skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using google lens with the tick marks on the image provide lots and lots of training examples that could work for that via simple pre-training and pattern matching.

In this specific image case there are even games on Baamboozle called "what is going to happen"

The answer is similar to the previous explanation.

I expect LLMs to be good at retrieval so it would be more interesting for images that weren't in the corpus.
Only for securities related fraud and crime. Engineering work doesn't really get covered. I mean with a lot of indirection you can twist that it's lying to shareholders but the SEC wouldn't dare overextend that far without more clearer law.
It still covered by wearing a seatbelt, you onow, ad one of those things were a seatbelt helps. I mean you cannot wear it while for turbulances and simultaniously not wear it in case the door next to you blows out. Schroedinger's seatbelt is not a real thing.
It's a decent free and cross platform UI. Doesn't have all the DB specific features of a tool like PG admin or MySQL Workbench. Still, I like having the same tool for all my basic needs, and only use a more specialized one where I really need it.
What's puzzling is the idea that pasta is treated as if it's some hardcore fat-gainer, and cheese as if it's the cornerstone of a healthy diet. It's additionally puzzling because the USA stands head and shoulders above Europe, where this belief is not prevalent, in rates of obesity.
This is a technical website discussing the nuances of filesystems. Common vernacular is how you choose to define it but even the Wikipedia definition says that directories and hierarchy are just one property of some filesystems. That they became the dominant model on local machines doesn’t take away from the more general definition that can describe distributed filesystems.
Ya, Florida is undergoing an insurance crisis right now. It’s not a safe move either.
WSJ has a few high quality articles and some local insight into things like commercial real estate in the US but that editorial section is so difficult to take seriously (as well as some of the real articles). It's generally not worth it unless you get a deal.

NYT is mixed but has that breadth of US news that's hard to find elsewhere. Also pretty affordable.

You might like your local business journals - they're usually part of a syndicate so get national and local news. For instance for Seattle: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/
> It’s a fair question, but one we should be asking about all models, perhaps especially our own. It’s of course easier to see the propaganda of foreign cultures, and this should be investigated, but let’s not let ourselves believe that a model is more likely to contain propaganda because it is Chinese. It will just contain propaganda that is easier for us to see as propaganda.

Yes, but in this particular case I'm coming from a viewpoint where I view China as a hostile power. So, at the moment, my worry is about that.

In future, if US slips into authoritarianism, which TBH it might depending on the outcome of the next election, what you note would become a very real problem.

So, putting it differently and more neutrally, is there any research being done on evaluating a political, and other, bias in a model or is it just being all put in the bucket of hallucination?
Agree. In 30 years and thousands of colleagues, the truly insufferable are productively measured in the dozens. The outsized impact they have on the team until eventually (hopefully) fired is still worth paying attention to potential signals in the interview process, IMO. (This is several times more important if they're going to have any leadership responsibilities as part of their role.)
nah, there’s an option in shortcuts to run without any interaction from user. As long as phone is on/charged. Then it runs.

I have an old iPhone that runs this automation. Haven’t touched it in many months. Still runs without a hitch.
I see what you mean - the quoted "Greenland" text does not match the current form but does match the one ca. 2013.

It looks like FOO (all caps) redirected to Forward Observation Officer on July 2008‎, says https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOO&action=histor... so there was a narrow window when your "foo" example worked as described, before you updated the dump to the then-new redirect.
Using open-ended questions for broader insights is a strategy the blog recommends. Can anyone share an example where this approach led to surprisingly innovative or insightful responses from an AI?
Most of the wildfire risk is outside of the cities, so it’s not like it is going to influence most homeowner policies. Likewise with flooding.
Still counts as nontrivial.
Dbeaver is generally great. Sometimes I have weird issues where it just can’t load data after losing connection with Postgres. It’ll act like it’s reconnecting but will invariably fail. I need to manually disconnect and reconnect to get it to work.

But otherwise it does everything I need. I install it on all of my computers.
I’ll publish something soon about it. It was inspired by another post/tweet. But I set that up long ago and do not have the article saved.
Its wild how this alwayyysss is the argument. Its just "oh so you think humans are special!" >:| and a gigantic "what-if"

its a purely emotional provocation and a universe sized leap, not an argument for LLM's having intelligence or sentience. Anything could be anything, wowww! This goes back to what the other person was saying, "I cannot reason about what is going on behind the curtain, therefore..."
Markov models were intelligent? Neat!
On the polarization, see the book Why We're Polarized:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized

While US-specific in some aspects (political party (self-)filtering), it also looks at things more generally (psychological studies on how humans can form 'tribes' almost spontaneously).
>>When I look at resumes, a cover letter is a plus. It shows that the applicant is putting in some effort, and not just spamming every position available.

