skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They stopped building because there are no low-hanging locations left, other than Sites.

Where, exactly, do you want these reservoirs built that will cost less than a nuke?
Are you talking about the 2nd table in the Benchmark section?

It seems they are not running against the full dataset:

> Moving on to the 100 million file to see if size makes a difference.

ggplot2::autoplot(reorderMicrobenchmarkResults(bench1e8))

One would also have to run both approaches on the same hardware for a meaningful comparison?
You say that while the current admin is carrying out a genocide. You’re a prime example of that cognitive dissonance and compartmentalizing mentality.
In both directions. There are a set of people who are convinced that dolphins, octopi and dogs have intelligence, but GPT et al don't.

I'm in the camp that says GPT4 has it. It's not a superhuman level of general intelligence, far from it, but it is a general intelligence that's doing more than regurgitation and rules-following.
I'm sure that's true although I don't know how the numbers pencil out. That said, people also much prefer non-stop flights because of time, hassle, and reduced likelihood of something going wrong.
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I seem to remember Google Bard was limited in Europe as well because there was just too much risk getting slapped by the EU regulators for making potentially unsafe AI accessible to the European public.
I want the reverse: svn-git. That would be a real relief to so many developers.
The marginal net energetic cost for two-stage rocket based suborbital transport (e.g. Starship) is about 4x a modern airplane. So about on par with the Concorde and within reach of first-class ticket pricing.

If this is surprising, keep in mind that the rocket is only on for 8 minutes, and most of the flight is experiencing zero drag from being above the atmosphere.
You can use the above tool to answer. If player1 wins 30% of points returning, that implies that player2 wins 70% of points serving. Input that number for p2 in the calculator, and check how the winning probability changes as you change p1. As you pointed out, at p1=70% the match proba will be 50%. At p1=65%, proba drops to 27.4%

In general, tennis matches are very sensitive to this point winning probability.
All of these related projects remind of Dojo Didgets from the mid 2000s. Not that that's a bad thing, I found that tool kit very productive!

Anyone else remember Dojo fondly? Am I way off base here?
CIA-Funded Experiments on Children in Europe During the Cold War
I used to watch Ancient Aliens as entertainment, and was usually not convinced by their claims. But it did reveal the cultural and historical ignorance that we have of other nations.

You can basically say anything about a culture that the audience is not familiar with, and they will think it is plausible.

For me, AA jumped the shark when they claimed that Vikings came from "nowhere" and "suddenly" had sea faring technology. Obviously the Aliens had given them the technology through the god Odin, who was also an alien... what other explanation could there logically be?

There was so much wrong with those claims, that I just turned off the TV. I decided to be more careful about looking at shows about aliens and conspiracies, because I am afraid that it will slowly change my ability to distinguish fact from fiction.

In reality, the ships were based on a long history of ship making with incremental improvements and did not suddenly appear. Anyone could find this easily, which indicates to me that they don't care to make even a slight effort to moderate their claims.

That got me thinking of all the other programs I watch that are not necessarily as "inventive" as AA. What other false statements are said about other cultures that I am not aware of?
> Git doesn't even keep history of changes, just snapshots before and after the changes.

This seems like splitting hairs given you can trivially derive one from the other.
More opportunity for mistral and other EU competitors then I suppose
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577948
X11 does but many X11 applications and window managers don't.
> It's fair for developers and users. Users being able to do what they want with the software is fully intentional on my part. That's a freedom I give them with that license and not something I actively want to restrict. Fully understood and intentional.

Sure, but GPL is fair as well. Just differently.

I like MPLv2, because it seems like it is exactly equivalent to MIT for projects that don't modify my code, and if they do, it forces them to distribute the changes they made to my code. In practice, I strongly believe that it gives developers leverage against their management: as a developer, I can say "I must upstream my changes because it's MPLv2" (which is not exactly right but managers don't really understand it anyway). MIT doesn't give me that leverage: managers know too well that they can just pretend it's theirs (often even forgetting attribution).
That's the list of countries supported by the API. For some reason, they support fewer countries through their frontend. I'm curious why that is.
https://imgchest.com/p/agyv6dlxj78
One question I've had about domesticable animals that I've never seen addressed - likely because, to be fair, it's unfalsifiable - is How many of the North American large animal species wiped out in the first waves of human settlement would eventually have been domesticable? If the answer is "some, probably" (which doesn't seem unreasonable), then continuous human habitation is a relevant (continental) factor for cultural advancement.

