skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What surprised me in the article was

> “The goal of our Car Thing exploration in the U.S. was to learn more about how people listen in the car,” the company said in an emailed statement to TechCrunch.

The goal was not to build a consumer device for users who actually wanted to use the damned thing! So it apparently was never about demand to begin with, it was a learning exercise. Apparently the RLHF was so disastrous it only took 5 months to train this feature out of Spotify's business plan.
As someone old enough to remember when VI was occasionally all caps, XEmacs was cool, no thanks.
All companies do that, that wasn't the question.
Actually that is not true:

Concerts could be rescheduled or cancelled, and emails would be the only easy to contact customers for arrangements like refunds.

Similar for online shopping, and in addition, emails could be used for notifying product recalls or class action resolution.

While these cases are relatively rare, it illustrates it is hard to know when an email is "done" -- it could be useful after a purchase itself, or even long after a transaction has finished.
be careful here. you may end up spending too much time organizing your notes, and too little time getting things done.
Didn't Peter Norvig used to be director of search quality? And now Head of research? Maybe they should bring him back to increase that search quality.
Cherry picking when proven wrong.
This is a really good list.

One that I'd add is The Log, the essay that lead to Kafka: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Lessons from the trenches on reproducible evaluation of language models
Feed and Blogrolls Discovery
The voice is different enough that anyone who listens to samples longer than 5 seconds side by side and says they can’t tell them apart is obviously lying.

All the reporting around this I’ve seen uses incredibly short clips. There are hours of recorded audio of SJ speaking and there are lots of examples of the Sky voice out there since it’s been around since September.
This was inevitable. Traditional search is an inefficient way to access information in a world with large AI models. Google is being forced to do this due to competition from openAI, meta.ai, perplexity, etc.
I have a different perception, really. They are promoting more the Reddit results in the last months and, at least for me, I'm able to find faster what I want.
> Fontana police spokespersons and lawyers for the city did not respond to inquiries on Friday and have not said whether any officers faced disciplinary action. Lawyers for officers David Janusz and Jeremey Hale, who conducted parts of the the interrogation, did not respond to inquiries. A third officer involved in the interrogation, Kyle Guthrie, who was not a named as a defendant, could not be reached.

"whether" they faced disciplinary action, really? How is this even a question?
> That's IRC.

IRC is the other one, not the only one. However, Discord is eating its lunch in these days, sadly.
> A spokesperson for Google tells the BBC that the company only launches changes to Search after rigorous testing confirms that the shift will be helpful for users, and that the company gives website owners help, resources and opportunities for feedback on their Search rankings.

If you believe this I've got a bridge to sell you. The idea that Google does anything other than to improve its bottom line (in the _shortest_ possible timeline) is lunacy. Just look at Google constant short-sightedness and their parasitic ad team pushing the search team (before taking it over effectively) to find ways to increase the searches (which means a worse user experience).

Of course Google doesn't care about quality sites, they care about what makes them the most money, the user be damned. Anyone with an ounce of morality or care about the actual user experience was run out or relegated long ago.
>heat dissipation is directly proportionaly to speed.

Power limiting Nvidia GPUs up to around 60% of max TDP can offer a substantial reduction to heat and noise with minimal performance loss, but agreed on everything else.
If it is said in ignorance, there is no need to view it as an attack that you need to make them pay for with embarrassment.
There's a great video with excellent visualizations by 3Blue1Brown that illustrates what's happening here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U557j6HE
I'm using an M1 MBA and was considering getting an eGPU instead of buying a PC, would you advise against it? What variables would you consider?
So I'm normally skeptical of the anecodata you see on HN and elsewhere ("Google is now useless, I switched to DuckDuckGo 23 years ago") but it seems like Google has done rather big things here:

1. Greatly increased the weight of doamin authority. This... seems desperate;

2. Increased the weight of reddit. Google have probably noticed how many people add "reddit" or "site:reddit.com" to search terms. I do this too. It's true for a lot of topics with all the AI-bot and affiliate astroturfing out there, Reddit can often be the only source for genuine commentary.

