skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also agree that the development experience is awful. I have more than 10 years as an Android developer and Android Studio (someone remember when it was derived from Eclipse?) is painfully slow, even in modern machines. Just starting a new project is a ridiculously sluggish process. Also Gradle is a piece of hyper-complicated software that (almost) nobody is interested in, but it is there and you have to deal with it. Nowadays I am basically moving to Flutter, much more simpler and easier than kotlin.
I don't think that's accurate. We can pretty carefully calculate the forces involved and answer the question as posed. Related: We can calculate how strong a magnet has to be to hold your artwork on the fridge in opposition to the force of Earth's gravity.

The GR vs Standard Model breakdown occurs at the extreme limits of GR, for example Planck scale regions of space and black hole singularities. A heavy nucleus is way too big to probe these limits and is well within the domain of physics where we don't see a conflict between the two theories.
The other really good use case, which I'm surprised to see more people don't use, is to use it to immediately add items to a shopping list when you're out (which doesn't auto-buy, to be clear).

Example: cooking, noticed the paprika is out, or in the bathroom, noticing the razors are used up. "Alexa, add to my shopping list..." My most used Alexa feature.
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"Your baby is crying because it doesn't like the brand of formula you purchase. We recommend Amazon Basics!"
My parents are more computer-literate than the average late-fifty-somethings, but they aren't HN techies by any means. Having lived with them for about a year, I'd break down their Alexa usage like this:

~90% timers

~8% weather

~2% putting items in a shopping list

And I don't recall them ever buying anything via Alexa that they wouldn't have bought on Amazon some other way.
It was a goatse appreciation comment, surely.
It's a potential deterrent to future attempts to change the meaning/rendering of existing characters.
This is the kind of task that you'd just use a bash one liner for, right? LLM is just wrong tool for the job.
Don't forget the Warcraft III sounds:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KNP7gE4L_8E
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Those all seem like decent common-sense policies as long as those users are made aware of the ban/time-out and any applicable time-out-countdowns.

Sadly, there are "known bad" IPs--hell even entire blocks.

I'm relatively new here and, heretofore, had no idea "browsing dead" was even an option.
I think that maybe we are too harsh in expecting LLMs to be perfect. If they are based off of human input that is incorrect then we might propagate such errors. But they will still be quicker and much more reliable than most people. Isn’t this good enough? After all, we are willing to accept flaws in people, even including the president.
I suspect that the way forward will be to progressively clean the LLM input data as each error gets identified.
I thought each button press on the volume buttons corresponded to + or -10%? I always thought Alexa's volume only had 10 states (11 counting zero) regardless of buttons or voice commands? Maybe it depends on the device, I have the spherical echo.
For a large corpus, this would be quite expensive in terms of time and storage space. My experience is that embeddings work pretty well around 144-160 tokens (pure trial and error) with clinical trial protocols. I am certain that this value will be different by domain and document types.

If you generate and then "stuff" more text into this, my hunch is that accuracy drops off as the token count increases and it becomes "muddy". GRAG or even normal RAG can solve this to an extent because -- as you propose -- you can generate a congruent "note" and then embed that and link them together.

I'd propose something more flexible: expand on the input query instead and basically multiplex it to the related topics and ideas instead and perform cheap embedding search using more than 1 input vector.
Prescription drugs have something called "NDC number" ( National Drug Codes ). What we need is NDC numbers but for consumer goods.
Well Sunny D is an "orange drink" and there are various widely available "fresh squeezed" real juice options so... Yes?
Spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus to dairy cattle
Like I said: if you can't revoke the thing you committed, you need to get in touch with Github and have them remove it. That's a thing they do.
You also don't have an email on your profile, for what it's worth. I don't use Twitter. I'd be interested in something like this as well.
Every time I think, “How scummy…” Reddit always finds another way to go lower.
I'm not sure that's necessarily wise, since the underlying takeaway is that it's fine to attempt to change the meaning or rendering of pre-existing symbols as long as you get away with it. The threat of having the change you are attempting to force be contested over a long period of time should, hopefully, act as a deterrent to such behavior.
| it reverts a Newspeakism back to normal meaning

