skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree, I just don't think it is done well or at least as seriously as it used to. In modern philosophy, there are many mathematically specious arguments, that just make clear how large the mathematical gap has become e.g. improper application of Godel's incompleteness theorems. Yet Godel was a philosopher himself, who would disagree with its current hand-wavy usage.

19th/20th was a golden era of philosophy with a coherent and rigorous mathematical lens to apply with other lenses. Russel, Turing, Godel, etc. However this just doesn't exist anymore
I wonder if there's a market for novelty collector bonds like this.
Next level: Make it a wrapper `spacers ... cmd ...`. This way you can allocate PTY, and make the app believe it is still talking to the terminal and the use colors and alter its output in more fancy ways.

BTW. Somewhat similiar (better sometimes) result can be achieved simply with:

(echo "first"; sleep 1; echo "second"; sleep 0.5; echo "third") | ts -i "%.S"

00.000004 first

00.987787 second

00.501363 third
Or just set `IdentityFile` with the path to the key and set `IdentitiesOnly` to yes for the specific host you connect to, and disable public key authentication by default for everything else.
I am disappointed you didn't submit it!
Probably due to reports like these where the digital twin is credited with gains in factory efficiency.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolynschwaar/2024/12/09/schae...
I saw the end coming miles away, but enjoyed reading this essay anyway as it's well written. I guess I saw it coming in good part because I can really relate to the story, from the point of view of a CS associate professor.

LLMs are a real pain for students on so many levels. These tools can destroy their confidence by being seemingly better than them at first, which also makes these students want to use these tools instead of learning, and then it starts to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I kind of fear the impact this tech will have on our future. A society mostly full of Juliuses is doomed.
> Pre-antidepressants my life was fantastic on paper: stable job, close friends, good family, strong relationship, perfect health

I had the same. Post-SSRIs I have none of those things, and am surprised that I'm still alive.

When I asked my shrink 'why zoloft?' the only reason was 'got to start somewhere'. I wish we had evidence-based psychiatry, but instead we have 'throw shit at the wall' psychiatry.
I mean I thought it was a allegory about LLMS right from the start.. way too long winded. Just skipped to the bottom to validate it.
llms.txt isn't an opt-out signal like robots.txt, it's a way to provide a simplified version of pages that are easier for LLMs to ingest. It's more of an opt-in for being scraped more accurately.
what did you use to build the landing page?
Evolution will select for humans intelligent enough to buy air conditioners.
> Why should he write a second mostly identical article?

That's not being suggested. What is being suggested is that the book could have been condensed into a mere article to begin with.
Add ChatGPT support with their models
works great now btw, fun game!
I agree with you about the fair use argument. Seems like it doesn't meet a lot of the criteria for fair use based on my lay understanding of how those factors are generally applied.

See https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

I think in particular it fails the "Amount and substantiality of the portion taken" and "Effect of the use on the potential market" extremely egregiously.
Noob question - how do we know that these autoencoders aren't hallucinating and really are mapping/clustering what they should be?
That will be annoying to implement, as I do not have an OpenAI API Key, but I will attempt
PGP keys are associated with emails and there are various fully decentralized options to discover these keys (keyservers, WKD, ...). (How) does Keypub improve on this?
I don't think most programmers use "low level code". Even C and C++ are not "low level" and certainly not Python.
Interesting to see what people are passionate about.
If you have a guitar handy, you can try out the live mode on https://www.fretboardfly.com . It works and people use it: Using your acoustic guitar to play the fretboard learning game via the mic.
The point of food stamps is to allow you to buy real food when you otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it. Somebody with food stamps doesn't need to survive off sugar water like an overgrown hummingbird because they can buy real food. Even in "food deserts" there are hundreds of better options than soda.
Well, you asked for reasons. They may not apply to you specifically.
You've made an error here...

>They will tell me. Every. Single. F*cking. 5. Minute. Clip. Again. And. Again.

