skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked “Find me articles about the World Series MVP.” ChatGPT returned snippets and URLs from: MLB Reuters AP NYPost and FoxSports.

I asked “Please find articles about planning a Thanksgiving meal for a family reunion.” It returned links to: GatheredAgain FavFamilyRecipes TastesBetterFromScratch etc. I like that it is returning niche sites I do not know about.
I don't understand the strategy from the election spammer here. They clearly want the recipient to vote/donate. But if someone spends time to type "STOP" instead of ignoring, he has clearly read the message and not interested in the solicitation. Then why spam this particular number? The more flood the more he hates you, the less he's gonna to anything positive to you. It is a extremely low quality "live number" for the campaign, and waste of money.
A table of data with all the different variables that you pointed out would be fascinating and very useful.
All the LLM money is in here. Theyre spending a billion a quarter on training compute alone.
I’ve been trained to expect articles with this headline to say something like “we’re dropping support and are getting acqui-hired.”
good "best laptop 2024" search results, absolutely exist, but they have to be heavily personalized towards user and i dont think we adjusted to such levels of in search (we have expectations of median/commonality there)
https://archive.is/2024.10.30-182635/https://www.economist.c...
I'm guessing range requests are not problematic for proxies, just for caches (which are usually proxies also).

A pure proxy (reverse or not) should have no problem with a range request.
It's also a pretty large performance hit, even when the quality improvement is subtle. A major and unfortunate consequence is that it has driven even more games to rely on upscaling and heavy post-processing, all of which tend to blur the output image and introduce artifacts and add latency.
What's ironic about it? YouTube premium removes ads that YouTube adds to videos. Those sponsor ads in the videos are put there by the content creator who made the video.
The iPhone is a product that is easily worth $1 trillion. That is the goal here, 30% of all money that changes hands while using VR for most consumers.
This reminds me of Cyrus the Great being so angry at a river that drowned one of his horse that he spent a summer having his army carve it up into 360 channels.
The keel's purpose is to balance the boat so it remains upright. A sailboat without a keel can be capsized incredibly easily.
There's a conspiracy theory that some types of phenomena are lost in the Heaviside formulation of Maxwell's equations, but describable with the original form that used quaternions. e.g. 'scalar waves' that are used for wireless power transmission and death rays.

Is anyone able to make an informed comment on that? I can barely handle the Heaviside formulation, the original quaternions are was over my head.
I have seen spikes between 4x to ten fold. I work in a regulated industry.
Writing Code Just-in-Time
The Mainstreaming of Loserdom
So was the plan to fuck up google search so bad that only AI can still search the internet or what? cause otherwise this is a nonsensical feature
Yahoo would be licensing Telegraph content for distribution.
Technically there is an API and there are some client apps for HN. No way they make up 95% of traffic though.
1. With ads, I don't pay people writing articles, creating content or doing research.

2. "How else would you achieve X than by manipulating people visiting your website into paying for things they probably don't need, and be misinformed and tracked by powerful commercial and political entities?" - I can but shrug at this question.

3. The vast majority of written content is never rewarded or compensated monetarily, ads or no ads.
The Defense Reformation
The entire point of this website is to advocate for the arbitrary 8th grade cutoff. Additionally, an arbitrary hard cutoff is the opposite of gradually teaching kids responsibility and independence.
I personally don’t know much about quantum or IBM. How relevant are they today? Are they going to become more relevant tomorrow?
And yup back at'chya.

mpv's bonus is convenience, and the fact that it will seamlessly play much of what you throw at it, whether that's local files, network resources, web sites, etc. Much of that majyck is in fact ytdl/yt-download, but having a standard interface is quite handy.

And yes, I've run into streams that need mixing, which ytdl/yt-download can handle; you point it at both the video and audio sources, typically. (I do this infrequently, thankfully).
I agree, I'm also firmly convinced it's the best. Until a month ago it has some bugs I disagreed with some design choices, but since 1-2 weeks ago it's the absolute best I've ever used and have easily convinced others to use it.
I am 38 years old. I attend concerts very frequently, and - though it’s uncommon - some shows don’t allow photos or videos, at the artist’s request. And it’s enforced by venue staff.

Even as someone who enjoys taking videos at concerts, I really like the vibe at shows that have a no-photo/no-video policy. It increases audience engagement, and it stops the phenomenon where everyone has their phone held high in the air, blocking the view during popular songs.
people rarely snap themselves out, but they can dig themselves out. It usually boils down to the same recommendations of sleep, diet, exercise, and confronting issues. Sometimes medicine or therapy can help.
Uuuh.. so take all my data, as long as it's native?
That’s irrelevant, the model is still political by taking such a stance on Tibetan sovereignty
> The retractable keel, which helped to keep the boat stable, was not fully extended when it sank.

