skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Siri won't learn from Safari activity, anymore?

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

If Siri would be the one benefiting (which is what you seem to be saying?) then it wouldn’t give Safari an unfair advantage.

No virtual assistants have been designated as gatekeepers under the DMA so preferential treatment of Siri would still be allowed.

That said, to my knowledge Siri doesn’t “learn” from Safari in the sense that it improves or trains on Safari user data.

Instead Safari, and all other apps, including third party apps, can provide information to Siri to be shown during search as well as providing shortcuts so the app can be controlled via Siri.
Users have control over this to a degree so they can exclude information from certain apps.

Alternative voice assistants offer similar APIs to receive information and support voice commands for third party services.

> and a dozen other similar questions...

I’m all ears.
Pulp Fiction is nihilistic tho. I like that, nihilism can be fun to watch. But nihilistic it is.
BTW, may be helpful if you identify your socionics type (sociotype)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socionics

Also may be helpful your astrology sign.

"Where can representatives of the Zodiac signs look for love in the second half of February 2024?

Aquarius is the eleventh sign from Aries. Accordingly, Aries, remember if you have a certain pretty person hanging out in your friend zone. Also, visit companies more often these days.

Taurus, Aquarius is the tenth sign for you. Look in government agencies or in places where the cream of society gathers.

Gemini, you should pay attention to those with whom you studied at the University. You can look for love on a trip abroad. You can also go to church, just don’t make a sad face there.

Cancer, love can come to you in extreme situations during these two weeks. You can also go into the bank and shoot around with your eyes, you’ll see what happens.

Leos, love will find you on its own, you are so magnificent. Shine as always.

Virgos, you can go in search of love to your usual places - medical institutions, bird markets, veterinary hospitals. You can also have an affair at work. Forget at least for a while about your hyper-responsibility.

Libra, go where people enjoy life - festive events, restaurants, theaters, entertainment centers.

Scorpios, fate will find you at home in these two weeks. You can actually sit at home and look out the window.

Sagittarius, your places to hunt for love are shops, schools, public transport.

Capricorns, go to places where people eat. And you will be happy.

Aquarius, just like Leo, you just need to shine during these two weeks. No matter where, no matter with whom. Love will fall on you unexpectedly in an Aquarius way."
:)
Opt out.
GLP1 RAs do reduce "food noise" and cravings, but remember they don't necessarily work for everyone and do have some side effects that can be severe.

Most of the anecdotal data is right on though -- cravings are lessened, you stay full emptier (the result of delayed gastric emptying), and should even think about food less.
Gemini Advanced 1.0 model or 1.5?

1.5 is not available in the Gemini ChatGPT like interface. It is only available through AI Studio. But you have to signup for a waitlist.
That actually works? They don't detect and counter common VPN providers? What about the bandwidth, can you stream hd over it?
Looks like electric car manufacturers have poor taste… (BTW, 'Seal', 'Dolphin', 'Seagull' is still much butter than Elon's teenager leet speak joke…)
"The queen is ________"

The model predicts a 99% chance that the next word is "alive" and a 1% chance that it's "dead".

The llm calculates probabilities. How does it actually choose the word? It throws a weighted die. It literally chooses one at random (albeit on a custom probability distribution).

So tell me, what how can you eliminate hallucinations from something that is literally designed to pick stuff at random?

Hallucinations will never be removed from these types of llms. Hallucinations are fundamental to how they work. In the sense that even the "good" outputs are hallucinations picked out at random from a probability distribution.

Any company that says they can control hallucinations, in any way, is flat out lying.
Why the Tech Industry Won't Disrupt Health Care
Can you explain why concurrency within processing a request makes things difficult for Rails?
I guess that bird could be spying on you. Jokes aside, this is natural drone photography.

I can imagine you would be even more successful with targeted photography from a trained bird.
> In my experience, the key to maintaining readability is developing a healthy respect for locality

I think this pursuit of "locality" is what actually causes more complexity. And I think its mainly around our obsession with representing our code as text files in folder hierarchies.

> coarsely structure codebases around CPU timelines and dataflow

This is why I would prefer code to be in a database, instead of files and folders, so that structure doesn't matter, and the tree view UI can be organized based on runtime code paths, and data flow - via value tracing.

> don’t pollute your namespace – use blocks to restrict variables/functions to the smallest possible scope

Everyone likes to be all modular and develop in tiny little pieces that they assemble together. Relying on modularization means that when stuff changes upstream in the call stack, we just hack around these changes adding some conditionals to handle these changes instead of resorting to larger refactors. People like this because things can keep moving instead of everything breaking.

Instead, what we need to do is make it easier to trace all the data dependencies in our programs so that when we make a change to anything, we can instantly see what depends on it and needs updating.

