skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used ClearCase quite a bit (and other (ir)Rational tools) at a previous job. It sucked pretty hard. But, it didn't _require_ you to lock files. It _strongly encouraged_ you to, and made working with hijacked files a pain in the ass, though. In practice, this is largely worked around with branches, though. And, branches from branches... Kind of mimicking the distributed workflow we know with git with more branches.

But, yeah, ClearCase sucked pretty hard and was frustratingly slow. Also, too easy to miss adding files to source control and really annoying interface to _find_ view-private files. 0/10, would not use again unless I had a gun to my head.
FWIW the use case you're describing is very often achievable with RAG. Embedding models are deterministic, so while you're still limited by the often-nondeterministic nature of the LLM, in practice you can usually get the same answer for the same input. And it's substantially cheaper to do.
So double is like copilot, but free? What's the catch?
I think a weird thing for surrealism is that it proved so popular that it turned into kitsch and its stranger tendencies (and social commentary) have been sanded off. So in other words, it was a success.
Ok: how would you have interpreted the comment? Rereading the thread, it seems they're implying that pushing back on gender stereotypes is to force people to not "be natural."
MacBook Airs get an M3 upgrade, while the M1 model is finally retired
> The charter is not a contract with Musk.

How sure are you of that? Seems to me it could at least equally validly be claimed that that is precidsely what it is.

> He has no more standing than you or I.

Did you finance OpenAI when it started? I didn't.
Vote decay probably has been discussed a lot already on Meta StackExchange.
Yes, if you buy walled-garden devices you won't have a great time trying to install things that were meant for devices outside of the walled garden. I can see how that is unfortunate, but I'm not convinced that it's an argument for tearing down the walls.

The alternatives that most here on HN are pushing for would ultimately lead to a walled garden no longer being an option for consumers at all. I think the status quo is preferable: consumers who don't want to participate in the walled garden can choose to not buy devices that are explicitly sold as being part of said garden.
I've spent ages trying to get an RSS feed for changes to a particular file (on the main branch) out of fossil. I can't tell if I'm misunderstanding some fundamental organizing principle, or if RSS feeds from searches/filtered paths is just so far off the important path that it's missing functionality.

Help appreciated!

Sadly, though, realizing it got iffy when you strayed from the well-trodden path hurt my opinion of fossil a bit.

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My use case is that I ported pikchr (and lemon) to Go and want to be able to notice changes to both. Like everything from the SQLite folks, pikchr is amazing.
That continent wants their citizens to be safe. So, their citizens are going to pay the price of not having access to these developments as they are happening. I really doubt any of these big players will willingly launch in EU given how big the fines are from EU.
American Express credit cards exposed in vendor data breach
Similar behavior would have been to go to all of the retailers and say they couldn’t sell iPhones if they sold Android phones.

Apple sued for patent infringement and that was about the extent of it.

Suggesting that their behavior is at Microsoft’s level is naive.
I have also found that instead of screaming, staying silent is a very powerful technique. If someone is spewing nonsense or making personal attacks, I sometimes just "hm mm" to confirm I heard them, and then stay silent. Nine out of ten times they will backtrack immediately.
Make as a general purpose task runner
Press release, "Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip"
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/apple-unveils-the-new...
They once had to put a notice on their website for 2 weeks in the UK due to losing a Samsung design patent case.

Their non compliance was impressive. They changed the website to ensure users wouldn't see the footer with the link without scrolling. Then they edited the notice's wording by adding paragraphs in the middle of it - and sentences in the middle of paragraphs.

