skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only there was a way to speak to a chat bot first, in order to filter out the 90/99/99.9/99.99% of problems that can be handled efficiently by the automaton, and then transfer to a human being for the most difficult tasks!
> all the money we spend on the dea and other drug enforcement could be instantly recouped. Billions for those d.a.r.e clowns ALONE.

No. That can't happen unless the tax are extremely high which makes black market drugs more competitive. Also it should be perfectly obvious that full legalization would also significantly decrease costs for illegal producers as well.

> But yeah a big portion of money would come from all the idiotic shit we no longer would have to do with drugs legal.

Hard to believe since you don't actually have any figures to show.
> Behind the scenes, codapi-snippet calls a codapi server (either a cloud or self-hosted instance) so it can run any programming language, database or software you've configured.

I'd rather have a flavor of notebooks that work by referencing other notebooks comprising human- and machine-readable specifications that describe those other languages' syntax and semantics and how their execution models work. Look at the way IETF RFCs are crosslinked, for example. With your browser pointed at one of these documents, it traverses all the linked documents and resolves a given cell's results based its working knowledge of the language in that cell. (If you really want to, you can point your server to the same corpus and have it cache some of the processing in order to relieve pressure re compute requirements for the browser, but in principle it should work the same way.)
Have you seen stock photo sites lately? Many of them happily claim they're real photos, too.
> The moment Israel stops before Hamas is destroyed all that will immediately resume.

Without Hamas, all that was in Hebron / E Jerusalem will promptly resume, including apartheid and ethnic cleansing. The latter looks increasingly likely.

> But indiscriminate bombing of Israeli cities

Ceasefire agreements are put in place for a purpose. If pursued earnestly, it can lead to permanent peace (see: Israel-Egypt). Otherwise, if the costs of the on-going war are okay, countries should have at it. Having lived through wars, the costs to me appear rarely justifiable.
> Do you know if Lembke has had much success in treating addiction?

She is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University, and her writing is based on her clinical experience.

I became aware of her via her book Dopamine Nation, which is especially relevant here due to the book’s wider view of addictive behaviors and the role of social media. The book also helped me get through some of my own issues.

> Of course I am simplifying, this is a comment thread and not a dissertation.

The guidelines of this site strongly encourage curiosity and substance over generalizations and simplifications. “I don't have a choice” is one extreme, but there’s a wide spectrum of space to explore between that and “it’s their fault”.

I’d be cautious about just pushing back if you’re directing people towards a mindset that they should be able to just choose something else. This can be just as harmful. The person who doesn’t have the tools to work through their issues is driven to despair wondering what is so broken about them that they can’t overcome the problem. Getting help is often necessary.
I think it's a problem with democracy: there is zero incentive to pursue the truth or get things right. As the decisions of governments rarely have direct immediate consequences for your life there also isn't a fast enough feedback loop to correct your mistakes. By mistakes I mean supporting politicians who don't have your interest in mind not even some higher good or whatever.

In other words there is no reward for seeking the truth or trying to understand various issues and there is no penalty for being a moron. As long as it's the case it's just a war over who gets to have access to the most efficient propaganda machine to get the gullible masses on their side.

I agree it makes sense for the legislators to ensure that's someone local instead of foreign power though. At least they are close enough to the pitchforks if it comes to that.
Cats can too. Zenny Optical sent me a purple laser to show off their UV blocking technology (I guess it blocks a wide spectrum) and my friend's cats go wild for it. I think it's much brighter to their eyes than mine.
Are you more or less of fan of Elon Musk/[ insert billionaire here] taking that job instead?
They did expand on it with "Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk," which I understand to be quite good. Unfortunately it seems like most other paths are ok at best. I'm currently running the Dragonlance adventure, Shadow of the Dragon Queen, and that's very much how I'd describe it: ok. There are some really weird omissions where the game doesn't have info you need to run an encounter as described, and the world-building and information included in the book is woefully inadequate to "color outside the lines" without making up lots of details out of whole cloth. For a book that represents the first Dragonlance adventure in many years, it's a disappointing introduction to the setting.
My journey to IoTs was through home automation, specifically using Home Assistant.

It allows to quickly integrate some hardware through a unified protocol (MQTT, or worst case HTTP) and your van write hardware code easily if you have any dev experience. Or just use ESPHome and YAML.

Coupled with 3D printing you can build near stuff (I will have the surprise of a 3D printer for Christmas :))
This is good news for Figma. They make amazing products and the last thing they need is the Adobe enshitification.

