skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The forums are a great searchable historical record.

Wrote a whole blog post about this: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451

Many people have a drive to solve their problems themselves, and if you make content available to google, they'll find it. It's a fantastic way to self-empower your users and customers.

We even have an internal slack channel where I'll post questions and answers from the other support channels (email, slack) with a view to making them generic and turning them into forum posts. I don't get to that task often enough, but it is sure fun to do when I have time.
The paper says that 100% of the control group died. (This is a mouse model and a virus specifically selected to be deadly.)

So, not "toxic", and not the usual LD50 that's often misreported as "lethal". But still, the language seems appropriate.
> Should be noted that constipation relief is far from the only benefit that probiotics provide to your gut biome.

You mean claimed to provide.
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Yeah, I really liked Heroku and I used it for so many years, but it also killed itself kinda. It could never reduce prices as all machines "was the same" and thus a reduction in price meant lose of revenue and now they're just super expensive comparably.

Now I just dump Caddyserver and install things bare metals servers. I avoid all dependencies like the plague
Why do you think you can't buy that? These companies have been building up profiles on millions (billions?) of people for many years now. It is not unreasonable to think they could infer stuff that they don't directly measure. Nor that these profiles would be shared/sold.
I don't know. Today it's extremely expensive to start new manufacturing competitors. You have to go and ask for tons of capital merely to play the game and likely lose. Anyone with that much capital is probably going to be skeptical of some upstart and consult with established industry leaders. This would be the opportunity for those leaders to step in and take the tech for themselves.

So to solve this problem you need billions to burn on gambles. I guess that's how we ended up with VC's.
When did gizmodo become a spam marketing site? They are linking with what look affiliate links and making no mention of it. This phone while wonderfully small is destined to be come ewaste. Underpowered, outdated, insecure, and not even a classic phone. If you want an old small phone shop around for something actually from 10 years ago:)
I generally don't take anyone other than Leon at his word. \s
The argument that social media is responsible for political polarization is reductive and ahistorical.

It ignores the thousands of years of division that we've had along ethnic and religious lines.

What we have now is simply the peak of a longstanding trend that's older than the United States: it's white supremacy. That's all it is. Anti-immigrant hysteria? White nativism and white chauvinism.

These things are manifesting now because of deteriorating material conditions and longstanding beliefs, not because of social media (eg [1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew
The guy in charge of 4680 production has said multiple times that cell production is NOT a limiting factor for the Cybertruck ramp. It never has been, and he aims for it never to be.
Maybe that's a good thing. The internet never reached its potential as being the connective fabric of humanity. Mostly it's just marketing and spam. If the internet died and we all went back to smaller communities, that really wouldn't be the worst thing IMO. We're not really evolved for global communications at scale anyway.
Sam Allan has to be a promoter and true believer. It is his job to do that and he does have new tech that didn’t exist before and it is game changing.

The issue is more that the company is hemorrhaging talent, and doesn’t have a competitive moat.

But luckily this doesn’t affect most of us, rather it will only possibly harm his investors if it doesn’t work out.

If he continues to have access to resources and can hire well and the core tech can progress to new heights, he will likely be okay.
I really wonder when javascript frameworks will get over file system routing. It didn't take PHP too long to move to better solutions.
OpenAI: The Game
I don’t hire for technical roles, but I always ask a “how would you solve this” question. This gives me an idea about their reasoning and if they have a good grasp of similar situations. It’s not a free consulting session.

Of course, if they ask you about how you implemented the patent protected confabulator at your current role, then there’s a reason to politely decline (and they hopefully wouldn’t hire someone who spills business secrets in an interview).
I love it man, this is great! I used to use mocp but I could never get it to work on Fedora.

This here is even better, I love the minimal approach.
OpenAI cant be working on AGI because they have no arc for production robotics controllers

AGI cannot exist in a box that you can control. We figured that out 20 years ago.

Could they start that? Sure theoretically. However they would have to massively pivot and nobody at OAI are robotics experts
One which gets mentioned often is NAND 2 Tetris, which starts with basic logic gates and progresses to produce a simple computer:

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
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We engaged a startup (kapa.ai; they're great) to train an LLM on:

* our public facing docs

* our public repos

* our youtube channel

* our forum

and spit out answers. It's not right all the time, but it is most of the time and, crucially, it shares not just an answer but a link to the docs that led it to that answer. That makes it easier to fact check the LLM.

We've found it very useful for scaling support and making that corpus of knowledge available to folks both outside and inside the company.
They are kinda trolling, Kinda not. A rainbow table is just a huge list of precomputed passwords to hash.

