skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything that you've seen over the last, eh, 15 years in the tech industry seems to be a bunch of rationalists (who often tend to be non-religious) trying to reconstruct the irrational institutions of spirituality.

Simulation theory is basically positing there's a higher power. Eternal life has been replaced with efforts to digitize the human consciousness for indefinite storage. Pilgrimages have been replaced with Ted Talks and conferences. Certain religious ceremonies that alter consciousness have been replaced with microdosing. Asceticism has been replaced by hustle culture. Saints have been replaced with entrepreneurs who have spent money to cultivate a favorable public image. Religious charity has been replaced with effective altruism.

If you're in a more irreligious region like SV or the Bay Area, it's apparently not as easy to suss out, but if you're from the Midwest, you can see it clear as day.
I read "fun stories" to refer to cyclops, male pregnancy and the deep mystery of the real purpose of the appendix. That's a plausible critique to me, and one which is compatible with the appendix being still useful. Same for the first comment you mention. Yes, it's just the ends of things that come together, but life makes use of that real-estate anyway. It's just not critical, and there is only a slight dent in immunity when removed.
It's cheating because it has memorized the answer to the puzzle instead of using logic to solve it.
> a strict naval blockade

I think if USA would naval blockade itself then many, many people would give a sigh of relief.
Yes - plus the original win of UML was also being able to run virtual instances on a kernel without proper virtualization capabilities.

In the early 2000s people used to use UMLs as a hosting platform - they didn't have the same security isolation as a proper VM (or even, necessarily, of a container) though.
Not easily. Those metal tension cables are dangerous to cut and it’s going to have to fall like a tree in some direction.
Mediamonkey is pretty good. I held onto media player as long as I could, but MS just made it worse on every iteration.
It's strange that Apple keep this Windows software around. Is there really a lot of people on Windows that actually use this?
/jk

Definitions .. first for a root of the word:

> Deucalion -> deuce-a-lion -> deuce = https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deuce definition #4 = "informal : the fecal matter expelled during one bowel movement—usually used in the phrase, drop a deuce"

I'm used to Microsoft coopting common everyday words, like "Word" for instance, or "Explorer", "Windows". But "deuce" .. is a surprise.

Another definition for the full word:

> Deucalion - the Son of Prometheus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion "He is closely connected with a flood myth in Greek mythology."

Microsoft here evokes a disaster-creator, in this time of climate change and worries of AIs being misused, which is disturbing to me.
I'm with your wife on this one, and also either one of those is way better than "grey on whatever" that seemed to be a prevalent design choice for a few years for many websites.

Low contrast is hell.
There's not a lot of examples provided, but the ones there are interesting. Also, why the tracking with Yandex? They might be legit, but it's suspect.

This reminds me of many other gallery sites, but one of the best right now is https://httpster.net/. Lots of inspiring, minimalist, but beautiful websites.
Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry
You've now managed to flood the comments with walls of texts. You could have posted a pastebin or similar link.

The video is full of well edited historic footage so I don't buy your claim that text is just fine.
My initial impression is that Gemini Advanced has more difficulty understanding prompts and following directions than GPT-4. It surprisingly often changes meaning when rewriting things. However, it can be more creative and specific, while GPT-4 often relies on common knowledge and lacks depth. I've tested prompts where GPT-4 failed and Gemini failed too. GPT-4 generates the first token faster but Gemini Advanced completes subsequent text more quickly.
" They could only get hired into new companies where nobody knew any of their past coworkers, because a simple reference check would reveal how difficult they were to work with." --> Any tips on how to effectively conduct reference checks? In my experience, candidates will only provide references from folks that they know will give glowing review, so you end up with generic positive feedback that ends up not being informative.

Would love to hear any strategies others have found successful.
I get making new features an opt-in thing for workspace, but from what I can tell I can't even enable it for my workspace domain. I'm not able to enable it for myself to evaluate it and update training materials.
There's no discussion, but a 200 foot tower doesn't come down without evidence on the ground unless you have, well, a 200 foot crane.
I'd venture to guess that is not a PM that gets to decide how to name a Google product.
I hope ability to get photos off iPhones is improved. I can NEVER get it to fully work for more than a few pictures. I know we are supposed to sync them to the cloud now but it's nice to be able to put them on the big drive on the PC sometimes too.
At current trajectories, nVDA could surpass GOOG within a month.

MSFT already did-so within the past year (after providing OpenAI funding).

