skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For that to be true you'd have to be reading text at 2000 WPM and retaining as much information as you would from watching a video at 200 WPM. That would imply reading the average New Yorker article (~6000 words) in 3 minutes. Count me skeptical.

Generally anything over 700 WPM is considered skimming, not reading. There's very little evidence that anyone can read above 1000 WPM without severe loss of comprehension, except in the top percentiles of competitive speed readers. Even they are only achieving 50-60% comprehension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
The Sessions Panel – Vivaldi Browser Update
Just like many cancers, the cancerous cells spread and destroy vital organs.

Yes they can be removed, but if the cancer has already spread then it may be too late.
I'm very curious about IMS - a mentor described it as a graph database of sorts back in its day. I was told it was a great system (at least for its time). Does anyone have a perspective?
Start simple. Things that are trivial to store for long term and easy to reheat would be soup, chili, taco prep, pasta.

Meal prep doesn't necessarily mean 100% completed ahead of time either. For me, I have a perpetual frozen store of taco meat (1 frozen portion per meal), but I still have to toast up the shells fresh each time and occasionally cycle in a new bowl of beans, which lasts 2-3 days per in the fridge. Frozen portions you can bet on for ~90 days minimum in a typical consumer side-by-side before freezer burn and defrost cycle starts to take hold. If you have a proper deep freeze arrangement, many things will last indefinitely.
Oh wow, I can’t believe that was seven years ago! I never got around to interviewing my mom about programming mainframes with Michigan Algorithm Decoder:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097032
This is an interesting point. If I were conducting layoffs, the seemingly extra things like open source contributions, may be the first to go.
OK, in this theory of computational bounds in nature, how did the universe arise?
They gave up the power to forcibly allow abortions. The "government" doesn't operate as a monolith, the executive branch now cannot universally do pro-choice related things.
Not sure if they sell it outside of EU, but Keenetic is absolutely awesome. Been using their routers for a while, have a wifi mesh configured in my home built on their devices.

https://keenetic.com/en
The sunflower oil stuff is shifting a bit due to the war in Ukraine, which is one of the largest producers in the world.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/body-armor-blocked-ports-...
Hardness is literally a monetary quality, its a moneys resistance to inflation. If the Zimbabwean dollar were to gain value it would be immediately printed into oblivion, exploited for all its worth. The same does go for basically every cryptocurrency, bitcoin is the only one whos total supply is fixed, reliably. Your ignorance of these monetary qualities and what role they play does not make it a vapid arguement.
Ask HN: What are some companies that have launched a RAG system into production?
I'm putting a presentation about RAG systems right now, and I'd like to be able to point to a number of companies that are built and are currently running RAG systems in production.
Of course it's in development, but if I'm right that ML cannot solve this problem then a lot of that development is wasted.

My point is that in the long run, Tesla cannot solve the ML edge cases by having a human available to take over at a split second notice.
Thoughts and Prayers Won't Cut It
Incredibly impactful and disturbing.
Very true, and I do not self-host my mail for that exact reason!
With the current competency or state of the models today, both are necessary, nobody is denying that.

It doesn't take a genius however to see who the more valuable contributor to the system is. The authors say as much when they anticipate much of any improvement to come from capabilities of better models than any change to the search algorithm. Gpt-4 may well have reduced the search time by half and so on.

>But the value the LLM is bringing is that it knows how to produce reasonable-looking programs, not that it has some special understanding of bin packing or capset finding.

So it is a general problem solver then, great. That's what we want.
Patent licenses: The AI patent war cometh
>How fast would this little monarchy fall apart?

I suppose it depends on the collapse scenarios it's designed to protect against. In a nuclear war, I doubt they'll be many left outside to challenge their little monarchy.
This issue exists in some fonts and not others; ie Sans Serif fonts are horrible for legibility
You could get extensions working on FF for Android, for some time now, by setting a custom collection ID, allowed in the Beta version.

The problem is that many extensions have been incompatible with Android. And of those compatible, many have poor UX. For example, LeechBlock has been compatible and listed as available for some time, but its settings page isn't mobile-friendly. And LeechBlock can't restore settings from “sync storage”, you have to load them from a local file (on mobile, having local files is a challenge in itself). Many people may have a bad experience.

On the other hand, extensions are the primary reason to use Firefox on Android. Therefore, I'm glad about this news.
Ok so that's no "AI" that currently exists then.
DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem
Distilling all the explanations, the answer is simple.

