skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried kagi with the free trial offer and liked it a lot. However, i was not converted to a paying customer.

I don't actually really know why. There is nothing technically that makes me hesitate. When my trial was over, and I stared at the form for my credit card I kinda went "nah I'm good. I'll go back to google for now, i can switch when i really need to". I never really needed to.
You can't take a binary running in Alpine and run it in Debian. Even if it is statically linked.

But you can ( with some effort ) make it run in ChromeOS.
you dont need a single app, you need a single protocol. For something so relatively simple, the only reasons to not unify standards are anti-competitive reasons.
An armed society is a polite society

The driver of the vehicle (vehicles cause a dozen 9/11s worth of deaths a year) is armed. Only person that can stop a bad guy with a vehicle is a good guy with a rock.
Yes that exactly what happens. iMessage became the "your package is being delivered" app since pretty much only parcel delivery company are sending SMS.
So if even THE nuclear nation on this planet "neglects" its reactors, wouldn't that be an argument against nuclear?

I mean, if that claim of negligance would be true which I doubt it is of course...those things grow old and France failed to diversify it's power generation in the last decades but hey...new ones are planned...maybe in a decade one will even be finished...

More details on the problems: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featuredealing-with-cra...
Yes, truly curious. It's not like base 10 is used anywhere in our society.
>Who is the eighth Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? - Olaf Scholz (wrong, Angela Merkel)

Technically there's no right answer to this question. "Is" implies present. But Angela Merkel isn't the present chancellor. Olaf Scholz is. But he's not the eigth.
So you’d rather use iMessage where you can only communicate with iPhone users.

Or do you want the open, subpar protocol instead?
Obfuscating Lua (2019)
Valid criticism. I removed the snipped "what eIDAS is about" from my comment.
I think the criticism raised is not (solely) against digital identity, but about possible security risks associated with it.
Its ridiculously niave to equate the manipulation of opinion by an authoritarian regime as "free speech".
You are not a serious person.
Here's the thing: you wouldn't have to, there's no need for compromise. We can build a safe nuclear energy infrastructure, go 100% carbon emission free, etc.

But there's still no solution for safely storing or disposing of nuclear waste, so all those power plants currently have a stockpile of spent fuel rods, which is a huge risk imo. But everyone's like "not in my backyard", even though the backyard is a deep cave in a mountain or down in the earth where the stuff will be put in lead and reinforced concrete, the cave sealed off or collapsed, forgotten by time and where it will remain dormant and slowly go inert over the next geological era.
Warrant – open-source Access Control Service
Ask HN: Does YC read all applications?
Hi HN... I have what I think is a credible YC application (I've personally build & sold $1M of my own software, been a C-level exec at $180m ARR org before that, and my new product is crazy sophisticated with hundreds of sign-ups already).

I submitted early and haven't heard anything.

Last YC cycle was the same... just what seems like an automatic rejection at the timeout window.

Not to complain but just to compare notes - does YC actually read all the applications, or the ones they don't get to just time out to a default rejection? Seems as though a decision would be reached either way sooner.

Obviously with the deadline so close it doesn't look good.. just curious if they actually read these and the bar really is that high etc.
EC2, k8s, etc all abstract the hardware away, but they still use the server as a core abstraction. Serverless does away with that abstraction entirely. It’s obviously nonsense from a low-level point of view (as you say: one of many classes of “somebody else’s server” products), but, as far as developer experience goes, it’s pretty accurate.
Another popular one is:

“How do you become a millionaire? Start as a billionaire and buy an airline.”
not sure if they are very profitable and have no need for additional money, or they are highly unprofitable and require an end to their money bleeding.
I read essays from 40 years ago, about what the office of the future could and should look like.

There always seemed to be an assumption that you would empower the user with tools.

I suppose VBA does that to an extent, but it seems like we haven't moved the idea forward in 30 years.

I'd like to say it's because it's 'good enough', I suspect it's more a hold over from an earlier time that hasn't been eradicated yet.
"The easiest way to become a millionaire is be a billionaire, and start an airline."
- 20.000 died because of the Tsunami.
- 2.000 died in the evacuation attempt.
- ONE person died because of actual radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
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You've clearly been believing too much news from a specific source.

