skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moment Androids apps on Windows was released I thought it was useless in my opinion.

I assumed there was a subset of users out there that needed something like this but I thought it was a complete waste of time.
They're not trying to find a good brownie recipe. They're using it as a test phrase for search engines.
My "bar" for how Google does here is how it treats recipe pages. I absolutely loath what SEO has done for recipe pages, because now essentially every recipe page looks exactly the same:

1. Tons and tons of content about the history of the recipe, how humans first domesticated wheat, when the ancient Egyptians first discovered yeast as a leavening agent, etc. etc.

2. Then, after thousands and thousands of words, there is a short recipe for bread at the bottom of the page.

In fairness, this is a hard problem to solve. Some sites (rarely) have good information on techniques or things like substitutions in all that copy. But the vast majority of the time all that copy is just useless drivel to appeal to search engines. So my question is whether a great but pithy recipe for, say, focaccia or whatever would make it to the top of the search rankings, or will Google always favor the verbal diarrhea that sullies all recipe sites these days?
Spotify is absolutely a market-making monopolistic platform all on its own. The DMA has been gerrymandered to conveniently exclude it.
There have been positive changes at EU commission lately regarding this Article 45 thing:

https://securityriskahead.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mozi...
FWIW Micropython look to be solving the "no drivers" problem by building a port that targets Zephyr. https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/zephyr/general.html
I think paywalls are completely fine. It's the most normal business model there is. I want to read a newspaper, I buy a copy. That's literally how it has worked hundreds of years. Most sites let you peek or give you X articles for free, that's basically the equivalent of opening a paper and taking a look before buying it.

Sure if someone links to something that's behind a paywall and I don't have access I can't participate, but that's just normal. If I'm not willing to buy a book or a movie or a netflix subscription I can't participate in a discussion about it. Probably means it wasn't valuable enough for me. Money is a good and transparent indicator of what's worth your time.

Technically I think news sites would stand to benefit from making micro-transactions much easier, so that I can just shoot them 50 cents with a single click but that's about the only issue with it.
I once worked out that an Olympic swimming pool would hold about 500,000 human being's worth of blood. The topic was Communism.
Let's say, I share a link to a website that wants to get paid on my Facebook.
Meta won't crawl it, since they don't want to pay. So, the link will show up, but without a preview. Any one who clicks on the link will visit the website first, potentially removing them from Facebook for a little while. Alternatively, Meta may decide the demote links without previews. Both of these scenarios reduce active users, and time spent by users on the website. Fewer engagement minutes means fewer opportunities to show them ads.

On the other hand, those users will end up seeing more ads on the news website.
CDO from Huawei talks about AI and how hard it is for startups to compete
Anyone using their own searx-ng, the metasearch engine? Have you tried Kagi? How is it comparatively when it comes to quality of results given that with searx I can customize the engines and such.
Shameless plug: I've written a similar tool [1] that I use daily, similarly straightforward (but much less attractive than the tool in this post). Main difference is that it focuses on 5/3/1 + strength training (e.g. how many reps do I need on this set for a personal record?), and you configure your workout (weeks, sets, reps, etc) in a JSON file instead of the UI.

[1] https://github.com/bcspragu/stronk
I wonder how sales of Huawei phones are going.

Huawei is expected to take up all the Apple decline and more in China. Apple phones don't do terrifically well except in places like the US and other Western countries.

The West only counts for one-eighth of the world's market.
Haven't been on a tour where you get to bust open the door to the House Chamber to prevent the lawful transfer of power.
BBEdit is more Mac-like than Sublime and handles multi-gig files with ease.
the ABC is ok, it at least provides a baseline for news reporting, although like any media it has its own blind spots. i personally am strongly opposed to forcing browsers and facebook to prop up independent media, though i dont have a better solution ready off the top of my head. my gut says that the solution that was chosen was a poor one and a better alternative should have been searched for
It reads like something between gobbledygook and an executive summary of a paper with maybe some potentially relevant fancy terms thrown in for good measure.

I have no idea how good the actual paper is, but the Claude output would not make an impressive paper. (It’s still pretty neat that an LLM invented it with a minimal prompt!)

(I’ve done quantum computing research and, while I did share an office and a research group with people doing Monte Carlo, I didn’t do it myself.)
Obesity drugs might not be worth their high prices
Exploring the Verifiability of Code Generated by GitHub Copilot
New Tea.xyz Crypto Spam Targets Open Source Projects on GitHub
They may be good resources but the energy in the air during that time was that they could challenge universities. It is clear with passed time that they didn't, and will not.
Gamechanging! Lets see if GPT-4 can beat this
Debts generally aren't bases on the expectation that every payment will zero out your balance.