Matches my system. If I send you a cover letter, I _WANT_ the job. If there's not enough info in the job req. or it sounds like a boring position, I throw out an application and try to get more info during screening/interview.
Also they made a browser database client (cloudbeaver) which is much better than pgdamin IMO. I set it for my company, so people can easily access database without creating tunnels, sharing passwords, etc. I tried pgadmin before, but it was incredibly buggy, almost unusable as a shared installation (often server would just hang until restart).

For desktop I, personally, prefer Idea Database plugin, because it's just SQL editor, but incredibly powerful one.
To answer the question: How far from visual deductive reasoning? Consider G. Spencer Brown's Calculus of Indications. If you read his book it shows how using the mark/cross is trivial for visual deductions (if well-formed in translation).

There is also work on this from Kaufmann at University of Illinois and William Bricken.

Though this is a bit different than Raven's matrices.
+1

It's your general swiss army knife for DB tools
This is really easy; much easier than trying to delete them by hand. AWS does all the work for you. It takes longer to log into the AWS Management Console than it does to set up this lifecycle rule.
When Boeing flights have repeated safety issues on passenger flights, what more information is needed?

As it stands, consumers don't have much reason to act for themselves as the FAA and government at large would prefer that we trust they have it under control.

That may even be true, but surely that falls under the information imbalance you mention. We don't know exactly how the regulators are responding, though we do know that FAA regulations rely heavily on self-report mechanisms in which the companies effecrively regulate themselves.
> Equally you cannot tell a creator not to create. They will, whether you like it or not.

for a much darker take on this, check out orson scott card's "unaccompanied sonata"
yes, you can. But I haven’t tried it myself.

Although if the script has some dependency on iOS or macOS specific function (ie, existence of “Apple script”). Then the shortcut might not be portable between macOS <-> iOS
And this is basically what most other manufacturers’ driver assists do.

My wife’s car has adaptive cruise. It just needs to watch constantly and adjust your speed to ensure the distance between you and the car in front remains relatively constant.

It has lane keeping assist and lane departure alerting. It constantly tracks where the lines on the road are and either gently nudges you back in the lane, or beeps at you if you cross a line.

It has emergency braking, it’s constantly watching and if it sees you approaching something at a rate or distance that suggests you are likely to hit it, it will alert you. If you continue, it will apply the brakes for you.

If you’re stopped for a period of time (like at a light) and the car in front of you pulls away and you don’t after a brief moment, it will ding to get your attention and let you know traffic is moving.

Pretty much all of this is making use of the strengths of the computer (uninterrupted attention, quick reaction times) to make up for the weaknesses of the human (distractable, slower reaction times) instead of trying to do the reverse.
There's an older attempt at a universal Nix bundler here: https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle

The flake schema has a "bundler" output that can point to an executable like this to bundle a flake's outputs for any supported target. Not sure about the state of the art, though.
That might be true a small company but that's not my experience with FAANG interviews and all the companies with x-FAANG employees that just continue to do the same style of interview.

I get asked what I consider, silly and unrelated stuff. I work on native APIs and was being hired for native API stuff yet my interviews including things like designing server farms for which I have next to zero knowledge. I've never set up more than a simple server. I did get hired by one of them and most of the questions I was asked have never once had any relationship to my job ever.

There's also the leetcode stuff, many of which are of the variety "If you're seen this question before you'll know the answer, if not then it was a 1 in a million that one person solved it and then spread the answer but you're not going to solve it in this 45 minute session".

2 examples IMO are "find the smallest rectangle in a bitmap. The brute force answer is O(N^6). The fast answer is O(N) but I doubt anyone has solved the O(N) one on their own except an exceedingly rare few. The rest read the answer previously.

Another is the code inserted into a matrix and having its columns rotated, given the result, recover the code question which can only be solved by knowing the one single algorithm that fits pretty much nothing else except this toy question. If you've been exposed to it before you solve it. If not, you don't

Those questions didn't help them hire. I'm certainly productive without being able to answer them and so are several of my co-workers who admit to not being able to answer them. Most of us just feel like we got in by luck yet we're all super productive so it's not clear what the point of that interview style was. We were just the lucky few who got questions we knew the answers to already.
Checking urban dictionary is a good start.

In this case, it’s not a great source. There are two, low-ranking Dutch definitions but they’re very direct or vulgar.
Yea

~ $ man stdin | grep stdin,
stdin, stdout, stderr - standard I/O streams
The input stream is referred to as "standard input"; the output stream is referred to as "standard output"; and the error stream
is referred to as "standard error". These terms are abbreviated to form the symbols used to refer to these files, namely stdin, stdout, and stderr.
On program startup, the integer file descriptors associated with the streams stdin, stdout, and stderr are 0, 1, and 2, respectively.

