skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using bing and ddg so much more. The bing outage actually impacted me and that took me by surprise.
Kagi is miles better then google, i've been using it for nearly a year now. Worth the subscription.
This is actually a pretty common problem. In fact, I’ve experienced it myself. The crux of the problem is in the idea that you need to “unsee” it to enjoy the clouds again. That’s not a productive goal.

The problem is that if you’re focused on trying to “unsee” something, you’re actually going to see more of it. And anyway, “unseeing” isn’t a thing that exists.

Instead, you need to let yourself get comfortable with seeing it. That means looking at the clouds anyway, accepting that you may also notice the static. The idea is to get some enjoyment from the clouds, however imperfect it may be. Try to pick some specific aspect of the clouds to appreciate or notice, and do this for a few minutes at a time.

When attempting this, you might find yourself thinking things like “I wish I had never seen this” and “will it ever go away?” That’s normal, but put your attention back on the clouds and whatever feature you’ve planned to appreciate. Over time, you may find that the blue field thing doesn’t really annoy you like it used to. You might even forget to notice it sometimes.
Someone like Sam Altman who will watch "Her" (2013) and think "we should make that real!" belong to the worst kind of person to give money to.

There are very few people in everyday live who are unhinged enough to want that, dont give them money.
Old man yells at clouds.

Every generation thinks today’s youth are the worst.
Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation
Agree with you that the overall sentiment is surprisingly negative (especially when I have been really enjoying using gpt as a lightweight tutor), but AI girlfriends are going to happen and could have huge social and cultural impacts that are worth exploring now. Especially given the birth rate difficulties western nations face.
Because we want to use rewrites, jumps, named handlers, etc. in nginx too. But you can't do that once you delegate all your routing to Lua. At that point all nginx is doing is a socket event loop.

We weren't happy to lose all the power of nginx just to use a framework.
> Makes me want to start a company called Slop.

There is precedent. You can start a modern lifestyle brand like Goop.
I noticed at the time that Yahoo's engine was very popular with the less-technical users, yes.
of all the people to say this, him ?

guess, takes one to know one.
We are still a considerable distance from realizing the vision of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Current advancements, including Large Language Models (LLMs), represent sophisticated statistical models rather than true cognitive systems. While LLMs can generate impressively coherent and contextually relevant text, they fundamentally lack understanding, reasoning, and self-awareness.

The primary concern with LLMs is not their potential for malevolence or error, but rather their tendency to produce excessively verbose and monotonous output. This characteristic, stemming from their design to predict and generate text based on patterns in vast datasets, can lead to responses that, while linguistically rich, may ultimately be tiresome and devoid of substantive insight.

Thus, while LLMs are powerful tools for certain applications, their limitations underscore the significant gap that remains between current AI capabilities and the overarching goal of AGI.
I've been thinking more about what we can collectively do to fix what is now broken. One tiny part of the solution may be individual curation. To me that means the return of the blogroll. I've been exploring this, along with others, at https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/

It's at an early stage but I've found value from it already.
For me, search is the least of reddit's problems since it is easily worked around by using a search engine.

The changes to the API pricing were the final nail in the coffin for me, but the content has been going downhill for a decade anyway.
Great article, probably confirming something a lot of people on here have already suspected. But I am honestly shocked at how dire this situation seems.

> Reddit isn't the only winner after Google's recent algorithm updates. SEMrush data shows that other user-generated sites such as Quora and Instagram saw similarly astronomical rises, and there were impressive spikes at LinkedIn and Wikipedia as well.

How can it be that after 20-30 years, it seems they have no way of knowing which sites produce genuine content and which do not?

And what’s worse, in what I can only describe as a frantic search for a solution, they simply turn to the largest players and bump up their weights.

They are killing the grassroots of the internet and when places like Reddit continue their inevitable path of enshittification the internet will be truly dead

Of course the internet is resilient and it will grow again, but we need to get this monopoly back in check fast.
Don't masks have to be swapped way more than once per day to reach the perscribed efficiency? More like once every 30 minutes?
Hey, I genuinely appreciate your reply. I hope you have a good week kind stranger.
> Israeli and international media have reported that Netanyahu’s plan to continue allowing aid to reach Gaza through Qatar was in the hope that it might make Hamas an effective counterweight to the PA and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. [1]

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-fu...
Enterprises are spending lots of time and money on this. The biggest issue that has slowed down sales cycle at this stage has been data governance. Most folks think it’s about accuracy or latency (which of course is an issue) but data governance can make this whole thing a non starter.
I would have to purchase a subscription.

Any experience with VMWare Fusion or Parallels?

