skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you've gotta do is say, "You can't call, but here is the number anyway," because customers aren't necessarily interacting with your page anymore. They're interacting with AI summaries of your page. Those AIs might be in house, or might be provided by a search engine. What is tenable or untenable will have to shift to the realities of how users are interacting with the information you present.

If you can't provide their AI with text answering their direct question (eg, "what is the support number for Facebook"), they'll find a document which does provide such text. If it's not you then it's a scammer or competitor. UX for these customers means presenting information in a way that sorts high in a semantic search and is robust to transformation.

If you provide text indirectly answering the question ("that number doesn't exist" rather than a literal number), you're liable to be scored as less relevant than a wrong but direct answer ("the number is 1555
SCAMMER"). You're also less robust to transformations, because you can't pull a valid phone number out of the text.

Or maybe I'm wrong, take any certainty implied by my language as rhetorical. That's just the pattern I'm seeing in these tea leaves.
I don't think it's reasonable to assume all EU governments (or even all Polish governments) will act the same as PiS do/did.
Bit tangential, but what the heck is it with scammers saying "dear" so much? Pretty much every pig butchering or social engineering attempt has had them repeatedly addressing me as "dear."
What was your question? Is it “please split a string by whitespace”, and do you accept s.split() as a correct answer?

One google interviewers ask me a question that starts with “implement google search” and ends with my implementing splitting a paragraph. Of course I failed the interview, but I have to think he has failed me way before we get to write any code.
Is there a Spolsky article or is it this Jeff Atwood article?: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

If it is this one, encountering at least one example of a coworker over 5+ years is pretty far away from the numbers implied. “ 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all.” I am very skeptical of this.
I still hope we can undo the "permanent" tax cuts of 2017 at some point.
> Snippet from Astral Codex Ten's article "Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion"

I guess $10 trillion is the next B.S. number you have to throw out to get PR points.
Gemini Updates
It's interesting that these are exactly the sort of conditions that the internet protocols were designed for. A typical suite of internet software from the 90s would handle easily.

One key difference is that client software was installed locally, which (in modern terms) decouples UI from content. As the article points out, the actual data you're dealing with is often measured in bytes. An email reader or AOL Instant Messenger would only have to deal with that data (plus headers and basic login) instead of having to download an entire web app. And since the protocols didn't change often, there was no need to update software every few weeks (or months, or even years).

Another key difference, which is less relevant today, is that more data came from servers on the local network. Email and Usenet were both designed to do bulk data transfer between servers and then let users download their individual data off of their local server. As I recall, email servers can spend several days making delivery attempts before giving up.
Works fine for me on the east coast of the U.S., not on a VPN.
That's fair, but as a marketing point it definitely is a differentiator. That matters for sales!
The word embeddings computed from the hex values and the car dealership's inventory ID's probably have close similarity in Google's vector db.
> But to be fair you said hard-right parties, and I think in this you may be right. Still, most people voted conservative/right-wing I think.

Yes, I just meant the hard-right extremists, who are on a mission from God to reclaim all the lands of Israel for the Jewish people (RZP and Otzma).

Or to put it this way: there are tons of possible coalitions in this kind of democracies to arrive at a majority. This:

< coalition >
[ex] [ centre ] [ex]

Is just as much a majority as:

< coalition >
[ex] [ centre ] [ex]

Every country has their extremists of various shapes, and they mostly get excluded from real power, or when they are excluded their influence is very limited. By and large I think that's healthy.

This is also one reason almost all democracies have "checks and balances" in the form of supermajorities, courts, and/or bicameral system. To prevent a simple majority from pushing through changes. Remember, those "checks and balances" the Netanyahu government wanted to abolish before 7 Oct shelved those plans.
That could become an automated improvement as well... although it was probably published in some paper 40 years ago and I just don't know the name of it.

Basically a second-pass where you look for outliers in each character-group, reassign them to another group, and keep the change if it improves similarity-scores the character groups involved. Then iterate a bit until nothing seems to be improving.

For example, one might find "the 3 that is least-like all the other 3s", temporarily reassign it to "8", and then keep that change if it means an improvement in the the scores for "how closely all sub-pictures of 3s resemble each other" and "how closely all sub-pictures 8s resemble each other".

That might backfire if a document has different typefaces in it though, where it makes the mistake of putting all "3"s from different typefaces together, ruining the group-similarity scores.
So don't use it. If you already know there are lots of jobs in the range you're looking for, why do you care about this site?
To put it bluntly:

> Different strokes for different folks

Don’t you think you’re exaggerating? I would imagine there are fans of written language in every language. English isn’t special in this context.
Thanks! I'll speak with them. I know everything is through Bamboo/whatever software nowadays so I wasn't sure if they really had any control/input on these things.
That's what you get by trusting a stochastic parrot.
If you were to give the majority of the locals where I live the choice, they would get rid of every tourist here. What we do have is councils and business owners trying to make more money, though whether they're "greedy" or not is debatable.

