skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who are lazy like me—or maybe you'd call it efficient—here's the key points summary from Kagi:

- Google Search has evolved significantly from its early days as a simple list of blue links to becoming an encyclopedia, predictive engine, image repository, shopping mall and more that is overloaded with information.

- It has become more difficult to find authoritative answers on Google Search due to an overabundance of sponsored content, prompts, and low-quality keyword-stuffed pages.

- Google is currently undergoing an antitrust trial regarding whether it maintains its search engine monopoly through anticompetitive means such as exclusivity deals rather than having truly superior technology.

- Access to large amounts of user data is very important for powering search engine algorithms through personalization and improving the user experience.

- While Google argues diminishing returns to scale for user data, internal emails show Google engineers acknowledging that scale remains highly important for the company.

- Some feel Google has lost its way and become conservative due to its success, with its corporate bureaucracy stifling acquired companies.

- Google Search has become bloated with advertisements and prioritization of its own services over organic results.

- Search quality may be declining as its algorithms are gamed by low-quality sites and search engine optimization techniques.

- Google's trajectory of scaling up its mission to organize the world's information through acquisitions and exclusivity deals has put pressure on it to keep growing.

- No company can likely grow indefinitely to keep up with the ever-expanding internet without being overwhelmed, as Google Search now demonstrates.
This is the primary reason why I push the the non technically inclined (grandparents, older friends, etc) in my life to use iPhones. The latest Pixel I believe is now offering 6 years security patched (which makes it an Android leader), but 7+ years is already the standard on the cheapest iPhone option.

The argument of a $1000 Androd phone vs a $1500 iPhone falls over if you have to replace that Android phone 2 more times in the same period.
No. My goal was to provide evidence/an anecdote to back my thoughts/opinion about these calculators. I didn’t do any of the math competitions like AMC or olympiads or whatever like people on HN talk about on occasion. This would have probably sounded more appropriate: “As someone who did AMC and was really interested in math and used those calculators a lot, …”

But I couldn’t say that. So I came up with the closest thing I could have at 5AM after a night of partying. I did notice that it might sound a little douchey which is why I added the “I’m not bragging” part.

But thanks for assuming the worst! I believe that’s against HN’s guidelines. What I said is not much different from saying “As someone with X years of experience in Y engineering field, I think that…” People say things like that all of the time on HN, right? Many of us have similar X years of experience in Y engineering field. But we still say it.

> (especially because many HNers got 800 on their math SATs, I would imagine).

For sure.

I guess I was also shocked that people who have similar math backgrounds would be complaining the way you were about these calculators, again given my fondness for them. In my first comment, I did also mention that I don’t tend to exaggerate. So maybe that’s partially the disconnect here?

The other part was that I was pretty sure that you guys were talking about calculators from the 80s or 90s. I asked that question also but no one responded at that time. People just kept complaining about problems/issues with the calculators lol. (Someone finally replied and mentioned 1993!)

Sorry, but you guys were starting to turn this into some sort of Texas Instruments bashing circlejerk, which didn’t seem fair to the product.

Sidenote: HN isn’t all fun and games. Please don’t paint it as that. When I (and peers that I’ve spoken with) talk about HN, it’s usually characterized as a forum where really smart people like to bump heads. A place where people like to outsmart each other. A place where people nitpick article titles. You get the idea.

Your behavior correcting skills were needed during plenty of more appropriate times. For example, when someone with a username like “koreanguy” said that he wanted to personally kill Timnit Gebru if he could. No downvotes or flag after many refreshes. Want to know why? Because plenty of other men were leaving similar disgusting comments in that post. This is just one example out of many of “weird” behavior on this forum. How many times has the mod here left that “be nice and follow the guidelines” comment on charged articles? (Some) HN users love a good dogwhistle!

But my little SAT comment is deserving of a reprimand lol?
>I long ago realized I'm not the person who should be leading a group or a club. I respect people who can, and I support them as best I can. It's important work, but it's not for me. Which sucks when the club doesn't exist (I'm currently trying to encourage a couple of people to start one and it's not going well)

That's a perspective I didn't have before so thank you!
Makes me wonder if we can expect a north american conflict. It seems like an unsustainable situation unless the drug trade is legitimized.
https://archive.google/autopilot/terms.html

> No, we don't plan to scan every one of your incoming messages and automatically send the perfect reply.
Unless I've gone blinder the author seems to have put no thought towards what sort of childhoods might be had by those whose parents had had them purely for monetary gain.

Perhaps this is a satirical post?
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37603449>
80% good enough results and this [1] was all I needed to switch and not look back.

