skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People just want to have their hearing improved while believing that their hearing problem is minor even when it is not.

How do you know? Do you have serious research proving this, are you guessing based on your own opinion, or are you making stuff up entirely?

People in hell want ice water, I want my iPad to run Linux and sideload an IDE and a browser that isn't a toy. Apple does not care, ever, and will always implement a single happy-path solution for people instead of giving them customization options. That's just the way it is, period - screw how you feel, it's our device and you're just living with it.

You need to "validate" your questions before asking them. You are posting literal nonsense most days and it's getting to the point that people cannot respond to your posts with rational answers because they'll get an even more irrational response back. If you're expecting Apple to give a shit about people's hurt feelings then bud, you've got another thing coming.
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A lot of times adding of new features or complexity is due to competitors filling a new need. Essentially the same thing but driven differently
For gaining expertise in vim, I generally point people at https://danielmiessler.com/p/vim/ which will teach you how to think about vim as a text manipulation language rather than just as an editor.
One of the funnier things during training with the new API (which can control your computer) was this:

"Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost.

Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone National Park."

[0] https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1848742761278611504
> This does bring Chromium in line with the URL spec, but Firefox still works properly with those callback links. Not sure which other engines you are speaking of, to my knowledge there really aren't any other viable Windows desktop browsers.

Hm, you're right, they're still working on it (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1876105). Is it Safari then? I don't remember and don't have a way to test it right now. Obviously Safari is not something you care about on Windows anymore.

> On the server side, this is dead-easy to fix. For example register customprotocol64: and pass all your data in a base64 encoded blob, to stop the browser from mangling it.

You don't need to obfuscate it that much, just not start with // and then the rest can be still human readable/inspectable.

> Unfortunately every single offered workaround starts with deploying an upgraded version of your desktop application, so it understands the fixed link format. The challenge is not making the URLs spec compliant, it's getting the massive install bases upgraded to a version that properly parses the new URL format.

I agree. I'm a little bit surprised that they just dropped this and there wasn't any "grace" period where the browser would parse the URL as before but complained loudly in logs/console.

> PS Better just bite the bullet and start planning those emergency upgrades now, the odds of the Chromium team restoring non-standards-compliant behaviour to fix thousands of enterprise apps is essentially zero

It wouldn't be unheard of. If a big important Google customer complained enough, they might release a patch version with the kill switch turned on (base::kStandardCompliantNonSpecialSchemeURLParsing).
Can’t wait for SpaceScript!
I really hope so. Even macOS voice control which has gotten pretty good is buggy with Messages, which is a core Apple app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41912354
> Everyone bullshits it. We all know, and understand, that when you're asked questions like that you say what people want to hear.[…] Ultimately, nobody else cares, so you don't have to bother answering. This is just food for thought.

You sound very young or very jaded. That's unfortunate.

As for "Everyone does X", I'll remind you of the saying that "A thief always thinks everyone is trying to steal from him."

You wrote a long ass reply just to express your miserabalist nihilist world view. When you find yourself doing that online or in real life, just get therapy because while it might seem normal and sane to you, it's an unhinged and unhealthy state of mind. :-(

P.s. If you have time for a break, do watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi or The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness for insights on how others found meaning in the work they do daily.
If that were true, then black holes would appear as extremely bright balls of red-shifted radiation, as all particles whose trajectory ever moved towards the center of the black hole would still be visible. This is obviously not true, black holes appear as completely black objects that might have an extremely bright ring or halo of matter orbiting.
Is there any Python/Node.js library to easily spawn secure isolated compute environments, possibly using gvisor or firecracker under the hood?

This could be useful to build a self-hosted "Computer use" using Ollama and a multimodal model.
FYI, some sections are LLM-generated bullshit: https://x.com/sam_paech/status/1848332471953448972

The example shown in the tweet has been edited out of the paper since, but there must be others. High noise, low signal content.
I haven’t witnessed that dynamic: the people leaving their AirPods in tend to be young in my experience and it doesn’t seem to be seen as rude unless you’re ignoring the other person.
> You just want to improve your hearing, not also be told how bad it is.

Proof? You've repeated this several times but never substantiated it. I don't feel this way at all and I suspect most average customers wouldn't either.

