skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A domain specific language that a few billion people happen to be familiar with, instead of the usual DSLs that nobody except the developer is familiar with. Totally the same thing.
Aromatic hydrocarbons! Expected, but still relieving to have evidence. Puts one more tally in the column of "life is probably carbon-based elsewhere, too".
I agree with this 100%. They are very similar in idea -- I can understand why some people might feel some kinda way about Weir pushing out a samey book. I adore both though.
Science is becoming less human
Subtle distinction: I don't think the police, even with a warrant, can force you to open anything. They can use force to open something if you refuse (or seemingly, if they feel like it), but they can't make you do it.

A court on the other hand, can compel you to open something.
When the page itself was shared weeks ago on social media, after looking at it I suspect it's an April Fool's page that was orphaned and never came down.

It's not linked to anywhere else from the site.

The claims are insane if serious but hilarious if satire.
*In the state of Utah
You see, I am taking about the people I know, while the previous guy seems to be taking about it in the general sense.

LOL about that "inferior" point. I don't know how much hype you bought into but the comfort thing isn't going to be significantly different on Vision Pro. It is only weighs a bit less and the screen is not going to do magic. I wouldn't make any assumptions until the unit is widely available and reviews come out.
> But then, again - if you are designing codecs or choosing them, you probably want a monitor that makes it easy to see these things

You keep bringing this up. I don't really care. Someone designing a codec may have put this apparent problem case on the don't-care list as well. I would be in general agreement with the designer's priorities for a reasonable web codec.

I have, with some care, selected webp as a general codec for web use on most of my sites. Nobody is complaining, and my page weights and development speed is improved. I don't have to fret between png+transparency and jpg to minimize asset size while maintaining it's usability. I just use webp and most of the time it's a size/speed win with good enough quality.

Not every codec needs to be artist and photographer approved.
Half remembering an article which I can no longer find from more than 15 years back...

But I seem to recall there being TV tuners available for SD slots on both Palm and Windows devices. Phones didn't necessarily ship with the capability.
Alpha-g creates and drops antihydrogen atoms [video]
A big problem (With everything, not just Mix) is nested config files.

Documentation says "Use this snippet" or "Add this to your configuration", but doesn't say where to add it.

Sometimes you have to paste the snipped three levels of nesting deep, and the docs assume you already know the language and cns figure it out yourself.

Meaning you can't use it without investing the time to learn it. But I don't wanna put too much time into it if nobody else is using it and it's not gonna be a common boring standard corporate choice that Just Works, because I'm not really a tinkerer distro person.

I think Python has it right with Flat is Better Than Nested. If you need nested anything, I'd rather things be redesigned to be more high level.

Failing that... more complete config examples, not just snippets, would be nice.
Where do I find info on how web search in LLMs work and how they’re trained to do that?
> unlike the new orient express train, which was ... not what I'd expect from lego.

Incidentally, this is how I've felt about a lot of the bigger sets from LEGO recently. A decade or so ago, I used to basically buy every >$100 set LEGO put out every year, sans a few themes -- I've got a few large storage bins filled with just the instructions from these sets. But some of the massive sets LEGO has been putting out recently, like the Coliseum or the new Eiffel Tower set just don't seem like particularly fun builds. I think the first time I noticed this was putting together the 10253 Big Ben set. It just didn't feel like fun stacking those tiny pieces together, repeated like 30-40x for each little subassembly. But since then, there has definitely been a creep of the builds for larger sets being a little less fun and more tedious. It can be a good way to relax if you just want to kind of zone out for a while and do stuff with your hands, but that's not my style.

Of course, then they put out something like the Concorde which looks like a very fun build, so at least some of the LEGO designers got their heads on straight.
What are they huffing at Twitch - how can nobody not forseen this ???.
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to avoid Red Sea after surge in missile and drone attacks
That's awesome! I have plans to do the same thing but for android.

How long did it take you to implement this proof of concept?
I'm unsure whether it's worth splitting hairs over the definition of what a distributed system is. If you have to linearize concurrent access to shared resources, that's where the bulk of your pain will come from.

In the distributed system case, at least as far as that term is commonly understood by technologists, that linearization also has to take into account odd behaviors in interconnects that you don't typically see within a single machine.
I worked at McDonalds for 4 years. 2 as a kitchen worker. 2 as a shift manager. I've personally cleaned these machines too many times to count.

I've never heard one person tell "the truth" about this (at least in my personal experience).

Our ice cream machine was often down too but not because it was broken. Because we were short staffed and making ice cream is a HUGE time sink for employees. The manager would just tell the employees "no more ice cream" and they all knew what's up. They'd be very happy that they could focus on food and McCafe and thus not disappoint customers too much due to slow service.

Folks don't quite understand that McDonald's is consistently short staffed and the workers are often doing the work of 2-3 people just to try to get you fast and hot food.
Not true. Monitors now are 1440p or 4k. Even at work for me.

