skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The a/c in my apartment in Chicago is broken. It's a custom size so it's taking a while to fix. The heat is bearable, but challenging. I can see how much more efficient they make things. Just falling asleep takes much longer now. When it gets too hot it can get distracting, it makes it hard to think. I don't want to get up and walk around, I plant myself in front of a fan. I think the level of heat adaptation the human body is capable is limited. You can bear it but it'll affect performance. Even when I maintain a sauna habit, I never adapt to the point that I'm unbothered by the heat. As much energy as cooling homes consumes, it's pretty damn worth it considering you gain comfort and performance benefits
How would you feel about a landfill right next to your home?
Nothing excites and excuses a journalist with opinions more than a volatile stock. Doesn't matter what your opinion is, there's always a change that proves it. Even better: any rapidly changing stock value has to be volatile, so if something is in the news it's probably supporting your position! When you see these claims, ask yourself: How many times has the stock changed in this manner over the last year? How is its current static valuation relative to its long run history? Is the stock in a period of rapid change where higher volatility is expected? Those won't tell you where the stock is headed but they should at least help remind you not to trust horoscopes.
The idea that we are all on “equal” footing in this world is even more asinine. Some folks are indeed the “main characters” and others are background filler. This is the only explanation for the “reality distortion fields” that larger than life personalities possess, well, outside of some SCP object style explanations…
It turns out that food is also healthy for you, in moderation. Alas, we need a drug to help us moderate.
agree with that. it's just interesting as the story expands to see in the Amy case, there's definitely two sides to that one.

btw. too late to edit, but i think i mixed up 'former' and 'later' in my comment. anyhow the point there was i don't like the article spending soo much time on the Amy's of the world and equating and brushing off estrangement due to the real abuse. probably more common than anyone thinks.
> Let's at least appreciate that 10 years ago this level of computer intellect was science fiction.

I definitely appreciate that the tech has come a long way! All I'm saying is it hasn't changed my life, and OP's characterization of the AI skeptics as essentially uninterested in learning or having sci-fi expectations is unfair. Some of us may simply be too experienced to get much out of it yet (if ever).
Actually, I don't. This is not public information, and hearsay goes on several different directions. Yours is only one of those.
I mean people's speech. Whether their speech is "fake" or not is up to me to determine. I don't want any ministries of truth determining that for me. Especially not one manned by these partisan judges.

And "this" as in a protest? Like countless others before? Whatever. You're not gonna call it a coup, right? Even the Wikipedia article you cited doesn't call it one.
> Frankly, the only solution I see is banning adblock extensions like uBlock Origin from extension marketplaces.

Not a solution when browsers like Brave come with ad blockers built in.
Split brain experiments show that humans missing a functional corpus callosum largely operate in this way. I think it's an open question whether all humans operate in this way, or if communication between the hemispheres is necessary for 'real' explanations of behavior. The data we have at this point would support either conclusion.
> surprised to pay less than ones secretary.

I don't think this is actually true. It's a nice rhetorical soundbite, but if you count properly (e.g. all taxes all assets owned by Buffett actually pay) there's no way he pays less unless his secretary is extremely exceptional for some reason. It is true that her tax structure is probably different from Buffett's, so if you creatively form your query so that taxes that Buffett predominantly pays are excluded and taxes that the secretary predominantly pays are included, you could probably find a way to justify it, but that would not be a valuable insight.

And of course the whole "pays less", as formulated, is a bit deceptive - his rate of one of the taxes is lower as a percentage, but he actually pays vastly more in actual money (Berkshire Hathaway alone, in which he holds a substantial share, pays billions in taxes every year).
This is very reductive and gross misrepresentation of split brain experiments.

Humans have various level of memory (working, short term, long term), the ability to experience meta cognition, and the autonomy to make a decision - all of which (and much, much more) informs our behavior and are also things that an LLM fundamentally does not have.

These “studies” are painfully naive at best and are at worse an intentional misinformation campaign used to bolster the value of LLM past what they are useful for.
Any and ever form submission, no matter how simple or complex, can be represented as a single file encoded in Particle Syntax with semantics provided by the Parsers programming language.

Thus, any one filling out any form, no matter how complicated the form (tax returns, electronic medical records, mortgage applications, LSATs, et cetera), could in theory type the form in a single plain text document encoded in Particle Syntax, OR use an HTML multi input form which generates that text document under the hood, or a hybrid of both, since they are isomorphic to each other.
Doesn’t Ozempic have a bunch of serious side effects besides weight loss?
There is already an argument that says "let's stop pulling stuff out of the ground purely to burn" and instead use renewable resources. That's a difficult enough argument that lots don't agree with.

