skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We never had technology which can write code like this. I prompted ChatGPT to write a very basic java tool which renders an image from an url and makes it bigger on a click. It just did it.

It's worth noting, that it can do things like that because of the large amount of "how to do simple things in java" tutorials there are on the internet.

Ask an AI to _make_ java, and it won't (and will continue to not) be able to.

That's the level that AI will fail at, when things aren't easily indexed from the internet and thus much harder / impossible to put into a training set.

I think the technology itself (transformers and other such statistical models) have exhausted most of their low hanging fruit by now.

Sora, for example, isn't a grand innovation in the way latent space models, word2vec, or transformers are, it's just a MUCH larger model than DALLE-3.
which is great! but still has the limits inherit to statistical models. They need the training data.
Browser push APIs are hard to design well regardless of the underlying protocol (SSE, Long Polling, Websockets, etc). There are a bunch of things to consider:

- Is this a full or partial state update?

- What if the client misses an update?

- What if the client loses connectivity?

- How can the server detect and clean up clients that have disappeared?

How those are answered in turn raise more questions.

SSE or long polling or even WebSockets is a relatively unimportant implementation detail. IMO the bigger consideration should probably be ease-of-use and tooling interoperability. For that, I would say that long polling (or even just polling) is the clear winner.
If you do the compilation locally, you know the structure of the ABI for the compiled code. You know that regardless of the backend you are using. At this stage, no functions with generics are compiled, only what is non-generic.

What is left is to account for the ABI in any monomorphizations that occur at the boundary, i.e. when your own structures monomorphize generic functions in the dependency.

When the compiler creates this monomorphic variant, and lowers down, it can provide the necessary details of the ABI.
“ Selling my personal info to external companies”

What? What are you even talking about? Google does not sell your personal info. You’re delusional
I've implemented SSE from scratch on the server and XHR streaming/parsing from scratch on the client side (which would be necessary for JSONL), and SSE was way simpler. Unless there's another way to do JSONL in a browser that I'm not aware of?
Nvidia GTC 2024 Keynote Live
Product shouldn't be on market and should have global bans on its sale and installation/use. It's everywhere in building, and because it has dangers when removed or worked on, nobody wants to pay to get that work done correctly. Resulting in situations like we now have asbestos fibers found in mulch distributed across sydney. From kids playgrounds to the local council garden bed. All because someone wanted to avoid a fee whilst holding the perspective of "It's not that dangerous".

Have pulled raw asbestos when drilling from like 300m+ down. Stuff is crazy pretty but is a pita to handle and keep safe. Looks almost like spicy fairy floss.
It's the built-in mac display that goes blank along with the external monitor. On my Intel 2019 MBP it was very slow (many seconds), on this new M3 it's much shorter but still more than a decent Windows laptop which is almost instant.
Though it is essentially monotonic, I feel like these people are trying to imply that the higher order derivatives are turning negative when they say that it has peaked. That's probably also a cold take, but at least it's not a nonsensical one.
Just to point out the beauty of how a clearly defined black-and-white mathematical term (just use the dot product!) becomes malleable once it enters language as a metaphor. There's great humor in being "slightly orthogonal".
(Hopefully this doesn't come off the wrong way - just my mostly useless degree in linguistics acting up again.)
Understandable, since they don't have June.
Another thing to consider is that some design choices seem to be in contention whether they're accessible or not. Eg dark mode makes it harder to read with astigmatism and creates visual hallucinations afterwards (it looks as though you're looking through blinds). Others swear that light mode hurts their eyes.
Pedantic but, I hope, amusing: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-president-uly...
This feels like a perfect application for UUCP / NNCP.
Future already here, not evenly distributed etc
Just call them NN, because that's what they are. Though I realize that's a lost cause by now unfortunately.
Maybe this could motivate toolmakers to label their own products as “Uses AI” or “AI Free” allowing content creators verify their entire toolchain to be AI Free.

As opposed to today, where companies are doing everything they can, stretching the truth, just so they can market their tools as “Using AI.”
Is there any way to wash them out of the lungs?

At the same time could smokers get a lung cleaning treatment?
HTTP/2 traffic was looking essentially the same as HTTP/1.1 + TLS.

It wasn't particularly interesting to block to begin with. UDP if blocked, then it's blocked in a name of Security.
"Me neither."

"Cough, cough."

- Snoop Dogg
>If you accept that the only real claim I've made is that we're too ignorant to say definitively whether these systems are or are not conscious

I think your implicit claim is it's likely to be conscious, or at least likely enough to be a topic of discussion, since one doesn't generally discuss absurdly unlikely possibilities.

