skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No part of Mountain View is set up to handle the queue of customers of Google seeking restitution. Other major corporates have this problem too. You don't fix the problem with your gas account overcharging by going to the Exxon head office.

Google is a bit of a shit company when it comes to customer service, but suggesting you can front into their space to get it addressed is really not ok.

The problem is the lack of a real service you really can approach. Not, that they wind up needing rent-a-cop in the lobby.

If people casually recommend simply visiting the campus of Apple, Meta, Google to get customer disputes settled, then its a low bar prediction it's going to get bad.
OpenAI et al have taught us that breaking millions of website ToCs is completely meaningless.

Soma rightfully seem to have just enabled CORS though after seeing this traffic spike.

Edit: And now OP just started proxying around it, hilariously adversarial when embedding a donation-based service.
PhotoGIMP: Gimp for Photoshop Users
While I agree with this in the aggregate and I think this problem is likely to take care of itself for many companies - I can’t help but be frustrated with it right now.

It is unbelievably grating to have colleagues that are plainly over-reliant on LLMs, especially if they’re less experienced. Hopefully the cultural norm around their use gets set quickly. I can’t handle too many more PRs where juniors plug my feedback in to an LLM and paste the response
> If he made such a blunder in finance which supposedly is one of his specialties just imagine how incompetent he and most of the government right now is on other matters.

This is a hasty generalization; while I agree on the fact that Milei was incompetent in promoting a memecoin as a financial instrument, that doesn't necessarily mean he is a bad economist all of the sudden, nor that the things he has done for Argentina are inherently bad, it just means he was incompetent on this matter. I am painfully aware of how divided the country is on the current government and its actions, however that doesn't invite sweeping judgments based on a single event. Criticism should be specific and supported by broader evidence rather than assuming total incompetence from one mistake.
We lost the War on Drugs. Every attempt to treat drug users as criminals has failed to achieve anything useful.

Portugal (as an example) treats drug use as a health problem and has much better results.

Addiction is a disease, a health problem, not something you can beat out of people by imprisoning them or being "really aggressive". That just makes the problem worse.
The frustration of some of the people in the comments is clear - "the city is spending a lot of our tax money on these criminals, savages and addicts and they don't even want help".

It's incredibly privileged and reductive to think of it that way - that, after surviving in a park for 10 YEARS, struggling for food and shelter, surviving the seasons, rest of society and getting beat down to square 1 so many times -and basically being in constant fight or flight mode as the article states - you think you wouldn't resort to escaping through alcohol or drugs, and could simply "decide to get your act together" and adapt to anything the govt agencies expect from you on daily basis in some of those housing solutions.

Those people did not cheerfully decide one day to dedicate their life to shitting all over a park and be addicted to meth. A lot of homeless people got there either by being let down by the society very early on, or by 1-2 bad events in life making it impossible to pay rent and getting dragged into a downward spiral from there.

Solutions should be focused on the root causes, and not the symptoms. If the country is such a late-stage capitalism shithole that so many people are 1 medical emergency away from not being able to pay rent, and there's no safety net or effective government support to prevent them from going homeless, the cost of trying to rehabilitate someone after years on the streets / in the parks is going to be multiplied. I'd like to see how those large budgets are being targetted first at number of new people coming into this situation being reduced, and then additionally decreasing the existing homeless population.

As usually, there are methods being successfully (at least to a larger extent) used in other societies - but USA is very often dismissive of them, because it's special and different.
If a company doesn't have a real human helpdesk for dispute resolution, fronting onto the people who have to man a desk to direct visitors to the right meeting room, or handle incoming calls to corporate offices, is just wrong.

I'm a customer of google. I pay them money. I would never, EVER recommend that people front into the Mountain View, or any other google office worldwide to discuss their issues. Never.
Came here to say this. It’s rare that you can blindly copy/paste an SO answer. Sometimes it looks like you can but then it doesn’t work and you have to not only carefully read the answer but then also fill in the missing pieces with information elsewhere. Usually, you end up reading 10-30 answers across multiple websites before being able to confidently produce a solution.

Almost always, the instant answers are toolchain-specific, like why my C# DLL isn’t using relative paths in the CSProj file (answer: because different VS versions process DLLs differently).
There's also the concern that a bout of mild COVID costs about 3 IQ points.[1]
The damage may be cumulative, but nobody seems to be following up on that, or tracking re-infection data, any more. What will this mean over 20 years?

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-leaves-i...
Fridman gets his guests to open up, which is valuable, but yes he does that by being uncritical of basically all guests ...

