skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see LLMs being a better interface for the command line. Where I can just say "give me the ffmpeg command to flip a video upside down"

ChatGPT gave me "ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "vflip" output.mp4" and then explained what each part of the command does. I searched on google and the results were all for random tools when I specified ffmpeg, and the ones that were correct had complex walls of text, adverts everywhere, and other bloat.
But your example doesn’t fit the pattern of days divisible by 5 so it’s irrelevant.

The 5th of January is equally likely to be on any day of the week including weekends. Simply delaying + office days etc don’t get you that pattern it only shows up if people are filling in arbitrary dates.

Further if people are filling in arbitrarily dates +/- N years or even months that’s going to dramatically increase the number of officially extremely old deaths. Aka far more people die at 100 than 107. So randomly add or subtract a few years and on official paperwork you might lose one person who actually died at 107, but then add 2 people who actually died at 100 but officially died at 107.
I heard their next target is the monster mash song..
Pardon duh. 6 bits is 64 levels (cache width). Very different from 64 bits of course.
If you have a better solution than the 3GPP and member parties i.e. carriers have come up with I invite you to build your own better network experience and handsets rather than just posting snark. Perhaps try mounting some hubcaps to trees.
Hey mp36 can I ask you about offline Wikipedia kobo? How do you split the zim files to fit?
No where in the article does it say Bob Lee though, I would take this down until it's verified in the article itself.
> Safari doesn’t keep up with web standards (emphasis yours)

Just pause for a moment and think who's proposing these standards. The same groups pushing for browser "featurism" sit on the committees that define these "standards". It's not meaningful to say that they're different things when they're all part of the same effort in different disguises.
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Yes, there is a not very widely used API for this that allows apps to hook mobile hotspot logins and (I believe) also mark them for auto-connections.

It worked horribly. Not sure if it’s still around.
How much productivity has humanity collectively lost due to using QWERTY over DVORAK or some other interface? And we might be stuck with this for eternity.
I won't eat the bugs, I won't live in the pod, I won't ride the e-bike, and I won't rest under the shade of the algae tank.
I've had the same experience (near exact same it seems, with writing bash scripts) - using it as an iterative guided tool provides a bright light to follow along an otherwise uncertain path, when you know where you want to go but not exactly how to get there, yet you've got enough experience to know when you're going off track.
Was expecting this, since every other article listed the numbers. Congrats, Apple, on excellent management during this challenging time.
I think he's likely more interesting to you than he is to the general public.

You might also consider the gender breakdown — you've got 8 men and 4 women (and only two of those women actually exist).
PWAs in App Stores
Oh god no. I live in one of those “techbaby’s first econobox” neighborhoods where you can shake hands with your neighbors if both of you lean out the window a smidge.

I have never had so much trouble with network radio interference as I do here, so I can only imagine the fresh hell when one of my neighbors lights up one of these things.

There’s already a “stop hitting yourself” scenario going on with a guy blasting multiple competing 160mhz width APs for some reason. Thank god for Wifi 6E
“The service” was cellphone service, there is no logical reason my phone OS should arbitrarily lock me out of wifi settings due to my cellular carrier.
I read all of the code it writes.
Every 802.12-compliant AP can do it. They can even be of different brands, since it’s just the Wi-Fi equivalent of plugging your computer into a different switch on the same (switched) subnet.
I dont particularly mind there being some places where tech is in the lead, where it can claim the initiative.

But it just feels like humanity secedes more and more ground & understanding to humanity each month, and there's so few visible notable frontiers where humanity is staking down real wins. Rather than have advances in general purpose computing, we keep getting more and more apps, more and more far-off cloud systems.
I find the title a bit misleading. Looking at 'Her' I expect agentic behaviour with memory that I'd likely interact with for long periods of time, the proposed applications seems to be not remotely similar to this expectation.
A lot of the 'look what I made with AI' images that get shared around also don't include the creator's workflow. There's usually lots of trial-and-error, manual painting/inpainting, multiple models involved etc. and explaining all that is a lot harder than just saying 'I used stable diffusion'.
> This totally ignores the concept of "zero-days", vulnerabilities discovered that are only known by bad actors or known but not patched yet.

I'm not ignoring them, I'm just assuming that vulnerabilities discovered by bad actors will follow more or less the same distribution as those found by security researchers.
The original experiment did not rely on the emission of individual photons. It just observed an interference pattern that classical particles would not exhibit.

Later experiments that relied on individual photons could detect them individually [0]

Here's an article on single photon sources [1]

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment#/media/...)

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-photon_source)
I learned that too, but now I'm wondering why her voice suddenly went silent a few weeks ago...
Tragic.

