skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, right down to their conclusion resonating as way overstated. Actually, meaningless would be more accurate.

The thing about LLMs is exactly that they don't understand by design. It often feels very distinctly like it's just engaging in sophisticated wordplay. A parlor trick.

When ChatGPT 4 first came out I spent a couple of hours putting together a chess game using ChatGPT as the engine. It was shockingly bad, as in even attempting to make invalid moves.

I get it: it's not tuned for that purpose, and its chess training corpus could probably be expanded to improve it as well.

But, it actually served as a near-perfect demonstration of its lack of understanding, as well as the confidence with which it asserts things that are simply wrong.

On a recent integration project with a good bit of nuanced functionality, it led me astray multiple times. I've gotten to a point where I can feel when its answers are not quite right, particularly if I know just a little about the topic. And, when challenged, it does that strange thing of responding with something along the lines of, "My apologies you're completely right that I was completely wrong".

Over time, there becomes a sense that there is no there there. Even it's writing capabilities, lauded by so many, are of a style that is superficial and perfunctory or rote. That makes sense when you know what it is, but that's the thing: we get articles like these, lauding its wisdom.
Firefox isn't a transitive dependency on the desktop. If an app uses a WebView[0] control on Windows, Firefox has no effect on its behavior and performance. It uses the Edge engine to power WebViews. On iOS WKWebView currently uses WebKit.

The EU apparently wants to change this behavior on iOS. A WKWebView would be backed by the system's default browser selection if it made claim to support WKWebKit views. So your third party app with no direct connection to Firefox that uses a WKWebKit view now depends on Firefox handling the loaded pages in the view. If they don't work in Firefox or whatever browser the user has selected the third party app is affected by the choice of browser. This also has an affect on web apps on the Home Screen.

The issue with Chrome is it already dominates the web. App vendors will drop Safari WebKit support as soon as WKWebKit no longer mandates the site work in Safari WebKit. Without iOS enforcing support for Safari WebKit by being the only option for the non-trivial number of iOS users of the web, Chrome will be the only supported browser in apps and the wider web.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/?f...
Wouldnt it be handier if the door bell was placed under water so the fish can reach it?
>It's far easier for a centralized tech industry to bend the knee to the NSA than a distributed one.

I don't agree. NSA can hack/pressure smaller companies much easier than a giant like Apple.
Not on useful datasets in real places
It's not my idea, but I strongly agree with the need for missile striking AI data centers to slow the creation of advanced AI. That said, it is the position I hold most strongly with the most uncertainty, and it's probably the only position that were I dictator I'd be very concerned I'm making a bad call.
But that's merely because of market share. If the majority started using Linux, you'd see the same growth of the app ecosystem.

But it's a chicken and the egg problem. Without more users, we don't have more apps/polish on Linux, but without polish, it's not going to get any more users.

Do you have stats to back that claim? Isn't the biggest ecosystem of apps ever created on Android (Linux)? We have way more smartphones than PCs.
Is running your own data center worth it? Running ESXi? Using AWS? Rewriting everything in rust?

There are tradeoffs to be considered

I think it's more compelling to run/use k8s when you don't already have a mature infrastructure strategy that handles DNS/traffic/service discovery/secrets/persistent storage/auto healing/rolling deploys.
> very real phenomena like gentrification

He wrote a famous post years ago about gentrification prevention called "yuppie fishbowl theory".

Gentrification is caused by blocking infill development that adds new units. That's what causes existing units to get replaced.

> but in the event that prices increase all over the place due to cartel-like behavior (spoiler - this happens often)

That doesn't happen, landlords cannot enforce a cartel and are not motivated to.

Cartels are enforced in housing /by governments/ - they are what zoning laws are intended to do. And they're the only way it can happen because they have legal force. Upzoning an area is defeating a cartel.
Thanks, I just saw the link further down this thread.

Weird it's not on their website, but it seems to be just a case of poor communication rather than anything nefarious.
I remember using PG 10 at a previous company that was kinda abusing Postgres as a data processing tool with temp tables. Even with the parallel scans etc, we found it was a lot faster to split our queries (mostly INSERT(SELECT...)) into separate ones operating on separate ranges of rows, one for each CPU core. We'd run EXPLAIN to print out the plan then shard on the innermost or outermost join. I even implemented a huge sparse matrix addition/multiplication calculator this way, chaining multiple operations into a single huge query, far exceeding the limits of numpy. I've always wondered if Postgres could be used as a more efficient Spark backend.

