skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is being described technically, which is more useful than the non-technical description of the problem, which is "I don't know, the Zoom isn't working, and the kids can't watch their Netflix at the same time".
The earliest terminal and printer I used that supported lower case, supported lower case "without true descenders", i.e., the lower case letters had to fit in the same character cell as the upper case letters. Lower case "g", for example, was shifted up, which looked funny. Needless to say, we felt really modern and high class when we got hardware that supported "true descenders". (And of course all this was a built-in monospace font; font support was years in the future.)
Former Firefox dev for both desktop and Android here: I can definitely confirm that being constantly shit on wore me down a lot.
Yeah, they should get someone who actually architected a successful chip, like the 486. Maybe a boomerang who used to be CTO. Get rid of this beancounter and hire someone like that!!

/S
Killing in general is wrong.
>If a guy becomes famous almost exclusively for having a beef with someone else

He was famous well before that for having one of the best labs in Europe, and many key papers in early deep learning. He's only famous for the beef among people who aren't familiar with his earlier work and the huge contributions it made to the field.
Yes, but I always found it strange (though I lack any exposure to "enterprise" networking equipment).
There are many cases where a user-provided string is passed to the string API. Generally the programmer should handle empty strings as a special case, but when they don't the API needs to return something.
That's still fraud in most jurisdictions (although it's no longer provable unless there's a paper trail that says it's intentionally designed to deceive). However, even if fraud can't be proven, it may no longer be a valid contract. A contract is the mutual understanding of an agreement, not the words printed on a piece of paper. The paper can be used as evidence of mutual understanding, but it's not incontrovertible evidence of that. Many kinds of evidence can go the other way, such as unconscionability (terms that there's no way anyone would willingly agree to, thus suggesting coercion or subterfuge).

Or, framed another way: consent, in both a moral sense and a legal one, requires awareness from both parties of what you are consenting to. Each party is, to some extent, responsible for using the resources at their disposal to ensure they understand the contract (e.g. a blind person must find someone to read them the contract), but intentionally undermining the process of mutual understanding is at best very good evidence against enforcement of the contract and at worst fraud.
I think there's a smidge too much variance in pet QoL for me to be ok with that outcome. Just ask PETA
URL too long

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/14/google-not-o...
I suppose you're right. Just after seeing my family lose internet a bunch of times due to the ISP supplied router just straight up failing, I don't have much confidence in the hardware. Also I don't think that rebooting the router once a week because it's frozen makes it a quality product that brings satisfaction. I've never seen an ISP supplied router that isn't like this. But that could just be my personal experience.

I mean, when the first thing you hear when you call your ISP, is to "reboot your router" on a recorded message, doesn't that throw a red flag to anybody else? I don't use high end gear at home like Cisco, either, but it has never needed a reboot.
I do think actual potatoes fried in butter would be healthier than whatever comes out of a bag of Lays today.
That was my first thought, it sounds similar to what happened with Klarna[1] a few years ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301219
This doesn't necessarily seem like functional programming (although there's nothing wrong with functional programming). It makes sense to unify switch and try-catch statements, because they're both meant for selecting a path based on the outcome of the selector expression (as the proposal says). It would make sense for other languages with exceptions, like C++, to adopt something like this, IMO.

> Who knows if this makes it in, next they make exceptions resumable and they go all the way to typed effects.

You don't necessarily need that for resumable exceptions. Common Lisp and PL/I got it a long time ago, although PL/I isn't really in use anymore AFAIK.

Apparently, resumable exceptions used to be more commonly accepted, and then they were rejected in the 1980s[1]:

> Originally, software exception handling included both resumable exceptions (resumption semantics), like most hardware exceptions, and non-resumable exceptions (termination semantics). However, resumption semantics were considered ineffective in practice in the 1970s and 1980s (see C++ standardization discussion, quoted below) and are no longer in common use, though provided by programming languages like Common Lisp, Dylan and PL/I.

I wasn't around then, which is why I say "apparently."

[1]: https://learn.saylor.org/mod/page/view.php?id=33094
Interesting. In my experience, I would have said the use of the word “smart” almost invariably results in misunderstandings and biased comparisons. The concept is certainly used in casual conversation, but you can’t do anything serious with it.
We can see from the ablations that simply asking the LLM to generate a large number of potential solutions without the evolutionary search performs terribly.

It's certainly true that the LLM mutator produces more reasonable edits than a random mutator. 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.

The only thing the LLM sees is two previously generated code samples, labeled <function>_v0 and <function>_v1 and then a header for <function>_v2 which it fills in. Look at Extended Data Fig. 1.
> And you are being hard on me, and it's kind of ridiculous.

