skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have almost never ever heard a thoughtful person blame God, nor even say he has any sway at all.

I'm drawing from a Catholic/Lutheran upbringing from decades ago, but the verbiage is never "this is God's fault," it is kinder euphemisms like "this is God's plan" or "God is testing us."

You're expected to endure whatever it is, not react to it. Whatever it is that you're going through was always supposed to happen, so keep marching onward, Christian soldier, out of faith that God will guide you out of this and that there will be cake at the end of the trial.

> They wouldn't blame anything on God IMO, but if they did, they would be very clear that the reaction to the problems is 100% on you.

Well, Catholics lean this way I guess, but what I remember was more shaming people for being bad adherents to the faith, not so much grandma died because you touch yourself. She was always going to die when she did because God willed it.
This (common) misconstrual of censorship is disingenuous. Scott Alexander proposed a better definition of censorship than "something somebody wants to keep secret": "something that somebody wants to share, and somebody else wants to consume, but a third party wants to suppress".
That's correct. LLMs are plausible sentence generators, they don't "understand"* their runtime environment (or any of their other input) and they're not qualified to answer your questions. The companies providing these LLMs to users will typically provide a qualification along these lines, because LLMs tend to make up ("hallucinate", in the industry vernacular) outputs that are plausibly similar to the input text, even if they are wildly and obviously wrong and complete nonsense to boot.

Obviously, people find some value in some output of some LLMs. I've enjoyed the coding autocomplete stuff we have at work, it's helpful and fun. But "it's not qualified to answer my questions" is still true, even if it occasionally does something interesting or useful anyway.

*- this is a complicated term with a lot of baggage, but fortunately for the length of this comment, I don't think that any sense of it applies here. An LLM doesn't understand its training set any more than the mnemonic "ETA ONIS"** understands the English language.

**- a vaguely name-shaped presentation of the most common letters in the English language, in descending order. Useful if you need to remember those for some reason like guessing a substitution cypher.
At least in Washington state, that's a maybe.

RCW 50.20.050 (https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=50.20.050) says you can even quit and get unemployment if among several other items:

> (vii) The claimant's worksite changed, such change caused a material increase in distance or difficulty of travel, and, after the change, the commute was greater than is customary for workers in the claimant's job classification and labor market;
Maybe McNab, Rodger J. And Smith, Lloyd A. this from 2000
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/1293

And from 1998 Melody based tune retrieval over the World Wide Web
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/1062
I also get this feeling. The demo videos feel heavily edited and fabricated rather than actual demos.
Because even paying for the ad free service, you don't get a copy to play offline. Most of the time the performance I get from Paramount streaming is awful. Everything just works better when I stream from the server on my local network.

I also don't have to worry about my favorite shows disappearing from the service on a whim. The files on my server will always be available to me.
Oxide Computer Company taking the moment to gloat: https://twitter.com/oxidecomputer/status/1732513396401012915

> Looks like we picked the right day to not have UEFI -- or a BIOS for that matter
Point taken. The other half of the comment stands either way.
Unlike most people would expect, scales lie under the epidermis. They are covered by a thin skin and mucus. The scale in itself is made of collagen and minerals so it has some nutritional value

This kind of fishes can take also a small chunk of the dermis or even the muscle.

The most interesting predatory strategy evolved in African lake cichlids is the "zombie fish". There are species of big fishes that lie motionless in the bottom over one side as if they were dead, they have irregular white patches in the corpse mimicking wounds. When other fishes came attracted by what looks like an easy meal, the corpse came to life again and strike
relative socioeconomic equality is not a necessary condition of safety, see: singapore
Actually, progress looks like it's been very steady. You're right regarding inductive-style proofs, but the ones for _all_ natural numbers greater than a certain value came surprisingly late. There appear to have been many more oscillators with periods of x + yn (for constant x and y, any natural number n).

In 1996 there was a paper showing that it was possible to use a particular family of patterns called "Herschel loops" to create oscillators of any period >= 61. From there, the only missing oscillators were 17, 19, 22, 23, 27, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, and 41, 49, 51, 53, 57, and 59.

There were gradual discoveries of new oscillators over the next several years, then in 2013 there was another pattern discovered which lowered that upper bound to >= 43.

