skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> if we control the seed we can 100% reproduce the same result

No, that's the problem. You can't. You should be able to, but you can't. If you could, they wouldn't be scary. But we have Temperature Zero, different results. Because no one gave enough of a shit when coding them, and no one gives enough of a shit to try to fix the issue.

This is what in any other industry would be called gross negligence.
If you ride the Bart seeing urine is quite normal, along with the producer sitting in the middle of the puddle.
Read the article. This lady is receiving dozens of packages despite a note refusing delivery.

I have also received packages that were left behind when I wasn’t home. I received an invoice later and told them to show me where I accepted the package. Didn’t hear about it again.
Tech nerds often don't realize how much the world of software is subject to the real world. You can be cut off access to any technology if your country is not willing to give its natural resources to another. No different from trade sanctions. Open source is a bunch of individuals helpless in the face of orders from Pentagon to close it all up.

* You won't have the expertise to quickly build your own solutions when this happens you are cut off access to a certain technology. A browser is a beast to implement as we all know.

* You can't trust that e.g. Chromium as audited by American "experts" is really not phoning home if it detects the IP is from e.g Turkish defense corporation A's RD center.

* You need to have that software-skilled workforce anyway to ensure technological progress of your country.
You almost have to have some bit of hubris to think “I’m going to cut open this living human and he will survive and I will be paid for doing so.”
> Did you notice that nowadays a lot of websites have a lot of uninteresting drivel giving a "background" to whatever the thing was you were searching for before you get to read (hopefully) the thing you were searching for?

I know you came here looking for a recipe for boiled water, but first here's my thesis on the history and cultural significance of warm liquids.
Remember that time a year ago in February when the Namecheap CEO gave every person with a Russian ID, living inside and outside Russia, 1-week notice that their account is terminated and they have to host elsewhere?

Including expats, refugees, objectors, what have you. Your contract with Namecheap is terminated for being connected to Russia. Prove to us you're not, if you want to keep your service.

His justification? Well we have a lot of Ukrainian staff and you know, we're not with Russia therefore we're against Russia, therefore...

> If we were virtue signaling we wouldn't willingly be giving up a not non significant part of our business. This hurts us financially but it's the right thing to do, at least for us.
Your leader/country is already killing innocent civilians/ukranians. They are putting it all on the line with their lives. They didn't ask for this yet they are dying for it. Change needs to come and the only way it can is for the Russian population to put it on the line as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505789
Unfortunately far too many people writing C++ are not writing modern C++. Most writing C with classes.

You can write memory unsafe code in rust, including memory management if you want - you just have to wrap it in unsafe which at least clues others in to watch this area carefully. In C++ you can put unsafe code anywhere. Sometimes unsafe is really needed, rust makes it hard enough to write unsafe code that you will only do that where you must and then jump back to safe code. In C++ you are likely to mix safe and unsafe code all over and that makes audits harder.
If you're concerned about this isn't the simple answer just to shut down at the end of the day?

While I'm sure there are exceptions, thinking about the IT departments I've worked with in the past and how cost-conscious they were, the last thing any of them would want to do is waste the time and money to record non-work related employee conversations at their home.
Speaking of cables, there were leaked US diplomatic cables warning about instability in Ukraine if it were to join NATO.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-russia-cable-2014-...

Not to justify the invasion, but the concerns were known back in 2008.
The GP comment has been edited down .. originally it was along the lines of "appears in Vice == not worth reading further".

The Vice reporting may well be subpar .. the paper, MOND, and general subject area is well worth reading more about especially given the level of conjecture and almost noise level data (well, for some of us at least).
I was just thinking about this the other day. I think it’s the relatively recent concept of “throwing things away”. I don’t think in much of our evolutionary history we’ve had the concept of planned obsolescence. Lots of the physical items I come in contact with are intended to go to the landfill within my lifetime. It would also make sense that any resource scarcity would trigger hoarding behaviors.
None at all. I just had to point CMake to Qt 5 installed via Homebrew by setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to /opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5 before running CMake.
This is the West. You are either with us or against us. Forever.
> >$100k rentals are not unheard of

these are not 'normal' rentals and imo should be excluded from stats, since they don't apply to typical families living year-to-year in nyc

a majority of those are short-term entire floor/home rentals, often rented out for less than a month at a time, to be used for production companies putting up A-listers for the length of a project, or even used as the set itself: sometimes the listing will say 'used for the filming of y reality show in 20xx!' like a selling point
> baud which is, still, just bits per second.

Isn't the baud-rate the number of signal transitions per second? How that maps to bits per second depends on the wire encoding.
Couldn’t this application theoretically support MIDI input? I haven’t looked to see if it does, but if it does; velocity is a simple enough feature to implement with even just a simple volume curve.
He's rude but right though.

