skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "information age" might be coming to an end.

This is a little melodramatic, no?

Access to information, even without Wikipedia or Reddit, can still be found easily (compared to pre internet days)
I personally don’t use google search anymore, but can still find links to public MIT textbooks (like SICP or Deep Learning) by searching on there. I’m sure google scholar, scihub, and arxiv will be around for a good while.

I’m sure if Wikipedia falls, another encyclopedia would take its place, since so many primary sources are still discoverable if you know the terms to search for. Maybe with a paywall, maybe not.
I'm not sure OTR long haul was really ever part of Tesla's plan at least for this generation of trucks. The trucks are not designed as sleeper cabs, so regional was the only reasonable target.
Because Spotify is not abusing their position as a platform holder to create unfair terms for their competitors.

> As for consumer harm, I seem to hear nothing but complaints from friends about Spotify's latest AI-generated playlists and poor user interface...

That's not market harm, that's a bad product. If you're particularly upset from Spotify's behavior, there are no shortage of competing alternative services you can entirely replace it with.
None of this content is AI generated, not sure why you're bringing that up?
I think it's inevitable that some kind of "Verify personhood" test will be coming for many UGC platforms - perhaps something like Stripe Identity.
I live in Saskatchewan, where it hovers around -40C for a couple weeks in January/February. Ive heard the pumps can take a beating here, but it's interesting to hear your success story.
Do you have perhaps some links/references on that?

I have once tried benchmarking it by writing a tiny VM interpreter and a corresponding threaded one with direct jumps in Zig (which can force inline a call, so I could do efficient direct jumps) and I have - to me surprisingly- found that the naive while-switch loop was faster, even though the resulting assembly of the second approach seemed right.

I wasn’t sure if I saw it only due to my tiny language and dumb example program, or if it’s something deeper. E.g. the JVM does use direct threaded code for their interpreter.
In most European countries gasoline is taxed at more than 100% (or 50% of the price), so it seems that at least for passenger cars, the externalities are mostly mitigated.
That's not how an over-under works
is the ocr system written in perl by any chance?
From what I have read so far: speculative, at best.

It’s all based on the sophistication, the level of psychological manipulation, years of effort, multiple actors, and a working theory based on commit timings.
You, know, you're right. We should all over promise and under deliver. It works for Elmo. Until it doesn't...
So avoid the creme fraiche, dive into the parmigiana?
I've started putting reddit, servethehome, etc to my searches. Otherwise the results are lackluster in google or bing.
The booming business of AI war rooms during India's elections
Cool — didn't know about that one! Thanks, I added it as an addendum to the OP.
However you can check for invalid utf-8 sequences, throw an error with "invalid encoding on byte x, please use valid utf-8" if encountered, and from that point on assume utf-8.
Spin after docking, of course.

Pushing the liquids is not the hard part. Settling the liquids in 0g is the hard part.
Same with bitcoin script. Programming platforms are the least surprising places to find bytecode VMs
The argument that it's just "missing deadlines" which as true as it is, is also a strawman.

Musk hasn't just "missed deadlines". He's outright lied.

For example, in 2016 he claimed Tesla already had self driving capabilities it hasn't shown today, 8 years later.

He lied about bulletproof windows on the CyberTruck. His own demo disproved this.

He lied about the solar roofs. The entire demo was false and staged and the tiles on the roofs were not solar tiles as the demo strongly implied. And testimony showed that he personally knew that it was a lie.

Musk doesn't just miss deadlines. He blatantly lies. And that raises the legitimate concern that a lot of "missed deadlines" weren't just deadlines that were missed, but deadlines that were never feasible and he just lied about.
I like /r/ExperiencedDevs, it's usually pretty good.
No. Launching from Canaveral costs about $1M.
You don't see how having the people whose job it is to maintain a large company's Python infrastructure be literal members of the Python governing council is "valuable" or "related to job duties"?