But Reddit has a dirty little secret: it's really easy to complete change the content and character of a subreddit. You see this on controversial topics. It only takes 100-200 people (or less with bots) to completely transform a subreddit.

User generated content sites have techniques to find socket puppets, brigading and the like but it's an arms race. 80% of my Tiktok follows come from crypto scam and p0rn bots. I imagine Twitter is the same way. The bots continue to get better too. Those same algorithms can be used to keep bot activity below the threshold for detecting voting rings.

So Google's increased reliance on Reddit will probably escalate the astroturfing and botting on Reddit and honestly, I don't think Reddit is up to the job of defending against this.
The models are sold as being accurate. Techie-types know the limitations but they are not the average population.
Indoor what? My grandmother didn't have none. I used to help her bring fresh water every morning from a nearby well.
I think GP may be referring to CROs who generally do most of the ops of a clinical trial. Their incentive isn’t to have positive results though, it’s to milk the trial contract (cost plus contracting w/ ~no incentive to operate them quickly and efficiently) and then to have the results never get disputed by FDA. A CRO that fakes data is a CRO that will not survive very long.

Agreed on all your other points though, GP has no clue what they’re talking about.
I find the idea of “AI art” ok, but something about Dall-E 3 specifically just riles me up.

It seems like OpenAI went out of their way to make everything generated look a certain way, while that’s clearly not a limitation of GANs in general.

It makes every single blog look like they have the same illustrator, which I really dislike.
I’ve tried PII anonymization with standard NLP approaches and LLMs have been (way) better at this task in my experience.
How to Remove Useless Localizations
That reminds me of Neverhood, a stop-motion adventure game released in the 90's.
If you can prove it works you won't have any difficulty raising capital.
Or the executive/management team could start using Google search themselves so they can see how bad the results are for their users. Pretty common to dogfeed in the software business yet Google seems to ignore this approach.
Don't go for the more niche distro's. The majority of them are based off of another (better supported, more stable) distro with slight changes in configuration that don't matter most of the time.

Linux Mint is probably the only exception I'd make to this rule, because they have been around for long enough and have proven themselves to be stable.

I am not familiar with the Android development ecosystem, so if you are in need of relatively recent packages (<1 year old) the most suitable distros would be rolling release distros like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch (although that one requires quite a bit of setup).

Stay away from Manjaro and Pop as they have a history of breaking packages, and in the case of Pop not contributing upstream and causing drama.
Shareholder ROI is all you need to know that they won’t let Norvig decide anything outside purely tech stuff.
> Meanwhile, Duckduckgo still provides decent results in my experience.

I’ve been using ddg since around 2016, but in the past few months I realize that brave gives me better results and Kagi even still better. So I’m switching to brave/Kagi combo. Brave for when i need to find easy stuff and Kagi when really need to find something.
WARNING: Process voids warranty!
hahaha
Where can I buy an ipv4 address?
I doubt if this could work, I'd reckon policing it would be a nightmare. I agree with hunglee's point that it's draconian and authoritarian.

Nevertheless there seems to be a problem even if that's not the way to resolve it.

It's hard for me to put myself in the shoes of kids today as I'm several generations removed but in hindsight I'm glad that I grew up without a smartphone. It's not the dangers that would have worried me (although I accept they're real), but it's the distraction I'd likely suffer—there's just too many interesting things to read about on the internet. (As a kid I spent a great deal of time playing and exploring outdoors and it seems to me that if I'd owned a phone this time may have been considerably reduced.)
What a title, could just as well have been "major neurotransmitter affects brain function".
I had high hopes for 1Password's integration with Fastmail and their masked email feature. Unfortunately I've seldom had it work properly and 1Password never prompts me to create a masked email when creating a new account for something.
At this point why not interact with an LLM to get a better base understanding? Disagreeing with someone more knowledgable whose answers you can't properly grok isn't a great way to learn, surely?
> We do not share, sell, or disclose any personal information or email content to third parties, except as required by law or as necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety.

