skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are social animals. Why wouldn't they benefit from the use of social tools and a worldwide fast-as-light communication network?

The problem, to me, isn't that TikTok or Twitter or Whatever exists, it's that they're in the control of monopolists and not of the users, and to the maximum extent possible these companies have loaded these tools with expertly constructed dark patterns designed to stultify and distract users away from self improvement and into self indulgence.
This is going straight into 'Her' territory
It won’t fit into rpi 400?
GameStop, AMC shares skyrocket after meme stock trader posts
How to include Git version information in Golang binaries
There are windows laptops that can do this already though with a sodimm slot no less
OP specified they were imaging this for low vision people
Do you see my point that they are trying to do everything?
Things like this make me want to install some kind of heaters near my most prized plants. The power cost would be pretty high, and they wouldn't be sufficient to make it through the winter or anything, but they might allow us to weather a night or two of freezing temperatures in the early spring.
A developer that just pastes in code from gpt-4 without checking what it wrote is a horror scenario, I don't think half of the developers you know are really that bad.
Solving conflicts between groups of people would solve it. But indeed that is just moving one problem to another.
Hm did you miss the section on this?

"The researchers controlled for factors that might affect Internet use and welfare, including income level, employment status, education level and health problems."

The linked paper has a section on Covariates that explains the methodology used to control for factors such as income.
It depends on your definition. The bank itself wasn't bailed out, but the customers and other banks were. The FDIC was expanded from 250k to infinity and the Fed created BTFP, which allows banks to borrow against their treasuries (which had declined dramatically in value). This all comes at the cost of the general public.
1. Demos are meant for feel magical and except in Apple's case they are often exaggerated versions of their real product.

2. Even then this is a wonderful step for tech in general and not just OpenAI. Makes me very excited.

3. Most economic value and growth driven by AI will not come from consumer apps but rather the enterprise use. I am interested in seeing how AI can automatically buy stuff for me, automate my home, reduce my energy used, automatically apply and get credit cards based on my purchases, find new jobs for me, negotiate with a car dealer on my behalf, detect when I am going to fall sick, better diabetes case and eventual cure etc. etc.
Constrain =/= create
Wonderful. I don't need them to.

It works for what I need it to do.
Regulations, deposits, compliance, contracts, fees etc. The pain of making any financial arrangement at such a scale is bound to be non-trivial.
Android 6: 0.79%
Everyone here is complaining about the nature of the proposed natural experiment and I’m just here thinking “where are the pockets on OP’s clothes?”

Phones are stored primarily in front pockets that are nowhere near the colon in terms of biology (almost everyone has relatively dense meaty quads and femurs between the thigh and colon) or the inverse square law.
Right, but I think you are making my point. Despite the boomers dominating for decades, we’ve seen the GOP swing far right relative to the 70s/80s. For example, Nixon massively expanded the Clean Air Act and enacted the Clean Water Act, which never would never have happened with the GOP in the last 30 years.
San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics
Just like learning from another human. A person can teach you the higher level concepts of some programming language but wouldn't remember the entire standard library.
To be fair, I use my hoodie pockets pretty often.
> It makes the movie "Her" look like it's no longer in the realm of science fiction but in the realm of incremental product development

Are we supposed to cheer to that?

We're already mid way to the full implementation of 1984, do we need Her before we get to Matrix ?
Oregon is a lethal prescription situation, you still have to have enough physical function to do it.

And jumping off a building requires being able to access the exterior of a building tall enough for the purpose. Such access is common to residents (balconies), but typically not to visitors. And it requires being able to climb over whatever safety barriers exist. I am aware of *one* spot--and if things were bad enough I doubt I could either reach it or get over the barrier. Without a conveniently-placed vehicle (it's a parking garage) I doubt my wife could get over the barrier even in good health.
I didn't see any good reasons to be dismissive of LLMs, I saw a weak attempt at implying we're at a local maxima because scientists don't know better than to chase after what seems magical or special to them due to their bias as humans.

It's not an especially insightful or sound argument imo, and neither are random complaints about capabilities of systems millions of people use daily despite your own claims.

And for the record:

> because NO business currently using LLM extensively could be profitable without generous donation of compute from large corporations like Microsoft

OpenAI isn't the only provider of LLMs. Plenty of businesses are using providers that provide their services profitably, and I'm not convinced that OpenAI themselves are subsidising these capabilities as strongly as they once did.
All that spilled ink don’t change the fact that I use it every day and it makes everything faster and easier and more enjoyable. I’m absolutely chuffed to put my phone on a stand so GPT4o can see the page I’m writing on and chat with me about my notes or the book I’m reading and the occasional doodle. One of the first things I’ll try out is to see if it can give feedback and tips on sketching, since it can generate images with a lot better control of the subject it might even be able to demonstrate various techniques I could employ!
The fun part is when startupserviceaccount@gmail.com or whatever gets flagged as not being a "real person's name" and then deleted.
Is the test set public?
I'm just quoting your comment about the so-called alarmist mainstream news which is just nonsense, that's what doesn't exist.
Unfortunately, OpenHaystack is not as open as I'd hoped.