From the pytype homepage:

> Thousands of projects at Google rely on pytype to keep their Python code well-typed and error-free.
It's impressive how many "journalists" get this wrong when copying news written in English.
> Regardless if you agree or disagree on the EU's position, it's hard to support the rule of law when it's explicitly arbitrary like this.

Regardless of whether you are an Apple customer or not, surely you see how claiming that iPadOS is not equivalent to iOS earns you regulatory ire.
Time to find more forums and buy more paper books.
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But seven years, though... Ouch.
NYC startup scene is arriving...
A bot could add "Edit: ...." to their reply just to make it seem like they're human and need to edit their responses
i feel that stance would be defensible. there are plenty of great engineering reasons to generate a per-device randomized UID during intial provisioning. default password, serial number, seeding/salting, mac randomization, licensing/drm, anonymized logs, etc.
Show HN: A new AI Based tool that will help developers understand new codebase
Introducing a new CLI tool called SourceSailor. The tool helps the fellow coders to understand what's in there in a new codebase. And can create a compelling report from that. Currently working only with OpenAI, but planning to add Claude and Gemini 1.5 soon.
To try out.
CLI From NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sourcesailor?activeTab=readme
Source Code: https://github.com/PrashamTrivedi/SourceSailor-CLI
And (a very lengthy) blogpost explaining the process behind the CLI: https://prashamhtrivedi.in/introducing_sourcesailor.html

Please try out the tool and tell me what do you think about it....
There's something poetic when information about an environment-variable vulnerability being served over a CGI script...
I just don't know how I'd be sure a comment isn't written by an LLM.
>> It’s a bit like a man not realizing he might be a great dancer, simply because most dancers are women, and so he never explores the question.

No offense but that stereotype is incomprehensible. Outside of gay and lesbian clubs, [roughly} half of all dancers are men and the other half women. I suspect you are specifically talking about ballet dancers, but those are a tiny minority, and don't even exist in most of the world.

Here's a really cool dude dancing a really cool dance for men (Zaouli, from Cote d' Ivoire):

https://youtu.be/jZ572yLH9sc?si=xH4tOaqlfrGYQJiw
You have having a wonderful time not understanding what is being said. It seems deliberate at this point.
Discord is like reinventing IRC with more noise. It's not a substitute for forums.
As a Bridge Engineer, I am not looking forward to massively heavy battery carrying truck damaging the roadways.
I find that very hard to believe considering the N100 has a TDP of 6W and in benchmarks draws <8W when idle. Ryzen 5 7640U's numbers are 5x that. The laptop's display itself will consume more energy than the entire mini PC on idle.
That sounds like the opposite of what graycat was suggesting.
What does this have to do with the post? These aren't generated AI comments.
why is reddit allowing creating of bot accounts? Money?

I would make it so new accounts have very limited permissions, create a way for real users to confirm they are humans like via SMS or how other competent social media do it.
Show HN: I Built a Java IDE for iPad
Includes OpenJDK 17 and IntelliSense.
I don't know what led me to make this but here it is.
You don't define a bot as AI?
That’s different than your initial statement that none have vanished overnight. Hundreds or thousands vanished overnight. Many returned, but it was very unclear whether they ever would. Thank goodness the Reddit admins stepped in and basically forced lots of them to come back. Even major ones like r/video are still gone.

In fact, the biggest losers were the users of the small, niche subreddits that the admins couldn’t strongarm into returning.

Your statements are really baffling to me.
Because Apple is not necessarily entitled to an anticompetitive market just to provide product differentiation.
The analogy is between what happens afterward, due to missing the enculturative influence: failing to make friends at school due to lack of primary enculturation; vs. failing to get a job related to your degree due to lack of tertiary enculturation (a.k.a. "lack of culture fit.") Both situations can result in environmentally-induced mental illness.
was not aware of existence of "Lot-tenders". I played many hours of euro track simulator so i am pretty legit.

