skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally disagree. As a customer, I should not have to pay more or less for an application depending on what phone or computer I use to buy it. This would be like charging the customer more when they use an American Express card to buy your product, just because AMEX charges merchants more.

At some point, you have to just admit that as a business you have certain costs that you have to pay to operate. This mentality, that business costs must be borne by customers, is what's leading to all these ridiculous hidden fees and charges at other businesses.
Is long covid still a thing? I thought it was a coping mechanism for managing the regret of taking the vaccine AND then getting covid and/or injured.
Is there a proper differential diagnosis?
Psa for anyone who has tried this or similar advice and found that: it actually feels physically impossible to force yourself to do things when you want to, as though you’re trying to push an immovable object, and has found that even did you manage to start something, you just feel more exhausted rather than motivated to continue. Please consider getting tested for adhd, because I spent years of my life not understanding why well meaning advice like this just made things worse for me.
> Okay bud, you win.

Huh? Clearly you won – you got to learn something. I am the one who lost. Respectfully, thinking things through isn't your strong suit, is it?

> I'll go tell all my gardening buds that the no till practices are "um actually, that's tilling".

Whatever floats your boat, but let me warn you: Unless your gardening buds are high on the "gardened bud", they are not going to buy into your idea that no-till means "to perform tillage" any more than we have, even if you are perfectly free and able to hold that view. No-till is literally the abbreviation of "no tillage".
UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft
I noticed that too, then it mentioned that compilation should work on macOS and Linux, even though they use Windows. But then they compile to a .exe in the test example to make sure everything is working. This kind of makes it a non-starter for someone who doesn’t already have some idea what they’re doing.
I am the OP. First, I am glad this post has gotten so much attention and traction.

But what if I told you I cured my mental illness at 58 years old, a serious case of Bipolar Disorder Schizoaffective Type that had me on Disability and in and out of psychiatric hospitals since I was in my early 30's?

What if I told you it was more than holistic but it was holistic thinking that helped me cure my disorder.

Will you all listen to me or write me off by saying that nothing I say is true because I had a mental illness? Will you be like my doctors who do not believe I am better? That I have no more mental illness along with all the neurological issues that came with it?

And what if I told you what I have discovered in myself can be applied not only to mental illness but to everything from Cancer to Alzheimer's to ME/CFS and Long COVID?

If there is one person here who will take the time and have a creative mind to understand what I am saying I will explain it?
You should never do that. Please do not, and I can't stress this enough, use `dynamic`.

If you need DOM-style JSON handling, please use JsonDocument and JsonNode instead: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializat...
how could the hype be in control?

we have a lot of people with a lot of investments that benefit greatly from hyping the products, an investment gold rush

we simultaneously have an industry of people leveraging better jobs, job functions, job titles, by showing off their skills with this new technology making real things very quickly, and causing companies to have fomo and react without planning by overhiring and overpromoting

and then finally we have a third class of people just talking about this new technology for the benefits of proximity. if there's a rumor george clooney is is crashing a party, half of people will make sure they're the loudest voice for the perceived benefits of that proximity. and even if it's not accurate, it's effective

all of it's happening at the same time
Throughout grad school I used ROS and whether the robot demo worked on the day it was supposed to was essentially a coin flip.

In industry I use protobuf, Hydra for config management, few async processes and god does it make a sea of difference. It seems like other companies are catching up, I see more and more companies avoiding ROS these days!
EFF's Privacy Badger shows a few potential trackers when loading that page.

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger
Do you recommend it doing it 10 years after?
Does this guy really believe that GPT-4's answers are of the same quality as GPT-3.5? That's ridiculous.
Huh, seems like one of those "Waffle House now offers CHOCOLATE syrup in addition to cheap maple-flavored syrup, NEVER EATING THERE AGIAN!!" kind of issues.

I noticed the AI feature in the latest update to iTerm2, but it wasn't turned on by default, and I didn't turn it on, so...

¯\\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
I couldn't find the ROMs for the 240. Any tips on that?
Hah!

> The watermark ends with the string “EOF”.
Ive been working with them for a while now and the areas I see it disrupting are:

* User interfaces. It does provide a genuinely new way to interface seamlessly with existing software.

* Translation.

* Generating bullshit. Yes, there's demand for this even if perhaps there shouldnt be.

* Not much else. That includes using it as a specialized autocomplete. I think it falls down pretty badly at that.
Automatically backup the iPhone to the Raspberry Pi (2021)
The intervention brought results and no other honest country would not react to such an attack. As I said, I believe some of the more indignant countries should be careful to not look like fools themselves.

