skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
edit: I totally misread the parent comment, move along

I really wouldn't recommend looking to LLMs to evaluate truthfulness, they aren't built for that and have no way of knowing what true is.

They're much better as a tool for summarizing information, with the usual caveat that any summary is incomplete and can only be as truthful as the original source(s) used.
We use gmail at work and they warned our IT department that App passwords were deprecated and would be removed at some point (there was a previous deadline but it has been extended to a non-specific point in the future).
Poorly. I had a 4 stroke line trimmer and it definitely didn’t like extreme angles. Back to two stroke I went.
I just got laid off but working there can be really good. My manager and team were great engineers but also just truly nice and caring people and the pay and benefits were great. On the other hand I found the work to mostly be tedious (for every bit of interesting engineering there was lots of bureaucracy and wrestling with obtuse internal tools).

It definitely wasn't for me (I was already looking for other jobs so the day I got laid off I literally celebrated) but I would say if you have a high tolerance for big corporate bullshit it's a pretty great workplace. What got to me in the end was a little bit that I was just bored there but the bigger reason was a misalignment of values with the company, I think they've done a lot of unethical things across their products for money and also they are extremely hostile to any sort of employee organizing there. I recognize though that the significant value misalignment is a personal thing and for many people they won't have the same issue.
She Talked Like a Millionaire, Slept in a Parking Garage and Fooled Everybody
> cultural marxists

I think maybe you mean just "Marxists". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

To your question, I do think the term is becoming heavily watered down as I see it being used frequently by people who clearly lack the context on Marxist thought to be able to use it with it's original meaning. More often, when people use the term, I infer the sentiment that the "capitalism" we live in is regressing into oligarchy or corporatocracy.
No, the core presentation is around two hours and includes more than frequency analysis. Around a half dozen signs get relatively close examination. Do you have any specific objections or alternative explanations for comparison?
A lot of these zoning changes lower the already low barrier for multinationals to build, but does nothing for actual families. I'm presently surrounded by hundreds of empty units priced out of reach because these companies are illegally colluding to fix the price. They may claim ignorance and try to launder responsibility through a series of tech products, but at the end of the day the rent is high where I am because of price fixing.
Some services are, like you said, obviously done by contractors, but I can't help to think that you rarely see any testament from other employees than engineers to how great an employer Google is, or was, and if you're looking at the bigger picture - while Google's up until recently practically been drowning in cash, they're at the same time outsourcing CS to sweatshops like Teleperformance.
Ask HN: Are you seen less and less remote jobs?
I'm looking for a job, and just a year ago I could find hundreds if not thousands of remote jobs advertised in my field. I now can barely find ten. I know there major issues in the IT market currently, but was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same? lot of jobs are on-site only.
Turkey has clamped down on VPNs ahead of local elections
It's because IMAP, SMTP and POP allow substantial access to your google account and life, yet none have the ability to do 2 factor. Nor do they allow any kind of anti-robot verification.

That means it's super easy to do credential stuffing attacks, and at google-scale, that sort of attack is going to let an attacker ruin a lot of lives.

This is a good thing, and they should have done it years ago (they kinda did by defaulting IMAP/POP/SMTP access to off - that protects most users - this is just for the rest)
Is this going to be a problem for my mutt and mbsync setup?
> YouTube was acquired and it never managed to become something really big

Before YouTube there was Google Video, which was moderately successful (it was just that YouTube was more successful, so it got acquired).
Still love these little blogs, its like visiting someone's home, but in some cases they are abandoned homes from 2012 when the internet really took the turn for the worst.
Trackmania's 20-year-old collision detection bug getting fixed [video]
Trackmania is a popular arcade car racing game series, with its first game released 20 years ago. One of its collision detection bugs related to a vehicle model where landings are not as smooth as players would expect ("landing bug") will soon be fixed by the developer Nadeo, in the latest game of the series, Trackmania 2020, after a player modified the game, fixed the issue, and shared the results inside the community.
This video is one of the popular streamers of the game (Wirtual) commenting on this.
Holy heck what I'd do to bring AVS back. The possibilities were endless... HOWEVER, I was with the Geiss/Milkdrop party XD

so Geiss vs AVS; much like the editor wars, but with visualisers. So cool back then.
> At some point nobody will understand how the Web works

Sorry to be blunt; but that is absolute weapons grade nonsense on multiple levels.

First, we aren't losing any knowledge on how the internet works; at least, as far as I'm aware. Can you please explain what you mean? What knowledge have we lost? Are we unable to write networking stacks because some greybeards aged out?

Secondly, If you think the guys who wrote the first C compilers and implemented NTP have much of an idea how the 'modern internet' works even today (outside of what you can learn reading beej's guide), you're wrong. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, again, but I struggle to see how folks like these would be useful on the team who implements, for example, the distributed caching algorithms used by Akamai..

