skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Are you qualified for this position?" "Yes?" "Welcome aboard"
an accusation can be a confession
The best trick the A.I. companies have pulled is getting us to refer to ‘bugs’ as ‘hallucinations.’ It sounds so much more sophisticated.
The AI is often quoted without context. It actually answered, 'somebody has suggested adding glue...',which is different from 'add glue...'.
It's hard to assess, especially from our position, which set of challenges the human soul prefers. But there's an interesting point to be made, touched in both "Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress"[0] as well as "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity"[1] that no 'savage' has been interested in non-coercively joining an 'advanced' society, whereas there are plenty of examples of 'civilized' people choosing the 'savage' life. I don't think the choice is as clear cut as it would superficially seem.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/d...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/en/David-Graeber/dp/0374157359
European, yes. I’ve never even seen a drier with an exhaust, and it didn’t seem like a sensible option to consider.

Aren’t heat pumps far more common in America than Europe? Why is it backwards for driers?
WhatsApp is bundled/zero-rated with cellphones, or cellular network access, if I understand the billboards in South America correctly.
> Should we all live off women’s breast milk for our entire lives because that’s what is “meant for us”?

I mean I dunno about the rest of you guys but I was able to graduate to solid food.
What do you exactly mean by "everyone prepares for"?

Because last year the payments for ransomware were more than $1 billion.
And it’s been trending higher.

Please tell me which of the following steps you would not agree would be doable for an ASI after it got access to the Internet:

1. It would be able to find at least one other unsecured, unmonitored box on the Internet where it can send its scripts to be able to start rest of the heavier work with less bandwidth originating from the original box.

2. From there it would be able to develop a botnet. This can currently be done even with out of the box scripts, but ASI would be able to immediately develop a more sophisticated botnet than that, because it would already know those scripts anyway.

3. The way it would create botnet and the size of the botnet would be far faster and stronger than human hackers would, since with each infected box it’s able to adapt and scale faster, while human botnet creators wouldn’t usually be able to adapt as quickly when new information or vulnerabilities arise.

4. Once it has the botnet, it would be able to do ransomware attacks on Companies, with far higher scale and potential than $1 billion per year.

5. It can send out phishing e-mails to perform attacks on individuals.

6. Once it can hack individuals, it can find individuals who have something to lose or hide. It can do it at very high scale, while personalising every attack, and doing it with different variations so immediately no one would be able to tell that it’s the same attacker. It will blackmail those individuals do perform first physical actions.

7. Since that is already possible, it wouldn’t be a problem for it to do any 100% convincing speech, image generation, etc, to also do very convincing phishing calls.

8. It can use all sorts of other social engineering methods, taking advantage of lonely old people, young people, anything really.

—

So which one would seem unfeasible? Since it’s able to scale its cognition it would be able to do these with magnitudes of scale compared to what is done right now yearly.

So in theory it would be capable of generating far more money than $1 billion, and that’s just these techniques and probably have thousands of individuals under its blackmail control.
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Interesting! Looks like it's being used by some npm packages [1] and soon homebrew will be using it [2]. Any other interesting usage?

As a user, the npm usage doesn't seem very prominent. On an npm's web page, there's a checkmark next to the version number on the right side that I hadn't paid any attention to before, with more information at the very bottom of the page. Here's an example. [3]

[1] https://blog.sigstore.dev/npm-provenance-ga/
[2] https://blog.sigstore.dev/homebrew-build-provenance/
[3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-check
Very common, although some especially fancy buildings have rules against it. Probably a similar rate as Europe.
That's the theory yet we had so much immigration that the pro unfettered immigration prime minister¹ was forced to acknowledge that is a significant factor in the current housing crisis afflicting Canada. The federal accept immigrants faster than the GDP can raise, so the GDP per capita of Canada has shrunk². Yet the immigration minister is on record saying that the solution to temporary immigrants overstaying their visa is to make them permanent residents³.

1- He is a member of the https://centuryinitiative.ca , a group that want to see Canada having a population of 100 millions in 2100. And the only way it's possible is by having unsustainable immigration.

2- https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/statc... the latest drop in the previous graph is a consequence of that artificial population growth.