No, lol, I'm not. I'm just disagreeing with you, and pointing out that IMO your point doesn't have much merit. I don't think that's a ridiculous response to what you're claiming at all.

> Knowing Unix is not the same as knowing to use a program which only exists on one version of Unix

She didn't say she knew a program which exists on one version of Unix, she just said she recognized the type of system. That's it. That's the claim she was making.

It's pretty similar to the hypothetical situation of a kid finding a mac and saying "This is a Macintosh, I know this" and using the finder to browse and look for a program to run. Same thing, with the only difference being Unix refers to a variety of operating systems not just one particular OS.

And you're making a big deal about how she probably wouldn't have known IRIX and all this, but that doesn't really make sense and it's extremely nitpicky. Others have explained why.

> You specifically called out "older people even working in IT", which includes me. Just because you want to jeer at people who don't know what you know doesn't mean there aren't other reasons to jeer at the same scene.

As I said though, most people who jeer at the scene do so on the mistaken assumption that the software scene on screen didn't exist.

I've not actually ever come across someone like yourself who doesn't refute that, but is just basically being very nitpicky and IMO unrealistic.
Ye kinda meant that with stopped paying. But it doesn't matter. They could be paid in gold or canned food. It is the local police force and social cohesion that keeps the guards in check. You gotta be a warlord right now to expect to just show up and be in command. Or surround your self with friends, neighbours and relatives.
And once again calls to allow optional signing support natively to NPM will be rejected citing that it might intimidate drive-by devs who do not want to learn to setup a yubikey or nitrokey for artifact signing.

I have talked to the NPM team about this multiple times over the last several years and they literally believe no signing at all is better than some devs feeling pressured to sign.

You need no stronger evidence of the NPM teams negligence than these two times they refused to even accept community contributed optional signing support saying they would come up with something better than PGP. Still waiting 10 years later.

https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/4016

https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/29#issuec...

Meanwhile PGP secures the supply chain of the Linux distros that power the whole internet, and Debian signs hundreds of npm packages used in their dependency graph, but it is still not good enough for NPM.

You can use the well tested and rust-written Sequoia/sq now and never touch GnuPG. You can also self certify your keys with keyoxide. The past complaints are largely moot and still people stick to their guns on this.

https://openpgp.dev/book/
Ok.

But: An attack on the US military is still an issue every Us military member should raise with their superiors (as long as the IQ allows it).
Sunflower is not so bad. It's the soy and canola (when cooked) that you have to watch out for.
> Anyone who cares about academic integrity should at least not attack someone complaining of plagiarism

What about cases when accusation was unreasonable and not matching reality?
It's not just the quality of the ingredients. Snack manufacturers in the UK are under pressure from the government to make their snacks more healthy so they are, for example, reducing salt. Twiglets and Krackawheat, which were my favourite snack and cracker, are both trash now. It's been over a year and I'm still ticked off about it.
See my response to the sibling post to yours.

My experience in the Midwest (and elsewhere) on colder days is that the biggest factor is wind. Even a relatively light wind on a cold day can make a big difference in draining heat from your body. Convection makes a big difference in the heat transfer properties of air.

Btw, you say "in the dry", but have you ever been in the desert on a cold night? I think you might reconsider just how cold "dry cold" can feel.
Best of luck with all that. It's good you're taking care of yourself.
I'm sorry but there's no way that Subaru EyeSight can "trounce" FSD. Maybe it is slightly better in some scenarios than legacy Autopilot which came out many years ago and hasn't been updated since. Tesla FSD is vastly more capable and can handle city driving with traffic controls whereas EyeSight merely just follows a lane.
That op-ed was a tough editorial call. It troubles my conscience as publishing Tom Cotton never has. But the reason is not that the writer, Sirajuddin Haqqani, the deputy leader of the Taliban, kidnapped a Times reporter (David Rohde, now of NBC, with whom I covered the Israeli siege of Jenin on the West Bank 20 years ago; he would never be afraid of an op-ed). The case against that piece is that Haqqani, who remains on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list, may have killed Americans. It’s puzzling: in what moral universe can it be a point of pride to publish a piece by an enemy who may have American blood on his hands, and a matter of shame to publish a piece by an American senator arguing for American troops to protect Americans?
Energy is a tiny part of Tesla. Auto revenue was $19B last quarter, energy and storage was $1.5B.
Privacy crusaders accuse X of ad-targeting that flouts EU rules
I've got bad news for you. AD, Office, SharePoint, Teams, BI, etc. are becoming unified in the cloud around Power Platform.

Any new business problem in a Microsoft shop is going to go with a Power Platform/Teams/SharePoint Online solution as first prize.

