skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raising Google's Number to itself doesn't make it appreciably bigger. Instead you can pick TREE(3), or SCG(13), or Loader's Number which is about the largest famous one we know how to compute.

Beyond that there's the likes of Busy Beaver numbers and beyond that is Rayo's number.

Btw, Graham's Number is less than BB(49 bits) [1].

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6430/shortest-t...
> This quote originates from a UN report just 11 days after the event, posing two critical issues: firstly, insufficient time for a thorough investigation

There is no reason to not trust first-hand testimonies (see also: believe all women). Of course, investigations did happen, which are a matter of public record, but the circumstances were such that it is hard to prove one way or the other definitively. So, the denials will happen regardless.

> The Deir Yassin events didn't occur in isolation; they were part of a broader context

It is almost like you're defending 7 Oct.

Israeli historian Benny Morris said the militias "ransacked unscrupulously, stole money and jewels from the survivors and burned the bodies. Even dismemberment and rape occurred."

Btw, the perpetrators of the massacre (Lehi & Irgun) you seem eager to defend were abhorred as fascists by the very people they were sworn to protect. Even those who took part in the massacre, like Amos Kenan, couldn't come to terms with it: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/lover-of-the-coun...
They could ask Google to remove it from Play Store also.
Yes, but Bing Chat is misquoting sources: it is not about judgment or being unbiased, it is about correctly reporting what is contained in the sources it quotes in the chat's summary.
The chatbot is unable to copy-paste the results of a poll, even if the pool is not accurate in the first place, inventing new percentages is not helping in any form.
And the question remains: is it possible to fix this type of mistakes? I would be happy to know if someone has a strategy to fix this that is feasible.
heh.. here is the response i got.

Hi there,

Thanks for taking the time to write in to Dropbox Support. My name is Ross, and I will provide assistance with your case.

From my understanding, you are inquiring about being opted into Dropbox AI by default.

Thank you for alerting us to this problem.

Dropbox engineers are aware of the problem and are working on a solution.

Also, please note that no files were shared in this case.

Sorry for any inconvenience this is causing.

We'll update you shortly on this issue.

Don't hesitate to reach out to me again for further questions!

Best regards,
Ross
Agreed, I don't understand why anyone would use ligatures like that on body text. Add them to titles you want to look particularly fancy if you must but please don't mess with the readability of anything longer than a paragraph.
Copilot stopping suggestions after bad words are found in a file
It doesn't "scold" you, it merely mentions a potential bias inherent in some words, if and only if you turn it on. It is a tool. The spelling checker also doesn't "scold" you, it just helps you improve your document. You are free not to use it.

People are so sensitive these days.
I wish there was a multiplatform MIT alternative or ... Qt change its license prices... it is so expensive!
It's still using more battery
This will allow free market mechanics to kick in for competitors. Once nyc got more than 1 option at houses prices dropped.
Do you think this is a relevant point somehow?
patent this now
I think we've mostly agreed on editorconfig[1], though it doesn't concern itself with language-specific formatting - it's even built into a lot of editors.

For language-specific formatting, you can run formatters in pre-commit-hooks and CI. Treefmt[2] can help with that if you want to cover a lot of languages in your repo.

1. https://editorconfig.org/

2. https://github.com/numtide/treefmt
Would've found it really cool, had he somehow acknowledged the current upheaval. That said, I'm buying into the story that this was the plan all along. The breadcrumbs were there, from well before the licensing trouble.
Thanks! Founder of Val Town here :)

I actually was notified of this comment because I "follow" Glen on HN via this val: https://www.val.town/v/rodrigotello/hnFollow
Great aunt, great grandfather — that's more than one generation back. I think it does get interesting when the distance in time increases.

Lets hope our kids and theirs keep our digital archives long enough for the great grandkid's to enjoy.
It's just a happy accident that the way JPEG compresses things and smooths them out visually happens to be an advantage in this particular edge case.
The thing that bothers me is that Apple’s actions hurt iPhone owners. Making it harder for them to communicate with non-iPhones is a bad experience. Intentionally making their product worse to encourage lock-in is anti-user.

