skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think this is a "drink the koolaid" phenomenon.

Personally, I don't want an LLM synthesized result to a query. I want to read original source material on websites, preferably written by experts, in the field in which my search is targeted.

What I find in serious regression in search, is interpretation of the search query. If I search for something like "Systems containing A but not B" I just get results that contain the words A and B. The logical semantics of asking for "not B" is completely ignored. Using "-B" doesn't work, since many discussions of something that doesn't have B, will mention the word B. These errors didn't seem to be so egregious historically. There seemed to be more correct semantic interpretation of the query.

I don't know if this has to do with applying LLMs in the backend of search, but if LLMs could more accurately interpret what I'm asking for, then I would be happy to have them parse my queries and return links that meet my query specifications more accurately.

But again, I don't want a synthesized result, I want to read original source material. I see the push to make everything LLM synthesized prose, to be just another attempt to put "Big Tech" between me and the info I'm trying to access.

Just link me to the original info please...

p.s. Something like the "semantic web" which would eliminate any 3rd party search agent completely would be the ideal solution.
OK I guess you're screwed then. Good luck.
Compared to the resources costs for humans to prop up the industry, a handful of DCs that can do this and still improve is cheap.

Work phones, laptops, personal stuff. We duplicate a lot of resource use for one person to have a career.

There will still be pencil and paper. There’s still creative things to do. Do we even get that these days? Where’s our generations LOTR or Star Wars? Yep just prequels and sequels of same old.

Are we that creative copy-pasting and git pull deps someone else maintains? IT is librarian work these days. Little in the day to day is novel creativity.

Your argument is not a compelling one. Feels like hand wavy nod to a human soul, while ignoring we all complain about soul crushing jobs capturing so much of our agency, sucking fun out of life since it’s just the same todos different day… not that creative and we tacitly notice and complain but keep doing.

It’s a really lame circular routine and lived experience being around my peers these days; oh I hate my job but this new thing is an abomination and affront to my chosen job. I’m gonna be someone someday! Don’t take it away! Unicorn! Disrupt!
Long-term Treasury yields surged Monday due to the unwind of the 'basis trade'
I use search engines (Google) and when they (it) fails to provide me the responses I need, I turn to ChatGPT. For example:

I recently upgraded my video card, and I run a 4K display. Suddenly the display was randomly disconnecting until I restarted the monitor. I googled my brains out trying to figure out the issue, and got nowhere.

So I gave ChatGPT a shot. I told it exactly what I upgraded from/to, and which monitor I have, and it said "Oh, your HDMI 2.0 cable is specced to work, but AMD cards love HDMI2.1 especially ones that are grounded, so go get one of those even if it's overspecced for your setup."

So I did what it said, and it worked.
If you're using google you can just specify "-ai" at the end of your search, which I've started doing ever since Google's AI tried to tell me that the American Civil War was that time when the North and South fought over gold in California.

DuckDuckGo also has an option where you can turn off the AI search so that you don't have to specify every time. I've found DDG sometimes gives me better results than Google and sometimes doesn't.
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This is way too harsh of a tariff, by doing this Trump isn't sending clear signals to manufacturers.

Trump's "schizophrenic" decisions to announce high tariffs only to whiplash manufacturers by announcing pauses or straight dropping tariffs makes it hard to justify setting up a plant in the US.

If given the choice of committing to building a plant to reduce costs because of the tariffs, or just cutting costs / employees, most will do that latter.

One cannot justify building a plant if halfway through building it, tariffs are dropped ( due to an admin change or something else). Because then you have a factory that costs you more money than just importing from China.
Pretty actually. How hard would it be to include physical Playstation games by scanning the barcode or something like that?

For consoles it still makes sense to buy discs... they're discounted a lot more and faster than the digital versions.

And with me having a more than respectable backlog, I almost always buy on disc and almost always after it's discounted by 50%.
Right, but there's no method for the client to retrieve the content of previous thoughts. So it's analogous to a human writing notes for themselves as part of the thinking process, but never reading what they've written.
Why would you not just have the same amount of income, but spend less money?
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Done mostly as an exercise to familiarize myself with MCP, but might be useful to others. Also might be a bad idea to let an LLM near your tailnet! Since we are no closer to cracking the in-band signaling problem of prompt injection. Even though passing through the eye of a RPC needle, UAYOR
Everyone is commenting on the HN headline, no one on the actual post:

> Building the New Internet

(Insert mandatory reference to Silicon Valley here :))

> We think there’s a better way forward. We're calling it identity-first networking.

I would love to see this. Every day I have to stare at YAML files with IP addresses in them is a day I will never get back. I wish cjdns[0] had succeeded already but oh well, now I hope the Tailscale guys will!

