skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Fed has then decided to re-enslave these people. Someone gotta take the garbage.

What are you talking about? real (ie. inflation adjusted) wages have gone up more for the lowest quartile of americans[1]. Is paying people more to get them to work "re-enslavement" now?

[1] https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker, click the "wage level" button
Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers
It frequently shows me videos that have nothing to do with the query, within the top 10 results. I'm not talking about being not precise; it's something that has completely no relevance.

For example, searching for recipes sometimes shows me Political News, and sometimes the news is even in a different country, and in a language that I don't speak.

Sometimes I also get a few results that are not just irrelevant, but intentionally made to have a visually repulsive thumbnail, like a zoomed-in shot of some skin pathology, which is something that I never search for or click upon. No idea what is happening there.
Account bans + community servers don't work either, as the chain of custody for evidence is tainted.

I say consteval was caught cheating on the server I run, and that account should be banned.

Am I, my server's admin, lying?
Oh lol, yeah, I wouldn't use olive oil on pancakes. That's definitely a butter situation.

As for high heat with olive oil, I'm not sure about it being unhealthy or not. I just found this overview [1], and it seems like there isn't great evidence. I again hadn't considered it, since it's something my ancestors have done for thousands of years. Sample size of one family, but my grandmother lived to her 90s and my great-aunt is still walking around Paris in her mid-90s!

[1] https://www.seriouseats.com/cooking-with-olive-oil-faq-safet...
Yeah. I just wrote 600 lines of SQL using a macro processor. Took 10 minutes.
Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogamedev/comments/1gglfqx/cramm...
Apparently that's Codium, who have recently renamed themselves to Qodo: https://www.qodo.ai/blog/introducing-qodo-a-new-name-the-sam... (TIL)
This consumes your own bandwidth though. And relay operators might coordinate and notice one address is using all the bandwidth.
First sentence of article.

>A few weeks ago, China announced sanctions on Skydio for selling drones to Taiwan, where our only customer today is the National Fire Agency.
Google would lose the bleeder called YouTube that on its own would tank in 6 months
They get inspired by streaming services doing the same.
> one purchase will last years

Indeed. Although now I’m pretty annoyed about the 6 or so black plastic cooking utensils I received as a wedding gift nearly twenty years ago lasted this long, so I’ve been using them this whole time. Oh well, at least I don’t cook much :/
Maybe they just wanted to wait until it was feature complete...

... some sort of Total Recall, if you will.
It's a huge power plant. 5.6 giga watts. And they did ok with tineline and budget.

It did take 12 years of construction, and 32 billion in funding. And they project would have been in development long before construction started.

All in a regulatory environment which priorities "getting stuff done" and where there's plenty of capital to invest. (And investors who play a very long game.)

There might be conditions somewhere that are more favorable, but its not the US.

could it be done? Obviously yes. Will it be done in the US? Not a chance.
Funny that this was supposed to launch in June 2024 and now it’s being delayed for the second or third time because Microsoft needs more time to make sure it’s secure.
Terrible feature is delayed. Hopefully it will be delayed indefinitely and go away.
I'm learning about fuzzing too, and I just wrote a tutorial about what I learned so far.[0]

The issue I found with a lot of fuzzing tutorials is that they're difficult to reproduce because there's a lot of work in setting up the environment and toolchain. In my tutorial, you can kick off fuzzing with one command, but I also walk through how I created the workflow step by step.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/nix-fuzz-testing-1/
LLMs are a lot like Star Trek to me in the sense that you can ask a question, and then follow up questions to filter and refine your search, even change your mind.

Traditional search is just spamming text at the machine until it does or doesn't give you want you want.

That's the magic with LLMs for me. Not that I can ask and get an answer, that's just basic web search. It's the ability to ask, refine what I'm looking for and, continue work from there.
> In what other realm of life does "taking full responsibility" absolve you from any consequences?

Very early in my career I accidentally deleted every IP phone in the municipality where I was working. It was because they didn't have a test setup and the documentation didn't the SysAdmin gave me weren't updated. It was still my fault though and the first thing I did was to tell the IT manager thinking I'd get in trouble. I didn't. He told me he wasn't happy that I had deleted all the phones, but that it was good that I had come to him directly and taken responsibility.

Because when you take responsibility in the adult world, it means that you can work from there. As such it's both ridiculous and disingenuous when you compare a perfectly normal consequences of doing business with committing a crime. It's also a little weird to do so on HN considering this is a VC site.
The reasoning emerges from the long distance relations between words picked up by the parallel nature of the transformers. It's why they were so much more performant than earlier RNNs and LSTMs which were using similar tokenization.
Great find on the knowledge navigator, I had never seen it but I was a toddler when it was released haha.

