skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's absurd to me is: forget all of what this article writes about, because Apple could fix all of it and the iPad would still be fundamentally flawed at a more basic level than anything listed, because editing text is horrifically broken, has been since the first iPhone came out, and hasn't seen any significant improvement since I can't remember.

And the crazy part is: just like this article, everyone overlooks it.

Pay attention, and you'll notice it. (sorry to everyone who had blanked it out). Think about how long it takes/ho many steps it takes to put quotes around a chunk of text; to correct a misspelling; to rearrange some words. It's agonizing once you think about it, and Apple (nor Google, as far as I know) has done zero to fix it in years (a decade?).
Eh, how was it bugged?
If your brain can imagine it de-blurred or de-scuffed, we'll get there with techniques eventually.
Two stories I heard recently; the Soviet Union tried some propaganda by showing people the movie 'Grapes of Wrath' and also saying people had to eat cat food to live.

Actual Russian reactions: 1. even the poor own trucks?! 2. they have special food for .. cats?!
To Be of Use
Movie "Her" became reality
You can just say things that might as well be random, but it would be helpful if you pointed to actual data instead of just claiming things are not true. I didn't just make up the numbers. I found them in articles. I could have and probably should have linked them, but I also wasn't claiming someone was wrong.

> So much here is wrong I'm kind of astounded.

Pedantically arguing about numbers that don't have any correction of enough magnitude that negates the point doesn't really imply being "astoundingly wrong" to me. Are you saying that private equity and investors (and whatever nebulous definition people want to give that separates the two) own an acceptable amount of housing?
https://youtu.be/HcXu4_K1tMQ?t=62
There's many variables that go into supercomputers, of which "company/country propaganda" is just one of them.

Supercomputer admins would love to have a single code that used the whole machine, both the compute elements and the network elements, at close to 100%. In fact they spend a significant fraction on network elements to unblock the compute elements, but few codes are really so light on networking that the program scales to the full core count of the machine. So, instead they usually have several codes which can scale up to a significant fraction of the machine and then backfill with smaller jobs to keep the utilization up (because the acquisition cost and the running cost are so high).

Supercomputers have limited utility- beyond country bragging rights, only a few problems really justify spending this kind of resource. I intentionally switched my own research in molecular dynamics away from supercomputers (where I'd run one job on 64-128 processors for a 96X speedup) to closet cllusters, where I'd run 128 indpendent jobs for a 128X speedup, but then have to do a bunch of post-processing to make the results comparable to the long, large runs on the supercomputer (https://research.google/pubs/cloud-based-simulations-on-goog...). I actually was really relieved when my work no longer depended on expensive resources with little support, as my scientific productivity went up and my costs went way down.

I feel that supercomputers are good at one thing: if you need to make your country's flagship submarine about 10% faster/quieter than the competition.
If users are already having datalake kind of system which is generating parquet files, the use case to use Postgres to query the data itself is questionable. I think having Postgres way of doing things should be prioritised if you want to keep your product in unique position.
Could you reach out to the embassy for the country they're being detained in?
Why Warren Buffett is winning his $1M bet against hedge funds
I think her slow unwind from the association has been handled carefully. She demonstrated an intent to spend on her core value issues, and from the press I read has been remarkably good about it.

I have no particular beef with the Gates foundation, far from it: they're one of the few agencies I know of at scale which has given the finger to the US government see-saw on women's reproductive health and contraception issues funding development, and keep doing it no matter what bird-brains in the US government systems say. My belief is that Melinda Gates was responsible for this. Mainly, I don't like how at some level there was an implicit "..but we do expect you to use core microsoft product to achieve this outcome.." tag on the money.

If she choses to intervene in the current womens health issues in the US leading into the election, I for one (not a US citizen or resident) would be very happy. If she decides to keep out and keep doing the work in emerging economies, also very happy.
Buying an old phone or watch and using FindMy is a compelling counter argument. The problem is that the cost of that is meaningfully higher - it’s a $25 one time purchase vs ~$50-100 + a recurring ~$30/month. The size of the device is another one - the phone or watch is substantially bigger than an AirTag (or how small an AirTag could become over time). Finally, a phone or watch has a much shorter battery life to support tracking. You could trade off accuracy for a much longer battery life, but you’re still capped to maybe a couple of days or even a week if you really know what you’re doing. That’s compared with ~1 year of unattended AirTag use.

