skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is genuinely surprising that out of all companies Apple was the one to pioneer USB usage.

Quite the stark contrast with their current modus operandi of always making something custom so it can be as incompatible as possible with anything non-Apple (and so they can sell more dongles). Well until they were dragged kicking and screaming to USB-C by the EU anyway.
The domain appears to have been registered 25 Apr 2009, and I remember seeing this quite a while ago. That would make sense for 1.5 G of RAM being typical. Glad it's still around :)
I did and they are super fun to a point. I reached a limitation in my own skillset where getting to the next level felt so far away that it instantly got boring and I stopped.
Physics constrains jump height to be about a few meters regardless of size. The basic problem is that the total energy required scales with mass, but the total energy available also scales with mass. The two end up cancelling out and you get a maximum jump height that is independent of size.

What really matters is the energy density of your storage medium, which is the same to an order of magnitude for any system based on chemical energy. So both a flea and an elephant (along with battery-powered robots) can jump about a meter or two in height.
>when they said that they have already ran out of ideas to solve these issues?

They never said that lol.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230531203946/https://humanloop...
As usual scammers lie.

The key quote, buried way down in the article: EMP Shield will leverage state support to apply for CHIPS Act funding to see its plans to fruition.

That’s right, this is just wishful thinking and hype. Zero dollars in government funding have been approved.
If I visualize walking up a staircase, I'd much prefer them clockwise so that I can touch the center with my right hand when walking up, for some additional stability.

Also, much staircases I know are clockwise. Which is also my theory for this myth, most staircases were build clockwise simply because most were already build clockwise. It fits Okkam's razor.
If you consider mathematical symbols text then I would indeed be generating text.
I don't think the U-shaped curve will be intuitive to everyone - some conservative social narratives say that married women entering the workfore is a twentieth-century innovation. Although I'm with you that the causes of these patterns seem pretty intuitive to me and to many.

(Not trying to start a political debate or flamewar here - I was raised with these narratives, so it's an interesting graph to me)
Ozempic/Wegovy is expensive. I doubt very many people are net saving money here.
Still looks like Fisher Price My First Robot.
It makes the advertising experience more trustworthy, as weird as it sounds. You basically cannot trust any ad (yes, I know HN readers don't trust ads anyways but not so for everyone else), and even tons of normal users have grown skeptical of Instagram feed ads for example.

Honest advertisers won't be affected, because it's honestly not that easy to get the notes up on your post. It needs a very heavy majority of votes.
Awesome to hear, inai... from your point of view, how do you think would be a good effort to connect the world on helping the amazon?

From my perspective the main problems are illegal deforestation, mining and last but not least narcotrafficking.
> Automatically respond to production incidents with our industry-leading AI. Alvis will diagnose the problem and fix it.

I'm pretty sure my manager would be pretty pissed if they paged me and got this...

Not only that, in (some) fintec space, LLM/AI is banned because the corporation does not feel comfortable uploading source code to anything non-hosted other than GitHub (which doesn't make a ton of sense but...)
Artillery exists.

Delivering explosive payloads is a solved problem. Detecting humans is a solved problem. The hard part is reliably distinguishing enemy solders from friendly soldiers or civilians.
For certain definitions of free.
Infants demonstrate reasoning capabilities before they learn language skills. Human reasoning is not derivative of language generation, and it's certainly not derivative of text generation (illiterate humans are still capable of reasoning). Humans demonstrate reasoning even in the absence of language skills.

LLMs approach learning differently -- whatever reasoning they do possess is an emergent property that arises as they get better and better at language generation. In other words, unlike humans, LLMs learn to "speak" before they exhibit behaviors that look like logical reasoning. Humans do the opposite.
Here in Vermont, we're half-assing that conversion: the canonical exit number is sequential, but below the sign at the exit you have something like "Milepoint Exit 38". It drives me nuts.

Another truly perverse thing is that if you're on I-91, the exits for I-89 have numbers (10 A and B). On the other hand, if you're on I-89, there are no exit numbers for the I-91 exits. What? How?!
You're opening those in a text editor?
1) The similarity is with "django admin" specifically (not django). The way i saw this was: "if you have models setup with django, django-admin gives you a admin UI for the data without any setup", with subzero "if you have a database (with any schema), subzero gives you an UI for the data without any setup" and both of these systems can be customized with code. Another way to put it: you have your db, you point subzero to it, and you get the UI linked here, no configuration needed, and if desired, it can be customized to any degree

2) actually the overview of the docs is a bit old, it was written some months ago when there was no UI (just the backend stuff) so the positioning changed a bit. While the copy on the homepage was indeed intended for "managers/CTOs" it should have certainly made sense to a developer too so i have to fix that somehow.

Thank you very much for the feedback, really valuable.
It's not going to be a straightforward choice, at least in my experience. Try both, see which works better.

