skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see a claim for emotional distress based on believing you had won this life changing thing. But on the other hand, anyone can buy a fake winning ticket to prank people and I’ve never heard of a suit moving forward for that.

Course, I’m fairly pessimistic to the whole system and would rather see the lottery done away with as a whole.
Firstly, they had unlimited energy and replicators - which means they could make whatever hardware they wanted.

And they also had bio-neural circuits. And photonic chips.

So, hardware was already way ahead of software.

All this goes to show that in real world, the actual science (and fiction) around material sciences was already quite advanced compared to software.
I think it was just a bad joke rather than an insight. As a neovim user myself, I personally know a couple of extremely oustanding programmers who use emacs.
Patent Absurdity (2021)
Microsoft: Iran, North Korea, Russia and China Use Generative AI in Cyberattacks
A tender offer is not a "get out now" signal. It's often a "the company is healthy" signal.
the cake implementation cannot be mapped to rust. I am not rust specialist but one concept for instance is that a owner pointer owns two resources at same time, the memory and object. In rust it is one concept.

Owner pointers take on the responsibility of owning the pointed object and its associated memory, treating them as distinct entities. A common practice is to implement a delete function to release both resources, as illustrated in Listing 7:

Listing 7 - Implementing the delete function

#include <ownership.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

struct X {
char *owner text;
};

void x_delete(struct X *owner p) {
if (p) {
/*releasing the object*/
free(p->text);

/*releasing the memory*/
free(p);
}
}

int main() {
struct X \* owner pX = calloc( 1, sizeof \* pX);
if (pX) {
/*...*/;
x_delete( pX);
}
}
it depends which resolution you want to see.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. “Air policing.” “Special military operation.” “Surgical strike.” “No fly zone.” “No boots on the ground.” “Unmanned aerial vehicle.” When leaders believe wars can be low casualty, low civilian casualty, and fought on foreign battlegrounds instead of at home, more wars of choice will be started.
liked the detailed comparison
I migrated to Biomejs formatting and never looked back.
That would be rad. The problem is all the guys trying to contact you about your car's warranty are outside US jurisdiction or hidden. If the phone companies were liable at all that would end immediately. I'm fine if it's $500 instead of $1, but it has to be easy to collect.

You used to be able to collect direct from spammers if you could hunt them down, too. I think CAN SPAM ended that, which is a shame.
Little Bobby Tables strikes again!
I wrote an article about these affecting LLM training at https://www.adept.ai/blog/sherlock-sdc
Diffusuon models will be as much a killer app as LLMs. A picture is worth 1,000 words. A video…
I had to learn to do that, though not only in business contexts. I don't know well your context or meaning, but a few thoughts:

First, be polite and read the situation. If you find yourself prioritizing your curiosity over their apparent disinterest, if you find yourself pushing them, that's inconsiderate and you'll be annoying people.

> (Or, could probably be better answered by a Google search.)

If you are seeking information then you aren't being curious, or not in a way that matters (in the sense that I understand it). As an off-the-cuff explanation: Each person contains an entire universe, an alternative reality of ideas, mechanics, intentions, purpose, goals, facts, future and history, etc. I don't mean an alternative reality to yours; I mean your 'reality' is just another alternative to actual reality.

Curiosity is putting aside your personal reality - in toto, completely, unplug the motherf-r - and exploring theirs. You're not investigating or critiquing it. Take their reality as it is, get to know it. Just like if you arrived on a habitable planet in another galaxy, you would be looking around in wonder, just trying to take in as much as you could. It will be alien in places, often predictable and banal at first, but if you give them space and earn some trust, you will find the very best, most beautiful ideas - ideas from another mind, another universe completely divorced from your own.

Certainly do not try to reconcile their reality with your own, you will end up reducing their entire universe to what overlaps with yours - which undermines the whole point, to learn about their ideas and something you never imagined. And do not ask critical questions, especially those that probe for flaws; you will be shut them down and be booted out of the other universe. Trust them; trust they have a vision and answers, completely unlike your own.