Adobe needs to get their shit together. 15 years ago they were universally loved and now everyone hates them. Their software is super bloated and Creative Cloud runs so much crap in the background even when you're not running any Adobe app and even when you've disabled its background apps in macOS.
I regret to inform you that was released in 2014, almost a decade ago.
Yeah, that's why I'm saying context matters, and it's often up to the court to decide the context
> You cannot deviate from the agenda without getting censored.`

The main difference is that the """agenda""" is a well lit 8 lane highway with the occasional crash in Europe and in Russia/China it's a dark twisty path in a very dense forest with wolves at each bends

But yes sure, Europe is literally a dictatorship, and thousands of people are sent to jail for criticising any arbitrary thing
Shuffling piles is difficult to do in a way that nobody, including the dealer, knows which is which. And it requires more table space. It also requires an additional shuffle of the final deck. If the final shuffle is not good enough you can guess which one was the short suit by looking at the sequence of the dealt cards (the deck was not cut, and the last 2 cards are the same suit? chances are the dealer is bad at shuffling and it's the short suit). Maybe passing a tray with four piles and letting each player to swap two piles without letting other players see which piles were swapped is good enough. But it's still fiddly.

Normal shuffle and discarding face down is easier to explain and faster to do. And it can be done where the table is not available or is not big enough. Starting with a 44-card deck and discarding 5 down to 39 should make it more similar to the original 40-card version, but 39 is not divisible neither by 5 nor by 4, so one player will always be one card short.

Being one card short might not actually be a problem in practice if the game is played across several rounds. It may even add some interest to the game by creating an asymmetry.
completely unexpected. wonder what this means for the long-term future of Adobe. I only see Figma growing in importance from here
It seems that you are indeed conflating the two if you're unable to provide arguments to support your thesis. What you've offered is an opinion colored by your moral judgment. I asked you to identify which of the main fundamentals of fascism lack logic. This request doesn't exceed the scope of an HN comment.
The logic of fascism is grounded in the belief that authoritarian leadership, nationalism, collectivism over individualism, militarism, use of propaganda and mass mobilization are necessary for creating a strong, unified, and powerful nation. It posits that individual freedoms and democratic processes can be sacrificed for the sake of national unity, strength, and revival.
So, I ask again: Where exactly do you see a lack of logic? I'm not seeking a moral judgment about the methods, but a purely logical analysis.
Easy for the company, maybe, but it puts me in the awkward position of having to roleplay with a robot.
Maybe they failed to find a way round the rules? That seems more likely than a spontaneous desire to "do the right thing".
But anti-trust isn't being invented now. It's always existed. Companies already factor in anti-trust risk when doing M&A—it's just hard to quantify the expected value of that risk

If anything, IMHO, we've been too lenient with anti-trust in Tech in particular over the past 5-10 years. This just dials things back a little, and makes it so that "hard to quantify" risk is a little more likely than it was before, and certainly a little more likely than zero

I don't think Adobe / Figma specifically is an "otherwise obvious deal" precisely because it has such obvious anti-trust risk. The fact that this merger was even announced is all the proof I need that we were being too lenient. Figma can still sell to any number of huge Tech companies
This genuinely made me laugh thank you. But no, they're not refreshingly "willing to part ways", just that their extensive legal teams assessed every possible angle to force this through and the big chairs made a call that proceeding in the face of such harsh opposition was going to be too costly.
You talked about symmetric encryption.
One of the car dealers near me purchased a chatbot for their site, which I briefly interacted with the other day out of curiosity. Unlike the one in the article, this one denied being a robot, eventually hanging up on me when I pressed. For a little bit, I found that as long as I was asking it real questions, it would play along.

I found the parent company's site, and was greeted by the same local persona ("but in a different building" than my dealer) offering to tell me about the services they provide.

I don't have a huge problem with useful chatbots (which these weren't), but I do have a problem with them outright lying about their nature. I can vote with my dollars on companies that still employ human support, but I think we're in trouble if we don't have to identify AI being used.
Here the line breaks after the 30 minutes and good luck with next try
Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets
Ouch. That house needs a new roof ASAP to halt the rain and snow.
Yes, it required me to chat with a bot to do the process. It could have been a form but some of the choices for which recalled products and how many of each recalled product would have likely made the form rather convoluted.

Chat bots like this, where basically they're executing a wizard type questionnaire seem totally reasonable to me. It's approachable to a wide audience, only asks you one question at a time in a clear way, and can easily be executed on a mobile device or normal computer.
Gmail adds more prominent 'Unsubscribe' button on the web
What’s net new about this? It has been the case for decades that if you try to sell to the only major competitor that it could be blocked under antitrust.
I didn't know Figma was going bankrupt, is it?
> beloved independent Figma wouldn't exist.

Are you saying that the business of "we make a thing and we ask for money from our users for said thing" model cannot work?

> Why would anyone go worth at a small company for equity if there's no chance to get liquidity? Why would investors invest?

Presumably because they hope the company become successful and it sells many licences and they get a share from that pile of money.
This exactly. When someone offers you $20B, it's hard to turn it down. In Adobe's case, $20B is a bargain price to stifle a competitor.