> All you need is a Mac and [...]
Its faster, smarter and cheaper over the API. Better than a kick in the teeth.
I was diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer in 2017, and a doctor doing a research study told me incidence for people under 50 had risen 20% in a decade. I imagine diet plays a significant role, insofar that our diets have changed dramatically in the last 50+ years. However, I also imagine the food production chain is a contributing factor. How much is anyone's guess.
Only a very small percentage of packaging ends up as micro or nano plastic in the water supply. A much larger percentage of textiles end up as micro or nano plastic in the water supply since they're generated by washing clothes.

If that's what you're concerned about, a focus on textiles is warranted.
Brickbat: Robot's Day of Rest
I'm not sure where your confusion is, maybe it's just the terminology. I'll address your points individually and see if maybe that helps you understand what people mean by the "golden handcuffs" framing.

>You chose to wear them.
Correct. Because it is the least-bad option that I see as a possibility.

>You like your golden bracelets
I do not. I dislike my handcuffs. I just recognize that the other handcuffs I'm allowed to replace them with are worse.

>You can take them off any time you want. You are making the choice of staying
I can replace them with different, worse handcuffs. I'm unhappy about being in handcuffs, but if someone suggests I replace my golden ones with the sharp, rusty ones, I will decline and choose to stay in my current ones.

>At the very least assume the responsibility
I am? In fact the degree of agency here is central to the whole point. If you tell a prisoner they can choose between death by lethal injection or death by being burned at the stake, they can make the choice of lethal injection and "assume the responsibility" for that, but it's not like it's what they actually want-want. It's what they want under the constraints of the circumstances.
this article started out so strongly too--found it pretty interesting. and then just deteriorated. like, within a few sentences in the later half you already know the leftist stance with little nuance on any of the topics being brushed with broad boring strokes
Thanks, I will try that next time I have to migrate.
As an HN reader it added valuable context for me that I was unaware of.
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped police identify activist
Wouldn't this program serve to increase the number of homeless people in San Francisco?
Tell that to German customers

(Classic: https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/26/germany-chokes-on-wa...)
After my first colon cancer, I read all I could find about cell phones and cancer, and did not find anything substantial. The most interesting was an indication that perhaps the radiation could impair the immune system's ability to fight cancer. But I think that stress of modern life would affect the immune system more.

I would be more worried about the increase of chemicals in the environment, such as PFAS and nanoplastics.
Just to be 100% fair, they may want to retest against xxHash3 for that "fastest" claim as it's ~2.5x faster than xxHash that they benched against.
i can try it now, but now the voice features i dont think
> Whether Apple intended this or not: The real world primary use case for AirTags is still tracking stolen crap.

You're conflating your primary use case with the world's. 95% of the AirTags I'm aware of in the wild in both my family and friends are used for finding misplaced items - not stolen ones.
In this thread, people don't understand the size and scope of the Pig Butchering problem or Sexploitation scam problem or the Underage User problem or the Revenge Reporting problem or how ML can be used for the user's benefit and safety or for anti-crime. But you know, go on and assume any and all technology is used for $$$$ and never to you know, stop grandmas from losing their life savings or kids from being talked to by pedophiles.
It is pretty awesome that you only have to prompt with “use python”
I'm 40ish, I'm in the tech industry, I'm online, I'm often an early adopter.

What hype cycle does this smell like? Because it feels different to me, but maybe I'm not thinking broadly enough. If your answer is "the blockchain" or Metaverse then I know we're experiencing these things quite differently.
Just configure it to respond to "Computer" and you're good to go.
You are extrapolating baking rules-of-thumb but forgetting the chemistry that is happening. When you add baking soda to something acidic, you end up with less baking soda, you can even end up with zero baking soda leftover with enough acid, as the baking soda reacts with the free hydrogen ion and yields water, co2, and a sodium ion.
twitter support tier is the highest of all!
I'm also building in the lakehouse space and anecdotally have seen more excitement around Iceberg over delta lake just because of its completely open source origins. Iceberg has evolved faster and has had more contributions from a more diverse set of contributors than Delta Lake. Not sure if this will change with a Snowflake <> Tabular acquisition but I'd easily bet on Iceberg if current trends continue.
You should be worried because this stuff needs to make sense financially. Otherwise we'll be stuck with it in an enshittification cycle, kind of like Reddit or image hosting websites.
>Dietary changes in the population seem the first place to look.

