skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have to be a bit more honest about the things we can actually do ourselves. Most people I know would flunk most of the benchmarks we use to evaluate LLMs. Not just a little bit but more like completely and utterly and embarrassingly so. It's not even close; or fair. People are surprisingly alright at a narrow set of problems. Particularly when it doesn't involve knowledge. Most people also suck at reasoning (unless they had years of training), they suck at factual knowledge, they aren't half bad at visual and spatial reasoning, and fairly gullible otherwise.

Anyway, this list looks more like a "hold my beer" moment for AI researchers than any fundamental objections for AIs to stop evolving any further. Sure there are weaknesses, and paths to address those. Anyone claiming that this is the end of the road in terms of progress is going to be in for some disappointing reality check probably a lot sooner than is comfortable.

And of course by narrowing it to just LLMs, the authors have a bit of an escape hatch because they conveniently exclude any further architectures, alternate strategies, improvements, that might otherwise overcome the identified current weaknesses. But that's an artificial constraint that has no real world value; because of course AI researchers are already looking beyond the current state of the art. Why wouldn't they.
This is such a loss, both for the company and all previous generations. I've only gotten to work with a practicing IC in his 50s ONCE, and I couldn't get enough of his stories. He worked at early Sun and lived through the dot com crash. He was involved in the initial development of multiple DBMS that we all take for granted these days.
I can easily imagine an AI algorithm noticing a user has two phones, and deciding that is out of the ordinary and suspicious, and locking you out of both.
I’m not laughing at fatalities I’m laughing at the way reporters refuse to drop the spin on FSD and AP kills people as if people don’t die daily from just… driving

As someone else said when seatbelts came around people also botched about them killing people until it became understood that sure people can die from them but it saves A LOT more.

People hate elon as should be, but using Tesla as a punching bag as “unsafe” because you can trick it to let you not pay attention is a joke when shit like bluecruise is hands free completely and A LOT less safe having driven with it than in a Tesla even just talking about on highways
Ah yes, totalitarianism works! FFS, do you even think about the non drug ramifications of said governments policies.
There is no way Apple would consider even suggesting pulling out of the EU. The shareholders would hang the entire CXO class in a nanosecond if they even mentioned it.
Meta AI tested: Doesn't quite justify its own existence, but free is free
> Apple executive Eddy Cue pushed for an Android iMessage app in 2016, but Craig Federighi responded in an internal email that “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.”

This conversation happened 8 years ago and it was about a product released 12 years ago. If anything, this shows how slow regulators are before they take any action and how they are effectively contributing to building the garden walls, through inaction.
No need to remove it. Just turn off the LTE radio in settings.
We don't? Then why do we enter the comments?
The point of universal service isn't to have routes that a lot of people use. The point is to have routes that few people use, so that places that are otherwise unprofitable to serve have access. The places that are profitable to serve are going to get service anyway.
Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
Recently, ESPHome was on the homepage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138228) and some people shared their constructions. What else have you built yourself with electronics like these? What makes your live easier or a little bit more fun?
Can any question be answered? As long as any reaction on a question is considered an answer, then I see no difference between a human and a parrot.
It wasn’t an attempted assasination. You are overblowing this.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/08/man-arrested-for-amalia-thr...

Lots of products we buy are morally tainted. I don’t appreciate black and white thinking — it is polarizing.
Please learn how the US government works before you speak of it in an authoritative manner.

An ironic statement given that you think the U.S. House of Representatives has proportional representation. And you ignored that the U.S. Senate does not have it either. Yes, I know that is by design but it is still true that it’s not proportional representation. This leads to power imbalances. Usually such imbalances cause problems over time.
Outstanding! And props to the author for creating a 2600-style manual for this with "The Jerk" (Steve Martin at his finest) on the front cover and "more great titles to add to your collection" on the back, including Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer. I'm curious why he chose "Model CX2615" for this though. That was "Demons to Diamonds" and was released in 1982, though his manual clearly shows "(c) 1977 ATARI, INC."
If Android becomes the only platform with a worldwide reach, no one's going to bother writing apps for iOS anymore.
I think when companies become a 'necessity' like this, they have to be regulated or broken up. I'm not a big fan of Apple taking a commission if you port an app to their phone and I loathe the idea of having to use iCloud if I want to use Apple Pay, in fact, can't stand the idea of a phone company being my credit card company/bank either.

And don't get me started on non standard USB...what was that? I applaud the EU stepping in and quite frankly i'm looking forward to Apple being broken up. It's that time.
How many laws would that break?
I had this issue with my third party email provider as username for account, others are reporting iCloud.
I love the absolutely crazy things happening in the retrocomputing space right now. We have these chips with many, many orders of magnitude more computing power available for peanuts, and the obvious thing to do is apparently to cram them into these ancient machines for fun.