It usually scaled linearly. We had a 32-core (64-vcore) server, saturating all cores and running a bit more than 32x as fast as a single query. In some cases, it was less than linear but much better than singular, and I think that was only cause of mistakes like uuid4 pkeys.
> The characters will look right, but e.g. searching, sorting and case-insensitive comparisons will not work as expected

This is quite a different situation from Japan. A lot of applications don't do searching, sorting, or case-insensitive comparisons, but virtually every application displays text.
Seems like a great idea for a date!
I think we would need to make a distinction between holding a wild animal in captivity temporarily and owning one as a pet or as an exhibition at the zoo. When people help wild animals that is of course good for them, and it helps preserve wild life. Having them as pets on the other hand is a different matter, and I would be very skeptical even if the animal seems happy because ultimately it would not know or have awareness of what is really going on. That said, it's a complicated issue, so it's not like I'm saying no one should own pets.
What shame is there to be had?
Thank you, yes you can try it directly (https://invertornot.com/docs) or you can either upload an images or spam the button to get random images and see their prediction.
Javascript is even better, by not having multithreading at all. I am not joking, Go is much worse than Java and C#, but Javascript and Rust are the only mainstream languages where I've seen non-experts reliably write correct concurrent code. Maybe it's true for langauges like Elixir as well, but I haven't tried.
Yeah, I had one too, but similar feelings. Enjoyed it, but didn't learn much if anything. Had much more fun later bread-boarding digital circuits as part of comp-sci at uni. Building a traffic light (LED) sequence generator out of flip-flops built from NAND gates was basic but fun!
Because zoning laws in the US prevent apartment development but they don't prevent mansion development. (Aside from lot coverage rules.)

There is no such thing as a luxury apartment though, so you don't have to worry about that.
There are also a few oddball desktop SKUs that are actually a G-series processor with the GPU disabled (primarily ones below the "600" tier, e.g. the Ryzen 3 4100 or Ryzen 5 5500), which also lack ECC support.
> The facilities will reportedly consume as much as 13 percent of the plant's output.

Why are AI products being shipped so aggressively despite being so inefficient? Is code autocompletion and generating random images really worth so much electricity? Shouldn’t we wait until the research has created an efficient architecture that is easily scalable first?
> If you believe in meta-analysis, which you should,

I view meta-analysis as being like those mortgage-backed securities which crashed the world back in 2008. I mean, yeah, theoretically, a bond whose yield is a weighted average of mortgages should be less risky than any one of the mortgages in it.

But....the devil is in the details. When I start seeing meta-analysis which claim that, e.g., masks don't protect you from a respiratory illness which spreads by coughing and sneezing, or that vaccines are at best worthless and at worse cause autism, wellll.....

....I have to conclude that garbage-in, garbage-out.
Most tech goes through the hype cycle in about 5-10 years. We're about at the trough of enlightenment with Terraform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Thank you. Have a great day.
Such networks already exist. There's a reason most people won't use them: moderation.

Most people don't want to spend their time on 4chan. If you want interesting content, then you want users, which means you want moderation.

The problem with moderation is that it's a hierarchy. That's exactly what a decentralized network exists to avoid. We need a decentralization-compatible moderation alternative. I think reframing top-down moderation as bottom-up curation could work.
Would the final product be similar to Github copilot, but for prompt?
And pyenv gives you python 3.xx rather than 3.xy...
A simple conversation would do.
Tell HN: Android Patterns.WEB_URL does not match IPv6
I found a bug in an open source app I'm using, regarding http URLs with an ipv6 address, and before opening an issue I checked why this happened.

To my surprise the code was very simple and relied on the android.util.Patterns.WEB_URL pattern, which according to the docs should match all RFC 3987 IRIs.

But I took a look at the Patterns.java source code, and saw that it does not match ipv6 addresses.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Patterns#WEB_URL

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/main/core/java/android/util/Patterns.java#376
Wow. Why did they delete it after all that effort?
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If this is true, they should charge more.
GPTs have the knowledge base too. (Mixed results though)
This explains why some people have problems with IPv6 - if you block IPv6 Control Messages, then it will only work sometimes.
Interesting, I guess this explains why I can never "solve" the damn things on my desktop. I use an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard which has a mouse layer, so I control the mouse cursor with my keyboard. It means that my mouse always travels in either perfectly horizontal, perfectly vertical, or perfectly diagonal patterns, and at very different timings than a human using a traditional mouse would.