Yes but we must unpack that. It's not just WHAT you eat (and even then, a 2024 tomato is not a 1950 tomato), it's how it was grown, how it was processed, how it was prepared, etc. Most studies don't even scratch the surface of this

Food additives are a part of that as well and there is some evidence. E.g. gelatin was replaced by carrageenan in most foods which has been shown to trigger colon cancer.

Drinking water is another such. NDMA is a byproduct of water disinfection and industrial processes (in drinking water as a result of chloramine disinfection, and in chlorinated wastewater used for aquifer recharge) and has been shown to trigger colon cancer. 35-40% of the municipally-treated water in the US is now disinfected using chloramine, a percentage which has nearly doubled in the last decade
> “This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement obtained by The Guardian May 8. “This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”

I'm skeptical. I think this is yet another symptom of the rot that has set in at Google - the controls preventing IC employees from unilaterally causing catastrophic damage are getting dismantled in the name of... who knows what. It's likely that any firewall between ads and other services are getting weaker and I wouldn't be surprised if we get some scandal where Google uses Workspace client data for training or ad targeting. We've already seen similar weakening of the walls with the Chrome team come out during the ongoing anti-trust case.

I opened the article assuming it was some form of user error by UniSuper IT but no, it sounds like a completely internal Google problem if the CEO of cloud decided to weigh in and assure everyone that it's a "one-of-a-kind" occurrence.
Customer segmentation is based on user-submitted info like name, zip code and product SKU.

This is using typed communications by anonymous users to make a guess about those attributes.
Hey that LLM is trained on everything we've ever produced, so I wouldn't say we've been "reduced", more like copied. I'll save my self-loathing for when a very low-parameter model can do this.
Problem is that by that time there would be open source models (the ones that already exist are getting good) that I can run locally. I honestly don't need _THAT_ much.
At least with a phone book you were able to opt out of your information being included in it. As of right now, there's no way to opt out of Discord.

Anonymity on the internet protects a lot of us from state actors, governments, and fringe extremist groups. We're already losing that anonymity with many state laws (submitting IDs to view adult content is one of those). Imagine if the President had a list of every person worldwide who said anything bad about him. Name, number, gender, age, address, list of friends on every network, etc.

Having to deal with trolls and harassers that can be blocked or removed from the platform for gross violations is a much better option than everyone in the world being able to find out who I am, who my family is, who my friends are, etc.
And some of those hype cycles were very impactful? The spread of consumer internet access, or smartphones, as two examples.
what do you mean by exploited
There’s so much pent up collaborative human energy trapped behind language barriers.

Beautiful articulation.

This is an enormous win for humanity.
It's not purely a screening issue -- there are no mandatory screenings for teenagers, so any screenings done would be in response to showing symptoms. That said, as awareness of incidence of youth colorectal cancer becomes more widespread, it is more likely to be seen as a possibility, and thus increase the number of tests run.

As always there are rabbit/turtle/bird situations; it's impossible to say how many of these early detections are of slow-growing benign conditions that left untreated would never pose a threat to quality of life or morbidity or mortality. But because these tests are not done by default, but only in response to some reported symptoms, it is more likely that there is an actual increase in incidence.

It does not appear that this is yet a published study, which might give more data on the prevalence of testing that might in turn give an idea of how much the screening effect contributes.
This is some I, Robot level stuff. That being said, I still fail to see the real world application of this thing, at least at a scalable affordable cost.
Couldn’t make it past the Reddit spacing and the pretentious tone
The simplicity, especially the constrained specification, is part of the appeal for some people and part of the reason for the (mild) resurgence of interest in Gopher, Gemini, and related protocols: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/245/The-Rise-of-t...
I prefer your version: Barr replies to a tweet before gatecrashing the next S3 planning session. "A customer is hurting, folks!". The call immediately falls silent with only occasional gasps heard from stunned engineers, and the gentle weeping of a PM. I wonder if Amazon offers free therapy following an incident like this
> vote against their own interests

This is factually false for anyone who has access to a lot of money. Such people have access to much better care and would likely lose it in a single payer system. See: UK, canada
Neurodiversity and UX: Essential Resources for Cognitive Accessibility
Also even if I learn completely factual information, I'm still probably going to misremember some facts myself.
Running Huey in Production with Django
Or LLM Offline Camera, User Trained Understanding Speech

LOCUTUS
Cloudflare don't bill like this, part of why I moved off route 53.
I'm aware, I'm one of those people.
I can, too. I can also think of counterexamples: if a person is broke, they use their bike to get to work, and someone steels it, that's going to give them a very, very bad week. There's some hard calculus there I'm glad I'm not in charge of. Blocking 1 stalker is clearly more important than blocking one sunglasses thief. I suspect that blocking 1,000 bike thieves would have a bigger societal benefit than blocking 1 stalker.

