skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CVRP has a function called CVRP Rebate Now (https://cleanvehiclerebate.org/en/dealer/rebate-now#rb-now-f...) that allows the dealer to credit the rebate as a down payment.

It doesn't change the income eligibility requirements, and the purchaser/leasee has to pre-qualify (by confirming income) 30-45 days before the vehicle purchase.

Without that pre-qualification, the dealer can't get the money back from the CVRP.
>Nope. cf. the under-determination of evidence by theory.

You mean the underdetermination of theory by evidence? This isn't really relevant. Given no prior information and no constraints on the model, the theory is underdetermined. But given some strong constraints, there will be one model that best explains the data. Of course a model can't deal with an arbitrary distribution shift, but no one expects a model to be insensitive to a change in the underlying data. The question is whether the constraints of natural systems and an LLM with a given inductive bias and finite capacity are sufficient constraints. It's not totally clear that it is or isn't, but this isn't decided by the underdetermination principle.

>Nope. cf. we don't have infinite measures on infinite events in the past.

I don't see how this is relevant to the point it is in response to.

>Such a condition is just a formalisation of supersition: my model is decided by the data; my parameterisation is 'free'. My model of the world is cooincidence.

Everything is data in the end; your interactions with the world by touch are just data. Our brains have an inductive bias towards certain interpretations of certain data, and these interpretations tend to promote proliferation in organisms. But LLMs have an inductive bias as well, one that allows them to search for circuits that generate training data. LLMs tend to land on interesting models that result in non-trivial generalization abilities in some contexts. This ability goes beyond just frequency modeling. Of course LLMs are limited to what it can know of the world through its data paradigm. But so are we. Such a limit in itself doesn't imply an in principle limit to modeling/understanding in LLMs.
Exactly what I came here to find out, thank you.
>> The author is using ChatGPT's GPT-4, leading him to conflate "GPT-4" with "ChatGPT".

For the last three years or so every time someone reports negative results with an LLM, someone on HN will say the other person must be using the older model and they would get better results if they used the newest model. Then, when the newest model becomes common and people start posting more negative results with it, someone will post on HN to say "It's still early days, give it time, the models will improve".

This is such massive shifting of the goalposts that I can almost visualise the scene: a football stadium, the crowd jeering, two teams moving their goalposts around the pitch while the referee is jumping up and down blowing his whistle red in the face, in risk of swallowing the pea.

And nobody is playing ball.

* football = soccer.
No, programming jobs aren't going to be getting easier, expectations are going to go way up, as is value produced per hour worked.

Whether that is reflected in wages depends on negotiating power and its effective use, it could all go into shareholder equity rather than
wages.
Ask HN: Create new Instagram profile bug?
I tried today to create an secound instagram account an allways got the "your account is permantently blocked" message at the end. Does someone have experienced this or somthing similar ?
Netscape used to come with a browser, a mail client, a newsreader, an HTML editor.

We've moved beyond that now, why worry about a browser being able to read Gopherspace or Gemini pages? Putting those into dedicated browsers of their own has been the perceived action for some time.
On HumanEval, Copilot is 40+ on pass@1 comparing to 26 for stable code 3b.

HumanEval is abused but this model is only good for its size, it is no match for Copilot … yet
Careful, you might end up with the return of your Obra Dinner.
That doesn't violate the GDPR. For a cookie to violate GDPR it has to trace back to personally identifiable information, not just "a uuid'd session". The number of people that get this wrong is staggering.
Akismet is a paid service and their apis are tailored for comments. An advantage with comments is that you can just mark as spam if some contents have dubious links or keywords.

An issue you have in many forms (e.g.: login form) is that there is limited data to decide if it's a real user or a bot.
Crap...I think our .NET devs use this. They're gonna be just thrilled they've got to find another solution.
Is any content in this blog particularly relevant to Easyful's reason for existence or are you just mentioning it because you enjoyed the post?