Indeed, this is the key point that everybody should be focusing on.
> surprised

Not even the slightest bit, the odds of the parent's sole life experience being "car infested suburbia" is ~1.0 Chalk it up to narrow context us centric hip view myopia.
Unfortunately, another commenter is indicating that they’ve done just that. This is truly some darkest timeline stuff.
Google results are getting worse. So I made a website that uses Reddit for recs
It scours Reddit for relevant comments and synthesizes them into a helpful list.

Currently the website only does portable monitors because I wanted to start with something I had personal experience with.

I was once personally overwhelmed with the options and wasn't sure what to go for. There were lots of dubious sound brands and I wasn't sure who to trust.

At first I just went for one with lots of reviews on Amazon. It ended up being too dim. I realized a lot of reviews on Amazon were fake.

I then spent hours researching on Reddit and settled on a Uperfect monitor. I was only willing to trust such a dubious sounding brand because people on Reddit recommended it.

It's been working really well so far, much better than what I had gotten at first.

So I created this website so that others don't have to spend hours like me to get a tried and tested monitor that works.

Let me know what you think!
This is by design— the rhetoric around crypto was specifically tailored to emulate all the new-exciting-tech talking points in an attempt to get new people to buy in to the market and prop up the next rug pull.

Every new culturally significant tech is going to sound like crypto from now on. And ultimately I think it is too easy to cynically look at all tech hype through the lens of crypto.

I think it is pretty fair to say that LLMs have already achieved several magnitudes more real use cases than crypto ever did.
This is interesting. I assume you're using an LLM to generate the code that runs these automations? Like "compiling" the prompt to code?
Well that’s not right either. That only works for people that live in urban areas. Very few people are going to bike 30 miles to work everyday.
I believe Kagi has its own crawler as well and it merges all the results and does whatever Kagi does behind the scenes to show the mix
You just did that Internet thing where someone reads the reply someone wrote without the comment they are replying to, completely misunderstanding the conversation.
Having lived in Germany for about 10 years (I'm Australian) I found their attitudes to most things more mature than ether Australia or what is portrayed in American media. Europeans always seem to step back, try to find a compromise and ideally mutual benefit.
Asian cultures have also quite different again. I found the refreshing thing about 'Spirited Away', the animation, is the character arc for the "adversarial" characters which was they are like that because of pain, lets understand them, and then help them thought it and grow together.
Whereas in American content it predominantly seems to be they are just "bad" so if they beat us just get a bigger gun and that will solve that/all problems. Always zero-sum games with shallow looks into who people are any why they are like that. Its almost like the dog-eat-dog spirit of the wild west is still prevalent somehow...?
You see this played out in American politics too. No attempts at compromise or understanding, opposition must be annihilated, no middle ground.
One thing not discussed is the relationship between AmEx's big purchases and its fees. American Express puts a lot of effort into keeping its paying consumers happy because they are both American Express customers (because they pay fees) and because customers really want to use American Express cards at merchants (and so American Express can charge those merchants higher fees).

I'll give you an example. Years ago, I bought a fancy sofa online. The merchant sent periodic "don't worry, we're just behind schedule" every week or so for months, and then sent one last email saying they had declared bankruptcy. I was way out of my chargeback window, but when I called American Express, they instantly refunded me my purchase anyway. That experience meant that, if I ever make another big purchase online, I will go out of my way to use an American Express card, including switching merchants if necessary.

Keeping customers who make big purchases happy costs money, both in losses and in administrative overhead, but it pays out on both the customer and merchant side in the long run.
I actually used my Alexa like that all the time.

"Alexa, order more dish detergent"

"From your recent order history, I found Cascade Dish Detergent pods, 120 count, $17.99. Would you like to order?"

