skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine that this is unexpected, nor that surprising.

I served on a jury nearly 20 years ago for a criminal case. And the biggest thing at the time, if you recall that long ago, was the biggest shows in TV were CSI and Law & Order. I certainly watched them a fair amount.

Both, and the myriad of spin off and other shows in the same vein, presented a flashy and scientifically certain view of law enforcement.

I bring up my time on that jury because the lawyers both spent a _huge_ amount of time preempting everyone's questions about why there wasn't any conclusive "scientific" evidence. No finger prints, no weapons marks, no expert testimony, etc.

It turns out real life is far more messy than a 30-60 minute tv drama.

So as CSI, et. al. gave us these unrealistic fever dreams about how crime is solved in the real world, so too do "True Crime" stories give us an unrealistic view of what happens out there in the real world.
> The sleazy sales people can build decent pipelines/sales numbers but they are not what I would ever label as 'elite'.

Absolutely. I have had the pleasure of working with a few elite sales people and none of them were sleazy. They were all extremely confident on the inside, but present as humble and even a little vulnerable on the outside. This is strategic as it builds trust, but I think it was also genuine for the most part -- they really wanted their customers to be happy and they wanted their customers to know that.

They dress nicely, but again in a humble way. They're not quite as polished looking as the "slick" sales people, and this too is part of their strategy. They can pull out a post it note or notebook and sketch a rudimentary diagram they've drawn a thousand times, and every time it looks like they just thought of this idea and are drawing it with wavy lines for the first time. I'm not sure if this one is intentional, but they all do it, and it always looks like they don't know how to draw straight lines.

I actually ran into someone like this at lens crafters recently. They were quite young, early to mid 20s I'd say, but after a few minutes of them telling me about the various lens options, I stopped and said, "You're the top salesperson here aren't you?" They gave me a funny look, and asked how I knew. "Just a guess" I said -- but in reality, I had seen all of their human dark-patterns before. Most people wouldn't even know they were being sold to, in fact, they would probably think the opposite... that the salesperson didn't care if they bought anything from them as long as they got the right solution from somebody in the end. Some of them will literally even say that. Of course, this only works when it is 100% believable and you don't identify it as part of their sales strategy.
I have this deep feeling that engineers have a fundamental misunderstanding of the arts, which is reinforced when there is a suggestion that "heavy integration" of generative AI into multimedia production apps is somehow desirable. It's not just contrary to the design and use of these applications, but contrary to art as an endeavor - and users find it revolting.

Apple already has simpler tools aimed at non professionals, they don't need generative AI either.
The worlds richest man just called everyone that came out against H1B a racist. He then proceeded to remove blue checks of vocal accounts who disagreed with him and shadow banned accounts by labeling them spam.
"iterative prompt engineering is super effective".

Super effective at doing what is asked, but I guarantee that 7-word sentence is wrong for the 150-word poem. This is such a bad effect that it has...
It’s a bit like the old saying about the banks: “If you owe the bank $10,000 it’s your problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 it’s the banks problem”. If everyone in class is using LLMs to cheat, it’s really the university/instructors problem and it may be easier to bury their heads in the sand then to change their teaching methods and lesson plans. You can’t fail them all…
wow, a weird arm devkit that will be forgotten in 6 months for "As Little As" the cost of a new Mac Mini, which already has a thriving, robust software ecosystem, first mover advantage, no candy crush ads, long term support...
Crazy how only Canada has used emergency powers to curtail opposition. In fact it did that twice in 50 years.
And only twenty people getting their rights completely stripped because they bothered the federal government workers in Ottawa is good enough according to you?

Maybe it's just because I'm part of a minority but your entire comment is exactly the issue with Canadian politics. We basically have 0 rights the moment a majority decides that we don't. I guess that's the perks of having an incredibly ineffective constitution.
I know that having parents who cared about my education (and were in a position to actively participate in it) was a privilege and not a given, but where are the parents in this situation? Do we just accept that an 11 year-old watches squid game, has unrestricted access to chatgpt and does all their school work without any oversight at all? Clearly this kid is not receiving the guidance it needs. Or any guidance really.
Coins are easier to count than bills. They are thick enough that you never confuse two coins for one, even when they are stuck together. And they are also more convenient in your pocket, because you don't have to fold or otherwise organize them.
Idiocracy was not supposed to be a documentary.

Welcome to Costco, I love you
It still really isn't that close to Google Maps, with public transit in particular Apple Maps is pretty much useless. GM is typically more complete with paths and building data outside of North America too.
I recently saw a small news bit about a local pinpall machine club/museum in a small town in Germany. Interestingly, the club member they interviewed is also the head of an AI research lab.
Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes Is Unexpectedly Hard
+1 for https://lunchmoney.app/

I found them after Mint was discontinued and CreditKarma made it impossible for me to set up my account, while I looked into other options which have even been mentioned in this thread.

