skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea, fun use for an LLM. I think a common theme is that when people ask LLMs to be funny or satirical, they overuse simile and analogy. e.g. "screaming and calling each other names like it was the most epic rap battle of the century" in the article about Elon's subpoena. I'm not sure if it's the quantity or the lack of connection to reality, but somehow, these jokes never land for me.

On the other hand, I actually liked "Greece Declares State of Emergency on Santorini, Residents Quickly Realize They Have Nowhere Else to Vacation" because it's funny to me that the entire country of Greece has a single place where they go for vacation. However, after I realized there were actual earthquakes, the joke felt a little insensitive, but I suppose that's to be expected if you're doing irreverent news.

"Aliens Prefer UK Over US for Sightseeing Trips, Survey Says" was also a pretty clever way to reword the original article, but it misunderstood the statistics. The article says that belief in UFOs is rising in the UK, but it is still less than in the US (20% across the pond vs 42% in the US of A), making the AI headline inaccurate.

Anyway, this is clearly meant to be a fun project, but I wanted to leave some feedback in case it helps find ways to make AI funnier. I think it's a good tool for comedy, but so far, the best AI comedy that I've seen has made use of its absurdity, like the Netflix special (https://youtu.be/nH_bEtbfB9U?si=TRF7v_Zu7sNVaeWD) or DougDoug's videos (https://youtu.be/W3id8E34cRQ?si=ucL-c4gOXRgor1LB). I think that there are probably certain prompting techniques that could make an AI more naturally funny, but I'd bet you probably have to get into CoT/reasoning-type stuff to get it to really make well-though-out jokes, because ultimately the best jokes are the ones that have layers to them.
I agree: The slave labor part is likely. (See also: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, etc.) What do you mean by "blood money"?
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As per recent reports, the status quo included kickbacks to politicians and their spouses through lucrative board positions on state sponsored NGOs, millions of dollars for subscriptions to partisan aligned news publication and other incidents which can easily be characterized as corruption, fraud or outright waste.

There's a meta argument to be had on whether reducing the size and scope of state power is political. It is political in that it is politically contentious, however reducing the scope of things which come under the purview of politics is as close as anything can come to anti-political in our current environment of hyper-politicalization.
I realize it’s hard to face, but it’s ok to admit that (cool as the tech is) some things just have a net negative on the world. It’s just engineers and data scientists using their enormous talents to make world a worse place, instead of a better one.

It’s not going to happen, but the only solution is to just stop developing it.
right or wrong gives a loss -> gradient
In the style of John Stewart explains the mediocre punchlines ;)
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MalwareBytes browser extension.

Blocks all the shite. Mobile version too.
Godaddy has a special reputation on HN and among the tech community in general. I can narrate a few examples that I'm personally aware of, but that's besides the point. But to say that there are not many scams in the DNS business is a bit of stretch. There have been allegations of conflict of interests even in case of ICANN.

The core issue is that DNS is a money factory that exists because of their first mover advantage and incumbency factor. There is no other reason why someone else couldn't have been in charge. It's like those academic publishers in the age of the internet (though they had legitimate reasons to exist before the internet). Their justification for existence is that they already exist. Such systems are ripe for exploitation and corruption. And there is no reason someone won't do it when they get a chance.

A naming system is necessary and a centralized naming system is certainly costly to maintain. But, we could have sacrificed the centralized control in favor of low cost of operation and virtually free identities. (The sacrifice is due to Zooko's triangle). The identities won't be that easy to remember - but we already have a similar system where that issue is solved. We have nearly random phone numbers that we map to pet names in our contacts list. It would have avoided another avenue of unnecessary economic exploitation on the internet.
The Montessori toys are mostly wood in different shapes...
> According to the UST it's Social Security

Social security is reported as 21% of the total spending. It is also financed through a dedicated payroll tax. This means the federal government only acts as an income redistribution system where payroll taxes collected today are redistributed as pensions paid today.

So even though social security shows up so high, it just reflects the income redistribution scheme where the current workforce maintains retirement pensions of workers who retired.

The second largest expenditure is national defense at 15%.
Almost all the loan availability were spoken for within hours. The grifters got there first, and the people who really needed the help often got stiffed. The Catholic Church took PPP loans and used it to pay off all the lawsuits from their priests raping kids.

https://www.wmlawyers.com/2020/07/sex-abuse-victims-outraged...
Families who choose Montessori school for their children usually avoid them have access smartphone, TV or internet in general.

