skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the parents were more likely latch key kids themselves so that hypothesis does not make sense to me... Helicopter parenting is, I suspect, a fear driven phenomena to get kids into elite colleges. There is also a sports version of helicopter parents as well.
Family weren't Navajo but in the same boat of government and industry neocolonial attitude of "FU, poor people" sacrifice zones.
This has been puzzling to me for years now. This was Walmart's position to lose (the battle is not over, sure).

Walmart was destined (?) to be the local place where many things would be on the shelf, in and out, with minimal hassle (because of their extensive logistics already in place, and number of stores.)

But no, in the SF Bay Area - not a small market - and for years now, many shelves have been empty (long before the pandemic); prices are no longer a sure thing; hassle is piled on the shopper: locked up products (when they are not locked up at the Target across the street) or attempting very harshly to detain and delay shoppers at the exit (Target across the street doesn't); strange policies (byzantine core refund on auto batteries).

To counter the empty shelves, of course I gave a chance to their "free ship to store" online option - and they shipped a different product from what I ordered!

What in the world happened to this company?
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I think that's a valid point. For a lot of young people transitioning to adulthood, the thought of buying their first cable TV package was easy to say no to. It's expensive, and there was a perfectly reasonable alternative that was much cheaper and more convenient. When people in a similar life stage think about buying their first car, is the alternative easier? Generally speaking, cities need to invest more in bus, light rail, and bicycle infrastructure in order to compete with cost/convenience of owning a car. But in a few American cities, it is becoming increasingly easier to not depend on a car.
Have you checked out https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/, it's a great write up of various consoles and the author does go into some context/history behind each console he has covered.

To support the author, there is also the ebook option: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/materials/ebook/
Exactly. In the long run we want a cheap/fast LLM layer that we can call millions of times in a search/conversation-with-itself pattern. It may be that we'll interact with it the same way, and GPT-6 will be lots of GPT-5's talking to each other transparently to the user, but the path to next-level intelligence needs to get past generating the next token.

Since we don't know the real GPT-4 architecture, it may be doing some of this already.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128.
Who cares? Is this reality TV?

We get it, some very smart people that were early contributors to the beast that is ChatGPT today are mad that a big corporation came in and wants to turn their hard work into something super profitable and "not-as-aligned-with-their-original vision"/go a different direction.

How is that a new story? Hasn't that happened thousands of times in history?

It should be called "ClosedAI" instead, we get it.
Hence the shortcomings of limited sampling (and data).

I know many people with both devices in my circles (including me). Typically the laptop is for work and the iPad is for travel or for kids.
Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook's War to Crush Google Plus (2016)
Recent and related (I guess?):

Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363273 - May 2024 (276 comments)

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128 - May 2024 (711 comments)
Tarsier provides a mapping of element number (eg: [23]) to xpath. So for any tagged item we're able to map it back to the actual element in the DOM, allowing for easy interaction with the elements on the page.
Maybe something along the lines of “When Alabama prisoners die,
autopsies conducted without consulting families.” Or “When inmates die, Alabama donates their organs for research. Some families object.”

The idea being to preserve the substance of the concern—that families are being deprived of their legitimate say in the autopsy—without suggesting it’s more than it is.

“Prisoners’ organs vanish” suggests mystery, insinuates conspiracy, and suggests that the prisoners may be alive—none of which is borne out by the substance of the article.

Prisons exist to control people’s bodies, and I suspect this might be part of why, decade after decade, lurid allegations pop up about prisons (and hospitals, and orphanages, and asylums) violating prisoner’s bodily integrity while they’re institutionalized. Whether or not you put stock in the allegations, media outlets have for decades kept the story of “organ harvesting” from prisoners for transplant and for profit (and for the Bodies exhibition) circulating in the public imagination (e.g. [0], [1], [2])

The article’s allegations are about an ethical problem, but a subtle one to do with consent and postmortem bodily integrity—nobody’s suggesting that Alabama is doing anything macabre to prisoners’ bodies beyond what routinely happens in autopsies. This is a “we should fix this policy default” problem, not a “body snatcher vanishes organs” problem.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/41639005
[1] https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/unfounded-claims-organ-ha...
[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/china-un-hum...
I think the lesson in the past couple of years of SPACs is that all the companies that sounded obviously important and useful turned out to be massively overvalued and built on sandcastles of hopes and dreams. Lynk does sound like one of those.

And what those few companies that were actually successful — the “gambling, erection medicine, gay hookups” of my previous post — have in common is that they operate businesses that might have some trouble raising money through the gatekeepers of a traditional IPO.

