skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haha. no.

answers are not either good or not. it's not binary. there is a lot of nuance
and sometimes the questions and followups contain details that can take the answers in a completely new direction.

just telling if an answer is good or not is a lot of work. sometimes it requires and expert to figure it out. when the answers are given by a human and it's a good faith effort both people in the loop benefit from it. when the BS generation is automated there is zero incentive for a human being to even look and correct the answers. what is the incentive to do so?
I generally agree if the content can be kept clean. Certainly, human users will have more to contend with.

There are just so many interesting questions by having chatbots interact with StackOverflow:

What happens when AI-powered accounts are allowed to vote?

What kind of questions might AI-powered accounts be asking or be interested in?

How will the questions/answers/responses change between model revisions?

You can imagine things spiraling out of control.
Perhaps there needs to be a chatbot version of StackOverflow to service all the questions that interest chatbots. :P
May I ask why the respnsibility falls on the car instead of the driver on the phone in the first paragraph?

Just like you are responsible if you used a gun, you are responsible on how you drive a car.
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I've been a PhD student in Machine Learning for the past 3.5 years, but due to personal circumstances am having to leave the programme, so am looking for alternative opportunities that I can go on to. Ideally I'd like to make the most of my ML experience, so would prefer an ML Research/Engineer/Research Engineer role, but am open to other software dev roles. I have a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Computer Science, and 3 years work experience in software development, doing a mix of fullstack JS and Ruby on Rails.
The point of the retort is precisely to point out the meaninglessness when "regurgitation" is extended to include systems with some degree of generalization/extrapolation/discovery capabilities. The expectation set on AI seems to be to break information theory, "it's not original because it can only draw a horse (more accurately than a random guess) due to having trained on information about a horse" or so on.
It's like 90 minutes long, and published by the conservative equivalent of Buzzfeed. Can we get a cliffnotes instead?
And that ABI specific stack manipulation would be UB, so the optimizer can assume it doesn't happen. With no UB, that's not true.
They need $20 million to break even on the api costs alone. Both Google and Apple charge 30% on revenue exceeding $1 million per year
Did you? Can you say what was informative about it?
"will make a cosmetic difference at best"

Is this just your best guess? Just riffing? Because if you read the article, you'll see that last time it seemed to have made an actual difference:

"At that time, the company had already made changes to its 2023 compensation program for its top three executives, which in part capped each one’s salary at $3 million, required a minimum of 50 percent of compensation to be tied to stock options and introduced a performance-based cash bonus."
I recently bought an Psion 5 off of ebay -- I've never had one before. The one thing I can't really get over is how awful the screen is -- the reviews online seem to indicate that mine isn't unique in this regard. Hard to see in anything but perfect lighting.

The keyboard is pretty good although not as good as I would have expected given the ravings about it.

I should probably open it up and re-enforce the cable but I'm a bit afraid of messing it up in the attempt.
That's it -- the optimization is legal because there's no way foo() could modify y, because any (&x)[1] = 20 shenanigans would be UB.

This is how UB is used in optimizations; it's (usually) not that the compiler is finding positions where UB occurs and explicitly choosing to perform mischief, it's performing a bunch of simple and obviously-what-you-want rewrites that are only correct because of UB; otherwise, arbitrary pointer writes are too powerful.
Not nearly to the same degree. And I suspect most of them really just hate Amazon, and by proxy, Bezos.
Frore is claiming that you could slap two AirJet Minis in a Steam Deck and that it'd cut down on the noise, lower the device skin temperature and free up enough space for a bigger battery that'd allow for 30% more game time.

https://www.froresystems.com/application/handheld-gaming

I don't think they've actually built a prototype (the PDF and the website show off two separate designs) but it seems promising if these stop being as expensive as they are currently.
> They occasionally get nuked from the codebase as everyone reconciles their environment.

Yes, and also migrations really have to be expressed as code, and you don't want to have to maintain your old functions forever because they are tied to a migration; alternately you don't want to always have to be refactoring your migrations, which is a dangerous and thankless task
> Every job I've ever taken, there were bullet points in the requirements that I didn't have.

This. And you're like most people.

Most job descriptions and requirements lists are describing the "dream candidate". Very few employers actually expect anyone to have every requirement in the list.
> This doesn't work at scale.

Sounds like a job for AI
Past discussions on that:

C's Biggest Mistake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27567311 - June 2021 (8 comments)

C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454369 - Sept 2020 (374 comments)

Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585357 - July 2018 (254 comments)

Walter Bright on C's Biggest Mistake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014533 - Dec 2009 (47 comments)
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Japan vending machines to automatically offer free food if earthquake hits
In a way this is all insane: we are spending a fortune on security globally but at the same time manufacturers get to insert massive backdoors into the hardware and hardly anybody bats an eye.
How about a $800 mortgage on a $1 million house and $2,500/month buys you a one bedroom basement apartment 45 minutes away from where your kids and ex-wife live. Or both of you sell and split the house and now live in an apartment building in different areas of town instead of in the single family home beside the park where your kids grew up....