From tweets it appears that he had moved to Miami, came back to SF on a work trip for a day - and this happened.
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> I think OP meant "An ideal MOSFET"

That would be somewhat unfair towards MOSFETs and their quite versatile spectrum of applications though: MOSFETs are actually also being used for lots of linear applications. For high power linear stuff, they have to be designed slightly differently than cheaper MOSFETs designed solely for switching, so as to not run into ETI (electro-thermal instability) problems, but it's not uncommon. So, maybe "an ideal transistor for switching/digital purposes"?
This has nothing to do with your preferences. This is network management pure and simple. This is how you implement efficient infrastructure in congested locations like stadiums, airports, and large retail (where you may have no signal at all). Whether the cellular radio or wifi radio is used has nothing to do with you; you are paying for a connection and there are some very intelligent people tasked with figuring out the best way to solve that problem. Because if they didn't, your phone wouldn't have connectivity in those locations and you'd be on here complaining that their service sucks
I would be shocked if it were anything but random/senseless (or opportunistic robbery), happening on the street at 0230 in SoMA. This police request for information appears to be related. https://twitter.com/sfvas/status/1643328384234315777
I used to think that LLMs for coding would mostly be a tool to make experienced developers much more productive, but after coming across this video I think it will be used by normal people with no programming experience to make small basic programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKKhxYJ4U4
they're just microdosing it's ok
Yep. But there was nothing stopping a black hat from contacting the admin and selling their own botted data to genesis shop. Criminal organizations have supply chains.
I love the red dots. My partner and I drive out to Big Bend every couple years to spend a week or so there, and on the drive back there's a stretch of road where at night there's a huge number of the dots juuuust barely visible over the horizon, and then you start to crest a certain hill and suddenly BOOM there's even more! It's always glorious and I wake her up everytime so at least one of us can fully appreciate the majesty. Unfortunately my partner doesn't drive these days, her epilepsy has gotten bad enough that they (honestly thankfully) yoinked her license, so I don't really get to take it all in since I'm also driving the car at the same time and trying not to die while staring at the pretty lights :(
I can see how it can be a very useful feature – but why not let users decide if they want to keep enjoying it, or opt out of it for whatever reason? I can think of many valid ones.
What does consciousness have to do with AGI? Personally I consider it highly likely that intelligence and consciousness are orthogonal concepts. And frankly, consciousness is probably just an illusion anyway, like free will.
There is a good chance that all or most of the exploits found in modern windows actually work on Windows XP, but the reporters did not test for it as no one uses XP.

Someone looking to hack the last remaining XP machines would just scroll down the list of new exploits and test them out.
Not exactly "physical" in the same sense as a normal Rubik's cube, since there isn't any physical restriction that makes illegal moves of taking it apart and putting it back together anymore difficult than performing legal moves.
AGPL is too commercial? How so?
I think this would still work in a cinema. I don’t know what could constitute “enemy propaganda” though.
What is X -> baseline of this hype !_?

And is this a linear function ?

X does 10 things - what things ? -
2X does 20 thing ? --> linear ..

There is no 10X engineer, there is authentic, lover engineer for me ..
Lets skip comparing us each other, in right place, right will, and a little love every dev is 10X.

Rest, never ending run, never ending desire, never ending darkness.
I love the qoi format. I mostly adopted it for the wasm context.

While porting to wasm, using something like stb_image became a little complicated, so I wrote a png-qoi converter, and then use the qoi assets in the game.

Writing a qoi decoder is a fun exercise, though i think most languages have their implementations already.
This one is not very good, it seems not anywhere near even GPT 3.5.
The computer problems golden-era science fiction predicted have finally come true.

Also reminds me of Monty Python's Stay Here and Make Sure He Doesn't Leave
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2f5MvVx8RM8
Ask HN: Why there is more iron in the universe then wood but wood feels natural
I never understood if this guide was published tongue-in-cheek or not. Who is the intended audience? It seems like the intended audience was "people who don't like their organization" as comedic relief.
I agree. One of the engineers on my team came to me with a script (maybe 20 lines of bash) like "hey isn't it cool that I got ChatGPT to generate this?" and after studying it for a few minutes I was like "it is cool, but now spot the bug". It was near the end of the day so I asked them to follow up with me in the morning after they'd found and fixed the bug.

I ended up having to point it out directly the next day. It was a spurious -A NUM argument that would, in a production scenario, cause it to recognize valid data as invalid because the full context of the data would be missing.

All this to say, it is a very useful tool, but we should be highly suspicious of its output, and really make sure we understand what it's giving us. The ability to read and mentally parse and execute code will become extremely important, and give people with that ability a leg up.
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I have been wondering... who's the author of the original Soro Pyramid?
My office building‘s elevators have 5G signal, which makes much more sense as it avoids a hard handover between SSIDs/networks (or Wi-Fi and mobile data), which in turn has a much higher chance of not dropping calls.
Only my phone has any carrier apps installed but the behavior is global, so the only common factor is the cellular provider.

