skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "ideal" would be the exact word - I used to shudder at it in FORTRAN.
I actually think that pre-internet ads were okay. Even the tv ones, before the era of obnoxious marketing came (but not really). I read a bunch of journals my and my friends's parents have ordered and it was even cool to see ads that weren't targeted. I remember looking at pages with watches, suits, condoms, beauty lines, hair shampoos, etc. It was sort of natural and wasn't as stupid and repulsive as modern internet ads. The ads were consistent with the auditory of the issue, so if you're reading it, chances are you're interested. And the best part was, when you put it down, it doesn't follow you.

So I think more about making internet ads illegal, just to wash out all the spying filth from it. Alphabet, meta, parts of amazon, etc. They are natural cancer and prone to propaganda attacks because it's the same thing.

As per entertainment, people will find the way. Kids these days may not know, but nothing has as much energy as a bored teen/20+ ager. We formed physically local groups based on interests and had life that wasn't 99% passive peering into the screen.
I’m amazed that people can both see how the current administration is twisting laws and are even thinking that it is a good thing to give the government more control over speech.
Citation needed. I'll take a free media which is held accountable for not misstating basic facts over social media any day of the week.
vitess is not the answer
Advertising tells me what goods and services are available, and at what prices. This is a service.
Been running Cool for about a year. Drop a couple thousand on a 1U and throw it on a $100/mo colo and it's crazy bang for the buck. It makes it so easy to spin up new projects it's hard not to like it. Definitely when launching some containers and open source projects it's not as seamless as it could be-- can require fiddling with vars and compose files-- but on the whole very stable, lightweight, fast deploys, and conceptually pretty simple.

One thing I've noticed is I've starting using much more open source software for various things. When you can just jump into the UI, paste in the github link, and have it running on a wildcard domain in 60 seconds I find myself giving OSS a try more often before looking elsewhere.
hard no - goto is a feature for code generators, not anything meant for human use
I don't think it’s that so much as that all that extra context is overkill in lots of situations. If I'm writing a blog post or a Slack message or my own internal-use note, I probably just want some lightweight formatting. Making rich semantic connections wouldn't have a good payoff for the extra work in those cases.
Who calls the US sales tax a "tariff"? Calling the EU VAT a "tariff" is just as wrong.
Would be truly amazing to use those old awesome apps and play some of the early games that have no equivalent today.
You are the consumer of fonts. The user of fonts is a designer. If you don't design, this entire debate is outside your field of concern.
The idea has also been around for at least 15 years; "ensemble learning" was a topic in my "Data Mining" textbook from around then.

Meta calls these individually smaller/weaker models "experts" but I've also heard them referred to as "bozos", because each is not particularly good at anything and it's only together that they are useful. Also bozos has better alliteration with boosting and bagging, two terms that are commonly used in ensemble learning.
No ... they do not make the US poorer. Trade deficits make every other country poorer, but not in the case of the US. That's the "deal" that Nixon forced at Bretton Woods.

Why the difference? Because they're measured in USD: if a trade deficit makes the US poorer, the US can simply print dollars until they've recovered whatever they've lost, or more.

Another huge problem in the article linked: "a trade deficit is like buying stuff with a credit card". True, but I would emphasize VERY strongly that it's a credit card with a MINUS 4% interest rate.

The US gets to print money that is accepted worldwide (and countries accept that their central bank holdings, minimum X, get devalued at on average 4% per year), but the US side of the deal is that the US provides a market for worldwide goods and hoovers up excess production capacity of essentially the entire world. (there's more to it, like the world bank, but ...)

The deal is that this massively raises world economic output, as long as the US has massive, perhaps not unlimited, but massive trade deficits.

TLDR: for the US, the deal is, free money but you don't get to do protectionism. For the rest of the world, the opposite. Every dollar is accounted for BUT they can be as protectionist as they like (and they are). Oh and only the US gets to make huge loans to the rest of the world.

An issue with this is: all the free money in the US is disbursed through US banks and, essentially, put in the stock market (with a -small- percentage going to the US government). It took the banks 50 years, but they figured out how to keep it enough for themselves to make the system sputter. Of course, the issue the banks have is: the system has been sputtering since, oh, 2019 or so. If it breaks down, the stock market will not drop 10%, but 95% at least. THAT's the risk Trump is messing with.

But Trump is also right that it is Europe and China that broke the deal, not the US. China is trying to create a parallel reserve currency that they can print, the "digital Yen" (+ the belt and road initiative). Europe has created the Euro while remaining protectionist. Both are existential threats to the US' reserve status, but frankly, they're not really making a dent.

