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Ask HN: Why is Google Bard so bad at elementary level stuff?
I'm trying to use Bard for weeks but to my surprise it's incredibly bad. No programming questions, just general interest stuff.

Just one recent example from today:

"Can you make me a best 11 cricket team from players active in the 21st century?"

And then it gives me a list of 13 players

https://g.co/bard/share/1da260c4e7ad

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but how can it be this bad?
Nothing about PMTUD?
This is hypocrisy Norwegian economy is heavily driven by oil industry. Instead of planning to phase out oil they just makes these ineffective policies. People are going to buy big electric cars even with VAT.
JQuery is just a hammer. Its not a framework. It does provide utilities like selectors, events, triggers, dom manipulation etc. React is a component based framework. It contains pages, routes, state management, caching etc.
You cannot compare those two.
In a way jQuery is low level just above vanilla. Wheras react has a minimum of 500 execution layers. Thats why its slow and painful in many cases.
To learn about competitors.
Oh, nice..

I browsed a little through the code, and found that sort.com used self-modified to change the sorting order:

; note! jae is patched to a jbe if file is to be sorted in reverse!
;
CODE_PATCH LABEL BYTE
JAE INNER_SORT_LOOP

I committed similar crimes in the 90th as well, but that was just me as a teenager programming stupid games in asm for fun and giggles. Not for commercial software.
Why does everyone have to be on the latest version?
> Why would there be another competing doctors guild?

Why wouldn't there be? Communism is "the free association of producers." If people need a surgery and I'm a doctor with full access to the means of performing surgeries...

It might help to try to break out of the red scare/USSR box you're putting everything into. Nobody wants SLAVERY, BREAD LINES, or HOLODOMOR.

> Labor isn't fungible, you can't replace a doctor with an average person.

Nor am I advocating for it. You're continually taking the worst representation of a concept I'm explaining and it's becoming tiring. You can track labor as "heart surgeon labor" or "house painter" labor, or "serial concept misunderstander" labor.

And, by the way, none of what you said negates what I've said about objective costs.
also substantially slower than the speed of light, while not the biggest factor is also slower than other forms of transmission.

As you said, there is a lot of noise that needs powerful error correction to be used, such as how the Reed-Solomon code was used in deep space communication. Prepackaging information before relying on wireless communication is usually the most necessary part of any reliably complex system.
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The factories that lifted billions out of poverty weren't created by the scientist that got a 5% bonus. They were created by corporations. Things could be better. They're better than ever before though.
The reason Socialism, Communism, Anarchy et.al. will never happen.

Is because the Human Species naturally groups towards Autocratic Structures. The Human Natural State is Autocratic.

Wealth and Power accumulate to the few, whether in a Socialist Government, or a Corporation.

We can't handle Democracy.

And Free Market Economy is just a myth that is maintained for Corporations to maintain their power and convince people they are free.

Current Socialist programs are supported by the Rich. They are actually providing 'just enough' help to maintain the population above the subsistence level below which they will carry out a violent revolution.
Asynchronous I/O figures in prominently in Windows NT but I just assumed it wasn't ever thought about in DOS (being single-tasking and single-user). I was really surprised to see[0]:

Each driver in the chain defines two entry points; the strategy routine and the interrupt routine. The 2.0 DOS does not really make use of two entry points (it simply calls strategy, then immediately calls interrupt). This dual entry point scheme is designed to facilitate future multi-tasking versions of MS-DOS. In multi-tasking environments I/O must be asynchronous, to accomplish this the strategy routine will be called to queue (internally) a request and return quickly. It is then the responsibility of the interrupt routine to perform the actual I/O at interrupt time by picking requests off the internal queue (set up by the strategy routine), and process them. When a request is complete, it is flagged as "done" by the interrupt routine. The DOS periodically scans the list of requests looking for ones flagged as done, and "wakes up" the process waiting for the completion of the request.

I didn't realize that kind of forwarding-looking perspective was going into the design of MS-DOS.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
Thanks. Not remote jobs but first remote companies.
We're all tired of it.
OMG, you! I just guffawed in real life at my desk here. I mentioned in another comment here[0] how I've checked off and on through the years and wondered who could possibly be keeping this page open and why. Thanks for re-posting this, it's too funny to hear from one of you guys.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37411714
A high-latency network will certainly become the bottleneck, but ONLY for file reads/writes. Metadata attributes (e.g., symlinks, dentries, inodes) are maintained by the file system (FUSE). Caching them in the kernel with ExtFUSE will yield faster metadata ops (e.g., lookups).
This reminds me rather of https://libraryofbabel.info/
That sounds weird to me as a European.

