skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point, there is a difference; The answers are often wrong, and more-wrong the more complex the question gets.

They're only able to answer simple (relative-to-the-model's-size) straightforward reasoning questions. Which is a nice party trick, but not broadly useful.

They can however tell you how to convert that problem into steps that can be run in an algebra system.

Usually they can't do that very well either. Converting a problem from one description to another is algebraic reasoning, subject to the issues already mentioned.

What they can do is summarize general instructions and documentation, provided adequate training data was available.

They're neither trained on such problems, nor is that a goal for LLMs

Yes. But LLMs keep being pushed for tasks that heavily involve abstract reasoning, which is dangerous as they're unsuited for it. (E.g. Any code generation that isn't mere empty boilerplate.)
I never implied that in my comment.
No source code, no thanks.
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Ooh, just when I needed one! Will try it, thanks for sharing :)
NAT is not because you lack address space. NAT is for anonymity and for having a single point of control. (The same reason people use SSH jump hosts.)
But Sundar really needs that sweet sweet cash influx from parents getting new chromebooks for their children.
Quick recap of a rebranding mess:

- X axes a renowned, recognizable tech brand

- X was done hastily, without proper planning

- X won't be a dictionary word, hardly a verb, not anything cultural

- X means nothing really, like a branding "*", the algebra/programming x, even more generic than "meta" or "alphabet"

- X is another gazillion brands, logos and trademarks

- X is impossible to search

- X is so X-Rated

- X certifies that Elon is nuts and has no idea what to do with this acquisition

- Users are vowing to resist, refraining from using X whenever possible

But it DOES make sense in Elon's World:

- Twitter as we know it is gone anyway, so we might as well call it... X

- X is his SpaceX thing, his pre-PayPal made-me-rich thing, his fetish letter, his Rosebud

- X is like sex, like Tesla models S,3,X,Y - a cool "bro" brand, fits Elon Musk maturity level very well because sex sells (at least for cars and rockets it does)

- No need to search for X. Search is dead. X is the new search, especially once it becomes a (sentient?) AI [1] https://x.ai

- X creates user resistance, friction and backlash, which means it's polarizing and Elon only thrives in polarized ecosystems

- Polarization arouses the media so much it will have free press for a while

- It sounds like something out of a Marvel movie. Like a villain's world-threatening crime syndicate.

- "It's just X, just fucking X, it's really badass dude"

My take on this:

- Twitter had to rebrand anyway if it were to evolve into a disrupting Musk company - it made no sense to just be the old, stagnated Twitter minus headcount, moderation and ad revenue. Another logo or word by itself would not cut it or be up to the task. It had to be something in-your-face like... X.

- X stock will probably soar when it hits Wall Street (again). The marketing actually feels solid or at least more in line with his other companies, and definitely stronger than Alphabet and Meta's wishy-washy rebranding. Now X Corp needs to deliver new moneys, beyond the dwindling ad revenue to prove itself as a Google and Meta's worse nightmare.
Here is the problem with that. If Google does continue to support the product “forever”, then 20 years from now when a major vulnerability is exposed, they will have to fix it or perform a recall or something.

I saw this first hand when the large medical device company I worked for put in extraordinary effort to support a legacy product, well past its original intended lifepsan. It was costing a lot to keep support reps trained, make supplies, keep engineers around, etc. etc.

Then the FDA decided that there was a “security vulnerability “ and we had to recall all of them. Well yes no shit the device with a 25 year old wireless protocol has some issues.

After that, the executives realized that legacy product on the roster was just a giant risk, and we now explicitly End Of Life things….
>modern browsers don't support TLS 1.0.

Out of curiosity, did you need to use a non-modern browser to create this thread and post on it?
Romans...
Lots of the world's languages have exactly five vowels corresponding to [a], [e], [i], [o], [u], but Japanese is a bit unusual in that the Japanese [u] is unrounded, so it can be more precisely (narrowly) transcribed as [ɯ]. Spanish has a more "typical" set of five vowels. You would presumably be understood all right if you used Spanish vowels in Japanese but you wouldn't sound like a native, so pronouncing [ɯ] correctly usually wouldn't be one's first priority in learning Japanese. In Russian and Turkish, on the other hand, you would have to make a distinction between [u] and [ɯ]. (I'm not an authority on any of this; I just dabble in phonetics.)
> pulling teeth or writing COM controls in C++ in the 90s

You can have the same experience today, if you feel like authoring COM in C++/WinRT for WinUI 3.0.

Quite modern. /s
> So proposing to install Linux instead, with all the configuration hassle that implies, is not really realistic I'm afraid...

Muhammad and the mountain situation.
> I think it took years of training to turn a soldier into an effective sarissa user.