Personally, I like it, even if it has some annoying challenges. I've not seen anything else come close in terms of rapid application development, integration and deployment; there's very little to license and what there is left falls under existing procurement relationships for most big enterprises that rely on Microsoft already.
I hadn't realized that was your reason for mocking the scene, I had thought it was just being kind of pedantic and making an observation about the scene.
>But yeah, you honestly have to wonder what it is like day-to-day working with someone with this level of delusions of grandeur.

It's not delusions of grandeur; anyone with half a brain who read his early papers would see he clearly came up with the idea of a GAN well before Ian Goodfellow.
No they're not. Some industry participants covet CUDA's market share and ecosystem power, but not enough to work together on compelling, interoperable alternatives.
Are you saying they able to develop without a PM every 5 engineers? Insane.
I don't think Cereal Killer's name is Emmanuel Goldstein. That was a joke.
In the words of Winston Churchill: "Never let a good crisis go to waste".
I can honestly say I've never had a can of coke that was flat from any store, so this might be your regional bottlers messing things up.
Perhaps they're doubling down, but even doubling down is not enough to say that they're serious about it since they've been so neglectful for so many years - for example, right now they explicitly say that many of AMD GPUs are not supported by ROCm; if they're not willing to put their money where their mouth is and do the legwork to ensure support for powerful cards they sold just a few years ago, how can they say you should rely on their platform?

Unless a random gamer with a random AMD GPU can go to amd.com and download pre-packaged, officially supported tools that work out of the box on their machine and after a few clicks have working GPU-accelerated pytorch (which IMHO isn't the case, but admittedly I haven't tried this year) then their "doubling down" isn't even meeting table stakes.
Mercedes Drive Pilot is aimed at a different use case than Tesla FSD so it's difficult to make a direct comparison, but independent reviews generally indicate the Mercedes system is superior. Tesla doesn't have a viable technology path to general purpose SAE Level 4+ autonomous driving either, so I don't see any difference there.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...
> you cannot do this under copyright which strictly forbids you from creating copies of the original media.

copyright having exceptions does not mean that copyright does not exist

unless you claim that copyright does not exist in USA because they have fair use?
I meant more that he said "usually", but was referring to exactly _two_ instances. Unless I misunderstood something?

It made me laugh :)
His students you mean, otherwise he would be first author. Academia is just like capitalism, with credits substituting for capital. The capital owner (laboratory head/professor) always gets a cut of everything published.
I wish I had talked to my grandmother more before she developed dementia. I knew she was a mathematician and programmer, but briefly speaking to her a few years back, she mentioned that one of her jobs was calculating orbits for satellites in the Soviet Union.

At least, I hope they were satellites!
>I hope the company can get back on track some day. It's sad to see all of our old work decay like this.

Agreed, and it really was amazing work. As someone who started using and then deploying UniFi in maybe 2015-2016ish and found it a revelation, it's been tremendously depressing see so much potential and such a community utterly squandered. I can only imagine what it's like for someone on the inside. Nevertheless, thank you so much for your work and all the others who helped make it happen. If nothing else it did at least really blaze a trail and show what could be done, and contrary to this issue without any cloud bullshit and subscription lock-in. Even were Ubiquiti to truly implode, that showing of what could be done would remain and by its nature the kit would remain useful for a long time.

There have been some mildly positive signs recently though, even if the UX churn remains shitty. There has been small shoots of progress on actual core features, years and years and years late granted, but not entirely too late. I wonder if the emergence of TP-Link's Omada as a clear, direct same-niche competitor has lit any fires there?
Read the Jean-Paul Sartre quote below.

Let me ChatGPT that for you:

This quote is from Jean-Paul Sartre's work "Anti-Semite and Jew" (originally "Réflexions sur la question juive"), written in 1946. In this passage, Sartre analyzes the behavior and motives of anti-Semites. He argues that anti-Semites are aware of the absurdity and frivolity of their arguments. According to Sartre, they engage in such discourse not to persuade through rational debate but to amuse themselves and to disconcert their opponents. They do this by undermining the seriousness of any conversation, thus avoiding genuine discussion. When pressed, they may cease the discussion, indicating that they are above argumentation. This approach, Sartre suggests, is a form of bad faith, a concept he discusses in his existentialist philosophy, referring to acts of self-deception or dishonesty in one's dealings with oneself and others.
I don't remember this in Donkey Kong. most of this was introduced in DK64, with that said.

Yes DK does play the bongos and Diddy plays rap and Dixie plays the electric guitar and Lanky plays the trombone, and Chunky plays the triangle.

Also Feynman played the bongos, It's a famous gift for children because its cheap. blacks don't own bongos, nobody owns any instrument.
To me, this seems similar to asking what should

int divide(int numerator, int denominator)

do when denominator == 0, or what should a modern version of

int atoi(const char* s)

do when s == "foo"?

