skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Maybe the workload is manageable, especially for someone with the amount of experience he has, nevertheless the breadth of the stuff he does is what amazes me the most.

Just programming one of those interactive comics must be quite a challenge, to then add the story, the wittiness, depth, etc is what blows me away.
Yep. It often "reasons", as much as it does, best with regular language.

And sometimes, just like with real people, it works better if one or more intermediate steps are interposed. But it doesn't necessarily "know" this -- just as real people mightn't.

It's not unfair to say "Yeah, well if the bot was so smart then why didn't it just take care of that intermediate step for me?"

But it's also not unfair to retort "Well, if you were so smart then why did you expect perfect results from an imperfect tool without expending any real effort to understand and/or explain the thing on your part?"
He couldn't be more wrong with regards to Skate Punk.
Funny how Dell supported remote work, until Michael Dell's family investment LLC started more heavily investing in office real estate.
What is the end game here? You wanna get paid? That wouldn't be more than a few cents, just like how Spotify deals with artists.
Like it or not AI is happening. And you are free to drive your Tesla with hands on steering wheel.
Agree 100%, I've sent off 3 pairs of controllers twice now and they're back to drifting. Those Joy-Cons aren't cheap either.
StackOverflow has always been quite open that they're primarily building a dataset for SEO, rather than being a user-centered website. So I don't feel this deal changed much. SO users are still serfs building them a dataset for sale, only the buyer has changed.

LLMs are faster and infinitely more patient than interaction with StackOverflow, so I don't expect SO to survive for long. They're in crisis regardless whether they sell to OpenAI or not, so they may as well get something out of it before they're decimated.
I appreciated this, but it's probably worth mentioning: when you say AlphaFold 3, you're talking about AlphaFold 2.

TFA announces AlphaFold 3.

Post: "Unlike AlphaFold 3, which predicts only a small, preselected subset of ligands, RosettaFold All Atom predicts a much wider range of small molecules"

TFA: "AlphaFold 3...*models large biomolecules such as proteins, DNA and RNA*, as well as small molecules, also known as ligands"

Post: "they also use the structure predicting model as the denoising model in a diffusion process...Presumably, DeepMind is working on this problem as well."

TFA: "AlphaFold 3 assembles its predictions using a diffusion network, akin to those found in AI image generators."
https://archive.ph/O6LuL
You do need to opt-in when compiling the kernel, but on Linux it doesn't take anything particularly special on the program's side to enable it. The rule is that non-fixed mmap() will only ever yield 48-bit addresses, until the program specifies a 57-bit address as a hint, after which it can yield 57-bit addresses at will. (This rule has lots of curious consequences for the location of the vDSO, when 5-level paging is enabled and an ELF program uses big addresses for its segments.)
Not that it matters now, but I have deduced who burglarized their house.
Michael was certain that Teresa had something to do with it so he clearly told no one. Which makes sense for his personality.
Teresa not being a paranoid scam artist would have told someone. Especially if she felt like it was a chore.
Probably her best friend.
The Christmas party invitation was clearly from Teresa’s side since Michael doesn’t have the sort of friends who invite you to a Christmas party.
And it was probably her best friend.
Her best friend told someone, probably male, probably a younger relative, probably at the Christmas party. He was looking at them at the party realized they’d be here for hours and left early to go burglarize their house.

A call to the host of the Christmas party with that information would certainly be enough for her to think of the name.
Android Devices Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Find My Device
PSA: The following email is being sent to Pixel owners

subject: Your Android devices will soon join the Find My Device network

Find My Device network is coming soon

You can use Find My Device today to locate devices when they’re connected to the internet. With the new Find My Device network, you’ll be able to locate your devices even if they’re offline. You can also find any compatible Fast Pair accessories when they’re disconnected from your device. This includes compatible earbuds and headphones, and trackers that you can attach to your wallet, keys, or bike.

To help you find your items when they’re offline, Find My Device will use the network of over a billion devices in the Android community and store your devices’ recent locations.

How it works

Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others [1] find their offline items when detected nearby.

Your devices’ locations will be encrypted using the PIN, pattern, or password for your Android devices. They can only be seen by you and those you share your devices with in Find My Device. They will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes.

You’ll get a notification on your Android devices when this feature is turned on in 3 days. Until then, you can opt out of the network [2] through Find My Device on the web. Your choice will apply to all Android devices linked to \[YOUR EMAIL\]. After the feature is on, you can manage device participation anytime through Find My Device settings on the device.

Learn more [3]

[1]: https://support.google.com/android/?p=crowdsourcing

[2]: https://www.google.com/android/find/settings/fmdn

[3]: https://support.google.com/android/?p=find_offline_devices
Exactly as they did with GOOG-411, which was used to build a huge phoneme database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
> Some suspect Dell's suddenly stringent office policy is an attempt to force people to quit so that the company can avoid layoffs.

