skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel weird being stubborn against free tier google gemini

I feel as though it 'extracts' some sort of "smartness" out of me (if any) and then whatever intelligence from me becomes part of google gemini

this is why I would never want to pay for using these tools, anything good that comes from me in the chat becomes google's by AI training, which is ok so long as it's free to use

i.e. I won't pay to make their stuff better through my own work
is 3.13 bigger than 3.9
I think it’s because articles, videos, podcasts arent really fully consumed. In the case of articles it’s been all about headlines and not the actual content for years. So if no one’s reading that and notoriety is a “good enough” content game where a very small aspect of it triggers a response then the rest is not incentivized to be of any quality. Most short videos on social media are retreads of a previous meme’s audio and visual.

“Content Creators” are paid to stimulate because that’s how they get paid.

People can’t even bother to research anymore, instead more people are having an LLM summarize what they want to know. No need for extrapolation in research because you’re only going to use the information to stimulate a serotonin reaction.

Most people don’t read the article, watch the full video, listen to the podcast. Some listen to a lot of it on 2x speed removing any intended pacing or performance.

It’s a race to the bottom.
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This sort of thing is where Julia really shines. https://github.com/miguelraz/StagedFilters.jl/blob/master/sr... is the julia code and it's only 65 lines and uses some fairly clean generated code to get optimal performance for all floating point types.
>> Looking at early telegraphs doesn’t predict the iPhone, etc.

The problem with this line of argument is that LLMs are not new technology, rather they are the latest evolution of statistical language modelling, a technology that we've had at least since Shannon's time [1]. We are way, way past the telegraph era, and well into the age of large telephony switches handling millions of calls a second.

Does that mean we've reached the end of the curve? Personally, I have no idea, but if you're going to argue we're at the beginning of things, that's just not right.

________________

[1] In "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", where he introduces what we today know as information theory, Shannon gives as an example of an application a process that generates a string of words in natural English according to the probability of the next letter in a word, or the next word in a sentence. See Section 3 "The Series of Approximations to English":

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

Note: Published 1948.
Spoken like someone who has never been South.
What options do we have to delete our data? Anyone looked in detail?

[edit]

From their website:

Data retention
23andMe will retain some information to comply with legal
obligations, including your DNA, sex, and date of birth

So apparently you can permanently delete your data, except for, oh just your DNA....

[edit 2]

From NYT (https://archive.is/ynvDR)

However, 23andMe uses a laboratory that must follow
regulations under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendments, or CLIA. This means that some data, including
your DNA, sex and date of birth will be retained in order
to comply with these regulations. The company will no
longer use that information, though. You can read more
about the company’s deletion processhere.
Probably using CSV data format which is great. Can be used for example in Obsidian.
Great initiative.

Many of these companies claim they want to 'hire the best' then proceed to ghost them.

Best not to apply to these companies in the first place and completely avoid them.

I know Cabify, Monzo, Cloudflare and especially Hopper ghost people A LOT, so this is pretty accurate.
Yep. You had:

1) Completely stand-alone machines with just enough expansion to then get some form of connectivity (or added data storage)

2) Self-contained, instant boot systems without an "OS" as we know it today (instant on is much more fun than it might seem), and that you explored until you could learn literally what every single register/port did.

3) Single-box systems with almost everything under or behind the keyboard, that you had to plug into a TV to get anything done with.

There was a purposefulness and immediacy to using those machines that is absent from today's bloated, over-connected, highly distracting and ADHD-inducing systems.

It was, in short, a more civilised time :)
Is there any way to use privacy laws to have 23andMe wipe your data?
It's conspiracy because it assumes coordinated and intentional effort.

Something happening organically is incomprehensible for mentally unstable people.
As someone born in 2006, I can say that while that may be a contributing factor, I and many others my age are simply intrigued to look back at what the devices and software we use today descended from.

Although, perhaps it is the accessible creations of nostalgic mid-lifers that provides the foundation for our curiosities?
Folks aren't going to like it but this is the answer. It might not be a mid life crisis but the current troop of us were all born in the 80s.
This guy sounds like someone who would be fun for Javier Leiva's PRETEND podcast [0]. You should reach out to Javier.

[0] https://pretendradio.org/
Yeah, I think it probably comes down to different definitions of “rich”. I mean like “USD 50+ million net worth”. A lot of people can be quite successful if they play their cards right and have a good bit of luck. Hardly anyone will be among “the rich” without access to private networks.
Like the USA?
I had a similar experience where I was also assured the data was “doubly protected, it’s secured by a password here and re-secured at the remote site.”

Besides that immediately making me question their security, it is a great example how people trust things without much thought. I’ve heard of calls for statistics to be pushed over calculus to improve math literacy in the general population, perhaps some cybersecurity courses should be pushed over “learn to code” to improve tech literacy.
This reminds me of the Foenix series of computers by Stephany Allaire, the F256K2 which is much like what a Commodore 256/512 might have been like as a successor of the Commodore 128.