There were horses, at least, not tremendously different morphologically from Asian species, but which (most likely) had not inherited an instinctual fear of humans.
Git as a data structure is ok, but I wish we could eliminate PRs. There is too much overhead in managing those, code reviews, branch rebases.

A better way would allow you to push your changes as stacks of commits. No branches. Just push, and have a CI that automatically builds, tests, merges and deploys your commits. And everything that didn't pass gets handed back to you. Instead of change reviews, do pairing and code reading sessions.
A satirical self-book review of Windows Into The Soul–by Gary T. Marx (2019) [pdf]
That becomes the main issue, the Concorde as it was had 26,400 gallons <=> 95,680 kgs of fuel, and would need more than double that (likely) to do the flight in one go (bar major improvements to efficiency, and counting that more weight at takeoff needs more weight of fuel to fly that extra weight).

A quick search says about 40 minutes to refuel a jet, so a stopover is going to add at least an hour, probably more because they have to come out of supersonic, etc.
I attempted similar mechanics multiple times in the past, but always ditched them, as there was always a non-negligable amount of cross-contamination happening between the individual instances you are batching. That caused so much of a headache that it wasn't really worth it.
> 'would you also characterize OpenAI as "Microsoft in a trench coat"?'

Elon Musk seems to think that, based on his recent lawsuit.

I wouldn't agree but the argument has some validity if you look at the role Microsoft played in reversing the Altman firing.
Can you please stop posting like this to HN? We have to ban accounts that do it, for reasons which should be clear if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I don't want to ban you because you've also posted some good things, but we've already warned you once, and you've unfortunately been continuing to break the rules quite badly—not just in this thread but in others. To mention a couple recent examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39458160

If this keeps up, we're going to have to ban you. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> And it's worse than anything Microsoft ever did

In 2003 I bought a PowerBook. It was the only commercially available laptop that could be bought without buying a Windows license. Microsoft had put any competitors out of business by that point and OEMs weren’t ready to sell Linux laptops. Apple only existed because Microsoft injected them with cash to show they had a competitor.

Get a USB drive.
Old dev here--that SourceSafe behavior could be disabled entirely ("Allow multiple checkouts" in VSS admin), and you could undo other people's checkouts. It wasn't nearly as bad as people today make it out to be. The merge conflict UI was really nice, actually. Back then, as it is today, the bigger issue was the choices companies made in setting up their environments and the rules they set for their developers, rather than the shortcomings of the tool.
Yeah the quote says Americans freak out because they interpret the law as written. Implicitly, the Europeans defer interpretation to various bureaucrats leading to absurd situations where, eg, member states are retroactively punished for facilitating tax schemes that were allowed by the laws on the books at the time. You might argue that’s a better system with better outcomes, but it’s not rule of law.
One of the goods that Apple sells to developers is the market of users. Attention of high value users is one of the most valuable items for sale today.
I thought they could drive up to 6k or something crazy - surprised to hear it struggles with TVs and projectors that I imagine are 4k.
I wouldn't say easy but things are definitely easier now that it is possible to pay for things anonymously without having to use things like Liberty Reserve. On the other hand less of the web is usable now without Javascript and tracking than before.
Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released with Cache Server Support
Try to report a bug or request a feature on the LLVM issue tracker. It is like shouting into the void. They have so many open issues GitHub apparently refuses to count them, it just shows "5k+". They have nearly two thousand pull requests waiting for their review. It's insane.
Aww well poop I thought it'd be free.
> used to block air when a driver puts his hand out the window during qualifying.

I'm not a NASCAR enthusiast. Can someone who is, explain this?
That is not true in general. You pre-clear at certain airports but you typically just go through standard airport security.
Oh boy, here in Germany we have companies specialised in that, they buy isp data, track you down and sends you letters asking for $$$

Given the price and quality of paid services torrenting is coming back fast
"Further inland in California’s Central Valley, excessive pumping of groundwater for agriculture has caused the land to sink significantly. Since the 1920s, sections of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk by as much as 8.5 meters (28 feet). Groundwater pumping becomes even more problematic during droughts, exacerbating subsidence problems. Data from 2015 showed some spots subsided at rates as high as 600 millimeters (2 feet) per year."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/3...
Critiques aside, the Situationists are indebted to Surrealism for its development of "unconscious" techniques. Derive, psychogeography, etc. are theoretically similar to automatic writing.