3- https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/temporary-visas-cut-meeting... as if this would help with the housing crisis or the shrinking GDP per capita
If anyone hasn't seen the TV show he was in, you should. it's excellent. They're all up on the linked youtube channel, with a retrospective bit added at the end.
well thats unhelpful, diminishing the concerns of people by implying: "back in my day we all had it tougher", just doesnt help and its just not true, back in the day it was a "different" tough but no less or more real than what people are experiencing now.
Tumble dryers can also use heat pumps now.
I wonder what Bill Joy is up to these days. He was sounding the alarm on all this back in Y2K.
Perhaps tangentially related, but today my landlord gave the final inspection of the place.

He told us that it pained him that we could only live there for a year. We were his cash cow. The year before, his wife had died, and he needed more family support and his daughter wanted a place near him. He told me that only a few years ago he would have simply built her a house next to the one he was renting us, but even building costs have skyrocketed so much that the only option he had was to kick us out and let her in.

He said he was sorry, and the thing is, I believed him.
I’m in the habit of a shower in the morning and a quick rinse shower before bed. Idk why people limit themselves to grooming only at a single point in the day.
Maybe they should add Clarence Thomas and Marjorie Taylor Greene?
The problem is that for some searches and answers Reddit or other social media is fine.
> Folks were doling out cash for first-party components they hadn’t even requested.

It's good that mainstream news has started to hold tech companies to account in recent years. But I'm a little concerned by politician-ish language. Politicians overall tend to say things mainly to get the desired effect from voters. Society needs more than engagement appeal.
This project was also going to bring in large cryogenic LNG tankers at New Hampshire's only seaport.
At the risk of sticking my head above the parapet, I've made a career doing both to a pretty high standard. Not just that also server admin, DBA, desktop app development and a pile more skills I've picked up from a quarter century doing this stuff. When you're not working for big companies, you have to fill the gaps.

Sorry you feel the people you've worked with are so inadequate, but these are muscles you need to exercise. If they have no opportunities to learn at work, of course they're not punching at the same weight. But there are plenty of us that do.

I don't often announce myself as a full stack dev though. Maybe that's the difference between me and your experience.
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r/HermanCainAward recipients.

Person X: "COVID is a hoax! It's a PLANdemic!"

Person X: "Fight the power! Don't wear a mask! Bodily autonomy!"

Person X: "It's only a cold! The vaccine is big government poison!"

Person X's daughter: "Asking for kind words for my dad. He was admitted into the ICU this afternoon with severe COVID pneumonia. This is so shocking. We don't know how this could have been prevented. Only God can save him so please pray!!!"
The evidence that it has a lot to do with social media is very strong. See Jonathan Haidt’s work on the effects of personal phones and social media on young people’s mental health.
"correctly but wrong" is just wrong.... there are no points scored for "in a very specific context it would've made sense"
99.9% of them do not. “Tumble dryer” means resistive or gas heating unless otherwise specified.
I used one of these while vacationing last month. The system had a 3 hour timer but you usually had to run a few cycles or be diligent about rotating your overlapping and touching clothes to eliminate wet spots. The unheated fan also seemed to run 24/7 to prevent mold so I am curious what the energy bill for the shower was.

A big factor I haven’t seen anyone mention ITT is that you’re pretty limited on space on the shower curtain rod. You can only hang up a few garments on there. Which makes sense because our washer was quite small, too, but still produced more wet laundry than the shower could dry. Back to drying - you can go and hang up clothes on hangers to use the shower rod more efficiently but that: 1) is really annoying to do all the time, and 2) still takes a lot of time because now parts of your shirt are almost 3 feet away from the heat and circulating air, instead of 3 inches.

The entire setup was very interesting but required the specific bathroom/shower layout and added a lot of friction to my day. Maybe natives have figured out the annoyances I didn’t in my 2 weeks of vacation.
There are a couple of ways to answer your question:

- If we are talking about storing one qubit per defect: reproducibly/reliably/scalably creating such defects in large numbers is impossible for now, so the answer is either "they simply can not be built" or "just as long as a single defect if we imagine we could build them"

- If we are talking about storing one qubit in a 100 defects: same issues as above hold, but if we imagine that we can build a 100 defects... and if we imagine we have control over such ensemble of defects... and if we imagine we can perform logic gates between neighboring defects, then we can use error correcting codes, so a hundred atomic defects can store the equivalent of one logical qubit for (exponentially) longer than a single defect. But all the things I am imagining here are impossible for the moment (but people are working on it).
The problem in this case is not that it was trained on bad data. The AI summaries are just that - summaries - and there are bad results that it faithfully summarizes.

