skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but you're talking to other people

No, I am clearly talking to a computer program. It is possible that the program is forwarding the discussion on to people. Perhaps that is what you are trying to allude to? The details of how the software works behind the scenes is beyond my concern. There is no intention to talk to other people, even if the software has somehow created that situation incidentally. If I wanted to talk to people, I would go out and talk to people, not type away at my computer into a box given to me by the software.

> The particular version of this trap you've fallen into is a variation of the "It's all just the machine integers" mental model from C.

As much as I enjoy your pet definition that you've arbitrarily made up on the spot here, the particular trap I have fallen into is the dictionary. It literally states what an enumeration is according to the prevailing usage. It does not describe it as a type, it describes it as the action of mentioning a number of things one by one. Which is exactly what an enum does.

The previous comment is talking about type constraints. You can definitely constrain a type such that it is invalid to use it outside of the numbers generated by the enum, just as you can constrain a type to only accept certain strings. e.g. from Typescript: `type Email = "{string}@{string}"` This idea is not limited to enums.

That's definitely a thing, and definitely a thing that could be used in conjunction with an enum, but is not an enum itself. Not as enum is normally used. Of course you can arbitrarily define it however you please. But, if you are accepting of each holding their own pet definition, your comment doesn't work. You can't have it both ways.
While I'm unsure about chickens, they're also [ab]used for larger meat animals like cows and turkeys because they make the animals grow larger, faster.

The fun thing is - nobody knows exactly why this happens. There's a bunch of hypotheses, but they're exceptionally hand-wavy.
Not that I'm aware of, but perhaps the things I've watched have been more vanilla and not required that by the content owner.
Is this still true as it used to be? I of course see what you refer to, but I also know many highly intelligent and culturally literate people who are devout muslims and christians. Furthermore a lot of anti-intellectualism today is secular: flat earthers, people who call sugar "basically poison", anti-vaxxers, etc. I think this comes from a very different place: these theories/viewpoints distract people with a feeling that they're getting a look behind the curtain on how the world "really" works. And there is a good deal of overlap (think: tiktoker talks about the "secret code" they cracked in the bible) but I think these are distinct phenomena. I think the latter phenomenon is caused by low trust in society, I think, plus a hodgepodge of stuff like crappy faux-marxism ("every problem is just rich people", which although there is a grain of truth, does certainly not literally describe reality), laundered anti-semitism ("the world is actually run by lizard people cabals who are coincidentally jewish"), and new age speculation about stuff like mass psychosis. In fact i'd argue that "new age spirituality" seems to be a nexus for all of this (and curiously still overlaps with christianity), attracting both marks and conmen in crowds.

Or to put it another way, I don't see how Q Anon theories can be tied back to religion in any direct way, even if many posts do draw from antisemitism. I'd even put the "russiagate" stuff in this category—it's true that many of the allegations seem substantial, but feels highly disingenuous when AIPAC wields such naked influence over both parties. Surely by any metric that Trump is controlled by Russia, Israel's influence outstrips it by many orders of magnitude.

Tbh, some of it is also just inability to interpret media. Particularly coverage of politics. Watching cable or reading opinion columns you'd think the parties were diametrically opposed and represent two wildly different aspects of america—when it takes about half an hour of reading a sampling of how politics works in other countries to realize how similar our parties are compared to basically every other party system on earth (excepting Britain, I guess?). Interestingly, for a country that prides itself on voting and political opinions, we're actually quite terrible at ceding the conversation to "experts" who are often even worse-informed and less educated than many of us.

Chomsky has this great bit about how Americans will call into a baseball show as an expert to criticize everything. The coaches, tbe players, etc. most of these people don't play baseball at all but feel very confident and passionate. He then points out how those same people will not have opinions about how government should work and leave criticism and demands to "pundits" even though they are much better equipped to figure out if they are being represented well than they are to judge the performance of a professional athlete. I think the internet cracked that open and now everyone has opinions. I'm curious how much anti-intellectualism just comes from democratization of public discourse and little has actually gotten worse, we're just more aware than we were before.
Have you tried cursor or replit for this?
Birdemic 3, deathstalker 4, star wars episode N, star wars episode N+1, star wars non-episode A, star wars non-episode [...]

Yeah, boy, I'm glad humans are making novel stuffs.
It is direct substitute! You can absolutely carry family of 5 and furniture on bike! See Denmark and India!
They can be useful for flock protection, if you don't get a dud rooster. But in general, they're more annoying than you expect.

And yeah, you don't need one to "get them to start laying" though if you want to try to actually hatch some eggs you will need one (or buy the eggs ready to go).

Now I've heard that the roosters in Kansas/Nashville, them do lay eggs ...
Following this post
I probably read the same thing, the most galling to me wasn't the failure rate it was that once you've failed you can never reapply.
I wasn't really aware of this, I guess using a VPN would get around the issue though?
We would like to eventually offer everyone an API credit stipend with their subscription. Our APIs should get plenty of love this year, so please stay tuned.

