skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a developer that is bad at design ?

when you implement a feature/function, don't you think about which way it could be easier to use ? guess if you think from a user perspective, that will help you improve the design ?
Remember, the people are only anonymous to you. Reuters knows who they are. Familiar with means the sources read it but did not provide it or quote from it. FTA - the letter was sent from researchers to the board. The researchers declined to comment. Who does that leave?
LibGen is great, Z-Library is a fairly controversial for-profit endeavour, but Anna’s Archive is now the best single recommendation. Not only does Anna’s Archive have all the LibGen and Sci-Hub stuff in its index, it also contains myriad publications that came from other channels like Z or Internet Archive.
Check out https://book.io
So that is what those things were I saw when I briefly joined De Electronenclub ('The Electrons Club' in Dutch) in the early 70's. I was around 7 years old and never got to do much with these but the concept fascinated me to no end. Later I got to fiddle with similar although more complex Fischertechnik blocks at a friend of mine (hey Erik!) but those were wired together where these things worked like magnetic dominoes.

I assume it was the Braun version I played with given that this was the Netherlands.
Solving mazes. GTP4 got stuck at 7x7.

https://ekzhu.medium.com/gpt-4s-maze-navigation-a-deep-dive-...
That is, test and [ are specified by POSIX and usually are physical binaries (but might also be masked by shell builtins). Whereas [[ is not specified by POSIX and usually only exists as a shell builtin.
Any vision covering firebase, flutter, dart and go, etc. doesn't make sense.

It would take close to a decade to align these products.

My impression is that this is a place to hang these products on the org-tree. IMO the individual teams appear to have LOTS of vision!

The VP in question is unnecessary (IMO).
The First GPT Directory site, a site built on Softr
Looks like 2007.
The world of Star Trek is one where humanity learns from the devastation of world war three and over a century, creates a society where almost everything is run by computers, money doesn't exist, and people work primarily for their personal satisfaction. But I think true AGI is frowned upon there.
I made a website that tells you which human foods are toxic for dogs
Hi Hackernews!

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of IsItToxicForMyDog.com, your one-stop shop to answer the question: “Is this human food toxic for my dog?”

Designed for simplicity, the site features what I believe to be the most extensive database of annotated human foods out there. Type in a food and the site will respond with a clear indicator, “SAFE” or “TOXIC”, that you can use as guidance when giving your dog human food.

Please do not take the information presented on this site as a substitute for medical advice. In an emergency, always call poison control or a veterinarian instead.

I’d love to hear feedback from the community here. Please comment below if there are any bugs, issues, or feature requests that come to mind.

Thank you all!

Sean
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Navigating the E-Commerce Maze: My Journey Creating Safe Deal
Hello HN,

I'm Chen, a developer with a passion for e-commerce security. Join me in exploring Safe Deal's journey, my solution to combat online scams and deceptive deals.

The Challenge:
The prevalence of misleading prices and untrustworthy sellers in online shopping led me to ponder: could AI be the answer?

The Journey:
Embarking on this venture, I encountered numerous challenges, from algorithmic setbacks to scalability issues. These experiences shaped Safe Deal.

Introducing Safe Deal:
This extension isn't just a tool; it's an AI-driven shield against fraud in online shopping. Key features include:

Dynamic Price Analysis: Going beyond basic comparison, it analyzes pricing trends.
Seller Rating Analysis: AI-powered assessments of seller reliability.
Intelligent Alternatives: Identifying better deals, not just similar ones.
I'm here for genuine feedback and insights. What can improve Safe Deal? Are there aspects of online shopping security we're still missing?
Apple's market share in the US is 39%. Even if they were the primary source of applications for that 39%, 39% of a market does not a monopoly make.
They threatened to quit. You don’t actually believe that a company would be willing to still provide them a paycheck if they left the company do you?

At this point I suspect you are being deliberately obtuse. Have a good day.
It is becoming more human every day
That's simply not true. I've invented totally novel logical problems in the form of stories for it to solve and it has done so successfully. It doesn't get it everytime in the first way that I ask but it absolutely will get with relatively modest rewriting of the prompt. In one case it finally had to ask me why I was asking it, and offered a couple of suggestions including "is this a way to test my reasoning capabilities?". Once it understood the context and intent of my question, it solved it easily.

I think the people who dismiss this are simply ones that stopped at the first "gotcha" and moved on. They forget that GPT4 is not human and so it doesn't always understand things in the same way a human would. But once it understands the underlying concept, it can indeed solve novel problems.
It's a long flight home. We haven't had that kind of excuse for indentured servitude for centuries.
Instead of AI-based blockchain tokens, why not token-based AI? [pdf]
Hi Hacker News community,

There's been considerable discussion about AI-driven blockchain tokens, but what about the inverse: why not drive AI agents with tokens?

