skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This means you will have to write an if after every method call which is annoying and makes code less readable (source: had to write lots of ifs several days ago while writing a C library. My code consists mostly of ifs with error handling, because almost every function - even encoding conversion - can fail. I think that if companies hired low-paid trainees just for the purpose of writing ifs they could save a lot).
Quill is already over 10 years old! I've deployed it in multiple applications with a lot of success.
At first I couldn't figure out why Quill was being posted again, but now I see that a long awaited version 2.0 was released 3 days ago (see https://slab.com/blog/announcing-quill-2-0/ ). Thank you for the heads-up!
Thank you very much for these details. I know every country wants to teach their children the simplest, easiest to digest truth. But we are not children here, and this is why I come to this website.
AI Will Impact Security More Than the Cloud
Ever own any cars with the flat/plain color(without sparkle/glitter)? I'm kind of wondering whether water drops can magnify the sun's ability to fade paint in a detectable way in those types of paints. I don't imagine it could unless the drops were forming in the exact same positions every time.
I'm not even Australian, but thanks to friendlygeordies, even I know gambling in AUS is a cartel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WDK5PByQgM
> Tesla's mission was "to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy" which they were doing by making solid and affordable EVs and electric storage solutions.

Since far before Tesla, selling cars at high profit margins has ultimately been about selling power/attention/sex-appeal, not to advance an objective like "accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. That's a nice side effect, but it's not ultimately what sells them. Otherwise, all of the original fan base of Tesla would have bought Nissan Leafs (which preceded Tesla).

Trendsetting companies need hero products that capture (or even set) the zeitgeist.

Teslas older models once played that role, but no longer, since they are so common at this point in their primary target markets.

To recapture customer imagination, the Cybertruck is promoting the "faux survivalism" hero narrative. It's the same narrative that is selling Rivians and F150, but taken to the aesthetic extreme.
Similar app from https://kurzgesagt.org/ for phones:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kurzgesagt...

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/universe-in-a-nutshell/id15263...

What's interesting is that they both chose very similar music. Are they somehow related that I am unaware of?
This is cool—I mean it—but what do you mean you interviewed 10,000+ people in three years? How is that possible, given the number of hours in a day? Is it instead that you surveyed 10,000+ people?

I ask because fivebooks.com, which I suppose is a "competitor" of yours, actually does conduct interviews with people about the five books they choose on a subject, and it seems like a lot of work. They only do a couple a week, versus 12-13 a day.
> your corporate job isn’t a democracy

why not? shouldn’t it be?
As a complication, it's important to state that concentration camps were not against international laws at the time! Pursing racist and eugenic policies was in vogue, and many of Germany's concentration camps were toured and audited by the Red Cross before the war!

It's because of the holocaust that we thankfully have changed our collective attitude about such things. But in 1939, people's knowledge of the racial atrocities happening was very restricted, so I don't think we can underrate just how naïve some people where at the time.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Master System or Game Gear.

The SMS had an extended life in places like Brazil which led to certain Genesis titles, like Sonic, receiving ports to the SMS.
Well, if the action produces "more utility". Lives is one measure, but, while "lives saved - lives lost" will probably play a role in most ways of defining "utility", I don't think most utilitarians would have it by itself as what they consider to be "utility"?

(I'm not a utilitarian, or even a consequentialist, I just want to be fair.)

A utilitarian may also consider things like, "likely impacts on public trust in medicine" and what effects that is likely to cause, when considering how an action might influence "total utility".
No, it's stuck with the engine at Firefox 68 (from 2019) with backported security fixes. A lot of the XUL removal stuff has meant that SeaMonkey basically needs to rewrite their UI to update to current versions
This is not obvious from the link but I guess this is posted because of v2 released 3 days ago.

I have been working with Quill v1 not long ago and oh boy it is not good. Pain to make tables work with plugins and weird scrolling issues. Hopefully v2 fixes a lot but I'm sticking with TinyMCE as it is superior in term of features.
Well, it's a very tentative, but moderately sized step on the loooong ladder towards ASI. The thing is, there is an unknown point on the ladder where the end goal could start taking the steps itself.
Looks promising but I do not see advanced customization examples like a widget or dialogs to insert custom html elements
It's not even clear if weights are copyrightable in the first place, so no.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/israel-government...

> When asked if the companies could shut down services, attorney Zviel Ganz of the legal department at the Finance Ministry said such scenarios had been taken into consideration when formulating the tenders.