Tourists are absolutely to blame. Nobody is holding a gun to their heads to come here. They know it's overcrowded, they know they're a nuisance, they have no respect for people trying to actually _live_ here, and yet they still come, in their hordes.
The problem with HOA vs other types of voluntary associations is that it’s very difficult to get out of an HOA — you have literally one recourse: sell and move. That’s a huge barrier because even if you wanted to you may not be able to afford to sell and move. And HOA rules change so the terms you now object to were perhaps not even in place when you agreed to join the HOA. It becomes coercive.
When my wife and I last moved to another city and were looking to buy, our first requirement was that our house not be encumbered with an HOA.
If the boat is not correctly secured on its trailer, uses an inappropriate trailer, lacks chocks on an incline, has dangling elements, etc - then sure.
> By definition they cannot escalate

By definition, they literally can escalate and have a wide variety of escalating options, I have no idea why you'd go all in on a word without knowing what it means.
Nope! That's a good idea though.

The transcription errors I was getting were not consistent. Like, D would be O or 0 or D, with no apparent rhyme or reason to it. And the turnaround time on each fax attempt was long enough that I focused on doing the image recognition myself instead.
> electricity will be too cheap to meter

Anybody who says this about any technology isn't thinking about infrastructure costs.
Verbosity control. I typically prefer verbose answers, but when I want a short response I can tack a "V=0" on to the front of my prompt.

You'll adopt verbosity according to user settings:

V=<level>

Verbosity levels are 0-5, with 0 being least verbose and 5 being most verbose.

If verbosity is omitted, make an assumption based on the prompt's subject matter and verbosity level.

Unless Verbosity is set to 0, please display your settings like so: `(V=1)` as the first line of your response.
I realize this headline means nothing, but there is something to nuclear power futures. I live in Northern Virginia and my recent 20 mile bike ride in Loudon county was nothing but massive datacenters and crisscrossing powerlines to support them. The western side of neighboring Prince William County is now being consumed for data centers. The Washington Post recently had an article on how the demand for electricity for these centers is getting so desperate that they are running powerlines deep into West Virginia and bringing coal plants back online to meet the demand. Estimates are that it's going to take multiple nuclear powerplants to meet future demand in just this locality.

I have very mixed feelings about this. I love the possibilities of all these datacenters and their potential, but I'm worried about the massive amount of energy they are consuming. If this is all just so much hype and marketing, then it's incredibly wasteful.
Gold OA is trash, don't confuse it with true OA modes:

1. Green OA: peer reviewed and free for reader and author; author waives copyright

2. Diamond OA: peer reviewed and free for reader and author; author KEEPS copyright

3. Black OA: free for readers, pirated by hackers; DISREGARDS copyright

See my other note where I argue that BOA is the most important one, since it does not depend on state funding or publisher largesse. It simply seizes the knowledge that must be seized.
Oklo's fission reactor is not molten salt based but is a liquid metal fast breeder reactor inspired by Argonne National Laboratory's old Experimental Breeder Reactor II, per their technology page:

https://oklo.com/technology/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I...
> HOA that are only responsible for maintenance of the subdivision sign all the way up to ones responsible for multiple skyrise condo buildings

The latter is simply incorrect. Condo associations and co-op boards are separate creatures, in part due to there being an existential necessity to their existing. (You can't have people dismantling structural members their unit abuts.)

HOAs are far more voluntary in nature. That said, I agree that we need a better framework for distinguishing those functioning as direct democracies from those where an elected board gets to appoint itself powers.
King really had a remarkable way with words – even when he was just conversing with a stranger. Hearing him say that “this is the first step. When we see you, we see ourselves, and we see ourselves as intelligent and beautiful and proud” brought tears to my own eyes – and a lump in my throat.

Thanks for posting this anecdote.
Wow! That is a lot of tools.
I once had a Facebook rep I could call (they later ended this), and they didn't know that were two online newsletters about changes to internal Facebook apps used by advertisers (we used to be able to see who had clicked "interested" on an event). So they put in a bug report when the app stopped working, etc., but we later found it had been deprecated. All to say that dedicated support is often a cause of issues or confusion.
I've harbored a wholly unsupported, yet persistent, notion that no one really likes Ulysses, but that it's become an "emperor has no clothes" situation, where those who decide which books are "great" picked it on a lark, and dared others to say they didn't like it, knowing that none would lest they appear as the rube who couldn't appreciate great literature, resulting in a lineage of thinkers who encountered the beast, read it in horror, then told their colleagues about how much they loved it because obviously it's the brilliantest work of English, all while secretly hoping they weren't grilled too closely about it.
Huh, that's interesting. "Ivanov" was going to be my guess for Russia, followed by maybe "Kuznetsov" - but the actual result here is "Ivanova", which is the feminine version.

