skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nokia and blackberry didn't expose the metal antenna bands directly so a user could short them. That was the main issue introduced by the iPhone 4s metal antenna bands on the outside.

Later this was resolved by having multiple antennas but the original 3G spec didn't allow this. These days with MIMO multiple antennas may be active.
I agree with almost everything you said, although I do think this type of testing has a place.

There are different types of testing, what you're describing sounds to me like testing the "core" of your code, part documentation, part validation, part stability, etc.

Other types of testing like fuzzing provide an entirely kind of value. I believe this AI- driven testing can inherit a space to target tests at the tail end of the distribution, many tests with little value. Providing extra coverage where human energy and time is lacking.

That is how I see the current state of AI tooling regardless, as a cognitive assistant.

I'd be surprised if this line of research doesn't end up being very fruitful in the coming years.
> Funny you mention that, since lawyers have already gotten in trouble for citing fictional cases when submitting work performed by chatgpt.

For something like legal work, you don’t want a raw LLM. You want an agent integrated with a legal database, in such a way that it can’t cite cases which don’t exist in the database. And it can’t generate a direct quote from a case unless that text actually occurs in the case.

You still need a human lawyer familiar with the law to pick up on subtler errors, but better technology can prevent the grosser ones. And the subtler errors (e.g. misrepresenting what a case says through partial or out of context quoting) is the kind of error human lawyers sometimes make too - like every other profession, lawyers vary greatly in their competence, and often only the grosser cases of incompetence incur sanctions
> Fast food prices have been unhistorically low for a few decades, due to a combination of increasing worker productivity and suppressed demand due to the great recession.

This does not seem to be borne by the data. Looking at BLS's CPI data, we see that the "Limited service meals and snacks" category went up by 30% since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile the CPI as a whole only went up 20%, and "food at home" went up by 27%.
It's not doing facial recognition in that it is trying to identify people, it is doing meta-facial recognition, not looking for people's identities just their meta, non-personal info, like male or female and supposed age.
Hey that's me! I was being a little too cute and flippant when I said that (I forgot I was in interview mode and not talk to colleague mode) but I stand by the idea that from a regular user perspective the security difference between a kernel driver and any other piece of software is minimal!
Reddit will let users buy its IPO, warns that they could make the stock riskier
These numbers seem like complete nonsense...not even consistent within each category? Telecom has revenues of 1.7T and also 1.1T ???
This is called compiling with a type system.
I've just inherited a Rails project that's been in development for the last 10 years. I know one of Ruby's mantras is something along the lines of "Optimized for Programmer Happiness," but after working with it for a couple of months, I have to ask "who is the programmer there?," certainly not the maintenance programmer. If code is read X times more than its written, then aiding comprehension is of the utmost importance. I'm not a huge fan of Go, but I do have to say that its readability greatly improves the developer-experience.
in the future, it seems like we might just become PR reviewers
Why couldn't they threaten to stop delivering? I was under the impression that only the Postal Service (USPS) had a regulatory mandate to serve all US addresses.
That Time America Outlawed Pinball (2016)
Secularism is a policy platform. You can be a secular populist or a sectarian populist. It's important to understand that populism claims the support of "the masses", sometimes even in good faith, but the actual support of the "masses" isn't core to the strategy. A key part of popularism is acceptance of an agenda in its entirety. If you could just scope platforms down to the bits that everyone agreed with, you wouldn't need a term for it (though David Shor proposed one, "popularism".)
Sanders is a great example case. As I recall, he was ultimately labeled as a populist with a negative connotation, framing him as a demagogue and “reminding” people of the danger of direct democracies (as opposed to democratic republics etc closer to the actual US system). This narrative emerged only when he became a legitimate challenger to the Clinton and Biden campaigns in 2016/2020.

Prior to that, his populist designation was generally framed as a positive: a man who represents and embodies the will of the working class voters.

