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> I'm seeing the same thing with LLMs, all people are focused on is: Prove to me AI isn't evil - people can see a valuable use case in a demo but it doesn't matter, I think like blockchain some are beyond convincing. They just aren't into technology anymore.

You might be shadowboxing a bit with a point I didn't make (or maybe your comment was intentionally orthogonal to what I raised, not sure). I work with this technology every day in a professional, commercial context. Not just LLMs, but many other ML/DL implementations that walk the gamut of downstream tasks from anomaly detection, time series forecasting, etc. I think its useful enough to be building real things with it to improve the way my business functions. In the efforts of building those inference and training stacks from scratch, I've also seen how spectacularly they can fail and how often.

I don't think AI is evil. I think autoregressive token prediction is stochastic enough to be considered unreliable in its current state. That doesn't mean I am going to stop building things with it, it just means that I've seen these systems implode regularly enough, even with grounding via RAG, that I tend to push caution first and foremost (as I did in my original message).
What song is in your head?
Social Media influencers are another category that go in the "low interest rate phenomenon" bucket I think. Being reliant on big social media corporations for the business model to work means it's always been precarious, but now that all the big tech firms are tightening the belt and a lot less generous to their users (consumers and businesses alike) the industry's days are probably numbered.
It has some obscure bugs during build process (You need to have project in C:/ if you are on Windows), but otherwise it runs fine for Windows and Android. It also runs fine on MacOS, but you need to compile on MacOS as I did not figure out how to emit PKG file on Windows. It also runs fine on XCode iOS emulator, but I don't have iOS device to test on.

In nutshell, I think that MAUI has some pains to get used to, but when you make it working on one platform, it usually works on remaining platforms as well. Only thing which I don't like is HUGE binaries it generates (60-200MB) but I guess that's a price to pay for simple deployment on multiple platforms.
They already do that. And some or maybe all of these people will never be hired again because of zionist activism.

Principled restraint from an effective technique has never deterred an opponent from using it themselves.

Like look at the last decade of the democrats and their deference to decorum and what that has accomplished.
Maybe unexpected: I agree

One of the biggest improvement for me was improved multi monitor and multi-DPI/PPI support. Being able to just put two different monitors next to each other and moving windows between them works. They just adopt their rendering on the fly to the screens DPI setting and it works with most current software.

One of the biggest issues that block me from moving to Linux, I run my displays with 125% and 150% fractional scaling. That just doesn't work like that on Linux, fractional scaling comes with many drawbacks.
I don't know but there are Disney TV shows where the main characters "aspire to become an influencer". It's embedded in the zeitgeist, and I don't know it gets dislodged if at all.
I wasn’t the one who made this, fwiw.
I long for an alternate dimension where terminal-based internet like Minitel dominated .

Something like hypercard implemented with 80x24 ncurses UI
How does it compare to https://invoice-generator.com/ ? It’s free and it stores invoices in the browser. It’s so simple that I wonder how this solution is simpler.
$25 for 12 oz? Yikes!
Decapsulating the CH32V203 Reveals a Separate Flash Die
What kind of knowledge or skillset are you looking for in hires?
create the next ssh crawler
Resigning under protest isn't really effective unless you are difficult to replace. Even in that scenario, you can almost certainly "protest" more effectively by speaking out and seeking targeted changes and then ultimately resigning or forcing them to fire you when they don't change. Protesting is at its core being an un-ignorable pain in the ass until a problem gets fixed. Resigning is pretty ignorable, especially if your reasons for doing so are not clear.
140$ sounds like price for perpetual license that binds to your Microsoft account and can be transfered from pc to pc.

But you can buy legit oem licenses that cost something like 40$.
You simply won't be able to move it to new pc, but usually it doesn't matter much.

People avoid them cause "surely if they are thus cheap they must be scam", but it's not. They simply have restriction of permanently binding to single hardware. But again, usually it's worth it anyway
I have ryzen 2400G. no Windows 11 for that cpu. 2018 is too old I guess. Anyway Linux of course works and steam nowadays works so well with windows games I really have no reason for windows 11 anyway.
Not just dropout: the disc stacker will set each pixel to the median (if there are enough copies) or an average (if there are just two) so even slightly off pixels on one disc of three, will be caught/fixed. (You can do the same thing with VHS, but not with their stacker software. You'll need to resort to VapourSynth or Avisynth/Avisynth+.)
Reddit is a cesspool moderated by literal high schoolers and unemployed people.
Small copy edit, in your questions section:

What is Onigiri and how DOES it WORK?

