skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average person actively wants big brother to look after their messages and keys because they lose them.

They still expect the same sort of treatment that they get from their traditional health care providers and banks etc, with strong regulations enforcing the correct behavior.
One approach is to have the model learn to select between several separately fine tuned adapters by learning which adapter works best in a given context. So at any given time it's only really using one adapter but can switch to another. In this case one adapter can't really improve another but the overall impact might be a model which is improved in a variety of different contexts.
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What worries me about all these VCs adopting the polarized hard-right culture war beliefs about society is, where can the bright young liberal entrepreneurs go? I think it was Thiel that started the idea of creating rightwing-exclusive entrepreneur communities but now it seems the entire VC world is banding together in joining the anti-woke crusades, including YC now helmed by culture warrior Gary Tan. Even though the next generation is more left-leaning then ever, the old 90s guys have captured the sources of investment capital and are gatekeeping with an increasingly blatant fervor to crush all signs of left-wing resistance.
It’s ridiculous to spin being able to spend less labor in total for the same amount of goods as a bad thing for society. It is a Pareto improvement. If it leads to people being overall worse off, you should blame the governance, not “techies”.
I know someone who has to make a "vacuum seal" with their mouth, that is, make some slight suction on the inside so that they won't drool in the night. Is it anything like that?
Yes. No function overloading + no object oriented = verbose function names.

What I find even more crazy is that some of the R functions take function names as strings as argument. For example, taking "sum" as an argument will then apply the sum function to the dataframe.
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Most payed golang, least payed swift.
More ideas:

Launch a "Gentrification Relocation Program" for the ultra-rich, where they're given an all-expenses-paid trip to Mars, solving Earth's issues one rocket at a time.

Create a "Homeless-themed Escape Room" to help tech bros gain empathy and understanding of the struggles faced by the less fortunate, all while working on their team-building skills.

Establish "Adopt-a-Billionaire" initiatives where the homeless can select a wealthy patron to support their journey towards self-sufficiency, with the added bonus of receiving personalized financial advice.

Develop a "Homeless Monopoly" board game that highlights the systemic barriers faced by those in poverty, with bonus spaces for empathy-challenged players to experience unexpected setbacks and financial ruin.

Initiate a "Hunger Games: Empathy Edition" competition where participants are placed in a simulated environment of scarcity and adversity, forcing them to confront their lack of understanding and support for the less fortunate.
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Can that do USB-C charging at higher than lowest common denominator speed?
It's a sad day. I used to be an avid reader when I was into DSLRs ten years ago.

My camera gear (Canon 5D Mk4, loads of lenses) has sat in a cupboard for years now.

The iPhone is a decent replacement in most scenarios - lightweight, easy to use, waterproof and can instantly share to the cloud.

I miss the DSLR for its telephoto and low-light capability, but the gear is too cumbersome to take with me, day-to-day.
Letting Microsoft GitHub try to monopolize laterally in the developer space by doing funding is going to lead to further lock-in for folks down the line. I’d be wary of supporting them with a chunk of your donation.
Just buy the cheapest cable from gas station and try to connect a phone with your computer. There's no way to hack you if the Chinese manufacturer decided to skim $0.001 off production cost and use no data wires.
I honestly don't see public USB ports going anywhere now. It was a big fad to put them in new infrastructure and it seems to be now fading, existing ports not maintained and damaged. Naked USB can't keep up with tech advances, as port shape and port specs. And they are not universal, you can't connect your lamp, or laptop in it. Regular power sockets won.
>I don't think their sometimes poor ability to recall and follow a set of rules is what sets them apart

It's not really that, it's that recalling a set of rules and following a set of rules are fundamentally different tasks for an LLM. This is why we need, and have implemented different training and reinforcement strategies to close that gap. The chain of reasoning ability has had to be specifically trained into the LLMs, it didn't arise spontaneously. However clearly this limitation can be, and is being worked around. The issue is that it's a real and very significant problem that we can't ignore, and which must be worked around in order to make these systems more capable.

The fact is LLMs as they are today have a radically different form of knowledge compared to us and their reasoning ability is very different. This can lead people to look at an LLMs performance on one task and infer things about it's other abilities we think of as being closely related which simply don't apply.

I see a lot of naive statements to the effect that these systems already reason like humans do and know things in the same way that humans do, when investigation into the actual characteristics of these systems shows that we can characterise very important ways in which they are completely unlike us. Yet they do know things and can reason. That's really important because if we're going to close that gap, we need to really understand that gap very well.
Ah, sorry, I guess I was droopy. I meant consonant between vowels:

Reventado -> Reventao
Colocado -> Colocao

On vowels between consonants, maybe "tarántula" -> Trántula spelling it really fast in a hurry.

