skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cancelled spotify a week ago shortly before their modest price increase. Reasons:

- recommendations keep getting worse, often stuck in a loop

- I was repeatedly funneled by autoplay into AI-generated muzak, frequently enough so that ignoring artists wasn't enough anymore

- they still have no working listening history

- podcasts

- offline mode implementation is a joke

- good content often disappears because they lost the rights to it

Especially the last point is probably universal and the reason why I regret having stopped to fill my MP3 collection.

As I grew older, it still seems hard to eschew the conveniences of streaming. So I went to YT premium with music after paying for both sercices for a while.

Finally cancelling was a spontaneous decision after reading their announcement that they don't intend to limit or filter AI generated content on their platform.

YT is ironically even less curated (often one needs to look for albums as "community playlists" because they're not properly catalogued)

The overall package seems better to me though and the recommendations are pretty good.
Oh! Looks like I was wrong. Nice!

I’d still miss DT’s zillion other things I’ve used over the years, but that one would have been a dealbreaker.
First CityWide Change Bank 1 - Saturday Night Live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXDxNCzUspM

First CityWide Change Bank 2 - Saturday Night Live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodqIPMbyUg
I thought I wanted this originally when I first started going paperless but I quickly realized that as long as I OCR everything and throw it in a pile I can easily grep for "state taxes" and 2023.
I think many googlers will also confirm that google can and does edit and filter the search results returned. Heck just see DMCA takedown requests amongst other areas.

This is nothing more than google legal taking action to shore up their defense.
But this snark is truly something…
Can you share the schematic? I'm not familiar with KiCad or other similar software, so take this with a grain of salt, anyway I think that for simple schematics, especially that old, meaning all tht parts, single side pcbs, unless one is recreating a complex circuit, probably the "by hand" approach is a lot faster than using software.
> integer implementation done in software, using only floating point ops

so basically any attempt to use JavaScript 's number as int
What you need is peripatetic programming.
Robotics is such an amazing space to be in! The breadth of the field is astounding. Just consider this from the article: ".. at the .. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems .. a Disney Research team presented a brand new robotic character ... The adorable robot packs an enormous amount of expression ... .. it’s full of personality, emoting as it moves in a way that makes it seem uniquely alive."

At that same conference people will probably be talking about SLAM, navigation, object recognition, presumably some LLM applications, fleet management, and of course actual robotic applications. In robotics all these things matter! From hard-core sensor data processing optimization to emotions expressed by the robot.
Literally 18 hours ago on this very site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37796452

> they got into a weird position between a very very drowsy mum and some cushions and we didn't notice.

> parent is not sober and essentially knocked out unconscious.

Parent of newborn sleep deprivation is extreme.
I am just rcloning my paperless-ngx document volume to s3 deep glacier every night for this.

It's a bit "scary" since even documents I delete in paperless-ngx are thus preserved forever, but it may come in handy someday.
This is just for my personal taxes, no accounting involved. I just get all the relevant stuff together once a year. Of course it's not 10s of 100s of documents, but still enough so it would take me some time to get everything together manually.

Also it was just meant as an example, paperless is generally useful (to me) in situations where I need to access somehow related documents, like traveling and such, or searching my documents for some information. As I said, there are other systems and ways to do this, but for me this is the one that stuck.
How is it a scam if the people buying it know exactly what they're buying, and the code is all open source? The word "scam" implies someone is being misled.

How is cryptocurrency any more of a scam than fiat currency, ie. digits in the computer of some private bank or central bank?
It’s a some birds flying into windows during a mass migration of a million and a half birds.

Animal rights? Jesus christ. Go touch grass.
The Tesla aren’t driving in the nearly the same conditions of those 42k deaths along with many other differences means that you cant directly compare these numbers. The EV number will probably be lower, but you aren’t using the correct data to support your point.
For context, the WIRED op-ed was written by a DuckDuckGo executive. I can certainly imagine the incentive there for DDG to misrepresent Google's behavior (and as I was reading the article, most of it struck me as speculation more than anything).

ETA: Okay, weird. The op-ed itself made it sound like she was a current DDG executive, but her LinkedIn profile states that she no longer works there (and is more or less self-employed now). No idea how to interpret that.

In any case, she was DDG's legal counsel and VP of policy for three years.
Search for shrink
When Apple Park first started migrating teams a number of people walked into the glass doors in the hallways. They pretty quickly put up little markers on the glass. It was still a stupid design not built for humans.
I promise you Meta doesn't give a shit about the $8 in ads its getting from Myanmar per year. This is more an issue of a giant corporation not noticing that some users in a foreign country speaking in a foreign language were doing horrible things with their platform. At worst its negligence. If it wasn't for the Facebook association most HN users would not even know Myanmar was in a civil war at all.

