skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually shocked that a company that has spent 25 years on finetuning search results for any random question people ask in the searchbox does not have a good, clean, dataset to train an LLM on.

Maybe this is the time to get out the old Encyclopedia Britannica CD and use that for training input.
Yes there are struggles today. But there always have been. This imaginary past where most people didn't live in fear of unexpected expenses, debt, struggling to pay all their bills, and not earning enough money didn't exist.
Don't act like you have me pegged, jackass. I lived through all of that.

The vast majority of American leftists, at least prior to the web normalizing political radicalization by virtue of giving a greater platform to non-white and LGBT activism, were at best progressives who might listen to RATM, or might show up to a protest, but still supported mainstream political causes. If they voted, they voted for Democrats. They tended by and large to believe that government had a legitimate social function to fill, was necessary to further progressive causes, and that reform was possible within the system. In the weakest sense, they still tended to support the status quo, even if they opposed specific policies. Actual communists, anarchists or radicals were few and far between. The mainstream left spent decades posturing because they were never willing to go far enough to upset the apple cart of white privilege and capitalism.

But more pertinent to the actual context of this thread and your thesis, most of those leftists also tended not to be anti-vaxx (at least it wasn't a belief explicitly tethered leftist identity.) Your claim that the left was always the anti-pharma group and supported vaccine policies because Trump somehow "broke them" and caused them to betray their ideals is just patently ridiculous. I don't know why you bother calling yourself a "traditional liberal" while pushing the sort of anti-leftist narrative that only exists within a neo-Trumpist view of leftism. Take your false flag nonsense somewhere else, please.
My sincere apologies, I’ll be sure to check with you next time.
Narrated Reality (2016)
Or more cynically, a way to make sure that all recipes include the branded ingredients of whoever won the bidding war in that particular moment.
They already know it’s a shit show. They are trying to push it along until it’s someone else’s fault.
I mean they might have a mini revival but i think we've gone too far to change the process of the general population. Indexes appeal to more organized people who like such things, most of us just throw everything in a pile in a well known location (google) and rifle through that.
> There's no evidence...

I just pointed to an entire book written by a psychiatrist and Harvard professor, with citations to hundreds of studies linking metabolism to metal disorders, insulin resistance, the effect of diet on mitochondrial dysfunction, and your argument is "trust me bro, it's quack theory"?

Don't you think you're being overly reductionist and close-minded, without even reading the evidence provided?
What kind of size are we talking about here? There’s lots of programs to subsidize truly small businesses, which I think are a good idea. It’s less obvious to me that we should tax the Googles making tens of billions in profit to subsidize companies making millions.
I'm currently working on my startup, but I'll definitely write a post about this if I ever do it!

It is one of my plans :)
No problem, please do share any interesting part of your workflow if you have the time!

> Did you know ffmpeg has a non free Encoder (libfdk_AAC) thats sounds slightly better?

Ah yes. I'm not sure it sounds better than the audiotoolbox encoder though, at least it is reported that it doesn't here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC#aac_at although the hydrogenaudio source of this claim seems to be down, is still readable on the web archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20240407200855/https://wiki.hydr...
Michael Flynn?
There has been a lot of excitement recently about how using lower precision floats only slightly degrades LLM performance. I am wondering if Google took those results at face value to offer a low-cost mass-use transformer LLM, but didn’t test it since according to the benchmarks (lol) the lower precision shouldn’t matter very much.

But there is a more general problem: Big Tech is high on their own supply when it comes to LLMs, and AI generally. Microsoft and Google didn’t fact-check their AI even in high-profile public demos; that strongly suggests they sincerely believed it could answer “simple” factual questions with high reliability. Another example: I don’t think Sundar Pichai was lying when he said Gemini taught itself Sanskrit, I think he was given bad info and didn’t question it because motivated reasoning gives him no incentive to be skeptical.
So what’s the difference between the past and now? Maybe having corporations profiting off of people’s attention and fear is not a good thing.
If I had to choose, I'd choose a bias toward double-blind RCTs than the parade of obviously biased nonsense used to justify mask mandates.

Pseudoscience and sloppy thinking have a well-established constituency, and need no additional support.
No. Because you need to explain to me how those assertions were derived.

> it would be able to gather quite a bit of financial resources, hack individuals, organizations, blackmail some individuals to do prepwork for it and do other forms of social engineering at that time to prepare for the physical step

How? This is a hard problem that touches the core of the cybersecurity industry, and something everyone prepares for under the assumption a nation state attacker will do something like that with humans.

> it would be able to clone itself so the only way to shut it down even if it was caught, was if Internet throughout the whole World was shut down

How? By definition malicious payload that spreads via lateral movement is a computer virus, and becomes a cybersecurity problem again.
Yea, but who starts an array index at 1!?!?
I mean, that's always been the TikTok argument, to me.