[0]: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/
I guess it's just that I've given up on expecting them to be able to police themselves. Even if there was some fundamental change which made it plausible, it would likely be implemented by somebody I don't know or trust--so I'm going to be locking it down via OS-level controls anyway. And since I'm going to do that, doesn't the self-policing part then become redundant?

If it's not allowed to do something, I'd rather it just show me the error it got when it tried and leave it to me to tweak the containment or not. Having it refuse because it's not allowed according to its own internal logic just creates a whole separate set of less-common error messages that I'll have to search for, each of which is opaquely equivalent to one that we have decades of experience with. There is a battle-hardened interface for this sort of thing and reimplementing it internally to the LLM just isn't worth the squeeze.

I will confess that I've previously run untrusted agents (e.g. from CircleCI) as my own user without giving them due scrutiny. And shame on me for doing so. I just don't think that my negligence would be any greater had it contained an LLM.
Actual title is "Contextual Advertising After the Death of Cookies"

Promotes their planet-killing-in-the-name-of-ad-tech.

Nothing to do with why cookies don't seem to taste that good any more.
Unless you're applying to MyPillow Inc. or X, I think you'll be fighting to keep that away from the background check for the rest of your natural born life.
Give it some time. Mid terms are still many months off.
If what you say is literally true: yes, I think you probably are the only one!
The UK might to think nuclear, if only so that it isn’t totally reliant on a foreign power for its nuclear deterrent.
Is there any way to do this in current (desktop) Chrome? Instructions I can find all suggest that the query string should be editable, but looks like it's locked on v134.
You expected a productive, meaningful and actionable response to the question "Aren't they process isolated?" without even hinting at which OS and browser you're considering?

Vague question, vague answer.
> If his last term is any indication

Too early for that forecast, don't you think?
TinyKVM in Varnish and Some Deno
As I stood there in the supermarket in shock that avacados are now $2 each, I was soothed by the thought that at least Trump made Mexico pay for that Wall. The hero we deserve, for sure.
Interesting philosophy, what is this predicated on? Do you mean that people should not have to work for a living, ie labor versus play?
Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts (2023)
DJI in shambles
The problem I have is too many things in my menubar. I like having all the info at a glance, but when I go mobile, only a few items fit before it runs out of space.

Not sure what a good solution there is.
Behind the Bybit Crypto Theft
Yup that's exactly it, but since it's all happening on the blockchain everyone knows exactly what's happening when companies offer these kinds of "bug bounty rewards".
DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney: 70 yrs old; definitely not obsolete
Yesterday I had a very frustrating experience with Gemini flash 2.0.

I was lean an streamlit app that went from poc to production servers as a showcase....

Then came requirements for user registering,and someone tried to bolt in recaptcha by some magic unsafe markdown evaluation.

I haven't touched streamlit in a year so LLM looked like the right tool.

It kept saying some package existed in pipy, even after I said I googled, searched in pipy, followed their link (that get me to a 404) and posted the result of pip install failing.

In it's reasoning he kept saying he was right...
Trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital
One important thing to mention about the history of saccharin is that it was the subject of a big scare in the 70s and 80s because rat studies showed it caused cancer. Later research revealed that the link between saccharin and cancer was much more tenuous in humans than originally suggested, and the sweetener is generally considered safe today.
It's done on a case by case basis.

In all honesty doing this for news and such brings me comfort. Because the truth is usually pretty vanilla.
Unfortunately DDG still enshittifies their results with AI garbage as much as they can. Both with the intrusive AI blob at the top and replacing the page summaries with dreadful AI goobleygook.
Seems to be an older convention in linguistics. Romanizations of Japanese also switched from circumflexes (Tôkyô) to macrons (Tōkyō) at some point in time fairly long ago—I think the English-language Japanese journal I saw using that convention systematically was from the late 1950s, and its recent issues definitely don’t use it.

Perhaps a circumflex was easier to typeset, like with logicians switching from Ā to ¬A and the Chomskyan school in linguistics switching from X-bar and X-double-bar to X' and XP?
The gap exists until 26 because that's when the Affordable Care Act provides another potential safety net. The ACA established 26 as the age threshold by requiring insurance plans to allow young adults to remain on their parents' health insurance until they turn 26.

