skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, changing your eating habits is absolutely a form of hacking in pretty much every sense of the word and it can be used to significantly change your life.
And yet after years of the technology it's still "to be obtained" and you aren't naming any specific usecase.
Half of this is just the re-naming. It's like reading 'history' thats a list of names. And it doesn't seem like its changed with the open, modern 'core' components.
> I am still unable to find a single legitimate use.

Really? Nothing? Not even really clear-cut use cases that are already in production at a bunch of companies like rapid document templating or surfacing esoteric yet relevant internal documents and knowledge?

Those use cases alone have saved seven figure sums at companies where I've seen them implemented. And those savings allowed the positions to be repurposed in more useful ways e.g threat hunts rather than document prep.

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Lots of adjusted goalposts in the comments below. The fact that I can simply ask an LLM to bake me a template and adjust as needed — or ask it to fetch me an internal policy document describing compliance requirements I might need for a new mobile app — and get either of these answers in literally seconds makes them the best tool for the job by a wild margin. And the fact that I'm seeing hiring managers rework their positions for different roles as a result of implementing GenAI to obviate mundane job responsibilities supports this.

Many practitioners across many fields have their blinders on with regards to the risk of disruption to their own disciplines. Surprised I'm seeing those blinders on here too.
I agree, but I remember when I was a university student I was easily able to search for answers for my queries. I was actually reliving some of my past and I tried to find the same info for a useful epiphany from many decades ago, and I couldn’t find it (even though the same engine gave me the answer decades ago)
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Really fast lines are used to drop spinnakers on big boats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAo3KQ89no - this uses gears more than pulleys but same idea, light loads and high speed.
> and finding traces of ancient astronauts in the lint that they pick up

What do you mean by this? They are finding meaning in nothing?
Alcohol here in Norway is quite expensive. A good friend working as a ER nurse during COVID said about a year in that the biggest issue they faced were all the alcoholics drinking hand sanitizer.
ICQ still WORKED? Wow.

I liked it but the problem was that it didn't have contact list sync, server-based scrollback and other mod cons. And of course that they totally screwed it up with adware.
it was mandatory to log in, and even when you're logged in, it seems you have to pay!!
I'm using Siri for timezone conversions and XE for currency conversions.
Its hard to say exactly because the OP doesn't go into the runtime mesh used but my guess is its quite different form Nanite.

Nanite assumes high poly authoring of objects and works to stream in simplified chunks such that the rendered triangles are not less than a pixel wide. Displacement maps are a bit redundant because geometry can be naturally very detailed, there's no reason to use a texture map for it. (There is a case for Landscapes but that's a unique case)

This seems to be using a displacement and a low poly mesh to generate high poly but 'voxelized' geo on load.
Worse than iPhone and Pixel I guess. Yeah they cost more, but it's like a Honda vs a Hyundai, you get what you pay for.
> study quality

And even more specifically, quality of studies (re)published by a single journal, albeit an important one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466590
Another good operator to know now is `before:2023`
What was the query and epiphany?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes a look at a sample Google search [video]
I think until recently it was still popular (or used enough) in Russia when Telegram finally took over.
I'm building the front ends for a few projects in Vue right now, it's quite pleasant!

It's easy to work with, there's nice router and internationalization packages, ready made components with PrimeVue (though PrimeReact and PrimeNG are nice too; as well as other component libraries), PrimeFlex and Pinia for state management is wonderfully simple and scales pretty far. There's devtools for most browsers, the toolchain isn't super complex and while the ecosystem could be bigger, it's not inadequate either.
I believe one example would be quantum annealers. Where "programming" involves setting the right initial conditions and allowing thermodynamics to bring you to an optimum via relaxation.
Defender is a real irritant when doing security research and is near impossible to turn off completely and permanently. Even using the Group Policy Editor or regedits is not reliable. If you do get it to stop, it will randomly reenable itself weeks later (perhaps some timer, perhaps due to some update if you forgot to turn those off).

For the vast majority of people this is a good thing!
LLM's have always sucked at generating from whole cloth. If you give it a list of ingredients in your pantry and your taste preferences then it will give you a better answer.
The paper describes it pretty well in appendix C. A matrix of integrators is constructed with a bunch of opamps, RC time constants (using digital potentiometers, presumably) and a multichannel ADC/DAC interface to the PC. Essentially a dedicated differential-equation solver.

So it's a combination of old-school analog computation and modern GPU-based code. Takes longer in practice due to the overhead of interfacing with the hardware and waiting for the integrators to settle, but the authors are claiming that an optimized implementation could outperform a purely-digital solution, as I understand it, by accelerating convergence.

The core idea being that conventional gradient descent is a linear operation at heart, while the gradients actually being traversed are curved surfaces that have to be approximated with multiple unnecessary steps if everything is done in the digital domain.