This alignment is, indeed, very much deliberate. Take a peek at this:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/s...
(also, C11)

They are optional - emphasis mine:

> three streams shall be predefined and need not be opened explicitly

They're artificial in the sense that I don't have to follow laws/rules/customs, I guess. Interesting things may or may not happen if I don't.

In the same way, interesting things happen if I wire stdout to stderr.
I've seen discussions of the engine, about the regulatory barriers to designing new piston engines for Cessnas so the leaded gas can be dispensed with. Businesses don't want anything to do with changing anything at all about those airplanes.
Highly speculative, and I suspect that I don't do these models justice:

The purpose of these boards seems to get people acquainted with their programming model. Not as in using board and model as a turnkey solution (if that happens, fine, but this is not the goal), but as in getting potential customers for future boards to learn how to make their own models or third party models run on the board. The more models they supported out of the box, the less well the goal of building buyer-side expertise in the programming model would be served.
Could I, as a consumer of said helmet, have performed a non-destructive test ?
I do embedded development. I usually implement some kind of test system (on pc) that allows me to run systems tests of the whole application and for this I use a debugger when I don't understand why something fails. I also often debug unit tests using a debugger. I hate printf debugging.
The only way that I know to encrypt something into the future is generating an N-bit key and hoping someone will go through the trouble of cracking it when that becomes feasible. That involves lots of assumptions (e.g., how computing power develops and how much that person cares).

The website's implementation is this:

> A group of [orgs] holds the keys. There are 18 separate organizations running a total of 22 nodes, with a threshold of 12 needed to release a secret.
I am lucky to live in a country where there are always at least 3 supermarkets in walking distance so they are desperately competing with each-other.
Programming Is World Building
Yes. I only scanned the paper, but it's not obvious to me what value polystyrene is adding compared with air, which is free.
So you consider it a flash of genius because it led you to produce a paper that trivializes the relevance of scarcity (to greatly simplify)?

Without commenting on the merit of the thesis, people get flashes of insight all the time that seem totally genius to them. Regardless of what you wrote, I would wait until it's actually validated by further scientific consensus before calling that any kind of vindication of the phenomenon of sudden genius.

And your other example is that ... you produced art? As in, the famously capricious, easily duped community? That may not be the slam dunk you think it is.

With that said, you definitely were productive in some sense, and I don't mean to trivialize that in anyway -- it's certainly more than I accomplished over the same time! It's just ... "genius" is a stretch. By the same token, I could claim I unconvered something major with my "fish would be bad swimming instructors" idea:

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2023/05/chatgpt4-refines-m...
It's certainly possible to do, but such solutions already exist for governments and municipalities so I don't really see the point, especially if it's going to be phone with a mobile app and a power bank attached... I'd easily use Telraam instead since it's a polished, proper IoT device and easily scales.
The article mentions the remarkable stability in form these figurines had, but towards the end, they started variating in an interesting way, and perhaps this variation can give us clues as to what these figurines meant.

Specifically, the figurines tended to get more stretched out, and more abstract (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Monruz#/media/File:La...)

As this trend continued, the statues started looking less like figurines of women, and more like...phaluses, e.g. https://www.donsmaps.com/milandesvenus.html

What are we to make of this? Sheer speculation of course, but I wonder if it has something to do with those european tribes discovering that it was sex which caused pregnancy. It might seem incredible that we didn't always know this, but even into the 20th century, we were discovering cultures which hadn't made that connection yet.

So imagine you have no idea where babies come from...just every once in a while, a woman would grow a belly and start putting on fat...and a baby would come. Sexy, sacred, and mysterious...and very worthy of making artwork to celebrate.

Eventually, however, they made the connection. I think these later venus figurines are attempts to acknowledge the male role in reproduction--and also attempts to reconcile their sense of the sacred with both the godlike-power females have to produce new people, with the newly discovered godlike power males have to get females pregnant.

Perhaps it also documents the transition from female, earth-mother-based religion to the sky-daddy-based religions we've had ever since.
PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server
I agree that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39659092 was not a good HN comment (primarily because of the first sentence there) but you and sandspar both broke HN's rules far worse in this thread. That is why I replied to the two of you.

If you see another commenter breaking HN's rules, you're welcome to let us know either by flagging the comment and/or by emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. But please don't respond by breaking the rules yourself ("you're an idiot").
Thanks! This is really helpful - I’ll try this out soon.
Imagine a data scientist tasked with improving customer segmentation for a marketing campaign. Typically, they might ask an AI, "What is the best clustering algorithm to use for customer segmentation based on purchase history?" This question, while precise, limits the scope of the AI's response to just selecting an algorithm.