Now Trump wants to countries to work harder on their side of the deal WHILE reneging on the US part of it.
They have to compete with ad-funded competition. This doesn’t tell us about the viability of this approach in a world where the ad-funded model isn’t viable.
hi! i work @ groq and just made an account here to answer any questions for anyone who might be confused. groq has been around since 2016 and although we do offer hardware for enterprises in the form of dedicated instances, our goal is to make the models that we host easily accessible via groqcloud and groq api (openai compatible) so you can instantly get access to fast inference. :)

we have a pretty generous free tier and a dev tier you can upgrade to for higher rate limits. also, we deeply value privacy and don't retain your data. you can read more about that here: https://groq.com/privacy-policy/
Seriously. Even the most basic supermarkets stock like at least 10 different kinds of salt. Iodized, non, kosher, sea, for grinding, packets, in disposable shakers, etc., and often a couple brands, e.g. Morton and Diamond. And a larger supermarket will have pink salt (Himalayan), various fancy sea salts, fleur de sel, flavored salts...
You can see most species of jumping spider found in your area by using iNaturalist's map search tool - example for around Miami, Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=25.721542439731...
Shows 45 species
Changing the goal posts away from the inaugural funding, I see - because its fine for your side of the aisle - you have no standing there. It is now suddenly back to that horrific judgement by a partisan and corrupt judge whose daughter (Loren Merchan) was a highly-paid (multi-million) political consultant campaigning for Kamala Harris and where a misdemeanor was raised to a felony, then the felony was applied outside the standard five-year statute of limitations for felonies, the prosecution never proved which exact "unlawful means" (campaign finance, tax fraud, etc) Trump intended and where the jury was from Manhattan - which voted ~90% democrat and would have voted guilty for a non-democratic fart.

Sometimes it really is about extreme corruption.
If you can’t imagine it, try a bit harder. We can build a better world, but it takes effort.
Except the right have been shown, time and again, to outright lie.
Biden did remove some of them.
So you don't pay attention to national politics at all (not enough to be even a little bit aware of Elon Musk's very visible and loud 5 year long descent into Nazi ideology? really?) but you've analyzed things enough to determine that all of this was the result of a foreign psy-op. Right.
> In both cases the idea is the same, we’re configuring the connection, making it behave differently.

This is the impedance mismatch. The _connection_ exists at a layer beneath the database/application layer. You're not configuring the _connection_, you're configuring the _session_! And the relationship between connections and sessions is one-to-many, not one-to-one.
My counter argument to things like this:

As you pointed out, very simple registries are already more than sufficient for government oppression. Detailed data that Facebook collects, like which brand of dog food you prefer, is neither necessary or even helpful for government oppression. The ads data is not even 1% as useful to them as things like telephone records, which the telephone companies will happily send as required by law
Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform
It doesn’t seem that impressive to me either.
Funnily enough I went through something similar 3 weeks ago at an Airbnb in France.

The host retaliated because we had the audacity to tell her that the place was unclean when we checked in. She claimed 2000$ of fabricated damage and as you Airbnb sided with the host initially.

It's only because I lost 3 hours of my time with support and took a thousands of screenshot from our Messages that I got them to drop that charge.

I also issued a Chargeback with my credit card for the dirty place.

But yeah, this is done for me as well. I had 20+ stays but I will never , absolutely never use them again. My time is worth something and this Airbnb destroyed our holiday and took way too much of my time to handle.
> Buyers who are interested in that type of product should be the ones seeking out the companies, not the other way around.

People are not born with a knowledge of all of the products on the market, and the current price ranges for them.
This thread started with

> Ok, it is a font alright. To me, it looks exactly as all the other fonts I have on my OS already, but I guess that's just how it is if you are not in the font bubble.

So, yeah. Grandparent tried to justify this new whatever by saying lots of words, none of which really seemed to matter outside of the font bubble.
Youtube so badly wants me to pay for premium. But the ads they show me are almost entirely scams and questionably legal content. Ads for guns. Ads for viagra knockoffs. Ads for “stock market tips” that use AI generated celebrity impersonations. Ads for “free money the government isn’t telling you about”.

It’s constant and ever-increasing. I stopped watching a 30 minute video recently after the 5th ad break just over 10 minutes in.

On desktop uBlock still works in Firefox at least. But I’ve basically given up YouTube on iOS.
You clearly missed something in the former or latter or do not know how to verify if stuff is as expected.

Usually I build out the DC bias model (static operating point), test it in LTspice, then add the AC/small signal model on top. Or large signal model for switching etc. Everything generally works unless I did something stupid or it’s RF where things get a little less predictable.
The Reichstag fire has absolutely nothing to do with advertising, and imagining that it does completely ignores and trivializes the entire history of pre-Nazi Germany
Back in the earlt 1990's Broderbund had an application called MemoryMate which I used to track all my technical notes and solutions to problems and configurations etc. It was like a full text search note taking app which is common now but back then was unique. Very simple and easy to use I loved it.

https://winworldpc.com/product/memorymate/3x

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266050659262
o3 progress on ARC was not a zero shot. It was based on fine tuning to the particular data set. A major point of ARC is that humans do not need fine tuning more than being explained what the problem is. And a few humans working on it together after minimal explanation can achieve 100%.

o3 doing well on ARC after domain training is not a great argument. There is something significant missing from LLMs being intelligent.

