skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s many things they can’t do. Even a simple rule like “ensure that numbers from one to ten are written as words and numbers greater ten as digits in the given text” fails for me for so many examples even if it works for many others; few shot, chain of thought, many versions of the prompt, it doesn’t matter. Sometimes LLMs will even change the number to something else, even with temp set to 0. And then there’s the non-determinism (again with temp=0), you run the same prompt several times and that one time it’ll respond with something different.

As amazing as they are, they still have many limitations.

I’ve been working with ChatGPT and Gemini to apply simple rules like the one above and I got so frustrated.
I am! I was just pointing out every Apple product goes through this.

Cool new thing announced -> not selling well enough -> “total flop” -> multibillion dollar product every year
i hate this hacker stuff!
Wayland is X12, sort of. In the sense that it's developed by the same people as a successor, and they've stopped working on X11.

It's much the same way that Vulkan is OpenGL 5. I've been told that's actually the reason it's called V ulkan. :)

The name change prevents a Perl 6 situation I suppose.
> But then I started asking myself how can we figure out the limits of its ability to reason

Third paragraph. The entire article is based on the premise LLMs are supposed to reason, which is wrong. They don't, they're tools to generate text.
Much Ado About "Nothing"
I know, for the longest time my hosting provider "claimed" I needed a static IP in order to have https.

It wasn't until there was a bigger push that they "realized" that https doesn't require a static IP.
This is less severe than losing an account because at least the encrypted drive is backed up, right? :)
Maybe the time is right to bring back manually curated lists of useful/interesting websites. Webrings, category-sorted directories with an entry 'portal' & similar.

These mostly disappeared as the web's content size exploded, maintaining those directories became too much work, and search engines were just so much easier / better to find what you're looking for.

These days: ad & tracking infested bloated trash everywhere, and search engine's usefulness have declined. Putting the few "small web" gems out there in a curated directory, might just be easier than trawling through heaps & heaps of junk (or in near-future: have AI assistant do that for you).

A kind of white-listing, if you will.
I've had it happen recently after installing software updates.
Yeah, and to stress the point: this is not "can't send vacation pictures to my grandma" bad, this is "might lose my company/my job and my house" bad, as everything else in life treats one's email (and increasingly, app 2FA) as infallible backup.
I think it'd be way more interesting if someone knew of a country the size of Germany that wasn't subdivided into smaller governments.
just curious, what's the difference to the other extensions doing this?
> ensure that numbers from one to ten as written as words and numbers greater ten as digits in the given text

I can’t fault llms for not knowing what to do here because I, a human, have no idea what on earth this means.
> Just do some reasoning about the side effects.

"Wat?"

Have you ever inherited a 1MLoC codebase that you yourself didn't write from scratch, or worked on a large project with at least one other person? How do you know what the side-effects are and where they happen when you aren't intimately familiar with the code you're interacting with? That's the whole point of making effects explicit and available for analysis in the type system.
Most password managers tie credentials to domains. In fact, this is a good indicator of possible phishing attempts when your password manager doesn’t offer to auto-fill your expected credentials.
It's probably an "if you build it, they will come" kind of thing. I'm pretty sure a few HN readers that just saw this site have already run off to re-create the Butcher level from Diablo in WASM.
We have an internal server issue. It will be resolved in sometime
Judging by the Jia Tan situation, I think maintainers should judge contributors as well.

It’s the maintainer’s job to be defensive of their projects and prevent them from being abused. It’s not necessarily their job to build and foster a community.
> they said they weren’t seeing any weird activity

Yet did not give a cause for the lockout?
Or at least select multiple groups with a similar style at once. So you select the first group of text, then a dotted line will appear around groups of the same styling, and you just hold down control or shift and click each one and it'll highlight then entire group that you clicked.
> To me, what you are describing doesn't constitute a drive-by PR.

Drive-by PR simply means that the PR author is not a known community member resp. doesn't plan to become a regular contributor.
Right, but investors were happy to fund those intro offers with the hope that they'll be rewarded in the end with market share. In fact they were funding multiple competing companies (eg. uber eats, doordash, grubhub). If the Asian competitors are fundamentally cheaper than their Western counterparts, then it'd be a non-brainer investors to invest in them instead, because over the long term they'll have a cost advantage.
How do u think?
Agreed, but only where local is acceptable.
Here's their argument (which I disagree with, but I believe I understand what it is to the extent where I can explain it):

1. Person A starts creating work W and selling it as a profession

2. Person B also starts creating work W and giving it out for free (with some Patreon income, but that is not the point here)

3. Person A can no longer compete with person B, because free is free. Person A is no longer paid
I have me and Mac and haven’t seen this issue.
Can you share the command
I had one. Yeah you could watch movies. Ok. But can do that on my phone or iPad or computer or TV. It may be a different experience, but it’s not something only the VP can do.

