skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off pace on the desktop
Is this why we finally got darkmode in gcal?
It depends on the design of the icon. You generally can't scale Windows 3.1 graphics to higher resolutions without it looking like it's lacking details. The charm was with what you couldn't see and your mind could fill in the blanks.
I use macOS and don’t really have complaints about the few Electron apps that I use daily.

“Electron bad!” is as much of a cargo culted snobby HN myth as “Macs have no RAM!”
https://archive.is/R4obd
The social engineering possibilities with a tool like this are endless. Google already wields enormous visibility power but ultimately just provides a list of links to other sources.

This can subtly (or not so subtly) rephrase and reshape the way we read about and think about every topic.
We are shutting down Ondsel
unfortunately microplastics are found in oil from both glass and plastic packaging. possibly contam from manufacture?

Analysis of microplastics in commercial vegetable edible oils from Italy and Spain - 2024

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...

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MPs were detected in all samples which were stocked in both PET and glass bottles.
The US DOJ is weighing breaking up Google, among other possible remedies in the antitrust case.
I already have a browser installed.

Apparently the developers couldn't get rid of turning the Web into ChromeOS.
Or not have to pay $800 for a 2TB SSD that actually costs about $100.
What investors (and their "agents" CEOs) want is ROI, which depends on not only total profit, but also total amount invested and how long it has to stay invested. Hence the relevance when GP says that "They have large existing investments in factories, processes and people that produce combustion engines".
You aren’t as wise and smart as you think you are. Perhaps people just have different preferences to you?
I do see value, but the Claude app is just a webview with a keyboard shortcut, I don't even think it has voice dictation, I uninstalled it immediately.
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> There is no doctor-delivered treatment, but there are many paths in the alternative health communities

Can you share some peer reviewed literature on these treatments? I've heard of a lot of "cures" shared by people like Bret Weinstein and Robert Malone, but they're thoroughly debunked and pretty obviously not real solutions, or placebos at best. Maybe you're referring to something else though?
> Consider the following:

That looks like variable shadowing? "global" doesn't mean "can't be shadowed".

> The point the article makes is that the “default object” (self) is not always the same.

I don't understand this sentence. Of course self isn't always the same. What does [“default object” (self)] mean?
Windows/Linux over here and anti lazy developers that help Google spread their browser monoculture.
>I'm guessing more Khrushchev than Brezhnev?

Neither, it is bigger and ceilings are higher. And the building isn't standard concrete panels (the shape of the window and the thickness of the walls in the window opening in particular tell that). So, it is older than Khruschev. May be Stalin time or pre-Revolution (elongated shape suggests not original design and instead ad-hoc space reorganization that happened to pre-Revolution flats when they were made into multi-family "communal" flats).

>the kitchen Ivan the Terrible encounters

The apartment building in the movie is of the "improved" design, very infrequent type of building at the time, and typically the kitchens there were a bit larger. The kitchen in the movie isn't real though - such large kitchens never existed in post-Stalin mass built multi-story apartment buildings. I've seen such large kitchen only in the Stalin time built 3 story building where top city officials/bosses lived - my friend's father was a CEO of a factory, and so they lived in a flat in that building.
When you're paying for a service, you generally expect something better than a third-party can achieve by deleting parts of your free offering.
Dilettante_ is correct: links to past threads are just to satisfy readers who might be curious for more.

You're also correct: threads are closed to new comments after 2 weeks. That's for a bunch of reasons, e.g. to preserve the history of the site.
Because the mechanism by which most contemporary appliances turn into junk is the "control board" "breaking" (which seems like it must be flash endurance, meaning directly planned obsolescence) and is unrelated to survivorship bias - old machines used mechanical timers, and even when they started using solid state it was simple. I'd say it's actually fallacious to point to survivorship bias, because old machines were built with parts that could either be repaired or replaced.

I've got a relative's dryer right now that's acting up. Do I really want to do the work of calling around to a bunch of repair guys to find out which one won't charge me a fee to come out and say "it's going to cost more to fix than to buy a new one, and we can have the new one installed and delivered tomorrow" ? I've heard this trash spiel so many times at this point I don't even care to try engaging, despite not even having to pay for it myself.