Instead, the data scientist decides to use a more open-ended approach: "In what innovative ways can we use data science to understand our customers' behavior and improve our marketing strategies?" This broader question doesn't just seek an algorithm; it opens the door to a wider range of data-driven insights and strategies.

The AI's response suggests not only using clustering algorithms like K-means for segmentation but also incorporating sentiment analysis of customer reviews and feedback to add another layer to understanding customer preferences. It also proposes predictive modeling to forecast future purchasing behaviors based on a combination of historical purchase data and external factors like market trends and seasonal impacts.
I use this successfully with different versions of postgres, SQL server, MySQL, redshift and others. Does the job.
Do you see any similarities with the Xeon Phi boards?
> Everybody knows (whether they admit it or not) that EVs don't help with global warming.

That isn’t true: this is very a popular crank theory right now, but it’s not a popular opinion in mainstream science or among the public at large.
I prefer to rely on Qubes OS for a reasonable security.
So basically how pricing existed since the dawn of time until the creation of uniform pricing in the 1870s? What's old is new again.
I get what you're saying, but I'm a little more concerned about occupational exposure, where people like hospital orderlies are exposed to it for hours every shift, 5-6 days a week, all year and don't have a choice in whether they use it or something else.
It’s probably worth bringing the exact wording over here at this point:

“It's... fine? I mean, it's pretty obviously written for D&D and games operating in the same space, with similar expectations for what a TTRPG adventure looks like (meet some fantasy people, go to a dungeon, dodge the traps, fight the enemies, beat up a boss, go home).”

This doesn’t seem all that angry to me. It doesn’t say that D&D is bad. It doesn’t say that the adventure is useless for any non-D&D game; it says that the adventure is oriented towards the traditional and popular idea of what an adventure should look like. That’s true!

Then they compliment all the images NASA has produced over the years and offer a way to do something else cool with them. That seems pretty cool to me.
Could be using Cloudflare pages hosted on a R2 bucket:
https://pages.cloudflare.com/
But the company has to submit in writing an application laying out their claims?

I'm not really sure why the lack of such a standard definition prevents people from writing that down and then being willing to back up their words?

I can see a time efficiency argument, cost reduction argument, etc., for standard definitions here, but at the end of the day, they're not necessary.

The companies that offer the most credible products, verified via third party testing, get FDA approval. Everyone else gets weeded out.
Restaurants do not provide a crucial service. You can cook at home. I don't think the government needs to interfere.
You can hang people if you like, but you won't like the result. The aviation industry has not gotten as safe as it is today by whipping, hanging, or jailing people.

Even fixing a mistake is an implicit admission of guilt, and so people will not fix them. They will cover up and deny instead.
I don't think "everyone's doing it" or "it's costly to go against the flow" makes something right, just painful. We can acknowledge something is wrong without deciding it's worth the pain to fight.
The lawsuit wasn't just lost, it was thrown out. That's pretty strong that they "didn't get it wrong". Now weigh that against your evidence of nothing.
There were/are two front slots; the permutations were:

720KB FDD, blank
720KB FDD, 720KB FDD
720KB FDD, 20MB HDD

(I also seem to recall seeing (blank,blank) for "dumb terminals" when Xenix and line cards were in the Xenix server. Could have up to 16 terminals hanging off the back when using Xenix.
> Do scripting languages really need both "null" and "undefined" values?

Do programming languages really need any of these two?
equally obligatory, for those unaware. Clifford Stoll is a regular here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CliffStoll
Except what these places don't want to do is tell you the "max price" because then people will compare against that and give them grief. What they want to do is hide the max price so you never know what it is.

Personally, I hope these companies keep doing this. Once you get enough pissed off people, you'll get a law banning this crap.
All these comments saying merely "S3 has no concept of directories" without an explanation (or at least a link to an explanation) are pretty unhelpful, IMO. I dismissed your comment, but then I came upon this later one explaining why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39660445

After reading that, I now understand your comment.
C'mon, no.

In Canada it's openly discussed that recent immigration policy could be excessive. It's not a fringe anti-immigrant viewpoint, it's discussed in the media and at the dinner table.

Canada is a very pro-immigrant country, but there is nuance in the discussion

https://abacusdata.ca/unmasking-public-unease-with-canadas-i...
Probably discard it. Hypochlorite is unstable, and it loses potency. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, dilute it 1:20000 or so and measure it with a pool test kit. Also, one of the degradation products is chlorite, which is somewhat nasty.

You can find actual research from the swimming pool chemical industry. At higher concentrations (bleach sold for swimming pools is more concentrated), it’s less stable and apparently should ideally be used within 30 days in hot weather. The household stuff ought (good luck!) to be more stable, and you’re probably not storing it in a hot pool equipment room.