skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> In an "AI is your friend, at scale" world - there are gonna be a hll of a lot of powerful political and financial interests doing their dmnedest to control or influence the AI "friends", as a way to control or influence the associated humans. (Ditto malicious states, cybercrime organizations, etc., etc.)

1. Does that not also apply to other cloud technologies like Google search engine and popular social media networks?

2. For any given technology, there are always going to be black hats trying to demean, destroy or abuse a technology but also equal (maybe more) number of white hats who want to progress, nurture and positively utilize that same technology. Should technological progress come to a standstill due to fear of black hats?
I would argue it's a mix, some need pressure from their boss while others require a sense of purpose to what they're doing. Both feed into to each other but depending on a persons internal drive one factor or another will be best in helping keep someone productive and on task.

Equally I'm finding that at the upper leadership level (c level) a lot of companies are directionless which feeds down the whole chain and makes it difficult for middle managers to convey the importance of the work to be done. I'm sure this differs for blue collar work though since the tasks are more set in stone by design documents and safety codes.

I'm personally still trying to figure out if the lack of direction from above comes from a mixture of lack of personal interest and leadership training. Or if overall leadership training has fallen to the wayside and many lack the ability to properly communicate and plan for the future.

To be fair though I haven't had any experience as a manager or c level so I very much could just be lacking perspective.
These single task correlative behavior studies are interesting but useless. So much behavior is wholly contextual and inferring "personality type"/identity labels from them is deceptive and limiting.
IMHO people who post Wikipedia articles should include, in the title, a brief description of why the thing in question is interesting. Having read the article, it's not clear what, if anything, is interesting about this town, or why OP decided to post this. Maybe they'd like to clarify?
This is really nicely done. It looks great and is very responsive. I have some things I track that aren’t daily so it doesn’t work for me, but I like that you didn’t build an app with a billion options.

Are you on the free plan for Dexie? How many users do you think you can support with the 100MB limit?
> Participants who scored higher in extraversion tended to describe the photos in terms that were rated by an independent coder as more abstract. For example, they used more "state verbs" (e.g. Jack loves Sue) and adjectives, and they admitted to engaging in more interpretation – describing things that were not directly visible in the pictures.

How do we distinguish accurate intuitive thinking, from hallucinating or BS-ing?

Is one way to evaluate the truth of the assertion? For example, if the subject says "Jack loves Sue"... are those their names (or is the subject using an idiom, or making a cultural reference), and (unless metaphor) does the male in the photo actually love the female in the photo?

The researchers might not know, a priori, that the man in the photo loves the woman in the photo, but if they could get an authoritative answer to that, then they might find that the subject is picking up on cues they didn't, or they might find that the subject is just talking out of their buttocks.

Would be interesting to know how accurate social intuition correlates with introversion and extraversion.

Think of the clickbait value -- gasp -- of a research finding that there's a sizable class of introverts who understand more of what's going on in social situations, than many extraverts just cruising on unwarranted/indifferent confidence.
Grab did something similar in their Southeast Asia markets a couple of years ago, if I correctly remember the timeline.
They already do -- if you're using a personal check, you could just sign up for a Debit REDcard (now known as a Target Circle Debit card). You even get the same 5% discount that their credit card holders get, and you can pull up to $40 cashback at checkout.

https://www.target.com/circlecard
#2 is basic practical conversation -- i.e. put your damn ego aside and actually interact with the person in front of you.

Granted this can become exhausting with people who socialize without any care for those around them; but this is basic soft skills 101 lesson... 3.
Slight tangent to the article, but I wanted to bring up a style of game my son plays, rng games, that are very popular on roblox and other places.

The basic idea is there is very little actual gameplay involved. The user sits in the game, often AFK (often overnight), and the game does rng rolls over and over. You have a very low chance to win "auras" in most of these games (chances can be 1 in a million, but they have all magnitudes of odds). Auras are just visual+audio effects that are on your player that other users can see.

I think we know gambling (can be) bad for people, especially developing brains, and I see very little difference between gambling (slot machines) and these games. The major difference is you cannot win money (at least not directly) with these games. However, what is the defining quality of money that makes gambling different from these games? The users win auras which are social credit, which can be just as important for users in these age brackets.

I worry about my son playing these games. I know the knee-jerk reaction will be: "if you're concerned just don't let him play them". However there is cost to that, as his friends play them so him not being able to play them causes a lot of friction. So I don't want to overreact.