No, I'll spend the 20 minutes taking a few screws off and looking at the thing. Then order parts. Then next week, an hour or two to replace the part. Then it will likely be sorted for the next decade, but if it does break again it will continue to be repairable rather than effectively a consumable.
Ironic that Google caused their own demise by publishing that Transformers paper.
I was working on a new website for https://flatcal.com. With Flatcal I'm trying[1] to scratch my own itch when sharing busy status with .ics calendars. My life is organized between corporate (Outlook), private (GCal) and freelance (various) calendars. Finding a freebusy slot or sharing my accessibility is not easy, and sending someone multiple links makes a little sense. So I figured that I will build calendar processing pipeline that will merge, filter, anonymize, inject, rewrite (etc) calendar events can solve this problem for me. And having all of them merged into a single .ics file is way easier to share, and safer too.

[1] Being solopreneur/micro-SaaS/do it all yourself dev is way more work than I thought
Okay so no evidence, got it.

>And anecdotes have value too.

No, they do not.
YouTube already wants to be more like TikTok, so, I’m not really sure what your point is.
> VMware certified admin

Not to be rude, but does this have any meaning?
Electron bad ===> Couldn't be bothered to learn how to do proper Web development and Google is my overlord.
Second this. This class is a classical example of conceptual blockbuster. Once one learns it, the complexity analysis of algorithms will never be the same again. In general, if a techie wants to spend their spare time learning new stuff, they will be better off focusing more on such conceptual stuff, as the return will compound over the years.
> Some fear the new law could lead to more pedestrian deaths.

One thing that's not mentioned in the article is that US has pretty much the strictest jaywalking regulations. E.g. jaywalking within city-limits is pretty common (and accepted and legal) all around Europe, without any significant mayhem...
It depends on the model and the problem. As an example, BERT-based models have a special [CLS] token that was pre-trained to encode information about the whole sequence. A reward model based on BERT would take the output embedding of that token from the last layer and feed it through a classification head, which would depend on your problem. You could then train this classification head on your alignment dataset like a classification problem.

You can check the examples from the TRL library for more information.
Youtube would no doubt improve. Google is only good at search, and even then nowadays it is really annoying.
Yep, that’s what I mean. Art comes from restriction, and the designers at Microsoft did really charming stuff with what they had to work with.

I still vividly remember such simple but delightful things as the Excel icon, or the icon of a stylized 386 processor for the System category in Control Panel.
As one person pointed out in the thread, it also shows up on bing results, main repo, main.py file and releases page. But not on google.
Edit: It also shows up on duckduckgo
The steep price of removing them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
Who says the same people are advancing the conflicting arguments? I can only speak for myself, but my position is consistent here.

(btw, what is the name of this logical fallacy that assigns two beliefs from a population to the population as a whole? It seems like a variant of No True Scottsman but maybe there’s a more precise label for it?)
This started as a reply to a comment someone posted in a recent thread[0] saying, roughly, no one cares about decentralization. My reply was turning into a blog post with all the angles I was trying to cover, so I went with it.

People have discussed the portability problem for ages--"walled garden" as a tech concept goes at least as far back as AOL--but all the solutions so far depend on the good graces of the very thing that's likely to create the situation where you need it. I can't run a Google Takeout if a stray cosmic ray causes a chain of events that destroys my account, for example.

I want more companies to start taking the approach Bluesky has where the data is designed to outlive the system.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952994
Search engines tend to produce neutral garbage, not harmful garbage (i.e. small tidbits of data between an ocean of SEO fluff, rather than completely incorrect facts). LLMs tend to be inaccurate because in an absence of knowledge given by the user, it will sometimes make up knowledge. It's plausible to imagine that they will cover each other's weaknesses: the search engine produces an ocean of mostly-useless data, and the LLM can find the small amount of useful data and interpret that into an answer to your question.
Compound AI, test-time compute, and wasting your users' time
Lots of companies are just wrappers around an API. Can be compared to Apple "killing" startups that sold flashlight apps to the first Iphone
Can you really blame the computer tho? That sounds more like a case a PEBCAC, if you ask me...
[Shameless plug] I'm building a platform[1] that abides by robots.txt, crawl-delay directive, 429s, Retry-After response header, etc out of the box. Polite crawling behavior as a default + centralized caching would decongest the network and be better for website owners.

[1] https://crawlspace.dev
I would think rate-limiting would be good. Crawlers are not patient enough to operate at the speed of a real human user.
The answer is mentioned in the linked advertisement:

> No.
At some point they'll just embed into the video stream. TBH I had assumed they were already doing this.

