skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still trying to reconcile Apple's victory over Epic with Google's loss to them. To an outside observer it seems obvious that Apple is a far worse offender in monopolizing app distribution on their platform, yet somehow they're the ones who managed to pull a victory in court.

It appears that part of it is a bit of a technicality—Apple never allowed a market for app distribution on their platform at all, while Google did. So, technically, Google is abusing their competition while Apple simply doesn't have any. There's a certain kind of logic to that argument, but it feels like it establishes perverse incentives for a platform to retain 100% control. It's legal precedence for "give them an inch; they'll take a mile"—not only will they try to take the mile, they're legally entitled to.

I also suspect that the other side of it has to be that Google is simply far less competent at managing its legal position than Apple is. Google is constantly getting into trouble in these cases for deleting data they shouldn't have and similar offenses. Apple, meanwhile, doesn't seem to retain any more incriminating data than Google does, but they somehow simultaneously manage to avoid getting in trouble for their data retention policies.
The fall of Google’s reputation on ML is nothing short of spectacular. They went from having a near untouchable reputation as being far ahead of any other large tech company on ML to total shambles in a year. Everything they’ve released has been a complete popcorn worthy dumpster fire from faked demos, to racist models that try and pretend white people don’t exist, to this latest nonsense telling me put glue on my pizza.

What the heck happened? Or was their reputation always just more hype than substance?
Really can't forgive them for the trite, precious and dramatically overused "Remedy" font.
> So Google hasn't used an LLM to generate and test weird queries ?

What about simple manual testing? Seems to have skipped QA completely, automated or not.
Canada is oddly serious about their border with the US.

Having traveled worldwide, it easily ranks up there with the most unfriendly customs officers.

Maybe that's why Canadians are so nice? All their assholes are employed for border security?
It strikes this unique balance between simplicity, productivity and raw performance.

It’s certainly not the right language for all use cases. But embedded or extending, it particularly does well.
Tax the big companies to subsidize smaller ones perhaps?
it's really not the same
Yes, ICQ was bought by Russians in 2010, and it was already dying at that time.
> Nobody is asking you to. You have the freedom not to consume raw milk. But some people do want to consume raw milk. And there is scant, if any, evidence of the alleged problems. So why are Authorities making this illegal? I doubt it's to "protect public health". The public who wants to drink raw milk don't want the Authorities "protecting their health" in this way.

If the the TB is spreadable to non-raw-milk-drinkers then it's ridiculous to act like it doesn't affect me, and the libertarian argument doesn't make sense. I don't give a shit about the health of the people who actually drink the milk, if they want to kill themselves then don't let me stop them, but I don't want them infecting innocent people in the process. This really isn't hard.
Right. I was agreeing and adding context to your post, not trying to refute it.
very hard indeed, if you're optimizing for favourable opinions from Wall St analysts come earnings time .
I find decent info in plenty of subs, you just have to stay away from the front page/popular subs, Especially the comments in those items. Total garbage full of people ranting. I give it a go a couple times a year but nothing ever changes. Just people raging at each other.
For the year I lived in Japan I also found the capacity quite limited, and my clothes dried very slowly.
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You can see Microsoft trying to slowly inch their way towards Apple’s stance. They want to be able to claim that being 100% in control is their core product value and therefore it’s not a matter of competition or abuse. Neither Apple nor anyone else should be allowed these flimsy arguments.
Yep, and I also posted a link that contained survey data, which you seemed to ignore. Feel free to dismiss my anecdote and instead just focus on the quantitative data if you're like.
But this all is so evidently untrue!

Stock of accumulated capital is growing healthily which means savings rate is healthy too, even if most of savings is just reinvestment of profits from previous ones.

Consumption of almost everything is growing in real terms too in almost all countries.

GDP keeps growing just about everywhere save for a few most unlucky places like UK.

Even inequality is falling for the first time in decades so the poor people actually see most improvement (especially in the US).

That 'hopelessness' is what people call 'vibecession'. People just taught themselves - probably by going through too much doomscrolling - that things are bad. But they aren't. We are probably living through best times in our lifetime - especially the common folk, poor and working class (some highly educated, high income occupations might be on shaky ground). MAYBE, just maybe, upper middle class is a bit fucked indeed, but this is a small group numerically and hikikomori do not come from there.

I'm glad i'm not on social media but whenever i'm trying to read so-called 'news', i also get depressed for a bit. People are trying to present absolutely everything in the most negative sense possible probably because otherwise it's not clickbait-y enough...
but, truth to be told, there is little interest or curiosity for small eu acts in the US, just niche stuff.
I understood the parent coment as wanting to build a WIFI card, i. e. the ESP32 connects to the WIFI and transfers the data to a connected computer over PCIe or so. The ESP32 would have to do no decoding of the payload, only transfer the packets to the PC.
I don't understand at all. Because you (in my opinion, erroneously) believe that you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same thing you're just not going to try?

