skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is this colonialism?

Foreign/multinational organizations coming to dictate to the "natives" even how to deficate, for "their own good"? Sounds like it.

Colonialism is not just about "bad intentions". There were colonialists with "good intentions" too. They also thought they were doing "god's work", building railroads, teaching the brute natives how to live, and so on. The "white man's burden" they called it.

In the case of Japan, Americans threatened and even bombed them (in the 19th century) to teach them how they should live: to force them open their borders to western trade. The same entitlement apparently never stopped.
I thought the other one was even more odd: "Oh Youtube keeps promoting right-wing, eradicate the Jews content".

But, to be fair, I didn't say I don't see antisemitic content. That for sure pops up once in a while in very "muted" language. I've also seen a rising trend for the traditional values of Jewish people to be admired on the right/conservative side, so there is that.
Can you provide some context about Bing censoring Techdirt? These HN comments are the only thing that shows up in a search. The above article says nothing of censorship, other than screenshots of the Bing AI giving "maybe" speculations about it.
People understand how this works. Removal from bing means removal from duckduckgo.

Founder says they get info from many sources. Talks about local and factual information, flights, images, videos, etc as important categories while calling normal websites part of legacy web. Fails to mention they get this content from only bing. Tries to explain people are searching for less legacy while people believe they mostly use a search engine for legacy web.

I can't see a bug explanation being anywhere near the truth when every site delisted from bing is automatically delisted in duckduckgo and requires from some action to save it.

How do you explain the other sites?
1987 called. They want their naïve idealistic AI personal assistant concept demo back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
I wish the author would share data instead of their opinion. At the library, I heard high school students proudly say, "I used SnapChat's MyAI to do my homework assignment."

I have access to data in a social app that has users sending thousands of messages to the ai.
Isn't this opensourced after 8 years of being battletested in a very time/error sensitive environment (feeding bloomberg terminals)?
It targets AIX and Solaris (in addition to Linux) and vendor-supported C++ toolchains have spotty support for C++11 and newer.
We care quite a bit about search quality. We've made a bunch of changes over the past year to address some concerns that have been raised our Perspective feature which is part of that recent rolled out on mobile https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1673382545730457605 and we have further ranking changes coming soon, as we described here https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-perspectiv...

I tried the example you cited. The "blurb" is called a snippet; the snippet comes from the web page itself. One of the pages had that actual text, which is why it appeared. Why it had it on a page that's primarily about coaxial cable isn't clear, but we'll look into how to improve.

As for sending feedback, each link in the results has a little three dot icon next to it that brings up our "About This Results" panel, and you can send feedback that way.

Also, to belatedly introduce myself, I'm the public liaison for search at Google. It's a position we have within the actual search engineering team to help us gather feedback to improve search quality. Feel free for you or anyone comfortable sharing examples of unhelpful results to flag me about it:

https://twitter.com/searchliaison
https://mastodon.social/@searchliaison
Sure, you can't fault them for not having some good reasons behind their beliefs, based on what they knew and experienced at the time. You can certainly fault them for calcifying those beliefs into an entire church with rituals/rites devoted to such beliefs that then became somewhat obstinate in the face of later scientific progress and technological advancement (and then because of that also complicit in later struggles of science versus pseudo-science and conspiratorial thinking).
I think you're asking if a series of arcs is stronger than a wavy line. It's a great question and I think the answer to that would require a full model of the two walls to calculate all the stresses, etc. But I think it would also depend on the question of "stronger against what?" A pushing force but at what point and at what angle. Even height might make a difference.

My gut instinct is that the point where a wavy wall changes from curving one way to another is a slight weak point and perhaps an angle there would actually be stronger. Might be totally wrong.
I agree, nobody wants to chat with anyone's Chatbot -- they typically just want to ask one or two questions. The word "chat" seems disparaging.
If interfaces were gamed to keep the users 'engaged' so can the chatbots. At first they may concentrate on what's essential and provide some value, everybody will vie for their betterness but with time things will enshittificate for the same reasons UI became unusable or frustrating.
I think there are multiple facets to this argument (both for and against). Yeah, a lot of chatbots are so "stupid" or at least so obviously non-human that as a user, I have absolutely no desire to interact with them. They waste my time and I end up doing the same thing as I sometimes need to do with automated phone systems: press the virtual equivalent of "0" to try to get connected with a real human.