"Lot-tenders" generally refers to services that involve the management and coordination of truck movements within a large parking lot or a distribution center.
I have predicted this exact VERY predictable scenario this for years and got downvotes by AI enthusiasts who don’t want to even deal with any downsides of AI.

Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688266

We are racing towards the abyss orders of magnitude faster than with climate change or nuclear proliferation, and even the overwhelming majority AI experts coming out and saying there is at least 20% chance of a global catastrophe or even risk of extinction earns a mere shrug: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/opena...

And CEOs: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/14/business/artificial-intel...

And yet even the most mild, libertarian-friendly proposal to mitigate the harm is utterly rejected by AI fans who gang up on any criticism, as the future botswarms will:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35808289

I said the entire internet will turn into a dark forest, including all forums like Reddit and even HN. Swarms of bots will cooperate to “gang up on” opponents and astroturf to shift public opinion. And the worst part will be when humans start to PREFER bots the way organizations already do (eg trading bots replaced humans on wall street).

The AI people are building a dystopian future for us and won’t face ANY accountability or disincentives, but rather the opposite. I expect this post to be downvoted by AI people chafing at any criticism. (Like the opposite of web3 posts.) The replies, if any would even appear, will be predictably “well, it was all already possible with human efforts”, ignoring the massive difference in scale and cost to malicious actors (well, the replies would have been that if I didn’t call it out just now, because they always are, and hardly any actual substantive discussion of the extreme dangerous outcomes that are only starting to come about in very early stages).
There have been a number of recent high-level apprehensions of Russian and, particularly, Chinese spies in the EU. I wonder if there has been a major break for Western intel agencies recently
Maybe fun little bike shed:

Are LLMs not just fancy Markov chains?
They are next token predictors which have some hidden internal state that output probability distributions which lead to further states.
MGR was a later one - it could run (slowly) with an unmodified machine but really needed a VIDPAL to be used best. VIDPAL was a replacement PAL which enabled user-mode access to the framebuffer.
They're likely pivoting to software as legacy automakers and newer Chinese entrants take the lead in mass production.

Looking at how frequently Tesla is slashing prices, they may not be in the hardware business for too much longer.
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> You should familiarize yourself with the actual research on this topic

That's why we are here, but, frankly, I'll take ill-informed speculation over whatever the hell this is. What on earth is the point of using a discussion forum if you are going to outsource the useful words to other people? If they wanted to contribute to the discussion, they would do so themselves.

In fairness, perhaps you accidentally hit submit before you were finished?
> Can it all be explained by inertia?

The tyranny of JavaScript frameworks
Too Big to Win
As the user/owner of the device, no thanks. It should have code updates if and only if I ask it to, which I probably won't unless you have some compelling reason. For the device owner, pulling new updates by itself is just a built in backdoor/RCE exploit, and in practice those backdoors are often used maliciously. I'd much rather my devices have no way to update and boot from ROM.
I personally don't make much distinction between content that's generated by AI (LLMs), posted by bots, and manually forwarded by your grandma to your old AOL account. It's all the same spam, the new stuff is just more sophisticated.
Svelte 5 release candidate (RC)
I can promise you that if you anonymously asked the majority of the rural Brexit voters (rural areas being where the majority of Brexit votes came from), they'll all say that they are culturally closer to white Europeans than to dark skinned non-Europeans.

The UK shares much more and much longer of it's history with Europe than with it's former colonies. We are talking about thousands of years going back to Roman times, instead the less than hundred that the general British colonial rule lasted. The Royal family has Danish and German blood.

Does this mean anything? Not really. It's all semantics.

The actual outcome is very simple: the UK demolished it's ties with it's closest neighbours and biggest single economic block, for some questionable ties with very far away countries. In doing so, it now has very little negotiating power on it's own and has to build many relationships from scratch, from a very weak starting position.

