skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been terrified to enable jumbo frames because every guide I've read has always had "you have to make sure that every single machine you ever communicate with has to also have jumbo frames on or you will cause a black hole that sucks the whole earth into it!!" kind of disclaimers when I just want to lower the overhead in copying files from my NAS that has some pathetic Atom CPU in it.
I think adding a bit (or a new article) about why someone should choose this approach for state mangaement over existing alternatives would make a stronger argument.

Perhaps clarify the connectedCallback() and customElements.define() methods are not arbitrary, but specific to the API (I know the API is linked to in the article, but readers are lazy).

(Better examples here than in the previous article, thank you!)
Lots of things make more sense when you understand that the US economy is centered around getting each end consumer to pay as much as possible for everything.
It matters because hydroeletric is a non-intermittent renewable source.

The available hydro does not allow to cover all base load. It needs to be supplemented and the other renewable sources available are by their nature intermittent.

So the problem of energy storage needs to be solved fast in order for gas/coal to be finally sunset.
Just because something has upsides or some benefits (or a single benefit) doesn't mean it is good overall.
I think it's slightly more complex than that. There's a relationship between the cost and complexity of repeater technologies vs. the cost and complexity of the cabling and its necessary topology that really drove 10BaseT adoption.
Website just displays "Unwanted Dev Tools Console detected "
I just have dev tools installed on Firefox, not even open, but this website just displays this annoying warning. Why would they even do that?
I am getting tired of takes like this. LLMs are parrots, but they parrot human language which seems to encode our reasoning abilities into its structure. So if you can mimic language well enough, you start to mimic reasoning abilities.

I feel like we should have all moved on from the fact that LLMs don't have a very precise memory? This is (not entirely, but mostly) fixed by including the information you want to query in the prompt itself, like Bing does. ChatGPT is much better at summarization than precise fact recall.

And most of the time, it doesn't matter. When I'm using ChatGPT to learn or troubleshoot something, it's a jumping off point, not the end of the story. As long as everyone understands that, there's no problem. I have yet to see anyone who treats its output as 100% fact, and no AI company claims it either.
The sidekick got around 6M and forfeited around 2M [1]

[1] From the plea agreement at https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/... . Add up bank accounts, blue book car value, and redfin estimate of the house. I didn't include the Sonoran Hills parcel because it didn't have a valuation.
Some thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38303956
Depends on how it’s represented. If you booked David Attenborough and an impersonator showed instead you’d be annoyed. If TV shows started using an impersonator instead of Attenborough but said it was him both the audience and Attenborough would be annoyed when found out.
2hr anywhere door to door with LHR is an amazing feat.

Surely doesn't include wait time?

Or did you mean airport door to airport door
HN is a good mirror for that.

Every time someone posts a project that happens to be closed source, and asking for money, there are several voices reaching out for the pitch forks and torches, how dare someone charge for XYZ when FOSS alternative (less functional mostly) is available.

Hence why only those doing enterprise consulting get the nice toys.
As much as I admire the performance of ethernet in the hardware/infrastructure sector, it is all the more impressive when software remains stable for such a long time. And there are also good examples with lifetimes of 40 to 50 years. If i were to mention just a few prominent examples that are in my head, I would be doing injustice to all the others that have not been mentioned, so I'll leave it at that.

What I would like to say, however, is that in an industry as young as IT, it is hard to overestimate when technologies have proven themselves over decades. All the "latest hot sh*t" ideas/technologies/brainwaves/products first have to stand the test of time (no, 2.5 years is not enough) to be taken seriously without any doubt.
Check out "Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners" by Kojima, T., Gu, S. S., Reid, M., Matsuo, Y., and Iwasawa, Y nature.com. This paper discusses the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to reason or comprehend.
Really? In my experience, it's worse than chatgpt 3.5.

