skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough, that was my first idea. But when you consider the tiny keyset size, it would be hard to beat two machine instructions to calculate the hash + a single array lookup.
The Gemini team is not at risk of layoffs. The thing is, I'm not on that team. Also, I wouldn't have spoken up about this even before layoffs, because every training I've taken has made it clear that I shouldn't question this, and I'd have nothing to gain.

In fact, we had a situation kinda like this around 2019, well before layoffs. There was talk about banning a bunch of words from the codebase. Managers and SWEs alike were calling it a silly waste of time. Then one day, someone high up enough got on board with it, and almost nobody said a word as they proceeded to spend team-SWE-months renaming everything.
Artists are brought up as the people supposedly losing work (though no evidence is given), but really the people writing papers like these are the first to have their jobs threatened by ChatGPT.
I think the site and app blockers, timers etc. can be very helpful in the transition and in forming/keeping better habits. But those are just _tools_ and not the _goals_ so I agree hundred percent with your main message.
There is nothing wrong with being a startup and being solidly profitable, you know?

Only VC-backed startups need to "take over the world" because the VCs need their 10x rockstar.

A company doing $50 million per year with a handful of employees is going to be way more profitable for everybody than a VC-fueled rocket that has a 99% chance of flaming out. Remember MP3.com? Lots of San Diego tech people still do ...

I view the original assessment as "San Diego tech workers understand the reality of their value and can't be taken for a ride by venture capitalists--woe is me."

I found that San Diego tech workers generally have higher clue than most geographic areas.

The less experienced are very solid workers and learn really quickly. However, they're not 4 year Stanford students with filthy rich parents who can afford to go bankrupt multiple times. They're coming from community colleges and state schools, and they need to earn money. In return, they'll work their ass off for you.

In addition, there are quite a few very experienced greybeards scattered in that scene (tech in San Diego goes WAY back--Linkabit spawned a bunch and computers were huge early--Silicon Beach Software and PC Power and Cooling for example). However, they are going to demand appropriate compensation and will not put up with bullshit. I love working with them.

Don't like the San Diego tech scene? Your loss--my gain.
Americans are facing a credit card debt crisis
I specifically mentioned fee waivers and ignoring edge cases doesn't make the current method good. But I'm not making a large case about why standardized testing is bad. Like I said, these are my only hang ups. I'm not trying to put you out of business.
How many news websites block AI crawlers?
What's changed? The interface and primitives available for building applications. Rather than having to create a blockchain, we can _use_ a blockchain to do the timestamping.

Our insight is that this is still too hard to have quick access to use the blockchain meaningfully. So this service is a wrapper around those blockchain/cryptography primitives making it easy to create and lookup. It's the indexing part that can make the difference between a useful app in theory and in practice. In theory anyone could read the blockchain and create their own index from certain data on it...in practice that's more work than most will do... hence this kind of service.
Can a solar flare be to blame for the AT&T nationwide outage?
Yes, I believe this too.

I also believe humans are more likely to pick one of the 4/8 losing moves if you open center than one of the 7/8 losing moves if you open corner, though.
I'm curious which of these images you'd say it looks like the most?

https://www.google.com/search?q=sun+corona+during+solar+ecli...

With things like this it's always so impossible to tell if everybody is altering the brightness and so forth.
AI for improved education is noble, but what's the point of learning when AIs are going to do everything better than us in a few years?

I already struggle with some intellectual laziness after subscribing to GPT4, which is fairly out of character for me. Why should I expend the mental energy on something when it can do the task for me? Now imagine GPT5, 6, and so on.

People who "learn" are going to become a rarity.
> People made this argument every time a new thing gets automated, and so far they've been completely wrong.

People make the argument every day that I will die one day. They've been completely wrong so far, this proving that the argument is wrong.
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See the Alexis de Tocqueville quote above.

The real magic is that, you will believe you chose that, and that you
want it. You'll look back at digitally revised history - available not
as "documents" to search, but as 'answers' from the system to your
questions - and recoil at the horror of the primitive pre-AI world.
So, they block all bad actors, but themselves?
Read "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" , much better. And funnier.
Later, "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".
>An addition [sic] to information...

That's not what they are addicted to.
App Deep Dive: Twitter vs. X
This is my bet; and mayyybe some external bad actors taking advantage of the situation on top of that.
My experience over about 30 years is that 90% of engineers I’ve seen, including applicants, are male and 60% are Asian. I’d estimate I’ve encountered about 5,000 engineers. I wasn’t tallying so this includes whatever bias I have as a North American tech worker.

But most engineers are not white as far as I’ve experienced.
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In this case it does make sense for Intel to catch up - right now NVIDIA is a quasi-monopoly in the AI space due to the stranglehold on CUDA - and all competitors are working day and night to close the gap in the toolchain.