The financial situation of much of the population is dire. The only real reason why one would want to immigrate to the UK is the financial sector, which is still hanging on. If you voted for Brexit, I'd like to say "good luck, I hope you like the taste of the meal you cooked".
I think I've come across this bot on reddit before. I read a lot of skincare-related subreddits and people talk about their routine and 'holy grail' products...so that seems like an appealing place for this type of thing to infest.

It wasn't quite obvious marketer-speak, but certain comments have just seemed like not quite the way a regular commenter would word things.

I figured it was regular humans doing it though. Sigh...
> They flat-out deny that this's a bot, but it's clear to Me.

Doesn't look like a bot at all, possible shill sure but they're a person.
They dropped any utility that switched to GPLv3 because of v3's infectious patent clause that would've put their patent portfolio in danger.
Am I missing something here? The work is ingesting documents from uncontrolled sources that might not all be UTF-8 and handling them correctly. Using an encoding guessing tool is the means to do that. In practice since there are only a few widely-used encodings and they're not terribly ambiguous it means that everything just works and users happily use the software.

This isn't some theoretical thing, we do this at $dayjob right now not only guessing the encoding but the file-type as well so that we can make sense out of whatever garbage our users upload. Everything from malformed CSV exports form Excel to PDFs that are just JPEGs of scanned documents. It works, and it works well.

And of course it does, the files our users are handing to us work on their machines. They can open them up and look at them in whatever local software they produced them with, there's no excuse for us to be unable to do the same.
To be fair, Reddit is actively trying to prevent bots. How do I know? I scrape Reddit threads directly via old.reddit.com URLs and even the most sophisticated scraping tools like BrightData, Undetected Playwright (and Puppeteer), and others just don't work on Reddit threads anymore as of a few months ago.

I now have to use .json at the end of the URL to get the content, but I suspect that'll stop working at some point.
Many thanks, that context was sorely needed. "Delta" by itself was hardly descriptive, let alone if the subject matter describes what isn't about this so-called Delta.
Don't forget that Apple first-party services are exempt from this feature. It is Apple's iPad, after all.

https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1683256902484992004

(probably unrelated) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
Maybe this is the best thing ever, but the documentation doesn't answer one simple question: What problem is it solving?

It is a configuration management tool, like Ansible?

Is it meant for running one-off commands across the infrastructure, like Salt?

It says it integrates with Terraform, so it's not a provisioning tool...

What does it do different (and presumably better) than other tools?

The Getting Started guide doesn't cover this.
The FAQ doesn't cover this, and the Docs doesn't have an Introductory section to cover this.

It's disheartening to find a potentially interesting project, but not really know what it does and how it might fit in your workflow.
I was probably too terse. Those missions are above some level of complexity. Robots - even today's ones - scale rather poorly with the complexity required, while for humans a lot of what's needed comes "for free". So, if you need a large expedition to the Moon, which explores places and various aspects, human crews can possibly return results faster and cheaper than similar results could be returned by space robots.

> A lot of the manned space stuff - even a lot of the unmanned space stuff - is someone deciding that we need to use a hammer to make something, and therefore making nails part of every plan they have.

Used to be more, now it's less and less, with decisions being less centralized. In USSR space science initially was discussed on the level of national academy, the highest existing. Now a small group of students can invent a mission to study a particular aspect and get to results.
That's fair. That was just poor phrasing on my part. I meant "forever" vanish.
Does it allow me to run a script against an EC2 instance, say, and it spins it up and take care of everything? Something like packer would but without creating an AMI
> Only in America is "exercise" something you must go out of your way to do.

No. Growing obesity rates is not an issue unique strictly to America, it's just prevalent there.

> we've built our cities to make walking impossible and dangerous

Kids can and do play in the suburbs. There are parks everywhere. They ride their bikes everywhere. The "fuckcars" angle fails to account for the disparity.

> normalized locking our kids away indoors and shoving an iPad in their face

Now you're getting warmer.

