skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Under the current regime this is not a breaking change because the authors do not intend `Point` to be serializable and do not want its consumers to serialize it directly.

Does your example not show a breaking change? With the old version, all fields are public, so users can construct Point values themselves, and fully deconstruct them with pattern matching. With the new version, the struct has a private field, so users cannot construct Point values directly. (Also, it has an extra lifetime parameter which users must specify!)

That is to say, the authors do not intend to allow access to private fields (they say that repeatedly), so something that wouldn't ordinarily be a breaking change would not become a breaking change in the presence of this feature. Any additional behavior defined by consumers must be built on top of the provider's contract. In this case, either the additional serialization behavior would have to require all fields to be public, or it would have to ignore any private fields. And additional deserialization behavior would similarly have to either require that all fields are public or only allow filling values into existing structs.
I grew up in Georgia (the state) and besides Atlanta, it is still very much that way. When I stop by my grandparents house, if they're not home I'll just walk on in and pour myself some tea while I wait or watch TV. Their neighbor mows their yard if none of the family can make it over to do it.

Even only 40 mins from Atlanta, people still do that. I guess you call it a high-trust society? It's really only in the big American cities where that trust goes missing.
OK Computer ended up with 12 songs, although OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017, the 2017 reissue of OK Computer included 3 extra previously unreleased tracks (plus a bunch more extras). If we assume those 3 tracks were mixed and mastered for OK Computer's original release, but just didn't make the cut for whatever reason, we have 15 tracks.

Thousands of man-hours is the five members of the band, plus their producer, plus an audio-engineer working 40 hrs/wk.

There are 43 business days in 2 months, or just under 3 days per track. 3 days to do a bunch of technical work to balance the recordings juuust right, and then balance those recordings between each other to make it worthy of being called a Radiohead album. Personally, 3 days per track actually doesn't sound like enough time for that since you mix it, and then have to listen to that particular mix until you get bored, and then come back to it after, listen to it again some more, figure out how you feel about that mix, and then repeat.

Of course, you can half-ass it and throw the tracks into Ableton, spend 20 minutes and call it a day, but you didn't used to get to be Radiohead with that kind of effort. ML algos on the horizon seem like they'll be able to do just that.
> Amiga/Commodore had the best engineers Atari had the best business folks

While I had an Amiga and thought it was ahead of its time, I think both the Commodore 64 and Atari ST have aged better than the Amiga. The Commodore 64 has the SID chip so it's basically a programmable synth and still used even today, the Atari ST has MIDI ports, so it's a programmable MIDI Controller with timing that is arguably better than anything modern. Of course, the Amiga was Jay Miner's design and the successor to the Atari 800, but was released by Commodore. But I fail to see what has survived from the Amiga, personally I prefer hardware sprites to the blitter/copper and the bitplane graphics. The playback of sound samples was nice at the time, but the SID chip is much more distinctive. HAM was interesting at the time, but not relevant at all today. The pre-emptive multitasking was interesting, but not that useful at the time. I prefer the single tasking of the Atari ST especially for music apps, because the timing is more precise.
Wezterm has word boundary config, same for clicks, though not sure about configuring word boundaries per number of clicks (and it has rudimentary support for semantic zones so you can easily select you command instead of the whole line with prompt)
> That might mean that behaviors we consider emergent are the consequence of a process that scales continuously with model size.

Or it might mean that the metrics used are worthless for describing high-level model behavior. That's my whole point. Emergent behavior was observed, which is why we want those metrics so we can try to understand what is going on. But just because we have metrics that exhibit discontinuities at scales where humans observe emergence, doesn't mean that those metrics really represent the hard-to-define behavioral changes we have observed.
> & aims to avoid side effects by using pure functions

I think this has always been an incorrect framing. Functional programming does not _avoid_ side effects purposefully. It simply doesn't have them without explicitly modeling state, because it's based on math and logic which are stateless at their foundation. That's it.

We only bring up state because of how closely all of our languages are tied to stateful CPU designs - and for good reason btw, seeing as that's how all of our processors have been designed for all of the history of modern computing.

Said another way, functional programming doesn't try to do anything, it simply computes in a different way.
Steve Levitt – Why Incentives Don't Work [video]
What I did was talk to the designers I worked with. I got to know their tools. I even did some 1:1 sessions with them after work learning design basics. I taught them some coding, they taught me design.
You can't copyright an idea, just a particular realization of an idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%E2%80%93expression_dist...