But, it pisses me off to no end that I can't use my fucking keyboard the way it is supposed to be used (which is a far superior design to the "normal" setup) to view some websites because it doesn't "look" human to the fucking server who expects me not to be a statistical outlier. As someone who has always been an outlier, I kind of hate the algorithmic future we live in and are headed even further toward. This is why we can't have nice things.
Vacancy rates going up is good for renters and bad for landlords. It's not possible for it to be any other way; you simply don't make money from /not/ renting a place, compared to renting it. It's like arguing that a grocery store is hoarding food because the shelves aren't empty.

Ireland has never had an oversupply of houses in its history. A simple way to tell this is that the population of Ireland is still lower than it was in the 1800s; that's because all young Irish people move to America/Canada because they can't afford to live in Ireland.

But that's still not the best metric to look at. The right thing to look at is price; if it's too high you don't have enough units. That is the only thing you need to know. Anything else is obfustication.
For the same reason HDD companies shipped 100, 200, 300... GB drives instead of jumping straight to 1 TB: there's money to be made in the middle.
Filtering + established connection tracking:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822214
I made an AI-powered Omegle Alternative
So as many of you guys know Omegle was shut down recently.

One of the biggest problems with the site was content moderation and abuse.

I put a lot of thought into how I would solve these issues before I created the app; The solution was AI.

TL;DR

I solved the moderation problem using in-browser LLMs and Conversational APIs (I wrote a paper of LLMs and conversational APIs you can find here:) https://www.goldeneye.app/blog/towards-conversational-apis

I also implemented a client-side computer-vision NSFW detection library to monitor the video chats in real time.

The thesis here is that with all the advancements in AI over the past few years, an anonymous version of Omegle can exist and be safe, eliminating abuse and stopping predators in their tracks.

I launched the site last week and have spent quite some time on it, it is very new so there's not many people there but I am looking forward to seeing what people think and if it can become something useful for people.
I too have enjoyed the chat with you, that's why I am following up still that long after the original comment we both responded to was posted :)

What I meant was

- the commonly accepted scienfic method regarding the physical world says that we technically always work with hypothesises, that must allow themselves to be proved wrong. We can never be "100% sure" from a strict philosphical standpoint. This is the basis of modern science, we instead discuss theories that allow for themselves to be proven wrong, which conversely means that they allow to predict physical measurements.

- Then there's maths, which indeed is closely tied to the basic logic also underpinning the scientific method. Maths has axioms. These need no proof. Axioms are classified by their simplicity, usefulness and shall not contradict each other. A particular religious faith is not usually considered similar to the usually used mathematical axioms, at least that's my perception.

(edit: and there is of course the whole fun world of incompleteness and decidability, but I consider this a sub-topic of maths, philosophy and CS)
Oh yeah, you gotta keep the Basilisk at bay.
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines
Dilates your pupils to the size of dimes. Much more than the eye drops at the optometrist do.
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Startups win by questioning every assumption from first principles. We look forward to the fight.
Idk. One of my first tests for GPT4 was writing a website "for snakes." It was a flask app, and it did all the obvious things you'd expect. There was a title that said "Snake.com - A website for snakes" and a bunch of silly marketing stuff.

What impressed me is when I asked to make it more snake-like (what does that even mean right?).

It changed the colors to shades of green, used italic fonts, added some hisssssing sssstuff to wordssss, and added a diamond pattern through the background.

It was a dumb and not very fancy site, but I'm not sure you can say it doesn't understand anything at all when you ask it to make a website more snakelike and actually made a pretty good attempt at doing it.
Well, he was saying n^24^n = (n^2)(4^n) which makes sense when rendered in latex, but not here. Clearly, I saw n^(24^n)
Hmm. It seemed to help a lot as a topical ointment for my sunburn.
> So what do we do in the mean time?

Those with access to all the makings for a healthy plant-based diet should stop paying for animal products. It's that simple.
Even if it worked perfectly, this kind of thing is probably very time sensitive and short lived. Did it still work on the very next years model of phone?

I think there are weaknesses all over the place still today, and wide variation between manufacturers and price points, but I assume the details change and get harder all the time, or at least change, making an example from 10 years ago of limited interest today, UNLESS the same thing also still worked today.

Another aspect of that would be how the tools on both sides progress not just one side. A casual photograph from a common camera or phone from a reasonable distance today having a lot more information in it for instance. Or maybe other tools like fabricating a physical model from data by 3d printing etc, where the tools are both better and more readily available so the bar is lower even if the fundamental process is the same. That difference alone may make things go from possible to practical.
>>> They get what they have by taking it from productive people.

