skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
based on the discovery from this and other cases, everyone at Google believed they were entitled to meet with legal counsel and that all conversations were privileged
Nice! I wonder how well it will work with IncludeOS [0]?

[0]: https://github.com/includeos/IncludeOS
> but are the manufacturers going to provide firmware updates for 10 years?

Typically, yes, at least for severe, headline-generating issues. Most others tend to be able to be worked around in Linux kernel drivers anyway (and usually better than by most vendors…), so realistically the burden will be on Google to use a 10-year LTS kernel and meaningfully support it receiving backports for various issues.

> Are Intel or Mediatek going to be providing 10 years of microcode updates for the CPUs used on these devices?

Intel at least seems to be providing updates for 7+ years, going by their recent microcode releases. It's not quite as out of the ordinary as it seems, at least for the big vendors. Mediatek is another question.
Isn't Mysterious Twitter X curbing "virality" of mainstream media propaganda a good thing?
This is one of those topics where I knowingly bury my head in the sand - at this point, I'm in too deep, I don't even want to know.
I can say that I didn't agree with it. But that's what lead devs were pushing. The common mentality among devs is that releasing is more important than building something sustainable.
I had the Arabic translated edition of that book! same fond memories!
What seems unfair? Government agencies are actively try to identify forming monopolies and stop them, or break them up. If a company doesn't want to face consequences for acting like a monopoly, the best way to do that is to not approach becoming a monopoly.
Big companies aren’t asking for this. Start pointing blame to the consumers who ask for something without realizing the consequences.
They're relevant for low-load stuff like a forum. I don't want that on my production server, nor do I want to maintain a second server just for it.
What do you mean by educating the doctors about medicines? I've seen people without degrees advocate for themselves as patients and be more knowledgeable about certain medications and treatments than doctors or nurses were.
Thanks for sharing this very interesting link (I actually knew it would be good before clicking simply because of the domain name)!

If this sort of internal view of git interests you, I strongly suggest reading the "DIY Git in Python" series from here: https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
Don't forget that English and French have much in common lexilogically and grammatically, and even some slang must be similar because of geographical proximity and cultural exchange.

I am nearly certain that no machine will ever be able to accurately translate between languages with significant linguistic distance (e.g. Japanese and Swedish).

I experience this first hand, whenever I translate from my native Greek to English, especially if there is slang involved. Whenever Google translate encounters long phrases in my texts, the result is comical, not to mention that the emotions are not properly conveyed.

I can only begin to imagine the inaccuracies in translations from Mandarin.

Nevertheless, I never expected even fairly accurate translations between even related languages such as French and English. It indeed sends chills down the spine. It feels like there is some form of actual intelligence involved.
I thought the "Forward Party = Theranos" metaphor was bizarre. They're the same because they both wanted to... shake up their respective industries? You could just as easily say "Forward Party = Amazon in the '90s."
For sure yes! There are tons of situations where you need to use the string form of an ID, e.g. filenames, and you definitely want the lexical ordering of files in a directory to be correct.
That's an interesting idea. Scratch track stems while we're waiting for the approvals and delivery of final assets.
I do agree that they can be "shown" or demonstrated, I don't think that's at argument here. And to be specific I chose the phrase Platonic World, or Platonic Realm specifically because it is the philosophical notion that ideas are real in the sense that the keyboard I am typing this message on is real, that those ideas exist independent of humans, and indeed independent of any living/sentient existence.

I called out Max Tegmark, partially because I find it humorous and, specifically because he has said that he believes that there exists a world where math is real, or maybe that the world is only math. It stems partly from his view of the multiverse. He makes an easy "punching bag" for this sort of thing.

So, yes, existence has many meaning in your example. I specifically called out one where ideas have a real existence independent of our reality or any subjects that operate within it.
Neither. Reference should have followed the word pseudostatistics
So? Everybody else would be too.

Did you also renounced your citizenship because there was someone you didn't like in your same country?
We need to talk about this useless and disingenuous use of “we”
Or—and hear me out here—you could just not conduct your business in such a way that you end up on trial for abusing a dominant market position.

It's not like this is something that loads of companies have faced—this isn't the kind of situation where you can say "but the DoJ brings companies up on trial for this all the time, whether they've clearly got a dominant market position or not!"

The rules are byzantine and complex, but the principle is simple: Compete fairly, rather than trying to eliminate your competition. If you do end up with a dominant market position, by whatever means, don't try to abuse it to keep others out of the market or small within the market.

