skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's why I'm advocating for nuclear. It's not meant to turn on and off -- fine, but it will buy us time to invest in storage infrastructure and develop plans to move those electrons around at a moment's notice.

One of the objections against nuclear is that it takes way too long to build (for instance, the latest nuclear reactor near where I live has been on construction for decades, and is still far from being complete). Which means it can't help "buy us time".
Out of curiosity, why are you still using 32-bit architectures?
Don't need AI to murder people, a gun with an actuator on the trigger can murder people easily, add rnd to it and it can murder people at random
For a wonderful scene that mirrors exactly something like Yeltsin's real trip to the supermarket, i strongly recommend the (generally wonderful) movie "Moscow on the Hudson" with Robin Williams.
> LLMs are very good at outputting texts that eerily mimic human language.

What a bizarre claim. If LLMs are not actually outputting language, why can I read what they output then? Why can I converse with it?

It's one thing to claim LLMs aren't reasoning, which is what you later do, but you're disconnected from reality if you think they aren't actually outputting language.
I think it’s a mixed bag. There’s obvious efficiency in having a small number of companies make parts and sell them to the many auto makers. There are obvious downsides to outsourcing too.

I think Tesla is a good illustration. They make a lot of parts other auto makers outsource, and they also have a whole lot of quality control issues. I am sure I suffer from observational bias here, as my GF has a model Y and I notice all the parts that fail that never would on any other car (like vent fans, door handles, etc.) but the upside exists in some engineering document or p&l I don’t see.
I already have a few improvements in mind:

- Comparison feature on the results page (to see 2-3 products side by side)

- 'Ranked' filter, so selecting USB 2.0 will also show USB 3.0 hubs since they are backwards compatible (there are some specific cases where this doesn't hold and you might want exactly a USB 2.0 port, but that's quite rare).

- Additional sources for pricing data besides Amazon

Curious to hear which of these would you find the most helpful!
That's not the mental model I had, and I doubt I'm the only one. I believed knowledge to be something you either had or didn't have. I understood that it was possible to learn things incorrectly, and to forget things (hence the necessity of revision), but I had no appreciation of "fluency" as a concept until I was an adult.

As far as I understood it, the main limiting factor in education was teachers deliberately holding back knowledge. The main purpose of "problems", and especially of homework, was a show of social submission, designed to persuade the teachers to reveal the next secret. School one essentially one giant hazing ritual.

There's one memory that stands out as the greatest moment in my education. My school had Acorn Archimedes computers, which came with BBC BASIC, and we were allowed to program them during lunch breaks. One of the older students programmed a Space War clone. I very much wanted to write one myself, but I didn't know how to calculate rotations. The older student refused to tell me the secret, which made perfect sense according to my dominance hierarchy model of education.

I begged my math teacher for the secret, and to my surprise he actually explained how to rotate points using trigonometry. This felt like something incredibly subversive, where the teacher was giving me knowledge I hadn't earned. For this reason I still think of that teacher more favorably than any other, despite other teachers objectively doing more for me. I went on to write a superior Space War clone.
Singapore writers reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Never heard of retrieval-augmented generation?
There is a bit of confusion, because this law was effectively dropped in 2019 but then resurrected and passed in 2023.

Enforcement is due to start in 2025, with Ofcom currently exploring feedback from industry and users.

People will be supposed to authenticate with official ID (passport, driving license, etc) when connecting to porn sites from the UK. Obviously the VPN market is already on the case - the question really is whether the porn industry will fight VPNs, which is unlikely. The biggest sites will likely just go for token efforts to show goodwill.

The end result is likely to be a growth in VPNs (which will also affect the other big internet-censorship tool from the UK government: silent DNS blocking) and more traffic getting diverted from highly-visible and highly-moderated sites (e.g. Pornhub) to smaller, rogue sites where everything goes. So an own goal, in practice; but pearl-clutchers won't be happy until the whole web resembles a sanitized Disneyland park, so expect even worse laws.
Will is affecting, bringing about, one's intent. Intentions are based on thought. Thought is engendered in the mind. A weak mind is susceptible to suggestions. Suggestibility is indicative of an inability to resist 'external' (not necessarily in the physical sense) influences.

The question of free will is meaningful as a dual of the proposition of determinism. I suggest to you :) that you lack clarity of thought and need to work on that.
Hahah the hate runs deep
Since it’s paid I have to ask.

What’s the difference between this and chatgpt with a prompt?

Is the subscription just a subscription to a prompt?
> Unless they are not reading it, or properly paying attention. [...] Sometimes it is on the user.

If they make no effort, sure. But looking for an answer to a question and finding something that seems to works is a perfectly reasonable way to use documentation. If there's a dangerous gotcha and it isn't documented right there, then the documentation is structured badly.