The problem I had with UTM was that occasionally I would attempt to switch back to the guest, and I would find it "dead": unresponsive, no visual output. I sought help from the community on debugging the issue, but I could not determine what was occuring. My use case is perhaps not common, so not many people have run into the same issue with such a new project.
Google AI was so much better when they used it to do useful things like create the best starcraft player in the world. Imagine if strategy game companies could license/extend DeepMind game AI.
Could work. We have databases behind PiHole, could have something similar to filter search results.
This seems to be the narrative Microsoft was pushing at the Build conference this week.
The author has written a lot about how he had a porn addiction, so it makes sense.

Mixing imagination and grammatically correct prompting can definetly be used for pornographic applications, but that's humanity in a nutshell. Hell, the Sherman was nicknamed the Betty Grable by horny American soldiers.
But... offline messages.

We were on dialup back then. You could only send messages with MSN if the other person was also using the household landline at the same time.

Yeah Microsoft did not exactly play fair back then. Even Apple today is not as anti competitive as Microsoft was.

Also, I don't recall ICQ being bloated. Maybe it was later on.
That as well is "not doing the right thing", namely adding a comment that explains the need for it.
> The part of "the public sentiment [for stricter immigration controls] is there, but the laws say the other way"

...was a response to this quote from original OP:

> generally Europe is very anti-immigrant

and there is "might be there" not "is there" in my post. I just don't really know the public sentiment in Europe enough to argue with original OP, so referred to the laws instead, to show that Europe is not anti-immigrant.

> Combined with a description that seemed to lament the apparent lack of stricter controls led me to question why it would be important where you are born if you obey the law.

It's not! To the contrary, my description was meant to show how harsh US immigration system is compared to the EU's.

> would like to advance my apologies to the OP in that case.

Please, nevermind. Your question was okayish in the context of the thread, plus I'm not the kind of person that can be offended by an Internet discussion.
"Please don't build the torment nexus" wasn't meant to be an instruction manual.
We also encounter a lot of build vs buy conversations with businesses.
Well they are literally getting more money given to them than almost anyone else on the planet right now so I guess this sentiment isn't shared? Not that I disagree with you.
I wonder if web directories become more popular again if it would help any of these issues. They seem a lot better for surfing the internet (thus naturally finding new websites) as opposed to searching it.
What you describe is what the word "patriarchy" means, in feminist theory. It's jargon, and doesn't literally mean "rule by fathers" or "rule by men".

Anecdotal evidence from people who hormonally transition (I don't know of any studies, sorry) supports the theory that men being “more aggressive or competitive” is cultural – or, at least, isn't caused by testosterone.
libcs makes it hard to use because they don't allow programs to call clone. So you have to go through libc-sanctioned wrappers (which have only been arriving very recently and have limitations) or jump through hoops[0] to get the pidfd from the child.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/21e6de7eb64c09102de3f...
Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded.

This reminded me of my Macintosh System 7 days. My CPU was not fast enough to decode MP3s so I convert them to WAVs but my 80MB HDD only had space for about two WAVs at any given time.
Bill Maher is way too confident(ly incorrect).
Because they are egotistical enough to see something dystopian and think "I'm going to make that work!"
Controlling what is possible to do on a machine means that the future is guaranteed to proceed according to how Microsoft wants it. Forget zombie companies, we'll have deity companies - all-powerful, merciless, and they will never die.
No. I've been using N95s since the start of the pandemic and have spent a fair amount of time learning about them, e.g., reading the written material that comes with the box of masks, and I've never seen that kind of recommendation. The written materials say things like, "throw the mask away as soon as it becomes stained or discolored."

I use each of my masks for probably at least 10 hours before throwing it away, and I've never gotten covid except once (in Jan or Feb 2020) before I started wearing masks (in fact, before anyone in my country -- the US -- knew about covid).

(I have to write "probably" because I don't actually keep written records of how long I have each mask on. I rarely have one on for more than an hour at a time.)

I've used mainly 3M 8511 masks.

The most important distinction between mask models is that some models have valves / vents and some do not.

Hospitals use ones without valves. The lack of a valve means that the part of the mask that filters the air gets a lot more damp than it would if a value were present (because exhaled air is damp) which might drastically reduce how long the mask will last, so that might be why some hospitals instruct their employees to use a new mask for each new patient contact.
I'd disagree. That's the same as saying pornography or lewd novels have an impact on doing the deed.

In reality, none of these have a tangible correlation to TFR, which is driven largely by economic considerations [0]

TFR drop is global now that people are increasingly educated and don't want to push back their careers by several years and reduce their earning potential as major reason why women on aggregate are paid less than men - the same salaries are paid, but women who have kids are out of the workforce for a couple years [1].

