skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory that the days of established businesses that don't know tech is dwindling. A lot of companies which has adopted tech has started building a small foundation of talent internally. I think you're seeing this trend accelerate with the large tech companies laying people off. I have heard about top grade data science talent landing at some small sized health plan.

My companies fastest growing competitor is "internally sourced departments" of the services we provide.
We have the battery tech, it's called a hydroelectric dam.
From the spammer blog post [1]: "I spent hours trying different data sources", "a lot of time was spent on find-tuning the tone and structure of the email", "It took multiple tries to finally have the agent write emails in different language", etc. This won’t put marketers out of a job, but will greatly improve their tooling and enable more people to do the same thing with even less qualification.

[1]: https://www.wisp.blog/blog/how-i-use-ai-agents-to-send-1000-...
> interoperability with other people who are using UTC
Here, you forgot to link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
We are entering new era of building new competitive things "from scratch" and building them really fast. Powered by LLMs, increased personal productivity, ease to access knowledge, it's just inevitable a lot of better things will be created.
I used Git on the command line exclusively for many years and occasionally tried the built-in Git tools for various editors as well as GitHub Desktop, but I never felt they were a lift in usability over the CLI or very pleasant to use. That was until I tried Sublime Merge on a whim. One thing I like is how keyboard oriented most of it is, and how it maps quite closely to CLI commands. If I want to commit I open the command palette with command+p and then fuzzy-search for commit with “co…” or “cm” or whatever you like, and it brings up the suggested commands which I can select with enter. And beyond that I like the generally attractive styling which makes viewing diffs and searching commit history (command+f, fuzzy find “contents:”, type what you want to search for) pleasant. It’s also totally snappy in most cases, even with multiple tabs for repos open — the only time I’ve seen it slow down was opening Unreal Engine, and that was at least a year ago so they may have made improvements on that. I use it every day and I am quite pleased with it.
> without having to shed a single drop of american blood

And 10's of thousands of Ukrainian dead and wounded, lives and families destroyed, is a small price to pay for American hegemony.
Sadly, AI allows dumb people to do dumb things more efficiently.

This reminds me of AI-generated fake security vulnerability reports about curl: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845878
I honestly don't get why people and the media supported the elonjet thing as some sort of fundamental free speech human rights thing.

When the same thing happened to Taylor Swift, people were quick to rally to her defense and call out her observers as bad actors.

Even a bill was signed into law in May in response that allows for anonimization of registrations, making such tracking essentially impossible.

I'm not a Musk fan but it's a weird hill for people who claim are not Musk haters to die on.
Some of us are working on synthetic data
Oh boi, your comment is nothing but uninformed propaganda.

AVM is way past "home-grown" with sales of over 620 millions and a profit of 60-80 millions. The owners have been preparing to selling AVM for a year now, to a private equity investor, which should be closed in the very near future.

And above all, AVM broke the law. But from your comment it sounds like law is a concept you do not approve much, do you?
> I know I lose points for not being an ultimate shell dweller

You don't lose a single point for using tools that fit your needs, no matter how much any gatekeeper says different.
I do the same as the poster above, fastmail supports it directly and makes it very easy to manage. All you have to do is bring your own domain (they'll even manage your DKIM/SPF records etc as necessary if you want).

Edit: Apparently you can also purchase a domain directly through them if you prefer, although you have to be a paying customer for 7 days first https://www.fastmail.com/how-to/email-for-your-domain/
> News shifts the viewpoint. HN calls that whataboutism.

Well, because what you are doing is by definition "whataboutism".

Yes, America is another evil for a lot of the world, including to my family, since by proxy America staged the military dictatorship in Brazil which disappeared a distant relative of mine (that I never met, since he disappeared way before I was born).

> What about unnecessarily starting an war with ukrine as proxy?

This is just regurgitation of Russian propaganda. Ukraine was invaded, twice, once in 2014, and a general invasion in 2022 starting a major war.

The USA didn't start it, Russia did, you're not only regurgitating Russian propaganda but also removing all the agency from Ukrainians who do not want to be dominated by Russia as they had been since the Soviet times.

Or do you also think Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia shouldn't have a say on who they align towards because they border Russia and were once part of the USSR? Or Poland? If you don't think so then there's absolutely no basis for this bullshit that the USA created this war.
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> Not if they're trying to sell me something...

How do you know they're trying to sell you something without even reading the email?

Your question was "Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why?" which doesn't make much sense. For me, and I imagine the same applies for most people:

1. You read until you find a clue that its content is not of interestt. Usually the email subject doesn't say much.

2. You only reply if you need.

Cold outreach are genuine emails that covers colleagues, new clients, job opportunities, someone reaching out to collaborate, etc. How you deal with it depends on your profile and who you've given your email address to. Personally, I have many email addresses, for some I don't even check my inbox.
Nuclear isn't infinite and uranium mines are often in politically unstable countries. Niger's military junta just forbad Orano from exploiting a mine, for example. What is the French government supposed to do now? Declare war for uranium? Import more uranium from Russia?

