skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every time I open my RSS feed, there’s nothing there. I can’t doom scroll through it. Because there’s nothing there. So I only open my RSS reader when I want to read something

That's a waste of a manual refresh action - if you only open the reader when you want to read something, there is no point in not auto-refreshing on open so you can... read something.

> I can mark everything as read and get back to a neutral state. And just like that, I’m done with my timeline. Isn’t that amazing?

Not really, you've described a workflow with the same "FOMO" and "chore" downsides: you have to invest time into reviewing the whole batch of downloaded content otherwise if you mark everything as read you fear you've missed something important that you haven't reviewed it.
Some clients can even auto-mark links on scroll so you reduce the risk of mislabeling, but these are still not refined enough controls to tacke the issue.

(and yes, of course there are ads in RSS)
I'm not sure senior positions will be as immune to AI. Sure, the work of a sales manager will be less prone to automation. However if your junior headcount is divided by four because of entry level automation, there will be much less managers needed.
> Nerdsnipe: The core of the quote is wrong. All mammals go through the same boom and bust cycles that other species do. There is no “instinctive equilibrium.”

I totally agree, that speech always bugged me, so many obvious counter examples, but interestingly is it now feels fairly representative of the sort of AI hallucination you might get out of current LLMs, so maybe it was accurate in its own way all along.
that's exactly why I mentioned the search: search in the last day/week for ${KEYWORD} and it usually comes back up quickly.

(when I made hotkeys to view alphabetical splits, so if I don't read for a while i still don't get presented with more than a screenful of titles at once, thanks to newsboat(1) keeping its state in SQLite, I was able to base my counts off having queried the database of everything I'd already RSS'ed, interacted with or not)
So conceiably someone could have sent a signal from the other part of the lense some billion years ago and we "just" need to figure out what to listen for.
if there are no reprocussions businesses won’t do jacksh*t but if there were, FB/Google/… would solve any issue like this by the time teapot started whistling…

it is one thing to say they “can’t” vs. “the won’t cause they no reason to”
The NHS does this calculus routinely using Quality Adjusted Life Years. Treatments that get more are favoured which is also how NICE decides what drugs the NHS should offer. There's obviously some utilitarianism in the decision to use QALYs but to some (including me) it seems a reasonable proxy metric to maximise.

Ultimately a sacrifice must be chosen, but I am not sure a discussion about how that should be made is necessarily fit for HN (though I'd be interested in how you'd resolve your proposed scenario).
Not sure what you mean. Are they making Graal-builds you can run standalone now? I only use Tika through Maven at work, might not be up to date on what happens in the project.
> Students all want the same thing: status, popularity, etc.

fake news
That seems easily explained by somebody copy-pasting test questions from a website into Gemini as text, and that question having an audio component with a "listen" link.
Containers are sort of the leading order use of generics: I put something in and want to statically get that type back (so no cast, still safe).

Second use I usually find is when I have some structs with some behavior and some associated but parameterizable helper. In my case, differential equations together with guess initializers for those differential equations. You can certainly do it without generics, but then the initial guess can be the wrong shape if you copy paste and don't change the bits accordingly. The differential equation solver can then take equations that are parameterized by a solution type (varying in dimension, discretisation and variables) together with an initializer that produces an initial guess of that shape.

Finally, when your language can do a bit of introspection on the type or the type may have static methods or you have type classes, you can use the generic to control the output.

Basically, they are useful (like the article implies) when you want to statically enforce constraints. Some people prefer implicitly enforcing the constraint (if the code works the constraint is satisfied) or with tests (if the tests pass the constraint is satisfied). Other people prefer to have the constraints impossible to not satisfy.
How to Build a RAG Chatbot to Chat with Documents Despite Missing Data
There's a time to use critical analysis, and there's a time to keep quiet and show some respect.
I like mark-all-as-read, but I reeeaaallly like not having a read/unread dichotomy in the first place, since it wires my brain to treating everything like a to do list.

