skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [The Mormons] believe in giving 10% of their income

Is that income before tax or after tax?

"After tax" seems like it should be obvious, but then wouldn't that require tax specialists to decide how to deal with tax exceptions (retirement taxation incentives, donations, etcetera).

If the 10% donation is tax deductible, doesn't that require some mathematics to work out the 10%?

Irrelevant aside: I think the efficient altruist 10% is "We're often asked how exactly to calculate income — should it be pre-tax or post-tax? Generally, we recommend choosing the option that makes most sense to you, though we think it makes sense to choose pre-tax if your donations are tax-deductible (for example, GiftAid counts towards your Pledge!) and post-tax if they're not.". https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge
When using XML for structured data the intended way, everything that is a string value (as opposed to a node hierarchy) would be an attribute. There's no text, so there would be no text.
Well, I do have the intention to go to grad school. So, are you of the opinion that a 'good degree' will open more doors for me in terms of grad school admissions?
In my American city, yes, we can put batteries in a zip-lock bag on top of our trash bin. But I'm not going to do this for a single coin cell.

I usually just have a stack/pile/box of electronics and batteries to take to the local electronics recycling place a few miles away. Unfortunately, the pile is never 0, because as soon as I drop it off, I find something new to get rid of.
If a given fact is relatively new, I would expect (and forgive) search results to not necessarily reflect that.

But in this case we're talking about ~40 year old song. The reddit thread mentioned in the article is 10 months old.

I've also checked this logged in and incognito and get consistent (and seemingly correct) answers.

So what are we left with? Is the author in some experiment giving bad results? Were there bad results that got corrected between the time of writing and now? Did some Google search quality engineer see this and correct it?

All of these seem like a stretch. I'm perfectly willing to entertain the idea that Google has become worse but there are rarely conrete examples. It all just comes down to vibes. And when there are examples (as per this post), it doesn't match my experience. Can I really be that lucky? That seems to stretch credulity.

Probably the most egregious example of bad search results I've personally seen is how an astroturfed propaganda site was the top result for the Armenian genocide for literally years [1].

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-google-searches-are-prom...
That’s the steel-man version of (american) conservatism: civic institutions provide the safety net instead of the government.

And in terms of aggregate outcomes, Utah’s results are impressive. The LDS apparently does a better job teaching kids to read than the government here in Maryland.
> ChatGPT alone has hundreds of millions of active users that are clearly getting value from it, despite any mistakes it may make.

You assume hundreds of millions of users could identify serious mistakes when they see them.

But humans have demonstrated repeatedly that they can't.

I don't think it can ever be understated how dangerous this is.

> I think Apple probably needs to shift to using cloud services more

You ignore lessons from the the recent spat between Apple and the UK.
The $10/mo. plan is technically not "without AI". You still have FastGPT (quick answers), meaning any query ending with "?" aggregates an answer based on the scraping of the top search results, rather fast. And you have Kagi Translate, and Universal Summarizer.
So there isn't a "no AI Kagi subscription".

But the search itself is worth $10/mo. if you ask me.

I subscribed a year before I bought into AI, and I was very happy with it.

I believe you're funding a free tier more than you're funding AI product research.
There's a difference between being tolerant of trans people, or for that matter any unusual life choices that don't harm others, which I'm fine with, and having it forced on you to the extent that if you say common sense thoughts like there are two sexes you can be fired. I'm not sure it's trans panic so much as being pissed off with being told by the anointed ones what it's acceptable to say and think re that.
If this isn't monetized, is there any reason against opening its source? I personally would like to be able to disable the usage analytics and crash reports.
No MacBook here.
With MCP, AI agents now have power. SGNL makes sure they use it responsibly
My main problem with religion is ironically not the belief in a Deity (or deities). I can accept that as an allegory, a sort of personification of the system of values said religion upholds.

My main issue is how a lot of people I see that are strongly religious also don't seem to accept the core tenets of the religion in their hearts. As an example, Christianity is a religion that professes love, but many practitioners are quick to hate others, etc.
Linux has pledge? Huh?

