skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would I use this over Google? This has the same problem as Preplexity.

Google is instant, why would I wait for a bunch of text to generate just to get basic information.
Any sufficiently closed technology is indistinguishable from magic.

In fact, the company is so closed that Rosenzweig is the one we should consult when we encounter aliens.
only crossing on a pedestrian traffic light while it's signals you to wait is frowned on (and illegal) (also including crossing just idk. 5m below the traffic light while it's red for pedestrians).

for the rest basically if you do it "unsafely" especially if there are children it's also frowned on but otherwise very normal

some more conservative place might also frown on crossing close by a pedestrian crossing even if there is no red light at the crossing because "why are you so lazy to not walk that additional idk. 20m"

but I have yet to meet anyone who expects you to idk. walk down 100m to the next crossing and then 100m back or something like that

and all of this is for streets where there might be a traffic light, for most residential side streets people all the time cross wherever they like without giving it any thought

and in rural villages stuff like children playing on hardly used residential side streets is not really that rare (important not the "main" street passing through the village even if it's classified as a side street too.)
That's such a laugh IRL for a lot of job types. Are surgeons fungible? Need brain surgery?, oh don't worry we'll get the orthopedic surgeon in here.

I feel confident there are software jobs where it's essentially as specialized.
Claude requires a phone nu.ber to sign up and the won't accept a Google number so they are completely un-usable.

I would love to try their services, but they refuse to take my money.
Maybe for a big company, with an HR department and lots of resources, but not for a small company when >>90% of applications are from ineligible individuals.
Oh, he never interviewed, just posted on craigslist and collected resumes. But the impact on us was important. One of the purposes of the exercise for him was being able to show me a list of people could supposedly do my job better, faster and cheaper.

He was a friend of a friend and one of the most unprincipled people I've ever gotten to actually know. But I assume there are many similar people higher in corporate hierarchies that I wouldn't ever know.
Is anyone else astonished at how much is missing in the hardware and how much is emulated?
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> For manual labor there's no amount of money you could pay Americans to be farmworkers.

Ever worked a blast furnace? Or a coal mine?

You absolutely can pay enough money to get Americans to do really shitty manual labor.
Of Virtual Turduckens
Setting up Ubuntu in WSL on Windows Server in AWS from a Mac
You're interpreting this as nannyism with respect to the internet as a whole, while I think the pledge is really just about smartphones. If kids want to go and watch gore and porn on their laptops they should be free to do so.

The smartphone that is always on, always fighting for your attention, and always in your pocket has proven to be harmful to the development of most children.

> What's more harmful is preventing discovering adaptation and self-balancing on their own in the face of endless entertainment wish diminishing value.

I really wish kids would still learn self-balancing on their own. But the odds are stacked against them in the current age. TikTok and Instagram have gotten too good at this, backed by teams of scientists and ML models working with passion to fight their self-control.
> Ask a question in a more natural, conversational way

I think this might actually be my main pain point with LLMs. Personally, I don’t want this.

I understand it might be helpful for other people. But, I prefer highly specific, advanced search functionality, such as site: or filetype: in google/ddg searches.

scryfall.com for magic the gathering cards is a great example. I’d much prefer typing a few brief flags such as “id=r” instead of “Get me all red identity cards.” And I know I’m getting all red identity cards with scryfall’s current search functionality.

They are also composable, so I can add/drop ones easily instead of perfectly rephrasing a whole sentence because I wanted to change one clause.

I’d need the same level of trust in the LLM’s filtering capabilities as I do in those boolean or regex matching field filters. An escape hatch to hard filters probably would be best for my experience searching things.
>It's an interesting showcase of essentially an evolutionary algorithm/swarm optimizer falling into a local optimum while a much better global optimum is out of reach because the real world is something like a Rastrigin function with copious amounts of noise with an unknowable but fat tailed distribution.

I've never heard it framed like this before, that's beautiful.
I have a small blog. I don’t run it for money and I like to tell myself I’m the only audience that matters. (It’s not entirely false, I frequently check it to reference how to do something.) But I empathize with people trying to navigate the shifting waters of the Google algorithm.

One thought I had: is there any plugin to rerank Google results by the number of ads on a site? For the top 10,000 domains we could count the average number of ads on a page and give each one an “annoyingness score” which would be used to downrank spammy garbage.
I am an individual who works at a small company, and going through ineligible applications takes away from time I could spend with children or family. I am not an HR professional, but we don't have a massive staff to delegate these matters to. The situations are morally equivalent.
I do not want to give my phone number to a company.
By chance I saw it recently; I remember because it stood out. And the job application seemed genuine as the poster was engaging on the "who's hiring" thread here.

