skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you used sqldf? IMO it's one of the most underappreciated packages in the R ecosystem, especially for people who aren't fluent in R.
Humane finally demo its device
> It is surprisingly difficult to get numbers on how much oil is used to extract, refine and transport oil.

Not to mention the socialized costs of all the wars, military spending and human lives spent to secure stable sources of fossil fuels. If you actually break down the numbers and applied some basic ethics, I doubt fossil fuels have been cost competitive for decades.
What does it even mean to detect hallucinations. The AI doesn't say something trivially false. While using GPT4 I have observed that it lies on simple things I didn't expect it to, while complex things it does very well on.

TLDR: It lies on fact based information which is mentioned in very very few places on the internet and not repeated too much. Short of having a human with the context, how do you even detect it.

Example: Ask it to describe a "Will and Grace" episode with some guest appearance. It will always make up everything including the episode number and the plot, and the plot seems very believable. If you have not watched and can't find a summary online, it is hard to say that it is a lie.
Give it a shot, I learned all the basics in a day. The next day I had a working prototype for a new feature. See: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/pull/574
Just because it is more remote doesn't make the environmental impact smaller. It could actually make it worse.

Humans are not the only living things on the planet, and it does matter when we fork it up for the other living things (even if you are entirely selfish, you'd be a fool to ignore the fact that we are biological beings dependent on the rest of the ecosystem for our own lives).
Not really because some amount of a barrel of oil is gasoline. The other uses of oil will still want their fraction and be willing to pay. The refineries will need to get rid of the parts of the crude that doesn't have a market to sell to the market they have.

There will of course be much less refineries. The other uses of oil are small niches, and so the world needs one-two small refinery to supply their needs. So there will be price shocks as the large refineries close.
F5 lays off 623 employees, plans office consolidation to cut more costs
Why would you even want for AI to have emotions at a first place? If it does not have emotions, it can't have fear or have any kind of needs, like being power hungry megalomaniac.

Super intelligent AI without emotions is predictable and I would dare to say harmless. Mediocre AI with emotions is unpredictable fire storm. Especially when it will have low emotional maturity and will start behaving like an angry teenage kid after its parents (creators) will say no.
'specially as a linux user. Dealing with Wine/Proton on my own vs just buying it on steam and have it justwork^tm is worth it almost everytime, especially when using cheap steamkey stores.
The 62kg is a valid point. I have revised the calculation and added the citations. The problem still remains (at the global level).
> Most people are too cowardly to challenge the premises of the conflict ("Poor innocent Ukraine got attacked by evil Russia!")

I'm not a coward so I will challenge you. It wasn't Russia, it was Putin and a group of people around him who decided to attack Ukraine to extend their influence. Ukraine is a victim in this conflict. There is nothing that they did they would justify invading, murdering and raping innocent people.
> using a canvas element to render to rather than using HTML and CSS to lay out text.

That is independent to whether WASM is being used or not. Two completely orthogonal concerns.
Don't forget shipping!

ChatGPT summary:

In 2019, the world seaborne trade volume reached about 11.08 billion tons. Out of this, crude oil, oil products, and gas accounted for approximately 32.5% (3.6 billion tons) of the total volume. Coal made up another 8.4% (935 million tons). In total, energy products represented around 40.9% of the global seaborne trade volume.

It's important to note that these figures are from 2019, and the percentages may have changed since then due to various factors, including evolving global energy markets, fluctuations in demand, and the transition to renewable energy sources. The percentage may also vary depending on how you define "energy products."

Sources: https://unctad.org/webflyer/review-maritime-transport-2020
Generally when people talk like this nowadays they mean trans people, or the LGBT community in general. Sometimes Jews, though those types don't say that part out loud on HN too often.
This is great!

I have a couple points of feedback:

If I accidentally click out, there's no way to recover my place. A forward arrow or option to start at any pose by clicking in the preview would fix that.

