skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was probably 13, not supervised, but it was also too early. I saw things I would have liked not to see and I did things I am not proud of because I lacked the maturity to evaluate consequences.

Luckily nobody took advantage of me to my knowledge, but it would have been easy.

I believe my parents didn't know what was possible on the internet back then.
Show HN: I made a multi-lang vocabulary flashcard app w audio&images using GenAI
I spent 24 straight hours building a flashcard vocabulary dataset and standalone mobile app using various AI models & Flutter.

I sourced over 2000+ categorized words, translated them into 18 languages, including English pronunciations with GPT-4, and generated over 20,000 multilingual audio samples in those languages. I used SDXL on replicate to gen images on a specific style I pre-trained the model with.

I'm planning on adding new words and images every week.

I finally have no more excuses to learn Portuguese!

I hope you like it :)
There is no "EU" stance.

The disagreement is between the European Commission and the Irish government. The deciding authority here will be the European Court of Justice, after appeal from the decision of the General Court - which favored Ireland.
I'm not well versed on EU rules relating to the case; do you know if it's possible that this could 'ping pong' between the two courts or is there a mechanism for a final decision on the matter?
Did you think that enshittification would stop at the top 5 web properties ?
> Gecko is nice but it being permanently joined at the hip with XULRunner is killing it.

XULRunner's last release was off of the 41 branch, 8 years ago. It's dead.
I don't even have a reddit account and you initiated ad-hominm when calling me a 12 year old and ironically saying "i don't mean to". But let's drop the silly personal attacks?

> You chose to completely ignore my points and misrepresent them

If you say so.

You literally have chinese police stations in every major eu capital. You have like a dozen countries spying on any major eu country at least at any given time. But "america bad".
Kotlin does this.
Not the parent commenter, but I read their comment perhaps more charitably as describing a general societal attitude rather than their personal beliefs that they would instill on their children.

No idea if I’m correct, but it’s maybe worth offering them the benefit of the doubt here.
Focusing on "fabricating observational data" is a cope for the fact that Boghossian et al made the targets of their papers look like absolute fools. The problem with the paper "Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon" wasn't that the data was wrong.

Sokal and Boghossian's work intended (and succeeded?) to accomplish the same thing: they demonstrated the fact that these academic disciplines are full of bullshit producers and consumers.
I have been using NASM in my spare time recently because “learning” assembly is an itch I always had. I’m having so much fun. Cool to see it posted here.
What do you think of the argument that EVs actually do make this better, albeit not entirely, due to the efficiency difference between[0] (coal-fired) power plants and internal combustion engines in gasoline powered vehicles?

[0] https://blog.ucsusa.org/jimmy-odea/electric-vs-diesel-vs-nat...
What is missing right now is for the AI to be able to challenge instructions, and ask for clarification and stuff like that.

It's currently not deterministic enough to entirely replace other kinds of Ui
Ticketmaster runs their own scalping business (sorry, I meant "Verified Reseller")
The thing is, being a worker in olive groves pays quite well. There s a huge shortage of farm workers , and many groves are left unharvested.
FAsM
File management in Finder uses the system-wide pasteboard APIs. If you place something on the pasteboard with Cmd+C, you can paste it in any app that supports file pasting, and get a context-dependent result. If you paste the file in Terminal, the file path is entered. If you paste it in Mail, the file is placed as an attachment. If you paste an image file in Photoshop, the image is placed as a new layer. It's a consistent system.

Now, what should happen if you "cut" a file with Cmd+X and you paste it into Mail? The file is deleted from the original location, but still somehow attached to the email?

There's no point in monkey-patching such a feature into macOS for the sake of appeasing recent Windows converts.

It's like complaining why Pascal doesn't support braces instead of begin/end. It's a different system. Feel free to not use it.
Beyond stylistic discussions that siblings have pointed out, there are cases where explicitly using a type instead of auto would be preferable given the semantics at that location. For example, you might want to force a type conversion where auto would otherwise give you a different or even unknown type (because the source type is templated).
> It's like a diagonal of a cube 1x1x1 has length sqrt(3), but if you apply orthogonal projection onto R^2, its image will be a diagonal of a square and it will have length sqrt(2). Shorter distance -> shorter time to travel.