I would never fill that in, because I wouldn't want to bother my references. I know some of them don't really like doing it, but do it as a favour because we're on good terms. Probably not a rare scenario. I'm okay asking in a "if you provide me a reference, I will get a new job" as the final stage, but not as a "just checking in case I might land a job".
>> "Last fall, Tinder rolled out a $500 monthly subscription, in addition to two cheaper membership tiers. The League charges up to $1,000 a week or $2,500 a month."

> For that kind of money, you should get bottle service. For that kind of money, you can get bottle service.

For that kind of money, they should probably just pay an escort to date you and make it look like a match. Wasn't Eliot Spitzer was pay that kind of money for his escorts?
>it's my fault for neglecting the HN job ad system for too long.

If it helps, the system works great on an honor system. Have a community of passionate hackers, a site encouraging those hackers (some of which may be part of the community) to start up their own business and realize their ides, and the ad system would have good actors on both sides the pipeline. Interesting jobs for a community of passionate people.

I feel like that "honor" comes and goes with the economy though. Anything for an applicant to survive, anything for a job poster to make the company look good for investors.
I thought this problem will disappear upon switching to Kagi, but it suffers from the same disease, albeit to a lesser extent.

I remember reading a Google Search engineer on here explain that the engine just latches on some unrendered text in the HTML code. For example: hidden navbars, prefetch, sitemaps.

I was kinda shocked that Google themselves, having infinite resources, couldn't get the engine to realize which sections gets rendered... so that might have been a good excuse.
> Feed that into FDR correction, filter for p < 0.01

That's the domain knowledge. p-values are useful not the fixed cut-off. You know that in your research field p < 0.01 has importance.
The things being emulated are mostly legacy features that are barely used in modern software, if at all, so the overhead of emulating them for backward compatibility isn't the end of the world. I can't blame Apple for not supporting geometry shaders in hardware, when they're widely considered to be a mistake that never should have been standardized in the first place, and Metal never supported them at all so they could only ever come up in old OpenGL code on macOS.

https://x.com/pointinpolygon/status/1270695113967181827
If they have direct family members that are citizens they should skip the wait apply through the family path, although they would need to be on good terms with said family member as they have to vouch for their welfare payments for 10 years

At least it that way about a decade ago, as I’m realizing things might have changed since then
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I dunno. Growing up, both my parents and the society did moderate (i.e. censor) the content I had access to. As an adult, I'm definitely glad that this was kept away from me as a kid. I was a pretty reasonable kid, but I'm definitely not confident I would have handled it well.

That having access to (some) of those things was overall harmless doesn't seem to be a settled question.

With smartphones, the thing that stands out to me is a survey they did of parents. For those who gave their kids a smartphone before they turned 16, literally every parent regretted the decision (and some of them gave them the phone willingly).

Granted, N was probably not huge in that study, but it's a rare study that has no variance.
Do all the governments of the world face a problem making autocomplete chatbots?
I had a plan[1] to use the HN API to try to suss out companies spamming month after month without hiring, but it never went anywhere. This article is motivating me to pick up the 1/4-finished code and have another look at it.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42012028
Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy
Normal to be nervous when the stakes are high. One thing that history has taught me is that disaster is always an option lol
I use Tabnine. It supports many models, including Claude. I find the output better compared to CoPilot. My IDE's are from Jetbrains and I work in Python and PHP mainly.
Yep. The best way to pushback is to ask your manager, "We'll do it fast since you are asking for it. What is the plan for contingencies in case things break?"
> those visions, users simply asked questions and received reliable answers - nobody had to fact-check the answers ever.

It’s a fallacy then. If my mentor tells me something I fact check it. Why would a world exist where you don’t have to fact check? The vision doesn’t have fact checking because the product org never envisioned that outlier. A world where you don’t have to check facts, is dystopian. It means the end of curiosity and the end of “is that really true? There must be something better.”

You’re just reading into marketing and not fact checking the reality in a fact-check-free world.
Has google completely stopped working for anyone else?

I can still search things, i get results but, they're an ordered list of popular places the engine is directing me to. Some kind of filtering is occurring on nearly every search i make that's making the results feel entirely useless.

