skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think I will get that from Buzzfeed

BuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They were a serious news website¹ staffed by multiple investigative journalists, including a Pulitzer winner heading that division. They received plenty of awards and recognition.² It is indeed a shame they shared a name with BuzzFeed and that no doubt didn’t help, but it does not detract from their work.

> or from The Atlantic.

There was no Atlantic link. The other source was MIT Technology Review.

> I’d like a more impartial breakdown ala AP-style news reporting.

The Associated Press did report on it³, and the focus was on the privacy implications too. The other time they reported on it⁴ was to announce Spain banned it for privacy concerns.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News#Awards_and_recog...

³ https://apnews.com/article/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-sam-altm...

⁴ https://apnews.com/article/worldcoin-spain-eyeballs-privacy-...
Fair, I think the "magic" depends on other factors that may or may not lead to neurodivergence. Those being:

- Life experience

- Exposure/education when young

Of course, these might lead to neurodivergence or might not. The key thing is that the magic is a very unique, personal thing. Human, one can say. Also, through practice you come to understand new perspectives, something that is perhaps lessened in your view.

Either way, I've missunderstood your take to a degree, and had a much more radical interpretation of it.
This comment single-handedly made me do an enthusiasm 180. I'd find it helpful if the developers responded to it.

Just to give a bit more meat to my comment: these experiences are really helpful when you're in the position to adopt a potential time-saving (stack-cutting/unifying) technology. I find I get a huge benefit from word-of-moth experiences from others who have tried such frameworks. Specifically compared to takes on the _idea_ of the technology.
Correct, but I haven't heard about snitching before. What do you mean? You can authenticate with your Microsoft account or not, there is no problem about that.
AI, i.e. deep learning, consumes huge amounts of energy because it has to train on gigantic amounts of data and the training algorithms are borderline efficient. So to stop using huge amounts of energy someone would have to come up with a way to get the same results without relying on deep learning.

In other words all we need is a new technology revolution like the deep learning revolution, except one centered around a radically new approach that overcomes every limitation of deep learning.

Now: how likely do you think this is to happen any time soon? Note that the industry and most of academia have bet the bank on deep learning partly because they think that prospect is extremely unlikely.
Not so sure the median would be so far off here. Just earlier this week I spent about 4.5 hours in the ER in a Bay Area hospital. Not DC, but 5.5 hours doesn’t seem crazy to me.
Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?
I was looking at the Supabase docs and it was nice to see a long list of Auth work flows supported/documented. So my question is, here in October 2024, what are y'all using for Auth on your side projects. Password based, social, email, something else? If you are using social, which social do you support? Is there any public data on which types of Auth have the best conversion/bounce rates? And for you, which Auth is just easy to support long term and which just ends up being a drag? TY
It's not like people warned that that could happen.
Water hardness varies by location worldwide, including the US.
I also deleted Reddit.

In my case there were too many negative opinions affecting my mood, and I was spending too much time on the site
"Regulatory capture" is the regulations the people complaining about regulations are complaining about.

"Lack of government oversight" almost never leads to high consumer prices. It can lead to externalities, but if there are no regulations preventing anyone else from competing with the incumbents, it's very hard to sustain monopoly rents.
Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams
Need a lot more cashflow than just to run the GPUs in some places if you file a lot of cases with the courts - and that is way before hypothetically winning anything that might help recover them.
A 12 year old that doesn’t sleep, eat, or forget, learns anything within seconds, can replicate and work together with fast as light communication and no data loss when doing so. Arrives out of the womb knowing everything the internet knows. Can work on one problem until it gets it right. Doesn’t get stale or old. Only had emotion if it’s useful. Can do math and simulate. Doesn’t get bored. Can theoretically improve its own design and run experiments with aforementioned focus, simulation ability, etc.

What could you do at 12, with half of these advantages? Choose any of them, then give yourself infinite time to use them.
Higher volume legal actions can only be successful as "peer-to-peer". If it goes through a courtroom, there is no way they can handle this kind of volume(even with AI tools). Imagine that the CEO is informed there are 20 new legal actions and the first court hearing will start 10-20 years from now when the CEO will not be part of the company anymore.
But the presumption that we should be policing speech is not necessarily correct. Making it cheaper to do a thing which ought not be done is no real benefit to humanity.
They are already chords.
I did a similar calculation a few weeks ago:

Humans consume about 100W average power (2000 kcal to watt hours/24 hours). So 8 billion people consume ~800 GW. Call it 1 TW. Average world electric power generation is 28000 TWh / (24*365 hours) ~3 TW.
> AGI doesn’t mean smarter than the best humans.

