skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hofstadter should probably refrain from writing such banalities.

"Oh, someone sent me a ChatGPT parody of me and it sucked, blah blah, ... it's all just a mash-up from the training data, yadda yadda ..."

Whether I agree with it or not, this angle is not original, and new instances of it don't provide new insights.

I don't need it from Hofstadter, of all people.

Though, to be fair, this is from 2023. I'm of course writing from the context of the fatigue of two more years of everyone opining on AI along predictable patterns,
Sure but then you lose the screen estate. I guess you can't have it all.
> According to The Principle of Least Surprise (Principle of Least Astonishment, POLA)[1] there is should be a symmetry

I'm not sure you can say that. You might be the only one surprised by multiple inputs single output.
I discovered air fryers + cheap Costco chicken is a great combination! Chicken tenderloins are $3.30 a pound and take very little time to cook and are delicious, low calorie, and high in protein.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

It's 301 confirmed cases per the CDC right now. On that page they only report whatever was recorded the prior Thursday at noon. And don't be deceived by the apparent downward trend in the graph. They'll revise the numbers for the last 3-4 weeks worth of data as more information trickles into the system. Every week when new numbers come out, the prior weeks' numbers go up as well. Of the 79 new cases added last week, only 6 were actually reported for last week. The other 73 were revisions to the data from prior weeks. We'll only know that we've hit a peak a few weeks after the peak has occurred.
Imagine your signal comes in degraded. Some extra noise on the wire because it is passing next to a faulty wire in your walls or something. You can then do a FFT (example) and pull out the noise and rebalance the signal. Maybe an easy way to think of this is with radio since you're very used to dealing with static in that domain but fundamentally there's nothing different than signal coming through a wire other than the technicalities of the medium through which it's transmitted.

There's much more signal processing you can do besides FFT btw and many can improve signal quality and thus sound quality. Even something like a built in equalizer. Sure, you can do this all with hardware by creating all the right filters but you can do more in a smaller package with a computer
Still though. 70% is a lot to be dependent on Google for. And the way Google operates these days, I'm honestly surprised that their interest in Firefox remains.
Only 10% disk space left. Peak memory usage at 90% available RAM. $CRITICAL_PACKAGE version update has been available for 2 months.

Once you see the pattern, it can be used all over the place: Pre-programmed proactive reminders for all sorts of upkeep chores that you don't want to spend mental bandwidth on.
Can you explain a real world scenario based on ease of applying for residence, tax situation, etc?

I haven’t researched anything aside from the US && (Costa Rica || Panama) scenario. There are really no tax advantages or disadvantages that way.
My favorite one hit wonder was The Insiders, "Ghost On the Beach". That was 1987, so just before the 90s.
A more generous interpretation would be that the image has been studied by archeologists who know a bit more than we do about ancient Egyptian mythology and pictography, and who recognize certain telltale signs that this is meant to be a single creature and not (as an armchair Internet commenter might assume) several.
I was very weakly involved in the optical computing area and watched not much happen over 40 yrs. My observations were existing CPUs just improved enough to render many of the optical computing promises unnecessary. So, I have always had skepticism many developing technologies that are over promoted. I think LLMs are great but are over promoted. I suspect there will be a lot of idle capacity that will serve as a platform for new projects. I'm thinking it may be worth looking into what will fill those voids: the excess capacity, the lowering of costs, the unemployed AI people looking for new projects.
Not my field, but I think DNA sequencing and analysis of new drugs on these platforms may in an area to consider.
I'm not a data scientist, but I assume that having more information about the subject would yield better results. In particular, upscaling faces doesn't produce convincing outcomes; the results tend to look eerie and uncanny.
You mean soul?
Were they doing it because they thought you were immigration illegally or because they thought this could be human trafficking situation?

I don't think either one is the case and obviously I know nothing of your situation besides what you've said, but I can understand why they might be suspicious if a couple of Americans leave the country and come back with an infant that was not part of their family when they departed.

Again, I'm not saying that I think that this is true or even that their concern is reasonable in this specific situation, just that there is another explanation for this other than power tripping racist border thugs, and depending on circumstances it may have been prudent.
I can justify spending $25 to $50 a week eating at restaurants with friends. But eating fast food every single day is just pissing money away.
Eh, for most restaurants I wold say 5/10. So much restaurant food is just reheated stuff they buy from Sysco.
Disc Golf holding steady I suspect.
Additionally, keeping the vapor from cooling/depositing will also require keeping it above the vapor point of rock - which is well above any metals they might make anything from.
I wonder why "extinction rebellion" types don't love nuclear power more.

When it works right we have unlimited clean energy.

And when it goes wrong you have a 50,000 year nature preserve.
Let's look at the successful economies of East Asia:

Japan was a first world country, an economic success before WWII, and then had the US occupation after the war to rebuild it economically and politically as a hedge against future Japanese threats and against Russia and China.

