skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One realization I had is that tech advantage might in fact become a disadvantage. Consider companies that have invested heavily in building a technological edge. Google Translate, for instance, faces challenges as a simple prompt can overshadow its billion-dollar product. Similarly, Grammarly's competitive edge may now rely more on its momentum and user interface than on its underlying tech. As ChatGPT introduces new capabilities, countless products see their technological edge vanish. To illustrate, the introduction of the image input feature means that, with a single prompt, it could serve as a top-tier school homework assistant, a photo-based calorie counter, and a plant identifier all at once.

This dynamic raised into question the viability of ML research as a core business strategy. Take Midjourney, for example. They've made significant strides and achieved dominance with their advanced text-to-image generation technology. But if a product like DALL-E 3, or its successors, could render their entire offering redundant in a few short years, than it's a tricky path for a company to take.

To me, this suggests that the actual "new strategy in the age of AI" is that tech companies need to transition from relying on their tech edge as their competitive advantages, to relying more on more stable moats. For example, the network effects rooted in two-sided marketplaces. It also hints that tech giants like Google, who above all relied on their tech advantage, could face existential challenges in the coming decade. A sort of a win-or-die situation. While companies like Amazon might be in a more stable ground for now.
Just out of curiosity I googled the title with AI replaced by Blockchain and viola - hundreds of similar type articles that have no meaning nowadays. I know it's a stupid comparison but still funny to me.
>There’s nothing stopping Jian Yang from creating newpipeline.ai

As someone leading a product team which "only calls apis" in this context: this is a very premature take. Hear me out :-)

Robust LLM-powered software requires

* very thoughtful design of prompt templates

* understanding of top_p and temperature in the context of said templates and their parameter space

* very thoughtful design of representative test cases for a given combination of prompt template and api params. without these, you're not even able to reason about the value range of the function you're developing

* execution and evaluation of those tests

* maintenance of all above

...and that's just talking about ensuring the desired output types in one closed context. I won't go into the creativity required to solve more complex problems (content injections, for one). Let me just say this: I won't lose sleep because anyone could just replicate our applications. The opposite is the case: I invite anyone to try and catch up. Good luck with that.

What you wrote might apply for prototypes of zero-shot applications, but not for production-ready software, letalone production-ready software that solves problems which involve more than one isolated LLM-call.
This looks like it has about 100x higher power density than what solar PV gives at peak. Combine that with 100% uptime and deployment pretty much anywhere, that are some pretty compelling advantages.
Maybe we should go back to pay for software. I'm willing to pay for new Android releases if I could use my phone longer. This would be fair for both sides: the manufacturer would earn money with the software and I would save money for a new phone and the environment would be saved from a lot of waste. Win-win-win!
Stupid question: could this be used underground in volcanic areas like Iceland?
Yes, it is. If you willfully intend to commit a crime, you can be charged with a number or inchoate offenses, even if you don’t actually go through with it.
This article praises AI for improving products, but what about the jobs it might take over, like customer service roles?

And can AI truly understand human emotions to handle sensitive customer issues or create artwork that resonates with people on a deeper level? There might be more to consider than just the cool tech.
Personal stress trends using Garth and Matplotlib
No, because they screwed up the tapeout of EMIB (they literally didn't even test it), and the value proposition was terrible - hey guys how do you fancy an Intel Xeon with some FPGA fabric on it - it's really exciting, all you do is you turn off a couple of your cores to reduce the CPU power consumption and then you can turn on 10k LUTs!
If you're allowing division, you can get arbitrarily close with just two (potentially very large) integers.
As a curiosity, what would it entail to make the two tgz byte-for-byte identical ?
There was/is some discussion in setuptools about how to normalize the tarball (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2133#issuecomment-...) coudl something similar be applied to Building Python itself ?
> emitter temperature of 2,400 C

GE's combined cycle turbines can get system level efficiency of around 63% from these sorts of temperatures.

(For those not familiar with them: They're basically aircraft jet engines followed by steam turbines using the hot exhaust. They are in widespread use to generate electricity from gas, but they can also run off any other liquid fuel, or simply off anything that gets very hot.)
Yeah, on further examination it looks like a lot of NFT artists created work using processing and have kicked it back, which explains why the donations were so crypto-heavy. It was giving odd vibes for a bit but it seems cool.
Less intelligent than average, given that 100 is¹ calibrated to be average. Assuming your use of the word intelligence takes the concept as a sliding scale not a boolean is/isn't which is implied by quoting IQ results.

The way the “I” in AI is usually used seems to me to imply achieving average or better, so the aim is mediocre & upwards. steve1977 is agreeing with an opinion that results so far are at best “up to average”, maybe not even that, so more like mediocre & downwards. The phrase Artificial Mediocracy does not seem at all unfair in this context.

