skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MO of ‘business people’ isn’t inherently ‘quick wins, bleed the company dry’. I have absolutely no idea why techies can be so precious about every problem in their profession actually being a ‘systems problem’ yet are so quick to personally blame each and every person in another profession based on some ‘YouTube video essay’-level understanding of the context.

As usual, it IS a system’s issue. It’s an incentive issue. If the people that made decisions were incentivised to prioritise long-term stability and performance, they would. They aren’t, and the reason they aren’t isn’t solved with a swift “get rid of them all”. You think that these big scary business people you demonise don’t themselves have KPIs? The pressure of corporate America, of short-term returns, is still going to be there. Have you seen how drastically the average shareholding lifespan has dropped over the last 10 years? Businesses are just operating in more of an environment where long-term stability and even growth don’t matter.

Boeing is such an easy target. It’s very easy to just lazily say “Boeing is rotten!” and leave it at that, because then you get to pretend that the solution is easier than it is. Whilst there are definitely Boeing-specific circumstances that heavily heavily contribute, the reality is that Boeing has had few chances to ‘innovate’ in recent memory, especially with its new makeup. This is just what it looks like when they do. The reality is that this is merely a reflection of how the wider world works. And that’s the thing with systems problems. It’s intellectually dishonest to just sit back and “blame MBAs”. These sorts of problems fester in the wiring and the mechanics, with unpredictable consequences that are almost impossible to reverse by the time they’re realised.

The wheels were set in motion before the Boeing merger. It wasn’t a trigger, it was a consequence. Similarly, some “MBAs” making decisions, either with Boeing or investors, were themselves not the trigger. Fate had already been decided several layers up the stack when personal and organisational incentives were set as they are in the first place.
> If you buy a classic vehicle, they don't have these kinds of things either

Not a good analogy, because buying a classic vehicle automatically waives a bunch of safety and other features that are not only expected in modern day, they are straight up legally required.

A car manufacturer cannot remake a classic vehicle from the 80s and release it in the US in 2024. Or, probably, EU too, I cannot speak for that due to my unfamiliarity with vehicle laws there, but afaik they are more strict than the US. It would be just illegal to sell that car. Thin pillars that won’t pass any modern safety tests, no backup camera (which makes it illegal to sell as a new car in the US), not enoug crumple zones, etc.
I have a friend building something like that at https://perfectmemory.ai
I'd love this too!
Why can't electronic keys be duplicated / backed-up?
The Web Headers API isn't Next's own thing. They point you to the MDN docs.

And if you want a route's request object in Next, use a route.js file.
This is very cool. I had a similar idea recently but I had no idea how to correctly parse various sources of event information other than writing custom beautiful soup or similar code for every single source.

Actually, I was thinking that event information could maybe be correctly pulled using AI tools. Admittedly, I'm no AI expert, so I am unsure what open source tools would be best for this.

Anyone know of models that could be given a url, and parse any website and scrape the event data and return it in json with a very high degree of accuracy?

What would be cool is to just give the app a list of bookmarks and get a map like this or even automatically have it parsed into ical format.
Pages like this used to _be_ the world-wide web. Or most of it, anyway. I don't mean the (lack of) page style, I mean the writing. The irreverency of the subject matter. People shared whatever they thought was interesting, without regard to upvotes, likes, number of subscribers, and so on. I miss that a bit.

(Also, it doesn't really get any more mid-90's than a tip of the hat toward Dave Barry...)
But that's exactly because it's trying to be righteous.
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> It looks like the safety filter may have taken offense to the word “Cocktail”! I opened up the safety settings, dialled them down to “low” for every category and tried again. It appeared to refuse a second time.

Google really is its own worst enemy. Their risk management people have completely taken over the organization to a point where somehow the smartest computers ever created are afraid of using dangerous words like "cocktail" or creating dangerous images of people like "Abraham Lincoln."
This specific thing is a much more blatant class of error, and one that has been known to occur in several previous models because of DEI systems (e.g. in cases where prompts have been leaked), and has never been known to occur for any other reason. Yes, it's conceivable that Google's newer, beter-than-ever-before AI system somehow has a fundamental technical problem that coincidentally just happens to cause the same kind of bad output as previous hamfisted DEI systems, but come on, you don't really believe that. (Or if you do, how much do you want to bet? I would absolutely stake a significant proportion of my net worth - say, $20k - on this)
I use it because everyone knows the general set of ideas an adherent of it has, whether or not they claim to be part of the ideology.

Its the same as me using the term "rightoids" when discussing opposition to something like building bike lanes. You know exactly who that person is, and you know they exist.
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shopt -s histverify
There very much is a definition and Psychologists have studied it extensively

It is clearly defined and operationalised for medical diagnostic purposes.

https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/adhd_to...