But that is starting to change: some chatbots can now start understanding and interacting like humans. As a user, when that's the case, I don't personally care what is powering the thing behind the scenes. In fact, I'd generally prefer a bot if it's as good as a good human: the number of times I've had 45 minute or longer sessions with some human support agent that:
1) Just didn't listen to what I was looking for
2) Had difficulty communicating because I started a chat on an evening/weekend and got routed to someone who had English as a second language
3) Couldn't actually figure out how to solve some problem, so I had to start a new conversation of the same substance the next day
4) Didn't actually log the notes of my chat for the next agent, so I had to repeat myself
etc

is just completely off the charts and it's anecdotally gotten worse in my experience in the past few years.
I'm also highly scheptical but if you'd asked a bunch of random people wether or not the relativity theory is true or nuclear weapons when they were first demonstrated they probably would have been equally sceptical
Damn Luther Burbank[1]!

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/29/491797791/th...
Eliminate jargon, simplify as much as possible... but no more. You can explain almost anything to anyone, if you recursively apply this technique.
> the thousands of eyeballs ignoring them

That reminds me of a billboard in my town, like enormous LED panel displaying adverts... that someone put behind a huge tree. So in the summer you can only mostly see the corners of the billboard. I wonder if their customers know nobody sees their ads.

I wish I could high five that tree.
> A key piece of Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger's plan announced in 2021 to regain that lead and turn the company around has been to pack five generations of chip manufacturing advances into four years.

My plan is to pack the next 50 years of fusion advances into just the next 6 years and then corner the market with cheap electricity. Accredited investors can use the email on my profile to apply.
This is the part of inflection where corporate personhood and GAI makes it so that no one will talk to your chatbot.
This was also the only reason that made be almost to bail until someone on reddit mentioned they are using raindrop.io extension as a bookmark manager that is cross platform. I pinned raindrop.io so that i can easily access it with a button and search in similar way as in firefox.

Otherwise without it Arc experience is bad:
1. importing ~5k of bookmarks (yes I use bookmarks as some link I might potentially find useful 1 year later and just tagging them like: "ml, model, ai stable, diffusion" so I can easily search for it even few years later) take very very long time
2. they all endup in folder as tabs and such big amount of bookmarks keeps left bar very slow
3. arc seem not to import tags from firefox
4. there is no bookmark manager were you can easily search by title, keywords, tags or sort by date
The only guide to meta programming I give to developers at my company is "don't use it, it will not pass code review".
Filtering/blocking would depend on the deployment. Lots of potential there tho.

Can you offer any examples of a GA advocating for something that is fairly clearly unconstitutional? Utah has recently passed some boneheaded laws that certainly qualify. A GA advocating for one them would be a sound example.
I'm currently skeptical, as these are extraordinary claims.

But it doesn't matter what my current guess is. This claim either replicates or it doesn't. I really hope it replicates. If it does, then even if this material can't be directly used to change industry, it's quite likely to lead to materials that do. So I'm crossing my fingers!
Is this related to the "Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act" that popped up today? This is so confusing
They don't want to talk to chatbots, but they want to talk to a human. So as long as chatbot can pass a Turing test in a specific context, they're getting exactly what they want.
Cotton was also a thread (good joke) attaching the South to the UK, and it was where the resentment of protectionist policies came from. It's all related: slavery, cotton exports, non-industrialization, cultural and economic resentments, dependence on free trade rather than protectionism. It was a very bad mix, so it's no surprise that it ended in war.

The timing was such that it was too late for the South to be able to win independence -- the North was already too strong. But when the North was weaker the drive to secession was also weaker because the resentments were bred in part by the stark contrast in prosperity. The North had to get strong enough to win the war for the South to be willing to go or endure the war.

Sam Houston understood all of this, and for his troubles of advising Texas stay in the Union he was removed as governor by the legislature.
> Also: this is not how modern power steering systems work.