It's interesting how prescient it was, but I'm more struck wondering--would anyone in 1987 have predicted it would take 40+ years to achieve this? Obviously this was speculative at the time but I know history is rife with examples of AI experts since the 60s proclaiming AGI was only a few years away

Is this time really different? There's certainly been a huge jump in capabilities in just a few years but given the long history of overoptimistic predictions I'm not confident
> Earlier this week, Microsoft again clarified that Recall will not be mandatory on Copilot Plus PCs, and will be an opt-in experience that can be fully removed. The clarification came after various YouTube videos claimed Recall was being installed on any PC with Windows 11, version 24H2.

Oh, thank god. I definitely heard the "You can't opt out!" line and was worried.
No. You're wrong about this. You cannot simply reduce human intelligence to this definition and also be correct.
I would like to see more scientific study on the matter.

I suspect it is probably a real, but rare thing, and that the vast majority of suspected cases are largely due to physical inactivity.

I myself had my first infection in March 2024 and had "lung capacity" issues for several months afterwards (~November 2024). I saw doctors about it, but they were largely dismissive, stating I needed to do more exercise, when I was in reasonably top physical shape (MMA 4x a week).

I felt like I was on my own, took charge, did my own research. What seemed to end up helping and get the "junk" out of my lungs was regularly using a spirometer on my own and, perhaps not wise, doing intense (as best I could muster) runs, which would cause me to cough up some of the awful-tasting fluid.

It ended up working out well for me and I'm back to my former capacity.
If we look into a reflection in space 0.5 light years away from Earth, we should see 1 year ago (given zero motion relative to earth, and 0.5+0.5=1 year.)

Where there is relative motion with photons at least isn't there a Redshift and the Doppler effect (edit: and a different parametric or chaotic convolution over large distances without e.g. helical polarization to shield the signal)

Magnetic fields reportedly have a maximum propagation speed that is also the speed of light c in a vacuum.

So, to recall Earth's magnetic field from 41,000 years ago with such a method would presumably require a reflection (41,000/2 = 20,500) light years away
I’m imagining LLMs might eventually have an upload tool, similar to Google’s site map upload, for registering content proactively instead of needing to be discovered through crawling the web or training on chat data.
There are plenty of browser extension to filter away shorts.
I.e. Enhancer for YouTube:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtub...
next level is cast iron, good luck
> actually surfacing the content people want to see,

Showing users what they want to see conflicts with your other goal of receiving reliable answers that don't need fact checked.

Also a lot of questions people ask don't have one right answer, or even a good answer. Reliable human knowledge is much smaller than human curiosity.
the distinction i’m trying to draw, is that while the term gaming is beloved, it is a very large umbrella. i don’t have a new term to offer, but i stand by what i said. 1440p360 solo build win IS a different type of thing than launching a rocket in factorio. we are going to need new terms.

it’s not about casual vs competitive. it’s about how the game feels to play, and how the adrenaline hits your blood stream.
I agree that it's not realistic to expect cross-continent trips to be common, but I think there is a real difference in the west of the USA vs most of Europe. In the American central and western areas, things are more spread out and driving everywhere is the expectation such that it affects how cities and suburbs are spaced, while Europe grew mostly before the automobile, and towns and cities are closer together and more compact.

Yes people cross borders in Europe, but mostly when they live in a border area. People aren't making 300km trips to cross a border very often, but 50km, sure.
Yeah VL was based off slack but they ripped a bunch of things out, and I carefully went over the bootscripts and removed a bit more of things I didn't definitely need.
Hear hear. When I finally switched from Sublime to Emacs, I took the color theme with me.
Socialism results in less productivity. Even in Germany.
I was surprised that simple things like sharing a chat in Claude doesn't seem to be there. I read somewhere that it was a feature that was disabled later.
First I was surprised because I was under the impression that Skydio was nowhere near DJI in terms of functionality and quality, but then I see it's about Taiwan..

I feel like China is watching intently the ru-ua situation, and depending how it pans out with international support, Taiwan may find itself in hot water.
TBH it might not matter in a normal life for the individual. But (as long as the claims have some truth too it) statistically, it definitely matters.

The "scares" are overwhelming only because you live in a society where things are (slightly) toxic by default, because those things are cheaper and can be engineered to barely pass safety standards.

We can and should change this situation. Hopefully not on the individual level, but at least public awareness is useful.

The "scares" are also overwhelming because some people are extreme in everything, for example the person who swears never to drink from a plastic cup. But it doesn't mean the opposite stance (i.e. drinking from plastic cups is good for you) is true. You can believe plastics are slightly bad for you without overreacting, and acknowledge that if it's feasible it's better to avoid them. Reacting emotionally to extremists isn't what a rational person would be doing.
They announced this at DevDay at the beginning of October.

