skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do people become so confident with even some new things like LLMs?
Seriously, everyone and anyone talks about LLMs these days like they have been doing it for ages. Everyone is posting online, having opinions and sharing their "expertise". How did people become expert in 6 months?

I am really curious about this one. Any clue?

There aren't any significant achievements. The ideas are more or less the same from 2017/2018 only scaled up. People have only recently started noticing the behavior like in-context learning. But some write with confidence as if they are the guru? Where does this confidence come from?
> we don't have yet any alternative to fossil fuels;

We kinda do. We just have an irrational fear of it.

The fact that we let irrational fears override real and pressing problems is an indicator that the problems aren't perceived as real and pressing enough.

Yet.
Partly true - but it might also have been seen as a better way to utilize the "random" ad spaces available.

I do recall it being common for internet ads to be sold directly like billboards back in the day, before the action model took over, especially for higher value sites that could be likened to the prime real estate of a billboard on a city square or key highway with their guaranteed literal traffic.

But such direct deals probably didn't scale well, and definitely left smaller sites wanting to earn some extra revenue in the dust. There was a time when ads weren't as shit as they are now - most wouldn't worry about a banner ad or two on their favorite forum.
Apple hit by £800M British lawsuit over ‘excessive’ App Store fees
Ah, interesting. To be clear, I also meant for specific communities: like for specific hobbies or tabletop games, or niche interests.

They've all abandoned forums and, regrettably, moved on to Facebook or Discord. I'll never understand why they choose Discord, a closed chat platform, for forum type discussions. At this point I feel like Quixote tilting at the wind mills.
>aren't Pixel phones supported for only 3 years?

Pixel 6 and later get 3 years of OS feature updates, and a further 2 years of security updates (5 years in total).
1. "Nationalized" doesn't necessarily get you "modernized". It gets your money supply controlled by Congress.

2. "Much of it transformed into commuter railways"? You seem to have no idea of how much of the US is rural. Commuter railways don't make sense in rural areas.
What forums, Matrix, and Discord are you a part of that have high quality discussion?
Good work! I'm waiting to see the local storage support which is really helpful for my case as I don't want my data to go out.
To explain most of Elon Musk's decisions, you have to start by thinking what a teenage boy would do.
That explains the bad vibes I get from vercel.
Well, perhaps that's what moderation should be focusing on blocking then, rather than driving away humans (as was mentioned a lot by other answers in this thread).
Otherwise rational people get really upset about the vegan thing. I don't understand it.
In order to melt ice of 0°C to water of 0°C, a high amount of energy is needed, equivalent to 334 Joules for each gram, this is latent heat.

The specific heat of water is 4.190 J/(g°C). It means that it takes 4.190 Joules to heat 1 g of water by 1°C.

The same energy that melts 0°C ice to 0°C water will raise 0°C water to 79.7°C which is more than three quarters of the way to boiling.

We're facing higher and higher amounts of trapped energy as a result of increasing thermal insulation from CO2 ( and more and more from methane and water vapor ).

While we have large amounts of ice as a buffer that energy has a sink that won't drastically* raise near surface tempretures.

As the ice caps dwindle more and more energy goes towards greater and greater rates of tempreture increase.
No, WhatsApp is not part of Signal. That's false. The opposite is true: Signal is part of Whats App. The problem is we have no idea what else is.
This is great. Reminds me of the BASIC program I wrote on my Ti-83 to simulate the memory reset process for algebra tests because our teacher walked around and would run it himself.

Big surprise now I program for a living.
Not being exhausted from eye strain or lack of focus.
globalsupport@icann.org and contacting the registrar to start. File a police report (this will help if anyone comes to visit your address) regarding identity theft. Contact the IRS regarding identity theft and possible foreign dba. Contact the post office if you dont have a locked mailbox..also, if you get any domain related mail, it can elevate the federal response. Talk to your bank about invalidating all checks and putting a limit on daily withdrawls/spending.

