skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whenever I discovered LucasArts (DOTT I think was first), Legend of Kryndaria, Discworld, etc, it was such a breath of fresh air.

Discworld MUD or some other game? The MUD is still alive and well!
From here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461634
It'd be hilarious if it can be memed into not knowing Obama's Middle Name
eric weinstein is not from the dark enlightenment (the neoreactionaries who want to re-establish monarchy) but the intellectual dark web ('a term used to describe some commentators who oppose identity politics, political correctness, and cancel culture'). i know the culture war can be confusing, and it's hard to keep all the subversive factions straight
Again, I'd encourage you to actually give it a try. It's quick, and I think it would give you some insights into the things people are actually saying and why they're saying them.
Aircraft are also designed to reduce weight as much as possible.

Imagine measuring computer hardware output by weight.
Why do I have the sensation Sundar Pichai is currently updating his CV?
this was genuinely my favorite video of theirs since I first saw it in 2018.

that software developer feeling
It also may not be as blatant or as obvious as sponsored results are now. It could be mixed in seamlessly.
It seems that Apple never truly deletes users' photos. Everything that has ever existed in our albums remains permanently stored in Apple's cloud. This so-called 'fix' merely prevents users from rediscovering this unsettling fact, rather than actually removing the deleted photos from their cloud storage. This raises important questions: Why is Apple retaining these photos? What is the purpose behind keeping this data indefinitely? Transparency and user trust are paramount, and users deserve clear answers regarding their data privacy.
I wonder if the people drawn to some positions are not for what it entails.

For example, I know several people who work for the government, not so much because they want to help the people, but because it is a stable steady job.
Can you make a 60fps paper monitor? I want to have a giant ones of those setup on my desk as a Xerox Alto-style display for my terminal sessions.
List of Controversies Involving GoDaddy
If they held off for 6 months no one would have known and SBF would still be a hero. I wonder how many billionaires are in the exact same situation.
Ah, I think it's just a misunderstanding, then.

Confidently != consistently. If I walk up to someone and say "there are lots of ripe apples on the tree outside, I'm going to run out and grab some", then that is me confidently stating that there are ripe apples on the tree outside (regardless of whether it is true or not). But if half an hour later, I say the opposite, or even just don't mention it at all anymore, then I haven't done so consistently, even if I was saying it confidently before.
We should just delegate LLMs to note taking and move on with something actually useful that we can devote human hours to. Like space exploration.
It's not a person. When it "says" something confidently, that just means it's predicted a string that, interpreted by humans, appears confident. It's completely unrelated to whether the output values of the model are "confident" (highly contrasting).

A predictive text system, driven non-deterministically, can "confidently" say one thing some of the time, and "confidently" say a completely different thing. It probably will, if it "knows" that the expected output should be something said confidently.
Excited for this, have tried out various e-ink things previously and the fast refresh seems like a game changer. Any chance a color version will be possible with this tech? Also - larger (monitor size) screens? I'd love to use this for coding outdoors as well as reading.
It's good if you really don't want your LLM to mention specific things, which I can see some groups wanting. Having it mention some things even when they're not related could be good for integrated ads in a chatbot, which sounds evil in that it would be really annoying. Your friend's account gets hacked, a chatbot LLM is finetuned on their message history, it's able to carry on a conversation while slipping in a mention of Joe's Hot Dogs every now and then.

It probably also could help with consistency when trying to do LangChain-type stuff.
'Crystal clear' Europe needs Starlink-like satellite program, says ESA director
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-prog...
What are a few examples of "traditional stoner societies," especially on a country scale?
Recommends adding glue to Pizzas as well to stop the cheese sliding off :

https://x.com/PixelButts/status/1793387357753999656
Practical Statistics in Medicine with R
In Canada once income goes up to certain levels you stop receive those payments. And even in full the amount is laughable comparing to what my wife loses.

It's a lot easier for the government to just pay people who really want kids IMO. Now how to define that...
The USSR probably couldn't have won without the US, and the US probably couldn't have won without the USSR
< 10mW, including radio

Does it mean radio is using portion of this 10mW? If so, how much?
Yes, a missle gigafactory is impressive pre war. The USA will remove that single factory within the first weeks of any conflict. China better have large stockpiles if their strategy includes gigafactories.
Supply Chain Data Maturity
King's Quest 8 (Mask of Eternity) is a terrible game. King's Quest is an adventure game series. It is known for hand-drawn 2D character sprites moving over hand-drawn 2D backgrounds, collecting items and solving inventory puzzles.

This entry in the series tried to "modernize" it by adding in 3D graphics and RPG-like combat elements, which completely went against everything the series stood for. The 3D graphics were around N64 quality and aged very poorly.

It's considered to be a game that killed off the whole Adventure game genre.
Why would he ever have to work a day in his life again?
My public high school offered a combined physics-math course (basically two different teachers and courses that coordinated with each other), and it was definitely an excellent way to learn calculus.

