skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you view the world as a collection of facts, describing even mundane things fully requires an immense number of facts...

We already have some answers here: the resources needed by current LLMs sets an upper bound on what is needed to do what they do, and we can also make a reasonable estimate of the resources used by the human brain to do what it does. In the case of LLMs, there is no mystery about how those resources are put to use, as they were designed and implemented by humans (we may be surprised by how much they can do with those resources being used the way they are - well, I certainly was - but that is not the same thing as the way they use them being a mystery, which is essentially where we are with respect to human brains.)

> I could ask the exact same questions about a human's understanding of the real world...

It is already well-established that by the age of two, infants are developing a rudimentary theory of mind - an understanding that other people have minds - and by around four, they begin to grasp that thoughts in the mind may not be true [1]. These abilities seem to require the recognition of an external world as a prerequisite.

Do LLMs give any indication of doing so? I'm not up-to-date on the research, but the last paper I saw on the topic only seemed to demonstrate that they can sometimes produce sentences as if they did - but, given the way their sentences are generated, it is difficult to say that this means anything more than that these sentences are the sort of sentences that a human is likely to say in the same situation.

Update: this point just occurred to me: LLMs receive tokens, not words. Words have real-world semantics, but, in general, tokens do not. To me, this increases my doubt as to whether LLMs could understand that language is about an external world.

[1] https://www.child-encyclopedia.com/social-cognition/accordin...
Anyone who doesn’t have power on after cycle and a network attached power cycle shouldn’t be allowed to employ people.
By the same token, you are asking people to introspect and unilaterally sacrifice in a way that, for the same reason, is not going to happen for pretty obvious reasons.

I’m on board with solving this at the governmental level FWIW. I support stronger anti-trust enforcement for example (and not just targeting tech).
One of the most valuable tech giants in the world is definitely capable of a simple red herring like this. This is amateur stuff. Apple likely has contingencies and plans for almost every scenario and if we learned anything apple email leaks is that they are keen on following up on any sound strategies, even ones that involve "we can't talk about this on email".
I think the parent is more correct than you are?

The frequency does not provide an indication of load. The frequency can be 60.00Hz with 20,000 MW load in Ontario or with 10,000MW.

Changes in frequency provide a measure of changes in the balance between generation and load.

The generator’s prime mover’s governor has a droop function set so that typically a 5% change in frequency will result in a 100% change in output. This is how most generators on the grid arrest changes in frequency, but they would not restore the frequency to 60Hz. The droop allows for a steady state frequency error.

A handful of special generators are used to restore the frequency to 60Hz or balance the generation and load in an area.

The precise frequency does not matter, if one generator thinks the frequency is 59.99 and another thinks it is 60.01 their outputs will only be a little higher and lower than their load setpoint. It does not matter if they share changes in load perfectly evenly, so long as generators on the system in bulk respond according to their capabilities.
Thirty years ago I had a graduate assistantship in the physical plant of my university. One of the cool things I saw was a 55-gallon drum sized motor spin up to synchronize all the clocks on campus at noon.
[dupe]

Some more over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568016

(From the alternate source link:

https://www.businessinsider.com/calls-for-google-ceo-sundar-...)
> He's expressing what he cares about, is the parent's point

And my point is that he used to care about inspiring stuff, now he spends all his time caring about useless culture wars.
Does it? I decode it instantly and understand the meaning just like I know what a "fishbowl" is. There is no "decoding" or even nonsensical input in this case.

You are just being stubborn and trying to adhere to an outdated standard. Upgrade or get replaced.
This is unreal. We still have so many people trying to get the government to spend more money as well.
An interesting nugget, Musk is here claiming that GPT-4 is already AGI, and therefore not covered by the MS licensing deal.
C# gets pretty close with NRTs, pattern matching, terse record declaration and task-based async syntax, lambdas and Result libraries if you like those. Also nicely builds to self-contained binaries, both JIT and AOT.
Interestingly, you could accomplish a similar thing with GraphQL if the frontend uses the type introspection GraphQL provides and the backend graphql schema implements HATEOAS-like principles to let the frontend become a UI that's agnostic to different backends. That might not be how most GraphQL implementations are used, but it's kind of a cool pattern.
Glueing endgrain to endgrain is not the proper way. Try a lap joint and you’ll be surprised at the strength of the face to face glue bond.

