skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I meant major. Each of the 3.x releases brings in new features, deprecations, and even sometimes removed features. They are all major releases.

Python doesn't go by semver rules. Semver isn't a definition for all software project versioning systems everywhere.
cenedella.com
I have followed many of these types of posts. In every single instance, no one provides even the _simplest_ amount of evidence. No before/after with the same prompt.

OpenAI even has a whole repository specifically for this - GPT-eval. No one uses it.

I'm not saying the theories are wrong. Maybe there is something behind the hunches that so many people seem to have about degradation. But there isn't _any_ proof. None. Whatsoever. And people are taking _internet comments_ as that proof instead? I mean, sure, it's easy to be cynical about companies in this day and age; which is why I would ultimately believe someone if they provided actual evidence. But, again - not a single ounce of proof has been provided in any one of these threads.

Furthermore, the lack of rigor being applied even with the various anecdotes is appalling.

Which version are you talking about? GPT-4 or GPT-3? Are you using the API or the web interface? Are you aware that output is non-deterministic? Are you aware that your own psychological biases will skew your opinions on the matter? One or more of these questions tend to go unanswered.

Just please, show me some robust proof. If you can't because you didn't think to; you _surely_ must realize that many people are building entire businesses on top of this tech and at least _one_ of them is running these types of evaluations. Furthermore, the model is state-of-the-art for research now as well and if you can _prove_ that there is degradation in the model that they are lying about (in a research paper), you will get citations. And yet, there is nothing. Zilch. Nada.
Las Vegas unveiled its new $2.3B spherical entertainment venue
Nvidia got lucky because every quarterly all-hands meeting Jensen repeated that he kept on investing in CUDA and adding more silicon to the GPUs than strictly needed because, one day, an application would come along that would make it all worth it.

TFA says that Nvidia started aggressively seeding CUDA and GPUs for research in the early 2010s. It was much earlier than that: it started pretty much immediately after CUDA was introduced late 2006. And every new generation there were hardware features added to make GPU programming and porting of applications less painful. The first Nvision conference, precursor of GTC, was in 2008. That’s how you make your own luck.

I’ll never forget when, sometime around 2012?, he answered the question: “aren’t you afraid of Intel?”

His answer: “Not at all. Intel should be afraid of us. We will be bigger than them.” There was not a trace of doubt.
Judging by the posts here and in mainstream media, I doubt that.
One indicator of the intellectually bankruptcy of this article's summary is the equivalence it draws between NIST's framework (which is really just an index of other frameworks), ISO 27001 (a certification), and PCI (a domain-specific audit program). It's an incoherent way to think about frameworks, even if you think there's value in them (I think it's probably clear to everybody that I don't).
PayTM? Just because an app has all these features doesn't mean people actually use all the features.
Use a 2nd email and google voice phone number
It's weird how people always trot out phrases like "I'm just curious" or "I'm just asking questions here" when they try to justify exploitation. Is it so that you have plausible deniability when you inevitably get called on it? Because that doesn't work.
At that point, Amazon would be up there on top competitors to Nvidia.

Google, Amazon, and apple aren't really selling people onsite ai inference or training, so I don't think they're actually competitors.
Cool talk to watch:

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
https://www.dbvis.com/ - been using it for I don't know how many years now. Just enough GUI, and most of what I would use an SQL cli for.
> When you abandon O(N^2) attention, you are forced to start adding heuristics to choose what to correlate. Any time you see one of those giant context window LLMs, you need to be asking what heuristics they added, what is getting correlated, and what is not getting correlated.

Well, having a small context window and everything correlated with everything else is equivalent to having a large context window, but a particularly dumb heuristic.
Humanity Should Split More Atoms: The powerful case for nuclear power
I think this is a false conundrum. We should use as much energy as we sustainably can, without destroying ourselves, if that improves our well being. But not more. And we should also make sure that all humans have good conditions. I think the essence of what makes a good life is surprisingly inexpensive in terms of resources. I believe that planning well, we can achieve a good compromise for everyone involved, with a larger focus on those more in need.

Moreover, energy consumption isn't so significant as emissions per Watt. Our capacity for solar energy could sustain even energy growth without significant emissions. We already have the technology to make the transition.

To reiterate, whatever we do, sitting back and watching the world burn (in an almost literal sense) is not a reasonable option!
They might still be able to if they were sold a codeshare by an EU airline: https://simpleflying.com/eu-261-applied-to-non-eu-carriers/
> Which notable people think we should go back to a pre-industrial age?

