skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemini made a mistake, when asked if the rubber duck floats, it says (after squeaking comment): "it is a rubber duck, it is made of a material which is less dense than water". Nope... rubber is not less dense (and yes, I checked after noticing, rubber duck is typically made of synthetic vinyl polymer plastic [1] with density of about 1.4 times the density of water, so duck floats because of air-filled cavity inside and not because of material it is made of). So it is correct conceptually, but misses details or cannot really reason based on its factual knowledge.

P.S. I wonder how these kind of flaws end up in promotions. Bard made a mistake about JWST, which at least is much more specific and is farther from common knowledge than this.

1. https://ducksinthewindow.com/rubber-duck-facts/
No, my point is about whether ownership has a clear definition or not. It does. This is separate from whether or not we like the way the system works for licensing content, and it’s important that people not muddy the waters here.
@elonmusk
coreboot has a rather fragile JPEG parser for splash screens but the saving grace is that barely anybody uses it because that's normally the payload's job (the jpeg + display thing was mostly added for a proof of concept "look how fast we can boot" demo in 2005)

With payloads, some are more at risk than others. edk2 might run into issues here, grub2 has tons of features where stuff like this might hide in, other payloads (e.g. ChromeOS' depthcharge) are more limited in their functionality and therefore in their attack surface, too.
It always was political. Only that the politics of Twitter changed and now they do not like them.
I guess that for B2B involving physical goods, you must meet your customers physically. Going to commercial fairs is easy to do and hopefully, you will talk with future customers. Even if they are not future customers, you will get a massive amount of feedback.

Apple started that way, long time ago.
Yeah the article says these "aren't used anymore," but my image viewer (sxiv) complained that the gif was corrupted until I put something there. It still displayed the image, but it also complained afterwards.
Superficially, this sounds similar to how Google App Engine and Cloud Run already work (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/migration-center/run/comp...). Both are auto-scaling containers that can run a monolith inside.

Is that a fair comparison?
Haha that’s a great find. Google may be one of the most conventional companies out there now.
Twitter was the canonical radical/activist political tech co before the new owner, featuring all sorts of suppression and biasing. It’s not any more or less now, probably less overall since it seems to be avoiding more suppression, it’s just that one side is generally upset and the other generally happy that it changed teams.

This announcement does tell us w3c is a politically motivated org that disagrees with the new regime.
Ritchie Shoemaker is a quack with a long disciplinary history:

https://quackwatch.org/cases/board/med/shoemaker/consent/

Unlike mold-caused asthma and allergies, "Toxic mold illness" and CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) are not real conditions, as described in a recent Australian report:

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/biotoxins-i...

"Toxic mold illness" is a popular scam among the grifters who market themselves as integrative/functional/naturopathic:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-the-internet-so-obsesse...

The CDC warned against urine testing promoted by the "toxic mold" scammers:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a7.htm
Some people on codeforces (the competitive programming platform that this was tested on) are discussing the model: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123035

Seems like they don't believe that it solved the 3200 rated problem (https://codeforces.com/contest/1810/problem/G) w/o data leakage

For context, there are only around 20 humans above 3200 rating in the world. During the contest, there were only 21 successful submissions from 25k participants for that problem.
Yep! Elixir is ridiculously powerful. Best place to look for work is the phoenix discord which has a pretty active job channel.
The Blackwing 602 is my favorite pencil. One very nifty feature is its swappable eraser - it’s also rectangular.

https://blackwing602.com/products/blackwing-602-set-of-12
> Doesn't the comparison have to be inlined, and tiny, not to mention itself branchless?

Yes.

This generally means floats and integers, or small combinations thereof. Note that this is after projection of the comparison operator, so things can remain branchless when sorting e.g. strings by length.

The inlining generally isn't an issue in languages like C++ and Rust.

> Forget string keys.

You can sort string keys (mostly) branchlessly with radix sorting, but yes for comparison sorting you can forget it.
I meant Congress as a body doesn’t care, which IMHO is proven by the fact that decade after decade congress as a body does nothing to remedy these problems. Actually the 1984 nightmare just gets worse.

Support from members here and there is nice but in reality for the 20 years I’ve been paying attention has resulted in nothing.
Surely a ship at sea need not be worried about such a well-understood problem as salt corrosion!
From my previous reading on the subject, HDMI comes from the TV world, and DVI comes from the computer monitor world.

On a computer display, you want each pixel to be square and to be visible on the screen, a border around all the pixles doesn't matter.

On a TV, historically, pixels didn't exist, and the nearest concept to a pixel (I forget the term) wasn't square, it was rectangular. Showing a border around the content is not acceptable, and it should go right up to the very edge. Also in the TV world, the most important thing in the image, not the pixels.

