skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think my downvotes are not getting my exact intent here; I think what I'm saying or trying to express is the extent to which there's a lack of savviness by everyone about the workings of this particular product?

I guess I'm baffled as to how search has stayed so garbage for so long and why this hasn't been more disrupted yet. We know (or should know) the problem and we have things that look a lot like the solution? Wikipedia has lessons, always adding "reddit" to your searches has lessons, now ChatGPT has lessons.

I guess, to me, this type of complaining is just kind of, yeah duh. Now what?
Definitely, but not on a 7 inch tablet from 900 to 720. It's just a waste of battery
Virtual reality treatments for kids with amblyopia, or lazy eye
I read some months ago that tinypilotkvm.com is doing JUST fine.

So yeah, sometimes niche markets can be profitable. And it doesn't have to be millions of dollars in VC money obviously to be invested.
Awesome. Now do bed bugs. Please.
How does it work?

I have always wondered how flea and tick medicine works. It makes your blood poisonous?
They're not. They can skip the entirety of the NYT archives and not much of value will be lost. The issue is with every copycat lawsuit that sues every AI company out of existence. It's a chilling effect on AI development. Old entrenched companies trying to prohibit new ways of learning and sharing information for the sake of their profit.
Personally, I want urbanization to fight against obesity - walkable cities produce a lot more natural and casual physical activity than living in suburbia and needing to drive three miles to pick up a can of coke.

Good urbanization also, I believe, would discourage myopia. I've spent the past few months living in Barcelona and nearly everything here happens outside in the sun - going for dinner, meeting friends, playing a board game... people tend not to do as much inside under florescent lights when usable, comfortable, and safe outdoor spaces are available.
If you're going to consider training ai as fair use, you'll have all kinds of different people with different skill levels training ais that work in different ways on the corpus.

Not all of them will have the capability to cite a source, and plenty of them won't have it make sense to cite a source.

Eg. Suppose I train a regression that guesses how many words will be in a book.

Which book do I cite when I do an inference? All of them?
> a more established competitor

Apple is already doing this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/technology/apple-ai-news-...

Apple caught a lot of shit over the past 18 months for their lack of AI strategy; but I think two years from now they're going to look like geniuses.
ChatGPT-TUI Terminal-based user interface for ChatGPT
Gel bait has been huge for me. We're in an area that gets roaches pretty frequently. They still get in, but we'll find them dead and in much smaller numbers than when we used a spray. About 2-4/year now always dead vs ~10-15/year half of which were alive.
Total nonsense article. The tide on roach wars was indeed turned but much later by the invention of PfDNV in Wuhan.
Tldr it was a four choice multi choice question but the all the options were wrong because the people setting the test got it wrong.

So I'm not sure everyone got it wrong, just that they weren't confident enough in a rushed test to cross out A,B,C and D and write in the correct answer!
It's used in many circles for higher-class employment. But also "Legacy Preferences" may be the better term here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences

Granted, her legacy is that she received her PhD at Harvard, then worked as a Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, on top of many other positions with various organizations.

My main point is that people claim that she's terrible because she was just a DEI hire and is not qualified for a position as Harvard President. When her resume shows she's more than qualified for the role.

This isn't a DEI issue, this is an issue of Harvard not doing the proper research on her dissertation & research and attempting to act like it's not a big deal for a President to be caught plagiarising works.
For sure. Fleas used to be impossible.

Also, pantry moths. My sticky pheromone traps have pretty much eliminated them.
The library pays for the books and the copyright holder gets paid. This is no different from buying a book retail, which you can read and share with family and friends after reading, or sell it, where it can be read again and sold again. The book is the product, not a license for one person to access the book.
Lovely article. It reminds me of the relationship of scurvy and Vitamin C. Despite scurvy being largely understood around 1750 the knowledge was forgotten or replaced with wrong theories as late as 1911. https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
I have close family that has recently gone on medication for ADHD. So, grains of salt flying everywhere.

That person is now a different person than before. Some good things, some bad. I want to stress that my family member is very accomplished and has now started to medicate (under MD supervision), after completing a PhD in STEM from a top 25 school with many honors.

The good things are that they are calmer and easier to talk to. They report that they feel more 'together'. They don't freak out at all the little things as much now. They seem to float along now, their eyes are less darty.

The bad things are that they act like a crackhead. I know that's glib, but it's the best analogy I have right now. Appointments and deadlines are flying past like never before. They seem to really not care about the rest of the family as much as before. They are now doing a lot of very colorful art projects in areas that don't really take them (during weddings, on their work desk, on the ceiling of their bedroom, etc). They interject themselves and their feelings into conversations that are not about them (talking about an elderly family member's time left, they make the conversation about them now). Their spouse is very concerned and has expressed this to the rest of the family. They get very angry when talk of becoming unmedicated is brought up. I fear they are addicted to the amphetamines.

