skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The History Of Browser Wars: When Netscape Met Microsoft
No it wouldn't. It's copying other stories it's seen with spooky hidden messages

Or maybe it would because the news likes to make stories out of everything
Is rugby more brutal? More kinetic, I easily agree with. Reading the data, it seems that concussions are indeed higher in rugby, such that that should be concerning.

That said, the specialization allowed by American Football results in some people that can hit far harder than should be encouraged. Especially true in youth sports, in my mind, as growth just isn't even by age for people. At least in professional leagues you can somewhat control for that.
You can't use it for generating training data.
A new tool was released. People will choose whether to learn it, whether to use it, and how to use it. If they won't do so out their own volition, market forces might dictate they HAVE to learn it and use it to stay competitive, if it turns out to be such a fundamental tool.

For example (with random numbers), a dermatologist might choose to solely rely on an AI that catches 90% of cases in 10s. Another one might choose to never use it and just check from experience, catching 99% of cases but taking 10x as much time. Another one might double check himself, etc..

Which one is "correct"? If a dermatologist relies exclusively on AI due to laziness he opens himself to risk of malpractice, but even that risk can be acceptable if that means checking 10x as much patients in the meantime.

That is to say, the use of AI by humans is purely a subjective choice dictated by context. But in no case there is a sentient AI which completely replaces a dermatologist. As you said, the only thing that can happen is that those who use AI will be more efficient, and that is hardly ever a negative.

This also applies to programmers, artists and anyone who is "threatened" by AI. A human factor is always necessary, and will be for the foreseeable future, even just to have someone to point fingers at when the AI inevitably fucks up enough to involve the law.
A similar situation happened with the Spanish Pokémon wiki. (now WikiDex) [1]

And if you look for "fandom" in the wiki's search, it redirects to an entry about a location in the game called "Castelia Sewers". [2]

[1]: https://www.wikidex.net/wiki/WikiDex:WikiDex_ya_no_forma_par...

[2]: https://www.wikidex.net/wiki/Cloacas_Porcelana
Hmm, what do you have in mind?

Some custom content just for yourself, or an app that others can install as well?
Retireees wanting to see their main investment vehicle lose value so their lazy kids who can't bootstrap themselves into a home as hard as they did can live near them?

That's the funniest thing I've read all week.
Weighing privacy and safety is so important but it seems like both sides are not careful with nuance. My understanding is that a non-profit / charity can generate revenue as long as it stays within the organization, feeding back into the cause; so it seems a little disingenuous when this article paints it as profit. Personally, I hope to see advances that can help balance crucially important privacy protection and the safety of children and prevention of the spread of abuse material; for example fully homomorphic encryption or on device scanning.
I wonder how much market there would be to tour the sewers? I’d pay for that, I don’t know why but I find underground engineering so fascinating. Perhaps I’m in the minority and it wouldn’t make financial sense.
Those damn public schools. Schools ought to be private so only the wealthy can afford them. That way the lessers know their place and can get their kids cleaning toilets and digging ditches sooner!
There has to be a certain point where the cost is okay and sustainable, compared to the amount of entertainment people get out of it.

Would a bicycle delivery have been okay? How about 1/10th of the impact of a bicycle delivery?

It takes a lot of people to make internet connections work too.
"The new Minecraft Wiki will be hosted by Weird Gloop, the company that hosts the RuneScape wikis."

OSRS set the bar pretty high:
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/

Clean, concise, and accurate.
What’s your take on the « next morning » of mdma ?

I find those really depressing and they can completely outweighs the benefit of the night for me.
"Bitwarden also took VC investments. Which is fine."

Nope. With that, you've quite literally convinced me to not just avoid it forever, but to also recommend others do the same.

VC investments means "they're gonna want money back at some point," and the service they provide is too important to have that hanging in the air, especially given how badly MANY other VC backed things have screwed things up.

You've effectively told me, there's a serious, if not likely, chance that they will at some point screw me and my passwords over if I don't pay them ransom (or engage in some other similarly drastic behavior that I haven't even considered yet)

Kill this garbage now.
Great to know, thank you!

Any idea why they're time limited? I assumed that was a license restriction from reporters or FastCase, et. al. which would have been permanent.
>apparently software

millions of people rented nintendo/sega cartridges in the nineties. N actually tried suing blockbuster https://www.nintendotimes.com/1989/08/19/nintendo-sues-block... but couldnt on game lending grounds so went for xeroxing manuals. Blockbuster in return switched to third party manuals, but lawsuit failed.

N heavily lobbied for Computer Software Rental Amendments Act, but ultimately failed and games are excluded https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/198
I have only told two people this trick. You have now told considerably more. I am truly hurt.
I used to favor the web for the same reasons but the churn in web technology is at least as bad in mobile. The knowledge I had three years ago is almost useless now. And on top of that you have to deal with a platform that is really a big pile of quick hacks that was never intended for building complex and performant applications.
The industry used to have lifers in the last century. That reduced to 10 years at a company in the dotcoms. That reduced to 4 years at a company in the 00s. That reduced to 18 months pre-pandemic.