The establishment Dems and their media allies found him useful to engage their base, but never intended for him to be considered for the actual nomination (as was made clear from the guccifer leak). Very interesting case study and a blueprint for weaponizing a term like “populism” in public discourse.
SSB was designed by an ocean sailor to be a social network that was infrequently synchronized and then only by local connection. The idea being, when sailors went ashore or rafted up for a gam to catch up on the scuttlebutt, they could synch their databases and have something to read on the next leg of their journey.

Blockchain tech was used to assure that messages created by others had not been altered in transit.

SSB ran into design limitations when the more recent developers tried to imitate something like Mastodon. It can work, but it's definitely idiosyncratic. It does tend to grow a large db, but space is rather cheap these days.
> we need at least 5 minutes to get the coal plant producing.

That's probably not coal but gas.
Actual link (OP clipped by HN):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cxuzALcmucCndYv4a/daniel-kok...

Author is in OpenAI Futures/Governance team
It's a pretty big leap to get from "notation isn't required for all forms of music" (what the person you're citing actually said) to "Lilypond is only for you if you're a classical musician". The music world isn't divided into a dichotomy of jazz players and classical players, and even many modern jazz players read and write musical notation.
There's research into editing facts in language models. https://rome.baulab.info/
Trading212 is giving 5% interest for uninvested cash. I started using trading212 and it’s been solid so far.
Firefox + uBo. TOR browser uses Firefox as a base for a reason, and uBo works best on Firefox
It's entirely possible for two opposing sides in a polarized polity to both employ a populist strategy. How you'd see that happening is that the two sides would deliberately exclude moderates and centrists.
I am very happy dang is intelligent
Yes, but for me ChatGPT today was more useless than a rubber duck. Only when I said "thanks for nothing" it tried to turn all the blabla into code, which was unusable.

GitHub copilot instead, as an intelligent Intellisense, is absolutely great; a real blessing and gift to coders.
Just my two cents, but as a type 1 diabetic: I either want very accurate blood sugar readings, or none at all.
And from what I know about people who don't suffer from diabetes: there is almost no reason to try and find out what your blood sugar is doing, because your body regulates it so well.

So I just don't see the point of this. Non-invasive glucose monitoring just doesn't seem feasible, the accuracy doesn't help diabetics and it certainly doesn't help non-diabetics.

I'm a naysayer on this, but I do hate having to continuously test my sugar and buy expensive CGM gear. Please prove me wrong?
Swift joins Google Summer of Code 2024
> As the article says, tech companies have been able to get FDA approval for the ECGs on smart watches. Tech companies should do the same for any other medical features they want to sell.

The issue here is that the FDA has doubts that any of these devices, as they are currently, and also with some significant physiological challenges (think Theranos "this may just not be possible"), are able to do NIBGL accurately, not that "hey, just make sure you get approval, okay?"

(NIBGL - non-invasive blood glucose level)
Going to buy more Eli Lily stock, that thing will never go down this way.

Keeping people from seeing their real-time blood glucose levels is just a move to keep them from becoming aware of how bad their sugary foods are and their pre-diabetic health.

Fructose is way worse than glucose.
It's of its time in some ways. But far, far ahead of its time in others. I rewatched it a few years ago and was surprised how dark and adult it was.
Using JavaScript, it's easy to create a standards-compliant PDF with inconsistent behavior in popular viewers. For example,

https://jasomill.at/HelloGoodbye.pdf

contains JavaScript that, per the spec, should display a pop-up alert ("Hello Acrobat <version>") when it is opened and another ("Goodbye Acrobat <version>") when it is closed.

Actual behavior is inconsistent. On my Mac:

Acrobat: both alerts display

Preview, Safari: neither alert displays

Chrome, Edge, Firefox: only open alert displays
If ethical issue is not your main concern, you can always do other people’s programming homework. Charge whatever you think it’s appropriate.