There seems to be a lack of mental health expertise in the hacker community, so feel free to ask any specific questions and I'll do my best to assist you :)
Judging by the way it words some of the responses to those queries, they "fixed" it by forcibly injecting something like "diverse image showcasing a variety of ethnicities and genders" in all prompts that are classified as "people".
One that left an impression with me was leaving a tooth in a cup of Coke and watching the tooth decay over multiple days.
each generation of models will require larger training clusters... at least from the majors.
Have as much deliberate fun as you want (2023)
This is a customer facing message. People understand brands, they don't understand which browser uses which engine.
>Gaggia Classic Pro coffee machine

I can buy a lot of $20 sale price black and decker coffee pots for the $500 that repairable one costs though. There should be a sweet spot between junk and bougie high end stuff.
I've been a big framework fan, but have had to hit the pause button. They haven't updated the firmware for some models for ~two years, which is not acceptable.

We have two and the AMD still wakes up frequently (latest fw and kernel, not as bad as before) and all are still vulnerable to LogoFail as far as I know.
Also that's what we do since WW2. We are a close ally of the US, use US weapons, usually follow them in foreign policy. So not very surprising imo.
I am fine with private company using my data for showing me better ads. They can't affect my life significantly.

I am not fine with government using the data to police me. Already in most countries, governments are putting people in jail because of things like hate speech where are the laws are really vague.
I doubt it will ever be certified by any aviation authority outside of China, which will pretty much make it the tu204 of CN.
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> Fwiw there is a significant amount of skill involved in choosing how to run simulations

and sometimes a pretty significant amount of memory - these applications use massive amounts of it
It doesn't work. There is no encoding for "OO".
more like everything but laptops. most laptop cpus are good enough nowadays for most peoples workload, so looking for a good cpu is one of the less important factors in buying a new laptop.
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Let's dive deep to understand how Sony launched walkman, how did it scale and what led to its eventual decline.
I don't know nearly enough about the inner workings of their algorithm to make that assumption.

The internet is surely full of racist photos that could teach the algorithm. The algorithm could also have bugs that miss-categorize the data.

The real problem is that those building and managing the algorithm don't fully know how it works or, more importantly, what it had learned. If they did the algorithm would be fixed without a term blocklist.
Not sure such a test suite was desirable
Our perception of the world has become so abstract that most people can't discern metaphors from the material world anymore

The map is not the territory

Sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and the like might find a lot of answers by looking into the details of what is included into genAI alignment and trace back the history of why we need each particular alignment
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Americans have long blamed the overweight. That might be about to change
> better approach would be building up the critical thinking skills of
the population

The term for that is "Intellectual self-defence"

> transfers a measure of power to the people and is a
multigenerational investment

The challenge to that literacy comes not from power riding on
censorship, but from the people themselves who are now conditioned
into an apathetic need for "convenience". Critical thinking is hard
work, and is never rewarded except in the long run.

Also, anti-censorship absolutism must be tempered with what we call
"information hazards". Some of these are genuine, although admittedly
very rare, such as easy instructions to create nuclear weapons or
synthesise a deadly virus. There are just too many idiots in the world
not to want to put a brake on that stuff.
If the page suddenly changed without warning, a lot of people would probably think that they didn’t land on the legitimate login page.
That’s not really how it works. Sell a lot of product happens when capitalism takes hold after the fact to capture profit. See capitalist realism.
Your sentiment is ridiculous. If Upstart, Mudur or name any of the other many init's were better or became better, distro maintainers would switch. They are some of the most pragmatic people.

Politics did not insert systemd into all of your widely-used distros... merit did. Even if that merit isn't what you wanted for your niche requirements.

systemd came late to the next-gen init debate and ate everyone else's lunch.

Now, the bar is high to replace init's again - meaning the next init system will need to be a leap forward instead of marginal/niche improvements.

> I’m using systemd on a thousand machines every day

You are a niche user and have niche requirements. Understand that...
I missed that detail (it was illustrative and intended to be slightly humorous). A few that come to mind from my last few years:

- The modem in question is in the lower floors of a skyscraper. Nobody has good service. Incidentally, till wifi texting and calling became popular, that made forced SMS 2FA way more annoying than it already was -- run outside to catch a bar of service, try to get back to your apartment before the 2FA code expires.

- The modem in question is in the middle of nowhere (or some approximation thereof, like an hour or two out of Laramie WY). You technically have 50 kilobits per second of download throughput, but that's painful when the modem configuration app is 28 megabytes. It doesn't help that modern sites clock in at megabytes, and most of your software and hardware nowadays assumes anything over 10 seconds to a minute or so per request is a failure and times it out, making browsing some sites _literally_ impossible rather than just slow.

