skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mistral (or even Mixtral) + RAG + txt/pdf files of law is nowhere close to usable to replace lawyers, and probably wouldn’t even provide reliable legal tooling.

(A decent LLM + RAG + LexisNexis or Westlaw’s proprietary extremely extensively human annotated datasets of constutitons, statutes, case law, precedent, and scholarship, OTOH, would likely be ingredients from which a powerful professional tool could be built.)
Clever! I like it.
The swiss links are totally new lines, not "upgrades".

But given it's Switzerland they just decide to do it all underground.
Japan has some challenges with traditional GPS and satellites that can be low on and buildings interrupt the signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System

> The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), also known as Michibiki (みちびき), is a four-satellite regional satellite navigation system and a satellite-based augmentation system developed by the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania regions, with a focus on Japan.

...

> The primary purpose of QZSS is to increase the availability of GPS in Japan's numerous urban canyons, where only satellites at very high elevation can be seen. A secondary function is performance enhancement, increasing the accuracy and reliability of GPS derived navigation solutions. The Quasi-Zenith Satellites transmit signals compatible with the GPS L1C/A signal, as well as the modernized GPS L1C, L2C signal and L5 signals. This minimizes changes to existing GPS receivers.

Its got a neat orbit that does a figure 8 with the apogee over Japan (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_orbit )
Wellll.... Watching that video now, it looks like the most-selected number in their poll of 200k people was 69, followed by 42. Once /those/ are eliminated, 37 and 73 stand out.

https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98?si=SOpczHGYxhQhP6Rg&t=280
I'm tempted to break out the notebook again, but... beyond something that's already merged, what situations make paper changes cheaper than code changes? I can type way faster than I can write.
Its a different complementary thing. It lets you define your macos settings the same way you would on nixos
This would even break UTF-8, since multi-byte characters are a thing!
We have chorus frogs in a nearby pond. If you walk close to the pond, it is definitely at a solid 90db or more. Sounds amazing. Even weirder, sometimes something happens and they all decide to stop for a while before starting up again together later.
You and I have very different recollections of the Apple Watch’s launch then. Everyone was convinced that the battery life would doom the product into obsolescence before it was even shipped to consumers. Only someone with a child’s view of these products would be unable to see the similarities between the two launches.
That would be SteamVR being discussed.
I can relate, AI is a tool, and if I want to write my code by LEGOing a bunch of AI-generated functions together, I should be able to.
Tundra Hybrid doesn't count?
A case in point is the ubiquity of Pleco in the Chinese/English space. It’s a dictionary, not a translator, and pretty much every non-native speaker who learns or needs to speak Chinese uses it. It has no ML features and hasn’t changed much in the past decade (or even two). People love it because it does one specific task extremely well.

On the other hand ML has absolutely revolutionised translation (of longer text), where having a model containing prior knowledge about the world is essential.
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I was watching an Ableton set demo where someone was showing their template - with a LIVID controller + a midifighter - and curiousity got the better of me as to the name of the company sounding like a blog. I had no idea how much Ean Golden influenced music hardware. Very cool talk by him here.
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> Veto it on the grounds that it would cost Biden the election

No it won’t. Firstly because the hammer won’t fall until months after the election, and secondly it’d be hard for China-hawk Trump who attempted the same thing during his presidency to take a pro-China position, but finally and most importantly because TikTok is disproportionately popular with young voters who are terrible at actually voting. Plus the move is popular with older likely voters.
Yeah, but on the other hand, when you start charging for something, people automatically feel entitled to expect the world from you. I'm not saying they don't already do that for people who donate their labor to a project, but I'm saying the abuse might get worse. They're now "paying customers."
we can probably skip prostrating at the rich's feet and just tax them and build nice shit.

if they don't want the tax they can hurry up and build the nice shit first.
For all we know the galaxy is full of aliens who just never find each other. Space is big and light is only so fast.
The person I was replying to was arguing for a Bluetooth connection to their phone instead of CarPlay. CarPlay is much better from a safety standpoint than a phone screen.
We need a FUCK OFF OSS license: like the do-whatever-tf-you-want but with extra clauses telling people to FO. if they want bugfixes, improvements or features.

All the free software I had put out there is kind of like that. I don't care about the fame, glory or user count. I release something I built to scratch an itch just because someone else might find it useful. If you didn't like my code, tough luck, go write yours.

