skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that kids of age six can understand and speak English at a basic level - say half way to A1?

Or is it just a basic familiarity (like a couple of most common words) and awareness that English exists?

EDIT: I see from a reply below by Freak_NL that it probably means before the kids start learning English at school. That makes more sense, as they would be older at that point.
Ah the Yelp biz model:

"would be a shame if somebody read a bad review about your biz, pay us to remove it"

to Netlify

"would be a shame if somebody DDOS'd your serverless website, subscribe to our DDOS protection plan"
Not a fan of Nix, but a really big fan of Guix. :)
Yeah, I think that's the best solution in practice; use "cryptography" and "cryptocurrency". Certainly don't use "crypto" for cryptocurrency.
In Blindsight, vampires have epilepsy triggered by right angles. That explains both the aversion to crosses and the inability to go through a door uninvited.
Ask HN: How will LLMs work on an entire codebase?
Like many of you I use ChatGPT for specific questions, completing a function from comments, etc. But I'm reading that LLMs will soon become actual developers.

How can that be? Let's forget about quality, hallucinations, etc. The largest context window from an accessible/affordable LLM is 32k (Mixtral or GPT4). That's barely enough for a TODO app, let alone a real project. The smallest project I work on, a desktop app, has 60k LOC/6M characters/1.5M tokens.

So what changes are coming that would allow an LLM modify an existing codebase, e.g. to modify a feature and write its tests? (without having to spoonfeed it the perfect context the way we do now in ChatGPT)
Nintendo is famous for not selling their hardware at a loss unlike other console manufacturers. The only systems known to be sold at a loss were the 3DS (after price cuts) and the Wii U. This is part of why the hardware is underpowered compared to contemporaries.
I think you misspoke and meant to say:

“source: I’m an asshole that likes to classify literally millions of people that way, based solely on music they enjoy”
This seems like a meaningless trivialization, because you completely remove the meaning and purpose of the thing. All the code you write gets converted into machine code. Why not write machine code then? If you write it long enough it'll seem normal.
Some very bad closed source applications will expect way to much from the user system: the steam client, where your get bash scripts instead of sh scripts, a hard debian/ubuntu file layout with the linux mount userland container requirement (windows 10?), and GNU-only niche options of many commands. Not to mention many 32bits libraries. It seems they are still in control of their ABI though (probably using the .symver directive of binutils gas).

That to say the least, the current mess is being forced down or throat by steam, unless your distros don't play video games.
> I've heard this aversion to unit tests a few times in my career, and I'm unable to make sense of it.

It's very simple: most of the time people are told by management that they MUST achieve a 80-90-95% of code coverage (with unit tests), which leads to a lot of absolutely worthless tests - tests for the sake of it. The irony is that the pieces that really count don't get tested properly, because you unit-test the happy-path and maybe 1 or 2 negative scenarios, and that's it, missing out a bunch of potential regressions.

EDIT: This just to say that I don't believe the author of the comment said "don't write unit tests" (I hope not, at least!) but, if I can rephrase it, "well, the integration tests give you a better dopamine effect because they actually help you catch bugs". Which would be partially true also with properly written unit tests (and they would do so in a fraction of the time you need with integration tests).
it's a lovely parenting story.
Let me tell you there is also a huge opportunity for the opposite use case.
My elderly parents speak only one (non-Eglish) language.
I would love to have a (cheaper) way to provide my parents with translated videos with the addition of (translated) subtitles.
Subs are important because elderlies can have hearing issues
great work, inclusivity is love
Luck tends to average out over many trials.
Why is this rot?

As far as I'm concerned, it makes sense that an LLM would have absolutely no clue about nearly-obsolete human melanin preferences, and it's surprising that as soon as machines (cue McBean and his Star-On machine) arrive that show us how silly we've been being, it'd be considered "unacceptable".