The good news: you’ve selected for all the employees willing to put up with meaningless edicts.

The bad news: you’re stuck with ‘em because everyone else left.

I predict that life with get easier for IT because the remaining people will be really good at following arbitrary rules. Productivity will crater but that’s a problem for next quarter, right?
What collaboration? At best my team is in your situation, and worst you end up with one where reaching out gets you no response whatsoever. It's gone into overdrive since the company announced they were outsourcing all their tech work elsewhere, but even before then getting people to collaborate was like pulling teeth sometimes.
This is really neat. Do you plan to expand this to other sports or activities as well?
"AI slop" can be found in archives as far back as 2022.
Good observation, because "feel heard" is exactly what the user/customer is not getting. Here, talk to this machine, give it your innermost thoughts and feelings so you can "feel heard". Except no one is listening on the other side.

..My mistake, the keyword is "feel". If the machine can give humans the feeling that they're being heard, it fulfills the requirement. The fact that there's no one actually listening doesn't matter, as long as the person feels heard.

Weirdly, maybe that is valuable in itself. The customer gets to vent their complaints, and the user gets to talk through their mental issues. That's better than not having anyone or anything at all.
And the more senior you get, the less and less of any kind of guidance/handholding there is. Because in wartime, you're going to get your commander's intent, some guidance on your objectives, and then be expected to manage the ensuing chaos as the other guy tries his level best to make you fail and/or die.
Yes, on the AI, I'm not so worried about the UI (as you say, it'd piggyback off Cortana), unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy, always trying to "help". I'd be OK with a local version as long as the multi-GB download was optional (I'd prefer it to having to login to a MS acct, which I've so far avoided). One thing I did think of, is if they could have an intelligent super-search, it'd be really cool, like "find the pictures of my nephew playing tennis" or "who was the person I emailed a few years ago about the suspension upgrades for my car" or "find all my spreadsheets with weight workouts on volume D:".
You don’t need round trip with live video, you can push frames in UDP packets from both sides.
This bodes poorly for the future of SO.

One of the reasons that Quora today is absolutely unusable is that it no longer is a curated discussion between internet users and knowledgeable people, but AI spamming the site with swarms of low-quality questions, and AI answering those questions with swarms of low-quality answers. I think it's likely that Stack Overflow will end up following a similar pattern.
I'm not sure what definition you're using here but the example video on the main page is bouldering.
> Swiss banks hold 8.8 trillion CHF ($9.7 trillion) in deposits [1], not enough to buy everything in Africa, not to mention the world

That's what they tell us. In any case, you could just take derivatives if you would like a more definitive estimate. Or futures. The latter is crazy as it monetizes the literal future of the planet.
as a contrast to "slip" right?
It’s simply false that positive sum doesn’t exist the real world. Even the most simplistic trade argument in remedial Econ 101, or even Bio 101 reveals this.

What’s rare are zero-sum games.
> I think people tend to parrot undefined behavior as if it's some kind of gotcha when in practice this only means two things:

No, not really. In fact an excellent counter example can be found on this very iceberg: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/161

C++ at the some optimisation levels says the example program disproved Fermat's Last Theorem, which should come as a surprise as their are no known counter examples. The program is also valid C. When compiled with good C compilers at all optimisation levels (both gnu and clang count as good), the program never exits because it doesn't find a counter example. But the gnu and clang c++ compilers do behave as described. The difference is caused by what the C and C++ language standards consider to be UB.

Why? C++ (but not C) defines an infinite loop as undefined behaviour, and at high enough optimisation levels the compiler spots the infinite loop (which is the correct behaviour if the theorem is true) and goes with the other option. (As an aside, it's impressive it does detect this particular infinite loop.)

Why is that a problem? Well lots of programs are deliberate infinite loops. In practice many don't qualify as UB because of various conditions listed in the article, but you would have to be a language lawyer to know them. The author gives real life examples of how he was caught by the surprise removal of his loop.

Deliberate infinite loops are actually fairly common and are perfect correct code. Proving they are infinite is famously undecidable, so you can usually get away with it safe in the knowledge the compiler won't spot it. But compilers keep chipping away at the edge cases so one day you can find your program changes its behaviour drastically just because it was compiled with a new version of the compiler, or even just different optimisation options.
Maybe! Depends on the reception.
The risks don't exceed what is already out there. If someone wants to do damage, especially in America, there are more than enough ways they can do it already. The technology should be made free. I also wonder how much the claims are being exaggerated and are marketing-speak vs. real results. Is there any benchmark for this that they have published?
I wanted to post this because I didn't see any discussion in the original blog post [1] about the actual privacy and security implications of Find My Device. In particular:

1. I usually have Bluetooth turned off on my phone for security reasons, will this respect that?

2. While Google tells us that the information will be encrypted, it seems to me that having your phone constantly pinging on Bluetooth (if this cannot be disabled per #1) is still a security/privacy leak in some situations, and something users should be aware of.