I get your sentiment, it's definitely sad and a 'passing of the guard' sort of feeling when the first engineers pass on, and for sure, they know a lot about their domains. But lamenting that 'nobody will understand how the web works' because no one cares about ISC bind's implementation anymore is kind of bonkers.
Well, it wasn't really based on PDF to the point it stores PDFs in memory or anything. Like I said, it just has compatible drawing commands.

It's turned out that vector images aren't that performant or easy to deal with for various reasons, although they are still used in some places.
If we're talking about the top-100, what most people listen to, it's getting more repeatitive lyrics, and more simplified and crude music wise, and with less variety in sound.
Is iroh suitable for use as a collaborative decentralized function cache? Had a quick skim but can't quite see how to get at the get/put etc in the python api yet. Will spend more time later.
I think that companies will continue to suggest a "big bang" that involves supporting integer instructions with three source operands and possibly dropping compressed instructions.

Maybe it's out of selfishness (e.g. because they are repurposing an existing microarchitecture for RISC-V), or maybe it's because that's how they want to build their hardware (e.g. for their particular performance target decoding a plain-old 32-bit instruction may be more silicon/power efficient than to fuse 2-3 16-bit instructions).

Whatever the reasons, I think that RISC-V will have to live with this critique for as long as it lives.

I'm not saying that those are poor design choices, but they will always be pain points (for small cores and big cores alike - but for different reasons).

I don't think that you should underestimate the drive to modify an architecture if it does not fit your needs - especially if it is a free and open architecture like RISC-V. For example LoongArch has already happened, and I can easily see how something similar can happen if a major player decides to move from x86 or ARM to "something else" (e.g. if NVIDIA wants full control over their next gen super AI solution).
Womens hair is going to be the downfall of the Apple Vision Pro
Half kidding but for a company thats 50% lifestyle brand / 50% tech, this is going to be an issue.

Out of the 30+ women I've worked with in the past 5 years, 3 maybe 4 had a hair style that wouldn't get messed up after 5 min with that strap.

There's a reason all models in the store page have either short hair or a bun.
You're joking, but the claim isn't that repetitive songs didn't exist before. Just that they're an increasingly larger percentage.
The technology built into cars to make driving safer – that we're not using
Heracles holding a club and a lion's skin is a bit of a trope. Do a quick search and you'll find dozens of etchings and statues.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/372746

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lansdowne_Herakles_G...

Wikipedia has an illustration of the cloak outline but the reference is to a book I don't have access to.
And not just them... you can still buy a lot of consumer devices, that are quite popular with people who travel to areas with spotty cell reception.

eg: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/outdoor-recreation/satellite-...
Yes just because you aren't blood and you raise/help raise a kid, you are the parent. To change the verbiage is diminishing to the task, even though you don't mean it to be.

Who's more of a parent, the guy who knocks up a woman and leaves forever, or the step-dad who actually raises the kid for 18+ years?
Aren't you forgetting the most important reason for locking people up: protecting the rest of society.
> and whether someone cares to identify as autistic in light of these traits is outside the purview of the clinic

Yes, because autism is a cultural construct, and each individual gets to negotiate their own relationship with that cultural construct

Which is not saying it is purely a cultural construct - we started with some very real traits, and then cooked up a family of (unproven) scientific theories to try to explain those traits, and then erected a cultural construct on top of that, which has a rather complex relationship to the traits and theories which it justifies itself with
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Earliest Known Black Hole
When my drunken neighbours have spent the night hooting and screeching until 3am when they finally collapse in a pool of vomit, you can bet the leaf blower is coming out at 9am sharp to cut through their hangovers.
Their onsite daycare was out of the way and oversubscribed. It was basically created for the Wojcicki sisters' children.
This Week in Rails: January 19, 2024
This description actually makes me feel like the metaphor is more apt. The dinosaurs went down because they were large, complex lifeforms that required a vibrant, complex ecosystem to support them. Amidst a fundamental shift to that ecosystem, large complex organisms were the first to go down. This is a general pattern - complex systems are always the first to collapse when there's a shift in the ecosystem, because they have more interdependencies. Mammals emerged from the carnage because they were small and nocturnal and could occupy small & simple ecological niches. The original disruptive innovation.

As for what will take them down - all large institutions are failing right now. The public education system. The health care system. The government. The mass media. The immigration system, and general idea of national borders. The zoning / building code / housing system. Childcare. Wouldn't surprise me if we see the financial system, currency, and military go down next. The trigger is part climate change, part demographics, part COVID, and part the loss of trust triggered by the Internet and Big Tech, but all of these are fundamental shifts in the foundations of our society that make our society no longer adapted to the ecological niche it grew up in.
I would love to see old load-bars instead as well.
Also even those with more lyrics, have increasingly more basic vocabulary (there was some statistical analysis on that a decade back or so).
Then research led by the National Trust that examined sediment and snail shells came to the surprising conclusion that the giant was late Saxon, possibly 10th century.

