skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a surprise that producers of X claim people really want X and only their X? If true no government action is necessary. If false then government action forces consumers to buy something they don't want.

Note that sometimes government action forcing people to do things they don't want is necessary e.g. paying taxes and protecting the environment. That's hardly ever the case, though.
that seems unlikely. the Streisand effect suggests that censoring a topic sparks interest in it. like, the American public was so skeptical of Jeffery Epstein's apparent suicide that "Epstein didn't kill himself" became a widespread meme, and that's without your Internet connection getting reset if you Google his name. does the Streisand effect just not function in mainland China?
> In war films, if you ever wondered what a bunch of soldiers standing in a circle shouting "hack!" at each other meant: they're synchronizing their watches.

Said no one before ever.

For that matter, no group of soldiers ever cried out "hack" while setting their watches in a war movie, either.

Is the entire thing made up?
Oh, I think we're going to get there.

The interesting thing is I doubt humans will do well living on other bodies in the solar system without deliberate genetic modification. The modifications would be things like being able to tolerate different gravities, different gas pressure, different air composition, radiation hardening, maybe seeing different light wavelengths, tolerance for various poisonous chemicals, etc.
Ehhh this article basically says “we are better at prompt engineering than some random other guy who sucked. Hire us.”

It’s a clever ad, but an ad nonetheless.

The author tries to turn the idea of prompt engineering into something so banal as to be meaningless, but then describes their follow up work in a way which I would consider to also be classified under “prompt engineering.”
Google hurt me before. Please dont hurt me meta.
I am sorry, but $5000 behind LangChain - you entered a failure mode.

You fixed it and went further etc. but most teams do not. So it may seem definitive - the conclusions about what Prompt Engineering is or isn’t. But what you’ve described barely scratches the surface on Prompt Engineering.
Mozilla doesn’t JUST make money from searches. So why would chrome?

In fact, Mozilla has been trying to reduce its dependence on Google for awhile now. I think it’s down to around ~80% of their revenue, IIRC. If Google were to stop, Bing would jump on that in a heartbeat.
> earned an opportunity to write the patch themselves

Doesn't work that way when it's declared a security problem. Fix ASAP is the only way forward for those.
If you used --help, then decided to pipe it to less, and it disappeared, then you can't have been confused for too long. But agreed that an explicit --help should print to stdout.

However, if you used the tool incorrectly (passed the wrong args) and you expected the usage information to go to stdout rather than stderr, I would disagree vehemently. stdout is (generally) for parseable information, whereas stderr is kind of a garbage bin of everything else.
For me, OSS is all about being able to edit to get some long-tail functionality in. For both Kong and Airbyte, I didn't have to wait for some internal prioritization pipeline to finish.
Just because it's unenforceable doesn't mean you shouldn't make a rule. In fact it seems just the opposite, that's exactly the time to make a rule. If it were enforceable you wouldn't need a rule, you could just enforce it and have it be true.
The Register is quasi-satire; see their slogan is “biting the hand that feeds IT.”
If it's snake oil then what is a prompt injection attack?
That's the editorial voice they go for.
Agree or not (i don’t), we have loads of unenforceable conventions in software. Hell, if this field is known for anything at all, it’s people getting worked up over subtle deviations from longstanding conventions.
Depends on which state. Texas, Illinois, NJ have 2%+ property taxes so yes that would be $20k a year plus insurance and any HOA.

Dual income is an entirely separate discussion from the financial impact of surging interest rates.
One can't always correctly assume the motivations for a contribution, but 'bragging rights', as you put it, rank pretty highly in my experience. To lead a sustainable project, one has to be sensitive to these motivations and make satisfying them a sufficiently high priority.

That doesn't have to mean a three-page press release every time someone joins your project, but it probably means publicly thanking a contributor for their first contribution. Every project is different, but as for myself I believe I have been successful in balancing my responsibilities as a maintainer appropriately whilst giving credit liberally. If this has helped someone fill their resume and land a dream job, even the better for it!
Chunks of society, including basic services like gym, laundry, and transport are now locked* behind "apps" on proprietary app stores, and you need an officially sanctioned (Google/Apple has root) smartphone to even download them. If AI becomes "the next big thing", there will be no opting out of that either.

*list will vary depending on location
Instead of building new housing, cities should pay landlords and companies to convert their office space into apartments.

Every office turned into an apartment opens up space both by increasing remote workers and tenants. Convert enough, and both the newly-remote employees and those with jobs which require in-person get a virtual pay increase from decreased rent.