They are available in 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit systems with a variety of CPUs such as the 65c02, 6809, 65816, 68000, or 68040.

Main website: https://c256foenix.com/

Wiki: https://wiki.c256foenix.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
We fund the cost of your exploration with our nostalgia and retirement dollars. It's our pleasure to share with you what made our heyday great to us.
Why only PA and not the other swing states?
> AI models now require trainers with advanced degrees

Companies that create data for FM (foundational model) companies have been hiring people with degrees for years

> Invisible Tech employs 5,000 specialized trainers globally

Some of those companies have almost a million freelancers on their platforms, so 5k is honestly kinda medium sized.

> It takes smart humans to avoid hallucinations in AI

Many smart humans fail at critical thinking. I've seen people with masters fail at spotting hallucinations in elementary level word problems.
That's not really correct. Python is by far the slowest mainstream language. It is embarrassingly slow. Further more, several mainstream compiled languages are already multicore compatible and have been for decades. So comparing against a single-threaded language or program doesn't make sense.

All this really means is that Python catches up on decades old language design.

However, it simply adds yet another design input. Python's threading, multiprocessing, and asyncio paradigms were all developed to get around the limitations of Python's performance issues and the lack of support for multicore. So my question is, how does this change affect the decision tree for selecting which paradigm(s) to use?
Caught Megalopolis. I'm confident it's intentional, it's clearly the film Francis Ford Coppola wanted to make. If at 85 I can spend 100M of my own money on such a wild, ambitious, optimistic, critical, often camp but often very human film, I will have lived my best life.

Coppola's going out with something big and weird. My respects.
Paid them for a sample kit. Never used it after I carefully read the ToS and thought about what might happen.
It will take some time to read the 129 pages before I come to any conclusion, but I can say one thing for sure, and those who know what deliberate practice is, will agree with me.

Deliberate practice is a lonely process, which can only be accomplished with courage, dedication and grit whether you have a mentor/coach/master or not.
Easily is an overstatement. Multiprocessing is fraught with quirks.
Paper books have excellent UI, far better than ebooks in most respects. I wish ebooks at least came close to matching them, because the damn things are bulky and heavy.
I think it is a form nostalgia. But, the early 80s was a fast changing time for tech where new and much more powerful hardware was coming out almost every day.

Plus, tech was not controlled by large corporations as it is now. Back then there were many small hardware/software vendors competing and in many cases helping each other advancing. Now, everything is vanilla and controlled by Large Corps.

Me, I miss the days before GUIs, I always thought plain text interfaces were and still are the better in many cases than point/click.
Going deeper it can mean anything from having a person you want to impress, a parent that you just can't ever seem to make proud, or seeing someone succeed their way out of your impoverished upbringing.
How will this hold companies accountable or change their screening process? Do you want your name on a site that “calls out” companies that didn’t respond to you?

If you have the goal to get a job I don’t see how this helps. If you have the goal to try to shame employers, maybe they will care, but you get no closer to your goal.

The site has the obvious problem that only “ghosting” reports get counted, but not successful interactions. I can think of a few reasons employers might post jobs they don’t intend to fill, but I can’t think of a reason an employer would spend any time interviewing if they don’t intend to hire someone. Much more likely they found a better candidate and have sloppy follow-up than something nefarious happened.

With so many people applying for jobs, and using bots and AI to do that, and then using employers for practice interviews, it seems inevitable that employers will put less effort into follow-up.
Your post goes a lot farther, but the Pappus Chains reminded me of the Method of Apollonius that I have used to generate nested yinyan symbols with JavaScript.
Stability is attained by never updating.
I am a counter example that rule (though perhaps it is indirectly in agreement). I grew up alone, in the middle of the UK countryside without much regular contact with other kids. My inner monologue grew constant and loud - it acted like a companion, urging me to create things and ideas.
>> I agree 100% with this sentiment, but, it also is a decent description of individual humans.

Why would that be a good thing? The big thing with computers is that they are reliable in ways that humans simply can't ever be. Why is it suddenly a success to make them just as unreliable as humans?
I think you’re suggesting that I’m making a conclusion without sufficient evidence - hence the “irony”

Recall I’m discussing how people live, namely that they don’t live based on their own claims as to how to live. You’d have to evaluate my behaviors to derive if my claim is ironic.

However I’m Happy to provide that epistemological chain if requested
using human feedback for reinforcement learning is a training technique
Agreed, but small nitpick: the early ‘80s was mostly 8 bit, eg the C64, Apple II, MSX, etc.