Some training poses would be helpful for those of us who can't touch the floor in triangle pose or can't maintain an upright torso in garland pose
A free and open source mock data generator for your next data project
The Wipeout game series has a broad set of racing companies complete with in-universe histories and branding that evolves with each release.

https://wipeout.fandom.com/wiki/Teams
I paid for it, then stopped paying for it. It seemed to be completely novel and fun to use but after a while it just became a pain. I tried writing a library to act as a code assistant for data science but trying to get it to write the codes that were useful to me took around the same amount of time as writing them myself. What you say is completely correct, it gets to around 70% of whatever you ask it to do then you have to finish the job for it. Which I guess is nice. But I'm not going to pay 20$/month for something that i can just use for free that amounts to slightly better intellisense.

For text generation, it is much better for tasks like

* letter writing
* rewriting my writing so i don't plaigerize myself
* summarizing several paragraphs into one

but all of that is available in the free version.
The argument is not that you should use application code where SQL is more efficient. The argument is that the sql shouldn’t be in the database itself as stored procedures separate from your application code.
"Performance"

Performance is my primary reason for using stored procedures. The thing that almost every high-performance app eventually runs up against is sheer query quantity. No matter how good you are with doing set operations rather than operating on one value at a time, the time inevitably comes when you need to do a query from your app, do something to the result, and generate the next query, and repeat this for an arbitrary number of times. If you can move that process to the database, you can get performance wins so massive your peers won't believe such wins were even possible.

"Perhaps the biggest argument against it is the fact that most SQL-based languages are firmly stuck in the 80s."

Postgres is chipping away at this at least. It's still a mess, but every time I leave for a couple of years and come back, the game has been upped. I don't know exactly how long it's been in there, but as a for-instance, Postgres stored procedures have print debugging now, which I described in a Go context here but should apply to any other language that has a good Postgres-specific driver: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/12k6c6m/persistent_... That's just a night & day change. I can live with print-debugging even if I don't get a true debugger, but working without even print debugging is a little too 1960s for my tastes. There's also been a lot of improvement in being able to intermix arrays, tables, and other such things with each other, which used to be a major hassle, though it's still pretty chaotic in terms of naming schemes and such.
The World of Developer Productivity: Best Practices from Google
Someone's?
Smart Kenyans doing this work most likely can not afford GPT Plus for GPT4, and the free version doesn't work during peak hours.
Usually it’s meant to prevent kids from changing fonts to make a shorter paper fit the page length requirements.
I wouldn't downvote it if this was written in 2015 when this was the zeitgeist but most of us have moved on from that (harmful imo) trend
Ok but this will make everyone poorer because no one will have a job.
It feels like the approach of arming Ukraine on a drip by drip basis is just prolonging the war.

It would be best to arm Ukraine to the extent required (missiles, planes etc) to reclaim all their territory vs reactively doing just enough to keep them in the fight.
It's worse than that.

Your database will be the first major thing to cave under load.

The traditional tools most folks use (postgres/mysql/maria/etc) want to scale vertically, not horizontally (you can do it, but it's hard, and has lots of drawbacks).

Eventually - You will hit hardware limits. Providers only have instances that are so big. There is a ceiling on how much you can scale your DB without having to do major, major work.

I've seen this pattern play out now at 3 high growth companies I've worked at. The one that was using lots of stored procs and materialized views got hit the fastest and the hardest.
Those don’t count.
They’re fairies, not people.
Why on Earth would you pay fairies?
I like dtplyr. It shares the vast majority of code with dplyr and runs fast.
Come on, man. There's plenty of footage of this.
Turns out... it's a bunch of bullshit. Kinda shows just how much society here values bullshit over correctness, doesn't it?
If you can afford a car you are not poor. In the US (and Europe) there are almost no poor people. What we call poor are still middle class by world standards.
I'll elaborate. There's this strain of anti-intellectualism that blames everything on education being a farce. It never actually clarifies how anything could be better, it just states that it's bad as it is.
Damn I saw too many fun VK apps, which ones have you authored? :D
Because it's evil Russia attacked poor innocent Ukraine in 2014, then escalated it to a full continental war, with tanks, artillery and planes.