(I get in some sense that offices can't just be turned into apartments: you need to change the layout, install sound-proof walls and furniture, and there will be rooms without windows which presumably can't be rented. But also, many people are desperate for some kind of place to stay, so it seems like an office-cheaply-converted-into-suite would suffice)
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I think it's the fact that War Thunder is less serious than hardcore sims that makes all the difference. The sort of person who is into a "real sim" and values the experience of reproducing the "real" experience is also relatively aware of the culture around military technology. You know it would be potentially bad for you to post classified stuff and you probably understand why "not for export" and "top secret" are different classes of information and why you want two classes of information. You respect the information hierarchy that these systems of secrecy respect - and part of that respect means you enjoy really flipping all of the knobs on an Apache. You probably have access to these documents but you would never be so gauche as to post them on a public forum.

On the other hand, if you mostly enjoy military hardware in a semiotic and arcade-y way, all official documents simply represent potential ammunition to win internet arguments. You aren't aware of the baroque system of different kinds of secrecy and if you heard of itt you would think it was silly. If the information is "out there" already why wouldn't you post it to settle an internet argument? Surely if you can get your hands on it then any potential enemy has as well.
Welcome to the era of true pov porn!
Same reason it’s easier to get contractors or backfill instead of giving raises… HR makes it a pita for managers to do it.
It can sometimes be way easier to fire a vendor than an engineer.
Why do that, when if you did that you would be:

1. Turning down billions of dollars in revenue, while for Apple this is not exactly something that makes or breaks their business it’s not exactly just a tiny little line item either

2. Inviting a door to your own monopoly/anticompetitive arguments against you, when you already have enough of that problem in other spaces

3. Having 1 and 2 be true, AND also spending the resources to build your own engine, which as time and companies like DDG have proven demonstrate that one does not simply build a good search engine with little effort

It’s clearly an arrangement that’s beneficial to both of the parties to the detriment of others
I have exactly the same problem with dirty hands when I take boroscope photos of the engine on my plane. I would love to just see it in my glasses and say blink twice to take a photo.
Thanks will give it a try
If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/
Rolex are +/- 2 seconds per day.
Another response for this image a friend sent:

"The humor in this picture comes from the juxtaposition of a formal setting with an informal, unexpected action. It shows a group of well-dressed individuals, possibly political figures or professionals, in what appears to be a formal event or gathering. However, amidst this serious environment, one tall man is casually standing on a scale to check his weight, seemingly unaware or unbothered by the presence of the others. The contrast between the formal setting and the informal action makes the image amusing. Additionally, the reactions of the other individuals, particularly the man looking at the scale, add to the comedic element."

It got the humor but didn't identify Obama.
maybe it's a "blame" thing, but it's not a liability thing. Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM*, but nobody ever got a nickel back either.

*IBM is a consulting firm now
As far as I understand, these multi-modal models work by embedding the text/image in a shared representation space. To perform OCR on such an embedding, it would require extracting every letter, in the correct order, from the embedding. But given the embedding is a fixed size, and therefor necessarily compressed, I would expect it to loose the exactness of the underlying input, especially with images containing a lot of text. So assuming GPT-V can effectively perform OCR, how is this being done given the constraints?

Or is my understanding completely off? Perhaps it's "Translating" the image to text, by outputting a sequence of text tokens as it scans the image regions, and then the text queries (e.g. "whats funny about this") uses this translation as the context? Presumably, this is how the model handles audio input.
It takes one popular tool breaking convention to make the rule obsolete. There's no point.
> he needs to accommodate that

Clearly he doesn't. He just disabled harmful features and called it a day. Stuff like strict aliasing and undefined signed integer overflow apparently do nothing but serve as an excuse for the optimizer to screw up perfectly reasonable code.

https://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/06/unders...

https://stackoverflow.com/q/2958633/512904

Looks like this is a pretty good approach to fixing the C language. Take the nonsensical undefined stuff and tell the compiler to define it.

Looks like there is a may_alias type attribute to tell GCC that some types may alias:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Type-Attributes.ht...

I'm not sure if it's worth the effort though. Too much uncertainty.
You'd have to gut the entire building or maybe even demolish it. Pretty much all of the mechanical would need to be redone.
Office buildings usually have floor plans and plumbing that make it extremely difficult to turn them into apartments.
But soon enough, as stories like Carl's multiplied across the economy, and because AI was still in its infancy, the situation proved to be unsustainable for both man and machine. These excellent servers, while lacking any form of autonomous agency, stripped men of any advantages, outcompeting them in their vast multitudes, down to the most personal and intimate specificities of each individual. The old economic structures collapsed, and social order crumbled.