`pledged = (p->p_p->ps_flags & PS_PLEDGE);`
(assuming default configurations, and this was my personal experience in a 4 year old software project)

Copilot felt like an incompetent colleague you needed to slap to get anything coherent out of it.

Cursor feels like an overly eager junior colleague that wants to refactor everything. It works, sometimes it makes sense. Your project overall increases in velocity anyway.
Huh. This made me curious about JSON which led to https://github.com/Wiguwbe/bash-json

I have had to graft JSON into legacy bash files enough times that this is worth another look.
>Apple is famously closed about information sharing, to the point where on some floors every office requires its own badge, and sometimes even the cabinets within.

The severed floor.
I do this all the time and get laughed at. I try to explain the exact same reasons but no one pays attention. I guess I just needed the Big Tech gatekeepers to tell the sheep that it works. Among sheep, it's not about the message but the messenger.
Last I looked, they didn't support passing through USB devices like Wacom tablets or edit controllers or space mice. I am eager for that stuff to work so that I can start using moonlight/sunshine for more of my work.
After spending over a decade in both statistics and machine learning I'd say the only reason there isn't a "broad consensus" is because statisticians like to gate-keep, whether that's linear regression, Monte Carlo methods, or Kalman Filters.

Linear regression appears in pretty much every ML textbook. Can you confidently say, "this model that appears in every ML textbook is the only model in the ML textbook that isn't an ML model"?

Kalman Filters are like a continuous-state HMM. So why are HMMs considered ML and Kalman Filters not considered ML?

IMO it's an ego thing. They spent decades rigorously analyzing everything about linear models and here come these CS cowboys producing amazing results without any of the careful rigor that statisticians normally apply. It's difficult to argue against real results so the inflexible, hard-nosed statisticians just hang on to whatever they can.
De-Atomization Is the Secret to Happiness (2022)
Doesn't the graphics processor of the pi double as bootstrap loader?
Aside. Impressed he tagged the Opera House photo as Circular Quay. Sort of thing a non-tourist would do (unless he is from Sydney).
This is Apple's spin machine working overtime trying to say "we're not failing at AI, everyone is failing at AI".

I'm not sure anyone is going to buy it, but it doesn't cost them anything to get a few of their PR hacks to give it a try.

It's about as convincing as "we didn't build a bad phone, you're just holding it wrong!".
> ChatGPT alone has hundreds of millions of active users that are clearly getting value from it

True, but it’s been years now since the debut of the chat-interface-AI to the general public and we have yet to figure out another interface that would work for generative AI for the general public. I’d say the only other example is Adobe and what they are doing with generative AI in their photo editing tools, but thats a far cry from a “general public” type thing. You have all the bumbling nonsense coming out of Microsoft and Google trying to shove AI into whatever tools they are selling while still getting 0 adoption. The copilot and Gemini corporate sales teams have been both “restructured“ this year because they managed to sign up so many clients in 2023/2024 and all those clients refused to renew.

When it comes to the general public, we have yet to find a better application of AI than a chat interface. Even outside of the general public, I oversee few teams that are building “agentic AI tools/workflows” and the amount of trouble they have to go through to make something slightly coherent is insane. I still believe that the right team with the right architecture and design can probably achieve things that are incredible with LLMs, but it’s not as easy as the term “AI” makes it sound.
Is it possible to make the squares sligtly conical (like a dinner plate) with the magnet at the bottom, so the pieces are aligned naturaly in the center when they land?
I think it’s more like: I have some paper that says I own 50% of a box T. People are willing to pay up to 10 cents to get 1% of that box T, so if I gave my paper to them, they’d give me $5.
I want to buy another box X for $1, so I go to a bank and ask for $1. To make sure I pay, I give them a paper saying they can take 10% of my original box T if I don’t pay them back.