This policy claims to protect your privacy but allows them to share your data broadly, including with anyone they see fit to protect their own interests, effectively offering no real privacy guarantee.
I searched for how to use a massage ball (my back hurts) last week and got a giant page full of ads and ad-like sections for buying one with barely any articles at all. That is not a search engine; it's an ads engine.
The internet is not 10000x as bad. The models we are discussing basically ARE the internet but you only get a one-paragraph summary with no sources or context.
Also “your own maps” seem to be OpenStreetMaps in the example.
Well I'd say that Instagram was yet another inflection point, where relationships with strangers returned in parasocial many-to-one form, in place of the one-on-one intimacy afforded by ICQ.

At the time of ICQ, chat programs were the sole means of discovering and connecting to people, and allowed people to connect to strangers based on location. I made real life friends, who I met in person on ICQ. I suppose this kind of connection might still happening on game servers and Discord servers, but certainly, it isn't the dominant mode.

As for Facebook being 'visual': Facebook in it's earlier incarnations was just status updates, and mobile phone cameras were still pretty clunky (or non-existant). Instagram took off because it's filters turned otherwise ugly low-fidelity photos into something appealing.
Teenage Engineering Designed a Barcelona Factory to Build Its New Sampler
I do like the competition starting to happen again. A lot of the articles seem to concentrate on how Google should do better. But there are so many sites that any change they do will break someone random. With best possible checks, it's just not realistic that there will be no mistakes.

We'd be better with 5 players doing things slightly differently. Nobody would get completely wiped by a single change.
They’d have to prove the voice actor was imitating SJ. If OpenAI recorded the entire interview process as well as the sessions where they recorded the actor for samples to steer the model with then it should be open and shut. There’s also the fact of the 4 other voices. Who are they meant to be?
Fine tuning is generally not worth it over RAG with newer models unless you have a niche data set that's very different from the pretraining data. LoRAs/control vectors are also generally better as they don't induce forgetting or hallucinations, and they're usually "good enough" with RAG.
Ask HN: Finding an Hourly Job?
Howdy. Long story short, I’m a solid engineer. I’ve been working on my own projects the last 4 years. They make about $15,000/mo.

I want an hourly engineering job to subsidize income and to have something else to work on.

Could someone recommend how they’d go about finding that? I know there’s a great win-win matchup out there, but I’m not sure how to efficiently go about finding it.
Agree on that Kagi's better.
"Just eating less" may be very difficult, psychologically, in the context of an otherwise stressful and distracting life. However, I find that if you are able to eliminate those issues and focus on your own health and diet -- a big "if", I will grant -- then it's actually not that hard, on its own. You get used to it.
Microsoft Launches Copilot for Telegram
It has been tested, Ozempic wins. These drugs are usually tested specifically on people who have tried and failed dieting and exercise interventions. I doubt any doctor is prescribing this without first asking, “have you tried diet and exercise?” The side effects can be pretty gnarly for some people and it’s very expensive and hard to obtain.
While many wifi cards have open driver interfaces they still have closed basebands (the software that actually drives the RF hardware) this is usually done for a combination of intellectual property and regulatory reasons. That is, they get to keep their secrets and the user can't make the radio do something it's not licensed to do.

These devs are aiming to open up the baseband of the ESP32 which allow for all kinds of interesting hacks, and probably all kinds of opportunities to run afoul of your countries laws regard spectrum use.

I do foresee some cases not entirely unlike the Flipper Zero arising from this but still wholeheartedly support it.
Switched to DDG a few months ago and find myself having to switch to Google for many searches. Going to give kagi a try after trialing it.
That’s so silly, these drugs aren’t even anywhere near the same league of effectiveness. There’s plenty of fat people who take nicotine all day.
If you pay for it, you get excellent QA in China, too.

