skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d be surprised to learn how unrealistic it is to expect someone that has learned Latin from 3 years of grammar drills/translation exercises to read any intermediate text comfortably (without translating sentence-by-sentence).
FWiW modern ECT is much much milder than 1960s light dimming electroshock treatments.

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/electroconvulsive-therapy-ec...
Great question. It could, but there is a strong chance that the true recipient has already partially or fully ACKd the segment, thereby changing the sequence number and preventing a reset.
I disagree. Unless the Visual editor was incredibly sophisticated, then there's always thing that can be done better by manipulating text.

The textual representation doesn't have to be the primary way of interacting with the program and it doesn't need to be optimal for everyday use - but it should be sane and visually comprehensible when the need arises.
There are areas (CAD) where it made a lot of sense.
Analytics indicate that only a small percentage of people still use it and the engagement was low
Beware of that practice. If for some reasing you are get used to it too much, one day you may not have and you won't know where to start to write a function yourself.

It's simlar to what happens to people who knows a language (not coding language), stop using it or go back to use translator, and when they need to use it themselves, they are unable.
This is a large on justice department?
PruningRadixTrie – Faster Radix trie for prefix search and auto-complete
RAM hacking to port my eye tracker to bloatscript
being bored at home, few months ago, i decided to port my python eye tracker to js, part of the goal was to not add dependency overhead, but found no easy option to communicate inference results to local machine.
So decided to use cheat engine to find a pointer chain that consistently resolves to ram address of coordinates of an html text element that js moves based on inference results.

original project: https://github.com/SubhranshuSharma/shitty_gaze_mouse_contro...
Yeah, but I wonder if it’s even more powerful to say, “we asked the world’s most powerful AI and it recommended that we lay off 20% of our staff, while ensuring we treated them all fairly.”
We seriously need to have a new HN policy that requires every link posted to be HTTPS link
Did you consider that your experience is but one of many? No need to be rude and bitter to the author.
Being bad at predictions is ok. It's the absolute lack of re-calibration that does me in.

If you make a hilariously bad prediction then that tells you your model about that thing is off and needs correcting.

So if you do nothing to that model and still make predictions...
Did you miss that the article is about 700 years ago? Would be a much more interesting setting
> one in particular (a Roman named Oursenplus) that I only finally got when I heard a French colleague say it out loud (with a "sh" sound at the end rather than "ss")

Be kind to us who still don't know enough and explain it here.
If talking about the US (though it’s not the only place that uses the number 911, and I would imagine that other countries’ numbers would be affected): all the major 3G networks have been shut down, so your current options for major networks are T-Mobile’s 2G network (which I successfully dialed 911 with a couple of months ago while in the US, but it’s only spottily available, and it’s being shut down next year), or 4G networks.

More generally, though, using different code paths for emergency dialing is the root of the problem in the first place—you want to minimise special handling of things like this, because less-tested paths are much more likely to be buggy. Consider also: error handling code is pretty much the buggiest out there, because it’s seldom tested.
perhaps the difference is that attitude is fine when building hobby or saas apps adding no real value to the world however that's not the type of behavior we'd expect to see for engineers having responsibility for critical systems dealing with finance, health, etc.
Pretty cool.

My only concern is long term, how do you plan to support web storage/use without monetization of some sort?
And one of these nasty platform economy phenomenons: Take the profit, leave risks and bad labor conditions to others. Whether related to bed bugs or not, those blood suckers don't deserve our sympathy or business.
More details in this blog post by a Wharton professor: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the...

My questions to naysayers:

* Do you or anyone you know use GPT-4 (not the free GPT-3.5) to do productive tasks like coding and found it to help in many cases?

* If you insist it’s useless, why do millions of people pay $20 a month to access GPT-4 and plugins?
Powerful stuff. If anyone wants a short explanation here's one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pieIoEi8Ds

I love it when a complicated set of conditions can be losslessly encoded in a short, easily remembered label.
I have tried adding prompts like this and it works really well. "Rather than giving me the answer, guide me using questions in the Socratic method".
Wow that series is really good! Please do more, you explain things very clearly and the visuals are easy to follow.
Well, hotels spread bed bugs.