I’m oddly surprised that iPhone owners are ok with this.
Are you sure they got gastric bypass and not lap band? All the people I know that got the bypass has lost significant quantities of weight. The bypass surgery essentially greatly reduces/removes the stomach from the digestion equation and greatly reduces the efficiency of digestion. The lap band is a rubber band around the stomach which makes it harder to consume large quantities of food, but has a higher chance of being ineffective.

I’m overweight myself but it’s not medication related. I’ve been using behavior modification using cbt paired with diet and exercise. The cbt was a recent addition since I’ve regressed several times with just diet and exercise alone.
We were graduate students together sharing an office, and have been friends since.
I'm curious to know if people have been able to pinpoint other reasons why copilot might stop providing suggestions, this one is quite odd tho.
...with which you still need to fight with MongoDB.

I'm still running with a Turris Omnia as router, which served me very well for >7y, added a small legacy SSD, managed to setup everything and worked for a while, but TO is armhf architecture, which mongodb quit packaging for with version 3.x. LXC containers for armhf (Debian/Ubuntu) stopped being released too by official channels. But the latest shiny Unifi app requires MongoDB >= 4.x (Unifi app >=7.5).

"Ok, I'll just buy one of those small embedded boxes": purchase Odroid H3+ (x86_64), install stuff, add docker, start up mongodb5 container annnnddd... illegal instruction! Turns out with MongoDB 5 they decided that with pre-built packages everybody has AVX instructions anyway, and packages are built with the expectation AVX instructions are present... which is not always true for low-power devices or even servers (the Intel Jasper Lake CPU of the Odroid H3+ was released in Q1'21).

Want to run this in a VM? Your host CPU better support AVX, too. https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-59482

I guess someday I'll just have to build my own docker image of MongoDB...
Models of Sustained Attention [pdf]
previous submission with 79 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836
Is that true for major and minor Pg versions? Last I checked it's only true for patch versions, OS updates, and instance size changes -- at least with multi-AZ. Perhaps it works for RDS clustering or Aurora?

Also wouldn't recommend the new blue-green switch over yet. It fails safe yet when it goes sideways it can take a while to clean up.
Beeper Mini wasn’t free. It became free the first time it was shut off.

Yes I’m sure “can anyone use other services as their product backends for free, directly against the TOS of said service” is going to be a really interesting and complicated legal question…
Both of those are issues that can be solved server side if the company actually cared. They don't, and instead want to steal your freedom so they can push DRM.
Flying hurts the planet but vital for island tourism. Is there a greener way?
Fortunately they also still sell the creative play and building blocks and not all kids built canned sets.

The problem is that Lego somehow had to survive and they had some pretty tough times, this was their solution. On the one hand I'm disappointed, just like you. On the other I see my kids make the most fantastic stuff with regular bricks so I'll forgive them.
In my experience, project maintainers are frequently uninterested in changes to their project, especially if those changes are a significant departure from their current vision or if it involves pivoting away from tools that they like. You're often expected to make years of contributions to the project to earn the rapport to bring significant suggestions before the maintainers. It's often just easier to 'build your own moonbase' instead of politicking.

Just a couple days ago, the curl maintainer published a blog post about why he wouldn't rewrite curl in Rust and a big part of the reason was that he and the other maintainers weren't good at it and weren't the right people to lead a project that used it--he said that he encouraged other people to start their own project in Rust. But then when people follow that advise, they're chided for not contributing to the more established project! To be clear, I'm not a "just rewrite it in Rust" guy, but I think people underestimate the difficulty and frustration involved in petitioning an established project to make the reforms necessary for significant improvements.
The first link in your Edit 2 section (the JPEG) one is broken, it should be https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20...
>because desktop monitors have been stuck in a deadzone of zero innovation for the last 10 years.