>> ChatGPT being conscious is roughly as plausible as a "hello world" program being conscious.
>Under a scientific interpretation, that's absurd.

You've already conceded that Chat GPT may not be conscious. But now you are making the fun argument that if ChatGPT is not conscious, it's still more "scientifically" likely to be conscious than something that is not conscious. Okay.

"Unless it wasn't your intent to dismiss all of the compelling indications of human-level intelligent responses as no more interesting or compelling than a chair that squeaks when you sit down?"

I don't know what "human level intelligent responses" means-- my calculator can do "human level intelligent responses" at multiplication.

I do think these models don't "learn" (they are altered by a training pipeline but that's an outside entity, it's like saying a car is learning when the factory screws it together) and they don't really form memories (the context might be a sort of memory but not one they can use very well- they basically need to be finetuned to do anything with the memory).

A lot of your argument just seems handy wavy anthropomorphism.
Couldn't he just release something what wasn't call Portal instead? Couldn't he call it "Hole Jump" and just not use Portal's assets for it?
For software accessibility, I get the importance, but I personally have no idea where to start. Cross-platform windowing, graphics, fonts, and audio are already insanely difficult. How does one do cross-platform accessibility?
The hysteria wouldn't even have started if it wasn't for the "top men" hypothesis. If women had experienced similar symptoms absolutely no one would have suggested sonic weapons over stress from overwork or other psychogenic factors. The underlying idea is that male diplomats with prestigious careers are highly-trained professionals or something and thus immune to outbreaks of mass hysteria. That clearly is not the case.
Here you go: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asbestos-properti...
This is so fascinating.

I slept (on my back) on the floor for a while. It was at times amazing—I would wake up and feel ready to go. Not like my muscles were weak or temporarily atrophied. Like, I didn’t know that was possible after a full nights sleep.

There seems to be so much potential in just reflecting on an considering what a “paleo” approach to something would be. And then you can just do that. You don’t even need to buy hundreds of dollars worth of supposedly ergonomic equipment. Just sleep in a funny-looking position. Just squat instead of sitting on a chair… if you can bare the social awkwardness or ridicule.

It’s so simple. Why do we make things complicated?

Well in part because “modern humans” cannot just do these things without becoming regarded as merely a modern human with eccentric hobbies. Because that’s what you get pegged as!—not as a modern human who rediscovered (through YouTube/the Web) some ancient wisdom but as a paleo-hipster, just another quirky modern human subculture.

And in part that is correct. You cannot be, say, a Western Buddhist who has all the know-how and experience of a born-in-the-culture (Asian) Buddhist. And in that same way you cannot become a non-modern… human.

But wait. Why would you want to? You are who you are. You may be a Buddhist from Scranton, PA who has no relation to Asian culture. Or an office worker who squats at the office. But why is that weird? Yeah you’re not a “real Buddhist” in that terribly essentialist sense, and you’re not a born-in-the-culture kind of human who has never used a chair. But why do you have to be that in order to make these (eccentric) choices for yourself? If it works for you, just go for it you paleo-hipster.
> Again, how are Uber and Lyft taking advantage of drivers' desperation any more than the jobs they're going to have to work instead, now that Uber and Lyft are banned?

They're weaseling around minimum wage laws. In Minneapolis, the minimum wage is $15.57/hr (and tips don't count towards it, https://minimumwage.minneapolismn.gov/). Uber and Lyft are mad Minneapolis is going to make them pay drivers something close to that.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-uber-and-lyft-drivers-...:

> Uber and Lyft drivers in Minneapolis and St. Paul and greater Minnesota often are paid well below the equivalent of the minimum wage after expenses are deducted, a state-commissioned study has found.

> ...

> It largely validated the narrative of many drivers, who are considered independent contractors: After taking into account wear and tear on their cars, time spent driving to and from rides, and the cost of gas and other expenses, drivers across the state earn well below the minimum wage they would likely receive if they were employees, not including tips.

> However, before expenses, drivers are paid well above the minimum wage while working.

https://www.startribune.com/uber-lyft-msp-minneapolis-airpor...:

> Minnesota Uber, Lyft drivers say it's getting harder and harder to make a living...

> "It's not fair. What Uber pays us just covers our expenses but no profit at all," said Egal, who used to be a taxi cab driver for 15 years before Uber and Lyft disrupted the marketplace and his business.

> Again, what will these drivers be doing to make ends meet when Uber and Lyft leave Minneapolis? Guess what, they already had that choice before and decided that ride share was better. Maybe it was the flexibility, maybe it was the independence, who knows. But they all made the decision that other available employment was worse than driving.

It's a market right? It will adjust to find a new, better equilibrium.