When I was a child, blue or green hair would've been considered unacceptable, and now it is (although largely limited to younger and older women); maybe I'll live long enough to see a world where the maître d' has blue skin and my banker has green and nobody except some old farts who are about to kick the bucket really cares?

MYOB. F.—I.W.
> Russia’s armed forces have been gutted with this approach.

a growing feeling of this being the conflict's main objective makes me shiver of what comes next
Irony of our times: we have to struggle to make things last 100 days in useful form, but as trash, they'll easily last 100 decades...
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Quantify "well known". Historically enough variation existed in this area [1], and C only happened to copy FORTRAN's behavior for the sake of compatibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo#In_programming_language...
Fair point, and it's not implemented that way currently. It's more like "custom instructions" but thanks for pointing that out. I haven't used multiple system prompts in the OpenAI playground either, so I hadn't given it much thought.
AI bot = headless blink/webkit, a mouse and a keyboard tied to properly trained neural net (training can be achieved with click farms with real humans).
What would you use instead of Javadoc if you didn't use Javadoc?
I didn't know about this! Thanks for sharing. How do you apply this in the context of the parent comment?
Would have been nice to get a download link for a program I can just run locally.
Yes. But Whisper's word-level timings are actually quite inaccurate out of the box. There are some Python libraries that mitigate that. I tested several of them. whisper-timestamped seems to be the best one. [0]

[0] https://github.com/linto-ai/whisper-timestamped
A better approach is to spin up one container and a _template_ database before the tests. Apply migrations to that database. Then, each test creates its own database from the template, runs, and drops the database.

Tests can be run in parallel, and they are fast because the database is prepared just once, tests simply make a copy.

We're doing this in my company, I'm happy how it works.
Luckily Nintendo (Shadowrun is still some years away, when Ninsonmicro determines what is legal and what isn't) is not the authority to determine if something is illegal or not. But of course they are entitled to their own opinion.
Which blue counties? And what is the ratio of blue counties to red counties? Is it a correlated trend or just a one off you're referring to?
yeah they ought to invest money on improving that instead of trying to have 5G or whatever is coming next.
A lot of commenters seem to be Americans working from the idea trains are diesel. The majority of British trains are fully electric. This the argument is moot. Yes it’s much more efficient to move 1,000 people with one big engine than to break them into pairs and use 500 smaller engines.
Compliance with local laws, probably regarding privacy.
> SpaceX has one singular purpose. It’s not like it was trying to counterbalance its burgeoning space business with existing cost and profit centers that are not even tangentially related to its primary goal

Apple used to be organized differently than other big companies, and more like multiple startups. Just look at the trajectory of other PC builders of the 90’s.
Sure, but according to the article, he received the 100k bill because of peak traffic of 60TB of bandwidth per day over several days. If you have a dedicated server in a colo, then a 10GbE connection is very common these days. With a 10GbE connection, you can serve 100TB of traffic in a single day. Hence, if the colo had the same prices as Netlify for traffic, then a single server with a 10GbE connection would be sufficient for such a high bill, no serverless and infinity scaling required, just absurdly high traffic costs.
Thank you. I seem to have trouble using rate as a concept, especially dividing by it :)
But I think I get it when I add a virtual distance into what you are saying.

You are saying (force / area) / (1 / time). I add two distances that cancel out: (distance * force / area) / (distance * 1 / time) and get (energy / area) / speed, which is energy used per area and speed. I can feel that, and it seems to be what you are saying, right?
Elon Musk's tunnel reportedly oozing with skin-burning chemical sludge
US Military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes
I bet they have no idea how nicotine can be a hallucinogen when taking MAOI inhibitors.
That's true, unfortunately. OTOH, I have several Tommy Hilfiger T-shirts bought in an outlet that lasted for 10+ years and still look Ok. I would say you're more likely to get quality out of "actual" brands than own-brands of stores such as H&M (which follow the fast-fashion trend too), but that's still not really reliable I'm afraid...
Everyone in this thread is talking about how this is not a Serverless problem, but a cloud problem. That's correct, but the point stands. Bandwidth is pure margin and to me, it's a bit scummy to a) charge this much for bandwidth and b) offer no tools to combat attacks that aren't in the customer's control. According to this thread[1], Netlify doesn't even have an option to take a site down for a while if it's under DDoS attack.