> Or following an unofficial document

That could be a very clear symptom of bad documentation.

Sometimes it's on the user, but if lots of users are failing to use your documentation, maybe consider that the documentation is bad.
>Why are Google and Facebook free?

The answer is much worse than you think.

These are not the kind of things that are supposed to be worth money.
Peak Oil was about the world running out of oil.
I mean, a Surface Pro starts at $800 (or closer to $1k for a proper setup) while an iPad $350. The vast majority of iPad sales likely come from the lower end. There is no way to compare their sales number.
Wikipedia is roughly analogous to a university library and notice that Wikipedia connects with https by default now. Why should we care that our connection to Wikipedia is encrypted (assuming we’re not going to log in)? Because encryption protects our privacy when browsing the encyclopedia. In a physical library your privacy is protected by logistics: if someone wants to spy on what you’re reading they need to actually travel to the library or otherwise set up some kind of physical surveillance there.

Unencrypted communications over the internet do not present any logistical challenge whatsoever for would-be snoops. All unencrypted traffic can be scooped up and catalogued automatically to build a detailed dossier on all users. This sort of dragnet surveillance was never feasible at physical libraries.
Why should they stay socialist? Why should they ever be socialist in the first place, when this is the outcome? Why should nations even exist when all they do is murder people?
I agree. HN's and the tech bubble's bias many people are not noticing is that it's full of engineers comparing GPT-4 to software engineering tasks. In programming, the margin of error is incredibly slim in the way that a compiler either accepts entirely correct code (in its syntax of course) or rejects it. There is no in between, and verifying software to be correct is hard.

In any other industry where just need an average margin of error close to a human's work and verification is much easier than generating possible outputs, the market will change drastically.
Secrets are either written down somewhere and end up on the Internet, or forgotten.
If I were thinking about trying this, I wouldn't bother trying to appeal to top creators, especially not at first. No matter how much VC you throw at the problem, you'll burn through all of it before you even begin to make a dent. It's also been tried before and failed.

It's been discussed elsewhere in this thread that a lot of the appeal of YouTube is the small-to-mid-size creators. You may not even need to pay more than YouTube is paying in the general case to make it interesting - just offer better terms. Like a guaranteed rate per view and/or per view minute, along with a promise that all of your subscribers will actually be notified when you post new videos. You wouldn't require creators to stop cross-posting to YouTube as well, but you could pay a modest bonus for each platform-exclusive they post, or pay for timed exclusives with a call-out to your platform in the YouTube version.

You would still need to pour billions into it to get anywhere though, and even then, it's not even clear if YouTube is actually profitable as an independent business currently.
Yes, that's what TFA introduces.
You're then relying on an accessory to guarantee text selection.

I'm totally with you: the iPad looks like a competent device from every angle. That's why it's so sad it's only the looks and you have to bend over backwards for basic stuff like selecting a text from a web page or an app straight touching the screen.

For comparison, as much as Windows is ugly and inelegant, there's no basic action on a Surface Pro that requires an attached touch pad.
There is little other way of making money from search.
I want a feature to save a tracker as unharmful. Friends of mine carry AirTags on their keys, and if I go for a walk with them, I get the tracker alert every time.
Hi, OpenDAL's maintainer here. I'm not sure what "Snowflake as an object store" means since Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse service and not intended for storage services.
Folks is already gender neutral…
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. (Wikipedia)
If it was done after the print, you could use water (mist) cooling, would probably help a lot with preventing plastic sticking to your endmill. If it's done mid print, you would probably like to do it for each layer, so no long cool times and it should be hot anyway for next layer. Using printhead for this (like for ironing top layers) would create a lot of blobs from dripping plastic.
Stopped reading (the OpenAI spiel) at "can reason".

Then restarted as morbid curiousity got the better of me...
As mentioned this is difficult. AFAIK the main reason is that the power of neural nets come from the non-linear functions applied at each node ("neuron"), and thus there's nothing like the superposition principle[1] to easily combine training results.

The lack of superposition means you can't efficiently train one layer separately from the others either.

That being said, a popular non-linear function in modern neural nets is ReLU[2] which is piece-wise linear, so perhaps there's some cleverness one can do there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition_principle

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier_(neural_networks)
Thanks. You're right. I do live in Germany actually
If you don't care about others, don't be surprised that others don't care about you, throwaway.
True, given that the average android phone probably needs 100s of CVEs patching, it's kinda weird that there's not obvious epidemic of phones being hacked
How is it worse than you think? There is nothing new in this article, even my parents know this stuff and they are almost 70, non tech. In the end, it feels like a ChatGPT SEO article for this company's email service.
> We’re moving toward a world where every job will be modeled, and you’ll either be an AI owner, a model architect, an agent/hardware engineer, a technician, or just.. training data.

