skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of them was looking at my old AP US History tests. I don’t have the exam question right in front of me, but I remember getting the answer wrong. I found the correct answer on Google pretty quickly. It was on an obscure fact of some former president. I didn’t find the answer in the first several search result pages. I remember getting the answer within the first 3-4 results when I had looked up why I got it wrong 22 years ago.
Strictly speaking, sequential numbers can scale infinitely, so not the worst way to handle it.
Same here, ~7 months with Kagi and replaced Google search 100% for me. Felt weird at first to pay for it, but after trialing it for a month or two, I now feel like I'm proud to pay for it, to ensure long-levity and sustainability. Best feature for me is probably the ability to rank domains up/down as I wish.
The genie left the bottle. The Large Bullshit Confabulator revolution is here and either google does it or someone else will.

Seriously though, Shannon's theory of communication is highly applicable here - AI noise is reducing available bandwidth (in the entropy sense, not in the advertised Mbps sense) of the internet because the noise floor is raising faster than the error correction advances.
I would argue there goes a long way between these incidents and what you imply
Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models
that's openAI, not google
It's obviously made in jest
WoW! Sounds amazing!
I'm curious about a few things:
How does LivePaper compare to traditional e-ink in terms of battery life, given the higher refresh rates?
Are there any specific challenges you faced while ensuring the display's durability and consistency, especially with the custom tech involved?
How does the viewing experience of LivePaper hold up in different lighting conditions compared to traditional e-ink and LCD displays?
What kind of feedback have you received from early users regarding the usability and performance of the tablet in various applications like coding, document editing, and gaming?
Waiting for an OS that treats GPU(s) as a first class citizen ...
and it's brother Adium on OS X.
Oh look. It's the incredibly outdated PHP-bashing article. This was written 12 years ago, predating PHP 5.6 which brought a lot of important updates to the language. We're now up to PHP 8.3. The number of improvements to the language between then and now has been immense
Summarization

Translation

Writing emails

Code generation

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I'd love to know what product/monorepo has 20M+ SLOC if you'd be comfortable sharing that
For reference, this is talking about Intel SGX (though they also funded AMD's SEV which is what Google uses internally)

Unlike the negative spin put on this by Politico, it does have actual tangible usecases in encryption and locking down your attack surface from a process based attack standpoint, as well as minimizing side channel attacks.

When you're dealing with nation state level espionage, it's a valid attack surface.

This is also the underlying research that enabled the entire Confidental Computing segment (eg. Fortanix and Hashicorp Vault)

Edit:

What is confidential computing?

Basically how to process data in use without knowing the underlying data itself.

So, if I need to train a model on PII, I can encrypt that PII dataset yet still get an equally functional model.

This means requiring trusted execution on R/W+ functions, ideally via some form of a trusted VM. Sort of like eBPF's VM but even more lower stack.
They repurposed it into a Telegram clone a few years ago, they even had nearly the same bot API and you could import stickers. The desktop client is also a near copycat. It was called "ICQ New"
Thanks for this info. I was wondering if you could turn off the backlight, would it be more like the reMarkable (which I love).
And LLMs are pretty cool too - train them once, use them to do one shot inference.. world has made massive leaps in the efficiency of neural network topology, transformers, and back propagation.

But impressive as that is, I don’t want them replacing journalists in a news gathering organization, for exactly the same reason that I don’t want solar powered flashlights on my cave rescue mission.
Could you expand your question since I mentioned several industries/sectors there?
It's probably more addressing the "it can't possibly be ineffective" crowd.
Sorry you have had such bad experiences we won't be able to convince and nobody can see the future but there are exciting things happening at an amazingly short scale.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080165/google-reddit-ai...
I had no idea that ICQ was still around, but now I'm sad; end of an era. I was more of an AIM guy than ICQ, but I had a tendency to bother creators on Newgrounds, some of which would leave their ICQ numbers, so I would use it occasionally.

There are obvious advantages to newer IM/texting clients, but these old ones were a pretty vital part of my teenage years. The main reason I learned how to type properly was so I could communicate with my friends better on AIM. I spent way too much time figuring out how to use alternative IM clients like Trillian and gAIM so I could avoid advertisements, I spent a lot of time customizing my AIM profile and playing with different fonts, and having friends spam mean with "chain messages". I loved seeing creators from NewGrounds sign on at 4am and still be willing to talk to me.