We learned derivatives for mechanics around the same time as limits for calc. So everything in calc was properly motivated. I think we moved into E&M around the same time as we got into integrals in calc. We had done basic integrals in the mechanics portion of physics, but got into it formally in calculus and into trickier applications in E&M.

IIRC, the class as a whole did very well on the AP exams. I’m often frustrated by courses that don’t offer similar motivation for math concepts. I think it makes the material far more interesting.
Is this really make sense?
you don't happen to play factorio do you?
> boochiboo12: yup yes, we will release a bootloader unlock tool so you can do whatever you want

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834#40460036

> our goal is to be DIY friendly, so we included things i've always wanted in a tablet like:

> - microSD card expandable - pogo pins for custom accessories (ie cyber deck FTW) - 2 extra physical buttons you can custom map

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834#40458954
>When vision was available (Jimmy Carter and solar panels on the White House comes to mind) ...

The panels installed on the White House were not photovoltaic solar panels - they were solar water heater panels.

>...(Regan tearing them down...).

The panels had to be removed due to roof repairs that had to be made. Solar water heaters were probably never a good match for the needs of the west wing. I think the Bush administration added solar water heaters for a pool, which seems more reasonable.
A strong likelihood of an historic hurricane season is news. At a minimum it alerts people in hurricane areas to plan ahead.
Why do I have the sensation Sundar Pichai is preparing to spend more time with his family?
Not sure if it's strictly the recruiting pool that made things break down, but I see it more as a result of COVID/WFH + the recruiting pool. Google's strong in-office culture once helped new joiners learn the culture and challenge others in a respectful way - now it's a political minefield.

Remote work is great, but it probably accelerated Google's culture decline. If you've been there a while, you'll notice the wild difference in employee attitudes when comparing pre-2019 employees to post 2020 employees.
Is Google's CEO a double agent sent by Facebook or OpenAI? He appears to be determined to destroy a multi billion dollar company with this garbage.
googled a few minor golang pkg things today, about 10% of them were right.
Yeah and this is where I honestly don't understand (and am suspicious of) the VC firm's take on this.

My cofounder is happy with this, I'm happy with this. We have tiebreaking and vesting built into the equation so there's no gridlock and no one can leave the company high and dry. And neither one of has complaints about each others' commitment (nights weekends, etc you name it we are "all in" and that is our expectation).

Furthermore we worked nights and weekends on this as a "project" for months before even incorporating so did not go into the equity split just on a whim.

It seems like in the cited examples all of these things were missing on some level. TLDR if someone isn't performing and there is cause to fire them that already exists and shifts the power balance significantly towards the CEO.
And here we see how Google management discovers what their researchers have been saying for quite a while now: you can’t get any long tail “intelligence” out of a model that fits on a single TPU host.

For comparison, here’s GPT4o: “Eating rocks is not safe or recommended for humans. Rocks are not digestible and can cause serious harm to your digestive system, including blockages, perforations, and other injuries. If you have cravings for non-food items, this might be a condition called pica, which requires medical attention. It's best to consult a healthcare professional for proper guidance.”
Womp: Browser-Based 3D Modeling
I have also only scanned, but I agree I didn't see somewhere he outright says he still believes Wright as of the deposition date in 2020.

I think these might be some of the strongest statements people are talking about:

* Page 88 in 590/5:

7 A Sitting here today, I think it's more
8 likely than not that I saw a proper signature, but
9 I -- but I do have some doubt.

* Page 163 in 590/5:

5 A I meant that he bamboozled me about the
6 gobbledygook proof, but I still think it's most
7 likely that he did not bamboozle me during the
8 signing ceremony.

From my viewpoint on the sidelines, these are too irrationally close to endorsing Wright as Satoshi, because they cling to some hazy jetlagged memories in a hotel that looked like a real signature, over every other sign pointing to Wright being a fraud.

I feel for Mr. Andresen -- the signature may have just barely been 50.5% credible to him and he can't arrive at another conclusion on it in isolation. But with all the other evidence, I suppose a lot of people feel like his refusal to clearly denounce Wright may as well be continued support.

Also, according to his blog post at http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi , it took until 2023 for him to state "I now know it was a mistake to trust Craig Wright as much as I did" (excerpted), yet he still doesn't outright denounce him. Maybe my original statement that Mr. Andresen believed him for years was not quite correct, but if he let his website support Wright for years (2016-2023), it's too close to a continuing endorsement.

(I regret having jumped into this earlier with such a strong statement, when I didn't really know.)
An an Enterprise customer, I've got a great CloudFlare story: May 8, 2024 one of our Workers stopped functioning completely when a single string was edited in the code. Rolling back to a previous version gave a "Script not found" error. Replacing all code with the previous version and saving the Worker continued to result in the same error. Being an Enterprise customer, we were not worried and simply opened up an "urgent" ticket.