I really think there's some Americanism behind it. Like, "we don't care what you foreign authorities think".
Think in terms of market power, not share.
It's too bad they put Claude in a straight jacket and won't let it answer any question that has a hint of controversy. Worse, it moralizes and implies that you shouldn't be asking those questions. That's my impression from using Claude (my process is to ask the same questions of GPT-4, Pi, Claude and Gemini and take the best anwser). The free Claude I've been using uses something called "constitutional reinforcement learning" that is responsible for this, but they may have abandoned that in Claude 3.
You just need to focus niche and upmarket, OpenAI is e.g. never going to make that "clone your chats and have your LLM-self go on pre-dates" app that went around Twitter.
One is being annoying. The other is assault.
Drives me nuts. Apple even added this weird sort of work around where if you ask for it on Spotify, it connects to your phone and the phone airplays Spotify to the HomePod.
Feels as unpredictable as dealing with people with undiagnosed/untreated mental health issues. And with corporate robots driving this process its getting scary.
It's less the airlines being cautious (like they finally started being over Ukraine, but not until MH17): Russia has just closed their airspace to most Western airlines (and vice versa).

This leads to sometimes quite extreme differences in travel times between two cities depending on whether a Western or e.g. Chinese airline are conducting the flight (e.g. London-Shanghai), since Chinese airlines can still overfly both Europe and Russia.
I'd guess a bit of both, perhaps more on the data side. One could also flip the question and ask how is this new Anthropic model able to beat GPT-4 in some benchmarks?

As far as data, OpenAI haven't just scraped/bought existing data, they have also on a fairly large scale (hundreds of contractors) had custom datasets created, which is another area they may have a head start unless others can find different ways around this (e.g. synthetic data, or filtering for data quality).

Altman has previously said (on Lex's podcast I think) that OpenAI (paraphrasing) is all about results and have used some ad-hoc approaches to achieve that, without hinting at what those might be. But, given how fast others like Anthropic and Google are catching up I'd assume each has their own bag of tricks too, whether that comes down to data and training or architectural tweaks.
> No, I'm arguing that if Apple feels entitled to steal 30% of my hard earned money, then the open source maintainers should also feel the same entitlement

If the people who explicitly stated “feel free to use my software for free for any purpose you see fit” feel entitled to get any money for the stuff they wrote, they shouldn’t have said that, and, I expect, Apple would have used something else.

Writing a halfway decent OS kernel isn’t that hard, and performance-wise, you don’t really need more than halfway decent).

Also, Apple paid for many of the higher layers of iOS and/or developed them in-house (NeXT wrote NeXTSTEP, Apple bought NeXT, and then spent years before releasing Mac OS X)
China is a big boy and responsible for its own actions. If it does not want to invade, it does not have to.
You _want_ a forgetttable politician. I don't really agree with Theresa May's general politics, but she's a competent politician who knows what the job entails.

Liz Truss was _definitely_ not forgettable.
It is silly but we arbitrarily classify computers as general purpose or not based on the market segment they go after. Phones, video game consoles, e-readers, TV sticks… and also cars and some refrigerators could run user provided code, but the general expectation is that it is OK to locked them down for whatever reason.
'Your pay is still – not – going up too fast'
I am not sure about that. They could start firing a few drones at some border villages. I bet NATO will pretend to look the other way or say it was just a mistake.

There is increased fatigue about the war, and the initial sympathy is turning to apathy in the West. I don’t see France and Germany being prepared to send their soldiers to fight Russians over a Lithuanian or Polish village. I’d like to believe they would, but I don’t see it realistically.
Highly recommend clicking the “learn in an afternoon” link.
IANAL that seems to be a distinction without a difference.. you say yourself "the copyright holder" then make a gray case about some entity holding legal ownership that is not the copyright holder.

first to say, the interpretation will be different in different legal regimes, but.. here in the USA, I believe that the copyright holder is the title that determines who gets the say about changes to the license.
Right: complainants can argue they should have access to all of Apple’s hardware devices for free while they themselves are an Apple-level monopoly in their market. I wonder how many billions of dollars in exclusive podcast deals for formerly openly distributed content consumers are missing out on because of these anti-steering rules.
At 02:29:50 you can see the shape of a skull form in the plants in the upper portion of the screen.
Typically apps from fdroid have really simple ui that look good on eink
MMLU is pretty much the only stat on there that matters, as it correlates to multitask reasoning ability. Here, they outpace GPT-4 by a smidge, but even that is impressive because I don’t think anyone else’s has to date.
Only Microsoft tried to follow Apple in lockstep with Windows Phone 7: no USB mass storage, homegrown browser engine with no alternative, and no exposed filesystem.