I've been exploring the idea of AI user agents that interact with web applications on behalf of users, carrying out a variety of tasks, from the mundane to the complex. The key here is integration. For these AI agents to effectively interact with web applications, they require seamless integration with various data sources and web platforms.

Traditionally, this integration is managed through API keys provided by the user to the AI agent. While functional, this method has its drawbacks: it creates a strong, lasting bind between the AI and the service (until access is revoked), and it's cumbersome to set up. Moreover, when it comes to tasks involving transactions, websites are often hesitant to authorize payments made by AI due to the risk of chargebacks and misuse.

Let's say we have a future web tokenised goods and services. In this model, AI user agents use tokens, not API keys, to authorize transactions. Imagine a travel agent AI that compiles an itinerary with flight and hotel bookings, each represented by a token. The user reviews it like a summary report and authorizes the entire itinerary in one go, with payments executed via an atomic swap between cryptocurrency and the tokenized goods/services.

It can be done ad-hoc (buying assets on the blockchain doesn't require prior set-up of API keys) and confidentiality (private keys are not given to AI to do this), better UI (consolidated purchase of 3+ tokens for one project, if you want to change your itinerary it's another batch authorisation, selling this booking and reserving that hotel etc.)

I detailed various concepts in a paper on Smart Tokens. Smart Token like blockchain token designed for web use-cases around goods and services tokenised, and this AI use-case is one of them. https://github.com/SmartTokenLabs/papers/releases/download/0... I'm eager to hear your thoughts on this reverse-direction innovation.

Looking forward to your insights and discussion!
Too bad most of us need to work to live. Might as well take the lesser of two evils.
The Dart team certainly has vision!

The VP above might not, but who cares...
During a job interview I was asked to teach something off the cuff. There were two interviewers in the meeting, so I decided to show the difference that a good mic with good placement can have on call quality. Switched from my nice mic that was one shaka[0] away, to the laptop mic that was about two arm lengths away (maybe 8 shaka’s). They were shocked at the difference and one asked “is that what I sound like right now?”

I went on to discuss how sound intensity is inverse to the square of the distance, so double the mic distance and it’s 1/4 the intensity. So the distant mic was picking up ~1/64th the volume. When there isn’t much of a difference between my voice and room echoes it becomes hard to listen to.

They started a discussion about how much it would cost to outfit everyone with external mics after that haha. For anyone wondering, even a cheap lapel or broadcast mic that’s close to your face will sound much better than a distant laptop, due to the comparative volume of your voice verses the environment.

[0] One shaka, or one “hell yeah” is a unit of measure an audio engineer shared with me once. Extend your thumb and pinky, and get your mic about that far from your mouth for good sound. One or two shaka’s is generally very good.
Please see my response to the sister comment. My comment was deliberately cartoonish to prove a point. Both the originally posited scenarios and mine are evidence of poorly designed games, but it's not solely the fault of the respec mechanic (or lack thereof). Anyone can knock down a strawman.
What, no, I meant the other guy, the one who was really into Aleister Crowley and did sex magick with L. Ron Hubbard!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons

But seriously, while I’m sure a lot of people in the government are mad at Elon’s hot takes, the government has just as much leverage over SpaceX as they did over Von Braun. In either case they could have turned the screws; the only leverage Elon has is that SpaceX delivers what nobody else can. Which was also true of Von Braun. (Jack Parsons, it turned out, wasn’t worth the headache in the long run; his story has a sad ending.)
WebGPU needs to cater to the lowest common denominator so it's unlikely to replace DX12/Vulkan/Metal in the demanding usages. It's always going to lag behind on features, capabilities, and performance.

But for the long tail of image filters, video effects, more graphically basic games - yeah, it's a great fit there. Probably.
If you are billing at $150 per hour, people are probably counting on you to not be someone who would think, "If I keep a slower computer, I could bill for more because the client would pay for the time I spend waiting for my computer."

Imagine you go to see a lawyer who is charging you $750 per hour, but instead of using a computer, they are writing everything out by hand and then personally using a typewriter to type up their notes. You ask why they don't use a computer and they point out that they can make more money by billing you for the time it takes to use slower technologies.

Might you consider a different lawyer?
OpenAI has a short (though difficult to evaluate) definition in their charter: "OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity." https://openai.com/charter
Can you create a High availability cluster that does automatic failover with virtual box?
Cameras should rarely be used. They don't help, they just drastically add to the fatigue. Sound quality needs be kept as high as possible, which means everyone involved needs decent equipment. Comfortable, over-the-ear headsets, with either good built-in microphone arms, or standalone mics. Don't use VoIP providers that can't figure out basic noise reduction or over-compress the audio, and you'll be in a much more tolerable spot.
> And now for the final lolz. I’ve said above that these are the commands you use to evaluate expressions… but the shell also has expressions of its own via the !, &&, and || operators—all of which work on command exit statuses.