So it's this philosophical difference, and separate histories, which means you should never try to get a TV to be a monitor, or a monitor to be a TV. Of course I only learnt this after buying a device which said it could be both.
I am happy for all the disagreeing posts and that HN is a place for it.

It also helps me understand my colleagues.

It may be how our brains are wired. For me whenever I see a for loop I see bugs.

It is also about that you get the concurrency from map/reduce-type jobs for free without having to think about it.

But yeah there are a couple of places you need to be careful. Avoiding duplicates and handling of NULL.
>It is sad to see more tech stuff get political.

Please quote the part of W3C's announcement that discusses their political views with regards to Twitter.
Is raging anti-semite more appropriate? The last retweet I've seen was quite explicit.
No tattoos although maybe I should look into that.
> b) when you say a lot, you're abound to say foolish things and that he has

"Foolish things" sure, but this is a little too forgiving. If I talk enough, I'm bound to call someone the N word at some point, for example?
Oh, alright. Was referring to just the article.
I can't stand the stupid streaming "But not on THIS service" model of movie watching, so this is how I do movies. $5 on ebay gets you pretty much any DVD you want, $100 or so for a box set of some television show, and ripping DVDs is literally one click. I've wanted to switch to BluRays lately, because HD, and they are barely more expensive than DVDs on ebay, but ripping blurays is NOT trivial.
The fun thing, at least in Poland, is that the most influential reforms were done in 1988 - in fact some of the better managed enterprises started reforming then, one of them being in pretty good shape - but got killed by politician due to what was party-internal strife... and no, we're not talking communist party - we're talking Solidarność. Then a bunch of actions were added on top in attempts to deal with large foreign currency debt, and they weren't exactly done well, and various economic areas were just destroyed with a strike of a pen, in what even the western advisers considered extreme ways. Those areas? They still haven't recovered, because there was nothing available for recovery.

There was surprisingly a lot of free thinking, innovation, even entrepreneurship. Not everything was as bad as it was painted, not everything was as good as it was sometimes shown.

One of the rare positive elements in all that chaos that some had pointed out and I agree was that the chaos at least ensured consumer goods were better represented and prevented oligarchic centralisation to the level that happened in some other countries.
Just because Apple offers a particular laptop, doesn't mean they won't be sold out. If we want to complete the analogy.
> That was ages ago.

I think that was the point.
Concern About the Hawley/Blumenthal Bill to Remove 230 Protections from AI
I've been pulled over several times for being cutoff ("You didn't signal for a full 5 seconds when you changed lanes" "I was taking evasive action to not hit the guy...!") while driving a vehicle with out-of-state plates. I am 2 degrees of separation away from at least 2 people killed by police for having medical conditions that interfered with immediate compliance.

Per the US department of justice[0], in 2018, about 2% of all police interactions involve threats of or actual violence. About half of the time, the member of the public who experienced the (threats of) violence said that it was excessive, but it would take a fairer, more rational person than me to get justifiably tazed, then say "yeah, I had that coming". I wasn't able to find statistics on how justified that violence is.

The punchline is that every time you have a police interaction, its betting odds that it ends in violence for you. Based on the 2018 data, 0.5% of the overall adult population experienced (threats of) violence from police. That's when police are able to gin up probable cause. The courts have a complicated opinion about whether or not algorithmically derived probable cause is in fact probable cause [1,2]. Anything that increases public/police interactions is going to increase police-on-public violence if the police don't also experience significant non-violent de-escalation training.

I think one of the key things that needs to be determined before we cry havoc and let slip the dogs of surveillance is to come to a real conclusion about what level of crime allows the police officer to initiate contact with only a positive ID from e.g. a bodycam. I'd argue that, if nothing else, non-violent misdemeanors that carry no mandatory jail time are not cause to initiate contact.

0. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf

1. https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/05/30/n-j-supreme-court-ru...

2. https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-556_e1pf.pdf
w3c.social is a friendly and respectful instance for people involved in the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The instance is run on a volunteer basis by a few of the W3C team
If someone has access to the hardware you have lost already. The other argument people make is that it prevents "persistence", as in the "authenticated and validated" code is actually a remote code execution engine, but while it does that, at least it can't be modified to be.. even worse? It's little consolation really.
The footer (now?) says created by Sentry.
A day needs more than 24h anyway.
Yesterday I started to explore CodeGPT, it allows to download and run local model via llama.cpp, it's working fine for me so far, at least with with DeepSeek model 6.7b
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt
If it was actually about free speech, the Elon Jet Tracker account wouldn’t be banned. It’s actually about being able to say bigoted things without consequences.
I remember people saying this about XP to Vista, then 7 to 8, then 8 to 10, now 10 to 11... If you're on 10 now then you've gone through this cycle several times already; Microsoft is slow-boiling frogs and it seems to work for them.
openai and langchain natively support all of that or expose the hooks to do it

all that stuff is what we needed to do to support multiple providers vs hard-coding a single one. none of it is specific to our codebase. if we were going to take on a third-party dependency, we'd need it to be serious about this kind of thing, else we have an external dependency to work around on our critical path

Edit: As an example, if the switching layer doesn't implement model negotiation and doesn't expose key model details (which vary by model provider service, and often require REST calls to introspect), we can't add model negotiation / retries / etc on top, and would have to edit the innards to enable that, which opens up all sorts of questions
> By interacting with them. Exporting your culture, like conferences and such

It's probably safer to start with TV shows first, or hosting conferences in safer places nearby, until the culture is changed.