Even if Figma founders didn't want to sell, all the VCs and other investors would force the hand.
Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
But now you're stuck with a Chevy Tahoe.... the jokes on you! :-D
You forgot "On DealDash.com"
Yet here you are, criticising them with absolutely 0 fear of any kind of repercussion, and you could be 100 times harsher and still expect nothing wrong happening
"AI" prompts have been used for a long, long time in hospital call centers to help diagnose and treat by phone. But I think a crucial distinction is those call centers are staffed by RNs so there's enough expertise to help know when the system goes off the rails.
Ephemeral CI environments using ttl.sh and Gitness
I don't think of my "home" country as my "home", and I don't feel that about most places I have lived in, but I don't and haven't littered anywhere. Maybe people who feel that "earth" is their home don't litter?

I don't know.

Actually, I think the default is not to. I can't imagine why anyone would.
Illumina to Abandon Acquisition Battle for Cancer Test Developer GRAIL
Illumina has announced its plan to sell Grail, a cancer test developer, following a federal appeals court decision upholding the FTC's antitrust ruling against their $7.1 billion acquisition deal in 2021. This move comes after both U.S. and European Union regulators opposed the acquisition, citing concerns about diminished innovation and market competition. The sale of Grail, a company known for its early cancer detection technology, will occur through a 3rd party sale or capital market transaction.
For me, it’s a combination of reading, more reading, and often re-reading to squeeze out more understanding or to be thorough. at first, idk when too much is too much because i have no domain knowledge on the subject. Then it’s using the knowledge to explain it to someone else or use it in a work project.
Recently in Brooklyn I saw a Little Caesars box littered on the street, so I looked it up. The nearest Little Caesars was 3 miles away. Who is transporting that frankly fast-food-quality pizza that distance in the city?!
This reminds me of an attempt when spammers tried (and still trying, but not as often as before) to poison antispam bayes filters with all sorts of garbage in email. The result is that filters became even more powerful over time.
They don't sell the paper version directly, but you can get it in reams from any office supply store.
Agreed. But in the western media they are not depicted as similar to the CCP. Maybe because compared to CCP they are terrible at it. At least the Chinese policies gave rise to homegrown giants like Baidu, Alibaba and more recently Bytedance.
If they are using GPT (They most likely are) you can report them as this goes against OpenAI's terms of service.
"Jarvis" is a trademark of Marvel, so that name will definitely not work. https://trademarks.justia.com/862/94/jarvis-86294162.html
so true : The process is likely to look ugly to bystanders, and include a lot of splash and noise that doesn't obviously advance progress.
The study you linked is about efficacy. It did not research the underlying medical reason why it helps.
Have to admit, my first reading missed the word “or”, and both AT&T and Comcast came immediately to mind.
Do you mean something like zk based social media?
However, product innovation doesn't happen without competition. Acquisitions aren't necessarily bad, but a company being bought by a competitor with a similar product lessens competition and can lead to less innovation.
Yes. Your quote is an example of the exact ideology that leads to Standard Oil and company towns.
10000 years ago, litter often contained seeds that could sprout into new plants. Perhaps this habit could be a vestige of those times?
You did. Daily limits is a silly idea that's trivial to workaround (effectively users will just end up paying markup on anything above the 'daily limit').
If only there was a way to quickly bypass the chatbot when you knew you had a problem that needed a human.

But it was almost the same before chatbots. You got a human, but it was a human that had a script, and didn't have authority to depart from it. You had to get that human to get to the end of their script (where they were allowed to actually think), or else you had to get them to transfer you to someone who could. It was almost exactly like a chatbot, except with humans.
> pitch it as "the next Adobe" or "something Adobe might want to buy"? Which one would you be more likely to invest in?

I get your point, but that is not really the right framing because that is not how to pitch your startup.

Tell me what it does, what its long term vision is, how and by when you’ll make money, what’s your moat, how you will grow.
Schröder working in Rosneft and Gazprom is certainly just a coincidence.
Bad players from X can't fine and jail you.

This is why the state determining the truth is so dangerous.
I think you are looking for denaturing. Some claim it denatures the proteins causing the itch. I can at least verify that for me it cuts down healing time but I do need to re-apply it a few times.
The EU has separation of powers. I don’t see the European Commission (who opened the present proceedings) listed as an advertiser under your link. And ultimately it is the judicial branch who will decide.
Thankfully iCloud, Dropbox, and a dozen similar services with automatic upload capability exist?

0.5kg or less drones with rotor guards are A-OK as well in most locales.

Carry concealed where possible.
Crazy how this site becomes anti-anything any time Elon or any of his business gets criticized. Thanks to Elon, Twitter has turned into a disinformation-as-a-service platform for maga and foreign actors. But the eu should just watch its population be turned into conspiracy following zombies, and do nothing?

