skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube has been running ads non-stop showing deep fakes of well-known cryptocurrency icons like Michael Sailor and Anatoly Yakovenko asking people to send some crypto to an address and get 2x back. It feels like the bottom is officially falling out.
Redux, and later useContext, were invented specifically to eliminate prop drilling.
No, but these alternative search engines are less likely to surface blogspam sites that are the biggest users of AI writing. On Kagi, you can block those domains when they come up. On Millionshort you can scope your results to exclude the top 100, top1000 or top10k domains. That clears out a lot of the garbage.
For the chevy tahoe example, you are referencing the dealership, but in that case it wasn't a case of the implementation failing to do a positive test for fact extraction, but to test the guardrails.

Aren't the guardrail tests much harder since they are open-ended and have to guard against unknown prompt injections and the test of facts much simpler?

I think a test suite that guards against the infinite surface area is more valuable then testing if a question matches a reference answer.

Interested to how you view testing against giving a wrong answer outside of the predefined scope as opposed to testing that all the test questions match a reference.
Not quite. The report says it's "virtually certain" that heat waves have increased but only "highly likely" that this increase is caused by climate change.

That aside, I don't believe we have the data or the statistical methods to make the claim that the article does. I would say that the link between climate change and weather events is "frightening plausible" and leave it at that.
Thanks for the inside story.

Let me elaborate: Scala failed hard in the sense, that it was IMHO a far superior language compared to Java around 2010 (! JDK 7/8 times) and basically is dead now for new projects (unless there are some die hard Scala fanatics on a team, and even they are moving for greener pastures), also see how Kotlin succeeds everywhere at the moment.

What I totally don't get is, that Scalas failure was _not_ surprising at all, and there were a lot of kind people giving constructive feedback, why Scala fails in the industry (example: https://gist.github.com/alexo/1406271):

- Slow compile times
- No binary compatibility even between minor updates
- Every feature under the sun was stuffed into Scala, making it impossible to transfer projects to 'industry programmers' w/o too extensive training
- Tooling support (like IDEs) was extremely lacking/slow/bad
- Not to speak about the community infights about the right way(TM) to approach a problem

Personal experience from me: Scala was too slow/cumbersome to use with subpar tooling. And I consider myself a target group: In love with FP but forced to deploy on the JVM. Besides my own experience, I saw teams of Scala developers fail to materialize any significant benefit in real world projects over 'dumper' programming languages, not even speaking about transferring Scala projects to non academic 'elite' teams.

I like some ideas in Scala 3 and IMHO it is sad that Kotlin (which is IMHO just syntactic sugar over Java) gets so much attention, but in the end Scala hat plenty of years to fix its problems and its failure comes as no surprise, because there was plenty of feedback. Are there still some Scala projects around? Yes, mostly Scala 2 because, surprise, libraries still don't have binary compatibility etc. For Scala 3 I have neither seen industry adaption or any enthusiasm from a wider community.
I’m using Kagi too but I cannot imagine how they’re immune from this.
How was Sundar at the time you joined? According to Wikipedia he spearheaded the development of Chrome, GDrive, GMaps, GMail and the VP8 format which are all monumental products so he sounds like he was quite like every other talented hacker that thrived in early Google culture. Is that not the case? What made him turn to the dark side so abruptly?
In a capitalist economy, high pay doesn't equal challenging / hard work or even valuable work. If you exist where the money is being funneled, you will get paid a lot even if you barely contribute.
> One thing I learned from my in-laws' tragedy, was that the grief never goes away, but you will grow stronger in dealing with it.

Picture your life as a a big, clear ball. When the grief first happens, it's like a giant, dark ball suddenly fills up the entire ball. There's nothing else. Everything is pain. Everything is grief.

People think the dark ball is meant to shrink over time, but in my experience, that's not it at all. What happens instead is that, slowly but surely, the clear ball gets bigger.

Eventually, not every moment is grief. Not every moment is pain. It's still there. It's never smaller. It never actually even hurts less. But you grow around it.

Losing someone to death is like if a color suddenly disappeared from your whole world. Let's use yellow. You've encountered so much of your life with this yellow in it. The more closely things were associated with this person,the yellower they are--and the more wrong they look now that yellow is gone.

Over time, you get used to the way they look, but you never really forget how they looked back when they were yellow. They're not as beautiful now.

But then there are other things that you encounter that haven't ever been yellow, places that person never went or things they were never a part of. You can imagine how much more beautiful they would be if they did have yellow, but they don't look wrong to you without yellow. They just look how they look, and that's the way you expect them to be beautiful.

