skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been comparing bard and ChatGPT in most my tasks since bards release. Bard is infuriating. It claims it can’t answer most things, although if I prompt tweak things it’ll eventually answer. It has terrible contextual awareness - it literally can’t piece a thread between one prompt and the next - each prompt is self contained as far as I can tell. There’s no history of prior discussions other than in Google activity, but you can’t resume those. In theory they all form a continuum, but I don’t really want that - I want the context from one session to be distinct from the other.

I don’t think ChatGPT is a particularly amazing interface or experience. But Bard is so far off the mark it makes me realize Google still won’t be able to make a product. LLM as they mature and integrate into a better ecosystem of feedback mechanisms and interfaces will eat Google’s search business alive, and I see no indications they can do anything about that.
‘We’ll get there’: the Ukrainian drone unit quietly knocking out Russian targets
No classes - thank the lord. This was a 30 year experiment that failed. Parametric polymorphism is the way and the light.

>weak typing despite having multiple dispatch

I'm struggling to understand, do you mean that it doesn't have type safety? Could you explain a bit?

1-based indexing - I don't care about...

the "no DL libraries" and the community effects around having weight portability is significant I think. I need to spend more time with Transformers.jl.
Revolut has had a fee questionable moments already, this does not seem to have been the case for other European fintech operations (wise, klarna, n26 etc).

So yeah, I think a lot of fintech is not particularly good, but I don't think we can generalize to the level of the crypto boom.
Prison is excessive.

But how about some sort of environmental levy on any device prematurely 'bricked', or disposed of before reaching a certain lifespan.

Including those bricked by server shutdowns, or by the inevitable failure of non-replaceable batteries. Perhaps even those designed to be somewhat fragile but not economically repairable - thinking of all the phones and tablets discarded due to cracked screens.
Jean Yves-Girard's thinking evolved from analytic philosophy to continental philosophy over the course of his life, and in this book in particular, some of his asides and polemics critique how we conceptualize truth, knowledge, and logic, and how other fields conceptualize that stuff, from a continental perspective. The fact that this kind of stuff turned up in a mathematical logic book of all places really struck me. It put me on a path to taking a more serious interest in the continental school, and reading more of it (currently chewing on Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour). It's a very unusual and difficult book, that led me to very different (compared to what I am used to, anyway) modes of thinking.
Especially when a much cheaper ESP32 can do the same thing.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-matter/en/main/esp32...
Matter on Ubuntu: getting started with the standard for smart home devices
Unfortunately as far as I can tell that headline isn't really a very good summary of the situation, nor a generally accurate statement.

Svelte wanted to ditch the need for a build step in testing. Most library authors already tolerate having a build step for multiple reasons, and have no need to go this route. If your builds are too slow, you'd just use a fast compiler like esbuild and reserve the tsc pass for CI/tests and local IDE type checking. (There are still some advantages of not needing a build step, but IMO most people don't mind it as long as it's fast.)

If JS had a type syntax, this would be no issue at all. Unfortunately, who knows if that'll ever come to pass.

As far as I can tell the Svelte developers are not claiming at all that you should abandon typechecking, which is what a lot of people seem to be reading out of this.
You say it's a copout and then you don't explain why. I can believe US data through TikTok is at risk due to CCP origins and I can believe our data is on sale in general. I can also believe that both are an issue.
Plenty of languages have it, so what, it is too much to ask for in skillets?
The USA's FBI currently claims:

The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States.

Confronting this threat is the FBI’s top counterintelligence priority.

To be clear, the adversary is not the Chinese people or people of Chinese descent or heritage. The threat comes from the programs and policies pursued by an authoritarian government.

The Chinese government is employing tactics that seek to influence lawmakers and public opinion to achieve policies that are more favorable to China.

At the same time, the Chinese government is seeking to become the world’s greatest superpower through predatory lending and business practices, systematic theft of intellectual property, and brazen cyber intrusions.

China’s efforts target businesses, academic institutions, researchers, lawmakers, and the general public and will require a whole-of-society response. The government and the private sector must commit to working together to better understand and counter the threat.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...

ByteDance's motives should, by now, be clear.
You mean like Postscript?

No there is no license fee.

This is just like everything else on modern operating system. Apple defines a protocol for printers and if you follow that protocol, Apple guarantees compatibility and the user doesn’t have to worry about printer drivers and the manufacturer doesn’t have to worry about creating a new printer driver when a new operating system is released.

When a Windows user updates to a new OS, they have to often go find a new driver. I connect my Mac or iOS device to my WiFI network and it automatically found all of my of my AirPrint compatible printers.

As a vendor, if I support AirPrint, my addressable market is anyone who has bought an iOS device since 2010 or a Mac since 2012.