I use the excellent vore (vore.website) for rss and I just get a chronological list off my RSS feeds. My brain has a feature called "memory" that stops me accidentally reading any articles twice, and even better, I don't have a feeling of obligation to my rss feed reader.
Are Gemini engineers ignoring this or still trying to figure out how it happened?
Might even be AI generated. What drivel.
> ignorance, greed, and hatred

In Buddhism aren't these all aspects of (or knock-on effects of) attachment ?
It feels like Clippy is about to pop out and kick my butt. The authentic XP experience.
It's very frustrating that in Germany you are only allowed to donate a kidney if you can prove that you have a deep relationship with the recipient (family members, close friends...). Maybe these rules made sense when the operation came with great risks, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. It's okay to check that the person is doing it willingly and not because they got pressured but why am I not allowed to donate it to a stranger? Is adding years to their lifespan not enough of a motivation?
Even though its response is extreme, I don't think it's strictly a weird bitflip-like (e.g. out-of-distribution tokens) glitch. I imagine it can deduce that this person is using it to crudely cheat on a task to evaluate if they're qualified to care for elderly people. Many humans [in the training-data] would also react negatively to such deductions. I also imagine sci-fi from its training-data mixed with knowledge of its role contributed to produce this particular response.

Now this is all unless there is some weird injection method that doesn't show up in the transcripts.
> That’s an outrageous and obscene utility calculation to propose

Welcome to the reality of triage .. all decisions are bad from some PoV or another, some are arguably less bad.

Oh, to live in a world of infinite matching organs and unlimited theatre slots on demand.
It was only officially renamed in 1930.
I’m highly unimpressed by my couple of SGP41 sensors, but they would probably work for this application.
Where did you move to if you don't mind me asking? The chasm between SV tech comp and various "completely different part of the world" is massive. Were you able to meet your employer in the middle?
We are arguing if it's possible or not.

Who cares if a thousand guys are incapable? (like Netflix, lmao)

What matters are the ones that can do it, and you even said they've done it at "a fraction of the cost".

Paraphrasing, your argument says more about the incompetence of the ESA than the impossibility of doing such thing.
> _verbal_ knowledge. The same exact thing is true for _textual_ threats.

I meant it in the sense of "relating to or in the form of words", so we're in agreement!
Yeah I’ve used F# before! It was pretty good, some solid features and nice experience.
It just falls into a bit of weird place IMO? You have to rely on writing/using C# to fill any holes, and I really dislike that language/ecosystem, and why split between 2 lands when I can just get the same HM type system, similar-enough principles, better perf and no MS taint.

Edit: I do love the ML style syntax though, Haskell, F#, Dhall are awesome, I wish it were more readily accepted.
I tried this out, and nothing happened. Then I discovered that it has to be enabled first, for example by: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/34251/152147
Thanks for sharing, learnt something new :)
What Britain doesn't have geographically is more than compensated with what they do have politically. Again: The familial ties and friends.

The era we live in right now is Pax Americana, the United States is top dog. But so long as the United Kingdom remains aligned (those familial ties!) that means both and all of us are top dog. Same story with solid friends like Japan who also enjoys top dog status.

It is a cold hard fact that Britain is no longer a superpower, it's also a cold hard fact that Britain wouldn't be a power period were they by themselves. Fortunately for them though, we are family.

Countries like France and Germany only kind of sort of enjoy the benefits of Pax Americana because they are two-faced and greedy or worse. France suddenly getting kicked out of that nuclear sub deal with Australia and replaced by America and Britain was a brutal demonstration of an unseverable family blood and bond.

As an aside, the British Isles are an "excellent port" in a "complicated region". America does appreciate having two giant and unsinkable carriers (USS Britain and USS Japan) next to potential hotspots in the world.
I'm fairly well versed in basic ip networks, but the above sounds like a wordsalad to me.
In case anybody else is wondering:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-...
Sure, let nazis march with their torches, they just have different viewpoint.
Even before LLMs were trendy, at the time of covid 19, a lot of people surprisingly became "experts" on the matter of virology and genetics on social networks.
Let's try to send a few hundred messages per second over it, a task any queue should be able to perform easily, and see how well it performs!
I see a lot of very familiar things there, but with lock ordering declared at compile time. Of course there’s plenty I would need to know more about before I could add to it, but if you were to practice Rust instead of merely commenting about it you would find that the readability improves with usage, same as any other language.
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/ripgrep/rg.1.en.html
> outside of extreme energy/mass environments, gravity is described by Newton's law of gravitation with very high precision. If you look very hard, you may notice differences on the order of 10e-MANY. But for all intents and purposes, gravity is Newtonian in 99.99999% of the universe.

I meant it in the sense that "most of the cosmos runs on Newtonian gravity, therefore we can ignore GR" is similar to "most of the visible matter in the cosmos is hydrogen/helium, so we can ignore chemistry".

