skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just tried it and it seems like indeed it is worse than GPT-4 in general, but better with some specific things - and most importantly for me, it has a ton of very new information in the model itself without having to search the web.

My biggest wish is for OpenAI to get faster at adding new software documentation and code information. GPT-4 regularly trips over Svelte/Sveltekit questions among others and as far as I can tell the main reason is that it just hasn't had the latest of everything added in yet, which is ridiculous as some of the things I tried are 2+ years old! Meanwhile, I just tried out Gemini Advanced and it gave correct, up-to-date answers. Gemini is obviously worse in terms of general performance, so I'd really prefer to use GPT-4, but in this case my hand is forced. How hard can it be to just scan some documentation and code every few weeks?

OpenAI's approach to integrating new information is also infuriating. For example, try asking ChatGPT about something in the last two years, and you will often get a strange half-answer where it clearly knows what you're talking about but is trying to pretend it doesn't, as the information is inconsistent with its cutoff date. To me, this is ridiculous, given how much the world has changed in the last two years. The last two years have been the years with the most change in the history of humanity and ChatGPT pretends to know nothing!? So absurd it is almost comical!
Absolutely love this trilogy too. The Drowned World was my first proper introduction to Ballard.

I'd always liked the movie Empire of the Sun since I was a kid, but could never quite put my finger on why. One day in 2020 I read the films wikipedia page, started reading more about him as an author and got hooked.

To quote John Gray [1],

>Unlike many others, it wasn't his dystopian vision that gripped my imagination. For me his work was lyrical – an evocation of the beauty that can be gleaned from landscapes of desolation.

1. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/12/john-gray-on-jg...
This is pretty funny, though to be honest, I skimmed the question and would have answered the same until I re-read it with your prompts.
> I love GPS now.

The dependence of GPS has made people lose their spatial awareness.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0
how do you get mario
Who do the few words trick? Why do the philosophers wait for that before writing their many words?
A lot of people had AOL dialup. I probably had (personal) broadband by then but not by more than a year or two.

In any case I'm not sure whatever photo-ops heads of state choose to do says a lot beyond something some advisor pitched to them.
If it were anyone but windows this sentence wouldn't alarm me like it does:

> Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session
I downloaded my iCloud library from privacy.apple.com, you can request a copy of your data there. It will take a few days before they send you a link that expires in a week but you'll get your whole library in 50GB zipped chunks.
Surely you should have no trouble proving a "objective fact"
I have vague memories of PPC instructions sucking compared to alpha, sparc, and x86, 20 years or more ago. I've got no specific memories what my objection was; but I recall dropping my plans to support it as a platform after a very quick look at it.

Perhaps it didn't have atomics at that point? That would've killed it for that project.
I used to think this about email also.
What would the identity of the "former Oakland PD officer" do to establish the veracity of the claim?
It's not meant to be dismissive and I'm not sure it is patronizing when I know that I also struggle with this phenomenon, though I forgot to mention it. It's definitely a "we all" problem, I just wasn't great at expressing it that way in this particular approach. In tech we all often default to a clinical voice rather than a personal one, even for personally applicable things. I'm trying to get better about that. The industries want us to think we are all alone and in it for ourselves and only ourselves. Eliminating that mindset is hard for all of us not just because we have that mindset, but that there are many systems in place to continue to feed that mindset to us. It's the opposite of dismissive to say that we all have this problem, it is about trying to be very aware of the systems in place designed to keep us in this problem and that the problem is hard to dismiss (otherwise we'd have done it already, right?).
My MQ 3 refuses to work in the passenger seat in a moving car, it pops up a dialog box that says tracking has failed, maybe you can tell it to run without tracking but I never managed to hit the button. I saw a video where somebody has the same thing happen on the NY subway with an AVP.

For spatial computing to really work properly in a vehicle I think you need to keep track of both the world coordinate system and one that tracks the vehicle. In particular a lot of info from the IMU will have to be thrown out. It is probably useful to track small head motions but objects will drift eventually because of the vehicle as a whole accelerating and decelerating.
The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts
Strange to say Apple doesn't have productivity tools when Pages, Sheets, and Keynote exist on every Mac. I get the scale arguments, but Handoff and iCloud integration are a sleeper IF you've bought into the ecosystem...

Also hard to overstate just how much more valuable the enterprise market is over the consumer market when comparing Microsoft vs. Google as one-stop anything shops.

I don't see Google as having the obvious dominant position to make the argument it's their race to lose, considering Microsoft has a stake in chatGPT and is actively integrating it into their browser and productivity suites.
The mushrooms are quite different from the slime molds, even if the humans, the mushrooms and the slime molds are much more closely related between themselves than any of them is related e.g. to the plants.

