skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe it is naive but I think search would probably work again if they could roll back code to 10 or 15 years ago and just make search engines look for text in webpages.

Even more naive, but my personal preference: just ban all advertising. The fact that people will pay for ChatGPT implies people will also pay for good search if the free alternative goes away.
Why is there only one valid way of producing thoughts?
I brazenly break jaywalking laws every day and in every city I visit and will continue to do so.
<< Instead, train them, and reject low quality work.

Ahh, well, in order to save money, training is done via an online class with multiple choice questions, or, if your company is like mine and really committed to making sure that you know they take your training seriously, they put portions of a generic book on 'tech Z' in pdf spread spread over a drm ridden web pages.

As for code, that is reviewed, commented and rejected by llms as well. It is used to be turtles. Now it truly is llms all the way down.

That said, in a sane world, this is what should be happening for a company that actually wants to get good results over time .
I work for Google, and I just got done with my work day. I was just writing I guess what you'd call "AI generated code."

But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I'm writing. If I'm writing "function getAc..." it's smart enough to complete to "function getActionHandler()", and maybe suggest the correct arguments and a decent jsdoc comment.

So basically, it's a helpful productivity tool but it's not doing any engineering at all. It's probably about as good, maybe slightly worse, than Copilot. (I haven't used it recently though.)
What is the difference between UI and UX?
The slippery slope began in 2012, when they pledged to start downgrading piracy websites. After the rollout, the followup questions were "well what if we downgrade other topics that [random government] doesnt like" and "what if we sell the ability to boost enterprise company results for certain topics". eventually the number of results that get filtered out or reordered, exceed the results that actually get displayed. creating a new search platform is not a viable solution - any private company will be incentivized in this direction until some kind of "search neutrality" law is introduced.
Doesn't AFU here mean the phone had to be already unlocked? Which is most of the entries?
Always use google in incogniti so they dont give personalised results, thats the least we can do before google search completely dies,
Or just prevent google any cookie permission, keep it session only

As far as query trackers on google urls, they are necessary

One good case of necessity of google tracking parameters is
--> you search for movie or related, but muktiple movies by same name have been made , you dont remember year, you do remember some actor or story description
Searxg and google will in show with media carda foe movies you ckick iy and yoi get exact same film with year yoi wantes

Wait ->I am telling above because when that mefia image of film i inspecred itsurl it was just
Googke ?search=filmname&teackers
The search ket wasnt modified with year same as i searched first yet it gave me the desires year film

may be because of trackers &ved amd all paramers link tags to search teaukts its loke ctoss maching in databases
The gist of it is I think these large hosted models have system prompts that are not as skeptical of its own outputs. You are an helpful AI Assistant seems to lead to more lax responses. Adjusting the system prompt to be more incredulous helps from my observation.
No, AI is generating a quarter of all characters. It's an autocomplete engine. You press tab, it finishes the line. Doesn't do any heavy lifting at all.

Source: I work there, see my previous comment.
> This is exactly my point. How do we change things back so Israelis will have hope again in a two state solution?

I have no idea. I also have no idea how you'd get the Palestinians to have hope either. Even if Israel were willing to do a two state solution, they would undoubtedly ask for a very limited sovegerenty that would require the Palestinian state to be demilitarized, which would mean that Israel would have to control ports and border crossings to check for weapons, which means they could also do things like they have done in the past like prohibit the import of concrete.

What the Palestinians see is the Israelis constantly expanding the settlements, and so they see that their only alternative to losing their land inch by inch is armed resistance, futile as that may be.

As an American, I don't really see how the U.S. is positively influencing the situation, or can positively influence it. If you look at what's happened in Gaza, yes, Israel is legitimately furious over Oct 7, but the response has killed something like 28,000 noncombatant Palestinians. For all of that, they've managed to get the release of, or rescue 60 or so hostages.

As an American and as a Dad, I don't want to buy bombs so that Israel can kill Palestinian kids. The sense in the media is that Israel expects us to view Israeli lives as being worth 1000x as much as Palestinian lives, but as a gentile American, I view them as equally valuable.

If there were some credible plan that would lead to a resolution of the issue from the Israeli side, it would be a different matter, but all I can see is endless carnage, and I do not want to be a party to it.
I don't know why you're downvoted, I think you are totally correct, but these changes to the laws do make it less simple for cops.
What makes you think I care about convincing you? These days every shot caller on earth is scrambling to get piece of AI. Either by investing in it or fighting it. You come across as someone who wants to hate on AI. Haters aren't even players. They're NPCs.
That might be true if they were doing bare minimum severance packages, but they’re not. They’re doing substantial packages.

Claiming that it’s to please regulators when it’s far and away better than the average severance package is an irrational claim.
Viewable: https://archive.ph/6aJ3T
Wait about what kind of people are you talking about and how niche is that target group?

