skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google started including LLM features in internal products 2019 at least, I knew since I worked there then. I can't remember exactly when they started having LLM generated snippets and suggestions everywhere but it was there at least since 2019. So they have had internal APIs for this for quite some time.

> All this AI stuff was under lock and key until Nov 2022

That is all wrong... Did you work there? What do you base this on? Google has been experimenting with LLMs internally ever since the original paper, I worked in search then and I remember my senior manager said this was the biggest revolution in natural language processing since ever.

So even if Google added a few concepts from OpenAI, or renamed them, they still have had plenty of experience working with LLM APIs internally and that would make them want different things in their public API as well.
So we do not need LLMs for hallucinations, humans are already good at those?
A very interesting question, which prompted me, a silent HACKERNEWS user, to post my first comment.

I graduated from university in 2007 and started my first job as a programmer. I began full-time entrepreneurship in 2010.

I am in China, working in the internet industry. The company I work for is listed on NASDAQ and is comparable to the level of the FANG companies.

Over the past 14 years, I have undergone two entrepreneurial ventures, both of which have been successful. One of the companies is relatively large, with hundreds of employees, while the other one is quite small, with around 20 people, both running stably.

Here are my answers to the questions:

1. No, and I had no income after resigning, this is a fact.

2. Countless pivots, extremely tormenting.

3. The income curve was zero for a long time, even during the stable operation periods of the businesses, the income and profit fluctuated from time to time due to the global situation and economic conditions being very unstable in recent years.

4. I have always maintained the habit of coding and might fully return to software engineering in my next venture, possibly by starting a game software company.

5. The first one was with friends, and the second one I completed independently.

6. Entrepreneurship is very difficult, and earning an income is hard. I think the key point of my personal story is that my financial situation was very dire for a long time. Since programmer salaries are very high, my colleagues who didn't venture into entrepreneurship had a very comfortable life, while I was tormented every day. After 14 years of entrepreneurial life, my personal financial situation improved around the 7th or 8th year. Of course, I am now a standard affluent class (currently 40 years old), but I am not intoxicated by wealth. My mental state also experienced significant ups and downs, and there was a period when I had to rely on medication. During this process, I gained some religious beliefs, which have enriched my perspective on the world.
While all of these are great tips, I can personally vouch for lifting weights being wildly effective. I used to get lower back pain from sitting all the time. Once I started lifting weights the back pain basically just never returned. Haven't been lifting in years now but my back is still perfectly fine.

So if at all possible, see about lifting weights.
Before early XX century most of the globe was comprised of countries who looked like that.

> the main language used in administrative affairs was German

> to portray Georgia as a mere "province of Russian Empire" is ridiculous given that they are so distinct that you cannot even read what they write

Please don't tell me that many Englishmen could read Devangari script or that many Frenchmen could read (pre-Latin) Vietnamese.

You may not like it today, but these territorial claims were seen as completely valid.

The subtexts that you are pinning on me are your own invention, I just say about unfaithful representation of history in the press.
If you are wanting something familiar to Windows, a start button and task bar will be the least of your issues.

There is no desire to cater to Windows users because they move the target, "Oh you might have made this to be like Windows like we asked, but actually this is also not like Windows so I'll never use it anyway."
How we see groups in design
The -istan suffix means "land of". Similar to ScotLand, IreLand, etc.

So Tajikistan means: the land of Tajiks, Afghanistan means the land of Afghans, Kurdistan means the land of Kurds, etc
> I think there are a lot of different reasons people today have a problem with science and technology. Some are scared of it. Some just don't trust it, which can be entirely fair depending on the degree/situation. Some see that the regulations, oversight, and accountability we expect and depend on to keep us safe aren't working like they used to or like we thought they would.

We often forget that many people have been genuinely negatively affected by technology or science or know someone who has. Let's not forget that many technological and medical advances have come at a real human cost. People have been poisoned by harmful chemicals either during their occupation or because an entire community has been exposed. Entire communities have been devastated by the opioid epidemic which the medical community is directly responsible for. Not to mention the countless people who have lost their jobs or will lose them soon to automation.

There are people with genuine concerns about the way science and technology are heading and pretending anyone skeptical of modern science is simply uneducated or stupid is extremely counter-productive.
> extremism in the form of salafi Wahhabism isn’t common in the country

It’s not like the SA government (as a whole) was ever particularly that keen about the extremism part. Fundamentally they are not that different from Iran in most ways. They started from very different positions of course (secularism never having been a thing in the Arabian peninsula). SA is at least kind of moving into the right direction in some areas when it comes to women’s rights (even if at an extremely slow pace).