It's being suggested quite clearly in some of the most unexpected places. One of the most curious things about the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, is that a great deal of the funding for some of its largest exhibits comes from one of the Koch brothers. Specifically there is the floor sized exhibit on human evolution which repeatedly emphasizes a subtext of adaptation, adaptation, adaptation as the driving force behind development of modern humans. The proponents don't care if this adaptation can also take the form of a misery-soaked return to pre-industrial society in 500 years, they won't be around to deal with it.

But they know that it's an asymmetrically structured argument that is difficult to counter using the language of progressive politics, in which adaptation is also emphasized but of course in different contexts.
You can't pay for celebrities and attract businesses without ads and data harvesting. The point is that the fediverse is not a for profit business.
I remember those "just in case" saves. Sierra loved those 'death screens' I especially liked the Space Quest ones - reload, restart, quit.

In hindsight, they're annoying, and IMHO kind of bad game design. Getting to the end, and finding out that to win the game, you needed some random item from level 1, and now you have to go back and do it all over again..
Seems clear that it’s for bots. And they refuse voip numbers because it’s a hell of a lot easier to buy and generate hundreds of voip numbers.
Neat! Although you'll need to make a copy of `n`. The second loop will reduce the value of n to null.

Edit: Also, there's an off by one error. should be:

#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int run_switches(const char *s, const size_t n) {
int res = 0;
uint8_t tmp = 0;
for (int i = n & 127; i--; ++s)
tmp += *s == 's';
res += tmp;

for (int size = n >> 7; size--;) {
tmp = 0;
for (int i = 128; i--; ++s)
tmp += *s == 's';
res += tmp;
}

return 2 * res - n + 1;
}

~90GB/s on my machine, compared to 4.5GB/s for his best effort on his blog. So 20x as fast.
How about doing everything server side so you are just using a thin client (read: web browser) instead?

See trilium: https://github.com/zadam/trilium
In 2021, no. In 2023, yes. [1]

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/
Having taught college students off and on for 15 years, the only part of the headline I disagree with is the word "might." https://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boos...
I suspect we're in agreement then. My comment was intended supporting material to your claim that the reason people left wasn't the wins by the TAA that became part of the 2010 benefits for domestic partners for state employees but rather that they were done procrastinating entering the job market.
“Honest question bro!”
I believe cloudflare drops if they cannot withstand the level of traffic you’re being hit with, which is an exception to your suggestion. As per other posts, if CF drops you, you won’t be able to build your own ddos mitigating infra without billions. Microsoft and Amazon offer similar services, but I’m guessing cloudflare offers the best resiliency based on ops specific naming of CF.
No one under the age of 40 has seen a record low month. The number if record highs continue to increase, year over year. The number of record lows continues to decrease, year over year. Average humidity increases year over year as the oceans warm.

And the oceans are warming as well.

The climate models Exxon ran in the 1980s predicting widespread warming were frighteningly accurate.

The only way you can rationally argue with the numbers is to provide measurements which indicate the opposite. But you can’t, so you question the motives of those who chose wisdom over polemics.
No market share in server market if you dont count all those server GPUs and NICs and core/spine/tor switches and so on…
... where their workloads can be surveilled.
God save me from working somewhere that I could be punished for code comments.

Who's the narc on your team that would even point it out? It's not like HR has some commit hook on the repos filtering for this stuff...
They should pre-install ublock origin
Trilium

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

And while it does use a db backend, it allows you to extend the interface with inline JavaScript. It’s extremely underrated
Most Difficult Business in the World?
Which business according to you is the most difficult to run.
And if it is so difficult be it operationally or risk wise ,what profit margins do such businesses offer ?
yes it's better now that the hn mods have changed the headline
The `true` constant is always 1. C11 §7.18 (3):

> true which expands to the integer constant 1,

And equality yields a 1 or 0. C11 §6.5.9 (3):

> The == (equal to) and != (not equal to) operators are analogous to the relational operators except for their lower precedence. Each of the operators yields 1 if the specified relation is true and 0 if it is false.
Don't forget the drivers. As someone who just switched from Nvidia to AMD, it is downright painful how bad AMD's implementations of Vulkan and OpenGL are. I might be getting more bang for my buck but damn do I miss not having unfixable glitches.
Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome (2016)
Windows and osx still do pretty well

Merged into main still sounds like a gargantuan endeavor compared to opening a support ticket
Kotlin 1.9 Released
The new K2 compiler enters beta, with full multi-platform support targeted for the stable release.
The choking smoke outside my window from the record wildfires in Canada call bullshit on your claim.
Turing syndrome strikes again
spaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing
If I were a lawmaker in France I would probably not do this, because I have heard of some of the history of France.
The App Store page for Threads lists “Health & Fitness” under the Analytics and App Functionality sections of App Privacy.