It makes 100x more sense to me to show people the problems with their hearing even if it upsets them. You should be upset over damaged hearing - hiding it from you is not going to improve your quality of life unless the test itself is broken.
They should upgrade to minidiscs and truly welcome the cyberpunk dystopian future.
Maybe - would make sense not to release their latest greatest (Opus 4.0) until competition forces them to, and Amodei has previously indicated that they would rather respond to match frontier SOTA than themselves accelerate the pace of advance by releasing first.
interesting. i couldn’t imagine giving up o1-preview right now even with just 30/week.

and i do get a some bit of value from advanced voice mode, although it would be a lot more if it were unlimited
"Google policy" is created by real humans who have the power to stop this nonsense.
Within those rules are a lot of things that can get by under them. Take two points in earths history bound by the same physical laws and life can look dramatically different. You can think of it like how we all use the same microsoft word but that doesn’t lead to the same exact book being written independently twice or more often. The amount of permutations to be taken along the way is a countless number probably far larger than the number of habitable star systems in the universe.
Correct. The best part of this system (Keychain Access) is that it has been around for more than 20 years. Only this year it got a UX makeover.

One interesting thing I noticed is that Chrome and Firefox can also seamlessly see and use Passkeys I stored in Safari even if normally they don't read the passwords from there.

Using each passkey however still requires a fingerprint every time.
> Why isn't Anthropic clearer about Sonnet being better then?

They are clear that both: Opus > Sonnet and 3.5 > 3.0. I don't think there is a clear universal better/worse relationship between Sonnet 3.5 and Opus 3.0; which is better is task dependent (though with Opus 3.0 being five times as expensive as Sonnet 3.5, I wouldn't be using Opus 3.0 unless Sonnet 3.5 proved clearly inadequate for a task.)
Effectively, I think it still bans joke reviews. You can submit a joke review, but the company cannot publish it
No good reason. Votes come from clueless people too. Don’t trust votes on HN
But you wouldn't need to guess names to do that, since the names of files in /tmp are publicly listable.
Congrats on the release and the new website. I've been using Svelte 5 for the last couple of weeks and I'm in love.
Btw — how hard are these problems nowadays? Back then, 8 top Soviet students solved only half of them in a month — has anyone tried giving them to students now?
Are you saying you actually buy into the Terrence Howard school of mathematics? For serious?
One problem that is hard to consider is that parents are humans too, and as parents start to get children older and older, things become complex. We get older and start to feel our time slip away and all the stuff we wanted to do become less and less real, we feel fear and anxiety, and make suboptimal decisions. The world is a harsh place full of noise, so let’s cut parents some slack too. :)
At least now we know SkyClaude’s plan to end human civilization.

It’s planning on triggering a Yellowstone caldera super eruption.
The title is misspelled. It should be “Muni”, like the article's title, not in all caps.
I think it's first important to note that there is a huge difference between -o models (GPT 4o; GPT 4o mini) and the o1 models (o1-preview; o1-mini).

The -o models are "just" stronger versions of their non-suffixed predecessors. They are the latest (and maybe last?) version of models in the lineage of GPT models (roughly GPT-1 -> GPT-2 -> GPT-3 -> GPT-3.5 -> GPT-4 -> GPT-4o).

The o1 models (not sure what the naming structure for upcoming models will be) are a new family of models that try to excel at deep reasoning, by allowing the models to use an internal (opaque) chain-of-thought to produce better results at the expense of higher token usage (and thus cost) and longer latency.

Personally, I think the use cases that justify the current cost and slowness of o1 are incredibly narrow (e.g. offline analysis of financial documents or deep academic paper research). I think in most interactive use-cases I'd rather opt for GPT-4o or Sonnet 3.5 instead of o1-preview and have the faster response time and send a follow-up message. Similarly for non-interactive use-cases I'd try to add a layer of tool calling with those faster models than use o1-preview.

I think the o1-like models will only really take off, if the prices for it are coming down, and it is clearly demonstrated that more "thinking tokens" correlate to predictably better results, and results that can compete with highly tuned prompts/fine tuned models that or currently expensive to produce in terms of development time.
OK, then this has been the de-facto standard amongst many industries for a long time. Plenty of reviewers say stuff like "it really is weird! I made one video about how I didn't like a product. After that I was never invited to attend a launch for a product, get early access, etc. I guess those two could not be correlated at all!"

Based on the text you have shared it'd be perfectly fine if you were paid to write a "neutral" review.
I would have argued Rust isn't the right choice for a web framework unless the team is rust-first because the memory guarantees aren't really needed, and you're better off with occasional GC pauses and faster development velocity.
And they delete your review. There needs to be a requirement to archive all reviews for seven-ten years. When it was posted, how long it was up, content and user. This is such a rabbit hole.

People cheer when government makes a rule like this but there is a huge costly enforcement mechanism that goes with this. That has to be implemented and maintained. Making the rule is step one, and there are hundreds more steps that have to happen any number of times, forever. Good luck. Making laws that cannot be enforced just increases the cost of government without having the intended effect. I can't think of anything that the prime offenders would like more than that.
Stupid people have just as much right to have their societal problems heard and solved as the rest of us.