Saying "let's burn the plastic" without a plan to stop creating single use plastic creates a backdoor reason and economy to keep using plastic for everything.
Google can stop making the official experience terrible any time it wants. Until then they deserve nothing. Poor poor abused google definitely on the bottom of this abusive relationship.
Each argument could easily fill a book. Some valuable insights are discussed in the linked article, but most of the evidence comes from a series of research papers demonstrating that LLMs perform poorly when confronted with out-of-training distribution prompts. For example, even state-of-the-art LLMs can fail simple tasks like counting the number of "r" letters in the word "strawberry" or fall victim to the reversal curse (e.g., LLMs trained on "A is B" often struggle to deduce "B is A"). Another interesting read on this topic comes from MIT's research, which further explores these limitations: (https://news.mit.edu/2024/reasoning-skills-large-language-mo...)
On Android, NewPipe is great (but it sometimes breaks when there are API changes).
Side effect is also losing muscle mass
I expect it to happen. If GPT5 bombs, then I’ll reset my expectations.

I consider models like Claude Sonnet 3.5 and LLama 405b as GPT4 class models.

I don’t think we’ve seen a true successor to GPT4 yet with all the technique learnings and 100x the compute.
Visa and MasterCard getting steamrolled by central banks rolling out instant payment infra.
Very very good, and I want more societies which give a bigger middle finger to the karens of their world.
Htmx Using Razor Components
It’s also possible that it’s COVID-19 related.

I lost a large swath of my olfactory palette in 2021 when I contracted COVID, but recovered some after a few months. Still to this day, I struggle to taste different foods, which is a bit painful because of how excellent my partner is at cooking.
The false confusion is what gets me when it comes to this topic.

If your position towards another person is "I expect the following of you", that person doesn't agree with those expectations and in fact finds them intolerable, and then in response to this disagreement you just double down every time and state your expectations more forcefully, what do you think is going to happen? You leave them only one choice to remove this ongoing source of pain from their lives - to remove you from it.

As is alluded to in this article, the central theme here is narcissism. Narcissists can't legitimise the concept of compromise in their heads, because compromising would involve an acceptance that they were wrong. A narcissist will literally die before they will do such a thing.

The vast majority of energy spent on this topic is completely wasted. When there is a psychological impossibility of one or more parties to the conflict from compromising and changing their minds and attitudes, all this stuff is just pointless bickering and reopening old wounds, that helps no one.

The central problem is that narcissism is effectively incurable. Changing this is where efforts should be focused, just like we focus efforts on curing other currently incurable ailments.
About 20% of devices that were to be recycled were being sold -

https://www.theverge.com/apple/2020/10/4/21499422/apple-sues...
Would you have that same viewpoint if the goal of the person with the camera was to setup outside of addiction centers, abortion clinics, strip clubs, casinos, etc and publically identify people anyone coming or going? I mean they are public so should they "expect" to be filmed or should there be some sense of privacy?
Including a sitting senator and a pastor... [1]

[1] https://x.com/AlexandreFiles/status/1829979981130416479
Curious about what your opinion of the Venezuela elections.
> The city’s 306 shooting incidents from January to late August were far below the 1,553 recorded in Chicago or the 594 in New York City.

That is a higher per capita rate than NYC.
10 years ago this level of computer intellect was science fiction

It was still science fiction just 5 years ago.
The map widget doesn’t appear properly on iOS Safari, unfortunately
I think Anil and EFF are on opposite sides of this one.
>One thing restaurants could do is seat random strangers together.

Dear god no. What an absolutely disgusting idea!
> Can you elaborate on what would be bypassed by "patrolling?"

Well, we saw this play out in the last couple years in Texas—they set up their laws so that abortion enforcement was performed by civilians (i.e. not cops, not the government), specifically to throw sand in the gears of any countervailing judicial efforts (i.e. making it impossible to sue anyone to force them to stop it, because it's just a game of whack-a-mole at that point).
I don't think plastic alone would heat up (unless you have some very weird plastics). Organics probably would. But for common household garbage, there's not much harm in just burying it somewhere, provided it's not leaking or otherwise getting out - plant some trees on top of it and you have a nice park. Toxic garbage is more challenging but regular plastic doesn't seem to be this huge problem if you don't dump it into the river or such.
I was mistaken on their pricing, but making your customers pay 5-25% more even though you have no nexus in 99% of jurisdictions will still hurt sales to a significant degree.

And you think they’ll keep you as a customer if chargebacks are at all an issue for you?
The correct answer generally is to maintain "the right level of contact", not too little, and not too much. This is not meant to be a selfish answer either. Also, there is no "fixed rate of contact" to be maintained; sometimes it's meant to be lower, and at other times higher.
Plastic recycling has always been a sham, just one people bought into as a feel good narrative.