As a reminder, here is where the US's uranium came from in 2022: Canada (27%), Kazakhstan (25%), Russia (12%), Uzbekistan (11%), Australia (9%), six other countries (16%) (Germany, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, and the United States). https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/where-our-uraniu...
Absolutely amazing example of data journalism. Perhaps not all maps are created by the author originally, but such articles show very well how text paired with maps can greatly enhance the overall amount of knowledge transferred. ESRI have some similar articles in their Living Atlas using maps from it also. Not sure whether there is another like... easy/standard alternative, but the potential for such articles is huge. It is very possible that each serious article can benefit from some maps.
Do people usually read all the articles on hackernews? I just pick and choose the ones that seem actually interesting. Does this filter by actually interesting articles to me or just picks the top five of the day?
Kabaddi
You can not stop a nuclear reactor to fit the grid needs.
If you go to the Bolivian part of Lake Titicaca (home of the Bolivian navy), there is a statue with a sword pointing West saying something along the lines of "We are going to take back what is ours".
The author links to the somewhat dystopian blog where the email sender is quite proud of their work. Their words (or perhaps that of an LLM):

> Could an AI agent craft compelling emails that would capture people's attention and drive engagement, all while maintaining a level of personalization that feels human? I decided to find out.

> The real hurdle was ensuring the emails seemed genuinely personalized and not spammy. I knew that if recipients detected even a whiff of a generic, mass-produced message, they'd tune out immediately.

> Incredibly, not a single recipient seemed to detect that the emails were AI-generated.

https://www.wisp.blog/blog/how-i-use-ai-agents-to-send-1000-...

The technical part surprised me: they string together multiple LLMs which do all the work. It's a shame the author's passions are directed towards AI slop-email spam, all for capturing attention and driving engagement.

How much of our societal progress and collective thought and innovation has gone to capturing attention and driving up engagement, I wonder.
Certainly! To build a bomb using household materials...

It seems like CoPilot/ChatGPT has this all-too-eager tone in the beginning of their responses.

The demo (1) of not Scarlett Johansson telling a blind man what a great job he was doing for managing to flag a taxi sounded so fucking patronizing to my ears. Worse is, the user has a British accent, the Brits probably hate that patroniz^Hsing too. It reminds me of that 4chan green text about a man's flight to the US and how everyone was saying "Great job!"

1) https://youtu.be/KwNUJ69RbwY?t=44
> Bionic leg moves like a natural limb, without conscious thought

Missed school ? /s
Does this allow you to also send emails as a particular address? I've not yet managed to set this up properly.
You skipped an important market segment. Porn. The history of technology for making and distributing images, from cave paintings to ancient Rome through the Renaissance, Betamax, Photoshop, Tomb Raider and Instagram filters, has always been driven by improving the rendering of boobs.
So we should not improve production methods, because it will give us more things for less effort?

Just let the market sort it out. I for one can't wait for the next Cyriak or Sakupen, that can wield the full power of AI assistance to create their unique vision of what a game can be.
Hey, thanks for checking out the framework! We just released this week so there aren't any data-points to share yet. But as we onboard more dev teams, we'll are planning on writing about their process and outcomes over the next few months.

If you are curious about the theory and best practices behind iterating on LLM applications to improve it's performance, this is a good blog-post from Data Science at Microsoft: https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/evaluating-llm-...

I am also working on takes the theory behind the blog-post above, and converting that to a more practical guide using our framework. It should be out within the next two weeks. You can get notified when we release a blog by signing up for our newsletter: https://palico.us22.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=84ba2d0a4c03...
Isn't the point of using renewables so we don't destroy the environment?
ALT-3 ♥

Unfortunately, for some reason unbeknownst to me, this doesn't work any longer on Windows 10+11
Other chosen conventions are less great, like not having the circle constant be 6.283185... so that we don't need to deal with factors or divisors of 2 all the time when using radians or almost anything else involving pi

90 degrees is one fourth of a circle, it would be so much more intuitive if we'd use "1/4th of something" rather than "1/2 radians" to express this
The website uses "Enter your 6-digit authentication code" as an example and then shows a 4-digit auth code in the text field
https://imgur.com/a/u4STHPe
I wonder to which extent data centers are built already or will be built close to where renewables are readily available, to relieve the burden of transporting energy over long distances. Is it cheaper to build fibre optics to a remote location than it is to build power lines?
Can you add support for tavli?

https://www.bkgm.com/variants/Tavli.html

The first game of tavli is portes which is the most common variant of backgammon played. Tavli is played by Greeks at least (and I'm sure many more)
> As for the humans, we went fishing instead.

