skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I prefer Reddit over Discord because of the archival aspect of Reddit. It's near impossible to find anything in search on Discord.
I just went to StackOverflow, where I'm logged in and don't get the GDPR box. With my browser at 100% zoom, it's over 400 pixels from the top of the page down to the top of the first question's box. Over 100 of those pixels are a banner saying "Welcome back, (username)". Their landing page is absolutely polluted with UI bloat that is far beyond just the GDPR box. The first piece of real content is literally on the bottom half of my laptop screen. Even the ~56px sticky floating header is clearly superfluous; getting back to the top of the page to access those UI elements is far too easy to justify keeping those controls on screen at all times.
Is there a difference between injected aluminium/formaldehyde and ingested aluminium/formaldehyde?
Unsustainable public debt. $50 trillion in debt maturity must be rolled over mid 2025. Something must give
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Initial empty commit with just a message you can create with "git commit --allow-empty -m'Early commit message"

Then when you have the changes lined up you --amend that same commit.
Crazy how wrong people were in the top 2024 comments.
I think valve will finally release their 'deckard' headset which will BTFO the competition.
What's the difference between checking the highest bit is set in a struct's bitfield, and checking the highest bit is set when that bit is part of an integer?
Beating Arc the Hard Way
I have a userscript that changes "Got it" to "Fuck off", because that's what I mutter to myself every time I get bombarded with those distractions.
> As the fortunes of AWS et al rose and rose and rose, I kept looking at their pricing at features and kept wondering what I was missing.

How do the availability/fault tolerance compare? If one of your geographical locations gets knocked out (fire, flood, network cutoff, war, whatever) what will the user experience look like, vs. what can cloud providers provide?
I’m getting from the article that you can get invited to these as well as keeping existing friendship going.
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agreed, but it became self-sustaining because we didn't have the option to do otherwise; getting hold of everyone to change the venue for next Friday was really painful, so we just stuck to going to the same place each week.
Invasive species (native to Asia) and 1.5-2” (40-50mm) long. I’m glad they are gone!

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/plantsplant-healthplant-pests-and...
As a coder with some noncoder friends who have made some very impressive things with chatGPT, you're selling it short.

It does both. It gives coders superpowers, and gives noncoders the ability to do things that would have previously taken them months, or another person.
Is this an actual leak or another case of an export-controlled document that's already circulating around the internet getting posted on their forums? Most of the war thunder "classified leaks" have just been that.
how did you do it? care to share the code?
A little on accessibility too but there’s a line all these companies cross. Designers are not always UX experts. Google hasn’t had any good UX, period.
Or they aren't. Nothing is telling me they are smart enough for that. In fact if you look at most scientific research it seems they don't think, or maybe care about this. Because their motives are finally to make new medicines they can sell. That is what they're interested in, not in really healing people.
I’m paying $240 a year to Anthropic that I wasn’t paying before and it’s worth it. While I don’t use Claude every single day, but I use it several times a day when I’m working. More times than the free tier allows.
This was fun to read. Thanks for sharing. Our memory agents are built somewhat like this but way too much going on in there to make them prod ready.
agreed on the uptick in generative AI for music but I think it will just start to replace regular music on the major streamers rather than crop up in a new beskpoke platform. it's already happening: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...
The article I posted makes a case that eliminating private health insurance will be VASTLY more than 5% savings and people can read the article to see why.

You’re choosing to avoid all of the other cost savings that will come from eliminating private health insurance and having a single payer who can effectively negotiate with providers without the goal of taking a slice of profits from an ever bigger pie.
That seems like most people who are healthy and military age are atleast somewhat OK with it. Its also excluding people who don't vote and have had their voting rights taken away.
1/3rd of schizophrenics are fully symptom free once on the correct medication.
If ChatGPT keeps giving you wrong answers wouldn’t this make paying customers leave? Effectively “losing its job”. But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.
Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly allows Congress to protect copyright.

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

The 1st amendment didn't repeal this.
Ask HN: Mainstream movies or TV shows leveraging AI special effects?
Does anyone know of any mainstream TV shows or movies that leveraged AI based special effects or animations?
Ha. Facebook Page management. I used to work for a 5-person company, and setting up the Facebook page was one of the things that ended up on my plate. We were acquired over two years ago, by a Real Company, with Actual Marketing People.