Technically no, but practically...

12 year old limitations are:
A. gets tired, needs sleep
B. I/O limited by muscles

Probably there are more, but if 12 year old could talk directly to electric circuits and would not need sleep or even a break, then that 12 year old would be leaps and bounds above the best human in his field of interest.

(Well motivation to finish the task is needed though)
> Changing the paddle size was a mod already supported by the hardware and the manual gave details on how to do it.

Amazing, that a manual would discuss resoldering a jumper. Today's manuals warn you not to open the case and not to eat the batteries.
This problem has an established name and is widely studied in economics and mechanism design: the free-rider problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
Europe puts plenty of E numbers in their food (the US just spells it out versus hiding it under a number). There are things illegal in the US that are used in food in Europe. A lot of the time, at least for things like pesticides, the different is country of origin of manufacturer.
The US Healthcare System is a cruel and unusual punishment.
Why? This is someone else’s fight. Do you have a high amount of equity in Automattic?

You have to look out for number one.
The amount of comparisons I see between some theoretical AGI and something more akin to a science fiction like Jane from the Ender saga or the talking head from That Hideous Strength is I guess not surprising. But in both of those cases the only way to make the plot work was to make the AI literally an other-worldly being.

I am personally not sold on AGI being possible. We might be able to make some poor imitation of it, and maybe an LLM is the closest we get, but to me it smacks of “man attempts to create life in order to spite his creator.” I think the result of those kinds of efforts will end more like That Hideous Strength (in disaster).
GitHub, especially filtered by starred repos, is a pretty high quality dataset.
I appreciate everything that OpenAI has done, the science of modeling and the expertise in productization.

But, but, but… their drama, or Altman’s drama is now too much for me, personally.

With a lot of reluctance I just stopped doing the $20/month subscription. The advanced voice mode is lots of fun to demo to people, and o1 models are cool, but I am fine just using multiple models for chat on Abacus.AI and Meta, an excellent service, and paid for APIs from Google, Mistral, Groq, and OpenAI (and of course local models).

I hope I don’t sound petty, but I just wanted to reduce their paid subscriber numbers by -1.
I had a prepper phase too and I’m as leftist and pro human as they come. It’s just fun to organize and plan and has nothing to do with alex jones selling me on the frogs turning gay. And if there’s ever a natural disaster (like I just lost water for a week due to a hurricane) it’s nice to have things like 55 gallons of fresh water on standby.
It sounds like it's about to get symmetric, isn't it? More GPU's are unlikely to yield better outcomes once some threshold is reached just as more and better designed restaurant discovery apps won't make you discover better restaurants in your area if they are non-existent.
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Really, you can't see a connection between people promoting ever supernatural rewards for being money and prosperity-driven and stoking that fire right alongside rampant capitalism and reckless decisions on how to protect our financial and economic wellbeing? Especially when even some very very bright people still believe in imaginary creatures in the sky and use that to shape and guide their decision process?

Maybe not "cause", but "contribute notably to".
They don't "yell" whataboutism, they kindly point it out in context. And they already know that the US invades places, and have fully "parsed the salient commonality" that you seem to think is so elusive to them.

The reason they need to keep doing that is because it seems necessary to counter/deflate the relentless "hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hyprocrisy" tide of thinking that tends to dominate what passes for discussion on the topic (backed by a lot of broken or distorted narratives about what actually did happen).

And also, because in fact there are substantial differences between the current aggression in Ukraine and what the US has done in most of it recent adventures (the Iraq invasion the one notable exception). So while there are commonalities between what these countries do, by and large they really aren't that "salient". To suggest that they are is, well, whataboutism.
Effort, yes. Slog, no.
Technically true, but also doesn’t advance the conversation in any way. Eventually no one will exist or care about anything, but until then everyone will have to live with the decisions and apathy of those who came before.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
What'll happen in both industries is the same that will happen everywhere else: adopt or die. The huge winners will be those that creatively use this new tool without 100% relying on it to do everything.
I agree that prepping itself is completely fine, and people should be prepared for natural disasters, civil unrest, or whatever scenarios they’re most comfortable with. Building resilience is beneficial for both individuals and communities, and I can see how it plays an important role, especially in situations like the ones you mentioned in NC.

