skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts I put together on all this circa 2010: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html "This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."
I don't know if I'm shocked or not shocked that the temperature is 2500F 4 million miles away from the Sun. Part of me expected it to be much much hotter than that, but I guess it is 4 million miles. Considering we are 90 million miles away, and the temperature still gets up to 120F on the Earth, maybe that makes sense?
Trying this since YouTube just started blocking my ad blocker. It seems to be working well on Linux.

I didn't find a feedback button on the app itself, so if the authors are reading, some things I miss from using YouTube's website:

- Videos in new tabs;
- Search bar always visible.
They've been promising us this thing since the 60s: End-user development, 5GLs, etc. enabling the average Joe to develop sophisticated apps in minimal time. And it never arrives.

I remember attending a tech fair decades ago, and at one stand they were vending some database products. When I mentioned that I was studying computer science with a focus on software engineering, they sneered that coding will be much less important in the future since powerful databases will minimize the need for a lot of data wrangling in applications with algorithms.

What actually happened is that the demand for programmers increased, and software ate the world. I suspect something similar will happen the current AI hype.
Yes, we did lose a generational cohort.

There is a reason that the quilt is so large[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2012/06/27/155868611/pieces-of-aids-quil...
Chollet has a few examples here:

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1870172872641261979

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1870173137234727219

I would definitely consider them legitimately easy for humans.
This is a very misguided view of the situation.

a) The transition to clean energy, transportation etc by Western countries funds the development and investment in new technologies. These then filter down to developing countries when the economies of scale kick in e.g. solar panels, electric cars.

b) There are also other benefits to cleaner solutions than just trying to achieve net-zero. Reductions in pollution reduce morbidity, improve productivity, improve happiness, secure food supply etc.
If everyone is switching from drugs to social media, then that's progress. Twitter and Facebook won't harm your body. They're also free, so your habit will never make you poor and desperate. This kind of revolution in improving our health makes me proud to work in the tech industry. The worst that can happen is you'll feel sad if people bully you online, but that's the fault of people, not the technology. We can improve the human condition, but we can't change human nature.
I go to university next to a safe injection site. It's very clear what addiction leads to.
That’s why the goal isn’t just benchmark scores, it’s reliable and robust intelligence.

In that sense, the goalposts haven’t moved in a long time despite claims from AI enthusiasts that people are constantly moving goalposts.
Interesting opening paragraph. Marc Jacobs is considered Luxury? I thought it was pretty mid.
Emotional Wellness Checklist [pdf]
PEGI digs its heels in over Balatro's 18 rating, according to disappointed dev
If it was a safe bet problem, then they should have said that. To me it looks like they faked excitement for something not exciting which lowers credibility of the whole presentation.
I think this is a really interesting area. I wrote a command line took for web reading with some similar motivations. In my case, you queue up the articles to read the next day.

https://muxup.com/pwr
Mainly because it's asinine to think that the entire green economy only exists for virtue signalling and not because there are significant amounts of money to be made.
Two things:

Even the “cool kids” are staying inside and using their phones all day. Cool used to mean you were at the party, now it just means you have a high snapchat score.

Other thing is genuine fear of accidental fentanyl consumption. They’re making fake Xans with fentanyl in them, fentanyl is being found in coke powder. Plenty of people aren’t taking the risk with street drugs anymore. Jelly Roll said so in an interview, he’s a big recreational drug user but doesn’t trust the supply anymore. Good job dealers!
breaking up chrome would be a blunder though, because of their massive funding to mozilla, it could kill FF
I'm not so sure, especially if you look at the sum societal impact, and not just the worst outcomes.

My personal take is that the net social impact is positive for alcohol, marijuana, hallucinogens, and maybe some of the party drugs. For most people, they tend to be a social lubricant, tool for exploration, and source of fun.

I think that smartphone use probably balances out negatively. I think for most people, they have a pretty severe negative impact on their lives, and for some, an extremely negative impact.

The worst outcomes for drug use are probably worse than those for smartphones, but not by too much in my opinion.
Optical Coherence Tomography (1991)
Pretty sure this "cost" is based on their retail price instead of actual inference cost.
Are you like invested in LLM companies or something? You‘re pushing the agenda hard in this thread.
Yes, if you zoom out enough you see it. Like with ordinary objects.
I imagine that, for the young people of the world, the Covid years really ripped away the illusion that the adults of the world are in competent control. To a degree that modern generations (from otherwise relatively stable, wealthy countries) have never experienced. While there are other major factors clearly contributing to the generational angst, I think this was the catalyst.