At any rate, I wanted to see this get more discussion before it goes live on a bunch of devices.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971673
Another method -- Why not use one airpod to emit a constant sinewave and then use the other airpod's microphone listen for the amplitude of that sine wave to detect whether or not the microphone hole it is covered by a finger? I think it could make for a much faster and more efficient morse input, since you can detect dots and dashes directly instead of requiring a double-press as a dash.

There's a good chance you could also just do it with the amplitude of ambient noise and forget the sine wave generator.
Systems generally become more efficient when under stress. They are also forced into local optima - everything has upsides and downsides.
Worked at a high level at FAANG, meetings with L8+. Half of the directors/VPs are just there to keep a cool head and make a few decisions. Directly sat in management consulting meetings with C level at american express. They just made decisions by picking from one of three options on a slide deck.

Also L7 in faang is not that high level, you can still be an individual contributor.
> An unnamed person reportedly "familiar with Dell" claimed that those failing to show up to a Dell office frequently enough will be referred to Dell COO Jeff Clarke.

It's the corporate equivalent of being sent to the vice principle's office in high school.
Some day I'm gonna put this Yellow Box to good use.
In capitalism, any worker is able to own the means of production. Anyone can start their own business or purchase a share of someone else's business if they want to benefit from its 'fruits'

In socialism and communism, only the state can own the means of production.
> but we'll get there

at some point, it'll be too late. the horse has already left the barn.

besides, if the site owner makes a deal with the devil, there's nothing you can do other than quit using the site. people are still using social platforms more than ever, so stopping isn't going to happen.

the more likely to happen is that accounts deemed to be polluting the waters will just get suspended with no recourse to have it re-instated.
BogusBazaar: A criminal network of webshop fraudsters
In my own attempt to bloom coffee in an Aeropress, the result is, strangely, that it takes much longer to extract the coffee to 'full strength' if I bloom it, compared to not blooming it. If I bloom the coffee, then fill up with water and stir, the result is under-extracted unless I brew for longer. If I just fill up the water immediately and then stir, it takes much less long to brew to the same 'strength'. This is the opposite of what should be happening. But I am using light-to-medium roasted coffee, and this article notes that bloom and roast are interconnected, so perhaps this is normal? All I know is, coffee brewing seems to be much more an art than a science, regardless of how much you try to focus on the science. Dial it in to what tastes good to you, and that's all that matters.
I left some time ago, and I'm very glad I did.

I left because the staff behaved in a disingenuous manner.

I found when leaving, as mentioned in the article, that you are not allowed to delete accepted posts, so you can't delete your content, should you come to think SO objectionable and wish your content not to be there.

I can't see now why anyone would spend time posting answers there.
Why would you want to collect training data from English learners?
Is there anyone who makes stackoverflow their first stop for programming questions anymore?
Predicting price movements, finding good hedges, etc.
Enron and Pets.com? 1) Enron misstated earnings 2) Pets.com did not commit wire fraud.

Tesla is one of the most financially healthy companies on Earth. Literally one of the(if not the) fastest growing manufacturing company years by revenue.
Why is it plain to you that people weren't blocked because they were Jewish? The contention of Jewish people who see antisemitism in these protests is that Jewish participation is allowed only for Jewish people who disavow substantial parts of their identity. This gets into the whole JVP thing; activists have held JVP up as a demonstration of Jewish support --- to the point where College Democrats of America claimed that JVP was more representative of Jewish Democrats than the CDA Jewish Caucus (a risible claim) --- and we just saw the JVP Peace Seder, where the labels on the plate were written front-to-back; JVP has also (very recently!) posted a Houthi endorsement on their Insta (it's since been deleted).

Don't get me started on counter-protesters. No matter who's protesting, the counter-protest will always be worse. At least some subset of protesters have an intrinsic motivation aligned with the cause. Virtually all the counter-protesters will be there to stir the pot.

I know I'm a wet blanket here but I'm going to keep mentioning that we're all necroposting on a long-dead threat, bloated with corpse-gases, that just 3-4 people are reading. HN is bigger and better than this.
The Fitness Industry is Worth $22.4B to the U.S. Economy, says new JDA Report
Rising inequality suggests otherwise
I guess the interesting thing here is that it's being simply handled by JS:

navigator.mediaSession.setActionHandler('pause', () => {
press('.')
})
navigator.mediaSession.setActionHandler('nexttrack', () => {
press('-')
})
navigator.mediaSession.setActionHandler('previoustrack', () => {
inputCodes = ''
showInput()
say('backspace')
clearTimeout(timerId)
txtOutput.value = txtOutput.value.slice(0, -1)
})
This looks really cool. I did not expect to see something I might actually buy but this is something that could be very nice for me :-)

Will the Self-host package include source (i.e. source available) or is it just the transpiler output?

