skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is truly amazing how much engineering and science China
has mastered.

They have the newest space station as well.

They appear to have made faster progress on production of more
advanced computer chips as well but that requires some further
investigation / proof.

This all while a single hostile nation wants to dictate what China
is allowed or not allowed to buy on the free market.
I'd love for them to stick with iOS 12.x as the bottom end install. I have a stack of EOL iPad Air's that run 12.5 that I could use for programming with the students I work with.
I've found that to be true of practically every human endeavor. The ones who achieve the most prominent positions are the ones who work the system to their advantage.

It's not merely that cheaters win. It's that they are selected for it: people want them to cheat on their behalf. And they may not even be wrong about that.
Based on the comments, I guess I should clarify. Yes, I can plug my monitors in and log into my system.

However, it is a crap shoot that an application will
1. choose the correct monitor / remember the chosen monitor after reboot
2. render text in the correct resolution for the monitor
3. correctly render in the new resolution when dragged across monitors
4. correctly respect the "primary" monitor setting instead of using the "first device in the list"

My most recent experience is using Linux Mint Cinnamon
have you tried wine?
Ah just in time for the election
You can have an AI make a decision alongside the CEOs and see which one is right. It's science.
> There's a bunch of information asymmetries

This is what I meant by mental effort. With the advent of the Internet, most of these asymmetries are gated by at most a couple of hours of online research.
I've settled on getting rid of as many of the photos as possible first, then just taking a photo, either with Google PhotoScan or my iPhone default camera if the light is right for no glare. We don't put up a lot of photos, and the value in them is mostly to remember a situation more clearly (I'm not sold on the value of this), so fidelity isn't that important.

Further thoughts-
I'm inspired by Sinéad O'Connor who in an interview said she doesn't take photographs anymore, because it kept getting in the way of the moment. It's okay to forget. However,

I'm curious why I still cling to the photos I have. Does it have something to do with my family being so scattered over the US, and the family oral tradition being just filaments of a once-strong web? (going back pre-photography here)

As I get older and my sense of duty around raising my child and keeping myself healthy for that deepens, I care less and less about keeping old journals (all of which I will burn eventually, whether or not I skim them) and photos.

Why do you want to digitize the photos and negatives?
This is a very theoretical argument but I don't think it happens that way in reality, because of all the ways that real human beings are not economically perfect agents. Particularly the information asymmetries - it's much harder to gauge the reputation of a small business vs. a big one.
If anyone needs further convincing, remember that the journey from power user to experiencing disability is inevitable (age-related sensory & skeletal-muscular decline) and in some cases, abrupt (traffic accident, keyboard/mouse related RSI). We all eventually benefit from accessibility features.
Criminals are using specialty phones or should I say, were using, because this was recently cracked and thus became useless. Catching Taghi in NL was a famous result of that.

Point is that dangerous people will use specialty devices/services and being legal is certainly not one of the requirements.
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Can't boards protect CEO's? Boards are usually made up of other CEO's or their FFF's anyway.

Isn't that why was it so important that Altman purge the OpenAI board?

Or can shareholders bypass the board?
In the floor or a mat.
Why are you posting the same thing twice from two different accounts?
it's getting there https://openjdk.org/jeps/8316779
If you find one, I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d share that info.
It's the "information" part I'm worried about. Humans are biased and have many blind spots. Garbage in, garbage out.
Microsoft BSOD message Team were moved to Microsoft 365
Check the article after this quote "Their tricks are so crude that anyone who takes a look can easily spot them"
> I 'd work for that AI

Apparently only in a low level role that involves labeling, and likely not for long.
MyScaleDB, a fork of ClickHouse, integrated Tantivy for better full-text search
> Can someone please explain how this is tolerated? Why is the guy not a laughing stock but a rector?

Some good answers already in the comments and I just want to point out that we need to stop lending so much credence to authority and titles and better recognize that it is perfectly possible to both hold a “prestigious,” even elected title like Rector or priest or President or judge or District Attorney and be a laughing stock at the same time
Modern speech to text is, for me, extremely accurate. You also have the original audio and can rerun things as and when technology improves.
The problem with banning ChatGPT/et al entirely is that it is unenforceable. We've already witnessed multiple "AI detection" offerings that have such high false-positives that they're harmful (or human moderators that use their gut to ban stuff based on tone/or being too high effort).