You're granting the hypothetical world of the upstream commenter where an anti-bed-bug regulation is put in place that's so bent towards hotels that only hotels could survive, but we'd need to see more details on that before we grant it. What would that even look like and would it be worth it beyond the HN knee-jerk of "lol Airbnb bad"?
This couldn't be further from the truth. The whole Kosovo thing has nothing to do with Russia.
Yet lots of EU sites do it

As they should
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It shouldn't be allowed to be sold and Google should be facing fines for each day the functionality is missing, assuming it is a software problem.
My ISP should not be promoting posts advocating for genocide at me, absolutely yes!!
No, Argentina and Brazil are very different. For example, Mercado Libre and other unicorns started im Argentina and are serving Latam. Brazil has a large population and local market to serve while Argentina has a relatively small population, lot of land, and needs to look outside to growth.
It's as if creating a new state from a thin air without any consideration for the ethnical minorities that will stay there was a bad idea. The problem here is that US politics in the region was never meant to create peace, it was meant to get influence and push Russia out. The solutions for both Kosovo and Bosnia were pretty obviously leading to failed state territory from the get go and the whole region will be devastated by these decisions in the decades to come.
Reminder to not hire people who worked at MBB.
There are alternatives! (Scruff, sniffies, squirt)

Thankfully the “let me chat with people, shown in a list by order of proximity, with some custom filters” is basically a weekend project worth of work. Seen quite a few alternative apps (and web apps!) pop up over the past few years.
Europoort Sought Unlimited Data Access in Online Child Sexual Abuse Regulation
I wonder how long it takes AI to get good at law. Right now the verbal tasks it excels at are similar to the artistic ones: namely, solving problems with enormous solution spaces that are robust to small perturbations. That is, change a good picture of an angry tree man slightly and it's still probably a good picture of an angry tree man.
sidfthec is a little confused, but they've got the spirit. Here is the key: the public owns it. Not any individual member of the public.

The public doesn't have a home, but if it did, it already took the national parks there. The public can get a permit to build there. The public can refuse to allow anyone else to use it. Remember: members of the public are not the public. "Anyone else" here actually includes members of the public (ie: you and I).
For any managers reading: Chat GPT and Stack Overflow are not the same kind of thing.
This seems like a bizarre headline for the article. Most of the quotes and info in the article point to Apple not being interested because Bing was not as capable as Google search and Microsoft deciding the additional investment to make it so would be a money loser.
Sadly, Russians destroyed Retro Computing Museum and much of the city of Mariupol last year, Club 8-bit https://kotaku.com/ukraine-russia-war-bomb-retro-pc-gaming-m...
There was a lot of borderline propaganda on US news media during the war in the 90s that a lot of people swallowed whole without thinking about it too much: "Serbs are bad. Everything they do is bad. Albanians and Croats are just simple innocent victims." (To the point that even the reporter doing most of the coverage at CNN was Albanian and no one thought that was a conflict of interest).

The reality is, of course, a lot messier and more unpleasant: The region is filled with people who hate each other and tend to massacre each other along ethnic lines whenever one group gets the upper hand over the others. There's a reason every World War starts there. So NATO stepped in and basically said to Serbia "If there are non-Serbs in _your_ borders, they may form breakaway republics and you must let them secede. However, in Kosovo (your former state) Serbs may not do the same thing." Serbs were basically ethnically cleansed out of Kosovo under the "protection" of NATO Kfor. There are multiple accounts of NATO forces standing a few feet away and watching as Albanians burn and loot Serbian Orthodox churches and villages.

I'm not sure what "the way out" of this is, but I think US/NATO has a responsibility to treat all the sides equally, which they don't exactly have a great track record of doing.
I always let the spiders in the house alone. I know they kill mosquitoes and the like.

But nonetheless around last september we had bedbugs in our main bedroom (France, but not Paris : rural south east of France). I couldn't find any but they were obviously sucking our blood at night: these weren't mosquitoes bites.

Thankfully that bedroom is "zen": one huge bed and that's it. So we bought all the chemicals needed to kill the bedbugs (yup, sorry for the planet about these chemicals but you cannot live with bedbugs) and I quickly repainted the entire room, figuring out that bedbugs probably wouldn't like it much to get both the anti-bedbugs chemicals plus brand new painted walls.

Chemicals, painting the whole room, washing the sheets, vaccuum cleaning. Rinse and repeat for two to three days.

No problem since.

So you can get rid of these little mofos but spiders alone aren't sufficient.
Understandable that it's key when it's ~$20bn a year.

Whatever the price could be pushed to, G is in a better position than any other search engine as it makes more per search by a long margin.
Plus, the users occasionally have a tendency not to remain as users of Google services for very long after.
> The European police agency, Europol, has requested unfiltered access to data that would be harvested under a controversial EU proposal to scan online content for child sexual abuse images and for the AI technology behind it to be applied to other crimes too, according to minutes of a high-level meeting in mid-2022.

