skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The stories come courtesy of Microsoft’s MSN content network, which syndicates content from hundreds of web publishers: some reputable, some less so. Full disclosure: Our parent company, Future Plc, has a syndication agreement with MSN and many of its sites, including Tom’s Hardware, occasionally have articles appear on the network. What’s problematic here, though, is not that MSN syndicates content but that it often pushes the equivalent of the Weekly World News table of contents right into the Windows operating system where it can be hard to avoid.
> I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”

My predication: in the next 5~10 years, most artists won't be "prompt engineers". Instead they'll focus on fix small details on AI-generated art.

It's still kinda sad tho, because it's usually the most tedious and boring part of the process. Now AI is taking the fun part and leaving the unfun part to humans.
We never had machines before that could take over all of the jobs. We don't yet, but we are postulating what would happen if we did.
GPT-4 has a token window of 32K tokens. I don't think GPT-4's vocabulary size has been released but GPT-3 is 175K. I guess yes, the complexity is technically measurable but it does seem pretty large!
This is classic victim blaming.

RIAA not liking what users do caused RIAA to do user-hostile design, from which we're still suffering. Bad users, bad!
When Jack M and Elon M were on stage together Jack M's thinking was outed ”dimensionless.“ His utility to ”Private Business“ is Communist Party camouflage or an untouchable blindspot while China's corruption was high. Left unchecked he would be the railroad robber baron tycoon in times past of the U.S.A. and the workers in China would be racked and stacked like those historical Panama canal workers or worked to your death concentration camps or deftly subtle genocide the media looks the other way in collusion they do to the Uighur.
Windows 2K was pretty good from a UI standpoint but the best GUI is old-school Mac OS. Apple got it right, the first time.

AmigaOS and NEXTSTEP are also leagues ahead of anything Microsoft did.
>Arguing that because the spectrum exists and it's hard to formalize a cutoff point, we shouldn't try, is a form of the continuum fallacy.

Such an argument wasn't made.

It is a legitimate question. Where and when do you draw the line? And who does it? How are we formalising this?

You said

>Shouldn't we all have a say in this?

I am of the opinion that if this instance of this company doing this is being subjected to this level of scrutiny then there are many more which should be too.

What gave Elon the right to buy twitter? And I would imagine most actions that a relatively big corp takes fall under the same criteria. And most actions other governments takes also fall under this criteria?

These companies have a board and the governments (most?) have some form of voting. And in a free market you can also vote with your actions.

You are suggesting you want to have a direct line of voting for this specific instance of the problem?

Again, my question is. What exactly are you asking for? Do you want to vote on these? Do you want your government to do something about this?
Notice how the game company is the one making the money. Tournament organizers, server admins, production, casters, players, managers, etc do not have a sustainable source of money. Often people volunteer their services and communities fundraise money to fly teams in to compete because that's the only way they can afford it.
The conversation back and forth with a bit of AI whimsy reminds me a lot of Apple's Knowledge Navigator video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0

Siri could've been this but overtime it has become more and more neutered to the point that it feels like talking to a drunken command line interface.
Isn't a 98.5% accuracy quite low for a computer adding numbers?
Finnish one: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv
An interesting article, but it's unfortunately one more that misses the elephant in the room: Nrwl NX: https://nx.dev/
After what they were doing was discovered, sure.

> Beta testers of Windows found that if they were using DR-DOS, this was detected and false error messages were generated.

Microsoft's encrypted code to disguise what it had done was unravelled by Geof Chappell in England, who commented at the time that "the only error' is that the user is running Windows with someone else's version of DOS."

https://web.archive.org/web/20081005102243/http://news.bbc.c...
Using KDE is a breeze.
In death, members of project meyham have names. His was Robert err.. Gordon Moore.
This seems a little roundabout. Why is this preferable over using `inotify(7)`? That's an existing system which can notify your userspace driver program about any time `setxattr(2)` is called.

I get that it's fun to experiment with BPF, but it's also useful to see how many tools already exist. BPF is powerful, yes - maybe too powerful, and it's often not the best tool for the job.
Link to the 990 dead — should have used archive.org or something.
You would think the bloomberg can at least fool people for one day: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3214955/alibaba-f...
That's not completely false though. These radars have been used lately in Robotics as ways to provide speed measures in localization and Mapping algorithms (SLAM, or lower-level algorithms like VIO + radar). Providing a speed measure on top of images and IMU often greatly increases the precision of the result. Some of these algorithms are actually Deep Neural Network, so you could argue that these have been 'adopted' by AI.
I don’t think there is any evidence at all that they meaningfully make fewer mistakes.

In addition while humans make mistakes they will not casually make contradictory claims the way GPT* do. Basic self-contradictions of the sort even a three year old would catch.