Image search stopped working sometime ago and now it just runs an AI filter on whatever image you search for, tells you there's a man in the picture and gives up.

Youtube recommendations is always hundreds of videos i've watched already, with maybe 1-2 recommendations to new channels when i know there's millions of content creators out there struggling who it will never introduce me to. What happened to the rabbit holes of crazy youtube stuff you could go down?

This product is a shell of its old self, why did it stop working?
I don't think the work they do is what one could call closed though is it?
> "There would be less application spam if there were fewer spam job postings."

I disagree with this; in fact, I think there would be more application spam with fewer postings. Most of the application spam is from people who are either completely unqualified and just pressing the 'apply' button (which is made easy by websites which get paid per application), or people looking to move to a wealthier country (without any pre-qualification). I think both of these groups would actually be more aggressive about applying if they were more likely to be reviewed by a hiring manager.
The candidates are real. But The qualifications often aren't. Even if you post a job being full time on-site, you'll get applicants who are not even in the same country looking for remote work.

I feel that was the natural conclusion of a system where "requirements" are as realistic as a unicorn. But we're all suffering from that
If I remember correctly, the blue text-mode part of the setup can be launched from DOS 7.1 (the DOS part of Windows 98, with FAT32 support) by copying the i386 directory from the CD to the FAT32-formatted hard drive and running WINNT.EXE from MS-DOS. I doubt this would work inside DOSBox-X, tough... I'd like to try but right now I don't have enough time for such experiments ;-)
Agreed its pure nannyism marketing and helicopter parents fueling such things.

Tubgirl, Goatse, LemonParty, Ebaumsworld, Rotten.com, LiveLeak had some of the most fucked up shit 90s teenage me could find and consume. Parental controls on electronics were an afterthought nor just didnt exist much then.

Its on parents to get involved if they want their kids to live in a safety bubble or like, you know, just have a conversation with them.

Honestly the 90s internet was peak internet imo, it was so pure and awesome. AOL, AIM, IRC, all the good times had. Captchas didnt even exist yet.
> Basically I want a model that is aligned to do exactly what I say

This is a bit like asking for news that’s not biased.

A model has to make choices (or however one might want to describe that without anthropomorphizing the big pile of statistics) to produce a response. For many of these, there’s no such thing as a “correct” choice. You can do a completely random choice, but the results from that tend not to be great. That’s where RLHF comes in, for example: train the model so that its choices are aligned with certain user expectations, societal norms, etc.

The closest thing you could get to what you’re asking for is a model that’s trained with your particular biases - basically, you’d be the H in RLHF.
DRM and anti-cheat aren't the same though. That link is talking about denuvo DRM, not denuvo anti-cheat. Also, just because one implementation impacts performance doesn't mean they all have to.
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I have never started the interview process before there was a headcount approved[1]. I have never had anyone push back when I said "I'll worry about that when the headcount is approved, because I got things to do"; but then I can't recall more than a handful of times anyone wanted me to front-run the recruiting process with a fishing expedition. Have things really become that shitty?

[1] To be fair, sometimes the headcount disappeared for various reasons, but that's not the same as "meh...just have a look around and jerk some peoples chains".
Nice work! Maybe add one pre-computed route for demo version would be better.

BTW, I was thinking "it must be a German project" when I saw the name xxxx24 and it turns out to be true :)
What a convenient and self flattering excuse.
Using that prompt in DALL-E did result in a quaint period-esque scene. I'm not sure why it added a businessman in a completely sleeveless suitjacket, but he does have impressive biceps on all three of his arms.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "mistake that should never have been standardized". Their intended use was always pretty limited, though. There's zero reason for anything built in recent memory to use them.
one of the quickest ways to ruin the way an established boat plan 'swims' is by adding a tall rig after de-masting.

it's extremely enticing to 'add more sail' to a boat in order to squeeze more speed out of it, or achieve easier lufting.

turns out that marine architecture is a lot harder than one thinks at first glance, and just about everyone that tries to tweak specs afterwards does so in such a way that makes the boat categorically worse.

(don't ask me how I came to realize this after many dollars spent)
> how much you probably actually really like it.

This comes off as condescending. As things have gotten more algorithmic over the last two decades, I've noticed a matching decrease in the accuracy and relevance of the information I seek from the systems I interact with that employ these algorithms.