When you're limited to one case, all-uppercase has a long history and we're used to reading everything from headlines and titles to telegrams and stone inscriptions in uppercase. It's natural, we're used to it, and uppercase came first historically anyways.

Whereas all-lowercase isn't really a thing historically. You see some trendy logos or ads that use all-lowercase, but that's a pretty new thing. (Well, and then maybe back to e.e. Cummings for poetic effect?)

At the end of the day, it's frequent to encounter text in all-caps, it's rare to encounter it in all-lowercase. So that's why.
If you expect 100% and you’re making business decisions based on that expectation, I encourage you to increase your sophistication about reliability before it costs you a great deal of money.
The change in Oreos has left me rather sad!

I suspect Fig Newtons are on this list. Our grocery chain puts out generic versions that taste much better!
This article misses the mark. The problem is that, for good reason, we've moved to a post-trust society. The author argues that you're a nutjob if you don't trust what large corporations are saying. He goes so far as to say it's on you to prove that they're doing something wrong.

This doesn't represent reality. Take this quote:

> A society where big companies tell blatant lies about how they are handling our data—and get away with it without consequences—is a very unhealthy society.

So, what are the consequences of lying? If there are any, I'm curious what they are. The author is arguing that "big companies" are going to do the morally correct thing even though it hurts their profit. That's just a silly argument.

In a post-trust society, companies have to prove they're doing what they say. There's no more making a statement and having the masses act as if that's what's going to happen.

Honestly, is there less than a 100% chance that down the road there will be a disclosure that there was a "mistake" where your data was used differently from what they claim? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 5,872,328 times, shame on me.
I loved Nutella for 20 years but stopped when I realized it's just a jar of palm oil full of cocoa powder, sugar, and a drop of hazelnut flavor. Might as well eat a jar of crisco.

It also makes it's price absolute bullshit, since palm oil isn't exactly expensive.
You're mostly right, but do not, under any circumstances, ask PETA.
> What’s your working environment like? - We’ve recently moved to a more “hip” location. We used to have personal desks, but now we have this “pick whatever spot is avaiable” open area. I dislike it a lot.

Somehow this resonates a lot with me even if though I've never worked on Mainframes or anything like that.
Great way to get started: Feed Your People: Big-Batch, Big-Hearted Cooking and Recipes to Gather Around https://a.co/d/bzk1f8u
That incident ended badly for anyone that had a Windows box and got 0wned. Tailscale's response was good, but my trust in the software they produce was damaged by that incident. I'm a current Tailscale user (esp with their AppleTV app), but that incident wasn't good.
The problem is calls that are never picked up, and calls that are "resolved" by telling the caller that a stolen car is no biggie, ruin these "stats".
It was certainly not in high demand
Those replies are very reassuring of my decision to nuke my account and not look back.
Intel tried with OneAPI years ago. Turns out they were decades behind, so catching up takes a while…
Range Rovers Become Thief-Magnets, Causing Prices to Tumble
There used to be a mandatory ui.com account when it came out. If they finally got rid of that nonsense, that's great news.

And yeah, looks like the v1.1 update removed it (https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-OS-Dream-Machines-1-...): "Allow to set up a console without an SSO account."

The fact that they decided to release a "Pro" product with that requirement initially still counts heavily against them: What were they thinking, and why should I trust them if they are making such decisions?
so it can be visually very small, and still kill you?

Just like an iceberg I guess...
More recent:

“KLF Kare is a multinational franchise that provides branding solutions for independently owned care homes.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/28/the-klf-care-h...
Java seems to be slowly drifting out of the sweet spot between “too basic” and “too complex”.
Proof pls
My point still stands for multiple APs.

For example, you can't set up meshing from the mobile app. Best you can do is give them all the same SSID/password, and they also have to be wired in that scenario.
Which parental controls, and how would those even work?

Back in the IE6 days I remember there was some setting to tweak allowed content ratings for websites, which I believe was based on HTTP headers, but does anyone implement that anymore (did they ever)? I just checked reddit, and they don't seem to send any headers, and use the same domains for porn as they do for child-focused content.

The obvious thing to advocate for would be to require commercial porn sites to send some kind of standardized headers that would allow parental controls to work in the first place, and/or to require any domains with content targeted to children to not also host adult-only content (e.g. reddit should put either their child-focused subs or their porn on a separate subdomain).

Then require commercial browser vendors to implement content blocking settings based on those headers.