Yes, most hydraulic systems today have been replaced by electric power steering, which uses electronic sensors to determine how much assist to apply via an electric motor. Mechanically, it is simple and very low maintenance.
Svix (YC W21) is hiring a founding account executive (US remote)
Take a look at llm-client a similar library that also support chat, async and more llm providers
https://github.com/uripeled2/llm-client-sdk
That's not the only reason. He's also a covid conspiracy guy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-will-now-... Not sure what it is these days.
That's a great read!
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I think podman rootless behaves much better than docker regarding firewall "bypassing"
Guess this is the end of having 8 SIM cards on a dual SIM phone with one of those really cool adapters.
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Pickleball was invented in Cascadia, surprisingly enough - just west of Seattle, on Bainbridge Island.
The existence of suffering greater than your own does nothing to invalidate your own suffering.

And it certainly doesn’t mean someone else should come along and shame you for expressing your own pain. That’s toxic to any form of discourse.
My default setting when confronted with a chatbot is to be as belligerent and unhelpful as possible so that it directs me to an actual human being.
make money from content without ads... you make it sound simple
I can't wait for the major llm to place ads in the responses to extract more money

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i am the creator of htmx

i don't view htmx as "better" than react. htmx extends HTML as a hypermedia and makes a lot of more advanced UX patterns available within it. This makes HTML a viable option for a larger set of problems than most web developers would suspect today.

However, hypermedia has fundamental limitations due to the trade-offs it makes. So there are still times when something more sophisticated, such as React, will be the better approach.

I have written an essay on when hypermedia is appropriate and when it isn't here:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

There are times when htmx is going to be very successful when compared to react, such as here:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

But that is not every time. And in that example they still used StimulusJS for "islands of interactivity" within the application.

I recognize that a lot of htmx users really dislike React, in particular, and, frankly, I'm not a huge fan of it myself. However I would prefer a more balanced take on the situation in general, and that software developers focus on the underlying ideas (hypermedia, HATEOAS, the uniform interface) rather than the specific tools. (I will note that there are other great hypermedia oriented JS libraries out there such as unpoly, hotwire and livewire)

Finally, if you've read this far, we have recently released our book on hypermedia systems:

https://hypermedia.systems
It being a "good" economy has little to do with your purchasing power or real income. That's the fatal flaw of pure capitalism: So long as economy activity is increasing, everything is good.

Doesn't matter if the benefits go to 1% of the population. Doesn't matter is it is at the expense of people's health or solvency. From a capitalist standpoint, more people in debt is good because it creates money out of thin air [1]. More people sick is good because that increases the size of the health market, et cetera.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...
The fact that chronological feeds drive less user activity than ML-based ranking engines isn't an interesting result. Presumably the ranking algorithms have access to timestamps and would have just learned to order posts by time if that maximized engagement.

Of course, more activity doesn't mean your user is actually having a better experience. We have all seen social media addicts who spend hours and hours doomscrolling yet are miserable the entire time. Users spending less time on Meta didn't mean they "hate" the feed, from what I've seen, people who actually enjoy social media are those who spent very little time on it.

This article brings up a good point, which is that in an environment where all the big players are willing to abuse their users, those who do try to make their platform less addictive will just end up losing their users to those who don't. The only real solution is industry wide regulation.
Spam is much less of a problem with closed systems. BTW phone calls aren't a great example. The global telco system has enough players that it's closer to email than Facebook, and telcos are classed as common carriers so there's a limit to how much spam fighting they can do.

I don't really know what to tell you. This stuff does work extremely well, it's unambiguously the case. Google already use a software-only form of RA on the web and have done for years. It cut through spam like a knife through hot butter. They could already detect 10 years ago if a Python script was pretending to be Chrome, or if Chrome was pretending to be Firefox, or if IE was being driven by VBScripts or an IE WebView was embedded into apps that then manipulated the web page externally. No hardware chips or new web standards needed! But, the approach used is/was in the end just a neat hack, and it's guaranteed that spammers will eventually defeat it. Perhaps they already did. I guess there must be a reason why this proposal surfaces now, given the ideas aren't new.

> To make things worse, the closed nature made it more difficult for the victims to save evidence of the spam, scam.

I don't quite follow the logic here. Why wouldn't they be able to save evidence?
Eich backed Prop 8 (the gay marriage ban) in California.
Push how? Over Bluetooth/NFC? Or do you mean over the internet?
LLM-Client – Python library for seamless integration with LLMs
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Maybe people use these chatbots for different things but for me they're only ever as useful as what they let you do.