> It’s theocratic authoritarianism

Probably closer to theocratic totalitarianism..
> all rolled into one beautiful, weird, dysfunctional country, and I couldn’t get enough of it.

I do not see dysfunctional countries as beautiful. I prefer well functioning countries where things get done and people understand each other.

I guess the author likes to see people suffer?
Much like words, or any created system, are inherently kind-of 'ambiguous-but-not'... by existing

Words can be assertions or statements, these aren't necessarily the same thing

The system was made to deal with the ambiguity, not remove it, so we're dancing around the actual fundamentals.

I don't know what purpose this article serves other than to congratulate monkeys for their creation/entertainment
When people get a mod response they often jump to the conclusion "the mods must be against me / my side". This is understandable but not accurate. We've moderated and/or banned many accounts doing religious flamewar against Islam, just the same as any other religion.

If you see some posts where people are doing that and didn't get moderated, please don't take that to mean "the mods don't care" or "the mods must tacitly support this". Far more likely is we just didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, you can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Actually I will be more concerned once other nations start to set up their own Starlinks.

Kessler Syndrome is a question of when, not if, by that point.
I learnt German at the age of 25.

I distinctly remember the first time I was exposed to it (before learning it), it sounded like water gently flowing down a creek. Then I learnt the basics, and my brain started to catch on to patterns.

However, I had to go through the written form to learn properly. I found it hard to parse and remember words when I was only hearing them. Unlike young children, obviously.
How are they leeching?
A lightweight high level library for configuring a HTTP client or server
They want to democratically abolish democracy. What’s undemocratic about that?
The converted meshes are not efficient. They are also full of n-gons so you need to retopo no matter what...
Show HN: I built an AI assisted script generator for YouTube content
Go to https://www.scriptfa.st/scripttest to try a free version for 24 hrs only.

I made this to help myself create a YouTube channel and if anyone has similar aspirations, I hope you might help you as well. Looking forward to any feedback!
Why worry about the opinion of people who are confused?

Without using the words 'conscious', 'sentient', 'AGI', or 'intelligence' what do you think about the future capabilities of LM AI and their implications for us humans?
People don't _feel_ comfortable but they objectively are much more comfortable that 120 years ago or more. Unfortunately being objectively more comfortable doesn't make you feel more comfortable and ultimately it matters how you feel and want to fix whatever is causing them to feel like shit.
My read on it was that the terms of use of content services can prevent that content being used to train LLMs.

If LLMs were trained using data from these services then it's possible that this will be challenged in court. Should the court rule in favour of the content services, then the LLMs may need to be re-trained (or likely negotiate compensation).
I doubt many people would pay $100 to have their customer service question heard. No one's doing that for "how do I reset my password?"
I love this little library. This is how you make things secure, by making it easy to implement.
What does semantic kernel do for you? It isn't immediately obvious from the Readme.
ahh.. looking for investment, so reticent to talk about the internals.

Basically does a lot of matmulls and sampling to find good good planar fits...

Most of these sample datasets took an hour to compute, using 12 threads on a midrange CPU... should be doable in seconds if ported to a highend GPU.
THIS is the best resource on dithering I've read (except maybe some gritty details in forum posts by the author of Obra Dinn)
How is science even possible?
Related:

I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560768 - June 2024 (262 comments)
I didn't read it as a personal offense — I am tough, but I respect your decision. It is the year of the Linux desk/lap top, so better switch your os /s
It’s an appalling situation IMHO - watching the lack of regulations for “space litter” and ignorance of one man combined ruining earths orbit for generations to come is a disgrace.

I get the point of providing global connectivity and it might be useful, the implications don’t make up for it though.

Scientific research should be the only reason anyone should be allowed to put human made objects into space.

Musk shooting a damn car into space just for the fun of it should have been a warning for everyone - seeing the majority treating it as a “cool” thing to do just shows how much mire education about space should be done.

Oh well.
I've just recently started making sauerkraut and I'm amazed at how good it tastes.
Check the dminder app.
I'm really annoyed everytime I go to buy groceries and I can't find any bread cut with alum and plaster of Paris, or sweets coloured with lead.

Actually, I'm not. To think that everything should be mediated by markets is just typical libertarian capitalism nonsense.

Reputation doesn't scale. Fixing problems with the court with much more expensive that preventing them from happening in the first place. Information and power asymmetries are real.
I’m right there with you (and also a late T1 here). Pizza is sooometimes manageable for me now with extended boluses on a pump and a closed loop to “mop up” what’s left. It’s definitely a “vibes” based dose calculation though haha.