LunchMoney's multi-currency support and easy API (https://lunchmoney.dev/) were killer features for me, however, since they allowed me to develop a personal solution to also keep track of my non-USA accounts.
I refuse to understand the Chinese Room argument, I only deploy it.
When I taught a class of engineering students Python in 2015 they were all copying from each other, did some basic plagiarism checks and 40% had submitted identical code. The University then didn’t care, lots of international students paying higher fees than domestic students.
> You have your threat model and I have mine.

Apple mitigated that issue last year.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120340

> The ATM is on the way to the subway (which has poor reception), and we're talking about once a month here.

And my phone is always on my person. You don’t need “reception” to use your debit card.

> Changing habits to spend less money works by using cash works in a way that I couldn't get to work with a debit/credit card

And yet my 80 year old mom can as far as debit cards and my 82 year old dad just started using Apple Pay. He had a really old Android before that couldn’t use Google Pay
This is such a weird take. Teachers could teach LLMs, but that doesn't solve the problem. Kids still need to practice skills that an LLM could do for them.
well, if you count emotional harm as harm, and anyone can be emotionally harmed by anything, then the rule becomes meaningless.
> Who cooked them is the question? Children won't raise themselves generally.

Technology access is pretty ubiquitous, and genAI is pushed everywhere just like social media, so that big tech can make more $B. Very hard to escape it even as an 11 year old unless the parents are very vigilant and active in restricting it, which if both parents are working is hard to do plus they have to contend with a _lot_ of push back from the kids because "everyone is doing it".
Yes and no.

1/3 of the country's entire population is in the GTA. That brief moment is the most contact that Canadians will have with each other on any given day.

And they treat everyone worse than garbage. I've been in busier commuter zones that have been far more civil than that.

Even the drunks going home on the LIRR are better than that.

I won't disagree with you that Canadians are great people -- I spent a lot of time living there for a reason -- but you have to judge people by when their hair is down, not their Sunday best.
This work was discussed by the author in the Haskell Interlude podcast as well [0]. Highly recommended and probably easier to digest than a whole dissertation.

[0]: https://haskell.foundation/podcast/59/
hi, can you please send me the invite as well @ usuclol8@gmail.com
I haven’t had any issues with the Maps review. Seems like perhaps you submitted a change that was normalized as an entirely new business due to having a different address, location and name. Have you tried to zoom in and see if there’s a new marker with the info you submitted?

You can imagine, if a business has changed its address, location, and name, that users would appreciate a “Closed” pin for the previous name and location instead of wondering what happened to the business that used to be there.
Okay. I added "for some people" to my original comment. Hope that helps.

Taking the amount budgeted for petty cash means you only spend that much "that's spent already", which makes it easier to stick to a budget (because you can't spend cash you're not holding). if the problem is overspending, and there's a budget, there's not generally a problem with underspending that amount, so the idea that it forces more spending isn't a problem (for some people).

Given news reports that (some people in) GenZ has trouble after joining the workforce with computer skills later generations take for granted, and other reports on how much GenZ is unable to save, I doubt it's an age thing. Some people are just better with physical objects vs digital. (Some people do just deal with it just fine, mind you.)
You bought a Quest 2 to enjoy satirical retro game mods?
And those weren't the people that got their rights suspended by emergency powers, so what's your point?

According to that logic, the protestors during the Oka Crisis should've just been arrested, stripped of their rights and treated like non citizens since they were armed and threatened the police. Yet a better government back then realized that you can't just use emergency powers for every inconvenience, and didn't use them. They instead talked and engaged in discussions with them, which resolved the Oka Crisis peacefully.
Not at all comparable.
They keynote where they announced these features was pretty awkward. The typical conviction they delivered things with just wasn't there. You could almost feel that their hand was forced and they gave it a go, but they deeply resented not being the ones to make that choice.
Normal people would try to negotiate trade relations. Megalomaniacs would decide to just take something even if they try to soften the taking with money.
Exactly. They're just whining that the "police can do no wrong" sentiment born out of CSI/NCIS/Law and Order and post-9/11 first responder worship is coming to a close.

And of course the public deference to them over that period enabled a bunch of shoddy work and that shoddy work is what underpins the current generation of "ignored X" and "framed Y" type true crime and so the pendulum of public perception swings back toward where it was in the 1990s when the public was becoming aware that police had, roughly speaking, spent the prior decades framing a bunch of black guys because that was easier than solving crimes.

Edit: Now that I think about it it's kind of a condemnation of the industry how quickly the pendulum swung.
Are in-class tests still a thing?

