skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like 7 is really the last time I truly enjoyed using Windows. The additions felt like all net positives for my workflow (jumplists from the taskbar, thumbnail previews of taskbar windows, Aero Snap, VHD boot). Over time they have muddied it up with bad UIs or feature regressions. It just feels like a ship aimlessly floating around in the water with no real direction or destination in mind.
"Temporarily embarrassed" bunker owners, thank you very much.
This point is often brought up in threads about AI, and I don't think it's accurate.

The thing is that statistical models only need to be fed large amounts of data for them to exhibit what humans would refer to as "creativity", or "thinking" for that matter. The process a human uses to express their creativity is also based on training and the input of other humans, with the difference that it's spread out over years instead of hours, and is a much more organic process.

AI can easily fake creativity by making its output indistinguishable from its training data, and as long as it's accurate and useful, it would hold immense value to humanity. This has been improving drastically in the last few years, so arguing that they're not _really_ thinking creatively doesn't hold much water.
Obesity is 8% higher in the US than the UK.

The NHS costs half as much per captia as medicare, medicaid, etc and provides universal coverage.

That isn't it. It's simply theft.
> is it?

It is. And I bet most people would agree with GP. Most people (including engineers building these systems) have experienced surprise with some of the outputs of these models. Is there anything better to gauge creativity by than perceived surprise?
My Microsoft login is still a Hotmail account, and I still use my same eBay account from way back then too. There's also a forum I've been a part of since I was a kid, and I'm nearly 40 now.

My favorite account I used to have was username@ibm.net, back when they dabbled in consumer ISPs (unlimited dialup!). Sadly, they discontinued that service after a while.

I used to have really old Steam, Amazon, Slashdot, Facebook, and reddit accounts too, but deleted them all for various reasons.
> There's no reason why updating the code of a single Lambda function should take 30s or even several minutes.

Agreed. Sometimes I edit a core library of mine so nearly all my lambdas need to get update but I hate having a 10-20min deploy time. Some of that is GitHub Actions (their CI is so slow, I'm looking to switch) but CF itself is slow.
> Just to see how absurd this is. Minimum liability in a lot of states is 50k. In Germany and much of Europe minimum liability is seven million.

Without regulation, minimum liability would be zero.

> It's the governments job to take externalities into account and design urban environments rationally, not to coddle car obsessed consumers

Finally your true colors come out. You believe the government’s job is to decide for us what we should want and then shape the regulatory environment in such a way as to shape our behavior, because they know better than we do. You’re the authoritarian trying to redesign society. Just own up to it and be honest with yourself instead of cynically and disingenuously trying to argue based on principles you don’t even hold.
There was no FUD there at all. Grow up.
Minor version bumps shouldn’t cause these issues tbh
Threat Actors Leaked 70M Records Allegedly Stolen from AT&T
I've taken lots of taxis over the years and never experienced any of that. I do believe the stories of sexual assault though.
> Given that the present is a single moment, there is no time in the present in which to make decisions or take actions, so it is impossible to make use of the present.

Can you define a "single moment" then?

I think it's quite possible to make use of the present. I am doing it now as I am typing this message.
The market is working perfectly here, if you remember that users are not the customers. Users are the product sold to adtech, data brokers, law enforcement, etc.

For data-harvesting companies users are like livestock, and nobody cares about livestock's opinion. It only matters how much value can be extracted from users, even if it's annoying, misleading, and relies on dark patterns.
How about the BS (Bank of Sweden) Prize?
> Most likely, you'll have your manager and HR scrambling to get a proper handover, and sometimes followed with private comments berating you for your "lack of professionalism" and other comments like "why are you doing this to us" and "can we keep you for a little longer, please" (in violation of HR policy for the maximum notice period).

And your takeaway from this would be that that worker is an invaluable member of the company? They don't care about workers, they care about their bottom line. If they could easily replace workers, they wouldn't say anything and would just make sure you clear out your desk before you leave.
Yes, very much so. I spent a week once just thinking about my alarm clock. It's a $15 Chinese unbranded alarm clock, but it's so complex there are probably no people on Earth who could completely understand it. Analyze its circuit, the code that drives it, the materials and components that compose it, their historical origins, their supply chain origins, etc. You'd always be able to find a new way to observe this alarm clock. This got me really thinking about how interconnected things are, I theorize that you could start at any one thing and with enough effort end up at any other. There must exist a path between toilet paper and rocket science.
I'm highly sympathetic to your perspective, but it would be hypocritical of me to entirely embrace it. Hitting the spacebar just gives me so much joy, the syncopated negative space of it that you don't get writing by hand, the power of typing "top" and getting a birdseye view of your system, that I can't really begrudge the next generation of computing enthusiasts getting that same joy of "simply typing an idea" and getting back a coherent informed response.