That is nothing anyone would want to appease.

edit: The intervention to rescue the hostages wasn't "extremely violent". On what ground can you even make that judgement?
How hard is it to export all of the comments someone has written on HN? I have been thinking about converting my HN comment history into something like a blog. Each entry would show the title of the submission, link if applicable, and the comment and link to comment thread.

Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee.

https://github.com/runvnc/hncomments
it strikes me as ridiculous to have an expectation that something painted on a walking or driving path is going to stay in good condition.

At one time it was considered disrespectful to the cause itself to demonstrate flags in inappropriate places [0]

Meanwhile as a US taxpayer I am left to wonder why these folks are being bothered legally when every other shithead in a duallie 800hp/1200ft'lbs torque behemoth truck can burnout at every single red light and flick chunks of pavement away from the (now pot-hole-covered) road that I helped pay for.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_protocol

p.s. this whole ' everything against a thing is a hate crime ' definition sucks; it used to be reserved for things that harmed people or invoked fear; a bunch of young folks skid-marking some paint on the ground really doesn't flag those requirements for me; it's not at all surprising that some teens are acting like shits -- if that invokes fear I suggest counseling rather than further legislation.
The proof is on the pudding, and you cannot let Ai do anything more complex than a relative short prompt, the back and forth is bad and full of pot holes you need to check. It’s like working with a person with multiple levels of knowledge/intelligence sometimes 9/10 sometimes almost 0 and everywhere inbetween
> If the evidence is solid, [...]

Article continues:

> LeBlanc remained resolute Thursday against calls to release any names based on preliminary information.

> “It’s important for Canadians to understand that these names are contained in intelligence reports, in some cases, it’s uncorroborated or unverified intelligence information,” he told a parliamentary committee studying foreign interference. “The idea that there’s a perfect list of names that is entirely reliable that should be released to the public is simply irresponsible.”
Honestly they don't do much better for Z80 or 6502 assembly from what I've seen either.
Depends if primordial black holes are a thing or not and how early they formed if they are.
What is human intelligence? Are all humans, human intelligent? How do I know a machine has gotten there? Seems like a pretty poorly defined goal.
Probably not very: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...

But probably sufficient for a project like this.
For sure we don't have to keep arguing these things. They are trivialities in the grand scheme of things :)

But I think that's kinda the overall discussion, isn't it? There are different facets to every company and people have different values. What bothers one person might not bother another.

I remember Sun, in its heyday, as being disliked as well because its workstations were so expensive and Java was terrible in its browser applet days (in the same way Microsoft would come to be disliked for ActiveX).

I tremendously respect Valve and am grateful that they've stayed privately owned and able to maintain their culture. At the same time, others may find fault in the way they do business. I don't expect all of us to agree on who the respectable companies are.
I suspect that the success of AI will also vary a lot between different applications. But most people will evaluate AI on the topics they're most familiar with.

It will likely be disruptive in some areas short term, but will take much longer in other areas.
In general I agree with all that. And genius is a wildly overused term. But that doesn’t mean there’s none. TFA is talking about a woman that won a Nobel Prize.

Not every organization is going to have any opportunity to snag one but if you are running MIT, Google, or Lawrence Livermore you probably need to consider how to handle that edge case.
> to breaking the turing test (2020+)

You mean 1967, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

> However, many early users were convinced of ELIZA's intelligence and understanding, despite Weizenbaum's insistence to the contrary.
Being robbed is much preferable to being killed, but neither happening would be a lot better.
I can believe that I'll survive without my right arm while simultaneously not looking to chop it off. Yes, sure, all my people are replaceable, but I'm not going to go around flipping a coin on whether they stay or go. Replacing them has costs and risks, and it's cost a lot just getting the people I have.

To make everyone's life more miserable, hoping that your high performers don't leave, that's just shooting yourself in the foot because "I can still walk eventually".
It's a great and very useful tool, but the hype around just feels significantly blown out of proportion.

I also built multiple things with it and I always came to a point, where it just couldn't handle anything slightly larger than a mvp, or a non guided change requiring editing multiple files at once
too hard? too easy? i dont know?
Ask HN: What Windows apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Following the macOS apps thread [1] and in the spirit of equality, what apps/programs does HN recommend for Windows users? (I have to assume someone will do one for Linux too.)

Windows Terminal in "Quake mode" is a feature I can't live without, personally.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627395
Most people in somewhat reasonable shape could "run" a marathon on zero training. They might take 7 hours and have some minor injuries by the end, but they could finish.
I think that they are talking specifically about conspicuous consumption. That is: consuming things just to display to society that you have the resources to consume them.
and for those who don't know, it is actually said "Stret-am". Ah, English ...
Is there a RISC-V CPU that is even remotely close to modern high-end laptop performance? Do you know of one on anybody's roadmap even?
I 100% agree that it is dogma that inhibits the understanding and progression of treating human disorders. Take a look at Alzheimer's for example. They are still droning on and on about plaques as being the cause and despite trial after trial failing. The same is true in mental health. They were treating me with essentially the same medication they treated my mother with 50 years ago. 50 YEARS! No change! And yet every idea I approach them with they dismissed.