Like most animals, the slime molds have retained the primitive way of life of the eukaryotes, i.e. they have mobile cells that can hunt, catch and ingest other living beings.

The mushrooms, like the plants and a few other groups of eukaryotes, have reverted to a way of life similar with that of the bacteria, i.e. they have developed a rigid cellular wall, which protects their cells, but which prevents the movement of the cells, so they can no longer ingest anything else but small molecules, so in order to eat they must secrete into their environment enzymes that will digest their food outside their body, resulting in small molecules that can be absorbed.

Like most plants, most mushrooms cannot move, they achieve the equivalent of very slow movements by directed growth. The exceptions are the few carnivorous plants and the few carnivorous mushrooms, which have traps for their victims having a relatively fast action, caused by various kinds of springs.

The slime molds move around and catch and eat their prey, behaving like giant amoebae.

The eukaryotes with mobile cells, without cellular walls, have visible reactions to whatever they sense in their environment, e.g. by pursuing what they want or running away from whatever may be dangerous.

Those like the plants and the mushrooms are also likely to have various sensors, but any reactions are too slow to be perceptible at the human scale of time.

So the slime molds and various mobile unicellular eukaryotes, like the ciliates (some big ciliates are as big as some very small multicellular animals, like the rotifers, and there is little difference in behavior between them), can be considered as higher in a scale of sentience than the plants and the mushrooms.
They've been extremely pro-Israel

This is wildly overdrawn and lacking in substantial basis.

Though I'm sure there are many who believe that any source besides Electronic Intifada (or equivalent to it in tone and selective reporting) is "extremely pro-Israel".
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Your understanding of the term "bootstrapped" is warped by the environment you are operating in.

The traditional understanding is "building a business without taking on dilutive funding". This has always been hard, but in many ways it's easier now than before.
The risks involving hallucinations are too damn high still, and may always be.

I had a similar line of thought with AI therapists. It could be massively beneficial if perfect, but the risk in seriously messing with someone's well-being is significant and shouldn't be handwaved away.
Ghostty is new terminal emulator written from scratch in Zig
Problem is determining which candidates who were preselected for cramming Leetcode for comp are actually any good. Can't see how going for handsomely paid tech folks is any better than enthusiasts from academia.
A rebrand this early sends unhealthy signals.
Seeing people perform in high risk competition is something that goes back to antiquity. I don't know why we can't be more honest with ourselves on this point. I don't watch UFC but I do know that in the past 20 years the NFL becoming more "safe" and prioritizing high scoring games has taken a certain amount of soul out of the game
Yes. What happened to that? It's interesting that we became more private in that regard while gushing personal information from sensors worn on our bodies 24/7.
> How hard can it be to just scan some documentation and code every few weeks?

oh dear...
They still do. If you’ve made any public transaction (like buying a home), Whitepages will publish your info. That’s not the only reason for it, either. My 90 year-old relative was listed, and she doesn’t own anything.
> "Any lie while doing business should be prosecuted as fraud."

Any lie directly related to the business transaction taking place should, for sure.
This article sums up the biggest problem with politics. Rather than just trying various policies in simulation, we argue about them dogmatically until the end of time.

After a lifetime of witnessing tax cuts grow wealth inequality and burden the poor and middle classes, I view people in favor of them with concern. I wonder if they're able to extrapolate cause and effect to understand the ramifications of their choices. And they look at me the same way, I imagine as an astonishing waste of potential since I'm apparently miserable all the time and unable to cope with a world that wasn't designed for me, when I could just conform and be wealthy and successful. I don't know what to say to that, because I'm not sure that either of us is wrong.

We can get mad about this stuff and pout and refuse to cooperate, but it reminds me of the scene in the Matrix when Neo is faced with saving humanity or the one he loves. The logical choice often isn't the right one, because consciousness and free will can tap into higher-level aspects of reality that transcend logic via intuition and emotions like love.
It really depends. The Hawaiians farmed fish several hundred years ago. They built structures (loko i'a) that encouraged certain fishes to congregate and fed/protected them. The caveat is that the fish primarily ate algae and plankton so it is considerably easier to feed the fish.
There are some people who care, otherwise it wouldn't even be a thing... but as you say, it doesn't get a lot of attention. I think it would be interesting to hear why? Why do companies implementing RISC-V and actively working on developing it not choose OpenPOWER instead? For that matter, OpenSPARC? I am not well enough versed in instruction sets to really comment, but I would love to hear more from anyone in the know?

