skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's worth noting that Condé Nast internal policy still forbids its publications from using text created by generative AI, which is consistent with its AI rules before the deal.

This is a key point. OpenAI is getting guaranteed non-AI generated text data; which is slowly becoming a very valuable resource. You can expect that future LLMs may not require trillions of tokens of text data to generalize if generalizability is picked up better by future model techniques (which IMO would involve picking up general pattern recognition via non-textual data too (i.e. other modals of the current multi-modal and beyond such as puzzles)), and thus even just millions to billions of tokens via high quality sources like news publications, books, and research papers, will be highly worth it.

Also, the SearchGPT integration for latest news is also a plus point. Think of all of those all-you-can-read news subscriptions such as Scroll, but that instead of paying for it that instead paying for SearchGPT covers not just a high quality search engine but also the dues to the news publishers via such payment (via these partnerships) from OpenAI to the news publishers.
They get away with it because their users absolutely refuse to leave for greener pastures. It's not because of the number of products they own, it's because their users think "PC == Windows", and scoff at anything offered as an alternative, usually with some excuse about MS Office, or some other very specific software that most users don't use.

Meanwhile, in reality, it's easier than ever to be MS-free, thanks to the rise of web-based applications. There's lots of alternatives to MS Office, including MS's own Office365 online, as well as Google docs, LibreOffice, and others. Most users just use their computers for web browsing anyway, and that can be done on any computer. 20+ years ago, people had much better excuses, because most software was run locally, so if they used some proprietary Windows-only application, they were basically stuck unless they could get it running in WINE, but those days are mostly gone.

But people want to stick with what they know (even though it's actually constantly changing with every new Windows version), so they'll put up with whatever crap MS wants to put in Windows: spyware, ads, etc.

Of course, some people are rebelling and leaving Windows, as we saw in the recent article about Linux desktop usage being at an all-time high, but it's still only about 5%, though that's a lot better than 20 years ago.
No I'm not. It's crap.

I have about 30 years experience both on hard engineering (electronics) and software engineering particularly on failure analysis and reliability engineering. Most people are lazy and get led astray with false information. This is a very dangerous thing. You need a proper conceptualisation framework like a KT problem analysis to eliminate incorrect causes and keep people thinking rationally and get your MTTR down to something reasonable.
I've been using Zettlr for some time. Here are some things I like about it:

- Latex support
- Your notes are just plain text files and you can easily sync them with nextcloud or syncthing
- Linking of notes by an id for using them in a zettelkasten
- You can use your citation library from Zotero to add citations to your notes

What I don't like is that the performance is quite bad, especially when there are many equations in a note.

I also had no good experience, when trying to publish presentations, I'm now using Quarto in vscode for that.

All in all I think it is a really good tool for scientific note taking or as a Zettelkasten, although I'm using it less these days since I quit my PhD.
No rudeness taken, don't worry! TIL, I didn't know! Thanks!
videos are a total time suck! give me the cliff notes version any day. who has time for 90min of watching stuff? Let's get to the point!
> Simple answer is people like to eat, lack discipline, and want to look good.

This is indeed a simple answer, and way over simplified. You can walk into any grocery store in the US and most of the floor space is dedicated to packaged poison and chemicals masquerading as food.
AFAIK semis solve your 1st point precisely - people don’t like junk food anymore and they prefer smaller portions.
imo, you wont get a complete model that explains whats happening unless you include the mental health aspect and how it all ties into this. the gut-brain connection is real. but its like just because it is harder to measure, we act as though it does not exist.
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AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1B of funding to claim 'killer app' status
What nonsense. Are you worried about physical spam mail? That ship has already sailed. I genuinely can’t think of any other abuse vector for a dataset like this.
i know the reason. they sometimes want to show the investors that we are hiring and we need money. they show the money being spent but they save for themselves. i have a friend who is an HR and he is my source on it.
> "Bahawalpur is desert terrain, having high dust count, therefore, the efficiency of panels were reduced by 40%. It required 30 people to clean panels with 15 days to restore the panels back to their full capacity, which reduced production of installed 100MW plant to below 18 MW.[26][27]"

Solar farms are often installed in arid, dusty environments, so it's not unusual that they require regular cleaning. Various automated solutions have been developed for this (ie: panel cleaning robots). Weird that they wouldn't have considered all this when planning the solar farm.