A big assumption you seem to have is that these Uber/Lyft drivers are perfect examples of homo economicus, making fully informed rational decisions about all this, so think you can infer the choice is a good one for them because they made it. However that doesn't seem to be true. If those companies offer a misleading value proposition, they can sustain themselves for some time by with a revolving door of naive and ignorant people who don't understand the misleading economics of the exchange. The competition from that flow of ignorant people (especially if they're more casual) helps keep overall wages low.

I wouldn't be surprised of Uber and Lyft have implemented some gambling dynamics for their drivers. It would make sense to offer drivers occasional jackpot days to keep them hooked, while the house wins big as always.

Homo economicus is an oversimple fiction; Homo sapiens is real. Understanding the difference goes a long way towards grasping the problems with free market dogma (but certainly not the whole way).
From the article:

*Of course, there is a selection bias in who comes to me. There are people out there doing just fine on 5000 units of Vitamin D daily. I only see the ones who develop high calcium levels. But I see enough of them to know that this is not an exceptionally rare occurrence. I have been to lectures in which physicians have claimed that Vitamin D toxicity almost never occurs. In my experience, this is false. I have seen many cases of Vitamin D toxicity in people who were taking the recommended dose from an over-the-counter bottle.*

I am also doing 4000IU in the half-autumn/winter/half-spring time and none during summer and doing blood work to test the levels and I am keeping it in 40ng/ml and from the article:

*...her blood Vitamin D level had risen to 79 ng/ml. This level is within what many labs call the normal range, between 30 and 100 ng/ml, but levels above 70 are almost always a result of high dose supplementation, and I have seen toxicity with levels between 70 and 100 ng/ml. (A better “normal range” based on what I have seen would probably be between 30 and 60.) Vitamin D builds up over time, so the longer someone is on a high dose, the more likely she is to develop toxicity.*

Lady in the article was taking 5000IU daily for 5 years.
I see it more as 24/7 access to a bright high school teacher. ChatGPT is far from expert at anything. Mile wide and about a foot and a half deep. (Deepening all the time, though.)
> Camera sensors have measurable individual noise, if you record RAW that won't be fakeable without prior access to the device.

Which doesn't help you unless non-AI images are all required to be RAW. Moreover, someone who is trying to fabricate something could obviously obtain access to a real camera to emulate.

> You'd have a straightforward case for defamation if your real footage were falsely labeled, and it would be easy to demonstrate in court.

Defamation typically requires you to prove that the person making the claim knew it was false. They'll, of course, claim that they thought it was actually fake. Also, most people don't have the resources to sue YouTube for their screw ups.
Indeed.

First time I was in CA, my then-partner's mother saw a Prop 65 notice and asked why they couldn't just ban the substances.

We were in a restaurant that served alcohol, one of the known substances is… alcoholic beverages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_65_list...

Banning that didn't work out so well the last time.
It seems that you really want this to be about exercise. It isn't. Don't get me wrong: every minute doomscrolling on your couch will certainly take years from your life; somebody would have done the science but they died already. But, yet again, this is entirely tangential to the article.
Agree, in fact this wonderful book calls this out, stating:

As DuckDB is an analytics database, it has only minimal support for transactions and parallel write access. You therefore couldn’t use it in applications and APIs that process and store input data arriving arbitrarily. Similarly when multiple concurrent processes read from a writeable database.
Has anyone cracked the nut of making accessible 3D modeling software?

I haven't found anything in that vein and I'm curious if anyone's working on it.
Because the ABI is defined and implemented by shared code in the runtime and compiler. There is no need for cross version compatibility between the two backends, only compatibility within the same version. This isn't particularly new either, FWIW. The Glasgow Haskell Compiler also has an unstable ABI that is not standardized, but LLVM compiled code interoperates seamlessly with code generated by the non-LLVM compiler backend (the mechanism by which that is achieved is likely different though.)
The idea that "they don't need text controls because most people have glasses, so their vision isn't bad enough" is one of the reasons projects start thinking about a11y too late.
Developers often think about accessibility, or disabilities, as a stark binary. You're either completely "disabled" (whatever that means), or your not.

However reality is much more nuanced. We're all, at best, temporarily "abled". Whether you need glasses, or your fingers have raw chicken juice on them for cooking, or you started going to the gym and your muscles ache too much to walk, or have a newborn and can't turn the TV up too loud.

