skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take a medication that makes weight management difficult. I'm at a BMI of 32, my T level is hovering around 0, I can't work, read a book, sleep or think clearly, my resting heart rate is 110, but I can't afford Wegovy because it costs $17,100 USD/year at the best discount available. No worries, I probably won't live more than another 5 years or so in this state that I can't escape and no doctor seems interested in paying any attention to.
https://www.amazon.com/hockey-romance-books/s?k=hockey+roman...

I had no idea, either. There are stranger genres, but what an oddly specific fetish.
> Jevons paradox tells us that further massive amounts of training will occur in multi-modality and grounding models to reality

I was thinking along the lines of how Sun Microsystems and big-iron were dethroned by good-enough commodity x86 servers + Linux. The two coexisted... for a short while.
> CatB is a fine book.

Holy shit, THAT'S why Eric Raymonds website is catb.org. How did I never realize it was the abbreviation of the book title?
It is increasingly becoming a reasonable prospect to run a home server you can share aspects with other people. If you need extreme scaling because you are hoping to make a profit it won't work. But technologies like Tail scale, docker, let's encrypt and increasingly cheaper low energy but more powerful computers make it a real option.

Even generative AI and LLMs have reasonable results being run on home user gaming rigs and the latest Mac chips.

The author would have had zero problems on a home server sharing a Nextcloud link to just 80 people.

Multiple projects seem to be converging on a single box solution that can be shared, but none are quite there. Tailscale has basically made it zero risk to share to a trusted network. But it would be nice if the Raspberry Pi people or a similar project would be willing to put out something they're willing to stake their reputation on that could be near immediately shareable without opening yourself up to attacks from everyone on the Internet.
Stock photographers are already having issues with piracy due to very powerful AI watermark removal tools. And I suspect the companies are using content of these people to train these models too.
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The models benchmarked by RULER do worse in needle in a needlestack. It will be interested to see how 4o does with RULER.
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I want this to happen so much now that I heard about it.
Lol, I completely missed this. Thanks for the callout. That WAS right around when everyone was trying to (or started to) use gimmicky volumetric displays at the trade shows I attended.
$350 for the key board, $180 for the pencil.

I really would love to have the best screen on the planet, heck yes, but with the you-probably-want-this upsells (nano screen along with it's mandatory storage upgrades) this is a $2500 setup. Adding insult to injury is iPadOS existing at such an infantile proto-computing level, as detailed here & elsewhere (ex, yesterday's blog, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349347).
> Isn't Int -> String -> String a shorthand for Int -> (String -> String)?

Yes. Though I find it more convenient think of it as a function with multiple arguments and not a function that returns another function.

> Thus I would have assumed the first argument to the result of sprintf "%s %d" would be an integer, then a string and the final result would be a string.

Why assume that? (Not rhetorical.) Wouldn't that be like if in C, you had to write the arguments in reverse order of the format string, like this?

printf("%s %d!\n", 5, "hi");
Not a bad guess, but I didn't spot that in the article.
Lenses bring parallel rays of light (alternatively, light from infinitely far away) to the focal point. They don’t bring idealized points to points.

One consequence is you can’t use lenses to bring anything to a temperature higher than the temperature of the source light. For example you can’t use lenses + moonlight to light things on fire.

Here’s an HN thread going into the physics of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736700
Not true. You can opt out using a form they provide, which says they will stop using your data to train the model. I’ve done this. Don’t have the link handy now but it’s not difficult to find.
Okay, got it. So you are agreeing with me that the author should have used printf instead of sprintf.

Thanks!
I'm unsure precisely how TLS works - Could a compromised CA read all the data between my PC and a server they signed for?
How is calling a library and using a function someone else wrote not the same thing as using a function someone else wrote in any other way? Cite your sources by all means but still the difference is a semantical one.
Mission fucking accomplished. [0]

0 - https://xkcd.com/810/
There is a very small impact area, and yes, folks who use it, aware of co-pilot being involved :))

The thing is - I don't think I would dare to do that I've done without co-pilot in the first place. So it is a win anyway
Google and Apple also have an "API access" advantage. It is similar to the ecosystem advantage but goes beyond it; Google and Apple restrict third-party app makers from access to crucial APIs like receiving and reading texts or interacting with onscreen content from other apps. I think that may turn out to be the most important advantage of them all. This should be a far bigger concern for antitrust regulators than petty squabbles over in-app purchases. Spotify and Netflix are possible (if slightly inconvenient) to use on iOS, a fully-featured AI assistant coming from somebody who isn't Apple is not.

