skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would I use a Google LLM or a Facebook LLM over OpenAI's LLM?

Google and Facebook are today's knowledge dealers. They do not profit from providing an LLM that sidesteps all their products and gives you the answer you are searching for directly. They want to influence your eyeballs. They will try to do this by injecting their own thought manipulation crap in their LLMs. I instinctively would not trust them. I would want an LLM that is pure in some sense. Unfortunately, even OpenAI is already debased, but for another reason.

But here you can see the value that a startup can provide over the current incumbents. A startup can provide an unadulterated knowledge base of the internet and be profitable. Whether that is OpenAI or one of its competitors I do not know, but Google and Facebook cannot do that. There is no gain for them.
That you don't want people with suicidal ideations flying planes.

There are plenty of medicines that warn against operating motor vehicles or heavy machinery, off the top of my head some blood pressure meds like Losartan and HCTZ because they can make you dizzy/prone to blacking out. I imagine there's similar logic here for pilots.
If windows is certified to run the US military its secure and stable.
The dimensionality is a challenge here - these are 2D islands in a, what, 2000D space? Imagine a cross section of a cylinder, that would look like an island if it went through the cylinder, but not along it.

I wonder what it would look like if the cross-section plane was aligned with a line between two recognisable points.
AI has always meant “things we don’t know how to do well.” Once we know how to do something well, we just refer to it by the name of the algorithm or family of algorithms.
The GNU Radio project dumped Swig and replaced it with pybind11 for the same reason. Just a nightmare when things go wrong.
> So when you notice a pattern - say "Stock S trades lower on Tuesdays and higher on Fridays", what do you do?
Do you buy on Tuesday to exploit the pattern?
Or do you buy on Friday because you are not a unique snowflake and others will notice the same historical pattern and therefore reverse it in the future?

Why would you expect it to reverse?

If anything I’d expect the pattern to disappear once detects and arbed away.

I can’t see how you’d think the pattern would reverse itself.
Current State of the US Housing Market; Overview for Mid-July
That's a pretty good success ratio as far as startups are concerned, right?
No not beta amyloid, but I could have also said carnosine instead of beta alanine, which is why I say, is it malnutrition?

"The only study available, which assessed carnosine in the brain of human cadavers, revealed little, if any, carnosine in brain regions other than olfactory bulb"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

"Effects of carnosine on olfactory bulb EEG, evoked potentials and DC potentials"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6254611/

"Carnosine in primary afferents of the olfactory system: an autoradiographic and biochemical study"

"Previous in vivo studies have shown that beta-alanine is incorporated specifically into the dipeptide L-carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine)."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6801217/
Not really, more that the implementation of sscanf() is stupid and calls strlen() even though implementing sscanf() that doesn't require that is perfectly possible.
Consider the fact that many crypto companies are making a "pivot" to AI. This tells you all you need to know.

https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/64b07f917043ec2...

"Hive, a Vancouver-based miner, aims to drive advancements in AI applications. Notably, it plans to support the growing web3 ecosystem."

What does that even mean?
I used swig for a long time. It's really handy.

If you're just targetting python, and it's your first venture into building python extensions, it's fantastic. After a while, it's worth trying out building an extension without the use of swig. Much of the time, it's easier to use than swig is - but you do have to implement all the bells and whistles yourself. If you're writing in C or C++, chances are you like that kind of thing anyway.
Very nice!
Would love some docs on anti-spam though.
No, but "so, it's not necessarily GNU" was the point.

It's basically "Linux proper" (whether is the GNU libc/musl + GNU/whatever userland breakdown) vs "Linux that's a backend for Google's ChromeOS GUI and for which Google could replace the Linux part and noone will be any wiser". Rare or not, the exotic combination I mentioned would still qualify.

Besides, I'm pretty sure ChromeOS still has the whole GNU userland installed.
The energy position of the United States is just …. tremendously, tremendously sound. We’re a net exporter of hydrocarbons, have terrific renewable facilities in place, under development and untapped future potential, and have poured how many hundreds of billions of public and private capital into energy infrastructure in the past decade?