> “According to the tender requirements, the answer is no,” he said, adding that the contracts also bar the firms from denying services to particular government entities.
New EV Features on Google Maps
The potential for systematic bias here is also quite concerning. Imagine your experimental group tends to come in the morning (maybe because they're on-site) but your control group is scheduled to come in the rest of the day...
... but the thing being mimicked is just as true of a mouse brain or (I think?) any vertebrate brain.
Didn’t the SouthBridge turn up in some Nvidia ATX boards ? I recall positively salivating on realising that one particular Nvidia motherboard gave us a hardware encoded Dolby digital signal, just like the Xbox..
It’s not said enough:
Screens = tiny mass produced lights
Paintings = A masterful mix of usually expensive substances carefully selected for the unique way in which they reflect light.
except an ATS can flag white text since years already
> Exactly, there is no news here. Foundation LLMs are generative models trained to produce text

Yet even here on HN it isn't uncommon to see top/high ranked comments suggesting baby AGI, intelligence, reasoning, and all that. I suspect I'll get replies about how GPT can do reasoning and world models. Hell, I've seen very prominent people in the space make these and other obtuse claims. A lot of people buy into the hype and have a difficult time distinguishing all the utility from the hype, not understanding that attacking the hype is not attacking utility (plenty of things are overhyped but useful).

I keep saying ML is like we've produced REALLY good chocolate, then decided that this was not good enough so threw some shit on top and called it a cherry. The chocolate is good enough, why are we accepting a world where we keep putting shit on top of good things? We do realize that at some point people get more upset because there's more shit than chocolate, right? Or that the shit's taste overpowers the chocolate's (when people are talking about pure shit, it's because they've reached this point). It's an unsustainable system that undermines all chocolate makers and can get chocolate making banned. For what? Some short term gains?
You're right, in some settings there's everything in place to ease communicating issues. But what if it's not something clear enough to trigger it ?
He disavowed is as comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, but I don't think he regarded it as false or meaningless, only that the full breadth of ways language conveyed meaning was wider than the account given in Tractatus.
> Just to be clear, what are we talking about here exactly?

An ostensible war would be to set back China's growth and its trajectory of growth. The US has little interest in governing such a large country.
I wrote:

> Now the commentariat here has flagged both the original subthread comment and the reply to it. To be honest I don’t want to continue the discussion when the readership at large wants to erase our original context (and who knows what else beyond that).

You can guess what happened to that comment.
Funny, I'm using quill.js + tribute for a project last week
Mark said in a podcast they are currently at MMLU 85, but it's still improving.
That’s pretty standard advice for washing any car. A lot of the chemicals in the soaps and polishes and waxes you use you don’t want drying on the surface of your paint, or at least not in the quantities you apply it in. But if you’re washing in direct sunlight, there’s a high chance the water will evaporate and leave dried residues before you get to rinsing / buffing it away.
Next: handling classes in functions.
Human capacity is the benchmark for capacity comparison for every thing humans care about on the planet

For example even though the impulse-striking power or multi spectral vision system of the mantis shrimp is much more capable than human systems, it is not a benchmark for any of our systems

Therefore we’re going to continue to evaluate everything. On human action until we create something that surpasses it.

Comparing it to the brain, I agree is silly

comparing them to human capabilities however, (which is effectively what people are saying when they compared to the brain, even though they don’t know that) is very reasonable
> Actually, you SHOULD be paranoid about important data. I learned this the really hard way - a long time ago - when I had just finished writing a 200+ A4 pages book and then lost everything because of a silly mistake and had to start all over and write the book again!
>
> It is impossible to describe that very special feeling that arises when you have just realized what just happened! Noooooooooooooo! Pleeeeeeaseeeeee NOOOOOOOOOOO! (utter despair and disbelief - LOL).
May be you should open a company hire some of these IT workers and then post the results. (not sarcasm but genuinely to prove)
That's interesting, you mean something you forgot but could verify when you see the answer? Or something you know, but you need a write-up for it or something?
So how is a user to know who it has an accurate summary of? Did the model give any indication?
Google's motto used to be "don't be evil." If someone is looking for a company that aligns with their values, Google might've seemed like a good fit. They work hard and become invested in their workplace. It's not absurd to see how several people would be disenchanted with Google's stances on a very controversial and deadly war. And in an effort to live up to the motto "don't be evil," the workers took a stand to change Google's actions. That's a good thing to do.

If people think that workers should just keep their heads down and politely obey, well, I don't know what to say. That's bleak. That's a sad society. It's like the American propaganda representations of sad, dreary authoritarian communist countries. Stay quiet and work, or face the consequences.
One of the "dirty secrets" in healthcare is similar issues with BP.

Things like posture, white-coat syndrome, having to pee, cuff placement, cuff size, arm position, muscularity, arm diameter, time sitting, and many other variables have a massive influence on blood pressure.

BP is kind of like weight - it should be taken at regular intervals during the day, at the same times, and averaged out over time to look at trends. "Snapshot" BP readings are most useful for things like hypertensive crisis, not ongoing BP management.