I think it's a plausible conservative prediction that Intel will close the gap somewhat and will have a significant (but not dominant) slice of the pie.
Even so, high IQ was a trait that was transmitted through the eons, ergo high IQ individuals in the past used to still have children. I don't think your theory reflects the differences between the past and today's contraception technology tools.

Think of a high IQ man in the late 1700. He can see that having children incurs enormous costs, both financially, emotionally, in terms of time, freedom etc. He can choose to never marry, and just keep being a womanizer. He may have LOTS of unrecognized offspring, that are very hard to be attributed to him, and so pass his genes along. He just want to have sex, reproducing is not at all in his mind. Sex is good and he likes it, so he does it. That's the trick nature plays in order to make 1700 man to pass his genes.

Now in the 21st century, basically no high IQ man would go around having unprotected sex, since the costs associated nowadays are still enormous, probably even more so than 300 years ago, and today those costs are easily enforceable through the judicial system. So 21st century high IQ man, on average, will have a LOT less children than he used to have in the past. Sex is still good, and he will have a lot of it. But now nature's trick stopped working. The sex drive per se is not effective anymore when coupled with a high capacity brain that wants to avoid the costs of having to care for another human beings. So, this trait, high IQ, will be selected out of the gene pool over time.

In the case of high IQ women it's the same story. In the past, with a lot less effective and readily available contraceptive methods, smart women were probably a lot more at risk of having unexpected pregnancies. Nowadays, unexpected pregnancies are basically an IQ test for women.
by itself, not telling of anything per se.

like, you could commit a dumb BGP config and break lots of stuff. have done that in the past, actually...

but any time a national-tier ISP has a national-level outage, that warrants a look from multiple orgs. and given the number of threat actors like china, NK, iran, and russia, who are, and have, made aggressive efforts in this space -- and have strong reasons to do so now -- its not crazy for the US fed'gov to want to know a little more, and offer to help. but again, entirely possible it's unrelated.
I would not take her at her word
That's pretty much my impression any time I read an Axios article. They took a normally formatted article with paragraphs, and separated out random sentences and phrases into bullet points. They try to introduce some cognitive organization around the concepts of "what happened" and "why it matters", which isn't terrible, but often it just seems like bullet points inserted at random.
That struck me as well. While the training data is biased in various ways (like media in general are), it should however also contain enough information for the AI to be able to judge reasonably well what a less biased reality-reflecting balance would be. For example, it should know that there are male nurses, black politicians, etc., and represent that appropriately. Black Nazi soldiers are so far out that it sheds doubt on either the AI’s world model in the first place, or on the ability to apply controlled corrections with sufficient precision.
Currying (of functions) named after Haskell Curry[1], after whom Haskell is also named.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
This is an ideological belief system which is on by default. Who should get to decide which ideology is on by default? And is having an option to turn that off sufficient to justify having one be the default? And once that has been normalized, do we allow different countries to demand different defaults, possibly with no off switch?
Thanks - this was one of the main inspirations for building Strada! We had many conversations with integration developers and when we asked to see their workflows, we saw a lot of complexity in their low-code platforms that could have been made simpler with a more code-first approach.

One particular conversation that stood out was a developer that had to chain 6 layers of low-code blocks, just to flatten a JSON response. In this case he wished that he could write a simple recursive function to solve the same task.
That’s ridiculous.

Banking the plane is a nice gesture to help everyone experience a special occasion.
Got it, we considered it but most connectors that we pull from don't support this. Might bring it back for the ones that do, thanks for the suggestion!

It's actually still in the code, just none of the connectors implement it atm: https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer/blob/main/backend/dans...
I think this is a great point. If AI becomes much better at certain tasks than humans, this will devalue human labor and cause a power shift towards AI companies which will act as gate keepers. I mean, let's face it, AI is not going to get democratized (at least not the state-of-the-art stuff – that one will always be under tight control). And even if models and hardware schematics were public, the average Joe would still not know what to do with that.
Lmao my thermostat in Germany was in Fahrenheit because the previous occupant disliked the inaccuracy of Celsius since the """software""" allowed the room to get colder before kicking in while in C.
The Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984 would have loved this sort of thing. Why go to the work of manually rewriting history when you can just generate a new one on demand?

It is disturbing how much of our sense of reality is based on media we absorb rather than experiences we have. I imagine that we all agree that media depicting solely minorities as criminals has a negative effect, but I think that applies to all false representation. Most police aren’t actually thugs, and media portraying them thus may actually lead them to think of themselves that way. Soldiers aren’t automata who blindly follow orders. A 90-pound teenager probably isn’t going to be able to defeat a 220-pound brawler. And on & on. But if one subsists on a diet of lying media and AI for long enough, one might believe these things.

