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I am talking about Bard/Gemini (and sub-text) HN... GFYS on the gatekeeping for a bit.

Seriously... you think

@ Dang, @Zuxk, @HN, @sama - we are only a few months into "oh shit"

And you already know whats going on in "oh shit"?
i would argue that any state that is useful should not be illegal, but i agree with you that people have often used that phrase to mean what you said
"We" did. Microsoft didn't. Not unexpected.
People are reacting negatively as expected, but stuff like this is exactly why you can click on a file that was written in Word '97 or a game that was compiled for MS-DOS three decades ago and it opens on your computer exactly as expected. Backwards compatibility is always messy. You either do it imperfectly or don't do it at all.
What did you think we learned?
It is important to point out that what they claimed to do is not technically impossible actually.
They just didn't do it, and lied about it.
That was the real problem.

It's very unfortunate, because it is technically possible, just very difficult to achieve, even in academia (so it won't be done first in industry).

This was the absolute worst part of Theranos, is that they deter others from trying to make headway in the space at all.
You're going to tell me the discrete topology is continuous!?
Ouch. Businesses sell for more than 4x all the time. There are countless examples of that.
My assumption is that 98% of people have no idea what the right sample size is for this particular experiment, including myself of course.

To all who criticize and ridicule someone who would like to have more samples, why do you think 21 is such a perfect number in this case? Wouldn't 15 be enough, if statistics and all applies? 10? 1? Would 30 be too much?
I think the Conservatives primarily want power redistributed to whoever's on their side in any given decade. The particular mechanisms and bureaucracies don't really matter, and it's fine if democratic pillars are destroyed in the process as long as "their guys" ultimately get what they want. The liberals seem more willing to play by the rules and not leave a bunch of collateral damage along the way, which is why they keep losing... every small by-the-book gain is overturned and overpowered tenfold with the next Conservative administration.

FWIW I think there's a difference here between the big-C Conservative politicians and judges who are hopelessly corrupt, vs the run-of-the-mill small-c conservative voters who keep voting for them because of virtue signals (guns, abortion, defense, anti-wokism, whatever). The corruption isn't really a high concern to them, either a positive or negative, as long as they get their values enshrined into political power.

It's not really SCOTUS vs the Executive, it's whatever pathway to power they have available at any given juncture in history. They're very good at pivoting and projecting! Not to say it's admirable, but it's undoubtedly very effective, having captured almost the entirety of the US power structure over the last decade while also striving to make sure their liberal opponents cannot easily reverse those gains. Having so thoroughly captured SCOTUS that they can rewrite/reinterpret the Constitution at will is just the latest move in a long series of such maneuvers over the past decades, skillfully executed.
> I suggest you study the link I gave. For example, document #30 [0] that gives an answer to the question "who on the Russian side has ever confirmed it?"

There is nothing in the document confirming an eternal commitment to not accept new members into NATO.

Until late-1990s, the position of most NATO countries was indeed that Eastern Europe was too underdeveloped and unstable for membership, and the document accurately reflects that. This undermines the narrative of how NATO has always wanted to surround Russia.

By the time new members were accepted into NATO almost a decade later, Wörner was long dead, the USSR was long gone, Russia had started its descent into a totalitarian dictatorship, and all 13 opposing countries had changed their position.
In 2021 Joe Biden warned putin of ‘devastating’ consequences for Russia if Navalny dies in prison: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/16/politics/alexey-navalny-b...
S&box licensing Source 2 is a bit of an enigma to me, I get the impression that they're having to rewrite huge swaths of the engine so I don't know what they're getting out of it. They've gone to the lengths of integrating C# scripting from scratch rather than using the scripting facilities that Source 2 comes with. Nobody else has licensed Source 2 in the 4 years since s&box adopted it, so they're the lone outlier in any case.

Respawns use of Source 1 was a similar story, they ended up rewriting practically everything in the course of developing Titanfall and Apex Legends, to the point that it's almost unrecognisable as Source at this point.
Browsers still follow that strategy. The effort to replace it with strict validation (XHTML) failed. What succeeded instead was HTML5, which went back and explicitly defined how every possible invalid sequence should be interpreted, so that browsers would at least be consistent about it.
1. It's important to remember that having struggling poor people is expensive for the system. Emergency shelters, health issues that go untreated until they need emergency intervention, desperation crimes like theft (affecting policing and prisons), foster care, drug use intervention. These are all expenses that are reduced by a system like UBI. If you keep people healthy and fed, you can keep them peaceful and working and the program pays for itself.

2. I don't see the inflation effect as purely linear. Having $10 when things cost $10 is better than having $0 when things cost $5. There are thresholds that affect peoples ability to even engage with the market that you put your trust into. Also the market wants people to buy things, so it should welcome more people participating in it. And lets not forget that most of the price gouging over the past few years went straight to shareholder profits instead of increased supply costs, we can try to decentivize systems like that that profit off of economic crises.