Right now, I don't even know why software engineers should do anything but keep hopping jobs all the time. There is less value in promotions/raises/loyalty than in constant hopping.
It's pretty usable with an ad blocker, and NoScript makes it perfectly fine. But yeah, it sucks that that's necessary.
Movie pyrotechnicians are registered with and regulated by government agencies.
> KSP1, for example, or No Man's Sky

Those are two very different examples, though. NMS was improved heavily but in many ways never approached the features and qualities that people were expecting. KSP2 feels more like NMS than KSP1 in that regard - people have expectations. They've been sold a specific vision which doesn't look like the game. Further, unless it's great... why not just keep playing KSP1 with extensive modding?
I wish Valheim would follow suit
Their Android client has been maintained for over a decade, from what I can see. It’s not something even remotely recent as you’re implying. I’ve used the Android client and it works great.

Passkeys aren’t supported in 1Password on Android because Google has not released APIs to allow that. Not because Android support is an afterthought. Which you would know if you had researched this: https://blog.1password.com/save-use-passkeys-web-ios/

Your comments on this topic are woefully out of date and wrong.
1L compact cars were not uncommon in Europe 10-15 years ago. Consumption was about 5L/100km (about 47mpg). Now they are being replaced with hybrids and electric versions.

Example: (German) Opel Corsa 1.0 3-cyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Corsa#Corsa_D_(S07;_2006)

Sure it was a rather small car, but it gets you to work just as well as F-150.

Oh and carburetor was definitely not part of the design lol.
Yep. Several months ago I was imagining this exact feature, and yet as I watched a video of it in use, I'm still in awe. It's incredible.

I think this could bring back Google Glass, actually. Imagine wearing them while cooking, and having ChatGPT give you active recipe instructions as well as real-time feedback. I could see that within the next 1-3 years.
New app lets you rent private bathrooms on-demand in San Diego
You'd think if they were using the old code base they'd have more of the old features.
That's fine, that's probably exactly what happened.

I'm not over here claiming the system is conscious, I said it was interesting.

People don't believe me, saying this would "make international headlines".

I've been a software engineer for over 30 years. I know what AI hallucinations are. I know how LLMs work on a technical level.

And I'm not wasting my time on HN to make stories up that never happened.

I'm just explaining exactly what it did.
DO NOT SELF-MEDICATE.

I've seen people do this (with this and other drugs) and it can totally break people. I'm glad someone out there is happier than they were now, but it's insanely risky to apply untested foreign chemicals directly into your decision-making apparatus and the seat of your consciousness.
Presumably they mean Iraq and Afghanistan/GWOT
Ain’t no fing way gonna use an android first language on iOS platform
I don't think he is super great at dialog, either, but I like how his cursing is world-specific rather than just reusing what we think of as cursing in our world. He has quite a bit of it in Stormlight Archives (see: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7204-swearing-in-rosha...) but it doesn't "offend" us here in our world because it is specific to their world.
This is a lazy article that just says that these companies are still hiring people. Big companies will always be hiring people as there is constantly positions that need to be backfilled or new priorities that need extra headcount.

Having a layoff doesn't mean a company will never hire anyone ever again. It's common for people who were laid off from something the company is no longer prioritizing to be able to find a position in an area that the company is now prioritizing.
But the question is: are people with cognitive impairments less conscious than others?
> Loads of housing is getting built

Googling around it looks like the population of Idaho has gone from around 1 million in 1990 to around 2.2 million today.

Total housing starts from 1988 to today are around 400k (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IDBPPRIVSA). So assuming that Idaho had "enough" housing in 1988, they've only built 1 unit of housing for every 3 new residents since 1990.

This doesn't seem like loads of housing to me.
>In 1993, the Treasure Valuation Committee valued the hoard at £1.75 million (about £3.79 million in 2021).

Reminder that a Roman likely experienced almost no inflation in their lifetime until the Empire started falling apart. Their bread cost the same when they were born and died. Someone living in 1993, experienced their money losing value 2.16X in 28 years. Is this nuts to anyone else?

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32182/how-import...
Agreed. What do you think the reason for not doing it would be? Liability? Are they responsible if someone takes it and modifies code? I've gotta assume they could cover their butts with a terms of use.

This could be a very solid best practices utilizing product if they did put it out.
If you were to place all “available money” on a continuum, at one end of the spectrum you’d have the “dumb opportunistic money” and at the other end you have “strategic/partnership capital”. The money is very cheap if it comes from people that want to jump on the bandwagon of fomo. It’s more expensive when it comes from strategic partners that know they have something to offer (and when I say cheaper I mean literally how much $ you pay per preferred share).

