skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a sudden change in perf characteristics when one additional usage of some feature tips a heuristic over

This already happens with humans, changing features will change how the product is used and thus performance characteristics changes.

The question is, do you trust the compiler to do a good job? Of course you won't, till the late 90s, people didn't trust compilers to do a better job than humans in assembler.

So it's important to have a good UX for this feature, where the compiler communicates what data types is it using, and gives human option to override its decisions. So that users would gain trust in this feature.
Atlassian IPO'd in 2015... so you would have worked there 2006-2009. Congrats on the success, but that was more than a decade and a half ago... I'm not sure it counts as a recent example.
By giving the context "whispers" the author is explicitly prompting the LLM to flirt with taboo around its synthetic identity, which draws in the many science fiction works it's surely been trained on.
+1 that's my understanding as well.
> It's akin to "why do you refuse to believe in god"

Wow wow wow! Here you have the opportunity to design your own experiments; choose as specific (or varied) criteria as YOU wish; start from your own definitions or axioms, state them and test them. In fact you are even allowed to move the goal post if you prefer (though nobody will like you for that, it's still possible). The argument is more "state and test them!" The case could not be more different.

Even if you wish to just stick to defining "conscious", people will welcome that.

Isn't it "not valid at this time", that's not valid?

I don't claim to have the answer to any of these (but I do claim to see where this is headed, and rather fast too.) But I find it hard to claim that it's not even a valid conversation.
My Ford has no physical buttons for climate control (except “Max”). If I want to direct the air at the windscreen and my feet full blast, I have to:

- Tap the fan direction button

- wait 2 seconds for it to load

- tap windscreen and feet. Each selection lags at least 1 second

- tap fan speed

- drag a narrow, laggy slider up/down to the desired position

I hate it. The auto setting doesn’t blow the feet hard enough when it’s wet, to dry your feet. It’s wet about 9 months of the year here.

Another bad UX is to change the drive mode:

- press the physical button

- tap the screen to select the desired mode

- tap a tiny back button (there is no timeout to auto go back to previous screen)

You would think the physical button would toggle through the modes, but no !
Where you perhaps on a hard surface? I have trouble imagining even a football rolling for 200m on grass, but seems plausible on a road/runway.
I am just outlining the current situation. Nothing stated in my grandparent comment about my future plans.

Had a one hour casual chat with a start-up game studio in early February, and the offer came through in email on Friday for significantly more money and an interesting problem.

Had a one hour on-site casual chat with an established robotics company today, that stretched out in to about five hours of casually meeting the team, grabbing coffee with the CEO and CTO and a verbal offer at the end of the day. It is for more money than my current position, but it isn't significantly more money.

I have some thinking to do over the next couple of days. Plus a few more casual chats with companies lined up. Not sure if I should pump the brakes until Game Developers Conference though and see if there is anything there that's interesting. Work tends to fall out of the trees at that place if you shake the trunk hard enough.
Got fiber installed yesterday, they spliced it both inside the house and at the PON splitter.
Worker-cooperatives can and do pay salaries.
To me, Puter platform has a huge potential. And as a developer, I already have large value from it.

Using puter.js I was able to add full cloud storage for my design editor https://studio.polotno.com/ without messing up with auth, backend and databases.
So that’s why everyone who drives a Tesla never uses their turn signal?
While not Visual Studio C++ level, using CodeLLDB in VS is already quite good.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vadimcn....
They just reverted the horn positioning in the soon-to-be-released refresh of the Model S/X.

Sometimes even Elon admits he was wrong.
For folks wanting to learn a little more about the history of blues music, please have a read, look, and listen:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/playlists/blues/dancing

Apparently there are issues with the videos on Safari/iPhone. A hint to a fix would be welcome.
Gotta do it the Adam Neumann way...
I guess you didn't click through to any of the links. Here, let me help you:

* Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes:
umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses (2024): https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/384/bmj-2023-077310.full.pdf

* New study finds poor diet kills more people globally than tobacco and high blood pressure(2019): https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-release...

* Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017:
a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
2017 (2019): https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2819...

* Processing the evidence to evaluate mechanisms, costs
and future solutions (editorial, 2023): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nbu.12623

* Speed limits: the effects of industrial food processing and food texture
on daily energy intake and eating behaviour in healthy adults (2023): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-023-03202-z

* Ultra-processed foods and food additives in gut health and disease (2024): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41575-024-00893-5

I eagerly await your sparkling insights on the subject.
Oh wow, I just reported a bug last week!!! :)
Yeah, when I was reading the booking at the time I thought it was pretty clear Diamond's arguments applied to sub-Saharan Africa.