I wonder how the economics stack up, because intoxicants aren't free. If the researchers are saying there's X less drug use, then presumably that either implies (a) teenagers are now spending X more on other areas instead (and what are they?), or (b) teenagers now have X less money.
It's not silly. The computer that could beat Kasparov couldn't do anything else so of course it wasn't Artificial General Intelligence.

o3 can do much much more. There is nothing narrow about SOTA LLMs. They are already General. It doesn't matter what ARC Maintainers have said. There is no common definition of General that LLMs fail to meet. It's not a binary thing.

By the time a single machine covers every little test humanity can devise, what comes out of that is not 'AGI' as the words themselves mean but a General Super Intelligence.
Interesting that in the video, there is an admission that they have been targeting this benchmark. A comment that was quickly shut down by Sam.

A bit puzzling to me. Why does it matter ?
If your correct then most businesses will go out of business. If all you need is a CEO and the cloud who are you going to sell your products to if no one can buy anything because they've all been fired?
This was a surprisingly insightful blog post, going far beyond just announcing the o3 results.
So far AI market seems to be focused on replacing meaningful jobs, meaningless ones look safe (which kind of makes sense if you think about it).
Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes
All that can be done is to explain things very clearly, with examples, offer to help, etc... so they have every opportunity to get it right / improve. The rest is up to them.

Don't make it personal / use generalizations ("you always", "you never"...) like "It's very hard to explain you concepts, you should work on conceptualization"... just explain the thing clearly, with point to an example/documentation, mention the steps involved and timeframe expectation, tell them they can ask questions for anything that's not clear. Then, they'll either take it on board, or they wont.

As you allude to, some people are just not motivated, checked out... maybe they have a side project or personal problems or whatever. You can't make anyone motivated, all you can do is provide clear information and stay professional. If you're an employee, accept that you don't own the organization, choose coworkers or define the product direction, so you kind of have to get along with things that you'd do differently if it were all up to you.
>lust and love, committed relationship and meaningless sex

Just to complicate, some more types of love to add into the mix: limerence and agape.
Norway has paused its plans to open up its seabed for deep-sea mining
My Facebook account got banned because I didn't have an Instagram account and a bad actor signed up using my same email and I guess did things that violated the TOS. I saw the verification email and ignored it. Two factor authentication didn't matter. That was over a year ago and it's still banned.
You've never met a Doctor who couldn't figure out how to work their email? Or use street smarts? You can have a PHD but be unable to reliably handle soft skills, or any number of things you might 'expect' someone to be able to do.

Just playing devils' advocate or nitpicking the language a bit...
It was inevitable. COVID itself was politicized long before the vaccine was available. All along, the medical scientists themselves were the target, right from the point where they insisted it was a problem at all and not something that would vanish by Easter.

It was unavoidable that that would generalize to all vaccines. It is coming for the childhood vaccines, but flu and mpox are the next station on that trip.
Maybe its CA thing? Plenty of $50 golf courses here in Phoenix.
> it's too dialed in, and I rarely get serendipitous recommendations

Youtube is doing better here for me in that respect than it used to. Once a week for the past month I get a button that asks if i want to see things it doesn't usually show me and I've even watched some of them. It's not perfect, but it does seem like they are trying.
The Grayjay Android app (which I use regularly) has a "Recommended" tab under each video that provides anonymous recommendations based only on the video you're watching. I recall them asking me to opt-in to the creation of a database like this as well recently, but I don't think it's available yet.
First-time home owners have increased in age[0], the middle class is shrinking[1], education costs have vastly outpaced inflation[2] as have medical costs[3].

Perhaps the generalized fear is not so much about "coddling", but concrete realities. I do not envy them.

[0] https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/american-housing-market-old...
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-a...
[2] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...
[3] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/how-does-medical-i...
And also the solving of hundreds of diseases that ail us.
Knocking the western 30% of pollution down to zero is still meaningful, even if the remaining 70% isn't affected (which it will be). China, one is the most polluting non-western countries, is going to renewables and electric vehicles at a faster rate than some of the western countries.
Nice!

P.S. I love the colour choices and the colour stripe interactions on your website. So cool!
That is the raw number, not the rate.

Since the spread of social media, suicide rates are up for children, significantly: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db471.pdf

> The suicide rate for people aged 15–19 did not change significantly from 2001 through
2009, then increased 57% from 2009 through 2017

> For people aged 10–14, the suicide rate tripled from 2007 through 2018
Ask HN: Why do we care about message privacy but let AI listen to our meetings?
Signal and Telegram are built around private, encrypted communication.