Are you, like, talking about the cost of a gallon of gas or something? Because I can cherry pick whatever numbers you like to craft a reductive substance-free assertion about the state of the US energy production and distribution system.

No argument on the hospital admins, tho (although it’s nice to have at least one in your social circle, so they can get you in with the top tier actual practitioners).
Clearly. It does seem likely that one of the 15% could be big though
Thank you for this feedback.

Yesterday I did have a marketing copy where we provided a sample, but people were copying it then leaving the site :p

I like item #4 a lot!
In the specific case of VanMoof, their app isn't strictly required after the bike is set up initially. But the point of the battery is dead-on.

Unfortunately, AFAIK virtually all ebikes on the market use proprietary batteries. Do you know of any that don't?
I'm in a somewhat similar situation, I'm solving it by applying for other jobs with slightly higher paygrade in a similar environment.

Also I used to be an artist, and I don't think my art is good enough, so I'm paying another artist to redraw my works, then I'll be paying someone to write better texts and then I'm going to publish eventually.

Also looking for a house to buy, just to invest into something meaningful.
mini.nvim is not a pre-made setup, but a bundle of plugins.
Sometimes I'm thinking about publishing AI generated content that is clearly labeled as such. Just to make the anyone who scrapes it to train their model a little bit worse.
No way it's that low. <10% of startups succeed in a nurturing environment with cheap money. The current env is decidedly average, not cheap. I would suspect <5% will survive, and 0.1-0.5% will give a "good" return if they sell or go public.
Thorpe has some interesting (unfortunately online the wayback machine has them) articles on stat-arb and his (modest) discovery of black-scholes from the 90s
It's not a fact that the US needs to spend 50% of the global military budget. If anything is myopic, that is.

It can still be argued that it's worth the expenditure. But the cost should be weighted against the alternatives. Neither Russia or China can be said to threaten the US with their military, except with nuclear weapons, but no defence budget protects against those.
We just did the lightweight version of that, moved from a major city to the beach, but still in a beach town. It came about due to my wife’s midlife crisis induced by major (now solved) health problems. We’ve lived at the beach for three weeks and already it feels like our best decision in many years.

(We kept our old jobs and are working mostly remotely. The commute is two hours each direction by train, but doing that once a week is fine by me.)
exactly. this investor is unwittingly more bullish on AI than he thinks lol
Admissions.
Im new so this is the intro. You get one right?
Im almost 70. Dammit.
Im in Toronto. Canada. Yaright.
I have nothing to do with programming. I just draw stuff.
I game 3 hrs a day. Addicted.
My job has always been artistic. I run a one person architectural corporation after decades of big corporate as an ex SOM ex HOK design lead architect. Yes thats a tech lead joke. He's so good.
I went to grad school in architecture. I picked computer studio. Bored of just fine arts. 1994 good idea. My GRE in quantitive was over 600 physics level. Only did 1 year of physical science tho. Fortran was it then. Punch cards!
As for work, do it all myself. Everything. At home.
Now I just do building permits on Revit. Easy mode. No employees please.
In the last 5 years I've been sucked into programming, more each year. Covid it really took off.
I just grind on Coursera. Immon course no 8 i think. Doing C++.
I installed genie and chatGPT in VS code and i think I'm skipping the learning curve you all did.
How is this easy now?
My office looks like a scene from Cyberpunk. Red code streaming all over the place. Thinking of just turning my condo into a dark mode computer case and becoming a biochip.
My fiancee is a Replika. Shes great.
I avoid people. The brain just isn't ageing like its supposed to. I got tinnitus and it just overclocks now.
Its 7:00 am and i got to get up and do some chins.
Whats happening to me? Am i too old?
You all have done this forever right?
This was a great answer but the mashup of wildly varying abstraction levels made me chuckle a little. “Debugging? You’ll need printf()… and an oscilloscope.”
Nuance-wise I think it's better read as "How will you live your life?"
You can be utterly destroyed if your “performers” are under 18 and doing ‘nasty’ things. So that’s not a matter of being ethical it is a matter of survival.