Recycling plastic more than once is basically impossible. It's also not a free process, as grinding up plastic creates micro particles that pollute our air and rivers.

The question is whether there's any material that's cheap, malleable and mass produced enough to replace plastic.
Is that Economic Freedom Fighters ?
> Because in the real world burning plastic for energy reduces CO2 emissions.

This is a monstrously insane statement.

I am looking at a piece of plastic. Let's say it's a plastic bag. Other than the (considerable!) emissions that came from its mining, manufacture and shipping, it has zero CO2 emissions.

I now set fire to it. I'm, uh, seeing a fair bit of smoke come off it. I'm thinking there might possibly be some emissions happening there.

It also smells really acrid, and I'm getting these weird premonitions of winding up in a cancer ward suddenly.
My experience is very somilar. In my own narrow domain chatgpt, Claude, copilot et al has been a toy, as in, mostly useless answers to my very specific questions.
Why does it have to be next to anyone's home? US still has vast amounts of pretty much empty space. You could drive for hours and see mostly empty space.
For something called MapRoulette, I expected a much simpler UX, e.g. a big button that gave you a random task in your area.
I wrote a python script that parsed all of our back-end code, looking for every log message, and used that as the basis for a giant n-dimensional vector representing every possible log message. Then I looked at every five minute chunk of our logs, and incremented the appropriate row in the vector for every message printed, then I used a clustering algorithm (don't remember which one, sorry, but it something from PyTorch I'm pretty sure, not at this company any more so I don't have the code any more) to identify the five vectors that were farthest from any other vector. I first computed the n-dimensional pythag difference between each pair of five minute chunks and selected the vectors with the highest combined difference but the true clustering algorithm was a cleaner choice.

I did throw away a couple of messages, basically all the traffic from our uptime and health checks I threw away because they seemed like they would distort the data (if our health-checker went down that was the health-checkers fault, and we ought to get an actual alarm, having this alert would just be a duplicate alarm). Dunno, that might have been a mistake. It was a hackweek project, I'm not saying this was perfect- in fact, as I said, it never provided anything useful because it couldn't be explained!

In our actual log files on the two days I looked at, all five of the outlier five minute chunks were from 8-8:30 AM Central European Time (our logs were in UTC, I just looked at different time zones and that seemed the most likely source of interesting behavior). And then when I looked at those times in the logs- and also when I eyeballed the ~1000 dimensional vectors for them- I couldn't tell what the clustering algorithm was seeing, because it was 'thinking' so differently from how I do. It wasn't like one of the rows in the vector was suddenly 150 and then went to 0 outside that half-an-hour, it was hard to see any patterns, So I couldn't set this up to alerts or anything, because it would have produced a whole lot of wild goose chases without a lot of further refinement.

Talking with someone more expert in ML than I, he recommended trying to fine-tune a LLM to predict the next word (or maybe even the next log message depending on windows and verbosity of log messages) and potentially alerting when the differences between predicted and actual got too large. Maybe that would work, I dunno. But that was what I would have tried next hackweek, if I hadn't moved on from that company.
Ultimately I think it’s the same city/rural (really dense vs less dense) divide between a lot of things.

In a suburban area, it could take 15 minutes for a taxi to get to you. In a rural area, 30 minutes to an hour. Inconvenient, especially since you could hop in the car you already have because of this situation, and probably already be where you want to go by the time they arrive.

In an urban area (especially a super dense city like Manhattan, Tokyo, Mumbai, etc.), you probably spend more time figuring out if you need a taxi than actually getting one (literally seconds in most cases), and god help you if you’re trying to park. It will not go well.
People who are overweight have much more muscle mass than people who normal weight.

Losing that muscle mass is normal
Only if you could afford it.

Parents held sway over their children because so much of life was dependent upon the family. Domestic help, help during food scarcity, help during a housing crisis, etc.

Today the government provides much of these services, but usually to a lesser extent. The result is the destruction of the power of the m/patriarchs, the replacement of the family by government, etc.

On the bright side, you can now walk away from abusive families. The more families are exposed, the more we see how many are messed up.
Are senators or pastors above the law?

Go read the decision: https://www.conjur.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PET-124...

More generally, one doesn't get to say "No, judge, I won't comply with your decision" without repercussions.
This is generally my experience as well. I don't love using ORMs but at least Django's is relatively painless and I can generally find the escape hatch I need.