I had it answer me things like "this model, which costs 38k€ is cheaper than this other one, which costs 29k€". I've never seen ChatGPT make such basic mistakes.
>On a freshly installed iPhone, swipe right at the home screen

I've used iPhones for 15 years and never noticed that. There's a difference between having Apple apps available if you want them, compared to things in your face when you don't do anything and don't want them.
I thought because I literally haven't seen a single "what do real estate agents even do" post on here, I'd post my positive experience --

We bought a house this year in a competitive, expensive market (DC). Our agent found the listing through word of mouth before it went on MLS, and got us lined up for an early tour so we had the chance to look at it before the open house. We liked it enough to get a pre-inspection on his advice (The market is too hot here for inspection contingencies, which is insane on a 100 year old house!). By the time the open house ended we had seen it twice and walked through with an inspector, which made us confident enough to bid.

The agent talked to the seller's agent at length and figured out what was most important to them (close time over raw cash, because they were carrying two mortgages), and it turned out that the seller's agent knew our mortgage broker (who our agent originally referred us to) and trusted how fast he worked.

We ended up beating over a dozen other offers, some of which were substantially higher. There's zero chance we'd have gotten this house (or anything competitive in DC) without a good agent, unless we were already in the industry and hyper connected, or bidding well into the six figures over ask.

We looked at many places, and bid on two other houses we didn't win (post-covid market), so per hour he probably didn't make a crazy high salary, though in line with a good salesperson or manager.

When we sold our old place, he helped advise us on pricing, set us up with good options for staging, arranged the floor plan maker and photographer, etc etc. For 3% of the sales fee I certainly could've done all that myself, but I know people who would've never gotten all that organized while also moving. We barely did even with the help!

Now all that said, your median realtor in America just forwarding MLS listings and lockbox codes is probably not earning their share, but in competitive markets I think realtors can make a lot of sense.
The PDF reading seems to have issues. At first it says that it can’t read PDFs, but then after I encouraged it, it did try to read it, but said that it was unreadable due to formatting issues…
Well, it is simple and cheap.

"Chains" are not 'the system' they are a fact of life. Many people sell one property to buy their next one and need the money from the sale to finance the purchase (and also don't want to end up on the street) so they want contracts on both sides to be entered into at the same time. It adds a level of complication but no additional costs.

This is an issue that exists everywhere though solutions perhaps vary a bit. Usually it is a combination of relay loans (not free) and conditional contracts (tricky and pretty much the same result).

If you are a first time buyer it does not matter much apart from adding delays.

I don't see how reforming (how?) a system that is simple and cheap would help solve the "housing crisis". If there is something that needs reforming, well abolishing really, it is leaseholds.
Even though it is going to be extremely painful, one thing that excites me most about AI is the distinct possibility that it obliterates the concept of artificial scarcity that so much of the world relies on to create money these days. IMO, AI is exposing the frail and unnatural aspect of this legally-protected rent seeking.

No, I don't think the legal system will be able to keep up, and I also don't think the infoligarchs in Silicon Valley will be able to keep a lid on the box.

Yes, I'm frightened that my skills in slinging code will be available via a simple query to a model(at least as frightened as a SAG), but I'm also heartened that if these glass ceilings are shattered that we may finally make the evolutional step necessary to break so many of us free of this amoral and inhuman treadmill of misery that simply has no reason to exist with the resources at our disposal.
Personally, I regularly have to travel between Munich and Hamburg. Flying that route is a nuisance: either fly the day before and have to spend a day in a hotel, or get up at 03:30... get ready, travel to the airport (~1h regular time + buffer of at least 30 minutes because the goddamn train always has issues), account for 2 hours of pre-boarding crap (security checks, boarding), 1.5h flight, .5 h to account for getting luggage, .5h to be at Hamburg Hbf, and spend the rest of the day as an overtired zombie running on coffee.

In contrast, the sleeper train is easy: be at Munich Hbf at 2240, grab a few burgers for late night snack binges and beers to share with your roommates, enter the train at 2250, it leaves at 2252, empty the crate of beers and the burgers, fall asleep, wake up at 07:45, go for a shower, eat breakfast, arrive at 08:50 well rested in Hamburg.
> But most of the training corpus was not linguistically-sound gibberish; it was actual text. There was knowledge encoded in the words. LLMs are large language models - large enough to have encoded some of the knowledge with the words.