I personally lament the loss of the experience of using a computer that gives the same precision that you'd expect from a calculator, but if I'm being honest, that's been slowly degenerating even without the addition of AI.
I have a hotmail account from 2000. A wikipedia account from 2006! I don't remember when exactly Gmail was in early beta (2004?) but I did manage to register firstname@gmail.com and have used it since.

Also have a super early HN account that I no longer remember the password to. So...
See my original post. Our US legal team said that we need the banner if we have visitors from the EU, not if we're tracking them.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39741926
Low value is not synonymous with low profit.

Also, the arguments made against car washes are the same as those made against bank branches which also generate relatively little sales tax.

Anyway, if there is a surplus of car washes they will eventually dry up.
Because they’re threatening
", I believe there would still be an underlying formal definition of the business logic generated in the backend"

Not just business logic. Technical one too, such as "proove that this critial code can never run into an infinite loop"

AI could very well be the revolution needed to bring theorem proover and other formal proof based languages ( coq, idriss, etc) to the mainstream mass of developers.
AMD got 5GHz with Raphael in 2022, Intel hit it few years earlier with Coffee Lake in 2018.

(no, fx-9590 does not count)
Just read Jeffs blog last night and overclocking a Pi? Results may vary by batch but tend to regress to 2.4GHz being the most reliable.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/important-considerati...
It's odd that the paper goes to great lengths to talk about protecting your penis from insects but at the same point seems to ignore women completely - all the illustrations depict men. Having met women (shocking, I know), bust size can be a significant factor in ergonomics so it would be interesting to see how that factors into it. Also anecdotally, pregnant belly-sleepers frequently rely on cushioning and people may prefer certain sleeping positions after having given birth or suffering from certain ailments. I'm also certain that waist size (esp. obesity) may alter preferences.

It's an interesting paper but given the lack of substance this feels more like a school presentation than something you'd find in an academic journal.
I have yet to see ChatGPT or something similar ask a followup to clarify the question. They just give you a "solution". That's equivalent of a super bad junior dev that will cause more trouble than the amount they will solve.

That being said, I think we could make such a system. It just has to have training data that is competent...
It's actually the other way around with AI. If you want to do web-search, you got to disclose your keywords to a search engine. If you want to post on social networks, you are in plain sight. If you use a mobile phone, you broadcast your location.

But if you use your local models, it's more like running a linux box, it is private, customizable and unfiltered. LLMs will reverse the centralization trend we have seen with search and social. They can create a "safe space", "a room of one's own" where we can be creative and unrestricted.

LLMs promise the privacy internet never gave us, anyone, remember how we felt private online 20 years ago? You can't download a Google or FB but you can download a Mistral and even run it on a normal laptop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own
Right, it does come full circle by half.
I’m pretty sure my sell-to-cover RSUs take a day or few to settle, resulting in a small but nonzero gain or loss.

The details may depend on the employer + brokerage.
In my NY suburbs, there are intersections you have to gun it because the local nimbys refuse traffic light installs.

(Long story short, there's one university here that has to use their state troopers to assert authority and shut local roads every hour for the commuter class change rush because the local morons refuse traffic signal changes, same university also had to use eminent domain to build sidewalks, lololololol)

O man, you should see our parkways, you only have 20 feet of ramp to reach highway speeds or you will die. Same for exiting and you need to brake from highway speeds.

Just an example where hard acceleration != bad driving
huh? They mostly use linux, and maybe Windows once or twice a week at most, to maybe every couple of weeks.

So for your stats, last year we re-installed the windows partition of one machine 4 times and another I think 2 or 3. Could be hardware problems, of course. But each time was triggered by a windows update, so maybe the update stressed the hardware to the point of failure, which linux does not.
I thought that! I'm 72 and I don't spout this kind of stuff. I thought it might be AI - "what kind of advice would a 72 year old give?"
> But there's no profit in prevention

Drugs such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) are making massive profits, and also have decent odds of preventing many obesity-induced (and also diabetes-induced) diseases

Okay, they also have side effects, and it is possible the disease burden caused by the side effects may (in the long-run) turn out to be worse than the disease burden they prevent. But, while that's a possibility, it is only a possibility, a possibility which could easily not come pass to