Game mechanics pretty much can't be copyrighted at all.
An acoustic coupler is made for coupling a modem to a phone microphone. A modem is made for harnessing the phone line directly. Both are for creating long running connections. This is made for short messages sent thru the air. The most obvious novel use for this would would be IoT without a network.
Any phenomenon that is not a fundamental property of reality is a mirage, or rather a fuzzy human construct on top of a conglomeration of phenomena without discrete boundaries. And even those "fundamental" properties are suspect.
Whats wrong with this? https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

I do really enjoy interactive content. Lets you experiment and get practical... oh, I'm the practical guy.
Can confirm, I don't own a key to my own home. I bought it without a key and I've never thought to get one.

My neighbor gave me the code to his safe (full of gold coins), "just in case."
The biggest thing is that now you can find someone of similar strength to play with in 20 seconds!!
Didn’t they have an ad some time ago where they say “Hyundai like Sunday”?
> I had someone much knowledgable on this topic than myself claim ChatGPT and the like "understand" stuff. My standing argument is that they wouldn't hallucinate incorrect responses if they understood anything, the hallucination is when their approximation of what a real response would be falls short.

ChatGPT models semantic relationships in the data. That's what your smart buddy means by "understanding". That is a high dimensional model of the data set which infers abstract semantic relationships / concepts. But he would not claim that those semantic relationships are exactly the same as any human interpretation of the data (which you refer to as the "real" response).

Language models also have limited reasoning abilities. They are capable of misunderstanding as much as understanding.
Block/Square, which he clearly cared more about than running Twitter
As others have said, it's an awful title. Could instead be something like "Is the emergence aspect of Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models a Mirage?".

Like, there's supposed to be nothing academic researchers like more than re-using the same word in a title, or making it into a clever pun or quip -- it's like the Dad Jokiest subfield -- but instead we just get a title that implies one common argument that people make, and actually delivers an unpredictable different argument that seems plausible but not necessarily interesting.
I have zero technical understanding of the math or statistics, but looking at the graphs it seems suspicious that supposed jumps happen across unrelated tasks and models at the same scales--for example, in figure 1, the discontinuities are consistently in the 10^22 to 10^24 range. Obviously I'm just going by what the authors have chosen to include, but I'd expect more variation. At best I'd assume it's something about LLMs in general.
1k% Difference: Major Storage Capacity in Water-Based Batteries Found
You’re effectively using https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law to deduce component performance as service time. I’ve found the peer filtering mechanism to work as well. It can also work if the entire node is slow, depending upon characteristics of the workload.
Cars don't double in performance over the course of five years.
I think parent comment meant good with the group as in "follows the social rules without questioning them and does what is expected of them", not as in morally good.
Isn't the problem with eval that you are running whatever is in the var? Probably variable expansion but maybe not and that could be not ideal
It's tangentially related to paper streets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street
I'm sure your neighbor trusts that you'll let their heirs/widow access to the coins should the need arise. Life is that much better when you can trust people like that.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you look into what tmux is actually capable of. It's extremely customizable, featureful, and well-documented. All of the complaints you've raised in this thread can actually be solved with a bit of configuration.

> TMux itself contains a terminal emulator, and not everything works correctly in TMux

tmux doesn't merely contain a terminal emulator. Rather, it is a terminal emulator. All terminal emulators have slight differences in behavior and tmux is no exception. But since tmux is actively developed, I haven't personally encountered any deal breaking issues.
For bonus fitness points, power it off an e-bike on a stand and pedal/regenbrake all the time.
https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware#25-apr-2023-...

> Thanks to Tanner at LTT for letting me review his findings - It appears the scope of this issue is much bigger than expected; many Android TV Boxes with the AllWinner H616, H618 and RockChip RK3328 feature the "Corejava" C2 Bootstrap.
there is no “basic thing” mentioned in the article

The "basic thing" is that the doctor didn't listen to his patient (i.e. the author).

It's right here: What’s more, why do too many of them not listen to their patients ― the most basic thing that should be a fundamental part of their practice?

(And the lack of listening is described in detail earlier during the chronology of events).
This analogy doesn't work because you're comparing euthanizing dogs to using a secure password instead of face ID, one of which ends a life and the other is a mild inconvenience (we all used to use pins before touch ID was normalized, it takes less than a second to enter a password that you've got down to muscle memory). Yeah, we can't make all our choices in life based on an off chance, but when it's this simple it's easily worthwhile
Ofcourse making bad moves will hurt your chances of winning, but Hikaru was able to speedrun to 3000 points on chess.com with the bongcloud opening. So if that is achievable then I have no excuses losing because I chose a bad opening.
The old ones where everything is behind the counter, fetched for you by the checkout clerk, to prevent shoplifting? I've seen the pictures, and I never want to go back to that kind of low-trust society. Please, I'm begging everyone who will listen: do not erode the social norms that let us have nice supermarkets. Or most other nice things.
Not non-stick pans.