But every time, I join the meeting I see some random AI note-taker bot. It basically transcribes the most precise things ever - your meetings.

Why people stopped to care that their data - their voice, their meeting voice are processed on servers somewhere?
They get excited but still bound
Done that, no joy.
Isn't any physically realizable computer (including our brains) limited to what uniform-TC0 can do?
Weight will increase as you get older if you consume a constant amount of calories. Your metabolism slows with age (and generally entering the job market means a much more sedentary life style for most white collar workers).
£900/mo would bankrupt most of the country lol
Your last point was my knee-jerk reaction, "where are they going to do drugs? There are fewer and fewer places available to spend time without paying a fee." I'd like to know if that's true or just a mistaken impression on my part.
In my previous comment i linked to an earlier comment of mine which already pointed it out, so this is not revelatory. W.r.t. concurrency however, the logical approach should precede lower-level implementation approach since there is lots more complexity involved in the latter. Mutexes/Semaphores/Condition Variables etc. are not bad/wrong abstractions but necessary correct ones. They are fundamental to understanding/managing concurrency itself.
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now
Wow, the demo where the user asks for untraceable payments shows some pretty sophisticated reasoning. The word "crafty" comes to mind.
Assuming this is the reason, it seems much less trivial to install more/better cameras in a store than to coordinate this effort.
Anxiety and sadness are actually mild emotional responses to the dissolution of human culture. Nick Land in 1992:

"It is ceasing to be a matter of how we think about technics, if only because technics is increasingly thinking about itself. It might still be a few decades before artificial intelligences surpass the horizon of biological ones, but it is utterly superstitious to imagine that the human dominion of terrestrial culture is still marked out in centuries, let alone in some metaphysical perpetuity. The high road to thinking no longer passes through a deepening of human cognition, but rather through a becoming inhuman of cognition, a migration of cognition out into the emerging planetary technosentience reservoir, into 'dehumanized landscapes ... emptied spaces' where human culture will be dissolved. Just as the capitalist urbanization of labour abstracted it in a parallel escalation with technical machines, so will intelligence be transplanted into the purring data zones of new software worlds in order to be abstracted from an increasingly obsolescent anthropoid particularity, and thus to venture beyond modernity. Human brains are to thinking what mediaeval villages were to engineering: antechambers to experimentation, cramped and parochial places to be.

[...]

Life is being phased-out into something new, and if we think this can be stopped we are even more stupid than we seem." [0]

Land is being ostracized for some of his provocations, but it seems pretty clear by now that we are in the Landian Accelerationism timeline. Engaging with his thought is crucial to understanding what is happening with AI, and what is still largely unseen, such as the autonomization of capital.

[0] https://retrochronic.com/#circuitries
People tend to have more major life events as they get older, and sometimes they choose to soothe with food when facing major loss in other areas.
How did you tell the difference between being right while facing an obstinate opponent, and being argumentative?
> Spotify shouldn't be anything but a dumb pipe.

That's the absolute last thing I want.

I've found so much music through its radio recommendations, it's "artists like this", getting into a new genre via its curated playlists.

The primary value proposition to me of Spotify is to not be a dumb pipe, but to actively assist me in discovering new music I like.

There are lots of services I could choose to access music through (Apple, Amazon, Tidal, etc.), if all I wanted was a dumb pipe. I pick Spotify because of how much better its recommendations are over the other services, in my experience.

But that's not taking away any choice, it's only adding to it. Sometimes I choose to listen to stuff I know I like, and Spotify algorithms play zero part in that. Sometimes I want new stuff, and Spotify algorithms and playlists are a huge help. They're not "dictating" anything to me, because I'm actively choosing to use them.
HiveTalk, Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
Great point. There are many yt channels that I would subscribe to if yt had multiple subscription lists. Channels I find interesting, but not enough so that I want them to "clog up" my main subscription channel.
I see this on Firefox on desktop too. I usually try not to criticize the presentation of things posted here, but this is completely unreadable. I've tried several times to get through the first couple paragraphs, but it's just not worth the extra mental effort.
> We had hand prosthetics that could play Mozart at 5x speed on a baby grand, but could not pick up a silver dollar or zip a jacket even a little bit. "

I must be missing something, how can they be able to play Mozart at 5x speed with their prosthetics but not zip a jacket? They could press keys but not do tasks requiring feedback?