Alternatively, it would be possible for governments to provide an oauth style service that provides tokens that assert the user is an adult without revealing any other info about the user, and then require porn sites to check for that token.
That would genuinely make a huge positive difference (though it would not, of course, fix the whole system, since the House is not the only place with problems). There's no need, in this day and age, to have the entire House of Representatives meet physically in one building.
> Who says you need to replace it? Solar, windows

Windows? So a semi-transparent layer to help isolate the farm from the elements? Kind of like a greenhouse? That thing that existed for several hundred years.

> I’m sure there’s plenty of ways to use the sun’s energy.

Solar panel to Inverter to Battery to LED lights is just a way to throw away some of that energy. Sure, you're still using it, but a LED is never as efficient as sunlight.
Can you give more detail about your self-hosted storage solution? I've wanted something like that for awhile.
Agreed. If the phrase “yeah well you could also do that with a group of moderately trained people” applies, you have a use case for an LLM.
But "asdf".indexOf("sd") is 1, so indexOf("") finds the index of the first matching subsequence "", thus 0.

In reverse, the function would be 'return the subsequence starting at index, for some length', which for "" and 0 would indeed be "" for length = 0.

Array indexing [] is unrelated
In your example, the amino acids order is sufficient to directly model the result: the sequence of amino acids can directly generate the protein, which is either valid or invalid. All variables are provided within the data.

In the original example, we are testing weather using the previous day’s weather. We may be able to model using whatever correlation exists between the data. This is not the same as accurately predicting results, if the real-world weather function is determined by the weather of surrounding locations, time of year, and moon phase. If our model does not have this data, and it is essential to model the result, how can you accurately model?

In other words: “Garbage in, garbage out”. Good luck modeling an n-th degree polynomial function, given a fraction of the variables to train on.
I mean, I certainly hope that the future is those things in places where they're practical.

There are many places where they just aren't practical—where sidewalks are useless, because the nearest thing to walk or bike to is miles away, the weather gets too inhospitable to walk or bike safely for much of the year, and the places people want to go are just too spread out for trains to be at all viable.

For those of us who choose not to live in dense urban areas, I would dearly love to see full self-driving cars someday...but given the challenges we've observed in the last few years, I'm now skeptical as to whether we'll realistically see them arrive.
Thank you to the developers and maintainers working in this space.
Why is BTC so correlated to DOGE?

Why is there such a correlation between all cryptocoins and BTC?

Methinks your definition of "hardness" isn't as important as you think it is.
But they definitely do this with sodas, occasionally bringing back the sugar formulation.
BCD Tofu is a good place to get it.
It'd be easier to just Google it.

Grievances start with "made in China" and end with firmware hacks from May of this year.

https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/check-point-research-re...
Don't forget the MBAs willing to burn it all down to juice the Q2 profits.
Very creepy. I was talking about programming and alas I com to HN and topics related to programming are ob the front page!
Are you reporting such violation? How authorities would know about it?

Also the jurisdiction is in question. Who should enforce? Country where user is? Country where domain is registered? Country where data center with servers is? Country where nominal owner of the web page is? Country where final beneficiary is? Country where creator of the banner is?
great response thank you! imagine the number of these that were just thrown out of old offices over the years!
There's long been a grey area for downloading new program logic as e.g. Javascript—the distinction between content and program can be rather fuzzy—and IIRC they made an explicit exception years back for certain categories.
Great article overall and agree with local models. If it is connected to the internet, then it is not secure, you cannot trust your data not to be slurped up somewhere.

Threat models yada yada.

I'm in love with how fast models like insanely fast whisper, ggml llama.cpp, Mixtral, YOLO v5 e.t.c have come along.

I very much predict devices in 2024+ that have powerful energy efficient GPUs and do multimodal inference locally without any connection to the internet.

I remember buying the first comma.ai pre-panding which was essentially a modded android LG phone driving the car. No connection to internet, a freaking mobile phone driving the car without any human input on the highway. That totally blew my mind.

I'm awaiting Apple to release a version of Siri that runs totally offline.

Smart phones are the perfect target.
Or how the one fire in a Tesla in Florida following a hurricane became a whole fleet of every EV in Florida spontaneously combusting. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes.
> All too often engineers spend zero time understanding the market and customers,

From my perspective the problem is that companies invest zero time in training engineers about the market and companies, and instead just treat engineers like assembly line cogs that produce business value on-demand.
From Spark to Databricks: Spark's Origins, Innovations, and What's Next
The phrase that ruled the Indian internet in 2023
This might explain my recent experience too. I've been on a health journey and stopped eating most junk some time back. Recently, I decided to go ahead and splurge and get a chocolate bar that I always used to love. It tasted like hot garbage. Whether that's because my taste buds have changed or the product did is probably debatable, but I'm thrilled it's no longer a temptation to buy it!

