can't help but feel that my trust in Google search results has been further eroded.
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Odd. Google always returns links to the pirate bay for me https://i.imgur.com/tNo6tbB.png

I'm in Canada though. But I did use Google.com.
Maybe, but it would still be better if the situation didn't detoriate further.
It's not exactly the same thing, but I've been using Blue Blocker to make Twitter somewhat bearable post-blue check sorting algorithm change:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blue-blocker/jgpjp...

It really does seem like a dying platform though, I wasn't a fan of pre-Musk blue checkmarks, but there were less of them and they weren't sorted to the top of every thread.
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> board is Indian English for curriculum

This sense of the word 'board' as in 'examination board' also exists in British English. The US also has the 'College Board' which sets some national exams.
Thinking about it, it's so weird. I don't recall any other language community that operates with so much secrecy that their leadership team is anonymous. Are the Rust leadership team so vehemently hated and harrassed?
The opposite is also true: the JavaScript AWS SDK on Zeal is v2 and the bleeding edge is v3.
Recycled cotton is a thing. It sounds like post-consumer cotton is harder to recycle and not as good as recycled from production scraps. Maybe Ghana has the labor to recycle clothes.
Considering the recent events in the area previously known as Yugoslavia, and the fact that part of hosting is there, in addition to Russia - Ukraine conflict being over a year old, I'd think of other sources. ...that if we were to trust what's been publicized, of course.
The author had choices here and made a wrong one. If you say you didn’t read the book then you certainly look bad. It might be a “dick move” to dissemble about not reading the book but it is possible that you get away with it.
Imagine being doxxed by your own ISP.
Not having fillings is worth a lot more than spending £96 every 5 years (electric toothbrush £40 + £2.80 head every 3 months).
We need RISCV hardware with Ztso extension to shine here. Enforcing Total store ordering (TSO) over a release consistency (RC) memory model is otherwise a pain. I don't know if Dynarec is tackling this problem (or just focusing emulation on single-threaded software).
One could build dedicated parking structures. Those use up less space that we can use for much better stuff, make it so that you don't have cars circling blocks trying to find parking. If a business decides that they need parking, nobody stops them from building it themselves. No reason to dictate this or have the public give up collectively owned land for this.
> you (plural)

Texans would say "y'all" :)
I believe Ceph [1][2] could be a good alternative. It can be self hosted and I believe some cloud providers also offer it. Here are some differences between S3 and Ceph [3].

[1] - https://ceph.io/en/

[2] - https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/radosgw/s3/

[3] - https://www.lightbitslabs.com/blog/ceph-storage/
browser history, perhaps? or upvoted post titles from HN?
The current scientific system has long been known to have serious problems of incorrect results and conflicts of interest. This article seems like an attempt to pin the crisis on an AI scapegoat.

From 2015, the Editor of The Lancet:

The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale. We reject important confirmations. Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster reductive metrics, such as high-impact publication. National assessment procedures, such as the Research Excellence Framework, incentivise bad practices. And individual scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally veers close to misconduct.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
If the certificate is on the camera than it would be breakable.

But I can see cameras with cell chips inside and auto-upload to an authentication service with the location verified by cellular triangulation.
Companies making AI like ChatGPT have agency. They should not publish tools that generate false information.
I have to wonder how much improvement you would get with a 100 trillion parameter model. There seems to be diminishing returns in model size. That effort could almost certainly be better spent.
I tend to use Claude primary for creative writing (at which it's better than GPT4 and even Claude+, in my experience), and for explanations, which are more thorough than GPT4 or ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) without any special prompting.

Claude should be more well known, imo. ChatGPT/GPT4 gets all the hype, but Claude is really good too... sometimes even better.
This is a big part of stoicism. If you're interested in learning more about this, checkout the book Meditations.
I think it'll be interesting to see how Stack Exchange holds up against all the AI stuff.

