skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people within Google wanted the instructions that they didn't consider the ramifications of.

Now we are seeing the ramifications of their decision.

Then a higher up or otherwise determined through the outcry the evidence is that it should be shut off, and corrected.

It's impossible to guess at which parts of this will be corrected.

I don't care about the culture war, and think it's a useful distraction to keep the population from avoiding the real issues of the country.

I don't think it's one side of the culture war though, it's both sides interacting. One intending to create a world that they believe is just, that isn't reflected in the core dataset of the internet, and one side laughing and mocking them for the results of that, because they also want to create a world that reflects their cultural aspects.

As an atheist to the culture war, I believe the core dataset is all one can go by, and if you intend to fix the problems, then the dataset must include a wider range of things you want to see.

Which is an answer neither side of the culture war would be happy with.
The whole point of Bluesky is to build a social network that is not incentivized by advertising. They don’t rule it out completely, but it can’t be a major part of their revenue.
It’s not about running a deficit (most are free cash flow positive), it’s about improving returns on capital with leverage.
Building a 2FA app that tells you when you get '012345'
Technically, yes, but you have to admit it was an amusing inapt example.
I enjoy:

- BeardMeatsFood (https://www.youtube.com/beardmeatsfood)

- Johnny Harris (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGSJVG3mCRXVOP4yZrU1Dw

- RealLifeLore (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5tjEmvPItGyLhmjdwP7Ww)
>These was a meme at the time, before the word meme came about

It wasn't used regularly on the internet until into the 2000s, but the word "meme" was coined by Dawkins in 1976, as a direct analog to biological "genes"
Is there any API? Would love to plug it into our pipeline and see what happens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472378
Asteroid mining: the money to be made in space
You’re right. While the state of the infrastructure shocked me, it doesn’t say anything about the backwards policies you have in your book burning, women hating states.
In the 90s I worked at a pharmaceutical factory. They had little autonomous electric line follower vehicles that transported samples through the halls.

Because these moved very silently, every one of them had small transistor radio attached (in a makeshift way) that blared music through the buildings.
Why would Google pay for Reddit data when their bot is one of the only that has to remain whitelisted anyway?
'I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads '
Flying to the moon is the easy part. Landing is the trick.
Google's New HQ in New York City
I think it's more precise/actionable to say that quitting treating people differently "includes" fixing discrepancies in the primary and secondary school systems, rather than "requires" it.
> Google Search is currently expanding the test of a "forums" filter that lets you browse through results from sites with human discussion, like Reddit

Yeah, about that whole "human discussion" thing...
The decline in price per kg from Falcon 9 has made a big difference and yet it's nowhere near as impactful as Starship is going to be... falcon 9 is either too powerful for LEO missions and limited by fairing volume( so can't really launch space stations on a falcon 9) or too weak to push further into GEO and into the solar system. Starship will enable a lot of LEO applications previously unthinkable.
Euphemisms!
How to Fairly Divide Talking Time
Not the only major Resend incident this year. See: https://resend.com/blog/incident-report-for-january-10-2024

Would not trust this company.
Kids that just graduated don't have any results to look at, besides the schooling they've managed to complete. With no other knowledge, if you had to choose between a kid with a stanford degree and a kid with a south harmon institute of technology degree, which would you imagine is more capable?
I have eSIM only (iPhone 15) and was impacted the same as physical SIM users on AT&T (Boston area).

I suppose I can't speak to likelihood with a sample size of one.
I don't know about coding specifically, but its ability to solve logical puzzles is certainly vastly inferior to GPT-4. Have a look:

https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=clsxnhahk0006jn08zjvcgc9g

https://chat.openai.com/share/ec5bad29-2cda-48b5-9aee-da9149...
I fail to see how you made a valid counter argument though.
If you cut off your leg, you'll have enough meat to last for a while. In the long run, you're going to be worse off.
In the same way that Google stopped federating by no longer accepting connections from others, as long as most people keep their stuff at Bluesky they can also just close themselves off from others again. I don't necessarily think it is a big risk, but the only reason the web is resilient to this is that no single ISP controls enough of the network to take it "private".

Basically, until atproto is much bigger than bsky.app, the situation is not very different.
I prefer Phind's web search with LLM to both Google search and GPT-4. I have switched my default search engine, only using Google for finding sites, not for finding information anymore.

GPT-4 might be a better LLM but its search capability is worse, sometimes sends really stupid search keywords that are clearly not good enough.
Hopefully this reduces the useless quora results ranked higher in search results and saves me from typing "reddit" in the search text.
Sutter's Mill, Sutter's Fort, and the Railroad Museum were popular Elementary School Field trip destinations in the 80's.
So is DEI a vast conspiracy on the parts of these studios to make less money and disappoint shareholders?
We're getting to strong holodeck vibes here
Hey, thanks for posting! I was the main author on this piece :)
Reminds me of the tape-backup units that stored files as VHS video.
Hm, now I have to wonder if it'd be possible to create a tool that poisons your Reddit posts so they look fine to a human but completely trash LLM output.