Just because the art is crap doesn't mean it's neolithic!
I must be thinking of Google Maps then. Or maybe Docs?
Wait a nanosecond. It is assumed that you do not do this. Besides, these are the top ten, it means what the $population hears the most, especially the young ones: these two entities are sometimes not quite good. Right now a song is playing in the loudspeakers with the following lyrics: Dreaming of enhanced feelings ... words without loss of meaning ... known limits shall give away ... fresh that won't decay ... breathing craft and will. Circa 2005. And of course it is a pop song, even if it never reached the top. Catchy melody, good instrumentation, 4/4, verse verse chorus etc. I know a song about tectonic plates by a very popular guitarist and songwriter, I could summarise it using my mind algorithm: we live in an ocean of fire ¿and how about you? He also wrote a song about what it means to take your pets for a walk. The algorithm's summary could be: why ... walk ... dog.
Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College
Would add: Go and protobuf/gRPC
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. You're arguing I would be a happier or better person if I stopped doing a thing I enjoy doing? Why?
How do you emulate linux with 400 loc?
https://archive.is/2Wct7
I wonder if this was triggered by the 23andMe breach?

In that, it became pretty clear that the press and the public will blame a company if user accounts are breached even if the user had a weak/reused password.

Since then, companies kinda have a responsibility to protect the users data despite the user doing stupid stuff.
Haven't you heard from SV types, there will be an abundance of everything if AGI is invented.
I think you've misread my comment. I have found copilot for example to be really useful for searching for things like how to pull out part of a log like using common bash commands. I can generally evaluate what it comes up with pretty well; having used all of the commands before but just not using them on the daily basis which would make it easy for me to come up with the initial version on my own.

On the other hand asking it the population of Azerbaijan is problematic. I'd have to Google whatever it told me.
> a pattern of hiring and empowering psychotic pricks who were presumably “good at business”.

Lot of that, going 'round...
Which is the difference between a very small town (might have a Walmart!) and the entire population of Montgomery, AL.

With required support services, if Google was in one place it’d likely cause a company town of over a million.
Search was a product designed by two engineers. Maps from 2005 was a very sleek product, but at the time there were no competitors on the web, and now Maps is so ubiquitous, and requires such an insane data investment, that we'll probably never know the ideal Maps design, because every competitor out there is still catching up. Their primary advantage was the money they threw at mapping data and the ability for them to give it out for free.

Gmail was not actually a particularly elegant product design, it offered an escape from spam and manually managing your mailbox storage. Back then, if you used a free email experience, you were bombarded with banner ads, had 100MB of storage, and 99% of that was eaten by the spam sent directly to your inbox. Features are not product design.

Chrome might be a good exception, though. I still get the sense that it was primarily driven by inspired engineers. The reason for Chrome's success is probably not it's innovative design (it was it's performance), but it certainly was an incredible advance.
It used to be but these days there is no real difference. I prefer Apple Maps mostly because it has no ads and works better with Apple Watch.
When did those "cycles" happen?

Because analysis I've seen points to reduced complexity over the years, not to cycles or "ups and downs". There were always repetitive songs (lyrics and music wise), but they get increasingly larger percentage of top music. Can check the top 20 of any decade between 1910 and 2020 to compare.

Or check the article's "Repetition of Popular Music, by Year" plot (it covers from the 60s to today).

>Sure technology has always been a huge driving factor, but human nature stays the same.

Human culture doesn't stay the same though. Nor all aspects of cultural change are cyclical.
Absolutely agree, and I wonder what the open plan office has done to our economy, in terms of lost productivity and stress induced health issues?
You Talk To A Live Person At Delta then follow to guidlines of delta.
Making LLMs production ready: Key metrics for evaluations
Large Language Models have evolved rapidly and are widely used in today’s AI applications. However, while examining how it performs.

Performance metrics

1. Perplexity: This is often the first metric considered for language models as it quantifies how well the probability distribution predicted by the model aligns with the actual distribution of the words in the text. A lower perplexity value generally indicates a better fit of the model to the data, allowing for more accurate predictions.

2. Fine-Grained Evaluation: LLMs are often versatile, capable of performing multiple Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Assessing their performance on specific tasks like text summarization, translation, and question-answering ensures that the model is not just a jack-of-all-trades but also a master of each individual task.

3. Out-of-Distribution Testing: A model's generalization capabilities can be measured by testing it on data it hasn't seen during training. This ensures that the model is robust and reliable in real-world scenarios where the input distribution can be diverse.