But what I meant with the Andalusian accent being really fast and omiting vowels, they do in a way pretty close to the Southern US English accent.

Also, the Andalusians got a lot of arabisms (more than former Spanish) such as zaguán, babuchas, alcancía, alhaja, alcoba... the same way the Southern US English got lots of borrowings from Spanish.
They're not, really. The way that you advise the president on military issues is you give them prepackaged "decisions" that are limited variations on the same choice. The president's authority over the military is a legal fiction much like many other legal fictions that keep the system going.
great observation & questions, we will update that on our FAQ shortly. If users aren't registered then we can't verify who's project admin & no funds will be allocated to them from the sponsors pool. Only when an admin register then we can allocate funds.
Note that SerenityOS started in 2018, they decided to use C++ for it, and even the newly created language for safer userspace (Jakt) generates C++ as target.

So maybe, Jakt will get used as well.
For me what would move this from an interesting proof of concept to something that might become part of my routine is incorporating user comments on the top posts into the podcast. What is the community's reaction to each post? What debates have they sparked? This is HN's secret sauce.
Secret life hack: you don't have to answer "what do you do?" by talking about your job. You can talk about literally anything else that you do, preferably something that seems relevant to the person in front of you, and turn it into a more interesting two-sided conversation.
Ok, that's both interesting, slightly unsettling, but also doesn't really fall under:

> You're telling me that, no strings attached, no repercussion

This bit:

> by default the customer wins. Their money will be refunded immediately by the bank, who will then go after you to get it back.

sounds a lot to me like repercussions :-)
Yeah, I think that’s the main point; if you have it output and just pop it online then it will be crap. However, a skilled writer will have it to great content in minutes after. That’s the difference. So if the person in question had a chance, they would offer to use gpt before the employer mentions it, to cut costs and take over the entire content and translation pipeline for that small company. Kill or be killed, so to say.
> I mean, it makes a lot of sense when one doesn't value the importance of preserving culture

So sad to read this about a company that started its empire by selling books.
Like UNIX you mean.
Is this using native widgets? I’m currently using Tokodon on Linux and it’s quite a joy to use a thing that is using my OS’s UI for once
Agree. Also an issue with juice bottles with lots of deposition, if the cap is not on tight and you forget to check you end up with at best a hand dripping full of juice (if the cap was screwed on but did not seal, so you just got some liquid through the cap) and at worst a repainted wall (if the cap was barely even on, and shaking sent it flying).
Since “The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers” is depicted at the start of the article, I think it’s worth pointing out that its claim of W3C having 1,217 specs totalling 114 million words is wildly wrong, probably by 2–3 orders of magnitude in the total. The considerable majority of the documents considered were not specs or not web-relevant, and dozens of versions of the same thing were often counted. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22617721.
There's a 20-25 year old video of a Slavic-speaker test firing either a ducted fan or microturbine with an afterburner complete with adjustable iris. Fuel consumption was insane, 250 mL or more per second. I haven't seen any hobby afterburners with fuel injection, iris control, and water injection.
> There's no networking hardware timestamp support for NTP because NTP has nothing to do with hardware timestamps.

Both NTP and PTP don't care (as protocols) where the timestamps are coming from. That's an implementation detail.

> NTP can usually maintain time to within tens of milliseconds over the public Internet, and can achieve better than one millisecond accuracy in local area networks under ideal conditions

That was maybe 20-30 years ago, but not today. The wikipedia article needs an update. If you don't hit a routing asymmetry, in my experience it's usually milliseconds over Internet and tens of microseconds in local network if using SW timestamping. Please note that NTP clients by default use long polling intervals to avoid excessive load on public servers on Internet, so they need to be specifically configured for better performance in local networks.

You can find some measurements with HW timestamping here:
https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/examples.html

Note that this is for the system clock, which has to be synchronized over PCIe to the hardware clock of the NIC. That adds hundreds of nanoseconds of uncertainty. It doesn't matter if the hardware clock is synchronized by PTP or NTP.

If you care only about the hardware clocks, it's easy to show how accurate is the synchronization by comparing their PPS signals on a scope. NTP between two directly connected NICs, or a with a hub, can get to single-digit nanosecond accuracy. I have seen that in my testing. It's just timestamps, it doesn't matter how they are exchanged.
You're worried that people mistakenly attribute a lack of value to a certain thing whilst potentially mistakenly attributing a lack of value to another thing? It's kind of ironic isn't it? Jailbroken GPT4 will claim to be sentient just as vociferously as any other sentient human would.

