skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's parodying the CIA.

I'm not sure about that. The definition of parody hinges on imitating an author or work (sometimes a whole genre), rather than on satirizing/critiquing subject matter unrelated to the author/work being imitated. He could write a song satirizing/critiquing the CIA and if it happens to imitate a song/style of Miley, then it's a parody of the latter, not of the former. Or a parody of nothing at all, in the strictest definition, since he's not satirizing/critiquing that which he's imitating.

When it comes to music copyright, certain aspects are copyrightable (therefore requiring license to use) and other aspects are not. Words and melody are (so Weird Al would need to license Miley's melody if he doesn't modify it sufficiently), but rhythm/chords/timbre/style/etc. are not (so Weird Al wouldn't need to license anything if he is merely copying those things from Miley). I think Al makes some songs with a copied melody requiring licensing, and some songs without that in which case no permission of any kind is legally necessary.
I understand but this is literally how rights are eroded away. It's all good when it's the worst people on the planet, but very quickly it's abused against every one else. Once these rights go away, they don't come back.
Electron apps are terrible at following platform conventions. Scrolling is wrong, menus are wrong, etc. There’s plenty to dislike.
...Yeah? That is pretty much in line with how sanction works in the West.

US has sanctioned for decades companies that cooperate economically with "enemy states" (Iran/Cuba/Russia/China), I don't see how China would be different.
Yes I agree, though I would worry that drivers would take some time to get used to it, and those from outside may not know.

In the UK we cross on red pedestrian lights if the road is clear, and it's obvious that other nations are not used to it.
> AFAIK OpenAI currently respects robots.txt

I wonder to what degree -- for example, do they respect the Crawl-delay directive? For example, HN itself has a 30-second crawl-delay (https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt), meaning that crawlers are supposed to wait 30 seconds before requesting the next page. I doubt ChatGPT will delay a user's search of HN by up to 30 seconds, even though that's what robots.txt instructs them to do.
I still don’t understand how these fraudulent DMCA claims aren’t outright criminal - I thought even the garbage state of the law at least made objectively false claims requires a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief in the accuracy of the claims.

Filing a DMCA claim over a trademark violation is a direct admission that that statement is false because the requirement is you identify the copyright violation and that you are the owner or representative of the owner of that copyright.
Oops, forgot: Also enameled cast iron. And ceramic.
Ah, thanks for telling me that. I had absolutely no idea she had any involvement, but now it makes perfect sense.
This is such a good rant, and I think you should develop it into an essay and I think there is an important catchy natural equation to mine here.
I use LLMs as a kind of search that is slightly less structured. There are two broad cases:

1) I know a little bit about something, but I need to be able to look up the knowledge tree for more context: `What are the opposing viewpoints to Adam Smith's thesis on economics?` `Describe the different categories of compilers.`

2) I have a very specific search in mind but it's in a domain that has a lot of specific terminology that doesn't surface easily in a google search unless you use that specific terminology: `Name the different kinds of music chords and explain each one.`

LLMs are great when a search engine would only surface knowledge that's either too general or too specific and the search engine can't tell the semantic difference between the two.

Sometimes when I'm searching I need to be able to search at different levels of understanding to move forward.
Π0: Our First Generalist Policy
Physical intelligence's first model: π0. In the blogpost and included paper, the company's robot foundation model debut features a mobile bimanual robot autonomously folding clothes, bussing dishes, putting eggs in a carton, and folding a cardboard box, supervised by stern researchers. They go into some depth of their training recipe, which includes a pre-training recipe with OpenX and self-collected expert demonstrations on 68 tasks on 7 different robot embodiments. SOTA results on several internal task benchmarks on real world tasks are shown, although much of the benchmarks are currently limited to 10 trials each.
Screen width is precious real estate, can't waste it carelessly like that. It's not like we have ultrawide monitors.
> For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL.

Why, exactly?
i’m trying to align monetization and all other incentives in the direction of a better game.

yet cheaters will still cheat.

non-human inputs IS cheating. period. there is no information cheating possible in this game.

input provenance is the only anti cheat that has a chance.

full fidelity 120hz server replays with handcam seems a good place to start.

we’ll see how it goes!
The USA invaded and annexed lots of free countries.

Invading and annexing isn't some weird thing no one usually does.

