skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people are pressured to meet a target value there are three ways they can proceed:

1) They can work to improve the system

2) They can distort the system

3) Or they can distort the data

https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/
> know of some folks that are dealing with mental health challenges. They are all dirt poor, on SSI/Medicaid, and terrified of losing these.

That's why we need UBI, SSI ends up being an indirect UBI anyway but at least with a real UBI system people wouldn't be afraid to try to work during the time periods they were feeling better.
It’s all such a waste of human life time, an actual tragedy.
If the current iteration of search engines are producing garbage results (due to an influx of garbage + SEO gaming their ranking systems) and LLMs are producing inaccurate results without any clear method proposed to correct them, why would combining the two systems not also produce garbage?

The problem I see with search is that the input is deeply hostile to what the consumers of search want. If the LLM's are particularly tuned to try and filter out that hostility, maybe I can see this going somewhere, but I suspect that just starts another arms race that the garbage producers are likely to win.
I have ChatGPT app and Claude and Gemini PWAs on my dock. I gravitate towards using ChatGPT much more. It's just faster vs launching Chromium for each small query.
Sorry; I was sure he covered fuzzy logic but I guess I should have checked. Maybe this Hacker News item from 2020 is better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490955
She wore a seatbelt and still got hurt in an accident?? I bet the seatbelt caused the accident…
> what do you have to lose

... Honestly? A lot. Your symptoms could get worse. You could turn a condition that's got treatable (if not currently curable) symptoms, into one with ones that aren't, or ones that are more severe, with worse treatment options.

And then the burden isn't just on you, it's on your family and friends who have to either take care of you, or watch you suffer more.

Long covid isn't nothing, clearly — but this kind of mindset is irresponsible. The "what have you got to lose" track is typically reserved only for people who have a terminal diagnosis, and even then, it's always a good idea to talk with your doctor about the pros and cons of the different experimental options you have access to.
It's completely unnecessary to heat as cautiously as you describe. Even the worst performing induction burner is not going to heat the pan hot enough unless you do it deliberately, or just completely forget it.

Also, maybe you do it differently, but I put the oil in before heating - so if I had stainless, with oil, heated in your "unsafe" manner I would have toxic smoke in the air long before I would have fumes from Teflon. Meaning avoiding Teflon isn't helping you in any way at all.

Of course in actuality there's simply no issue, induction does not perform as badly as you describe. Go ahead and heat at full power and simply cook, it will work fine and not overheat.
A Copilot version is probably slated for 2025H1.
I can maybe get on board with naturopathic treatments, provided there's some scientific evidence behind them, but "alternative health" usually means homeopathy, mysticism, or something equally woo that has no basis in verifiable fact.

Usually it's about as scientific as a blood letting. "My friend Norma Rae had cancer and she sat under a pyramid whose sides were constructed of juniper wood cut in the golden ratio to focus the purifying energy of the salt crystals and she got better! Doctors don't know everything."
Online play has definitely gotten bigger in the FGC, but the people I know in the community[0] still largely consider offline play king. In a game scene where individual frames matter, the preferred way to play for keeps is offline on a CRT. But, you know, halfway decent online play is fun and good for making sure you don't get too rusty.

I think the big difference between EVO and e.g. DoTA offline majors[1] is that anyone can show up at EVO and jump into the pools. For other esport events, to play in an offline event, you first have to have qualified online. If the whole process were offline beginning to end, that would be closer to the FGC model.

[0] I myself only dabble, somewhere between filthy casual and semi-serious

[1] and do correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know that much about the competitive MOBA and FPS scenes
Don't be a snarky ass, especially when you are wrong.

The community HAS figured it out. If you want cheating reduced you do server side cheat detection not just client side and/or you release real dedicated servers.

Neither of which shitty game companies are interested in, because it either cost more money to implement or means a minor loss of control.
Yep that single data point from one person proves whatever stupid-ass thing u are thinking.
Isn't the problem that the vernacular concepts are what counts and they change depending on time and place?
How do you square this comment with the one right below it[1], which explicitly confirms the statement that Google is using GenAI via Gemini to write code? Lots of mixed signals coming from the Googlers here.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992028
Excellent research.

I think this helps to explain how a particularly enshittified page loads OK, but if you don't close that tab before you move on, it can be trouble later on. Even if you add a number of lightweight tabs and everything is fine when clicking between them, clicking back on the "overloaded" tab tips the balance so much more than it should, that everything freezes.
China built a $50B military stronghold in the South China Sea
Can someone give an example of the type of search query that this Search Engine would excel at?