>Some of. And they only encoded it. They didn't learn it, and they don't know it. It's just encoded in the words. It comes out sometimes in response to a prompt. Not always, not often enough to be relied on, but often enough to give users hope.

And some of the pieces of "knowledge" in the training corpora were wrong, lies, or bullshit themselves.

Garbage in, garbage out.
Italian, Swiss and French rails are great. Spain is a bit behind but is closing up fast.
>However at some point you have to admit the LLM does generate things that are good answers.

Hawing a noise generator sometimes generate something that looks like a valid signal doesn’t mean it’s not a noise generator.
Get your parents' voices recorded in natural conversation, folks. You'll be able to talk to them after they're gone.
Tires are saving us – and killing us, too
Yet another two re-inforcing Chrome dominance on the Web.
> It doesn't mean that these LLMs are about linguistics and grammar specifically.

Correct. But it does mean they're about "language" rather than knowledge. It's meant to read, parse and generate language, no matter if it includes prose, facts, knowledge or whatever.

> Clearly, they aren't as likely to generate "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as "It's important to feed your dog".

Clearly, as the training set probably contains much more instances of the latter, than the first example. And if it's more probable to generate, that's the text it'll generate. It doesn't understand why or how, just that it's more likely, so that's the way it's going.
Before whole online thing from marketing it really made quite a bit of sense.

At least the seller agent side. You need to advertise somewhere and someone doing it full time is much more efficient, in spreading the marketing. Some level buyer agent gathering what is available if they did that is also logical.

Here not in USA. Buyer agents are more rarely used, but advertisement was taped to my building this week. But for seeing what is available agencies made lot of sense. And still do the paperwork and take somewhat better pictures or are around to show property.
> If EU/US trains ran like Japanese Shinkanzen then there would be exactly zero need for night trains.

Nah, if I need to be somewhere in the morning I prefer a sleeper train over a regular train. Can't sleep while seating, gives me utterly horrible back pain.
unpaywalled:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/finance-real-estate/almost-n...
I agree but I think it's more complicated than that. Advertisers have become very prudish about what content their ads are shown next to and LLMs have been getting a lot of media flak about bias and hallucinations and copyright infringement which might scare off advertisers. They might be having a really hard time selling this to advertisers which could be holding things up. Also, ChatGPT is ad free so if Gemini isn't clearly better then a lot of people won't switch.
People's eyes and brains vary widely. Maybe it's reasonable to accept that people see light differently and maybe some people are much more sensitive to spectrum differences. That's certainly true for flicker tolerance -- I personally get almost physically ill around flickering cheap or failing LEDs when others seem to be unaffected.
> Strangely the thing that I really noticed when we stopped using incandescent bulbs was that it felt a lot colder during winter nights, as the majority of the energy the old bulbs drew was converted to heat rather than light.

I swap in incandescent builds into a certain cold room in the winter, to deliberately exploit that effect, then I swap them out for LEDs during the summer.

IIRC, it wasn't uncommon to use incandescent builds as cheap heating elements. IIRC, early in the push to ban incandescent bulbs, some German tried to sell them as "heat bulbs," but got squashed by the regulators.

A side effect is really just an effect, and they can be useful. In the race to totally ban things, that often gets lost.
> If you don't like "trumpism", you have to side with "radical left". If you don't like "radical left", you have to side with "trumpism"

This strikes me as incorrect. There isn't really much "radical left" in the US, Biden himself is a centrist. I take your overall point regarding accuracy of information, and I think the comments re: "radical left" are an example of the inaccuracy we see in US media. "Radical centrism", maybe.
There is no reason to believe this.
Us New England mountain bikers appreciate all the effort that went in to both building the walls for us to ride over, and reforesting the land so there's trees to ride around, and the work to move it from private land to some public entity.
Accurate information is available.