Note: I've loved video games since as long as I can remember, and still play them.
It looks like this solution is essentially this, but a little nicer looking (on hover animation, for example).
No. It is impossible. He clearly didn’t understand the texts if he later engaged in such terrible behavior. The point of the texts is to teach you the best behavior! Was that cult town in OR beautiful with the cult members patrolling it with machine guns? Was bussing in the homeless and giving them beer in exchange for votes a good idea? Is (apparently) abdicating responsibility to your chosen person a good idea? Is narcing on them at the last minute to save your own skin beautiful? Is taking people’s donations to buy yourself 10 rolls royces beautiful?
Modern cultivars produce less of the glucosinolates that give brussel sprouts their bitterness. I'm not sure whether there has been a similar change in other brassicas, but sprouts were the most notoriously bitter and now actually are less bitter than they were in the 70s.
I'm 100% on the renewable energy arc and have been for decades. However ..

> and they continue being a saftey issue.

this just gets tedious. I'm been in exploration geophysics and resource estimation, modelling, resource processing, etc for decades and batteries, hydrogen | ammonia aren't going to be any safer than existing nuclear reactors.

eg:

South Korea battery maker apologises for deadly fire but says it complied with safety rules

following a massive factory fire that killed 23 workers

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-begin...

and there's not much of a renewables industry without seperated rare earth products

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynas

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/malaysia-allow-l...

this comes with radioactive waste storage requirements that rival the nuclear inustry.
This is dystopic. Spending energy, both literal and figurative, to waste time getting more disconnected from other humans by glueing people even more to their phones and social media fakeries.

I would almost think this was performance art or open criticism, but the presence of an in-app purchase removes hope of that.

Someone needs to make an app to identify the closest patch of grass you can go touch.
One way of looking at it is that Wikipedia has a transparent and auditable way of correcting and updating false information, which makes it inherently more reliable and trustworthy than tensor weights finetuned by unreproducible human feedback.
I’m probably about 80-85% introvert. Whenever someone speaks makes a sweeping generalization I ask for examples. So I guess the article is sort of correct.
Not sure about the calls, since apparently millennials and zoomers never pick up.
Can you maybe share more details, where I can read about this? Thanks!
Bananas are crazy.
Can you please also share more details, where I can read about this? Thanks!
I can totally see that. Emergence, emergent phenomena are fascinating.-

(I am convinced that at some obscure intersection of emergence, network effects and machine learning, there lurk answers to many, fundamental questions ...
> who sees their students surpassing them in understanding and using AI

This would be the equivalent of my saying that a basketball coach is obsolete because NBA 2K is available.

ChatGPT output some garbage, and the student doesn't understand why or how it can be wrong. Presumably this is where a professor would attempt to help the student develop some critical thinking skills.
I agree. It seems to be ok if it's just a few items, and if the employee isn't being needed to supervise more than four self-checkout stations, like at Lowes or Home Depot.

But stores that go overboard on this (like Walmart) are incentivizing us to actually spend less and definitely not fill a cart. An employee staring at us like we're robbing the store doesn't help either when we're trying to do things properly. I always feel like a SWAT team is standing by in case I put something on the wrong side, and the stores are happy that I feel that way because perhaps then I'm less likely to steal, but really I'm more likely to click "Buy Now" on a website.

Best Buy is an example of a store that has processes that are mostly welcoming, even with relatively high-value and easily shoplifted items, and they don't have or need self-checkouts. Perhaps that's because their margins are higher or because they have such a short distance between their segregated checkout areas and the anti-theft associate standing by the door.
Can you please share more details about the loophole you've mentioned?
Why would it be a joke?
When I was trying to sell my AI focus boilerplate, I spend few days of building a landing page, an integration with github, notion based documentation site, etc. So, if people are interested I can make it into a reusable boilerplate, so they don't have to spend the time.
But really why do you think it is a joke?
I think it could be argued we're in a recession with the smells being buried.

As a whole the S&P is at pretty mediocre growth if you take out Nvidia and the 2 or 3 other tech outliers that are propping up the index.

https://fortune.com/2024/06/21/nvidia-microsoft-apple-meta-g...
Why not look it up? It means crazy.
My favorite part of the article:

> They found, quite counterintuitively, that average page load times went up. But with a deeper look, they found that the lighter page was able to reach more people, including people on low-power low-internet-speed devices who were able to actually use YouTube for the first time, and them using it much more slowed those averages. That’s awesome! The speed of using the site was up relatively for everyone. The metric of the average page load speed was a red herring and ultimately not meaningful.
Although far more frequently they will talk abstractly enough that they are not really saying anything, and they just keep going. When the point could in this case would have been possible to make with 2 short detailed sentences. I am afraid to ask any questions, because I think they will not understand the question anyway, and it will just be another reason to keep saying whatever they want to say with no meaning at all.