MD5 hash of "pass": 1a1dc91c907325c69271ddf0c944bc72

SHA-1 hash of "pass": d74db87a56f6d8a52ca4bbafc86a27f4b66c58a4

SHA-256 hash of "pass": 3f5d8cc9ea971f85b91fe9a761e29f882abeae92e4b99b5678f7bf3f53b1519f

but if you add "salt" to the password, (i.g. some randomly generated data), your password will be deterministically unqiue, and thus a rainbow table wouldn't ever work. The infrared and ultraviolet part is pure troll tho.
There’s two different effects hidden in that statement

> living in France

I have had similar experience where my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe. I was eating the same foods and somehow it was better.

> Eating stinky raw cheeses and different fermented foods

Raw and fermented foods in cultures across the world are linked to better gut health. However, industrial fermentation and packaging won’t help you as much because the diversity of microbes drops and packaging often kills most of them. We need to bring back the culture of home fermentation.
1. New software comes out to support new models. People want new models. From what I've seen, this is driven largely by newer phone cameras. I avoid this by customarily carrying a pocket camera smaller than most phones, with 10X zoom, and often, a venerable 42X Coolpix "just in case". Cameras last. Phones are "model year".

2. Developers (and Apple) stop supporting older software and hardware due to the demands of testing and supporting so many combinations. And sometimes, they just write to the latest version (but the features!).

3. Speaking of features, Oh the features! Competition is driven largely by feature seeking, too often at the expense of basics in the mad rush. I read this post on a phone and switched to the mac because the mac has a GhostText browser extension that won't lose the text area, which the phone does from time to time when switching apps, most infuriatingly. But people want AI (Did anyone actually ask for it?) and yet, AirDrop often takes 10 seconds to recognize the mac which is two feet away from the phone.

Now, I'm not arguing that competition is entirely bad. If Apple hadn't created the mac, Microsoft might be offering "DOS 2024" today.
I was sometimes involved in this project at MS. The music buying experience for Zune was awful, and I regret missed opportunities to be more forceful about telling the Windows Media execs that they were fucking up. Part of the problem was MS insistence on being fair to everyone and having an open system which led to 5000 shitty online stores where you could buy music. Instead of Apple that had exactly one where they owned and controlled the entire vertical.

This was the whole reason for creating Zune. Again, MS had licensed out their awful Windows Media products to 100 Chinese digital music player makers and got a fragmented market of trash, so MS jumped in to try and do it the right way themselves, but sadly too late.

I think the flat Metro UI evolved out of all the work we did coming out of the Windows Media division. I based all the flat design work I was doing for MS on British Sky TV's set top box graphics, simply because they were easiest for my developer brain to code and they also worked really well:

https://youtu.be/-26xPkRXtsU
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41738552
US air strikes target Houthis in Yemen
It's a solid and well-formed contribution.
If neither an AI nor a person does anything but fit the next word by matching with other prior texts, then where did those other texts come from?

A language is a vocabulary and a set of rules which can be described and codified, and is generally learned from others and other prior examples.

But all that describes is a tool called a language. The tool itself is mechanistic. The wielder may or may not be. The tool and the wielder are two different things.

A piece of paper with text on it is not a writer. A machine that writes text onto paper is still not a writer even though a human writer performs the same physical part of the process as the machine.

Similarly, just like it's possible for an mp3 player to make the same sounds we use to express concepts and convey understanding, without itself having any concepts or understanding, it is also possible for an intellect to perform mechanistic acts that don't require an intellect.

Sure, actually quite a lot of human activity can be described by simple rules that a machine can replicate. So what?

You can move a brick from one place to another. And so can a cart. And so can gravity. Therefor you are no different from a field?

It's utterly silly to be mystified by this. It's challenging the other ape in mirror for looking at you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMylwohL14&t=23s
You're asking for historical examples of great inventions that were hidden from history. I only know of those great inventions that I've hidden...

There are a number of counterexamples though. Henry Ford, etc.
This is not exactly how it works, but as a custom you look at the price of the tier below what you want, and the price of the tier which contains what you want. The price difference must be what the feature you want costs.

So if the tier with which provides on-call is $100.000 and the tier below that is $75.000, then the cost appears as $25.000 to me as a customer. That not true, when you dig into it, some of the cost is covered by "unused" benefits of the tiers below, so that one benefit on it's own might be closer to $50.000. If you truly don't need the stuff below, then you'd want more flexibility in the price structure and be able to spend the $50.000, rather than the $100.000. Instead the provider now ends up with no sale.