It's effectively a layer of (well needed) sugar on top of their existing fine-tuning mechanism.

The challenge with fine-tuning is collecting a representative dataset to tune against. The tooling they added makes it easy for you to persist your prompts and responses within the OpenAI platform, and then later select those persisted pairs (that were created with e.g. GPT-4o) and use them to fine-tune a cheaper model (like GPT-4o mini) - such that the more expensive model is effectively "teaching" the cheaper model what to do.

You could do this before, but it was a LOT of work. The new "distillation" features make it easier.
Dev teams—especially in larger organizations—need to perform many repetitive tasks outside of code generation. Patched helps them create automation for those tasks in a way that can meet their specific needs around customization and privacy. Hope this clarifies? :)
> there's typically a 5-7 day gap between updating the robots.txt file and crawlers processing it

You could try moving your favicon to another dir, or root dir, for the time being, and update your HTML to match. That way it would be allowed according to the version that Google still has cached. Also, I think browsers look for a favicon at /favicon.ico regardless, so it might be worth making a copy there too.
Given the high-profile national security scrutiny that ByteDance was already in over TikTok, and now with the AI training competitiveness on national authorities' minds, maybe this behavior by ByteDance is on the radar of someone who's thinking of whether CFAA or other regulation applies.

As someone who's built multiple (respectful) Web crawlers, for academic research and for respectable commerce, I'm wondering whether abusers are going to make it harder for legitimate crawlers to operate.
And here I'm, struggling to figure out how to make enough money to pay off things. All I had to do was duct tape a banana to a wall in the right place at the right time. Who could have known.
First hit on google says: $31.5 billion in ad revenue in 2023.

That figure does not include 100 million subscribers (2024).

I am outside my comfort zone but I would bet youtube would thrive without google if those numbers are correct. And it is for sure large enough to not need google for bulk deals etc.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. This blog style is horrendous.
I’m not sure that’s true, because the hypervisor can know which blocks are related to begin with? From what I quoted above it seems that the file system instead does a lookup based on the block content to determine if a block is a dupe (I don’t know if it uses a hash, necessitating processing the whole block, or something like an RB tree, which avoids having to read the whole block if it already differs early from candidates). Unless there is a way to explicitly tell the file system that you are copying blocks for that purpose, and that VMware is actually doing that. If not, then leaving it to the file system or even the storage layer should have a definite impact on performance, albeit in exchange for higher space efficiency because a lookup can deduplicate blocks that are identical but not directly related. This would give a space benefit if you do things like installing the same applications across many VMs after the cloning, but assuming that this isn’t commonly done (I think you should clone after establishing all common state like app installations if possible), then my gut feeling is very much that the performance benefit of more semantic-level hypervisor bookkeeping outweighs the space gains from “dumb” block-oriented fs/storage bookkeeping.
How my email service failed me and why it matters for privacy
I find the author's letter a bit tone deaf. It acknowledges that China is sanctioning Skydio for military reasons, but ignores that the US is doing the same.
If that's the case, the library should also have another function or method that can validate the barcode if the application should so choose. The library is the barcode expert, the app is the business logic expert. Expecting every app to now become barcode experts doesn't make sense.

Also, that law gets quoted, and IMO is a rather large design mistake.
The Best Inventions of 2024 - Time Magazine
The most interesting implications may be social, not technological. Historically, there is nothing new about the ultrawealthy running their own publishing platforms to push their own political agendas. The internet has broadened the potential reach of those efforts to new heights though. Splitting YouTube off from Google might be enough to put it in reach of going private similar to what happened with Twitter.
They're trying to find new places to cram their money-suck of a product in hope of pretending there is a revenue model.
I don't think people get how difficult it can be to interact with doctors when you have a chronic illness.

In high school, I started to get debilitating joint pain. I had trouble walking, typing, or writing. I went to many (at least a dozen) doctors. Most of them were unsympathetic and accused me of trying to get access to pain pills. Or told me that "this is just what puberty is like." Eventually, I happened upon _one_ doctor who gave me some blood tests and I tested positive for Celiac disease. Treating that fixed my joint pain.

Celiac disease is not a rare disease--it affects 1% of the US population--yet most of the doctors I saw didn't even think to test for it, despite join pain being a typical symptom. Instead, they gaslit me into thinking that it was "all in my head." Clearly they were wrong, and I have the blood test and endoscopy to prove it!