Perhaps it is because IBM and Oracle exercise too much control over their architectures making it hard for a community to develop around them? Perhaps it is something in the licensing? Perhaps more fundamental problems with the design of the other instruction sets, making RISC-V easier a better base to improve on?
I don't see any reason we can't ban everything but political speech given its status as extra-super-protected.
Physics for Mathematicians – Introduction
Rumors say that the priestess in this temple was having visions because of natural local fumes [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia#Scientific_explanations
Virtualbox with KVM Back End
I wonder what qualifies as a robocall. Is it just something dialed automatically? Is it still legal if a human dialed the call, but an AI-generated voice speaks?
Inspired by the US government ?
The 2015-2019 12-inch MacBooks had zero benefits over MacBook Air, maybe other than the Retina screens, until the release of the 2018 Retina MacBook Air. Other than that, they had CPUs <= 1.4 GHz, a single USB-C port, and even the camera was only 480p. They were never cheaper than the base model of the 13-inch MacBook Air.
Steam has a ton of social features too, and that helps keep it popular. Is it a "virtual world"? I don't think anyone would define it that way.

The primary thing you do in Roblox is pick a game you want to play, which is largely isolated from the other games. Plenty of people will never touch the social features.
> First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing

Growing it is easy. Using it is hard.
Squeezing documents in 128 TB of virtual memory
Me and most people I know have stopped answering the phone completely if we don't recognize the number, because the ratio of spam to useful calls is so huge. Since this screening renders your use case for anonymous calls completely moot, the benefit of allowing them (very small, in my opinion) has to be weighed against the costs of the current system. Just to pick a random one, political polling is completely fucked at the moment, because so many people don't pick up pollster calls.

Edit: actually the more I think about your comment, the less sense it makes. What information could be gained by an anonymous phone call? Please walk me through this scenario, because I don't see it at all. Who is giving away sensitive information to an anonymous caller that they wouldn't give if there was caller ID?
They describe this as giving "State Attorneys General across the country new tools to go after bad actors behind these nefarious robocalls." The way that I read that is that there are these scams out there that states are already trying to bring lawsuits against, and this simply makes their job a bit easier in some of the cases they're ALREADY bringing.
I believe that there's a translation error in this news story (I sent a note to the author).

I think that they mean that they've turned off the ventilation system at the airport. I doubt that they've got air conditioning.

If they do then presumably they could still heat the building, unless it's some industrial unit that works by exchanging heat with the incoming hot water?

But more likely they're using hot water radiators, which now aren't getting hot water. So to preserve the thermal mass of the air they've turned off the ventilation in the building.

Almost every house in Iceland is heated with hot water directly, which then just ends up in the drain. Wasteful? Yes, but there's some benefits to living on a volcano with abundant water.
There's a thing that says even with activity off, they retain for 72 hours for "safety and reliability"
I've noticed a similar thing with Trader Joes in PNW vs California. The produce selection was different, the pre-made foods (like the salads, wraps..etc) were somewhat different, meat selection and quality was also different.

Part of it is that TJ's used to be much more about the 'one-off buy of a weird but tasty product'. They would find a product they could sell, buy as much of it as was possible, and sell through it, never to order and sell it again. Over time though, it grew to be the store where people went for basic staples, and so the way they sourced products probably changed to a more traditional model that grocery stores use, where many of the more perishable products are regionally sourced.

So what you experienced with the Sonoma Chicken Salad (which, I commend your appreciation, that used to be a favourite of mine to get for lunch) is likely a result of them just being completely different products made in different places by different companies.

Trader Joes in the 90's and early 2000's was a cool quirky grocery store to pick up some fun stuff and good wine to round out the weekly grocery shopping. TJ's in 2024 feels like Kroger standing on Whole Foods shoulders wearing a trench coat.
Somehow, in high school around that same period, while everyone was over on Winamp, it was still my favorite to both catalogue/tag and listen to the ~80GB library I had back then.. Genuinely can't remember why, though, but I do remember everyone else hated it.
Harold Cohen and Aaron–A 40-Year Collboration
Mmm I don't really agree with the premise of the question at all. In my experience Google doesn't ship significantly faster than any other FAANG.

Meta for example ships extraordinarily quickly (see: Threads) but their products are considerably more tightly integrated and demonstrate an ability to leverage across the ecosystem (see: Instagram-Threads integration) that Google has trouble with.

More to the point (and extra points in favor of Meta for this): Google's apparent product velocity is a bit deceptive? The company ships a lot of ill-considered product. Is it superior product velocity if the product is consistently half-baked (and maybe more importantly: will die before it ever becomes fully baked)?