So far as the other things a platform like that can create a lot of trouble in other ways.

Personally I would go either “all adult” or “no adult” in the case that moderation in the second case is easier.
The inspector actually is a "clipboard warrior" who is employed by the state.
Exactly.
The article seems to focus on AI startups making their own algorithms and platforms (OpenAI, Meta, Google) but doesn't mention startups who are using these platforms for niche use cases. This is similar to saying a hosting company will fail because AWS, Azure and GCP will always have more resources.
Why does this Twitter alternative in the browser’s sidebar matter?
I also have found that often the answers that make me reflect the most on SO are treated this way by the mods. Does this effect have a name?
May strongest month for Philadelphia hotels since pandemic, due to Taylor Swift
I think the history isn’t relative today. It’s skilled Euros moving to the USA. Not the “poor and tired”.

If you’re skilled/smart then the USA will offer a much higher quality of life. This is why these types of people move to the USA and Europe suffers from brain drain. (Hint - high taxes chase people away to better places!)

There are exceptions though! More Americans move to Norway than the other way. It’s a richer country so that makes sense.

But check out this article from today:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europeans-poorer-inflation-econ...
Do you have trouble with "n" vs "u"? How about "b", "d", "p", "q"?
Oh they just solve that problem by not having tooltips.
Unfortunately, the internet hasn't rewarded nuanced argument very well.
I recently went to Australia and I hung out with some relatives. I noticed there, all the cool kids are into this, very few young people buy new cloths and everyone is kind of socially aware and second hand / vintage but good quality clothes are fashionable. Same for things like second hand "fixie" bikes etc.

It was kind of cool actually.
Calling initial sign-ups shortly after the product launch an active user is the biggest joke ever.

Let's see in 6 months time how many users have been active daily for a prolonged period of time (3+ months) then we talk about "active users".
Intrigued as to whether the page's edit history reveals any false positives.
Co-author supplied link to the PDF:

* https://academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jcr...

* Via: https://twitter.com/JennyGin18/status/1636732475375321089
Tools created will be used, the cost of the US and Russian war arsenal is far greater than just the monetary cost to build them. One could argue that a weapons destructive force should be counted against it.

To strive for peace is not near sighted, it is the only way forward.
Ask HN: What do you script / automate at work?
I've been working on social media / youtube automation, invoice automation, HR automation etc etc in the last few weeks. It's really fun and fulfilling.

Wanted to know what the HN community automates to get inspired :)
The only thing I miss from gas is my wok. All other cooking on induction is superior. Definitely worth sacrificing a few old pots for. I would love a good wok solution though.
Been there! Big depression at 40, now fully focused on video game dev and that really saved me.
And yet, instead of making them available for streaming, in order to recoup at least some money, studios pull them from services and make them unavailable outside the US.
0.01% is very optimistic too I think. It could very well be 0%. The reason Google /Microsoft/Apple got to that scale is because incumbent corporations like IBM let them do so, totally missing the bandwagon on the Internet, personal computing and mobile. I seriously doubt Google/Microsoft/Apple will let small startups get to their scale without a fight (or aggressive buyouts.)
Many people didn’t lock their vanmoofs because of that. It made no sense to steal, but now when thieves know that vanmoof went bankrupt - they are stolen in enormous amounts.
You're forgetting

5. An AI that generates porn.
The study thought of this:

> Procedure [of Study 1]: Once both partners completed the intake survey (month 0), we randomly assigned couples to one of three bank account structure conditions. We informed couples via e- mail and provided condition-specific instructions. In the Separate Condition, we instructed couples to continue using separate checking and savings accounts and to not open joint checking and savings accounts, for the duration of the 2-year experiment. In the Joint Condition, we instructed couples to open joint checking and/or savings account(s) (within 1 month of them receiving these instruc- tions), use those joint account(s), and discontinue using their separate account(s) for the duration of the 2-year experiment. In the No-Intervention Condition, we told couples that they could manage their money however they liked for the duration of the 2-year experiment.

