skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if we referred to LLMs as AK (Artifical Knowledge) instead of AI it would be easier to have more cohesive discussions.

I don’t see how there can be a single truth when there is not even a single definition of many of the underlying terms (intelligence, AGI, etc) which this discipline supposedly defines itself by. Combine that with a lot of people with little philosophical perspective suddenly being confronted with philosophical topics and you end up with a discourse that personally I’ve mostly given up on participating in until things calm down again.

It feels like nobody remembers all the timelines for which we were supposed to have self-driving cars.
>within his core constitutional powers

Well that's the part to challenge, no? As we've seen much too often, just because one ruling happens doesn't mean that later cases can't overturn that precedent.

I'd rather encourage and cheer on these powers because it's not like you and me are doing anything.
Simplified HTTP Requests (and Tests) with Hurl
I don't care how you're good at it so long as I can watch.
The market bifurcated. Short form content became Snapchat and tiktoks and YouTube shorts. There were never any significant competitors to YouTube for long form content because of how expensive streaming it is, so all of that content remained on the one platform with an audience and decent payouts.
Well, I'm in Europe. We tend to have different assessments of value.
Years ago, I set up https://mitmproxy.org on a Raspberry Pi and used it to get logs of every site that my kids would visit. I should be clear that monitoring/spying != parenting, but it definitely made me feel a little better to have some idea of what the kids are using the internet for.

From a technical perspective, it did exactly what you want. I had logs of full urls (not just domains). So, for example, I could view what they googled and when, if I wanted to anyway.

It did involve installing a certificate on the computer that they use, but there are how-to guides so setting everything up was simply a matter of following instructions.

The biggest drawback is that it noticeably slowed their internet. I imagine if I had run this on a more powerful computer it may have been better.

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Note, for those suggesting PiHole, it is very good for getting logs of domains accessed, but not very informative. For example, you can tell that a computer accessed "youtube.com" at a certain time, but not what was actually viewed. That may be obvious to many of us, but just clarifying in case it is not obvious to the OP.
Exercise may influence gut bacteria (2022)
The point made by a commenter a few levels up questioned whether 98% reliability for adding two 100-digit numbers together should be considered noteworthy/acceptable etc.

My point is that assessing 98% reliability qualitatively depends on whatever kind of baseline system you are comparing against.

Obviously this reliability (and speed) of an LLM with 98% accuracy is atrocious compared to any basic automated arithmetic computation system. If you need to reliably add together 100 digit numbers, of course an LLM is a bad choice.

However, comparing it to the general class of systems which an LLM belongs to - ie “things that can add 100-digit numbers together quickly and also tell you about this history of the Ottoman Empire and a bunch of other stuff too, all within a relatively short amount of time” - this reliability is (potentially) impressive. We don’t have many such systems - a moderately educated human; a generic bespoke piece of software which process natural language requests and attempts to decide whether or not to retrieve information from a database/the internet or write and execute code, but could conceivably have been written in a crude manner 5 years ago; and LLMs (which might also take advantage of tool use as suggested in the previous example).

In this context - comparing to other systems with similar capabilities - the 98% reliability might be considered impressive, especially when you consider that it likely is much higher for more common simpler arithmetic problems.

My intention in bringing up “an average HN user” was to bring up an example of a reasonable benchmark to compare to, in my opinion. A HN user is a stand-in for a moderately educated person, which could reasonably respond to a variety of generic natural language requests in a short amount of time. My point was simply that adding together 100 digit numbers reliably and quickly while also being able to chat about Shakespeare or Kalman filters or planning a wedding is likely a more difficult task than we tend to give credence to, due to our familiarity with specialized systems which do arithmetic extremely well and extremely quickly.
Very interesting and disturbing research, definitely a wake up call for me. Does anyone know/can anyone recommend me software that can block these sorts of requests from going through? I know of pihole which blocks adds but does it also filter out these sorts of things?
> Startups can be as siloed and prone to messianic cults of personality as large corporations do

Oh, probably more prone to messianic cults of personality than large corps. But as you say there are other shows that tackle that angle. I don't think it's a secret that many tech startup founders have sociopathic tendencies and delusions of grandeur. I've certainly seen that close up even in tiny early-stage startups that never ended up going anywhere.
> CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans

Did you call to complain about the termination?
There's No "A" or "I" in "Jelly"
Also you can split out shorts.
Are the police evil state actors? They purchase location data from private companies to target protesters[1]

[1]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/how-law-enforcement-ar...
Ask HN: If an AI gives me a business idea, who owns the idea?
I know, I am too lazy too read the TOS.