"Yes"

It was super convenient when I was ordering something I had already ordered before, which is all my common purchased.
YouTube made me watch an ad before this 1 second video
True, and definitely worth a mention. This is only Microsoft's fault insofar as it was possible at all to crash this way, this broadly, with so little recourse via remote tooling.
If you can handle the churn of building against a new platform every year or two instead of every decade or more, you can keep all your stuff patched without an extended support license.
Providing standardized equipment? I'm not at all suggesting everyone compete nude, I'm suggesting that circumstances be standardized.
Not really. Cycling teams all use the same bicycle. You could adapt to 99% of desired customizations with a menu of saddles, handlebars, and tires.
I'd have to be paid probably at least $200/mo to stop using LLMs, they are a massive productivity boost for new projects and can replace google for simple things. As an example of replacing google (since I was writing C++ today and I haven't used it in ages):

me: is there an issue with passing "hello" to std::string

claude: Passing "hello" to a function expecting std::string is actually not an issue. C++ allows implicit conversion from string literals (like "hello") to std::string objects. This conversion is possible because std::string has a constructor that accepts a const char*, which is the type of string literals in C++.

If I type this question into google, I get this:

> some_function(std::string{"hello, world"}); is completely safe, as long as the function doesn't preserve the string_view for later use. The temporary std::string is destroyed at the end of this full-expression (roughly speaking, at this ; ), so it's destroyed after the function returns.

which doesn't really answer my question

As an example of simple project: I wanted to make an app with swiftUI, and I was able to just describe it to claude and have it give me the basic outlines of the app, and then improve it by iteratively asking claude for changes. Since I try to understand the output, this lead to me learning Swift and SwiftUI very quickly while also having a functional app within a few minutes.
It’s just a typeface and a Unicode character the client decides how it’s displayed

An iPhone 1 would display a gun still.
>Using Windows as a server should be seen as a dark pattern in 2024.

>Linux on the server is the only way and no one can convince me otherwise.

Now meet the sysadmin that thinks the same, but for windows for clients. At the risk of overgeneralizing, people are only for "diversity" when it means supporting their preferred underdog platform (eg. linux desktop). When they're the dominant incumbent it's suddenly "dark pattern", "they don't know any better" and "no one can convince me otherwise".
The big difference with a store is that if tide pods should be ~$8 for a pack, the dtore is incredibly unlikely to have one pack of tide pods on the shelf for $70
It wasn't a file full of zeros that caused the problem.

While some affected users did have a file full of zeros, that was actually a result of the system in the process of trying to download an update, and not the version of the file that caused the crash.
Elon Musk publicly expressed his willingness to engage in a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, stating he is ready to fight 'any place, any time, and under any rules.' This statement was made during Musk's visit to Capitol Hill, where he attended a speech by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The challenge has sparked widespread interest and speculation among social media users and the public.
Low-Cost Method to Decompose PFAS Using LED Light and Semiconductor Nanocrystals
tldr:

A new method uses copper-doped, cadmium sulfide semiconductor nanocrystals and LED light (405 nm) to break down PFAS quickly and cheaply. Significant decomposition occurs in 1 hour, with complete defluorination in up to 8 hours. This process uses multiphoton absorption to generate highly excited electrons from highly excited states in the nanocrystals. These electrons are capable of breaking down the strong carbon-fluorine bonds in PFAS.

Article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/23/researchers-claim-new-p...
Asking DevOps to program for basic tasks. Cool story, bro.
Right. Linux vendors charge for services; Microsoft charges rents.
Crowdstrike != Windows ;)
And I use a steno pad for that.
> The last thing I want is for some government regulation to make it suck like Europe.

Are you aware that Europe has a mandatory 2 year minimum warranty period on consumer purchases? A mandatory 14-days no-questions-asked return window on all purchases?