It works for simulating very basic boolean expressions, but it gets ugly quickly if you need some more complex combos of NOT, OR and AND. I wish Bash had proper boolean expressions support.
I agree with you, but none of this makes it impossible. It just makes it a resourcing/hiring issue.

The same thing regularly happens with smaller companies or code bases. The size exacerbates the issue, but it's not the cause of it.

Which is largely this OP's point regarding the subject of calling out culture rot and a particular executive.
I wanna see NOOOOOOOOOO
It does fine because this riddle is well-known and the solution contained a hundred times in the training data.
How to (and how not to) design REST APIs
>20% of luxury goods buyers are making under $50k.

source?
Except this was entirely possible with API, and the dead stupid obvious thing to do, even as far back as OG ChatGPT (pre-GPT-4). Assistants don't seem to introduce anything new here, at least not anything one could trivially make with API access, a Python script, and a credit card.

So I don't thing it's this - otherwise someone would've done this long time ago and killed us all.

Also not like all the "value adds" for ChatGPT are in any way original or innovative - "plugins" / "agents" were something you could use months ago via alternative frontend like TypingMind, if you were willing to write some basic JavaScript and/or implement your own server-side actions for the LLM to invoke. So it can't be this.
Sam even recently alluded to something that could have been a reference to this. "Witnessing he veil of ignorance being pulled back" or something like that.
64-128GB is my current minimum due to 30+GB used by docker and a poor rdev story.

Good thing it's a corp laptop.
I asked ChatGPT to come up with a list of references for a topic I was researching. Every single citation it came up with was hallucinated except for one which turned out to be extremely useful.
> We've also already seen one random Google AI 'safety' employee trying to tell the media that AGI is here because Google built a chatbot that sounded convincing, which obviously turned out to be bullshit/hysterical.

It's funny because the ELIZA effect[0] has been known for decades, and I'd assume any AI researcher is fully aware of it. But so many people are caught up in the hype and think it doesn't apply this time around.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
Eh, Bedrock is a much easier sell to my friends than Java was back in the day. Even the least technical manage to play together.
Put one pixel in front of another..
Agreed, we are on ycombinator.com, after all. The patron saint of failed ideas.
I have a bookmarks folder named Coolness, and this project is going into it
I don't see any source code, wiring diagrams, or service manuals. Clickbait?
As a person of color who is also disabled, I find bringing race into the discussion to be reductionist. It reduces the individual to the skin color, which is just as bad as what you accuse others of doing. People shouldn’t be judged based on whether there are enough black women at Google.
The on-prem VMWare enthusiasts who've been warning for decades about vendor lock-in on the cloud are perhaps about to gain some new perspective.
Graham moved to the US at age 14. He's as American as he is British.
Why would you not use Bash (unless you are using completely different shell like Fish explicitly?).

It feels like some completely archaic concern to target the minimal common shell denominator.
Enable EU-restricted features for Windows in any region
Rundeck is a java web app, using (by default) embeddable database or file system for configuration and data (you could use mainstream databases, but I never needed that).

Regarding "Connection to the main database" as far as my use case is, all the settings could live in the file system json files or sqlite if that makes installation trivial for the use case of being very good job scheduler with options to create great jobs UI, logs and management of small number of users (which is a fairly common scenario).
You mean, you hadn't gotten that impression from the last two months or the last two years yet?
Fair enough. Maybe the reporters are just lazy then, if 80% were neutral or positive.
Sails and satellite navigation could cut shipping emissions by up to a third
HBO? No. NYTimes? Probably. All media is.
I'm a plain ol' GI and cannot solve #3 FWIW
Isn't Storage Spaces Direct an equivalent to vSan?
GPT Baker lets you build your own open-source GPTs
Here's a simpler example that works.

Q: Prove that if cos(x) is an integer then so is sin(x).

A: The statement "if cos(x) is an integer, then so is sin(x)" is not true in general. To understand why, let’s consider the properties of sine and cosine. [...]

It had trouble when the problem domain is different from the usual one the same keywords typically fall into.
You say that, but Google Search is still free after decades, whereas you can pay ChatGPT $20/mo for a membership right now.
Yes, the original email address appears in the headers (In gmail you can click "see full email" if I remember correctly)
Most neural networks are just directed graphs, with a ton of matrix multiplies and nonlinear functions at the end of each layer. The libraries to do gradient descent, training, etc.. are all there to use. It is amazing how small the actual code is, compared to the amount of compute to do the training.
Italic text in Alacritty, tmux, and Neovim
You are watching history being made.
Just tried and it completely fell over: https://chat.openai.com/share/ea9cf93f-0632-48b9-aa47-1bbf31...