Figuring out which of the many, many bits of information we're bombarded with are accurate is frequently tough.
I'm using MoCA to connect two parts of my house that I have not been able to pull CAT5 too.

There is a latency hit when using MoCA compared to Ethernet:

MoCA: 192.168.0.1 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 10/10/0%, min/avg/max = 3.24/4.02/4.64

Ethernet: 192.168.0.1 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 10/10/0%, min/avg/max = 0.365/0.461/0.515
"Secrectly"? I find "unknowingly" or "accidental" to be more likely.
LHR is fine if you don't have checked baggage.

Timing was 2h14m to be precise so a little over. 11 minutes to get to the airport from here. I was running somewhat late I will add!
it's been 10 years but I had great success running internet into the basement this way. Wifi was terrible down there (router was in the upper floor) and there wasn't an existing ethernet cable going down. Of course it wasn't perfect but it was trivial to set up and worked.
What is an example of emergence that is not self-similarity, and given the diminishing entropy of self-similar structures and processes, how is emergence not just a mean reversion in the entropy of a system? We could say that information is what emerges from a system as the result of the mean reversion of its entropy over time.
yes it is quite annoying. i would love to see a CH dedicated post to extol its virtues and not a piggyback “us too” comment on a duckdb post.
Anonymous and ephemeral Docker image registry
> Any philosopher, mathematician, scientist, or novelist was trained on (…). Their output then would also be bullshit, and by extension, everything humanity ever created.

Humans don’t learn the same way AIs are trained. Equating the two is a fallacy.
This is an uncommon opinion. What are example use cases where Bard is superior?
I've been using a flat fee agent since 2012. $500 to list, $500 to close, but still have to pay the conventional 2.5-3% to the buyer's agent. Still a huge improvement.
So, if someone were dumb enough to procrastinate, it helps them study in the least effective way? Pharmaceutical advertising is so effective…
PSA: I took a long "first class" Shinkansen trip last year, and it was hideously uncomfortable. Swaying movement made me feel sick when I did anything, and the seat was curved in a way that made it impossible to relax as a 6' tall person.

My toddler went on a rampage the whole way, too, since it was an open cabin and not a private cabin

I've never taken the train in the UK, but had a much more comfortable ride in Italy a few years back
> LLMs seem to operate on the principle of "will this pass for a correct answer"

My new thing: Testing LLM critique against humans.

The results are sobering.
>I think I personally know quite a few people that could do at least as good a job as Signal has at building a messenger app + platform. No offense, but this isn't exactly rocket science.

They are building a secure communicator that a normal person can reasonably use - and succeeding. Something nobody else before them managed to pull off. If this isn't rocket science I don't know what is. Not to mention that they pioneer cryptographic protocols in this area, which other messengers later use.

>This only makes sense if you ignore the world outside the Bay area and assume it's a talentless wasteland.

I'm also from Europe (and love it, despite its flaws) but this comes off like whining. If it's really so easy, maybe the smart people here should create their own Signal and reap that overinflated salaries, what do you think?

Or maybe smart people are not enough and you also need VCs, reasonable taxes, laws... Oh btw, did you hear about those plans of EU to get rid of E2E encryption?
Someone over here is a big fan of Shawshank Redemption and that's how this got to the front page. See how Andy left a message for Red.
I had a similar issue until I limited the amount of wire between the connections. For example I put one right by an outlet under my breaker box, then another in my garage right where the subpanel is and it improved dramatically.
It's Matrix.
That dialogue is hard to fully appreciate without the audio, and that button didn't work for me, so I'm linking a yt. However, I highly recommend that anyone who hasn't played this game should just go play it, even if you're not especially keen on games. It's absolutely brilliant, and consumed as a played game is absolutely the greatest way to absorb its delightful prodding (or anti-prodding (or anti-anti-prodding)) message.