[1] https://kagi.com/privacy
It will be used to create dumb sites which all look the same.
2nd link on Kagi:

https://cis.org/Report/Americas-Identity-Crisis-Document-Fra...
The problem I faced when I looked at data export was that none of the banks had any apis. You always had to go through 3rd party commercial apis. Maybe there are ways bur I didnt find them
Fact-checking some dull bits of Elon Musk’s biography
https://archive.ph/swRQO
> The only way to win is to stop playing the game. Make your own company

I don’t have the time nor the resources to do that now. If I could get a job that would allow me to stabilize a bit, then I could start thinking about that.
I was thinking about contributing to the map (using any of the editors [1]).

There are many "front-ends" [2].

A developer's view of some of the OSM infrastructure is at [3].

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...

[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop
Without knowing more, that's a bit of an assumption. The vulnerability could be in image decoding, in which case an <img> tag is enough and no scripting is needed, but it could also very well require doing something funky with JavaScript.
I think with any database the solution is simply backups no? backups that preferably aren’t tied to the hosted solution at all.
> Agree with the ecological preservation objectives, hard disagree with handing over of sovereignty, whatever that actually means,to a group based on their ethnicity / ancestry.

I’m sure many people in the various tribes object to the handing over of most of their sovereignty over to the USA based on the guns held to their head (and where land was retained, it often being not merely a small subset of their land, but often completely different and worse land) but their vigorous excercise of the sovereignty they retain is not a “handing over” of anything to them “based on their ethnicity”, even to the extent that there is a rearrangement of sovereign rights between the three relevant sovereigns (state, federal, and tribal) such that there is something being handed over at all.
Yes, some independent repair shops can do this. It doesn't scale. People who can diagnose such problems and solder well enough to make such repairs quickly and reliably are rare, and can usually make more money putting those skills to use elsewhere. There's no way every Apple store genius bar could have such a technician on staff.
Felt the same way. Unfortunately went to 11 due to really desiring WSL(g) and Wi-Fi 6E 6Ghz support. The thing is I like a lot about the OS. But it's ruined for the reasons you mention. Such a shame.
I think you kinda want some institutional inertia though.
Sure but also;

> and be it further resolved, these waters are also claimed by the State of California, who through its California Natural Resources Agency Pathways to 30x30: Accelerating Conservation of California’s Nature Report, support the concept of Indigenous Marine Stewardship

Do you have any evidence pointing towards this being a money grab? That’s a serious accusation.
> hard telemetry evidence that users in aggregate prefer this SEO junk, engage with it, and move on feeling that Google successfully satisfied their query.

How in the world can telemetry tell you any of that? The only metrics I've heard from Google that relate to it is whether or not they return to do the same search again within a short window, but I don't think that tells you users prefer SEO junk or that they're satisfied with the search results.
The logistics of doing that are nearly impossible. Old phones are old phones. No one wants them.
Imagine thinking a visit to the ER was "frivolous". As if significant numbers of people would subject themselves to an ER for fun. Imagine looking at a situation in which significant numbers of people have no other access to care but ERs and think, "Those freeloaders!" What sort of twisted mirror-world ethics are these? How does one get to the point where they could type this, read it over, and hit send? You'd think the shame alone would be lethal.
While I fundamentally agree with you, this sadly is not really a possibility for me as a consultant.

LoB wants to speak face to face. They want presentations and for things to be explained in bite-sized chunks. Leaders don’t want to approve things via email, because then one person has to be the first one disagreeing or accepting.

It’s much easier to seek consensus in a room, or on a call. “The committee has decided to…”. “The SLT did not appear in favour of…”.

Authority, without the individual responsibility. Laurels, without the risk. It’s a disease that grows like a cancer across many enterprises. SAFe and others are not helping, either, by promoting this type of decision making.
Bcachefs: Upstreaming, growing the team, and a funding situation update
This, on machine and totally appropriate.
> What could possibly go wrong?

They might accidentally get something done that helps people?
I decided to test drive Windows 11 & see what life is like on commercial OSes. A bunch of these are sore points for me: being coaxed to sign in & having to use absurd arcane nonsense to avoid it, not having a taskbar on the side. These dings resound.

One thing I didn't see mentioned is that I keep searching online for how to do things via keyboard or quickly, and there's site after site saying oh there's a new Windows 11 shortcut to do that thing! But then the shortcut doesn't work for me. I seem to have like 1/10th of the shortcuts that have ever been announced. And the helpful hints Microsoft had been dropping showing off shortcuts in apps seem to have vanished.

I was trying to move apps between monitors via hotkey last night & couldn't get any shortcuts to work.