I am completely unfamiliar with what that implies or what access would actually be allowed, but I can see how that would raise concern.
Slack in the system and higher ticket prices to support it.
What does this Chromebook have in the position where Caps Lock usually goes?
I made a note for myself to go do this math. You beat me to it and answered the question. Thank you :)

I vaguely recall I did some back of envelope math a couple years back and determined that a natural gas powered heat pump was actually more efficient (in terms of emissions) based on my grid power source mix. Solar breaks that equation obviously.
I mean, silicon aside, isn't it all basically CUDA lock-in?

CUDA is the defacto parallel computing platform, and exciting tech moves VERY fast with early mover advantage - so no researcher\computer scientist is going to bother learning another platform or risk\waste time\effort on their stuff breaking when ported to OpenCL\AMD.

Unless a miracle happens, any new parallel-computing requirement that seizes the popular imagination in the next decade (or more) will done in CUDA.
Nvidia also powers the Nintendo Switch.
The Bobbit Worm Chronicles: https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chro...

tldr: a guy spends a LONG time trying to kill a bobbit worm in his fish tank
If you need to look up any particular location: https://explorer.oikolab.com/explorer

(Data from ECMWF)
Had a similar experience with Turkish. Free flight change but the website didn’t work and every time I called them I got insane price differences that were almost the same as a full flight ticket. I ended up going to the airport sales office and doing it there (still did not come cheap)

Qatar also offers a “5% premium” when you request a voucher instead of a refund. But hey the premium is on the price before some base fees, so the voucher total is almost exactly what you paid, not 105% as you’d expect.
Complacent reactions? What sort of HN reaction will move the needle?
I guess we all forgot that as bad as Musk can be, Zuck is much worse.
Man, I love the idea.

But:
1) It's expensive for most music producers that can't make a single dollar out of their music

2) If you want to reach rich producers the visuals need to improve by A LOT. It looks really amateur, being honest here.
SQLite-ner: SQLite tool to extract entities into a new table using spaCy
I mean I'm not that well versed on it but a quick Google search kinda points to faang, Tesla, and others investing in FPGA for AI things.
I just want auto-renew to work properly sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, lost a couple of high value domain names even tho they've had my CC for years.
I’m talking about self reporting by people I know, as well as what I hear in public online. I think it’s quite obvious I don’t literally look at anyone else’s Twitter feed.
Looks great. But maybe the effort should be going towards scaling up so they can remove the invite only requirement, Threads is going to actively eat Bluesky’s lunch while it remains.
what is worse are people who are just clearly trolling for someone to come help them via vaguebugging.

"hey team, [although not actually on your team] is anyone seeing bugs in the latest release?"

this sounds like i'm about to get sucked into a game of 20-questions, and when you've got an issue tracker with 400+ open issues there's definitely still bugs in the latest release.

just spit the question out:

"i'm with <client> and we're trying to do <thing> and we're getting this error message <paste error message or point at a gist/pastebin if it is long>, is this a bug or are we doing something wrong?"
I agree. I was (poorly) hinting at the desire for a product that would act as such.
Perhaps it's not merely about easy/difficult, but there are other factors as well? Consider that for a moment?

I think physics is very formalized, very sterile, and very rigid. It is often theoretical and abstract (if you're taking classes on it, anyway). I think that these features don't readily appeal to conventional girls. I think girls enjoy things that are immersive, and highly visual/audible, for example ballet, or art, or theatre.

Now my mother has a degree in English literature, and I can see that being a girl thing too, as it is highly verbal and immersive, though not so visual/audible, and literature lets you read great women authors and then gives you the chance to write your own stuff, too. In physics, you can study great engineering and rockets and lasers and stuff, but as for making your own stuff, you're pretty much limited to baking-soda volcanos and water rockets, you know?

Let's not also forget the pre-existing status of physics as a male-dominated field. So if you have male physics teachers and male physicists to study and male-written textbooks and most of your Physics classmates and majors are male, well, I would say that girls don't enjoy being that kind of minority, unless they are activists, and neither do boys enjoy being in a girl-dominated milieu.
Wow you're right. I somehow skipped right over that. I even read it again to make sure I had the context right. I wasn't sure if his mom had literally said "don't do that!" or just inferred it in a tweet like she actually did ("I can't like this")..

Thanks
Post is behind a login wall.
MANY. This is the most annoying case of confirmation bias.