These are hard questions. I can appreciate the challenges. And yet I'd still be highly peeved if I could my AirTag laying on the ground because it alerted a thief who then removed and discarded it.
I suspect due to colder weather and because of more erraticness. We've had some colder stretches and we're now experiencing more sudden cold snaps deeper into Spring. Latter situation especially bad if a plant is coming out of dormancy and then experiences freezing temperatures.

The label I saw was on a native to Mexico plant.
I saw that, but I'm still not convinced. Correlation not equalling causation and all of that. There are too many factors that play into personal well being and the regions of the world with pervasive access to the Internet are drastically different from the regions of the world without it.
Jumping off a building is not foolproof, and leaves quite a mess for others’ to clean up.

The desire is to be able to choose to die peacefully, with as minimal (negative) impact on others as possible.

Another easy one is falling off the boat while fishing, but again, you might leave a body or body part floating around for someone to find. And the boat is left unattended.
Great take at the end of this piece:

"“The study cannot contribute to the recent debate on whether or not social-media use is harmful, or whether or not smartphones should be banned at schools,” because the study was not designed to answer these questions, says Tobias Dienlin, who studies how social media affects well-being at the University of Vienna. “Different channels and uses of the Internet have vastly different effects on well-being outcomes,” he says."
> Sound like the people who defend Astrology because it feels magical how their horoscope fits their personality.

Does it really or are you just playing facile word association games with the word "magical"?
FWIW, WhatsApp claims support back to Android 5.0, and if they haven't changed their support decisions since I left, that means there's a significant amount of users in the wild on Android 5.0. I'm not surprised Google only goes back to Android 6, they were always dropping versions from support before WA did; their threshold must be higher.
> It's just a struct though, not an object. There's no functions or methods on it

Object-relational mapping was originally coined in the Smalltalk world, so objects were in front of mind, but it was really about type conversion. I am not sure that functions or methods are significant. It may be reasonable to say that a struct is an object, for all intents and purposes.

A pendant might say that what flimsy definition Kay did give for object-oriented programming was just a laundry list of Smalltalk features, meaning that Smalltalk is (probably) the only object-oriented language out there, and therefore ORM can only exist within the Smalltalk ecosystem. But I'm not sure tradition ever latched onto that, perhaps in large part because Kay didn't do a good job of articulating himself.
That's my thought, also. If you count older siblings keeping an eye on younger ones I don't see it's that hard to rack up 50 hours/wk. I get the feeling we are seeing the all-to-common pattern of taking a real problem and presenting statistics about it to create a deception that it's bigger than it really is.
It's a fundamental tradeoff. And who's affected in each case?

The anti-stalking bias degrades the product for people who've bought an AirTag and become victims of theft. It's a limited population. People are unaffected by default.

The anti-theft bias means everybody is a potential victim of stalking. If I have no interest in AirTags, anybody else can still tape one to the bottom of my car and track me wherever I go. Everybody is potentially affected.

Even if theft is far more common than stalking, an anti-theft bias would be a tough position for Apple to defend if it means they're potentially facilitating stalking for the entire population. It may not be ideal, but I can understand it.
They may have put restrictions in place. I know they did after the NYT sued them over being able to reproduce paywalled articles.

Which is different from not actually having that info.
> That means someone can steal your stuff, and then disable the tracker so you can't find it

This has always been the case with AirTags. They've had anti-stalking notifications since day one, and disabling one is as easy as a quarter test of the case to remove the battery.
If you're talking about the US, single payer healthcare would be nowhere close to a "rounding error". Medicare and Medicaid are already more than 5% of GDP.
This is why we can't have nice LCARS things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS#Legal
You can use GPT-4o now but the interactive voice mode of using it (as demoed today) releases in a few weeks.
Lawyer linked to 'parasitic' AI content network identified
The demos seem quite boring to me
How hard is it come up with community run maker spaces supported by the city for putting such things together? Not every thing has to be owned by large private companies.
The original name was .SCCS. I put the SCCS strings in there to save memory. In the early 1980s, the 3B20 computers used to manage the U.S. phone network had a 32MiB memory limit. By 1985 the network had outgrown that memory limit, by just a few kilobytes. So I hacked the C compiler to look for #(*) strings and put them into .SCCS rather than .data. Since .SCCS didn't load into memory by default, I saved just enough to run one more process! Each binary was built from about 2,000 source files, so those strings added up to a significant amount of memory.

This was at Bell Labs Columbus Ohio. Also, I think it was COFF and not ELF. Used System V r2.
there needs to be some automated backup option to periodically dump your whole G.suite data to some non-Google service... I'd pay for it.