Regardless of inherent design issues which are perhaps debatable, this seems like a bit of a "Have you tried plugging it in?" kind of a situation.
If you can explain to me how you convince a nontechnical person why 6 is not free, I’ll concede the point.

But if not then my original thesis that this is needlessly asking for a pointless argument that costs social capital stands.
waituntil9th.org isn't taken ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Typing "boo " into ChatGPT makes a little ghost pop up
One of my interests is war photography
s/grand/grandiose/g

from a search for grand vs grandiose:

When it comes to bigness, there's grand and then there's grandiose. Both words can be used to describe something impressive in size, scope, or effect, but while grand may lend its noun a bit of dignity (i.e., “we had a grand time”), grandiose often implies a whiff of pretension.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grandiose
Another valid option is a synology nas, not only can you build the storage you probably want (I have 12TB 1 redundancy with one slot spare, read backed by ssd) but can also run containers on em as well.
Maybe an excellent joke for the pre meeting.

I don’t think the boss will find it funny though.
Why should anyone trust your page though about Dr Bronners tea tree oil? "Not publicly disclosed" seems like the better answer compared to citing some random yahoo on the web who may be lying.
A good "best laptop 2024" query would be a conversation with a useful LLM
>What's more harmful is preventing discovering adaptation and self-balancing on their own in the face of endless entertainment wish diminishing value.

Afaik theres pretty strong evidence of the negative effects of short form content on kids, and how addictive it is. We don't let kids eat as much candy as they want because we know they wont self regulate, I dont see how limiting online media consumption is any different.
I've always been a bookmark guy, and I don't know how you hundreds-of-tabs guys do it. It would driv me crazy I think.

That being said, have you looked into something like this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

(Disclaimer: have never used it, but it is a recommended extension). It may not meet your needs exactly since it would likely reload YouTube tabs when "undiscarded", but it might be worth a look.
And then you have Go, which won't even let you compile code with an unused variable...
I guarantee you the boss in this scenario hated calculus or a skipped it.

Also parabolas are algebra not calculus, but the same counter argument stands.
> Plus the results page is hard to navigate,

Are there different Bings? I double checked to make sure and without looking at the URL or logo at the top I wouldn't be able to differentiate Google results page vs Bing results page.
Personally, I find needing to provide references at all to be akin to me needing to get my parents permission. It makes my skin crawl and I will actively screen jobs that require them. The process feels demeaning and dehumanizing. Then you have to bother people who don't really know you anymore and beg them to waste their time on someone else's BS.
VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM
Mesh shaders are actually useful. Or at least game engine people love them, which was not the case for geometry shaders or even tessellation really. They are extremely painful to add support for though. Aside from Apple I don't think any mobile IHVs have a working implementation.
> The Food and Drug Administration approves new cancer treatments when they are shown in clinical trials to be more effective than the current approved cancer treatment for a given cancer type. The approval comes when the treatment extends lifespan without overly increasing the risks of serious side effects.

This standard just doesn’t make sense to me. Every case is different, so why “throw out” a treatment option for only being within the margin of error of efficacy on a general population? It must be incredibly frustrating for patients to know about these treatments…
Basic universal income makes sense to me. I imagine a society where everyone is free to create art or relax in hammocks all day. A basic universal income would not be enough to fund world travel, your fav consumer items, or ambitious projects, so I don't foresee it causing an intellectual meltdown in society as some fear-monger (As an aside: I speculate people afraid of this may likely be the actual lazy members of our current society :-).

If everybody had their basic needs covered, that should actually lead to more prosperity and reduced crime, leading to more people being able to produce superior knowledge, art and enterprises of all sorts. To make science or art or whatnot, you first need to be able eat!

The question of whether Silicon Valley's "AI luminaries" are genuinely pursuing this utopia or have a more selfish hidden agenda is another matter entirely.
Fascinating, I missed a lot of that in the comments before you, but when you say They are thinking the Bad Thing for a bizarrely specific ideological reason...the straightforwardness of your reasoning gives me ability to shut my brain off. And that makes me feel very comfortable, and finally, if it feels good, it's true
Disclaimer: I know very little about long covid, so speaking more generally here. I’m also not a doctor.