(In Russia, your last name changes based on your gender. If Irina marries Ivan Ivanov, her last name will become Ivanova. This is considered to be the same last name. And yes, it can cause annoying issues when traveling abroad, especially with children, when your last names don't seem to match.)

I wonder if it has something to do with the slightly higher-than-average male mortality rate?
I did tech support for my college's library. Someone donated some collection to the library and their catalog of it was in a spreadsheet on an Amiga 2000. I was tasked with recovering it. The Amiga turned on, but its normal monitor connection didn't work. It did have another connector that I hooked up to a CRT TV and got a blurry black and white output. I think I used a floppy disk to copy the file off, and the format was not supported so I picked through the plain text view to get the info.
It's tempting to view defined benefit plans as something very valuable, but they are not an unalloyed good for whoever receives them. It's common for participation in such a plan to require a teacher (or firefighter, policeman, etc.) to forgo collecting some, or all, of the social security benefits they would otherwise be eligible for thanks to provisions in federal law like Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Rolling these back to some extent (the argument is that they were well intentioned, but went too far) is the subject of active political lobbying, and has been for some time. [0] [1]

There are a few particularly broken things about the current system. A worker's potential ineligibility to receive their spouse's social security survivor's benefits is a big one. It is not uncommon for the WEP to kick in and prevent a person with a defined benefit pension from receiving any of their spouse's survivor benefits, whereas if they had never worked a day in their life, they would receive it.

[0] https://www.aft.org/news/educators-fight-keep-their-social-s...
[1] https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/how-w...
How recent is that? In my country, you had to study for 7 years before being a teacher, and pass an exam (master degree plus two years learning from another teacher).

Then, due to shortages (caused by low pay), they removed 2 years around 2010, so now its only 5 years - a master degree. They made the passing grade at the exam so low for some teachers (math and physics teachers) that you can treat it like it doesn't exist, and while the current government won't do anything next year because they have interest in makebelieve the past 4 years the education recruitment process hasn't been a disaster, you have talks about diminishing the requirements to a bachelor degree (they will wait until after the european elections to start pushing the idea imho).

So most active teachers in place today had to study 7 years before working with kids. But when i will check the requirement in two-three years, i'll be able to say "they're pretty well paid for people with bachelor's degree!" too, event id it wouldn't be the reality for most teachers.
The bad thing is that people still think LLMs can be trusted at all. Companies integrating them into their offerings are not helping the public adopt the correct mental framing of these tools as "plausible text generators".
The closest I could think is a vexatious litigant d.b.a. "ambulance chaser" trying to sue everyone in the supply chain.

I'd generally think the average Joe realizes a private sale/giveaway is an "as is, where is" though.
Certain flavors of superconducting digital logic (there are a handful) such as AQFP (adiabatic quantum flux parametron) actually get close to the Landauer limit (with cooling power excepted). Interconnect (as some comments have noted) and lack of a good memory technology are the challenges for all these architectures.
I have long had ADSL connections where the upload is slower than the download and long ago I would get into cyber battles with people who had them and did a lot of research into he performance characteristics of asymmetrical links, I suspect that cellular data is asymmetric too because the base station is a big high power system and the phone is small and low power.

Even when you are downloading in the fast direction, TCP sends ACK packets in the other direction, if the traffic in the slow direction overwhelms the slow path it will cause latency and/or packet loss for those ACK packets and cause the fast direction to become unusable.
In the picture with the phone cable plugged into the modem port directly next to it appears to be an Ethernet port. I know the blog post says there was "no networking software" installed, but the OS came with file sharing capabilities built in. Someone would have had to gone to effort to remove it. It might even have an old school FTP client.
> they'll just need to use fear mongering to manufacture consent with the tax base

There is zero evidence this has occured. To the degree Altman et al's doomsday fundraising had regulatory effect, it hasn't been in the form of subsidies but onerous rulemaking.
Thanks! I did try the vision demo in the console. One problem might be that my handwriting is idiosyncratic / there may be more training data available for historical handwriting styles?
May 2024 Maker News Roundup
Fusion is an incredibly energy dense power source, but that does not necessarily make it cheap. e.g Uranium 235 is 3 million times more energy dense than coal, but nuclear power is not cheaper. And fusion is much closer in energy density to fission than fission is to coal.
I think it is in fact reasonable. Private persons are unlikely to have means/connections to acquire Pegasus while victims are all around EU, see another link below.