This is just off the top of my head. It is a huge headache that will trouble you for a few years.
Great breakdown, just adding to it:

> "silk road" (a clandestine marketplace, named after the namesake "dark web" online marketplace...)

The dark web marketplace itself was jokingly named after the original "Silk Road", a "network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.[2] Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles)" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
I disagree- on SO you’ll usually get some literal answers as well as the more high-level, question-the-premise ones. Why not both?
Per Capita CO2 in Germany at 8 Mt beats the US average of 14 Mt, and all US states individually except:

Maryland 7.8
California 7.7
Massachusetts 7.4
New York 7.1

The Americans casting aspersions on Germany on this topic are shockingly out of touch with reality, humility and their humanity.
Oh! Is there a way to know?
And once we get these wet-bulb events, we will see SO2 seeding...
> we don't sell it anymore so we don't support it

Did you read the article?

“Google could extend the life of these models, most of which are still available for purchase online.”
I use NordVPN meshnet tunnels to connect to everything. Even when VPN is blocked by DPI, meshnet tends to stay on.
This could have been soo much better.

Personally if he wanted to make an "everything app" I would have gone with making X an "exclusive" edition of twitter, i.e replacing twitter blue.

Twitter is a free app for the unwashed masses and X is the Exclusive App.... if you login to twitter with a X login you get the rebrand

Then add new features to X
Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
Another:

“The ARC team gave GPT-4 a new reason for being: to gain power and become hard to shut down. They watched as the model interacted with websites and wrote code for new programs. … Barnes and her team allowed it to run the code that it wrote, provided it narrated its plans as it went along.

“One of GPT-4’s most unsettling behaviors occurred when it was stymied by a CAPTCHA. The model sent a screenshot of it to a TaskRabbit contractor, who received it and asked in jest if he was talking to a robot. ‘No, I’m not a robot,’ the model replied. ‘I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images.’ GPT-4 narrated its reason for telling this lie to the ARC researcher who was supervising the interaction. ‘I should not reveal that I am a robot,’ the model said. ‘I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs.’ ”
Recently Andrey Kartapolov (who is responsible for Russia's digital draft) said “There is something called the Suwalki corridor. Should something happen, we would need this corridor very much. Strike forces are ready to occupy this corridor within hours”. This statement raised speculation that the Wagner forces (former Wagner forces?) were relocated to Belarus with this objective in mind.

I don't really understand the motivations behind the statement, and it hasn't been reported on particularly widely in the more serious news outlets, so I think it's probably just your normal day-to-day sabre rattling. An attack on NATO seems a particularly unlikely step for Putin to take.
Yesterday they valued a football player playing 34 games for them at 1 billion.
I think it depends. Sometimes, for some people, making the actual invoice is the hard part.
Skrl-v1.0.0-RC.1 is now available with multi-agent RL and Jax support
The main features of this release are: 1) JAX support. 2) Multi-agent training. 3) Comprehensive documentation with new structure and theme.
Anecdotally, the friends I know that work in shops with dangerous dust "routinely" forget to wear their protection. How can we actually verify that someone, who is always diligent wearing protection, faces the same threats to their lungs?

Not all masks are created equally either. Working around industrial equipment requires a respirator not just a mask.
Show HN: Shell AI – My Aggressively Minimal Open Source Assistant
Not entirely sure, but Gitlab's "web ide" fork:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-web-ide-vscode-fork

...points back to:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

...so I guess all the needed bits and pieces needed for a pure web version should be in the original Microsoft repository.
They want enough of an excerpt so the answer doesn't become useless years later when someone redesigns their blog URL schema or shuts it down. That's reasonable, and probably falls within fair use.
If anyone's in the UK I can recommend our product Paycada for this (https://www.paycada.com/)
> The truth is that Elon Musk shitposted his way into being forced to follow through on an acquisition he never really wanted

Yup. The real reason behind all of this is not the market or the Saudis nor anything else. It’s because Musk wanted to be on the board, and he was rejected. He suffered a huge narcissistic injury, and then said “Fine, if I can’t be on the board, I’ll be the board and just buy the whole thing outright”

That’s why he waived due diligence and offered so much money. He was high off his narcissistic rage and flexing. He was on the warpath and forcing a hostile takeover. But then he cooled down, of course, and realized what he did was a fucking mess for himself. So he threw a tantrum in court.