Tried on Bing in "Precision" mode as well, and it fell over just the same, but starting with C instead of A.
“You should leave YC to focus on what you want” is not “you’re fired”

It’s like they’re trying to make a TV drama out of nothing.
> Take the Tour Montparnasse, a black, slickly glass-panelled skyscraper, looming over the beautiful Paris cityscape like a giant domino waiting to fall. Parisians hated it so much that the city was subsequently forced to enact an ordinance forbidding any further skyscrapers higher than 36 meters.

lol wikipedia says:

> It is said that the tower's observation deck enjoys the most beautiful view in all of Paris because it is the only place from which the tower cannot be seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Montparnasse#Criticism
Hey, original author here. Thanks for sharing this and making it rise to the front page! :) By the way, the title probably deserves a (2020) and it would be nice if "test" wasn't capitalized, because it actually refers to the command.

Here is something related from 2021 that also touches on bash's [[ operator and that I think you might enjoy in this context: https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html
Not installed by default on BSDs. Sometimes not installed in minimal environments, e.g. where BusyBox is all you have available. Maybe not installed by default on Unixes? Not sure
Well when they request 5-6 variants and one is very different, things happen. Idk if it’s as bad as the Bradley fighting vehicle in production.

There was one huge order over many years that cause the continuous production. This doesn’t include variants sold to several other nations.

For the I series: “A senior IAF official said that the F-35's stealth may be partly overcome within 10 years despite a 30 to 40-year service life, thus Israel's insistence on using their own electronic warfare systems”.

The Accidents and notable incidents is an interesting read on https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II
QEMU/libvirt can live migrate VMs without downtime. It works the same way.
I own a 3kw handheld laser welding rig.

Yes, they are easier than glue guns to handle.
But you know, a lot more dangerous.

Particularly since the lasers currently used are invisible and reflected light will still destroy your eyes (or someone elses) at 50+ft, easily. Not to mention the actual laser danger itself (you can easily get a 4th degree burn in an instant).

So despite being easier to get right/handle from a welding perspective, they require significantly more safety precautions. Almost all videos show how easily and quickly they weld or clean or cut. Which is true! It's really easy and fast to get right.

But they also often don't show that you need laser curtains, etc.
You also have to understand what kind of laser is being used to understand what safety equipment to get. It's not as easy as mig/tig where you just get a welding helmet and declare victory,
you have to understand the laser wavelength and required OD to protect yourself.

They are also still really expensive, but that will change.

But using laser welding on like a construction site or whatever the same way non-laser welding is would be quite dangerous.

All of this is why serious safety interlocks/etc are used on laser welding equipment, even handheld, by everyone not making some crazy youtube video.
Again, you're free to hold whatever additional opinions you want. I'll respectfully pass on discussing those, as my original intent was to correct a particular piece of misinformation.
I'm thinking more about 'product level' ideas, where you can't really write a test yet, even a playwright type system test, because you haven't worked out what you even want to do yet.
Enlighten me then - what is this limit point of "amazing autocomplete"?
I'm friends with a dude on chrome team and used to work at Google.

I describe this as a random walk of good intentioned people but where a decision will harm Google someone come out of the woodwork to block or slow it down.
A more enjoyable exercise is to read the full 25 point plan, leaving in the obvious antisemitism and fascistic rhetoric, because while the party gave voice to some socialist ideals early in its life, many if not most of those were abandoned as it rose to power. The final form of the Nazi Party was hardly socialist, to the point where communists, socialists and union supporters were specifically targeted for arrest, erasure and death after it assumed national power in 1933.

There's a reason Niemoller's famous quote begins:

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist."

The type of editing you've done here is deeply dishonest.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-party...
> A more sober reading is that the board decided that Altman is a slimebag and they'd be better off without him, given that he has form in that respect.

Between this and the 4chanAGI hypothesis, the latter seems more plausible to me, because deciding that someone "is a slimebag and they'd be better off without him" is not something actual adults do when serious issues are at stake, especially not as a group and in a serious-business(-adjacent) setting. If there was a personal reason, it must've been something more concrete.
This seems... deeply idiotic on GitHub's part. Consider the following scenario:

1. A script/CI/etc is pulling the latest releases from the repository.
2. Ownership of the account is changed.
3. The new owner controls the contents of the repository, and can perform a supply chain attack.

I'm not sure GitHub would be liable there, but personally I wouldn't want to find out the hard way.
It'd be cool if you had a link to the list available as a web page instead of a web application for when the JS fails to load.

That way when search engines index it people could actually find the information too.

Any geek with 2 seconds can load up https://www.isittoxicformydog.com/static/allfoods.json and look but putting this in an actual HTML webpage would help out search and discovery lot.
Yup, that would totally threaten humanity — with math problems instead of "find images of crosswalks" style capchas to the poing where humans will jusy give up /s
That's the real Sam Altman? Looks like it! And he just randomly posts on reddit that AGI has been achieved internally? (Later edits the post to say he's just kidding)? Weird.