It was possible to acquire a more or less complete idea of how these machines worked. My C64 had documentation that detailed every memory location, register and port right down to the hardware. It made them really compelling to ‘80s nerds like me.
An accidental print statement on the login page. That’s all it takes.
The code is GPL, that's not even possible.
1) Yes

2) The Economist's prior election models are still on their site, so you can judge for yourself. They don't have a huge history - 2020 was the first year they did a full model, I believe.

3) The level of confidence is basically the 3 in 5, etc. https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/predi...

4) Are you talking about the poll or the economist model? You're going back and forth here. If it's the economist's model, polls are only one input and they try to balance it against other historically accurate indicators, see above. If you mean the poll, it depends entirely on the specific pollster

The article is also out of date on Silver's model, fwiw. He now has Harris at a 58% chance to win the EV, after having had Trump as the winner there for basically the entire race.
B- It was a Ph.D. in Advertising.
No way that's possible or even desirable with Python's OOP and mutable nature and scoping structure.
Nice, but may need to adjust the limits:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631177
I think because 90s which is far more interesting is continuum. PC is partially backwards compatible over decades. Thus it is hard to isolate any single segment unlike "8bits" which were mostly one and done. You can get some points like end of DOS beginning of Windows 95/98. But there after it kinda blurs. Tech got better and old stuff kept mostly working. So you really cannot just stuck yourself in singular point.

Not that there isn't opportunities like peak of DOS gaming with Gravis Ultra Sound and some Sound Blaster. Or early 3d gaming.
It’s double ironic because it’s not very readable on paper either! The line length is way too long. If it were in HTML you could fix that.
https://archive.ph/mjaHb
No, it's acknowledging that for decades, the people doing mathematical modeling of waves dismissed lived experiences and reports of waves that didn't fit their models as "anecdotal", "folklore", and "insufficiently evidenced".
Seems pretty cool. But C++ is notoriously hard to Hot-Reload. It has to be seen if this truly works for all possible configurations and for big codebases. In the times of MSVC Hot Reload it stopped working after a few little configuration changes.
If you come into a clash with Matt, he might start broadcasting out your entries through Wordpress news widget hah (Half joking)
IMHO the constraints of these systems make them still quite fun to code for, just like solving sudoku puzzles can be fun.

I found about this [1] amazing live coding session by lftkyro on YouTube showing how to build a live music pattern editor on the C64.

[1] https://youtu.be/ly5BhGOt2vE?si=1EzOnELSb5fd-dqA
Have you tried Pages that come free with macOS? I find it to be pretty capable.
It's an incorrect statement. There are multiple viable paths to 270 and some do not include PA.

PA is a big part of the more likely ones, though.
Pure comedy, I love it
Well said. I think the issue stems from the same point.

Both cases assume that individuals are being coerced out of their potential to transform the world for the better, whether by Big Brother or by TikTok. In my view, both stem from an assumption that I don’t see playing out in the real world: that all individuals have the desire or capacity to make a difference and be something "more".

I think this idea came from the Enlightenment. That’s when we started to forget that, unfortunately, the overwhelming majority are just here to occupy space.
8bit 6502 tech is so radically awesome for the specs. So much creativity was required to make things work amid the heavy constraints. Like, basic NES/famicom games had 2k ram, 8k program code and 8k graphics.
Isn't there a balance?

If there were tons of mom-and-pops, prices would be even higher due to lack of scale economics. There are a ton of mom-and-pops where I live and they are extremely pricey -- I never shop at them.
> You still have the precise output if you want it, it didn’t go away.

For now. Given that most new devices seem to be fully hostile to the concept of general purpose computing (see phones, VR devices, TVs, etc), I wonder how long it will be before many of the computers that are sold are even more locked down than Chromebooks - just a few prompts for interacting with a preinstalled LLM.
Many polls focus on specific states to determine EV allocations, yes. The Economist's model does take into account state level polls.
I like how you put that "the whiteness is unbearable"

As a southerner who lived in Colorado for a while it's hard to describe exactly but I got that same feeling there.
> 20 years ago I could spend months tweaking ocean surface in renders and not get even close to that.

There are tons of videos now about that making the whole thing (somewhat) more approachable, but there are still a lot of pitfalls!

One of my favourites on the subject: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yPfagLeUa7k

This one is nice too: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEqaX4Y4bQ
It’s funny how those incentives are so well aligned.
>Plus, tech was not controlled by large corporations as it is now. Back then there were many small hardware/software vendors competing and in many cases helping each other advancing. Now, everything is vanilla and controlled by Large Corps.

Yes. My mother’s first computer was made by a company in Northern Kentucky called Thoroughbred Computers. It was tremendously expensive but locally made.
It's been tried and seemingly works well!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06131
> Many smart humans fail at critical thinking. I've seen people with masters fail at spotting hallucinations in elementary level word problems.