I'm a member of a "Young people with chronic illness" meetup, and my story is absolutely the norm. People who have conditions with clear and measurable diagnosis criteria go through many doctors telling them nothing is wrong before they find a doctor who will run tests. I can only imagine how much worse it is for conditions which are diagnosed "by exclusion" or something else that's not cut-and-dried.
Yeah of course, because China is sanctioning them because they are making it harder for the PROC to invade and annex another free country.
Windows 12: "Microsoft's Property".
Another option to try is davmail; it exports davmail/caldav/carddav/LDAP from an exchange server.

My only note with that is the caldav and exchanges internal handling of event invites will fight with each other, so don't try to accept invites from within your imap mail client.

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
The LLM is not a human and cannot distinguish between spam and high quality content.
As for general principles, if one’s packer, containerfile, cloud-init, bash, ansible, or puppet is much more than “install packages, set keys and a small amount of per-environment config, and start services,” it is likely that local packages are not being used effectively.
Sanction aside, this action is a wake-up call for all US based companies operating in geopolitically sensitive industries that they absolutely need to diversify their supply chain away from China.

And in terms of the sanction itself, it’s definitely a reasonable response by China, given the fact that DJI is heavily sanctioned by the US government.
The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.
I believe that you didn't intend to, but you started a flamewar with this comment. Others responded poorly, but the provocation started here.

One thing that might be helpful to know is that you saying you intend your comment a certain way isn't sufficient to remove the provocation from it. You have to show, not just tell, your intent.

In this case the first sentence was too confrontational for the second sentence to overcome the impression you were giving; as a result, people actually interpreted it as extra sarcastic.

Some past explanations that may (or not) be helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994146.)
If you ask ChatGPT which search engine it uses, it will tell you Bing. And only Bing.
I was surprised, too, so I just checked. Sure enough, https://claude.ai takes 663MB.

I wonder if there’s an architectural difference that allows the Electron app to be more lean?

(Note I didn’t download the new app, just installed the PWA, so I didn’t verify those numbers.)
> the designers at Microsoft

Susan Kare did a lot of those! I love how they're just as expressive at 16-colors as at higher color depths. https://www.stardock.com/blog/502254/the-evolution-of-comput...
The entire tech industry for the last decade (if not more) has been aimed at people who can't be arsed to learn to use computers properly. I would be astonished if this time is somehow different.
My question is why anyone but a few people would want to pay $140-$340/mo for a therapy-based approach not covered by insurance to a condition that is successfully treated in the vast majority of patients with medication that costs $10-20/mo with insurance?

It is a very cool approach to a well documented and tested therapeutic practice, I just don't see the value proposition unless you're someone that specifically could not find any class of medication that worked for them.
I think Coldbrew is even more dependent on what coffee beans and roast you use, we have tried a few and they are very different. But so far I liked them all. Maybe you preffer the bitter taste of cooked coffee? That is something that is missing from all our tries with coldbrew.
There could be any number of reasons for that apart from negligence. AFAIK it’s a single person, so „bus factor“ comes to mind.
i respect your feelings and your choice. happiness, privacy and security are important.

there are however legions of fortnite players who would mortgage their lives for a better game. a handcam without audio during gameplay seems a more reasonable and low price to pay. time will tell what gamers think! very exciting.
There are lots of docs and info available for shoutcast/icecast servers and clients. Here’s a couple implementations in javascript:

https://github.com/livebassmusicrightnow/even-nicercast/blob...

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-icy

WASM would be total overkill. The mpeg stream is readable natively in the browser — that’s how I served the client when I was running livebassmusicrightnow.
> If I can pretty quickly tell a site is SEO spam, so should the LLM, no?

Why would you assume that?
This is great. Now everyone will get serious decoupling battery supply chain from China. Maybe companies making EVs will understand the stake.
Hope they warn us of the incoming spyware, so we can uninstall on the very next second, right before it grabs all it can and runs away with it.
At least it loads for you. On lockdown mode it’s just a white screen.
I don't get what the cave allegory has to do with false incentives (creating papers for creating papers).
You say that like January 6th didn't happen, as if one person named Mike Pence didn't do the right thing...

Could easily have played very differently. And now everyone involved has been groomed for it.
Clean as in hot water and soap?

Or clean as in industrial degreaser or varnish stripper?
FSD for Microsoft Windows.
>Do you have any evidence of this? There are unfounded claims of “productivity metrics” but I have never actually seen one.

see: https://archive.is/CKGbV
So the point is just “shorter list is easier to look through, and remember which processes are supposed to be there”?

In Linux it was usually pretty obvious what daemon did what on a somewhat well curated system, though. No svchost.exe, and no gargantuan system processes or a kernel overstepping its boundaries.

Of course, that’s very different nowadays…
I suspect twitch is a pseudo form of whatever this is, also, coffee shops
Also data mining! :)