skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strong agree.

The arts have a place in society. Tackling real problems like hunger or health do too, arguably more so - they create the space for society to tolerate, if not enjoy art.

But the down side is we have a huge smear of jobs that either don't really matter or only matter for the smallest of moments that exist in this middle ground. I like to think of a travel agent of yesteryear as the perfect example: someone who makes a professional experience of organising your leisure so you don't have to; using questionable industry deals. This individual does not have your consumer interests at heart, because being nice to you is not where the profit is generally.
The only role they actually play is rent seeking.

Efficiency threatens the rent seeking models of right now, but at the same time leads to a Cambrian explosion of new ones.
> why don't they demonstrate that you can predict whether a trained but completely unprompted model will "know" the answer?

The answer to what? You have to ask a question to test whether the answer will be accurate, and that's the prompt. I don't understand this objection.

> If the LLM stores facts in it's weights, you should be able to demonstrate that completely at rest.

Sure, with good enough interpretability systems, and those are being worked on. Anthropic can already locate which parts of the model fire on specific topics or themes and force them on or off by manipulating the activation vectors.

> A question: Why don't LLMs produce garbage grammar when they "hallucinate"?

Early models did.
> I don't think I mentioned a monoid of endofunctors or flatMap a single time in the post

I think GP was just quoting a meme there. See also [0], where the meme is said [1] to originate.

[0]: https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438586
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I get why you might not want to create a Google account, but how is it even possible to operate without one? I'm genuinely astonished by people who are able to get by in 2024 without having ever created an account on Google.
It's an ad if and only if it is mixed into an article that is not about the movie. If I click a link that says that the article behind it is about the movie, it's not an ad. If I click on a link to a comparison of PC networking equipment, then it's an ad because a movie is not PC networking equipment.

This doesn't mean the movie article (or indeed the hardware comparison) can't be sponsored. It just means the ad shouldn't be able to be shoved in your face unsolicited.
Stop pharmaceutical ads.

Stop NGOs and USAID from being able to buy ads on any issue.
> Just go live in a shed in the woods

Websites that do not use ads cannot survive (on a large scale) if their competition uses ads.

Large consumer-facing websites are forced to use ads.

As long as ads are legal, consumers will not have the choice to use ad-free websites. (The only exceptions being startups operating at a loss.)

This is not even solved by websites allowing for paid, ad-free plans.

Who pays for Google? You, when you by a can of Coke. Coca Cola increases the price of the drink, then gives that extra money to Google.

If you are using a paid, ad-free plan, you are not only paying for the plan, you are also still paying the increased price of Coca Cola.

As long as ads are legal, people who use paid plans have to pay more* than twice of what the service is actually worth.

*Don't forget the effort that is being put into designing ads, building tracking technology, managing tracking data centers, which again, are paid by you, every time you buy anything.
newspaper and magazine ads didn't block the page for 1 minute before allowing you to read the headlines on the page, then repeat the process every time you turned the page.

they felt less intrusive because they were
That's far from my experience.
Last time I used chatgpt it added many comments to explain the generated code and also attached rough explanatory text.
You can also just ask more details about something, or to list other approaches, explain tradeoffs, etc.
You can also ask for general questions to help you get started and find a good design.

To me it's about asking the right questions no matter the level of experience.
If you're junior it will help you ramp up at a speed I could no imagine before.
I agree. Trains are often a more efficient, more comfortable, and greener way to travel. I would love to be able to take them more often on weekends here in the UK, but they are expensive to the point of costing more than air travel, which makes no sense.
There was an interesting reverse engineering talk about tonieboxes on last years chaos communication congress [1]

It's in german and I can't speak to the quality of the english translation which is available

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11993-toniebox_reverse_engineeri...
Aside: What makes Gitlab "AI-powered"?
How does this make sense? Gitlab is a public company, it's already for sale to anyone.
It used to be a smaller, brighter place without ads.
> Usually, those functions and parameters should have been there.

There is a huge leap here. What is your argument for it?
Except the LLM is likely to "hallucinate" and translate something completely wrong. That could lead to some real world consequences. LLMs are not reliable, in any way. They are an automated guessing game.
Yes, so just employ better interns
Change your interface to the LLM to email. Then you're just sending emails and get your answer back in 15 min. For many cases that'd be useful.
dear friend! I am also a simple programmer. When I post simple rants like the one featured here, not only it doesn't have an ad block anywhere and so it generates no money but you're also all consuming bandwidth on a server i'm paying for with my money.