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All I'm suggesting is that the money fountain isn't forever.
It’s honestly a bit islamophobic to assume that anyone saying religious violence is bad must be attacking Muslims, isn’t it? Jumping to that conclusion requires a bunch of leaps that I’m not sure are actually true.
One person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist. See also this famous "Our Blessed Homeland" comic: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/355/607/670
One mosque whose members have repeatedly caused problems does not equal the entire population of the religion.
Indeed. It's always frustrating to encounter these "Well if your arguments are right then how come they sound false to me?" discussion of Soviet history, even on what are supposed to be more measured and thoughtful platforms like HN. Doubly so when the argument is just that the Stalin-era secret police committed an atrocity.
Also as time goes by, it'll get smoothly integrated into docs/gmail/maps/calendar/youtube/search/colab/sheets/android/assistant

So Gemini could by your one-stop AI shop for everything. Only Microsoft can match it (but Microsoft doesn't have a popular maps, youtube, mail, smartphone OS service).

Apple is another strong player (but they don't have productivity tools like docs, sheets or youtube).

It really is Google's to lose this AI race from now on.

Going to chatGPT and copying and pasting results will become painful (not to mention it's painful bing integration). Also at this point, they seem to be focusing on scaling LLM (while Google Deepmind is exploring other avenues)

Google can also bundle Youtube TV, YouTube Premium, Google Drive, Storage, Ad free Search, Gemini integrated Docs/Sheets/Gmail, Subsidized Pixel Phones / Watch for a monthly fee of say $99 and it'll be very compelling for a lot of people
Image generation isn't available in Europe.
GPT-4 has a really good tokenizer that is able to retain and use more information about input tokens than one might naively think.
My parents taught me well to never use my real name on the internet.
Do you mean understand as in "understand the architecture, structure and the domain" of the project worked on? Are you implying working for 5 hours a month only on a project is not enough for these? Is that what you are saying?
How long was he in 'phone detox'? From what I gather, only 2 months, which isn't nearly long enough. I've been 100% phone free for 4 years now, and was 95% free 2 years prior to that (only powering it on for work). I can personally say that anything less than a year is probably not long enough to even dent the addiction, and anything less that 2 won't teach you the discipline to stay phone free.
You’re not wrong, but these early stumbles are going to pass and Tesla is gonna end up in a difficult position to compete. The quality of their cars is quite poor, and they’re very spartan as far as features. I’ve driven an S and a 3, as well as an F150 Lightning, and the F150 was by far my preference. It actually feels like a real car. It did end up being too expensive, but battery costs are dropping exponentially, and I’m expecting we’ll see Chinese EVs taking over the market in 5 years. BYD is manufacturing a shipping fleet and branching out of China, it’s only a matter of time until they’re here.
> ...go really far to get back...

While I did appreciate Ivan Grozny seeing the Repin painting in Shurik's apartment in Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu (1973), I was a bit disappointed in that (at least with the youtube version?) the actor turned his back before crossing himself in the elevator, which would've told us if Gaidai knew/cared about Old Believer sibboleths.
Why is that a problem?

I don't know if you remember but iTunes was the overbloated app from hell that couldn't be refactored because it was too far gone. Every year it got slower and buggier and increasingly just wouldn't work.

Thank god they started cleaving off chunks into separate new apps that got built from scratch. It was a monstrosity.

I don't understand why you think separate apps is a problem. Heck, the #1 complaint about Spotify is that they added podcasts and audiobooks into the existing app rather than as new apps, which clutters up the interface.
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Our local metro area has had a problem with copper thieves for a few years now, cutting open and stealing the wiring from street lights.

People are why we can't have nice things, apparently.
I was just trying to remember how google's "ai" search thing is called earlier today.

Looks like I shouldn't have bothered, they were busy renaming it. Did someone in marketing get a promotion for this?
I just don't understand how Google communicates their product with customers. We have like multiple chat apps, and the history is repeating with Google AI? Make it simple, so we don't have to explain to the person next to us.
> Go talk to David Hume or sometthing...

Best answer ever 8-)
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That's because they're a bloated SaaS company trying to monetize M4A files.

A music app simply lists what you have available. SaaS bloatware on the other hand constantly changes its UI to maximize engagement and nudge users towards ad-stuffed podcasts, because the music is a loss-leader for them.
I was trying to convince people that GPT4 was super helpful for learning programming langauges. For getting over the hump between knowing the basics and actually being familar at building things in the language and I used Tao as an example.

Tao is finding ChatGPT helpful for proofs, as a sort of brainstorm partner. And if it works for him, then why can't it work for me trying to cross the intermediate gap in learning Rust?