The trouble, as everybody from Seymour Cray onward has learned the hard way, is that CMOS always wins in the end, simply because the financial power of an entire industry goes into optimizing it.
Apologies if this is actually a human-written post - I understand not everyone's first language is English.

But, is this a markov chain generated response? It has a glimmer of actual content, but the wording / point / theme is completely lost on my reading.

If this was generated by an AI chat bot, then I must have a much better AI chat bot at my disposal (ChatGPT).
Noooo! Not ICQ! I only haven't used it for 20 years! But it was kinda cool, like AIM. Except why was their sound always "oh-OH?" And why was it called "ICQ"? I heard it was short for "i seek u" but that's kinda dumb, ain't it? innit?
Having moved to a jurisdiction with no counties, there are (among other improvements) trivially no sheriffs here.

[we may not have counties, but we do have viable family farms. Good luck with that in the Old Country]
Basically unrelated. He's using geometry shaders to generate voxel mesh details-- perhaps with some LOD optimizations, while Nanite is a GPU-driven rendering technology that adapts triangle density to aim for a given fidelity target.

Nanite can use displacement maps and perform tessellation, but it uses an alternate pathway that's not necessarily more efficient than feeding it a high-poly asset to render.
"goldboot is approximately what you would get if docker and packer were mixed together. Instead of building containers or virtual machines, goldboot builds images for real hardware."

https://github.com/fossable/goldboot
I don't agree, but the current usages aren't exploiting its full potential.
GenAI is the best that we currently have for parsing natural language, in a way that is multilingual, tolerant 2 tipoz n slang and swearing users. It helps by being a bridge between unestructured data and structured.
Maybe I was just using it wrong, but I never found packer to be all that valuable over a python or shell script.

Learning the DSL is more work than just doing the things it's trying to abstract away.
The point being made, as I understand it, is that Scarlett Johansson is as formidable in real life as the characters she plays are in her films.
Give F# a try as well if you have some time. It's even better, and can do anything C# can do!
I wanted to say the exact same thing! I would love to get more details about that.
The whole point is to leverage the laws of nature to train AI models, overcoming the limitations and scaling challenges of digital hardware and existing training methods.
They've been firing them on the ground pretty often and didn't catch it, so clearly the filtration issues only happen when actually flying.

And, of course, that's still overlooking all the other tests they were able to do. They were able to verify that hotstaging will work, they were able to get the basic concept of the propellant transfer to work and they got data on reentry heating as well as on the viability of using Starlink to transmit through reentry.
Robust Efficient Fertility
You should reread your comment I was replying to where you asked and (incorrectly) answered multiple rhetorical questions and reflect on the HN policy you cited.

Allow me to help you correct your answers:

>Is it illegal to hire a voice actor that sounds like Darth Vader? No.

Actually, yes it can be.

>Is it illegal to hire a voice actor that sounds like Her? No.

Once again it can be.

>Does that mean it's illegal for another voice actor to (according to some) sound similar to a character from a poplar movie? No.

Yet again it can be.

As a lawyer that’s been practicing for over 10 years, IP law and contract law is far more complex and nuanced that your rhetorical questions and answers suggest.
"Are masks effective" is the completely wrong question, anyway. The question should be "how effective are masks?"

Preferably, "How effective are masks against X under Y circumstance?"

In relation to Covid, I think it's likely masks reduced transmission. But, under normal social environments, did they reduce it by 5% or by 50%? It makes a big policy difference. It seems that studies are coalescing around masks having a 'real but small' effect, but I get it's a hard thing to study.
I'm not sure what you mean by "mystery commits". Health plans are legally required to accept transactions that conform to CMS adopted standards. They don't know or care what software is used to generate those transactions.

https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduct...
This is not legitimate uses. You can get more consistent and correct results WITHOUT GenAI.

All GenAI is good for at best is prototyping to show what COULD be done if you invested the time to do it without GenAI.
A full-duration static fire would maybe catch some issues with propulsion and fueling, but then you're still static without the same free-flight vibrations, let alone the wild maneuvering of flipping around a building with a backyard swimming-pool's amount of liquid in it.

"Better tolerances" is a vague statement; adding more tolerances to all the things just makes the cost explode. Tolerance smarter, not harder.
Wow, that's amazing!

I wonder if I should try out Illumos as I am rebuilding my home server, but I am afraid that due to lack of time, it'd take me ages to replicate my libvirt-based setup with around 30 services.

How well are Linux containers and VMs supported in Illumos? How about nested KVM? That could help with the transition as I am heavily leaning into GNU tools and KVM.

FWIW, when I first laid my eyes on a Sun workstation back in the 90s and seen the Control key where it rightly belongs (in the place of Caps Lock in broken layouts :), I said "duh" and have never moved back from remapped Caps-as-Ctrl.
Still I like Google, more than bing (copilot) or perplexity! I couldn't be where I am now without google
>Honestly it's becoming impossible to find information on the web.