Nobody deserves to suffer or be ignored for the horrid crime of being born stupid or "mentally deficient" by your standards.
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actually, that's what makes chat gpt powerful. I like an LLM willing to go along with what ever I am trying to do, because one day I might be coding, and another day I might be just trying to role play, write a book, what ever.

I really cant understand what you were expecting, a tool works with how you use it, if you smack a hammer into your face, don't complain about a bloody nose. maybe dont do like that?
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Quick: how is the President of the Senate selected?

It's a trick question. It's the Vice President, who is elected by the people (a)... but not for the role of president of the senate. But it could also be the President pro tempoire, who is elected by the senate (b).

Also the first question presupposes we all go to church. What about synagogues or temples?

Question #5 is entirely discretionary depending on the context of what power you are discussing.

And that's the point: these literacy tests were filled with questions like these that let the test giver choose the right answer based on whether they wanted the test taker to pass.
Oh good another alt for the "Elon Musk is a secret military contractor" spam poster. Lord knows we didn't flag enough of their comments the first time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=forgot-im-old

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kidme5

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wazer5

Impressively, all the same person. There are more alts I just pulled up the obvious ones that repeat the same nonsense.
Similar: https://waypoint.jakelazaroff.com
Come on, regulation can only go so far. The ruling is regarding third party review aggregators, a discussion about self hosted reviews is off-topic.
Wow that's a new form of Vendor lock-in. Their software knows me better in stead of the other way around.
So? Yeah it's a challenging environment, we know that. My point is that the default way to solve this problem is to track your object from your reference point.
to be fair, every government of a reasonably prosperous country is trying to figure out how to control the potential AI economy.

if not legally, we should at least as a community remind people that it's basically making up the details. personally I look forward to seeing it used in court and completely tanking a case or two. that should draw some attention to the danger.
> implicit return combined with “everything is an expression”. You can have one of those, but not both.

Hang on, how can you have “everything is an expression” without implicit return? If I’m correctly understanding what you’re talking about, implicit return isn’t actually a thing—it’s just that the function body is an expression too.

(Never dealt with CoffeeScript, but I’ve been writing Rust for over a decade now, and learned to love expression-orientation there.)
The real problem with Claude for me currently is that it doesn't have full LaTeX support. I use AI's pretty much exclusively to assist with my school work (there's only so many hours in a day and one professor doesn't do his own homeworks before he assigns them) so LaTeX is essential.

With that known, my experience is that ChatGPT is much friendlier. The Claude interface is clunkier and generally less helpful to me. I also appreciate the wider text display in ChatGPT. Generally always my first go and i only go to claude/perplexity when i hit a wall (pretty often) or i run out of free queries for the next couple hours.
Does the increase in complexity also bring a comparable increase in value?

Do the gains of increased complexity justify the investments they require?

Even if they don't, we don't often dare _reduce_ complexity, marginally decreasing gains while massively decreasing cost.
Agree. I don't expect this year's battery to require the same materials in the same proportions as five years ago though, so I don't see that as weasel wording, just as a way of quantifying the amounts they have in common.
If you don't have the time to thoroughly investigate material non-public information before deciding where to have lunch, are you even a responsible consumer? /s

The normalization of blatant lying in business is really frustrating, both as a businessperson and as a member of the public. We (correctly) consider just making shit up for their own benefit a major strike against a person, but we implicitly tolerate it in the companies that run a good chunk of our lives! Hell, in some cases we even celebrate it: "wow, look how scrappy that person is, what a brilliant marketing ploy!" - no, they're just a liar.
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Really though, it's a nice way to provoke some thought, and maybe even start to balance our rather extreme bias towards the very immediate future.
Yeah I agree, 'value min ceiling max floor' is a terrible example. Especially when making a case for improving readability.

That being said; regular written language (like in a book) has optimal readability. Therefore it makes sense for programming languages to lean towards that. If you could write code like: `draw 600 by 600 graph_of intersection_of data_set1 data_set2 in blue` it would be very easy for basically anybody to tell what the code does. This not only makes it easier for beginners and onboarding, it also reduces cognitive load, even for senior level engineers. In real terms this means less fatigue, less bugs, less time spent reviewing code, higher productivity.

That being said I also prefer the explicitness of parentheses, but I think that's because I'm used to needing that level of explicitness. But maybe there's some paradigm out there that makes it so we don't need that crutch
Google will now be logging your prompts
Following came from Google today:

We’re writing to let you know about two recent updates to Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service which will be effective starting November 15, 2024.