At this point, there were only five oscillators missing: 23, 34, 38, 19, and 41. There appear to have been a few years where progress stalled; 23 was found in 2019, and then the last four were found over the course of these past couple years.
I just press button to get better than Starbucks coffee for literally 0.35$ (premium coffee beans). Modern automatic coffee machine take really no effort. My De'Longhi Primadonna S Evo made 2094 coffees in last 4 years.
I remember they and other vendors used to use a connector called MXM[1] for their graphics cards, as an attempt to create an industry standard. It looked promising, but seems to have fallen out of favor since then. I don't thing any ne GPU's have been released using MXM since 2019

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module
yeah, I saw the same thing in Safari. It's "fixed" after I click on the X button close card, and click the card to reopen.
That's a very obtuse take. Plenty of modern software follows this model; updates for locally installed software is hardly rocket science. I work with a vendor that provides shipping rate software which requires updates at least weekly. Still locally installed and licensed.
Taxes on packaging, similar to the e-waste model to push the external costs back onto the manufacturer and force them to build it into the retail price.

Allow manufacturers and retailers to avoid it by participating in bottle-return-deposit style recycling schemes.

We need to make selling the disposable part of consumables expensive.
UK voted to leave the European Union. UK remains in Europe Continent obviously.
The problem is that the kind of person who's going to be able to get the funding and take this sort of risk is pretty much always the sort to bring dangerous new to tech into the fore. I wish it wasn't that way, but I think it's naive to think that the scope of the risk somehow changes human nature.

It's the Great Filter, if not this, then something else.
If you buy socks, buy Stance brand. Super solid. I do not have any other advice unfortunately.
It's just true. Remember when Apple launched HealthKit with alcohol tracking and no period tracking? Tell me how that release could pass months of development and management without anyone thinking about it once.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/25/6844021/apple-promised-an...
Compiler Adventures
Brewing standard espresso for a few years now, I can see how it's a completely different value proposition.

They'll probably want to grind their own beans as well, and while the results are far far tastier, it's also a whole ceremony with finicky adjustements. There's that weird pressure telling to not be lazy and settle on worse pre-grind stuff, but thing is people are actually lazy so it becomes a friction point.

A fully automated machine solves that issue, but then they're huge, expensive, you're stuck with one variety of coffee at a time and any part that breaks means you repair the whole thing.
Show HN: Learniverse – AI powered personal learning revolution
Saw this on product hunt. I think it's definitely something that AI stands out - using it to generate personalized learning courses.
> you can certainly see the sentiment frequently expressed on HN that the rise of NoSQL and of ORM's is a direct result of otherwise capable programmers not wanting to deal with SQL and its conceptual building blocks such as joins

I think I saw that sentiment a lot 5+ years ago. The last 2-3 years have been a lot more for postgresql and writing SQL directly.

Either way I don't think that "excellent coders" "despise" learning SQL, almost every senior coder that has interacted with a medium-to-large database has understood and valued SQL in my experience.
The procedure is called Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde in Germany, and is generally possible if the claim exceeds 20,000 EUR according to § 544 ZPO [1]. At the BGH (highest civil court), the success rate is surprisingly high, less than 5% rejections in 2022 [2]. After a successful Nichtzulassungsbeschwerde you still have to win the case, and only legal arguments will be considered by the court, i.e. you cannot enter facts not already discussed in the lower instance, introduce new witnesses etc.

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/ZPO/544.html

[2] https://www.rak-bgh.de/statistik-und-materialien/
Thanks, that was really informative.
Kelsey is kind, thoughtful, and never puts another person down, I would say empathy is his best skill.

He also shares what he has learned for free, rather than putting paywalls in front of his content, which is quite rare these days.
digital ownership is the wrong way to put that. This is digital leasing/licensing. The real crime is the false advertising where they say you are buying a copy of something, or even the licensing rights to view it. You are really buying the licensing rights to view it on their platform if they feel like it.
Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
> OpenAI doesn't have an overwhelming superiority in quality in the same way Google once did

The comparison is between a useful shipping product available to everyone for a full year vs a tech demo of an extremely limited release to privileged customers.

There are millions of people for whom OpenAI's products are broadly useful, and the specifics of where they fall short compared to Gemini are irrelevant here, because Google isn't offering anything comparable that can be tested.
Andrew Kelley of Zig fame did an excellent talk on this very subject: https://vimeo.com/649009599

Strongly recommended viewing if you are interested in understanding why DoD is a big deal for performant applications (hint: it's about the cache).
If you don't live in Japan, use your US passport to enter/exit Japan and only carry that passport with you. They might be able to see that you also have Japanese citizenship, but they won't be able to take your Japanese passport if you don't have it.

If you fly from the US to Japan and show a Japanese passport, your chances of getting caught are much higher - all they have to do is ask why you don't have a US visa stamp in your Japanese passport.
Felt.dev is any easy way to write flutter desktop apps with Python

I looked at alternatives like tkinter and it was the most compelling
Not sure why people are impressed with this. For context, they are only slightly beating GPT4 marginally on some tasks but GPT4 was trained almost 10 months ago
I thought of that, really. It's funny how the author dances around that never mentioning what it was about.
That's interesting, because I have no issues with imported wheat, or imported soy sauce, etc.

