skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that is the perspective of a sane person. God damn it. I am European, and I - without a driver's license, so just a cyclist and pedestrian btw - have to deal with the behaviour of the entitled cycling shits every day, especially since I moved to Berlin. Occasionally also with pedestrians that just suddenly step onto the street without even looking. Surprisingly, the car drivers - even though they are assholes in Berlin, too - have been by far the most sane traffic participants to me so far.

I have seen quite a few situations with cyclists behaving so ridiculously recklessly that the only reason I can see is that they must have a death wish. But yeah, sure, blame the car for running into a cyclist who runs a red light over an intersection at full speed, suddenly appearing between two lanes of standing cars. Or for running into a cyclist driving on the left side of the road into an intersection without looking. Or blame me for running into a pedestrian who suddenly steps in front of me. Ah no, wait - you're a hardcore cycling apologete, I am sure the pedestrian would be at fault in this particular case, right?
One anecdote, I live in one of the European countries that put sanctions onto yours, and I cannot use many Google of services either.

This European country simply doesn't exist in many of the Google forms, despite being on the "good side" and being no different than Finland or Germany.
The name KVM is a bit confusing. It doesn't do anything fundamental different than VirtualBox. The difference is that KVM comes by default with any Linux. VirtualBox ships it's own Linux kernel module for that. That has drawbacks. You typically can't use the newest Linux or the newest features.

KVM also always has the hottest new (performance-relevant) features, because Intel and AMD will always build their hot stuff into KVM first.
Joules? Maybe you're facetious but it's hard to tell over the internet.
This makes moonwalks very dangerous.
Followed a journal article to this, and was struck by how 1980s-logical it was.

Curious what the proxy for car-ownership and home-ownership would be nowadays, or if they should be replaced as reasonable components.
Depression Linked to Higher Body Temperatures
A movie needs to bring in twice its budget to be profitable[1] is the common rule of thumb. The budget doesn't include things like marketing, and the fact that the box office is shared with the theatre owner.

So in your example, it potentially lost money for Disney. The wikipedia article almost says as much [2]

"Although it underperformed at the box office ..."

[1] https://gizmodo.com/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encanto
Thanks for the tip but it doesn't seem to work that way. It looks like they convert your subscription value into however many days it could get at this new pricing.

For instance I just did the annual upgrade for my plan (29.99€/y) and they credit me 40 additional days if I upgraded the plan (21.99€/m).
Gemini Ultra is the model. Bard Advanced (which probably soon will become Gemini Advanced) is the whole product. Like GPT-4 and ChatGPT.
Update: It's working now if you manually go to
https://gemini.google.com/app
Im inclined to believe this theory based purely on how miss leading most written history has shown to be in terms of racism.
I'm getting red flags from this guide. "Tell me about your best X" is a very low effort question. Being excited about digging through person's life like it's an open book and even excited about them explaining how they cared of their dying parent is perverted at best.
What did you use the hammer on?
Popup for me @ https://gemini.google.com/app:

"Bard is now Gemini

The best way to get direct access to Google AI
All the capabilities that you know and love are still here, and will keep getting better in the Gemini era"

So I suppose this is the official launch.

(https://gemini.google.com/app 404'd until I connected my workspace account in bard extensions).

Edit: Side note - Hallucinations pretty much what you would expect, the same as ChatGPT4. Immediately tried to tell me to import non existent components from an npm library. That test was without prefixing with 'turn creativity to zero [blah blah]', so will test further with proper prompts. Gemini doesn't seem to allow for custom instructions, so I suppose I will have to add them into an Autohotkey script.
The KVM backend doesn't have nesting enabled just yet. We're on it.
> - Long form messages.

Launched for testing in June 2022 4 months before Musk was forced to honour his offer to buy Twitter. I don't think you can claim it as a "new feature" under his leadership.
Sorry I just saw this. Rust python is a python interpreter and you build it and all its dependencies when you build your application that embeds it. And a musl package is indeed a single binary. The only issue you could have is a breaking kernel api change or instruction set mismatch (avx on an old machine for instance). I've done from scratch docker containers that only have a single rust binary that work anywhere I've tried.
Mh weird that they bundle it with storage.

Makes downgrading hard if you don't track your usage and get used to it
"We're using your personal conversations for training data. Thanks."

This is acceptable. Consumers click without reading, and don't have any strong organizational ability to punish Google for this.

"We're training our AI on the questions of your idiot employees who are inevitably going to submit user PII CSVs or PDFs or even just outright draft emails to suppliers with our tool. Thanks."

