skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it do or anyone knows some writing tool where the text can be anonymized before it is sent to GPT? I don't want to share sensitive data, like PII etc.

I could just manually specify words to be send to GPT as placeholders, "John Doe" -> "JD". Then on every response the placeholders would be resolved with the original text just for visual purposes "JD" -> "John Doe".

I know it can be made with a little programming and OpenAI API, but maybe no need to reinvent.
that is not a lot considering they get a 30% cut off of every sale.
Can't wait to see journalists introduce FOIA requests with prompt injections.
> I'm sure they eat electricity like crazy though.

Not really. They are in line with similarly capable rack-sized servers and clusters. A fully configured z16 is four racks full of gear.
I think the truth is somewhere in between: yes, things are getting better, but it's happening much more slowly than EV supporters claim. I'm in the UK, in a populous suburb of the second biggest city, and I have literally one fast-charging point in a 20km radius. That's not enough to serve even 5% of drivers here, if we all switched to EVs tomorrow people would start fighting in the streets to get access to it.

I don't doubt we will get there eventually, but they will not be able to stop selling ICE cars by 2035; about 5 years from now there will be an uproar and the deadline will be pushed by at least another decade. The technology is getting better, the prices are getting lower, but infrastructure is nowhere near ready.
Travel. Exotic, remote, cca unspoiled even if poor places. Don't have exact plan, just return ticket and ideas/knowledge. If you are alone, people strike conversations more easily, you get much much more from these interactions than just pretty beach or mountain pictures. Vacations you will keep thinking about till your last breath, even if its sometimes more difficult during them. South east Asia or South America are great for those.

I know quite a few people who literally can't just go on their own. They will bundle up with dubious people and go to subpar vacation they will hate afterwards, but its simply a mental block too big to overcome.
> Common Lisp is the union of all Lisps

Except it wasn't. Common Lisp was different from most Lisps in that it was a standard and not an implementation. Implementations were different, from small to large scale. The initial CLtL1 language definition was a small part of Lisp Machine Lisp with some stuff added in (type declarations, lexical binding, ...).

CLtL1 lacked

* a way to start or quit Lisp
* command line arguments
* memory management (like garbage collection, finalization, memory areas)
* virtual machine
* threads
* stack groups
* continuations
* interrupts
* fexprs
* error handling
* object system or any way to define extensible operations
* user defined stream types
* networking
* internationlization features (like international character sets, multilanguage support, ...)
* a higher level iteration construct
* tail call elimination
* stack introspection (backtraces, ...)
* pretty printer interface
* MLISP / RLISP syntax
* library & source code management
* 'weak' data structures
* extensible hash tables
* terminal interface
* assembler
* advising
* source retrieval
* pattern matcher
* calling external programs
* locatives
* big floats
* single namespace for functions and variables

and more. None of that was in CLtL1. Much of that also is not in ANSI CL.

Read through Lisp manuals (MIT Scheme, MacLisp, MDL, Lisp Machine Lisp, Interlisp, ...) from that time (when CLtL1 was published) and much of that existed.

Implementations provided more. Just like, say, Interlisp-D (which also was an operating system with applications) provided much more than most Common Lisp implementations.
So you always look at the generated Assembly to understand the magic behind producing a native executable, and the magic behind unrolling for loops into sequences of AVX512 instructions, or the magic behind inlining a virtual method dispactch,...?
Then it’s not bringing something particular new or useful to the table?

Xamarin/mono already tried almost the same approach years ago and it clearly failed..
There is a use case for Flutter Web and that is an extremely simple user interface such a form or a simple workflow, which can share code with e.g. a mobile app.

Other than that I agree - Flutter web is not going to be a good choice and that was never really the goal for them, I believe.
If I understood it correctly, is more like something to run inside firecracker.
Is like a toolkit to build a really small os to run a single application, that then you run on top of a hypervisor.
The effect you're speaking of is real, but extremely unlikely to apply to anti-aging. There are statistics showing apparently paradoxical effects, like smoking and obesity reduce overall healthcare - because people simply die sooner from heart disease.

Age is different. Look at health expenses per decade - the difference is like night and day. Most people in their 20s and 30s don't even visit a hospital. The healthcare expense for most of them can simply be rounded to zero. Some time in the 60s things change dramatically (health degradation is supralinear with age). So if you manage to push back the health of seniors to, for example, their 50s, you pretty much solve healthcare permanently.
The initial image is just 1 -- the very first frame of the video.
Good work putting all this together. Not saying anything is wrong necessarily, but missing part of the picture.
Related from two days ago: https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai...