AFAIK sarissa is a no-brainer without even ability of operating this weapon with one man. That allowed Alexander to take a lot of captured Persian men with no training under realy trained Greeks standing somewhere in more safe places of the formation. Miyamoto Musashi considered a spear as a king of weapons. But I am not a historian and all I told here is just an opinion, not a fact.
Ahoy did a really good deep dive into what should count as the first video game on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc
Not trying to argue one way or another, but this kinda sounds like trying to reason about rock erosion caused by water by watching a mountain stream flow for 5 minutes.
Do you do this same analysis for every purchase you make? Maybe the sandwich shop you bought lunch at used your money to buy a pizza for the owner & her wife, neither of whom worked at the store that day and made your lunch. Does that upset you? It's a business. Money comes in, money goes out, product gets made. Either pay them for the product you like, or don't. It's up to them how they use the money they get.
OK, so what is your favorite explanation then? You seem to imply /something/, maybe just be explicit about it?
It might not be a killer app for you, but it's a killer app for me as an engineer, and I'm definitely not alone.

To give a concrete example, I used it to write and test a VSCode extension that provides autocomplete and type-checking for environment variables in 46 programming languages[1]. It was the first VSCode extension I've written and I have zero experience in the majority of those languages. The whole project took a little over a week. Without ChatGPT, it would have taken months to add support for so many languages.

1 - https://www.envkey.com/integrations/vscode
You don't think that targetted "harassment" (e.g. publicly calling them dangerous people working against the interests of almost all of us) is called for when they advocate for and actively attempt design a system designed to take away power from us all as individuals?

What would justify targetted harassment, then?

> by asking Chrome users to abandon it fast.

More productive? Or just utterly ineffective?
Yep, have been for at least three years with Sway. Maybe one or two before that with GNOME before the keyboard bug bit me

These are the only X things I still use (via XWayland):

~ $ xlsclients
outerheaven das-keyboard-q
outerheaven steam
~ $

Most things do Wayland natively, not requiring much hassle.

The exception tends to be Chromium or Electron based things. Depending on what release they based on, they may need arguments to encourage Wayland use.

Usually --ozone-platform-hint=wayland suffices, though I recommend research of your own. ie: the WaylandWindowDecorations feature

Games benefit from gamescope:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

Screen sharing has been relegated to my browsers because they know how to work with pipewire/xdg-desktop-portal... while the misc. telecom clients lag by a decade

As for why? It feels much more polished once setup.

Mixed refresh rates work properly, for example. I have two 144Hz and one 160Hz display - logs are legible as they fly by at full speed
Chemical processes are random because they consist of events that happen when atoms and other things randomly interact with one another as they move around and transition between states.

What would it mean for a chemical process to be "inevitable"? Merely that it has a very high probability of happening?
I mean, neither do I, but I'm giving the poster above me the benefit of the doubt, and also kinda recognizing that -- even though I can't think of a concrete example right now -- there's almost certainly a situation where there IS a cultural norm that is otherwise acceptable, but antithetical to a particular platform, so the question is still valid, IMO.
In Safari for iOS 17, I am seeing a gray inline box appearing on some websites asking about "disabling tracking detection" (or something like that). It looks suspicious as if it is part of the webpage, and not part of Safari. Anyone know if it's legit?
Unfortunately, it’s not a fringe opinion that speech is similarly dangerous and should be similarly regulated.

It’s also not clear that the US government can compel you to reveal a password, much less compel you to incriminate yourself.
Earliest curry in Southeast Asia and the global spice trade 2000 years ago
Nuance, but the lights on the Nimatron appear to be the game display (not so with pinball) making it a little more legitimate as the first ... um ... electronic-visual game.
Theranos failed, but other blood-tech companies are trying to automate tests
>if the source were available with reproducible builds

Does Signal itself even have reproducible builds?
Not sure it's just security. I wonder if it's also that people don't host important services on non-redundant machines as much anymore.
> the protocol that forwards the windows is purposefully dumb and doesn't support 3D acceleration at all

This is a major reason I haven't tried QubesOS yet. Thanks to Nvidia I've seen what happens when you run a desktop with a browser without hardware acceleration and it sucks. CPU cores get pegged with basic scrolling or video playback and power consumption is simply unreasonable.

Perhaps if I were a human rights activist or a journalist I would use it, but I'm not.
It's still a concern because there will be users reflexively pressing enter without checking what they pasted if it's the expected value most of the time.

Meanwhile there is zero benefit for letting websites manipulate the clipboard or intercept basic browser interactions. This might make sense for applications but that's just another argument why those shouldn't be forced into the same browser as websites.
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But how else would these freckled ninnies know when sarcasm is implied, if not spelled out explicitly for them in the form of some putrid postscript marking?
And here I thought for a second this would be a story about a professor who still uses an old SparcStation today...
This atomisization was essential(?) to industrialize the comfort society. But in any case it failed fundamentally on both the social harmony and environmental sustainability axes.