I think in work settings, many extraverted managers are like that. Just so much time in meetings spent on this yapping.

Ultimately I think they just do it because it gives them feeling of control, authority and visibility. Because people will see someone with a lot to say as higher status.
It is likely no one at the C-Level knew the update had any risk
No, we are more modern these days, I shall send a sternly worded telegram!
Exponential growth is exponential growth until it isn't. Relying on future improvements in storage technology to save the day is speculative.
Do you also cache or proxy the thumbnail? Google can also track them when hotlinking it.
One thing I’ve been curious about but have never dug into deeply enough to understand is what constitutes an “address” on a cargo line.

As an example, in the US, large lumberyards often sit on a rail line to receive deliveries. Often that lumber comes a long way… for instance from the Pacific Northwest to the east coast.

Maybe if I look at this project a bit I’ll understand how you slap a “To:” address on such a rail car.
GWT-Assisted HTML Smuggling
>Not only that but 250ms is the average reaction time of a human, you don't notice an extra 5 milliseconds.

If this is true, then why are online first person shooters noticeably worse when playing with a 250ms ping connection compared to a 5ms ping? 250ms ping is basically unplayable.

If I recall correctly. I stopped playing video games many years ago, because my college’s internet connection didn’t offer low enough latency to be able to play.
Slang for crazy or deranged. In this case, "bananas heavy" would probably equate to "crazily heavy", which would then equate to "crazily large for the functionality".

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/74581/why-does-b... Has a reasonable-reading accepted answer.
That's very cool, because it still allows them to verify ID and everything but just do it once instead of at every register.
Epic! It might well have been a C paper in quality but Watson aced the follow-through.

[the] amendment was largely forgotten until Gregory Watson, an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a paper on the subject in 1982 for a political science course. In the paper, Watson argued that the amendment was still "live" and could be ratified. Watson received a "C" grade for his paper from one of the course's teaching assistants. Watson appealed the grade to the course instructor, Sharon Waite, who declined to overrule the teaching assistant. Waite has said, "I kind of glanced at it, but I didn't see anything that was particularly outstanding about it and I thought the C was probably fine".
This is a good point. Google doesn’t care about the total page load time of your website, they care about the load time of their video.
The greater Houston area is over 8000 sq miles, it’s larger than New Jersey. I count 17 Targets in the north west quadrant alone. You're gonna have to be more specific about where in Houston does or does not have a shoplifting problem.
Does the potential lesser engagement with videos matter in the face of those videos causing a delay in loading the page that displays them? You'd need to check per-video engagement drop against people not bothering to engage with the site in the first place.
i wouldn’t say “performance” as an advantage of running JS in QuickJS. QuickJS isn’t competitive at all with the host JS VM, although I guess it’s faster than older C interpreters, or an interpreter implemented in JavaScript.
Very few phones have the calls handled by the OS. It usually is handled by something called the baseband, which is more like firmware
I've been working on a minimalist daily habit tracker that I designed for counting calories as part of my own weight loss journey. It's called Quick Calories. The PWA is free, it doesn't require an account, has no advertising, and works offline.

Link: [https://calories.joeldare.com]
> by a small turbine (not sure it's the right English term)

That's the right English word yes. And that's pretty cool!
That's very true, but when looking at all the source materials I don't consider this to be one of those nasty things that absolutely need changing. If I was releasing imaging research or any other kind of publicly accessible data I would not use the image just to avoid the angry mob, but I think this is blown out of proportion.
Or that they're misunderstanding (something about the topic, or the communication about it).
Hit-point mountains in the current version of D&D are one thing I have trouble with. Why should anything, even a monster, have more than thirty (30) hit points?

Before you roll your eyes and dismiss me as an OSR bro looking to convert you, let’s think about hit points (HP) differently.
I googled "bananas heavy" but I didn't get much
The difference between 5 ms and 250 ms is a lot more than 5 ms, so there's no contradiction.
NASA spots unexpected X-shaped structures in Earth's upper atmosphere
> Dunkelflaute is extremely rare

Sure, the whole issue is that a reliable grid has to cope with "extremely rare" events too. So having nuclear plants to provide baseload power in such circumstances can be important.
> I would even go further and wonder why lite-youtube still requires 100K?

Just turn off your computer and you’ll be using 0K.
Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar
VK_NV_device_generated_commands(_compute), which is already implemented by RADV in Mesa, and is much older than VK_AMDX_shader_enqueue.

