skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*but most people will not do that*

LLMs will definitely be a technology that widens the knowledge gap at the same time that it improves access to knowledge. Just like the internet.

30 years ago people dreamed about how smart everyone would be with humanity's knowledge instantly accessible. We've had wikipedia for a while, but what's the take-up rate of this infinite amount of information? Most people prefer to scroll rage-bait videos on their phones (content that doesn't give them knowledge or even make them feel better, just that makes them angry)

Of course it's amazing to hear every once in a while the guy who maintains a vim plugin by coding on his phone in Pakistan.... or whatever other thing that is enabled by the internet by people who suddenly have access to this stuff. That's not an effect of all humans on average, it's an effect on a few people who finally have a chance to take advantage of these tools.

I heard in a YouTube interview a physicist saying that LLMs are helping physics research just because any physicist out there can now ask graduate-level questions about currently published papers, that is, have access to knowledge that would have been hard to come by before, sharing knowledge across sub-domains of physics by asking ChatGPT.
I recognize this problem, but I find in my own uses of ChatGPT it actually allows me to overcome my laziness rather than making it worse.

I'll have a problem that I want to work on but getting started is difficult. Asking ChatGPT is almost frictionless, the next thing I know I'm working on the project, 8 hours go by and I'm done. When I get stuck on some annoying library installation, ChatGPT solves if for me so I don't get frustrated. It allows me to enter and maintain flow states better than anything else.

ChatGPT is a really good way of avoiding procrastination.
It sounds like we have established that body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria are not really the same thing? Two conditions can have a similar thread but not be the same or even related, nor require the same approach or treatment.

In terms of "people being convinced by others", I think this is a relatively recent phenomenon. I think it's possible to be simultaneously concerned about social contagion and social influences, especially among young people who don't have a fully developed understanding of themselves, hasty treatments without due diligence on behalf of medical providers, commercial incentives in the medical community, etc, etc... while also acknowledging that some people simply do suffer from legitimate, intractable gender dysphoria.

There is no evidence that I can find that reparative therapy is effective. A teenager being lured into something on social media for social clout is simply not the same thing as a person who genuinely, intractably believes that they were born in the wrong body.

> If I was gender dysphoric (unable to accept the truth and be comfortable in my own body)

One thing I find interesting about this framing ("unable to accept the truth", "affirm my delusion") is that it seems to ignore any kind of biological/chemical occurrences in the body and brain that could explain gender dysphoria and instead casts it purely in a judgemental "these trans people are just nuts" light, which seems odd given that this is a topic on which we clearly don't have all the answers.
Just by asking it to validate its own reasoning it got it right somehow.
https://gist.github.com/dadaphl/1551b5e1f1b063c7b7f6bb000740...
just because it's a whale, doesn't mean it looks similar

it looks a lot more like deepseek when you also consider the movement/form
DMA cheats are only usable as many games aren't willing to pull-up their minimum requirements to play. IOMMU defeats DMA attacks. Secureboot (largely) solves pre-boot EFI related concerns.
https://archive.today/ruvJU
I've been here for a long time and I didn't even know that this site was for startups until a few years ago.

I wonder how old the author is. I started working in 1997 at the height of the dot com boom. I knew people at multiple startups that got bought. People that were millionaires at age 25-30. I would get about 5 phone calls a week on my office phone from recruiters thinking I should leave.

In 2001 I saw all the layoffs and we had a reorg. The job and coworkers I loved turned into something I hated. No recruiters, no openings, it took me 10 months to find something new.

Since then I tried 2 startups and both were failures. In the first I don't regret it as my old job was not great. At the second I know that I made a mistake both professionally and financially. That was 5 years ago and if a recruiter contacts me for a startup I don't even reply. Not interested at all in the chaos and failed promises that was my startup experiences.
How to Teach Things Well
> as long as the consumers and producers have the right information

Honest question: what is "the right information"? Unless you want someone choosing what is and is not the right information, which feels like market distortion, then "the right information" becomes "all possible information". And in practice, we as consumers don't even have a thousandth of "all the information", let alone a hundredth, let alone half. (For example, where can I look up the details of the entire supply chain of this phone in my hand, for every single material input it requires, to know what degree I'm culpable in supporting slave labor, which is something that would influence my purchasing decision?)