This example doesn't make sense to me. In that analogy, wouldn't anything on that diagonal appear to move more slowly in 2D than the same thing moving along the diagonal of a face? The cube diagonal would make it move farther than it does in 2D space.

I remember seeing a simulator in my optics class that combined multiple wavelengths of light. The interference pattern moved faster than the speed of light, but that was fine because information wasn't moving faster. That was just the result of adding them together.
By this logic, trolls who make others miserable must be the happiest people in the world.
Why do you think there's little hope on increasing production?
Could be loan repayments are rolled into the loss? Not that I have any particular knowledge.
Good suggestion. I also have wired etymotic earphones with the rectangular foam tips. They're good at passive sound isolation, but they don't block high pitched kid screeching too well. Better than AirPods Pro though!

Cheap $0.50 earplugs are roughly on par with those foam tips. They're good at blocking low pitched engine noise.
Replaced my openers in the spring, and 100% wouldn't have chosen them if there wasn't HA MyQ integration. Such a silly move.

I used a local Meross install on my old garage doors, time to break them out, but ugh...
Depending on the area, construction can pay really well and be a stable form of long term employment. Usually the trades part of construction is best rather than being a general laborer.

In my area of NY suburbs, there's such a shortfall of tradesmen now due to boomer retirement en-masse, you see alot of younger guys showing up as plumbers, electricians, hvac and more that you would never ever have seen just 5 years ago.

I wouldn't care if my own kids did it. As long as they figure out their life plan in advance, who cares.
I do the same but I convert all my media to 720p using AV1 and Opus. Each movie comes to about ~820MB. My library is gigantic!
Most likely they don't kill the trees. Farmers prune the trees every year as well
Accurately calculating life expectancy since Covid-19
Just to echo what you said:

I was in Portugal a couple of months ago, and our local tour guide said the drought conditions meant we should expect to pay 3x the price for olive oil over the next year or two.
Don't know their reasons but seems wise to me: USB-C tends to get clogged with lint easily. Also charging port breakage due to handling accidents is pretty common eg by accidentally pulling/twisting the connector sideways, good to have redundancy there.
Couldn't your personal experience be a function of what Trump supporters make it through your filter bubble? We tend to see mostly the stupidest exemplars of our political opponents.
Automerge does indeed work with live collaboration, though apparently not currently as efficiently as some other solutions. Everyone working in this space is exploring and looking for solutions that will work for users woth slightly differing priorities. In addition to automerge consider checking out yjs, electricsql, diamond types, replicache, vulcn, or any of the other folks. Hopefully one of them will be just right for you.
So how well does this work when it is windy?
Quote Investigator can't track down the original words but the earliest attribution is to Gardner: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/06/two-plots/
https://archive.li/AZ1fA
Not even close. You can look at the Llama v2 training curves and its clear that even 7B models are still under-trained and they themselves have only been trained on 2T tokens. A 70B or whatever size/model amalgamation GPT-4 is also likely under-trained.

Apart from just plain under-training, there's that whole 'grokking' phenomenon that's been observed in smaller models, where it looks like they're not really improving for a long time, but _eventually_ suddenly undergo a massive improvement. I don't know if anyone has been willing to set enough cash on fire to see if grokking can happen in a large LLM and/or how long it would need to be trained for.

There's also still a lot of juice left in improving the quality of datasets and in training on larger data sets. OpenAI, having built GPT-4, probably want to work on some applications of it given that they have enough of a lead on everyone else. I think there's definitely a few "burn piles of cash to train a better model" buttons at OpenAI right now, but they have no reason to use them when they're clearly in the lead anyway.