In the US, AFAIK you're fully at the mercy of whatever the vendor so graciously offers you.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...
I was diagnosed with T2 last year, and started a CGM (Freestyle Libre 3) like you did. I started off with lists of foods I could eat, but the monitor let me see actual data on what was happening. Its not very accurate, but the absolute numbers don't matter as much as seeing the actual trend effect on my own body. I never let it go over 150, ever. I can eat some legumes in moderation, but your specific body may be different. I initially took Metformin, but discontinued. My last A1C was 5.1 and and endocrinologist I was consulting with put in his notes that my diabetes is "remission." So, if you're prediabetic, keep at what you're doing. I eat very little meat, btw, so while that might work for some people, its not strictly necessary.
Lots of totally different and distinguishable words are one consonant sound away from each other.
https://youtu.be/N1jhynHVMSw

>http://lozhka-povarezhka.ru/vsyo-o-ede/5-ulichnyh-fastfudov-...

The algorithm there flashed me a macD clip of the Gorbachevian and it hit me like a flag pole why Pepsi was emblematic of the Yeltsinian.

https://youtu.be/ckbfS99N6jY?t=2m14s
European Article number
That sounds handy, how do you get the list back out?
Because private forks are not meant to be public
But what if I can't hear Jimi?
It just sucks. I get non-deterministic reactions from "turn off the lights" vs "turn off every light" vs "all lights off".. one of those phrases eventually works. I had to set up a custom action ("goodnight") to reliably do the thing.

If they focused on getting voice control for home automation perfect, it could be a real winner.
Presumably you could roll out to 1% and report issues back to the vendor before the update was applied to the last 99%. So a headache but not "stop the world and reboot" levels of hassle.
>I predict we’ll see other vendors removing similar bonehead “features” very very quietly over the next few months.

If indeed this happens, I'd hail this event as a victory overall; but industry experience tells me that most of those companies will say "it'd never happen with us, we're a lot more careful", and keep doing what they're doing.
I believe each transaction has to be over $100 and there's a total limit on the number of pay over time plans you can have active. But yes, other than the dollar amount, I've not seen anything not be eligible.
Mark Twain once said “Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.”
D&D has rules for fall damage that make no sense, worse they encourage people to jump from extreme heights because the risks are well understood.

In 5e players fall at 500 feet per round which works out to 57 MPH, take the same damage falling 30 feet onto a stone floor, pile of hay, or a lake and ignore what you’re carrying. The temptation is to codify more realistic rules IE you fall up to 500 feet in the first round and up to 1,000 feet every round after that but complex rules don’t necessarily add much to the game and it’s always going to be a massive simplification.

By comparison ‘No Rules’ just means do something reasonable for the situation, arguing about it is more an issue for your table not the game.
When making a private repo public, there's a high chance that there was stuff in the private repo that isn't necessarily ok to make public. It's a lot easier to just create a new public repo containing all the data you want to make public than it is to reliably scrub a private repo of any data that shouldn't be there.

More generally, you probably want to construct a new history for the public repo anyway, so you'll want a brand new repo to ensure none of the scrubbed history is accessible.
I would love to order a bunch of things - toilet paper, kitchen paper, toothpaste, mayonnaise, sriracha, foil, dishwasher and laundry tabs. Anything that isn’t a weekly purchase that I find myself out of when I want to use it.

The problem isn’t that I don’t want to blind order it, it’s that I don’t trust blind ordering it from Amazon.
This is likely one of the main reasons why they're offering ChatGPT for free and running ChatGPT Plus at a loss.
The first sentence leads me to imagine a torn up painting and a group of people clustered around it.

The second sentences leads me to imagine a large gallery space with high ceilings with a smattering of people in front of one of the paintings.

Both ways have their pros and cons. Describing the space first lets the reader paint a setting for the eventual object of interest.
The Alexa leadership at Amazon has been a waste since day 1 (pun intended).

Shopping with Alexa is easy to fix!