Or did you mean they used to play Mozart at 5x speed before they became amputees?
I struggle with this idea of "run it long enough", or another description I have heard "give the model time to think" it's not a thing - it takes as long as it takes. What im taking away from this is two things:

1. the reason for generalizations like 'long enough' and 'think more' are apparently because the methods are somewhat obscure
2. those methods are being explored by hugging face to make them less obscure

am I getting that right? I have been struggling to see past the metaphors and understand exactly what additional computation is being done - and here I read its something like multiple guesses being fed back in and chosen among which means its just multiple inferences in series that are all related to solving 1 problem.
This is partly the "psychology is the study of college undergrads" problem. The original study was on Stanford students, all of whom have already passed through a very selective filter. That's not a group to extrapolate to the general population. Too many psych studies are done on this convenient population.

It's great seeing the original author admit the problem.
> which isn't something a lot of people just keep around

Surely it's something that airtag owners keep around in bulk? I don't have any airtags/tiles/etc, but I can't imagine owning just one. As soon as I have one, I might as well have 6 or 12. If I'm replacing 2*n batteries per year, even if n is just 2 or 3, I'm buying these things in bulk!
Think most commenters are correct and that tech and screens have usurped more “medicinal” drugs.

What I find interesting is the general lack of care among folks here at HN. There was a comment thread about some person in AL alluding to not being able to find qualified workers at their government contractor implying a morale hang up on “weapon systems”

I’d argue tech kills more folks than these contractors but people can easily look past that.
https://archive.is/Utw38
It's also really cool. You can make it so that the home assistant itself first tries to understand what you do, like turning on the living room lights or setting the bathroom temperature to 21.5 degrees celsius. If the assistant pipeline does not understand what you are asking for, it can send your question to the LLM of your choice. You can also make the LLM to control the lights, heat etc, but at least for now ChatGPT is pretty bad with that. So let home assistant do the home automation, and then let ChatGPT to answer your questions about the most popular ruler in the 19th century France.
Many have also not and are switching away from Agile.

It hit £1 a couple of weeks ago. Ouch

It's cheap if you use the majority of your energy in the wee hours right?
I feel like that’s just kicking the can a little further down the road.

Our value proposition as humans in a capitalist society is an increasingly fragile thing.
some chemistry occurs as a result of burning.
dependent on substance it can be worse, or more immediate.

e.g. benomyl [fungicide] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benomyl

will produce cyanide as combustion product.
You don't need to live in SV to be in its bubble.

> I wouldn't have been able to make an app without some company making the device for me to do it on.

If you are not asking yourself why should you need to ask permission to develop an app, I'm sorry but you are lost beyond repair. Stockholm's Syndrome is real.
Perhaps? But a confounder is the strengthening or weakening of social ties. It's not clear that what seems to increasing loneliness is doing well by this next generation.
> they won't be buying homes, they won't be getting high paying jobs, and that the system is not going to work in their favor

I dont have a clue what your upbringing looked like, but even up to around age of 25, I never ever expected nor was told to expect any of that. The success despite all that is much sweeter.

Maybe thats some US thing, being raised in eastern Europe you were born to shit, you were considered insignificant shit and that was about it. Thats what being occupied for 4 decades by russians causes to society, on top of other bad stuff they are so natural with.

Maybe stop telling kids how they are all special and great and all will be astronauts and let them figure it all out by themselves? Teenagers being frustrated that they wont be owning some posh expensive house, thats pretty fucked up upbringing and life goals to be polite, thats not success in life in any meaningful way.

I recommend checking biggest regrets of dying people, focus on careers and money hoarding are consistently at the top.
Brave brazenly makes adverts in which they claim to skip YT adds. They would at some point grow big enough for YT to become a problem.
So you adjust your calories
That actually makes a lot of sense. I know of quite a few younger people who pass on things they can't order online. Grubhub vs phone-in takeout, Amazon vs malls, etc. I wonder if the areas that are legalizing drugs will see a DrugHub app pop up.
I just don’t feel like it would be hard to put a picture on the thing of a guy like getting close to it then dying. The basic idea that it’s hazardous wouldn’t be too hard to communicate.
python developers run pyenv inside of docker containers.. they just have no clue what good dependency management could even possibly look like
I'm glad you like paying into health insurance and getting no medical care
That 3.6M million dollar home might have been worth a lot less before asset appreciation happened. There's quite a few people living in expensive areas that bought homes 20-30 years ago when it was dirt cheap, the place became popular, and now they're a teacher or something who owns a multi-million dollar home while living on 80k a year or something.