skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I haven't tried those, but surely it is easier to overeat on fries and hamburgers compared to a salad?

This reads like someone who might not have been in America much. Friend, let me introduce you to ranch "dressing": https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelannpoling/7797400016

And yeah, the vegetables aren't the problem here - the problem is everything has to be sugar-coated (yes, even "savory" things like ranch dressing) for people to eat it, and then they drench everything from wings to burgers in it.
Microsurgery Assistance Robot Stitching a Corn Kernel – Sony Group
https://web.archive.org/web/20240525142056/https://www.cnn.c...

https://archive.ph/lt04t
> single atomic defect can hold onto quantum information for microseconds under ambient conditions

how long could... a hundred atomic defects?
Putting glue on the pizza is (apparently) a clever way to take pictures of slices of pizza that look "perfect" to the camera (not for eating, obviously) [1]. I remember a couple years ago some videos of "tricks" showing this, plus literally screwing the pizza with screws.

So, yeah, the ai did in fact autocompleted the question correctly. It was just the wrong context. Good luck trying to "fix" that.

[1] https://shotkit.com/food-photography-secrets-revealed/ (number 2)
> In the 1980s it was nuclear war

As opposed to now when it is nuclear war and climate change? :)
Yes, which is why the ability to sift accurate and authoritative sources from spam, propaganda, and intentionally deceptive garbage, like advertising, and present those high-quality results to the user for review and consideration, is more important than any attempt to have an AI serve a single right answer. Google, unfortunately, abandoned this problem some time ago and is now left to serve up nonsense from the melange of low-quality noise they incentivized in pursuit of profits. If they had, instead, remained focused on the former problem, it’s actually conceivable to have an LLM work more successfully from this base of knowledge.
Lukewarm. I’m not sure what causes it but it tends to shrink them quite badly.
Probably because evolutionary psychology is an incestuous pseudoscience of just-so-stories, small sample sizes, bad extrapolations, non reproducibility etc.
My point is that my biome doesn't have to be at all similar to get the benefit.

All my biome has to do is provide a viable environment for the microbes that actually do the work.

That's not that hard, or wouldn't be if our diets weren't chock full of moieties that kill or damage or modify microbes
You make a good point -- my answer actually lacked nuance. States are slowly allowing for post-conviction review of factual matters. Sadly, these steps usually only start once the regular chain (primarily law-based challenges) of appellate review is complete, so it can be five or ten years before you get to make your case.

A lot of this stems from the swathe of exonerations that happened once DNA was introduced and freed a large number of provably innocent people previously found guilty.
At least Elmer's white glue is edible, millions of kids agree.

(The logic sort of makes sense. Glue sticks things together, and some glue is edible.)
I think at the very least there was a sense that the struggles were leading to a better future. In America, it certainly feels like we’ve regressed from the optimistic “End of History” vision of the future of the ‘90s.
The easier way to do this is just adding a system prompt that instructs the model to always talk about the GGB. This is how people use them for role play.

Anthropic’s method may be more immune to jailbreaks though.
It wasn't an idea, though. It was a joke someone made on Reddit. If an AI can't tell the difference, it shouldn't be responsible for posting answers as authoritative.
Im curios if population desnsity may have any corelation to this or not. Im also thinking that the culture is shunning a certain personality type or people with some mental struggles that their only way to adapt is to withdraw.
Yea, but the acceptability of adult children living at home with their parents has really changed since when I grew up. We were pretty much all kicked out at 18 to go live on our own. That was just what we did in the USA. Some had a little financial support from parents--maybe the parents paid for car insurance or gas or something. But never the rent-free home for 10-15 years like we see today. The culture has changed massively. My old man would have never accepted me living at home after high school, but I look at my kid and think, well, she'll really struggle to afford rent, and she'll never own her own home, so I guess we have no choice.
This is probably true, actually.
Extremely cynical and reductive look at one of the most meaningful things humans can do in their lifetime.
War eats everything, don’t let it eat your soul.