Define how they are planning their answer in any sense that matters, please.
Thanks! Still not clear to me if that extends beyond $250K or just not counting against an existing account held there, though. But as mentioned above they probably can just liquidate what they just bought if they need to meet large portion of deposits withdrawn. And the par value repo thing for stuff they already have makes sense would mitigate a run causing insolvency.
It's kind of ironic that the existing fist-citizen customers are actually second class citizens when it comes to having their deposits insured.
> At a certain point in the very near future, it will become necessary to stop heeding the legal and ethical barriers which protect that power.

I really wish I didn't agree with you. The people that said to keep your guns were right.
If you are in the terminal and don't have access to a browser?
Most other countries are around what he is talking about ($2.5k to $4k) whereas the US > $10k.
https://www.insider.com/costs-giving-birth-around-the-world-...

Certainly when things go wrong it can get more costly but the US consistently costs 2 to 3x more for everything AND usually has worse health outcomes. US maternal mortality is an embarrassment: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020... .
Sounds like good argument for competition. I haven't heard of a case where a garden club expanded it's power enough to prevent members from leaving and establishing their own.
The markets don't work if delivering a child leads to bankruptcy. Either people pay for unnecessary procedures or those procedures cost too much.
Thanks for creating this. I must say that I don't find things written in Java on HN very often.
I think the other comment pretty much captured it. If you don't make a complete plug and play package, your robotics are just going to be part of a bigger solution developed by another business. The nature of putting together a complete process automation solution is that it's a highly technical job which takes a lot of time. Your customers are not the people working around the robot - they are the automation designer / integrator who is building the solution - and they are far less bothered about swish UIs and safety features than they are about good APIs, physical repeatability, good hardware availability - all the things OEMs care about when selecting a component in their system.

We found a lot of the time people "wanted" a robot arm, but then when they got it they sat it on a shelf - because the work required to turn a robot arm into a useful automated process is massive. Having a cheaper or easier to use robot arm doesn't stop you needing fixtures, jigs, conveyor belts etc.
Yep. It’s also just plain noise. eg it announces earnings are out and there is an accident on the highway.

I don’t have a car and no idea which company’s earnings they think I care about. Nobody takes a step back and wonders whether it makes sense

Feels like a real design by committee decision
>> DNS isn't a database.

>> It's not a configuration store.

Its quite literally both those things.

There may be practical reasons to question storing high value keys in dns. But not being a database of configuration info isn't one of them.
> I think you're saying the treatment can be worse than the disease, and I agree.

Basically yes.

> Where it becomes less clear is the Fox News case you stated because Fox News is actively trying to destroy the idea of rule of law.

I only use the Fox news example as a wake up call to conservatives cackling gleefully as the government of Ohio shutting down access to a social media platform.

Actually the core of my fear revolves around that: the American government at all levels, in any state, is highly reactionary, and I'm afraid of it using its newly discovered power to get away with this sort of thing to start banning communication among leftists. Or, something I think it will try in the next two years, banning communication among LGBT people.

Well, I guess this is where I wish communities had more power to organize their own protections and arrangements. Imagine if one town wanted to ban fox news for example, the USA government would probably step in and enforce a lawsuit against them. It seems the power dynamics are out of wack.
Microsoft has a funny way of selling us ‘productivity’ with Windows 11. On one side of the screen, they promise us a sleek and smooth user experience that will make our work easier and faster. On the other side, they bombard us with widgets full of celebrity gossip and sports trivia that have nothing to do with our lives. What’s the point of that? Are they trying to distract us from our work or from their work? Maybe if Windows 11 were free, we could forgive them for their sneaky attempts to get us hooked on Bing. But no, they want us to pay 200 dollars for this dubious privilege. How are we supposed to feel about that? Grateful? Impressed? Satisfied? I don’t think so.
Parts of Twitter source leaked online
The pimbook itself looks fantastic. As an aside, any recommendations on the inverse, a programming introduction for mathematicians.
Sounds more like technology-related reasons to buy stuff. Specifically, non-existing standards. Not sure if it’s part of the Diderot Effect.
I'm not saying that those things don't exist, but that if you have no tools to measure them, then no practical consequences can follow from you trying to measure them.

I don't see how the McNamara fallacy squares with the empirical scientific process. Perhaps we both misunderstood it, and instead it is about focusing on the wrong metrics.

I got an answer, and it does not take orbital mechanics into account. Am I correct that you assert it that it's incapable of understanding in your sense?
Why isn’t semantic web more popular inside companies?

This expandable graph seems like the purest representation of all data in a company.

Instead we have several different databases each with their own schemas. All with entities related to one another, but without these relations defined anywhere, and impossible to query.