Another possibility is data entry. Here in the US is between $20-$25 an hour.
Neil Gaiman on the Collectibles He's Auctioning
My success rate for writing code with ChatGTP or Copilot is about 5%. Started much better but now I can’t get either to fix any mistakes or generate useful code. Anecdotal but it hasn’t changed my life as a coder.
It doesn't matter who the elites are; it only matters that some notion of them exists. The key to populism is the claim that some political platform (left, right, religious or secular) represents the manifest will of the people in its entirety, and that any opposition to that platform is corrupt or elite-driven. If you're looking to understand the term by its opposition, the antonym of "populism" is "pluralism".
“100x faster than Redis” hosted where? on a machine across the world? on a machine across the country? on a machine in my local network? on the same server that my application is sitting?

This a very bold statement.
In 100 years we’ll both be dead, and you’ll somehow be even less relevant than today.
Some of these robots are kind of "jittery" from what I've seen, I've seen soup delivered without spilling but it might not work well with drinks (not on "rough" terrain obviously)
My thinking as well. If coding assistants become so good that I'm at a competitive disadvantage, I'll just start using them. It's not rocket science. So far, everything I've tried largely slowed me down. As a Google/SO replacement for some types of questions, they sure save me maybe an hour per week, but that's really all I could extract so far.

Maybe my work is not too typical though, I spend only a fraction of my time actually typing in code. And I do eliminate the need for boilerplate through other means (picking frameworks/libraries that are a good fit for the problem, refactoring, meta programming, scripts, suitable tool chain etc).
I keep finding myself angry about the recent (some number of years) focus on C and C++'s undefined behavior. I have been writing C and C++ for 27 years, 16 years professionally, and despite all the scary implications, I do not understand why ANYONE cares. I do not get it. This is yet another article that goes on and on about nonsensical situations that are just shitty code. Integer overflow? Who cares? Unless you're targeting a specific compiler and architecture, it doesn't matter. C and C++ have footguns. Everyone knows that. Who cares?

I am anger commenting, because I'm just sick of this, but this article still says nothing to convince me that any of this matters.
Some kindle books have the X-ray feature that does exactly this.
So your genius idea is to get people to pay to put themselves on a future blackmail list when your data is leaked/stolen/sold? I have to say, it is a kind of evil genius.
Is anyone else disappointed with Gemini Ultra for coding? It just makes basic mistakes too often.
Yea, we need an LSP-like spec or something here. I'm on Helix, and like you i just can't switch away for these things.

I wonder if the LSP spec itself should add some LLM extensions. Since i know some projects have already just made LLM-LSP impls, it's not far off from a normal LSP. Though i do imagine a few custom LLM-centric behaviors would be useful
For myself I have several distinct cognitive weaknesses that I can often just unload onto an AI in a conversational style.

For instance I know I'm good at breaking up large tasks into smaller ones, but because planning and executive functioning is by far my worst energy consuming skill (adhd) I can save a lot of energy (but not time) by approaching it conversationally. I'd often use colleagues for the same thing, but then my productivity costs 2 salaries

Similarly, I have some trouble with memory and cognitive speed when I'm tired which is unfortunately often the case due to my health, I know well enough what I kinda "want" to do and I let the AI generate something that comes near what I need and I can work from there once I have the right starting point.

Just my personal experience I'd wanted to share.
They definitely are not impressive. I always avoid them if I am given a choice, because for the last 20 years they have always been sub-par. UPS isn't perfect, but they consistently do better than FedEx. Sadly these days it's pretty uncommon for vendors to give you the choice of who they use to ship the package, so I can't always avoid them.
Some Intel Core chips keep crashing, game devs complain
I am not “parroting” anything and stop making this a left vs right debate. It should be everyone vs mega rich and mega powerful.

The estimations are on the conservative end too, a google search will show that its damage is more.

Our government sucks and has sucked for a long time.
I think my sibling comment will help[0]. You're exactly right to not trust. Certainly that's not something I am suggesting. What I'm saying is that it is simply harder to corrupt multiple people than it is to corrupt a singular person. This does not mean they cannot be corrupted. We cannot confuse these concepts.

