skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDuckGo (and by extension perhaps Bing, assuming identical upstream results) has some terrible results when trying to filter by all kinds of domains.

There's a power tools review/news site that returns zero hits for the actual domain when searching its name (which is the same as its .com address). While for some domains even searching using the `site:` parameter will give far fewer results when paired with a query than just searching the domain name + query sans the TLD (the router firmware site openwrt.org is among such).

It's a mess and reporting it hasn't any difference ime in the past 3 years. So I'd be reluctant to say irrelevant results are due to censorship unless there was more evidence.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus
I don't disagree with your assessment in full, but I don't exactly consider wikipedia and Amazon good results. Like they are big enough that if that's the result I want I can go to them directly. So like they aren't bad or wrong, but I can see the case for excluding them. Should something like Webster's dictionary be a top result?
Is there any theorem that puts limits on how irregular the cycles can be in a general case of tape length L with N options corresponding to N outputs from each graph node?

What has to be constant is the cycle length for (node, tape instruction #) pairs, because all the state to determine every future step is based on the current node and tape position; if both are the same, the path will be the same as before. I think, at least without advanced math, the only thing to rely on for "true" loops is identical pairs of (instr #, node), not just instr # or tape steps or node individually.
My adblock on Firefox works seamlessly (0s downtime) and I dread the idea of having to navigate YouTube on any other browser.
I would argue that the analogy rests on an incomplete consideration of the dimensions of the matter. Such tools amplified a worker’s inherent utility. The name given to the new tool reflects its nature: processor of words. Whose words? The typist. “Other peoples’ words processor” vs “word processor”.

More generally, AI introduces yet another systemic mechanism for wealth extraction by the wealthy. The wealth here is creative power of the !wealthy. More sinister than the grand larceny by a thousand minor borrowings is the fact that meaning, ideals, motivating energy to move masses is taken away from the candidate pool — anyone of us can be the next demagogue, it’s not too late yet — which may include genuine thought leaders are going to be buried by the electric demagogue working for the proverbial man. “We need to hire more copyrighters for our propaganda using these ‘word processors’” becomes “Who could resist the onslaught of “our” creative efforts? Surrender now Dorothy.”

tldr:

Humanity has reached the absolute limit of the utility of ancient means of governance. New technology demands that we comprehensively review socio-economic order in society. Failure to do so will gift the current “winning” players in the ‘zero-sum-game’ of the du jour regime near guarantee of perpetual habitation in their very very special social perch.

“Think of the children”
> Something I'm unsure about is what does and doesn't trigger wars.

Probably more in the 'emotions' camp than in the 'concrete facts' camp, even if no one wants to admit it.
How do you deal with dynamically/contextually generated content? And how about paywalls and login-required content?
I think for single word queries like that Wikipedia covers more ground than a dictionary. Personal preference, perhaps. If I need a definition I search for "define dildo" (Kagi shows Merriam-Webster, Oxford, etc dictionary entries).
It bans the ability for them to block or reroute network requests. Some adblockers might still work on some sites, but it'd mostly be an aesthetic feature. Your browser is still receiving the data, your network is still clogged, and websites are still slower.
Try uBlacklist, it's like uBlock, but for search results.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmia...

You can sync the settings and your personal blocklist to either Dropbox or Google Drive. It also has the ability to subscribe to blocklists. Mind, you need to manually turn on search engines and subscribe to lists. The uBlacklist subscriptions setting doesn't have any built-in feeds yet though. :(

edit: THere are some feeds on the uBlacklist site though. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/subscriptions

edit edit: Found an even better list of feeds.
https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter#other-fi...
Cool, is it opensource?

gpt4?
Marginalia Search isn't trying to be a universal knowledge engine, it's just a website finder.

That's bad if you're looking for a simple answer or basic fact, and good if you're looking for a few hours of reading.
The Vietnamese didn't need active participation from China or the USSR to win. It was seen as a war of independence, with a popular Northern Vietnamese government and a US puppet South Vietnam government, whose soldiers were unmotivated. The South Vietnam government only lasted as long as it did because of US assistance.
I recommend also saving up some money for your legal defense when your bike ends up killing some old, deaf person with heart problems :)
Verilog or VHDL, so I can get an open source chip made in the Google Shuttle. A systolic array of 4x4 bit latched LUTs

How to best use GitHub CoPilot to build the tools to use said chip. (I've already got the emulator for it built, and working, in Pascal)

Enough C to fix all the issues with mStoical, a fork of a linux port of the STOIC language.

