skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm aware that Mastodon can talk to them with some success, but AFAIK it is only optimized to present certain types of content, so if you want Reddit-like user experience rather than Twitter-like one you want Lenny.

This is partially true. I run Pleroma, which is a microblogging server like Mastodon, so Mastodon content that federates to my instance shows up identically to my own posts. On a system like Lemmy, when their posts federate to me, what I see natively on my instance is a person posting a link that links to the originating website. I can see some replies inline, but they're linear and not threaded like on Lemmy. However, unlike what you said, still using my @me@my.domain identity, I can click the link from my instance to the Lemmy instance and interact with the content there natively. No need to create a different subdomain. There's no need to host a Lemmy instance yourself if you want to interact with Lemmy instances. Lemmy on the backend is still talking the ActivityPub protocol and it's only the frontend that alters how the posts are presented, so as long as your server speaks ActivityPub, you can use the same identity.
Best thing for me is the extra 2 hours gained by not commuting. Saves so much stress.
> There is ample evidence of competition

There is?
It would actually be useful to make a camera that does the opposite. When you snap a crappy photo, it searches the web for a better photo taken in the same spot, perhaps by a professional photographer with a better camera!
>But Google is so bad these days, that ChatGPT in many circumstances can do much better even while being far from perfect.

Can you give some examples of how ChatGPT “does better” than a human searching for something and then using their own cognition to make sense of it?

If Google was an LLM then I’d agree with you, but the idea that googling something somehow skips the step of using critical thinking to understand what is on your screen seems pretty new to me.
On the other hand, somewhat in the style of NP-Completeness, it is often easier to verify that something is correct than it is to generate it from scratch. Even if I can't cook, I can say it's a tasty meal (:
Gaming on a proper 4K native display is superior to 1440p: I have both, and the clarity is worth it. In my opinion of course!
>Actually, having dumb models is the surest way to completely screw up your controllers design, since you’re now left with no other places to write your business logic in.

There is such a place: model
nice tower, i wish chieftec still made them
> It did bring uncolored async to the mainstream

I believe that uncolored async (Erlang) precedes colored async (python)

Correction: c# was the first language with colored aaync, still way after Erlang
> Cautioning its own workers not to directly use code generated by Bard undermines Google's claims its chatbot can help developers become more productive

The definitive definition of irony o_O

This reminds me of two pictures that were circulating on social media a while ago. The first was Zuckerberg holding a book while billions of people are wasting their time in endless scrolling in the Metas; the second was that Turkish chef known as Burak eating a healthy lite salad.

The bottom line is that we sell stuff that we are not convinced to consume.
Mastodon (and Lemmy) had the opportunity of its lifetime and failed to capture it. It honestly feels like crypto with lots of smart people wasting time on a doomed concept.
Surely it’s current draw? Wouldn’t the printer always operate at line voltage?
"completely static" has a gotcha though. I was getting segfaults yesterday because libc was removed from my docker image.

I had to add `CGO_ENABLED=0`
I don't think it's fair to say they "mentioned" JS, because that implies they held it in high regard re: the point the article is making.

They just used it in a code example. Since that is likely the most common language among their audience, it makes sense.
No citation at hand, but one study recommended sub 15 minute naps. I set my timer to 12 but usually want to get up after 10 minutes.
The fact their headquarters are in the US isn't the relevant bit - it's the fact that they operate in Europe that's important. Figma and Adobe could withdraw their offerings from Europe and they'd be free to do what they want, but that's not very likely.

If you want to operate globally you have to accept the laws of the places where you do business. You can't just say "but HQ is in 'merica so screw you" and expect to continue trading in those countries.
I agree that monorepo does not make a fundamental difference. Still it makes it easier for some undesirable things to happen.

The tainted code can become a critical dependency. It can get copy-pasted elsewhere. An engineer could look at the code before writing their own (obviously not illegal per se but makes it harder to repeal bullshit claims later). An engineer can just write similar code and then have no way to prove they didn't look (ditto).
> That's about as useful as saying Democrats sit on the left and Republicans on the right. It does not produce any understanding at all.

Then I think you misunderstand the quote. There is a very clear message in it.

> And for the record, you can substitute Conservatism for Progressivism and the statement would carry no less veracity, and the same utility.

No, you cannot. Progressivism is fundamentally based on moving towards equality, conservatism is not. This is why conservatism makes sense in the previous quote and progressivism doesn't.
A descriptive error message beats any stack trace. A stack trace does not actually tell you anything that's particularly interesting, there is a ton of irrelevant information and it's generally missing the values bound to the arguments and variables.
Validation logic needs to be spread throughout the system because your validations are all context sensitive to the operations being performed. It's not always possible to front-load that into a simple schema in your transports and each component needs to be correct in its own domain.
Fun fact, the third byte of the last argument to the Windows BitBlt function describes a 3 bits -> 1 bit function (inputs being source, destination and brush) in exactly this way.