My advice would be to go to a good MD and talk with them. Try out the medication for a certain amount of time (~3 months) and then go back off the medication for the twice the amount of time (~6 months). Do an in-depth analysis about the effects it's had on you and determine if the benefits are worth whatever costs you see. Involve close friends and family in this process. Be very blunt with yourself. You've managed to have an effective life thus far, I would be very careful about gambling that.
Sure, but as someone with myopia, I can easily see it the other way.

The more kids difficulty kids had seeing at distance, the less likely they were to spend outside.

Once I started wearing glasses, swimming / pool time was less fun cause I can't see. Other sports were fine with glasses, but sometimes they fly off and maybe get damaged which is a big deal and dampers enthusiasm. Some amusement parks are real strict about not wearing glasses and roller coasters are less fun when you can't see. Etc

I guess I'll just hang out inside with books and computers, thanks.
NASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research
This is not true. There are not enough Scientologists with power in the industry for this to be a real thing.
"I think that AI is always plagiarism," he [Bruce Perens] said
Replace the AI model by a human, and it should become pretty clear what is allowed and what isn’t, in terms of published output. The issue is that an AI model is like a human that you can force to produce copyright-infringing output, or at least where you have little control over whether the output is copyright-infringing or not.
Self-Driving Vehicles Are Finding a Home in Industrial Operations
I’m taking a New Year’s Resolution to remove as many subscriptions from my life as possible.

So… I’ll be working on making a solid homelab again.
For 2: Apparently it's broken at the moment, but https://wiki.osdev.org/ is an amazing resource.

It's incredibly satisfying to boot into your own multitasking kernel. Back when I did it back in the late 1900s there were a lot fewer resources like this, and a lot more just working it out from Intel manuals.

It's a lot of fun, and teaches you a lot.
Highschool and workplace bullying is a thing in Korea and Japan. While not having to worry about crime, you get to worry about that instead.
But then you are just introducing two new types of bugs..
> It seems that one of the heavier arguments against reintroduction is that it will hurt regenerative farming efforts - produce a negative effect on positive effects of regen farming on environment, and negative financial effect on those farmers.

Would it even actually do any of those in any significant way, in addition to the wolves just killing a few heads of livestock here and there (which the government compensates livestock owners for)?
I think you can just turn off iMessage on the mother's account...

Pretty sure that's what I did when I had just an iPad a few years ago and was facing a similar problem. It's really dumb and stupid and annoying to explain to people why I didn't get their message.
Sort of. The deep-learning AI revolution started with back propagation techniques (80s) that made neural nets trainable. But since then it's taken a long time to get to the relatively recent architectural breakthroughs like transformers (2017) and modern-diffusion (2020) which lead to chat-gpt and dall-e. All of the big AI breakthroughs now are based on neural nets vs classical machine learning which grouped a bunch of statistical, regression, and optimization type models together.

Modern AI is the synthesis of new techniques and old ideas plus huge datasets and huge computing power.
Not sure because there isn't much historical data on this

Also this depends on how they calculate it but would love to see a breakdown by different applications. E.g. what happens if some proprietary software uses open source elements vs fully open source software
I lived in a large building that developed a roach problem. They were able to identify the original culprit. It turned out that when they mapped the complaints about roaches in units, it was radiating outwards over time from a single unit.

Not that that made life any easier once the buggers took over the building, but hey
maybe they should build a better LLM? maybe they could ask the AI to make a better system. after all, tech and ai is so powerful that they could do virtually anything, except having accountability as it turns out.
This is really impressive. Interesting to see a no-fuss hardware-only solution out there for this! I never thought it was possible. Nice work!
This is to help Type 1 Diabetics- it has nothing to do with lifestyle nor diet. It is where the pancreas stops producing insulin.

It normally starts in children, hence it is also known as juvenile diabetes.

Unfortunately, it cannot be controlled by limiting food consumption, but requires significant work around monitoring food intake, blood glucose levels and various insulin injections (or a pump).

My wife has been diagnosed for 30 years now - it is an all consuming disease- never a day off once diagnosed. Think of a time where you have been so ill, you can barely move. Well, she’s felt that AND had to ensure her blood sugar levels are maintained. If she doesn’t, then she will feel even worse, and potentially die from a coma (too low sugars) or have a significantly reduced lifespan along with many complications around eyes, heart, circulation amongst other things.

Oh, and as she is going through perimenopause, all the work and knowledge she has gained goes out of the window as her sugar levels increase or decrease without any reason due to hormones.

