skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a solid point.

When humans have vague or incomplete knowledge on a specific topic, the very LAST thing they do is fill in the gaps with their best guesses. Humans are built with no ego, and when they don't have a high degree of confidence in their answer, they always admit to it, and they NEVER fill in knowledge gaps with low-confidence information. Hallucination is a problem that ONLY exists with these evil machine models, not the flawless Vulcan Logic Devices inside our heads.

What these LLM fetishists don't understand is that this hallucination problem is a Very Big Deal, and we should always rely on the infallible human brain, which has never made assumptions, lied, or, made shit up.

Whenever you're looking at the third leading cause of death in the United States (preventable medical errors), seeing that a quarter million Americans are murdered annually, with a significant proportion of those errors being gross misdiagnosis, it's Super Important to remember that an LLM that hallucinates will NEVER be suitable for medical advice, because the human brain is a Magical Jesus Box that has never made similar mistakes.

Sometimes I like to watch World War 2 documentaries, and I tear up at the realization that nearly half a million American soldiers lost their lives in four years to those evil Japanese and Nazi scum. War is Hell.

But what is DEFINITELY NOT HELL, is exactly the same number of American fatalities at the hands of human doctors with their perfect, infallible, flawless-in-every-way human brains in only half the time, which is what we have now.

Imagine how bad it would be if we allowed these LLMs to hallucinate medical advice! People might die! It would be horrible!
Are they really worse or we just so used to the product now that its small mistakes are more noticeable?
Tbh starting the history doesn't at 1948 doesn't really help much. Around 1948 is when the Jewish and Palestinian narratives are already in full swing and have some of the strongest evidence for each side. On the Jewish side you'd have their invasion by the broader Arab world and their subsequent mentality that they have to defend themselves at all costs. On the Palestinian side you have the Nakba and the resulting trauma that forms their identity.

If you go back earlier you start to see the roots of the conflict more clearly. From Russian Jews being expelled out of Russia and looking towards the Ottoman empire and historic Judea as a place from their home, Ottoman policies around 1900s when they are hyper paranoid about quashing nationalism in their multi-ethnic empire and how that plays into their treatment of Jews they allow to immigrate into their lands, then the British control over Ottoman lands and how they tried to administer to it and designated Judea as a vague "Jewish National Home" which gave neither Jews nor Arabs clarity on the political reality of the region. Then there was the early immigration of Jews to Israel in the 1910s and 1920s which meets some Arab resistance and sparks violence, but the migration stops in the mid 1920s, so tensions cool a bit. Then in the 1930s the Nazis rise to power and immigration of Jews to Palestine _really_ starts. At this point the US has imposed strict quotas on Jews immigrating to the US (in around 1924), so for many Jews Palestine isn't their first choice, but it is a choice for them and the British seem serious about this "Jewish National Home" thing, so they go for it. Then comes the great Arab revolt in 1936 where Arabs in Palestine respond to the large influx of Jewish migrants, demand independence from Britain, and seek to end the Jewish National Home project. Somewhere around the early 1940s WW2 is in swing and the Nazis invade Egypt and establish a SS unit there whose purpose is the genocide the Jews in Palestine. This was a pretty close call, if it wasn't for a British victory in Egypt that held the Nazi's back, odds are the Middle East would look very different today.

And that brings us to 1948 when the British withdraw and the stage is set for the resulting chaos. So there you have it. On one side a population struggling to determine their national identity after the fall of a 600 year old empire and dealing with a large influx of immigrants that they don't want to their lands (and also still struggling to figure out what "their" means). On the other hand you have a group of people trying to flee their home country and having no option but this weird "Jewish National Home" that totally isn't a state according to the British despite it being maybe possible a state for Jews? Then in the middle of a clearly bad situation, Britain withdraws and the Jews and Palestinians have been dealing with the situation sense.

None of this is to say that one side is right or wrong. Rather, if you look around 1948 you're already missing a lot of the buildup to the conflict and the reason there is no trust between the two groups in 1948.
> Satellites would not be able to pick up even half a percent of the traffic.

So? How much of that traffic is video? If you eliminate that, what percentage of the rest can satellite pick up?

I was not proposing that trading systems run via phones and voice. No, those are much less bandwidth-efficient than data. I was proposing that they continue to be run by data, just with lower frequency. (Will the global economy really collapse without HFT on currencies?)
Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
aren't they doing those things?
what is the alt+enter trick? i dont think we came across it
please

Edit: I say this because I love Apple but much like how iTunes needed to be thrown out and rebuilt, so does Siri. Keep the brand and the infrastructure, but give her a new brain.

Rebuilding Siri from the ground up could revolutionize its capabilities. Imagine a Siri that anticipates your needs, seamlessly integrates with each device's strengths, and leverages advancements in natural language processing for a more intuitive and personalized experience.
You use them judiciously, you learn their capabilities and limitations and the scope of their applicability.