( I tried getting the top hackernews posts but it was 5 days old? )
A pan left on the stove will turn red, and it is an accident that happens with some regularity. This issue is a lot like ground fault protectors: a rare accident that could be avoided by never interacting with a product in a certain way nonetheless occurs, and can only be eliminated through technical means. Just imagine that you're at your parent's house, and you look over at a glowing pan. Oops, you have a headache...
I don't have long Covid I think, but in april I got sick (some kind of flu, but my covid tests were all expired and dry and I couldn't test). Since then I have had many light headaches, but annoying enough to cause bad quality sleep and degrading cognitive thought processes. The GP suspects it is some kind of result of a possible COVID infection. It is a very odd virus.
"AI generated code" essentially means using Github Copilot or an alternative - these barely write a function without errors, nor are they even close to implementing a new feature autonomously.

I expect these tools to improve productivity for new-ish developers, however for anyone that is literate in a programming language the effect is marginal at best ("Copilot pause" etc.)
Similar. I found small talk from Objective-C and Ruby.
Honestly I don't live this 'streaming LLM text effect' as well as the wordiness by which ChatGPT 'chats' with me. I consider LLMs to be machines, not conversation partners, and frankly I find the notion of chatting with an artificial being a bit creepy (unless it's specifically what I want as some sort of escapism). I wish they tried to be as terse as possible (and faster too).
So, then, why not both? The players that want to just jump into a match can deal with the kernel anticheat, and the players that are willing to find a dedicated server don't have to deal with rootkits.

I mean, I know the answer, it's because doing both would be significantly more work for unproven returns, but still, a guy can dream.
It's also because there is a stigma around mental reasons. "Hypochondria", "Hysteria", "Psychosomatic" ... all these words have negative connotations, even though the mind/body connection is a real thing.

Would be a fascinating study to have Long Covid patients drop LSD and see for effects.
'SPAM' and 'All About the Pentiums' hinge on trademark usage that isn't part of the song being parodied.
Nvidia and other AI stocks are getting dragged down by Microsoft and Meta
> Genuine question...

When it starts with this you KNOW it's going to be maximum bad faith horsefuckery in the rest of the "question."
So it'll turn to yet another arms race - similar to captcha, cybersecurity and nuclear weapons. SEO will use AI to fill in fluff inside AI-generated content (which is already done).

It won't directly match ChatGPT logs and OpenAI would just be pouring precious compute to a bottomless pit trying to partial-match.
> I'm sorry but huge middle finger to you.

Amen.
Yes, for an FPS I don't really see a practical way around having the server do some rendering work, in order to detect occlusion and stop sending visual updates when it's pretty sure the client isn't able to see that object. There's a balance to be struck.

Other techniques include simple statistical analysis: it's usually pretty damn obvious when a player is making inputs that shouldn't be humanly possible consistently, or reacting to information they shouldn't be able to see. That doesn't have to be done in realtime, it can be stored and reviewed later. (That might even be a feature on its own: delayed bans make it harder for cheaters to know if their techniques were detectable.)
For Java I got:

As of October 31, 2024, the latest version of Java is Java 23, released on September 17, 2024. The most recent Long-Term Support (LTS) version is Java 21, released on September 19, 2023.

Which all seems correct and accurate.
Aero is like the definition of candy
How on Earth does ^.?$|^(..+?)\$1 produce primes? [video]
> They literally must. It's in the law I cited

That law requires them to exercise due care if a pedestrian is already on the road. This doesn't mean in any way that they have to slow down if they think the pedestrian might cross the road, as long as they are not endangering them. Even if the pedestrian is already on the road but far away, say on the first lane while the driver is on the third lane, the driver doesn't need to slow down.

Conversely, when a pedestrian is on a crosswalk and thus has right of way, the car needs to slow down even if the pedestrian is relatively far on a different lane.

> You can go to jail if you don't take due care to avoid hitting a pedestrian, or even an animal.

Please explain how this is different from a car that is blocking your way. Would you not be liable for jail if you intentionally hit a car idling on your lane just because it wasn't allowed to be there?
Doesn't search porn. DOA.
The article makes bold claims without citing any sources or at least showing their math.
I'm not thrilled with Netlify's behavior as claimed by this EFF post, but I'd like to speak on a different concern:

Couldn't this activism have been just as effective, if done without libel?

We're in the AI counterfeiting era now. It's time to be more conscientious about false accusations.

"It's OK when I do it, because it's protected parody/satire! But when other people do it, to smear my business, or my friend, or my favored political candidate, by name, and they claim it's parody/satire, it's not OK, because... uh... reasons!"

If we think we're entitled to do it, can we complain when millions of others then also do it?
I need to know the answer to this also!
https://archive.is/2Osb2

Tracked: https://x.com/TrendGuardian/status/1852053521987965010
I think generative search itself has room for disruption and I'm not too sure if a chat interface or a perplexity style one is necessarily the right way to go about it.