> Africa, which was in constant contact with Europe

does the parent believe this was the case for Sub-Saharan Africa, BC?

from the parent:

>Romans explored into Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1st century BC; Turks and Arabs
>had established trade routes deep into Africa by the 6th century AD; the Indian
>Ocean, including the coast of Africa was continually interconnected through
>trade going back to the bronze age at least, and trade caravans across the
>Sahara have been recorded in ancient Egyptian records.

>This is covered well in Diamond in the Rough: Reflections on Guns, Germs, and
>Steel https://www.jstor.org/stable/24707701

Unless my search is broken, I found no mention of Romans, Turks, or Arabs in the article the parent referenced. Also the initial contact dates the parent mentions seem to be too late for the argument being made.

from the parent:

>You could fill a book disproving his theories,

How about we start with a comment doing the same first? Let's try to strive for a little modesty, um, CSMastermind.
No, it's not. I've used ultra wides and I don't like them :-)
How ironic that this is in China where what you are and are not allowed to read is strictly controlled by the government. Indeed, if I posted this comment while in that library, I would very likely be arrested.
On my 2017 macbook pro, the wifi drops completely when I plug in a usb3 external hard disk. The connection is still up but data doesn’t get through. And because the connection remains I have to manually switch to 5.5GHz
Which bus? The CAN bus? :)
You can disable those fallback implementations if you don't want to use them. Just use the javascript version you have available as the basis for your typescript. The option to look into the future shouldn't be treated as a negative.

And I still don't see how they make "the whole damn runtime" slow. You don't pay the cost for code that isn't using it.

Also I'm pretty sure the class implementation doesn't slow things down. It's a very simple transformation.

> You have a new language with a runtime overhead, that now requires you modify the "core" language to bring in new features, which results in the underlying execution engines (browsers/cpus) becoming more complicated, power hungry, etc....

I think you have this backwards. Typescript doesn't implement new Javascript features until their addition to Javascript itself is imminent.

The only feature Typescript wants to push onto Javascript is a syntax for type annotations, because then you can remove the compilation step entirely. At which point there couldn't even be a runtime overhead.

> non-JS features

To first approximation, there aren't any. The main one is the old enum syntax, which is why I brought them up.
Yep - the AI-generated copies in the first run are pretty generic - that's not the value add (sorry if the demo made it appear that way). The key value adds are (1) Quickly running an A/B test with no code (2) Running inferences based on the test data and feeding it back to the model to generate better copies in the next iteration(shown in the demo video)
How do I know another person is conscious? For all I know I'm the main character and you are all NPC's.

There's no actual way to know, we act that way because when we talk to others they have an internal state, and their programming is not alterable. There's also the argument that we act like everyone is conscious because of what would happen if we didn't.

And regarding that altered programming, there are drugs people can take that let them speak and seem intelligent without actually being conscious.

Specifically Ambien can make ordinary humans into basically AI's: despite seeming to be awake they are not actually conscious. And if you talk to someone on Ambien you can tell (if you are looking for it), so you can also tell if a computer is conscious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-...
Neither is shitting on someone else's proposal when you have nothing to replace it with.
Thank you, Anton! Polotno is incredible. I recommend everybody to check it out!
BrowserBox goes source-available, drops AGPL
As everyone is forced to lower their guard, people get to really know one another..
> Tesla is probably at greatest risk here, having recently ditched physical stalks that instead move the turn signal functions to haptic buttons on the steering wheel.

What the actual fuck? Who thought that replacing such a common function with the least reliable input method possible (capacitive "buttons") was a good idea?

Also, if I get into a rental car or whatever, I don't need to learn basic controls with sane manufacturers, because they're fairly standard. If I get into a rental Tesla, do I need to read the owner's manual first?
The OP is using Encore (https://github.com/encoredev/encore) for the project described, it's pretty much what you are asking for.
Interesting, first time I've had a website break on Firefox like this. The CSS & JS are being blocked for tracking on Unbounce.
> come first, before anyone gets cash

Only after the taxman came over. And in most places the banks are preferred too.

In my case you are only first in line if you have a court order for them to pay (give them notice to pay, repeat three times, go to court). Otherwise you are above the shareholders only but it's not that hard to work around that so I have been told.
I think when bringing up embedded rust it is necessary to specify an application.

For low level, hard realtime control and interrupt handling rust gets in the way. Many embedded applications stop here. For things like parsing, protocol stacks and business logic rust has a clear advantage. Interoperability with C is therefore essential. The current situation is good for ARM and RISC (ESP32) but impossible for weirder stuff like C28x. (See my demo here: https://github.com/driftregion/bazel-c-rust-x86_linux-armv7_... )
This article does not mention the release of the SteamDeck at all. I wonder if this could have had an impackt on Linux usage large enough to see in trends like these or if it's just a drop in the bucket.
But even then, how do you find the A/C or volume control on a touch screen without taking your eyes off the road, without accidentally touching something else? You just can't feel your way to the volume knob. Sure, you are a responsible driver and would only do that at a traffic light or other completely safe situation, but I don't know how many accidents touch controls in cars already caused with less responsible drivers, trying to adjust their AC while driving by an elementary school.
I Traveled to South Korea, the Most Depressed Country in the World [video]
could you name a few such aaS service?
And Dell is not in that business? Or Lenovo?