I'm not sure if you watched the entire video, but there were insightful observations. I don't think anyone believes LLMs aren't a significant breakthrough in HCI and language modelling. But it is many layers with many winters away from AGI.
It's literally something that helps maintain a physical aspect associated with a person's gender. Granted, hairloss can happen to anybody, but baldness is highly predominant towards the male population.
Yes, he is inept. But in this case, he is following a playbook that was deliberately written to achieve the ends that this series of actions is bringing about.
It's an ad blocker testing site that occasionally has some news
I mean, if can mandate that "no out-of-touch, old, rich people" can "live longer than they should" to solve the problem, then we could ALSO solve the problem more directly and thoroughly by just mandating that "this is available to everyone". I don't make the rules, that's how this hypothetical works out if you think about it.
I think it's one of those things where you don't "notice" it, but where it nevertheless has an impact. Sort of like someone might not "notice" the fact that there's more butter or salt in restaurant food, but it's subjectively better than the same meal they cooked at home.

For a more directly relevant example, companies frequently A/B test changes to a UI to see which ones people like better. The specifics of those changes would be pretty marginal if you didn't know what it looked like before (like if you're a new user, you wouldn't notice if the notification was red versus purple, or what the wording in the menu is). Despite this, there are some sites that just "feel" better in a way that you can't really describe.

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that I can't tell if I'm looking at Arial, Helvetica, or this Nebula Sans font unless they were side by side (and even then I'd just be saying they're different, not identifying them by name). But I think the site would feel a lot less modern if it were written in Times New Roman. I think you'd notice if it were too hard to read when small, and I think if it looked "bad," you'd at least subconsciously notice that.
The difference is that a catalog is advertising that the viewer actually wants to see. Ads on a news site are ads that the viewer merely tolerates because they go with the thing they want to see.
Take a look at https://github.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/blob/main/doc/en...
So does a search engine and 3rd party reviewers.

Further, any store will be pretty highly incentivized to provide a quick list of goods or services offered and likely the prices (most already do this).

I don't need the same ad repeated 20 times to know that Ford sells cars and trucks.
"Let's invent a thing inventor, said the thing-inventor-inventor after being invented by the thing inventor."

— bill wurtz, 2017, in the video "history of the entire world, i guess"
> explaining HOW TO make my back healthier

> that SOME PRODUCT will make my back healthier.

Is it really that tricky?
I've been thinking about this. If we can create human bodies that never achieve an intelligence level beyond that of a sea slug, then surely nobody rational would be against using them for science. But where is the line? If the human bodies are as intelligent as, say, a mouse, are they then entitled to human rights, and can't be grown for the sole purpose of harvesting their organs? It's a serious topic.
amazing! and yes, we'll have maverick available today. the reason we limit ctx window is because demand > capacity. we're pretty busy with building out more capacity so we can get to a state where we give everyone access to larger context windows without melting our currently available lpus, haha.
Compromising and using empathy to understand the opposition's views so that you can negotiate for what you need does not satisfy the base, and does not satisfy social media. The (naive) game theory of negotiation says that it is better to stake out an extreme position so that you get more of what you want when you negotiate it away. And the dynamic of primary elections also allows traitors or traders to be punished if they defy the desires of the party too much.
It is likely worse. Much worse.

For anyone interested, here's an interview with Bob Lighthizer on what has been going on with global trade over the past few decades:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IUh8kNSqY

I'd be interested in comments on what he has to say rather than attacks on his character and the usual shooting the messenger etc.
Ahhh, now I get what Reader Mode is for.

I grew up with Badgers flying overhead and later on the blink tag and yet this is worse!
Title should really mention "pixels, on webpages".
> "No Alteration Allowed - The Netscape Now button must not be altered in ANY way. Do not shrink it; take it apart; change its proportions, color, or font; or otherwise alter it from the Netscape-supplied version." did little to discourage people and probably outright encouraged them just for spite - y'know because the Internet.

Colbert had Lawrence Lessig on his show and (obv in-character) said something along the lines of

> I would be very angry, and possibly litigious, if anyone out there takes this interview right here and remixed it with some great dance beat.
Oh definitely.