This is like lamenting that a person who has a doctoral degree, say, in mathematics or physics often don't have a more than basic knowledge about, for example, medicine or pharmacy.
"I created from scratch" love these words...

18 years of creativity, awesome.
This looks more like a database interface and less like a tabular calculator.

Supposedly part of excels good design is it was always agnostic as to whether you're using it as a spreadsheet, poor man's database, or pretty table maker.
I mean, just the standard dictionary meaning of generalization works just fine here, no? I had no problems following the article.
Single quotes are also easier to type on the default layout, no Shift
Show HN: I made a site to compete with Brandpa, Garple and Brandbucket
I’ve been in CBT decades and switched to EFT a few years ago and it’s been a total game changer
Check it out and let me know what you think. I've looked at prices very carefully, trying to make it a step up in terms of value when people buy a package from brandboxd compared with the others. Every item will be sub $1k and all domains have an estimated value of between $1k - $3k. With Garple you don't even get a brand at all. 8 more items will be added next week.
Can't confirm, I still get all the options:

- HTTPS

- SSH

- Github CLI

https://i.imgur.com/hYyr8Hu.png
Goodbye API. Hello RSQL
If I was worried I wouldn't have furnished my DNA to a corporation with very little accountability in the first place.

I got enough out of the deal (instead of nothing from the government) that it was in my mind an acceptable tradeoff. No one's about to start cloning me.

Your DNA is not secret. You leave it everywhere you go. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy for your litter when you litter. It's only a matter of time and of tech before everybody has a copy of everybody's DNA.
If you’re in the EU or UK, yes. File a GDPR request for removal of all data relating to you.
That sounds like a design gone horribly wrong.

Why not have the package maintainer build once (with all the modules that arch distributes), sign the output with temporary keys, and then add the signatures to the package source?

If the build is reproducible, the signatures will match the output of future builds.

If the user wants to use a custom kernel module, they’ll need to either rebuild with a new key, or turn off safe boot.

That’s vastly preferable than opening the entire kernel to build infrastructure attacks!
Reflowable formats like HTML are a regression over traditional books and I consider them as unsuitable for any document longer than a few pages.

I really hate those who provide some technical documentation in HTML format, without offering a PDF alternative, or at least some other worse format, like EPUB, but which still allows a book-like navigation.

Even on the small display of my phone I still prefer to read books in PDF format, if the reader provides a good UI for pan and zoom, than to read reflowable HTML documents, because with the latter the unpredictability of the layout messes with my ability to remember the location of the information of interest, which is essential when I frequently have to navigate through very long documents.
Also, what came after this era it was either boring (standard x86 PCs) or too complex to easily maintain over decades, e.g. Suns or SGIs with failing [UW]SCSI drives that are hard to replace these days.
According to the GDPR, its jurisdiction is global via “public international law” and mutual government agreements, but you’re right that’s not entirely clear and they are claiming untested jurisdiction. The law says it applies to non-EU companies if the company establishes any marketing or sales presence either located in the EU, or markets or sells to EU residents (which might apply if the company so much as analyzes sales data by country), or if the company is “monitoring” the behavior of EU residents in any way, where monitoring does not seem to be defined in Article 4 so could mean a lot of things including doing anything with collected data or corresponding with customers.

https://gdpr.eu/article-3-requirements-of-handling-personal-...

I’m sure there are US companies that happen to sell to EU residents that happen to acquire some PII but don’t know and can’t correlate it with the EU, and so aren’t subject to the GDPR. But according to the law’s language, it seems as though something simple on a company’s website like using Google Analytics, which does identify and “monitor” the behavior of people by location, might trigger GDPR. I might expect 23AndMe to trigger applicability for multiple reasons, including that they are using DNA to identify regional heritage and relatives, the samples may be delivered with EU addresses on them, and the samples are as personally identifying as it gets. That’s on top of whatever the website, account registration, and sale process collects.
> A debugger I used to use had a `phase of the moon` command

Which debugger would that be, or am I not getting the joke?
Exactly.

It was perfectly fine, I loved it. It worked very well.

They took it away, now I have to re-learn how to do it what I already knew with somethibg that I also have to pay for.

Sometimes we should just keep things as they are and stop looking for the next thing.
I think lease actually applies as the fixed period of supported ownership is until they take the servers down or they drop support which could happen before you even unwrap.

I think they should also remove “buy“ from any software requiring external servers.
Came here to say much the same thing, and it's very sad that you're getting downvoted for such an innocuous statement. Many new retirees and empty-nesters (or those approaching such milestones) first got into computing then. That creates a unique convergence of time, money, skills, and inclination to re-create the machines of that era. I'm sure that's not the whole story but surely it's a contributing factor.
Curt imperative demand makes this sound like an AI prompt, and I truly hate the trend (see also "sound on").