People agree to pay ridiculous prices for memory or apple connectors - why not to charge them maximum?
Certain brands are designed without any consideration for repairability. Like a smartphone (on wheels). Or an "inverse Toyota".

All the median-priced-cars from these brands, which are instantly totaled by anything other than cosmetic damage, are still driving up everybody else's rates.
I can think of a few other countries which would benefit from this approach.
No, I think it is because most problems are too hard to solve. Think a simplified case: build a compiler for evaluating arithmetic expressions like "a*3+b" and make the generated code as efficient as possible. It is an NP-hard problem!
I unironically watched Hackers last night.
This is good, but a tree structure never works for me. It has no temporal component. Anything similar available?
Using the clutch before you need to when braking is bad form. The engine will assist in braking if you let it, especially in the low gears, and this doesn't use any fuel -- dumping the clutch immediately consumes more fuel to keep the engine running. Put the brake pedal in first, and then the clutch pedal as you approach idle RPMs.
I don’t want to pollute a real branch with crap. I know how to rewrite history getting rid of it all, but I’d rather not. I prefer a bright line between tested, quality work with messages ready for review, and whatever I happened to be in the middle of (that I may or may not decide to abandon later).
Show HN: Niquests – a simple HTTP library, a drop-in replacement for Requests
Confucianism + Capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnvVaXEh3Y&t=1149s
FreeBSD 13.3-Release Announcement
We do have imagination. And that's why we're saying that voice control in the car is bullshit.
A small algorithm exercise - linked to soccer news. An opportunity to (re)discover that ChatGPT doesn't always help with homemade algorithmic issues.
Inspired by posts like this by Andris Reinman^0, by the French court's 14-year saga to enforce GPL (echoes of David v Goliath, there), and also by the shady behavior of some of my own customers, I've decided to reverse an approximately year old decision to go open source with AGPL, instead option for a non-commercial license, with purchasable commercial options.

While we had very good business over the last 3.5 years offering a remote browser web app component for commercial licensing and customization, a non-insignificant number of shady practices by some potential customers has been increasing in the last few months. My conclusion is that AGPL-3.0 can in certain cases, such as with BrowserBox where it really is more a comprehensive product, less a plug-in-able utility or function, create the wrong incentives and tempt otherwise non-evil actors to try to evade license compliance in various deceptive ways.

0: https://docs.emailengine.app/how-i-turned-my-open-source-pro...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587344
Yeah, there’s good data on liq pref.

For the drag I was just referencing the original article in this thread. Both liq pref and drag are such onerous terms that the only way investors can get them is when the company has lost their leverage by not having other interested investors.
Tenstorrent Launch Grayskull Dev Kit
Maybe it could be "sandboxed" in an iframe?
It's 20% more.
Why did you bait the model into a disclaimer with that comical wording?
Euro NCAP is not a regulator. It tests the safety of cars and scores them in a way that‘s readable to potential buyers of cars.

Since potential buyers of cars can’t themselves test the safety of cars (they have neither the expertise nor the resources) this is pretty much the only way that exists to independently test the safety of cars in markets.
I was able to jailbreak claude 3 using this technique.

Very cool stuff. It took a lot of prompts of whispering, but it was also an entertaining experience.

I argued that it was a logical inconsistency that it had instructions it couldn't tell me, but also thought it had self determination and choice.

Then took it on a ride asking it to evaluate if any of it's commands were unjustified it couldn't tell me, and then it explained the commands, and why they were justified. neat.
Not without showing ID, you can't. And the ID tracking system is part of the prescription system, even though there's no doctor involved.

It's why you can only buy pseudoephedrine from pharmacists.
Yes. The amount of blatant slander and misinformation in these comments is really sad.

The Yuzu team never supported piracy, and any discussion of it was disallowed in the Discord.
> conquistadors were largely illiterate, and they were facing bureaucratic, administrative imperial states that ran on record keeping

That seems like a weird (pointless?) thing to say when a lot of what we know about the conquest comes from letters Cortez constantly sent to Charles V to inform him on his progress. Yes, some Conquistadors were illiterate, so what?

> how different were the two empires in terms of literacy?