For example, I didn't know who Vivek R was before a month or so ago, and I watched the Fridman interview with him. I actually thought he came off very well ... He got to hit his high notes

Then I watched this Ezra Klein interview, and I got a better picture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY6NGom3gvU

Vivek got challenged a bit there, in a good way. I saw a lot more of the holes and inconsistencies

(Ezra Klein seems to be a reasonable centrist, more like the reporters of 20-30 years ago. After reading NYTimes since the 90's, I stopped taking at least half of NYTimes seriously maybe around 2015. They were/are literally trolling in their Op Eds for clicks, and greatly expanded that section. But there is still some stuff worth reading)

I also watched parts of Fridman's interview of Milei, and didn't form a strong impression, maybe because of the translation.
This is why I like hn. Many times I read about all of the horrible things that the current administration does. Due to so many cases where I know the news is wrong I stopped trusting anything. However, I feel like here I can let my guard down a bit and be more certain that a specific criticism is true.
"free speech"

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3licoe...

You mean the freedom to engage in garbage sophistry and calling anyone a "retard" who talks back. Shit like calling it "doxxing" to report on govt employees, then publishing the name of the daughter of a judge he doesn't like?

Sure thing. That doesn't even pass a smell test.

What on the other hand matches his life and the nonsense coming out of his mouth quite perfectly is that he's a malignant narcissist who is running from himself, and will drag down and destroy everything that doesn't resist, in his futile attempt to stave off narcissistic mortification a bit longer.
It happens often enough in linguistics to have its own name, a deverbal noun. Have a drink, go for a walk, and I guess now "has more compute". As far as modern english language development, seems better than skibidi toilet
When has there been a time since at least Netscape IPO’d in the mid 90s was there not a rush to quickly make money?
The bigger problem in my experience isn't even junior devs using it. It's senior people who haven't been individual contributors in many years who love that AI means they can just hop in and patch whatever problem comes up. It's not too hard to tell a junior dev that adding an if statement right before the error happened to make a separate codepath for that one case is not the right answer. It can be MUCH harder to tell a Senior Director that you don't want to merge that pull request because that's not the right way to solve the problem.
Eh. The article uses

extern char fn(void);

char kekw(void) {
const char foo = fn() ^ 5;
return foo - (foo & 3);
}

as a running example, and while godbolt only has cc6502, that thing indeed generates worse code, with helper subroutine calls and doing some strange stack juggling.
Closed, marked as a duplicate: [link to completely different issue]
I don't understand how differences in algorithms (training/inference) affect this argument. I just want to argue that in aggregate the human brain just cannot do nearly as much operations of any kind as a super cluster of gpus.

I guess the only way to know for sure is to faithfully simulate a human brain inside one of these clusters in real time...
Only if the frequency being recorded is half the sample rate (a.k.a. the Nyquist frequency) or less. That's the case for that nice pure sine wave in the example, but in more complex cases you'd absolutely be losing information.

Whether the lost information matters of course depends on the frequency range you can actually hear; in the case of CD-quality (44100Hz) audio you probably won't notice any issues unless you're a dog (or unless you're taking a higher-sample-rate recording and downsampling without any kind of anti-aliasing), but the article discusses a PCM chip that natively supports 32552Hz and is receiving a signal that was naïvely upsampled from 16276Hz. Especially in the latter case, you absolutely will hear the information loss.
I love it. Good work.
Wait, who is threatening to use the US military against US citizens?
I guess that would be the difference between sorting the list of songs versus picking from the list of songs.
It's only true if you are bickering about aesthetics of an argument versus its content.
It's also true that for every thing that turned out to be horrible, there were people saying "this is gonna be great". Do you then also also dismiss all optimism?

Why is this fallacy only employed in one direction? It's not an argument either way, it's just spam, but I wonder why it only ever gets deployed in one direction.
This is pretty much what they are doing, building buckets for aggregation, no insight

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076#m
Yes; but are we silly enough here to believe that it’s because they have some newfound sense of morality that is guiding their actions?

No.

They are so deep into other things that the old vices have lost their appeal.

I argue that what’s really happening is that this is the most introverted generation (lockdowns playing a part). Home is comfortable, safe, entertaining, free of judgement, and has never been less boring; the basement dweller stereotype has never been more real.
A reliable system will need a relatively formal “proof” that what it does is correct.

Code is currently the easiest and most convenient encoding for lots of folks to express such logic. So they’ll need to learn to read the syntax even if they write less of it.