"How it works" is not a question in English.
>> Does anyone who works on Windows read HN?

I do.

However, {#include https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39950708}
In my experience, the single best question for screening out overt charlatans is a simple "Tell me about a problem you've worked on recently." Everybody engaged with technical work has a few war stories, and they're hard to fabricate without a deep understanding of the domain (at which point they wouldn't be a charlatan, now would they). It generally relaxes nervous candidates a bit, since it's external enough to not feel like bragging, while being self-congratulatory in that candidates almost always talk about a problem they succeeded in solving (and the ones who don't are always talking about a very interesting problem). What kind of problem they describe tends to give you some insight into their strengths, and their general enthusiasm clues you into their interests. Throw in some probing questions if they don't go into enough detail, and you can come out the other end of it pretty confident whether they have technical chops or not.

So far, it's been extremely successful for me in predicting whether a candidates going to get weeded out by the rest of the interviewing process or not.
what did you expect when they said "startup" and not "shop"
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How does she live with hardly any cash?

Practically speaking, taking 2% of the company stock per year would expose the govt to downswings, and if they own enough of it, potentially get them involved in things like board seats. Public politics and corporate politics probably shouldn't mix. But excise taxes exist for other kinds of assets, and people find the cash for them. Selling stock to someone and forking over the cash from the sale (beware double taxation on the sale) doesn't diminish the overall value of the company, it just spreads ownership around. But it's sort of a weird concept.
It's one of those things that's kind of nice, but also generally unnecessary and I could easily live without, for the exact reason you mention. Manual wipers on a stalk are just right there next to your hand anyways, hardly an inconvenience when you need to use them.

About the only time auto wipers are handy is when you're driving through an area where the precipitation is highly inconsistent, torrential downpour one minute, a light sprinkle the next.

Of course, Tesla doubled down on their automatic wipers by removing the stalk. -_- In my 2019 Model 3, I can't change wiper behavior on the stalk, though there is a button on the end that if I press, it forces a single wipe, or continuously wipes if I hold the button. It also causes the display to show the wiper speed adjustment UI, and allows me to tilt one of the steering wheel controls to change the setting, so I don't HAVE to use the touch screen. But tbh, I'd still rather just have a stalk with a knob that sets the setting.
It’s a raw form of the same old celebrity worship we see with athletes, actors, and wealthy people. It’s in your pocket at all times, it’s in your friends pockets at all times, and there’s a tight feedback loop from the algorithm.

Silver lining is the abundance of influencers lessens the stickiness of any particular brand and makes it a shorter term fad.
There needs to be law or case law so that the manufacturers are proportionally responsible for harm the driver assistance features cause. It's the only way that it'll affect their bottom line enough for them to take safely as seriously as they should.
I think, for any language that "targets the Golang runtime", you do need some way to express to the runtime to "use the zero-value default initializer." Otherwise, you'd have no hope of code in your language being able to be used to define e.g. protobuf-compatible types; or of using Golang-runtime reflection (due to e.g. the interface zero-value.)
Apparently ME was so bad it's been memory-holed.
> ostracize the non-believers

It is rather the non-believers in exception handling who are the lunatic fringe that benefits from a healthy dose of ostracism.
The founders have a great (if conversational and sometimes off topic) podcast about development topics:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-about-tomorrow/id1...
I actually just built a new PC this weekend, my first in a while, with a Radeon GPU. I decided to give Fedora Kinoite a chance on it just because Windows' transition to becoming an ad platform was really pissing me off and it doesn't hurt to see what Linux is like now, especially something weird like an atomic OS.

To my surprise, games just work. I haven't really attempted this in over a decade, but I was able to play Hunt Showdown, Halo Infinite, Counter-Strike 2, Baldurs Gate 3, and Doom Eternal all without issues or configuration. Kinoite itself is pretty awesome; my system is immutable and treated like a git repo, KDE 6 is extremely polished and visually appealing, and any dev work just runs in their handy "toolbox" utility.

The rest of the stuff I use (Signal, Discord, Google Chrome, Blender, Krita, Godot) is all natively supported.