The main reaction to Osama's death I remember was disappointment. Disappointment in the weakness of the US. Disappointment that they didn't even pretend to be on the right side of history. Disappointment that they just killed Osama rather than capturing him and having him face justice, like Israel did for Eichmann. Disappointment that Obama acted like Putin, while Bush at least managed to capture Saddam.
> Heading the problem off before it gets to that point would be much more pleasant.

Agreed. And the first step in the right direction is ensuring they stop stealing people’s ip.
If you’re interested in maps and the history of cartography, I highly recommend the book: The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford. Longitude by Dava Sobel is a good follow up.
> untold damage

> 10x dev time

> bugs

> pointlessly painful

> it’s a mistake

Your comment seems very emotional and doesn’t add any concrete counterarguments.
Sometimes I wonder if all this air pollution isn't the reason why my body feels hot and inflamed at the end of the day in the summer. I'm just resting in a bed and I feel like I'm in salt.

After a quick shower, I just feel fresh again. Showering is not just for normal skin hygiene, it's because the air is just so full of crap.

The worst isn't just the engines fumes and particles, it's also the dust, the asphalt that's made with oil, the concrete etc everything that's artificial.

Pandemic lockdown was a better world, there is no doubt about it. I really want the economy to crash and stop. I understand hermits who go live in the lands eating pasta. It's not just the noise, the rent, the crowding, it's the air.
Just took a look at time across Cloudflare, System76, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, AWS and NIST. Looks like Facebook has the best time at this point.

MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^- time.cloudflare.com 3 6 37 5 -2135us[-2132us] +/- 18ms
^- time.cloudflare.com 3 6 37 3 -1514us[-1511us] +/- 18ms
^- virginia.time.system76.c> 2 6 37 4 -2250us[-2247us] +/- 54ms
^- ohio.time.system76.com 2 6 37 2 -4525us[-4522us] +/- 42ms
^- oregon.time.system76.com 2 6 37 3 +742us[ +745us] +/- 30ms
^? 52.148.114.188 3 6 37 3 -544us[ -541us] +/- 124ms
^? defra1-ntp-004.aaplimg.c> 1 6 37 3 -1297us[-1294us] +/- 79ms
^? time4.facebook.com 1 6 37 4 -73us[ -71us] +/- 36ms
^? ec2-54-81-127-33.compute> 4 6 37 2 -369us[ -366us] +/- 35ms
^? time-a-wwv.nist.gov 1 6 17 42 +5816us[+5858us] +/- 24ms
> This restriction also comes on top (like July) of the recent kaspersky/Russian govt hack (called operation triangulation by kasp)

Banning iPhones because of Kaspersky incompetence protecting their corporate network? That is nonsense.
Huh?

This FCC document clearly states exactly what it's banning:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-389524A1.pdf

https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

"Telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies Company, including telecommunications or video surveillance services provided by such entity or using such equipment."

Phones are a part of telecommunications equipment.
That sounds characteristic of AI as a whole. I've had GPT-4 misnumber lists before too, you gotta roll with the punches.
Ok, this is a very hostile and could not possibly be considered a charitable interpretation of what I said, in fact I'd say it borders on trying to pick an argument where there isn't one. I did not "flat out lie" and I detest the insinuation. I expect better of you honestly.

To answer: "Most of the larger tech companies these days are using userland networking and bypass the kernel almost completely for networking"

You could read "almost completely" as in "almost across the whole company" which would be a weird way to read it, but you seem to have read it this way.

I intended it to mean: when they bypass the kernel; it is a near complete bypass.

Since there actually is still a network connection going through the kernel (the host itself will still be connected of course), which is of course the inverse of what you seem to have taken away; in that user-mode networking is used even less than entirely even on a single node.

edit: In fact, I stated multiple times in my post: "Google is mostly happy to just throw hardware at this" which you seemed to just.. ignore? Google are absolutely happy to throw hardware at issues until they can't anymore or the gains are too enormous to avoid. I thought I was extremely clear about that.

Your point about user-land networking in FreeBSD is just a nonsense one to make -- and not the point we were discussing anyway, like suggesting "if it did rain beer, would we all get drunk?" it's completely hypothetical and not based in any subjective reality or objective truth. You have absolutely no way of knowing if FreeBSD could do those things, the statement that the architecture permits is is shown somewhat in FreeBSD's use in Netflix, which has been commented elsewhere in this thread to achieve close to 0.8TiB of data transfer, but knowing what google would have done with freebsd would require seeing into alternative realities.

I don't know where you work, but as far as I know: nobody has managed to perfect that technology yet.
Because there is a limit to how valuable you are as an expert builder building. But being an expert builder usually means you are intelligent and thoughtful and logical. So if you combine your cabinet experience with those traits, you are a great candidate for project manager, where you can be paid more and provide more for your family.