There's also the actual limiting factor: there are only so many A100s/H100s in the world, but the amount is growing.
I recently learned that Godot forbids auto in its core C++ codebase, their rationale was based on code review:

> Keep in mind hover documentation often isn't readily available for pull request reviewers. Most of the time, reviewers will use GitHub's online viewer to review pull requests.

`using` directives and typedefs are not forbidden, so this would avoid situations where a type is never explicitly declared.

Having worked in large code bases that used `auto` almost exclusively when possible… I’m not sure I agree. However, I understand.

https://docs.Godotengine.org/en/stable/contributing/developm...
> I also love the idea of a web engine as a component. This for some reason seems to have disappeared in modern times.

I have used CEF, WebKit, and WebView2. Only the former is easily embeddable cross platform, and as soon as it became popular, Google put a lot of resources into disallowing Google login from it or any other embedded browser[0]. I had to abandon my own CEF-based browser because of this. While I abhor the business practice, there's nothing I can do. If my browser can't login to Google products, it can't see much adoption and I don't have the time to try and win a cat-and-mouse game against their detection methods.

If we want embedded browser components to be more mainstream where anyone can develop a browser, we're going to first have to address that large companies block them if they get too popular but the embedding company is not popular. Ideally an embeddable non-Android Gecko would come about because FF is too big to block (lots of talk in the past, and I even PoC'd stealing the window handle[1]). But there's no money in it.

0 - https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/08/modernizing-oauth-...

1 - https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc
Do you have an url of the Stack overflow article?
This is a bit unfair.

You're comparing untried and untested SMR design to slapping up an EPR next to two BWRs if I'm remembering the Finnish project correctly. While EPR is newer, we as mankind have a good understanding of how to build and operate one.

Now of course Vogtie cost us 30 or 40 whatever billion for a couple of trifling PWRs, so your larger point still stands. I just think it was dumb of NuScale from the outset to go out marketing over-promises on the idea of SMR. If you took an educated look at the stats and numbers proponents of SMRs were out touting, it's doubtful that even China could have delivered on that. How they thought they could do it in the real world of Idaho is beyond me? They must have had an ace up their sleeves? Or perhaps they expected the government to play a much larger role? Not sure.
Las Vegas is like Dubai but with alcohol. Such a desperate place.
Ireland funds it's pension scheme via the taxes it collects from Apple et al.

If those corporations leave then Ireland loses a lot of tax revenue.

Instead Ireland should tax property speculators.
it's like trying to read untyped python code, which is my personal hell
> It will never cease to amaze how how a paragraph of information from Nintendo (or anyone) can be turned into a long article likely focused on SEO that doesn't really say anything.

That is only going to get more common, until a time (which may never come) that both the general public and search/index algorithms are entirely numb to it. There are a few outlets that keep getting promoted at me by facebook (“suggested for you” links despite the fact I've shown little or no interest in the past, in fact actively hidden previous content) where when I do look at the article it reads like it is either AI generated or is deliberately written to appear like some automated construct put together by an entity that didn't understand, or even hasn't seen, the event/show/what-ever it is reporting on. The volume of that sort of thing has increased significantly (or maybe is just being promoted to me significantly more) in the last year or so.
I'm running into this. I had a versatile setup previously where PyCharm had first-class support with the main languages I used: Python, Rust, JS, CSS, HTML, TS.

Now I'm working on a Rust + CUDA FFI project; RustRover has minimal support for the CUDA (essentially C++) code. It does syntax highlighting and comment-hotkey, but the introspection and refactoring appear inop. It would be nice if RustRover and CLion were combined.
Tried installing Mandrake 8.2 in 86box for a similar nostalgia trip. Unfortunately the kernel kept panicking when rebooting after install. Installer worked well however.
> components that were known to break down

If this was as obvious and well-known as you make it seem it boggles the mind how a primarily hardware company like Apple missed this. I suspect hindsight is 20/20 here. I also have two Nvidia Apple Intel Macbooks (one of which lives in my trunk) that weren't bit by this. Anecdotes, you know.