> we should foster competition, incentivize innovation, and let markets do their thing

"letting markets do their thing" is contradictory to "fostering competition". Markets fundamentally drift towards consolidation. Source: the past sixty years. Markets do not fundamentally organically move towards progress. Often times the profitable thing is to pay workers shit wages and raise prices, and if you try to wait it out for a magical class of well financed competitors to come along and disrupt that status quo, millions of people will have been put into poverty in the interim.
> DOJ removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses

So they still have root on those ? /s
The rain cover is really outweighed by shade/lack of sunlight. The shade tends to make the street level experience more gloomy and a significantly worse experience that people tend to avoid.
Off-topic: are you into Gothic horror novels, or something like that, HeadlessChild? :)

It's cool to see all these creative usernames on HN. I get a giggle out of reading them, every now and then.
Ukraine's primary artillery for 155mm shells are the French CAESAR and US M777.

There is no need to fire tens of thousands of shells with this equipment, and no one would ever do that. These shells cost thousands of dollars each.

The upside is that they are incredibly accurate, with an error radius of something like 100m at 25km, using the standard dumb shells. (Things like Excalibur are markedly more accurate, but cost $100k each).

Add in counterbattery radar, and there's just no reason Ukraine would ever need to fire 25,000 shells a day like Russia does.

Clearly Ukraine needs more 155mm ammunition, but there's no reason to directly compare the numbers of shells launched by Russia and Ukraine.
It's not really as necessary on PCs because of how Windows does scaling. It's only a problem in programs that just straight up don't support it. And Apple has routinely and still does ship laptops with non-integer scaled resolutions as default (e.g., the 12" MacBook, the 13" Macbook Air).
Interesting post! when prototyping what would end up being fq i did quite a lot of tinkering with how it could work by splitting it up into multiple tools, and use it like: <decode tool> | <query tool> | <display tool>. Never got it to feel very neat and problem is what would be piped? i tried JSON so that <query tool> could jq but whatever is would be would have to be quite verbose to be able for <display tool> to be able to show hexdump dumps, value mappings, descriptions etc. So in the end i ended up doing more or less the same design but in jq where the values piped between filters is kind of a "polymorphic" JSON values. Those behave behave like JSON value but can be queried for which bit range and buffer they originate from or if the value is symbolic representation, description etc.
Maybe an interesting note about fq is that for format like msgpack it kinds of can decode in two modes, by default it decodes msgpack into like a "meta"-mode where things like integer encoding, sizes etc can be seen and then there is another "representation"-mode that is JSON value of what it represents.
Is this part of a fan fiction where MS isn't amazing at legacy compatibility?
I'm still amazed how Bitcoin can damage the environment by just existing yet AI, air conditioning, aluminum smelting, and cat videos have subtle effects that are hard to determine.
I suspect we'll see a lot more of these "no compromise" type movements/ideaolgies (from both sides of the US political spectrum) overrunning whatever figurehead that gave them oxygen to begin with.

And that should scare everyone.
To be fair, sometimes you get "Oops, an error occurred, LOL!"
Another option, as opposed or in addition to being careful of who we interact with, is to be less reactive if our buttons are pushed. If a paid shill (or just a random Joe) says something inflammatory about a group we identify with, it would be in our best interest not to immediately lash out in response. Shrugging it off might be the better solution, especially if there is reason to suspect that there are mobs of paid shills out there with the express intention of dividing us.

We seem to have lost the ability to "live and let live", to any reasonable degree. That's what they are actually weaponizing in this case.

Not to say that doing this is easy, but I think it's something we should aspire to.
Em... That's the point, we know that France transferred a lot of equipment(Cesar self propelled artillery is Franch). We don't know how much they transferred, there may be unofficial guestimated numbers - but there can be no source for "we don't know".
One day OpenAI itself will replace Altman and take charge.
Links for anyone else interested as I was

https://jeffknupp.com/writing-idiomatic-python-ebook/

https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/
But they're not examples of mundane descriptions. BMW is much closer than Volkswagen is -- I doubt anyone has ever actually referred to a car as being "a car of the people" -- but "Bavarian motor works" is not a phrase that you'd expect anyone to use descriptively unless there was an appropriate referent, a set of car factories in Bavaria whose company affiliation was obscure or irrelevant. (Perhaps because there are many of them affiliated with different companies, but we're talking about things they have in common such as a demand for steel or technicians.)

