skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2 years before it was VR, few years before that NFTs and blockchain everything, before that it was self driving cars before that personal voice assistants like Siri and so on .

I never saw people talking about VR in public, nor NFTs, and the closest I got to seeing blockchain in public were adverts, not hearing random people around me chatting about it. The only people I ever saw in real life talking about self-driving cars were the ones I was talking to myself, and everyone else was dismissive of them. Voice assistants were mainly mocked from day 1, with the Alex advert being re-dubbed as a dystopian nightmare.

> AI is aiming for much higher bar of singularity and consciousness.

No, it's aiming to be economically useful.

"The singularity" is what a lot of people think is an automatic consequence of being able to solve tasks related to AI; me, I think that's how we sustained Moore's Law so long (computers designing computers, you can't place a billion transistors by hand, but even if you could the scale is now well into the zone where quantum tunnelling has to be accounted for in the design), and that "singularities" are a sign something is wrong with the model.

"Consciousness" has 40 definitions, and is therefore not even a meaningful target.

> Just in every hype cycles we are in peak of inflated expectations, we will reach a plateau of productivity where it is will be useful in specific areas (as it already is) and people will move on to the next fad.

In that at least, we agree.
> Far better to focus on potentially valuable tech

To who's benefit?

That is why social research is as important. Otherwise all the good tech will reinforce tho old injustices. None of us want that, I assume
Yeah. My current workaround is to create KEPUBs (Kobo-optimized epubs), but that creates an issue with cross-format reading progress sync. This is an interesting task in itself, though.

So I'm trying to design a progress sync protocol. My current idea is to just use several words from the text itself to unambiguously pinpoint the position within a section (chapter).
I didn't dismiss anyone's work, and I do find the upvote system to, at least in some cases, adequately represent the level interest on hn.

The question was:
> why does it matter how it works?

and that's all my comment was intended to answer. Many people here are interested both in the idea of doing something enough to upvote AND are curious how something works. We're not necessarily just consoomers, we're often interested in details, but if I was buying something and wanted to know why I should, the maker should probably be able to answer why their thing is special; in this case, I'm just saying that people on HN are generally interested in how things work.
For additional context: These PayPal guys are very much contra Google and YC (Sam/pg).
Who said it was a contest or moral point? Seems like a related and interesting fact. I thought it was at least. Both were.

Why are you so triggered?
There’s slightly more to it than that. There are also differences in strategy based on the differing distribution of letters in the game (Spanish removes some letters, adds other, adds ñ, and adds digraphs like LL, RR, and CH), differing distribution of letters in the spanish language, and some point value changes. This matters more in the probabilistic phase of the game than when scrabble transitions to a perfect information game in the end-game when no tiles are left in the bag (so each player know the board, their hand, and what the other player must have).

You must develop a deep intuition for when to play the max scoring word you can find vs when to hold some letters in reserve in hopes of drawing even better hand next turn, etc.
if anything, memory management makes it slower...
This should be excellent for prospecting.
> Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process?

It's more simple. They've found that the grander the vision, the bigger the lie the more people will believe it. So they lie.

Take Tesla's supposed full self-driving as an example. Tesla's doesn't have full self-driving. Musk has been lying about it for a decade. Musk tells the same lie year after year, like clockwork.

And yet there are still plenty of true believers who ardently defend Tesla's lies and buy more Tesla stock.

The lies work.
Why is the default thread_rng from the rand crate a dealbreaker for rust? There are other rngs to choose from rand like `smallrng` that is a small fast unspecified default prng if you don't know what you want even for a prng. If the worst case 300 microseconds of the reseeding ChaCha12 default rng is measurable, then it is your job to make a decision about your random number generator.

I don't think rng seeding has anything to do with the algorithm you choose? Seeding from the os rng is usually what you want even for a prng. If you want to use use the current time there is a `seed_from_u64` if you want.
Just build 4 of them and chain them together to get 64-bits.

(Beyond just being a joke, it is often how things like this get scaled. 1-Bit Adders become 2-Bits with a Carry Line between, then 3-bits with another Carry Line, and so forth, ad infinitum and beyond. The real joke is the complexity involved in however you "just" chain them together.)
probably configuration control?
Nitpick: In section 3.3, for the Vec impl, instead of finalizing a child and then forgetting it, the child should be moved into a ManuallyDrop first. That way if the finalization panics it doesn't try to drop the child again while unwinding.
Kant at 10 wpm?! Look at the speed reader!
The best thing is to know that you know you are right.

It takes humility to become a Dunning-Kruger true-expert.

For me to act like I don't know the truth is a kind of lie, and I despise lies.