Google (and to a lesser extend also Microsoft and Meta) also have a data advantage, they've been building search engines for years, and presumably have a lot more in-house expertise on crawling the web and filtering the scraped content. Google can also require websites which wish to appear in Google search to also consent to appearing in their LLM datasets. That decision would even make sense from a technical perspective, it's easier and cheaper to scrape once and maintain one dataset than to have two separate scrapers for different purposes.

Then there's the bias problem, all of the major AI companies (except for Mistral) are based in California and have mostly left-leaning employees, some of them quite radical and many of them very passionate about identity politics. That worldview is inconsistent with a half of all Americans and the large majority of people in other countries. This particularly applies to the identity politics part, which just isn't a concern outside of the English-speaking world. That might also have some impact on which AI companies people choose, although I suspect far less so than the previous two points.
There is a list of projects:
https://github.com/practical-tutorials/project-based-learnin...

And another one: https://github.com/Xtremilicious/projectlearn-project-based-...
I use email constantly but I can’t tell you the last time I saw actual spam in my inbox

Sure, there are occasional unwanted marketing emails but those are easily dispatched with unsubscribe and/or inbox filters
Perhaps a PhD EE here knows: Why didn't reversible computing go anywhere?
Flagged? I don't get what was offensive about my question. I'll need to learn HN logic I guess.
Yeah there’s a lot of pucking.
Good thing the NTSB wrote this report, then. Definitely can't trust those NIST folks, they're plainly nefarious.
For this situation, and similar ones, there are simple solutions. For example, in this situation, the timer should always be running (and resets when the light changes). When a car triggers the sensor, the light should change if the timer is > N. If the timer is not there yet, wait until timer is N.

No AI required, just basic thoughtfulness and requirements gathering.
Did you accidentally post the same thing twice or are you making some meta point on spam.
Check out the Boox devices, there's a YouTuber called "mydeepguide" who makes extensive reviews.
Cynically I've come to the conclusion that the only proper solution to pleasing everyone is to start telling every "activist" to just go fuck themselves, irrespective of the contents of their demands because the perpetual outrage cycle is just that bad. Sure they'll get mad but they have no attention span and will move on to more pliant entities when they don't get any more stimulation.
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The sensors use an inductive loop, not a magnet. It does interact with sufficiently large metal objects, so I can see why folks call it magnetic.

These generally have to be tuned for bicycles and even motorcycles, to detect the much smaller mass.
You called traveling a privilege. I disagree. But anyway, let's say it is a privilege. Why should someone who is in the country illegally be allowed to freely move around once inside? Why not put up barriers for them?
I don't get why my comment is "flagged". I guess I should just axiomatically accept that they're nice people. ok well..
I think what is probably very stressful about this space is virtually everyone knows how ChatGPT works. It is not a theoretical leap. It's actually fairly predictable how this shakes out, and OpenAI is pretty vulnerable.

an LLM is a curiosity without user data, anyone with a big silo of data can put out something years behind frontier and still instantly see huge usage. No one wants to go to AI, they want AI to come to them, unless OpenAI can stake a claim in a super novel way they're the Dropbox.

It's not like someone is going to use insider OpenAI knowledge to build an LLM so advanced you switch email, phone, or ERP providers
The problem is actually: nobody adhering to semantic versioning.

Hence the reason why there is a separate API/ABI level embedded into a shared object file, which is pretty much always completely different from the library's package version because they broke compatibility so often.

Additionally there's lots of libraries that break their symbols and hash tables on every subminor update. (Usually when they use LLVM, but I'm not saying it's LLVM's fault)

For example, harfbuzz and libicu are a regular offender of this, meaning they fuck up every downstream project because the method signatures contain a randomized chunk which changes on every single subminor version.
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Try to map out the spot:

Make a grid in a drawing program with crosshairs in the centre.
Close one eye.
Keep looking at the crosshairs.
Scan from the central focus point using your mouse and click when you can't see the mouse cursor.
With a bit of trial and error you should be able to map out large regions you can't actually see in.

(My dad did this years ago for a retinal detachment spot in his one eye.)

More importantly: get an optometrist to check out your retina.
that’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!
Wait - they are still stuck on the ship after all this time? Is this a company/government rule? Some kind of maritime law?

Not like I expect any of them to keep their jobs after this, even if they acted impeccably during the failure.
To some extent this is a self-inflicted problem by companies seeking to be--and permitted to become--global quasi-monopolies.
The zig compiler can compile C and C++, using llvm, and it also packages various libc implementations, including glibc, musl, mingw, and msvc, and more for other OSes. Some people use it as a more convenient golang-like cross-compiler. And this whole combination is a smaller download and install than most other toolchains out there. It just took some inspiration and grunt work, to dissect the necessary (processed) headers and other bits of each libc ... hats of to the zig devs.