What about pretty much every generation prior to the last, who had to toil in hard labor most days, who often didn't have indoor plumbing, who often didn't even have electricity, who went off to war, did they have any easier time being "successful" than you? Did they just give up and not try? Do you honestly believe you're worse off in 2024 than they were? That you're working harder than they were?

I'm not even going to touch the climate dread stuff as climate change is a topic that can not be impartially discussed anymore.
I'm going to buy a case for any phone regardless of how many gorilla's they promise are in the phone.
Forcing people to work hasn't been historically successful. That includes stacking the incentives up to work or death. A large fraction of people simply choose death because no one wants to be forced to do things.

If I had to guess, you don't either.
90% of metal tours are foreign bands! This is going to decimate the industry.
We used a yokushitsu kansouki a lot when I was traveling in Japan and they were were awesome but I felt it was not as practical if you had a lot of laundry. Plus the having to shower thing made it annoying sometimes.

I do hang dry some clothes at home but at the end of the day, I accept the damage that a dryer does because it allows me to spend a lot less time to clean a lot more clothes and therefore I do laundry way less and spend less time on it.

I did like it for drying out the bathroom quicker so it wouldn’t grow mold though.
>trade space for defence

No. The losses we have on tape—what and where—paint a clear picture: They were not prepared and paid for it.

It’s true that the depth of Ukraine’s misery sometimes gets exaggerated, by Ukrainians themselves and by friendly Western journalists. With a singular purpose: to ensure continuation and increase of deliveries.

So what you’re doing here amounts to attacking a straw man.

>ignores reality and correctness

That is: The daily flood of gore. Funny numbers from the ever-dwindling crowd of “OSINT” peddlers. Bromides from Kopemans and Copelees.
Marijuana and alcohol differ significantly when taken in large quantities. Alcohol will make a person pass out without exception. Marijuana does not specifically make a person pass out at high doses. You would need to take a low dose of marijuana to use it as a sleep aid.
The adversarial surface to the LLM remains enormous, manual cannot handle it.
Your model of the southwest border may need to be updated because the dynamics have changed a lot in the last 4 years. Nowadays people cross the border and intentionally get caught by border patrol (in many cases by calling 911) so that they can make asylum claims. Even if they are arrested, they are generally released and allowed to live in the US for many years while their cases are pending. The number of people doing this has shot up during the last 4 years and is now about 3 million people per year [1]. By comparison, the number of visa overstayers is less than 1 million per year. [2].

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
[2] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/23_0707_FY22...
...for our shareholders
Then perhaps there is no issue to worry about here.
How We Do Anything Is How We Do Everything – Annie Altman
Pay no attention to the army of people behind the curtain pulling levers trying to make it look like they’ve actually but a real AI.
It could be because they actually released something. If you look back, the Google Research blog posts always have grandiose claims, but you can often never use them.
The best reactions I've seen to recall are:

https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/112481894385686328

This guide does little to address the concerns.
Did they give roundworms a sugary drink with caffeine and found that they metabolise more lipids?
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia
I can only surmise the US’ immigration policy and lack of consequences for employers is the way it is specifically to provide for a large contingent of labor that is willing to work for lower prices due to their immigration status. Illegal immigrants’ labor for more physical work, and H1-B labor for more mental work.
It's not really that bad. I use gemini often and it's great. I prefer their UI
> Worried about climate change? In the 1980s it was nuclear war.

During the Cold War, they were at least telling kids (at least in the USA) that the nuclear holocaust might be avoidable "if clear heads prevail," or "if we beat the Russians," or "if they back down." There was at least hope. With Climate Change, we've told two entire generations of kids that there is no hope, it's inevitable and irreversible, and that there is no way to avoid catastrophe. So is it any surprise they're all doomers when it comes to Climate? If you tell everyone that everything is hopeless, then don't be surprised when a few conclude that it really is hopeless.
This presentation is surely intended to convey a sense of spatiality related to the idea of "A shrinking life". I enjoyed the graphics and photos, and I definitely got a feeling of constriction and isolation that added depth to my reading experience—YMMV.

(The HN guidelines discourage complaints about these sorts of "tangential annoyances", by the way: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
That’s actually not true for most countries if you compare it with eg. investment in index funds and take inflation into account.
They have to be to preserve their culture. The us population vastly outnumbers them and most of populated Canada is within a couple hours drive from the US. If there wasn't a strong border they'd end up being assimilated quickly.
Culture is really a slow motion war game. If you can make your films and music popular across the world, that will eventually buy you influence with the people of the world, and that in turn will turn into political influence.