I also have a job—as a self employed developer that earns absolutely not enough to live a decent life—and I still do what I can to respect the web and respect the people ho visit my site by not serving them ads or by tracking them.

Because I believe that respecting you and your privacy is more important than me earning a few $.
What makes them better? Have we tried Astra DB or Milvus? Curious where that stands in relation to the others.
I'm old enough to know that in the past the Internet was for a few, and now it is for many.
How do you protect a power grid from state actors?
In economics, the phrase "what the market will bear " often comes up. Consumers will block obnoxious ads up to what companies will bear.
> but if it weren't for ads, the lifestyle of a lot of people on HN would be dramatically different

You say that as if that's a bad thing
We have the "Jooki Box" in use since its inception (the version before the current one), and it's a pretty good substitute. Allows to connect figurines to Spotify playlists, so if you have a Spotify Family subscription, you have a huge number of songs and audiobooks for kids at your fingertips with no additional cost.

The original box itself was way more expensive than the Toniebox, like double the price, but I think they've made it considerably cheaper when they released the second hardware version of it. And the original box still works until today, continues to be supported by their app and has already been built in a very sturdy way (I've opened it up once to add magnets inside, so the figurines stick on it, which they normally don't do - that's the one thing the Toniebox people got right).
I would never have expected your answer to be “spend more of other people’s money”.
> I’d love to see something even more integrated with AI workflows

Do you mean a database still? Or something like Langflow or Dify? Curious what "something even more integrated" would look like as just a DB.
No, those are different things.
Tracking me around the Internet is fine though, I don't mind and it has never harmed anyone.

If you show me an office full of distractions and say, "would you like to work here? It comes with distractions" then of course that's fine (I would say no). But in fact most people prefer the tradeoffs that come with the distractions
Why Combine Vector Search with Graph Databases
Agree, I want to write raw SQL and have some tool that validate it and generate the correct return type for it, similar to sqlx[0], but AFAIK there is no such tool yet in Typescript land, there are a few that are taking that direction.

[0] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx
Even losing the battle wouldn't necessarily be the end of it. Going home without your standard was really not a good look for the unit.
Thanks a lot! That's pretty impressive, although not sure if noticeably better than non-pro o1 (which was already very impressive).

I suppose creative writing isn't the primary selling point that would make users upgrade from $20 to $200 :)
> https://github.com/eagledot/hachi

promising but i want to see more before i try it - could you invest a little in your readme to list out features, maybe do a little loom demo?
Can you link to the source where they state that they want to be profitable in 2029? I am curious.
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Yeah, it's pretty decent when you're doing the nuts and bolts scaffolding part of coding.

Something like creating an ORM database table class, where all the fields are predictable and it's just a matter of writing out the right fields in the right format.

It's also replaced the really stupid Stack Overflow queries, when Ruby and Python and Javascript have corrupted my brain and I can't remember whether it's bar.lower() or bar.lowercase() or bar.lcase() or lower(bar) or whatever.
They level the playing field and provide economic opportunity to hard working entrepreneurs everywhere.

They absolutely don't though. They skew the playing field to whoever has the most access to ad publishing (most money usually). I'd bet that a significant proportion of all the VC money raised over the last 25 years was funneled straight to Google AdSense.
how about leaderboards that can pop them in?
Let's not go to x86-64 microarchitectural levels. 'Tis a silly place
Thanks for sharing. Cool to know that you worked on exactly such a system. It seems like the story and offering is difficult, due to the history and experiences people have made with such systems. And just saying that somebody is different does not help.

Many things you have written are challenges that we are aware and have been working on. Compliance is crucial here. And on so many different levels as you have mentioned.

We have a license as financial intermediary in Switzerland, which means that we do KYC and we have processes in place to ensure that we comply with anti-money laundering regulation. This was a long way, but it was crucial to offer a real escrow experience, so that it is real P2P and trading experience and not just a fancy store front. And we cannot offer certain items, as this would fall under gambling laws and we do not have any license for this (yet).

Regarding studios: Yes, the value does not lie in the trading for publishers. Trading per se does not add value to publishers. This is relevant for the different types of gamers. We have talked to a few publishers and found out that they are more interested in the trading data, so they can better price their content as well as define new content (i.e. items) that could be created. This way, they can monetize with content that people are ready to pay for.