Generative AI should strive to be actually unbiased. That means it should not skew numbers in either direction, for anyone.

On another generative-AI note, it is remarkably difficult to get ChatGPT to use the masculine pronoun to refer to unknown persons. Including ‘prefer masculine pronouns’ tends to result in sentences such as ‘Hey guys, this bad boy sure is great, man’ as opposed to just ‘this item is great’ — and can still end up with superfluous ‘they’ anyway!
Plus you can still 'subscribe' to channels you like without even logging in!
Your justification for your conclusion that there is no such thing as consensus seems to be that some people in California insist they live in Mexico.

But isn’t there, in fact, overwhelming consensus that this person lives in California?

There’s a guy who lives under an overpass near my house who thinks he is Jesus Christ but it doesn’t seem particularly useful to draw many conclusions from his claim.
Some landing page nitpicks:

- Your video opens up in 25% smaller window than the screenshot, which is weird, only way for me to really see whats going on in the video is by making it full screen, on a 27-inch 4k display where now it's just too large.

- I don't know if you're just talking that fast or you sped up the video, but I had to for the first time in my life change the speed of a video to 0.75x just to understand what you were saying.
Something I'm not seeing discussion on:

What is/were the cascading effects of this, particularly for drivers?

Many people in buildings were unaffected, as they could fallback to wifi. But I imagine this had a pretty broad impact to drivers.

Just a few things I can think of:

- Packages delayed (UPS, FedEx, Amazon, truck drivers, etc.) for drivers that relied on their phone's mapping apps to get them to their deliveries

- Uber/Lyft/taxi/etc. drivers not able to get directions to their pickups/dropoffs

- Traffic worsened because drivers weren't able to optimize their routes, or even get directions to their destination

Maybe larger companies have their own infra for this, or have redundancy in place (e.g. their own GPS devices)?

I'm curious to hear thoughts on whether these (and others) were impacted, or if there are ways they're able to get around this.

Also, unrelated to drivers, I can imagine there is/was a higher risk of not getting treated for emergencies due to not being able to make calls (I'm not sure whether/how emergency calling was impacted).
You can tell apart a capital "I" from a lowercase "L". The lowercase "L" has a tail on the end. Granted the capital "I" doesn't have a crossbars, but that's usually reserved for serif fonts, not san-serif.
Right the nonce–the "dibs code"–is there so that you can't just copy a known sha256 and claim it as your own. You have to at minimum have the file, and to prove you have it one way is to come up with some random data and hash that random data + the actual data. Then others can do the same to show that it indeed matches. Once a nonce is used it can't be re-used for the same reasons.

The AI use case is an interesting one.
I think the biggest problem I've run into with company documentation is that the relevant docs either don't exist at all or are woefully out of date. Sure, there might be a procedure doc that spelled out how to handle a particular type of issue, but it has probably been updated three times in Slack DMs and twice on Zoom calls since the doc was actually written. And maybe at least once, the company has "declared bankruptcy" on, say, Confluence, and half-converted a few things over to Notion.

If Danswer could surface the "official" answer, such as it is, but then also note how old the authoritative doc is, and which teams have been messaging about it and/or scheduling calls with related names more recently, and then tell me who's responsible on that team for knowing the actual procedure, I'd never need another tool!
> Also they will have leverage when negotiating deals with TSMC

Except Intel hasn't talked about price at all...they have a completely different cost structure that isn't competitive at all. Think about AMD gross margin vs. Intel's gross margin. AMD has similar...all while giving TSMC 50%+ gross margin also. Now tell me Intel's cost will be similar to TSMC...
My fav icons library. The designer is legend
I prefer my car to having a horse. But the car did eliminate the horse.

There is a speed at which people can train for new jobs X, and a speed at which new jobs displace old jobs Y. If Y is twice X then your talent pool is half what it could be.

If Y shrinks to only days and X plateaus then the human body becomes just robotic hands that the computer tells what to do. Unthinking meat, incapable of making a decision, never aware of the implications of the decisions that are made on its behalf.

The ratio of the population chanting "Butlerian Jihad now" is currently small. How can I capitalize on a belief that this number grows fast?
Thank you. Is there any specific functionality that you are looking for that is not mentioned or perhaps done poorly in Text Lambda?

There are definitely lots of 'notebook' products out there, and they all excel in their own ways by making different trade-offs. Standardnotes, Obsidian etc. support user-side encryption but in my opinion they are not as versatile as they could be. I am also keeping it plain-text only for a few reasons that are important to me:

1. keep the UI straightforward and efficient to use
2. provide seamless integration with popular text editors (emacs, vim, vs-code)
3. support some nice functionality for editing structured text like markdown and org (like org-mode in Emacs)

I can consider some hybrid approach in the future if the 3 things above are not affected.
> I just generally feel that perhaps this article and what you are referring to have something very specific in mind when you talk about webhooks and what they're used for.