These tools work best when you know what you are doing, know the questions to ask, but are in unfamilar territory.
I was in highschool (IGCSE) in 1994 and for the final computer studies project whereas everyone else made excel calculators and "Hello world" equivalents, I nerded out and built a full fledged inventory management system for the local Toyota dealership. My dad found someone in his office who knew Dbase-4 and autocad and spent many weekends with him learning the basics and developing my project. It turned out better than expected and the invigilator from the GCSE board told my school that I had plagiarised the code, that there was no way a 15yo would put that much effort into it. Well, I had to write & rewrite the code several times because of storage/hard drive issues back then and recited some of the code back to the invigilator orally! My CS teacher was in complete shock, poor chap! I'll never forget the poorly drawn autocad designs for some of the computer parts in my inventory system. Thank you John Walker.
My money is on this being insurance fraud.
Thanks for the heads up -- which page was this from?
I tried the same and ended up becoming an expert in the Met Office weather app. Breaking the habit of picking up my phone and doing something, anything, was really hard.
What is a name but a way to identify who you're talking to? Does a handle not serve the same purpose?
Missiles were built by Ukraine.
and previously they were called lamda and meena..
Which is why, if we decide we need to take out China, we'll sail over to the coast off Yemen, and stop any oil headed their way. They'll collapse within 6 months. (Or so sayeth Peter Zeihan)
I've adopted a different approach. Going fully offline makes life really difficult, so I decided to basically compartmentalize my online life.

I have different user accounts for different tasks, with privoxy set up to block irrelevant network traffic . Admittedly I mostly use a desktop computer for my online life so it's tailored toward that, but I did configure my phone to use a proxy as well it's been working pretty well.

Means I can cut back on "mindless" social media use without having to cut back on intentional use. I did a write-up here: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/99_context/
The tweet said that they took a crew with a bush hog ([1]) to "do early cleanup of the property before we do more work down there". So this was almost certainly a long-abandoned radio tower that they acquired and were planning to bring into service. The grass needs to be severely overgrown before you need a bush hog.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_hog
I used a very similar approach when building the security team while I was CSO at Relativity. I wrangled as much as I could with HR to do it this way. It boiled down to an initial phone call where I described the company, the job, and our process and asked if there were any questions. I did not ask the candidate any questions about their background.

If they expressed an interest in going further, we would share with them a work product sample tailored to the position. This included hiring a manager of compliance and a project manager.

The work sample test had a rigid metric and gave us a go/no-go answer.

This approach was very successful.
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It’s sad that a company of very smart people can’t figure out coherent naming.

Can you imagine Apple causing confusion like this? I know it’s not a like-for-like comparison, but everything Apple does it seems like they have a grand strategy that’s clear for everyone to see. Things build up in a modular way to fit a big puzzle.

Google, on the other hand, constantly makes up things on an ad hoc basis.
All sin is essentially just desire. Anything you desire, you will get, in this life or the next. The trouble is most people's desires are unconscious, programmed in or are otherwise unoriginal, which leads to all sorts of trouble and misery. Simply put, to desire is to suffer and make others suffer.
I used to daily commute on a ZX6-R. Used to hit 150mph most days commuting in. Stupid in hindsight.

Sold it as I was becoming increasingly complacent and it was only a matter of time before something serious happened.
I remember remarking here years ago how I annoying I found it to have to use my phone to read QR codes while watching TV, only to learn that almost every HN reader/user ALWAYS has their phone on their person/within reach. Mine is rarely on my person/within reach.
Red lights on the front? Is that a common thing, I've never heard of it. Surely it's illegal?
Definitely true back in 2008
I'm interested in more of your thoughts on this. Who is they/very high up?

I've started unplugging/disconnecting more and more this year but the pressure is increasing on many levels to STAY glued to the phone.

Gets really discouraging to try and get others to do the same (friends, family, etc)
Yeah if you're a creative professional you often have a Macbook for web, presentations, comms, coding, photoshopping, design then a PC for video editing, AI and 3D.
Has iTunes on Windows ever been good? I think I tried it in 2003-4, and it was garbage then, so I uninstalled it. In the intervening 20 years, I've never heard anyone say "it's good now!", so I never re-installed it. I assumed that if you were a dedicated Windows user, you just wouldn't use iTunes, and if you weren't a dedicated Windows user but loved your iPhone, you'd do what Apple wanted you to do in the first place, and switch to MacOS.
Laura Chambers interim CEO, so ... no, Mozilla just fired Mitchell Baker, and that's it.
Also The Internet Slum https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/netslum/
Thanks. You can indeed use the extension pack with KVM Virtualbox, just make sure that you don't violate any license agreements.
Let's not forget the health coaches. Those are the ones who can, and sometimes do, kill.
Oh right! I forgot to update that link, thanks for the report. I've updated it now.
A nutcase would have dropped the tower and left it down, not removed the tower itself.

They'll find the scrapyard that received it and track it down from there. Unless it was done months ago and they just finally noticed.
Gemini happened to get the yes/no answer right, but the reasoning it gave is completely wrong, so it should not get any credit for it.
Every iPhone user that needed recover mode, or downloaded file to device sync, or needed some other software that requires the iTunes drivers.
> All our experience with computational sandboxes so far is that preventing information leaks or escapes is extremely hard.