So I think people will be able to put together lots of code with AI and not much programming experience, but there will be a need to ensure that it does the right thing. Now eventually the AI will create fewer bugs, infer intent better, automatically write tests, etc but even then someone needs to eg check the testset is correct.
I think we have fundamentally different views on this. It's also true that disruptive homeless have to be managed in state funded healthsystems worldwide and that includes denying them service when they do bad things, I'm not naieve enough to believe somehow this is a uniquely american problem (disruptive people) but I do think the aspect of reductive health economics here is a pretty unique problem to the US health economy. And I say that living in an economy which has private emergency services alongside the public ones. We just don't have the same problem at scale, because we don't have the underlying health charge model.
This is a very late reply, but whatever. My point is what Mr. Bloody Dictator is doing is just plain dumb. Even for some super fans of Putin who completely ignore tens of thousands civillians Russia killed in Ukraine, millions of refugees, etc.

Russia demography was abysmal long before COVID due to pre-WW2 and WW2 ripple effects. And during this invasion country lost like ~500,000 man dead or severely crippled and probably twice that amount to migration.

Basically in a few years country efficiently lost like 3-5% of it's working populaton with another 5-10% moved to produce "munitions" or something that will rot till next big war. Anyone who try to sell this as economy growth is a moron.

And btw it's exactly Japan scenario except for different reasons:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan
Yes. A point can be both a local and global maximum.
> If you have to do digital I think piracy is becoming the only reasonable answer.

What I do is purchase the ebook and remove the DRM, so I can read it on whatever device I want. It may be illegal but would you really consider that piracy?
There are compelling reasons to share data. Whether or not it's enough to compel you isn't really the point.

Most companies that are harvesting data are using it to offer some sort of service to the users' benefit, on top of using it to advertise to them. Sometimes the benefit is just "it syncs across devices and I don't have to run my own server." Not everyone is technical enough to do that.

And sometimes, things just see very straightforward, and not worth hiding. Different people have different levels of tolerance for things. For some people, period tracking is very much health information. Some may just find it very personal and view it as such and not use an app, or some may be trying to get pregnant, so it's explicitly health related but worth the risk... but for others, is just something you do, and it's not "health information," it's just trying to keep things predictable.

Everything comes down to "if things change, what are the odds this could be used against me?" when it comes to privacy. Maybe talking about privacy online becomes a negative thing under a totalitarian government that wants to quash that kind of speech, and this conversation we're having right now is a terrible idea. Probably not, but just sharing your opinions on things (literally any topic) is private information that could used against you, if you construe it properly.

But we consider that scenario unlikely, so we have the conversation and share our thoughts and express ourselves online. And a little bit of data about us is added to the pool.
“They” in my above comment is only used to refer to common people voting myopically. Usually conservatives who vote against social services.

As for my claim of homelessness being a threat - I’m not saying that there’s any grand conspiracy. But in the scheme of capitalism it helps to have an underclass that receive undue blame and keep people from sliding down the ladder further out of fear. No one needs to intentionally keep anyone homeless for this to be a functioning part of the system.

It’s like evolution but on a societal scale. Whatever we have now has persisted for a while. The threat of homelessness is part of why it’s persisted. Imagine if there was no uncomfortable bottom to society. All wage slaves that sell their body and time would simply choose to not work because not working would be a better life. It’s memetics. And of course we need people to do work. But we could be optimizing for happiness instead of GDP growth.

Think of religion. When a religion mandates evangelism it’s not necessarily out of a nefarious central planner trying to gain control over more people. But for religions that do mandate evangelism there is a greater chance the religion thrives. Because obviously recruiting people means you have a bigger religion. But the believers might simply each want to share their religion out of genuine belief in an afterlife.

I was raised in a specifically anti-evangelical religion. It’s pretty small as a result. There were the Shakers, a now extinct sect of Christianity. They considered sex ungodly and thus had no children. That killed the religion. Other sects promote having many children and survive.
that you mention lex and the new yorker in the same sentence is very damaging to your brand for me.
Stack overflow also has a ton of misleading answers too. Yes, the popular ones are exemplary ones with depth. The "struggle" is where the most knowledge is gained. While one struggle, they look inside, outside and around the problem and over time dots starts connect to each other.

I don't think it's all junior engineer's laziness to get things quick out the door. I recently worked with several, and many prefers to "do the right way". However, there are bad managers who wants to get things done quick so they can climb up the ladder. One junior told me his 1-on-1 with manager told him "don't think too much and get it done". The current market is tough for junior devs so they'll do whatever to please their manager. What choice do they have? Rather prefer getting PIP'ed?

And it's funny how the current market is considered "bad" because software companies earnings are clearly not that bad. Perhaps our greed has peaked and the only way to pocket more money is to squeeze every drop of juice out of employees to get the product out ASAP
I’ve been running for years and I’ve never got into that groove though I wanted it for so long. Lucky bastard.
My feedback is to please stop now. You are harming society. The world doesn't need more bullshit AI slop masquerading as human insight.