(Keep in mind after this, Facebook hired 20,000+ content moderators at great expense who they still employ to monitor for stuff like this).
We should help those people. Maybe AI can do what they're doing so that they can get up and move around some.
> the brain is really good at hiding things we don't care to see

This is why my desk looks like a mess to other people ;)
It is “unfortunate”
Seems really strange to me to reject the notion of 'reading between the lines' when we know the motives of the company's leadership. We know they work with Google, we know they are interested in driving views and profits. Any interpretation that is consistent with their known motivations is worth considering.

Some things just aren't feasible to collect evidence for. You would need access to their private communications to find evidence. So your basically giving a pass to any maleficence done in the dark.
A primer on Elon Musk's latest dumb fight with the SEC
https://archive.ph/ZuFeV
Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? (2019)
Nullable types, module level functions, context receivers, nicer type signatures for functions, a better standard library (e.g map works directly on lists without the stream.map crap)
Germany is far away from something like this
Definitely agreed.

Digging through Usenet archives, I found a post from John Mashey discussing the RISC-CISC spectrum. I found a copy here:

https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html

The M68K gets called out as having some really complicated instructions in it,

> We thought that adding more addressing modes was the way you made a machine more powerful

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265816...

People get caught up in intuitive notions of “complex” or “reduced” when talking about RISC and CISC, so it’s very helpful to have specific ideas about what of problems you’re creating for yourself years down the line, when you’re designing an architecture in the 1970s or 1980s. The M68K has instructions that can do these complicated copies from memory to memory, through layers of indirection, and that creates a lot of implementation complexity even though the instruction encoding itself is orthogonal. Meanwhile, the x86 instructions are less orthogonal, but the instructions that operate on memory only operate on one memory location, and the other operands must be in registers. That turned out to be the better tradeoff, long-term, IMO.
It is possible to make GPT-4 Vision into a facial recognition machine
Why do you mistakenly believe that government needs to be involved with something like that?

There's nothing overly special about an interstate-style highway network. It's essentially just a large number of roads covering a long distance that are connected together, with emphasis on driving speed.

The private sector is more than capable of planning, building, connecting, maintaining, and operating roads of all types, widths, and lengths.

I don't know where you are, but in Canada the various governments end up having to resort to the private sector anyway for highway-related projects.

It's government interference that prevents there from being more privately-build and operated highways. That's exactly the problem I was talking about in my earlier comment. Government "jobs" are dead weight on the real economy, only inhibiting those who are actually productive.
If Carmack started contributing to llama.cpp, we'd probably see something tangible in a few weeks lol.
There is even a nice Oss Swift app now in the app store. v1 but looks nice is fast and simple.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6448698521
Neumi/ethersweep: open-source, easy to use Ethernet stepper motor controller
I can't even wrap my head around the idea you decide you're done with sex for the end of your life.
This is referring to modern day Arab nations, not all Arab powers throughout history.
https://browser.kagi.com/
> the most generous number from the disclosed memos has Meta removing 5% of hate speech on Facebook. That would mean that for every 2,000 hateful posts or comments, Meta removes about 100–95 automatically and 5 via user reports.

Its really hard to contextualize these numbers. What are the comparable rates for other media?

What % of hate speech on Mastodon is taken down? Twitter? YouTube? Discord? Comparing with old-school mob formation technology, what about leaflets handed out? Political rallies?

Meta is an obvious target because they have such a high % of total online speech, and by virtue of this make a potentially impactful single intervention point to make things better. And these articles do make it seem they have room at the margin to improve. But imagine a word with multiple social networks per country - do we think they would be better or worse at policing this stuff (and crucially, the places where it matters are the developing less-regulated countries, often with governments that are at least disinterested in preventing the ethnic conflicts, if not actively promoting them)? I can see hand-wavey arguments in both directions but what I really want is data analyzing the question.
We find that, while this deters birds, it seems to attract bees. They fly and land on many individual dots before eventually flying away.

Has anyone else experienced this?
Much much easier to ban a physical item like gold than crypto. Trying to ban crypto is like trying to ban p2p file sharing, except with much more serious implications as it would also kill a country's presence and innovation in the industry.
"It is my opinion that Wired is not a good source of news" — opinion, expression of subjective epreference

"It is my opinion that Wired is intentionally concealing a conspiracy behind closed doors for their own gain and the harm of the public" — baseless conjecture about objective reality and conspiracy theory-spinning, that just happens to start with "it's my opinion that..."

