skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over 40 years here too, from basic & assembly on a speccy 48k, 68000 on the amiga, through to my latest just-for-fun project of Zig SoC programming on the A64 pinephone.

Thanks for making me feel old today! but also lucky to have had such a hobby come career. Although I am sure it has rewired my brain in the process, and not all for the best. Depression, and frustration at how software now mostly controls lives rather than enhances / supports. I feel like I got a glimpse behind the curtain, and this problem solving brain now sees a broken system destroying the planet and humanity for the last extra cent of profit, with no solution. EOL
> Sparks Debate

I did not see any reference to these debates mentioned in the title. Is this just a euphemism for something the author wants to question or bring attention to without blatantly giving an opinion.
> enter your email

Nope
You can see what happens if they compromise on these things at Boeing at the moment.
It's a very useless debate.

Fact is, those are LLM, not "AI" the way the general populace understand that term.

Fact is, that means they just give whatever answer they can derive from their training corpus, while people think they give facts.

Fact is, you do not want to be liable for your half research / half pr product being manipulated into giving wrong or distorted facts regarding one of the most controversial and pivotal election, or worse not needing manipulation just straight up hallucinating. "Prompt engineering" is a thing, after all.

Fact is, Google is terrified of being seen as being unfair or taking a side or ..., more than even their competitors. Their entire "our AI cannot draw white people" thing smelled more of an over-reaction to a PR threat than them trying to push a belief.

Fact is, if you're seen as taking too hard a side in this election your company might be at risk after the result come down, one side or the other. Just look at how Fox is behaving since the Dominion suit.

And last but not least, politics and religion are two of those subject where belief are stronger than facts and can get people very riled up very quick, so if you're an information company you want to treat it as encyclopedia factual after the fact, not as an opinion matter.

I'm european, and I abhor many of the restrictions put on the current gen of LLM and image generator that come from american societal value being imposed, but on the matter of politics it doesn't matter what country in the world it's never a good idea to play that game.
No search engine is immune to LLM generated mumbo jumbo. Google makes an exceptional example at being a terrible search eninge despite majority market share, but as AI continues to pollute the internet, all search engines will deteriorate.
"""the number of bits required to perfectly recreate the natural matter of the average-sized U.S. adult male human brain down to the quantum level on a computer is about 2.6×10^42 bits of information (see Bekenstein bound for the basis for this calculation).""" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data)

(That said, I think quantum physics makes it "all a Markov chain" rather than "all a lookup table").
See the lower part of this web page for some enhancements in TL ‘24:

https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html#news
Some governments will offer an "official opinion". Basically you explain your situation to one of their members of staff, who will then reply with how to declare it on the tax form.

If you declare what they say, and it turns out to be wrong, they won't punish you for it.
"memory-safe" != "safe".

Make a fair assessment what it means to your app / service when you have a, however controlled/contained, reproducible unexpected (by the developer) exit. Or what it means to use a hardcoded default (unwrap_or). Or what it means to pass up an Err via "?". Or to map an Err to None.

My argument is simple: The memory safety of rust is no reason to become arrogant as a programmer. It should, in fact, maybe make you more humble - what you learned about your own typical mistakes as you learned to write rust and tackle the borrow checker and decode clippy's extensive litany of sins in your source. And to consider that rust, as prime example, exists because people learned - from mistakes. From those design flaws in C/C++, namely.

Assume you make mistakes as well is likely to turn you into a better person. Definitely into a better programmer. No matter which language you use. Hopefully rust (on that I fully agree)
> Apple isn't the best, no one deserves "best" in desktop and mobile operating systems, but it's the least bad.

MacOS and iOS are the most limited in terms of customizability (personalization) and freedom for developing software for them. As much as that might surprise you, many people care about that and can't stand to use Apple operating systems because of it.
That's how I turned up this submission, FWIW.
Hate the signup wall after entering a keyword. Be upfront about it or don't do it.
In this case, I suspect "china" comes from Cockney rhyming slang, "china plate", "mate", as in "friend".
Doesn't matter given the original statement spawning this subthread was:

> People can not be reduced to lookup tables even in theory
Google isn't extreme US left wing on the inside, the strongest faction is the very technical pro meritocracy side. When these two clashes you get compromises like this, the left wings wants to make the AI biased and tell you to vote left, while the meritocracy side hates that.

The compromise then is just to not respond to these queries because in the end no answer is less biased than a biased answer. There isn't much else Google can do here due to their internal politics.
Creator of the open-source weather API open-meteo.com here.