EDIT: Still, point taken. I'll try to figure out how to install this on my home router—I don't ever watch youtube from my browser.
Indeed not everyone is able to write Web sites with good performance across multiple browsers, that is 3l1t3 skill, better ship Chrome alongside the application.
It's the converse - since they are Hetzner, I'd expect them to have an automatic system to delete servers if 2-3 abuse reports are received...
On the Google search results page, activate Search tools > All results > Verbatim. You can also create your own search provider bookmark with verbatim search as the default by adding “tbs:li=1” as a query parameter to the Google search URL.
Now I just feel infinitely silly. I didn't pay enough attention in the end but still seems like a cool mental excersize more than anything else!
I can't, I was making a general statement. There are several large communities around this, that have collectively assembled knowledge about things that sometimes work.

No need to summon your favorite boogeymen.
Modern food companies did discover this; through concentrated sugars and reduced fiber, arguably with increased use of oils too.

Side effects:

- Additional Consumption (sugar, HFSS, caffeine, etc)

- Lack of Satiation (less fiber)

- Quicker to Grow food (less fiber)

- Longer shelf life (less fiber, more oil)
there is lot of creepy and gore content that is fed between keywords, in order to bait kids and make them see shocking content. Type the symbol . for example, or some Disney characters (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate or https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ if you like to have a starting point )

Sadly not fixed

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/tebv1z/comment/ihb...

if you are really adventurous
Stop dumping billions of your own money (if you are a VC) in LLMs, you are going to regret it in the long run. You are funding con-artist's salaries...
That is not how it works. You should ask if being for or against is more socially accepted. If everyone cooks in teflon it must be double plus good for your health.
GPT is proving useful for me where something is well documented, but not well explained.

Case in point: Visual Basic for Applications (the Excel macro language). This language has a broad pool of reference material and of Stack Overflow answers. It doesnt have a lot of good explicatory material because the early 2000s Internet material is aging out, being deleted as people retire or lose interest, etc.

(To be frank, Microsoft would like nothing more than to kill this off completely, but VBA exists and is insanely more powerful than the current alternatives, so it lives on.)
Not exactly technical but...

Personally, I might start paying a subscription for YouTube. I wouldn't be forced to use a Google account for YouTube, and I would actually invest in my YouTube account.

Most importantly I would start trusting YouTube if it parts its way with Google.
This is also a bit of a silly word play. Ada Lovelace got credit in some early works as being the first programmer as distinct from the designer of a machine that does calculations. This isn't a completely meaningless distinction. Especially considering that many modern programmers have no ideas on the physical work that the computer is doing.

But, it stands to reason that Babbage had some problems he sent through his machine. I would wager anyone that had access to it tried their hand some.
In NY, all intersections have a crosswalk whether marked or not.
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China sanctions US drone maker Skydio
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> Do you dispute that take? (Legitimate question.)

I don't have much knowledge one way or the other. I have no reason to doubt you though (:

My main direct experience is with someone who did have normal Lyme's, and then also had chronic health issues afterwards. Maybe today that would be called "Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome," though this was decades ago and the terminology was not so specific (as I recall, at least).

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Agreed w/regard to the difficult position doctors are in. They don't want their resources to be abused. But then if the 1% (or whatever) genuine person who needs it comes through, they might get wrongly turned away. Sucks all around!
It would also result in cheats getting identified and reported by the community.

The TF2 dedicated server mailing lists, back in the day, were filled with new cheats, crashes, and exploits being found and reported by server admins.
It doesn't even need to be a `static`. It can be `const` or just inlined `&0` because borrows of consts get promoted to `'static`
But why is that good for me?

Why do I care if Google succeeds or dies?

If anything I want them to die for ad infested they've made the internet. I don't want ads in either chatGPT or Google Search.
See, I've never tried to do barcode decoding in software via images - I've always used an imager with internal decoding.
Check Bevy.
Been thinking about this a lot [1]. Will this fundamentally change how people find and access information? How do you create an experience so compelling that it replaces the current paradigm?

The future promised in Star Trek and even Apple's Knowledge Navigator [2] from 1987 still feels distant. In those visions, users simply asked questions and received reliable answers - nobody had to fact-check the answers ever.

Combining two broken systems - compromised search engines and unreliable LLMs - seems unlikely to yield that vision. Legacy, ad-based search, has devolved into a wasteland of misaligned incentives, conflict of interest and prolifirated the web full of content farms optimized for ads and algos instead of humans.

Path forward requires solving the core challenge: actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermiediaries want them to see - which means a different business model in seach, where there are no intermediaries. I do not see a way around this. Advancing models without advancing search is like having a michelin star chef work with spoiled ingredients.

I am cautiously optimistic we will eventually get there, but boy, we will need a fundamentally different setup in terms of incentives involved in information consumption, both in tech and society.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank-over

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0
Update. Cleaning mud. Corpses trapped in garages and basements are being recovered. 158 people killed at this moment.