Widely-used platforms that can +/- 1% their algorithms to affect democracy have pretty high burdens of trust/transparency, and we're not close to that with any platform (Chinese or not) that I'm aware of.

Meta's probably the closest, because of scrutiny, but afaik even their transparency isn't sufficient for realtime attestation.
the AI sites are what got me off google, DDG, etc. Kagi seems to be a bit better and avoiding that garbage although I still see ones there from time to time. Usually a dumb af site name gives it away.
It’s pre-alpha trash that’s worse than traditional search in every meaningful way.

Kudos to the artist at the Verge for the accompanying image — those are fingers AI would be proud of.
They still haven’t learned from the Gemini diverse Nazis debacle.
On the other hand, housing being very expensive feels like a universal phenomenon now.
Databases for Developers
Proper capitalization would have made it clearer.
> putting glue on pizza to hold the cheese on

It's actually not the dumbest idea I've heard from a real person. So no surprise it might be suggested by an AI that was trained on data from real people.
Yes you are. Getting paid as a web studio is 90% having the right social contacts and networking IRL and less than 1% about making and delivering a quality product. You have aunts that are married to business leaders? You have friends that are politicians and can hook you up with a fake project made for you? If not, then stay clear. You'll only deal with small businesses who don't want to pay.

If you are good at making web sites you are much better off having the general public as customers and inserting yourself as a layer between business and customer.
Or just that errant refactoring automation that moved a proverbial (or literal) bit out of place.

It's good to learn from our mistakes. But if there's one thing I have learned from working across teams and orgs, it is that basically everyone works with imperfect information. And oftentimes, you just have to make do, write the code, and try to make room to course correct in the future.
SpaceX targeting June 5 for 4th test flight of Starship
Honestly it feels like downright Ludditism here - people either dislike LLMs, claim they’re worse than useless, or both. Small Modular Reactors - instant upvotes. Practical, useful Artificial Intelligence - a storm of negativity. It’s kind of a weird tech community, almost fetishist
Google’s poor testing is hardly in doubt. But keep in mind that the whole problem is that LLMs don’t handle “unlikely” text nearly as well as “likely” text. So the near-infinite space of goofy things to search on Google is basically like panning for gold in terms of AI errors (especially if they are using a cheap LLM).

And in particular LLMs are less likely to generate these goofy prompts because they wouldn’t be in the training data.
Far too often internet sleuthing seems to be picked up by folks who have watched one too many Law and Order episodes. Very tenuous threads between only the most tangentially related of things become smoking guns, become hard evidence as the game of telephone is played out. I'm sure a lot of the time it just starts as someone rubber ducking their thoughts on the matter, I can remember multitudes of times when troubleshooting a system I've called out connections that I thought were related that turned out to be dead ends and red herrings. The difference was my troubleshooting sessions aren't public and aren't used as the basis 4 or 5 layers removed to pillory some innocent person or server.

It gives a really good feeling for how things like the 80's satanic panic stuff and earlier moral panics could have gone on so long. A real and legitimate threat appears in one place, people get emotionally and personally involved, they dunning-kruger their way into thinking they know more about a situation, sometimes they get suckered in by grifters that want to capitalize on the fear. Suddenly there are communists hiding behind every modem, compiling your linux kernel backwards installs NSA back doors and an obscure blog posts from when someone was younger and dumber and the world was different becomes proof of a grand conspiracy to destroy open source from the inside.

What's frustrating is that often there are very real threats and a level of paranoia and caution is warranted. The xz attack was very real, malware has existed for almost as long as the first portable programs, formerly trustworthy organizations get co-opted or sold and nation states really do engage in cyber warfare on various levels. So how do you encourage a healthy skepticism while also minimizing the damage people's tendencies to go off the rails can cause? How do you get something you're concerned about in front of the many eyes that OSS has while keeping it from going "viral" and having a mob of onlookers and speculators destroying reputations and possibly lives as the mob moves from suspect to suspect, devouring all and leaving wreckage in their wake?
Problem is, the world is an economic slugfest today unlike it was at least when I grew up. When my High School class graduated a long time ago, most of us were competing for jobs with people in our own small town. At most, we were competing with the surrounding counties. There was university for A students, community college and/or middle class office work for B students, normal working class jobs for C students, and tougher lower-paying jobs for D students. As for university, we were competing for entrance with mostly other people in our state.

Today's kids are competing with the entire world, and the middle class is disappearing. So it's much higher stakes. And it's bimodal: You're either one of the few winners and get to live a comfortable life with a professional job, or you're off to WalMart or an Amazon warehouse, or Prison. The "kind of comfortable middle class life" is shrinking quickly. So it's not enough to just get straight A's. You need extra credit, get a 5.0 GPA, take all the "right" AP classes, have the "right" extracurriculars, and the "right" community service and so on. Otherwise you risk landing on the bad side of the career bimodal distribution.
I'm glad I'm in the US where I shower whenever I want. Morning, middle of the day, and at night again.