I'm not saying we should do it, but it's a fascinating thought.
Not necessarily. Companies can be rudderless and have some kind of industry capture or brand recognition and still be doing great. In other words, at one point they had good leadership or built up during times of low regulation or economic prosperity and now are just living off those early successes. A lot of large tech companies are like this.
But their loved ones can. The victims of severe diseases rarely do the advocacy themselves, they are too busy trying to get better. The ones who care for them however, and have to bear the external costs will do everything they can to get people attention.
When I ask it this it tells me that it doesn't have information about the city I'm in as it can't access my location. But then it claims that I previously mentioned being in [some town], so it then answers based upon that.

I've never told it or talked remotely about this town.
You would think that this would be an acceptable approach, but MBAs have decided that this is not the case so I don’t know.
It wouldn't require any changes to the language. It would probably require a tree-walking macro, which are not too uncommon. You'd want a different name though since `block` is already a thing in CL.

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_block.htm

I'd recommend On Lisp by Paul Graham and Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyt if you're interested in trying it.
> They don’t rule it out completely,

Well,

> Are you thinking about advertisements at all?

>

> There will always be free options, and we can't enshittify the network with ads. This is where federation comes in. The fact that anyone can self-host and anyone can build on the software means that we'll never be able to degrade the user experience in a way where people want to leave.

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wont-ensh...

This reads as definitive to me personally.
daily reminder that you are probably not cynical enough about your companies sociology:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

i certainly wasn't
This can't be exclusive for that amount or could it?
You might not tell the difference, but evidently enough people can that digital thermostats commonly add 0.5 increments when switching into ˚C mode. And when they don't, some people put them into ˚F mode just for the extra precision.
Someone should create a bot that responds to highly upvoted comments and remind the redditor that Reddit is making money off the comment and the information is being used by AI and they aren't seeing a dime of it.
I don't know enough about it to give feedback. However Martin Kleppmann's[1] involvement is a huge selling point to me. It's also, seemingly, good enough that they're building very useful things on top of it like PDS, migrating users, etc.

ActivityPub (AP) felt a bit like "good enough to get something done", which is amazing on one hand - people can do a lot with it. But it also means some harder problems are totally ignored[2], so the landscape between instances felt rocky to me. I also heavily disliked how federation worked in AP, ie how the protocol felt like it favored centralized instances because small instances were less likely to be pinged, were lower priority, in general was very spammy, etc. Not that the AP proto did anything to cause that.. it just didn't do anything to address it in my view, it was just data.

Does AT fix my concerns over AP? No idea. But i appreciate a proto that had a bit more time in the oven and being used to (maybe) solve the harder problems that i experienced with AP.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
[2]: These are only my opinions from a very brief stint in trying to write an AP client to federate with Mastodon, Lemmy and Kbin. I did not dive deep into AP, so please don't judge it from my experience.
That study is based on user sentiment/survey, so I wouldn't really put any stock in to be completely honest. The only thing this study tells me is there was a change relative to some baseline, not that there was any sort of absolute lean.
my wife's phone wasn't working for half the day but mine was. Same provider and same location (i'm assuming being in the same house meant we probably were connecting to the same tower). Browsing around new sites, i think even solar flares are in the realm of possibility.
Sure,ok. Look at the state of things run by Ivy League graduates in the US and carefully reconsider that. The financial system. The cost disease in infrastructure projects. Government. Healthcare. Are you sure about that?
I think Reddit is accurately described as a site "with human discussion". It's another matter whether such discussion is organic and actually shows up in search results.
The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)
But that's sort of why Bluesky is not really decentralized, just federated. It's a pretty significant difference. Mastodon is federated and decentralized. Twitter is non-federated and centralized. Bluesky is trying to be the federated, centralized option.

Whether that works, we'll see. I for one just gave up social media about 8 years ago and, while feeling like I'm missing something flares up from time to time, it's nothing like the disaster my online life was before I gave it up. It wasn't a problem of missing federation or not being centralized. It was inherent to the way social media functions against my person.
I'm financially illiterate, but what does this mean? Companies have the revenue to pay their employees, but they choose to terminate them instead, because... why?
It's already been discussed. The title of the article hides the real conversation that is being highlighted. The conversation being highlighted is like a footnote... and that is Bouyant discontinuing OSS stable releases... an instance where the guidelines are guidance rather than hard and fast rules.
I always wondered how awesome would it be if they thrown away Pascal from it somehow and replaced with Python.

The same topic with VB6 and putting Perl instead.
>> causing enough weight imbalance so as to cause a crash.