Blackberry phones were sort of similar, but as enterprise-first devices they always had a reputation of being mostly a work email device, not personal.
They still had filesystem access and microSD expandability though.
From the blog's footnote:

"In addition, we’d like to note that engineers have worked to optimize prompts and few-shot samples for evaluations and reported higher scores for a newer GPT-4T model"
Yeah but that kind of stuff doesn't generate income, they're just cute programming toys.
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I hear no difference between undithered 16 bit and anything "better" (e.g. dithered 16 bit, or more bits) and anyone who claims they do should be highly scrutinized, when we're talking about a system (media, DAC, amplification, transducer, human) playing a mastered recording at a moderate volume setting. But I certainly hear the difference (as quantization artifacts) when cranking the volume up to extremely high levels when the source material is extremely quiet, like during a fade out, a reverb tail, or just something not properly mastered to use the full range; setting the volume to something that would totally clip the amp, blow the speakers, or deafen me if it weren't a very quiet part of the recording.

Dithering (or more bits) does solve for this. A fade out of the song also lowers the captured noise floor, but the dither function keeps going.

It's akin to noticing occasional posterization (banding) in very dark scenes if your TV isn't totally crushing the blacks. With a higher than recommended black level, you will see this artifact, because perceptual video codecs destroy (for efficiency purposes) the visual dither that would otherwise soften the bands of dark color into a nice grainy halftone sort of thing which would be much less offensive.
I don't think this is a valid argument, because both sides of it are true. Developers invested, but so did Apple, and they did it first and took bigger risks.

The App Store is packed with apps because developers saw an opportunity and wanted to seize it. Everyone's in it because it serves their interests.
Inference on the validation set is xray -> pain score. It does not incorporate patient symptoms to make the prediction. In real life a surgeon incorporates the xray + patient symptoms/pain score.
> Can this even be quantifiably measured?

Apple thinks it's worth 15%-30%. While app developers may complain, most still stay on the platform.

Or are you talking about how much the market is worth?

A new analysis has shown that iPhone users spend seven times more on apps than Android users, far higher than the 4x rule of thumb suggested by purely anecdotal data.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/
Not to forget: Polly-B-Gone https://cs.stanford.edu/people/mbostock/polly/
It doesn’t matter how advanced these generative AIs get. What matters more is what their companies deem as “reasonable” queries. What’s the point when it responds with a variant of “I’m sorry, but I can’t help you with that Dave”

Claude is just as bad as Gemini at this. Non-binged ChatGPT is still the best at simply agreeing to answer a normal question.
I'm convinced GPT is running separate helper functions on input and output tokens to fix the 'tokenization' issues. As in, find items of math, send it to this hand made parser and function, then insert result into output tokens. There's no other way to fix the token issue.

For reference, Let's build the GPT Tokenizer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zduSFxRajkE
Why people still didn't deprecate signal handlers (except for 15)?
> former co-founder

I don't think there is such a thing. Once you co-found something, you are forever a co-founder of it. (Unless you have a time machine. Lacking such, nobody has ever un-founded anything, have they?)
If your eyes were tracking the motion smoothly, the moving object would not appear blurry, but the static background absolutely would. So you'd need to apply anti-aliasing to the background while keeping the object images sharp. (Similar to how a line segment that's aligned with the pixel grid will still look sharp after applying line anti-aliasing. Motion tracking here amounts to a skewing of the pixel grid.)
But Concorde was able to fly fast only over the uninhabited surface like ocean. And on the route from London to Singapore how much of that? A third?
Apple's profitability and their ability to sell devices is Apple's problem, not Spotify's.