I know that I know, and you think that I do not know, while I know that you do not know that I can know what I know, but that's because you don't even believe that what I know can be known, ya know? No, you don't, and I know you don't, thus your protestations and opinions are irrelevant.

You know the non-achievers in Dunning-Kruger? As an expert, I know why they're the way they are, and I know how they could get better. That's because I've trod the humble road of discovery and hard work, and I bear the fruits of that labor. Part of that fruit is knowing that I know. "Know thyself" is important for a reason. If you read what I write with an open mind, you will learn more about yourself.

The importance of humble, honest, relentless effort is the most crucial takeaway from D-K. That's why the low-achievers think more highly of themselves than they should, and why the opposite is true of the high-achievers.
745 of 700?
AKA The Mazda MX30 PHEV. (And a couple of hybrids with similar design from the EU).

The Mazda's rotary gets ~70-75HP if the internet is to be believed. But oh, unlike many PHEVs that have 30-ish miles of range it has 50, so it's got a decently larger battery and starts to get into the 'Where GP is right about plug-in hybrids being marketing fluff'.

My general understanding is that they are a very unpleasant experience in such a state despite whatever range advantages you are given. Because of the relative weight of the batteries to give even 100 miles of range, the small engine isn't that useful on the highway and on a steep hill even less so.
perhaps the "not dying on earth industry" after climate catastrophy hits
I wish we had a markdown equivalent for spreadsheets. Markdown tables ain’t it.
Interesting! Around the same time, mention of such a dragon fly-shaped/sized drone device came out in a kid's fictional book I read at the time: Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy.

It actually envisioned the social and military implications of such a device: https://medium.com/message/the-politics-of-personal-drones-p...

Unclear to me is whether in this case life (the CIA invention) imitated art, or art imitated life (great minds run on the same track); the book came out in 1974...
Does office actually have a moat? I thought the kids liked Google docs nowadays. (No opinion as to which is actually better, the actual thing people should do is write LaTeX in vim. You can even share documents! Just have everybody attach to the same tmux session and take turns).
> Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process?

The moment someone does that they're no longer in the very rich guys sphere.
It's not that I've decided based on no evidence, it's that I've never met someone in the flesh able to do it where observations are consistent with claims.

Ignoring five minute Reddit or hacker News messages where people say "oh I'm so fast at reading" once you actually have to put them to the test: i.e. oh cool you're a fast reader: so here's a thing we've both not seen but are required to read and we'll discuss and analyse them in the morning. And you can judge how fast they are based on their understanding of the text and how far they've gotten compared to you.

Eventually you start to realise that there's a mysterious absence of observations to the right of what appears imo to be an almost biological barrier.

Then you start to look into their history: well I presume you've read a lot? And you try to talk to them about things... And they're generally not that well-read.

Then you correlate it with other high-performers: PhDs, professors, learned people, people who read all the time and have a history of reading. And you see that these best readers who read a lot also tend to read at a maximum speed of about 300-600 wpm with any comprehension.

So you come to balance these two hypothesese: there's speed readers out there, but they're generally not well read people and don't have a history of reading and they can't discuss much and they don't tend to turn up to discuss things when there's actual reading involved... But they can read really fast I swear!

And you compare them to the people who professionally read, read all the time, are verifiable strong readers... And you clock them between 300-600 wpm.

Beyond the whole "proving a negative" what's a rational person supposed to conclude?

/This is making some minor possible exceptions for people like Kim peek, but aside from having never met him, of such people exist, my understanding is there's also genuine philosophical questions as to whether what those people are doing can neurologically be considered the same act of reading as what the average human being is doing in terms of whether they can then discuss the themes, contents and implications of what they read.

Edit: and this is in context of people like me LOVE reading, so of course we've looked into methods and communities that propose they can increase reading speed, make people read faster, and are filled with fast readers
This is about eval nuance, not how bots play

Bots playing like humans is done by training them to play like humans: https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/introducing-maia-a-human-...
I've got the Viture glasses. There's no support for Linux aside from working as a basic HDMI display over USB-C (so no head tracking, the screen stays welded to the same spot). The Spacewalker app on Android is basically a web / media browser, zero productivity. You can't use it like a launcher and launch other apps. There's Taskbar and Second Screen but these don't work on my Sony Xperia (you don't get window controls like resize, move or close). There is a paid app for Linux that uses the Viture SDK. It's supposed to be decent but I couldn't get it working during the free trial (I'm using OpenSuse Tumbleweed). TBH I got totally fed up with the glasses and lost interest in trying anything further.

So this announcement is actually interesting to me.
1. Do this ^^^ keep reminding us!

I think a 3 monthly submission to HN saying "Ask HN: who is looking to meet up" where the comments are used to meet but it is a bit of an ad for your site."