I myself have been victim of this, I used to post high quality bullet summaries of articles that took quite a while to create (I did the unthinkable: read the articles), I was doing this pre-LLMs for years but then got banned from three different popular subreddits within a few months after ChatGPTs initial release for posting "AI generated content" in spite of my account history. There is no way to prove something is hand-created.

So you can create a rule to ban it, which you cannot enforce, and then you can create a rule to injure people who declare its usage but all you'll end up with is ChatGPT/et al generated content anyway and the honest dealers being pushed underground/replaced by dishonest ones.

I'm sure HN will have a rule against AI generated content eventually. But except in cases where they outright admit it, it won't be possible to enforce, or they'll enforce it incorrectly on human content.
Foraging ants navigate more efficiently after energy-drink-like caffeine doses
With getters and setters as default whither "information hiding".
>Acute exposure to caffeine improves foraging in an invasive ant

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)01157-X
It’s also fueled by rampant IP theft. It’s a lot easier to advance when you’re not actually inventing anything.
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There is little to no moat for this given that any large company can recreate your business as a feature with the best LLMs (GPT-4/4V/4o) being available for close to free with the second best one (GPT-3.5 turbo) being $0.
Puzzles as Algorithmic Problems
I had this too but with athlon xp dual core a real like pro :) one time my psy burned some pins in motherboard I see the atx spec and found that is the power signal only well I replaced the psu with a proper watts and made used a clip to fill the gap of the burned side of the motherboard and this running’s well for 2y after a finnaly upgraded to core 2 duo generation
It's understandable that you're feeling stuck in a loop. Remember, you're not alone in this journey, many programmers face similar challenges. By focusing on your strengths, practicing your skills, and staying persistent, you can break out of the learning loop and achieve your career goals.
This is tolerated because this is pervasive, and throwing stones in a glass house is neither safe nor rewarding
I also prefer caddy with wazero plugin to run WASM .

So easy and works on everything
If you write new code, it's new code. Doesn't matter if you have reused concepts and ideas to write that code
A somewhat rude answer may be that, despite being very old, University of Salamanca is not prestigious -- outside of the top 500 in all major global university rankings -- and is therefore more likely to be willing to employ somebody who can fake their way into appearing to be a high-impact researcher.
A really important question here is why?

That will guide what's important. Inaccuracies aren't as much of a problem if you're using it as a search index where you'll return the image of your writing.
Microsoft won't fix intended, by design, behaviour, it is not broken from their point of view. And even if you disable Recall by whatever name they put to hide it, it could be silently reenabled by "security" updates.

At least if some Linux distro includes something that users consider bad for their privacy, you can choose among several alternatives, including direct forks. That is an actual strength of that approach.
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But I would only know about the result for my sales in some weeks or months. I have to trust the LLM in the meantime - and your example implies that the LLM answer could be proven wrong. How is that different from asking a complete stranger about better sales strategies for my business? Or even throw a dice?
The code that uses those frameworks often works with turns into spaghetti and meatballs. Spring has real OOP, but code that uses Spring turns into DTOs and repositories and services.
Can't confirm for the last ~12 years, various laptops from Dell and Lenovo, lower and higher end, various distros ranging from Ubuntu to Fedora to VoidLinux to now Garuda (an Arch deriv), various DEs / WMs (Gnome, KDE, i3).

But then I never multi-monitor. But everything these laptops had, was working without a hitch.
Reproducible graphene synthesis by oxygen-free chemical vapour deposition
Decided to build this after being dissatisfied with the UX of the other tools out there. My goal is to get this to be at the top of the Google search results for the "hex to tailwind" keywords.

Reasons why I think this is the easiest way to get the closest Tailwind color from a HEX code:

- link is easy to remember

- tool does just a single thing

- copy is clear

- you get to the HEX input in a couple of tabs

- all the action happens at the top; you don't have to scroll

Obviously I'm biased, so it would be nice to hear what y'all think of it. Are there any design improvements I could make? Anything I missed out SEO-wise? And of course, any other questions/feedback welcome!
I am deeply unsatisfied with how most RAG systems handle questions, chunking, embeddings, storage, and even those used for summaries are usually rubbish. That's why I created my own tool. Check it out I updated it a lot! It supports ollama too for private use.
>gold is a useless metal in the modern era

It's still handy as jewelry, the core use for several thousand years in the past and probably several thousand in the future.