I build another box A and people get excited. They say they’ll pay 5 cents for 1% of it, and I have a paper that says I own most of it.

Time passes and the amount people are willing to pay for the boxes changes, and at some point people are close to not believing box T is worth 10 cents per 1%. If that happens, the bank will want their 10%!

To prevent that, I decide to sell box X to box A. I pick the price I want for the sale, but the important part is that I make sure box A writes a new paper saying that the bank now has to get 20% of box A if box A fails to pay them, not box T anymore.

In the end, I can’t say I own box X anymore, but I never cared much for it. I only bought it as a meme. That’s okay though, because I don’t need to give any of my box T to the bank, and people are willing to pay 8 cents for 1% of my box A since it now owns box X too.
Making WebGL typesafe in Idris 2
I suspect an issue at least as big is that they're running into a lot of prompt injection issues (even totally accidentally) with their attempts at personal knowledge base/system awareness stuff, whether remotely processed or not. Existing LLMs are already bad at this even with controlled inputs; trying to incorporate broad personal files in a Spotlight-like manner is probably terribly unreliable.
A guy I know tried to build a business around a physical pomodoro timer a while back - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/timechi-your-smart-produc...

A useful addition for those using this in an office, and even for those who don't want to look at the screen for the remaining time, would be to have an LED (maybe as a nice lightbar) on the top of the device which shines red or green to suggest to those who can't see the screen (viewing from the other side) if you are available to be interrupted or not. You could even make it as a progressive light bar if you were so inclined.
I play computer games running on my PC on my MacBook via Parsec (RDP) all the time. Video editing probably is less intensive that gaming.

Linus Tech Tips uses Parsec too since at least 2020 for their remote employees for video editing.
>If it’s 100% accurate, it’s a fantastic time saver. If it is anything less than 100% accurate, it’s useless.

The insane levels of hypocrisy hearing this come from a mainstream media source. The damage that has been done to all of society by misrepresenting and half-truthing about events to appease audiences is unrivaled, yet here they are on the high horse of "anything less than 100% accurate is useless"

Take note CNN, take fucking note.
I set up a house file server. It’s a pretty minimal piece of hardware that came with a 2tb nvme disk. I added two 14tb disks in a RAID 1 array and they don’t even fit in the box physically. The RAID array is just for redundancy so that a disk can fail and the data is still available from the other disk.

On this file server I am running Debian12 with Docker Compose. Then I built a management dashboard in TypeScript/Node that provides web servers you can spin up in about 2seconds and each server provides Websockets and http with fully proxy support over a single port. The dashboard also provides a command terminal via browser interface and a bunch of other server and connection management tools.

* I also included Samba for remote file system access from Windows with permission management.

* I run Jellyfin with metadata caching so that I can stream video without need for internet access or subscriptions.

* I run Pihole for DNS management.

* I just got WireGuard set up so now I can VPN directly into the home network from anywhere in the world via IPv6.

Therefore I don’t need a cloud storage subscription.
Basketball Team Flying Enough to Circle the Planet Is the Epitome of Air Excess
I think Apple and Microsoft are both prepping us for a future in which our computers are, mostly, mere terminals for their host of cloud services, rather than personal computing devices. This may be a test run/demonstration of whether and how a highly interactive, compute-intensive task like video editing can be performed under such a paradigm.
Japanese is consistent about the verb (or adjective, adverb) coming last in the clause/sentence (besides certain sentence-ending particles). There are no "particles" necessary on verbs because they're always in the right position.

The subject/object/means/destination/etc are flexible and can appear in any order - but typically subject appears before object - `NOUN ga NOUN wo VERB`, `NOUN ga NOUN ni VERB` (where `ga` denotes the subject), whereas `NOUN wo NOUN ga VERB` would be atypical, but not incorrect.