> also they blocked my vpn's another big nono

Argh, I am sorry to hear that. We do not block _any_ VPN, but have been struggling with our hosting provider (GCP) to not do this. We are working with GCP support on this - if you give us a chance, and encounter any issues, please reach out to support@kagi.com with details and we will see what we can do.

Also, see my other comment in this thread about Tor, if that is helpful for you.
So sex and racial prejudice has to be 100% efficient to be wrong?
Great new bait for fishing
Awesome. Models that can usefully leverage such large context windows are rare at this point.

Something like this opens up a lot of use cases.
We fund the Library of Congress (largest library in the world) and the National Archives (NARA) who make all of this stuff public. Other goverments do similar things. It's all on the web.

https://www.archives.gov/presidential-records/research/archi...

There are other agencies and data sources to be monitored of course but I'm not seeing a lot of nuance in those efforts yet.
I predict we'll have an American politician pursue a Singapore-style death penalty for fentanyl this year, perhaps at the state level first.
Hermitage: Testing the "I" in ACID (2014)
This already happens without AI, it's just that studios can only produce so many films given the budget, labor, and time constraints.

Tell me that any of the "Jurassic Park" films beyond the first were necessary. Or the "Lord of the Rings" films and shows beyond the original trilogy. These are products of the classical studio system. They keep trying to remake "Back to the Future" and as soon as Zemeckis dies, they'll have their way.

There will be amazing art made using AI, and AI will enable extremely talented creators that could have never made it in the classical studio system.

Don't be so pessimistic.

We're going to have "Obra Dinn" and "Undertale" equivalents in film soon. Small scale auteurs sharing their mind's eye with you.
This is a problem with copyright law. There is no way for an end user to determine the copyright status of anything on the Internet, you can only make an educated guess.
You’re exhibiting all the behaviours that push women out of Software Engineering right in this post.
- the FBI itself doesn't control prosecution right? The DOJ more broadly does, but the FBI doesn't pick the prosecution's legal strategy as I understand it. But if the prosecution attempts to overreach, we rely on courts to reject those arguments, not purges.

- your analogy to shop-lifting seems like quite a stretch. Unlike shoplifting, assault is a violent crime. To my understanding, no Jan 6 convict was executed or sentenced to death. Prison sentences for assaulting an officer don't seem wildly out of line. The defendants had in some cases explicitly expressed their plan to e.g. abduct congressional representatives. This was not shop lifting.
> maintain poultry health and welfare

That's a little deceptive. The antibiotics widely used by the industry are used for growth promotion. I don't know how it works, but I don't believe it's because they're keeping the birds healthy--i.e. treating infections. Some sources suggest part of the mechanism is by suppressing otherwise healthy or benign gut microbiota that compete for calories. Antibiotics have been used this way for nearly a century. There have been attempts to phase out subtherapeutic antibiotic use, but the practice is standard operating procedure in the US, and the US is a major chicken exporter. It's banned in the EU, though.
1. Anyone can get all of NYT's articles for free along with CNN and every other major news site, this isn't in dispute, it's available here in a single 93 terabyte compressed file:

https://data.commoncrawl.org/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2025-05/inde...

2. I did not see any defense of this nature.

3. Yes and this is the big deal. If the secret code needed to reproduce copyrighted material involves large portions of that copyrighted material already then that's quite a bit different than just verbatim reproductions out of thin air.

4. Yes, if OpenAI wins this case then you could feed into ChatGPT large portions of NYT articles and OpenAI could possibly respond by regurgitating similar such portions of NYT articles in response.
It's part of the same phenomenon we see in social media. The first waves of social media and YouTube were predicated on the idea that you either seek out content yourself or view a feed of content you'd already taken action to subscribe to/follow. Services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pivoted to go from "pull" where users select content or stay within their own networks, to a "push" model where the algorithm predicts and autoplays content, mostly from strangers, based on highly accurate predictions of virality and eyeball-retaining potential.

Things like Netflix realized it too and buried the "Continue Watching" at a randomized index in an endless carousel, added Autoplay and even starts autoplaying something different after you finish a series. And of course, newer things like TikTok have always been this way. All these things are, I'd argue, user-hostile in that they're optimizing toward, in the extreme case, complete addiction.
Either ChatGPT o4 or one of the newer Google models should handle that, since it's a pretty common task. Actually there have been online curve fitters for several years that work pretty well without AI, such as https://curve.fit/ and https://www.standardsapplied.com/nonlinear-curve-fitting-cal... .

I'd probably try those first, since otherwise you're depending on the language model to do the right thing automagically.
It's typical Stroustrup style to write code in a variable width font. I'd wager they didn't have an option to use a variable-width font in their code blocks in their CMS and normal paragraphs are trimmed automatically.