However, I will say that you're not going to need a gaming laptop to get a good experience with Docker. Cheapo dual-core laptops from a decade ago are good enough for sub-30c idle temps; you might be able to fix your current situation by disabling your dGPU and trying Linux/Docker natively.
>There is a long way from commercial nuclear power to nuclear weaponry

Tell it to the IAEA and the United States when they came down on Iran like a ton of bricks.

>Also, did you notice that Ukraine had nuclear power generation

Yes, all built by the Soviet Union. They had no ability to construct their own once it collapsed. The Soviet Union was, of course, not just a nuclear power but the world's biggest nuclear power. They had good reason to want to share the gargantuan costs of maintaining the world's biggest nuclear military.
What chat LLMs do is correct their answers by cribbing from the information you give in the conversation, and then take credit for it.
First, the trade war already started with China banning US companies domestically. Second, it’s not like the US can’t trade more with its South American neighbors instead anyways.
In some situations you can make the prompt tell you. "I don't know". For example

"You are a friendly D&D dungeon master and know all of the rules of D&D and run the game. If you interact with a player you should observe all of the rules. If you don't know if they are following the rules then say "I don't know"
That stunt was doomed to fail due to inconsistent messaging, goals, and total lack of solidarity.

Reddit and its ilk are already dead. Even Lemmy's content starts to repeat itself due to 'cross posts' or other allegedly community building activities.

The chief problem of these platforms is their gameability. Numbers create social 'games' and before you know it, nobody gives a shit what you're saying, they just want to say some short quip, make a number go up, and feel superior.

It comes back around to the problem of: you can't solve social problems with more technology. Social media has a huge verifiability and trust problem.

We need to do away with karma systems, because giving people power to silence each other only leads to abuse. Invitation trees as a social concept keeps people honest, at least if they don't want to piss off others who invited them or were invited by the same person.

The group on Reddit really has no backbone. They folded as soon as their Reddit accounts were threatened. Real protest would've been gaming their system with bots (the same way they do!) And manipulating the narrative en masse.

Nobody had anywhere to go except the Fediverse, and that has its own collection of issues.

Social media is just not compatible with the way people socialize. It's a glamor and attention competition, and the winner gets... likes?

But yeah, to call that half-assed protest a revolution is somewhat of an insult to activism.
Bash Frequently Asked Questions
New Unit Tests Need to Fail (Running the Old Code)
I have to turn it off anytime I do anything that isn't fairly boilerplate driven
I don't know about that. They seemed to be definitively saying the staircases were not built to aid defenders, but didn't have strong evidence for that. If they'd said "there is no positive evidence that..." or "we have no reason to believe that..." then I'd agree with you, but what they wrote was:

> Medieval staircases were NOT built going clockwise for the defender’s advantage

and

> it’s not true.

Which seem like confident statements with no affirmative evidence to support them.

In fairness, their conclusion is more measured:

> So in conclusion: there’s no evidence for this claim and it also doesn’t make a lot of sense.

But that's not the headline they went with.
If you have two USB-C ports on one computer which both support "everything", could you write a cable tester in software?
TBH it looks pretty much like Redmine: https://www.redmine.org/ (also open source) configured with the appropiate set of pluggins
> You don't need a "full protocol parser" for sockets either. You can send/receive C structs just fine. It's also not hard to write to sockets from the command line.

Yeah, that's how you get vulnerabilities. For the same reason that "Thou shalt not write async signal handlers without extreme care", thou must never send data down a socket without a clear specification for communication. It doesn't (and shouldn't) have to be a "complicated" protocol. But it absolutely must be a fully specified one.

And signals, as mentioned, don't really have that shortcoming due to their extreme simplicity. They're just interrupts and don't pass data (except in the sense that they cause the target to re-inspect state, etc...). They're a tool in the box and you should know how they work.

Mostly the point is just "IPC is hard", and choosing tools isn't really the hard part. Signals have their place.
Flipping a coin 1000 times and getting >=700 heads has a ~1/10^24 probability.

There's got to be a reason, even if it was as simple as "it was arbitrarily chosen and then became standard practice."
LLMs reason like we autistic people do. I almost never correct myself after someone pointed out my errors. I either find the error myself or it takes my many hours of contemplation to see my error(s).
For anyone interested in more of this sort of stuff - including ways to modify some brands so they are not being driven as hard, it's always worth to check out Big Clive on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom
(IANAL but I've been involved in some legislative drafting) The vagueness is definitely a problem but all one needs to do is look at the split between the use of "entity" [1] and "person". The regulations are meant to apply to "entities" which doesn't include natural people - only firms, trusts, governments, etc. The criminal penalties apply to natural persons who act to violate the regulations on behalf of the entities.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...
They have a market because old rich Rotary club members will spend money on black boxes to “keep them safe”.