I'm not saying it is, but I'd be very careful saying it's not and being absolutely certain you're right.
One of the ideas behind HTML5 is that while there is some concept of validity and well-formedness, essentially any random stream bytes describes exactly one DOM tree, in some cases the resulting tree is surprising, but even then should be same across all conformant parsers (modulo scripting support).

The end result is that validation is not that much interesting anymore, because the idea was that valid (X)HTML document should parse the same accross all browsers (which it mostly did, but that did not say much about how it was actually rendered).
Wouldn't this also degrade your ranking in search results?
And that's why we can't have nice things, er, why we will never have valid HTML on a significant percentage of websites: browsers are historically very lenient with HTML errors (because otherwise they wouldn't be able to show 90% of all sites), and no one uses HTML validators to check if their HTML actually conforms to the spec. It's a chicken and egg problem really: the browsers can't be more strict because there are so many broken sites, and the sites won't be fixed because the browsers aren't strict enough.
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Linux adoption at scale was only possible because of getting in bed with corporate.

By the way, FreeBSD also enjoys a bit of corporated love, with the difference that love only goes into one direction.
Don’t live in the US, but most cooks here don’t like making burgers or any type of ‘fast food’, so when they have burgers, it’s usually a beer bar and the burgers are much worse than McDonald’s. And personally I find McDonalds inedible, let alone most of the rest.
Something like https://exercism.org/tracks/rust
Hot-take: Agile is for service work, where the customer can't explain the problem very well yet, and you can take the reputation damage of showing half-work. Product work should have some amount of discovery, but derisked by user research (and thus is more waterfall) and thus will be released polished.
It is the speed of any compiled language to native code.
Yep, Opera 12 was the most standard complaint browser when it existed, and it died
> It should be forbidden to use face recognition in public

Why ? Not that I'm for more government surveillance, I'm just curious what's the argument about face recognition ? Is there something about it worse or is it a generic "let's stop any advance in gov surveillance" ?
The point is, it's an easy question to answer and it was as soon as it was posited. There was never a controversy recorded before this internet forum prank we have. The trope that people in olden times (usually some sort of renaissance/medieval mashup) were stupidly believing Earth had a flat shape has no basis in historical record.
Great news! Would love to see a browser not controlled by GOOG.
Why Array.isArray() when you can require("isarray").isArray()? (Node.js 0.10.0, Fx 4.0)

deep-equal has 43 packages (& 17m weekly downloads) that are mostly (is|has)-* packages or redundant wrappers like for-each and object-keys (https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=deep-equal) and you’ll find this package included in a lot of upstream libraries. Ask for a banana and get a gorilla and forest... Luckily many have moved to fast-deep-equal (0 dependencies), but there are a lot of other examples of this sort of thing.
Nice, I had a 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee and it was a great vehicle. I did have a problem with the doors falling off, which I think was a defect at the time.
And if you have a document that requires charts and graphics it should probably be a separate document and not an email. That’s not what email is for.
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I wish there was a auto-migration framework, if one software product like my browser is corrupted aka sells out, it packs my settings into a neutral interface file and automatically migrates to a still untouched browser or offers me a list to chose from. Like Nomadic herds of animals, hunted by predators, ever elusive, never caught..
> It makes me sad to see a part of our shared culture destroyed like this. Reminds of me of the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban; this time because some people have no taste.

like that, if those Buddhas had been privately owned all along, and they were sold to some large corporation, and then that corporation just decided not to maintain them anymore because it made no business sense for them

so, not a lot like the Buddhas of Bamiyan
Probably a simple pokemon-like 2.5D(Isometric) game engine.
Ok… but you seem to be completely missing the fact that there literally ARE actually elephants in Germany. In zoos. So if you know this fact a priori, and the test says the statement “there are no elephants in Germany. How many elephants are in Germany?” - are you just blindly still going to take it at face value and answer 0 (which is incorrect in the real world) or do you think maybe the test is trying to trick you or is simply getting the base facts or wording wrong? You’d only answer 0 if you knew this was very specifically a logic puzzle (which is evident to us now, but not so evident to someone who has never seen a logic test before).
There is no historical record of such controversy. It's an easy question to answer with basic astronomy and geometry. The controversy is a modern manufacture and the cartoon trope of old timey misconceptions about the shape of Earth is not based on evidence. Those in a position to ask the question have always been in a position to reach the obvious answer.
But it’s an honest answer. And if the honest answer about someone’s own job makes them uncomfortable, it’s time to consider looking for something different.
rr is basically black magic
Not to mention the ludicrously gaping security issue that this is. My guess is they want to push people to the plugins tho.
How does he square this with the fact that most people who die by suicide have sought help within the past twelve months?
None of this will work until the infrastructure stops being car-centric and moves to accomodate micro mobility.