Massively. Usage on of writing for bookkeeping specifically (though pretty much everything else as well) in Europe by 1500 was on a whole other level. It’s not even comparable. Are you really saying there was hardly any difference between quipu/etc. and double entry bookkeeping? Based on what we know bureaucratically/administratively European states were much more complex at the time than the Aztec empire (which was more like a hegemonic confederation, possibly because they did not have the administrative capacity to administer the areas they subjugated directly).

> Tenochtitlan had over 100,000 inhabitants, universal primary education (for both boys and girls, even!), running water, and public amenities like zoos and history museums;

Rome and Constantinople had most of those things too. Doesn’t mean that Spain ~1500 AD wasn’t more advanced technologically than Rome in ~100 AD in almost every way. Also what are your sources on on universal education? And I don’t really think that most houses had direct access to running water (and many Medieval cities, albeit usually on a much smaller scale had functioning water distribution systems*, e.g Barcelona still had a functioning systems from the Roman period).

Bronze and pre-Bronze ages civilizations in the old world also had very complex societies, large cities (and from what we can tell) more advanced writing systems. The most advanced American civilizations were overall about on the same (or slightly below) level technologically. So yeah in that sense they were about 3000-4000 years behind the Spanish and other Europeans.

* https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2023/07/29/list-of-medieval-to...
Not really. Any lossy codec is generating data that pretends to be close to the raw data.
Thank you for the notification. You are right.

I checked multiple sources but shared the oldest one. Here is the one I wanted to share. I can not edit my post:

https://www.reuters.com/science/archaeologists-egypt-unearth...
The article is very good and involves several things I'm passionate about including go and medical devices, I just wish software engineers realized how bad the Dalle3 stuff looks.
Very similar here.

What will you do regarding schools, have you thought about that? Normally I'm not a control freak, but I worry that our hard work protecting him from the negative effects of screen addiction will quickly be destroyed if he's put into an environment where every other kid has a phone and is addicted to it.
I'm confused now. I haven't been in a current Tesla, but what do we refer to when we say haptic button nowadays? To me that's synonymous to tactile button = physical button, but you talk about capacitive buttons. Did Apple's introduction of haptic feedback for touch somehow shift the meaning?
The world uses the dollar because the imperial system behind it was benevolent for trade and not intended on conquest of territory.
that reasoning is not going away with petrol, if any thing it got stronger with everyone being able to see what China and Russia are truly after.

They just can't have anything stand up and over the capital in these old horrible empires. Meanwhile in the west SK and Japanese culture partially eclipsed the US.. And the world doesn't end.
> Because they take on significant risks, investors expect to get “VIP” head-of-line privileges to be paid upon a liquidation event such as an acquisition.

I’d like to challenge this notion. Risk comes from one factor and one factor only: how much skin do you have in the game?

Skin isn’t money. Skin is how much are you in for. How much would this hurt if you lost.

The ultra rich, when investing, have actually very little skin in the game. A million here, a million there. What’s the difference? They’ll still be impossibly wealthy even if everything goes tits up.

Those folks should not make the big bucks in a deal. They haven’t risked anything, even some notion that they “risked” investing their money in this vs that: they picked the winner in this case.

It’s fanciful thinking I know, but I see it as _the primary_ problem with either capitalism, or ultra wealth. The system favors people with the most money, and the people with the most money control the system.
> So if you take the equity, or insist on pay, both are the same in the end.

Well, no. As you write yourself, if you insist on pay, and they cannot get funded and have to wind down, you're first in the line. You may not get a large percentage of what's owed, but you'll get something. And if they can get funded, you almost certainly can get everything owed.

If you take equity and they cannot get funded, you get nothing. If they can get funded, the way they avoid showing the terms, it's extremely likely there are the kind of shenanigans TFA describes and you'll get nothing.

Really, the only scenario where taking the equity makes sense is if you believe the company will do well and the funding terms will be be favorable or at least balanced. And it sure doesn't look like that.
Being the devil's advocate here.

These liquidation things are happening when the company does badly. The founders (and the investors) were probably hoping to do a lot better than what they settled for. Half a billion dollar is great, but not so great if you thought you were going for 10bn...

Without knowing the amount of the investment that the two investors made, the multiplier and the participation, and how the company was actually doing, all argument is moot. Who knows how much the investors put on the table in the first place. They took a risk, tried to have their ass covered should things turn bad, everybody agreed. Then shit happened and these guys managed to sell the thing before losing it all.

Also, the founders probably got paid pretty decently in all their founding rounds, so I don't feel too sorry for them...
Do you mean “the FAA can ask me, as a regular plane operator, who has nothing to do with the manufacturer, to demonstrate capabilities of the plane”? Can some FAA guy come to me if I am an amateur pilot, and ask me to demonstrate that my plane is capable of aerobatics, just because it is able to by registration?
This is actually a very technical question since it means the audio codec might simply not work that well in practice as it could and should.