skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you should say that. When web access was initally setup on the GPT-4 ChatGPT Pro accounts, I actually had the model fact-check things that were "improbable" based on what it knew from the training data.

It stopped doing that when they started fine-tuning how/when the model should use the internet in the later model revisions.

(Edit to add detail..)

I found the interaction facinating. Basically what happened was I made a statement, but didn't ask about it. I said something like this. "Did you know {something improbable to the model} is true?"

It immediately searched the internet to validate that is was true before it responded. When I asked it why it searched, it said that what I said wasn't likely to be true, so it wanted to make sure it was true.
Yes. Can't really scale well without good process. And it's flat out unrealistic for a large org to hire only superstars. You're gonna have a ton of open positions for years.
uhh the blog is wrongly dated 31st Dec 2024 instead of 2023.
I think this is because sales tends to be a one-person job in most settings (except the very highest value deals). One sales person manages a number of accounts. Measuring the results of that person is then quite straightforward. Tech tends to be a collaborative job even in quite simple settings, which makes it immediately more difficult to measure. Add to that that the true results are often only visible after months if not years of work and you have a real challenge at hand. But I agree: there are also simple settings where you can measure a programmer’s productivity. Those are probably just not the settings in which people are that concerned about attracting top talents, though
If you don’t mind me asking, what specific area do you specialize in with your consulting work?

I’d like to do what you do in the future and I’m just curious.
Does it actually work though? Ironically my experience is that windows api + proton are a more stable target than anything linux native. Even valve doesn't get it always right when shipping linux versions of their own games. See https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=30358... for example.
very cool that earth has it's own defence mechanism
You mentioned group I am very curious what you think of the work Facebook did on memory pressure metric
Physics is falsified by experimental evidence as Barry-1 pushes itself into a 100 km higher orbit, despite a lack of propellant. Quantized inertia makes it to the cover of Nature.

We fail to adopt Capability Based Security, and continue to suffer through security incident after incident.

Bitcoin reaches a peak of $120,000, and subsequently drops back 50%

BitGrid comes out of left field as the high performance replacement for the Turing machine in academic lessons. The fact that it turns out to be faster, yet simpler than all existing AI hardware stuns many.
Can be summed up nicely as sung by the Stones: identifying what your customers need is better than giving what they want
Was skiing in Hakuba when it happened, not too far from Ishikawa. It adds to the scare that everyone's phone at the food court started sending off alarm sound in sync.

I'm not sure in the situation, you're supposed to exit the building, or hide under the table?
My vague memory says hide under the table (if the building is not old, or close to the sea), but most people rushed for the exit, which quickly got clogged but thankfully not enough panic for Stampede.

My intuition says outdoors, when so close to the slope, is probably more risky with avalanche and land slide risk + vehicles
I have an even simpler theory.

These things have always existed -
the Internet and technology has just brought unprecedented scale to the same problems.

It's the literal incarnation of "lies fly around the world 10 times before the truth gets its boots on"

Scaled audience, speed, response, impact. It's not just a dimension of the problem, it creates a qualitatively different problem because of the asymmetry between harm and remedy.

You could always pirate works - the issue is now you can do it at scale.

You could always use low tech (human) "facial recognition" to ban people from events - now you can do it at scale.

You could always do revenge porn / gossip / shaming - now you can do it at scale.

And you could always boycott / "cancel culture" someone - scale.

I think our biggest mistake is trying to apply 20th (or worse, 18th) century thinking to these issues.
A survey of some other languages:

C printf: MT-Safe locale.

C++ std::cout: safe, unless you call sync_with_stdio(false).

JVM System.out.println: safe in common JVMs.

C# Console.WriteLine: safe.

Go fmt.Printf: safe.

Rust println!: safe.

Ruby puts: safe.

So it seems that Python is the outlier here.
This works pretty well for languages that use a space as word separator. Now do this for those languages that don’t and have no clear and easy rules for word separation.
I like a nuanced discussion of politics. I just don’t like a notion that there should be a simple solution to every complex problem.
The claim that this looks like modern mickey mouse is wild to me.
Yup, cost Apple a bucket.
I just played with it a little bit and my first impression was that the Meshtastic app is exceptionally well made. I only tried iOS, so I can only speak for that, but I was pleasantly surprised.
That is so cool!

Interesting note, Chrome now shows me how much memory each tab consumes. No matter what I did it is always stay on 50mb (which sounds like a bug in chrome), while a page from SO consumes 87mb and HN takes about 30mb.
More than 20 years ago, I had frequently the same experience with Linux becoming unresponsive.

Then I have stopped using swap partitions or swap files. For more than 20 years I have never used again any kind of swap, on a large variety of desktops, laptops and servers with Linux. I never had again any problem with unresponsiveness.