For adults who lose Medicaid at 19, this creates a 7-year period without affordable coverage options because:

1. They're too old for pediatric Medicaid (which ends at 19)

2. They don't qualify for adult Medicaid in non-expansion states (which typically only covers parents with extremely low incomes, pregnant women, or people with disabilities)

3. They can't afford private insurance premiums

4. They don't qualify for sufficient marketplace subsidies

5. They don't have access to employer-based insurance in their early career stages

While some young adults can utilize their parents' insurance until 26, this only helps those whose parents have employer sponsored coverage. For those from lower income families without such coverage, there's no safety net until age 26, when they might have advanced to better employment with benefits or qualify for other programs.
Isn't Dropbox just a GUI on top of rsync? I've also seen people say "FTP"
Free trade is orthogonal to this goal. For my entire life, the right-wing/libertarian tax proposal has been for the 'flat tax' or 'fair tax', which basically means an across-the-board high sales tax funds the government. This is of course a regressive tax, since the upper echelon classes only spend a small fraction of their incomes, while the lower classes generally spend at least 100% of theirs.

Don't believe that once a high consumption tax has been enacted to replace income taxes, and once trade disputes are settled, that conservatives would ever allow the return of a progressive income tax.
There is no explanation that would make me overlook that red flag.
ECharts powers all charts in tablab.app. Might be using 20 different chart types or so

Very happy with it.

Theming works well (saw a question or two about that)
Kagi includes access to Claude 3.7 Sonnet with Extended Thinking and ChatGTP 4o, both with search.
Anybody know what font the article uses? I like it.
That's true, but it will likely be newer studios with younger professionals who are going to be using it, much as Miyazaki doesn't like CGI either yet it's widely used now in anime. The young drive the advances while the older eschew them, that's generally how human progress has been.
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Except when search engines bury the thing you're obviously looking for under an entire page of sponsored ads, then that convenience argument starts to not hold up as well...
My only technical complaint with Tailscale is that its hole punching doesn't seem to work with some common CGNATs/double NATs when both endpoints are using them, and then traffic ends up trickling through their public proxy servers, while running your own is kinda annoying and not recommended or documented.
The investigating agency could get subpoenas to compel the victim to provide evidence. But it's usually not done when the victim doesn't want to cooperate.
That is an epic story!
Tailscale has Taildrop - built-in peer-to-peer file sharing feature

https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
Author probably just unaware of Binet's formula. But I'd agree with their assessment that there's unlikely to be a closed form for the (indeed, much more complicated!) quantity that they're interested in.
I've been tracking this (literally on paper). I've moved around 75% of my queries to LLMs from search engines. And, the main reason I use search engines is because of queries on mobile, where the devices still make it much easier to search with a traditional search engine; and the omnibar.

Keep in mind that I'm not counting in my 75% queries where I get my answer from Google Gemini I'm just guessing if you added that in, it would rise to 85-90%.

My thought is if browsers and phones started pushing queries over to an LLM, search (and search revenue) would virtually disappear.
For anything where practical skills are concerned (woodworking, metalworking, leatherworking, anodising stuff, etc.) I have to resort to searching on Youtube. There is, fortunately, a lot of information there in the form of tutorials and guides. Search engines are useless there. Most of the pages returned are indeed typical AI slop just there for the ad impressions.

It's extremely disheartening. I have no trust in Youtube staying accessible as a font of public knowledge. It just works out that way now.

Reddit seems hit or miss depending on the topic. Plenty of threads there where [deleted] asked a question and [disgruntled user] replied with something which has been replaced with random text by a fancy deletion tool.
I don't think it's controversial to say that asymptotic analysis has flaws: the conclusions you draw from it only hold in the limit of larger inputs, and sometims "larger" means "larger than anything you'd be able to run it on." Perhaps as Moore's law dies we'll be increasingly able to talk more about specific problem sizes in a way that won't become obsolete immediately.

I suppose my question is why you think TCS people would do this analysis and development better than non-TCS people. Once you leave the warm cocoon of big-O, the actual practical value of an algorithm depends hugely on specific hardware details. Similarly, once you stop dealing with worst-case or naive average-case complexity, you have to try and define a data distribution relevant for specific real-world problems. My (relatively uninformed) sense is that the skill set required to, say, implement transformer attention customizing to the specific hierarchical memory layout of NVIDIA datacenter GPUs, or evaluate evolutionary optimization algorithms on a specific real-world problem domain, isn't necessarily something you gain in TCS itself.

When you can connect theory to the real world, it's fantastic, but my sense is that such connections are often desired and rarely found. At the very least, I'd expect that to often be a response to applied CS and not coming first from TCS: it's observed empirically that the simplex algorithm works well in practice, and then that encourages people to revisit the asymptotic analysis and refine it. I'd worry that TCS work trying to project onto applications from the blackboard would lead to less rigorous presentations and a lot of work that's only good on paper.
I use (and pay for) Kagi.

Even without much customization (lenses, scoring, etc) it's so much better (for my use cases) I happily pay for it.

Recently I have also started to use Perplexity more for "research for a few minutes and get back to me" type of things.