My issue, though, is with someone like Sam Altman—a leader of an organization that could potentially accelerate the downfall of civilization—being so deeply invested in prepping. Altman isn’t just a regular guy preparing for emergencies; he’s an incredibly wealthy individual who has openly discussed stockpiling machine guns and setting up private land he can retreat to at a moment’s notice. It’s that level of preparation, combined with his position at the helm of one of the most consequential tech companies, that doesn’t sit well with me. It feels like he’s hedging against the very future his company might be shaping.
How busy are the car parks by their dispatch center? are the cars staying longer because people are working overtime? how many UPS trucks are visiting?
Actually, his blog is correctly capitalized. Although, you would think he could hire a proper editor, since the em-dashes are not formatted correctly. Baby steps.
Routing the plantar nerve around a bunch of ligaments that swell with use seems like a pretty horrible idea, for one!
It’s really sad to see all the personal attacks and cynicism that has no basis in reality. OpenAI has an amazing product and was first to market with something game changing for billions of people. Calling him a fraud and scammer is super ridiculous
A set of weights siting on your hard disk don’t evolve to get smarter on their own. AGI does however require the ability to learn new skills in new domains; if you kept exposing it I don’t see why it wouldn’t be similar. But fundamental capacities in how good it is a reasoning / planning don’t have to exceed any given human to be considered AGI.
There's a difference between resilience and being prepared for the unexpected on one hand (a go-bag (for sudden travel, not Mad Max), on- and off-site backups of data & physical documents, a couple weeks of food & water, an emergency expenses account separate from savings, plus physical currency) and, on the other hand, being under the delusion that hiding in a super-stocked bunker is any sort of acceptable answer to the possible collapse of civilization.

And Altman is definitely in the latter camp with, "But I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to."[1]

That a guy who says the above, and also says that AI may be an existential threat to humanity, also runs the world's most prominent AI company is disturbing.

1. https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ceo-survivalist-prepper
There's quite a number of posts here that seem determined to attack the integrity of The Atlantic... hm. Everything from "their writers are scared that they'll lose their jobs" to complaints about twenty year old articles not panning out correctly.
100% agreed - given that they published this under their own name though, I wonder how much of that was just echoing the corporate mission statement of Automattic for the sake of any colleagues who happen to stumble across the blog.
Thanks to open source, Spliit is now available in eight languages
Show HN: Podcast app written in Flutter searching Podcast Index
I named it Digilore, available here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/digilore/id6633130387

This app searches the Podcast Index https://podcastindex.org/ that's uncensored. Apple podcast search, what most apps use, removes 3 or 4 podcasts a day, according to the Podcast Index. Digilore also supports their new RSS tags such as for transcripts and live episodes. The namespace spec is here: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace

Digilore works on MacOS and iOS and will soon support Android. I've been a backend Java services developer for 15 years and recently ventured out into mobile apps. It is written using the Flutter SDK (Dart language) which is cross platform (iOS/Android/Mac/Win/Web). It's been a joy to use Flutter, and I highly recommend it. Granted, it's a Google product, so some people might be skeptical of it.

I am not monetizing this with freemium features or as a paid app. It follows the "value for value" model of funding where users are asked to consider the amount of value it brings to them and contribute that amount, via in-app-purchases. It's a twist on shareware and many podcasts follow this model which was my inspiration that you can read more here: https://value4value.info/about/
Why Would Someone Want You to "HODL" a Stock They Also Hold?
FWIW Jeffrey Zeldman is a living legend. He was one of the first print designers to transition to the web, did it well, and wrote about it constantly. He designed the “Batman Forever” website in 1995; it was visited by something like one-third of all Internet users.

He created the Web Standards Project, hugely influential in getting browser manufacturers to support standards rather than pee in the pool. And if you think cross-browser support today is rough, at the time you could reliably crash production browsers with valid CSS.

Never mind A List Apart, one of the best early mailing lists on the web, a kind of transitionary form between Usenet and forums/Discord. And A Book Apart, which published lots of high-quality stuff.

If you develop for the web today, every time a browser behaves as the spec describes, thank Jeffrey Zeldman.
The healthcare outcomes in most European countries are better than in the U.S. The wait time of someone without access to the healthcare system is infinity. In all healthcare systems there is rationing of care. In the U.S. we ration in an immoral way.
To avoid disappointment, just think of the mass news media as a (shitty) LLM. It may occasionally produce an article that on the surface seems to be decently thought out, but it's only because the author accidentally picked a particularly good source to regurgitate. Ultimately, they just type some plausible sentences without knowing or caring about the quality.
> The Atlantic doesn't have an ideological center,

Morning, boys. How’s the water?
Any thoughts on synthetic data?
Like literally the third sentence makes it clear it was restructuring team dynamics but not eliminating safety goals or even losing the employees that are safety focused. There are many safety focused people at OpenAI and they never fired or laid off people in a safety team which is what people infer from “dissolve the safety team” when it’s used as a bullet point of criticism
> It would be more efficient to pay for it using taxes, both income and sales taxes, rather than letting some groups—the poor and the elderly—off the hook arbitrarily.