Check out the actual stats and see how much you've been fooled. NYC is significantly lower in crime that you're being led to believe, and along with that lower than Miami.
a saddle point
I guess if we'd automatically feed every such conversation back to the training set, it would be proper "in-context learning", and it would work very much like humans learn - inferring new facts from recalled facts, and memorizing the inferences that come up repeatedly or otherwise feel important.
They have other problems too: https://www.barrons.com/articles/nuscale-power-corp-investig...
This is explained very clearly in the paper. They are not looking at all sentences of the form "A is B":

>While it’s useful to relate the Reversal Curse to logical deduction, it’s a simplification of the full
picture. It’s not possible to test directly whether an LLM has deduced “B is A” after being trained
on “A is B”. LLMs are trained to predict what humans would write and not what is true (Lin et al.,
2022). So even if an LLM had inferred “B is A”, it might not “tell us” when prompted. Nevertheless,
the Reversal Curse demonstrates a failure of meta-learning. Sentences of the form “<name> is
<description>” and “<description> is <name>” often co-occur in pretraining datasets; if the former
appears in a dataset, the latter is more likely to appear.4 This is because humans often vary the order
of elements in a sentence or paragraph.5 Thus, a good meta-learner would increase the probability of
an instance of “<description> is <name>” after being trained on “<name> is <description>” . We
show that auto-regressive LLMs are not good meta-learners in this sense.
With that logic, Why not count BSD as one? Linux is the kernel, but Debian has Gnu/HURD also.

Linux in that list is flavour, but that is also the same with BSD. BSD is the flavour and Free, Net, Open all come from BSD 4.3. And if we really want to push it, it also includes MacOS 10.

https://i.imgur.com/RgkVBgR.png
> removing a protective coating, which is why Americans refrigerate eggs.

The egg thing is oft repeated, but not actually true. The coating is not magic, it's just oil, and America does wash the eggs, and then applies some oil. I have not refrigerated my eggs in the US in decades with no problems at all.

> The motivation in the US was avoiding salmonella, but other places have avoided that by improving cleanliness practices of the farms rather than washing their eggs.

This isn't true either. Other places avoid salmonella by immunizing their chickens. It's not required in the US (mainly because since the US refrigerates its eggs, immunization doesn't help much), but more and more farms are immunizing chickens, eventually the reason for refrigerating eggs will vanish - but I'm sure they'll still require it. (The circular relationship between these two things is not lost on me.)

Farmers in the UK value cleanliness not because of Salmonella but because dirty farms make for dirty eggs as seen by the consumer, since they aren't allowed to clean them.
I suspect that dystopian environments of locked-down mandatory corporate Windows laptops with no software installation privileges, firewalled networking and even the USB ports disabled are also part of the reason for every function being crammed into the browser to the point that the browser has become an operating system host... Creativity (and catastrophes) happens where there is freedom: local scripting and browser scripting !
Huh? The parent clearly points out that it's much less effort and hassle to get an 80% solution.

Who wouldn't want to spend a tiny fraction of the effort to get 80% of the outcome?
Sure, but now we've gone from an increase of 80% to less than half of that just by adjusting for population.

Now, why do you think they picked 2009? Were cars magically safer that year, or perhaps because it's the year after the economic crash, and therefore people were simply driving less?

Which was my point, not that there's nothing to be said about vehicle design contributing to this, but that it's annoying to read articles where the authors are clearly massaging the data to fit their agenda.
There's a sentence in the article which says that this is an explicit policy decision of the company.

> It is supposedly “Against the technology strategic vision of the company” to allow “end-users” access to high level programming languages.
I wonder if you could have the oculus sunglasses setup run a live OCR+solver for you.
See also - Sql Server Hyperscale. We've been using this for about 18 months now and it feels like it has saved us a lot of hassle.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/h...

The only downside we can spot so far is the presence of a 100mb/s throttle for txn log writes in order to satisfy replication requirements. Beyond this, it is indistinguishable from an express instance on a local dev machine. You lose some of the other on-prem features when you go managed, but most new applications don't need that stuff anymore. The message broker pieces are the only ones I miss, but there are a lot of other managed options for that, and you can still DIY with a simple Messages table and 3-4 stored procedures.

On the read & reporting side, I see no downsides. You mostly get OLAP+OLTP in the same abstraction without much headache. If someone really wanted to go absolutely bananas with reporting queries, data mining, AI crap, whatever, you could give them their own geo replica in a completely different region of the planet. Just make sure they aren't doing any non-queries and everything should be fine.

For large binary data, we rely on external blob storage and URLs. The txn log write limit shouldn't feel like much of a restriction if you are using the right tools for each part of the job. Think about how many blob URLs you could fit within 100 megabytes. If you make assumptions about URL structure, you can increase this by a factor of 2-3x.
Perhaps, if the information is not something you have verified it could be false. Governments and media do lie. If that is the case here, by providing sources, it is you spreading misinformation. The other person is merely giving am opinion.

Myself, I am trying to establish the truth of the matter - I don't accept so-called authoritative sources when they are proven liars. The only way I know of to satisfy myself off the truth is to verify it personally. Involving myself in these narratives, is like acting upon (convincing) hearsay or gossip. It's simply not part of my life.