That’s a much better system than the malware that comes with most Windows printers.
This is amazing, the GitHub ham radio and hardware scenes are way bigger than I previously thought. Shout-out to OpenRTX and M17 along with all the awesome SDR applications!
I think prompt leaks should be treated as inevitable at this point, and as such I think efforts to avoid them are a waste of time.

Since they're going to leak anyway, I suggest not putting anything potentially embarrassing in there - like instructions not to leak the prompt!
Two comments in this thread (this one and a sibling) mention needing to save often due to programs crashing, as if reliability of the software is solved by showing ads and tracking activity, or is a function of the size of the program or the speed of the computers or software, the things FeistySkink had mentioned.
and you dont think a framework like svelte is autogenerating files? all of these frameworks have some sort of build / generation step
videos that promote restrictive diets and discuss self-harm and suicide.

This sounds to me like a misguided attempt to "warn" and "educate" in the worst way possible.
How long did they work for the alliteration in that headline?
Some of us who were working on lots of Node/Deno projects had already moved on to ReScript, and I would be touting what a great step forward ReScript is away from TS and JS, but a team I am on agreed to attempt fullstack dev with Rust and htmx with very light use of ReScript for the frontend. Since then this has been our stack and one I go to for personal projects. One of our team members is looking to replace the remaining browser-side ReScript portion with Rust (WASM), so we will be pure Rust until we are ready to switch to Austral.

https://rescript-lang.org/
https://animaomnium.github.io/what-austral-proves/
>A textual version of a vocalization of doubt.

Anytime someone opens a sentence in such a way, verbally, it rarely paints them in a positive light. It sounds snarky.
Ask HN: AI Pipelines have a “Customer 360” problem?
I’m in no way an AI export. I’m a real-time data plumber [0] and see much of the world through that lens. But:

ChatGPT and emerging AI tools require context - lots of it - to give great outcomes. Identifying potential churn, or classification / recommendations, or emerging fraud are latency-sensitive applications that are obvious applications of AI. But ChatGPT and AI tech is a pure function — ask a question, get an answer — and its performance can't surpass the quality of the question you ask.

Questions thus need to include context, and often that context is “here’s the history of interactions with this customer across services, APIs, perhaps HubSpot/Zendesk etc, as well as internal conversations and support tickets”. To ask whether this customer is a current churn risk, or is likely to buy a product, you first need to have all of this context available and up-to-date in your prompt.

Building this context is possible but very poorly served by the modern data stack, given latency and cost concerns (though no doubt Snowflake would love you to attempt it). Yet businesses need to own the details and easily experiment and evolve these pipelines. So what do they do? What are you doing?

Carving out two sub-topics of interest:

- Maintaining external memory in an up-to-date vector DB: This technique seems to require that each document has useful stand-alone context. Or that you can quickly map a match to a broader context. Throwing stand-alone chat messages or interactions into a vector DB seems easy but… not useful.

- Online AI transformations like “Given X & Y, is the user likely to churn? Answer Yes or No” require that you have the full context of X & Y already.

Both problems have the same shape? You need to build up contexts, and you need to do it continuously if you want low latency.

Thesis: I suspect that AI pipelines are a killer application for incremental, deeply stateful stream processing. But I’m very curious for the community’s perspective. Thanks.

[0]: Co-founder of streaming data ops company https://estuary.dev
The specs in the article are really underwhelming. So, what's the story here?
What is Brother doing now? I haven’t heard that with Brother printers and I had one for years.
Even if it's a business decision, so what? It makes perfect sense, Youtube cant charge advertisers for video ads played when the app is in the background.
> None of the related post mentions any other Objective-C framework written from scratch

It doesn't mention Swift frameworks written from scratch either, but the numbers pretty much speak for themselves.

By all means, though, please list the many new Swift frameworks.

> -- https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/102/

I have no idea why you're quoting that at me.
The chat interface they give you gives back a big summary of him with sources. Maybe the recent update helped.
Users that dual/triple boot are terrified that after a security update, their alternative systems wont boot. On my MacBookPro back in 2018/2019, an Win10 update prevented Win10 EFI BootManager from loading Win10 if it was installed on the 4th partition. Its sad how fragile their systems are after all these years.
IIRC you can run rustc on ancient hardware if you compile it yourself. You can't however, compile the compiler on 32 bit hardware due to the 4GB RAM limit
C programs, on the other hand, last for decades. You can take a C program written 20 years ago (using POSIX API) and it will still run just fine today.
yesterday I coded qrpwd - a command line tool to password protect information in a QR code (as a backup for my 2 factor auth backup codes). https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/qrpwd

i say coded, i mean, i directed chatgpt to do it

chatgpt had some issues with the QR content extraction using zxing so I tried Bard.

Bard destroyed totally working code again and again while ignoring the issue on hand.