If I'm not wrong is yet officially the second worse natural disaster reported in Spain. Worse than Lorca's Earthquake, or la Palma Island Volcano. Even worse by the fact that many of the victims were recording everything with their phones in real time.

The storm front that caused that, is still active and moving towards the North.
Because google currently gets valuable ads data from youtube. So even if the product itself runs at a loss the net benefit is positive.

If its spun off then the platform has to stand on its own and it would need to make more money.
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I think this will mostly hurt Perplexity because Google controls web distribution through Chrome, Android and Google Play so it won't phase them.
Not for me, as long as its owned by Google, I'm not paying a cent.
Just today I was practicing how to tell my boss that one of the company's biggest problems is that failure and incompetence have no consequences. Great on recognising good work; atrocious at seeing bad.

I'm not asking for us to fire people; I'd like to see the consequence that people are guided and helped to be better at their jobs, and the company stops making the same errors over and over.
I think they were referring to internal consistency?

Windows XP did allow apps to do some crazy things, though not sure how much of that was unique to XP vs legacy APIs.
I think it's because which files code resides in doesn't ultimately have much bearing on the modularity, unlike in Python and JS (ESM).
It wouldn't be the work of a couple of hours and changing DNS records. Youtube runs on Google hardware in Google datacenters running proprietary Google software that integrates throughout the Google proprietary ecosystem. Everything will break.

Realistically, once the division is somehow negotiated through, Youtube will have to find a way to make enough money to support its operations, and would find itself in the same bind that every other video site has hit in terms of balancing adoption with income.

The only barrier they will not have to face is competing against Youtube, the big free elephant in the room.
They can have value to an invidiual, not everything can or has to be science, and remember this is about an area that lacks any science, not even recognized by doctors.
It’s in big bold bullets at the top of the article

“Nearly 1% of our total traffic comes from AI crawlers

Close to 90% of that traffic is from Bytespider, by Bytedance (the parent company of TikTok)”
What’s the benefit for websites to allow OpenAI/Microsoft to scrape and republish all their content without sending traffic back to them? It seems like these type of “search engines” will just get blocked in the short term.

Longer term, it seems what will be left is “AI Optimized” content, which turns LLM search engines into shills for advertisers. Or these new search engines will have to compensate content producers somehow.
Looks interesting, thanks for sharing
I've run into a couple of the really cheap white drip machines that are all white plastic.
There's a lot of forward looking in your assessment there. And clearly predicting the future is tricky.

Your argument makes sense if things happen on decade long timeliness. But solar rollout I'd happening at insane speeds already, and accelerating. The current storage using today's tech is growing on a steep curve. If sodium-ion becomes a thing it'll explode in production and demand. (The speed with which China and others can build factories will make your eyes water.)

So it all comes down to your personal fortune. Are you willing to take the economic bet, and spend your billions on nuclear? Or would you rather someone else go down that road, and you make the safer financial choice?

economically from a capital point of view, the goal is to get a return. Not generate 24x7 power. And the economics of nuclear are terrible.
This is an amazing piece of work for the graphical displays and data gathering completely independent of the compelling story of extended human suffering it presents. But -- and in no way do I mean this to detract from the quality of the work or the reality of the suffering -- I have to wonder what motivated the author to start tracking their symptoms so early if they were initially mild. This data is only interesting because it developed into a chronic disease, and there's obviously no way she could have known that would happen until much later. So why start keeping such meticulous records so soon?
It was also indexed by Bing.

I usually assume good faith, but in this particular case, I believe the chance that this repo was public before and the author just changed it to private to bait attention is far higher than that Bing/ChatGPT can actually read private repo on GitHub.
Yes, they released Ampere One recently but it's pretty disappointing.
Schools can keep Windows 10 computers safe for additional three years by paying
Thanks, although I was joking since I thought I was responding to a satirical post. Turns out OP is developing such game for real.
Vaccines tested properly yes. Experimental injections using a tech that never even worked in mice on the other hand has every reason to fail when experimented on humans. Btw at the time relatives pressured me to take the science juice I made a search in the national (French) vaccine adverse reactions and there was thousands of cases gone very badly, as far as death. Negating the issue isn't going to build any trust.
Hilariously, Ruby actually has an ISO standard, and it is absolutely useless.
Low-cost homes are deteriorating, worsening the US housing shortage
And lo an behold!

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/?afid=p238%7CstiyKw4MH-dc_...