https://www.dw.com/en/spain-court-reopens-investigation-in-p...
600k routers were bricked in a single cyberattack
I lived in HongKong for about 2 years a while ago. It was the same there. They calculate everything and you just have to sign it.
First Person Shooters Audio and Player Perception
Large Language Models Can Self-Improve at Web Agent Tasks
Only if you're under the false premise of the people serving the government rather than the government serves the people.
I don't think it's either necessary or appropriate for the government to be spying on its political opponents and then leaking damaging material to friendly "news" agencies

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/12/18/polish-state-tv-order...

This was a pretty clear and obvious abuse of the state apparatus against political opponents.
Climate Change Added 26 Days of Extreme Heat over the Last Year
> Where are crimes more likely to occur, a city with 10,000 or 1 million?

A city of 10,000 may very well have a higher rate of crime. In terms of your analogy, consider my lawn man, who only takes cash for his services. I know he's not taking in millions of dollars a year (or even hundreds of thousands), but I also strongly suspect that he does not report all of his income.

Same goes for every cash-only business I know.

> I rather have a well staff IRS going after those that evade paying their taxes, probability speaking the wealthy.

I'd rather the tax code be simplified so that nobody has access to loopholes, not just the wealthy. Not much you can do to hide, for example, a land value tax.
If a small amount can get somebody out the door and doing the exercise, then on the balance, it's better than sitting on one's couch and using a larger amount.

Also, one can take a non-strenuous approach to both running and biking. People who need to be inebriated to maintain motivation aren't going to be out there doing interval training.
Two Years Later, Generative AI Is Not Even Trustworthy or Mainstream
I finally tried FreeTaxUSA this past year based on recommendations on HN and it was a huge breath of fresh air compared to TurboTax! They treat you like a person and not a wallet, and it was also just way smoother and easier to understand than TurboTax's nightmarish interface.
Great recommendation, thank you. I have considered this and it’s definitely the simplest way to achieve what I want.
I was mostly focused on the policy part of their comment. A lot of the changes come based on a level or two removed. You generally don't see laws fully flip flopping. Instead it's quite common for someone to get appointed and then their decisions are the ones that change policies (especially internal policies at various agencies). SCOTUS, both now and in the past is a good example of the external law/policies changing based on interpretation. But yeah, actual repeal of laws is very rare.
I missed buying one for $30 when they were clearing them out a while ago and recently decided I wanted one for my car so started looking on eBay - they're going for at or more than the full, original price! Maybe with this EOL announcement, the prices will drop and I can pick one up cheap to repurpose for something else.
There is nothing pristine about images transmitted over Fax. It's such a grotty old technology with loads of aliasing issues. A modern cell phone picture of a word screen full of hex would almost certainly be easier to OCR.
Very nice work, the number of American flags I see here really has me thinking maybe I should move back home in a few years. (Like, 5 to 7 - I'm not leaving Finland until I become really fluent in Finnish. Call it a self imposed challenge.)

Can anyone tell me whether they think $100k+ salaries are more or less common over there compared to 2021? My first job out of college with Epic was around $90k at the finish, but I was coming in fresh from electrical engineering, I wasn't a CS major. I plan to head back with the Georgia Tech master's in comp sci, and I'm pretty sure I could crush any coding interviews that got thrown my way even now given a few weeks to revisit my old Neetcode 150 Anki card deck. The only thing which might hold me back is the languages I like on the job the most are painfully boring (Python, Javascript, good old fashioned SQL, Bash to shore up the organized-electron supply chain).
Same. Solder one of the $1 audio cables I’ve got lying around to the speaker leads and run it into your choice of audio recorders, play the files and you’re done in 5 minutes with basically no losses.
Yield in kT ?
> Aren't meaning, insight and import of more consequence than beauty?

You are close to setting up a false dichotomy here. It isn’t those qualities or beauty, it’s those qualities and beauty.

I first experienced it when I read Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. I was able to enjoy the book on the usual axes of plot, character, etc… but there was another level that had me rereading pages because every chapter, paragraph, and sentence felt perfectly constructed. Some of it I read out loud to myself because the rhythm of the words and sounds were musical. It is a great story, beautifully told.

That said, I’m not a fan of Ulysses and I’m sure a lot of people here would call me an uncultured rube for enjoying Odaatje’s writing like I did.
Daily pain on the Ergatta.
"American Pride." lol, the US Gov killed that a long time ago