There's also the puzzle-game required to turn on good features now. Go look for an article on how to do something, and there's a sizable chance you need to go download vivetool & know some magic id number & enable it. For example, I wanted a hotkey for adjusting volume or at least opening the mixer, and yup, there's a vivetool id to enable for that! I think I have done like 4. Vivetool has a /query command to show you the status, but it's many dozens of entries & at best you have a super brief ProgrammerCodeWords for the feature to tell you what it is. I feel like trying to use this OS is like being locked in an escape room.
https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-now-has-a-dedicated-s...
There’s a col_version column in a clock table used for last-write-wins. In case a tie, the “biggest” value wins.
Looking at the Wikipedia page, it’s being returned to the market albeit for a different disease/condition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib
Two fatal issues I discovered:
- the apple store was so biased, even when I typed in "piano tabs", it couldn't find your app in the top 10 results. I had to type in the name of the entire app: "Piano Tabs: Learn & Practice"

Then I attempted to install it and got this:
- "This application requires iOS 15.0 or later". This is a deal breaker on so many apps. I don't trust apple enough to change my iOS version. Note: this happened on a pretty recent iphone 7+
In my english elementary school there were definitely nine men's morris boards, but I've never seen anyone play it outside of elementary school.
It reads a little like Swift's Modest Solution, but I think he's dead serious.
Bunch of discussion the last few days over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37597086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37593511
> Our planet cannot support 10 billion people.

Source needed
Wow, the question posed to the neural nets (and their inability to respond) really gets to the heart of something that I've tried to articulate to others: that ML cannot conceptualize of things in the abstract like people can. They cannot offer reasons, a train of thought like a person; they respond essentially "on instinct," and folks should be wary of the output of something like ChatGPT. Great article.
>In America, hospitals cannot refuse emergency care.

Can they do this in any developed country?

>That's why rural areas are losing hospitals.

Maybe a system with only privately run hospitals is a stupid plan.
Gary Marcus saying what Gary Marcus always says.

According to him five years ago, LLMs and image generators should never have been possible at all. Now that they're here and work so well, he's insisting they're a dead end. The man is best off ignored.
How about just offering some free childcare and mandatory parental leave so having a kid doesn't have to be financially ruinous.
In Toyota's hybrid synergy drive, the electric motor system is inputting to the same transmission as the ICE engine, and is an integral part of the casing. You can see a cutaway of it here to get an idea of what it looks like in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#/med... What you're describing is indeed how the E-Four system works for the rear wheels on the AWD versions of the Prius
> What a great way to defend the status quo as if every possible alternative is naive, a scam or faded to fail. The despair of a conformist that thinks everything is too big to fail or impossible to go against.

That's not even close to what I was saying and I have no idea how you've misapprehended me so badly.

I will however offer this aphorism:

Who is the bigger fool, the one who messes up, or the one who upon seeing the first one fail says "what an idiot, this is easy, I will do it myself"?
Honestly what's the point given XMPP? Tried setting up Matrix, was a pain, went for ejabberd and it was a breeze. Gajim and c0nnecteasy work perfectly. Can't help but feel like if half the efforts of building Matrix went into XEPs or something we would have a rock solid IM alternative and clients by now. And tbf, can Matrix do group video calls? That's the only really useful feature missing from XMPP now, for which there's actually a XEP that recently went into a Deferred state, for a lack of participation/experiment. So, what's the point?
I agree that eternal growth on a finite planet is the fundamental issue facing humanity. I wouldn't put any absolutes on the "carrying capacity", but I'm certain that things would be much nicer for everybody if the population returned to earlier levels.
I… wh…? oh no! Escoffier was NOTHING. D:
Even if done locally, it's still creepy.
This is the kind of stuff I used to worry about before I started SSRIs. Now I can get off the train before I get to ridiculous things like world Amish domination.
IMO, not being able to recover a lost private key is an acceptable tradeoff for fully owning your own domain in perpetuity. If we encounter a de-globalization event and international law starts to break apart, we would see a lot of value in not being beholden to foreign entities operating under foreign laws.
It is common and widespread for performers and professionals to have a means of feedback. For example, in a studio or concert, musicians use "foldback" or monitor speakers to hear themselves play or sing. In television studios, there are broadcast reference monitors for engineers and on-screen performers to get an idea of what the cameras see. Even POTS telephones have "sidetone", and most of us find it eerie or uncomfortable when these cues are missing.