I'm not the author or GP but I think you're right and can give my two cents. The specific thing these authors have in mind is a SaaS that offers an HTTP API to manipulate data and a set of HTTP webhooks to notify users about changes in the data. *If* the only thing SaaS users do within their webhook handler is make an API request back to the same SaaS, then the argument is there's a bunch of unnecessary work to shuffle bits back and forth across the internet when the SaaS could just offer to run a function.

> I'd just argue that there is a much broader set of use cases out there for webhooks...

Agreed, which is why there are many commenters here who are confused. The "webhooks suck" take is overcooked without context.
The growth of LA was also kickstarted by the 1906 SF earthquake, which burnt down ~80% of SF. If you look at the population graph of LA, it tripled between 1900 and 1910, probably due to the relocation of so many people from SF to LA. Here [0] is a paper that discusses the effects of the 1906 earthquake on population growth on the west coast.

[0] https://kaerikss.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/site...
I see 2 things here but you're off by one.
I think GP was referring to themself. Otherwise their comment makes no sense.
CERN's new 91km long 'atom-smasher' could soon reveal how our Universe will end
Jensen was just talking about a new kind of data center: AI-generation factories.
Windows 7 did actually restrict you from logging in at a certain point, I don't exactly remember when but you had to ignore activation for a good bit.
I don't think there is any point to a cloud-spyware terminal, nor should anyone that is security-minded ever touch this thing. Not only that, why are they trying to charge money for a terminal? We already have a dozen better terminals, and they're already FOSS!

I've read through the marketing material, and all they keep doing is repeatedly claiming that they protect your privacy, yet upload everything you do to the cloud and are using it to build an LLM. This will leak internal details of your actions on your own machines, and is probably banned at most companies de facto due to internal policy.

They are also attempting to reputation-wash by moving from Electron to Rust. Certainly, their engineering team made a great decision by dropping the cursed performance-killer spawned from the unholy union of NodeJS and Chrome, but there is no reason for this product to exist in the first place!

Edit: Also, watch out, employees from Warp are lurking about in the HN comments here.
Maybe high IQ has a drawback.
I highly recommend the Unhook extension. It's highly customizable, and personally I have it set to remove all recommendations. Sometimes I also disable the comments.

It's been a year since I've used it, and I definitely see an improvement as the platform is no longer pushing content down to me, but at times I find myself frantically searching channels I used to watch, to see if there is a new video since I last checked. I only remember a dozen at most, way fewer than the ~100 channels I was subscribed to.

Overall an improvement, but I don't consider myself cured.
> There’s also nothing stopping them from building Signal clients such that they’re able to directly connect to each other over the local network and do whatever transfers are required that way.

There's also nothing stopping you (or anyone else here) from adding such a feature. Either into the official, Molly, or one of the other forks.

You may also be interested in this feature request.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-airdrop/37402
> CCP-themed Japanese troll group mainly made up of middle schoolers.

I wouldn't put much weight on their politics.
We sort of agree, I think. Almost anything would be better than what they did, though I still think unless you explicitly ask for black nazis, you never ought to get nazis that aren't white, and at the same time, if you explicitly ask for white people, you ought to get them too, of course, given there are plenty of contexts where you will have only white people.

They ought to try to do something actually decent, but in the absence of that not doing the stupid shit they did would have been better.

What they've done both doesn't promote actual diversity, but also serves to ridicule the very notion of trying to address biases in a good way. They picked the crap attempt at an easy way out, and didn't manage to do even that properly.
You mean not all Native Americans wear headdresses everywhere?
Could be that they’re all generated from the same seed. And we humans are really good at spotting patterns like that.
> it’s quite scary really how different companies have different censorship values

The fact that they have censorship values is scary. But the fact that those are different is better than the alternative.
Sounds like they just built a RAG application on top of OpenAI APIs using Khan's knowledgebase of lesson plans, essays and sample problems.
also basic variables are global. most of these languages let you create global variables anywhere, or at least anywhere outside of a subroutine
The plan was to scan (on device) files that were going to be uploaded to iCloud.
Love this idea. Good luck with everything!
What was difficult about it?
What is your cost analysis on Intel's foundry arm? If AMD can support high profits using TSMC as a supplier...who also has high profits, why do you think Intel can compete on price and make good money?
>Avoiding [addictive thing] is easy, you just...

That is not a true statement for an addict. What's easy to you may be complicated for an addict. Addiction is not necessarily straightforward.
They've had some recent-ish blog posts about it

https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-...
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"Fine-grained pats" is what a herd of cows produces when their feed contains too much fiber.