Throwing a bunch of compute into a cart and using the "real" computer as a very bad GPU is such a fun idea.
> Everything else is hysteria and justification for elective abortions, the fourth leading cause of death in the US (to the tune of 400,000 a year)

No, it is justification to allow doctors and the women who are pregnant to use the extremely complicated and specialized knowledge and unique circumstances of each pregnancy to decide to do what is best for the woman. Something that is impossible, and wholly unnecessary, to codify into law.
Actively working on this! It will take some time to get right but I agree it’s a critical feature https://x.com/seveibar/status/1783672107702030778?s=46
It has to be. The capabilities exposed via the X socket are way too powerful since they allow the application to mess with any other application running on that X server. There are sandboxing solutions which give each applications its own X instance, which is quite similar to the way Wayland isolates applications from each other, and shares the same disadvantages.
wtf? They destroyed your property and then started threatening you with legal notices?
Well, Spivak in the sibling reply summarized the reasons perfectly.
The truth is, all businesses do what Craig suggested.

AirBnB isn't opening up their platform to Expedia. Meta isn't allowing your Instagram data to be accessed by another platform. Your own company isn't voluntarily making it easier for its customers to leave.
Only 3% in 1989? Really?
>I don't care if you use Web scraping to solve the Israeli / Palestinian conflict.

Maybe you should though. It's always worth it to think about which giant's shoulder you're standing on. It's giants all the way down.
C++17/20 are light-years beyond C++11 in terms of ergonomics and usability. Metaprogramming in C++11 is unrecognizable from C++20 things have improved so much. I hated C++ before C++11 but now C++11 feels quite legacy compared to even C++17. The ability to write almost anything, like a logging library, without C macros is a huge improvement for maintainability and robustness.

Most of the features in modern C++ are designed to enable writing really flexible and highly optimized libraries. C++ rarely writes those libraries for you.
Could I use this to create a board that hooks up a ESP32/Raspberry Pi to some LEDs/switches/potentiometers?

I've got a breadboard concept but I have no idea how to polish it up. All of the software GUIs look so intimidating, but I'm very familiar with TS/React!
You should probably tone done your speech, and lay off the patronizing attitude, no matter how well justified are your artguments.
A quarter of Apple’s revenue is from Europe. (This number includes the UK and a few other smaller non-EU markets, but it’s close enough for comparison purposes.)

I don’t see what would be “short-term” about pulling out of this market entirely. If they lost 25% of their revenue, they’d have to increase revenue in other markets by 33% to make up for it. Where is that going to come from?
> Whenever I deal with a scraping process that decides it wants my entire business, and it wants all of it RIGHT NOW, or in 5 minutes, I want to find the person and sit them down in a room and tell them "hey, develop your own ideas and business. Ok? Thanks"

That's a lot of righteous anger for somebody building a business on top of other people's data.

"Broadcastify is the worlds largest source of public safety, aircraft, rail, and marine radio live audio streams."

I have no sympathy whatsoever. You're just complaining about the very thing you're doing. If it's fair for you to do that, it's fair for others to do it to you.
lol it’s a passkey… why would you want 1 that can be shared and… lost you just register another one

Being like “I don’t want to add another passkey” is really a semantic issue what exactly is the difference to you or adding a passkeys to an account vs copying a passkey to another device except the fact that if you can copy it/share it… it’d be far less secure with more ways to leak
I recognize this guy based on his handle as the guy who'd always give spectacularly unhelpful replies on #python freenode irc. Not surprised he also makes simplistic statements about capitalism.
Passenger Pigeon
could you say a little bit more about the design and/or purpose of NAT detection in this context? i'm unfamiliar but see what the service generally does in lay terms. curious more about the technical necessity.
MJD Powell FRS in "Oral History of SIAM" [pdf]
This is also a good paper on the subject:

What Algorithms can Transformers Learn? A Study in Length Generalization https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16028
Then I wonder if many of the most vociferous opponents of free will in these comments are suffering from that.

I also wonder if this sort of “free will is not real” sort of mindset comes from a world that’s removed all agency from them?
I agree that there is a line at using someone else’s data to make a profit, but it is kind of ironic that you mention Google, because their exact business model is scraping websites to feed their search results and litter it with ads to make a profit. For me there is a big line between aggregating publicly available data (search results, reviews, news, job postings, etc. ) and intentionally violating terms of service like signing up for fake accounts an harvesting user data. So entitled maybe not (sites can try to prevent you from scraping), but if you make something publicly available you shouldn’t be surprised when people use it in ways you may not originally have intended (within legal boundaries of course).
Maybe "true" isn't the best word to use. There are too many stories like this for them all to be true. Great story though.
>Anarchism is a theoretical mental exercise with no basis in anything in the real world