I didn't see the author at first. However, immediately after seeing the code I checked for the author, because I was sure it was Stroustrup.
Pillar App
"You can train a SOTA LLM for $0.50" (as long as you're distilling a model that cost $500m into another pretrained model that cost $5m)
How does the $4.5M fine compare to revenue generated by the scam?

Unless there is jail time, these fines are just a slap on the wrist, and are often factored into budgets as “costs of doing business”.
For what its worth I did check this today and it seems to be more like 20% of healthcare is going to providers, not 7%.

However in the grand scheme of things this still isnt that bad, and I do think doctors/nurses deserve a good compensation, so given the problems associated, maybe we dont go with removing medical licences as a solution to healthcare costs
It may seem like a lot but there are 1.7 million web platform tests. Controversial chrome only web apis are few and far between the common features
“BS programs with good intentions” is like 80%* of all jobs. It’s a useful hiring signal.

* YMMV
Yeah, it's called a "lifestyle business" and you can't buy them, but you can start them (or sometimes be given one).

(Many common small businesses are lifestyle businesses, because they're individual service businesses, like plumber, contractor, etc.)
I haven’t checked in on this case for a while, but aren’t there also many organizations that want OpenAI to win this case so that the concept of fair use is upheld?
Why is Gemini Flash so much cheaper than other models here?
I work in fintech and we replaced an OCR vendor with Gemini at work for ingesting some PDFs. After trial and error with different models Gemini won because it was so darn easy to use and it worked with minimal effort. I think one shouldn't underestimate that multi-modal, large context window model in terms of ease-of-use. Ironically this vendor is the best known and most successful vendor for OCR'ing this specific type of PDF but many of our requests failed over to their human-in-the-loop process. Despite it not being their specialization switching to Gemini was a no-brainer after our testing. Processing time went from something like 12 minutes on average to 6s on average, accuracy was like 96% of that of the vendor and price was significantly cheaper. For the 4% inaccuracies a lot of them are things like the text "LLC" handwritten would get OCR'd as "IIC" which I would say is somewhat "fair". We probably could improve our prompt to clean up this data even further. Our prompt is currently very simple: "OCR this PDF into this format as specified by this json schema" and didn't require some fancy "prompt engineering" to contort out a result.

Gemini developer experience was stupidly easy. Easy to add a file "part" to a prompt. Easy to focus on the main problem with weirdly high context window. Multi-modal so it handles a lot of issues for you (PDF image vs. PDF with data), etc. I can recommend it for the use case presented in this blog (ignoring the bounding boxes part)!
That doesn’t sound mean. It sounds like you shouldn’t pick up a wild animal.
Your entire argument is the No True Scotsman fallacy, so it's rather ironic for you to accuse others of it.
neat, will play with it.
Well, if it works for you, i offer my blog in a 90s style. However, i decided to remove the css, which I’ll do either tonight or tomorrow.

https://90s.aien.me
Modern multimodal encoders for LLMs are fine/not lossy since they do not resize to a small size and can handle arbitrary sizes, although some sizes are obviously better represented in the training set. A 8.5" x 11" paper would be common.

I suspect the issue is prompt engineering related.

> Please provide me strict bounding boxes that encompasses the following text in the attached image? I'm trying to draw a rectangle around the text.

> - Use the top-left coordinate system

> - Values should be percentages of the image width and height (0 to 1)

LLMs have enough trouble with integers (since token-wise integers and text representation of integers are the same), high-precision decimals will be even worse. It might be better to reframe the problem as "this input document is 850 px x 1100 px, return the bounding boxes as integers" then parse and calculate the decimals later.
> Based upon your responses to the Biographical Assessment, we have determined that you are NOT eligible for this position.”

Wow.
Zig is great, played with it a bit to compile to WASM and found it to be pretty easy to work with.

That said, they're not winning on the docs, community and marketing front vs Rust. It's not really apples to apples, but it's a comparison people naturally draw.
This is the best self improvement app out their
How does it require ignorance to believe something that’s spelled out in black and white policies? It’s not even belief it’s just reading comprehension at that point.
The problem in the USA is we produce about infinity billion times the calories we need.