The new laws of physics I expect to show up next year as the existing ones are falsified by experiment.
More relevant to the ongoing attack:

> “The Yemeni position is clear,” Abdullah Ben Amer, a high-ranking Houthi official in a department that is part of the group’s defense ministry, told The New York Times. The Houthi escalation in the Red Sea will stop, he said, when “the Israeli war on the people of Gaza stops.”
High level scrabble play isn’t a greedy algo to get the most points every turn with the best words. Positioning around bonuses matters more.
Completely disregarding which president is in office, I always thought the paradoxical way to minimise war is to ensure you have a credible threat of retaliation. That means if you are attacked, you must fight back, otherwise your credibility falls and you become more of a target, thus emboldening adversaries and increasing violence.
This (and squeak, Pharo) seem to run fantastic in squeakjs on an Android phone. But the resolution/zoom level is unusable - and three button mouse is tricky on touch.

Any efforts to make a) usable dev images to run on iphone/android via squeakjs, and b) tooling to develop single purpose apps that could run on phones, tablets and desktop via squeakjs/the browser?
The main reason that an omnidirectional treadmill would be better is that you would be physically moved during acceleration and deceleration.

I suspect these shoes feel more like walking on ice.
> Very few people are needed to run the technology elements of these businesses

Have you used AWS before? The complexity of the site alone should tell you this side of the business would need more than a "very few" people to run it. And that's just their web services side, never mind retail.
Interesting, I'll check it out! :)
I don’t think the no source control is fundamentally the issue. Change control is the issue. Eg in CAD I quite like onshape’s “Versions and History”.
Turns out somethings will always be a monopoly - you eont get to have multiple roads or power lines to your home. Somethings are natural monopolies and turns out in those cases it’s better to have a Goverment provider a service with the objective or serving community/people then a company who’s only goal is maximizing profit.

Also turns out that competition doesn’t always lead to the best outcomes for a society see healthcare in America vs the rest of the world or that we are speed running the world into a climate disaster
You are naive if you believe they have zero political bias
I've had very similar experiences working with former researchers including at a university spinout. Mechanical rather than CS. It was perplexing how they still carried the elitism that industry was mostly for people who can't hack it in academia given the quality of their work. Would be unacceptable coming from a new hire PD engineer at Apple yet you're demanding respect because you used to lead a whole lab apparently producing rubbish?
Pretty much all talks by Rich Hickey, Sandy Metz, Russ Olsen.

All these have the trifecta of important subject + essential concepts + brilliant teacher.

Russ Olsen’s talk about the U.S. moon landing program is one of my favorites. His childlike excitement and amazing storytelling get me every time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3XwpSKqNZw
thanks for outlining these points.

I didn't know about their fair use policy. I planned to keep having Cloudflare as CDN fronting storage.
You know of another S3 compatible store without fair use policy?

On the minimum days duration policy. If one has a public application backed by Wasabi, this is hard to predict. Time we show.

After all, maybe calculate in the cost of a platform like Cloudflare to create a proper business plan. Wasabi seems uncertain in terms of being really that cheap on the long run (for certain use cases).
There are a few obstacles that have been deliberately put in place since it's a protocol that allows for relatively cheap pirating, not to mention, p2p might bypass content controllers, as such we've all familiar with protect the kids angle that is used to try and stifle p2p protocols such as bit-torrent.

But in the last few years I think it's the presence of cheap CDN data that has seen some web sites wind back sharing their files via torrent as an option, as well as the idea of being able to better track their data being a benefit to them, and of course moves to allow for the collection of more tracking data, some sites or content providers have found appealing too.

With so many sites sharing data, though free, most just opt for seamless redirection, and quietly supply the data from the original cdn. I would guess this might be for legal issues, as such supplying the same via a torrent might land them in legal hot water.

Then there's the issue of how a web site chooses to serve torrent data if no one else is seeding, such as using "get right" which not all torrent clients support.

The final straw I think is the nag of incomplete data as a means to force sharing by some torrent servers. Good idea if the pool of users is plentiful, but if it's an old file that most people are done with it, it's a problem. A few years ago I recall a bunch of files I needed, I had to find another support area that did it the old fashioned way with http and ftp.

I think what is required for to grow the adoption of torrent again, is a better implementation of serving files from the host site, such as a module that incorporates something like aria2c, that could serve torrents, but also access files from a hidden https / ftp area.
Honor, Symbols and War touches on the topic of how an event becomes symbolic.
> You appear to assume that current "AI" is able to "understand" and "think". What makes you so sure?

"To understand" and "to think" are two very different things. Understand means more or less to encode and compress effectively from a perspective of such a system - there's quite a bit of evidence that they do that.

As for "thinking" that is impossible for LLMs as thinking is an action - and LLMs aren't agents that can plan and take action.

Actually AlphaGO and AlphaZero were agents capable of thinking - just in a extremly simplistic world which is the game of Go, Shogi or Chess. But they had a world model (which was fully known as it was for simple games) and a way to plan the action they will take by evaluating what impact will they have upon the world and how beneficial it will be for them.