You don't want to pick this kind of fight with a corporation, and as a corporation, you don't want this to happen to you.
Looking at the authors other blockbuster hits like :

> Was Alzheimer’s almost nonexistent in Greek and Roman times? Why this devastating disease may be a modern plague

> Hackers can still spy on you even if you cover the webcam. Here’s how

> Unmanned submersible may have found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane

He might just steal your question and repost the nonsense with a great title : "Some people say the moon is an egg, now people are listening, heres why!"

https://www.zmescience.com/author/tibipuiu/

Garbage content from a seemingly garbage writer.
How often are you gonna copy-paste your arrogant nonsense?
RedHat Compiler [audio]
> but loss of power transmission doesn't sound that terrible

On a m/c it is, particularly when leaning in a turn. An experienced rider should recover, but it won't be fun. Also, other traffic participants don't expect a m/c to suddenly stop in the middle of the road for no apparent reason.

Never had such a drastic mechanical failure, just ran out of gas (on the GG bridge of all places) and had a blown main fuse (fortunately on the down-hill section and was able to coast through multiple lanes of traffic to a stop at the side of the road).
Web design inspiration catalog
Even if that's just a seam, so to speak, it doesn't mean it can't evolve, I guess.

So the question is: why do we have a part of the body that seems to serve no purpose besides getting infected? And if it is not, in fact, useless, what purpose does it serve? Logically it should improve survivability more than the occasional infection decreases it, otherwise it should have disappeared, or at least, be different than it is now.

Unless appendicitis is a relatively modern disease and didn't affect survivability significantly and for long enough for evolution to do its work, which is a common hypothesis.
> The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form.

I discovered an interesting simple case of this on my utility's websites. Autopay for some reason didn't trigger. It showed I had autopay enabled, but no payment ever made.

Tried to pay manually, got "error: autopay enabled, no one-time payment allowed". The only way to pay my bill was to delete my autopay, and manually pay.

I now cannot re-enable autopay getting the error "autopay disabled for this account" (possibly because it had the past-due balance I had just paid?).

Crossing my fingers if I log back in next week all the states will reconcile themselves. Software!
Sadly the 5y SE forgot about dependency injecting the computation... after all we're always on the brink of new physics discovery, we'd hate to have to rewrite all that code when we can readily swap in fresh laws with the proper architecture!
Eh, this isn’t as cut-and-dry as it seems and requires a bit of tact (not to mention doesn’t answer the question). If you are in a smaller market, word will get around that you are wasting everyone’s time. Also interviewing eats up a lot of time so if this is all you are doing, other responsibilities are probably going to get neglected which will get noticed. Again, as always YMMV.
I think I need to revisit my hesitation to using LLMs. I think it stems from stubbornness. I’d rather write the boilerplate and the code to do the transformation or do so in DuckDb in SQL but if the tool can do it well enough so be it.

The bit about one-offs is not my experience. The idea being that writing connector code or extract stuff or even data cleaning changes based on the source and is usually put in production.

Ideal would be an endpoint to send data to like your example with sample data and then have it return after a prompt with the code needed or bypass the code just give me the subset of data that I request.
Please use title and URL on the https://news.ycombinator.com/submit form so users can click directly.
Probably, but that’s why new versions of iOS have a recording indicator anytime the microphone or camera is active.

And, you know, at some point consent is consent. It’s a giant dialog box that explains everything. Some people might even want an app that records their activity and gives them compensation for doing so (e.g., Microsoft/Bing Rewards). Who am I to tell that person they don’t want that?
I remember really pushing for SQLite for a specific application that used MS SQL... The main data in practice has requirements to be archived by event. And didn't need more than a few dozen users with low transactions in practice. Easy backup, archive etc.

In the end, there was a complex solution with a all the business logic in stored procedures and functions. With a lot of variability and difficulty supporting the application.

This was for a petition verification system. So each petition could have easily fit into a SQLite database. Been portable and easy to archive, backup, transport etc.

But no,. We had to put all the logic in the database... Because integritai...
Most widely translated website, jw.org, features 1k languages (2019)
Just played with Gemini Ultra for like 10-15 mins, and right off the bat, it made mistakes I've never seen GPT-4 do.

To give you an example, I asked Gemini Ultra how to set up a real-time system for a TikTok-like feed that matches card difficulty with user ability. It correctly mentioned "Item Response Theory (IRT)", which was a good start. But when I followed up asking how to implement a real-time IRT system, it suddenly started going off about "Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system" - something totally unrelated and never mentioned before. Never had this kind of mix-up with GPT-4.

https://g.co/gemini/share/f586a497013e
While the American Dream of howitzer ownership may be alive and well among the 0.01%, it's getting harder and harder for the rest of us to maintain our $4,000/round artillery habits.

A modest proposal: the US Army should offer obsolete and surplus artillery in exchange for handguns. Given the price of ammunition, correlation between poverty and gun violence, the logistics involved in large-scale artillery theft, and the comparative complexity of non-assisted suicide by howitzer, this policy seems like a sure-fire way to drastically reduce the number of lethal gun crimes committed in the US.
I hope to see this on HN’s show HN! But let me put something in the calendar ;-)

There’s no email or other such thing in your bio. :(
This works, thanks!
> "companies becoming more demanding of their staff as they find it easier to replace them."

for (web)dev it began with learn2code. that was the death knell.