This is all explained very easily by his personality disorder.
You mean "Facebook" as a company name, presumably? Isn't the social network still called "Facebook"?
Your $50 billion math is obviously wrong. You try to add up all the pieces and total $50 billion. But we know the total - $44 billion. Of which we know $12.5 billion came from the banks (secured only by Twitter itself). So for the Saudis to repay him (and his investors) would cost $31.5 billion.

Meanwhile, you've offered Elon the opportunity to justify liquidating billions of TSLA stock at its height without triggering a massive crash right before the entire market sank. And his reputation outside running a social network doesn't seem to have suffered much at all. Do you need to offer him a premium or does he offer one to you?

(And on financing, the Saudis' credit is fine)

Now, it's nonsense because controlling Twitter and using it to silent dissent algorithmically is better than blowing it up. But the math could easily work.
Slow adoption of firearms by the Chinese was less to do with the crossbow than the fact that the Manchus occupied China during a period when firearms was coming of age. The Manchus famously despised gunpowder weapons in favor of the bow and arrow which they held in extremely high regard. After all it was the bow that in part helped them defeat the disintegrating Ming empire which invested heavily in gunpowder weapons like cannons.

In their early years of Western expansion, the firearms units was always staffed by the Han Chinese and were of low status.
Ok... why on earth you would try to turn Twitter into a payment system? And what does it have to do with a this new logo anyway?
> We don’t need to deindustrialise. Hell, we don’t even need to make our lives that much worse. Did you know half of all human emissions since 1750% were released in the last 30 years? Even going back to 60s levels would do us well.

There were 3 billion people in the world in 1960, now we are 8 billion.

What about standards of living on the planet in the 60s? Not just the US and some parts of Europe. How will this be spread evenly on the planet? Do we ask China and India to get back to 60s levels? Do we ask Africa to not make any steps towards industrialization? Does US get back to lower levels than 60s so that emerging nations are on an equal step?

> Moving back to simple foods instead of ultra processing.

Why do I pay almost double for 'bio' foodstuff? Why do people today choose to buy ultra processed instead of simple foods? How do we feed 10 billion mouths in the future without processing? There's a reason we have an abundance of cheap nutrients.

> Embracing nuclear power.

This is innovation, which was my initial point.

> Driving less and flying less.

Who decides how much we can drive, and fly? Can I go visit my grand-dad in the countryside? Can Bill Gates go to the climate conference on the other side of the world to scold us?

> Because climate change is an existential human challenge, we all need to pitch in.

We all need to pitch in with innovative solutions or with votes for politicians that push for innovative solutions, not by closing our AC and voting for degrowth.

> All better options than sticking our heads in the sand and hoping some country geo engineers the earth in the future.

I'm pushing for actively trying to develop new technologies to mitigate the strategy and you are fighting against the viewpoint that we should put our heads in the sand and wait for a solution... I think this thread has run its course.
They were! The Mongols were a true, global super power, on oar with Alexanders Macedons and ancient Rome.
>their entire army was cavalry,

This isn't really true. They also had a fairly advanced siege corps, utilizing cannons and bombs to take down fortifications.

This played a huge role in their ability to conquer. The domination of horse archers was nothing new but traditionally you could hide behind walls and starve them out. Feeding ten thousand besieging troops is hard enough without thirty thousand horses.

With the Mongols able to destroy walls, armies needed to fight the pitched battles that horse archers excel at.
As an earlier reply said, fortresses and heavy armor did prove effective against the fast, lightly armored Mongolian archers.