Thanks for sharing all these hurdles. We'll have to solve all of them. From what we are hearing, we are close to it, though.
Making bread is like implementing an algorithm, the machines are designed by humans, the parameters are dial in by humans, they are serviced/maintained by humans.

The technicians are monitoring the results. I don't think the analogy is any good.
I have the theory that domesticated animals learn a lot of what we perceive as their traits from their owners.

For instance, my cat never really cared much about new years eve fireworks. I attribute that to me not being anxious around that time of the year. However, all the pet owners I ever talked to who told me their pet is particularily anxious around new years eve turned out to also not really like fireworks... And I can very well imagine how the pet picks up the vibe of their owner, why shouldn't they...

My cat also freely shared his food bowl and litterbox with visiting cats, which was really adorable behaviour. I attribute that to a rather deep mutual trust betweenhim and me, but thats fishing in the dark...
And if number two is liquid, you have to split it in 100ml bags.
"Any guesses for how many ...?"

"Half a million"

"You got a source for that guess?"
Which compression level of zstd worked best in terms of the ideal balance between compression ratio vs. run time?
For me, it's because it's carefully crafted to be as manipulative as possible. It uses modern psychological tricks to influence our thought and behavior in ways we are unaware of and largely powerless against. The intention behind an ad is not to inform but to influence, in a way that benefits somebody's wallet at the expense of societal well-being. It's a reprehensible, psychopathic motivation to be pursuing.
> Ads are not the problem.

I'll quote you "this is a bad take". What's bad is asking me to pay money and then serving me premium ads because you now know i'm someone with disposable income and i'm willing to give it to a premium publication.

> Ads are a good way to make revenue when it is done right.

In an ideal world, yes. That ideal world is long gone.
> What gives you confidence that government will be able to support you through retirement?

Laws that obligate the country to do so
It's not all that muddy under normal circumstances - if there are payments to the producers then it's an ad. There is the problem in extremis though - a person gets a cameo on a show and then uses that to sell other products and in return helps out the producer in some non-obvious way.

It's an issue but I'd be happy with a 90% solution over a 0% solution.
It's the same thing in economics. It causes the government to print more money to make up for the money missing from circulation, which will be invested. If the government doesn't do that, it increases the value of all other money in circulation.
> Blame consumers for this.

I don't because in this case that's not an option. Is either free with shitty ads or paid with "better" ads.
>>When your business is cost control on human life, it's not surprising that decency goes out the door.

Bingo!

Not sure why many people are missing this point. Beneath all this. The healthcare industry, doctors, pharma companies and all connected infrastructure has a simple equation. Their profits co-relate directly with human suffering. That is, the more you suffer, the more they get rich. And for some people in the chain, their very survival, like making a living depends on this.

You can't have a decent, even bearable conversation when somebody begins an argument on this premise. Notice how you refusing to suffer might appear indecent to them. I have known some doctors get angry on patients here in India for asking questions on alternate lines of treatments. Sometimes they have commissions from insurance, diagnostics and even suppliers, and they find it unfair that the patients think about their own good and not about the doctors. So you mean to say you are not willing to suffer to help me make money? So cruel of you!

There are lots of industries like these. Weapons manufacturing and Armed forces is another one. Im sure the thought of absence of wars, and some long term peace would be deeply disturbing to people in that ecosystem.

Notice how this is different compared to something like hospitality business, where profits co-relate directly with customer joy and inversely with customer dissatisfaction.

The real issue with the health care industry is their profits lie in hurting people, not helping them.
Which is a design deficiency when those messages are 6 months old, and are spam, from people who got banned 5 months ago.
> with zero ads the internet would be a smaller, darker place

Yes, please!

Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got. And OMG! It is bad, Bad, BAD! Unusable. Sometimes is less more.
Not familiar with the specific wood composite used in this construction, but generally wood composites fare really well in this regard. You can mix fire retardants into the adhesives and they char, which creates a sort of protective layer. They're not fireproof, but they're both hard to get going and they usually burn very slow once they do. Another good property is that they burn predictably, they don't have catastrophic failures, but gradual ones.
Ads aren't money, they are a thing you spend money on.

What you're describing is leveling the playing field. Without Ads you'd have 10 entrepreneurs. With it you have 10000
And one presumes also gave them incredible leverage on negotiating future chip buys from AMD/Intel.
There must be so much fear of not getting their chips into AWS by now that I can only imagine they're selling near cost.
I personally like the remarketting ones the most.