Interest is charged for the outstanding debt, banks would make very little money on credit cards if everyone actually paid them off every month.
I’m, Doggo clearly has a boner….
There was a bad sci fi movie that sort of incorporated this, The Beyond (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5723416/)
Those few days where Facebook blocked news org posts was absolute bliss. The platform is better without them.
> is farmers getting shafted by cheap grain imports from Ukraine due to lax control at the border, no tracking, and no punishments for buyers.

they say that and yet much larger traffic of grain from Russia somehow doesn't hurt those farmers?! maybe it's because a lot of it is stolen Ukrainian grain so everyone should be hush shush about it
Snapchat’s founding principle and only differentiator from day one has been untrusted client security. There were way too many years where the general public believed that a Snapchat could not be saved. I give huge credit to Snapchat for accidentally teaching the public that if human eyeballs can see something, it can be recorded forever. Now that is taken for granted, even last week’s Saturday Night Live TV sketch referenced what a fundamentally flawed security model Snapchat has.
That's right, but you can pit a rotary axis against a powerhouse allies. You can also have group battles.
That is a niche product, Google doesn't want to have niche products for some reason. Google is great at making niche products, but leadership doesn't like them and always shuts them down...
Oh get a grip. It's not even close to the same thing and you know it.

> "though a number of them have already completed their sentences"

And you have the gall to compare that mild little slap on the wrist to political imprisonment in Russia? Get the fuck outta here.
They can't charge late fees without minimum payments. What would be late exactly if a payment wasn't required?
The U.S. sharply limits how much credit cards can charge you in late fees
That's great. Back in 2014 they kickstarted a Handy Rotary with a different production crew, but the screwed up the page order at the last minute so that the page numbers are on the inside edges of the page. I'm happy to see these started up again.
The alleged acrimony between Musk and Trump was always an act/staged. The two are in real life good friends.
Both are bad in my opinion. We shouldn't have a need regulation to protect our money, that'd a sign that the money itself isn't sound and the system is too fragile.
Yes you're absolutely right, I used it too, it's a shame they got rid of it but Google will be Google
I always confuse Udacity with Udemy
> If they wait too long there won't be any deal.

There is no deal on the table, there never was. Putin wants them to surrender and more or less dissolve the army so he can take the rest without the fight.
They redefined the open in OpenAI in an almost Orwellian way.
Seems pretty straightforward... Elon invested when they claimed to be an open-source non-profit, and clearly now are closed source and very for profit. The notion that the for profit is just a temporary means to achieve scale goals is laughable.
Right, but the threat model of SSL pinning is an attacker that has compromised the CA certificate store. The user editing a binary on disk is not a security problem.
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman sparks Silicon Valley debate
Kagi is head and shoulder better at finding things that are useful. Google is going the way of AOL.
This perhaps isn't what you're asking about, but a very useful thing to realize is that datalog or sql are quite useful for subgraph isomorphims aka graph patterm matching. One can compile the graph you're looking for into the rhs/query of a rule. This is probably only wise for small pattern graphs in large search target graphs.

There's interesting depth here in that constraint satisfaction problems can be modeled as finding homomorphisms (I associated this line of thought with Moshe Vardi and others). Big patterns into small targets tend to look like coloring problems or SAT, whereas small patterns into big targets look like queries. Isomorphism is right in the middle.

tringle(X,Y,Z) :- edge(X,Y), edge(Y,Z), edge(Z,X).
square(X,Y,Z,W) :- edge(X,Y), edge(Y,Z), edge(Z,W), edge(W,X).
Parents Are Increasingly Saying 'No' to Posting Photos of Their Children
> Elon understood the mission did not imply open-sourcing AGI. As Ilya told Elon: “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science...”, to which Elon replied: “Yup”.

Wow the most open OpenAI has ever been is when someone sue them.

On the other hand, this shows Elon doesn't care jackshit about the lack of openness from OpenAI. He's just mad only that he walked away from a monumental success.
Learning has changed dramatically. There are incredible YouTube channels on every subject. Open courses are offered by top Universities for free.

What hasn't changed is credentialism. Because knowledge is free, everyone can claim to have it. So the value of a credential has gone up. An actual MIT degree vs classes taken at MIT OpenCourseware is orders of magnitude more significant.

You can learn anything for free now. Proving you've learned it is still heavily gate kept.
It is like Google's 'don't be evil' slogan. OpenAi proved to be anything but Open.
I could be wrong, but I thought passing CTS is only one of the steps to be able to advertise a device as powered by android. To get Play Store which requires GMS, there are additioinal test suites like GTS.
So sorry for not immediately humbling myself before you. Don't read my comments, then. There are browser extensions you can use to help you with this.

I do love how you assumed I was talking about you in my reply, though. Sounds like something you should work on.