I won't call for harm to people I do not know on account of a story that could be a lie.
seems that wind isn't profitable without massive subsidies either

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/14/wind-farm-or...
HN is like you go to ces or any other trade fair.

GitHub is more like a city there are different places, open stores, private building, parks.

Everyone can go into stores.
Repo that is promoting themself on GitHub or other websites.

No one will go into your private house that you don't want into it.
Private repo or repo with no readme , description or topics.

If you have a park with trees that look nice, maybe some people like it too and wann chill on it, if you don't want people on it write a shield private or do not step on the grass.
Repo that is willing to be used by third parties, as other are interested into it as they see it.
You don't want something write a rule into readme.
You can finetune image diffusion to just generate waveforms of audio and that works well, so it's definitely possible. Probably not without specific training though.
Also the 36% they get from Google showing ads on search.

That revenue is significant and would have to be replaced.
This would make a half decent TV show honestly.

There's the show NeXt which is along the same line, but I want more in the "scary AI is smarter than us" genre haha
Sorry for the trouble you had to go through to get there, but that looks really useful.
Not that it means anything, but Burry is short NVDA.
The very famous actor that played the character Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) died unexpectedly recently, I'd imagine that would spike things a bit.

Only answering your first sentence with some context, the rest I have no opinion or information on
Hi there. I am just seeing your response now. Thanks for clearing things up, and I really do appreciate it. I retract my initial statement that "Cloudflare lied to me"

It all makes sense now, but I guess my biggest "hurdle" was knowing if those people in the original post were using Turnstile or not, and the blog post being relevant or not totally hinges on whether or not they were using Turnstile.
Bing chat is amazing and much better than plain Google for information search.
I think Rust and Go have received that criticism also because they precisely "dared" to take an unconventional approach: Go is very opinionated and uses a radically simplified syntax without inheritance, exceptions and other things people are used to from other languages, which leads to many people trying to bend Go to their style of programming and getting frustrated; Rust has its focus on performance ("zero cost abstractions") and being memory safe without using GC, which leads to its famously steep learning curve. But I agree with OP: if you are going to start a new programming language today, you'd better try to bring some new ideas to the table, otherwise you're just crowding an already crowded space even more.
The ISA is variable length/scalable, but this implementation uses a 4096 wide register file.

They are a bit disingenuous in claiming they support rvv 1.0 while others only a subset, as they haven't implemented vrgather or vcompress yet, but there are open pull request for them [0].

Sadly there also seem to be a few bugs when simulating with verilator [1], so I couldn't measure all instructions, but here is `vadd.vv` and `vwaddu.vv` for the VLEN=4096, four lane configuration:

vadd.vv:

e32m1: 16 cycles

e32m2 32 cycles

e32m4 63 cycles

e32m8 126 cycles

vwaddu.vv:

e32m1: 34 cycles

e32m2: 69 cycles

e32m4: 140 cycles

I don't have the time to rebuild ara now, but the 16 lane configuration should roughly be four times faster.

[0] https://github.com/pulp-platform/ara/pull/180

[1] https://github.com/pulp-platform/ara/issues/250
Putting it up on Github won't change the likely outcome that the project will be abandondend for the next shiny thing in 2 or 3 years.
Yet still not on ESXi. Maddening.
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Yes.

Australia requires you to take a driving test - a "written" largely multi choice test to demonstrate understanding of road rules, success there gives you [L] learner plates that allow you to drive under supervision and practice. You then have to pass a practical driving test to gain [P] probationary plates for unassisted driving with some restrictions - after a year or so you're a full driver.

No driving school is required - but it can help if you don't have access to a cool calm collected experienced driver who can walk you the skills test - reversing, parallel park, correct signalling, emergency stop, etc.
GPT-4 is incredibly broken right now, probably why
Time to sell my nvidia cards
Seems way more expensive than Twilio?
I'm seeing a lot of concerns about the future of programmers and their employability. Remember that nobody is doing you a favor. People get paid what they're worth, including programmers. The thing about imposter syndrome is it sneaks up on you when you're surrounded by other talented coders all the time. You start forgetting that what you do isn't common; not everyone can whip up code like you can. When AI starts shaking up the world of programming, that’s when you know it’s really game over for all other white-collar jobs.

Today's big tech companies might seem invincible, but they’re not. Their edge? It's going to wear thin, especially once everyone else starts jumping in with custom solutions. Instagram with just 13 people gave Facebook a run for its money. That was before the era of LLMs. Imagine now – anyone could potentially build the next big thing in an afternoon.