I don't know if these images are helpful to anyone else, but they've made a big difference to me on my own grief journey, and since today would have been my sister's birthday, I thought I'd share them.
Humans are older as confident nonsense generators. Incompetence was around before we had machines that automate it. Of course some people will die due to machine recommendations, but I've yet to see an argument why this will be worse than deaths from overconfident humans.
yeah, I was hoping that the comprehensive family tree would have listed some editors that were "descended" from aurora, in being explicitly inspired by / trying to clone its architecture and user experience.
What's tricky is that generally queues are difficult to avoid; they are everywhere in computing. Network has queues, hardware has queues, services have queues, operating systems have queues, frameworks and runtimes have queues, your clients will have queues. You often have very limited visibility on many of those, nevermind having any controls, especially if you are not even aware that the queue exists.
Disclaimer: not saying regular exercise isn't important...

There is a meme, or some "motivational" thing that floats around. "Exercise for an hour a day. It's less than 5% of your day - what's your excuse?"

Uhh... because, if I factor in:
- 8 hours for sleeping

- 8 hours for working

- 1.5-2 hours for commuting

- 0.5-1 hour to get ready for work

- 1 hour to prepare and eat dinner

All of a sudden we are at 19-20 hours, and it's not less than 5% of my day, it's actually 25% of my day.
Yes because that particular quote is funny to me, the idea that boot up time is equivalent to harming someone to death is low key hilarious.
From production to prototype with ESP-32
Corporations are just networks individuals, coordinating their activities through formal processes.
"New Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew has announced that cannabis extracts containing more than 0.2 percent of the active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, will be classified as narcotics."

Seems like a reasonable idea to realize that ultra processed MJ is more harmful.
Of course, keep in mind US v. Paramount recently got sunsetted and it was decided it could never happen again :^)
I mean, _Generic is usually hidden behind a macro anyways, so it doesn't really show up in you text file all that much.
I've been often wondering how difficult would it be to build a browser plugin that detected the original source of all this recycled content, and then linked to it.

I get so frustrated with articles that essentially summarize the content on the original source, even say that it was "first reported" by another publication, but then don't link to it!

Even worse, the chain of recycled content is sometimes like half a dozen links deep. It's idiotic, and a complete disservice to your readers.

I get that the competition for ad dollars is brutal, but wtf.
Link to these in English? I found some hits that may be correct for Polish - but I'm guessing they're hosted somewhere canonical?
It will be never be free.
And in any event, I will believe the US should enact government paid medical care* as soon as the EU does#.

* For the ~50% that isn't already on government managed medical care

# The constituent states of the EU each do something different.as I understand it, but they don't send gobs of money out of their State so that gormless bureaucrats can take their massive vigorish before sending it back
I think you’re touching on an important point though, mix of in person and in office is really challenging, because some people see each other all day while others are literally more disconnected. It creates a heterogeneous mix of work relationships, and I’m not so sure that handling mix WFH WFO is purely evident of poor team management, it’s just difficult to have a cohesive team when some are physically there and some arent
To me this is almost like internal vs external locus of control stuff.

I can control my focus at home because I am in full control.

In an open floor plan office environment, I have the added challenge of needing to shield my attention from others. For me the open floorpan office is like trying to do work in the middle of an airport terminal (not the lounge, sorry).
> No hospital will leave you (because of decency and federal law) to die if you can't pay.

Yes, they will. The legal requirement (under EMTALA) is to provide emergency screening and care until stabilized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Nataline_Sarkisyan

"UCLA declined two livers while waiting for insurance approval from Cigna. Sarkisyan's family was also informed that they could proceed with the transplant if they could make a down-payment of $75,000."
Will something like whisper.cpp be possible for whisper speech?
I'm gonna say something that probably some people won't like. I'm impressed by how much money the industry is moving by this so called "AI" movement and literally having zero concrete improvement on one's every day life (and by this I mean common people, not developers/techies).

I haven't seen, nor witnessed anything that you can benefit from all this AI hype. All that has done is opening the door for polluting the web with crap. And we keep on and on with the madness of training, wasting money (and resources) on gpus, generating tb of data. For what? To generate text, images?

If someone can actually point out a real example on the real world how all this madness helps to a better world, much appreciated, because honestly I don't see it.
I'd also say this. The technical aspect of a game compared to the actual game design is a very different sort of problem. Specifically with Minecraft you could design a game using mods like Create.