The opinion that current models can at best achieve average results overall seem logical to me: that are essentially summarizing a large corpus of human output rather than having original thought. While the systems may “notice” links average humans don't due to not being able to process large amounts of data like that, bringing the average quality of their output up, they are similarly likely to latch onto bad common practise/understanding bringing it back down again. Average results are mediocre results, by definition. Not bad, but not outstanding in any way.

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[1] supposedly, there are strong views about IQ being a flawed measure/measure in some quarters
I'm glad all of the years of work that ifixit put in to publishing guides and selling tools is paying off so hard.

I assume it's standardization that prevents any notable competitors to them from popping up. Since others can just sell tools/parts.
The 0 and the + are important: e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 contains the 5 most important constants and the three most important operations. Getting them back with "+ 0" is quite inelegant.
Today I realised Mandriva is no longer around, once upon a time Mandrake was my favourite distro.
> machine learning algorithms

Machine learning algorithms are good for cheaper replacement of cheap customer service agents, but they are not trustable.

For important things (and having accurate and precise time is an important thing) you need to know in advance that the task will be completed correctly; you actually need to know why it will be completed correctly.

Anything based exclusively on old data, with no formal model, simply cannot give you any guarantee.
Of course in practice you want to be somewhere in-between extremes. You probably don't want to allow daft arguments about specific wording when it's pretty clear there's a correct interpretation. On the other hand you don't want guilty/not-guilty to become entirely detached from the text of law. It's tricky stuff with a lot of grey area which is why judges are important people.
would still be drinking under the influence -> driVing under the influence, LOL
IMO the constant sortings are nearly useless.
It just needs to have 4 list of sorted blocks, one for each 90° angle. Then it just re-sorts them all when an object moves (which would be very cheap), or if few objects move it can just paint them dynamically at the right time (also cheap).
So at all times it has 4 presorted lists, and it chooses the right one depending on the camera position.
Literature review on the benefits of static types (2014)
Sending a signal and waiting for a reply is communication. An agreement doesn't have to be written, or even spoken. Amazon colluded by effectively using the price as a carrier signal.
According to this page, the Google Pixel Watch has "The largest collection of Pixel Watch Bands." - what a weird flex.
I don't think I understand your comment.

Are you saying that you are the moral judge of what is an acceptable take on the ethics of this or not, and people who disagree with your moral judgement are "bad comments" and should therefore result in the discussion being censored?

I apologise if I've misunderstood, but if not then that is not a good stance at all.

This is precisely the sort of thing that we do need to hear from all sides without censor.
Discussing the history of Pythagoras under an article on the history of his most famous theorem?

I think you have a very high bar for relevance.
For my point of view they can release as often as they wish, I will only replace my phones when they die or get stolen.
Sessel
Even if fusion was widely available and affordable you will still want other sources of power for peak demand. Like fission nuclear reactors, they will be good for base power-load. Fusion reactors won't be able to spin up and down based on demand willy nilly.

Given most demand is during the day and early evening solar is a good complement, but the more mixed renewals you have in your grid the better it will tolerate shocks in supply and demand.
That strategy also works for my Apple Watch.
That’s a good strategy. I’m afraid I might miss some steps or valuable data during shower.
By paging chunk I mean the amount of data that gets read in by a hard fault to disk.
Apple used to do that, but there had been (somewhat rare) issues with it getting triggered unintentionally. Especially if you stacked one macbook on top of another. Even with logic to ensure that two magnet pieces are activated at the same time.
What really pisses me of about this is that iOS never shows any timely notification to me about updates and does not update automatically, despite the setting being turned on and the phone even being charged overnight.

I had skipped the 17 upgrade until today but it was the same with the recent 16 patch update and also with the macOS updates.

Why? Does this mean my devices are all compromised, or is Apple not able or unwillig to roll out this security fix as soon as it is available?
Oh yeah i thought so. This shows who is biased here.

The AI doesnt care or know. its about what source the material is taught on. Turns out a lot literature, academic texts and even stuff on the internet is leaning left (and right). So this naturally seeps in.

When you live in a bubble left or right you will see the problem everywhere.
Isn't the thing running the Voyager space probe one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Power
We fucked up in Android source code
Thanks, I understand where you're coming from better now. It's sort of the opposite with me, I move in circles where I sometimes have to be careful about even being slightly positive about EVs since so many are rabidly against them.
Hah... that's fascinating (I by no means mind having a joke turn into a real dialogue, and this is good stuff). So, it's interesting to apply this ancient pre-Abrahamic-moralizing, Platonic division between extrinsic/intrinsic, deduction/induction to modern friendships. All of us westerners still have 19th C. romantic biases that make it hard to admit if a romance serves a purpose, that might block us from being honest with ourselves. Then again, we're not so different. Essential is that love who is so entangled with your life that you make every decision together. Aristotle might've well thought his relationship with a 12 year old slave boy defined the essence in "essential". So, no one's perfect, but it's still possible to guess the meaning.