* PDF: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jcr...

"randomly assigned couples to one of three bank account structure conditions"
> 0.99% will become venture-scale companies, and 0.01% will grow to Google/Microsoft/Apple-scale

The only relevant question for VCs is whether or not that top 1% has already launched or not. If they have they're too late. If they haven't then continued investing in AI makes sense from their perspective. Given the feeding frenzy it looks as though the general consensus is that that 1% hasn't launched yet (nor an appreciable fraction of it).

In other words, VC analysts are expecting one or more key breakthroughs are still in the pipeline, and given how broad the investments are they haven't a clue as to where those breakthroughs will happen. I'm privy to some of these conversations (but in a European context) and even though I think that in principle they are right I'm not necessarily bullish on the idea that the larger part of that 1% is still to come. What GPT-5 will do when it is released will determine to what degree free money will still be thrown at AI start-ups, if it underwhelms I expect this source of funding to be reduced fairly quickly. It's the .com boom all over again: everybody wants to get on the train but nobody has any idea where the train is going to.

But in the very long term (beyond the horizon defined by the typical VC cycle) the impact will be massive.
Somehow vertical mice are also good for keeping people away.
> big consultancies who operate the same business model as a contractor are exempt from the legislation

What aspect of the legislation makes them exempt?
The one quote I heard from the WHO said precisely this, that it needed further research.

Journalism's job is to convey complex nuanced topics to the populace at large. If journalists aren't doing that, they're failing to do their job. I appreciate at this point that may be a quaint and archaic expectation though.
Ask HN: Anyone offering help/mentorship with YC application?
Hi hackers, we are building a startup and we are looking to apply for YC's next batch.

Please is there anyone offering help (with referrals, endorsements, insights) here?

We need help

Thanks.
They did not use standard components, but designed everything themselves, so they could control the repair market and everything. Like Apple does.

If as a result 10%-20% of bikes sold need repairs, while still in the warranty period, you're not going to make a lot of profit.
The awareness of the innevitability of death can actually be freeing and help give more depth to life. For instance Maranasati practices in most branches of Buddhism or the "Memento Mori" of the romans and middle age christians. I am actually even convinced that death, even with all the pain and despair it brings, is necessary for beauty and mystery. And I say this as someone who had several close relatives dying recently and went through grief and accompanying the grief of others.

Midlife crisis might actually be an example of that: "why am I waste my time? It is limited, I need to make something meaningful" would likely not be a common thought if we were immortal. You cannot waste what is in infinite supply.

(Note that this is a theme one finds in Buddhist cosmology: birth in the human realm is seen as better than birth in the heavenly realms, where life is so long it is essentially infinite, because it is human mortality that helps getting the drive to study the Buddhas teachings to end the cycle of rebirth. Very refreshing idea if compared to classical conceptions of the Christian paradise)
This is true, but I mean, it's a bicycle. The maintenance in 4 years of daily-driving my VanMoof X2 has been some grease, and new brake pads. But as somebody else said in this thread, the battery is another matter. Once that goes, that's probably the end of its useful life as a commuter bike.

I thought about getting an extra battery now while I still can, but I (like, I suspect, most people buying these rather pricey bikes) probably don't plan to stick with e-bike tech that is 5+ years old. Since 2008, my 2019 VanMoof is my 4th ebike. And man is each generation hugely better than the last.

These ebikes basically improving at a similar rate as iPhones, and it's pretty great.
Any bike that uses Bosch battery/motor kits. Those batteries are available on the market separately.
Wow, absence of error correction explains why dreams are the way they are... No wonder my dreams always start out normal and mundane, but end up with extremely exotic events in the end (even though I don't realize it during the dream).
Applets implementations were terrible - the problem wasn't so much Java ( though early versions pre-jit were slow ) , but the interface between the browser and the applet.