If you put those two factors together and consider product velocity as how quickly a company ships stuff that actually sticks (as opposed to a simple exercise in how quickly one can release code), Google's product velocity is IMO substantially inferior to all of FAANG. Meta, Apple, Amazon, and MSFT at this point are generating sticky product at a substantially greater pace.
It’s called curiosity

Gathering information about your environment

And also social interaction. Can’t be solitary hunter 24/7.

Men’s brains seem to be far better suited to embrace long abstract solitary activity (like math or programming) than women’s, on average and also at the extreme ends. Probably because of evolutionary psychology. But still even men have limits and need to take a break from sustained solitary activity, and socialize. Even if the actual socialization doesn’t produce any long-term deliverables, it helps center you psychologically.

Given the rise in remote work, I wouldn’t be surprised if FB/Apple hijack that to move interactions from the watercooler to the “metaverse”. I already see a lot of young men (not women btw) “wasting” hours on various Discord gamer / political voice chats.

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Is-There-Any...
Don't blame Google. Blame "Play Store". Probably the company behind it doesn't want Gemini to succeed.
Make it an option. I should be able to block my number from the receiver of the call if I choose. The receiver should be notified the number is blocked and can choose accordingly. The fact that numbers can be spoofed is what should be illegal. Any company making calls should have to identify themselves to the person receiving the call.
"FCC announces that artificial voices are indeed artificial."
Show HN: Generate a cover letter from your resume
Infamous Dropbox comment vibes.
I wonder how this compares to QuickJS.
Ask HN: I made a mistake, role is not a good fit
When I chose my current role all the interviews were online over Zoom. Once I started, in person, in the office, I found that it is radically not what I expected. It is fractically a bad fit and I mean that the fractal surface of this poor fit is infinite. I feel like I don't belong here but there's a terrible recession and I need the money. But my big question is what do I say in the next interview? I won't be able to name a single positive thing I did here. I was taught if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. How do you "spin" a total and complete bad role fit?
Nice to see the author here! I have to say: I really like whats going on in Windows world from a developer perspective in the recent years. I am a hardcore Linux fanboy for decades but I have to admit that PowerShell, WSL, vscode, Windows Terminal and the recent open source strategy sounds very appealing to me. This is something MS/Win does much better in recent days compared to, for instance, Apple/Mac OS.

I would love to see a tighter integration of winget into Windows. I recently used a fresh MS Windows Server 2023 installation and had a bad day to even get winget installed.

I really hope that the current strategy does not turn out as somewhere between "embrace" and "extend"...
Training an LLM isn't just "scanning some documentation"
I mean, being a succesful ceo at a declining company is much harder than being one at a growing company. At a growing company you just have to not screw up, and a declining company you have to actually turn things around. It doesn't seem totally unreasonable to get higher pay doing a harder job (presuming she is actually good at her job)
Yes. Completely redesigning how phones work is exactly what we need. This problem is only going to get worse.
Oh my.. useful!!!

Now do all the grocery stores!
Toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world
this works for water storage, and some for hydro generation, but for hydro stroage, you really want two large basins with as big of a elevation change as possible.

This is because dams are very expensive, have height limitations, and some inherent risk. Hover dam is only ~200 meters high. The big hydro storage projects have height changes ~400 meters.
User error, I had to discard the snapshot state first - just like in normal vbox ;)
But before that, forums existed that let you subscribe to threads in your forum account. It's just that the mundane masses used them a little less than the geeky folk. All Reddit added was stealing the upvote/downvote thing from Slashdot and Digg.
Outlook(+Hotmail) is the third most popular email service. Just 3x smaller than the Gmail. It's definitely the same kind of scale.
Same here. Would love it on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016+.
Algerian here, they do it almost every year when the Bac exams starts.
My spam volume has fallen to close to zero recently. AT&T seems to be blocking quite a few of them.
Is this going to be a fully proper implementation with a sudoers config such that something like

sudo c:\some\path\to\normally_needs_elevation_to_function.exe

will work for my user in my current desktop session without an elevation prompt?
there may be dead people data in there
You can breed a living, tailless rat to produce more rats.
I run a company that automates B2C sales lead follow on multiple channels and we use AI to leave polite messages for folks who consent based on their inquiry.

The problem we are solving is that about 1/3 of all web leads are fraudulent. Our clients are having trouble sorting through which leads are real people who want to do business and which ones are bots/BS. This ruling is disappointing.

There are better ways to solve this problem, as described for many years here and elsewhere there should be "postage" for messaging and calling. Sender pays, and they get their money back in full if the recipient responds. Costs spammers millions, costs normal people nothing or very close.