Netlify has multiple options to solve the problem: billing controls, request throttling, setting bandwidth limit, and waving of overages if it was a genuine DDoS, but it doesn't seem they are interested because that'd be like killing the golden goose. Just look at all the things bunny.net CDN offers [2].

It's disappointing how we acquiesce to explanations of cloud providers that are motivated by nothing other than greed.

[1]: https://answers.netlify.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-traffic-to-...

[2]: https://support.bunny.net/hc/en-us/articles/360014190440-Und...
AI chatbots are serving up inaccurate election information,new study says
I came to read the comments here, and I wasn't disappointed! There are a lot of links to articles and additional information on the Neanderthals, which I really appreciate.

There is also a bit of "poor Neanderthals, we Sapiens are terrible."

We have a vast toolkit for dealing with material scarcity, which includes not only industries, but also millennia of surviving culture. We have codified in our tales, morals and religions, rules that help the survival of the group. We have done that very often, but the tales, morals and religions we have today were the ones that worked best in symbiosis with their group to bring both to the present day[^1]. The execution of those rules is what gives raise to our "poor Neanderthals" utterance.

Back in the day, Neanderthals and Sapiens just didn't have any of those luxuries, only a terrifyingly hostile environment[^2]. Just imagine yourself with a sore throat during the chilly, misty, rainy spring season that is all too common in Europe, but you are living in the bushes, and you are very hungry. Will you think "I better don't kill (and eat) that Neanderthal that is taking some food somewhere, my descendants many, many millennia from now will feel lonely"? No. Maybe you will f*ck with the much-stronger Neanderthal, and kill (to eat later) him during his post-nut moment. And that will be your modus-operandi with everything, even fellow Sapiens.

Yes, probably the Neanderthals were the noble ones, they maybe were even better at math than us. Poor Neanderthals. For my part, I'll put my species on a pedestal; the price of making it up here has been exceedingly high.

[^1]: And often, bloodily so.

[^2]: Which makes it unfair to condemn our ancestors for the destruction of that environment.
Studies seem to indicate that the Neanderthal population was always low though (in the low tens of thousand individuals max) unlike Homo sapiens.

So at the extreme all Neanderthal individuals at one point could have been far outnumbered and ended up mating only with Homo sapiens in mixed tribes, and today we would have still ended up with only a few percent Neanderthal DNA, while all Neanderthal DNA would have ended up merged with Homo sapiens DNA.

It's unlikely to be the case, but what I mean is that even though we only carry a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA, it doesn't mean that such a large part of Neanderthal DNA was actually lost.
Apple cancels work on electric car, source says
sorry for your loss and thanks for sharing. At times I think I don't have the strength to go on after something like this happens to me. But so happy that you are able to still find joy.
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You don't see VPS providers like Vultr forgiving bills like this, nor do they make the news. Granted they are not the same scope as Netlify, but still.
Your question is posed as a hypothetical, but the problem is already solved...

Add a dependency graph of different agents and tools. Use summarization (either selecting subsections or rewriting). Give it a scratch space. Use RAG.

Why would it need to load the whole code base into memory? We can build very complex architectures on top of this task that mix LLMs with software.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171

This isn't hypothetical; all of these
I think the anti-woke nonsense is just the old saying the young are idiots as every generation does. Nobody is arguing for characters from history to all be non-Caucasian, it’s just a mistake!
Mostly I agree with this, but for animated works dubs can be an integral part of the product when done right, and some are even tweaked for different languages (although I strongly reject adjusting the actual cultural content for different locales). The dubs have to be made in concert with the original though. There is also a lot of plain crap out there.

