skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of OBTF and org mode but I find the syntax quite inconvenient. I do not like Markdown also.
I'm currently taking inspiration from bujo, obtf, org mode and markdown for making my own thing based on characters I'm ok to type both on mobile and desktop and which can make it easy to find information back in a huge file both for humans and programs.
To be fair, no one would read that mail.
> What stops “the poor” from continuing to have a thriving economy on their own, offering their own non-robotic and non-AI goods and services to one another like they already do now?

Control of industrial output, raw materials, energetic resources, land ownership, things like that. The rich are rich precisely because they control the economic output of their country
Unstable design and hurricane force winds are unfortunate Bayesian priors
The most rational incentive would seem to be a kind of toll extracted on the value of all you create where search contributed to that creation. So like every month, you get an invoice from the great search company in the cloud where somehow it’s objectively assessed how much search contributed to the value you created for the world that month - and then you pay that amount and all remains right with the world until the end of time.

In that way, search captures value directly on its core function: efficiently facilitating the creation and dispersal of knowledge.

This may end up occurring, but based on how unlikely it sounds, it’s my reflection that the web search that we have today is simply a small component of what will eventually become a system that closely approximates the above: basically a kind of global intelligent interconnected agent for the advancement of humanity.

Rather than the great unbundling, this will be the great rebundling … of many diverse functions into a single interface seamlessly.
Don’t forget Temple OS
Your comment reads a bit silly to me. It’s like your child has control over this situation instead of you, and you’re trying your hardest to negotiate a good position for yourself.

If your child doesn’t use the phone in the way you want them to, you could take the phone away.
I think you can generalise without resorting to silly games like the article does. I gave some examples in a sibling comment that are high level enough to give an idea of the types of things I’d think about, without locking in to a specific incident I was part of.
> a huge underclass with nothing, nothing to do, and no access to that automation

Why do you think the poor won't have AGI in their pockets and robots as well? If we look at how LLMs are evolving, they become easier to run on edge, and there are so many of them being pushed out every day. Costs for robotic hardware are also going down fast. Intelligence is free to have, unlike UBI. And robots can build robots, or make it cheaper to build robots.

For example instead of AI, take web search - if you are rich or poor, you get the same search space and tools. The rich are not searching better. They don't have radically better operating systems, social networks or phones. Same thing with content - we all have the same massive pool of content to watch. The rich don't have their own private movies that are 10x better.
BTW before anyone gets any bright ideas about trying this in real life:

This is called "layering" and is often a criminal offense [1] and banks have effective means to detect it (as they are required to by law). In particular they are highly attuned to flows of money that seem to split up large bunches of cash into smaller amounts that the would-be money launderer thinks will be below some static threshold. The detections which catch this have been in all banks I've ever worked with (since around 2010 when I first touched on doing any anti-moneylaundering work and they were very mature and well-established by then)[2].

You are highly unlikely to get away with it unless you have already been doing it for some time or know someone who has and is willing to share their techniques.

[1] Obviously or not it's only a criminal offense if you doing it to evade detection (eg for tax fraud or to avoid paying say a court settlement or something) or are otherwise laundering the proceeds of crime - that sort of thing. If you're just doing it for your own amusement it will probably get you added to a watchlist of suspicious accounts at your bank that they will monitor extra closely and may get you investigated by various financial crime enforcement organisations. Which even if you haven't done anything wrong I imagine would be stressful and time-consuming.

[2] To give people who are not part of this world the idea, at least in the UK and US all employees of any kind of deposit-taking institution are required by regulators to have an annual anti-moneylaundering training which covers layering and how to detect it. So literally every bank employee should know what this pattern looks like and should be on the look out for it.
With stuff like this I always think of the anecdote I had watching people playing on a playground.

There was a small step getting out of the playground, and one kid fell over running out. Looked over at his mum, who in turn looked panicked, and the kid burst out crying.

Another kid did the same thing, looked at his mum, who looked up at the kid, then went back to making lunch. The kid got up, shrugged and carried on back to his family.

I fully realise anecdotes are useless for setting policy, but still useful for conveying meaning.

At some point, telling people there is a problem, makes it a problem. At least in Australia, none of my relatives at school are even aware of issues associated with elections...let alone needing a day off. Unless I suppose we start telling them there is an issue?
If you don’t trust the answer I always tell it to look it up and it invariably gets it right
> Are you implying there are no use cases for matrix multiply?

The whole point is that these highly specialized scenarios are only featured in very specialized usecases, and don't reflect in overall performance.