Good day.
Ask HN: What skills are worth learning long-term against AI?
I'm graduating this semester with my MS in CS and I'm beginning what will likely be 45+ years of career work. With the pace of AI/ML developments in the past 5 years, what kinds of skills are most worth investing in for long-term benefit/stability?

Everyone and their dog has been told in the last decade that learning to code is important. I've grown up hearing that sentiment consistently and I'm sure it contributed a lot to me falling in love with this field.

However, coding (at least in its current form) seems like one of the most at-risk forms of work in terms of AI automation. I love writing code and I think I'm good at it, but I'm not so sure I'll be able to compete long-term with AI. I'm sure there'll be a few "John Henry"s, but many devs will probably change. Keep in mind, I'm thinking on the scale of length of a whole career and not saying this is happening already. However, with LLM context lengths increasing and special hardware made for ML inference (like groq), it feels like we're not far out from repo-level AI coding. At this rate of development, I could imagine a decade of progress might transform many aspects of day-to-day work for software development.

With all that being said, what advice would you give to someone just starting their career who wants to avoid shorter-term local maxima? I've heard lots of mixed reviews on PhDs and advanced degrees compared to working in industry, but should that calculus change with AI? Thank you!
Need to Ship of Theseus your neurons with digital equivalents. Every cell in your body is replaced within seven years, so can be a gradual digitalization.
True, with AI it feels like some people are overprotective of their egos, having to downplay the amazing achievements we have seen since end of 2022. Maybe they are subconsiously so afraid of actual AGI coming, that they do have to ignore the achievements as of now.
I think you don't understand the points I made. They could be wrong but not for the reasons anyone here has yet advanced.

This is what I wrote:

Highly intelligent legal experts in the form of Supreme Court justices determined that states can’t ban abortions. Other equally intelligent legal experts in the form of Supreme Court justices determined otherwise. Both sets of people wrote cogent opinions in support of their position. What is one to make of these facts? The Constitution says what you want it to say and you can write a well written, well reasoned argument supporting what you want it to say.

Our Constitution, in reality, is much more than the words written in it. It’s morphed due to judicial precedent over the course of 200 or so years.

I'm not advancing the notion that abortion is a right or that it isn't a right. I'm not making any legal arguments whatsoever except to say that legal experts disagree on matters of constitutional law. I'm not making an appeal to authority to advance my argument because I'm not saying that my conclusion:

Our Constitution, in reality, is much more than the words written in it. It’s morphed due to judicial precedent over the course of 200 or so years.

is supported by anyone with legal expertise. I'm just saying that there is no single objectively true way to decide what is or isn't a constitutional right as I see it. This is an opinion I have and I gave the reasons I have for this opinion. If someone want to refute this conclusion of mine they need to demonstrate that there is a single objectively true way to decide constitutional rights.

If I'm wrong please let me know what this single objectively true way is.

Referencing appeal to authority has nothing to do with my point. Referencing rayner's legal expertise is not germane to anything I wrote. His reasoning in response to what I wrote is quite bad.

It is a fact that referencing an "authority" to advance the notion that referencing authorities is a logical fallacy is bad reasoning.
> But they are liable up to and including the total amount of their investment.

That's how it should be! I don't think I explained myself well there.

I was thinking specifically of legal concerns. If a company breaks the law, I wouldn't expect investors to be held criminally liable unless they reasonably knew what was done. I would expect them to be financially liable if the company value falls and their investment loses value.

How are investments supposed to work if the upside is unlimited but the downsides are mitigated by regulation? Investing is a risk, effectively gambling. You should expect that anything you put in can be lost.
There are merchant fees too.
Nova also did a similar two-book game that was set in the old west. One book is the lawman, one book is the villain. Exploring the old west town, shootouts, etc.
It'll cause a slew of even more direct manipulation services to pop up to either up-rate the current site or down-rate competitors. Not to mention further fueling cancel culture.

What they should do is let people set preferences for how they want domains ranked in their personal results, and then use longer term trends on how those lists evolve.
> A sea of brown faces betrays what you're up against.

WTF? You can't post like that here, and we ban accounts that do. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They have two levers, whether or not to extend credit at all and what interest rate to charge.
I would agree, except I don’t think it would keep people from paying regardless.
there are millions of laptops with touchscreens capable of playing Android games, which would be the main use case for WSA.
Back in the 90s I had a 102-key keyboard with a built in trackpad (and dual PS2 connectors to hook up to the PC) that was actually pretty nice—except if I tried using the trackpad when my fingers were damp in which case it was hell. I bought it in anticipation of moving to a laptop (which didn’t actually happen for another 5 years), but it was the first step in my becoming a trackpad aficionado.
Elon Musk's antics have been utterly shameless.

a) If he cared at all about altruism, humanity etc he would open-source Grok and allow anyone access to the Twitter dataset.

b) He talks all about AGI in relation to Tesla but then used it as a weapon to try and extract more control over the company from investors.
Even though statistics might mean someone is more likely to commit a crime, that does not necessarily mean that they did commit a crime (or if they committed the specific crime being asked about). Statistics do not imply that you committed (or did not commit) a crime; it must be investigated like any other crime.

