skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's true at all.

Two reasons. The first, even ignoring that truth isn't necessarily widely agreed (is Donald Trump a raping fraud?), is that truth changes over time. eg is Donald Trump president? And presidents are the easiest case because we all know a fixed point in time when that is recalculated.

Second, Google's entire business model is built around spending nothing on content. Building clean pristinely labeled training sets is an extremely expensive thing to do at scale. Google has been in the business of stealing other people's data. Just one small example: if you produced (very expensive at scale) clean, multiple views, well lit photographs of your products for sale they would take those photos and show them on links to other people's stores; and if you didn't like that, they would kick you out of their shopping search. etc etc. Paying to produce content upends their business model. See eg the 5-10% profit margin well run news orgs have vs the 25% tech profit margin Google has even after all the money blown on moonshots.
It's not as intense as regular dryer lint. Seems to be like small bits of thread that fall off during the drying process (perhaps coming off during tumble wash and sticking to it while wet?). There's a pretty strong gust of air coming from the dryer. My unit came with panels fitted for the bathtub and instructions to use when drying, it's a bath/shower combo thing.
Google doesn't look like they're fine tuning anything other than revenue
It’s not hallucinations here, multiple of the ridiculous results can be directly traced to redit posts where people are joking or saying absurd things
But we already have space-karen-linux, it's called ubuntu.
solidarity: unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group

If the feeling or action is something you don't like, that doesn't detract it from its meaning.

But I am now curious, would you say that, because of this, the internet is a net negative? (Even after considering the 20 points I've listed earlier, well, 19 I guess?).
There's a few cartoons going around where they describe the effect of various drugs using graphical patterns, facial expressions, etc.

That's a rich vein for development. It could be generalized and optimized.

Because states of consciousness are so central to our ... everything.

And it's a subject that's difficult to discuss. I imagine well-designed models rendered with nice animations.

We could discuss drugs, dreams, focus, meditation, fiction...
Intent Level Programming Theory
I feel like there's some semantic slippage around the meaning of the word "accuracy" here.

I grant you, my print Encyclopedia Britannica is not 100% accurate. But the difference between it and a LLM is not just a matter of degree: there's a "chain of custody" to information that just isn't there with a LLM.

Philosophers have a working definition of knowledge as being (at least†) "justified true belief."

Even if a LLM is right most of the time and yields "true belief", it's not justified belief and therefore cannot yield knowledge at all.

Knowledge is Google's raison d'etre and they have no business using it unless they can solve or work around this problem.

† Yes, I know about the Gettier problem, but is not relevant to the point I'm making here.
Just curious, "Delivery" doesn't seem to be the same sort of thing as "Spam" and "Abuse": why are the three grouped?
I'm waiting for some clever hacker to come up some sort of logic bomb that causes the learning sets to become worthless.

Something innocuous to a non ai scientist human but is otherwise fatal to the LLM data sets.
Have we lived through the same pandemic?

People will absolutely insist their loved ones dying is a coincidence, as long as they can frame their action as standing up to the government (or whatever they hate).

All you need is someone describing the situation as the government holding a gun to your head and telling you to pasteurize your milk (YOUR milk!), or something like that.
That latter point might be illuminating for a number of additional ideas. Specifically, should people have questioned Google's credibility from the start? Ie: these are the search results, vs this is what google chose.

Google did well in the old days for reasons. It beat alta vista and Yahoo by having better search results and a clean loading page. Since perhaps 08 (based on memory, that date might be off) or so, Google has dominated search, to the extent that it's not salient that search engines can be really questionable. Which is also to say, google dominated, people lost sight that searching and googling are different, that gives a lot of freedom for enshittification without people getting too upset or even quite realizing - it could be different and better
That's true, it's a big difference. With nuclear war, every day that the sirens don't ring is the status quo protected, doom delayed by another day. With climate change, every day that the status quo is protected is another day of accelerating doom and increasing inevitability. They are different in that way.
Worry about whether or not you'll live in a slurry dystopia or die before old age as the planet cooks.
I liked him featuring OkGo in that film, since the vast majority of their music videos are product placement or other advertising.
Maybe GDP, consumption, and corporate profits are not correlated to human happiness.
It looks really decent - I'd call out to your students that once you get past the Advanced JS topics, you are firmly in the land of opinion, and you are teaching one common path, but not "the one and only" way of doing front-end dev. Because there is no such thing.
do you sleep walk outside all night?
Ah, makes more sense.
> disproving causation