Random blog post I just found about it: https://ruoyusun.com/2022/02/27/zig-cc.html
well established at this point by two separate expert panels.

I hate to ask it <grin>, but who exactly convened those two panels?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-intelligence-community-co...

And I see you bypassed this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/01/havana-syndr...

I stand by my assertion that Havana Syndrome (even those cases very close to the White House in Washington DC) are caused by workplace injuries. It wouldn't be the first time (or last time) that the USG has denied any liability for the consequences of its actions on its own personnel.

'Agent Orange? What Agent Orange?'

'Gulf Syndrome? What Gulf Syndrome?'
Yes, I was also confused at first.

The closest C function to this one is asprintf, because this function gives you back a new, separate string, which you may or may not decide to print. Just imagine if asprintf simply returned a char* pointing to an allocation by malloc, instead of taking an extra char ** as an out parameter.

char *my_sprintf(const char *, ...);
They do participate pretty heavily in ML research from what I've seen. To continue your metaphor, they try to invent as many gold digging techniques as possible which exclusively work with their own shovels and buckets.
Who are abuse.ch? Are they well-known? I assume the hosts file could be useful to add to pihole?
Turning off telemetry has always been easy in Firefox settings. If I'm reading it correctly, the same checkbox we've all be clicking off for years now also disables this too same as always.
Every eINK controller sucks. This person took upon themselves to fix that, and released the result, which is now the state of the art, as open source hardware.

I love people and projects like this.
Who's watching the watchers?...
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs
Lithobraking can actually work if the approach angle and speed is low enough. Ever seen an aeroplane make a wheels up landing?
Every culture at some stage has its dark ages, western countries did exactly the same thing not more than 200 years ago. They changed, all things change. Your argument regarding the high water mark of cultural morality could be used by Europeans about Americans currently (and frequently is). It doesn't make America a bad country in my eyes though, still find it amazing. I'm not going to judge each place by its lowest points but the gradient its on.

Given that I doubt you are following the high water of cultural morality as it shifts around the world, sounds to me like bigotry might be fueling you here.
Alternative reading http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you... (https://archive.ph/eFwVj9
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A whole lot of what can get you reamed in court is perfectly legal but looks bad. Hell, auto-companies are afraid to even say the D-word, "dangerous" for fear of subpoenas.

There is a reason why "First thing lets kill all the lawyers." is a line of classic literature.
You’re right, meant to respond to the parent comment.
Not mentioning Meta, the good guy now, is scandalous.

X is not going to sit quietly as well.

There is also the rest of us.
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Url changed from https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=202405140750..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> the domain name is fucking ridiculous in length.

I'm going to be honest, I just assumed that with some kind of copy-paste typo and I didn't even bother checking if it was a real domain.
I think the point is not "chatGPT isn't good", it's that no one is beating physics, you can rough out the coefficients on a napkin, and they're playing chicken with who wants to set more piles of money on fire.

It _is_ the best frontier LLM in the world, and virtually the entire global population of people who care about that are in this thread
I was hoping to see more.. I logged in and was greeted by a waiting list for videos. Since I was disappointed already, I figured I might as well spend some time on other, hopefully usable, features. So I moved to pictures.

First, randomly selected 'feeling lucky' prompt got rejected, because it did not meet some criteria and pop-up helpfully listed FAQ to explain to me how I should be more sensitive to the program. I found it amusing.

Then I played with a couple of images, but it was nothing really exciting one way or another.

I guess you can color me disappointed overall. And no, I don't consider videos on repeat sufficient.
> But there might be no actual possible course of action which would avoid both forms of outrage!

The only possible course of action (which upends may a business plans/models) is to not host the data in the first place; not even encrypted.

Offer software that stores stuff where users choose to (local drive, NAS, private server, s3 bucket/backblaze/etc although that's getting close to "hosting data")... How computing used to be - and should hopefully one day become, again... Assuming we veer off this dystopian timeline.
I lived there a decade ago, and as a foreigner it felt pretty free to me. There are rules you need to follow that are different from the West, but that's not a bad thing, it's just accepting the local customs. When in Rome...

Compared to other Muslim countries, it's pretty relaxed. Foreigners can buy alcohol, eat pork, and pre and extra-marital relationships are tolerated among foreigners as long as it's behind closed doors.

Locals of course get favoured for positions of power within companies, but most of them are pretty well educated, so that isn't so bad.

You don't want to piss them off, as you don't know what connections they might have. But that's no different from the elite class in any other country, such as the UK or Italy - it's just there are a higher percentage of them, and it's not hidden away.