Nothing in the West is even closely comparable to what is happening to Russia nowadays let alone the First and Second World War. People that say the West is about as bad as Russia really don't have any sense of what is really going on in the world and really can be defined as "idiots" in the context of this discussion.

A person actually from Russia that also lived in the West usually has a bit better perspective on these matters.
> How's the vim ecosystem now? Is vimscript still dominant?

You can have a full neovim experience with all sorts of modern extensions without using a single line of vimscript. Some people even replace their init (neovim's vimrc) with lua, but I am of the opinion that it is a step too far, as lua isn't particularly adapted to writing configuration files and the result is too verbose to my taste.
> rather than information being distributed over emails, Confluence, docs, Git, etc.

Now information is distributed over slack, emails, confluence, docs, git, etc…
The Orbit Reader is as cheap as you'll probably get.
I don't buy that. I think it's the first order "free vs. paid", not the limits.

I can't picture anyone willing to spend any money for better search quality consciously adjusting their personal search behavior because of the price difference in Kagi tiers per number of searches.

In other words, these quantity limits don't change behavior, other than abusive/exploitative behavior (e.g. account sharing, bots, etc.).

Instead, I would guess just the "free vs. fee" discriminator cuts enough users it enables not having to serve an infinitely long tail of freeloaders with a lowest common denominator SERP.
Or maybe the knowledge that a climate and economic crisis is imminent and the political reality is that it will go unsolved, ruining their lives before they have had a chance to live them?
In what circumstances would you run `vi` and find yourself upset that you end up in `vim`?
if I tell a piece of software to generate a bleach casserole, it should generate a bleach casserole, because I know what I want better than the software does.

anything less would be like clippy telling me Microsoft Word refuses to write my planetary doomsday ransom notes because Microsoft Word is 'meant to write nice things', or my car refusing to exceed the speed limit because it is 'meant to drive legally'

maybe I'm just an alien who's capable of drinking bleach, the app doesn't know and it shouldn't have opinions: it should just do what I tell it to do, because it's a "put whatever ingredients you want together" app, not a "this is definitely safe and healthy" app
Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
>> Why insist on doing this inside a terminal, when there are many other environments where this is not a problem?

Welcome to HN, where we make overcomplicated; obscure projects for the sheer passion and curiosity of it.

Is this your first day? XD
Honestly I’d just want to know it was done so I could watch it, maybe they could add raw footage as a value add.
Likewise. I’m a heavy CLI user but gVim/MacVim are so entrenched in my workflow that the lack of a stable GUI for Neovim made it pretty much a nonstarter for me.
> There's a reason military aircraft tend to have extreme service lives.

Only during peacetime. During war (hot or cold) they often have a rather short service life before becoming obsolete.
Doesn’t this assume that an LLM knows what you mean by non-edible? So it leaves out the plastic and cardboard and not the toxic substances. Or maybe going the other way, it leaves out processed food
>"garbage in equals garbage out"

as is for humans
Just make sure to stop immediately after the trial that validates the hypothesis.
Then you could use mechanical turk to have them rate each image to figure out how close it is to a Unicorn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_McGaugh

Blast from the past, I hadn't realised he had a blog - thank you for that.
For one, Ukraine used to have Russian business interests but now that's considered poison, there is room for US businesses to move in. Blackrock, for example, is helping out with war reconstruction.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zelenskyy-blackrock-ceo-fink...
I think it will make a resurgence. In boom times when you could work somewhere for 6 months then go anywhere else and make a 10-15% raise, there was at least some validity in the "if you don't like it, don't work here" argument. But if the employment market tightens, or if a) we actually have a recession and b) it meaningfully affects the tech sector (which seems to be unlikely regardless of the broader economy), you'll see people start to behave as if they can't be guaranteed a job somewhere.
Because Apple is a cult and it's users are brainwashed
Plenty of people I know can't solve quadratic equations or more than 4-5 digits of pi, and nobody claims they're not intelligent.

Once again it's a kind of backhanded milestone for AI that in less than a year the goalposts have moved from "can it even once hold a half-coherent conversation" to "if anyone can think of a question it can't answer then it's dumb and not AI".
Meanwhile that's not necessarily a bad outcome. In theory it makes the data better by focusing on deaths that might or might not have been preventable, rather than making every hospital look responsible for inevitable deaths.

Of course the actual behavior in the article is highly disturbing.
An Orleanist interpretation of this aphorism is as credible as Louise-Phillip's claim to the French throne. Vautrin derives this statement from a near endless litany of examples. I would strongly recommend reading Balzac to get to the origins of all this.
Totally agree, has google ever been referred to as American giant Google I wonder.