It's lonely, but financially and logistically splitting up is unaffordable.

So. Option 3. Stay and regret it 'til my dying day.
Personal AI LLM chatbot, trained on my emails and slack messages. I will have succeeded in replacing myself with a small shell script.
Part of the top-shelf PR is working for the billionaire and not the company.

Gates had a pretty good one somewhere, as he quietly slipped into the night. Bezos, Zuckerberg? They're too involved and don't seem to deeply care (though I suspect Zuckerberg's is doing better, what with that race they had him run).
Call it limited, but it’s a lot better than life self-appointed autocrats and “royalty.” (Yet, term limits are sorely needed. But what a difference even that makes.)
Its almost like, not matter what, a bunch of people are going to hate you if you're well known enough.
I would be more afraid of AI generated questions rather than answers.
"3 minutes" --Grimes
TB kills fewer people than COVID-19 because most people have had COVID-19 but only a small portion of the population has had untreated TB.
My ideal test would be something like JEE Mains where getting 200 out of 300 means you are top of 99.4% applicants.
Co-creator of Voila here. Voila is rather un-opinionated about what you can run in it. While it offers excellent support for ipywidgets, it's certainly not confined to that. One downside of Voila is that it can be resource-intensive, as it creates a new kernel/process for each page view or browser tab.

Mercury, in my view, seems really interesting for quick demos and reports. It's somewhat akin to Streamlit, making it ideal for notebook authors.

On the other end of the spectrum (and pardon my shameless plug here), there's Solara (https://github.com/widgetti/solara/). Solara is a fully-fledged web framework for Python, specifically designed to handle app sizes that surpass what Streamlit and Dash can manage. It's worth noting that Solara can render ipywidgets, using a pure Python React-like framework. This can be particularly useful after the exploration phase, when you're looking to transition a project from the notebook into production.
That very well may be true, but I would rather the workers still get paid concomitant to the profits the corporation is raking in rather than even more wealth being accumulated by the capital class running these corporations.
It doesn't label. It doesn't do anything to "all" of anything. It doesn't refer to any "imperfection," and it doesn't address "reasoning."

This is a misrepresentation of the parent comment and the article.
No.

The customers are responsible because they're the ones willing to accept shoddy software as long the price is right.

The developers are responsible because, let's be honest, Sturgeon's Law applies to them too and because they have more interest among them in slapping together code to make a fast buck than providing well written products.

The empires that Gates (who is actually a better coder than nearly all of his detractors if you look at his history), Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc., built are symptoms of the problem, not the problem itself. If it hadn't been them, it would have been someone else and the situation with bad software would be exactly the same.
This is essentially a ban on removing AI content, the cases where it is still allowed to remove the posts are exceedingly rare. This is rather confusing as the public policy doesn't contain those details.

I'm a moderator on a small SE site, so I have seen the internal communication between SE and the mods on this.
Actually, I have a Pixel 7 with the Tensor G2. I can't find the tera operations per second on it, but Google has said that its [1] 60% more powerful than their Tensor Coral (4 TOPS at 2W of power). That puts the G2 at about 6.4 TOPS.

The Mythic analog chip [2] is pumping 25 TOPS at 3W. For comparison, modern (digital) GPUs are doing 25-100 TOPS at 50W-100W...while costing >$1000. So, its a big jump.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/google-tensor-g2-changes/

[2] https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg?t=1060
Still waiting years for my FxTec. By the time it arrives I asssume I will be unimpressed with a snapdragon 662. Qualcom EOLed the snapdragon 835 it was originally based on, so mid-way, they had to redesign around a newer but lower spec chip. The original chip was a high end but from 2017. Imagine getting that, new, in 2023 or 2024.

In some ways I guess I don't care since I'm on a pixel 4a 5g just for the headphone jack. But I also only paid about 150 or 200 for it.
If you find it complex and esoteric you shouldn’t be putting your money into it.

As Warren Buffet said if he’s in an investment meeting and someone starts using calculus he keeps one hand on his wallet and heads for the door.
The words of someone who's never left the I-5 corridor.
In every example you listed the limiting factor is memory or storage size, not computing speed.
> The issue is if they show up as part of some meme chat and then you as the LLM creator get sued because people start harassing them.

This seems a more obscure concern than extraction of data.

