skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blender is unique in having a big set of users who are actually good at aesthetics professionally. A subset of that group wanted to contribute, and the technically minded were actually willing to let them.

Most other open source projects have people behind them who don't put UX first, and who are suspicious, jealous, or plain disagree when people want to help with UX.

This shouldn't be too surprising in a world led by people who value technical excellence most.
Lots of things claim to be anonymous and secure but aren't. There's no excuse to fall for this claim.
https://archive.is/BD6H5
> minScore (number, default 20): the minimum cumulated 'score' used to determine if the document is readerable;

Ahaaa, so that's why sometimes I get the reader icon and sometimes not (especially on mobile).
>You don’t need proper cognition to identify that the answer is not stored in source data.

Uh, what?

So lets imagine you have an LLM that knows everything, except you withhold the data that you can put peanut butter on toast. Toast + Peanut butter = does not exist in data set. So what exactly do you expect the LLM to say when someone asks "Can you put peanut butter on toast?".

I would expect an intelligent agent to 'think' Peanut butter = spreadable food, toast = hard food substrate, so yea, they should work instead of the useless answer of I don't know.

Everything that does not exist in nature is made up by humans, the question is not "is it made up" the question is "does it work"
If this had been implemented during my youth, I might have actually gone out and joined my peers in underage drinking.
In the console? Surely you can’t do tha—-oh.
I agree. Windows should lean into its original strengths, not become a bad clone of a unix system sitting on top of a non-unix system.
Not going to comment on the topic itself but ...

aol.com - wow, it's been many years, the better part of a decade almost, since I've seen that domain or any content on it. Had no idea it was still around.

Yahoo and some other domains that are from that time period still show up in search results, but I don't think I've seen aol.com articles in a long time now.
Considering how the exact same thing happens without meds, but people will just kill themselves more sometimes…..
And by supercookie, do you mean this UUID? https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/57844530a94d5686029c...
For inference the common answer will be "no", you use the model you get and it takes a constant time to process.

However the truth is that inference platforms do take shortcuts that affect accuracy. E.g. LLama.cpp will down convert fp32 intermediates to 8-bit quantized so it can do the work using 8-bit integers. This is degrading the computation's accuracy for performance.
Previous discussion of the original source (WSJ article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504940
It would have been nice to provide a source to back up this argument. So I looked it up.

4% of global cobalt use is used by refineries.
62% of global cobalt use is for EVs, and growing.

[1] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/How-much-cobalt-5scBTFEHRym...

[2] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/How-much-cobalt-5scBTFEHRym...
it's a republished article from fortune.com

https://fortune.com/2024/02/24/steve-jobs-management-advice/
If you / somebody is doing the sand and scan or xray/CT method (which you could pay somebody to do rather than buying a CT machine), then you can create a gerber -- then manually clean it up. Then you have a dangling set of nets that are only separated by layers. You can then infer connectivity from the gerbers on layer to layer manually again to create a reduced set of nets by the shape / visual cues of what the vias look like. That would be far easier than soldering wires to every ball on both sides of a board -- and a netlist doesn't automatically generate a schematic for you, you need to still do a chunk of work to actually create the schematic. To be honest, a netlist is not actually all that useful unless your goal is to attempt to create a full schematic out of the board. For reverse engineering efforts, you would likely focus on one chip and just manually follow each trace for the thing you care about and draw up a schematic manually for that. In most cases you would likely spend like 1 day after you got the scans back building up a schematic for the key chips of interest. For anything that is a bit questionable about if a via actually connects or not, then you would just manually ohm that out. Anyway, I guess if you like soldering and are just doing something for fun, then sure do this method. Otherwise, there are way better approaches than this.
Yeah. Every time a pundit, even an Apple-focused one, complains that macOS “hasn’t changed” I have to shake my head at such ignorance from people who should know better.

The interface changes relatively slowly, all things considered. (When it does change suddenly, some of the same pundits throw a fit.) But the internals are always changing, virtually always for the better; things like the `discoveryd` situation are outliers, not the rule.
As explained above this is irrelevant to enterprise users, corpo installs don't play with per-station configuration like this or care about consumer-facing UIs, the needs of that market revolve around things like image management, deployment, and active directory administration.

You're right that the home market is shrinking though, the OEM install market is down billions in revenue and has been dropping by double digit percentages each fiscal year, but you're wrong in your assumption that the power user market is worth anything. Power users, represented by direct license installs, are a rounding error of Windows revenue. There's nothing worth fighting for there.