Had that been the case, and had the phrase been in common use, it would have been impossible to trademark "Bavarian Motor Works" to refer to part of the Bavarian motor works. But reality is different.
Why /wouldn't/ I want to print something from my Xbox?
The alternative is that the app fails to run at all. Doesn't seem like satire to me.
> Its purpose is to try to answer common questions

Yes. And therefore people should be able to assume that the answers are correct.

Some people have heard of ChatGPT, and some of those have heard that they hallucinate, sure. But that's still not that many people. And they don't know that a question answering chat bot like this is the same technology!
All US military spending is not properly accounted for in these comparisons.

The US provides a huge military shield in Europe and it costs a lot and none of it gets counted toward helping Ukraine. That shield enables European nations to shift resources relatively safely into helping Ukraine. If you remove that shield, those nations can no longer safely give to such a great extent, they'd have to think with far greater scrutiny of their own defense.

US spending on European defense makes it possible for smaller European nations to give military funds and weapons to Ukraine.

Our massive air force protection enables European nations to provide their F16s to Ukraine, as one example.

Go ahead and staple $100 billion more to that military figure for the past two years.
> Everything in the US is much more expensive than in most places in the world.

Except for gas.
I'd argue that the decline in quality of services as been a phenomenon across many western countries and to significant degree been caused by a economic idiology and a deliberate campaign with a goal of privatisation of many public goods, started in the 1980s.

Essentially funding to services are being reduced to pay for tax reductions, until at some point the quality declines significantly, which is taken as the argument that private enterprise would deliver a much better service at lower cost. Services/infrastructure are then sold and a low price and after a short while costs for services go up, but because they are now private enterprises raising prices it is "the market".

The reason why the UK is worse I believe it's due to the political system which results in essentially 2 dominant parties with very little differences.
For private sector projects people do get bought off (in a non-corrupt sense of that phrase) but that seems to be unacceptable for public projects for some reason.

I'm talking about the US here -- no idea elsewhere.
Yes and no; I mean there are still painters around and we still appreciate their skill in the world of photographs. Sometimes it's only marginally about the finished product, but also about the work to make it.
I've spoken to people and read articles where they moved to California to stay with a friend temporarily and try to find work or a similar scenario, it didn't work out and they ended up homeless. If your last address was prison in California, your last address makes you "a Californian."

Those stats tend to be self reported. They tend to try to frame the local homeless as members of the community in which they are currently homeless in order to try to convince people to see them as human beings deserving help and compassion because it's already far too common for cops to drive them to the edge of town and dump them or stick them on a bus to elsewhere.

It's illegal to dump homeless people that way but it's common knowledge that it happens. And it's a known thing some hospitals and such in other states release people, stick them on a bus and send them to California.

I spent nearly six years homeless. I traveled to California as a homeless person to camp there. I left California to get back into housing after all attempts to get into housing in California failed, even though I repeatedly relocated to someplace cheaper within California to try to arrange it.

I have talked to homeless people in person or online for years. I know for a fact other homeless people choose to physically relocate to more temperate, drier climes to survive it. You can go on reddit and find questions about "where to go" as a homeless person. Warmer and dryer are two frequent criteria sought.

I've participated in the planning stages of an annual point in time count. I'm familiar with the enormous challenges involved in getting useful data on a population that does its best to remain invisible.

The highly obvious homeless are the tip of the iceberg. There are far more homeless in stealth mode hiding it from their employer or their college, sleeping in a vehicle or couch surfing or living in situations not intended to be permanent housing, such as hotels.

I'm confident that my characterization of the situation is accurate. And that the people publishing data on homeless populations rarely have good data to begin with and then routinely spin it to serve a political agenda of trying to get some compassion and sympathy for people instead of more abuse.

I don't want that. I want housing solutions, not a pity party, and I've been pursuing education and doing personal research etc for decades to try to serve that goal.

So I guess we can agree to disagree because that's a big fat NO from me, sorry.
Fair enough. I changed my comment to “closer to $0”.

I still think that even talking about or towards $0 is bizarre. Saying something like “less than $236k” would have been much more meaningful if op meant either thing you said.
I should say I got it of course, but not sure others in general would.
I don't think mentioning the quality of the public schools is relevant. Poor people are almost always stuck in public schools (on occasion they can get aid for private schools). This rule on banning certain math classes applies to all public schools regardless of how good or bad they are. This means even if a poor kid went to the best public school in the world, they would still be impacted.
I think it's possible to run a VC funded company that builds open source products using the open core model in ways that respect user freedoms, is successful for investors, and is not a fly-by-night venture.

The execution needs to be carefully balanced on all fronts, which many companies don't do correctly giving this business model a bad reputation, but I wouldn't refer to it as "always a marketing tactic", or as something inherently wrong with the open core model.