You are saying Mac are expensive but at the same time the potential buyers cant afford even a cheap 4K monitor? They go by like 200$? now.
and even is that group exists.. its not like 2560p is torture on a Mac especially with that BetterDisplay HiDPI, I would bet many would not even notice the difference.
Discussion (65 points, 5 hours ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998983
I can't help but think that Go might be one of the better languages for AI to target - statically typed, verbose with a lot of repeated scaffolding, yet generally not that easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Which might explain why this is a thing at Google specifically.
I’d bet at least a quarter of their code is class definitions, constructors, and all the other minutiae files required for modern software, so that makes sense. But people weren’t writing most of that before either, we’ve had autocomplete and code geb for a long time.
As someone that plays CS2 and Valorant regularly...

Vanguard hasn't been effective for a while now. The cheating situation is a lot worse than CS in my experience, but every discussion gets shutdown because... well... it's Vanguard.

With CS2 I have talked to many players about this and everyone says the same thing: "There's a very noticeable decline in cheaters above 10k Elo."... personally I have pushed beyond 15k and briefly above 20k Elo and the amount of cheaters have steadily declined (although less obvious cheats, eg. wallhack, are probably more common at that level) - for Valorant it has pretty much stayed at a constant amount of "cheatiness" across the ranks.

CS actually has a rich history of features, functions, services?... that aren't strictly anti-cheat...

Overwatch gave players the option to "police" others players replays - this wasn't only against cheating, but also griefing.

Prime? Is it still even a thing? It was great when CSGO went F2P... all the cheaters just annoyed the non-prime players (F2P).

The ominous Trust factor which is probably the single most effective piece in making my personal experience great. But there's no real way to tell?

Also, VacNet - which is running? is AI based? banning players? lowering their trust factor?... with Valve there's no real way to tell most of the time, but it's probably existent in some shape, way or form.

Not to say that CS2 has solved cheating, it's far from it - but neither has Valorant.
Right, provenance is an issue.

I suspect the only way that might balance everyone's interests would be to set up a separate OS installation for competitive games. This could be done via bare-metal dual boot, via a hypervisor, or just by having a completely different computer for playing games on (what I have). At least in that world you still have a lot more freedom than you do on console, such as the ability to mod games that don't need anti-cheat (which is almost all of them).
My dream Git successor would use either dedupe or a simple cache plus copy-on-write so that repos can commit toolchains and dependencies and users wouldn’t need to worry about disk drive bloat.

Maybe someday…
I'm using Wonder Dynamics for slightly different purposes (capturing and analyzing complex sports movements from video) and I'm deeply impressed by what it is capable of doing. While it still struggles with what state-of-the-art pose estimation and camera motion estimation models are struggling, the whole package and implementation are just insanely impressive. From the web UI that is incredibly fast even when uploading 4K@120fps footage to the final result - which is a Blender file and clean slate video for me. Extremely easy to use. A lot of love and care is put into this product.

Wonder Animation seems to be just a specific use case improvement over already impressive capabilities. Normal "Live Action" projects can also detect cuts, but the "Animation" project seems to understand the space from multiple cuts/angles.
LLMs can count words (and letters) just fine if you train them to do so.

Consider the fact that GPT-4 can generate valid XML (meaning balanced tags, quotes etc) in base64-encoded form. Without CoT, just direct output.
How would you limit the blast radius to china? And still remain on good enough terms for all of the other trade that happens above-board?
That's a neat example problem, thanks for sharing!

For anyone curious: https://chatgpt.com/share/6722d130-8ce4-800d-bf7e-c1891dfdf7...

> Based on traditional naming conventions, it seems that the names might have been switched in this scenario. However, based purely on your setup:

>

> Matthew has a daughter named William and a son named Mary.

>

> So, Matthew's daughter is William.
The author talks about how long users spend on his page, but can Google track that? Has ubiquitous tracking blocking, and Google's failure to adapt, eroded the quality of search?
I feel like just running teams on that would make it cry.
How to Help Someone Through a Panic Attack
Google used to be respected, a place so highly sought after that engineers who worked there were revered like wizards. oh how they've fallen :(
Because it feels like extortion. There was almost certainly no water damage caused by external factors: the user didn't spill anything on it and has literally no idea where the so-called water damage could have come from. I have heard anecdotally that this is their go-to for denying claims and it is difficult to argue against.
kagi is still far from it.
Ok, I’ll grant you the physics are what they are. But a football is not a baseball, so why in any world would you expect your memory of baseball to even remotely translate to the physics of a football, even if they were realistic?
> nothing will ever change.