However, the two bytes below encode the formula for the function, so that the transfer could be JITted more easily. This is not really necessary, since you could just use 512 bytes for the mapping, but memory tradeoffs were different back then...
This sounds very similar to the device from LightOn.AI that was discussed here at the end of 2021.[1]

That device used random projection[2] to do the work. Daralthus pointed out in the other thread that it's really useful for dimensionality reduction.

I'm not sure if that's the same operating principle in this device or not.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29701976

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_projection
Another thing we can learn from them.
A statement doesn’t have to be true to be justified.

The example I’ve heard of knowledge that is believed, untrue but justified is “porcupines can shoot their quills”.

A tribe that believes this fact is more likely to stay away from porcupines, and even though porcupines do not in fact shoot their quills, over time this superstition is beneficial to the tribe as their neighbors are more likely to get hurt or killed by dangerous porcupine quills.

Judaism taught long before modern germ theory revealed why it was beneficial in a purely rational sense that burying feces and ritualistic hand washing were important to please God.
Yea, I find go's concurrency very error prone compared to something with futures.

I've even got a library for using futures in Go.
https://stephenn.com/2022/05/simplifying-go-concurrency-with...
Sorry but why not just give the entire plot back to the Esselen tribe, from whom it was stolen, rather than just selling them (!) a fraction of it?
Which is why "hallucination" is really the wrong word to use, "confabulation" would be more proper. But "hallucination" has stuck because it's the word used back when people first figured out the trick of running image classifiers "in reverse" to generate images from noise.
Alternative interpretation: people with larger brains tend to nap more
Bing chat is already GPT4 with an internet connection.
There already are such companies, but they aren't that visible, because they don't have VC money to burn in order to grow, so they have to do it organically, which usually means slower.
Yeah lol I was surprised when I read that. Came across as a joke.
Well there are 2 issues:

(1) imperative style mutation of the prototype is runtime dependent, and typescript can't really rely on runtime behavior.

(2) Foo has two incompatible types in JS, it is both `(s) => void` and `new (s) => Foo`, typescript by default will assume the first signature (which is usually what people want).

In any case, you can specify the types (though in 99% of the cases, just use a class):

interface Foo {
s: string;
bar(): void;
}

const Foo = function(this: Foo, s: string) {
this.s = s;
} as {
new (s: string): Foo;
(this: Foo, s: string): void;
};

Foo.prototype.bar = function(this: Foo) {
console.log(this.s);
}

const baz = new Foo('Hello');
baz.bar()
Initially, it wasn't. Every new term is new only for a certain time. The way these terms are being used in the media can lead to semantic bleaching, which is why from time to time new terms are made up.

In the end, this doesn't change anything about what it is. It's a somewhat slow process with a big lag between action and outcome. Using terms to describe this that typically are reserved for events that are fundamentally different in nature (much shorter time scales, short lag between actions and outcome, etc.) is counter productive.

We have to grow up and learn to look at it from a calm, non-panicky view point and take action where action makes sense in the context of our lives (not only from a reductionist view point that only looks at the climate and nothing else). Maybe even more importantly, we have to learn how to be fine with not taking action where it doesn't make sense and would come with a high probability of making things worse.
It's an interesting idea, but email verification is apparently broken.
If he did indeed say that, it goes to show how yucky the future looks like the more business and tech leaders look up to Musk’s playbook.
> Create an operating system specifically for the database and make it so you boot the database.

I have the impression that this is similar to the adhoc filesystem idea; this seems in principle very advantageous (why employing two layers that do approximately the same thing on top of each other?), but in reality, when implemented (by Oracle), it lead to only a minor improvement (a few % points, AFAIR).
Taking into account that all the currently existing living beings on Earth depend critically on the affinity of phosphate for water, which enables it to extract the water from other chemical substances (creating macro-molecules or releasing energy), then it is not surprising that separating the water from phosphate is difficult.

It is not clear however if this is more difficult than the traditional path for obtaining phosphorylation products. Presumably those who have published this research should have been aware of this.
Cool! He seems like a powerhouse in this space - thank you for the answer
Hacks work on computers where no leeway is given either way. In the legal world, this would be an indication that you knew that what you're doing will be challenged and might get an extra penalty for it.
PWM flicker probably
Does your UPS have a plug for laser printers, or just for printers?