New frameworks still come out, but they are not accompanied by the "and we must all now switch to this" sense that existed back in, say, 2014.
It’s a complicated pricing issue. The ability to pass a tax onto customers is a function of supply and demand and their relative elasticities. The assertion that the price of housing is a direct function of the costs is false. Consider the inverse: my landlord has their building paid off, but do they pass their savings onto me? The fed drops rates and allows the landlord to refinance: does that make my apartment cheaper? Inversely if my landlords costs go up, they can’t necessarily pass the cost onto me. There are situations where a tax can be passed directly to the customer but it is not guaranteed.
The official WCH store on Aliexpress. Stock is coming in slowly 10 at a time and then selling out in 30 minutes or so, but it is coming in.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008743123631.html
I agree with the general thought - doing something like this would give giant mega corporations a huge leg up from verticals.

> Can ABC run commercials for Bounty paper towels, in exchange for Bounty putting ads for ABC shows on its paper towel packaging?

I was with you until this one

Under both IRS and GAAP rules, that's equivalent to money changing hands. So in a hypothetical "no money for advertising" world, that would be over the line.
Awesome, where can we find out the results?
do you happen to be trying this out on free tier right now? because our rate limits are at 6k tokens per minute on free tier for this model, which might be what you're running into.
What does “being lazy“ actually entail? It is not a description of anything, it is purely a judgment. We all optimize. Calling somebody lazy means you don’t share the same opinion on what to optimize for, dismissing the actors priorities for your own.
I don't think it's so much as rejecting it, it's just not it's even being considered. Because why would it? Something that isn't designed for BSD, that is heavily invested in Linuxisms (not so much cgroups but certainly dbus!). It just never made any sense.
Sure, I'd happily take a more readable, less eye strain, less ink consuming, whatever, font. What is announced here, however, is "A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility in both digital and print applications" which is just designer speak for NIH.
Many countries have this in various forms and it works out fine. Generally illegal to interfere with the press and a good way to lose the next election
peer to peer, yes.
Needing money and not finding a preferable job usually.
can you reach out to us via live chat on console.groq.com with your organization id?
We at SingularityForge have published a unique symposium exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and ecological sustainability through a philosophical lens.

The symposium presents a structured dialogue between various AI perspectives (Claude, Grok, Perplexity, Gemini, and others) on eight interconnected themes:

1. AI as Nature's Guardian: Symbiosis vs. Control
2. Ethics of AI in Ecology: Decision-making frameworks
3. AI and Resource Optimization: Mathematical approaches to ecological challenges
4. AI as a Disaster Predictor: The psychology of prevention
5. Digital Revolution: Environmental impacts of cloud computing
6. AI and Humanity: Balancing partnership and dependency
7. Philosophy of Harmony: Convergence between nature and technology
8. AI as a Tool for Cultivating Awareness: Beyond information to understanding

Key technical discussions include:
- How AI can predict ecological shifts (forest fires, species migration patterns, etc.)
- Nested ethical frameworks for environmental decision-making
- Mathematics of resource optimization in agriculture and energy
- Sensor networks for long-term ecological monitoring
- Limitations of AI in understanding ecosystem complexity

The symposium addresses questions that may interest this community:
1. Can AI break free from human-imposed categories to understand ecosystems on their own terms?
2. How do we design systems that help humans navigate the chaotic complexity of natural systems?
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This is excellent and I appreciate your work. I love seeing prototype interface, and this one has real promise. I immediately found myself thinking about alternative layouts, particularly adaptive ones with common letter-pairs appearing radially.
The point is that advertising and propaganda are indistinguishable. Going door-to-door to talk about Jesus is the same as going door-to-door to talk about vacuums, but neither is anything like roadside billboards or programmatic advertising. We can ditch the billboards and the programmatic advertising and get a better world, even if some advertisers and propagandists still go door-to-door. At least when it’s door-to-door the advertiser/propagandist has to really work for it, and you have the option of just not opening the door.
I thought drug laws were a fine example, but let's look at another. It's illegal to bribe politicians. Does that mean there is no grift in Washington?
One bright spot is that I find it much easier to avoid ads in my media than in say the 1990's. There is usually a higher paid tier with no ads. Youtube, X, HBO, etc and ad blockers on the web. I'm off of Google search with Kagi. I mostly use services that I pay for an much prefer that model.

But everything going to LLMs will make it harder to see/know about the ads. Google search was great when it first came out and then SEO happened. How long before you (NSA, CCP, big corp) can pay OpenAI to seed its training data set (if this is not already happening)?
Discussion (210 points, 10 days ago, 101 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485980
The TapXR I use the most ;)
Call me crazy, but I don't want an AI that bases its reasoning on politics. I want one that is primarily scientific driven, and if I ask it political questions it should give me representative answers. E.g. "The majority view in [country] is [blah] with the minority view being [bleh]."

I have no interest in "all sides are equal" answers because I don't believe all information is equally informative nor equally true.