Get a nod from the mod before proceeding though!
None of which is doing great.
So, not at all the point of the article, but ... who does Mercury News think is benefited by the embedded map at the bottom of the article with a point just labeled "San Francisco, CA", centered at Market & Van Ness? It's not where the guy lived. If you're a non-local reader confused about where SF is, the map is far too zoomed in to show you.
The Narwhal oranges at half-past-three?
so now you summarize everyone’s hallucinations
I respect that, and if I was happier with Bash I would probably agree with you :)
It's hard to know what to believe sometimes, especially when it comes to health-related information.

I'm sharing this link because I recently contributed to an HN discussion about a study that found that fructose promoted tumor growth [1]. My comment shared a link from a Diary of a CEO podcast episode which is called out in this BBC investigation for promoting health advice that is potentially dangerous to cancer patients.

I'm sharing this now for the sake of balance, and as an example about how tricky it can be to know what's good health advice. The interviewee in the episode, Dr Thomas Seyfried, gave some advice that seemed sound to me at the time, my main takeaway being that intermittent fasting is good for your health. The criticism of his advice is that dietary restrictions could be dangerous for patients who are undergoing cancer treatment.

I uploaded the podcast transcription into Notebook LM and asked for a list of the Dr's recommendations:

These are the health recommendations from Professor Thomas Seyfried based on the sources provided:
Reduce consumption of highly processed carbohydrates.
Engage in vigorous exercise.
Practice water-only fasting.
Reduce stress.
Get enough sleep.
Cultivate joy and friendships.
Maintain a low Glucose Ketone Index (GKI) of 2.0 or below.
Consider a Mediterranean diet or a diet low in carbohydrates.
Consume foods with a low glycemic index.
Incorporate grapefruit into your diet for vitamin C without spiking glucose.
Use a Keto Mojo meter to monitor your GKI.
Practice intermittent fasting for 18-20 hours at a time.
Consider 10-14 days of a zero-carb diet, consuming meat, fish, and chicken but avoiding bread and pasta.
Professor Seyfried explains that these recommendations are based on the idea that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease, and that maintaining a healthy metabolic state can help prevent and manage cancer. He stresses the importance of personal responsibility in managing one's health and making informed decisions about diet and lifestyle.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343544
> Even if so, that's still showing awareness of what his critics are critical of.

Mere awareness is really that meaningful.

>>> and he actively empathised with the protestors.

>> https://www.simplypsychology.org/narcissistic-mirroring.html

> Now, can you make a falsifiable prediction: what would a narcissist do that a normal person would not, such that you can tell if he's engaging in a narcissist process rather that what your own link also says is a perfectly normal and healthy behaviour?

He doesn't have to, because I think the point was to raise doubts about your interpretation.

But if you're looking for more evidence, there are all the stories (from many different people) about Altman being dishonest and manipulative and being very effective at it. That's the context that a lot of people are going use to interpret your claim that Altman "actively empathised with the protestors."
There’s honestly so much interesting stuff here, esp. the llm-related things - large concept models (operating on and predicting concepts, not tokens), dynamic byte latent transformers (byte-level alternative to standard tokenization), sparse memory layers (successfully scaling key-value memory layers without an increase in computational requirements).

Here they are presented as separate things, each of which apparently improves quality / efficiency. I wonder what the quality / efficiency increase is of all those methods put together? Maybe that’s what Llama 4 will be?

This looks like a lot of innovation is happening at Meta in those areas, really cool!
This is why it pisses me off when a techy person makes a YouTube video and just uses TTS instead of recording a voiceover. I know some people don’t have a good recording situation, but I get the sense that a lot of people just do it because they either think people can’t tell or they think it’s a clever hack or “the way of the future” or something.

It isn’t. Instead I find myself watching videos and getting a weird creepy feeling when I suddenly hear the voiceover mispronounce a word or put an emphasis in the wrong place. Part of it is the uncanny valley for sure, but the more pernicious thing is this: once I realize that the voice is AI-generated, I start to worry that the script might be too. Now I’m trying to figure out “is this guy just an amateur writer taking a while to get to his point, or is this an LLM-authored script that is never going to go beyond surface-level statements about the topic.”
I guess it depends on what media you follow. As a Brit my recollection was hearing it was a novelty gadget that about a dozen American eccentrics were using, and then there was the story that a guy called Jimi Heselden bought the company and killed himself by driving one off a cliff and then that was about it. Not the same category as AI at all.
No need for regulators to know why a Tesla crashed
UK: "One for you nineteen for me."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxman
> It had exactly one sign-up which I unfortunately lost with a database migration.

I find this really funny for some reason.
Apparently the first e-bike was invented in 1895. So I don’t think it is accurate to give Segway too much credit in their creation. Anyway the innovation of Segway was the balance system, which e-bikes don’t need.