If you use these tools to get the homework done, but there's little retention of knowledge or skill, how are you going to pass a test where the resource is not available to you? Homework is ostensibly about practicing certain skills (math) or learning/memorizing facts.
I find my self using LLMs for very simple things, to jog my memory instead of actually exercising it. Yesterday I asked Claude how to format a numeric string in Ruby. I could have figured it out in the REPL in a minute but instead got the answer from AI in 15 seconds.

This is the same kind of laziness as using it to multiply 60 * 3. If I take the slightly slower road of figuring out the string formatting next time I might go from a minute to 3 seconds.

It's like telling someone to always take the stairs for their health. It's pretty good advice, but it's sweaty and takes time so we mostly don't. Maybe we should lock kids out of elevators and escalators as well as LLMs. But what's good for the duckling is good for the duck.
As a senior college student who's seen ChatGPT take over much of higher education in real-time, I'm still curious (and unsure, really) how institutions will ever change their system of education if they struggle to address even smaller things than ChatGPT.

My view as a student, personally, has always been that people rampantly cheat, everyone looks like they're doing good on paper, the institution's happy.
My assumption was that such "infrastructural" education systems are hard to change (hence why few try to in the first place) and, if they work well enough, no one's going to attempt to touch it, let alone change it to better serve students who seem to be doing what they're expected to.

Happy to hear some thoughts, from a student worried about his peers. :)
... and the OP did nothing about the situation except post it on the internet.

Had it been my little brother doing this I'd have whooped his ass, cut internet access, and ratted him out to my parents ;-)

I joke, but honestly the sister's situation is completely the fault of her shit upbringing, not ChatGPT.
> And during the severe thunderstorms in Florida when everyone was coming to Orlando, places ran out of gas. We had an EV and charged at home.

Having an electric vehicle is NOT the benefit you think it is here.

You could just as easily have an internal combustion engine and spare fuel tanks. My car holds about 12 gallons of fuel and I have three 5-gallon fuel jugs ready to do. I use the fuel jugs for my lawnmower to keep the fuel fresh, but the jugs serve just as well during an emergency. And the benefit over an electric vehicle: I can put the fuel jugs into the tank or the trunk and just go.

If your EV is drained... good luck getting it charged when you're given an evacuation order.

Places running out of gas? That's a consequence of poor planning or a just-in-time economy (take your pick) on the gas stations, and a consequence of poor planning or a just-in-time economy on the people buying fuel from gas stations when they should have fueled up before the emergency.

Not everyone can buy fuel jugs. Good luck storing fuel jugs anywhere safe when you're living in an urban environment. It's the same for EV batteries too.
It's not like these models can't already be run locally. I guess the "special" thing here is that someone bothered hosting one for the public in TOR. I'm just hoping this article isn't consensus-manufacturing for a "seize the models and make them all 'safe'" effort.
Ah I think I’m just wrong and the 4x thing shouldn’t be allowed
Teachers were well aware of calculators and had methods to prevent their usage/dependency, like showing all the intermediate steps and banning them in-class for tests.
I hope in-class exams (or even simple questions from the teacher) will define the big part of the grade in the future schools.

This will force ChatGPT-using classmates to either use it as learning _assist_ tool, to help student learn the material; or be 100% reliant on ChatGPT for homework, but fail every in-class assignment and then fail the whole class. Either outcome is fine with me.
The teachers' subreddit (/r/teachers) is full of anectodal but collectively terrifying stories about how smartphones and now AI are affecting young students, particularly in the areas of attention, initiative, and basic literacy. We're in the middle of a big, uncontrolled experiment on an entire generation.
I bet you were one of the ones that was smart enough to not copy/paste the whole article so it was easily recognized tho.
I'm guessing you've never experienced a New York train ticket machine giving change for a $20 bill in $1 coins.
Repetition alone was hard enough, but if I was responsible for learning the material at my own pace on my own device as well? I'd still be in middle school.
Reminder, you win by learning the material, not by completing the homework.
Boy... I hate questions of the form "Why not just". Which, to be fair... is not the exact form, but the intent of the question.
That's because China has strongly failed to follow trade agreements under WTO, including the TRIPS agreement (which is an international agreement protecting IP rights), SCM agreement (which prohibits state subsidies of certain trade goods), the National Treatment Principle (which mandates equal treatment of imported and locally produced goods), National Treatment and Market Access commitments (China strongly restricts foreign ownership in certain sectors of their local market, including the tech industry), etc. Mind you most of these agreements were made in the 90s, so China has had plenty of time to comply. It's a bit pointless to keep using the WTO when a country isn't going to comply anyways.