Social bonds and ubuntu (finding meaning in others) is something we naturally do. It doesnt take particular superhuman virtue. The question is whether there is an escape path away from the black hole trajectory we are currently falling-in and towards a more meaningful, sustainable and balanced future.
Many textbooks and scientific resources describe phenomena from hundreds of millions of years ago as "indisputable facts", this include everything from the origins of life on earth, to the big bang theory, what happens in black holes, formation of the solar system and galaxy, how geology has evolved and many more. Additionally they make pseudoscientific predictions about exactly when and what will happen millions of years in the future. For instance the sun will turn into a red giant in "approximately 5 billion years". I don't know why they try to pass off so many theories as facts, probably a bunch of science politics combined with hubris and unwillingness to admit what we don't know.
Recreating YouTube’s Ambient Mode Glow Effect
I also notice and appreciate that Kagi returns older results while Google continues to push newer webpages. I have found so many useful results from perfectly fine content on older webpages. At this point, I’d be extra happy if Kagi had a Web 1.0 filter that focuses on basic html websites.
I agree. It has been indispensable for learning tensorflowjs, pytorch, and lots of other things about neural networks.
If that's the case on earth then life would be impossible, no? The sun provides constant low entropy energy to the planet that fuels chemical reactions. We see this support life starting at the bottom of the food chain, plants etc, which then supports the rest of life. That works the same way, providing energy for chemical reactions that build things by harvesting the energy. Like plants do, just with simple molecules.
Author is right about one thing for sure: Nature's Metropolis is a hell of a book.
It was pretty funny ... and pretty clear.
Because in many cases people don't bother giving the real answer once a comment already has an answer, especially a highly upvoted one.

I'm fine with indirect, "question-the-premise" comments, but they should be posted as comments, not answers, because they are in fact not answers.
Can slow breathing guard against Alzheimer's?
There is a typo in that link, extra space in the word "made" -july-2023-mad e-much-more-

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-nort... e-much-more-likely-by-climate-change/
The new @font-face syntax
"It's always 0.03 min that are deducted from your /balance per every second of a voice/video note."

Why this strange format, instead of deducting 1 second per each second of translation?

0.03 minutes are actually 1.8 seconds, so you're deducting 1.8s every 1s, more expensive than it seems.

Also check the deposit amounts, because 360 minutes ($3.99) + 120 minutes ($1.99) amounts to 480 minutes ($9.99?) instead of 480 minutes ($5.99)
There's still no practical armor, in 2023, that could protect anyone from a crossbow at short to medium ranges.

So it does seem believable, that when compared to a 17th or 18th century musket, the crossbow was still the obvious choice.
> Note: time works against chemical processes since the organic chemical compounds decay, keep that in mind when creating a hypothesis.

This caveat does not seems to make sense to me, the advantage of time is that you run the experiment over and over, if one particular run of the experiment fails and then the organic chemicals involved decay, that doesn’t mean time isn’t still on your side.

Also keep in mind that the experiment is run on an absurd number of planets and of we can only be around to ask the question on the planet where it worked out.
so what's the difference with QA+pentesting+tdd?

what do you verify?
Namecheap sent me NFT bullshit in a newsletter, I'd use porkbun or cloudflare if you use cloudflare.
> Not to be Debbie downer but there’s been a cultural shift in the liberal establishment

More accurate to say the establishment shifted away from liberalism.
Me feels like the usage of "inevitable" is to try to push the discussion toward religious and god or something like that.
Feedback

- Privacy would definitely forbid many people to use this. Make it offline, app or offline deployable ... would help.
- obviously translations into other languages
yeah, it's pretty fun

also cool that you can use it for free
Raise VC or Bootstrap?
David Daneshgar, a founder who has been a co-founder at both:
- A venture-backed startup that raised millions
- A bootstrapped business

Shares what's good & what's bad and why he now prefers bootstrapping over raising external capital.

Topics Discussed:

- David's transition from professional poker player to raising venture capital for his previous startup BloomNation and then starting a bootstrap business.
- David's exit journey from BloomNation and the recapitalization process they went through.
- The power of bootstrapping and making the right decisions for your business.
- Tips and advice on raising venture capital and the importance of finding out early if your business idea is viable.

Listen to the full episode on the Fundraising Demystified (https://blog.thunder.vc/funding-101/raise-vc-or-bootstrap).

What's better in your opinion bootstrapping or venture-backed businesses? What do you prefer?
needed this badly haha
> ... to see it as its inhabitants do, ...

What was your point, again?
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The two test pilots who helped test the Chinese Comac C919 prototype all went to the S.A flight school while the rest to the "National Test Pilot School" in California.