(I’m not familiar with the site in general, but I think there’s no reason for them to lie about the date, and electric vehicles always show up surprisingly early).

https://reallygoodebikes.com/blogs/electric-bike-blog/histor...
> Hard to say if that happens without him owning Twitter.

Its fairly easy.

In almost every western country the incumbent administration has been punished by voters due to inflation, this has been the case in the uk, germany, romania, france, mexico... list goes on. So Trump could have won without Elon buying twitter.

Similarly he could have donated to Trump without buying Twitter, and been on stage and been all day on twitter saying nonsense without purchasing. So being close to Trump is possible without buying Twitter.

The market would have reacted the same way, because the market is reacting to the fact that Trump is a corrupt leader and being close to him means the market will be skewed to benefit his cronies (in this case Elon). If im not wrong Trump has already mentioned creating "self driving car initiatives" that probably means boosting Tesla dangerous self driving mode, and also they have alluded to investigating rival companies to tesla and spacex or at least "reviewing their goverment contracts". Other industries without social media owners, like private prisions, also skyrocketed after trump won and those paid trump as much as Elon but were not on social media. The market would have reacted to Trump being corrupt regardless of Elon buying Twitter.

So its easy to say that his stock would be up 70% without buying twitter, as long as he kept the 250 million investment in the Trump campaign, and then market assesed Trump admin as affecting market fairness, both of which would happen without his purchase.
Is there a way to get hours watched for a particular channel out of YouTube?

Another high-hour channel for me is Petter of Mentour Pilot.

As an Australian, those two guys accents their way of framing things are like mum’s lullabies.
I followed the drama. The point I was (somewhat unsuccessfully) trying to make was that while, sure, there were groups who wanted him back (mainly the groups with vested financial interests and associated leverage), my sense was that the way it played out was not necessarily in line with wider humanity's best interest, i.e. as would have been hoped based on OpenAI's publicly stated goals.
It’s not random, that’s the point. If you neuter it so much that it’s only useful for a specific use case then make sure it’s named something relevant and specific related to that use case!
The article holds clues: "Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the San Francisco-based company."
Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts about an organization. In this case he's a former employee who had an interview where he criticized OpenAI, but the facts that he was in possession of were not only widely known at the time but were the subject of an ongoing lawsuit that had launched months prior.

As much as I want to give this a charitable reading, the only explanation I can think of for using the word whistleblower here is to imply that there's something shady about the death.
As opposed to a Medium blog? If source material and reputation is the concern.

Many online papers have pay walls. There are similar articles criticizing health care denials from other sources, feel free to post them. They're not all discussion material nor even readable.

And if the writer did a poor job, poke a hole in the argument.
> The benefit is that it makes Rust much easier to maintain and port to new architectures, and much more polyvalent, e.g. you can use Rust on true embedded

"supposedly" Rust's architecture support for all but the most popular archs is horrendous.
The tweet is a medium, but it's the letter's content that's important. We only have a piece of the letter (and history) to go on.

If the company builds, owns, and operates all the amenities that make a town, it's a company town. Like buying stock, these opinions are speculation, and might look wise or foolish later.
Is the idea that you have some devices that you want to download just the text to, but have it sync with your other devices? I think we could support that natively, honestly! Storyteller already has the input files, and it uses a text-based position system that doesn’t require the audio to exist. If you’re already doing work on this, maybe we could add it to Storyteller?
I assume it's because the things that make stuff fail early are also the things that if addressed will make a project live for 75 years.

For example, solar panels for the rovers are overbuilt because you can't clean them if a chance dust storm is a bit too dusty. But that overbuilding also means that as long as the panels stay reasonably free of dust, the rover will last a long time.
Okay. Is OpenAI now deflecting? Deflecting and reframing.
I wonder if Elon Musk is of the Red or the Green mindset.
Broadcom hits trillion-dollar valuation on lofty forecasts for AI demand
I only recently noticed that you are replying to the parts of my post (split up only because of the limit on the size of comments) directly under each one. If continued, I think this would rapidly become difficult to follow, So I will respond at wherever the bottom of this thread has reached at the time. I will also try hard to keep comments within the size limit.
Agree, at least to some extent.

For my use cases, I’m not looking to actually boil the water, bringing it up to 80 plus degrees suffices.

The inefficiency kettles bring is the tendency of certain users to heat way more water than their immediate needs.
and later:

>In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions.

Yes it's true it's been public knowledge that OpenAI has trained on copyrighted data, but details about what was included in training data (albeit dated ...), as well as internal metrics (e.g. do they know how often their models regurgitate paragraphs from a training document?) would be important.