So I was on a flight from London to Vancouver, which had us approaching Vancouver from the north. It was December but a sunny day. Half the passengers were on ski holidays. We had to delay our arrival a while so the pilot said he was going to bank the plane to the left and do a circle, which would put the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in view out the left side. In unison, seatbelts be damned, everyone on the right of the plane got up and moved left to get pictures. About half-way through the turn, the pilot came back: "Um, we felt that up here. When you return to your seats can you please do so slowly, at least slower than how fast you moved to the left." Pre-9/11 was a simpler time.
E2EE refers to transporting protocols and not data at rest, so the phrasing here is wrong.

If you choose to have some of your data in iCloud, it is transported and stored encrypted. However, one of the keys is escrowed in a HSM cluster for an audited recovery process.

This is how you go request access be restored via technical support with Apple. This is also how surviving family members can get access to photos and the like (requiring a court order, at least in the US). Since they have the key, government entities can request access within the extent of their respective local laws.

If you turn on the Advanced Data Protection feature, Apple no longer has that key escrowed, cannot help with account recovery, and can no longer give out a key they don't have.
Then you know almost nothing about the SD 1.5 ecosystem apparently. I've finetuned multiple models myself and it's nearly impossible to get rid of the child-bias in anime-derived models (which applies to 90 % of character focussed models) including nsfw ones. Took me like 30 attempts to get somewhere reasonable and it's still noticeable.
oh cool so the contributors of the data are all getting paid?
Pricing is very interesting:

- Subscription $19.99 USD/year, cancel anytime

- One-time purchase for $99.99 USD

With a 7-days free trial, iOS and macOS apps, I find it fair and for everybody's taste!
^This. It isn't easy to say, in the short-term, what the costs of cutting those jobs is. You might be underinvesting in future products, or in satisfying current customers. None of that will be immediately reflected.
I think it was a pretty healthy mix of both. Look at these two articles from the same day in 2020:

https://www.nytimes.com/article/sat-act-test-optional-colleg...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/university-california-...

One focuses on the pandemic related reasons, one focuses on equality concerns.
The crossbars on the capital "i" are not serifs. Serif fonts have serifs on the crossbar.

Only sometimes does the lower-case L have a tail. And even if it does, there's no way to know that unless it happens to appear in the same text as a capital "i."
Check out Kleenex which also allows you to inline actions in the (regular) grammar, but which promises to only execute them when it has resolved all non-determinism for the input seen so far: https://kleenexlang.org/

The compiler translates regular grammars with embedded semantic actions to fast C code.

Full disclosure: I am one of the authors.
If BLOCK weren't already the name of something in Common Lisp, this sort of syntax is very easy to add, easy enough to write in an HN comment. Let's call it OGOGMAD instead.

(defmacro ogogmad (&body b)
(cond
((endp b) '(progn))
((endp (rest b)) b)
(t
(let ((f (first b))
(r (rest b)))
(if (eq 'var (first f))
`(let (,(rest f))
(ogogmad ,@r))
`(progn
,f
(ogogmad ,@r))))))

Exactly as you specify, this only lets you put VAR syntax immediately inside of OGOGMAD forms. (Untested, typed on mobile.)
> how a particular group of employees are less likely to be as proficient at their work as I am due to some immutable biological trait(s) they possess

Is that what Damore actually said? That's not my recollection. I think his main point was that due to differences in biology, that women had more extraversion, openness, and neuroticism (big 5 traits) and that women were less likely to want to get into computer stuff. That's a very far cry from him saying something like "women suck at computers" and seems very dishonest to suggest.
Impressive on my tests, excellent work! Indeed, it is better than GPT-4 for coding-related activities.

I suppose you are not releasing the weights, right? Anyway, good luck! I hope investors are already forming a nice queue before your door :)
Interesting, in Italian it's a bit formal but perfectly acceptable ("vi diamo il benvenuto..."). It's something you might hear at the beginning of a theatre play, or perhaps in the audio guide of a museum.
> Once the top documents are retrieved, we ask a smaller LLM to decide which of the chunks are “useful for answering the query”

This sounds like normal re-ranking. How is it different?
Which is why science was formed shortly after people become intelligent...
From the point of view of a small federated client developer, exploring the ActivityPub protocol. Far from thorough or objective.
I'm saying we should do it for you.
Big tech clearly overhired during the pandemic. The layoffs over the last 12-24 months are a return to the mean.
It's important to remember that there's not a "make brain smarter" slider that evolution is slowly sliding to the right.

Our genes code for proteins which are expressed in different quantities and have different effects on multiple parts of our biology and growth that lead to operational differences in our brains that lead to patterns that might be considered "smarter" in some circumstances and is beneficial in some environments.

Take, for example, something near and dear to many of us on HN, hyperfocus.