Convincing Mom that she should buy a Windows laptop instead of an Apple laptop is still worth ~$750M/Q, and Mom doesn't ever want to see the old Windows panels, she loves the "Add Printer" button. Convincing Timmy Q Hacker that he should buy a Windows license key instead of installing Arch Linux is worth squat.
Start

-> The "Shirky Principle"

-> Then it escalates to the "Godwin's Law"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

-> Then ends with "Brandolini's Law"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

-> Meanwhile, most of the problems in this thread are not nefarious at all, and can be explained by plain old fashioned bad middle management and the "Peter Principle".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
No, the standard LLM implementations currently used will apply a fixed amount of computations during inference, which is chosen and "baked in" by the model architecture before training. They don't really have the option to "think a bit more" before giving the answer, generating each token makes the exact same amount of matrix multiplications. Well, they probably theoretically could be modified to do it, but we don't do that properly yet, even if some styles of prompts e.g. "let's think step by step" kind of nudge the model in that direction.

The same model will give the same result, and more processing power will simply enable you to get the inference done faster.

On the other hand, more resources may enable (or be required for) a different, better model.
I want to finally live this life.

should read as:

I live this life.

IMO. All the best.
If you have a strong enough “Why”, then you can tolerate any “How”.

Wanting to be your own boss, or having the ability to freely travel the world are both a great “Why” to create the activation energy to take the risk and start. But in my experience, it’s rarely a strong enough motivator to help someone persist through 4+ years without any meaningful wins.

The strongest "Why" usually involves serving something other than yourself. For some founders I’ve invested in, it’s a specific group of people (e.g. patients with a particular disease), or protecting something specific about the natural environment. Those people I have seen tolerate extreme suffering - to the point that I have had to physically bite my tongue in conversations where I wanted to tell them to stop and give up (but I never did - better a cut tongue than adding my opinion/ego to their burden). Some of those founders ultimately failed, others found enough wins and are still going (and suffering), a tiny number experienced wild success.

So if you want to persist, then an interesting question is "Who" or "What" are you serving besides yourself?

A separate but related question is how long can your personal cash flow sustain this?

Good luck!
Someone should mash this with retro encabulator to create an infomercial to showcase the ease of printing to various devices on Linux desktop.
Would you be better off with windows? I actually still have Apple hardware that old that I still use. Yes, Apple doesn’t fix it anymore, but no, I never needed Apple to fix it before. I guess it doesn’t get OS updates, but so what? It just works, the only thing I want I is no hassle computers, and that’s what I get with Apple hardware.
So..you’re unable to provide a link?

The fact that you mention that contrary opinions regarding climate change are associated with a political group should be alarming to you.

A minority of scientists believe in a flat earth. Should we assume then that the world is flat? Or should we accept the incredibly strong consensus that the world is round?
The submission was flagged, and I am not sure I understand why since the only (negatively) critical discussion I see is on the ambiguity over the title in the HN submission; flagging a submission appears to take it off the HN homepage, and I feel a title ambiguity in the face of the significance of the submission itself isn’t a strong reason for removing the submission from HN? :)

There are (at the time of posting this comment) no comments raising any substantive issue with the arxiv submission itself (which ofc has to go through the peer review process of publication, and hopefully the original authors will respond / rebut this new article) - so curious why its been flagged? It’s not dead, so cannot vouch for it.

If folks in the HN community who have flagged it have done so because there are serious issues with what the paper is asserting, please comment / critique instead of just flagging it. If it’s because of the ambiguity in the title, I hope @dang and the moderators editorialize - there are some valuable comments in this thread that helped me understand what the issue is and what the bug is!
One of my favourite things about Monzo is they have a little thing in the app that tells you if they are currently on the phone with you to verify against anyone claiming to be them.
Maybe people are getting what they pay for.
things are happening:

https://www.gimp.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP

https://github.com/cryinkfly/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/0fab254aa0b6fc371d8db64182...

https://www.freecad.org/
Being antisocial doesn't mean antisocial personality disorder, many other mental health conditions can cause people to become antisocial. We're getting confused here really because antisocial can both mean "withdrawn" and "hostile" and those aren't really the same thing.

There are many things that can cause social deficits other than antisocial personality disorder, too many to bother listing.
What's the evidence? OpenAI's claims? They do have an inherent interest is making investors believe this technology is magic.
> This advice boils down to "write good code." Unfortunately, practical advice that goes beyond that is really hard.

