skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play Devil's advocate, I'd like to point out that many of these egotistical assholes are "trying" to "help" - by "trying" I mean their communication skills are poor, and by "help" I mean they are trying to encourage people to improve. I know, I've been one of these assholes. What I've tried to do to be less of an asshole is leverage my empathy and hone my communication skills. But I also recognize the anger and frustration with things that seem like they should be no-brainers - and recognize that what we despise in ourselves is often what we attack others for.

Nobody's perfect, but there are ways people can get better. Or just take advantage of tools that can help automatically catch these sorts of errors. This is precisely why people create regression tests and set them up to run in the CI/CD, to reject changes that break them.

As for being less of an asshole, no shortcuts with that - just exercise your empathy, put yourself in their shoes, take a deep breath, then go to bed. Tomorrow morning, if you still feel the need to pen a blog post, maybe write out a technical solution without assigning blame.
Google: Hey geuis, our revenue is record, our stock value is record, our metrics are all at record. The execs making decisions have just paid of millions in stock [1] making them staggeringly rich no matter what happens in the future. We can't hear your over the sound of green bills going BRRRRR.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-google-executive-pa...
Nvidia faces local competition for its 'China special' GPUs
Covid hasn't particularly gotten weaker, there's just roughly zero people left that don't have some baseline immunity, either from vaccination or infection.
These are the EXACT same arguments that for the female pill.

Not to say its bad but its true
> “we” were having a cappuccino

His phone was having a cappaccino too?

Sadly, this lack of recognition of the difference between reality and a mental dream state are at the root of a great deal of first world neurosis.

This article is just about the creep from neurosis to psychosis.

Another reference for those who live in meme space: as soon as The Matrix spinal tap becomes available, people will be lined up to crawl into their pods...
If you don't care about understanding what's going on, you can just use a docker image someone else has created:

https://hub.docker.com/r/dperson/samba
But only if you do a lot of filtering when going through responses. It’s kind of simple to do as a human, we see a ridiculous joke answer or obvious astroturfing and move on, but Reddit is like >99% noise, with people upvoting obviously wrong answer because it’s funny, lots of bot content, constant astroturfing attempts.
Thing is, there are lots of examples of the negative, right now, whereas the positive is mostly a jam-tomorrow “real soon now we promise” deal, and after a few years it is _wearing pretty thin_.
Probably the first step is to simply prove that mental health issues are also increasing among populations that don’t use social media.
> The Internet will never be the same (bbc.com)

Yes, now we can rank by posting crap on Reddit [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/iMejAF3
I think he’s very much taking his own kink and assuming everyone shares it. My suspicion is that for most people, the whole idea is pretty unappealing.
this comment made my day
> Already now, a lot of users will associate Google AI Overviews with nonsense

A lot of tech-minded folks who actively follow this stuff on Twitter et al make this association, but the average person was already defaulting to reading the first (likely incorrect) hit on Google and moving on with their day. I'm not sure they'll notice a dip in quality until it directly contradicts something they know about confidently.
Medtronic did this on one of their heart monitor base stations.
IIUC what dragonwriter is saying is that by way of pardoning the murderer, Abbott is condoning the murder, making it in a sense a "private execution".

I think that logic is sufficiently sound, provided we know we are not being precise. I don't know enough about the case to say whether it actually applies here.
> Worried about climate change? In the 1980s it was nuclear war.

Nuclear war didn't happen. Climate change is happening. Pretty key difference!
I think the biggest difference with human (and the most important one) is that human can tell you "I have no idea, this isn't my field" or "I'm just guessing here" but LLMs will confidently say to super stupid statement.
AI doesn't know what it knows.

if you only score where human provide answer, then human score would be probably in high 90s
Yes, that's true. For most of human history we feared starvation, not bankruptcy.
Oh it gets even better. The public has been hearing about AI this and AI that for over a year, but the existing use cases and deployment was confined to some super special niches like writing or the creative industries and programming.

This is the first nation-scale deployment of the technology, running on Google's biggest and most profitable market in one of the most widely used internet services, and it's a shitshow.

They can try manually fine tuning it, but all of the investors who have been throwing money at AI for the past year are now learning what this tech is like in the day-to-day, beyond just speculations, and it's looking... bad.
Camera Reviews Need to Change [video]
Fun to see this posted this on HN (I am the author!). Happy to answer any questions. I think the general question I didn't really touch on is "why" and really the only answer for that is "why not?"
> In America, they'd be kicked out of home as soon as they turned 16.

This is a lie. Are you american? I've never met a single person who was kicked out at 16. This include kids who were drug addicts, high school drop outs, pregnant teens, etc.