> "Each of the 400,000 installed panels required one litre of water to clean. A 15 days cleaning cycle required 124 million litres of water"

Huh? If there's 400,000 panels and cleaning each panel requires 1 litre, that's 400,000 litres of water per cleaning cycle. Not ideal, but it's certainly not 124 million litres!
Odd numbered homes on one side of the street and evens on the other often have different postcodes
Make it at home!

https://tradewindsorientalshop.co.uk/products/maykway-mild-c...
Ghostery is an ad company, just as Anonym.
Just checked, and sure enough our (IKEA) GB stores have a katsu curry on the menu: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/food/salesareas/restaurant/99dedb...
nice. thanks.
London resident not eating junk food either, and indeed I hadn't really noticed the "phenomenon".

If anything I've seen the fried chicken with panko much more than the katsu curry sauce.
1. As individuals we're already completely dependent on the inventions of modern civilization, so putting yet another thing onto the list won't actually change much.

2. Your argument boils down to "if there exists a traditional way to solve a problem then we should keep doing things the old way, even if the old way costs more time, energy, and money; for example it's better to use a sickle instead of combine harvester because combine harvesters are evil because they make people lazy" which is exactly how you avoid civilizational progress.

> Rarely do shortcuts result in long term solutions.

This sentence is so ridiculous it deserves a witty insult but the etiquette of this website stops me.
This is true: you do have to trust the site author that you are pasting your key into not to steal it.

For my https://tools.simonwillison.net/haiku thing I deliberately kept the code as simple as possible: if you know basic JavaScript you can view source and confirm that your key is not being stolen.

The code is also open source, so you can run a copy on your own hosting if you want to.

If you don’t trust that then I guess you don’t get to use my tool to write haikus about your dog!

As for usability: obviously if you want your thing to be used by people who don’t know how to pay for their own API key you should use a different solution.

I mainly want to ship cool demos that are trivial to host and that other people can try out without bankrupting me, so I’m really excited about this.
this could be very useful for real-time, collaborative apps. Looking forward to trying in out on my next project
The DC Cook Straight cable in New Zealand has 3 cables with one spare and one redundant. It can use the earth as a return path though, not sure if you could do that all the way to Singapore. DC doesn't have phases so it's not 3-phase, same with the Sun Cable.
Isn't the number of job postings a key metric for the job market? Because if yes, it must've been really misleading.
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what exactly do you feel is weird entitlement on behalf of the author?
The (data) purge
The very point of this study is that ozempic's effects go beyond what one would experience if they went on a very strict diet. It's literally better than self-discipline.
Maybe it's a translation issue: I simply say most trains in the world are not self-propelled wagons but one ore two with motors and the others pulled/pushed by them. And no, in the EU most trains have a single or two locomotive, only metros have SOME all powered trains.

> Passengers want to get where they are going quickly. No train accelerates at a speed which causes discomfort to passengers.

Maybe you haven't used Milan's red lines where accelerations are enough to catapult anyone standing distracted at every start or stop. Remember that sometimes trains are crowded and nowadays it normal to have toilets always open because trains collect anything instead of freely discharging in nature, since more than two decades, so it's normal to have people standing while in start/stop phases.
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Brit here. I have to object to “chip (aka crisp)”. It’s a crisp. You may aka it as a chip, which is weird I suppose but you do you.

Two products. Both made from potato. One is texturally crisp. Let’s call that a ‘crisp’. The other one isn’t. Let’s call that a ‘chip’.

It’s worse here in Australia. They have to call chips ‘hot chips’ to differentiate them from crisps!

Insanity, people. There’s no logic here. We’re all rational people.

Crisps are crisp.

Chips are the other ones.

/s

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i would imagine even a version of this idea where the screenshots are deleted after being ocr'ed and analysed would still be useful enough
Try with Dropbox (if you are using it) and set that folder (Vault) to sync offline. I use iCloud mostly to sync the computer settings, share amongst family members, but not for something which I need access locally such as the Obsidian/Markdown files. It works so far. I have over 5 or more Vaults (folders) managed by Obsidian via Dropbox.
Different teams.

In the case of extensions like this one should be asking , “Do I trust the author?”
As a layperson, would what is beyond the edge of the (observable) universe, past the 'edge' of the expanding universe, be considered infinite? Or is that nothing / does not exist / null and void?

edit: Reading up on things (just wikipedia, bear with me), we don't know how big the universe beyond what is observable is. We can't know because we can't observe it, and what we can observe goes back ~13B years.
I assume the screenshots are converted into a textual description quite quickly, so presumably the only disk usage would be screenshots in the buffer waiting to be processed.
AMD says Microsoft's next big Windows 11 update will improve Zen 5 CPU
Isn't this G-NAF? https://geoscape.com.au/solutions/g-naf/
Am I seriously the only person who dislikes the alternative app stores and being allowed to install apps outside of app stores?