That's a weird thing to say unless the pixel density is your one and only measure. Regardless of that, the posterization should be perfectly visible on a 2012 FullHD monitor, or even a 1366x768 TN screen of a decade-old laptop. Most commenters here are probably viewing the pictures on a scale different from 1:1.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the new Google Gemini AI?
Will Gemini overpower ChatGPT? Share your views
Because I have been interested in my dead relatives, and because I suspect somewhere down the line someone will be interested in my living ones, I have been trying to capture their lives in books I have created (real books — printed at Lulu.com).
So, which one of those five options is the simple download?
His policy towards Hamas was one of containment and not making a decision, which is classic Netanyahu behavior. I don't know whether or not his biographies agree with this, but this is pretty much the consensus among Israelis. Again, I truly doubt that October 7th is what he was aiming for (happy to change my mind if there is evidence otherwise).
Congrats to the authors for taking a potentially great article and wrecking it with insane distractions and useless web BS. Pipes was an amazing piece of software and deserves better than that.
So’s your face.
Tell the C-suite what you told us and send them a bill for your time?
> I'm sure the primary use case of this technology is in film. (e.g. Disney populating background extras)

If the recent history of tech is anything to go by, the most popular in-practice use case will be porn. All it will need is a corpus of training data: which it's safe to assume already exists.

After that, deepfaking $WorldLeader$ doing something embarrassing is probably #2 or #3. Just in time for the US elections...
>but what about CNN's or transformers?

They also consist (in the abstract, at least) of interconnected neurons with activation functions.
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38011728
I've been writing almost exclusively in cursive for my entire life past age 8 and that font looks crazy to me. I learned both D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser in different schools and have seen a lot of my grandmother's writing, which was semi-Spenserian.

The stroke just doesn't go in the right direction for those ligatures. My guess is that this font is based on a French (or maybe other latin) script.
I'm on a 27" 4K IPS screen here and have to squint/zoom in to see the difference the author is writing about.
While it's nice some people really care for the best result I think most people aren't going to notice or care about it.
That's why I always approach new languages as a complete beginner. It's tempting to jump into the deep end thinking you know the basics, but in my experience it has a lot of pitfalls.

I like to find a book or "web book" with exercises such as http://JavaScript.info and just follow it. Read it and do all the exercises. It takes some time and some times it feels a bit like the exercises are too easy, but often times I find that they are deceivingly complex precisely because I'm misunderstanding something. It's like a win/win, either I do the exercise in a few minutes because it really was easy, or I learn something.

I enjoy entering zen mode and just banging out a ton of exercises. I see a lot of people consuming video tutorials/courses without exercises and I think they're doing themselves a disservice. They get to chill and just watch a video and feel like they're learning but most of the time they really arent. I see people waste hours and hours watching courses or transcribing code from tutorials and the moment they try to do anything on their own they realize they have absolutely no idea what they're doing. It's just a huge waste of time.

People are different and stuff but I don't really buy the whole "people learn differently" thing. Everyone learns best by doing, and the structured "read about a topic, then test your knowledge by completing tailored exercises for that topic" approach allows you to have a linear and thorough path from zero to fairly advanced. I've tried books without exercises and I hated them.

I'm not opposed to looking up videos on specific topics you struggle with, but I think videos are best used as a supplement rather than a primary form of education.
How many programmers do you really need though to catch up to what CUDA has already? The path has been laid. There's no need for experimentation. Just copy what NVIDIA did. No?
No. Hash functions can be used outside of symmetric encryption. Which is the wording I used.

In any case, the overall point remains. Short of the one time pad you can’t build a provably flawless scheme.
I have problems w/ AVIF that are like the ones that guy has with WebP. Please don’t post a link to the F1 car sample image because I think that image sucks (e.g. a reflection from a surface near the driver’s head gets replaced with a different but plausible reflection.)
Tl;DR - Apple's own apps tend to be quite good at not tracking you, whilst others call a wide variety of proprietary and third party tracking endpoints.
A Resource-Control Account of Sustained Attention: Mind-Wandering and Vigilance [pdf]
About time, js cli apps were never a good idea.
Languages aren't "optimized compiled" or "interpreted". This is nonsense classification.