> we asked ourselves if we could simplify the process to help first-time authors achieve their dream of writing and publishing a book

I think you meant to say "we asked ourselves if we could simplify the process to help first-time authors achieve their dream of clicking a few buttons and letting the slop machine churn out more slop".

Also your cookie deny button doesn't work.
I've always wondered what happens psychologically and physically when you hit that state where you can pretty much go forever. It's like I begin daydreaming and I forget that I feel like I'm about to die from the running. One thing I noticed was that it never happened before the 1st mile, it was always after mile 2 that I would mentally drift off.
Mantella: Speak to NPCs in Skyrim and Fallout Using Voice and LLMs
Before StackOverflow there was ExpertSexChange.com and before that there was DejaNews and posting to comp.lang.*.
If a black person attacks you, does that mean that black people are then violent?

That’s the playbook. Do they not do this with black people? Immigrants? Trans? China? Homeless?

It’s all they do. It’s their one play, and this playbook that they all subscribe to caused a lot of problems. That’s all.

We must look at the package of beliefs, none of this is isolated.
> I wouldn’t want to relay on random caffee’s router to do this for me. I would still end up running firewall more carefully on my end devices.

Are you not doing that already? If you trust whoever else happens to be on the same wifi in the cafe you're a braver man than I.
I don’t think that’s an accurate way to describe what happened, no. He seems to be enthusiastic about it and to genuinely want it to succeed.

> "A lot of people actually think we're somewhat too risk averse," said Torvalds. "So when it comes to Rust, it's been discussed for multiple years by now. It's getting to the point where real soon now, we will actually have it merged in the kernel. Maybe next release."…

> "Before the Rust people get all excited," the Linux kernel creator and chief said. "Right? You know who you are. To me, it's a trial run, right? We want to have [Rust's] memory safety. So there are real technical reasons why Rust is a good idea in the kernel…”

> “And hopefully, it works out, and people have been working on it a lot, so I really hope it works out…”

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/linus_torvalds_rust_l...

Last September he was still insisting he thinks the project will not fail, and he was not exactly subtle in his criticism of maintainers who refuse to engage with it in good faith.

> "Clearly, there are people who just don't like the notion of Rust, and having Rust encroach on their area.

> "People have even been talking about the Rust integration being a failure … We've been doing this for a couple of years now so it's way too early to even say that, but I also think that even if it were to become a failure – and I don't think it will – that's how you learn," he said.

> "So I see the whole Rust thing as positive, even if the arguments are not necessarily always [so]."…

> With impressive diplomacy, considering his outbursts of years past, Torvalds went on, "There's a lot of people who are used to the C model, and they don't necessarily like the differences... and that's ok.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/19/torvalds_talks_rust_i...
I don't actually see a problem with that ...

He is uncritical, yes. But he doesn't deny being uncritical.

It's a useful "service" to get people with diametrically opposite viewpoints to talk freely, and he does that well

The interviewer doesn't need to impose their world view on the guest, or the audience -- it's OK to let the audience make up their own minds.

Contradictions aren't inherently bad, either ... "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", etc.
It just shows how little people understand outside their area of expertise that so many think what the brain does is in anyway like what a computer does.

The brain is a self conscious biological control system. Incidentally it can do some computing.

A computer is a general purpose digital combinatorics machine that generates a constant output for constant input.

The brain is as if you wrote your software in microcode on a real valued analog computer. The brain does not use an instruction set. Instead it uses a complex spaghetti of somewhat self modifying micro code orginating in a self modifying (over longer time scales) genetic blue print.

Most importantly for human and animal intelligence the brain is motivated in certain directions by emotions. Without motivation intelligence does not exist. One could say intelligence is the application of real control toward a goal.
OpenArc – Lightweight Inference Server for OpenVINO
What i said is -somehow- the scenario described in the article: a craftsman who relies on something to do his craft but can't actually do the craft by himself. I'd est, he's no longer a craftsman.

The author didn't say stop using AI. He offered his solutions.
Large Language Diffusion Models
this is where i'd use the keepassxc password manager. Put a password archive at a URL you can remember, and download it somewhere if you need it.

Or have a 2nd email without 2fa and use it to contact a friend to help you get your keepassxc archive.
Or install and configure a Linux server or design a system without access to turn-key cloud primitives.
Yeah I’ve seen things shift around as well. But I walk a lot in the city - all over the city. It’s better overall now than it was a few years ago.