Hope that helps!
As a virtual reality geek, this is super exciting because although there are numerous people experimenting with voicing NPCs with LLMs, they all have horrible latency and are unusable in practice. This looks like the first one that can actually potentially work for an application like that. I can see it won't be long before we can have open ended realistic conversations with "real" simulated people!
What do you mean by tech dead end? Has Oracle reached a tech dead in? Are they still a successful business? What about SalesForce, did they hit their tech brick wall yet? Are they still a successful business?

I mean we all work in an industry where we literally see inferior tech win out all the time, not just in usage but in money made.
On the bright side, at least your church building isn't shaped like a literal phallus [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Christian+Science+Society+...
Trump won in 2016, then lost in 2020 because he lost XYZ groups of voters.

All of the people who didn't vote for Trump in 2020, why would they flip from Democrat to Republican and vote for him in 2024?
My cousin started Bold, an at home exercise program designed to reduce the risk of falls for older adults:
https://agebold.com/
I pick up more games every Steam sale that end up getting put into The Backlog™. But when you can buy the entire Arkham series for $10, how can any reasonable person say no??

In all seriousness, Steam sales are the only reason I’ve been able to try out so many new games I’d otherwise not be able to afford, unless I was using Game Pass or something. I grew up on consoles, and didn’t even get into PC gaming until adulthood, but man, Steam has saved/cost me so much money, haha
To me this rings similar to the laments around news: "why does it always have to be bad news, can't we see the good news every once in a while?"

If it didn't work, we wouldn't see it.

If the only way to stop it is through the sheer willpower of a society, it just won't happen.

In my opinion, going offline has to be experientially better than staying online, not just a counter-culture pendulum swing.
Desktop PC, my most recent reboot was a few days ago but the previous was 108 days before.

The worst part about rebooting is catching up on all the Chrome updates that I don't want -- most recently the one that removes the bottom downloads bar in favor of the upper right popout.
The biggest issue I run in to is with Django HTML. It's unusable. They know about it and they said they won't fix it.
Here's the research behind this: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.08934v1

As a casual non-scholar, non-AI person trying to parse this though, it's infuriatingly convoluted. I was expecting a table of "given source file X, we got file size Y with quality loss Z", but while quality (SSIM/LPIPS) is compared to standard codecs like H.264, for the life of me I can't find any measure of how efficient the compression is here.

Applying AI to image compression has been tried before though, with distinctly mediocre results: some may recall the Xerox debacle about 10 years, when it turned out copiers were helpfully "optimizing" images by replacing digits with others in invoices, architectural drawings, etc.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-rand...
I asked ChatGPT about this. It said for interchange portion, sure. I'm not sure if EU payment processors finds a way to make it up in different portions of the fees so that it evens out to the same 1-3%?
If you travel internationally you need both Visa and Mastercard, I agree.

Personally I feel everyone should have 3 cards, a Visa a Mastercard, and one other (any network). And make sure they are from at least two different banks, just in case a fraud alert on one card, shuts down the sibling card from the same bank.

For best safety keep the 3rd card at home, and rotate it every month or two (don't go over 3 months though) with one of the other cards - that way if your wallet is stolen you still have something available at home.
NVIDIA can print money as long as TSMC can make their chips
The bit.ly link was to track how many people clicked on it, for marketing purposes I guess.

As for the support team on our email provider’s side, they didn’t know what was tripping it. We simply got to a point where we ruled everything else out. The only thing left was the content of the email being legitimately spammy, somehow.

Our email provider wasn’t the one that was filtering our emails, at any rate, rather it was the recipient email systems.
How would you tell the difference between being curious and pretending to be curious? I think I'm curious, but it could very well be that I'm lying to myself.
The chances of making some money from stock in a Silicon Valley darling is not really comparable to having plowed money into a meme coin that was literally created as a joke.
In what way?