> In Russia, they'd be just beaten up by their dads.

I highly doubt that. Are you russian?

> No one in adult age should be kept at home funded by their parents unless it's short term with definite plan to fix it

Ideally. Unless they are writing poems like emily dickinson?
Thankfully a billion people are not asking me for answers to things, so it's OK if I am wrong sometimes.
It is certainly popular here to run your web searches against reddit. Every post about how Google Search sucks ends up with comments on appending "site:reddit.com" to the search terms.
> However, it is only a matter of time until the industry develops sexbots which look and feel like a real human.. at that point the natural birth rate will probably drop to zero.

I am _baffled_ that people actually believe this. Most people, I suspect, prefer relationships with actual conscious entities to sexy autocomplete.
I assume the objection above was to avoid them being diluted, here. I'm also trying to figure out if you're trying to say that if we just react to the words as if they were being properly applied no matter what, that will prevent them from being diluted. Because that's not good.
They provide a really pleasant service in return: new music discovery

I may not keep the files, but if I left Spotify I’m still left with a list of thousands of songs I enjoy and almost certainly wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.
I think part of the answer is like Mr Peanutbutter's

>The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead. https://youtu.be/AfqTOhi7AnQ
For once it would be nice to be able to sort latest to oldest
Population density is absolutely the driver of all of this. It increases competition, decreases personal space, and limits access to nature.

Humans are social animals, but we aren't ants. We're not supposed to live in concrete jungles. As others have said, hikikomoris are one extreme of a continuum of negative outcomes caused by modern life. A low birthrate is another, which is correlated with urban living (there are other factors but this trend is unmistakable).

I believe this is a natural outcome of very high population density, a negative feedback mechanism. When life becomes unbearable because of too many people, we withdraw and don't reproduce.
OpenChat 3.6
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Is the dryer large enough so that the clothes can tumble (rather than being stuck in place)?
Yes you are right. i'm going to show them some other opinions like vue, remix, astro and will definitely teach them some of them (just the basic stuff and paradigms) but i will mainly focus on teaching them react & nextjs since they are more popular and intern friendly in my region.
There has to be a matchup of demand and supply, and I feel our industry has optimized for the types of jobs that are in higher demand during boom times and cheap capital. I've been in the industry since the late 90s and have seen the cycle repeat itself. The entry-level jobs always dry up and breadth becomes more valuable than depth.
For overwhelming majority of human history people had either to work or die of starvation. There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that any significant fraction chose death.
Google had the best search engine there is.

Then they enshittified it for short term profit and now they panic instead of reverting course and simply laugh at AI companies.

Madness.
Non-AMP version: https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-atom-defect-2d-mate...
Technically everything an LLM does is hallucination that happens to be on a scale between correct and non-correct. But only humans with knowledge can tell the difference, math alone can't. It's not even a bug: it's the defining feature of the technology!
HTML has been stagnant for so long that as a document-oriented language... it doesn't even have a table of contents element! Or a bibliography!
> Modos is working on a 60fps e-ink monitor

Fundamentally, my opinion is all these things trying to move electrophoretic ink fast are misguided. You end up using so much energy trying to move particles that are inherently designed to be bistable. If you want to play a video, you're better off using material physics that was intended to be fast from the start, not trying to force a material that's intended to be slow to fight itself.

Stuff like "We need 50,000 people interested in being a part of creating an open-hardware e-ink ecosystem". This seems like trying to drum up a kickstarter. The modos founder, Alex Soto, what's his track record? Googling seems to show him making ridiculous claims like "To make matters worse, the E Ink Corporation holds the patents for its e-ink technology and only licenses its technology to large manufacturers making availability or mass adoption difficult."

I would love to see him explain that in detail with concrete facts.
100% accuracy should be the goal, but the way to achieve that isn't going to from teaching an AI to construct a definitive sounding answer to 100% of questions. Teaching AI how to respond with "I don't know", and give confidence scores is the path to nearing 100% accuracy.
Grasshopper doesnt care about some higher meaning or immortality. Its role is to enjoy what life gives and procreate if possible. Just because we became self-aware doesnt make us any more special.

No point trying to see more to it, maybe that could be one goal for folks desperately looking for this.
Efficient dryers also use heat pumps (ours does).
> "I'll think about it"

Unless you're being totally earnest, this one reads like "I'll take it under advisement"[0]

[0] - https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ed82da6b-db48-49aa-a105-f190e63...
As if that stops your body from producing oils and sweat.
Ah, my friend

it's not a bug

It's a fundamental feature

These LLMs can produce nothing else but since the bullshit they spew resembles an answer and sometimes accidentally collide with one, people tend to think it can give answers. But no.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
What does self-aware mean then? Nothing? Most would disagree.
Tmux is worse-is-better
> where I'd be concerned I would be unable to get at an internet connection long enough to get at my info, including copies of all my documents, or would be unable to find help to arrange transport back to my home or my hotel where I'd have other means.