> direct on-call team with actual skills is expensive AF

More than most realise. My issue is that there are occasions where you don't mind paying for that service, but you're not allowed to, because the tiers are designed so that it becomes more expensive than it should be. I've seen a number of support contracts, where they only tier that actual provides much value is the one where you can call an expert, but that's hidden behind "Call Us" or "Super Premium Platinum" priced such that only governments and VC funded companies can/will pay for it.
Efficiency in terms of cost and time makes a big the difference between something becoming widely used or remaining a curiosity.
If you've got an iPhone or iPad, I've got an AR prototype for glyph based rendering like this you might enjoy playing with: https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat

Alpha release builds an AR app to pull code, render in space.
That's a really good comment and insight, but understandably I think it is aimed at this forum and a technical audience. It landed well for me in terms of the near team impact of LLMs and other models. But outside this forum, I think our field is in a crisis from being very substantially oversold and undersold at the same time.

We have a very limited ability to define human intelligence, so it is almost impossible to know how near or far we are from simulating it. Everyone here knows how much a challenge it is to match average human cognitive abilities in some areas, and human brains run at 20 watts. There are people in power that may take technologists and technology executives at their word and move very large amounts of capital on promises that cannot be fulfilled. There was already an AI Winter 50 years ago, and there are extremely unethical figures in technology right now who can ruin the reputation of our field for a generation.

On the other hand, we have very large numbers of people around the world on the wrong end of a large and increasing wealth gap. Many of those people are just hanging on doing jobs that are actually threatened by AI. They know this, they fear this, and of course they will fight for their and their families lifestyles. This is a setup for large scale violence and instability. If there isn't a policy plan right now, AI will be suffering populist blowback.

Aside from those things, it looks like Sam has lost it. The recent stories about the TSMC meeting, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41668824, was a huge problem. Asking for $7T shows a staggering lack of grounding in reality and how people, businesses, and supply chains work. I wasn't in the room and I don't know if he really sounded like a "podcasting bro", but to make an ask of companies like that with their own capital is insulting to them. There are potential dangers of applying this technology; there are dangers of overpromising the benefits; and neither of them are well served when relatively important people in related industries thing there is a credibility problem in AI.
Honestly this is almost how Firefox feels to me compared to Chrome/Brave.
I know of no proposals that don't involve the government regulation of care. The government can mandate treatment just as they can ban treatments in any of the systems. There are a variety of proposed systems that display these properties to varying degrees.
The person you replied to suggests that the analogy of a 3d printer building a part does not hold, as LLM-based coding systems are able to both "print" some code, and decide where and when to do so.

I tend to agree with them. What people seem to miss about LLM coding systems, IMO:

a) deciding on the capabilities of an LLM to code after a brief browser session with 4o/claude is comparable to waking up a coder in the middle of the night, and having them recite the perfect code right then and there. So a lot of people interact with it that way, decide it's meh, and write it off.

b) most people haven't tinkered with with systems that incorporate more of the tools human developers use day to day. They'd be surprised of what even small, local models can do.

c) LLMs seem perfectly capable to always add another layer of abstraction on top of whatever "thing" they get good at. Good at summaries? Cool, now abstract that for memory. Good at q/a? Cool, now abstract that over document parsing for search. Good at coding? Cool, now abstract that over software architecture.

d) Most people haven't seen any RL-based coding systems yet. That's fun.

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Now, of course the article is perfectly reasonable, and we shouldn't take what any CEO says at face value. But I think the pessimism, especially in coding, is also misplaced, and will ultimately be proven wrong.
In my experience, if you ask 4o or Claude for the definition of a word, they can fumble the tone and get meanings of toneless words mixed up.

For instance, when prompted for the meaning of "da", it correctly provides skin, but also provides "already", which is a confusion with "đã". I don't believe I had any notable difference in error rate between Claude and 4o, and it's looking like I will create a system to have someone manually review what is generated.

My main motivation for working on this is that there is such a drought of materials. SOTA LLMs are certainly great and have a pretty good effectiveness, but I wouldn't say they make great teachers of more obscure languages yet. I recall the Llama models explicitly state what languages the model is proficient in.
Some people have dysbiosis which makes it impossible to have most vegetables
Everything was going so well. And then we came to one of the final activities. ……we were told that we were about experience a very uncomfortable five minutes.

Bring it on I thought, adventurously, cluelessly

How bad can it be?

One of the trainers then informed us that we were going to stare at each others eyes in silence for five minutes

Oh

hashtag#eyecontact hashtag#neurodivergent hashtag#counsellingtraining
If the concern is just meat, why not go vegetarian instead?
Facebook is mostly this now too. Long comment threads of boomers thanking AI images for their military service or congratulating it on a long marriage.
Both of you sound like bots
> I am not sure about the parent comment.

Starting with "a modest proposal" is a clear sign it is satire.
My wife recently got Kombucha mushroom from a friend, and got into fermenting it herself. Its trivial to do, you need to really screw up something for it to go wrong, tons of good bacteria inside. She takes some basic precautions like avoiding metal parts (since the drink becomes acidic), otherwise its on autopilot, good bacteria outcompete everything else for resources.