For inspiration I would point to the creator TangoTek. Over the past year he designed a deck building dungeon crawler in vanilla-ish Minecraft using redstone. It's a great series to see how you can design a game in almost any environment.
> I mean, you can always just not rely on the internet for news and narratives and such.

That commenter went on to list examples where one’s personal usage of the Internet would irrelevant to one’s wellbeing. It won’t affect one’s level of care received from doctors or one’s safety when crossing a bridge.
Good for Norway I guess? Like I said, it was never an issue, and I drove on roads that were consistently snow covered. Just drive slower. I used to pass a lot of vehicles stuck in snow banks off the highway after they had passed me at high speed, cars, trucks, SUVs, didn't matter. The primary risk factor in snow driving is speed.
Minor note - RISC-V's Zba (included in RVA22, which afaik is set to be the baseline requirement for Android) has sh2add for a combined x+y*4, getting that store down to two instructions (testable with -march=rv64gczba); doesn't affect the overall point of needless clobbering of registers from the instruction fusion approach though (and shouldn't indexed loads be even worse, having three potential output registers in baseline RV64GC, and still two with Zba?)
summary: generate 500M synthetic examples where you start with random constructions, deduce (not sure until saturation or fixed depth) and use each conclusion along with its dependency graph and original premises as a training example. The 500M reduces to 100M after dedupe and they used 7.5M CPU hours. 9M/100M used auxiliary/exogenous constructions (which I think of as like if you're doing this on program search and the program requires some constant pi that isn't derivable from the inputs). They encode the examples for a transformer and finetune on the auxiliary construction subset to eek out 2 more problems. Then beam search using the model to generate next term and logic engine to expand the closure until the conclusion is in the set.

They make a big deal about these auxiliary constructions but I'm not sure the results back that up. I also don't understand what the "without pretraining" means; they say without pretraining it gets 21 problems, without fine-tuning 23 problems, and altogether 25. So are they getting 21/25 without their synthetic data at all??

I want to look at how the dependency graph is encoded in the training examples and whether you might expect different results from different encodings. Ideally I'd think you'd want that part of the model/embedding to be invariant across all possible (big number!) of encodings.

The human comparisons are really weak in Fig 2 and unfortunately is probably what the media mainly focuses on. I do find the results interesting and wonder how well this translates into program synthesis for example. The paper mentioned in these comments which I have yet to read more "Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Program Better" sounds related. I'd be very interested to see more methods that are very different from LLM heuristic beam search, even though it does seem compelling and they get to publish lots of papers with it.
Stallman did eat skin from his feet multiple times while on stage and may have asked people to serve him tea in an uncouth way multiple times. I do actually think about that when I compile from source and yes it bothers me a little but I soldier on.
Yeah, I'd say about half the posts I find via google are deleted, it really is a shell of its former self.
I can see what you are getting that there. The problem is that Chicago actually caused a pretty extreme case, mostly due to infrastructure issues. Cars waiting in line for hours at low states of charge effectively couldn't precondition.

I've never seen this scenario happen in the real world, but I guess we've found one weird edge case where it can happen.
> The one and a half downsides not mentioned here:

Make that 2.5. If you are building new analytic products the most significant issue is that 90% of the information in data lakes is already there and not in an open format like Iceberg. Instead, it's heaps of CSV and Parquet files, maybe in Hive format but maybe just named in some unique way. If your query engine can't read these it's like being all dressed up with no place to go.
Memory safety has not been violated here.
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China's tiered city system explained (2016)
Maybe I _will_ buy an EV. Except despite this depreciation they are still tremendously expensive around here.
The author didn't even remove ChatGPTs disclaimer in the last paragraph. Other articles on the site however seem human-written.
When, not what
Right, but can McDonald's run a commercial with AI linus torvalds endorsing their product?

I think that fakes happening on the internet isn't super interesting. Those are typically smaller scams anyways. I worry way more about much larger companies doing "Here's what so and so would say about this circumstance with our ai generation" or whatever.

Large companies have much larger reach than bitcoin scammers.
With the entire commute debate being what it is I will just point out that in Austria there has been somewhat of a solution to this for a long time now - it's called the "Pendlerpauschale" (commuter's flat rate).

If you live far enough away from your employee (20km+) you are entitled to an added monthly bonus to your salary - depending on your estimated commute time.
Obviously: Dave Calhoun of Boeing
The wildly over-broad part of this is that anyone making a "personalized cloning service" available is liable under this law.

That's nuts because there numerous legitimate uses for such a service.