Climatologists make predictions in terms of probabilities. “If emissions go up X amount then we will see Y increase in likelihood of impact Z”. They can’t predict a specific future. Our climate is a single instantiation of many possible climates, and climate prediction is a matter of characterizing the possibilities.

The vast majority of predictions from actual climatologists has/is occurring. From increasing mean temperatures, to increasing hurricane intensity and frequency, to marine life impacts (eg Maine lobsters are migrating so far north they won’t be Maine lobsters soon), to decreasing sea ice, to innumerable ecological impacts. ALL of that was predicted. Accurate temperature predictions go back 150 years.

They can’t predict “sea ice will diminish to exactly this amount by year 2023,” they make probabilistic statements about how mean sea ice will decline per decade. They can’t say “in year 2040 all the lobsters will be gone,” they say the mean lobster population will migrate north to cooler water.

I assume you heard a few reporters make specific claims about a hurricane hitting your town or something, but they missed the point. Maybe you watched too many fictional movies. That line of reasoning is utter propaganda that you’re spreading. It’s antiscientific, unsubstantiated lies.
They better hurry up if they want to be relevant. Time to ship garbage!
Again, I encourage you to read the ruling. It addresses this claim quite thoroughly:

> Traditionally, the First Amendment imposes limitations only on “state action, not action by private parties.” Lloyd Corp., Ltd. v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551, 567 (1972).

> However, plaintiffs “may establish a First Amendment claim based on private conduct if that conduct ‘can fairly be seen as state action.'” Id. (quoting Rendell-Baker v. Kohn, 457 U.S. 830, 838 (1982)).

> the Court instructed that “[i]t is axiomatic that a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” Id. (quoting Lee v. Macon Cnty. Bd. of Ed., 267 F.Supp. 458, 475-476 (M.D. Ala.), affd sub nom. Wallace v. U S, 389 U.S. 215 (1967)).

Essentially: yes, you do not have a right to post on Twitter, you cannot sue Twitter for violating your First Amendment rights. But the courts have repeatedly affirmed that this does not create a loophole for the government to launder unconstitutional acts through private parties.
> It's no wonder that software sucks so much these days, since apparently no one believes in documentation or code maintenance any more.

I think this comment explains why software gets worse in many cases:

> Of course nowadays, this is legacy nonsense. Everything uses UTF-8 for
"char", and what doesn't is broken and terrible anyway. But the old ways
stayed with us, and the stupidity of it as well.

The problem is the "legacy nonsense" tends to accumulate over time & as people depend on it, takes a long time to finally remove.

> They are so hilariously misdesigned and
insufficient, I can't even fathom how this shit was _standardized_.

They did their best given their circumstances & abilities. Now we must forever pay the price.

> Several decades later, the moronic standard committees noticed that this
was (still is) kind of a bad situation. Instead of fixing the situation,
they added more garbage on top of it. (Probably for the sake of "compatibility").

At least they tried...

> All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole
and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked
monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a
radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children
and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.

Yeah! Time to get back to work...

Credit to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36626018 for pointing this out.
This is very true. And it seems to work even better when done by hand instead of typed or cut and pasted.
i don't think anybody really claims python can't be used to build large software

the claim is usually more about how the maintenance costs are just way higher versus a statically typed language
I sort of wonder about that, too -- it's not well reflected in their privacy policy.[0]

An altruistic guess -- maybe another way for them to achieve geolocation if other methods are hindered?

[0]: https://terms.threads.com/privacy-policy
I once let my Hotmail account go 30 or 90 days without a login, so Microsoft followed their policy to delete my email and open the username to the public. Someone saw my email on dns records, found it was available, registered the email and stole my domain.

Extremely bitter about that ~17 years later. Extremely.
Stating that this somehow means it has access to your health information is just straight up misinformation.

I don't even see an option to give it access to health information, which is tightly controlled on iOS.
Not many. We’ve consistently overshoot worst case predictions.

Many of the heat waves, hurricanes and first fires we’ve seen weren’t predicted to occur until 2030s.

People in North America and Europe of course enjoy the best climate and see the effects the slowest from climate change.

One way to accurately judge climate change is to count the number and frequency of extreme events. How many 100 year weather events have you seen? How many 500 or 1000 year weather events have you seen? How many once in human history, like the drought in China have you lived through?
I really do appreciate the effort they’ve gone through there though - they didn’t have to.
It's very mildly annoying when it leads to me staring at slack waiting for you to finish typing, but if that's the most annoying thing that happens on slack that day then it's a really good day.