We've been dealing with the regular release of specialized processor operations for a couple of decades. This story is not new. You see cherry-picked microbenchmarks used to plot impressive bar charts, immediately followed by the realization that a) in general this sort of operator is rarely invoked with enough frequency to be noticeable, b) you need to build code with specialized flags to get software to actually leverage this feature, c) even then it's only noticeable in very specialized workloads that already run on the background.

I still recall when fused multiply-add was such a game changer because everyone used polynomials and these operations would triple performance. Not the case.

And more to the point, do you believe that matrix multiplication is a breakthrough discovery that is only now surfacing? Computers were being designed around matrix operations way before they were even considered to be in a household.
What people consider deeply satisfying is very much culturally engrained. Our society conditions us to define our own value mostly in terms of how much value we contribute to others, and to treat personal enjoyment as at least somewhat suspect. But this isn't a universal set of values, not even in our own societies historically.

If you really want to get philosophical about it, what's the point of you serving someone else or adding value to society? Society, after all, is other people just like you. If you're trying to make them happy, why wouldn't you want to also make yourself happy? And if it turns out that we're at a technological point where everyone can keep themselves happy without any effort, why shouldn't we collectively just embrace that as a society?
I think for now, "search engine" has been fundamentally split into three categories

1. a "raw" news aggregator. LLM may not keep up to speed with latest news. We may still manually review real-world pictures, videos or texts, which might be too important to be mis-interpreted by a LLM. A first-hand source is essential

2. a grep tool. LLM can not provide precise match with 100% confidence, or stuff that might be missing or ignored by LLMs

3. a knowledgable place where you seek answers. LLM excels at this
A No-CD patch would likely work, but I want to keep things as close to the original as possible. I want to be able to play a game or run an application without any third-party software required, just using a perfect backup/image.
The implication of what you're saying is that medically incapacitated individuals can't have legal representation.
Discussion (57 points, 4 days ago, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967120
It's quite clear that the question is not whether it is possible that an insignificant number of votes are cast fraudulently, because if we're talking about insignificant events, all things are possible.

Certainly the question is whether there's any evidence, after endless audits and investigations and lawsuits, that the volume of fraudulent votes is anywhere near large enough to affect the results.

Is it possible that someone registered their hamster to vote? Certainly.

Is there any evidence whatsoever that tens of thousands of hamsters are casting votes? No.
To save a click, the regex in question is: ^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$ (it checks if a unary number is not prime.

It is kind of surprising to hear that regex can do that, but once you see the regex its kind of obvious. Its just checking if the number is 1, or if the number can be represented by 2 or more 1's repeated at least 2 times. Which is literally the definition of a prime (is the number divisible by a number >= 2)
One time it cited something that looked like a ChatGPT-generated article as a source. That doesn't sound great.

But in other ways this looks like a great upgrade
AI Safety and the Titanic Disaster
No, I have a text file with a series of steps. I'm not one of those hackers who spends 48 hours writing a script that will save me 5 minutes of work per year.
On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders.

Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?
People say this but I have not had the experience at all.

Google results arent perfect, but the experience of Google is way better than any of these LLM search apps.

I don't even know how anyone can disagree.

You have to enter your query, wait for GPT to search, then wait for it to generate it response character by character and then you have to hope it what you want or you have to start over .

Starting over on Google takes no time.
I have managed to get org mode working with emacs android port. big help was keyboard designer keyboard.
I was able to set C-x and M-x for single touch. And added some keys as per requirements. https://www.keyboarddesigner.com/index.php?page=24
A robot today can play most video games much better than I do, which is why we have that whole anti-cheat thing for aimbots etc.

Why do people still play video games? And not only that, but do crazy stuff like speedruns or self-imposed limitations that make it borderline impossible to win?
Honestly it doesn't look too bad

A lot of the size is just because the code deals with a lot of 3/4 dim stuff and also some things are a bit more verbose in code but translate to something short in assembly
You can backport bugfixes if they're critical enough.
They deserve ignobel prize.
google CEO doesn't write code
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These stories sound so abstract, and it’s hard to remember that real people suffered a real tragedy. I was visiting my friend at Princeton, when an acquaintance of his remarked that both of her parents were on the yacht. Really brought home how real it all was.
The precondition that you need to first convert to a unary number makes this feel like it's almost cheating.

The regex is not totally trivial, but it's not super sophisticated either: conceptually 'just' a Sieve of Eratosthenes.
Or how not to apply …
> Yeah, better than the glaring, 10x better than i7 Intel Mac. Like that's even a valid point of reference.