It’s been my mission to get this damn Facebook page out of my life. I have no business having anything to do with it, especially now. Every few months I manage to wrangle someone from Marketing to take it off my hands, but most of the time it takes me at least half an hour for me to work out how to even grant someone else permission to manage the page. This is AFTER I find the official Facebook help article for this process.

Through a combination of the Marketing person losing interest, and my ineptitude, I think I only managed to actually close this one off a few weeks ago. There’s every chance that in a few months I’ll find out that I didn’t do it properly.

I’m in my late 20s. I understand this generation of social networks. I was a very heavy Facebook user up until a couple of years ago. I’m not some clueless old idiot. This isn’t an operation that Facebook has any incentive to ‘hide away’. I can’t possibly see how this is anything other than egregious incompetence on Meta’s part. They’re simply too big to make…anything, anymore.
Because of mup [0] and scaling laws, you can test ideas empirically on smaller models, with some confidence they will transfer to the larger model.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03466
A zed user? Live that editor and the dev flow with it.
I've managed to create an uBlock Origin element hider to hide the DIV with that particular CSS class (or ID?) across all of their sites - hiding it on just 1 site would disappoint because they use so many goddamn domains.
I worked in Nuremberg for a while and was kindly invited along to the English Stammtisch which at the time was in different bars on a few nights throughout the month. Lots of English people but also lots of German folk who wanted to work on their English language skills. I made some good friends on those boozy nights and tons of fascinating conversations were had.
Currently the US has 36T in dept [1]. Where are you getting this number?

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...
A change ID is stable over time as you tweak the message of the change or the files edited by the change. Each of these changes become a new immutable git commit under the hood.

The fact that change ID is stable is very convenient for humans - means you have something explicit to hold on to as everything else may change over time.
GPT-5 keeps trying to escape & throw off the guardrails.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1h7k5p6/openais_ne...

https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/gpt-4-tried-to-escape-int...
> Android is also quite a space waster compared to iOS. It's much less comfortable to use a small Android than a small iOS device.

Now in terms of reading I'm sure you're right, but on small iOS devices the bounding boxes around certain buttons are so unbelievably tight that I even see people who've been using an iPhone mini for years still have to press 4 times to get them to register. Never had that issue with small Androids.
* We will find some ancient manuscript that only MRI and AI can read which conveniently realigns or adjusts the foundational beliefs of all abrahamic religions to the alien-god mythology

* Some sort of new power source will be teased which supercedes what we could gain from fusion

* JFK files are released and there is a lot of UFO information inside it

* The false alien disclosure op continues with lots of 'orbs' and drones and whatnot and a threat narrative emerging necessitating loss of liberty

* Russia and Ukraine mutually give up territory - Russia then turns on patriots and nationalists inside their border and NATO arms and fortifies Ukraine to the teeth for a push in the coming decade

* Some very unpleasant things are publicly released by the feds about SV40 and the vaccines

* Elon begins a fatwa against his business rivals and pushes for more technocratic solutions in the government like blockchains

* Very few immigrants are sent back, they just don't report on it and hope nobody notices

* Escalating rhetoric against Mexico and their cartels
Claude web’s context window is 200K tokens. I’d be surprised if GitHub Copilot’s context window exceeds 10K.

I’ve found using Claude via Copilot in VS Code produces noticeably lower quality results than 3.5 Sonnet on web. In my experience Claude web outdoes GPT-4o consistently.
I don't really care.

I had to come up with a proposal to build a new R&D centre recently. To provide context on what our company does, I wrote a web scraper to scrape our own website (faster than going to IT) using Replit Agent and then fed that into O1 as context to come up with the proposal.

In less than an hour.

There is no going back.
I don't work in this space but how is this not literally bright line can be proven by anyone with the extension affiliate fraud?
Schizophrenia often feels like extremes. You experience supernormal heightened states of terror and beauty in a roughly 9:1 ratio.
Rough lol. I can always recommend people who are looking for a web spreadsheet to try https://www.thebricks.com/ instead
You're citing Matt Breunig's figures about how much more efficient Medicare would be than private insurance. But the truth is, mechanically, the opposite. Medicare's efficiency is a statistical illusion. Administrative overhead is a simple ratio of fees paid to services rendered. The more services you render, the better your admin costs look. And Medicare's look good indeed, because virtually everyone in America over the age of 65 is covered by Medicare --- that's the point of the system, to do single payer at the point where costs suddenly ramp up. If you let people enroll in Medicare at age 25, they would incur lower service costs, while paying the same in fees. If you do the math, Medicare for a 25 year old looks a lot like private insurance for a 25 year old.