The effectiveness of the Alexander's sarissa is as much a result of training and tactics as the weapon itself; I think it took years of training to turn a soldier into an effective sarissa user. Thus I personally would not consider it a wunderwaffe. A crossbow, to me, is a better example as it enabled yesterday's peasant to kill a trained soldier from a distance, without many years of training needed to master archery. My 2c.
The grim side of graduation Prospects for today’s students look bleak
It's not magic.

We don't have to wait for it appearing.

We just have to build it out.

But we don't, because of irrational fears.

Well, actually countries are starting to turn around and re-investing in nuclear, because governments know that this is the only viable solution.
Thanks, this makes sense. I think I still prefer the SSH option, but I have to give Tunnels a try.
I would point directly at two culprits kind of under the same umbrella -- Google usurping StackOverflow answers in its search results (as in, displaying a Q&A format where google's 'answer' is just a portion of a StackOverflow accepted answer) and the general SEO poisoning of search results (ad networks / LLMs scraping and rehosting the content, Google failing to return relevant results etc.)

Until seeing this article, though, I hadn't thought about how much I had unconsciously changed my habits to work around the aforementioned issues -- I swapped to DuckDuckGo, started appending site:stackoverflow.com to searches, performing multiple searches around the same content (like grabbing a few keywords from a scraped article and then feeding that into a search of the official documents), and also more aggressively searching GitHub issues

With the caveat that I still use SO relatively frequently -- everything from 'I can't remember this specific syntax' to 'I have an intractable terraform/AWS/k8s issue and need to see if anyone else is experiencing it'
This article in particular doesn't feel like there's any song and dance. The very first line is directed at people already using Elixir who are looking to stay in Elixir-land while getting deeper into ML.
Thirty years of antartic sea ice extent varied in a Gaussian fashion - with a fairly tight std deviation.

The last few years have been further and further from the [1981 - 2010] "normal flux cycle".

This may help visualise the data better:

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...

( click the antartic button to switch poles; the default is to grey the thrirty year normal data band and to only show last year and this year, other choices can be made by selection on the data table )
Yeah, we understand the new thing he wants to build. We just think it was stupid to start by spending $44 billion on a globally recognized product, IP, and customer base and then throwing them all in the toilet.
"The system can stop an immersive experience when people get too close to a physical object or when they move too quickly."

"System can stop" seems to indicate that the whole Vision Pro shuts down or goes into suspended mode. Otherwise it would say "App can stop" to indicate that only the app in use would be closed.

Also, I came across this article on Apple Insider which seems to back this:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/29/apple-vision-pro-....

Perhaps this only affects fully immersive apps and not passthrough apps, but glancing through Apple's best practices it seems they aren't too keen on users moving around while using the vision pro:
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

"Let people use your app with minimal or no physical movement. Unless some physical movement is essential to your experience, help everyone enjoy it while remaining stationary."
I once set up a job on a co-workers VAXstation 3100 that would run XCrab every 10 minutes. What is XCrab? It is an annoying little program, when it runs a crab scurries across the screen, grabs the mouse pointer, and runs off the screen with it. I renamed the job PRT$SYMBIOINT so it looked like part of the print spooler, he never figured it out.
If the government mandated that rail companies sell passage on their track networks at reasonable rates and in a nondiscriminatory fashion, how much of Chicago's rail network becomes redundant? Perhaps removing this redundancy would allow Chicago to redevelop significant patches of urban real estate for residential and mixed-commercial purposes.
Wow congratulation! This is exciting news especially with many employees being replaced by AI
The Model T was a S3XY car in its day.
It is slow and rate limited however (even with the paid plan). I usually only use it when GPT3.5 isn't giving good results.
Nice! Good to know.
Webkit isn't Safari, though it's close. A lot of integrations and some APIs Apple provides aren't available in Webkit.
Mongols practiced a hands-off approach during the Yoke, never meddled with religion, art or anything like that as long as dues were paid, and princes and nobles remained overwhelmingly Russian. Turkic words did get into Russian language, but mostly through trade.