Do you know why you got that video. Because people liked and subscribed to them and the 'experts' with the best information in the universe are hidden 5000 videos below with 10 views.

And this is 100% Googles fault for the algorithms they created that force these behaviors on anyone that wants to use their platform and have visibility.

Lastly, if you can't find anything interesting or important on YT, this points at a failure of your own. While there is an ocean of crap, there is more than enough amazing content out there.
Hyundai to offer free NACS DC EV adapters to enhance charging convenience
Too bad it's in Sicily, where everything goes to shit given enough (short) time
Hey man, thanks for sharing this! I was pretty shocked to see traffic coming from YCombinator of all places. Really made my day.
> don't want to be bothered with any of these details

Isn't the job to be bothered with the details? 90% of employment for most people is doing shit you don't really want to be doing, but that's the job.
The catch is that the interest-free loan can be called in by you, the gift card holder, at any time - so they get less utility from any given amount of gift card balances than they would loans/corporate bonds of the same amount because they're always trying to be prepared to pay out some portion of those balances.

This is why they're treated as a liability in the company books. You can guess or bet that all of your outstanding gift card balances won't be redeemed at once, but there's really nothing preventing that from happening and causing cashflow problems for the company. And there's lots of overhead involved in tracking many many thousands of small balances on cards into perpetuity.

Much easier to encourage people to spend the gift cards and get your financing from proper, predictable business loans or bonds.
Best practice:

Use SSH keys for SSH connections and authentication

Use PGP keys for email encryption and file signing

Keep these systems separate as they're designed for different purposes
Elysia 1.2 – You and Me
The logic here is "Apple gained significant market share with its features so we'll legislate them into a universal standard".
Same logic could be applied to any other feature made by any other company.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it as a consumer. I'd friggin love to be able to airdrop a file from one digital device to another.

But it could be an ingenious way to create standards. Instead of randomly creating fourteen different solutions to a problem hoping one will gain traction, we wait for apple/microsoft/cisco/whoever to force one down our throats and then take it from them and make it a standard.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
This 100%. Vector DBs have been heavily pushed by vector DB companies and cloud providers, and despite companies often having mere MBs of documents to search through for their use cases, amounts that trivially fit into RAM / can be searched via dot product in milliseconds, managers and engineers less familiar with the space think people are doing it wrong if they don't use a vector db. So.. vector DBs end up getting used when actually a simpler in-memory, non-approximate, solution would be fine, (but less monetizable)
Also encrypted storage on AWS is so simple. Encrypted root file systems on prem is not easy.
"Hijack your keys" is somewhat overstating it, all they can do with it is log into other hosts that you can log into, assuming key auth is the only factor. And only while you are connected to the original host.

Terminal security bugs are not more or less serious than your average Chrome 0day.
It's been quite fun from the free shitcoin handout point of view but hasn't had enough uptake to be practical as a form of id.
Julius sounds like repeated application of The Peter Principle except he never went past any level of competence because he was always incompetent. Polished but incompetent.
This is fun of course, but as a developer you can trivially and with high accuracy guard against it by having a second model critique the conversation between the user and the primary LLM.
"And that's what this game is/you're inside their thoughts/go and make them bigger/and you'll play for a long while"

- the video advertising Glitch contained in this post; "their" refers to the eight giants that imagined this world.

That's... that's the best they could do? "You'll play for a long while?" I think that's what the narrator's saying, she kinda mumbles that line, it's all delivered kinda half-heartedly like she's ashamed of the lack of anything to really do in this so-called "game".

It's over a bunch of screenshots of crafting mechanics. And crowds of layer avatars. Was there anything else here? If there was any actual building they sure were not advertising it; there's been a lot of multiplayer games that have less in the way of actual game mechanics but usually there's room for a ton of player-created content, and Glitch sure does not look like it had that, despite the fact that the previous attempt at this thing is what Flickr grew out of.