My vote for biggest food bastard is Sushi. That sugary rice inevitably sends me to the moon (and crashing back to earth a few hours later…)
> There's something else with GenAI/LLM that make people want it gone.

Generative AI is in the news a lot right now because clicks. "AI will take your job" is out there a lot, possibly because "writer of low resolution news articles" is what it probably could replace, and so the writers have it on their minds.
Sure, but then there's other conditions that for a lot of people are basically entirely social. E.g. ADHD. Having a fulfilling life with ADHD is pretty easy. Holding down a job to pay for that life less so.
Most US states have the concept of "Lemon Laws" that provide consumer protection when buy used cars.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law

That said, this economic paper is pretty legendary at this point: <<The Market for Lemons>>

Summary: <<Akerlof's paper uses the market for used cars as an example of the problem of quality uncertainty. It concludes that owners of high-quality used cars will not place their cars on the used car market. A car buyer should only be able to buy low-quality used cars, and will pay accordingly as the market for good used cars does not exist.>>

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
But that would be similar to using `latest` tag with docker images, which is rarely a good idea…
> DeLay looks to Freud for a framework to understand denial

./facepalm

> Why Freud Should Be Dead

> Freud’s most implacable modern critic recounts the flaws of psychoanalysis and its founder and deplores their persistent influence.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/cross-check/why-freu...

But, i suppose if DeLay needs to sell books, he's got to go with someone with a brand to base his "work" off of.
Sorry to be negative, but how is this different from a Google search? Why not at least add a short description and why you picked them?

Also, "hand picked", but why not have for example:

1. derstandard.at - lots of text, but even more comments -> helps with seeing how real people write real text (not always nice)

2. srf.ch - besides the news page lots of background stories, documentaries, some of them in alemannic German (ie. Schweizerdeutsch - in various dialects) with German subtitles

3. als.wikipedia.org - if you are feeling brave

These are just the first ones that come to mind. But if you go on Youtube and search for the German TV networks, there are at least a dozen channels for the various Bundeslands of Germany.

Also, no Mailab for Youtube recommendations?!?!?... OK, I will stop now.
Yes, developed on a 100% standard Spectrum 48K with the rubber keyboard :) We had a Timex 3" double disc drive, unlike our previous (not commercial) game which we developed using regular cassette tapes.

We used HiSoft's GENS assembler. My brother reverse-engineered the microdrive code in GENS and replaced it with functions to access the Timex drive. That was a huge timesaver for us and other Spanish developers at the time. The source code and the GENS program had to fit in the 48K.

For our next Spectrum game, we used a hardware system to connect an Atari ST and develop on it. It was certainly faster and more comfortable, but the system was buggy as hell and crashed/corrupted the source almost daily.
This is great advice and I've actually built ponds on this principle in the past. It works well. There are tons of Youtube videos on this subject as well. The channel ozponds is pretty good for this.

What I am now interested in is the construction of spring boxes and finding and digging a natural spring from a wooded area. I used to do this when I was younger, but I've found that while the internet generally has all kinds of new techniques that I wasn't aware of, unfortunately, I haven't found a great source of info for this topic yet.
So this bit is just plain wrong

> For this the infants were presented with words and non-words and found to have longer listening time for the nonwords. This indicated they had already become familiar with the words by listening to the continuous sequence of syllables within which they had been embedded. The only way that could have happened was by monitoring the TPs between syllables—the infants were capable of statistical learning.

First, "longer listening time" doesn't mean that they identified syllables. Second, it's a group effect, not individual, and the differences are small. It's NHST, and thus their p < 0.04 and p < 0.03 means very little. Third, two minutes of speech shouldn't be able to affect the underlying speech recognition. It's too fast. If someone talks some unknown language to you for two minutes, you still don't have a clue. Fourth, the task was extremely artificial.

This is a common pattern in cognitive psychology. Small effects, artificial tasks, ignoring other explanations, and then making a grand claim. I'm not denying that the babies, as a group, may have reacted differently to strings of phonenemes not in the training data, but I do deny that this is sufficient evidence for anything.
I understand how and why such feelings come up—it makes a lot of sense given the cultural context and the history. But I'd ask you to pause and consider taking 'yes' for an answer, i.e. to consider that we might genuinely intend to treat all sides, including yours, fairly and equally. I've been telling HN users that they can't attack Islam (same as any other religion) for as long as I've been a moderator here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590568 (Nov 2015)

It's easy to run into a few (maybe only one or two) datapoints and jump to "these assholes are just like all the others". That's how sample bias (and whatever bias this is: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) work. But if you do that, you'll miss many cases where someone is on your side and has good will towards you. That's not in your interest—it just leads to more of the same. How about let's for something else.
> allowing civil society and institutions to form

To be fair if they tried that Islamists would have just taken over. Those things don’t tend to just form on their own when you let people do whatever they want without supervision (you need very specific conditions).