South Korea never suffered Western colonialism (?) but did suffer under Japan. After that and the Korean War, iirc it was one of the poorest places on Earth. Now they are among the wealthiest and most free, maybe the greatest such accomplishment ever. They also benefitted from direct US support, as a counter-balance to the neighboring communist states.

Taiwan has direct US support to contain the communist regime in mainland China, first as a right-wing authoritarian dictatorship and then as a democracy.

China suffered 50-150 years of Western colonialsm, depending on how you measure it (the UK still controlled Hong Kong until the late 1990s). They were very poor into the 1990s. Then, opening their economy to investment (a project begun in the late 1970s), and with major manufacturing economies as neighbors (Japan, Taiwan, S Korea, etc.), they became the center of global manufacturing and trade and reaped the financial benefits.

By comparison, how will African countries attract investment? They are geopolitically located in a place that matters, and are not the global center of population nor many of the other Chinese advantages such as a massive single market that complied with Western requirements, proximity to wealthy neighbors such as Japan, Taiwan, etc.
What's more predictable: symmetry or assymetry?

Why there is so much symmetry in our world (Nature)?
This show makes my spouse anxious! It’s a blast to watch from time to time.
ERs are designed to quickly triage patients. To prioritise the real urgencies from those that can wait a bit, to those that aren't urgent at all. Within great financial constraints.

What this team seems to be doing is essentially refining the triage procedures to take ER-environment emergent problems into account, which sounds great to me. I'm sure that could be expanded to include populations other than the elderly over time, but they are obviously especially vulnerable.

I've encountered many people with complaints of ER waiting times, or being seen for 2 minutes only to be sent back to the waiting room for another hour. And I always tell them the same thing: be very happy that you get to wait in the ER, it's a good sign. If you come in and don't have to wait, you are likely in very deep shit, and the staff there will do everything they can to keep you alive.

While I'm on my soap box: some people actively abuse the ER to gain access to care more quickly, this should be actively fought and avoided. But a lot of people end up in an ER because they fear that something is bad and urgent when it's not (e.g. precordial catch + anxiety vs heart attack). Those aren't emergencies, but can be hard to distinguish from them, and so ER staff will be very happy help you.
I use h264ify plugin and didn't see performance issues for playback. The UI depends on test group you go into, but only the first load is really terrible.
There’s a lot of truth to this but one of the most powerful elements of a discovery algorithm is finding things you completely did not look for, ie Christopher Columbus and the western continents. Like your cornerstones are iOS and recipe videos but you discover the right dance video and it changes your whole life.
I like how there is a UI I can interact with before getting started with the SDK, helps me understand how the platform works.

What kind of fine-tuning capabilities does the user have on the scorer? Would I be able focus on improving certain scorer dimensions over others?
I've only read parts of this so far, but it's pretty extraordinary. I'm going to have to commit more time later today to read the whole thing.

I'm a fan of Nine Inch Nails, and music in general, but the way this is written is a few levels beyond what I think I'm even capable of feeling.
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You are mandatory reported for kids playing outside?
Well, they’re also using software that makes the tablet capable of useful things that paper isn’t.
I've been using Unhook[0] for years that it's almost a jumpscare for me to see a recommended video or the Youtube homepage. Your social circles and natural serendipity should be plenty for finding new creators. And in general, avoiding algorithmic feeds will help with ADHD and mindless scrolling.

[0] https://unhook.app/
You don't have to speak korean to follow the general newsflow. Here's two examples of sites you can browse if you are interested in Korean MSM

> https://en.yna.co.kr/
> https://www.chosun.com/english/
Most of the profession of economics in the last several decades has been focused on figuring out how to measure difficult-to-measure truths about how people behave. That's what behavioral economics is about. The other name on the UChicago institute you don't like, Gary Becker, won a Nobel for finding ways to creatively study behaviorism: family structure, why people commit crime, studying societal benefits from education, and quantifying damage of discrimination.

You might argue that we shouldn't measure things at all -- that it is better to live in darkness and ignorance, and make vague gestures about the way things are with no evidence or rigorous thought. Measuring is how we find truth. Sometimes it is hard. But throwing away our measuring tools is not the path to enlightenment.

Many people choose to ex ante dislike economists, and dismiss anything any of them have to say without further study, because there is a risk that the results of quantifying the world might disagree with their preconceptions.
I for one come here to get a pause on reading U.S. based political news (and celebrities, and any type of sports).

The top comment on "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756 is by a moderator after many DOGE stories were flagged on the same day.
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It just looks like a strong sharpening filter.
Emulation either via FPGA or software is really the only solution to preserving retro gaming and computing in the long term. Electronic hardware is very difficult to keep alive for decades.
I think it's more fundamental than that. If you start saying "it thinks" in regards to an LLM, you're wrong. LLMs don't think, they pattern match fuzzily.