Scalability metrics

1. Inference Latency: The real-world applicability of an LLM often depends on how quickly it can produce outputs. Low latency is crucial for applications that require real-time interaction, such as chatbots or automated customer service.

2. Memory Footprint: A smaller memory footprint means that the model is more easily deployable in resource-constrained environments, opening up a wider range of applications.

These help us determine whether the model is both high performing and scalable. Would love to hear your thoughts on what other metrics could be added to this list.
Language should be adequate to the context of a conversation. If you were writing a legal document, or some policy for a kindergarten it might make sense to make that distinction, but this is a public forum with many non-native speakers. Parents is a concept pretty much all of us are familiar with and if you say parents we'll understand you mean people using the service because they care for young kids.
People visit Thai on the sunny side. Things like drugs,
flesh trafficking, sex mutilation, organ trafficking, bribery and corruption, STD, they dont want to talk about. It is quite lawless there as long as you have money and don't got involved with the authority. I would rank them still at medieval time set in modern era. Most of the people still at village naive-like state especially outside of Bangkok. Anyway...that's what they have. It is none of our business as long as we are not affected directly. Let's all delude ourself and just see the sunny side of it.
Er, yes that's fair I suppose. I wouldn't call it surveillance, as that has a worse connotation than I think what Google did deserves, but certainly statistical tracking of populations across websites.

I'm still not sure I'd call it corporatisation though, as they were working within the confines of the web, and the monetisation ability of that large-scale but precise user interests tracking meant ads could pay more to enable individual websites to thrive.
Right, or various pathological examples involving comment delimiters being mistaken for divde and multiply operators
It’s gotten really good, I prefer it to maps with directions
I've been to many cities around the world that already left the London far behind. Miltiple cameras at every house looking in different directions, cameras at every isle corner in supermarkets etc. There are more cameras than citizens in those cities.
Google never stole? That’s a memory hole if I’ve ever seen one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Googl....
It's almost certain now that AF2 will win the Nobel Prize, as this represents some of the most exciting breakthroughs in the past few decades.

It seems weird to give the peace prize to a model. What about the people who made the model, or is that what you mean?
That's not an argument, that's a cold hard fact.

The argument is that someone wishing they could commit ethnic cleansing does not excuse actually committing it on a third party. Just like Hamas thinking collective punishment is justified doesn't mean you get to respond with collective punishment. Hamas and other terrorists are not the standard.
Youtube failed to become something big? I think you've lost yourself in your argument a bit.
Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes
They want to be able to steal your data
Er, filesystems as a paradigm are more like 50+ years old, if not even older.

Tbh, it's an office-based metaphor created by and for office admins. The general public just doesn't relate. Maybe if they'd called directories "wardrobes" or "drawers"...
Compilation of courses I made for self study https://github.com/Lesabotsy/bootcamp
> Before we had open concept hellscapes, and the cubicle farm, people had actual offices

It is true, but the move to cubicles and in the end open halls was necessary because rent in prime employment centers of the world has gotten so high, and companies seem to be requiring ever more people and we cant afford to give everyone an office nowadays. Modern office is definitely better in some ways socially, I dont think you will be really motivated to go to work if all you had was one room to sit and close the doors to not see anyone. These days, You have more people to talk to if you want and sometimes its a good and safe environment to discuss things. If I had to sit in an empty room to work and then it wouldn't be any different than working from home.
> It's more like a hypervisor than a true OS

True.

This is why I've suggested an inverse EMM386 to the FreeDOS team: a 32-bit app that has a single purpose -- start 1 DOS VM.

That is the only way I can imagine to create a form of DOS that could be booted on UEFI computers, and without that, soon FreeDOS will be confined to VMs and old kit.

The idea is, start a very very simple 32-bit binary that creates 1 V86-mode VM, maps some DOS resources into it (disk, screen, keyboard, mouse, etc.), then loads the DOS kernel into it.

In DOS a stub EMM386.EXE could create some UMBs and LIM EMS if you want it.

I doubt it will ever be possible to support sound cards, network cards, etc. this way but most modern ones don't work on DOS anyway so nothing of importance is lost.
Elon Musk's losing streak headed for Tesla
This rollout plan seems misguided...

You're going to remove the option from the admin console before sunsetting the feature? So users can't turn it off to test/see impact?
I agree the reason given is marketing, but that's 2024 for you.

I think that only approving of environmental things if they cost you is a bit perverse, though. This is lower-hanging fruit. Why not take it?
This one is amazing

https://github.com/Bleuje/processing-animations-code/tree/ma...
Well, the top 100 is the literal lowest common denominator. It's music for people who don't like music, who make up the majority of the population. It's expected that it's shit.
£10-a-shot laser destroys drones in 'major defence milestone'