> copying is a basic part of how these algorithms work

Do you mean during training/gradient descent, or reverse diffusion?
Stop Being Who You Aren’t
A bit meta on my part, but I'd recommend referencing the version specific URLs from the PostgreSQL documentation when backing up a quoted claim. Your quote will referenceable now, but anyone seeing it later may see different number or the statement might be omitted from whatever the "current" version is in the future.

So instead of:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/features.html

I'd recommend:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/features.html
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Seems like he is in an impossible position to continue down his current path. He has a large enough user base he might only need to replicate a few key subreddits. Sure didn’t reddit start off by having bots vote or post submissions
On top of that, there is, perhaps not surprisingly, not a good track record of mentally incompetent people being treated well once forcibly institutionalized. Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by other patients and staff, neglect, deplorable conditions, etc. I think there is definitely a need for a solution for those who are truly unable to survive in civil society, but the state has not historically been good at implementing that.
> That's a fact we have to accept.

You can go ahead and do that but I think people are justifiably pissed that we require invasive technology to coddle the idiots who can't be bothered.
Good point to be able to compare different states.
I think making schema changes via migrations would be explicit and should lead to it being predictable. Maybe the best of both worlds is the ORM spitting out what it thinks the migration file should be based on the database schema and the new model changes?

The migration process then runs the actions in the migration file. If it fails in new environments this is telling that something is different in that environment and needs to be investigated.
The "people who own the company" are mostly institutional investors, not individual shareholders. Something like 80+% of the outstanding stock is held by institutions.
Most hand sanitizers were Ethanol or Rubbing Alcohol

> Wiping down every surface with a toxic chemical without knowing if it even helps against covid is much more of an emotional/fearful reaction

No, it is a reaction grounded in the last hundreds of year of proper hygiene practice
A PR team would help Musk because he is an asshole and they would cover that. Conversely, Bezos is so wealthy that he cannot just stand out of the spotlight and let other people ignore his obscene wealth - the sheer enormity of the dragon's horde attracts attention.
The bar _should_ be high, but it's too high in California. You can quibble with the imprecise wording above, but in practice the law makes it basically impossible to hospitalize people with severe mental issues against their will. If you ever have to deal with this with elderly relatives, you'll quickly discover that you're essentially powerless no matter how bad it gets.

edited to add: to be super clear: you don't want to make it easy for people to abuse the elderly, which is why the bar has to be high, but there must be a way to compassionately help someone who actually needs help. And there basically isn't.
Aoparently I don't apply the same rules to other hn'ers, sorry!
Not open a door and see someone pooping
What are the differences between ESG and the Social Credit System of the People's Rebublic of China?
It's entirely rational to have believed iPhone to be more secure in the past, now believe Android is more secure, and yet remain on iPhone:

1. At some point, weigh probabilities of exploits
2. Update Bayesian priors as new evidence arrives
3. Even if the initial decision currently appears incorrect, there needs to be a high enough difference in probability to justify switching, because in switching, you're still exposed to any persistent exploitation via the old exploits plus new exploits on the new platform

Switching back and forth the instant your Bayesian prior swings over/under 50% for Android being more secure than iPhone is a terrible strategy. (Also, you need to risk-weight your various exploit probabilities... security is a multidimensional quantity, so collapsing to a scalar is at least context-/threat-model-dependent.)
Ask HN: Best blogs about reverse engineering?
Or Lisp.
Seems like that is because politics itself has reached intractable enshittification, not necessarily Reddit. Reddit is more or less reflective of the internet writ large.
I can see how you'd get that impression if you followed the news through mainstream media and government spokespersons who stoked fear and uncertainty to push their recommendations, but I paid close attention to research and data, and there were countless instances of health authorities peddling obvious falsehoods, some of which I've already mentioned.

I traveled freely internationally throughout 2020 before a blanket ban was implemented to force people to get vaccinated. Of course, by that time, the virus was circulating everywhere, so it already made little sense, but it's even worse when you consider that long-distance travel was not a significant vector for viral spread (at that stage). If I recall correctly, the Canadian government admitted in court that their own travel ban had no scientific basis. In the US, the health authorities issued recommendations based on weak or absent data and then refused to withdraw them until the amount of data disproving those recommendations became overwhelming. That's a double standard and can hardly be justified with "uncertainty".

I'll add that many people pointed out the inconsistencies between government recommendations/policies and the available evidence at the time, and in response, they were fired, hidden or banned from social media, attacked, and demonized. Now history is being rewritten, but "in hindsight" there were plenty of warnings at all stages of this crisis.
Smarter than 99.9% of the rest of us (2005)
I use MPD + ncmpcpp as my daily driver on macOS. It's great.
I don't think he is disputing your claim that there are many people with the skillset to run Netflix that have never had the opportunity to demonstrate it.