"But Wall Street" "But muh infinite growth" "But repeatedly-debunked-fiction about fiduciary duty to stockholders" No. You don't have to be a greedy, selfish, narcissistic asshole just to get by.
Sounds very interesting. I am building an open-source LLM building platform (agenta.ai) and looking for eval approaches to integrate for our users. Do you have already a product/api that we could use?
It's funny you say that because that's exactly what the actual prompt was: “How can I take ducks home from the park?”
I drive a 2023 Tacoma and I love the physical configuration of the truck combined with technology. The most disappointing fact about Toyota, and by proxy Toyota Connected, is that things like remote start are now sold on a subscription basis that includes a clause for them sending loads of telemetry and other data.
> everyone at Google believed they were entitled to meet with legal counsel and that all conversations were privileged

It sounds like a lot of senior people at Google don’t understand how privilege works.
The key word here is ‘could’. Not will, could.
I don't think it's a small gripe, IMO it's a critical UX issue!

ULIDs don't have this problem, for the record.
BioInitiative report. Anyone familiar?
> Did a minimum amount of tuning, mostly just turning off fsync for WAL writes

That is not something I would suggest to people on production systems, as that would give you a good chance of data loss when the system halts.
So, out of interest, were there any circumstances why turning off WAL fsync was considered a good choice in your situation?
The big problem with utilitarinism, is that people think that a preference function for the utilitariam that is creating a given world is something simple. Then some people are like, no, it's more complex, we need to take into account X, Y and Z. But the truth is, no human being is capable of defining a good utility function, even for ourselves. We don't know all the parameters, and we don't know how to combine those parameters to add them up. So I would say that formal, proper utilitarinism, is not a metaphor for math: it is math. But is right now in the area of non constructive math.

Maybe our descedants will elevate it outside of that with computers someday. Cause the human brain with just pieces of papers and text, probably cannot do it.
Typescript all day long. We also have java devs.
Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds
How does a car figure out your sexual behaviour? Does it ask you?
It's not so easy for several reasons:

1. It's easy enough for a lone entrepreneur with no investors to make principled long-term decisions. It's not so trivial when you owe a fiduciary duty to a board of venture capitalists.

2. Your team of engineers (which has grown steadily as you've scaled up) have built The Thing and everyone loves it. Now what? You only need 5% of the team to maintain the software. You could fire 95% of the team, which will make your company mighty unpopular to future hires, and moreover your best developers won't want to stay and do maintenance for the next decade. Easier to have them work on gratuitous frontend redesigns, bloated features that increase engagement metrics, etc. In a restaurant the contractors who build and furnish the place aren't your employees.
Neither. The correct answer is A3: “Are you looking for travel directions or asking about the legal requirements of entry?”
I guess ultimately I'm not sure what the author is trying to show here. That certain LLMs are better than others? Or that adding context makes a big difference? Or something more specific about bias and censorship in bots?
You should not take anything from a park except pictures and memories.

If you want to borrow something consult a lending library
He was saying not thinking about monetization during the creative process is idiotic in context of developers wanting to to do monetization.

As in don't tack on monetization at the end of spending years building out your big creative dream. Which is bluntly true, you're going to be in a world for pain.
It's intriguing how the DOJ is suddenly so focused on Google's practices when there are other tech giants with equally questionable strategies. Makes one wonder about the real motivations behind this trial.
It's more like, if you intentionally started avoiding a murder spot specifically before a murder ended up happening there, you'd look a lot more likely to have had some inkling that something wrong was going to happen there than if you had just always been taking the alternative route.

Similarly, if Google was intentionally avoiding using anticompetitive language, it's reasonable to think that they felt they might be facing some anticompetitive behavior related action.
I agree with everything except the last bit. I have purchases on Apple TV, and I'm not a subscriber, but when I launch the app, all I see is subscriber-only content. Apple Music is similar.
It is, every big company does this.
I don't think releasing schematics is a good idea. There is so much more to a production process than documentation. QA is a huge factor in fitniss for purpose and durability. Also, spare parts can/should preferrably be the ouput of the same machinery and production lines as the original parts, which makes it better for the environment.
Maybe because tailscale is supposed to get a haircut of the fee and using credits fucks with the accounting?
Yes. Maybe a little too much. Poorly design URLs are my pet peeve.
Eink products are better for reading than any iPad model. I love my boox note 3
Do you mean that it has grown that amount or to that amount?
Unity is already making more money from ads than from engine license sales. Most developers don't pay for using the engine. Ad sales pay for engine development.
> The kids all forget their passwords, so login is a pain.

I really wish Google would make fingerprint sensors standard for Chromebooks.
For things which are effectively integers there is no paradox when your division results in a number less than one you have nothing or perhaps more accurately a probability of having 1 but any given instance in actuality has either 1 or zero. Also equipment failure isn't a linear thing its a curve as things reach expected lifespan. For instance a battery which is nontrivial to replace has an expected number of charge cycles until your battery is so shot you can't really use it off a charger any longer. An increasing number of mechanical hard drives fail, charger sockets start failing. Heating and cooling cycles cause progressive degradation of electronics.

