skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a European I'm quite surprised to see Americans hating on their most successful car company internationally.

You could say Ford is successful too - but only by name - as the cars it is known for outside the US are completely different to those it is known for in the US.

Go ask a Romanian what they thing of Dacia - which is now a budget brand of Renault - and they'll be proud that it's from their country. Where as Americans are burning their cars in the street.
> "Adam" wasn't even named that in the early writings, presumably closer to God's word.

Citation needed. What was he named in the early writings?
Botswana is actually reasonably well developed and stable. It seems fine, and I applaud them.
Those are all options that local governments should consider investing in. Private companies that don't take public money aren't the ones that should be building public transit.

Given that Waymo is testing in Tokyo now (and formerly Cruise), autonomous vehicles are clearly not mutually exclusive with well funded public transit.
There were plenty of studies. This one is fairly settled. What is also settled is 1:1000 mortality of measles.
There is a lot not to like about CSV, for all the reasons given here. The only real positive is that you can easily create, read and edit CSV in an editor.

Personally I think we missed a trick by not using the ASCII US and RS characters:

Columns separated by \u001F (ASCII unit separator).

Rows separated by \u001E (ASCII record separator).

No escaping needed.

More about this at:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2022/04/30/why-isnt-there-a-d...
Gosh, you sure are so much better than us lowly Americans. How can you even stand to debase yourself enough to speak to us?
I think you meant to say “First they kidnapped…”
Not asked contentiously, why does a MCP revenue plan need to exist?

It feels like any kind of api-client work any organization or project would build to make users/customers happy and sticky.
Sure, just pay the appropriate property tax and don't externalize the cost of your own highly inefficient housing on others.
Do real organizations actually use C#? Every time we've evaluated it we concluded it's a worse, MS-flavor Java rewrite so we didn't take it too seriously. Does it have any actual advantages over Java?
They don't publish the really interesting sources anyway, this doesn't really change anything.
> Integration with search, gmail, google office suite, google meet, android, etc.

That's kinda crazy that people absolutely stopped to care that all their emails and so forth will be used as training data for the next models
> being a better Java for teams of mid-tier engineers.

That cuts me right to the bone.
https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_...
Can you expand on this? I'm curious how you think these resources should be better allocated.

Make sure the same argument doesn't apply to any of the other countries with space assets!
The problem seems to be creativity when there is limited information available. In these cases ChatGPT seems to do a good job, but Gemini just makes shit up even if you turn the "temperature" (creativity) down to 0.

Every so often I ask it for info about a previous employer of mine, and it randomly makes up hilarious "facts", like we made ultra low budget porn and horror movies, that we were a music recording studio, or that we were responsible for "the last of us" video game.
When you say it like that it is so obvious. If we collectively kept our heads out of our asses and just thought how to deescalate things rather than be parsimonious little nobodies we would all be better.

The other day somebody said I could not join a huge table in a coworking space because there was a meeting. Private meeting tables or rooms are paid and require reservation and that table was in the common area. I got annoyed because the guy did not ask if I could wait and go to another table, instead he just matter of fact told me they were having a meeting and would rather I would not sit in the free seats. I told him that I believe this was a public usage table, to which he then asked if I could allow them to remain alone. I considered being a prick but then I considered, what would be the gain of antagonising a dude that also goes there often and all for the pleasure of sitting in my favourite table? I stewed a bit but the next day I forgot it. If I had confronted him I would be reminded of the incident every time I crossed the guys path.
Was this person employed in It? Did you ask them to quiz you in return? "How to buy a domain" is exactly something a HNer would ask as an obvious question. I wonder how many of us know when to plant carrots, the chemical structure of benzene, or can show Malawi on a map.
Trustless Attestation Verification
Google is deciding for the user that a IM will suffice. In reality a meeting is needed very often, and Google search doesn't have the option.
What data structures can't be implemented without generics?
Same. People go around listing relatively controversial improvements but I think we can all agree on this one. It is the one that'd make my life easier the most when it comes to day to day stuff.
Really? I thought they usually used to have no filters, especially on the front camera. Well of course the lenses always filtered some IR light, but I wouldn't call that a filter, they also "filter" non IR light. A filter to me is a dedicated element or coating that prevents the majority of IR to be transmitted.
Hunter-gatherer continuity in Rhine region was disrupted by Bell Beaker groups
https://www.23andme.com/about/individual-data-consent

Basically, if you imagine this as a table of "user's name, date of birth, and address" keys mapping to genomic and other data, the key was replaced with a random identifier that could not be trivially joined to recover the user name, date of birth, and address.

