skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a person could use software to make a nice looking brochure or even a full book without any typesetting knowledge

By using a template? Because based on my experience with inDesign and Affinity Publisher, it's still required to have knowledge about design and typesetting. They reduce the costs to get started and work in the domain, but the knowledge requirement was still there. Same with digital drawing and photo retouching. You're no longer gate-kept by the material costs. But AI is the equivalent of pressing X in a fight game and then saying you can do MMA and ready to go against UFC champions.
LLMs are state-of-the-art at detecting sarcasm. It won't help if the data is just wrong though.

Edit: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03706 Human performance on this benchmark (detecting sarcasm in Reddit comments) was 0.82, a BERT-based LLM scored 0.79.

https://arxiv.org/abd/2106.05752 LSTM, 98% at detecting sarcasm in a Project Gutenburg-based dataset.
Ah right I knew it felt familiar.
Same. They are quite stunning and beautiful in rural forested mountain regions near me, and I make a point of driving by them if I can.
Have you chosen what you think is beautiful for your city? Most city decorations are decided by direct action from the council without consultation from the public. Sometimes involving as little as one or two people.

For private property I agree with you, the owners have it how they want to have it.
Compare to Craigslist, or for a period of five or ten years after its inception, Google Search.
Thank you, I completely misunderstood that's how it works. I'm guessing then it feeds in the metadata and writes code based on that.
I share Sal Khan's (of Khan Academy) optimism for the possibilities for AI in education so I'm glad to see Google working on this too. Like a lot of areas, AI won't be better than the best teachers, but most of us weren't taught by the best teacher. If AI can create a tireless, patient, knowledgeable teacher, that will be a tremendous asset to humanity.

How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJP5GqnTrNo
Interestingly I'd probably go the other way.

If it's verifiably E2EE then I consider "we can't access this" to be a fairly powerful statement. Sure, the source could change, but if you have a reasonable distribution mechanism (e.g. all users get the same code, verifiably reproducible) then that's about as good as you can get.

Privacy policies that state "we won't do XYZ" have literally zero value to me to the extent that I don't even look at them. If I give you some data, it's already leaked in my mind, it's just a matter of time.
I don't understand how a language runtime is supposed to prevent your colleague from using an unexpected encoding.

Next time you try to load whoops-weird-encoding.txt as utf-8, and get garbage, may I suggest `file whoops-weird-encoding.txt`? It's pretty good at guessing.

There might be a Julia package which can do that as well. I haven't run into the problem so I have no need to check.
So... the main reason to use Unicode in general, and UTF-8 specifically, is that it's the common denominator of a lot of weird stuff you'd see in the wild.

For example, most Unix platforms allow filenames to be arbitrary sets of bytes, while Windows lets filenames be UCS-2 (i.e. invalid surrogates are supported). Also, both Unix and Windows have some notion of a "local encoding" (LC_ALL etc on Unix, codepages on Windows).

The common denominator, the Schelling point [1], of all of these weird systems is Unicode. Without prior coordination, you can generally assume that other participants in your system would try to use Unicode, and probably with the UTF-8 encoding.

Checking at the boundaries of your program that your inputs are valid Unicode/UTF-8 leads to (a) good error messages when they aren't, and (b) not having to deal with jank internally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
That's just the default. You can set max_seq_len to 8k. From the readme [0]:

> All models support sequence length up to 8192 tokens, but we pre-allocate the cache according to max_seq_len and max_batch_size values. So set those according to your hardware.

[0] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/tree/14aab0428d3ec3a959...
If you find yourself using a language where you need to answer questions like this, are these really the questions worth asking?
So they found and fixed 142 vulnerabilities in the last 3 years and folks are advocating for them to abandon all that good work and build a new framework from scratch which reintroduces tons more bugs that are completely undiscovered. Seems like an insane path to stability to me.
Cool. How?
This mid-'90s time capsule and the decade-plus of comments below it summarize how a lot of Freehand users felt about the program: https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/illustrator-v-freehand.html.
Did you create this with AI? Just get outta here
good point. perhaps code quality and product quality are different things.
This world sucks to write production code in. It's sometimes necessary but it sucks.
> Have you chosen what you think is beautiful? Most city decorations are decided by direct action from the council without consultation from the public.

When it’s mattered, I’ve showed up. Or signed petitions saying something is ugly and would benefit from being replaced by just about anything else.

Plenty of communities embrace their mural and graffiti culture. Plenty don’t. Imagine if someone who doesn’t like murals went around whitewashing painted walls.
I suspect at least in part due to the difficulties with reliable tracking and ID, not the negation component. Plus due to the fact that RF is (so far) still very effective at least against cheaper stuff. But once that changes the game will be very different.
> Quite possibly, but is there any sort of cross sectioning that to religious beliefs and/or existing political affiliations in the data set?

Biden won over 60% of Hispanics in 2020. Even if every one of the 45% who support recreational marijuana voted for him in 2020, he has to win over a quarter of those who oppose that policy.

Regardless, my main point is that it’s misleading to assert that this change was somehow delayed despite “overwhelming public support.” Even today this is not a risk-free move for Biden. That’s not a fault of the governmental system, that’s just how coalition politics works. Even at age 40, I wouldn’t confess to ever having tried marijuana (I tried an edible once in DC where it’s legal) to anyone in my family. But they’re the same immigrants who flipped Virginia blue.
YC space startup which has launched more satellites than every other combined
> Only when the crowd effect of "AI=bad" came along

It only came along after a crowd of "AI artists" who are just spammers came to the platform. I mean every platform.
The founders of Conversion.ai / Jarvis / Jasper / whatever they're called today did OK out of it though.
People (including me) have been trying that for years; but dialog only works if both parties approach it in good faith. When you have a political movement that leans heavily on orthodoxy and loyalty, and whose response to repeatedly losing elections is to simply insist they're rigged and the results are invalid (absent any credible evidence) discussions based on mutually agreeable priors and conventional logic are not fruitful.

The prevailing orthodoxy in this group is that losing elections or court cases is a priori evidence of fraud, violent action to overturn negative outcomes is often permissible, and that this right is reserved for future negative outcomes. They're not willing to be convinced, and loudly advertise their belief that it's OK to impose their point of view on others by force. I mean, if you're dealing with someone who avers that you should be fed into a woodchipper, it's not wise to put one arm in pursuit of a compromise.
- Create a Slack account for your 95-year-old grandpa

- Exclude that one account from using the models, he's never going to use Slack anyway

- Now you can learn, memorise, or reproduce all the Customer Data you like
Nothing capability-wise! Just speed and ease of manipulation.

Maybe an analogy is doing image processing. One could write filters and other manipulations in code, or use something like Photoshop. It turns out Photoshop is a great interface for many of those tasks. I think the same thing is true for more data analysis than I'd realized because of my poor Excel skills.

Still want to improve my spreadsheet abilities though. There's a fun video called You Suck at Excel by Joel Spolsky I'm halfway through [1]. Would love to know of more like this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition
This "ai" scam going on now is the ultimate convoluted process to hide sooo much tomfuckery: theres no such thing as copyright anymore! this isn't stealing anything, its transforming it! you must opt out before we train our model on the entire internet! (and we still won't spits in our face) this isn't going to reduce any jobs at all! (every company on earth fires 15% of everyone immediately) you must return to office immediately or be fired! (so we get more car data teehee) this one weird trick will turn you into the ultimate productive programmer! (but we will be selling it to individuals not really making profitable products with it ourselves)

and finally the most aggregious and dangerous: censorship at the lowest level of information before it can ever get anywhere near peoples fingertips or eyeballs.
If you had a serial plug-in hybrid with a 20+Kwh battery which also supported exporting 120vac, that would work. AFAIK such a vehicle doesn't exist in North America yet and might not exist anywhere globally.

You start stacking energy efficiency losses (engine -> charger -> battery -> inverter -> charger -> battery -> motor) and economic losses (expensive serial hybrid, higher than expected vehicle battery cycles, still need a large number of tool batteries which wear out in about a year, etc.) though.
> how they arrived at these "taboo conclusions"

I agree with many of the "taboo" conclusions, so just like the paper I am not commenting on their veracity when I say these are common beliefs held in many righter leaning academic circles. There's nothing wrong with polling people about these ideas, but I would have rather the respondents be given more open ended prompts about what they thought were taboo ideas vs what the researcher wanted them to think about.
> "Not because we don't like you, but because we have a mission."

what a phrase, will be borrowing it
I'm not going to speculate on the truth of allegations of fraud here, but two side points:

* A few times skimming this, I didn't understand some of the assertions and logic. For example, I couldn't say just by glancing at the photos that the card wasn't filled out on an IBM Selectric II (introduced in 1971, before Apple was founded). For another example, I see people commenting on VAT tax missing on the receipt from the German Red Cross, and also the confusion over whether it was bought on eBay or from the German Red Cross, but no mention of whether that invoice might be something that the German Red Cross adapted to work with early eBay doing the payments (at least in the US, sales tax for online purchases was very murky, and eBay punted). Also, the author seems to be ignoring cross-cultural differences, in their psychoanalytic speculation about subtleties of seller's behavior, such as seller's perceived earnestness in composing a photo.

* This article is going out of its way to publicly defame someone. If they have strong evidence of the counterfeiting and fraud that they allege, they should be going to a legal authority. Given that they decided to get Internet Points out of it, they'd better hope that their allegations are correct, and also that they can prove it sufficiently if sued in some jurisdiction. I would guess that glomming onto mob behavior ("We did it, Reddit!") won't be a good defense.
Can we start going a step further by demanding that consent must be opt-in and not opt-out? Requesting isn't good enough.
I still have yet to see a contribution to the conversation from you.
The layer to fix is not below, it's above. Web apps are ridiculously heavy and advertising / surveillance traffic has been the real driver for HTTP/3.
this is only a problem in japan because the shinkansen is the oldest high speed network in existence.

new train tunnels built in Europe are wider and flare out at the end so that there isn't a tunnel boom.
if the payload is just ballistic and its trajectory is known, the target can just move out of its way and let it hit dirt

those things usually have some sort of heat/EM/something seeking sensor to make it accurate to the last meter, and those still can't "see" through metal (yet (that we know about))
They implicitly trust the facilitator of the transaction. It's a variation on the "greater fool" scam. They think it's the old days where the auction house had any skin in the game, they're not wise to the old (in this case almost 30 year old) silicon valley grift: we profit off a scam, but [ its such small amounts/backed by enormous VC capital/"safe" (for the scammer) harbor/ done across state lines/authorized by predatory ToS (with arbitration clause) ] that the victim is powerless. Thanks for playing, better luck next time :D
My city pays graffiti artists to do their thing, but go off.
Number 14 is just wrong, or rather its explanation is wrong.

It’s technically correct: not all objects have prototypes (you can trivially make an object without one or remove it from an existing object).

The rest of that “answer” is just nonsense: there is no magic look up of a magic basic object. The default prototype of an object is prototype property of the creation function (e.g Object, String, MyFunction, …), and the top of the chain is Objecy.prototype unless explicitly set to something else.

There’s no magic, and I don’t know how the author got their particular explanation.
In 2019, Microsoft released a patch for WinXP because there was a remote code execution vulnerability, and there were enough WinXP machines still around to make this a big deal. A machine without this one patch would still be immediately vulnerable.
Only as much as the front-running MEV bots themselves, who are clearly engaging in the exact same behavior that's long been criminal on traditional financial markets. Why should these two be held to a different standard, all of a sudden?
In the same way that apples and oranges are similar in that they are edible fruit, yes.
Perhaps a mirror company can help sponsor them, as the wall writing company seemed ineffective.

Or maybe what's needed is an optometrist.
> "These types of thoughtful personalizations and improvements are only possible if we study and understand how our users interact with Slack."

LOL
Which in this case most folks have moved on to let and const. But tons of code in the wild is still sprinkled with var. If you’re mostly working greenfield JavaScript, you can ignore a lot of the warts and have a pretty good experience. If you’re working on a lot of legacy stuff you’ll see mixed use of var and let and it’s quite helpful to understand the differences more fully.
That is the conclusion I’ve come to with all of my AI ideas so far. Easy to be replaced by a feature in ChatGPT or Copilot. Hard to create a meaningful moat.
It's hypothetically true that road noise can be mitigated, it is also nevertheless true that we have societally chosen to endure road noise, and the harms it causes which have measurable outcomes on everything from quality of life to mental health to property values.

As I noted in a different comment, if all we're saying is that we are open to windmills having the same adverse impacts on environments as roads already do, then to me that's the same as saying there's no such thing as a windmill noise problem.
Mitigating unexpected arithmetic overflow – Kees Cook
what is the difference between "will not" and "cannot" in legalese?
the visiual performance is great!
It goes both ways. I can't politely criticize capitalism or bring up really basic feminist critiques of the world without most of my conservative friends and family getting agitated. If I do get someone to engage with me, I get the same half dozen talking points I've heard 100s of times.
Thanks, I saw the matching platform but haven't spoken to anyone who has used it, so wasn't sure how helpful it could be. I'll give it a shot though.

I have broad categories of problems I want to tackle, but the first thing I want to work on is administrative burden for providers. LLMs can make a huge difference when it comes to writing notes/helping providers save time on things – quite a few startups working on it right now but no one has figured it out quite yet.
Not really, plenty of tools have been found and techniques have been successfully tried https://youtu.be/L3A_kItgymQ
The OP privacy policy explicitly states that autocompletion algorithms are part of the scope. "Our algorithm that picks from potential suggestions is trained globally on previously suggested and accepted completions."

And this can leak: for instance, typing "a good business partner for foobars is" might not send that text upstream per se, but would be consulting a local model whose training data would have contained conversations that other Slack users are having about brands that provide foobars. How can Slack guarantee that the model won't incorporate proprietary insights on sourcing the best foobar producers into its choice of the next token? And sure, one could build an adversarial model that attempts to minimize this kind of leakage, but is Slack incentivized to create such a thing vs. just building an optimal autocomplete as quickly as possible?

Even if it were just creating classifiers, similar leakages could occur there, albeit requiring more effort and time from attackers to extract actionable data.

I can't blame Slack for wanting to improve their product, but I'd also encourage any users with proprietary conversations to encourage their admins to opt out as soon as possible.
Are these the dugout canoes made by the Indians who lived in Santa Barbara County?
> reads more like government/corporate propaganda than an objective report

She forged checks and trafficked stolen identities. She may not have known she was doing it for Pyongyang. But that’s the point of anti-money laundering laws.
It's neat to know perl is still going.. I don't have any intention of using it again. But still cool
> C-level positions have disproportionately more individuals with psychopathic tendencies.

That is not the same thing as the stereotype "alpha male".
Excel Data Model has been around for years (2013?) and can handle ~2bln rows across a maximum of 2bln tables or 2bln columns. I don't know what that means in the context of ChatGPT, but the capability exists.
Aryans all
Very interesting. This is the first I've heard of posts being reverted.
Right, and they are, that's my point. Quality isn't a single attribute of a system, it's a judgement call based on objectives.

The objectives of a business selling software, and that of engineers is something else. Sometimes maintenance, sometimes extensibility, sometimes exploration, sometimes just seeing if something is possible. Quality correlates to the objective, and in my experience, many software engineers have a hard time seeing their code through other perspectives.
the immersion control in Vision Pro should help
What would you propose as an alternative to the current accepted sources system? In my mind there sadly isn't much of a choice. It means that Wikipedia is not so useful for charged political articles, and the number of articles achieving that status has continued to increase, but it also means it is generally good for technical and scientific articles as well as the more niche history articles that are more often written by subject experts than political wariors.
The incentive for first party tool providers to do this is going to be huge, whether its Slack, Google, Microsoft, or really any other SaaS tool. Ultimately, if business want to avoid getting commoditized by their vendors, they need be in control of their data, and their AI strategy. And that probably ultimately means turning off all of these small-utility-very-expensive-and-might-ruin-your-business features, and actually creating a centralized, access controlled, well governed knowledge base which you can plug any open source or black box LLM, from any provider.
We, as users, do not interact with the wire protocol. We type at generally very user friendly terminals, which abstract the wire protocol.

Even TUI devs don’t usually interact with the protocol directly, they use ncurses or something from charm.sh to abstract away the protocol.

Moreover, what “constraint” does using a wire protocol like this impose?

And how would one interact with any computer without a low level layer of byte-encoded information? (You can’t. It’s how computers work)
Exactly, I lost count of the number of times I've done a PSA on YT explaining most carbide dust is tumorigenic.

It is like seeing a dog go after a porcupine... the risk assessment sub-process just isn't enough for some folks =3
I think there's many problems that could be solved with apps. Administrative burden is absolutely one that is amenable to huge changes now with LLMs. It's already started, quite a few startups in the medical scribe space, but no one has figured it out fully yet.

I've been working on just that, a medical scribe. It sort of works, but there's quite a few things I still need to learn even before this could be an MVP. Namely privacy and encryption.

I love the idea of a 'patient navigator' – someone or something that explains things to the patient. PocketHealth is doing something when it comes to medical images, but it's not nearly enough!
Catastrophism

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentina-Yanko/publica...
They certainly had the company of Larry Wall in the past ...
How do passwords become compromised?
This is unreasonably interesting to me. Very neat old trivia.

Did other regions do the separate circuits/billing rates thing for lighting vs appliances? That was entirely new to me!
'Perfect storm' of factors driving auto insurance rate hikes
Does my not living in a city require that I change my sense of aesthetics? Is my sense of what is and isn't attractive required to be defined by where I live?
That news release does not mention let alone explain E Upton's resignation from the foundation one year prior.
Why would "the path name you entered is not valid Unicode/UTF-8" be a good error message, if the path actually exists on the system?

Also, what does "jank" mean here? What do you gain by treating file names as Unicode instead of byte sequences, for the majority of programs that don't even need to display the name, except perhaps in logs?

The way I see it, Unicode is only relevant for displaying strings to humans, or for taking input from humans directly. For virtually all other purposes, strings should be treated as byte sequences internally, regardless of whether they were intended to be UTF-8 or something else. For example, if you're reading a JSON document and looking for a hardcoded key, there's no reason whatsoever to represent the JSON or the key as Unicode. The key is a sequence of bytes, the JSON objects have sequences of bytes as keys. The fact that JSON usually prefers UTF-8 is of relatively little relevance.
But these do not show amazing rolling resistance on that site either. Only Race King approaches top RR numbers of the gravel tires. There are plenty of sub 400g gravel tires with less RR than these. As far as I understood my correspondent, he predicts that riders will add angular momentum (when and MTB riders already complain about steering on gravel bikes) and, apparently, won't win any rolling resistance. What for? Riding at even lower pressure? To do what?
More likely that seller truly purchased this on Ebay before and just resisting to admit (or investigate) that he bought fake item.