In the end I googled some stackoverflow posts with working code, fed them to chatgpt and it worked it out.

In my experience, BARD is not up to any coding tasks, while chatgpt - while not perfect - is magic.
Alan Cox has a "Fuzix" repo, that puts together Uzix variants for the Z80.

https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
> Yes, Bard can get yesterday’s stock returns, but so can Yahoo Finance

Off putting when the author puts down a significant and fundamental improvement (having up to date information instead of point in time snapshot) with such a remark that so completely misses the point.
The problem is this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the actual problem. If anything, high ceo pay just tells you the board has been captured by the ceo because shareholding is too dispersed to form a coherent line to push back from and discipline the board by firing them when they overpay the ceo. This isn't a problem, this is actually usually great because ceos are often not old wealth, it is bringing middle class and upper middle class kids that made it into the 1% or 0.1%. That there is so much profit for a ceo to take if they can capture the board is because of the actual problem. The actual problem is structural in two parts, the first part is integrating third world labor has blown a hole in labors pricing power and will continue to do so for another couple generations but should sort itself out. The second part is government has failed at breaking up companies with excess market power and that problem needs people like singh to pull their heads out of their asses and fix it. Unfortunately singh doesn't even comprehend the real problem and that makes him unfit to lead.
Doomerism is catching on because nearly none of those ideas are worth a damn. It's something of an subconscious realization that most environmentalists are not serious people, and most policies are intended to placate the electorate rather than solve anything.

When we see a large scale push for more nuclear power, mass transit, opposition to car-centric neighborhoods, shifting of focus to stopping industrial emissions, acceptance of ideas like geoengineering, as well as various other "unacceptable" ideas, then we will have become serious about climate change. If we want to stop doomerism, we'll have to make a massive shift on how we view the problem. Until then, doomerism is a logical conclusion of how we're actually attempting to solve the problem.
Ah yes the infamous Cocos Islands TLD/file extension conflict.
It's jarring initially, but becomes natural very quickly. Writing loops like "for i in 1:length(arr) ... end" is pretty neat compared to C++ or even python. Plus in math sequences typically start at index 1.
This is exactly what hurricanes do, and a lesser extent cumulonimbus clouds, starting from an atmospheric imbalance to eventually venting tropospheric heat to the upper atmosphere.
I didn’t read the article but after having used typescript for years i got sick of it and all my new projects just use regular js modules with jsdoc comments and I don’t mind it at all.
I compile BGFX + SDL2 for use alongside Rust on WSL without using MSVC and can run the generated .exe directly from the command line. Works fine - the package management is a bit of a pain but not terrible (two commands to install dependencies instead of just `cargo build`), but overall it has worked absolutely perfectly.
I'm almost sold on that one from the author alone. Jeff Pfeffer has a great sound to it.
Cities are getting worse year on year. I'd still be living downtown with kids if a homeless camp hadn't sprung up in a park near by. Suburbia by contrast is far enough from public transport that the homeless can't get there.
Completely agree. Modern software is so much better than old software. Fuck the "ooh it runs on 100MB of RAM" I don't fucking care. All I care about is that it's so much more reliable than before, I can actually get my shit done now.
I don't know what chat interface you're talking about. What I posted is the answer I get when I use https://bard.google.com/
Comparing a brain to anything which encompasses a brain, is tautological. In debate ("arguably", as you say), this is the equivalent of "infinity plus 1", which is a fallacy. So obviously the GP could not have been referencing anything which contains a brain as an "object".
Dunno. I spent a few days diving into TikTok out of a sense of curiosity and a desire to "stay in touch".

I found it got weird quite quickly without any conscious input on my part. Animal cruelty, conspiracy stuff and things that YouTube has never suggested.
Trading in both to just get one, we've identified with our current driving habits we only need one car. I should've clarified that in the post, my bad.
> free speech maximalist

the term is: hypocrisy
Stress is caused by lack of control, in this case due to the inability to predict, and therefore affect, an outcome.

A good example is driving, controlling a vehicle at speed necessitates constantly making accurate predictions. People get characterized as bad drivers largely due to behaving unpredictably.
Can you stop redirecting http to https if there is nothing on port 443 please.

Also zip does not execute.
I do miss the sounds of older, more mechanical machines though. You could be doing something else in the room while your Very Long Task was running, waiting for the silence that signaled it finishing.
> The CEO and the board must serve prison time for things like this.

I'm not sure if it's hyperbole or not. If it's not, what law was broken?