How the heck did they spend three years on making this thing without ever finding something more compelling to advertise than "uh multiplayer and crafting and some pretty art, I guess"?
Canada checking in. We have the same system for authenticating with government services.
https://www.interac.ca/en/verification/personal/sign-into-go...

I dislike this as well, as this is conditioning people to not second guess why a third party website is sending you to your bank to login. As well as scam websites I've come across that mirror the authentication process down to every step you would have when using it for legitimate purposes.
Scam website>Scam Interact login parter>Scam web banking login> stolen bank credentials.
If it's genuinely what you say, then how is what is going on not slavery?

I don't believe AGI is possible but if it was and it was as subjective as you say what is and isn't conscious, then it starts to take on an even more altogether evil character.

Akin to cloning slave humans or something for free cheap labor.
This is a reason I opted to have a plastic surgeon come in when I went to the ER with an injury.

I could've had the nurse close me up and leave me with a scar, which she admitted would happen with her practice, or I could have someone with extensive experience treating wounds so that they'd heal in cosmetically appealing way do it. I opted for the latter.
I agree, these are good points.
Not sure. From other comments, it sounds like that's an adjustment that they made later.
Without a shred of judgement or sarcasm, yeah I agree, it's a big part of what I enjoy about scrolling through New here.
prev discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489600
I read the whole thing and never saw any twist. What did I miss?
Well, in the 90s, cyberpunk was a parody.

But of course, a few too many people took it as an instruction manual, so yes, by now, we're basically there.
That's so interesting, thanks for answering. I wonder if anybody's ever run a test where they take "normal" people and schizotypal people like yourself, give them dowsing rods, and see who has a higher accuracy rate of finding water.
The difference being that you have to do a little more than that to become a board-certified surgeon. If a VC gives you a billion dollars to buy and practice on every available surgery practice kit in the world, you will still fail to become a surgeon. And we enforce such standards because if we don't then people die needlessly.
Show HN: Akas: an app to share AI generated podcast
INVITE ONLY CODE: BVN55L

Let's be real—AI is taking over everything, even podcasting. Platforms like NotebookLM and others are spitting out incredible AI-generated podcasts every day. But there's one problem: no one's figured out how to share them easily.

That's where Akas comes in.

What is Akas?
Akas is the place to upload, share, and discover AI-generated podcasts. Got a mind-blowing AI-generated episode? Upload it to Akas and share it with your friends or the world. Wanna share your own voice? Record your raw, unfiltered thoughts right in the app.

We're the bridge between AI creativity and your personal voice.

Why Akas?
Because sharing AI-generated content shouldn't be a hassle. Whether it's a 10-minute deep dive from NotebookLM or your late-night ramblings, Akas makes it seamless. No perfect setup. No overthinking. Just upload, share, and vibe.

What Makes Akas Different?
AI First: We're built for the AI generation. Your podcasts, your way.
Your Voice Matters: Mix your recordings with AI content or keep it personal.
For the Feels: Akas is about raw vibes, not over-polished production.

How It Works
1. Download your favorite AI-generated podcast from platforms like NotebookLM.
2.Upload it to Akas in seconds.
3.Share it with your friends, the world, or keep it to yourself.

I am figuring out ways where you don't have to download, and works with NotebookLM links.

Also, the app is invite only for now. And, here is my invitation code: BVN55L
That definitely feels more useful :)
Warcraft's Technology [video]
This is underdiscussed. I don't think people understand just how worthless AI is in a ton of fields until it is able to be held liable and be sent to prison.