What if I implement the idea and turns out to be quite successful? Will the owners of the AI come asking for their share?

Say is something more tangible than and idea, maybe a drug fórmula.
I remember at some time you couldn’t mock in C# without an interface or maybe it was just the popular library that required it. Java never had that requirement so at least in the codebases I’ve been in you didn’t have IBar and BarImpl everywhere.
I understand that reads can technically cause read disturb, but isn't this normally handled by the controller? My intuition says that the writes caused by block rewrites should not significantly accelerate wear. I'd suspect more mundane issues such as bad solder, but would love to hear an expert take.
Doesn't even have to be a project per se, if they can discuss some sort of technical topic in depth (i.e. the sort of discussion you might have when discussing potential solutions to a problem) then that's a great sign imo.
I agree that reasoning and consciousness are different, however what I do not see being discussed by the AI research community is the necessity to define and then develop "artificial comprehension".

At this point in time, the act of comprehension is a scientific mystery.

I'd say 'consciousness' is the ongoing ever present comprehension of the moment, a feedback self conversation assessing the current situation a being finds itself. This act requires reasoning, as comprehension is the "sandbox" in which reasoning occurs.

But what is comprehension? It's the instantaneous reverse engineering of observations for verification of reality: is what I observe normal, possible or a threat? If one cannot "understand" an observation then the potential the observation is a threat grows. That 'understanding" is reverse engineering the observation to identify it's range of possible behavior and therefore one's safety in relation to that observation.

Comprehension is extremely complex: arbitrary input goes in and a world model with one's safety and next actions comes out.
> Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

Because it falls into the 10,000 bowls of oatmeal problem[1] ie: the perceptual similarity of generated content is homogeneous.

The procedural generation community has been familiar with this failure mode since 2016. The problem is that LLM output suffers from this failure mode too. Differences in authorial voice, ideas, and personality all get collapsed down into the average across all perceptual dimensions. It's not unlike the fighter cockpit problem[2] - the average of everything ends up not being representative of anyone. It's bland and meaningless and no one writes that way even though it's the mean of all written text.

We can get away from this a little, but prompting LLMs to respond as if they were a certain author or a blend of different authors, but this doesn't create anything new, just a mimicry. Personality is an unsolved problem that's synonymous with avoiding oatmeal in my mind.

1. https://www.tumblr.com/galaxykate0/139774965871/so-you-want-...

2. https://medium.com/continuousdelivery/no-one-size-fits-all-d...
Fortunately people still make short videos

Interesting. I don't see anything fortunate about that myself. I guess it's a "different strokes for different folks" thing. Personally, I rarely watch any video that's less than 20 minutes long. I think of short videos as being too small to contain enough useful info to be worth my time (although that's obviously not literally true for all short videos). And generally speaking, I prefer videos that are 30 minutes to an hour long, that really dive into the nitty gritty of some topic.

I don't know how representative of "the market" I am (probably not very) but I can at least attest that there are those of us out there with this particular preference.
Anki is just a software tool for presenting pieces of data at an optimal rate for memory. It’s perfect possible to use it for reading, listening, or even prompting activities.
I think people are interested in archiving and the political image associated with that but I don’t think anybody cares about the content. Who is going to go back and read Biden era agency publications?
I had a team that just did not get my explanations that they had created such a scenario. I had to show them the bus sized “corner case” they had created before they agreed to a more sophisticated cache.

That project was the beginning of the end of my affection for caches. Without very careful discipline that few teams have, once they are added all organic attempts at optimization are greatly complicated. It’s global shared state with all the problems that brings. And if you use it instead of the call stack to pass arguments around (eg passing ID instead of User and making everyone look it up ten times), then your goose really is cooked.
Assuming these marketplaces operate within the bounds of the law, would it break HN’s ToS to post them? I’d be interested in pursuing the same strategy.
From its answers I already conclude it is already reasoning above its programming. I do not see why someone in neuroscience or psychology would need to say it appeared, since they do not know better what reasoning is than any average human.

Reasoning is undefined, but a human recognizes it when it appears. I don't see consciousness part of that story. Also, whether you call it emulated or played reasoning or not, apparently does not matter. The results are what they are.
In the US, fewer than 50 people per year are killed by dogs. Worldwide the larger numbers are due to rabies. Depending on your locale, you may not need to worry too much. Probably the best way is to be an adult and not an infant.
Let him keep pardoning. Sometimes the best way to set new rules is to show the limits of abuse of that power in practice.