YMMV. The only foods that cause me issues are foods made with US-grown grains, and I've had negative allergy tests for every grain-related immune reaction.

Ochratoxin A is a carcinogen, a mold that regularly contaminates grains, and there's no legal limit in the US whatsoever. That's insane to me.

(edit: feel free to `sed s/very likely/possible/`)
And heavily discussed then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38506660
Agree about the local models. I am very excited to see google assistant updates with the local models
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> So, are video-files of 2D images technically 3D then?

Video files are a linked list of 2D images.

> and time-based volumetric recording of 3D video-games are 4D?

Kind of, but it would be an oversimplification. Typically when we refer to the dimensionality of objects, we're referring to physical dimensions. Time is a temporal dimension. I think it would be more specific to say this is a linked list of 3-dimensional images, right?
Single-user instances, maybe not. But running a Mastodon instance for a couple of thousand people is a lot more resource intensive than running a blog or a XMPP server for the same amount of users.
You're welcome, was hoping it could help others. For what it's worth, I did have an above-average exposure to environmental mold growing up; that may contribute to creating a sensitivity in some people.
I don't really see how IBM would ever be able to monetize something like Deep Blue. It was a research project that was understood to not be a money-maker (outside of PR, probably), and it resulted in highly specialized hardware running highly specialized software, working for its one purpose. I agree that their business model and catering to big business first is what likely led to them scaling down today, but it's still disconnected from Deep Blue.
The Free Market™ has very much decided it doesn't care whether a website is accessible with JavaScript disabled.
There are drip machines that will make one cup and even if you had the roaster grind the beans for you, it would probably be far, far better than anything you can get for a Keurig.
Exactly, a decent moka pot will brew pretty good coffee for just the cost of water, heating, and the coffee itself. Cleaning is easy, and they'll last generations in a family.

Coffee pods are expensive, wasteful, and not even that tasty...
> Related ship back during the nuclear tech boom

To be clear, the NS Savannah was a showpiece. It was part passenger, part freight in a way that made no economic sense but looked fantastic and showed the concept could work. It ultimately failed because it had to bear the brunt of port negotiations. But that's a policy hurdle.
I wasnt aware of this wifi blob. This feeds a tiny paranoia I have at the back of my head when dealing with esp32/espressif. I have dozens of esp32s around and I love them, but Espressif is 100% Chinese.

Im uncomfortable with what I read that every company of significant size in China automatically requires CCP party members to be involved in the company at a high level.

So Im very happy to hear people such as these guys are looking deep at this.

Ofcourse since Espressif controls the hardware, so they can do anything eventually. My itch will always be there and Im going to switch once I find something made in preferably the EU when I find something comparable to esp32. Maybe Nordic Semiconductors will make some nice risk-v chips and dev-boards soon.
Then there is product placement like in ET or back to the future!

Who didn't want to eat Reese's pieces, drink a Pepsi free or tab, or buy a Toyota or pair of Nikes.
Safer, Not Later
this being the Internet age, someone's gotta have built a lithium ion bomb intentionally and detonated it somewhere safe
Not fraud, never have. But to see what is coming out about how endemic and deep the censorship and bias was, I would say a lot of voters were manipulated by big tech, government, and media, and I wonder how they would vote now knowing this, but I guess we are seeing some of that with Biden's approval numbers.
I love this. Having this run while over a video of diner get together would be hilarious.
I think people will continue to value human-made paintings much like we still value human-played chess games.
Well it’s kind of misleading, because GitHub has kind of a following for their product named Copilot.

I think renaming it would benefit everyone.
(the result is that it's quite feasible to update to new JVMs and to support multiple at once)
so we will need to learn to read gzip (and other compressed binary formats) as if they were not compressed

this is also related to how 2 hour long movies will diminish into a niche... and movies of the future will be more like [0]

this observation is on the same trend as operas; which way back would last all evening (over 3 hours was typical)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Asx_XhPH80
Afaict, Windows Phone mostly failed because of timing. In the same way that XBox mostly succeeded because of timing. (In the sense that timing dominated the huge amount of excellent work that went into both)

Microsoft is a decent physical product company... they've usually just missed on the strategic timing part.
> Why not?

Because the common person expects content and content creators to be surfaced for them. Which Mastodon instance provides this for the larger fediverse?

> The only thing the fediverse lacks that Twitter really provided was the starfucking celebrity culture.