I don't think this is true. Some countries with public healthcare are far more efficient than our system.

But there are countries that have systems similar to ours that are far more efficient as well.

We just have a really shitty system, and who pays for it isn't going to change that. It's a hard technocratic problem that doesn't have any easy answers. (Besides increasing the number of residency slots, removing the bachelor degree requirements and allowing foreign physicians to practice which are basically freebies.)
>When do you expect the death deficit to show up in mortality data?

right away. I'm not an epidemiologist, but it's simple logic. A certain number of people of every age die every year. infants, toddlers, tweens, adolescents, middle aged people, old people, in each group a certain %age of people die every year of "all cause mortality". More old people die than young people (we're talking about rates here, % chance of dying)

so, if there is a period where a whole bunch extra old people who die one year, that whole bunch extra old people are not around the very next year to die, because they're already dead.

If the numbers don't add up, somebody is hiding data. the numbers absolutely should make sense.

so, one explanation for what you are saying is that extra old people didn't die, it was the same number of old people; who died must have been young people, because those "missing deaths" will not show up in the "normal" death statistics for a long time. But that's not what we were told happened, so again, something is not right with the data.
High deductible plans are great. They are designed to allow you to take pretax money out and use it to either invest like an IRA or spend it on healthcare.

In other words they are actually insurance. Not a prepaid healthcare plan. No one should be using “insurance” to cover every day expected expenses like random doctor visits for the flu.

They are a small fight against the massive principal agent problem which is the sole issue anyone should be focusing on if they care about healthcare costs.
Since it's paywalled, I assume we are discussing the title (as usual). It implies that there was the time when [we] took him at his word. Uh, ok, maybe. But what does it matter? "We" aren't the people at VCs who fund it, I suppose? So, what does it matter if "we" take him at his word? Hell, even if it suddenly went public, it still wouldn't mean much if we trust the guy or not, because we could buy shares for the same reason we buy crypto or TSLA shares.

As a matter of fact, I suspect the author of the article actually belongs to gullible minority who ever took Altman at his word, and now is telling everyone what they already knew. But so what? What are we even discussing? Nobody calls to remove their OpenAI (or, in fact, Anthropic, or whatever) account, as long as we find it useful for something, I suppose. It just makes no difference at all if that writer or his readers take Altman at his word, their opinions have no real effect on the situation, it seems. They are merely observers.
Despite being mentioned throughout the post, I don't see a link to the video in question. I saw it when it was posted a few weeks back and really enjoyed it. I would highly recommend giving it a watch, especially if the ramifications of P vs NP are new to you [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OPsH8PK7xM
> If we lived in smaller, more self-sufficient communities, then we would not have scale and the people in such communities would not have much desire to develop AI either.

Yes, because they’d be too busy worrying about food and disease to bother with much else. Agrarian societies weren’t fun.
You're welcome to take it as foolish pre-modern ignorance if it strikes you that way, but actually yes: many people do not think to go to a doctor for minor bone injuries or vomiting, and many more than that wouldn't think to do so for more common everyday illnesses like a familiar sore throat, rash, nosebleed, fever, etc

For some, this is rooted in a confidence in their own personal-community care, for others its an insight into what few actions a doctor might take themselves for these issues, etc

There's lots of ways to explain it, and certainly many of them can be easily criticized by people who see professionalized medicine differently, but you may as well let go of the idea that everybody out there approaches it in the same way that you do. It's probably not even all that consistent among your own circle of family, friends, and acquaintences.

We're still only in the beginning of what seems to be a sweeping cultural transformation around how people see health and medicine and the perspectives people bring are still quite diverse.

At the same time, the overall direction in recent decades is definitely towards seeking commercial medical care for more concerns as well asserting that this is an entitlement that all people should have access to.
> once a good not-Chromium alternative appears

Betting on this not happening is probably a better decision than most of the ones Mozilla has made over the past decade.

It could happen but it's really unlikely for anything to be compliant, compatible, and make enough of a dent to last.
That’s not really true though. While legalese creates complexity a substantial part of judicial rulings is figuring out which of it should be ignored because it’s bullshit. A lot of law is driven by arguments of how things ought to be given a loose framework of law and precedent.