"Some at OpenAI believe Q* (pronounced Q-Star) could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for what's known as artificial general intelligence" and "wrote a letter to the board of directors warning [it] could threaten humanity"
Fabrice Bellard has one

https://bellard.org/lte/
There is an immediate conflict of interest. Because one should immediately start to wonder if Sam is holding back the company from making their own chips or perhaps avoiding partnering with another supplier because he wants to funnel future business to his future side project. That may be in the best interest of the non-profit, but it may not be, we can't tell, because of the conflict of interest.
AI is still uncharted territory, both are equally important.
> but it looks like now those product people care less and less about internal feedback from arguably most enthusiastic users

Enthusiastic users aren't the people you should design for - instead target changes that have the greatest positive impact for the most users. There could have been a compelling reason like color requirements for accessibility or how they display on low end screens for NBU that negates a bunch of memegen posts about how pretty it looks.
Updating the internal world model of its host to maximize its future probability of existence.
Initially, of course, that of the host, but this can change over time.
If you look at the host's modus operandi so far, you couldn't blame it.
I guess it depends on how you measure popularity. If we’re counting new apps published on App/Play Store? Perhaps, even if still quite surprising . By user numbers? Completely unbelievable.
dartos says >"We do fully understand how, and why, they work. That’s how we can build and optimize them.
We can and do explicitly explain their inner workings in math."<

I certainly don't! I don't know of anyone who understands how and why they work. Granted there are many who write code that "works" but where's the proof that the code actually "works properly"? And if you don't know where you are then it is difficult to determine a path to a better place.

I see few attempts to explicitly explain their inner workings in math. I do see lots of programs/code, however but that isn't math.

Similar dramatic moments have likely occurred before many times. The bare facts lie before us but we do not understand. I'm thinking of late 1800s-1900 just before Einstein published his works on special relativity. We knew Maxwell's equations and their relationship to the speed of light. We even had Lorentz's equations but we did not understand what they meant. Einstein interpreted the math and gave us special relativity.

Perhaps there is an Einstein (or two, or three, ...) working with LLMs now but they are quiet so far.
Did it fail because it is impossible, because of poor execution, poor dev experience or it was simply too early? Flutter seems to be quite popular.
Once you get into it, it becomes clear that Dart is actually pretty brilliant. There are lots of small little features in Dart that makes working with Flutter very productive (and even fun, I would argue).
They're referring to a situation described here[1] (HN discussion [2]).

[1]: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-t...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687
A Volumetric Display Using an Acoustically Trapped Particle [video]
Maybe because Qt Design Studio is what matters nowadays.
Mic Test
Minimized yes, but stopped, no.
It’s not my favorite channel, I don’t even have a subscription to it, but for such a mainstream and popular channel it’s honestly pretty good.

Each time I stumbled upon a video of LTT, it ranged from "great" to "really ok".

There are way better channels but LTT is far from being the worst.
I have no sympathy for a company that operated at a loss for enough years to price out competitors to the point it was the only real game in town.

You kill competitors and now want to dictate the price (including attention) everyone pays to see user-generated content? Yeah no.

Got zero sympathy. None. You do not command my attention - a resource I am less and less willing to pay with these days.

If that results in YouTube becoming unsustainable and collapsing and something more sustainable emerging charging a price consumers are willing to pay? Well then that sounds acceptable.
In that case you just hire via some kind of agency, who deal with the HR for you.
I'll never understand this particular mindset. I mean, I can get _some_ of the fallacies involved. Pure envy. Scope insensitivity. But it just doesn't explain it for me.

People buying high end audio gear have disposable income and spend obscene amounts of money on their hobby, and yet they get at most mild ridicule. Old people wanting _not to die_ get hate.

How do people even get here?
Yes. You've gotten out of the underground parking garage, have good GPS/cell signal again, and want to go home.

Even when I know exactly where I am going and the route I want to use i'll often map it anyways so I can find out about traffic or accidents ahead.
Anything would be better than the current common names for simple ideas. "Chain of thought", "tree of thought", a rag... sorry, "RAG". Seriously?!
The problem with that scenario is that usually it doesn't support a real-world-scenario where you do a rename in the tool (like some IDE) and it doesn't do the corresponding git operation.

(yes, some IDE might have git integration, but personally I don't like my IDE messing with git, except read-only (annotate, diff))
> if Flutter is only relevant for apps, that's a pretty small niche.

No it is not. Mobile apps are thriving. It is desktop apps that are niche now.

> ditching Flutter and using web tech for mobile too sounds like the better bet?

Quite possibly yes.
I have only read The Negative, but from it I get the impression that Ansel Adams is really good at boiling things down to fundamentals and understanding the key concepts involved in things (much like I gather Elon Musk can be, I suppose). I'm not surprised he was able to grasp the benefits of digital photography also.
It's a well known problem in economy: the tragedy of the commons.