I need to introduce these people to my special Yeti defense device. In millions of hours of testing there have been zero Teti attacks! It works perfectly!
I think all the article is arguing is not to just accept that explanation as fact. There is no conclusive evidence that this is the reason stairs were built this way.
Does USFR have principal risk? The price of USFR appears to fluctuate.
Your response seems disproportionate, maybe you read a bit beyond what I actually wrote?

To respond to your question anyway: I don't really like telling people what to do (don't tread on anyone and all that) but if it was up to me to choose what they did, then not selling the company to Epic, or any other hungry hungry corpos, would have been a default stance.

Considering how successful the platform is/was -- and the excellent financial situation they apparently were in for the last decade -- it seems like selling the company to Epic (a random and unnatural fit) would be a gamble at best. There's a negligible chance that it could have ended well for the artists or the users but I'm sure it's ending well for some of those involved.

Also, yeah, convert your business to a not-for-profit or hand it down to the employees when you're dying / done with it. That sounds like the sort of thing that makes the world a better place, which is commendable.
It's because up until a few years ago, everything that was capable of communicating at that level was a (non Artificial)GI. It's a bit ..surreal? to see text and speech without intelligence and understanding behind it.
Wow so you could just be paying a bank forever.
Hey, they could have made it not rotationally symmetrical but mandated an orientation opposite of the one that makes the socket look like a cute little surprised face, thus ensuring a long, drawn out, losing battle between the correct orientation and the looks-like-a-little-face orientation.
This idea goes back to Xanadu, with the first implementation I know of being Tribe, from the 90s. IIRC the web site owners complained it was somehow unfair.
Largely agree with this analysis, however your claim about nvidia:

> There is no way the nVidia monopoly will last more than another two years tops.

I feel as if I've heard paraphrases of this sentiment for at least the last ~6 years. Is there a reason you think nvidia's monopoly is decreasing or will decrease? They have quite the lead in terms of market share for discrete GPUs AFAICT (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-market-healthy-and-vib...). Even if costs go down etc., there are market dynamics at play here that I'm not convinced this industry will get disrupted anytime soon. The only major competitors in innovation for this space are Apple, Intel, and AMD, with Apple being the only one with manufacturing improvements, and that's a walled garden with very low market share for desktop computing.
We tried different strategies, even hired competing agencies targeting different locations. Obviously a common feedback was that we need to increase the budget. I would love to to that once I see good conversions. We were using AdWords since 2003.
Conspiracy! No really, there was a conspiracy to fix the life expectancy of tungsten bulbs. Nobody would be doing that here, of course. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I just asked Chat GPT 3.5 the following: "Please give an exponential equation that has integer solutions which is difficult to solve.", and the response is:
"

Certainly, here's an exponential equation that can be challenging to solve for integer solutions:

2^x+3^y=7^z

This equation involves three variables, x, y, and z, and requires finding integer values for these variables that satisfy the equation. This type of equation is known as a Diophantine equation, and solving it can be quite challenging, especially for larger values of x, y, and z.

"
I think you are looking too deeply into this.

1. When the comparison I'm trying to draw is "huge powerful entity using its power", what exactly is the difference?

2. I don't think there needs to be a specific case - it was in the news often enough for it to be a common thing. Here is an EFF article reviewing what happened years later:

https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later

"Five years later, the recording industry has filed, settled, or threatened legal actions against at least 30,000 individuals. These individuals have included children, grandparents, unemployed single mothers, college professors"
It does, but everything is translated to raw sql then pushed to the database layer, which means anything with a meaningful amount of data runs like dogshit. I haven't touched MDX in a long time, but my recollection is that OLAP cubes make a lot of these pivot-table type queries a lot more performant.

Also, while it may seem like a minor thing, not being connected to live source introduces a significant amount of friction and room for human error. Adding a new filter or measure = new copy of a file that you need to keep track of, refreshing with a new month of data = a new copy of a file, etc.
Logo up is no help when you try to do it in the dark.
Collaborative web annotation extensions have been done, they've never taken off. Now that mobile has eaten the web it seems even less likely that the idea could work.
It means you make a lot less money. Urgent usually implies a nonlinearity in the cost of not doing it. Important means a large absolute cost of not doing it.
This page is satire right?
And can you address houses one block over by specifying El Camino Imaginary?
The Doom of programming languages? Rust must be run everywhere with no irony.
Representing Columns in Query Optimizers
Yeah...this really bites the folks that don't do a lot of networking and expect things to 'just work'. The forums are filled with threads that start with 'I have this weird bug/failure I can't debug...' that peter out with 'I replaced the NIC with a good one and problem went away'. Those crappy (looking at you, Realtek) NICs have all sorts of bizarre issues that the vendors clearly don't care about beyond 'works in Windows...ship it'. IME, if it's an Intel or Broadcom chip, you're probably fine.
> And this argument is so tired that it even has its own Wikipedia page explaining that it is a logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

That doesn't mean that threats to the well-being of children don't actually exist. Your blanket rejection is no better than the insincere use of TOTC.
Firewire ports can be inserted the wrong way, if the material cheapens out you are in bad luck. Wrong polarity will most likely kill the other device.
Yes, these papers just demonstrate how weak scientific papers have become.