Just that extending that system/agent to the real world is very hard.
The last thing most tech workers need is more chips.
I also like flat. Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815150
Would a browser feature that skipped to the relevant parts of the video based on closed captioning and understanding search intent be useful? It seems like this would be a good way for Google to fight to stay relevant in UX vs having the chat bots just quickly spitting out a readable answer. Hunting through ad laden webpages is annoying. Seeking to the relevant section of the video is a solvable problem, especially for videos above some viewership threshold.
LiFi signal bounces off walls. It doesn’t need direct line of sight. Think a light bulb lighting a room. But it doesn’t go around corners and through walls like WiFi.
The Houthis official slogan is: “God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam."

I’m petty sure they do not give a shit about making consumerism harder for Americans. In fact it’s probably a bonus.
Metcalfe's Law is Wrong [2006 !!]
What would a military response look like? I am not an expert in this area, but it seems to me if it got really bad, the US might send commandos to coordinate air strikes.
I've also been enjoying building My First Game™ in Bevy using ECS. The community around Bevy really shines, but Flecs (https://github.com/SanderMertens/flecs) is arguably a more mature, open-source ECS implementation (notably, it supports relationships). You don't get to write in Rust, though, which makes it less cool in my book :)

I'm not very proud of the code I've written because I've found writing a game to be much more confusing than building websites + backends, but, as the author notes, it certainly feels more elegant than OOP or globals given the context. I couldn't imagine trying to build a large game using a more rigid organizational approach.

I'm building for WASM and Bevy's parallelism isn't supported in that context (yet? https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4078), so the performance wins are just so-so. Sharing a thread with UI rendering suuucks.

The biggest issues I experience are:

1) How generic should I make my systems? It's easy to make them very specific, but, at a certain specificity, it feels like it's just lazier OOP. More generic and I start spending my time handling edge-cases that don't actually need to exist.

2) Intelligently handling updates when systems run in parallel rather than serially. By default, Bevy runs everything in parallel, and it's heavily encouraged, but my brain finds it a lot easier to just force everything to run serially and to not rely on frame-buffering. This doesn't seem necessarily ECS-specific, though, but is a problem I'm made more aware of due to the defaults given to me.

If anyone wants to browse some code or ask questions, feel free! https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
Sounds like something taken from Team America: World Police or Command & Conquer: Generals.
I remember a video years ago that showed a device you put on your head that could affect your balance using electrical signals directed at your inner ear. They were demoing it in this news report as a human remote control sort of thing. You could control the direction the people wearing it were walking using a wireless joystick. I want to say everyone was Japanese but they could've been from anywhere in Asia. Hopefully somebody can dig it up.

I wonder if there has been any progress on increasing the capabilities of that system. It could just be another component attached to the HMD. I bet as it is now though, even with improvements, it would make you sick, which VR already has trouble with.
Houthis stopping to fire Iranian missiles does not in fact solve any of these problems, I'm afraid.
Do you have some tips for finding concise videos that answer the question you are asking? I am finding more and more obvious LLM bullshit in results, so I am willing to try some other tactics. But I am not ready to spend the minutes watching videos to see if it is actually relevant or a waste of time, always artificially long to increase ad revenue.
Do we “know” that? We have evidence for it, but there’s more uncertainty than you’re letting on.

To be clear, I have zero financial interest in any crypto, I just think it’s premature to assume the worst just because of the industry.
> Our embeddings model is trained on how links are talked about on the Internet, if that helps with querying. So you have to query like how someone would refer to a link before sharing it

So it's not high quality web pages but web pages that people talk about a lot which is expected since no one has an oracle that says what high quality is. The embeddings are merely a proxy and generalization for "how links are talked about on the Internet." That can be gamed at scale just like every other signal any popular search engine has been based off of.
Except this is real life and not a movie. They’re not cartoon villains. They’re actual real life villains.
> Partnership doesnt mean equal partners.

It still implies some sort of meeting of the minds. You wouldn't say you've entered a "partnership" with the IRS because you paid your taxes, nor a "partnership" with the police because they pulled you over and searched your car.
I want to second this view--simple transparency and being upfront about pricing sets the tone for an entire ongoing relationship, and is even critical to beginning one. I have a 99 percent rejection rate of every website that doesn't put pricing up front, along with a customer service phone number. If I have to click more than once for pricing, and if that phone isn't on the landing page, the entire product goes straight into the ether. Ignoring these basics is a fundamental lack of respect for my time and attention as a customer, and I won't have it. I know this view is pervasive, yet dark patterns persist.
Right, because endless US involvement in ground wars in the middle east has always been firmly on the side of "concrete facts."
Ah, yes, I've stumbled about plenty of such cases – TIL that "unsoundness" is an established term for them.