…

> In the meeting, the minutes of which were obtained under a Freedom of Information request, Europol requested unlimited access to the data produced from the detection and scanning of communications, and that no boundaries be set on how this data is used.

> “All data is useful and should be passed on to law enforcement, there should be no filtering by the [EU] Centre because even an innocent image might contain information that could at some point be useful to law enforcement,” the minutes state. The name of the speaker is redacted, but it is clear from the exchange that it is a Europol official.
I’m reading Kurosawa’s autobiography and, somewhat related to this post, I found it interesting that his brother was a regionally famous narrator for silent films. When talkies exploded on the scene he committed suicide because of it.
What are you basing your _most_ sacred claim on?
I'd recommend reading my post again. I was saying the former Yugoslav states in the Balkans are much smaller economically and power projection wise than Greece, Russia, Türkiye, Romania, and Germany - all major players within the Balkans economically and politically.
The best way to get it to catch up is to raise its visibility so it can get access to more resources.
I misread it as "Parasitic manager gaslights his team into naming him as the sole inventor on the patent application."
Google randomly deleted a popular YouTube channel again
Google did it again and randomly deleted a popular YouTubers channel with no notice and without contacting them I'm advance to discuss
nmap is not a "passive scan". You might be thinking of packet capture?
>The ESP chips are barely power efficient enough to run on battery with C.

Incorrect, Esp32-s3 uses 8 micro amps in deep sleep.
> A confident GPT hallucination is almost indistinguishable from typical management consulting material...

If you're measuring based on output, sure, but... the value of any knowledge worker is primarily driven by the input, that is, a client doesn't want "10 ideas" they want "10 [valuable] ideas [informed by the understanding of the business and the market they're operating in]". If a management consultant said "boat shoes" in response to this question they would not have a client much longer.

You could apply this same nonsense task to software engineering, i.e: ask ChatGPT to "write 10 lines of code" and it'll be indistinguishable from the code we churn out day after day.
Who claimed management consultants are not stochastic parrots?
The Oxford of 2023 still has a PPE course whose graduates causes endless chaos and harm in the world.

Things don't seem to have improved much.
It seems like the only ways to subordinate programming tasks are to write tests for your subordinate's code, or to review it tediously yourself, or to just trust the hell out of them.
Kooks? The flip side of that coin is the NPC (Non playing characters) that have trouble dealing with any information that could harm their little "comfort cocoon". Nobody has your best interest in mind, not even yourself if you step back far enough.

I appreciate this place.
Two new members, massive ramp up in European defence spending, Russian turning itself into a Chinese fleshlight with its Ukrainian misadventure, CTSO falling apart, Vietnam buying F16 and hosting Biden, yeah, NATO's doing terribly these days.
Having dedicated code path for 911 is literally the problem. It makes it legally almost impossible to test in many countries (since in many countries you're not allowed to dial 911 if you don't have an emergency)
At least 2 decades ago when I worked with phones the phone as a list of emergency numbers which could be updated to country-spefic values. Often 000, 112, and 911 were always present.

Once the software notices one of these numbers dialled call handling will go a completely different code path than normal calls.

I have no idea how things work in Android, where you obviously must have VoIP hooks?
Yes, GPT-4 is great for doing “boring work” and allows me to focus on the “fun work”. You still need to know what you’re doing though, you can’t blindly copy and paste.

And for the second one, although I am paying for it too, this idea is more or less flawed nowadays. Utilization is a very hand wavy thing when it comes to this stuff. Like a purse, millions would pay money for it, some even pay thousands. But I have no use for it and wouldn’t even pay a $1 for one.
I just moved to the USA from Europe and have found sms/mms to be annoying. I'm consistently missing texts especially mms. Maybe my settings are slightly off or the payload is exceeding MMS size limits but it's way less reliable than Whatsapp. Everyone seems to use iPhones so they don't hit this issue until they text an android user like me.
This is unacceptable. They should loose certification for the device.
Well, they buried the lede with this one. Using LLMs were better for some tasks and actually made it worse for others.

The first task was a generalist task ("inside the frontier" as they refer to it), which I'm not surprised has improved performance, as it purposely made to fall into an LLM's areas of strength: research into well-defined areas where you might not have strong domain knowledge. This also is the mainstay of early consultants' work, in which they are generalists in their early careers – usually as business analysts or similar – until they become more valuable and specialise later on.

LLMs are strong in this area of general research because they have generalised a lot of information. But this generalisation is also its weakness. A good way to think about it is it's like a journalist of research. If you've ever read a newspaper, you often think you're getting a lot of insight. However, as soon as you read an article on an area of your specialisation, you realise they've made many flaws with the analysis; they don't understand your subject anywhere near the level you would.

