skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took it as suggesting 75% is aiming way too low for these kinds of even-people-doing-it-don’t-deliberately-practice activities, even if you’re aiming to be a generalist. Rather, that being 95%ile (among practitioners) or better in several valuable skills/areas-of-knowledge isn’t actually an unreasonable goal.

I remember a piece on Donald Glover where Glover described discovering a “superpower” that went on to define his life when, after getting his ass handed to him in a casual basketball match as a kid, he simply practiced shots for a few hours that evening, and the next match went very differently. He doesn’t come out and say precisely what the superpower was but I took it as “literally try at all, and put the tiniest amount of thought/focus into how you try”. The implicit observation is similar: going up tens of percentile in skill-level isn’t that hard, because most people don’t thoughtfully try or put in any practice time at all, even those engaging in the activity. Won’t make you elite, but start applying that goal-oriented-practice attitude to several of the kinds of fuzzy activities mentioned in this piece, and you might really get somewhere.
Is it possible for humans to be wrong about something, without lying?
But the money spent on JWST did not make the rockets bigger.
I think it is a move to try and force people to sign up.
Let's see, so we exclude law, we exclude medical.. it's certainly not a "vast minority" and the failure cases are nothing at all like search or human experts.
The more Google tries to over-hype stuff the more that keeps giving me a greater impression they are well behind OpenAI. Time to STFU and focus on working on stuff.
Top 10, or top 10%?
GP was definitely attacking capitalism. For someone throwing drive by accusations of fallacy around you sure could improve your text comprehension.
Apple has taught us time and time again that you rarely have to be first to the market. Executing well and keeping people locked in are pretty important
It can also be trying to add random useless toy programs to a work project.

And if course, nothing stops one from deluding themselves into think their toy project is going to change the world and be the thing that replaces Windows.
The absolute irony of this post.
I was going to add "People want to be winners without trying because people who win without trying are cool, and tryhards are not cool."
Of all the places in the world Europe should be painfully familiar with the fact that appeasement that does not work. The fact that their own freedom matters less than what some fanatics think is insane. This is a government that has no intention of protecting its people or espousing the ideas of freedom of thought to the rest of the world.
You're purposefully misinterpreting the contextual meaning of "internet" as used by GP.
> Well, we found out that Microsoft is able to reverse essentially any decision they feel strongly about, which is essentially what "pulling the strings" means, in common usage.

What specific decision did Microsoft reverse?

We already know that they had no say in Sam's firing or any specific pull in his rehiring.

Or is there any proof we have that Microsoft forced the reversal of Sam's firing?
We haven't shared a whole lot yet (hoping to do more) but one that fits within administration of k8s is https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-remediation-of-kuberne...
It depends what you want to gen and what prompting style you prefer.
I have found SD 1.5/6 to be far more flexible than SDXL. SDXL seems more „neutered“ and biased towards a specific style (like dalle/midj); but this may change as people train more diverse checkpoints and loras for SDXL.
This is the kind of claim that needs actual evidence, otherwise it's just a dumb feel-good sentiment about how you _could_ be 2000 ELO on lichess if you cared.

I tend to agree that with enough time and _appropriate_ training anyone can become quite competent at anything, but this is a significantly different claim than thinking you can be in the 95th percentile of persons who are engaged in the activity. It becomes even worse when you realize that technical activities (such as programming) where there are cash incentives are a lot different than recreational activities where the only incentive is to have fun. There is an incentive to _not_ improve at a recreational activity and outpace your friends.
The original intent I do believe was not separating the hammers per se, but also helping the hands alternate, so they would naturally not jam as much.

However, I use a Dvorak layout and my hands feel like they alternate better on that due to the vowels being all on one hand. The letters are also in more sensical locations, at least for English writing.

It can get annoying when G and C are next to each other, and M and W, but most of the time I type faster on Dvorak than I ever did on Qwerty. It helps that I learned during a time where I used qwerty at work and Dvorak at home, so the mental switch only takes a few seconds now.
Outside of some restaurants in South Korea, we generally only eat dead animals.
Where did you find the video that demonstrates a PoC exploit? It doesn't seem to be the YouTube video embedded in the article.
Yup avoid the fizzy stuff. And also I've noticed in the US that the salad dressings can have noticeable sugar content.
15 years in the making - incredible effort guys.

Will we have to wait another 15 years for the ZX Spectrum version? :)
Really not sure what to make of this: https://bitkey.build/screens-are-not-a-panacea/

The security model seems to be that the hardware device essentially acts as a confirmation button for all operations prepared on the server...?

That seems like a pretty big step down from trusted channel based solutions that can actually achieve "what you see is what you sign". I don't see why the proposed improvements couldn't be just that: Improvements to a secure input/output device, not replacements of one.
Dithering would be an actual technical technique with a similar end effect, but it's not about adding grain per se, nor is this made through dithering.