That's part of the reason nearly every country spends taxes to support the arts/music/theatre/film.

By restricting foreign actors, you are restricting foreign countries culture spreading, and giving your own actors/filmmakers/musicians a boost. That in turn will translate into more worldwide cultural influence for your country.

To be honest, I'm really surprised all countries don't ban artists from non allied countries.
Doesn't inserting locks affect the memory hierarchy consistency mechanisms and therefore interfere with possible race conditions?
We need an AI for that
I hope AI will bring back the "Sort by date" button on Google Reviews, and add somewhere a Google Maps link.

Who knows, maybe AI can bring back exact keyword matches, or correct basic math calculations on Google Search too.
That’s horrific. I guess every generation gets to re-learn the mistakes of the past.
"Achieving the initial 80 percent is relatively straightforward since it involves approximating a large amount of human data, Marcus said, but the final 20 percent is extremely challenging. In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all."

100% completely accurate is super-AI-complete. No human can meet that goal either.

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.

So 100% accurate can't be the goal. Obviously the goal is to get the responses to be less obviously stupid. Which, while there are cynical money-oriented business reasons for, it is obviously also a legitimate hole in the I in AI to propose putting glue on pizza to hold the cheese on.

But given my prior observations that LLMs are the current reigning world-class champions at producing good sounding text that seems to slip right past all our system 1 thinking [1], it may not be a great thing to remove the obviously stupid answers. They perform a salutatory task of educating the public about the limitations and giving them memorable hooks to remember not to trust these things. Removing them and only them could be a net negative in a way.

[1]: https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/philosophy/system...
Hip to be square, as they say

And I think it merged with goth at some point
Canadians are not that nice. - Canadian.
Kind of hypocritical of her then isn't it, given Apple has a horrible history of collecting data also?
Agree. Expressed well and measured. And it is learned by expressing badly first and then one gets better. When kids have a tantrum it is a good opportunity to make them aware of it and allow them modulate it. But if one doesn't let them express or gives no attention to their expression it can foster other emotions and delays the learning of modulation.

Unconstrained expression of anger is usually a result of long term suppression and then falling into the trap that suppression doesn't work so modulation will also not.
I assume that, if you aren't being sarcastic, you're European? Or at least not American?

You're currently down voted, but many Americans probably don't realize that some countries don't allow vented dryers. Vented dryers are standard here and many Americans have never seen anything else. They are indeed terribly inefficient, using the nice, conditioned, inside air once, heating it and then dumping it outside. All the air that is exhausted from the inside has to get replaced with air from the outside and has to be heated or cooled again.
Ajla: A new purely functional programming language
What culture? - Canadian
European lad who've traveled to the various places in US and Canada for both business and leisure. Customs officers were never rude or similar to me in Canada, but Miami airport (KMIA) probably had the worst customer facing employees I've ever encountered in an airport, loud, rude and unhelpful. Asked for directions and got told I should learn how to search for information myself...
Pidgin was pretty awesome, though its underlying library was so riddled with vulnerabilities…

I greatly enjoyed how with XMPP’s in-band registration you could do things like give each contact a unique XMPP address, only to be used with them. You could have unlimited (well, I never hit a limit) accounts, across a load of servers, proxies per account, unique OTR keys per account, etc.

I don’t think the UI has really been surpassed either, tbh. I really wish someone would do a modern rewrite of Pidgin in some memory safe language.
research != product
“manually remove weird AI answers” is an oxymoron. Sort of like saying “deployed manual drivers to improve self driving performance”
Not off-topic at all; came here just for this.
I was told as a kid that there was hope for climate change as long as we could scale back our carbon emissions. Watching the opposite of that happen over a lifetime is what made me into a doomer.
> I really don't think you read my comment in good faith

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

> By "meant by", I really meant "evolved for"

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

> If we evolved to eat something untreated, then that's what I meant by "meant for us".

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

> Is this just a meme with the raw milk crowd?

I don't drink raw milk.

> I personally don't really drink any milk, human or cow or otherwise.

So you are driven by agenda. Like I assumed. Thank you.
https://put.as/ Mildly NSFW.
> Rewind that I’ve been successfully using to fight ADHD for a looooong time on macOS. If it’s remotely as useful…

Probably not the best kind of solution for whatever ADHD issue you are trying to address.
Asking how to prevent cheese from sliding off pizza is not an adversarial prompt.
I know everyone is different, and saying things like "just get a job" or "just go outside" are easy to say and very hard to do when you're stuck in that type of loop. But, I will say, things that I've found will help are having some purpose (work, taking care of someone or a pet, anything), exercise (even walking outdoors), and even just getting your biological clock where you wake up and get exposed to sunlight (vs sleeping all day and staying up all night).