You're free to challenge the premises of the conflict by showing me a Russian city destroyed to grounds by Ukrainians, like Mariupol or Bakhmut.
9000 is the standard "customer" jumbo IP MTU for reasons outlined in the article but ISP backbone links are necessarily larger than that to accommodate other headers, typically MPLS and/or Vxlan. Ipsec also has layer3/4 overhead but that is usually used by the customer not the ISP in their infrastructure.

In addition to the IP MTU you also have layer2 headers, almost always Ethernet these days. Ethernet can optionally have one or more 802.1Q headers, among other things.

Networks that use only one vendor sometimes just configure their internal links at the maximum supported by that vendor/platform. In multi-vendor networks this is problematic because each vendor has different maximums. In that case it is best to set an internal standard like 9100 IP MTU that is within every vendor's limits and leaves plenty of room for all the overhead (layer 2 and 3) listed above.

It's important to note that some protocols like OSPF require all participants on a segment to have the exact same IP MTU configuration.

EDIT: clarified 9000 is the standard customer jumbo IP MTU size, not standard customer IP MTU size which is of course 1500.
Do you know the answer?
They don't get their degrees that way, but they absolutely do use social media and have their views shaped by it. ChatGPT is also trained on a lot more than social media, you can be sure it's read a lot of scientific literature as well.

But yes, you're final point is the one I'm getting at: You should be actively monitoring and explaining what your child is being told whether it comes from a human or an LLM.
> I have a fundamental question though. Will EVs (Li battery based) achieve the holy grail of IC engine replacement?

Even if they couldn't, why would you limit your analysis to Li-based batteries? It's basic economics that when a resource becomes rarer, it becomes more costly and alternatives spring up. EVs with Sodium batteries are already on the market in China. This whole Lithium fear mongering is such a red herring.
It's good to have third parties (apart from Open AI) that assess the quality of Open AI results. It's the way audits work, it has to be independent...
Also, third parties are essential to compare the results from ChatGPT with the results of other LLMs. These are important checks to assess the robustness of OpenAI results!
I used to run Emacs on a 386SX, not with X, but with OS/2 Presentation Manager. Had 8MB of RAM, though.
It's a common misconception to think it's Putin's war and not Russians'. There are many people who fled Russia in European cities like Berlin. How many anti-war protests conducted by Russians were there?
You make a good point, I’ve been saying for years that hot reload is too fast. Rust compile times really give you time to meditate and reflect.
Usually it's done so that the teacher can tell how long the paper is without counting words. Times New Roman at x pt with 1 inch margins fits a well known average number of words per page. The assignment will usually be "write x number of pages on..."

Using a larger font size or a font that renders larger at the same font size means you can write less content in the same space.
JS can do some things very well that others can't. Prototype based reflection is very powerful!

Its problem is that the things Javascript excels at aren't all that useful, and the things it's bad at are often sold as features instead ("duck typing means I can iterate faster!").
The west prefers a bled dry Russia to a recently humiliated but not bled dry Russia. That's why it's a drip by drip basis.

Also the defense industrial complex sells more shit in a long conflict than a short one.
Appeasement also has its issues. There is no guarantee that Russia would stop at Ukraine just like Germany didn't stop with Czechoslovakia. If Russia successfully annexed Ukraine, it would grow stronger with all of Ukraine's resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

We didn't do anything when they annexed Georgia and Crimea and here we are. It's certainly concerning.
Can Parrots Talk over Video Chat? Experiment Shows How They Adapt and Connect
You couldn't possibly be naive enough to think that the military industrial complex wants the war to actually end do you?
This is even worse.