The problem is that if they have never had the opportunity to demonstrate it then how do you find them in the first place?
https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-p...
"The basic science" says that masking protects other people if I am infected with a comparatively high viral load and I am prone to sneezing or coughing unprotected. The basic science tells me to stay home when that happens because I am not fit for public appearances.

Normal people stay home when they're sick, they don't infect others, and the basic science takes care of that just fine. If crazy people want to follow "basic science" and mask up and go out in public while they're carrying an infectious viral load, then I guess we're in Japan or something.

If "basic science" compels the general populace to mask up, even when we're uninfected, unexposed, vaccinated, and asymptomatic, then I feel sorry for basic science because it's jumped the shark.
Liquid democracy. If shareholders feel strongly about something, they should be able to proportionally strip the board of their voting power on those issues.
Amazon and FB are not the norm, especially FB which is controlled by one person. These are tech companies trying to win market share in emerging sectors, and pulling the plug when they fail to get a foothold. Amazon created an entire industry (Cloud) that it's the dominant player in, totally tangential to its main business as durable goods retailer with this strategy, and it's the company's main profit center now.

I can't imagine a shareholder in either company also thinking you know...these guys at the top of both companies have been paid too much, the various right and wrong decisions they've made turned Amazon and FB into the 4th and 7th most valuable pubicly traded companies in the world in 20 years. They should have paid their c-suite half and become what? Still the 4th and 7th most valuable companies in the world? We know this why?

At the end of the day it's a very hard job, and no one has any idea who the hell is good at it. Prior performance is a good signal, but who knows really? Why would you go cheap when the potential for billions of dollars in wealth destruction/creation is at risk?
If you can suddenly produce the content of three writers, two other writers are getting fired, and you'll be tasked with the work of five, under the same deadline. That's the way capitalism works.
I've been using MacOS for over 10 years by now and I still consider it vastly inferior in this regard. I recently started using alt-tab which does a pretty good job at mimicking Windows but it's slightly buggy and introduces a tiny but noticeable delay which is a constant source of frustration to me.
Cloud is like half the company now. It isn’t just GCP.
Long-time Beeminder user here. You are theoretically right, but I don't think it works like this in practice. I've never had a problem with declaring that they should not charge me, and the charge was always canceled if that was TRT.

As for the escape hatch: true, but the counterargument by Beeminder people is that you basically cheat yourself then, so what would the point be? In fact, I have many "goals" on Beeminder where I enter data manually, so it's based on a honor system – and I don't think I'm the only one.

As for the anti-charities: this is a terrible, terrible idea from moral point of view. Much worse than just "distracting". If I agree (even conditionally) to donate money to an evil cause, I am just committing evil right now. Why would I want to do it?
When I find one bug I assume it is likely repeated all over the code and I search it out. I have been burned enough times to not consider it a must.
is anyone extracting commercially significant volumes of minerals from the Salton Sea yet?
Fantastic to see the immediate success of state capitalism. It wasn't so long ago that it was heretical to even suggest government intervention in the economy. Hopefully this will be beginning of further self reflection of the ideological commitments we've been beholden too for so long
You're absolutely correct

But just use a proper N95 mask, it's even easier to breath than other masks
>I had this same issue pre-Elon

It didn't happen to me once before he started charging money for blue checkmarks.

>You have to go into your settings

Too late, app deleted.
And the iOS jailbreak community is starved waiting for single root-priv exploit because no one [wants to|can] give them away for free any more.
A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk… Have at you!
Effect of repeated low-level red light on myopia prevention
Again, you can handle this by rate-limiting and standard anti-abuse measures. To elaborate: don't allow new-ish accounts to post more than one question/answer per day, don't allow allow accounts to more than one question/answer per week/month if their previous content hasn't reached a certain quality threshold of votes, and so forth.

It's entirely possible to set up the system to prevent it from being flooded by content that moderation can't handle. In fact, StackOverflow has already been largely set up that way, and this will just require just a little more tweaking of the types of existing policies that have already been in place for a long time. People attempting to flood internet forums with low-quality content or outright spam isn't anything new.
Definitely true. That's something my co-founder talks a lot about.

If you just stick at it for a few months, projects get huge. It's incredible how much code gets written when you look 6-months back. If you had to look forward and try to guess, you'd never imagine this much would have happened.
I might be wrong, but iirc Transformers were invented/designed by google, so these research “papers” are being used in some way.

I think it’s a VERY good thing that they’re sharing this knowledge to the people instead of being stored internally. You know there will be someone who will take inspiration from this to create software.