I don't even know where to begin getting copies of "all of my documents" online as a native US-born citizen.

> It's feels like a contrived scenario if you travel primarily in developed countries, and mostly urban areas. If I were going somewhere in the middle of nowhere, or a third world country where I'd be concerned about more likely to be targeted, maybe.

I got robbed and beat up walking back from the store in a very clean, well-lit area of a growing city of ~45,000 once -- in Ohio, of all places. I didn't consider myself a target then, and I don't consider myself a target now. But it happened anyway, and if it can happen to me in that seemingly-safe environment, then it can probably happen to anyone else in any other environment.

> I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but having grown up before cellphones and with no expectation of having easy access to a phone, this obsession with being able to easily contact someone just is very foreign to me still.

I'm not saying that your ideas don't have any merit. I also grew up before cell phones and was well into adulthood before they became common.

But I am saying these seem a lot of mental gymnastics to perform in justification of avoidance of the positively arduous and herculean task of...simply committing the phone number for a resourceful friend to memory.

---

And why? Well, because friends are awesome.

"Hey, I'm in San Francisco. I don't have my phone or my wallet. No, no, I'm OK -- I'll tell you about it later. Yeah, some money would help right now. Sure, I can call you back in an hour. Thanks man."

...and soon enough, that resourceful friend will have that sorted well-enough for me that I can at least buy some food somewhere and start getting back towards whatever "normal" is, just as I would do for them.
Don’t tell Andy Jenkinson about this.
Here in India, samsung phones come with the following label on its boxes

> For every unique simcard used, some information is collected via automatic SMS(operator tariff apply)

Those messages are apparently not shown in the sent list. Some folks have complained about them being sent while roaming internationally and incurring high charges.

So yes, Samsung will do these things and is open about it in places where most people including government don't understand the importance or care about privacy.

In places where people do care , they will rely on these stealthy tricks to collect information.

PS: If this is not a data grab and they have perfectly good technical reasons to do this without consent, I am interested in knowing those reasons.
The cat is out of the bag. Keep eating rocks and sticking down your pizza toppings.
Unlike the full GPL, the LGPL doesn't require applications of the library be licensed under the same. It would apply only to improvements to the library itself.
If I could delivery “80% correct” software for my workplace, my day would be a whole hell of a lot easier.
> No, not even you, dear person reading this. You are wrong about some basic things too. It'll vary from person to person what those are, but it is guaranteed there's something.

Kahneman has a fantastic book on this called Noise. It’s all about noise in human decision making and how to counteract it.

My favorite example was how even the same expert evaluating the same fingerprints on different occasions (long enough to forget) will find different results.
HN needs a unflag button.
Not all of the US, of course. We have plenty of incentive to reduce our energy use in the Bay Area :)
This is standard EC serious-regs-for-big-companies fare. Don’t get too excited; the largest fine of this type ever was for Facebook, a bit over a billion, and about eight years after the relevant law (the GDPR) came into force.
IMHO a request system is sufficient. Remember GPL comes from a time where Internet was not granted and magazines with floppy disks were a thing.
> you just don't see how

Always, always assume this is the case - it might frustrate you to no end, but until you have conclusive evidence something is "wrong", it's best to ignore it and toodle along with whatever you're supposed to be working on (I always encounter these head scratchers when working on legacy code, my tasking being something unrelated).
Radiative cooling and indoor light management by metmaterial
Goodix fingerprint is used in Framework Laptop. This might come from that corner.
"Search" isn't Google's product. Google hasn't been a search company for 20 years.

"Ads" is Google's product. And the only way they'll go bankrupt is if 1) companies realize that advertising is pointless (I'm not holding my breath), or 2) some other company takes over from Google, which seems unlikely without government intervention (I'm not holding my breath).

Google is a shit company, but they'll still be around 20 years from now, because our economy is nonsensical and irrational.
If a human offered to confidently answer every question you asked without regard to whether it is true or correct, you wouldn't say they're merely mistaken when they tell you falsehoods. You would call them a bullshitter or a charlatan.

Calling it slop at least acknowledges that the AI isn't trying to lie to you. It's not merely making a error, either. It just doesn't care either way.
You have to feed your logs into the VictoriaLogs database in order to use LogsQL, right?

"LogsQL is a simple yet powerful query language for VictoriaLogs."
Recent discussion regarding iFixit's decision to drop their Samsung Repair Hub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456107
That's useful background information. In ECMAScript 2015, it's referred to as "proper tail calls," rather than TCO, indicating that this is important in the language's design, rather than a mere performance optimization.