I was referring to compelling things that existing devices can’t do well. There don’t seem to be many/any now, let alone at launch.
“Ten” is a word, “10” are digits.

I’m not a native English speaker, how would you write it?

FWIW the LLMs get it right many times, but fail other times.
None of that actually disproves my point.

If a "regulated" market can still have players explicitly target heads of state, cabinet members, and the future monarch of a country for extrajudicial killings and saw a dramatic increase in violence, then by definition the light touch regulation used is failing.

All my examples happened in 2022.

You can try to rationalize, but at the end of the day it is a dirty business and even regulation would not clean it up (eg. Oklahoma's attempt at legalizing Marijuana cultivation lead to an influx of Chinese organized crime players [0] because of high taxes on legal marijuana)

There is a happy path between harm reduction, decriminalization, and legalization, but imo the Dutch system is clearly not it.

[0] - https://www.propublica.org/article/chinese-organized-crime-u...
You say that like its a bad thing...
Not true. Technology defines the parameters of social action and we are forced to use technology as it becomes mandatory. Moreover, humans have basic instincts, the strong force which overrides morality frequently. Humanity as a society has very little will and a lot of momentum that is amplified by technology. It is not up to anyone to wield anything.
Yes, "speak softly and carry a big stick", is the only feasible peacetime politics.
There are no solutions to such dilemmas, only actions which suck in different ways. Ultimately, I think big changes have to come from governments for this sort of thing. The ozone hole wasn't fixed because all the peoples of the world made separate and independent decisions not to purchase and use products with ozone-depleting agents. Even if there were big public awareness campaigns and giant warning labels. There would still be many people deciding to buy/use them because of the local short-term needs trumps long-term global effects. It was only when these products were simply never made in the first place that things changed.
We aren't mind readers, tell us the context, is it a regional spelling?
This tends to be a very unpopular opinion around here, but in almost all cases I find Internet scraping to be unethical and downright malicious. I'm not saying all cases, but I'm saying almost.

A lot of the actors involved tend to be hustle culture types who think they are OWED your data, regardless of the ethics, laws, being a good citizen, whatever. They will blatantly disregard terms of service and hide behind massive setups such as these to circumvent protection etc.

And the problem is, if you run any sort of business or service that is data oriented, there will be thousands of people that will do this, which will cause you to devote enormous amounts of time, effort, money, and infrastructure just to mitigate the issues involved with data scraping. That's before you are even addressing whether or not these people are "stealing" your data. People who feel they are entitled to the crux of your business aren't bothered by being nice in the way they take it - they'll launch services that will cripple infrastructure.

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"

And if you think this was a problem before, it's exponentially worse over the past few months with every Tom, Susan, and Harry deciding they must have all your data to train their new LLM AI model. By the thousands.
I really hate this reductive, facile, "um akshually" take. If the text that the text-generating tool generates contains reasoning, then the text generation tool can be said to be reasoning, can't it.

That's like saying "humans aren't supposed to reason, they're supposed to make sounds with their mouths".
I don’t have a car, but I would love for the parking garage near me look like the churches in the article (putting aside the practical differences in requirements). Similarly, I would welcome one on these church buildings replacing one of my neighborhood churches just to give us something different to look at.
Translation screens a godsend for overseas tourists in Japan
Try Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: A Survey

or a more recent and spirited discussion on reddit..

https://old.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/196i...
I agree. It can be reduced through PR review and since it’s public, people who make low value contributions are easier to spot than in non-OSS projects where the same vanity contribs are harder to see.

I’d say that if I saw bullshit open source contribs on a resume it would be counterproductive. So I think people may do it for t-shirts, but to list as experience seems like it doesn’t happen as much as it seems it may.
Your solution to people messing up a McDonald's is to have them murdered by the government? Did I get that right?
Not really. You can run potentially-compromised code in a sandbox. X11 is unsandboxable though since X11 programs can see each other freely through the display server.
You’re equating having a meal delivered to luxury watches like Rolexes?
I can't think of any source for suck a leak but Apple.