If the sequence is: 1- study that shows correlation between X and Y 2- someone says "X causes Y" referencing the study

then it is appropriate to point out that correlation does not imply causation. X may cause Y but you can't claim it based on the correlation study only. The burden of proof is on you. Nobody needs to disprove causation here.
Post HK crackdown protesters partying in and shopping in PRC. Lot's of buy China movement generating domestic brands across the spectrum happening. IMO yes, PRC cultural catchet will increase, most next TWers will look at sinicized next gen HKers and realize being "another" priveleged Chinese city not so bad. More new TW democracy dysfunction reveals itself, i.e. sunflower kids getting lesson in majority rule now, more jaded people will realize systems matter less than progress. The force against this is cohort voting math + entire LIO+Authoritarian propaganda layer with 100s of western NGOs on the ground. IMO pro-TW identity/independance bloc going to be too loud and too large past 2049.
I think it may be due to some sort of "outcome compression". The life of working a bottom tier-job isn't materially better than a life of not working at all.

One solution I've been thinking of is that maybe there needs to be some kind of state-provided minimum life. Almost like opt in communism.

If you opt in then you get an 8h/day job automatically. Doesn't matter if you don't have any skills at all. The job will be guaranteed safe and non-humiliating (no sex work and if you are a vegetarian you don't have to work as a butcher etc). In exchange you get enough food, clothes and shelter to provide for yourself and children (assuming two incomes), entertainment (exchangable for cash equivalent), pension, health insurance, upskill opportunities, and some money on top. If you have negative net worth when enterring the program, your loans will gradually decrease (this could be done as some combination of the state paying them off for you and the loan giver being stiffed).

You can opt out at any time you want.
The Oldest Cyclotron
> And the only way it's possible is by having unsustainable immigration.

Shouldn’t have to be. If you raise TFR to 5 it should be completely feasible.
Got to love HN. "You clicked the download link wrong".
You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.
Yup, that’s the one I have! Mostly only use IntelliJ Ultimate and Datagrip.

Their subscription model also seems pretty clever to get me to renew every year. You get a perpetual license forever for the version that’s available during your subscription, but there’s also a “40% continuity discount”. Basically, as long as you renew it yearly, it’s 40% off from the standard price. $173 vs $289, which is imo allright for a tool you use often.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206386064-What...
What happened in WA when Bezos Left
I have already eaten rocks and glue, the AI had won.
I do agree with the grandparent, I was a bit surprised too in the last paragraphs that the article's solution to frontend overengineering is to unionize.

Though true, the articles doesn't go into 'capitalism = bad'.
> Yea, but the acceptability of adult children living at home with their parents has really changed since when I grew up.

For nearly all of american history, children ( adult or not ) stayed at home with their parents until they got married. Especially the daughters. Emily Dickinson's parents didn't kick her out when she turned 16 or 18 or 30 or 50. Emily Dickinson famously died in the same house she was born in.

> That was just what we did in the USA.

This is simply not true. At least not for the vast majority of american families. It is actually the opposite. Where parents wanted their kids to stay at home while changes in popular culture made kids want to venture out before they got married.

> My old man would have never accepted me living at home after high school

Even if that mean you sleeping in the streets? I doubt that.

If what you wrote is true, we'd have a far greater homeless population than we do. The idea that americans kicked out their kids after high school is nonsense. Sure parents would want their kids to get a job, go to college, etc after high school but only a tiny fraction of parents would kick their kids to the curb once they finished high school. Especially the daughters.

Just ask yourself, would you kick force your kids to live on the streets at 18? Of course not. Which parent would answer yes to that?
> Stock of accumulated capital is growing healthily

How are you defining "accumulated capital"? Because in wealth and income terms, inequality has only been growing [1]. Specifically, does accumulated capital include paper gains in housing values of your primary residence? If so, that's misleading.

Housing is a basic need. If you buy a house for $200k and it has gone up in value to $500k, you might say you've accumulated $300k in unrealized capital gains. Thing is, what would you do if you sold it? You'd still have to buy a house somewhere. And if every other house also costs $500k, what have you really gained? You might be paying higher property taxes, higher insurance costs and possibly higher mortgage costs.

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

I addressed this. People aren't saving for their future.

> GDP keeps growing just about everywhere

And who benefits from that? Let's say your wages have gone up 25% in real terms, where is that money going? If it's just more rent to your landlord, then you'e gained nothing and someone else is simply exploiting more of the value you've created.

> Even inequality is falling for the first time in decades

No, it's not. See the link.