I'd like to see search (or research in broader sense) a more controllable activity with the ability to specify context + sources easily in the form of apps, agents and content.
No the point is that my parent said:

I don't think anyone actually believes ...

when in fact, yes, people do actually believe this.

When this is pointed out, he explains why it can't be Dec 25th and that's all totally fine and correct but doesn't change the fact that yes indeed there are people that believe that, as well as lots of other things that can easily be disproved. It does not matter whether you can disprove it to us and others. These people that do believe it are in fact out there.
When was this? I used VectorLinux on a 600MHz celeron with 64MB RAM for a year at uni, and I could tell you what every process was doing there - everything else had to go.
> The funny part is we used to think that the internet was going to change the world. We thought all idiots needed was information. Access to information would fix the world!

I was 9 in '97 and wasn't really aware of the internet until maybe 3 or 4 years later. The internet seemed like a magical place, where reason and common sense existed (unlike the messy meat world). I bought into the same ideals that information was power and once everyone had access to information, we'd collectively get smarter and wiser. Less wars!

I remember being excited for Google Search and then Gmail. FINALLY, a company that gets it!

It seems that any public or VC-backed company is destined for enshittification.
Sexism and racism are absolutely rampant when it comes to dismissing people’s medical concerns, you’re totally on track there. It’s not “I hate them and want them to suffer” prejudice, it’s “well that group of people tends to be less smart so they’re probably faking on accident” prejudice.

That said, as a harsh skeptic of long covid: does the author present any evidence? Or just “I’ve been tired a lot, and I feel like I wasn’t before”? Sadly the article itself is paywalled for me.

More scientifically, what is long covid? Is that how viruses work? I guess the idea is that the virus is hiding out somewhere in the body where the immune system and doctors can’t find it…?
Animating SVGs with Sonnet 3.5 and Cursor
Over 500 Amazon workers decry "non-data-driven" logic for 5-day RTO policy
> These deaths largely occur on high-speed roadways where people shouldn't be walking

Most deaths happen on non-freeway arterial roads.

Most deaths do not note the presence of a sidewalk.

You talk about "alternative transit options" but the reality is that large parts of our cities have no sidewalks or crosswalks and it is killing people.
Took a family members years to get their Lyme diagnosed, and energy levels never fully recovered. Really scary how easily people can get permanently damaged.
What online pastime we enjoyed 15 years ago hasn't been monetized all to shit? Making goofy YouTube videos? All about the big bucks now. Fuckin' blogging? Now there's Medium/Substack. Dicking around on a message board? Sorry, spez needs his billions. And if you're a gamer, don't forget to run some ads on your Twitch stream for easy money!

The Internet is no fun anymore.
It’s super effective for me because I just block stuff as things pop up that I don’t want. I’ve also added more weight to certain domains that I want more results from. I wouldn’t want anyone touching my config, it’s mine and it works great!
According to the article, the boat sank because there was too much water inside it. Maritime engineering experts were interviewed, who explain that there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen.
I wasn't talking about Regulation E. My point was that banks like Wells Fargo have effectively "allowed" companies like Plaid and MX to log in using user credentials .
Only if it is reliably correct.

Google does offer an AI summary for factual searches and I ignore it as it often hallucinates. Perplexity has the same problem. OpenAI would need to solve that for this to be truly useful
I connect this in my head to a shift in presentation of things like big box stores, which look a lot more consistent and marketing-designed these days than they did in, say, the '90s. Hell, fast food chains, too. It's like some time in the '00s marketing departments across the board received a much greater mandate and I've got this funny feeling that only some of that, and maybe not most of it, is really justified by added value in dollar terms.

But then, for as much as we pretend to be data-driven in business and pay lip service to various science-adjacent notions and think we've really got it all figured out, mooooost of it falls apart if you poke at it a little and it all starts to look very fad and social-proof driven. So I guess just add this to the list of weird stuff companies do for maybe-bad reasons.
a split setup could still allow login to youtube with a google ID; just like you can login to some sites using google/facebook/etc - so that might stop that breaking.

(I did notice today that Google video search was dominated by Tiktok results rather than youtube for the first time)
Do note that this article was posted October 1, 2024, so this capability has been available for a month.
Because most know someone that has had covid. Then still its not public knowledge it can be as debilitating as it is, even IQ loss and brain fog effect should be better understood by the public as well.

Plus its not well researched so we should at least be trying to get the symptoms that are proven out there so we can get more information on it
Yeah, I suppose OpenAI also speedran the "make noble promises to not become evil / become evil" pipeline too.
I like to ALT-TAB instead of CTRL-TAB because I always have fewer applications open than I do sites. I don't have dozens and dozens of tabs always open either, but always more than my programs.
I'm not a kid and I know about bookmarks, but I prefer using apps to apps in my browser. Electron apps I have less interest in, but I really don't like working in something like Figma (which is in the top of it's class) in the browser.