She mixes it with some cut fruits to get some sugars for fermentation, the result is very mild alcohol content (maybe 0.5%) and it tastes like cider. I mix it maybe 1:3 with water and its semi-eternal homemade drink. Can't really complain.

That and of course french cheese, we live maybe 5km from French border and for cheese its much better place than even Switzerland (sorry guys gruyere is great but french variety is huuuuge in comparison and they even usually have specialties like old dutch gouda which is taste heaven for me and various truffle-infused ones).
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> my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe

Its because a lot of the weird artificial junk that are allowed to be put into your food is illegal in Europe. Even things like popular sweeteners have been shown to have a negative effect on your gut health.
> normalize African-American (for the lack of a better name) grammar and spelling

The name is “Ebonics.” It’s had its own name since the seventies, although the push to “normalize” it peaked in the nineties.

> Wonder if this includes normalizing the usage of British spelling as well.

No.
Then the OP used a bad framing, because it was apparent to me that they opposed QUIC in general, not QUIC in Chrome.

Either way, I still fail to see how this relates to the original complaint that QUIC somehow leads to ads.
Let's get serious for a second here. You have to be a complete braindead zombie to find those videos entertaining. I can't believe anybody is wasting their time on these.
I first ran into Tcl on Sparc stations in the mid 90s, and came away with the impression that it was just a bad language. I was implicitly comparing it to Perl, this wasn't a deep dive or anything, just a vague and negative impression which stuck with me.

My interest in the language got a second wind when I read yosefk's blog entry about it https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html

I think there's room for a new language which speaks to Tcl's strength as a command language. This is an under-recognized niche IMHO, mostly covered by shell languages, which have a necessary focus on running other programs. That means they need to communicate with those programs primarily through the command line interface for invoking a program, which is a very thin bottleneck for interactive feedback.

Tcl as a scripting and extension language, which focuses on issuing commands, is to this day basically unique (this theme is extensively elaborated in the linked post, it's a good read). I find myself wondering what another language, freed of the constraint to fit the (from a modern perspective) extremely resource-constrained systems prevalent when Tcl was big, might look like.

If I ever figure that out, I might try and write it.
I can imagine this (and thicker mucus in general) negatively affecting olfaction, which is pretty important for survival.
You contradict yourself very quickly. If we're at "the peak", how did we get there? Couldn't social media be a factor?

Moreover, the idea that white supremacy is at its peak right now is ridiculous and ahistorical in its own right. It's also massively disrespectful to those who lived through things like chattel slavery or the holocaust. To say that seeing some loudmouth spout off on Twitter is worse than either of those is pretty gross.
Current windows UI and esthetics is pretty good imho, if you ignore the ads being pushed everywhere. I really like WinUI 3
The point is that Communism always leads to totalitarianism
> But the "call someone, who knows something" is the final tier, and includes all the things below it and is priced accordingly.

But it is priced accordingly not because it includes all those other things, but because it is dang expensive to provide 24/7 on-call technical support.

> In our case we where willing to pay some fixed price per year for access to phone support, and then an hourly rate if we called, but that wasn't the pricing structure.

Sure, I get it. Elastic wasn't selling what you want and that stinks. But there's a cost to a company of offering everything ala carte. It makes support more complex (because support staff have to be trained on snowflake clients), makes it harder to sell online (because customers get confused by options and bail) and harder to sell via a sales team (again, complexity).

That said, I bet there are Elasticsearch consulting companies who would be thrilled to quote you for on-demand on-call support (googling for "elasticsearch oncall consultant" turns up a few). I'd be interested to hear how their pricing compares.
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Sorry, standalone for what? IntelliJ is one of the most advanced IDEs on planet earth. If you mean just having LSP itself, not in the context of an editor, then for sure an IJ plugin is not going to get that done
Even the ‘godmother of AI’ has no idea what AGI is
Actually, the sources we had (everything scraped from the internet) turns out to be pretty bad.

Imagine not going to school and instead learning everything from random blog posts or reddit comments. You could do it if you read a lot, but it's clearly suboptimal.

That's why OpenAI, and probably every other serious AI company, is investing huge amounts in generating (proprietary) datasets.
Histones and histone variant families in prokaryotes
Just wondering if you’ve actually hidden inventions you would actually consider to be great?
"why would you need a company for it? Couldn't the AGI manage itself better than you could?"

Well, you still have to have the baby, and raise it a little. And wouldn't you still want to be known as the parent of such a bright kid as AGI? Leaving early seems to be cutting down on his legacy, if a legacy was coming.