Conspiracy-mindedness (leading to viral spread of disinformation, and even to acts of violence and terrorism) has taken too much root in the modern psyche, hiding behind the stolen shield of "all opinions are valid", when in fact they are not statements of subjective opinion, but instead baseless assertions about objective reality.
But why? Novelty is one thing, and gaining some understanding of the art generated from a group of people programming their own biases into a machine that spits out a product of up to billions of other people's input, but at the end of the day I pay attention to the credits: who wrote the play? What else have they written? Why do they choose the topics they do? How do I relate to them? What might I learn from them, this other human being or group of individuals?

Consider paint-by-number, which I remember from childhood and which had a resurgence in popularity recently: it's a thing we humans made, it's fine that it exists (especially since it doesn't cost much to make, presumably), and I don't think of it all that often because it isn't that interesting. I lump this AI art in with pbn; sure, there are probably some standout pieces because humans have made some awesome art, but it's too mechanical for my taste. However, I'm open to being surprised and moved by artificial art, but it's likely just an exception to the general rule of rehashed work stolen from others (to be fair, human artist Austin Kleon says to steal from others to make your art, but a machine is not a human even if it is programmed by one or many, and I'd rather our resources go to feed us animals and the ones we share earth with rather than pour so much into computers).

Like cryptocurrency (the wasteful proof-of-work kind, anyway)and NFTs, LLM/ML art is a fad.
That is their business model
You would like https://halide-lang.org/
Hey! Thanks for this comment. You probably have been expecting to see the recommendations directly in the dropdown after you typed a book title. I added some clarification message to remove misunderstanding:
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The current trend in AI isn't all of AI, and any kind of work with the goal of producing AGI would definitionally be classified as AI.
I would love to see their distribution.
That's fair, especially as they exist today.

I'd argue that an internet where paying for stuff was normalized would greatly reduce the need for tracking, and therefore the amount of pushback against any type of regulation.
Visualization of Social Networks
If they want to ban explicit pornography, then the law needs to proper define explicit. If it can’t, then the law is broad and will infringe on protected rights. Imagine being pulled over by a cop for going “too fast”, but they get to decide what that means today. It’s ripe for abuse.
From what I have read, John had a genius for what you might call relentless optimization. Even if they just improve the performance or reduce the hardware requirements of executing an already trained LLM that would be a huge win. Current progress in that regard focuses on reducing the fidelity of the LLM to make it easier to execute, which isn’t ideal.
If only. If you've been on HN long enough, you'll see people peddling miracle cures and homeopathic bullshit.

America has long had a fraught history with falling prey to snake oil salesman, which forms the basis for a lot of our regulatory system around food. But even then it's not strict enough in some sense, considering products tainted with hydrazine were able to make it to shelves.
I think I read this book
Once it supports other platforms it can definitely be a good alternative!
> The main vector I look at is how much control does the user have over the results they see?

This has been the trend in so much technology and I think that's why there's such a slow, grinding, complete distrust of Silicon Valley going on. When all this stuff was new and interesting, you did a Google search to find stuff. Sometimes, by law of probability, that stuff was indeed something you wanted to buy. Now, all queries are subject to change so they can put a product that paid them for exposure in front of you, completely irrespective to if that product is relevant to your search or will solve a problem for you. Social media feeds used to be a chronological timeline of things your friends posted; now they are a selection, made by an algorithm you cannot interrogate, of the "most interesting" (judged on metrics you do not set and have no control over) things your friends have posted. Some of them today, some six weeks ago. And, between nearly all of them... is a product that paid for exposure, that is probably at least tangentially related to things you're interested in, but could not be, and more importantly, was not requested.

And, if you make the terrible, awful mistake of browsing any of these sites without an account, prepare for an absolute FIREHOSE of the worst, crummiest, most exploitative, total and complete bottom-of-the-barrel content, the widest possible net designed to ensnare anyone who passes by to watch a marketing grad in his 30's give 500 people in the developing world dental care, or whatever the fuck, set to copyright free music with as many ad placements as they can stuff into the thing.

Increasingly the Internet is not for us, it is certainly not by us, it is simply where you go when you are bored, the only remaining third place that people reliably have access to, and in true free market fashion, it is wall-to-wall exploitation. People selling their bodies because they can't get access to enough money to live, people desperately trying to sell things they've made because time cannot be utilized anymore without a financial benefit if you want to remain solvent, and of course, massive corporations posting billboards large enough to cover the sky, in every direction, every place. A new spot springs up, a new gathering spot that promises to be better, and it gains traction because everyone is so sick of the rest of it, and then in short order once enough people frequent it, the ads go up, the beggars appear, your friends are hidden behind a cylinder of recommended bullshit that surrounds you, and it joins the cavalcade of endless irrelevant nonsense that makes up the spaces you fled, just in time for the next one to pop up nextdoor promising it won't do the same.

God I am sick of the Internet.