You can expand your universe if you search this: Anthropology Egalitarianism
This game and shenzen i/o inspired me to become a software developer.
Exactly. It should be expected from any company to do this, which is why I'm blaming the regulatory agencies for being too slow to act.
ABSTRACT

Michael Powell discusses his career and research. Powell was born in London and lived in Sussex
and Surrey. He had a governess in mathematics when he was very young, and because he enjoyed
looking at mathematics books, often just doing the exercises, he was ahead of his classes in
mathematics. He became an undergraduate at Cambridge, finishing in three years, two years for
part 2 of the Mathematical Tripos and then taking a diploma in numerical analysis and computing
in his third year. He joined the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, and stayed for
seventeen years. At Harwell, he started the Harwell Subroutine Library, one of the first libraries
of numerical algorithms, and began his research career. He discusses the origin of the DFP
[Davidon-Fletcher-Powell] method and subsequent methods that overtook it. After leaving
Harwell, he returned to Cambridge in 1976 as a Professor and continued his research career. He
received a Doctor of Science degree in 1979 at Cambridge. He discusses his subsequent work in
optimization and approximation, the differences between research at Harwell and Cambridge, and
his preferences in conducting research, including his tendency to publish by himself. Powell
retired from Cambridge in 1996.
>You can try the simple line mode browser by telnetting to info.cern.ch (no user or password. From UK JANET, use the Gateway).

doen't work for me :(
> So if you’re not invested in Linux ideologically, it’s difficult to recommend, for laptops in particular.

Linux has practical benefits as well; it's not just ideology. But yes, if you want Linux you should make sure your hardware supports it.
Well, yes. It's a great reason to not let businesses decide on these things, because their petty interpretation will always override a communal solution. Once you reach Apple's scale, you shouldn't expect to start replacing stuff like SMS with a proprietary alternative and get away with it.
This is a really great way to advance your career.

You, as the “mentor” will learn a lot. Some people you meet will advocate for you in career opportunities, it’s practice for interviewing, it broadens your exposure to problems in your space so you’re not just in an echo chamber of your own company’s problems.

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2023/09/12/take-call-help-rand...
I use Strongbox and store my Passkeys in a Keepass File. Vendor agnostic, private syncable and locked by my passphrase.
I like them and wish more services would implement them properly.
edit pdf tool is under development.
Look at Hylo. Tell me what you think. You do not need all that juggling. Just use value semantics with lazy copying. The rest is handled for you. Without GC. Without dangling pointers.
> defining C functions and for-loops are so much more verbose than just using JMP instructions in assembly language

Are you sure? It's not just a JMP; for a loop you need a compare and increment/decrement instruction at the very least, and calling a function is way more complex than a JMP: you have to place the function arguments in the right registers and/or on the right place on the stack, you need to save registers that might get clobbered, and you need to push a return address before you jump. So in C these things are definitely more compact to write.

I did get the point about effects introducing a new form of structure and composability, and I'd really like to see that. But at the moment it looks like it is as much work as actually implementing a function call in assembler, the only benefit is that the compiler will check the correctness for you.
This was amazing to me. I'll think about it next time I'm trying to desolder something with hot air and solder wick like a chump.
Wait - so you are saying that information on the public internet isn’t public? Man, I wish people would remember the origin of the web and the entire reason it exists. If you don’t want information public, protect it - otherwise, I say it’s fair game.
Every time someone I met online has offered to have "a chat over coffee" they somehow never actually had the time for it. Whenever I hear "coffee chat" I just assume they're saying it to reassure themselves they're charitable people or something. Don't you have anything else better to do than to talk to random 20somethings about their career they don't have yet?
Something I keep thinking about is how we’re seeing the end of what I call the “tech zeitgeist”.

Started upon realizing that we‘ve likely seen the end of the social network era. No new social networking startups have popped-off in a while, and the recent ones are arguably more about connecting you to entertainers than friends.

Besides that, a lot of the tech ideas from 2012-2020 have kind of fizzled out. 3D printing will likely never enter the mainstream. VR/AR has failed to launch. In broad strokes, everything has either reached maturity or faded away.

AI is the one exception it seems, and when you realize that you start to realize that all the hype and money being poured into AI may be more out of desperation than anything else. It’s AI or nothing it seems.

And then, you have Apple at what is arguably its most vulnerable, while many other tech giants go through some kind of enshittification phase.

Can’t wait for the end personally.
I don't think it's really a question of how many units they sell.

It's more how quickly those units sell. How many get returned. How much activity is happening on the platform.

Apple knows all of those numbers. They also know what the potential improvements are and they probably have a really good idea what improvements would move the needle on the numbers that matter.

If Apple kill the AVP it may well look odd from the outside but they'll be well informed.
Nothing sketchy about self hosting your email. Sure, that is what the big tech cartel wants you to think so you're forced to let them handle your correspondence "for your own safety". Don't believe their lies.
The point I'm making is that there's simply no evidence to suggest that Russia is interested in colonialism.