If the training data contained a bunch of answers to questions which were simply "I don't know", you could get an LLM to say "I don't know" but that's still not actually a concept of not knowing. That's just knowing that the answer to your question is "I don't know".

It's essentially like if you had an HTTP server that responded to requests for nonexistent documents with a "200 OK" containing "Not found". It's fundamentally missing the "404 Not found" concept.

LLMs just have a bunch of words--they don't understand what the words mean. There's no metacognition going on for it to think "I don't know" for it to even think you would want to know that.
When I was in high school in the mid-90s, I emailed Douglas Adams, who freely gave out his email address at the time. I told him how reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" got me more interested in my Physics class, and generally helped introduce me to a world beyond computer games.

He wrote back:

"Thanks for your note. Glad you enjoyed the books. I'm glad if I got you interested. But I'm always surprised that people are surprised to find that the world we unexpectedly find ourselves in is interesting.

Best,
Douglas Adams"

Not his most pithy writing to be sure, but I love that I have this personalized bit of Douglas Adams wisdom that nobody else has ever seen (well, now they have).
I am a boomer, and I think that these two things are true:

1) The stuff that happens in your teens is special because of your age. That may well explain why I think The Beatles (and the music of that era) was so special.

2) The music from the 60s really was special. There was certainly rock and roll well before The Beatles, and it grew out of black music, and blues, and can be viewed as nothing really new. And yet: it really was a significant break from the past in the global adulation for their music and the quantum change in tastes that they ushered in.

Not to minimize Nirvana (whose music I love) or metal, or anything else, but the musical examples that you cite were simply not as globally shattering as The Beatles. They just weren't. They were variations within the world of rock and roll. The only comparable change I can think of is the rise of rap music. Which I cannot stand, but I recognize how it changed the world in the same way that The Beatles did.
That difference has squat zero with kids walking or playing.
Rubyists understand it perfectly. It's common practice for us.
Having to use actions for ssh/rsync always rubbed me the wrong way. I’ve recently taken the time to remove those in favor of using the commands directly (which is fairly straightforward, but a bit awkward).

I think it’s a failure of GitHub Actions that these third party actions are so widespread. If you search “GitHub actions how to ssh” the first result should be a page in the official documentation, instead you’ll find tens of examples using third party actions.
Or if the US somehow becomes a dictatorship.
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The Future of Rust Web Applications [video]
Your proposal probably is an improvement (though there may be some reason it's not feasible in this case -- no closet in the kitchen, etc), but calling the original idea "very stupid" is quite the ungenerous overstatement. It's still clever, still works much better than not having it at all, and is only slightly less efficient that what you're proposing.
They used to be SMS compatible. But now are just a solo like most other chat app.

https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
The most expensive cattle': Booming in Brazil, dwindling in India
The current Russian leader sees the collapse of the USSR as a "tragedy". And since 1990 they they have invaded Georgia, Moldova, and now Ukraine (after repeatedly promising that they wouldn't). That looks like a pattern. I understand why Russia is doing it to create defensible strategic depth due to lack of natural geographic barriers around their population centers. But that doesn't make it right, and regardless of moral issues Russian expansionism is certainly contrary to the interests of the USA and its allies. Who will be the next victim, perhaps Estonia?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-rues-soviet-colla...

I bear no ill will towards Russian people but while the current malign leadership remains in power we should use all means short of war to contain, undermine, impoverish, and generally humiliate the country. Grind them into the dust until they can no longer present a credible threat. But that's just my opinion.
In Switzerland, 5 years old walk alone to school. In Germany 6 years old.
But then you have even more losses when you convert the hydrogen back to energy.

The formula is that 55kW of electricity used to generate hydrogen from water and then converted back to electricity in a gas turbine or fuel cell results in 15kW of energy.

That's a lot more than 20%.

Compare that to just storing the 55kW in batteries and using them to spin an electric engine. "Hydrogen economy" only makes sense if you have infinite free electricity or massive overproduction.
If you were to have something local build you an algorithm, what signal would you want it to consume and how far from the median would you want it to deviate? Would you want it to use signal from online socials?
Ford hires former Lululemon exec to create new software, services in its cars
IMO it's totally fine for buses to keep using ICE for many years to come. There are orders of magnitude fewer buses than cars, they are already pretty fuel efficient, and everything that makes public transport more expensive is very bad in my opinion.

If we had zero cars in a city, but 10k diesel buses, the city would still be better than if it had 100k cars and 500 electric buses. I'm making up these numbers, of course.

Point being: sure, electrify everything eventually, but let technology improve and let prices go down to the point that it makea sense for public transport.