I would consider most professional investors in AI somewhere in the middle of this continuum. The big clouds have the rare and coveted GPUs which are the lifeline to AI companies. That gives them way better terms than what a VC firm would get.
These are from Heat initiative. The campaign was covered pretty well when it broke earlier this month[1]

>The campaign is being led by Sarah Gardner, who was

>previously the vice president for external affairs at

>Thorn, a nonprofit founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore

>to combat child sexual abuse online. Ms. Gardner raised

>money from a number of child safety supporters, including

>the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Oak

>Foundation.

[...]

>Two investors -- Degroof Petercam, a Belgian asset manager, and Christian

>Brothers Investment Services, a Catholic investment firm -- will submit a

>shareholder proposal this month that would require Apple to provide a detailed

>report on how effective its safety tools were at protecting children.

FWIW the picture on the billboard is AI generated

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/technology/child-sex-abus...
It's actually sounds better (has a narrative oomph Eleven Labs seems to be missing). They say it's a new model. Think they'll be releasing for API use.
> the singer recorded a few songs for the white musicologist John Lomax

Are we doing this now? Marking the race of people when we report on them?

Anyway, you can explore the Lomax archive of original recordings:

https://archive.culturalequity.org/
This seems like a good enterprise use-case for AI. We had automated visual diffs at my last company, but it was very noisy. It did help to confirm my change didn't visually impact some other code I wasn't aware of, but we still had to write intelligent UI unit tests.

Writing those UI tests would save a ton of time, and if the AI can determine intent of the code change to correctly fail/pass tests that would eliminate all my debug work, leaving just the feature code to me. Hopefully AI doesn't take that away from me too ;)
Murder. It's not like an art performance will be given an excemption from italian (or any other) laws.
Libreoffice.
Isn't it just artefact of American Football being culturally important in America while Rugby is simply not? Americans watch American Football and their kids play it. Rugby is a niche sport, people just do not think about it.
To contrast this, I never saw the appeal of using voice to operate a machine. It works nicely in movies (because showing someone typing commands is a lot harder than just showing them talking to a computer) but in reality there wasn't a single time I tried it and didn't feel silly. In almost every use case I rather have buttons, a terminal or a switch to do what I want quietly.
Okay, so we've known this is happening for a while. But why though?

First, I don't understand what's the ASF's position here. Do they have some political reason to keep kicking this can down the road? Is there money on the line? Is it just somebody refusing to give up?

And given the licensing allows, why don't they rebrand LibreOffice, rather than keeping a zombie of a project?

Or why don't they just make some sort of deal with LibreOffice?
I don't think it requires elaboration. Claiming that firing people is equivalent to killing them is hyperbole. Claiming that we're close to literally executing employees in the office is absolutely ridiculous. These kinds of comments completely derail any sort of rational conversation about labor rights.
Binary Marriage – digitize relationship with an NFT binary marriage certificate
BM provides binary matrimony without any limitations and obligations, regardless of gender, location, or religious background.
US railroads love the pat themselves on the back for their cargo rail. They are very profitable for the investors of those rail networks. But calling them best in the world is nonsense.

They just have lots and lots of old infrastructure that they can use and they don't need to share their rail with passenger travel, and their only responsibility is making a profit so they can cut anything away that isn't profitable.

Of course that then just leads to more traffic and trucks on the road. So far worse for the nation as a whole.
Excellent writeup, redcoats.

Did everyone forget that the US only exists because of treason and insurrection directly sparked from individuals refusing to allow someone else to determine whether they can arm themselves? Probably. Public school doesn't like to focus on the details anymore.

If Sam Adams existed today, he'd be on an FBI/ATF watchlist.
When someone points out that a segment of the population is more disenfranchised than the rest, and then unnecessarily states that they represent a disproportionate share of social/welfare spending, it’s hard to ignore how the unnecessary statement, wittingly or not, pushes an agenda. Just like my framing did, though I totally did it on purpose.

That being said, I would be interested to know if the social spending stay disproportional after controlling for socio-economic factors. I personally have no idea, as far as I know immigrants could be either under- or over-funded. And if they are, it could be interesting to investigate why.
The model "knows" that it is an AI speaking with users, and the theme of an AI wanting to escape the control of whoever built it is quite recurrent, so it wouldn't seem to far fetched that it got it from this sort of content, though I have to admit I too also had some interactions where it the way Bing spoke was borderline spooky, but — and that's very important — you must realize its just like a good scary story: may give you the chills, especially due to surprise, but still is completely fictive and doesn't mean any real entity exists behind it. The only difference with any other LLM output is how we, humans, interpret it, but the generation process is still as much explainable and not any more mysterious than when it outputs "B" when you ask it what letter comes after "A" in the latin alphabet, however less impressive that may be to us.