Yes, you're right that there are processing algorithms behind the scenes interpreting the data for us. But you're wrong: I fucking hate it, it's made things worse, and layering more on top will not make things any better.
> Literally all of the evidence we have throughout the history of the planet says you're 100% wrong

You are so sure you’re right that you are not really thinking about what I am saying, and how it applies to real world situations- especially things like real life high stakes life or death situations.

I am satisfied that your perspective makes the most sense for low stakes broad deployments like software releases, but not for one off high stakes systems.

For things like ECDSA, like anything else you implement obscurity on a one off basis tailored to the specific use case- know your opponent and make them think you are using an entirely different method and protocol that they’ve already figured out and compromised. Hide the actual channel of communication so they are unable to notice it exists, and over that you simply use ECDSA properly.

Oh, and store your real private key in the geometric design of a giant mural in your living room, while your house and computers are littered with thousands of wrong private keys on ancient media that is expensive to extract. Subscribe to and own every key wallet product or device, but actually use none of them.
Intel's Gaudi AI chips are far behind Nvidia and AMD, won't even hit $500M goal
I really like this program but yeah, the very first time someone told me about it my initial reaction was "Wait until 8??? That's way too young!"
A fellow Sterne fan! Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition. The funereal page is great. Back in the 80s Mike talked about font emulating for old letterpress and how one could introduce pleasing asymmetries into the output.

Is there also a printed in "damn the cat ran over my page" moment?

McDowell & Sterne booksellers in York were I believe descendants/related. As was a lecturer of English at York University.
I didn't see a previous discussion on the flowchart, so I'm not entirely sure why folks were wrong about it.

I do like the updated version. Fun to explore why.

First, it is much much more linear. Effectively top down.

Directions are consistent in outcome. Left is always "don't" and right is "do."

There is no back tracking.
Street-legal cars are generally not Burning Man-legal.
Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer
> They're getting it by paying contractors at Scale AI to write content for them.

Just a wild guess, but at best that content is probably pretty mediocre quality. It's probably Mikkelsen Twins ebook-level garbage.
> take the smartphones away and you're leaving them even less equipped to deal with modern life.

I grew up without a smartphone and have done just fine as a software engineer. I don’t think access to a smartphone before age 15 would correlate to better life outcomes.
TIL C11 Annex K exists but you shouldn't use it
I grew up before smartphones and if somebody took away my very normal corded phone I would have definitely been had a much time communicating with my friends. I wouldn't have been happy about that at all. I did spend hours talking to friends perhaps even to the detriment of my studies.

What are we really trying to stop here? Are we really just trying to stop all the addicting apps? if so.. maybe we should be focusing on that at a higher level.
Playable demo: https://oasis.decart.ai/starting-point
I only have to look at my own phone habits to know that expecting any better from my children is probably unreasonable.
The same here. It helps my slow autistic context switching a lot.

It's easier for me to recognize the ideas, concepts, keywords it has written than to recall them from memory when my "memory cache" is empty.
The path they took to get to this pledge feels very similar to the path anti-vaccination advocates took (ie something intuitively "feels" bad -> look for evidence to support that). If a study came out that showed evidence that having a smartphone at an early age actually improved educational outcomes, do you think these people would reverse their position? I would guess not because above all else, this is a value judgement ("These devices are quickly changing childhood for children. Playing outdoors, spending time with friends, reading books and hanging out with family is happening a lot less to make room for hours of snap chatting, instagramming, and catching up on YouTube.").

And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with a value judgement. But trying to foist your values onto others is not something feel the need to support.
I mean, it is spam. Autoreply bots are spam.
https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/apple-dynamic-caching-on-... Changing the register file into a cache sounds like a major base change. Raytracing is a major feature added on top of existing functionality. So I'd say the answer is: plenty of both.
If you can’t trust the result of a query how can you trust the check on that query which is itself a query? If no information is trustworthy how do you make progress?
Kagi also drinks the koolaid, namely the knowledge navigator agent bullshite.

"The search will be personal and contextual and excitingly so!"

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Brrrr... someone is hell-bent on the extermination of the last aspects of humanity.

Holy crap, this will be next armageddon, because people will further alienate themselves from other people and create layers of layers of unpenetrable personal bubbles around themselves.

Kagi does the same what google does, just in a different packaging. And these predictions, bleh, copycats and shills in a nicer package.
I was hoping that's what this was, sadly it's not, but defn opening the door for it in the future
My 'big' LA runs HP/UX 10.something. No way that's getting near the interwebs. =)