And don’t get me started on the legal stuff. There are so many laws, no one person can know them all. But LLMs? They can handle it. What happens when the legal system gets flooded with cases about loopholes no one knew existed? Or when everyone can have the world's best lawyer for free? It's wild to think about.

ChatGPT came out of nowhere for most of us, and robotics is going to hit us harder and sooner than we realize. No politician or law can keep up with this tech freight train we're on. We’re talking about more progress in the next 20 years than in the last 20,000. Jobs and whether we can stay employed? That's going to be the least of our worries.

Or AI will hit a plateau and we'll all get a little bit more productive.
I converted to paying on kagi the promise that the first tier was enough for most users. It was not, and I didn't considered I would be a heavy user before hand. 2nd tier price is not acceptable to me since the UI/UX is not polished enough (search input reset is not something that should slip in production ever). I also had to revert to google for shopping results, kagi is suppose to have some, but not for me apparently.

I might try again is the raise the search count on first tier or provide services I care for on the second tier.
as others pointed out, it's important how you ask and what you think the truth is.
https://chat.openai.com/share/cc688592-236a-499b-82e1-81bdaa...
But isn't that how it's supposed to work for these LOB type applications? Users prototype a solution and the developers then change it into a proper real world application. Alternative approaches are usually worse.
This simply isn't true of humans for the kinds of examples used in the paper. If I read "Olaf Scholz was the ninth Chancellor of Germany" then I have no trouble reversing that and determining that the 9th chancellor of Germany was Olaf Scholz. This is not an inference that's 'cognitively challenging'.

Humans may sometimes fail to make simple inferences of this sort when building their factual databases, but they don't systematically fail to do so.

Also, you may have missed this part of the paper:

>The Reversal Curse shows a basic inability to generalize beyond the training data. Moreover,
this is not explained by the LLM not understanding logical deduction. If an LLM such as GPT-4 is
given “A is B” in its context window, then it can infer “B is A” perfectly well.

The paper does not claim that GPT-4 cannot perform logical deduction, but only that it does not appear to make use of it when generalizing its training data.
I've noticed that ChatGPT (gpt-4) chats have been slower than usual over the last couple of days. Must cost them a fortune to keep this all going.
NVDA's P/E: 119.

Good luck, dude.
That irrational response was heavily fueled by fear mongering from environmental activists and financed by oil producing hostile countries.

In the 70s and 80s leftists couldn't much keep pushing socialism (like they are now) since the horrors of their ideology was quite visible to everybody in the example of USSR. So they embraced environmentalism - just another way for them to fight capitalism and consumerism.

Russia (through the KGB) was quite happy to finance their cause. It meant Western countries (and especially Western Europe) stayed dependent on them for their energy. The folly of our strategy became quite apparent during the last few years with the Ukraine invasion and revelations of EU politicians fully paid and owned by the Russians.

Together with infiltrating the Western Academia, this was probably one of the most successful undercover secret service operation ever.
Look at it another way: that script kludge is a prototype, a dangerous one of course, that embodies the functional requirement better than what the user could express. Understand its deep meaning (what the user meant to do and and not what they settled on considering their technical limitations) and you are ready to rewrite it into a proper implementation. We frequently stumbled upon this situations and we like them, because a well used kludge that reaches its breaking point has buy-in from all stakeholders for a well-budgeted industrialization !
it was in fact the last winter just at the worst moment possible when electricity price was exploding. Half of them were in maintenance for various reasons

https://www.tf1info.fr/economie/crise-de-l-energie-nucleaire...
This is a great article with more tips on how to prompt and fine tune LLMs than most articles that focus on this topic. Also has surprising insights which are food for thought. Like: Would it help to attach facts to well-learned „nodes“ (like Tom Cruise in his example) when fine tuning? In the sense of repurposing well-known nodes. Looking forward to reading more from Andrew.
Sure, quality is required to maintain a monopoly. But the presence of quality doesn't negate anti-competitive practices, which can prevent other providers of quality from gaining a reasonable foothold.
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I know Zero Hedge has its own agenda and is far from neutral but...
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/michael-burry-liquidates-b...

"Unlike his infamous and original bearish bet against subprime, Burry's latest attempt to time a market crash has crashed and burned, because according to the just released 13F from Burry's Scion Capital, the $1.6 billion notional in puts on the SPY and QQQ have been liquidated."
I'm honestly starting to find the 'web nostalgia' a little nauseating, I kinda like gemini, but it lacking inline images and other 'modernities' like that take it a little too far back. The web overall will never go back to how it was in whichever era you idolise (for me it was 1992-1994), so it's probably best that we stop wishing it would.
Yep, that, and 2FA, are the only times I get SMS messages. No actual humans use them now where I live, just automated systems run by businesses.