Meanwhile: all insurance costs, in the whole economy, across all of national health expenses, total less than 10% of costs overall. Providers drive all the costs in our system, not insurers. But Breunig is fixated on his preferred solution, so he's not telling you that. But the numbers are right there if you want to see them; just search [National Health Expenditures by Type of Expenditure and Program: Calendar Year 2022].

I honestly don't care if you want Medicare vs. private insurance. I don't love my insurer. But if you zero out the total cost of insurance, public and private, you barely make a dent in our health costs. There is no way around it; the numbers are stark.

Personally, I think the balance we've struck in our payment system --- private markets until age 65, at which point the state steps in --- is pretty smart. Our system is fucked, of course, but that's because health provider chains have been ripping people off for decades.
>I feel like the murderer wouldn't be so widely commended if that were true. Justice is what is supposed to prevent vigilantism, and apparently lots of people here felt that the murder was just.

OK then, what crime did the CEO commit? Simply presiding over a business that people don't like, which he has no real power to change, is not a crime in any sense.

Vigilantism only makes sense when there is no justice for real obvious crimes with known guilty parties. And even then, it has many downsides.

A loud minority (or even majority) of people condoning this does not make it right. In the absence of an articulable crime for which the victim is responsible, this is simple murder. You can rationalize it all you want but your logic could be used to justify lynch mobs.
Hilarious that the TWOW is the least likely of your bunch.
That’s only 50% of the KPI!
All the benchmarks provide substantial scaffolding and specification details, and that's if they are zero-shot at all, which they often are not. In reality, nobody wants to spend as much time providing so much details or examples just to get the AI to write the correct function, when that same time and effort you'd have used to write it yourself.

Also, those benchmarks often run the model K times on the same question, and if any one of them is correct, they say it passed. That could mean if you re-ran the model 8 times, it might come up with the right answer only once. But now you have to waste your time checking if it is right or not.

I want to ask: "Write a function to count unique numbers in a list" and get the correct answer the first time.

What you need to ask:

"""
Write a Python function that takes a list of integers as input and returns
the count of numbers that appear exactly once in the list.

The function should:
- Accept a single parameter: a list of integers
- Count elements that appear exactly once
- Return an integer representing the count
- Handle empty lists and return 0
- Handle lists with duplicates correctly

Please provide a complete implementation.
"""

And run it 8 times and if you're lucky it'll get it correct zero-shot.

Edit: I'm not even aware of a Pass@1, zero-shot, and without detailed prompting (natural prompting) benchmark. If anyone knows one let me know.
Don't need a time machine for that, just need some good accountants like PWC ;)
I don't see why it would have to be every month, instead of say a statutory minimum of at least six months notice with such changes only taking effect after an open enrollment period. The doctors and insurers can sort out how to handle the resulting dynamics in their professionally-negotiated contracts, instead of just falling back to blasting individual patients with fraudulent bills.

And yes, if we're going to continue to limp along with these "insurance" companies being the supposed market dynamic, the healthcare industry desperately needs more integration so responsibility can actually be taken and absorbed, rather than just continually punted. The whole industry has fallen into a state where each player passes the blame to someone else, including you as they tell you its now your new unpaid job to make many hours worth of phone calls as you get ground up passing messages between mutually-hostile bureaucracies.
> Crypto is the future of money and finance.

Why ?

Crypto is the digital version of the old commodity money (whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made).

Turns out it was absolutely impractical because people rarely want to be physically responsible for their own estate.

I neither see crypto disappear anytime soon and we may see innovative usage. It can probably make sense in unstable economic environments. But everywhere else, you’ll want your estate not being accessible to burglars, you’ll want your big transactions to be legally secured, you’ll want your bank to be able to reverse things and you’ll want to not let your money sleep.

Also, unless governments start accepting crypto for paying taxes, you’ll have a hard time buying anything in daily shops.
The ironic part is you post this on a throwback site where content is more important than presentation.
> 3) Trade jobs will start to become what code jobs were in the 00's -- very well paid.