I don't think that's true. I think a better way to phrase it is "avoid being clever if you don't need to be." Sure, you could write that algorithm as three nested list comprehensions, but does that accomplish anything other than showing off? Do you really need that metaprogramming or would a simple function suffice? The worst code I've ever had to deal with was never written by juniors, it was written by guys that knew fancy template metaprogramming in C++ and would create a nightmare for everyone else to deal with because they wanted to show how smart they were.
Doesn't quite convey the information since the interactive infographic doesn't function.
As the others have said, your criticism is silly.
>> A few talented but not unique engineers should be able to make a web browser.

> From the ground-up? No.

I agree, projects should use the abstractions and libraries that make sense.

The rest of your comment seems based on the idea that I think people should not do that, which would be very silly, so I’m not sure it is worthwhile to respond point-by-point.
I honestly like stackful coroutines if you don’t mind allocating memory for a stack.

https://github.com/Keith-Cancel/Bunki
I think this one's weird because the language puts so much effort into making it hard to hit this that you won't notice until it's a gigantic problem. For me, this was enough of a problem that I wrote a Java agent which patches the method which blocks the carrier thread to just throw (ByteBuddy makes it easy!).

Like, it makes sense that when you synchronized on an object, there's room for contention. It seems weird that synchronizing on an _uncontended_ object can cause contention. But that's what this is. The behaviour is that you have target numCores carrier threads, and if someone synchronizes on an object and then does a non-blocking sleep, it's now blocking, because synchronizing upgraded the non-blocking I/O to blocking.

So basically when you hit this issue, it's because not only has the bad thing been happening, it's also been happening badly enough that all the compensation mechanisms have failed.

It's just weird that a whole language level keyword behaves this badly.
We have civil engineers making skyscrapers that can withstand earthquakes made out of steel and concrete and mass dampers. Wood can flex in a potential earthquake, that's true, they used that in Japan centuries ago, but we've got better materials and technology today. We build houses out of wood because it's cheap, not because it's any good. Noise travels through wood way too well and that makes urban living a nightmare. As we try to cram more people together, we need to build things out of materials that are better so that you can't hear your neighbors coughing at night through your shared wall.
Or leaked it without storing it.
The obstacles are still there.

Just because we have Linux, Python and JavaScript doesn't mean nobody's playing with assembly and experimenting with new ideas at a more fundamental level.

I have a suspicion that the sort of people who think they wouldn't do something hard just because other people have it too easy weren't going to do it in the first place.
It's worthless, 90% of programming related questions (that ChatGPT can answer) are blocked in Gemini for "security reasons" (regular questions, not funny business like the article). Google lost the AI race. No matter how good Gemini turns in the future, people will only use all the other alternatives.
The systematic reform compells individual actions.
Related discussion: *Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms, Stalked by Men# (nytimes.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476721
> And that's exactly what I've addressed: "But this is wrong anyway, dd deletes the whole line, not the sentence"

You addressed something that nobody discussed, since nobody ever sad that dd deletes sentences. The mistake is on your side and you are repeating your own mistake.

> Sentences end with a period, they don't include spaces and newline on the same line after that, so deleting the whole line is simply the wrong operation even if you have 1 sentence per line, but also why should I care about such an artificially limited case when there is only 1 sentence per line???

That's a little bit incoherent. Maybe provide an example? But I already provided: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39475046 Your answer on that speaks for itself.

> Your O point also doesn't make sense: there is nothing to extend since the text is already selected

Wrong. You can extend selections. Read the manual.

Another point is, and other users already mentioned it, that you are very rude. There is no reason for you to believe that you have absorbed wisdom with spoons while everyone else just watched. Your simple black and white view "Everyone is wrong" shows that quite clearly.
The bill doesn't say "the service must claim to be anonymous and secure", the bill says that the service must actually not retain age-verifying information. Yes, services might break the law and retain the information longer than they're legally allowed to, but under this bill that's a violation of the law, not merely false advertising.
Yes, but that is the same as not applying a function to arguments on the left hand side of an equation, but still doing so on the right hand side. The question is, what is the point of not doing that on the left hand side, if you then go and still do it on the right hand side? Let me say it again: It's pointless.
> until it is okay for adults to have substantive discussions about such things

We are adults, we are having a substantive discussion about the topic.

> without it being part of an attempt to get laid

I don’t understand this part. I don’t know how this conversation would get anyone laid: “hey we just found out that bad actors are misusing our system, how do you think we should prevent this? Should we ban all monetised children accounts or only the ones the moderator team flags?”

> odds are good that someone in the room was a child molester

I think odds are good someone wanted a promotion by “moving fast and breaking things” and they haven’t entirely realised what are the consequences of not implementing more sophisticated safeguards.
It still doesn't sit right with me that they still don't offer an option to enable deep copying the results. Using it with a function that returns a mutable object means that the "cached" value can actually be modified.
This is pretty cool! If I may suggest something, on the explore view, avoid showing most popular (I think it can lead to rote behavior!)