The lack of support until very recently (and it's still lacking) for views is the main knock.
It's actually good that they stopped because there was a period when they found out it's no longer profitable to recycle it, but it's still pays well to get it shipped so they re-shipped it to somewhere like Vietnam where it ended up dumped into the sea. At least now people are paying attention that "recycling" doesn't seem to mean what they think it means.
The loose laws you describe are a problem that needs to be solved regardless, because they allow for selective enforcement against specific people or demographics by police departments acting in bad faith. A law that everyone is technically breaking but is generally not enforced can be used to target ethnic groups, or individuals that a particular police officer has a personal vendetta against. It essentially turns the police into judges, because it gives them the guaranteed ability to get a conviction somehow against anyone they want.

I assume a way for any civilian to activate those laws against any other civilian would result in the legal code being cleaned up quite quickly.
Seems to be an instinct.

A lawyer told me, this is how you scam people. Mainly Medical Doctors. Pitch an investment to them. They don't bite. Then mention, that they will save taxes with this investment, and they will say: Where do I have to sign?
That the tide turned against Musk when he undid the old Twitter censorship regime which was targeted towards primarily American conservatives. Since then, a lot of folks, including here and on major subreddits like news and politics, have openly wished harm on the site and on Musk. Here Musk was pushing back on illegal [1] censorship, and many people on this thread are celebrating the authoritarian judge responsible.

Lots of pro-censorship people on HN. Remember what happened to Brendan Eich? [2]

[1] https://x.com/AlexandreFiles/status/1829979981130416479

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525198
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defeating_prophecy
Brazil judge's order to secretly block multiple Twitter accounts within 2 hours
Computers are a lot better at recognizing people than people. Simple things like your gait are enough.
I don’t know if it has that option.
The plastic industry created "recycling" as we know it to move the liability of plastic waste onto consumers. "Oceans are full of plastic? People need to recycle!"

I throw mine away now because that's the only way I can make sure it doesn't get shipped to Asia and dumped into the ocean.
After seeing a number of stories like this, I wonder if shipping and logistics companies will start routinely scanning their cargo for AirTags.
'Not our tradition'-calls in Sweden to ban fathers walking brides down the aisle
I've always said people should be able to directly allocate where their taxes go within the government expenditures, or be able to file an objection based on religious or philosophical beliefs to having their tax dollars fund morally objectionable things. I would be much happier to pay taxes if they went to funding schools, infrastructure, NASA, emergency management, poverty relief and other useful things instead of putting undocumented immigrants who could be productive members of society in concentration camps or bombing brown people. Furthermore, I am happy to fund particular defense initiatives like supporting Ukraine, but I want a line item veto on unproductive or morally repugnant things the government does.
Why do you call your language model “transformer”?
Ask HN: Data Restrictions When Building
Building a product right now but the data I need to make it as good as possible is protected. Specifically, I want to access all reviews from a restaurant review website (Google Reviews, Yelp, etc) but the apis for google and yelp only limit me to 5 and 3 reviews per restaurant respectively. Apparently scraping those reviews is illegal, what do I do? Should I build out a PoC and then negotiate a data partnership? Has anyone run into a similar issue? Would greatly appreciate any advice!

Seriously wish these guys just played nice and made data public, people can make such cool things with it. I get someone could make a better yelp with that data and compete, but that’s because a better yelp exists, right?
Depending on what you're after, the serversideup.net libraries can be pretty handy.

They also have a relatively new project out called spin which is a docker swarm orchestrator. Seems to be the real deal.

https://serversideup.net/open-source/spin/
How we treat family members is the most accurate indication of our decency. We chose our friends, so their company is easy. It's when we're forced to reckon with people we don't choose. That is the actual test of our grace.
Plastic should go in the trash. Places that do recycle it were just paying people to take it overseas to Asia, where it was just being dumped into the ocean on the way.

Reduce is the only way forward. Throw it in the trash if you have it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Basically everyone is wrong here
People would be more open to renting if renting didn't cost more than owning per square foot for no reason. Renting's gotten a bad rap cause of that.
I wonder how close we are talking.

"close" in astronomical terms tends to be rather a long way away,
Original order (in Portuguese)

https://x.com/AlexandreFiles/status/1829980105567059997

Full translation of original order by a Twitter user:

https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/1830004191546556496
I've definitely heard organic stories from people who got favorable insurance/legal outcomes after a traffic accident because they were using a dashcam. Generally, if you're not doing anything wrong, it is a good idea to record whatever you're doing, because it's proof that you're not doing anything wrong (police departments use this to great effect; they love bodycams in 99% of cases, and simply turn them off when they're about to do something that they wouldn't want to have a bodycam for). The negatives are second-order effects that only come about when everyone is doing it.