Even just the free demo! The demo is incredible as a standalone experience, and does not have identical dialogue / experience as the full game. It is in fact a meta-experience of the game.

https://youtu.be/YzytQUZx4FU?feature=shared
I use the 40 watt “appliance bulb” incandescents that you can still get when feasible - like in my small office. But they only work for certain situations- hard to fully light a room on 40 watt bulbs, but for accent lighting they are great.
For example, this project [1] in Finland will provide 200 MW of district heating and can store 90 GWh. Cost estimate was 109M EUR in 2021 [2].

[1]: https://www.vantaanenergia.fi/en/we/carbon-negativity-2030/h...
[2]: https://tem.fi/paatos?decisionId=0900908f8077a0e8
Mine is, in theory, 2Gb/s. In practise, nearer 50Mb/s.

It also causes interference on my amplifier, although it's a cheap amplifier.

About once a year one of the adaptors loses its connection to the other adaptor, and instead connects to someone else's setup in this apartment building.
It seems wild to me to write raw HTML and then write a layer of code that works with that specific, bespoke markup to enhance it. You lose the benefits of the code being modular! That's the whole point of it being a component!

What you could do is have some code on the server that generates the markup. That way it's not so bespoke. And the client side code could somehow be aware of what the server is doing, so you're not writing a layer to enhance the code, you're just adding interactivity...

... Congrats! You've just invented server side rendering.
Never underestimate the power of cheap, "good enough" and backward compatibility.

https://assets.fixr.com/cost_guides/hardwired-computer-netwo...
I didn't see he claiming he developed your project. He uses it and developed a solution on top of it. What do you want from people using your code to compose other projects, pay you royalties? Make an altar for you?
well yes, there's no shortage of people out there developing algorithms, there are massive projects and libraries freely available all over the internet for the layman to explore, there has been for a very long time, there are even groups (in NYC and London that I'm aware of, presumably other cities too) for hobbyists (usually hobbyists in the industry).

Writing algorithms is easy, even finding alpha is easy, having enough capital to make it worthwhile is the hard part.
LEDs can satisfy the color temperature of incandescents. They're actually fuller spectrum. They are designed for such. You can purchase a wide range of them. They're also extremely more efficient.
Do you know what an uncanny valley is?
Code that assumes that something is going to be atomic because of the GIL (or any other implementation detail) is simply broken. If you need something to be atomic you should be explicit about that and use mutex or something.
Philips Hue RGB lights. I couldn’t find non-rgb lights that would go to such levels of warmth.
So OpenStack?
Or Attenborough attributing the wonders of the planet to a god.
>For instance when you ask it for a snippet of code and it gets it right.

Does this happen often for you?

I've logged my success rate with Go and C.

32/37 responses failed to meet the requested criteria. 15 wouldn't even compile.

Getting the bot to do it right takes longer than writing it myself.

Maybe that's just me?

I wouldn't think so. Word prediction and writing code aren't nearly the same thing, when I think about them. Sure, they both require language. But one of those also requires reasoning. As worded in this paragraph, could an LLM tell me which one? Sure. Sometimes...
With the current state of LLMs, not so much. I've tried building cold e-mails with various language models and they all suck. They give you the typical marketing BS that is too generic to be of any interest. Probably there's not so much data on this to go on, or the models are intentionally hampered down to avoid facilitating spam.
Thank you for attempting to explain it.

So what I don't understand is how "drunk driving ... helps people to get to work on time" is close to true and what I said that made it seem like "impossible to say if it's good or bad" about ChatGPT?
CREE and Philips bulbs are 3-5x the price of Home Depot's cheapest LEDs but for me pay for themselves in their longevity and quality.
But won’t LLMs be monetized in the exact same ways search has been? If you’re asking Bing Chat instead of searching Google for the best hotels in a city, you bet people are gonna wanna pay to make sure their name comes up.

If anything, I can see this poses more of a risk to websites than to Google. You’re still querying a knowledge graph representation of the internet, it’s only really the last step (clicking a link to a third party website from the SERP) that disappears.