I believe this is due to the path-dependent nature of our hardware architecture, not anything fundamental. x86 is not really designed with virtualization in mind. Theoretically, perfect airtight simulation is the primary ability of computers, and we're just too sloppy to exploit it properly.

Another angle: imagine you build a computer, simulation-optimized or not, and then run a physics simulation program on it. Can entities inside the simulation get info about your CPU architecture? Not really, not unless you really messed up (let's assume you don't make any gross concessions to performance over correctness).

If you have the ability to simulate anything close to our universe, I just don't think it's that hard to make it actually correct and therefore inescapable.
I just thought the wording was amusing--a faint reference to droids.
Why is that a clever idea? If you can make the landowners pay a fee when a rhino gets killed on their land, why not just make them pay a fine instead? But, it's South Africa so the thinking there seems a little muddled recently.
All Snap Pixy drones are recalled for full refund
The Snapchat Pixy was an amazing drone that we loved in my family. And sad to hear that ALL of them are now recalled for fire risk.

If you missed this chapter in the drone world, Pixy was a fun yellow and very simple flying selfie machine. It had just a mode dial and a go button. My three-year-old (and anybody's) had no problem using it and having fun.

So sad to see this erased from history. And I don't know anything like it.
You should check out the rabbit hole of Google's various payment systems/apps. GPay, Google Pay, Google Wallet, Android Pay, etc.

All the different the ways those brands (and more?) were used to describe multiple services and apps that had wildly different capabilities, sometimes varying by region, with several instances of them bringing back a previously used name for something completely different.
A better source than the tabloid New York Post: https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio...
There's one for his middle-name too [1].

[1] https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/brooks.htm

And while we're at it, another anecdote about naming the language [2]:

> Hudak and Wise were asked to write to Curry’s widow, Virginia Curry, to ask if she would mind our naming the language after her husband. Hudak later visited Mrs. Curry at her home and listened to stories about people who had stayed there (such as Church and Kleene). Mrs. Curry came to his talk (which was about Haskell, of course) at Penn State, and although she didn’t understand a word of what he was saying, she was very gracious. Her parting remark was “You know, Haskell actually never liked the name Haskell.”

[2] https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/310
Please refrain from baseless accusations of using AI, they (along with dutchnews.nl) are only a small company doing important work, not like large scale mainstream media outlets.
Maintenance of nuclear missiles was done in Ukraine prior to the war. Ukraine built missiles, so Ukraine performed their maintenance.
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I just tried this but it doesn't indicate it searched the web. (On Gemini mobile app on android).
Reading through the dataprep stuff, I wonder if doing more RAG during the prep stage might help this sort of task on structured daa. E.g. pre-indexing related parts and using those to build summaries / QA pairs. I took a look at the current prompts that are very research focused ("professors" creating questions), and could extrapolate from that to a dev mindset nicely.
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What is Gemini referencing here in Google’s case? What twins are making the AI?
>but are also not actually in my proximity.

I think this a benefit, not a negative.
All the non programming intelligence in a place like Google likely goes into figuring out how to protect and expand one's turf, which will explain this emblematic mess.
Yep! It’s entertainment.
This isn't representative of real-world usage since you don't let it think.
> They’re lucky if users take the time to download and install their one app let alone asking them to install multiple apps.

In practice, this doesn't appear to be an obstacle. Companies like Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, etc. have many apps in the App Store "Top Charts".

If anything, this would be a smart marketing strategy if Spotify could (for example) make a compelling standalone "podcast" app, because it would allow them to double or triple their footprint on App Store charts.
I think you get more wide-ranging comments that way.

Seems like a lot less limitation too.
How often have we seen problems caused by groups like, say, "the 34th street mosque gang"?
Assuming you are British I feel you get a pass, just opening that app and hoping for sun is character building
High school and above yes. Filling out forms should be perfectly fine. Just perhaps need a well rehearsed lie about any of the details beyond the GPA number.
Not yet, sounds promising!
That's a very recent change to virt-manager, so recent it's on nixos-unstable, but not on nixos-23.11. So it might be in Fedora 39 and some rolling-release distros... and nowhere else.
This app is INCREDIBLE. I have been extremely unhappy with macOS music compared to iOS and this seems to address all my use cases. thanks for sending it along :)
You can boil down anything to individuals. The war in Ukraine would not be happening if every individual refused to partake. But you know very well that is not how society works.

People share beliefs, they join a movement, and they do that mostly via small organizations like religious groups, political parties, friendship circles, internet forums and so on.
I agree completely. Ok, they hallucinate occasionally but so do humans.

Tireless, always online, no stupid questions interactive personal tutor for pennies.
IIUC, it depends on your bank. If your bank doesn’t charge you for normal transfers, it can’t charge you for instant transfers. Since most banks don’t charge for normal transfers, it will be free for most users.
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