I'd be a very different person today without AIM and ICQ, for better or worse.
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The garbage web today is partially Google's own doing. They're the ones who created the incentives for websites to have cruft to satisfy the Google bot. They're the ones who capture all value from news outlets by aggregating and summarizing articles so people don't need to click on links.

Google isn't some dainty little startup. They're the dominant interface (search and browser!) through which most of the planet uses the internet.
During the Falklands War the discussion was around military deaths, not civilian deaths.

The problem people have with Israel is not that they're killing Hamas fighters or that IDF soldiers are being killed. It's that they're killing civilians (amongst other war crimes and crimes against humanity).

It's a completely different situation.

Edit: just to flesh out my position here a bit. Civilian deaths are unavoidable in war. But the attacker _must_ take measures to prevent that as much as possible. Israel have not. In fact they've done the opposite.
It's not even hallucinating it's just correctly summarizing the wrong thing.

Also we're only talking about a handful of examples out of billions of queries, that doesn't stop the usual media hyperventilating though.
I wonder if DHH is opening a lot of issues and trying to fix things as he bumps into issues. I've always been so intimidated by contributing to stuff on Linux because it can be so hard to even figure out where to report the issue when you bump into something weird.

I hope that more makers (myself included) will jump to Linux and start bringing some the polish and love there that has gone into so many mac apps.
Google won because it was simple. Just type in the text box. Yahoo was a page full of junk and alta vista had a difficult to navigate search results. If I remember, it's been a while!

Google remains simple, but its output is corrupt.
It kind of does. If you need to run your build through QA, product, upper management and regulatory approval then sorry, no matter how many standups you have - you're waterfall.

If you need an approval on a pull request and some automated tests to pass to give you enough confidence to deploy then that part of your process is agile at least (even if, say, the way you get requirements is not).
Cool and interesting. The authors propose a hybrid digital-analog training loop that takes into account the curvature of the loss landscape (i.e., it uses second-order derivatives), and show with numerical simulations that if their method is implemented in a hybrid digital-analog physical system, each iteration in the training loop would incur computational cost that is linear in the number of parameters. I'm all for figuring out ways to let the Laws of Thermodynamics do the work of training AI models, if doing so enables us to overcome the scaling limitations and challenges of existing digital hardware and training methods.
Very much this. It kills me when I search for something that I know for a fact still exists on the web, and there is no way of finding it through google. I used to comb through page 10+ regularly for hits for things related to my search, and now I’m pretty sure google doesn’t even compile hits after the first few pages.
After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs
The one I saw that recommended a dangerous mix of cleaning chemicals to clean a washer seemed pretty bad, I've performed that exact search before.
> or they are seeking to punish Gazans in general for the actions of a few terrorists on October 7th, eye-for-an-eye style

High-ranking Israeli officials have openly stated this at the start of the war and throughout.
“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” — Leslie Lamport, 1987
I doubt it is a real problem for anything other than number crunching. I like to use tcc during development (which does very little, if any optimizations) to speed up compilation and I never noticed any regressions in performance, even for GUI software. Throughput just isn't that big of a deal for most applications (although latency and resource usage is, but that's not affected by choice of compiler).
One of the single most frustrating things about Covid was the way media coverage almost entirely ignored the 100 years of studies on the varying effectiveness of various types of masks against various threats. Every bit of media attention on masks that I read treated it like it was some new cutting-edge area of research, when nothing could be further from the truth. "Effectiveness of masks" is a very deep and nuanced subject, but unfortunately most talking heads don't seem interested in nuance.
Definition of corp. speak. Just own that it is a less than stellar result and move on.
strong disagree. what's "long enough" to you?

i can find huge value out of it parsing natural language at even less than 1000 words. their context is way bigger than that already
> The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long."

This bit has always stuck in my head. Makes his longnow foundation work make more sense. Always find it wild that microsoft takes the time and spends the money on such tiny details in their products.
I’m not so sure it correlates, although I can see where you’re coming from. I know plenty of people who don’t get jack done because they’re so busy being tidy, thoughtful and organized.
So, in short, all of this was user error (they double-saved pictures both in files and in the potos app), and we spent a week fear-mongering about privacy because too few people understand how filesystems work anymore?
I didn't realize they included details about the hardware. Lie you said these just look like analog computers, compute in memory, analog arrays, which have also made a resurgence with deep leaning.
It only takes a reply to a handful of queries to get a handful of people actually hurt by telling them to do something dangerous.

The average person doesn't necessarily have the media and AI literacy to know not to trust papa google's answer at the top of the result page.
We have decided not to use anything that can't run any any computer. It's really possible to have large scale systems ROAC, if you pay attention to avoid proprietary cloud tech lock-in.