On one hand, I go there to find info about things I don't understand, so I'm going to have a hard time spotting hallucinated junk. On the other hand, topic experts normally point out mistakes and differences in opinion and I find the competing viewpoints to be extremely helpful at times.

So, I would say the debate and iteration on "the best" solution for problems is the thing I like most about Stack Exchange. The thing I fear the most is having that debate and iteration polluted by AI to the point where the signal to noise ratio becomes too high to be useful.
Do you have a source for that? Curious how you found out. But yeah, that's basically a scam for hosting a static website.
Ok I have to add one more thing that's funny since I just played a couple more times: if your conversational partner is a human and they exit the window mid-chat, it still lets you vote.
I think having the feedback throughout the process would probably taint the whole thing
I’m not sure why you started that comment with “no,” as we seem to agree?
Indeed, knowledge is more valuable than money, as knowledge can be respent over and over.
more like voluntary contributing to the maintenance of an invaluable archive project
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3644494/2021-the-year-...

> By 2021, this migration had become a trend. IDC claimed macOS device use across US enterprises reached 23% while iPhones accounted for 49% of business smartphones and iPads accounted for most tablets used in the workplace.
Police in your jurisdiction are held accountable?
I assumed the person went to a brick and mortar store or searched for something weird that triggered the 'smart' scales to appear first.
Are we expecting the auschwitz museum to universally and perfectly predict and oppose fomenting genocides? Is that a role they're willing and competent to perform for us? Is that where we want that responsibility to solely reside?
And a pony. They must provide a complimentary pony. An Andalusian...I wouldn't be caught dead on some common draft horse. Also a stable.
Hobbies and the social gatherings (both chat rooms and/or in person) that accompany them. See also the phrase Special Interest Groups, with context in both Brin’s “Earth” and Vinge’s “Deepness”.
I would argue that we have already passed that point in several areas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139349

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36003595

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045748
The unfortunate truth is that academic lineage matters. In a world with decreasing SNR from paper content, the SNR from finding the paper on a reliable researcher's homepage massively increases (because sadly, people are added to papers without their permission in an effort to boost their own signal).
Let the kid flex, will ya
I missed this article when it came out, but this is more or less exactly what I expected to find out if the truth ever came out. Particularly that last sentence.

I'm even more in love with the band now, if that was even possible...
The title here is in line with HN guidelines but does a disservice to the actual article as it suggests the criticism is far more abstract than it actually is. It rises in direct response to specific use by Polish political actors.
I agree that this is a good illustration of model bias (adding that to my growing list of demos).

If you want to work around the inherent bias of the model, there are certainly prompt engineering tricks that can help.

"Give me twenty short biographies of families - each one should summarize the family members, their age and their personalities. Be sure to represent different types of family."

That started spitting out some interesting variations for me against GPT-4.
Then how comes a 10 year old cannot buy a gun or drive a car?
Capability and things like motivation or access/privilege are often not correlated
I’m surprised to hear about your experience at Vital, I go there all the time and have never felt unwelcome for working in tech.

There’s also a weekly Saturday meetup for people who explicitly want to be social. https://www.reddit.com/r/nycmeetups/comments/13qpv7e/0527_1p...
> should be reserved for actual perpetrators of mass atrocities.

Ideally, we would prevent such people from perpetrating such atrocities in the first place. The Nazis were Nazis before they killed millions, and they said they would do it before they did.

When people, especially politicians, come out and say, "we must eliminate [demographic group]," we need to believe them and understand that genocide is their goal.
I mean, it refutes the argument. Everyone has access to the internet, to conv nets, to C/python/pandas/TCP, you name it. Yet, nobody would seriously argue that one can not build a moat with products based on those stacks for the reason that everyone else has access to the same stack. Its just not an argument, at all.