In that it's plainly clear that the Amalek quote does mean what the parent commenter (and anyone else who understands the region) can easily see that it does. But you keep coming up with weird evasive arguments to claim that it doesn't. Like the above, for example.

If you think the quote is an unimportant side detail

Unfortunately and very tragically -- it is anything but.
It's not a bad strategy. It's keeping an eye on Sam Altman's agenda. He is a political animal that few people on HN seem to realize.

What makes him great at his job isn't the typical techie path of becoming great at technical and building a great product. His ability is the ability to influence and gain power through good and bad means.

Today's strategy may be good for employees; tomorrow maybe not. And no, he isn't thinking of what's best for employees. They just happen to be aligned at the moment. He is goal oriented regardless of the means. That's just my ill-informed opinion though.
How to efficiently allocate a new investment to meet a predefined target allocation ratio (TAR) across various instruments without selling.
After 55 years of burn out, nothing really works. All one can do is develop coping strategies. I suspect that burn out is organic damage.
I mean, Spirit wasn't sold to JetBlue, and Adobe/Figma called off their courtship (likely due to fear of regulator disapproval) with in the past few months.

But before T-mobile bought Sprint, ATT was blocked from acquiring T-mobile.
I actually think it’s worse because it’s not as natural of a monopoly as it was for the payment network space. Google and Meta actively created a duopoly in the ad space and at a global scale too.
Ask HN: Catching Up on C++?
Hi folks, up until 2013, I worked as a C++ developer but moved on to web technologies. In the last decade or so, the language and its features have moved on significantly; when I left, C++11 had barely made its way into compilers, so you could say I'm quite behind on the times.

This is probably a stretch, but since I want to get my feet wet in C++ again, is there some resource that could help me catch up on new features and things worth learning? I would love to avoid reading through reams of standards, but if that's it, that's it.

Many thanks in advance.
Nah, you couldn't blame early employees for at least partially cashing out. I'd probably sell 80%. Anyone who hangs on to all of it probably has a gambling addiction... Let it ride! At what point do you assign sufficient gambling problem or disloyalty?
I think you misunderstood my comment. I gave those two bullet points as mutually exclusive options, where one of them must, pretty much by definition, be true.

That is, you responded "We don't actually know this though. Assuming an AGI hasn't yet been developed, we don't know whether LLMs will actually get us there." Exactly, we don't know if this is true, in which case if it's false my second bullet point "LLMs turn out to be a 'local maximum' in the search for AGI." is the true statement.
This paper was interesting at the time but the main sentence in it was wrong: “Thus, emergent abilities cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models.” Such behaviors can totally be predicted if one looks at the evolution of the likelihoods for these behaviors by scaling and extrapolating from the small models.
What do customers dislike about Amex? I’ve typically seen them referred to positively compared to other processors.
> Actually your comment gives me hope that we will never have AI singularity, since how the brain works is flawed, and were trying to copy it.

As someone working in the field, the vast majority of AI research isn't concerned with copying the brain, simply with building solutions that work better than what came before. Biomimetism is actually quite limited in practice.

The idea of observing the world in motion in order to internalize some of its properties is a very general one. There are countless ways to concretize it; child development is but one of them.

> If you're tasked with it then it doesn't matter if you have a month or a decade (assume that time is.frozen while you do your research), its a too complex problem and simply cannot be solved, and the same goes for an AI.

I highly disagree.

Let's assume a superintelligent AI can break down a problem into subproblems recursively, find patterns and loopholes in absurd amounts of data, run simulations of the potential consequences of its actions while estimating the likelihood of various scenarios, and do so much faster than humans ever could.

To take your example of winning a war, the task is clearly not unsolvable. In some capacity, military commanders are tasked with it on a regular basis (with varying degrees of success).

With the capabilities described above, why couldn't the AI find and exploit weaknesses in the enemy's key infrastructure (digital and real-world) and people? Why couldn't it strategically sow dissent, confuse, corrupt, and efficiently acquire intelligence to update its model of the situation minute-by-minute?