The good news for you is the ability to turn that feature off! So what's the complaint?
On Linux, you can use O_TMPFILE to ensure that the temporary file won't linger around if an error occurs:

foo: bar
generate bar | python3 -c "import os,sys;f=os.open('.',os.O_RDWR|os.O_TMPFILE);os.write(f,sys.stdin.buffer.read());os.link(f'/proc/self/fd/{f}','./foo')"
Don't forget that:

- they did a massive fuck up with Artifact, thinking they could pull out MTG's monetization model for an online game (where you didn't even receive card as rewards for levelling up, you actually had to spend money to enjoy playing the game)

- they released Underlords and killed it right away, the battle pass is still the first one and the game hasn't received any balancing patch in 3 years

Underlords could be a real good competitor to TFT. and Artifact would be nice to compete against Hearthstone's cash grab. Thankfully they actually listened to our feedback and put a nail on the coffin for Artifact.
Natural Amenities Scale
What is sort of curious to think about is that all these monuments really shouldn’t be white. They should be painted many colors especially the friezes. There were never temples with big empty rooms with a white marble statue either. Done in proper roman tradition the Lincoln memorial would be this imposing giant, fully painted, with a pile of gold and other offerings right there in the room along with regular insence burning fronted by local patrons.

Of course by the time europeans got into the rennaisance all these temples had been pilfered and regular repainting had ceased for centuries. So because of this huge misunderstanding, neoclassical architecture is always boring and beige despite us knowing better today.
Thanks for the excellent summary. Though I think the article and summary miss the root cause: Google Search has two masters, users and advertisers. These stakeholders’ interests are not aligned, and by taking one middle road after another, Google has deteriorated into near-uselessness for end users, relying on scale rather than quality.
The authors reached this conclusion after finetuning a GPT-3 model, i.e., they tinkered with the weights, and they used an old model.

This begs a lot of questions:

Why did they use an old model?

Why finetune? Why not run these experiments on an untouched model? How does a model untouched by the authors perform?

Did they check to make sure they didn't inadvertently induce catastrophic forgetting while messing up with the weights?

Did they use common prompting techniques (e.g., chain-of-thought)? (Doesn't look like it.)

If you run the same prompts on an untouched GPT-4, how does it perform?
That’s a pretty great summary. Can you elaborate a bit on how this works with Kagi? Is it just a wrapper over gpt-4, do you feed it an article and ask for a summary, or does it summarize in the search results?
I support those things fully, but in countries with them, we still have declining fertility rates.
Any any suggestions or recommendations for learning these rules? Either for future business or current personal finance management?
It's not too uncommon. Nintendo included it in their collection of tabletop games for the switch.
It seems like there's a ridiculous amount of time to sink into a single blog post.

So you're probably looking at mostly historians to be able to do something like what Devereaux puts out. The closest I could think of would be:

Derek Lowe
Neil deGrasse Tyson (when not playing for camera)
Adam Savage
Nigel Braun (NileRed)
Salman Khan
Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl)
Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
This one is a more technical/farming term but yes.
A magnificent 1850s house dubbed the Blue Belle of Brooklyn
Maybe? The list is talking about one side of the issue I think - currently trained LLMs don't automatically remember the inverse of this relation. But the other side is: if you provide enough training on relations similar to this one, will the LLM start applying it to other examples as well?
Because every update there is a new setting that needs to be turned off, which is pretty obnoxious. I said similar stuff when Windows 11 RTM, but I've since been turning brand new junkware off at least twice a year, and I'm fed up.

On a fresh new installation with defaults I'd likely need to spend almost an hour playing with settings and would miss some. For example almost every single subsection within "Personalization" now has ads settings turned on by default:

- Background: Windows Spotlight

- Lock screen: Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen. Also Windows Spotlight again.

- Start: Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more

- Taskbar: Widgets, Chat

- Device usage: Every. Single. Setting.
> Source [of food] needed
Retail not hiring people like you before the downturn as well.

Your resume now signals "white collar upper-middle class" and retail will assume:

- You'll still be looking for work when you join

- You can't/won't work hard

All my friends with PhDs in non-marketable specialties have faced this problem for a decade.
Yes. I would love to see some actual examples. People have said that verbatim search doesn't work for them and I've never observed this, so I'm also skeptical of claims of dramatically better search results.
The other day I was in a party with my wife and my friends. In some moment, we (all men) were in a corner talking about comics, movies, sports. My wife was sitting nearby, and she could hear us for 30 minutes straight talking about the same topics. At the end of the party, she asked me how were my friends' kids, jobs and family. I had no clue. She laughed at me and said "Typical men. We women always ask for the family, the school, the kids, the life of her friends, you boys talk for hours and know nothing new about your friends".

Is it typical? I don't know.
I will break the HN spirit, but im fucking horrified of this thread. _So_ many people being happy that a company is protecting them from themselves, or their family members. Where is my controversial personal websites? Did i take a wrong left turn somewhere?
Have you tried a remote government job?

https://www.usds.gov/apply

https://18f.gsa.gov/join/

https://www.usajobs.gov/help/faq/job-announcement/remote/
mflatt FTW!