- You recently meddled with your APN settings and tweaked the one field that makes your phone helpfully decide to not display that APN entry, and it coincidentally means you don't have data service. Not having memorized 20 random ports and uris and stringly typed feature flags, you can't fix it without outside help.

- Your cell provider decided to increase your rates without notice when the contract renewed. You don't like being surprised by that sort of thing and had a spending cap on the card to prevent it, but you were instead surprised by a lack of cell service.

- Your cell provider's autopay functionality is broken the one day that year you needed it to work (friend's experience, not mine).

- Your cell provider had a bug double-counting data usage the one month you planned to get near the limit. Without internet you can't connect to their customer support to get that fixed (to their credit, customer support was fast and hassle-free).

- You're pinching pennies to get through college. You only have a phone because your bank won't let you in without SMS 2FA. It's only a smartphone because the cheapest of those are cheaper than the cheapest dumb phones nowadays (and you bought it used anyway). You don't have a data plan because that's an extravagent and unnecessary expense. (Why are you buying internet in this event? No clue, but it's another reason somebody might not have cell data, and I'm sure amongst the 3M people in the US with smartphones without a data plan some of them have self-consistent reasons for getting internet at home).

And so on. Any given day, lots of people have smartphones without data.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the detailed answer!
https://360gigapixels.com/london-320-gigapixel-panorama/

Reminded me of this super high resolution panorama photo from it. I think it was a quite impressive achievement at the time (2012)
is that allowed?
don't wanna get banned :)
It just werks 99% of the time. The few problems it brings are for the most part basically just annoyances for people used to working with something else.
This is wrong. If a strategy is actually GTO, then it is unexploitable. Meaning that if you’re playing GTO poker against a super loose player, you may not be maximally exploiting them, but you should certainly not be losing money (in expectation). See Nash Equilibrium
You are right! Sorry totally overlooked this :) Thanks.
> The guard rails are there so that innocent people doesn't get bad responses with porn or racism

That seems pretty naive. The "guard rails" are there to ensure that AI is comfortable for PMC people, making it uncomfortable for people who experience differences between races (i.e. working-class people) is a feature not a bug.
This problem was never reported a single time on our Zulip or by email, but I'm glad you asked, because this choice wasn't obvious:

- The main reason the CLA is there is that earlier versions of Libpijul saw lots of online arguments about its very reasonable GPL2 license, which made me doubt of the choice of GPL2. These arguments were often followed by "@me was there"-style contributions to Libpijul, like applying linter fixes without understanding any of the code. I got scared of having to ask all past contributors for permission to release it under (say) a BSD license (which I have even recently discussed with the FreeBSD maintainers during FOSDEM 2024).

- Also, the fact that the Pijul binary is GPL2 (without a CLA) and dependent on Libpijul forces me, in the case of an evolution of the license, to choose something compatible with GPL2. Deal breaker, really?

- Another goal of the CLA was to experiment with something cool and meta, at the interactions between version control and licensing: I wanted to test the idea that the CLA was a single patch (or a sequence of patches, strictly ordered by dependency), and contributors would be required to add a dependency on the CLA patch. That would make them state in their patches which version of the CLA the agreed with when they recorded. And as Pijul does a lot of dogfooding…

- Other than that, the Pijul plumbing is indeed mostly meant to become just a static algorithm after a while, not many features are missing. The goal of Pijul is to have essentially three core functions, create a patch, apply a patch, unapply a patch.
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Thanks for the info -- this is pretty useful.
Typically I've success sniffing android app interactions if the website seems too hard to scrape.

This gives me another avenue to explore!
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Is there a free and very helpful android remove ads app? or,are there useful lsposed remove ads modules?
are there some tricks to remove the two app ads?
It feels like it wouldn't even be that hard to incorporate into LLM instructions (aside from using up tokens), by way of a flowchart like "if no specific historical or societal context is given for the instructions, assume idealized situation X; otherwise, use historical or projected demographic data to do Y, and include a brief explanatory note of demographics if the result would be unexpected for the user". (That last part for situations with genuine but unexpected diversity; for example, historical cowboys tending much more towards non-white people than pop culture would have one believe.)

Of course, now that I've said "it seems obvious" I'm wondering what unexpected technical hurdles there are here that I haven't thought of.
> publish a word blocklist and people can easily find how to express
problematic things using words that aren't on the list.

I'd love to explore that further. It's not the words that are
"problematic" but the ideas, however expressed?

Seems like a "problematic" idea, no ?
I remember a time when NVIDIA, ATI and 3dFX were neck and neck.

What ever happened?

It shows that the most important move is to simply stay in the game, not just maximize profits

Edit: added ATI which I just remembered!
This answer is too simple. For example, target has incredible surveillance of the parking lot so that they can correlate thieves with vehicles.