As for crime prevention, I think you’re overestimating how much of a benefit that would have. Stolen device protections remove the value from the stolen device. That’s not the case for your stolen bike - thieves don’t actually care if you can track the device because a) knowing where your stolen property is doesn’t actually aide in it getting recovered b) as long as they can move the stolen product along quickly enough the information becomes too stale to action on it (remember - police usually need a search warrant). My cousin’s car got stolen with AirTags in it but he got lucky in that the police did something about it - plenty of news stories of AirTags in cars with people trying to get the police to do something and the police not being able to for a variety of reasons. And that’s cars which are orders of magnitude more expensive than bikes that police won’t bother with. Look up VanMoof theft stories to convince yourself that tracking is useless: https://www.reddit.com/r/vanmoofbicycle/comments/zbexyr/upda...
> because then you stop being a customer?

I agree with you! Which is why I ask this, what can stop someone from falling into this loop in the first place? The article talks about agents getting easier to build but is there any solutions to this problem?
You're allowed more requests in an hour, about 5x more iirc. Might not be a deal breaker for you, but if you're using the speech capabilities, you'll likely go way above the limit in an hour during a typical speech session
Does any paper at this point come from old growth? I'd figure its new growth treefarms that produce paper. At which point, you can't exactly flip a light switch and expect a complex forest ecosystem that took a millenia to establish to restore itself on human timescales. And thats only if the existing landowners wanted to just say "we are content to not make any money ever again with this land"
Yeah that was very weird, but was also probably more convincing to his target audience of people who've never lived in even another town let alone another country.
nosql is great. What’s not great are people who think it’s the best at everything all the time. Same with SQL for that matter.

Turing complete isn’t the proper phrase, but I assert any data model can be modeled performantly both ways (normalized or not).
Yeah the 3rd party "we have an old tree and want to maintain it so you need to do extra work to support us, and only us, despite us being the ones getting paid" is obnoxious (the reason for maintaining old kernels seems to be invariably a product developer selling products for money, or a value "adder" providing long term "support" for old kernels in exchange for money - and we see here wanting to outsource the actual work for that to the unpaid upstream devs).

That said this seems entirely predictable to me, and I'm surprised the author did not simply assume that this would be the outcome given how this nonsense plays out:

* If kernel devs adopt "only security bugs get CVEs" the devs get dragged over coals if they ever don't classify a bug fix that turns out to have security implications

* What do kernel devs do when they land an architectural change that happens to fix security bugs?

* How do you expect them to handle people just watching every fix, who then decide one is a security fix, and give it a webpage and press release when there was no CVE?

There's also the fun edge case: the people demanding extra free work from others are wanting to support old kernels as cheaply as possible, but a bug fix in a current kernel may just be a bug fix, while in old kernels the lack of subsequent work in the kernel could mean they're security vulnerabilities. If only "security" bug fixes are meant to get CVEs then either developers have to in essence back port the change and see if the old behavior in the old kernel led to a security vulnerability, or assume all fixes could have security implications in out of date kernels.
This article made me think of something. Does anyone else find themselves trying to revert back to doing certain activities the "pre-smartphone" way?

Examples:

- Radio stations and records instead of streaming

- Longform, newspaper-like text (this site) vs. all video all the time

- Finding ways of reducing phone usage, ideally to zero?
I make decisions around how I interact with other people based upon that information, yes. I also might decide not to avoid someone based on that information too, if for example, we are sick with the same thing.

For a recent family holiday, I decided to postpone because one group had covid and the other had flu, and we decided that having both viruses at the same event would not be fun. But if we both had the same thing, we wouldn't have avoided each other.
Federal intervention? The state should manage itself.
Chatbots are the wrong tool for many jobs, but that doesn't seem to be stopping anyone thus far.
Linktree seems like the natural evolution of About.me.
We used to joke that if you fed the IBM PL/1 compiler a blank file, it would compile a default program. Probably a matrix multiply.
Truffle ISLISP
My wife fitted her luggage with AirTags but doesn't have an iPhone (just an iPad, normally turned off). The alerts I get are maddening, but I'd rather receive them than disable all alerting...
It’s depressing, both major political parties are enthusiastic about the idea of removing as many rights of citizens as possible.
Explore the organisations that plan and build freedom communities
OpenAI doesn't need that money.

It's free so that no open source models can follow suit and carve away market share for themselves. They're scorching and salting the earth. OpenAI wants to be the only AI.

Only Google and Meta can follow this now, and they're perhaps too far behind.
Wouldn't lobbyists typically be stronger for larger and entrenched incumbents?
Android has profiles, so at least you can log in to your travel profile in advance.