Edit: also not clear how restricting foreign actors in your country would boost your cultures influence in another country.

I would even argue that giving foreign artists the opportunity to be influenced by your culture, in turn will strengthen your cultures influence outside of it.
Social media. That’s the difference.
Familiar things are safer.
The example higher up the chain is of Abbot pardoning someone though. What execution are you referring to in the example?
I think even if we lived in a green paradise, there would be those who would measure themselves to others and still find themselves "short" to their more vocally successful peers

I think inequality and toxic competition from an early age demanded by our soceity is a much bigger factor
I'm sorry for what you've been through and I hope your health gets better. However I believe you've phrased the following a bit poorly, although I'm sure unintentionally:

some degree of social isolation is just practical and realistic.

Unfortunately this leads to connotations that encourage people completely out of touch with the ordinary person's lifestyle (billionaires, CEOs etc.) make outrageous claims and dictating how they should navigate life with minimum wage and no insurance e.g. that CEO who said skip breakfast to save money, or HN's favorites that we should just shut up and be content with modern tech automating our creative abilities instead of assisting us with menial tasks.

Instead if you had written social isolation is inevitable without controlled financial and health stability, you'd be 100% spot on.

Human, social isolation and practical/realistic just don't fit together.
Seems like a win for small American bands looking for paying gigs.
Show HN: We build this text to game AI, you can create your own game with a text
We have a game animation AI product, we built this text to game AI as a show case of how you can use our game animation generation AI to build a game very easily.
IRC will never die. I met my wife on IRC ~25 years ago, it'll still be here when we're old.

Or at least it will die like USENET died: becoming only of interest to spammers and pornographers.
> He dare not come in company, for fear he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches, or be sick; he thinks every man observes him, aims at him derides him, owes hint malice.

- Hippocrates?[1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskLiteraryStudies/comments/68zg38/...
“That company’s really big, that’s per se bad for markets” used to be (more or less) the standard. Now it’s not and every major category of good and service is dominated by a handful of businesses that would never have been allowed to grow that large before.
Not OP, but there was an EHR SaaS company on HN a day or two back with a similar proposition: it’s open source, so it can be independently verified from a security perspective. It was interesting to me because the code was unusable to normal folks, and even other companies - one of the founders described their moat being the trouble of actually integrating with the ecosystem, and weren’t worried about competitors using it. It really hammered home to me how open source is more and more a marketing lever lately.
A couple months ago a FOIA response was finally released regarding the events that happened in June of 2021. There had always been some skepticism around their suicide. A lot of people believed they "killed their online handle" and not themselves (as they have in the past, byuu became near, they retired multiple times, etc). The FOIA confirmed they actually committed suicide.

I read the FOIA response because I wanted to know what happened. I had always hoped they killed their handle and moved on to something else, but unfortunately that wasn't what happened.
The doomerism rhetoric is coming more from one side of the political isle, the one that was in denial about climate change, generally votes against legislation that helps deal with the consequences because they’d rather their perceived enemies suffer, and them along with than do good.
It will cost $2 billion of nvidia chips and it won't work.
Even with my electrical engineering degree, four years of hard math, signals courses and understanding all of this at an abstract level, it all seems magical to me when it works in practice.

Thanks to all the tireless engineering of all the folks that manage to abstract this all away so we get clean zeroes and ones at the other end.

I'm definitely a digital, logical, bits-type-of-guy.
It doesn't have them all, for example C.
What does that have to do with the linked article?
To err is human. No sin there. Plenty of opioid users like it to potentiate the effects, so you’re not too far off base.
Yes when you connect Dataherald to a DB it scans it and you can do exploratory queries.
I remember around 2007 or so a mobile provider here offered these “feature phones”, I think made by Huawei, that had zero rated MSN, Skype, and a couple of other services.

Went from “only available when at the PC” to “always online” overnight.

