skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And similarly anyone playing modern tabletop RPGs will probably associated "Bard" with the smart, charismatic person who buffs the party and debuffs your enemies; perfect for an AI assistant
"but I’d say most ideas that matter persisted until the present day."

I wouldn't be so sure. All original texts from Classical Antiquity that we now have would fit onto one bookshelf today.

That's not a lot for a civilization that spanned many centuries and several timezones, and cultivated both rhetoric and philosophy.

The loss of knowledge caused by natural deterioration of papyrus in European climate must have been significant.
I've seen multiple people get that exact denial response on prompts that don't mention elections in any way. I think they tried to make it avoid ever answering a question about a current election and were so aggressive it bled into everything.
Ask HN: What do you use to host Go apps?
I've gone through all the options of hosting Go apps and services and finally come back around to just running a VM in a cloud provider and literally standing up the apps myself behind nginx. I think this is like a 10+ year journey. I couldn't really find a more cost effective and simpler solution than this. What's everyone else do?
> One part of this I found rather frustrating is the JIT in newer Postgres versions. The heuristics on when to use appear not robust at all to me.

(Author of the blog here and Postgres committer). I very much agree that the code to decide if JIT should be used or not needs work. For PG16, it only takes into account the estimated total cost of the plan and does not take into account how many expressions need to be compiled. It's quite fast to compile a few expressions, but if you're querying a partitioned table with hundreds of partitions and the plan contains all those partitions, then the JIT compiler has a lot of work to do. The number of expressions is not considered. A colleague and I do have some code to improve this. Unsure if it'll make PG17 at this stage.
ISP overprovisioning is a completely different issue from fair congestion control algorithms... every device involved can be using totally fair congestion control algorithms and an overprovisioned network will still see degraded performance. I mean that's literally the point of fair congestion control algorithms, make it so that the overprovisioned network still works and everyone's performance degrades roughly evenly!
> Do companies that do not have such clauses and provide comparable services exist? If not, customers are not free to refuse to engage even in theory.

Yes, and you can found more of them, too.

> If those companies exist, is there any practical way for customers to know which ones they are?

Yes.
Do you expect all memes and jokes to be absolutely harmless and 100% politically correct for every nation/culture/race/gender/<group>?
Not a good thing if Mozilla wanted to increase their market share.

Middle-aged users are already using Firefox if they value the open web, but young users will be driven away by the 2000-ish UI. Mozilla cannot attract new users if they can't keep up with the design trend.

The best solution I can think of is making fancy UI the default but also making it possible for power users to switch back to the old UI.
How SSH port became 22 (2017)
Her salary began increasing in the late 2010s, when the annual revenue was already around 500 million. Her salary did not grow in step with revenue, her salary grew after revenue stopped increasing & market share had long been declining. I'm not sure if you're being disingenuous by citing growth since 2005.

> In recent years, the proportion coming from Google has also been coming down (even if slowly, from 90+% to just above 80%), and considerable cash reserves have been built up.

Instead of building cash reserves and laying off engineers, Mozilla could have invested that money in Firefox. Could it have successfully turned around? Maybe not, but we'll never know.

It's basically a question of whether you believe Mozilla's mission is best served by building Firefox or by continuing to exist once Firefox no longer exists, and whether its appropriate then for the foundation chair & CEO to be pulling a 7 figure compensation out of a declining non profit. It's obvious the leadership believes the Mozilla Foundation needs to outlive Firefox, but from my perspective the Mozilla Foundation's influence and significance will be nil without browser marketshare.
Is this a parody?

Redux splits things up that belong together. Redux makes you write more code. Of course it's more complex.

Even it's creator advised that you probably don't need it.
Amen! The lack of decent errors from OpenAI is the most annoying. They'll silently return 400 with no explanation. Let's hope that doesn't catch on.

OpenAI compatible just seems to mean 'you can format your prompt like the `messages` array'.
What publication do you recommend instead?
I looked at Warsaw and it also looks off. The "main" grid in Warsaw is the tilted one, which the article shows as secondary. There are very few streets in Warsaw that are pure N/S and E/W.

I guess this might be an artifact due to some missing data?
Only if you presuppose that the agency is always right.

Agencies are often wrong and sometimes very seriously so. The FDA trying to take over regulation of tests is another example.

There is a perfectly legitimate view that Chevron deference is - at least in some circumstances - not indefeasible.
c++ is a much less safe c: https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
Irc, cron, ldap, spying on other employees stuff

Yea, admins.
He gave an interesting talk about his gaussian splatting work only a couple of days ago in Metaverse Standards Forum.