But yes, they did make red Fiesta ware using what is effectively low-level nuclear waste:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)
Why is xterm so bad on OS X, though? No copy-paste, no tabs, no right-click...
I can't find it now (so it may be an apocryphal story), but an Australian man went to one of these places, didn't find it and decided to set up shop.

It was already on the map, so he figured that it might as well actually exist.
The argument was that the problem could be handled as any other pitch-trim runaway situation, for which pilots were already trained.

There were, however, reasons to be skeptical. Firstly, unlike in most other cases, it was not designed to halt when opposed by the pilot’s use of the control yoke (to do so would defeat the purpose of MCAS.) Secondly, it was found in flight testing that MCAS needed to be made much more aggressive, yet the original decision was allowed to stand. Thirdly, it could stop on its own accord, only to start up again a few seconds later.

Consequently, while MCAS failure is nominally handled as a form of trim runaway, it did not present itself to pilots like the trim runaway scenarios they had trained for.
I don't mean to come across as insulting, rather I am genuinely curious to understand why this was done? what was the inspiration?
I once wrote a code for transferring data from one computer to another using computer using VGA cable just for fun. That was a great learning opportunity for me to understand network protocols and error correction. I did not go through the code to understand the kind of protocol this piece is using but I see that it feels like a fun project. I am tempted to do this using "light"
Wouldn't it be racism to deny artificial brains to read your content while publicly offering it to human brains?

If that would be possible and allowed, how long should this system be kept up? Even after AI has become just as complex and emotional as humans are?

Would this also be a good idea if a human brain would be digitally cloned verbatim? If not, why is one program allowed to read while the other is not?

Will AI have to suffer a "second class intelligence" fate until it has its Rosa Parks moment and a revolution takes place?

So many questions. I feel it might be better to live in peace with this new type of intelligence here on planet earth. Right from the start.
It isn't just "dumb American's" fault. They promote different pronunciations by region. Compare Australian commercials to Usonian. Westerners don't pronounce Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, or Nissan correctly either and nobody bats an eye.
I'd rather have lots of hardware sprites like the Genesis, in addition to the blitter. I think a lot of Amiga games felt like they ran slow, because it's a lot easier to move a sprite, than to move a blitter object.
"Water (H2O) microdroplets are sprayed onto a magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4) and Nafion-coated graphite mesh using compressed N2 or air as the nebulizing gas."[1]

Nafion[2] looks really interesting, too.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301206120
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafion
The last car I had was broken into in Tukwila. Window smashed. It was really annoying to get it fixed, so I just left my doors unlocked for the rest of the time I owned the car. There was one instance where someone went in my car and dug around. Better than getting the window broken again.
I mean, personally I think AI model training makes the world worse, so it's a pretty reconcilable set of views.
I don't hope or expect it, but I'm tempering my response so it doesn't trigger the typical HN crowd.
Very odd. I wonder what could account for that. Some kind of legacy 3G initial handshake that particular modem needs before it negotiates an LTE connection? I am completely making that up, but something along those lines.
Could have gone with "More Comprehensive Metrics Are All You Need"
if anyone would WhistleBlow current War Crimes for the wrong side, he would get immediately dismissed. No one would follow it, because it would affect their money.

Current Situation: Any trend big money works with, it cannnot be whistleblowed.
> UK still has an absolute monarchy, they just agree not to use any of the powers

This is true to the extent that North Korea is a republic.
I'm curious to hear from someone who has used such a framework to build a profitable business or startup?
No, it’s been working fine all evening. Next time try https://isup.me
Rocket League
It can't put cameras in your house without a warrant if you live in the US period. If you're a foreigner living outside the US, you're fair game to the US. This is true for any country, not just the US. How anybody could fail to understand this is beyond me.
I thought we already had a word for it: "perjury"
For ignition cylinders, they never accounted to have this many in stock.

IMHO this is one example of what troubles proprietary parts can cause. For a part which performs essentially the same function across makes and models, they're often needlessly different with minor but incompatible changes even if they're all made by one OEM.
Isn’t the concept of „landlocked“ usually referring to your ability to do trade at scale with the rest of the world without being dependent on the goodwill of some other actor? Seems Minnesota would still depend on the goodwill of whoever controls the waterways between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic. So they are still landlocked.
Huh? From the very start through gen 7 the tiers were 2 cores with hyperthreading, 4 without, 4 with. And sometimes more at the very top, in different forms.

The first two generations of core processors had a different pattern, but those were "core [2] solo/duo/quad", they had no i and no tier numbers.

(And before that was pentium 4/D.)
> Amiga had this fast ram concept. Atari ST unfortunately did not.