> taking drastic measures is their only option.

Less drastic would be to come clean and say the lockouts are by Apple themselves.
And unlike, say, Samsung Ultrabooks or even Microsoft Surfaces, Macs last a really long time. My kids are using my 2011 MacBook Air and 2009 iMac and they still work, even the battery still kinda hangs in. They've had a few rough years 2016-2019 with the butterfly keyboards but I don't know many current manufacturers with products as solid long term.
Given the text "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12" it should result in "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12"

or at least that's my understanding of the prompt
> > ensure that numbers from one to ten as written as words and numbers greater ten as digits in the given text

There are two blue, one red, and 15 green m&ms in this bag.
I cannot speak for others, but one hacker did respond w/ ideas for a couple of things he is wondering like crazy about why are not implemented because of the massive RoI. Hackers and technologists shouuld be able to join forces.

Maybe someone brighter than I am can explain why those things are not done post-haste.I am hardly among the brightest folks here, or anywhere. I am just curious about things. Curious, or fiend for that A-ha experience!:)
Yes, the windowing system requires such to prevent applications with less privileges spying or controlling those with more.

On X, it is possible for an exploit in a browser to gain root if you have an application opened as root.

Although such exploit would be extremely difficult to pull off, state actors will do anything for specific targets.
It's a simple prescriptive rule in English. If you are writing about a small number, like less than ten, spell it out. For example: "According to a survey, nine out of ten people agree."

But if you are writing about a large number, particularly one with a lot of different digits, prefer writing the digits: "A mile is 5,280 feet." Compare that to: "A mile is five thousand, two hundred, and eighty feet."
MO House backs legal shield for Roundup facing cancer lawsuits
There is at least a decade since I have been using only 10-bit color monitors and I have never seen any problem in X with them. I do not know whether you count this as a "sibling" of XRGB8888.

The only software that had problems were various installers for some professional programs, which were written in Java and which crashed immediately on 10-bit color displays.

However that was a Java problem, not an X11 problem, because the same installers also crashed on Windows when the display was configured in the 10-bit color mode.

Of course the color management in X is not good, but I have not heard yet about significant improvements in Wayland.

In my opinion, the only right way to handle color would have been for all user applications to work only in a linear wide gamut FP16 RGB color space, like Rec. 2020. Only the display driver should be aware of the characteristics of the display, like color primaries, gamma, HDR, color resolution or pixel encoding, which should be used for an output conversion in the GPU.

AFAIK, Wayland has also missed the opportunity to make such radical changes.
Lol no, this is like saying lawn mowers don't work just because you know a guy who refused to do regular maintenance like oiling the engine.
I think he mean that numbers less or equal than ten are written as words, and others are written as numbers.

Given the many reaponses, it would be fun to aee if llm beat humans on understanding the sentence ahah
I don't do this usually because it's not constructive and incites flamewars, but since it was asked, this is whats 5 minutes of browsing comments got me.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40175427

Implies OP doesn't care about programming:

> The vibe that I'm getting is that it's filled with people that don't particularly care about programming, they just want to get stuff done(TM), this is also highlighted by the fact that they are willing to write completely inadequate code just to see things working. Rust is not that, and that's a good thing.

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40173609

Handwaves Rust's complicated and onging async history and pinpoints the problem to "this guy":

> Why is async such a dealbreaker for this guy? Especially for web dev.

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172636

Another "you're holding it wrong":

> That has got to be the most "I didn't think this through" take ever.

4) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172605

As a newcomer, not thinking the Rust way is a sin and if you ask dumb questions you deserve retaliation, apparenlty:

> "On the other hand, Rust communities are inundated with people trying to write Rust as if it was their old favorite language..."

> "..In my experience, Rust community members who arrive with well thought out complaints or suggestions are welcomed by the people who like working on programming language fundamentals."

5) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172883

More handwaving of Rusts shortcomings. Plus contradiction on the same sentence:

> "Rust is not antithetical to iteration-based programming, it just makes you write a lot of heavy boilerplate to explicitly support that kind of style."
It’s an auto regressive model so it can’t do anything that requires planning tokens.

It can’t do anything which implies a large or infinite token space (eg video understanding).