That's probably what MySpace people thought. And Friendster. And Altavista. And ...
Sleeping children vs voice controls...
Public says more than a quarter of Google's search results are absolute crap.
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Open-Source transactional email magic link and OTP authentication
I just updated my open-source Golang email magic link authentication project to include One-Time Password (OTP) support.

https://github.com/MicahParks/magiclinksdev

This has brought the API specification to v2:

https://swaggerui.magiclinks.dev/

Magic link authentication is my favorite, but it has its challenges. There are two notable ones, a technical one and a user-related one.

The technical challenge with magic links has more to do with emails. Many email security products like to follow links in emails to analyze them for malware or phishing. Since magic links are one-time use, this consumes the magic link. For this project, I ended up using reCAPTCHA v3 to test the web browser before performing the redirect. If the user's browser doesn't run JavaScript, there is a button to submit an HTML form that performs a redirect. Adding reCAPTCHA v3 means I needed to add the Google terms of service and privacy policy to the user workflow when that's enabled, which isn't ideal. However, I still think that's a long-term solution that doesn't involve my own anti-bot (security product) code. That said, I would still prefer a backend-only solution to this problem. An HTTP 3XX redirect is favored over a JavaScript redirect.

https://github.com/MicahParks/magiclinksdev/issues/2

The user-related challenge is that a user wants to log in on Device A, but they only check their email on Device B. This is especially true for older users, like my parents, who exclusively check email on an iPad. In this case, OTPs are a great alternative email-based solution. Although, in my experience, users have been known to find the OTP friction undesirable as well... Can't win em all.

Check out the project, if you want. Let me know your thoughts. I love to talk about authentication.
Crowdstrike isn't even the worst case. The SolarWinds disaster is the worst case scenario.

You have a closed source rootkit designed for finding data in raw memory (like passwords from an unlocked password manager), loaded into many gamer's machines, which many software engineers are. Some anti cheat explicitly support's arbitrary remote code execution by design. Many people mix their personal password vaults with their company's, which means that if you successfully hack an anticheat company and you can read the raw memory of an opened password manager with a program that is already designed to scan all processes memory, you now potentially have extremely valuable credentials. A small portion will even do things like add their 2fac keys into their vaults.

Here is Gabe Newell's thoughts on AntiCheat that are very relevant to this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_an...

Of course the other problem is the 23andMe problem and enshitification. Even if the data uploaded by anti-cheat isn't used right now, the storage of data alone creates incentive for abuse.
Assuming something reasonable like 20TB Toshiba MG10 HDDs and 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM, quick googling suggests that 1TB of disk space uses about 0.2-0.4W of power (0.2 in idle, 0.4 while writing), 5GB of RAM about 0.3-0.5W. So your break even on power is a bit earlier depending on the access pattern, but in the same ball park.
Skills that programmers need, to defend both their code and their careers
Where are the servers hosted, and is there any proof that the data doesn’t cross overseas to China?
The magic incantation is competing offer.

If they know you have alternatives, they are much more likely to negotiate. In fact the modern version of this guide is try to get several offers and negotiate them against each other (not you versus the company). Might be more difficult in the current market.
Rejoinder:
Blizzard’s Warden. No bootkit, no invasive system configuration required, even plays nice with “niche/enthusiast” platforms like Linux, doesn’t even care if your keyboard isn’t a bit niche too.

Thought:
If they expect a console level of lockdown, why do they bother writing for the PC? If I wanted a $game_console, I’d buy the console.
You need block pointer rewrite for this?
This is way, way different.

A six year old can perceive normally. They really don’t see people who aren’t there. They consciously know the difference between seeing a monster and thinking it exists. They can mis-attribute information by categorizing something they see as a monster. They play and they get really invested in it. Children are not psychotic. They are using their imagination to explore reality.

I see the monsters in the room. I spent four months as a bipedal wolf feeling wind in my fur and the motions of my tail. I truly believed I wasn’t human and the humans would kill me as soon as they found that out. My childhood memories were replaced by imagined ones.

I still remember being a wolf. It was real to me.
Right now the economy is fine, but there's a huuuuge likelihood of a recession. Why?

We just had a rate cut and in the past 30 years a recession happened after max. 2 quarters after the that.

If you see news from 2006 you will see people saying that the economy looks strong despite some structural issues, the economy is a huge machine and takes time to both take speed and stop, like a giant car.

Imagine the FED raising rates as pushing the brakes, the car won't stop suddenly, it needs time. The same happens with economic activity.

Now that the FED had to almost call an urgent meeting to cut .5, it's a clear sign that it could be that the car/economy was actually stopped. It isn't clear because everybody is working, but every cent that goes out of a central bank has an expectation of returns, if the expectations are that there will be negative returns, money will stop, it won't be invested, products won't get sold, houses won't be bought, everyone's plan will be delayed to the future.