It might be assuming an inkjet, which have much lower power draws: an inkjet will draw maybe 50W. A laser printer are generally in the mid-hundreds at least and some models can get into the high hundreds to low kW, you need a pretty heavy UPS to handle that and still power other systems.
Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Hacking Back
Manufacturers blur this distinction on purpose to sell cheaper items
golangci-lint does not come batteries included. It is a third party library. Saying it's "part of the standard set" is really disingenuous
Because they both operate in the EU, have customers in the EU, make money in the EU, and have legal presences in the EU. Generally, any merger of large multinational corporations will require multinational approval - the US and EU at a bare minimum, often also the UK, Japan, China, and any other countries with strong regulatory regimes where one of the companies has a major/critical presence.

Any one of these countries can block a merger if they see an antitrust issue; Qualcomm and NXP found this out the hard way with China a few years ago, and Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are finding that out with the UK right now. Of course, these companies could flip off China or the UK and just merge anyway, but then they'd risk being subject to crippling fines, having their local assets seized, and even being barred from doing business in that market altogether.
what? You can definitely continue a conversation after the token limit is reached, you just need to provide it a reply, and the context might be pruned at some point.
Fosstodon posts that are on my home feed from other instances like this: https://imgur.com/6ToDHHm which is from floss.social load up instantly

Looking at the image source despite it being uploaded to another instance it's hosted on Fosstodon: https://cdn.fosstodon.org/cache/media_attachments/files/110/...

That said when I see posts linked to Mastodon on HN I do notice that maybe the HN Hug of Death hits them hard as they are noticeably slower to load than my day to day interaction with Mastodon, maybe this is what you're seeing?
Small government would not have public universities...

So maybe that would be first step for one.
Duplicate 5 days ago. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36331446
France wants to build OpenAI's competitor
Because we're actually quite bad at understanding people's motives (e.g. fundamental attribution error). Not to mention the various ways information gets biased as it flows through people and institutions.
> In my experience, even better than a 30 minute nap is a 15-30 minute Non-sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) or yoga nidra session

this is a published study that measured physical brain size over the long term, and not a suggestion that you'll feel better. What you are suggesting is not comparable in any way.
> On the other hand, Google is a search/ad company... I'd think they'd be the most interested in integrating search/facts into an llm.

At its core, an advertisement is made of two components: the subject - a store, a brand, a product, etc. - with which the victim is supposed to develop positive associations, ideally strong enough to motivate a purchase and/or advertising the subject to their acquaintances, and the message, which is meant to create those associations. Only the first part, the subject, has to be factual. The message does not, and in fact it usually isn't - manipulative bullshit performs much, much better, and generally the optimum for advertising seems to be asymptotically close to the line past which it would be legally fraud.

The only factual part, the subject, needs accurate handling, and is best suited for classical database systems - which is exactly how Google, and everyone else, is handling it. The message part - that's a good match to LLMs, which excel at producing convincingly sounding bullshit. For advertising, it seems what you need is to crank up the hallucinations a bit, but have some plausible deniability built into the whole system, so that when the LLM hallucinates in too obvious a way, no one can actually be held responsible.
> Me: What are some questions you cannot answer?
> FastGPT: I apologize, but I do not actually have the ability to determine what questions I cannot answer. I am Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic.

Good to know ;)
There were layoffs in the big tech companies, but the sector itself is strong. Still very low unemployment. They over-hired. It happens. It's been a relative minor correction.
Disasterous Experiment: the real rason behind hated return to work push
The way Bing Chat works is by providing a full copy of the GPT response whenever a new token is generated. It gets replaced when it produces something that's a no-no. Put Edge into dev mode and you can see the sequence of JSON responses, but possibly not the word that trips the filter.

I couldn't get it to acknowledge that Queen Elizabeth II had died. Apparently the natural death of a monarch (or probably any head of state) is censored, but that means it couldn't talk about Royal succession at all. (May be fixed now.)
Checking the chat, it appears it is filled with a lot of low-effort type stuff, something akin to a twitch chat. Are these personal friends or something? I like the idea but that chat ruins it a bit.
I like the idea in general but I just can't manage to fall asleep quickly at night after a nap. Any tips?
The compiler copies a part of itself directly into the new compiler binary (i.e. it is a type of quine)

If a bug causes that copy mechanism to make the "part to be copied" one byte larger than it should be, then each time the compiler compiles itself then that part, and therefor the compiler itself, will be one byte larger than the time before.
$() is a quote, like ``, and the "$file" is entirely within it, so it should work.
Regarding making language, I think the human mind hallucinates not unlike GPT. Humans say a lot of stuff because they feel vaguely it is true. So does an LLM when it talks about things it’s underfitted for.