My search threw up a few.
I feel like the internet is a bust at this point - I find it all quite depressing - which is kind of silly I know.
Perhaps if America has killed your friends, family or country, Russia looks preferable.
Co-founder of Russian tech giant Yandex condemns ‘barbaric’ war
No double standard. Parent to mine edited his comment but he left extra colored remarks at the end. I don’t agree or disagree with the original comment. Just thought it was poor taste for the now removed remarks he left.
>Russian corruption doesn't generally touch Western governments - the atmosphere is too hostile to it.

Brussels, Vienna, and many other European capitals are full of Russian "lobbyists".
Time to release CheatGPT!

You can send me seed money and I’ll run off with it, shortening the cycle.
I've had this[0] bookmarked for a while. A good list of things to keep note of somewhere safe. Probably the old "3-2-1" backup method at minimum.

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119346
So 10 million people have to drive 2 hours plus to avoid paying shipper’s outrageous fees?

Seems like a broken system.
> you would not want to be his life insurance provider right now

Why not? Sounds like the perfect scam, collect the $$$, funnel it to some offshore account. When Putin dies the chaos of succession ensures that nobody will be able to attempt to collect before I leave the country.
At my first job about 15 years ago, my coworker in the cubicle next to me showed me this strange program running on his computer. We saw that it was running on a weird port, so I tried to telnet into it (and the software crashed).

The next day, he was fired and I was brought into a room and basically interrogated. They asked me if I intentionally crashed their monitoring software (which I didn't, I just was curious about what was running on his computer).

Come to find out, they were monitoring all of us all the time. I suspected this was the case a few months earlier because one of my managers started randomly bringing up topics I had in a private AIM (aol instant messenger) conversation.

That day, they told our entire team we were being monitored and we had to sign a consent form or be fired. I signed it and promptly started looking for work during my lunch hour the next day (I would drive a few miles away and use my laptop in my car).

I left two months later. This was all about 6 months before the 2008 downturn and the company I left was in the loan business. I would have most likely gotten laid off in the cuts.
>Whereas with a LLM if we control the seed we can 100% reproduce the same result

No, you can't. For the latest GPT models and the way they are run, this doesn't work anymore, making the experiment completely illogical. Some of the reasons are explained here pretty well: https://152334h.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/
Does it? Or does it just show that even in those quantities, there’s a preponderance of garbage? If it is sourcing places like Twitter, Reddit, and what not, then there’s most definitely a lot of garbage present.
Yes, the USPS is an ideal vehicle to do it (they already verify identities for passports), but it would also be necessary to have a law that says this digital "personhood" cannot be taken away. For example, even if you are convicted of crimes, you should not be able to lose your ability to receive and send electronic money.
>> On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

I'm a couple centuries late, but I think "kind of confusion" might be a confusion of brain-dead calculation for intelligence. A person can frequently identify "wrong" input and either correct it or refuse to answer, while a calculating machine never can.
Also you might want look into beer as a replacement for water, or mineral oil
Yes, this is made much worse by Google's "smartphone" crawler on pagespeed insights being an emulated very low end Moto G phone (10 years old?), downclocked to 25% of original (very slow) CPU speed, with a network that maxes out at 1mbit/sec or so, with 150ms latency added.

Makes it incredibly difficult to have nice imagery above the fold at least.
I was in Taiwan and trying to direct a cab. I looked up the words left and right.

It translated to left and correct.

What followed was the driver asking me “left or right?” And me saying “correct!” And he would turn left in confusion I would start shouting “correct correct” while getting more frustrated. He was like “great I’m doing good” while I was pointing the other way.

Good times I eventually had a chat with him and looked up “turn right” after driving around a block twice using left turns lol
You're right, my bad, the www subdomain just works, the plain domain hangs not as a result of a redirect. I thought I was looking at one of those 443>80 crack-ups once I got it to resolve and it was plain http, but I didn't notice I'd re-added the www.
You can find out for yourself using the Compiler Explorer (godbolt): https://godbolt.org/z/qrYGzMjWd Looks to me as if If is more efficient here.
It's incredible satellite phones have become so accessible. Sure, they've existed for decades, but very few people actually prepare themselves for emergencies like these so the people that get surprised and need them most often don't have them.