Is being prone to hyperfocus on subjects that interest us making us "smarter"? Is it "beneficial"?

Well, sometimes, in some ways, in some environments. If you can hyperfocus on something that has economic value in a safe environment, you can make a lot of money and be very successful. If the things you want to hyperfocus on aren't particularly useful or you end up neglecting your actual job or relationships because of it, or if you're a caveman who was supposed to be keeping an eye out for lions and not counting how many leaves are on different kinds of plants, you'll be less successful.
$60M/year for GOOG to access all their data when they purport to be targeting a $5B valuation at IPO is really cheap.

Arguably Reddit's value is it's data, and GOOG is renting it for 1.2%/year?
Right, by this point the global norm is to rarely, if ever, use email (or a computer larger than a smartphone) unless you work in an office (and in some places not even then). The phone number is the primary identifier for mass-market apps in most countries.
What did your bots and workflows do?
You can buy Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) laptops made with Intel 4 so they've finally demonstrably broken out of the 10 nm/7 nm rut.
I don't think it's logical to assume that there is one singular root cause for the symptoms of ADHD (or any other symptom based diagnosis). There are likely a number of very different distal causes, although, because they present with the same symptoms, they may involve some common mechanisms. ADHD itself is defined as its cluster of symptoms, and doesn't imply or assume any singular underlying mechanism.

For example, streptococcus infection seems to be one (relatively rare) cause of ADHD.

As our medical understanding evolves, I think a lot of conditions currently based on symptoms will be found to be a cluster of different underlying mechanisms, and may eventually be divided into different conditions with different treatment approaches.

In reality, virtually all medical conditions are symptom based. Our knowledge of biology is very primitive and incomplete, so even where we think we understand parts of the mechanism of a condition, we are probably still missing much of it, and our perspectives on these change. In that sense, it's more clinically useful to stick with symptoms which we can observe directly, and not focus on ever-changing and incomplete theories about what might cause them.
This is Price's law in action: https://nielsbohrmann.com/prices-law/
McDonalds has automated the ordering process away, though.
It has been known for a few years now that Google Image Search has been just as inaccurately biased with clear hard-coded intervention (unless it's using a similarly flawed AI model?) to the point where it is flat out censorship.

For example, go search for "white American family" right now. Out of 25 images, only 3 properly match my search. The rest are either photos of diverse families, or families entirely with POC. Narrowing my search query to "white skinned American family" produces equally incorrect results.

What is inherently disturbing about this is that there are so many non-racist reasons someone may need to search for something like that. Equally disturbing is that somehow, non-diverse results with POC are somehow deemed "okay" or "appropriate" enough to not be subject to the same censorship. So much for equality.
Yup.. CNCF seems to not like this change: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262
How very dare you suggest that organic growth is the way forward? Everyone here knows that unless you've hit your series c and are soaring for unicorn status then you might as well just not exist at all.
The Reddit sub blackouts really caught me off guard. Made me reflect on how crazy it is that a substantial portion of public knowledge and discourse over the past decade has occurred there. And this information is locked up under the control of Reddit. And we gave it to them(the information and the control).

Edit: It would be nice if there were a Wikipedia model equivalent to Reddit. A non-profit driven site for public discourse and discussion.
Unfortunately production capacity for that is limited, and with sufficient demand, all pricing is an auction. Therefore, we aren't going to be seeing that card in years
Thanks for the feedback :)

We will eventually release the weights.
The multi-tool is a focus of the KitchenAid but just a feature on the Kenwood. If you have the money and space for a Kenwood Titanium, you probably have better tools for the more specialized jobs that the attachment ports on it offer.

Being heavier and taking up more counter space _is_ what makes it harder to use, less affordable, and less approachable. The Kenwood would not fit on the counter where I keep my KitchenAid without removing utensils I use while cooking or sacrificing what little prep space I have. If I wanted to store it in the cabinet under the counter when not in use, the extra 4-5 pounds vs. my KitchenAid would make it literally, physically harder to use.

And yes, the appearance is subjective. KitchenAid trades on that; they have more colors and finishes than features. That's important to people who don't care if the mixer can't knead a dense dough or mix a triple-batch of a recipe in one go.
You did still need a product key to install so a keygen might be useful. I don't know if Microsoft did anything to somehow block commonly used product keys.
In many cases the company can run fine for a while... the systems that engineers already built will continue to function until a certain point. Once they start breaking/failing the company needs to hire additional people for maintenance/improvements. Often these are people who hadn't worked on the original systems and don't have a full understanding of the stack/systems involved this leads to many other issues... knowledge fragmentation, tech debt, maintenance difficulties, increased bugs, etc.

I've seen this happen many times in large orgs, and the people making the decisions to cut engineers in certain areas often aren't responsible for what happens down the line and don't need to deal with the fallout. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