I don't think it's reasonable to think of a would-be superintelligence as an oracle that gives you perfect solutions. It will still be bound by the constraints of reality, but it might be able to work within them with incredible efficiency.
Decaf beans lose their freshness much faster than caf. I’ve found even with high quality roasters it’s 50/50 chance it arrives stale or it will be within <1 week, so I can’t make the cost pan out. So depressing to get a bag stale on arrival.

So what I do now is

1. Mount Hagen decaf instant coffee. High quality instant I think of as “a different drink” than typically brewed coffee.

2. Cometeer decaf coffee. It’s speciality coffee premade into concentrates. Easily the best “reliable” method of decaf I’ve found. Has more of an espresso flavor to it, but better than any alternative I’ve tried.
That's assuming employees are allowed to sell 100% of shares. Often tender offers have a cap - e.g. 10%. Not saying that's the case here, just mentioning it might be much less than you think.

That being said, it's hard for me to believe many employees don't have 10x the amount you mentioned, and will be able to get ~1m worth for 10% of their shares.

I could be 100% wrong on both fronts - but it's my 2 cents
For example, the latest Prettier makes XHTML files invalid by changing DOCTYPE to lowercase:

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15476

Prettier moves ts-ignore comments which can cause TypeScript errors:

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15876

Interpreting nested CSS functions' "-" as minus and inserting a space:

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/15369
Very interesting topic, but rather low on detail --- really wanted to see what those 60 lines of Asm that allegedly show a faulty CPU instruction were, and also surprised that it wasn't intermittent; in my experience, CPU problems usually are intermittent and heavily dependent upon prior state, and manually stepping through with a debugger has never shown the "1+1=3" type of situation they claim. That said, I wonder if LINPACK'ing would've found it, as that is known to be a very powerful stress-test with divisive opinions among the overclocking community; some, including me, claim that a system can never be considered stable it if fails LINPACK since that is essentially showing intermittent "1+1=3" behaviour, while others are fine with "occasional" discrepancies in its output since the system otherwise appears to be stable.
Here you go.
https://english-heritage.shorthandstories.com/old-london-bri...

FWIW I liked the article apart from the scroll effects, which didn't kill the experience for me.
With a total of $2.4 billion, or 99% of the weekly inflows, the US maintained its supremacy.
When looking at altcoin-based funds, Ether came out on top with $21.1 million.
According to the most recent data from CoinShares, crypto funds managed by asset managers including BlackRock, Bitwise, Fidelity, Grayscale, ProShares, and 21Shares had record inflows of $2.45 billion worldwide last week. The new U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have been the most successful so far this year, bringing in $5.2 billion for digital asset investment products.

Assets under management at crypto investment companies have reached $67 billion, the biggest amount since December 2021, when the previous bull market was at its apex, according to CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill. This is in addition to recent price rises.
But that’s why competition is important, this only works if many companies are doing their own, independent risk assessment
Sprint wouldn't have survived as an independent company. They made a fatal mistake by betting the company on WiMax and then the rest of the industry decided to go with 4G LTE instead. This left Sprint without enough capital to build out a competitive nationwide 5G network. Allowing T-Mobile to buy Sprint was a better outcome for consumers than allowing Sprint to slowly go bankrupt as there will now be three viable nationwide networks.
This is such a great comment about so many things right now. Thank you.
This is my favorite: https://thatoregonlife.com/2023/09/how-to-catch-a-glimpse-of...
Not open-source/audited, but Apple HomeKit Secure Video is light years ahead. Encrypted in-house on your own hardware (ATV or HomePod), they don't have the keys, excellent UX, hosted service, super easy to use. I'm all about the self host, but assuming Apple isn't straight up lying, they have build something that's too good and too easy. I buy cheapish HKSV cameras, and block them from accessing the WAN, so there's minimal Apple tax outside one hub.
I used to use a .txt file like this for over 10 years that I edited with Vim and could also edit on my phone using Dropbox. And then I used the Mac Notes app and realized the search, sync, autosave experience, and other properties made Notes way more useful for me.