A first-level agent escalates the ticket.
- 24 hours passes with no response or update. A response is requested.
- 72 hours pass with no response or update. A response is requested.
- 120 hours pass and an email is sent to our account manager with details on the ticket, begging for help. No response.
- 144 hours pass with no response or update. A response is requested, making note of the fact that we are an Enterprise customer.
- The next day, I sent another email to our account manager, hoping for some contact. Again, nothing.
- The same first-level agent responds that it is still "in process" with no details on what is being done.
- Another 2 days pass with no response. A response is requested.
- I request an emergency callback via the support portal.
- Another agent looks at the ticket and determines the original request was "misdirected."
- Another day passes with no resolution, but a quick update from the second agent stating it's "still in process."
- Four more days pass with no update or resolution.
- Desperate, I create a new Worker and connect it to the original KV stores, but some problems persist. Still no resolution.

Contemplate your options carefully if you plan to run production workloads with CloudFlare! I still have yet to hear back from anyone with support or resolution.
That may be the end product from all of this which is quite scary because trillions of dollars moving into this.
Serious question - why is space exploration worth devoting the massive amount of man hours and natural resources to? What's the real gain that is worth using those resources for space exploration, or not using the resources at all?
Uh, war profiteers were a thing.

The general vibe was if you made a shitty product and it got your fellow countrymen killed, someone would track you down and make you pay for it though.
If she uses a lot of hot water, consider solar water heaters or on-demand (tankless) water heaters, which can be more efficient than traditional models.
The Soviets had 40,000 nuclear warheads, which didn't enable them to achieve any kind of dominance over the US or Europe.
I was ready to enter my credit card number but there's no shipping to Japan.
Ask HN: How Do You Guys Distinguish AI Products?
Hey everyone,

I'm a product manager for a software company, and I find myself browsing platforms like Product Hunt daily. Lately, I've noticed a significant trend: almost all the new products are AI-related, with many claiming to be AI assistants.

I'm curious, how do you guys distinguish between these AI products? What criteria or features do you look for to determine if an AI product is genuinely innovative or just riding the AI wave?

Also, what are your thoughts on the proliferation of AI products? Do you think this trend is sustainable, or are we headed for an AI bubble?

Looking forward to hearing your insights!

Thanks!
It's still my dedicated phone.

Works quite well mostly still.

Why not yours if you don't have very high expectations?
Google's AI went from far-left to far-right in like a month.
>It'd be hilarious if it can be memed into not knowing Obama's Middle Name

What does this have to do with anything being discussed here?
You would have to try VERY hard to drink too much water. Every one of all ages can benefit from staying hydrated.
> I extract then inside an empty subdirectory in my home first

... AFTER a "tvf[jzx]", I hope
which is based on a reddit post created by "fucksmith" [1]

[1] https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-f...
The Milgram experiment, for all its faults, shows how evil can manifest from the banal.

It is not enough to defer to authority. It is not enough to go with the flow. It is not enough to support the status quo. ALL of these things can lead to extremely evil end results.

An individual must stand up and explicitly say "No. This is wrong. I will not do this. I will not promulgate this."
Is there an alternate control system other than sticks? Looking for the mouse-keyboard combo
Just out of interest and if it's not too personal, what's your age/generation? I'm in my mid twenties and I don't have any peers that couldn't more or less always read analog clocks as far as they remember.

edit: I just googled it and apparently New Math was during the 1950s-1970s. This confuses me even further since reading an analog clock seems even more important in those times?
I'm beginning to suspect that Bing's "copilot" sends some questions out for human review. When I ask something sensitive but not that common, sometimes there's no reply at all for over a minute.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-eff...
Abell clusters are really cool to image if you can see some of the closer ones. The deer tick galaxies are really neat
Oh boy talk about inviting yourself to IP lawsuits galore. While it’s nice thought and in many cases probably impractical (returning source information that far down the rabbit hole), even if it were possible and practical it would be against a business operating these services best interests.
"Cracked Tooth Syndrome" lol

I wonder who signed off on moving this shit into production, and just how many promotions they've already received.
> I don't know about other folks in these positions, but if I were to read discussion like this, I'd roll my eyes and close the thread.

I'm loathe to reply because I know you don't want to engage anymore, but I think it's fair to reply to your reply on this point:

I'm sure you're right that the people involved in this will be defensive and roll their eyes, and I'm sympathetic to that human reaction, but it's also why society at large will continue along this path of thinking we suck.

If we roll our eyes at their legitimate criticism of all this sleazy stuff that is going on, then they're just right to criticize us.

And sure, "we shouldn't care if people at large think we suck because we roll our eyes at their criticism of our sleaziness" is a totally valid response to that. But I'm certainly not going to take up our cause against the inevitable backlash, in that case.