Also, they are often in the wealthy, upper class so can enforce that kind on environment.
Thars called a lie by ommission. If the default assumption is that you're chatting with humans, then there's some deception in a non-human masquerading as one.

>Society almost never differentiates between goods and services produced directly by human hands

Sure we do. We all have different expectations of a human service vs. Using a tool for something. Self checkout, for example. Or a robotaxi vs an Uber driver. Humans themselves can be a service and that can affect how we want to pay or approach one.
What "concern" did Musk express with that salute?

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/auschwitz-survi...
For me, the attacks on ML that are possibly by poisoning the training data preclude considering models without freely distributable and modifiable training as open-source or libre models.
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more like the least important part of a manager's job
curious why wealth plays into enforcing smart phone usage.
Thanks for asking! The headline generation is actually a two-step process that I found works better than a single prompt. I think this is my real "secret sauce" that I found success with:

1. First, I ask GPT to generate 5 different headlines using specific Onion-style techniques I found in satire writing guidelines:

- Highlighting an unspoken truth

- Expressing raw honesty of a character

- Treating a grand event in a mundane manner (or vice versa)

- Delivering critique through absurdity

Here's the actual prompt I use:

"Craft 5 satirical, humorous headlines for the given article, employing techniques such as highlighting an unspoken truth, expressing raw honesty of a character, treating a grand event in a mundane manner (or vice versa), or delivering a critique, inspired by The Onion's distinctive style. If the article allows for it, maintain a positive and light-hearted tone."

2. Then I have a second prompt that acts as a "comedy judge" to pick the best one:
"Pretend that you are a world class comedian. Choose the funniest satirical article headline out of these headlines."

It's hit or miss - some headlines are pretty bland, but occasionally it produces gems that make me laugh out loud. I'm collecting the ones that work really well with the plan to fine-tune a model specifically for my type of humor.

For the article content itself, I use Jon Stewart as the style guide because I found his approach of "truth through comedy" tends to work well with keeping the actual news facts intact while adding humor.

I'm really interested in exploring different comedic styles and personalities. I think having different "voices" (like a John Oliver version vs a Stephen Colbert version) could be cool. Would love to hear if you have any other ideas for improving the humor generation!
gotta upgrade your tinybird plan ;)
Pat was the wrong choice because the board wanted to keep doing what they want the company to do and not have to change anything. Now they'll have to hire a CEO that specializes in break up companies and maybe reclaim some glory by being a fab for others
Very disturbing how append sometimes decouples, sometimes not.
NPS, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Astrology are all things that seem scientific, get a lot of attention, and are junk.
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AlphaProof. Although I don't know if it's large enough to be called an LLM.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems...
Discriminate just means differentiate.

The parent comment isn't talking about race, they are talking about discriminating between human and human tool (bot).
> Ok, but that’s not happening in USA.

It clearly is.

> Trumps stuff is already being blocked.

That's like claiming there isn't a rape problem because a rapist attempts at raping someone is already being blocked.
That would work for dreams of wandering through some random landscape, but I'm talking about dreams where I interact with people who seem as smart (or smarter) than me, who can tell me jokes that make me laugh.

What you describe would be like learning chess by exploring random boards, but I'm talking about dreams as self play: learning chess by playing as white against black, without any window into black's strategy. To do that well seems to require running two brain instances in relative isolation. Dreams would be the only safe time to do that, and a bicameral brain hardware would be the most straightforward implementation. I doubt my optic nerve can play chess against my cerebellum.
In the US, most public-sector unions incl. transport workers are essentially not allowed strike under the Railway Labor Act unless they have exhausted all mandatory federal negotiation/ mediation (nominally on the grounds that it could cripple the economy).

This was also an issue in the 2022 US freight rail labor dispute where Biden, Pelosi and Congress passed a law to criminalize the prospect of rail strike. [0][1]
If the freight staffing level cuts had been reversed, it's quite likely the 2/2023
East Palestine, OH train derailment and $$bn environmental disaster [2] would have been avoided. The freight companies, in the name of efficiency and slashing staffing levels, had combined multiple trains into one huge one (which has a higher risk of derailing, and larger size of derailment.)