It's a matter of demand, not capabilities.
ut-oh!
I have this as well, it's mildly entertaining but not overpowering. The floaters only appear when looking at a very bright blue clear sky, it never triggers otherwise.

When it does I can pause, appreciate the show, and then go back to my day. It's a fun one for sure.
Apple elaborates on rare iOS 17.5 bug that resurfaced deleted photos
> Meanwhile, Duckduckgo still provides decent results in my experience.

As long as Bing is running
What search engine do you think management uses now?
https://www.ipxo.com/, among others.
Get The Back Mechanic book.
I don't see the point in using DDG. Brave Search is a superior replacement.
But you lose high availability, scaling to zero, and increase your CapEx. And at the end you lose money because you need 5 FTE to have them on call for every IPv4 that you self-manage (10 if it is IPv6).
I've tried once but windows tries really hard not to let you do that.

My Windows kung-fu is rusty these days so the Linux method seemed neater.
Good news for Kagi then.
I don’t even think safety means anything that extreme. It’s more about disseminating misinformation IMO.
Which kinds of use cases?
I struggle to see why chatgpt can't do this already?
For one thing because food manufacturers aren’t going to just sit around and watch their revenues get cut by 20-30%. Unless someone can explain why we’re already at the absolute lowest possible “units of satiation per unit of food,” I.e. our food cannot be made worse, then we should notice that we’ve just produced a massive/existential incentive to indeed make our food worse.
Underwhelming approaching comically pointless.

On a UX note, the button "TRY ME NOW" should be re-labelled "SIGN UP NOW" because that's exactly what the button does.

"Make Your Business Leap Off the Screen" ... omg guys there is no leaping going on!

"Vimmerse can turn your photos into eye-catching immersive videos".... the image directly under that of woman on motorcycle, is a static image? What am I missing? The shoe on fire is a static image? Shouldn't there be animated flames leaping out of my screen, burning my eyebrows?

Let's look at one of the "Our Picks" https://www.vimmerse.net/content/346be7a5-7443-4c45-ba07-f3b...

What is this rubbish? The headphones completely get messed up in the rotation, the AI has failed to reproduce the "geometry". A static image is superior in every single way to this inaccurate junk AI.

> "...how we can improve to serve your needs!"

Needs? Who in their right mind would need this?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834
When I think of SGI I think of numerous stories of screw-ups: like the professor who bought one without enough RAM, plugged it into the Ethernet and power for three years, didn’t use it, but it got hacked. Or the 1990s demo where Geoffrey Fox had two twin from eastern Europe try to run a program on a fashionable big SMO machine and it failed, and Fox said “Never buy a gigabyte of cheap RAM!”
What’s a freedom TLD?
Given the amount of work required to onboard your own IP range[1], this is almost certainly untrue when it comes to total cost.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-byoi...
Many people use marijuana for sleep. Are you really sure no one has ever fallen asleep at the wheel due to marijuana use? It seems like a bold claim.
You can sort of fake it with Chrome settings by setting up a site search that's just like the default Google one but with whatever you want tacked on. Add a site search called Google2 or whatever, use shortcut 'g' and for the URL add '{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:language}{google:prefetchSource}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}&udm=14'

Then just type 'g' + <space> + 'your search parms' in the address bar, you don't even need to navigate to Google.com first
Then you haven’t used it very much.
How does one do RAG? I see it mentioned like 20 times
I first switched to ddg but kept using !g because I often wasn't satisfied. Since I've switched to kagi, I barely ever fallback to google (only sometimes for very local results)
Two big reasons people add Reddit to search phrases is because Reddit's search isn't functional and to deprioritise Ad Junk from search.

It's to fix broken search, which gets more broken - more unwanted Ad Junk.