We all go through various levels of impairments over our lives that can make use of assistive technologies. "Accessibility" really is just usability, and building products for real people.
I think the question is whether we're going to plateau at 95% or not. It's possible that we just run into a wall with transformers, or they do iron it out and it does replace us all.
Where I grew up we called that Redneck Foreplay. When you'd get home and have the significant other do a tick check.
We already have words for when a computer program produces unexpected/incorrect output: “defect” and “bug”
Many websites that you rely on would not be around if it wasn’t for Google ads.

You think it’s some sort of choice you have between being tracked or not, but it’s not, it’s between having a fairly decentralised internet or not.

And unfortunately with recent google SEO changes almost all small blogs at this point have been wiped out. Googles own properties, Reddit and Quora, and large websites like NYT and CNET are the only websites left in search rankings.
Oh, then you were probably not pissed enough to search more thoroughly. :) Fortunately, there's a godsend man who wrote a utility called 'PresButan' - https://briankendall.net/presButan/index.htm . Doesn't always auto launch with the OS start for some reason, but works great when it's running and fixes this madness.
Browser modifications to detect and modify things like font size, selection and contrast, designs transformed into modified versions suitable for different disabilities using ML. Things that actually scale versus asking every website to modify their code for every disability, which will never happen.
> In early testing of the new format, Reddit found that free-form ads outperform all other ad types in average click through rate (CTR) by 28%, along with increased community engagement when comments are enabled.

What they don't mention is that the comments are usually making fun of the ad, because it's Reddit.
Ah, I was under the impression that using array OPs inside a numba njit gave worse performance. Has this changed, or is my memory tricking me?

Do you have a source for this? I have not seen it in the numba docs.
In their excellent article on NAT traversal[0], Tailscale mentions that the UC Berkeley guest wifi blocks all outbound UDP except DNS.

EDIT: According to this[1] issue, Berkeley guest wifi allows port 443, which would solve HTTP3/WebTransport. That's certainly hopeful, and I hope all networks are like this in the future. It's just not a forgone conclusion yet.

[0]: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works#have-you-...

[1]: https://github.com/danderson/natlab/issues/1
DMCA abuse begs to differ.
There's something absurdly comforting in the banality of this.
That could get tricky. A lot of hardware and software MIDI sequencers these days have probabilistic triggering built in, to introduce variation in drum loops, basslines, and so forth. An argument could be made that even if you programmed the sequence and all the sounds yourself, having any randomization or algorithmic elements would make the resulting work ineligible for copyright.
I would expect per barrel it would become a lot more expensive if you're not extracting at the same scale. $1000 a barrel or more if you're only extracting 5% of what we are now, for chemical processes.
"this is what you get for trying to handle us with kid gloves" is an understandable reaction/blowback from advertisers but I don't think it's something we should be giving any real weight or merit.

it's also generally an indictment of the modern neoliberal regulatory approach in general. asking people nicely to follow train safety regulations etc isn't going to get you results. even fines/penalties largely end up just as cost-of-doing-business (even in the EU). if you really want behavior to go away, make it illegal and give people at the top Sarbanes-Oxley-style legal culpability if it happens on their watch.

again, if you want to know the right way to set incentives so that people don't do a thing, you need only look at the way rich people want their money handled. you can bet that ripping off rich people is an ultra-mega-crime and doesn't just get a 1%-of-the-takings slap on the wrist. And lo and behold SOX does actually hold important people accountable as a result, not just some fall guy at the bottom.
Because people pay money for it?
I know people on HN love to hate on Google, but at least they're a major platform that's TRYING. Mistakes will be made, but let's at least attempt at moving forward.
People who are supporting the most egregious overreach by corpos, don't think that they themselves will ever be harmed by such corpo. But just in case if they ever become a multitrillionaire genius innovator, they proactively don't want some pesky laws to restrict their potential future mansions and giant yachts.
There were previous attempts to ban it but they were overturned by courts in the 90s
If you have a 2x2 south-facing outdoor space you can grow a variety of leafy greens in a container, and even stack containers. You can probably grow them indoors too but enough light can be challenging. (There's always grow lights tho)
Dell tells remote workers that they won't be eligible for promotion
The takeaway here is that you need regular blood work if you supplement vitamin D. The variance in need is too high between individuals to rely on a doctor's hunch. Take the lab results over the "expert" opinion.
Check back in 30 years.
I'm so confused. Was x-mixed-replace the only way to use chunked transfer encoding (which is part of the HTTP standard) or are you talking about something else entirely?
https://archive.is/ef7nb
Works fine here in Firefox for Android. Sorry to say, but you just got proven wrong.
Not a traditional network, but Tor doesn't support UDP.
Previously, “RTO” was just known as “work”, and it wasn’t always great - with the commute and all. But the fact that they pay me made it easier.
Google researchers unveil 'VLOGGER', an AI that can bring still photos to life