And I think the guy looks for a design term for the visual style (similar to how we say "flat", "skeuomorphic", "italian style"), not the technical name of how it can be achieved, anyway.

For that, I'd say, both the geometrical shapes in his design and the added grain, bring to mind the so-called "memphis style".
The reason we use qwerty on a smartphone is extremely straightforward: people tend to know where to look for the keys already, so it's easy to adopt to even though it's not "efficient". We know it better than we know the positions of letters in the alphabet. You can easily see the difference if you're ever presented with an onscreen keyboard that's in alphabetical order instead of qwerty (TVs do this a lot, for some reason, and it's a different physical input method but alpha order really does make you have to stop and hunt). It slows you down quite a bit.
Just how many lives does Sundar have? Where is the board?
So if it's not possible to boycott an American or Israeli business, there's nothing an activist could do to manifest his support to humanity when innocent people are slaughtered inside their houses by savages?
Microsoft will be the leader in AI with or without OpenAI. Mark my words, you can take that to the bank. Come back to this post in 5 years, you'll see I predicted the future.
I recently came across https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace

Super impressive tracker and emulator for many different 8 bit synth chips.

As a personal project I'm also embarking on a 4x AY-3-8910 chip synth all hooked up to as esp32-s3 for usb midi
Have a look at the unionization rates in the Nordics. Taken together with the Nordic model: what do you think is going to matter more?

Or actually, let’s turn it around: do you think attacking the interests of a large portion of the working population is going to strengthen or weaken the Tesla brand?
> upgradeable VRAM

Consumer class GPUs don't have a lot of flexibility regarding VRAM size or type. GPUs have highly optimized, integrated memory controllers that are designed to use one or only a small number of distinct VRAM capacities and types. Enterprise class GPUs do have more options wrt VRAM, but it's still not a free-for-all like typical desktop/server RAM configurations.

I suppose one can imagine this changing in the future, but the memory controller complexity and costs (die area, power consumption, etc.) would need to be greatly increased.
>So why did they all sign the letter threatening to quit?

I probably wouldn't in an employment situation where it could come back to bite me. But lots of people sign, virtually or otherwise, petitions in the heat of the moment because emotions or it's just the path of least resistance. And "at current compensation levels" wasn't a contractual promise and would probably have had plenty of strings attached.
In Singaporean/Malaysian English, takeaway is any one of "da bao" (from Mandarin 打包, lit. "put in a packet"), "bungkus" (from Malay, "wrap") or straight up "packet". Because that's what's happening: the hawker prepares the meal and wraps it up in wax paper or a plastic bag instead of serving it on a plate.
Wow. I'm still about 4 years away from the 30th anniversary of the first web page I ever created. Unfortunately I don't have it anymore.
Noam Chomsky has been wrong on absolutely everything else he has ever done, so idk?
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I think people really overweigh k-12 on outcomes anyhow. Thats never the difference maker, what you specialize in college certainly can be though. And you can be sure that the child of a wealthy person will be going to college no matter where they go.
One way to solve this problem is Key Transparency, which aims to provides a mechanism to verify that you're receiving a legitimate key, somewhat analogous to Certificate Transparency.

We've implemented this at Proton: https://proton.me/support/key-transparency (although it's still in beta, and opt-in for now - but obviously the aim is to enable it by default).

There's also a (relatively new) working group at the IETF, to work on standardizing (a version of) this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/keytrans/about/.
> What does it give you that Wireguard doesn't

Less battery life on your iPhone. :)

I have both in my home network and love both.

At work, I have used Tailscale in my Kubernetes clusters to allow devs to get into the private subnets, so that is awesome, and way better than trying to give a group wireguard key pairs.
Everything else aside - in what world is Sam Altman “more effective” than Zuck? How do you even define effective?
Do you believe everything verbatim that companies tell you in advertising?
If I listen to a podcast on let's say, algorithms.

They discuss an algorithm I'm currently working on and some research papers on said algorithms.

If I didn't know about those research papers I now have more knowledge than I had before and can improve more than someone who didn't have said knowledge.

Replace algorithm with framework, design pattern, type of software etc...

It alone doesn't make you better just like reading a boom wouldn't make you a better software developer. Actually absorbing the information and using it to improve would.

The same can be said for every single one of the fields you mentioned.

Sharing knowledge using spoken word is no different from sharing knowledge using any other media.
Every Monday morning - since 2006:

https://rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
Now you have two problems.

(I say this in jest, as a PGP user)
Reading down the thread they mention connecting to it over USB... the first iPods only talked Firewire didn't they? I had the 3rd gen (the odd-man-out design with the separate row of touch sensitive buttons above the wheel) and I distinctly remember the USB connection being a new and significant thing on that model.
> While this specification does not dictate the structure, or impose any requirements, on the shape, format, and content of the payload it does offer recommendations

Too loose to be a standard but better than nothing.
> The reason I believe it's the highest ROI activity is because I keep on suggesting it to people and most people think it's a great idea and then they don't do it.

