skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I found out after my wife and I discovered we were having identical twins is that manipulation of embryos increases the odds of having identical twins.

In our case, the embryos were frozen, thawed, a few cells removed for pre-implantation genetic testing, frozen, thawed, and implanted again. Two embryos were implanted, but only one took hold. Then the one that took hold decided to become two people.
Docker is considering a flatpak. Upvote here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/593

flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works. some of the apps are buggy at the fringes, but i've been opening issues to smooth them out. some of the apps like VS Code claim to be from microsoft, but are... unofficial?
Indeed, it could be a number of reasons:

- Making code more accessible mean people with lower skills can contribute.

- Increased in productivity increased expectations for deadlines and so there is less time for quality.

- 2023 was a year with lower code quality on average for everybody.

- Easier code to produce meant more code produced, and maybe it dwarfed the absolute amount of quality code, giving this impression, while the relative amount didn't change but we don't have their way of measuring good code.

Etc
I don’t know about the German windows 3.11 thing, but Bart uses ancient Siemens PLCs if I remember correctly.

I doubt there is any logic running in windows 98, but there will be PLCs that interface to old laptops for updating the logic of control systems, probably with proprietary dongles and licenses tied to specific laptops. Can you technically get that stuff working in wine? Probably. Can you do it legally, responsibly and without assuming a lot of liability? Probably not.

Even if the trains have been upgraded, there will be a ton of tendrils reaching into old PLCs from other equipment like train washes, maintenance equipment, etc that interface to the overall system somehow and it would be forbidden and unwise for any individual to start inventing new ways to update the software without an actual project in place to replace the PLC of whatever you’re working on.
>Austria, unlike Finland or Ukraine, has and had a much lower fear of a Russian invasion.

Not in 1945, that is for sure. As an ally of the Nazis, Austria was probably shocked and delighted that they weren't invaded in 1945. So, I'm going to assume your reply pertains to the later decades of the Cold War.

But let's recap your argument. You're saying that even though appeasing Russia (by not joining NATO) might have been the right move for Austria during the later decades of the Cold War, Austria's experience is not relevant to Ukraine's situation because Ukraine has a higher fear of a Russian invasion.

It seems to me that is backwards. It seems to me that it is states like for example Mexico or India that Russia has little strategic interest in and that are too far away for Russia to be able to attack that can ignore Russian demands, and that the closer a country is to Russia, and the more Russia perceives that country to be a threat to Russia if the country were to choose to enter into a military alliance with one of Russia's enemies, the more seriously the country should consider acceding to Russian demands not to enter into such alliances.
Okay but we've had DVRs for 25 years now. Commercials are more or less a solved problem until you get into streaming where they can be made unskippable.
The article does not criticise the fact that "something changed", it criticises what specifically changed. The point of dealing with a problem is not to point fingers and find who is guilty, it is to actually find solutions to the problem. And yeah, frankly, having customers complain about a UX is not the end of the world and nobody needs to be scolded about it. They just have to understand what the complaints are about and make a better UX, which they did. It happens all the time.
In most countries, retail bank balances are insured by the government up to a pretty high threshhold[0], so `trust(bank)`, `trust(banking system)` and `trust(government)` should all be on a par, which should be vastly different from `trust(loyalty points)`/`trust(private company)` in ways that are very much obscured by your simple chain of "<"s.

[0] to the point where, if your savings exceed it, you should have the ability to make some contingency plans yourself (like using multiple banks to spread risk and increase you total insured threshhold), or be able to hire someone to advise you on such things.
It's pretty standard to not cite cute references like this. Nobody puts Dr Strangelove in their blog bibliography when they do a "How I stopped worrying and learned to love X" post.
Without knowing any details, I'm almost sure that they did not train it on internal code, as it might be possible to reveal that code otherwise (given the right prompt, or just looking at the weights).
There would be hundreds of WWII planes in that area that would be indifferentiable from what Mr. Tony Romeo says he's looking for. More likey he's just looking to fund his retirement hobby.
There are many of us, it seems! Milwaukee born-and-raised here, still living in the city!
Probably feasible. When the UK was part of the EU, it was probably too big of a market to leave. Now that they're out on their own, it's less difficult.
Fair enough, and that's why I suppose for instance CATPCHAs and such make us do silly free labor.

But generally, hilarious labeling errors are widespread already in benchmarks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628778

Companies also seem rather carefree with their labeling, including even in contexts in which accuracy is paramount:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38455338

And things get interesting when you start labeling alleged political bias, for instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982799

Thus, in general, I'd appreciate research on the "accuracy" (i.e., labelers' inter-group agreement, etc.) of labels used in the wild.
If a restaurant can't provide me with a real menu, then I can't know what I can order, so I leave.
> no surprise there's been zero arrests for viewing illegal streams.