Most likely they did military flight training before this but that is how most pilots get their training before moving on to civilian flying considering the costs involved.

It all sounds like BS to me.
Hyper-threading, at least in the beginning, had limited if any performance improvement when enabled. Windows (XP, 7), at least, was faster at work with hyper-threading disabled.

I'm still waiting for benchmarks which show more than a 5% increase in performance with hyper-threading enabled.
I found explorer quite frustrating. I've used polars in python and loved it, but I brought in some financial data and couldn't strip off "£" from the start of a string so I could go on to cast it to a number.

As far as I could tell I would have to bring that data into elixir, do the text processing and put it back into explorer, which to me defeated the whole point of a dataframe library.

I imagine it's good for precleaned data, using it with the built in datasets has been fine
You keep saying that last part and it's meaningless.

The Sun (and sometimes the earth itself) provides energy to the system, and we're talking about a billion years to go from "churning precursors in a hot soup" to "replicating molecular machines".

I mean, what's your alternative theory? The Abrahamic God?
You can. It's just that no browser that supports HTTP/3 will accept it as a legit endpoint with a valid root. So they won't connect to the HTTP/3 endpoint at all and you won't be able to access the HTTP/3 self-signed website.

And before anyone goes there, no, setting up your own root CA is not an option. Unless you get can Google/Apple/Mozilla/etc to include your root CA in their browser trust stores it doesn't help a random person visit your website at all.
TwoPizzaTeam
This may be partly due to television. TV gets eyeballs by providing a constant stream of quick cuts that pander to the brain's addiction. See Neil Postman "Amusing ourselves to death".
"Coke" was a popular synonym for "Coca-Cola" long before the brand formally adopted it. They introduced "Diet Coke" three years before "New Coke" came along. Similarly, terms like "retweet" came from users. Most companies would kill to own brands that have this level of cultural salience and brand engagement, and wouldn't throw that value away.
It's a huge Wikipedia page with lots of information, no you didn't learn all that in middle school.
There's code-server (https://github.com/coder/code-server) which you can install on your own machine and is based off VSCode. However, it doesn't have access to some of the Microsoft VSCode extensions (although there are generally equivalents).
> No - every device would be routable

Exactly. Making my private LAN devices globally routable is literally insane.
a.co → Amazon
maybe it was a few years ago

now reddit is mostly just a random social media with pseudonimity
My amateur-pop-philosophy-science way of thinking of it is that the transition from low to high entropy creates all kinds of interesting and complicated physical patterns along the way. Enough time, and the right patterns, and self-replication could emerge. But it's the externally driven 'stirring' of the low->high entropy transition that makes this possible.

That is, life exists at the barrier between active and cool energy states. Sun to atmosphere/surface, hot planet core to surface/ocean. It's a (extremely complicated) product of these transitions.

So it's not so much about "how can this just happen by chance" as if you think about what life actually is -- a boundary condition between two entropy states -- it makes more sense: There is a stir stick spinning (solar energy & earth's core) in a very complicated long lasting layered beverage (our earth), and life is the clouds of pretty patterns as the layers mix. The self-replication doesn't happen without that stick being stirred. It's not magic, it's just really complicated.

Biochemist Nick Lane writes quite a bit about the alkaline hydrothermal vent theory and it is very compelling. I don't know (bio)chemistry well enough to fully understand it but it's something like (please people who understand this better correct me...)

a) Very early earth had the 'lucky' combination of active hot core and cool (but not frozen) water covered surface.

b) In addition to 'hot smokers', 'warm' (e.g. closer to cell / body temperature) vents exist and existed on the ocean floor.

c) The ocean water was relatively acidic compared to now. But the warm vents had alkaline chemistry.

d) The specific chemical reactions involved (hand waving here) as the warm vents mixed with the ocean created complex molecules, some organic. And some of the products produced were capsules/bubbles with 'walls' similar in structure cells.

e) There's (more hand waving) reactions that can happen across the walls and molecules produced inside the 'cell-like' things.

f) At some point they 'escape' the vent and its energy source. And in escaping 99.999% of them 'die', but eventually one that escapes does so in a way that it can self-sustain from other energy sources.

g) At the same time at some point those proto-cells develop RNA or RNA-like processes internally such that they can reproduce

It's f->g that I guess is the confusing part for me.

But work is being done in the lab to try reproduce this whole process.

In any case eventually the sun and earth will die, all cell machinery will stop, and entropy will have finally had its way with us. It's not a self-sustaining automaton. It requires an externally driven energy transition.
I just ran a 2006 Java code to detect and read car license plate, and it ran in the first run on Java 17. The code is 17 years old and runs just fine without any issues. I think Java folks messed up AI/ML space due to licensing. But I still think it's best PL for AI/ML.
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