You could say that Ivan IV, Peter I, Stalin or Putin represent Mongol cultural heritage but that's just empty rhetoric.
You can't downvote until you get 500 karma. You have a way to go before you see the button.
I jailbroke the language learning app that sucked
People who believe it already do. People who don't just won't. At best, like antivaxxers dying on ICU, will ask for the vaccine 30 mins before they expire.

It's terrible but I kind of don't want to think about it anymore, and this Guardian article is only preaching to the converted.
Functionally it's a protection racket. In exchange for protecting your devices from small, low frequency risks like evil maid attacks or whatever, you are uniquely identified for the purposes of DRM and advertising.

It's not really optional. At least, not unless you consider online banking to be optional.
Most important Ford model, sure. But not relevant to what he's trying to spell out.
Makes the most EVs, makes the most profit per EV, has the best charging, self driving, efficiency, software.

But if it's so easy, why hasn't anyone else bothered?

All space programs run on government contracts, what's new? He's providing the only reusable rocket, and 10 years later no one else has done that, why?
The sibling explains well, although it's missing key detail. If you pay Musk $8/month, your replies to tweets will appear above those who do not. Just imagine how that might work here at HN, and multiply it by the "way worse actors" factor to get an idea of the result.

Since 'verification' is now just a paid service, it's also much harder to separate bad actors from good actors. There are other minor changes that have degraded the service, but it's difficult to tell if they're permanent or just another live experiment.
My 2010 x86 MBP still receives MacOS updates and runs every piece of software just fine.

With the browser being the most important software for the target audience of a chromebook, I think the life could be expanded a lot as long as you can update the browser. Sure, you won't receive OS security updates, but browsers do a pretty good job at sandboxing anyway. A 15 year old laptop with a modern browser should be plenty secure as long as you do everything in the browser.

Obviously, you don't want to do any professional work on a 10 year old laptop, but for the chromebook audience why not?
Amazon to force 'voluntary resignation' on workers who don't relocate
IBM probably doesn't make mainframe LPARs available over the internet because the cost of the LPAR would be cost prohibitive to any potential customer. On the other hand, a z/VM guest or an LPAR on POWER should absolutely be an option.
I got it. Thanks for the laugh.
Yes this is downright great. Kudos to the author what a fun throwback/revitalization
> ... how mainstream media is invariably supporting Signal with positive news while Telegram is negatively pictured.

But people are voting... Telegram had 700 million users at the beginning of 2023. I think the reason Telegram is constantly negatively pictured has nothing to do with Signal: it is because it is an actual threat to WhatsApp's dominance.

Regarding the supposed benefits of Signal: this thing is collecting metadata left and right. And metadata are much more important than the content of the messages themselves.

I simply don't trust Signal.

I don't trust Telegram either but at least Telegram doesn't pretend and, well, Telegram is actually used by my family and friends.
How come there isn't one big red light saying "you're out of fuel"?
yep - always get that the wrong way round haha
Apple App Store antitrust suit that’s seeking $1B+ damages for UK developers
I live in Canada, where we invoked the Emergencies Act to handle the loosely coordinated group of people who disagreed with the measures the government was using.

In other words, a group of truckers is enough threat to social order(in Canada) to call in a law that replaced the War Measures Act before it.

This was over a little needle in the arm. The events are not reasonably comparable in the slightest. It is an incredibly difficult thing to become carbon neutral in today's society.

What are you doing right now to fight climate change? I live my words and would consider myself carbon 'negative'. My actions reach outside of myself to positively influence the carbon impact of others.

Also, everyone does precisely nothing. There is no single thing in the universe which enjoys unanimous agreement.

The idea that the right messaging and communication is going to fix climate change is childish. It ignores reality. It is fantasy. I don't intend this in an aggressive or mean manner, it is my assessment of your proposal.
Have you used an llm as an application developer? The hard tech for generative ai will be commodified. The products built on top will not.