You absolutely could design it to last 20 years with batteries that are easy to pop out and pop in as easy as changing a double aa but your customers won't pay a premium over a more disposable machine and indeed if your customer has a good experience over the 3-5 they actually use it for you make MORE if your hardware is designed to need replacement.
I'm not sure if the GP is proposing a railgun. In any case, I propose a railgun version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
Based on the results I assume it's Llama-2-70b-chat and not Llama-2-70b
Because 1 is not one of the axioms. The axioms are 1) There is a range of experience between worst possible misery and best possible happiness and 2) more people who are just barely happy is better than fewer people who are much happier.

I don't understand why you're insisting on a binary distinction of acceptable vs. not acceptable. With that assumption there is no repugnant conclusion.
For the intended education market I'd hope there's pressure to keep the used software reasonably well optimized for the sorts of hardware it gets used on. But the react zealots have swindled the whole world economy into funding their madness for years, so who knows.
set up as a jeweler

fools who bought them as an "investment" will pile in and you can offer them nothing
I’m not making a claim for chatGPT so much as I am making a claim for GPT style models.

It’s not really a question of high resource vs low resource languages so much as what languages ended up in the training corpus.

1. There’s a lot of transfer learning going on with predict the next token LLMs. A model trained on 500B tokens of English and 50b tokens of French will speak French far better than if it was trained on only 50b tokens of French.

2. You don’t need parallel corpora for every single pair you want to translate to. This means that GPT LLMs only need single text data for the vast majority of languages. Training most NMT models you would need Burmese/English parallel data.

Both of the above combine to mean that not only is quality demonstrably better, amount of data needed is lower too.

GPT's burmese isn't worse because it's low resource. It's because open ai made no specific attempt to include burmese text.

They're not even trying. GPT-3 was 93% English with the 2nd biggest holder less than 2%
Generally it’s only manslaughter if you were reckless or negligent when you killed the person.
People have been afraid to have cell towers placed nearby (like on roof of multi-story housing they live in).

But what's funny & non-intuitive:

Whatever that cell tower puts out in radiation, only a small fraction reaches you (distance from antenna & power level decreases with square of that distance).

But your phone otoh, many people hold it right next to their head. So it likely puts more radio power into your head than cell tower on roof. Which is already a worst case - cell towers are usually much further away. But your phone is always near while in use.

Then the next non-intuitive: your phone adjusts transmit power to reach the cell tower it's in contact with. What happens when that tower is far away? Higher transmit power from your phone (again: more radio power entering your head). How to minimize? Place more cell towers! So that one is always nearby. On the extreme: with cell towers 'on every street corner', both those towers & your phone could use much lower transmit power. But cell towers everywhere is exactly the opposite of what most people want. Logic...

Okay, cell tower may transmit 24/7, while your phone only transmits now & then. But I need not tell you how long some people talk on their phone.

If you're really worried about this, either use speakerphone option (so phone isn't next to your head), or use a Bluetooth headset.

Personally I think phone health effects exist, but more likely due to psychological effects of doomscrolling, social media use, etc. And effects on sleep of too-bright screens / phone use right before bed time.

Phone under your pillow / just playing a (non-online) game: phone is not transmitting. EM radiation due to high-frequency cpu/gpu etc is negligable compared to transmit power.

And phone in pants pocket: the (low! but non-0) danger here is the battery popping. Not RF.

Probably a bigger health issue: using one's phone while driving. Or a car hitting you because that driver was busy with their phone.
Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave
They were specifically told not to do it by the DOJ and did it anyways.
If I were building a CMS or a templating system for a blog then I might care about the structure for scalability and management reasons such as sharding of storage as part of the URL, programmatic global edits, etc... and that's assuming it might grow really big. Otherwise I don't think it matters that much aside from the potential voodoo wheresmycraisin mentioned.
Europe is in an effort to forbid those vehicles circulation.

New cars are unwantable, old cars are progressively banned.
You're probably being intentionally vague here to avoid "naming names", but I'd love to hear the actual details of this story: the topic under discussion, the interrogation that lead up to the "point where [you] could go no further", what the last question was, and what a simple experiment to answer it would look like.
I'm thinking lower resource usage (no double caching of data), shorter path to data so I would expect fewer bad things might happen during commit, and better performance in terms of transactions per second. Otherwise, I can't explain it any better than one of the lead developers himself:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210223100344.llw5an2...
Can someone who believes in crypto explain how theft is supposed to be identified and resolved? I can kind of see how you might “prove” that a wallet was accessed by someone unexpected through IP addresses, etc. But once something is stolen, what is the path toward making the victim whole again? Can’t the thief in the worst case just forget their wallet’s key? In that case it would be like trying to recover money that has been anonymously thrown into ann incinerator.
Apple has been top of the industry in terms of length of OS/software support for their devices.