I don't see myself touching Windows again, it has nothing I need at this point.
How Much Memory Do You Need Today?
They sold out in 15 minutes? Or this is email/ip addy harvesting?
I love Alec's work on the CED. So good and really nicely narrative-driven, which is kinda rare in this "let's review old technology" genre.
There is a decade old rule: don't upgrade to the next windows version before the first Service Pack is released.
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If they aren't logging it then there's nothing to disclose.
A little strange that the post author tried things like switching from left/right to coffee/tea, but apparently didn't try inverting left and right.
Does it do time tracking?

I'm currently a freelancer using Harvest to track time by project and task with a Chrome plug-in, and it generates an invoice every month. Works really well, even on their free plan. Wondering if Onigiri offers any benefits?
This doesn't really have anything to do with the language model. The temperature only has to do with the _sampling_ from the probability distribution which the language model predicts. In fact, raising the temperature would eventually cause the model to randomly print "left" or "right," (eventually at 50/50 chance) not converge on the actual distribution which the prompt suggests. I suppose if you restricted the logits to just those tokens "left" and "right", softmaxed them, and then tuned the temperature T you might get it to reproduce the correct distribution, but that would be true of a random language model as well.

I think its pretty simple and straightforward: the model simply fails to understand the question and can reasonably be said to not understand probability.
I think a lot of this is subliminal advertising. My gf sometimes randomly mentions some new product she suddenly thinks she needs and how everyone loves it... and I can only assume she saw something on Instagram without realizing it is an ad.
Nope, full usermode containers (e.g.: apptainer) run under the user's own context, and furthermore under a cgroup (if we're talking HPC/SLURM at least) which restricts the user's resources to what they requested in their job file.

Hence all containers are isolated from each other, not only at process level, but at user + cgroup level too.

Apptainer: https://apptainer.org
> I'm a high school student with a passion for tackling misinformation online. Inspired by the need for more reliable content verification tools, I decided to create Factful. It's an AI-powered web app

I stopped reading here because LLMs do not deal in facts. LLMs are statistical models of the relationships between words. An LLM can regurgitate facts that appear in its training data, but they are incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction.

You cannot trust anything output by an LLM to be factual; it always needs to be verified. Therefore, LLMs are unsuited to fact-checking.

I'm not saying this to be a dick. I'm trying to warn you against investing a lot of time and energy into something that just doesn't work the way people want it to.
I haven't had any problem with any of those things - maybe I lucked out with hardware support.

However, some longstanding problems I had on Windows with controller and displays and accessories have finally just disappeared.

So YMMV.
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In the late 1980's I rewrote a very large pension actuarial forecasting system, written in Fortran, to Basic.

I'm very not sure, so I'm guessing that the system had several hundred thousand LOC.

The idea was to stop spending a fortune on mainframe time and run pensions valuations on a microcomputer.

The Fortran system, running on a mainframe, might take 60s to run a valuation.

The same valuation would take a full day to run on a microprocessor, but it worth it because it reduced costs by a lot.
> Despite the industry's known problems, Camp said that in some cases, influencer marketing was still perceived as more desirable because there's a level of authenticity when someone you follow and trust is pitching a product versus just an anonymous ad.

This is the linch pin. It's a $21B industry because it works. A lot of influencers do not have the expertise and infrastructure for the same level of red tape and guard rails traditional celebrity endorsements include. Some brands, such as bud light, have had bad responses when using influencers to promote their products. I think the worst thing that could happen is that disgruntled companies that used this marketing channel wrong lobby to add a ton of legalize to the channel that will ultimately lower the authenticity of the whole market.
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it's a us company they don't need a cookie banner anyways
I'm a retired computer programmer so this is spur of the moment, but it occurred to me reading this thread that I'd like to help anyone using AI in the sobriety and recovery community on a volunteer basis. I've been using Claude Opus as a sponsor, sobriety coach and recovery therapist (CBT,DBT) to amazing effect. I'd like to share what I've discovered and formalize the process. If you know of any opportunities like this please let me know.