Disregard: I misread what you were saying. Shoulda had a v8.
Web development used to have a RAD experience in the ages of PHP 4/ASP Classic and Dreamweaver.

For better or worse, we lost this capability in the path for code purity, RESTful services and SPAs.
This limit didn't exist in my first version as well as the 4 GB limit. These were artificially introduced to "match" the properties of lossy WebP. We could have done better there.
It feels like it's pre-Cryptocurrency mining boom.

Most of the people tried to get the proprietary GPU, and somebody makes an FPGA & ASIC for Accelerated devices.
Paul-as-hero thing is unique challenge because, yes, it's the warning of the book. But at the same time, you have to show just how persuasive such leaders could be, and how much 'narrative sense' it makes. The audience should feel like the Fremen and empathise with their fervor. If it's not super convincing, then it misses the whole point.
That's so greedy.

And if everyone agrees, I'd like $6 million please.
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Others have given you excellent suggestions; I will simply offer an addition -- a side quest, if you will:

Remember that the local single-user databases SQLite and DuckDB exist, and that you can use them to wrangle data without even having to set up a separate server. You just create a database file on your machine and go from there.
This used to be a really good thing. I feel like meetups have not recovered since Covid. I would love to see the meetup scene come back.
Developer Combines Physical and Digital in Breakout-Like Game
There's nothing simple or reliable about IPFS.
Correction: I was not up to speed on apple not killing off the add to homescreen stuff. https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/01/apple-reverses-co...

On the other hand, as I was one day early, I'm taking full credit.
Is there a reason bash is still the de facto shell scripting language other than sheer momentum of legacy? I'm able to get what I need done in it, but it's clunky and the syntax is horrid. I guess it forces you to move to a proper language once scripts grow to a certain size/complexity, so perhaps it's by design?
Speaking of 4(ish)-stringed instruments, the mandolin family has a whole set of instruments corresponding to all the orchestral strings. The common mandolin having a tuning identical to the violin, the mandola down a fifth with tuning matching the viola, the mandocello down an octave from the mandola to match the cello and the mandobass, like its orchestral cousin tuned in fourths EADG (this last is also the only one of the mandolin orchestra instruments to not have doubled strings in each course, although other mandolin family instruments have single strings in each course.
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I bet even Lynch prefer the new one since he hates his Dune so much.
Google Messages RCS is blocked on rooted, custom ROM Android phones
Yeah, talk to NFL linemen. They force feed themselves, and one of the things they love about retirement is no longer having to do that.

If you burn 2,000-4,000 calories a day (or more!) like an elite distance runner or swimmer, you can outrun your fork.

e.g.: https://olympics.com/en/news/michael-phelps-10000-calories-d...
Try setting up a Matrix server[0]. Or Mastadon[1].

This isn't hard for people like you and me, or probably most of HN. But it is difficult for the public. It is hard to set up. It is hard to keep up. It's costly.

I think maybe a good comparison is to PGP. PGP's greatest flaw was that you could reply back that you couldn't decrypt and the sender would resend the message decrypted. Encryption hasn't made its way into the mainstream until companies like Signal showed it could be easy, and then it was picked up by WhatsApp and iMessage.

I'm with you that it isn't "hard", but you need to recognize that this is a comparative word and that not everyone is like us.

[0] https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/

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defer is a poor man’s C# IDisposable (or even IAsyncDisposable)

// The file handle will be freed at OS level when exiting current scope
using var file = File.OpenHandle("somefile");
God I love this website
Ok, so just consider a world where jobs paid no money. How many people do you think would have a job? 10% of the amount now? 1%?

Even if there are some very rare individuals that go to work primarily for companionship or for personal fulfillment that doesn't mean it's even worth bringing up in a discussion like this
Waymo and Cruise.

I live right near Oracle Park where there was a big Cruise Yard, and there is a ton of traffic and cruise, zoox, etc self driving cars circling the neighborhood endlessly.

It's not as if I've had a overtly terrible single incident. It's as though they're causing unsafe driving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists regularly.

Driving unreasonably slow and erratic, stopping in the middle of streets, blocking traffic, not responding to the need for them to move or respond as human driver would.

They're problematic. I could start a youtube channel or something it happens enough in my day to day life.
I've had git bisect work perfectly to show me that a commit that I would swear up and down couldn't cause the problem was what was causing the problem. In those kinds of situation git blame and git log are a bit useless since you can be looking right at the commit in question -- even looking at the diff in question -- and fail to actually 'see' it and go chasing down other rabbit holes that seem 'obviously' much more likely to be the cause. And this was typically after some customer updated for the first time in several years and so there was several years of changes to sift through to find the regression.
> Do not explain capitalism? How about socialism? Communism? Or maybe that’s on purpose?

Show us you need to unplug without actually saying so. Just send a request to have more cards added. Not everything is a conspiracy.
I think Google denied putting the play store on the quest (Boz from Meta has said this). Thats probably a reason this potential partnership was unlikely
This does not follow:

> Personal experience writing nicely-functioning code in a language I barely know, with libraries I've never used before.

> We'll think of C++ the way we think of assembly now.

I encourage you to reevaluate your understanding of computer science.
Misconception - you don't want your house to breath (ie outdoor <-> indoor air mixing). You want it to be as airtight as possible, while allowing the exterior surfaces to dry if they get wet.

However, leaky houses probably contribute to their longevity as those areas are able to dry from the outdoor air flowing indoors instead of rotting.
AFAIK they killed nuclear and pushed towards natural gas (from Russia) at the time.
https://xkcd.com/766/
Are you sure it's bash? Most scripts on FreeBSD's are written for sh, which I feel is much more widely supported due to being part of the POSIX standard. Bash is just popular I think.
It doesn't seem better or faster but apart from that, great!
With all these IPOs how does one find out when the stock will actually go on sale?

I read these announcements and they never have an actual date.
It’s always been recruiters reaching out to me. I can’t see it being much different now.

I’ve never, ever, gotten a human response from any company that I cold applied. Either ignored, or get the automated rejection email.

Recruiters that I could cold contact usually tell me thanks for reaching out, and that they’ll be in touch if they’re interested. They never are.

I could probably get -a- job through networking, but probably not a job I’d be very interested in. I have a network, but very few people work somewhere that I’d like to work at. The few that do would at best guarantee I get fed into the leetcode pipeline and then it would all be on me to leetcode my way in.

I know some master networkers that can get offers and switch jobs via their network at the drop of a hat. Again, the catch here is that they have to be very unpicky. Overall, many of the best places to work are gatekeeped with leetcode.

I’m currently at what I consider an “endgame” company. I wouldn’t mind if this is the last company I work at (I’m 40). If I can last here until I’m late 40s or early 50s, then I’d rather semi-retire instead of putting myself through the leetcode gauntlet again.
I don’t believe they are. I don’t believe it because I’ve removed “new” Douglas fir trees and enjoyed the tight grain lumber. The growing conditions and age are important, not when they were grown. Old growth is just old trees grown in natural forest conditions. That still happens all over Oregon.
Maybe they should have two screens in front of the car that show eyeballs, like the ones in the first picture here:

https://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car
But that's because they're doing business with banks that want to remain friendly with the US, not because they're doing business specifically in US dollars. If they got paid in Turkish liras, but through a bank under US influence, those liras would also get seized, wouldn't they?

On the other hand, if someone used a local bank in their country to transact with an entity in China, and China demanded their assets in that bank be seized because they defamed a revolutionary hero [1], I would expect that country to block that seizure, regardless of how the bank itself might feel. I.e. they would demand any seizures comply with their local laws, similar to how extraditions (are supposed to) work, and not let other countries essentially steal from their citizens. Or looking at it a bit different, a bank can't take from its customers on behalf of a foreign country, since locals laws, unless they explicitly allow that taking, would consider it theft.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-lawmaking-idUSKBN1H...

Edit as reply because "I'm posting too fast" (thanks HN for not telling when I can post again by the way):

> Discussion about the US dollar misses the point. They do it because they can

I'd argue it doesn't miss the point, but rather, hides the true cause - that as you say, they do it because they can (as quickly becomes obvious when no other currency has this viral jurisdictional effect).

But I'm curious if anyone has ever tried suing their bank, in a non-US court, alleging that their seizure of their assets was illegal under local law. I can understand a bank rolling over for the US government, but it would be interesting to see if and how their legal system would justify it. Especially for something that is not a crime in their country.
What's wrong with their tablet strategy? Android works great on tablets and 12L added a lot of nice things.

On their watches yeah they've been pretty bad. Still not great now even with the Samsung collaboration.
I did this for a few months while I was transitioning back from parental leave and was similarly insanely productive. It just made me absolutely ruthless about prioritizing. Part of it was motivation to keep up with ft colleagues while knowing I had a hard deadline when I would be back on baby duty, so not sure how replicable it is now, but it was wild to go through a few workdays with all the day trimmed out, and then have a very full extended weekend with family every week.
According to the inflation calculator, 12 cents in 1971 is 91 cents now, so it's gone up a bit more than inflation.

For the hundred years before that, it was slowly going down in price.
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Not in gif2webp, no. It is available in img2webp as a global (not per-frame) option. It looks like when you pass it, it will be used for all lossless encoding, including when "-mixed" tries the lossless mode.
They got Musk's pay struck down because it was unconscionably large. Pot, meet kettle...
I'm glad so much work is still being done on VR. Despite all the naysaying. I enjoy it a lot.
Gainmaps don't solve 8-bit mach banding. If anything you get more banding: two bandings, one banding from each of the two 8-bit fields multiplied together.

Gainmaps "solve" the problem of computing a local tone mapping by declaring that it needs to be done at server side or at image creation time rather than at viewing time.

My prediction: Gainmaps are going to be too complex of a solution for us as a community and we are going to find something else that is easier. Perhaps we could end up standardizing a small set of local tone mapping algorithms applied at viewing time.
A nice bike tyre makes such a difference to bike speed, but puncture resistant models seems generally slower.
I love my Continental Grand Prix 5000s but they aren’t cheap and are easy to puncture.
You would need to have standing to file that lawsuit.
A little kindness goes a long way.
Learning isn't hard wtf. I aced all my computer science shit and write trading code now. None of the learning was hard. It just was.

Learning is easy. It's just learning.
This is a better retool alternative
> No, it can't. If Facebook could perform arbitrary XSS on 3rd-party websites it had no relationship with when you clicked on links on the Facebook website,

If you click on a link from Facebook on the web - the only reason you would view a page in a web view on the app - you don’t think FB could know that you clicked on the link?

I also see that you ignored the dozen or so well known ways that you can track someone across the web.

Are you really saying you’ve never searched for something on one site and seen ads follow you around on other sites?

> At least Apple (eventually) started clearing the low, low bar of forcing applications to ask permission to access it, but that's a far cry from the kind of sandboxing and site/app isolation that happens in Safari.

I just cited a list of ways that apps can’t track you across the web that you keep ignoring.
"There are growing calls..."

This here is a news site trying desperately to create a story. Business Insider, like so many other news sources are a just a notch above the clown show called TMZ.
With tubeless tyres, a decent puncture costs you a tyre, so you may be saving someone a lot more than $10.
Is Google Messages the only messaging app on android that allows RCS interactions? On the iPhone, iMessages is the only app that has direct access to SMS functionality, but I understand that this isn't the case on android. Is this true?
I think this same expectation in the Apple ecosystem is why I've received single digit spam from their messaging services. I'm sure there's a better way, but I'm sure it's also a game of whack-a-mole and this is just the first whack.

Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone is not freedom to use a service, if they don't want rooted phones to use their RCS gateway I don't think they should be forced to allow it.
I don't think that Waymo cars are.
The spec explicitly does not define the boundaries of all UB. Look at the note on the definition in 1.3.24 and the context of the surrounding definitions:

Undefined behavior may be expected when this International Standard omits any explicit definition of behavior...

Rather than having specific causes, UB is simply the label given to "stuff outside the standard with no requirements whatsoever". Some of this stuff is important and much more of it isn't. A small subset of that infinite universe of UB is the set of enumerated undefined behaviors you're talking about, where the standard declines to specify any requirements in certain situations. These are what the annex is trying to organize.
2023, not 2024. I put my resume on Monster and Indeed. I called a few headhunters. (I had kept a list of headhunters I respected, built up over 20+ years. Much of it was out of date, but there were still some gems.) And that was enough.
You want the failures to occur deeper in the programs so you cover more code paths.
The condensation issue isn't necessarily water intrusion -- the cases I've seen on windows in otherwise good condition were repeated wetting of the inside surface of the wood at the bottom of the glass.

This won't rot most wood, especially in cold weather. But it's terrible for the finish and the appearance, and it can cause brittleness and splitting.