I needed a washing machine - so I went online and purchased one from a large retailer. For the next month all I got was ads for washing machines - many from the retailer I purchased from.

It has made me want to not reset my browser so frequently.
If you grew up in Europe, I promise that when you visit the US for the first time, you will be SHOCKED by America's advertising standards (or lack of them.)

Advertising is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, to an extent far beyond what you're used to from home. Posters, billboards, fliers, TV commercials, product placement, celebrity endorsements - you can barely step outside without being bombarded by yet another obnoxious advertisement. And "obnoxious" is an understatement: American adverts are noticeably more loud, garish, cheesy, repetitive and attention-grabbing.

It's really quite something. And it's exhausting.
Maybe he's just looking for a few good cats to help take you down ;-)
"AI is like ....". "A very eager ...". "That sounds like AI to me.". Yup
> a religious belief, where you have a strong, dogmatic belief

"Strong" belief is probably overselling the strength of the belief of an average religious adherent. A whole lot of people have doubts, only go to church a few times a year, etc. There are a lot of people for whom Pascal's Wager is persuasive, who stick with a religion despite severe doubts "just in case."

In either the case of traditional religion or simulation theory, you have people with varied levels of conviction believing in something for which there isn't empirical evidence. As an atheist, I consider simulation theory to be one of the many manifestation of the innate religious tendencies in humans. It lacks a supernatural component per se (that's debatable, it depends on what is meant precisely by supernatural), but it's a framework commonly used to construct many of the same spiritual systems traditionally seen in religions (our reality was intentionally created, we have a purpose to the creator, we're being watched, we're being judged, etc)
Them you really have no idea what you are running. Why include test cases at all?
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This is one of those things where interests of the consumer are at odds with that of the business. Businesses need money, customers have money. Customers do not always want to pay the businesses directly. This issue is more obvious when it comes to news media. We don't have a good solution to pay $0.01 - $0.10 or whatever small denomination. The other question is would we even want to?

I don’t think Freemium or whatever subscription model solves these problems beyond the scope of a single website. I am interested to hear how this can be solved for consumers for whole swaths of websites that have ads.

It’s pretty easy to say ads are evi, but I personally don’t know a good solution.
And journalists and the people running the news sites are going to be paid with what? With thoughts and prayers?
Planes are cheaper as a function of the infrastructure needed to allow their use (? Feel free to correct me). As long as we allow airplanes companies to not pay for the long term externalities that they are creating planes will stay cheaper.
Testing Errors
Just so you know, text using the em-dash like that combined with a few other "tells" makes me double check if it might be LLM written.

Other things are the overuse of transition words (e.g., "however," "furthermore," "moreover," "in summary," "in conclusion,") as well as some other stuff.

It might not be fair to people who write like that naturally, but it is what it is in the current situation we find ourselves in.
The git repo feels like German bureaucracy, one needs to dig around to find the info....

https://github.com/entropia/tip-toi-reveng/wiki/PEN-Optical-...

TL; DR: the tip of a pen has a sensor, the books have dot patterns overlaid on top of image areas, the patterns are decipherable into (hexa-)decimal code, and with a script file the codes do different actions (set a variable, play an audio file).
Now, how about drums; an instrument everybody loves?
The press release is not that long, but it contains "AI-powered DevSecOps platform" 4 times :D so its just a buzzword.
It takes more than one person to monopolize a vital medical insurance function and then wage a dubious legal war against government regulation to reap an unearned middleman tax.
NotebookLM is designed for a distinct use case compared to using Gemini's models in a general chat-style interface. It's specifically geared towards research and operates primarily as a RAG system for documents you upload.

I’ve used it extensively to cross-reference and analyse academic papers, and the performance has been excellent so far. While this is just my personal experience (YMMV), it’s far more reliable and focused than Gemini when it comes to this specific use case. I've rarely experienced a hallucination with it. But perhaps that's the way I'm using it.
I subscribe to YouTube Premium (from back when it was called YouTube Red). I pay a fixed amount each month, and that gets given to people who made videos I watch. Why can't we have more things like this?
> You're complaining that a product is offering you something, and you don't like the offer?

No, the complaint is about the "offering" in the first place. People don't want your shit forced in front of them. The fact that you are incapable of realizing this on your own is hilarious.
I was referring to the refining process, not the mining process.
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