The words you are looking for are "language runtime". And even if you used that, you'd still be wrong. Java is exactly that: "even if with a dynamic JIT", and it does perfectly fine and even sometimes is the fastest solution for a problem (I think Java beat everyone on fastest HTTP server with largest number of simultaneous connection, where second in class was an Erlang program iirc).

Because you don't understand the problem, you are trying to offer a wrong solution: compiling doesn't do anything to speed up programs, for example. What people who want better performance need is:

* Tools to analyze program performance.

* Tools to alter program runtime ahead of time and during the program execution.

* Access to runtime primitives as far down to the "metal" as possible with as little undue effort as possible.

---

The problems with current JavaScript runtimes are that they aren't designed for performance-minded developers. The developers are given highly engineered "primitives" to work with, which make them commit to certain solutions which in turn will make automatic or manual optimizations very hard, next to impossible.

But it doesn't have to be like that. For example, a variant of JavaScript, the version 4 a.k.a. ActionScript had an "escape hatch" -- if you wanted to optimize a program you had simple unchecked memory access with primitive memory operations, which would allow you to side-step all the "bloat" of object lifecycle management. This library was often used to implement various online tools for dealing with a lot of data-processing (eg. image or video compression) and they did just fine.

Current version of JavaScript doesn't have anything like that. But it could as the evidence of its previous version doing it successfully shows.
Meta Doesn't Need ActivityPub to Slurp Up Your Data
The Biggest Problem with Lab-Grown Chicken Is Growing the Chicken
> It's how English was written in the "olden times".

Exactly.

(skipping some minor details)

When we started printing instead of writing, we dumbed the letterset down into fewer mechanical pieces. Thus earlier printers in English had to use the letter 'f' for the discarded "long 's'" letter, back when the long 's' was still expected by readers.

And that dumbed-down letterset was the one that then made it to typewriters and then our keyboard today.
Have you by any chance used Pyright? If not, I can highly recommend it. The VS Code extension makes writing Python almost as if it's a statically typed language (+ there is a CLI if you want to check types in CI). The docs are claiming that it's 3-5x faster than mypy - I haven't run performance benchmarks myself, all I can say is that for all my code bases it is very fast after the first cold start.

Comparison to mypy:
https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/mypy-com...
This is just my random person take, but personally I'm skeptical about generative photorealism - it's just extra cognitive load that distracts from payload content, unless some audiences needs it as visual aids.
Thanks. Came here to comment exactly this. Not very UX interested but are there more people who are annoyed by this horizontal scrolling image galleries? Same with the movie streaming websites... For me it seems to be counter intuitive to go horizontally while navigating vertically.
75 / (1/6) = 450. Still very exciting!
https://archive.ph/GWpRm
Nono, it's Voyager _6_ that gets destroyed by the Klingons.
Ruby on Rails Internals: A Deep Dive into Active Job Codebase
Directed Attention Fatigue
Hmm and if you limit the use case to those small groups, there are a lot more options now. There's the whole Fediverse stack, of course, but also lots of stand alone forum options you can self host. And why self host when there are also lots of low-cost community platform options out there?
She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering
llm to 3d printer ?
Use kiwi, is Chrome based and has full extension support
> That's a weird thing to say unless the pixel density is your one and only measure.

Is it though? We now have OLED TVs and OLED smartphones.

Where's our OLED PC monitors?

On every measure, if you care about colors/contrast/black+white levels/resolution/density, the average computer monitor has fallen far behind.

You can't even buy a smartphone that has a panel half as bad as most PC monitors on the market. And, at least in my area, you'd actually have to go to a lot of effort to find a non-4k TV.
I think games (and programming) cause us to feel competence.