It’s also limited to a reasonable response length since token selection is probabilistic at each recursion. The longer you make it the more likely it is to veer off course.
What's the fee as % of food cost? What's a good wage there? Need more numbers to make a comparison to USA.
Thanks, I remember it was replaced by the ID attribute, but in this case, it is not being used as a named anchor. It seem more like an index.
Your first point is backwards:

> 1.) Use open source software (Fair enough but not helpful)

It should be

> 1.) Send PR to projects you already use.

The idea is that you understand how the sofware is used before triying to fix or improve it. It also work for propietary software, dogffod it yourself and use hallway usability test.

(There are some examptions like fixing typos or transforming the automatic test suit to be run in github actions, but most of the times it's very useful to already use the project to understand what is the correct fix.)
The people in the McDonalds are the victims. The people that would be executed are the dealers getting people addicted for their own profit.
Is there really no good open source form backend? That doesn't sound right.
You _should_ the best tool for the job.

Personally,I don’t think php or js are the right tools to build a backend for a business.

Neither are particularly friendly towards growing teams for many reasons, but the lack of strong typing is a big one.

You want your backend to have minimal complexity, that’s why go has been so popular lately
On... the phone?

I really doubt that calls are disabled since it's "just" appleids, but the irony is still amusing. Landlines still have some uses after all!
Lessons to a Junior Software Developer
Hi, I've been programming for a few years, and I've learned a lot. In the article, I share a few key lessons I've learnt that I think are going to be helpful to new and junior developers. I try to focus on lesser-known aspects that can help young developers grow without rehashing common wisdom. Hopeful it helpful to someone you know.
This is so overengineered. Just a simple web hosting and php script will do it
Generally, FEMA is not an insurance program, one does not pay premiums through them, and the uses of the money are restrictive compared to regular insurance.

"one or two pennies from the pocket of the consumer annually."

Small producers take about 10% of commodity crop subsidies (not counting other types), which is about $1B per year. So no, not pennies per person. A better measure would be on a per acre basis.
We should put you in charge, you seem to be a good person who won't misuse the position.
ChatGPT Is Broken on Firefox
I think it was fdesetup validaterecovery.
Not sure having shared memory and socket open to N fresh and under active feature development c codebases is that much more conducive to security? (N since while many compositors use wlroots there is still enough rope to hang yourself).
To be fair, unless there is a exploitable bug in wlroots/lower wayland code, the blast-radius will be a lot more limited than if one is found in Xserver.

I think the Qubes approach is the only one worth considering if one deeply cares about security.
Thank you for bringing up Ticketmaster! Seems the deal now is we are all playing a shell game of one company obfuscating blame by hiring another company to do their dirty work.

I can't believe how the majority of people (including our law makers) have fallen for the trick and are blaming Ticketmaster for Taylor Swift charging as much as she can for tickets.
Regrettable that you are not being engaged in a verbalized discussion. I appreciate your thoughtful comments, as someone who habitually uses pot and tobacco and recognizes the harmful effects of these substances. At least society is now fully onboard in recognizing the harm of habitual tobacco use. Pot is a mixed bag, there is some good in it but it is possible that its harm exceeds its benefits. It is certainly addictive, in my experience. It is not easy at all to stop. That said, I've always found the punitive legal measures against pot to have been highly excessive and possibly motivated by considerations other than public health, as its roots have clear racist ('Reefer madness') dimensions. These days however I am rather alarmed at the promotion of pot as a benign substance. I have seriously wondered if its liberalization is a means at social pacification (ala Victory Gin of 1984) given the grave distortions that have manifested in Western society, specially in the economic dimension. There is money to be made and the plebes now have a outlet that keeps them content.

It is not clear to me if law in fact incentivizes good behavior. In general my view on these matters -- social architecture -- is that form can not engender meaning. Meaning needs to be project into form, in the sense of it being an expression of collective understanding. This brings up the matter of pedagogical aspect of social order, to wit, your views would be entirely orthodox in a strict patriarchal societal order. And our society is no longer that, as you must know.

~

"The most important things about beliefs are whether they are true. The most important thing about motives is whether they are good."

I saw this on your profile page. What is necessary is that actions are timely and true. As to "good", I hope we agree that what is true is by definition good (if timely) and what is good can not possibly be false or untimely. So in my opinion, it suffices to say "Be timely, be true".
Working through a staffing agency or not and working "a traditional 9–5 job" or not are two totally separate subjects.