> We are probably living through best times in our lifetime

By pretty much any objective measure, we peaked in about 1972. Since then real wages have largely stagnated and the quality of life has gone down.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
I think they are more than aware but will magically disappear after cashing their stock just about the point the bubble pops. Don't forget that the AI industry is almost 100% based on hype. Microsoft will be the largest victim here, their entire product portfolio being turned into a nuclear fallout zone almost overnight. Satya and friends are going to trash the whole org.

I regularly speak to laypeople who assume that it's some magical thing without limits that makes their lives better. They are also 100% unaware of any applications that will actually make their lives better. End game occurs when those two disconnected thoughts connect and they become disinterested. The power users and engineers who were on it a year ago are either burned out or finding the limitations a problem as well now. There is only magical thinking, lies and hope left.

Granted there are some viable applications but they are rather less overstated than anything we have no and there are even negative side effects of those (think image classification, which even if it works properly, requires human review and there are psychological and competence things problems around that too).
I am surprised to hear about the high statistics of tumble dryer usage in the US compared to us europeans.

I mean, it looks to me like people tend to have more space on average in the USA, why wouldn't they want to prefer to dry their clothes outdoor and makes them last longer? Even when I owned a tumble drier, I only used it for emergencies or wet days. I also found out that on wet days a deshumidifier in a large room was still better for the longevity of my clothes than tumble drying.
If we’re doing pedantry Olympics then the definition of server:

“a computer or computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network”

Seems like it could apply to a discord group. The centralized resource being chat data.
Chinese wall
Battling with songs and shows is far better than battling with guns and bombs.

Those who have visited Ukraine will know quite how many free art galleries, sculptures, children's playgrounds etc all had EU, Russia and even USA flags on a little plaque saying "Proudly sponsored by...". The cultural war predated the traditional war by 20+ years. You can see the same cultural war in the '-stan' countries, Georgia , etc today. I
I think they were responding to the general claim that clinical trials can’t be faked, not the specific one from the article.
Now it’ll be a matter of time before Reddit gets an order of magnitude more bots and spam.
The whole "no binary blob" argument has always felt very arbitrary to me.

Everyone seems fine with read-only firmware permanently burned into chips during production. It is part of the hardware, so it would be silly to treat it like software. Most people seem fine with firmware stored on in-device flash chips. It's basically the same story as before, only it might in some cases be able to update that firmware.

But then you get to devices which store their firmware in-memory and it's suddenly a problem - even if it's exactly the same software the device would otherwise be loading from a ROM area or flash chip. Why the sudden shift? And then there are even people who are fine with their CPU executing its burned-in microcode, but updating that very same microcode with a blob during bootup is suddenly a deadly sin? I just don't get it.

I get the appeal of a system which only runs open-source code and which is provably free of any kind of backdoors or restrictions, but that fight was already lost when Intel's 8086 and Motorola's 68k entered the market. I don't think there has ever been a truly "free" computer which wasn't a toy project, so why intentionally kneecap your daily compute experience?
Two talks on multi-size transparent page performance in Linux
You need to provide some empirical evidence demonstrating what is the true root cause of the increase in mental health problems then.
Diagnosed at 40, suffered from it since teenage years, always treated for depression/anxiety. Started treatment with Vyvanse, now stopping with SSRI's because they were treating side effects not the root cause.

I'd suggest you get tested by more than one doctor and seek medication. It'll help but it won't fix your old habits and how your brain has been wired up to this point. But medication will at least give you a chance to create some mental space to notice things and try to change them.

You're are who you're. Acceptance also helps. Being neurodivergent is not bad, it's different.

I wish I had been diagnosed decades ago, but where I live ADHD was considered something you grew out of, or didn't exist, or.. so at 40 in my session with the ADHD dcotor, I said the same things I told other doctors decades ago and they never connected it to ADHD, unfortunately.
If you're in a region that google defaults to another language, &hl=en (or another language code) is very useful. Nowadays I mainly use it for the maps site, but I've used it elsewhere before when I couldn't struggle through a website in another language. It's very hard to get it into certain google products, like recaptcha. So I have to learn the words for what it wants clicked.