I could block it perhaps, but it will just sync up again next time the kids leave for school.
Thanks, what about resourses for reinforcement learning in robotics.
posting about it is kind of irrational
If you’re outside of a situation looking in and wondering why people aren’t voting the way you think they should it almost certainly means you’re misreading the situation.
Being well connected is far more important than being rich. Consider Bill Gates: he came from an affluent family, is intelligent, and hardworking...but so are many people. What ultimately set him apart was that his mother knew the chairman of IBM.
Well good, this gives me hope that I've just become the crotchety old guy that complains about how things aren't as good as they used to be (even though I promised myself I wouldn't become that guy when I was young), rather than the world is going towards more and more Idiocracy.
To be fair pandas was never meant to be a replacement for sql, it was meant to be a replacement for excel in financial models. Which it still excels at (pun intended).
> I wonder how OpenAI filter these low quality web pages out of their training set as they continue to training.

This. The value proposition is very clearly tied to the quality of the training data, and if there's secret sauce for automatically determining information quality that's obviously huge. Google was built in part on such insights. I suspect they do have something. I'd be utterly astonished if quality sorting were an emergent property of LLMs (especially given it's iffy in humans).

The problem, of course, is that if they do have a way of privileging data for training, that information is going to be the center of the usual arms race for attention and thinking. It can't be truly public or it's dead.
I doubt right wingers are forcing anything in San Francisco
And they should get slapped fucking big time for wasting everyone's time and money. Not okay.
This makes me wonder: will we start to see the reverse like we have in search engines? Will people start finding ways to do SEO for language models to try to get them to output stuff about their products more often?
That's a lot of summonses.
I'm going through this at the moment at a startup...

I thought I could count on the charismatic leader to save my bacon by only calling on them for help when when things are visibly on fire and my own minor charisma hasn't been enough. In the end the leader didn't show up and now I've got a HR complaint against me for following up consistently when the fire didn't get put out. The whole thing has been fairly stressful because I'm struggling to understand the particular social dynamics, my best guess is it's just power protecting power, but I am naive/delusional enough to want to believe there is more to it. Now I'm taking a month off from work to try and unwind a bit.

All of that was just a long way of saying that you never know when you'll need to call on your stress/conflict managing skills, so best to keep them sharp at all times. I thought my skills were already good, but that was quickly revealed as false when challenged by tougher opponents :).
WPA3 has PAKE-based mutual authentication, so with a reasonably hard to guess passphrase, you should be mostly safe.

That said, these auto-connect carrier networks mostly use EAP-SIM, which does mutual authentication using the keys on your SIM card anyway.
it's that time of the month uh?
I don't understand how that's a 3x3x3x3. While there are some 3x3 elements, there are only 2 layers and 2 side by side. What am I missing?
Except it’s shit. I constantly have to disable WiFi to get 5g again in the airport if I want something that actually works. Verizon with passpoint is absolutely trash and has nearly driven me to cancel my Verizon service because it can’t be removed.
Do you know of anything that can process engineering drawings and diagrams by looking how lines link text and other objects?
Maybe you can explain how you can help on these very very different topics/domains/names?
Indeed, ChatGPT really excels at being confidently incorrect. Ask it anything non-trivial and chances are that it has written code which is subtly wrong, and sometimes very subtly.
This! I'm very impressed with how well it works and the continued anti-consumer steps iOS and Android make are only driving Graphene's development!
I don't think I need to be "inside" to realize the crime and drug situation in san francisco is comic-book level lunacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CVMCZ6F2M
I agree 100%. I first had this thought last night when reading “Eight Things to Know about LLMs” (select quote from section 8 below)[0]

> Simply prompting a model to “think step by step” can lead it to perform well on entire categories of math and reasoning problems that it would otherwise fail on (Kojima et al., 2022). Similarly, even observing that an LLM consistently fails at some task is far from sufficient evidence that no other LLM can do that task (Bowman, 2022).

The eerie thing to me is that this is coaching. I have never coached anything that isn’t alive by any definition. My feelings about this realization are ambivalent.

[0]: https://cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman/eightthings.pdf
On the other side, I'm astounded that I can ask a machine to convey something it wants to convey and get something out that makes me feel something.

> but there's nothing a machine puts into this

What makes you so sure?
When I went through a bunch of interviews in 2021 all my interviews were remote. After the first few hour-long interviews it became apparent that there were many repeat questions. I started writing the questions down along with my answers. I ended up with a notepad with ~20 of the most frequent questions and answers that I kept open on my screen next to the video conference. It was super helpful and now I have one of those $300k tech jobs!

Edit: these were the questions, the answers are left as an exercise to the reader (or your preferred AI):

What are you looking for in a role?

How do you deal with a conflict with a coworker?