> My friends Intel MacBook was good at first and it got worst and worst

I'm sitting next to my 2013 Mac Book that I still use daily for occasional testing. The thing just won't die or give me any issues. Anecdotes.

> Waiting for hours to be sent away at the apple store is never a luxury and a dreadful experience.

They at least have the Apple Store available (show me another consumer hardware manufacturer that has anything similar), and needless to say your experiences (again) don't match mine. I've been to multiple Apple Stores in multiple states time and time again and never experienced this. The last time I was at their EXTREMELY busy store on Michigan Ave in Chicago I was in and out inside of 15 minutes. They just handed me a brand new Apple Watch (no AppleCare even) and offered to set it up for me (declined).

I'm not sure what's going on in your world but my social circle is almost exclusively iMessage-blue and I've never heard anything like this. Quite the contrary, actually, and reflective of their overall great reputation for customer service and support.
Technically? It's all you can smell when you're in that stretch between Linq and Flamingo
I have a friend who went to see the U2 show there and they had lots of praise for it as a venue. U2 isn't quite interesting enough to me for me to pay for the tickets and travel, but if a band I'm really into were playing there... I'd probably find the money.

(If any booking agents or whatever are reading this... get The Cure to do a residency and I'm there. If you can get the Talking Heads to do a reunion show there, you'll be printing money...)
Man, I can remember the day grub replaced lilo.

I had just spent the past 2 years mastering lilo and thought on top of the world, and then suddenly this new fangled thing called grub came along with all its weird commands and sytanx.

It's been what, 20 years now? I finally feel comfortable with grub. And now you're telling me there's a new kid on the block? sdboot?

I'm too old to learn another bootloader. Maybe I should go back and dig and old copy of Debian Potato or Woody and stick to that...
SysAid warns customers to patch after ransomware gang caught exploiting new flaw
If you think The Sphere is cool from the outside, wait until you see the inside.
The humongous spherical screen in the inside is amazing (16K resolution according to Wikipedia).
U2 is sold out, and the tickets are not cheap (I payed $500 for a partially obstructed view of the screen, others run at $1,500), plus the "Sphere experience" so I think it will pay out.
There is also "The Sphere Experience" movie at $50 a pop.
A Capacity of about 19,000 people.
Everyone who has any knowledge of machine learning knows that you don't evaluate your model by testing it on parts of its training data. The issue is, the training data for GPT-4 appears to be "everything".
> So yes, using SMS as anything is just another pointless American thing,

The thing you're not grasping here is that SMS exists on every phone. WhatsApp does not. Signal does not. Telegram does not.

Communication benefits massively from network effects. In the US, most people do not use third-party messaging apps. Those who do -- and I have Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp on my phone, so I'm in this group -- are in a minority. People who have multiple messaging apps are even more in the minority.

For Americans, third-party messaging services don't offer any significant benefits, either. Most people can't care about encryption. And I can easily send various media -- photos, videos, etc. -- via the default text messaging app on my phone. The cost is transparent to Americans, because phone plans have always been expensive -- and, frankly, they wouldn't get cheaper without free SMS/MMS, which is a point driven home by broadband prices (which are equally expensive in the US in comparison, despite not having this artificial cross-provider SMS cost).
I was really disappointed to see Mozilla drop Servo and I think it was the wrong decision for them to make, but seeing this take mere hours after seeing people in a thread about Android Firefox bashing Mozilla for prioritizing a rewrite of their mobile browser is certainly some whiplash.

And to a certain extent, I get it, I also think Servo was a more valuable project than Fenec. But let's not pretend that there's an obvious correct answer to "should Mozilla rewrite its browsers from scratch?"

Again, I say this as someone who wanted Mozilla to stick with Servo. It was a bad decision for them to drop it, I think there was a lot more value that could have been extracted from the project. But if Mozilla had stuck with Servo, I guarantee there would be people on HN right now saying, "why are they rewriting their browser engine, the current one works fine, why aren't they doing X? Shows a lot about their priorities. This is the problem with Mozilla, they're too focused on theory and engineering projects instead of just shipping a good browser." There's no winning.
I didn't expect that, but you're right. It must be a paradox.
qbasic news, petesqbsite, among other good places. Good memories, thanks :D
You might say it's in bad shape.
The general societal attitude is what influences their personal belief, and vice versa at scale.