It's not like they are forced into it. No shortage of people that turn down the chance to get into management.
The phrase you're looking for is Cronie Capitalism. It's "capitalism" (note the air quotes, please) with the gov putting it's thumb on the scale to benefit the few. The joke is the "free markets" are better narrative and Cronie Capitalism is anything but free markets.

Welcome to The New America.
What’s wrong with tsc on local?
I think you can have a 3-dimensional spectrum.
> boosting walking and cycling

how exactly are they boosting that? They should really be making public transport better and cheaper throughout the country not just Olso.
Thank you for footing that bill for so long, this has been a little joy for me for a long time, just seeing how long it can last. Would love to buy you a beer someday.
Every system has built in waste. If you have no waste, you have no slack room, which means when a system faces a crisis.
There is a very clear flow chart

* Walk Else

* Take Bicycle Else

* Take Electric Bike or Fixed Track Public Transport Else

* Use Electric Automobile or Bus Else

* Use Fossil Fuel Automobile or Airplane

Subsidies, incentives etc must align with this flowchart. EV is seen as a savior for economies and urban structures that are not viable to start with
I love this type of stuff too, but be aware ycombinator is a start up incubator - people showing off there wares is presumably encouraged, up to a point.
Are there benchmarks websites that show average fixed broadband performance for Switzerland? Switzerland is not that in the rankings on Speedtest for example.
You don't need one company to do all that. On the contrary it makes it easier for companies to abuse their position when they own all the cards (e.g. why does Android need to be made by the same company that runs the largest search engine?)
Url changed from https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/06/uk-encryption-w..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This aligns with what I've read in Robert K Massie's "Dreadnought". It feels odd to title the book "Bismarck's War" and then come to that lesson. It should really have been titled "Wilhelm's Lunacy".

Wilhelm's obsession with a massive fleet to compete with England lost any hopes of forming an alliance with them and resulted in Germany being seen as a threat. Having a large fleet puts you at odds against England no matter what - that is their last line of defense. It's interesting to think what might have happened had Germany abandoned any aims on a massive navy and focused all those resources on it's army instead. My hunch is no mis-alignement with England and a very different looking world today if that happened.
Seems like a low effort after thought. Knee jerk reaction from Google Cloud Next?
I don’t think being unwilling to violate my agreements is shutting down the conversation at all.

I explicitly gave search terms you can use to gain some feelings about the subject and included a heuristic.

Frankly, I find your backhanded comment (that you dug into my comment history to find) obnoxious.
I thought tyres were rubber, not plastic. There's always more to it I guess
Peaceful coexistence within a large pluriform group.
This isn't the first time I've seen someone on HN act like one-time pads are the solution to all of the problems of cryptography.

It's like people read that OTPs are the only encryption method that has been proven to be completely unbreakable (when used correctly) and stop reading there, and then completely miss all the things OTPs don't solve (ie, guaranteeing authenticity), not to mention their massive glaring limitation: How do you transfer the encryption key?
My general belief, is that the best way to learn at the frontier of something is to pick a problem or a goal and try to solve it. Then you will learn what is in the way of getting that done.

Unless you already have deep expertise, I think it's a bad idea to pick a research area and just go and research that. You won't have intuition about why it's a good thing to research. However, you can have intuition about real world problems and the solutions you want to see, and then work backwards to what you need to research.
I find the subjective argument too abstract for practical use. All the subjectivity in the world must come to head with reality and how it can be enforced in reality. I am of the opinion that logistics wins wars, and labor theory of value, with its flaws, is able to provide a sense of direction for me to act on. Maybe I can bet on an asymmetry of needs with someone wanting to raise a family with me if I was unemployed and they did all the work, but I have the impression that a partner would appreciate me being able to help with the work too.
https://archive.ph/HDnUa
> do you really think coast guard and other agencies would ignore the call for help?

Arizona's stupid motorist law, which "states that any motorist who becomes stranded after driving around barricades to enter a flooded stretch of roadway may be charged for the cost of their rescue," is the model legislation here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupid_motorist_law
Should Apple cease advertising on Twitter?
What's weird though, is that we're on average living a lot longer than we were 50 years ago. So how is that slowly killing us? [1]

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...

I'm guessing it trends similarly for other countries.

EDIT: Not that I'm against walking and cycling (I don't own a car). But to say that this is causing less lifespan...
The gun owner example isn't a great one. one of the first rules of gun ownership is to never tell anyone. It's a valuable and deadly asset which gains value from people NOT knowing that you have it.
Are you arguing that Germany is not a capitalist country? I was collectively speaking about the capitalist world.

> How can y'all be so damn certain you're the best in the world when five minutes worth of Googling is enough to completely destroy all your arguments?!

Uhhhh, maybe read the comments a bit more clearly before jumping in. Do you always just jump in on random threads to say Americans are dumb?
> HN is a funny place.