If there were problems with the margins or which types of apps were allowed regulations should have tackled that instead.

I don’t want my mother or grandmother to be able to install apps from random sources ever.
Tangential, but if all you want is inline code generation from Python and not a full preprocessor, you can use the excellent cog from Ned Batchelder:

http://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog#h_what_does_it_do
That's part of it, for sure. But even fixing that, I am confident you'd still have an obesity epidemic in the US (and many other places). The causal tendrils of the problem go so deep. And fixing grocery choices won't happen. It would require a level of government intervention and control that wouldn't be tolerated. You could argue it was done successfully with cigarettes, but food would be a thousand times harder legally, culturally, and practically.
99% of them were never in the bespoke sofware market to begin with. If the $300 did not work put, they'll cobble something together in Excel pr use some SaaS that comes close enough.
Would the switch on the transformer possibly be software controlled? (By software, I am wondering about firmware on a device reading a sensor, as opposed to a physical mechanism). I don’t know enough about the internals of these things, but I wonder if you could maliciously overwrite firmware, whether certain protections could be made to fail.

I’m going to assume this kind of thing is likely covered in FMEA and such, so is unlikely.
Looks great! How is the migration story when schema changes are needed? How do you deal with old clients?
Genetic predisposition is likely also involved here? Why would Singaporeans develop same or higher levels of visceral fat than americans that are more obese than them?
The way I do these days, is to have a minimal setting with the minimal plugins. Now, have that working `.obsidian` folder as a backup or a Starter Kit. Whenever Obsidian starts acting up, it is likely that I have a new plugin or there are too many; I just remove and get back my working Starter Kit `.obsidian` and I'm as fresh as New. Also, try not to have many non-text (or Markdown) files as much as possible in the Vaults.
There is also a point for "have you tried to improve your hacker score?"
Microsoft is slowly making the transition from Windows being a OS to Windows being an Ad platform.
This seems like a game changer for real time applications. We have been using Firebase mostly for it RTDB and websocket kind of implementation without actually maintaining websocket at the backend. This takes things a step ahead.
Even under the most generous nomenclature, no contemporary LLM understands anything.

They approximate argmax(P_sub_theta(token|prefix)).

This approximation is sometimes useful. I’ve found it to never be useful in writing code or prose about code of any difficulty. That’s my personal anecdote, but one will note that OpenAI and Anthropic still employ a great many software engineers.
"Bring your own keys" can mean a "log in with OpenAI" button. Having users navigate through a third party's arcane dev portal isn't a good experience, but that third party can make it painless for users if they so choose.
Algorithmic discrimination in Spain: limits and potential of the legal framework
Yep, keep it vague. Keep attacking me and my supposedly biased media diet instead of the actual points listed. Totally makes you look reasonable and logical and enlightened.

So, did you sign up for HN just for this? Do you have a Google Alert for "Cass review"? Can one follow (block) you on X?
I'm glad you mentioned bodybuilding, since its known to even laymen that taking anabolic steroids gives you an edge that is impossible to replicate just with diet and exercise.

This ozempic study seems to suggest something similar.

Self-discipline is a noble concept, and probably important in the grand scheme of things, but sometimes medicine and technology outpaces what is naturally possible, which inevitably results in a moral backlash.
Postcodes are about sorting mail to match the delivery rounds.
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Crazy how some of these still apply if you do hardware.
In my memory, the era for this stuff was also when folks were taking questionnaires on their beliefs/preferences/circumstances which output an encoded string. This string would then be placed into an e-mail signature in lieu of an "About me" webpage somewhere.
Ask HN: Pinpoint Solutions vs. Enabler Technologies?
What according to you guys is more important?

1. Solving pinpoint problems such as finding a cure for cancer

2. Creating enabling tech like the internet
Slowly? It happened 10 years ago.
Because of the way that they implemented it.

I call it the "GMail Searchification Effect", that heavily focuses on "The Experience", is driven more by the UX and marketing teams rather than the technical team.

They implement the features with no real configuration, no interoperability, no local options, no way to point to another server implementation, etc. Probably no way to script it, either.
Sure, but if I'm overweight and unhealthy now, taking medication is a better bet for weight loss than lobbying for rezoning my entire city.
For non-GB people, a postcode gets you to ~1-15 buildings, not (for example) a town or region.
Expert systems redux?
Being able to provide the expertise in form of plain written English (or another language), will at least make it much more feasible to build them up. And it can also meaningfully be consumed by a human.