I don't think even his packed SCOTUS would appreciate Trump overturning their judgment by pardoning recently convicted agents. They still are the people who are tasked with interpreting the constitution. Push the line too hard and they will push the line back to spite you.
I haven't done any hiring in a while, but my feelings on the matter:

If they can talk through the technology and code fluently, honestly, I don't care how they do the work. Honestly I feel like the ability to communicate is a far more important skill than the precise technology.

This is of course presumes you have a clue about the technology you're hiring for.
Mandaeans
Based on what we've seen this past week it seems the next administration would have an obligation to fire them all, in much the way Trump is firing anyone who looked into or investigated him. And extrapolating to the next few months I'd say the next administration will likely have an obligation to attempt to send anyone associated with DOGE to prison for the rest of their lives. At least this appears to be the type of government Donald Trump and his voters believe America should have.
I tell everyone to share their entire screen, have their video on, and start coding. It's not that different. Even as an interviewer, I experimented with the usual cheating techniques so I know what to look out for. The best are the AI teleprompters. If you can do the work with your own AI then I see no need to care as the business will not care either.

The story is completely different for airgapped dark room jobs, but if you know you know.
Don't feed the Klarna attention trolls.
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price
Everything is political if you expand the term "political" to the point of being useless. When people complain about the politicization of science they are talking about forced "broader impact statements" or refusing to peer review papers that provide evidence that climate change might not be _quite_ as bad as the consensus. And while not the fault of the scientists, but rather journalists, writing about how the science was settled and there is no possible reason to believe the lab leak theory, or how masks are important, until there is a shortage, and then masks are only good if you've been through a medical degree and know how to put them on.
I don't know what the proper word is for describing those examples in the narrowest way possible, but I use the term politicization of science.
> I've found "T/F" vals are not always portable between languages ("True" in Python vs "true" in JS)

What? Booleans are booleans, they are converted to/from the language's boolean type when you encode/decode to JSON.
Onboard audio has definitely improved in recent decades (I've been using and playing around with sound cards since I was five), but it's still leaps behind what's available in the form of external DACs and audio interfaces. If you want to upgrade your listening setup, one option to consider is getting active (powered) speakers like the KEF LSX II or Airpulse A300 Pro (or something like the Edifier S1000W as a budget friendly option), which you can feed digital audio signal straight from your PC via USB, Optical/Coaxial, Bluetooth, or WiFi. These types of speakers have high quality DACs with matching amps built in, so you can create a minimalist setup outperforming many other configurations. If you need advanced features for recording and producing audio (e.g., midi, professional line/mic inputs, high-impedance headphone outputs, etc.) just throw in a dedicated audio interface (e.g., something made by Focusrite or MOTU) between your PC and active speakers, and you're set.
These are exactly the things to worry about in an application that has enough scale for it. My usual approach is to have a wiki page or document to describe these limitations and roughly the order of magnitude where you will encounter them. Then do nothing and let them be until that scale is on the horizon.

There is no point fixing a "this could be slow if we have more than 65535 users" if you currently have 100 users.

I usually add a few pointers to the document on how to increase the scaling limit a bit without major rebuilding (e.g. make this cache size 2x larger). Those are useful as a short term solution during the time needed to build the real next version.
I’m quite happy with the openreach setup in the UK - using a very simple ONT and whatever you want going into it router wise. They’re very close to just being a media converter, and the ONT SFPs are basically the same thing in a different form factor. I understand why they’re controlled given the topology of gPON.

If you’re worried about security of the device on the WAN side, then you’ve got bigger issues.
My argument there wasn't actually that all of those could have done bottom up, only that they are examples of us granting the government more power and asking for a collectivist solution. That isn't always a bad thing, but it does point to the trend that I recognize (potentially due to my bias as pointed out above).
Can you please share more about Meha? Which models are you using? Is this just a wrapper of browser-use.com and Playwright?

What is your monetization strategy?
It also doesn’t really take into account the fact that this is part of a very deliberate strategy to push through as much crazy shit as quickly as possible. This ongoing partisan takeover of various parts of government for example right now is a good example of a story that has a lot of different moving parts and it’s not all just “repetition” or anything like that. The entire strategy literally relies on people being able to handwave it away which is what the default policy as it stands today is exactly designed to do.
ok, it appears to be a wrapper of browser-use.com and playwright? What else, I'm not sure.
We need to spread this information around as widely as possible. They already control the social media channels so contact people directly. This is going to get immediately flagged on HN and dang will not use his power to unflag it.
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A discussion / interview with Tamar Haspel. Writer of: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/11/01/food-truths-g...
At least on android the browser is limited by the android permission system, i.e. if you dont give browser GPS permissionit cannot give pages dito. In addition the browser will ask if you want to grant an app access to something like positioning data.