I can't wait for this to come to Android in a short while.
Personal hero of mine. I've been so goddamn sad about this.
I've taped the webcam on my work laptop. If my employer wants me to use a webcam as part of my job, I'll ask them to buy me one with a physical shutter. Thankfully no one gives half a shit about webcams at our workplace.
Your link seems to suggest that it being proof of dark matter and against MOND was based on bad data that has since been rectified.
This is because of the way tcp congestion control works. In order to achieve higher speeds, tcp has a "window" that grows, essentially the amount of data in flight, that has not yet been acknowledged by your client. That window doesn't open very wide in the 100kb test because it happens so quickly.
Can we just stop a moment and appreciate that last quote? Every now and then there is a quote that embodies the spirit of the age, like “One does not simply walk into Mordor” or “All your base are belong to us”. Maybe “You must use your own judgement before making any recipe produced by Savey Meal-bot” is more than just a caution on a random grocery chain’s marketing gimmick, but a greater comment on who we are as a society.
The entire Kindle market is breaking-down, as scam publishers are producing fake books with AI-generated text (admittedly a step-up from the previous trend of simply generating randomized text for 200-300 pages), or outputting classic titles that are out of copyright using the Gutenberg file or even poorly-produced OCR, and then charging anything from one or two dollars up to double figures.

The problem is that if you're trying to get a specific copy of a classic title (say one with footnotes or an informative introduction), then there's almost no way of telling what you're going to get, as all the reviews are just haphazardly bundled together for a book with the same title - some of them warning about missing chapters, or crazy OCR mistakes, while others are praising the quality of the hardbound covers.

Blows my mind that Amazon don't care any longer about selling fake hardware of every type, but even something as simple and controllable for them as Kindle books has become a shitshow of scams and fakes as well.
> If I was denied access to information sources I trust I would not go and swallow state propaganda.

It seems there is always a segment of the population that takes up nationalism/populism. You don't need a majority to enable authoritarianism, just enough to ease them into power, maintain the facade of support and help chill dissent.
Speaking as another native spanish speaker, I also basically never use accents. I sometimes add them by applying spellchecker suggestions in formal writing (Work emails, etc) when I see the red squiggles.
Well, a long time back, there are proxies such as fqrouter, GoAgent and XX-NET which sends plain but loaded HTTP requests as transport. So I guess if a country decides to ban/decrypt TLS, people can just switch to another proxy/protocol.

Of course, both fqrouter and GoAgent is long gone by now and should not be used. However, it seems that XX-Net is still been actively developed and (according to their project page on GitHub) is currently give out one million free ChatGPT-3.5 tokens for it's paying user...(I mean like... what??? and why???)
X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery
I don’t disagree with you but the comment I responded to which has now been edited was pretty rude with some additional remarks. I don’t have any skin in the original opinion, I just thought the additional remarks he left were pretty mean.
Why is employment special? Why is a person more entitled to employment than any other sort of relationship (which you seem to agree ought to be consensual)?
Sorry, I probably wasn't clear on my point. What I was trying to convey is that whatever the ai model is doing behind the scenes doesn't appear to be any more powerful than having a set of pre-built machine specs in a database and querying them for price and type. I'm sure there is more at work here in reality, but since it takes a few minutes for the ai to build a machine from 2 parameters, it seems silly that you need ai for this at all.

Now, there are ways to make the ai more useful, and that would be to have a conversation with it about what you want to do on the computer. Then that makes the ai use apparent and reasonable.
Thanks for engaging my question.

I now realize I should have been asking if 30% is "reasonable".

For you, absolutely, and I appreciate your explanations.
Many non-western countries do not share cultural values with western countries. As an example, see the number of anti-LGBT people in Georgia (the country, not the state of Georgia in US) – it's not just a small protest, but thousands of thousands of people. When it comes to Russia, they are doing it for the same reasons, but also in response to the sanctions: "If you don't want to work with us, you won't get any traffic from our country". Every country in the world seeks to control information; Russia is not unique in this regard. The primary reasons they are blocking the Internet are sanctions and an attempt to preserve conservative values.
0.95**20 is 0.358; a 64% chance of success is hardly a guarantee
Work is a bilateral voluntary arrangement. If you don't like anything; you leave. If they don't like something and it's a firable offence; they fire you. No one is under duress.
They’re simply wrong in their theory of the case here. My guess is they will look back on this experiment in a year and regret it. Having older, highly linked content on a site is every SEO’s dream.
Well if we skip a little thing like that military government that kind of kicked off the real economic destruction of the country. Argentina started to make bad decisions around the Second World War already, Peronism definitely didn't fix that. But it's the military that really killed the country.
My first employer had this rule — reverse parking only. If you parked the wrong way then reception would send you back out.

Their argument for it was basically the same as the Army’s — with so many people working for them it became significant enough where it prevented a tangible number of people getting injured.

The other argument was that if you were getting attacked / mugged you could get away faster!