Edit: call it the FOOSS license, ha!
Not a lot. I do exactly this and I'm only left with a few hours per day to do whatever I want. I could obviously sleep less/eat out but that's not worth it imo.
Depends how far away you are?
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cool but i dont think anybody on the enterprise is going to use this right now

LLM-to-automation-api seems really great on paper but the statistics are simply against any sort of wide adoption

at least that is the general consensus speaking to clients
Do you have an example where a const on a variable changes codegen? I would be surprised if the compiler couldn't figure out variable constness itself.
The quality of a rental Chevy head unit is not a good indicator of the CarPlay user experience in a decent car.
We should nationalize the rail infrastructure and upgrade it to make passenger traffic a first-class citizen of the rails.
Pick a real project that will help you in a meaningful way.

You could even start with a web based game you can share with friends. This will teach you web applications, databases, possible sign-in security.

You can write something at home or use the cloud [1].
I have had a lot of fun using Python on a Raspberry Pi [2].

[1] https://replit.com/ (has a free tier)
[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/
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The miscommunication here is a question of scale. $40 a month doesn't put a dent in your budget when you're paying six figure labor costs at the same interval.

That all being said, I have no intention of writing OSS for a living. I contribute to FOSS for fun only, and I set my own schedule outside my day job.
comparing China's high speed transportation is a low bar. they absolutely do not give a crap about derailment, in fact they straight up buried it, literally

instead you should see Japan's shinkansen as a measure of standards. They built that in the sixties
For a closer area with dark skies, SE Oregon has a lot of really remote places.

https://visitbend.com/journal/best-spots-for-stargazing-bend...
That’s 50% faster than Acela (150mph) which isn’t nothing, but doesn’t make much of a difference on its own. What’s actually important is maintaining high speed for most of the trip which is where Acela fails (~70.3 mph).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela
I'll take your point: there seems to be a US specific problem with ebooks.

In particular, the lack of numbers from the dominant player (Amazon) makes trend analysis all the more difficult. Yet there's still an increase after 2020:

https://www.tonerbuzz.com/blog/paper-books-vs-ebooks-statist...

On Amazon, are you merging publishing and distribution as a single activity ? I thought Amazon in the US only accepted self-publication under their name and the rest of the Kindle available titles are from each publishers only using Amazon as a printer/distributor.

E.g. who would you assign as 50 shades of grey's publisher for the ebook version?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007J4T2G8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch...
Can Starbucks please stop packaging their tea in the plastic nets?
Basically Valet mode for the headunit.
"Sherlocking" can be unfortunate for a developer, but it's odd to view it as an inherently bad thing. A package manager is a core OS feature, even Microsoft has WinGet now.
Hmm waze is hugely popular where I come from, because of all the police speed traps it crowdsources. And I’ve not seen that as part of an official infotainment system like ever.

And to be fair I prefer waze, not just because it makes driving simpler, but the community feeling you get by marking stopped cars or other obstructions on the road for others to pay attention to.

Unless automakers organize and come together to build a common os/ui layer, I don’t see apps like that ever being present in official infotainment systems.

And audio book apps change all the time too - local variants with local libraries, language learning apps etc. There is quite the variety of stuff you could do in a car.
Not sure if it's my browser config, but I saw all these CTAs I mentioned, which I find absurd.

I really think the article was relatively interesting, enough for me to consider other articles if it weren't for the amount of annoying nudges I got, which is a shame because the author probably put some good effort into it.

I agree that the only CTA should be at the end, but more and more it looks like it actually works, otherwise I would imagine people would stop doing it so often.
As the saying goes, there's a fine line between genius and insanity... and a lot of these people are sitting on it.
>The relations between human interests are too esoteric for current ML classifiers to understand.

I would go further and say that it is impossible. Human interests are contextual and change over time, sometimes in the span of minutes.

Imagine that all the videos on the internet would be on one big video website. You would watch car videos, movie trailers, listen to music, and watch porn in one place. Could the algorithm correctly predict when you're in the mood for porn and when you aren't? No, it couldn't.

The website might know what kind of cars, what kind of music, and what kind of porn you like, but it wouldn't be able to tell which of these categories you would currently be interested in.

I think current YouTube (and other recommendation-heavy services) have this problem. Sometimes I want to watch videos about programming, but sometimes I don't. But the algorithm doesn't know that. It can't know that without being able to track me outside of the website.
This is why everything I do is fine tuned openai. It is so much easier, faster and at least at my scale, cheaper. I suspect it’s also better for small datasets like mine. It’s unbelievable to me that none of the big competitors offer a similar service.
Maybe it’s because you need to take a breath while typing.
Inflation begs to differ. That much money left liquid for 60 years at 10% inflation will be worth less than 100k of today’s money.