We might do well to begin sorting our relationships again by those which possess intrinsic meaning and the others which don't.
Do you assume a point exists?
Borland IDEs were definitly better than Notepad.
This is a bad take. “Real” parts are known. Real parts are tested, and their failure modes are understood in relation to each other. Yea you can get lucky on a fake or a bad apple on a real one but that’s just luck. The story surely would be “delta accidentally has been buying a superior part” if the parts were more reliable.

> As to "fake" parts, we don't know the whole situation yet; they may be genuine parts but just may lack certification

If this was the case it wouldn’t have forged certification. The only way this would be true is if delta was buying genuine parts from sketchy resellers and distributors which doesn’t make them look much better.

The damning evidence to all this is the forgery. If you buy “off brand” generic parts, you should know that you are. To forge a document is a deliberate, non accidental, action to lie and deceive. Why would anyone do that unless the part was inferior?
For the cells to work you need a large temperature difference between the source and sink, so the waste heat you're producing is usually just a lot of slightly warmer coolant.

Sometimes you can sacrifice some efficiency by warming the coolant to e.g. 75°C and distributing that as district heating.
The presenter clarified it was for unpowered cars pulled by a locomotive.

A draisine does not fit that description.
A bettery, from the viewpoint of a circuit, is just another source. So we could call them chemical electricity generators, if we're brave enough to indulge the confusion
And only poor drivers need seatbelts.
I agree.

I understand DHH pisses off many people when he speaks, and some times he could probably be a bit less harsh, but I admire him a lot because he's one of the few people I know in this industry critically thinking, applying common sense, and not blindly following fads and all the bullshit that's going on at most places.

I think overall it is a net gain to follow and listen what he says, even if not said in the most "nice" way, I agree on almost everything he says tech wise.

And using Rails after years of pure "modern" SPAs, feels really refreshing. I'm sad most of us have forgotten how simpler things could be, and terrified about new people joining the industry that will never know it (for the time being at least).
Don't "run" programs, don't let them "spawn" threads, don't allow CPU to "follow" instructions, don't "read" or "write" files, should I keep going? All these words used to mean humans doing things, we have been anthropomorphising the machines since the beginning. You are fighting a loosing battle here, better to just calm down and relax.
https://archive.ph/Ao1JE
Thank you! Nice to hear :-) Use the code any way you want, it's unlicensed.
Lol. Wrote some code that basically does this a couple months ago. Whisper -> openai -> notion recording and classifying conversations. Never got it running on anything other than my laptop. I'd imagine anyone serious about this kind of thing would want to run everything locally. Plus this will be the simplest thing for any legit Ai company to crush in the future. https://github.com/bfpill/Gekko
If I understand this correctly, you are turning a computer into a router for another computer? Why would you do this?

I'm obviously a youngling
But that's the thing with the consumers of the Nexus line - they were fun phones and people knew they weren't "inferior".
The software business constantly rediscovers old technologies and techniques, renames them, and calls it innovation.
> (I’m rooting for SPARC)

Gives a whole new meaning to "Sun Microsystems"
> It's a solution to a very specific problem: cashless shops.

Why should the government be responsible for building out an incredible infrastructure project so that some businesses don't have to worry about handling cash? Cash is not a new concept, we've been using it since the inception of the nation. Suddenly some businesses find a way to save a buck by not handling it, but this also happens to segregate a portion of Americans, but oh well that's not their fault, if the government doesn't like businesses doing segregation, the government can just become a bank? And issues cards?

Nah. In the USA if you want to do business you need to manage and handle cash. That's a perfectly reasonable expectation. Cost of doing business.

You also have to track your revenue and file taxes. That's perfectly reasonable as well, right? Or should the government be responsible for auditing every single company and managing their finances to determine how much tax is owed? I mean it would save the company money, right?
I have tried to keep up with Dlang, and even wrote some projects on my home server in the last number of years. I do like Dlang and see potential behind it.

However, the problem I have with it is lack of LTS (long term support) releases.
DUB, its main package repository, has a number of decent libraries available. Sadly, each library are likely build/released on the latest version at that time. So each package can be built on different versions of the compiler. New compiler releases have been known to break something, so it is off putting to create a project in D that might, say, include a number of DUB packages.