While that is indeed a logical fallacy, doctors are in the business of evidence-based care. How could a doctor responsibly recommend a course of treatment for something which has little evidence, as something unproven would have. Many treatments have both positive and negative effects, and a doctor would typically only recommend a treatment when the good outweighs the bad. On the flip side, there many unproven or proven ineffective treatments patients frequently self-prescribe/self-administer which a doctor would let slide on the basis of it also being harmless. After all, the placebo effect is powerful in and of itself. Taking a wholistic view, medicine is about maximizing the quality of life for patients, as opposed to just being about curing everything. It’s not clear to me how a doctor could responsibly recommend any treatment with potential downsides to a patient with an unproven diagnosis. Such a treatment might indeed help the patient, but it’s a risk/reward tradeoff that needs to be balanced, and while the patient should absolutely be involved in deciding where to draw the line, the vast majority are simply not knowledgeable enough to accurately assess the situation.
Pretty ironic that the single mast, that was added for sailing speed, was the likely cause yet they never used the sails. They just enjoyed it looking imposing and different.
This archive was created as a dumping ground for all of my various computers, so a complete file by file dump of their system drives.

While that obviously leads to duplicate data from files installed by operating systems, there's a lot of duplicate media libraries. (File-oriented dedupe might not be very effective for old iTunes collections, as iTunes stores metadata like how many times a song has been played in the same file as the audio data. So the hash value of a song will change every time it's played; it looks like a different file. ZFS block-level dedupe might still work ok here because nearly all of the blocks that comprise the song data will be identical.)

Anyway. It's a huge pile of stuff, a holding area of data that should really be sorted into something small and rational.

The application leads to a big payoff for deduplication.
US:
https://shop.myxplora.com/
UK:
https://xplora.co.uk/
Paging Sergey
Why would I want my LLM grounded in ads?
Hopefully we transition into a post-work society. Socialist countries will stick the landing, while the bottom of the American society plunges more into poverty. It's never too late to stop voting for people who despise you, and think that "temporary hardships" are necessary as they plan to cut government spending.
Elon Musk Changed Course to Go All Out for Trump
That's a bit too simple. There is way fewer people producing quality content "for fun" than people that aim or at least eventually hope to make money from it.

Yes a few sites take this too far and ruin search results for everyone. But taking the possibility away would also cut the produced content by a lot.

Youtube for example had some good content before monetization, but there is a lot of great documentary like channels now that simply wouldn't be possible without ads. There is also clickbait trash yes, but I rather have both than neither.
Nah it's more than that.

China is different. Really different. Our old adversaries the Russians/Soviets are like brotherly chums compared to the Chinese.

China has always had a separate sphere of influence, distinct language, culture, religions, geography. It's way out there.

Look at all the conflicts the West has had with Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Those were not merely economic wars. There was ideology involved at every step. Go back thousands of years, and see the Assyrians evangelizing China (not so effective or memorable.) See the Jesuits and other missionaries landing in Asia and making some inroads, then getting expelled, persecuted, martyred.

The big trouble is, with China, Americans have freely entangled ourselves economically with them for a long, long time. And this made for a tacit friendship, while we were fundamentally opposed in other aspects. But China patiently manufactured luxurious silk, delicious opium, cheap toys, and worthless crap to send us, and they Hoovered up all our debt, and our garbage and "recycling", and they bought controlling interests in businesses such as banks and whatnot.

But an economic relationship is not a friendship, it's transactional, and hopefully it's equalizing, and our economic agreements have been stable enough, but they're not strong enough to overcome ideologies.

So now you can see, perhaps, why Americans are scared and looking to extricate ourselves. I wouldn't say it's about "protectionism" because that has some negative or extreme connotations. I'd just say we're trying to be not so globalist, because the globalism eventually comes back to haunt us.
> Exhaust back pressure is not an issue at all on diesels because they all run big turbos.

Not sure what you're arguing here. Isn't it quite obvious that resistance in the exhaust system means that the engine has to do more work to push the exhaust gases out; work that otherwise could be used to turn the crankshaft. Now of course a lot of that extra energy is wasted in any case, particularly if there's nothing like a turbocharger to make use of it.
There is benefit to being an active participant in your job search. I don't depend on anyone for employment, as self-employment is ALWAYS an option if you're serious about longevity and profit ($$$).

Honestly, the ideal approach if you're going for traditional W-2 steady paycheck employment job is:

- recruiters/people already approach you. This works when you build your network and reputation.
- use your network of trusted/worked-with-previously recruiters for leads.
- fend for yourself in the murky depths of the scummy internet full of low-life tactics reference farming, resume scraping, and G*d knows else happens when you participate in a public forum.

Real question: did you really want that job or was this just a +1 for your gamified job search? I think quality searches yield quality results.
3D TVs failed before they existed as a product category. You cannot encode enough information through stereoscopy to create a convincing or "realistic" 3D effect. The conditions for making it work have always been fickle and as 6DOF VR/AR is proving, it was never enough to be convincing anyways. Encoding two slightly different versions of a video and layering them on top of each other is a dirty hack. It is not a holistic solution to a problem they seriously intended to solve in the first place. It is a novelty designed from the bottom-up as a scarcely-usable toy.