Edit: sorry about the non sequitur. Bitterly learning about inflation and fiat recently.
Had the same thought. The one part that would still require js is the exclusive opened element requirement. Still just a simple vanilla event listener.
Lol, Youtube on Apple TV is great. Mostly because I either need to find something fast or I switch it off because the remote is not conducive to skipping. But the only time I watch Youtube on my computer is for a specific video. The waste of space is horrendous. Same with Twitter (rarely visited), just a 3/4 inches wide column of posts on my 24 inch screen.
I am a developer who likes to be paid for my work. I was also a diehard FOSS fan. I've also switched to macOS, and after I did so I spent probably $200 on software. What was interesting to me is that even in my Linux phase, some proprietary software was acceptable — notably steam. Why was this the case?

I think, as a developer, I value the ability to fix things I don't like. I've done it quite a lot in open source software. Just plant my fix and move on. Steam always felt complete. macOS software often feels closer to completion, though sometimes I do wish I could modify it still. Also, another class is software I trust that I could not do a better job on, like Affinity.

Anyway, I think that's the root of the developer aversion to paying for software.... Well, for me anyway. I wish we had better culture around donating to free software as well.
I'm not consuming the content on my phone, because the user experience of using these services on my phone sucks. Just the app vs website difference with urls is a difference in behavior I hate let alone all the UI differences that make the mobile experience awkward.

I don't know about the TV though.
The interface looks very Apple as well. Looks like you create a config file, and you already have a model in mind with the hyperparameters and it provides a simple interface. How useful is this to researchers trying to hack the model architecture?

One example: https://github.com/apple/corenet/tree/main/projects/clip#tra...
Would you trust a brand new assistant to write up an email for you without proof reading it? How much training would they require before you didn't need that step? How much training / fine-tuning would an LLM need? What about the next gen LLM?

Remember, we're not talking about a static target here, and the post I replied to set no qualifications on the claim that a human will always be needed to check that a mathematical definitions in the proof match the English equivalents. That's a long timeline on a rapidly moving target that is, as I said, already seems to be better than most humans at understanding and writing English.
It says something about the state of Microsoft that such a naive coder would be responsible for a critical bug in a "highly visible product".

> Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help,
>so the most sustainable design is one where the software is easily seperable and replaceable from the core durable item.

No, the most realistically sustainable design is one where the software is built into the durable item and not connected to the internet, so it never changes and doesn't need to worry about security issues. You can keep using the thing until it fails from mechanical issues and can't be easily repaired.

If it's internet-connected for some reason, then the software should be open-source so interested parties can take over maintenance after the OEM decides they don't want to bother any more. However, I don't consider this "realistic": how many manufacturers are going to do this in reality? Almost none: they want you to buy a replacement device.
> We should nationalize the rail infrastructure and upgrade it to make passenger traffic a first-class citizen of the rails

Your response to the first high-speed rail line America is likely to see completed, being built by a private operator, is to propose effectively banning it?
Thanks. I just read [1].

> Whether the net benefit is good or bad is largely a subjective matter of political opinion.

Without knowing the intention of the author above, when I see the phrase "subjective matter of political opinion", it makes me wonder if it serves as a "semantic stop sign" or "thought-terminating cliché"[2].

WRT net benefits... it is one thing to have differing predictions about what will happen and quite another to assess each possible scenario.

I recognize differences of opinion and want a society that protects the freedoms to have them. However, to me, opinions matter much less than reasonable claims based on evidence. Luckily, when reading [1], there are many testable claims embedded in the arguments of the various justices.

For example, in the cases of an ambiguous law, who is better suited to understand the ambiguity... agency experts or judges? Which groups have better knowledge of the domain? Which have experience in engaging in sustained discussions with the industries they are regulating? Agencies have an objective advantage for both.

Here is my point: say we go through the, say, top twenty arguments and we dig into the details. I predict that most opinions one hears at the outset from the public don't survive contact with reality. Those opinions have to get tossed. What remains? Nuanced assessments of better and worse scenarios. By making these assessments more nuanced, the hope is we find workable and sensible compromises.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
the idea is good in principle but it's not good in practice - we're all grown ups at the end of the day and personally, I don't ask for money, I just ask for a little gratitude and help!
You can email HN mods at hn@ycombinator.com.