> This "bubble" that you speak of is literally just a bubble created by journalists.

I don't think so. I'm honestly sympathetic to how you've become convinced of that by the California Forever thing, which I agree has gotten a raw deal in the press. But I think this tech / SV / HN bubble is nonetheless a real thing. I work inside that bubble but live outside it. I spend a decent amount of time during my days reading and (often foolishly, like today) commenting on threads here.

But I spend a lot of my evenings and weekends with friends and family (in Colorado) who are very distant from our "scene". And I'm telling you, in my twenty year career, I have lived this evaluation from from "the internet is so awesome, google search is amazing, you know how to do software, that's so cool!" to "I don't know how you can stomach working in that industry". Sure, the media has had some impact on this, but we've also been super arrogant, have screwed up tons of stuff that is visible and salient to lots of people, and have seemed completely oblivious to this.

This episode is just one more example of that trend, and I think it's crazy to think "nah, this is all fine, nothing to see here".
In a similar vein, when reading this comments I can't help but think of the use of "motor" as a verb, as in "you're motoring, what's your price for flight?"
I think AWS is aware of this. Which is why they have instances with attached SSD’s
> he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof.

cf Kolmogorov, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40444641
Anecdotally I've noticed adding electrolytes seems to help reduce the incidence of headaches and possibly migraines, at least according to what my family members say.

n=2
Show HN: SQL Pizza – SQL Beautifier
Hey HN!
I built this SQL formatter tool primarily for personal use. It comes in handy when I'm investigating large queries from New Relic, or whenever using the browser is the quickest option. I figured others might find it helpful too!

I swear I'm not collecting anything that you type there, but I'll link the Github repository at some point. :D

It's HIGHLY inspired on https://json.pizza, I don't know the reference behind the ".pizza", I just think it's easy to memorize.
Coffee press.
Wait... [the following did not happen here]

But imagine if one day Google jumped the shark and did some training on some of its other properties only it could have access to in order to glean better information?

Remember when MS made ham-fisted fun of Google's free mail service because google scanned clear-text portions of mail messages supposedly for better ad-targeting?
I am 100% convinced that "traditional" Google search moved to come kind of embeddings distance, LLM based algorithm at some point in the last 12 months.

I've noticed a distinct change in the results where now what I get back seems MUCH more related to "semantic similarity" with my search query I actually entered.

Great examples of this are when you search for a highly common topic, but specifically related to a highly niche sub-variant or focus area.

"Old" Google would have hooked into the edge-case as being a critical part of the query and zeroed in on that specificity (which you wanted), whereas now it will just go "these results were semantically similar to 95% of your search query, therefore they must be most relevant" - totally ignoring that the 5% it ignored was the critical differentiator.

Another way to trigger this behaviour really easily is to look for a contrarian view on something widely discussed by adding "not" or "doesn't" into the query. Google will just straight up ignore your input, returning a tonne of results that are 95% semantic matches for the words you used, but missing that ONE tiny point where you were searching for literally the opposite of what it returned.
Seems like it’d be trivial for Google to remove the Onion from their round of pretraining.
I'm guessing the signoff came directly from the top in response to shareholders worried that GOOG is losing the race to MSFT
A lot of dudes legitimately don't know that's what it's for, or they don't understand just how many little splashes happen, or are too grossed out to touch public toilets, therefore feed into the spiraling feedback of desecration.
That makes a lot of sense. Lightweight mixed reality glasses could definitely drive the adoption of 3D apps for productivity. It's exciting to think about how this technology could change our work environments.
I think they are terrified of GenAI eliminating people's desire to do traditional web searches. It's basically the quick answers Google has been offering for years, but much more in depth and complete (if correct).

My dad has been talking a lot about how he wants to start using ChatGPT more instead of Google, and he thinks is going to make his life much better.
Any brands/products you recommend? I've done Liquid IV, but they can get costly and not sure if its just because they are a brand name at this point
Build your database on Kubernetes with KubeBlocks
I'm gonna counter the other comments that try to justify this somehow, and say:

I agree with you, and it's not faster. With the risk of sounding old (get off my lawn): I assure you the megabytes of unneeded Javascript they're downloading to the client are ten times slower to execute than the milliseconds they may be saving on the wire.
It's just a phase....Any sufficiently advanced civilization, after a while, will give up on space exploration. Maybe send a few probes here and there, to collect some extra rocks missing from their collection.

There is only so many Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Nebulas, Planets and Comets to study and after you have studying a few million, they all look the same. Once you've seen one supermassive black hole bend light and time, you've seen them all.

You will grow out of it....
On Pixel phone, there is a Digital Wellbeing setting that can turn your screen into Greyscale mode during bedtime. It is said to discourage the use of social networks and helps you sleep better.