I don't know if parsing the Accept-Language header is too slow, or if google's trying to encourage people to log in to an account.
our baseline entertainments are better than the long tail of negative interactions one persists through to get to the great ones. in doomscrolling vs. disappointment, more people are picking doomscrolling.

older than the examples, but I have done this. live alone on a large rural property, walden style, tech comp no family, have online interactions for remote work, old irc channels, take some sport, fitness, and music training as kind of weekly rhythm, family lives in other time zones. it was an ideal I thought I could achieve and then have it to share with others. relationships and friendships with any personal connection or intimacy still manage to fail, lots of reasons but I'm the constant. only way to sustain anything is to keep it at a polite distance with no expectations.

issue i suspect is that meaning comes from the cohering and persistence of relationships, and without that persistent mutual understanding, meaning just seeps away and leaves a flat state of inertia. no advice other than to avoid this example. I sympathize with these young people, it's as though they don't see a present or future in which there is meaning for them, or in which they are a participant, and so they are just withdrawing and waiting for the next life instead of engaging this one. it's a unique and recently invented trap, avoid it as best you can.
It’s not a trick to sound sophisticated. Hallucinations are more like a subcategory of bugs. The system is technically correctly generating, structuring, and presenting false information as fact.
In the same vein of interesting experiments on weird cables:

ADSL on wet string: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
Honestly, my dog is my savior. I take her to the park every evening. This gets me out into the evening sun, walking, and around like-minded people. The fact that I can interact with a group of people without scheduling an "event" is great. We just show up. For me it's mostly the other dogs (puppy therapy), but it's nice to exchange a few words and talk to someone about their day while the dogs run around.

The two mile walk to the lake is also key. I find a morning stretch and kettle bell routine, and an evening walk keeps me mentally and physically in tune. And it's practically free, unlike modern healthcare.
This is a really cool idea! Apart from illegal acts though, I wonder if it actually solves the societal gravity problem. I can imagine someone going “yeah I paid $$$ for this thing that’s a societal bad, what are you going to do about it?”

Maybe it still strikes the right balance while being more palatable to implement than a real wealth cap.
The deniers simply morphed from "it's fake" to "it's unavoidable."
Question, how would you know without invading the user's privacy?
Strongest Solar Storm in 20 Years Did Little Damage, but Worse Weather Is Coming
When you are a teenager it is so easy to treat your time as if it is unlimited and start sinking 1000s of hours into some MMO or other games that before you know it you are in your 20s with no girlfriend, job, skill or self-confidence.

Then you got Japanese entertainment like Hatsune Miku, idols and visual novels/anime that take advantage of lonely people with make-believe girlfriends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

"Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk - that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh - a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs."

...

"Vashanti's next move was to turn off the isolation switch, and all the accumulations of the last three minutes burst upon her. The room was filled with the noise of bells, and speaking-tubes. What was the new food like? Could she recommend it? Has she had any ideas lately? Might one tell her one's own ideas? Would she make an engagement to visit the public nurseries at an early date? - say this day month."
OpenXrypt 0.3.5 Release Notes: Encryption for X and WhatsApp Groups
Well, not so much that, but because they are so detached from reality that they see something dystopian and think “this is good, actually”.

Probably many people do this to some extent, and it can be fairly harmless (for instance, Isaac Asimov apparently did not realise that people found the world-spanning arcologies found in Foundation (Trantor) and his detective novels (Earth) crushingly dystopian until after the fact). But when it crosses over with money and influence, it can be concerning.
Hmm yeah I kinda like the concept that it's "hallucinating" 100% of the time, and it just so happens that x% of those hallucinations accurately describe the real world.
For terminology in Scheme, rather than "TCO", some people have suggested "PITCH" (Proper Implementation of Tail Call Handling).

I think the reason for different terminology might be that, in most languages, TCO is the compiler thinking, "Oh, I see the programmer is doing recursion here, and I can actually optimize that particular one; though they'll probably never know, just like they don't know that their program is fast because of how I do register allocation and inlining; just another underappreciated silent optimization, but I take pride in my work, and don't need external validation."

In Scheme, the compiler instead is thinking, "OK, those language designers encouraged programming with recursion in place of iteration constructs, and told everyone about tail position, and guaranteed that could not exhaust resources, so I'd better compile this entire named-`let` correctly, if I want to keep my job."
Well yeah imagine how much money there is to make in information when you can cut literally everyone else involved out, take all of the information and sell it with ads and only give people a link at the bottom, if that is even needed at all
This a great write-up and similar to an approach that I stumbled upon a few years ago. Have you thought about HTMXing this approach to get away from full page renders?
Interesting, was the impetus for change some big issue you've run into? Or just a gradual accumulation of knowledge about other people experiences made you reconsider? Or something else?
It's an android device. There are already guides online for customising it using ADB. (mostly to get it to work without a premium account)
This is analogous to the Apple Maps launch failure.

Except that Apple competes to make the best smartphone, and an iPhone was still valuable without Apple Maps.

What happens to Google if it stops being able to compete in search?
How does copyleft license work in this case? Aren't they legally required to open-source their sources and publish it publicly or can they hide that behind a request system?