Apple is not entitled to a cut of every transaction that happens on my device, despite however much their claim otherwise.
> There's almost nothing you can do on an iPhone that you can't on an Android.

1. This is false. There are plenty of features and apps (including my own apps!) that are exclusive to iPhone. iMessage and iCloud for example.

2. Products are not simply lists of features. There's also something important called design.

3. Don't forget vendor hardware support, software support, and resale value.

I can say, from a personal perspective, that I didn't buy an iPhone because it's vendor locked. I bought an iPhone because I'm a Mac user and developer, so I was already in the Apple ecosystem.

I suspect that there are a lot of people who buy an iPhone simply because their family and/or friends have iPhones already.
Yes. Good. Now, the original comment was about offices are death traps for covid. If people are now coming to work less sick, wouldn't that include covid? And thus make the concern mute.
Bone apple tea, with an em dash to boot
I don't think it was pretrained on knowledge gaps. A version was already available in testing w select customers. The version released to the public would definitely have feedback from those customers, and finetuned/instruction tuned on the data from ChatGPT.

Training data is publicly available internet (and accessible to everyone). It's the SFT step w high quality examples which determines how well a model is able to answer questions. ChatGPT's virality played a part in that in the sense that OAI got the real world examples + feedback others did not have. And yeah, it would have been logical to focus on 3.5's weaknesses too. From Karpathy's videos, it seems they hired a contractual labelling firm to generate q&a pairs.
Apple makes these APIs because it makes the iPhone a better product so customers buy it!
Perforce is still in wide use today in certain types of organizations.

In all the configurations I'm familiar with, one can unlock a file for modification but the only effect it has on others, is that they will see that you are modifying it in one of your workspaces.
If suborbital flight could be achieved via some combination of space elevators making it sustainable, sure, or some form of propulsion that doesn't consume one million pounds of fuel. Otherwise it's unsustainable, like most things about air travel today.

So IMO the ultimate would be something more along the lines of zeppelins. A week from Taiwan to California isn't so bad if I get to spend the time relaxing in a way similar to how I do on a sleeper train. Plus, airships.
If you showed someone this article 10 years ago, they would say it indicates Artificial General Intelligence has arrived.
Also, it only existed via extreme subsidizes. So working class French and UK people were subsidizing rich people farting in 1st class seats going mach 2.

Its funny how its beloved by the "free market" types when it was just a welfare flight for those who thought themselves too self-important to fly a few more hours between major far-away cities.

113 people died in 2000. It wasn't exactly the safest plane out there either.

With teleconferencing and modern technology, the need for the business class to show up to far-away places should go down. But a lot of it is entitlement, that is to say, show up for a meeting then enjoy a free vacation while "working."

Everything about the Concorde was corrupt if not classist. It was a mistake even if the engineering was impressive. Imagine if that money would instead have gone to public transportation. We'd have the Chunnel in the 70s instead of the 90s.
Change in Genetic Code May Explain How Human Ancestors Lost Tails
This is an interesting point.

The EU always seems to be the one doing the work with this sort of regulation. Maybe the evil solution is just: avoid anti-competitive behavior in the EU.
Same here, I moved to SourceHut. There are other alternatives that look much more like GitHub for those who like that (like Forgejo).
And In 1910, Manhattan reached a peak population of 2.2 million, from which it has never since rebounded.

People's idea of what is appropriate housing have changed.
> GPL is intentionally vague as a deterrent for corporate abuse.

no the GPL was intentionally set the way it was.. vague is not the word for that IMHO.. thirty+ years of computer markets has brought every possible challenge plus a few more. So the original LICENSE has been deeply scrutinized and the markets have changes... the parts that needed clarification have had changes as a result.