Queries like "what was that Python package for X" I usually ask an AI right from my editor, or ChatGPT if I'm in the browser already.
I encountered a similar issue when I first started using Tailscale. My fix is simple: disable IPv4 inside Tailscale. Just use the v6 ULA address that begins with fd7a exclusively. This works even if your ISP doesn't support IPv6: the inner IPv6 packets can be encapsulated inside v4 packets. There's unfortunately no GUI to do this; you'll have to change the Tailscale ACL to disable IPv4.
I get it, nuance is hard, but this isn’t nuance, it’s lazy contrarianism. You’re not defending truth, you’re just allergic to anyone speaking plainly about a brutal dictatorship. If you’ve got a credible counterpoint, make it. Otherwise, tossing out “bias” like it’s a trump card isn’t an argument, it’s a dodge.
Probably is your algorithm as mine is pretty good in not showing me those low effort channels. Check out extensions like PocketTube, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow to manage your YouTube feeds better.
There's good evidence to suggest that most mammals and other K-selected species (long lived with few offspring) will always expand to fill the productive capacity of their niche, and keep doing so until negative feedback pressure kicks in.

Consider the reindeer on St Matthews Island. 20 of them were introduced in 1944 and left to fend for themselves. With plenty of food and no natural predators, by 1963 there were 6000 reindeer (300x population boom!). By 1966 the population had dropped to 42. By 1980, no reindeer left.

Mammals seem particularly prone to this "eat everything is sight and multiply" strategy. Which works, until it doesn't - the herd migrates, adapts, or the population collapses. The problem with the human enterprise is that we've gotten really darn good at engineering solutions to these negative feedback pressures. There's nothing (yet) that can restrain our growth. Which means we're in a St. Matthew's Reindeer situation - dwindling resource base, exploding population, and nowhere left to go.
Wow, nice work. The Christmas themed wordsearch generator I posted here at Christmas had a single commenter.
The sans is Apple's own SF Pro, and the code is SF Mono.
PostgreSQL Merges Initial Support for NUMA Awareness
try to use Pix outside of Brazil

Try to use cryptocurrency for anything other than a few very specific transactions at a number of places in the world so small that it's a rounding error.

Still cryptocurrencies as-is remain relevant

And somehow less relevant than cash.

I can take cash from any country in the world to my local bank, and deposit it into my account. I can get a dozen different foreign currencies at my local branch in minutes, and almost any other currency in the world can be delivered to me by FedEx the next morning for a flat $10 fee.

I can take cash to any other country in the world and get it converted into the local currency, whether that's paper or digital in almost any city.

Crypto is great if you do a very few, very specific things in a vanishingly small number of places. But if I'd tied my finances to crypto instead of cash, I'd have been stuck many times in foreign lands.
Yes. It's still pretty common that I want the official website for a thing, or product reviews written by humans who actually know what they're talking about rather than a single answer to a question. DuckDuckGo is better at delivering it than LLMs are. I also don't want a hallucination, so I appreciate Perplexity's easily-checked citations when I do use an LLM.
> real skills now command a higher price than before.

Only if companies value/recognize those real skills over that of the alternative, and even if they do, companies are pretty notorious for choosing whatever is cheapest/easiest (or perceived to be).
The problem is that if everybody lies and you're the one not lying, you're worse off. In that scenario, the choice is between lying and being on even footing with everybody else, versus staying honest and getting an unfair disadvantage for it.

If enough participants lie, some of the honest participants get pushed out of the system, which makes lying more socially acceptable, which causes even more participants to lie... and so the feedback loop goes.
No, I find it unwilling to produce factual information.

For example Jeep consistently lands at the bottom of the reliability ratings. Try asking GPT if Jeeps are reliable. The response reads like Jeep advertising.
Lying, excused with more lying! What could go wrong?
Pix proposition is very valuable for governments, as it is the best way of controlling transactions, inside the country and cross-border.

To you second point, I think the pix penetration/popularity proves that the majority of the people trust the government for that. There are 2 key reasons for its success: It was mandatory for Banks to adhere to the system and there are no fees for using it.

Once multiple countries have their own PIX, they just need to build a federation structure to connect them and allow cross-border transactions.

Crypto-currencies have their place with people who don't trust the government, want to speculate and/or simply want to do tax evasion, but they are not and probably never will be mainstream as a transaction medium.
I don't use Google anymore, but I do use Google Scholar, sci-hub, Yandex and sometimes DDG.
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Researchers say scheme improves homomorphic encryption efficiency, effectiveness
They then say there's an approximation for Fibonacci, which makes me think that's what they're calling Binet's formula. (I'd also expect an author with this mathematical sophistication to be aware of Binet's formula, but maybe I'm projecting.)