There are a lot of moral conundrums that are just not going to work out with this. Seems like an attempt to just offload liability and it seems like pretty much everybody has caught onto that as being it's main selling point and probably main thing that will keep it from ever being accepted for anything important.
I have no horse in this race, was just commenting from a generic point of view. The project's README.md says "Lightweight alternative to OAuth for CLI applications" in section "Use Cases", and there is no further mention of OAuth in it, maybe that's more acceptable.
I have a hard time believing that anyone actually wants to live in a society of true "anarchy". I'm not even sure what people mean when they talk about it, and I've tried asking several "advocates" of "anarchy" what they mean, and I've never received a satisfactory answer. Just general examples of the wrongs perpetrated by our current society.

Not only "good cities", but even HN's beloved "free markets" are completely dependent on a government enforcing rule of law.

So, as usual, both the wingnut libertarians, and the wokenut anarchists are out in the weeds. With neither expressing rational policy, and both being completely devoid of acknowledging physical reality.

A society based on rule of law is essential for any form of civilization. The fairness of that society will be wholly dependent on how uniformly and fairly that rule is applied and enforced.

At present we have very poor uniform enforcement in the US, and that's leading to a LOT of social maladies, but that is not a rational reason for eliminating rule of law, it's a reason to reform it.
I touched make once in 1999, in school. The syntax was arcane, even by 1999 standards.

> Why have they gone out of style?

Because no modern toolchain uses make. Its syntax is so arcane that it's been replaced with various tools that are designed for the specific stack. Otherwise, more generic build systems use modern languages / markup.
I strongly advocate this! If you're starting off in this space, check if this barebones implementation isn't all you need. You can't beat the accuracy of a full search; in theory, you're trading off scalability, but validate if you need the scale where this tradeoff begins to show. And yes, sbert is great, and it gives you options to choose [1] between accuracy (MPNet) and speed (MiniLM). There are also multi-lingual options. And remember, you can also fine-tune MPNet with SetFit. And there are always new and interesting embeddings being released, so remember to re-assess the fitment of embeddings once in a while against what you're using, e.g., LLM2vec or ModernBERT. A good idea would be to keep checking MTEB [2].

[1] https://www.sbert.net/docs/sentence_transformer/pretrained_m...

[2] https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
Here's the (fantastic) YouTube video that this is a recap of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZxOuc9Qwk
Most teabags I use now don't split (some imported brands you have to be careful with), these are just regular looking ones not the fine mesh ones used by premium brands. I can jam them against the side of the cup to squeeze out liquid before removing the bag and they almost never split.

I'd say these extra strong bags have become common in the last 15 years in the UK. How they are strengthened I'm not sure, but my parents compost most of their food waste and they reckon worms now push teabags to the top of the compost bin, when previously they would just disappear with everything else and never be seen again.
I had a bunch of those whenever I tried to use OLX - both on OLX messages and Whatsapp as well. Bot prevention is 0.
I know people who were successfully scammed as they think they are entering their card details to get money transferred by their card number.
Perl and cigarette are both unsafe for children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel
Have there been any declarations by various AI companies (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity) that they are actually relying upon these llms.txt files?

Is there any evidence that the presence of the llms.txt files will lead to increased inclusion in LLM responses?
Anyone using this as an Evernote replacement?

I use Evernote since what, 2005, 2008? Yet I hate every time I start it up. Such ugly bloatware it has become. And the silly “AI powered” features tacked on when it became fashionable… Man, replacing it would feel so good.
I don't remember last time I had to reinstall Windows unless upgrading in place is considered reinstalling. I keep hearing people reinstalling and I don't understand why.
Windows has bugs some very annoying but so does every other OS I used. With Linux it's very likely you'll find an obscure forum post that explains how to work around it (unless it's nvidia related on a laptop) but with Windows you are stuck until Microsoft decides to fix it. Same applies to MacOS though.
bro i literally just posted a podcast show hn
Don't you know the other rule of drug dealing? If you ask an undercover cop if they're an undercover cop, they have to tell you the truth? it's against the rules for them to lie about it.
Sounds fascinating. Anywhere I can read more about the build-up to this moment? Has David Wiltshire written about this?
Cellulose is supposed to be dietary fiber. For which there is a recommended daily intake amount.
echo "printf '\n'" >> ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_right_prompt.fish....
The more the public has access to these tools, the more they'll develop useful scar tissue and muscle memory. We need people to be constantly exposed to bots so that they understand the new nature of digital information.