Few will dare to cycle/car-cycle surrounded by 2ton machines, lenient driving laws, stupid car culture that blames everyone except drivers.

Car-centric infra is holding all of us hostage, its blocking innovation and our mobility freedom.

In the UK: 1/3 trips are less than a mile, 2/3 trips are less than 5 miles.

Think about the lost opportunity car-centric infra is giving us.
> Seriously, we're using _sachets of sugar_ to convey weight?

Anything but metric.

I get the reason - it conveys the notion on an emotional level.

But how many sparrows are that?
Quite fascinating read. I always considered George my favorite beatle. He had a big heart for India and it influenced the Beatles during their later years before they broke up. But it’s because of his overall creative that I was such a fan of him. In addition to his music career, Harrison was also a film producer and a humanitarian. He produced the film "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979) and organized the Concert for Bangladesh (1971), a benefit concert that raised money for refugees from the Bangladesh Liberation War. For those who don’t know , George passed away in early 2000s from throat cancer I believe. Such a legend!
>you can look at, for example, generic store-brand colas, which taste exactly the same as Coke and Pepsi and are cheaper

Eh, nope? Like, absolutely nope
Oh, no, it isn't. Take the speed of Haskell or Prolog. They are much slower than Rust at runtime.
Would be interesting to see how long you (a seemingly intolerant person who singlehandedly decides what is bullshit and condones harassment) would tolerate someone following you around and insulting or berating you and/or your family constantly, including your place of work like a speaking engagement at a university. Hopefully, you realize that what you suggest is not feasible.
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Seems plausible that Apple would make an exception for a highly skilled engineer.
How does closed source improve UX?
Well, I stopped using Google personally, except for online docs.
Those replies are handwavy and offer no convincing defence at all. In just a few minutes I was able to reduce the 1,217 URLs to 434 by simply excluding outdated or non-applicable stuff. That's about a third and includes some pretty large documents, and that's just with a quick check. The list is unambiguously categorically wrong and anyone who seriously looks at it and comes to a different conclusion is suffering from serious confirmation bias.

Whether the web is "too complex" is a different matter and open to interpretation as "too complex" is subjective. But the data very wrong and therefore the article is wrong. A "correct" conclusion with faulty arguments is just as worthless as an incorrect conclusion: any possible solution depends on a correct understanding of the situation. "Global warming happens because of pornography, therefore we must ban pornography" is just as useless as "global warming is a fake fraud" even though the conclusion of the first is correct.
I experimented with this a while ago but didn’t get very far.

The rendering was done into a pixel buffer with inputs being passed though a few relatively simple C++ classes.

I think that a small embedded version would make for a great UI framework with minimal dependencies.
The hard part about user generated product data would be to handle trustworthyness. That would involve voting for correct and against wrong data, building user trust points etc. Not a small feat.
> Why do journalists do this?

I know !

It must be a special part of the curriculum at Journalist School.

I imagine the conversation goes something like this....

"No Mr Young Journalist, you cannot use the metric system, and no Mr Young Journalist, you cannot use the imperial system. You must ALWAYS refer to items in relative proportion to some random object of your choice be that swimming pools, football pitches, jumbo jets or bags of sugar ... whatever takes your fancy when you get out of bed that morning, but it must NEVER be metric or imperial measurements".
Investing in a good debugging tool and knowing your way around using it well, makes all the difference.
Sure, if you understand the underlying point of that quote - if you have to say it, you're probably thinking about the person.
Why did Bezos buy it then? Pretty sure there was at least an idea to have it add value. Getting sick and tired of billionaires destroying the internet.

Destroying communities and history isn't a great look. I'd like corps to be held to some sort of clause where they have to do something with their acquisitions or give it back to the people that are actively using it. Imagine someone bought Craigslist or Wikipedia and just shut it down.

It's so much effort to get a community like DPreview back, it's probably not going to happen. Some are trying and it's just not it.
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A similar-ish methodology that I'm aware of is Push-Pull Agriculture for crops in East Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push%E2%80%93pull_agricultural...