The future of weather forecasting is likely to rely heavily on AI models. The article discusses Pangu Weather and HN comments mention GraphCast as examples. Interestingly, on the first of March, the European weather forecast center ECMWF released their new AI weather model AIFS as open data. This model is not only more accurate than their existing numerical model, but also requires significantly less computing power to run. They've published comparisons showing AIFS outperforms other models in terms of forecast precision: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/aifs-blog/2024/f...
maybe because forcing people or companies (property of people) is wrong?
Yeah, LLMs both in popular understanding and potential "rocket-stock" application, seem crazy over hyped.

Best case it generates something somewhat accurate, which progressively decreases in probability of being accurate over time.
While I generally agree with the idea that a direct HTTP request for a single point to point message would be more reliable than routing through a message queue, I'm a little bit surprised that there would be so many messages lost by NATS it had significant impact on their services.

Wouldn't a lost message just mean NATS would retry delivery until succesful? Anyone know why they would experience noticeable unreliability?
Dang's remarks seem specific to the 2nd chance pool.

I've recommended items to that myself (from other people), via email to mods. Those are usually accepted, though not always.
I for one like my election information banned and/or moderated by Google, whatever is convenient for them in this moment, because they are very smart and very kind and probably know what is best.
Summary: Measuring developer productivity is a difficult challenge. Conventional metrics focused on development cycle time and throughput are limited, and there aren't obvious answers for where else to turn. Qualitative metrics offer a powerful way to measure and understand developer productivity using data derived from developers themselves. Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity using data from humans, rather than data from systems.
No, in my country it's a derived German-style system. It's very unlike a common law system. A local judge can't, but we have a constitutional court who can take up a case against a passed law by themselves. Also, you can work through the tiers of the courts to the highest court or submit a request to the constitutional court.

Not sure about the exact legal theory in the Netherlands but where I am it's not really the job of upper chamber to validate it. Both chambers should have done that but both are bodies with political agendas and they interpret it to their own liking - and that often doesn't pass through the courts.
Things in marketing that always worry Me
Excel errors can carry to wrong decisions on a global level.

https://theconversation.com/economists-an-excel-error-and-th...
WebAssembly is not magic, the simple reality is that browsers do not expose low level socket interfaces, so they cannot connect to arbitrary services on the wider internet.

We choose to use Tailscale since they allow WebSocket-based connections via their DERPs.

It is interesting that, originally, DERPs were intended to be a solution for machines in extremely limited networking environment where nothing but HTTP is allowed. Turns out browsers are exactly one of those extremely limited networking environments.
I know what the EU wants from Apple. You probably know what the EU wants from Apple. Apple should know what the EU wants from Apple.

That's the law. Not some linguistic technicalities in some document somewhere.
Why do you keep talking about their app store revenue? IF the EU applied pressure on Apple by blocking their services, both app store and iPhone sales would disappear overnight. Nobody is going to buy an iPhone that doesn't work.
Correct me if I am wrong, but AI chatbots are mostly trained on past data? And they are not continuously being fed the newest possible information. As such with such recent events as elections it really does not make sense to use them or allow their use? As most information would be somewhat stale...
Official builds before this could still be made to work with microg using the "microg installer revived" Magisk module. That's how I installed it on my current phone while still getting the benefits of more regular updates.
I think if this is the case one should hate the Republicans (policies) more, as being the ones explicitly breaking stuff, but yeah it's easier to generalize.
This sounds sane to me. I don't think people in general have a good understanding of how these generative AI products produce their answers, and I think many would assume hallucinated information to be true.

This is bad in all cases, but certainly misinformation in the democratic process is up there with the worst. Of course, perhaps more importantly for Google, it's a PR disaster waiting to happen when Gemini starts touting incorrect information seemingly supporting one political party or another.
Google search did direct you to Trumps own info pages when you searched for it instead of bombarding you with anti Trump propaganda. Google has always been relatively unbiased in these cases.

But it seems like the people who do these models are a bit more extremist than the people who work on search, so the higher ups has to ban them from responding to queries like this or they would cause another uproar.
I had never realized the necessity of nearest even.

I thought that 0.5 ought to be rounded to 1, mirroring 0.0 rounded to 0 !

But I can now see how this only works for reals, while anything non-continuous (even rationals ?) could end up with compounding errors...
> Failing to use color to appropriate communicate actions or state ....

No no no and no again!

Do not use color to to communicate actions or state unless that color can be used to statically differentiate between another color that is present in the UI at the same point in time. This is why syntax highlighting in code editors works because there is a state boundary between a word in one color and a word in another. It is why colors for toggle sliders indicating off and on do not work. What color is 'off' or 'go' or 'enable' or 'disable' or 'allow'. An animation of any type does not help and only adds CPU overhead and UI slowdown.

