skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a pair of 350 dollar boots that can be repaired many times.

That was five years ago, with a recent re-sole this past summer.

This isn't an exaggeration by the way, but the cobbler who did the resole thanked me for bringing him the job, as it was a genuinely enjoyable experience for him. I assume most of his work is repairing suitcases going by the other clientele in the shop.

But sure, exaggerate that to be an artisan you need to be selling 1000 dollar shirts, rather than doing a 100 dollar service that doubles or triples the life of a decently made item.
A question I have about this era of of computing. Why did DOS win?

BASIC, for all it's faults, would have been a much nicer shell environment than the extremely limited CPM/DOS syntax. From this modern perspective I would have guessed at the time that BASIC would have grown better file management operations and been the home computers equivalent to the unix shell. that is, not a great programing language but let you run commands and easily, using the same language, program them.

Instead the primitive(in comparison to BASIC syntax) CPM command interrupter and moreso Microsofts "we have CPM at home" DOS syntax won the home computer market. why? every computer in that critical 1981 lineup, including the IBM PC, had a BASIC rom.
The real question is: why aren't they? They had the infrastructure needed to seed a cloud offering 10 years ago. Heck, if Oracle managed to be in 5th (6th? 7th?) place, Facebook for sure could have been a top 5 contender, at least.
> right to face one's accuser

I will buy this ‘corporate rights are human rights’ argument when a corporation is put on death row for murder.
> They don't have to believe into what they write.

Imagine the level of sociopathy required for the job. Truly soulless, despicable work, but I almost feel sorry for them. Like, could they even form an authentic human connection anymore, when they have sold out, given up so much humanity to an indifferent market creature? How would you feel about an "I love you" coming from someone payed to lie and manipulate?
Google has one of the best staffed and best regarded security teams in the entire world; that consideration is not limited simply to the technology industry, but to all organizations globally. They are outgunned by the US Government, of course, but they in turn probably outgun the security teams of many other significant countries.
It's unfortunately terrible wording from GitHub for any app install: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117

Despite the scary warning, you're only granting the listed permissions.
Clixon controller, open-source network manager for devices talking NETCONF/YANG
Clixon controller: The Clxon controller is an open-source manager of network devices based on NETCONF and YANG.
They make the cutest little sweaters though
What are you using on top of Claude Opus that helps it access your file system?
It's "zero cost abstractions over what you would write by hand". If you argue that anyone doing array access should be doing bounds checks when in doubt, a C++ compiler performing bounds checks would still be considered zero(additional)-cost.
So, I'd love to work on optimizing pipelines like this. How does one "get into" it? It seems a ML scientist with some C/C++ and infra knowledge just dips down into the system when required? Or is it CUDA/SIMD experts who move "up" into ML?
Drama usually centeres around a certain kind of person after all, and Gitea literally forked with a shitton of drama back in the day.

While the gogs developer only set the record straight and moved on with his life, the Gitea forkers kept drumming up controversy for weeks
Heavy vehicles like busses and trucks more often have drum brakes which I guess are better from a air pollution view?
We're not that far from a major turning point.

Currently these models don't provide an adequate enough confidence measure that prevents them from maximizing their potential. In the next few years we're going to reach a point where models will be able to tell if something is possible and avoid hallucinating, guaranteeing much better correctness. Something like that would be absolutely killer.

If you add on a top-down approach using a framework, such that it can architect a system down into small individual components, then that's a recipe for a really great workflow. The models we have now really shine in doing automated unit tests, and small bits of code to avoid limits with context size. Making the interfaces obvious enough, and being able to glue things together using obvious connections seems very possible.

I really do think that in the next few years we're going to see one of these tools really do well.
From their twitter:

> When evaluated on the SWE-Bench benchmark, which asks an AI to resolve GitHub issues found in real-world open-source projects, Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues unassisted, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art model performance of 1.96% unassisted and 4.80% assisted.

While it is a progress, its far away from being useful to be a software engineer.
AI safety is not a model property
If a vending machine dispenses free product when you aren't trying to hack it, that seems like it probably should not be a felony?
I dig Astro and use it to build my blog and several other tiny mostly-static sites. I'm not sure that the hosted database service fills a need I have but, in general, supported SQL integration seems like a useful addition.

As an aside: there are days when I wish I could avoid using the Astro component model entirely, do everything in Preact (or whatever), and still use the `client:*` directives when appropriate. I realize this is easier said than done and also probably not a reasonable thing for Astro itself to try and target -- but moving between Astro components and framework components always has just enough friction that it's something I think I'd enjoy using.
Ah, now I get it, thanks, makes sense.
This is great news for Nvidia and their stock, but are they sure the LLMs and image models will scale indefinitely? nature and biology has a preference for sigmoids. What if we find out that AGI requries different kinds of cpu capabilities
Yea I laugh at everyone try to shove AI into hardware and software design of physical products as if there's a market of engineers out there and not just hobbyists keeping things alive in the states.