Glad to hear this voice from you.
That is simply gorgeous. I had considered building the PiDP-11, but the raspberry pi rabbit hole got lost on my hobby list of things to do. I might circle back to it as some point.
Honestly, I wish they'd enforce the "require no account" rule more strictly. One of the most annoying things about using a mobile app is when they hit you with the "Sign in or GTFO" page on first run, as soon as you install the app.

At the very least, if an application absolutely requires an account to function, this should be prominently displayed, and they should explain in technical details what functionality cannot be possibly achieved without logging in. App Stores should reject apps that gate basic phone functionality (like GPS directions or camera access) behind an online account. These things obviously don't require an account to work, because they work on the default apps without accounts.
Sorting itself is a mathematical operation. It's part of set theory, specifically order theory. The entire algorithm is a mathematical expression.
I'm fine with everything that can run locally, but honestly any product that adds AI on server side will want some sort of subscription from you eventually because it is not cheap by any means yet... So we will have every app on phone or desktop begging for money pretty soon when the hype starts to shift on the wrong side
Any nation's legislature, if threatened with loss of control of the nation's money, would immediately make it illegal to use any tender not sanctioned by that state. A vast amount of the state's historical policing was aimed largely at preventing alternative currencies from forming (consider, e.g., Isaac Newton's role at the Royal Mint).

They will put you in jail; withdraw your business licence and suspend your limited liability; deny your bankruptcy claims; tax you into oblivion; and so on. The state has every incentive to destroy a private currency, or a private army, or a private police force.

The only reasons states have take some interest in bitcoin and the like is that they aren't currencies. If there was any viable way of making ordinary daily economic transactions in BTC, it wouldnt exist. Inside the crypto system, "coins" are mere tokens with basically no ability to be traded for any goods or services. To buy anything you need to exist the system into an actual currency. So long as that latter step is required, BTC/etc. isnt a political project in the sense of this article.

"Money" isn't much more than a veil over the good-and-services of a society, an approximate quantitative measure of their marginal value. Governments require control over the money supply to manage this activity (eg., in pandemics) so they can, eg., prevent a widespread economic depression by temporarily exploiting inefficiencies the gap between the notional-and-actual value of money, giving people lots of it. Woe betide anyone who sells cars in BTC when there's a war on; you'll be in prision as a traitor.
Can you name a single RISC-V core that has been taped-out with enough single-threaded throughput to enable an enjoyable desktop experience? A 1.5GHz D1 core is a toy and architectural dead end.
One can publish on Zenodo, universities and authors can band together and split the difference: divide the cost of hosting and / or optionally paid peer review.
Creating Perfect Font Fallbacks in CSS
It's pretty dependant on the questions you ask. Obviously when you push them to their limits, GPT 4 goes a lot further. But what about for your average queries though? I don't have the data to make a proper claim about that.
Gartner puts Generative AI at just about it's peak in terms of Hype back in August of 2023[1], with a 2-5 year time frame to go through the "trough of disillusionment" and then back to the "plateau of productivity", which seems pretty fair to me.

[1]https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-s-new-in-the-2023-g...
> ATM's killed bank tellers for the most part,

Has it really? I haven't noticed any drastic decline over the years. Maybe some, but I wouldn't describe it as "killed".

What universal ATMs and cards have really killed off is personal checks, IMO.
If it's not close to 100% is it even worth it? I think Blackstone's formulation has something to say about all those innocents caught up in it.
Probably not, but this is something that would have taken all of ten seconds to get right. And the size and performance impact is multiplied at every tier of their application.

It’s also not just the size itself. Despite being fixed-size in practice, these are variable-sized strings in application code which now means gajillions of pointless allocations and indirection for everything. There are a ton of knock-on performance consequences here, all on the most heavily-used columns in your data model.

Worst of all should they actually succeed, this is going to be absolutely excruciating to fix.
If nothing else, I'd recommend reading it for the chapter on beans. Her companion guide to cooking with leftovers is a gem as well.
Very true.

I just wanted to point out that just because something is in the @google org, doesn't mean it should be thought of as Google <something>.
> Game development is a lot more than programming. If someone is just making projects on their own, it really doesn't matter much if the code is "good" or not. You just gotta have a game that works.