We can now write software that interprets language under the hood (to some degree). The value propositions enabled by this change in the world are so vast, and partly so complex - to make absolute statements like "yeah but you don't control the model, so anyone can copy your solution" seems out of touch to me. What subset of technology doesn't get reverse engineered? Either this applies almost nowhere (because every piece of tech that an engineer can get their hands on is effectively open), or everywhere.
Yep. But we call 'em "AP tests", "PSATs", or "SATs". The word "Exam" isn't commonly used in American English.
Exactly. ULEZ allows euro 6 diesels at 4-6L, but disallows euro 4 diesels at 1-2L. The emissions are worse by volume for the newer car.

If ULEZ and CAZ were serious about air quality they’d tax based on per passenger emissions, which would end up taxing the rich people in excessive luxury cars.
This implies there is such a thing as a reliable eyewitness.

Even victims themselves are famously bad at identifying criminals.
There's instructions for Windows at the bottom
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> Synchronizing with an external system is completely different behavior from performing side effects.

No, synchronizing with an external system is exactly performing side effects. It is a change in document focus from a description that focuses on what it does to one that focuses on the purpose for which it does it, but all synchronization with an external system is side effects and the vast majority of side effects that aren’t incidental to imperative program structure (which functional components avoid) is syncronizing with an external system.
Knowledge doesn’t equal expertise.

JIRA has a very simple initial onboarding story, especially in comparison to servicenow or SAP. But it’s got a lot of hidden complexity that can make it super powerful. That power can become its downfall if implemented badly. Vast dashboards and labeling systems is improper implementation.
The average bariatric surgery costs $7,400 to $33,000 before insurance coverage. [1] It's safe to say that the number of adolescents undergoing the procedure would be higher if it was cheaper.

For comparison, a good pair of running shoes costs $100, a new, quality bike costs $500, and a gym membership is $50 per month.

[1] https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/weight-loss/bariatric-surg...
I found a directory of British "Libraries of Things", many of which include tools.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/home-garden/library-things-d...
110 years ago this telephone tower in Stockholm connected 5k telephone lines
That was pretty rad. Debian could generate up to 65536 different keypairs!!1
> public schools are actually more prestigious than private schools

They are, but they are still private schools, not government schools. They are based in British public schools, where the word 'public' refers to the fact that students of any religion could historically be admitted to them, not that they are state-owned or state-controlled.
I recall seeing this story on some youtube tech channel a week or two back. Don't recall what channel unfortunately.

The surprising part back then seemed to be more on the claimed volume of available chips than the tech itself
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I'm not being nit-picky or contentious - I'm asking from a genuine point of curiousity ...

but in the case of Google linking to the pirate bay, isn't the pirate bay the one linking to the pirated content? Google is 1 step removed in that node graph because they are just linking to the pirate bay.

I guess if they directly linked to a pirate bay page that had a magent link on it .... maybe (?)
A guess would be to avoid Japanese airspace, who promised to shoot down anything flying overhead. That assumes this rocket was actually intended to reach orbit and deposit a real satellite.

It seems very ambitious to try to park a satellite in orbit on your very first orbital rocket. Unless I'm missing something?
To my knowledge, they didn't. There were a lot of imposter sites, which were indistinguishable, where you'd be told to download a VPN or similar. But the main .to site never opened any ads for me
I thought Anthropic has Claude and Claude Instant. When you say Claude sometimes feels better than Claude+, do you mean that you feel Claude Instant sometimes gives better result than Claude?
> Why isn't just making sure the expected private key didn't get wiped a good enough way of making sure it's not modified?

What's to stop someone from extracting and restoring the private key?

> Okay, how about that it destroys the secondhand CPU market?

Sure, then how about addressing that issue rather than proposing to outlaw an entire mechanism entirely? We have a lot of things that can be misused, but (generally) only in extreme cases do we outlaw the tech itself. More usually, we have laws targeting the misuse of the tech.
If you mean smallest robot with an onboard power supply and control, mm is the best we can do. The problem is that the power conversion electronics are too large. Electromagnets don't work well as you scale down. So you need piezoelectric/electrostatic actuators which need high voltage. Converting low battery voltage up is difficult without electrical transformers.
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