I grew up in 3rd world without running water, so I'm not ever going to feel "guilty" or whatever other BS for taking 2-3 showers a day.
I am asking for a tangible technical piece of proof.

It's clouds in the sky if you don't actually give tangible step by step or empirical proof of how XYZ can arise

This is just bad science fiction without that.

(Edited to remove meanness and snark. Sorry about that)
Would you mind saying a little more about what it means for your local credit union to support Apple Pay?
In my family, parents showered in the morning and kids showered at night.

I tried switching after moving out but didn't find it nice for the same reason you mention, getting the bed all dirty with whatever sweat had accumulated over the day.
brave search isn't a bad fallback
It’s fun to watch mass media inflict so much harm on people with irresponsible reporting designed to terrify, outrage, and misinform you for profit, and then turn around and report on the fallout.

Maybe fun isn’t the right word.
I've recently finished reading "Civilized to Death"[0] and I can't help feel there's some truth to some of the ideas.

One idea that stuck with me is that shit zoos have concrete cages for the monkeys, and they're miserable in them, showing similar signs to modern humans (depression, addition, anger), whereas nice zoos try to keep the monkeys in similar environments to those that they evolved for, where the monkeys are pretty much chill. The author argues that we're constructing concrete zoos for ourselves and in the process making ourselves miserable. We're so far detached from what our bodies and minds evolved for, that it's an alien environment for our species.

If this holds truth, it's really no wonder that the more we pile on and the further we stray from our true species' preferences, the more horrible we will feel, and this hikikomori is a fine illustration of that.

As some comments pointed out 'what about the great depression', 'what about 'nuclear war', "don't you like your electricity"? These are all human patches for human made problems. I don't think the correlation between progress and wellbeing is as clear cut as some would like to see it.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Civilized-Death-What-Lost-Modernity/d...
>>It's almost as if Google designed an algorithm update to specifically go after small bloggers. I've talked to so many people who've just had everything wiped out

While at the same time small businesses are being killed by the lockdown
I used to use qiqqa for local full text search of pdf library, I think the world has moved on to mendeley, and paperless(-ng) I believe performs the same function
> So 100% accurate can't be the goal. Obviously the goal is to get the responses to be less obviously stupid.

I'm not sure I agree. I think you're right that 100% accuracy is potentially unfeasable as a realistic aim, but I think the question is how accurate something needs to be in order to be a useful proposition for search.

AI that's as knowledgable as I am is a good achievement and helpful for a lot of use cases, but if I'm searching "What's the capital of Mongilia" someone with averageish knowledge taking a punt with "Maybe Mongoliana City?" is not helpful at all- if I can't trust AI responses to a high degree, I'd much rather just have normal search results showing me other resources I can trust.

Google's bar for justifying adding AI to their search proposition isn't "be better than asking someone on the street", it's "be better than searching google without any AI results"
With these dangerous answers, to the general public, Google is giving AI a very bad name, when in truth it's strictly Google that deserves the feeling.
I think the main thing is the lack of on-ramps. Once you have fallen out of the social circulation, there is basically no way of going back. 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. And since about the only way to learn these things is to be around people who already behave in the "right" way, a vicious circle arises.

It has nothing to do with debt, wealth or earnings. Completely independent things. People had it worse at every time in history in almost every place.

It has nothing to do with social media / internet. It just something people tend to fall into when they withdraw, and have no trouble abandoning as soon as the life outside becomes tenable again.
I am also surprised that training data are not much more curated.

Encyclopedias, textbooks, reputable journals, newspapers and magazines make sense.

But to throw in social media? Reddit? Seems insane.
> I went down a rabbit hole after reading the FOIA request that confirmed his death in 2021.

Would you provide a bit more background information? Whose website is this? What FOIA request are you referring to?

Edit: Someone else asked the same question below, and it was answered.
It varies. I've gotten calls about gigs that are laughably low, and I've gotten calls about gigs that are above market value for corporate work. Corporate work is never as high as FAANG or even most SaaS companies, though.
I would add one more -

4. Add an option to auto-backup all the data from the account to the outside backup service of users choice.

This would help not just with these kind of accidents, but also any kind of data corruption/availability issues.

I would pay for this even for my personal gmail account.
Or they offloaded to India like they do for most of their stuff.
> With what level of accuracy? And what guarantee of correctness? Because a report that happens to get the joins wrong once every 1000 reports is going to lead to fun legal problems.