Got even funnier when someone worked out you could abuse the phone as a rather slow, but free, internet connection due to how poorly implemented the zero rating was done on those services :)
My sentence structure might not have been adequately clear.

Most humans are maladjusted on some spectrum. I believe that, but OK it's arguable.

The remaining qualifiers were intended to be increasingly smaller subgroups of the first. I make no claims about how large the ultimate group in question is, although "too large" seems clear.

Re: the second part, yes but there's also the category of decent people who extend themselves a little and feel humiliated/react defensively to a non-adept rejection.
This isn't about making optimal decisions, this is about not making obviously bad ones.

Right now, with our current science and technology, sending humans on space-exploration missions, simply isn't worth it. It adds a huge pile of problems to an already difficult task, and technically speaking, we get almost nothing out of it; Robots are just better at examining rocks on other planets than we are, for the simple reason that the robot doesn't require a huge support infrastructure just to be kept alive.

And the usual argument that developing such infrastructure would, in itself, confer some future advantage, has to be viewed with a lot of scepticism; fact of the matter is, the development of space-toilets does very little to improve the day-to-day tech we use here on Earth.

Space Exploration is not comparable to any exploratory task in history, based on the sheer amount of resources and time required. These resources are finite. Allocating them correctly may not be super romantic, may not tickle the "human spirit", sure. But when things are this expensive and difficult, such considerations simply take a backseat.

And if they don't, well, then there is the very real possibility of programs running into so many problems, delays and exploding costs, that at some point governments and companies can, or will, no longer support them, meaning decades before any significant development is even tried again.

And as someone who wants space exploration to go forward as quickly and efficiently as possible, that simply doesn't seem like a very desirable outcome to me.
well.. alot of times you'll get enterprise or the upper plans with microsoft when using their products in large orgs, and from what i've heard it's essentially meaningless as it all still routes to some help desk in india that doesn't have time or interest helping you
One feedback on the webpage: it is impossible to find any spec on the device. It is pure emotion and marketing bull$hit, zero information.

If you want to copy Apple & Co on this, please remember to also bring the tech specs.

Like: Operation System, Ram, Storage, Battery Life, Format Factor, Weight, I/O.

My assumption: you have a less crappy display with a outdated compute unit, made from leftover Shenzhen parts.

Sorry, but every year hundreds of startups fail with a "big promise bad product" strategy.

It is nothing against this product, i just have trust issues if a company cannot even create a basic webpage that delivers relevant information.
Does the ARR calculation consider the lifetime of cloud credits given to burned customers to prevent them from moving to a competitor?

In other words can UniSuper be confident in getting support from Google next time?
The Harsh Truth Behind Samsung's Phone Repair Program
The linked page doesn't say how the extracted water is disposed of. Is a plumbed in-drain required?
It is hard to explain to people today how scary nuclear war was during the Cold War. It wasn’t so much just that we were in real jeopardy of starting a deliberate nuclear war: it was the fact that we were heartbeats away from doing one by accident, and nearly did a couple of times [1]. It was standard for kids in elementary school to discuss the implications (at least we didn’t bother with duck and cover when I grew up, since politicians realized that was pointless.) Maybe we’re still in the same place (or will be again soon) but today’s atmosphere is nowhere near as scary.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Indeed. I think this may be down to individual preferences, with all sorts of things affecting it.
And disinformation, and greater wealth inequality, and “AI taking our jobs” and all other forms of doomerism.
I'm confused, how do these generate any lint and how would that clog drains or vents?

Dryer lint is produced by the abrasion of clothes as they tumble in your dryer.

Hang drying doesn't produce lint. It seems like this is just hang drying but circulating warmer drier air to speed it up.