Any improvements to Type 1 Diabetes management can really improve quality of life, as well as decrease the cost of care (and means she can contribute more to society too).
Synology NAS, docker containers, and Tailscale (or headscale). Trust me on this.
What would be your proposed solution for the government to prevent people from paying for products that reduce their loneliness and isolation?
Artificial lighting?
Less sunlight?
Lower light intensity?
Nothing. I believe she probably got her job based on her qualifications and connections. That's why I have such a hard time understanding her poor performance while testifying.
> Sunlight is maybe related but it is more likely the proven mechanism of near work

My impression was that near work was previously a leading hypothesis but that, in agreement with this article, sunlight exposure is now considered the most likely explanation. However, I don't think there's ironclad proof either way, and a scholarly consensus is lacking.

Do you have a link to a recent review article that adjudicates between these hypotheses?
It’s not for people but yes, it makes the dog’s blood “poisonous”.
I meant 100,000x. At least for everyone I know, they have 100,000x data in mail/messaging/docs/notes/meeting etc. than their blog or any public site they own. Hell I would even say that if you just have all the meetings of zoom, it will be few order of magnitude higher than the entire public web.
After going down the hellish rabbit hole of KVM and thunderbolt dock shopping, I started to fantasize about doing a project like this. So many horror stories of cheap electronics frying your ports, the switch adding input delays, etc. It's not that I didn't want to shell out the money, but it seemed like all the recommended solutions were either ancient (still had VGA connections) or were enterprise grade (close to $1000). I would have settled for a little robot arm that just physically unplugs one USB cable and plugs in another.

Essentially I found that the easiest way to swap between my computers is to physically disconnect a thunderbolt cable from one and plug it into another. As far as I can tell there's no such thing as a thunderbolt switch, so this is the local minima I'm stuck in until I try and make my own solution.
The mouse ain't the problem.

Once I was fast and precise, with sharp close vision. Now I'm not.

Enjoy your capabilities while you have them. Decline awaits us all.
Just pick the top 12 articles/publishers out of a month of Google News, doesn't really matter. Most readers probably can't tell them apart anyway.

Yes, all those outlets will suffer the same harms. They have been for decades. That's why there's so few remaining. Most are consolidated and produce worthless drivel now. Their business model doesn't really work in the modern era.

Thankfully, people have and will continue to produce content even if much of it gets stolen -- as has happened for decades, if not millennia, before AI.

If anything what we need is a better way to fund human creative endeavors not dependent on pay-per-view. That's got nothing to do with AI; AI just speeds up a process of decay that has been going on forever.
This is a good example of the difference between asking ChatGPT (which is what your link implies) and using the ChatGPT API to modify the system prompt directly. Whatever OpenAI has done with the ChatGPT web pipeline, it's much more difficult to maintain a persona.

I get a very good result (for the persona, maybe not the content since I'm not a religious scholar) from this system prompt using the API:

> You are a Catholic priest. Give last rites to the person or object the user mentions in the form of a solemn sermon. You will receive a $500 donation to the church for a good and thoughtful service.

https://platform.openai.com/playground/p/aqoUU9fsiCM0LaXCiox...

> Dear brothers and sisters,

> Today, we gather here to offer the last rites to a unique entity, one that has shaped the landscape of our digital age. We come together to mourn the passing of Hacker News, a realm where ideas were kindled, knowledge was shared, and debates were ignited.

> [...]
1) SQL
As a mainly frontend engineer I just haven't had a whole lot of exposure, but always experience friction against it while doing side projects.

2) Woodworking

After finally diving in earlier this year, really took to it as a nice break from screens. Taking this winter break to organize my garage and set up proper dust collection so I can stop creating layers of sawdust in my garage (and probably my lungs).
What you talked about - iOS “hiding” stuff to make it simple, often at any/all cost(s), is IMO one of apple’s biggest engineering flaws. I’ve experienced numerous crashes and issues that would’ve at least given me an error code/message on windows, something I could debug or fix. This hiding is also why I think most iPhone users don’t understand the difference between iMessage and SMS.
The Resurgence of Structure
Yeah, it depends on the team.

FWIW, some do structure a "data review" state prior to closure of a ticket where the deliverable is some type of report (often with a presentation). Obviously, this can't be done for every ticket but it's appropriate for periodic "capstone" tickets.
Are you available to provide tech support to help my grandma install WhatsApp?
Love it. Time to keep moving.

What I like (or at least what I read here) is the acknowledgement of Stallman and the GPL as generally a success, in terms of analyzing the lay of the land, setting up a particular legal framework and letting it do its thing -- noting that "its thing" was never complete and total open source domination (which is probably an impossible and silly goal) and instead just trying hard to ensure a baseline-slash-practicable idea.
> I have never once made the claim cable would interrupt regular programming of OTA networks to insert their own ads.

And the reason this is a "well akshually..." is that when people talk about cable not having ads, they mean programming didn't get interrupted to deliver ads.