I have actually started to think that, against conventional wisdom, everything should be a global variable. All the issues with global variables can be solved with better tracing tooling.

Instead we end up with all these little mini-databases spread all over our code, when what we should have is one central one from which we can clearly see all the data dependencies.

> group related concepts together

Instead, we should query a database of code as needed...just like we do with our normalized data.
Came here to say this.

Very cool project but unfortunately the name is immediately a trademark issue.
Do you know anything at all about how all those artists got paid?

Why is it on the exploited to figure it out?

“Sorry bud, I know I keep holding you up for money. You really ought to figure out a way not to get robbed.”
Bits Credit Card (YC S20) Is Hiring
> HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io

We do? No we don't? I don't even know what those are.
Most media is forgettable and always has been. If anything has changed it's that we're consuming more of it, and it takes more for any given thing to stand out enough for it be something special, while more of what we consume isn't the peak of whats on offer.

There's also less shared context. E.g. I firmly believe that a lot of our memories of a lot of the media we've consumed in the past is down to conversations about it reinforcing it as much as the initial memory.
"Pisces, Aquarius is your 12th sign. Therefore, devote these two weeks to walks in nature or helping the orphaned and wretched of all stripes, try yourself in the role of Mother Teresa and you will be happy."
HN has been under downward quality pressure for a long time. Figuring out how to withstand it has been the core idea all along:

HN is an experiment. As a rule, a community site that becomes popular will decline in quality. Our hypothesis is that this is not inevitable—that by making a conscious effort to resist decline, we can keep it from happening. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

pg wrote that over 15 years ago. I've been saying for (a mere) 10 years that we're trying to stave off the arrow of internet entropy: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... – not doable forever, no doubt, but doable for a while if we expend enough energy.

Based on experience so far, the way to do this is through a combination of a dedicated community, software that does what software can, and moderation to bump the system out of its failure modes.

Trying to hide from the outside world is mostly not the way. pg used to do tricks like Erlang Day on occasion, but having that as the main strategy would be like trying to avoid infection by never going outside. Far better is to have a robust immune system, if possible. Trying to avoid (resistible) pathogens weakens the immune system, and hiding HN from new users is a path to decrepitude. The latter is probably a greater threat IMO, and too easy for established users to discount.

Spam, and its cousins like content marketing, could kill HN if it became orders of magnitude greater—but from my perspective, it isn't the hardest problem on HN. That's because of the dedicated community, which flags these things, reports them when they escape in the wild, and is vigilant about quality. Without such a community, HN would have died long ago.

By far the harder problem, from my perspective, is low-quality comments, and I don't mean by bad actors—the community is pretty good about flagging and reporting those; I mean lame and/or mean comments by otherwise good users who don't intend to and don't realize they're doing that. There's an unholy dynamic between those and the upvote system, so worse comments often get upvoted more than better comments do—often enough to choke the threads with weeds. That's the high-order bit and what I spend more time worrying about—not Cassandra E Oakley and her trading system*, nor the latest startup voting ring and whatnot. If those ever become the high bit, we might be doomed, but we should see it happening long enough in advance to readjust.

p.s. (@dang doesn't work - I only saw this by accident. Well, not by accident because it ended up at the top of the thread)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425371 - unkilled for the occasion
Couldn’t you solve this problem with something like this:

https://ruby-concurrency.github.io/concurrent-ruby/master/Co...
Wait isn't that just an application of Taylor expansion which analysis has known about for several hundreds of years?
You are incorrect. It is not a valid argument - it's profiling, uncharitable assumptions, and ad-hominem attacks with no actual logic, or any redeeming qualities whatsoever for that matter.

My language was "Would you be willing to consider the possibility" - a polite request. There's no way that a logical person could even read that as either a command or like I was acting as "the voice of the majority" or "a plurality of users" - you pulled that out of thin air

Dang is not a tool or an idiot - if he thinks something is a bad idea, he won't do it. If he thinks that it might be worth doing, he'll think about it. If he needs to poll users, he will.
Someone correct me if I am wrong but isn't DDR5 ECC by default? I know this from an anecdote that I used to enable XMP all the time in my builds and run RAM stability tests, none ever caught anything but on my DDR5 builds, if I turned on XMP and played a game for an extended period, I'd get a BSOD after 4-5 hours, which I figured is the ECC built into DDR5 flagging something unexpected.
In conclusion, naming is hard, not naming is harder.
Many of the issues that come up with applied information theory to practical code are of the form "oh, but it won't be fast if we do it that way". The end of the article links Alan Kay discussing STEPS and how it solves many computing. fundamentals needed for a desktop in miniscule amounts of code. One of the comments to that video, made five years ago, dismisses it as unrealistic ivory tower nonsense that can't run fast enough. (Notwithstanding, the presentation was given on a running system demonstrating the proof of concept)