(I remember reading it when Sahil posted that first, as a fellow bootstrapped tech cofounder but I don't remember anything of note from there to discuss re: Easyful)
I code faster in types languages. I find typed code easier to read and understand. A lot of writing new code is just reading and understanding existing code.

So the claim doesn’t sound so crazy to me. For me at least, types remove mental overhead, they don’t add to it. I can’t count the times I’ve been reading through untyped (or inaccurately typed) python code and have had to jump a dozen levels deep just trying to figure out if a function can or cannot return null.
Chiming in to confirm that I've tried several of the prompts verbatim and obtained perfectly good answers with sound reasoning from GPT-4. If I add any chain-of-thought markers such as "reason step by step and state your assumptions," response quality further increases. Assuming the author is reporting honestly (and did not, for instance, repeat queries with high temp until getting a bad response), this must have been an extremely unlucky run.
Oh maybe it’s iOS 17 only? I’ve got the option there in maps to download any area offline and have the city I’m in downloaded.
How does the book purchaser verify the third party NFT minting service verified the NFT was created by the author and not some skammer using the same name?
All of Asia has the same labor practices? What about Japan?
When I read OP my immediate understanding was that they were talking about the same individuals (gang members) committing numerous murders. That makes perfect contextual sense.. I think you’re racism detector was a little overly sensitive here.
Tinfoil hat time:

They know at release about many of these bugs but between incentivizing upgrades and selling the resultant bugs as backdoor to 'three letter agencies' there's simply too much money to be made by not disclosing/patching the problems before third parties release discovery of the problems.
Both are things deployed to host network visible services.
The endless dropdown menus people stuff websites with spoil the fun as there is no nice way to render that.
Yeah but those screenshots are mostly fake probably. This one is hosted on openai.
> the choice to embrace AI-powered image processing in the form of ray tracing

nVidia's CEO mistook raytracing for AI?? Wow.
> It can, John. The engineers teach machines what's good and bad. That's the first step in creating silicon intelligence.

I don’t think a simple “actually, no” is a useful counter argument to his point, especially when he used multiple examples and you just shook your head.

> I hate being disingenuous and make a flippant argument here, but reading this from start to finish makes me ask a bad faith question - your assertion is that we won't have self driving cars because we can't tell the robots what to do with the whole civilisation right away?

That’s not at all his specific argument about self-driving cars (there were entire sections about the decision making issues he saw), but is the crux of his argument about AI as a whole.

> There's a whole spectrum of amazing (or terrible) possibilities between the extremes, my guy.

And there’s a whole article discussing some of those, if you read the parts in the middle. I don’t think the dude’s necessarily right, but I’m also pretty sure you missed a lot of the text in an apparent race to summarily dismiss it.
This could be a case of survivorship bias - we don't know how many spectre-like bugs did get patched, because they never made it to the public
>Self-attention is just a frequency distribution over a freq distribution.

I don't know where you get that. But it's not my understanding.

>It's literally trained with P(B|A) as the objective....

This is a description of the objective, not a model or an algorithm. The algorithm is not learning frequency data. The algorithm tries to maximize P(B|A), but within this constraint there are a vast range of algorithms.
What to look for in a microservices monitoring tool
Wikipedia says this about the northwest passage:

Therefore, the Canadian commercial marine transport industry does not anticipate the route as a viable alternative to the Panama Canal within the next 10 to 20 years (as of 2004).

Curious if there is an update. Seems a no brainier for Canadian sovereignty to invest in this, so I expect we won't.
> A poorly documented and tested libraries will give you problems no matter what kinds of entities it defines. Someone who writes macros that nobody can easily grasp will also write functions nobody can easily grasp

Lisp makes this so easy to write macros and they have been promoted to be the "my-powerful-dsl-is-the-right-way-to-solve-a-problem" that, IMHO, it works actively against team work unless it is really well-dcumented. Now, mix that with the fact that code is not usually deeply documented and you get a cultural problem into the whole ecosystem.