(Logical conclusion: if I ever invest in a SPAC, it’s got to be a drug-dealing furry porn site for crypto traders at minimum.)
.NET would probably be as close as you can get given it allows you to have portable assemblies with pointers, structs and simd code which is very relevant to games.

It models statically-typed compiled languages in a much superior way to WASM, there are projects showcasing how well e.g. Rust maps to it[0], and C++/CLI existed for a long time (although it's not cross-platform, and is considered cursed).

C and C++ could be mapped in a perfect manner to IL and then AOT compiled in ways that GraalVM's Truffle can only dream of (given that .NET exposes a very wide set of intrinsics allowing a lot of code to be ported that way).

[0] https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr
From what I understand, therapy success rates are quite low, with only cognitive behavior therapy showing notable progress. That isn't to say all the others are categorically useless, only that in the majority of cases, they seem to be ineffective or harmful.
Somewhere there's a large, bright nebula in the shape of a red arrow no astronomer's ever noticed.
The underlying premise of the story is bizarre (is the IDF really so short of manpower that they can't select their own targets)

The premise that the IDF would use some form of automated information processing to help select potential targets, in the year 2023?

There's nothing at all unrealistic about this premise, of course. If anything it's rather bizarre to suggest that it might be.

The sort of people who work at the Guardian openly loathe Israel

This sounds you just don't have much to say about the substantive claims of these reports (which began with research by two Israeli publications, +972 and the Local Call -- and then taken further by The Guardian). Or would you say that former two "openly loathe Israel" also? Along with the Israeli sources that they're quoting?
Combined with the recent departures of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, this doesn't seem good for OpenAI. I guess if you have valuable AI skills you want to be at your own company where you have a bunch of control and equity, or a large corp where you have a done of support and capability to get your code in front of billions of people.
Having this problem also, swipes with a vertical component are simultaneously scrolls, which messes up the angle. FF on android.
I understand that, I assume you are tagging the node and making a basic xpath to the node/attribute with your tag id. Understood. But how relevant is tagging a node when I have no idea what the node is actually for?

EX: Given a simple login form, I may not know if the label is above or below the username textbox. A password box would be below it. I have a hard time understanding the relevance to tagging without context.

Tagging is basically irrelevant to any automated task if we do not know the context. I am not trying to diminish your great work, don't get me wrong, but if you don't have context I don't see much relevance. Youre doing something that is easily scripted with xpath templates which I've done for over a decade.
> We get it, some very smart people that were early contributors to the beast that is ChatGPT today are mad that a big corporation came in and wants to turn their hard work into something super profitable

I think the commenter is asking if that's what happened, or purely HN conjecture
In my experience Azure is probably the best OCR offering right now. They are also the only ones to be able to recognize my terrible handwriting.
Yes if you bike slowly, wider tires are better. However I mentioned that in my post. A lot of people who are into biking are in the fitness zone where they are going into speeds where aero starts to matter way more. This is especially true when you consider wind.
I don't know how they store phone numbers, but hopefully not hashed since the search space is trivially tiny.

The usernames thing does not address any interesting concern. I don't care to show my friends who I chat with my name and phone. They already know these after all.

What I care about is not having to give Signal (the company) my phone number. That's not something they should have.
Hey, please note that this isn't directed you as an individual. This is whats going on in corporate land.

Your argument is essentially that the market will adapt, and to this I have made no comment, or concerned myself to feel joy or fear. I am unsure what this point is addressing.

Yes we will have greater productivity - absolutely a good thing. The issue is how that surplus will be captured. Automation and oursourcing made the world as a whole better off, however the loss of factory foreman roles was different from the loss of horse and buggy roles.
My presumption is that apps will not be able to access this data, at least without some sort of permission gate.
>Is "don't feed the troll" better?

As advice? No... Maybe slightly? At least it is sort of actionable I guess.

I agree with most everything else you said, and it invites further conversation on whether this is exactly what the troll wanted (recognition, feeling powerful for ousting the maintainer, etc.).