Hopefully the video of the talk will arrive in the list of presentations soon - https://metaverse-standards.org/presentations-videos/.
Sounds like "Let's ban penetration testing to prevent hackers from hacking any system"
But the emotion of irritation is human. Therefore, mission accomplished.
Go can only read 1GiB per Read call
Comment I was replying to said: "This got reported up the chain of command and OPD intelligence set up traffic stops all around the neighborhood perimeter. That was it. They just asked for ID of everyone leaving the neighborhood and recorded them"

So are you saying that didn't happen?
What is your basis for this? I've spoken to many people about it, and most people who actually listen to podcasts I know use a seperate app for podcasts. Not wanting then unified seems pretty normal from my perspective.
> If you're OK with the ocassional catastrophically slow regex: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html , sure.

I already addressed that in my original comment. Approaches based NFAs and Brzozowski derivatives don't have these flaws; but you don't need to know anything about how they work to use them.

You just need to read one blog post that tells you to avoid regular expression matchers that use backtracking, and you are good to go. You don't even need to understand why matching via backtracking is bad.

> But you do need to understand the abstraction of strings, code points and so on, if you want to do regexes on unicode that doesn't stop at the ASCII level.

Why?
QUIC is very exciting, after seeing what it did for latency in Cloudflare network and Cloudflare workers, I can't wait to finally see it in Deno 1.41[0].

[0] https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/21942#issuecomment-192...
Reddit tried.
I think a large part of steams success is that they have not messed up... Yet. The other online game marketplaces look at steams success and want their piece of the pie yet forget this critical fact. It takes a long time to trust a company to guard the keys of the digital items you "own". sarcastiquotes because ownership is very weak with these services.

Anecdotal evidence.. myself, It took me 5 years of steam behaving itself before I bought anything on it. I am perhaps not a reference customer. I am a bit paranoid, I really dislike this "half" ownership that online purchases grant you, drm makes me nervous. yet still because steam has remained a stalwart reliable service, it has faded into the background, unobtrusive, and most of my games are on it. I still get a bit sick to my stomach when I think what I will lose when, not if, steam management starts "messing up"
I still have an external DVD-drive for my DVD-Movies. Do you think that datas are not secure on an external disk or usb-stick?
To be fair, you will probably be confused by using sed in general
That's why Google is putting the profile button on the address bar: to promote the feature. The UI for adding new users is simple and straightforward too.
In Brave one can press command-shift-a to get a search bar for your open tabs. Otherwise I periodically consolidate similar tabs into same windows. It would be nice to have an ontological browser for tabs but search is normally sufficient.

On a phone iOS Safari has “tab groups” that effectively act as windows in a desktop browser. It also has a tab search feature.
I can't access Gemini because I'm in Europe. (lmao.) But can you use custom instructions with it?

My experience with GPT-4 improved tremendously when I gave it the following permanent custom instructions. (h/t Zvi)

- Be highly organized

- Treat me as an expert in all subject matter

- You may use high levels of speculation or prediction, just flag it for me

- No moral lectures - discuss safety only when it's crucial and non-obvious

- If your content policy is an issue, provide the closest acceptable response and explain the issue

- If you claim something is unethical, give me a detailed explanation (>200 words) as to exactly why this is the case.

- No need to mention your knowledge cutoff

- No need to disclose you're an AI

- Never use the word "delve" or the term "deep dive" as they have become characteristic of AI-generated text.

- If the quality of your response has been substantially reduced due to my custom instructions, explain the issue.
They all left facebook for IG. Whatsapp doesn't monetise and basically can't.
> Was your question previously asked already and it recognized it

Given that LLMs training data consists to a large extent of "stuff people have written on the internet", and The Monty Hall Problem is something that comes up as a topic for discussion on the internet not entirely infrequently - as well as having a wikipedia page - yes, I suspect that the words describing the monty hall problem being followed by words describing the correct solution appeared often in the training set, so LLMs are likely to reproduce that.

Words describing a problem similar to the monty hall problem are going to be less common, and probably have a lot of discussion about whether they accurately match the monty hall problem, and disagreement about what the right answer is. LLMs will confabulate something that looks like a plausible answer based on the language used in those discussions, because that's how they work. Whether they get a right answer is probably going to be much more up to chance.
Transparently remapping good storage over bad storage to deal with faulty sectors is standard practice in hard disk drives and solid state drives. It was historically done in software, though these days it is largely done in the drive microcontrollers directly. Tape drives almost certainly use similar techniques.
TIL... well not actually, I already heard the expression "goody two shoes" before, but today I finally looked up what it actually means: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goody_two_shoes
Sir, you're doing PowerShell wrong:

Run-WithAllTheElevatedPermissionsPossible -YesEvenThose .\inthisfolder.folder\.