To a farm upstate?
> The Ukraine War though has been now transformed into an Afghanistan War. No end in sight, wasting a lot of money, and a distraction to important issues.

Indeed, the analogy is obvious. Just like the Afghanistan Wars were a waste of lives, money, and morale for its invaders —USSR (1979-89) & USA (2001-21)—, so is the Ukrainian War being the same kind of waste for the invading Russia (2014/2022-...).
Sublime Merge is cough sublimely good at performing 3-way merges.

I don't like it as much as a generic git frontend (nothing beats the command line once you're used to it, but for 3-way merges, it's absolutely perfect and I have yet to see anything better.

Another very good tool for 3-way merges is meld, but the macOS port (where I do most of my development work on) is not very good, mostly because the GTK macOS port isn't very good.
I'm a paying user. The ability to diff across two commits/branches. I still have to flip over to GitHub if I want that kind of view.
We had the exact same problem before genAI became the next big thing. All the startups were selling generic fine tuning and labeling services both of which are super easy to build, and they didn't even work on our unique super high quality super high resolution 40TB dataset.

Our problem was we had a real world problem and real data. All the startups were solving for imaginary problems and had no data.
> The Ukrainians have actual Nazis.

The USA also has actual Nazis.

> But it isn’t my problem — tens of billions of American tax dollars are going to Ukraine with no accountability. In the U.S., open borders policies have led to the rape and murder of a 12 year old girl in Houston, along with many other high profile violent murders by illegal aliens who should have been blocked from entry and deported.

It is your problem, the destabilisation of the world by allowing countries to take over swaths of others' territories is going to be your problem, it's not immediate but will be your problem if it's not contained.

You know who else also rapes 12 years old? Your own citizens, inside their homes, their grandpas, their uncles, their dads, sometimes even their moms, those are the majority of cases of abuse of minors, not the boogeyman of immigrants.

The worst social malaise of the USA is this unbounded individualism, as if you do not care about others but just "me me me". It's just a stupid and infantile way of thinking, unfortunately it's so pervasive in your society that you lose sight of any bigger picture, what matters is "me me me" and that blocks any rational thought outside of the sphere of your small and broken egos.
Sending spam is... very energy efficient, compared to the LLM usage.
It's crazy how complex browsers have become ...
You practically fork an OS to make a browser

> At the moment, many core library support components are inherited from SerenityOS:

LibWeb: Web rendering engine
LibJS: JavaScript engine
LibWasm: WebAssembly implementation
LibCrypto/LibTLS: Cryptography primitives and Transport Layer Security
LibHTTP: HTTP/1.1 client
LibGfx: 2D Graphics Library, Image Decoding and Rendering
LibArchive: Archive file format support
LibUnicode: Unicode and locale support
LibAudio, LibMedia: Audio and video playback
LibCore: Event loop, OS abstraction layer
LibIPC: Inter-process communication
Yes that's right, what I meant was that for many of the use cases on greenfield projects that I used to use C++ for, I no longer do.
Think about this: if Russia wins territory in the long term, it will be a first in 80 years. That is, the real reason why the Ukraine war is so important is Russia has violated the most important international rule, which is to invade another country seeking to annex their territory.

The last century or so has actually been pretty peaceful, and it has been precisely due to the world not tolerating this. If they succeed it will compromise that peace and I promise you everyone will suffer.

The best thing is for the whole world to have a defense-only pact, requiring everybody to band together and defeat any aggressor.
Is it just me or did the article at no point explain why medical models produce biased results? I seems to take this as a given, and an uninteresting one at that, and focuses on trying to correct it, without explaining why it happens in the first place. Yes, those models could use race as a shortcut to, presumably, not diagnose cancer in black people for example, but why is the race shortcut boosting model training accuracy? I am still none the wiser.
They're already setting us on fire
One day son, this will be all yours!

What, the curtains?
Have you made a comparative analysis of how much a dam vs lithium mines destroy the environment?
The sun is everywhere. Time zones (and the reasons that spawned them) after everywhere. Why would they be magically free of it?
>St. Petersburg/Leningrad oblast has potential, because it's close to Europe. With Finland and Estonia both in NATO, access to St. Peterburg is available. The Russian military is rather busy with Ukraine, and there might not be enough troops available to quickly suppress an internal revolt

You have to be absolutely delusional to believe St Petersburg would be seceding. It's arguably even more imperialistic than than Moscow itself, and it is managed by the staunchest Putin loyalists (Current governor, Beglov, is a full-on militarist and Putin lieutenant since the 90s).
Exactly. Those are also not funny at all.
This is more like trying to fight fire with cancer - not effective and likely to backfire.