Taiwan is the product of a recent civil war.
There are tons of effective QFTs that can be used very accurately to predict experiments below a certain (high) energy threshold, but which are not renormalizable. This is well understood. It means that the theory needs to be augmented to understand the higher energies, but does not at all mean the more fundamental (augmented) theory has to be radically different, such as classical. Everyone already agrees that the non-renormalizability of naive low-energy quantum gravity means something must be added.
possibly unpopular opinion, I trust the bigger companies more than small ones on stuff like this. It would be so much easier to not offer anything, rather than intentionally create a potemkin setting and risk the blowback that would occur if discovered. Hopefully this comment does not age poorly.

full disclosure: worked there [edit: google] a while ago, not in search, not in AI.
I've look into this subject at some length, the bar does appear very, very high indeed. If all that is claimed were indeed true (and I suspect it is) then current 'science' is barking up the wrong tree.
At major US universities, tenure-line faculty are teaching less and less
Ideapad Gaming for example, less than $1000 and expandable slots to 64gb.

I get that small form factor requires soldered ram, but RAM is also very cheap these days.
I’m not shocked at all. Another issue is recruiters posting fake jobs and asking for references as step one. Soon as I say “I don’t provide references until the last step, and only to the company hiring” they hang up on me
Thanks for the chuckle, brightened up my day.
Yes, that would be my preferred answer!
>I suppose it's largely a matter of perspective but I would argue that fewer more stable jobs would likely be better for both the companies and employees.

How do you expect this to work? Companies hire because they think the extra man-hours is going to give them a competitive advantage. Companies agreeing not to compete each other seems suspiciously like a cartel.
Seriously. Not sure if the marketer who's preparing the "Get started with Recall!" graphic that's gonna pop up on our computers realizes that they're doing us a different kind of service, lol.
Get me out of data hell
and i will award you cash from the bug bounty pool!

then you will be banned from ranked, unless you have a clever way to synthesize perfect handcam video.

in which case, you get the entire bounty pool and 10% profit for 6 months.

then you will be banned from ranked.

the bugs won’t discover themselves. i salute you.
100%

I’ve found working in pen is key for me. Imprecise, no ability to fix, so the impulse to tweak/fix has nowhere to go.
Another side of the same shift:

https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-m...
> which seems to be alien to many real people or AI bots here

Take personal attacks somewhere else. They're against the site rules here.

>Yes those words are fair, and not aknowledging them, or trying to dodge this reality, is bluntly hypocrit or you are the victim here, brain-washed, and I advise you to take a deep breath and reflect on that matter in order to get a better perspective.

I have to see it your way, or I'm either brain-washed or a hypocrite?

> There is no argument or questioning here, only aknowledgement of a disturbing absolute truth and fair critism.

There's no questioning, only absolute truth?

The world is more complicated than you think, with more trade-offs and less black and white. You need to take a deep breath and get a better perspective.
>but there's a huuuuge likelihood of a recession.

Can you share your short positions in the market?
Graphic computer interface design. He's not talking about how to make a great book cover or a promotional poster.
Mistakes happen all the time. Cooktops have terrible user interfaces. People need to juggle multiple things at once, especially parents.

Furthermore, the quote above merely states that the pan has to reach a specific temp, not be out for hours.
I agree. Feels like panic that China violated the Rules-Based International Order™
This is like a fish saying "living on land results in breathing less water". Yes, that's the point, but the fish almost can't imagine how that might be a good thing.
LOL. I had Unread’s developer communicating with me via email. He was trying to help me troubleshoot for a day when all of a sudden magically the articles appeared. Haha. I mentioned to him maybe you saw my comment, before I saw your message. So funny. Anyways, thank you as I really wanted to follow your blog. Much appreciated.
I agree that LLMs have opened modalities we didn't have before, namely:

- natural language input

- ability to synthesize information across multiple sources

- conversational interface for iterative interaction

That feels magical and similar to Star Trek.

However they fundamentally require trustworthy search to ground their knowledge in, in order to suppress hallucination and provide accurate access to real time information. I never saw someone having to double-check computer's response in Star Trek. It is a fundamental requirement of such interface. So currently we need both model and search to be great, and finding great search is increasingly hard (I know as we are trying to build one).

(fwiw, the 'actual' Star Trek computer one day might emerge through a different tech path than LLMs + search, but that's a different topic. but for now any attempt of an end-to-end system with hat ambition will have search as its weakest link)
I know the GP comment was provocative, but please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: this has been a problem in other places too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41034778

Could you please not post like this to Hacker News? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996506 was much better, of course.)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Medication has side effects, and it can be really difficult to access unless you can find a psychiatrist who is accepting of the idea that an adult has ADD/ADHD. I knew someone who tried to get it as an adult and she spent 3 years going between therapists and psychiatrists to build up enough history to be prescribed medication.
Permanent standard versus permanent daylight standard is an interesting debate because some of your preference depends on which edge of the timezone you live on. It is possibly a warning that hour-wide timezones are maybe too wide and that a solution to abolishing DST may need to better account for 30-minute or 15-minute wide timezones. Right now the swing back and forth does help keep one edge or the other happier to be in the same wide timezone. Of course "switch to smaller timezones so that we can drop daylight saving time" would complicate the "simple" choice to drop DST.
I don't think medication "treats" ADHD in the sense of solving it completely. For one thing, we're living through an Adderal shortage, for another it doesn't last all day, and, most importantly, it isn't a cure-all, especially at the low dosages required for responsible long term use. As another commenter rightfully said, the downsides are also significant, especially in terms of exhaustion -- headaches are also a commonly reported one for methamphetamine.