(ROAC in our case means Runs on any Kubernetes)
I agree with the suggestion that people just don't commit as many things to memory anymore, but that doesn't explain why we still remember certain random numbers from so long ago, while forgetting others. I can instantly recall my ICQ number, but there are plenty of old friends' phone numbers I've forgotten, and those were people I called multiple times a week for years.

Here's a free hypothesis: Maybe it was important to remember your ICQ number. Without it, your message history and contact list was out of reach. In that sense, it fits in the same mental space as a password. What I mean is, there was a cost to losing it. So, you were incentivized to commit it to memory in a way that you weren't with many other numbers.

In contrast, while it would be inconvenient to forget a friend's phone number if you wanted to chat with them, at least you had options. You could generally look them up in the white pages, or call a another friend and get their number, or just ask them when you saw that person again at school the next day.

So, the cost for not remembering a phone number was lower than the cost for not remembering your own ICQ number, and this probably made it mentally stickier.

... Another possibility is a confirmation bias. Maybe we're just not hearing from the 95% of ICQ users who can't remember their number.
AltaVista was actually pretty good if you knew how to use its search operators. Google just enabled search for the masses so to speak. A bit like the iPhone of search engines.
I met my first girlfriend on icq
I'm not sure it can be well argued I don't know much about Russia, so I'm staying the opinion. The Russian willingness to fight isn't that great and certainly way worse that the Ukrainians.

I also never heard of two-week supply of Russian rockets, though I heard economic collapse predictions which didn't materialize. But I also heard about Kiyev in three days plans.

Really, Russian military potential is greatly oversold.
The fools are the people who express more hatred for Steve Jobs than cigarette, oil, and pharma CEOs that irreparably injury and kill millions of humans simple because of his obnoxious methods of demanding the best from his highly privileged teammates.

Standards are important. So is perspective.
I have high hopes for Kagi precisely because they're not trying to disrupt Google. As long as they stick to their current niche, they can do things to filter out the nonsense and surface good content without ever running the risk that their algorithms become the game that every website must play to compete.
Again, China's production is centered in a specific area, along the coasts in the east and associated coastal waterways. American production is spread throughout the country. The USA has a distributed highway system for transportation. China has a strong focus on shipping lanes. The USA has a long record of projecting military power. China does not. The USA has a strong 'get shit started' track record. China has a mass produce track record. The American dynamic is better situated to recover production during war time than China.

Solar is not going to fuel missiles, ships, and attack aircraft. It's not going to grease the machines in the factories.
The point is not whether US/NATO would fight an artillery war. The point is about proving your industrial base's manufacturing capacity. Artillery shells should be relatively cheap and easy to produce. It's a really bad sign if America is such a bureaucratic mess right now that production can't be ramped quickly. Doesn't bode well for future war, doesn't demonstrate capability.
Interesting that they're just going to throw away the hotstaging ring. I guess they don't consider that to be a reusability issue because they might be easy enough to mass produce? Or maybe it's just a temporary change until they switch over to the stretched boosters?
Doubling down on my bet nobody reading this will live to see a quantum computer that breaks year 2000 era crypto.
I'd use mise [0] over nvm these days.

[0] https://mise.jdx.dev/
2FA pushed me out of github, but M/S Copilot in github created the road out.

Now seems people's chats and posts are being used to train AI. I wonder how long before Cell Phone Providers start using Text Messages to train AI (or sell to AI people).
doesnt the back-end of excel have a columnar data model that can store millions of records in a single excel file?
I stopped using google search a few years ago, for 95% of the time I use DDG (and then sometimes I do a fallback !g), but as it was down yesterday (thanks to Microsoft) I had to use GS a few times. Never before I had to add `-phrase` so often to eliminate results I didn't want to see. I was looking for some podman tips and had to keep adding -kubernetes and -openshift to every single query. It really just showed me how much worse GS became since I left it, but also no regrets.
Recent and related:

Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074 - May 2024 (122 comments)
I'm not sure we can. In 2000 everyone had a homepage that they (poorly) maintained with links to places they found useful. This gave google a large set of data to mine for places that are useful and worth searching for. Not such things are not common and so google can't find the signal as easily. (people share links on social media but that isn't google searchable)
>> “To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyze Customer Data (e.g. messages, content, and files) submitted to Slack.” — Slack’s privacy principles,
As someone who first learned to program in the early 80's, C# is far from my first language. But it is my favorite as well!
I don't think that Apple particularly cares about porting their software to Linux. Do you feel the same about Apple? That with such an attitude, they surely cannot succeed?
Would you say it's a canary in a coalmine?
Anything going on with Chinese missile forces staff and corruption lately? Just asking :)
I remember setting up a TTS system to announce the names of my friends as they came online.