> "At this point, I suspect we will see further moderation of wage growth"

with this being the goal.

i haven't had a pay rise in 4 years. and was told indirectly, since job market is bad they feel no need to be competitive.
The next time a thread about "what should I give a kid today instead of BASIC" rolls around, a Forth with Starting Forth and Thinking Forth is a probable answer.

Forth gives an even more direct experience than the microcomputer BASICs did: you wrote a word, it was a number so it went on a stack, then you wrote a different word, and it popped the number from the stack. You allocated memory with ALLOT. Now when you run HERE(the address of the bump allocator), you see that it moved up by the amount that you passed to ALLOT. You can use SEE to explore word definitions and get a sense of how much of the language is implemented in itself. You can explore the double number arithmetic to learn fixed point maths.

It just poses a certain clarity and lack of restriction that is only limited by how much the programmer can reason through their abstractions. Thinking Forth helps with that, in that it shows that you can often solve things in a simpler way than you thought.
I think movies, games and TV are all suffering the same sort of problem. They’ve become basically shovelware, even or maybe especially the triple A entries.

With the exception of darling indies, they largely don’t exist because anyone had anything interesting or new to say. They exist because companies made them to make money - actual thought about plot/gameplay came second if not third, and is only there to the extent needed to sell the product. Whole thing is horse before the cart.

There used to be palpable passion in media. It’s hard to find these days, with notable exceptions of course.
Meta and TikTok challenge fees paid to fund EU's new DSA
Running VirtualBox-KVM in a QEMU-VM with enabled nesting should work though.
Counting lanternfish with BQN and linear algebra (2021)
From the FAQ:

"Why doesn’t Gemini know what I said earlier in a conversation?

Gemini’s ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now. As Gemini continues to learn, its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve."
Well, it says I'm in to 'Bard Advanced' (which is the same as 'Gemini Ultra'). I only did a couple of queries so far, text output seemed only marginally better than 'Gemini Pro', which I was just starting to get decent results with after getting used to prompting. It's possible they'd done a stealth release earlier, obviously need to do a lot of experiments to make a proper comparison with GPT-4.
It doesn't seem like it's using Gemini Ultra yet. For me it seems like only the interface has been updated since the image generation capabilities are not working.
I've launched a free and open source tool for people to use inside their projects with open api specs and able to run on docker
For the record - This is absolutely not the case in Europe as far as I can tell.
Like, say, the generator they use now.
Happy to announce the launch of Cellar platform!

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All you need is 2 mins of time to register and you can start investing!
Cyclists need to follow the rules. If a cyclist starts buffooning on the road and ends up in an accident I have no problem saying that they were looking for it.
It’s more about tainting your profile to appear as though you’re a “good” potential customer to an entity you’re planning to do business with (who might purchase this data as a background check).
> listen to music from local storage without an Apple subscription

That this is a burden to do is straight up false. Playing from local storage works the same as it did since the days of the iPod.
> Sorry, Gemini Advanced isn't available for you

> Gemini Advanced is not yet available in some countries, for work accounts, or for users under a certain age.

I’m so tired of this bullshit with Google. I can’t tell you how much of a pain it is to PAY Google and then be excluded from things.

Everything from not being able to claim a free chromecast+stadia controller to this. Heck the other day I logged into my Google drive and it warned me I was out of space. I’ve been paying for Google storage for years but something flipped on their backend and the GSuite account someone just took priority over that? So I had to upgrade my GSuite subscription to get enough storage and cancel my Google storage subscription. No notice, no explanation, just complete bullshit.

If I thought I had a safe path forward to remove Google as my email/calendar while maintaining my Google drive/Google account access I would seriously consider it but I fear I’m locked in and would have to start over with Google if I took my domain with me elsewhere.

I thought things might improve after paying for GSuite instead of being on their free tier that they discontinued after a decade but it’s only gotten worse.
ah.
Ok, if it was specific to GPT. Got it. I was extrapolating the arguments to all AI.

I think the reason people are freaking out about GPT/LLM, is it is dealing with 'natural language' specificaly.

However it is doing it, forget all the arguments about consciousness. It is touching on something with the general human that they believe is specific to humans.

There is something about having a computer 'understand' and 'speak back' in natural language, that triggers humans on some level. It's something that wasn't supposed to happen, because it is 'innately' human. People said "it will take a 100 years", and now it is happening.
Does it support extra features from VirtualBox (machine snapshots, suspend&resume, multiple monitors, shared clipboard...)?
I'm not living with rose tinted glasses, I mentioned search and UAC in my original message. This is not enough to warrant criticism of Win 95 clones. I bet you could add search to Serenity without changing the look and it would still be called a Win 95 clone.
Agreed... As soon as you need shared access to multiple systems, PG it is, usually in Docker though if it doesn't need a dedicated instance.