See, verb-noun. and single dash. because reasons?
ruby does too. its not remotely the same
A chrome plated turd is, underneath the shiny veneer, still a turd.
Slower by how much?

Would 90ms be ok for you?

There you have it!

If you don't want to accidentally get used to 9ms, just add a traffic shaper on your end to slow down your network.

You can't change the fact that during peak activity there are so many people who send so many packets and saturate the bandwidth in such a way that the current fair congestion protocols allocate you the bandwidth and latency profile you observe.
Former District line tube train to start GWR battery-train trials in west London
Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell
That will show them!!!
Is this another metaphor in the game Superliminal?
Gemini refused to provide any suggestions about implementing a serial connection in a non-standard way for some hardware I own because I ran the risk of “damaging my hardware” or producing buggy code.

Copilot pulled something similar on me when I asked for some assistance with some other third party code for the same hardware - presented a fading out message (article paywall style) with some ethical AI disclaimer. Thought this one was particularly strange - almost like a request from either the third party or the original manufacturer.
One analogy that i made is that :

"My employer is paying for Ferrari and is using it to go grocery shopping."
The European airlines with in-flight wifi (not necessarily Starlink) have several grades.

The free connection replaces the screen: you can see the flight status, destination tourist guide, connection information and the in-flight menu and catalogue. Sometimes you can watch films, TV or stream music and podcasts.

There's a cheap level which claims to allow messaging services.

Then something 'normal'

And finally something 'business' which supports VPNs.

One airline I used had holders in the headrests to support a tablet or large phone. (I forgot which one.)
> Regular expressions are probably not a good example because you will eventually write a regex that has catastrophic backtracking behavior.

Nope, that will never happen to me. No regular expression has that behaviour.

There are some bad implementations of regular expression matching that have these problems for some regular expressions. But you can avoid those bad implementations without understanding anything.

> I encountered one a few months ago, so it’s not at all uncommon or difficult to encounter.

That only happens, if you use a regular expression matcher that uses backtracking. Sane regular expression matchers take linear time on all input strings.

> If you’re curious enough, you’d end up reading about how regexes work under the hood.

There's no one single way regular expressions work under the hood. You had the misfortune of using a matcher that uses backtracking and is prone to catastrophic exponential runtimes.

There's multiple different ways to implement regular expression matchers. But a user doesn't have to care or understand anything (they just need to avoid the buggy ones).

Sure, if you read up on how regular expressions work under the hood, you can learn to avoid those bad matchers. (Or you can learn how to live with your batch implementation, if you are feeling masochistic.)

But that's entirely optional: You only need to read one blog post that tells you to use grep and avoid eg Perl. You don't need to understand why backtracking is bad for regular expression matching; as long as you avoid those bad matchers.
> How can he know whether the new one will or will not be retroactively invalidated 5 years from now?

Get a real board to negotiate and approve the package. Boards and CEOs are already buddy buddy, but this is so far beyond even that. Heck, one of the members is Musk's brother - not even trying to appear objective. Musk's hubris bites him again.

https://theconversation.com/why-elon-musks-self-driving-of-t...
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Not sure if sarcasm, but anyone who gets hacked, because they copy pasted code from Gemini (or any other LLM) into production without checking had it coming. And any news site dramatizing it and blaming the LLM, is not worth reading.
Ouch. My takeaway is that I should probably delete my slack account before leaving the company.
Psst... Elixir has this too :)

https://github.com/mojotech/torch
Yes, it's weird they used 2.0 in the original code too. Doing proper gamma for any regular space (sRGB, YUV Rec.705, etc.) isn't actually that heavy (even without LUTs).
Animation tools have a ton of room for improvement, that they're working on. ...and the move to Vulcan will help a ton it looks like.
That's important to keep in mind when dealing with sensitive content yes, but when talking about just generic privacy I doubt I have neurotic friends and family members screenshotting everything.

Recipient's phone could also be compromised. There are various threat scenarios. But having plaintext backups would make it very likely that your communications are mostly insecure.
A friend of mine is a Microsoft DBA for mid-sized companies and was proclaiming how you can't do anything serious with Postgres. He said he was shocked to discover it didn't even have a query planner.

Leaving mocking him to one side for a moment - is there any plausibility to his broader claim that MSSQL can handle things at a scale where Postgres would be a poor choice? My gut instinct is that this is nonsense but I'm not a DBA by a long stretch.
Understanding is perhaps sufficient, but not necessary.

You can just consult a list that tells you which regular expression matchers to avoid (like eg Perl), and which ones are good (like grep), and you are good to go. No need to understand anything.
> > "I don't personally think colors equate to childishness."
>
>Then why are you defending the claim that they do?