Nevertheless, I provision all the computers with generous amounts of DRAM, e.g. there are many years since I have last used a computer with less than 32 GB. In these conditions, OOM events are extremely rare.

While there are people who claim that there still exist cases when swap can be useful, I have never seen any evidence for this claim.
Not sure my brain has made it to 2024 yet, but i was somehow disappointed to find out, it's about physical shoes and not virtual shoes. Not sure what i expected, but i was wondering what VR shoes might be – especially with a few dozen comments on HN.
The RAW Weights here: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/
Nim uses the ORC "GC" by default, which is Reference-Count with cycle detection.
I don't get why calling the GC explicitly is needed in your examples given RC will drop memory as soon as it goes out of scope (and there are no other aliases to it). Perhaps the "cycle detection" happens at indeterminate times? But can't you use the simple RC GC in such cases? That should also ensure you don't use more memory than C at all?!
Wow immersive. After ~15 secs I mechanically tried moving windows with alt + click, but it moved my browser.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is on point as usual. Largest quake so far:

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eve...

List of quakes (continuously updated and there have been multiple aftershocks):

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/index.html?lang=en

Scale explained:

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_advisory.html?l...

Felt it on the other side in Kantou (a "three" here) and it caused some hick ups with the water/gas, but all back to normal here. I am however concerned with those on the other side of Honshuu.

NKH have not been joking around with the evacuation warnings for Ishikawa-ken. The announcers were notably emotional and speaking very sternly: "Evacuate, now!", "Seek shelter, now!, "Seek high ground, now!", "Protect the life of yourself and those around you, evacuate, now!", etc. It very much brought back memories from 2011. Particularly seeing people running in the streets for shelter on live television. Thankfully the tsunami is looking much weaker than back then.
Mark V. Shaney?
Why would ML be any good at that?
That's a great list! The website in the original article (daedalOS) is even listed there.
This is an interesting point of fact about what Boltzmann Brains could be.
I can't tell if people just love the idea of the public domain, hate Disney, or both.
It still makes sense. The group that listens to these people instead of real superstars (assuming it has any) is at disadvantage.
Maybe it's sending the same bitstream for both?
Hope you folks stay safe and don’t let this affect the new year too much. Wishing you the best.
> The program I used (DBeaver) saw the empty 3rd line, and ignored the 4th line.

A great example of software causing grief by trying to be too clever.
E’e eee eeee E eeee ee.
Man, y'all haven't been around software consulting long enough. First, you have to sell low code based on the premise that you don't need coders to make your software. Than, for custom functionality, you explain that you need developers on the platform to get certified. Finally, you make sure to not document anything so that consulting firms with legacy experience have a monopoly on developer talent in order to keep them happy and recommending your software to others to score large consulting contracts.

Everyone is happy! Especially the people who actually have to use the software made this way! As we all know, enterprise software has a reputation for being extremely user friendly...
All-Time Lows for SaaS Growth. A Buying Signal – Or the End of an Era?
Show HN: Made some progress on character consistency for AI storytelling
It has been a major challenge for all AI storytellers to create images of a character with consistent face/hair/outfit/body type across different scenes. We took a stab at this problem at Artflow’s and we'd like to show it to you to gather some early feedback.

Please note that this is still an early version and we fully admit it's not perfect.

See a tutorial/sample here: https://app.artflow.ai/releases#release%203.5.1%202023-11-29
@fxtentacle - I'm currently planning on starting a consulting company for my area of expertise (data engineering), can I reach out to you and learn the 101 of doing something like this?
Saxo Bank's Outrageous Predictions 2024
Other than wildcard certs mentioned by sibling comments, note that this is security by obscurity in pure form. This is insecure!

You cannot have a website on the public internet and hope to hide it only by virtue of having no well-known CA cert. Your deployment, should it be truly public, has to be secure even in the face of its location (FQDN) being known. Else, it’d just be a matter of time until breaching happens.

You might be interested in the ACME DNS challenge as well.
Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?
It wouldn't just work for javascript and the way it's used, though. It modifies semantics in a way that would affect the behaviour of existing programs in production environments. It would break things that currently work, and it would break tooling that currently works.

Common tooling for production error tracking (e.g. Sentry) would be greatly affected by such a behavioural change.

Functional languages "just work" with those semantics because those expectations were set up ahead of time, and tooling and developer expectations were molded around them. But JS isn't one of those languages. The tooling and developer expectations, and gargantuan amounts of existing code, has been written with the expectation that calls create stack frames.

> The only FP languages that require explicit syntax, target the JVM, which lacks the support.