If only iOS supported accounts.
Construction is expensive but at least not difficult. Entitlement and permitting are the real nightmare here. It's why we basically don't build anything.
A single 8xH100 node hits 15.6 fp16 petaFlops
It doesn't actually seem contradictory; not that I know much about law (hell, I think I lost my belief in it sometime in the last decade or so), but my impression is that it's a fairly all-consuming profession between school and a very grinding early career and very competitive; taking time out to raise children could be very costly. And I bet a lot are coupled with other lawyers so there's not much likelihood of one being a homemaker.

For those without good career prospects, ruin is not such a big deal. I looked it up, and no surprise that medicaid pays for a huge share of births in rural Idaho; if anything, 48% is lower than I'd expect.

> Medicaid coverage is even higher for births in rural Idaho. For instance, 48% of births in Lemhi County involved mothers covered by Medicaid. [0]

[0]https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2023/11/28/idahos-infant...
Recent studies show most employers, including government entities, are moving toward skills-based hiring. In the fast-paced, ever-changing workspaces of today’s job market, skills matter more than ever.

However, those same reports show that many HR personnel still rely on resumes and degrees for making hiring decisions. This could be for many reasons, chief of which is that they have no alternative. The systems they need to base for hiring on skills instead are simply not available to them.

Educators embrace skills-based certifications, employees access robust Personal Evidence Records. Yet, employers must actively seek and understand these documents for effective hiring. Fortunately, employers have options in hiring for skills.
> there's enough SoMs with good platform support at this point

You’re talking about the new (and expensive) Turing RK1 and the Nvidia Jetson as alternatives?
Color.js: Let's get serious about color
Indeed - perhaps you could say that 960's castling rules are a superset of normal castling rules.

Edit: Actually, I think the other way around is more accurate - 960's castling rules are a subset of normal castling rules.
Vaguely apropos: I used to have a T-shirt that listed all 9 OSI layers: Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application, Financial, and Political.
It’s still a huge problem for people that have purchased domains. I bought one that apparently used to be a BT tracker, and gets on the order of several hundred NXDOMAIN requests per second.

I understand it’s still hitting Route53 infrastructure, but I’m not using it, and it’s not commonplace to charge for NXDOMAIN records. Because of this, I’m unable to host at AWS (prohibitively expensive for my use-case).

It’s worth mentioning that DNS infrastructure for things like this are very cheap (I used to self-host the DNS infrastructure for this domain for ~$2.5/mo), so the up charge is even worse that what AWS is charging for bandwidth. If they brought it in line with actual costs, I wouldn’t have as much of a problem.
How do speech to speech models work? Do they just that many more tokens to capture nuances of spoken language?
Other countries have them, but for some reason they aren't approved in the US.
Also the ratio of "who's hiring" replies vs "who wants to be hired" replies went back above 1.0f this last month.
In Japan you can pick up a double influenza/COVID test in any pharmacy.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2162/
Exactly. And, I can't help but wonder if there's some sleight of hand here. I mean, to say AI will merely assist is kind of an ideal way to allay concerns that humans will lose relevance. Delay the panic until it's absolutely obvious where we are.

Someone mentioned that Altman's interviews involve him talking a good bit without providing a lot of useful info. Makes sense when you consider that his role is something of a politician.

Anyway, for now, the assist idea is somewhat plausible, but with each new version it's less so.

I think that's what it is about this video: when you watch someone being taught by AI, it flips the "assist" part on its head. Doesn't make a lot of sense that the AI has to patiently teach people to get them to a place where it can then "assist" them.
++Bramleys. One of the things I miss about the UK.
We are in an age of incessant whining
A list of reasons from my POV:

- The loss of the 3rd place in America due to commercialization of public spaces

- A lot of communities depend on social media for their existence. Ex: artists depend on social media networking for their livelihood. Traditionally they'd depend on a wealthy patron to support them but nowadays they support themselves off of a bunch of moderately well off patrons. The same applies to many types of musicians, content creators, etc.

- Social media presence and networking is weirdly important in the FOSS space for patronage so nowadays a lot of devs lean on it as well.

- Social media has become a support network for a lot of people. Jokingly said where everyone lends around the same 20 dollars.

- Niche communities only really exist on social media. Before "big social media" they existed on forums and before that they existed on the one big social media, the BBS. Without the internet these communities would just wither over time.

- Social media is really important for Open Source Intelligence.
Exascale was an arbitrary target- it didn't unlock any magical capabilities.
In fact the supercomputer folks are now saying the real barrier that will unlock their science is "zettaflops" (just saw a post from a luminary about it).

(also please don't be rude or condescending, it detracts from your argument)
Can you please describe what scenario you imagine an airtag would be useful in tracking down a stolen item in an airport?