I would strongly discourage anyone at risk from visiting a country where their existence is a crime from visiting such country.
The other thing I’d be worried about is deleting an account and then having Twitter give it out to some spammer who’d see traffic from the millions of links out in the wild.
Linux is closer to being a generally accessible OS than ever before, especially with Valve pushing it as a 1st class platform for gaming.

A desktop environment like KDE is a fully modern, integrated desktop even down to being able to use KDE Connect to use your smart phone from your desktop.

You mentioned hating Ubuntu and 3 other distros, but really the fundamental differences between distros is mostly how they package software, and how frequently they downstream new software. Install something like Pop_OS, never touch a terminal and move on.
Designed is a synonym of artificial.

"By chance" is also an accurate descriptor of natural intelligence.

Not sure if you were making a point, but your comment backs up the assertion that "natural" was a better choice than "real" in that sentence.
Not new, but interesting to me.

I didn't know Adam Curtis is (or at least was) a BBC employee.

In the interview it says HyperNormalisation cost £32,000 (Wikipedia say $80,000...) which, what ever you might think of it, seems remarkably cheap. Surely can't include his wages!
Twitter was the closest thing we had to a centralized, yet "distributed", one-stop shop for news.

If you wanted to keep up with what's happening around you, either in general or in a specific topic, it was the place to be.

It was possible to hear directly from the people who are reporting on the news you care about, but also from the people the news were about. And INTERACT with them directly.

Unfortunately that didn't last for long.

What the openai debacle showed us very clearly is how important the platform still is despite all the damage. Threads was as if it didn't even exist.

The thing is, none of the fediverse networks who try to replace Twitter would be able to accomplish that same mission.
Someone at Google is a Billy Madison fan with the blue duck reference.
Interesting concept but am curious about the efficiencies and if the ends justify the means.

Reminds me of some articles about microfluidics in shoes that would generate an electric potential during steps.

Smaller boats/yachts can much more easily leverage wave power for speed - surfing basically revolutionized sailboat racing.
You're probably being downvoted unfairly because of the reference to the fiat currency conspiracism. But to treat your actual point:

That's an extremely cherry-picked date. 1970 was the bottom a deep trough in gold prices. If you look just a few years in either direction, it was 50% higher. You would have had to aim your investment with shocking precision to even get close to stocks in terms of returns. If you look back to 1940, you'll see that gold has returned about 1.2% in real value, which is significantly less than bank interest. Gold has been losing money, on balance, in the power-war world.

See: https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...

It's a volatile asset, so you can always play games with dates to make it look like a good thing. But it's not. It's a sucker's bet, and I stand by that. Buy a mutual fund.
at what point does a keyboard become aware enough to make it not copyrightable? If I instructed a monkey to press enter and create a poem with chatgpt, that work wouldn't be accredited to me or anybody.

How come a monkey makes it not eligible but GenAI is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
Antisemitism has a team? Which team is that?
With respect, and also with the understanding that I do not comprehend your domain very well so I may be talking out of my but with static typing I think it is possible, perhaps if a bit less pretty.

I can try and put something together in C# but not right now I'm afraid (it would be a good exercise for me as I've only read up on these, not actually use them personally, although I plan to start very soon for my own personal work). There was some examples going round here https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/zm7f9/phantom_... which may help.

Again, I may be misunderstanding your domain completely, so bear it in mind please.
> Twitter/X is still where everything happens

It's not where the W3C happens, clearly. That statement becomes less true by the day as more and more accounts leave.
> I appreciate that most of the ECS hype has been around specific use cases, though.

I recently watched the first 30 minutes of Mike Acton's 2014 talk, and while that portion of the talk wasn't about ECS specifically, it very much presented an absolutist perspective.
Why write python code for that (through any means) when there are already simple services to do it for you?

https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
Doing things 'the Detroit way' is condemning Cruise to failure in my opinion. GM had nothing to compare to Tesla's self-driving before buying Cruise.

Ford's policy after losing a billion in Argo AI is to offer a quarter of Tesla's features and charge half the price. They figure if you haven't tried Tesla's self-driving you'll think you're getting a good deal.