Support could be added to the JVM just the same as the JSVM though - via a spec change. And just as with the JSVMs, it would be a semantic change that would alter the behaviour of existing programs in ways that would break existing tooling and make developers lives worse. It's why both of them resist it.
Tsunami warning in Japan after strong earthquake
Happy new years!
Powerful earthquakes off Japan's west coast prompt tsunami warnings
In Mexico we have a scary alarm system as well but normally we're told to stay near the frame if we can't leave reasonably (i.e. within 5-10 seconds), but otherwise I wouldn't really stay in a building after the quake either so during the big one I was just walking to outside the entire time lol
How is Livewire 3 called across components? – 5 USD bounty
I posted this question on 1024 and paid $5 as a bounty.
>NKH have not been joking around with the evacuation warnings for Ishikawa-ken.

That is standard protocol and has been iterated upon each time emergencies like this have occured.

Nowadays they put up a very strong act of sounding emotional and serious to try and convince as many who are watching/listening to get off their arse and evacuate.
That was fun. Got it by 2:00, but also played a few hunches with a cowboy move here and there that may have saved time.

Still not going to convince me to respond to Slack that quickly, though.
That's evidential decision theory, right? You minimize the expected regret. If that's not risk adverse enough for you, you can weight together multiple perturbation groups for your world model and utility function.
This tweet seems like a fairly lazy combination of the recent ChatGPT copyright discussion with the Disney one.
> Even the openly licensed ones are still the world’s most convoluted black boxes. We continue to have very little idea what they can do, how exactly they work and how best to control them.

LLM's aren't black boxes, intelligence is. Not understanding anything about things which display emergent intelligence is not a new trend: first cells, then the human brain, and now LLM's. To explicate the magic of how an LLM is able to maintain knowledge when would be analogous to understanding how the human brain synthesizes output. Yes - it is still something we should strive to understand in an explicit, programmatic way. But to de-black box the LLM would be to crack intelligence itself.
Would be interesting to do it with gen ai. If the author would add a suitable license, I might give that a shot.
When my kids were that age I just did a ton of work in the middle of the night. Switched to electric piano/violin/guitar over headphones so family wouldn’t be bothered by that either
Cloudflare's Warp:

Proxy Score: 55/100 - Very likely a Proxy
VPN Score: 15/55 - Could be a VPN (But Unlikely)
Client Score: no client threat

And ipinfo gives me:

privacy: Object,
vpn: false,
proxy: false,
tor: false,
relay: false,
hosting: true,
service: "",
Good to know it.
yt-dlp is the project you want
FWIW, the expiring copyright holder has its headquarters in Burbank,CA.
Due to (async) code reviews slowing down the development, we've adopted some workflows described at https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html and it's working out pretty great. The committer decides how many approvals they need to merge a pull request, based on how confident they are about the code they wrote. This allows us to quickly merge small incremental improvements that would otherwise be bundled in a crowded feature pull request.
I flipped through the other channels and they didn't sound nearly as emotional.

At one point, the NHK voice said, "Stop watching TV! Turn it off and run away! No, don't turn it off, just run away!"
Whenever I taught a course with group work, I would have the students give all the other students in the group a score each week. All the scores had to add up to 100. They had no problem giving any student not participating a zero. There was a formula we would run the scores through to give each student a final score that was a percentage of the total score for the project and their group participation scores. It worked quite well to give those who worked the hardest the most points and those who didn’t do any work zero points.
Thanks for you sharing benchmark result.
Honestly i stopped reading after "organic eggs from a dumpster" as this seems to be just one more person that is "out of the system" by just parasiting on the system itself. Like many "anarcho" punks i have personally met they really do not have an issue thinking that they are out of the system while living off its infrastructure and using its emergency rooms when needed. Im all for a different lifestyle and a better society ( whatever that might mean to you) but most of these approaches are just childish
might have to write a mousy ttrpg real quick like and put it up on driverhru
yes yes, thanks.
I like how it's more capable than ios where you can't position app icons arbitrarily and need to use random filler to have them within reach.
The Mickey Mouse head is literally the logo of the Disney corporation, it is and it will remain their trademark in perpetuity(or for as long as Disney exists).

Trademarks are different than copyright - you can't start a company and use Mickey mouse as your logo for instance, because then the trademark law would kick in. But you can still make your own story/cartoon/film with Mickey Mouse the character and it should be fine.
In those datasets you could improve compression by adding apriori knowledge about their context in the real world - if the compression program knows about historical S&P500 prices, it will be pretty good at compressing all historical stock info. Kolmogorov complexity is indistinguishable from AI
Tigger should be joining Winnie the Pooh if my memory serves me correctly.
Pattern matching and exhaustiveness checking algorithms implemented in Rust
As many know and point out, this idea is now very old (40+ years?). The big problem is that it creates "word salad" [0]. In the generative art and procgen community, the term "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem has been used [1].