The insight of MMT is that governments get what they have by purchasing it from productive people - and purchasing it using money they just print out of thin air. (The point is not to print too much!)

Do governments make bad decisions - yes. Do they misuse tax incentives and muck up hugely. Yes. But to be fair you should see how bad it is inside fortune 500s and boy some of those start ups are an embarrassment.

Don’t call for the “private sector is great and should take over every branch of government” shtick. That’s the weather app theory of extracting public money for profit. Focus on how to make all organisations more effective
As someone who documents APIs: it's easy to tell which APIs were designed with intention and which ones were designed on the fly. In part because it's much, much easier to document the former :)
I think you’re right, but my take is that the user freedom bit is a regulatory overreach. Couldn’t Apple literally turn off the App Store tomorrow, or replace everything with first party applications? There’s no law saying they have to support all these developers, though the DMA may require this indirectly. It feels like a slippery slope to “you need to be able to run Android on your iPhone hardware” or something like that.

It just seems really far fetched to me if you were to apply this logic to other industries- eg “movie theaters must let you play any movie, not just the movies they want!” Or “movie theaters must allow you to bring your own popcorn or allow competing concessions vendors!”

What I think is within regulatory oversight is the fees people charge within certain jurisdictions, because governments should regulate commerce. Similar to how they regulate bank fees, real estate transactions, VAT, etc. They could set a maximum, prevent charging fees for free software, or all sorts of other things that would help developers and consumers without forcing Apple to support weird 3rd party app distributors.
So the security policy is the headache then, not the containers or even Kubernetes?
POSIX shell on *nix is a great language for doing lots of things that people usually do in much lower level languages.

It's very obvious that the reason for the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the US is because the US government constantly demonizes China and promotes anti-Chinese rhetoric and tacitly endorses anti-Chinese racism. There's also not much proof that China is committing genocide in Xinjiang.

Rust has extremely repulsive syntax, like C++ and Java had a baby.

General-purpose AI is unnecessary, but possibly cheaper than making many special-purpose AIs. Nobody will ever need AGI, and it's also not desirable.
This might have been fixed super quickly but seems like the WEB_URL docs say it matches "most part of RFC 3987 Internationalized URLs" and not all.
Are you sure they're talking about the long term?
... which is exactly what I was saying.
But they look incredible on the shelves!
I'm guessing they also use failed CAPTCHA statistics as more "proof" that those users are malicious. How much should we bet that each time I fail a CAPTCHA because it's utter shit, and happen to be on a VPN, somebody somewhere counts it as a "blocked bot" or "blocked attack"? I guess I don't want to know as it will probably make me angry.
> You can ask them to reverse numbers or re-arrange words and they'll faceplant in the same way as soon as the input gets beyond a small threshold. Here surely there wouldn't be an issue with tokenization.

My guess is the training data contains many short pairs of forward and backward sequences, but none after a certain threshold length (due to how quickly the number of possible sequences grows with length). This would imply there's no actual reversing going on, and the LLM is instead using the training data as a lookup table.
I never took CBD oil for any physical pain, so im just asking out of curiosity: Does CBD oil not act like pain killer for any immediate relief? I always thought it acts like local analgesic, is that not the case?

The article makes CBD oil sounds almost like a snake oil
> Shouldn't we wait until research has created an efficient architecture that is easily scalable first?

A scalable architecture has a prerequisite of known product requirements and known implementation specs. Neither is true right now as this field is evolving at a crazy rate. Approaches like what Groq has are great for increasing efficiency, but at the cost of flexibility. Early on in any technology flexibility is imperative until product/market fit is established more clearly.

Also reducing this to autocompletion/generating random images really reduces what AI actually is. Those are two use cases for a very generalizable area.
I'm certain it's LSD25 because if it were anything else (like NBOMe) I would have died by overdose by now. I'm aware the typical dose is 100μg. I've taken up to 600μg before (yes all at once), and it'll keep me wide awake for 24 hours straight but the actual trip itself won't be that much more intense.

I'm autistic and have ADHD so it might affect me differently than the typical person. I don't necessarily like it that way (I would love one of the super-intense experiences that people tend to get really excited over) but so far I haven't been able to cause a particularly strong effect. Very curious why I'm either more resistant to it or more tolerant of it to the point of being underwhelmed.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a very nice experience that I like to partake in every couple weeks. The first time I did LSD (100μg) I got HPPD for about a week, sometimes I wish it never went away. Being sober is so boring!
Imagine how much electricity will be needed to replace 1 billion jobs with AI in the next 5 years.