Unfortunately, we see a lot of people put on BP meds where other interventions may be more appropriate based on bad BP measurements.

I think there are a lot of things in healthcare like this, where our models are too simplistic and result in flawed understanding and consequently ineffective treatments.
Large Language Models Enhancing Blockchain Governance
Maybe relative to us on this forum it's not so impressive but that's a rare skill that we've dedicated years to honing.

What % of the general population can leetcode better than chatgtp? 5%? 1%?
Wait, so in another words, if a bunch of people from come on over from Europe, set themselves up in an aggressive manner, proceed to kick out Palestinians, and then also say that hey all Jews that still live outside of Israel are welcome to come, you are surprised that local Arab populations don't feel super happy about that?

What exactly did you expect would happen? You know that 12 Million Germans got kicked out post-WW2 out of the entirety of Eastern Europe for an analogous reason?

I say this as a Red Town Juhuri, some of the arguments used by Ashkenazis/Sephardics are beyond insane. Your original comment(to the GP) that you since edited literally suggests that the Holocaust(done by Europeans) gives Israel the right to do whatever the fuck it wants to protect "the last stand of Judaism".
I find it amazing someone can even read and follow all the formulas and find a bug
The name 'Callisto' refers to one of Jupiter's moons. It indeed mirrors the system's qualities and capabilities. Specifically, the name signifies the grandeur of this planet and its moons.
Bringing your performative politics into the workplace is a problem, yes. I am 100 percent positive that if the shoe were on the other foot here, these former google employees would be screaming bloody murder.

Protest on your own time and let the rest of us do our jobs and go home to our families. This is no different than protesters blocking roads or airports. At best you get a few minutes of fame on the nightly news and at worst you end up alienating people who would otherwise be sympathetic to your cause.
My experience certainly isn't representative! I just happen to build things where university level maths rarely comes up. Stats comes up more than anything and sadly only had to take one course in that area.

Since you bring up food. As a former professional baker it would also take me some time to make croissants professionally at the level I used to. At least for me personally, if I don't use it I lose it. But I can certainly pick up faster than someone seeing it for the first time if I needed to.

Along the way you'll pick up some intuition that you can use elsewhere that's hard to quantify. Outside of the loans I don't regret taking any of the maths required for my CS degree.

Personally, I found the calculus lifesaver by Adrian Baker to be helpful in my studies as someone that was missing some fundamentals
Relax , it is just an OTA .

not this time
i don't find it to be that common. even the attitude of "just wait for gpt5" seems prevalent. why is it to obvious there's a new amazing version around the corner, which replicates the jump between gpt3 and 4?
If it's repetition, you can abstract it away.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2314/
"It insists upon itself." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAi5aI_NPc
I think a discourse that runs:

> Assertion one

> Assertion two, claiming assertion one requires asserter two to be a liar

is one that can benefit from being grounded a bit.

On a personal level, I do not believe that the magnitude of a person's sacrifice empowers their beliefs with any particular level of truth, accuracy, or moral imperative. The magnitude of a person's sacrifice is, in my mind, a statement only and strictly on the depths of their conviction and willingness to sacrifice. History is replete with examples of people who have sacrificed much for reasons good, bad, or just plain weird to our eyes.
Remember how much public beatings Coinbase received when they announced they were going to be a mission and merit driven company?
What's the logic of that though? Longer more descriptive names (self-documenting code) help readability, not hinder it.

Certainly time to enter code (which is increasingly going to be automated) should be the last consideration - if we're considering full software lifecycle then coding probably takes up some small single-digit percentage of the time we're interacting with the code.
If they think so, and I don't, then we just disagree on this and history will see who is right.
Talk to the other two developers because what is going to work is specific to the three of you. Figure out what it means collectively. Theory doesn't matter. Other people's experience doesn't matter.

Buy-in is all that really matters. Without an ongoing process, there's nothing to improve. Good luck.
I don't see the difference. Exceptions are error handling and with this change the language will be better equipped to handle them.
If you see talking heads with static/simple/blurred backgrounds from now on, assume it is fake. In the near future they will accompany realistic backgrounds and even less detectable fakes, we will have to assume all vids could be faked.
I don't mean to be uncharitable but no, that's not how it works. You pass the Either<Error, Foo> or Maybe/Option<Foo> around, usually to the edge of the system where you map, flatMap or fold it into something.
I mean, I don't think corporations should be a democracy.