In a free market, even the river or the sea has an owner (might be a group of people), so you cannot throw your waste on a river that is not yours. But currently rivers are "common" or public property, so the state cannot limit who polutes the rivers unless they provide an alternative. In rich countries, such alternatives exist. In poor countries they just dump waste in public/common rivers.
South Korea boosts surveillance after North launches spy satellite
So Kinect accidentally told they are selling 5787MWh of energy for the whole Friday, but they don't have this energy. This drove the price to negative. During the afternoon hours the price is -500€/MWh.

Now Kinect needs to try to purchase the energy they have sold from other producers, on the daily market. Some estimates say their losses will be tens of millions of euros.

A reasonable number of consumers are paying the market price for electricity. This might mean you can make few euros by spending electricity. Interesting to see how this works out in practice.
If only Kodak had you around at the time!
No, it wasn't cost "from" the middleman. I said cost "to" the middleman. The middleman was just passing along the higher cost.
I've never stated that all activities should be social, just that there's a preference that the most enjoyable ones happen to be more solitary.
I wonder what the insurance policy on starlink satellites looks like.
This is also why aircraft use aluminum, despite the major downsides (finite fatigue life, mainly). There’s just no way steel would work (far too heavy). Titanium is awesome but a royal pain to work with. Carbon fiber is starting to come in but it has issues to - although they’ll be overcome with time.
Extremely simple user interface can be done in anything and code sharing is irrelevant for it though.
Late, but thanks.

I am waiting for a Mac as my next machine and the bit about alt in the menu should help quite a bit.

I am stil a bit annoyed from last time I used Mac a decade ago and all the things I couldn't figure out without extensive web searches or asking coworkers but I have still figured out it is time to try it again :-)
I really hope someone explores this with multi-axis printing. 3D printers have become impressively reliable and work great, but we are in a local maximum: we print in 3 axes only, layer by layer. You could do so much more with a tilting bed (4th axis), or a tilting extruder (4 and 5).
I still think the "AI effect" is bullshit. A* was/is AI under a different meaning - it's what understood as "AI" in computer games, where the point is for the computer opponent to pretend to be smarter than a brick, and literally any trick, cheat or heuristic used to do that is part of "AI". A*? Obviously AI. Random walk? Yes. Fuzzy logic? Yes. State machines? Yes.
Design and Testing of Disconnection Actuators to Enhance Safety
What does declassifying cables entail? I try to classify my cables according to the type of appliance they are powering.
Very much so. That, and he's French. The French way of critiquing is a bit different from what other cultures do and can be a bit abrasive. Cultural differences are a thing to be aware off when dealing with people from different nationalities.

He means well and is deeply passionate about this stuff. He's worked his ass off in Darktable for many years. One of the few (only?) developers that was trying to do this full time on donations, etc. He's the closest thing Darktable had to a benevolent dictator style leader (like Linus Torvalds). Big loss for the project to not have him around. I hope they can reconcile their differences somehow. Would be best for all.

Basically, what happened is somebody pushed through something that in Aurelian's mind were some severely misguided, low quality changes without much debate or process. It just showed up and he flipped out and did not appreciate being bypassed/ignored like happened.
Fair enough. What is the impetus for this long, whinging thread that has been linked to, then? If it's not about Google at the very least not showing any confidence in Flutter it seems fairly hyperbolic.
>oxidizing and bleach compatible is an unusual pairing is it not?

I don't think it is. Isn't bleach itself an oxidizing agent?
In case of utilities that is literally true. You don't just fail an electricity provider, or a waste treatment facility, or...
I’m in the UK. My Portuguese workmates drive from Scotland to Portugal multiple times per year and say they have no issues.
You know, this is a solved problem. Qt, for example, can easily do it (and has been able to do it for 10+ years, from microcontrollers to phones). And, just saying, QT is damn fast, a necessity if you want to work on microcontrollers of course. And yes, you can do it without royalties, without paying for QT, and in multiple languages (at least C++ and Python work pretty well).

(oh, and QT supports 3d, on the web, on android, on ios, and on desktop, even on microcontrollers if needed)

And yes, Javascript's advantage has been that it was cross-platform pretty early on. Not particularly fast though, not even decades later.

And everybody keeps pointing out the same shortcoming: these frameworks let you share a lot of code, but mostly not the actual "View" (the V in model/view/controller) code, due to screen sizes, whether the UI can be resized, extra functionality (e.g. statusbar/notifications/...)

That's why new frameworks come out, because "why can't notifications on Windows work the same as on android?". "Why not just share UI?". Unfortunately, there's very good reasons they cannot work the same ... So a couple years in, these frameworks develop the exact same problems.
I fear AI in that context will be just another computer program that is used to make cost-saving decisions while avoiding accountability.

For example, no promotion again this year? Too bad, your boss's AI tool decided you didn't deserve it, and since your boss is now directly responsible for 1000 people you can't even meet with them to talk about it.
Nice choice of keyword. I kind of suspect "dumbrish" needs to be more of a first pass for classifying things as opposed to the whole story.