We've long since offshored the development of any physical products that isn't considered ITAR/defense world.
> My understanding was that the main theory behind "Mast years" of trees was that it is an evolutionary adaptation to overwhelm squirrels and such so that some acorns are not eaten, and survive to grow into trees.

That was my understanding as well.

> Are they claiming that female cicadas are the direct cause of mast years?

I don't think so--at least, I took it to mean that the typical 2-5 year period between mast years could be thrown off due to an active cicada year, which itself is interesting and not something I'd ever heard before.

> do we see different mast year patterns in trees that correlate to the local cicada patterns?

It would be a great area of research! I've got a big bur oak in my back yard, I might start a log...haha.
Similarly the only knowledge I've pretty much entirely forgotten about Hindi is the way the digits are written. Even going years without reading or writing in Hindi, the muscle memory comes back pretty much immediately for everything except for the digits.

Technically Hindi would be my mother tongue, but I wonder how all that plays out in terms of having initially been raised with it, then having entirely forgotten it and replaced with native level English for a few years, and then having relearned Hindi from scratch. I tend to think in a mix of both languages, and have a tendency to mix words from other languages into my thoughts too if I'm exposed to them often, even if I can barely speak those languages.
I've lived in NYC for almost 15 years. I've never seen a more corrupt and shiftless organization than the NYPD. It's almost comical. I grew up in a small, Midwestern town and was never anti-cop until moving here, and it got immeasurably and irreparably worse during the George Floyd protests. Every single time anything ever got accelerated or instigated, it was by the police and not by a single protestor. Between the kettling, the instigation, and disrespect it became clear that they're a glorified gang that has operates with almost complete impunity and it shocks me that anyone in the city respects them or considers them a friend to the common good.

The most common run-in I have with them is standing at a crosswalk or sitting in an Uber and watching them put on the sirens and move everyone out of the way just so they don't have to sit in traffic. I'd estimate seeing this happen, oh, I don't know, about a thousand times while simultaneously I have never once seen them pull anyone over for any kind of traffic or moving violation.
From what I know, there are several settings of regenerative braking you can choose. The higher levels will bring the vehicle to a stop, while the lower ones won't. So it's user-configurable to a degree.
We can literally see into the past 13 billion years ago by building space crafts that collect microwave radiation, because we aren't as primitive as you may want us to believe.
On the podcast TrashFuture, November Kelly recently described AI systems as “garbage dispensers” which is both a funny image (why would anyone make a garbage dispenser??) and an apt description. Certainly these tools have some utility, but there are a load of startups claiming to “democratize creativity” by allowing anyone to publish AI generated slop to major platforms. On the podcast this phrase was used during discussion of a website which lets you create AI generated music and push it to Spotify, a move which Spotify originally pushed back on but has now embraced. Garbage dispenser indeed.
It's definitely not obvious if you spout off something that sounds like a platitude without elaboration that you actually only mean something very specific (let alone what specifically you mean), and while you're correct that you're not actually obligated to do so, you should provide some explanation if you have any interest in communicating effectively. Failing to do so is likely to lead to misunderstandings. But you've repeatedly missed opportunities to explain your position, even dodging explicit requests for clarification. That seems more like bad faith than just not reading your mind correctly.
Mapreduce, Go, Kubernetes, Istio, Tensorflow,...

I'm not a Googler but there's no denying that, despite all their faults, Google has contributed a lot.
I'm aware of that and I'm not shitting on security researchers.

These are covert intentionally malicious binaries that attackers were hosting on GitHub and trying to get victims to download and run.

Also, lots of empty repositories with descriptions like "download leaked onlyfans of her here: <url with tons of malware>".

I'm not going to waste my time trying to report that anymore though.
I will believe it when I see it, can’t recall the last time a major executive went to prison
I thought it was pretty obvious that they weren’t taking AT&T’s side in that comment.
Yeah seems like this could be replicated by another AI dev fairly easily.
just disable the animation, 4-7-14% if animation enabled, 0-2-3% with animation disabled.
It's a function of what people are willing to pay and what suppliers are willing to sell for. So I think the price will go up a little bit, but probably not much.
Yeah it's not much of an 'announcement' at all. In Holland we call that "making someone happy with a dead sparrow". My cat tries that sometimes:')
Based on my experience (electric motorbike), the regenerative breaks are super strong indeed.
You can tweak their « force », but usually, the strongest level is the most comfortable - that you eventually keep all day long.
It will cause you to full stop even on the steepest slopes.