Well, that and the other millions of regular people that are just hanging out and posting on Twitter. I'd love to see them come to Mastodon but they have no incentive.
Use a moka pot instead, it's also a pressure system. And probably much better at it than the cheap electronics of a Nespresso.
Not sure on specific numbers but based on the picture he posted of it in a can he would have probably done better with metal netting from a window screen or metal chicken wire it destroys wifi signal pretty damn effectively
Is there or is there not a chat interface or will this just replace bard or be bard’s backend?
>> It is still baffling that root is so shunned upon in the Android communities.

I haven't seen this personally (not saying it isn't a thing to be clear, just I haven't seen it).

My major issue is that for some reason there are carriers in the US that seem to think a user having control over their own device is something to frown on. I get the potential support and warrently nightmare involved but on the other hand it's not a super easy process that one would do accidentally.
960 comments is a lot! I created a SmartChat™ where you can get a summary (or anything else) of the comments: https://go.storytell.ai/hn-geminiai and here's a summary output example: https://s.drod.io/Jrum2mQK -- hope that's helpful.
Awesome! The host there is a friend and people consistently report having a lovely time. If you're into game dev, Freya Holmér [0] has been known to attend these sometimes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@Acegikmo
Switch is very good about this actually. My son's Switch hasn't connected to wifi since he got it, and still runs swimmingly. PS and XBox, however, are very different beasts. Often, when a new system update comes out, certain features are blocked until the update is installed. Similarly, you can buy a new game on a physical disc, and find that it requires a minimum OS version, forcing you, once again, to go online just to play the darn game.
A simple REST API with a static token auth like OpenAI API would help. Previously when I tried Bard API it was refusing to accept token auth, requiring that terrible oauth flow so I gave up.
They're talking about DeepMind specifically.
True, but that has a long history. It used to be even more blatant in fact, with characters commenting on how smooth the taste of Lucky Strike cigarettes were in the 1950s.
but i think there's some requirements in FIPS that are really just checkbox rather than actual security. I suppose it's easier to have a list of checkboxes to tick from a compliance perspective.
superautomatics provide similar benefits with less environmental impact.

Unfortunately, most people prefer the lower up-front cost and higher operational cost of a Keurig or a Nespresso to the higher up-front cost and lower operational cost of a superauto.
Thanks for the comment. We get this question often, and our most common answer is that our customers tried to solve their mapping problems using OpenAI calls. After it did not yield the expected reliability, consistency, and scalability results, they ended up onboarding to Lume.
We’ve put extensive work into the overall engine (and the underlying AI) to the point where customers have seen it as a significant value add over their attempts at leveraging OpenAI directly.
Amazing video. It’s like one can see the universe thinking in real time.
The issue with new premium tech is that you can't over-the-top existing ecosystems (Android, iOS).

It's difficult to compete with an excellent product if whether you have a blue bubble in iMessage is more important.
It seems Wolfram Alpha appropriately excludes March 11th for the math folks (e.g. kind of like SQL BETWEEN, syntax convenience, etc) and Bard appropriately includes January 11th and March 11th, as that is how it would be commonly interpreted.

Edit: or not, March 11th is not a weekday. Though I count 43 weekdays including Jan 11th, so perhaps Wolfram is using an open interval while bard is using a closed interval.
There's no winning a war against dust. But people still spend a lot of time cleaning.

The fight may not be winnable, but if you give up on the pushing back, things will get worse much faster.
The limitations of the paper is more so maximum number of workers than minimum. It'd be pretty neat to get something that could work across 100+ distributed workers well.
If the product doesn't list some form of dB loss (at at least 1 frequency) I assume it's more or less just a standard box. Sometimes that'll be right, sometimes it won't. Some of it comes down to how you use the box as well. If you're feeding un-isolated power in via a big hole in the back then it doesn't really matter how perfect the front is at blocking signals.

I'm surprised their paint can only gave them a 10 dB difference. I've found simply wrapping things in aluminum foil is good for about 40 dB when it comes to Wi-Fi.
Open-Source Cola (GPL)
All I can say is that Signal uses more battery than any other app on my phone. Since my Pixel 7a's last complete charge 3 days ago, Signal has been in the foreground for only 2 hours, but it has been running in the background the entire time.
well yeah, he is a famous prson and he never stops getting himself in the spot light. Personally, I like a lot of what he has done from a business perspective, I'd love it if he'd shut up though.
I was recently appaled by the text editing exprience in gmail... but this is what I get for not using chrome.... clearly I'm doing it wrong

lagging input, the cursor would skip to seemingly random places as I tried to navigate with keyboard arrow keys; but that is what I get for using a keyboard instead of a touch input device
But without CUDA it’s gotta be DOA no? CUDA is what makes Nvidia’s hardware valuable. AMD should finance a competitor. They’ve had strong hardware but it’s the software that’s hurting them from what I’ve seen.