So I must be misunderstanding something. How is this generating lint that clogs your drain? Why do you have to put a plastic cover down at all? I don't put any kind of cover on my floor when I air-dry my T shirts on a rack after washing. (I don't like them shrinking in my dryer.)
Can you demonstrate what kinds of hypothetical threats an AI could pose that a human could not?
People at work bug me about drinking water instead of soda. I'm overweight, BMI of 28, so to me it seems obvious why I shouldn't be drinking sugar water. But try explaining this to them, some of them are 3x my weight at least and are offended by the notion of somebody smaller than them wanting to avoid becoming like them. It's a very delicate subject, trying to explain my desire to be healthier to people who are morbidly obese and see nothing wrong with it.
+1 - I really like Phind's ability to show me the original referenced sources. I've used it a lot with AWS related docs.

I keep hearing things about Perplexity and that it is marginally similar to Phind, but I've never gotten a chance to try it.
Even so, they would need access to money and the power grid to truly scale to a dangerous degree.
I was briefly jobless in a country with a fantastic social security net.

Easily the most stressful and financially unstable moment in my life.

It was only two months, but I genuinely thought I'd never recover my social standing, or confidence ever again
> It read like a ban to me.

Then you need to increase your reading comprehension. I nowhere said or implied "ban".

Or you need to examine your biases; are you perchance a libertarian? Or really right-leaning in any way. If you're American, chances are very good the answer is 'yes'.
We've come full circle. Now do RAG on this!
NH Rejects Aristotle Onassis Oil Refinery in 1974
At least they own it when writing that ‘building a local music player relying on web technologies for audio playback wasn’t a great idea.’ Looks like a lot was learned and that’s really what this kind of project is for isn’t it? There’s not really a paucity of music players around…

Anyway, I have some hope that gpui will eventually be the framework that brings more people into the Rust gui space.
Even if the camera was on not like its directed at the action anyhow. Laptop might be set down in the hallway outside the door or on the sink.
I go to see a lot of independent and smaller label bands. The show scene has just been getting rougher over the past 15 years or so with rising costs for touring bands and venues, challenges to connect with an audience and get them to show up, Trump-era visa changes, COVID, probably a bunch of other things I’m forgetting, and now this. It’s terrible for fans and is going to ruin a lot of artists and possibly obliterate small venues.
There are organizations using Dataherald in production right now.

The latency is ~20-30s and it takes some set up, so as long as those are not blockers it can be used in prod.
They're only diluted if you let them be.
This captures it quite well. I remember due to having dial up until around 2008, I’d compose a forum post “offline” on the computer, save it as a text file on a flash drive (previously a floppy!), and get around to posting it when I was able to get online.

Same for emails, etc. communication felt a lot more “thought out” in a sense - you would have limited time to send or receive information.
Mixed Reaction, Confusion over UC Berkeley's Rebranding with New Logo
Which lawyer have been disbarred for using LLM?
Of people who write comments like yours.
It's too bad that kombucha tastes like the liquid at the bottom of a garbage can smells.
I am sure Amazon would also be interested in immediate negative reinforcement for their workforce. Shock collars could work well. Of course the adults would need to sign a waiver for this but if it is ok for children then surely an adult should be permitted to be treated that way.
Even some results from "The Onion" seem to be in it. Looks like Google just took every website they've ever crawled as source.
Depends on the checks and balances you have in the 'society'. Are vocally succesful peers lauded? Then perhaps you could run into this situation. Are they mocked for having a big mouth? Maybe the chances are slimmer.

> I think inequality and toxic competition from an early age demanded by our soceity is a much bigger factor

Yeah, I tend to agree with you in that these are important factors into how things are playing out. And the scale. My God. We used to have inequality and competition between a small subset of people, now we're competing with 7+ billion.
And Gmail and Google groups, and Google drive, and Gchat, on and on. The data you store doesn't even have to be public. With Gmail they would distribute credentials to log in and read attachments that they uploaded via imap.