Once you’re used to it, you dose your deceleration by focusing on how much you release the throttle.

And the only situations where you have to hit the breaks are the unexpected events - e.g., a car coming at the last moment and which you should give priority to.
I think I know what you mean, but even if I disagree with the professionals, I can't help but respect that their opinion is likely more informed than my own, at least in the high circles they revolve in.
I think they were doing some magic with the Android phone sensors, large amounts of user reports, as well as the actual forecast models.

Before Apple bought them, my Android phone was its own party trick at the bar. I'd be able to tell people down to the minute when it would start and stop raining. It was amazing for bar hopping on bad weather days.
Maybe if it's that obnoxious to the state when people represent themselves, the state should provide advocates for civil cases where people can't afford a lawyer.
The Quest, as an example that isn't tethered to a battery.
> for the average person.

For the average horse rider perhaps but not the average person. Most people were never on a horse.
Even if the vectors are NOT normalized, you don't always need to normalize them.

Add in nd indices and the costs tend to be very small.
The Kids on Night Shift (2023)
Well, integration is one aspect, and there are low-code tools like node-red etc. for those use-cases. One category of low-code tools is workflow automation tools, which maybe you are describing mostly. For me, I am interested in writing the business logic using functions. And what comes to the actual backend the data flow is the "normal" one:

User <---> API <---> Business logic <---> Database
or the annual salary of 10 really, really good security engineers at Google.
Could be cheaper, depending on workload, and if you’re large that could justify the cost of additional SWE time required to port and support. Triton/CUDA requires people who know both DL and low level programming. Whether you get better performance _per dollar_ really depends on workload and also on the size of your workload. Here I don’t just mean the cost of buying compute in cloud, I mean the more broad definition: total cost of doing business, all in, including SWE cost. If you’re huge (eg Anthropic), SWE cost at scale is a lot easier to justify. If you’re on the smaller side, SWE cost matters a lot more. It’s way easier to hire PyTorch people (market share 60%) than eg Jax (market share 3%). And yeah I know there’s Torch XLA, but it’s basically the same thing with a different frontend.
Ask HN: Why is product onboarding almost always janky/broken/annoying?
It seems like whenever I log into a new piece of software, I'm almost always hit with a bunch of in-app modals or messages explaining how to do tasks I don't want to do. On top of that, I get virtually the same irrelevant messages sent to me via email.

I'm not saying I could do better necessarily. We even built an experience like this accidentally at a startup I worked at previously.

The point is that the experience is super annoying, and it's a mystery to me why it keeps happening given that software companies have very strong incentives to get the onboarding experience right.

Bad onboarding leads to less conversion which leads to less money.

Why isn't this enough for companies to invest more in onboarding?
I think this is relative. It is certainly not perfect, but I like the UI better than anything LastPass has come up with.
Pre-MD Boeing ceased to exist a long time ago. "Boeing" now is just MD with a new name, bringing all that implies.
Variable Refresh Rate Comes to Nvidia's GeForce Now Cloud Streaming Service
Thanks. Does nftables use eBPF?
In grad school I worked on three separate Fortran code bases written as early as the 80s with tens of thousands of lines, no source control or version history, no build systems or even build scripts, and no tests. I think a lot of old scientific software is in the same condition, with some mix of "if ain't broke don't fix it" and the code being very hard to refactor.

This quote from the linked PRIMA page pretty much sums up my experience porting the above code too: "I hope I am the last one in the world to decode a maze of 244 GOTOs in 7939 lines of Fortran 77 code — I did this for three years and I do not want anyone else to do it again"
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For something that you can download and try right now, and actually works for daily coding tasks, you can try my desktop app 16x Prompt.

https://prompt.16x.engineer/

It's not 100% automated but saves a lot of time spent on writing code.

It works by composing prompts from tasks instructions, source code context and formatting instructions, resulting in high quality prompts that can be fed into LLMs to generate high quality code.
Security Controls on AI Systems
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, ensuring the security of AI systems has become paramount. The integration of AI into various industries has brought numerous benefits, but it has also raised concerns about potential vulnerabilities and cyber threats. To safeguard AI systems from unauthorized access and data breaches, implementing robust security controls is imperative.
Isn't the point of third party stores being able to not interact with Apple gatekeeping whatsoever? What's this €0.50 per install thing?