But there is a similar sentiment to Kay's from the bottom-up viewpoint. The Forth community, who have made livings on implementing this kind of succinct design in commercial settings, tend to point to hardware manufacturers themselves as the primary difficulty. Their business is to sell you more hardware than you need, and that leads them towards doing nothing to help with the software crisis, but rather, to encourage processing and I/O to be complex things to reason about, with complex protocols and mystery-meat drivers. If you have to use USB, Bluetooth, TCP/IP...you're stuck. Nobody wants to deal with those hot potatoes. You can't address it properly by running up the abstraction stack and doing "everything in the browser". That's playing nicely with the standards instead of attacking them. When software companies play along and say "well, it's the standard so we have to use it," their problem gets deeper.

Some room could be conceded to say that some of that complexity is essential, but one of the ways in which we describe progress in science and technology is to find solutions that are lighter and simpler to understand, e.g. instead of astronomical tables describing "Earth at the center of the universe" epicycles, smaller equations describing orbits around the Sun.
Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’ for the first time
Indeed. Athena is a pretty popular database service and is trademarked by AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/

I would expect a cease and desist at some point.
Even without reading the article, you can imagine things like "Runner A beats runner B in a sprint. Runner B beats Runner A in a marathon. Which one is faster?"

The title suggests that different VPNs are fastest in different measures/tests, so no single VPN is clearly "fastest" in aggregate.
Seems a bit strange to put spaces around (some!) J primitives, but not around K primtives.
> Microsoft keeps paying the bills

For those who may not know it: SPJ was employed at Microsoft Research for a long time. He recently moved to Epic Games, where he co-developed the Verse language.
Companies will probably stop using these kind of chat bots if people keep exploiting them. Not that anyone should do that. But I'm just saying that's probably what they would do.
This is really solid advice -- changing the idea of losing weight to being less about "calories in calories out" and more about managing insulin is probably worth doing.

The "how" of releasing fat that you've laid out here is a really excellent explanation -- a lot of trends like intermittent fasting gets these results, but there's not enough discussion about the how/why laid out like you just have.

Would you mind sharing some of the resources you built this view from? You noted some sources below, but if you've got some more specific stuff you looked at, would love to read it.
there's a little toggle at the bottom (simple mode on/off) where the user can toggle on all elements and see what's hidden. It also informs them about what they're seeing is a simplified version.
It isn’t love of old Reddit, it sucked, you needed RES to make it usable.

It’s hate of the new Reddit, plain and simple. Well deserved might I add, it embodied the new priorities of the site: number go up.

I quit Reddit cold turkey when they took Apollo away.
While lifestyle businesses are the first step in their process to free your own time to swing for something bigger, check out the Microconf channel on YouTube.

Covers all the angles including for non technical founders.
Interesting take: Thats because at the time people had not developed consciousness yet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_...
I have bought Skyrim a few times, for different platforms and some special edition stuff
Yet there are common complaints about how slow emacs is, same for VSCode performance.

And a better wheel is much harder (but there is a feature request for helix mode, that's more innovative than vim, maybe they'll add that)
Older phones perhaps? I am using Galaxy S8+, Model number: SC-03J. Been recording calls for the last 6 years.
There are user flairs on old reddit too. You can see the persons karma if you hover over their username. But even if that wasn't the case, Reddit (99.98% of the time) sucks, regardless of what UI you use.
Good point. I'm not sure the bad guys take time to clean the base or even care. But for sure the edgy/grey area one would. Still, i'm more confident about this solution than relay emails from any service (even Firefox) that could potentially lock me out eventually.
I often do not read the articles until a comment points out it’s really worth it.
> ancient Greece, is completely alien to the modern US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(disambiguation)#United_S...
Awesome effort but I also kind of hate stuff like this. I just feel like there are more constructive ways to waste time. But I guess everyone has a right to waste their time how they want.

Still tempted to use the flag link though. So maybe that's actually a compliment to the author in a weird way.
> I wish that these legends were taught to Western students as mandatory.

Agreed. Due to colonial history, the entirety of "Western Education" has a decidedly "European" slant. "Eastern Civilizations" are covered only as much as they are "Exotic". But in this current day and age History needs to taught in a truly "Global" manner.
The default DDR5 ECC is not exposed to the outside, not reported to the OS.

You only caught errors on DDR5 because it's stability is very brittle. Market forces push it to the limit - everybody cares about the MT/s and runs XMP unlike previous generations.
Using content representations to create Open Graph images
This approach is fine for static websites, but for web applications you should probably block requests to /.git so that people can’t clone your application off of the web.
Out of curiousity, how is a scammer that has hundreds of thousands of actual real people under it handled? Are all of those hundreds of thousands of users banned as well? Not even talking about scammers, if someone near the root of the tree has a bad day and decides to take it out on the community (or simply gets hacked), it seems you could lose the entire community.
If you studied biology then you ought to know better.
I'd wager you will find far more Westerners who are familiar with (some of) the Eastern classics than the other way round. No idea how you would come to believe that the reverse is the case, or that correction is needed in that regard.