The X suffix means that it's not a stable API and should not be used by shipped code.
Also http://nandgame.com Inspired by Nand2tetris, but web-based.
Exactly. It's automating your tasks. If you've truly automated your job, you don't have work left to do.
Don't laugh. Faxes are still heavily used in many industries, like construction.
If you are the lte network, it gets a little tough to do oob that way, especially if you’re basically a monopoly in many service areas.
Because Farage was elected there. This is a political post.
Router config changes are simultaneously very commonplace and incredibly risky.

I've seen outages caused by a single bad router advertisement that caused global crashes due to route poisoning interacting with a vendor bug. RPKI enforcement caused massive congestion on transit links. Route leaks have DoSed entire countries (https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/08/google-leaked-p...). Even something as simple as a peer removing rules for clearing ToS bits resulted in a month of 20+ engineers trying to figure out why an engineering director was sporadically being throttled to ~200kbps when trying to access Google properties.

Running a large-scale production network is hard.

edit: in case it is not obvious: I agree entirely with you -- the routine config changes that do risk the enterprise are often very hard to identify ahead of time.
I'm going to die in this hill: solving Canada's problems has to start with abolishing the first-past-the-post voting system. The electorate's will is being ignored, and politicians have few reasons to keep their promises.
I'm not seeing such a difference, but it is there. I'd be surprised if it was as high as 100ms.
Obviously different computer environments[0] will have an impact here.

I would be much less likely to notice it as "slow" if it didn't show me a spinny-spin. It's advertising that it's slow!

I agree that the click-to-playback lag time would have such an effect, but how significant it would be is unclear. It would take an entity the size of, say, Youtube, to begin to measure this sufficiently.

[0] Firefox, 2(?) year old laptop, i7-1185G7, windows 11, updating Edge (in 32-bit mode) 24/7, haven't rebooted for a few weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ6Ev46i2to
I'm a fan of small teams also - but slowing down as the company scales is unavoidable.

> Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this. But how do you retain that advantage as you scale?

You can't! Not really. If you could, we would see companies doing it but...we don't (barring some yet undiscovered engineering process).

Everything you ship, by definition, has an ongoing maintenance cost. The more you ship, the higher your maintenance burden. Over years, this grows and grows. Output (as defined by "products shipped") per engineer must go down, because more and more engineers must be dedicated to maintenance work.

Now, we've gotten really good at disguising maintenance work as product work/shipping things. But it's not reality. Even this post makes this mistake by referring to "data warehouse" and "analytics" as "products". But customers don't care about your data warehouse or your job pipeline.

> Right now, for example, we're in the process of scaling support by moving our support engineers out of the customer success team and into a new customer comms team.

This is not product work. This is maintenance, and is a literal example of the type of thing that larger companies have to do just to maintain their existing products and contributes to lower product output per engineer.
I'm seriously considering just setting up a service that downloads everything in my preferred channels overnight and re-serves it locally. It'll increase their cost and decrease their revenue but frankly I'm just getting fed up with their UX. It's just sooo fuckin bad I do wonder whether YT staff actually uses it.

e.g. lately the thumbnails have a popup overlay that pops into existence at last second over the thumbnail, basically hijacks your click and navigates you away from yt and to a support.google.com page that discusses paid product placement. No google thats not why I clicked on a video thumbnail.
Perfect use case for chatgpt or other llm
The prefixes have to be in order though. You cannot start a prefix with A after already using prefix starting with B.
That's still a pop. Internet companies are worth way more today than they were in 2002 when the internet bubble popped.
I was still getting this in middle school in 1990, when several teachers refused to accept anything printed from a computer because "the computer wrote it, not you".

Funny that now we live in an age where their complaint might actually be valid.
> Context considered

The "context" I'm referring to, which you've omitted from your quote, is that this is a discussion about the book "Superintelligence". In this context, it's entirely possible that a corporation could be autonomous.
The tricky part with that is that, at least in Canada, the RJ11 ports on the ONT are generally VoIP. They provide the appropriate voltages for a conventional POTS phone to work but digitize & compress the audio and send it along to the Telco as SIP or whatever. That works fine for voice but you're probably going to have a hard time using a conventional POTS modem over that connection. I've never tested it and am honestly pretty curious to see how well/poorly it would work.
That's what I talk about:)
It sounds like you told them they were wrong first!

I think this frequently happens because people aren't making the same assumptions. Ask about assumptions so you find out why two people who are both probably reasonable apparently have such a hard point of disagreement. It's very possible you agree on more than you think.