These systems are not robust against motivated and capitalized adversaries.
Even widely used libraries that you might expect get it right, don't. (Like Spark, which uses Java style backslash escaping)
For years, Chrome would offer to “translate from Danish” if the contents of the page are just “403 Forbidden”.
> Unless you live outside of the US [...] and they all use WhatsApp

This is such a ridiculously incorrect over-generalisation. China, Japan & Russia are obvious counter-examples, plus many others.
Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
> There's no benefit to Google when a Chinese company takes Android, guts the Google parts, and shoves it on a cheap ass phone for a market with a few billion people.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! This might give them more credibility.

Anyway, I think we're a half decade past where android source has been worth stealing: China now has strong domestic competition.
The `stdio` approach for local services makes complete sense to me. Including using JSONRPC.

But for remote HTTP MCP servers there should be a dead simple solution. A couple years ago OpenAI launched plugins as `.well-known/ai-plugin.json`, where it'd contain a link to your API spec, ChatGPT could read it, and voila. So all you needed to implement was this endpoint and ChatGPT could read your whole API. It was pretty cool.

ChatGPT Plugins failed, however. I'm confident it wasn't because of the tech stack, it was due to the fact that the integration demand wasn't really there yet: companies were in the early stages of building their own LLM stacks, ChatGPT desktop didn't exist. It also wasn't marketed as a developer-first global integration solution: little to no consistent developer advocacy was done around it. It was marketed towards consumers and it was pretty unwieldy.

IMO the single-endpoint solution and adhering to existing paradigms is the simplest and most robust solution. For MCP, I'd advocate that this is what the `mcp/` endpoint should become.

Edit: Also tool calling in models circa 2023 was not nearly as good as it is now.
In the past couple of years I've worked on a Ghidra extension that can export any subset of a program as a relocatable object file. I built that because I tried to reverse-engineer/decompile a video game and had unconventional opinions on how to proceed about it.

I didn't design it for a post-collapse scenario, but one can salvage program parts from binary artifacts and create new programs with it, just like how a mechanic in a Mad Max world can scavenge car parts from a scrapyard and create new contraptions. It deconstructs the classical compile-assemble-link workflow in a manner that tends to cause migraines to sane persons.

I've even managed to slightly bend the rules around ABI and sling binary code across similar-ish platforms (PlayStation to Linux MIPS and Linux x86 to Windows x86), but to really take this to its logical conclusion I'd need a way to glue together incompatible ABIs or even ISAs, in order to create program chimeras from just about any random set of binaries.
I can’t express how much I agree with your perspective. It’s a completely different/total shift in how we might deliver functionality and… composability to users.

Well said.
All the stories I've heard about families not getting along pale in comparison to stories of when the parents die. Game of Thrones come to life.

I would love to know how people have successfully resolved this for their families.

I wonder if this compound stuff might work better for 6 secondary homes, like in the woods for summer. Everyone pitches in to build them.
Vibe designed logo with 4o from scratch (blown away)
I know nothing about Adobe illustrator and created to logos via new 4o model

1. prompted gpt to reverse engineer propmts for logos i like
2. said to create 5x5 grid with variants and picked 1-2 with reference
3. created textured logo with reference
4. created sora video

key is passing reference images

results is in link
Because one of the methods reported was scanning http packets. Easily read without ssl from any hop in the chain. More importantly, he blew the lid off the fact that governments had access to this via the very ISP’s everyone relies on for telecom. By making everything TLS, they can look all they want but they can’t read it.

You could do tls offloading at your load balancer but then you have to secure your entire network starting with your isp. For some workloads, this is fine, you aren’t dealing with super sensitive data. For others, you are violating compliance.
You know what grinds my gears about using XSD for message definitions? Namespaces. Namespaces are a good idea and were done well in XML, as far as I can see, but with XSD you run into this [problem][1]:

Namespaces are used to qualify tags and attributes in XML elements. But they're also used by XSD to qualify the names of types defined in the schema. A sequence element's type is indicated by the value of its "type" attribute. The attribute value is a string that is the namespace-qualified name of the type.

So, if you want to change the alias of an XML namespace in an XSD schema, you can't just use your XML library's facilities for namespace management. You also have to go find the "type" attributes (but not all of the "type" attributes), parse their values, and do the corresponding alias change in the type name.

Don't use a string for a thing that is not a string! I guess in XML attributes you have no choice. XAML improved on the situation a bit.

[1]: https://github.com/dgoffredo/stag/tree/master/src/stag/xsd-u...
Neither slack nor zoom did anything new or interesting. Just a clone of stable tech that worked out in marketing
Is Green hydrogen the "gas of the future"? (2023)
> If the brain (or a model) processes common structures more quickly ... then the process of parsing sentences is very clearly probabilistic.