If it works well for incident response, then there are many usecases that are similar - basically most kinds of diagnostics/troubleshooting of systems. At least the relatively bounded ones, where it is feasible to on have documentation on the particular system. Say debugging of a building HVAC system.
I have been building few of them:

1. A RAG over all the data in database and other stores
2. Summarising information for our customers on what data they can see.
> GPS coordinates

*coordinates

There are four GNSS constellations, of which GPS is only one...... a statement that negates the fact ones position on Earth may be calculated using a variety of other means.

EDIT: In response to replies below; One isn't questioning the coordinate system (!), rather the assumption as to how they have been calculated.
> 95% of people do not want to put in the effort of changing diet, exercise, and other lifestyle habits. They want a quick fix.

Well yes obviously that is difficult to do. Our society (American society, that is) is about “me” and convenience.

Nobody seems to want to say what is obvious to me: ban junk food. Sugary white bread, Cheez Its, Oreos, candy, ice cream, highly processed frozen burritos, frozen pizza, Little Debbie’s, potato chips , all of it.

It is crazy to me the C levels of poison food companies do not rot in jail for the rest of their lives for knowingly selling poison and lying about it. It is crazy to me how a group of people can conspire to harm the citizens of a nation in the name of profit and not receive any consequences. It’s crazy to me the governments of that nation actually enjoy it and don’t care.
I think that is similar to what Yann LeCun outlined: https://bdtechtalks.com/2022/03/07/yann-lecun-ai-self-superv...
That is relevant to the Recall feature how?
> The root cause isn't being solved [...] they'd need to keep taking this medication for the effects of the drug to remain.

Hold up, how is impermanence such a black-mark when it's also true of everything else? Exercising must be continued indefinitely, or else the benefits fade, and the same is true of dieting.

Your post suggests that there is some kind of superior one-and-done weight-loss fix that is being overlooked or neglected, but I don't think we even have consensus on what this "root cause" is, and it's not clear why we should expect a perma-fix to be just around the corner.

Is the root problem "humans aren't calibrated for abundant food"? Is the single-event fix a form of gastric-restriction surgery? Genetic editing?
I got downvoted and patronized pretty hard in a thread a while back for pushing back (as much as I dont ever want to defend microsoft). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595344

I think it got shipped a bit hastily, but also dont think hackers will find it more attractive than dropping keyloggers, banking trojans, or ransomware. And screenshots can be photoshopped, so I don't know, I really doubt anyone will care to flip through 25 gb of screenshots.

Also, I'd be interested in a feature like this enabled while interviewing candidates as well as interviewing with potential employers, or while taking courses online, probably a lot of stuff ive not yet thought about too.
> The upshot of the research then, is that building an accurate database is really hard. OS concludes that it would have to check the 4.2m bad addresses manually to make its PAF-less database a viable dataset that would actually be useful.

The secret to the Royal Mail's success with the PAF, and the reason why only the Royal Mail can maintain the PAF, is that the Royal Mail has people walking and driving to all those delivery points six days every week.

Compare the Freedom of Information requests to Royal Mail from OpenStreetMap contributors concerning the locations of post boxes, which were refused ultimately because that information was handled only by local sorting offices.
> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP.

Nope. AFAIK, Microsoft is phasing out POP, and maybe GMail, but not IMAP.

If you're using two factor authentication, you need to use an App Password.
WOW! I didn't know! I love my oldsql casio watch, and also wished for a hackable version of it. This looks perfect!

Thank you so much for sharing.
Thats is literally what Recall is.
From what I have heard in the industry, however, the family behind the Schwarz Group is not necessarily a group of people who should be entrusted with even more power.
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I think g-naf is freely available…
My orthodontist growing up had these books in the waiting room and I found them hilarious as a kid even though I only understood maybe 30% of them.
Figured out if I change the font size in browser controls before I create shortcut on home screen then font size remains as set
That's because hacker culture no longer exists.
There was configuration. It was literally only local. No servers.
That opinion happens to be supported by large scale social experiments such as facebook. Time and time again, important aspects, such as privacy, were worsened, but their users stayed. People (as a whole) are lethargic, not masochistic.

To make things worse, Linux isn't for the desktop. You would first have to convince people that they really don't need all that Windows software, and then make Linux PCs (with a super user-friendly distro) a commodity. In the mean time, people are ditching desktop over mobile/tablet, and there is a lot of "niche" Windows/macOS software that isn't available for Linux. It just isn't gonna happen.
Not at all. The code that you see is not guaranteed the code that curl will receive. And even if you check the curl output, if you run it a second time to pipe to sh it might receive something different.
It's a worrying direction if the forth estate is this defunct and populism is at an all time high. How the UK treats trans people (not sure if they're the most vulnerable, but they're vulnerable and easy targets) is just one very poignant example of the shift.