Animations can be useful only if they assist in disambiguating a transition between states. For example transfer of an item to a different position in a list. If the item animates across the screen the eye is guided to the new position. A toggle slider does not have this issue and should transfer to the new state immediately and the most important design question is how to interpret the current state of the toggle not the animation between the two state.
yep, apple can suck my dick from now on. spend a months wage on one of their shitty bug-ridden phones and get used as a punching bag for apple to vent their frustrations about a bitchy argument with the EU which i didn't even support. dog shit company.
>Doesn’t the Abrahamic god specifically want to be impossible to detect?

No. Where does this idea come from? And certainly not in all denominations, including not in some major ones.

In fact (assuming you go but their stories) He often makes his present very clear and detectable.
Rust vs. Go: Why They're Better Together
That's not a decision, you are losing 100% of the users on the other platform...

What's why I'm saying it's not a market, phone users can't price compare stores.
IRC is a beautiful thing. I still write bots for it to unwind, the problem I have is the resistance to updating the protocol spec, some great ideas coming out but nothing seems to move fast enough these days.
Tires too
A few interesting generations:

> You malformed garbage can of podagric pig precipitations

That alliteration for the second part is particularly pleasing. Although they wouldn't make good passphrases, it'd be fun to see an "oops! all alliterations" version of this.

> You misbegotten locker of pathological coon cat [dial] dross

I wonder how the "[dial]" slipped in there -- is it part of the animal list or the excrement list?

Edit: after refreshing a few more times I've seen a few other tags attached to other words ("labis [eccl]", "painter [S US]", "budget [dial]", "scrip [archaic]"). I'm guessing that "dial" means dialect, and the words that went into this were scraped from some old version of Roget's Thesaurus.
My immediate issue, as the father of a mixed son who has just witnessed him spend hours trying to represent his own appearance accurately for an art task at school:

This turns black and mixed people into white-presenting caricatures of themselves. E.g. compare [1] and [2] where the hairstyles of the black people are turned into distinctly "white" hairstyles. My son's hair is closer in texture to that of the man on the right, and there's no way of getting it into the shape of the coloring-in page.

I get there's no ill intent here, but even for far less ethnically ambiguous inputs this "whitewashes" hairstyles and general appearance, and once I saw it I couldn't unsee it.

If my son was the age to want to use this, I'd be concerned about letting him use this, because I know he is sensitive about how he is different to his friends, etc. and this would wildly misrepresent and erase his actual appearance.

[3] and [4] is another stark example.

[5] and [6]....

[1] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/group1_original_1024....

[2] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/group1_coloring_page_...

[3] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/portrait4_original_10...

[4] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/portrait4_coloring_pa...

[5] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/basketball2_original_...

[6] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/basketball2_coloring_...
In legal terms, something analogous to an "attractive nuisance".
Cookie banners are not mandatory. If you're just using technical cookies you don't need a banner at all. Websites with them want to track you, that's why they have them. They need to ask for your permission to do so, which I think is a good thing. So instead of being mad at the EU we should be mad at those websites trying to get as much data as possible from their users.
Some of them are really good movies. But for me, movies automatically go in a non-scientific, soft science fiction category, bordering on fantasy, if time travel is a main part of the concept.
Just Armenians? Don't Catholic and Eastern Orthodox in general believe the same? (Besides, iirc, Armenians are part of the wider Eastern Orthodox faith).
Sometimes I don't even read the comments and go straight to saying something.
>> if you have two nodes that physically cannot communicate but need to be consistent for a client to move forward, the client cannot move forward. Full stop.

> This section discusses some failure modes (the first one is about the failure of a specific node): https://itnext.io/how-simple-can-scale-your-sql-beat-cap-and...

> In this setup, a copy of the node is replaceable by taking a (potentially days old) backup copy of it and replaying the events that happened since the time the backup was established.

The replaced node does NOT have access to the events that happened after the partition.

* If the replaced node serves up stale data anyway, you built an AP system.

* If the replaced node refuses to serve up stale data, you built a CP system.

* If you're pretending it has access to the latest events, there's no partition and you built a CA system.
Actually, websites could "not track" BY DEFAULT (so no popup) and have a nice widget in a corner asking for consent to track, explaining why they need it, without this widget being obstructive...

The problem is definitly NOT THE REGULATION but the way that websites have become a data/cash machine...
In my understanding, no. I believe it was bpo-4489 [1], and I couldn't find a matching advisory from the PSF's database [2] which should contain most historical advisories as well (it does seem to miss earliest advisories like PSF-2005-001 and PSF-2006-001 though).