I understand that you might be afraid. I believe that a world where only LLM companies rule the world is not practically achievable except in some distopian universe. The likelihood of the world where the only job are model architects, engineers or technicians is very very small.

Instead, let's consider the positive possibilities that LLMs can bring. It can lead to new and exciting opportunities across various fields. For instance, can serve as a tool to inspire new ideas for writers, artists, and musicians.

I think we are going towards a more collaborative era where computers and humans interact much more. Everything will be a remix :)
Show HN: We made an app that helps remote workers find friends to travel with
Not all jobs can be parallelized in that manner without communication.
Man people love to hate the iPad. I agree many of these critiques (though it seems odd to complain about the lack of TextEdit and then describe the notes app so precisely).

I still use my iPad (and I imagine the author does to) because there are things it does SO much better than a computer — even beyond consumption.

Using the Apple Pencil with apps like Notability, Procreate and Lightroom is IMHO so much better than the equivalent experience on desktop.

Notetaking on computers has been sorely lacking basically forever. Being able to quickly take notes, interspersed with sketches, arrows, and symbols, and layout the page exactly how I want — just how I’d do it in a physical notebook — is awesome.
My statement is clear and straightforward, I’m not sure how to put it any other way. LLM-generated tests don’t make sense as a concept because there are only roughly five properties you actually need to write tests for if you’re writing tests that actually provide any guarantees.
I think the name is good. It took me a whole second to figure out its selling point, especially since there is a new "lisp" being made every day. Fancy names are exciting for like a millisecond. Good luck with the project! Im a Common Lisp user but this seems like a plausible alternative to Clojure and even ABCL
Emm, no, we are not.

In Europe, in general, we do lean towards social-aware capitalism, which is still a far cry from a socialist republic. I know, I lived in one.
For wildly different reasons.

GitHub is free for individuals and small teams so that big corporations feel compelled to use their products, since all of their employees are accustomed to those already.

I'm less familiar with the financial workings of y-combinator but it's a great PR move and a recruiting tool. Someone more familiar with the matter might be able to expand on this.
Generally, these services are free because they have a low market value. Most users would not be willing to pay for them. So, they have to finance themselves by other means like ad income.
The people likely to see and read that article are probably already aware of the problem. The real problem here is convincing the faceless masses that there's a problem.
Because I don't want the West to fail? You must be ready to protect yourself. Calling nuclear reactors environmentally unfriendly is pure insanity. It's a suicide in a situation when your enemies are actively plotting plans on how to kill you. You can't be naive. Ukrainians already made this mistake.
Not targeting anyone, but after clicking into the link, I (1) noticed it is mdbook, (2) looked at the author GitHub and noticed C and Rust, and (3) predicted that Copilot is gonna be unpredictable with random serious unnoticeable mistakes. Looks like I got it right.
I really like how tiddlywiki handles this - clicking on something opens a closeable pane below. Works great for my mind maps and "decentralised" writing.
Do you have any idea why the final product of STEPS didn't actually use COLA? I assume there was some difficulty that there wasn't time to work around, but I haven't found what it was.
dunno tbh. When I hear HAL in 2001, it's more neutral but more scary.
I have no idea.
that tells a lot.
> 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,

How would you implement it instead?
And how do we propose we catch the rabbit without chasing it then
>it is not at all a consensus that the Holodomor was deliberate from the beginning, that’s an active debate with prominent experts on both sides.

Either you're being deliberately dishonest or haven't read enough of the details. Yes, there is debate on what percentage of that gargantuan human tragedy was started by tyrannical incompetence and how much of it was done through deliberate vengefulness by the Stalin government, further moved forward by local initiative, but virtually all experts agree that at least deliberate indifference allowed things to grow monstrously and prolonged them too.

The leaders in Moscow (especially Stalin) and local commissars could soon clearly see that the collectivization policy was practically extinguishing all human life in the Ukrainian countryside, yet they continued to pursue it and even block all avenues of escape, while at the same time exporting grain they'd confiscated from people who were by then dying in their millions.
Claude is superb at some tasks, much better than Mistral or ChatGPT at times... The other day I got stuck doing some research that involved a heavily obfuscated piece of JS, there was absolutely no way forward using ChatGPT, I switched to Claude and I got the whole file sorted in no time. It really was able to determine all the passes the and techniques used to obfuscate the code and work through them in an iterative way...
They're free because they could not achieve network effects if there was a monetary cost involved for users. So basically if they weren't free they wouldn't exist (at scale).
You don't need to express or encode the reals if you've built a physical analogue that operates on those reals, that's the point.
OpenLisp
Heroes of Might and Magic III fan project – VCMI 1.5.0 released
The CSS is whack on Firefox Mobile
So, you are going to immediately surrender? This is not how a war between US and Russia/China will unfold. It will start and proceed as a regular war.
Why does this page push so many entries into my back button?