Also, is there (or plan to be) support for postgres or other database for persistence?
After having a positive response sharing the spreadsheet of companies rejected by YC, I decided to take this table and created this website.

People have been really supportive, sharing more companies rejected by YC but nevertheless, successful on their own.

Would love to have your feedback on the website and also, more companies added.

Can we get to 100 companies listed?
And what's the commercial application of all this stressed syllable data?
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
It is not true that "no one else has done this". Do you think neural interface researchers didn't thought of something like that? There are plenty of other electrode designs apart from the "nails board", and none solve the problem I mentioned well enough yet.
Because a lot of English is spoken by non-native speakers.
I gave the danger of the bus number one lecture to a bunch of managers once, and had one pushback pretty hard by saying that what he was working on was so complex that no one else could possibly learn it in time to be useful for the next release (every release...).

They bought me lunch a few months later to apologize after having the unique person die and leave them with no backup.

--

I have a relative who just retired and was replaced by five people who started a year ago. It is extraordinarily difficult to replace decades of knowledge and wisdom.
ZX Spectrum tapes use a lead-in tone which the ROM code locks onto.

Random noise (and data! from a previous block) before that is ignored.

Zooming out, the format is:

Lead-in (~4..5s usually), followed by a short header with program name & type of data that follows.
A short pause.
A shorter lead-in (~2s), followed by the data/program itself.

Most software uses several of such blocks. Eg. a short BASIC loader, followed by a loading screen, followed by a # of KB's machine code.

As far as audio tape storage goes, the ZX Spectrum system was fairly reliable & user-friendly.

That's ignoring headerless blocks, speedloaders, and the many copy-protection schemes...
> I wonder how much user faith in ChatGPT is based on examples in which the errors are not apparent ... to a certain kind of user.

I think this is it, basically. A certain segment of programmers are simply not skeptical enough. The same sort of skepticism that will keep jepsen.io going until the heat death of the universe debugging faulty distributed consensus algos.

My coworker recently generated a bash script with it. The shell was terrible, full of novice shell anti-patterns. But this makes "sense" — what was it trained on, after all? Most shell in its training set would be of low quality, because most shell is of low quality.

The script was "determine lines added/removed by author in git repo". The `git log` call it made was bizarre — emitting way more information than it needed to — which it then subsequently filtered out extraneous bits with `grep`. … but it could have just never outputted them in the first place. Things like `| grep | awk`, lack of quoting where needed, etc. Multiple loops through the log output where one would do (and having to slurp it into memory because of that, where a simple git log | <process output> would suffice). The regexes to match the log output were wrong, resulting in the wrong output — but that didn't stop multiple people from going "nice" or "cool script" first.
... they own youtube
dupe:

StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297027 - May 2024 (103 comments)
I am thankful we have LLMs so we don't have to deal with SO. Ideally, as little as possible. SO can be a pretty toxic place filled with elitism and care for procedure over actually helping people, which is not totally unreasonable from their standpoint but it's definitely not what people are visiting the site for. Quite ironically, one of the major complaints I get is that LLMs output wrong answers here and there, ignoring that many of the answers on SO are also completely wrong or irrelevant to the core question being asked. And mind you, also outdated (I regularly have to click through the sorting to make sure answers are actually still relevant).

If we could merge the two to get the best of both worlds, and have LLMs that know how to write well and are validated by humans on the site, that would be great. Maybe not great for the folks looking to accrue internet points but absolutely great for users.
> 4) They've pushed back on various foriegn governments requesting data on users and requesting users or posts be banned (see the ongoing dispute with Brazil.)

But not in India, nor Turkey, there Twitter under Musk has abided by the requests to silence people.

Why is that is a good question, it could be political alignment (Modi and Erdogan are from a different political stance than Lula), it could be because Musk seeks to exploit Brazil's lithium, we can't know but he's been pretty selective in where to pick a fight so we can only assume is due to other circumstances than anything to do with freedom of speech.
Thank you! Let's take it as a comment about comparing styles in different database CLIs.

Some have \-commands, and some have .-commands, which I found hacky - because it is a micro language notation in addition to the actual language.
It is nearly impossible to delete an accepted answer you don't want to have any more. I've had several which are wildly out of date and incorrect now and I don't want to update them, but the mods refuse to remove them.