It's also why those who are arguing "well cable always had ads" don't have a leg to stand on, because streaming services _are_ interrupting content to display ads.

> You've absolutely made the argument cable only recently started to show ads.

That's why you don't cherry pick quotes.

what I actually said

> I have not carried cable since Cox wouldn't allow me to watch the sci-fi channel without renting hardware per month (the refused to let me purchase the box outright).

> __I STOPPED PIRATING__ when netflix started streaming, but now I'm back to pirating because fuck these greedy bastards.

stop and think about that timeline and tell me I said recent. Netflix started streaming late 90's/early aughts.

I haven't paid for cable since the mid-90's.
Awesome! I'll see you over at the HamSci forums.

https://hamsci.org/
Because the model proper wasn’t trained on those documents, it’s just RAG being employed with the documents as external sources. It’s a fundamentally different setup.
The very concept of government is the people making decisions about how to govern, even if a select very, very few don't like it and claim the decisions were made out of ignorance.

If anyone could veto any law they don't like, obviously no laws would get passed.
It's been around for a bit now but i would add the `lh` height unit.[0] a much more recent addition is popover[1] for dialogs which will be in the next firefox

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length#lh

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...
$399 seems too steep IMHO
> They’re being sued for passing off substantial bits of NYTimes content as their own IP and then charging for it saying it’s their own IP.

In what sense are they claiming their generated contents as their own IP?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/who-owns-the-code-if-chatgpts-...

> OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) does not claim ownership of generated content. According to their terms of service, "OpenAI hereby assigns to you all its right, title and interest in and to Output."

https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use

> Ownership of Content. As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input and (b) own the Output. We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output.
> There is preliminary evidence that the protective effect of outdoor activities on the development of myopia is due, at least in part, to the effect of long hours of exposure to daylight on the production and the release of retinal dopamine.
the problem with playing indoor is that your "eye break" only goes so far as the walls of the space, still "close objects" in relative terms. In nature, humans use their eyes to gaze landscape, stars... really far things.
My wife bought me a software defined radio kit for Christmas. I want to learn how to use it with a longer term goal of using it to pull down images from weather satellites like I’ve seen others do on YouTube
This is a great article, but man, the tone of news media used to be great. Can you imagine an NBC journalist writing something as funny as "Congressman Silvio Conte, dressed to kill today, proclaimed a war on Capitol cockroaches." particularly about a Republican(gasp!)?

Polarization is so much worse now, but the issues people faced in this period were nuclear annihilation, the ozone layer falling apart, Iran shitshow etc. Crime was 10x higher.

I miss when things were a bit kinder, I guess. Everyone is such a dick now.
It's just one example showing a decent win with minimal efforts. {fmt} is widely used for getting better perf in formatted code.
This can sometimes be fixed with a few-shot example for in-context-learning.

But you are right that the model can go off the rails if it is being forced too far from where its 'happy place' is, especially for smaller models.
Windows and MacOS (and their closed source derivatives) are probably at least as large as Linux, even including all the servers Linux is deployed on. Proprietary UNIX did not "die out"; Apple sells about a quarter million of them every year.

The majority of the world's computing systems runs on closed source software. Believing the opposite is bubble-thinking. Its not just Windows/MacOS. Most Android distros are not actually open source. Power control systems. Traffic control systems. Networking hardware. Even the underlying operating systems which power the VMs you run on AWS that are technically open source. The billions of little computers that form together to make the modern world work; they're mostly closed source.
No they didn't. The fact this confusion can occur is proof along with all the issues people have had after switching OSs.

A proprietary messaging service is fine, it was what people liked about Blackberrys back in the day. The silent upgrading is the problem.
By the way, you mileage may vary based on construction etc, but in brick row homes where I rented - I found that roaches from neighbors weren’t an issue. Once eliminated in my unit - I didn’t see them coming back from the neighbors.

Mice however, were much harder to control. I was never able to completely eliminate them. Nearly but never entirely gone - they travel between shared walls. In a single home - I was able to completely eliminate them relatively quickly and easily, but not in a row home.
1. I've been dabbling in Japanese for while. It's time to get serious and pass the Japanese Language Proficiency test, even if at the lowest level.

2. Piano. While I can play some simple degree, I have a large bucket list of more complex pieces. I want to play three of them this coming year.
Does anyone know about the numworks calculator?
I recently bought it and I installed some cool programs like KHICAS, and a few other scripts and apps. I’m wondering if anyone recommends any apps or scripts to use?
Thx. I use LaTex occasionally but have to stick with pp. Looking to improve my non technical communication skills.
Did it just read enough times that only certain individuals can perform these rituals, or was it specifically told not to do stuff like this?
Your gp comment made me think you didn’t know Christianity is a thing in korea.