Full of (ex?) React devs. There are way better things out there now if you are starting a project from zero.
The wording has not been changed at all, so it's still being deployed. They just seem to have made a clumsy fudge statement at a meeting about it.
Great example

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiat...

Heat initiative is basically non existent on Google. Not much of said about how they're funded or who is apart of it

Their website is protectchildrennotabuse.org

Has a CEO with experience in running charitable orgs

They're explicitly focused on client side scanning and reporting on the iPhone.

Honestly if you're reading this archive the website and I think that's a smoking gun

Archived http://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://protectch...
the Segmentation Fault issues #499 is closed, but i got this error, its a issue that you guys is work step by step or should be work now?
I like your better I/O idea.

Many systems which cost more than a good car are still coming with the Broadcom 5719 (tg3) from 1999. They have a single transmit queue and the driver is full of workarounds. It's a complete joke these are still supplied today.

SFP would be great but I'd settle for an onboard NIC chipset which was made in the last 10 years.
> Because it's determined by the market

Sure, a labor market, like I've been saying. And my argument is that this raw information has usefulness to making economic decisions, and prices erase that information. A labor market determining the value of labor, and that labor being performed and imbued into some product, is a much more objective measure than that product costing some arbitrary amount set by some analyst trying to maximize margins.

You aren't refuting the fact that prices erase information, you're just explaining how markets work.
The article says you get the same energy for 40% of the volume and 40% of the height. That’s not true, though. You can save 60% on one of those variables but not both. Otherwise you lose and extra 60%.
well, today's society is much more polarised, for example. (see the entire discussion lol)

and also, the whole ecosystem didn't exist when FOSS was created such as selling your software AND a cloud offering for it. If you created let's say an office suite and made it open, your competitor couldn't sell SaaS based on it 20 years ago because SaaS just didn't exist as a concept.... they could try to sell the same product debranded but that's not a very good business strategy.

hashicorp made a good decision here by being FOSS while it made sense, and when the leeches appeared, they decided to restrict future versions. This kind of leeching is the next m$-like EEE (extend, embrace, extinguish) - steal FOSS, host it and capture all the profits, while not maintaining or improving the software at all.

This kind of rent-seeking was simply unimaginable in the 90s when FOSS became a thing.

Also, hashicorp didn't leech off anyone (they didn't make the licence change retroactive, it's only future versions) because their contributions remain available under the same licence - it only applies to future hashi commits. Why shouldn't hashicorp have the freedom to commit in the fuiture with a different licence?
Only 50k. I guess there's not a monetary value you can put on deprivation of rights and in this case the money comes from tax payers and not as punishment to the officer. What I would really like to know is if the officer was charged and convicted of assault. Probably not but if I did these same actions and threats to another person I would absolutely be charged with assault and very likely convicted.

I understand that peace officers can be put in difficult situations where there can often times be no good solutions, but this was absolutely not one of those situations. This blatant assault and abuse of authority. This officer and those who stood by and did nothing should receive maximum sentences for their crimes. This is the very definition of "jack booted thug" using physical force and their authority to enforce revenue collecting. Because if they say it's any safety then a sign warning about about a speed trap accomplishes the same thing.

The real problem here is these officers feel empowered to do this kind of things because they are shielded by the elected politicians. Sheriffs are directly elected by the people of the counties, city police are under the direction of the mayor who appoints chief, the state police are under the direction of the governor. When it comes time to vote and people complain about law enforcement taking advantage of their position and harassing citizens do they take it to the ballot box and knock these people out of office and put in more favorable people. Because I guarantee you the moment of Governor gets booted out of office because a state police trooper acted like this the next Governor that's elected will be guaranteed to put someone over the state troopers who will absolutely prevent this kind of nonsense.

The citizens forget that they have an enormous amount of power over these elected politicians because the politicians goal is to continue to stay in power. They very much do not have many moral qualms about what they do to stay in power but that is their goal. You can look at the corruption in the Chicago city government but no mayor has totally failed at snow removal since one got kicked out of office for that.

It is our TikTok length memories that allow this kind of stuff to continue.
I think it is a highly simplified or "stylised" depiction of the banking sector. It may or may not be an appropriate way to think of the banking system depending on the context in which it is used, but I would not say it is (necessarily) "laughably wrong". In aggregate, deposits are created by bank loans, but depositing cash with a bank may increase that bank's ability to make new loans, so it in effect "uses" the deposits to make the loans.

I have heard a lot of very intelligent and educated people describe the banking system in the same terms as the article. Too much to conclude that it is a laughably wrong take. If I stopped reading every time I saw that description, I wouldn't read much about the banking system at all, beyond that one Bank of England paper that people post every time this comes up.
Synthetic rubbers are a type of plastic. Most of the advancements in tire technology are from materials science improvements in these plastics.
How are the EV battery cells handling the cold? I know from personal experience that a cold battery has much reduced capacity.