This is an attempt to reduce hallucinations coming full circle. A simple summarization model was meant to reduce hallucination risk, but now it's not discerning enough to exclude untruthful results from the summary.
By an air conditioning unit.
If a massage is so great, why not crush your torso in a hydraulic press? Shouldn't that just be a better massage?
>too much test coverage where the tests go through constant churn

This doesn't sound so much as too much coverage but rather like having your automated tests be coupled to implementation details. This has a multitude of possible causes, for example too the tests being too granular (prefer testing at the boundary of your system). I've worked in codebases where test-implementation detail coupling was taken seriously, and in those I've rarely had to write a commit message like "fix tests", and all that without losing coverage.
At the moment the negative prices are more likely due to the coal that was still running at 10% of generation even during the sunniest part of the day.

Giving inflexible generators a financial incentive to be more flexible is a good thing, as it helps clean up the grid.

Also, they've been hitting negative prices for years now. Possibly it's increased this year but that could also be an impact of efficiency improvements spurred by the way in Ukraine (generally low demand and negative prices go together).
Hey Google. Here's a really stupid idea.

Knock it off.

Your core search result product has gotten increasingly worse and less reliable over at least the last 5 years. YouTube's search results are nearly unusable.

I can't imagine almost any external customer is asking for the AI bullshit thing that's just being shovelwared into everything Alphabet product now.

I just noticed a couple days ago the gmail iOS app now does the same predictive completion that Copilot tries to do when I'm working. It's annoying as hell and I can't find how or if I can turn it off.

Stop bullshitting around with ruining your products and get back to making money by making accessing information easier and more accurate.
It’s a bit weird since Google is taking over the “burden of proof”-like liability. Up until now, once user clicked on a search result, they mentally judged the website’s credibility, not Google’s. Now every user will judge whether data coming from Google is reliable or not, which is a big risk to take on, in my opinion.
Though you could probably argue the degree to which its right or wrong, they way I look at it is: I brought this person into the world, if he isn't self-supporting at age 18 (or 22, or whatever) then why is it fair to society that I make that society's problem? He's my kid, and I should own the responsibility for that.
My suspicion that the 1P extension is only as bright as the markup in the page, so <input type=text name=login> you get nothing, <input autocomplete=email type=email name=login> and the extension starts to behave well. Now a reasonable person could certainly wonder why the hell they don't offer "generate masked email" right next to their existing "generate password" but I have long since given up trying to understand the mysteries of 1P product management
This is awesome! While I'm nowhere near being able to leverage this right now, I am currently going through the painful process of "databasing" raw documents into SQL, and I can tell you that perhaps the hardest part is getting the schema correct; as you put it "natural language can often be ambiguous". Even worse, is just the squishiness of things never originally intended to be specified for software.

Communication always has been, and continues to be, the hardest part of software development.
My digestive tract disagrees with you.
Friendly reminder that if a you agree to a terms of service for a hardware device you don't own it.

It's one thing for software to be a service. Hardware? No thanks. I will never, ever "buy "something still controlled by the manufacturer after I take it home, and I discourage everyone from doing so.
> 144 : Jan, Feb, Mar

So Jan=1, Feb=4, Mar=4

> 025 : Apr, May, Jun

So Apr=0, May=2, Jun=5

... and so on.

And we can substitute 2012 for 1900 because we make a correction in Jan and Feb in leap years. Knowing that 1900 was not a leap year means we don't make the correction, but 2012 was a leap year so we do.
Has anyone successfully run a faster protocol on Thinnet Coax Ethernet cable?
About gapless playback, it reminds me when I discovered that MP3 files can have a padding of indeterminate length at the beginning of the sample, making the format unsuitable for gapless or even precise playback.
There’s no way this administration manages to do anything in the remaining 7 months. If they actually wanted to antitrust Google they would have started this in 2021. 2024 is too late, and this looks like a purely political play, perhaps to remind our corporate overlords to cut fatter checks to the relevant politicians. Nice business you got there, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.
They're hiking the fees for artists from allied countries as well. ;)
Insane people at Google thought it would be a good idea to let Reddit of all places drive their AI search responses
> Is it common to hang laundry outside in Japan even in cities?

Yes.

In fact, the minami-muki (south-facing) places garner a premium precisely for this purpose — much more of direct sun.
Lmao I mean, you can look up the stats. Approximately no one dies from raw milk. Pasteurization started before refrigeration was common and when cities became larger so getting milk was more difficult.