It's because everyone is trying to sell you something, no matter how irrelevant it is to you. The cost of transmitting information at scale is effectively zero, and gen AI makes generating information at scale also zero. It's noise at scale crowding out the non-scalable things that are of actual value to humans. Something has to give.
None of those use cases actually require AI, and each of them is potentially undermined by the tendencies of AI to hallucinate, or as yet unresolved legal questions about the copyright status of AI content.

Can you name a use case for which AI was the only or best possible solution?
Try Pidgin with the excellent ms teams plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-teams - less than 100mb ram usage and notifications that still work after an hour. Only for (video) calls you need to open teams..
> I'm not aware of anything that has a web interface, phone app, push notifications and all kept in sync.

IRCCloud does. Or if you want an open source stack: Soju as bouncer, Gamja as web interface, and Goguma as Android app. If you have a paid Sourcehut account you get Soju+Gamja hosted for you at https://chat.sr.ht/ .

I'm not sure The Lounge and Quassel support push notifications, but they otherwise fit your requirements.
> I'm not even sure why you're in here arguing against it.

To recap, somebody mentioned addiction, to colors presumably, as a reason to prefer a monochrome display, and I thought that was ridiculous. So I said so. People didn't react well.

I've read a little part of the article. I don't much like the giant tech and social media companies. However, when I come to phrases like this:

> hijacking of the human mind

> hooking kids to send messages back and forth

I can't bear to continue wading through it. This is just moral panic. A marginal effect of keeping an audience's attention - sometimes - for a little while - is exaggerated by people who (again, like me) dislike the big tech companies, and described like an actual addictive drug. This seems dishonest. But perhaps they actually believe it. No doubt there have been studies that tell them what they want to hear.

But yeah, moral panic, or maybe virtue signalling, or tribalism - something like that is going on here, and realism suffers, and I don't like that, so I said something. I don't know if anybody appreciated me saying something, because maybe it was off-message, but I'm saying it anyway. I'm not claiming to be super-smart, I'm generally a foolish person, and I'm getting a lot of veiled insults here, I suppose because I pissed on your oddly monochrome strawberries.
...which is part of the "experience and talent built over years", I guess? :-)
Been using Kagi for a couple months. Seems pretty good to me.
Now with verbatim if you have a typo they no longer show the number of results up front so you often don't notice and only get sources with the same typo, furthering the impression that Google's results suck.

"Google hides search results count under tools section"

https://searchengineland.com/google-hides-search-results-cou...
Yes, as I said, trust is a personal judgement call.

However, I doubt anyone who distrusts the damn COVID vaccine because of the story in the OP is not going to be convinced by anything. There's such a ridiculously weak association between those activities that the person is simply ignorant of how the world works.

Their personal beliefs may be sincere, but they are not a person worth convincing of anything because they draw their conclusions through superficial means.
Woz in this case was acting as a subcontractor, doing a one-off favor for a friend. This was before they became partners when creating Apple.
> The plan is always to park a carrier close by (maybe two)

It's an open secret in military circles that aircraft carriers are useless against a peer adversary like Russia or China, which both have the ability to sink carriers and shoot down planes easily. Carriers are only good against unsophisticated terrorists.

But it is pointless to talk about a war with Russia, which would very quickly turn into nuclear Armageddon.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navys-aircraft-car...
My Note 9 screen just broke.... :(

I want a flagship with headphone jack please.
See this is what I mean about the overuse. Release gating doesn't make something waterfall.
Longing is as real as hunger.
The point of the documentary is to track how his health is affected by the food. Consuming a lot of alcohol is a relevant, major confounder. It discredits the work.
In Acton, rural serenity threatened by planned battery facilities
This method has already been proven to be infinitely better than the old school approach. Falcon is the most reliable rocket in the world and capable of landing its booster back safely to earth, something which thought impossible by basically everyone in the industry. It took years of physical iteration to iron out all the problems though, see this video from SpaceX of all their years of failed attempts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

Anyone who has ever built a physical product will tell you that theory and good engineering are important, but once you start to actually build something you enter "integration hell", which means you need to physically exercise your product end-to-end many MANY times, and iron out all of the edge cases that reality presents.

It has nothing to do with "better engineering" and everything to do with complex systems interacting with physical reality.

Stuff Made Here (YouTuber) made a video where he built a disc launcher, which is a great example of what the process is like. He put quite a lot of engineering and design work into the project, but eventually entered integration hell at some point and just had to iterate and problem solve by repeatedly firing test disks until all the kinks were worked out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rClZrbnrQ
I literally just used OAI to walk through my financial plan and suggest my next steps towards retirement. It pointed out all sorts of things like conversion ladders, my cash on equity for my rental properties, average cost of health insurance and more which would have taken me a ton of time to research on my own.
On Altman:
"It’s increasingly clear that the board fired him for the reasons they gave at the time: he is not honest or trustworthy, and that’s not an acceptable trait for a CEO!"