TLA+ is very useful, but it's not going to prove out your software itself, that will require testing or other methods, it will help prove out your specification. I've used it to good effect both for designing distributed and concurrent systems and for identifying issues in existing systems (without an existing formal spec, by creating it and then playing with the invariants and other aspects of the TLA+ spec). SPARK/Ada, I mentioned in my other comment, will detect many problems, and help you prove the absence of many others. But it's also not suitable (yet) for all projects, or more than a subset of a project, since it has specific limitations on what it can prove and is only compatible with a subset of Ada (this is being expanded each year). The subset of Ada it does apply to is actually quite significant and useful, but you have to be capable of understanding that it is limited and then apply it within that limited scope.

This is true for every other formal method approach I've seen. Pay attention, read, ask questions, and don't judge them all by one paper you half remember from 42 years ago.
I'm frequently reminded of the adage: "You want to go fast? Go alone. Want to go far? Go with a team." The team could be people or as others have suggested, tools and processes that reduce your workload.
I really really want to get off of Windows because of the dark patterns. I'm even satisfied with the state of gaming on Linux based on my SteamDeck. So I've been test driving my SteamDeck as a portable PC when I travel. There are still a few things that give me pause when I think about eventually switching my primary PC to Linux:

1. Two apps: I use OneNote daily for work and personal notetaking, use the OneNote app on my iPhone, and have shared notebooks with several (non-technically minded) family members. There is no other free (or even paid) comparable software that does all of this. Sadly, the best you can do on Linux is use it through the clumsy web interface. And then, Autodesk Fusion360 for my dabbling in 3d printing, also without native Linux support.

2. Very basic things like mouse scroll wheel and mouse pointer acceleration are at best somewhat "off" or at worst impossible to tweak, depending on which which display protocol / linux flavor you're using. Every time I rathole on it, I end up at the same place: some spat between libinput and Wayland. I don't care about who does it, I just want it to work.

I could probably get by with a windows VM or other alternatives for the unsupported applications. So then it's a wash between Windows enshittification and Linux rough edges. I suppose within a few years as the enshittification continues worsening while the rough edges get fixed, it becomes an easier decision.
Currently I'm building Plandex[1], a terminal-based AI coding tool, solo (though I hope to build a team around it in the future if I can swing it) and I'm also running EnvKey[2], a secrets management saas, as a sole operator.

You don't really stay completely sane, but you can get better at it. You have to get used to the feeling that you can never keep up or do enough. You just do the best you can and learn to live with that. The most important thing is not to get overwhelmed or paralyzed and then end up procrastinating/doing nothing. Making any kind of progress each day, even if it's something small, is a win.

For me, developing sustainable routines has been critical. Over time I have developed a routine that includes frequent exercise, family time, socializing, eating healthy, and sleeping enough, and I mostly don't compromise on those things unless there's literally an emergency (I do my best to build systems in a way that makes emergencies very rare).

I also do some more questionable things like work 20 hour marathon all-nighter sessions when I'm pushing hard to get something done, but then I'll follow that up with 12+ hours of sleep the next night and a more relaxed day or two. It's just a matter of finding a balance that works for you.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

2 - https://envkey.com
Its not simply styling, it goes beyond that. XML was/still intended to be the equivalent of JSON - just the data. With XSLT you created entirely new structure based on the underlying XML.

The W3schools example is fairly decent https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xsl_intro.asp

Somehwhat similar to how component based JS frameworks work nowadays. Anyone who was using at a CSS equivalent was missing the point.
Ooh I've thought about doing that. Totally makes sense since egg sizes range a bit.
Where Are Growth, Inflation and Interest Rates Headed? We Asked the Economists
Finances: Do them monthly. On the first work day of each month, I do my finances. I collect all the receipts, bank account statements etc and send them to my accountant. If there's any problem, he lets me know right away. It takes me an hour or two, but it's important I don't procrastinate on this.

When I was just starting out, I did that stuff at the end of the year, and it was extremely much work, trying to hunt down receipts for payments made a year ago. Now it's just this thing I do regularly, and at the end of the year it's all done already.
> Might be time to invest in a Mac studio!

it's wild isn't it

for so long a few years old macbook is fine for everything, in desperation Apple waste their time with VR goggles in search of a use-case... then suddenly ChatGPT etc comes along and despite relatively weak GPU Apple accidentally have stuff worth upgrading to

imagine when they eventually take the goggles off and start facing in the right direction...
What about the tone bothers you? I've never read How to win friends and influence people. I thought the article is pretty well-written
I guess I need to disagree :). Why isn't fuzzing testing? Ultimately it ends up running the code and seeing if it works—for some definition of "working", that is, it doesn't crash—even if it may pick the ways it chooses the input by considering how the code behaves while running it.