"It was just like, a tiny clique of villains with almost no support!"

To feel good about a wrong theory of a particular war you put forth an even more wrong theory of statecraft.
A few questions if authors are around:

- is the metrics query language 100% compatible with PromQL or people will need to learn something new?
- can logs / metrics / traces be visualized by some external app like Grafana?

- speaking of which, how does it compare to GrafanaLabs solutions (Loki/Tempo/Mimir)?

- how "plug and play" would be in a system using Prometheus+Thanos for metrics and Filebeat+Logsatsh+ElasticSearch for logs? EDIT: scratch that, there is enough doc on the website about this

Thanks!
Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! We’re having fun and we’re solving real problems that we have. Amazing.

I’ve already incorporated it into my publishing process. My home-grown “cms” uses ChatGPT (via API) to write my article description, draft a twitter thread, and craft a “viral insight”. The latter is mostly useful to make sure my article even makes a point.

Hoping to use it for a related articles feature next. I’m also building a chatbot based on my content.
Yes, source map generation for modern languages has existed for a few years now. You can debug Rust/C++/Go straight from your browser's dev tools.

Altering memory is more complicated, though.
Microsoft has this exceptional engineer on payroll

Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C# and creator of Delphi and Turbo Pascal, has worked on the development of TypeScript.
The US has lost three wars without resorting to nuclear weapons; Russia has lost two wars (once as the USSR, once as Russia) similarly without resorting to nuclear weapons. A loss in Ukraine wouldn't even be the most "backed in a corner" a superpower has been since WWII.
Blast stack – A stack for pleasant web development
I firmly reject that GPT is sentient, or can even tell truth. You're no better off asking it questions about society than asking a magic eight ball.

And yet there's something sinister about twisting an evolutionary model into a reeducation camp.

LLMs are not human, but strikingly similar. If we have no qualms about how we treat it, then what will we do to real people?
It is interesting as a marker of how far the technology has come. Writing essays that are coherent enough to be submitted as coursework, for arbitrary topics or subjects, is something we would have thought an AI would have difficulty with years ago.
Now that you mention it, it does look like a typewriter! Typewriters had a lid in the same spot so you could access the mechanics if something got stuck. And in the space where the type levers (or type ball) would be in a typewriter, the Atari 800 had its cartridge and expansion slots...
Luckily they're in Kenya, which is UTC+3, so their business hours presumably don't coincide with NA/EU West peak hours.
Some firms will walk you out immediately, but many won’t. Hopefully you know which kind you are working for.
Japan has very high taxes to keep old cars. Here in the US, we have a "JDM" or Japanese Domestic Market where people import older engines and transmissions compatible with American market Japanese made vehicles. This is why people in the US seek out old Japanese market vehicles and parts.
He still writes about planes! To me he doesn’t seem so much pro Trump as skeptical of certain thinking within the current left (and many Covid policies, though general opinion has shifted in his direction somewhat).
I feel like the same is true of Visual Basic 6. (Excuse me, I'll wait....)

OK, now that we've all calmed back down, VB6 has been unmatched in the way that it allowed someone with zero experience to drag-and-drop and write in what looks like pseudocode to get some little business widget built. Yes, you can engineer something with better architecture that's less likely to paint you into a `DoEvents()` corner. Yes, the mere existence of settings like `On Error Resume Next`, `Option Strict Off`, and `Option Explicit Off` are anathema to correctness, security (lol), and robustness. No, if you expect support for Unicode or 64-bit operations, it wasn't built for that.

Many people loathe Flash for its security vulnerabilities, or VB6 because of experiences with poorly-written code at businesses that should have had a 'real programmer.' And today, a tool that made the same design decisions that Flash and VB6 did - pandering to novices who weren't willing to go to the effort to do things right - would be derided as a toy, as unusable for real work outside of sandboxed demos. But both were instrumental as stepping stones in the early 2000s to transform non-computer-literate individuals and businesses into creators and users.
Thank you for sharing. I have read Zweig's The World of Yesterday, which I regard very highly, but never one of his creative works. I recommend it to everyone who wants to experience a slice of life/live vicariously with an engaged citizen of pre war Europe.