Right now, an extra diesel bus would do more good than replacing a diesel bus with an electric one in many cities.
> the industry has shifted to more takeout

Last night I went to a nice (formerly nice?) restaurant. Someone had brought their dog, their children crawled around my feet and one listened to an iPad on moderate to high volume.

I ordered my drink twice, and it never came, my side dish was ordered twice too, and eventually came.

I abandoned movie theatres for similar reasons. Maybe it’s time to abandon restaurants.
Home Sellers and Buyers Accuse Realtors of Blocking Lower Fees
Do we have any reasons for concern?

The source code is available here: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/tree/master
We're not in 1939, either. We're in 2025.
https://archive.is/80aAd
This is fairly standard and expected behaviour. Embedded pointers get copied only when you explicitly do a deep copy.
So what, it doesn't have any real connection to programming.
I've never heard that one. Thanks for pointing it out. They remind me a little of The Connells...check out Scotty's Lament and Stone Cold Yesterday with my favorite being Fun & Games[1]. I think they were five years too early...I was obsessed with them in high school.

Another early one-hit-wonder is from Deee-Lite, "Groove is in the Heart" (1990). I still watch the video from time to time...the woman can dance like no other.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFvG0KGcWc
Would investigate why it wasn't working and push out a fix. thanks for trying it out.
Is there actually a difference? The people you call Americans and the people you call Europeans are the same people (in this time period). It doesn't matter if they changed the design on their flags before they charged into certain battles.
Will signal like that remain important with AI?
So your answer to the question is "because they can?" I don't think we needed the LLM age for us to be able to say that. That is to say, I think the article is giving the birds a bit more agency than next-token prediction engines.
Why is this more efficient?
If you only listen to mainstream music I guess. Whatever you’re looking for is pretty much out there but you won’t find it on the radio.
This was the central plot twist of "Spec Ops: The Line", a video game from 2012 that started out like your typical Call of Duty clone shooter and escalated to an interesting if a bit twisted look at how PTSD affects soldiers.
I think it is because we don't feel the random and chaotic nature of what we know as individuals.

If I had been born a day earlier or later I would have a completely different life because of initial conditions and randomness but life doesn't feel that way even though I think this is obviously true.
weird experience, no feedback, no responses, just a rejection letter after you complete a task for them. Feels like a free labor for their company
I tried photos of animals, and it was okayish except the eyes were completely off.
Same number of keys in any other browser: Ctrl+LC
Visiting the site first I was quite annoyed it always pushed me towards women's fashion, which obviously makes sense reading your statement.

If anyone reimplements this for men's fashion let me know! I think this tool is great for anyone who isn't well educated in terms of fashion and I guess it is safe to say that this applies to men more often than to women.
How about those Palestine protestors having their citizenship revoked for expressing their opinion? Supporting Palestine is illegal in Europe too, of course, but they haven't revoked citizenships over it (yet).
I guess I’ve never really considered it before but that’s so true. If you observe mainstream music the influence of rap has been absolutely colossal.
By 65 the neighborhood teens were all atwitter with the Beatles. Its one of my earliest memories. The girls laying claim to one Beatle or another. “I like Paul” “I like George!” I hadn’t heard any of the Beatles songs. My limited musical exposure was from church and The Wonderful World of Disney. By the late 60’s I listened to WPGC and Kasey Kasims countdown. Growing older this all became so annoying. The overt loudness. The repetition. Seeking solace in alternatives I embraced punk and new wave. The thing that cracks me up is hearing the clash sing about Supermarkets while in the supermarket. Oh man oh man the 2020s are a great time to be alive
Part of the Beatles growth was also the growth of the home television. The next generational equivalent was probably MTV and Michael Jackson, that spawned the unfathomably large, entertainment icon level of pop star. After that it was anyone who has used Youtube to get billions of viewers without a media companies support.
Monopolies for drugs that received even a penny of government subsidies should not exist. We should simply pay for research and open the patents on the results, or outlaw drug patents outright. Let the drug companies compete on manufacturing.
I’m not sure what the name for this fallacy is. Appeal to unrelated concept?

Among the first functions children learn are things like addition of two numbers which lack this supposedly natural property.
Web apps have a magnitude more dependencies than desktop apps.
A lot bigger attack vector.

>I also do not understand why you refer to "trusted web app" whereas in my comment above I have stated that I need a sandbox to run the code

Because you referred to apps stealing code from a different origin. I talk about the app you use to access the usb device per web usb.

Previously it was about a malicious app attacking per browser exploit.

This tine the app is allowed to access the data but because of the supply chain attacks your data gets stolen.
So... how is café latte "best for the business"?

Would the business fail if the milk supply ran out?
XML is to authentication bypasses what C is to buffer overflow attacks