RDBMS are implementation details of this graph that involve a heap of manual work. Wouldn’t it be great if the rdbms was generated from this graph.

There are so many interconnections between the data involved in the design and implementation of a product and the product database itself.

Imagine hovering over a UI element and seeing who implemented it and when, what project it was part of, why the project was initiated, and what kpis and goals it contributes to.
SSH's key management in general doesn't depend on DNS being trustworthy, and I'm not sure that solving it by asserting that DNS is trustworthy is a great thing.
https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, covers all four (and more).
Assess your manager’s work, engineering leader
Corporate networks will happily do DPI on TLS, no so much with SSH. So this 'error' of GitHub might be intentional in order to mold everything into something which they can monitor.
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Yep, cold rice tastes bad for the exact reason stated in the article: resistant starch. So common wisdom for storing cooked rice is to put it in the freezer as soon as possible to prevent digestible starch from turning into resistant starch. The transformation stops under freezing temperatures.
She was not deprived of all sensory input though. In fact, it was through her working senses that she learned and communicated.
It’s easy for this honest mentality to turn into malicious compliance. If you’re actively fulfilling that prophecy, this won’t just impact a manager or a PM, it will absolutely impact you as well. I’ve seen it happen many times, obviously this goes beyond just being wrong or missing deadlines but eventually it will come back around to bite you.

At the end of the day, these estimates are helpful but maybe not in ways that are intuitive from a developer’s perspective. They’re useful in weighing priorities, judging the uncertainty, and identifying where to fill the gaps in understanding, time-boxing research and scope (e.g. do we really need to spend 6 weeks reading release notes?), and help communicate to outside stakeholders. We see the successes of this all the time with big game releases, product launches, movie releases, etc. It’s a high level measurement of progression and devs need to be a part of that planning process. It gets easier for senior engineers to do this efficiently with experience. It’s not necessarily an exercise that a more junior engineer will a) get right consistently or b) think is valuable at all.
Honestly there is absolutely no reason to not switch to something else. Mac's have Office and Photoshop, and I haven't personally ran into any games I can't play on Linux.

Shame that Microsoft haven't given Linux Office 365, because Microsoft ♥ Linux. Right?
Not the OP but if anyone doesn’t have access to a browser in my org then I can safely say they’re not accessing from a company laptop and thus should be denied access.
I use Ubuntu (as stock as possible) for my media center PC, here are some reasons off the top of my head that prevent me from using desktop Linux for anything more serious:

Bluetooth connection to my headset sometimes causes the entire system to hard lock, requiring physical reset.

Sound sometimes goes static-y, have to reboot to fix.

I had to download a third party tweaker app to disable a sound output device that I didn't want to use.

Tearing of full screen video, I don't even remember how I fixed it.

A notification about something called "snap store" keeps coming up and needs a command line fix to dismiss.

The built-in app store keeps notifying me about a firmware update for my wireless keyboard. I'm not interested, and there is no way to dismiss it.

Firefox on Linux has an obnoxious habit of refusing to open a new tab until I restart it for updates (that were installed automatically, not through the system updates app). Sure, I want my browser up-to-date, but this is not an issue on Windows where it will never force you to restart the application. I looked around why this is the way it is, and the answers were that it had to do with how Linux works.

And, yeah, games.
Note that this is the case elsewhere, we just learned to ignore or block that ad space.

This article itself on my mobile has in its body:

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> getting downvoted for

Technically, (presumably) because of the missing payload. Subtle or patent, the actual «real life parallels» are the substantive part.
So fascinating. Social engineering of a tech system. I understand exploiting bugs,and one could argue this is a bug. But it feels more magical somehow.
There is django-zen-queries[0], mentioned in another comment.

[0] https://github.com/dabapps/django-zen-queries
That doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Isn’t this mimetic desire at work?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
In case anyone is wondering - the second Intel CPU is stamped "A80486SX-25" near the middle but SX-33 at the bottom.
Worth noting mercury is not a bank. They are a tech partner that primarily banks with Evolve.

That shouldn’t dissuade anyone from using them and I have no experience or opinions whatsoever about them. Just mercury isn’t a bank.
It doesn't matter, the EU has already crossed the point of no return. Europe is either collapsed or an authoritarian dystopia by the 2030s, no in-betweens. I've been saying this for years and it will be funny to see europeans to catch up to this fact in real time.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://canyouactually.com/first-mechanical-gear-ever-found-.... Thanks!
Ask HN: Is anyone still using Caprover?
I've been using Caprover for a few years but I only recently noticed that they haven't had a new release in over a year. Normally I'm all for not over complicating products and keeping things simple but this is making me slightly nervous. Have there been no improvements in docker in that time to warrant improvements in Caprover? Have there been no edge case features worth supporting(like brotli compression)? I'm considering moving away earlier rather than later, but just wanted to hear from others who are using it.