Taking a step back, this is a perennial problem, even with AI old and new. I've heard that the early (good) chess bots, after Deep Blue, had a problem of only being locally context sensitive and being easily fooled by longer range attack planning. We even see it, to a certain extent, in LLMs where they forget or contradict themselves with what was just said. I have no doubt that LLMs will just keep getting better but, as a snapshot of right now, you can see shades of this "word salad" problem, just a few steps removed to become a "logic salad" problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad

[1] https://galaxykate0.tumblr.com/post/139774965871/so-you-want...
Was at Onsen in Fukushima (Koriyama) when it happened. For two seconds I thought I was dizzy from the hot water until I realised what was happening. Luckily it was not much worse than the feeling you get when driving a car on the highway. I hope however everyone is safe and the damage is not going to be devastating. And I hope everyone can get to safety in time.
Does anybody knows what melody he plays at 6:31, I mean the very ending, the last 7 strokes on teeth.
So something like NeWS
I find something lacking from many AI discussions because my experience with having a brain is radically different from average. Mine is damaged by a childhood brain injury, which wasn't diagnosed until I was 30.

Another thing about the injury is that my lower order thinking skills seem to be damaged, such as sequencing or anything based on working memory. However, my higher order thinking skills are intact - I think they've been compensating for the broken skills this whole time, albeit with much difficulty.

My thoughts on LLMs from a previous comment:

> I think in pictures; I remember information with emotions, music, movement, and basically anywhere my brain could stuff information. Words are ephemeral, I often forget the beginning of a sentence by the time I reach the end.

> The human brain is so much more than language.

Also:

> There are many specialists and not many generalists. Generalists are needed to tie together the multiple domains required to emulate the human brain.
Thanks for the tip! I'll check with the folks who added Nim support to NuttX, and figure out whether we should call GC_runOrc()
This is cool. I wish I could do this sort of thing, however when I come up again something like this I assume it's already been done and go look for the solution. In this case I'd likely have just used yt-dlp. However, had that project been dmca'd, by disreputable organisatios I'd likely have remained stuck, so kudos.
Probably, at least for cases where ‘the public’ won’t see it as them being aggressive if they go after use of the image.

FTA: “He believes Disney's active use of the trademarked versions in Steamboat Willie merchandise, new animated shorts, and even a studios theatrical logo, is "Disney's way of safeguarding the characters if they want to go the legal route in any egregious use of the characters".”
IPv6 is the real answer
Thanks for your information, I think I will focus on working for mobile version.
This is the answer. Unfortunately there is a plethora of dubious machine learning and AI tutorial clickbait material appearing on the internet to sell ads.

Here are some resources I've found which don't suck if you actually want to learn this stuff:

https://ai.stanford.edu/courses/ <- Stanford's AI course materials.

https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html <- Karpathy's "neural networks - zero to hero". The other ones (eg the transformers ones on youtube also seem excellent to me after an initial skim although I haven't got to actually working through them yet).

https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?q=artificial%20intelligence and https://ocw.mit.edu/search/?q=machine%20learning (MIT's relevant opencourseware)

https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book2.html (Draft book "Probabilistic machine learning: Advanced topics" by Kevin Murphy) <- looks seriously excellent although I've really only taken a cursory dip into it so far. He's also got 2 other books at https://probml.github.io/pml-book/ which are more introductory in nature which I expect are probably great too.
When is any tsunami expected to hit Japan? Eg when can we breathe some sight of relief?
Why is it odd? The original is analogue. What resolution should it be scanned at? What about the Mona Lisa?
Good list.

Creating your own desktop environment is an incredible “hello world” into serious and more advanced JavaScript development.
I will update the readme, wait me for a minute thanks.
I'm curious if one can make any money playing poker online while following some computer-optimized strategy. I assume many (most?) players are already doing this. Insights are appreciated :)
It's very snappy. I'm honestly impressed. (Snappier opening apps than a new M1 I briefly had)
To be clear, I'm not talking about PTC/TCO in general in this comment, I'm talking about it specifically in the context of Javascript, and in the context of the common patterns of Javascript usage.

That is, PTC doesn't just need to be powerful than other forms of call, it needs to be more useful day-to-day than other ways of writing the same logic. I think this article shows that, at least with the common recursive examples, that's rarely the case - it is pretty much always clearer and significantly quicker to use loops and Array methods than it is to rely on PTC and recursion.

You make a good point that there are uses for PTC outside of recursion, and that there are things you can do with it that can't be done with existing constructs. I'm sure that's true, but in my experience, the things people want to do with these tools tend not to fit well with the other features of Javascript, such as the high degree of mutation, and the dynamic nature of the language. At which point, it's probably more useful to create a compile-to-Javascript language instead that uses these sorts of features internally.

But with the rise of WASM (which has PTC as a proposal that I believe some groups have already implemented), it makes a lot more sense to use WASM as a target instead. There, you have a lot more control over exactly what gets executed and how, along with generally smaller and faster code. The exception right now is obviously DOM manipulation, but with the GC work being done right now, the path is opening up to getting easier access to the DOM directly in WASM.