Also, how is even "smart fuzzing" similar to theorem provers in any way? Fuzzers still think in terms of runs, but a theorem considers all cases. The best fuzzer wouldn't be able to tell if a sort algorithm works for all inputs, presuming the input size is unbounded. Actually, my understanding is that a fuzzer wouldn't be able to prove if identity function works for all kinds of objects it may be given.
They've got 24/7 ops and building of Starbase in Boca Chica and KSC going on as well as loads of other sites, it's quite something. Checkout LabPadre and NASA Space Flight (NSF) on Youtube, tank watching is quite fun.
It's hubris to think that the issue with a parser to identify whitespaces properly is warranting to change code in the KERNEL of arguably the most widespread operating system in the world.

And THEN not even providing more justification for this in the description.

I'm not claiming anywhere that Linus is the good guy. Or bad guy.

In this case I agree with his stance that whatever this parser is, it should better fail harder in order to get it fixed.

And if you know how he reacts when he's making a big deal of something, you know that this one isn't one of those times...
There's all sorts of good and bad reasons for a project to not announce itself. The more well planned of those will have a plan for what to do when the project is noticed.

I've heard that part of Amazon project planning includes pre-writing press releases, so why would this project not do the same?
Apple realizes they could not do this, because Windows is popular because Windows apps only run on Windows.
Even worse, it's a commodity desktop CPU! They aren't running "Halo 2" on an "Xbox" in HD, they are running a heavily modified build of Halo 2 on a somewhat custom PC.

We had that already, it's called "Halo 2 for Windows Vista!", and now we have MCC.

Granted, Halo 2 on Vista had way higher hardware requirements to run at 30fps in 720p I think, though most of that was just Vista overhead.

Actually it's worse again, they modified the Xbox kernel too!

This is really impressive work but it's also way more niche than the title wants you to believe.
You may have missed this (from the GitHub repo):

>You do not need a CPU upgraded console to use this patch and having one does not provide any additional performance gains that I've been able to measure during testing.

And this:

>This provided a 10% increase in transfer speeds for consoles running the stock IDE cable and up to a 300% increase (theoretically, the actual transfer speeds depend greatly on the size of data being transferred) for consoles with an upgraded IDE cable.

And this (again from the GitHub repo):

>If your console has 128MB of RAM this patch will utilize the extra RAM available which will enable use of 720p and 1080i video modes as well as increase the size of in-memory caches for textures and geometry. The size increase for the texture and geometry caches will significantly reduce pop-in issues to the point of being almost non-existent.

For just 480p you can overclock the GPU on a stock console and use a different IDE cable. I think the remark about the SSD was unintentionally misleading -- perhaps he did mean the combo of 80pin + SSD though.

It does not require an overclocked CPU (he states that the CPU was not the bottleneck), and the increased RAM is only required if you want resolutions of 720p or higher.

I relayed the feedback though, he might update the blog post to make these points more explicit.
Interesting take. Let's just say, one of these approaches sails through the promotion process, and one does not.
You're missing out on what I believe to be the most killer use of Siri that should be in every marketing video: outsource your short/medium term memory to it. I'm guessing Google's assistant can do this too. It's not particularly advanced but needs a physical device you pick up all day to work:

"Siri, remind me to lookup that form for the tax guy tomorrow at 10am"

"Siri, remind me in an hour to order more dog food"

"Siri, remind me in 3 months to cancel the trial for X subscription"

I just hold the side button, dictate the fleeting thought, and move on. No unlock, nothing to type, no navigating a time picker. Eventually it'll pop up and I'll be happy because I absolutely forgot X task already, and it'll stay as a notification on my Lock Screen until I do something with it. Often times I just pick an arbitrary time and get to it eventually that day, and then I'll dismiss it. I can also snooze for a later time period with a long press, etc.

This is so integrated into my life I literally cannot imagine not having this ability. I'd forget things all the time.
I would assume it's a statement on determinism. The phrase is based on the dual usage of "just" in meaning "simply" the first time, and then "rationally" in the next. It seems the author wants you to refuse the simple understanding of things and focus on the causal chain-of-events leading up to them instead.

That's just my interpretation, though. "Just" is also commonly used as a term for religious righteousness, which could also change the meaning. I'm unfamiliar with Jim Rohn too, if that helps :P
It might be expressed another way as:

"Things don't merely happen; things happen as they should (as deserved/merited/earned)."
That would be a bad spam detector but it's obviously not one HN uses, not sure how you reached that conclusion.
How to Make a Realtime Multiplayer Page on Your Static Website
LLMs for few-shot low level robot control by representing trajectories as tokens
You forgot one: 3. Linux is not a pre-installed option in some countries.
China's 5% this quarter comes from massively subsidizing exports for its EV, battery, solar panels, at a steep loss per transaction, even though these type of exports are only 3% of overall exports. This is because their other engine of consumption and investment are failing. The window to do that is quickly closing, first with developed nations as Europe and US ramping up tariffs. Developing nations are starting to catch on, as Brazil and Mexico are hiking their tariffs on China as well. We'll see a steep drop of export (as we've seen for march [1]) for rest of the year.