And on Today's economy, you can't just stop or delay. Things need to be bought. A construction company needs to sell their real estate stock to pay back the bank and so on.

Money need to change hands, if it changes hands too slowly you get a recession and negative economic growth, if it changes too quickly you generate inflation.
It won't, anymore than research into the speed of a spot of light cast onto a surface by a flashlight will result in faster than light communication.
Microsoft does not. This is the one area where they don't compromise: system call numbers regularly change between Windows builds.
I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral
That's the trick! no one can because they don't share the data or methodologies

What is your data and methodology?

Ziprecruiter is a site companies post jobs. You don't know where their data comes from?

What about the other links? Why do you ignore them?

What I'm saying is only based on my experience,

What experience?

the appeal to authority fallacy

Posting data from a company that collects that data is not "appeal to authority". You have this completely wrong. Appeal to authority would be someone claiming your boss is right about something they know nothing about because they're your boss.

Key parts of are lack of expertise and a lack of evidence. These two things don't apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/rhetorical-devices/appeal-to-...

Seriously try rethinking this all from the ground up. Go and find someone in your life and show them this conversation and see if they think someone linking you wage stats from a jobs site and two other places and you saying "no I don't think so" are the same thing.

Don't forget that you not only claimed remote workers were "incredibly well paid" but also that they are "eating up real estate in expensive areas". Are you ready to walk that back since you can't do anything but repeat that you believe it for no reason?
What does any of what you cited have to do with the independent web?

Should he have clarified "properties not backed by tens, hundreds, thousands, or millions of millions of dollars?"
Something slightly related happened recently. A bit of malware that was distributed as a mod for BeamNG was installed by a high up Disney employee, who was also logged in to some internal work stuff. The hackers were able to leak huge amounts of company data.
How is Kagi faring after Google's exclusivity deal with Reddit?
Another frustration I have with these models is that it is yet another crutch and excuse for turning off your brain. I was tagged on a PR a couple days ago where a coworker had added a GIN index to a column in Postgres, courtesy of GPT-4o, of course.

He couldn't pronounce the name of the extension, apparently not noticing that trgm == trigram, or what that might even be. Copying the output from the LLM and pasting it into a PR didn't result in anything other than him checking off a box, moving a ticket in Jira, and then onto the next thing--not even a pretense of being curious about what any of it all meant. But look at those query times now!

It's been possible for a while to shut off your brain as a programmer and blindly copy-paste from StackOverflow etc., but the level of enablement that LLMs afford is staggering.
Great I cant wait for the software bloat to expand and make these the only machines that feel fast
Yes! We can definitely help with this. Khoj lets you chat with your documents, indexing your private knowledge base for local RAG with any open source (or foundation) model.

You can make it as 'fancy' as you want, and use speech-to-text, image generation, web scraping, custom agents.

Let me know if you run into any issues? I'd love to get this setup for senior citizens! You can reach me at saba at khoj.dev.
I think it's fair to say that a lot of users have no idea they're doing so, hence why changes like the one in TFA are necessary to encourage transparency around these practices
I was wondering if anyone would notice it ;-)

Re: trouble in foresight, analysts and practitioners try to account for that by creating scenarios. Note I cited the base case for the Morgan Stanley reports, but those also include a bear case and a bull case. Naturally those still depend on assumptions...
> norms are established they're slow to change

That is all I meant when I said society.
Killing the process instead of affecting (or crashing) the rest of the system.
If we're being pedants, then storing the same information in fewer bits than the input is by definition a form of compression, no?

(Although yes I understand that file-level compression with a standard algorithm is a different thing than dedup)
Yes. That's the bravery part.
Yandex image search works really well at finding similar images but it also leads you to some very strange parts of the internet that are exactly what you are describing: bot generated pages that almost no one reads.
Try to ask what's 8964 ( Tiananmen massacre), and it will refuse to answer.
Failure rates are multiplicative, not concurrent. If I have a car with an engine that lasts on average 200k miles, adding a transmission that fails on average at 300k miles results in a vehicle with a MTBF of less than 200k miles.
I was totally with you until "70% of things are pretty systematic and repeatable". This has not been my experience, and I think you acknowledged it yourself when you said "Google (as opposed to e.g. a bank)" - there are many more banks in the world than Googles. The main challenge will be transitioning all those "banks" to "Google's" and further still. They have 10y+ codebases written in 5 months by a single genius engineer (who later found his luck elsewhere), then hammered by multiple years of changing maintainers. That's the real "70% of things" :D
i am actually working on a platform that makes this sort of stuff easy. We use BPF under the hood and let you remotely deploy them across a cluster and visualize them.

Check us out: https://yeet.cx

Our current package index is a bit thin:

https://yeet.cx/discover

We have a ton in the pipeline and are going to add more in the coming weeks and release an SDK.