But their point remains the same, "let someone else do it" (the quiet part: "it's below us").

It's a very negative and elitist attitude that's prevalent in bubbles where people don't have to work normal jobs.
I’m aware that open market operations affect the 10y yield, my point was that the market has more influence over the 10y yield than the federal funds rate.
Look on youtube for some shots from inside, it's bigger and more immersive.
Fitbit ends sales in nearly 30 countries to 'align' with Pixel
Yikes, I would never in a million years use a shipping service that delivered my packages to my neighbor, nor one that required me to go to a pickup point. WTF is the point of that? If I wanted to go somewhere to pick up my stuff, I'd just buy it from a store instead of ordering it online!
The people who write the movies, build the sets and act in the films are in guilds. Surprised there wasn’t a more direct-to-consumer avenue to explore. Maybe they could bootstrap a production and distribution guild.
IMAX digital is a full-FOV 4:3 4K display with 44 speakers.

The Sphere interior is a wrap-around 16K display with 168,000 interference-coordinated speakers.

It’s like IMAX squared :P
Colonizer or migrant from lands ravaged by colonization? Big difference in my opinion.
Apache Spark vs Polars. Reducing costs.
An embedded engine is also a much faster path to viable use cases. For example Sciter [1] has some degree of success despite implementing only a sane subset of the DOM API. It doesn't work well for general internet surfing, but when used as an UI library you just avoid the parts that don't work.

1: https://sciter.com/
The 1993 Mario film was horrible. They discarded everything from the source material and replaced it with nonsense.
> Dannenberg's SAL is really a sugar layer over XLisp though right?

SAL was designed and published in 2008 by Rick Taube; the present implementations are transpilers to Scheme or XLisp, but SAL is quite different from both Scheme and Lisp (in syntax and semantics).

> My PhD is...

Sounds interesting; but what is the actual research focus (besides the programming work and tool implementation)?
Solar will certainly use more land unless you build on rooftops or do agrovoltaics. But that’s not the norm for large scale production yet.

Wind depends on how you calculate area used. The zone that excludes other wind turbines and residential buildings will be much larger. But the area used by just the base is obviously quite small. When placed between farm plots the area usage is very effective.

The risk of accidents in the US is probably extremely small. I wouldn’t personally be worried about. Especially with NuScKe which should be passively safe. Though I would have said the same about Japan before Fukushima so you never know (yes, I know the death toll was negligible, but the effect it had on nearby residents is still catastrophic)
What's a plant-based oil that is a good refined (not EV) olive oil substitute? Coconut imparts a flavor, peanut is good but pricey, canola is no bueno for health reasons?
speak for yourself, I live in a large US suburb and I trust my neighbors. I grew up in a rural area and I trusted my neighbors

when I lived in the urban core of a top 10 population US city, I still trusted my neighbors

another comment said the US still had "remnants" of a high trust society. I grew up in that high trust society. I am not old.

if our high trust society is gone, we should do whatever is necessary to get it back. It's clearly a better way to live.
Yes. I see people make this mistake time and again when evaluating LLMs. For a proper comparison, it's not enough to simply throw less than a hundred questions at it and point to a single digit difference. Not to mention that LLMs have some inherent randomness, so even if you passed the exact same tasks to the same model you would expect some variance.

I see a lot of room of improvement in how we apply statistics to understanding LLM performance.
I am not particularly knowledgeable about philosophy as a modern discipline, but taking philosophy courses as an undergraduate taught me a lot, particularly about the limits of knowledge and scientific enquiry. I'm happy to argue that there are a lot of courses taught at university that are considerably less useful than philosophy -- but I'm sure there are lawyers (classics and rhetoric) and screen writers (comparative literature) who can point out how those disciplines contribute.