> A macro doesn't interact with complex application state, because that doesn't exist. You never have to attach some gigabyte database and get some objects into the right state before reproducing some expansion problem in a macro. Code generated by a macro could be involved in a problem like that, possibly as a root cause, but tracing through the macro itself isn't

Tracing the macro can be as difficult as its expansion. If it gets obtuse it will add a lot of time to your workflow. I know they are powerful but it is probably the last feature I would use in a team, with a lot of care, and for trivial things or for really justified cases and with good documentation. If your code is full of macros, forget about readability, you threw it out through the window.

> The people who write awful macros are usually not smart enough to do anything that is actually hard to understand. The problems you will find are lack of hygiene, multiple evaluations and such

Because writing macros is not that simple in the first place. I find much easier to write regular code and use the well-known macros than grasp anonymous macro code. There are things you can only do with macros though, like lazy evaluation. But macros must be managed with extra care. For example, maybe instead of a macro it is better to use a higher order function with a closure to keep the code understandable than burying things in layers of macros.
Jeff in Engineering might have deployed an app spanning vCenter as well as EKS, and to continue to allow the app to function wrote subpar ingress/egress rules.
The Role of a System Architect
Except the only demographic of net in-flow _moving to California_ are those in the top 5% or so.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-income-t...

Note: this article is from 2019, which is obviously pre-Covid. I still think it’s too early to predict any trend on post-Covid migrations (which would really be captured and 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, assuming you started planning to leave mid-pandemic 2021-2022)

California had its largest tax surplus in the history of a state ever the 2022 fiscal year.
> Try mCaptcha without joining

> user: aaronsw password: password

mixed feelings about this.
Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”
People in general should think more about how they manage their photos. It does take some real thought now that the ubiquity of cameras means that everyone takes exponentially more photos than, say, two decades ago. I suspect that you're right: most people just have them unorganized on their phone, rolling them over to a new phone with more storage every couple of years. So, even without death, the photos are potentially gone whenever they lose or break their phone. I guess Google and Apple have turned this into a business opportunity by backing up photos to Drive and iCloud by default in Android and iOS, and then selling more storage space when it inevitably fills up.
Seems like a cry for help
Like how car companies will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if a recall is worth it.
$200 is a gross upper limit. It's more likely that a $200 CPU contains $20 of embodied energy. It's highly unlikely that the energy is subsidized by >90%.
You don't think the staging area should be a first class feature?

Have you used LFS? That's what happens when you try and use external scripts to hack in features. No thanks!
It's striking how similar some of this low probability word vomit is to the type of messages you can get from mentally unwell individuals on unfiltered mailing lists or obscure, unmoderated forums.
So, my take after reading the article is that all the climate change alarmists and all the climate change deniers just had any arguments for why they are right and the other side wrong blown wide open by a pesky volcano that will change the atmosphere in a way nobody had predicted the day before that volcano erupted.

We live in interesting times indeed.
A fundamental problem is that the attack surface is so, so huge. Even if their security researchers are doing blue-sky research on both very small and very broad areas of processor functionality, they're going to miss a lot.

And in line with that and

>Maybe they _did_ and are well aware of all these attacks but to save face and performance hits they simply hold on to them hoping nobody makes them public?

... maybe they have patched a number of issues and just never announced them.
actually since a pound is around 450 grams, that would be 3 grams per seed, not 0.3 grams. So the 50 milligrams is off by almost 2 orders of magnitude.
Rather unfortunate, I would love to have a colour always on E-reader smart watch with decent battery life but if the yield was 50% (as mentioned in the article), I can see why there was so little interest in the technology.