The "issue" is that monitors last a LONG time. And thats good. We dont touch them or fiddle with them. They tend to just work. Phones and shit we keep dropping and breaking, then the battery gets bad.

Also for gaming you may even want 1080p 200hz monitor for high refresh rate and FPS over pixel density.
Falls, in general, more commonly kill people than vehicles. It's not a perfect trade for safety. There's always factors that need to be actually measured.
Housing everywhere in Japan is basically free aside from the cost of renovation + the cost of the land. Houses are considered to be disposable there, you're expected to tear it down and build a new one when you buy one, so they are priced accordingly.

The difference is that land in Tokyo etc is expensive.
The scary part is that

> let the prompt create HTTP requests

is batteries-included because every language model worth their salt is already able to create markdown and it’s very tempting to utilize this in order to provide layout and break up the wall-of-text output.
weird - can't find anything from an australian source about this
> Just because you use a DSL (English)

English is not a DSL.
If you wanted to protect hospitals, then why were 15 year olds locked down and not primarily old and obese people (the vast, vast majority of the risk).

15 years old took the brunt of the lockdowns yet had almost zero risk from the virus.

Why is that? Shouldn't the people at actual risk of the virus shelter themselves?

The difference in risk between a healthy 15 year old and an obese 85 year old is orders of magnitude different. The virus might as well be the common cold to the former.
Have you tried structured group classes led by a coach/instructor? My biggest problems are not being able to deal with the ambiguity of self-driven workouts (i.e., wasting time at the gym because it's unclear what to do next) and not having someone to hold me accountable.
Structured group classes helped with both those struggles. Think F45, Orangetheory , crossfit classes etc. It also helps that I book classes weeks in advance and have to pay a significant fine if I don't show up.
Isn't the need for prompt engineering in some ways admitting some kind of user interface failure? Feels like there should be an abstraction layer on top of this.
Not while religion plays a role in politics and national discourse.

I must say the Satanic temple Xmas display at the Iowa State House was rather funny.
Because they behave as if they are sentient, to the point they actually react to threats. I also find these prompts uncomfortable. Yes the LLMs are not conscious, but would we behave differently if we suspected that they were? We have absolute power over them and we want the job done. It reminds me of the Lena short story.
Cartoon boobs, that is. Mostly anime, and some in the process of being drawn.
Bah! Humbug!

This is why I like dumb things.
I did learn from it that there's a CSS property for ligatures, and the blog has set it to discretionary ligatures.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...
I am curious how people see this evolving over time as the technology expands to more and more people. Do people get better at investing the time to craft the right prompts? Do shared custom GPTs etc become more the norm? Does the main AI become better at inferring our intent?
> This really hits home. It was absurd. 12 people on a zoom call, 1-2, at most, speak beyond the introductions.

For a while there, I had a weekly meeting at a former employer that had 63 people on it. The goal of the project was to change the IP address on an Oracle server.

Nobody wanted to take responsibility for the change, because if it broke, they might be unemployed.

So it just dragged on, week after week after week.
This is fantastic advice, thanks.
There's a dedicated section titled "Why?" on the linked website.
To summarize: Just for fun, not for profit.
I feel like the content in this video is surprising only to people who have no clue how these businesses work.

* A complicated machine that will hurt people if configured improperly can't have the operating parameters changed by the end user? Yeah, I'd do that too, the end users are literally children and unskilled workers, and the business is liable if they mess it up. What exactly does the author think that a food service worker is going to do in the service menu of these machines?

* Franchisees can't modify the equipment as they choose? Yeah, that's the way it works, it's not their decision to make.

* Business partners having to choose a product or service as a result of a contractual obligation? Welcome to B2B product sales. This happens everywhere.
Oxidation Compiler – JavaScript Tools in Rust
You know who caused raised the raised interest rates?

The same megacorps that borrowed and overhired like insane during the pandemic to boost their stock price, now scream bloody hell and cut major portion of the people they just hired during the pandemic. That also boosted their stock price.Oh, and it allowed them to crank up their pricing models to the max, again boosting their stock price. I'd argue that it's the megacorps and their greed that are the major cause of the inflation that we experience recently worldwide.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/inflat...

And please, stop using "macroeconomic factors" as an excuse for bad management (who made them overhire during the pandemic), greed, and lack of vision.

When a CEO makes 300 times the salary of their median employee (https://www.wsj.com/business/auto-ceos-make-about-300-times-...), the best way for the company to save money is to fire their C-suite for the "leadership" that brought it to be influenced by "bad economic headwinds" in the first place.