LLM technology letting them carry on a more realistic conversation with me, all that stuff, I don't really care about. All that matters is what it's empowered to do, where it can hook into the real system underneath. I don't really have much sense that this will be expanded vs. the kinds of systems we have now.
If operators are over-loadable, you support floats (in a non ffast-math mode), or you treat overflow in most non-modular-arithmetic ways, (x + y) - z and x + (y - z) are different.

Maybe it's worth saying "they're close enough to the same that parentheses should be optional", but I can definitely see the argument for just requiring them regardless.
Because much of investor behavior is (arguably rationally) not driven by business fundamentals, but how they assume other investors will act. This can lead to counterintuitive and self-fulfilling group think behavior where the metrics might drive the stock price because of an incorrect perception that others value that metric, regardless of actual sentiment.
Fundamentally, I don't understand the appeal of hooking up an LLM to answer investment queries. Who is your target audience? Someone who doesn't want to invest in index funds, but also can't be bothered to do more than 2 minutes of research?
More like "hydraulic power-assist steering" in modern terms.

With modern "hydraulic steering" it tends to imply no mechanical coupling between the steering wheel and the movement of the wheels/rudder/motor. A hydraulic leak or pressure failure therefore causes catastrophic loss of steering.
Hello, we are looking into the issue! What country are you located in?
Hybrid work is not the future, says Meta’s former director of remote work
At those frequencies, induction would be a huge headache.
I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing though, I think they meant these thermal expansion joints, not necessarily a bridge made from metal mesh:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/82/91/4d8291e022bd14c87985...

I know that picture is a mesh, I thought it had the best detail, but they're on paved bridges too:

https://siamagazin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/23h32h-min...
No, that won't work if the resolver is listening on 127.0.0.1, which will most likely be the case.

Docker also has special handling for systemd-resolved: if resolv.conf points at 127.0.0.53, it will use the managed resolv.conf located in /run.
I think an equally interesting point might be why Daffodils tend to outline the foundation of where a house used to be. Yes of course because people planted them there but then you'd expect wild animals to eat and carry the seeds away. Which would mean that the daffodils would expand out adding some background noise; this doesn't happen though. My theory is it's because not many animals eat daffodils and spread the seeds around.
I pay for Paramount Plus and they still show me ads. They can’t help themselves!
> That’s a bit error rate of 1 in 10^15 requests. In the real world, we see that blade of grass get missed pretty frequently – and it’s actually something we need to account for in S3.

One of the things I remember from my time at AWS was conversations about how 1 in a billion events end up being a daily occurrence when you're operating at S3 scale. Things that you'd normally mark off as so wildly improbable it's not worth worrying about, have to be considered, and handled.

Glad to read about ShardStore, and especially the formal verification, property based testing etc. The previous generation of services were notoriously buggy, a very good example of the usual perils of organic growth (but at least really well designed such that they'd fail "safe", ensuring no data loss, something S3 engineers obsessed about).
Part of the reason that I, personally, hate algorithmic feeds is precisely because I end up spending more time staring at them. With a chronological feed, as soon as I see a post I've seen before[1], it's very easy for me to put down the phone and get back to work (or, if I'm not on the clock, otherwise find a way to spend my time which is actually enjoyable and rewarding). Whereas with an algorithmic feed, I find it very hard to stop scrolling, even when I see a repeat post or decide that my time would be better spent elsewhere.

So, I have no doubt that Facebook's usage metrics are substantially worse with a chronological feed: my own experience is that they are wildly more addictive for me, and I see no reason to believe that I'm unique in that regard.

[1] And even before that point, it seems to be easier to spend less time staring at the social media website, although that's more of a vague feeling I have without anything quantitative to back it up.
The only money you can ever get out of crypto is other peoples money.

Even when 'created' via mining, that has a real world cost in electricity and what not that you paid for.

No money is ever created, even if 'price' goes up. If the 'price' goes up, and you cash out then that just means you got more of someone else's money than you otherwise would've.

You can never separate crypto from scams and grift, because that's what it is fundamentally. A scam and a grift.

I hope one day they are legally treated as such because of how harmful those things are.
In the New Scientist interview HT Kim seemed to imply that he wouldn't help other researchers until his paper gets published. If the synthesis ends up being tricky this could take a while.
Canadian wireless carriers and ISPs (Robellus[1]) suck tremendously. I'm not surprised that they managed to make eSims suck as well.

[1] http://www.realfairforcanada.ca