The paper is weak on actual prompt examples, but of the few there, test them yourself and it consistently gets them right.

Whenever I see examples of GPT4 can't do such and such, I'm generally able to find a prompt that does in fact work relatively consistently.
You have to try a little harder with GPT to get it to understand its mistakes, but it's not as bad as it used to be, at least if you pay. It failed for me the first time ("Earlier inert, it could rouse in fury before long"), but not the second ("In a lull, may soon yawn"). With a little more pushing it got a much better result ("In a lull, may soon arise").

Conversation, should any want to see it in full:
https://chat.openai.com/share/421dac47-16df-499e-9b2e-d8dc0f...
Chat with, and help host, a free community LLM "horde"
It works like this:

- The AI Horde hosts a web app (Kobold Lite) geared towards LLM chat/instruct. Its mature, predating LLAMA and GPT 3.5 and largely developed when the RP community was running GPT-J finetunes. There are desktop apps that can access this API as well.

- The user sets the chat syntax/format and picks a LLM host (or multiple hosts).

- These hosts run API endpoints on their own PCs/servers for Horde users to access. The backends du jour are koboldcpp, a frontend for llama.cpp which is excellent, portable and literally one click, and KoboldAI, with the very fast and vram-efficient exllamav2 backend:

https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

https://github.com/henk717/KoboldAI

- Hosts pick a quantized community LLM to run, which is (IMO) the real magic of this system. Cloud services tend to run generic Llama chat/instruct models, OpenAI API models, or maybe a single proprietary finetune, but the Llama/Mistral finetuning community is red hot. New finetines and crazy merges/hybrids that outperform llama-chat in specific tasks (mostly Chat/Storytelling/RP) come out every day, and each one has a different "flavor" and format:

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=modified&search=mistral+g...

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=modified&search=13b+exl2

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=modified&search=20b

- The horde workers then earn "kudos" for serving requests to clients. Anyone can use the kobold horde with no login, but when requests are queued, kudos earn hosts priority access to LLMs other hosts are running.

I really like this scheme. Perverse incentives for spamming and such are minimal. Its free and easy for users on old hardware, but excessive leechers are deprioritized through the kudos system. It encourages experimentation with hosting (and trying) new finetunes, and gives hosts access to models they normally wouldn't know about or can't run. The horde API seems relatively simple and cheap to host, since its just text prompts/responses bouncing around. Its easy for me to host on a spare laptop, or in the background when I am not stressing my desktop GPU.

There seems to be tons of interest in making LLMs "easy" to play with and giving access to GPU-poor users, but Kobold Horde has somehow flown under the radar.
I'd like to see that 70% distribution mapped out against corner adjacency. As in, if I have a square room [ ] and I put a stairway on the right wall in the bottom corner there, there is a good chance I'm going to go counter clockwise, but if I put it on the right top, I'll go clockwise. I feel like the general flow of a room needs to be mapped out on this as well to get the full context.
This is incorrect. A USB-C power source can’t be in-spec if it doesn’t supply 5V by default. Other voltages or alt modes can be negotiated after that, but everything starts at 5V. This is defined in the base “ Universal Serial Bus Type-C Cable and Connector Specification”, not the optional USB-PD spec.
"I hate sunshine, it shows what is really going on!"

- Some advertiser, somewhere, without a doubt
The ETL part is not really the problem business users seem to have, but rather needing the ability to use pre-built measures / dimensions natively in Excel.
Nearly every example of this sort of failure seems to involve asking the LLM to do an operation with text it is not capable of. This seems totally explicable to me by the tokenization process, which deletes the information about which letters are in the words. The string “awaken” gets turned into an arbitrary integer. So it can’t know this unless it’s specifically trained on spelling those words somehow. This seems like an implementation artifact, not a flaw in deep learning.
Reminds me a little bit of what happened in Ohio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal
Building exceptional speakers using modern techniques [video]
I am regarded as a decent Excel user, and in my field, Finance, that is saying at least something. However, I had never tried power pivot until today. I was a bit annoyed that it can't handle many to many relationships. Time to dust off my SQL skills and do it the old fashioned way...

I had a table of sales transactions, and a table of stock balance. I wanted to join them on the item sold so per item I had stock balance and a sales value per sku. I was suprised it wouldn't do it. It returned in less than a second as a sell query.
The scholarly source he links to (which actually agrees with him) notes in passing that for Norman castles, the split wasn't 70/30, it was more like 95/5....