And then even if we gave someone all the information, or even some useful approximation of all the information, are humans even capable of using that to make decisions that are informed enough to allow markets to approach any sort of rationality? Given finite time, isn't it possible that the amount of time required to make a single informed decision is longer than a lifespan?

So then the question is, if useful amounts of information are neither practically available nor practically actionable, what might that imply about our absolute faith in market mechanisms that require the right information to operate efficiently?
Yeah, it's not an obvious answer at all. Spending ~$3,000+ on a laptop to run local models is only economically sensible if you are VERY paranoid about using APIs (there are plenty of API providers that I personally trust not to train on my data) - otherwise that $3,000 will buy you many years worth of access to the best available models via API.
New study reveals fad diet increases risk of being stabbed by 73%!
Yet I can't use my new Forerunner 55 watch without connecting it to Garmin servers. They make sure it takes about an hour to have a reliable GPS position unless your make it regularly connect to an active Garmin account, either via Garmin Express (dekstop) or Garmin Connect.

I switch to GadgetBridge but without updating the AGPS files, no reliable GPS.

How open of them.
His ideal adversarial strategy becomes non-trivial when you know about it.

It is very likely “just flip a coin to turn it back to 50/50” but may be something statistically sophisticated.
RetroDotCards
“The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.”
Alberto Moravia, London Observer, 14 Oct. 1979
>Seems pretty handwavy.

It has a whole Wikipedia article and everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization#Re-identifica...

>Can you describe concretely how this would work?

Here's one of the earlier papers I remember off-hand, demonstrating one methodology.
New (and improvements to existing) statistical techniques have happened in the ~18 years since this was published. Not to mention their is significantly more data to work with now.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

"We apply our de-anonymization methodology to the
Netflix Prize dataset, which contains anonymous movie
ratings of 500,000 subscribers of Netflix, the world’s
largest online movie rental service. We demonstrate
that an adversary who knows only a little bit about
an individual subscriber can easily identify this subscriber’s record in the dataset."

From the Wiki I linked:

"Researchers at MIT and the Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, analyzed data on 1.5 million cellphone users in a small European country over a span of 15 months and found that just four points of reference, with fairly low spatial and temporal resolution, was enough to uniquely identify 95 percent of them." [...] "A few Twitter posts would probably provide all the information you needed, if they contained specific information about the person's whereabouts."

Point being that operational security is hard, and it takes a lot less to "slip up" and accidentally reveal yourself than most people think. Obtaining a location within 250 miles (or whatever) can be a key piece of information that leads to other dots being connected.

Other examples (albeit with less explanation) include police take downs of prolific CSAM producers by gathering bits and pieces of information over time, culminating in enough to make an identification.
It doesn't contain anything that would either back or excuse your claims.
During the dotcom bubble, me and my buddies often said, "We could be thousandaires!"
Now that we have seen Trump's executive orders, it's clear he is taking the route of non-enforcement. However, TikTok remains unavailable on the Apple App Store and given that the support article [1] remains unchanged since Monday, I'd say it's likely to stay that way until a court rules on the matter.

"Apple is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates. Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store for users in the United States starting January 19, 2025."

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/121596 - "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"
I think Trump is clearly wrong on this and the Constitution clearly supports birth-right citizenship and it is backed by precedence. But, this will probably be challenged in the Supreme Court and despite what people think the Court uphold birth-right. I don't think they are going to "round" anyone up because of this; I think it is more about future citizens.