Thanks so much!
Marginalia supports the old Google syntax, e.g. "define:dildo"
There are a lot of ways to prevent wars. That’s just one.

- Promises not to go to war

- Reduction of armaments

- Machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations

- Economic penalties against aggressors

War doctrine is a very complicated subject, as is even the definition of war in modernity.

What causes a nation to declare war is unclear and difficult to reliably determine, but there is often a period or circumstances of instability or a immoral act that precipitates them.

The US appears to be going into a period of isolation and the world without global shipping protection is going to look radically different.
Retaliation is easier and less likely to cause war if it’s digital. Lots of “military” response comes in cyber form these days.
I believe I learned the same one as you, probably when I was around 12. I have no idea where I got it from. That would have been in the early '70s, and I was mostly learning from books from Radio Shack and the public library and from Popular Electronics magazine.
Indeed. In fact, I will refuse to sign up out of spite.
> but all the constituent dramas may be just that — small personal dramas

We still wish we knew more about Nanni and Ea-nāṣir.
Just checked; macOS comes with Dash in addition to Bourne shell (sh) and Bash.
MSGV-YOLOv7: A Lightweight Pineapple Detection Method
Once again we see "blowback" in action. Here's the cycle:

1. A major power backs a side in an internal struggle for their own end. If necessary, a conflict is manufactured by propping up rebels, a coup, etc;

2. The other side, which tends to be the internally popular side, resists. Because of that popular support, they can survive, thrive and grow;

3. Insurgencies are incredibly effective. Counter-insurgencies are incredibly difficult. The insurgents are fighting for their lives. The boots on the ground for the major power backed forces don't tend to want to be there;

4. Reactionary forces are seen by the besieged populace as emancipatory forces;

5. When the resolve of the major power breaks or there is simply a policy shift, the unpopular government crumbles and is replaced by those reactionary forces. Classic example: the fundamentalist Iranian revolution of 1979. Go and look at what Iran was like before the 1953 coup.

6. Those former insurgents become a regional thorn in the side for that major power for decades to come;

7. The major power, unwilling to commit militarily, responds with economic sanctions. This does little more than starve people and kill people due to lack of medicine. But th eregime survives. It can even be strengthened as the citizens blame the major power for their plight.

The Saudis committed genocide in Yemen. For years. And the world ignored it. They used US-supplied weapons to do it. At any time, the US could've ended Saudi atrocities in Yemen with a phone call.

And now the Houthi rebels have become battle-hardened guerillas and insurgents, capable of projecting force into the vital shipping lanes of the Red Sea. Drones have become incredibly cheap, to the point that a ragtag group will tie up a US carrier group who will try to enforce security, much like they have done with, say, Somali pirates.

The US carrier group may even adequately suppress the Houthis but this is attrition and Houthi investment is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost to the US.

The last two decades saw a massive change in drone use by the military. It was always just a matter of time before that military technology filtered down to insurgents and it's going to have a massive effect.

We saw this in Afghanistan in the 1970s when US-supplied Stinger missiles completely changed the battlefield as they rendered Soviet gunships ineffective at an incredibly low cost.

This isn't a statement supporting the Houthis (or even denoucning them). It's simply an analysis of the pattern that has played out many times, particularly since WW2.

This is what I mean by "blowback".
I'm thinking that if the same thing happened in the days of the British Empire, there would be a lot of high velocity response on the way from the fine battleships of of her/his majesty battleships.

Sure, showing that you can shoot most of the missiles down or ignoring the other party might actually be the right thing in the end. But it still seems wrong when someone just starts shooting on ships on one of the main global shipping lanes. Others might might get an idea & start doing the same for whatever reason. :P
Honestly, if you have to search something remotely technical, try HN's search function with comments enabled.

If the topic has ever come up the discussion and links are likely to be more relevant and better than your avg. wiki article
No, a React component is not tied to any one parent component. The paradigm is entirely of its own kind. It may react to parent data, or it may react to external data. It's purely a rendering tree management system.

There are no rules on how to manage the logic flow.
More incorrect usage of "hallucinated" for simply made-up or inaccurate results.
How do you know there wasn't a response? The fog of war is both ways.
That was the first thing I checked reading the article. Although the argument would be 3.5 is free - any comparison of systems against ChatGPT that isn't using ChatGPT 4 can be dismissed almost out of hand; there is not much point talking about ChatGPT if it's not using ChatGPT 4 and making proper use of its capabilities.

That is not to say that there aren't valid criticisms of and shortcomings in ChatGPT 4 - just that it's not useful to say ChatGPT when it's referring to 3.5
Which sounds like an improvement over a total lack of regulations where these dieselgates would be legal.