The use as currency has always been a secondary thing. Try getting married with a plastic wedding ring if in doubt.
You’re right. Plenty of research has shown C-suite execs tend to have psychopathic tendencies.

The thing about academia, though, is that there is no escape. Not only is this behavior everywhere in the academy, economics dictates with very few exceptions you are stuck in the system and have to become part of it just to subsist and participate in research.

Meanwhile in the business world it’s relatively a simple matter to quit and work elsewhere when you end up with a psycho boss, and if you’re clever it is relatively simple to be compensated in a way that makes it possible to split away and start your own business or otherwise attain a significant level of control over your own livelihood and career goals.

As the saying goes, “the only way to win is not to play” when it comes to academia. Unfortunately that just further concentrates the worst characteristics. As someone who escaped academia it isn’t lost on me that academics almost universally love communism, a system that rigidly enforces equality such that it’s impossible to excel and break away from the system. One of the wonderful things about business is you can earn enough to eventually step away.
This guy's antics were featured on Retraction Watch back in 2022 [0]. All of this apparently happened in plain sight—as illustrated by this (farcical, single-candidate) faculty vote getting 50% blank ballots–protest votes. Everyone there knew.

"How can we design algorithms to detect..." is the wrong question in response to this scandal—it's completely in the wrong category. IMHO! These citation cliques are unsubtle and basically trivial to detect. It's the professional work culture of research universities that's the hard, unsolved problem.

[0] https://retractionwatch.com/2022/03/25/how-critics-say-a-com... ("How critics say a computer scientist in Spain artificially boosted his Google Scholar metrics")
ICE vehicles don't have tires? A good way to estimate the environmental cost of a mass consumer product is its price (capex & opex), with the caveat that the unaccounted cost for burning gasoline is probably around 6$/gallon, right now.

100 gallons of gasoline produce ~1 ton of CO2, and it costs ~600$/ton to perform CO2 air capture.
Cpython in beta
How people think that code is OOP when it has setters and getters, especially when then don’t do any validation is beyond me.

It’s just transaction scripts.
Humm sure, I agree with most of what you said.

I want to believe we can have a better economic system, not necessarily capitalistic, maybe one where resource allocation is achieved more democratically.

Capitalism, with all its flaws, was still an improvement over feudalism. I refuse to believe it can't get any better.
I'm not sure that this would work, mainly because it would mean that all the documents would have the same hash, rendering the content ID system useless. I don't know how many bits a content I'd contains, though, but I imagine it's enough to avoid having too many collisions (as that would reduce the usefulness of the system).
It’s getting in the way of white people.

They weren’t legally allowed to be there.

It wasn’t designed for them.

They would actually take up all the seats and yes, they would prevent the “people” ie the white folks who the seats were designed for, from using the infrastructure for what it was intended - to serve white folks.

In my view, it’s entitled arrogant to assume that your subjective view is reality.
This is exactly (one of) our use cases at Eraser - taking code or natural language and producing diagram-as-code DSL.

As with other situations that want a custom DSL, our syntax has its own quirks and details, but is similar enough to e.g. Mermaid that we are able to produce valid syntax pretty easily.

What we've found harder is controlling for edge cases about how to build proper diagrams.

For more context: https://www.eraser.io/decision-node/on-building-with-ai
Likewise I can't confirm, in the various laptops I have used since 1999, there was always something broken, between wireless, battery, finger printer reader, 3D, hardware video decoding, webcam.

Toshiba, Dell, IBM, Lenovo, Asus, HP.
Unfortunately it does nothing for the View Window and sites still detect mobile.
I find that the joy many commenters here have in both denigrating philosophys and at the same time proudly demonstrating no interest in knowing anything about it to be one of the more embarrassing things regularly on display.
I think there is huge potential to use AI for detecting many types of academic fraud. Citations of unrelated articles should be an easy one. Flag them and then refer to human university administrators for review.
Thanks for this commentary! At a startup where we are preparing to shard Postgres. I'd be curious if you're familiar with AWS limitless, and how you would have approached deciding whether to use it vs. the approach in the blog post had it existed back in 2021.
I don't see how it could, the terseness is the point. I'm not sure how a macro system could really help. Did you have a specific idea in mind?
Almost none of that population lives in the mountains.