Many of the locals feel repressed at home, which is why London is a popular travel destination for them. You see women in burka with their eyes covered get on in Dubai, and by the time they've landed in London, they have changed into jeans and a fashionable top and are showing off their hair. If anything changes, that's probably going to be the catalyst. But most likely the UAE will just become more liberal rather than a big shift in power.
Welcome to software.

This scenario has played out forever, and resurfaces every time there is a new platform.

In the early days on-disk-compression was an add on, then it became part of DOS. pretty much the same thing happened with Apple (sherlock), Windows (zip), web (netscape) and I could go on.

The underlying thread here is that when you hook on to a platform, and make a living "making thar platform better" you are in competition with the platform maker.

Since the platform maker is improving their product all the time their overlap with you happens.

In one sense what are they supposed to do? Ignore improving it because someone else is doing it?

As a rule, the newer the tech, the more obvious the improvement, the more likely you are to be Sherlocked. (Yep, this effect even has a name.)

The fact that "100s of startups" saw voice as a value-add means that it's obvious, and widely useful, so (duh) thats obvious to OpenAI too.

Let me put it another way- if you are building for "lots of users" then expect that to be done.

Assuming you don't have MS or Apple or Google or OpenAI resources, assume you shouldn't be targeting "millions" of users. If you're targeting something only a few thousand people care about then you're a lot safer. OpenAI is less likely to want to add a feature that say only helps left-handed, bald, pensioners than one that benefits "everyone".

Don't be picking the low-hanging fruit. Find something that's waaaay more niche and hard to get to.
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Justifying the beheading done there is just evil. By Sharia if you're just an apostate or kafir paying jijiya who has done some miniscule mistake which might include affecting the feeling of an Imandar(i.e Muslims). Now anyone can be a kafir because the definition of being a muslim is extremely vague in Quran and hadiths, so that's why you see violence between shia, sunni, ahmediya and all others. Even different factions between Sunnis.
The title is incorrect. She was locked out of sharing the document. She still has access. DANG!
This is what Europe has been pondering for a while.
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that doesn’t work for the majority of these sensors as they rely on inductance
Again, this was in Belgium.
Even this site just did not impress me. I feel like it's all stuff I could easily imagine myself. True creativity is someone with a unique mind creating something you would never had thought of.
React server component.
My dad has quite a severe spot where his retina detached in the one eye. Right in the centre of his vision.

He reports it looking like a visible hole with surrounding distortion. Apparently similar to some renderings of black holes.

That said, this is a large defect in the centre of vision - it's pretty much un-interpolatable.

I understand smaller defects not in the macula just get interpolated away.
Whilst I can agree mostly with your last three points I don't think any company, even apple, could at this point replace JavaScript on the web. It's too ingrained. Sure there's typescript but that's not a whole sale replacement, the end result is still JavaScript.
Technical chops has never been Google's problem. Gemini for all the hype Google has thrown at it, has continued the recurring trend of G not knowing how to win with their product launches.
Just had to mention that a few of my extended family members died terrible deaths (cancer) from water contamination due to tailings from uranium mining in the Four Corners area.
Sightline does excellent coverage of various housing affordability and urbanism topics. I feel pretty lucky to know one of the authors there.

Here's another article from Catie on some possibilities opening up in Oregon now that we did parking reform ourselves: https://www.sightline.org/2023/06/30/parking-mandates-are-va...

I was proud to speak in favor of my city's implementation of this when it went through city council.
I think specifying chess rules at the beginning of the prompt might help mitigate the problem of illegal moves
"Buffalo, like many other cities, let builders request special permission to deviate from city-determined parking ratios."

Having an exception process seems like a very logical approach to rolling back parking mandates gradually. I've seen both massive lots with no cars (clearly an outdated mandate in effect) as well as brand new suburban neighborhoods inundated with packed street parking (clearly a miss by the builder). It feels to me like rolling these rules back thoughtfully will be important to avoid companies from dropping parking from new low income housing that may legitimately need it.
I've never been locked out of my LibreOffice documents stored locally on my Linux box.
> If Americans wanted public administrators who weren't so corrupt, they would be chosen by sortition for limited terms from professional societies

You should leave out “from professional societies”.

Having professional societies involved like this would totally corrupt both them and society.
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When I found out that it was just in unstable my position flipped on it. The guy has
no business being as crass as he is in the comments section of the GH issue but lack of tact from an opinionated software dev in internet discourse is nothing new. And the point behind the petty of switching to package/package-full, which is pretty standard in the Debian world, is perfectly reasonable so long as it happens on a major version bump.

I don't disagree that it's annoying to the upstream devs but c'est la vie when you have a bunch of 3rd parties repackaging your code. They won't be the first to have a "uninstall your distro's package and install the upstream version before reporting a bug" in their issue template.