But absolutely; for anything featuring live action, dubs just damage the original.

I watch a German man building his massive Lego city on Youtube (narrated and recorded quite professionally) with my five year old son for a few minutes before bed. He is now at the point where he is trying to give this weird language (to him) a place in his head. Some words are familiar (being Dutch), some are foreign, and you can see the feedback loop happening when words do land; he wants to know what that man is saying. I don't except him to pick any German at this point, but the basics of immersion in another language are there.
Conventional airframes are not novel, building an aircraft is still incredibly hard so.

Civilian super sonic airframes so are novel, nobody did that since the days of the Concord and its Tupolev clone.
Typically this is the flame war detector, which looks at comment:vote ratio, among other things.

Hacker News is more of a library where people come to read stuff, and isn’t really a place for political battles like the one happening here. Usually a moderator will manually disable the flame war detector for a thread if there is some hope for it. But it is doing its job as far as I’m concerned, because this thread isn’t really the kind that motivates intellectual curiosity.
Apple reportedly scraps multibillion-dollar plan to build electric car
So the days of peopke begging to peer, by using cakes, will end?

Because backend fiscal for profit plays will be mandated second hat, over connectivity?
Yeah - this is a big factor.

My home internet gets ~7ms to London (I'm in the UK, London is the important IXP. My test is to one of my ISP's routers at LINX). 5G is about 40ms.

When you add load, my home internet stays at about 7/8ms (CAKE is wonderful!), but my 5G goes to 200-600ms.
“Prototypes are easy, volume production is hard, positive cash flow is excruciating”.
...was this supposed to be related to my comment in some way? Do you just wander around the internet posting random links in random places?
Also re, DNA.

You have to wonder how valuable DNA is. There are many examples of it failing - here's a good one with twin sisters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isa5c1p6aC0

So no, given we don't have any living samples of 'Neanderthals' or 'Denisovans', I'm not 100% confident that we can distinguish the different types of 'hominoids', when identical twin sisters can get such differing DNA results.
I think that's what happens when you see too many adverbs. :)
I second this! I was recently looking into a way to build something like this for my grandfather, but wasn't even sure where to start from the hardware side.

I wanted to have hardware plug into TV receiver, generate subtitles for live TV program and then play it back on TV. Delay would likely be less than a minute but even a few minutes is not a problem really.

Many people with a hearing problem would benefit from this and with AI getting so good at Speech-to-text, this can be done for quite a large population.

If anyone has a recommendation on where to start with this, I'd appreciate it! Was thinking of using Whisper for subtitle generation, but not sure about hardware that can take in, and output HDMI and run this software
My dad who worked on wind tunnels just flat said you can either integrate the pressure over the surface of the wing or the momentum change as the air passes over to derive the amount of lift.

Both give exactly the same results and are convertible mathematically.

For wind tunnel work it was easier to measure pressures.

I'm with you I don't think the standard hand wavy explanation gives you the ability to attack the problem mathematically. So it's basically wrong.
That's a great use case for LLMs, actually. Translate the sentence only up to what has been said so far. Basically, a balance between translating word-for-word (perfect timing, but terrible grammar) and translating the whole sentence and/or thought (perfect grammar and meaning, but potentially terrible timing).

With the SRT file format for subtitles, I think, there's no reason why one couldn't make groups of words appear as they are spoken.

Actually, I have to do the same thing when generating the dubbed voices. Otherwise it feels as though the AI voice is saying something different than the person in the video, especially when the AI finishes speaking and you still hear some of the last words from the original speaker.
Thanks, I missed that it was 10 years of being a nomad first and then this stuff. It said it so many times I lost track of time timeline!