Anyways, hallucination is a term in generative AI. It means that the model produces results inconsistent with their training data. Or that’s what people say, sometimes the training data is just not that good.
I don't get it. Why should I use this instead of a basic timer?
It was a bug.
> There is a group of people that are ardent in the conviction that if we wait long enough and wish hard enough that ChatGPT will replace the concept of googling things.

Have you tried Phind?^[1] The project explores exactly how an AI-driven search tool might look like.

The thing that really makes it shine, is that it doesn't only make claims per text, but that it also provides source links that it has already scraped for info.

[1]: https://www.phind.com/
It is frustrating to read Java code. I don't want to understand your abstractions or class definitions like final, static and whatever.

I don't want to learn about Gradle or Maven to understand how a package is working, I'd rather do it in code.

Consider even the current "Hello, world" example in Java (Yes, I know about the proposal about simplifying it), it is tedious, why would I need to understand public/private and classes before launching a simple program?

I fully agree it is a terrific piece of software, especially for industry-grade applications, yet it just isn't attractive.

Main thing IMO, is that you can start out writing pretty good Go code after 24 hours and just improve on your skills as a general programmer. With Java, after a few months you would still need to know about some methods or OOP tips/tricks, design patterns etc. to become proficient.
A database has to handle situations outside its control, e.g. someone cutting the power to the server. That should not result in a corrupted database, and with Postgres it doesn't.

The fundamental problem is that when you're sharing memory, you cannot safely just stop a single process when encountering an unexpected error. You do not know the current state of your shared data, and if it could lead to further corruption. So restarting everything is the only safe choice in this case.
Either swear or don't, but your comment looks strange in its current form.
> I think it's meant to imply the solution given in their username ("idiomatic Rust").

I think "Idiom: a tic (Rust)" can also fit if I squint hard enough and decide it looks like a definition from an online dictionary :-)
I don't see how they said that Googling skips critical thinking. The issue is that for a lot of queries, Google returns a bunch of content mill pieces that have similar quality to ChatGPT. ChatGPT tends to be more focused on what you asked for, while the content mill pieces are deliberately written to keep you reading as long as possible without answering the question.
The importance of regular backups on production couldn't be stressed enough. Even in the old days of XAMPP and millennial tech, folks used to take regular mysql backups because they knew that even if the tech stack was robust, the hosting providers can raise their hands any moment.

With Google and Amazon AWS nowadays, we have this increased sense of carefree attitude thinking that these deities will take care of us and our data whatever may come. But remember that deities can fail too at times, they are just another technology company in the end, only with a bit more stock value and narrative power than others.
I don't see how that's a useful clarification. It's very clearly brighter than 100% SDR white.
is this similar to java's try with resource?
The real rabbit hole is when you start looking into the frequency response of your eardrums
Does Microsoft Expression Blend count? Though that was discontinued over a decade ago, and was only capable of designing for WPF+Silverlight - it was also the first product I worked on at Microsoft - and I never heard of anyone ever actually using it for its intended purpose.
>> If you can't write the code yourself

> that I could write myself

I don't think your comment is very relevant, given how they specified it.
Have you tried GPT-4? You might be surprised at how much better it is that the free version. It genuinely dies provide good answers to most things you can throw at it. More to the point language models seem to become knowledge models if they get big enough
When I was 13-14 there was a brief period where I was making levels for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2. I had a “clan” encouraging me to make us our own level and it was simple enough that at 13 I could listen to some Disturbed on my headphone while learning how to use the tooling and follow tutorials to make stuff and get things up and running. It had a basic scripting language (cog files) that you’d use to make elevators move and things like that. You’d attach these cog files to in game objects and it was a very good intro to games and level design. I think that was definitely my foot in the door for thinking like a coder.

Unfortunately Unreal Tournament became extremely popular right after this and thirteen year old me couldn’t wrap his head around C++, and didn’t have anyone to help me, so my learning journey ended for about 12 years or so until I learned to code in my mid 20s. I’ve still never picked up video game design again, despite consuming them a decent amount. Stuff just got too complicated.
Except most normal people don't use their corporate email address for personal stuff.

I've always used a custom domain for my main email addresses and whenever I've had to give it to someone else verbally it inevitably leads to some amount of confusion. At the very least they get thrown off by the fact that I didn't say gmail/outlook/yahoo after the @ and I have to repeat the domain name.
Depends on whether they threw out the key and crypto shredded. Contact support immediately and keep escalating like your life depends on it. You _might_ be able to recover it but chances are slim.
That sounds like it was trained on a broke training set, such as the Scots Wikipedia: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/