I ask because I'm at a loss. BLE from these little devices has ~40ft of range on a good day, and even if a mesh network were involved, I fail to see what the airtag could do that would help you recover your item. Sound an alarm? Great, the thief knows where it is now, and they can just yank it out and throw it in the trash. Give you GPS coordinates? Great, that'll really help after you find security, tell them what happened, convince them it's urgent, and explain to them what they're looking at when you show them the app. Of course that all assumes the airtag (or a nearby mesh device) has a useful GPS fix, and the thief hasn't already found the tag and thrown it in a trash can or something.
I just find this idea ridiculous.

While I don't agree at all with you, I very much appreciate reading something like this that I don't agree at all with. This to me encapsulates the beauty of human interaction.

It is exactly what will be missing from language model interaction. I don't want something that agrees with me and I don't want something that is pretending to randomly disagree with me either.

The fun of this interaction is maybe one of us flips the other to their point of view.

I can completely picture how to take the HN API and the chatGPT API to make my own personal HN to post on and be king of the castle. Everyone can just upvote my responses to prove what a genius I am. That obviously would be no fun. There is no fun configuration of that app though either with random disagreements and algorithmic different points of view.

I think you can pretty much apply that to all domains of human interaction that is not based on pure information transfer.

There is a reason we are a year in and the best we can do are new stories about someone making X amount of money with their AI girlfriend and follow up new about how its the doom of society. It has nothing to do with reality.
But why? Like for example, in the US you can chalk it up to reducing labor rights to drive down cost and increase stock price, but what’s the reason Australia has this authoritarian boner atm?
Probably more importantly, the current generation of LLM chatbots are specifically modified to do this: OpenAIs model includes filters to require the answers ChatGPT gives to be pleasant and friendly. The model is specifically instructed to be agreeable.

It would be just as easy to invert those: tell it to voraciously argue against whatever you tell it (in a non-political context this would actually be interesting: i.e. "tell me why my code sucks" is actually a pretty useful capability).
Jira Cloud bug prevents users from typing in text fields
Please stop promoting your product multiple times in the thread, it feels like spam and doesn't add much value to this discussion.
That would be fine if they were marketed as tools for experts but they're not. They're positioned as something a laymen can use and should be held to that standard.
I’d like to know if I’m going to be sick for 5 more days so yes
Combo antigen tests have been available in other countries for quite some time (COVID, Flu and RSV), for pretty low cost.

The FDA is concerned that we are stupid, so we aren't allowed to use them.
Personally I feel like the anti-theft nature of these devices is massively outweighed by the horrible outcomes of stalking and clandestine tracking. They're not a theft deterrent, in fact they're generally hidden so a thief has no idea it's there. And what are you going to do, show up with a posse to get your stuff back?

The world would be better if tracking devices did not exist. It's a shame you've decided to actively reject anti-stalking features.
This goes beyond flattening. Given that only a handful of companies have the financial means to do AI at scale, and that those financial means are provided mostly by ads, I think that allowing these systems to essentially "think" for people like this will be unbelievably destructive for society long-term.
Ever used GPT-3, DALL-E, or other LLMs?

The GPUs used to train them only existed because the DoE explicitly worked with Nvidia on a decade-long roadmap for delivery in it's various supercomputers, and would often work in tandem with private sector players to coordinate purchases and R&D (for example, protein folding and just about every Big Pharma company).

Hell, the only reason AMD EPYC exists is for the same reason.
Airtag pinging a location that may not even be accurate is not a reasonable cause for search nor even enough information to know where to search in some cases. Imagine the airtag says it is in an apartment complex. Which of the hundreds of units in that building do you decide to barge through and search? All you have is a 2d map and 35ft resolution on a good day.
I honestly can't tell whether this is sarcasm.
Chatbots can be decent for unemotional steelmanning. It's nice to prod somebody's positions without getting worried about upsetting them. I have done this with no interest in tricking it into a "gotcha" moment.

I think it's a mistake to conflate amiable/nice with agreeing with you -- you're free to ask for criticism of your position, and it'll provide that politely.
Maybe instead of jumping to the conclusion they were incompetent, you could ask questions about the things you find surprising. "Why did you need so many tables? 30 joins should still be doable, did you have some kind of resource constraints?"

There's probably an interesting story there. I for one am curious.
SQL has its warts for sure, I personally long for the day we get a better declarative query lang than the stringly-typed thing we have now.

> An opcode with some arguments would be preferable to writing a poem and hoping it gets interpreted how I meant

Not sure I follow here though? Is it the declarative nature you don’t like? SQL can be a bit ugly sometimes, but I’ve never really had “no that’s not what I mean” moments?
I see your point, but a crash would be extremely bad for the states budget, which is already struggling. Hopefully a small correction at most.

The market also does seem strangely stubborn to correct.