My experience, with one personal exception, is that deception and lies are the the hallmarks of a good CEO - good in the business sense. There is something about the kind of person that wants to be a CEO that attracts sociopaths. But I would argue for most businesses a sociopath is what you need to operate in a market environment predicated on preying on the pocketbooks of the populace.
I mean the discussion here is specifically referring to the drone China accells at (quadrocopter) versus the USA such as RQ-4s. So I am referring to what the discussion is talking about.
I remember when Pidgin was my defacto chat app because it had all of the platforms and none of the bloat.
It's actually terrible at parsing natural language. So bad that on a long enough text (or even short if you're unlucky) it will 100% of the time come up with tokens that are not present in the original text.

This sort of rethoric is exactly the same as with crypto "yeah ok it's bad now but think of the future".
Mine was easy to remember, so I did. Mostly repeating digits. 2288665
I think you’re mixing up “sad” with “depression”.
Easiest way to disable defender was to install another anti virus. Did this change?
> rapid document templating

It's true, LLM AI is really great at creating content as well as spam and other "slop". While this is useful in some circumstances, I think it's a net negative in the long run. Once enough slop is created, will AI be able to sort through it?
It's a complete jankfest on my Fuji camera. The app is super weird, the cam works more like an access point (if you want any degree of reliability), and so many other weird problems. Maybe a firmware update fixed that but the app is still beyond bad.
Same, nice repeating digits. 2288665
This is not how you use Google or search though. All these examples seem like deliberate attempts to get weird/nonsense answers back.
Been using it for a year and I hope I never have to go back. It is so much better in every way. It’s amazing how many nice features can be added when there isn’t any worry about how it will impact ad revenue.
ICQ had a first mover advantage, and lost it. But why?
Euclid is bringing together 14+ countries and damn near every related field.

Warms my little nerd heart.

Euclid Consortium

To date 14 European countries contribute to EC activities (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom).

Canada and USA through NASA and few US laboratories as well as few Japanese laboratories are also contributing and members of the Euclid Consortium.

In total, more than 2600 members were or are registered in the EC (status early 2023), of which more than 1000 are researchers in astrophysics, cosmology, theoretical physics, and particle physics.

More than 200 laboratories covering all fields in astrophysics, cosmology, theoretical physics, high energy, particle physics and space science that are relevant for the Euclid missions are contributing to Euclid.

https://www.euclid-ec.org/consortium/about-ec/
I agree. To me this is very evocative of the pixel-art/retro look, even moreso than the low-poly Doom/Wolfenstein look.
Example from a few days ago, the first time I decided to use the AI Google Search: I Googled for how to reset the time on my Nixon Ripley watch (I forget the exact search term I used). Google "AI" helpfully brought up a list of instructions, prefaced with a helpful "to reset the time on a Nixon Ripley watch ..." But the instructions referred to a mode that's not on this watch, which was suspicious. It helpfully included a link to a website with a set of instructions that looked like what the AI had generated. Except that the website didn't reference the Nixon at all, but some other watches (Casio gShock, I think), and so the instructions of course didn't work.

So I went back to the "old fashioned" way of searching the links for the actual Nixon website, finding the watch manual, with the correct steps.
It's still possible on Google to use Tools > All Results > Verbatim, and it won't extrapolate and try to find exact matches to the query.
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The end of the internet came sooner than expected. I wonder how long it took on alpha centurion.

It’s not obvious ‘attention is all you need’ would have been a public disclosure by a corporation in parallel worlds. Usually such inventions are buried.
My guess is that, by the end of this year, we will see this pattern over-and-over. The economics are just too compelling, especially in the attention-driven business like News.
Russian jamming leaves some high-tech U.S. weapons ineffective in Ukraine
I am bullish in areas outside of RAG/chatbots that gain so much of the hype. Classification, extraction, summarization and similar natural language workflows. My work is net positive but again anecdotal to my corner of the world and the others I interact with. Could be different from your distant side of the world.
Their problem is using their tax money for a foreign country, instead of a: lowering taxes b: using it for US citizens.
Your framing is disingenous.

If you believe that 70 million Americans live in a different reality and have isolated themselves, well, perhaps it is you who fails to emphasize why one may have different political standing than you?

The reality is, that people have different priorities when voting.

If you want to talk about propaganda weapon, the strongest in the US is the Israeli one. Both candidates take huge amounts of $$$ from Israeli donors. Both candidates simp for Israel.
Fun forgetting your speakers were cranked and getting a message. "
Uh oh!" waking up the whole house.