I'd go as far as to say that open core is possibly the best way to monetize open source projects.
That was the era of rainbow-colored iMacs. Seeing folks use the default wallpaper that matched the case accent color was fairly typical.
Found the Trekker!
What geopolitical motive does Russia have for a costly, and likely unsuccessful invasion of Poland? If your argument is "Because Putin is Hitler", you're not really making logical or coherent arguments.
Thanks for addressing my ignorance.
We're talking about his story now.

His death and the circumstances will remain in your mind (buried, perhaps) for years to come and affect your decisions and thinking. And you're not alone.

In the end it's advertising for change, and we have data on advertising's usefulness. It can change minds.
The point is it isn't profit generating by any reasonable definition of profit and doesn't have some obvious path to get there.

Taking into account all the things you mention, many reasonable people who spend time buying and selling businesses all day would value this business at zero.

The nit is generous - 236k is not going to cover the iq points and hard work required to do the role of this owner.
It's not that simple as "TBM is better" as others also have chimed in to say here.

Real life example underway now: there's an SFPUC project in SF Mission district to improve stormwater drainage. City proposes TBM but this will result in years of having a huge tunnel entrance work facility in a residential neighborhood. Cut and cover would affect specific blocks but only for months and then move on to the next. Which is better?

PS. To all the OpenAI folks, this project is happening around all your offices!
Unreal Engine 5 now has web browser support
Didn't the US push Ukraine into not accepting terms with Russia, under the promise that it would support Ukraine in case of war?

The answer is "no" on both counts. The US did not "push" them into anything.

And the US made absolutely no such promise. In fact it made explicit statements to the contrary on the eve of the invasion.
Not really

Right now it has absolutely zero impact to me

And in the near future it seems more likely we'd just move up in the abstraction stack and become the people managing/developing/debugging/deploying/maintaining the models
Reminds me when someone asked (at StackOverflow) on how to recognize binaries for different architetures, like x86 or ARM-something or Apple M1 and so on.

I gave the idea to use the technique of NCD (Normalized compression distance), based on Kolmogorov complexity. Celibrasi, R. was one great researcher in this area, and I think he worked at Google at some point.

Using AI seems to follow the same path: "learn" what represents some specific file and then compare the unknown file to those references (AI:all the parameters, NCD:compression against a known type).
Congrats on the incredible journey, Michael!
> init.defaultBranch main

if you think people who use "master" are doing so because they fervently wish to reconstitute slavery, you may be beyond help

even my woke friends who are somewhat rational cringe at this
I can assure you I will never forget the name.

Not all bravery is stupid. When people point to so-called inevitabilities of human character, as Putin and his ilk often do, I'll recall Navalny's name.

I'll also recall the victories that were only possible thanks to people of similar courage. Things looked as helpess for Václav Havel, but without him we wouldn't have had the Velvet Revolution.

I remember their names.
Aren't all opinions on Hacker News personal? :)

I don't think that the forefoot running analogy works here. As you put it, forefoot running is the natural way to run. I don't think you can say that about Rust even if Rust is your first programming language.

I do agree that teaching it when people are young will make it easier for them to grasp. I hope that this will turn out a few people who don't consider Rust challenging even after years of programming in Rust.

I recently started programming in Python after not having done it since college. Along the way I've written code in Ruby, PHP, Objective C, Elixir, JavaScript, and I think even some C. I've even spent time learning Rust. I learned Python in half a day. I bet a derivative of Python that forced memory management onto users would be easier to learn than Rust because, generally speaking, in Python there is one good way to do most things. Nice and simple.
For other readers, Greengrass is their IoT agent that manages updates and remote access and stuff, like JFrog Connect
Health and safety start blurring together at the edges. It's illegal to serve this to customers, or to buy raw milk, make maggot cheese, what have you.
To be fair, the demise of correctness, cleanliness, and understanding
how things work, began long before the latest round of AI.

It really just amplifies already degenerate trends in software
engineering.
IMO it's because book smarts and art/design smarts are two different things that may overlap but don't have to.

When you make sure every hire can reverse a binary tree or some nonsense you end up without many people with aesthetic design chops.
There are models with shorter attention sizes that probably are much smaller in vram needs. The model itself is only about 32g, so in 5K-M quant it wouldn’t be that bad, and the smaller attention versions might actually be workable in higher end workstations with cleverness like llama.cpp. Back of the napkin guess tells me maybe around 60g for the 32k context version
Alaska has had UBI for a while. It has been studied up and down. Studies show since implementing it, poverty has been reduced, crime is down. I haven't seen anything suggesting it encourages greedflation. You are making this claim about UBI, but the difference is you aren't qualifying it beyond with what appears to be your personal thoughts on the matter.
> - The rate of change that AI forces upon us has never before been experienced.

Sure, but I'd reckon on average, the rate of change at time T has never before been experienced at any time < T.