Getting enough activation energy to do any of those things is difficult, but I've found that if you can muster it, it can help break the cycle.
You need to look offshore.
> So Google hasn't used an LLM to generate and test weird queries ?

You don't even need an LLM for that. Google will almost certainly have tested.

The test result is just politically-unacceptable within the company: It doesn't work, it's a architectural issue inherent to the technology, we can't fix it.

Instead, they just rush to patch any specific, individual errors that show up, and claim that these errors are "rare exceptions" or "never happened".

What's going on here is that Google (and most other AI firms) are just trying to gaslight the world about how error-prone AI is, because they're in too deep and can't accept the reality themselves.
I don't think this is quite what's happening here. Overall USCIS is funded by fees, but operates a system in which some kinds of applicants subsidize other kinds of applicants. So, applications for asylum are free to make even though they cost USCIS a lot to adjudicate. To make up for this, USCIS charges extra for applications in other categories, like employment-based visas.

I'm not sure what exactly is happening in this case, but by saying "Because the US can’t seem to get a handle on its borders" the article author seems to be claiming that artist visa fees are subsidizing asylum claim applications.
Poetry Camera
It's a bit like refloating a sunken ship.
You can find many reports of people (myself included) who were able to fully eliminate acne by going low carb, took ~2 months for me for all acne to dissapear.

It's the diet, not the hormones. Hormones only push the body over the edge when it's poisoned by the wrong diet.
AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Waymo FSD are all released in the sense that you can see them actually working in the real world. Those all took much longer to put together than whatever rushed features were released to catch up with OpenAI, however.
For this tech cycle, AI is short for Actually Indians
That’s always been an issue. Years ago, researchers demonstrated in an experiment that they could swing public opinion about electoral candidates by manipulating search results. Who knows if Google took that experiment and ran with it?
Is it common to hang laundry outside in Japan even in cities? The USA has made hanging laundry a no-no across most of the country, for aesthetic reasons I guess. It's very common in Europe, though.
can't you just save them on the end of the title? doesnt it search through the titles when searching the bookmarks? It's all just a big grep through your bookmarks anyway whether it's in tags or titles
Guidelines for the 16'000 people who manually organizes Google Search results [pdf]
> People are facing crippling student debt (depending on your country), one bad medical incident away from being homeless.

Both of these are U.S.
I don't get this sentiment. Just as the maintainer is allowed to do whatever they want with their project, random people on the internet can also warn other people about downsides of said project. Absolutely nothing GP said implied that they felt entitled to a feature.

It is useful information for potential users to know how the project works and if it might not fit them well. There's no contract or agreement between the maintainer and users. Users are free to talk about the project. As long as they don't demand anything I don't see the issue at all.
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> General Nathan Flynn recited a very strange prayer at one of his gatherings. Turns out it’s a prayer from the Church Universal and Triumphant

This is in the article.

As an aside, your repeated use of the word "cult" and the word "fascist" detracts from your comment. Both words have been diluted past all meaning, and using them together so frequently in just a few paragraphs induces a lot of cringing from anyone who is moderately familiar with either religious studies or political science. They're essentially just expletives at this point and don't add much meaning beyond intense disapproval.

The Silver Shirts were straight-up fascists. The other movements you refer to were right-wing nationalist movements but I see no evidence of most of the characteristics of fascism except that you try to paint them with the same brush by referring to a vague association between founders.
That factor is probably a big one in deciding who is homeless and who isn't. It's the main barrier, really.
Definitely in favor of simple rules, as they're harder to game, but not sure tax rate alone would be sufficient to redress (as it's also subject to accounting creativity).

Throwing ideas out there:

- Past a certain size, companies are prohibited from acquiring/merging with another company

- Past a certain size, companies are subject to data interoperability requirements (i.e. 'must have takeout'), with an independent team funded and dedicated to implementing requests, and penalties if they aren't released within a certain timeframe

The goal should be that e.g. "being Alphabet-sized" is not in Alphabet's own best interest, and it would be more beneficial to itself / its shareholders to break into multiple smaller companies that would be subject to less restriction but are independent.

And critically, the same requirements would apply to international companies doing business in the US.

So, increasing competition, but keeping the playing field level for all.
The social home is a great idea and I am glad to hear that it works. It would be interesting to compare social communication styles between people in the social home with social communication among extroverts (in another situation). I expect they are quite different but it would be good to know how they differ.
Yes I was referring to the verbing of "planimeter" which wasn't