And even if some of those drugs turn out to have unacceptable side effects in the long-run, there are other drugs in that class in the pipeline which might avoid those side effects, in which case the profits will shift to those
Meh. Last time I got an uber from Sydney airport the guy made us get in at the entry to the multi store car park across from the rideshare pickup. I just assumed because he didn't want to pay a fee. He then couldn't reverse out because someone turned up behind him and so did a run through the car park. Had a strange chat with him on the drive into town where he tried to tell me he was a student and had only been in Sydney for a couple of months, but it was totally suspicious, he kept getting carried away and relaxing into a undeniable western Sydney accent. My wife was in the car next to me texting me like crazy that something was up but I was just playing along. No idea what the go was in the end. Unsettling but otherwise uneventful trip. I didn't tip. I avoid uber from the airport now and just get a cab or a train. Price is about the same.

Edit: I should probably add that I don't avoid uber completely, still use it when travelling, esp. if I'm somewhere without a taxi rank. But I prefer a cab from the airport. It's genuinely less hassle.
They sure seem to complain a lot about insects on their penises
I use Apple Music and it feels similarly buggier and with worse UX each time.
I think your kid’s computer needs a new disk, that seems odd.
This has been my cope mantra so far. I don't mind if my job changes a lot (and ideally loses the part I dislike the most — writing the actual code), and if I find myself in a position where my entire skillset doesn't matter at all, then well a LOT of people are in trouble.
I came to post the same. Computers and the Internet evolved over decades before what we would recognize as modern computers. Their first use cases were mathematical, scientific, and business oriented (word processing, financial models, etc.).

It took decades for mass adoption and wider use cases to evolve. Sure, there were many cracks that had to fixed along the way (malware, botnets, privacy, piracy, distribution channel for illicit materials, environmental cost, etc.), but none of those things manifest in a timeline remotely close to what we see with gen AI seemingly reaching widespread adoption in a short ~24 mo. time period. The advancement has been so fast, that the real-world guardrails haven't had any time to catch up before the next advancement completely changes the playing field. Prime example is that Will Smith spaghetti video to Sora within months.

Now we have AI denying care[0] to patients and generating deepfake porn[1] of celebrities, coworkers, and even minors. What are the lines we should draw as a society? It moves so fast that even knowing what the right discussion context is can be a challenge because the endpoints have shifted by the time we even understand the problem enough to have a constructive conversation.

The socioeconomic impacts in some industries where AI can replaces workers will be tremendously negative for real-world, flesh-and-blood human beings who may not be ready or in a position to adapt to those changes. There is some postulation that the Arab Spring arose out of the effects of climate change on crop failures[3]. How will such a sudden and massive shift in employment and household income combined with other macroeconomic factors like inflation and housing costs affect the stability of society and social unrest?

Don't get me wrong: this is not an argument against AI because certainly, if AI can do those jobs better, faster, and more efficiently, then why not? But rather as a community and society, we also need to understand the wider consequences of wiping out employment of 90% of the people in a given field of industry and what that looks like for our friends, families, neighbors.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate...

[1] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/04/deepfake-porn-video...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1PH23A/
I can agreee with accommodating old ~100ppi displays not being worth it past a certain point, but the way that Apple handles high DPI by standardizing on ~220ppi across the board is setting the bar way higher than most people can afford even today. The cheapest large format monitors which meet that standard are at least $1500, when you can get a 4K 160ppi monitor for as little as $200, and 160ppi is absolutely fine on systems like Windows which natively support fractional scaling. I think Wayland originally planned to work like macOS but they are in the process of implementing true fractional scaling akin to Windows.

Another factor is that focusing on pixel density above all else comes at the expense of pixel speed, there are no large monitors which meet Apples 220ppi standard and have a refresh rate of 120hz or better, no matter how much money you're willing to spend, they just don't exist.
But trust me on the suncreen. (Baz Luhrmann)
I don’t know anything about physics at that level. Really just the pop science stuff.

But I know how people work pretty damn well. I will tell you, right now, with 100% certainty: dark matter is modern witch craft. Bunch of nerds got together and convinced themselves of magical forces that can’t be seen, heard, felt, or touched because their models of the universe don’t work without it.

Might be 200 years until we figure it out, but there is an error somewhere and scientists are too proud to admit that they ain’t got a clue. How’d the moon get in the sky? Well I guess someone had to put it up there. How do birds fly? I guess God made them float on account of their lack of sin. Why don’t our models of gravity work? I guess the universe is made up of weird, invisible stuff. Humans don’t like not knowing. So they make wild theories about stuff no one can explain. Someone will come along and figure it out eventually.
NYP is simply reposting NYTimes content.