In this case, dang's well aware of the spammer flood. I'd emailed with a list of accounts myself, accidentally including your user ID as well.
Agreed. These days you can get a double DIN carplay/aa deck with a slot load DVD player for under $80 USD. That is absolutely shocking. I mean, we couldn't even get a 5" slot load CD drive for our computers for that kind of money and these things have a 5" screen on them too!
Open source is largely based on "property". Very few open source projects are in the public domain. The FOSS developers I know have a higher respect for those licenses than capitalist corporate users, who seem to treat FOSS licenses with contempt by not following all the terms.

Your lists of points seem also applicable to capitalism.

- ignore property rights if the fines are cheaper than the profits
- capitalism both enables people and greatly enriches the most powerful
- ask the Luddites about how to destroy the economics of production
- "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see
themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily
embarrassed millionaire." (famous quote derived from Steinbeck)
This is different though, because it's modifying the executable to load the new lib, right?

If you're modifying the executable anyway, why not just patch it directly instead of going through these hoops?

The equivalent on Linux would be setting LD_PRELOAD and putting your .so file there. A quick Google search seems to imply that the OSX equivalent is DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES but I have no idea how similar they are.
You wouldnt store any data at all on the blockchain. You would force every payment the goverment makes to go through a blockchain. Likely a centrally controlled one which would invoke no fees. On the other end the payment is cashed out for usd.

Whether it's a good idea or not who knows but your comment misrepresents the concept.
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What I can't wrap my head around is how these types of people manage to land such prestigious positions. How is it possible that we see people failing upwards across companies everywhere?

I mean, consider if you are looking for someone to maintain the building you live in and someone comes along and says all the nice things but you also know that the previous building they maintained burned down. In my view, it does not even matter what the reason was, it burned down. It could be their activities, their negligence, or even really something out of their hands, which is then anybody's guess whether they could have done something to prevent it.

So, how do they manage to get hired?

For a regular coding position, you have to have a good resume, do on-site meetings with the team, demonstrate the ability to code and be able to discuss complex design problems and sketch out solutions.

For these positions you only seem to have to know the right people and, probably, do a lot of lip service and you are in. Seems so broken it boggles the mind.
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AWS Bedrock. Set it up to experiment with different models in one place. Turned to be fascinating; UI is far more friendly than AWS usually is. Cool stuff:

Guardrails: No longer do we have to use the AI to fight AI, AWS has presets for blocking inappropriate content going into or out of the AI block.

Evaluation: Basically just give it a JSONL file of all the inputs and expected outputs, and compare two models or judge the quality of a model. This can be done by a human (it even manages the access of this team of humans). But more interestingly, it can be automated or done by AWS workers.

Knowledge base and agents: Seems like it's only for Claude, but damn, Claude has been impressive for a good price. Claude Sonnet (the mid-range) has been about as good as GPT-4 for half the price. The weakness has been things like knowledge base and AWS lets us just quickly set up vector DBs and embeddings. Then the agents feature lets us connect with it and combine it with all of the above.
It has more to do with land. Land is cheap and easy to acquire out there. Where as anywhere in CA it is expensive. And more so if they find out you need the land to build high speed rail.
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> OSS also tends to attract, um, shall we say, those who are likely to be uncomplimentary.

I disagree. I maintain a reasonably popular project (25K stars on GitHub) and a large majority of people reporting bugs / asking for features are polite and not entitled. Of course, those exceptions sting overproportionally.
You might have responded to the wrong comment.
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"conspiracy theory" is usually defined narrowly so that it is invariably something "only other, stupider people believe"

I think that's hypocritical.
Remember to consider $/hour and stress/$/hour.

In finance you make more money, but work more hours and have more stress per hour typically. Still probably a good deal, but it's not a Pareto efficient deal.
In my case, I own a VW SUV and to my surprise when I go nearby a particular antenna, if I have my Android phone connected it crashes the whole infotainment system, and I can't do anything with it unless I turn the car off for several minutes, which is obviously impossible if I'm going somewhere.

However my wife has an iPhone and although going next to the same antenna does crash the system as well, it does so very briefly and just resets the connection or something, and as soon as we go out of range it starts working again.

So it does look like there's some difference between CarPlay and Android Auto even when using the same exact car with both.

No idea why this happens and I can only assume the antenna is transmitting in a frequency that interferes with the wifi connection (it does not require a cable like older VW cars) which triggers a bug in the Android's stack, but Apple's stack seems more resilient somehow.

I would love to know if anyone else has had the same experience because I find it quite baffling and very annoying when I forget to disconnect my phone when going through that antenna.