The most effective path for countries in similar positions is probably balanced authoritarianism + focus on education and economic growth and then starting to introduce democracy and other civil rights gradually after a generation or two. Pretty hard to pull off, though (especially in the Muslim world).
Disclamer: I work for Octomind.

I think the reading is more "It's hard to find a good abstraction in a field that has not settled yet on what a good abstraction is. In that case, you might want to avoid frameworks as things shift around too much."
Please explain what you mean, atkinson dither loses 1/4 of the error to gain in contrast and details, rendering the top whites washed out. What's your recommended formula for converting the image to gray before dithering
> I'm curious about how they know.

> I'm actually in that exact process, and have absolutely no idea if half of the providers I'm looking at have a decent product.

Because they used it at a previous company, because they're renewing with their current vendor but are required to compare prices, because the CIO got a recommendation at a conference that is now mandatory, because their ex-colleague works at the vendor, etc.
This is a big and poorly justified generalization.
I didn't find a way to download the mesh once generated. Is that option not available at all?
xlib is miserable, but most of the misery is the x11 protocol

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast... exaggerates slightly but is basically in keeping with my experience. win32 gdi is dramatically less painful. it's true that the x toolkit is far worse than xlib

if you do want to write a game where you manage every single pixel, sdl is a pretty good choice. i also wrote my own much smaller alternative called yeso: https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/README.m...

tetris with yeso is about five pages of c: https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/tetris.c

the stripped linux executable of tetris is 31.5k rather than 300k. it does need 10 megs of virtual memory though, but that's just because it's linked with glibc

i should do a minesweeper, eh?
LiteLLM seemed to be the best approach for what I needed - simple integration with different models (mainly OpenAI and the various Bedrock models) and the ability to track costs / limit spending. It's working really well so far.
Why do people insist on using the word fiat.
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259886077/searching-for-scien...
Yep, keen to use it at some point!
One picture in the opening and the content is all made up. Happiness and prosperity is just a slogan rather the name of the village. Wish the bbc paid this attention to Muslims in the middle east who really need attation.
Money does buy happiness, up to a certain threhold.

Once you have more than X amount of money, it has diminishing returns. A billionaire's meal isn't that much better than a tech bro making $250k/year.

Life has been a lot happier for me once I reached a certain threshold in wealth.
> "Ultra-capitalism" is just the state of nature without the violence.

It's really not. That's the line pushed by Enlightenment thinkers (e.g. Rousseau, Hume) who didn't actually know what they're talking about. A few centuries of anthropology later and we know that a lot of other societies are characterized by mutual aid. One randomly chosen example: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2801707
Yeah, I had an impression that 4o, while much faster, is a downgrade. For me it often starts repeating things over and over when I start questioning things.
I recommend that you try out WezTerm[1]. I used Warp before switching to WezTerm, but Warp took always a long time to open the first time. WezTerm on the other hand is extremely snappy and easy to configure. After having tried iTerm2, Alacritty, Kitty, Warp and others I might be forgetting, I don't think I'll ever move away from WezTerm. It just works.

[1]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html
>But being warm and friendly doesn’t build a successful nation

No, but kicking out the greedy WASPs and their lackeys and post-colonial infuence schemes does though - though seldom realized
The builtin gyros didn't even reach the original mission lifetime of 15 years.

There's a limit to how much redundancy you can put in a satellite, but with how consistently these parts fail it would make sense to put in a lot. If 1% of the Hubble's weight was extra gyroscopes it would have 30-40 of them.
> Local abundance is traditional: fruit and vegetables in season. It's still true for people with big gardens, when it's not worth their while to sell it.

Yes, that was basically my point: participating in modern economies tends to smooth out local abundance. [0]

That's good overall! Less waste, more innovation. But, of course, there are certain specific things lost to be nostalgic about.

You are also right that water as an input is subject to lots and lots of distortions. And that leads to wasting of water, especially expensive in places where water is actually scarce.

> Yes, we can see that in the American West where most water is used by agriculture. Exporting food can be seen as a more practical alternative to exporting water. When there's a drought, maybe don't export quite so much?

When water has a proper market clearing price, that's exactly what happens.

[0] Home production in a garden is a good example here, because it's usually not for participating in the wider market economy.
Like they would even get a chance anyway. It’s quite entitled to think they would even be offered a job there or capable of getting a job there.