I can very much relate to the meditation aspects. Sometimes I know that if I go to the Urgent Care the best they'll do is have me lay down for some hours until I'm okay to leave. I can do that at home, the hard part is letting myself believe everything is fine and that the best that can be done is to be present.
I strongly disagree. I would estimate that in 90% of cases where I use modulo in languages that truncate (instead of flooring), I write (a % b + b) % b, or something similar, just to get the right behaviour. The exceptional cases are those where I can convince myself that negative numbers simply won't come up. (It's never because I actually want the other behaviour for negative numbers.)

- When using modulo to access an array cyclically. (You might get lucky that your language allows using negative numbers to index from the back. In that case, both conventions work.)
- When lowering the resolution of integers. If you round to zero, you get strange artifacts around zero, because -b+1, ..., -1, 0, 1, ..., b-1 all go to zero when dividing by b. That's 2b-1 numbers. For every other integer k, there are only b numbers (namely bk, bk+1, ..., bk+b-1).

I have never seen a case where truncation was the right thing to do. (When dealing with integers. Floats are different, of course, but they are not what this is about.)
They might've been even worse. Someone on Neanderthal Hacker News would be writing the same comment praising us for being a much smarter species, because we died out instead of inventing nuclear weapons, leaded gasoline, and microplastics like modern Neanderthals did.

For all you know, every humanoid species that was intelligent was equally as destructive. Maybe we're the least destructive and you should be praising us.
Very often it's not a malapropism, just a variation on pronounciation.
Is that not considered part of a developers job?
Intel doesn't sell a lot of graphics cards whatsoever though. Be the first to offer 64GB of VRAM for under $1000 and that could change pretty fast.
Still waiting for the Windows open beta release.
I think this is a good take. While there's big enough niche for personal data locally, I'd love if there's a way to solve for email/cloud data requiring API keys.
Went to Bali many years ago. GoJek App - you could get almost anything done on it. Order in food, get your medicines, go book a taxi - you name it, it did it. The convenience was fantastic. While everyone was all up in arms about Uber, this was next level. Probably not super slick to the nth degree, but hellishly functional...
Yes and no. The thing you describe happens, but it's not enough to explain the amount of lift generated by a wing, because a surprising amount of air hits also the top of the wing! The difference in pressure between top and bottom wing surface is just a few percent.

The reason wings produce significant lift anyway is that they deflect air far beyond their surface. Air several metres away from the wing is also deflected downward, even though it doesn't actually hit the wing itself.

So yes, Newton's third law is involved, but in a "spooky action at a distance" form, where the wing somehow manages to deflect a bunch of air it doesn't even touch!
> if you really believe that whatever happens in the internal politics of one country is a "reason for", or can "provoke" another country into launching a full-scale invasion -- then I don't know what to tell you.

what do you mean? internal politics is just a label and the issue will most certainly not be contained by a border.
The vulnerabilities require the attacker to have root. The GH issue owner was a pest to the contributors; issue owner needs to fix their orgs uninformed security policies.
Yes, if it wasn’t obvious I apologize. Many main characters have plot armor in a way that makes for lazy writing, bad characterization, lowers stakes in the plot in favor of protagonists, and breaks immersion, which is what I was alluding to in response to this part of your comment, and the thread broadly:

> But compare e.g. her meeting with Glory in season 5, where the two of them get into a fistfight, and after trading a few punches Glory realizes that a human would have been dead by now.

That being said, you were a bit uncharitable near the end:

> Do you just wander around the internet posting random links in random places?

I think this was a bit of an unfair characterization of my original comment, and veers close to being against HN guidelines by assuming bad faith, and if you look at my comment and submission history I think you’ll find that I don’t in fact do this.
I was thinking maybe it could be used for debugging, in the same way some have suggested a mode that reassigns names randomly so you can't rely on pattern matching as much
I was born in Germany and was informed by my mother about conscientious objection but don't fully understand how caring for disabled people equates to an alternative to violence and war. Shouldn't we inherently care for elderly and disabled regardless of military service and a military industrial complex? How is this a 1-1 comparison. Genuinely trying to be informed here.
Someone on Hacker News, by judging from previous responses to the most obscure technical questions…