"vague" is mildly insulting, and there is plenty of that going on as part of this discussion.
Show HN: Tennis winning probability analyzer based on Markov model
I built a simple tool to compute winning probability on a 3-set tennis match, from any possible score. Just a fun little project I always had in mind
While I am glad that Gleam exists, I just can’t get used to the curly braces. Python and Elixir have spoiled me lol
> You're a hacker, tell me how I can solve this problem:

Feem, but I'm interested to learn more about this contrived example where phones don't have internet access and so can't use SHAREit, Send Anywhere, or any number of other solutions.
So, instead of HTML you have to use Markdown and special tags if you want to use JS.

I don't see the advantage
Oh no! I had no idea! I met Higham at a conference many years ago, and the lecture he gave was inspiring!

From https://ilasic.org/ilas-net-archive-2024/

2024 January 22
ILAS-NET Message no. 2515
CONTRIBUTED ANNOUNCEMENT FROM: Francoise Tisseur and Des Higham
SUBJECT: Nick Higham (1961--2024)

With great sadness we report that Nick Higham, Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, passed away on January 20, 2024, at the age of 62 after an 18 month struggle with a form of blood cancer. An obituary describing Nick's research and leadership contributions will appear in SIAM News in due course.

Francoise Tisseur and Des Higham
They updated the list of supported countries here: https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries

I was just able to sign up, while not being able to a few weeks ago.
Neovim is now AST-aware with Treesitter and my, is it such an improvement? You have an editor fully aware of core programming constructs like function arguments, loops, conditionals, functions, classes, etc.
Disruptive start up idea:

Unsustainable animal products from nuisance invasive species to feed otherwise controversial, high end, luxury European industries (read Italian) .

- Florida python for handbags

- Wild Texas boar for sausages and salumes.

Etc.

Hire FL and TX locals in a Uber model.

Unsustainable is the key challenge. The business goal is to get rid of the invasive species, but how to build a business whose goal is to be a not going concern?
I'm still surprised the "use" syntax survived the 0.x release "experimentation" phase.

It's more confusing than explicit "I can read and tell what this is doing by matching the braces" callbacks, _and_ it's more confusing (and less expressive) than full-on do-notation (or F#-like "computation expressions").

Instead, it's the worst possible middle ground: it's a third, different mental model that is unfamiliar in an already-unfamiliar language amid other "rough-edges" choices (like not having if-then statements -- even though you can pattern-match on `case true...case false`, it's still another rock in the shoe), but it doesn't offer improved clarity (since you have to keep "what will the real code look like when this is desugared" in mind constantly when figuring out which variables to `use` and which to just assign, and which parameters should stay in the function call and which should get "magically" floated outside the parens, and so on...), nor does it offer improved power/flexibility (in the way that do-notation does, where you can generalize expressing any given nested/monadic operations as though they were not nested).

I love ML-family languages, and I find the BEAM VM intriguing. I want Gleam to be great, but it has just enough friction (in the form of unique-but-not-clearer-or-more-powerful language decisions) and just enough limitation (in the form of a very limited standard library) that I think it's currently just "okay".
I read about an analogy - people are climbing a ladder they don't really understand, and become rather shocked upon reaching the top and realizing it didn't take them where they wanted to go.
That 'mistake' has become so widely used and depended on, corporate IT departments complained so loudly that Microsoft was forced to add that feature into Edge after IE was retired. I'm not sure if it was backported to Chrome or remains an Edge-unique feature.
> people who aren't sure what exactly is and isn't permitted under the GPL shows that it is vague

this is literally FALSE
That only "works" for the DMA if there's a clear path through those where there's actually a market - i.e. it's possible to ship an app onto iOS devices without having to go through the fee/approval stage.

> 2.1 App Store technical fees for app binary release certification – charged per app release/update.

In particular, this is something that developers actively don't want and would pay money to not do.

> developers can choose to pay for Apple Ads for boosted discovery of their app within App Store

Suspect this ruins the app store for everyone, in the way that boosted discovery ruined Twitter/X.