[1] China’s exports tumble 7.5% in March and imports also fall as demand slows
https://apnews.com/article/china-trade-exports-imports-b25c2...
Sure. myhnthingy at proton.me
Last I checked, those were all planes
Was just talking to a guy who used to work in commodities at Hershey. He thinks smaller bars are on the way. Fortunately chocolate products have plenty of substitutes.
It seems like Google didn't learn the lesson from Google+ and is going to do another fear-driven reorg.
Yes, they should "just fix Siri." That would do the trick.
I agree tbh,

Which is kinda my point, you can't call ads not brainwashing because the term really does mean a lot of different things.

I like it because imo. advertisers are in general 'the enemy', out to convince us that we'll never find love without a diamond ring and that oreos sound really really good right now. So I'll use this term. Or more often propaganda since that ones harder to argue against
Sure, perhaps I could have been more clear with wording (as could the government's website). But the point stands; for the overwhelming majority of the population range anxiety is just that, and anxiety about range rather than a fact-based analysis of the car's ability to meet their needs.
They've added a big, colorful, ugly button to my WhatsApp now. At the moment the button is covering the date information of my last chat with my Mom. It's revolting.
Today I checked my blood pressure. I asked Siri to record the blood pressure measurement in the health app. I haven't done it before, but it feels like one of those things my Apple phone should be able to do (i.e. record something very basic in Apple's own health app). Of course, it couldn't do it.
> This is a limitation/downside/flaw of "VA" LCD panels. OLED panels will not experience this...

I don't know what to tell you, man. I'm seeing this behavior on a Pixel 5a. Purchased _directly_ from Google's store. Google says this model of phone has a OLED display... an HDR one, at that. [0]

Not even the worst color transitions for my my VA monitor (a BenQ EWE3270U) streak this badly.

[0] <https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel5a-with-5g-new-googl...>
Only do 1 thing. Find the most important thing and only work on that. For ex: a product feature, sales, or whatever but just only do one thing for at least a week. Then re-evaluate what the most important thing is and do that for the next week.

The exception is I do a little customer support every day.
I will also add - don't buy/subscribe to a tool that is a pile of building blocks that will allow you to build your own solution. Now you have taken on a new project. Just get something that works well enough out of the box.
Your chicken has a small neural net tuned for hawk-watching and speck-pecking. This can be extremely fast and efficient; just don't ask it to compute an integral or invent the diesel engine or understand a complex web of social relationships or remember its cousin's birthday.
I think that was actually 2002 when I look back. Everything sucked on the desktop then :)
It's pretty remarkable how effective fuzzing is despite the layers upon layers of optimizations/assumptions that it requires in order to be feasible at all (eg max_len = 10000). I haven't tinkered with fuzzing since afl was a toddler but its mechanism for pruning the test space seemed so brilliant and tweakable at the time.

It would be interesting to find a way to create excursions into these various parameter spaces but some of them are baked into the infrastructure in such a way that it makes it difficult.
Precisely. Exactly the same experience over here. I make a chili by experience and it never goes wrong, except for that one time a decade back.

I accidentally dunked my scale in the sink the other day. Luckily it's working now but it wouldn't turn on for a few days. So I was doing pancakes and couldn't precisely measure stuff and they came out terrible, like before I dialed in the precise ratios I use by weight. Scale is working again, so today they came out perfect.
CA insurance crisis: Thousands to lose coverage as two more insurers withdraw
I think categorizing it as a "terror attack" does some injustice to the scale of things - we are talking about thousands participating in the Oct 7th attack, basically the Palestinian "army".

Not that I think Israel's reaction was wise, but that's a different story.
Misinformation wants to be free just as much as information. Removing information is the wrong strategy, because internet makes publishing information so much easier. And bitrot+time will effectively remove the information for you if you just make people look elsewhere for long enough.

So you just put out 10 different lies for every truth you want to cover. Most people won't be bothered to check what is actually true. Human attention span is the limiting factor of modern world, not the access to information. Lying to people is easier than ever before in history, so democracy is in fact getting worse over time.
I hope ideas like "regulators break them up" never come true. I'll never understand why people crave the destruction of productive organizations. Android has been a stunning success. Valuable for consumers who enjoy the platform, profitable for the investors who bet on the platform and lucrative for the employees who work on the platform. The only people that seem to have a problem with Android are misguided ideologues who think that "big company == bad".