If you write an SQL query and it works or a Rust program and it produces the correct answer, you feel competent and empowered.

That's your reward for playing the game.

There isn't an environment where I feel truly competent in.

My programs are small kingdoms where I understand how they work: they are written in Java, C or Python or Javascript.

Every codebase or system has its own mental model which is slightly different to every other, so feeling competence across a large variety of things is pretty hard.

There's a point when computing stuff no longer feels a game but just hard work.

(Anything to do with Kubernetes, OIDC, IAM policies)
That's not going to work because each GPU has a different internal architecture and aligning the way data is fed with how stream processors operate is different for each architecture (stuff like how memory buffers are organized/aligned/paged etc.). AMD is very incompatible to Nvidia at the lowest level so things/approaches that are fast on Nvidia can be 10x slower on AMD and vice versa.
> 2. Israel for years had the means to completely exterminate Gaza many times over, but they never did.

- Russia had the means to nuke Ukraine, but they never did
- North Korea had the means to bomb and start the war with South Korea, but they are not doing
- Iran had the means to bombard Israel, but they are not doing
- USA had the means to nuke Iraq/Vietnam/Afghanistan, but didn't do (even though made a lot of destruction)

Can do, doesn't mean should do. Why did you bring this topic?

> 1. There are very few Jews living in Arab states or in Gaza. Often exactly zero.

They have migrated to the USA, also they lived fine until 1948, right? what happened in 1948? People are not migrating to the USA and claiming that it is their country, they are getting integrated into the country. Can't say same about Israel
Placing no time constraints, my gut tells me it’s almost inevitable those breakthroughs will eventually come. Either in mathematics or quantum computing. Or both.

Namely I’d ask when not if. My opinion is that short of the one time pad, we won’t come up with provably unbreakable schemes.
Hilariously old-school. Even the name, snowjob, feels wonderfully anachronistic in 2023.

Definitely getting TRS-80, Robert Frost (1) vibes from this one.

(1) https://youtu.be/j-Zcog5o_p0?t=10
It's fine to use it if you think it's good, hell it probably is. What isn't nice is when I get forced to buy an iphone start using imessage because everyone else is when I don't want that, which is what is happening.
This is an adulting problem. Most of my adult friends use WhatsApp around me. So, our kids use WhatsApp because that is how they communicate with us. So, the "actual" solution is to start using WhatsApp (or whatever) and get your friends to do it. Then force your kids to do it ... then bam, iMessage no longer matters.
So it wasn't the case that dynamically loading and executing a blob of unreviewed third-party code containing the offending section is what was responsible for those transactions being initiated. Oh wait, it was.
Do you have a link on how to do such a thing?
You're an engineer in the passenger rail industry in Poland? If not then you probably will want to familiarize yourself with the state of Polish rail infra before commenting further. It's a small miracle they don't have more accidents than they already do.

The most recent major incident is two months ago:

https://apnews.com/article/poland-train-accident-1db1a088c31...

And there are plenty of others to choose from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_accidents_and...

There are only two countries in the EU that have worse rail infra than Poland (Romania, Bulgaria). Rolling stock is off mixed quality and vintage, maintenance spotty at best.
Anything that require cuDNN installed in dev environment.
Some people seem to think that ruthless efficiency in communication is a bad thing ?
That’s a neat feature.

Sometimes I struggle with using professional language (hard to shake my rural blue-collar background) and this would help me a lot.
> here I am, loosing faith in humanity

<sigh> Me, too, buddy. Me, too.
HN, where text looking bad on your machine means the designer intended for it to be unreadable. Isn't that more bizarre?
It's their website. They can do with it whatever the hell they want with it. They owe random people on HN exactly nothing. And you can also do whatever the hell you want on your website, because that's your website.

You also need to reset "font-feature-settings" by the way.
in a very large codebase, how common it is to run the linter for the entire repo? Is this an optimization worth spending time on?
I even went so far as to check the html code of the page to find out what was going on there. It is annoying, almost snobbish.