Just like the magic of an act that reveals itself only after performance and if its tricks remain hidden, Carl, now lying on his deathbed, realized what had come to pass. He could clearly discern how the machine had rectified the predicament. With the clarity that impending death brings, he saw how the machine had guided society towards a new social order. To maintain social structures, it had initiated an inversion by crafting a unique narrative trajectory for each man. From a world dominated by assertive takers wielding their will to power, we had transitioned into a world of beggars. Here, each man competed in a private theater of their own, performing their unwillingness to accept powerlessness before the machine to gain its favor. The inversion of all values, at last!
I'm in the Air National Guard, and its very much a thing. Typically at the beginning or end of a brief/meeting when you're about to go out and do something.
Will CBT help with impaired oxygen perfusion of tissue caused by a pathogen known to cause pervasive vascular damage and severely deranged blood clotting?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002628622...
The evidence would suggest that people making a median income are up to their eyeballs in debt, particularly credit card debt, and have very little hope of their situation improving in the future.
I disagree. stderr is a misnomer, in modern usage it has effectively become stdlog/stdinfo. The only thing that should go to stdout is the result of the program.

For example, many programs will print usage/help when used incorrectly. Imagine you upgrade the "read_reactor" tool, and your usage in your "control_reactor" becomes invalid - suddenly you're piping help message data to the control rods. By sending it to stderr instead, no bogus data would be piped and, as a bonus, you would see the help message after invoking your script because (as you have experienced) stderr is not piped by default.

If you want to send it to less: read_reactor -h 2>&1 | less
Russia is suddenly running low on fuel
A very large portion of the Linux kernel code can't even run in userspace. It's not your average software project.

Here's one integration test project: https://linux-test-project.github.io/ -- typically (non-platform) subsystem maintainers write their own stress tests. But stress tests are merely probabilistic.
Of course it is not snake oil!

A prompt is everything to a LLM, there is no other interaction. It would be like saying that knowing the details of bash is snake oil for a sysadmin. If you are not doing some sort of prompt engineering, you are not making the best out of your LLM.

And sure, prompt engineering doesn't replace fine-tuning. To continue with the bash analogy, you can't do everything effectively with bash, sometimes you need to write code in C or other languages. But that you can write C code doesn't make using bash effectively snake oil.
Yes I have been using that as one of my main plugins. It's quite good.

Another one I use is YT Caption Retriever as I use it to 'summarise the auto generated captions of this youtube video [insert link]'

- this saves me heaps of time on certain videos where I just need the gist of them rather than listening to 10 mins of

"OH hai guys it's your boi Zurtri here coming at you with another great tip - and hit that subscribe button - it really helps the algo!'
There's an acronym in lexicography that I can't remember right now, but the effect of it is that people try to ascribe a nautical origin to everything. I worry this might be a little of that, but it's a fun story regardless.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that someone claim significant work experience, far from it. To prove your capabilities from FOSS contributions, you either have to (A) stick with one project for a long time and build up a strong reputation, or (B) make many small-ish contributions to a wide variety of projects. It's in that latter case that, without public credit, it can be difficult to prove to a potential employer that you really did the work.
> What's a page?

80x25

> I set all my terminals to 22x23.

You are a very silly man and silliness should not be catered for.

> Will --help run a few quick ioctls to calculate screen size?

Your terminal can wrap text around just fine. If it can't, ask for refund.
That sounds like a dystopian hellscape.
They want loyalty. Loyalty for them means just time (6+ years). I saw a lot of "loyal" people that were pushing the company into the ground everyday.

Basically you forgo any income increases that you get when you change companies for the remote possibility they will make you senior someday. You also get some money.
I don't understand, isn't residuals in the contract?
The cost of a conversion typically isn't much less than the cost of a complete demolition and rebuild.

So it just makes more financial sense to find a smaller building to upsize or one in more disrepair to demolish and rebuild than to convert a perfectly fine office building.
I wonder if some of this leaks are fromn people paid, threatened or otherwise "moved by external forces" to do the leak
I can assure that your experience isn't representative; probably not in "big" enough spaces. It's deeply ironic, but the bigger you go, the more you can easily see luck as a factor (e.g. daddy's money)
It would be a rare thing that someone would actually be streaming or recording on them, unless you agreed to make a video. Technically someone could record your every conversation with their phone in their pocket or on the table, but no one worries about that, because it goes against the social contract. If one of your friends did that regularly, everyone understands it would likely be the end of that friendship, and others they shared that with would shun them. I think it's the same with these glasses.

Another similar example is reading your SOs text messages. In the past this would be impossible because normal people didn't have a "paper trail", but now most everyone does. But it's not a huge concern for most people, because we know it's socially unacceptable to look at someone's messages without a very good reason.
Bond rates had been less than inflation for a long time before interest rates rose. But yes, a lot of people made money getting cheap loans with interest rates below or close to inflation. It’s one of the main reasons we are in our current mess.
Ask HN: Learning iOS development without a Mac?
Is it feasible? Does using something like Flutter or React Native lend itself better to non-XCode development compared to say Swift?