It's a shame the OLPC screen never went anywhere either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO#Hardware, at the time it sounded like the perfect screen (high resolution, low-power, great readability and two modes) for consuming web content, academic papers and books.
I'm very fond of this one, where chatGPT declares and then tries to justify how the letter "n" appears 4 times in the word "mayonnaise": https://twitter.com/js_thrill/status/1662266752091160577

I tried this one myself, and can confirm that it did work a few months ago.
Lots of ways:

- A banker answers honestly when interviewed by the regulator because they decide it's better for the Bank to take the fine than lie to regulator and risk personal criminal charges (unlikely, but why take that risk?).

- Regulator asks for evidence of some documentation (like trade confirmation), compliance asks banker, banker doesn't have it and admits it was over this app.

- Whistleblower or other source makes regulator believe there are prohibited communication and regulator demands phones be turned over.

- Other similar banks are caught in violation, and regulator does sweep of similar banks and demands phones be turned over.

The regulator has the ability to shut down the bank. The bank can easily tell the banker to turn over an unlocked phone or face legal action. The banker then turns over the phone.
My "third" browser is GNOME Web, however, I uninstalled it thanks to performance issues. I installed Chrome from Flathub, but with limited permissions, which I only use for cross-browser testing. My main browser is Firefox.
I don't see how you can think nuking something just "resets" it. The whole point of sanitizing probes and not introducing foreign microbes to Mars is specifically so that we keep it separate from human intervention. Once you introduce a microbe, there's no coming back.

Nuking it isn't a solution and "move fast and break things" is extremely irresponsible and ignorant when it comes to things like ecology and geography.
> After each try with Rust, I ended up going back to c++ myself, it's just more productive in practice.

That has been my experience as well. Rust and the borrow checker get too much in my way. If I want a high level language I will use Python but if I want control all the way down to the hardware C++ is where I go. Plus, it /feels/ that ISO C++ has significantly picked up on momentum and is seeing more investments than Rust.
And yet nobody really knows for sure how quickly climates changed in the past, or how fast they're supposed to change, or if they always change at a similar rate.

On some level, what people advocate doing is creating climate change to benefit humans, which is kind of the antithesis of what climate science activists claim they want.

I'm confident we don't understand the earth and climate well enough to "engineer" it to our will.

I cannot imagine what a pole reversal would look like today. The truly scary thing is contemplating just how many things depend on, or assume polar north is where it is today.

Even more scary, there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about polar reversal, and absolutely nothing humans do that is provoking it. It's just a natural phenomenon, during which things will indeed become extremely unpleasant.
Just wondering, have you ever worked on something with a longer lifetime than the typical young engineer's job rotation? One thing we run into all the time is awesome quickly iterated things outlasting many people who understand how it was done.

Admittedly there's a big difference between web apps and products that are meant to last or even contain hardware components.
I keep wanting some sort of dynamic desktop globe, where I can set the maps to basically any era and picture the world back then. See Alexander’s conquests, Rome’s rise etc. Feels like this hardware must be possible at this point?
Note, there are credentials for a test account, to try it without signing up.

This is listed on the sign in page [1], just not very visible.

> user: aaronsw password: password

[1]: https://demo.mcaptcha.org/login
Simply removing the parameter didn't fix it? Or you just reinstalled grub to be sure it would work
Does it matter for ebikes? Especially for commuter bikes.
I still dont see why this would be a surprising find in any way. That teperature seems very pleasant and conductive for life. Maybe the extend of the ecosystem is what is shocking? Why point out a relatively normal temperature then though?
this was amazingly good. If I could add more up votes I would.
Part of an economy that meets the metrics for "growth", but at what cost ?
Red Pitayas are similar and shipping now:

https://redpitaya.com/
I turned off "watch history" just now, and the home page still shows me (personalized) recommendations--which makes me sad because I hoped this would an easy way for me to quit my bad habit of scanning the recommendations when I am bored.

I used to welcome these recommendations, BTW, but they've been crap for the last 5 weeks or so.
Personally I think it is more like,

I wanted to eat some food so I went to the meat packing factory, hence disappointed I went to a drive through and bought burger.
Although this is a much smaller exposure than the other UK one discussed here earlier today it's far more serious as it puts lives at risk.