Also, just because they commited the crime as someone else did does not mean that a harsher penalty for the same crime; that does not logically follow.

At most, such statistics may decide who the police might investigate if they do not have other (better) data to make a decision, or in what places the police might check for crimes (although both of these things should be done without violating the people's freedom and privacy, if you can; it is not an excuse to prevent the ordinary people's freedom).

(Also, I am against the death penalty, although that is a different issue than the above discussion. Still, it is related to being mistaken about the crime; that is why I am against the death penalty, but such errors are possible regardless of whether or not it is biased in the ways mentioned above.)
Sorry, I don't follow. Who is the "they" here?

If it's the government, no they shouldn't be subsidizing this (or anything else IMO). If its banks, they can subsidize whatever they want as long as their customers are willing to allow it.
This is a very sharp tool and I find it's really rare to need it.

I do alot of profiling and performance optimization. Especially with go. Allocation and gc is often a bottleneck.

Usually when that happens you look for ways to avoid allocation such as reusing an object or pre allocating one large chunk or slice to amortize the cost of smaller objects. The easiest way to reuse a resource is something like creating one instance at the start of a loop and clearing it out between iterations.

The compiler and gc can be smart enough to do alot of this work on their own, but they don't always see (a common example is that when you pass a byte slice to a io.Reader go has to heap allocate it because it doesn't know if a reader implementation will store a reference and if it's stack allocated that's bad.

If you can't have a clean "process requests in a loop and reuse this value" lifecycle, it's common to use explicit pools.

I've never really had to do more than that. But one observation people make is that alot of allocations are request scoped and it's easier to bulk clean them up. Except that requires nothing else stores pointers to them and go doesn't help you enforce that.

Also this implementation in particular might not actually work because there are alignment restrictions on values.
How are credit cards anywhere close to monopolistic?
It's probably worth reading the post, which refutes these points.
All that's laid bare here, is the carcass of their personalities.

None of this screams "I'm going to change this world", this organization is mired in politics from the start, no wonder Satya is hedging his bets.

edit: grammar
I download the blue-ray movies to disk and play from there using VLC
I don't really understand this view honestly, why should Grok be open sourced? When was Twitter called OpenTwitter and had a similar mission statement to OpenAI?
Their evidence does a nice job of making Musk seem duplicitous, but it doesn't really refute any of his core assertions: they still have the appearance of abandoning their core mission to focus more on profits, even if they've elaborated a decent justification of why that's necessary to do.

Or to put it more simply: here they explain why they had to betray their core mission. But they don't refute that they did betray it.

They're probably right that building AGI will require a ton of computational power, and that it will be very expensive. They're probably right that without making a profit, it's impossible to afford the salaries 100s of experts in the field and an army of hardware to train new models. To some extent, they may be right that open sourcing AGI would lead to too much danger. But instead of changing their name and their mission, and returning the donations they took from these wealthy tech founders, they used the benevolent appearance of their non-profit status and their name to mislead everyone about their intentions.
You can without too much work transpile datalog to SQL. SQL does have such strong support that it is useful https://github.com/philzook58/snakelog or perhaps just do it manually https://www.philipzucker.com/tiny-sqlite-datalog/
> We couldn’t agree to terms on a for-profit with Elon because we felt it was against the mission for any individual to have absolute control over OpenAI.

I think Musk’s lawsuit is without merit, but it’s laughable in light of what happened with the recent leadership struggle to include this bit.
I completed the CompSci X-Series of MITx on edX, and Software Engineering for IaaS, from BerkeleyX. They were so awesome that I can only think they phased them out because it was such a bargain. Practically, the courses allowed me to change career and to be well positioned.
Beeper does this as well, including many more things like signal and whatsapp
Not particularly surprising, given the last few months of activity at OpenAI.
Yeah, challenging university system was there. But it turned out really very very few people were motivated enough to finish the whole course to level of completing certificate which were quite cheap.

Most people enrolled to audit tons of courses, caught a few lectures, got bored and moved on.

As with anything that is now present in abundance due to internet curation becomes the key and that is either not cheap or not available in general.
ok that is interesting and far away from my experience. Yes, it still under warranty. I will create a ticket with lenovo
A dollop of epistemic humility would be in order.

Likewise. Appealing to rayiner's expertise is extremely strange when it is done to support their belief that appealing to authority is logically invalid.
great punctuality, cleanliness, and most of all amazing landscapes
> we felt it was against the mission for any individual to have absolute control over OpenAI

Unless that individual is Sam Altman?