I can only fathom "viewing illegal streams" leading to arrest in the case of CSAM. Regardless of any staffing or resources, it's a complete travesty to arrest anyone for using their internet connection to view lawfully produced content.

The power to restrain the physical liberty is a substantial corollary of the state's monopoly on violence, which should be employed when those arrested are a menace to other peaceful citizens.

I could see law enforcement getting involved in copyright crimes committed by commercial pirates, issuing fines to consumers or identifying them to the rights holders who can then seek redress in a court of law.
Except for the UK is neither poor or weak.
I agree that to fully specify electromagnetism you also need to include how the fields affect charged matter. So EM = Maxwell's equations + Lorentz force equation (not sure why you say there is no consensus about what this is, that is new to me).

This is just a matter of taste, but OTOH I would not include descriptions of how some materials respond to the fields in the continuous limit as part of a definition of EM.

It is true that for most terrestrial applications you do need those to do anything useful with EM. But if you want to study plasmas you need to add Navier-Stokes to EM, doesn't mean hydrodynamics is part of EM. To study charged black holes you need EM + GR, but it still makes sense to treat them as mostly separate theories.
I would guess mindshare in a crowded field, ie discussion threads just like this one that help with recruiting and tech reputation after a bummer ~8 years. (It's best not to overestimate the complexity/# of layers in a bigco's strategic thinking.)
I thought the site was down, but it actually just loads very slowly (5+ seconds) on Firefox mobile. (The main page)
Commoditizing your complement. If all your competitors need a key technology to get ahead, you make a cheap/free version of it so that they can't use it as a competitive advantage.
On top of that, while it's "Prime Video" supposedly included with our Prime subscriptions, most of the content requires extra payment, and in non-trivial amounts, or subscription to another channel (Paramount, Britbox, etc.).

Adding adverts is enough that we'll just dump them off the Roku device list.

Enshittification in action, right before our eyes.
Current discussions about military AI race against China remind me of this.

Obviously the only valid response is to build the humanity murdering robots first. We must not allow the gap to form.
There must have been 100 folk with the same idea at the same time, I'm very excited for having something like this running mics in my home so long as it's running locally (and not costing $30/mo. in electricity to operate). Lots of starter projects, feels like a polished solution (e.g. easy maintainability and good home assistant integration etc) is right around the corner now

Have been tempted to try and build something out myself, there are tons of IP cameras around with 2-way audio. If the mic was reasonable enough quality, the potential for a multimodal LLM to comment contextually on the scene as well as respond through the speaker in a ceiling-mounted camera appeals to me a lot. "Computer, WTF is this old stray component I found lying under the sink?"
As mentioned in the article, in the UK it is nominally a crime to watch a pirate stream in order to avoid paying for the paid version of the stream. The relevant law is [1]. It is also illegal to distribute such a stream. Such streams are referred to as “illegal streams.”

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/notes/division/...
I do this. It causes lots of confusion when my friends get reminded about my birthday by Facebook. It’s reached the point where I have started celebrating my Facebook birthday, in addition to my real birthday.
Could also be that these smaller models are a loss leader or advertisement for a future product or service... like a big brother to Llama3 that's commercial.
We are at least a decade away from bringing this to glasses-weight, but how do you solve the light-blocking in that form factor?
That quote isn't a self-contained description of the entire Tolkien universe, and pointing back to it isn't a rebuttal of additional information.

You may have made some assumptions based on it, but those assumptions were wrong.

Furthermore, "preventing expansion" does not necessarily imply morally acceptable self defense.
> The UK police is so massively underfunded

Is it, though? According to the government itself, funding has increased from 12B in 2015 to 17B in 2023[0]. In real terms, the UK police now has more funding than it had pre-austerity (16.5B in 2023 money).

If they don't have the manpower, it isn't due to a lack of money.

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-...
- "Chat history & training" -> on/off

vs.

- "Chat history" -> on/off

- "Training" -> on/off

would be a good start.
Going slightly off topic, but I find it surprising that GDPR doesn't offer more protections here. The supermarkets are not using consent, but legitimate interest, as the legal basis to process data.

This is surprising because I would think you should be able to opt out of processing/marketing, while still having the loyalty/points aspect of the card. Particularly given non-member prices can be double to triple the price.
They have police monitoring private Snapchat conversations
I'm not familiar with the channel either, but that sounds like most youtubers to me, so probably a fair impression?
Air Force pays goooood[0].

But seriously:

>> but then we're thinking: 'How do we lift the plane? How do we salvage it?'"

Don't. Just leave it. Be happy it was found, but just be respectful and leave it.