The interesting part is in the 0.0000001% that isn't like the others.
Most companies reach a certain point and engineering teams get messages from lawyers to schedule meetings "to learn about what you're working on". Those meetings are fishing expeditions to try and see what is patentable. Then they repeat this every once in a while.

So the patent is done after the fact as a "since we're here" approach. Completely different from "we're doing this exclusively to patent it".
Yeah I know it runs. But it also hallucinated a Shell:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/ziukmm/i_asked_it_...
It’s worth noting that twitter itself owes a lot of its popularity to its openness in the early days. In the early days there were third-party clients, RSS feeds, XMPP support, etc. You could post from a curl command in a cron job, leading to all kinds of interesting automated feeds. Then they walked it all back in the early 2010s.

I like that Bluesky’s federation model makes it harder for them to do an “open platform” bait-and-switch like Twitter did.
https://github.com/vic/rebecca-theme
I thought it derrives from this.

Haha
I wouldn’t expect any mythos to be perfect, because they have often been constructed quickly and hastily due to external pressures for national unity. Various countries that saw a surge for independence during the 19th century age of nationalism, often based their mythos on Romantic-era poetry that sometimes has aged well (e.g. the Kalevala), and sometimes has aged quite badly (a few Eastern European countries).
Could've used this classic CSS joke as the logo https://i.etsystatic.com/21468781/r/il/426363/2712010149/il_...
I can use it. You can too. The users of your code can if you grant them a compatible license. You could also potentially relicense the Rosetta Code parts under section 11 of the FDL.
i don't think anything modern or not got even close to vb3-6 usability in creating practical UI programs.
How is different user account usage and partial similar answer preventing an answer being hallucinated? Are you saying that ChatGPT could not (or LLMs in genera) hallucinate consistently?
When you are in the lead anything that puts others down is good. That doesn't mean the system needs it to operate. Why would we need a system that protects the country in the lead?
The entire internet contains a lot of forum posts echoing this sentiment when someone is obviously just asking homework questions.
OK, but being shown something makes it far, far more discoverable than having to search for it.

For context, I'm thinking very generally here rather than about specific use cases, but it seems to me that anything happening 'automatically' in this area can be problematic. I'm not sure what the best setup is, but I think any system that shows a list of time-sensitive stuff (email, rss feeds) should at least be keeping a record of 'times shown', 'times opened', etc.
Yes.

The idea was specified in 2005, and there's a related question about Windows using these addresses in 2011 [1]. I haven't tried to find older evidence.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/238625/why-is-windows-defaul...
Making waves through the Wallace Line
I’ve never biked in Texas, but the routes even a short distance west from Palo Alto are excellent. You need to be willing to go uphill, though :). LAN party house v1 would have been maybe 15 minutes from where Page Mill starts to get spectacular, not to mention spectacularly steep.

In the modern e-bike era, the hills are more accessible, too.
Finally some character :)
added to my RSS feet.
So, you're saying "train AI on the open internet" is the wrong approach?
Does Gemini have a higher chance of these off answers? Or is it more chatgpt has already been discovered so it's not reported so.
Yup. My most frequently used feature of Android notification systems is notification history. Notifications somehow manage to be 90%+ noise, and so easy to dismiss that the important 10% I only spot as they disappear...
I’m scheduled to donate one of mine to a stranger in a few weeks. Similar story here—saw Scott Alexander’s story, did some research, decided it was something i had to do.

I’m donating through the national kidney registry, which means that I (and five close family members) will pop to the top of the transplant list if I ever need one.
It'll be a better place when IP and copyright laws have reasonable term limits.
AccursedUnutterablePerformIO
Would be interesting to know how the app is deployed. I see there are some k8s yaml files: does the deployment happen manually (e.g., run kubectl commands inside the cluster)? Is there some sort of pipeline perhaps? (I don’t see any in the repo)
I tested the Craziest Xiaomi Gadgets [video]
PH has to stream for 20 seconds on average while boxing match is a lot longer :-)
It doesn’t matter much how many users Bluesky is gaining, it matters how many of them will be using Bluesky in a few months. We will see.
I remember the first time, we bought some 10BASE2 ethernet cards and BNC connector cables, and spend hours to figure out why it does not work, only then to learn the next day that we also need cable end terminators (if I remember that correctly). But then it worked and we had lots of fun.
That's surprising, considering Gemeni keeps refusing to do things I told it to (like try to decode a string) while ChatGPT just does it if I ask it once. So I thought Google censor Gemini more.
It's impossible cannot be done. They tried nothing and were out of ideas.
At least the patent system is completely broken. At least 90% of the granted patents are bullshit.