A very strange thing to say, given that war against Ukraine is an extremely blatant attempt at re-colonization (with a heaping dose of full-tilt racist ethnic cleansing to boot).

Putin's designs in Africa are clearly different, and "colonialism" probably isn't the right conceptual model to apply there. But this insinuation you're making that he's on some kind of "anti-colonial" mission there (or that that he's lending the people in those countries a helping hand in any other way) is equally bizarre, an fundamentally quite naive.
Until a few more years from now, the AI firms need to make profit and Claude has some special offers to upsell you before giving you a response. Lol
As I learned in Google SRE: "hope is not a strategy"
Incorrect. 1P orginally offer direct LAN syncing among machines.
Fear and Loathing of A.I
Graphics pretty much boils down to matrix multiplication, and that's exactly what this thing accelerates. If it were a generalized accellerator, it would have to support other kinds of arithmetic as well.
That is very true.

I use i3-wm. I think the default UI is definitely Windows-esque with all the menus and the clunkiness.

I still haven't made the 'power user' jump to another distro like many friends and colleagues have prodded me about, hah.
This depends on how high the operating costs are in Europe. If their profits are approaching zero in the market, pulling out of it entirely would have less of an impact. Obviously that isn't the case, but operating costs for the market also aren't zero.
Ehh good for them. But I'm sure anyone who's spent time working in a non-profit can attest, it's a pretty quick path to becoming bloated with admin and immobilized by politics. They'll inevitably bow to sponsor pressure or end up broke and irrelevant. See W3C et. al.
“Over the last eight years, traffic citations are down by 97% in San Francisco”

I doubt traffic violations have decreased by this percentage. In San Jose it feels similar. Police just seem to be doing less.
Counter-intuitive
This will continue as long s interest rates stay high.
Okta warns of "unprecedented" credential stuffing attacks on customers
> All AI is written with Python.

Type error on line 3: “Python” is not a valid type for “all AI”.
The thing people love forgetting is a huge part of the iPhone success is based on the North American cellular comms industry being a trustless disaster area. The deal Apple did with AT&T opened the floodgates.

Android was initially designed so that operators could customise it. The idea was apps were developed (and sold) only by operators, and everything else would be via the browser. If you had used a Nokia device in the EU in 2005 and then the exact same model in the customised form released on a US carrier you'd understand why this was such a terrible idea. The exclusion of carriers from being able to make modifications to the phone was, and remains, an active feature for end users.

People keep having to learn that developers cannot be trusted either, someone somewhere will always trend towards the very worst thing they can do, and you need look no further than this forum for the levels of avarice which have overrun the tech industry. The EU regulators live in a parallel universe where they're all dependent on WhatsApp as they've never truly internalised that there is no such thing as a free lunch and that people see them as easy marks.
Most programming languages themselves have a relatively finite number of keywords (if, break, continue, etc). It's the entire ecosystem (npm, PyPi, nuget, etc) and all the English libraries where it gets confusing for non-native speakers.

You would almost need something along the lines of a "source translation map" + a transpiler + IDE which supported these translated keyword equivalents as part of natural autocompletion to make something like this work.

EDIT: I wouldn't be surprised if there's an extension for VS Code / Jetbrains that translates JSDocs side-by-side into the user's language.
That's a funny take. I guess Apple is going to pay my sick leave, then? Buy me the hardware I need to do my "work for them"? No? Weird, guess I'm not working for them at all in any way.
There’s some agreement among historians that education above a bachelors was started as a payola scheme between the church and landed gentry to buy their kids “advanced” credentials so they could be middle managers still not worker class.

We do love to keep our historical memes alive despite the economy having nothing to do with them. Physical statistics are what keep enough TP and food on shelves so the people do not riot.

Not an endorsement for Mentava, but there’s an indictment of our education system when their program is resulting in kids being fluent in AP math by 5th grade (or so they claim): http://mentava.com
Companies shouldn't be expected to individually make suboptimal decisions in order to preserve the health of the market. They should be regulated by a functioning government.
Yeah, and really enforce anti-dumping laws.

The cost of living of an Indian developer is way less than that of a US one, especially if the US one is in a high cost of living area such as SF or NYC. How can the US worker complete when they have US housing and college costs, not Indian ones, that need to be paid for?

Offshoring like this is allowing dumping of below-cost labor into US markets. Great for US C-suite folk and their profit-based bonuses, and for lobbyists getting paid big bucks to let this happen, but not so great for US citizens trying to make a living as software developers, which one might have thought would be a thing the US would strategically want to encourage, rather than strengthening a foreign country.
I'm a desktop fan. I'm considering if I will eventually migrate to an all-in-one eventually. The only drawback of an all-in-one is screen size.