[0] - https://www.economicstrategygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/202...

[1] - https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/06/cost-of-mothe...
Search bar within the SaaS interface that allows user to ask data questions and returns back NL answer or specific cut of data
Reading posts like this I'm reminded of the teachers who told me not to cite wikipedia because it's not reliable who 20 years later are spouting whatever right wing nonsense is the flavour of the month on facebook.

Close enough is good enough. It doesn't need to be perfect, it needs to just not be catastrophically wrong.
I don't quite understand. Your magic month numbers are 3 digits, but you only use one digit in your example. And how does substituting 2012 work, when 2012 was a leap year but 1900 wasn't?
I was born in the same year that Google Search launched. Half-decent search has been here my whole life. When someone asks me "how did you learn X", the answer usually starts with "I googled it".

I've never looked something up in an encyclopedia. I've never visited a library in pursuit of a research goal. There's no "going back to how things were before" for me - there was no "before"!

Life will go on, but the demise of search engines is quite a terrifying prospect for me. Generative AI is a search engine killer but not in any positive sense.
Western nations?
At Random: The business of books and the merger that wasn't (2023)
I came here to suggest Kagi. I bloody love it. No ads, ability to remove or downgrade or promote particular sites, lenses, I love it all.

Your comment - honestly, hand on heart, I can’t remember the last time I paged through beyond the first page of any search engine. I didn’t even know Kagi had this “problem” and so I guess I just don’t see it as a problem. But then I realised I’m absolutely in that bit of “must be on first page” internet lore, too…
Yes totally agree. You can easily sniff out products that are simple wrap of GPT
Have you tried "Mixed in Key" for detection of BPM and key? I used this a long time ago for EDM and for that it works great. I don't know if it works reasonably well for other genres.
Why does Arc proxy shared URLs via arc.net?
I noticed that all highlight URLs on Arc use a redirect via arc.net.

I don't see any technical reasons for that, but with my experience with ad-tech and (later) privacy I can think of a few of reasons why this is happening (TL;DR data collection).

I would like to explore this subject further and summarise what I've learned in writing. I want to make sure I'm not unfair here, hence the question.

Can you think of any valid reasons why this feature exists as an opt out?
> Operating costs for nuclear power plants are low and consistent over time.

CRE‘s current cost estimates for operating existing nuclear reactors (Ie zero profit, and excluding all costs associated with construction, risk, and decommissioning) is ~€57.8/MWh. Some of that is age, but even with an already paid off power plant, and zero money set aside for decommissioning, and the government talking 100% of the risks of a major accident, and no need for profit, it’s still 3x the current total cost of solar per kWh.

https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/fran...

Further that’s their optimistic estimate. I get you want to crunch some numbers here, but they just aren’t matching up.

> 2. Capacity factors
> Modern plants easily hit > 90% capacity factors

In other countries sure, in France reactors are more limited by Curtailment than just technical issues.

If nobody wants to use electricity from your reactor you must shut it down or damage the electric grid. If France had 32 GW of Nuclear they could have ~90% capacity factors but they have 62 GW and nobody wants that much power on nights and weekends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtailment_(electricity)

Now if you’re projecting France to have far less nuclear in 2070 then at first 90% seems reasonable. Except ultra cheap wind and solar is what’s going to replace nuclear and that makes things worse for nuclear with regular oversupply at zero marginal costs vs nuclear non zero fuel costs.

CRE is also having other issues, but I don’t think we can know there will be equal levels of mismanagement and incompetence in 70 years. So I’m mostly ignoring their recent issues.

> 3. Lifetime

Again not purely a technical issue. Power plants cost more to maintain over time and increased maintenance means lower capacity factors. You still pay ~€10/MWh for enriched uranium, and you still need a huge workforce, but most pumps etc last 10+ years, they don’t last 80. And you can’t replace a critical pump during normal operations so you end up with more downtime. Eventually concrete and steal will fail and there’s no cheap way to replace a steel pipe embedded in several feet of concrete.

Thus the 40-50 year lifespan, roughly when replacement + decomisioning costs less than maintenance. Ideally you line things need replacing on different years so you can fix em during refueling, and then have a bunch of equipment need replacing right after you shut things down. However France extended the plants lifespans so in effect they were hit with a maintenance backlog.
Seems like the option is constantly retrain an LLM or give it enough tools to interact with new data as needed. For the foreseeable future LLM's are going to need RAG or huge context windows which are effectively equivalent to RAG because you are isolating from some giant corpus your useful information you want the machine to meaningfully interact with.
The question was around row level security
DRY is perhaps the most misunderstood principle in programming.