Though I have used Firebird when I needed to scale it support local and remote data before. I don't think Figured gets nearly enough attention.
I've contributed in the past to libvirt in order to support some Virtualbox features because some of our customers used VBox.
It would have been handy to have this in the past, and have all of our customers use some KVM VMs ;)

Congrats for the work!
Actually, on close reading, you realize he's eating one large meal a day and that's it. This is actually intermittent fasting "before it was cool".
Yeah, I saw that in the FAQ, but this was literally my second question in the convo, so not exactly a "long" conversation. Seems like it should be able to handle context for at least a couple of exchanges, right?
Missed /s
I spent a couple months sporadically training a neck harness to build up for lifting and it made a big difference when I gamed long sessions on VR again. I feel like will probably take headset fatigue/injuries as seriously as any other office overuse. Which is to say, probably not much, but maybe awareness will get there one day.
You are right, but most of what you mentioned is not UI and its UX.
Without memory safety? Do you mean ECC?

Non-ECC issues are statistically rare. You might never see them if you aren’t running a lot of systems at heavy load at scale.
Yea, this sort of thing is one where you absolutely have to check with “the regulator” before making an attempt. OTOH, if you have the money to spend 8 years building a match stick Eiffel Tower, you can also pay them to create a new category “non-commercial match stick Eiffel Tower”.
>Disney gets more IP in front of more 13-25 year olds. This is a very impressionable age group, and can create life long fans. This is a good value proposition for Disney.

Perhaps.

Perhaps, also, it's the old media playbook interpreting what young people want as "jam advertisements in front of them".

>Long term the trick for Fortnite is to become the most sticky online videogame in history

They might achieve this (certainly World of Warcraft holds the title). But I think video games are inherently faddish.

If I had to go one way or the other, I'd bet this is a bit of a desperate move by Disney who are becoming less relevant and whose cash cow (Marvel) is withering.
> Run to the truck and get nails also requires explanation/experience to get right if you have never done it before

After retiring from IT I volunteered at a raptor conservation centre. My previous experience counted for nothing and I was given numerous menial tasks: clean that water bowl, chop down that overhanging branch, sweep out that pond, re-attach that broken perch, put a trailer on the ATV and take this rubbish to the dump area, clean that aviary back wall, operate the music for the 11.30 display, etc.

After doing this for a while I had great experience of how the place actually ran, where things were kept, when it was safe to do things without interrupting flying, etc. I knew I was getting somewhere when my tasks started being looking after work-experience students, inducting new volunteers, helping in the displays, etc. It was actually quite humbling being a complete newbie again and having to go up new learning curves. I wish I had done it sooner in terms of resetting my objectives of what work actually involved.
On the design of Text Editors
Cool stuff! I was thinking of doing the same, do you have a beta version for android too?
The title is codeword for "it's impossible to find housing in the locations where are our offices, but we still want somewhat competent people and pay them below average".
(swap! state update :co2-level (partial * 0.8))
Not really? It is hideously slow. They say that will get fixed when numpy finishes getting ported to the HPy interface, but for now my stuff runs faster in cpython. I could try using numpypy but they have deprecated it.
How does it enhance security and performance of virtualized environments compared to the standard VirtualBox kernel module?
Too little, too late. VirtualBox is completely obsolete. And the fact that it is owned by Oracle doesn't help.
How is it broken ? I used it for a day recently (from ubuntu repo, windows guest) and it worked ok.
Google has made so many "death of the web" moves over the past few years that it's hard for them not to be implicated in the current situation. If they've shat in their own pants, well that's too bad.
Mostly Linux, but also Windows when I had a VFIO passthrough setup. I don't think it's even possible to set it up with Virtualbox to have decent enough performance.
Would you say this to bereaved parents?
I'm sorry, but where did I say the cyclists shouldn't obey the rules?

Basically, in all cases the cyclist is going to come off first in any encounter with a car.
Yahoo released their geographic data catalogue under open license and it still lives on as https://whosonfirst.org/

Afaik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_ZooKeeper started at Yahoo

https://vespa.ai/ was Yahoo's search engine for news and other content product, now spinned off (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/yahoo-spins-out-vespa-its-...)
Yeah, I noticed with 'Gemini Pro' , it didn't seem to be able to remember much about earlier outputs in the conversation (apparently little to no context window), which obviously drastically dumbs it down.

I was starting to get OK results with 'Pro', but I had to use special prompting tricks.

Tried 'Advanced' (Ultra), seems only marginally better so far.
I'm curious about the running costs. I expect that heavy moving parts will cause more wear & tear than a LFP grid-scale stationary battery, but I could be wrong.