^^ Please note that LTS has been addressed due to complaint about (another) breaking code changes from a user/poster.

This is why I have only used D for 'small projects' on my server that requires no DUB dependencies. I have tried component programming and other things but, in the end, just cannot get a handle that what I am doing really is "better" than just writing it in C. This is where I think DasBetterC peaks my interest. Of course, if you use D with no GC (which you can disable) - a lot of the features D has is no longer supported. This, to me, throws out DUB.. as it can be difficult to reason if this package is doing functional, or OOP, or whatever combination it is doing... and sometimes you might need to care about memory.

To backtrack, I have always been on the lookout for the "perfect" language... one that can be used for 97% of problems.. daemons, web, gui, etc. Personally, I just want a "Better C" language that covers these areas. It comes down to these:-

- DasBetterC
- Rust
- Zig
- Odin

At time of writing, Odin is one I am keeping an eye on. It is not trying to cram "this cool feature" for the sake of doing so. They have set the grounds on what they will and wont do with the language. Ie No classes, not GC, no "Exception handling" etc.

I do like having the control, and yet Odin still seems enjoyable to code in - from my experience so far.
The Problem of Redaction (2013)
Why do people keep using hello world as good examples of anything?

I'm not a TS zealot at all, but my work project which is around 2000 TS/Vue files (some of them hundreds of lines long and even breaking into the thousands for a lot of them) manages to get checked in around 3 seconds if there's a cache, and no-cache runs take 10s or so (which also involves actually transpiling the files)
I know that, its what I meant with bar a few contrived examples. In practice you dont really run into them like youd run into runtime issues in Javascript.
Oh wow that's really fucked up.

Here in Austria the police is not very well trained on any computer related crimes either. When I initially found the first CSAM image my first instinct was to call the non-emergency line of the Police and the officer told me to "print out the images, and bring them to the next police station".

I had a thought that this would be a very very stupid thing to do so I contacted Interpol and they sad basically "omg whatever you do, don't print those out and don't carry them around"
Kurzgesagt take on fertility rate decline and its impact across the world [video]
I don't think the tech is so much lost, as it's not worth it to use anymore. A complete replica of an apollo mission could be stood up pretty easily nowadays, but would probably be too expensive/unsafe to be palatable.
Namespace and Variable Scope in Python
Can’t come soon enough.

I spent over a year recently getting over a diabetic foot wound. Basically worse possible case… right behind my big toe on the bottom of my foot, and I walk flat footed. Surgery didn’t really work. What did was basically staying off of it for about 9 months.

If I wasn’t in the bathroom or eating, I was in bed.

If I was t remote and didn’t have local family to help with errands, etc, decent chance I would have lost at least some of the foot - got a fairly nasty infection in at one point, had to do a full month of some serious antibiotics.
I love it when working repair alternatives are available for a fraction of the cost the supplier charges.
>I don't think a lot of people back in 2007 could have predicted that the biggest thing to come from mobile would be an app that let teens remix music videos and share with their friends.

I think that the biggest thing to come from mobile was always available location, exemplified by Google Maps which already existed before mobile happened. Many of the most successful apps relied on this.

TikTok is different, in that it could have existed on desktop (but would have looked very different) whereas Uber (for example) definitely couldn't.
I do visit sites with a phone with latest firefox with ublock origin. Browsers get updates regardless whether android itself is updated to latest version.

I am not defending unpatched phones just to be clear, but its not end of the world if you use unsecure device, just keep all your money and other important stuff away from it. Which is fine for many people.
> Wow, that sounds incredibly inefficient!

That's exactly what I thought, too. But, to my own surprise, it's as fast as CGO solutions, in most cases even faster. You may check here: https://github.com/cvilsmeier/sqinn-go-bench
Yes, absolutely. I had the Unity fiasco in mind. Epic has seen Unity blow itself up on the minefield and is likely reconsidering the path forward.
Is there any effort to integrate SLSA with PyPI? GitHub recently announced[1] that npm support for SLSA is GA now.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2023-09-26-npm-provenance-gene...
Maybe, but Godot does particularly poorly in this area. Unity can go below 3MB out of the box and that is with bunch of engine systems in use.

https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest
I see a lot of potential in this! Cut down the initial work of preparing a full deck of slides, and focus on understanding the slides and fine-tuning them

Definitely to check out!
Do we actually understand the inner workings of human brains well enough to state with any confidence how much they are alike (or different) to an LLM? Do we have any understanding how a neural network inside a human brain formulates sentences and chooses words?

I would be interested in an article exploring in detail how the brain's network is different from an LLM, but just saying "it's like comparing a bird and a plane" isn't particularly enlightening.