When a verb (or adjective/adverb) appears before a noun, as in `VERB NOUN`, it modifies the noun - acting like an adjective - `VERB NOUN` is like "NOUN that/which VERBS". All adjectives work this way - ADJ NOUN, because verbs and adjectives are not really disjoint word classes in Japanese. Even the noun adjectives ("na-adjectives") function this way - they appear as `NOUN na NOUN`, but `na` is secretly a verb disguised as a particle. Examples:

sora ga aoi (The sky is blue)
aoi sora (Blue sky) [i-adjective]
sora ga kirei desu (The sky is pretty)
kirei na sora (Pretty sky) [na-adjective]
sora ga haiiro ni naru (The sky turns grey)
haiiro ni naru sora (Sky which turns gray) [verb clause as adjective]

Spoken Japanese is very context sensitive, so things can be omitted if they're already known to the listener - this can include the verb, and any of the particles.

Verbs can appear out of order - for example at the start of a sentence - but the meaning is understood based on tone or pause in the speech - basically, if what were being spoken were to be written it would be with a comma after the verb. `VERB, NOUN`

Example:

watashi wa hara ga hetta (I'm hungry).
hara ga hetta, watashi (Hungry, I am).
hara ga heru watashi (Me who is hungry) [no pause or comma]
I think cloud is great for backup - as long as it's not your sole backup strategy. My personal approach is to have a local NAS with redundant drives that also replicates data to the cloud. I'm protected from drive failures, house fires, failed credit card transactions. Obviously not all at the same time, but as far as risks go, feels pretty minimal.
Musk made no attempt to use the courts or the law to bring down Wikipedia.

He did denounce Wikipedia, and called for people to not support it. That's not an attack on free speech.
It's pre-tax. It comes from the Bible where you set it aside "before anything else".
As a tech employee who has worked on software privacy controls for consumer devices at amazon I have a couple thoughts. First, let me clarify that I am still highly skeptical about any tech companies privacy promises. That being said, the privacy control I worked on for one of Amazon's devices was a pita. It was a hardware switch which completely powered down all sensors, and modifying code related to it required extensive testing to preserve customer privacy. Amazon at least emphasizes to employees earning and retaining customer trust. The real reason I actually semi trust tech companies privacy policies is the ethics of individual employees. Maybe I'm projecting my disgust at privacy infringements onto my coworkers, but I generally believe these large corps can't hire sufficient teams of devs to build privacy compromising systems without at least one person whistleblowing.

My $.02
Past greenhouse gas emissions may raise sea levels by nearly two feet
To back up the poster, Open AI loosened their rules. Earlier this week I did “dark wing duck as a knight” and it generated half and then said it couldn’t due to copyright. The same prompt now returns the image. Assume good faith instead of flying off and accusing people of being blind acolytes based on your personal idea of who they are.
> AIPAC’s Jonathan Kessler co-authored a guide on doxing American professors who protest against Israel in 1984!

> Here he is giving a pep talk to Zionist students on how to takeover student gov to reverse democratically voted policies “just like how AIPAC does it in Congress”

https://x.com/GenXGirl1994/status/1906088715249656167
For more, see the Copyright Office's reports on this: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...
The optimal tactics aren't necessarily that obvious during the first few engagements when you encounter a completely alien force and a way of fighting.

And by the time you start figuring these things out the Spanish already have thousands of allied soldiers from other tribes that you have subjugated fighting on their side.

e.g. when the Inca finally started trying to fight back back in earnest like in the siege of Cuzco the ratio was closer to 1:2 and the Inca were probably too reluctant to engage due to their experience in the initial battles. After that it was already way too late since the empire was reduced to a rump state with limited resources and the balance of power shifted.

Same happened in Mexico. Just like in Peru the early engagements for the Spanish were generally considerably easier than the final battles where they had 10s of thousands of soldiers fighting for them.