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/48739

[2] https://github.com/psf/advisory-database/
Seems like this algorithm does not do that ?

https://github.com/ProfJski/FloatCompMandelbrot/blob/master/...

> [...] Instead, we put pixels in a one-to-one relation to the points they represent. You can think of this as mapping some imaginary point on the pixel, such as its center or corner, onto the complex plane, and making the whole pixel represent that value.
I fondly remember Fractint (https://www.fractint.org/). And these days I'm amazed at what it could calculate with the very limited CPU cycles at that time. I'm not sure how to compare a 386 running at 25MHz with my AMD 5950x that I have now.
Opinion, no. Interventions yes.

And even the latter only if you mainly wanted to predict events where said intervention will occur and be a major factor (e.g. predicting an earthquake doesn't really need to take into account that someone will be spared from dying there by divine intervention).
> You've latched on that specific word and gone off.

No, I haven't. I'm not talking about style, but something deeper. What I'm talking about is something you don't even seem to realize exists in professional writing - which is why you keep thinking I'm misunderstanding you when I am not.

I've worked with professional writers, and nothing in the LLM space even comes close to them. It's not a matter of low quality vs high quality, or benchmarking, or style. It's simply an apples and oranges comparison.

The economics of LLMs for shortform copy will never make sense, because producing the words is the cheapest part of that process. They might become the best way for writers themselves to produce longform copy on the execution side, but they can't replace the writer's ability to work with the client to figure out exactly what they are trying to write, and why, and what a good result even looks like. And no, this isn't a prompting issue, or a UI issue, or a context window length issue, or anything like that.

Elsewhere in this thread someone mentioned how invaluable LLMs are for producing internal business copy. I could easily see these amateur writing tasks being replaced by LLMs. But the implication there isn't that LLMs are any good at writing, but that these tasks don't require good writing to begin with.
No, it's referring to the tableware -- every word in that position for all the phrases is a container of some sort (or at least a thing that can contain other things).
How about the right to appear in the search results of those that are still interested in your blog or it's subjects?
TL;DR; (though it's pretty interesting)

1 standard 155mm shell costs about $3600, (up from ~$2k before the war)

And 1 smart shell (guided) around $110,000

Ukraine fires about 4-7k dumb rounds per day (Russia fires around 20k).
...but I've seen very nice and expensive apartments and houses very close to (or directly on) busy streets.

Some of the most expensive houses in my neighbourhood are the closest to the highway. I just tried to check, but none of them are for sale right now. Traffic only decreases four hours at night but it never really stops. Only the noise is a big no-no.
If you have 1600+ Tools, they aren't unique and they aren't hand picked.
When I was just starting out I made a similar app (https://github.com/rmdocherty/buck3t) using classic computer vision operations like k-means and Canny edge detection rather than (I assume) ML. It also lets you fill in the returned coloring page in the browser.

It’s simple and works relatively well but is prone to fail on high frequency objects like foliage, where the ML approach appears to a) succeed and b) stylise (seems to cause problems).

The free trial on the cloud function expired so the web app doesn’t work and the source JS code is awful but someone (maybe me) could pretty easily rewrite the cloud function into a flask server to allow local hosting.
Infinity is really hard to reason about, are you sure about that?

(For all I know you're a PhD in transfinites, your profile says nothing).
Despite relatively excellent growth numbers, few Nigerians (or foreign investors) are confident in the future of the local currency. Moreover, a full two thirds of Nigerian residents don't trust the judicial system. The "destabilizing" is mostly achieved by a general lack of integrity, widespread corruption and normalized incompetence.

In other recent news, the leader of the Riksbank, the world's oldest central bank located in Sweden, has stated that Sweden benefits from having fewer decentralized financial instruments. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/bitcoin-not-welcome-s...
But they're not mandatory. There is nothing stopping websites from not doing it, the previous poster was wrong. The GDPR requires consent, how you obtain that consent is irrelevant. Websites could not store cookies by default and you'd have to manually go and opt in. Maybe we even can have a per browser setting.
Wow, you sound like a future version of myself! Would love to have a chat (contact details in my profile).
This is literally Sam Altman's definition:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-thinks-agi-replac...
See https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com for tons of examples

Lots of fun "there will be no changes or interruptions to the service" followed next month with "we have decided to shut down the service" stories https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/658027964213215...
I'm sure if pressed, the author tweeted about it from one side and got a response arguing the other side.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

aws ssm start-session --target $instance-id
> Wouldn't a lost message just mean NATS would retry delivery until succesful? Anyone know why they would experience noticeable unreliability?

I believe if you're using core nats (not JetStream) there's no option for re-delivering like at all.