There is nothing in this sentence to suggest anything about the ROI of this activity, except your 1-person opinion. Maybe it's a high ROI activity, maybe it isn't, but we'll never know if people never do it.

Maybe people are able to get jobs without it, or do it and just never tell you?
Google's Gemini Looks Remarkable, but It's Still Behind OpenAI
Hey, thanks for sharing your perspective! While I do agree with your point to some extent, I somewhat disagree because product analytcs are usually a non-invasive way to actually improve the product for the customer, whereas most people use adblockers to block invasive things such as popups, ads etc.
For more details about how the video was created, see this blog post: https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/how-its-made-gemin...
Huh, I also recognize that tune from a dj set. Going out on a limb here, but is the one you have in mind The Outrunners at Razzmatazz? It would have been on the VALERIE blog in 2009ish. Here's a link:

https://www.mixcloud.com/pierre-de-la-touche/the-outrunners-...
Streamlit is a great. Despite the fact that we are both Python-focused, the use cases for the two products are mostly different at the moment. When it comes to triggering tasks/actions, updating databases, processing data, and talking to APIs, you’ll find Dropbase the more convenient of the two.
I love it. I never tried any summary website but it's phenomenal. What technology do you use?
This programmatic approach to drawing shapes is very familiar to anyone whose made custom controls for desktop applications (think Quartz/Cocoa and Cairo/GTK). I think you could use this approach when building a website and avoid much of CSS and HTML.
Biased in which direction?

Because I've heard complaints from both ends of the spectrum for many years.

And where are you from, yourself? The UK?
For me, a lot of the motive of larger personal projects came from a delusion they'd one day become big public things run by a foundation with a board of directors and a DevOps guy and code reviews.

Once the delusion faded and I realized that was Probably Not Happening, the number of projects that held my attention went down about 75%
I'm a software engineer, and I more or less stopped asking ChatGPT for stuff that isn't mainstream. It just hallucinates answers and invents config file options or language constructs. Google will maybe not find it, or give you an occasional outdated result, but it rarely happens that it just finds stuff that's flat out wrong (in technology at least).

For mainstream stuff on the other hand ChatGPT is great. And I'm sure that Gemini will be even better.
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AY emulation exists in https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace
Yep. We have enough money to make the workers to live a bit better, if only the elites could loosen their assets coffer a bit

They can't even just let the workers to enjoy wfh a bit
>What does it give you that Wireguard doesn't (or OpenVPN)? Just easier to configure + setup + a nice UI? Just making sure I'm not missing something, not trying to knock Tailscale.

I personally haven't deployed it though I've toyed with it, but I think as well as UI and integrations a core topology differentiator is that, like Nebula, Tailscale does/can do meshing. Plain vanilla Wireguard is pure classic hub-and-spoke, which is 100% fine for a basic VPN use case like "I'm out somewhere on the WAN and want to talk to this LAN stuff" or "I want to tunnel some/all my traffic through some specific alternate exit".

But say you've got main site A which has a public static IP and is where support is for administrating others, site B which has a full backup server but no public IP, and then sites C/D/E/etc where people are doing work and having significant on-site storage and comms needs, all of which are behind typical ISP NAT from multiple different ISPs with no static IPs. Everyone wants to be able to do high bandwidth things like video chat directly together, or back up/restore to site B. Plain WG could do that, but would funnel it all through site A's link which isn't very scalable and likely to become a choke point in a hurry. A meshing VPN can let two private sites talk directly with a public address only serving to facilitate hole punching and setting up the connection each time. It's definitely of real value. Another thing would be not bandwidth but latency. If you're within a few hundred miles on land that probably is irrelevant. But if different sites/people are across continents adding an unnecessary extra hop may become a very big deal even for simple web apps. Resiliency also enters the equation, what if site A goes down? A mesh can help with those too.

Then Tailscale adds a lot of cool QoL on top. Meshing does raise new challenges in terms of access control vs when everything is funneled through a single convenient point. But regardless, other topologies can be of basic interest too even without extra sugar.
I’m not a shipping expert by any means but if any country in the world would have a shipping route to it, surely it would be China no?

They manufacture basically everything and export a ton
> However because it’s so easy to fix this is not an issue and it doesn’t slow me down at all.

But that's a different issue than LLM hallucinations.

With Swype, you already know what the correct output looks like. If the output doesn't match what you wanted, you immediately understand and fix it.

When you ask an LLM a question, you don't necessarily know the right answer. If the output looks confident enough, people take it as the truth. Outside of experimenting and testing, people aren't using LLMs to ask questions for which they already know the correct answer.
Windows was running on smartphones back in 2002.