Hmmm, I wonder who benefits from this.
The ones I encounter (on robo-calls to my cell phone) seem to be cheap IVR programs that march happily along through inconsequential answers.
There is no way a company Adobe's size should ever be allowed to grow by acquisition. At a certain point that route needs to be cut off forever.
I agree that there are such fact-free postings here. Since we can't downvote the post, the best thing to do is link a previous/substantiated posting (if available) and discussion thread.

I'm guessing that the upvotes aren't necessarily for the article quality but rather agreement with the title and wanting to have a discussion.
A lot of gaming headsets come with proprietary USB dongles and their own wireless standards.

I've used both HyperX and Steelseries headsets that have much better audio with the mic on that my more expensive Bose headset does.
Fireworks so elegantly captured the vector level control along with bitmap effects like Photoshop!
True I wasn't adding the additional income from private sponsors, his cloud kitchens, his chocolate bars and the translation service business because you have to consider the platform revenue must be valuable for a buyer too because once Mr.Beast sells his channel there is no guarantee that the private sponsors will still continue with the same arrangements.

Thats the nature of creator economy, his(creator) actions can influence audience reactions towards the channel, affecting the organic revenue drastically.
If anything I feel the urge of cleaning up, even after other people, not littering.

The beach is one of these places where as I'm leaving I clean my entire area and even leftovers from other people and put them in the trash bin.
I think that's a very simplified view of all of it.

Customer service has to be different levels of help tools. And current AI tools must be tested first in order for us to be able to improve them.

You have limited resources for Customer Support, so it's good to have filtering systems in terms of Docs, Forms, Search, GPT in front of the actual Customer Support.

To many questions a person will find an answer much faster from the documentation/manual itself than calling support. To many other types of questions it's possible LLM will be able to respond much more quickly and efficiently.

It's just a matter of providing this optimal pathway.

You don't have to think of Customer Support LLM as the same thing as a final Sales Agent.

You can think of it as a tool, that should have specialized information fed into it using embeddings or training and will be able to spend infinite time with you, to answer any stupid questions that you might have. I find I have much better experience with Chatbots, as I can drill deep into the "why's" which might otherwise annoy a real person.
Binary memory protection measures on Windows OS
I was always told that folks who litter don’t have ownership. It’s not theirs so they’ll mistreat it.
This is nothing compared to Guyana. Trash is stacked up on the outer edge of the ocean. Beautiful sea view. https://www.google.com/search?q=guyana+seawall+litter&source...
The more I use and see GPT bots in the wild as public-facing chatbots, the less I see them actually being useful.

What's the solution here? An intermediate classifier to catch irrelevant commands? Seems wasteful.

It's almost like the solution needs to be a fine-tuned model that has been trained on a lot of previous customer support interactions, and shut down/redirect anything strange to a human representative.

Then I ask, why bother using a GPT? It has so much loaded knowledge that is detrimental to it's narrow goal.

I'm all for chatbots, as a lot of questions & issues can be resolved using them very quickly.
I've seen a lot of false posts on X. Most of them were corrected by Community Notes.
They do the same with sex-affirming surgery on babies when they are born with two or "undetermined" sexual organs (intersex). In many cases the "subject" (because that's how they are treated) ends with non-functional and painful mutilation which would not have happened if left alone. Instead, they could have then decided what to do later, on their own and with a lot less negative effects later in life. Edit: a link to what I am talking about https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-...
Musk didn't buy the company to make it gel with its previous positioning, for better or for worse. But I agree, it will be interesting if Twitter manages to retain any of the large advertisers, and if how they plan to become profitable again.
I find littering almost physically painful and I seriously thank Captain Planet for that.
Makes sense, sorry... I hate PowerShell tbh. I just googled/ChatGPT'd that!
> Patent trolling. Domain flipping. Just two I can think of in 30 seconds, I'm sure there are more out there :)

In the vast sea of companies, those are a super teeny tiny share of companies.
I don't doubt you, but it clearly wasn't enough of an investment in cybersecurity for the UK's flagship, national library to be knocked offline for months with no end in sight.

This is less about the pay of any individual working there, but a culture of underinvestment which the UK public sector has been undergoing for the past 15 years.
Yes that’s “no different from China or Russia.” Notorious for putting out public statements in contradiction to other people’s statements!
Oh so that’s why the acronym is AGI..
If I had to pick between me and the robber being armed or both of us being unarmed I'd go for the later.

The first time I got robbed. Probably the second. By the third or fourth time though I'd be leaning more towards needing that to stop and less towards the worry about needing to shoot someone over a stolen T.V. or getting shot in turn.
Scouting – A Technique for Settling Pair Programming Disputes
It wouldn't be so bad if people were taught during their childhood how to not pee on their hands in the process.