Extraordinary failure, not least because - according to the report - rather than a targeted state hack, somebody just supplied the info when asked.

The FoI request had asked the PSNI for a breakdown of all staff rank and grades.

But as well as releasing a table containing the number of people holding positions such as constable, a spreadsheet was included.

This contained the surnames of more than 10,000 individuals, their initials and other data.
Working hours in Japan are infamously higher than the German standard, and vacation days fewer. At German companies, employees can also be much more direct and straightforward with their superiors. Sure, Shimano’s facilities in Japan are no Chinese or Malaysian sweatshop, but I like that a Rohloff purchase supports a higher quality of life.
Are you familiar with Schlock Mercenary? It is a web comic (that has concluded) which features dark matter entities in a later story arc. There isn't much in the way of direct character interaction except through warfare because there is a tech that baryonic matter civilizations find very convenient that makes space uninhabitable for the dark matter creatures, and conversely those creatures can cause stars to blow up. Very interesting stuff, starts out much smaller scale than all that though.
I would have thought that installation of Nvidia driver packages for Arch would do the trick. I'll admit that I'm unfamiliar with the interaction between GPU drivers and Wayland, so I'm guessing it would just result in an unstable combination?
That's a really interesting idea. A LLM that tries to optimize engagement.
(Fun fact: After reading that tweet, I tried to prompt ChatGPT with 100s of iteration of the word "Na", and it correctly answered "Batman!". However, prompting it with hundreds of iterations of the word "a" led to some weird poetry.)
The parameter was unrelated to the issue with grub but I thought I'd mention the grub issue in case anyone else gets surprised like me.
> how fast they're supposed to change.

The idea that this is even a coherent question is Creationist, because it presupposes a purposeful design.
https://archive.is/UY4X7
If your dealing with dynamic scaling needs K8s are quite nice. There's a reason why most Telcos have deployed 5G functionality using K8s.

If you are in a situation where you want to follow a decoupled/microservices development pattern (ie. split component ownership across dev teams) as well as manage scalability during high load periods, K8s is hard to beat.

K8s is a useful tool, but can be overkill in a number of situations. Just like a hammer, you can't use it to solve for every usecase.

P.S. F-35s use K8s clusters (or might be K3s) to deploy their EWS.
Spoiler: it doesn’t.

Also, I’m in Europe and my bank gives me better deals on savings than any American bank offers.
443 is just a port. If we assume that implies HTTPS then that’s still only TLS. If I exploit the service (“securely”!) I am inside your network. I can then pivot to your management layer. Game over.
because bots use hundreds IP addresses assigned to the same system, if you have 5r/s from 10k IP addresses it adds up
if you require computational power you force them to invest money in hardware and potentially make it unprofitable
Because of the geography of Taiwan, the idea is to turn Taiwan into a porcupine. Make it prohibitively expensive and deadly to try and invade. Taiwan armed to the teeth with modern American weaponry will go a long way to accomplish that.
Blaming the unions for corporate greed (going offshore for cheaper labor) is utterly hilarious.
> I finally got around to subscribing to YouTube Premium, and they already burned me once by raising prices.

What are you paying for, exactly? Youtube is already free.

Actually wait, I don't want to know. I'm happy with my life, there's no way that knowing this will improve it.
X link with findings summary (not a superconductor): https://nitter.net/i/status/1689014160477261825
Just speculation. But perhaps if certain conditions are met - in this case, a repetitive question - then GPT is allowed to raise the temperature setting, to avoid paraphrasing its previous answer.
> On HumanEval, Copilot is 40+ on pass@1 comparing to 26 for stable code 3b.

Can you put those numbers into context for those who haven't done HumanEval? Are those percentages so that 40+ means 40+% and 26 is 26%? If so does that imply both would be failing scores?