Interestingly, using it as an exact keyword seems to improve some of the links but just empties the related keywords list.

This feels like an approach that can work really well for topic-specific searches (despite the hole you spotted) but that probably won't ever generalize. Still... I'd have liked to have it for a couple of topics that I used to patrol forums and post basic answers for.
Isn't flutter supposed to also be the main way to develop UIs on google Fuschia ? Which is supposed to be the successor to android ?

I'm surprised to see no mention of that aspect. Did i miss something ?
Reminds me of Victor Hugo's famous quote:

'Melancholy is the happiness of being sad,'

(La mélancolie, c'est le bonheur d'être triste)
He’s being downvoted because the formulation “have no place in average Joe's mind” is a bit ambiguous, it sounds like the poster’s opinion is, that it SHOULD NOT be the concern of the average joe, whereas I think he meant that it is unfortunately not.

Secondly, he may have because of regulations.

Thirdly, “problems are known” without even the slightest precision is pure trolling, that’s just not ok.
For those interested in ships and naval architecture/history, The Lore of Ships by Tre Tryckare is an informative and (to me, at least) beautiful book. As far as I know it is long out of print, but the Internet Archive has a scanned copy for loan [1], and second-hard copies are available from the usual places. The quality of the illustrations in the IA preview is representative of the whole ~280 pages. A fascinating book.

[1] https://archive.org/details/loreofships0000unse
Getting authors to voice their own books could be an incredible use of voice AI only if the author has a good voice, which many don't. Which is why the voiceover industry exists.

Tolkien is very much an exception. He can read greeting cards and I'd be pumped.
It's also shortsighted. You might never develop a taste for high end audio gear. But you certainly will age and die. Unlike many things it's a problem that affects every single one of us.
We were already heading there. Comedy is the most reliable source of truth there is.
Classnames – a site that provides thematically grouped lists of words
> Google has not lowered the amount resources dedicated to Flutter.

What about the recent layoffs from the Flutter & Dart teams?
Even before the current design change, it was almost impossible for me to navigate using Google Maps. With OpenStreetMap, it's easy for me to extract the features of my surroundings:

- The shape and size of houses. Yes, you can see individual buildings in Google Maps, but they are almost indistinguishable from the background.

- It tells me at a glance whether some area is a forest or just a field. Everything's just the same color in Google Maps.

- Streets that I should probably not set a foot on (highways) have a distinct color. This is really bad now with the redesign.

- No problem figuring out if an area is serviced by trams or trains, you see their tracks clearly and don't need to zoom in looking for individual stations. Again you can extract this information from Google Maps if you squint, but tram tracks next to streets are almost invisible.

Especially with this update, prominent colors are given only to streets, which may make sense if you use Google Maps in your car. But as a pedestrian or cyclist, all the other information about my surroundings is much more important to me.
Not sure what you mean. The problem set of machine layout across devices and designs is vast and complicated. There are simpler solutions sets, or solutions that simplify by limiting options, but I'm a staunch defender of CSS as an adequate, even elegant, solution to the entire problem. Again, I believe that CSS is complicated because the problem it attempts to solve is complicated. Every solution that is presented as simpler is simpler because it limits options.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38396526 (13 hours ago, 81 comments)
Weren't they at some point acquired by Docker?
> Tim was a director on Flutter until a few months ago and now works at Apple.
>
> That is, he has first hand knowledge of Flutter's numbers and now that he works for a competitor, no motivation to inflate Flutter's stats.

Being the ex director of a project means you will always have a reason to inflate the stats of that project, even if it is just for personal pride. I don't see how Hickson leaving Google means he doesn't still have part of his work life tied to the project regardless of employer.

> Without getting into specifics (which I cannot share), Flutter is wildly successful in the market place and continues to grow YoY.

That's cool, but this is just more of the same and more of what people seem surprised by. Numbers don't really matter unless they're visible and verifiable.
I do not see these as three major problems, simply because your arguments refer to use cases that very, very few Flutter developers actually care about. Flutter is a native mobile app framework.

I hope they solve the problems above, but it's not really anything that keeps Flutter developers awake at night.
There are definitely steels that lose out to grade 5 Titanium. There are also steels that beat all Titanium grades. It's not so simple to say steel is stronger then Titanium. Some steels are stronger then titanium. Some Titanium grades are stronger then Some steels.
So a few months ago, after a buggy change to a stock update sent to the channel manager (external system for updating pricing and availability of hotel rooms) we lost 21.000 EUR in just 2 hours of the bug being deployed. We exported low season rates (today’s rates) for the higher seasons.

Luckily a human saw the error, when he saw a big flow of reservation coming in at anomalous peace.

From there on, I’m too scared to make changes to the 20-line function that produces the updates to be sent.

We had not a chance to cancel the reservations made through the channels (websites were you book the reservations).
Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun