skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already have Xcode Cloud. Perhaps you could run your training jobs there and they would run on Apple’s new custom silicon. You’d pay for it as a part of your existing subscription.

That + internal use would make sense to me.
oh yes this basically. Very annoying, especially people finding the flaws with collective bargaining. The individualistic rhetoric is mind-numbing.
Well 4chan also weaponized a cartoon of a frog, cheese pizza, ...

Let's not give them too much attention.
If old navy CEO asked me to pay $5000 up front for jeans that can't wear out and that wash themselves, and had been saying that it'll be here next year for five years, I'd be pretty skeptical too. I also would encourage refunds or investigation when I buy it and the features are never delivered.
Whoa, really?

I've been using the word "slop" my whole life for unappetizing food, is that 4chan slur used outside of that community?
Oh man, something I didn't expect at all. They seemed to be doing well with the new Shellac album and all. He is hugely influential and his engineering is uniquely Albini, which is uniquely the bands themselves in their rawest form. I am really happy to have seen Shellac live in 2009.

If somebody is looking for deep cuts - there is a recording of Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker by Albini (though it didn't make it to disc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXN_EmhkQSM
Minimodem at 300BPS with the audio encoded to OPUS at 64 KBPS makes pretty reliable dumps with a relative small space per hour (~30MB).
Companies have teams upon teams of people desperate to justify their continued employment despite existing products being more than adequate. See: constant UX redesigns, 3-blade razors.
Fusion of 2 sisters into a single woman suggests human identity not in our DNA
This is not news. We've known this for a long time
> Simple by default, powerful when needed

Some modern apps lack the second part
If lack-of-self awareness and irony were able to be canned and commoditized, this comment would be...

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I don't know how to answer the question.

Possibly timespans for interesting things to happen would be way shorter (compared to sentient animal lifespans). Less wasted time. Fewer deadends. No/fewer extinction events (possibly, or maybe our aliens designers like seeing stuff die or explode like with do playing SimCity?).

Things would make more obvious sense. There would be fewer contradictions. The purpose of life would be clearer, since it was designed. The physics and "rules" of the universe would have fewer special cases and would be easier to model. There would be no paradoxes. We would be able to explore the whole universe more easily.

I'm sure you can think of objections to each of my arguments, but really, some evidence would be there. Everything currently and firmly points the opposite way, except we don't know what happened before the Big Bang... but that's "pink invisible unicorns" stuff which I don't think we will be able to ever answer conclusively.
Never used bsky much since I couldn't find anyone interesting. Had I known about him, I might have used it more... rip.
The backdoors (more often, bugdoors) are known only to a very, very small number of people at each company. People with security clearances.

Things like the Intel ME are what make this arrangement work. The fact that the ME exists is public knowledge; there is a huge team of engineers at Intel who are responsible for designing it. The flaw that lets you tickle it in just the right way can be added by and known to only one or two people.

Just this year a spectacular example of one of these bugdoors was revealed in Apple's mobile chips, where an EL1 (kernel) attacker could tickle an undocumented L2 cache debugging mechanism to elevate to hypervisor/bootloader (EL2, EL3) level, and completely bypass Pointer Authentication:

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11859-operation_triangulation_wh...

This hardware bugdoor (CVE-2023-38606) was discovered only because it was used against security researchers who were good enough to capture a trace of exactly what it was doing. Otherwise we would never know. We got very lucky here; there's no telling how many more of these things go undiscovered.
I have to say, I didn't realize it was no subscription before I saw this comment. Makes it much more interesting from the start.

Yes, I hate subscriptions. Love your approach.

I also love that you focus on your strength which is the intuitive and flexible interface, rather than LLM or prompts or whatever. Like this its also very extensible, as every good tool should be.
No but I'm a frequent visitor, i love the mountains there!
Supposedly one of the reasons Ken Jennings did so well was he gamed the timing of the buzzer. Apparently it's locked while Alex (rip) reads the question and there is a delay if you jump the gun. In addition to being smart enough to answer most of the questions, of course.
I don't harangue people about it unless they're being obnoxious and bragging about their "engineer" title like they're something special. THEN I'll knock them down a couple notches.

I've had the title Software Engineer more than a couple times. Each time I've joked with my boss and fellow employees that we're not actual engineers. The funny thing is both times it was at an actual engineering company having PEs - so you'd think they'd be more careful with that title!
Eh, the internet is full of garbage SEO-spam already. We have a word for that, which is enshittification, which imo correctly identifies the root perpetrators of the problem: platform owners utilizing monopolies.

I don't see why we need a word for AI-generated garbage specifically, not yet at least.

Like if I go onto google maps and search "Best restaurants in my area" it's going to 100% recommend fast-food chains that have purchased product placement. I don't feel AI plays a significant role in bad recommendations at this point, and to blaming/stopping AI wouldn't really help.
That's incredibly offensive and complete bs.
Thank you. I would love to see you there, and any feedback is welcomed. Is there any particular calculator you have in mind that you want to build? I would be happy to help out with that.
I don't understand how this is different than the running-bicycling example. How does this swim for you but a bicycle doesn't run for you?
This title is wrong. They destroyed training data sets containing the text of a number books. The books didn't get destroyed, the copies did.
I think it's happening. 2.3k likes on the tweet I quoted, and my Mastodon post with a screenshot of that tweet got 655 boosts already (which is a lot in that space). https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112402587787781767
While we all want blob-free hardware like the Talos Power9

... which is 100% blobless. Or the Cavium MIPS64 chips (100% blobless). Or if you want Arm64, the Rockchip RK3399 (100% blobless). You have plenty of choices.

One mitigation is to keep the device offline.

Here's an even better mitigation: don't buy junk like this chip.

Stop blobwashing junk hardware like this with deceptive misrepresentations.
Couldn't you reverse-reason about that?

To me, the customer here would be climbing gyms, offering a service to climbers.

1. Set up camera on routes
2. Record all climbs
3. Reason through hold details
4. Generate potential movements
5. Show climbs vs ghost movements
6. Feedback to tune model

3 being accomplished by reasoning "if a movement should be possible using the identified hold, but no one successfully does it, the hold must be misidentified or have different properties."
If self hosted Devv for Teams supports BitBucket, Confluence, JIRA and Azure DevOps, the company I work for (v large enterprise) would be incredibly interested.
> They often demonstrate ideals that go counter to their own interests
This for real. The cognitive dissonance is giving me more cognitive dissonance. I highly doubt that even though this may be a VC owned and operated site, somehow everyone on the site is a vc or something similar?
Likely looking to see a 100k emails list before really thinking about all these problems to solve and well.

Worst case able to build this, scenario, author builds something else entirely.
Where the fun is is an opinion.
Not sure about the military, but French police has been using rollerblades to patrol the streets of Paris.
Slop is a word for waste water and messy animal food. Don't quite understand the debates here in the comments.

I like how it sounds similar to spam.
As another commenter put that I also agree with:

You being unwilling to spend the barest amount of effort to recycle it is your problem, not Apple's.
Great questions!

> In your case, do you hold N contexts (N being the number of leaves in the tree)?

It depends, contexts are just a form of grouping

> Are the chats disconnected from each other?
> How do you propose to transition from an endless/unstructured canvas to some sort of a finished, organized deliverable?

RAG with in-app commands, i'm working on a local RAG solution, it's early but promising. Basically chat with all your data and applying a wide range of command on it.
The reason for three mics when filming might have been this: Two for the PA, and one for recording.

It's still very common to use largely-separate signal chains for the PA, and for recording (and/or broadcast). These days we often do it with analog or digital splits, but analog splits can [still] be problematic and digital splits didn't exist yet back then.

Analog splits might have been particularly problematic when the source is two microphones fighting eachother. And it's often [still] the case that a microphone that works well for PA is not a microphone that is ideal for non-PA use.

(Sure, we like to think of live recordings or broadcasts as being "being there," but that's almost never actually the case. When recording and/or broadcast is involved, those things are often handled as separately as is practical -- often with gear and engineers that are outside of the walls of the venue.

This allows the FOH folks to get it sounding good in the room, the recording folks to get it sounding good on tape/DAW, and the broadcast folks to get it sounding good on radio/TV. They're different goals, and they've each got different approaches.)
it's putting two hundred robots against those two guys

That is the opposite I would expect financially funding a war. I would expect one robot to be able to decimate 100 to 1000 humans in short order and act as a 10x landmine if pinned down. I do not believe there would ever be a zerg rush of robot dogs as they can not rush. Something like a scaled down rip-saw tank that can autonomously fire simultaneously in 10+ directions perhaps if you want to surprise and rush a squad. Something like the rip-saw could also extract a squad of friendlies if not scaled down and/or patrol a very large area.
Don't have an article, but the gist on stacks is that Java still uses the regular architecture stack (rsp on x86, etc) that the FFI'd code will, and on exit to/entry from FFI it'd have to store its stack end/start pointer (or otherwise be able to figure the range out) such that GC knows what to scan.
I imagine the use of this term comes from the name for the leftover foodstuff that gets fed to pigs, usually from a bucket.

As a small scale pig farmer, I approve of the use of this term; I care enough about the welfare of my pigs that I would never risk feeding them anything that would be considered slop. Plus, pigs fed with slop usually end up tasting bad, because they are what they eat.

A wonderfully apt metaphor that reflects both the voracious appetites of modern AI systems and the resulting quality of the results.
A good coin, this one. It needed a simple name, and it falls perfectly into a list of "four letter words."
>Sure, those gains can be used to make investors whole. No, SBF shouldn't get any credit for his "foresight" because they can.

I guess this is the point I was getting at, and I disagree with it. Even if you rob and kill 100 children, it doesn't invalidate the foresight.

Foreshight on a specific topic is a sperate topic and specific actions can be judged independently. IF SBF a bad person, but also says the sky is blue, that doesnt make it false.
> Every ffi example I've found seem to operate on the assumption that you want to invoke syscalls or libc ... Java already mostly has decent facilities to interact with even without native calls.

Because you would use ffi to interact with libraries that don't have Java wrappers yet: IE, you're writing the wrapper.

Using syscalls or libc is a way to write an example against a known library that you're probably familiar with.
Docs are very useful. I liked them, especially considering how slow development could be there, It's just that in my experience they incentivized them more than they needed to. For example writing a doc while you are already implementing something only takes like a day but it looks a lot better than a day of coding to people without context. Luckily at least for lower levels they switched to perf evaluators being closer organizationally and the manager being there so at least there was a little context (though often my manager was busy enough that they didn't fully know what I was doing either). There were a lot of specifics essentially check boxes for promo and to a much lesser extent ratings and eventually I decided it was easier to just give them what they want
The goal of science should always be to seek good explanations hard to vary.
slop is also unwanted food waste watered down and fed to swine.
I don't know why this is downvoted; perhaps it was not clear that I am talking about the US federal government specifically, through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, set up by a 1986 law. Without it companies were giving up on making or developing vaccines due to liability.
"There is no 'truth' that we can grasp in parts but not entirely."

The value of pi is a simple counterexample.
> the tricky part that I'm impressed you have a solution to is path planning up the wall.

I'm assuming this is evolutionary / brute force of some nature, given OP's comments about it being expensive to run.
Enshittification means something entirely different: it's the inevitable decline of online services as they face the pressure to continually monetize.

Plenty of examples of enshittification have nothing to do with generative AI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification mentions Cory's alternative definition of "platform decline".
>The things that Apple provides are not the headline stats that matter for a tool-user, they're luxury properties that don't actually matter to most people.

Here lies the rub, ARE those the stats that matter? Or does the screen, touchpad, speakers, battery life, software, support services, etc. matter more?

I feel people just TOTALLY gloss over the fact that Apple is crushing the competition in terms of trackpads + speakers + battery life, which are hardly irrelevant parts of most people's computing experience. Many people hardly use their computers to compute - they mostly use them to input and display information. For such users, memory capacity and processing performance ARE frills, and Apple is a market leader where it's delivering value.

Also even in compute, apple is selling computers with a 512-bit or 1024-bit LPDDR5x bus for a lower price than you can get from the competition. Apple is also frequently leading the pack in terms of compute/watt. This has more niche appeal, but I've seen people buy Apple to run LLM inferencing 24/7 while the Mac Studio sips power.
> Chip Design is what keeps the US dominant in the chip war.

This is not a solid advantage. Huawei has already proven a few years ago that they can design better chips than Qualcomm, which is when they have been immediately hit with sanctions, preventing them to manufacture their designs at TSMC.

So chip design is a solved problem for them. Replacing the chip design software tools from Synopsys, Cadence and the like is slightly more difficult, but it is still much easier than it seems. The incumbent position of those companies is maintained mostly because only they have access under NDA to the necessary information about the rules of the chip manufacturing processes used by the major foundries. There are no competitors for them mostly because of the absence of public information, not because those programs are particularly difficult to write.

If SMIC or any other Chinese company succeeds to have a competitive CMOS manufacturing process, there will be no difficulty for the likes of Huawei to develop appropriate chip design software tools for those processes.

The only real difficulties are in the physical chip manufacturing, especially in the EUV lithography. However the sanctions will force China to allocate more people and more money than anyone else for solving these problems. There is no doubt that eventually they will succeed. What is unknown is whether they will need 5 years or 15 years.
There have been numerous disturbing / idiotic / arguably antisemitic episodes originating from certain elements of the protestors' side, to be sure.

Unfortunately the letter presents certain regrettable factual distortions. For example:

We felt helpless when we watched students and faculty physically block Jewish students from entering parts of the campus we share, or even when they turned their faces away in silence.

The protest movement, especially at Columbia, has a highly visible Jewish contingent (especially within its leadership). If people were blocked from the protest encampments, it was plainly not because they were Jewish. And it is intellectually dishonest to claim that this is the reason they were excluded.

There have also been numerous disturbing / idiotic episodes on the part of the counter-protest movement, as I'm sure you know. Except unfortunately these have been notably more violent than most of what's been happening from the protestors' side. Just the other day for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/nyregion/columbia-driver-...

Imagine being 55 years old and getting hit by a car that just so happens to have been driven by a cousin of one of one of Israel's most famous convicted terrorists (celebrated by none other than the country's current Finance Minister). Or being attacked with military-grade crowd control chemicals:

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/01/22/protesters...

This isn't whataboutism. In order to understand this situation, it necessary the consider the whole playing field. And the simple fact that there's many profoundly disturbing episodes originating in both camps.

I'll just close with one more particularly revealing snippet from the letter:

If the last six months on campus have taught us anything, it is that a large and vocal population of the Columbia community does not understand the meaning of Zionism, and subsequently does not understand the essence of the Jewish People.

Again, no one buys the "Zionism = Judaism" equivalence. Outside the ideological bubble world that the signatories of the letter (and the driver of that car which nearly killed a 55 year-old woman for expressing her political beliefs the other day) choose to live in.
Many accountants are not Certified Public Accountants. Many engineers are not Professional Engineers. Many legal workers are not lawyers. And references in those fields are not more concrete.
I'd love to try the demo but there's no way I'm putting my openai key into that site.
Their infotainment and instrument cluster is based on QT so could be possible.
I'm trying to reconcile that 'plumber' against George Martin with the Beatles. He was paid like a plumber for the first couple years, and... EMI treated him with such disdain that he ended up leaving. I'm sure the money was much better after he left, but... had EMI just been slightly nicer to him, they'd have owned him for many more years.

That said, I think his relationship with his bands opened up areas for him to contribute to the core product more than Albini perhaps did (Martin played piano on some tracks, scored out any classical parts for other musicians, etc).

Martin may have been the middle ground between the 'producer-as-top-billing' and 'paid like a plumber' spectrum Albini seems to identify.
"HTML redirect based on time" made me think there was a cool technical trick to do this with HTML. But it just uses JavaScript.

Why not host this somewhere (e.g. GitHub pages)? It's weird to be publishing HTML files on the web but not letting people browse them.
depends on if you're a black or white hat hacker. black hat hackers absolutely go around hurting people
What do you mean by "extort", exactly? Refusing to perform work for a pay that is too low is pretty much the essence of free market. Why are you okay when individuals do it separately, but suddenly not okay when they band together?
Show HN: CronGPT – Generate cron expressions with ChatGPT
I made this minisite so I wouldn't have to watch users write their own cron expressions in Val Town[1] during user onboarding calls. The worst part was that after they'd figure out the cron, then they'd forget to do the timezone conversion to UTC. My site guesses your timezone based on your browser timezone, but lets you select another one if you want. In this way, my site is a slight improvement over Cron Prompt[2] which was on HN[3] a year ago, in that they don't have timezone conversion support.

Let me know what you think! I'd also LOVE a PR on the code itself[4] if you have any improvement ideas

[1] - https://val.town, my startup

[2] - https://cronprompt.com/

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358591

[4] - https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse/cron
Certainly there’s a decently long tail of rarely-used commands, obscure features of commands, and multiple code paths supporting multiple server versions.
I agree the how/why is the main driving goal. That's kinda why I feel like this is not depressiong news — there's a new frontier to discover and attempt to explain. Scientists love that stuff (:

Knowing how to predict the motion of planets but without having an underlying explanation encourages scientists to develop their theories. Now, once more, we know how to predict something (protein folding) but without an underlying explanation. Hurray, something to investigate!

(Aside: I realize that there are also more human factors at play, and upsetting the status quo will always cause some grief. I just wanted to provide a counterpoint that there is some exciting progress represented here, too).
i wish perplexity had a similar ui option. so I can out my research in multiple paths.
Embarrassing of me to give you wrong answer. I went and checked my old code and:

new FileOutputStream(tmpFile)

Apologies.
On a related note, Amazon also had a model for time series forecasting called Chronos.

https://github.com/amazon-science/chronos-forecasting
If you look at my comment on the parent comment, i suggested they add 'hypothetically' to their prompt. It is just but an attempt to create an argument, but that argument leads nowhere. As much as a human cannot defend that position, you cannot expect an AI to do that as well.

Refuting facts is not the job of an AI.
> can we actually interpret these models, or are human brains too feeble to understand complex systems without sophisticated models?

I think we will have to develop a methodology and supporting toolset to be able to derive the underlying patterns driving such ML models. It's just too much for a human to comb through by themselves and make sense of.
When does anything Texas tries work out so well?! :)

Seriously though, the biggest problem is separating knowledge of programming languages and libraries from actual software engineering. The challenge there is we don't have a good definition of software engineering and how we'd go about doing that. I think it'd be a great start if, as an industry, we actually sit down to figure out what software engineering is.