But Google's an advertising company with it's ad search device in everyone's pocket. At least it's reached sufficient post-don't-be-evil to be honestly shameless, even if it does employ people in PR with broken ethics prostituting their names for their mortgages. Getting reflective's hard when you're celebrating yourself.
SQLCipher is a security extension to the SQLite database platform
Probably Kagi.
I'm just looking at the untapped potential in terms of R&D pipelines of various companies out there. Gazillions of battery, solar, etc. innovations in various stages of progress and coming to market. The only way I see this ending soon is if somehow all of those researchers are going to hit a brick wall and all progress stops. Even if that happens, it would take a while for growth to stop. But realistically, R&D is going to continue to work fine for quite some time and will be continuing to deliver the goods.

Specifically, I'm expecting within the next 2 decades or so

- further reductions in cost of solar energy generation. It's already cheap but another few cost halvings won't hurt. I'm thinking 0.001 dollar per kwh cost levels. About 1 order of magnitude less than today.

- increases in battery capacities over time from ~0.5kw/kg now to at least 2-3kw/kg enabling lots of new use cases (e.g. short haul flight).

- new cheaper battery chemistries and thermal batteries giving us all the energy storage we'll ever need. Battery production is already crossing the 1TWH/year rate right now.

- maybe we'll get some fusion going at some point (a wildcard, I admit). I'm not a big believer in nuclear fairy tales but if somebody at all odds gets micro reactors going at a reasonable cost level, why not (the cost levels are the issue here, 0.001 dollar per kwh is the competition).
And besides, it's not a fair comparison, because AWS will give you a secret cheaper price if you commit to renting at least ten thousand IP addresses for the next decade.
Public safety and societal risks to the group members’ public images, maybe.
Maybe they should get the Twitter treatment anytime they are mentioned: "Google formerly DoubleClick"
Zune inspired?
I switched to DDG a while ago because Google thought I was a bot.

Capchas, every single search! It kept telling me I was wrong when I tried to solve them.

I'm on a popular ISP in India, my guess is that one of their IP ranges got blacklisted somehow.

Between DDG and ChatGPT, I haven't looked back.
I've always used Kid3 on Linux
They’re not going to protect your privacy to their detriment. They’re running a business, they’re not martyrs.
Same. This has been a serious productivity booster.
The AI Overviews outrage is only the beginning. It has been 11 days since they made it public in the US, and it had been in experimentation for over a year before that.

Already now, a lot of users will associate Google AI Overviews with nonsense; eat rocks, cook spaghetti with gasoline. Google also showed how easily these AI Overviews can be manipulated, since they use RAG.

I think the Slopception is only going to get worse. Slop in. Slop out.

And also, Google Research just happened to be sitting on AGREE[0]:

> a learning-based framework that enables LLMs to provide accurate citations in their responses, making them more reliable and increasing user trust

Which was published yesterday.

I tried to submit it[1] but it didn’t get much love.

[0]: https://research.google/blog/effective-large-language-model-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469518
I reduced my google search engine usage by 90%

Just Option+Space and get the answer with ChatGPT for MacOS.

No ads, no nonsense, just the answer.
It's really not, they are extremely complementary.
Only those emails generated by Sign In With Apple AFAIK
I assume it's apfs copy-on-write file clones not technically hard links.
Hard links have the same inode and changes would be reflected by either path.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/14/copy-move-and-clone-file...
They probably use some internal version that doesn't optimize for ad revenue but instead for user experience, as is Google tradition.
The 2 days thing won’t fly. The omni model can probably produce any voice when led with a few seconds of audio. Meta developed a similar model a while back but didn’t open source it out of fear of deepfakes and there are commercial offerings like elevenlabs and open source ones like bark et al. So the last minute ask wasn’t nerves but a last ditch attempt to score a rebound for the launch.
I really like the redesign! I was dissapointed they've changed it back for me.

Comments don't need space that wide, they work better on the side, where they gain additional vertical space.