Your comment misses the political dimensions of Surrealism. They swayed between Leninist and Libertarian socialism. The entire point of the movement was to resist neoliberal tendencies, which produced disasters like the World Wars, etc.

See: Sadie Plant's The Most Radical Gesture for a description of the relationship between Dada, Surrealism, and the SI.
To be fair, a link to a pdf should also open fine on a mobile device, assuming that facebook messenger isn't messing with the link in some way.
Or perhaps they don’t want to hold the product back everywhere until that engineering work and related legal reviews are done.

Supporting EU has become an additional roadmap item, much like supporting China (for different reasons of course). It takes extra work and time, and why put the rest of the world on hold pending that work?
I just tried one prompt for a simple coding task involving DB and frontend, and Claude 3 Sonnet (the free and less powerful model) gave a better response than ChatGPT Classic (GPT-4).

It used the correct method of a lesser-known SQL ORM library, where GPT-4 made a mistake and used the wrong method.

Then I tried another prompt to generate SQL and it gave a worse response than ChatGPT Classic, still looks correct but much longer.

ChatGPT Link for 1: https://chat.openai.com/share/d6c9e903-d4be-4ed1-933b-b35df3...

ChatGPT Link for 2: https://chat.openai.com/share/178a0bd2-0590-4a07-965d-cff01e...
Congrats to the community, Gleam is a really awesome language! This is such exciting news!
Am I the only one who expected a NYT article about how "Surrealism is (100 'real' emoji)"
Er, git-svn is bi-directional? Targeted at allowing a developer to have a local git workflow that syncs up nicely with a central svn server? Is that the svn-git you're after?
Starving your workers to death is not a good long term strategy.
I've tried to follow people on medium, twitter, bluesky, mastodon, blog RSS feeds, youtube, etc and there is typically just too much off topic noise.

I visit personal sites or individual posts on larger platforms when searching for topics.

The places I revisit are curated (in some way) sites focusing on areas of interest. Hacker News, The Verge, sub reddits, various news portals, slashdot, etc.

I'm hoping that following hashtags or similar will eventually work out.
"I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle. There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain.

The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley. The live oaks got a crusty look and the sagebrush was gray. The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twigs. Then the farmers and the ranchers would be filled with disgust for the Salinas Valley. The cows would grow thin and sometimes starve to death. People would have to haul water in barrels to their farms just for drinking. Some families would sell out for nearly nothing and move away.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."

John Steinbeck, in 1952
React Solitare
Blackberry really blew it (hard). They could've been more pervasive and successful than iPhones and Android but they never put in the effort to make their phones easier for developers to use. Everything was so obtuse and difficult and they were far too late to the game in regards to, well, everything.

They didn't have a "glass slab" style phone until literally every other phone had been like that for years and years. They were also late to the game with cameras, IMUs, and other hardware features that we've all come to take for granted.

My guess: They listened too much to their enterprise customers. Enterprise customers have very, very specific needs that are essentially the opposite of "general purpose" that would translate into useful features for anyone else.

They didn't even try to innovate!
Does it still work with decimals?
> Sometimes there are higher priorities than the facts of the immediate issue

I'm with you! Of course there are many factors at play, but they are all part of "the facts" of which I'm speaking. I'm not talking about saying things like "No no, we have to do this the correct way, not with a shortcut". Sometimes a shortcut _is_ the correct way, given the circumstances.

> Your 'facts' may threaten someone's job, for example, or the CEO's reputation; do you expect they'll just go along with that?

It's not my job to hide other people's mistakes, even the CEO's. _However_ I'd like to emphasise that I don't think there's anything wrong with making mistakes. If you work in a culture where mistakes are seen as part of getting things done, it's not an issue. If you don't, I'd recommend finding somewhere where that's true, and you can call bullshit out without getting people fired, or hurting the CEO's feelings.
Phone Number Formatting, Validation, and Model Casts in Laravel
They flew over my house share in west London in the late 80s. Very pretty, bloody noisy.
Towards Understanding the Runtime Performance of Rust
Is a nuke particularly expensive or something? Google tells me they are less than a billion dollars each.
As expected the result was unanimously 9-0 but there's a bit of a zinger at the end of the opinion of the three liberal justices:

> Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President. Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3, we protest the majority’s effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision. Because we would decide only the issue before us, we concur only in the judgment.
Nits:

> That depends. You may have a 30 line function which can be paper-worthy

We have no disagreement. That's why I gave a pretty generic 3-line function. 90% of the upside of ML tools for me, by the way, is generating very routine code, so there's not even too much friction yet. I can prototype a parser with e.g. 5 XML libraries I've never used in 15 minutes, which means I make better design choices.

> You're right. Let me rewrite my statement: "The reason why OpenAI keeps a non-profit part and has this convoluted many-company structure is to allow them to claim that they do non-profit research, which fair-use doctrine requires to work."

> Hope that it's better now.

Nope. It's not. The reason the non-profit part is around is right now, they're skirting the law. If it went away, they'd be very clearly committing fraud.

The non-profit received support from donors -- including from the government in the form of a tax waiver and the general public in the forms of non-financial support (such as positive buzz / articles / scientific work) -- based on a 501(c)3 registration and a belief it would act in the public interest.

The instant the 501(c)3 part went away, this would all be fraud. Everyone who helped make OpenAI successful, from the grad student who spoke about it glowingly at a conference to the federal government, would have been embezzled.

I feel bad about having supported them, and I bet others do too.
A few were not very insightful, but likely obvious to anyone paying attention.

Automobiles de guerre: tank were already right around the corner, 15 years away.

Audition du journal: commercial broadcasting was 20 years away, with early efforts starting as soon the early 1900s.
> What do you mean by "free market"?

I mean the concept that bad actors in a market will eventually die out because new competitors will emerge that offer better value which will then get all the business.
Surrealism had continued to evolve and exists to this day, but it's not labelled as such. For instance David Lynch, and Francis Bacon are to some extent, are some surrealists of recent times.
Yes, motion blur gets turned off immediately on every game that I have. I consider games that don't allow you to turn it off overproduced and likely to have other directorial choices I won't agree with. I would like to see the game environment, not a smeared mess of random colors
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I've also seen the opposite, where tiny little 7B models get real close to GPT4 quality results on really specifically use cases. If you're trying to scale just that use case it's significantly cheaper, and also faster to just scale up inference with that specialty model. An example of this is using an LLM to extract medical details from a record.
Wendy's Flips on Dynamic Pricing
I agree, and I think currently, even though emotionally NATO is "stronger" and more "united", after the war has been going on for a while, there is paradoxically a lot less appetite do anything. So the chance that it would respond is lower and so the chance for world western peace is lower as well. The scarier thing is I think Russia and China can smell that as well and may act on it.

Obviously if Russia launches a nuke, NATO would respond. But what if it sends one drone to blow up a rail yard or sends a sabotage team to blow a power substation? What if it hacks and manages to paralyze all banking all communication in some East European NATO member country. Notice it wouldn't even need to accomplish any military objective, it just needs to show that NATO is bluffing.
Oh this is going to get interesting, grab the popcorn.

OpenAI: "Our stuff is safe. So long as normal, good people only use
it for normal, good things."

NYTimes: "But what about bad people using it for bad things?"

OpenAI: "That could never happen with our 'safeguards' ".

NYTimes: "Challenge accepted." hack, hack, hack....

OpenAI: "Oh noes! Our precious stuff!! You cheated, Filthy, evil
hackers."
This. Price is set by value delivered and what the market will pay for whatever capacity they have; it’s not a cost + X% market.
I've tried all the top models. GPT4 beats everything I've tried, including Gemini 1.5- until today.

I use GPT4 daily on a variety of things.

Claude 3 Opus (been using temperature 0.7) is cleaning up. I'm very impressed.
Sorry, I should've been more clear. That was not my meaning.

I meant that every organization I've seen in that space has a religious aspect to it that has always rubbed me the wrong way. There should be non-affiliated options.
Distillation with Linear Models
Honestly this is fine. If someone has two monitors, at this point I'm pretty sure they're someone who wants to close the laptop lid. It's a great solution to the problem.
Rust for Embedded Systems: Current state, challenges and open problems
> BA21 seems to fly over Russia per FlightAware:

"ARRIVED OVER 11 YEARS AGO"