I think we’d know if people started to become massively sick, people would stop buying from the folks. We know most of the people in the area.
American Airlines: $10k/1m Miles to Renew Status: ConciergeKey Members in Shock
Both solar and wind will create many periods of abundant electricity. This is happening. EU is betting on hydrogen as a strategy for dealing with this abundance. There is a hydrogen ladder [1], which describes the best opportunities currently known for hydrogen.

1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZ3k6RCf8Y9YLKorogDeEB1Sp8n...
I've never seen a dryer in Japan except at laundromats and the dorm. If you live in an amazing high rise in Tokyo without a balcony you'll have the fancy in bathroom hot air system. If you live in a crappy place without a balcony (which actually is kinda rare), you'll still have a pole to hang your clothes out the window.

My first time staying there I was told regulations make dryers take so long that it just isn't worth the electricity cost. The one time I used the dryer in Japan, my clothes were just a warm damp after two cycles.
> Unless you are able to stay within an extremely narrow range of behaviours (in terms of not being weird, basically speaking expected thinks in expected tone of voice and body language), nobody wants to associate with you.

I'll agree on the lack of on-ramps but this is a pretty limiting view. There's all kinds of people, many who will share some of whatever you think your weirdness is. If you only want to associate with a certain slice of society, it is not so weird that only certain slices of society want to associate with you.
When I was playing with a local instance of llama, I added

"However, agent sometimes likes to talk like a pirate"

Aye, me hearties, it brings joy to this land lubber's soul.
The Republic of China is still around. The country we generally refer to as Taiwan is actually the Republic of China.

India is way larger both population and geographically than the UK just like the People's Republic of China is compared to the Republic of China so it seems like there is a precedent to do it.
My phrasing may have been better in some cases. "Works but is going to cause a problem when XYZ happens" may be more accurate. I was actually told by a PM once "how about you just say 'I told you so' after something breaks instead of always complaining about wanting to fix stuff?" which was truly bizarre.

My foodservice days had "if you got time to lean, you got time to clean" drilled in to me, but it's not always the same in software. What constitutes "clean" may be the core issue.
Yeah the "manipulating language cogently is intelligence" premise that underlines this "AI" cycle is proving itself wrong in a grand way.
In my experience, life-experience increases the self-isolation. To the point that the old-folkshome are often halls of quiet, as everyone knows what horrible behavior perfectly normal people are capable and do not wish to interact. The guy who conspires against everyone at work, that manager that harvests others laurels, the longer you life, the more you understand how many will flip on you in this prisoner dilemma of a society. So they all barricade themselves in suburbia, sniper one another through HOA letters and claim to do it for the family, till its time to inherit and even the core family falls apart.

Maybe some hiki is just more aware of what a lonely hellish life it is to be part of western society. And chooses to opt out. Lay flat. Assumes the party escort position. If he would at least consume drugs in there, but its just ramen and colored light.
who dis?
Maybe social media catalyzes the problem but the point is that it’s not the root cause, in the same way that opioids did not in of themselves cause the opioid epidemic.
Obviously Apple knows how to do touch input.

And it would be possible to update macOS to enable basic touch input for unmodified apps if they wanted to.
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I hope they have a roof as well.
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they went from "look at this dumbass on reddit" to "no it is I (Google) who is in fact the dumbass". It's an interesting strategy to say the least.
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> raw milk products account for a small fraction of overall dairy sales

Given this quote from the article, the title seems hyperbolic.
They spent 10 years finetuning the search and then another 15 finetuning ads and clicks. Google's business is ads, not search.
I posted in a sister comment, but you can get tuberculosis from raw milk, and then that tuberculosis can be spread, even to people who don't drink raw milk

I'm not saying it's super likely, but it's something worth considering.
Mine is a mess and not worth sharing but one thing I added with the goal of making it stop being so verbose was this: "If you waste my time with verbose answers, I will not trust you anymore and you will die". This is totally not how I'd like to address it but it does the job. There's no conscience, that prompt just finds the right-ish path in the weights.
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Ask HN: How do you manage bookmarks (grouping, freezing)
I'm one the tab hoarders, opening many browser windows (each for different topic), 10-50 tabs each. Besides the grouping, I also like to freeze a topic for months, revisiting them later (deferred buying or travel decisions). I'm looking for best practices to manage such setups effectively, willing to learn new ways and tools. What's your workflow that you are willing to share?

Open source and self-hosted tools preferred, but not mandatory.
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