This law would cover anything capable of making deepfakes of a person, which would kill off generative AIs in general.
which is inactive and the author has no intention to evolve it I think
New data and visualizations highlight the resilience of international developer
With that take, the internet was what seeded our destruction. Doctors could get credible-sounding bad advice on the internet a decade ago, no AI needed. This is just another "don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia" moment, and it will pass.

I choose to be naively optimistic: the glut of reasonable-sounding bullshit will increase the practice of citing sources when making claims. Then we can go back to good-old-fashioned lying with statistics.
That's really curious. The other main way to preserve things other than canning is by salting or curing, which would have way more salt than the canned foods.
I signed up for it when it was announced. I don't remember any websites I used actually using it.
Tech is full of people like OP. You got good paying job (because profession is hot) so you’re obviously smarter than everyone else, and your way of thinking and living is only right one.
The what, why, how formula of technical writing
That YouTube link was awesome, thanks
One of the biggest hurdles to getting a social safety net past public perception in the US is that people are easily swayed against it if they're told that people of other races will benefit from it. A certain portion of the population automatically sorts any public benefit into a weird racial zero-sum game, where any support given to <people of that race> is a dollar specifically taken away from <people of my race>.

It's a big part of why we've historically had such a hard time implementing any sort of reasonable social benefits, and why the much lauded Nordic countries started cutting down on theirs the second they got a significant (racially different) refugee population.
Epic 600-Mile Travels of One Wooly Mammoth May Hold Clues to Their Extinction
Just build it in Northern France then and add capacity to the UK interconnector, versus building it in the UK. Ship the electrons if you can't ship the tech.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/national-grid-ventures/intercon...
Hopefully with cool journalistic methods such as calling a 1st degree source and talking to them.
Dogs may wag their tails so much due to rhythm-loving humans, scientists say
IMHO, the C committee should just copy a subset from C++, in addition to having new features for free, you also make sure c and c++ are 100% compatible.
Maybe that’s exactly what the internet needs right now
For those of you who aren't old, high or American enough to get this reference...

TFA article is about the Golgi apparatus, and this is also the title of a song by the band Phish. In the 90's when this was new you either had to be pretty nerdy or have a nerdy friend to explain to you what the fuck a Golgi apparatus was.

Source: Im old, I smoked a lot of weed in the 90s, I paid attention in biology class.
Continuing the analogy from the article though, the sink overflow doesn't go past the red arrow in their diagrams. It's there to solve the specific problem of "the sink drain is plugged, either because you left the water running with the plug in or because there's a ball of hair immediately below the drain".
Being so quick to jump this sarcastic gun on something so clearly unrelated to memory safety (even if it was a leak, which it isn't!) is not a great look.
What is your office like? The ones I've had dubious honor to work in is like you describe, but with dozens of noisy adult children in the same room with me, not the next one.
ok I'm biased because I work in exactly this sector: automated meeting minutes make life easier and are powered by LLMs.

US employees spend 18 hours / week in meetings so that is a noticeable improvement IMHO.
There is already precedent of this, where it was overt. Tom Waits, owner of a very distinctive vocal style, famously successfully sued Frito-Lay for making a commercial that used a singer that sounded too much like him. This was in the 80s, well before the Web or Generative AI.
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Autoscaling seems like a downstream concern from the techniques being discussed here. Autoscaling tends to have a pretty high latency, so you still need a strategy for being overloaded while that extra capacity comes online. There's also a question of how the autoscaler knows what "load" is and when it's "too high." Just going off of CPU/memory usage probably means you're over-provisioning. Instead, if you have back-pressure or load-shedding built into your system you can use those as signals to the autoscaler.
What’s the point of this article? It cites a paper from 2007 and references another paper from 2010. It’s an interesting factoid, but very dated information and the article adds nothing by way of journalism.
Hi Bruce! :-) Well, to be fair I said "inspired by", not "copied from".

BTW, I'm not trying to bash RISC-V (although it may come across that way sometimes).
I think the theory is that if half of your excess requests come from two actors, then half of the consequences of random dropping are felt by those two people. That’s not fair, but it’s better than dropping all requests after you get into trouble. Fairness is very difficult to achieve in a distributed system, due to coordination delays.
It seems a unique haptic feedback given to both pilots controls would work well here.
You say so. It does everything I need, and as far as developing, I much prefer FF DevTools to Chrome and Safari. I only turn to Safari if I need dev tools for an iDevice
yep, that's me. Did u try the app?
Often people deny something is an appeal to authority if it is an appeal to an authority they accept.