The second task (outside the frontier) required analysis of a spreadsheet, interviews and a more deeply analytical take with evidence to back it up. These are all tasks that LLMs aren't strong at currently. Unsurprisingly, the non-LLM group scored 84.5%, and between 60% and 70.6% for LLM users.

The takeaway should be that LLMs are great for generalised research but less good for specialist analytical tasks.
An example output would have been nice. There is also nothing about privacy and stuff. What happens to the uploaded pdf? Or is it processed inside the browser? But then there could still be a call to a back end?
Fintech
I read most of the article.

I don't buy the premise of the author. Social media is simply amplifying what the social network things is interesting/valuable. If society thinks some nasty haetful writer is interesting, its boosting that person's content.
Its not a surprise that if you had decades of junta, you also had decades of fighting , the groups wouldn't exactly be singing praises of their rivals on social media.

The author never once discusses the obvious - this shouldn't be about restricting speech (which is exactly what is being advocated) , or blaming FB, it was always about the recommendation algorithm.

Destroy the algorithm or disable it, and you literally have no basis for the article.
GP is getting downvoted because it's a shit take. ethnic tensions in Kosovo date back to before the break up of Yugoslavia -- like early 1980s at the latest. Serbia may feel that now is an opportune moment to stir shit up again, and Russia may be supportive, but to suggest that Kremlin is pulling all the strings here is plain wrong.

other commenters in this thread display much more nuanced and informed perspectives.
I vaguely recall that planes flying in different directions are assigned different altitude buckets.
Depends what you would classify as good, but IBM Watson is already used in law firms [today](https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/legalmation)

LLMs iare most often best at helping humans do their tasks more effectively, not replacing them completely
Wikipedia says this about modern French spelling:

> An acute accent over ⟨e⟩ represents /e/

> A grave accent over ⟨e⟩ indicates /ɛ/ in positions where a plain ⟨e⟩ would be pronounced /ə/ (schwa).

> A circumflex over ⟨a, e, o⟩ indicates /ɑ, ɛ, o/, respectively, but the distinction between ⟨a⟩ /a/ vs. ⟨â⟩ /ɑ/ is being lost in Parisian French, merging them as [a]. In Belgian French, ⟨ê⟩ is pronounced [ɛː]. Most often, it indicates the historical deletion of an adjacent letter (usually ⟨s⟩ or a vowel): château < castel, fête < feste, sûr < seur, dîner < disner (in medieval manuscripts many letters were often written as diacritical marks, e.g. the circumflex for ⟨/s/⟩ and the tilde for ⟨/n/⟩).

What I can take from that (lacking detailed knowledge of French) is that ê always refers to the same vowel as è (with a length distinction in Belgian French), and sometimes, in contexts which defy simple description†, e refers to the same vowel. (The vowel in question is similar to that in the English word DRESS.) è is used to avoid the suggestion that a plain e might be read in the default way, as /ə/, and ê is used to remind you that the word used to contain an s.

It does not appear that a circumflex will generically clobber other accent information; the verb "listen" was formerly escouter and now, pronounced with /e/ and not /ɛ/, is spelled écouter according to the pronunciation rather than êcouter according to the etymology.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography )

If you have a particular example in mind that the treatment of modern French doesn't seem to work for, Wikipedia also has a lot of material on sound changes between Latin and French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_French

† The page has a table of how to predict the pronunciation of unaccented "e". These are the listed exceptions to the default reading:

(a) "e" appears before multiple consonants, or before a double consonant, or before a silent consonant that is followed by t.

(b) "e" appears before a silent consonant that is not t and is not followed by t.

(c) "e" appears at the end of a word, except for some (but not all) one-syllable words. In some contexts, those non-exceptional one-syllable words will also be exceptions.

(d) "e" as it appears in the words et, femme (first position), solennel (first position), or any word ending in the suffix -emment (first position).

A context that doesn't match any of these exceptions, including the unspecified exceptions, calls for a grave accent over the e when the vowel is /ɛ/. Otherwise, you're good to just use e.

All this leaves me unenthusiastic about the concept of "make it easier to pronounce unfamiliar words by making your spelling more like French".
Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
My experience has been Pixel phones suck for calls in general. I know of 3 people with Pixel 3As that intermittently can’t receive calls. Often it takes 2-3 calls to these people in order to get 1 to go through. Setting the phones to prefer 4G has so far fixed the problem most reliably but the whole calling stack on pixel phones needs some work IMO.
They studied dishonesty – Was their work a lie?