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Yeah, I'd hazard a guess that the life/death tradeoff, the error-management process, and individual liability work very differently for military vs civilian roles.
Shortridge Makes Sense of the 2024 Verizon DBIR
https://archive.is/d7JJe
> Internet is full of liars who claim to be everything from astronauts, to law professors,

And bitter people too I suppose.
I’m sure that any transition from Earth-like to the present state was so slow as to be unnoticeable even over centuries —- but it’s mind-blowing to me to imagine what it would be like to be, say, a nineteenth century civilization realizing you are in a race with the dying of your planet to get the heck off it.
With 70$/kg that's at the upper end of typical prices for specialty coffee (though I'm not familiar with US prices specifically). No idea if they are at a level where they can compete at that price point, a single blend as main product is rather odd for a coffee roaster. At this price point you'd usually get various single origin coffees.
From their Twitter, they sold out yesterday. OP must have just thought it was interesting regardless, even if it's a suboptimal time for them.
And my experience conventions, even when they give out water bottles in the initial swag bag, is people mostly just want to grab a disposable plastic bottle.

I’m actually fine with tap water most of the time but I want to carry a bottle to sessions etc.
Ahhh, I miss the early 90's and these being in classrooms....
How do you evaluate “factuality” without knowing all the facts, though? That’s the downfall of all such services - eventually (or even immediately) they begin to just push their preferred agenda because it’s easier and more profitable.

That said, at 16 you’re just learning, and literally whatever you accomplish will be a great achievement, so go down these paths and learn your lessons
Opera for Beginners
Ask HN: What is used instead of mention.com nowadays?
I used mention.com when it started about a decade ago and found it quite good. When I tried it recently it seems to have deteriorated quite a bit (or maybe my expectations have increased). I was particularly disappointed that their iOS app seems to have been deprecated.

What are people using nowadays?
This is about Kay Sievers, not Lennart Poettering.
It's the topic of the discussion that makes something political, not the position or the attitude. If you are talking about the affairs of the society, if you are assuming the role of a citizen (rather than a private individual), you being political.
Nice. I was wondering if this had been done somewhere before.

"Sony plans to integrate the pizza function more tightly into the game", which every game should do, of course :)
The damage the V2s inflicted on London paled in comparison to the destruction of continental European and Russian and Japanese cities.

The V2 killed more (enslaved) people who were building it than it did in its attacks. It was only 'successful' as a propaganda weapon.

...And by the standards of the Nuremberg trials, the heads of every allied airforce, and all of their immediate subordinates and sub-subordinates should have been dancing the hemp fandango.

I'll also point out that a lot of Nazi military officers and civilian leaders and industrialists, despite significant involvement in the regime's crimes were not found guilty[1] in those trials.

---

[1] Even in the Soviet-ran ones - and as every loyal comrade knows, the courts of the glorious Soviet Union are the fairest, most humane, and most merciful justice system the world has ever conceived, especially when it came to the question of judging fascists.
Sounds like the average Reddit experience.

This is exactly why such communities should remain on open newsgroups rather than Reddit/Discord/Slack or whatever other flavor-of-the-month service people want to switch over to for their shiny UI.
'systemd-run except with privilege escalation' is a thing I wished for for a long time, needed in production.

Glad they finally made it, too bad it took them so long. (To be honest, it feels like it should have just been part of systemd-run in the first place.)
Remote work is also giving professional workers more leisure time, and many are putting more thought into where they live as not just a place where they sleep, but also where they work and socialize. Also, for the people who prefer living in cities, there may be shifts in which cities are desired. Many mid-sized cities in the US existed because of the physical proximity required for the jobs there.

e.g. In 2001 a worker may have moved to Cincinnati or St Louis because they got a job there. In 2024 a remote worker might move to NYC or Austin because they want to live in those places.
A man connecting rail-based walks in England
Why is the industry still growing if it's limited to low interest rate environments?
I can imagine existing conditions on a programming language subreddit that would lead to that rule. Comparative debates about programming languages spread like kudzu, overtaking everything else. If you're trying to have a discussion forum that is just about programming in the Java programming language --- that's a reasonable thing to want! --- then sharply prohibiting discussions about JVM languages might be especially necessary, since the interop between those languages makes it so easy to pull the other languages into the discussion.
Living in/near Michigan all my life and water conservation has never really been a concern, except when it comes to uproars over things like Nestle sourcing water from the Great Lakes.
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> Putting ~100% weights on 'heads' is a terrible prediction!

For a weighted coin, isn't this the optimal strategy in the absence of other information? `p > p^2 + ( 1 − p )^2`.