I.e., the answer is that the parameter lies outside the domain of well-supported values, so ideally the callee should somehow help the programmer realize they have a programming error.
Github activity is an abstruse source of programming activity. I might do many github actions or few, separate from the actual use of the language. A lot of activity when learning is probably using online websites and online environments. People can move to other systems, use git on their own for instance.

They need another datasource. There's another classic not reliable system, survey programmers to see what they are using.
My first terminal was a Lear Siegler ADM 1A and it did not do lower case.
https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Lear_Siegler_ADM-1

The Teletype ASR-33, which was one of the most common "consoles" for early computers, also did not do lower case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33

So the answer to the article's question is: The hardware of the day did not support it.
Thank you and everyone else working on the Firefox browser and adjacent projects for your hard work. Don't let the noise of the internet lessen what you and the team have done and continue to do.
So that depends entirely on how they implemented the feature. There are a few ways this could be working:

- They gave their chat interface the ability to run regular full-text searches against Dropbox - when you ask a question that can be answered by file content, it searches for relevant files and then copies just a few paragraphs of text into the prompt to the AI.

- They might be doing this using embeddings-based semantic search. This would require them to create an embeddings vector index of all of your content and then run vector searches against that.

- If they're doing embeddings search, they might have calculated their own embeddings on their own servers... or they might have sent all of your content to OpenAI's embeddings API to calculate those vectors.

Without further transparency we can't tell which of these they've done.

My strong hunch is that they're using the first option, for cost reasons. Running embeddings is an expensive operation, but storing embeddings is even more expensive - to get fast results from an embeddings vectors store you need dedicated RAM. Running that at Dropbox scale would be, I think, prohibitively expensive if you could get not-quite-as-good results from a traditional search index, which they have already built.

If they ARE sending every file through OpenAI's embedding endpoint that's a really big deal. It would be good if they would clarify!
My favorite for this is bulk batching anything that could freeze well and owning a chest freezer - if thats an option. Chili, burritos, spaghetti, curry, etc. Anything that goes on rice is a prime target, just make 2-3 cups per person at the start of the week and fiend off of that. If you’re feeling froggy then fried rice at the mid-end of the week is also a super keen way of getting rid of fridge waste.
> There's an upper bound in computation (actually in nature), that a creation of something is capped by that thing's sophistication.

The Lorenz attractor, Conway's Game of Life, fractals, and of course... The humble Turing machine itself all argue against this idea.

Edit: Now it[0] is stuck in my head.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrztrxV9OtQ
What does “L3 VLAN” even mean?
Right, big explosion, easier to see. Typical solar toxicity. I can't wait for it to detect a gentle supernova, gently whisping a luliby to its exoplanets.
> You can definitely predict the stock market based on past prices

This is only true if you consider occasionally doing slightly better than random chance, "predicting the stock market". Unfortunately, while this would be enough to make a trader a net positive return over time, we have more stringent requirements for a system to become AGI.

> I suspect you can with weather as well

You suspect wrong.
Having the relatively unique experience of trying to sell an alternative deep learning stack, and then selling that company to Intel, color me skeptical. AMA.
This was true for Intel for at least 10 years and I’m pretty sure for much longer than that. It was probably true for nvidia for about as long as they exist.

Hardware without software is just expensive sand. Every semiconductor company knows this. Intel was the one to perfect the whole package with x86 in the first place…

In the GPU compute space CUDA is x86. It’s ubiquitous, de facto standard and will be disrupted. Question is if it takes a year or a decade.
Oh, so it makes sense to you too?! Am I in the minority for finding it hilarious that "usually" was used to describe 100% of 2?
>It sounds like he published some theoretical musings back in 1990s without any real practical implementation

He published working models back then, the problem was compute power was very limited. In the past decade deep learning took off, people took his models, renamed then and ran them on vastly more powerful computers, to great success, then failed to cite him.
Great, seems we agree. So it should stop and we should speak up about it, right?
AI's Single Point of Failure – Rob Toews – Ted [video]
Oreos got much worse it’s not just me. Same with chips ahoy. The prices skyrocketed too. I bought store brand until those rose to the price of name brand and then just stopped buying them. I miss them, but not at that price. The savior currently is dollar tree thin mints for $1.25, those are a steal.
"The world's most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility," says AI expert Rob Toews.
Waymo has millions of driverless miles at this point. Tesla has zero. I'm not sure how Waymo's safety driver miles is relevant here.

> Except, you know, millions of miles per day of self-driving in situations that Waymo isn't even planning to attempt for years.

And what exactly have they got to show for it? All that data collection and they can't handle the easiest of situations in San Francisco. You don't need nationwide data not to run stop signs or swerve onto oncoming traffic.
wages going down and cost of living going up, somebody is making profit in between!