They ruined Cadbury Eggs years ago for me, and now "fun size" snickers too!
>We already have systems that can evaluate first order logical statements

My point isn't that a system that can evaluate first order logic can be considered to be engaging in critical thinking, it's that a system that _cannot_ evaluate some statements in first order logic should be considered inferior to humans at critical thinking.
Hard agree. Especially if you have something like the UDM/UDM-P and are managing VLAN-specific SSIDs and so forth.
Because he (and many others) are more invested in this war? That's why I care more, I didn't care about Russia/Ukraine but have far more knowledge and understanding of this one, and personal relationships.
Ukraine's top mobile operator hit by biggest cyberattack of war
This reminds me of the time managers tried to judge developer productivity based on lines of code changed. The person who ran the build script to generate the minified output for production kept winning. Mgmt was like why is this person generating 10x what you all do. #rockstardevelopers
I'm sure this is illegal and AMD should be prosecuted for it. The people who decided to implement these "security" measures should lose their jobs and/or face legal consequences for it.

If they did such a thing with car components, it would be shut down in no time. No different for computer parts.

Also a CPU that can be rendered permanently inoperable due to a software issue could be considered not fit for purpose and thus a defective product. Especially if it was intentionally designed this way - such that the CPU can self-cripple itself.

Maybe a legal firm would want to take up a class action against AMD for this potential product defect? Viruses and malware should not be able to physically destroy a CPU. There should be physical hardware protections against such destructive behaviour occurring due to a software induced logic error.

The PSP is not truly secure, someone should write a PSP eFuse bricker tool (Ryzenkill?) that can be run as a proof of concept to show the CPUs are defective, and then we can have a recall or free replacement of the CPU by AMD. I'll look into it myself - I need to ensure it's legal for me to write it from the country that I'm residing in right now. I personally have extensive experience hacking older AMD processors and GPUs through JTAG.

I'm sure it's still legal to provide a list of addresses and data writes that you need to perform to permanently brick the CPU?. I don't think that is classed as a "hacking tool". I can get t-shirts printed with it on, together with the words "AMD Ryzen CPU Self-Destruct Sequence". I don't think selling those would be illegal?
I believe its even more unrealistic to make the internet sfw / children.

While i do sympathize with the impossible difficulty of being a parent in the current decade, there is realistically no way i am going to just accept the death of the adult internet. Thats likely a common sentiment and realistically the people making these laws are too stupid to enforce them against motivated opponents with technical expertise.

I dont see a way out of this other then create a whitelisted subset for children with enforcement being the responsibility of the parents. Because going death of anonymity for access control is a no go either.

Looking on the bright side, to me this looks like just a lack of safe for children platforms that are still tolerable to use.
And yet, you don't see much about mainframes and COBOL on here ever...nor do I often have lunch conversations about it.

The timing was just interesting.
There are nicer ways to challenge the GP's argument.
There are probably laws in some country they can use to fight this, but that is a hard legal battle.
TIL about bikeshedding, thank you @[vips7L](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vips7L).
haha true, it's just that i'm trying to learn and sometimes am insecure about my methods. but thanks for the confirmation!
> Keep the lights at nominal levels during normal grid operation, and turn them up to absorb grid load.

That's a great way to light-burn the sensitive plants and to shorten the life of LED lights. There are approximately hundreds of better ways to shed grid load.
Maybe they'll bust a gang that gets together to sip one milliliter out of each of one third of the bottles at your local warehouse.
I was very sad when I bought the Switch Link's Awakening game, because it looks beautiful and plays well but the music went in a direction I really don't like. They took gritty and energizing chip tune music and replaced it with breathy, gentle wind instruments. It fits the aesthetics of the game but it's so boring.

I'll have to grab this before nintendo kills it.
You are vulnerable to the webp exploit (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863)
Google's implementation of RCS isn't very standardized or open. So far, I believe it's only available with Google's client and Google's servers.
Hyperwave: Hyper-Fast Communication Within General Relativity
By what mechanism would a universe spontaneously create a new universe? As a human, can I spontaneously create anything simpler than me?

Also, under what theory of cosmology are you operating, and how do you determine when one thing is simpler than another? Under the Big Bang theory, the very early state of the universe (e.g. prior to initial nucleosynthesis) seems simpler to me than a galaxy.