What leadership experience do you have?

Do you have experience working with multiple teams?

What APIs have you designed?

What is priority inversion?

What are the differences between a mutex and a semaphore?

What is preemption?

How do interrupts work?

What is interrupt latency?

What is the difference between an ISR and a function?

What is the difference between an interrupt and an exception?

What is hard vs soft real time?

What is the boot process of a CPU?

What do you do for board bring up?

What are different memory sections used for (code, data, bss, etc.)?

What is a TLB?

What is the difference between big and little endian?

What is the difference between 32 and 64 bit processors?

What happens if a null pointer is dereferenced?
Reading this article, I feel the old age holding the author from adapting to new systems, I just end up in the mindset of I never ever want to be this person.
This seems promising. Combined with pop!_os, this should make for a very nice linux machine.
So basically you need to do the same amount of writing, except instead of practicing actual writing you are giving instructions to the computer. Good for spammers, but real writers don’t need this.
As someone who reluctantly moved to iOS from Android and reluctantly stays on iOS there really is no other option for "normal" ("regular"?) users who don't want the Google crap all over their existence.

Graphene, Lineage etc are all excellent solutions for people who want to (or "can") get their hands dirty and can live without normal functions of "commercial" apps, for everyone else as of today there is just two option - Apple's iOS or Google blessed Android. I am not even talking about warranty and bricking woes.

This is a duopoly as clear as day. We can keep telling ourselves that we have options, we don't. It's settled, at least that is how it is right now (again, maybe except for "tinkerers" which I guess even I was until around a decade ago).
When a single person can kill 17 people and injure 17 more (Parkland shooting) in a knife rampage you can make this comment.
Yeah, these are not good use cases for ML. They're tractable with traditional sensors and approaches, and they're horribly annoying when they get it wrong, but even more horribly annoying when they get it wrong inconsistently.
Nicely done. Does Azure Speech to Text also handle speech synthesis and provide out of the box voices for different characters or you had to build your own model to do this? It's impressive if their service can do it all: speech recognition, speech to text and text to speech and in near real-time. I should take a closer look at the Azure ML stack :)
use pdftotext with the -bbox option to get the bounding box co-ords for each bit of text
What’s the problem with your neighbor using "your" SSID?

It’s not like anybody can "own" an SSID name, and if you’re using WPA, the only effect would be a few milliseconds longer of initial connection time per device.

Actively running a DoS against your neighbor might or might not be legal, but it sure is petty (and given the above, unnecessary).
SF has a slightly lower murder rate than the US as a whole. Lower than most of the republican states, and lower than Miami, which some people seem to be trying to make the new tech capital.
Ridiculous or not, even Microsoft lost similar battle. At that time (2014) I was aghast on how can this happen.

Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service is now called OneDrive after losing a legal battle with Sky.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/onedrive-is-new...
For quite a long while I feel like my operating system has been Chrome and VS Code, maybe a few other things. I work on both Windows and mac, and forget for extended periods of time what computer I'm even using.
Thank you good sir !
How does this work? Are there some tutorials etc to learn how to do this?
I'm on a prepaid MVNO carrier that does this and iOS has been allowing this for years now. The only difference is that now iOS lets you VIEW what's going on.
> The only difference in cost for the plant to exist and not run but be ready and to run is the cost of the fuel.

Which is over 50% of the cost of running a combined cycle plant (page 12: https://www.lazard.com/media/sptlfats/lazards-levelized-cost...) -- but also misses that you'd need far fewer plants if you build renewable + storage generation to match the 99% use case so the total cost spend on peakers would drop dramatically even if some were still needed to provide backup generation.

Also has the added benefit of almost entirely decarbonizing power generation.
> doubt many will be hired as a "prompt engineers" in coming years (some already have been, by idiotic corps

If it's useful now it's not idiotic for a company to hire for people good at solving their problems.
Really hits close to home now… its always “someone else” until its not.
Or a browser which forces you to update whether you want to or not
they certainly can, as well as with a vehicle. The problem is the user not the tool
Sounds like SF to me. It has never been "nice". I was commuting to and from work there for over a year back in ~2015 and it was hell then.

I interviewed around 2017 in SF and it was so bad I didn't dare walk back to the station (caught an Uber instead). It's a terrible place.
possible, but as a counter point - why do I care that GPT-4 is resource intensive if it solves all of my tasks? GPUs are getting faster by the year. General purpose quantization methods and other acceleration techniques are likewise accelerating inference at ratios of 4-8x per year.

External tools are great - but why would we expect the outcome not to be GPT-5 uses all external tools? unless you are building a mote that you must use your LLM to work with the tool, in which case - why not just charge GPT-5 customers through the plugin marketplace?
Well, yeah, that is just part of growing up... that kind of angst has existed since (at least) the invention of language and gossip.