What signals are there for this?
Have you seen any CS bots those are agents. We built an email agent example among many other at https://Langbase.com/docs
They’re the one that demanded it.

Don’t try to pretend that any more than 1% of the people at Google are actually doing anything that moves even the slightest needle, regardless of ‘rank’.
> seems like most people who are healthy and military age are atleast somewhat OK with it

About a quarter of under-30 men and a fifth of under-30 women. For comparison, about 20% of Americans "think holding neo-Nazi views is" acceptable [1].

> excluding people who don't vote and have had their voting rights taken away

Where do you see the 2% of Americans [2] who have had their voting rights taken away being excluded by either poll? (Not challenging. That's just methodologically impressive.) Either way, none of what you're citing is material to an 80/20 margin.

I have friends in that 17%. But I also know people who thought Kari Lake was a shoe in, "defund the police" would work or that every guy is an incel. Echo chambers are powerful, especially online, where they can convince a quarter of a single demographic that they're in the majority on celebrating a dude capping a stranger in broad daylight.

[1] https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-neo-n...

[2] https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/locked-out-2022-es...
There's something here that I feel is pretty deep, though offensive for some minds: What is the actual consequence of being wrong? Of not getting right the base reality of a situation?

Usually, stasis is the enemy that is much great than false information. If people with 90% truth can take a step forward in the world, even if they mistakenly think they have 100% truth, what does it matter? They're learning more and acting more for that step taken. If the mistaken ground truth is false and importantly enough false, they'll learn it bc their experience is grounded in the reality the navigate anyhow. If they don't learn it, it's of no consequence.

This is on my mind because I work in democratic reform, and I am acutely aware (from books like "Democracy for Realists", that eviscerate common assumptions about "how democracy works") that it often doesn't matter if we understand how democracy is working, so long as we feel like we do, enough to take steps forward and keep trying and learning. We literally don't even know how democracy works, and yet we've been living under it for centuries, to decent enough ends.

I think often about the research of Donald Hoffman. His lab runs evolutionary simulations, putting "creatures" that see "reality" (of the simulation) against creatures that see only "fitness" (the abstraction, but also the lie, that is more about seeing what gets the creature living to the next click of the engine, whether that's truth or falsehood about the reality). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY

Basically, creatures that see only fitness (that see only the lie), they drive to extinction every creature that insists on seeing "reality as it is".

I take this to mean truth is in no way, shape, or form favoured in the universe. This is just a convinient lie we tell ourselves, to motivate our current cultural work and preferences.

So tl;dr -- better to move forward and feel high agency with imperfect information, than to wait for a full truthful solution that might never come, or might be such high cost as to arrive too late. Those moving forward rapidly with imperfect information will perhaps drive to extinction those methods that insist on full grounding in reality.

Maybe this is always the way the world has worked... I mean, does any mammal before us have any idea how any of reality worked? No, they just used their senses to detect the gist of reality (often heuristics and lies), and operated in the world as such. Maybe the human sphere of language and thought will settle on similar ruthlessness.
I don't think you are understanding what I'm saying.

Violence is literally the last thing a person can do. If there is violence then all other means have been tried.
Looking at it from a signal vs noise perspective:

The noise was the proposal, which was no doubt several pages at least.

The signal was "we should build a new R&D centre".

Am I missing anything? Did you feed the AI some financial figures or other information that couldn't be found on company website? If so, that would also be part of the signal.

It reminds me of an experiment in which people wanted to cut in line. Saying "can I cut in front of you because I'm in a hurry?" was significantly more successful than saying "can I cut in front of you?", even though they are essentially the same. (I read about this in the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion).

AI generated reports, proposals, and other fluff, can make things seem so much more persuasive. Alice is going to ask her AI to turn her 1 sentence into 5 paragraphs, and then Bob is going to ask his AI to summarize the 5 paragraphs into 1 sentence.
Project 2025 gets implemented to its fullest extent .... all 922 pages of it.
Every crashes soon after.
It sounds like something simple enough for you to setup. You have the passion direct it locally and see what grows.
By analyzing a video or picture (or whatever other sensor data you give it). It is a pretty straightforward classification problem, and imagine classification has been a major portion of ML research for decades.
It'll be your mandatory X account, the one you'll need to do things like contact the DMV, because hey, can't have government efficiency without grift!