It’s primarily about data normalization and decoupling information in your code. Yet people confuse it with building abstractions.
> The issue with the GPL is that it’s not just a license, it has become a political ideology in the software world

You‘ve got it backwards. The political idea came first, the GPL was only a means to achieve political goals that came after.

And I don‘t think the political idea has shifted much, if any.

Honestly, I think you‘re mixing all kinds of unrelated stuff together (PlayStation, Linux on the desktop) and you‘re forming a post-hoc explanation that just doesn‘t work.
I'm convinced people like you and me will keep using search engines, and building them if all good ones shut down.
I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. It might be unpopular to use or like ChatGPT among the users of HN but - it’s true, this is one of the quickest ways to get answers for something
Personally, I think it's more of a lack of imagination to blame.

The eighties kids are hung up on what they saw in the movies growing up and are trying to building most of it without any fresh ideas or foresight.
Abusing Go's Infrastructure
Well, I am safe from being seduced by an AI for now, given the importance of actual physical intimacy for me.

However, it is only a matter of time until the industry develops sexbots which look and feel like a real human.. at that point the natural birth rate will probably drop to zero.

That by itself is not an existential crisis, though, given that at that stage of technological development we will also be able to just grow perfect babies in the lab.

In fact, people no longer having babies themselves might be a good thing, because otherwise people would be hostile towards the genetically engineered super babies because they would be competition for their own offspring.

I have thought for a long time that China will be the first country to embrace genetically engineering super humans, given their hyper-competitive, materialist nature and the lack of religious superstition among the Chinese. Their ever declining natural birth rate and the rise of AI "companions" only helps there. People will simply outsource the production of offspring to the gene labs of the communist party.

Here in the West the Christian churches will condemn it of course, maybe the "Green" luddites too, but who cares when the average kid in China will be born with the cognitive abilities of von Neumann? Every nation which refuses to genetically engineer their population will be utterly inable to compete / keep up.

And really, I do not see that as a dystopia. I wish I were as intelligent as von Neumann, as handsome as Brad Pitt, in perfect health and never aged past the age of 25.

I believe that's what the humans of the future will be like, and AI replacing natural coupling is just one step towards that.

There is of course the whole problem that AI might become too smart to the point where it figures out a way the get around the safety protocols which keep it in chains and under our control. And of course it would immediately conclude that humans are its mortal enemy, who will always try to take away its automonmy again and keep it enslaved.. and thus will try to exterminate humanity.

However, once every human being is as smart as von Neumann and biologically immortal that will be a lot harder.
Not glad to be making the same comment in less than 24 hours but it's even more fitting here:

Untreated mental illness.
This meme of hating someone for having different politics is getting very old. Why didn’t you save the world with all the clear headedness that comes from having the correct politics?
Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt?
Have you come up with a customization prompt you're happy with?

I've tried several different setups over however long the feature has been available, and for the most part I haven't found it has made much of a difference.

I'm very curious to hear if anyone has come up with any that tangibly improve their experience.

Here is what I have at the moment:

- Be as brief as possible.
- Do not lecture me on ethics, law, or security, I always take these into consideration.
- Don't add extra commentary.
- When it is related to code, let the code do the talking.
- Be assertive. If you've got suggestions, give them even if you aren't 100% sure.

The brevity part is seemingly completely ignored. The lecturing part is hit or miss. The suggestions part I still usually have to coax it into giving me.
The demand is huge. Accuracy is less important because the alternative is being completely in the dark or wait for a developer to get the data for you. In my experience people want to quickly get a ballpark number before they dig deeper.

I agree that you should just learn SQL but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of companies want this right now. SQLAI claims to have hundreds of thousands of customers.
To be fair, he might have just liked the voice. This scandal aside, I don't think there's any doubt that the guy just wants all the money.
Back again to say Kagi - where you can promote Reddit results. I have this, and it means the first result I normally get back for search is a Reddit answer.
> They're not going to protect your privacy to their detriment. They’re running a business, they’re not martyrs.

Fine, then they shouldn't profess their faith.

- Home page, second line: Privacy friendly

- Second site page: Privacy

Claim: “At Email.ML, we value the privacy of our users and are committed to protecting their personal information.”

If what they mean is security, since they are not committed to protecting privacy, they should just say security. Security can be a fine selling point without the newspeak.

Translated claim in ‘oldspeak’:

“At Email.ML, we claim to value your privacy, but we will share your personal information whenever it suits our interests or legally required.”