Balatro, a recently-released solo-dev indie game, is a great example of this. I saw two tweets the other day that, together, support your point: "Balatro has a 5000 line if-else chain"[0] and "in the 3 months since Balatro has launched, it has been collectively played for a total of 6200 years"[1].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1cbcmr0/how_is_it_... (couldn't find the twitter link directly but summarized it from this reddit post)

[1]: https://x.com/LocalThunk/status/1794876280997036443
I see it being used a lot now. AGI is a mirage and I think LLMs have made this more clear. We will never get there because the goal posts will always change. We will eventually get to the point that the prenatal experience is viewed as critical to AGI.

What complex applications are you speaking of?
Also - ADHD and Autism both appear to be very inheritable, so if someone is at home with their parents chances are they spend all their time around at least one person who is also ADHD/Autistic, and anyone else who is there or coming around is very used to being around ADHD/Autistic people.

So they’re ’normal’ in that environment.
Thank you. And to be clear: your question is a fine one, and perfectly reasonable.

> I try to keep an open mind...

Not to be rude, but I consider this to be an (unrealized) "no" - to me, ~passivity cannot implement skepticism; true skepticism is extremely intellectually demanding.

It's not possible to give you an object level description of my issues that would do them any sort of justice, but I think this points in the direction quite well: consider when religion ruled the world (controlled the memetic functioning of the majority of human minds) - this, for what are now obvious reasons, had many issues, and caused substantial harm to humans.

Science was the way out of that delusion, and it has rewarded us well. But it too is yet another delusion/faith based ideology (to a lesser degree in volume, though not necessarily consequence[1]), there is another level of enlightenment available to humans, but the ideology of science/scientism is now behaving as religion did in the past, rather than adhering to its scriptures (a recurring problem with ideologies of any kind).

[1] climate change is an existential threat in my books, and it was brought to our doorstep by science
> "...vision occurred through beams of light emitted from the eyes, interacting with the environment"

How did they explain lanterns and torches in this theory?
It us always interesting to see these takes.

The past year has brought us both model improvements along with drastic cost reductions. Its been a pretty magical year imo.

Is it AGI? Not even close but we have been utilizing the tooling improvements to build products internally.
I remember in 1999 or so near the top of the dot-com bubble, there was similar hype, and I was like "Sure, over 20 years this thing is going to be huge. Over the next 2, many people are going to get screwed." Same thing for crypto in 2014 and then again every time a new crypto bubble happens.

The problem is that capital isn't that patient. People are sinking billions into LLM integrations, at discount rates of 5%+. If it takes 20 years for a tech to pay off, at a 5% discount rate, and you sunk a billion dollars into it, it needs to earn back $2.65B. Moreover, at some point during that 20-year period, somebody's going to ask "Where's my billion dollars?" and pull the plug on the project.

I think the tech behind LLMs may eventually be game-changing, but that tech is going to change ownership and get reinvented several times, and we won't actually see profitable, sustainable benefits until industries get refactored into cost structures that make sense for what LLMs can actually do. The web needed its Netscape and Yahoo and Geocities and Apache, but it also needed Google and Rails and Django and GitHub and Stripe and Facebook and Webkit and nginx and MySQL to really become what it did.
> it only needs to be as good as a mediocre human carrying out a rote task to absolutely change the world.

And "absolutely chang[ing] the world" is often assumed to be good, but that's not necessarily so. There are a lot of mediocre humans in the world, only capable of rote work. If we push automation to the maximum, eventually we'll reach a point were those people have nothing economically viable to do.

And then you reach a decision point: support them on welfare, forever? Immiserate them and hope they die off (what our current social framework will invariably choose)?
As a suspected introvert, I really love sitting down and hearing about my partner’s day, but this is really crucial:

>Its tiring to be mostly on receiving end, either there is a lot of negative stuff being unloaded unto you, or people are hopeless in some basic situations and can't speak up or generally help themselves or similar, and there is very little I can actually help with.

I’m sure OP is wonderful and I don’t want to make assumptions about them, but I’d hate to do this with someone who is really negative and finds too many things to complain about. The other thing you mentioned is that if you’re a certain type of listener, it is an exhaustible skill to engage with so many “i need comfort not solutions” type stories and conversations.
More paper pushing jobs and less nurses and doctors and plumbers and builders...
> It will rapidly evolve into something we can barely recognize because it’s not constrained by evolutionary boundaries in the same way we are

It is constrained by physical infrastructure like compute and memory, just like the brain which had to become physically bigger to get better.
That only helps if playing your cards well is enough to be successful. For many people it isn't.
Rise of the Ghost Machines
You will get haters and armchair lawyers no matter what you do. Ignore the trolls.
Is anyone really shocked by that? Generally Berkshire doesn’t buy stocks with 100 pe.