If others have moved away, would love to know the reason why you moved away, what you're currently using, and why it's better.
Can you not prompt it to remember a state? "Before we continue I want you to remember the current state of all input and prompts from me and later if I want to go back...."
Would be cool if you could replace the news source with an rss feed
You need to account for the number of simultaneous orders so the maths is wrong. If the is a problem then Uber can just discard order numbers for the same resterant, same day, and same first three digits.
Right. But the code with the "error" was still legal in the programming language. The "error" was in the logic of the quick sort algorithm.

So the question asked for a desk check of the quick sort algorithm. So the question tested understanding of the quick sort algorithm and ability to desk check. Considering the content of the course, that seemed like a reasonable question.

I'm fully in agreement that usually humans should not spend their time doing what compilers can do faster and better. Indeed when I was teaching my wife our AI language, I advised her not to try very hard to get all the punctuation, language details, syntax, etc. correct and, instead, just to let our compiler tell her where it wanted to object.
Have you just let ChatGPT expand on GPs post..? Your reply contains exactly the same content as theirs, but more wordy…
I feel I could pick out exactly who the developers are, the managers who used to be devs, and the PMs from these comments with a pretty good success rate.
My point is that if that happens it will harm the platforms and fewer people will use them, which will be a good thing. Modern chat apps don’t solve any problems of communication other than discovery without actually meeting someone in real life first. They are just more distraction.
In my case, gopher://gopherddit.com under Lynx. As for the config -file:

cp /etc/lynx.cfg $HOME/.lynx.cfg
export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/.lynx.cfg

At lynx.cfg:

VIEWER:application/postscript:fbgs %s
VIEWER:image/gif:sxiv -a %s
VIEWER:image/x-xbm:sxiv -a %s
VIEWER:image/png:sxiv -a %s
VIEWER:image/tiff:sxiv -a %s
VIEWER:image/jpeg:sxiv -a %s
VIEWER:video/mpeg:mpv %s
VIEWER:video/mp4:mpv %s

Install sxiv and mpv, of course.
I think this is going to rhyme with history. TL;DR - It'll be a good thing

When the printing press removed the manual tedium from producing a book, and reduced the cost by orders of magnitude. Literacy went up, and science and the arts flourished. Instead of manually copying texts, authors could write for millions.

When the Thread Cutting Lathe made it possible to make screws accurately and cheaply enough to standardize, the use of them went up, and the industrial revolution happened. Instead of making a screw in a day, a machinist could make thousands.

Once it became possible to store data automatically, the need for file clerks and others manually managing data went down. The management of information by computer made all manner of new business possible. Real time management of inventory and booking of reservations because possible on a vast scale.

GPT and other AI based tools will change the nature of our jobs, but we'll all have new things to do. It'll be less tedious, and a bit more creative, as it always tended to be before.
Sphinx is open source search engine. Sphinx allows full-text searches over large data sources.
The usual counter-argument for https, is that the eggs are already in that basket since anyone with control of dns can just get a new certificate.

For ssh that doesn't really apply as clearly though.
5 out of 3 people have difficulty with improper fractions.
We assign the label ℵ₀ to an infinite set when we want to express the property that any given element can eventually be reached in a finite time if we keep counting for long enough. That's what it means, no more and no less. I don't see what it has to do with "assigning a label to infinity" or "assuming you can finish counting them". We don't use cardinalities to magically make the infinite finite (well, I don't, but I'm sure some pop-math explanations do), we use them to compare and contrast the properties of infinite sets, and refusing to acknowledge these properties doesn't make them go away.
>> LLMs have no knowledge of the underlying reality > They have no common sense & they can't plan their answer

If his arguments are entirely based on this, then it's not fully correct:

- GPT style language models try to build a model of the world: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

- GPT style language models end up internally implementing a mini "neural network training algorithm" (gradient descent fine-tuning for given examples): https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559
Bread: Bios Reverse Engineering and Advanced Debugging
The practice continued with AMD Athlon X3.
I'd probably juat add the oil to the rinsed rice before dumping it into the pot.
Yes, but conversely if there's 10 simultaneous orders the probability is

1 - (4095/4096) * (4094/4096) * ... * (4087/4096) = 1.093%

to have a collision with a code consisting of 3 hexadecimal characters.
There were $167B on March 10, but the sale was today. Presumably $5B of assets were sold in the interim?

We also don't know today's deposit numbers from the press release. Presumably a future report will give all the numbers as of the same date.
MacOS requires that I purchase apple hardware at absurd brand markup, so that’s out.

I use Linux at work because I have good IT support and I don’t rely on any windows only software. Neither are the case at home.