(Honest question. I'm not a fan of this, but I was curious if it's actually illegal.)
That is a really fascinating position, tying it into CAP - damn, I'm going to have to think on this.
Very cool! This might be a good time to mention a JavaScript emulation I made of the EMS Synthi A, which was also present at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (well, the closely-related EMS VCS3 was) and contributed, among other things, to some SFX for Doctor Who:
https://github.com/AlexNisnevich/synthi-js

This was a project from 6-7 years ago and I had to rely on a third-party library for the web audio bits. If I re-did it today, I'd definitely do it all in native Web Audio.
Telecom Egypt completes 2Africa subsea cable installation
Moreso, best is really a matter of perspective.

For some questions I asked, I liked Bards response, for some others I liked ChatGPT. Moreover, Bard is much newer vs ChatGPT had a lot of fine-tuning data from being used for a while now.

The "best" will change over time, and will depend on ease of use, speed, availability, how close they are, rather than just the "best response" to more types of questions.

A Chat app that is good enough, but with better integrations, enterprise support will be used by enterprises. Just like why Meet and Teams gained userbase over Zoom, even though they came in the game late.
lmao, this is straight untrue. how many family members have been lost because of YouTubes insane conspiracy stuff.
I am arguing that the need for capital is not the primary reason co-ops don’t form.

You are talking about something else (I am not actually sure what you are trying to say - you appear to be agreeing with me).

I also gave you two other independent reasons (see QEDs) to fortify my primary argument: I did not give you a three legged chair where you could knock one leg out.
I too have theories, but I'd like to hear the reason. If it was the governments doing, Google can engage the Canadians to help them. Given that they're silent on why, I am led to believe it's Googles bottom line.
> He has taken up a new executive role at telecoms business Lycamobile.

Unbelievable. It’s impossible for people in this caste to fail.
The C64 OS
So distinguish between, you're seeing this content because a company paid us to show it to users like you, and because users like you watch similar things. what if someone pays to have similar users be shown things that give a certain impression? the advertiser didn't create the content or even choose what content, is it an ad?

how would you enforce that? without open sourcing it you'd have no way of knowing why a thing was recommended. giving access only to the government is not possible.
Mentioned in Nielsen's tweet but Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al is very good. It's the basis of life on earth really.
So agreed. Execution long term depends on putting yourself in good technical positions.

It's enormously hard for companies to grapple with this. They not only need to be able to let technical knowledge workers go deep, they also ideally can check & review their teams too, help decide how well things are going.
Maybe none. Everything was done above board, capitalism (growing capital as a core value) worked as intended.

It was immoral and unethical but those are lesser concerns than maximising return on capital invested. Possibly, no law was clearly broken.

We need to outsource some of our lawmaking to ethics boards/commissions if we want to keep capitalism. Otherwise, every other company is now looking to defraud its customers and that’s the only way an endless desire for capital growth (exponential growth expectations from investors) goes.
I like Tik Tok. Even the Chinese propaganda is nice and wholesome.
Why would you assume the market efficiently adjusts for things like fines? Have you seen the stock market lately? There is at best a loose correlation between business reality and stock prices.

Why would there be a 1 to 1 relationship between the price of stocks and reality, when most investing is blind passive investing that ignores reality by design?
> Making a "busybox" style executable that replaces all coreutils

I wonder if DaemonMode (https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl) is the right approach for this, having each of those tools' functionality loaded in the server process, and calling out to them from a client when a tool is invoked.

> a complete base package for sparse matrices, including kronecker products etc.

SparseArrays is a standard library package for sparse matrices and arrays. kron is in the LinearAlgebra standard library. So you can just do

using LinearAlgebra
using SparseArrays

and then do any kron product you want, whether sparse matrices with other sparse matrices, or dense ones, or any other array type.
I am a big advocate for typescript, but I'm sympathetic to the maintainer's concerns. I've had similar concerns about how I'm complicating people's build process by requiring a specific compiler. Not a huge deal for internal projects, but every org has their own idiosyncracies, and requiring typescript could become a huge pain point that leads them to drop svelte. JSDoc can work just as well without the headache, but I've found that text editors don't work as well with JSDoc type checking.
I guess with the entrance of Amazon with Prime, this is becoming more normal now.
A heap of the shoe brands / retailers at least have free returns and shipping (with minimum spend maybe though).
where else was I supposed to put this? https://badday.mov/
From what I've seen, Bard often gives great answers but sometimes it can't answer even very simple questions.
Matter came around after I left, but I believe it is the same as CHIP:
* IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz PHY/MAC)
* 6LowPAN (IPv6 for constrained devies)
* Thread (Mesh network layer)
* UDP or CoAP (CoAP is like http for connectionless networks)

You need a bridge to connect CHIP to the internet (e.g. Apple Home). It was cool to route IP packets directly to lightbulbs from aws, but we don't bridge the networks in practice and all incoming/outgoing traffic goes through the bridge application.
Meddling is worse. If Twitter is blocked, everyone there knows exactly what's going on. If some people are silenced, it's much easier for that to go unnoticed.