At the end of the day both of those empires were just a house of cards waiting to collapse. Europeans didn't do even remotely as well in less centralized areas. e.g. even against urbanized societies like the Maya who survived for much longer and successfully fended off several expeditions since the Spanish basically had to conquer each city state one by one.
Sounds expensive to support all the logistics of that bin.
> The quokka, like the rationalist, is a creature marked by profound innocence. The quokka can't imagine you might eat it, and the rationalist can't imagine you might deceive him. As long they stay on their islands, they survive, but both species have problems if a human shows up

> In theory, rationalists like game theory, in practice, they need to adjust their priors. Real-life exchanges can be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. In the classic version, the prisoners can't communicate, so they have to guess whether the other player will defect or cooperate.

> The game changes when we realize that life is not a single dilemma, but a series of them, and that we can remember the behavior of other agents. Now we need to cooperate, and the best strategy is "tit for two tats", wherein we cooperate until our opponent defects twice

> The problem is, this is where rationalists hit a mental stop sign. Because in the real world, there is one more strategy that the game doesn't model: lying. See, the real best strategy is "be good at lying so that you always convince your opponent to cooperate, then defect"

> And rationalists, bless their hearts, are REALLY easy to lie to. It's not like taking candy from a baby; babies actually try to hang onto their candy. The rationalists just limply let go and mutter, "I notice I am confused". This is also why they are poly.
You're using the word to define the concept rather than the concept to define the word. Wrong order.

See: "Program".
That's kind of rich coming from a site dedicated to internal combustion engine automobile culture.
This reminds me of categorial grammars. Has anyone here ever looked into them? I loved them. They're like simply typed lambda calculi but instead of a single arrow type there are two, one for the left and right side of a symbol. So you can so like:

and : Phrase \ Conjunction / Phrase
do : Subject \ Verb / Object

Sorry if I have the directionality wrong but `and` would take a phrase on the left, another on the right abd return a conjunction. `do` would take an Subject and an Object and return a verb. In STLC it would look like this:

and : Phrase -> Phrase -> Conjunction
do : Subject -> Object -> Verb

These are bad examples just for illustrations, consult real linguists.

Last time I looked at it they were adding polymorphism and a couple of people were starting to think about dependent types. It was mostly linguists interested in it but it was hardcore math and CS. Can't remember the names involved. Carl H. I forget what the H stands for. Hmm. Some fanous type theorists had written about them too.

Anyway, seemed relevant.
Meticulously with Ghidra I suppose. This trend of saying it’s to protect us is getting old. The only way to prevent malware is by making the source available for us to see for ourselves.
The fix is to make it optional.

But yeah, I was anticipating something quite a bit worse.
2053 is too far away indeed.

“It’s probably not hard…” - how many such wishful thinking statements were uttered by humanity.
Even smaller tech companies should now copy big tech and make sure they have established a location in a favorable country to relocate green card or H1B holders as needed.
Not at all. Aside from the aesthetic choice, both cube world and veloren have nothing in common with minecraft when it comes to gameplay.
With Apple/iOS, I can’t help but think of the Joker’s quote, “You have nothing… Nothing to do with all your strength.” The efficiency half is excellent but what with the power? AR? Gaming? AI seems the first broad fit. And where was Apple? Literally chasing cars and an ill conceived VR headset.

I say this as a massive Apple fanboy. AI was heavily advertised as a selling point of iPhone 15 Pro and is completely MIA 6 months later. It’s a major letdown. It’s not the end of the world, but let’s just call it what it is.

For those saying Apple doesn’t release imperfect products, may I introduce to you Siri? It was average when they bought it and it’s become a punch line.

And there are so many uses of AI that don’t have to be at the risk level of, “Oops, AI left grandma at LeGuardia.” Apple should go back to its roots and provide high quality LLM/MCP and other API sdks to developers and let them go nuts. Then just clone or buy the apps that work like they always do.
When politics is coming for you shouldn't you talk about it?
Yes. There are 2 aspects to this.

Roughly (from lay understand) LLMs predict what their training data would say. They are first trained on "the internet, etc." so they can predict words well, e.g. finish off "Paris is the..." then using human feedback they are trained further to work in chat mode and be non-offensive, concise, be pleasant etc.