This isn't true. For one more common sentences are probably structurally simpler and structurally simpler sentences are faster to process. You also get in bizarre territory when you can predict what someone is going to say before they say it: Obviously no "parsing" has occurred there so the fact that you predicted it cannot be evidence that parsing is probabilistic. If that is the case then a similar argument is true if you have only a sentence fragment. The probabilistic prediction is some ancillary process just as if I can predict that a cup is going to fall doesn't make my vision a probabilistic process in any meaningful sense. If for some reason I couldn't predict I could still see and I could still parse sentences.

Furthermore, you can obviously parse sentences and word sequences you have never seen before (and sentences can be arbitrarily complex/nested, at least up to your limits on memory). You can also parse sentences with invented terms.

Most importantly it's not clear how sentences are produced in the mind in this model. Is the claim that you somehow start with a word and produce some random most-likely next word? Do you not believe in syntax parse trees?

Finally, (as Chomsky points out in the video I linked) this model doesn't account for structure dependence. For example why is the question form of the sentence "The man who is tall is happy" "Is the man who is tall happy?" and not "is the man who tall is happy?". Why not move the first "is" that you come across?

> In a strictly deterministic model, both continuations ("went" or "that caught the mouse") would be processed through the same fixed algorithm with the same computational steps, regardless of frequency. The parsing mechanism wouldn't be influenced by prior expectations

Correct. You seem to imply that is somehow unreasonable. Computer parsers work this way.

> Being "surprised" isn't just a subjective experience here - it manifests as measurable processing costs that scale with the degree of unexpectedness. This graded response to probability is not explainable with purely deterministic models.

Again, there are two orthogonal concepts: Do I know what you are going to say next or how you are going to finish your sentence (and possibly something like strain or slowed processing when faced with an unusual concept) and what process do I use to interpret the thing you actually said.

> None of my comments undermine grammar beyond saying it is not how language works. I preface 'fiction' with the word useful multiple times and make comparisons to Newton.

Again, I have no idea what the point of describing universal grammar as fiction is if you say the term applies to all other great scientific theories.
Sad to say:
Tiktok,
Only Fans,
Discord
I upgraded to 144 hz on my primary monitor in 2016 and it's absolutely noticeable and makes things feel so smooth.

Last week I went to 240 hz and while it's noticeably even smoother, it wasn't nearly the upgrade, so there's certainly diminishing returns. Though I did go from IPS to OLED and THAT is really nice.

This is usually the point where someone will chime in and say something dumb like "The human eye can't see more than X frames per second" which is just hogwash. It's not about individual frames, but the fluidity of motion. At 60 fps, an object moving across the screen is moving 4x as many pixels per frame as 240 fps. When you get used to 240 fps, 60 fps feels like it's strobing.
Maybe they need to Reform their strategy.
Among other problems, plastics release methane and c02 as they decompose in landfills, so it's not as cut and dried a solution as you imply.
Mark Rober's video is misleading. First, he used autopilot, not FSD. Second, he sped up to 42mph and turned on autopilot a few seconds before impact[1], but he edited the Youtube video to make it look like he started autopilot a from a standstill far away from the barrier. Third, there is an alert message on his screen. It's too small to read in the video, but it could be the "autopilot will not brake" alert that happens when you put your foot on the gas.

In the water test, Rober has the Tesla driving down the center of the road, straddling the double yellow line. Autopilot will not do this, and the internal shots of the car crop out the screen. He almost certainly manually drove the car through the water and into the dummy.

One person tried to reproduce Rober's Wile E. Coyote test using FSD. FSD v12 failed to stop, but FSD v13 detected the barrier and stopped in time.[2]

Lidar would probably improve safety, but Rober's video doesn't prove anything. He decided on an outcome before he made the video.

1. https://x.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898

2. https://x.com/alsetcenter/status/1902816452773810409
> orgs realize how easy it is to leave AWS or Azure for something more local

Have you ever tried to migrate anything non-trivial on one cloud to another? Vendor lock-in is very real.

Over in my part of the world, I'm in year three of moving one (1) app off AWS and we'll be lucky if we finish this year. The app isn't even that complicated, but it was built entirely on AWS-only tech (Lambda, DynamoDB, etc) and migrating clients (esp. authentication) to the new backend without downtime or breaking legacy clients is very tricky.
I'd be willing to bet that the biggest reason is that there hasn't been any antitrust action against the big tech companies. They just sit at the top, siphoning value from every other market in the world. If you need to use the internet in any way, FAANG taxes you.

None of these big tech companies really need to grow bigger. The smartphone is essentially done. AWS just prints money. Social/consumer apps are "done". What more is for them to do but collect rent?

The US government needs to break them all up. That'll oxygenate the entire tech sector, unlock value for investors, and kickstart the playing field for startups.

Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, and maybe Microsoft. Break them up.
This made me wonder what a poffert is, if a poffertje is a cute baby version of them. So I Googled it. Sure enough, it's a cake.
What is the answer to that? Learn x86 and bootstrap?
I meant Canadians traveling to Cuba instead of Florida.
Looks like 52% of the time:

https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/parts-annou...
Weather forecasting before computers already relied on rapid telecommunications of low-bandwidth digital data (temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation) from a network of weather stations. Digital telecommunications is something that computers and radios can provide at enormously lower cost than networks of telegraph cables. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484415 for details.
How do we know it hasn’t already been sold at least once? The OMG expose makes me think
It's entirely fair to say it's not rational, but that is the justification for having defensive weapons.
You can clear an array in JS by setting foo.length = 0? TIL.
Spewing lava, pretty neat! Live feeds on YouTube confuse me, because it says "Live" but is that YouTube or the video claiming "live"? The start date is different. I wish it would say "last updated" and post the current date.
Here is another live angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2Tm5jblbE.

I had the fortune of being on island when this eruption started last December, definitely one of the most spectacular natural phenomena.
Miles?
Welp, now I know my weekend project.
As of now and past six to 8 months Im a happy GPT pro subscriber. I tried Gemini and asked it show images from Google images (a few weeks ago) of XYZ and pathetically it said it couldnt do it but GPT can.

Rooting for GPT and hoping for a GPT phone where the lock screen is where you interface with your AI Assistant / Agent. It also interfaces with other AI Agents (businesses, family members, friends, etc) to get things done for you automagically. You can skin your AI Assistant / Agent to look like whoever you want.
The board and Pichai should go. They had the best researchers at Deepmind and Google Brain, sitting on the best pile of data of any tech company (web, Google Books, YouTube, ...), having the leading custom hardware (TPUs), and top tier datacenter engineering. And they put idiots in charge with ridiculous quota systems. They bled a lot of key people for nothing. And spent 2.7 bn to get one guy back. TWO POINT SEVEN BILLION FOR JUST ONE GUY. And Alphabet didn't even buy his company, they just got a non-exclusive arrangement. It's beyond incompetent.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-paid-2-7-billion-12305...
I think it would be enough for:

1. the field separator to be shown as a special character

2. the row separator to be (optionally) be interpreted as a linefeed

IIRC 1) is true for Notepad++, but not 2).
The problem with claims of imminent societal collapse is they treat "collapse" like an event, with the world neatly divided into before and after. Historically, societal collapse is much more fuzzy. No neat single cause. No single moment when things flipped. You can only truly know the collapse has happened well in retrospect.

In terms of computing, this means that any strategy looking at a before/after collapse framing is missing the entire interesting middle part - how do we transition from this high-tech to low-tech world over the course of decades. I seriously doubt it can happen by anticipating what computing we might need and just leapfrogging there.
Thank you for posting- this is a viewpoint I never considered before. I was told that poor people had no way of affording large investments like houses and instead spent that money on status symbols.
I don't know why you are relating any of what I said to popularity or the merits of closed source. I guess you misunderstand what I mean by "on life support".

Android is unhealthy versus its former self in that it has been increasingly hostile to developers. Your examples of /e/os and lineage are representative of the "look-but-dont-touch" nature of Android.

Not to diminish the hard work of the developers of them, as they are useful, but they do not stray far from what Google provides them for better and worse. As you say, they're alternative builds, primarily to reduce the ties to Google, but they largely adhere to the same APIs, have the same menus, have the same quirks. Perhaps graphene goes above and beyond, I have not used it. I remember Cyanogenmod having more divergence in feature set and appearance from what Google provided versus what Lineage can do for you now. I miss when Android was good, but it's just become the platform I don't want to upgrade and see what I lose next.
Hello, I was sent back from the future to tell you there is already a backup.
It’s important to compare apples to apples. Certain phone models have different CPU’s etc. I’d love to see a benchmark of iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Pixel’s top of the line model.
> Wild West open-source repos

There's a deeper issue though. I frequently have difficult getting things to build from source in a network isolated environment. That's after I manually wrangle all the dependencies (and sub-deps, and sub-sub-deps, and ...).

Even worse is something like emscripten where you are fully expected to run `npm install`.

Any build process that depends on network access is fundamentally broken as far as I'm concerned.
Does Playwright work with multiple browsers? I get the impression it can work with multiple engines, but they're just custom wrappers and not the full/original browsers.
Use Mullvad + Brave Search. Problem solved.
Oh I may just be reading the thread backwards! Sorry. Yes, Oak Park is definitely a suburb. Oak Park is also extremely within walking distance of the city; it's across Austin Blvd from it.
Here "de-identified" means stripped of PII (name, address, phone number, email, etc). You are correct that genetic information is intrinsically identifiABLE (in the sense that it is stable and uniquely distinguishing for individuals). When we've shared individual-level data with a partner, it was with consent of the participants involved, and under a contract that prohibits re-identification.