The truth is everyone knows LLMs can't tell correct from error, can't tell real from imagined, and cannot care.

The word "hallucinate" has been used to explain when an LLM gets things wrong, when it's equally applicable to when it gets things right.

Everyone thinks the hallucinations can be trained out, leaving only edge cases. But in reality, edge cases are often horror stories. And an LLM edge case isn't a known quantity for which, say, limits, tolerances and test suites can really do the job. Because there's nobody with domain skill saying, look, this is safe or viable within these limits.

All LLM products are built with the same intention: we can use this to replace real people or expertise that is expensive to develop, or sell it to companies on that basis.

If it goes wrong, they know the excited customer will invest an unbillable amount of time re-training the LLM or double-checking its output -- developing a new unnecessary, tangential skill or still spending time doing what the LLM was meant to replace.

But hopefully you only need a handful of such babysitters, right? And if it goes really wrong there are disclaimers and legal departments.
You can already do those interesting hacks with some electrical engineering knowledge.

What this is going to allow is what Flipper Zero did: allow you to do something that was already possible but now it only costs money instead of requiring education.
I drove into Canada with a friend a few years ago. The border agent asked if we had any guns with us; fair, I expect that. I expected she would then ask to search our car, but she didn't. Instead we started getting grilled about which guns we owned at home, how long we owned them, why we owned them. I owned none so my answers were easy but she was asking very pointed questions to my friend who felt compelled to be honest by a suspicious that she had access to some databases and would know if he was lying. After about 30 minutes of this we were allowed to enter, without the car being searched. Utterly bizarre. My best guess is she just felt like harassing somebody.
Because (per the article) the metabolism doing the worm is not the roundworm's but the microbe. Which means that the human gut only has to be provide a viable environment for the microbe to do what it wants to do.

This is different, say, than translating the safety or efficacy of a vaccine on a maurine model since the data on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine is specifically for a rodent's immune system.
Yeah, it's much easier for me to leave the house when it's a situation in which I don't need to care about the potential of other people's opinions. Running quick errands, walking the dog, etc.

For some reason taking out the recycling is a heavier lift for me mentally due to the risk of chaos with the bins, potential for bags breaking, bins being full, etc. even though there is less social interaction than grocery shopping.
My first thought was of the old “Ronco Shower/Blow Dryer in a Briefcase” skit with Martin Short on SCTV (https://youtu.be/eTHvF2aAi50?si=JmPQsvjV6YtpWjQw).
“Why you….”
> Because your comment wasn't written in good faith but driven by agenda.
> So you are driven by agenda. Like I assumed. Thank you.

Wait, what the actual fuck are you talking about? Agenda? You think I just go around the internet trying to besmirch the good name of milk? Are you suggesting I'm a member of some kind of anti-milk lobby? You think that's just how I spend every weekend or something? That's fucking stupid.

Sorry for being crass but that's a completely ridiculous assertion. I post something suggesting that raw milk is linked to tuberculosis and that implies that I have some stupid political agenda? Grow the fuck up, I don't have a team.

I don't drink milk because I don't really like the taste of milk. Nothing more. I said in the next sentence I do eat cheese, suggesting that I'm not some ranging anti-milkite.

> So you just make up arbitrary definition of evolution? That's some quality comment written in 'good fath'.

It's not really that arbitrary. Evolution is about increasing adaptation to environments. Cow milk evolved (like the cow animal itself) to be specialized for baby cows and their digestion. Baby cows almost certainly have different digestive systems than humans.

> What fruits, plants, animals, etc was 'evolved for' humans?

None, but I think humans likely evolved their digestion around being able to digest and kill pathogens from different types of plants and animals.

> Because your comment wasn't written in good faith but driven by agenda.

So are you agreeing that what you wrote was written in bad faith? I do not agree with your assertion that what I wrote was in bad faith.
Onboard ICE sounds more like diesel electric than fully electric. The addition of some batteries for efficiency and peak power availability doesn’t change things all much I would still call that diesel electric.
> This imaginary past where most people didn't live in fear of unexpected expenses, debt, struggling to pay all their bills, and not earning enough money didn't exist.

I call bullshit... Debt. Bills. And for that matter, money. These are things that our species lived for hundreds of thousands of years without. Furthermore, there are tribes that even to this day live without these struggles.
I don’t think you are saying the same thing.

You are saying this;

> you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same thing

And this is the contrasting bit from the comment you are responding:

> working hard won't get you anything close to what previous generations had

The difference is that your sentence says they have to work harder to achieve the same, while their comment says that even if they work hard they can’t achieve the same. That is two very different things.
No gapless playback yet, but looks like it's on the developer's radar.
As one of "[those] Americans", I take it that those dryers remove moisture with a condenser loop and a water collector, like an indoor dehumidifier would?