This said, I don't think they should have any political power whatsoever. A corporation that operates as a fascist entity will demand fascist lobbying and laws and thereby lessen the democratic county it is operating in.
You can certainly try. Make every employee part owner and then everyone can vote on C-levels. Of course, that buy-in could be a little steep (if its not a early-stage startup) ...
No, the allegations in that article are not accurate; I remember discussion of it at the time. The story there is that Nya Dagbladat applied for a grant from FLI, passed the first phase of the grant-award process, and was rejected during due diligence. Then after the rejection had already happened, espo.se ran the article you linked to, which made it sound like they had funded or were going to fund them, which they weren't.
why not P3 instead of PPP3?
My Ford truck currently has a recall with an unknown fix. Axle bolts can sheer off, leaving only the rotors and caliper mount to keep the wheels on the car.

But, you're right, most of these recalls are not "instant death machine you can't stop". While a fire can be dangerous, you will have time to react to that one.
It's easy to portray it as arrogance, but in manufacturing, you run into small problems and ambiguities all the time.

By analogy to software engineering, do your bosses or clients give you water-tight, formal specs for the software you need to build? If they could do that, they wouldn't be needing you in the first place.

We zero in on situations like that and pretend that it's the worker's fault for making the wrong call, but we ignore that if they didn't make the right calls a thousand times before, nothing would ever get done.

In this case, if pedal cover is a friction fit and can slide off and get jammed in between panels, this doesn't sound like an assembly mistake but a pretty major design error, right? Your designs should be resilient. What if the owner sprays WD-40 on a squeaky pedal and the cover slides off?
Doesn't mean much without a breakdown of volume & model year.
SNNs are behind, but not that far behind, especially after recent astrocyte-related advancements, and if implemented correctly in hardware they consume a fraction of power. SNNs don't get nearly the same amount of attention as ordinary networks largely because they lack efficient hardware to run on (just like ordinary NNs until the advent of GPGPU).

It's not exactly new hardware though, it's just a cluster of 1152 existing Intel Loihi 2 neuromorphic chips.
I started my career working on gambling apps, and it’s one of my red lines now when looking for work.

It’s an evil industry - full of dark patterns. I remember implementing a “cancel withdrawal” feature where essentially: the casino could deposit money in a customers bank account in a day when they request it. They instead choose to hold it in a pending state for a week, and allow them to cancel the withdrawal at any point in that week to immediately play with. Presumably so it didn’t feel as real as money leaving the gamblers bank account.
I've played enough poker (and similar games) on computer (against bots, no real money) to know that 1) I am quite bad at assessing the expected value of my moves; 2) I am quite... what's the English word for someone who gets way too excited from the thrill of gambling and forgoes the caution? "Hasardeux" is French for it, but I don't think "hazardous" has that sense in English? Anyhow, I do know quite well that were I to gamble with real money, I'd very soon go broke and it's not a difficult observation to make, even for someone as bad at self-reflection as myself. So, I don't gamble.

And yet apparently there is something about gambling with real-life consequences that is very attractive to oh so many people who (again, apparently) can not replicate the similar experience in a less life-ruining way, so they return to gamble again and again?
> Corporations have known, concrete impacts on the world

I hate to do this, but can you enumerate them?
Also, UTF-16 (or WTF-16 as defined by https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#wtf-16)
Tesla sold 1.8 million cars last years, they do know how to make products that people like. And they don’t sell for 100K anymore but more like $40K
Execution > Strategy
I don't doubt that that would have been the most profitable solution to this for me, but that's really not my personality.

This is not a joke or sarcasm: I genuinely think I might be slightly on the spectrum, because I have a lot of trouble with corporate dishonesty, and there are plenty of times that I will say things that are apparently controversial and I don't realize it.

For example, at that job, during a discussion about them getting rid of a benefit that they used to pay for, I made the mistake of once saying to higher-management that "we all do this job for the money", and I got a bunch of indignant responses about how they believe in the cause and all that shit [1]. I was really confused, because I didn't even realize that that was up for debate; I'm quite confident that if this company stopped signing their paychecks, they'd stop showing up for the job and I really didn't (and still don't) think that there's anything particularly wrong with that. I'm selling my time and expertise, Tombert is a for-profit enterprise.

When I tried explaining this to them, I get a private meeting with one of my million managers above me that I have a "bad attitude" and that I'm trying to "stir the pot", and I genuinely wasn't trying to, I was just trying to make a point cutting through some of bullshit flavortext to get to the point that getting rid of a benefit that we liked does affect us because I was under the impression we worked for money, not for fun.

I have a million stories like this, and it's why I suspect that I will not be able to grow my career much more than I have right now.

[1] To be clear, this wasn't some non-profit, this was a very very large for-profit company that you've definitely heard of that my lawyer/mom has advised me not to directly name.
Smallpox vials, decades old, found in NIH storage room (2014)
I mean the work projects I work on. Mostly Android NDK stuff that uses C++17.