> You are missing the point entirely.

I addressed the argument conveyed to make your "point", and there isn't only a single "point" to be made in discourse. Notwithstanding that if you wanted to make another point, then you'd have made it.
Maybe it's getting into semantics but clarity of thought does not necessarily mean accurate understanding of reality (which is usually messy and complex), so moronic people could ironically have more "clarity of thought" than non-moronic people because they tend to have simple beliefs (these X people are good, but those Y people are bad).
What does this have to do with it not being generative AI?
My working theory is they got sloppy. A patch was ready to be introduced into Linux to prevent this type of attack (dynamically loading unneeded libraries).

They were rushing to get it out into the wild and thus made many mistakes, including the performance degradation.

From what I recall, some distros were reporting build errors in bleeding edge versions. Actors were essentially debugging issues in production, and recommending to distro maintainers ways to “fix” (really hide) the build issue with xz
Hi, head of community at Sourcegraph here. We don't use bots. u/Prolacticus is a Pro user, we do not pay him/her, and they are not sponsored. In fact, I offered them swag a month ago, and they refused.

We do give free/sponsored accounts to our Discord mods, open source maintainers, and folks who write guest blog posts for us. u/Prolacticus is not one of those accounts.
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The boilerplate gives you additional type safety compared to C.

If you want the same type safety as C, which is basically none, then you can write it as:

// foo.hpp
struct Foo {
static Foo* make();

void method();
};

// foo.cpp
struct FooImp : Foo {
std::string something;
};

Foo* Foo::make() {
return new FooImp();
}

void Foo::something() {
...
}

And yes it's rare because nowadays most C++ developers stick as much to value semantics as possible rather than reference semantics, but this approach was very common in the early 2000s, especially when writing Windows COM components.

Nowadays if you want ABI stability, you'd use PIMPL. Qt is probably the biggest library that uses this approach to preserve ABI.
> > > such as MacOS, that are fully compliant with the POSIX standard

> > Until you have to gets your hands dirty and find small and bigger faults everywhere. For example, /bin/sh [...] doesn't work properly in these two parameter expansion cases:

> It’s irrelevant. Neither POSIX nor the UNIX certification [...] requires a recent GNU userland

Is it irrelevant?

If an implementation passes the conformance test suite, but is buggy according to the text of the spec in a way that is not caught by the test suite, can one really say it's "fully compliant with the POSIX standard"?

Is it the test suite that's the final arbiter of the POSIX standard, or is the text of the spec? Because I thought that the point of having a written spec, ratified by a standards body, is that the text of the spec defines what the spec is. It is the text of the spec that is submitted to the standards body, after all, not the test suite.
Wikipedia begs to differ though (check under "UTF-8": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)

Also, at least the Rider IDE and VSCode lets you select to save UTF-8 with or without BOM.

My guess is that it's used mainly to differentiate between UTF-8 and codepage encoded 8-bit ASCII files (which are still very common on Windows).
> I wonder how many deadlines that people miss here, and that's usually just pure software

That's not the flex you think it is. Software is pretty unique in delivering products that the companies don't want to stand behind--think of every software license that basically says "if this software doesn't work, it's YOUR FAULT".

In most industries, missing deadlines is generally grounds for your customers to get very cross with you, especially when your customers are businesses and not consumers.
Lmao at UTM still being harder to install than QEMU
Sounds like Musk thought it was cool and told the engineers to do it this way and practicality and commonality be darned
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The stats speak for themselves (obesity rates are very high, there's no reason to believe troubled kids are overrepresented among the obese, and research shows sports programs can improve self-esteem and socialization in children).

You seem to be particularly hung up on the notion of kids not "accepting" another - there's no reason to believe this. If coaches do their jobs (and they usually do) they foster camaraderie that includes everyone.

I was quiet as a kid, and was never left out in a sports team. The anecdote pissing contest is useless. Show me data.