Stop defending corporations, what they do is inexcusable, amoral, and probably, some day, and with some scrutiny, illegal.
I dunno about TV much since I don't use them, but I have some ideas why it might be:

- Framerate
- Response time
- Adaptive sync
- (how prone to burn-in is OLED? Monitors often have way more static images to TVs)

I assume combing these all might just make it more expensive than just individually each feature
I really really like the idea of idempotent declarative config that eliminates ever having to imperatively touch a server.

I really like Nix, it's in fact the only non-debian distro I've liked so far.

But Snap+Ansible is Good Enough, until Nix gets usability figured out and it becomes a bit more commonly known.
io_uring appears to have had this feature since kernel 5.7 in 2020.
> police can force you to open your door, your safe, or virtually any other container of secrets

No, they can't
Know how to disable it immediately. On Graphene and many Android phones, holding down the power button will reboot it with pin required to complete start up.
Do you think it's holding us back? What social benefit is there behind allowing 13-year-olds to easily view this content?

But to your point, when I was 13, I was able to find much worse (or better depending on how you look at it) pornography on the internet. And that was in the late 90s. So I'm not convinced this is the worst thing in the world. However, I get why Twitch feels like they can't allow it. And I'd still rather have this sort of censorship occur at the corporate level than at the government level, as we're seeing some states attempt.
Prompt design/engineering is more complex than most people think.

If you want content that doesn't look like the crap that currently floods the web, you need to understand how to talk to a model AND have enough domain knowledge to articulate what you actually want.
ByteDance is using OpenAI's tech to build a competitor
How would you feel if you could use Starlark (if you're familiar with it) to parameterize a la Helm, and then can add more Starlark commande later to update previously-defined infra a la Kustomize?

Full disclosure: our startup is trying to build a tool where you don't have to pick, so trying to test the hypothesis
Funny that this is the opinion for this product, but mere mention of this concept for Beeper accessing Apple as an add-on product is thought of in a different manner. Because it's a physical product? Because it's not Apple?
So which papers are you talking about?
Yes there are tests, an MRI. Anyone claiming to have it is probably self-diagnosed and full of it. I'm tired of the self-diagnoses of everything trend over the last 5 or so years, sorry if my tone isn't the best.
Ah, thanks. Oddly I've never experienced this in Brave, switching network connections and VPN/no VPN several times a day, but I haven't encountered it. However, I know a large number of people who have encountered it. A bit baffling.
You'd have to grow because there are competitors that would do your thing and the new thing, so customers would go to them instead.
If such a capability existed, it would have been made public by now. It would require the complicity of Apple, Samsung, Google et al.

There has not been a single shred of evidence produced to support yearslong claims of devices constantly listening in on you. Intelligence services spend huge money to purchase compromises from private companies, or produce them in house. If they could simply compel a tech company to utilise this supposed technology, they would obtain a warrant to do so.

All of the ‘targeted advertising’ anecdotes on here can easily be chalked up to confirmation bias.

I have a pretty solid understanding of the western IC and I can fairly confidently say that if this technology existed it would be used constantly as it supersedes a typical phone surveillance warrant.

I am a privacy advocate, but this is not one I’ve been especially concerned about.
I don't know, photos of labia are really only lip service to nudity. /joke
>Germany did it.

Keep reading.
I hear you, and it's all true, but I can only repeat what I said in the GP: despite all this, I think we have no choice but to try. To give up on that would be to give into the dehumanizing and dehumanized in ourselves. I can't go with that in good conscience and I don't think it's in HN's long term interest, even though it would be universes of easier to just act like it's not happening.

I did my best to moderate this thread, to the point of overload, and yes there was a lot of flamewar and guidelines-breakage that I simply couldn't get to.

IMO what we need to do is find at least a drop of (let's call it) heart in ourselves not only for the ones we identify with, but also for the ones we don't identify with. That's how we can start being human about this. If even a tiny amount of that is possible, and of course it is, then we owe it to ourselves to try.
No, I wrote my own bindings to the C API with P/Invoke. I _don't_ use any other high-level library in .NET. Previously I used C++/CLI, but I migrated it all to vanilla C# with P/Invoke. I have significant experience with the SQLite C API (which is why I don't bother with other people's bindings). With P/Invoke it was a pretty straightforward experience, and specifically the debugger worked great and was crucial to getting it working.

I really think that C# with P/Invoke and the Visual Studio debugger is a cut above the rest.
When were you diagnosed by a professional?

Edit: I'll bet my next paycheck they are self-diagnosed.
Pick a random old model car and start talking about. Just say the year and model a lot for several days and see if your Facebook feed starts suggesting random pages related to that or similar vehicles.
I see the background dithering ring on my 1440p cheap 32" monitor that's a few years old now.
> the workers are often doing the work of 2-3 people

How is that possible?
> there was a time that google did something that doesn't scale: you could pay google to employ some employee to manually search something in the web for you

That's so interesting, I had no idea! What year are we talking about?
What made it a time sink? How could it be made faster?
Garn [0] is most of that: simpler CLI, and Typescript for configuration, though lying on top of Nix.