The last Intel macbook pros were released 4 years ago. Their owners are starting to shop around for replacements. Their question will be "will the expense be worth it?"
>The next step for computer hardware is mixed-reality glasses like Meta's Orion right?
>Or what else is there that would be a progression?

Forget glasses, what I want is contact lenses that do AR (augmented reality). Basically, I want to see a moving map diagram as I walk or cycle, connected to my phone running a navigation app, so I can know where to go, especially in a dense urban environment. And I don't want to wear some ugly, annoying, clunky glasses to get this. But until they can figure out how to miniaturize stuff that much, I guess I'll settle for some good-looking sunglasses with this functionality.

Another thing that'd be nice in the future is implants. Instead of wearing a fitness band on my wrist, I want an implant (with open-source code!) that monitors my health: heart rate, blood pressure, sleep log, blood sugar, etc., connecting to my phone and providing this data to my doctor (and me too of course) on demand.

>Such as home servers with AI and/or graphics accelerators ports that plug in without removing the case and somehow have integrated liquid cooling.

I just built a home server. Why on earth do you want liquid cooling? If you're just doing backups, media serving, home automation, etc., you won't be generating much heat. And you should be able to stick the server in a closet somewhere. Liquid cooling would make sense if you're doing some heavy compute, but why would you do that on a home server instead of a real workstation? If the answer is to have an AI assistant at home, I'd rather go without, thanks.

>Maybe the connector and board for each accelerator has a standardized heat exchange fluid channel built in or something.

Honestly, this would make a lot of sense for datacenters, and I wonder if they haven't already come up with some kind of standard for this, though considering how bad the computing industry has been at making standards it wouldn't surprise me if they haven't. From what little I've seen of datacenters, it seems they're perfectly happy to have tons of noisy little fans and air-sourced A/C instead of using liquid cooling to move the heat out of the building more efficiently. I guess it's similar to how they still seem to stubbornly use 120VAC power for everything instead of adopting a higher-voltage power supply to reduce losses.
The Origin of Venvstacks
I can’t believe how many people are commenting like metal is the only option when wood and silicon are perfectly plentiful and cheap.
WordPress.com didn’t even allow plugins until ~6yr ago, so it really wasn’t a meaningful option for serious sites —- aka sites with money. It was a predominant blog hosting site for a while, but there isn’t as much money in that market. Other WP hosts have gone after more lucrative types of sites which need something more.

My point is that Automattic was successful for a long time without being the dominant host (at least in terms of money per site).

Honestly, I don’t get why Ghost must be the dominant company in the space. Sure, it’s a bit of a zero-sum game, but not so much that literally every other company in the space must die if one becomes more successful. If that happens, it’s just an impetus for other companies to adjust their approach.

You don’t need to grow so massively big to be able to compete. You just need a better product in one specific area that matters to enough customers, and you can do that sustainably with a small team.
Maybe we're talking about different subsets of C++.

IIUC, you're referring to codebases which limit themselves to what's often called "modern C++".

I'm working with codebases that draw from a gnarly combination of older and newer parts of the current language spec.

So in my experience, very few C++ programmers are familiar with every part of the current language spec that has relevance to these codebases.

I.e., their code isn't obviously correct regarding many aspects of correctness, including memory safety.
Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them
Introduction to Compute-in-Memory [video]
great for those who enjoy burning gallons of water to perform a simple search
Show HN: AutoSEO – Generate SEO-optimized blog posts to get more organic traffic
Hey!

I built AutoSEO for myself since I needed a solution for my lack of SEO. As a very much non-writer, I have tried to generate something like this from the browser using Claude or in VS Code using Copilot. But neither work for the scale vs. time input I'm looking for.

There is something to be said for polluting the web with more AI generated listicles and posts. If I had built this 2 years ago I may have agreed with some ethical concerns, but I think Google search is far past the point where I would be concerned these days.
That's just a mask applied to the window, app were always allowed to do that on Windows and still are.
On the contrary: it means that incapacitated individuals must have legal representation. A forest is like an incapacitated individual: you can assign a legal representative to it (which was exactly what was suggested upthread) but you can't expect it to actually take legal matters into itself.
The result is "a celebrity died today". This result is uninteresting because, according to you, celebrities die much more often than one per twenty days.

I suggest reading your comments before you post them.
What about Israel bro?
Would like to read more about this. Has anybody used this technique to actually successfully sue someone for infringing their copyright on an instructional website or is it only theoretically possible?
Thanks for the detailed feedback, this is super helpful. We’re working on a complete redesign at the moment to fix the longstanding UX issues along with a suite of model updates. I’ll be in touch over email — I’d love to give you a preview and get your thoughts.
I don't understand your use case. If I know the exact title of the video, it finds it. Everytime.