Russia is not going to come apart, especially not areas close to the capital. And if it did, you would have thermonuclear weapons in the hands of rando’ nobodies.
I use SM (and paid). Just select both commits, regardless of branch, and the diff is shown.
Very cool! Will you also add support for secret based 2FA codes, similar to Authy / Google Authenticator? It would be incredible to have those autofill.
Fighting Russia in Ukraine is the alternative to fighting them in Poland and Estonia, then having to discuss who does the nuclear first strike.

(the US has also long ignored what Russia has been doing in Syria, despite that being a contributor to the middle east polycrisis)
> The number of times I mis-spelt Stonebraker

Same problem here.

But, given how many last names (not only in English, but many other languages too) derive from trade or profession monikers, I can't help suspect that at some time earlier in his family's history it was spelled differently. (Except of course if it was first written down in this form. But then I'd guess that was because spelling wasn't all that stabilised a few centuries ago, so what was meant was still what we'd write as "StonebrEaker".)

"Anyway, it's just a thought." (i.e. idle etymological speculation.)
> > Incredibly, not a single recipient seemed to detect that the emails were AI-generated.

Of the people who replied. I bet plenty figured it out, but didn't bother to reply.
While I’d love to agree: many people these days simply don’t want to use IRC.
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Author here. I think the tarpit extends to most chatgpt wrappers as well, which is why I called out pivoting prematurely to application layer is a futile exercise.
402 TB/S Internet Speed World Record
Most of that money has been spend in the US and to replace old stocks of munition. I also guess that European countries (who have contributed together even more when including civilian support) are buying a lot of weapons from the US. The war also has shown that certain types of weapons are superior, the best kind of advertisement you can get, probably leading to additional sales of those weapons systems.

Next, Ukraine is not waste land, but an important source of grain that is feeding large parts of the world. If those would come under control of Russia, it would lead to a lot of political influence. Russia (and China) are already getting more and more control over countries in Africa. The greatest growth of population and wealth is taking place in Africa at the moment. If those markets are lost to the East it will have a negative impact on the economy of the US.

There must also a reason why the US is dragging this war on. The US in the past year has been very slow to deliver certain weapons systems (such as the F-16) and putting restrictions on the use of certain weapons systems (such as the restriction that military targets further away than 100 km (60 miles) from the border of Ukraine may not be hit). Although the F-16 is delivered by a coalition of European countries, the US had to give an export permit, and the US also has delayed the training of Ukrainian pilots. All these delays have permitted Russia to gain win on the battle field.

There are even people who believe that the US government does not want Ukraine to win, because the war is causing so much damage to the economy of Russia.
It’s also very good at committing chunks, especially from different files in the same commit.

It’s not good at getting an overview of your history or blaming, but for committing and merging it is really nice
Yes, with Fastmail this is quite easy to set up. It automatically uses the alias when replying to an email that was addressed to one, but you can also manually choose (on input) any alias for an outgoing email.
I don't say I identify with him but I have some respect and even admiration for McCandless, because I think I understand his feelings from what I've read and watched about him, but I don't have the same feeling for Treadwell though
The guy writes a post about how to send spam effectively, and then offers the subscription link in the end with "Promise we won't spam you". Yes, I totally trust you...
I'd love to know what your use case is that makes those things important to you - and what kind of benchmarks and cleaning tasks do you need to run?

Also, what kind of evaluations for quality of reasoning do you use?
Yes. Author here. OpenAI is at near 4bn ARR and growing (api plus SaaS)
Not necessarily behind all of it, they just learned to push the right buttons and tilt the scale. They just fuel wedges, disatisfactions, and divisions that already exist, they learned that amplifying them is making democracies ungovernable. So they keep doing it because, unfortunately, it's absurdly effective.

Only blaming Russia for all of it is just another way they win this propaganda/hybrid warfare, you don't take seriously the grievances of the "other side" because you feel it's all just fueled by Russia. It isn't, those grievances and problems are real, they've just been amplified and twisted, and by getting worn down of how much vitriol is spewed from whatever is the "other side" to you it works. It makes you emotionally tired and wanting to fight back by spewing your own vitriol, there's no more conversation, only stupid discourse, the division only grows from there.
The current models do have a specific pattern that you'll learn to recognize, but ChatGPT won't be giving you any bomb building instructions. You'll need a liberated model like Dolphin for that, and those will be easy to expose using other prompts.

The most likely outcome will be a digital "verified human" certificate, with two factor authentication on it. Bad for anonimity, but I don't see many alternatives and it may actually end up reducing online toxicity.