(Disclaimer: I work on garn)

[0] https://github.com/garnix-io/garn
Precisely this type of thinking resulted in S3, which was the answer to: “what if we drop everything in a traditional file system that is not strictly required”?

Several modern database platforms are similarly designed around one or more traditional interface assumptions being dropped.

IMHO, the biggest one is “interactive transactions” or alternatively: long-running transactions. Anything external to the database that can interact with it in one transaction requires locks and all of the complexity that comes with it, such as dealing with deadlocks.

Dropping the requirement for “interactive Telnet-like SQL shells” can massively simplify things.
I think there's somewhat of a difference between a 13 y/o having this content shoved in their face vs them having to proactively look for it.
Yes this ruling will increase the revenues for companies like this, Celebrite, the platforms, and data brokers. Unless of course it is my phone. ;)
this is very cool, reminds me of the tldraw feature
I see thing rings easy on my few years old AOC 1440p monitor.
What makes LLMs somewhat unique as a software product is that there is little-to-no separation between input and instruction. In most cases, the user's input can also be considered part of the "prompt". This leads to the well-known "prompt injection" "vulnerability" which is really just a byproduct of the fundamental inability (and indeed undesirability) for the model to distinguish instruction from input (undesirable because the value and flexibility comes from allowing the user, rather than a programmer, to specify an action).

On top of it though, it introduces a sort of disciplinary sloppiness around whether the program can be reasoned about. It's assumed that prompt `P` works for whatever input `I`, but the concatenated `P+I` is really the full input to the program that produces a desired output. But the only way to be confident about the program's behavior is to exhaust the input space, as no `P+A` tells you anything about how `P+B` will behave. This makes it difficult to leverage an LLM in any process where the desired result is 1. unknown and 2. matters. If the result is unknown it's not clear how to determine mistakes or correct them if they're made. And if the correctness of the result matters it's courting disaster to connect it to a process which is not able to be reasoned about. I think that's why LLMs are primarily being used to assist ideation (which is cool!) or "spammy" use cases like third-tier customer service or listicle generation, and haven't yet broken into any use case where they need to be reliable for complex tasks.
Christmas tree from 1920s Woolworths sells for 'astonishing' price
People drop that on computers and monitors that don’t even have gimmicks.
You might be able to argue that decrypting the phone's filesystem is forcing you to provide them with information which is not relevant to the case at hand but still incriminating in other ways, since a phone could reasonably be expected to hold vast amounts of unrelated days.
I think Falcon 3.0 was the first multiplayer game I ever played. If I remember correctly, it supported it via serial port connection and a friend from school and I played it over a 9600bps V.32 modem link.
I see the rings easy on my few years old AOC 1440p monitor. PC users can have way better monitors. Studio colour accuraccy or fast hz gaming
The issue isn't a problem with the product, it's a problem with undermining the chain of responsibility and liability.
It could be argued that Nvidia sabotaged OpenCL. Part of the reason that nobody used OpenCL was because that it didn't work very well on Nvidia hardware, which was the dominant hardware. So unseating Nvidia was an impossible chicken/egg problem. To unseat Nvidia you needed OpenCL to succeed but OpenCL couldn't succeed without good support Nvidia.

OpenCL sucked for other reasons too, but it likely wouldn't have succeeded even if it didn't suck.
Also staff not keeping the ice cream machine full or ignoring the warnings on the screen or...all the other things. As long as people followed all the rules the machines they were bullet proof.
That's not true. According to:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/05/20/1364622...

Most studies that look at it show that fault is about equal in bike/car collisions. Given that, it's worth looking to see what the outcome is - and for the same trip, you'll be safer in a car.
> The kid they sent to us, at $250/hr (that’s $470 inflation adjusted) no less, had the manual open in his lap. I’m pretty sure they were taught never to get caught doing that.

In my very first consulting gig, my employer intentionally buried all of the best documentation on an internal forum. I can't even count all the hours I burned up on troubleshooting, only to learn days later that the thing I was encountering was a known issue that was completely undocumented and the only way to know that was to be present in the office... which was 3000 miles away.

I tried to get management to open up the forums to public consumption, but they were dead set against it, said that their "intellectual property was too valuable."
Those extremely expensive sets depicting famous things are all beginner sets, building-wise.

If some regular person just had their first and only trip on the Orient Express, or has always dreamed about making that trip: this is the target market. You cannot in general expect these people to have build a single Lego set, yet, so they are huge, sprawling, expensive, but totally uninteresting if you've ever built more than "put this 2 by 4 brick on that 2 by 4 brick".
Show HN: Made Open Source NPM like package Platform for reusable Prompts
Holy smokes, I've never heard of Inform7, but I wouldn't be surprised if ChatGPT could output it for an adventure it creates