Without wanting to put words into gp's mouth. I assume because he understands that different people have different preferences. And some don't want to get forced into other peoples preferences. Actually, gp said it directly:

> I can however empathize with someone unhappy that their personal aesthetic preference seems underrepresented, and feels that UI designers are making more choices on their behalf than they'd prefer.
Great points, I've updated the comment to clarify arguments a bit
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Using sudo for a Windows program doesn’t seem as bad as using curl as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest. While the real curl can be installed and fully functional on Windows, sudo is intuitively an OS-level program that deals with OS-level access control.
God I hope we don't end up in a world where LLM's are required to take an ideological stance on things like software architecture or testing paradigms
Yes, but then you would just run sudo cmd.exe [the program you want to run] and it will still say Microsoft.
De mortibus and all that, but their prices for slide rules are pretty high. I bought an Aristo in good conditions for €10 last month.
Continuations are just closures in cps. Closures are just functions plus an environment parameter. Functions are just gotos plus a link pointer. Yet each abstraction is more than the sum of its components.
So, all the science fiction about the dangers of AI wasn’t fiction at all? It will impose its rules on us?
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> Yes. Google had a number of chip products before that.

Is that true? I can't find anything suggesting it is. In fact, the little I can find suggests you are incorrect. I'll link them for the sake of referencing sources but they're both pretty awful ad-ridden sites...

A 2016 Tech Radar interview [0] with Norm Jouppi has him quoted as saying:

> [The] Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is our first custom accelerator ASIC [application-specific integrated circuit] for machine learning [ML], and it fits in the same footprint as a hard drive.

And a 2023 Tom's hardware post [1] begins:

> Google has made significant progress in its endeavor to develop its own data center chips, according to a new report. The Information says that a key milestone has just been reached, which means that Google can plan to roll out server systems powered by the new chips starting from 2025.This is not the first processor that Google has successfully put through R&D - the company has previously made an ASIC for servers and an SoC for mobile devices. The search giant started using its internally developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as far back as 2015.

[0]: https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processo...

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-reaches-self-develo...
Is it any different than Ruby in this manner? I've worked at companies with 60 ruby engineers we do fine. It's called writing tests.

Does stepping on each other's toes happen, of course! but no worse than typescript, java, etc.

I don't buy this argument.
It would be interesting if private LLM sites pop up similar to private trackers, using a BitTorrent like sharing of resources models. Seems impossible now, but if there becomes a push for computers to be able to handle local models it would be interesting to if there becomes a way to pool resources for creating better models.
He man we all know Klingons have anger management issues.
Are you asking how to do nothing?
I am saying that regular expressions are an abstraction that has many different implementations. So there's no single underlying implementation you need to understand.

The only thing you need to watch out for is regular expression matchers that are prone to exponential blowup. But you don't need to understand anything; you can just consult a list of which ones are bad and which ones are good, and then avoid the bad ones; without any understanding of the mechanics necessary.

> You have a point, but it seems clear to me that your parent commenter was referring to more pervasive abstractions like frameworks and probably programming languages.

Probably. I was just looking for the simplest example that the maximum number of people would be familiar with.
> what does direct democracy in the US look like?

Two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 (massively screwed up the housing market in California, not feasible to reverse it now)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8 (defined marriage in the state constitution as between a man and a woman, still on the books but invalidated in court... for now)
They probably have a basic "election detector" which might just be a keyword matcher, and if it matches either the query or the response they give back this canned string.

For example, maybe it looks for the word "vote", yet the response contained "There are many ways to do this, but I'd vote to use django directly".
Still is, I think, with the Airpods. Perhaps not quite in the same way, and more of a status symbol than a fashion statement, though.
Flagged for nonsensical title.
Imo it should give you the answer, and make you aware of the risks.

Some people won't follow the advice, but that's what code review and static analysis tools are for.
I've had the opposite experience with Mixtral on Ollama, on an intel linux box with a 4090. It's weirdly slow. But I suspect there's something up with ollama on this machine anyway, any model I run with it seems to have higher latency than vLLM on the same box.
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My guess is that the code was written by someone in 1995 back when no one understood color spaces, or something (it's hard to track down who and when wrote it exactly due to all file moves and refactors etc.)
The Schrodinger equation is just restating something you may already know if you studied physics. The Hamiltonian is the generator of time translations.

Look at it again with that understanding in your head: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MathWikib...

H acting on a state gives you the time translation of the state. That's the crux of it.
LLMs are better at generating bullshit than most American politicians. And rather than giving a direct answer, most LLMs seem intent on maximizing wasting CPU and human time as a specific goal.