I'm not saying the US is blameless either, but with China, it's nearly shameless. In the tech industry alone, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitch, Steam, LinkedIn, Dropbox, ChatGPT and Copilot, Github (partially), etc are all banned in China. Shoot, Google left a decade ago after they kept getting hacked by the Chinese government. When China was still quite poor and developing, this behavior was overlooked, but as they become a rich world power on the global stage, that's not the situation anymore.
But then how will kids learn to use ChatGPT?
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As someone who was There At The Time, the UX of the iPod was really, really good. There were few, if any, other companies that could match it. The vast majority of competing music players were what DankPods calls "nuggets" - i.e. barely functional e-waste that were either saddled down with horrible software (e.g. anything Sony made), had horrible controls, were bulky and painful to use, or some combination of those above dealbreakers. A lot of companies treated developing an MP3 player like any other kind of music player, and ignored the fact that these things could hold 100x as much music as anything else on the market, which necessitated a completely new UX.

To be clear, there were good non-Apple MP3 players, but they were either marketed poorly, or late arrivals (e.g. the Toshiba player that got rebadged into the Zune). By the time those existed (and tech companies started hiring UI/UX people), Apple was doing a complete reset of another product category: smartphones.

I suspect history would have been different had, say, MiniDisc hadn't failed horribly in America[0]. Pre-iPod, portable music in the US was either compact cassettes with all the downsides of tape, or CD players that could just barely fit in your pocket. The iPod was such a step up from either that it all but became a genericized trademark. Had we had a competing technology from not the 1980s, we probably wouldn't have thought the iPod was so great. Or at least, people I knew who had MiniDisc looked at the iPod like I look at all the e-waste that was trying to compete with the iPod.

[0] Yes, I know that Sony was basically trying to avoid a repeat of DAT getting banned
I'm not sure how that would play out but I think there is some validness in that concern. It's the same with smartphones; you deny your kid one because you want them to socialize in person but if they're the only kid without a smartphone then they'll be socially isolated.

Everything has to be managed in moderation.

As for ChatGPT, I use it all the time for learning. And I've used it to help my kid study. But I wouldn't give my kid unfettered access to it just like I don't give him unfettered access to anything.
There are good reasons it hasn't been done more, and I don't think it is just "text is good for troubleshooting."

At large, text wins because the job of a program text is to communicate the program to a user in a way that a computer can also be made to use. Things that help include that text can have multiple interpretations and meanings. This is why most variable names are nouns. You can literally "ascii art" parts of code to help convey some ideas.

The most important part of why "text" wins, though, is that it is all visible. Yes it implies some structure underneath that the computer is going to need. The text, though, is fully visible to users. People think they want the ability to "structurally edit," and you can sometimes make that work rather nicely. Most of the time, though, you are working with structures that are not complete. And worse, completing them will not be a process that goes in the same direction as the text. You will have to start a stack in how you are processing things to complete as you go.

I'm torn on the bots comment, as I just don't know. LLMs, arguably, are leaning in on the structure that has been embedded in our symbolic text over many years. The same structure has not necessarily been developed in computer programming texts?

(Also worth paying attention to how most of these goals were pursued with symbolic programming techniques back in the day. LISP, of course, but also term rewriting techniques that used to be rather magical.)
In your other comment [0] you mentioned you also updated the name and location of the business. I’ve never had a single issue with Maps review and I find my corrections are usually accepted in under a week.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611345
> wads

This is not a WAD, though
> maybe stop cutting funding for public education and start allowing more diverse perspectives?

I agree with you on that one! I am unsure about your "English academy" comment (kinda hard to read in languages you don't understand :P) but as for non-white authors, I would recommend Kahlil Gibran ("The Prophet") and (most of) Rumi's poetry.
To add, networking should include networking with recruiters because networking is a long play and the connectivity of a network is on the order of the square of the nodes.
That's not playing devil's advocate. That's you not understanding how the calculator was programmed.

A graphing calculator in which you can put (9+3x2) before pressing enter is different than a adding calculator in which you can only do sequential binary operations (9+3, enter, x2, enter).

The calculator is programmed exactly to do as it was. Both calculators are correct in their programming. It's you who mistyped what you intended.
Society certainly doesn't reward school performance in that way. You win by the grade earned, however it was obtained.
> I don't get why Apple fans have this obsession with pretending Apple invents these things.

Happens all the time with the iPhone. Apple gets celebrated as an innovator for adding features that have existed for years on Android.
Do you buy into the hype around AI and AI agents?
Do you buy into the hype around AI and AI agents? I work in private equity and venture capital, and we recently had an internal discussion about whether AI could eventually replace analysts and deal sourcing employees for investment screening and due diligence. It would obviously save firms a ton of money and time, but there's concern about the accuracy. What’s your take?
> that is there just so the vendor can track me

That's your point of view. I see access to so many services because I have a phone, laptop, watch and headphones. Apple doesn't use accounts only to track you, it uses accounts to do things like seamlessly switch your AirPods between devices.
It's nice and that but I still feel there should be a way to shoot people.