I myself am the "inventor" of a nonsense patent. There is prior art and it lacks any significant new step not obvious for anyone trained in the field. At the time I was working in a big European corporation being the market leader of their field. R&D was required to submit all new product features we were working on. The patent department distilled that into patents, even though we told them there is prior art.

Being the market leader we first got it accepted in our home country, then also in EU and US. Only Japan rightfully rejected it. Well, they were our not so successful competitors.

One of the reasons I don't want to work for corporations anymore. I vaguely remember some presentation that corporations have the traits of criminals. Should dig that out again...
When people say LLM I think they are often thinking of neural network approaches in general rather than just text based even if the letters do stand for language model. And there's overlap eg. Gemini does language but is multi modal. If you skip that you get things like AlphaZero which did beat Stockfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
At the onset of WW2, the UK was still a technology superpower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizard_Mission

The war proved ruinous to the UK in a way WW1 wasn’t because of the destruction visited by the Luftwaffe, and the UK squandered its lion’s share of the Marshall Plan on maintaining Imperial pretenses:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/marshall_01.sht...
I think a lot of the people who wanted generics wanted them more to be like C++ templates, with compile time duck typing. Go maintainers were unwilling to go that route because of complexity. However, as a result, any time I think "oh this looks like it could be made generic" I fall into a rabbit hole regarding what Go generics do and dont allow you to do and usually end up copy pasting code instead.
You are making it black and white — like some kids “are” bullies. I’m suggesting that most kids bully, some times.
I just want to convey the following point: for the vast, vast majority of physicists the status of MOND is akin to what doctors think of the anti-vaccine theories. The evidence in the opposite direction is simply overwhelming.

You refer to a non-scientific article and to a youtube video, but any vaccine sceptic can probably easily find exactly the same kind of material to support their view. That would almost certainly include a video by a "professional doctor".

You might call me abrasive, but I am really just trying to be as clear as possible: this is the consensus in the field.

And before you continue this discussion it might be worth pondering the following questions. How do you think doctors should convince vaccine skeptics that vaccines work? And how big a percentage of their weekend do you think they should spend engaging on the details with anti-vaxxers? (And, in this forum, how many downvotes from obvious non-experts should they be willing to accept?)

In other words, what could I do to convince you in a reasonable amount of time?
I have yet to jump on the LLM train (did it leave without me?), but I disagree on this sort of "<insert LLM> does/says <something wild or offensive>". Understand the technology and use it accordingly. it is not a person.

If ChatGPT or Gemini output some incorrect statement, guess what? it is a hallucination, error or whatever you want to call it. treat it as such and move on. This pearl-clutching, I am concerned, will only result in the models being heavily constricted to the point their usefulness is affected. These tools -- and that's all they are -- are neither infallible nor authoritative, their output must be validated by the human user.

If the output is incorrect, the feedback mechanism for the prompt engineers should be used. it shouldn't cause outrage, just as much as a google search leading you to an offensive or misleading site shouldn't cause an outrage.
Thanks for the video, I wouldn’t have guessed it shows well on a video.

Kinda off topic but I’m on a brand new phone (not logged in and no history) and the next video suggested by YouTube is a French fascist promoting (actual) nazis policies. Why would YouTube do that?! It has absolutely zero connection with audio topics. I just have my OS language set to French.
That’s so worrying for the youth with being exposed to pure hate for no reason.
I get it, but now you’re moving the goalposts. You went from “there’s no way to explain it plausibly” to “there’s many ways to explain it but they are unlikely”.

I’ll take it that you’ve conceded that point.

If I wanted to engage with your new point I’d say - actually none of the points you’ve listed explain the current situation. There’s simply too many credible people, from too many separate instances, that are claiming largely similar things across many different incidents. And we now have hard (though not ideal) video evidence that has yet to be explained within our current popular understanding of physics (and I’m aware of the popular debunks, which I find far from compelling).

But that would be opening a whole new discussion, and I’m not here to fight that battle.
That does not match my experience in any company I worked at.

We would solve problems and when we had a decent solution we would discuss with our management whether they thought it was noteworthy enough to start the internal patent application process.

The stage of development at which a patent was pursued depended on how much of a breakthrough it was.

Of course you don't design something "exclusively to patent it". It would make no sense -- a patent has no real-world value unless the invention itself has a significant expected ROI.