[0] Yes, I RTFA.
Well, there's not that much variation. People don't learn much from classes. And you'll note that "what works for polyglots" isn't classes.
So what does it actually do to youtube videos? The landing page doesn't cover this. Should I expect that the video I watch will be in my target language now? As in, it'll be dubbed in the new language? That'd be super useful but I'm unclear and I'm not paying $10 to find out.

A time-limited example or something similar would be really useful. Maybe just one that you pick. Whatever it may be, I'd love to see how it actually works before paying money for it. Assuming it dubs videos, how does it handle multiple speakers?
I can’t really speak to the subject, but I suspect that autocorrect changed what should be “glycosylation” into “glyphosate” (the active ingredient of roundup herbicide).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosylation
What happens to the Authors and if this involves grant money, can they be processed for fraud?
It’s like saying that rain falls where there are blue regions on the weather map :)
AFAIR it was Chrome with the tabs in the titlebar thing.
You are not copying a stream
You can turn them into eBay vouchers too
I always tell people having two kids is ten times harder than having one. I literally can't imagine having two sets of twins that young!

Also, it's my little personal crusade to normalize talking about not enjoying being a parent. It's totally ok and totally normal to have these feelings. It's ok to not enjoy this. It's not ok to absolve yourself from the responsibility you sighed up for, but it's ok not to enjoy it. Especially when they're young.
When we did IVF we were warned of the same thing! In fact, when you see an older couple with young twins, it's a really good bet that they did IVF. :)

(We ended up getting singles twice, but we like to tell people they started as twins until we cryogenically froze one of them for two years)
Yeah if it is tied to a larger / other crime I could see it happening if only because they're really looking into another issue.
When we built this demo we figured the official translations would be well translated, apparently they are not.

Some people elsewhere in the comments are saying it's just a weird English sentence so it has a weird French sentence. My French is no good enough to critique on it's nativeness though
I'm so addicted to the next day and Subscribe and Save delivery here I don't think I could give up Prime entirely (heck, we even have Same Day but I rarely use that).

But I trust they'll get the message when viewership drops enough.
There are two things that I think are needed and that I'm not sure if anyone provides yet to make this scenario work well:

1. Interruption - I need to be able to say "hang on" and have the LLM pause.
2. Wait for a specific cue before responding. I like "What do you think?"

That + low latency are crucial. It needs to feel like talking to another person.
It just doesn't match any dictionary definition of "get" I can find (but it is defined as an idiom https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20right), and idioms generally come from colloquial non-standard usage.

I mean it's kind of dumb argument, we might as well say that all of English is "wrong" because it didn't exist when the first dictionaries were published.
The other problem here is that the is very little moat here - all you need is a good screen and decent headphones, both of which are commodity.

The AVP is vastly overpriced and overspecced for basic media consumption.
Often the issue isn't even meeting prep, but the meeting itself.

- presenting information: is often better in document form (if precise, concise, not fluf, with diagrams etc.) with the added benefit of potentially being able to fix error retrospectively (Note: Similar to presentations you don't want to obsess about spelling, grammar, style and bullet points often are the way to go. Avoid "story writing" at all cost, you are presenting information not telling a story.

- technical discussions: if done in meeting for anything non trivial leads often to sub-par results, interestingly that is in my experience also true for fast messaging style text communication (like e.g. slack motivates you to do). Thinking more before writing and also having all you questions/comments written down before sending any of them does in my experience works the best.

- teaching people: here meeting like things can be good if individualized to the learner and supplementary only. But often you wouldn't call it a meeting anymore. Transcripts can be quite nice in this case but as it should only be supplementary should be unnecessary.

- synchronizing work: Inefficient if mostly done through meetings, through sometimes having supplementary meetings for it can be useful.

- planing work: Often highly inefficient if mainly done through meetings, through finalizing a plan through a short meeting is a good idea.

- brain storming: Can be started by a meeting, should not be concluded by a meeting as mind tend to pop up ideas at the strangest times and should not diverge into technical discussions about the proposals.

combine that with how interruptive meetings can be having too frequent meetings seems like a sure fire way to reduce productivity
To undermine the momentum of OpenAI.

If Meta were at the forefront, these models would not be openly available.

They are scrambling.
Very interesting! This repo contains a catalog of risk-management strategies from investing, engineering and other fields: https://github.com/sashagutfraind/uncertainty_strategies
Performance is a combination of a) required behavior, b) implementation. If an implementation does not correctly meet the requirements, its performance cannot be compared to one that does.
The law says what it says, without regard for your semantics.
Normally here they hand you the device and you put in tip, then insert the card yourself, hit okay, enter your pin, and get the receipt, and then hand it back.