If I may suggest another algorithm, something like picking from most popular to least with probability ~1/(rank+k)^p, where p is any number >1, for example set p=1.5, k=10.

It can be implemented the following way (by computing the integral of the probability distribution):

(1) Have sorted index by popularity with n items

(2) Pick a random (double) r between 0 and 1

(3) The chosen index is (if I did my integrals right;round to nearest integer):

i = ( k^(p-1)*(n-1+k)^(p-1) / ( (r+1)*(n-1+k)^(p-1) - r*k^(p-1) ) ) ^ 1/(p-1) - k
Sure, move the goal posts. Can you provide a link to any professional organization or group of relevant scientists that states climate change will continue at a dangerous rate even if humans immediately stop adding carbon to the atmosphere?
Totally sick of hearing about them and their media saturation. /s
Uh, I believe you're really confused on things like ChatGPT versus LLMs in general. You don't have to feed human language to an LLM for them to learn things. You can feed wifi data waveforms for example and they can 'learn' insights from that.

Furthermore you're thinking here doesn't even begin to explain multimodal models at all.
To be fair, though, this manager you're describing sounds like they were a very poor IC to start with. Whereas Jobs's claim is that exceptional IC's make for good managers.
PE ?
Having worked closely with some dramatically different intelligent people, I really think intelligence and reasonableness are very different.

Being reasonable, is being someone with a strong genuine value for collaboration. They actively advocate for and work with others to optimize situations taking everyone's needs into account. Encourage give and take, constructive debates, and appreciate feedback. Etc.

An intelligent person can be all those things. Or none of them - but manifest them enough that, with some spin, they seem reasonable, while actually optimizing the environment primarily for their own long term benefit.

Very intelligent unreasonable people are disasters to work with.
That's the problem with age verification. As it stands, someone, somewhere, will certainly retain the information. Either because they want to intentionally track users (irrespective of the law saying otherwise), or unintentionally ("Oops, I thought this S3 bucket would be deleted automatically").

And, as always, the law will skew towards appearance of compliance rather than enforcement (GDPR-style), so if this goes through, you'll soon be asked to upload your driver's license to any random website.
If there is none around, of course. Most people didn't go to great schools by definition.
But the ad revenue makes line go up.
> A human that mimics the speech of someone that does understand usually doesn't understand himself.

That's not what LLMs do. They provide novel answers to questions they've never seen before, even on topics they've never heard of, that the user just made up.

> To see if a human understands we ask them edge questions

This is testing if there are flaws in their understanding. My dog understands a lot of things about the world, but he sometimes shows that he doesn't understand basic things, in ways that are completely baffling to me. Should I just throw my hands in the air and declare that dogs are incapable of understanding anything?
How do they know what to shape and what to censor if they are not surveilling?
Note: This article, about long-time taxi drivers in NYC, was originally published in 1966.
I don't have links handy but the gist of it is that regular people do not automatically interpret questions asked of them in a technical manner (carefully parsing AND and OR logically), but instead try to intuit the asker's intent based on context.

So many of the studies concluded that the general population is unable to reason about trivial problems involving likelihood. However, when given more context about what's being asked, they absolutely can.
That source doesn't answer my question though, which is specifically about changing Ts&Cs to require arbitration after the contract was originally agreed to by the consumer.
I'm not sure how exactly this is related, but in other news, gemini called Indian PM a fascist.

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-inte...

Maybe it has some beef with Indian gov-t, and by extension marks everything even remotely connected to India as "unsafe"? (Just a wild guess). It's especially strange given gemini's obsession with DEI.
intelligence is broad cognitive capability, while cleverness is more about being quick and inventive in solving problems or handling situations
Bunki, a C Coroutine library
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133095
Until it is integrated into google docs, slides, sheets, gmail…
TBF I don't think there's any control panels people are in love with.

Apart from the issue of needing control panels mostly to solve problems, they're just not great.

Windows legendarily keeps multiple versions of them, while for ios/macos it's a game of finding which image is actually a clickable button or understanding that wi-fi hotspot is under sharing and not networks. The FA was about command line incantation to fix printers and of course at every new macos version there will be a set of new defaults to get back behaviors. I think that's just the way of life at this point.
There should be a collective shift towards making art for art itself, and for one self, in the same way that yoga and meditation are encouraged.

Comparing end products and foregoing the process itself, people don't know what they're throwing out.