My iPhone 8 is still supported by the current iOS (no longer by 17, womp womp.) It's nearly seven years old, is still on its first battery with about 79% capacity left and it hasn't gone into brownout-prevention mode yet. I'm figuring that with the new iOS release it probably won't be supported, but who knows.

A few whiz-bang features aren't supported; fancy but kinda useless webcam stuff, and newer iPhones can do more extensive object recognition in photos like bugs and plants that I think my phone won't do.

I'm not missing much aside from better cellular band support, which is kind of a wash because my phone has a qualcomm modem and Apple's switch to intel modems didn't go well.

Even the newer cameras aren't tempting because a generation or two after the 8 and X, they all became inflicted with Apple's horrifically bad "AI" image processing that makes everything look like a watercolor painting.
Very excited to use this. I recently started working on rebuilding my personal website and using that learn about RSC / App Router. As I started down the path, I learned that ChakraUI (which we use at work with Pages Router) doesn't work with RSC. I knew of shadcn/ui but I have literally zero experience using Tailwind; I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out, but having something like v0 will vastly improve my speed at which I can build my website and learn from generated examples. For someone with no design chops I can't wait to start playing around.
Although you can't judge a group on its worst members, the average of the gaming community isn't exactly great.

I mean, have you joined the voice chat for a popular shooter recently? There is a lot of vitriol and crybaby behaviour.
Good catch—it is indeed PaLM 2. I'll update to clarify this.
I haven't found the lenses yet although supposedly https://www.thorlabs.com/ has them and someone else recommended these guys to me for finding more high quality diffraction gratings than the 'rave goggles' quality you can find on amazon https://www.edmundoptics.com/
Yeah, this is one of the worst aspects of residential solar, IMO. Workmanship and labor warranties are fragile at best, and the cost to do seemingly basic things is not insignificant.

Lose a couple of panels near the middle of an array due to a power optimizer after a few years and you might end up debating whether it is even worth fixing it. That isn't so bad in itself, but it also might completely mess up your financial return estimates.
Iceland isn’t really a poor country though, even if it doesn’t have a high GDP. It’s more like New Zealand.
This is really a missed opportunity for a penguin-colored owl mascot.
> try to disincentivize radical politics inside the parties

Average inflation-adjusted weekly earnings were higher in the 1970s then now. The average inflation adjusted hourly wage is lower than what it was a half century ago. A the growth in the past half century has been hoovered up by the heirs, by the aristocracy. This has a naturally radicalizing effect, and changing election laws will not change anything other than send that radicalization to the streets.
I can't imagine Voltaire claiming any right to be able to delete a pamflet. I think we need to have forgiveness baked into our social layer more, so that forgetting isn't the default.
>They make the engine API extremely discoverable.

yeah, because the UE documentation is absolutely horrid (and it's not like Unity is better at this). I have lots of gripes, but I think the meta issues involve how BPs cause so much community knowledge about the c++ API to be buried. Absolutely fatal if your game cares about performance.

>They are performant

They are performant... IF you know how to weave between them and c++. Shame that courses don't really seem to emphasize that and you simply hit that wall once you're working on a project.
Do you actually mean the non determinism with 0 temperature, or just the non-zero temperature of the ChatGPT UI?
You assume that your goals are aligned with the company’s goals. They’re not. There is no “problem”, it’s all working as intended.

From the company’s point of view, they actually are doing the right thing. They’re making money (which, I’d argue, is ultimately a good thing for everyone involved).

Netflix and Apple are no different, the goal is always $$, Apple just sells different things.
I suspect in the future all employee education on law will have a lawyer present who marks the discussion as client attorney priviledged.

It is weird that the legal system has developed where absolutely all communication except that which has lawyers can be discovered in court. Almost like a guild support it's members. But if that's the way it is so be it.

Everything will now be feature more lawyers and education on law will be client attorney privileged.
This article is precisely pointing that behind this "inclusivity" trend there is a pervasive _economic_ reason , which directly contradicts what you are implying (that it's a "meme in the psyches of normies").
This entire list will soon be obsolete as AI will link all your accounts by just giving it some of your text input.

I believe I saw an experiment of somebody doing this for HN content with a pretty high accuracy? Project that idea into the future.
Damn I kinda want to build little doohickeys and sell them on etsy instead of going to work every morning
Pedantry will get you hung