Also apologies for the tangent.
If you do so, you can see this recommendation:
Steven Edick
Effective Modern C++
This book is a great follow-up to 'A Tour of C++' as it dives deeper into the modern features of C++, providing practical advice and guidelines for writing efficient and expressive code.
Some of this doesn’t pass the smell test:

> People who worked out but then plopped into chairs for 10 hours or more were as prone to dementia as people who hadn’t exercised much at all.

This just isn’t plausible as a real effect. It suggests the causation is reversed.

> If the men and women sat for at least 10 hours a day, which many of them did, their risk of developing dementia within the next seven years was 8 percent higher than if they sat for fewer than 10 hours.
The risks ballooned from there, reaching a 63-percent greater risk of dementia for people who spent at least 12 hours chair-bound.

Weird non-linear effects at arbitrary cutoffs are usually statistical artifacts. It seems unlikely that 9.5 hours is “fine” but at 10 hours you are doomed.
> NSA could hand out bitcoins to GPUs who help them brute force enemy encryption.

Plot twist - that was your own encryption you helped the NSA (presumably legally) break!
That would totally break the basic conceptions of line height and font size though. The fleuron in the top image is probably five lines tall.

Arranging fleurons is great, but that seems it should belong to the realm of word processing layout or drawing program arrangement, not something at the Unicode/font level.

Complex fleurons aren't graphemes; they're illustration.
In my experience, no, you don't need this. The few things I keep just go in folders named for the year under my Documents folder, and they are given descriptive filenames like paystub-2022-10-15.pdf, or companyA-w-2.pdf. In the rare cases where I need to go back to those (like for a loan application or doing taxes) it's easy enough to find them.
Oh and here I was thinking it was better before seeing the proof.

10 years ago: find anything using google, youtube is still interesting, few AI generated content, lots of communities

Today: Never thought I'd switch to fu*ing Yandex of everything, Youtube ignores my search queries and instead shows me shorts of people dancing, every article accessible via Google is censored or AI written or sells me something, no forums and you have to be on facebook and discord and telegram and reddit to read on anything and since those are big platformes speech is heavily censored and you get left with that void for more/opposing view or with cognitive dissonance, everyone is trying to convert you into buying something or viewing ads.
Firing the Servo team was probably the dumbest thing they could have done.
As someone who has built and lightly studied Firefox codebase out of pure curiosity this technical joke doesn't really ring remotely true. Sure it's an older codebase and Mozilla doesn't have enough funding manpower to do big rewrites but I don't remember Firefox crashing on me in recent times and I use it exclusively on Mac/Linux and Windows. No site compat issues either. So stop blowing smoke I guess and provide actual details on how it is a joke?
Bitcoin uses about 100x more energy than ethereum, has 5x less throughput, and doesn't natively support smart contracts. There's definitely also room for ethereum.
I’m not talking about pretending the risk doesn’t exist. I’m talking about pretending the increase in risk doesn’t exist with

> poly only changes the honesty and logistics
Maybe the reason that the most IP-paranoid hedge fund makes the largest charitable donations in California is to proactively secure favorable publicity in case they become embroiled in a scandal that could impact their financial standing.

Moreover, it raises the question of who truly benefits from these charitable contributions. For example, Ikea is owned by a charity for tax optimization purposes. The mission of the charity is to promote interior design and architecture. Essentially, strategic investments that will ultimately benefit Ikea itself in the long run.
LLMs need a lot of GPU power to learn. I'm not sure it's correct to say that they don't learn, it's just a question of them being unable to learn anything more than a very small context window in real-time on presently available/economical hardware. But if you have GPUs with terabytes of VRAM and you feed experience into them, it will learn. It's still questionable if that's enough for true AGI, but I think the inability to learn in real-time is clearly a hardware limitation.
Of course, worth mentioning that arguing in favor of de-stigmatizing polyamory does not imply stigmatizing monogamy. If people are naturally monogamous, and therefore produce social structures that reflect monogamy, then it means there should be no fear whatsoever in de-stigmatizing polyamory.
So in 1 day you'll let a single IP create 86400 users.

How many IP's do would think would be needed to create 10x your current user base in a single day? 100? 1000?
And all of the information collected by the Stasi, we now voluntarily give to social media companies.

But that's different, right? I mean, it's not the government so its okay.
IonQ Unveils Rack-Mounted Quantum Computers
> At worst its negligence

According to the article, Facebook did make the deliberate decision not to dedicate resources to Myanmar and other non-western countries, so I don't think it's negligence. "Greed" is more appropriate.

> Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of Integrity, told Sophie Zhang that the only coordinated fake networks Facebook would take down were the ones that affected the US, Western Europe, and “foreign adversaries.”