I thought it was super sketch when a waiter wanted to walk off with my card in the US. Besides that，how am I supposed to know they charged the percent tip I wrote on the receipt vs another number except by looking at my bill days later? I'm much happier being in control of the payment.
> I've heard that to be a pilot you really have to be comfortable with doing what you're told, all day long.

Quite the opposite. The Pilot in Command is ultimately the person who is legally responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft. While you are following ATC instructions the majority of the time you are in contact with them, you are also culpable if you blindly allow them to put you in danger. If ATC tells you to do something unsafe, the proper response is to say "unable" and then say why. As described in the article, there are safeguards to protect pilots acting in good faith, and this is also one reason why airline pilots are unionized.
people are able to extract training data from llms with different methods, so there's no way this was trained on internal code
Nonsense. For instance, I do a search every morning for "tomorrow's winning lottery numbers" on several search engines and haven't found them yet.
Not sure who this is aimed at? The avg programmer probably doesn’t have the gear on hand to run this at the required pace

Cool nonetheless
I'd venture they are one of the safest[0] fleets out there which is a direct reflection on the quality of their drivers. Hell, I'd happily say their yearly average is better than the monthly stats from the last company I drove for.

The biggest determining factor on a driver is their safety record and if you can manage to not hit anything (you're not aiming for) over a long enough time period it is quite possible to get the good jobs.

[0] https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_t...
Well, the good thing about corporations is that they only care about money. Governments usually try to justify their existence with some ideology, be it religion, fascism, "human rights", or "fighting the climate change". Sorry, but given a choice between a mafia and a cult I will always choose mafia, they are more reasonable, therefore easier to deal with.
> But a lot of filmmakers don't want to make video games, and finding new answers to that question is something that VR struggles with today.

Part of me flippantly says that most directors are making nothing but a demo of a video game since it's all CG anyways.

Another part of me says this is also where the generative AI characters will not be something a traditional director will even be interested in. Part of being a director is working with actors and getting them to deliver the performance they want. There are different types of directors, and the type that are an "actor's" director will not be interested in it at all. Those that are more technical and just want tech to tell a cool story might be interested since it takes that weird human interaction out of the equation.
Your first example is a rosy picture of a military strategy whose only metric is "have we lost the war"?

Your second example is a project with a very clear and fixed and time-bounded outcome which has no externality or had any requirement to serve as infrastructure.

It makes as much sense to claim your examples as proof central planning works as it would be to claim the bulk of the automotive industry is capitalist and everyone drives cars. It might be true, but ignores all the negative externalities of the existing transportation network.
Have their vacuum models improved? When I was in the market about an year ago, it seemed that Chinese robot vacuums were light years ahead.

I have a few iRobot vacuums that are several years old and never get used due to ineffectiveness. It is easier to spend 5 minutes manually vacuuming vs letting the iRobot wander around randomly for an hour and still not clean well.
I think I saw this first with the ASM bytecode toolkit: https://asm.ow2.io/javadoc/org/objectweb/asm/util/ASMifier.h...

Possibly via the Eclipse extension: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/bytecode-outline
The UK is not a big enough market to credibly threaten this sort of veto. Easy enough to exclude them and continue to serve the rest of the world. The UK will fold well before Apple would need to.
Always use a memorable standard date. Can't go wrong with January 1 and then a year that's multiple of twenty-five such 1950, 1975, 2000.
I had to check this because my intuition told me that this would generate a warning. GCC and Clang both warn about that assignment with -Wsign-conversion, however that doesn't seem to be enabled with any of -Wall, -Wextra, or -Wpendatic and only clang's -Weverthing would catch it if you weren't specifically looking for it.
You probably need to read Kirill Yeskov's version of the story:

https://archive.org/details/TheLastRingbearerSecondEdition
> the Query Graph Model (QGM) representation is quite abstract and hardcodes many properties, making it exceptionally difficult to understand. Its claimed extensibility is also questionable.

I don't know much about the context, but it was interesting to note that Materialize scrapped their QGM code last year: https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/pull/17139

Also, a couple of interesting projects in the IR space:

- https://substrait.io/ is a cross-language serialization for Relational Algebra

- https://www.lingo-db.com/ is an MLIR-based (LLVM) query engine described extensively in this paper https://db.in.tum.de/~jungmair/papers/p2485-jungmair.pdf?lan...
The problem is, Chinese consumer tech is full of extremely competitive and cut-throat companies. Some countries don’t like how their government is giving a tons of subsidies for them to progress like crazy (see BYD in 2012 vs now), but they’re delivering results. Combined with their low cost of engineering, the prices in the products are also pretty low, so it’s a no-brained for an average person to buy something for double the price for half of the functionality, just because it was designed in US.