There's already a lawsuit filed against GM.
Wow, I'm surprised at the banking account from 1998. That happened rather quickly given that the web wasn't really on anyone's radar until 95/96 or so.
1. I care, because I prefer default setups as much as possible. Third-party software is often a burden.

2. That's bad approach, because it'll be Ctrl+Shift+C in terminal, but Ctrl+C in your IDE. That's inconsistent. I'm usually setting it the other way: Ctrl+C is copy and Ctrl+Shift+C is interrupt, but it's not as good as two different shortcuts.

3. I would say, that it's not only about sudo, it's about other things like revealing passwords in browser, using touch id for passkey authentication, laptop unlock, of course. Those are not strictly developer things, but it's very convenient when it works uniformly. And having some security measure is better than having none, even if it as simple as touch the button, it might cause some second thought. For example few days ago I did a mistake and installed caddy (terrible software, don't recommend). After launch it started tinkering with my system, installing some certificates, and if not for Touch ID, I'd end up with system in unknown state. Probably it'd happily corrupted my system with passwordless sudo.
My dog loves pillows. But he doesn't move them. If he's laying down, and a pillow-like object is near, he'll use it. But if the sun moves, he'll move, without the pillow.
I'm tired of the comparisons of "the industrial revolution" and the "printing press", I don't see those as comparable to what's happening here. Although Devin isn't this, there's a reason people refer to AGI as our last invention.
I’ve got a Yahoo! mail address from the 90s that’s still what I use for rando account signups
Kiki – A Virtual Japanese Sign Language Interpreter
I was referring to 'people' as in general public, including STEM people on HN.

I doubt many of them were reading Nagel or contemplating Stanford studies on this subject.

Maybe you are objecting to 2022 versus slightly earlier, 2016? Is 6 years for public opinion to change really the hang up? In my haste, I had used slang terminology of 'a couple years', and everyone did the math, said that is 2022, and objected to the year 2022? OK. I had the dates wrong. Go with 2016.

Maybe 'dogs' are a bad example, since even the Pope says they go to heaven.

But you can't deny that for Pigs, Cows, Chickens, that up to 2005 and even up to recent years ~2020, it was commonly accepted that they were not conscious, and not intelligent and thus have no ability to experience pain.

Pigs are more intelligent than dogs, but plenty of dog owners eat bacon and don't think twice. So what is the difference? They are both conscious right?

So consciousness is not what we use to provide any moral standing?

The article was about how to 'test' for consciousness. The discussion was, could you apply it to AI. I was simply saying, that for many years 'intelligence' was used as a substitute indicator for consciousness and now that AI is 'intelligent' people were re-defining that indicator.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9704368/
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/40/6/847/187565
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mila.12498
I do it the opposite way myself. If the stock is increasing there's a nice tax bonus on most ESPP plans by holding it 2 years from the start of the plan. If you have a lookback provision, by holding 2 years you shift more of your gains from ordinary income into long term capital gains (LTCG).

So a common example is a 6 month buying period with a lookback and a 15% purchase discount. Say the stock was $10 at the start of the period and ended at $12. The lookback period takes the lower of those two for purchase. A common misconception is that it is the lowest price anywhere in the 6 month purchase period, but no it's just the start and end values.

So if you sold right away you'd end up buying at min($10,$12)x85% = $8.50. You'd sell at $12 (so that's your cost basis) and have $3.50 in ordinary income tax per share.

Now say you waited 1 year to get the LTCG. In that time it went up to $13 a share. You sell and now you have $4.50 in gains. But you're still before the 2 year period so your cost basis is $12 and the split is $3.50 in ordinary income and $1 in LTCG.

Now say you waited 2 years. This is where the tax advantage happens. Your cost basis is adjusted to the min($10,$12) value. Even if the price is still at $13 when you sell your tax split is $1.50 ordinary income and $3 LTCG, because your new cost basis is $10.

Keep in mind when the stock declines over the purchase period this advantage completely evaporates.

Another thing to note on the timing. The clock starts ticking on LTCG when the stock is purchased into your account. But for the tax benefit is it from the start of the plan, when they start taking money out of your paycheck. Where I work the plan is annual, with purchases every 6 months. So on the first purchase of the period 6 months have already elapsed and I need to wait 18 months to get the tax benefit. On the second purchase 12 months have passed so I only need to wait 12 more months, which aligns with the LTCG period.
My first mail in my gmail account is 20 years old. Not sure if that is my oldest account though.
My runescape account. July 6th 2004.