Similarly, for over 10 years I used to compile my CV with LaTeX using a fancy template I designed, until I realized the time it took to edit it was just not worth it. So I pasted it into a Google Docs file with Arial font and just text bullet points and no rich text features. My life became way easier and my CV looks way less annoying.

(This may be irrelevant to the original post but) I found that a lot of the optimizations I thought were good for me were stemming from an unnecessary attachment to a minimalist technical aesthetic.
Best code editor from the two author have tried?
2030 Nvidia will have mainstream competitors in the cloud space. Amazon especially hates writing checks to anyone that also isn’t Amazon.
Is he Jimmy's brother?
omg hey vachi it's Danielle, your former post-Q1 coworker :)

I've also been trying to track down a Q1 FOR YEARS and a friend sent me this article.

Daniel Alroy would be so thrilled about this coverage. To this day, I still haven't visited the Computer History Museum in San Jose, out of respect for his grudge with Intel. (They don't include Q1 in its history.)
I'm surprised to see this comment. I think OpenAI has a huge moat. Companies like Google who are pouring insane resources into beating OpenAI are struggling to. I think they have the potential to be worth $1T. I think the moat will continue to grow.

I haven't tried Gemini 1.5 yet, but every single model I have tried haven't come close to GPT-4. I don't care what benchmarks say - they really don't come close.

If Gemini 1.5 is competitive, that was a full year to catch up. I'm sure OpenAI has other things cooking.
Then I’d not hire them for being so short-sighted. Your college degree has nothing, at all, to do with the rest of your life unless you want it to and you work to make sure that it does.

Seems like this wouldn’t need to be said on a tech board.
OpenAI's stated goal is to develop an AGI. My point was just that until they get there we'll have no idea whether LLM tech will lead to an AGI.

The company could always pivot as they learn the limitations of LLMs and potentially find other options, though I would argue that their current valuation is extremely high and based largely on the promise of tech they really haven't developed yet. If roadblocks are hit they could be in a tight spot having to live up to such high expectations.

That said, as much as I'd like to see the business goal of developing an AGI crash and burn, I wouldn't bet against them. I just hope we somehow solve the seemingly unsolvable alignment problem first.
> many will happily tell you they much prefer you to pay with cash, failing that debit, then Visa or MasterCard credit, due to the cost of processing

This has never happened to me. There have been places that don’t take Amex outright (not many these days) but none have ever said they prefer anything else, from huge big box stores to small farmers market merchants.

Where have you seen this?
What is the loop hole?
I don't disagree. I agree it's worth the extra effort up front if you're expecting the code base to last. And the exponential complexity you mentioned, well, that's basically why I left Rails. It can be designed well.. but you're going against the grain, and unless the rest of your team is totally on board, it's a struggle.

That wasn't the question though. The question was, which is easier? And let me tell you, you can't beat User.first. Even typing this comment I'm proving my point as I can't remember how to do that in ecto. User |> first() |> Repo.one()? after importing and aliasing a bunch of mysterious (to the beginner) things?

Right tool for the job. If i was building a temporary app, i'd use rails and make very very sure everyone was on board with the idea that it was temporary. I might even sabotage it so it couldn't be used long term (us evil old rails devs have.. tricks). Proper long term infra? elixir.
The Art of Handwriting for Language Immersion
No. For many of us it irrelevant if there is duopoly in the ad space because we don't use Facebook and we use ad-blockers. But in the payment space VISA/MC charge high fees which are passed onto all consumers.
Meta response: Why does HN feel like a political forum now? Can we get some restrictions on the amount of political spam here and focus back on technology?
There were all kinds of cheats and hacks in basically every networked game back in the day. Hardly some new thing or change.