The failure of Windows Mobile, and later Windows phone, had little to do with being "slow."
The whole launch is cocky. Bleh. Stick to the engineering.
I heard an AYCE story from a cruise ship between Finland and Sweden. Someone at a table of Germans (a rep for cheepnis) was seen tipping food from their plate into a handbag, obv for later consumption. So a waitress comes by and says "oh you'll want milk with that" and pours milk into the loaded bag.
There’s no such thing as bad publicity only applies to people and companies that know how to spin it.

Reading the comments of all these disillusioned developers, it’s already damaged them because now smart people will be extra dubious when Google starts making claims.

They just made it harder for themselves to convince developers to even try their APIs, let alone bet on them.

This was stupid.
What about divination? Water wishing? Human sacrifice? All practice for a long time to no effect. People are highly superstitious and rarely logical.
I don't think I agree with this at all. I can see how you would have this impression with something like a video game or I guess public speaking where maybe a lot of people do it un-seriously and you can be better than most with some intentional effort. It's weird to choose a super mass market game like Overwatch to make that point though, if you were in the 95th percentile of Starcraft players, that would truly be something, since the skill ceiling is MILES high.

For anything with a physical component I think this whole thing falls apart completely. For something like weightlifting the 95% percentile for men is around 160kg or ~352lbs. Going from sedentary to that lift could take years of effort. Musical performance is similarly something where the effort to do anything at all is quite large.
I knew immediately this was just overhyped PR when I noticed the author of the blogpost is Sundar.
There's a shortage of photos that have a 50 year history in the field. By using this image you can compare directly to the 1973/4 paper. Using some other stock photo won't let you do that.

This is ignoring that the photo itself is completely innocuous. People who complain about the Lena photo, I suspect that 99.9% of them have absolutely no problem with AOC's appearance at the Met Gala in her Eat Mor Chikin dress. Which, from a perspective of propriety, there is no possible differentiation from the Lena photo. Their complaint has to do with the photo's origins, not with the photo itself. And, sorry, but the world isn't ruled by the pearl clutchers on their fainting couches.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/met-gala/...
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Well, restaurants, even on the high end, are increasingly getting louder and less comfortable. I thought that I was just getting older, but it's a real thing [0]. My favorite bars are the ones that are comfortable and don't blast your ears off with music.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-r... [0]
normies use encrypted communication way more than the cumulative historical usage of GPG or PGP; Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, and now Facebook messenger all offer better privacy for the average person than GPG or PGP ever did, and are used by orders of magnitude more people.
I don't agree with the argument that "if a human can fail in this way, we should overlook this failing in our tooling as well." Because of course that's what LLMs are, tools, like any other piece of software.

If a tool is broken, you seek to fix it. You don't just say "ah yeah it's a broken tool, but it's better than nothing!"

All these LLM releases are amazing pieces of technology and the progress lately is incredible. But don't rag on people critiquing it, how else will it get better? Certainly not by accepting its failings and overlooking them.
Lying implies an intent to deceive despite, or giving a response despite having better knowledge, which I'd argue LLMs can't do, at least not yet. It just requires a more robust theory of mind than I'd consider them to realistically be capable of.

They might have been trained/prompted with misinformation, but then it's the people doing the training/prompting who are lying, still not the LLM.
I got to top 10% of Trackmania players (extremely competitive) just by watching Wirtual’s streams. Couple of advices (and learning to implement them) were worth more than hours of (bad) grinding.

And he is „only” in like 99,9th percentile in time trials, not even competing in top tournaments.
Jets 5 was just released also https://blog.boltops.com/2023/12/05/jets-5-improvements-galo...
Really, we're still only hearing two sides of the story. I for one will wait for the Critique Critique Critique. Though really, ...
No, not at all, as I would not be interested in replicating the exact experience as it was but have a better experience with a huge CRT instead.

I actually think the CRT hype is also not worth it but I at least can get behind that because its really a different and old school look. I think they cause more eye strain right? Just technically its good for different resolutions because modern screens should always run native res only. But again emulators can do so much more and have modern up-scaling techniques that make things look good so I think its a waste of money. To pay 300+ for some tiny screen that has nothing special to offer.
The appeal is eating little bits of lots of different things. I order the same way at restaurants - almost always multiple small dishes and rarely an entrée. If so, it's shared.

Also, having been to some high end buffets, these can sometimes be disappointing but they can also be truly amazing. I ate at a seafood buffet at a fancy hotel in Guangzhou once that blew my mind.
What's Happening with Feast?
Counting their bonusses?
There haven't been contributions to the repo in over a week. I saw a few days ago that Tecton posted to their site that they were looking for a new maintainer, but that message is gone now. Does anyone have an idea? Is this project dead?