On my pixel I can download and install any .apk I want. Easy breezy. Isn't this what the EU intended with the recent veredict?
I recommend looking at swe-bench to get an idea as to what breakthroughs this product accomplishes: https://www.swebench.com/. They claim to have tested SOTA models like GPT-4 and Claude 2 (I would like to see it tested on Claude 3 Opus) and their score is 13.86% as opposed to 4.80% for Claude 2. This benchmark is for solving real-world GitHub issues. So for those claiming that they tried models in the past and it didn't work for their use case, maybe this one will be better?
Hard deletes also can cause chaos and issues. I've got a data warehouse with much more complicated ETL because the source system does quiet hard deletes... Which really throws a wrench in reporting on the state of the business.
Ultra-short-range weather on Apple devices uses what used to be called "Dark Sky", before Apple bought it. It's how you get those alerts that say things like "Light rain in 17 minutes".
I wish.

Funnily enough Arpanet and all that Xerox stuff were like <$50 million (inflation adjusted!) total. Some real forward thinkers were able to work the system by breaking off a tiny pittance of a much larger budget.

Where as I think this more appropriately can be considered the meta PR budget. They simply can't not spend it, would look bad for Wall Street. Have to keep up with the herd.
Making furniture! but we've had machines to do that for 100 years!

Programmers will be fine. The AI plagiarism engines are severely limited, and will be for the forseeable future. Maybe someday i'll be equivalent to the ren-faire blacksmith, but I'm gonna do this until I die.
Using a bitcoin mixer is money laundering in the same sense that turning off the public feed on Venmo is money laundering.

Yes, it potentially makes it harder for the authorities to track your activity, but it's also the only way to stop any random person in the entire world from seeing your transaction. Privacy is not inherently money laundering.
i only know 4.
Yes! Also Mike Tyson's famous "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face."
> it doesn't invalidate other models

One model can't invalidate other models. Only data can invalidate a model.

What other models do you have in mind?

> the Huble Tension, which invalidates Big Bang model

No, it doesn't. It means we have more work to do, to figure out why two calculations of the Hubble constant, by different routes, give different answers.

Invalidating the Big Bang model would be finding evidence that there was no Big Bang at all. The Hubble tension is nothing of the sort.

> The Big Bang model is incomplete too: galaxies with FTL speeds, different speeds of expansion, no center of bang, no flows, no source of energy, it stretches time and space, etc.

None of these are issues at all. The model accounts for them all in a perfectly self-consistent fashion.

Also, your nomenclature is biased: for example, the "FTL speeds" you refer to are coordinate speeds, which have no physical meaning. "FTL" in General Relativity means "moving outside the light cones", and that does not happen.

> The right-hand rule in EM suggests that we are in north hemisphere of something

The right-hand rule is a human convention. It tells us nothing about physics.

> You are mixing model and reality.

No, you are incorrectly assuming that the word "field" can only refer to the model. That's not the case. Physicists commonly use the word "field" to refer to both the mathematical object in the model and the actual physical thing that is being modeled. Light is "waves of the electromagnetic field" in the latter sense.
So your argument for why we don’t need to open up game consoles is because they are not already open? Isn’t that circular reasoning?
I agree with all of your points and experience the same benefits.

1) Autocomplete is more often than not what I want or pretty darn close.

2) Sometimes I need a discrete function that I am not sure how I want to write. I use a prompt with 3.5/4 inside of my IDE to ask it to write that function.

It is definitely not writing complete programs any time soon but I can see where it's heading in the near term. Couple it with something like RAG to answer questions on library/api implementations. Maybe give it a stronger opinion about what good Python code looks like.

For the naysayers I don't know how you use it but it is certainly useful enough for me to pay for.
> studies confirming this

Market share is pretty easy to look up? iPhones are massively popular, and have the majority market share in the US.

> nobody who owns an iPhone knows about the walled garden

That's-a bingo! Exactly. Because it just works, because Apple has tight control over the pipeline. They don't need to know and it seems like tech people don't appreciate the degree to which a trustworthy, mostly-idiot-proof appliance is incredibly valuable to the average user. Choosing between stores and warnings about trojans in security apps are not things that most users care about or want to think about. iPhones are great because the user can have little idea what they're doing, and still be pretty sure they won't screw it up.

As I've said elsewhere, I run void linux on my personal thinkpads because I customize everything. But that's not for everyone.
> We find that brake wear produces both positive and negative charged particles that can hold in excess of 30 elementary charges and show evidence that more negative charges are produced than positive.

So like with a "negative ion generator" air filter; the ionized particles should stick to the nearest grounded surface.

Brakes are often located quite close to the actual ground, handily enough.

Anyone who has done brake shoes on a drum brake car likely remembers a pile of brake dust. Unpleasant but not as bad imo as say, perlite dust. Certainly it's no mystery that the consumable brake parts are consumed; where did anyone think they were going?

Just exactly how many pounds of brake pads are sold a year? that's probably not far from the amount that winds up as road dust. Seems querying the manufacturers and parts stores might be a good data source.