Ray tracing is, by comparison, the holy grail of all realtime lighting effects. Global illumination makes the current raster lighting techniques look primitive by comparison. It is not an exaggeration to say that realtime graphics research largely revolves around using hacks to imitate a fraction of ray tracing's power. They are piling on pipeline-after-pipeline for ambient occlusion, realtime reflections and shadowing, bloom and glare as well as god rays and screenspace/volumetric effects. These are all things you don't have to hack together when your scene is already path tracing the environment with the physical properties accounted for. Instead of stacking hacks, you have a coherent pipeline that can be denoised, antialiased, upscaled and post-processed in one pass. No shadowmaps, no baked lighting, all realtime.

There is a reason why even Apple quit dragging their feet here - modern real-time graphics are the gimmick, ray tracing is the production-quality alternative.
What do you mean by "test"? It seems like it was just you streaming while scrolling the article for a while.

Are you just linking an embed via your site as marketing for it?
From a national security perspective, and with the recent Israeli exploding pager development, I think a move away from Chinese batteries, forced or not, is a good thing.
> Can someone please explain how the open web, at least the part of the web the requires some sort of viable funding model for creators, can survive this?

The funding model for the open web will be for the open web content to be the top of the funnel for curated content and/or walled gardens.

I think many business models already treated the web this way. Specifically, get people away from the 800-pound gorilla rent-seekers like Google and Amazon, and get them into your own ecosystem.
Dongzi Securities Big Data Research Report on Public Opinion

Release date

October 31, 2024 at 9:25 AM

The East Zi Securities Sentiment Big Data Indicator (I) - Overseas Chinese Securities
[Overseas Chinese Securities - Daily Bullish Composite Index]
Optimism and Caution Coexist in the Overseas Chinese Securities Market
East Zi Securities October 31, 2024 9:30:00 AM
East Zi Securities has recently released its "Overseas Chinese Securities - Daily Bullish Composite Index" at 53.9, down 7% from the previous period, and has experienced a slight decline for three consecutive days. This change reflects the complex attitude of international investors towards the overseas Chinese securities market: they remain optimistic to some extent, but also show significant caution.
Goldman Sachs strategists' predictions for China's stock market in the future present a dual nature. They expect China's stock market to rise within two to three months after the US presidential election. However, they also raise a warning: if former President Trump were to win again, China's stock market may experience fluctuations due to the subconscious reactions of market participants.
Although there is an expected package of measures, the market has responded with indifference, only considering it to be in line with expectations and not arousing market excitement. Investors are currently eagerly waiting for more details from the National People's Congress to obtain more information about the future policy direction. At the same time, the strengthening of technology investment regulation in the United States also constitutes a potential threat to the Chinese market.
The US presidential election itself also brings uncertainty to the Chinese market. Trump's candidate status and his policy stance of imposing high tariffs on imported Chinese products undoubtedly increase the risks of the overseas Chinese securities market.
However, from the data of the Chinese economy brown book, several tracking indicators showed signs of possible recovery in October. Despite this, the private research company still pointed out on Wednesday that although Beijing had introduced new policy measures, China's real estate market had not shown obvious improvement. Overall, the economic data in China shows deflationary pressure and weakness in the labor market, which leads consumers to continue to maintain their saving mode and are reluctant to increase consumption.
In summary,
In the past 3 weeks I blocked, no exaggeration, about 350 of these same text messages. They’re almost all for republican fundraisers, and almost always either unscrupulous or borderline fraudulent. Stuff like “50X match if you donate now!”, or “our records indicate you’re voting for Kamala. Click now to set the record straight!”. Sending “Stop” or marking as spam does nothing of course, so I had to get a blocker app. I did finally click on a couple out of curiosity (how much worse could the spam get) and they use every dark pattern there is to try to force a recurring donation. I don’t really get how it’s worth it, but I guess some people must go for it.
You're looking at years of careful artist and engineer work to get something that looks almost as good as pathtraced visuals. The fact that it's so good without any raytracing is a credit to the developers.

Replacing all that effort with raytracing and having one unified lighting system would be a _major_ time saver, and allows much more dynamic lighting than was previously possible. So yeah some current games don't look much better with RT, but the gameplay and art direction was designed without raytracing in mind in the first place, and had a _lot_ of work put into it to get those results.

Sure fully pathtraced graphics might not be 100% usable currently, but the fact that they're even 70% usable is amazing! And with another 3-5 years of algorithm development and hardware speedups, and developers and artists getting familiar with raytracing, we might start seeing games require raytracing.

Games typically take 4+ years to develop, so anything you're seeing coming out now was probably started when the best GPU you could buy for raytracing was an RTX 2080 TI.