I think the real answer is that Kroger simply does not take operations seriously. Theres evidence for this in their app, their self checkout experience, how often sales are not applied, the quality of their produce, how dirty the stores are, the way their merger and acquisition stores are all 1/3 integrated, and more im sure
There's already a wide range for what it means to be a "CNCF graduated project", not it's a list of projects https://www.cncf.io/projects/ that met certain conditions. You could argue about the conditions but being a CNCF graduate project is literary you are on this list.
One could argue that social media has taken its place. Although, the format makes it bite size and within a sea of algorithmic trash.
Being able to ask about stuff other people do seems like it could be ripe with privacy issues, honestly. Even if the model was limited to only recording work stuff, I don't think I would want that. Imagine "how often does my coworker browse to HN during work" or "list examples of dumb mistakes my coworkers have made" for some not-so-bad examples.
1. Ahmm I assume you are using it on PC and you mean events on the front-page are in Cyrillic? You say - "I would like to be able to get from the event to the map pin position." - you mean from front-page to pin on the map or you mean from search to pin on the map?

What do you think about removing the landing page all together and using only the map page?
It's part of the marketing. By saying their models are powerful enough to be gasp Dangerous, they are trying to get people to believe they're insanely capable.

In reality, every model so far has been either a toy, a way of injecting tons of bugs into your code (or circumventing GPL by writing bugs), or a way of justifying laying off the writing staff you already wanted to shit can.

They have a ton of potential and we'll get there soon, but this isn't it.
>It's a straightforward outcome thanks to dropping prices of household electronics. If a new car was the price of a new dishwasher, that would signal the end of car repair shops too.

This, I don't know why so many people fail to recognize this. I suppose part of it is inflation so they forget that basic appliances used to cost 10x what they cost now. My parents had to save up to buy a microwave, I could buy one a week and only be mildly inconvenienced. I just helped a buddy move a fridge that cost ~$1000, that would have been something like $4000 in 1980 dollars.
Thank for the links! I've looked at them, and while they gave me more and interesting information on Pijul, they did not explain how you can work without multiple channels in a realistic development environment. However, from these pages it appears that working with channels in Pijul is more cumbersome than working with branches in Git.
to be honest, I exchange value for attention.
That's what good internet is about.
Im not just promoting stuff for my own sake.
My key goal here is to give as much value as I can first.
If I earn respect this way, then I'm allowed to share my tool.
Apologies are fine, but where are they going next? I saw on Twitter a response to a prompt for "show me an image of a German soldier from 1945" and the results were very...not historically accurate.
I this why simple html interface to Gmail will stop working in March?
Not problematic. Just a little cumbersome. (And ugly, agreed.)

You can't always just copy and paste some text into code, without adding escape encodings.

Now write code that generates C code with strings, that generates C code with strings, and ... (ahem!)

It's not a big deal, but it isn't zero friction either. Relevant here because it might be the most prevalent example of what happens when even two simple grammars collide.
When the iPhone 4 came out and antennagate happened, they gave everyone a plastic case for free.
Right..

I'm in an antiquated space (logistics and wholesale) so most websites aren't hard to scrape and even mimic the auth.

The other avenue I've had success with is sniffing android app traffic to reverse engineer the API calls.
He claims this is stealing from him - but is it really? He doesn't say what's in these books and hasn't read them himself.

It's likely general jazz knowledge, aggregated and combined from many internet sources - very similar to what you'd get if you asked ChatGPT about jazz. No one has a monopoly on general knowledge about a topic.
You worded his unstated assumptions beautifully. I completely disagree, though: this demonstrates the exact opposite, that LLMs are using statistical methods to mimic the universal grammars that govern human linguistic faculties (which, IMO, is the core of all our higher faculties). Like, why did it break like that instead of more clear gibberish? I’d say it’s because it’s still following linguistic structures — incorrectly, in this case, but it’s not random. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_...

Marcus’s big idea is that LLMs aren’t symbolic so they’ll never be enough for AGI. His huge mistake is staying in the scruffies vs neat dichotomy, when a win for either side is a win for both; symbolic techniques had been stuck for decades waiting for exactly this kind of breakthrough.

IMO :) Gary if you’re reading this we love you, please consider being a little less polemic lol
I'm working on this! https://www.perfectmemory.ai/

It's encrypted (on top of Bitlocker) and local.
There's all this competition who makes the best, most articulate LLM. But the truth is that off-the-shelf 7B models can put sentences together with no problem. It's the context they're missing.
To be fair, the tweet says that they don't work on the models at Google anymore, not that they have left Google.

Might be true, might not be. It's unsourced speculation.