In fact, I suspect that more people in the West have read the Tao Te Ching or The Art of War than the Iliad, by quite a margin (if only because of the difference in length). The former two are certainly much more common to see in bookstores than the latter.

Also, I'm not sure whether Beowulf should be counted among the "foundations of Western Civilization". It's very rarely read outside the Anglosphere, and even there its importance is primarily linguistic.
> I think you mean insinuated, not insulted (I hope I'm not being insulting).

I meant what I typed. Claiming that a human being "is an algorithm if you abstract enough" is an insult. I hope you can see that?

> If you want the AI version of pain

> If you want to know why people or animals experience pain

> If you want AI with literal neurons that can feel "pain"

Look. I find it fascinating how a simple question can be evaded with so much insistence and gaslighting.

I don't want any of that. I didn't ask for that.

I said an LLM is not a being. It's an algorithm. You claimed that "So are you, if you abstract enough."

If I am to be reduced to an algorithm, then all I want is an explanation of how I am supposed to be that if you can't explain the algorithmic nature of the most fundamental aspects of a (human) being. If you can't, maybe you should consider that your claim is not only wrong, but potentially a sophisticated intellectual form of pseudo-legitimized dehuminization? (And we shouldn't be calling LLMs "artificial beings".)

> The world only cares about inputs and outputs.

This way of thinking is the source of all the issues we are facing right now. It screams "I need more suffering". You have been conditioned into believing that. But it doesn't stand up to the simplest test!
I do the same using self-hosted email, and wrote a web UI for Postfix virtual domain management to streamline this:

https://github.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb
> For example, in parts of Iliad bronze is given as a valuable gift. In other parts, it’s thrown away on the heads of spears and arrows. So was it composed before or after the fall of the Bronze Age?

I'm confused by what paradox do you see there - the most useful metal you can get always gets put on spears and arrows, it's not "throwing things away", it's the most important usage for high quality metal, and it is a valuable gift exactly because it allows you to make more or better spearheads and arrowheads. What would they be saving for otherwise? Shovels are important, but your spear is literally a matter of life and death and does get priority.

Also, it's not generally destroyed or discarded, all the valuable stuff does get picked up from battlefield afterwards.
> Because it 1000% is, and China is engaging in the same game today.

So China is exporting it's movie such as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir to saturate America market with it's propaganda? Can you offer any example of that happening?

The truth however, is that as soon as when China steps out of their line, America clamps down really hard. There are real world example of this happening/happened. I'm not really sure why you're painting a picture showing how weak America is when in the reality it's not the case at all.

Also, there are way more America heros in the movies than Asian ones. If everything you saw in a movie was just few Asian dudes acting cool, and it got you agitated... then maybe just wait for few years until Hollywood seeks it's new diversity hotness to show off.

> Tribal thinking at it's finest. I'd save Mr. Ryan and Mr. Zhao.

So, what you were saying is that, it's "Tribalism" if in the story Mr Miller only saved Ryan brothers, but did not but also save German soldier Mr Altenburg, Mr Bachmann and Mr Chmielewski and his 5 month old pet cat who fired at you following their orders?

I mean, how do you save someone who's actively endangering your life from a distance? I imagine it would be really hard.

Plus, do US soldier really consider to save the life of their opponents in real life during an operation? Not judging anything there, just trying to be realistic.
Nostalgia is just another form of depression -Abbie Hoffman
I use https://flutterhackernews.web.app/ for top, best, new stories.
https://castle-engine.io/why_pascal

I'm gonna have to put a damper on things, here. Most of the reasons listed are things available in any other modern language (safety, cross-platformness, libraries...) but one of the things cited is readability.

I work on Pascal code 8 hours a day, and it is not more readable then conventional C syntax ; I'd argue it's much less. The fact that you need to use entire words to denote syntax makes it much harder for your brain to parse things : Instead of immediately seeing "this is code structure" and "this is actual code", you need to actually read the words to make that distinction. It is very counter-productive and a bad design solution, imo.

I feel like this page was written 20 years ago. The reasons would have made quite a lot more sense back then, notably about the type safety.
There's no indication that they don't either. I guarantee you he's not alone. Simply because I agree with him. If my time here on HN taught me anything it's that I'm not alone and that there's probably many more who agree but don't do so publicly due to the socially unacceptable nature of certain arguments.

My entire life it's been my experience that the less people involved the better things are in general. There's probably an optimal number of people for every community. I don't really know what that number is but I seriously doubt it's in anyone's best interests to exceed it.