Colorado is half Switzerland and half Kansas. Literally everyone minus a rounding error lives on the flat part.
This all while a single hostile nation wants to dictate what China is allowed or not allowed to buy on the free market.

Xi has abandoned the wise policies of Deng and is setting China back. Due to the idiocy of Xi it's not a single hostile nation as you put it. It's Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, India, the EU, Australia, and New Zealand.
just introduce yourself and tell them that you appreciate their work. don't try to smooze.
So like chromadb
Likewise anything new. The idea that it allows more air in that then allows more fuel is true for carbureted based engines. But they don’t actually exist outside of lawnmowers/chainsaws anymore. Everything from the timing to fuel injection and air intake is computer controlled.
Be that as it may, these things are won by whoever crosses the finish line first and China appears to be ahead of the west at this point and especially if current trends continue.

Also worth noting that American space exploration achievements were also kickstarted by importing the talent from post-WW2 Germany.
The phrase “since the dawn of humanity” is doing a lot of work in this comment. On a long enough timeline, the “world has ended” multiple times. This isn’t doomerism, it’s a pragmatic view from a biologist’s perspective.

Also as others pointed out, you misinterpret or misrepresent the interviewee’s words by placing “the end of the world” alongside TFA’s as though a thoughtful discussion with domain experts (in biology) is the same as the ravings of apocalyptic cranks.

Do you have an argument besides the ad hominem directed at “these people among us”?
This was a fascinating read if for no other reason than seeing how the filters were assembled. I have much more understanding of digital than analog, to say nothing of RF stuff.

I would love to see more stuff like this that is so understandable! Makes it seem much less like black magic...
Carbon emissions are not the only type of pollution. EVs and ICEs both have tires, so replacing ICEs with EVs does not fix the problem of air pollution in cities because the vast majority of particulates generated by the car while driving it are coming from the tires, not the tailpipe.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...
It is next to impossible to detect despite being so crude.

Unless there is an explicit suspicion, nobody is going to systematically check all your citations and papers. There are simply too many of these things to do that systematically, for every researcher, grad student or professor.

The universities don't have resources for something like that - that would mean hiring multiple people doing just work like that full time. And it still wouldn't uncover the slightly more sophisticated cases, such as the professor getting a "mandatory citation" on every paper produced by the students working in their lab.

How do you think can a professor publish 20-30 journal papers a year (that's both a very common number and still quite low) when getting a single paper written and shepherded through the review process takes months in the best case and could take even 2 years in the worst for the large journals?

Yes, all the work is done by the grad students and assistant profs - and the professor's name gets added to the list of authors as a sign of respect (in the best case) or because they were told to do that (in the worst one). This is an extremely common practice.

I have personally witnessed one guy build essentially an entire fake academic career like this, by pushing grad students to credit him for work he didn't do - and he almost got away with it. He didn't obtain a tenured position at a prestigious European university only because one of the professors in the tenure committee worked with him before and knew how did he obtain those (on paper) stellar research credentials - and vetoed it.

Moreover, most of the metrics like impact factor are just a number. You can't see what they have been calculated from. Research has always been built on individual integrity and honesty. And there will always be bad apples that abuse it.

The motivations and what is on stake (your career, job, grants, etc.) are so skewed that a lot of people feel pushed into cheating like this.
Indeed. And I hope you can cope with the knowledge that some women don't need men.
PHP: Noodles or Soup?
There are plenty of old laptops and PCs that you can get for free that are still supported.

You also can just virtualize other platforms.
So an insane and soon to be dead generation of reactionary former hippie Bay Area boomers.

I’ll give you that. Who else though?
I agree in that case the dysfunctions stems from the other company, that is much harder to work with since you don't share the same organization so don't have a joint manager.

In that case your manager has to decide, and seems they decided to ignore the customer in this case which is probably reasonable.

Anyway, not sure why that was due to OKR. Maybe the decision was rushed due to OKR deadlines as you say, maybe it would have been rushed anyway, but at least OKR makes these problems more visible and makes it easier to work with them.

OKR in general makes it much easier for managers to do their job, and you really want your managers to do their job properly.