We’ve provided additional information below to help you understand the specific changes implemented.

What you need to know
We added new terms and updated the following Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service:

We added terms for logging customer prompts due to potential abuse of Generative AI Services. Effective November 15, 2024, if our automated safety tools detect potential abuse of Google’s policies, we may log your prompts to review and determine if a violation has occurred.
There indeed is zero perfomance cost. Code size cost, however, can be astonishing.
4.4.0 contains breaking change; config for it is undocumented cannot be reverted
That is a dirt cheap acquisition cost.
Yeah that's a pretty good assessment. There are so many ways to deal with this issue, and so many different implementations of this approach that could have worked better. Just makes you wonder what anyone was thinking here.
Mochi 1: The best open source video generation model
That's actually a really good point. I can review a can opener in a few minutes. Either it opens the can or it doesn't. How would I ever review something like a Ford F-350? I don't even have a trailer heavy enough to test the towing capacity.
There's a difference between "fake as defined by the FTC which you will actually get in trouble for" and "fake".
> Why? Because of the typeface and the numbered list?

Yes, the typeface. And the numbered list looks suspicious too, now that you mention it. Also the kerning (look at the renderings of fi and fr in the document).

It wouldn't be the first time something like that gave away a forgery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy.

I've seen documents from the 60s and earlier, and they never look like someone banged them out in MS Word with Times New Roman.
We really need a standard extension library so people can use any browser they want on open source systems.
I must be particularly hard on mine, or wear them far too much. A 3 pack of comply tips will only last me six months. The foam starts to tear and flake off after a while. I'm still quite happy to replace them because the sound isolation and comfort are much better than the silicon tips.
Hey JavaScript has been to space!
Bringing in McKinsey folks into a place like Google is odd. Seems like they’ve finally abandoned their engineering roots and headed into “enterprisey” bullshittery.
Can it be mixed with the sampling based approaches from optillm (https://github.com/codelion/optillm)?
Did they just invent a new world of warcraft or runescape bot?
Section 4.3 here: https://cloud.google.com/terms
Top comment at the time I looked:

"There seems to be a ton of confusion about the purpose of these ads. These are recruitment ads, not product ads, hence why "no drama" is the driving message. I'm sure these were all taken at or around a tech conference."
To fit the 80 character limit, something like the following might work:

A Near Impossible 1964 Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote
Here is a new Drasi blog post that might help you understand why Drasi is preferable to writing code that periodically polls a database: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/10/22/detect-and-...
Habermas machines
what do you do if you've gotten banned?
I've seen quite a few YC startups working on AI-powered RPA, and now it looks like a foundational model player is directly competing in their space. It will be interesting to see whether Anthropic will double down on this or leave it to third-party developers to build commercial applications around it.
Plenty of democrats are trying to enable Ranked Choice Voting in the US, and that is a good step towards improving how the US voting system works, and reducing the power that the parties have.

Ranked choice voting for example means that Republicans in mostly Democrat states like california could be better represented than they currently are, by voting for a "more conservative" candidate who will still get democrat votes.

The republican party is explicitly against ranked choice voting despite this.
You might start with using normal language to describe what you're doing. "Driving regenerative societal transformation through humanist artificial intelligence" seems meaningless to me. And all of the copy on the website does as well, it's all vague feel-good statements without any substance.
The cited book has no information on how the surveys themselves were conducted. The book is an overall romanticization of pre-colonial india, and frequently indulges in nostalgia.

The following books have a good overview of education&caste in india.

A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India

Gail Omvedt, Understanding Caste
The interview is as much about them deciding about you as it is you deciding about them. In theory, you got the information you needed. (But yes in fact everybody got screwed because they put the wrong person in charge of interviewing. Still dodged a bullet.)
That's a cool example! You are right, GPT-4o is much more powerful than we allow it to perform in Data Formulator, and our current design is to restrict it to a point that the model behavior is more or less reliable.

While we design it targeting more end-user analysts scenarios (thus much simpler UI and function support), we see the big value of "freeing" GPT-4o for advanced users who would like to have AI do complex stuff. I guess a starting point could be having an "interactive terminal" where AI and the user can directly communicate about these out of the box concepts, even having the user instruct AI to dynamically generate new UI to adapt to their workflow.
On mobile they make it pretty hard to read reviews (or maybe im in some sort of A/B test where I'm only allowed to ask their LLM about what the reviews say?)
iOS: That’s 100% against the rules. Much like other dark patterns like forcing a sign up or location access as gating to the rest of the app. Or using notifications for advertising.

Now if only Apple would enforce those (or stop doing them themselves).