If food was a problem in the US we wouldn't be putting corn in our cars or our cows.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950454
When their gas prices go up, their equipment goes up, their feed goes up, etc, they won’t have any choice.
I work at Google, and I didn't even know that there are good movies you can watch for free with a YT Premium subscription until I saw this article:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/storefront

Includes Roger Rabbit, Billy Madison, Good Will Hunting, Wayne's World, Mars Attacks, Grumpy Old Men, Osmosis Jones, the 90s TMNT movie…
What hardware are you using to run it?
Yes, this is really tricky, because nowadays we have people shouting from the rooftops continuously, and half of them are shouting the exact opposite thing as the other half. WWII was openly racist, so from a modern perspective it would be easy to recognize and condemn some of the early behavior, but these days it's more about dog whistling and thought crimes. Probably the signs we would all recognize are not going to happen. But we have already moved a dramatic amount in terms of normalized behavior, from 20 years ago.
Claude Sonnet 3.5...no, not that 3.5, the new 3.5. o3-mini, no not o2. yes there was o1, yes it's better than gpt-4o.
Not helpful to an otherwise worthwhile discussion.
> "Defendants’ tools undermine and damage The Times’s relationship with its readers and deprive The Times of subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue."

News flash: you can read newspaper articles at the library.
Yeah, unfortunately that seems to be the best way to handle this kind of thing but unfortunately that costs $6/person/month so our ~50 person casual email list for organizing fantasy football and family reunions would cost almost $4k/year.
Jailbreak Kindle: WinterBreak
A newer JVM language, which admittedly came with its own share of problems.
Search by tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/
No, a lot of it really is just obvious cost cutting. Things like replacing metal fasteners with plastic ones that break or strip easily.
There's gdroid (https://gitlab.com/gdroid/gdroidclient/) that tries to tackle this problem by using stars in the app, github stars and some more metrics.

However it's usage does not seem to be widespread.
You don't have to update your Fedora install every day just because there are updates available.
Not wrong, but one thing I did not spot in all the great explanations related to HEAD is that @ is an alias for HEAD that is a lot easier to type.
Also 18 seasons of Taskmaster, which at least I think is fantastic quality.
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Sorry, I don't have first-hand proof. But it seems that this issue is not rare: https://old.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/4g70lj/s...
You just commented a minor logically fallacy here.

People are unwilling to accept infinite risk and the question of if a segment of broader is secure depends on the risk of crossing that segment.

They might have better targets, but if a given segment isn’t secure that’s an inherent issue even if people happen to choose somewhere else.

In the other direction, if some segment is effectively impossible to cross that’s irrelevant. You don’t need other segments to reach an arbitrarily high standard just high enough to either get people to give up on the idea or fail often enough you’re dealing with the issue. IE one guy with a backpack per decade isn’t failure.
Are they paying the lawyers with government money? I'm seriously asking. Why is the government paying 10s of millions of dollars/year to the New York Times? How can they still claim to be a news organization without having disclosed this? If the government is paying the NYT, then don't their productions belong in the public domain?

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1887191056074350690
It's interesting that you say that, because the former GDR is where AfD is having the most success. Y'know, the part of the country that was run as a puppet of the Soviet Union and was more stridently "anti-fascist" for the majority of the postwar period? [0]

As recently as 2023 they were the second-strongest party in Germany according to the polls. [1]

Most Germans today only know of the horrors of Nazism from the history books. They have no real experience with it. There is nothing special about any particular nationality that makes them immune to the scourge of reanimated fascism. The Soviet Union bore horrible losses to the Nazis in WWII and the largest former SSR, Russia, is more-or-less a fascist state today. A salute isn't as alienating as "being left behind" by the world.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_European_Parliament_elect...

[1]https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-afd-emerges-as-germanys-seco...
There are ~250 $1 million+ lottery winners in the US every year.

There are ~750 billionaires in total.

The average American has a better chance of becoming a billionaire through hard work and prudent investments if, at age 18, they decide to live in a cardboard box underneath a bridge and steal metals from construction sites to sell for cash to be used to purchase lottery tickets.

They can then win the multi-million-dollar prize and invest that wisely to reach billionaire status.

Easy! Why doesn't everyone do it?
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> There are also plenty of 32 bit x86 machines still around

All x86_64 machines can also run 32 bit x86 code just fine. They have to - even modern CPUs start up in emulated 16 bit mode like it’s the 80s. They then they need to transition to 32 bit mode. And from there they can swap to 64 bit mode to run modern operating systems.

But you don’t have to do that last step. So this kernel should be able to run on any modern x86 computer on raw hardware just fine.
That seem like a reductive take on why people live in HCOL areas. Those areas cost a lot because most people believe the quality of life is better, which raises the cost of living due to competition for real estate.

If every part of the US became equally expensive and convenient for work, VHCOL areas like the Bay Area would still be immediately oversubscribed for reasons unrelated to work.

The Bay Area has arguably the best climate (cool Mediterranean) of any major city, unique proximity to a diverse set of outdoor recreation (Big Sur, Napa, Yosemite, Tahoe just to name a few), and all the desirable amenities of a major metro area.

That’s not to say you can’t have a perfectly happy life in other areas if you have different preferences, but the cost of living is ultimately a market, driven by the aggregate preferences of all people.
Related:

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938125
I used the superior search engine called “remembering where I read it”.