The other thing that I don't understand, all these leftist Americans that think America is terrible and Europe is clearly superior, are they able to name any countries that support birth-right citizenship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Needham
I've been trying to get out more, and attend some events/groups IRL (sports, hobbies, whatever). They all might be in meetup, but all communication is happening in FB groups, FB messenger, Insta, Discord, etc. I don't have either and it makes things seriously more difficult...
Plus the whole sugar vs. sugar alcohol nonsense, which I still don't completely understand.
Seems like multiple groups are going to find out rather fast that what they thought they signed up for, or bought, is not what they are getting
Deno in 2024
it's mini golf. it's in the title of TFA as such. in mini golf, the ball only rolls. the ball does not roll across water. it does not roll over trees even from the fairway. if your ball leaves the ground with a putter, something is very very wrong
Then that’s their problem. I doubt that there is any group that you can’t start locally and build up a following.
Pitfall Atari 2600 game web port source code released [TS]
That's because the analysis about Garmin is wrong. None of that stuff matters.

Garmin's competition is having kids. Moms and dads will buy Apple Watches because it is more compatible with the having kids lifestyle. In contrast you don't need a dive computer or a bicycle thing when you have no time for hobbies. So an Apple Watch with a diving app meets the demand for aspirational hobbies, which of course, aspirations have a much larger audience than going out and doing something.

That said, people having fewer kids is ultimately what is helping them the most. Every hobby got more expensive, there is more demand. If you believe that more dogs and cats, less home buying, more video game playing and TV watching, etc. is also related to the trend of fewer kids - if you read what experts say about this, and if you can believe that LOTS of stuff people spend money LOTS of money on is DIRECTLY CAUSED by the decision to have or not have kids - then expand your mind and look for it everywhere.
> The drivers don't trust the apps, and the app doesn't trust the drivers, so the thing has to be held together by surveillance and micromanagement.

Exactly. And a large dose of gaming the system (or trying to), which reduces trust even further. Why play fair with an unaccountable algorithm?
Have loved some of those for years and never heard of others. Thanks for the recommendations and it sort of speaks to how special and unique they are (o;
Compare people with vegetarian diet from India (over 1 billion, a good sample!) with European meat eaters, what will be the conclusions? Do effects "average out"? Or people drinking alcohol with millions of muslims? There are some obvious criteria which should be used for example divide people in age, income and cultural groups (my grandfather used to eat and did different things I did, including avoiding doctors, despite living in same country and even same home).
is on the move... approaching the actual geographic pole.
This is great (this = both the paper and your post) but I can't believe you never made a tea-test pun
Wine 10.0 Released with Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI
Garmin Watch 30 days battery life

Fitbit 5-7 days

Apple 1 day
Pre-fetching also becomes an issue for apps that are meant to be e2e encrypted, since it requires the server to download (read) every attachment. But if the app is already caching the attachment then they’re effectively reading it anyway.

(EDIT: Apparently signal e2e encrypts images prior to upload, so pre-fetching the encrypted blob from one or multiple servers would in fact be a mitigation of this attack.)

I do wonder if Telegram is as invulnerable as the author assumes. They might not be using Cloudflare for caching, or even HTTP, but the basic elements of this attack might still work. You’d just need to modify the “teleport” aspect of it.
Unless they all want to... You can't.
sure not, just the reputation API
Executive Outcomes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Outcomes
Perhaps new leadership will lead to a desktop website that’s more legible. I find it so confusing (now) that I rely on the mobile app to find info.

The desktop website was great two decades ago. I don’t know when it became a clusterfuck, but it did.
I hope they start releasing binaries of their utilities for windows.
I think to 99+% of people that's not "clear".
They can make it revenue neutral by firing the DEI people :)
Go try it. I've done it.

You are going to find for 1) with character level tokenization you don't need to have data for every token for it to learn. For current tokenization schemes you do, and it still goes haywire from time to time when tokens which are close in space are spelled very differently.

Just try it, actually training one yourself.
Thank you!
I wonder if there's someone out there who is hosting it and providing API access. I've poked around and don't see anything.

Know of a list of available (through an API) "base" models out there?
Five Years of Bootstrapping: Reflections on Building Interview Query
Ask HN: Is this too political for Hacker News? [video]
all these leftist Americans that think America is terrible and Europe is clearly superior, are they able to name any countries that support birth-right citizenship

not sure who exactly you are referring to but even people that I know that think Europe is "superior" do not thing that Europe is superior in every way. unlike all these rightist Americans the leftist ones believe in the US Constitution though :)
Since 'flag worthy' seems more of a feels thing than anything tangible here I'm interested in seeing if this is too political for Hacker News and flag worthy so we can get a better baseline of what this community find off limits to discuss.
Most smart watches (and even Xiaomi smart bands) are in similar ballpark of 200-ish mAh. All should in principle charge as quickly.