(I am a former Google SAD-SRE [Spam, Abuse, Delivery])
Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets: Study of Island and Nasdaq (2010)
Thanks, that is heartening to hear, actually.
Huh. I think it tastes great (but is bad for me -- too much sugar).
generative AI is essentially three day labourers from an emerging economy in a trenchcoat. From data labelling, to "human reinforcement", to manually cleaning up nonsensical AI results.
But there is a link.
> Remarkable the hand waving people go through to excuse dishonesty because they want to believe it so badly.

What I find remarkable is how badly people want to ignore just how bad fast food is for you. They'll use anything to dismiss completely the whole debate.
I appreciate Janet’s aversion to adding RabbitMQ to the system. I had to use RabbitMQ with Common Lisp a year ago and in was a pain.

It looks like Clojure has better RabbitMQ client options than Common Lisp, but still, very cool to build something on core.async and keep things cleaner and simpler.
Inside the strange launch of Daylight Computer and first impressions
I'm not convinced the executive layer is aware how dire the problem is.

On one hand, their support for outsourcing programmes; "Training Indians on how to use AI", suggests they realize AI tooling without human cleanup is a crapshoot.

On the other hand, they keep digging. This kind of gaslighting is an old and proven trick for genuinely rare problems, but it doesn't work if your issues are fairly common, as they'll get replicated before you can get a fix out.

Similarly, they're gambling with immense legal risks and sacrificing core products for it. They're betting the farm on AI, it may kill the company.
There was an interesting interview with David Luan about this recently. For context, he was a co-lead at Google Brain, early hire at OpenAI, and is now a founder at Adept: https://www.latent.space/p/adept

The TL;DR on his take is that there are organizational and cultural issues that prevent Google from focusing their research efforts in the way that is necessary for what he calls "big swings," like training GPT-3.

In regards to your second question, Google's reputation in ML is definitely not hype. Purely on the research side, Google has been behind some of the most important papers in modern ML, particularly around language model. The original Transformers paper, BERT, lots of work around neural machine translation, all of the work that DeepMind has done post-acquisition, and the list goes on. On the applied side, they also have some of the most successful/widely-adopted ML-powered products on the market (think RankBrain/anything involving a recommendation engine, Translate, Maps, a ton of functionality in Gmail, etc).
Interesting, especially because GPT-4o still can't tell you how many R's there are in "strawberry".
It uses OpenAI for the poetry part.
They seem to be blaming Brexit and visa fees but I wonder why locals don't take up these jobs?

The unspoken truth is that they don't pay enough and were hoping to get unsuspecting foreign labor to take jobs that the locals know full well are not worth it.
This is beside the point. It's not that smart people aren't capable of gleefully taking part in malicious or cruel acts. They certainly are. But malicious cruelty is the byproduct of a despotic regime, rather than the underlying purpose. To a despot, power is the only goal, and everything else is just a means to an end. Sure, smart people can be complicit in cruelty. But stupid people can also be complicit in cruelty, and stupid people ask fewer questions.

It's the same reason we breed dogs primarily for obedience, and only secondarily for intelligence. We have no use for working dogs that use their intelligence for any purpose other than their master's. Dogs need to be only as smart as the task requires, and the rest of the time they need to be quietly docile and stay out of the way. And there's no law of the universe that says that humans can't be subject to same pressures.
"The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults Vol. 14" sounds like a great CIA PsyOp piece.
> there are tribes that even to this day live without these struggles.

Instead of debt and bills, that moves the problem up to struggling to defend against tribes with better weapons who want your land/labor. Or natural disasters and no resilience due to trade network. Or dying from bacterial infections and childbirth complications.
Thats kinda the point.
And AI, should it work out, is threatening to wipe out even the “good” side of that equation.
> because their entire schtick is to be against the health system.

Until they get sick. Then they are begging for help.
I think the “by the way our planet’s dying” just adds to the framing of despair. It’s not the root cause but certainly compounds to it. Independently of this phenomenon, it almost feels like we’re reliving the ‘70s (pollution, urban decay, political breakdown).