To your question, it would be good if the US had a nonpartisan setup for balancing profit and efficiency vs safety and conditions, but that's not the case. Since the time of Reagan and the 1981 PATCO strike. Curious if there's any objective comparison between China and US how freight rail is operated. But then the Chinese freight rail is state-owned which largely removes the profit incentive for cutting safety. Compared to the US, China has almost no freight rail disasters, and it has more freight traffic.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781421

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_la...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_de...
I think you'd probably be surprised at how many 'cyberbullies' are 40+ who do it because it makes them feel young and powerful again.
> Obviously.

Yup. Should be obvious most people would share my stance also.

> Again, no.

Hmm. So why, then?

> Do you have examples of semantic flair that you use to stand out?

I don't try to stand out by being contrarian or via other semantic scheming.

> What ambiguity?

> What misinfomation?

It's confusing to at the least ESL speakers who may think it is a reasonable way to refer to people from the US and it is misinformation to suggest it is.

> For the third time. No.

Hmm.

> Stop trying to make your contextual PoV a thing Gretchen.

Not sure what Gretchen refers to, but I was just trying to assume good faith and that was the only reason I could muster. I look forward to your clarification.

> This is literally no more than a useful contraction of "United States of America citizen"

It's not useful, though - it's harmful. It creates ambiguity where this is none, and tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Dude. 100 Helicopter parking spots. Just thinking of a future where 100 people owned them and flew right to their high rise apartment parking space. Pretty sweet but I would not like all that noise.
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I really don't see how interest can simply come from positive experience if there's no affinity. I've never tried Mongolian throat warbling, so I'm neither here nor there. And trying it doesn't mean I'll become interested in it even if I enjoy doing it a few times. Like I've generally had positive experience doing math (as far as I can recall), but I haven't gained any interest in it. It just isn't there. And that means I'd never join a math club, for example; I'd find it dull, even if I had friends in it. Same for a myriad of other things. It'd be pretty overwhelming mentally if one were to be interested in everything they tried and had a positive experience with IMO, which is why people specialize.

And conversely if I think hard enough, I can probably come up with something I never had early positive experience with but still pursued because I found it interesting. I'm also very interested in traveling in space, but I definitely don't have any experience, positive or negative, and likely will never gain any. I'd totally join a club that talks about traveling in space in a heartbeat though.
Matt Taibbi coined the term Griftopia. This problem needs to be investigated, but unfortunately it's being used as cover for larger crimes at the moment.

It's important to maintain perspective here, as one side has an immediate need for this issue to act as a shield. I'm happy to handle this grift, but first I'd like the corrupt politicians out. Sadly we may be in a holding pattern until midterms or all the way until the next presidential elections.

If Bush put us in a quagmire unknowingly, Trump is putting us in one deliberately.

Anyway, just randomly looking at one zip code in Manhattan:

$237,559,093.66 (total loans).

I don't know the answers.
The rest of the world aren't looking for huge cars.
Actually, I kept it simple - I use the original images from the news articles! When I fetch an article through RSS and extract its content using the @extractus/article-extractor library, it pulls the main image along with the content.

https://github.com/extractus/article-extractor
Haha, I found the colbert fan
I agree deregulation is a focus of the current admin but there is also control. See pam bondi threatening to prosecute private companies with DEI programs. If you consider healthcare to be industry it would be one of our largest and he has implemented anti trans control there as well.

I expect overall deregulation regarding safety and environment etc will continue but alongside it there will be strict directives that comport with the right wing social and ideological agendas.
Wealthier parents can pay to have more free time to spend on activities with their children to the exclusion of screens.
Strainer yes, Montessori less so.
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Mm, I actually mostly use it for my local news. Sadly, the onion doesn't write specific to Austin, Texas. Also, on my local setup, I have it for gaming/films/other niche interests that are just for me. Also, I like that it's realtime, and that I can click on it to get the real headline/info.
That explains why part three with the punchline wasn't published yet...
a smart home hub, eh? that will be a gas
I feel that the Montessori method is a lot like the Ten Commandments. You really don’t need a label or specific books or memberships to cathedrals of education to practice those principles.

I have kids in grade 1 and 2 so I’m getting to experience public school by proxy 30 years later and see what’s changed. I’m delighted to see that they employ a lot of the Montessori philosophy without once feeling the need to label it as such. Not that the label is bad. It’s just unnecessary.
It plays into the whole package of keeping children occupied after the au pair has driven them to and from expensive montessori private schools
You can replace republicans with democrats and it’s just as valid if not more.
This is well-studied problem, and trying to make your own solution from scratch you'll often miss the efficient solutions.