In-browser apps do all sorts of clunky things like going back a page because I'm trying to scroll right or left or hotkeys not working. Native apps feel so much better to use and I can close my browser and stay focused on the task.
This isn't an example of parody or satire.
What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?
NY Times found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made the superyacht Bayesian, owned by a tech billionaire Michael Lynch, vulnerable. Lynch co-founded Autonomy and was celebrating his court case against HP when his yacht sank.
I mean, hypochondria is definitely not a good thing, tbf! And psychosomatic illnesses are qualitatively different from physical ones, in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Hopefully all doctors are on board with the whole “you can’t just snap yourself out of mental illness” thing by now, but that’s perhaps a bit naive…
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got tired of paid and ad-filled applications, built a free one for myself, thought of sharing it with you all :)
Google SSO, for some reason it redirects through YouTube
yeah that is somewhat of a concern and have asked GPT that info / to calculate that too (though only a few times).
I don't overuse LLMs for now; however when I have a complex problem that would require multiple of searches and dozens of tabs opened and reading through very long docs, asking LLM allows me to iterate order of magnitude faster.

Things that were previously "log a jira and think about it when I have a full uninterrupted day" now can be approached with half an hour spare. This is game changer because "have a full day uninterrupted" almost never happens.

It's like having a very senior coworker who knows a lot of stuff and booking a 30m meeting to brainstorm with them and quickly reject useless paths vs dig more into promising ones, vs. sitting all day researching on your own.

The ideas simply flow much faster with this approach.

I use it to get a high level familiarity with what's likely possible vs what's not, and then confirm with normal search.

I use LLMs also for non-work things like getting high level understanding of taxation, inheritance etc laws in a country I moved in, to get some starting point for further research.
The complete uniformity combined with the connectedness of letters feels odd to me. I guess I have an association with connected letters and handwriting.

However I'm not sure I want oblique attribute names either, nor bold keywords. I seem to just want colors and nothing else. And I have dabbled in going free of highlighting, Rob Pike-style. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...
>that can't readily be expressed in purely monetary terms.

This is so true along with everything else you mentioned.

All I can do is give a generic answer myself, from my own experience to the question:

>How much value does a product need to provide before you would consider charging for it?

More than enough :)
Honestly I doubt he got away with this for long (unless it was a very dysfunctional org). Being the best gets you noticed (in a good way), and screwing people over gets you noticed too (in a bad way), the combination of the two paints a target on your back.
I think this is where something like LLMs can help us find the source faster.

Edit: GPT4o gave this answer when probed for the source:

The estimate that a human’s blood vessels could stretch to about 100,000 kilometers comes primarily from anatomical studies and scaling measurements of microvascular networks, particularly capillaries, which are vast in number and length. The specific figures are generally derived from a combination of cadaver studies, statistical modeling, and anatomical measurements of blood vessels at various scales in the body.

One influential source for this estimation includes physiological textbooks and studies such as Gray’s Anatomy and Textbook of Medical Physiology by Guyton and Hall, which both compile data from multiple studies across vascular biology. Additionally, scientific articles on the vascular network, especially those focused on microcirculation research, have informed these cumulative estimates by scaling up the capillary data across average human body sizes.
Domestically people deal with kWh, not joules. That seems a far more useful unit to convey information
I think it's important because a lot of people still don't know what it entails.

For example, you say "cancer" and everyone has an idea of what that is. As of the 2000s/2010s, awareness has been rising about mental health and what it actually means to have mental illness. But if you say "long covid", most people still don't know what that really means to a sufferer of it. With its relative commonness compared to other, rarer yet more well-known illnesses (like DID), I'd say it deserves more attention than it gets.

If we think of public disease messaging as having limited "bandwidth", it makes sense to message about the most common, newest, and least understood diseases, wouldn't you agree?

The more the public understands what having an illness means for its sufferer, the more understanding the public will be of that person's needs and limitations, and thus the fuller a life that person will be able to live as their limitations are accommodated.
You are operating on a false dichotomy that the current best practices of cryptographic security, code auditing, etc. are somehow mutually exclusive with obscurity, and then arguing against obscurity by arguing for other good practices. They are absolutely complementary, and implementing a real world secure system will layer both- one starts with a mathematically secure heavily publicly audited system, and adds obscurity in their real world deployment of it.

If there are advantages to a closed source system, it is not in situations where the source is closed to you and contains bugs, but when closed to the attacker. If you have the resources and ability to, for example, develop your own internally used but externally unknown, but still heavily audited and cryptographically secure system, is going to be better than an open source tool.
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