The original comment I replied to, a one-liner with the most overused platitude possible, did not invite any further conversation and contributed nothing which is why I sarcastically called it out.
Can someone smarter than me explain why astronmers can't stick something like this on the back of an existing geostationary platform (like what is used for the XM radio sattelites) and get amazing data out of them? Surely sticking something like this array 100km into space will yield better results without the overhead of a 20 year mission plan like James Webb or Hubble.
Are non-profits allowed to own any stock in publicly traded companies in Britain?
How about open up my nest so I can have local API access.
Some cars already have a voice control button on the wheel for their existing system which, if done correctly, is overriden by Siri+CarPlay. Which is really nice when it works.
Partnership with Apple, maybe?
Eye tracking has been on iOS for many years (as an option for faceid called attention).
Level 5 was the goal and the expectation that everybody was aiming for. Waymo's views are easy to interpret from logically considering their actions. Level 4, especially as they are doing it, is in no way whatsoever a stepping stone to level 5. Yet they're spending tremendous resources directed towards things that would have literally and absolutely no place in level 5 autonomy. It seems logically inescapable to assume that not only do they think they'll be unable to hit level 5 in the foreseeable future, but also that nobody else will be able to either. If you can offer an alternative explanation or argument, please share!

Another piece of evidence also comes from last year when Google scaled back Waymo with layoffs as well as "pausing" its efforts at developing self driving truck technology. [1] That technology would require something closer to L5 autonomy, because again - massive preprocessing is quite brittle and doesn't scale well at all. Other companies that were heavily investing in self-driving tech have done similarly. For instance Uber sold off its entire self-driving division in 2021. I'm certainly happy to hear any sort of counter-argument, but you need some logic instead of ironically being the one trying to mindread me or Waymo!

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23809237/waymo-via-autono...
What do you mean by "Lightdash isn't Lightdash without dbt"?
Superset is a beautiful tool focused on self-serve with amazing visualizations. I won't take anything away from them!

Our thesis is that self-serve is much less important than people think, and we find people often make a mess of never-ending dashboards. Current BI tools struggle to prevent that. We solve this problem with a core of software engineering practices.
Taxes and currency exchange factor in.

US has very strong and deep capital markets. There's a reason New York has been the financial capital of the world for the last 100 years and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
I can attest to its effectiveness against H. pylori. I've suffered from canker sores most of my life. The two things that have helped were avoiding sodium lauryl sulfate in toothpaste, and chewing mastic gum at least once a week.
I think this will be necessary to fully realize AGI in the world and am excited to share more about it soon

Didn't they kick Sam Altman out because they were scared of AGI?
He didn't say it wasn't an accessibility feature, just that it was disguised as one.

Just because it's not a game changing feature for some people, doesn't mean its primary function isn't advertising.
All these comments ask for comparisons. It might be worth creating some alternative pages like podia do [1]. It could be helpful for your growth.

Seems like a cool project!

[1] https://www.podia.com/podia-alternatives
You know, not everything is an opportunity to better yourself. It's perfectly valid to leave when boudaries are crossed - it's weird that you argue the person should "work on themselves" and keep getting deaths threaths over maintaining random stuff.
Yeah but you've still got to convince everyone to rewrite all the JavaScript in it. That's a big ask even for Google with a faster VM. If they'd pushed it I would predict chrome market share taking a dive.

Personally I think they did the right thing pivoting away from trying to replace JavaScript.
Why was the Show HN text removed? Too much self promotion? You're a YC company, so I'm surprised the mods would do that.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

> Hey HN! I built a tool that gives LLMs the ability to understand the visual structure of a webpage even if they don't accept image input. We've found that unimodal GPT-4 + Tarsier's textual webpage representation consistently beats multimodal GPT-4V/4o + webpage screenshot by 10-20%, probably because multimodal LLMs still aren't as performant as they're hyped to be.
Over the course of experimenting with pruned HTML, accessibility trees, and other perception systems for web agents, we've iterated on Tarsier's components to maximize downstream agent/codegen performance.

Here's the Tarsier pipeline in a nutshell:

1. tag interactable elements with IDs for the LLM to act upon & grab a full-sized webpage screenshot

2. for text-only LLMs, run OCR on the screenshot & convert it to whitespace-structured text (this is the coolest part imo)

3. map LLM intents back to actions on elements in the browser via an ID-to-XPath dict

Humans interact with the web through visually-rendered pages, and agents should too. We run Tarsier in production for thousands of web data extraction agents a day at Reworkd (https://reworkd.ai).

By the way, we're hiring backend/infra engineers with experience in compute-intensive distributed systems!

reworkd.ai/careers
What is the AI role here?
Why not ask the customers? It's great you have some traction and their actions are leading you to a direction where they find value. Lean into that!