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

To adjust the terminology:

* cells are vertices

* the path between adjacent cells that are both not obstacles are edges

* adding an obstacle means removing all its edges

* removing an obstacle means adding edges for each adjacent cell that isn't also an obstacle

* it's illegal to end up with multiple components (edit: rephrased for correctness) other than obstacles

Personally I've only done the "add edges" direction (which is much simpler).
That was just EFF's first recommendation. Their next recommendation "Install Privacy Badger to Block Meta’s Trackers" is much more effective.
It's time to stop jailbreaking/rooting, fully take control away from the user and enforce DRM more strongly?
I find it hilarious that the article starts with "are you mad at Meta for trying to appease the guy at the head of federal government" and ends with "we need strong federal privacy laws". It's the same federal government, you either trust it to legislate or you don't.
Great tool. I recognize at least three names in my neighborhood who received money for a new single member LLC
It is actually very easy to correctly assert certain statements outside of your domain as long as the domain you are butting in on is obviously fraudulent, pseudoscientific, full of charlatans, practitioners don't have any skin in the game, is almost entirely funded by political money (and wouldn't be funded otherwise), or is heavily based on some sort of mysticism, and I'm sure this isn't an exhaustive list. Turns out that is a lot of domains of human activity.
So China subsidizes a lot of their factories and now they have all the factories and they also have rising standards of living so ... seems to be working for them?
> I would guess some Latin American origins.

It's generally white people thinking they are solving a problem, honestly. Even if some people don't like that 'America' tends to refer to the US rather than something general to the continent or one or both of the continents, it doesn't really matter - there is never any ambiguity. The contexts talking about something the US is doing vs the continents are pretty much always crystal clear.
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Just remember, it's only ever a moral hazard when the government gives money to poor people.

The wealthy will not only never turn down free money from the government, they will lobby for it and demand it.
Reading this comment from my Quest 3 and thinking "why are people who don't use facebook but get great value from the e2e encrypted whatsapp still mad at Meta"
I think you're right. I actually have seen exactly what you're talking about with similes. I am hoping to fine-tune on stuff that actually make me laugh out loud over time. I'm hoping that doesn't just make it always repeat the same joke, though. Maybe if I add a like/dislike feature, I can also see what made people laugh the most?

I'm also using 3.5-turbo right now, i wonder if the ones that people use for stuff like character ai would be better?

Also, I think the absurdity angle would be really fun. I would love to have personalities that come out with a weekly digest or something. Or maybe people can submit questions to "the love doctor" or something, lol. There's a lot to play with.

I appreciate the feedback :)
The cat's out of the bag, if someone stops then someone else would start.

I would entreat people to consider the net effect of anything they create. Let it at least sway your decisions somewhat. It probably won't be enough to not do it, but I think of it more as the ratio between net positive :: net negative, and paying attention to that ratio should help swing it at least somewhat -- certainly more than giving up and ignoring the benefits :: harms.
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The app is clean and super fast. I set it up as a one-time purchase instead of a subscription app, so no extra fees for future features and updates.

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> Greed can't solve the Prisoner's Dilllema.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but greedy people can easily solve the iterated prisoners dilemma. Everyone cooperates. You get the Nash & global equilibrium where everyone maximises their long term outcomes. A classic "greedy" strategy wouldn't work, but greedy people don't usually choose that strategy because it is naive and the point is to end up well off.
The 24-bit bus means that you can use the top bits of a pointer as a tag. In a small system we don't need that much memory, this can actually be a great advantage. We are rediscovering the value of tag bits in 64-bit systems.
So like $2500 per person? Another round of stimulus checks would have been better
$755B was forgiven. I know that there are many benefits for this program but I cannot resist comparing this with the NSF budget. This is equal to about 75.5 years of the current NSF budget (assuming constant budget but unlikely as there is planned deep cuts). If we assume that the budget will increase 5% to adjust for inflation (unlikely too) then that would about 32yrs. Not that I'm comparing in absolute usefulness. I just don't understand why this particular item in the budget making all this noise while comparing to the vast majority of programs is peanuts.
Easier to do business across the whole country. It tells you how streamlined and organized a lot of the fields are across regions