Edit: If I scroll to the bottom very quickly, it only adds one extra. It seems to add them when I stop scrolling, but not every time. And never when I scroll up. This is on Firefox for Android.
> but it just misses the point that these solutions are bad DX and require maintenance.

Everything requires maintenance, that's not an argument that it requires more maintenance than anything else. There are fewer moving parts overall, and fewer moving parts generally means less maintenance.
It just occurred to me that this is one of the core things most successful religions have been trying to do in some form from the time they first arose.

I've had a lot of negative things to say about religion for many years. However, as has been often observed, 'perception is reality' to a certain extent when it affects how people behave, and perhaps it's kind of a counterweight against our more selfish tendencies. I just wish we could do something like it without made up stories and bigotry. Secular humanist Unitarians might be about the best we can do right now in my opinion... I'm hoping that group continues to grow (they have been in recent years).
Can’t reproduce any of the issues you describe. Perhaps you are using iOS 17 with spellchecker enabled? Read my comment fully.
'It's a Money Loser': Tax Breaks for Data Centers Are Under Fire
I heard of people using the GPT-4 API for personal use because it's a lot cheaper than paying for the subscription since it's pay-per-use. Maybe they don't want people to do that.
Without looking - bad react code?
Combining Rubik's Cube with a sliding puzzle [video]
The irony (:

> Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine.

Sometimes we break guidelines. Sometimes we dont read.
We’re all human.
Sure, but think about all of the jobs that won't exist because this studio isn't being expanded, well beyond just whatever shows stop being produced. Construction, manufacturing, etc.

Edit: Also this doesn't mean less medea, just less actual humans getting paid to make medea or work adjacent jobs
That's like saying you can do anything by writing a book that you can
do with haiku.

It's trivially true. But it misses the value of strongly imposed
constraints. I know that goes against a prevailing (well USA) culture
of "bigger and more is always better".

Sometimes less is more.

> It's fine to dislike how Google has ruined the web. That doesn't
make the web itself bad or useless.

It sort of does though. It's like saying; yeah it's bad that loads of
drug dealers and thieves moved into the neighbourhood. but that
doesn't make the neighbourhood itself bad. For practical purposes it
totally does. It may not make the buildings and streets bad, as if a
technology in isolation could be "bad", but it makes nobody want to go
there.
Laptops are generally more expensive than tablets, it may be helpful for people with less budgets.
It's not just that. LLMs by compressing knowledge, and providing one answer [0], demote diversity. Search engines demote diversity but you can still get to many viewpoints; if you are willing to do the work to tweak your query, or go past top ranking results. On major search engines there is suppression but it's done page-by-page, or at worst site-by-site. With LLMs diverse viewpoints are suppressed through universal "safety" policies.

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/11/one-model-to-rule-them-all.h... as pointed out here, search engines are like Librarians that point you toward context, whereas LLMs are more like Doctors that protect you from context.
Even if you get it to work 100% of the time, it will only be 99.something%. That's just not what it's for I guess. I pushed a few million items through it for classification a while back and the creative ways it found to sometimes screwup, astounded me.
It’s not arbitrary, it’s intentional (though you and I may hate it)

The default UITextInputStringTokenizer prefers to place the caret at word boundaries. I implemented exact placement for my coding app, Codea, and wrote about the text system extensively here: https://sim.coffee/textual-healing/

Exact caret placement is actually surprisingly effective with a reasonable font size. I wish Apple offered it as a preference system-wide

Selection defaults to a double-tap to select at the word granularity. Triple tap will select at the paragraph granularity. This is customisable in your own apps, though the system defaults to the one specific to your current language
Regulating predatory practices is not the same as destroying a company. And if it happens to be the same, then that's probably a good thing.
I have my problems with many things EU, but that hotels are allowed to provide cheaper prices themselves is just good for both the hotel and the guest.
Found the zoomer.
No paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/it-s-a-money-loser...
Yes, for freedom. What would a modern day American revolution be for?
This is a perfect example of the problem in the devops world. People want to do something that has slight variations from time to time. There is a well established concept for this, called a function. Programmers use functions every day and understand their semantics. Devops tool developers do not implement functions but some other abstraction with different semantics. Programmers use this abstraction and confusion ensures.

Why the people who implement these tools, who presumably are very accomplished programmers, cannot 1) see they are implementing something that is already well known and/or 2) implement it with standard semantics, is baffling to me.

Kids, just say NORWAY to devops.
Neither side will use the nukes? Are you sure? Really, really, bet your life sure?

(It's possible that there will be an "irregular" war where one or both sides are not officially flagged as such, but that's also going to be lower intensity. Arguably Ukraine is already in this state)