Having proper tail calls expands the set of functions you can write without fear of overflowing the stack, so it fundamentally expands the expressiveness of the language for production use cases.
This comment shouldn't be downvoted. Point to a 750 billion dollar company that doesn't have undue market power.
Not much news in the article. Launch scheduled for June 5th starting at 8am EDT. Still waiting for FAA (it sounds like the license will show up when needed). The video from the last launch was great.It will be interesting if they get things working well. Maybe we will,at some point, start seeing bigger science missions one day. I am looking forward to the launch.
I don't think that matters to the observation being commented on, which is of the nature of "if one believes in X, it's surprising to me they won't also believe in Y."
Examplar: A better way to teach programming (make students make the examples)
They talk about how the difficulty in teaching is in knowing what the students know. But just asking them doesn't give us enough information:

> So we have the kernel of a good idea—asking students to read back their understanding—but words are a poor medium for it.

Their solution, of making students come up with examples, basically serves to map out their understanding and whether they are falling into common misconceptions

> we think of Examplar as performing what we call conceptual mutation testing: we only want to make sure they have the right conception of the problem, and avoid misconceptions about it.

This seems really powerful to me. In some ways it's like test driven development. In another way, it's like going into reading a complex article with a list of guiding questions, mapping out what you think the article is saying, and having a system (either automated or a human teacher) correct you/guide you in the right direction
University awards student $10k for his AI tool, then suspends him for using it
Who is to say Christians didn’t use their discernment to conclude that Jesus is who he claimed and did what was said of him?
No inside information, but presumably this means Delivery to other organizations, which, among other things, includes maintaining outbound IP reputation, which is closely related to Spam and Abuse.
> core.async was actually the "killer app"

For ClojureScript, it was React. Immutable state / functional programming fits so nicely, and hiccup syntax (JSX as simple vectors) is the perfect declarative (yet transformable) DOM structure.
I am not surprised that AI results are bad. I know they are bad. But that doesn't concern me because I expect it to get better.

What concerns me is that Google would push this trash to the front page. What are they even thinking? Who gave go ahead on this?
> What is the measurable benefit to implementing 128b SVE2

Probably not much, SVE2 has some nicer instructions, but neon already is quite solid.

> And implementing 256b SVE has different issues depending on how you do it

For in-order, and not very aggressively out-of-order cores having a larger vector length can be very useful to still get a lot of throughput out of your design. It also helps hide memory latency.

Here is a paper: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2309.06865

and presentation: http://riscv.epcc.ed.ac.uk/assets/files/sc23/Short-reasons-f...

For aggressively out-of-order cores it should, for the most part, just be about decode, and some what memory latency hiding.

> 2x256b is only beneficial over 4x128b if you're limited by decode width [...] 3x256b would probably imply 3x128b which would regress existing NEON code.

I agree, that's why I don't get why people are "excited" for Zen5 to have 512b execution units, instead of 256b ones. At best there won't be a performance improvement for avx/avx2 code, at worst a regression.
Interpreting jokes in real time is murderously difficult
GPT feature but no gapless? Strange priorities. Is gapless super hard?
don't forget they had terrible security even for the time. In their client you could do text customizations like bold, italic, etc. and they did it by just sending HTML over the wire.

This meant that if you used a custom client (which they didn't allow), you could just send HTML which got evaluated so you could force users to download stuff or send HTML forms or iframes

When this became semi public (in hacker circles) they went after the people talking about it with legal action instead of fixing their stuff
My apologies, I misspoke. It's the program itself that, without my intervention, will go haywire, regardless of whether I've followed a guide or started from scratch. I seem to be the only one with this particular problem, so I never knew how to fix it.
Encyclopedia Britannica is also wrong in a reproducible and fixable way. And the input queries a finite set. It's output does not change due to random or arbitrary things. It is actually possible to verify. LLMs so far seem to be entirely unverifiable.
Yeah, the most likely take here is that Google's leadership truly did not recognize how utterly awful the quality of their flagship search index had become over the years.

I mean, it explains a lot, but still... you're recruited using industry-leading practices out of an overflowing pool of abundant talent... and this is what you make of it? As the kids say: SMH!
Yes, people do not follow instructions. Policies should take that into account, and not be vbsed on unscientific overly optimistic beliefs about human behavior.

People would follow instructions better if they believed them to be based on facts. People were pressured to appear to follow instructions. That does not work well.

I don’t criticize making mistakes. I am criticizing lying to the public and using social pressure to force people to follow policies that are known to be ineffective.