Reorder what I want, not the most popular item. When I say, order diapers, use the last brand and size that I ordered. That would actually be useful! Who wants to say "get my diapers" and get a random box of random sized diapers? Do the Alexa leadership even use their own product?

Distinguish regular orders from one-offs. I never want a one-off order from a category I don't regularly order from. But I very much want to be able to reup regular orders.

Let me order incrementally from Fresh as I cook. I would order from Fresh more often if I could just say "Alexa, we're out of red wine vinegar". Again, I have to know 100% that it would get the item that I want, not some random item. Then, let me say, "Ok, pull the trigger on all of the pending fresh orders Sat at noon".

Voice identification is a must. I don't want random people ordering. And I don't want my kids ordering. The first thing everyone with kids does is turn off ordering. The fact that they can't sort this out is crazy!

Their half-hearted attempt to create an ecosystem was completely wasted. No one wants to use a wake word, then another command word, and another word, just to access a skill. They need to figure out how to route to skills automatically based on what someone is asking. This isn't rocket science they're just incompetent.

Also, has anyone seen the website to install new skills? It could win an award for worst UI.

Skills can also charge you while using them! The skills store is full of 1 star reviews from people saying they got charged against their will for months in some cases.

It feels like the Alexa team just doesn't talk to consumers.
There are literal ads for Meta Ai on television. The idea they’re not selling something is absurd.
There are Linux ports of the plan9 `syscall` binary, which is presumably necessary to implement parts of libc with shell scripts:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10196395/os-system-calls...

I don't remember there being a way to keep a server listening on a /dev/tcp/$ip/$port port, for sockets from shell scripts with shellcheck at least
Does Best Buy not resell returns?
That's not the GitHub concept / almost trademark of "fork" anymore though, which is what your parent was talking about
Very nice idea.

Not sure how the paintings correspond to the molecular structure, but it may be helpful to chemistry engineers who have some better intuition about molecules than me.
Being able to have multiple, named timers that you can set hands free is my favorite feature of Alexa! I’m convinced that better timing for all of my recipe steps has made me a better cook and helped me make better food for the last few years.
Oh, thanks! I added my email to my profile. Look forward to replying to your note!
I mean it's git, just git init, git remote add for origin and upstream, origin pointing to your private, git fetch upstream, git push to origin.
> American or British recipes

American or old British recipes; ours are all metric now.

The exception is perhaps teaspoons/tablespoons, but those are trivial metric values (5ml and 15ml), so easy enough to scale and convert if you don't have the right measuring spoon handy.
I agree! I'd expect my DM to have knowledge of multiple worlds so that he can pull out things such as Solamnia knights got caught up in a time-space torrent and appear in Greyhawk.

I guess it takes a lot of reading and planning.
I wrote an article about it and S2 some time ago as well for those interested: https://blog.christianperone.com/2015/08/googles-s2-geometry...
Microsoft can throw around $60M, and Bing is used by most of the "alternative" search engines.

It doesn't solve the problem, but if money is the only thing preventing search engines from accessing Reddit, then what goes for Google also goes for Microsoft.
Good luck selling this to a foreign (or domestic) government. It doesn’t seem valuable to me, but who knows, maybe someone finds it worth payout.
This is fun.

The person you’ve replied to has stated a concrete (what they perceive to be) benefit of consumer protection regulation. One that doesn’t seem to limit choice at all, but rather improves visibility.

I’m also inserting my own personal experience here. The country I live in, which isn’t in Europe, has similar regulation in place.

In response you’re throwing around some vague notion of “freedom” and vague implication of a “better experience” without really explaining how mandatory unit pricing is a bad thing for you as a consumer.

Has John Gruber got you all upset about the EU?

I’m currently booking a trip to the US and the consumer experience is absolutely terrible. Tax-exclusive “totals”? Resort fees? Give me a break.

It sounds like the US consumer experience is more aligned to your obvious libertarian ideology, and that’s the end of it.
Sounds like a good way to trade one problem for another.