Stellantis (Chrysler) is waiting on its European masters to come up with something and changes the subject every time its asked.

Can you really blame Cruise employees for not wanting to wear their company jackets when they learn of the policy changes at their company?
No. You’re confused. Most LLMs in production today use transformers under the hood but a transformer is most certainly not a type of LLM.
I think you missed the point. Google bought youtube because for them bandwidth and storage are cheap (it's CPU that is expensive).

Back in the 90's when bandwidth was expensive we managed to run a free video site without advertising. Since then bandwidth has become orders of magnitude cheaper, and G has economies of scale that no other operator can get close to, they quite literally own the fiber, the endpoints and are present in just about every meet-me room all over the world. Storage costs have dropped even further. So what you think costs Google a couple of bucks to provide per user probably costs them fractions of a cent. And if they dropped the garbage their costs would be even lower.
are there any plans to support providing functions for local models that support it? i.e. functionary-7b? there is some support for this in the server provided by llama-cpp-python which also follows the openai schema.
Community notes is the replacement for s/moderation/censorship. It's far more truthful and accurate than any s/moderation/censorship committee. This has been repeatedly demonstrated.
Dude needs a new job. He's been the Steve Balmer of Google, ruining what made them great and running the company into the ground.
They handle scaling at only highest level, similar to spinning up more dynos/workers/webservers like I talk about in the intro. FLAME is about elastically scaling individual hot operations of your app code. App Engine and such are about scaling at the level of your entire app/container. Splitting your operations into containers then breaks the monolith into microservice pieces and introduces all the downsides I talk about in the post. Also, while it's your code/language, you still need to interface with the mount of proprietary offerings to actual accomplish your needs.
I agree that CTEs are a solution to some of the pain listed above, but CTEs aren't exotic. Lots of the major RDBMSs support them.
You can see the cracks in the feature early on:

"What do you think I'm doing? Hint: it's a game."

Anyone with as much "knowledge" as Gemini aught to know it's roshambo.

"Is this the right order? Consider the distance from the sun and explain your reasoning."

Full prompt elided from the video.
OpenAI setup a multi-million deal to buy chips from Altman-backed company
Why would it be odd? He finished his schooling in the US and his first full-time job was at the company that became Paypal, also in the US. His personal wealth is because of the American financial system. He is absolutely brainwashed ("influenced" if you must) by US politics and business regulations.
Seems some of the benchmarks (maybe all?) rely heavily on either CoT or some other additional prompting method to achieve the results.
Will their integration into Bard and other consumer products use something similar?
> Isn't iMessage just texting within a walled garden?

Isn't that exactly what WhatsApp (and to a lesser extent) Telegram are?
Funnily enough the Nintendo Switch actually fixes this. Consoles can share updates peer-to-peer, and it's actually super nifty for local multiplayer groups.
aaand they’re all under patent now.
> I'm sort of mostly ok with paying $15 for a semi-permanent license to a movie.

Everyone is until the content goes away.
I don't have anything to say about Gemini without using it, but man, that's a beautiful website. Not expected from Google.
Possibly unrelated, but I've had a good dozen holocaust deniers show up in my feed today. And the report options no longer include a specific option for that.
If we have northern and southern parts then Stockholm is in the southern part.
Why not? The fediverse stuff works pretty well as far as I can see. It's Twitter reframed as a regression back towards RSS and the blogosphere, which people here should be into; it's like that scene in High Fidelity, Mastodon picked up where your precious Google Reader left off.

The only thing the fediverse lacks that Twitter really provided was the starfucking celebrity culture. I'm not judging, I have guilty pleasures too, but for my tastes: good riddance!
...although ChatGPT also has a Wolfram Alpha integration
Those browsers are part of the product. It's just functionality that's not in the most popular version. Still, for all purposes, they should be counted as one (with the exception of the iOS version, of course, because it behaves like Safari for the web-page side).
Can science find a better way to trim a cat's nails?
> If someone has access to the hardware you have lost already.

Tell that to my Chromebook that you can't crack. Or a Macbook. Or your phone.
Or even a UEFI device absent the occasional vulnerability like this. There are vulnerabilities, but they're comparatively rare and they get patched.

In fact this is simply wrong. Defense of systems against attackers with physical access is a mostly solved problem, and secure boot is the answer. It is not (and never will be) perfect, but it does work.
A massage is a nonsensical comparison, since it cannot be used more than once.

Anything other than rent is an unnecessary complication.
> One observation: Sundar's comments in the main video seem like he's trying to communicate "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies)

Sundar has been saying this repeatedly since Day 0 of the current AI wave. It's almost cliche for him at this point.
True, but they won't be the source of that fire.
I see, my bad!
https://bitbucket.org/wjmelements/bukkake/ I take it?

I’m surprised it didn’t make more of a splash.