It's a lifesaver, but it's kinda like Ozempic: it enables you to follow through on your self-improvement goals, it doesn't do them for you.

Also, some people don't have health insurance. We do exist, sadly -- 25 million of us, as of 2023: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2024/... Typically, a diagnosis/new psych appointment costs $250-350 OOP, and the monthly checkups cost anywhere from $100-200 (unless you can find someone willing to break the rules for you and prescribe without 30d checkins). The baffling coupon system does mean that the refills themselves are cheap, somehow, but I've paid $60 before just because the coupon wasn't working and I couldn't be bothered to go home and figure it out and go without meds for X days.

Of course that all becomes easier if you're willing to stick with non-controlled substances, but still
I shrug because statistical signal detectors are useful, even if they can be gamed.
Agreed. Crunch times at work, 10+ hour days for years left me burnt out even after being out of that for 5 years. Too much edge of your comfort zone can ruin your life!
Does the Thread Count Matter for Sheets?
I don’t really know Ruby, but I imagine that if a subclass overrides puts, then code in the base class calling puts will invoke that override instead of invoking the pseudo-global Kernel version. In other languages, the method definition in the subclass would be irrelevant, calling the global function wouldn’t cause polymorphic method dispatch on the current object.
In other words, they are struggling to implement it. Software development in an average company is on some sort of a weird asymptotic curve towards getting anything done becoming literally impossible. And Microsoft is so, so painfully average.

I've been waiting for Windows to get the vertical taskbar back, but I'm beginning to think that the difficulty-to-develop is increasing faster than the development itself is progressing.
Employees look for new jobs they aren't seriously interested in. Why shouldn't employers do the same?

Filtering through a 1000 unemployed people spamming every job listing isn't going to give them useful intel.
You can trust Google to do what it says, and yes I've seen Google obey robots.txt. You can't trust Google to do what you think is right.
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Polyglot Maxxie and Minnie
Sequin – Open-Source Message Stream Built on Postgres
I switched my work M1 Max with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS Framework 16 running Linux and am happier since.

I guess it depends on the person which computer is better for them.
Not only fake job postings, it's also companies posting fake jobs when they already have an internal or external candidate all but signed.

The amount of spam and fake jobs on LI + other major sites is just disgusting and is ripe for government to come in and crack some heads.
I don’t really think a sanctioned entity is under obligation to argue “both sides”. I doubt Chinese companies under similar conditions will do so, or have done so in the past.
I was thinking of the direction we are going and even wanted to write up a blog about it. IMO the best way forward would be if AI can have some logical thoughts independent of human biases but that can only happen if AI can reason unlike our current LLMs that just regurgitate historical data.

growing up, we had the philosophical "the speaking tree" https://www.speakingtree.in/

If trees could talk, what would they tell us. Maybe we need similarly the talkingAI
There are both more powerful and more battery efficient offers available.

The Apple ARM laptops are just on an arbitrary point belong the power/efficiency scale.

If it happens to match your needs: great

But it's not like it's ahead of the industry in any way ^^
Do you by chance remember which library, and which barcode symbology? (barcode library developer here :-)
I mean the actual EXPLAINs. Were they actually exactly 100% the same?
Question: why are people having a tizzy about this specifically yet touting Apple Intelligence?

- people are going to be using intelligence with Siri. Siri sends all transcripts to Apple, even if processed locally. Will this include text transcripts too? That’s some seriously private information that gets sent to Apple that you can’t opt out of.

- have you looked at what’s in knowledge.db?