It's just that Apple Watch is power hungry.
Right? The Orange Site earned its reputation.
I think this is where my physical laziness benefits me. I’m often too lazy to spend the time to fully describe the problem to the LLMs and wrap it in a prompt that will produce something, in written text, so I think through it first. Usually I solve it myself or think of a better primary source.
I think it is worse. Information will dry up (in a variety of ways) making it much harder to even learn the traditional way as we could in the past.
Sorry, No Secret to Life Is Going to Make You Live to 110
Another point to acknowledge is that this job elimination, even if it temporarily boosts corporate profits, is not going to be good for the economy, nor going to boost GDP.

Cheap AI labor will depress wages and therefore reduce consumer demand. This is not a recipe for GDP growth or a vibrant economy anymore than outsourcing to reduce labor costs has been.

The people trying to sell AI as good for the economy will no doubt tell you that companies don't want to reduce your salary or lay you off - that they will be happy to keep payroll the same, or increase it (increased consumer spending = GDP growth!) by employing you as a highly paid AI whisperer. Yeah, no, companies are looking to reduce payroll.
Building your product team: hiring, scaling, and more – Rohini Pandhi [video]
One could enter into a “sugar daddy” relationship / agreement for that much money.
A few other memorable primes:

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https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/146017/output-t...

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We had that same change in my town, though for seemingly unrelated reasons. Even before COVID, the 24-hour Wal-Mart supercenter started closing from midnight to 6 AM because of shoplifters. The 24-hour restaurants closed at night during COVID and the customers didn't come back after normal business resumed. I do wonder where night owls go these days.
> The most recent versions of macOS and iPhone OS have me seriously considering a Linux desktop for the first time.

What about it? I often hear this sentiment but I hardly ever notice the OS having updated in the first place.
> isolated

The whole thread is about limited and well-defined communities, not the world. What the OP wants is specifically “isolated”.

> like planting some seeds

Spending thirty years planting a 550 hectare forest and restoring wildlife to it is not “planting some seeds”. Please don’t be reductive.

> Real change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Change is change. You don’t get to define someone’s life work, which was more meaningful and impactful than most of us will ever achieve, not “real” to fit your narrow definition.
That's not really the same thing. That's about product development. Letting the market decide means to bring your product to the market and let it decide. I agree that focus groups and surveys are not the best way to build an innovative product but California was preventing consumers from having a choice, completely different situation.
Communication of any sort over any channel risks sharing location information. Silence is secrecy.
Inevitably the advancement of knowledgeable information generation will have same mental effect as having a contact list on your phone. When I was a kid I knew at least 5 peoples phone numbers maybe more. Even now I can recall 2 of them. How many can you recall from your actual contact list?
https://archive.ph/k7KNJ
Interesting that these are called "cab numbers" - I was expecting 1729 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)#As_a_Ramanujan_n...), based on the story of circa 1919 involving Ramanujan. It looks like Dudeney (1917) predates these - the original source is his "Amusements in Mathematics" (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16713/pg16713-images.ht...) and he poses there a different puzzle involving numbers on taxis. I guess this is just a common source of integers appearing in one's environment.
All we've really got to go by is Twitter and Reddit, and I rarely see a photo of a Bambu printer without an AMS on top of it or to the side. With it being cheaper to buy an A1 Mini, A1, or P1 WITH an AMS than a base model Prusa MK4 it's not surprising they've been so popular.

It's what makes me completely baffled how much Prusa have fumbled the Core One release. It should've had an enclosed AMS style product to go along side it. The MMU is utter junk in comparison to the AMS, god knows why they are still burrying their head in the sand over this.
ScreenZen works great. One would have to convince the dev to include NFC support.