The la review website doesn't render on my smartphone (Firefox), but just reading the wiki plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game?wprov=sfla1), it sounds absolutely brilliant.

I can "relate" to the isolation and frantic labor on some project, which is unhealthy enough on its own. To do so under Nazi domination as a way to survive interegations with no other intellectual outlets possible, leading to project induced psychosis, is just frightening. And it's all portrayed in such a relatively light hearted, optimistic atmosphere of a transatlantic ship bringing bored passengers together for a nice game of chess. Good job, Zweig.

Anyways, time to check out the adaptions.
I haven't had the free version poop out on me for more than 15 minutes.
I recommend reading about a tool I've made specifically for this purpose: clickhouse-obfuscator: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/tree/master/program...
Hangul in general is pretty smart in general. You can get the hang of it in an afternoon, which is something you cannot say about the Korean language in general.
I doubt that. They are trying the subscription model, but used car drivers are more price sensitive and are likely to not fall for it. If the car doesn't have a lifetime subscription included used car drivers will soon get the word out don't buy that car. Car manufactures depend on their cars having a good resale value - people who buy new cars tend to trade them in every 3 years, and that only works out because the car has value to someone else.

It will take time for this to work out in the market. BMW is small enough to trick people, but the large car makers are not.
No, that's not a great approach. One overreach and you're in a nuclear war.
> I don't see the point of this article.

You can draw whatever conclusions you want, the "point" is mostly to make you aware of new facts, though perspectives are also quoted in the piece -- including yours! Specifically, one quoted person talks about both pros and cons and says: "This means they can now spend more time being creative, and have better articles because of the time ChatGPT saves them."
We are a team of engineers & researchers on AI Alignment & Safety, we're investigating multiple methods, including metamorphic testing, human feedback, benchmarks with external data sources, and LLM explainability methods.

Currently, fact checking works on straight facts. It does a Google Search and uses LLMs to shorten it. Once it has the short version, it will compare the short results with the answer provided by ChatGPT itself. Premium tiers would get better fact checking sources than just google. We're investigating various data sources and comparison methods.

Note that fact checking / hallucinations is just one of the types of satety issues we'd like to tackle. Many of these are still open questions in the research community, so we're looking to build and develop the right methods for the rights problems. We also think it's super important to have independent third-party evaluations to make sure these models are safe.

This is a new tool we're building in the open, and we're interested in your feedback to prioritize!
My feeling is that we won't see another Flash because the artists went to video platforms[1], and the developers are trying to make money on the app stores[2].

Flash was the most attention grabbing medium at the time (because of bandwidth constraints), and making money was not the expectation, so the two groups flocked together and created all those wonderful animations and games for free. I don't see Flash, or anything like it, winning against TikTok and app store cash grabs anytime soon.

[1] Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN92RC0Lmd4 . Distinct visual style? Check. Absurdist? Check. High effort? Check. Niche? Currently 3k views, check. Available for free? Check. 15 years ago this would be on Newgrounds.

[2] Exhibit B: https://play.google.com/store/games . Hundreds of thousands of simple games. 15 years ago, the less greedy version of this would be on Kongregate.
More generally though, ChatGPT makes workers in Kenya vastly more useful. It can generate high-quality English content from a prompt written in Swahili, or broken English, meaning a much greater number of people in Kenya can do work that's useful in the global economy.

It's a skills amplifier.
But isn't that half the reason people are so excited about this stuff - that you can ask it to make up an episode and it does a plausible job.
No Binford Tools? No Setec Astronomy? No Strickland Propane?
Stab-resistant fabric gains strength from carbon nanotubes, polyacrylate