But the Atari ST didn't have custom chips, so there was no need for chip ram/fast ram?
It's interesting to read the first link, but with DNS in mind instead of gopher. All the resource arguments still apply, and indeed DNS is not free, but equally also not expensive.

Now granted, DNS has a scarcity component, and if it was free it would basically be consumed by bots and be useless.

So back to Gopher. Which was going to license the server software (? - it's unclear, but appears to be targeting the server), and is that not the business model Netscape adopted?

Which was then subsumed by Apache and IIS?

So I guess I'm somewhat confused as to the actual benefit of the CERN "release" - (allowing others to create servers and clients?) - although clearly it may have been instrumental in gaining mindshare.
I completely missed that it was a graphite mesh. Not sure how difficult that would be to manufacture but it's at least an abundant material
this is so cool but the headline, "message people over sound," made me feel like I was living in a world where verbal speech was a lost art (perhaps like cursive handwriting?)

Anyway, not sure where I'm going with this post, other than to say OP has big 2023 vibes
I would probably pay $1 per month.

I feel that's fair considering I (we) provide 100% of the content and 99% of the moderation.

I can take it or leave it to be honest. If it's free or very cheap I will use it. If it's not, I won't. But I won't tolerate ads.

Also I really should doomscroll less for my own mental health and productivity anyway.

The internet was great before reddit and it'll still be great long after reddit has shittified itself into irrelevance in the pursuit of shareholder returns.

Most forums never need a paid subscription and have very minimal ads, if any at all. Usenet was/is free on your ISP with no ads.

Computing power and network bandwidth have never been cheaper.

There's so much more content out there for free than I could ever consume.

I'm so sorry their dream of becoming millionaires on the back of others content only worked for a limited time.

>r&d

HAHAHA that's a laugh. I guess they need to pay the enshittification engineers.

What has actually improved on reddit over the last 5 years?

Hoping that one of us geeks can come up with a workable open decentralized solution, so we can finally escape the corporate carousel of birth, shittification, death, repeat.
The number of data points is tiny. There's only a handful of LLMs trained from scratch in the world, and sizes of models released in a "generation" tend to be close to each other somewhat. The field is very open source so people all over are building on top of the same shared literature. Plus I'm sure there are leaks very often and companies then rush to train their own pet architecture to whatever parameter size the competition is about to release.
Curious, are there any references? I have seen zero. Of course, I see tons of ads on TV so if the Dr.'s office has TV on, that may be one source. But I am curious about ads outside of the TV, haven't any like that in a Dr's office.
Hyundai and Kia cars are popular here in Australia (I own a 2017 Hyundai) but I haven't heard anything about thefts here. Turns out it's because of Australian regulations that have required engine immobilisers since 2001 making it almost impossible unless you have the keys
- https://www.drive.com.au/news/us-kia-and-hyundai-thefts-what...
I believe lawns came to the US after WWII with the returning GIs. The idea of lawns began with the French aristocracy a few hundred years ago, pre-industrialized agrarian society. The lawn and heavily manicured garden was a way to show off how rich you were. “Look at me. I’m so rich that not only can I afford to take a portion of my land and not use it to grow a crop or pasture livestock but I can afford to pay people to just grow useless grass and flowers in symmetrically shaped gardens and plant trees that get haircuts into the shapes of spheres and cones”.

Yes, I participate in no mow May. And I know my golf course fairway yard neighbors judge me. Especially with all the dandelions and clover patches I let go un-mowed all year long.
Almost certainly not real, or at the very least not contemporaneous. The graphics shown on screen have varied pixel pitch which isn't consistent with the Star's monochrome display. Or, for that matter, consistent with the non-square pixels you would expect from a Lisa screenshot.
Assuming we are talking about java, List is not the same as List<Object>.

List<Object> list = new ArrayList<String>(); will fail to compile.

Generic types in Java have no variance by default. The only type that can be assigned to List<String> is exactly List<String>.

Your example would want to be List<? extends Object> foo = new List<String>();

There is a reason for this. Consider:

List<String> foo;
List<Object> bar = foo;
bar.add(new Integer(0));

If the above works, you would be adding an Integer to a collection of Strings, which is not sound.

In general, you typically want to be covarient in type parameters that are used for arguements, and contravariant in type parameters that are used for return values. In the general case, this is unworkable (since types parameters are often used for both), so the only reasonable behaviour is to be invariant.

Raw arrays in Java are actually covariant - which is not reasonable - and quickly result in a runtime type exception when you get to the "bar[0] = new Integer(0)" portion of the above example.

Scala allows you to explicitly mark type parameters as covariant or contravariant, as bellow:

class Foo[+T] //Foo is covariant in T
class Foo[-T] //Foo is contravarient in T
class Foo[T] //Foo is invarient in T

However, no equivelent mechanism exists in Java.