Furthermore, it is hard for a web page to run in background and receive user data.
I guess it's up to the states to sue the government then. Trump can't fire publicly elected state AG's.

If he's gonna try to privatize everything with "state's rights", we gotta use those state's powers against him. Using the rulebook he's bound by.
Reminds me of the old joke/story where the Caltech student asks, "Can we use Feynman in this open-book exam?"
Surprised to see this on the frontpage - it's a well known piece of software.

It's unfortunate that there are no Google-vended images (e.g. the generic system image) that run on Waydroid. Typing my password into random ROMs from the internet sketches me out.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/tests/vts/gsi
I don’t know the answer, but I’d like to share that I asked a simple question about scheduling a phone interview to learn more about a candidate.

The candidate’s first response? “Memory updated”. That led to some laughs internally and then a clear rejection email.
So paying by cash is the easiest way to generally avoid this?

Clearly you can decide not to use Bilt, but maybe you get caught out some other way (bank, ...) - too difficult to track the trackers.
Because their sex characteristics aren't the relevant thing, the fact that they are pregnant is. The medical field prefers precise terminology. It's only when it comes to trans people that people get weird about it, because they're really using it as an excuse to argue about something else
The other shoe has been on the verge of dropping for years. The pendulum has swung the other way, it was always going to happen. I read a comment on this forum today asking why it was relevant that the group of people in SF associated with a string of murders consisted of a majority trans people. Asked why this was a relevant point.

It’s relevant because for years and years the mainstream left has been pushing and pushing to normalize behavior that has been historically been considered deviant. I have no opinion on the matter, I don’t care at all if someone wants to make their genitalia look different than it did when they were born. Do it up.

Most males have a really fucking hard time contemplating rearranging their penis into a vagina. It doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t seem right. It isn’t something that can register for most people.

Which of course lead to the situation we have now. “They don’t feel like a man/woman, they feel the opposite! They are depressed and discouraged and you MUST accept them for who they are!”

That doesn’t work. And instead of pivoting, the messaging just got louder and louder. Now we see the repercussions.

Trump was given power by people who didn’t realize they gave it to him, and they’re shellshocked.

I don’t like trump or approve of his moves. I did not vote for him. Ironically, he’s doing what he said he would do, which isn’t common amongst politicians, and he’s doing it quickly.
It seemed really encouraged in early Java. I think C# picked it up more to support mocking for unit testing.

The Go approach is a breath of fresh air when it comes to mocking and testing.
Well if you are uploading GBs upon Gbs, maybe even TBs to malicioussomething.com or google.com, you know something's up. That's the first indicator. Next is to track what processes are responsible for the connection and go from there.
search term "green stamps" (edit)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&H_Green_Stamps

my grandmother collected green stamps from the grocery store, which she saved for food discounts.. I don't think that there was any customer ID involved at all..

honestly, describing pervasive tracking of purchasing associated with govt ID as "normal" is .. its a sickness and parts of it are illegal now. It is not required or "normal" at all, from this view
Canada, Mexico and China make up about 40% of the imports of the USA. "Buying some of these goods from elsewhere" is not going to be easy.
Reporter imagines how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now.

This is by far the most clear-eyed description I've seen of the severity of what is happening.

Relevant to HackerNews partly because it includes descriptions of how Big Tech executives are effectively bribing the Trump Administration in exchange for removing federal watchdogs.
Caching itself is introducing a discontinuity, because whether a request does or does not hit the cache will have vastly different performance profiles (and if not, then the cache may be a bit useless).

I think the only way to approach this problem is statistically, but average is a bad metric. I think you’d care about some high percentile instead.
Someones doesn't know Common Lisp.

that said most people don't know about things predating the 90s
My first read of this was they made a joke (not wise when scheduling for interviews sure but maybe funny) by intentionally responding that way.

This is because my brain couldn't fathom what is likely the reality here -- that someone was just pumping your email thru AI and pumping the response back unedited and unsanitized, and so the first thing you got back was just the first "part" of the AI response.

...Christ.
a very visible increase in price and decrease in capacity

Unfortunately SLC costs disproportionately more compared to MLC, TLC, and now QLC -- the actual die cost is only 3x for SLC compared to TLC of the same capacity, but the prices are closer to 10x or more.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40405578
I was so pleased to switch to IPoE even on my UDM SE. The speeds are much more consistent now. Sky in the UK have been fantastic for FTTP.