People hissy with Microsoft’s product because of OCR of the screen or is that only a factor?
A lot of people are focusing on its reliance on existing SEO - but they say right in the post that they're integrating directly with data brokers more. They're subtly arguing for the elimination of a certain kind of middle man.
It's not for the storage or ram space. It's for being inefficient which always making me doubt about the company culture. If you want native capabilities so much, just build a proper software for the platform. If VLC and Calibre can do cross platform, you can do it too.
This has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with Microsoft.
But how are they going to compete with the huge state-supported battery makers from China?
Have you tried https://search.marginalia.nu ?
Snaphub
I have been using Perplexity with the AI engine set to Claude 3.5 Sonnet for a month now, mostly for programming related questions, and it has been amazing. I mostly stopped using google.
SnapHub is a free platform designed to streamline the photo selection process for photographers and their clients. Our solution allows photographers to create and share private galleries, enabling clients to easily browse and select their favorite images.
I mean the reason I can think of off the top of my head is that one is wasting the time of people who are looking for a job so they can continue to live, and the other is wasting the time of a person who's job is reviewing resumes?
Probably for bookmarking or working iteratively over different sessions on the interaction and allowing more than one session at a time.
I don't find that funny. I find that relieving if they are delaying to make it more secure.
The reason you don't lead with headcount reduction is two-fold.

1. Almost every business has growing workload. That means reassigning good employees and not hiring new headcount, not firing existing headcount. Unipurpose, low-value offshore teams are the only ones who get cut (e.g. doing "{this} for every one of {these}" work).

2. Most operational automation is impossible to build well without deep process expertise from the SME currently performing it. If you fire that person immediately after automating their task, what do you think the next SME tells you, when you need their help?

Successfully scaling operational automation programs therefore rely on additional headcount avoidance (aka improving their volume:employee ratio) and value measurement (FTE-equivalent time savings) to justify/measure.
What do you mean by this?

Are you saying the process the author proposes—that the user’s needs should define the solution, and that process should be performed separately from engineering—won’t work on something like civil or structural engineering?
Don’t use LinkedIn or Monster or Indeed. You’re better off searching on Google with “ inurl:careers” and finding positions these companies are directly hiring for.
https://archive.is/20241031131425/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
> Because They Can.

It's probably also a great way to find bugs.
> You can buy most parts officially from Apple

But very distinctly, not all. Apple deliberately makes customers buy more than what they need while refusing to sell board-level ICs or allow donor boards to be disassembled for parts. If a $0.03 Texas Instruments voltage controller melts on your Macbook, you have to buy and replace the whole $600 board if you want it working again. In Apple's eyes, third party repairs simply aren't viable and the waste is justified because it's "technically" repaired.

> You can install whatever OS you want on your computer

Just not your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. Because that would simply be a bridge too far - allowing real competition in a walled garden? Unheard of.

> You can disable the system lockdowns that "tighten the screws" you refer to and unlock most things back to how they used to be.

And watch as they break after regular system upgrades that force API regressions and new unjustified restrictions on your OS. Most importantly, none of this is a real an option on Apple's business-critical products.
I can confirm - in the past three weeks, I requested a $5K raise in salary on offer and it was accepted in <20 seconds by hiring manager. This has a roughly $100K NPV. This is identical to the predictions in patio11's original piece.
That's an awfully cynical take to call Linux desktop a dumpster fire.
Yeah that's the best news so far. I would have used hacks to disable it anyway but the problem is that at work I can't do that.

But I'm in the IT department at my work and our privacy teams are also not even considering to implement this as it's a legal minefield in Europe. So big brother won't come to my work yet, at least for now.
I asked it about the UK government budget which was announced a few hours ago and it gave me a good, accurate summary.
Heartbroken
While I never personally had an interest in these kinds of games, this is quite unfortunate. For a long time, a major selling point of being an Apex Legends player was that it was officially supported on the Steam Deck since its launch, while Epic Games vehemently opposed bringing Fortnite to the platform. This is pretty sad news to anyone who fell into the former category.
I don't see a way for websites to monetize giving this content to openAI. This is not 2001 anymore, people should not expect to give away this information for nothing. I would be blocking openai bots ASAP
How is it any different from Simplify? Looks pretty interesting though
Sometimes a football isn't a spherical cow.
I've been saying the biggest treat to google are LLMs
Oh for sure offline is still king. But I mean, you look at the top of the SF6 rankings and it's Daigo, Fuudo, Tokido, Punk, Endingwalker... all the players who are winning offline, too. There's a tight correlation between being a top ranked SF6 player online and being really good at the game, to the point of winning offline tournaments. When you think about it, being able to (theoretically) get good enough that you can get matched up against the EVO champ in online play, even if you live in rural Arkansas and could never make it to an NYC local, and play a legitimate competitive game against him, is pretty sweet.
> It would be better if the GC can be turned off with a switch and just add a delete operator to manually free memory.

This breaks the fundamental assumptions built into pretty much every piece of software ever written in the language - it's a completely inviable option.

Incorporating a borrow checker allows for uncollected code to be incorporated without breaking absolutely everything else at the same time.
Would you have argued that the American civil war was recent in 1940?
Back then I was not so savvy with what every process did (over the years, of course, one learns). Windows XP had one main process, and everything else was practically userspace apps