But beyond the robustness that is created by distribution, I think there is a more practical aspect to this. The world is fucking complex and no singular person can be an expert in all or even many subjects. There simply isn't enough time to do this, not to mention each subject changes with time, so we'd have to do things in parallel. I'm not sure how to do that yet haha. So practically there is an advantage because you can out source this knowledge. Which this is happening regardless. The knowledge outsourcing is either implicit to the system or explicit. I firmly believe that if it is not explicit in the system then this only creates an environment that is more prone to corruption.

While we're on the topic, I think we often make a mistake when choosing the president. Absolutely no singular person is qualified. I fear people who say __I__ will solve problems, people who talk in the first person. The truth is that the world is too complex. The president's two most important roles are: 1) to be a representative figure head, 2) create a effective group of experts and be able to process and balance their opinions on their niche expertise. Even autocracies are having difficulties operating in the modern world due to this rising complexity. So I personally don't want a strong leader so much as a leader who knows how to manage and delegate properly. But even that's a difficult task.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487580
Coding is quite subjective. When I examined the early bitcoin code (the one Satoshi wrote and shared). The C++ code looked pretty sloppy and amateur-ish.

The comments were odd and not standardized (randomly using four //// sometimes, etc). The use of 4-6 random new lines between sections of code was awkward. The way the code was organized, folders named, etc.

The code itself was a mix of hungarian-isms. It felt very academic-y to me... like someone that did most of their coding in university as a teacher or phd candidate (little real-world coding).

There's a podcast (name slips my mind...) where the host asked Bram Cohen if he thought Len was Satoshi and he doesn't outright say yes... To paraphrase, he basically answered, "I can't say for sure. It seemed like he (Len) lacked the C++ knowledge.. but his programming got a lot better since I last seen it... so I don't know. It seems to be the most likely scenario would be Len doing the brain work and someone like Hal doing the coding."

But, isn't that sorta what happened? Satoshi had 169 commits and Hal basically took over and cleaned everything up. Satoshi didn't do that much coding, and the coding he did do was done over 1.5-2 years (as he stated in the cypherpunk mailing list).
I assume GP is referring to Javier Milei who wishes to assert top down culture change in the government. Though given he's equivocating now that he actually has to execute on his lofty reform agenda of the (near) abolition of government, it seems unlikely it's going to play out as he's imagined/portrayed. If he does succeed in the execution, it will be an interesting experiment in anarcho-capitalism, and the whole world is watching and waiting to make it an example either against or for the ideology
I’m guessing the 12hr provisioning time is because this is super early stage and there’s no self-serve interface available yet to provision it yourself?

In the larger picture I’m trying and failing to imagine the niche for the eventual product but that could be a lack of familiarity or imagination on my part. I’m guessing the OP is part of the team that’s working on this? If so, maybe you could elaborate on what specific problem this is solving? Additionally is there any possibility of self-hosting? Since writes do obviously involve network traffic, they’ll almost certainly be faster over a 6’ 10-Gbit SFP cable to the pool of NVMe drives sitting in the rack here.

Also, since the use case sounds like “datasets that can’t fit in RAM”, what’s the cold start latency like? Say I’ve pushed 10TB of data into IKV. How much does a given new node have to pull down into local storage before it can start reading from (potentially a shard of) the data?
And yet they can’t/won’t do shit about it. Hence “people in power” not “third-rate states that take virtue-signaling votes but refuse to lift a finger”.
> Google SSO Login
Hey! Thanks for your comment - I'm the one who wrote this article. I wasn't trying to say that the paper authors talked about "unexpected edge cases" or "thinking outside the box." I edited the post to be more clear that some of these takeaways are my own opinions.