If you try to describe a non-popular video it just becomes a crapshoot on what to give you if there's no word/tag watching. You'd need some hint of the channel name or something. The volume of low viewership videos is incredibly high.

Can you give me a real example of something you've tried to do?
> Certainly the question is whether there's any evidence, after endless audits and investigations and lawsuits, that the volume of fraudulent votes is anywhere near large enough to affect the results.

(a) Nobody asked that above.

(b) You're conflating "do people do X" with "can people do X". Those are two very different questions. There are lots of things that people could easily do frequently, but that they simply don't do frequently. Perhaps because they're just honest, perhaps because they lack sufficient motivation to be dishonest, perhaps because they're worried they might get caught, perhaps because they have better things to do, etc.
> (...) but it all turned out to be a smoke and mirrors show because the hardware is optimized for one particular benchmark they didn't even reference in their comparisons?

I know iOS developers who recently upgraded their MacBooks and they claim they now feel more sluggish. I wouldn't be surprised if it was due to RAM constraints instead of CPU though.

So, take those artificial bencmarks with a grain of salt. They are so optimized that they are optimized out of the real world.
Yes, a lot gets lost in an email vs. video. I'm not saying it has to be a live meeting, but videos of execs talking about strategy often make their ideas much clearer than a written text.

And live has the big advantage that it cannot be re-recorded, so it's more natural and not as rehearsed as a recorded video.
To be fair, no one listened to the all hands either
There was no signing at that time.
I hooked up an old PC to my TV and then taught my extremely tech illiterate wife to use VNC on her phone to control the PC. Now her YouTube and Chinese streaming sites are ad-free. My kids will have to wait until they can operate a web browser on a computer before I’ll let them on YouTube. Until then I let them use Netflix or VLC on an iPad with local content I downloaded (yt-dlp, etc).
A fitness app was used to dox and leak sensitive personal data
'A fake account on Strava systematically exploited the popular fitness app to collect information about sensitive bases and secret sites, including a U.S. military base.'
If it doesn't run on TempleOS I dont want it

(Jk I love C#)
Ok but what if we devise a system which does exactly that? Sounds suspiciously like an LLM to me. I’m as skeptical as anyone about LLMs as AGI they do sound like an aggregate of sources so the only question is how trustworthy those sources are.
Last I applied to a job posted on Who's Hiring, they had me fill a self recorded video interview on some platform. And do some coding exercise with screen sharing. Then send it to them. I've never gotten any sort of reply back, positive or negative. Felt like a clown. Won't be using that again.
Google maps is completely unnecessary to go back and forth between school and home. And communication can be done easily with a dumb phone.

Our oldest at 7 goes alone to school and has no problem memorizing the path.
(I work at Voyage)

Many of the top-performing models that you see on the MTEB retrieval for English and Chinese tend to overfit to the benchmark nowadays. voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite are also pretty small in size compared to a lot of the 7B models that take the top spots, and we don't want to hurt performance on other real-world tasks just to do well on MTEB.
This is an even bigger problem putside of our profession. Organisations do everything in their power to reduce the agency of employees and the general public through process. A company would rather spend 20 hours verifying a purchase than allow an unnecessary purchase every now and then. German culture in particular seems to favour this to an extreme.
The parent comment is almost an advertisement for waiting to give kids a smartphone until they're older. If one truly can't imagine doing any of these without post-2010 technology, then it would be good giving kids a little bit more time building their independence from both parents and smartphones.
The consensus, that students would only be distressed if adults model distress for them, seems to me to be missing the point. The presidential election is much more consequential for their future than most other things that would upset a K-12 student enough to miss a day of school. This likely applies to gubernatorial elections as well.

Shielding kids from the truth does them no favors. I understand why civics classes usually focus on events so far in the past that most adults have the same beliefs about which side was in the right--but kids have a finely honed sense for things that won't really affect them; and Millard Fillmore killing off the Whig party triggers that sense; whether we're about to elect someone with no respect for the institutions of our government does not.
There are many metrics and facets of a website considered for SEO, with varying weights. The absence of either a robots.txt or sitemap.xml has a non-negligible but relatively minor weight compared to some other metrics.
The files should be present and accurate when optimizing for seo. Ruby on Rails for example creates an empty robots.txt file with new projects, it does not create any sitemap.xml however.
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record [pdf]