Also, my Apple Developer account I got from a security bounty just expired and I won’t be renewing it ~ will I still be able to put apps I write onto TestFlight/distribute somehow (but not App Store)

I do have an old Mac but it’s stashed away unused - would rather work with android than use MacOS though.
I'm not clear why it's a no deal, when in a different industry with the same details but a different IP output, it's a deal?

George Clooney isn't bringing his own cameras and lighting systems to appear in a movie, but he'll still get residuals
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at with "valid."
That sounds good, but after reading it carefully it makes no sense. It was posted in April 1 2021.
That's terrible. Hacking prevention would make sense if they were ±2 seconds a month.
There’s no reason chatbots have to be the interface to an LLM. Imagine dynamically generated interfaces redesigning themselves to your needs as you work through a task.
Indeed, I'm from Britain. I really hadn't ever heard of Rayban - and I only know what Luxottica is because I looked it up after reading this thread :)
Can we just auto delete anything that ends with “study says”

It’s mostly just click-bait at this point
Because it's still the union doing what's best for union members. The only thing that's changed is what's best for the union members.
Headband mounted GoPros are awkward. A helmet mounted GoPro works better, but you're either not wearing a helmet, or if you are you probably need to keep it clear of protrusions for safety reasons.
Texas and Illinois are both 1.6%, didn’t bother checking New Jersey.

The average insurance rate is $1700/yr in Illinois based on a cursory google search.

I live in a state that is 2% and is going through a coverage crisis, and it would cost me ~$10-12k for coverage on a 1mill home if I adjusted the value of my home and current insurance, which I had to acquire during this crisis.

Edit: it won’t let me reply. I’m literally making the same argument you are but I found different numbers. I did not say the state set it.
<pendantic>That's not a macOS update, but a Safari update, and it wasn't there when I wrote that</pedantic>

Wow, that's actually great news. It's the first I have seen of Apple actually supporting it in any way (despite being a member of the consortium that created it).

I don't disagree wrt. phones and tablets, but my MBP laughs at decoding AV1 videos; it's really not that taxing for an M2. Anyway, the more important story here is that A17 (based on this) appears to have AV1 hardware. That's an important first step.
Those are accurate details, but if you zoom out they're still contextually very similar - a swathe of text on a subject written by someone (or something) you have no veritable trust in but is usually fairly accurate.

You should independently fact check either source. Wikipedia is slightly easier, but after you have a base subject matter understanding you should have the terminology to validate anyway.

I suspect you just don't like it, which is perfectly fine.
USA today has a lot of newspapers for example. Not sure what % of that list belongs to them nor what's the source.
I feel like we see these in that cadence, but do we see them becoming commercially viable or actually in use at scale at all?
It is absolutely incredible to me that Facebook thinks it still has the social capital to pull a product like this off. To me the question of whether smart glasses are a good idea in general either socially or commercially is somewhat secondary to the elephant in the room: "would I wear glasses made by Facebook?" And... no, of course not, of course I wouldn't do that.

I guess people buy Oculus still so it's not like Facebook has zero success with its hardware, but I think a big part of that is that it's the lowest-priced option on the market and is aiming at a product category where consumers are not particularly privacy-conscious: ie, games. And from my perspective I look at Oculus with its required account links and all of the privacy and TOS drama that has come out of that hardware, and I just can't imagine buying a hardware product from Facebook at all, let alone a hardware product that has a camera attached to it and requires me to install an app on my phone to use it (which is likely a bigger data-trove for Facebook than the camera is).

It feels like almost any other company would be better equipped to try and build a market around this.
It looks unlike anything I've ever seen before. Are there any other languages that use glyphs so heavily? What was your inspiration? I have no idea how I would use this language, but it's put a smile on my face. Amazing work.
Rarely does a company make 20M off the work of one engineer. Every 4-5 engineers is another 1M expense, nevermind the other employee salaries. I get kind of annoyed when people look at large aggregate numbers and complain about how different they are from the individual employee pay. Even CEO pay - if they took the entire bonus given to the General Motors CEO and divided it among every employee in the company, it would come out to something smaller than their Christmas bonus. I do think CEOs are generally overpaid and under-liable, but it's not like the CEO salary is directly responsible for workers missing out on the highlife.
And since we’re stating the obvious, seawater is particularly abundant.
This feels like an easy one.

Not quite the same, but I really dislike programs which log status updates and more fundamental output to the same place.

IIRC, ffmpeg is like this with everything going to stderr, making metadata parsing more difficult than it needs to be.