When the automobile was developed, we had to train kids not to play in the streets. We didn't put kids or cars in bubbles.

When photoshop came out, we developed a vernacular around edited images. "Photoshopped" became a verb.

We'll be able to survive this too. The more exposure we have, the better.
That's why they choose this logo for it.
Sentiment analysis is the worst
That bleeding edge point burned me many times. My most recent lenovo legion refused to work with any distro I tried. I'm no Linux guru but comfortable with Linux and just couldn't get the gpu to work.
Not bad.

As someone who has dabbled in AI generated crosswords I found that providing samples of "good crossword clues" (which I curated from historical NYT monday puzzles) as part of the LLM context helped tremendously in generating better clues.

There was also a Show HN for a generative AI crossword puzzle system a few months ago so I'll include what I mentioned there:

Part of the deep satisfaction in solving a crossword puzzle is the specificity of the answer. It's far more gratifying to answer a question with something like "Hawking" then to answer with "scientist", or answering with "mandelbrot" versus "shape".

So ideally, you want to lean towards "specificity" wherever possible, and use "generics" as filler.

Link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879754
But it is just a way to answer a webhook.

Sure I could get DNS to point to my ADSL connection and set something up in my router so that my home computer can answer the webhook but then I can never turn my computer off. On top of that I have about one power outage a month.

It would also be non-proprietary to spend $5k on a server and $300 a month on colo costs but with AWS I can use what would be 1 cent of resources if I was optimizing that colo (with $10k of labor) and pay 10 cents for it (could really be spending up to $50 on a non-optimized colo, which is what I might have if I don't need to handle a billion webhooks a month) If I want to switch to Azure or some other service that could answer a webhook the labor involved is minuscule.
Oh interesting. I'm like 90% sure my shop teacher had one of these!

He had a giant ass CRT in his home (took up like half the living room in his tiny house). He got it from a facilities friend at a university that he was friendly with in like ~00s. They were getting rid of all these because flat-screens and projectors were much more in vogue at the time and these behemoths were simply dated.

I wonder if he still has it.
The article mentioned it was a listing specifically for a large item.

I get why someone might not show up on my doorstep if they’re buying a piano - they probably need to hire somebody and are themselves not going to contribute anything to the piano moving process.

But fully agreed that once you’re an inch off the “show up with money” path, everything is suspect.
I esteem & enjoy Requiem for a Dream, but I couldn't bear watching it again, despite a dozen tries. By that measure it's the best horror movie of all time.
wait, like your own podcast or podcast app?
From the little I've read and watched regarding animal intelligence, it's typically mentioned that the brain-to-body size ratio is more important/correlated to estimated intelligence than brain size alone. It seems to help explain things like the outsized intelligence of certain smaller animals (e.g. corvids), but it also seems to only be a partial explanation.
Eventually they’ll run out of things to copy, then progress will slow. Ultimately it’s a net positive if you’re interested in technological progress to have more people working on these problems.
> And... kinda failed.

Huh?

I suppose maybe the Java one is dubious(?), but the others were very happily adopted by the ecosystem over sentinel values.
Is a bot really necessary in order to calculate 0.93*(1 + n%)^1000?
There is also LangFuse which has an integration with Flowise

https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse

https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise
Not having access to the dataset really makes the whole thing seem incredibly shady. Totally valid questions you are raising
And if they are, can I put subtly incorrect data in this file to poison llm responses while keeping my content designed for humans of the best quality?
Exactly. There's enough harm to go around for everyone in this case.
Maybe just two. One could be knowledge, the other personality. Might be tricky if they ever combined.

Who knows, there might be a book in this idea...