“Fledermaus is online”
My current song pedantry fave is Nanobot, perfected by a video with 18 numbered [refs]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvxPSQNMGc

(presumably Brian May would have had his phases of astral matter correct in the first set of lyrics?)
Pretty close to mine. 4367571. Must have registered a month apart.
Good points! I agree using this to bypass a reasonable paid ad-free option is dubious.

In Canada the CBC's tax-funded podcasts with ads also feel a little dubious.

It'd be cool if you could have an personal AI purchase and curate content for you.

Edit: thinking a bit more about it I guess that's pretty much what YouTube premium is.
I can't remember what the specific puzzles in Space Quest II were that I got stuck on. I think the first one was probably still down on the planet. And I can't say for certain now why I was able to finish SQ3 so quickly. I guess things just seemed to flow. I certainly finished SQ3 quicker than any other Sierra game I played, by quite some margin. The others took at least a few weeks, if not months.

This was obviously back in the days before the Internet, and I hadn't yet discovered BBS boards either, so it was just me and my brother trying to work it out.
Theyre both examples of shifting left, though.

There's always a context contingent cost/benefit trade off, but sometimes converting integration to unit tests is a win.
My favorite so far: https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

> Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?
I got tired of poor search experience on Google and switched to DDG, used it by default for a couple years (resorting to !g maybe 10-20% of the time). But for the last 6? months with Kagi, it's literally 0 times I've even been tempted. Paying $5/mo to be a customer and not the product, having my privacy respected, and enjoying consistent access to excellent search results is IME equivalent to switching from browsing without an adblocker to using ublock plus, or trying reader mode for the first time. It's transformative.
If you want to get rid off that, try https://udm14.com/. It will redirect you to tab "Web" which Google secretly added[0] pretty recently. It will show you only text-based links.

You can also edit your browser search settings to add this parameter &udm=14 to query automatically.

[0] https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1790473952256786805
I'm part sympathetic (to a right wing slanted site's angst against how Biden's program is going), but also, those doesn't feel that out of line with the intent of the CHIPS act. It depends on what the expected outcome is, but figuring out how to rely on and have trust in the security of the chips we are making, making sure they don't have secret backdoors or hidden circuits, making sure the enclaves really are secure: that feels like it's definitely a key part of maintaining the US.

That said, $3B is a ton of money for who knows exactly what. How will this effort help and who? Ideally this would fund good efforts that everyone could use to advance the general state of computing security. But in all probability, this will get buried away in DoD projects that don't help anyone.

One shout out, while looking for more information on CHIPS, I ran across this wikipedia blurb,

> And $1.5 billion funds the USA Telecommunications Act of 2020, which aims to enhance competitiveness of software and hardware supply chains of open RAN 5G networks

That's cool! That's how we should be funding advancements!

Facebook/Meta donated a huge amount of super awesome work on their 5g EvenStar platform to OpenCompute, which seems to have incredibly solid figures-of-merit, built with hyperscaler minded cut-throat cost-effectiveness. I'd love to see these kind of blistering cutting edge state of the art works get support help & advancement!
I joined Facebook pretty early on, back when you needed to have an email address issued by a university to join. My posts from back then are pretty wild, all very personal stuff and conversations with friends.

I logged in today, not a single mention of a friend in any way, shape or form on my feed. No posts from friends. No comments from friends. No "here's what your friend liked."

Half of the content wasn't even stuff I was following, it was posts that were "similar" to something I liked or to some group I was in.

It's amazing what a bait and switch these companies pulled. They really leaned into it. Google barely resembles a search engine now. Facebook is basically just a billboard.
Rust includes a great deal of undefined behavior, unlocked with the trustme keyword. Ahem, sorry, unsafe. If only...

So if we're going to be pedantic, it's safe Rust which has defined semantics for basically everything. A considerable accomplishment, to be sure.
Given how awful some text messages I get from relatives read, I really hope not. The worst types of typos. The only thing I want them to train properly is voice to text. It cannot for the life of itself ever get anything right. I have to scream at Siri a dozen times.
Is there a way to put money on this? I'd be willing to put down a fair amount against your prediction.
This should be possible, it already exists for Google Photos: https://www.stg-uploader.xyz/