In any event, no need to make drastic changes. Maybe idea 1, but definitely not wholesale changes like 2 and 3. There are plenty more options on the table, such as:

* make two submit buttons in chat area (chat vs mindmap)

* support very specific mindmap commands and use simple string matching for intent detection (not models)

* create a way for people to choose either chat or mindmap commands for the right hand sidebar

* add more example inputs (like the "show me a summary") to guide the users

* etc
He literally says (at 39:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA&t=2388s) "And it's because [the patterns are] only really fragmentary perceptions of this deeper structure that I'm describing [i.e., centers, the 15 properties…], that they are ultimately unsatisfactory; I think they're not capable of delivering the goods." So maybe not an outright renunciation per se, but definitely a deprecation.
Such a pointless exercise of regulation dodging. We should have more cargo per driver and not less.
Ah fair point, should've read it more carefully.

I'm tuning my probabilities back to 99%, I still don't believe just feeding more data to the LLM will do it. But I'll give the chance a possibility.
I hope that some parts of your home remain useful, but if google pulling support makes the stuff in your home suddenly useless, then you didn't really own that stuff to begin with.
That guy's uncle works for Nintendo
Neat. Do you have the Bananalyzer eval results for Tarsier published somewhere?
Xylitol is known to be a laxative, so it is only recommended in small doses. You might be extra sensitive to it.
Yeah, but that's actually what draws renewed interest about half the time, as a TIL.

And if neither that or the overall comparison works, you probably never had a chance anyway.

ETA- And 9/10 when I use it, it's in the context of engineering, explaining pavement damage and impact loads or similar.

It's a great early tell for which version of the explanation you're going to get.
Same, a family member send a photo while I was driving and over Carplay it was described fairly accurately.
Gossip, like reality TV, and rehashing the same thing over and over again is not intellectually stimulating.
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I happen to agree with your underlying point, but expressing it in the form of a personal attack is the worst thing you could do here. It destroys everything that we're trying for on HN, and also reinforces the worst clichés about Lisp on a social level.

Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>> if a five year old unaccompanied minor asks an adult a question they'd get an answer

Well, cops would be involved. While walking my dog in the woods (pacific northwest, about 500m from the nearest road) I came across a young kid. She spoke no English and was clearly separated a tour group. Sun was setting. We had maybe a half hour before flashlights would be needed but my dog and I knew every tree. I wasn't sure which path she came from. She wanted help, but if I lead her back to the road I would be the one explaining my actions to the police. So I left her in the woods. (No. After some shouting into the woods, a member of the tour group came running.) My point: In the west, our fear of being accused of something nefarious can actually cause us to hesitate even when child is literally lost in the woods.
They do it every year at the same time. Also, it’s a small announcement, not a keynote or the kind of fanfare we have at WWDC or the September events. This does not seem calibrated to be effective in an advertising war with another company. All this to say, probably not.
I'm now convinced Disney has better engineers than Tesla and SpaceX. Maybe even on par with Boston Dynamics.
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I lost trust on Google B2C products.
Specially in the upcoming war on AI, even GCP seems compromised on future investments to match Azure or AWS in terms of products.
rpi5 is at msrp of $80 for the 8gb version and widely available at that price in USA, just bought one few days ago.
D&D artwork was something else back then. I remember spending hours and hours just looking at it.

For anybody interested, there is a documentary about the history of the art in D&D: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8888186/
It’s quite interesting.
Why can't it be both? Make it simple but also have advanced features tucked away for power users that aren't visible to users who want it simple.
Some fees higher, some fees lower, seems like.
Hey! OP here. This is really good feedback thank you.
I think it's specifically scroll-wheel on a mouse that doesn't work in Safari, which I can't readily explain.

Adding to the list.

Can you elaborate on the swipe aid being buggy?
It is a known correlation.
Thanks for pointing this out! Yeah, it's pretty strange. We thought including Show HN text was encouraged to engage with the community?
Common rule of thumb I've always heard is one (8oz) glass of water per beer drank. It works well for me although I never have more than 3-4 anyways.
Jerk is accelerating acceleration. Acceleration is the feeling you get when you're pushed back in your seat in a car or amusement park ride. Jerk is what happens when the depth into your seat is increasing (or decreasing).
I always assume people, in general, will shoot themselves in their future foot to save a penny.

Most people don't even know Home Assistant exists.

Or, probably more relevant at this point, most contractors building houses.
Music haptics can be a cool way to teach someone how to dance and “feel the beat”
No. You were clearly insinuating that illegal immigrants are likely to commit crimes.
I see. Guess I'm moving away from Medium then.
If you’re suffering significant medical issues from taking excessive amounts of a drug, that’s called an overdose.

More broadly, I’m including traffic fatalities as a risk from alcohol and falls under LSD, so having deadly issues regulating body temperature definitely qualifies in an apples to apples comparison here.