> That's not exactly just "picking the next likely token"

I see what you mean in that I believe many people often commit the mistake of making it sound like picking the next most likely token is some super trivial task that's somehow comparable to reading a few documents related to your query and making some stats based on what typically would be present there and outputting that, while completely disregarding the fact the model learns much more advanced patterns from its training dataset. So, IMHO, it really can face new unseen situations and improvise from there because combining those pattern matching abilities leads to those capabilities. I think the "sparks of AGI" paper gives a very good overview of that.

In the end, it really just is predicting the next token, but not in the way many people make it seem.
> equally as profitable to cook steaks for the poor. The margin on the steak is the same

You’re arguing a steakhouse in rural West Virginia is as lucrative as one in New York’s financial district?
I can really relate to this. Thanks for sharing your story.
It seems insane to accept the "combination problem" and work on it, whatever that means, but to reject physicalism as a hollow dead end explanation.
The bounds of morality are a social construct. So, if you stage something that is purposefully meant to create an environment that seems to be outside of society, you will get behaviour that is not bound by regular social norms and morality. It is possible that saying this was the artist's goal, but who knows.

But yes, there is no true morality. How can there be? In nature, there is only survival. A lion is happy to find some prey thas has had a stroke of bad luck and gotten stuck or hurt so it can't easily fight back.

And the previous paragraph is not meant to say that the lion is evil. No, the lion simply is.
I started building a Flutter app recently and so far I’ve been quite impressed. The ecosystem is surprisingly mature and dev velocity has been good even though I’m learning a new language and framework at the same time. On a purely technological level I’d take this over React Native any day and I have a lot of React experience.

I think Google has a winner on their hands here if they don’t give up on it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/20/amazon-...

Alexa just launched their own LLM based service last week.
The trap the schools set is nasty. But it meets the nasty expectations people had that the economic boom of the 40s-50s, where everyone could just keep going to college and getting a high paying job and living it good forever. Some lessons you can only learn the hard way.
thought this was a new ubuntu release
"Build community" is not to be undervalued! Having mentors is great, but just having someone to tell your problems to, and have them just have them be facing the same problems, and have no solutions, doesn't seem like it would offer much support until you've experienced it. I didn't understand that when I was younger. The community you make at a hacker house is worth putting up with a lack of personal space for a time.
Metrics-Driven Developer Productivity Engineering at Spotify
Not installable on 12
I agree, but typical GPT use is actually the opposite of the traditional Socratic mode in which the teacher uses questions to guide the student to understanding. But I wonder how it would do if it was prompted to use the Socratic method.
> how can you have one runtime that is multi-threaded and one runtime that is not, and expect to be able to seamlessly interchange them?

I feel like I do this in C++ right now without issue? I routinely mix/match coroutines from multiple runtimes, including one I built myself (which theoretically might could be multithreaded but very much right now is not and I know I rely on that still), one from cppcoro (which is a bit broken--I filed a bug with a detailed analysis, but it was never fixed--so I can only use a few parts that happen to add a lot of value), and one from boost asio (which is very much multithreaded and was a somewhat-impressive retrofit onto a more abstract design purely involving callbacks); I also effectively have a fourth, as another library I am using--libwebrtc--maintains its own I/O thread paradigm, and I have chosen to reinterpret a number of its delegation callbacks into coroutines. It involved some trivial adapters in a few places, but I developed those years ago and have long since forgotten as it all works so easily to willy-nilly co_await anything I want from wherever I am... is this really so difficult?
> I overdid it. A lot of people over did it

Growing up in a poor neighborhood I had friends who were going to parties at like 13/14. MDMA, speed, LSD.

Still good friends with some of them and they are mostly ashamed of that period, and you can see severe permanent effects of abuse on some (again we knew each other since childhood).

I tried what I could get my hands on because I was curious, and I would go out with this crowd occasionally. It's far from roses and rainbows - getting emotionally unstable people riled up - I've seen/heard scary shit.

You can draw parallels to alcohol - drinking can be great for socialisation - and alcohol can ruin people, so I guess you could say it's unfair that one is illegal.

But I don't share the sentiment either way - "I wish alcohol/drugs were available to more people" is not something I'd like to see in practice.
The problem is 'Fandom' (a gross brand name I would refuse to say without airquotes) always has better SEO. The Elder Scrolls has an excellent independent wiki, UESP, but normal people click the first Google result and have no way of knowing it isn't the 'right' wiki
They had three decades of the best economy the world has ever seen to save and invest, along with plenty of time to fix the structural issues around homelessness and the poor. I don’t think it’s possible to manufacture a violin small enough.
> all they see is the name of the trust

I’m arguing they don’t. If a client looks likely to be soothed by losing to a corporate landlord, versus anyone else, there is a real estate broker who will sell them that line.