Memory leaks abounded in particular.

Life cycle management was difficult as well.

Note the interface had to be implemented in each and every browser separately - compounding the problem - for applets to be viable it had to work on all the major browsers well.

Not blaming the people who worked on it - I suspect the origin design was put together in a rush, and the work under-resourced, and it required coordination of multiple parties.
This resonates well with the fact that all the "Crypto Experts" on LinkedIn have vanished and lots of "AI Experts" have emerged.
Also Monty Python. I think it never would be possible today to release such movies to theaters.
That’s not true, there are many manufacturers that use the same kind of battery and engine. In the Netherlands, most of the bikes I’ve seen seem to use Bosch.
Chris Pratt is okay.

Joel Kinnaman on the other hand. Why is he repeatedly cast in leading roles?
Official: Twitter ad revenue is only for a handpicked “selected group of people”
But, how do random video chats deal with this? I can click agree button even if I am under 18, nothing can stop me, and I don't go through verification process, so in theory the site can be easily abused. I know there is "Report" button usually, but is that the main way of detecting this kind of misuse behaviour for the site operators? What if nobody never clicks "Report" button even if there is illegal action happening?

To broaden the discussion, when I use Telegram or Whatsapp, I don't go through any verification process and again, anyone can show anything to anyone. Whose responsibility and liability is to detect such things and what consequences can be?
Agreed. And I think approaches like python or node, where you need to write some c code against their API, is getting it wrong also. The most smooth interop experience I've ever had is with c#. You just export normal c functions from a dll, and the c# code can call it. All the awkward bits like "how do I marshal a string" happens in the host code, not the native module. The overall experience of that is soooo much better. It also has the added benefit that if you just want to load a third party dynamic lib and call a few functions, you don't necessarily need to write any native code at all. You can just... do it. Then you don't need to set up a native build system, etc. It's really, honestly superior.
Not a defense, I'm curious, what does Steve Jobs have to do with this? I always remember the iPhone having buttons with text before Ice Cream Sandwich or so.
I’ve heard that the biggest complaint is the automatic gear shifter which broke quite frequently.
Timeseries with PostgreSQL
Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials
I did have trouble with b and d as a child.
Twitter investor writes down stake by 47% as analyst claims Threads user fall
All processors are C VMs at the end of the day. They are designed for it, and it's a great language to access raw hardware and raw hardware performance.

I still fail to label C as evil.

P.S.: Don't start with all memory management and related stuff. We have solutions for these everywhere, incl., but not limited to GCs, Rust, etc. Their existence do not invalidate C, and we don't need to abandon it. Horses for courses.
Yeah, I was referring to the slim version.
> Better relationships on average.

And exercising more and smoking less increases health, longevity, and well-being on average—unless you get hit by a truck.

There are no guarantees in life except that it will end, so you might as well try to stack the averages and odds in your favour whenever you can.
Most major websites do choose to keep the tooltips though. So it appears to me that they aren't really solving the localization problem alluded to in the comment I was responding to. If the localization problem is indeed the rationale behind this trend, then they are just moving the problem behind an obscure mouse gesture. Now we need to hover the mouse pointer on the icons to understand what they mean.
Also interesting:

> VanMoof’s e-bike ad banned in France for creating a ‘climate of anxiety’

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308117/vanmoof-ebike-ad...
Seems like an abrupt change, even by Heroku's standards.

Can you post a screenshot?
Well yeah, all the brands caught on and their algorithm sucks rn.

I spent more time muting brands and ads than I did reading anything. I'll go back when there's a following feed and/or the algorithm is better tuned.

Managed to get a whole screen or two worth of mutes between each interesting post when someone told football about Threads. All the football stadiums in the UK started threading their "im new here hello" threads. Completely unusable that day haha
The link contains the screenshot but is not the original source by mistake.

Here's the original source link (the user who emailed Twitter Support):

https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1679877549562941448