This article is less of a summary of a paper and rather commentary on what the results of the paper entails. After all, Hacker News is meant for discussion :)

I will say though that I do believe that I still stand by the "exponentially more valuable" portion. I think the fact that LLMs can fluke their way into "hitting a jackpot" in terms of test coverage is exactly why they're so valuable. When you have something constantly trying out different combinations, if it hits even one jackpot, like in the paper, it's extremely valuable to the team. It's a case that could have been either non-obvious or simply too tedious to write a test for manually. I think there's tremendous value in that, especially speaking as someone who has spend way too much time simply figuring out how to test something within a Big Tech codebase (F/G) when I already knew what to test.
If it's not accurate, it's not going to be helpful.

I'm a paramedic, and for both IDDM and NIDDM patients, watching those numbers, etc., and experimenting, or "chasing the numbers" often leads to more problems than not.

The issue for those patients is that hypoglycemic states are acutely problematic in a short time frame AND lead to decreased alertness, impaired judgment and decision making that can make all these things easily cascade.

And when the numbers are off? It's very dicy. It's not just akin to monitoring your life metrics.
What's wrong with MATE?
>Are they tracking anonymous comments or how does it work?

Many people happily put their real names in their social media.

Many people put information and/or pictures which easily identifies them when combined with other data, which credit agencies have an enormous amount of (workplace, purchase of a new vehicle, house photos, school, etc.).

Those two things alone probably cover a large percent of the population.

Add in things like: using a username on social media that is the same/similar enough to the email address you signed up to credit monitoring, purchasing browser fingerprint data from whatever websites and comparing it to logged-in site visitors, etc. and the outlook is bleak.
Tech companies are all about revenue, and hoping to replicate Amazon
A commenter above mentioned that when you target an `iframe` it sends back the header `Sec-Fetch-Dest: iframe`, so if it doesn't have that then you know it requires the full page and not the snippet. So, yes, easy no JS fall back by dynamically adding the `base` tag. Nothing else needed.
Actually, a number of states require students to the SAT. [1] This has an interesting effect on the average SAT scores, since the pool of students who choose to take the SAT tend to have somewhat higher testing ability than the students who would not have chosen to take it (but end up taking it due to state mandates).

1: https://blog.prepscholar.com/which-states-require-the-sat
nope. this territory was already decolonized . nothing to do.

occupation or not occupation has nothing to do with colonization. totally different topic.
PayPal used to do the same thing, but even worse they weren't consistent about it. The page to create your password truncated it, but the login page did not. I found out the hard way when I couldn't log in because of that stupid behavior.

Thankfully they fixed it at some point, but it's absolutely mind blowing to me that anyone thought it was acceptable in the first place.
The lab leak theory doesn't necessarily imply engineering or contradict a zoonotic origin.
Someone’s April Fools joke leaked early it looks like.

Benchmarking a local program vs an AWS hosted service to claim you’re faster than Redis?

Reads are served locally but all writes go to some hosted cloud service?
I think they'd be unlikely to since you are not the one purchasing shipping, the shipper is.
legally really changes the vibe of your comment
Ouch - half of the article (the "Actionable Takeaways" section) was my own commentary. The summary was for those who didn't want to necessarily parse through the entire paper's PDF.

Happy to listen to any constructive feedback if you have any, though!
I had this with an Apple Watch return. The package was either lost or stolen in transit, and neither FedEx nor Apple were interested in helping me. Only got it resolved after emailing Tim Cook's address, which goes to executive customer relations.
‘Designing things like door handles for people with only one arm is a good idea not just because it helps those with only one arm, but also because all of us sometimes have only one arm. If we’re carrying a hot cup of tea, for instance…’

…to (very liberally) paraphrase Rory Sutherland.
I live in an apartment. I get mail for 4 or 5 previous tenants. I get corporate spam. I have unsubscribed from as much as I can, I have a return to sender stamp and have used it, yet I am inundated with trash on a daily basis. Technically, it is illegal for me to throw out this trash. In my opinion there is a massive amount of waste moving through USPS and the organization could use some serious cuts in order to take stock of what actually needs to be delivered.